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May 14, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 14, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Your highly trained broadcast specialist, Rush Limbaugh, executing assigned host duties flawlessly.
Zero mistakes.
All while doing exactly what I was born to do.
Host this program on the radio.
Great to have you here.
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If you want to speak, if you want to contribute, if you want to try to be part of it, 800 282-2882, the email address, Lrushbow at EIBNet.com through the feverishly fast talents of cookie up there, digging everywhere necessary and possible to find audio sound bites requested by me on the fly.
We have it.
Had just enough time to squeeze it in the closing moments of the previous hour.
But I didn't have enough time to put it in context for people that might have just tuned in.
We had a caller in the last hour who reminded us this all has to do with Boko Haram.
In a sense, it all springs from that.
In January of this year, Nigeria established anti-gay marriage policies.
Three months later, Uganda did it.
And in both cases, the Secretary of State John Kerry, who by the way served in Vietnam, rejected it and told the leaders of both Uganda and Nigeria, and Jerry had good luck, Jonathan, basically get their minds right.
Kerry said we're going to send experts over there to uh teach these leaders.
Instruct them, show them how they're wrong, how they're bigoted, they're racist, sexist, and all this other stuff, homophobes.
And the point being that now a few short months later, all of a sudden now we've got the kidnapped girls, and guess who's to blame?
The Nigerian government.
It's not Boko Haram.
No, no.
They're an oppressed minority.
They're jihadists, they're uh linked to Al-Qaeda, they're militant Islamists, they kidnap the girls, but it's only because the Nigerian government's oppressive and made them do it.
And that's the official position of the United States government, diplomatically.
You may not see that in the media, although if you read the Washington Post today, you will see that point of view expressed.
It's not Hillary's fault, it's not Kerry's fault.
No, no, no.
It's this backward government.
So we got a call from a guy who remembered, you know, last year I was listening to your program, and Obama was in Kenya, and he got slapped down by the leaders of Kenya because he tried the same thing with them.
He was over there ostensibly to give Kenya some money to help them shore up their electricity, even though they're an oil-producing nation's one of the No, that's Nigeria.
Nigeria is why they don't have to listen to Obama because they've got their own source of money, oil.
Kenya needed some money from us for their generation of electricity.
So Obama went over there with an aid check, and while there, he read on the riot act for anti-gay bigotry, and they slapped him down.
And the caller called in and remembered this.
So we went back to transcript.
It was July 1st of 2013 that we talked about it on the program.
We didn't have any audio.
Well, we do now.
This is William Ruto.
This is July 1st in uh Malikumi, Kenya, St. Gabriel's Catholic Church, Deputy President William Ruto spoke about Obama demanding that they get their minds right over there and embrace gay marriage and William Ruto rejecting Obama, and this was a huge slapdown.
This is the first time we've heard audio of this.
That is their business.
We believe in God.
This country, the nation of Kenya, is a God-fearing nation.
We believe in God.
We believe in good, not Obama, is essentially the message.
Now, if this had been George W. Bush or Mitt Romney, you imagine us that the stories about the slapdown U.S. President God while on foreign soil.
But that didn't happen here.
So three African nations in the last nine months have taken official positions opposing gay marriage, and every one of them has encountered problems with the United States afterwards.
The latest incarnation is the Boko Haram kidnapping of the three hundred girls, which has led to the uh all-powerful hashtag.
And that has led once again to the government of Nigeria, which is a Christian government, by the way, being blamed for the kidnapping.
So that closes the loop and brings us up to speed there.
Secretary of State John Kerry, who, by the way, may not know this, served in Vietnam.
Welcome the French foreign minister Laurent Fabi to the State Department in Washington yesterday to discuss a wide range of issues from Iran to Syria to, of course, climate change.
Or in the words of the French foreign minister, climate chaos.
That's the new term.
Climate global warming doesn't work.
Climate change, not kind of climate chaos is what they're now calling it.
John Kerry, Secretary of State, who uh once served in Vietnam, and Laurent Fabi made a joint appearance before their meeting, and the foreign minister warned that there are only 500 days left to avoid climate chaos.
LaRont Fabier said, Well, I'm very happy to be with John.
He didn't say the Secretary of State.
He didn't say the man who once served in Vietnam.
He didn't say John Kerry.
He didn't say, Mr. Secretary, I'm happy to be with John.
There is no week without a phone call or a visit between John and myself.
John, by the way, who once served in Vietnam, uh, actually thought that he was qualified to be Secretary of State because he speaks French.
That makes him sophisticated and erudite and refined.
And so LaRon Favier said there's no week without a phone call or a visit between John and myself, and we have on the agenda many items, many issues.
Iran, Syria.
And we'll meet next Thursday in London together.
Ukraine as well, very important issues, uh, issues of climate change, climate chaos.
We have, as I said, we have 500 days to avoid climate chaos.
That's not even two years, folks.
Not even two years.
Climate chaos before the 2016 elections.
And he said, I know that uh President Obama and uh John Kerry, who uh at one time in the past served in Vietnam, are committed on this subject.
And I'm sure that with them, with a lot of other friends, we shall be able to reach success on this very important matter.
Nobody knows why he chose 500 days.
But France is scheduled to host the 21st conference on the parties on climate change in December 2015, which is 565 days from now.
So climate chaos, five this is the stuff they're famous for.
Five hundred days to avoid climate chaos.
I talked to official climatologist, this program about uh the uh the melting of Antarctica.
He said it's silly.
No melting.
It's just it's it's it's embarrassingly silly to listen to the reporting of this.
It's everything that we uh we thought.
Back to the audio sound bites this morning on the CBS morning show.
They were talking about Carl Rove, suggesting that Mrs. Clinton may have brain damage because of her fall.
Nora O'Donnell, Charlie Rose, Gail King.
John Dickerson, our political director, has a piece out this morning saying Democrats bragged about how maligning Mitt Romney early on was good, and as Dickerson points out that raising issues about health and age, it's a standard operating procedure in campaigns, and in modern history, it's been used chiefly by the Democrats.
That's what Russian Limbaugh said.
So anyway, the left is fit to be tied over what Rope said about Mrs. Clinton.
He is walking back brain damage, but he thinks she suffered some kind of catastrophic but very serious injury when she fell, and we know that she fell.
We'll see.
So they're quoting me on the CBS morning show.
Hey, Trial, when's the last time they asked me to appear on that?
Do they ever ask us it's always good morning, America, the Today Show?
Yeah, yeah.
So they just read the transcript of the program.
I don't know what was specifically controversial about that, but they must have thought there's something was gonna.
Moving up to Soundbites 12 and 13, Magic Johnson.
After being raked over the calls by Donald Sterling on CNN, Anderson Cooper went out and got uh got magic to appear last night.
And Anderson Cooper said, Are you interested in the Clippers?
There's a lot of reports that you would be interested in being an owner, part owner of the Clippers.
We have to wait.
That's gonna be eight months to a year to see if it ever hits the market.
But for me, if it comes out and it's for sale, and my Guggenheim partners, I say, okay, we want to take a look at it and we want to buy it.
Of course, we'll make a run for it.
We'll make a run for it.
Uh uh, it's gonna be eight months to a year to see if it ever hit.
That's not gonna sit well with LeBron James.
LeBron James wants this done tomorrow.
Rick Barry wants the once wants the Sterlings to give up the team tomorrow.
We had the sound bites.
They don't want to eight months to a year to adjudicate this.
He's got the timeline all worked out.
Magic is gonna be eight months to a year before anybody can make a run at it.
It is, it's the first time I've heard a timeline at all on on the team being available.
Well, it would appear that Magic Johnson's got well.
I haven't heard the commissioner talk about how quickly this is gonna.
I haven't heard Sterling announce when he's gonna give up the fight.
I haven't well, his wife said she wants the team.
Everybody else said, well, you better realize nobody wants you.
So you just should go away.
You're husband, sell a team, buy an island, and leave everybody alone.
Just what why do you want to be around people that don't like you?
That was Rick Berry yesterday.
But Magic on CNN last night, it's gonna be eight to twelve months.
Somebody, I wonder if LeBron James has heard this because they're expecting this to happen like by Friday.
Well, they want it to happen by Friday.
So after revealing that it'll be eight to twelve months before the team even hits the market, magic then continued.
We have to wait and see.
But this notion that I want his team, if I was gonna trick somebody, deceive somebody, be dishonest to somebody, steal somebody's franchise, it's gonna be the Los Angeles Lakers.
Let's make that clear right now.
You're putting that on the record.
It won't be the LA Clippers.
Look, I'm a respectable guy.
I'm a guy who have worked hard to put myself in this position.
I am not going to do anything bad to ruin that.
I can't look my kids in the face and say, hey, I'm a thief.
I'm a guy who backstaffs people to get to where they want to get to.
I don't do that.
He was just kidding about stealing the Lakers.
I want everybody to know he was only kidding.
He didn't really mean it.
He was bouncing off the allegations that he was gonna steal the clippers.
Well, because he's not gonna talk openly seriously about stealing a team.
And that's not I just don't want anybody to think he was.
He was joking about stealing it.
He's it he was he was j he if he gets one of these two, he's gonna buy it.
He's not gonna steal it.
He was just making a joke.
Some people that take it seriously.
I just wanted to step in and make sure everybody understood.
Well, anybody ever.
They did ask if he knows V. Dut.
Uh, let's see, uh grab somebody 15.
He doesn't he said he never met her.
Uh uh Anderson Cooper, Donald Sterling claimed this interview that I did with him the other day that you knew V Dot, and that you knew her really well.
I've never met this young lady.
I took a picture with her, probably I look like I had a Dodger game.
That's it.
That's all I know of her.
You know, and then he says, I'm trying to set him up.
How am I trying to set you up?
Well, he thinks that you're behind her getting the tape.
He thinks that you want his team and that you're using V dot to sweet talk him into saying things to get him thrown out of the league.
But he didn't know V dot.
Not know V Dut.
Uh so then, okay, back up to Soundbite 14, Anderson Cooper.
One of the things that Sterling said to me was that you called him up.
I was sitting in my office.
I get a call from Donald Sterling.
This is what happened.
He asked me to go on the Barbara Waters show with him.
I told him I wouldn't do it.
I said the number one thing you need to do, which you haven't done is apologize to everybody and myself.
I'll get to that.
I'll get to that.
So he wanted you to go on with Barbara Walters sitting next to him.
Sitting next to him.
To kind of give him cover.
Exactly.
So I said no.
Then I told him, I said, Donald, you should consult with your attorneys.
I said, This thing is a big thing.
And you should deal with your attorneys and let them advise you on what to do.
But I said, you need to go public and apologize to everybody.
And he did.
And then he stepped in two more buckets of excrement in the process.
He did.
He went unapologized.
And he tried the Clinton route.
It was just sex.
And I just, you know what he said was?
He said, look, you're with a you're with a woman, and everybody knows this.
You say whatever you have to say.
I mean, you don't think anybody's recording it.
And if you thought somebody was recording, you never say it, but you say whatever in order to get the woman to have sex with you.
That's what he they tried that.
Shortly after the Lewinsky thing had resurfaced.
There's no question what he was trying.
If it worked for Bill Clinton, it could work for me, Donald Sterling.
We'll be right back, folks.
Don't go away.
Look, let's get one thing straight.
It's not crazy for Sterling to ask Magic to appear on Barbara Walters with him.
It's not crazy.
I mean, it's crazy that he might think magic would do it, but it's not crazy to ask.
I mean, it would be like Bill Clinton asking Hillary to sit next to him in an interview about his bimbo allegations, which she did to give him cover.
It was 60 minutes, 1992.
And it was Steve Croft doing the interview.
Well, she didn't show up the second time.
Well, no, they didn't, they didn't, they didn't, but they walked out of the White House to get her hand in hand, and then she goes on today's show and blamed a right-wing conspiracy for it.
But she did sit next to him, she she did give Clinton cover at 60 minutes in 1992.
So it's not unusual.
I mean, if if if Sterling is trying to channel Clinton and do what Clinton did.
I mean, Clinton did that.
Well, it's it's true.
It's interesting to me, though, that wherever you look in this story, I mean, we're just playing sound bites of what's on television, and all roads lead to Magic Johnson in this thing.
Wherever you whatever angle is discussed, it all ends up at what magic being the go-to guy for the real story about what happened here.
And I mean, I know Magic is Mr. L.A., but Kobe is there too, and they're not going to Kobe about it.
You know that I've been thinking about something, folks.
This this gay marriage business in these three African countries.
We got you've got Nigeria, good luck Jonathan, and uh and and Boko.
You've got Uganda, and you have Kenya, and in in two of those three, and maybe Nigeria, I think what what's happening in Nigeria is because of Nigeria's position on gay marriage, they oppose it.
In all three cases, this regime has reached out and slapped down the presidents and leadership of these three countries.
And the State Department, when it comes to Nigeria, the State Department was telling the Nigerian government to learn to deal with Boko Harem, to be more open to negotiations with the Muslim population in the North.
Remember, Nigeria is a Christian country.
The State Department.
You don't know about this because this has not been widely covered until this all happened with the kidnapping.
Nobody knew about Boko Haram was going on unless you're a devotee of State Department news.
Now Muslim populations support Sharia law, under which, can you say Sultanate Brunei?
The penalty for homosexuality is death by stoning or other means.
So this is where I'm a little confused.
The Christian Nigerian government puts in an anti-gay law, which is exactly what Boko Haram would want as a militant Islamic group that believes in Sharia.
So they the State Department told them reach out to Boko Haram.
Reach out to the Muslim population.
So they come out with an anti-gay marriage law.
They must think they're doing exactly what Obama and Kerry told them to do, Islamic outreach, and yet Obama slaps them down anyway.
Good luck, Jonathan, must be siters.
There's no way to win with these guys.
I do what they say, I reach out, we get anti-gay what the Muslims want, and I get slapped down for it.
I'm blamed.
Garland, Texas, Ruth.
Glad you called.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Ruth.
Hey, hey.
Ruth, are you there?
She must not be there.
I mean, because I'm shouting.
You may not be able to hear, but I'm saying, well, okay.
Mark in Richmond, Virginia, you're next.
Great to have you, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Uh I'm a longtime listener, and I've listened to you over the years, and I've one time you said something about trying to elect the most conservative candidate that was electable.
Now, correct me on some of the details, but in light of the Tea Party uh, you know, candidates that are trying to get elected running against the establishment machine, I thought this would be relevant to go over what you exactly said and the details of that.
I think I quoted William F. Buckley Jr.
Um, who said that you want to uh support and elect the most conservative candidate who is viable.
Not electable, because who knows?
I mean, who gets to say who's electable and who isn't?
That doesn't you don't know that till after it happens.
Viability, I think is the word that uh that that Buckley used.
And I I have to agree with it.
Why why would you if you've got a viable conservative option in a in a primary, why not take it?
Now, I don't get involved in endorsing in primaries or any of that.
It's too volatile and uh it's it's I've just as a as a policy, I've always stayed away from it.
Have you heard about what's going on in the 7th District in Virginia against Eric Canner?
Well, yeah.
What is it about it that you are interested in?
Well, you have a candidate named Dave Bratt that is more conservative than Cantor and is running on the Republican creed in Virginia, and we're just trying to, you know, get the information out there, and people are just don't know about it, but he is a viable candidate.
That is the term.
He is a viable candidate.
And so uh that's what I wanted to call in.
I remember what you had said, not exactly, but the general gist of it, and I just wanted to go over that.
Uh to clear that up for me, per se, but for others as well across the country so that they know uh how to make an informed decision.
Well, what was it that are you thinking that uh obviously so you've got somebody running a post candidate that you want to support.
You think he can win, so you think supporting him is worth it.
Yes, I do, because in this case there's no Democratic opponent.
So there it whoever wins this race on the Republican primary becomes the next set representative of the next seventh district.
Well, you know, Cantor has uh a bunch of built-in advantages beyond incumbency, and one of them is he's next in line to lead the place.
He's got a lot of power, which means he can do a lot for the district, and that's going to enable him in a campaign to point that out versus the rookie.
Yeah, but my question is is what what good does Speaker of the House really do for the district when he's running all over the country doing other things?
Well, I know.
Look, look, this is, you know, I I I try not to get involved in in primaries.
It's a policy thing that it and it was governed just by my instincts way back in 1988 when I started this.
Um there are a whole host of reasons uh for it.
But I'll tell you the main reason I'll just go ahead and be, I'm gonna be blindly honest with you.
What are you shaking your head for?
What do you think I'm gonna say?
It's very simple.
You've heard me say this before.
They're all panicked on the other side of the glass whenever I say, okay, let me really throw back the layers of the onion here.
Politicians come and go, I'm not gonna tie myself to somebody I don't really know.
And I didn't mean why why go down with it?
I I plan on being here long after who my success is not defined by who wins or loses elections.
I've always said it, nothing's changed, and I never want that to be the case.
I have never wanted my success to be determined by, you know, yeah, well, this guy is pushed over the top by limboss support.
That doesn't interest me.
I don't control these guys.
Okay, let's ask support somebody, don't even know that what wins and then does a 180 in office and becomes a big commie SOB.
And I got people calling me, I voted for this guy because I'm not going there.
Uh they're in a completely different business than I'm in.
Now, you might think this is a comp out, Mark.
It isn't.
It's a recognition here of what this program is and what it isn't.
And I don't uh it's a radio show.
I have my preferences.
I have policy preferences.
I have ideological policy preferences.
And when I become confident that somebody is worth getting behind, I do.
But boy, it takes a lot.
Because look at what quote is misunderstood.
Oh no.
No, no.
In fact, uh Snerdley is saying the Buckley quote's misunderstood because it uh he thinks people sometimes it means throwing your vote away.
No, it means the exact opposite of throwing your vote away.
The Buckley was a conservative.
Conservatism first, Republicanism second.
But it doesn't do any good.
We're running against liberals.
It doesn't do any good to commit suicide by supporting somebody that doesn't have a prayer of winning.
For single issue, purity, or that's what Buckley was saying.
And well, yeah, Alan, there was a uh one of the most glaring examples of this.
I'll give you an example.
I Alan Cranston was opposed by a represent Senator California way back.
I mean, he already looked like a cadaver, but he's running for re-election.
And it's 1986.
It has to be 86, because I left there in 88.
So it has to be 86.
And he's opposed by a moderate Republican by the name of Ed Shao.
Ed Shao, San Francisco.
There was no way the guy's conservative, but he was a Republican.
But he didn't get a lot of Republican support outside San Francisco outside of moderate GOP circles because he wasn't sufficiently conservative.
So Cranston wins.
And if Shao had been on the had been in the Senate, it's not automatic, but it's possible Bork would have been confirmed.
It would It would have been so big to get rid of Alan Cranston back.
It would have been huge.
And that's the kind of thing that Buckley was talking about.
There are two things you want to do in an election.
You want to elect your people, but you want to stop them too.
Now, if you get to do both at the same time, you're really in fat city.
Sometimes you only get a chance to choose one of those things.
But that's aside from the fact that nothing against elected officials, but I d uh I especially if I don't know them and don't talk to them every day, and they can go off the reservation one day after getting my support.
What's that?
This is not useful, as they say, and it and it isn't helpful.
And back in 88, I told myself I'm gonna be around longer than most of them, and I think that's been proven true.
Not all, but some.
And it was a recognition of what this is and what it isn't in terms of a radio show versus a political operation.
But Mark, back to your dilemma here.
Um I know that there are a lot of conservatives that that are not happy with with Eric Cantor and so forth.
If you like this guy, if you like his opponent, if you're looking for me to endorse, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not gonna do that, but I'm not gonna tell you not to.
Whole point of this show is to create as large and informed, educated, participating citizenry as possible.
Then you go do what you think your best shot is.
We'll be back after this.
Half of my outsized brain tied behind my back.
To be fair, and equal.
Rushlinbaugh, EIB network, Karen Camp Verde, Arizona.
Welcome to the program.
Great to have you here.
Hi.
Oh, thank you, Rush.
It's an honor to speak to you.
Thank you.
Hey, I just changed my party to Democrat because I wanted to make some investments this year and not get audited.
I can't be the only one that's uh thinking of this.
You're kidding me.
You change your party registration at Democrat just so you won't get audited.
Well, that too, and the silver lining is I can vote in the primaries for their weakest candidate.
Well, this is true.
And I can't be the only one that's thought of this.
I mean there's a lot of us out there that are conservatives that have businesses that want to start businesses.
Well, let me tell you, I know there are a lot of citizens that are living in real fear their government.
Absolutely.
Particularly after you what you've seen the IRS uh do with the Tea Party.
Oh, yeah.
So I can I can understand it.
I I don't know how commonplace it might be.
That would just be a wild guess.
But uh being a registered Democrat with this regime is almost the equivalent of a get out of jail free card.
So I was thinking.
So you could uh as long as you're not restricted for having to vote Democrat in a general election, then you're cool.
Mm-hmm.
Well, my husband wanted me to tell you because I I can't be the only one that's thought of this, and it might really um skew the results on the pollster.
So you're basically doing this for self-protection, not sabotage.
I'm sorry you didn't hear that.
You're you're doing this for self-protection as opposed to sabotage.
Oh, absolutely.
Yeah.
But then if you get a government scares me.
That scares a lot of people.
It's it's you know, it's amazing when you see uh support for people being thrown out of whatever they do because of what they say.
And I don't mean sterling.
I'm just talking about every ordinary people are afraid to tell people what they really think about anything.
They're afraid somebody's gonna overhear it and report them to Somebody or confront them, not report, just confront them and get in their face about it.
It really is uh it's a phenomenon to me that I'm seeing more and more.
The easiest way to deal with just shut up.
Don't try to provoke anybody, don't call attention to yourself.
And uh, you might even you might even want to you know send a five dollar donation to the DNC just to get your name on the list.
Just for the eh eh five bucks, whoopee do.
Or if you re if you're doing it to for protection, snerders look at me like I'm a traitor.
I'm just following her line of thought here.
You know, a lot of people join the Communist Party for the same reason, just to keep the authorities away from them.
Karen, thanks much.
Appreciate it.
Gotta go, folks.
Thanks so much for being with us today.
As always, tomorrow, and we will be here.
Hope you are too.
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