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	Hi folks and welcome back.
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	It's Friday live from the left post at our satellite studios in Los Angeles.
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	I mean, they're still talking about it.
	One hour.
	One hour ago, I breathlessly informed you that Donald Sterling had transferred the uh the LA Clippers to his estranged wife Shelley.
	By the way, I don't remember where, but I read yesterday that they're not really a stranged.
	That's just something they say.
	But that they're not really estranged.
	Anyway, he has transferred the uh the operation, the ownership of the team to her, which he can do with no tax consequences.
	She's a spouse, so he can give her anything with no tax consequences.
	So it's hers now.
	And the uh lawyer that she has retained in meeting with the league and the commissioner Adam Silver.
	And they're trying to move this sale forward, but uh she's no idiot.
	She's saying she's not going to surrender the control of the team in the sales process.
	She's gonna get the price that she wants.
	She's going to sell it to whoever she wants to sell it to.
	She's not going to be railroaded here.
	And uh that's that those are the conditions that she has her lawyer has essentially set down with the with the league, but the drive-by-the-drive-bys are beside themselves.
	Oh my god, oh my god, because they got Sterling.
	They got rid of Sterling.
	They they've claimed another scalp.
	This is how you advance in journalism.
	And uh many, many journalists are just gonna be feeling really accomplished and achieved today by having driven Sterling out of the league.
	As long as he still control the team, even though he was banned and faced the fine, he was still running the show.
	Now they got rid of him.
	And it's you know, you're gonna be if you're in Washington or New York, you have a tough time finding a seat at the bar at happy hour.
	Later today.
	Also, news from the Associated Press Breaking News, Detroit's Congressman John Conyers.
	In a shock to me.
	We did a morning update on this.
	John Conyers has lost his appeal to get on the ballot in 2014.
	We figured that whatever skids needed to be greased in uh in Michigan or Detroit would be greased so that Conyers could get on the ballot.
	He's number two in seniority in the House of Representatives.
	He lost his appeal today to get on the August primary ballot after Michigan election officials found problems with uh his nominating petitions.
	That would mean the signatures, probably.
	Secretary of State's office affirmed a decision by Detroit area election officials to keep Conyers off the ballot.
	It would end his 50-year career in Congress, unless, however.
	Courts intervene, or if he runs a successful write-in campaign.
	So don't worry.
	It's it's more than likely that our original morning update we predicted to be on the ballot will still be proven right.
	Because what are the odds he's gonna be able to find a judge to turn over this decision that these local yokel election people have handed down?
	Or if push comes to shove, uh whatever it takes to get these write-ins Insufficient number.
	Wait, wait, there's more from the AP.
	Hold it.
	A federal judge.
	Oh, oh my God, oh my God.
	A federal judge is expected to rule later today on Conyers' request to throw out the Michigan election law is unconstitutional.
	So he'll be you try this.
	A federal judge is going to rule later today on Conyers' request to throw this uh ruling out.
	So that'll be the solution.
	Find a judge to declare Michigan's election laws unconstitutional and prejudiced.
	Maybe racist, it may be a stretch, but whatever it takes.
	Now the the problem, excuse me.
	The problem with Conyers nominating petitions is that not only were many of the signatures fake and proper addresses, but the people who collected the signatures used fake addresses and signatures too.
	So it was fake here, fake there, fake everywhere on the petitions.
	But that won't stop a federal judge from determining that the process at Poor Conyers was subjected to was just unfair and unconstitutional and mean or whatever.
	So now this latest news on Benghazi that Daryl Issa has has produced here.
	It's a still classified State Department email.
	They haven't released it.
	All they're doing is talking about it.
	A still classified State Department email says that one of the first responses from the White House to the attack on the consulate in Benghazi was to call YouTube to warn of the ramifications of allowing the posting of an anti-Islamic video.
	This is all according to Daryl Issa, the Republican chairman of the House Oversight Government Reform Committee.
	The memo suggests that even as the attack was taking place, as the Al-Qaeda terrorists were unleashing hell on the consulate, and before the CIA began the process of compiling talking points on its analysis of what happened.
	The White House believed that it was in retaliation for a controversial video.
	The subject line of the email, which was sent at 911 p.m. Eastern time on the night of the attack is update on response to actions-Libya.
	The email was written hours before the attack was over.
	Now here we were all worried that Obama didn't do anything the night of the attack.
	Here we were all worried Obama was off the grid.
	We were all worried, curious.
	Where was Obama while this was going on?
	And now we found out.
	There was no record of him being in the situation room.
	There was no record of him being in contact with anybody in a leadership position.
	He was on the phone with YouTube.
	Google trying to get the video taken down.
	Do you believe this?
	So in the middle of an attack on Benghazi, the White House calls Google.
	YouTube, Google owns them, to take down the video.
	This is now here's what there's a problem with this because ISA says, wait, you're missing the point of all this if you look at it that way.
	ISA's point is they have claimed all along, the White House has, the regime has claimed all along that the CIA is who told them the attacks were due to the video.
	But the emails that claim the White House was on the phone with YouTube to get the video taken down, those emails occurred before the CIA ever said anything at the time.
	So the ICE's point is from the beginning of this controversy to the present, the White House has said the CIA is who told us that a video on the internet caused this.
	The problem is this email that says the White House called YouTube to get the video taken down happened before the CIA told them that it was a video.
	That's ICE's point.
	So ICE's point, you guys don't have your story straight here.
	And they haven't released the video.
	This State Department, the memo, the email, the State Department is still classified.
	Nobody's seen it.
	We're just hearing about what is supposedly in it.
	So we are now being asked to believe that the White House, who this is just my thought process.
	Let's say I'm part of the regime.
	I'm in the White House.
	I'm high up.
	I'm I'm a close advisor.
	We got this attack at the consulate going on.
	Who calls YouTube?
	What in the world?
	Who would call you?
	The attacks already underway.
	I'll tell you what's going on here.
	Again, the root of all of this begins in Cairo.
	Earlier in the day.
	Remember that the State Department, the embassy in Cairo, issued an apology, a written and spoken apology before anything had happened.
	And this apology was for a video.
	When it was released, they were saying, Well, what are you apologizing for?
	We haven't done anything in there, and then there haven't been any terror attacks.
	There haven't been any protests.
	Well, what well, we thought we'd get out in front of it.
	We thought if we apologized in advance for this video, which nobody had seen, if we apologize in advance, then maybe the protesters will not protest.
	That's what the State Department said.
	So this whole thing is really contingent on who came up with what policy and idea to treat what had not happened yet in Cairo with an apology in advance that did reference this video.
	Again, this is before the CIA even told the White House about it.
	This is earlier in the day.
	This is hours before Benghazi even began.
	And it made no sense at the time.
	I remember being stunned when I when I found out, we all learned that the State Department had issued an apology before anything happened.
	And the first reaction from the White House, well, it was a rogue employee just got too excited, was too eager, and hit the send button at the wrong time.
	It was not meant to go out when it did.
	And they just chalked it up to some lackey that made a mistake.
	It turns out it was done on purpose and it was done on purpose to establish that there was this really, really bad video.
	Then you have to learn, you have to remember what we've learned that everybody involved had intelligence that there were going to be protests in Cairo, and there was also intel that there might be hostilities over in Libya in Benghazi.
	So it is clear, and we also have been relatively with certitude assured that it was Mrs. Clinton who conceived of the idea to use the video as the excuse for all this.
	So and there's credence for that because of the original apology issued by the embassy in Cairo before anybody had done anything.
	This is like you going across the street and apologizing to your neighbor because your kid broke their kitchen window, except the kitchen window hasn't been broken yet.
	But you go ahead and get the apology out of the way just in case your kid happens to do it.
	And then when it happens, you have a reason you concoct an excuse why your kid broke the neighbor's window and it's all taken care of in advance.
	The whole purpose of this was to get this video out as the reason for all the hostilities.
	Because remember, it was shortly after the Democrat convention, Obama was saying, Bin Laden's dead, Osama's dead, GM's alive.
	They had slayed the evil Al-Qaeda.
	They couldn't...
	just like Obama campaigned on the VA and done all of that and made sure the VA they were touting, well, you hear this.
	All these media people way back when touting the VA as the model for Obamacare.
	How wonderful it was.
	The BA, that's where everybody ought to be looking.
	Well, Obama had done the same thing with Al Qaeda and terrorism in Bin Laden.
	So they couldn't allow.
	Remember, everything is buzz and PR in image with these people.
	There is no real will for them.
	They have to manipulate public opinion.
	They can't rely and never do rely on honest public perception of real events.
	They can't withstand that.
	They have to massage public opinion.
	They have to create opinions in people's minds for events that give them cover, and that's exactly all this was.
	So now out of the blue, here comes an email that conveniently says that Obama or somebody at the White House is on the phone with YouTube in the middle of the attack, chiding them and demanding they pull it down.
	But ISA caught them by saying, wait a minute, wait a minute, you told us that it was the CIA who told you that the video was responsible for it.
	So how in the world could you have called YouTube and asked them to take down a video when at the time you made the call, you hadn't even been told the video was the reason for it.
	Now, folks, at the very least, doesn't the latest news of unreleased emails about Benghazi?
	Doesn't it prove that we still don't know all there is to know about it?
	And doesn't it justify the select committee in the House continuing to dig deep?
	I mean, just today, after all of this, after all that's gone on, after all of this time, there is a still classified State Department email that says in the midst of the attack, the White House, we don't know who called YouTube, and they just tell us this today.
	And if these emails exonerate the White House, Obama and Hillary and Panetta and whoever else is involved, why weren't they declassified long ago?
	I mean, what national security secrets could they be protecting them?
	I mean, it's been two years, dude.
	Two years.
	And we just now yesterday learn about this still classified email.
	I mean, stop and think of this.
	Ambassador is under assault, four Americans under assault, begging for assistance all time in hell's flying, hell's unleashed over there.
	And they call YouTube to pull down a video.
	Back to the phones, Ed Winter Springs, Florida, you're next on Open Line Friday.
	Hi, great to have you here.
	Thank you so much for having me on.
	This is a different kind of call, because I've called specifically to talk about something Congress did that I'm proud of.
	I gotta reach way back, Rush.
	I got to reach back 43 years, but in 1971, Congress passed legislation to make Memorial Day a national holiday.
	And you know, June 6th, Rush, just two weeks from now, we'll be recognizing the 70th anniversary of D-Day.
	We have 400,000 American veterans lost in the war to end all wars.
	And I just think it's so important that we remember what we're recognizing this Monday on Memorial Day.
	It's not barbecue day.
	It's not a big sale day.
	It's a day that we need recognize and remember those veterans that fought for us and valiantly died, so that folks like you, Rush, could exercise your First Amendment rights to free expression on the radio, because was it not for them, Rush, we'd be living in a completely different country.
	Well, there's no doubt about that.
	I when you talk about this, the 70th anniversary of D Day, Um, there hasn't been anything like it since.
	And so if you are 35, maybe even 40 years old or younger, it's nothing more than a moment in history to you.
	If you don't have any relatives who were old enough to have actually lived through it, my dad, all of my friends' parents fought in it or participated in some way, grandparents too.
	So D-Day, World War II, Battle of Bulge, those are all very real things.
	Hitler, all of that was very real.
	It's just a historical moment now for young people.
	Like the Depression was a historical moment for me.
	I've got to take a break, but I'm going to expand on this point here when we get back.
	So don't go away.
	When I was growing up, I was born in 1951, the Great Depression, 1929, 1930.
	I wasn't even a well, wait a minute.
	I could have been a thought in my dad's mind.
	I don't know.
	But it really in 1951, 1920, 1930, I didn't know that I could experience it, obviously.
	But growing up, my dad and my grandfather, I mean, it was one of the most formative events in their lives.
	It was the primary reason that my father had as his single objective for me that I get a college degree.
	Because if you did not have an education during the Great Depression, you didn't have a prayer of getting a job.
	Any job.
	And back then, there wasn't welfare.
	You didn't eat if you didn't work.
	You didn't have a radio if you didn't work.
	You didn't, you didn't have all the creature comforts that people that don't work today have.
	So it was a must.
	And the Great Depression also had as another formative aspect saving money.
	So growing up, I was inundated with what if there's another one.
	You must be prepared if there's another depression.
	It was something so bad, it was so uh intense.
	It it shaped their lives to such a degree that it was something they wanted to prepare their kids to be able to instand and endure were it to happen again.
	So we were constantly reminded how bad it was.
	In the midst of abundance and prosperity and expanding economic times, the 50s boom and uh everything post-World War II was was booming, and even while that was going on, my brother and I were constantly warned that the bottom can fall out at any time like it had back then.
	So education and saving money.
	That we were drilling.
	I kept in response to us, Dad, look, I'm sure it was bad.
	But I I I it I didn't live it.
	I I all I can try to do is understand it.
	I can't relate to it.
	Didn't work.
	He kept drilling it into me.
	Now, the point I'm trying to make here, we had D-Day coming up.
	Do you know, folks, that on D-Day?
	D-Day alone.
	The D-Day operation, we lost more Americans, slightly more lives were lost in that operation than we lost in 9-11.
	In just one day, one theater of battle in World War II.
	The Battle of Bulge was deadly as well.
	But that seventy years ago.
	When you try to talk to people that are teenagers, young adults today about it, it's like the depression was to me.
	It's something that happened way back then, but they can't imagine something like that happening.
	People alive today, they worry about nukes and stuff, but a giant World war is something that they can't relate to.
	It hasn't happened in their lifetimes.
	And this is why I think education is so important.
	I think education is so crucial.
	I think Pearl Harbor is hardly even mentioned anymore, December 7th, Japanese bombing Pearl Harbor.
	It comes and goes, it doesn't get much notice.
	Memorial Day, like the caller said, Memorial Day, the reason for it, fewer and fewer people know it.
	It's just the first real weekend of summer.
	Three-day weekend and so forth, barbecues, uh what have you.
	And that's why I I think education is important.
	I'm really glad my dad drilled into me these things that he had lived through, and it helped me to relate to him better and understand the things he thought were important and why he was raising me the way he was.
	But I have been to Omaha Beach and Puan De Ho.
	I've been to some of the places where D-Day happened.
	Normandy and the American cemetery there.
	And it's uh I wasn't alive, but I was close enough to it.
	And when you're when your parents live through it and tell stories, or won't, as it turned out in my dad's case, he would not answer very many questions about it.
	It was that horrible.
	He was in the China Burma Theater flu P51s, but uh kids today, and it's no fault of theirs.
	It's not it's not up to them to have the importance of it realized.
	It's up to us to transfer it to them.
	So if you have somebody 30 years old listening to this program today, this guy just called, you know, if it were for that, you wouldn't be free to speak.
	You might not have a radio show, or you might be speaking German.
	They can't possibly do anything but laugh at that.
	So just some old codger calling up with some old fears from the past, that the country's changing.
	Thank God we're not governed by people like that anymore.
	But that was that was his world, and that's that's that was the significance of it.
	And it is the and you go back through all of American history, the founding of this country is being treated that way now.
	The founding of this country is being treated as just an historical blip.
	In fact, worse, the founding of the country is being besmirched.
	In fact, my sharp memory just reminded me that I've got something here in the stack of stuff about this.
	Obama was at a fundraiser.
	Don't tell me I didn't print this out.
	I know I printed it out.
	We were having printer troubles today.
	I know, okay, I'm gonna have to go back and get it.
	Let me see if my memory can recreate this.
	Obama was at a fundraiser yesterday or sometime this week, and he was complaining about the founding.
	And he was complaining that the founding fathers didn't know what they were doing when they apportioned every state with two senators.
	He said, We Democrats happen to live in big cities like New York and Chicago and San Francisco and Los Angeles, and we don't have equal representation in the Senate.
	And he was complaining and whining and moaning about how unfair it is for modern-day Democrats, the way the Senate was constituted.
	He didn't even bother to tell them that senators originally weren't even elected by the people.
	They were appointed, but but two senators in each state was a compromise the founders had to make in order to balance out the uh the way the House of Representatives was put together was based on population.
	And states got the number of representatives they had based on the uh the population of the state and where the population was, was where the districts were drawn and so forth.
	But the Senate didn't matter.
	You get two senators no matter what the population of the state was, no matter what the demographics, no matter what the makeup, no matter the geographic location.
	Yeah, it was the Washington Times at a Democrat fundraiser Chicago says last night, Obama told a small group of wealthy supporters that there are several hurdles to keeping Democrats in control of the Senate and recapturing the House.
	So one of the Problems is the apportionment of two Senate seats to each state, regardless of population.
	Obviously, the nature of the Senate means that California has the same number of Senate seats as Wyoming.
	That puts us at a disadvantage.
	The way this all happened, I'm sure you'll remember this from way when you were taught in history.
	1787.
	The founding fathers decided to apportion house seats based on population, and they gave each state two Senate seats, regardless of population.
	And that was the Great Compromise was a compromise between large and small states.
	There was a dispute over equal and fair representation and nearly dissolved the whole constitutional convention, and that was the compromise.
	And if that hadn't happened, who knows if we would even have a constitution or a country.
	So you can say it about D-Day, World War II, World War I. The thing is, it all did happen, and now the founding of this country is being besmirched, it's being impugned.
	Founding fathers themselves are being excoriated, racist bigots and so forth.
	I happen Obama was complaining about gridlock.
	And I happen to love gridlock.
	I think gridlock is the greatest thing the founding fathers invented when it comes to the legislative branch.
	Gridlock, you you wouldn't believe how much gridlock has saved and slowed down the inexorable march of socialism in this country.
	We have gridlock to thank for it.
	And I'm serious.
	Gridlock is when they don't get things done.
	We don't, we've got enough laws.
	We have enough supervision.
	We have enough nanny state behavior directed our way.
	We have enough of the best and brightest thinking we don't know how to live our own lives.
	Anything that stands in their way of creating more of the gridlock, by the way, there's a bad sign to it.
	All these agencies start just writing their own regulations anyway, without legislation, like the EPA.
	But that takes me in a direction I'll get to at another time on another occasion.
	The point here is that World War II and D-Day particularly, these are crucially important events in American history, and we're reaching a point in our evolution where more and more people are not going to have it's not knowledge of it, but any appreciation.
	That has to be taught.
	That has to be imparted.
	Now, when your parents live through something like that, it's easy for young people to grow up learning about it because parents impart it, teach it, inform.
	But when you're young and the people you know have no direct contact with something like that, then it requires a much more studious effort, and the effort uh sadly is not being taken.
	So we've reached a point in in our country's evolution where a lot of young people stop and think.
	Somebody that's um, I just look at the clock.
	Somebody uh 1821 years old.
	Throw away the first six or seven years.
	Let's let's say they start paying attention, age eight or nine.
	What is their experience?
	Their experience is Bush was rotten, Bush was Hitler, Iraq was wrong, America's military is a bunch of terrorists.
	The United States is destroying the planet with global warming and our advanced lifestyle and our SUVs.
	Major corporations are the scourge of the earth, killing their own customers, poisoning their own customers and what it.
	I mean, it's just a litany, a never-ending litany of negative after negative after negative, what a rotten place this country is.
	That's all they've heard in the media that they've had, uh, in the in the education that they've had.
	That's it.
	They don't know of an America victorious in war, beating back giant powers who had grand designs on dominating and destroying this country.
	They have no knowledge of that.
	They don't have, they don't have the experience of living through it and feeling the triumph.
	So the only point here, this is one of the reasons why I've written these books, by the way, for children, is to try a little part to get the truth of the founding the Rush Revere time travel adventures with exceptional Americans.
	Is this a little effort to have young people have some alternative view of the greatness, the uniqueness, the specialness of this of this country.
	But I immemorial day is one of these days.
	It's been for a long time.
	People don't know what it really is all about, and that there's nothing you can do about it.
	It's just uh part of natural human evolution.
	It takes effort, uh a concerted effort to teach people things that they can't relate to because they weren't alive when they happened.
	We'll be right back.
	Don't go away.
	Now we're back to the phones on open line Friday.
	This is Mark in Atlanta.
	I'm glad you waited, sir.
	Welcome to our program.
	Hello.
	No problem at all, Rush.
	Thank you.
	I appreciate you taking my phone call.
	Um just so I'm I'm 45 years old and I have a me and my three-month-old daughter have been sitting here listening to you, and I have a little different take on this VA thing, and I want to kind of pass it by you and get your opinion about it.
	Um in my opinion, it seems like a lot of the the outrage over this VA situation at the moment is a bit short-sighted and hypocritical.
	Because in my 45 years, as long as I've been paying attention, no matter whether Democrats are in charge or Republicans in charge, I've always felt like it's common knowledge that the VA has not been doing a good job of serving our veterans.
	It doesn't seem like you know, the fact that it seems like this is all new uh to me, just seems like I don't know what people have not been paying attention to, because uh in my whole life it's always been like, yeah, the VA doesn't do a good job of of taking care of the veterans.
	You know, even though I want the accusations now that Obama knew about this six years ago, which is true enough.
	You know, the reality is though that who is in charge for the prior eight years.
	So these problems are already bubbling up and and evident during the Bush administration.
	These problems were evident during the Clinton administration and the first Bush administration.
	I I don't think the issue with this VA thing is a liberal.
	Okay, so all right, fine.
	Let's let's let's leave the table set exactly as you have said it.
	All right.
	It has been a problem forever, essentially, and you can't really tag it to one party or one presidency or administration.
	So what does that tell you?
	What it tells me, Rush, is that ultimately that our government treats our troops like sneakers.
	They buy them new and shiny boxes, all clean, they wear them out, and then they toss them on the pile when they're done with them, like an old as you would do with an old pair of sneakers.
	If our government cared about our troops, the VA would not have any issues.
	And ultimately, ultimately, I I know I know a lot of people worship at the altar of the Pentagon, but ultimately if the VAT Wait a minute.
	Do you do you really think that all they need to fix this is if people cared a little bit more?
	I think if our government cared about these troops uh and what happened to them after they were in war, yeah, I think the VA would operate a lot better.
	I don't think it's a very good thing.
	But how would you how would you how would you show it?
	How would you demonstrate the government?
	We're spending over fifty-three billion dollars a year.
	I mean, we're throwing money at it left and right.
	It's not that.
	Well, you you you and I both know money doesn't always solve problems.
	It's a matter of priorities.
	It's a matter of it's a matter of.
	I'll tell you I'll tell you what I take away from it.
	As just as you've set the table.
	I mean, and I could, if I wanted to, I could nitpick.
	And I could say, well, you might want to lay it at the feet of every regime, but this current one has been promising everybody since 2008 they're gonna fix it.
	Because they said exactly what you said has been a mess, and in fact, I've got to hear my formerly nicotine-stained fingers from the media praising Obama and saying about the VA, it is the microcosm of success that shows us how Obamacare will work successfully for the country.
	You're not hearing from these people right now, but I'm gonna I'm gonna treat you to what they said about it.
	Some people say it was the best way that we could deal with health care for everybody was to follow the exact things we were doing at the VA.
	not gonna go there.
	I easily could.
	I did maybe just a little go there.
	But going back to the way you set the table, there's only one conclusion.
	Government can't do it.
	Name a federal agency that does what it's supposed to do, and even comes close to meeting promises and expectations.
	Name one that actually serves the public first before it serves itself and the people in it.
	The way you've explained it is a great illustration of how, no matter how many people have talked and how much they say they care and how much money they just can't.
	Government just can't do this kind of thing.
	Rushlin bought the EIB network.
	Here we are, wrapping up another exciting and fun productive trip to the left coast.
	And yes, coming up examples of how many left-wing pundits and scholars cited the VA as proof the federal government would do a great job with Obamacare.
	All that and much more when we get back.

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