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May 28, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 28, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #1
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The president uh did the commencement address at West Point today.
And I was swamped in here.
I was just trying to multitask and do three or four things at the same time.
And I was listening to it.
I wonder what wasn't watching, and I was listening to it in the corner of my ear, so to speak.
Did it sound did you watch any of it?
Sound like the applause.
You didn't watch it.
Well, yeah, I mean you couldn't.
I have to do these things.
Like I it just.
He when he started talking about American exceptionalism and the applause from the cadet seem to be tepid.
Uh we've got some sound bites.
I'll get to this in just a uh Jeffy.
Prince Charles.
With with you know you talk about wasted space on the planet.
Man, oh man, this guy is it was in London last night during the inclusive capitalism initiative conference on inclusive capitalism.
The inclusive capitalism initiatives conference on inclusive capitalism, and he proceeded to rip capitalism to shreds as he understands it.
And in the process, what Prince Charles did confirm something I've been saying for 25 years, that modern environmentalism became the modern home of anti-capitalists and communists when the Soviet Union fell.
It was one of my updated 25 or 35 truths of life.
Prince Charles comes along and veritably admits this.
We've also now, because of this incident out in California with uh the Elliott Roger incident, there are women all over this country now writing blog posts and creating hashtags, taking the occasion of this event to make the point that this shows how women are discriminated against and oppressed at least many times in their lives.
If you're it does make sense if you understand the left and if you understand that every event, particularly a crime, is one of the best and fastest ways for them to advance the agenda.
So here you have uh a disturbed mentally ill guy goes on a shooting and and killing rampage, and the feminists of the world rise up and say, see what we're up against.
And so every that you have one male go nuts here, and every man is capable of what this guy does.
Right?
Now follow me on this.
The way the feminist and the way the media and everybody else portrays so the Elliot Roger goes nuts, and that becomes symbolic of what every man is capable of.
And yet, when militant Islamists blow up the World Trade Center, what's the first thing we're said we're told?
No, now don't judge the whole religion by this.
No, no, no, no, no.
These are just some isolated events with some isolated malcontents.
But you let some loony tune go nuts in a sorority house or wherever he went nuts, and all of manhood is indicted.
And that's what the militant feminazis what?
I don't know if I'm gonna I wasn't particularly crazy about it, but that's that's just in me.
I don't I just don't like watching myself on TV.
I've got them here.
I was on Greta yesterday after last night seven o'clock.
We uh did the interview after the program and we used the ditto cam with it in a different way.
It was live to tape, and we had to do the the ditto cam video and and put it for them up on a server, and then they cut it all together.
It worked pretty well in that regard.
I just wasn't.
I don't.
If I do, if I play any excerpts, I'm going to do it toward the end of the program.
This is not...
Well...
Yeah.
out.
What's been getting a lot of play?
Mm-hmm.
Oh, yeah, but there was yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, what I kind of did, it was kind of mean.
It wasn't mean, but it was.
I I turned the tables on Greta.
I started asking her questions.
Uh, and eventually said, look it, I'm not the one answering here.
Uh so she said, What do you think?
And I told her, I just think the problem, you can like Shinsecki all you want, and you can think he's a great guy all you want, and you can praise the intent.
He's not qualified.
None of these people in this administration are qualified for anything they're doing.
Not qualified to do health care, not qualified to do energy.
You're not qualified to do uh the all right.
See, you you have you you did this.
I wasn't, I put it at the bottom of the audio soundbite roster stack.
Because I've got this other stuff.
I've got Prince Charles, and then I've got excerpts of Obama at West Point and Farid Zakaria GPS traveling around in the Google driverless car.
What?
I don't think people hear me every day.
Why should I sit here and play sound bites of me?
Um I mean, it's sometimes I'll do this when others are talking about me, but to play sound bites of me.
Um did I didn't even know that they used any excerpts of that.
Oh, they did?
I didn't even know.
I don't know.
I wasn't crazy about it, certainly.
I I just I didn't think it was one of my best.
I kind of cringed, actually.
Not yeah, I know, look, oh look, no, no, it looked great.
It looked great, and I know that that's really all that matters in TV.
But I still can't say, yeah, that was a great appearance, man.
I look good.
That seems like selling out to me.
But we've got I I think what's happening here with these feminists and try to take this isolated incident and indict all of maledom.
That's what they're doing.
They're they're doing, and they're doing it with not just one or two of them.
It's become the way, and and women, it's it's it's this victimitis is just amazing.
They're saying, see, see, this may not happen to us every day, but every woman will face this kind of threat or unwanted attention many times in her life.
See what we're up against, see what we have to face, see what we it's the modern incarnation of all men are predators and brutes.
And you need to be afraid of them.
And that is the meme.
And now we find out also that there's a there's a not very much or very uh loudly reported characteristic of Elliot Roger.
Dug deep into his uh whatever they're calling it, manifesto.
Do you not you know what this guy was maybe primarily motivated by?
This guy hated the rich.
He just in fact he wrote or put on his video whatever he he he spoke about how mad he was that his mother didn't marry into wealth.
That that was the biggest mistake, the biggest unfortunately happened to him was that his mother did not marry into wealth, instead chose I don't know, principal or or what whatever else he said.
Now, who is it that's been ginning up class warfare and who is it that's been ginning up hatred of the rich?
By the way, can I make another observation?
We're told that we need to get sensitive, and we need to start recognizing the traits in people like Elliot Roger so that we can maybe stop them before they act.
We've got to become more sensible.
We've got to see the signs.
And then when we see the signs, we have to be willing to act on the signs.
That we are seeing the telltale signs that we might be dealing with somebody unbalanced, capable of mass murder and violence, and we must take steps as a society and as a culture to stop this.
Well, I'm going to tell you somebody we need to keep a sharp eye on.
If this, again, this is what the left is telling us.
And I think somebody needs to put Harry Reed in a safe and secure place.
This obsession that he has with the Koch brothers very much scares me.
This irrationality that Harry Reed has with the Koch brothers, Koch brothers responsible for global warming, Koch brothers responsible for everything wrong in politics, Koch brothers response.
The man has the Koch brothers on this man, Harry Reed, hates and resents the Koch brothers every bit as much as Elliot Roger hated women.
I see the signs.
I see the irrationality.
I see the red flags, the danger signs are clear as a bell with Harry Reed.
Somebody needs to do something.
Yeah, CNN has the news on the Elliot Rodger manifesto.
He called his mother selfish for not marrying into wealth.
He wrote about how seeing how rich families enjoy life made him resent that his quote, damnable mother, had not married into wealth instead of being selfish.
Now again, every time one of these things happens, the first thing the drive-bys do is see if they can link it to the tea party.
Then they try to link it to conservative talk radio.
Then they try to link it to some Republican politician someplace.
So we always ask you that.
Don't play that game because it's cheap, but it's fun to kind of uh reverse roles now and then.
So if if as far as these people are concerned, these people, these these perpetrators cannot be responsible.
There has to be some external force.
A Tea Party, poisoning their minds, conservative talk radio filling them with hatred, bigotry, and whatever the cliches are.
Republican politicians planting in their heads elitism and all whatever it is.
It can never be that a perp is simply a bad guy and is responsible for what he does.
There has to be some external force, the gun, the NRA.
Okay, the more we learn about this guy, the more obviously we see he was conditioned by liberalism.
He hated, he resented the rich to the point of calling his mother damnable and selfish for not marrying a wealthy guy.
He hated women.
Who is it that's out there talking about the war on women all the time?
It's the Democrat Party.
Now, you know me and you know yourselves, when this kind of thing happens, we do not make a mad dash to try to blame this and politicize everything that happens, but when they do, when the Democrats do, when the left does, then we respond, we react to it, and we point out how they are wrong.
Here are more quotes from this guy, Elliot Roger about the rich.
I couldn't help but feel a bitter form of envy at all the rich kids at the concert.
They grew up in lavish mansions, indulge in excessive opulence, will never have to worry about anything in their pleasurable hedonistic lives.
I would take great pleasure in watching all those rich families burn alive.
Looking at all of them really drilled into my Mind the importance of wealth.
Wealth.
One of the most important defining factors of self-worth and superiority.
I hated and envied all of those kids for being born into wealth while I had to struggle to find a way to claim wealth for myself.
I had to be ruthless.
Do whatever it takes to attain such wealth.
After all, it was my only hope of ever being worthy of getting a girlfriend and living the life of gratification that I desire.
Yes, uh they want to try to blame this on the gun on guns.
They want to try to blame this on the Tea Party.
Or on conservative talk, listen to this guy.
Does he not sound exactly this is what you get with class warfare?
It's like it says occupy Wall Street with a gun.
This is exactly the kind of mindset that the Democrats create with this class warfare rhetoric.
They create the resentment.
They want people to resent the and then when the rich get theirs.
Oh, tax increase, lose everything.
Then people like Elliot Roger are happy.
His life hasn't changed, any, but he's happy that others are suffering.
He began practicing shooting at a gun range in Oxnard, California, after failing to win the 120 million dollar mega millions lottery in September of 2012.
Apparently the guy dumped it was either 400 or 700 into lottery tickets, trying to get wealthy because he thought that's what he had to do to get a date.
No, to get sex and to be respected.
He said, I know that I was always destined for great things.
This must be it.
I was destined to be the winner of the biggest lottery jackpot in existence.
I knew right then and there that this jackpot was meant for me.
Who else deserves such a victory?
I'd been through so much rejection, suffering, injustice in my life.
This was to be my salvation, with my whole body filled with feverish hope.
I spent $700 on a lottery tickets for this drawing.
As I spent this money, I imagined all the amazing sex I would have.
With a beautiful model girlfriend, I would have once I became a man of wealth.
And then after repeatedly not winning the lottery, Roger saw that his plan for his day of retribution against the world was more real than ever before.
So that's when he started practicing with the gun.
When he failed to win the lottery and failed to get rich, and after he had chastised his damnable mother for being selfish by marrying some average income jerk.
You know.
Yeah, poor child, 700 bucks on a lotto, 40,000 beamer, he's driving around, right?
Right.
But everything's relative, snurdly.
He's driving around a $40,000 beamer that he didn't pay for, and he knows it and couldn't buy on his own if he had to, and he's wound all these other people that he thinks that he thinks are spending every waking moment in bed simply seeking pleasure, doing no work whatsoever.
Everything's what he reads and sees on TMZ, e-entertainment, social media, you name it, and he feels like he's really missing everything and being left out.
But this hatred for the rich goes deep, folks, and he's not the only one that uh harbors it.
No, I was I'm I'm not totally joking about Harry Reed.
I think this is it.
This is more than a fetish Harry Reid has with the Koch brothers.
This is a dangerous irrationality or irrational world that Harry Reed is living in, where the where the Koch brothers are responsible for everything he doesn't like.
I would keep a sharp eye.
Dingy Harry's getting up there.
All the signs that we're told to keep a sharp eye out for.
We see them.
In Dingy Harry.
Emmanuel Grinberg writing At CNN.
Why yes all women took off on Twitter?
A new hashtag.
Yes, all women.
That hashtag, why that took off.
She says, no.
Not all men channel frustration over romantic rejection into a killing spree, but yes, all women experience harassment, discrimination, or worse, at some point in their lives.
That is the message at the core of an ongoing Twitter conversation that emerged after a rampage last week left six students from the University of California, Santa Barbara dead and 13 others wounded.
Comments inspired Twitter users to tweet the hashtag yes all women.
They shared examples of what, quote, women must fear, even if not all men engage in those behaviors.
According to the person believed to have created the hashtag on Saturday.
Not all men practice violence against women, but all women live with the threat of male violence.
Every single day all over the world.
That's a tweet by some woman is another one.
The hashtag is a response to the not all men defense.
That is sometimes used to deflect feminist arguments.
It's read quickly on Twitter, zeroing in on the subtle and explicit signals that a woman's worth is based on her availability to men.
And by Tuesday morning, the hashtag yes all women had been tweeted more than a million times, and now nobody remembers the bring back our girls hashtag.
That's kind of vanished into the ether.
And now it's yes, all women face brutality, sexual harassment, discrimination.
Every day, not from every man, but all women face it.
Every day.
Welcome back, folks.
Al Rushmore, the EIV Network, Limbaugh Institute, Advanced Conservative Studies.
Well, the first annual...
Well, I don't know if it's gonna be annual.
But the first White House summit on concussions in sports is tomorrow at the White House.
There'll be 200 concussion experts, including Roger Goodell, the commissioner of the National Football League.
I wonder if they will talk about the inevitable concussion Michael Sam is going to get someday.
Um it's a feta completely playing in the NFL gets a concussion now.
And the only question is how many, and will they be recognized?
And of course, President Obama said he wouldn't let his son play in the NFL today, and then after saying that, applauded Michael Sna and actually sent him a congratulatory note or phone call, whatever, after he was drafted by the St. Louis Rams.
So a concussion summit.
Now you know as well as I do.
This is a deflection.
It's designed to show compassion, concern, caring.
Doing something about it.
When in fact, nothing will be done.
There will be literally nothing useful that comes out of this thing.
It's just a bunch of it's it's a circle.
Uh like all the job summits.
How many of those have we had?
Remember all the media people, Thomas Loopy Friedman shows up at one of them, and Obama assigns work groups to go off various corners of the White House and confer, then come back and report to him at the end of the day.
And that's it.
The summit's over, and they fixed the problem.
As far as you're concerned.
They met, they were concerned, they cared.
They spoke of their worries and their desires that there not be any concussions, and they promised to look deep, find out what to do about preventing concussions, and then they left, and it was problem-solved.
And that's another microcosm of how good liberals do things.
Convene a meeting.
Everybody talks about how worried they are, how upset they are how concerned.
That equals doing something about it, because you see, compassion and caring Is all you have to do in order to get credit for being a good person.
Actually coming up with solution, nah.
In fact, the more they do that, the worse off everybody ends up being.
You take any liberal program they've tried, it's abject failure, which is why you don't ever examine their results.
No, no.
You only are allowed to examine their big hearts and their good intentions.
It's like this yes, all women hashtag that's going around.
Now they make it a point to say not all men do what Elliot Roger did.
But all women face the fear of what he did every day.
So here you have profiling.
Elliot Roger goes out, does what he does, and all of a sudden, every male is every male potentially capable of this kind of thing.
Yet when militant Islamists engage in jihad and terrorism, what are we told?
No, do not judge all Muslims.
Do not judge all of Islam.
This is these are rogue random acts.
These are not events typical of this great religion.
But when an Elliot Roger goes nuts, this is something every woman faces.
The fear of exactly this, something every woman faces every day in her life.
And of course, where do these women turn for safety?
Well, by definition, they can't turn to men.
Men are the threat.
So they turn to Obama.
They turn to government.
Government will protect them.
Government will shield them from the evil that lurks around them each and every day.
They can't be comforted by men.
That just won't because men are the threat.
Now, good liberal men, Ellen Alda and uh Shinseki, John Kerry, not capable of this kind of thing.
So they are allowed to be protectors.
So we have that going on.
We've got the fact that this guy hated the rich, and perhaps as motivated by that as anything else.
Michelle Obama is making a full-fledged move now, taking over whatever food children eat in this country, and there's some people that are fighting back on it.
There's some people that are that are there's there's a backlash against Muchell and her efforts here.
But I want to get before we get back to your phone calls.
I want to get to Prince Charles and move into Obama at West Point today at the commencement address, because a well-known drive-by media specialist was not pleased.
Christiana Aminpoor regretfully pointed out that this speech by Obama today was not something commensurate with superpower status.
And of course it isn't because Obama is not comfortable with the United States being a superpower.
He doesn't like that at all.
Because we never really were a legitimate superpower.
We may have been one, but it was unjust and immoral the way we got there.
And we didn't use our superpower status for good and for justice and equality.
We used it to make the rich richer and so forth.
As you will hear when Obama speaks to the cadets.
But first, an ally in the anti-capitalist movement, Prince Charles, last night in London during the inclusive capitalism initiative conference on inclusive capitalism.
We have two sound bites of the Prince of Wales.
Here's the first.
rather than the other way around.
So critically, it would require the incorporation of environmental externalities.
We would have to account properly for carbon dioxide emissions.
The use of water and fertilizer, the pollution we produce, and the biodiversity we lose.
All of these would have to be comprehensively considered in our economic and national decision making because inclusive capitalism cannot be truly inclusive if our dependence on natural capital, the economic invisibility of nature, is not also included in our calculation.
Well, I know it's a bunch of gobbledygook.
Do you want me to try to explain this to you?
Or is it standalone entertaining by itself?
It is.
Ike obviously thinks that he knows more than anybody else, smarter than anybody in the room, and he's making absolutely no sense.
And at the bottom right really doesn't know what he's talking about.
He's trying to dress up just total unabridged socialism and make it sound like it's aerodized and intellectual and very exclusive and uh very elite certain mustard be allowed to talk about such things and uh polite company,
otherwise uh you may not be bright enough, smart enough to even understand what we're talking about, which in truth means you are so smart, there's no way you could figure out what he's talking about because not even he knows.
The primary purpose of capitalism should surely be to serve the wider long-term interests and concerns of humanity rather than the other way around.
What other way around?
What what?
First thing that struck me, the primary purpose of capitalism should surely they'm sure you would agree with me when I say no, do not say that.
The primary purpose of capitalism should surely, what surely be to serve the wider long-term interests and concerns of humanity rather than the other way around.
What is the other way around?
Let's see.
Well, we can find it in this sense.
The primary purpose of long-term interests and concerns of humanity should surely be capitalism.
No, he doesn't mean that.
That's what he's arguing against.
But that is the other way around.
The well the primary purpose of capitalism should surely be to serve the wider long-term interest.
Oh, you mean rather than the shorter?
That's the shorter term interests and concerns is the other way around.
All right.
So critically, it would require the incorporation of environmental externalities.
See, your spot at that point, if you're supposed to be so dazzled by what he's talking about, you hopelessly can't understand it, but you are going to think the guy knows what he's talking about.
Look, in a nutshell, Prince Charles here is calling for an end to capitalism as we know it in order to save the planet from global warming.
What he's trying to say here, and just doesn't want to say it point blank, is that he thinks capitalism is destroying the world.
Where is there any capitalism in the world today?
What is destroying the planet?
If you want to accept the premise the planet's being destroyed, how are we going to define that?
Well, he is talking about environmentally.
Okay, you go to any totalitarian, socialist, fascist, communist country, and you're going to find more pollution per capita than you would ever hope to find in a free market capitalist society.
By definition, that is inarguable.
Besides the United States, where does unfettered, not unfettered, but where does this full-fledged capitalism?
Well, you might want to say it's not Europe and for Australia and it will maybe South Africa.
Used to be Hong Kong, but the United States is pretty much It.
And so what does that mean?
The United States is destroying the world, see?
The United States is destroying the planet.
The United States, because where is, you know, the only problem with the world is the unequal distribution of capitalism.
That's the real problem.
But to somebody like Prince Charles, the problem is the unequal distribution of resources.
Well, to me, it's the unequal distribution of capitalism.
What economic system has produced the world's greatest, biggest, freest superpower.
I mean, I I am I resent having to even ask this question.
I sort of resent having to even point it out, but such is the state of education today that's necessary.
All right, let me point out again.
I'm not attacking Prince Charles.
I am defending.
I was minding my own business today.
I was doing what I do every day.
I was doing show prep.
I I but Prince Charles was not even on my mind.
The royal family, which happens to be the biggest welfare case in the UK, by the way.
The royal family is the biggest welfare case in the UK.
Of course he's going to like socialism.
All monarchs do.
It's how they survive.
But now Prince Charles out there attacking capitalism as the root of all evil in the world, and I'm not just going to sit idly by when I know it to be false.
And so I remembered it was vaguely in the deep dark crevices of my fertile gray matter.
I remembered something about Prince Charles and tampons.
But I couldn't quite make the connection, because I don't think about that every day either.
So I went to my trusty computer and I searched it and I found out what I was remembering.
It's a Daily Mail story, UK Daily Mail, on February 28th, 2008.
And it was during the inquest into the death of Princess Diana, and it was discovered during this inquest that the residence of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles had been bugged.
Doesn't matter by who, it is what was learned.
Details of the tampering emerged during a secret investigation into the recording of Charles' highly intimate late-night mobile phone conversation with Camilla in 1989.
A transcript of the call was made public in 1992, weeks after news had broken about the squidgy gate tapes involving Diana and James Goodleby.
It caused huge embarrassment to the royal family as it included details of how the prince had told his lover that he wanted to be her tampon.
Prince Charles, who ripped capitalism to shreds, blamed it for the evils of the world last night, was overheard telling Camilla Parker Bowles that he wanted to be her tampon.
That was a compliment.
That was that was supposed to be a sign of how deep was his love and commitment for Camilla Parker Bowles.
That he dreamed of being her tampon.
Not panties, not tampon.
This is the guy running around ripping capitalism, blaming it for global warming.
And here is the second soundbite we have at the inclusive capitalism initiative conference on inclusive capitalism.
Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, pretty much admitting here what I observed 25 years ago.
We stand at a pivotal moment in history.
Either we continue along the path we seem connected and determined to follow, apparently at the mercy of those who so vociferously and aggressively deny that our current operating model has any effect upon dangerously accelerating climate change, which I fear will bring us to our own destruction.
Or we could choose to act now before it is finally too late, using all of the power and influence that each of you can bring to bear to create an inclusive, sustainable, and resilient society.
Pivotal pivotal moment in history that we continue along the paths we seem collectively determined to follow, apparently at the mercy of those who.
Again, it's uh more gobbledygook.
Um, but we must all, before it's too late, it's always before it's too late, and time is running out.
The power and influence that each of us can bring to create an inclusive, sustainable, resilient society.
Just another way of describing statism, totalitarianism, you name it.
It will be back.
I really did intend to get some phone calls in in this hour, but face it, folks, I was just on a roll.
And so I didn't get any phone calls.
We'll double down on the effort in the upcoming two hours and try to make up for it at that time.
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