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May 30, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 30, 2014, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented anchorman, Mark Stein, sitting in.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
Rush is on vacation for a few days.
actually a a real vacation as in uh scramming getting out uh putting his feet up uh not paying any attention to i to the news i don't know where he's he's uh he's gone After his fulsome words of praise for His Royal Highness the other day, I believe Rush is actually staying with the Prince of Wales.
They're going pheasant shooting in Scotland.
So if you're interested to know where he is, I believe that's where he is.
It's the season of guest hosts, Mark Belling, Eric Erickson, Buck Sexton, Lois Lerner, Donald Sterling.
They're all here, all coming up in the days ahead.
We're live from Ice Station EIB in far northern New Hampshire.
I had a lovely ride across the Canadian border, beautiful morning, shafts of sunlight shining through the air holes in the trunk of the car.
And then when we're half a mile south of the border post, I bang on the trunk and say, okay, you can let me out now.
So it's great to be with you for a busy end to the news week, a dramatic end.
Half an hour ago, it was announced that General Shinseki has agreed to fall on his sword.
He met about 10 o'clock with President Obama, who had said beforehand that at this meeting, he planned to have a, quote, serious conversation with the VA chief about whether he's the right man to fix the VA crisis.
And Obama made his comments about the, quote, serious conversation during an interview on live with Kelly and Michael.
Because when you want to have a serious conversation, live with Kelly and Michael is the place to have it.
That's how serious this VA crisis is, folks.
The president is having to take time out of his golf game to do damage control on live with Kelly and Michael.
And he didn't explicitly say that it was time for Shinseki to go, but he did say it was time for him to have a serious conversation with Shinseki.
And live with Kelly and I don't think I've seen live with Kelly and Michael since it was live with Regis and Kathy Lee.
So presumably someone had a serious conversation with Regis.
And now there's this guy, Michael, there.
So anyway, General Shinseki found himself fitted for the Regis Philbin cement overcoat by President Obama this morning.
So he's gone.
He's history.
We'll talk about that.
Other generals in the news.
It's an all-General Friday.
It's a general discussion we're having today on the Rushlinbush.
Other generals in the news, General Sissy has just won a spectacular victory.
General Sissy is not Vladimir Putin's characterization of Barack Obama.
General Sissy is the Egyptian strongman.
You might think that's an unfortunate name for a military strongman, but I guess it works on the old Johnny Cash boy named Sue principle that if you call your strongman General Sissy, he's going to be one tough, mean SOB of a strongman.
My name is Sissy.
How do you do now?
You going to die?
That's General Sissy.
He won 93.3% of the vote in Egypt.
That's pretty much the end of the Arab Spring.
You can forget about it.
You can stick a fork at it.
The Arab Spring is done.
Mubarak back in the 90s used to win by these margins, these kinds of margins.
But one time, I forget what it was, it was like the 1995, 1997 Egyptian election, and the guys who count the votes, Cabin, had said, great news, Your Excellency.
Won 98.7% of the vote.
And he was furious with them and he bawled out the Egyptian Electoral Commission and he fired people and all the rest of it because he said to them, Look, I'm not one of these joke dictators like Saddam Hussein or Kim Jong-il.
I'm meant to be in the ballpark of just about plausibility.
And when you make it 98.7% of the vote, I've won, you make me look like an idiot in front of the world.
Well, General Sissy just won 93.3% of the vote in Egypt.
And as I said, it's a general discussion we're having on the show today, so more generals in the news.
Aside from General Shinseki and General Sisi, what about General Salami?
Are you familiar with General Salami?
He's the deputy commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, Brigadier General Hossein Salami.
His middle name is Haida, I believe.
Brigadier General Salami said that the collapse of the United States is now near.
The global U.S. Empire is coming to an end, says General Salami in Iran.
No one anymore puts out a red carpet for American officials.
And that's why Obama, when he showed up at Bagram Military Base in Afghanistan this week, Hamid Karzai wasn't there and didn't want to know.
No one puts out the red carpet for America anymore.
The global U.S. Empire is coming to an end, according to General Salami.
And that's, we'll talk about that on this as this week comes to an end.
By the way, the most important news this week for me personally is that my kid won the Obama Award.
My kid is graduating.
Yeah, he won the Obama Award.
It's personally humiliating.
HR has just said, really, in that sinister way that implies you can't win the Obama.
You can't have a kid who wins the Obama Award and still be a rush guest host.
They may be breaking into the studio to drag me out here.
The Obama Award is this thing.
It's called the President's Education Award.
My son's graduating from grade school, eighth grade graduation.
And the President's Education Award is supposedly a great tremendous achievement.
And as usual, it's basically everybody except like four people in the class gets it.
So it's supposed to be a thing for outstanding achievement in educational excellence.
And it's equivalent to about, you know, a C grade in Albania.
So they, but anyway, he gets the, he and like everybody except four kids in the class gets the Obama Award.
So they go up to receive the Obama Award from the teacher.
And she reads out the letter from the White House congratulating my kid on getting the Obama Award.
And he said, and goes, I am counting on you to continue to set a good example and help others whenever you have the opportunity.
I'm reading from the actual letter that Barack Obama wrote to my kid because it's signed by him and my kid didn't believe it.
So he wet his tongue because he thought it was just some printed thing to see if the signature would smudge.
And the signature did smudge.
So my kid now thinks that Barack Obama actually signed this letter to him.
And that's why, you know, the world has gone to hell and Putin's taken the Crimea and the Iranians are nuclearizing and the Chinese are taking over the Pacific Ocean is because Barack Obama is spending all this time either appearing on live with Regis and Kathy Lee or signing the signing the Obama award letters to eighth grade students across America.
But this is the bit that I really made me laugh at the end of this week.
Smart-driven young people like you, wrote the president to my son, smart-driven young people like you remind me that America's best days are yet to come.
And that used to be the way people thought of America.
That was always the expectation for 200 years.
America's best days lay ahead.
And it is hard, if you're my kid's generation, I think, to take that seriously.
This is the week in which the U.S. economy contracted by 1%.
Do you realize the U.S. economy actually got smaller this week?
That's what it was announced.
And everyone said, they used to say when there were disappointing growth numbers, that the U.S. economy had been expected to grow by 4%, by 3.5%, by 2.8%.
But in fact, it only grew by 0.8% unexpectedly.
And that was the phrase.
The media were always taken by surprise by the lousy economic performance of Obama's America.
Now it's actually contracting.
They're saying, oh, it's no surprise at all.
No, it was the extreme cold winter.
It was the weather.
The cold weather caused the economy to contract, to shiver.
It's like your private parts in the bath.
It's the cold water makes it contract.
And similarly, the cold climate, the cold winter made the Obama economy, its natural shrinkage.
You don't have to worry about it.
You get out of the freezing water and you just rub yourself up and down with a towel for a bit and everything will soon be feeling hunky-dory again.
That's their explanation for the shrinkage in the Obama economy.
And 1%.
We are supposedly, I think it was, what was it, 2011 or 2010 might even be, was the first recovery summer.
So this would now make it the fourth or fifth recovery summer.
And we've got an economy that's actually getting, what is going to, actually getting smaller.
What is going to happen to change this trajectory we're on?
We had the president this week accidentally, the White House accidentally announced the name of a CIA station chief in Afghanistan, of the CIA station chief in Kabul in Afghanistan, accidentally announced him to the world.
They sent it out to 6,000 people.
This is the greatest thriller plot that has ever, anyone has ever come up with.
You can read your Tom Clancy.
You can read all the CIA thrillers you want.
But in the real world, this is actually what happens.
There's nothing clever about it.
There's no great conspiracy.
An administration of bozos puts the name of the top secret CIA super spy, super spook, station chief in a press release and sends it to 6,000 people around the world because they don't care, because they don't care.
The president, it's not important to them.
The president gives a speech at West Point and can't even discuss.
Nobody wants to be.
It reminded me in all the warmth and affection, mutual warmth and affection.
It reminded me of Russia's pal, the Prince of Wales, having dinner with Diana on their 10th wedding anniversary.
They'd been rumored to be in Splitsville for some time.
So the Prince and Princess were prevailed upon by the Queen to go out and have dinner somewhere on their 10th wedding anniversary to show that everything was still going well.
And the two sat there looking at each other as if neither party wanted to be there.
And at the end of it, they said, oh, what a marvelous night, darling.
We must do this again in another 10 years' time.
That's Obama and his audience at West Point.
The audience didn't want to be there.
They sat on their hands.
He didn't want to be there.
He couldn't disguise it.
And what he said was so Even under the Obama techniques of just straw man arguing, it was so pathetic that even his liberal cheerleaders, even the court eunuchs of the Obama media, couldn't pretend that it had been a great hit.
Rush mentioned the other day that Christian Oman Paul had panned the speech.
The New York Times panned the speech.
The Washington Post panned the speech.
And again, it's the same thing, like releasing the name of the CIA station chief in a media press release that they couldn't be bothered.
When Obama gave that amazing explanation that American exceptionalism doesn't mean defying international norms, but means living up to them.
That has got to be, let's put aside left-wing, right-wing, conservative, liberal.
You can make a conservative argument that's coherent.
You can make a left-wing argument that's coherent.
I mean, people talk about the Communist Manifesto, but if you read it, Marx and Engels evidently put a bit of thought into it.
But this guy, who's got speechwriters that you pay for, says that the definition of American exceptionalism is living up to international norms.
Well, for a start, if they're norms, they can't be exceptional.
You know, Sweden lives up to international norms.
Does that mean they're Swedishly exceptionalistic?
Finland lives up to international norms.
Switzerland lives up to international norms.
Belgium, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Solomon Islands.
The Solomon Islands doesn't pretend to be exceptional because it lives up to international.
If it's a norm, it can't be exceptional.
That's nothing to do with left or right.
I'm not making a partisan point here.
I'm saying that the people around Barack Obama can't even be bothered about what mush they stick in his mouth.
And he's like a robot there doing that Wimbledon center court, watching the final in slow-motion head swivel from one teleprompter to the other teleprompter, back to the other teleprompter with that glassy-eyed look on his face.
He doesn't even pretend to believe it anymore.
Nobody cares.
He doesn't care.
He's talking to these West Point guys.
He said, I suppose I ought to say something about American exceptionalism.
What do you got?
Exceptionalism is living up to the norms that 200 other countries.
That's what makes us exceptional.
We do exactly the same thing as 200 other countries.
He's not even trying anymore.
So it was a tough week for President Obama and a rough week for him in some ways because even Christian Amanpour and co- have turned on him.
We will get to all that in the next three hours because it's the end of the week and you know what that means.
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We are abandoning the world.
It's like the planet after Obama has evacuated the military presence from Libya and all these other places.
We are out of control.
Anything you want to talk about, if you'd like to call in and defend the president, I'd love to hear that.
Mark Stein, in for rush, lots more still ahead.
Mark Stein, in for us on the EIB network.
The key findings of the interim report from the Department of Veterans Affairs Inspector General as General Shinseki resigns.
Key facts from the interim report.
About 1,400, and again, this is government, by the way, about 1,400 veterans were on an electronic waiting list and had appointments for care.
Another 1,700 veterans were waiting for an appointment but were not on the list, putting them, quote, at risk of being forgotten or lost, unquote.
What this means, these 1,700 people, they weren't on the waiting list.
They were on the waiting list for the waiting list.
That's how it works.
Because in order for the staff to meet their performance targets and get their bonuses, you're not allowed to be moved onto the waiting list until you can be moved onto the waiting list in a time when you can actually be seen so they can meet their targets and get their bonuses.
So you think you're on the waiting.
You go down there and you say, hello, I've come here for my cancer treatment.
And they say, you're right, you're riddled with cancer.
Don't worry, we put you on the waiting list.
And the guys go back home and think they're on the waiting list.
And in fact, they're just on the waiting list for the waiting list because that's the way they do it.
Now, they've taken action.
General Shinseki, who's gone now, but one of the last things he did was he tried to bring closure to the scandal by firing the Under Secretary of Health, Dr. Robert Petzel, and replacing him with Dr. Jeffrey Murowski, who was the director of the VA's Great Lakes healthcare system.
Among the hospitals that Dr. Murowski was in charge of was something called the Edward Heinz VA Hospital in Cook County, where Freedom of Information Act requests find that they spent millions of dollars on bonuses during the last three years at Heinz.
Only about one in four of the 4,000 employees are actually involved in primary care.
There's about 300 doctors, 800 nurses, a little under 400, and then there's 3,800 people doing all kinds of other stuff at this hospital.
And it has five veterans died waiting for care.
It has the most inefficient physical plant for inpatient care, but it has fantastically generous bonuses for its non-medical employees there.
And this is the guy who they have just put in charge now.
The guy in charge of this hospital is now the guy that General Shinseki has put in charge of the whole system.
What do you think is the likelihood of anything seriously changing at the VA?
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Hillary speech tickets are now 66% off.
Hillary is coming to the first bank center in Broomfield, Colorado.
And tickets were originally, what were they?
I think they were originally $175 to see Hillary Clinton, but they've now been reduced to $59 to see Hillary at the First Bank Center in Broomfield, Colorado.
And I don't know, $59 for Hillary Clinton, that still sounds...
You might want to wait a bit longer.
They might be down to $13 in a couple more days.
Hillary Clinton.
Here's what I love about the sales pitch, though.
They're trying to get people to pack this thing so it doesn't look embarrassing at the First Bank Center in Broomfield, Colorado, Colorado.
Hillary Rodham Clinton served as the 67th U.S. Secretary of State from 2009 until 2013 after nearly four decades in public service.
Her, quote, smart power approach to foreign policy repositioned American diplomacy and development for the 21st century.
Hillary Clinton's, quote, smart power approach to foreign policy repositioned American diplomacy and development for the 21st century.
This is really the problem that Hillary Rodham Clinton left for Barack Obama when he stood up at West Point and made that embarrassing speech a couple of days ago.
I'm a believer in smart power.
Obama was fighting with Strawman, as he always does.
He said, oh, you know, there are those who say we should send in the U.S. military every time.
Nobody's saying that.
Nobody's saying, you know, you need to invade Libya and you need to invade Syria and you need to invade Nigeria and you need to invade Chad and you need to invade Ukraine.
Nobody's saying that.
I'm a believer in smart power.
The purpose of the military is that you have such overwhelming might that when people think you're serious about something, they respond to that without you having to invade their country.
Because they understand that you've got the most powerful military on the planet and you can drone them and you can nuke them and you can do whatever you want to them.
And so the purpose of smart power is to put yourself in a position where you don't have to use that.
Rush was talking about this yesterday.
Deterrence.
That if people take you seriously, you deter potential threats and you advance your interests through smart power.
We had a total vacuum of smart power during Hillary Rodham Clinton's term as Secretary of State, starting with the stupid Staples reset button that she presented to the Russian foreign minister, in which the geniuses at the State Department have got the word wrong.
And since then, Russia is going around doing what it's wanting.
Almost everything the president said in his speech was actually not true, that he said Russia was isolated.
No, Russia isn't isolated.
Russia's just done this big deal with China.
They're buddy-buddying around like they haven't in ages.
The Arab Spring's gone south.
We are in a post-American world as far as foreign policy goes.
And I would like to think that the reason nobody wants to buy tickets for the Hillary Rodham Clinton speech at the First Bank Center in Broomfield, Colorado next month is because there isn't anything worth hearing her talk about for the cost of $175 or $59 or even $59.
And this is the issue before the American people.
Just to go back to that pathetic letter that President Obama wrote to my poor hapless kid when he said that America's best days are ahead of us.
America's best days are behind us as long as the American people want to entrust the government of the nation to people who simply aren't up to the job, to this listless sad sack who stood up at West Point a couple of days ago and could barely disguise the fact that he was bored out of his skull just being there as opposed to being on the golf course or palling around on live with Kelly and Michael.
He'd rather have been anywhere else there.
The fact is, Putin is a guy who is aggressive in the pursuit of what he regards as Russia's national interest.
We elect a guy like Obama, and we're now proposing to elect Hillary Rodham Clinton, who's deeply implicated in the evaporation of American power during the Obama years.
And at some point, if you're going to be a serious nation, you have to elect serious people.
We have a thing, we have a, in the New York Times today, there's a story by, there's an editorial by Michelle Obama on the campaign for junk food.
And it begins like this.
It begins cold.
When we began our Let's Move initiative four years ago, we set one.
I don't know who this we is.
When we began, is this the royal we?
When we began our Let's Move initiative four years ago, we set one simple but ambitious goal to end the epidemic of childhood obesity in a generation so that to achieve this goal, we have adhered to one clear standard.
The initiatives we undertake are evidence-based and we rely on who is this woman?
Who elected her?
She's the guy's wife.
She's the wife of the guy who's president of the United States.
And this idea that somehow when we did this and we did that and we adhered to one clear standard and we set goals, you're the wife.
You're the wife of the president.
Who elected you?
Who elected you to decide this stuff?
Today we're doing this.
And she's complaining that Congress is now trying to undo so much of what we've accomplished.
Who is this we?
Who are you?
You're the wife of the head of government, of the chief executive.
That isn't actually a legislative power position in its own right.
But we've got a situation where people somehow think it's such an impressive achievement marrying somebody that on the basis of it's like medieval arranged marriages in European courts in the 15th century.
That simply by contracting a smart marriage, you're qualified to either legislate on childhood obesity and school menus from Maine to Hawaii, or like Hillary Rodham Clinton, eventually ascend to the throne yourself.
And the reality is this is simply not a serious way of choosing leaders.
Michelle Obama just happens to be married to the guy who has a job.
She doesn't have the job herself.
One of the things I quite like about when Mrs. Thatcher was Prime Minister in Britain, her husband Made no attempt to intervene on policy or whatever, and no attempt to be a celebrity.
Anyone can Thatcher's daughter, Carol Thatcher, an old friend of mine, once told me that her dad was heading home to Checkers, the country house of the Prime Minister, on a Friday evening.
And he went to catch the train at Paddington or whatever station it went from.
And he got into a carriage, and it was empty, and he'd been sitting there for about three minutes when a group of rather confused people who had certain mental health issues and had been taken up for an outing in London for a day out in London, were led onto the railway carriage and came in and sat in all the seats all around him.
And then their minder, as it were, the lady from the institution where they were institutionalized, did a head count to make sure everybody was on board the train before it went off.
And she goes, one, two, three, four, five, six.
She stops at Dennis Thatcher and doesn't recognize him and says to him rather aggressively, who are you?
And he says, oh, I'm the Prime Minister's husband.
And she looks at him and counts seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve going on to the that's how obscure being the spouse of a prime minister is in in the Westminster system.
And here, here, we first of all, we let the current first lady decide school lunch menus from Maine to Hawaii, which is ridiculous.
And then we're proposing to make the spouse of the previous president is somehow qualified to be the next president because of her four decades of public service.
Her only experience of executive office was as Secretary of State.
And on her watch, the world, the American world, American order went to hell.
And at some point, people just have to get serious.
And again, it's not a left-wing, right-wing thing.
It's about looking at people who there are four Republican governors of the five female governors in the United States for a Republican, right?
So it's not about a war on women because the only war on women being waged at the electoral level is by Democrats who don't like to nominate female candidates, who don't like to elect female candidates.
And when they do, they just want to elect some guy's wife.
The four out of the five female governors in the United States right now are Republican.
And there's no chance.
Nobody thinks they're all their wonderful public service, we should elect them as president.
No, you want to elect somebody who is famous for being the spouse of the person who did it.
This isn't serious.
And that's why Putin and the Mullers and the Chinese Politburo and every rink-eating nothing guy around the planet, right down to those losers in Boko Haram, are kicking the butt of America because we're not electing serious people.
We're just electing, you know, some, oh, it makes me feel good because, you know, it's four decades of public service.
They're not serious people.
And at some point, you have to get serious or you depart the stage of history.
Mark Stein for Rush.
We'll be back in just a moment.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
Let us go to Jim in Hunter, New York.
Jim, you're live on America's number one radio show.
Great to have you on.
Thank you, Mark.
It's a pleasure.
Mark, in the past, Obama said you can keep your doctor, period.
You could keep your insurance policy, period.
And now with the horrible events taking place in the VA, of which I am a member, the other day he said, I will not tolerate it, period.
Mark, do you think that whenever he uses the word period, that's his cold word for I'm lying?
So that's you might, you might buy right there.
That's his way of signaling to people that I think the way to look at it is this, that it's a kind of abbreviation.
You can keep your doctor for a short period.
You can keep your insurance policy for a short period.
And as for the VA, I'm going to carry on tolerating this for an extremely long period, going at least to the end of my term of office.
I think that's what I think period is an abbreviation in that sense, Jim.
But you might be right.
He might be actually just like tipping the wink to these.
Do you know, just to take that seriously for a moment, Jim, again, it's the way we praise Obama because he's supposedly a gifted orator.
And normally what it means to be a gifted orator is that your words live up to your actions.
The reason why great oratory resounds across the centuries is because the people who said those words meant those words, and thus those words had meaning.
Like when Churchill says, we shall fight them on the beaches, and we shall never surrender.
He meant it.
That was his policy, to not surrender to the Nazis, and he found the words that exemplified it.
Likewise, when Lincoln at Gettysburg said four score and seven years ago, he meant that.
A great orator is only great because the words are consistent with their meaning and how he acts.
And if you don't have that, then all it is is that you're just like an extremely glib liar.
You lie easily.
And period is supposed to be, when you say, like when Rush says, let me tell you, I've had enough of you lousy third-rate guest hosts.
You better understand one thing.
Your job is on the line, period.
You use that because it's meant to be an emphatic reinforcer that underlines the truth of the statement you're making.
And when Obama says you can keep your doctor, period, I'm not going to tolerate this at the VA, period.
I won't rest until I've gotten to the bottom of Benghazi, period.
Anyone who thinks that Putin is just going to be able to walk in and take the Crimea and other bits of Ukraine he wants is sadly mistaken, period.
It means nothing.
It means nothing.
It exemplifies why Obama is in fact such a dud as an orator, because he denudes the language of any meaning.
For an orator, his currency is words.
When you render words meaningless, when you play the period card hither and yon all over the place, you basically devalue your own currency.
It's like the red line.
He draws the red line in the sand in Syria, and then he says, well, when I said it was a red line, it's not really a bright red line.
It's just like a sort of pale pink red line you can vaguely see in the sands of Syria.
It wasn't my red line.
It was really the international community's red line.
You're stripping language of meaning.
And that's why he is not a great orator.
He's actually one of the world's biggest duds as an orator, as the West Point speech exemplified, because his words are entirely disconnected from meaning.
And then, you know, he belongs to the modern world, so they're just like speechwriters' words anyway.
But a good speechwriter, again, the art is to conjure the words in the person's character and related to what it is he's actually doing.
And the Pajama Boy speechwriters at the White House can't even be bothered doing that.
So they say things like the thing I mentioned at the beginning, you know, that American exceptionalism means following international norms.
So America is about as exceptional as Sweden or Ireland or the Netherlands or Slovenia.
And nobody spots it.
Nobody says, well, wait a minute, this is meaningless drivel.
Everyone thinks, oh, don't worry, it's meaningless drivel.
But the president looks so cool when he speaks meaningless drivel.
Why monkey with a winning formula?
That's what we've got.
It's nothing to do with oratory.
And not only won't it be remembered in 100 years' time, we're not talking Gettysburg or anything here, it isn't remembered 15 seconds after it floats out of his mouth and joins the gaseous uplift.
March time for us, more straight ahead.
Stephen Foulard has just tweeted me, and he says that it's not actually a period when he says you can keep your doctor period, or I'm mad as hell about what's going on at the VA period.
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