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June 10, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 10, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Before we get into this Hillary Clinton business, and I was not making it up, there actually is a very serious story.
It's a it's I first saw it.
Published on a website called The Conversation.
And it's a very I mean these young kids are dead serious that we have not been visited by aliens because of global warming.
It really is, it's it's I don't know, it's a combination of really frustrating, really ticks me off.
It's sad at the same time.
I mean, to see the degree and the ease with which these young people have just been poisoned, and just sop it all up and just accept and think at the same time, these are some of the most cocksure arrogant people you'll run into.
They think they're smarter than everybody else.
And it made me think of Don Lemon at CNN actually asking, could a black hole have swallowed up that airplane?
Well, that's not so odd.
If you also come from a generation that thinks the reason UFOs have not landed here is because of global warming.
I mean I could say it saddens me and it troubles me.
It ticks me off.
This kind of just wanton ignorance couched and disguised as super brilliance?
It's amazing.
Now, before we get to the Hillary Clinton sound bites, uh I don't think things are going as well with this book as they had planned.
But that's just my first take.
I'm just based on things I'm seeing in the news.
It's uh still at number two on Amazon, and it had a whole drive-by media behind this thing.
It's already been marked down 40%, um, which is not uncommon.
It's standard operating procedure.
Sometimes for uh bestsellers to be knocked down to 30%, anywhere from 15 to 30, but 40.
Uh, and they're not a whole lot of people showing up at her first book signing.
And you have to wonder, did they not get the word out to the unions?
You know, to go out there and stand in line.
Anyway, as you know, Mrs. Clinton's in trouble because she tried to tell everybody how destitute and broke and poor and homeless uh she and Bill were when they left the White House.
And she had to walk that back.
And Diane Sawyer and swallowing, well, not even this, Diane Sawyer can she found out that Clinton sometimes gets 700 grand per speech.
How can you claim you're poor?
So Hillary's had to walk that back.
We've got sound bites.
But before we get to that, the the what was the second caller today, the the uh the woman named James, who was touting hashtags as the solution to kidnapped kids and and gunmen who'd taken over schools and so forth, hashtags as the reason uh minors were rescued.
She also said, and I've got a lot of email reaction to this, which is why I want to spend just a few short seconds on this.
She uh said there need to be laws.
There need to be laws about about denying people who are crazy the right to get it good.
And of course, we have such laws.
We've got we've got more laws in this country that people can keep track of.
There is a federal law.
Everything she complained about is already against the law.
The federal law section 922 D of the Penal Code, and there are a slew of similar laws throughout the states.
And the grand title of this is it shall be unlawful for any person to sell or otherwise dispose of any firearm or ammunition to any person knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that such person is under indictments,
been convicted, uh, is a fugitive, unlawful user, or addicted to any controlled substance, has been adjudicated as a mental defective, committed to any mental institution.
I mean, it goes on and on and on.
And in fact, uh Georgia has a law.
Licenses will not be issued to any person who's been hospitalized as an inpatient in any mental hospital or alcohol or drug treatment center.
Hawaii, no person shall own, possess, or control any firearm or ammo if the person is or has been diagnosed having a significant behavioral, emotional, or mental disorder.
As defined by Yada, Texas has one of the longest lists of mental illnesses that prevent you from legally purchasing a gun.
And yet that woman had no idea.
Not surprising, uh, but she she dunno.
I that that call was, I can't tell you how useful that call was.
Low information voter, unaware of it totally.
Uh totally caught up in emotion and caring as substance.
I mean, that that call was quite useful in terms of illustrating kind of thing that we're up against.
You can blame things on Obama and the Democrats, and we will and we do, but there are people that elect them, and there are a lot of them.
And they are the product of their education and their environment and the media.
It's an overwhelming task, I think.
If you if somebody wanted to tackle this and say, try to get these people straightened out, that would be monumental.
It's why the preferred mechanism is to just beat them.
Defeat them.
And don't coddle them and cower to them because he can't.
It's a waste of time.
Okay.
Yesterday, the AP had this story.
Clinton says paired dead broke after White House.
Hillary Rodham Clinton's family was dead broke, saddled with legal bills when she and her husband left the White House.
The former First Lady said in an interview that aired Monday at the start of a high-profile book tour that could precede a 2006 16 presidential campaign.
Now, we have to remember here that Clintons established a legal defense fund to help protect Bill from justice.
They were in debt because of their own actions.
While they were in all of this debt, though, they bought that multimillion dollar place in Chappaqua.
Now, how did they do that if they were broke?
Okay, they got a mortgage.
Who lent them the money?
And what did they promise in exchange for it?
The idea, and then even Diane Sawyer, even some in the leftist media don't even want to try to get behind this.
The idea that Clintons were poor and dead broke and destitute.
There's no way.
I mean, these are the people who have been out there bragging about how rich they are for the last, what, 15 years?
You can't miss it.
You know what?
I'm not afraid of any tax cut.
All right, I mean I'm I don't need one of those.
I'm not afraid of any tax increase whatsoever, because I'm rich.
I can afford it.
I'm in fact, I gotta tell you something.
When I get my tax bill, I am proud.
I am happy.
I'm having the ability to sign that check tax increase.
I don't, Because I'm rich.
I'm richer than you are.
They've been out bragging about it.
They uh it it was just it was so obviously a very poor attempt to equate themselves with the hoy polloy with the downtrodden with the average.
And it was so bad that not even their media buddies wanted to get behind it.
Hillary has had to walk it back.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
This is the original complaint.
Last night, Hillary Clinton, public and private, ABC special, Diane Sawyer said, It's been reported that you've made five million dollars making speeches, and that your husband has made more than 100 million dollars making speeches.
We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt.
We had no money when we got there, and we struggled to piece together the resources for mortgages for houses, for Chelsea's education.
It was not easy.
Bill has worked really hard, and it's been amazing to me.
He's worked very hard.
First of all, we had to pay off all our debts, which was, you know, you had to make double the money because of obviously taxes, and then pay off the debts and get us houses and take care of family members.
Get us houses.
Take care of family members.
We had to pay off all of our debts, most of which were accrued because of your own behavior.
That legal defense fund was necessary because you lied under oath.
Played around with the intern in the Oval Office.
You're going to try to pass this stuff off as the result of vast right-wing conspiracy having it out for you.
Oh, yeah, poor Clinton, they're so broke.
We're flat broke, we're dead broke.
We had all these expenses, we had to pay for Hillary's trying to make themselves sound just like average ordinary hashtag Americans.
And it just bombed because it is true.
Clinton sometimes 700 grand per speech is the top that he's made.
But it's been reported he's made 106 million dollars in speeches over 10 or 13 years.
And Hillary gets a couple hundred grand.
So it just it it it wasn't flying.
So Ms. Clinton had to had to clarify the dead broke comment.
And she tried that this morning back on ABC.
Good morning, America, Robin Roberts said, You said you were dead broke.
Used the words struggling.
That it wasn't easy after you and President Clinton left the White House when many Americans are in the same situation, but they know they don't have a book and an opportunity that you have, and they can't go out and give speeches.
Is there any regrets, Mrs. Clinton, in how you phrased that?
I fully appreciate how hard life is for so many Americans today.
It's an issue that I've worked on and cared about my entire adult life.
Bill and I were obviously blessed.
Everything in life has to be put into context.
And as I recall, we were something like 12 million dollars in debt, and we really had to work hard, and I was in the Senate and could not do anything to help us uh meet those obligations.
And I'm very grateful that my husband, who's always been a hard worker since he was born, you know, poor.
We understand what that struggle is because we had student debts, both of us.
We had to pay off.
We've had to work.
I had a couple of jobs in law school, he had lots of jobs.
Oh my God, I had forgotten how hard it was for these people.
Forgive me.
I had forgotten how hard the struggle was.
I had forgotten how they were down for the struggle.
I had totally slipped my mind.
Let's go back.
It might serve us well to remember all this.
Twelve million dollars in debt.
Most of that was legal fees.
What the hell else was it?
What else?
When are you spending your own money in the White House?
My God, they were raising hundreds of millions in the White House.
Twelve million dollars in debt has to be legal fees.
Hell, remember Charlie Tree was dropping off 250,000 here and there in uh in SNS green stamps or whatever he could find.
And I was in the Senate, and I couldn't do anything to help us meet those obligations.
Oh, you were into it.
It just put you there, right?
You woke up one day, somebody said, Mrs. Clinton, you're going to the Senate.
I had no choice.
I'm in the Senate.
I can't help.
I'm making nothing over there in the Senate.
I can't do anything.
Yeah, Harry Reed got rich in the Senate, and she did get rich in the this is the point.
Why do you think she gets $200,000 of speech?
Paula Jones.
Jennifer Flowers?
Well, maybe, actually, it can't be will it could be.
And I'm very grateful my husband has always been a hard worker since he was born.
You know, poor.
Oh yeah.
He was born in the sticks.
Arkansas.
Mrs. Clinton had to give up her whole life to go there.
And that's what this is all about.
How she gave up her life.
Wellesley graduate, Northeastern liberal, the world was her oyster, could have written her ticket.
Instead, she marries the poor guy from Arkansas and goes back there and has to become the breadwinner while he's sleeping around on her.
They were really down for the struggle.
We understand what the struggle is because we had student debts.
Both of us that we had to pay off.
We had to work.
I had a couple of jobs in law school.
He had a lot of jobs.
Student debt.
Hey, for you students out there.
I know that student loan debt, big problem.
Big stress.
Can I tell you why your student loan debt is so high?
Would you really like to know?
Can you explain it, Mr. Snurley?
Why is student loan debt so high?
That's exactly right.
Greedy colleges and universities.
But you mean in terms of their exorbitant tuitions, right?
Okay, well, now why are the tuition so high?
Exactly right.
The tuitions have no relationship to anybody's ability to actually pay them.
Just like health care no longer is related to anybody's ability to pay it.
Well, houses uh you still have a mortgage that's uh somewhat true, but but houses not so but in in the case of tuition, a college can raise tuition to whatever they want.
Because the government student loan program.
The student loan program is precisely why tuition costs are so high.
These screwels and universities have nothing to fear whatsoever in raising tuition.
Because the government student loan program pays it.
They fill in the gap.
So the government enables the very conduct that the libs run around and complain about.
Student loan debt, student loan tuition, and it's they who have made it what it is.
Now, Mrs. Clinton said one other thing I want to focus on here on their interview with Robin Roberts today.
She said she wants to use the talent and resources she has to make sure others have the same opportunities that she had.
The exactness in AP story, here's an exact paragraph.
In response to a question, Clinton told anchor Robin Roberts, she wants, quote, to use the talent and resources that I have to make sure others have the same opportunities.
Clinton's remarks about helping people to find greater economic opportunities mark the second time in as many days that she suggested an interest in making a second run for the presidency in 2016.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, there's simply no way that Mrs. Clinton's policies can lead to advanced opportunity for anybody.
Her policies are no different than Barack Obama's.
Mrs. Clinton believes in an ever-expanding government, a shrinking private sector, and She believes that whatever most people end up with is whatever government's going to make it possible for them to have, which is the antithesis of burgeoning, expanding personal opportunity.
She simply is incapable, by virtue of her political beliefs, cultural societal beliefs, she is incapable of putting together a set of policies which will allow individuals to prosper.
No different than Bill Clinton, no different than Obama.
They can't do it.
What they believe in stifles opportunity.
It stifles growth and punishes success.
Be right back.
Don't go away.
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Clinton told Robin Roberts she wants to use the talent and resources that she has to make sure others have the same opportunities.
The opportunities Mrs. Clinton accessed are not the same as the opportunities most everybody else envisions.
You're not going to make 200 grand a speech.
You're not going to be elected to the Senate.
You're not going to have access to lobbyists and people offering you to fly over the place.
You're not going to have a publisher give you a $15 million advance to write a book.
You're not going to turn $10,000 into $100,000 in cattle futures, primarily because the guy Robert Red Bone that advised her how to do that's dead, but you couldn't do it anyway.
And she doesn't know.
Folks, she as she eschews, she does not believe in the free market system.
There is no way Hillary Clinton is going to be any different than Barack Obama when it comes to economic.
Here's a woman who just admitted she had to go out and earn double the money because of taxes.
And she doesn't find anything wrong with that.
Now to her, earning double the money was no big deal.
She's classic.
She has hers.
She's got anything she wants anytime she wants it.
She does not know what life is like for people in this country today.
She does not know.
Now I know a lot of people don't believe that.
A lot of people think because she's a Democrat, she does know about the plight of the working man, quote unquote.
But she doesn't.
She would no more know how to get by on 50, 75, whatever, $80,000 a year.
She couldn't do it.
And she's admitting it here.
Dead broke.
One more sound bite, and that's all I can handle for now.
And we're going to get back to the phones.
I really, I'm, I'm just.
Here we go.
You know, Clinton here, Clinton, how many years?
I've been doing this 25 years.
And for 23 of them, the Clintons have been front and center.
For every one of those 23 years, a Clinton, I've been told, is going to be the next president.
Hacks me off.
At some point, everybody in politics who shames themselves ought to be sent packing.
By virtue of public opinion, I don't mean packed up and discarded and sent away.
I mean the public ought to reject.
You know, I saw something.
There's a Reuters Ipsos poll out today.
Maybe it came out yesterday.
And I haven't found it anywhere.
And you know what Obama's approval number in it is?
You saw 38%.
Barack Obama with 38% approval in a Reuters Ipsos.
Have you seen this anywhere?
No way.
That's being buried as well as King Tut was buried.
That approval number is on the way to being mummified.
38%.
The polling data on the Bergdahl Release.
Four to one members of the armed forces opposed to this down on Obama.
His numbers are in the tank.
He doesn't care, by the way.
Ah, he might personally care, but it's not going to change anything policy-wise.
See, this is the mistake that standard ordinary inside the beltway media and political scientists and analysts look.
They'll see a president, approval number down.
Oh, he's going to have to make policy adjustments.
He's going to have to get serious about the debt.
He's not a serious about it.
No, not this guy.
Anyway, uh this morning on CNN, they had a guest, senior writer Maggie Haberman of Politico.
And they were talking about Hillary's interview with Diane Sawyer, in which she said that, oh yeah, Bill and I were dead broke.
Oh, it was horrible.
We didn't have anything.
We were in debt.
Oh, it was horrible.
And the fill-in host, Brooke Baldwin, said to Maggie Haberman, on the issue of paying for the houses and the mortgages, the RNC jumping on it as out of touch with middle class Americans.
Is there any validity to that?
I think she handled the interview extremely well, with the exception of that house's answer about her income.
That's the one thing I think she'd do over.
I also don't think it's consequential that she said that.
I think it would be meaningless in a couple weeks.
The Romney Gaffs fed into an existing narrative.
Uh there is not such an existing narrative that she's out of touch.
Now that is what an admission.
What a tan about.
Here you have a woman at Politico who writes the narrative every day.
The template.
You know, Washington is a soap opera.
Every day the script for the soap opera has to be written.
Now, what she meant by that is, well, there was an existing narrative that we wrote that Mint Romney was this rich guy, filthy rich, out of touch, never earned anything.
He was so out of touch, he didn't care about average people, he didn't care about little people, and that was the existing narrative.
So, when a story appears with Romney and his dog on the top of the station wagon family vacation, it fit the narrative that Miss Haberman will not admit, she constructed.
But since there is no narrative that the Clintons are filthy rich and out of touch and embarrassingly whatever, then there's no story here.
And this is exactly how it works.
Proving, folks, there is no news.
The media is not about news.
The political reporter basically just said that what Mrs. Clinton said about being dead broke, being tone deaf, it doesn't matter because it doesn't fit what anybody thinks about them.
So therefore it doesn't mean anything.
But what Romney, oh yeah, Romney was this rich guy, and he was always rich.
He was filthy rich, and he got rich as a capitalist, and he got rich as an investor, and it was horrible.
And we have been tarring and fettering Romney for years because he's a rich guy.
And so when a story comes up about Romney being a rich guy, well, the narrative's already there, it plugs right in, it fits.
But the Clintons know.
What's the narrative on the Clintons?
Oh, do you want to hear the narrative on the Clintons?
Some of the nicest, down-to-earth, hardest working people, care so much about other people, don't care a thing about themselves.
Their entire lives have been about public service and public sacrifice.
The Clintons are in it not for themselves.
They're in it for everybody else.
The Clintons have answered the call.
They're down for the struggle.
They help the blacks, they help the poor, they help civil rights activists, they're into all of these things.
Clinton watched black churches burned.
Clinton did they couldn't care less about money.
They couldn't care less about having money.
They couldn't care less.
They're happy to pay their taxes.
They do not hang around with rich people except for Warren Buffett and practically everybody else, Bill Gates, you name them.
But they just do everything for public service.
So that's the narrative on the Clintons.
And uh that was not the narrative.
Obama put the story out that Clinton was a racist and Clinton.
Well, actually Clinton did say something racist.
He was sitting with some equally rich white guy in South Carolina, and he said of Obama, you know, it's not that long ago that guy'd be the one bringing us our coffee.
Ted that's right, that's who he told you.
Ted Kennedy that.
He yeah, that's exactly right.
Clinton sitting down with Ted Kennedy somewhere, and and Clinton said, you know, Ted, it wasn't that long ago that guy would be the one bringing our coffee.
And Kennedy said, no, Scotch, but I get your point.
And Obama heard about that and played the race card on Clinton, and that's I mean, you just don't do that.
I mean, here's a guy the first black president.
Clinton got mad.
They played the race card on me.
I can't believe they did that.
But that never became a narrative.
That was a one-off.
The Clinton narrative is a s is a construct of lies.
The whole point.
The Romney narrative is a construct of lies.
But who does the narrative?
The media, the Maggie Habermans of the world.
They're the ones that write the narrative.
They're the soap opera script writers.
There isn't any news anymore.
There simply is the narrative of the day, the template of the day.
That's why when a school shooting happen.
Oh, oh, gun control narrative.
Aha, guns bad.
There's the story.
Plug it in.
That's why there's excitement and thrills when these kinds of disasters happen.
Our next hurricane.
They can't wait.
The narrative, global warming causes.
Never mind the fact, you know, there has not been a major category four or five hurricane that's hit the United States in 3,000 days.
It doesn't matter.
The next one that does, see, global warming.
Narrative is already there.
There is no news.
And now I'm really finished with all this for now.
Your phone calls are next.
Don't go away.
Greetings and welcome back.
El Rushmore to Barbara Springfield, Massachusetts.
Great to have you on the EIB Network.
Hi.
Hi.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
Any time.
Um the reason why I'm calling is I had an idea about what to do with all those children.
You have an idea too, eh?
Yeah.
All right, what is it?
I would sit there and say to put them all on a C5 and fly them back to their families in their country.
On a C5 and families do uh ha how are we going to find out who their families are?
Well, you just bring them down to their country and let their government work it out.
Oh, I see.
So if if, say, I don't know, 8,000 of them are from Mexico, you get enough C fives, put them on there, fly to Mexico City, unload them and leave.
Right.
And if we have to contend with that, let their government contend with it.
Uh because if we keep them here, their parents are going to want to come over and join them, which means we have that many more.
Oh, yeah, that's the whole point.
I understood that one.
Exactly.
The whole and see, when that happens, then they're going to remain poor.
They're going to remain uneducated.
Yeah, they'll be on the system like uh what's been going on all these years.
Right.
And then who gets blamed?
The United States gets blamed.
Of course.
Look at this.
What we are doing to these poor people.
Why, why, why and so we need a government program to take an amnesty and uh what have you.
But if you fly them back there and drop them off.
Well, that's deportation, and we're not going to do that.
That's not deportation.
You're returning them to their parents.
Uh well, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And the name of giving them back to their family.
Uh the only way we might be able to do that is under the guise of keeping families together.
But they're still going to call it deportation.
They're still gonna call it heartless, cruel, mean-spirited, uh, yeah, but the only ones that are gonna do that are the ones that want to use these people.
Oh, I know.
I know look, I we're we're on the same page of this.
I I just my my uh reason I brought this up uh when the program started today, was I was asked, why in the world would Obama do this in an election year?
And I don't want to repeat the whole segment, but it has nothing to do with the election year.
Unless the only way it does, and I don't even think that.
I it could be the fast and furious theory being employed again, i.e., have so much outrage.
Poor children, oh my god, oh my god, what do you gotta do, Amnesty?
Oh, gee, oh my god, what a horrible country we gotta do amnesty.
If it's not that, I defy anybody to give me a positive reason for this.
There isn't one.
Barbara appreciated, this is Nell in uh Charlotte, North Carolina.
Neil.
Sorry, Neil, how are you?
I'm good.
Hey, Russ, thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
Hey, listen, uh, yesterday, uh, Andrea Mitchell, one of your favorites, uh, was uh interviewing the deputy spokesperson for the State Department, Maria Harf.
And uh, I saw that.
You that this is the blonde bookworm type with the glasses.
Yes, exactly.
I'm glad you reminded me.
I could not believe what I was watching.
Yeah, Mrs. Harf's argument uh for the reason the administration had to rush to get Bergdahl released.
And let me quote her.
She said that Bergdahl was being held by a group that's ruthless, and that the administration did not know what they'd be capable of doing.
Now that's that's the exact same argument that can be used for why we should not release the Taliban leaders because they're ruthless and we don't know what they're capable of.
Uh that woman was embarrassing.
I you know, I looked at that and I said it's over.
I mean, this if this is the best and brightest they've got, this is who they actually send out there to be a spokesperson.
We're looking at somebody who was a pre-programmed robot who was just now mouthing.
I mean, it was embarrassing.
I can't, I'm I'm kind of embarrassed if I can't remember the specific things that she said, other than what you said, Neil.
I can't remember the specific things she said that I just I couldn't believe.
She was arguing with somebody in the media or somebody about the Bergdahl release and saying the most nonsensical things.
I said, where is this?
This is the defense department spokeswoman.
Is this real?
Or is this some Saturday Night Live skit that I'm watching being replayed?
And it it turned out it was real.
I'm gonna I'm gonna find out what this woman said that had because it it it was it was it was above and beyond your quote that well, we had to get him back.
We didn't know how ruthless they were.
Obama doesn't think they're ruthless, he thinks they're justified.
He wants to negotiate with them.
He thinks the Taliban has a legitimate claim to power in Afghanistan.
Dinesh D'Souza was on TV the other day, and he said that Obama actually thinks the Taliban are freedom fighters.
In his worldview, that's Dinesh D'Souza's opinion, that the Obama looks at Obama looks at Taliban as freedom fighters.
And they have a legitimate claim on Afghanistan, especially with us with us getting out.
Now, I have uh story.
James Rosen at Fox News posted a story uh four days ago.
I haven't seen it anywhere.
I'm sure it's been out there.
This is while I was away on vacation.
Bergdahl declared jihad in captivity secret document show.
U.S. Army Sergeant Bo Bergdahl, at one point during his captivity converted to Islam, fraternized openly with his captors and declared himself a mujahadeen or warrior for Islam, according to secret documents prepared on the basis of a purported eyewitness account obtained by Fox News.
Um, by the way, have you have you heard today?
As you've been walking around or watching the news, have you heard a thump thump thump thump thump?
Have you heard that?
Thump, thump, thump, thump.
That is the body of Chuck Hagel being run over by a bus.
That is the body of Chuck Hagel.
That's right.
The regime is saying that the whole idea for swapping five really bad Taliban guys for Bergdahl was Hegel's call.
I remember what it was.
This this woman's name is uh Marie Harf is State Department spokeswoman.
I mean, folks, just even looks depart, but She said very snooty, very value.
She said, Well, the State Department knows better than Bergdahl's squad mates what Bergdahl did.
We know she she impugned the members of his unit, his platoon.
We know better what happened to him than they do.
It was just vicious and mean, and it was arrogant, condescending.
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