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June 11, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 11, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Hey folks, welcome back.
Great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh, exercising.
No, no, I never do that.
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The other thing is going on today, too, that I want to get into this hour.
A couple of observations about Mrs. Clinton that I think I actually, thinking about this last night, I actually think these are kind of unique and fun.
Yeah, yeah, because I had a couple of, yeah, I'm going to talk about Hillary again because I had some things hit me last night.
I wish I would have thought of them during the program yesterday, but they didn't occur to me until last night.
So we'll do that.
Chuck Hagel showed up today and basically said, this bus may be trying to run me over, but I did not do this.
Bergdahl thing.
He actually did.
I was waiting for him to say, I feel like Admiral Stockdale.
Remember him?
He was Perot's vice presidential nominee at the vice president's debate.
He said, who am I and why am I here?
Which way was one of the most honest things a candidate's ever said at a debate.
Also, ladies and gentlemen, Ms. USA winner, Miss Nevada Nia Sanchez, crowned this USA Sunday night during the pageant.
She has a fourth-degree black belt in Taekwondo, by the way.
And she was asked about sexual assaults on college campaign, and she suggested, by the way, this is very controversial.
She suggested that women get training to learn how to defend themselves.
The feminine Nazis went ballistic.
And the reason the feminis went ballistic, well, I'll wait to tell you because that's one of the things I want to talk about.
And there's a companion story to that that I saw yesterday.
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Back after this, folks.
Don't go away.
Hi, welcome back, folks.
Great to have you.
And now it is back to the phones to Houston, Texas.
Ray, welcome, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB Network.
Hi.
Hello, Rush.
How are you?
I'm great, sir.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
You sound fantastic today.
I really am impressed with the program today.
More so than usual.
Well, I appreciate that.
Why, Ray?
What's.
Well, I'm a tea partyer.
I go to your tea parties.
I don't belong to a political party.
I generally vote libertarian.
But I go to these tea party rallies, and I am so upbeat when I go to these things.
I see people who are mowing around, talking to each other, laughing, joking, having a good time, enjoying themselves with their families, their children, their spouses.
And I've talked to a lot of the parents.
Yeah, I understand it.
It is uplifting.
And it's infectious hanging around people like you who want to have a good time, want to enjoy life, doing what they can to do that and spread the cheer with people.
That's great.
I'm glad you enjoy that.
One of the things I want to emphasize is the children.
I would say the majority of the children that go with their parents to these tea parties out their homeschoolers.
And I'm very impressed with that because I homeschooled my two sons for years.
Well, you know, that's happening too because of disgust with what's upsetting liberals because these people are independents.
They're happy-go-lucky, and they want their life returned to them.
And I don't blame them.
I want mine returned to me, too.
Well, join the club.
More and more people are that way, and you saw what they did when they band together on Election Day.
Thanks, Ray, very much.
I appreciate it.
What is my voice sound better today or something than it normally does?
Oh, well, whatever.
He was very nice.
He's nice.
I appreciate that.
Ray in Houston.
Here are these connections, Hillary connections that hit me last night.
By the way, have you noticed that she admitted keeping detailed notes about Benghazi or her book?
And she is actually, certain people have asked her about her role of Benghazi.
She's actually telling them to go read the book.
The point is, though, she did keep.
This is not one of the two things I was talking about.
I mentioned on this program, I forget, I'd have to go to the transcripts and search my own website database, but it was just been in the past two months that I remember hearing that it was Hillary who came up with the video excuse.
It was Hillary Clinton that found that video that served as the excuse for what happened in Benghazi.
And there is a story today.
I've mixed up my stacks here.
Let's see.
Hang on, folks.
Hang on just a second.
It's got to be right.
Yep, yep, yep, yep.
Fact check: Hillary came up with Benghazi video explanation.
This is Catherine Herridge at Fox News.
Hillary Clinton's newly released memoir leaves little doubt she was the first member of the regime to publicly link an anti-Islam video to the Benghazi terror attack.
Now, I didn't read her book, haven't read her book.
I knew this a month ago or three weeks or so ago.
Not bragging here, I'm just it reminded me this is big news from people who've read the book, and it's been knowable for at least a month or two, maybe longer than that.
But she was, the point is, much more involved in this in real time than anybody has admitted or that she has admitted.
Anyway, here are the two things that hit me.
I was having an email back and forth with my friend Professor Hazlet.
Professor Thomas Hazlett, who I met when I moved to Sacramento in 1984, he was an economics professor at UC Davis.
And he's been at George Mason University for recent past.
He's an expert on telecommunications and policy.
And he's now moving to, I think, South Carolina to a different institution.
And we're just going back and forth, keeping up.
And it occurred to me, she said that she and Bill were dead broke when they left the White House.
And I, with Professor Hazlet, we're reminiscing about some of these old Clinton stories that everybody remembers.
And I thought, so it never occurred to me.
It'd be an excellent question for Diane Sawyer to have asked her.
So it never occurred to you that maybe just with another $2,000 and a Wall Street Journal subscription, you could get out of debt because you took $10,000 and you invested it in Cattle Futures after you read the Wall Street Journal and it turned into $100,000 with the assistance of Robert Red Bone.
So why didn't you take $2,000 and turn it into another fortune the same way you did the Candle Futures?
I would have loved for her to have been asked that.
Of course, it never was happened, going to happen.
And then Obama talking about Bo Bergdo.
We never leave a soldier on the battlefield, period.
We never leave a soldier on the battlefield.
So, Mr. President, your administration did not consider the U.S. Embassy, the consulate in Benghazi, as it was burning to the ground a battlefield because you did leave four people hanging there.
Did he not?
Boberg dog, we never ever leave a soldier on the battlefield, period.
Now, they might, if he was asked, he would say, well, the ambassador's not a soldier.
But there were two soldiers there, in addition to the ambassador.
Just, you know, a couple little observations from the Daily Signal at the Heritage Foundation.
Student lunches could soon be influenced by climate change concerns.
Dietary guidelines may soon be based on global warming as much as human nutrition.
Currently, the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee is working on recommendations for the 2015 guidelines.
The Department of Agriculture and Health and Human Services will use the committee's recommendations to modify the guidelines, which are updated every five years.
And the guidelines are influential.
They are used to develop federal nutritional programs, scroll meal programs, and all that.
And if the environmental hijacking of the guidelines is left unaddressed, the nutritional health of children and the public generally could be weighed against the political agenda of environmentalism or special interest or global warming.
Now, folks, I contend it's stuff like this that just gets reported and it goes in one ear and out the other as far as the inside the beltway people.
This kind of stuff just makes people out in the country live it.
The whole global warming thing irritates people.
Most people, A, don't care about it, B, believe it's a hoax.
Oh!
And I got a flash note from our official climatologist, not long ago, Dr. Spencer.
The last iceberg, let's see this.
The last iceberg on Lake Superior will last until July.
That's the subject line of the email.
I haven't had a chance to open it, read the email, so I don't know if it's a joke.
Let me do that real quick.
Just to make his website.
So the last iceberg will last until July.
Global warming.
Emmett, Missoula, Montana, you're next on the phones.
Welcome, sir.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Thank you so much, Rush, for taking my call.
I've been listening for five years.
I love your show.
But I had wanted to call about and talk about the David Bratt landslide win over in Virginia.
And I think part of it is immigration.
But I think there are a lot of other things that have driven people to the polls to vote Tea Party, and that's the overall erosion of our rights in this country.
Every time there's a tragic school shooting or such like this, or like the shooting over in Nevada, the drive-by media always wants to confiscate our guns, you know, gun control.
They always want more psychiatric help for these people.
These people are psychopaths anyway.
And they want to blame conservatives for this, and I agree with you totally.
I don't think you can sum up disgust with Washington in one issue.
Exactly.
And people are scared of what the media has been saying.
Did you know yesterday, I can't remember whether it was CNN or where I heard it, but they were talking about how this shooting in Nevada could have been prevented.
They said that why didn't the neighbors call the police if they heard something different?
The police and some liberal news commentators said you should call the cops if your neighbors say something strange like, I support the Tea Party or I love my guns.
I won't give up my gun rights, you know, to prevent violence.
And that sounds like something a Stalinist would want.
And the ironic thing is, immediately afterwards, there was the breaking news, David Bratt, the Tea Partier, had.
Exactly, you're right.
I have to clarify something on the Two of By T sweepstakes, because I wasn't clear about this.
There are two grand prize winners, not one.
So there are two trips to Hawaii, five days, four nights, or anywhere else in the 50 states you want to go.
I wanted to make sure, because there's two grand prize trips and then 50 additional prizes.
No, we're limiting the winners to the 50 states in the United States, not the 57 states that Obama thinks there are.
Because I don't know where the other seven are, and I don't want to get into maybe sending people there.
Thursday night, tomorrow night, 1259, 1159 p.m. Pacific, tomorrow night.
But I got, I wasn't clear about this.
There are two grand prize winners, so a total of two couples, i.e. four people.
So it's five days, four nights in Hawaii with everything covered, including on the ground spending money.
Or if you don't want to go there, pick your spot.
And by the way, whenever you can make it, it's not that we have contracted for rooms at a super special rate, like over Christmas, and you have to go then.
It's not that we don't do it that way.
You pick when you want to go, and then we make it work.
So all you got to do is go to 2fbytea.com and shop, and you're automatically entered.
Here's Linda Central, Illinois.
Welcome.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Rush.
It's a pleasure to speak with you.
I actually have to say that Mr. Snerdley answered my initial question because I was curious as to whether Virginia had an open primary or if you had to declare for a Democrat or Republican ballot.
I didn't know if the Democrats had tried Operation Chaos down there, but apparently it is an open ballot, so that was a good idea.
They did.
They did.
In fact, I'm glad you said that because I read in an independent story where there were some people that they used the term Operation Chaos.
Let me tell you something.
That even showed up.
There was a George Clooney movie about politics that I guarantee this Operation Chaos is in their brains now.
That's when we were encouraging Republicans to switch over and vote for Hillary in the Democrat primaries in 08 just to keep that race alive.
Right.
And so the Republicans have tried, Democrats have tried their own version of it in places, Virginia being the one.
And I do recall reading it over the past 24 hours where it was called a reverse Operation Chaos.
Ah, okay.
And then my other observation is, well, now that the primary is over, you have two professors from the same university vying against each other for the same seat.
But one is a sociology professor and the other one is an economics professor.
Can we say liberal and conservative?
I mean, that's just, it seems to me that that's pretty obvious because sociology just goes right down the whole path of liberal thinking, democratic thinking, community organizer.
I rather think the fact he's a Democrat means he's a liberal.
But I can see where you think a sociology professor would be a liberal as well.
Most professors are liberals.
That's what another thing unique about Mr. Bratt.
Yes.
So with his economics background, he's got to be well-versed to be able to teach it.
So it should be an interesting thing.
Given he's an economics professor.
Oh, no, he's a Tea Party nutcase.
He's a wacko extremist.
Again, this is a thing of the word.
I keep saying divide or the distance, the gap of relatability between a ruling class, the country class.
It is as wide as I've ever seen it.
And again, I just, you know, normally somebody wins a big election like this and other people in the business try to take note of it.
Like Sam Sung said, ooh, everybody likes iPhones.
We'll make one of our own that looks like it.
Take it.
Copycats evidence.
Somebody network does a TV show that works.
Here comes another network with their version of it.
But here, I haven't heard anybody embrace Bratt's ideas.
And they're just standard, ordinary, everyday American principles.
And yet they're considered obscure, foreign, odd, strange, dangerous, weird, because they all are rooted in individual liberty and the limiting of the power of the government.
No, no, no, no.
I can't do that.
Yep.
Mm-hmm.
Oh, yeah.
Let's do that before I forget that.
That Miss USA room.
Here, here we go.
Hang on.
The pages are sticking together.
I'm not doing this on purpose.
Damn it.
All right.
The winner of the Miss USA pageant was Miss Nevada.
Her name is Nia Sanchez.
She was crowned Miss USA on Sunday night.
And during the pageant, Sanchez, by the way, is a fourth degree black belt in Taekwondo.
She was asked a question about sexual assaults on college campaign.
And she suggested that women get training to learn how to defend themselves.
And she was viciously attacked on Twitter and elsewhere.
The feminazis literally had a cow, which they are capable of doing.
And it just, the media was upset and outraged.
And my first reaction to it was, you know, I'm the mayor of Rielville.
Rape happens, sadly.
Being able to defend yourself is not a bad thing.
Why is this so controversial?
Why is a woman who's a fourth-degree black belt in Taekwondo suggesting that women get training to learn how to defend themselves?
Why is that bad?
I mean, I literally had to stop and ask myself.
Instinctively, I didn't understand the leftist position, so I had to dig deep.
And you know what it is?
They think that a woman getting training to defend herself is putting the blame and the responsibility on women and giving the rapist a pass.
They think it's just another example of how women bear the responsibility and it's their fault and anybody thinking this way is anti-female.
Well, I think it's stupid, but they really think that suggest, see, they hear everything as an absolute.
So they totally misunderstand what she's saying.
She's not saying, hey, look, rape's going to happen.
Rape's everywhere.
And the only thing we can do is learn to defend ourselves.
She's not saying that at all.
They're such absolutists on this stuff that there's no room to accommodate a bunch of different solutions to a problem.
There can only be one solution.
It has to be rooted in the iconography or iconography, the iconographics of liberalism.
And that is if a woman has to defend herself, then somehow we are failing in our efforts to deal with it because we're giving men a pass.
And I don't think a woman or anybody, bullies, you take your pick.
Why is somebody being able to defend themselves political?
Well, of course it's not, but they turn everything into politics.
The feminazis take a look at this.
Since it doesn't meet with their approval, it's got political consequences to them that they think are unfavorable.
So I saw a story.
I have a companion story that I'd had this new USA thanks to Sunday night.
Hadn't gotten to it.
Yes.
Oklahoma Company markets bulletproof blanket for children's use in school shootings.
Oklahoma Company Protect, P-R-O-T-E-C-H-T, PROTECT, has developed a new and unique type of body armor for kids called a bulletproof blanket.
The blanket resembles a gym mat, worn by strapping the blanket around the arms like a backpack.
It was designed by a podiatrist, Steve Walker, and three other guys contributed to it.
The website says, who would have guessed that on a quiet spring morning their lives would be changed forever by a sudden scruple tragedy?
While the blanket could prove useful in natural disasters to protect kids and adults from debris, the Protect website states that the bodyguard blanket was developed and tested to specifically protect our children and teachers in the event of a scruple shooting.
So shouldn't we have the same reaction?
What do you mean?
The students want to have to defend themselves with a blanket.
You're putting the onus on them.
You're blaming the students.
That's exactly what the feminazis are saying when they get all mad when somebody suggests, it was a woman suggested that women be able to take training to defend themselves in the event of rape.
Oh, no, that's horrible.
Wrong thing.
Can't do that.
That's bad, they say.
Well, okay, so in a school shooting, the kids have bulletproof blankets.
Is that also?
Because it's the same thing.
It's defense.
It's taking steps to protect yourself when something like this breaks out.
Are we not supposed to do that either because it gives the shooter a pass?
Because it exempts the shooter and his responsibility for what's going on.
Some of the thinking that emanates from the left in this country is just purely asinine.
It's asinized, devoid of common sense, because it's all rooted in politics.
Everything gets politicized.
Everything has to get funneled into a way to advance their agenda or to prevent damage to the agenda, no matter how you look at it.
Back after this, don't go away.
Ha, how are you?
By the way, don't forget, Paul Krugman is an economist.
New York Times column, and they love him.
Oh, he's instantly credible.
He's an economist.
But David Bratt, economist.
Tell you what, this election in November is, I can tell, is going to shock the establishment.
No matter whether they get this thing and happen with Canter or not, it's going to shock them.
Kathy in Buffalo, glad you waited.
It's great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hey, Ross, I protect myself with the TIG 380.
No lessons.
I would have loved to seen what happened if he got up and said that, you know.
With the IRS, I wouldn't recommend trying that.
No, no, I mean, Miss America.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
Well, yeah, of course.
But if she would have said that.
Yeah, yeah, that would have been bad.
At least she had the degree of understanding just that little bit of good advice.
Look at the controversy it caused.
Yeah, yeah.
The reason why I'm calling is because I think Virginia is indicative of something even deeper.
I'm out talking to people all over here in Buffalo and Niagara Falls and Grand Island and everywhere.
And, you know, I've got five kids.
I have a couple of them are Marines and one officer, one enlisted.
And I think we're going to lose our country.
And when I talk to people, that's how I start.
I think we're going to lose our country.
Do you know what is always said back to me?
It's already gone.
And that starts the conversation.
People know that we are in such deep trouble that our politicians aren't going to act.
They're not going to do it for whatever reason.
The whole thing is very strange, but they're not going to save our country.
Well, I mean, I have those conversations myself.
I have friends who tell me the exact same thing, and they've all got kids and grandkids, and they're just depressed about it and angry.
But you know something else, Kathy?
Where did this election take?
This is Virginia 7.
This is close to Washington.
Not quite suburbia, but it's close to Washington.
And I think that is a factor here, too.
I don't have time to explain why, so maybe you understand, but I've got to go.
I'm simply out of busy broadcast time here.
Sadly, my friends, we're out of time.
Just enough time to say thank you so much for being with us today.
We'll be back again tomorrow to do it all over again.
But with all brand new material, because who knows what's going to happen between now and then.
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