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June 13, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 13, 2014, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
Great to have you here.
It's Rush Limboy, and we are all here for open line Friday, so let's just roll on it.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
One of the greatest biggest career risks ever taken by a major broadcast media in America.
Open line Friday, stepping aside and letting non-professionals determine what we talk about on the is there a problem in there.
You gotta get a problem in there.
Oh, the TVs are frozen.
Well, what does that matter?
You're supposed to be listening to this program, not watching television in there.
Hi, folks.
Telephone number 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, the email address l Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
So Snerdley comes in today say, did you see all this stuff about you on TV?
No.
Did you see all this stuff about you and the politico?
No.
You didn't?
No.
Because I really don't.
I can't tell you the last time I had cable news on in that when I was watching it.
I honestly, and I'm not saying that to do it.
I just being honest about it.
I just don't watch it much anymore.
If there's breaking news, but hell everything's breaking news now.
So it is.
They've been breaking news or whatever anything's going on.
Breaking news to report sports scores.
Breaking news to report what Beckham's wearing at the World Cup.
I mean, who so I just don't have any interest in it anymore.
So no, I didn't see any stuff.
But but I have the audio sound bites.
And I think the staff is um playing with me.
Because they hear me.
They listen to this program.
They heard me early in the week saying I'm worn out with Hillary.
They heard me say I'm tired of it.
They've heard me say I don't want to get caught up in all this.
I do not want to fall prey to the daily soap opera script that makes whatever Hillary's doing or saying or wherever she's going the focus of everybody's interest.
So I get the audio sound bites today.
It's all Hillary.
Well, some of it is about what I said about Hillary.
Guess the um uh cable networks do take excerpts of me on this program.
I wonder why it's always me.
For example, why is it that it's why are they taking sound bites of me and what I say about Mrs. Clinton and then using those sound bites on their programs so they're guests to react to and thus create a segment.
Why are they using me?
Is that right?
I'm the only one saying what I'm saying.
Is that right?
You think that's what it is?
Why clear that may be, but I clearly am not the only one thinking it.
So actually what they're doing is they're they're they're they're hoping each day that I say what everybody's thinking, and then when I do, they go, yeah, right!
We got two more segments out of this, and this is why I say show prep for the uh for the rest of the media.
Well, okay.
Well, I well, we'll get to it.
Um I I do have them.
And if we're gonna play sound bites today, they're gonna have to be about Hillary because they're well, what do you mean not gonna do it now?
You don't want me to do it now.
I do I'm gonna do it, I've got no choice.
People have worked very hard on these sound bites.
Finding sound bites of Hillary.
That takes what 20 minutes.
And so I've if we're gonna play any sound bites, look at this.
And by the way, by the way, she she's having something, she's encountering something she's not used to, and it it kind of makes a point.
You know, the Libs, leftist politicians and Democrats really don't know what it is like to face a confrontation or combative or even challenging media.
I mean, they literally are given softball questions.
Um, Mrs. Clinton went on national public radio the other day, and she was hit with, I think, pretty mild questions, in truth.
But to Mrs. Clinton, they were unfair, they were biased, they were prejudicial, they were too personal, they were bored, and she got rattled.
And it was a female, Terry Gross was the infobabe's name on NPR.
Yeah, and it wasn't an easy question.
And I have the soundbite coming up, but the question basically was, Mrs. Clinton, look, you've always been for gay marriage, but you couldn't say so, right?
You had to wait till the political time was right before you could come out and say you were for gay marriage.
Oh no!
No, no, no.
My change of mind was legit.
Oh, come on, Mrs. Clinton.
Everybody knows you were always for gay marriage.
What was it that allowed you to change your mind?
What changed in politics that made you feel comfortable that you could finally tell the truth?
It was that kind of stuff.
And he was, what do you mean I wasn't telling you?
What do you mean?
You're playing with my words.
How could you do that?
And it I'm telling you, these people on the left do not know what it is like to face a grilling.
They so infrequently get one.
And when they do, you can see how offended they are.
And you can see how they they issue subtle warnings to the members of the media that are daring to do this to them.
It's funny to watch.
So we do.
That'll be somewhat uh entertaining to uh listen to.
There's polling data out there today.
Uh basically gallot poll, 51% now.
Do not think that the words trustworthy and honest apply to Obama at CNN.
Obama matches Bush's unpopularity, unfavorable rating of 45%.
That's in the Hill.com.
That's not job approval.
Uh that was Bush job approval is in the uh the low to mid-30s.
That's the one where Wolf Blitzer couldn't contain himself.
This is unpopular, uh unfavorable 45%, and that is a low that matches Bush's uh CNN.
Uh then we have um 63% Gallup, 63% say Obama handling the VA scandal poorly.
And it's also the top issue in their poll at the Hill.
A number four issue is Benghazi, at 59% thinking that it is a priority.
I mean, if you look at the polling data, you go into it in some depth, uh it doesn't look good for the regime.
It's the uh it's the kind of polling data, but here's the difference.
You have to look to find it.
For example, when Bush plunged into the 30s, CNN told everybody about it multiple times an hour for eight straight hours.
You couldn't escape, nor could you miss that Bush's numbers had fallen to the 30s.
I don't think anybody picked at random on the street could tell you what Obama's approval number is right now in any poll.
They're doing the poll, they report it, but that's it, then it dies, and nobody knows.
So it all traces back to the the media again.
So they can say, no, no, no, our poll's accurate, and we're doing the poll.
Yeah, you are, and it's showing Obama and increasingly unpopular.
Uh it shows Obama and his approval rating continue to plummet 38% approval in a Reuters Ipsos poll, for example.
But after it was reported, it died.
And so the low information crowd never hears about it.
So there is not any accompanying atmosphere with it.
People just don't know.
So, in most cases, the assumption is that Obama's still popular, liked, uh, That there's not a crisis in the polling information, that there's not a problem.
That's what people would conclude because they're not being treated the information about the details of the polls, and there's no accompanying sense of crisis or problem.
But nevertheless, polling data is bad.
All of these kids, these illegal alien children coming across the border.
There was an assertion that let's see.
Yes, it's a worldnet daily.com, an organization of former border patrol agents on Wednesday charged that the federal government is deliberately arranging for a flood of immigrant children to arrive in America for political purposes.
In a statement released with a National Association of Former Border Patrol officers, says this is not a humanitarian crisis.
It is a predictable, orchestrated, contrived assault on the compassionate side of Americans by her political leaders that knowingly put minor illegal alien children at risk for purely political purposes.
Now that's not hard to believe.
When in the entire history of this country have thousands of children just suddenly decided on their own to walk hundreds of miles and cross several national borders to get to the United States.
And didn't this just pop up in the last week or two?
How did this happen?
I'm not aware of it in my life, of tens of thousands of children at the same time storming and swamping the border.
I'm just not aware of it.
So it is unprecedented.
Now Obama was out making a speech somewhere, and he was telling the audience, it was a fundraiser audience, telling this particular audience that our future rests on the success of dream kids, dream act kids.
About 30 to 40% of the kids in this school, Obama, this is a it was Wednesday night at a at a fundraiser press conference.
It was in Massachusetts or Worcester Tech.
And he said about 30 to 40% of the kids in this scrub, by the way, are dream kids.
You wouldn't know it by looking at them because there is American as Apple Pie.
But every single one of these kids.
You might not be able to tell the difference, but a whole bunch of them.
They're worried about whether or not they're going to be able to finance their college education of their immigrant status.
They're worried about whether, in fact, this country they love so deeply loves them back and understands that our future rests on their success.
Why wouldn't we want to give them that certainty that they are a part of the fabric of this nation?
That we're counting on them, and we're gonna make them succeed.
Why wouldn't we want to do that?
Excuse me.
I want to make sure that I understand this.
Obama's a Worcester Tech.
And he is speaking to uh it's for the Democrats and the Troy Campaign Committee.
It's fundraiser, though.
And he said our future rests on the success of Dream Kids.
Mr. Sturdley, for those who do not know, what are Dream Kids?
What are we talking about here?
Mm-hmm.
Children brought here illegally from other countries who are allowed to stay as part of the DREAM Act.
What is it with total amnesty?
And but our future.
Obama is saying our future rests on the success of these kids.
What the hell?
Now, nothing against these kids, but we have to define terms here.
When Obama says our future rests on the success of Dream Kids, he's not talking about America, folks.
He's not talking about Main Street.
He's not talking about the United States.
He's not, he's talking about the Democrat Party.
Make no mistake.
This is at a Democrat senatorial campaign committee fundraiser at Worcester Tech in Massachusetts.
When he says, our future rests on the success of Dream Kids, he says, these are our future voters.
We want them to succeed.
I mean, we want them to get here.
We want them to stay here.
And look at this.
They're worried.
Dream kids.
Now, I don't know about you, but we're talking what?
Uh, what age group would you suggest we're talking about here?
Teenagers and younger, right?
Teenagers and younger.
And Obama says they are worried about whether, in fact, America, which they love so deeply, loves them back.
And they worry whether or not we understand that our future rests on their success.
These teenagers, they're sitting around, they talk amongst themselves.
And they are saying, gee, I wonder if the American people realize that their future depends on our success.
This is what Obama says that they're talking about.
And he said, why wouldn't we want to give them, the dream kids, the certainty that they are part of the fabric of this nation, that we are counting on them, and that we are going to make sure they succeed?
Why wouldn't we want to do that as Democrats?
So these young people, he said, they're graduating, they're ready to go to college, but also certified nurses, EMT folks, many of them are choosing to join the military, and they will contribute to our country in this way.
And looking out as I was speaking to them and then shaking their hands and giving them hugs and high fives and all the things that kids do on a graduation, I thought to myself, how could we not want to invest in these kids?
How could we not want to invest in these dream kids?
Fine and dandy, but what about everybody else?
What makes them special?
No, no, seriously, what makes them special?
What makes them special is that they are seen as future registered democrats.
That's what makes them special.
We'll be back, folks.
Okay, I have a smart aleck question.
I mean, that's that's what this is, but it's a good one.
And my smart aleck question is rooted in a reminder.
Remember what Obama and the Democrats think about America?
They believe that we have stolen much of what we have that has made us a superpower.
They believe that we have sent our military all over the world and we've plundered and stolen resources like oil, you name it, uh, and we've impoverished the world, and we're not a legit superpower, and we're not we're unjust and immoral, and our founding is uh suspect and so forth.
They believe this.
Okay.
So here's Obama and Worcester Tech.
And he's talking about the greatness of these dream kids and how we need them.
Oh, our success depends on these dream kids coming to America and being successful, because they're special kids.
They are really special kids.
That's why they get in here.
They're really, really special, they are the future of America.
Well, if they are so great for the U.S., why aren't they great for their native countries?
If they're great for us, I assume it'd be great for Meiko.
If they're great for us, if they really, really going to determine our future, why wouldn't they determine the future of Guatemala?
El Salvador, etc.
And then, folks, is it right for us to steal the hope and future and future greatness of Meiko?
Guatemala, El Salvador by taking these young gifts of love away from those countries?
What gives us the right?
I ask.
What gives us the right to take these young kids who determine the future?
They're so talented, they're so good, they're so important.
Our future rests on them.
What about Meiko?
Guatemala, Il Tavador, where they are from.
Why are we stealing the future from these other countries?
I thought that's the kind of thing we did that Obama thought was unjust immoral and had to stop.
President Barack Obama, uh, shortly before the program began, uh, made some remarks before getting on a helicopter and going somewhere on Iraq.
And I want to summarize for you before playing the actual sound bites.
I won't tell you what he said.
It's real simple.
You Iraqis, you're on your own.
We're not going to help.
Well, we might, but I'm not gonna think about it till Monday.
And you might not be here by Monday.
It's up to you.
It's what he said.
He said, look, it's up to them.
Uh, we're not sending troops in there.
We might do something, but I'm not gonna figure out what it is.
I'm not gonna make a decision of what it is uh until Monday.
We're not even gonna consider a drone strike until Monday.
Uh but look, you Iraqis, it's uh it's it's your problem, it's it's it's up to you.
Here's the actual couple of sound bites.
Here's the first one.
We will not be sending U.S. troops back into combat in Iraq, but I have asked my national security team to prepare a range of other options that could help support Iraq security forces, and I'll be reviewing those options in the days ahead.
I do want to be clear though, this is not solely or even primarily a military challenge.
That's right.
He's going to Palm Springs to play golf.
That's what he's doing.
I'm sure there's a fundraiser out there, too.
Who goes to Palm Springs in the middle of June?
Well, he is, and it's to play golf.
But you you heard him say there, uh, I've asked my national security team, which is totally incompetent, by the way, to prepare a range of other options that could help Iraq, and I'll be reviewing those options in the days that it means Monday when I get back from golf, that I want to assure everybody not a military channel.
No, of course not, not when Al-Qaeda is by virtue of the use of force.
This is a world governed by it, don't forget.
Ours is a world governed with the use of force, and Al-Qaeda is using force to conquer these cities, but our response is not gonna be military.
None of this is a surprise.
By the way, here's the next soundbite.
Any action that we may take to provide assistance to Iraqi security forces has to be joined by a serious and sincere effort by Iraq's leaders to set aside sectarian differences, to promote stability, and account for the legitimate interests of all of Iraq's communities.
We can't do it for them.
So this should be a wake-up call.
Iraq's leaders have to demonstrate a willingness to make hard decisions and compromises.
The United States will do our part, but understand that ultimately it's up to the Iraqis as a sovereign nation to solve their problems.
Well, why isn't it up to us then to solve our why do you why do you insert yourself in every one of our problems?
This is a thing that I that I I love to point out.
When it comes to Iraq, hey, we're not getting involved.
Hey, you're on your own.
Hey, bud, you fix it.
Hey, you take care of it, hey, you handle it.
We're not getting anywhere near, it's not our job, it's not our responsibility.
We'll do Our part, which more and more is nothing, but understand you're a sovereign nation, and it's up to you.
Why doesn't he treat us this way?
He presumes to solve every problem in this country.
He presumes to create more problems so he can create then more government solutions for problems in this country.
A lot of sectarian differences, stability, got to account for legitimate interests of all of Iraq's communities.
We can't do it for them.
Right.
Well, why do you think you can do it here?
But once again, here's the thing.
Why does Iraq matter to us?
Well, you're gonna get a bunch of different answers than that.
There's a group of people that'll say it matters because the consistency of American policy matters, that we went in there to attempt to liberate the place from Saddam Hussein and to establish a democratic outpost as a beacon of hope for the people of the region, to that da-da-da-da.
And therefore the United States, in order to be perceived as trustworthy and willing to honor commitments to allies, has a duty to make sure the Iraq doesn't fall.
That's one answer.
Another answer is why are we there?
Why is it important?
Another answer is we do not want Al-Qaeda establishing a state as a base of operations.
That's what Afghanistan became.
The Taliban took over the uh the country of Afghanistan after a civil war.
After we helped the uh Mujahadin beat back the Soviets, Afghanistan fell.
It became a stateless place, ripe for Al-Qaeda to take over, and they did.
And it was from there that much of 9-11 was planned and executed, money raised and so forth.
Not solely, but that was quote-unquote headquarters.
But we don't want that happening in Iraq.
We don't want Iraq to become the next stateless, meaning nation without a government.
That's just ripe for Al-Qaeda and affiliated partners to go in, take over and conquer.
So pick your reason why it matters, but it does, because we are the ultimate enemy of all these people making moves.
Some don't want to admit it.
Some think uh, well, we deserve it, we have made them the enemy, run the gamut.
Now, here's Obama talking about all the different Iraq communities.
What he means is the different religions and populations.
But the left loves the word community.
So you get the Kurds in the north, you've got the Shia, and you've got the Sunni.
And they're all at war with one another.
And there needs to be a regime there, needs to be a government.
And that's what Al-Qaeda is attempting to obliterate.
And it does matter because we're the ultimate target of all of this.
But again, on the other side of this, I guarantee you that Obama's base, when they hear what he said that they're gonna be applauding it.
Oh, yeah, we got no business being there.
We never had any business being there.
Yeah.
Uh, none our problem, it's not our business.
Let him fix it.
We can't be everywhere in the world, and he's gonna be applauded by uh people on the left.
And of course, by Monday, who knows what's gonna be remaining?
We guess they're playing golf and making up his mind.
Uh, back to the dream children.
Look at folks, I was not admitted it's a smart aleck question, but it's a damn good one.
This administration, Barack Obama, is guided by the words of Reverend Wright, Reverend Wright says that um white man's greed runs a world in need or some such thing.
Um it is unquestionable, inarguable, undeniable that Obama and American leftists believe this country is a pretender, that we never really were a legitimate superpower.
We only got what we have by stealing it.
We colonialized other parts of the world.
And we were mean to people.
We took their oil, we took the resources, we made ourselves rich, we kept them poor, we subjugated them, that's what they think.
Okay, fine.
Now here are these dream kids.
And Obama goes, they are the future.
They are the future of this country.
Well, if they're that special, why aren't they special to the countries in which they were born?
And what gives us the right to take them?
Well, we didn't take them Rush.
They left on their own.
Well, I don't care.
If we're making we're certainly trying to get them, Obama's making a big push for them.
But the point is, if they're our future, if they're so crucial, if they're so good, so special, then why aren't they special to where they came from?
Guatemala, vehicle.
Why are we comfortable stealing the future of those countries?
And the answer is it's a Democrat voter registration drive.
If you understand that, it all becomes clear.
It's open line Friday, and that means you're going to get to your calls quicker than normal...
And I think they're gonna get started here in this hour.
But first, the Daily Caller has a story about the influx, the tens of thousands of uh, well, I guess not the future of America that are being kept at military bases and bus stations in uh California and Arizona.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is welcoming members of Congress and their senior staff to tour a temporary shelter being used to house these illegal immigrant children, but the invitation comes with a list of rules, including that members leave their cell phones, i.e.
cameras, in their cars.
There's a 40-minute tour that'll take place today, Ventura County Naval Base in Oxnard, California.
The tours are meant to give members and staffers an inside look at how temporary facilities are being used to house illegal immigrant futures of the nation who came to the U.S. without their parents.
The uh miners who hail mostly from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala are being called the future of uh uh uh unaccompanied children or the UACs, and no photos are being permitted on the tour.
Congress can go look, but they are told to shut up.
No phone calls while they're there, and no pictures are permitted.
The staffer who made it plain, spelling out the rules, said, don't talk to anybody, don't record anything that you might happen to see, but come visit us, and we'll give you a sanitized story with only the photos and accounts we want you to have.
And that's what's going on.
By the way, look at it before we go to the phones.
I'm gonna hold something up here in the ditto cam.
You see that?
That's the current Time magazine cover.
I guess it does kind of look like the flying fickle finger there, doesn't it to you from a distance?
That is a um slice of butter, is what that is.
And the headline says, eat butter.
Scientists labeled fat the enemy.
Why they were wrong by Brian Walsh.
Now, Time magazine as usual is late to this party.
How many months ago was it that we told you that at a massive cancer society seminar, all of these doctors who for all of these decades have been promoting that was it was a heart, it was a uh not cancer.
Well, it might have been a combo of the two.
But I I think it was coronary doctors and so forth.
They were they were embarrassed.
We've been telling people for years and years and years that this stuff causes clogged arteries, and we don't have any evidence.
It doesn't.
And and they were they were devastated.
So another myth that fat kills that fat causes clogged arteries, that fat causes cholesterol.
There was never any evidence.
Never any evidence, just like there isn't any evidence on global warming.
It's all computer model forecasts.
If you don't believe me, Google it.
If you don't believe me, I have no reason to lie to you.
There is no evidence that can be cited that establishes man-made global warming.
And there certainly is no evidence that would allow an educated prediction of the next five years, ten years, fifty, a hundred years.
There's none.
It's all computer models.
Which are nothing but wild guesses that make up the entire global warming movement.
Anyway, to the phones we go.
Here's Bob in Hughesville, Maryland.
You uh up first.
Great to have you, sir.
Hi.
Thank you for taking my call, Rush.
You bet.
I hope you're hitting them well.
Um I wanted to say, you know, I sit here and watch this stuff with all these illegal voters come into the country.
I heard today that they'll be bringing quite a few of them up here to Virginia.
I've been thinking about it, and it seems to me a pretty good strategic move on his part.
I mean, if you can flood Virginia, Texas, North um Arizona, New Mexico with a hundred thousand new illegal voters, you've pretty much a lo locked up the electoral college.
I don't know off the top of my head what Texas is worth, but I mean, they don't need much more.
I mean, if they just win Florida or Ohio, they've got the presidency locked up in those two states.
If you give them Texas, Arizona, and Virginia, we now have a king or queen, whoever what's one of them run.
So I mean, it's it's a brilliant strategy.
I don't understand why the Republicans don't see what's going on with this, but they do.
They want in on it.
Well, they're killing us up here on these jobs.
I mean, you can't get on a site anymore unless you speak Spanish.
It's just that they're taking over the construction market, it's just let me ask you a question.
By the way, I uh I don't when you say they are preparing to flood Virginia with a hundred thousand illegals, who is they?
The Obama, the Democrats, whoever's whoever's pushing these illegals, because this is definitely coordinated through the government.
I mean, they're busting them across the border.
Well, from what I understand, they're supposed to be bringing a hundred, a hundred thousand of them.
Two things.
They they have flooded Texas and the Republicans own the state.
Not in the doubt they keep up at that pace, I mean No, the Democrats have a different strategy for Texas, but but if if that you're right, if they ever got Texas, it's over.
It is.
They don't need anything else.
It's over.
They keep New York and California.
But look, if you flood there look, things have consequences out there, Bob.
If you flood Virginia with a hundred thousand, you just bring them in, illegals that start infiltrating the job market, everything else, you're not the the people that live there are just are not gonna just sit there and twiddle their thumbs and go, oh hi, how are you?
Welcome.
Well, that's what they've been doing so far.
No, no, no.
Look what happened to Eric Cantor.
If you flood Virginia with a hundred thousand illegals, you're gonna even have some Democrats revolt at this.
Not in Northern Virginia, Rush.
Virginia, if you're gonna ask my opinion, Virginia is gone.
Northern Virginia, I I work around the DC area.
I know Northern Virginia is the DC suburbs and so forth.
It's gone.
But I'm just telling you now, I mean, uh I go on job sites, I don't speak Spanish, and there's no way I can even compete with the Spanish because maybe my mistake is taking you literally.
Uh if you bring in a hundred thousand and flood Virginia in very various places, you're there's there's gonna be a backlash to it.
Ask Eric Holder.
This the where this bat the backlash is gonna happen in November.
Uh and and one of the fascinating things, Bob, is all of the people who are responsible for this never dump the problem in their own backyards.
We've l we've lost Northern Virginia, but not because of illegal immigrants or illegal Immigrants only.
We've lost Northern Virginia because everybody there's a liberals never working for the government.
And they've all got their hands inside the treasury one way or another.
I gotta take a brief time out.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Say, can I ask another question?
Why aren't American kids special?
And why aren't American kids the future of this country?
No, no, no, seriously.
What what kind of president talks this way?
I know.
In his mind, native born kids are the kids of the oppressors.
And white privileged kids are the kids of the oppressors.
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