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June 16, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 16, 2014, Monday, Hour #2
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Great to have you here, folks.
Accuracy rating is that high because all we do here is look for the truth, and we find it, we proclaim it.
We live by it.
Drives people crazy.
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Federal tax revenues continue to run at a record pace in inflation adjusted dollars in fiscal 2014.
The federal government's total receipts for the fiscal year closed May at an unprecedented 1.9 trillion dollars according to the monthly treasury statement.
Now some people, wow, rush, wow, that's really good.
Look at all the money poured in.
Wow, isn't that cool?
Hang on.
Despite this record revenue, the federal government still ran a deficit of $436 billion in the first eight months of the year, which began October 1st, will end on September 30th.
In the month of May alone, federal government ran a deficit of $129.7 billion.
And one of the reasons all that revenue poured in in May is because of April and the quarterly tax estimates that independent contractors and quarterly filers have to uh send it, in addition to people settling up by April 15th for the 2013 tax year.
But the point about all this is federal tax revenue set record.
And one of the reasons that's happening is because the federal government continues to gobble up sections of the private sector.
But even with all that revenue, what's happening?
Deficits are still soaring.
It isn't mattering.
And yet the Democrats still demand that we raise taxes.
Still say that people aren't paying enough in taxes.
In fact, they've given up trying to justify tax increases for the government's bottom line.
They they now just approach tax increases on the whole basis of fairness and income inequality.
And the rich aren't paying their fair share, not because of how few or much little or more they're contributing to the government, bottom line.
It's just that they've got so much more than everybody else, even after paying taxes.
This isn't fair.
It's not fair if we need to go get more from them, whether it matters to Hill of Beans or not.
But it does matter to Hill of Beans, because look what's happening as federal tax revenues set a record through May.
What's happening to economic growth?
It is shrinking.
It's contracting.
And the two go hand in hand.
Obama's tax revenue is not the result of new employees.
It's not the result of more taxpayers being hired and more people working and therefore more people paying taxes.
That's not how it's happening.
If it was, that wouldn't be a bad thing.
But that only happens when you engage in supply side or trickle down.
When you cut taxes, encouraging people to hire more people and create more taxpayers, more people paying taxes, increase federal revenue.
It's all good that way.
But this is this tax revenue climbing, growing at record levels like this while the economy contracts.
it's just the latest bit of evidence of how the federal government is growing and Expanding at the expense of everybody else.
I mentioned at the top of the program that my two children's books were dissed on C-SPAN 2 last night.
Here are the audio sound bites.
It's C-SPAN to Book TV is what it is, and there was a discussion event.
This was taped on June the 9th.
And it's uh for a book entitled Brazil's Dance with the Devil.
It's about the impact of the World Cup on Brazil.
And before that discussion started, the host, a woman named uh Deborah Menkart, who is the Teaching for Change executive director, was speaking about the Bus Boys and Poets Bookstore.
Now that the Bus Boys and Poets Bookstore is where this event, C SPAN 2 was televising from, was held.
The Bus Boys and Poets Bookstore.
The store is run by Teaching for Change, which is a nonprofit organization that says it provides teachers and parents with the tools to transform scrubles into centers of justice.
Transforms schools into centers of justice.
So here's the setup.
A book being discussed, Brazil's Dance with the Devil, Teaching for Change.
The executive director, Deborah Mencart speaking about this not-for-profit bookstore that's out there trying to turn schools into centers for justice.
Only one out of ten books being published currently are by or about people of color.
These are also not the books that are on the bestseller list.
In fact, the one of the books on the bestseller list for children right now is by Rush Limbaugh.
You will not find that book in our bookstore.
Dollar getting lots of awards.
To flip the trend, flip the script.
90% of the books that we sell at the bookstore, the independent progressive nonprofit bookstore here, are by or about people of color.
Those are the books that we find and we feature.
So we prove there is a market for them.
I now listen carefully to that.
I I I want this a this a lousy PA system.
The point here is really not that my books got dissed.
I'm just taking the occasion of that here to make another point.
Well, my books did get dissed.
This this woman would be stunned to find out that my books have people of color in them.
And she would likewise be shocked and st and and stunned to learn that the people of color, as she talks, in my books are heroes.
The who looks at the world this way.
Barack Obama on down looks at the world this way.
Wait till you wait till I get to this Peter Beinart piece.
I'm telling you, this could be the PS de resistance today.
Peter Beinart, Newsweek, New Republic, and so forth, fearful Republicans hoping to reverse history's course, make uh 2016 GOP loss more likely.
This is just wait till I get to this.
All wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Nonprofit do not say who runs a business this way.
This is a nonprofit.
If you'll just calm down in there, there's another soundbite to come which which kind of nails the coffin shut here.
Now let me review this.
There are also not the books that are on the best-seller list.
In fact, one of the books and the bestsellers for children by Rush Limbaugh, and you will not find that book in our bookstore.
And she's very proud of that.
Because I'm not a person of color, and they only publish books by people of color.
And I'm telling you, she'd be stunned to learn that there are people of color in the Rush Revere Time Travel Adventures books, and that they are heroes.
The people of color in because we do the truth of American history.
And then she says, now to flip, this is where it gets important to flip the trend, to flip the script, 90% of the books that we sell in the bookstore, the independent progressive nonprofit bookstore, are by or about people of color.
Those are the books that we find and we feature, so we prove there is a market for them.
Nonprofit bookstore.
They are trying, she asserts, to prove by only selling.
That's all you can buy in this store.
Again, the name of this store, what is it?
Bus Boys and Poets Bookstore.
And the only books you can buy in there are books by people of color.
And she's trying to say that because we're doing that, we are proving there's a market for them.
But then listen to this.
We need your help to continue operation of the bookstore.
We're not breaking even, and we can't take funds from our programs that are into parent organizing or promote people's history.
So please make sure that you and your friends purchase your books in our store and on our web store.
And consider making a donation.
So in the next breath, she tells us that her nonprofit bookstore doesn't even break even.
I wonder why.
The first bite she makes this big deal about saying how important it is that their store show that a profit can be made selling books only by people of color.
Yes, right.
Those are the books that we find and we feature, so we prove there's a market for them.
But then she goes on to say there's not a market for them because her non-profit bookstore isn't making a profit.
Well, I didn't think it was supposed to.
So we're not breaking even.
Maybe that's their objective.
That's right.
Nonprofit means they don't dare show a profit.
They can't show a profit.
Profits evil.
So but they're not even breaking even.
And so you say who runs a business?
Nobody with any brains runs a business this way.
This is a this is exclusionary.
This is not tol.
It's racist, it's bigoted, and it's it's the opposite of everything they claim to be, and it's exactly what they accuse us of being.
They claim that they're tolerant.
They claim they're open-minded, they claim that they are uh um colorblind and all that.
They are the most bigoted racist people.
They exclude here and exclude there, and then they don't make any money and they can't figure out why.
So they she proudly says there are my two books are in the top five on the New York Times bestseller list, and here's a woman at a bookstore who wants to sell books, is begging people to buy them, proudly says that two of the books in the top five are not even available at her store, and she wants accolades for that.
These people are loony.
They simply are dumb.
They don't have the slightest idea what they're doing, and they happen to be running the country.
And I don't just mean in Washington.
People like this are in charge of the public school system.
People like this are teaching their kids.
People like this are running daycare.
People like this show up at Obama's fundraisers.
Obama didn't sound all that different at times during his fundraising appearances over the weekend and his uh commencement speech.
Uh so here's a here's a woman.
My books have people of color in them.
I'm not a person of color because white's not considered a color.
So I'm not a person of color, but people of color in my books, they're heroes, they're stars.
They are lovable, adorable characters because we deal with the truth of American history.
In the Rush Revere, Adventures of Rush Revere, time travel adventures with exceptional Americans.
And this woman wants applause and accolades for not selling that those books in her store, and then complains and whines that they're not even breaking, even begs people to buy the truck uh uh uh buy the uh books they do offer, which apparently, if left alone, do not sell.
But yet, here's a woman running his bookstore who thinks I'm only putting authors, the people of color.
And she thinks that that's going to result in miles and miles of lines of people showing up to buy books at her.
It honestly, she does think that.
They think that's how the world looks.
And it is what the Democrat Party is becoming, and it is it is this demographic, the way the left or a Democrat looks at the country and sees it versus the way a conservative Republican looks and sees it.
Those two disparate views of the country are getting wider and wider and further and further apart.
That's what the Peter Beinart piece told about.
And I'm not teasing you.
I just got to get to this uh in in the some semblance of order.
And I've got to start working your phone calls into things too.
So let me take a break, A brief break, and we'll come back and resume right after this.
Mrs. Clinton, Hillary Clinton has complained that U.S. politics is the most brutal in the world.
Asked about the prospects for female candidates to the 2016 presidential election.
Hillary Clinton made a dramatic claim on Sunday.
Politics is so unpredictable, Clinton said.
Whoever runs has to recognize the American political system is probably the most difficult, even brutal in the world.
Now this from somebody who has spent decades being loved and adored by the media.
Somebody who has been propped up and lionized and puff peaced for decades thinks it's brutal.
I guess beheaded Iraqis, tortured Egyptians, murdered Russian journalists, jailed Iranians, gassed Syrians, and all are unavailable for comment in this story.
American political system is probably the most difficult, even brutal in the world.
Can you imagine what she would think if she were a conservative and the media was trying to destroy her every day?
We're starting in San Francisco on the phones.
This is Mark.
Thank you for waiting, and welcome to the program, sir.
Hello.
Well, thank you, sir.
It's honorable.
I am just outraged with the Iranian concept of negotiating with Iran in Iraq.
I mean, let's remember that those IEDs targeted at our soldiers came from Iran.
Right?
We're gonna negotiate with Iran for the sake of Iraq.
Our president's insane.
I don't get it.
Did he just come in?
Help me here, Rush.
I'm really starting to get frustrated.
Join the club.
I mean, I I I reaction's identical to mine.
When I when I heard that we're going to the way I heard it was not actually negotiate with Iraq.
We're gonna ask Iraq to go in there and try to make peace.
We're gonna ask, I mean, Iran, we're gonna ask Iran to go in there and try to calm things down.
Because they're close by, we're not there, and these you're exactly right.
The IEDs that maimed tens of thousands of American troops were manufactured in Iran, sent to Iraq by Iran.
I mean, it's a it's a it's uh it's a total head scratcher.
And I've trying to make sense of it is one of the most frustrating things that you can engage in.
And I guarantee you, if you watch the drive-bys today, don't do it, or you will hear how it makes sense.
You'll hear them lay out how it's really a very smart thing to do here.
Bring Iran into the fold, uh, form an allied relationship with them.
Um we've got big problems with Al-Qaeda, and one of the greatest things in the world would be to align ourselves with the Iranians and our common enemy Al Qaeda, and who knows the beauty that could result.
This is how it's going to be treated in the drive-bys.
Fact of the matter is, the situation is dire.
And and I'll tell you what makes it dire.
Right now, everybody's focusing on kids crossing the U.S. border in great numbers.
But in addition, if if kids are crossing in great numbers, so are a lot of adults.
And given the motivation of this Al-Qaeda-related group, go into Iraq, try to exact revenge, and recapture or capture in the first place the country.
Don't think these people are not going to come here.
Our border situation, with all of this talk of immigration reform and amnesty and no serious talk about border security.
You're gonna have we we faced the possibility of untold numbers of militant Islamists pouring over the U.S. border.
They may even be holding European passports.
Who knows?
The next couple of years are gonna really be crucial where this is concerned.
And this this that's why the open border situation has always been about much more than just illegal immigrants.
Everybody gets focused on that, but if the border's wide open, anybody can get in.
Anybody can make a push for it.
And if we're being flooded now and border patrol ice and everybody else having to be focused on what do you do with the kids and find military bases for them and uh libraries in Arizona?
Uh people also coming across who are not kids, maybe escaping attention, and the border patrol saying we can't handle what's happening now, leading a lot of people to think it's purposeful.
And I have no doubt that it is that Al Qaeda's on the march.
And this is see, this is something Obama can't allow in public perception because ran for re-election in 2012 on the basis that he had vanquished them by virtue of getting bin Laden and other things.
And so now for Al Qaeda to be back, even a related Al Qaeda group, they've got to find a way to tamp that down.
Because remember, it's all image and PR, it's not reality.
It's whatever they can bend shapes, Lake and Form, make you believe what's really happening is potentially really dire consequences.
All right, folks, a brief, another brief obscene profit timeout here at the Rush Limbaugh program, but we're back.
Don't go away.
I want to tell you a little bit about this woman, Deborah Mencart, who is the uh the woman that was quoted from the from the uh Bus Boys and Poets bookstore.
She's with the Teaching for Change, she's executive director.
Very proud to say that they're not selling well, it just scrolled out of you.
Never mind.
Very, very proud to say that that she is not selling my books in her store.
Because they only sell books by people of color.
And that they were going to do to prove that there is a market for them.
And then in the next soundbite, she begs people to buy and donate and give them money because they're not even breaking even with their brilliant sales technique.
Now, this woman uh has who supports this teaching for change uh group.
She supports this organization supports the Zinn Education Project.
Now, the Zinn, that's Howard Zinn, and Howard Zinn is the author of the primary history tract or textbook in the American public scrubal system.
It's called a people's history of the United States.
And his book describes America as a predatory, repressive capitalist state that serves only the interests of wealthy white men who exploit workers, American Indians, slaves, women, blacks, and populists.
And she is a subscriber to that belief.
This is who C-SPAN 2 featured on Sunday night.
That is what she believes.
And by the way, I'm telling you, when we get to Obama's commencement speech and some of the other things he said out in California over the weekend, you don't find a whole lot of difference in the way he views the country.
In fact, he he looks at it the same way.
Just don't.
I know it's tough to believe, it's hard to imagine that somebody elected president actually sees the U.S. that corrupt and that guilty, but he does.
He once again apologized for the country.
It really is uh I don't know.
It it it's it's frustrating that it exists, number one, it's frustrating that that so few people are willing to believe it and accept it.
What would happen if it was another group being excluded?
Okay, look, you know what would happen.
Snurdly's asking me, frankly, you know the answer.
He's saying, what happens if somebody opens a bookstore?
We're only going to publish white straight writers.
Do you think they'd be unc-spin?
No.
They would have the full force of the federal government at their front door, padlocking it and shutting them down on the basis that they're racists and they're bigots and so forth.
And so the question is, well, how come it's okay for this essential Marxist to open a not-for-profit and proudly say, we are only going to publish books written by people of color?
And she gets applause and so forth.
And the answer is she has every right to, because in the current construct, people of color are perpetual victims.
They are a perpetual minority.
They are perpetual victims, and as such, they shall get never-ending special treatment and sympathy, and that's just the way it is.
And if you doubt me, don't.
That is what that is the belief system that forms the foundation that permits that kind of bigotry and that kind of racism to exist.
Because they'll tell you that they're not racist.
They can't be racist.
The Reverend Jackson said, look, I can't be racist.
I don't have the power to do anything with my racism.
So but they've, well, but that no, it's not the power to exclude.
That's called the power to get even.
See, the white publishers and the white authors have had an unfair advantage in their numbers for all these years, ever since the country was founded.
And all this is is trying to level the playing field.
All this is is trying to make up for all 200 years of discrimination.
So we need quotas and we need uh affirmative action, and we need uh never-ending uh redress and so forth, and that's the belief system that that permits this.
Mm-hmm.
Right.
I have I don't know.
I assume if a kid walked in to the poets and barmaids' books, what is the name of it?
Poets and Bus Boys.
If a kid walked into the poets and busboys bookstore and said, hi, I want to buy Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, I do have it.
No, kid, we only sell books here written by people of color, and that's a white author.
That's bad.
Get out of here.
I don't know what they would tell him.
That's not if it's a white kid that shows up, that's a if it's if it's a white kid that I guarantee if a white kid walked in, hi, I want to buy, I want is this the poets and bus boys?
Yes, uh, young man.
I want to buy Rush Revere and then Braid Pilgrims.
Sorry, kid, we don't sell trash like that in this bookstore.
That's what they were to say.
Something I'm sorry, we don't sell that.
They'd be very snooty.
I'm saying they'd probably get mad at the kid for wanting it and try to give him on the spot lesson of why he shouldn't be interested in bigotry and racism and all that garbage.
I guarantee that's what would happen.
You know it as well as I do.
She is she full well understand intellectually what they're doing.
They damn well understand everything they're doing.
You're you're you're looking at this woman through the prism of a lousy businesswoman.
You are you you know you may be looking at the prism also of a racist bigot, but that's not how she sees herself.
She sees herself as a freedom fighter.
She is here representing the oppressed that have been essentially imprisoned by this country since its founding, and she is standing for their empowerment.
That's what she thinks she's she's doing.
She's it is a nonprofit.
The takeaway is they can't even she goes on C-span to complain that they don't have enough business to even break even.
And of course, that's not her fault.
It's not the fault of her business model.
It's not the fault of you ask me these questions.
What happens, Mr. Snurdley, if a baker says, you know what, I don't believe in gay marriage, so I'm not going to bake a cake for your wedding.
What happened is that that baker ends up in federal court and for all intents and purposes shut down.
The baker has decided to close up shop, or one of them has.
You know full well how this works.
This is what's happening all across the country.
Thank you.
Let me take a break.
I wasn't going to get to Binart until the top of the hour monologue of the next hour.
But I can see now that I had better get there.
But that means I'll have to move some stuff behind that that I was going to do before that, but it doesn't matter.
Because my job here is to make complex understandable, which I will do.
So don't go away.
Hi, welcome back.
Okay, great to have you.
Rush Linbaugh, the excellence in broadcasting network.
Here's a question for you.
You think Dr. Benjamin Carson's book is available at the Bus Boys and Poets bookstore.
But uh bet you no way is Dr. Carson's book available in there, even though he's a person of color.
Because it's not about that.
That's just the insulation that gives them cover for doing Marxism, whatever you want to call it in the bookstore.
They're hiding, well, they're not really hiding behind because they believe it, but but they're hiding behind the unfairness and the injustice of the white oppressors ever since the founding of the country, and therefore we're entitled to do whatever we want to do, including deny other people freedom.
That's what it takes to bring fairness, then we'll do it.
And that's their view.
In fact, if the only way to make things fair is to deny some people, i.e.
the oppressors fairness then and then freedom, then they'll do it.
So Dr. Carson's book, I'd I'd venture to say is not there.
If they know what's in it.
Now, if they just look at the cover and say, ooh, person of color wrote this book, let's put it in there.
I doubt that happens.
I think they know who he is.
And if they do, I guarantee you they don't want his message coming out of the busboys and poets bookstore.
Okay, Peter Beinart.
Peter Beinart uh Atlantic monthly had a post on Thursday on the Atlantic's website.
Unprecedented crisis of authority in today's GOP.
Whereas among Democrats, party hierarchies are clear and largely unchallenged.
His point is the Democrats have got their act together, the Republicans don't, and he explains why.
He argues that it's the Democrats today who are optimists, and it's the Republicans who are pessimists.
And it's even more specific than that.
The Democrats are optimistic about the prospects for what they want America to become.
Now, this ties in with the garbage going on at this bookstore.
So what he inadvertently is saying here is that this view that you just heard from uh what's her name again, Deborah Menkart at the uh poets and busboys bookstore.
That's the country that they're trying to create.
That is what they want the country to become.
People thinking and acting like that.
And then Democrats are very optimistic they're gonna be able to bring this off.
The Republicans are pessimistic about the prospects for America.
And he says this is a huge win for the Democrats because optimism will always triumph over pessimism.
And the Democrats are very happy and very optimistic about where the country's going, and the Republicans are pessimistic about where it's going.
Democrats, to get more specific, he says, Democrats looking to the future see a growing constituency for tolerance and social justice, while Republicans see a growing constituency of takers who want to turn America away from its exceptional nature.
Now I just want to warn you, I'm not going to be able to get through all of this plus commentary before I have to take the next break.
We'll have to continue this through the top of the hour, but I want to go ahead and get started on it because it actually is a nice transition here with this bookstore story.
Over the last two years, I'm reading from Beinart now on his web post last Thursday.
Over the last two years, John Boehner's repeatedly retreated in the face of opposition from rank and file conservatives who treat him with barely disguised disdain.
Mitch McConnell only avoided Eric Cantor's fate by attaching himself to Rand Paul.
Like Boehner, McConnell is treated with striking disrespect in his own caucus.
In recent electoral cycles, Republican presidential primaries have been relatively orderly affairs where the party establishment rallies around a frontrunner.
This year, however, that kind of elite control looks unlikely.
Now, in the Democrat Party, by contrast, party hierarchies are queer and largely unchallenged.
90% of Democrats want Hillary, who looks headed towards a coronation in 2016.
And to a remarkable degree, the parties have switched roles.
Grassroots Democrats certainly get frustrated with their leaders too, who they consider too cautious and too beholden to Wall Street, and were an unusually compelling candidate like Elizabeth Warren to run, many would rally behind her.
Here is it, an educated, well, I don't know what that even is anymore.
How educated can you be if you think Elizabeth Warren is compelling?
You know, Elizabeth Warring, the fake Native American, who said, you didn't build that.
You didn't make that, you didn't build that, you didn't have a thing to do.
And Obama picked up the theme.
Hey, you own small business?
You didn't build that.
Oh, the rest of us did that.
You didn't do anything.
You just get the money, and we're gonna take it from you.
From now on.
Okay, so Beinart thinks that she's unusually compelling, and if Elizabeth Warren runs against Hillary, then all bets are off.
But these anti-authoritarian impulses are held in check by a greater optimism about the direction of the country.
Over the last few years, a younger, more tolerant Democrat-leaning generation has helped elect the country's first black president, helped make gay marriage mainstream, and may soon help elect America's first female president.
As a result, although Democrats may be upset that Obama can't pass immigration reform, they are inclined to believe that because of demographic change, another Democrat president will soon get another chance.
Now, Republican activists are more pessimistic.
Even under Bush, even under George W. Bush, they complained the government kept growing.
And unless something drastic changes, it's only going to get worse.
When grassroots Democrats look at the growing percentage of Latinos, African Americans, and young people, they see a growing constituency for tolerance and social justice.
When grassroots Republicans look at the growing percentage of Latinos, African Americans, and young people, they see a growing constituency of takers who want to turn America away from its exceptional nature.
It's because Republican activists are more fearful of the future that they demand politicians willing to take extraordinary Ted Cruz-like measures to reverse this course.
Conservatives like Eric Cantor, who accommodate themselves, now this is the key here.
Conservatives like Cantor who accommodate themselves to democratic trends by supporting citizenship for some undocumented immigrants must therefore be replaced with politicians who will stand militantly on principle.
The Irony is that by preventing the Republicans from adjusting to a younger, less white, less Anglo country, grassroots Republicans are hastening the very liberal dominance they fear.
So, can I summarize this for you?
What Mr. Binart here is saying is unless you Republicans become Democrats, you are going to remain miserable losers.
And you are going to lose your country unless you change and embrace this demographic change and learn to see a growing constituency for tolerance and social justice like this bookstore as the norm and perfectly fine and understandable even, then you're perpetually going to lose.
So Binart is trying to tell us what we have to do to win, ladies and gentlemen.
If we don't, if we don't accept Democrat policy, and this is the kind of thinking, by the way, that explains what's happened to the Republican leadership.
They have bought this hook, line and sinker.
Okay, so you see, I had to go through that fairly quickly.
We'll dissect it a bit when we get back.
After our brief top-of-the-hour obscene profit break, and I promise I get your phone calls in.
I've still got, I'm overwhelmed with stuff I gotta get in here, folks.
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