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June 16, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 16, 2014, Monday, Hour #3
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Hi folks, and welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh, the we don't have time to get it all in program and the EIB network.
We're just so jammed.
For example, the New Republic has a cover story on Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker.
Now, as you know, if you are regular listeners to this program, you know that I think what Scott Walker done has done in Wisconsin is a uh a blueprint.
It's a roadmap for the Republican Party to win.
It's a roadmap for the Republican Party to fix the country, change the direction we're going.
Scott Walker has taken everything that the Democrat machine has thrown at him and his family.
He has beaten back two recall efforts.
He has implemented his policies.
He's created a budget surplus with tax cuts and tax refunds.
He has cleaned up a corrupt union school system, Wisconsin.
It is stunning what he has done there.
It is so stunning, I can't believe that he's well, he is actually in the in the mix for Republican presidential nomination, but uh he's not he's not being uh touted by the Republican Party, the way it should be.
I mean, it to me it is what is necessary, exactly what both um in terms of uh economic policy, uh government philosophy.
It's just amazing what he's done.
And therefore he has become, if the Republicans don't want to tout him, and Democrats nevertheless want to continue to destroy him, New Republic.
Cover story, Scott Walker is so hot right now.
And then you get to the bottom line of the cover.
Too bad he owes his success to a toxic strain of racial politics.
Now, wait.
All of this I present to you in context with the story from the woman, Looney Tune at the bookstore, who says that she will not sell books, not written by people of color.
And then in the next soundbite, C-SPAN books uh book two last night, she's complaining and whining and they can't even break even.
She will not sell my book.
She proudly says, You will not find my book in her store.
No way, no how.
And then she begs people to donate to the store.
It's a nonprofit, or buy books there, because they're not even breaking even.
And yet she's engaged in social justice and tolerance and fairness and equality and all the things that Peter Beinart says that the Democrats are really optimistic about, because they see that's where the country's headed.
People like that woman in positions of power.
Okay.
Then we ed Beinart saying the Republicans look at this demographic shift and they are not optimistic.
They they don't see what the Democrats see.
The Democrats are optimistic because they see a growing percentage of Latinos, African Americans, and young people as a growing constituency for tolerance and social justice, like gay marriage, what you name it, anything, legalizing marijuana, whatever anybody wants to do, the Democrats are optimistic, that's where they're headed because that's what the demographic shift means.
Binart says Republicans are pessimistic because they look at that demographic shift, and all they see is a growing constituency of takers who want to turn America away from its exceptional nature.
And he says it's that view.
This is because Republican activists are more fearful of the future, that they demand politicians like Ted Cruz to stand up and stop it.
And Beinart says, the irony is that by preventing the GOP from adjusting to this younger, less white, less Anglo country, grassroots Republicans, i.e.
you, and the Tea Party and the Republican base are actually hastening this very liberal dominance you fear, because you are preventing your Republican elected officials from embracing the same view the Democrats embrace.
Now, doesn't that sound familiar?
Then that sounds exactly like what the Republican consultants are selling?
Doesn't that sound exactly like what the Republican establishment wants to do?
Because people like Beinart have been bending their ear for years, telling them if you don't do this, you're never going to win the White House again, as though they care about us winning the White House.
So in other words, what the Republicans are being told is that unless you start seeing the world we do, you're never going to win anything.
You're going to be perpetual losers.
Unless you start seeing the world the way we see it, then we're going to be so dominant you'll never be a political factor again.
Right.
So what happens when we have a person of color prominent in our party?
We give you a name.
Clarence Thomas.
What happens?
Well, they set out to destroy him.
Can I give you another?
Alberto Gonzalez.
What'd they do?
Every time the Republicans try to get in on this identity politics business.
In fact, but that's not what they're doing.
That's an even bigger crying shame.
Clarence Thomas nominated to be on the Supreme Court, and what does the left do while they're clamoring that we'd better do just that kind of thing?
We had better start seeing a country the way we'd better start playing identity politics.
We'd better start including people of color.
The minute we do it, they set out and destroy them.
It can be a woman.
It can be an Hispanic.
It can be an African American.
What's the uh uh Scott, this first name in South Carolina?
Tim Scott to destroy him, J.C. Watts.
The game goes on, and Alan West, what did they do to Alan West?
What did what'd they do to uh uh Miguel Estrada and the uh African American woman in Utah, uh Mia Love, what'd they do to her?
See, this is the great irony.
So here's Peter Beinart telling us and the Republicans, you are helping us achieve what we want to achieve by opposing us.
What a great trick they're perpetuating here.
And it's working just like the trick that you only need to focus on independence every presidential race.
That's another successful trick.
This trick is you better start seeing the world the way we do, and you better start talking about the world the way we do, and you better support amnesty, and you better support whatever they're saying, immigration reform, or you're you're gonna lose, and you're just gonna make what we want happen even faster.
And I'm telling you the Republicans about it, okay.
So, given those two things, here comes the Scott Walker cover.
Too bad he owes his success to a toxic strain of racial politics.
So, uh, ladies and gentlemen, Ann Althouse, who lives in Wisconsin, waited and waited until the new public put that story, not just the picture of the cover, but the actual text of the story up on their website.
And she has called it a smear, a racial smear.
There are phrases in this in this story like, when is it considered acceptable to refer to the excessive whiteness of a public figure?
When is it permissible?
When is it considered acceptable to refer to the excessive whiteness of a public figure?
Why did the editors of the new republic think it was acceptable to title an article, The Unelectable Whiteness of Scott Walker?
That is the title.
You don't see that on the cover.
That's the title of the story, the unelectable whiteness of Scott Walker.
And so when you read the story, the only thing in it That even relates to race is the fact that he is in favor of voter ID.
That's it.
Scott Walker is in favor of photo ID to be able to vote, and the new republic has tarred him as too bad he owes the success to a toxic strain of racial politics.
The excessive whiteness, the unelectable whiteness of Scott Walker.
So from the bookstore to Peter Beinart to this.
We see the way the left views the country, and even if a move is made to accommodate them, they then begin their search and destroy mission on whatever people of color.
Why in the world would we want to pay any attention or give any credibility to a news media that would do a story about one of our governors this way?
This isn't this is a uh it's a it's not just a smear that it is, but it is a huge hit piece.
The title, the unelectable whiteness of Scott Walker.
He only got elected and survived two recalls in the blue state of Wisconsin.
It's time to destroy him again.
See, the left will always tell us who they fear.
They will always tell us what they're most worried about by who they try to destroy.
Okay.
But I think this is kind of fascinating.
I want to go back to Vinart here.
The Democrats, optimistic.
Growing percentage of Latinos, African Americans, young people, is seen as a growing constituency for tolerance and social justice.
And it is.
And social justice is just another term for statism or Marxism.
Social justice is not liberty and freedom or anything that it is.
It's not even justice.
It's nothing that implies it is.
It's racial politics, reverse race of whatever you want to call it, but it's it's hideous.
And so another trick is being played on the Republican leadership.
Unless you see the world the way we do, you're never gonna win anything.
And of course, we do want you to win it.
We Democrats hope you win the White House someday, right.
So the Republican Party will fail because its base, the Tea Party, a bunch of racist bigot, sexist homophobes, will not adopt Democrat Party policy.
And they wonder why Ted Cruz is so popular.
They wonder why anybody standing up to this bilge and this dribble is so popular.
Now it only gets better.
Next up, after the break, we get to listen to President Obama, who sounds much like all of this that we've been discussing.
Don't go away.
All right, back to the phones, because we haven't been there much today.
We're gonna go to uh Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Mac, I'm really glad you waited.
I appreciate your patience.
Hello.
Well, thank you so much, Russia.
I listened to you since the early days, and it's uh honor to actually talk to you for once.
Um wanted to comment uh with the stuff going on in in Iran and Iraq and the whole region over there.
Uh, you know, I I think we're gonna see more of the same with a president and his administration is going to be devoid of any real leadership, and they're gonna stand with Maliki, they're gonna have the national security team uh go over things and work round the clock, and you're gonna be with him, but subsequently uh anything about any substance is not going to happen in the policy in the Middle East.
And you you did say something that uh uh it was very accurate.
You said it's a dire situation, and I think you're absolutely right because the highest levels of the radical leaders of the fragmented militant groups, and I say fragmented, which used to be flagged under this administration's policy or uniting and that's their stated dream is to unite under one flag that is exactly right they always said that Bush and Gitmo and Cheney were the greatest recruitment tools for
Al Qaeda wrong it's Obama and his stand down isolationist appeasement view his is the perception of of United States weakness is the greatest motivating factor they have.
And thank you for saying that, because, you know, for the years of the Bush administration, when we had very successful military campaigns and actions that should have been regarded with with esteem, we had a constant push from the media to diminish, to undermine, attack the American resolve.
And in attacking the American resolve, they actually propagated anti-Americanism around the world and undermined our alliances, undermined our position, undermined our integrity, everything they preached that they said Bush was.
was what they actually are themselves.
Uh or at least they affected it.
There's no uh made it happen um I think there's any question about that and I think you can't talk about all this without including the open borders situation in this country.
There's nothing keeping them out it's not just the insurgency in Iraq.
You give these people a couple of years with this administration doing everything it can to enact whatever it wants with executive orders and remember the the the the convoluted really perverted view they have of things the enemy in their view are misunderstood.
The real enemy is us, you see Republicans and conservatives domestically they're the people we're the people standing in the way of emancipation, freedom, equality, social justice, and all that and I I it it's a it's really a a corrupt and and perverted view of the word scary as well in
addition to frustrating and Mac thanks much here's Patricia Golden Colorado.
Glad to have you on the EIB network.
Hello hello Rush just calling to tell you that while our illustrious leader was at a fundraiser and busy this weekend in California going to a college speech he and his wife were also out in Rancho Mirage, an area that I know you're familiar with.
Yep.
Looking for a house they're looking for a little nest out in Palm Springs.
Well now wait wait wait wait wait a minute now I know Obama has become very enamored of the place.
Do you know where he likes he loves the Annenberg estate.
Well he played golf there this weekend what's the name of the club there?
Well it's just Annenberg and then Larry Ellison owns uh Porcupine Creek.
Both private courses you can't get on unless you have someone that you know.
Right.
Right well when Annenberg was alive that's where Reagan and Sinatra and all these guys went for New Year's Eve.
Everyone went there we've had all the presidents have been there since nineteen the nineteen sixties when he and his wife built it.
Yeah.
They have not excluded anybody but Obama has been there several times in the past year and now his wife the decorator Michael Smith who's done the White House has uh joined a club out in that I will that will remain unnamed at this point in in Branch of Mirage and he is the she and Michael spent the weekend looking for homes.
Wait a minute now we just heard that Muchell bought a place or was looking at a place in North Carolina to run for the Senate from there.
Well she may be but she's also there uh as far as I know on good stand that he has a place going being built right now in Hawaii and this weekend they absolutely definitely were looking for a home in Branch well I didn't heard that no I have heard no, no, no, no.
I'm not, I'm not challenging you.
I'm just, I I have heard that they're enamored of Palm Springs.
I've heard that the Obamas love it, which Jeremia Wright's not going to be pleased.
Palm Springs is not the kind of place that a disciple of Reverend Wrights would love.
It's too white.
It's too rich.
Uh but I maybe it's not common knowledge.
I thought it was common knowledge that Muchell was looking at places in North Carolina to buy house in North Carolina to maybe run for the Senate from there.
You hadn't heard that?
Well, I heard him.
That she's Mrs. Barack Obama.
She's going to run at social justice and uh making things fair and giving Hillary, yeah.
What's Hillary didn't live in New York either.
Uh so building a house.
I heard Obama was going to stay at Washington.
I did not know they're building a place in Hawaii.
I I can't believe they're using their own money for any of this.
But that's just me.
The real question is where is the Barack Obama presidental library for social justice going to be?
Would it be in a Rancho Mirage?
Would it be in Washington?
Would it be in Hawaii?
Not Hawaii.
Well, it might be a branch office there.
Uh Anyway, I appreciate the call, Patricia.
We do.
I can't believe how fast this program is going today, folks.
We've got to take another brief time out.
And be back right after this.
President Obama on Friday, late Friday afternoon in Cannonball, North Dakota, the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.
This is during the Cannonball Flag Day celebration.
I know that throughout history, the United States often didn't give the nation-to-nation relationship the respect that it deserved.
So I promised when I ran to be a president who changed that.
A president who honors our sacred trust and who respects your sovereignty and upholds treaty obligations and who works with you in a spirit of true partnership in mutual respect to give our children the future that they deserve.
Any opportunity to flip off this country, this guy will take it.
And there's another example.
I know that throughout history, the United States often didn't give the nation-to-nation relationship the respect that it deserved.
But I changed all that.
I'm the guy that cares.
I'm the first president that gives a rat's rear.
I'm the first president that you're going to come.
Because I understand how unfair and discriminatory this country's been.
That's what he's telling them.
What president speaks this way?
And of course, then he said that he and the lovely and gracious Moochell identify with his.
Michelle and I know is what it feels like sometimes to go through tough times.
We grew up at times feeling like we were on the outside looking in.
Really?
There's no denying that for some Americans the deck's been stacked against them sometimes for generations.
See?
That's been the case for many Native Americans.
See.
But if we're working together, we can make things better.
Right.
We've got a long way to go.
But if we do our part, I believe that we can turn the corner.
This is freaking flag day.
And he is out there once again, letting them know just how rotten this country's been.
Now let me I don't want anybody to misunderstand.
I do not believe that the United States of America is perfection.
And I do not sit here blindly believing that the United States has never ever made a mistake.
That's not the point.
The United States of America is the freest land, the most freedom, the land of liberty.
There's not a nation that has ever come anywhere close.
Shhh.
We are a nation that realized at our founding what some of these very problems were, and constitutional provisions were written in so that they would be addressed and corrected.
It's a standing matter of fact that certain things had to happen in order for there to be a unified country at the time of the revolution.
And to get a declaration of independence and later a constitution.
That's not the point.
The point is focusing constantly on this to the point of making it look like it is still institutional, this racism and bigotry.
And uh he and his wife grew up on the outside looking.
Who in the world doesn't think they're on the outside looking in?
Everybody grows up thinking that.
Some because of their weight, some because of their race, some because of their gender, some because their own psychological problems, whatever.
Deck stacked against them.
From from the President of the United States, what deck is stacked again?
The fact of the well, it's just the exact opposite.
The deck is now reverse stacked in perpetuity.
This kind of stuff just really infuriates me that this continues to happen.
But it's it's good in the sense that for those willing to listen, you're being told exactly what I've always tried to get everybody to believe how this man sees this country.
Not making it up.
It's undeniable.
Okay, let's move forward now to Anaheim, Angel Stadium, University of California at Irvine commencement.
The world is literally burning with violence all over the globe.
Allies under assault everywhere.
President Obama in California playing golf, raising money, and mocking climate deniers.
When President Kennedy set us on a course for the moon, there were a number of people who made a serious case that it wouldn't be worth it.
It was going to be too expensive, it was going to be too hard, it would take too long.
But nobody ignored the science.
I don't remember anybody saying that the moon wasn't there or that it was made of cheese.
In fact, if you go back and if you listen carefully to the tapes of Armstrong getting off the lunar module...
There was a school of thought, even during the mission and leading up to it, that the moon surface was like quicksand, that it would be impossible to land on it, that it would simply swallow up anything that hit the surface.
And this was science.
This was acceptance of it.
It was a possibility.
It was not obviously etched in stone.
You go back and listen to Armstrong describe the surface getting off.
They were really, really worried about this because it was accepted in the day that the surface of the moon was like quicksand.
I forget that that's not the term that was used.
I forget what it was, but it was uh it was the equivalent of something.
There were people that thought it was cheese.
But this is this is the kind of thing here.
This is I don't remember anybody's, it's another straw man creation.
I don't remember anybody saying the moon wasn't there.
Well, you can see it.
He's trying to compare that to those of us who say there isn't any global warming.
Mr. President, you can't prove it.
And none of your scientists can prove it.
There is no proof.
All you've got is computer models.
The only thing, the only thing saying there is global warming is computer models.
There is no empirical evidence of it.
That's why it's all talked about as 10 years, 50 years, 100 years.
It's gonna be really bad.
The problem for these people is that they've been since 1980 saying 20 years, and then since 1990, they've been saying 10 years, and the problem is that the warning time early on's gone by, and there's no warming.
There's still icebergs on the lake.
What is it?
Michigan or superior.
Yeah, superior.
It's just so this is the best he's got.
Here's the next bite along the same lines.
Today's Congress, though, is full of folks who stubbornly and automatically reject the scientific evidence about climate change.
They will tell you it is a hoax or a fad.
It is.
One member of Congress actually says the world is cooling.
Well There was one member of Congress who mentioned the theory involving dinosaur flatulence, which I won't get into.
Well, I have to be a Democrat.
It's you people that believe cow flatulence is causing global warming.
What is it?
It is a hoax.
There is no evidence.
But I tell you, the audience he's speaking to, little college graduates and millennials, they buy it.
I'm telling you folks, hook line and sinker.
They have it's easy to understand why.
Uh psychologically.
They are effectively at the beginning of their lives, and they're being told there isn't going to be a planet waiting for them.
They're being told that their parents and grandparents are destroying the planet or have destroyed the planet, and they don't want that to happen.
And they haven't been properly educated on this.
So they buy it, hook, line, and sinker.
It's much easier to be a fatalist pessimist than it is to be an optimist.
It's just 10, 25,000 times easier.
Being an optimist takes a lot of effort.
Pessimism is easy.
Everybody can do it and does.
I gotta take a break.
Sit tight.
Back after this.
Don't go away.
It was moondust.
I remember what it is now.
There were there were a bunch of uh well, for lack of a better word, the uh people who they believe that so many collisions over time with the moon had created a level uh uh uh lay a layer of moon dust that would essentially be like quicksand that we would just we would just sink into.
They really believed there was a there was a uh a pretty sizable contingent in NASA fought that.
They're very, very worried about it.
You could listen to Armstrong describing his first steps on the moon to tell people, no, no, no, solid is a rock here.
Or he doesn't say that, those words, but uh so Obama.
Well, a lot of people thought it was made of dust.
And we still sent the astronauts there.
Greg in Lull, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hey Rush, how are you doing today?
Very good.
Very good, sir.
I'm pressured and harried, but I'm doing well.
Um I I wanted to comment about the debacle in the Middle East.
I I think we need to face the fact that everyone would be better off if we'd left Saddam Hussein in charge of Iraq.
And it's a hard thing to say, but I think it's true.
Uh let me guess why.
Because Saddam was able to control all those factions by putting them all in jail or prison or clubbing them or whatever, but at least he kept that country within its borders and he kept the intruders out.
And he didn't attack us, but we have two people now who are attacking us, fighting over the stress.
We have Iran and we have Al-Qaeda.
We have thousands of Americans dead, trillions of dollars spent.
And we'd just be better off if it hadn't if it hadn't happened.
Uh well, you know, it's that's hindsight.
And you can would we be better off if uh you know we had not gone into Grenada.
Would we be better off if we had not elected Obama?
Yeah.
Hell yes.
But what good does it do us?
By the way, uh I'm not trying to diminish what you're saying.
I mean, some people do think that the value of Saddam was that he may have been a bad guy, but at least he kept all those different factions in line.
And the way he had to do it, we might not approve of, but still he did it.
Anyway, um Sunday, Wall Street Journal says it announced that we have announced that we're not going to join Iran in military action against Al-Qaeda.
I think I'm good.
Let me double check that.
Be right back.
Don't go away.
As a Wall Street Journal tweet breaking, White House says U.S. will not pursue coordinated military action with Iran in Iraq.
I guess the idea didn't didn't poll well.
But whoever thought we I never thought that's what we're gonna.
This is so screwed up.
Folks, it's just it's more than a mortal can keep up with.
It's a good thing I'm not.
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