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June 17, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 17, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #2
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You know what the Clintons are missing?
It's a humility gene.
There really is no humility.
And as such, for anybody has no humility, uh you, if you're not humble, you you you cannot possibly honestly assess how people think of you.
Now, Mrs. Clinton's world, that's important.
Uh and I think the Clintons believe, and who, by the way, if you were in their shoes, it'd be tough not to do this yourself.
If you got nothing but fawning love, adulation, adoration for everything that you do for 25 or 30 years, you would begin to believe it too.
You'd bel you'd begin to believe that you're pretty hot stuff.
And if you stop and look at the treatments that Clintons get, they were protected, they were built up.
Uh Bill Clinton is the biggest star in the Democrat Party today.
He's a bigger draw, bigger star, more popular than even Barack Obama, and I think ever was.
But he still is.
And I think if if that had happened to you, and you didn't have a good grounding when you were raised, and you didn't have any humility, you'd buy all of it too.
You'd buy into, and you'd think the world loved you and adored you, except maybe a couple people at Fox that don't like you, maybe some people on talk radio don't like it, but elsewhere you were loved.
So you don't understand.
When the Benghazi thing happens, if you're Hillary, you don't understand.
That's why she says, Well, what difference does it make now?
You know what she's really saying is why do you care?
It's over with.
We dealt with it.
The video.
Well, what why do you care?
That's lack of humility.
And maybe hubris as well.
But you know, the thing is, we never really do get over the Clintons and what they do.
The drive-bys do, but the majority of the American people don't.
I mean, for example, look, just a month ago, Monica Lewinsky pops up all over again.
And all the finger pointing lying came streaming back to the American consciousness.
Everybody that was alive back then remembered everything that happened.
And it was in contrast to the fawning, building up the puff piece treatment that the Clintons gave.
Here came this woman that they literally destroyed.
And I think by the same token, Benghazi is never going to go away for her.
She thinks that she can make it go away by writing a book.
Actually, a ghostwritten book.
But she thinks that she can make it go away.
And make people forget it.
And especially now that we've captured the militia leader.
But it's never going to go away for her.
The bottom line is Hillary Clinton left Americans to die.
And then lied about it.
And regardless who was killing them.
She left Americans to die and lied about it, and then compounded all that by saying, what difference does it make?
That's the kind of stuff that sticks with you.
There would be no need to capture this guy if she had done her job in the first place.
And the idea that this is the smartest woman ever and the most competent.
I have never bought into that.
And I it's groupthink extraordinaire That makes people believe this.
And I know how powerful groupthink is.
I've never been a party to it.
I always, when I spot groupthink, I make sure I'm not in that group.
Same thing with the with conventional wisdom.
But seriously.
So you give her 14 million dollars.
And oh, oh, further evidence that there were great expectations for this book.
This secret source inside Steinman und Schuster says that they printed one million hard copies and ship them to bookstores prior to the June 10 publication date.
So if they went to press on a million books, they sure as hell thought they were going to sell more than 60,000 the first day or the first week.
And this inside source says, given this tepid uh launch, says they're going to be lucky to sell 150,000 total in the lifetime of the book.
And then the source said, look, it's a bomb, but it'll be interesting to see how they spin it.
And they will spin it, and it's not going to be spun as a bomb.
It'll end up when all is said and done.
The low information crowd's going to think this is the biggest book that's ever been published by a woman in the world.
And what will make them believe it is all of this media that she is getting.
You don't get that kind of media attention unless you're really big and loved and popular and something's going on.
People will be able to be made to believe that.
We'll just see.
And they'll find other ways to um to uh spin it.
Well, you know, it was a book written for a very narrow, uh, highly uh educated, highly informed, specialized audience.
We never really expected it to be a mass appeal book.
Things like that will be used to explain it away.
Speaking of brilliant smart women with whom we can never hope to compete nor compare.
In an interview with MSN.com, it's Microsoft's web service.
First lady Michelle Obama explained that she used to struggle.
Sorry, she used to struggle to feed her kids right.
Even though she received an education from Harvard and Princeton, she said that she had to struggle to feed her kids right.
Even with an Ivy League education, she didn't know how to feed her kids properly.
Which proves that degrees from Harvard and Princeton contain absolutely zero common sense.
Let me find it here.
Very quickly.
I was reading uh one of the, I read a football website, now and then called Monday Morning Quarterback.
Peter King Sports Illustrated, when he re-upped, they gave him his own site, which is part of the uh Sports Illustrated Universe, Monday Morning Quarterback.
And he's got a column he writes every Monday called Monday Morning Quarterback.
And during the season, it's a long piece, and it's about the football games of the weekend and so forth.
He's on vacation now, and when he goes on vacation, he has guest columns to do it.
Yesterday, Vernon Davis of the San Francisco Foreigners was the guest column's Monday morning quarterback.
Now you might remember Vernon Davis.
And he's the player that signed up with this uh private equity firm.
You can buy stock in Vernon Davis now.
You can buy shares of Vernon Davis, and uh, as he does well, you get percent somehow you you invest in Vernon Davis, and if he does well, he gets paid a lot of money, you get you somehow uh stand to do well as well.
So I spoke about it once, I don't remember all the details.
It's interesting that if you did invest in Vernon Davis, you know he's holding out, uh Hoping for even more money, but he had an interesting part of the Monday morning quarterback piece yesterday.
He was talking about how players don't know how to manage their money.
And it's a shame they get all of this money paid to them relatively young.
They come from backgrounds that have never had it before, and such they blow it overnight.
He says they blow it on cars they'll never drive and homes they'll never live in.
And he suggested a solution here to this problem.
And I thought there was some irony in this.
Irony is a favorite term of journalists, by the way.
Irony is what they strive to find in all of their stories inside the narrative.
So Vernon Davis, the Fordiners writing yesterday, Monday morning quarterbacks is not enough to gather rookies in June and tell them how not to go broke.
Or to offer an offseason financial seminar to college.
Those are great steps taken by the NFL in recent years with their rookie symposium and the player engagement program.
But if they really want to save young players from themselves, they have to make attendance at these things mandatory.
And they need to send a college professor to every NFL team and require all players to attend business seminars during training camp.
Maybe guys didn't pay attention during college, but the lessons take on a new meaning when you're finally getting paid.
Now, we know it's not the case, but we assume that college athletes attend class.
And apparently they don't.
Because when they get out into the NFL, Vernon Davis says the colleges or the league needs to bring in college professors.
After these players have been there two or three, sometimes four years, a lot of early departures for the NFL now.
I just found it ironic that the assumption is the players of college grads.
They attend class, but they come out of there absolutely knowing nothing.
You remember Dexter Manley?
What do you remember about Dexter Manley?
That's well, it's true.
He was a great player for the Washington Redskins.
But do you know what?
He could not read or write.
He graduated from Oklahoma State.
No.
Well, I don't wait a minute now.
I don't know if he graduated.
He went there.
He went, he attended Oklahoma State enough that he got drafted out of there.
He couldn't read or write.
Yet he made it to college.
This is not a rub on Dexter Manley.
Your rave is a great player, he's a great guy.
But stop me.
He's in college.
He couldn't read or write.
And he's the one that made this public.
So Mrs. Obama said a college degree at Harvard and Princeton.
Still, she didn't know how to feed her kids right.
Before coming to the White House, I struggled as a working parent with a traveling busy husband to figure out how to feed my kids healthy.
And I didn't get it right, she said, sharing a story about her children's doctor who pulled her aside to talk about her family diet.
I thought to myself, if a Princeton and Harvard educate a professional woman doesn't know how to adequately feed her kids, then what are other parents going through who don't have access to the information I have?
Do you want to believe this?
So now Princeton and Harvard, college degrees, Ivy League, nowhere near enough to teach you how to feed your kids.
So we are going to do it for you, is where this is headed.
We in government are going to teach you how to feed your kids.
We are going to put ourselves in control, in charge.
It's a beautiful thing.
We got wonderful intentions because you're too idiotic, and it's not really you.
I'm one of the smartest women in the world.
I got degrees from Harvard and Princeton, and I don't even know how to feed my kids.
How silly is this?
Her personal struggle helped her launch her mission to address childhood obesity, she explains, especially passing a law requiring scrubs to provide healthier meals.
How do they know what's healthier?
The first lady recommends that scrubs make decisions for children because their parents struggle to feed the children.
So here we again.
The parents don't know what's best for their own kids.
Michelle's got to take over.
It's a it's it's it's such a beautiful thing.
They care so much.
They love your kids so they're watching you basically watch your kids just get fat and obese, and you don't want to feed them, but they're willing to give up everything else to feed your kids.
I hate I can't believe people care so much.
They want to do the right thing.
You just you could people in this country can't even feed their kids right.
Michelle Obama could take time out to do it for you.
Such a wonderful thing.
And this.
If you recall the student lunch, uh the school lunch program when the Republicans were supposedly threatening to cancel it, even back then as the mid-90s, and the word was out, oh my god, this is a school lunch program gets cut, why the kids will starve.
Why is that?
Well, parents don't know how to feed them.
So this is really nothing new.
But the whole premise here is an insult to our intelligence.
The average ordinary mom and dad don't know how to feed their kids.
Healthy food.
Don't know how to do it.
And it's not their fault because Michelle, who is as smart as Hillary, went to Harvard and Prince, she didn't know how to do it even with college.
Vernon Davis, one of the greatest tight ends in the football, San Francisco 400 doesn't know how to manage his money unless the government or some power sends in a college professor of business affairs teach them how to do it.
See?
You just can't do anything on your own.
You can't provide for yourself, can't take care of yourself, can't make the proper decisions for yourself.
You just are basically a schlub.
And you're nowhere near as good as Michelle Obama either.
Don't ever forget that.
She went to Harvard in Princeton, you didn't.
And even at that, she doesn't know.
Or didn't.
But now she does.
Because she cares so much.
She's learned how to do it.
She's going to share it with you, but you got to listen to her.
Never mind the fact that everywhere Michelle Obama has instituted a school lunch memo, the uh menu, the kids are in revolt.
And leaving school to find potato chips and pizzas and whatever the hell else they're being deprived.
Greetings, my friends.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
This is Felicia in Sarasota, Florida, as we head back to the phones.
Hi, great to have you here.
Thank you so much for taking my call.
You bet.
You're wonderful.
We watch you.
We uh I listen to you all the time.
I just wanted to say, my father and mother lived through the depression.
And my father was a member of uh of World War II, and his brother was in World War II.
And my parents would flip right now if they could if they heard what was going on in this country.
I mean, seriously, with all the scandals, the VA scandals, the IRS scandal.
Um they would just be so very upset about all this.
And I was so upset the other day, I I almost couldn't listen to the news any longer.
It was the busting and oh oh my goodness.
It was just it was just awful.
My parents, I I wish this country understood what those people in World War II did for this country.
I grew up in a wonderful time period.
Um, here's the thing.
In fact, I touched on this um yesterday, and it may serve me well to revive this piece by Peter Beinart at Theatlantic.com.
Here's what you have to get your your your uh uh your mind around, Felicia.
You're going to have to understand that it's a different world.
It's a changing world.
It's a changing world demographically, and it's changing with uh uh rising numbers of minorities, Hispanics, African Americans, Native Americans, and you are going to have to learn to see that as a new age of tolerance and social justice.
Instead of looking at it the way you obviously do, you look at those people as free riders and takers, threatening the America you once knew.
But America's changing.
This is not the America of World War II.
It's not the America of the 60s, it's not the America of the 80s, it's not the America of the 90s, it's a brand new one, brought to you by Barack Obama, the Democrat Party.
And what you've got to understand is to these people, the great America you remember was a fraud.
That was not real.
That was not real happiness, that was the result of plunder and theft around the world, oppression.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
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And Peter Beinart, fearful Republicans hoping to reverse Hillary's course.
Remember part of Beinart's column is this good this changing America.
It's got a rising tide as a demographic shift, like a rising tide of uh immigrants, uh, Hispanics, uh, African Americans, Native Americans, single women, and uh it's a new era of tolerance and social justice, and he makes the point that if you Republicans oppose it, you are going to hasten it.
Remember that part of the piece I shared with you yesterday?
If you oppose this, you are only going to make it happen.
You've got to sign on to it.
So, in other words, the only thing you Republicans can do to be viable in the future is to support this and understand this is a changing America, and you've got to sign on to it and love it and accept it.
Because if you don't, it's going to happen anyway.
And you'll be left out of it.
And of course, what it really was saying was you don't have any chance of being loved, adored, accepted, and liked unless you join us.
If you continue to oppose this and try to hold on to an America that isn't anymore, you're gonna be hated, despised, reviled, outcast.
And it was so you can see how the Republican establishment has bought into it and believes it.
And it just is, it's more evidence of what I started the program out with today.
The only thing standing in the way of everything these people want is the Republican base, i.e.
the Tea Party.
We're it.
And as such, we are the enemy of the establishment of both parties of the Chamber of Commerce, the business uh coalition with government.
We are the problem.
We're the last to sign up.
So if woman calls here in tears, isn't it?
The country in World War II, my parents and grandparents.
No, that's by design.
That country was racist.
That country was filled with bigotry and homophobia.
That country was denying people their rights and their social justice, and that was a fraudulent American era superpower status, but only because we ran around the world and stole from other countries and plundered them and forced our way on them.
This is what they really believe.
Now, I think it'd be a great time for me to give you a little bit more detail of what's happening with this influx of illegal kids crossing the border.
Remember, they're not from Meiko, we're told.
These are uh unaccompanied alien children, and they have a name, UACs, and they are from Central America, which means El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, not Meiko.
And they are pouring in.
They're pouring into Arizona, they're pouring Into Texas, which has consequences.
And when they get across the border, they are being transferred to border patrol facilities along the border.
U.S. government officials are scrambling to find places to put them.
Here's the problem.
Based on current immigration and asylum laws, the vast majority of these children could be legally staying right here in the U.S. before long.
Under the authority, here's what's at work here.
Under the authority of the Homeland Security Act, the federal government transfers custody of illegal immigrant children who are apprehended alone at our borders to the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement.
There is such a place, the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
It's just, they're refugees, is exactly what they are.
Now, the Office of Refugee Resettlement's primary goal is to reunite them with a family member or a legal guardian already here in the U.S., regardless of their legal status.
And then the child goes through removal proceedings, but they try to track down any relative of the child.
Now, Breitbart, Texas, recently reported that these unaccompanied children receive a bevy of assistance while they are in the office of refugee resettlement custody.
They get classroom education, health care, socialization, recreation, vocational training, mental health services, family reunification.
They get more than what is being passed out at the VA.
Let's just put it all on the table.
We go to the list again.
Here's what these kids get by virtue of current law.
The minute they cross the border, classroom education, health care, socialization, recreation, vocational training, mental health services, family reunification.
That's a big one.
Particularly if the family's not here, the refugee crowd goes and tries to find them in their Central American native country and bring them here.
And that's the real objective.
But before I get to that, they get access to legal services, these kids do.
And case management.
And in many cases, they are treated better than U.S. citizen children currently in the foster care system.
Obviously, so with this kind of treatment services.
But the most valuable of all of those benefits that I just shared with you is legal assistance.
The Office of Refugee Resettlement has an outreach program to connect immigration attorneys willing to work pro bono with these kids as they go through removal proceedings.
Now, who do you think these lawyers are?
They're all from the plaintiff's bar.
These are all Democrat donor trial lawyers, many cases, big donors to the Democrat Party.
They're down there offering pro bono legal services.
In other words, they're down there doing political work.
They're helping legalize all of these kids that cross the border.
Pro bono.
They're doing the bidding of the Democrat Party.
Pro bono.
They will be compensated later in other ways.
You can pick and choose.
For adult illegal immigrants facing deportation or applying for status adjustment through avenues like asylum or cancellation of removal, getting a pro bono attorney is next to impossible, and even lower-priced immigration attorneys are financially out of reach for cash-strapped applicants.
But in the case of these kids, there's a program designed specifically to help them.
As well as unaccompanied refugee minors.
It's called pro bono lawyers.
The pro bono attorneys who volunteer to help these children are not bottom-of-the-barrel lawyers.
Some of them work for very prestigious firms in different parts of the country.
One such organization that provides pro bono legal services for these kids is the Safe Passage Project.
Their attorneys of the week list highlighted on their main page included a litigator who's practiced multiple areas of law, immigration, foreclosure, personal injury, real estate, for seven years, established her own law firm on Wall Street.
These are not public defenders.
There's not legal aid.
These are prominent Democrat lawyers.
And with this kind of legal firepower behind them, it shouldn't come as a surprise that the odds of these kids being granted some kind of legal status to stay is very high.
The director of Safe Passage Project that's providing the uh pro bono lawyers.
Lenny Benson wrote a letter to the New York Times in May in which she said our organization finds that nearly 90% of the unaccompanied minors that we meet who are facing deportation qualify for immigration relief, allowing them to remain in the U.S. legally.
90%.
So it doesn't matter what Congress does, it doesn't matter what the law is.
All they've got to do is somehow get across the border.
Border Patrol funnels them somewhere.
Here come the lawyers, they get pro bono legal services, all the other social services, and they're legal.
And that then sets up reunification with their parents who may still be in El Davador or in Guatemala or wherever.
It was.
This stuff was all in place.
It is the law.
This stuff's all in place, has been ready to go for just this instance.
I don't know anybody who thinks that this mass arrival of kids is a coincidence.
However, ladies and gentlemen, there is more.
The unaccompanied children have more options than just asylum.
Legally, according to the project's website, special immigrant juvenile status is an immigration classification available to certain undocumented immigrants under 21 who have been abused, neglected, or abandoned by one or both parents.
And I guess all they have to do is say they were, because how are we going to prove it?
The abuse abuse happens in Il Salvador, Guatemala.
So I guess it's the honor system that yeah, I was abused, I was beaten up by mama.
Oh, really?
Wait here.
Take this citizenship card.
It'll make you feel all better.
And that's basically what happens.
It's a way for immigrants under 21 to apply for and obtain legal permanent residence in the U.S. And there are very few legal hoops that these applicants have to jump through.
There's some, I mean, including uh being declared a dependent in court, being unable to reunite with a parent, and being unable to reunite with their own country.
They have to go in and confess to that, but big whoop.
Now, one more aspect all this.
Here come these kids, literally tens of thousands of them, their parents are somewhere.
Well, their parents are back home.
And so what are their parents being told about this back home?
So here comes little Juan from Il Salvador, and Juan's parents are back in El Salvador, and they're wondering what happens.
Well, here's the story on that.
The rumors that are circulating throughout Central America right now don't go into much detail about what exactly happens to these kids once they're taken into border control uh custody.
Other than the rumor that the kids' parents are being told and hearing is that the kids are being released and physically taken care of, and they get staying.
Their parents back home, the rumor is the rumor that they're that is being propagated for them to hear back home is the kids are being taken care of, and they get stay.
Now, if this babe that runs this legal service providing a lawyers, if her claim that 90% of these kids are eligible for amnesty, if that's correct, then the reality is in our immigration court, uh it flies right in the face of the rhetoric from the regime and Department of Homeland Security officials that the crisis is not of our government's own making.
Obama and DHS said, wait, we have nothing to do.
We didn't we didn't manufacture this.
But if 90% are eligible for amnesty and get all these services by virtue of law, then how can their claim that they've got nothing to do with this possibly hold water?
So it is an all-out assault, folks, on what this country used to be.
All out assault.
You and I, Tea Party Republican base, are the only ones standing in the way of it.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, permit me to remind you, this is exactly why there is Rush Revere, time travel adventures with exceptional Americans.
This is precisely why I wanted to write this series of books.
The mission to counteract whatever I can do, whatever we can do here to counteract what is happening, and prevent the distortion of the truth of this company from taking hold in the minds of young people.
These are history books that are exciting and filled with adventure, and they take the reader right to the event as the event, whatever it is.
The Boston Tea Party, the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim's arrival, you name it, Rush Revere and a time traveling horse liberty, take the students, the readers right there, and teach them the truth of what happened in this country.
And that is the mission behind these books.
Now we want these books everywhere.
We're donating books to schools all over the place, and we're going to continue working very hard on these books.
Make it an ongoing series in an effort to counteract what is being done in schools all across the country, in disparaging the founding of this country.
And there's no question that that is happening.
The multicultural curriculum is uh is such that it's it's not just the founding of America.
It's America of 30 years ago and 20 years ago was corrupt and indecent and immoral and unjust and filled with racism, sexism, bigotry, and homophobia, and only now is social justice finally taking hold.
Only now are we making amends for all of our past transgressions.
It's a it's a it's a near crime.
What is sufficing today as education about this nation's history?
It's such a miracle, this country.
It is so great.
It is the lone outpost of freedom there has ever been.
It has been the guarantor and protector and the seeker of freedom since the days of its founding.
And as such, it has been.
Our country has been the exception to the rule of tyranny and bondage.
Our country has always been the one thing standing in the way of tyranny.
And now, folks, it's apparently the Tea Party is the one thing standing in the way of the Washington establishment totally having its way.
So this influx of kids, I mean, I you can imagine the political opportunity the left sees in their arrival.
And so the Rush Revere books, which there are two now, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, Rush Revere and the First Patriots, and there will be more.
It is an effort to maintain and teach that which we all know to be true and love.
Now, the way this is it's it's patently obvious that this is not coincidence on the border, correct?
I mean, with these existing laws to practice, grant them citizenship, pro bono lawyers, and then find their parents.
Quick time out, my friends.
Sit tight, we'll be back.
Don't go away.
It's the fastest three hours in the media, and we've blown through two of them here.
I know, I know, I know.
But there's another one.
It's another one right on the other side of our obscene profit break here coming up top of the hour, and we'll squeeze more of your phone calls in.
And again, I got a great soundbite roster.
I just gonna have to hustle here, folks.
You have to listen fast.
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