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June 17, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 17, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Here's a story that is not well as the show started today.
This wasn't being reported in the American media.
I don't know if that's still true.
It's in the U.K. Guardian.
And it says U.S. and Iranian officials held talks over the advance of Islamist insurgents in Iraq yesterday.
The first time the two nations have collaborated over a common security interest in more than a decade.
Now, as I say, I don't know what's happened since the program began, but before it, this was not being reported in the American media yesterday.
We had a tweet from the Wall Street Journal about it.
But so far, there haven't been any other reports but this one.
In fact, it had been denied that we were going to work with Iran, right?
Had you seen that yesterday, last night had been denied, didn't carry out their saying.
No.
Oh, wait a minute, no, Kerry.
Well, here's the thing.
Katie Kurick, you know, the Yahoo hired Katie Kurik.
This is another thing.
You know, I don't mean to get sidetracked here, but a publisher gives Hillary 14 million thinking that it's just going to be the greatest thing ever.
And whoever runs Yahoo thinks that Katie Kurick is the biggest thing in media, so they hire her.
And they hire her because they think she's going to get big names that are going to attract a lot of attention.
She's going to do an internet talk show.
You've got a big name interview guests, and it's going to bring a lot of attention to Yahoo.
And before yesterday, the word was out that they were very disappointed at the Yahoo corporate suite because she wasn't getting any big names at all.
So I guess Kerry is a big name.
In their world, I swear it's it's it's stunning.
Anyway, uh pressed by interviewer Katie Kurik over whether that would include military cooperation with Iran.
Kerry, who by the way served in Vietnam, said at this moment, I think we need to go step by step and see what in fact might be a reality, but I wouldn't rule out anything that would be constructive to providing real stability.
And then three hours later, after Kerry said that to Katie Kurick on Yahoo, the Pentagon released a series of public statements that firmly ruled out military coordinations.
Kerry's out there saying, hey, nothing's off the table.
Could happen, you never know.
Three hours later, they disimit the Pentagon.
There has been no contact, nor are there plans for contact between the Department of Defense and the Iranian military on security situation in Iraq.
And that was from Lieutenant Commander Bill Speaks, Pentagon's spokesman.
He told the same source, the Guardian here.
Doesn't anybody in the regime know how to play this game?
It's amazing.
This ought to be another huge embarrassment for Kerry and Obama, because Kerry has been suggesting the U.S. and Iran would work together.
And in three hours later, bamboo, here comes the Pentagon saying, no way, Jose.
That little immigration lingo there.
Then there's this from the AP from Julie Pace and Lara Jakes.
U.S. forces move into Iraq with security mission.
Nearly 300 armed American forces are being positioned in and around Iraq to help secure U.S. assets as Obama nears a decision on an array of options for combating fast-moving Islamic insurgents, including airstrikes or a contingent of special forces.
No boots on the ground, though.
Well, Obama said that way back on uh on Friday.
Now, look from the article, this article says, taken together, the development suggests a willingness by Obama to send Americans into a collapsing security situation in order to quell the brutal fight.
That's not what they're saying.
They're saying they're gonna send them In there to basically redo Saigon and get our people out of there.
So the news coverage of it is all over the place.
We are going to send boots in the ground.
No, we're not.
All we're going to do is the 275 or 300 to help evacuate and protect troops, the embassy.
And dare I say, remember Benghazi when we hear that we're going to go protect the embassy.
Number two.
Kerry says, yeah, yeah, we're willing to cooperate with Iraq.
Defense Department says, ain't no way we're cooperating with Iraq.
I think some of this is incompetence.
Some of this is purposeful.
Washington Free Beacon, Clinton was leading champion of Iraq withdrawal.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was a leading and outspoken supporter of the Obama administration's decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq and even defended the White House's controversial failure to reach a status of forces agreement with the Iraqi government.
It's an agreement that Donald Rumsfeld noted back in March.
That's when he a trained ape could have understood.
Remember that remark?
And he got moderate heat over the uh trained ape.
But nevertheless, Hillary Clinton was a leading champion of getting her fingerprints are all over another disaster.
Now I don't want to go so far as to say she's not going to run because I've done that before and I've been wrong.
But man, there just doesn't seem to be they want to everybody seem to believe that Mrs. Clinton is facing not an election but a coronation in 2016.
And that's what they thought about 2008.
And she blew that.
Folk, do you know how hard it is to blow a coronation?
A coronation means it's yours.
We are going to coronate you.
The election is simply something you've got to go through.
Campaign, you just have to go through it.
But yet it is yours.
And out of the blue came Reverend Wright's guy.
And all bets were off.
And she blew the coronation.
I've never known a Queen Elizabeth to blow a coronation, for example.
King George III never blew one.
Louis XIV never blew one.
Obama never blew one, but Hillary blew a coronation.
And they're setting her up for another one.
Senior Department of Homeland Security advisor.
Inevitable that caliphate returns.
A controversial senior advisor to the Department of Homeland Security is receiving criticism for tweeting that the recent takeover of Iraqi cities by a violent group related to Al-Qaeda is proof that a Muslim caliphate is making an inevitable return.
This is Mohammed Eliberry, controversial figure, member of Obama's Homeland Security Advisory Council.
He discussed what he described as the inevitable return of a Muslim Caliphate Friday on Twitter.
As I've said before, inevitable, that Caliphate return.
This is a guy in our own administration.
Inevitable.
That caliphate.
That's what George Howard Cosell said about the death of George Hallis.
It was inevitable.
I guess this guy to me, I guess Mr. Elliberry sounds like a perfect Obama advisor.
At least according to this regime's lights.
I mean, is it isn't that what they mean by Muslim outreach?
Anyway, at the bottom of the story, we learn this.
Elliberry also has experienced financial difficulties with his nonprofit group, the Freedom and Justice Foundation, which had its nonprofit status revoked by the IRS due to the organization's refusal to file transparency forms, revealing the source of its funding.
And yet this guy's in the regime.
How much you want to bet the IRS goofed up and thought this guy's group was some Tea Party group?
Because it had the word freedom in its name.
What do you bet?
This guy's got a uh a nonprofit group called the Freedom and Justice Foundation.
What do you bet the IRS people thought that it was a Tea Party group because they had the word freedom in it, and he he didn't get his status.
Spanish police break up alleged jihadist recruitment network.
I thought Bush recruited terrorists with his policies.
Spanish police broke up what they said was a jihadist recruitment network in Madrid, led by a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay.
Don't worry, though, we've got our eye on him, folks.
He was that close to getting droned.
I'm facetious.
Spain has broken up a terror recruiting network run by a Moroccan-born naturalized Spaniard who had been detained at Gitmore for four years.
We let him go, and he's now recruiting.
This is not one of the five that just got out.
This is uh somebody released earlier.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
Here is Richard Engel, NBC News on the Today Show today.
Matt Wower said, Richard, when you hear the number 175 to secure the embassy, another 100 to set up airfields.
It doesn't sound like a big number.
I mean, I guess you could look at it two ways.
Is the regime confident that this is not gonna get so bad in Baghdad, or have they simply thrown up their hands and they're admitting that there's very little they can do?
I don't think uh the 175 who are here in the extra hundred uh who are going to provide logistical support setting up airfields should an emergency evacuation be required are the kind of force who could coordinate any offensive operations.
This is strictly to manage an evacuation should that be necessary.
So don't be fooled by these 275 troops.
They are there to manage an evacuation.
They're not boots in the ground.
That's NBC News this morning.
You see all over the ballpark carry says, Oh, yeah, yeah, we might be talking to Iranians.
He might be joint operation with the Iranians, depending on there's no way we're gonna be doing this.
And then one of the DHS guys says, oh, yeah, this is inevitable, the Muslim caliphate.
Uh the Imams, the grand mullahs in Iran think it's the 12th Imam coming back.
They're all excited about that, which is the caliphate.
And Obama's out playing golf and doing speeches on global warming at commencement addresses and convening a save our oceans thing at the State Department with a Hollywood actor.
And he's gonna pivot to the economy later with somebody, if anybody wants to give me a call, explain, what in the world?
I'm I'm I'm I'm asking strategically.
What in the world with all of this going on is the reason that they are focusing on global warming?
Is it to keep the base engaged?
I think it's donors.
I think it's Obama donors.
And just like uh there's a there's another story.
No, it's about lesbian gay bisexual and transgenders.
It's something that uh the regime is doing for the that and that is Oh, yeah, the executive order, but I'm I'm forgiving yeah, here it is.
Here it is.
Uh, after years of pressure from gay rights groups, Obama plans to sign an executive order banning federal contractors from discriminating against employees on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
So this obviously is donor-related.
Keystone pipeline global, it's gotta be donor-related.
This is Obama doing these kind of things for fundraising while all of this is going on in Iraq.
I'm telling you, folks, well, he either doesn't care or puts on a real good show of acting like he doesn't care.
But back to the audio sound bites.
Uh CNN New Day Today, inside politics segment.
John King speaks with Bloomberg News White House correspondent Margaret Tollive about Obama sending 275 troops to Iraq, and he said, Look, it's it has to be incredibly frustrating, incredibly serious, obviously, and sober for this president, who made his name in a national politics by opposing the Iraq war by saying it was time to get out as fast as possible.
Now he's sending in 275 troops to protect the embassy in Baghdad.
But once you start that, Margaret, you can't stop.
Yeah, what happens next?
And that's exactly right.
And this is a very frustrating situation for the president.
This was the war that was stupid in his view.
And uh he's owning the legacy of the Bush administration, having to explain his handling of the legacy of the Bush administration to the Republicans in Congress who are now attacking him for mishandling it.
Of course, he was in California over the weekend in Palm Springs, but this very much on his mind.
Uh meeting with uh talking with national security officials, and then last night gets home and goes straight into a situation room meeting with top officials.
She feels so bad.
Oh, she feels so bad for the president.
This is Bush's war.
Bush put him in this position.
Cheney and Rumsill put him in the Republicans in Congress, put him in this position, and he didn't hated this war, and he wanted to get oh my god, it feels so bad for Obama.
How does she know what's on his mind?
I guarantee it's a great question.
How does she know this is what she thinks is on his mind because this is what she thinks he believes, and she's willing to report what she thinks as fact, because they're all in the same group.
They're all she thinks they're all thinking the same thing.
Blame Bush.
It's Bush's war.
Poor Obama's got to do something about it.
Damn it.
This is the war he practically got elected on getting us out of.
Now he's going back in poor Obama.
Oh, damn it, Bush again.
That's what they all think.
So Obama must be.
One more before the break.
Yesterday on Wolf blitzer on CNN.
Wait, they've they've waited they've changed the name of the show.
I didn't know that.
It's just called Wolf now.
Not Wolf now, but Wolf.
No, no, not but Wolf.
Wolf is the name of the show.
And he spoke with uh their international correspondent Christiana Manpour about the situation there.
And uh Wolf said, What are you hearing about this possibility that a hundred years of this basically fake map that was drawn up could explode?
Three separate countries could emerge out of this.
I have not been so worried about this since 9-11.
For 10 years or more, the United States has been botinging to cripple and defeat Al-Qaeda, and they were doing a pretty good job in Afghanistan, and then at the end of the surge in Iraq.
And now all of a sudden, this is coming back.
And if you have to even try to imagine what it might mean, the words of the New York City police commissioner when he said we are terrified of blowback coming to New York City.
That's 12 years off to 9-11.
And it's because of the Syria war, which has been left to FESTA, and now all of this stand, you know, stand back and not intervene has manifested itself in Iraq.
I don't know.
I I'm sure this is not the case, but it sure sounds to me like somebody misses George Bush and Dick Cheney.
It sounds to me like Obama's lost Christiana Manpoor.
She's really worried that all of this is going to lead to really bad stuff and that nobody's taking it seriously.
When you say you haven't been this worried since 9-11, that means the regime has lost Christian Manpoor.
Now, my commenting and pointing this out might send her right back to the regime, so it might be temporary.
Don't get too excited about it.
Quickly to the phones.
This is Ken in Bridgeport, West Virginia.
I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
It's it's great to be on your program, uh, sir.
Thank you.
Yeah, I'm just calling about uh Lois Lerner.
And they said that they um they can't come up with these emails.
I worked for the government on it on DOJ.
I was in treasury, but my computer system is inconsequential.
It goes to a server, meaning if I'm here in West Virginia and I had to travel to say California the case, I can get on a computer in an office, DOJ office in California, and get my profile and all my reports are on their emails and I keep on working.
So it's on the server.
It's in the cloud.
Right.
So when they said they can't come up with it, uh, you know, actually her computer desk that that uh tower is meaningless.
It's the server.
So I mean, how is the server scrubbed?
Not only that, I mean you may not have heard, but they have announced today that six more people involved in this have their emails are gone too.
They have six more people's emails.
Have just, they don't know what happened.
They're just gone.
It's a terrible thing.
Now something's something's not right with that.
Of course it's not because everything's backed up.
There's also, I found the uh the the there's a federal requirement since Eisenhower that there have to be contingency.
This this just can't happen.
There's more than one backup.
There's redundancy all over the place.
Well it has to be because if you have a FOIA request, it doesn't go to the specific office here, it goes to your headquarters where legal division goes in there and pulls the information to be sent to the other attorney.
Right.
So that's why when I'm hearing all this on uh TV, why are other questions being asked about uh the service system and IRS?
Well, who would ask them?
That's see, this is like Snerdley came into me today and said, when's they're gonna appoint a special prosecutor?
So who's gonna demand one?
And it's the answer to your question.
Well, who's gonna ask where they are?
We got two people at will.
Jeff Sessions, three.
We got Daryl Issa, Jeff Sessions, and Trey Gowdy.
Maybe Ted Green, we've got four people who would ask about this and demand a special prosecutor, and then it would have to be the Department of Justice that would actually appoint one, which would be Holder, which I'm sorry, it's not gonna happen.
I don't care what, that isn't gonna happen.
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Now I want to review something here in a little more detail that I mentioned in the opening hour of the program today.
Snerdley came in and asked me about the special prosecutor and uh why isn't there one over the IRS emails?
And I just well, I laughed.
And I'm very uh tastefully, gently, told him my opinion on this, that this is not the w we don't live in the same political atmosphere that we did, even as recently as the late 90s with Clinton.
I said, there's not going to be a special prosecutor in the IRS emails.
I mean, there might be, but it's really, really doubtful.
And if there is, it's gonna be after a lot of anguish and after a lot of fixes are already in.
And I said the th the reason why is that the conflict today is not between Republicans and Democrats in Washington, like we grew up thinking it was.
That's that's that's the opposing forces in this country are not Republicans and Democrats in Washington.
Now they are during elections because obviously they're vying for power who's gonna run the town.
But after the election, they join up because what's what's changed here is the nature of the conflict.
The conflict now is all of Washington versus people like you and me who do not want an ever-expanding, increasingly powerful and in control of everything government.
But they do.
And I told him I I read a really good piece at redstate.com today explaining this by defining the new crony capitalism or crony socialism and how it works.
And it's just a microcosm of how a lot of things in Washington are working.
In the old days, Company A, in the same business as Company B, and therefore competing with Company B, would try to beat Company B with a better product and better customer service,
lower prices, uh, better retail opera, whatever the competition took place in the market between Company A and Company B. With the advent of Barack Obama, somebody willing to co-opt the private sector and use it and therefore control it.
The seductive nature of that appealed to quite a few CEOs.
And so now Company A does not compete with Company B directly.
Company A competes with Company B by aligning with government, rendering Company B helpless.
For example, let's use as the Red State piece does, Walmart.
In the old days, if a Democrat liberal comes along and wants socialized medicine, national health care, the assumption would be that there isn't a company in the world that will want to go along with this.
Because the people that run companies are interested in free markets and freedom and liberty and open competition and so forth, it might appear attractive to them in the sense that maybe they'd like to get rid of the health care expense.
But what's changed is that Walmart is happy to support Obama and Obamacare as a means of competing with Company B and Company Cos they are so big.
They can afford whatever new costs that Obamacare presents them.
And as they support Obama, they're in good stead with Obama, and Obama treats them well and maybe gives them some breaks and some waivers or what have you that Company B doesn't get.
Company B can't afford Obamacare, and so Company A wins without having to be any better.
It's just their alliance with a government that overpowers Company B. Another example from the story, Costco.
Costco, you would think that no legitimate private sector business would ever be in favor of the minimum wage.
Costco is.
Why?
Well, they can afford it, and they know that their competitors can't.
So they associate with the government.
The government becomes their best buddy, again, granting them waivers on Obamacare or other things that come down the pike, all for supporting Obama's ideological desire of raising the minimum wage, and whatever happens to the market, is of no consequence.
All that matters is that Company A, in this circumstance, is winning by virtue of its alliance with government.
Uh companies, same thing.
They are protected if they support Obama.
But what do they do?
Well, look what's what is the stock market is going through the roof while the economy's contracting.
How's that happen?
Well, one of the ways it happens is the Federal Reserve is printing money and giving it to the stock market, giving it to the stock market than people that invest in the stock market.
So people who are moving and buying and selling and making deals with money are making more money, but there isn't a better product.
For consumers, there's not additional customer service, and yet these companies are becoming more and more profitable, all the while Obama rips them to shreds, but that's just for show.
American business, at least as represented by the Chamber of Commerce in K Street, is deeply and profoundly opposed to the idea of the Tea Party and free markets.
American business has entered a twilight where government coercion is used to put competitors out of business and to prevent new entrants to business.
For instance, and he cites the Walmart example.
Walmart supportive Obamacare, obviously predicated on the fact that Walmart can absorb the increased labor cost more readily than their competitors, likewise, cost cause enthusiasm for higher minimum wage is inspired with the knowledge that's going to hurt their competitors.
The fierce resistance of taxi companies to companies like Uber.
Nothing to do with safety or customer service, but rather a determination to maintain their comfortable monopoly.
The Chamber of Commerce is pushing comprehensive immigration reform in order to provide its member companies with sources of cheap labor, both in the high-tech industry as well as agriculture and unskilled labor jobs.
We are hardly a generation away from a government crony capitalist oligopoly such as exists in Russia.
American business, as personified by the Chamber of Commerce and Wall Street and K Street, fear conservatism, and they are right to fear it.
And the sooner conservatives come to the conclusion that our interests are not the same as the Chamber of Commerce, the sooner we can get about our business.
His point here is that we, the Tea Party, the Republican base, conservatism, is the real enemy of all of this crony capitalism.
While those of us who make up the reality may not know it.
We think that they think our friends are like us and think the Democrats are the enemy.
But our guys don't think the Democrats are the enemy.
They think we're the enemy.
Have you not found that to be the case?
Conservatives are thought to be the nutcases, the wackos.
Why?
Free markets, individual responsibility, all of these things that built the country.
No, no, no.
That would end the crony capitalism.
That means these people have to compete on their own.
Don't want to do that.
It's seductive to be close to power, particularly if you have a president who's totally willing to take over as much of the private sector as possible.
And if that gets your stock price up and keeps you profitable while the economy is in the tank for everybody else, so what?
All the while people are thinking that big business is Republican.
And it isn't.
It's Washington.
This is why they hate the Tea Party.
This is why the Washington, from every political consultant to every Democrat, every Republican, rips the Tea Party.
It is why they do it.
There's a lot of money being made by this crony socialism or capitalism going on.
And the money is being made by not having to compete, not having to be better than your competitor.
The simple association with government wipes out your competition because they don't have it and can't compete when you do.
Quick timeout.
Back after more.
Sadly, my friends, we're out of time, but again, remember there has been an arrest.
And uh I just I just want to wait and see if this guy blames the video for making him mad and causing him and his group to wreak havoc.
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