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June 18, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 18, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #2
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The views expressed by the host in this program documented to be almost always right 99.7% of the time Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have here at the distinguished and prestigious Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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Now, back to the NBC Wall Street Journal poll.
The news is devastating for Obama, but it doesn't matter for all the reasons I detailed in the previous hour.
It matters to the media.
They're devastated.
They're devastated for a number of reasons.
I mean, they've been doing everything they can to prop the guy up.
They've been ignoring all the scandals.
They've been following the administration line and blaming the Republicans for everything.
Propping Obama up.
He's great.
He's funny.
He's all this one.
And there's got to be a little bit of personal disappointment because they've made it their mission to protect Obama.
And they've got to do it for two more years.
And, you know, I can just tell you, this is another reason why, just a little bit inside baseball here.
That I decided a long time ago not to tie myself to political candidates other than presidential races.
A host of reasons.
One, I can't control what they're going to do.
And I have found that many of them change once they get elected.
I don't want to have people, hey, you told us that this guy was going to.
I don't want to deal with that.
And since I have no control over what they're going to do and what they're going to be policy-wise and how Washington is going to change them, I have, in fact, in order to explain this in the very early days of the program, because the media accused me early on of tying myself to candidates and tried to give me credit when they won and tried to socket to me when they lost.
And my rejoinder to them, well, look, my success is not determined by who wins elections.
It can't be.
That's not something I was ever going to permit.
It never was the case.
And I was the first to tell them, look, if I had the kind of power you guys are assigning to me, no Democrat would ever win another election.
And clearly, that happened.
I've always strived to keep everything and myself in perspective.
But the drive-bys are quite different.
They have openly aligned themselves with this president and with every other Democrat president.
This one, particularly, because of the historical nature and the sympathy they have for minorities.
They have openly, they have abandoned all pretense of objectivity.
There isn't any news reported anymore.
All there is is the daily narrative that advances the Democrat Party agenda, the Obama agenda.
That's what the news is today.
There isn't any news.
So when they get a poll like this NBC News Washington Post poll, which shows the bottom falling out of Obama, not only does it hurt them because their guy has hit rock bottom, the way they look at things, but they weren't able to do anything about it.
And so they take it personally.
They know full well what they're doing every day.
They know full well they're pumping this guy up.
They know full well they're trying to protect him from just this kind of thing.
There is never any serious analysis of his policies.
There is never any curiosity about any of the scandals.
There is not any curiosity about the virtual trashing of this constitution that this regime is engaged in.
There is no concern whatsoever for what has happened to this country.
They continue to report lies about the economy and the great job market and economic growth and all of that.
And they do this in an effort to keep this from happening.
And by this, I mean this devastating poll in the NBC Wall Street Journal poll.
So they take it personally two ways.
Their guy is on the skids and they weren't able to stop it.
So they are understandably shocked and depressed.
And that's why F. Chuck's running around and say, hey, buddy, your presidency is over.
It's cratered.
It's crashed.
Nothing you can do about it.
But they're missing some things in the poll that they will find after they get over the shock.
And again, these are upsetting things to me.
Environmental Protection Agency regulations.
57% of the people in this poll say they approve of the proposal to eliminate carbon emissions by 30%, which would an attack on coal-fired power plants, and it's an attack on your electricity bill, and it would skyrocket.
And to see that 57% of the people in this poll support that, that's not good.
61% believe that global climate change requires immediate action or some action to combat it.
First poll I've seen where more than 5% care about it.
And I'm not making that up.
If you look at a poll of issues and ask the American people to tell you what's the most important, global warming is down there at number four in many of these polls.
Immigration and the economy are always at the top.
So, a little dubious of this.
Another six in ten, 60% say the problems associated with the VA are due to long-standing bureaucratic issues.
Only 14% say they're due to poor management by the regime.
So in the NBC News, Wall Street Journal, where the results have the Obama approval rating at rock bottom, only 14% blame him for what's going on in the VA.
So the Limbaugh theorem is still alive and well on certain issues.
But that again is hard to believe.
59% in this poll oppose closing the Guantanamo Bay prison for terror suspects.
That is up seven points since 2009.
That's not upsetting.
That's not going to look good for Obama.
And only 27% say the Afghanistan war was worth it, down 13 points from a year ago.
And we've arrested one of the perpetrators of the attack on the consulate in Benghazi.
And now that we've done that, you know, this guy's going to get a lawyer.
He's going to get a regime lawyer.
He's going to get an Obama donor lawyer.
And let me ask you a question.
When this guy, when if the trial ever happens, do you, let me ask you, Mr. Snirdley, do you think that an Obama administration prosecutor will aggressively try to prove the video was a phony excuse used by Obama to win an election?
No way, right?
No way whatsoever.
The government itself prosecuting the guy will not say that the video was a trumped-up excuse.
This terrorist SOB, I can guarantee you, is going to say that the president and the Secretary of State and Susan Rice were all right, that the video was despicable and it was an offense against Islam and it's what made us all mad is why we do it.
And that's going to come out in the trial.
Mark my words.
He's going to say he was just defending his religion of peace.
He might even say the future does not belong to those who slandered the prophet.
Obama said that.
Cairo speech, have you forgotten that?
Obama said the future does not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.
He said one of the greatest sounds he's ever heard is the call to morning prayer.
So this guy has, there's this picture of him.
Looks like Justin Viebrew, but anyway, with a beard, this guy has a built-in defense.
The president, the Secretary of State, Susan Rice, I saw those Sunday shows.
They're exactly right.
That video, I can't tell you how it ticked us all.
We were talking about it just that morning.
That video made us so mad.
And then right there on the witness stand, they said, the future does not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.
We got this one guy right now.
Isn't it amazing?
We got this one guy.
The media found this guy a year ago.
CNN, the New York Times, did interviews with the guy, knowing what he was, knowing that he was one of the perps a year ago.
In fact, let's see.
There's a soundbite abandonment.
Let's see.
Let's see.
Here we go.
Grab number 11, Jen Pasaki, who is the spokesperson at the State Department.
This is during the daily brief yesterday.
James Rosen of Fox News said, you stated that we should not be surprised that a suspected terrorist might more readily agree to show up for an interview with a reporter than he or she for a scheduled meeting with special forces.
This is classic because the media did interview the guy and they asked State Department, oh, well, it's totally understandable that the suspect would more readily agree to an interview with a reporter than with our special forces.
Actually said that.
So Rosen is reminding her of that and then says, respectfully, I submit to you that that is not properly framing the question.
The question being put to you, it seems to me, is why U.S. Special Forces couldn't have an unscheduled meeting.
Why couldn't they just find the guy?
There are reasons why individuals, including terrorists, meet with reporters to gain more attention for their issues or their agenda.
Following your own logic, the next question to be propounded to you is, why didn't we pose as a reporter to capture him then?
Well, we appreciate your view.
If you're volunteering yourself for future endeavors, we'll take that into account.
You're not answering the question of why a reporter was able to get within six inches of this guy and U.S. Special Forces warrant for more than two years.
What is the answer to that?
And there isn't an answer to that, but I'll tell you what it is.
We don't want to find this guy right now.
We've got a storyline.
The video was responsible.
We don't want to find one of these guys.
And we're not going to produce one of these guys.
We control it.
The media is out there talking to him.
The media is interviewing this guy.
Again, it's having a broken record.
CNN and the New York Times.
So Rosen's entirely justified.
Well, why didn't you pose as reporters?
Well, if you were volunteering, maybe you'd be willing to talk to the next terrorist.
No, you're not answering my question.
How come the media can find the guy and you can't?
And the answer is, it wasn't the right time.
Now is the right time when it's falling apart in Iraq, when the VA is falling apart, and when a border is being overrun, we need to catch Bin Laden too.
And that's the guy, Benghazi.
And that's why now.
I was going to grab a phone call right now, but I'm not.
If you're on hold, please be patient.
I really do want to talk to you, and I'll do it in the next hour.
I just, I don't want to break the train of thought that we're on here with the Benghazi perpetrator having been caught and arrested.
I was thinking about Tommy Vitor, who was on Fox with Brett Baer not long ago.
And Brett Baer kept asking about Benghazi.
That's two years ago, dude.
Remember that?
Okay, so they arrest this guy.
So what?
It was two years ago, dude.
But there's more to this, folks.
I want to read you some quotes of this guy that he gave the media in various reports.
His name is Katala, by the way.
And my point here is when you hear these quotes, you're going to hear somebody who sounds remarkably aligned with Obama.
You remember during the 28 and the 2012 campaigns, I kept saying it's remarkable how much Ahmedini Zod sounds like you're everyday Democrat today campaigning against Republicans and the country.
Well, try this.
In the 2012 New York Times article, the Benghazi suspect accused leaders of the United States of quote playing with the emotions of the American people and quote using the consulate attack just to gather votes for their elections.
Sounds just like what Obama said that the Republicans were doing.
And then he said, why is the United States always trying to impose its ideology on everybody else?
Why is the United States always trying to force, use force to implement its agendas?
Now, forgive me, folks, but that sounds exactly like the way Democrats look at this country.
I've been following these people for 25 years, and they refer to us as imposing our will on foreign countries.
And the thing is, I've never looked at freedom as an imposition, which is what we do.
We liberate people, we bring them freedom.
And this guy, why is the United States always trying to impose its ideology?
Why is he always trying to use force to implement its agenda?
I mean, I can hear Harry Reid.
I can hear Tom Dashall.
I can hear Tom Foley, any number of Democrats in my whole life sounding the same way.
And then Catala also said that contradicting the accounts of many witnesses in the most recent account of the Obama administration, he contended that the attack had grown out of a peaceful protest against a video made in the U.S. that mocked the Prophet Muhammad and Islam.
I knew it.
Now, I didn't see before yesterday when I made this prediction.
Actually, it's not a prediction because it turns out he had already said it and been on record saying it, but I didn't know that, I swear to you, or I would have said so yesterday.
But in 2012, in this interview with the New York Times, he contended the attack had grown out of a peaceful protest against a video made in the U.S. Sounds just like Obama sounds just like Hillary.
But at least now we know why Obama thought it would be safe to capture the guy.
Because this guy's going to give the White House version of events.
This guy is going to give via testimony the Susan Rice version of events.
A video made him and his friends mad and offended them.
And that's why they did it.
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Okay, to the phones, Vinny in Queens.
Vinny, I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you.
As always, hi.
Ditto's great one.
It's always an honor to speak with you.
Thank you very much, sir.
Appreciate that.
I need about 60 seconds rush to get it off my chest.
I can't tell you how outraged I am.
I heard the anger in your voice as soon as you came on the air.
And I want you to know that anger is felt by a lot of us.
We're one step away from outright confiscation of property under a premise of a political correctness, safety, equity, you name it, from this government.
I mean, what's to stop the Department of Transportation from saying SUVs have been deemed destructive to the country as a whole, therefore we're confiscating them.
I mean, I am so outraged at this whole Washington Redskin thing, but I'm even more outraged over a GOP that's unwilling to do anything.
And I do believe something can be done.
I do not see why the head of the patent office cannot be called down before a committee like Darrell Liss's committee and be put on the spot and be demand to know by what authority, by whose authority, do you think you can take away a private citizen's right of property?
Who the hell made you, God, to take away an entire team's right of property?
Who gave you this authority, sir?
And this is what I'm at.
I don't know if I'm madder at Obama, because you're right, this comes from Obama, or if I'm madder at my political party for sitting mute while every day my rights are stripped from me one by one.
Well, your political party, just to explain again, and I'm sure, because you're here every day, you heard me read excerpts from Eric or Beinhart, whatever his first name is, his piece on what the Republicans better learn real fast if they ever want to win.
Peter Beinhardt, yeah.
And his piece, Vinny, basically said that there are demographic changes happening in this country that are transforming the country into one of social justice and tolerance.
That means that minorities of any stripe are now empowered.
And if the Republicans don't get in gear with this, and if the Republican base continues to oppose this, they're just going to make it happen even faster.
And I'm convinced the Republicans in Washington buy into that.
I think they would look at this Redskins thing as saying, oh, my God, we can't go after that.
I mean, they'll call us racists, and they'll say that we're in favor of racism and that we want to discriminate against the Indians.
And that's how they're, I think, paralyzed.
I think the left has executed a number of tricks on them, and they're literally paralyzed.
They're afraid they're going to lose elections or get negative media coverage if they speak out on this.
Well, two answers to that, or one answer at least.
Better to die on my feet than on my knees.
And if wanting a team to be called Washington Redskins makes me racist, then I guess, by God, I am racist.
How ridiculous.
The reason this is so perpetuated like this is because we fall prey to it.
Okay, there there's nothing more racist about being called the Washington Redskins than the very town I'm calling from, which is Maspeth, Queens, which happens to be an Indian name.
Now, the ridiculousness of this, in one way, shape, or form or another, has got to run its course.
I just think it's a crying shame that in my lifetime I'm seeing what's happening to this country.
It's hard for me.
It is hard for me to see what's going on before my eyes and feel powerless to do nothing.
I know.
I totally agree with you about the lack of pushback.
There's just, there's only one party in Washington, Vinny.
It's the Party of Power.
And it's got members from the Democrats and the Republicans and the Libertarians and the socialists, the Marxists, you name it.
It's the party of power.
But I just, that Peter Beinhart piece, and he's not the first guy to say it.
It was just the way it was written, blaming, pointing out, look, the only thing standing in the way of the left totally dominating this country with their new agenda of social justice and tolerance.
And you know what that means, don't you?
Sure.
Okay, I mean, you know what that the only thing standing between that becoming the majority viewpoint and governing body and what have you is the Tea Party, is the Republican base.
And he says if the Republican base continues to oppose this, they're just going to anger people even more and hasten this demographic shift.
And the point is the Republican leadership, I think, has bought that.
What else would explain their open support for amnesty?
They must believe what the Democrats are telling them and whoever is telling them that they're never going to win another election if they don't get some Hispanic votes.
And the way to get Hispanic votes in Washington is to stand for amnesty.
It's absurd, but this is what they obviously believe it.
So here comes this Redskins thing.
Now, again, to put this in its proper context, the Redskins' name has not been taken from them.
They can still call themselves the Washington Redskins.
What the Patent and Trademark Office did is take away their property rights to the trademark.
No different than if they decide to tell the Dallas Cowboys that you don't own Dallas Cowboys anymore because it offends Indians.
It offends Native Americans.
And so the Dallas Cowboys, since it's offending people, it violates political correctness, you can't own that anymore, which means then that anybody can use it.
You can open a restaurant, call it Dallas Cowboys.
You can start your own t-shirt line, your own cap, whatever, and call it Dallas Cowboys.
They don't own it.
Meaning they would lose a lot of money.
And since they don't want to lose a lot of money, that they would change their name to something exclusive that the regime approves of, and they would get a new trademark.
That's the thinking on this.
This is just step one in the regime trying to get that name changed and trying to force the Redskins into doing it.
But in the process, what this is, is the purposeful taking of private property.
Redskins own the trademark.
And it was granted them by this very patent office and trademark office.
And they just unilaterally, because of essentially five people, said, you know what, you're offending people.
You're offending political correctness.
You can't use it anymore.
Take it away.
You're right.
That kind of power in our Constitution does not exist.
But this is my point.
When I say that the Obama presidency just now getting started, and it is outrageous.
Like you, I come up with a way to describe my outrage.
It's like I fall short that I can come up with.
Vinny, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
I got an email moments ago, which is a mediaite story on Megan Kelly and her show on Fox News last night.
Now, the email says, a headline, Megan Kelly, the Obama presidency is imploding.
Megan Kelly opened her show tonight, last night, tearing into the Obama White House for what increasingly looks like an imploding presidency, given scandal after scandal after scandal, White House has found itself engulfed in, both domestically and abroad.
Megan Kelly opened with this simple question, is Barack Obama's presidency imploding.
And I have to, look, it depends on how you look at it, but I don't think that it is.
If you are going to judge it on its competence, yeah, but it's been imploding on that basis since day one.
My belief is the guy's never been competent.
My belief is he's never had the kind of experience necessary to be president of this country.
And I think you need to look no further than what David Brooks of the New York Times said.
I love the crease in his slacks.
He wasn't joking.
So they talk about, well, he's intelligent and he's an articulate guy.
And so that means he's one of, he's an Ivy Leagueer.
He thinks and speaks and talks like we do.
And we are smart, so he's smart.
Practical experience, there isn't any.
And nobody in his regime has any experience in anything other than theorizing in the faculty lounge what they would do if they ever took over.
Here's what I think.
I'm going to give you another possibility.
Here is another possibility, folks.
And I want you to, in fact, I'm going to take a break here, come back with the possibility.
Because some of what Obama is doing is clearly undermining the electoral chances of Democrats who are up for reelection.
Obama's not.
Obama will never have to face the voters again.
But everybody in office in the Democrat Party will in November this year and again, November of 2016.
And he is pulling the rug out from all of them.
I don't care this open border stuff, what's happening with the VA, what's happening with Iraq.
He is making everybody mad at everybody.
Now, where I'm headed with this is a little tease question.
What if Obama actually would like for the Republicans to take over the Senate and keep the House back after this?
So what if Obama wants the Republicans to win the Senate?
And the last two years of his regime, oh, can you just hear it now?
Everything he wants to do, the Republicans say no.
Everything he wants to do, they stop him.
And Obama runs around and complains and starts pointing fingers at the Republicans as enemies of progress or whatever, whatever.
The press carries that along, and everybody ends up hating the Republicans.
Setting up the Democrats to win again in 2016, not beyond the realm of possibility.
I also wouldn't be surprised to learn that one of the things Obama would love is for the Republicans to actually impeach him because he thinks that would bring about a Democrat landslide.
He's not going to look at this NBC Wall Street Journal.
He's going to see his popularity down, but he's still going to see, he's still going to think that he's loved and adored because he's the first black president.
And anybody that tries to impeach him is going to catch hell.
I have thought even prior to today that Obama is trying to goad this and goad the Republicans into doing this because he's confident the American people will be outraged.
No way are we going to impeach Obama today?
And so just something to think about.
Because some of the stuff that he's whatever he is just getting warmed up, some of these things that he's doing is going to make it real hard for Democrats who are running for re-election, make no mistake.
Here is John in Orange, New Jersey.
You're next.
It's great to have you on the program, huh?
Rush, an absolute pleasure, my friend.
Thank you for taking the call.
You bet, sir.
Just two quick points, and I'll let you go.
I know you have a legion of fans dying to get through to you.
First off, this is the left's actual second bite at the apple in trying to take the Redskin name away.
Back in 1999, the Patent Office issued the exact same ruling, and it was later overturned after the Redskins appealed it.
So this is their second bite of the apple.
And this shouldn't surprise anyone that they're doing this.
And second point is, you know, it's ironic that Michelle Obama and Barack Obama often talk about anti-bullying campaigns, where what you're seeing here is the epitome of the bully pulpit.
I mean, who tried to bully Israel?
Obama.
Who tried to bully BP in the Gulf oil spill?
Obama.
Who is trying to bully the coal industry now?
Obama.
Who is trying to bully fishermen in the Pacific Ocean?
Obama.
And who's now trying to bully the Redskins to change their name?
Obama.
Right.
That's what a bully is.
Obama is the same.
And you said before, he doesn't have to face the public again.
He can care less what anybody thinks.
Exactly.
Exactly.
That's why he's only, in fact, I'll tell you, here's my honest take is that these are great times for Obama.
He's finally where he wants to be.
He is free to go full bore into it now.
He doesn't have to pretend.
He doesn't have to say things that mask who he is.
He can go out and do whatever he wants.
He knows full well nobody's going to stop him.
These are great times.
It's just that the media is going to have to pretend otherwise for public consumption.
They're going to have to pretend, oh, it's looking really bad for Obama.
Oh, the poll numbers are embodiment.
Oh, it's imploding and so forth.
But these are great times for Obama.
Six years and he's finally where he wants to be.
Let me grab somebody.
Number six.
I may have to do this again, but I'm going to give you a taste of what I'm talking about here.
Just full bore into what he wants to do without any concern.
This, I don't think, would have happened four years ago.
This is last night in New York City, Gotham Hall.
It's a Democrat, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender fundraiser.
That's the story of this movement.
People who stand up and come out and march and organize and fight to expand the rights we enjoy and extend them to other people.
People who work against the odds to build a nation in which nobody is a second-class citizen.
Everybody's free to be who they are.
That's the fight that brought all of us here today.
That's what made it possible for me to stand up here as your president.
Okay, so there's another bite that comes, and I'll have to wait.
I might have time to get it in here now, but it's coming.
The first bite, he's setting himself up and his supporters up as the people fighting to bring justice to this mean, unfair, unjust, racist, bigoted, homophobic country.
And it's what Beinhart was talking about.
Here we have the rise of the demographic shift, where social justice and tolerance are the definitions of the new America.
Here's Obama out.
This is clearly not mainstream, and he's trying to mainstream it.
And this, I don't care what he thinks, this is not where the country is right now.
We may be headed there.
We haven't gotten there yet.
Back after.
Still have much more to go, including the follow-up sound bite, Obama at the LGBT fundraiser, talking about all the grief they've had to endure as Americans together.
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