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June 20, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 20, 2014, Friday, Hour #2
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And greetings and welcome back.
So much fun being with you each and it well.
Yeah, it is fun.
It's challenging every day too, folks.
I must tell you.
To sit here and chronicle.
The dribble, the bilge, the corruption that has become the modern-day Democrat Party in the media.
Sometimes you just have to walk away so that you don't get dirty yourself.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, email address L Rushbone, EIBNet.com.
And I promise to get phone calls earlier in this hour since I failed to get any in in the previous hour.
You want to hear the Time magazine headline on Scott Walker.
If you miss the first hour, I don't have time to redo every detail, but what we're talking about is that partisan Democrat prosecutors in Wisconsin filed bogus subpoenas and allegations against Scott Walker and conservative groups.
He's the governor of Wisconsin during one of his recall elections, they tried to claim that he was illegally colluding with outside fundraising groups.
The case was thrown out at the subpoena stage.
The judge would not even grant the subpoenas because they violated First Amendment rights of the targets and witnesses.
There's no, and it happened months ago.
The case is long gone.
It's over.
The partisan Democrat prosecutors were humiliated since slinking out of court.
Time magazine headline criminal scheme will haunt Scott Walker.
See, this is the precedent.
And I was sitting here during the break.
I'm trying to remember this is not the first example of this.
And this is it's also not what we learned during the Clarence Thomas hearings.
Remember, we learned something very key.
A Democrat let the cat out of the bag back then.
When it became clear that it was not conclusive that Nita Hill was telling the truth.
No, take that back.
This goes back even farther.
This this goes back to 1990.
You remember that history professor at Columbia, Gary Sick, wrote the piece accusing George W. Bush W. Bush, Bush 41, of secretly flying to Paris when he was vice president for Reagan to meet with the Iranians.
And the book alleged that George Bush made a deal with the Iranians that they would keep our embassy hostages captive until after the election, so as to make it look like they were afraid of Reagan and not afraid of Jimmy Carter.
There was no evidence.
It didn't happen.
It was nowhere near.
I mean, it was totally made up out of whole cloth.
Literally made up.
And a guy from Columbia wrote a whole book about it.
And that the book was the hoax.
The Speaker of the House, Tom Foley, who we later learned stole airline meals when he was deplaning.
He would ask passengers, are you gonna eat that?
And most said no, because it's yucco.
So he would take as many passenger meals as possible and walk off the plane with them.
Speaker to house, he could do what he wanted.
Tom Foley said, the seriousness of the charge mandates that we investigate this.
Even though there is no evidence, he said, the seriousness of the charge.
And of course, that's when I started learning quite a bit about how Democrats act.
The seriousness of the charge opens up the possibility that it might be true, and therefore the seriousness Of the charge is the story.
Whether there's any evidence or not.
So you've got a precedent here.
Make an allegation.
Doesn't have to be true.
Doesn't even have to be a Snowbell's Snowball's chance in hell of proving it.
Then you leak the allegation to the media, and the target gets smeared.
They could have said as part of the investigation he beats his wife.
They could have put anything in there.
And today the headlines would read, criminal scheme and wife-beating charges haunt Scott Walker.
So, They could have put that in there.
Here's the time piece.
It ends this way.
As the emails make clear, Walker was quite proud and deeply involved in monitoring the money being spent on his behalf by outside groups.
Yeah, because he follows the law.
The money helped his cause and was directed by a close aide.
Will Americans choose to believe that politicians in his position can't be influenced by the donors who paid the bills.
What is he the only politician ever accept money?
Something needs to ask Obama if he's how about the Clintons and all the uh uh coffees that they had.
It doesn't, and it no, no, that's I'm telling you, it's the wrong way to go to talk about the Democrats want to think of that's the wrong way to go about.
You're not gonna persuade anybody.
The point here is to get people as educated as possible on the technique that's being used.
Now, this Walker thing, I was trying to think during the break.
There's there's another example, it's staring me right in the face, and I just can't remember it.
That is something almost just like this.
Meanwhile, when you have evidence on something like John Corzine, he walks totally free.
Um you you might you can say that they tried to do this with Chris Christian Bridgate.
Uh but the Bridgegate case was never really thrown this thrown out.
This was the two different judges threw out the Scott Walker case.
There is no fraud.
There was no scheme.
They they looked at the evidence and not the charges, and there wasn't any scheme, and there was no fraud.
But by gosh, if you look at Democrat Party Media today, you will never know that.
It's and then I see this this story.
There's some cybercast news.
Public confidence in television news is at an all-time low, according to a Gallup survey.
Only 18% of the Americans surveyed expressed either a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in the news medium of TV.
18%.
Gallup has been asking the following question since 1993.
Ah, forget the question.
The answer is all that matters in this case.
In the latest survey, June 5 through 8, only 10% said they had a great deal of confidence in TV news.
8% said they had quite a lot, so that's a total of uh 18.
And yet, whatever's on the TV news is what people believe.
I mean, there's no denying that.
There literally is no denying that.
So I think whatever.
Got a got a really nice letter from a brand new subscriber at Rush 24-7.
You know, we had a revision to our iOS and Android app this week.
You know, that app, I don't I don't spend nearly enough time touting the really great things.
The books are great, the tea is great, and I spent a lot of time, but I'll tell you the Rush Limbaugh.com website, which is granddaddy of all these things, is just one of the finest websites for its purpose out there, and the value is incalculable.
And we have this app now, both for the Limbaugh Letter and just the Rush Limbaugh show, just the app is called Rush Limbaugh, and gives you, if you're a member, ditto cam access, transcripts, it gives you audio and video streaming live or podcast without commercials that you can download and listen to whenever you want.
Um access to all of the parodies that we've played.
It really is.
It's awesome.
And so we had a new member send a note, because we've been touting it this week.
Hi, Rush.
I've been a faithful listener to your program since 1992 when I was 19.
I'm now 41 years old, and I'm a rush babe.
I finally broke down and signed up for Rush 24-7 last Thursday, and it's the best decision I have made in a very long time.
I love being able to listen to or watch the Ditto Cam any time I have time.
I used to plan my work day, see, I work from home, around your three-hour live radio show.
So it's truly helped me to free up my days, which are getting busier, thankfully, because now I can listen or watch whenever I have time, thanks to your website and your app.
Ever loyal Dittohead, Katrina from Charleston, South Carolina.
P.S. I don't know if you answer these emails, but it can't hurt to ask.
What brand of cigar do you mostly smoke?
On the ditto cam, the cigars I've seen you puffing on appear to be fatter than a Churchill.
I only ask because I do bookkeeping work for a local cigar store, and as such, I've learned a lot about the world of cigars, and I indulge in a smoke now and then a couple times a month.
I'm just curious.
Well La Flor Dominic Connor, double the Garrow chisel is one.
And then I just came across, this is what you've seen me puffing on recently.
Davidoff just came out with some um uh the the shape is called Salamones.
Uh the English pronunciation would be Salamones.
And they are tapered at both ends, and they are quite fat and bulbous at the at the meat end of the cigar.
And I tell you, everybody that comes into the studio here, when I happen to be smoking one of them, comments on the sweet aroma and fragrance.
No, I've not tried a Jay-Z Cohiba.
I uh haven't gotten to the JC Cohiba yet.
I haven't, I haven't tried P. Diddy uh IROC uh no, he has vodka.
P. Diddy has uh rock IROC or rock or something about you haven't gotten there.
But anyway, uh they're both really just nerdly came in and said, What is I got hanging on?
Cigar usually smells so good.
I said, I told you what it is, but you're not when you smoke it, you never smell it.
That's the thing.
I love being in a room when somebody's smoking a cigar, and I'm not.
When you're smoking it, the sense of taste overwhelm sense of smell, and you can't smell it.
Can't smell your own cigar.
At least not as uh others who are not smoking in the room can.
The outrage on the southern border continues, ladies and gentlemen.
The it's it's just Sheriff Arpayo has now leveled the allegation that was that the um dumping of illegals is intentional.
And we had uh story yesterday that uh it was also from Drudge that these kids are being escorted across the border.
Can't escape the with the with the Scott Walker, I don't even know what they call it.
Lies, the journalistic malpractice, that the the southern border, it just feels like we're under literal assault uh each and every day.
But I gotta take a break because I promised phone calls from you, and that'll happen when we get back.
Starting on the phones in Manitowak, Wisconsin.
This is Greg.
Thank you, sir, for waiting.
You're up first.
Hi.
Thank you, Rush.
Major Ditto from the beautiful shores of Lake Michigan here.
Thank you, sir.
You are absolutely right.
I've been following this Walker thing, and you've been absolutely right.
Uh on the governor here for the whole from top to bottom.
The part that's not been reported anywhere except maybe in the local papers.
Here, over 27,000 emails were turned in by the Walker administration.
And if there was ever a time when I wanted to see a hard drive crash, it would have been right smack in the middle of that one.
But of course, things like that aren't gonna happen.
But you mean uh 27,000 emails turned in by the Walker administration.
Well, that's what the story was that they eventually, when they were sifting to all the communications back and forth.
It was over 27,000 emails that they were that they poured over and still found nothing to connect them.
Oh, yeah.
Okay, okay, okay.
I thought, but I I one of you said something nobody else is talking about, so I thought I might have missed something.
Yeah.
Well, you know, Walker has written an op-ed in response.
Did he?
Yeah, and I'm holding it here right here.
My formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
It's a whole page, I'm not going to read the whole thing.
Uh uh, here's the money in it.
Still, many in the media proceed as though the opinion of the partisan prosecutors is new information and ignore the truths that I have stated above.
It is not.
It's old news, already been discounted by two judges, no charges, no case.
In reaction to the information that was released to the public and seized on by the media, the federal judge just this week sharply criticized the prosecutors.
He said that they are now seeking refuge in the court of public opinion, having lost in this court on the law.
Watching the media friends, it's clear that this is what happens.
Listen here, folks.
It is clear this is what happens when someone takes on the big government special interests.
They push back.
No wonder so many politicians are afraid to make tough decisions.
I will not back down.
We will continue to fight using the truth to keep the hardworking taxpayers of Wisconsin in charge of their state and local governments.
We will continue to fight to make life better for the good people of Wisconsin.
He nails it here.
It is clear this is what happens when somebody takes on the big government special interests, Obama, the Democrat Party, you name it, media, they push back.
And Scott Walker, by the way, taking on big government special interests was not going away during the recall.
Scott Walker trying to win his election and implement his agenda was considered pushback.
And so they pushed back.
And he says, no wonder so many politicians are afraid to make tough decisions.
But is that not nail it?
They're just afraid.
Nobody wants to go through what Scott Walker is going through.
But he's found a way to um to deal with it.
Here's John in Yorktown, Virginia.
You're next on Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
Hey, this all started with the New York Times saying Scott Walker is suspected.
And you were looking for another example that was staring you in the face.
I've got it.
Here's a headline.
New York Times is suspected of lying in every article it prints.
As a matter of fact, I think they could call themselves the New York Times and Daily Democrat be a lot more uh uh accurate.
If they really fallen.
Yeah, except that everybody that reads them in their in their target demographic believes them.
Well, hopefully they've got a neighbor who will uh uh point out the problems.
Uh I'll tell you, my folks used to get the uh New York Times on a regular basis, especially Sunday.
It was important, it was informative, it was a newspaper.
It it used to be a newspaper.
Uh ain't any more.
They there is a way they could redeem themselves, however.
You know, I remember I I way back in the uh early 90s when I met William F. Buckley.
Uh I had read a quote of him before I met him, and I asked him about it.
I said, Did you really at one time say that the greatest newspaper in the world is the New York Times?
He said, Yes, it certainly was.
My grandfather, my grandfather thought it was the Bible.
James Reston, uh, some of those what was it?
Uh RW Apple.
They were all libs.
It's just that back then there was no me.
I I folks, I really am convinced that what is happening in media today is the result Of the birth of conservative media and its rapid growth and ascension.
It has destroyed the left's monopoly in media.
When they had the monopoly, they could pretend that they were not what they are and get away with it.
They could pretend to be objective when they were it.
And you know, the power of a monopoly is not just determining what stories you are going to cover, but what you don't cover was just as as powerful.
Now they still haven't gotten over.
They're still discombobulated, having lost that monopoly.
And part and parcel of what they do every day is engage in schemes, if you will, to prove to themselves that they still hold sway and still have the power that they used to have what would top the top of what was all 79 and 80 was when the most uh Gallup poll, right?
The press got its highest ratings and approval and so forth, late 79, 78, 79.
And it has been downhill ever since since the advent of Ronaldo's Magnus.
And then something happened in 1988.
And then it did Fox News in 1997.
And it just has had them discombobulated.
And it's it's it's converted them now into obvious, not just competitors, but they've they've just cast aside all the camouflage and the masking, and they are full-fledged activists now, not hiding it.
I mean, the the new Republic cover on this Scott Walker story was how he was guilty of latent racism or some such thing.
It was just it was just hideous.
It all is hideous.
It is open line Friday, your guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, chaos, outright lies, distortions, Rush Limbaugh here on the Excellence and Broadcasting Network.
Our phone number is 800 28282 and the email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
The official program observer has a question.
What is it?
Mm-hmm.
Oh wow.
If I Snurdbow has asked me what I would be doing if what I would be passionate about.
I weren't if I had what, retired or just were not doing this at all.
If I'm not doing radio, what would I what would I have done?
Well, that was the problem.
You know, when I got fired for the fifth time, and and left radio.
I was 29, and I went to 28, went to work for the Kansas City Royals.
I thought I was finished.
I'd given it my best shot.
DJ didn't work out.
And I was not passionate about working for a baseball team.
It's just what was available.
Well, I tried to make the most of it, but I found out that I wasn't cut out for corporate conformity.
No, never wanted to be a pilot.
I didn't want to do anything else.
I never I well, I I always said that I would run an airport if I if I weren't doing this.
I'm fascinated by how that all works.
But uh this has been my one passion.
Um I don't know.
I'll snurdly just said he can see me running a tech company.
No, no, I like being a customer too much.
So one thing I learned about working for the baseball team.
Once something that is a hobby or a an avocational passion becomes your job, it totally changes.
And I got to the point where in year five, I was hoping the team didn't make the playoffs because I was ready for 18-hour days to end.
Well, I couldn't tell anybody that.
Making the playoffs, going on the world series, that's what it's all about.
But that had happened in the first year.
Well, second year for me.
So it was grueling.
And it wasn't, it wasn't a whole lot of money either.
But this has been the only real passion that I mean, I I one of those times I got fired, I thought about going into radio sales, until I had an interview with a sales manager at a station in Kansas City, and the guy was a genuine lunatic.
I'm just me, I'm interviewing for the job, and he's yelling and screaming at me about what his demands will be and what they are, and I said, geez, I gotta face this every day.
It was a genuine shouting maniacal...
It's like the time I...
Sometimes I think uh people behave in front of me just to see what I will do or how I will react to say what they think is outrageous.
When I met Shimon Perez in his office in Israel, my famed trip to Israel, the summer of 1993, uh Rabbi Nate Siegel was one of my hosts, along with uh Malcolm Honey at the American Conference of Presidents of major American Jewish organizations.
It was five days that was worth a college semester.
Five jam pack days.
By the way, Nate Siegel just had a birthday last last week.
I said a video.
Did you ever get an acknowledgement on that video?
Do you ever know that I didn't either, so I don't know if he got it.
But I said a Deno Cam birthday group.
Anyway, um we had meetings with um Yitzhak Rabin in his office and with Simone Perez.
And in the meeting with Paris, he kept undoing his belt.
He's sitting there, he kept undoing his belt and then rebuckling it, looking at the holes in his belt while we're talking, and he his his first uh topic of conversation with me was the importance of trees and greenery to everything.
It's like somebody had given him a briefing, and he thought that I was some extreme wacko right winger walking in there, and he was trying to taunt me.
So this sales manager, who knows what this guy thought, but he literally the guy was shouting and screaming and throwing things off of his desk and showing me what he was going to be demanding every day in terms of sales.
This guy everyday sales mean no way.
The long version here of telling you that this has been, that's why I'm so fortunate.
I've I was able to end up doing what I think I was born to do.
I've never had passion for anything else.
I mean, career-wise, like I've got for this.
Thought about being an actor.
I did, by the way, you don't have to temper all of these uh thoughts.
If I ever did, what are the odds?
There's no way unless I became a liberal first.
You know, I've I'm watching some folk, let me tell you, I'm watching some things happen in the media.
There are a lot of, I shouldn't say a lot.
There are some noteworthy, supposed conservatives in the media who are all of a sudden gaining a lot of praise from the drive-by media.
And I'm gonna tell you, that is highly seductive when you start getting universal accolades and praise from those.
It's just tough to resist.
The big click once you is the way it works.
And I'm starting to sense that happen to some in the media that you have always thought to be conservative.
And I can't ever imagine something like that happening to me.
So being an actor, no way.
I don't I've never wanted to be.
I mean, that's not actually true.
If the if I be honest, there's a whole lot of stuff I would like to try.
Just tons of it.
But in terms of making careers out of them.
No.
Oh, speaking of actors, folks, I have to tell you something.
When I when I went out to the Reagan library and addressed the secretive conservative group in California, a secret group of conservative actors, actresses, producers, writers, and so forth.
I met a uh a guy named Adam Baldwin.
And he he's is uh is just a great guy.
And out of the blue, about a month ago, I got this really strange-looking FedEx delivery.
So I put it through the X-ray machine, and it was a gizmo of some kind.
We could see that, and we could see that it was not an explosive.
So I opened it, and it was from TNT, the TV network TNT, and it was the most creative promotional DVD packaging and delivery I had ever seen.
And what it was, it was it Adam had arranged that it'd be sent to me.
Adam stars in a TNT series that starts Sunday night called Last Ship.
And the package I got had the first three episodes.
So I plopped it in there, and it's one of these things I binge watched all three.
And I don't think it's a spoiler to tell you that there is a disease that is threatening to destroy all humanity.
And there's one ship where everybody's safe that they're trying to find the vaccine.
And it's Adam's ship, and he's the XO, the commanding officer, is Eric Dane, who is McSteamy or McMcSquishy, whatever from from Gray's Anatomy.
Not he's is there's McSteamy, McDreamy and McSteene.
I think he's McSteamy, right?
McDreamy is the original star, and McSteamy is Dane, who came second or third of the year, but he commands the ship.
Uh one of the one of the uh actresses from Boston Legal is the scientist trying to find a cure.
And of course, there are moles and there's the evil uh uh the Koch brothers want the disease to spread around the world and kill everybody so the Koch brothers can take all the money and be the only people, not the Koch brothers.
I just threw that.
There's no relationship in any of this to the Koch brothers.
I just the Koch brothers, by the way, gave the National Association for Advancement of Liberal Colored People 25 million dollars, and there are massive protests and demands that they give it back.
The MAALCP is being threatened with all kinds of things if they don't give the money back to the Koch brothers.
Coke derangement syndrome breaks out after 25 million dollar donation to you.
Oh, I dunno, it's United Negro College Fund.
Sorry.
United Negro College Fund.
These people are completely nuts.
And I mean that in they should be institutionalized way.
Um University of Pennsylvania professor Mary Beth Gassman argued that the United Negro College, should they change their name, by the way, United Negro College Fund.
Who would think so?
University of Pennsylvania Professor Mary Beth Gassman argued that the United Negro College Fund should reject the money from the Koch brothers because It is tainted with the Koch brothers' political advocacy, which she says works to undermine the interests of African Americans and the institutions that support them.
I'm sorry, this woman needs to be put in a straitjacket.
She wants a group that is invested in improving the circumstances for Negroes.
The United Negro College was getting 25 million dollars.
She wants the money given back.
What am I in trouble?
You mean you think I'm in trouble for saying Negroes?
Oh, geez.
I was just putting it, it's just it just what I don't get here is she says the money is tainted with their political advocacy, which she says works to undermine the interests of African Americans and the institutions.
How is giving the United Negro College fund $25 million undermining them?
The Koch wanna want to shrink the federal government, but Glassman objects saying the federal programs built the black middle class.
You see that they're nuts.
Federal programs have destroyed the black middle class and the black family, if the truth be known.
And this is, you know, when the Koch brothers, it was David Koch had $25 million New York hospital, the nurses protested.
He don't really mean it.
They're just giving this money so that who they really are is covered up.
They're really racist and sexist and bigots and homophobes and they know it and they don't want you to know it.
So giving all this money just to just to try to hide who they really are.
And the nurses protested that money.
I should call the Koch brothers and look, I'll take it.
And I will love you for it.
And I will say great things about you.
Give me 25 million dollars.
I'll put it to greater use than the United Negro College Fund.
And Mary Beth Gassman.
Anyway, I can recommend the last ship.
It's a bit of a stretch, obviously, of the uh a disease.
It's the Andromeda strain on steroids.
But it's with with modern day tech, it's really it's it's good.
I binge watched all three.
And it's uh the day I got the day I I popped them in there.
I'm gonna show them to Catherine because you know she doesn't like it's not violence.
Um there's not a lot of now, there's some.
There's some shoot 'em up stuff at Guantanamo Bay.
See, the ship has to go to where there's fuel so it can continue to sail.
It can't dock anywhere because everybody's infected with the disease.
It's gotta they they've got to find food, they have to find fuel for the ship, and they run into competitors who are trying to get the vaccine, bad guys, the chicoms who want it so they can kill everybody.
That's the Koch brother connection I was trying to make.
It's pretty good.
I know.
Gotta take a break.
Be right.
25 million dollars.
It's a terrible thing to waste.
You know, remember that United Negro College Fund.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
Well, 25 million dollars is a terrible thing to waste.
I'll take it.
Riley in San Antonio, Texas.
We head back to the phones and open line Friday.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
How are you?
Good, sir.
Thank you very much.
I said, I just see that you're 19 years old.
Yes, sir.
Congratulations.
I'm glad to hear from you.
I've been listening to you since I was around 13, listening on my dad's radio when I would go out with uh Jobs with him on in the truck.
Oh, that is awesome.
And you're still here.
Yes, sir.
You haven't rebelled against us yet.
That's awesome.
My question is both for your personal opinion and for Americans listening to ask themselves and to ask their friends.
With uh the growing cr uh the growing crisis in Iraq with ISIS, the terrorist group, they're now well funded, they're well trained, they're gaining supporters, they're gaining more members into their group, and now they're well armed with Iraq soldiers taking off their clothing and taking off their trucks and just leaving and eventually still being caught.
My question is, are we ready if that Iraq falls, which I I pray that it doesn't.
I pray that it doesn't, but they will be in control of a central country.
They'll be in control of uh one of the fourth largest productions of oil.
And I just fear it'll be a domino effect creating what they want.
My question, wh are the Americans ready for what will happen next if they do come?
If they come and attack us, which is will be their next one.
I actually think not.
I actually think not.
I think, and there's a logical reason why it's sad.
Most Americans have Iraq fatigue.
They're simply you you're you're still old enough to remember you're paying attention.
Iraq was the story for three years about how wasteful, about pointless, about oh, it's unnecessary.
No weapons amassed.
I think the American people, when faced with a rotten economy and Obamacare and all this, uh don't care a thing about it, are not even contemplating if the terrorists take over Iraq, not even thinking about it, even if they do, they're gonna so what?
None of our business.
I don't I don't think that the majority of the American people are even thinking about what it might mean, and even if they are, I don't think they're that concerned.
I would like to be wrong about it, but I'm and I'm not being critical of them.
I think I'm just trying to assess.
I just I just worry because Well, hang on, hang on, hang on, don't I gotta take a break here up a second?
Hang on, Riley.
Sit tight.
We didn't finish with Riley from San Antonio, Texas, so he has agreed to hang on to the break here at the top of the hour.
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