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June 23, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 23, 2014, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Now apparently it's all morning long on C-SPAN, Snurley, all morning long.
The topic has been would America be better off without me.
I don't know if they planned it or if they just got a call from somebody who said that, and then it then it uh sort of mushroom from there.
But we've got some audio sound bites of that.
Hey, folks, how was your weekend?
I hope it was good.
We're back here for yet another week of broadcast excellence, the EIB Southern Command.
But as always, remember as long as I'm here, it doesn't matter where.com.
I know it's gonna surprise a lot of people.
I actually watched the U.S. Portugal game in the World Cup last night.
I actually did.
Uh Catherine was all hipped up about it.
Catherine's all excited.
And Catherine, Catherine lived in Rio for a time.
Uh and she lived in uh Africa for a time and uh lived in Hawaii for a time, and uh she's lived all over the world, and she's got some some some fond memories of uh of Rio, and the game was not actually in Rio, but it was in Brazil, but it was the U.S. and it was Ronaldo, Christiana Renault.
Oh, speaking of which, did you know this this is he's the A-rod, minus all of the uh the gossip scandals.
Christiana Ronaldo, you know the name, right?
Snurley, he well, he he is the latest Beckham.
Uh you know who David Beckham is.
Okay, the latest day, Rod.
Do you know why he chose a name Ronaldo?
Because his hero's Ronald Reagan.
Uh, yes, sir, Rebob is a place for Portugal.
I don't know where he's from, but he plays for Portugal.
Anyway, it was a heartbreaking loss.
The U.S. is going to win their second game.
Nobody gave them a chance, and they uh and Portugal scored on a header with they had they had to go five extra minutes because there were injury timeouts during the game.
They had that game.
It was one of the most heartbreaking things, and it was probably, I have to say, I'm not a veteran fan.
Haven't watched a lot of soccer on TV because I've always found it to be slow, monotonous, boring, low scoring, no drama.
Uh plus it just makes me tired.
Do you know?
I looked up, because I got curious.
That's a huge field that they play on.
It can be anywhere from 60 to 100 yards wide, a hundred to a hundred and fifty yards long, depending.
Do you know what the average distance the players in a soccer game such as that last night will run?
Take a guess.
And this is not, they're not jogging.
They are no, come on.
You just you're not even trying to be serious with that guess.
That's not possible.
Twenty miles.
No, it's between seven and nine miles, but it's in an hour and a half.
Between an hour and a half and two hours, depending on uh whether there's a half time.
But at it they're not jogging.
These guys are going um three-quarters full speed a lot.
That is incredible.
Wonder how many calories these guys have to eat every day to be able to do that.
It was just a heartbreaking loss out there.
They had the No, that's the point.
I've I don't think I've ever watched a soccer game front to back until uh until last night.
It was amazing, because you know, I'm a I'm a sports expert, and uh so I I took to it very quickly.
I I quickly deduced the strategy and the uh the formations and the plays that were being attempted, and I spotted the the players that are good and the players that are bad.
Uh anyway, just a heartbreaking thing.
Oh, that that's that's the first thing on my stack here.
Folks, the Clintons won't give it up.
Hillary just won't give up this idea that her family is poor and average and middle class.
This is the Greatest thing.
It is the funniest thing, and I don't know I have noticed, you know, I am probably the most observant person that you have heard of, or in case you know me that you know.
My observational skills combined with my memory always surprise people.
And I noticed early on, after Bill and Hillary left the White House, how soon and how often they began discussing their new wealth.
And we made note of it.
Mike, don't have to find it immediately, but we play it frequently during the commercial breaks.
Go find the Clinton game show parody called I'm Richer Than You Are.
We put one of these together.
This is years ago.
This should go back probably to 1990, maybe 2000, 2001.
Bill Clinton and he always used the subject of tax increases to do it.
Whenever tax increases came up, Bill Clinton would always, hey, you know what?
I'm honored, and I have enough wealth now to be able to pay.
I don't need all this money.
I'm happy to pay these.
They constantly, they've been bragging about their wealth for as long as they've had some.
My parents always told me that it was bad manners.
It was bad form.
Not to just brag about it, but to even discuss it.
You know, answering how much do you earn in a year was considered bad form.
You're not supposed to discuss that.
Because it's different for everybody, and you can't, it's a no-win unless you don't care about being perceived as braggadocious or somebody that's ill-mannered or whatever.
And that's what struck me with the Clintons.
I mean, they're just constantly talking about.
Now, now, Mrs. Clinton, as you know, two weeks ago, in an interview with Diane Sawyer, said, Oh, yeah, we came out of White House.
We were dead broke.
And I'll tell you the root of all of this is the Clintons attempting to establish a bond between middle class people and even poor people.
They're trying to build this money while Bill's out bragging about how much money they have and bragging about tax increases don't bother him, even though we have now learned that the Clintons have structured their family planning like most everybody else does, to avoid as much estate tax as they can.
Now you might say, well, why rush?
What's the big deal?
Everybody does it.
They are the people that are constantly bragging about not caring about paying taxes publicly, folks.
That's how Clinton first wormed his way into this opportunity to brag about how much money they've got all the time.
And then Hillary didn't take long to join that chorus either.
And it's something they've been obsessed with.
What Whitewater was all about was becoming rich quick because all of their friends, highfalutin donors, they were they were just swimming in the in money, and then the Clintons are getting by, getting by, on a hundred grand a year, and they wanted to, they wanted to swim in the deep water.
So this is when Hillary was turning 10,000 into 100 grand with Robert Red Bone and Cattle Futures.
Whitewater was a get rich quick real estate scam with uh with uh uh what was that bald-headed guy, the Jim McDonald, yeah, James, yeah, Jim and Susan McDougall, exactly right.
That's all that's all Whitewater was.
They've been obsessed with it.
Mrs. Clinton has stepped in it again.
Talking about there's this book out.
Ed Klein has this book out, excerpt started yesterday in the New York Post, and the excerpt about the feud that the Clintons have with the Obamas.
The quotes that are attributable to Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, and there's nothing against Ed Klein.
I don't know anybody who talks that way.
And I'll explain what I mean when I get when I get to that part of the uh discussion.
It's a big stack.
The Clinton stack is its own stack today.
And the the first item on top of the stack is from the weekly standard in what some are interpreting as a veiled shot at Hillary Clinton, Vice President Joe Biden says that the fact he isn't rich shouldn't be held against him.
These people, folks, are obsessed with it.
The Democrats are some of the wealthy, particularly elected Democrats and their donors, are some of the wealthiest people, Silicon Valley, Hollywood, Wall Street, and yet they are obsessed with this phony baloney, plastic banana, good time rock and roller buzz, PR, spin, whatever, that they're just average people just like you.
So Hillary, yeah, we were we were dead broke when we came out of the White House.
And then she stepped in it again.
She said, Well, this is an interview with uh that was published to the UK Guardian yesterday.
Hillary Clinton revisited the issue of her slightly higher than average income by saying she's not truly well off.
The Clintons, Hillary Clinton, we are not truly well off.
And do you know how she defines that?
She said we pay ordinary income tax.
Really rich people don't do that.
Now everybody is laughing on the other side of the glass here, but I'm gonna tell you what this means.
This Hillary really thinks that, folks, the truly wealthy, you know, how many times have we discussed on this program?
When the subject of tax increases for the rich comes up, the rich never seem to oppose it.
Why?
Why is that?
And the answer is that the vast majority of people that we're talking about who don't oppose it are not paying income tax rates.
Their wealth has already been amassed.
They are no longer earning what's called ordinary income, where there are deductions every week or quarterly estimates or what have you.
They are paying taxes on whatever income they derive from their investment portfolio, which would be the capital gains rate.
That's what she means.
Now, in her world, and I'm gonna you've got in her world, she is right.
When you're talking about real wealth, I I wish I could mention a name here, but I don't this would not be classy either.
But a name you would all know.
Uh Treasury, not Treasury, uh a uh uh a cabinet member in a former uh administration who I befriended at one point in my life.
We had many discussions, almost father-son type discussions.
And I asked him one day, because he was one of these uber wealthy people.
I said, What is in your world?
We can talk this way.
I said, in your world, what is the amount of money that gives you cloud?
What you if you you're you're a player, he said minimum 400 million dollars.
Then this was 25 years ago.
Minimum for 400 million dollars, you're not a player.
Meaning the people at 400 million or above look at you if you're at 350, 200 million, yeah.
And I'm telling you, that's the world the Clintons run in.
And when she says we pay ordinary income, what she's saying is they have they have become wealthy because they earn a lot of money.
They pay ordinary income taxes because they generate ordinary income, which is book sales and speeches and stuff like that, and they pay income tax rates.
And in her world, no matter how much money you have, you are not wealthy.
And what she doesn't know is that by discussing it this way, she really is telling people what she wants to be.
She wants to be a Warren Buffett.
She wants to be, take your name she she wants to be in this really rarefied air where tax rates are irrelevant to you.
And that that's a small percentage of even the top one percent.
But this idea that she and Bill are not well off, even though they have what what are the the top range of their uh net worth on the on her disclosure forms is I think between five and a half and fifty million.
Now, in her world, don't doubt me on this.
I know this is gonna sound strange.
In her world, and I'm not justifying anything she's saying, I'm trying to explain it to you.
In her world, $50 million is peanuts.
And they pay ordinary income tax.
They can't now, we're not well off.
She has no idea.
The point here is she has no idea if the big Democrat they care there for the little guy.
They're clueless.
They have no idea.
She wouldn't be talking this way if she had any idea what life was like for most people in this country, particularly now in the Obama Democrat Party economy.
You can't talk to any people that vote for her and get any sympathy for her.
When they know that she may be worth 50 million dollars, well, we're not truly well off.
We pay ordinary income taxes.
This is tone deafness on steroids.
It is an inability to relate to people.
It is zero empathy.
It is just stunning, and they won't let it go.
They are hellbent on you and me thinking that they don't have any money.
Yeah, they've only raised a hundred million since they left office.
I know, but they pay ordinary income tax.
Half of it's gone, see?
The real rich don't do that.
In her world, and then there's this this is this Biden business.
You know, I make a lot of money as Vice President Biden said.
Don't hold it against me that I don't own a single stock or bond.
Don't hold it.
I have no savings account, but I got a great pension.
I got a good salary for real, for real, but don't hold it against me.
I'm not rich.
These people are really showing us who they are.
They're really telling us who they who they are, what they're really about, and how out of touch with average people they really are, and how phony baloney plastic banana good time rockin' and roller be.
Can you imagine a woman with between 50 and 100 million dollars trying to establish a bond of relatability by saying, well, we're not well off.
We pay ordinary income taxes.
Hey, no, I'm richer than you are.
Wait till you hear that.
And then there's this.
Chelsea Clinton tried to care about money but couldn't.
They've even dragged her into it now.
They tried to make her care about money, but the point of this is she's a she's totally in a charity.
They tried to tell Chelsea about money and earning a lot, but she just didn't care.
Money, it's just not important to her whatsoever.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Yeah.
Only $26,000 a minute for whatever she got at NBC.
That's to what she was paying.
We'll be right back.
That's right.
So Hillary Clinton claimed, but they don't see me as part of the problem.
She's talking about people that don't like the rich.
They don't see me as part of the problem because we pay ordinary income tax, unlike a lot of people who are truly well off, not to name names, and we've done it through dint of hard work.
And people started laughing.
We pay ordinary income tax.
We can't possibly re-rich.
And among the people she's talking about, she's right, but that's not the way to accomplish what she's trying to accomplish.
The Clinton, as soon as they left the White House, set up a family foundation, apart from their charitable thing, to avoid paying taxes on their income.
They have done everything they can to avoid paying taxes.
Here are the Clintons in the news, June 23rd, 2014, trying to say they don't earn a lot of money.
Mrs. Clinton, we're not well off.
And it was over 10 years ago that I spotted and pointed out these people are obsessed with becoming rich and wealthy and then letting everybody know that they've pulled it off.
Yeah, it's all coming up.
Just sit there, hang in there, be tough.
We're gonna get to all of it.
Ill Rushball back at you, saving serving humanity, saving whatever needs to be.
At the same time, telephone number 800 282-2882.
The uh the next World Cup game for the USA snerdily is Thursday at noon versus Germany.
And you know, given our track record against Germany in world wars, I'm not ruling this out.
You never know.
The USA was not supposed to be anywhere near Portugal last night.
We're not supposed to beat Ghana.
Hell, a coach didn't think they'd win anything.
Uh, but we've been pretty victorious over Germany in a couple of world wars, who says we can't beat him on the soccer pitch.
Thursday at noon.
Thinking about jipping it for those of you in the stick to the issues crowd.
Just kidding.
You know who Christina Hendrix is?
She's an actress.
She plays Joan somebody on Mad Men.
She is the buxom full-figured redhead.
Started out as the office manager slash secretary, and by sleeping with a client, maneuvered her way into a partnership arrangement at the advertising agency depicted in the program.
Well, she's a fine actress, and I'm sure she is a nice woman.
I have not met her.
Don't expect to meet her.
I would recognize her, I assure you, but I haven't met her.
But there was at the White House today.
Is it today or is it coming?
Oh I'm not know when it is.
Neither was today.
White House summit on working families.
Another summit.
Didn't even know about this one.
This summit occurred under the cover.
A radar.
And Christina Hendrix showed up as an expert witness on working families at the working family summit at the White House.
And do what would you what is she an expert on?
Life for women in the 1960s.
Now I should point out that Christina Hendrix was not alive in the 1960s.
Well, think that no, she couldn't have been.
If she was, she doesn't remember it.
She would have been very young.
Christina Hendrix, an actress who was not alive during the period of time depicted on the TV show Mad Men, was at the White House speaking about challenges working women faced in the madmen era.
Now admittedly, her remarks, it says here were brief.
She said that today's policies related to women need to be updated to no longer be from the madmen era.
She said when President Obama discusses the issues facing working families, equal pay for women, affordable child care, to name a few, he often says that current policies seem to be from the madmen era.
Well, it's time to go the way of the Rotary Phone and the typewriter.
A Hollywood actress speaking on political policy about something she knows nothing about and did not live.
The oppression of women in the madmen era.
She is assumed to be an expert because she plays.
She's pretending to be a woman oppressed.
In the madmen era.
And she could have an argument.
I mean, uh, if she wanted to try to say that what her character's role has uh been, if it relates, then she had to sleep with a fat slob client in order to get her partnership.
But it's just classic.
Alan Cranston routinely had the most beautiful actresses he could find to come up and testify before the Senate.
He had Morgan Fairchild and Jessica Lang Testifying one day on the problems of farm women.
They didn't know anything about farm women.
They'd never lived on a farm and a thing about it, except they had portrayed farm women in a movie.
Christina Hendricks has six personal assistants.
She was born in 1975.
So five years away from the decade in which she was testifying about as an expert.
I know what you're saying.
Come on, Rush, come on, come on.
You know what was going on.
She's just brought up there to call attention to it.
Christina Hendrix.
And that's true.
But she also spoke as an expert, and she isn't.
She plays a character.
But Rush, do you know how much they research those roles?
I don't care how much they research those roles.
They research the roles based on the script written for them.
And who knows how close and true to life the script is.
It's a TV show for its fiction.
And yet there she is.
She has six personal assistants.
No madmen era woman had six personal assistants, but she's up there as an expert.
And look, don't anybody give me grief here.
I know you're Christina Hendricks, you're minding your own business in the White House calls, and they asked you to come up.
I understand the ego appeal.
And I happen to know that actors and actresses, I've seen enough interviews.
It's in fact, this is kind of fascinating culturally.
I can't tell you the number of actors who don't have the slightest idea about real life, even with the roles they play, in interviews to promote the movie, start talking.
Oh, yeah, man, these uh these pole dancers, they really hit it really tough.
Or these uh, yeah, you know, hitmen.
I've played a number of hitmen, you know the lives they really led.
You would not believe they don't know squat about it.
They played in fictional movies, and they become experts in it.
And it, of course, has influence with that audience, the low information pop culture audience.
And besides, I I have to tell you something, in addition to all that.
I was alive during the mad men era.
And I happened to be the prime age to have come of age during the beginnings and real focus of the militant modern feminist movement.
There is nobody alive who understands that better than I do.
I lived it, I can't tell you how many details I can't, I the whole it was horrible.
It still is.
My point is, there are no mad men, women situations in the office today.
There are too many women bosses, too many women running the show, too many women CEOs.
There are not nearly as many men going to college these days.
The culture is changing rampantly.
If you want to talk about television and how it chronicles cultural change, one of my favorite shows is Suits.
It's on the USA Network.
It's on, I think was it now, Wednesday nights.
I don't know if you're familiar with the program.
If you're not, I'll do my best to make my point here.
The show is now into its fourth or fifth season, and in just that short amount of time.
We were watching the show on uh uh Apple TV, Catherine and I were, and I paused it a couple times to make some cultural observations, and she gave me this sly glance that I don't care to analyze the show.
I just want to watch it.
I said, Okay, okay, okay, so hit the play button and keep going.
In the last episode of suits, there are two prominent male characters who are spineless wusses, obsessed with feelings and touchy feelings,
and it is secretaries, women, who have to come in and tell them to buck up, get a spine, get some gonads, and stop running around here with your tail tucked between your legs.
In other words, it is the women who are the bosses, the women who are the strong characters and figures, the women are the ones that have no emotion, the women are the ones who are cutthroat.
And these two guys are veritable wimps.
Crying, doing all, and I'm telling you, if you look, I haven't looked at it, but if you I bet if I looked at the writing staff, I wouldn't be surprised at the gender makeup.
My point is, we don't have a madman world today.
Nowhere close to it.
And yet we've got a summit going on at the White House, participated in by a madman actress, saying it's time to get rid of these old ways of treating women and get rid of them like we got rid of the rotary phone.
We have so what's going on is is the same old playbook from the Democrat Party.
You set up a sort of circumstances that are not true that are based on old stereotypes, and make it look like you are doing everything you can to overcome them and portray and perpetuate this silly Republican war on women.
That's what this women in the workplace summit is about.
Everything at the White House, everything is political.
It all is tied to the agenda.
So they bring in Christina Hendricks and probably a bunch of other actresses, but certainly her, and the whole point of it is to create a lie, a false impression that women are still mistreated and stomped on, disrespected.
Uh, and and it's uh we've got to change this.
It's it's a it's a way of continuing this silly non-existent war on women meme for the low information crowd.
Now I interrupted my Hillary stack on purpose because I had to break it up, but there's still a lot more in this.
We have barely scratched the surface on it.
And then we got to get to the C-SPAN topic of the day.
Am I, your beloved host, bad for America?
Would America be better off if I were not doing what I'm doing?
Uh Ditto Heads did come out in force after a while.
We have uh some bites of that.
Chuck Schumer, speaking of the World Cup, Chuck Schumer is concerned that people attending the World Cup are going to return to America Infected with mosquito-born viruses that could wipe out a significant percentage of people.
Is that the disease?
Chicken, some gum po you some good.
Chippin' chicken gun young.
Gun or done.
Chicken gun young.
That's the disease.
And Chuck Schumer worried about chicken gun yung being brought back to the country here by mosquitoes.
Uh oh, did you hear and John Kerry, who, by the way, served in Vietnam.
John Kerry is in Iraq and he's ripping them for losing control of their border.
Can you believe that?
And to the phones.
I want to be diversified here, folks.
Uh a lot of news items, a lot of stacked stuff.
We got the phones in here in the first hour.
I'll feel really good.
Diversity, name of the game here, the EIB network we start in uh Mount Laguna, California.
Bob, welcome to the program.
Hello.
Hi, thank you very much.
I wanted to comment about Hillary's wealth and so forth.
In 1992 or 93, perhaps.
Um I made a somewhat of a joke donation to the Clinton legal defense trust.
It was really interesting that in the early nineties, uh, arguably the Clintons were the two wealthiest, not the wealthiest, but the two most powerful lawyers in the United States.
And lo and behold, they had some mild legal problems.
And they're legal.
Basically a bailout donations from the public.
Um Wait a second.
You made a donation in 1992 to the Clinton legal defense fund?
I did.
I made I made a uh That was during the campaign.
They weren't even in office yet.
Well, um let's see.
It was in the it was in the early 90s.
I don't have the letters.
I was gonna say, I'd forgotten if they were already in legal trouble before.
I knew that Bill had been sued by the uh some of the bimbos.
Um but look at your overall point about the legal defense funds is absolutely well taken.
And it's it's ironic, too, because one of the reasons Hillary claims that they're broke and not well off is all the legal bills, as though we're supposed to wring our hands and feel so sorry for them.
Why do they have legal bills?
Do you think having sex, BJs, Lewinsky's in the Oval Office might lead to it if you lie under oath?
Do you think that uh that might require you to go out and hire some high powered legal help that might charge you a lot of money?
Uh they they have legal, they had so many different legal defense funds, you can't keep up with them.
One of them raised over 10 million dollars.
Uh they and they were shameless about asking for money.
They were shameless about it, as though they were owed it that somehow they were they were in entitled.
Bloomberg has a story.
This isn't a political today, but they they quote uh Bloomberg, it's exactly as I said moments ago, to reduce the tax pinch, the Clintons are using financial planning strategies befitting the top one percent of U.S. households in wealth to avoid paying taxes.
Now, people defending Clinton are saying, now, but well, wait a minute, she didn't have offshore accounts like Romney did.
See, in the Clintons world, and I tried to make this point earlier, and I'm not, by the way, justifying, don't misunderstand.
I'm I'm uh I I think the woman is I think these are two of the biggest phonies on earth is my point.
They always have been.
They're phonies through and through.
And I don't think they're nice people.
But when Mrs. Clinton says, hey, we're not, we're not well off.
We pay ordinary income taxes.
She's jealous.
She's envious of people who have a lot of money and 50 million, 100 million dollars in their world.
Isn't a lot of money.
Not among the people that they hold dear, not other people.
I mean, they know multi-billionaires.
They fly around gratis on their friends' private Boeing 757s.
The Clintons are so cheap they won't spend their own money on anything.
Not even the charter of Piper Cub to get from Chappaqua to Washington.
We pay ordinary income.
We can't possibly be rich while they're out there doing everything they can while bragging about their wealth.
Now, Hillary complaining about how little they have, and they are doing every they're trying to pretend they're rich, they're trying to use the same strategies that the Uber rich do to avoid paying taxes, family planning taxes, estate taxes primary.
Now, everybody does it, but they are hypocrites because they're the people out there bragging about having the money to pay taxes, and they don't care when taxes go up.
Bill Clinton's famous for that.
Privately, this is why they're phony baloney plastic banana good time rocking, because privately, they're trying to get out of paying as much in tax as they can.
Barely scratching the surface so far today, and look at how much we've already gotten done.
Show prep for the rest of the media more than we can possibly digest, but we're gonna keep at it.
Hang in there, be tough.
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