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June 23, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 23, 2014, Monday, Hour #2
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I think this is the New York Times, but I can't tell.
It says here, here's the headline, some Democrats fear Clinton's wealth and imperial image could be damaging in 2016.
Washington Post, because it doesn't say here, editors, maybe it is.
It doesn't look like that.
Some guy named Philip Rucker, wherever he works.
I'm sorry, folks, it just didn't print out here.
There's no indication whatsoever here.
Where this is from?
And since I don't know who Philip Rucker is, sorry, I can't do this.
So we'll say it's either the Washington Post or the New York Times.
Some Democrats fear Clinton's wealth and imperial image could be damaging in 2016.
This story runs today.
On the same day that Mrs. Clinton is out there saying, we're not well off.
No, no, no.
We were dead broke.
We've come out.
And the same day that they've got this story, Chelsea Clinton tried to care about money, but couldn't.
This is the big puker of the day.
I mean, Ed Klein has this book out on a blood feud between the Clintons and the Obamas based on the health chapter, the Hillary Hill chapter.
This book should be called Blood Clot.
I mean, the chapter on her health in this book is devastating.
Is anybody piping up and denying this yet?
You know, Ed Klein, he wrote books on the Kennedys.
He's not exactly a right-wing, right-wing ideologue.
He's got that chapter.
He's got the chapter on the says the Obamas call Hillary Hildebeast.
They got that from me.
We called her the Hildebeest way back long ago.
In fact, called the Republicans Wildebeests back a short period of time ago in relation to budget matters.
Hildebeast, Wildebeest.
Democrats fear her wealth could jeopardize Democrats' historic edge with the middle class.
And then on page three of this story, an Obama advisor dumps on Hillary saying, well, Democrats should panic.
And it's interesting because in conjunction with the Klein book, the Ed Klein book really makes the point that the Clintons and Obamas detest each other.
And particularly from the Obama to the Clinton side, but it's both ways, that Bill still hasn't gotten over being called a racist in the 2008 campaign when he said to Ted Kennedy, you know, Ted, wasn't that long ago?
This guy'd be fetching our drinks for us.
So Obama then played the race card on Clinton in South Carolina.
And there was a couple other things that Obama said.
So Bill's been carrying a grudge for that for a long time, but they don't get along, is Klein's point.
And then here in this story, Obama advisor dumps on Hillary by saying Democrats should panic over the Clinton's air of wealth.
And this image that they have that they have willingly put forward that they have a lot of money.
And they have done that.
I cannot emphasize this enough.
The Chelsea story is in the New York Daily News.
Hillary Clinton insists she isn't well off.
And now daughter Chelsea says that she could care less about money.
I was curious if I could care about money on some fundamental level, and I couldn't.
Chelsea told the UK Telegraph explaining why she gave up lucrative gigs to join her family's philanthropic foundation.
Comparing her experience to the average millennial, Chelsea Clinton defended jumping around to different careers from consulting to a hedge fund to academia to journalism before finding her true calling, working with her parents.
Aww.
Her true calling, working with her parents, is going to guarantee her a lot of money without having to work for it.
Who are they trying to kid here?
But this point, you know, we tried to make Chelsea care about money, but she's so good.
Chelsea's such a decent person.
Chelsea's such a good person.
We couldn't make her care.
Chelsea doesn't need a dime.
She is happy as she's penniless.
Chelsea couldn't care less about money.
And it's phony, folks.
These people are obsessed with it.
They're obsessed with being rich, and they have been for I don't know how long.
And that's why Hillary is stepping in it.
But I can't emphasize enough when she says that we're not well off.
She's talking about a world that 99% of people on the planet don't understand and can't relate to.
And that's the big mistake.
She thinks that she is establishing a bond of commonality with the middle class.
You're not well off.
Who are you kidding?
We pay ordinary income taxes like everybody.
No, everybody doesn't pay ordinary income taxes on income of $100 million.
And by the way, Chelsea Clinton, that gig at NBC that she had, does anybody, I mean, she had never had any experience being on television.
She had so little experience with the media to begin with because her parents had shielded her.
They didn't want any media of her as she was growing up, and the media complied with that request because the media is a bunch of sycophants and they always wanted to stay tight and close to the Clintons for access.
So the Clintons said, you leave Hillary alone.
And they did.
They never once, there wasn't a profile.
It wasn't a story.
There was Zilt Zeronata on Chelsea, rather.
So out of the blue, Chelsea gets this gig at NBC News on Dateline or some such, some magazine show.
And Brian Williams on the NBC Nightly News, in announcing it, talks about how he has never seen somebody take to television so quickly with no experience.
And she was paid.
We now have learned that she was paid $600,000 for this.
That's quite a lot of money to a woman who doesn't care about money.
And then the $600,000 was amortized, if you will.
People compared how much time, how many minutes she was actually on camera doing news reports and stuff against how much she got made.
It turns out she was being paid $26,000 a minute.
Now, there are ramifications to this.
The ramifications to the image the Clintons are trying to put forth is clear.
I mean, here's Chelsea.
We tried to make her care about money.
She's such a good person.
She doesn't care about it.
We tried so hard.
But all she wants to do is help people.
All she wants to do is really give of herself and give of her time to people who have so little.
She's just such a good person.
She doesn't care about money.
We tried to make her care.
We try to teach an evaluation.
That's he cares.
He doesn't need a dime.
He's such a good.
That's not going to fly.
What everything else Hillary is saying.
Plus, with Chelsea making $26,000 a minute, the other ramifications are: you work at NBC.
You've been working there for how many years?
You're nowhere close to $600,000.
And here comes somebody with no experience, never done it before, a pure political hire.
There's no question.
NBC hired Chelsea for access to Bill and Hillary or insurance.
I mean, these people are fully aware that these people are statists.
The people who run NBC, fully aware these are statist authoritarians.
If they ever end up back in power, they want the Clintons loving NBC.
They're not over-regulated, penalized, what have you.
Comcast owns NBC now.
It says it's a tight little world.
Now, you work at NBC and you've been there a long time.
And here comes Chelsea Clinton, who's never done it.
And she's on the air prime time after having never worked anywhere at $26,000 a minute.
Real.
Yeah, her segments were called Making a Difference because Chelsea, we really tried making her care about money.
I mean, she didn't care.
That's why she didn't care about a big hedge fund job.
And she wasn't worried about Wall Street.
If you want to make a lot of money in Fashion World and so forth, we really, really tried.
Oh, she's such a wonderful good person.
He doesn't care about anything except other people.
It makes me want to throw up.
This is such phony drivel.
And it's coming back to bite them now.
When Mrs. Clinton said, well, we're not well off.
Well, we were dead broke.
Okay, on C-SPAN today, I, ladies and gentlemen, was essentially blamed for the partisan divide, the anger, the lack of people being nice, whatever.
It's all my fault.
C-SPAN lit up this morning when a caller suggested the way to fix America is to get rid of Rush Limbaugh.
Now, I don't know what they intended on C-SPAN, but whatever, they had to broom it because for the next hour, that's all anybody called about.
Washington Journal was the show.
The host, Pedro Eschevaria.
Viewer calls on ideas for fixing Congress was the topic.
Have you ever noticed that we don't do topics here?
We never do topics.
One of my early problems, the early days of broadcasting, were formulas.
Program director, well, what are your topics going to be?
I don't know.
I don't do topics.
What do you mean you don't do topics?
I'm going to comment on the news.
You know, real life, real time.
No, no, no, no.
You've got to do topics.
Why?
I don't want to do topics.
I don't want to pigeonholed on Tuesday to carrot cake recipes when something may be breaking out there.
I've got to do topics.
I've got to have guests.
And then when I, right, then when I told him no guests, it became a challenge.
So anyway, Washington Journal does topics.
And their topic today was fixing Congress.
Ideas.
Can you imagine, folks, if I, the end of the program today said, be with us tomorrow, folks, is our topic tomorrow is ideas for fixing Congress.
How many of you would be here?
Very few.
And you can see the C-SPAN topic didn't last one call.
All it took was this call, and the whole topic was blown to smithereens.
Congress is a mess right now, but I think Republicans take most of their marching orders, and this isn't a slam, but I take most of their marching orders from Limbaugh.
And so you get talk radio off the air, get him off the air, so they can't run everything by him, and we'd have a lot better, even America would be a lot better off.
But I don't think Republicans can do one thing without running it by him or getting his input.
And, of course, he hates Obama.
They don't do what he wants done as a whole, then he spends three hours on radio, whatever it is, criticizing, bashing.
Okay, so there it was.
It was put out there.
First call of the day on C-SPAN.
The Republicans don't do diddly squat until they run everything by me.
So you've got to get me off the air to Republicans start being the nice people they really are.
Republicans can't do one thing without running it by Limbaugh, getting Limbaugh's input.
Of course, he hates Obama, so if they don't do what he wants done as a whole, then he spends three hours on the radio criticizing him and they can't get anything done.
Where do you think this guy heard that?
Where do you think this guy, because he obviously believes it?
Where do you think this guy picked up this idea that I run the Republican Party in Washington and that they run everything by me?
That nothing happens there unless I okay it.
Where do you think this guy picked that up?
Because he didn't think of it on his own.
There's no way he thought of it on his own.
Here's the next call.
Pedro Echeveria, viewer calls on ideas for fixing Congress.
So after Lee from Indiana called, we had Phil from South Carolina.
I'm going to slam him before Rush gets a chance to, who think that we should limit talk radio.
People need to get themselves educated, and education can come from a lot of different areas.
Talk radio, is Rush Limbaugh always right?
Far from it.
But the idea is to have an opinion and to think about it and pay a little bit of attention to what's going on around you.
Certainly Limbaugh has helped to quash some bad ideas that have come down the pike in Congress by getting up on the soapbox and let people know what's going on.
It didn't take long.
The Dittoheads came out in force.
I mean, Lee from Indiana was a sole survivor, in a sense.
He was the only guy.
He had a couple of calls that just basically echoed and parroted him, but the Dittoheads came out in force to defend this silly notion that I run the Republican Party and that everything is run through me.
Is Limbaugh always, this guy's wrong about one thing, he's far from it.
But he knows my actuary rating in 99.7, almost always right in 99.7.
So I'm not always right.
He understands this.
Next, Phil from South Carolina.
Nope, take it back.
That was Phil from South Carolina.
Next is Randy from Wisconsin.
The guy called Inabaugh, Rush Limbaugh.
Rush Limbaugh's got a huge audience.
Rush Limbaugh tells the truth.
There's a lot of stations that tell the truth.
And it's just a pretty country.
If you don't want to listen to Rush Limbaugh, don't listen to him.
But I do because he's got it right.
The caller who talked about Mr. Limbaugh to begin with talked about the sway that he thought that he had over Congress.
Do you think he has that much power over decision-making processes in Congress?
He has no power over Congress.
He is an opinion.
It's his opinion of what he sees and what he reports.
It's just the radio talk show.
If you don't like him, don't listen.
That is Randy from Wisconsin.
See, people are smart.
You people in this audience are smart.
You're critical and independent thinkers.
You're not mind-numbed robots.
The mind-up robot of this exercise is this poor guy from Indiana named Lee who's simply repeating the drivel and insanity that he sees on left-wing websites out there.
I mean, Stumba, how ridiculous is it?
All you've got to do is listen here one day and you find out How often the House Republicans do not agree with me?
I mean, it's absurd.
One more, Victor from Indiana.
I think we need to fix Congress.
We need more radio stations such as Russ Limbo, but not, you know, all Republicans, make it Democrat, make it independent and whatever, so that they can tell on Congress what Congress is doing.
We need more Russ Limbos.
We need all kinds of Russ Limbos.
We need Democrat Russ Limbos and Independent Russ Limbos.
I'm all for that, but there's only one that can't be.
Sorry.
Back to the phones we go.
This is Jesse in Folsom, California.
Hi, great to have you on the program, Jesse.
Thank you very much.
I have been listening to your show since I was about 10, 11 years old.
Really get a lot of insight from it.
Appreciate that.
Thank you very much.
Yeah, I was calling to talk a little bit about the White House Summit for the Oppression on Women.
I think there's a couple interesting points.
One of them would be that even though I understand what you're saying, and there's definitely a lot of validity to what you're saying, I think that as an actress, she has some validity to speak to the issue of women in the 60s because actors and actresses these days do a significant amount of research into their roles.
And that's what really makes a good actor and actress.
But I think one of the most significant points is probably looking at the fact that they're bringing Leo DiCaprio in to talk about the oceans, and they're bringing all these celebrities in.
I think that there's an interesting commentary on the state of pop culture in our country and the fact that they're really capitalizing on these celebrities to influence the American people.
And I think there's a lot of influence that comes from these celebrities because our culture has been so dumbed down.
Exactly.
I was just going to say it represents the dumbing down of the culture.
Yeah, anything that a celebrity says for some reason is valid because they're famous.
And I think there's, you know, it's interesting that the White House seems to understand the fact that if they can get these people to endorse the things that they're saying, then, you know, that'll give them definitely more validity in the eyes of the typical low-information voter.
So here's the thing.
Obama at this summit, working women, working family summit, he wants one message.
He doesn't, there's no diversity.
He's going to bring somebody in he knows will say what he wants to say or what he wants said.
And the message at the end of the day here with this working women, he brings an actress from mad men to talk about how bad it was for women in the 60s.
Why not go get one who really lived that period and can testify to it?
But no, get an actress who'll say what you want.
And the idea, the end of this, is to continue the political issue of the Republican war on women.
That's all this is about.
You know, it actually would be pretty cool if the Republicans ran everything by me before they did it.
Can you imagine every morning when we arrive, there's a packet from the Republicans in Washington, and it contains whatever agenda items, and they want my sign-off or approval on.
That would be pretty cool if that were the case.
There'd be a lot of progress up there.
You can only dream.
I had to read this story twice.
It is from Detroit.
It's a basic human right.
Water.
Is it?
Is water a basic human right?
Is water a right or is it a necessity?
Could you say that food is a basic human right?
Health care is not a right, by the way.
I know some of you low-information people can't believe anybody would say that, but there is no right to health care.
And it's questionable that there's a right to water and a right to food.
But nevertheless, that's what the story is.
So let's just stick with it here.
It's a basic human right, water.
But could the United Nations soon help the Detroit Water and Sewage Department provide the service to struggling customers?
Detroit Water Department spokeswoman Kertrice Garner said it is a possibility, but for now the water bills have to be paid.
Kertrice Garner said the reality is that nearly half of the customers of Detroit water and sewage.
What an agency to combine those two things.
Let me start again.
Certrice Garner, who is the head honcho at the Detroit Water and Sewage Department, said the reality is that nearly half of the customers of Detroit water and sewage cannot pay their bills.
And that has led activists to lobby the UN to step up and take action.
You believe this?
Sadly, I do.
Certrice Garner actually thinking of asking the UN to come in and pay the water bills for people who live in Detroit because they can't afford them.
Now, if I were the president of the United States and I had somebody at some sewage department, at some city in my country asking for the UN, I would be fit to be tied.
Kertrice Garner said, well, we do have programs that help those that are just totally in need, can't afford it.
We also know that there are also people who can't afford it, cannot pay.
And we know this because once we shut the water off, the next day they're paying the bill in full.
So we know they can, they just don't.
So we know that this has become a habit, not paying for it.
And at the Detroit water and sewage department, it's not our goal to shut off the water.
We want people's water on, just like they do, but you have to pay for your water.
That's the bottom.
Isn't it comforting to know that at Detroit Water and Sewage, they want the water on?
I'm glad that they've made that clear.
There must have been some doubt about it.
There must be some people in Detroit who think that the Department of Water and Sewage doesn't want the water on.
Can you imagine that?
Some people are not paying for it, and they can't believe they have to, and so they're not paying, and so she wants to call the United Nations in.
Certrice Garner of the Detroit Water and Sewage Department said, the reality is that nearly half of Detroit water and sewage customers can't pay their bills.
And so they have, they've lobbied the UN to step up and take action.
The average Detroit water bill is now $75 a month.
That is much higher than the average rate in the country at about $40 a month.
Anybody want to take a guess as to why the average monthly water bill in Detroit is $75 versus $40 in the rest of the country?
What would you say is the explanation for this?
That's liberalism.
They can't run the...
I don't know.
This is...
It's.
This is just.
This is a national embarrassment.
Detroit used to be a diamond city.
It used to be a destination.
It used to be a great, great place.
It's just stunning what has happened to this city under the total control of liberals and liberalism for all of these years.
And now it's to the point they want the UN to come in and pay people's water bills?
Helen in Alexandria, Virginia, you're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Rush.
I'm going back to Mad Men, if you don't mind.
And I worked in ad agencies in the 1960s.
We have an actual 60s woman here.
Thank you for calling.
Absolutely.
Yes.
And I know how to behave like a 1960s woman, not like the girls.
I wish they had called me to use me as a consultant, especially for the hair and clothing.
But anyway, nobody did.
I was the first person in my office to wear a pants suit.
So we're going way back.
It was a designer suit, of course.
The three heads of the agency had a 30-second meeting and decided that suits were okay as long as it was a suit, but no pants or trousers without a matching top.
So, and that was the men who decided that, right?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, the owners were men.
There was one very famous, she married Braniff Airlines.
Good God, marry somebody.
Anyway, so there was only one real, during those times, head of an ad agency.
And anyway, I was replaced by a more experienced TV production man.
But that was fine with me because I was experienced beforehand in print production.
So I did print production instead of TV production.
Worked out fine.
And there was harmless, polite flirting.
And it was not.
You can't do that now.
You cannot get anywhere near that now.
I'm sorry, what did you say?
You can't.
You can't get anywhere near harmless flirting now unless you get a release signed in advance.
Yeah.
From the woman who might be offended.
Exactly.
There were no such women like that around in those days.
No, you could openly flirt and you could dish it back.
Exactly.
Yeah.
And you just learn how to handle it all.
And that's how life is.
Well, what do you think of the way the secretary is the assistant?
The portrayal of all women.
What do you think of it on Mad Men?
Do you watch it?
On Mad Men?
I had to stop watching it because it was so incorrect in the depiction of the behavior and the clothing and the hair.
Yeah.
The hair.
Yeah, the hair wasn't right either in the show, in the Madman show.
Yep.
Yeah, lots of things were wrong.
Like how?
Whose hair was wrong in Mad Men?
Pardon me?
Whose hair?
Well, what hair was wrong?
The way they're doing it on the show.
Now, I haven't watched the show in a long time, so they may have gotten wised up to it, but the hair was quite different.
You know, people didn't go to beauty parlors all the time, they did their own hair, and it just wasn't like that.
Oh, I see.
It didn't look as coif.
Well, it's a TV show, and they have to make some allowances.
See, this is my point.
And by the way, the guy that called from Folsom, California, Jesse, he's got a good point.
Some actors and actresses actually do research roles.
But in the end, all they're doing is reciting words written for them by the writer, approved by the director and the producer.
They're acting on sets created by the producer and the set designer.
It's all make-believe.
Now, in some cases, certain shows like Mad Men, they've tried to be as period-correct as they can with furnishings and this kind of thing.
But when you bring in an actress, just like bringing Jessica Lang and Jane Fonda in to testify about the trials and tribulations of farm wives because they played them in movies, sorry, doesn't get there for me.
When you have the real-life example easily obtainable, you go get the actress who doesn't know.
She doesn't know.
All she knows is what she's being told.
Who knows where she's researching it, and who knows what she's being told about various aspects of it, and by whom.
So, the point, you bring in an actress because that will cause all kinds of people to pay attention to the summit who otherwise wouldn't.
And then, if the actress is going to say the right things that advance the president's political agenda, which of course is going to happen, and what is the agenda?
What's the whole point of this thing?
The working women's summit is a what?
It is a summit on the oppression, the mistreatment, the subjugating, the subordination of women, as though it is still ravenant, still prominent, still happening in the vast majority of places.
And it's just hell out there for women, and this is because of the Republicans.
That's the subtle reason for it.
And we've got to overcome the old-fashioned, fuddy, duddy Republicans who want to keep women barefoot, pregnant, in the kitchen, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
So, you know, I know some actors do research things, but even at that, it doesn't make them experts, particularly when you could go find people who were actually doing that job, still alive every day in this country, who can tell you what it was like.
But if they weren't going to say what you wanted them to say, then you better go get somebody who is good at reading their lines.
Okay, greetings and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
I never properly introduced the program in this hour.
I just got straight back into the Clintons and their wealth.
It's Rush Limbaugh's EIB Network 800-282-2882.
The Ed Klein book is called Blood Feud, and based on the chapter Hillary's Heart, I think it should be called Blood Clot, but that's a different thing.
The chapter on the one of the chapters, chapters that appeared early, it was excerpt in the New York Post yesterday that details the hatred the Obamas and Clintons have for each other.
I read it, and this is, I'm not alleging it doesn't exist.
It isn't true, any of that.
But some of the quotes strike me as odd in the sense that I don't know people who speak this way.
Let me give you an example.
Here's how the excerpt yesterday begins.
Outwardly, they put on a show of unity, but privately, the Obamas and Clintons loathe each other.
Okay.
Privately loathe each other.
Publicly put on a show of unity, but privately loathe.
Now, words mean things to me.
You loathe somebody.
You dislike them beyond hate.
Hate and loathing are two different things.
And then they quote Bill.
I hate that man, Obama, more than any man I've ever met, more than any man who's ever lived, Bill Clinton said to friends on one occasion, adding he would never forgive Obama for suggesting that he was a racist during the 2008 campaign.
I hate that man, Obama, more than any man I've ever met.
More than any man who ever lived.
I don't know.
I talk that way.
Look, I hate that man, Obama, more than any man I ever met.
More than any man who ever lived.
Would he tell people this?
If they've got this public show going on of unity, you know, one of the things, you never betray your true feelings about people.
You keep those small point.
Let's move on.
And the feeling is mutual, Mr. Klein writes.
Obama made excuses not to talk to Bill while the first lady privately sniped about Hillary.
On most evenings, Michelle Obama and her trusted advisor, Valerie Jarrett, met in a quiet corner of the White House residence.
They'd usually open a bottle of Chardonnay and catch up on news about Sasha and Malia and gossip about people who gave them heartburn.
Their favorite was Hillary Clinton, whom they nicknamed the Hildebeest, after the menacing and shaggy-maned new that roams the desert in Africa.
It's not menacing.
It's an idiot.
The Wildebeest is an idiot.
Anyway, the animosity came to a head in the run-up to the 2012 election when Obama's inner circle insisted that he needed the former president's support to win.
So Obama finally telephoned Bill Clinton in September 2011, invited him out for a round of golf.
Okay, I would, look, I know I'm not in this world of presidential politics, but I would never call somebody I loathed to play golf with.
I just wouldn't do it.
Not if I really hated him.
And then it says, it quotes Bill telling Hillary, I am not going to enjoy this.
I've had two successors since I left the White House, Bush and Obama.
And I've heard more from Bush asking for my advice than I've heard from Obama.
I have no relationship with the president, none whatsoever.
I'm not going to enjoy this, Bill told Hillary.
Well, why do it?
I really can't stand the way Obama seems always to be hectoring when he talks to me.
I can't stand it.
Sometimes we just stare at each other.
It's pretty damn awkward.
Now we both have favors to ask each other.
It's going to be very unpleasant, but I got to get this guy to owe me and be on our side.
He's explaining all this to Hillary.
He's explaining why he's going to go out and play golf with Obama because Obama wants to, because they need each other, even though they hate each other.
During the golf game, Clinton didn't waste any time reminding Obama that as president he had presided over eight years of prosperity while Obama had been able to dig the country out of the longest financial doldrum since the Great Depression.
Bill got into it right away, said a Clinton family friend.
He told Obama, yeah, you know, Hillary now, we're gearing up for a run in 2016.
You know, Hillary be the most qualified, most experienced candidate maybe in history.
Well, I guess I can see him taunting Obama with it.
This sounds like, I don't know, grade school shatter back and forth.
All right, a little break here is the top of the hour, my friends.
Reorganize the stacks of stuff and get back here and get some of the other stuff I haven't touched on yet, such as the influx of illegal immigrant kids.
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