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June 24, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 24, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
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Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence and Broadcasting Network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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We got some good news yesterday.
Rush Revere will soon be El Rushbo Revere.
Rush Revere, Time Travel Adventures, the Exceptional Americans, Rush Revere, and the Pilgrim Book, the first book will be translated into Spanish.
Yeah.
Yes, sir, Rebob, yes, sir, Rebob.
We've been working on this and we've come to an agre.
El Rushbo Revere.
Will soon be translated into Espanyol.
And uh Well, you know, we've donated a lot of books.
We've done in fact I saw a story, some I I don't even remember who, but it was somebody got uh uh the big story of the fact they donated, I don't know, 40,000 books to some school somewhere.
And I uh I copied it and pasted, I sent it to Catherine.
I said, Do we ever get anything like this for the tens of thousands of books that we've donated?
She wrote I said, no, because we don't call the press when we do it.
Um and that's true.
But anyway, it is big news, and this is um I've I've gotten so many emails from you in the audience suggesting that this be done, and that the transcripts of this program every day be uh translated into Espanol.
But we uh we pulled that off with the with the book.
Also, a programming note, one hour from now, we're going to uh have as our guests on the phone, Vice President Dick Cheney and his um and his daughter Liz will be with us uh for I think the first half hour of the next hour and talking about uh the the mess that has become of American foreign policy and what the Cheneys are trying to do about
it.
And last night uh on the Fox News channel, so I I just told the broadcast engineer I wasn't gonna do this soundbite now, but now I'm gonna do it.
I it just it's last night on the Fox News show, what was it?
It was the uh it was the O'Reilly factor, and the uh the guest last night was Dr. Krauthammer.
And I only say it that way is because Henry Kissinger said it that way to me when it kept talking to me one time about the great Dick Emma cut that he liked.
And you know me, I'm a student of voices, and so it just stuck with me.
I don't say it to disparage anybody, just to be flexible and different, Nick out Emma.
Anyway, Dr. Krauthammer was on the Fox News channel last night, and it was during the uh the story that O'Reilly calls personal, a personal story segment, and talking with uh Crownhammer about the United States retreating from the world, and uh O'Reilly said to Crownhammer, many people, including me, think this.
Charles, just how bad is it out there?
There's a big difference between decline as a condition and decline as a choice.
What we have with Obama is a president choosing decline.
This is very much unlike how many people talk about decline as a condition, a result of something wrong with America.
We have a president who doesn't believe in American exceptionalism, American greatness, and he has chosen for America to retreat from the Middle East to not lift a finger in places like Ukraine, basically to make us one nation among others, and that is a choice.
Now I know that you all have heard me say this before countless, countless times, many years.
I've been saying it since the beginning, but I'm happy now to have it out there.
I'm happy another person has the courage to call this what it is.
And I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you, I am I'm becoming more and more convinced that Obama is not just satisfied with managing America's decline.
I think Obama's greasing the skids.
I think Obama is trying to hasten America's decline.
How else can you interpret the parade of bad news that we face every day?
I mean, if if if if if Obama had had his way, we would have gone to war to put ISIS in power in Syria.
Have people forgotten that this is the same group?
ISIS in Iraq is the same group in Syria that we were almost going to throw Basher Assad overboard for.
This was the red line.
We were a red line, Obama did, and dared Assad to cross the red line, and all along, as we suspected from the beginning and said so, that it was Al Qaeda related groups making themselves look like average ordinary citizens.
That this did not look like standard ordinary behavior from Basher Assad.
And Obama, search your memory banks, folks, if you recall, if Obama had had his way with this red line business, we would have gotten rid of Assad, which would have put ISIS in Syria in power.
That's the kind of mastermind he is when it comes to foreign policy.
And the sad thing is that Obama probably still regrets not using force to topple Assad and give the country over to the ISIS terrorists.
And it's not, I don't want to be misunderstood.
It's not that Obama is pro-terrorist.
He's just got this thing about people in power that they're unworthy of it, unjustified, particularly the United States.
I love what Krauthammer said here because it's exactly what I said starting June 16, 2009, and have been excoriated for.
Give you an example.
October 18, 2011.
Let's go back.
This is just one of the many times I talked about the country in decline and choosing it, Obama choosing it.
Obama wants to manage a nation in decline.
It is what we deserve.
We have been an illegitimate superpower for way too long.
We became a superpower by stealing resources from around the world with imperialism and a military.
And it's time we found out what the rest of the world has had to live like because of us.
And nobody can convince me that that is not Obama's attitude and mindset.
I said three years ago, October 18th, 2011, into Obama's second year in the oval orifice.
And how many times have we discussed on this program Obama's distaste for American exceptionalism and anything special about the United States and his retreat from the world, not lifting a finger to help anybody else?
It's all we've talked about it.
So I'm I'm I'm really happy, folks.
I really to have uh uh Dr. Crowdhammer on Fox make the same point we've been making here for three or four years, and a lot of other people have been too.
And I just, you know, you remember back on January 16, 2009, when I said I hope he fails, and it is my contention, everybody knew what I meant then and chose to mischaracterize it and distort it into my uh saying I wanted America to think.
It's the exact opposite.
I wanted America to succeed and prosper.
I wanted Obama to fail at exactly what he's doing.
And I want to reiterate, I don't think Obama is just satisfied with managing America's decline.
I think he's trying to grease the skids.
What do you what do you call what's happening at the southern border?
This business with the IRS and Trey Gowdy, by the way, the Republicans on this committee last night, the House uh uh oversight committee, ISIS committee, they were damn good last night, and Trey got, and they were not shouting and screaming, even some Democrats.
I'll tell you what's happening out there.
With this IRS business, even some Democrats are obviously getting email from their constituents because some of the Democrats did a 180 last night and themselves were not tolerant of this guy Koskanen, who, by the way, has donated a hundred thousand dollars to the Democrats.
The IRS commissioner is a Democrat radical partisan.
$100,000.
It's why he's there, by the way.
So Craig Audi, though, who is going to run the select committee on Benghazi was just was just fabulous.
Just, you know, he's asking Coskins.
No, I didn't break any law, and Gowdy says, Well, you know what the law is?
Can you can you qualify name me the statutes here?
And Coskin didn't know what he was talking about.
The uh the only Democrat that is uh left, well, not the only, but the most prominent Democrat remaining apologizing to Coskin and asking for forgiveness is Elijah Cummings, who himself is hip deep in this mess in the sense that he has found himself on the side of the IRS and against the American people.
So we've got the audio sound bites of that coming up.
But the VA, no matter where you look, I mean, yesterday, the White House, the Obama does this, this family what, uh, women's issues summit.
I mean, we're doing six years, and the guy, all he does is stand up every day and complain about things happening in the country, as though he's not got any power to do anything about any of it.
It's striking.
Does a summit at the White House on Jobs complains about the situation with jobs?
Does a summit at the White House on the economy complains about the economy?
Summit on the White House about family issues or whatever the hell that thing was yesterday, it stands up and complains about it as though he's got nothing to do with it.
No power to do anything about it, as though his policies have had no impact on it, as though there haven't been any policies in everything that's happening.
At the border, the VA, the IRS, Benghazi, whatever you name it, everything happening in this country is the result of Obama policy.
And that's why I say I'm not, I'm just I don't think managing the decline is the proper way to express it now.
I think that he's greasing the skids.
Let me give you to this southern border business.
I want to share with you some of the uh the details from our morning update today, for those of you who didn't hear it.
Six months ago, the regime began planning.
Six months ago now, folks, and we've been speculating, we've been asking ourselves, very logical questions.
We've got 40,000, 50, whatever it is, the number of unaccompanied children from El Salvador, Guatemala, Central American countries, not close.
They're having to take trains.
The train is called a train of death, by the way.
They're taking trains here.
The logical question is where are their parents?
How'd they get out of the house?
Or the village or wherever they live.
Why are their parents not with them?
Why all of these kids at once?
How is this happening?
When did it start?
Why are we not sending them back?
The border patrol has become daycare centers for these arriving kids.
You tell me this is not purposeful.
Listen, six months ago, the Obama regime began planning how to transport tens of thousands of undocumented children from the border.
A January 29th application was posted on Federal Business Opportunities.
That's a website that advertises government contract openings.
So, This particular post says the government was preparing for the arrival of undocumented children, and they were seeking vendors to handle transportation logistics once they got here.
January 29th.
The regime posts job openings on a website called Federal Business Opportunities.
They're advertising contract openings.
They need transportation services for undocumented children that are going to be arriving.
January 29th.
They knew.
Now, this Document states that immigration and customs enforcement, ICE, has a quote, mission critical responsibility for accepting custody of unaccompanied alien children from the U.S. Border Patrol and other federal agencies, close quote.
And then quote, transporting these juveniles to the Office of Refugee Resettlement shelters located throughout the continental United States, close quote.
And it says that there will be, quote, approximately 65,000 of these unaccompanied alien children.
To sum up, January 29th, the Feds post on Federal Business Opportunities, a website that advertises government contract job openings.
They post job openings, preparing for the arrival of undocumented children, as many as 65,000, seeking vendors to handle transportation logistics.
ICE has a mission critical responsibility for accepting custody of unaccompanied alien children from the border patrol and then transporting these juveniles to Office of Refugee Resettlement shelters located in the US.
So they were seeking transportation for 65,000 unaccompanied alien children back on January 29th.
The spokeswoman for ICE, Barbara Gonzalez, confirmed that this posting on January 29th was authentic, but she could not provide any additional information in response to questions from the website The Blaze.
She promised to get back to them when more information became available.
They are still holding their breath at the Blaze.
They're turning blue there.
Now, what's clear is that the tens of thousands of children crossing the border from Mexico, Central America, they didn't just wake up one day, and they just didn't tell their parents so long, uh, adios, and skip town.
Apparently, this a lot of people suspect this.
Somebody in the regime had advanced knowledge that these undocumented kids would be flooding the border illegally and would require transportation to the Office of Refugee Settlement Shelters.
Now, whoever that somebody in the Obama regime is should tell the president about this.
Somebody needs to go to the Oval Office.
I don't know who, I wouldn't want to be the guy, but somebody better make tracks to the Oval Office right now and tell Obama that this whole thing was planned in advance by somebody.
Don't wait for the newspapers on this, and they're not going to trust me when they hear about it.
But somebody's have to go tell Obama about this, that all these people were planned in advance to show up, these kids, he's going to be mad as hell.
Can you believe?
Okay, so we just learned that back on January 29th, the regime had told everybody to be ready for an influx of up to 65,000 unaccompanied children who, after crossing the border illegally, would mean to need to be transported to refugee shelters.
AP of all places, story yesterday, the Obama administration has released into the U.S. an untold number of immigrant families caught traveling illegally from Central America in recent months.
And although the government knows how many it's released, it will not say publicly.
Well, look at how they lied and covered up the fact that ICE released 36,000 illegal aliens with criminal convictions in 2013.
Remember that.
So why should it surprise us when they refuse to tell us about releasing families?
The regime has a government to grow.
The regime has a party to grow here, and they're going to do It one way or another.
Now, from the article is this interesting little factoid.
The figure is widely believed to exceed 40,000 since October, it's believed to be slightly below the roughly 52,000 children caught traveling illegally from Central America over the same period.
An extraordinary increase since last year that is driving a humanitarian crisis at the border.
So in other words, the number of those released is only thought to be slightly below those who have come across the border.
The bottom line is in January, the regime was predicting and readying the transportation for 65,000 unaccompanied alien children.
The AP reported yesterday that 36,000 illegal aliens, criminal or rather 40,000, well it's really wrong paragraph.
Hang on just a second, it all makes sense.
Remember, ladies and gentlemen, the point here is that Obama is not just managing the decline.
Let me tell you why.
The natural, you know, an airplane, the wing design is such that if you achieve the right speed, the airplane wants to fly.
That's what it wants to do.
The natural thing for an airplane to do that's designed properly is to fly.
Race down the runway, the right speed is attained, and the air pressure is such that you get a differential that causes lift.
It wants to fly.
Ditto the United States economy, the greatest economy, the greatest economy because of its free market principles and its devotion to the individual and rugged individualism, entrepreneurialism, all those.
The American economy wants to grow.
The natural order of things by its design is to grow.
If the United States economy is in decline, then it's a cyclical thing that we go through with maybe recession here, small recession there, recovery.
There's a cyclical pattern to these things.
And in many cases, you can peg recessions to policy decisions, sometimes not.
If it were simply policy, then we could prevent them forever if we wanted to.
So when the American economy is in decline, the natural thing it wants to do is to recover.
more.
Because that's the natural thing the American people want to do.
Nobody wants to be in the midst of an economic decline.
Therefore, when we are in one, and it continues to worsen despite its natural tendency to come out of it.
We're not just witnessing a president managing the decline.
We have a president who is greasing the skids.
Managing is not a, he's not leaving it to chance.
The president is implementing policies guaranteed to continue this decline.
This is what worried me with his election.
This is why in January 16th, I said I hope he fails.
It is why I've been making this point for at least the past three years that this is a decline being managed.
Now I'm making a ramping it up and calling it purposeful.
And I actually always have said, if your memory is um is even halfway intact, you're fully aware of the bold, fearless statements I have made over the past three years about the intent of the president.
It is a purposeful decline, and it's rooted in the belief held by the president that we have not deserved our superpower status because of the way we acquired it.
I mean, that's the simple version of it.
We were colonialists, we were imperialists, we're thieves.
We unfairly used our advantages over people and took what was theirs, appropriated it as ours.
Uh, became big and then didn't share.
And uh basically it.
I mean, in a in a nutshell.
So if you look at all these things that are happening, the IRS scandal, the uh the VA mess, Benghazi, the border, which is suing the state of Arizona for simply trying to enforce what was essentially U.S. immigration law.
I think there's any other conclusion any honest objective person can draw.
So now we learn in January that the regime was expecting 65,000 kids, illegal alien kids, and was asking for job applicants in the transportation logistics field to move them from the border to refugee centers.
Then yesterday the AP has a story.
U.S. releases immigrant families won't say how many, but the figure is widely believed to exceed 40,000 since October.
And the regime put the number in January, and it has not been denied, by the way.
That document posted that website's not been denied at 65,000.
Now there's each time I bring this up when I go check the email, um, I have some people asking questions.
Some of them are legitimate from the standpoint of uh people that may not really know.
I mean, I'm gonna call it ignorance, but some of the questions are not just taunting, in other words, some people are really confused and want an answer.
One of the questions that I just got.
Why do we have to go to Iraq rush?
Why does it matter?
What does it matter, Syria?
Because I talked about Syria.
What does it even matter?
Why do we have to.
Let me tell you why it matters.
And it's never mentioned, because this is somehow taboo to mention something like this.
For example, maintaining the free flow of oil at market prices is one of the reasons we went into Kuwait to kick Saddam Hussein out of there.
Now, when you say maintaining the free flow of oil at market prices, you might as well be showing Dracula the cross.
When liberals hear it, blood and diamonds and oil and it's filthy and it pollutes and it destroys the plant and the Coke brothers are involved in.
It's horribly hate oil and all that.
And they think it's amazing the conspiracy is going on right under their nose with their support that they don't even see, such as the purposeful decline of the United States of America.
And yet you you talk about maintaining the free flow of oil at market prices, and they somehow think some great crime is being committed.
Well, I don't care what they believe or know, oil is the fuel of freedom.
Oil is the fuel of the engine of democracy, if you will.
And the free flow of oil at market prices around the world is crucial, mandatory.
For our country to remain free, an economy to remain viable and growing.
It just is, and so it's it there's a lot of people afraid to talk like that because it makes them sound like greedy capitalists and they don't want the criticism and so forth, but it's just common sense.
But that's just one example.
What what is never mentioned in talking about the projection of American power is the impact it has on global trade.
The uh the economies of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Europe.
Those economies were made possible by the U.S. military.
The free flow of natural gas.
That's what Putin's trying to corner the market on with uh what he's doing in Ukraine and Crimea.
There's a giant pipeline, natural gas from Russia to Western Europe.
He wants total control of it to be able to blackmail Western democracies and the people who live there, be able to charge them exorbitant fees, rates, prices, whatever, unless they do whatever he wants.
But the point is, our military isn't just to protect us against bad actors.
The military is not to conquer foreign lands and peoples and put them under our domain.
The United States military's purpose is to kill people and break things and maintain freedom and defend and protect the U.S. Constitution, but it also serves as an umbrella of safety for world commerce.
This is what a superpower takes on as a responsibility.
You can't, on the one hand, wring your hands as a politically correct liberal and talk about how we are all part of the global community.
We're all citizens in the world, and we must, and then suggest that we become isolationists and get out of the world and leave everybody up to themselves, because when we do that, we make ourselves vulnerable.
When we retreat from the world and bring our military with us, there are negative economic consequences worldwide.
Isolationism will undermine global trade to a point of collapse.
The United States isn't a bully, it's a protector of worldwide commerce.
The United States is defender, guarantor, protector of freedom.
But that's not how Barack Obama sees this country.
And he never has, and I have been trying to point this out to people.
That's why I'm so glad that Dr. Cloudhammer finally just fired both barrels last night.
So that it's uh it's it's it's not something they can just discredit.
Well, you know, Limbo, and he ain't Obama.
Now it's the wider spread this view becomes the better.
And yeah, you know, I'm I'm I'm I don't mind reminding people that I've been consistently warning about this, but I'm not happy about it.
I don't, I I wish none of this had happened.
It was none of this has been necessary.
It just it just it people have been so paralyzed by the racial factors, so paralyzed by the historical nature, so paralyzed by the media on our side into being into being openly critical, legitimately so, of policies that are disastrous, that they've just been allowed to be implemented by fiat almost.
So the consequences are dry, dire.
And they're not accidental.
Remember, the natural tendency for the U.S. economy is to grow by virtue of its design.
The natural order of things is for the U.S. economy to continue growing, and for prosperity and abundance to continue.
There's no reason that we max out.
Only defeatists and pessimists and Democrats think that, well, our share is already too big, and my God, we don't need any more.
It's unfair how much we have.
They totally miss the point.
That as we do well, the rest of the world follows.
We are able to provide disaster relief around the world.
We're able to provide food relief, whatever.
We're able to help nations of the world as long as our economy is growing as well.
But if your perception is that this country is flawed and immoral and unjust and unserving of its stature in the past, and you believe, as Obama does, that it's time we got cut down to size for a whole bunch of reasons.
A, equality, B, fairness, C, so that we can find out what the rest of the world has had to go through.
That's part of it too.
Then the sad little fact is that while Obama thinks he's making the world better by downsizing the U.S., while Obama thinks he's making everything more equal and more fair and punishing this unjust country, what he's doing is allowing the whole world to descend with us.
And that I don't think he gets.
Could be, but I think I think these people really do believe that the more you punish the successful, and the more you take away from them, including the country is a success.
You punish it, you take away from it.
And then redistribute.
Well, that's fair, that's equal, and the better off everybody is.
But how do you distribute what doesn't exist?
How do you redistribute what doesn't exist?
And that's where we're headed.
Gotta take a brief time out.
Sit tight, my friends El Rushbow.
Back after this.
And just a reminder that Vice President Cheney and Liz, his daughter, will be with us at the top of the next hour.
Also in the next hour, great, great, great.
Uh audio soundbites from last night's oversight committee hearing of John Coskett of the IRS, Trey Gowdy, was uh was on fire.
Look at this.
This is the uh the New York Post.
Sixty females, 31 males abducted by Islamic extremists in Nigeria.
Despite all the hashtags, despite all the good intentions, despite all the hoping, despite all the big hearts, despite all the caring, despite all the social media in the world, the kidnappings continue.
Witnesses say Islamic extremists notice they're not calling them Boko Harem anymore, because that's the target of the initial hashtag.
So the drive-by is trying to make it appear like it might have been success, but this is just a new one.
Sixty more girls and women, 31 boys from villages in Northeast Nigeria, security forces denied the kidnappings.
Nigeria's government and military have been widely criticized for their slow response to the object.
Well, why?
They had the hashtag.
Why should they do anything?
I mean, we had calls here.
We had calls from people berating me.
Because I was criticizing the hashtag as insufficient.
Social media, you don't know how important it is.
You don't know how conscious raising it can be.
You don't know how much it can accomplish.
You do not know.
Well, I maybe not, but but the government of Nigeria is being lambased for not taking enough action, and how can you blame them?
They had the hashtag.
Oh.
I'm sorry to do this.
Speaking of social media story for the Wall Street Journal, social media fail to live up to early marketing hype.
And this.
Again, instinctively, I knew...
In May of 2013, the Ritz Carlton Hotel Company bought ads to promote its brand page on Facebook.
After a few days, unhappy executives halted the campaign.
Not because they weren't getting enough fans.
They were getting too many too fast.
We were fearful our engagement and connection with our community was dropping as the fan base grew.
Today the hotel operator has about 498,000 Facebook fans.
Some uh rivals have several times as many.
Rather than try to keep pace, Risk Carlton spends time analyzing the conversations to see what guests like and don't like.
And they basically found out that people get off on saying they're friends and don't do anything after that.
They get caught up in the numbers game, trying to rack up raw masses of fans and followers, believing they were building a solid marketing channel, but that wasn't what was happening.
People just wanted to be part of the story, but they didn't want to take any action because liking somebody on Facebook or doing a hashtag or a tweet was all that was necessary.
But buying a room?
No.
We just want to be among the people like it.
They got caught up in the numbers game, trying to rack up raw masses of fans and look at all of our followers.
Well, I don't know, go there.
See?
In the business world, reality, substance will always trump image.
I mean, Ritz Carlton can survive for a while if everybody thinks everybody's staying there.
But if nobody is, they're not going to stay open long.
And that's just a Sad reality.
And then there's this.
Man-made, this is a study, new research.
Man-made aerosol emissions, like your can of deodorant or whatever it is.
Hairspray, man-made aerosol emissions have helped cool the planet.
Swallow that.
Now, don't misunderstand me about social media.
If you like it and you enjoy it and it completes you, fine.
I am not criticizing it.
I just keep everything in perspective.
Not me anyway.
The Wall Street Journal with an in-depth economic survey.
Social media failed to live up to early marketing hype.
That's all it is.
Anyway, I gotta take a break.
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