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June 25, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 25, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #2
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The views expressed by the host on this program documented to be almost always right, 99.7% of the time.
We uh should be getting a new opinion audit, a report in from the Sullivan Group in California fairly soon.
They've been locked at 99.7% of the time here for uh well going on a year.
It's got to move one way or the other.
And it isn't going to get worse.
I mean, that's for sure.
Great to have you here, folks.
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So how's this for timing?
Hank Henry Paulson, one of the truly smart people, Goldman Sachs, CEO, multi-billionaire, uh, banker extraordinaire, treasury secretary that was the engineer of all the bailouts and TARP during the 2008 so-called financial crisis, where we only had 24 hours to do it, or the world economy would collapse.
And yet two weeks later, the world economy had not collapsed.
Remember that?
We only had 20.
Only had 24 hours to act, the Republicans in Congress only had 24 hours to act, approving TARP and the bailouts.
And if they didn't, the world economy was gonna collapse.
Okay, so on Sunday, Hank Paulson has an op-ed.
I happen to see it, and it was a standalone.
I didn't know of his involvement with the environmentalist wackos at the time.
And in his op-ed, Hank Paulson, is another guy that you would have think, okay, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street, multi-billionaire, filthy rich, worked in the Bush administration.
You would think Republican, you would think conservative, you would think free market here's a guy writing an op-ed, promoting a carbon tax, promoting massive new tax increases on energy.
Why?
Because of climate change.
He made the point that the greatest threat that the economy faces now is climate change.
Well, that was bad enough because that's absurd.
But then on the 20, I guess it was like two days ago, there was a news conference in New York City.
Tom Steyer was there.
Big Democrat donor, hundred million dollars to the Democrats, if Obama will continue to oppose the Keystone Pipeline.
He was joined, Steyer was, by Mayor Doomberg of New York, and Hank Paulson.
And the three of them on stage at the news conference released their uh risky business report titled The Economic Risks of Climate Change in the U.S. And I thought this is brand new.
Economic risks of climate change.
And what it was, this whole press conference was a PR stunt to remake the climate change issue into an economic issue rather than a weather issue or a climate or science issue.
Because it's bombing out.
They're not convincing anybody.
We just had the coldest weather on record.
There are still icebergs in the Great Lakes.
We're coming up on July.
They're blaming the cold water weather for a horrible first quarter economy, and yet they're out there talking about global warming.
So it's not working.
So this is this is what this is.
This is a narrative change right out in the open.
This is a change in the storyline or the or the template.
And they are trying, the purpose of this press conference a couple days ago was to remake the climate change issue into an economic issue And story.
And you can bet your bottom dollar that the drive-by media cannot wait to glom onto this.
They will not talk about the economy.
And how about how about Paulson's timing?
He writes a piece on Monday that global warming, climate change, the biggest threat to the economy, and two days later, the regime announces that the first quarter.
In the first quarter, the economy shrank three percent.
I still can't get over that.
How horrible that is.
And the fact that it is the direct result of policy.
It's the direct result of the cultural decline that's happening in this country.
It's the direct result of open borders and swarms of illegals who are uneducated and poor, swarming into the country.
It's the direct result of Obamacare and the regime taking over one-sixth of the economy, the private sector economy.
So here's Hank Paulson.
He's supposed to be one of the smartest people in the world on Sunday with an op-ed, and guess what?
The greatest economic risk we face is climate change.
They've got to change the narrative.
They have to check because it as a science issue, it's bombing out.
But then Hank's kind of got bitten on the rear end because two days later, here comes the economy contracting by three percent.
And the whole because it was cold.
I mean, imagine in normal circumstances, this guy would be so humiliated and embarrassed and discredited he couldn't show his face.
The economy contracts 3% because it was cold, because if it's cold, it was so cold, nobody could go out of their houses and shop.
It was so cold they couldn't open the malls, it was so bad it was so bad.
And he has a piece saying global warming is the greatest threat to the economy two days later.
Or two days prior.
And the specific item that he mentioned in his op-ed piece that ran Sunday, he called for a carbon tax.
The Democrats have been trying to tax energy in earnest since Bill Clinton in 1992.
That probably predates that.
But Clinton was one of the early proponents of a massive, and his idea was a massive carbon tax, uh, combined with the EPA now assaulting power plants.
This demand that power plants reduce emissions by 30 percent.
Your electric bills, if these people get what they want without a carbon tax, your electric bills are going to skyrocket.
They're gonna skyrocket skyrocket so much you're gonna have to make lifestyle changes.
You're gonna have to really decide you're not gonna be able to use disposable income for gasoline or air conditioning or heating.
You are going to have this is gonna be mandatory spending.
It's it's going to curtail people's lifestyles.
This is it's massive.
The hit that's going to take place on energy costs.
You tax carbon, you're taxing everything.
Gasoline at every level, every stage of the transportation system.
It is going to be punitive.
And here comes Hank Paulson.
They got him, I don't know how.
They think he's bringing credibility.
Treasury Secretary, charge of the bailouts, TARP, oh, smart guy.
And even Paulson realizes we've got to have a carbon tax increase.
And all it's designed to do is to transfer wealth.
It's just designed to spread poverty, folks.
I mean, put it another way.
Rather than say the carbon tax primary purpose is to spread poverty, the primary purpose of the carbon tax is to prevent the accumulation of wealth.
The income tax is a direct obstacle in the way of accumulating wealth.
The carbon tax will be, as are other taxes, and that's what the objective here is to prevent the accumulation of wealth.
Now, I can imagine something Rush, do you realize how ridiculous that sounds?
Why would our leaders, who are looking out for us, why would our leaders who want the best for us, that's the where you're wrong.
Why would our leaders want to prevent us from accumulating wealth?
Wouldn't that mean the economy's doing well?
I'll tell you why.
It's real simple.
You just have to have the courage to understand and admit this.
The reason they want to accumulate or retard the accumulation of wealth is so that you will forever be more and more dependent on Washington, government, whatever.
For the necessities in life.
They own you then.
They're already on the way to owning you with Obamacare.
But that's why it's power.
If you are able, if everybody is able to take an equal stab at accumulating wealth, and a lot of people do, what results?
You've got independent people.
You have self-sufficient people, self-reliant people.
That's the biggest enemy to people who want as much power over other people as they can get.
And that's the express purpose of all of this.
And it has an ancillary effect, it will spread poverty.
It will make people less affluent.
It will make people less wealthy, and it will retard everybody's ability to accumulate wealth.
And they'll justify that with silly talk about uh income equality and family issues and whatever else they need to do to put a scarlet letter S on the achievers and make them suspects, which is part and parcel of what the Washington establishment is all about.
So you probably will be hearing in the not too distant future about climate change as a great economic threat, since they have failed to convince people on the basis of the so-called science, since they have failed to convince you that you are destroying the planet.
The next gambit is to try to convince you that global warming is destroying your ability to earn money.
And that you had better make changes in your lifestyle and allow Washington to take even more control in order to fix this serious problem.
And both parties are part and parcel of it.
That is what the establishment is aiming to do.
And now a brief time out, folks, as the EIB network rolls on, we'll head back to your phone calls.
One quick reminder, do you remember?
Many of you will.
One of the, and there are many of these, one of the instances in this program's history that established me as a great thinker was my acknowledgement that it was necessary for economic commerce to keep the the ugly behind closed doors
during business hours.
The forerunner of this was actually a commentary I did in Kansas City, Missouri, before I got fired for being too controversial.
And this one, the libs at the station actually loved.
There was a story about the economy being bad, the country club plaza was having trouble.
And I uh I said, have you ever been down there?
I said, it's filled with a lot of places that you really can't get into because you can't afford to go into stores.
They're all upscale, high, high uh high expense stores.
And I said one of the things you can be guaranteed of when you go to country club plaza, you will not run into the ugly.
And uh that's fundamentally necessary.
If we're going to have commerce, you've got to keep The ugly out of it.
People run into a store, see a bunch of ugly people, they just want to leave the store.
They don't want to stay there, continue to shop.
They don't want to stare at the ugly, and people that run the stores don't want the ugly in there.
And of course, the Libs thought that I was talking about the poor.
So they thought that I was really all of a sudden had a big compassionate heart here.
And somebody said, Well, how are you gonna ban the ugly?
Because that was the subject.
And we need to ban how are you gonna do it?
I said, well, the easy way first.
We make it voluntary.
The ugly know who they are.
And the accolades I got and received established me as a great thinker, largely because those people misunderstood what I was saying.
I actually was talking about the ugly.
They thought I was talking about the poor.
I said the ugly tend to marry each other, have you noticed.
And the subject has come up.
There were then uglo Americans as a distinction later on in this program.
Well, the ugly are back, is the point.
A study was commissioned.
Researchers had participants write about their attractiveness and ability to empathize before asking them if they'd like to donate to occupy Wall Street.
The short version of this is they found out that if the the ugly, the people who think they're ugly and feel ugly were more likely to donate to the occupy movement and liberal causes.
And I've been on this for 25 years.
I was so ahead of the curve on this.
The ugly happened to be one of my areas of expertise, and I just kind of swerved into it.
We've talked about it on this program countless times.
And so I uh there's a picture here of Rosa Deloro accompanying this story.
I don't know what it has to do with it.
What would that have to do with it?
Yeah.
The web the website for this, one of my favorite new websites, campus reform, which which is a a bunch of conservatives on college campaign across the fruited plain, which are uh they're going against the grain.
Anyway, the the basic upshot of this is that people who think they're ugly or feel ugly tend to associate with liberal Democrat causes, such as occupy Wall Street.
I can tell you why, if you're interested.
But first, another obscene profit timeout.
Don't go away, folks.
Okay, let's hit the phones, and we're gonna start with uh with David Lee's summit, Missouri.
It's great to have you on the program.
Hello, sir.
Hi, Rush.
Hey, for years the Democrats have put policies in place that basically hurt the black community.
But come election time, the Democrat establishment tells the black community, you have to come vote for us, support us, because the alternative is would be so terrible as to vote for somebody that might put a different policy in place.
So now we have a Republican establishment who endorses policies that most conservatives are against.
They don't uh defend conservative policies, and they go after Tea Party candidates, but when their establishment candidate wins the election, they tell conservatives we need to support that candidate, even though that person won't do what the conservatives want them to do when they get elected.
Isn't it exactly the same thing?
Uh yeah, they they they make a play at uh at party unity, but it's on the it's as you say, it's a one-way street.
Um it's they will not in any way, shape, manner, or form support a uh a Tea Party idea or or candidate, but they want the Tea Party to think so.
They want this is the great trick that they're trying to uh perpetrate here, perpetuate.
The establishment wants the Tea Party, even after this debacle in Mississippi.
The establishment wants the Tea Party to think that uh they're they're in support in in in some ways.
But you're I want to go back to the first point you made.
Uh Democrats use the African American vote to cement their power.
Yet Democrat policies have destroyed the black family.
Democrat policies are keeping African Americans poor.
They are denying African Americans opportunity and so forth.
African Americans continue to vote for him.
Yet what do they do?
They then go tell these same African Americans they've got to vote for this Republican, Tad Cochran, because that Republican is going to take away everything we've given you.
So obviously the African American vote does not see the Democrat Party's effect on their life the way you and I see it.
They see the Democrat Party as great saviors.
They see the Democrat Party, even if the Democrat Party really doesn't do anything for them economically.
They are convinced that the Republican Party will, I don't know, do what to them.
Not let them vote.
I don't know what.
The irony of this is that both parties went to voters who are traditionally told, don't ever vote for a Republican.
It's going to be the end of every good thing ever happened to you.
And they end up voting for a Republican.
Thad Cochran in this case, despite being told for 50 years, never ever do that.
You'd Uncle Tom if you'd do that.
Yet they went out and did it.
Amen.
And they went out and did it because they were lied to, which seems to be rather easy to do.
This group seems susceptible to lies.
They were lied to, and they were told that the Tea Party candidate was going to try to suppress their vote and deny them liberty and freedom or whatever else.
And they believed it.
I wonder what the campaign slogan was in Mississippi the past couple days.
Uncle Tom's for fad?
Because I thought it was the worst thing you could do as an African American to vote for a Republican.
The absolute worst thing you could do...
But somehow they were made to believe that voting for old Thad, old Thad uh be fine and dandy.
And and why?
Well, because they were told that Thad's done a lot for uh black people in Mississippi.
It must be the first time they've been told that.
It was nine percentage points.
Insider Republicans in the Senate bought nine percentage points, eight or nine percentage points from the black Uncle Tom voters.
In Mississippi.
Well, what they call Clarence Thomas.
Condoleezza Rice, they call them Uncle Tom's, the Republicans, these guys that voted for Thad, Uncle Tom's for Thad.
Now, I want you to listen to a soundbite here, folks.
Gloria Borger, establishment media babe, who's worked everywhere.
She's worked at Newsweek until it went out of business.
And now she's at CNN, and it's almost should be out of business.
And she was on uh Anderson Cooper, 34 last night.
Wolf Blitzer was the fill-in host.
And uh Wolf Blitzer said, hey, Glory, and he was all excited.
He said, the establishment's coming back.
A lot of folks thought that after Eric Cantor's sudden setback defeat a few weeks ago, all of a sudden a lot of people thought that Chris McDaniel was a very good chance to beat Thad Cochrane.
It doesn't look like that's happened.
We're projecting Thad Cochran the winner.
If I were a potential Republican presidential candidate looking at what's going on in the state of Mississippi, I'd have to say, you know what?
Thad Cochran is a conservative Republican.
He managed to get out Democrats, many of them African Americans, some moderate Democrats, and formed a coalition because they could cross over and vote for him in this Republican primary, which is kind of a quirk in This state.
But if you look at the coalition that he's established, and I'm a Republican who wants to broaden the tent of the Republican Party, I'd be looking at that and saying, you know, that's a very interesting uh group that he's put together, and it's something that the Republican Party ought to consider as it heads into 2016.
How clueless do you have to be to seriously say that on CNN?
That Thad Cochran put together this winning coalition of black voters and moderate Democrats, that all Republicans should heed the lesson.
All Republicans should learn this is what they're going to have to do if they are going to win elections.
They're going to have to put together and Thad Cochran put the Thad Cochran to this moment to know what happens.
He's just sitting there, he's the robot recipient of all this.
I we'd have to ask her if she thinks that this same coalition is going to vote for Thad Cochrane in November, but what anybody want to take any bets on that?
This isn't a coalition.
Thad Cochran didn't put anything together.
The people that came out and voted in that primary yesterday, African Americans and Democrats did not do it because they love Thad Cochran.
They didn't do it because of Thad Cochran's machine and his brilliant strategy and campaign and all that.
They did it because they were lied to by Republican and Democrat establishment types who told them that the Tea Party candidate wanted to who knows I don't know what do to them.
Well, there was a flyer that went out that said the Tea Party doesn't want you to vote.
Chris McDaniel does not like you able to vote.
Big pamphlet that went out.
So but this is classic.
This is how the inside the beltway establishment thinks.
This is why they think Republicans ought to do amnesty.
They get some Hispanics and this is put together a coalition of these minorities, and this is how you win.
Except it's not what happened.
And it won't happen again in November.
These people that voted one time for Thad Cochran are not going to cross the aisle and vote for him again.
But on the other side of this, it is, I think now, undeniable that 8% of the Thad Cochran vote was African Americans from African American counties.
Now look, take just forget everything else and just look at that.
Look what happens when that happens.
I mean, how many times have you heard people say if the Republicans could just bust up that Democrat black voter coalition, if just just you don't have to get them all, just get 10% of them, just get 5% of them would change everything.
Well, in a way this sort of illustrates that, but at the end of the day, it really doesn't, because these people weren't voting for Thad Cochran.
They were voting against the Tea Party because they had been lied to about what the Tea Party candidate was and what he believed.
They weren't voting.
Do you think they were voting for Thad Cochran?
There's no way they're voting for that.
He didn't put together any kind of coalition.
But it goes to show in some ways, you know, the Democrats could be a little fearful, because they're the ones that made this happen.
Well that's see, that's the thing for me.
If the if the Republicans, the establishment Republicans, would just spend 10% of the energy they expend trying to beat Republicans into beating Democrats.
Who knows what we might be able to accomplish.
The Republican establishment spends more money and more time trying to beat other Republicans than they ever.
Well, not they do raise money to beat Democrats in elections.
But I mean you you get my point here.
I mean, they really this they were passionate about this.
They they they it was all out warfare.
This was seek and destroyed.
This was leveling everything.
This was a nuclear attack.
The kind of attack they will not launch on Democrats.
They are happy to launch on their own people.
Here's Scott in Jacksonville, Florida.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Raspberry 2F by T Megadiddos from Jacksonville, Florida.
Well, thank you, sir.
Great to have you here.
Well, welcome, thank you.
Two thoughts.
First, I think this is the best season of 24 yet.
You do?
Yes, I do.
I loved it when Jack threw that lady out the window.
It's incredible.
Spoiler alert, I haven't seen the most recent episode, so I haven't seen Jack throw anybody out the window.
All I saw was him electrocute somebody to death.
Well, I also like the last ship.
I'm a U.S. Navy veteran, Rush, and I thought the last ship uh was a good episode.
Uh the ship was heading toward Mayport, Florida.
And kind of a home run there.
Now the the the last ship, they they showed two episodes, right?
Just one, sir.
How long was that episode?
It was an hour.
Really?
Yeah, on TNT last Sunday.
One hour?
Yes, sir.
Because when I went to iTunes to download it, there were two shows I downloaded.
No, I need to jump on iTunes then and get it.
Yeah, there were two episodes on iTunes.
I thought they aired two episodes, in fact.
Okay, maybe.
Only aired one episode?
Oh, well, you can get the second episode at iTunes right now.
Can we go to Rushlandbaugh.com and maybe download it from there?
Uh yeah.
I wish I had that franchise.
I was watching a preview of David Gregory's interview of President Clinton for Meet the Press last night.
Did you see the impression on Hillary's face when Bill was talking about Hillary and all this pro bono work she's done and how she's helped the single moms and feeding the poor.
Hillary had that same smug look as the IRS commissioner has during these hearings.
I didn't see that.
I haven't seen uh David Gregory except except in still shot stories about how he doesn't have any ratings anymore.
I haven't seen Meet the Press.
I really I don't think I've watched it since he took over.
The last I the only pictures of David Gregory I've seen have been in news stories about how Meet the Press has lost its lead.
Now, are you familiar with the Ed Klein book on the Clintons and Obamas called uh Blood Clot?
You know, I've Yes, I've uh looked at it, you know, some political reporting and stuff, giving some escape yes.
Well, I have uh I have a I have a friend who's just obsessed with this.
And already listened to the whole thing in audio and has sent me a page and a half summary.
Mm-hmm.
So I don't have to read it.
I read one of the excerpt chapters on Sunday, uh, and I was just I was struck by how juvenile the conversation is between four of the supposed smartest people in the world, almost to the point of not believing it.
And I'm told, no, no, no, no, apparently it's true, they are juveniles.
It's a big the the the big joke on everybody is these are not the brightest people anywhere near the brightest people if this book is correct.
You know, Rush, you're exactly right, because I did read a quote from there that uh President Obama was uh having his Blackberry like under the table and reading some stuff from there, and I about fell out of my chair.
Really?
I mean, if you and I were having dinner, you know, and we're talking, and really I'm gonna use my blackberry and not even pay attention to you?
I don't think so.
Yeah, I know.
I've never had anybody do that to me.
Right.
Um but I I I can believe Obama would do that.
Uh anyway, I have this summary of the book, and I thought, well, you know, just I I don't want to I don't want to get in the way of people who want to buy the book.
I don't I don't want to negatively impact sales of Mr. Klein's book.
And I don't think this summary does that.
I think the book is a lot more juice in it.
These are just highlights.
But if it's all true, then it's really uh great reporting by Mr. Klein, if all of this is true.
He's found stuff that nobody else has found, and he's found people willing to talk about it that nobody else has found.
And they and the upshot of it is that the Obamas and Clintons literally hate each other.
And that Valerie Jarrett really hates Bill Clinton and did not even want to give him a speech slot at a Democrat convention in Charlotte.
That both families are obsessed with the Oprah.
But that the Oprah has tired of the Obamas.
She has nothing left for him.
No use for the Obamas.
Oprah is over them.
Um Um And that my uh my uh uh Michelle Obama was in fact toying with the idea of running for the Senate from Illinois, but decided not to because there's no Air Force One to fly around on,
and so is trying to put together a one billion dollar book deal with Valerie Jarrett, who supposedly is both of their best friends.
Valerie Jarrett best buds with Barack.
Valerie Jarrett, best buds with uh with Michelle.
It makes it the book makes the point that that these four people are not in any way the brilliant public figures and politicians that public image would suggest.
I got a lot of stuff here as a summary uh in this book.
But I didn't see the uh the interview that you're talking about.
But as to the Clintons, by the way, the one thing the book makes clear is that it's Bill who's obsessed with getting Hillary back in the White House so he can get there.
It is Bill that wants back in there.
And also, Bill has a a bachelor pad apartment at the top floor of the library and massage parlor in Little Rock, and that's where he takes, because nobody in Little Rock says a word about what goes on there.
It's totally private and kept secret, and whatever goes on in there, nobody ever leaks.
That's his getaway and hideaway.
He and Hillary don't live together, they have separate lives, but they do love each other.
Stuff like that in this book.
We just happen to have the David Gregory sound bites with uh with Bill Clinton.
It was yesterday in Denver during a Clinton Global Initiative.
Uh well, wait a minute, no.
Wait a minute now.
I thought this is it's uh.
Well, no, it's not Gregory interviewed, it's Clinton anyway.
Uh we may as well play it.
I thought it was Gregory interviewing, but it isn't.
It's Clinton at this uh Clinton Global Initiative, which is you know all that is a way to get supermodels from around the world on stage and eventually to Arkansas.
Well, you laugh, but that's what it is.
Supermodels for all the attendees.
You go ahead and laugh in there.
What the hell do you think this is?
Who are we talking about here?
Oh, it's just it's disguised as philanthropy, AIDS and malaria, and you know, all the correct liberal diseases and so forth.
It's a supermodel uh uh collection.
It's a it's a it's like homing pigeons for supermodels for all the attendees.
You go through the motions of raising money and thanking people during the day and nighttime is what this thing's really all over.
We're talking about Bill Clinton here.
Anyway, in Denver, Clinton Global Initiative.
Uh this is Bill saying that they're not out of touch, that they go to the grocery store on weekends together.
It is factually true that we were several million dollars in debt.
Everybody now assumes that what happened in the intervening years was automatic.
I'm shocked that it's happened.
I'm shocked that people still want me to come give talks.
She's not out of touch.
And she advocated and worked as a senator for things that were good for ordinary people.
And before that, all her life.
And the people asking her questions should put this into some sort of.
They're not letting this go.
I think this is fascinating.
The idea that they were broke.
Clintons are gonna not stop until everybody thinks it.
I mean, that was absolutely true.
I mean, I'm shocked we were broke.
We absolutely had nothing.
And Hillary, as she went, she worked the Senate.
I mean, she'd been tireless.
She did the things for ordinary people.
And before that, for me, uh all her life.
Uh, she she'd been she'd been advocating and working for I've been an ordinary person, somebody somebody lesser than the Clintons.
He talks to the ugly.
An ordinary person is somebody lesser than the Clintons, who will benefit from the fact that the Clintons are alive thinking about the Clintons.
Folks, another obscene profit timeout here at the top of the hour.
But hang in there and be tough.
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