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July 2, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 2, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
And greetings to you music lovers, drill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain, the three hours you have been waiting for since yesterday's three hours are back.
We are here, ladies and gentlemen, once again from Los Angeles, the EIB's left coast command center with broadcast excellence just for you.
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So I raced out of here yesterday.
Catherine wanted to watch the World Cup.
And I did too.
I must admit, even though I saw a poll out there that indicates soccer is preferred by leftists.
It's kind of close.
38% leftists soccer, 28% conservative, 27% independent.
I don't know who did the poll, but it's uh they're all trying to figure out you know what what the heck is uh is is is soccer and who in this country likes it.
Uh and what's going to happen to World Cup TV ratings now that the U.S. is out of it.
And the polls said that the vast majority of fans of soccer are liberals.
And then so I wanted to look at, well, where did soccer come from?
Who the hell invented this game?
Because I know who invented golf.
You know who invented golf?
It was a bunch of shepherds in Scotland who got bored tending their flocks, and they had their staffs, and they started hitting rocks around.
And that's how they created the game of golf.
I'm not kidding you.
Way back in the 1700s, 1800s or whatever.
And so I wonder what the roots of soccer were, because I raced out of here yesterday.
I wanted to get home because Catherine was uh when you meet me at the hotel, we're gonna go to a sports bar, but then she said, No, you'll get mobbed.
I said, No, no, no, we can sneak in there and I'll wear a cap and it'll be nice.
No, no, no, no, no.
We're just watching at a hotel.
Well, she went out and got some uh some snacks, and I sat there and watched it for a couple hours, knowing full well that I'm in a minority.
Watching the game because I'm a conservative.
I'm actually pulling for the U.S. And they were dominated totally.
The uh the Belgians were on offense most of the game, but it was close and it was actually uh enjoyable.
So then I just said, okay, where does this game come from?
And it originated with the pig bladder.
Did you know that?
That was the original soccer ball.
A pig bladder.
When you find out where this game came from, you will know why liberals love it so much.
So yeah, pigs are part of football's uh pig skin.
Well, you know, I don't think I'm not sure that that's actually true anymore.
It's lower tradition it it might have used to be, but at any rate, soccer began to evolve in modern Europe, and there's your linkage to liberals right there.
Because they think Europe is a utopia.
They don't have a military, everybody else supports them, and they get around and sit around and play elite all day.
Uh it's in a ninth century.
That's when it began to evolve.
And in England, entire towns would kick a pig's bladder from one landmark to another.
The game was often seen as a nuisance and was even banned for some periods of Britain's history.
Soccer's founding.
A pig's bladder?
How how can progressives, if if you liberals learn that this game's origins occurred after brutality to an animal, that the modern soccer ball traces its roots to a pig bladder?
Animal animal abusing white guys, I mean, let's face it, that's who started soccer.
Animal abusing white guys cared nothing about animal rights, kicking pig bladders, and I'm sure if they ran out of pigs, they went and got a cow bladder.
Now, one bladder fits all.
And they're heading them.
You know, somebody had to figure out, well, yes, you can't touch the ball with your hands.
I'm at all, who would want to touch a pig bladder?
No wonder game is played with your feet only.
Who in the world would want to be throwing a pig bladder around?
So you can only kick it and you can somebody had to eventually learn how to head a uh pig bladder.
So it all makes sense.
Folks, when you find out where the game came from, you find where it all came from.
Now, the hobby lobby rule, it's an interesting point to make about this because Mrs. Clinton.
What?
Yes, yes, yes.
I'm gonna get the Bengal.
You think I should have done that first?
No, it's in the top of the stack.
There's a point I want to make here about the Hobby Lobby thing, and we'll get I must be losing it.
The staff thinks I'm not doing the important stuff first.
Anyway, Hillary Clinton thinks that the Supreme Court's ruling in the Hobby Lobby case is a step toward the kind of anti-women policy seen in extremist, undemocratic nations.
Now look, you in this audience know exactly what happened in the Hobby Lobby ruling.
Can I tell you the truth about the Hobby Lobby ruling?
We are in such dangerous territory in terms of losing our freedom that we cheer when five out of nine people uphold the Constitution.
We're not advancing anything, folks.
We are barely hanging on here.
The Constitution is clear in what it says.
But the problem in this country is the and it this has bothered me for I don't know how many years.
Well, it's bothered me practically the whole time I've been doing the show for 25 years.
It seems like the vast majority, not vast, but but way too large, a number of Americans think that the government can do no wrong, that the government should fix what the government breaks.
It is it just it's always frustrated me that people have been willing to give up freedom or give up liberty in exchange for what they think are benefits or security or safety or what have you.
And there has been this trend away from self-reliance for a long, long time.
Self-reliance is now a bad thing.
Self-reliance, individualism is a bad thing.
Going along with the crowd, agreeing with everybody, adapting to the conventional wisdom.
That's what everybody wants you to do.
Controversy can't have that.
We don't want to be around people that disagree.
We don't want to be around people that say things that we don't know.
We don't want to.
And so we had a case where a privately held corporation said the First Amendment grants us the right to practice our religion freedom from any interference.
The government cannot tell us what to worship, how to worship, who to worship, when to worship.
And they said we have a religious belief against abortion.
So we are not going to make available to our employees, we are not going to pay for drugs that kill a human embryo.
Pure and simple.
There are 20 approved contraceptives in this country.
16 of them, Hobby Lobby provides.
Four of them they chose not to.
All the Supreme Court affirmed was they have a right not to provide.
That was it.
The other 16 they pay for.
The four that they refuse to pay for are still available to anybody who wants them, either buying them themselves or asking their insurance to cover them or whatever.
They're cheap.
They're not expensive whatsoever in any way, shape, manner, or form.
Nine dollars a month.
And here comes Hillary Clinton, thinking this decision is a step toward the kind of anti-women policy seen in extremist, undemocratic nation.
It's outrageous.
This woman is either a blithering idiot or a total in the tank statist.
Maybe a combination of the two.
But this is not a step toward anything.
This is a this is a temporary halt in the onslaught toward totalitarianism and authority.
This case, like I said yesterday, this case, the appalling part of the case to me is that it even ended up at the Supreme Court.
But we have people all over this country who are willing for the government to tell them what they can and can't do.
And then we have people all over this country willing and eager for the government to punish people for what they say, for what they think, and when they comport themselves according to the Constitution, when the government and leaders in the government violate the Constitution, that doesn't seem to bother too many people.
Though it is bothering an increasing number of people.
There's a Quinapy Act poll out that's just devastating for Obama, which I'm also going to get to.
But but Mrs. Clinton, she was at the Aspen Institute on Monday with a bunch of other hair brains.
It's a disturbing trend that you see in a lot of societies that are very unstable, anti-democratic, and frankly prone to extremism.
That frankly is utter BS.
Mrs. Clinton represents the drive toward an undemocratic extreme country.
She represents that.
Barack Obama represents that.
The modern Democrat Party and their union allies represent that.
We're on the march to an unstable, anti-democratic, prone to extremism nation under the leadership of the Democrat Party.
And yes, I'm raising my voice on purpose here, because this frankly ticks me off.
We're just barely hanging on.
We cheer.
We conservatives stand up and cheer.
We manage to get five people to see it the right way.
Oh my God, oh Lord, thank you so much, Lord.
Saved another day.
Five people out of nine, five, you know, said the Constitution means what it says.
The troubling thing to me is the four people it didn't.
And the law.
Liberty and freedom is hanging by a thread here.
Obamacare.
Have you seen the numbers?
2.9 million inconsistencies among current enrollees that cannot be fixed.
2.9 million.
And you know why they can't be fixed?
Because the government doesn't know what the hell it's doing.
It has no business being in this business.
They don't have one qualified person that knows how to administer something like this because they don't have anybody with any practical real world, what I call private sector experience.
Totalitarianism stages, or whatever you want to call it, is on the march.
And as my uh friend William F. Buckley used to say, we are standing athwart history and saying stop, is all we're doing.
We're playing defense so much that we don't have time to advance anything.
We're trying to figure out how to save our own party from going down the same path the Democrats are going.
And Mrs. Clinton comes out here and says this is a step toward the anti-women policies.
You know, you talk about how quickly things changed.
I had a caller yesterday that asked me this question when did birth control pills become so important to the human condition, the federal government requires every insurance policy to cover them.
Eye exams, dental exams, dental work are not mandated by Obamacare, but contraception is birth control pills are.
Which is worse.
To go blind from from lack of regular eye exams or to get pregnant.
And again, pregnancy is something that you have to do to cause.
It doesn't just happen to you while you're walking down the street, except in the case of sexual abuse.
But in the normal everyday flow of events, pregnancy requires action that has consequences.
And yet we treat it as a great imposition that women need to be protected from.
It's a sickness, it's a disease, it's whatever, and there's got to be a pill for it.
And yet they wouldn't have the problem if they didn't do a certain thing.
It's that simple.
Democrats, I know they love this war on women thing.
And the scary reason is it works.
It's the most asinine thing in this in the terms of common sense.
The idea that half the country hates women and is engaged in a war on them, and these these daughtering fools on the left.
I'm talking about rank and file stupid liberal voters believe it.
And all we're trying to do is bring some sanity back to things, some some common sense, hold on to a few traditions that institutions that have defined this country's greatness, and one of them being the Constitution, and Mrs. Clinton runs around saying it's a disturbing trend that you see in a what is a disturbing trend.
What happened here?
Is what happened here in the Hobby Lobby ruling even compare to what happens to women in Sharia law Muslim countries about which they never say a thing.
The problem we face is that way too many people, because of public education and who knows whatever, believe, except, without any thought, without any questioning, without any doubt, whatever comes out of Washington, DC, and that Washington, D.C. ought to be in charge of virtually everything.
That's genuine ignorance and stupidity and asininity, and that's what we're fighting.
Led by people like Hillary Clinton.
And she's not the only one, of course, Obama's there.
I gotta take a well, yeah, I do.
I gotta take a quick time out here, folks.
Sit tight.
We've got much more straight ahead.
Do not go away.
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When did all of a sudden they become migrants?
First they were illegal immigrants, then they became undocumented workers, and now they're unaccompanied children, and all of a sudden they become migrant workers.
You know, most places in this country, well, not migrant workers, just migrants.
And you see, Murietta, California, which that's down near San Diego, right?
Muriel, a bunch of people down there said, just get them out of it.
We don't want them here.
Get them away.
And so the media.
Tea Party, Tea Party, Tea Party, racist, bigot, Tea Party doesn't want these poor children in their neighborhoods.
And the and the and the it's not the Tea Party, it's the American people.
They're fed up.
Being overrun here.
You know, this business of I I get so frustrated when self-reliance gets castigated.
When did that happen, Mr. Limbaugh?
I'll tell you when it happens.
You look at somebody down under log, you say, you know, have you thought about trying to get a job?
And you get castigated for saying it's insensitive and insulting to suggest that somebody take care of themselves now.
Get a job.
Easy for you to say.
Well, what else do we?
That's what everybody else does.
Self-reliance, taking care of yourself.
Well, if you suggest that, you somehow are a mean person now.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Also necessary, my skull not big enough to hold my entire brain.
So we adapt.
Great to have you back, folks.
And is a typical headline out here about what happened to Murietta, California.
It's from Reuters, anti immigration protesters block undocumented migrants in California.
That headline is a lie in several ways.
One, these people were not protesting immigration.
They were protesting illegal immigration and dumping.
Number one.
And then Reuters called these kids migrants.
They aren't migrants.
It used to be illegal immigrant, and that didn't fly.
Then undocumented immigrant, then undocumented alien, then undocumented Democrat.
And now migrant children.
Oh, unaccompanied children, and then migrant children.
They aren't migrants.
Do you know do you know why they're not migrants, snertily?
What is what is the characteristic of a migrant?
No, they go home.
Migrants go home.
They come here and do whatever and then they go back.
There is no going back here by design.
Then the Reuters article goes on to say the migrants were sent to California to be assigned case numbers and undergo background checks before most were likely to be released under limited supervision to await deportation proceedings, which is more BS because none of that is going to happen.
Even the PBS affiliate in San Diego, uh KPBS admitted following Tuesday's standoff in Murietta, U.S. immigration and customs enforcement officials said that once the migrants are processed,
they'll be taken to a transition center in Riverside County, set up by a faith-based organization to help the migrants arrange transportation to their final destinations and help them contact family members, parentheses, so they can join them.
They're being taken to Long Island, they're being taken to Texas, they're being taken to Arizona, they're being taken to Murietta, California, they're not being deported, and they're not going to be deported.
The law says, by the way, they don't have to be, because they're coming from nations which are not contiguous with the United States, meaning they won't share a border with them.
But that law went into effect 2002, but we weren't facing an onslaught of 65,000.
Let me let me ask you all a question about the immigration that took place in the uh in the early 1900s at Ellis Island.
You know what the real purpose of Ellis Island was?
If you have seen The Godfather, uh maybe part two, I'm not sure.
If you've seen it, then you might know.
If you don't know your history, but you know your movies, you might know what the purpose, the real purpose of Ellis Island was.
And it wasn't to determine legal or illegal or national origin.
The primary purpose of Ellis Island was to stop anybody who was sick, infectious, or carrying some other kind of disease that could infect the communities in which they ended up.
Well, I have seen stories about the sickness and the disease that is arriving with these unaccompanied children.
And I've also seen stories where doctors have been threatened if they report this.
But some of them went ahead and reported it despite the threats.
That was the whole, I mean, there were more things, of course, that at Ellis Island that were to try to weed out potential criminals and this kind of thing.
And uh, but it that it was it was essentially a large part of it was to keep deadly infectious diseases in mass out of the country.
Now let's go to the audio sound bites.
Um, here is uh a montage of the protest, the people in Murietta, California, who just didn't want these kids dumped in their neighborhood or town.
Go home!
Send them all back!
Go home!
Go back here.
Go back.
Thank you, Obama.
Thank you.
USA.
USA.
Microcosm of what is in people's minds all over this country.
Murieta, California is uh is a middle class upscale community.
And so, of course, the drive-bys try to make a link between the protesters and the Tea Party.
Here's the old reliable Jim Avila on ABC's Wordled News Tonight, a portion of his report about protesters blocking the caravan of the illegal alien children in Murietta, California.
Protesters, some identifying themselves as from the Tea Party, blocking buses filled with about 175 undocumented immigrants who crossed the border in Texas but are being sent to California for processing because the border patrol is overwhelmed.
The demonstrators carrying signs asking the federal government to stop illegal immigration.
Some of whom identified and said they were the Tea Party.
So that's all that was needed.
It's the Tea Party that's trying to stop this, i.e.
the Republican base, i.e.
the element of the population that embarrasses and frustrates and angers Washington.
Those of us who are standing athwart history and saying stop, those of us who are simply trying to defend and protect the country and the Constitution, those of us just barely trying to hang on to our liberty is who these people were representing in Marietta, California.
And they are the bad guys.
They are the bad guys.
simply speaking up whether they know it or not for their own sovereignty.
The buses were not blocked directly.
They were just rerouted to another processing center.
Pure and simple.
What was the total number of people?
Just a little pop quiz here.
I bet you this is going to surprise you.
What's the total number of people processed and entered the United States through Ellis Island between 1892 and 1954?
What do you think the number is?
I know it's a wild guess number.
I'm giving you no baseline.
The reason I'm asking is I'm I bet you that most people think it's just a huge number.
And no, no, 12 million immigrants from 1892 to 1954.
12 million, you here.
When we are a nation of immigrants, we're in We are.
The people who say that we're a nation of immigrants want you to believe that we are all immigrants, and there's nothing because none of us were here originally.
Look what happened to them because we're such rotten SOBs.
That's the modern thinking.
That we're all immigrants.
And so who are we all of a sudden now that we're here to tell these precious sparkling examples of human dignity that they can't come.
And that stole California, stole Arizona.
Oh, yeah.
There's nothing about us that's legitimate.
None of us, and none of what we did is legitimate.
And that is the guiding thought in the minds of quite a few Americans.
I was surprised when I learned only 12 million immigrants entered the country through Ellis Island.
I would have thought it'd be 45 or 50 million.
Based on the pictures I've seen in the reporting and the and just the overall attention given to this whole we are a nation of immigrants thing.
But it's only 12 million people.
So it's my point in mentioning this is that we've never ever had open borders and welcomed everybody and anybody who wanted to come and all of a sudden have turned into rotten mean SOBs denying it's always been that we have strictly controlled who got in for their own good and ours.
Standards.
You can't have that anymore.
You can't be judgmental.
Nobody's better than anybody.
Nobody is more competent.
Everywhere we're all the same, and we are all insignificant.
Unless we are all joined and pooled together, at which point we become a wonderful community.
But individually we don't count for a thing.
Is the modern thinking of modern liberalism?
And so we have no right.
Who are we to say we're better?
Who are we to say they can't come?
We who stopped we we we had to force our way in with guns.
We forced our way in here, and these people are coming peacefully to want a better life, and you won't let them come.
And so this is a way you tar and feather the founding of the country, the discovery of the continent.
This is reprehensible.
Now here's the mayor.
This is Alan Long.
He's the uh he's the mayor of Murieta, California, Steve Deuce.
Let me take a break.
We'll get to these bites when we get back.
Steve Ducey on Fox and Friends talk to the mayor of Murietta.
We'll get to that right when we get back.
Don't go.
Greetings, my friends, welcome back.
Great to have you.
Next time you're in New York, you really need to take one of those circle line tours.
you go out and see the Statue of Immigration.
Now, it used to be the Statue of Liberty, Brad.
That's not what it is.
It's a statue of immigration.
That's what the Statue of Liberty always meant, anyway.
Bring me your poor, you're hungry, you're tired, you're thirsty, you're sick, or whatever.
Bring them.
It's the Statue of Immigration.
As far as today's Democrat Party is concerned.
Statue of Liberty?
Maybe it used to be.
But liberty.
It's a foreign concept, takes too much responsibility.
It's too risky, and uh it's yeah, it's just it's not for everybody.
But immigration, it is.
Here's the mayor of Murietta named Alan Long.
Steve Ducey asked him, why did you want to stop that bus of those kids?
The resident stopped the bus.
Uh we were uh back in the office uh keeping track of our action plan, making sure we had contingencies in place.
This was uh a passionate community that cares deeply about what happens in their community and they're they're exercising their constitutional rights, and we had police officers out there to make sure everyone was safe, uh, including uh those who come through uh Murietta.
He also said this.
The concern is uh while originally they told us 500, we just simply did not have the capacity to do that.
That number is reduced to 140 every 72 hours with no end date.
There's no certain end date.
So you look at the amount of uh immigrants coming across our borders.
They had 50,000 in the last six months.
There's been 30,000 visas issued by the Mexican government on their southern border for immigrants to pass through Mexico to the United States.
There's just no endpoint.
We don't see this stopping anytime soon.
And you hear we we we uh they told us 500.
We don't have the capacity.
It's the bottom line.
We we can't absorb the well, what are we supposed to do with them?
We do not have the capacity.
Well, there's not an endless pile of money in this town, and there's not just vacant buildings uh and people to care for these kids sitting around twiddling their thumbs and doing nothing, waiting for them.
We don't have the capacity and the ability.
And there's no end to it, which is the point.
There is no end to it.
And in the middle of this, who is it that are the heartless?
Who is it that has no compassion?
It's people like the people in Murietta, California.
It's just it's obscene.
It is not compassionate to dump these kids in this country like this.
It is, and that's exactly what's happening.
You can't dump your dog on the street in most of America.
But you can dump 50,000 kids from Central America.
And then let what happens to well, what do you think?
What do you think?
What do you mean now I've done it?
You mean of everything I've said so far today, that is the icing on the cake.
I was not comparing the children to dogs.
I'm talking about the difference in law.
It is illegal to dump animals, pets on this.
You can't just dump them and walk.
If it's discovered, there's a problem.
But you can dump kids.
What are they doing here?
My point is it's illegal to dump kids, too.
But they're not enforcing that.
One more from the nope, that's it for the mayor.
That's the only that's the final set of sound bites we have from the mayor.
Mm-hmm.
Oh, yeah.
I think that I think the liberals love the photo op.
I think the liberals love the chaos.
They mean the people protesting the bus.
Oh, yes, made to order in the White House.
They're salivating.
Poll what poll?
Did you see what happened in Murietta?
No way we can lose this.
Look at all of these people saying no to a bunch of kids.
We are sitting pretty.
That's why this is this is what's this is what is so this is this is not traditional political warfare that's going on here.
This is not two parties with competing ideas, the Democrats and Republicans.
This is one party that is literally trying to destroy this country as founded and make it something else.
And is not honest about it.
And the opposition party didn't have the guts to face that reality and thus deal with it.
So it's left to the people of Urietta, California to stand up and say, stop.
And they end up being the bad guys.
Yep.
I guarantee you they love that soundbite.
They love the photo op.
At the DNC, at the AFL CIO, at the Service Employers International Union, at the White House, Harry Reid's office, and Nancy Pelosi's office, they love that.
Those pictures are going to be on the wall.
Look what we did.
One of our greatest achievements, bringing the people of Muriata, California out of their homes and offices to protest a bunch of kids.
Major, major success story.
Media celebrating.
Look what we pulled off here.
Absolutely.
No question.
But what are they to do?
They're trying to stand up for their community for their for their constitutional rights, which again are teetering.
Still stuns me.
Five out of nine people.
And barely five.
One of the five wasn't sure.
Five people thought the First Amendment of the Constitution still means what it says.
Amazing.
Well, the regime has indicted the lead culprit in the attack in the consulate in Benghazi.
And the indictment, the regime's own indictment, the Obama administration, DOJ own indictment doesn't even mention the video.
That Obama and Hillary said was responsible for the whole thing.
The indictment has undercut the regime's whole point, which I guess they feel enough time's gone by they can't be hurt by the truth now, so to hell with it.
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