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July 9, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 9, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hi, folks, greetings.
Great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh back at it on Hump Day.
It's Wednesday.
Well, Hump Day is only applicable to people at work.
And there are fewer and fewer of those.
I'll tell you what it used to be.
Hump day was when when people used to work five days a week.
When you when you get to Wednesday, you finish when you're over the hump.
You'll make three down, two to go.
That's that's what it meant.
Sorry to date myself like this.
Trying to stay young here, folks.
Telephone number.
Hump day certainly would have a new meeting today.
So Obama was offered some chew him out there in uh wherever, wherever, I know I can't keep up with him, wherever he is.
Was in in Denver, he's out there playing pool.
We got a border crisis out there playing pool.
And somebody offered him a hit.
Doobie.
He had to be tempted.
You know he had to be tempted.
Because he's out there, he's trying to.
The last thing this guy can afford to look like is the president right now.
He's got to look like anything other than the president in order to stay in tight with the low information pop culture crowd.
I mean, that's that that is how, ladies and gentlemen, he that's part and parcel limbotheorum when all of this chaos is visiting the country.
He can't act in charge of it.
He's got to act like he just one of the guys.
And he's upset by it too, and he's this is how he's dealing with it.
He's hanging around with the peeps, and he's running around shooting pool.
He's going to bars, and then uh some local weed actually offered the president of the United States a hit.
In fact, we have the sound bite.
It's the very last one.
Grab number 19.
It's only three seconds.
Um you're gonna have to listen fast to this.
But it's at a bar where they sell adult beverages.
And there's a there's a pool table, and Obama's in there shooting shooting pool.
He's relating to the people.
And uh he was asked whether he wanted to smoke marijuana, my fellow patron in the bar.
Do you want to hit this?
And Obama left.
Imagine that being asked of Well, Clinton, yeah.
When Clinton, hey, hey, you want to inhale?
You want to inhale tonight?
Hey, you want to hit this?
Can you imagine?
The guy knows.
The patron knows.
Obama's a tumor.
Anyway, folks, uh you gotta find things to make you smile.
You have to find things that you can somewhat chuckle and laugh at.
It's what we do here each and every day.
Ted Cruz has um the big controversy over Obama not going to the border.
And a bunch of Democrats are getting really worried about the optics here.
They're getting really worried.
This is going to be Obama's Katrina moment.
Now, if just refresh your memory.
Bush's Katrina moment was when he flew over New Orleans after the hurricane had gone through there.
He was looking out the window of Air Force One, and a photographer snapped a picture of Bush looking out the window, flying by New Orleans.
Now, the president said at the time, I can't land down.
If if if I land, it's gonna upset everything.
It's gonna take people away from their jobs, added security.
I'm just gonna get in the way.
The protocols of security involving me on the ground make me an intrusion on recovery and and and other efforts down there.
So he stayed away.
And they poo-pooed that and they laughed about that, and they said that's just Bush being lazy.
That's just Bush showing he doesn't really care about people who are suffering.
This just shows that Bush should rather just go back to Washington and not even be bothered by it.
This is his faux attempt at compassion.
And I was watching one of the cable news networks this morning.
I was CNN.
I know it was CNN because I don't have MSNBC on.
And Fox is on the lower monitor, so it had to be CNN.
There's some Democrat strategist.
Obama can't go to the board.
It was a woman.
So I better not talk that way.
Obama can't go to the border.
It'd be a security nightmare.
If Obama went to the border, he'd take everybody away from the very important work they're doing down there.
Uh his security detail, he gum up the roads and highways because he's president.
He can't go.
It was the same excuse that the Bush administration offered, but this time it was brilliant.
This time it was thoughtful.
This time it was compassionate.
This time it was the right thing to do.
When Bush offered the same explanation, it was arrogance, a lack of compassion, laziness, and what have you.
Well, see, I I think we get caught in a trap here.
Snerdley just asked me, do you think the pictures of Obama in the pool hole are going to did you say hurt or help help help it?
Well, they might with somebody, but I I think, see, that's looking at it that way.
I was in i in an email back and forth with uh with some friends today, and we were we were talking about a nameless reporter that we used to think was one of us who has now not gone over to the other side, but has is simply become a creature of Washington, and and these guys are all complaining about it and mocking the guy's work and saying it used to be worth it, but now it's not worth the time.
And I said, my opinion is that this guy is become totally of Washington.
And the thing about that is people who live I don't care if you're in the media, if you're a if you're a consultant, if you're a lobbyist, uh citizen.
If you live and work inside Washington, D.C., you live in a bubble, and what happens there is looked at through a completely different prism than how people look at life outside Washington.
When you're in Washington and when you're working there, everything that happens is judged or viewed through the prism of polling data, electoral politics, the impact on somebody's electoral fortunes, political future, or what have you.
There is no concern given.
There's no attention given.
There's no there's no apparent concern at all, even felt for the real life circumstances that are going on outside the beltway.
Now, in this case, the question was um uh Obama's impeachment, and uh the reporter had basically was was echoing Democrat talking points.
There's nothing there.
There's no difference.
You don't have any more evidence to impeach Obama than you do Bush.
Well, that just sent some of my friends off into uh that how do you draw a comparison like that?
That's why I told them my opinion is that there's a moral equivalent.
The part the two parties are not much different.
And everything in Washington is about power sharing.
The Republicans win one year, the Democrats win the next.
Maybe the Democrats win two elections in a row, and everybody spends their time trying to get power away from the people that have it, but outside there, there's nothing it doesn't relate to anything happening in the country.
And so the whether or not to impeach Obama is irrelevant.
It isn't gonna happen.
And Boehner as much as said so today.
So the question of well, the well, the whether pictures help or hurt Obama, it doesn't matter.
He's not on the ballot anymore.
Now, does the is there some residual effect that say negative images of Obama in the bar shooting pool and turning down a joint?
Uh regretfully turning down joint.
Is there some carryover to the Democrat part of it, or does it hurt Democrats?
Well, you you might be able to make it an argument.
My my I don't know if I'm saying this right.
I just I I think that when we when we focus on is something helping or hurting Obama, or helping or hurting Boehner, or helping or hurting whatever.
I understand it.
It matters, don't misunderstand, but it ignores real life, sort of the The question is, and I know this is probably what you meant by asking the question.
I don't mean to nitpick here.
When you ask the question, is a picture of Obama in a bar help him or hurt him?
You're asking it based on the crisis at the border, what's happening in Iraq, what's happening in Syria, uh, and so forth.
The real question to me, though, is what's what what is happening to the country?
All of this is hurting the country, in my humble estimation.
And in my humble estimate, I am really worried about it.
I worry about it 24-7.
I go through fits of depression, mild depression, over what I think is happening to this country.
Now, I may be one of few people that that uh cares as much as I do about it.
I don't, I don't I don't know.
I don't think I'm one of few, but I also know that there are a whole lot of people who don't think there's anything abnormal going on at all.
It's just uh cyclical economic times or whatever.
But to me, they're fundamental transformational changes being brought about as a result of an assault on the on the country and it's and its founding.
And I so to me, when you ask me, is picture in a bar gonna hurt uh Obama.
Does Obama spending time in a bar facilitate the destruction of the country is the question for me.
What the hell is he doing?
Does he not care?
Does it can he not even show any concern?
In fact, let's answer that.
Let's go back, grab audio soundbite number two.
This is from April 21st, 2008.
This is during Operation Chaos.
Have I confused you even further with my answer?
Are you feeling chagrin?
Are you are you you feeling like you've been unduly criticized?
You feeling like I put you way, way down like you're some insignificant shred of human debris.
I mean to do that.
Oh okay, good.
Well, you're frowning in there.
So frown sometimes conveys confusion.
Anyway, that I understand the question.
It's the question everybody asks.
It it's it's I don't mean to be I'm just saying I think it it's it's a trap.
It's it's a trap.
He has made everything about him.
And look at the the uh the arbiter of conventional wisdom in Washington, David Rodham Gurgan, and he very, very worried.
He thinks Obama should be very, very worried about this Katrina comparison.
But let me answer the question.
You you does Obama cares?
Does any of this going what why is Obama so steadfastly?
I got another question, but I keep interrupting myself here.
Where is the Hollywood telethon for the suffering children crossing the border?
We do we are the world for the starving in in in Ethiopia and Biafra.
We do all of where is the telethon?
Where is the massive leftist outpouring of compassion and fundraising for these hungry, thirsty, ill, sick, victimized through no fault of their own children?
It's just like you said to me yesterday, Rush, you may as well give it up.
You got gonna win this.
I said, Win what?
You're not gonna convince people to send the kids back.
I said, who's who wh why does somebody think that's what I'm doing?
Rush.
There's nobody under 25 in this country who sees a bunch of poor, sick kids crossing the border who thinks they ought to be sent back.
You're never gonna but I'm I'm I'm I don't think that.
I I'm uh I'm my concern for these kids goes far deeper than than I mean you could send Tom Coburn said, you know, first class airfare.
Send them back home for much less than the 3.8 billion Obama wants.
But the the the point was that rush.
Uh they've already won the issue.
Nobody sees this as a problem, it's just some kids that showed up.
It's okay, it may be 300,000 or 50,000.
It's no demo to the poor kid showing up at your back door.
You do not send him away.
And I think it's part of the trick that's that's being played.
But anyway.
Where is a telethon?
Why not?
Why won't there be a telethon?
Why there you would this is made to order for some rock group like Bono.
You two sting, uh Bon Jovi, take your pick.
Angelina Jolie.
Well, does she sing?
It actually doesn't matter if she sings, right?
She can do whatever she wants and we'll watch.
Is that but there is where where is I where is the telethon?
Where is see that's the answer.
You can't tell the story.
If you're gonna do a telethon, you have to explain why you're doing it, you have to tell the story.
When it we are the world, and you're doing a national worldwide fundraising effort for starving and Biafra, you can blame it on America, you can blame it on um uh some dictator, you can blame it on global warming, you can explain, but you can't tell the story here.
You start doing a telethine, start raising money, start asking people to donate, you gotta tell them why.
Then you gotta present the personal history stories of these kids.
You gotta go back to their native countries and find out what's so bad there, why they're coming here, how they got there, you've got to do what, and that's something nobody wants to shine any light on.
Nobody wants to really tell the uh the story.
Now look, I let me take a brief time out.
We'll come back.
I'm gonna I'm gonna take you back to something, a point that I made about Obama back during Operation Chaos, the campaign, April of 2008, as it relates to Obama refusing to go to the border for a photo op today.
It's Al Rushbow and serving humanity simply by showing up.
Our telephone number 800 282-2882.
Another reason why there will not be telethons.
Another reason why there will not be a telethon to raise money for the children.
These kids are all fleeing socialist countries.
Not only that, they are fleeing pre-industrial environmental paradises.
El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras.
I mean, these are the places that Hollywood leftists have always considered heaven on earth.
And you can't tell the story if you do it.
I mean, you have to tell the story if you do a telethon.
And you cannot explain what's wrong in El Salvador.
These places that were supposedly the garden variety of what the planet should be.
You cannot.
These leftists cannot do a telethon, which basically would have to conclude that socialism fails.
So there is, but I asked the question rhetorically anyway, just to just to make the point.
All right, here is me.
This is right at the time Operation Chaos was launched, which was uh our attempt here to keep the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign alive through the Democrat Convention, April 21st, 2008.
And my my point here was trying to convince you in the audience um of Obama's oh, I don't know arrogance, superiority that he's above being questioned.
He's above being challenged.
He never has been, and he doesn't react to it well, and this is how I said it.
When this guy's not got a teleprompter, when he doesn't have a speech written for him by Axelrod or somebody, he can't take a punch, he's got a glass jaw, he's got a sense of entitlement about him.
It says, I do not and will not be criticized.
I'm too important.
And there are media people who drive by is gonna shield him in that regard.
He's so important, no criticism is worth it.
It's not valid, it's all in the past.
So whoever is gonna be in charge of the campaign to defeat Obama is gonna have to find a way to trip him up so that he exposes the fraud that is this mystic messianic personality that he has.
And nobody had the guts to try.
But I'm playing that for you because it it feeds into what the drive-bys are admitting when asked why won't Obama go to the border.
Why won't he go visit his own refugee camps?
Why won't he do a photo op?
And that sound bite from me explains partially why, and you'll hear media backup when we get back.
All right, here's F. Chuck Todd.
This is this morning on the Today Show, Savannah Guthrie talking to F. Chuck about Obama not going to the border, not being seen with his new Democrat, uh voters in waiting, staying away, fundraisers just a few hours away, but no border appearances, no photo ops.
She said, Chuck, what's the harm for Obama in visiting the border?
Is there something larger going on here that you and I just aren't bright enough to see, Chuck?
You know this president well.
You and I covered him together.
They get stubborn sometimes.
They don't like getting bullied into a decision.
They made this decision about 10 days ago that he would not go to the border.
They've gotten a ton of pressure, Democrats and Republicans, and they're digging in their heels.
They are acknowledging that the photo op, I think, might be bad politics on either side of this issue.
So they want to stay away.
It's basically saying they decided 10 days ago that they're not going to go.
And that's it.
They're not going to be bullied.
They're not gonna be questioned about it.
Nobody's gonna give them any better idea because they know everything.
They're not gonna go, they're not gonna be bullied, they're not gonna do it.
And that's the point that I was I recognize this about the guy back in 2008, that's all I'm saying.
But even there, see, the answer is politics.
Everything is politics to these people.
In in the context of genuine misery and suffering.
You know, we had a caller yesterday, uh, an African American, I think from Charlotte, North Carolina, who accused Obama of actually and the Democrats, every the every abusing these kids, exploiting them for his own, their own political gain.
And he's got a point, I think.
So he's not gonna be bullied.
Now let's let's grab somebody seven and eight.
This is David Rodham Gurgen.
There's a lot of Democrats that are very, very worried about the political impact of all of this on Obama.
Democrats, of course, they're Republicans that are offering their own political analysis of this, but the Democrats are as well, and there's a lot of concern out there.
And uh Gergen was on CNN last night with Aaron Burnett, who said one Democrat expressed that this could be the President's Katrina moment.
Obviously, those are strong words.
Should the president be worried about that, Mr. Gergen.
Absolutely.
And uh this has become a humanitarian crisis.
As president, he ought to deal and step up to the crisis at hand and go to the border and send a clear message.
Parents do not send these young children on two thousand mile trips that take 45 days and put them on top of trains that subject them to assaults from rapists, that leave him out in the wilderness.
There are terrible things going on to these poor children.
I'm just that why they want him to go.
They want him to go down there to send the message not to come.
Do they not know what really is happening?
That's the last thing Obama is gonna do, is tell him.
I mean, he'll he'll issue a tweet, or he'll have somebody in the White House say that he thinks that they shouldn't come.
He's not going to go to the border with a bullhorn or whatever and say, go home, don't come.
He's not going to do that.
Do they re I guess that I guess they don't understand what's happening here?
This is what mystifies me.
How in the world can anybody think that 300,000 illegal aliens, 300,000 people, since April is simply coincidental.
And the vast majority of them come from non-contiguous nations, which allows them to stay because of quirks in U.S. law.
How can anybody think that this just happened?
So that's why it's a humanitarian crisis.
It really is.
You know, with all the money and compassion that uh Hollywood leftists have, I mean, maybe you wouldn't even have to do a telethon.
You know, you could just uh you could start a Twitter campaign.
You could donate with a simple tweet, donate with a simple text, donate by phone.
You can have a Sarah McLaughlin song playing, set to pictures of the suffering masses of children.
Dear Hollywood, help the president, help the children, help America see for itself what Barack Obama won't.
Oh, that's why they won't do it.
Anyway, here's next David Rodham Gergen, and the next question from Burnett is well, why does it seem that this crisis was such a surprise?
It just seems from the way the reactions come out of the White House that if they knew about it, they certainly weren't talking about it.
You get the feeling that they weren't even aware of it, David.
I worry about that.
I have a lot of respect for President Obama and his team, but even so, you know, why was it we were surprised by ISIS moving and Iraq and when intelligence, a lot of other people noticed this and thought this was coming.
This problem on the border has been building up for five years, as you pointed out earlier.
It's been coming a long time.
These kids take 45 days to get there.
We have a lot of time to pay attention to this and figure out what to do.
Why is it suddenly become a surprise?
I don't understand that.
It doesn't frustrate you is as or make you chuckle as much as it does me.
It takes them 45 days to get.
I don't under why they didn't know.
They did.
Why why did we get snuck up on by ISIS in Iraq?
Why did why?
And they don't want to answer their own question.
They're afraid.
Look, I am hearing, by the way, and I don't know how reliable this is because it it comes from um from people I don't know personally, just things I'm reading.
Some of them I know personally.
I I am hearing, ladies and gentlemen, that inside the beltway, behind closed doors, people like Gergen and the media are just shocked and dismayed at how incompetent Obama is.
But they're they're so invested in the guy, they can't, cannot express it.
They don't dare because they'd be cutting themselves off at the same time.
Because they are the ones that bought the hoopla back in 2007-2000.
They are the ones who believed in this whole messianic aspect.
They're the ones who believed that we got something magic finally in the White House gonna cure all of the evils and ills that Bush wrought.
That they bought fully and now privately that they just almost all of them are just beside themselves over how incompetent, incapable the administration is.
but they don't dare report it.
Now, I don't know...
That sounds like it's a it's a tough one to believe, but let's pretend.
Let's say that it is true.
And then knowing that, we're hypothetically knowing that, then we re-listen to David Rodham Gurgen.
Let's just assume hypothetically that Gergen Is part of this group of people I'm hearing essentially totally embarrassed about Obama.
They're totally, they're just dismayed, cannot believe.
In fact, we had a soundbite, I didn't get to it yesterday.
I intended to, but I didn't.
Of David Brooks, the quasi conservative columnist in the New York Times, he's the guy who back in 2008, or yeah, 2008 said that based on the crease in Obama's slacks when they had dinner at George Will's house, that he knew he was destined for greatness.
And folks, I am not, I'm not making up a word of that.
David Brooks actually said that.
You know, Obama had dinner at George Will's house with some conservative uh columnist types that he asked to be there.
And I told you at the time what that was about.
Obama had chosen the conservatives he thought were malleable, that he thought he could turn into at least not opposing him.
And Brooks was one of them.
Uh Larry Cudlow was there, uh Krauthammer was there.
Forget there were five or six of them.
And David Brooks actually said that when he saw the crisp crease in Obama's slacks, that's all he needed to know.
So we had the soundbite yesterday of Brooks basically admitting that he blew it, that he got caught up in all the hoopla of 2008.
I don't remember the exact trend.
Maybe Cookie find it, shoot that back down to me so that I can uh uh play the bite.
I don't want to try to paraphrase it and maybe exaggerate beyond what Brooks actually said.
The point is, if if if Gergen is part of this group that's feeling embarrassed that they so misjudged Obama, that they just can't believe this is so incompetent, so incapable, so so whatever.
They're never, by the way, gonna think all this is purposeful.
They can't go that far.
They will never admit that.
That's why they'll draw the line at incompetence.
But they'll never say it.
Remember, that's part of the story, too.
They'll never admit it.
They'll never they'll take it out on other Democrats, they'll take it out on other people, but they are not gonna take it out of Obama.
He's always gonna get a pass because the racial component, they just can't afford to come down on the first black president.
They can't afford to come down on him because they were so supportive and make themselves look bad if they admit they got it wrong.
So when you hear Gergen say, yeah, I worry about uh how they didn't know this was happening.
I mean, I got a lot of respect for Obama.
You when you when you're gonna criticize somebody in Washington, you always say, Look, I like so-and-so, one of my best friends, but that's how you get away with really slicing and dicing them.
Here's Brooks.
You got Brooks, here's what Brooks said.
There were two bites, but I think this this'll cover it.
People had the sense they could be transformed through politics.
And a lot of us spend a lot of time thinking about politics, but if you're looking for salvation in politics, you're barking up the wrong tree.
The 2008 Obama campaign could come along.
And I'm believing I'm as guilty as anybody about this.
And you get caught up in the fervor of the thing.
And when that fervor doesn't come through, you get this emotional crash of disillusionment.
And I think we're a bit living through that as well.
Boy, he could barely hear what he's saying.
He's basically he's admitting here he blew it, and get caught up in the emotional fervor of crashing back down to Earth.
So there may be some truth to it.
Uh what I'm hearing about how collectively the drive-bys are just beside themselves.
But then, again, getting back to Gergen, and I worry about that.
I have a lot of respect for President Obama and his team, but, and that's how you do it in Washington, you start out praising them, talk about how much you like them, and then because I like them so much and I have so much respect.
That's why.
I don't understand why we were surprised by ISIS and then it's 45 days for these kids to get here and they're on the top of trains and they're being set upon by rapists.
I don't understand it.
It may well be that this is how they are expressing it, uh, without trying to be too critical.
For their own credibility and so forth.
In the meantime, my friends, an obscene profit time out here.
Uh, before we go that Chelsea Clinton, I just learned is being paid $5,000 per speech.
This is not gonna help Hillary's effort and her attempt to portray the family as broke and destitute.
Folks, I have a couple questions.
Just a couple of questions here.
Uh if it's so bad in El Salvador and uh Guatemalo and Honduras, and the kids are leaving and and they're coming to the United States to escape utter chaos, the breakdown of civility.
When are the children of Chicago gonna leave and try to get into the United States?
I mean, it's bad there.
You see the shooting statistics coming out of Chicago.
When are the kids there gonna leave?
And speaking of all this, why hasn't there been a hashtag?
Where has the first lady been?
We did a hashtag for the kidnapped kids in in in Nigeria.
Bring back our girls.
Well, where's the hashtag?
There's no telethon, there's no secret tweet campaign to donate, and there's not even a hashtag here.
Well, now you may laugh, but folks, I'm telling you something.
I uh I know it sounds funny.
I sometimes naturally am.
But the fact of the matter is, the very fact that there aren't any of those things that usually accompany liberal causes means something else is going on with this.
I mean, they are quick to do hashtags, they are quick to show solidarity.
I mean, the natural thing here would be a hashtag.
Because it just based on what Obama said, Obama has publicly said that he doesn't want he's told the parents down in these countries, keep your kids.
Don't send them.
He not made a big deal of it, but he said it a couple times.
The natural hashtag would be keep your kids at home.
Or do you know where your kids are right now?
Or some such thing.
There's no hashtag, there's no telethon.
There's none of the usual accompaniments that liberals attach to their causes that are designed to make an emotional connection with people and tug at people's heartstrings.
They're not doing that.
In fact, they're trying to keep it all secret here.
We had this couple that called yesterday that said they are being asked by their church, who was asked by the regime to house kids in their homes, and they were told to not discuss this.
And they were so outraged by it, they called here and told me and you.
And I'm kind of surprised that didn't get picked up anywhere.
It did not get picked up anywhere.
Now, we've got, listen to this.
Yeah, this is this is Jim Breidenstein.
He's the uh uh Republican from Oklahoma who has uh been just outraged that he can't get in to see these kids.
I mean, they're hiding, they're trying to shelter.
They're not using the usual liberal accompaniments for this cause.
There's something else going on.
They want this actually happening under the radar.
Whatever's going on, they don't want you to know about it.
And then and proof of this, Breinstein was on Fox today.
Bill Hammer said, you were turned away on the first of July.
You're gonna get access on Saturday at Fort Sill in Oklahoma.
That's correct.
The rules are very stringent.
Number one, uh, you can't ask questions.
Uh number two, uh, there can be no recording devices.
Uh, number three, uh, you can't talk to any of the staff.
You can't talk to the children, you can't talk to the medical personnel.
And if you have questions, you can send an email.
You can't take any pictures, but after the tour, they will send pictures to you.
Uh, but there can be no pictures during the tour.
This is not what we expect in the United States of America, and certainly the media Here needs to stand up for itself.
See, normally, when it's for the children, they want you to know everything in the world they are doing so that they can benefit from the display of compassion.
But in this, they're hiding.
They're trying to keep everything that is happening with these children from public knowledge.
The media is not allowed to talk to them.
Members of Congress are not allowed to talk to them.
No pictures, no nothing.
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