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July 10, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 10, 2014, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
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So I must confess I have been I have been tempted to make a joke about something, but I held back.
I held back because it involved the children.
And I'm talking about the children that are arriving unaccompanied all across the U.S. Southern border.
And the joke was going to be, how long is it going to be before these kids start arriving with I Love Obama t-shirts?
But I didn't mention that because I thought people might think it was a bit insensitive in not taking the situation seriously.
And lo and behold, every time I either think about or actually make a joke about these people, it comes true.
The kids are arriving wearing Obama yes we can tennis shoes.
I have the photo.
I have the proof right here, ladies and gentlemen.
Some of this is hilarious.
It is something that you joke about.
They would never do this.
They wouldn't, but they're doing it.
This is no different than shortly after Obama was immaculated.
We go to some school and the little kiddies would be singing Barack Hussein Obama.
Mm-mm.
And of course they didn't know what they were singing, they're just put up to it.
And it was an indication of just how narcissistic and self-absorbed this administration is, and it was a great window, if people were willing to admit it, into the mind of Obama and the way he views himself as a ruler, as an idol, as an icon, and doesn't mind if people look at him that way.
I would be embarrassed, but that's another story.
Some of the illegal immigrants surging across the U.S. border from Central America, creating a growing humanitarian crisis, are wearing tennis shoes emblazoned with images in praise of President Barack Obama.
This is according to Dennis Michael Lynch as a website, DML Daily.
I've received two sets of photos from two contacts at the border.
I can't validate the authenticity of pictures, but I can say the agents who sent these to me among a handful of agents who have sent me accurate information over the past months.
You know, I just I told Snerdley this morning that I thought one of the fastest ways to shut this down would be if somebody were able to sneak across the border into Meiko and get themselves on these trains and the other forms of transportation that these kids are coming in on pass out.
I can't wait to vote Republican t-shirts and caps and have these kids arrive wearing that stuff.
That would shut this down faster than anything you've ever seen.
If it wouldn't shut it down, we would be able to get pictures of border control agents ripping the clothing off of these kids and ripping their caps off because that's simply that photo op.
I I'm I'm almost at a loss in my ability to keep a straight face at this.
Obama says that he's not going down to the border because he's not interested in theater.
He's not interested in photo ops.
Grab audio soundbite number one.
Last night in Dallas, after meeting with Rick Perry, unidentified reporters said there are increasing calls, Not just from Republicans, but also from some Democrats for you to visit the border during this trip.
Can you explain why you didn't do that?
And do you see the legitimate reason for you to actually do that at some point, or do you think these calls are more about politics than anything else?
There's nothing that is taking place down there that I am not intimately aware of and briefed on.
This isn't theater.
This is a problem.
I'm not interested in photo-ops.
I'm interested in solving a problem.
And those who say I should visit the border, when you ask them what should we be doing, they're giving us suggestions that are embodied in legislation that I've already sent to Congress.
Not interested in a photo.
What the hell was that at the pool hall the other day?
He is nothing but photo-ops.
He says he's not interested in photo ops.
That's all he does.
Photo ops of the golf course.
This is a guy who dressed a bunch of people in white lab coats for a press conference in the in the Rose Garden to make them look like doctors, so that he could persuade people that doctors supported Obamacare.
Remember that they had the casting call, and then they had a wardrobe call, because some doctors showed up weren't wearing the lab coats.
So the White House had to scramble, get some white lab coats to put photo-op.
This guy is nothing but photo ops.
Photo ops with kids, photo ops in college, photo ops that illustrate that he's not governing, that he's removed, that the limbaugh theorem aspect, the photo-op, the series of photo-ops, crucial to Obama in presenting the image.
Everything he's been doing the last month, you could you almost could call it a a photo-op tour.
Now I was just thinking when I heard this soundbite today, what has Obama ever done that's not a photo-op?
Some of the executive orders he signs are not photo ops.
He doesn't want anybody seeing that.
But I guess playing pool, having a beer, on St. Patrick's Day, all these things that are not photo-ops.
He even turned the killing of bin Laden into a photo-op.
Remember that photo in the White House situation room that I had to drag him off the golf course after the front nine.
Valerie Jarrett calls, hey, you better get in here.
We're about to get bin Laden.
So they dragged him in there and they put on I'm the President jacket, and they had him sit there looking at the screen.
That was a photo-op.
Everything they do is a photo-op.
And let's go back.
This is February 7th, 2008, New Orleans, Tulane University during campaign rally, then Senator Obama said this about President Bush flying over Hurricane Katrina damage instead of making a presidential stop at the site of the damage.
When the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast extended their hand for help, help was not there.
When people looked up from the rooftops for too long, they saw an empty sky.
When the winds blew and the floodwaters came, we learned that for all of our wealth and our power, something wasn't right with America.
We can talk about what happened for a few days in 2005, and we should.
We can talk about levies that couldn't hold about a FEMA that seemed not just incompetent but paralyzed and powerless about a president who only saw the people from the window of an airplane.
There he is, Barack Hussein Obama.
Mm-mm.
Back in 2008, personally attacking George W. Bush for not doing a photo-op on the ground in New Orleans, following Katrina.
And Bush said that I couldn't do it.
I'm going to gum up the works if I go down there.
Obama says, I don't need to do that.
I'm I know what's going on.
I don't have to see it.
I'm not interested in photo-ops.
So the very thing he criticizes Bush for not doing, he also doesn't do, and then seeks the high ground while claiming he's not into photo-ops.
Well, there you go.
Blatant hypocrisy.
You know, when I listen to that, by the way, I gotta share when I this this last soundbite we played for 2002, slow down rush.
February 7, 2008.
When I listen to this, I just cringe.
And you want to know why I cringe?
Because that's the kind of BS that low information voters and the people, the media had had cost a sour on Bush, just ate up.
That empty BS.
I can't tell you how this frustrated.
Go back and listen again to things that I knew, and you probably did too at the time were insincere and not representative at all.
It were just it just and the idea people were falling for it.
And I and I'll tell you in this bite, what people fell for was this lofty language when people looked up from the rooftops for too long and they saw empty sky.
Right on, Barack, right on.
When the winds blew and the floodwaters came, we learned that for all of our wealth and power, something wasn't right with America.
Oh, we had no idea what wasn't going to be right with America back then.
America back then was a hell of a lot more right than it is today.
And by the way, folks, there's another thing, and I challenge anybody to independently verify this.
The FEMA U.S. government response to Katrina was one of the most massive, the one of the fastest and one of the most effective emergency responses in our history.
Go independently verify that, if you doubt me.
I imagine even some of you in the audience who would call yourselves conservative Republicans say, Rush, be careful that you know that's not true.
And you probably think it's not true because you believe it's been stated for so long.
It's been the conventional wisdom for so long that the post-Catrina response was a disaster.
And it wasn't.
It was government behaving actually as as as well as it can in one of the acknowledged uh roles that government, when done right, may be best at, this kind of massive mobilization of resources to be able to.
I'll tell you this.
The post-Catrina response was far more massive, far more sensible, far more effective than what is being done at the border today to handle this humanitarian crisis.
The FEMA response post-Catrina was far better and more effective and more efficient than anything that's happened during the Obama years.
But I know that you don't believe that.
And I know you think I'm unshaky eye saying it.
But it is the truth.
The reason you don't believe it is because they they were able to demonize the FEMA director at the time, a guy named Brown, Mike Brown, who did say something stupid when asked a question.
All it took was one stupid answer to a question, and they were able to create a narrative that the entire Bush administration was stupid and incompetent and ineffective, and that the whole response to Katrina was an outrage, and that there practically wasn't one.
And folks, it just isn't the case.
And I remember at the time, and I I don't want to, I don't want to re-prosecute this case, but I remember at the time, the real ineffective, dumb, stupid, incompetent response came from the governor's office in Louisiana and the mayor's office in New Orleans, school bus Nagan and Kathleen, whatever her name was.
Blanca, is that right?
Blanco, Blanca Blanco, right oh.
It doesn't whatever.
Those were the people that really screwed up, and they were closest to the local level.
I mean, school bus Negan got the nickname school bus because he left all the school buses.
They get flooded instead of using them for evacuation efforts.
It's just, I don't know.
When I go back and I listen to Obama in in what was the 2008 campaign period, I just I cringe all over again.
And I cringe that people fell for it.
But they did.
I gotta get over it.
You just I just hope that it doesn't repeat itself, but that's a long shot, too.
Now, Jonathan Martin.
Jonathan Martin used to be, I think this is the guy.
Let me see.
Yeah, should have been.
Yep, he used to beat political, not the New York Times.
He was on CNN this morning, inside politics the name of the show.
And he uh was talking about the uh immigration crisis at the Southwest border.
John King said, What's the harm, Jonathan?
Come on, what's the harm in the president going to the border?
You know, they think it's a trap.
What is it?
This president is contemptuous of the rituals of politics in so many cases.
He can't stand the fact you have to play a certain role.
But the fact is, John, as you know, the presidency is about symbolism in a lot of ways.
And presidents, when there is a crisis of some kind, are expected to be seen there.
Is it more of a surface thing?
Is it a photo op, as the president says?
Of course that's part of the ritual.
But nevertheless, that's what presidents often do.
Yeah, but you see, this president is contemptuous of the rituals of politics in so many cases.
He can't stand photo ops.
He hates having to do photo-ops.
He can't stand having to do these rituals in public.
He has perfected them to an art.
He's one of the best at the rituals.
He lives and dies by photo ops.
This is just incomprehensible.
Some of the past that these, you know, the people that are defending Obama for not going to the border.
And by the way, there's some cracks in the media armor on this.
Some in the media getting very, very worried that Obama's blowing this symbolism stuff.
They think he ought to get down there because they live and die in photo ops too.
They think they're the most important thing in the world.
So there's some cracks down, but some of these media people are still defending him, and they're the same people that ripped into Bush for doing the same thing Obama's doing, not going.
We have some of that.
We got a lot today, as we do every day.
We'll come back and resume with all of it after this.
So Obama doesn't like photo ops, eh?
Well, what was that in New Jersey after Hurricane Sandy when he rolled in there and was able to get his arms halfway around Chris Christie?
What the hell was that if that wasn't a photo op.
And you want to talk about the FEMA response to Hurricane Sandy?
Go talk to some people.
Ask them how they're doing still today.
Everybody talks about what a disaster FEMA response time was and effectiveness was after Katrina passed.
There are parts of New Jersey and New York that still haven't seen a dime of recovery effort after Hurricane Sandy.
I mean, this is just it's just, it's more of the same phony narratives, false templates, designed to make Democrats look good, Republicans look bad, and when you make Democrats look good, but the same token at the same time, you're trying to make government look good.
The problem is government doesn't do very much right.
I may expand on that later in the program.
It's a pet peeve of mine.
Government breaks more things than it fixes, and then every time it breaks something, people demand that government fix it.
And it just, it's, it's it's a psychological thing.
By the way, the people in Murieta, California, tiny town, one tiny town, has caused the feds to Back down and cancel illegal alien flights to San Diego after more than a week of protests by local residents in Murietta against the transfers of illegal aliens caught in Texas and then brought to a local border patrol facility in California.
The federal government has called off future transfers to the area for now.
Late yesterday, a local Fox Eyeball News affiliate reported a fourth plane load of illegal aliens, many of them unaccompanied minors, scheduled for today, had been canceled, and no future flights would be scheduled.
The announcement will be seen as a victory by anti-illegal immigration activists who kept a vigil near the U.S. Border Patrol site after successfully blocking the first convoy of buses.
The government has canceled flights of illegal aliens before only to place them back on the calendar at short notice, so keep a sharp eye.
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Great to have you, Rush Limbo, the EIB network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
The New York Times has this story today.
I'm just mentioning this.
We'll get into it a little bit more detail later, but I may not need to.
Because the summary pretty much says it all.
Europe is in such dire economic straits that they have decided they are going to begin counting sin Sinful, quote unquote, sinful behavior as part of their GDP.
Whorehouses, illicit booze, cigarettes, black market, red light districts, all of the revenue generated in this, in these what?
Yes, whorehouse.
What's brothels?
What's the what what?
It's an enterprise.
What's the difference?
I thought they call it a whorehouse or a brothel.
Doesn't matter, it's the same thing.
They're going to start counting the revenue.
It is an economic enterprise.
As the as the spokesman for the National Association of Sex Clubs in Spain, Jose Roca has fielded all sorts of offbeat uh inquiries, but rarely has he been more flummoxed than when he got a call late last year from the government statistics agency.
A statistician asked him if he knew the average price of a session with a prostitute in Spain and the typical cost of a room at a Spanish whorehouse.
That's right.
Jose Roca said he even asked stupid questions like how much energy is consumed by a brothel, a sex club.
How much energy do you people use in these in these brothels of yours?
He said, I thought it was a joke.
I was so incredulous, I asked them to send me an email to make sure it wasn't.
And the questions were not a hoax.
It's in such bad shape in Europe that they're not going to start counting illicit black market economic activity as part of their GDP.
And of course, John Kerry and the rest of our enlightened elites think that Europe is how we all should be.
Europe is what we all should be.
Europe is to which we should all aspire.
Because they're the elites.
They're the really smart ones.
They're sophisticated far more than we are.
They're refined in all of this.
By the way, speaking of photo ops, I just saw John Kerry, who, by the way, you may not know, served in Vietnam.
John Kerry is over in China visiting a Chikon's, and by golly, if he didn't just tweet a picture of himself playing the guitar in front of some ChICOM officials.
In the midst of every week with the CIA has just been kicked out of Germany.
Angela Merkel just told a CIA to get the hell out Because we're spying on her still, I guess.
And doing it in such an inept way that she found out.
We've got this crisis at the border.
We've got an economy that is just putting along, and John Kerry tweets a photo of himself playing the guitar with the ChICOMs.
And it's not by accident.
They think they are forging relationships, improving bona fides, and establishing credibility with low information pop culture voters.
Did you see in Iraq where ISIS has stolen nuclear material from one of the universities?
Wait a minute.
Nuclear what nuclear?
Nuclear material Iraq.
Why weren't we told there wasn't any of that?
It was it was just last week that ISIS found their way into some of Saddam's old chemical weapons stockpiles.
Now they have commandeered nuclear materials.
Well, I didn't I it sounds like it'd be a mistake because we were told that none of that stuff was in Iraq, but uh it's not ISIS just claiming it, independent verification is taking place.
Meanwhile, all of this is happening, and Obama is sitting there, has a meeting with Rick Perry, and he's yucking it up and laughing during the whole time.
And that was for the photographers.
That was to make Rick Perry look like a simpleton, single-minded, panic stricken, worthless politician, while Obama's calm, cool, relaxed, and laughing and chuckling and just enjoying himself and having a grand old time.
Everything's a photo op.
They're not taking any of this seriously.
I guess because they're not really that upset by it.
Oh, speaking of photo ops, why should Obama even bother going to the border when you have a news agency will actually lie and say that you have been?
I am holding in my formerly nicotine stained fingers, a printout of a post by Michelle Mulkin at Twitchy.
Reuters has actually posted an out and out lie.
There is a picture of Obama standing on the edge of a wooded area, also known as a forest.
There is a giant American flag in the background.
In the lower right-hand corner, there's a group of star-struck young people watching Obama speak from the presidential podium.
And the headline is President Obama Visits the Border.
Well, why bother going to the border when you have news agencies that will lie for you and tell their readers that you've been when you haven't been?
Reuters and Yahoo busted for bogus headline about Obama at the border, complete with pictures.
The picture was taken in Denver.
The picture was taken in Denver, which is landlocked.
We do not have a national border anywhere near Colorado.
Colorado is not a border state.
But if you scroll through the Reuters slideshow posted at Yahoo News, you're gonna see pictures of Obama in several places, none of which could remotely be considered the border.
And this slideshow is headlined with President Obama visits the border.
I kid you not.
So why even bother going if you're Obama when you've got suck-up sycophant lying news agencies that'll tell their idiot, stupid readers that you were there?
Why bother going?
Did you see, ladies and gentlemen, you've seen the YouTube video of a furious mother in Texas?
She just goes off over the influx of illegal immigrants during an unfiltered TV interview.
Her name is Bernadette Lancelin, and it might be pronounced Lanceline, uh Lance Lynn, it's L it's Lance with an L I N on the end of it.
The way I was raised to phonetically pronounce things when you don't know is Lancelin.
So Bernadette Lancelin is African American.
She's from Houston.
She says she is furious that the White House wants to spend billions of dollars to feed and house thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children who've entered the country illegally.
She says to the TV camera, what about the kids here?
What about the kids here in our neighborhood?
And not just in this neighborhood, but in our country.
All these kids really?
Why can't they go back?
While she acknowledged the children's parents may be struggling in poor living conditions, she said the United States and its children are struggling too.
And if we're going to go overboard and bend our backs to help these people, what about helping us?
She said, I'm sorry that their parents are in poor living conditions or surroundings or whatever's going on out there.
I don't care.
I care about what's going on right here in my own backyard in my neighborhood.
She went off.
She's an African American.
Barack who.
Seemingly exasperated, Bernadette Lancelin addressed some of the other people who had gathered around a closed middle scrual that may soon house illegal immigrant children near her.
She said, and how many of you have asked the same question about any number of things that irritate you?
She said, Am I the only one in this community that's out here that watches the news this morning?
Oh my God, I feel alone right now in this.
I'm very saddened by it.
Does then nobody see what's going on here?
Soon to be the national lament.
Bernadette Lancelin, KTRK TV in Houston, and it is a YouTube video, goes off over the influx of illegal immigrants saying, I feel sorry about them, and I feel sorry for them and their parents.
I don't care.
I care about what's going on in my country.
You'll be back.
Don't go away.
You know, you could say that the reaction of Bernadette Lancelin is the same.
I remember even during the 60s when we were ramping up to go to the moon.
There were people back then that said, what are we wasting all this money for in the moon?
We got people starving in America.
We don't need a space program.
We need to do this.
We need satellites.
People starve.
Whenever the government was spending money on anything other than quote unquote taking pair people, there were always people to rip the decisions to spend money on those areas.
And Bernadette Lancelin comes along here, and despite the fact that we're spending more than enough on destitution and poverty and low-income people.
I mean, we are the biggest welfare state the world has ever known.
And yet, uh she said, what about what about people here?
Why are we spending all this money and time on these illegal?
She's African American, I mean she's a Democrat voter.
Well, no, you can't.
You can't call her a racist.
And by the way, uh the uh Reverend Zach.
He's also one of these people, very upset here.
If you're gonna spend what's Obama requested now to four billion dollars.
Oh, folks, I have sad news.
The one of the the you know these freight trains that are bringing illegal alien children unaccompanied through Mako to the United States they're called death trains and I think they're called death trains long before these kids began to hitch rides on them.
But they are just jam packed, they're freight trains and it they're just jam packed with people.
They're so full that kids are riding on top of some of the freight cars.
Well, one of the death trains just derailed somewhere in Meiko and it had 1300 illegal immigrant children on it.
Now the story calls the migrants, but they're not migrants.
Migrants go home after they do some work.
These are unaccompanied illegal minors.
Anyway, death train has derailed and it was carrying 1,300 such kids.
That's all I know.
I'm sure there'll be more detail coming later.
Meanwhile, the Reverend uh Jackson, having heard that Obama wants four billion for the border, has now demanded two billion for Chicago.
The Reverend uh Jackson says the feds need to do more to combat Chicago violence.
Uh the uh Reverend uh Jackson and Mayor Emmanuel differing on where the fingers should be pointed when it comes to federal antiviolence help.
Jackson and Emmanuel agree curbing violence involves not just police but economic development and jobs in high crime neighborhoods, but Jackson seemed to fault Obama for funding priorities that appear to put immigrant children coming across the borders first.
I have more on this, too, but I need to grab a phone call.
This is Claudia Round Lake, Illinois.
Glad that you uh waited and welcome to the program.
Thanks.
Russ, I'm thrilled to talk with you.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Reason I called you is that I made an observation yesterday during the press conference after his meeting uh president's meeting with um uh governor of Texas.
Perry, right.
Yeah.
Yeah, right.
He said uh the president said in his news conference that he was well abreast of all the things that were going on the border, on at the border.
His people have been there and they call him and let him know, and he's w well up to date on what's going on, so he doesn't need to go there.
That's exactly where that's why he didn't need to go.
Plus Reuters is out there lying for you saying he's ever admitted to knowing things ahead of time.
That's my that's one of my questions.
I have one other question.
All right, what's the other one?
The other question is has anybody made a count of how many uh adults or older teenagers versus how many children, and I think of children as like ten and under.
Um, or I don't know where they cut that line off, but you know, it seems to me in the pictures I see in the media, there's as many adults there or older teenagers.
Let me give you the let me give you numbers that have been reported in the New York Times this past weekend.
The numbers since April are three hundred thousand illegals have flooded and crossed the border since April, and of those three hundred thousand, fifty-two to fifty-three thousand have been children.
So you're right.
Yeah.
Well, why are we why are all these people making such a big deal about yes, any child, I agree?
Oh, come on.
Have you ever seen a baby on board sign in somebody's back window?
Well, there's there's there's your answer.
Right.
But you know, I mean, that we're being lied to.
We're really being lied to about this whole thing.
Nothing new about that either.
And it makes me very angry.
Well, good.
What do I do?
Stay angry.
Okay.
Stay angry and stay focused through November.
I know, I know.
But you know, it it is something, and I have to speak out because about their leaders, but they're they're really not leading.
Nobody's leading.
I know.
And it's very sad, very sad.
Well, yes, I'll continue to be angry.
It depends on how you define leading.
Um but I know I because I think I think some people are leading.
Like Obama is, for example.
But getting away with appearing not to be.
The Republicans aren't.
There's just sitting there waiting.
I've got to take a break.
I'm glad you called Claudia.
Thanks much.
Don't go away, folks.
Yeah, what's going on in Europe now counting what goes on in brothels and uh black market booze, cigarettes, the drug trade's gonna be next.
Counting that in the GDP.
That's what Moynihan called defining deviancy down.
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