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July 10, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 10, 2014, Thursday, Hour #3
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So I just got a note from a friend.
It said, you know, you're just, you're so wrong on Bernadette Lanceline.
I'm surprised at you that you don't get this.
Bernadette's only upset about one thing.
She's afraid Obama is giving his stash away to illegal kids and not hers.
Same thing Jesse Jackson's upset about.
Jesse Jackson's in Chicago.
He sees Obama spending money.
Sees Obama handing out money.
And it isn't going to him.
It's going to a bunch of people that don't even live here.
And he's a little livid about it.
Greetings and welcome back, folks.
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Telephone number if you want to join us, 800-282-2882.
And I have not done a good job of getting a lot of phone calls in today, but it's just been so much here, and I'm going to do better in this hour, I promise.
A couple things I have to mention, Lois Lerner has unwittingly revealed that the IRS had an internal instant messaging system above and beyond their email system.
So that when she says that the dog ate her emails and that the computer crashed and it had seven months of emails or whatever, however many disappeared.
I don't remember because it was bogus.
It doesn't matter.
It turns out that the IRS has this internal messaging system, sort of like the old prof notes in the old, old days of the Watergate, of the Iran-Contract crisis.
Old Microsoft stuff.
But they had their, I don't know what it is, but it was above and beyond email.
And Lois Lerner was caught warning other IRS workers to be careful what they put in their emails because they might end up being seen.
They might end up being subpoenaed.
They might end up.
So be careful what you put in your emails.
And nobody up until that moment knew the IRS had its own private IM system.
Now, this is pretty amazing for several reasons.
First, it shows that Lois Lerner was very concerned about what Congress might find in her emails and in her colleagues' emails and in her instant messages.
This idea that nothing to hide.
It's just, you know, the server just cracked.
Can I explain this?
I've heard a guy on a radio limbaugh says it happens.
And it happened to me.
Yeah, well, it doesn't happen to this degree to anybody.
Not this many servers, not this many different emails crash at the same time.
Anyway, she was very concerned about what Congress might find.
And therefore, she was making efforts to hide what was in those emails.
And she was warning her colleagues to be very careful about what they put in the emails.
So they're trying to hide things.
There's no question.
And she was concerned immediately after the Inspector General, the IRS, unearthed that they were targeting Tea Party people.
Ms. Lerner was clearly concerned Congress would be able to search her emails and her instant messages.
And when she was told that the instant messages were not automatically saved, she was relieved.
Secondly, and the Politico mentioned this story in the Politico about this, and they mention in passing, Congress didn't even know about the instant message system.
Nobody did.
She inadvertently revealed it.
So the bottom line of this is all this talk about how the IRS has been thoroughly investigated, it's complete hogwash.
It has not been thoroughly investigated because she just inadvertently admitted there's an entirely separate communication system internal in the IRS.
Also note that we were not told whether any of the IMs have been preserved or not.
And lastly, this really, this smug commissioner, this John Koskinen fellow, he told Congress yesterday that he didn't know a thing about the IRS instant messaging system.
Hey, why would anybody think he would know?
He's the commissioner.
Instant message systems, that's the IT department.
Why would I know about any of that?
That's so down the food chain.
I can't be distracted with details like that.
Well, what does he know anything about?
Bear in mind, we were just told yesterday the IRS made $106 billion in fraudulent payments under his watch.
I don't know what this guy does all day, but by definition, by his own admission, he doesn't know anything.
He says, hell, I just got here.
I haven't been here all that long.
This stuff all happened before I got here.
I mean, there's nobody.
This regime is filled with a bunch of selfish children.
They're all Bart Simpson.
I didn't do it.
Nobody's telling me.
You can't prove anything.
It all happened before they got there.
Nobody, nobody from Obama on down must take any accountability for anything that happened.
Now, I understand this because they're trying to hide things that they're doing they don't want people to know about.
And they're utterly, apparently, very willing to portray themselves as incompetent fools in order to continue getting away with covering up what they're really doing, which ought to make everybody suspicious.
Most people are not willing to make themselves look like abject idiots.
But the people in this administration don't care if that will get them out of a tight spot.
They're happy to be thought of as lame brains or inexperienced or hapless or gee, we didn't know.
I didn't know we had an instant messaging system in here.
So in normal circumstances, this wouldn't even be close to being over.
We will just have to see.
Now to this Reason survey on millennials.
It's a survey of 2,000 Americans between the ages of 18 and 29.
It found that Reason, by the way, is a libertarian publication.
Well, at least it used to be, and I'm assuming it still is.
The survey found that 66% of millennials believe government is inefficient and wasteful.
And that's an increase in the number of millennials who think this from 2009.
Back in 2009, 42% of millennials said government was inefficient.
So five years later, it's up to 66%.
Nearly two-thirds of millennials think that government regulators favor special interests.
Just 18% think that regulators act in the public interest, just 18%.
I imagine if you did a survey like this of the population at large, the numbers wouldn't differ all that much.
I think Democrats probably would respond with answers tending to indicate much more blind faith in government.
But overall, this is one of the things that frustrates me.
Instinctively, people know that Washington doesn't work.
Hey, give you an example.
Let me give you Joe Biden, the Vice President of the United States.
I am not exaggerating, and I'm not trying to be quoted here.
I'm just telling you the straight-on truth.
Joe Biden has been wrong on everything for 40 years.
For the 40 years that he has been in Washington on all of the big things that really, really matter, Joe Biden has been wrong on all of them.
And it has not stopped him from climbing steadily up the Democrat hierarchy.
How does this happen?
I have noted in the past that failure is a resume enhancement in the Democrat Party.
You fail, they protect you, they move you up in the hierarchy.
Your prominence and your stature, such as Jimmy Carter, increases.
Now, one explanation is the same thing that happened with Dan Rather and the National Guard story.
That was such an embarrassment to the whole journalism community.
They had to circle the wagons to protect the news.
They had to circle the wagons to protect so-called journalism.
After Rather was exposed, along with Mary Mapes, of literally making up a story about George Bush and the Texas National Guard, it wasn't long after Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings arranged for a massive dinner, black tie dinner, to give Dan Rather some brand new award that had never been given before for so-called excellence in journalism.
So they circle the wagons and they protect their own, and failure always ends up being promoted in the Democrat Party.
And it's the same thing with Biden.
Now, I'm using him as an example here to get to another point.
The purpose of this is not to criticize Biden, rather to explain Washington.
Joe Biden, despite being wrong on everything, despite humiliating gaffe after gaffe after gaff, nevertheless has climbed steadily up the Democrat hierarchy and accordingly the hierarchy in Washington, D.C.
So this climbing of the ladder of success in the Democrat Party of Washington has nothing to do with the quality of his contribution, the quality of his work.
It's all about simply being there.
It's all about being deeply wired or networked with the right people.
There are, on our side, the same kind of people.
There are people, I will just describe them as in the so-called conservative media inside Washington.
And they are, some of them are regaled as the most brilliant and the future leaders of conservatives, and they haven't done anything yet.
I mean, they've certainly not accomplished anything to warrant that kind of mantle, but they have been in DC all of their lives.
And they have networked and they have gotten to know the right people.
And they've worked low-level here and low-level there.
And they've worked in positions where they made their superiors look good.
Some are speechwriters, some are legislative aides.
There's any number of jobs that they can hold.
They end up being influential not because of anything they've accomplished.
This is Washington to a T.
They become prominent, successful like Biden, whatever, not because of anything they've accomplished, not because they've stood out with a unique perspective on something that nobody else came up with, nothing like that.
It's just that they've been there.
They've been there their whole career.
They have been there their whole lives.
They have become part of, you call it the ruling class, but I just call it the hierarchy, the structure, the infrastructure.
They're just there.
And in Washington, just being there and having the right network channels is what really counts.
That's where you establish your bona fides and your credibility by staying, by hanging around, by surviving, by slowly climbing whatever infrastructure ladder is there.
You just have to be known.
You don't have to do anything.
And these people know how to speak.
Washington ease.
And so they can sound very smart about government.
They can sound very learned about government.
They can sound very informed and aware of the intricate ways it works, ways that you and I don't know.
And so people are dazzled and impressed.
They think, wow, these people really know what they're doing.
These people really know what they look at, who they know and so forth.
But the problem for the country, this is my point.
All of these people, Biden, a great example, are climbing the success ladder in a place that does not work.
Washington does not work.
We are living a mess today precisely because of decades of policy that has come out of Washington by the supposed best and brightest among us, the supposed smartest among us, in many cases, the unachieved, the unaccomplished.
They're just people that have been there.
It's one thing to rise in the corporate ladder of a corporation that is overwhelmingly successful.
But to rise the hierarchy, the ladder of success in a place that does not work, what can that say about you?
That's why Mark Levin and his book, The Liberty Amendment, that this is why Washington cannot be fixed from inside it or from within, as they say.
Washington is made up of people, left and right, Republican, Democrat, it's made up of people who think That they are smarter than any of their predecessors, and they can make government work.
They have been around long enough.
They can do it smarter.
They'll say things like: The American people have decided they want a big government, they want a government that is massive, and we can make it more efficient.
We can do it smarter.
And there isn't anybody who has ever, there has been no massive, overgrown big government that has ever worked, and this one doesn't.
So, my point is: rising to the top in an enterprise that doesn't work is no big deal, and yet people continue to turn to it.
And even these millennials in this recent survey instinctively get it: 66% government inefficient, wasteful, two-thirds favor special interest, 60% convinced government agencies abuse powers, and they still plan on voting for Democrats in 2014 and 2016.
They got to take a break, but we'll be back.
There's much more straight ahead.
Sit tight and back to the phones.
This is Maddie in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
Nice to have you with us.
Great to have you.
Hi.
Hi, Mr. Limbaugh.
Hi.
I was recently grounded for three weeks, and my dad told me that if I read a book and wrote a book report on it, I could get a week taken off.
So I read your book, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.
I loved it.
The first chapter was just trying to get through it, but I absolutely fell in love with the book.
Wow.
I have to ask, Maddie, and you don't have to answer this, but I think everybody wants to know: what did you do to get grounded?
My brother and I were home alone, and we were supposed to do a list of things, and we just watched TV all day.
And that got you grounded.
That's yep.
Well, I hope you learned your lesson.
But look how it worked out.
You had to write a book, you had to read a book and write a book report, and you ended up stumbling across my book, and you ended up liking it.
And I can't be happy.
I couldn't be happier.
I mean, the greatest thing for me is you got grounded.
Yeah.
Yep.
Best grounding ever so far.
How long did it take you to read it?
Three days.
Three days.
Have you read the second one yet?
I started it this morning.
Ah, see, I was going to send it.
You know, I still want, I want to send you an autographed copy of Rush Revere and the Brave Program.
You know what?
I'll just send you both.
I'm going to send you an autographed copy of both.
Just so you can have it.
That'd be great.
Yeah, and I'm going to throw the audio version in, too.
I read the audio version unabridged, but I'd like to do that.
So hang on when we finish here.
Mr. Snurdy, you'll get your name and address so that we can send it out to you.
Okay, thank you so much.
Well, no, you're welcome.
I don't know how to express my appreciation when young people like you call and tell me how much you like the book.
And so you've made my day.
I just want you to know you made my day, and I can't thank you enough.
I really appreciate it.
So, because I've never done anything like this before, it's really cool.
So, don't hang up now, Maddie.
Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
Rush Limbaugh.
Don't try this at home.
Requires a highly trained broadcast specialist like me.
So, Obama, this is day three in Texas, and he's out partying.
And I'm going to tell you something.
I think that all of this public partying, laughing, yucking it up, Let me, I don't have any doubt.
All of this is just a stick in the eye.
He's just rubbing people's nose in it that he's not going to the border.
He's just rubbing people's nose in it, that he's having a good time, but he doesn't care about this border business.
And listen to this soundbite.
This is this afternoon at Paramount Theater.
Obama's speaking about the economy.
Well, the Paramount Theater, you say, well, he doesn't do photo ops, but he was at the Paramount Theater, a public speaking event, and he was talking about the economy.
This is more limbo theorem.
He's out telling people how great the economy is going, how much we've recovered, how much work he's done on it.
I mean, I'm telling you, he's just thumbing people's nose in this.
Here's just a little soundbite.
Everybody knows I love Austin, Texas.
Every time I come here, I tell you how much I love.
I love Austin.
I love the people.
I love the barbecue, which I will get right after this.
I like the music.
I got good memories here.
I got good friends.
It is great to play at the Paramount.
I think I finally made it.
I finally arrived.
I've enjoyed the last couple of days.
I don't like photo ops.
You know, the optics of politics, they just bore me.
I just don't like it at all.
He's played the Paramount.
He's just having the grandest old time.
You know, I want to go back to this millennial survey for a second because I gloss over one aspect of this that I actually need to spend more time on.
And that is, after telling you that these millennials get that government doesn't work and that they're highly suspicious of it, they still plan on voting for the Democrat Party.
Now, there's a reason for that, I think.
But let me give you just a few more details here.
73% of millennials favor allowing private accounts for Social Security.
64% say cutting government spending by 5% would help the economy.
59% say cutting taxes would help the economy.
57% prefer a smaller government with fewer services and low taxes.
57% of them.
57% want a society where wealth is distributed according to achievement.
They want a meritocracy.
They do not want the redistribution of wealth.
57%.
55% say reducing regulations would help the economy.
53% say reducing the size of government would help the economy.
But then there's this, which is extremely conflicting.
74% say government has a responsibility to guarantee every citizen has a place to sleep and enough to eat.
Now, that's just youth.
That's just youth and compassion.
Now, there's some other that they do think that there should be a raise in the minimum wage.
And they do think by 69% that it's government's responsibility to provide everybody with health care insurance.
Okay, but let's go through this first list.
Because at the end of this, the Reason Magazine pollster points out that they admit in large numbers they're going to continue to vote in Democrat despite opposing most of what the Democrat Party stands for.
Despite opposing big government, they're going to vote for it.
Let's go through this list.
64% of millennials say cutting government spending by 5% would help.
59% say cutting taxes would help the economy.
57% prefer smaller government, fewer services, low taxes.
57% want a society where wealth is distributed according to achievement.
55% say reducing regulations would help the economy.
53% say reducing the size of government would help the economy.
My contention to you is that if the Republican Party would stand for those things loudly, consistently, and proudly, then the millennials would have an alternative.
But what are they hearing from the Republicans?
Well, they're not hearing this.
This is what the Tea Party stands for, and everybody in Washington is trying to destroy the Tea Party, including the Republican establishment.
These things that these millennials say in majority numbers they support used to define the Republican Party.
And it's an absolute outrage that it doesn't anymore.
And so the question is why?
Why have the Republicans given up standing for these things?
Now, you could say, you could shout Romney, Romney, Romney all day.
They may say Romney stood for these things.
Maybe, but Romney got demonized and Romney got built, got destroyed.
He didn't respond to any of it.
Again, under the belief that nobody would believe it.
But the Republican Party anymore is perceived to be a bunch of moderates.
And to stand for these things would require that they be in conflict with President Obama.
And that is where they are paralyzed.
That is where they draw the line.
They will not stand for these things that these millennials.
And by the way, these things these millennials say they believe in in majority numbers, everybody does.
A majority of Americans do.
We have not lost the country.
I don't believe for a moment we've lost the country.
Not if you define it by what the majority of Americans still value.
Not if you define it by how the majority of Americans still want to live their lives.
Most Americans, not just the millennials, would probably agree in similar numbers to all of these propositions.
But in the political world and realm every day, they don't hear a political party standing for this.
Now, you and I think the Republican Party does because we grew up with a Republican Party, Reagan, Nixon, who name it, that articulated these things.
This is how the Republican Party was known.
But to young people who haven't grown up with anything other than Bill Clinton and Obama and a George Bush that was hated, they don't know what the Republican Party stands for.
Other than the Republican Party didn't like Tea Party, Republican Party wants amnesty, Republican Party trying to sound like Democrats.
Where's the contrast?
It gets right back to that.
I'm just saying if the Republicans made it known this is who they are, some of these millennials would vote for them, if they really believe this.
Yeah, I know, you got to throw in the fact, too, and this is something that somebody's going to have to do something about at some point.
You can't do it by just sitting around saying nothing and hoping people figure it out someday.
This whole idea that Democrats care more about people like me than Republicans do.
That's a real concern.
It's a reality.
That poll's consistent no matter which pollster asks the question.
Republicans are just bought to only care about a few percentage of the people, the rich and big business.
While the Democrats care about the downtrodden and the starving and the homeless and the thirsty and all that.
The emotional play versus the intellectual.
But there's not even an effort to combat this.
I mean, there's a built-in majority.
I take you back.
Every poll since day one on Obamacare has shown a majority of Americans oppose it.
That issue alone has been just begging for the Republican Party to glom onto it and build a governing coalition based on that opposition.
And they didn't do it because they remain paralyzed in fear over openly criticizing the first black president.
And I know, I know all of your objections.
I know what you're saying.
It's all going to come back to the media and the way the media portrays critics of Obama.
And I know that.
But I also know when a majority of Americans believe in these things, if there were a little political leadership articulating they did too, and that they were going to implement these things or try, it'd be a lot better off than just sitting around hoping people figure it out after so many years of Obama botching things.
It doesn't work that way.
Back to the phones where you go.
This is Patty in Ackworth, Georgia.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
It's a pleasure to speak with you today.
Thank you.
I'm glad you waited.
I appreciate your patience.
No problem.
No problem.
Listen, there's something that I have not heard a lot of talk about in the media with regard to Mexico's southern border that borders these countries, these South American countries that these immigrants are coming from.
This has never happened where this many amount of people from those countries have been able to leave and go across the Mexican border and travel for 30 to 45 days to get into the into our over our border without Mexico stopping them, turning them around, jailing them, telling them they can't come across their border.
Mexico is complicit in this.
They've been told or they've been asked to look the other way.
Well, that's true.
Look, we know that Mexico advertises to their own people how to access American welfare services after they cross the border into the country.
We know that Mexico does not try to stop its own citizens from emigrating to the United States.
Now, that being said, my guess is that the vast majority of these young kids never touch Mexican soil.
They're always on the move.
They're on the trains.
They're in vans.
They're in cars.
I don't, you know, Mexican government's not going to stop them because they're not stopping themselves.
If they know that these kids don't intend to stop in Mexico, and you couple that with Mexico's own open borders philosophy regarding ours, it kind of makes total sense that they'd usher them through.
If these kids, I guarantee you, if Mexico's southern border was being used as ours is, and people crossing it were going to stay in Mexico, then they would enforce it and they wouldn't permit it.
Because they do not permit immigration the other way.
They are steadfast in opposing immigration to their country.
And if you decide to move there, say from the United States, you can do it, but it requires jumping through a bunch of hoops.
And I don't think you ever get to vote.
You don't get to play a part in their political system.
You have to pay their taxes and all that.
I mean, it's really, really restrictive.
But if you're just passing through, my guess is, and if you're on the way to the United States, you're actually furthering Mexican government policy.
As cynical as that sounds.
And I submit to you, they've been asked to look the other way.
About a month or two, six weeks ago, John Kerry had a prearranged meeting in Mexico.
He could not come to the Congress and testify on behalf of the Benghazi, you know, what was going on in Benghazi.
And he said, I can't come when you want me to come.
I have a prearranged meeting in Mexico.
Even you could well be right.
Nothing would surprise me.
I would further, even if you're wrong, you are totally sensible in suspecting it because most reasonable people in this country simply do not believe this is coincidental.
And I hearken back 2012, Obama and his dreamers.
Anybody under 16 that are already here was allowed to stay.
That sends a message to other kids and their parents.
And so I don't think you'd have too many people disagreeing with you that our government is complicit.
Why would anybody doubt that?
The Democrat Party's made it clear they want as many people from Mexico and the southern hemisphere in this country as possible.
They made it clear that's their policy.
They want amnesty.
They're not interested in securing the border.
So I think it's a reasonable belief to have, Patty.
Thanks very much for the call.
Again, I appreciate your patience in holding on.
I just checked.
I'm going to have more detail tomorrow, but the Mexican government working with the Guatemalan president to make it easier for kids to get through Mexico to the United States.
They are facilitating it.
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