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July 15, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 15, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #3
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And we are back here on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
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The ranking member, meaning the highest ranking Republican on the Democrat dominated Senate budget committee is Jeff Sessions, the Republican from Alabama.
And I might, I might add a great man.
Jeff Sessions has put it on paper.
He has warned all of his colleagues in Congress that the new immigration strategy of Barack Obama, the plan to legalize millions of illegal alien adults through executive power, could destroy America as we know it.
I write to inform you of a development that threatens the foundation of our constitutional republic.
Sessions wrote in a letter that was hand delivered to all 535 members of Congress yesterday.
Breitbart News got an exclusive copy of it.
Senator Sessions cites a recent report from the National Journal in which reporter Major Garrett.
This story, by the way, Major Garrett story is from July the third.
Major Garrett reported in the National Journal that despite the ongoing crisis at the border, Obama plans to legalize anywhere from five to six million illegal alien adults in much the same way he did for illegal alien minors through the deferred action for childhood arrivals act in the summer of 2012.
That's the act that granted status to every illegal alien under 16 already in the country.
Obama made it clear that he would press his executive powers to the limit, Garrett wrote in his story as cited by Sessions.
He gave quiet credence to recommendations from La Raza and other immigration groups that between 5 million to 6 million adult illegal immigrants could be spared deportation under a similar form of deferred adjudication he ordered for the so-called dreamers in June of 2012.
Senator Session cites another paragraph from Major Garrett's piece, July 3rd National Journal, in which Garrett reported that Obama has now ordered Homeland Security and Justice Department to find executive authorities that could enlarge the non-prosecutorial umbrella by a factor of ten.
Meaning the number of illegals that could be granted status by a factor of ten.
Sessions' letters continue.
Sessions'letter continues.
Senior officials also tell me Obama wants to see what he can do with executive power to provide temporary legal status to undocumented adults, and he will shift immigration control and enforcement resources.
From the interior to the border to reduce deportations of those already here, and to beef up defenses along the border.
Sessions' letter to colleagues comes as some in both the Republican and Democrat circles consider various plans they say would fix the problem of the border crisis.
Anyway, Sessions has sent a letter to all 535 saying that Obama's new immigration strategy could destroy America as we know it.
Threatens the foundation of our constitutional republic.
From July 3rd.
And it Sessions is right.
It does contain this by a factor at 10.
I'm gonna get it during the break.
I'll have it for you.
The uh the salient paragraph.
Because it was really under the radar.
I only became aware of this story yesterday, and it ran on July 3rd.
But now to the audio sound bites.
I mentioned at the top of the program that there were eleven or twelve audio sound bites in the roster today that deal with me.
And as you all know, I don't like making this show about me.
If I would have started with these sound bites, the stick to the issues crowd would have had a fit.
So I started with the most important stuff of the day and have relegated myself here to third hour status.
But you should realize that each hour here is unique and equal.
There is no discrimination from hour to hour.
In other words, I don't look at the third hour as any less important than the first.
I don't look at the second hour as being less important than the third or the first.
I don't look at the first hour as being crucial and more important than the other two.
We spread the equality over all three hours on this program.
I don't want my hours feeling discriminated against.
I don't want my hours getting their feelings hurt.
I would hate it if the third hour felt like a bastard stepchild, for example.
I would hate it if the third hour of this program felt like it was just a perfunctory have to do it to get out of here kind of hour.
But no, but I don't want to give any hour favoritism either.
I don't want any hour feeling superior to any other hour.
Right, I want our equality.
I don't want the first hour thinking it's better than the second hour to third hour.
And one of the ways of doing that is putting me in the third hour.
What could be more important than me at the end of the day?
See how this works, certainly.
So here we go.
Last night, CNN's Aaron Burnett out front.
She spoke with political commentator and former NBA player Greg Anthony.
CNN legal analyst Sunny uh or Sonny, is it hosting or hostin, I don't know, about me and my criticism of Attorney General Holder.
Now, full disclosure, I know Greg Anthony.
I first met Greg Anthony at the studios at the EIB building in uh Midtown Manhattan.
His agent at the time, Lee Steinberg, he had just been drafted, I think, with a Knicks.
And his agent Lee Steinberg brought him by and uh introduced us.
And I have since, full disclosure, played several rounds of golf with Greg Anthony shortly after I moved here to South Florida in 1997.
Well, I started to play one of the 1999 or 2000.
Now, I haven't seen Greg in years.
But I just want to tell you up front that I know him.
I'm not going to divulge anything about it.
It's not my, but he's he's uh he's a great guy.
He's extremely talented and smart.
Uh he's got a great, great uh temperament, very generous person, and he's been doing NBA commentary, I think for TNT or or some uh cable network having to do with the NBA.
And he shows up last night on CNN uh to talk with Aaron Burnett about me.
I didn't know this, of course.
I didn't know this happened until I got the soundbite roster today.
And my thoughts on Eric Holder and what he had said yesterday.
So Aaron Burnett plays this clip from yesterday's program to get it all started.
President of the United States, attorney general of the United States, oh, poor guys, poor victims of a mean racist America.
They point fingers at these mysterious evil forces have been claimed not to know what's in their hearts.
And then they talk about, oh yeah, when I hear I want my country, but or when I hear take back our country, that's code language, said Holder.
I know I am listening to a racist bigot.
Aaron Burnett turned to Greg Anthony.
Said, Greg, is Limbaugh's criticism fair?
To a certain extent.
Listen, there's no doubt that racism exists, but it's not the permeating factor in this case.
And I say that Because had racism been so pervasive in our society, we wouldn't have an African American president elected twice.
We wouldn't have an attorney general who was put in office by that president.
We wouldn't have had a Secretary of State prior in Connorisa Rice.
So while it exists, it's still a fringe element.
It's exactly right.
Oprah Winfrey wouldn't be the most popular and wealthiest television performer or entertainer in a racist country.
Now, in all of this, you know, this is once again trying to put these guests on the spot.
This is a neat trick.
You play a soundbite from me where the safe thing to do is rip into me.
The safest thing in the world.
Oh, Limbo, oh, yeah.
Racist pig blah blah.
It's very easy to do this because of the media construct.
And Anthony didn't do that.
He got this right.
How ridiculous is it for the president of the United States elected twice and the attorney general to start whining about racism everywhere?
And this take our country back business, one thing Aaron Burnett did not play for them is all the sound bites from Democrats we featured on the program yesterday who are also campaigning on the premise of taking back their country.
Uh such as Howard Dean, such as Mrs. Clinton.
And it's never considered racism when they say it.
And here is why.
Here is whoever Sonny Hostin or Hoston is.
Do you know who this is?
You have.
You have is she African American?
She is, okay.
You're not even sure.
See, he snurted that doesn't matter to us.
I'm just curious here.
So I can provide all the information to the audience.
So after Anthony said what he said, Burnett then turned to Sonny, is it Hoston or I I don't care, to Sonny.
And well, what do you think?
Is Limbo right?
Does Limbo have a point or not?
I think that we shy away from talking about race.
We shy away from the fact that this is happening.
There is this coded language, and there's this sort of dog whistle that Greg, you and I both know as people that live in black skin knows what they are saying when they say, take our country back.
When you're talking about people who like Ted Cruz, whose politics are very well known.
I think when you look at that context, it is clear to me at least that it's take our country back from a black president.
No, it is not.
Ms. Sonny, it has nothing to do with it.
This is about liberalism.
Taking our country back means regaining our freedom.
Taking our country back means getting control of government and shrinking it and getting it more and more out of our lives.
Taking our country back means returning to the principles and the death and and the traditions of the founding.
It's nothing to do with taking it back from a black president.
His race is irrelevant to me and probably to most of us.
In fact, I'll be Ms. Holston or Hostin, however, you pronounce your name, the only relevance about Obama's race is how it allows him to proceed without criticism.
Everybody's afraid to criticize it because people like you are going to run around saying it's all racist.
When race has nothing to do with this, he's president of the United States for crying out loud.
He's the most powerful man in the world.
What he thinks matters.
His policies matter.
We object strenuously to them.
We think his country's is his policies are bad for the country.
Nothing to do with taking it back from a black president.
And what is this?
We shy away from talking about race.
That's all we talk about.
We can't get away from it.
You people on the left won't let us.
You're the ones that make everything racial, as you just did in this soundbite.
This has to do with policy.
This has to do with ideology.
This has to do with liberty and freedom, the view of a country run and dominated by an ever expanding government, or one that's not.
A country Rooted in individual liberty and freedom and the pursuit of happiness or one that's not.
And there's not a whole lot of happiness right now.
There's a lot of misery.
And nothing to do with taking the country back.
What did Howard Dean mean?
Sonny when he ran around campaigning on the premise of taking the country back from Rush Limbaugh, as he said over and over.
What did Mrs. Clinton mean when she ran around saying that it was time to take the country back?
Is that a dog whistle?
And if so, to who?
What does it mean?
George W. Bush wasn't black when they were running around talking about this.
And they were trying, Howard Dean's talking about taking the country back from me, taking the flag back from me.
I'm just a guy in the radio.
I don't own the country.
I don't determine what happens in the country.
Well, I look, I here, you know what she would say to this?
I know without knowing.
I know what she would say.
If she were here answering my question, well, no, how because Howard Dean isn't a racist, so take back his country couldn't mean that.
But you Republicans, we know are racist.
We all know it.
So when you say take your country back, we know you mean from a black president.
You don't know anything.
In fact, I think it diminishes you, Sonny, to even think this way.
It has nothing to do with it.
Sonny, can you find for me anybody who's happy with the way things are going in this country right now?
Outside of people on Wall Street, and outside of some college professors.
Can you cite for me some average Americans who are happy and content with the direction this country's going?
A hundred million Americans out of work.
Sonny, the president's race never has mattered to me.
Not even this historical aspect, because that was intended to paralyze opposition, too.
Greg Anthony was then asked by uh Aaron Burnett.
Okay, okay, Greg, if you want to follow up, go right ahead.
As an African American and someone who is somewhat conservative, that perception does become a reality for African Americans.
You do have to be above that at a certain point, because ultimately, my grandma used to tell me, she says, baby, you can't just be good.
You have to be better.
And she was referring to racism in the country that we live in.
And the attorney general and the president in their positions, there's no reason to even allow that to enter.
Exactly.
Exactly.
They're the president and attorney general.
What in the world is racism have to do?
How can there be any racism if they elect I mean dominating race?
Of course it'll be wacko racist.
I don't that's I would like to know.
What other excuse they've got?
Why are these two men so incompetent, Sonny?
What explains the mess this country is in?
It isn't racism.
It's what they believe, it's their policies, it's their ideology that's got us in this mess.
And that's what needs to be saved, if you will.
But now I do know.
And unlike others in the media, I'm going to correct myself.
Aaron Burnett did play a montage of Democrats talking about taking back our country.
She didn't play that soundbite, uh, or a soundbite of montage of Democrats using the phrase, too.
But these guests of hers, I guess we're not asked to comment on it, or it was not played for them side by side with uh with my comment.
Well, I'll tell you what you need to do here.
Because this is what the left does every damn time to shut down debate.
It's not about racism, it's about liberalism.
So the next time somebody goes on CNN and says, take back our country as racist, substitute racism with liberalism.
Every time you hear one of these people blame it all on race or accuse us being racist, you substitute that word with liberalism, and you'll be accurate.
You'll find out what it is that we oppose, what it is that we're trying to save ourselves from, what it is that we're trying to take Back our country from it is liberalism, socialism, statism, whatever the hell you want to call it, race has nothing to do with it.
Certainly not Obama's skin, nothing to do with it, nor holders.
Right?
That is the most irrelevant aspect of this.
It is used to paralyze people from being critical, properly so of this president.
It doesn't work on me, but it does work on most.
They shut up because they don't want people like Sonny going on television calling them racists.
I don't care because I know that you know that it's bogus.
So just play this game.
Whenever you hear some leftist on TV suggest that any of this criticism of Obama is due to racism, just substitute the word racism with liberalism, And you will understand every time what's up here.
Do I have time for one more?
Yeah, here's Don Lemon.
He of, did that plane end up in a black hole?
people.
On CNN talking about how I pounced on Eric Holder.
Conservatives, like Russ Lemba, pounced on the comments.
And according to a transcript on his radio show, Lembos says, not true.
The Republicans bent themselves into as many shapes as they could to agree with this president.
They went out of their way to praise Holder's nomination.
He said, I will never forget that.
And then he went on to say it was all an effort then by Republicans to curry favor from the Obama administration and show that they were not bigots.
Well, well, at least an accurate quote from my website.
That doesn't happen much.
I wonder how media matters feels to be aced out.
Remember, I told everybody one year before Obama was elected.
I told everybody one year before Obama was inaugurated.
That the fact he was black was going to eliminate any criticism, and that's the purpose.
One of the purposes was would be to freeze any criticism whatsoever.
Because all of it would be labeled as racist in origin.
And it's exactly what they've done for the last five and a half years.
Any criticism at all, especially legitimate right-on criticism.
They relegated to racism and bigotry, and they tried to disqualify it that way.
These people make me sound like the most brilliant guy on radio.
Well, I am.
But they help.
Okay, back to the audio sound bites.
There's one more Don Lemon, but I'm gonna skip it.
He just talks about.
Well, it's the context, you know, it depends on who's saying it.
We know that when Republicans say take back our country, we know what they mean.
We know what they mean for the black limbs.
Screw that.
And I just it's it's bogus, it's simplistic, it's easy, and anybody can say it.
And it happens to be totally untrue.
It's it's it's such that even when you donate 25 million dollars to the United Negro College fund, they will say you're just trying to cover your racism.
As the Koch brothers did.
I mean, it's insulting how stupid these people are, genuinely stupid, closed-minded, stupid.
So I'm not gonna go back there.
Instead, this TV show, the 90s, National Geographic.
They used an interview with Lewinsky as their promo hook for this.
Well, I had no idea that I'm such a big part of this.
I should have figured I would be, but since I'm not self-absorbed and always thinking about me, I didn't even stop to consider that a three-night series on the 90s would have me in it.
Because I'm not an egomaniac.
So I get the audio soundbite roster from from Cookie Today.
I'm all over this show.
And we have some sound bites to demonstrate.
So, last Monday night, July 7th was the first night of uh National Geographic Channels, the 90s, the last great decade is what it's called.
And they're doing a segment on the Oklahoma City bombing.
Oh, yes.
And then President Bill Clinton's speech there.
And here is Dan Rother, uh, CBS Evening News anchor at the time, and Rob Lowe, the narrator, and me.
It would be hard to find any presidential speech in the last half of the 20th century or into the 21st century that was better attuned to the moment.
Clinton's speech temporarily restores faith in his presidency.
But the war is far from over.
Republicans have a very lethal weapon at their disposal.
An excellent role model for the youth of America or anybody else needing guidance for that matter.
I am Rush Limbaugh.
A lethal weapon.
I was described as a lethal weapon at the Republicans' disposal in the 90s.
Now, uh Don Oratha was talking there about Clinton's speech at Oklahoma City, where he blamed me as being one of the best speeches in the last thousand years that a president's ever given.
No speech more attuned to the moment.
They were just, they were having orgasms over Clinton's speech.
And he had gone, he'd blamed wild voices on the radio.
And when we raised holy heck about that, the White House backed off.
No, no, no, no, we were talking about shortwave radio of the Michigan militia.
No, you weren't talking about Michigan militia shortwave radio.
Everybody knows what you were talking about.
Anti-government voices and anti-government rhetoric on the radio.
Then they talked to Bob Turner and Newt Gingrich.
Uh and Bob Turner, uh at the time as the president of Metro Media.
I said Metro or Multi.
I always get them confused.
Multi multimedia syndicated Rush Limbaugh the TV show, syndicated the Sally Jesse Raphael show.
Donahue.
But they were the syndicate.
Bob Turner, Gregory ran for uh ran for Congress uh in in New York last time around.
So that's his voice you'll hear first.
And then there are clips of me and Newt in there, and Rob Lowe again, the narrator.
Rush has incredible appeal in taking complex political and social issues, synthesizing them in a way people understand.
If there was ever a program that inspires independent thought, it is this one.
Rush would be able to say, no, no.
This is all baloney.
Here's how you ought to think.
The views expressed by the host on the show.
Will soon become federal law.
Never ever underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
You know what all caused this?
Me.
He had about 23 million listeners.
Well, that's every tenth American.
Right.
So when he said something, you were getting messages across to a large part of the country.
Notice is never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
See, people on the right.
They just never funny.
No, no, no, no.
There aren't any such things as conservative funny people.
So they and this is this is something these people on the left always thought, like when I said talent on the loan from God.
They actually thought I was calling myself God.
They didn't know what to do with me.
They came along.
You you really, I'm reporters.
You really think you're God?
Is that what you mean?
Your talent on the loan from you really think you're God?
I said, No.
In fact, that is a statement of profound humility.
What is it about that you don't get?
I'm on loan.
I'm gonna die someday.
From God.
I am created by God.
My talent is on loan from God.
What do you not get about that?
Well, sounds to me like you're calling yourself God.
Like you think you're better than.
But you let your average left-wing committee in utter that line, and it would be called one of the funniest, most creative artistic lines in all of comedy.
Anyway, moving on.
Uh Chatsworth Osborne Jr.
This would be Tucker Carlson is next in this soundbite.
And Newt Gingrich and I guess is uh, yeah, and Rob Lowe Is in this bite.
Rush Limbaugh is personally credited with helping Republicans win those 1994 midterm elections.
That was the moment that the Republican Party began to rely on talk show hosts to make its case for them.
And it's partly thanks to Rush why Newt Gingrich is king of the hill.
There was a brief period.
When the president was clearly on defense, clearly didn't quite know what he was doing.
How is it that the Democrats keep approaching people as though they're stupid?
You know, Chatsworth uh it's a good point.
I've one one of the things that did happen, and it's it it may not have totally vanished.
Uh republicans in Congress did begin to shut up and let talk radio make their case for them.
And uh it's it uh he's right about that.
I think some of that largely still goes on today.
Not happy about it.
Don't misunderstand.
Brief time out, be right back.
Okay, just a couple of more.
This is the Clinton Oklahoma City bombing speech.
It was in Minneapolis, April 24th, 1995, and this is the real reason that the that the liberals and the drive-bys loved Clinton's speech.
This is 35 seconds, and all the rest of it is irrelevant.
This is why they said it was the best speech ever.
We hear so many loud and angry voices in America today, whose sole goal seems to be to try to keep some people as paranoid as possible, and the rest of us all torn up and upset with each other.
They spread hate.
They leave the impression that by their very words that violence is acceptable.
You ought to see.
I'm sure you are now seeing the reports of some things that are regularly said over the airwaves in America today.
It is time we all stood up and spoke against that kind of reckless speech.
They all thought it was directly aimed at me, and that's why they thought it was the best speech ever.
Never mind the fact that the bomber, his own self, Timothy McVeigh, cited Clinton and the Waco invasion and what happened at Ruby Ridge as his motivation.
Had nothing to do with the voices on the radio.
We challenged them on that.
They said, no, no, no, we meant the Michigan militia shortwave.
No, you didn't.
Nobody listens to the Michigan militia shortwave broadcast.
It was a crock.
And never mind the fact, you know, the Republicans rely on talk radio to make their case.
What about the Democrats relying on the drive-by media every day to make their case?
And then there was this, ladies and this.
Bill Clinton was flying into St. Louis on Air Force One.
He did an interview at KMOX Radio in St. Louis, June 24th, 1994, and out of the blue started complaining about me.
After I get off the radio today with you, Rush Limbaugh will have three hours to say whatever he wants.
Would you like to leave a message?
I won't have any opportunity to respond, and there's no truth detector.
You won't get on afterwards and say what was true and what wasn't.
President of the United States is bully Pope at most powerful man in the world flying into St. Louis, Air Force One complaining about me.
No way he can respond.
Now, that was a year before blaming me for Oklahoma City.
Hey, I need to apologize for not getting any phone calls in the last half hour of the program today.
yeah Sorry about that, but I promised.
I pledged to get these sound bites in, and I um moved them to the third hour.
But uh, don't fret it, uh, folks, is always tomorrow.
There is always tomorrow, and we'll be back then, 21 hours from now.
So I will be right where God intended.
God created radio in the first place because he knew that I was going to be born someday.
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