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July 17, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 17, 2014, Thursday, Hour #3
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Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
I'm Rush Lidbaugh, and this in my radio program.
Most listened to radio program in the country.
It's on the EIB network.
It's at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
And it's great to have you here.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida via New York City.
It's open line Friday on Thursday.
Final big broadcast hour of the week.
I'm off tomorrow.
Mark Stein will be here.
Everything back to normal on Monday.
Is this the annual uh little charity golf outing that always happens in July?
It's actually a week later than it usually is.
Actually, no, it's a bit about the same weekend.
I mean, it's it's off.
Uh usually it's always the British Open weekend when this thing happens.
How do I think I'm gonna play?
I gotta tell you, I know.
It's it's autoplay.
Here's the deal.
It's a it's a three-day thing, but the only two days it count are Saturday and Sunday.
So I'm gonna play every other whole or every third or fourth hole tomorrow.
Because I get worse as I as I consecutively play.
I don't know, I just do.
I ought to have a bang up round tomorrow on a day that won't count.
Because I haven't played in three weeks.
And the last time I played, it was a disaster.
You know, it's really strange because two weeks before that, played out at Sherwood Forest out on the left coast, and I was too under after six holes.
I ended up uh I shot an 80.
It should have even been better than that.
But I was I'm just on a tear, just doing everything right.
Wasn't thinking about it, was effortless.
So I had that great round the next day.
85 the next day in the 90s, because you start thinking about it, you know.
I'm too smart to play the game.
You gotta be a little vacant.
You gotta be able to make your mind totally think nothing, particularly about yourself, if you want to excel at this game, or I think any athletic endeavor.
Top fell, top five golf courses.
Well, uh top five golf courses in the world, I would love to pull.
I don't know.
I I I've played everywhere I want to play.
Uh you have to put it.
Played what?
Have I played what in Scotland?
Yes, I have played St. Andrews.
I've played St. Andrews in Scotland.
I I've I've I've played Port Stewart, Port Rush, Royal County down in Ireland.
Uh I've I've I've done all of that.
Um Pebble Beach is uh is great.
Some of these courses I play when I go to LA.
Bel Air County I'd say I love these places.
That's not look.
The point is that I don't know why, but after I haven't played in two or three weeks, the next round, and I if I go to the range, this is under if I go to the range and loosen up, guaranteed to have a lousy day.
If I don't go to the range and just loosen up without hitting a ball, gonna have a great round.
Or a much better one than if I go to the range.
It's peculiar, no sense, rhyme to reason to it.
Anyway, the last time I played in LA, I didn't have one meaningful shot.
Not one.
After shooting lights out, not one meaningful shot for my team.
Not one.
Still had an enjoyable time.
As much as I could, but not one meaningful shot.
It's a maddening game.
You realize what we're doing to the stick to the issues crowd night now, and that's exactly why you're asking me these questions.
Because it's snerdly trying to tweak you stick to the issues, people.
Anyway, so that's that's what I got coming up.
We got Mark Stein here tomorrow, and then we'll be, as I say, be back to uh back to normal on Monday.
There's a reason why you all cannot hear the people I'm talking to on the other side of the glass.
On every other show, you hear these people, but not here.
And I've often said, you do realize how frustrating it is.
I said, I can't risk it.
Letting these people have a microphone.
Like Snerdley's now trying to goad me into telling you what my favorite feature Apple took out of the iOS 8 beta 3.
And I'm not gonna go there.
Nobody cares about this.
I guarantee.
Monday.
Beta 4 is it it's rumored, nobody knows for sure.
Rumored to be out Monday.
It's gotta be sometime next week.
It's it's due.
And I'm sweating it.
I mean, I'm eagerly, it's like Christmas morning.
I'm hoping the features back in.
I have my doubts.
I just do.
But what new car?
They're asking me how my new cars running.
See, all of these efforts are underway now to distract me.
Anyway, we do have some news items here that I want to convey from the stack that has nothing to do with the unaccompanied minors crossing the border.
First one is Democrat bid to reverse hobby lobby fails.
The procedural vote to take up the bill failed 56 to 43, which was four votes short of the 60 votes that they needed.
It was a Democrat bill to reverse the Supreme Court hobby lobby decision.
And this, of course, is dingy hairy and all these thinking that women now have been left out in the back alleys once again because somebody's not going to be buying four out of 20 abort of fashions for them that you can buy over the counter for nine bucks a month.
Listen to this paragraph.
It's a political story.
Democrats see contraception as a winning issue in the 2014 elections.
Red state Democrats in tough races have been wary of taking positions on new abortion restrictions, but none defected on the hobby lobby vote.
Now stop and think of this.
With everything that is going on, and I take your pick, the job situation, the economy, the absolute disaster that is American foreign policy, immigration, you name it, the Democrat Party has decided that contraception is their big winning issue.
Because don't forget now, the two stories have come out saying that amnesty and comprehensive immigration reform has fizzled as a winning Democrat.
I still cannot emphasize the genuine importance of that, the teachable moment that that is.
If there is ever an example that you are lied to every day that the Democrat agenda is what the news is anymore, and that you're lied to about what the American people think, that you're lied to routinely about what is needed, about what politicians need to do to win elections, that story, that issue is the greatest illustration in modern era.
If it's not the greatest, it's certainly in the top five.
This idea that no politician or party can remain viable unless they support amnesty, and the Republican Party will never win the White House unless they support amnesty, and now the issue has fizzled as a Democrat advantage and has been replaced by contraception.
The Democrats really believe their ticket is to promise birth control pills to every woman in America because they think they can convey the message that the Republicans don't want women to have them.
And so that's what they are going to town on, and their first effort blew up in their face.
They tried to pass a law in the Senate refuting and turning back or reversing the hobby lobby decision.
It failed.
In Detroit, robberies in Detroit are down 37% compared to figures from this same time last year.
The Detroit police chief is a man named James Craig.
And he says the reason why crime is down, robberies down 37% is because of an increasing number of armed citizens.
In a Democrat city, an increasing number of armed citizens is making criminals think twice before attacking.
In other words, more guns are equaling less crime, according to the Detroit News.
In addition to the reduction in robberies, there has been a 22% drop in break-ins of businesses and homes.
There's been a 30% decline in carjackings.
The police chief, James Craig says these across the board reductions in crime are partly attributable to criminals being reluctant to prey on citizens who may also be armed.
He said, I can't say what specific percentages caused by this, but there's no question in my mind that it's had an effect.
So, more guns.
You really want to tick off a liberal, just tell them about the story in Detroit and say more guns equals less crime.
This is like this is like telling a Christian at one of the Ten Commandments is a fraud.
More guns equals less crime.
They'll have a fifth.
In Australia, it has taken nearly a year.
But the Abbott government has finally delivered on its promise to get rid of the carbon tax.
After days of debate, days of stalling tactics, the Australian Senate on Thursday voted 39 to 32 to unwind the carbon pricing scheme introduced by the left in that country in 2012.
Labor and the Australian Greens opposed the legislation as expected, but fell far short of the numbers needed to defeat it as they did in March.
And they think, by the way you should read the story, they're just in panic.
The left think this is the end of Australia.
They think now that global warming and climate change is effectively going to gobble up the country and chew it up and spit it out.
They're literally in a panic.
All because the carbon tax was abolished.
I'll tell you this abbot, this prime minister in Australia is a no nonsense.
Guy worth watching, a guy worth paying attention to.
He is daily just taking it to these environmentalist wackos on global warming.
He's taking it to Americans and Al Globe.
In fact, this is hilarious.
It happened again.
Al Gore shows up for a giant global warming/slash climate change conference, where he's going to rally the pro-global warming troops and Brisbane, Australia has record cold.
It never fails.
Wherever Al Gore goes, break out the snow gear.
When he goes anywhere to talk about global, it's becoming a joke.
When he goes anywhere, the exact opposite of the weather he's predicting happens.
Massive snow, record-breaking cold.
Record breaking.
There's a polar vortex as a uh near record-breaking mass of cold air in the upper northeast and the upper midwest.
In fact, at this golf tournament, every every year, guaranteed one of the two days or three days is going to be 100 degrees.
Guaranteed it happens every year.
This year it's barely going to get 75.
Now, no big deal.
I mean, if it weren't for the global warming crowd, nobody think anything of it other than coal front going through in July.
But the point is, when they're out there daily pummeling everybody with how it's going to get so hot, roasty hot that we're going to destroy things and it's going to be impossible to survive.
Things like this aren't supposed to happen.
It's like there's almost a divine intervention in the climate change global warming movement.
And they are reduced to absolute idiots when these things happen.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, this cold front is exactly because of global warming.
This is the kind of irregularity we've been talking about.
This isn't a kind of unpredictable, unseasonable, unusual, inexplicable event caused by man.
Really?
So whatever is responsible for it being 20 below normal in July, middle of the summer, man made it happen.
Therefore, we can do it again, right?
So let's say it's August and it's 105 degrees someplace, and people wish it were 85.
We can do it, right?
Just like we did this.
Right?
All we have to do is figure out what we did to make it 20 degrees below normal this week and do it again.
No, Mr. Limbaugh, it doesn't work that well.
How does it work then?
I mean, if we cause this, if mankind, if our lifestyles, whatever, is causing this, tell me the events.
Tell me the behavior so that we can replicate it and do it again when it gets too hot and people start dying.
In fact, if we can do it once, can't we do it every day and make sure global warming doesn't happen?
What are we doing to cause it?
Well, we've got smokestacks and coal and uh SUV.
Well, no, but they're doing those every day, and this is still happening.
So it's got to be something else we're doing to cause this.
What are we doing?
You know what, you know one thing they're not doing?
This is how in my mind a little lunatic.
You have a massive coal front or a polar vortex, a modified externality polar vortex, okay?
And it's resulting in 20 degrees below normal.
Why aren't they out there saying C, C. We are causing this because you are driving fewer SUVs and you're burning less coal.
Why can't they go claim credit for it?
They got massive reductions in heat.
Why don't they go out and say, hey, we need to do more of what we're doing because this is working.
See, why don't they do that?
There's a very logical answer.
The answer is in no case can the left ever experience a solution to their crisis.
The crisis must persist and exist no matter what.
Now it's very simple.
They don't take credit for it because there cannot ever be a solution.
There can't ever be a solution to racial strife in this country.
There cannot ever be a solution to global warming.
They need the cause.
They need the crisis.
They need the ongoing chaos.
There can never be a solution because then there's nobody left to blame.
There aren't any victims.
With nobody to blame and no victims, you don't have liberalism.
So there's never going to be a solution to any of their problems.
Here's President Obama, by the way, Wilmington, Delaware, port of Wilmington.
He uh spoke about the downed Malaysian Airlines passenger jet in Ukraine.
Listen to the profundity here of the opening line.
Are you ready?
Just listen.
It's about 27 seconds.
But just listen.
I mean, this is raw intelligence.
This is the kind of intelligence, folks, that we expected back in 2000.
This is this is what they all meant.
And they said he's a man unlike any who has ever walked among us.
This is a man who is so much above us that we can just barely strive to keep up, knowing full well we never will.
We are always going to be in his wake.
He's always going to be so far ahead of us that we'll be scratching our heads, but thankfully so, that we are at least in his midst and alive at the same time he is.
What we all waited for.
Here, this you'll hear it's encapsulated here as a response to the jet being shot down in Ukraine, the opening line of the statement.
It looks like it may be a terrible tragedy.
Uh right now we're working to determine whether there were American citizens on board.
That is our first priority.
And I've directed my national security team to stay in close contact with the Ukrainian government.
The United States will offer any assistance we can to help determine what happened and why.
And as a country, our thoughts and prayers are with all the families of the passengers wherever they call home.
It looks like it may be a terrible tragedy.
Maybe not.
We don't know yet.
Depends.
Well, I don't know.
Average tragedy, mediocre tragic.
May not be a tragedy at all, depending on uh why and how.
No, there's not a question of any Tea Party people on the plane.
Did the Tea Party bring it down?
That's the question.
Here's uh now there's not enough time.
I've got I've got a woman who who thinks that the Chechens did this.
She's from Southeast Michigan, but I don't it her name's Judy.
Judy, if you'll hang in there, be tough.
Hang on, I'll I'll come to you right after the break.
There's not enough time uh to be fair with you right now.
So got her and a whole bunch of other people in our final half hour.
But I I must tell you folks, I I I'm I'm dazzled here.
I uh barely have the ability to look at the transcript.
I'm uh it's uh I don't know, I can't keep up with this.
It looks like it might be a terrible tragedy I guess there's still some doubt.
Hey, it's open to interpretation of ways that we're just not equipped mentally to process.
That's gotta be it.
Yeah.
Okay, Judy in Southeast Michigan.
I really appreciate your waiting.
You think that the Chechens did this.
Why?
You know, when I heard about the plane crash this morning and I heard all the theories going along, I yeah, I immediately thought of the Chechens.
And the reason I did is because I honestly don't think either the Ukrainians or the Russians would shoot down a plane load of innocent people.
They're gonna have war casualties, but they would not do this.
If in fact it was a takedown of the plane, the Chechnyas came to my mind because I remember I remember this massacre of the school children.
I I know they've blown up a lot of trains in Russia.
And think of it.
What better way to get back at your enemy than to have the world think they did something horrendous?
Yeah, but here's the thing about this now.
Um, everyone have people sending me email.
What in the world is a commercial jet doing flying over airspace?
It's been warned to avoid.
The FAA, since April has advised commercial traffic to avoid this country because it's a war-torn area.
Stay away from it.
It's like you don't fly over Iranian in airspace.
You just know it.
You go around it, but you don't flirt with it.
So what was this plane doing in the first number two?
It it it it was well known this something like this could happen because the FAA had warned every commercial airliner to stay away from it.
Number two, do the Chechens, in your theory, really think that if they can blame this on Putin, that something's going to happen to Putin?
Are we going to attack Russia because they did this, or is Ukraine going to attack Putin because what what how does that work?
I mean, if the Chechens I'm just trying to grab at your brain.
I'm not challenging you.
I just want to know how you're how you're thinking about it.
No, no, I understand.
It's just it's a crazy world.
Uh and nothing makes sense anymore.
Well, that just makes sense.
That makes sense.
Now the Chechens, I know they've got a grievance.
Let's not forget something here.
Way back in the early days of Vladimir Putin, the Chechens kidnapped and held hostage a bunch of kids in a Moscow opera house.
And Putin was so ticked off by this that he mass murdered everybody in there, including some of the kids.
They tried to get as many of them out as they could.
But what what he did was they found a way to weaponize fentanyl.
Now, fentanyl is a really powerful opiate.
It is it is used for pain relief for end of life cancer patients in the form of a patch on the arm.
Sometimes it can be injected IV, but it's it's it's really powerful.
And they found a way to weaponize it by making it a gas.
And they pumped weaponized fentanyl, which is a chemical weapon.
Nobody knew that this had been done.
I mean I think we've probably done it.
The United States is not, but it'd never been used, and and and I don't think anybody had any proof heretofore that Russia or anybody else had succeeded in weaponizing this weapon or this substance.
But the way it kills, it just it it shuts down the respiratory system.
You stop breathing.
And that's what they did.
They just pumped it through the ventilation system of, I think it was the opera house.
Now, obviously the Chechens have been holding a grudge and they've been angry since before that happened.
But this is curious thing when you when you start trying to figure out who could make this happen in order to provoke other action.
That's the long shot is you have a commercial airliner shot down.
Granted, it's provocative, but it's not the kind of thing that is going to result in an expansion of declared hostilities, at least not on the on the surface.
Now, could be any number of things going on diplomatically behind the scenes, nobody knows about something like this could be added pressure.
But folks, if you listen to the rest of Obama, I mean, this after he went out there, we don't have the whole bite here, and I don't want it.
I I can convey it without he goes out there, says it looks like it may be a terrible tragedy, and then he goes perfunctor for the rest of the 25 seconds, and then he started telling jokes and going lighthearted and yucky about why he was in Wilmington, Delaware in the first place.
So it's clear that his statement on the jet was a perfunctory thing.
It looks like it might be uh terrible tragedy.
Uh United States will offer any assist weekend to help determine what happened and why.
And as the country, our thoughts and prayers are with all the family.
And bam, he was off.
So much so that even that paragon of journalistic talent, Piers Morgan has tweeted his abject shock and dismay that Obama would be so cavalier about this.
When you lose Piers Morgan, because it doesn't take much to hold him.
When you lose Piers Morgan, you've you've lost, my gosh, who knows who else.
You might have lost David Geffen if you lose Piers Morgan.
And if you lose David Geffen, you're going to lose share.
And if you lose share, you're on the verge of losing some of the LGBTs.
I mean, it starts a chain reaction out there.
It really if this was designed to provoke Obama into taking some sort of action, I do not think.
I mean, he did say, he said, look, it looks like it might be a terrible tragedy, and then later on, hey, it's great to be here in Delaware, the state that gave us Joe Biden, who just said yesterday that we didn't change anything here in the first term.
Ha ha!
Isn't that great?
Oh, everybody just loves old Joe.
Sorry for rattling the papers, folks.
Uh breaking news, ladies and gentlemen, Russia today, which is the New York Times version for Vladimir Putin.
It says his mouthpiece.
Russia today says breaking news, President Putin's plane might have been the target for the Ukrainian missiles.
Apparently Putin was in the air at the same time, headed somewhere.
Might have been his plane.
Gotta, you just gotta put yourself in a story, don't you, Vlad?
You just gotta, you just gotta, you just have to put yourself in the story.
Just it just can't be some accidents.
It had to be you.
It's it's the kind of thing Bill Clinton said, you know, it just is a shit.
why did somebody try to shoot me down?
How come I get to miss out on all these great crises?
First 9-11 happens after I'm gone, and Bush gets to be a hero.
I don't get anything like that.
I got robbed.
These people are sick.
I'm just telling you these narcissists.
Here's uh here's Tim in Toledo, Ohio.
It's great to have you, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Hi, Russ.
Thanks for taking the call.
Uh, listen, I've been a Cleveland Browns fan since I was a teenager.
I'm 56 now.
Used to have season tickets till Modell moved the team.
I was just wondering, have been wondering what your opinion would be if you'd have been a owner or part owner of the Browns.
What you might have done with them.
Well, I'll tell you what I would have done irrelevant.
Here's what you should hope for.
You should hope that Manzel is the real deal.
You should hope that he's able to stay sober and play.
This is a quarterback's league.
You should hope he becomes the next Joe Namath.
You should hope this guy is the biggest partier off the field and just nails it on the field.
He can do but because it if if if this guy is the quarterback in the NFL that he was at Texas AM, you're gonna have a renaissance there.
Uh even if the team doesn't win right off the bat, it's it it given that this is a star quarterback league, and you could build a team around these talents.
If this guy pays off, if that draft choice pays off, it could be a turning point for the Browns, I think.
But those are big, those are big ifs.
Yeah, I didn't I know they're big ifs, and I don't expect them to go to the Super Bowl or anything this coming season, but what you think they should uh hold on to Josh Gordon and help him out or let him go.
Depends on, you know, that's that's that's a clubhouse.
That's a locker room thing.
If they can hold a team together, I think it might be wise to try to give the guy one more shot to help him out.
And and and cut him, you know, everybody needs a second chance.
Okay, give him a third chance, but no more than that.
But that's a locker room thing, too.
It depends on, you know, what what what you do with him, how that's gonna impact uh cohesiveness chemistry, all that in the locker room.
Your focus is Manzel right now.
I mean, that's that's that's where they roll the dice.
And uh that that's the the biggest opportunity you've got for a turnaround.
I know not winning, but you at least like going to the stadium to watch.
That'd be a big step up.
That could happen if this turns out.
Here's James and East.
Don't know what happened to the guy.
Oh no, we had a guy up there.
He and his way, what did what did it say he does for a living?
Did it say or not?
Okay, he and his wife are polar opposite.
He's a he's a he's a ditto head.
His wife, he actually referred to her as a low information democrat.
That's what and and point is that she hated my guts, despised me, and had never listened to me.
He convinced her to listen.
One day recently, and was going to report and hung up.
And I wanted to find out how that went.
He said what she listened one time.
But he's been trying for years to get her to listen.
She probably happened to tune in one day when I was making fun of contraception and birth control pill prices.
That'd be my luck.
It's just ardent Democrat, she tunes in that day.
There's no hope.
Well, I don't need mean to be snarky here, folks, but how serious could Obama have been?
I don't think anybody started a hashtag yet.
And then they don't start a hashtag.
We know they're not serious.
Anyway, Mark Stein will be here tomorrow, and we'll be back on Monday.
Thanks in advance to Stein.
Thank you for being with us as always.
And I'm looking forward to Monday.
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