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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 Lindbaugh, and this is my radio program.
Most listened to radio program in the country.
It's on the EIB network.
It's at the Lindbaugh 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 little charity golf outing?
It always happens in July.
It's actually a week later than it usually is.
Actually, no, it's about the same weekend.
I mean, it's off.
Usually it's always the British Open weekend and when this thing happened, how do I think I'm going to play?
I got to tell you, I know.
It's auto-play.
Here's the deal.
It's a three-day thing, but the only two days that count are Saturday and Sunday.
So I'm going to play every other hole or every third or fourth hole tomorrow.
Because I get worse 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, I shot an 80.
It should have even been better than that.
But I'm just on a tear, just doing everything right.
Wasn't thinking about it.
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.
I'm too smart to play the game.
You got to be a little vacant.
You've got to 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 five golf courses.
Well, top five golf courses in the world, I would love to play.
I don't know.
I've played everywhere I want to play.
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've played Port Stewart, Port Rush, Royal County down in Ireland.
I've done all of that.
Pebble Beach is great.
Some of these courses I play when I go to L.A., Bel Air County, I love these places.
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 if I go to the range, 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, I'm going to 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 L.A., 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 Snerdley trying to tweak you, stick to the issues, people.
Anyway, so that's what I got coming up.
We got Mark Stein here tomorrow, and then we'll, as I say, be 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, do you realize how frustrating it is?
I said, I can't risk it, letting these people have a microphone.
Like, Snerdley is now trying to goad me into telling you what my favorite feature Apple took out of the iOS 8 Beta 3 is.
And I'm not going to go there.
Nobody cares about this.
I guarantee.
Monday.
Beta 4 is, it's rumored.
Nobody knows for sure.
Rumored to be out Monday.
It's got to be sometime next week.
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 car is 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 Harry 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 $9 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 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.
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 percent 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 percent 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 percent drop in break-ins of businesses and homes.
There's been a 30 percent 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 percentage is caused by this, but there's no question in my mind that it's had an effect.
So more guns you?
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 fit 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 They did in March.
And they think, by the used to 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 Abbott, 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 Gore.
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 near-record-breaking mass of cold air in the upper northeast and the upper midwest.
In fact, at this golf tournament, 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 cold 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 is the 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 SUV.
Well, no, but they're doing those every day and this is still happening.
So there'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, they're 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, see?
See?
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.
No, 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 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 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.
He is what we all waited for.
Here, 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.
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.
It may not be a tragedy at all, depending on 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.
Now there's not enough time.
I've got a woman who thinks that the Chechens did this.
She's from Southeast Michigan, but I don't, her name's Judy.
Judy, if you'll hang in there and be tough, hang on.
I'll come to you right after the break.
There's not enough time, to be fair with you right now.
So got her and a whole bunch of other people in our final half hour.
But I must tell you folks, I'm dazzled here.
I barely have the ability to look at the transcript.
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 got to 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 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 going to 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 this massacre of the school children.
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 horrible?
Yeah, but here's the thing about this now.
A, every 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 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 place?
Number two, it was well known something like this could happen because the FAA had warned every commercial airliner to stay away from it.
Number two, did 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?
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 thinking.
No, I understand.
It's just, it's a crazy world, and nothing makes sense anymore.
Well, that pops into my mind.
That makes sense.
Now, the Chechens, I know they've got a grievance.
Let's not forget something here.
Way, way back in the early days of Vladimir Putin, the Chechens kidnapped and held hostage a bunch of kids in the 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 he did was they found a way to weaponize fentanyl.
Now, fentanyl is a really powerful opiate.
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 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 think we've probably done it.
United States, it's never been used, 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 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 have been angry since before that happened.
But this is a curious thing, 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 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, after he went out there, we don't have the whole bite here, and I don't want it.
I can convey it without.
He goes out there, says it looks like it may be a terrible tragedy, and then he goes perfunctory for the rest of the 25 seconds.
And then he started telling jokes and going lighthearted and yuck-yuck 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 a terrible tragedy.
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, wherever they call home.
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 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 Cher.
And if you lose Cher, you're on the verge of losing some of the LGBTs.
I mean, it starts a chain reaction out there.
It really, it's, 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, ha, ha.
Isn't that great?
Oh, everybody just loves old Joe.
Sorry for rattling the papers, folks.
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.
It might have been his plane.
You just got to put yourself in a story, don't you, Vlad?
You just got to, you just got to.
You just have to put yourself in the story.
It just can't be some accident.
Had to be you.
It's the kind of thing Bill Clinton said, you know, just 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.
Bush gets to be a hero.
I don't get anything like that.
I got robbed.
These people are sick.
I'll just tell you, these narcissists.
Here's Tim in Toledo, Ohio.
It's great to have you, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking the call.
Listen, I've been a Cleveland Browns fan since I was a teenager.
I'm 56 now.
Used to have season tickets until Modell moved the team.
I was just wondering, have been wondering what your opinion would be if you'd have been an owner or part owner of the Browns, what you might have done with them.
Well, I, geez, what I would have done irrelevant.
Here's what you should hope for.
You should hope that Manzell is the real deal.
You should hope that he's able to stay sober and play.
This is a quarterbacks league.
You should hope he becomes an ex-Joe Namath.
You should hope this guy is the biggest partier off the field and just nails it on the field.
He can do because if this guy is the quarterback in the NFL that he was at Texas A ⁇ M, you're going to have a renaissance there.
Even if the team doesn't win right off the bat, given that this is a star quarterback league and you can 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 ifs.
Yeah, I know they're big ifs, and I don't expect them to go to the Super Bowl or anything this coming season.
But you think they should hold on to Josh Gordon and help him out or let him go?
Depends on, you know, 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 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 what you do with him, how that's going to impact cohesiveness, chemistry, all that in the locker room.
Your focus is Manzel right now.
And that's where they roll the dice.
And that's 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.
No, no, what happened to the guy?
Oh, we had a guy up there.
He and his wife.
What did it say he does for a living?
Did it say or not?
Okay, he and his wife are polar opposites.
He's a ditto head.
His wife, he actually referred to her as a low-information Democrat.
And the 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, well, she listened one time.
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.
Ardent Democrat, she tunes in that day.
There's no hope.
Well, I don't need 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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