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July 21, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 21, 2014, Monday, Hour #2
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Welcome back, folks.
Great to have you.
Rush Lindbaugh here, the cutting edge of societal evolution.
This is the most listened to radio talk show in America.
It's been at wave for what?
Well, not 26.
In fact, we're about to wrap up 26 years.
You realize that?
Like in 10 days.
We're gonna be starting our 27th year.
Is that right?
Yeah.
That's right.
Well, whenever we hit number one, we have yet to relinquish it.
I mean, maybe it's a couple years, what have you.
Anyway, great, great, great to be back with you, folks.
Telephone numbers 800 282-2882.
Now we hand the call from Robbie, proving, in a way, my point that we live now in a world that has somehow been given over to moral equivalence.
And why is everybody criticizing our wonderful president?
It's only an hour after thing happened, and we don't know anything, and president's out there.
Robbie, the president, in that flubbed first attempt at sincerity, said Russian invaders did it.
He, in his thing last Friday, he said it was that we knew who did it.
So we didn't need to send NCIS over or the uh or the FBI.
But the thing is, he got a mulligan today because he was not able to fake the sincerity on Friday.
Remember during the 2004 presidential campaign, CBS did an interview with Kerry, John Kerry served in Vietnam, by the way, uh, that was so bad.
CBS gave him a do-over, and the tape of the reporter leaked out.
Senator Kerry, you want to give that another go.
He's so flubbed up an answer, forget what it was about.
So Obama got a mulligan today.
But I wanted, I just want to show you how things have changed.
We have here about 30 seconds of Ronald Reagan.
And much like this event, back in 1983, over the Komchatka Peninsula, I'll never forget it.
There was a Korean Airlines flight, 007, shot down by the Russians.
They claimed that it invaded their airspace, it was civilian airliner.
And what made it somewhat fascinating was that the president or the head honcho of the John Birch Society was on board.
You remember that?
Forget his name.
I forget his name.
He was it was Larry something.
He was a congressman from Georgia.
And he was a prominent Bircher.
And uh he was among the dead.
And so the conspiracy theorists, the Birchers, thought that the Russians, the Soviets, shot it down because the guy was right and he was hot on the trail of the global conspiracy and the new world order, and Larry McDonald was his name.
It's exactly right.
And so that that fed into it, that it uh couldn't have been invasion of airspace.
It had to be done on purpose because uh a member of the Birch Society was on board, getting close to proving the new world order global conspiracy as authored by David Rockefeller's Abignyv Zhezinski.
And uh hell all of them.
But there was no rhyme to reason for it.
Like a couple Russian MiGs were scrambled and shot it down.
And Ronald Reagan went on television to speak about the shooting down of Flight 007 by the Soviet Union and this is enough.
This is 30 seconds.
Let you hear how well was there real president.
It's just a different time.
America was America.
America had moral authority.
America had a uh a standing in the world.
Everybody looked to us.
When something like this happened, the world turned to the United States for answers for a reaction, for a response.
We didn't demand it.
We didn't send a memo out saying, okay, everybody pay attention to us.
Okay, everybody ask us.
Okay, it just happened.
We were the moral leaders of the world.
Because of our system.
Because of our decency, because of our goodness, because of our devotion to individual liberty, human freedom, our opposition to places like the Soviet Union and communist China.
We, the United States back then, we were what everybody in the world wanted to be.
All the citizens in the world wanted to be.
And whether we liked it or not, the world turned to us for answers, for inspiration, for explanation, for guidance, for reason.
And here is such an American president, Ronald Reagan, September 6th, 1983.
We know it will be hard to make a nation that rules its own people through force to cease using force against the rest of the world.
But we must try.
This is not a role we sought.
We preach no manifest destiny.
But like Americans who began this country and brought forth this last best hope of mankind.
History has asked much of the Americans of our own time.
Much we have already given.
Much more we must be prepared to give.
He went on to talk about the responsibility the United States had.
This was a Korean airliner.
Now, yeah, they were an ally.
But they're a tiny ally.
He was half a world away where this happened.
There was an American on board.
But the world looked to us for answers.
The world wanted us to tell it the truth of what happened because they didn't trust the Soviet Union to tell them the truth.
They didn't trust any of the allies of the Soviet Union, the Eastern Bloc, to tell us the truth of what happened.
The world looked to us.
And Ronald Reagan answered the call.
Now we know it'll be hard to make a nation that rules its own people through force to cease using force against the rest of the world, but we must try.
Not a role we sought, meaning we're not aggressors.
We don't run around dumping our chests and bragging about how we're the end all to everything.
We just were by virtue of our existence.
That's what we preach no manifest destiny means.
We do not believe that we are singularly better than anybody else.
That's not why we are and who we are, do what we do.
But like Americans who began this country and brought forth this last best hope of mankind, history is asked much of the Americans of our own time, because we had a duty.
We had been given much.
We secured much for ourselves, but as a result of our existence, we had a duty to spread it, to stand for it, and to defend it around.
This is gone now, totally.
This attitude, this belief in America simply does not exist, especially in today's Democrat Party, and especially in today's regime, the White House at the State Department.
So you just heard Reagan, let's let's listen to Obama from Friday.
Forget number six.
Let's listen to Obama on Friday, audio soundbite number seven, just in comparison.
Here's what must happen now.
This was a global tragedy.
An Asian airliner was destroyed in European skies, filled with citizens from many countries.
So there has to be a credible international investigation into what happened.
The U.N. Security Council has endorsed this investigation, and we will hold all its members, including Russia, to their word.
The United States stands ready to provide any assistance that is necessary.
And I gotta now go to my cheeseburger and fries uh fundraiser and one other fundraiser, and it's great to be in Delaware.
The difference is stark, and it is it's evolved here from this notion of we are who we are with a confident acknowledgement of our existence, to now uh not so subtle apology for our existence.
Can't deny that, folks.
Mr. Obama apologizes or gets close to it many, many times, has in the past, continues to portray similar attitude.
And we stand ready to provide any assistance.
Nothing here.
There was nothing today.
In the mulligan.
There was no condemnation, really, of the act.
There was just we'll investigate.
We'll get the bottom of it.
And uh make sure the UN.
Guess the bottom of this.
Member nations.
We'll hold them to it.
And uh we'll help out however we can.
Let's go back to May 21st, 2010 on my program where I, your host foretold all of this.
We were told during the campaign, 2008.
Barack Obama would be the first post-racial post-partisan president of the United States.
Let me tell you what he is.
Barack Obama is the first post-American president of the United States.
Gotta take a quick time out.
We'll do it, be back right after this, my friends.
Do not go away.
Folks, we did got a major uh-oh.
Uh just crossed the uh the news and sports wires.
Uh-oh.
As in uh oh, really?
And it's coming up in mere moments as I tease you.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, absolutely.
Um here's Mrs. Clinton.
Uh last Thursday night's a Charlie Rose who said, uh Miss Clinton, what is the United States do if there's clear indication, clear evidence that it was Russian separatists, perhaps using weapons from Russia.
Obama had already said that it was.
But Charlie was asking Hillary, well, what do we do if there's clear evidence that it was the Russians and a Russian weapon shot done?
I think the United States has been very clear in both its uh criticism of Russia and Putin, its support for Poroshenko and the new Ukrainian government.
Europeans have to be the ones to take the lead on this.
It was a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur over European territory.
There should be outrage in European capitals.
All right, there you have it.
That's that's this regime, it's former state secretary of state.
Hey, Europe should take the lead on this.
Flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, European territory.
Well, it's none of our business.
Here's Reagan again, September 6, 1983.
We know it will be hard to make a nation that rules its own people through force to cease using force against the rest of the world.
But we must try.
This is not a role we sought.
We preach no manifest destiny.
But like Americans who began this country and brought forth this last best hope of mankind.
History has asked much of the Americans of our own time.
Much we have already given.
Much more we must be prepared to give.
There wasn't it would have never had occurred.
It would have never occurred to Ronald Reagan to slough this off.
Well, you know what?
This happened over the Kamchatka Peninsula, and it was a Korean jet.
Let them handle it.
They ought to be flipping mad over this.
It wasn't even a it would not have occurred to Reagan.
It wouldn't have occurred to any American back then to have that attitude about this.
9-11, this just uh now it's just rush.
It's a changing world.
That it is.
That it is.
And change, and I look at I'm vowed in my life I'm never gonna become a floody duty.
But I guarantee you, not all change is good.
This is we are not headed positive direction change.
Uh CBS News Pittsburgh.
This is the uh-oh.
I have it right here.
Pittsburgh.
CBSlocal.com.
Report.
Former Pittsburgh Steeler defensive coordinator, NFL head coach, and NBC analyst Tony Dungey is making headlines after reportedly saying that he would not have drafted Michael Sam because he is gay.
Dungey told a Tampa Bay Times he would not have taken Michael Sam.
Not because I don't believe Michael Sam should have a chance to play.
I just wouldn't want to deal with all of it.
Michael Sam, a former Missouri Lionbacker, SEC player of the year, and openly gay, drafted in the seventh round of the NFL draft by the uh St. Louis Lamb.
Dungey told a paper, it's not going to be totally smooth.
Things are going to happen.
Things are getting ready to happen right now, if this is true.
I mean, it says the word report is here after reportedly saying, and it's a said Dungey told a Tampa Bay Times he wouldn't have taken Sam.
Not because I don't believe he should have a chance to play.
I just wouldn't want to deal with all meaning the I mean the Rams are not a football team this season.
They are a social experiment.
And that's what he means.
Well, I don't want to put words in his mouth.
They're just going to be a constant.
The media presence is going to be there no matter what decision the coaching man the coaching staff makes about Sam, whether he plays or not, whether he gets cut or not, it's all going to be held up through the prism of, is it because he's gay?
Looks if he gets cut, which I don't think he can be.
I frankly just I don't think anything's in writing, but I don't think he can't be.
Let's say he is.
I mean, sports writers are dumber and more liberal than their news counterparts.
And they're gonna be out there, and they're gonna be was it the story is gonna be from was he cut because he's gay?
Was he drafted because he's gay just just so the goodwill could accrue to the league, and now they're saying he can't play.
They knew he couldn't play, should he have never been drafted in the first place with all the publicity stunt.
That'll be one angle.
Another angle uh will be related to okay, maybe he can't play, maybe he's good at spending, maybe maybe he can't start, but why cut him?
Why can't they make the statement of keeping the first openly gay player?
It's just not gonna end.
And there's no there's no right move that the league or the lambs can make.
It's like when when um uh there was a dearth of African American head coaches, and then that was amediorated somewhat with when a number of them being hired.
Well, you get hired to get fired in the NFL.
So many African America coaches after being hired were then fired.
And there was not a cacafity of charges of discrimination against black coaches after they were fired because the teams, hey, hey, hey, hey, what do you mean discriminate?
We hired the guy.
And that pretty much held sway, that that rule de roost.
But now, if Michael Sam gets cut, and they simply and that's what the Rams, oh I don't look, I don't even want to get into this, and I'm gonna have nothing to do with it.
But if he gets cut, they better have a lot of tape.
He better play in all four preseason games.
They better have the evidence that he's cut because he just can't make it.
If that's the case, I'm not saying I don't know what is gonna happen, but the what Dungey is referring to is these eagle eyes gonna be on this.
And this is no longer about a football team in the NFL.
It's a social experiment.
And he's just saying if the report is accurate, he wouldn't want to deal with the distraction of it all as a coach.
Not that he doesn't think Sam should get an opportunity.
Now, Tony Dungey, speaking of moral authority, Tony Dungey has it.
Tony Dungey is in the NFL today.
He's the go-to guy for the right answer to every controversial question.
He has earned that.
He he they everybody wants to know what Tony.
It's, you know, what would Jesus do?
What would Dungey do?
What would what is Dungey think?
He is he's achieved that lofty perch in the NFL.
That's that's why this story is gonna uh oh.
Okay, attention, those of you who listen to this program who happen to report what happens on this program when I say something about Apple, iPhone, iPad, iOS.
If you report it to a really great blog called MacDaily News.com, you need to tell him that I was wrong.
My favorite feature has been put back in iOS 8 in the new beta.
It's been I'm I'm I'm like a I'm like a kid on Christmas morning.
My my my favorite feature has been put back.
And I didn't think it would be.
I I I just I don't know why is one of the things I became pessimistic about it, but it's back.
Hopefully it stays, but I must say that I was wrong about by the way, the the MacDiddy News book.
I never did specify exactly what was taken out and what is now put back in because there's a non-disclosure agreement that you must sign if you participate in the beta program.
I did not specify what was taken out, and I've never explained it to you.
A, because I know you don't care.
I'm one of five people that does or do.
But I just wanted to correct the record.
I was wrong.
They did put it back in, and it's I think it's even been improved.
And for those of you curious, try entering a calendar event an hour or two ahead.
What did he just fake it?
Make it up at a lunch event, two hours, find a restaurant, put the address in there, and then see if it shows up the next destination section of the notification center.
The today section.
See if it's there.
You'll see what I mean.
That's it.
Enough inside baseball.
Here's Mike in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Roger's pleasure speaking with you again.
Uh have you found Ragadace, Missouri yet?
Have I found have I found Missouri yet?
Braggadocia, Missouri.
Down near Haytai.
Located that town yet.
What what it I'm I'm I'm totally lost.
Well, I've never heard of Braggadocia, Missouri.
Yeah, well, it's just south of the Cape.
We spoke before, and you know, I figured you might have went in, hooked it up, and tried to find it anyway.
I'd love to speak with you, but I've got a little message for Robbie, our friend Robbie.
Uh hey, Robbie, the NCIS, are you serious?
Pray, tell what information do you expect the NCIS to obtain?
Yeah, you're like a.
That's a but Mike, see that's the point.
It it's a TV show.
That's reality now.
Well, he's a good old boy, so we have to assume he was referring to the NCSP.
But let's go ahead and do him a favor.
Robbie, pick up your 12 gauge and pump a couple rounds through your TV set because you are stupid.
Um there used to be hosts that would have responded that way to Robbie.
I have never been a host who would have responded.
I mean, I've never, I mean, that's that's cruel, Mike.
To hey, Robbie, why don't you grab your 12 gauge and pump a couple of rounds through your TV set because you're still I, as host would never say that to a caller.
That's why I say I'm the politest host out there.
What Robbie's point was um was that, hey, why should we jump the gun?
Why we got an Obama's chili here?
We don't know what happened.
He didn't cause it.
And see, that his question really brings to the forefront a serious I don't I hesitate to use the word problem because it's overdone.
It just really reflects a major change in the American people's own attitude about their own country from what it once was and used to be versus what it is now.
And I it's not good.
And it all started.
Now it's hard to say when it started, but the the attack on the whole concept of American exceptionalism is a reflection of it.
This this uh this this idea that folks, I'll tell you the root here is that everybody's the same and everybody's equal, and nobody's better than anybody else.
Wherever that started, and it's maybe started in grade school, junior high, the public school system 30 years ago, the idea that somebody's better, remember outcome best based education.
Um if you thought two plus two was five, that was okay.
It was okay.
We were not going to humiliate you and tell you the truth so you could learn from it.
We're gonna wait for you to figure out on your own, and we're gonna penalize people who were fast learners and slow them down because it wasn't fair that some people were smarter than others, and it wasn't fair that they learned faster than others.
So we're gonna slow them down this whole notion that there isn't anything significant in achieving anything.
It's typified by Elizabeth Warren and Obama running around to every CEO, you didn't build it.
To every entrepreneur who's built a business, you didn't do that.
You couldn't have done that without the business, without the government, without citizens and taxes.
You didn't do that.
This all-out assault on achievement, on uh excellence, on improving, on getting better, on being the best.
I mean, look at how many schools have gotten rid of valedictorian saludictory, because it isn't fair.
Not everybody can be, so we're not gonna just we're not gonna we're not gonna sing single out one person and give them an award for being the best in the school.
It's not fair.
This has been going on for years, and now it's it's it's it's become an attitude about the country.
I'm telling you, there's no good here.
No matter how deeply you want to take this, this all-out assault.
Let's let me put it different way.
This blitzkrieg on sameness and equity, uh, particularly when it comes to equality of outcome, that everybody must be the same.
And when there are disparities and differences, we gotta punish the people at the top.
The people who earn more, we're gonna take more.
The people who achieve more, we're gonna take more from them.
The people who do better in school, we're we're gonna redistribute the grades.
We're gonna there is not there's a guilt associated with achieving.
There's a guilt associated with the success.
There's an attempt been made to make people feel guilty about achieving and to uh get make other people feel comfortable with not achieving.
And the the whole notion of liberal redistributionism is to make everybody the same and everybody equal.
In that case, everybody it's all fair and everything.
Well, you know, back when the Korean airliner went down, it it wasn't Reagan's point was it was not manifest destiny, it was not us telling the world we're better than you, and we have all the answers, and we're the ones that are gonna tell you what for, and we're the ones that are gonna tell you what's right and what's wrong.
It just accrued to us.
It just accrued to America because it was the truth.
America achieved that status in the world as a force for good.
It's why Reagan referred to this country as the last best hope of mankind, the last Best hope of freedom.
We were.
We still are, but we do not have leaders who see the country that way.
To them, freedom is, I don't know, they take it for granted, or it's it's it's much ado about nothing.
Remember, these are people that think the Constitution's backwards.
These are people who think the Constitution doesn't give the government enough power.
And the reason they want more power is to deal with all of these inequities and all the unfairness out there.
So that's the real problem with Robbie's attitude, in my mind, not that it was an NCIS over there.
Naval criminal investigative service, if you wonder what it is.
You know, send Mark Harman and his crew over there to find out uh what happened.
Uh NCIS, FBI, whatever.
We didn't send the FBI over to Benghazi for how long?
For crying out loud.
Two weeks or more before, maybe even longer than that.
My the point that I'm I'm trying to make here is that it isn't good.
A lot of people think that it's erudited, it's it's uh it's compassionate, it's understanding to think of us as no better than anybody else.
We're nowhere.
It was it was never a question of being better than anybody else.
I'm talking about as a country.
It was never a question that we're better people.
It's that we had the best system for people to prosper, to develop, to blossom.
This is the country where people came to be the best, to realize their dreams.
We don't have people leading the country today who see it that way.
People leading the country today, they lip service to that stuff.
They they try to make you think they believe it, but they don't.
They think it's just the opposite.
Everybody who succeeds is done it either as a result of a crime or on the back of somebody else, or some sort of unfair advantage, and it needs to be equalized.
They don't look, for example, at underachievers as maybe people are not tried as hard.
They don't see it as people maybe haven't taken life as seriously as others.
They don't look at people who don't achieve as much as others as maybe not trying or expending effort.
And consequently, they don't look at the success stories and see all the hard work and ingenuity and application and grit and determination, ambition.
They don't see that.
They see unfair, unequal, inequitable results that come from a system, i.e., the United States, which is constituted unfairly and with discrimination and bigotry and bias built in.
And they think the successful people are the people who've mastered the bias and the bigotry and the uh and the discrimination, figured out how to game the system.
And they are here to protect the victims of all these successful people.
And there are far more failures than there are successful people, so it's a bigger voting block, so you can that's what's so hideous about this.
This bunch plays to the lowest common denominator of our population.
They need a permanent underclass.
What do you think the attraction is for poor, uneducated, unskilled young people from all over the world.
Coming here illegally.
There's value to the Democrat Party in those people.
What is that value?
Voters.
Subservient, dependent voters.
You know, folks.
I was reading a column by Kyle Smith, Smith in the uh New York Post over the weekend about the uh millennials and young young people today and how the vast majority of them are are conservative Republicans, but they're gonna vote liberal Democrat for two reasons.
Let me find let me take a break.
I'm due to take a break here anyway, I'll find out.
Well, hey, here's Michelle Obama tells Kids.
Folks in Congress want to make their food unhealthy.
So here you have the first lady who's hellbent on getting her preferred menu in every public school, and the kids are rejecting it.
The kids don't like it.
Nobody wants it, so she's not reacting kind.
Oh well, you don't reject these people because they're only out for you.
Only trying to help you.
They're only interested in your own good, and you're incapable of that yourself.
So what does she do?
People in Congress want you to eat unhealthy food.
Now that is utterly preposterous.
It's outrageous.
It is a lie, and yet the news media is out there spreading the word and promulgating this and promoting the idea that, by the way, folks in Congress equals Republicans.
So we've gone from in the mid-90s Republicans wanting to starve your kids.
Now Republicans want to poison your kids with unhealthy food.
It's all about these massively powerful people.
So...
Taking unfair advantage and the need to make everything equal.
And they look at the country in the same way.
Brief time out.
We'll be back after this.
No.
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Times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, chaos, an excellent role model for the youths of America.
And anyone else needing guidance.
Back to the phones.
This Chuck in Johnson City, Tennessee.
Great to have you on the program, Chuck.
Hi.
How are you doing today, sir?
Pretty well, sir.
Thank you very much.
All right.
I just wanted to make a comment and ask a question, and then I'll hang up and uh see what you got to say about it.
Well, no, no, you don't necessarily do that.
I mean, I appreciate that that you do think people want to hear what I have say about it, but I don't mind talking to you about it.
I uh I wouldn't have even known about any of this unless uh your buddy uh Lynn had mentioned it the other day.
But uh he was talking about a treaty that we had with Ukraine, uh '94 when they gave up the nukes.
Let me okay, exactly right.
We had a treaty, and this this goes back to Clinton.
Yes, sir.
We had a treaty we we we urged the Ukrainians, we demanded that they disarm, and in return, we promised to defend them should Russia or Putin or a neighboring enemy attack them.
That has been renewed through Bush 43 and Obama.
And now it's as though it doesn't exist.
Didn't the Russians actually sign that treaty as well?
Uh probably did, yes.
It was what I understood, the non-aligned nations got together at the paradigm.
Uh and and yes.
Well, with that being said, I think uh this administration's at least indirectly responsible to some extent for that airliner being shot down.
Because they shouldn't have been able, they shouldn't have been over there shooting to begin with.
Uh and I haven't heard anyone mention anything about any treatment.
You know, I don't I never want to make the mistake of uh denying proper responsibility.
I mean, the people shot it down, shot it down, and and they did it.
And whether there was a treaty or not, they did it.
The point about the treaty, and I remember when we when I first discovered it and made mention of the news uh on on this program, it was it was back this spring when this whole thing began.
And until I was reminded of it, I I did not know that it existed.
And the the point is exactly what we're talking about today.
We had pledged with a number of other nations in exchange for the Ukrainians disarming, because we believed that of course uh countries with weapons is a bad thing.
We get rid of their weapons, and that would make them docile.
They would not be aggressors and they would uh they'd focus on their domestic uh circumstances improvement.
And in exchange, we offered, as the big guy on the block to defend them.
Time came, we weren't there.
It's it's part and parcel of the the theme that has developed on the program.
Now, whether or not that led these people thinking they could shoot the plane down with impunity, I think these Russian terrorists would do something like that anyway and f and and run the risk of a response.
But the fact that they're pretty sure there isn't going to be one doesn't help.
I can't grant you that.
March 5th, that we talked about this at length.
You can look it up at rushlimbod.com.
President Clinton, President Obama promised to protect disarmed Ukraine.
Rush Limbaugh.com March 5th of this year.
Sit right, my good friends.
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