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July 23, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 23, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh here behind the Golden EIB microphone.
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And I have just lost the audio feed.
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Let's see if I've got the batteries working.
There we go.
No, it's been.
The battery had not, somehow it had come loose from its proper seating.
And just jostling it around in there has fixed it.
So now I'm back and can hear.
Again, telephone numbers 800-282-2882.
Did you happen to see or hear John Kerry and his entourage were headed into a meeting with the president of Egypt?
His name is El-Sisi.
It's spelled El-Sisi, but I don't think he pronounces it that way.
I'm assuming he pronounces it El-Sisi.
And they actually made the Secretary of State walk through a metal detector.
They actually wandered.
This is not done, folks.
This was a profound insult by the nation of Egypt against agents of Barack Obama.
I'm not exaggerating this.
This is not done.
Diplomats, the Secretary of State, is waved in through a private, well, it may be a public entrance, but there is no stopping.
There is no question who he is.
There is no passport needed.
There is no need for ID fingerprint scans, none of that.
And they now, I think, I'm sure they know he served in Vietnam, but as Netanyahu said to Kerry, hey, this isn't Vietnam.
Did you people know that?
By the way, Kerry is over there talking to Netanyahu about Vietnam and trying to relate it.
He spent four months there.
And it's become one of these defining things.
I served in Vietnam when I was in Vietnam.
That's why we joke about, because he tells everybody as often as he can he served in Vietnam.
And Netanyahu, Senator Kerry or Secretary of State Kerry's, is not Vietnam.
Anyway, to get wanded, to get metal detectored.
Look, you have to, you can't blame the Egyptians.
They just threw the Muslim Brotherhood out.
And the Muslim Brotherhood, the Egyptians know how Obama and Kerry feel about the Muslim Brotherhood.
They.
Let's just say that Obama and Kerry do not think the Muslim Brotherhood is a big problem like the Egyptians do.
They're a little bit more moderate.
The Egyptians, they had their turn with the Muslim Brotherhood.
They got rid of them.
The Muslim Brotherhood pulled a fast one on them back during the days of Tariri Square.
You remember that.
That's when CNN's, some of my all-time favorite soundbites that we have had on this program.
You remember the Egyptian uprising against Mubarak?
The economy was in dreadful shape.
There weren't any jobs, and it was massive protests.
And the Muslim Brotherhood was lurking in the background, waiting to take over vis-a-vis the Egyptian army.
And Mubarak is out of it.
He's soon to be run out of the palace, sent to a hospital, rendered insane, put on trial, convicted, typical stuff.
And so CNN sends their ACE reporter, Nick Robertson, over to Tahriri Square to talk to Imam Mustafa Abdul and Chris.
And it's talking to these guys.
And what was your message for President Obama?
Who is very supportive of your reports here and hoping to create jobs?
And how much would you credit President Obama for what?
And these guys say, President Obama?
Obama's got nothing to do with what's going on here.
We don't know from day to day what Obama thinks.
We don't know from day to day what Obama believes.
This is something we're doing on our own.
Thank you for that.
And now we move on to Mustafa.
Mustafa, what do you think of President Obama and his call for jobs in the middle class in Israel?
President Obama, it's got nothing to do with this.
Obama, we don't know what he's doing day to day.
To hell with that.
We are doing this on our own.
He talks to another one.
And after the third interview, Nick Robertson wraps it up by saying, and now I say, you've clearly heard massive support for President Obama here in Tahriri Square.
And what they were trying to do back then, this was not long after Obama's 2008 win, which was, of course, this massive messianic victory.
And the Obama campaign and the Obama speeches were said to be models for politicians the world over.
A new day in the world, a new day in America, a new kind of politician, somebody we've never seen before, yada, yada, yada.
And so this uprising in Egypt, the media in our country and the Democrats tried to claim that Obama's presidency and campaign were the inspiration for what was going on in Egypt.
He was the Arab Spring, and it turned out the Arab Spring turned out they were all in favor of it.
The Arab Spring was going to be this massive, great unification effort where everybody was going to love each other, just like was going to happen in America.
And the Arab Spring was nothing more than a Muslim Brotherhood attempt to take over everything.
And they succeeded in Egypt for a while and then were finally thrown out.
So the current Egyptian leadership doesn't have much to say good about the Muslim Brotherhood.
But they know that Kerry and Obama do.
Kerry and Obama harbored massive amounts of support and hope for the Muslim Brotherhood.
It wasn't under the covers.
It was secret, but they did.
So it's not a surprise to me that Kerry would be wandered.
I mean, Kerry and Obama were essentially supportive of enemies of the current Egyptian.
You know, a better way to say this?
Egypt is doing more for Israel in this current conflict than we are.
Israel is doing more for peace, quote-unquote peace, than we are.
President Obama was going to unify America.
Remember, post-racial, post-partisan, a brand new president, unlike any we'd ever had.
And all of the old hatreds were going to vanish simply because he'd been elected as the first African-American president, the first smart one in a while, first smart Democrat president.
Here we go.
This guy can speak well.
He's very, very, very, very articulate.
Great crease in this slack.
It's just perfect.
Guy won the Nobel Prize within two months.
It's kind of like, you remember this Ronan Faro, this 26-year-old that got a show on MSNBC for having done nothing.
but maybe be Frank Sinatra's kid.
And I don't think he was only here two days and they gave him the Walter Cronkite Award for some sort of excellence in journalism.
And it was just like how the left gave Obama the Nobel Peace Prize before he'd done anything.
And they asked the Nobel Committee about this.
What do you mean he hadn't, what do you mean, Peace Prize?
It's because of what he brings to the prospects of peace.
It's because of what Obama means for the hope of the world.
Right.
Well, where are we?
The world is in flames.
Obama doesn't care when you get right down to it.
You have the Nobel Peace Prize.
It's just a joke.
The traditions, the institutions that used to have real meaning and real inspiration, used to really mean something, have been corrupted and watered down out of meaninglessness.
And so the Rasmussen reports people went out there and did a survey.
And the results are 67% of likely American voters say America is a more divided nation than it was four years ago.
35% believe Obama's to blame.
34% think the Republicans in Congress are to blame.
Perhaps problematic for the Democrats is 65% of Republican voters, 55% of voters not affiliated with either party, are more likely to vote this year compared to 53% of those in the Democrat Party.
Now, that could change as the election gets nearer.
But what it means is that a whole lot of Republicans and a whole lot of people that don't usually vote can't wait to show up.
That does not bode well for the Democrats.
83% of all voters believe that most of their fellow Americans are not informed.
Meaning, 83% of all voters believe that most Americans are low information.
This proves my point that the low information voter does not have any idea that he is one.
By definition, if you're a low information voter, you don't know enough to know that you don't know anything.
That's the great thing about talking about low information voters is nobody thinks you're talking about them.
They think you're talking about everybody else.
And this poll kind of proves it.
83% of all voters believe most Americans are low information voters.
80% of Republicans and 69% of unaffiliated voters think America is a more divided nation than it was four years ago.
And 55% of Americans, Democrats, agree with that.
Only 25% of voters think the country's headed in the right direction.
That's the lowest finding in months.
Now, how did this happen?
How do we end up so roiled and partisan and divided?
How did it happen?
Because remember, Obama was going to unify.
That's one of his selling points.
That's one of the things he promised.
He's going to bring us all together.
The planet was going to heal.
The sea levels were going to recede.
You know, all this wonderful magnificence, the world was going to love America again.
And now, look, how did all this happen?
Well, I want to take you back to me on the day in January of 2009 when I said, I hope he fails.
And everybody knew what I meant, but they took occasion to misrepresent that and say that I was actually hoping America would fail.
It was the exact opposite.
I wanted Obama to fail implementing his policies.
I wanted his failure to be personal.
I didn't want it country.
I was trying.
But my thinking was Obama failing means the country remains unharmed.
And I have been borne out.
He did not fail.
He's been profoundly successful implementing his ideas.
I mean, if he doesn't get what he wants out of Congress, he just writes the law himself.
Well, on that day in January of 2009, I said a lot of things.
I said, I hope he fails.
I said that you think voting for a black president is going to end racism and convince everybody we're not a racist country and that slave days are over.
You're dead wrong.
The election of the first African-American president is going to lead to more racial criticism, more charges of racism.
It's going to create a greater racial divide because presidents get criticized.
Presidents' policies are disagreed with.
But this time, when anybody disagrees or objects to an Obama policy, it's going to be automatically chalked up to racism.
And we're going to move backward on race relations, I said.
And I think that's been borne out.
And another thing I said on that day, June 16th, was that we were not going to end up being more unified.
It was going to be the exact opposite.
I'm happy to be the last man standing.
I'm honored to be the last man standing.
Yeah, I'm the true Maverick.
I could do more than four words.
I say, I hope he fails, and I could do a brief explanation of why.
You know, I want to win.
If my party doesn't, I do.
If my party has sacrificed the whole concept of victory, sorry, I'm now the Republican in name only, and they are the sellouts.
I'm serious about this.
Why in the world?
You know, it's what Ann Coulter was talking about, the tyranny of the majority, all these victims here.
We've got to make sure the victims are finally assuaged.
Well, the dirty little secret is this isn't going to assuage anybody's victim status.
And the race industry isn't going to go away.
And the fact that America's original sin of slavery is going to be absolved, it's not going to happen.
It just isn't, folks.
It's too big a business for the left to keep all those things alive that divide the people of this country into groups that are against each other.
Yes, I'm fired up about this.
I said it.
January 16th, 2009.
There was no interest in solving these divides.
There was no interest in ending the racial divide.
There's too much money in it.
There's too much power to be accrued.
There's too much prominence you can achieve by being in charge of the racial divide or the race business, however you want to put it.
But I knew back then there wasn't none of what they were telling us that Obama was going to bring was going to happen.
It was not possible for it to happen because, I know this sounds so pedantic, he's a liberal.
They don't unify people.
They don't do anything but exacerbate and expand problems.
They live off of it.
They need victims.
They need an underclass.
They need dependent, subservient people.
They don't need self-reliant people.
They don't need people that can take care of themselves.
And they don't want that.
There wasn't going to be any unity.
Purposefully.
I've believed and said it on other occasions that I think one of the objectives was to keep the country divided, keep people, you know, put them in groups, and then set them against each other, create chaos and distractions, and then set the government up as the place to turn to for the answers.
The government will fix the problem.
The government will fix that.
The government will do it.
And therefore, government grows and gets bigger and becomes more powerful, which was always the objective.
Just a little reminder, once again, to not doubt me.
It's back to the phones.
This is Stacey, Inglewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
Thank you for waving.
It's great to have you on the program, Stacy.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
This is such an honor.
I am actually, even though I live in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, I am from San Francisco, California, and I'm in my 30s.
And I was educated in an Ivy League school.
And somehow I don't fear you.
I, in fact, adore you, and I'm honored to speak to you.
Thank you very much.
Sorry.
I just said thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
I wanted just to say also thank you for being a voice of sanity and giving the truth about Israel right now.
You know, as a Jewish American, it's just very hard, as it is just to be a conservative American dealing with the constant, what it feels like, an attack against what's morally good and reasonable and the truth.
But I just really appreciate how much you tell the world and how fearless you are.
Well, I appreciate your saying that.
I ask people, people ask me, how is it that there are a lot of Jewish people in Hollywood, and they vote Liberal Democrat.
And there are a lot of Jewish people in academia, and they vote Liberal Democrat.
And there's a lot of Jewish people in the New York Times, and they hate Israel.
And I have people ask me, how in the world do all of these Jewish people line up against Israel the way they do?
And there's a simple answer for this.
It's the same answer.
Why do they line up?
I mean, you're Jewish, but you're conservative.
So the fact you're Jewish doesn't count for anything.
And the answer to the question is liberals are liberals first.
Whether they're gay, whether they're transgender, whether they're female, whether they're feminist, whether they're Jewish, they're liberals first.
Liberal dominates everything else.
And so if the liberal position is that Israel is an evil, mean majority that's being mean to these poor Palestinians who don't have anything and is launching rockets and it's, then they've got to go.
They're bad.
The fact that they're fellow Jewish people doesn't matter, because liberals are liberals first, last and always right.
Oh, back we are.
Rush Lynn, bought to the phones to Ben Salem, Pennsylvania.
This is Sam and it's great to have you.
Hi hi, how are you Rush?
Very good, thank you great, it's a.
It's an honor to talk to you, appreciate it.
I want to talk about about the Michael Sam situation.
Go right ahead okay, I guess.
Here's my thought, you got 30 teams in the NFL right, give or take yeah okay, and they, they pretty much projected draft prior to the draft happening.
And my guess is that had he not come out and said he was gay, he probably would have gone in the third or even the fourth round.
Really?
You know, I don't know.
He got higher than he did.
Well, here's the thing.
And I don't know how much of this is true because there's PR and positioning buzz in everything that happens now.
But I think it may be the exact opposite, that if he had not come out as gay, nobody might have ever heard of him.
He might never have been drafted because the thing that I kept hearing from all the scouts, all these people doing mock drafts, that Michael Sam just, he just can't play at the NFL level.
Yeah, he was a player of the year of the SEC, but he's basically a one-position guy, and he doesn't have any lateral speed.
I mean, I remember all the things that were being said about the guy.
Of course, this is after he came out.
Before that, my recollection of all of these mock draft guys and the scouts and these analysts doing everything was that it was a long shot because he just doesn't have NFL-type talent.
And some people were speculating that that's exactly why he came out so as to improve his draft ability by becoming a cause.
That could be.
Again, I'm not an expert.
Well, I'm not either on this.
And we don't really know.
I'm just saying that that's a possibility, that that's why he did it, and that's why he fell, because he was a player in the University of Missouri.
Well, he was the SEC player of the year.
But, you know, college football is a much different game than pro football.
The pro game is much more specialized.
And I remember even after the Rams selected him, some of the honest analysis right off the bat was, wait a minute, there's not a place in this team for this guy.
He's not big enough to play on the lines.
He's got to play in a 3-4 configuration.
He can't be a pass-rushing defensive, and he's not big enough.
And they said he's not fast enough to play on the edge as an outside linebacker.
And he's only suited for one of those positions, but in the NFL, he doesn't have quite the resume to make it work.
And the Rams seemed full of players already capable and starters at both positions.
There were some people thinking that the league was forced into a position of almost from a PR standpoint, having to draft him.
Everybody's denied this, of course.
Having to draft him just to keep the wolves at bay.
And that some deal was made for the team that drafted him because they can't cut him by the same token.
So we'll see.
And I was thinking about this Dungy business right during the break.
There was something I remembered.
And I should have remembered this earlier when I played the Michael Wilbon soundbite where he talks about the subculture of the religious right that's in the NFL.
And remember now, Christianity is not a subculture in America.
It is a dominant.
Christianity is a majority of the population.
But in the NFL, the sports media, it's a subculture.
And Dungy's a member because Dungy is a Christian.
He is a witnessing Christian, meaning he talks about it.
He credits his Christianity for who he is.
This makes a lot of people nervous.
Do not doubt me on this.
And the one thing that I could have said to Buttress that that I remember during the break, do you remember the Super Bowl between the Indianapolis Colts and the Chicago Bears?
It was the first Super Bowl featuring two blackhead coaches.
Lovey Smith was the coach of the Bears, saddled with Rex Grossman as his QB.
Dungy was the coach of the Colts, and he had Peyton Manning.
The game was in Miami.
It rained all during the game.
It was a closer game than people thought because of the Bears' defense.
And it all came down to, you know, could Grossman make a play at the end of the game.
Colts ended up winning.
But all during the week leading up to the game, the media kept talking about two blackhead coaches, first time ever.
This was a sign of great progress.
This was societal progress.
This was America finally becoming the nation everyone knew she could become because it was unafraid and unabashed to have two teams in the Super Bowl, the pinnacle of sports in the American population with two blackhead coaches.
And the media was just orgasming over this.
They couldn't get enough of it.
It was the storyline.
It was, oh, what a great country.
Oh, we've overcome all of this.
Well, when they went and talked to Dungy and Lovey Smith about it, they didn't fall in line.
Dungy and Lovey Smith said, you know, that's not what's important to us.
I don't have the exact quotes, but I could dig them up.
Dungy said that the important thing was, yeah, we've got two blackhead coaches here, but two men of God, two devoutly Christian men have risen to the pinnacle.
That was what Dungy said.
That to him was what was noteworthy about this Super Bowl.
He didn't relegate the racial component to irrelevancy, but it was not the most important thing to him.
And the media, you can see they just didn't quite, they wanted these two guys to jump on the first two black coaches in the Super Bowl storyline and just take it all the way to the end zone.
They just wanted that to be the thing as the greatest thing.
Oh, wow, look at us.
We're cool.
And the media think, look at what we made happen because we're the ones that have been pressuring these owners to hire people or Rooney Rule and so forth.
Look what we did.
And here are these two guys saying, no, we're Christians first.
I'm just telling you that that's why it is thought that there's a subculture of Christianity, the Christian right in the NFL.
It makes people nervous.
So Dungy saying what he said about Michael Sam, the other leg that he's standing on there, this public Christianity, devout Christian stuff makes people nervous.
That will help and facilitate sport writers dumping on Dungy because they already don't like that about him.
And then if they want to, they can blame his Christianity for his views on Michael Sam and his statement that if he were a coach, he wouldn't draft him.
Yeah.
They probably are whispering this to each other already.
These sports writers talk.
Yeah, you know the real reason.
I can hear them now.
The real reason is Christian.
You know what they think about gays.
And that's why he's not going to say that, but that's why I guarantee you that undercurrent is out there circulating and it'll pop up.
It's effervescing and it will rise to this.
It has it already.
I haven't looked at, I haven't spent any time looking at every sports media outlet, see what people are saying.
But that may have already been said and reached the surface.
Anyway, David, oh, I'm sorry.
The guy from Ben Salem, I appreciate your call.
Thank you much.
Brief timeout.
Much more when we come back.
So don't go away.
You know what Tony Dungy said about that Super Bowl?
I'm sorry, Lovey Smith.
Lovey Smith, and I guarantee when he said this, you could have heard a pin drop in the media scrum that was there.
Lovey Smith said, God has given us a perfect stage to confess our faith in Jesus Christ.
And he was talking about himself and Dungy.
And that, to them, was more important than the racial component.
And the media wanted it to be the other thing, the racial component.
So that was their storyline.
Barack Obama said to a group of fundraisers, well, he was at a Democrat fundraiser near Seattle last night.
And he said that he told supporters he doesn't watch the news anymore.
He said, yeah, well, whatever they're reporting about, I usually know.
I already know it.
You know, so I don't watch it.
And that the exact opposite of what he usually says.
Grab audio soundbite number three.
We put together a montage.
Now, remember, just last night, Obama said the fundraiser, nope, I don't watch the news.
I don't learn it.
Whatever they're reporting about, I already know.
I first learned about it from the same news reports that I think most people learned about this.
Americans are right to be angry about it, and I am angry about it.
Nobody's madder than me.
I heard on the news about this.
It's very upsetting to me that somebody showed such bad judgment.
If it turns out some of the allegations that have been made in the press are confirmed, then of course I'll be angry.
I've got no patience with it.
I will not tolerate it.
I am furious at this entire situation.
We're going to hold the responsible parties accountable.
I certainly did not know anything about the IG report before the IG report had been leaked through the press.
The minute I found out about it, then my main focus is making sure that we get the thing fixed.
People are right to be angry.
I'm angry.
It was something we found out about, along with all of you.
I will not stand for it.
Not as commander-in-chief.
None of us should.
It is dishonorable.
It is disgraceful.
And I will not tolerate it.
Period.
Right.
He already knows what's on the news.
He doesn't watch the news anymore because he already knows what's on the news.
Well, the montage you just heard was put together from March of 2009 through May of this year.
And Obama was talking about, I didn't know about IRS targeting those people until I saw it on the news.
And then he was talking about Obamacare rollout.
He didn't know about the website wasn't working until he saw it on the news.
The Secret Service scandal where his team got drunk down there in Cartagena.
He didn't know about that till he saw it on the news.
The BP oil spill in June of 2000.
He didn't know about that till he saw it on the news.
And he was furious about it.
And a couple more about the IRS targeting conservatives.
A bunch of things about that he didn't know till he heard about it on the news.
Bonuses on Wall Street back in 2009.
He was angry.
He didn't know about that till he heard about it in the news.
Air Force plane flying over Manhattan, Air Force One.
He didn't know that that was going to happen until he saw it on the news.
And in the VA scandal.
Yeah, I'm not standing for it.
I heard about that on the news.
I learned about that.
But he tells fundraisers last night he doesn't learn anything from the news because he already knows about it.
It's just, you know, Obama being Obama, and I just wanted you to hear it.
Well, that's it, folks.
We are out of busy broadcast time for today's excursion into broadcast excellence.
As I always say, it never really ends.
We just take a little time out to regroup.
A pause for peace, if you will.
We come back ready and loaded for war in 21 hours.
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