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July 24, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 24, 2014, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
I'll tell you what, if I were lesbian, and I'm not, if I were gay, and I'm not, if I were bisexual, which I'm not, and if I were transgender, which I'm not, I would be very, very worried if I lived in New York today.
Because well, because of what Governor Kumo is gonna do.
I would be really, really worried.
I will explain why in just a minute.
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New York State is launching a campaign to collect coordinated data on residents' sexual orientation as part of a comprehensive effort to improve health and human services for lesbian gay, bisexual and transgender New Yorkers.
Uh-huh.
Right.
If I were gay, which I'm not, if I were lesbian, which I'm not, if I were transgender, which I'm not, this would worry me.
That they claiming to be looking out for me, and they want to know all about my sexual orientation.
And it's a it's an announcement that came from I I mean, it's a little bit of a see, I told you so here.
It is an announcement that came from the New York State Health Department.
It would be the first such statewide effort in the country, said Dan O'Connell, director of the Health Department's AIDS Institute.
Eight state agencies will soon begin collecting the self-reported voluntary data on lesbian gay bisexual transgender people who use their services.
The agencies that will begin collecting the data are the Department of Health, the Department of Corrections, and Community Supervision, the Office for the Aging, Office of Mental Health, Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Services,
the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, the Office of Children in Family Services, and the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities.
All of those agencies are heavily used by the minority population.
And all of these services used by the minority population cost the state a lot of money.
Now here's what I think is going on, and this is what one of the many things that worried me about Obamacare or any health care that is administered by and purchased from the government.
Because it gives them, in their view, legitimate total access to everything about your life, because your health care is something they're going to be paying for.
And if they have that kind of control over people, then they're going to very easily be able to dictate how people live.
They're going to be in charge of demanding that certain people or anybody not engage in that behavior or this behavior, don't eat that food, don't go to that place.
And if you do, after we've told you not to, and you get sick, you could be out of luck.
My my this is this is the thing that has worried me about because this is why some of the world's worst dictatorship, some of the world's worst tyrannies, one of the first things they did to gain control of their populations was to tell the population that they were gonna take care of them, that health care was a right, that health care was something that nobody should be denied.
Health care and the government's gonna provide it for you.
That's why the whole notion of death panels comes into play, because at some point they're not gonna have the money unless they steal it from others.
They're not gonna have the money to treat everybody equally.
Everybody is not going to get the same kind of health care and treatment.
Just isn't going to happen.
Because government agents, be they state, be they local, be they federal, they're going to do a cost-benefit analysis on a case-by-case basis.
So if I were gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender, I would be asking them, why does that matter?
When it comes to my health care, why does that matter?
The state's going to say because we're paying for it, dude.
And if you're out there doing things that uh, you know, insurance companies say are riskier than you should be doing.
Well, it could be problematic down the road.
The agencies are going to ask people using their public services at that first here to self-report their sexual orientation on forms along with other identifying data state agencies typically collect.
What happens when the self-reporting doesn't provide the data the state needs?
Oh, bye-bye self-reporting and hello, hey, you know what?
Not enough people participated.
We've got to go to plan B. Now we're going to make it mandatory.
Like on your tax return, isn't it like getting into somebody's bedroom?
Yeah.
Here's, see, this is what nobody's going to say about this.
Nobody, Governor Kuball isn't going to say it.
And none of the heads of these eight agencies that want the data and are going to be collecting it.
This is not, this is something they're not going to say either.
But there are certain segments of the American population that have a higher usage of medical services and require drugs that are massively much more expensive than the norm.
One such group is the elderly.
And it is they who will fall prey, victim to death panels.
There are other people that unfortunately, sadly, end up using a uh well, a higher greater percentage of medical services than other people do.
The state is trying, and they're not going to explain this, they're not going to give this as a reason why.
But you have AIDS.
It's even mentioned here in the story.
It is even mentioned.
So you've got AIDS.
You've got people that consume adult beverages, got alcoholics out there, you have smokers, you have people with a high percentage of depression.
You've got a, you've got massive psychological issues that differ from person to person.
And the state is going to end up associating, say, well, is alcoholism related to I X?
A certain lifestyle choice, for example, is depression is some psychological disorders.
Is it related to certain lifestyle choice?
Once they get the data, they can start matching it in any way they want to.
So now the nanny state of all nanny states, New York, wants to gather more information.
And it it it the story targets, I mean, not target.
The story specifies that the primary group of people for whom this data is sought, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender New Yorkers.
What nobody will say is that these agencies think that some of the highest medical costs, treatment and otherwise, are going to be spent on people Within these groups.
So you have the nanny state of all nanny states now, gathering even more information on this small percentage of the entire population.
And I just, I don't know if I would self-report any of this if it were me.
And I know that the lesbian gay, transgender, bisexual population identifies with Democrats, and they think that Democrats are really cool on civil rights and the right to privacy.
I mean, there's an allied status there between this particular group and the Democrats, well, the Democrats run this state, and it's a Democrats seeking this data.
And I just, I don't, I don't know if I would self-report.
That's just me, but I, you know, my natural suspicion of government control.
That's a natural thing to have gat- Look, there's certain things that in physics just happen.
And one of them is government gets bigger and gets bigger and wants more power, and that's the natural state of government where you constantly have to fight for smaller government because the natural order of bureaucracies to get bigger, more powerful, more inefficient, and the source of the power is the power over other people that they have.
That's what they get off on.
I would I would tell them to pound sand if it were me.
So Rick Perry was on TV last night, ladies and gentlemen.
He said there have been over the course of the last five years, since the fall of 2008, over 203,000 people who have come into Texas illegally, who've been booked into county jails in Texas, is Rick Perry said this.
He said that these people have accounted for over 3,000 homicides, over 8,000 sexual assaults.
Rick Perry, as you know, has said he's going to deploy the Texas National Guard on the border down there.
So this morning Reuters has the exclusive scoop.
And Barack Hussein Obama has sent a team of experts to the border to assess whether there is any need for him to send the National Guard down there.
I'm not kidding you.
Obama's still not sure that there's any problem on the border.
Obama and his buddies are saying that the border's secure.
So a team of experts are going to go down there.
I guess it's the same bunch of experts in St. Louis that concluded a years-long survey.
We reported it yesterday.
They found an amazing fact that if you reduce the length of time people are on unemployment benefits, they'll get back to work faster.
Can you believe it?
A federal study.
We could have told them this for one-tenth what they paid for it.
Now, that sounds like a laughing...
Folks, let me tell you something.
The people that did this think they learned something.
We've got to understand who it is we're dealing with.
It's no different than back in the mid-90s when the editorial board at Time Magazine really thought they were on to something when somebody had news that men and women are actually different.
That was such a shock that they made a cover story out of that.
And so now in St. Louis, well, that's the data where it was reported, I think.
And they actually admitted that after a lot of interviews and a lot of data study, they found that the shorter length of time people are on unemployment benefits, the faster they go back to work.
Can you believe it?
And they think they discovered something that was unknown.
They think they discovered something that's earthish.
Well, what did these people learn when they're growing up?
Is common sense ever, ever in their lives.
Obama needs a team of experts on the southern border to go down and study whether or not there's a problem when he's got governors all over this country all over the border who are going crazy trying to protect The people that live in their states.
Now, if Obama's team of experts, if they if they get back alive, because I mean that news that Governor Perry had last night, I mean 203,000 people in the last five years in jail.
Booked into jail.
That's not the total number.
That's just the number that came across.
That's the number that came across and ended up in jail.
And of those 203,000, 3,000 homicides, 8,000 sexual assaults.
So Obama's team of experts could be in danger as they go down and study the border.
And if they get back alive, and if they are able to report their findings to Obama, maybe then Obama will point a blue ribbon panel to study the problem a little more in depth.
This is the way liberals do things.
You send an exploratory panel down there.
They come back and say, yeah, we um we may have a little problem here in this stretch, and Obama's well, all right, blue ribbon panel.
And he'll announce it at the White House, and the blue ribbon panel will be there.
And uh that announcement will take the place of actual accomplishment.
The appointment of the blue ribbon panel will equal the problem being dealt with, and we'll move on to something else.
They'll report back to him sometime after the midterm elections.
That's usually the way Obama tackles these kind of problems.
By the way, McCain, John McCain last night was mattered, and I've seen him in a long time.
He was on Greta last night, and he he really, for him, he was furious.
He lashed into Obama.
McCain said, and I quote, you cowardly, it's cowardly.
He's very cowardly, cowardly.
He's cowardly not to help people who are begging for our help to eject people who are invading their country.
And I thought for a moment he was talking about southern border.
He actually said it's cowardly not to help people who are begging for our help to eject people who are invading their country.
He was talking about Israel.
But for a moment I thought he was talking about America.
But he was mad about what's happening in Israel.
He's talking and Ukraine.
Now don't don't don't get the wrong idea.
McCain has not come out in favor of securing our border.
was attacking Obama for not helping Ukraine.
I probably had you going there for a minute.
Okay.
What McCain was actually talking about is the report that Ukraine begged the U.S. for anti-missile defense equipment months ago.
Did you hear about this?
This is all part of the agreement that we made with him that predates Obama.
We wanted the Ukrainians a disarm.
And in exchange, we promised them protection.
We said anybody comes after you, we'll help you out.
And we haven't helped them out.
They have people have come after them, and so they actually begged Obama for anti-missile defense equipment months ago.
And it was denied.
And that's what McCain was all upset about.
That equipment might have, who knows, it might have prevented the shoot down of the Malaysian Airlines flight 17.
But naturally Obama refused them.
He doesn't want to risk angering Putin.
And that's the truth, too.
Whatever it he doesn't want, for some reason.
Remember before the 2012 election, there was an open mic, and Obama was talking to Dmitry Medvedev.
And Obama didn't know the Mike was alive.
And it was he was caught saying to Dimitri, now look, Dimitri, tell Vlad, I'm going to have a lot more flexibility when he's nuclear weapons after the election.
Meaning, you tell Vlad, cool as jets, you tell Vlad to hang on, hang in there and be tough.
Once I win reelection, I'll be able to take care of this.
It was talking about nuclear missile or nuclear warhead reduction.
Now, I I don't want to go out on a limb and say Obama is afraid of Putin, but you you could be excused for thinking so it's clear that he doesn't, he doesn't want to anger Putin.
He doesn't want to taunt Putin.
He doesn't, he doesn't want to challenge Putin in any way, shape, manner, or form.
Speaking of this, we've got an audio instead of audio sound, but you just have to.
Do you know this State Department spokesman, babe, Marie Harf?
This she's blonde, uh, wears glasses to make herself look like she's an academic.
She looks like she's uh 18 or 19, and one of these upstart, uh arrogant, know it all college kids.
Typical, you know, kind of like this uh this Tommy, what's his name that was on Fox not long ago.
Hey, it was two years ago, dude talking about Benghazi.
You gotta hear this stuff too, so sit tight back in a moment.
What's this?
No, no, no, no.
This simply cannot be true.
It's uh it says here that the the head of the IRS, that would be the commissioner John Coskinen.
The uh the guy looks like a cross between a turtle and a lizard.
I have both in the backyard.
So I know what I'm talking about.
Depends on whether he's smiling or squinting.
But anyway, he confirmed yesterday that investigators looking into missing emails from Lois Learner's computer, have found backup tapes, and they are reviewing the backup tapes.
All of this despite earlier claims that the tapes had been recycled, i.e., thrown out.
After all of these denials, after all these claims, they have also found out that Lois Learner's hard drive was not anything other than scratched.
It was not erased.
It did not crash.
It was just scratched.
Now, let me take a brief moment.
As many of you know, I am, compared to average consumers, an expert when it comes to tech.
I would be considered by average users to be a power user.
I'm actually not.
But compared to average users, I am.
And I know about hard drives.
I'm an expert telling you how to preserve them, back them up, make sure that you're protected against them actually crashing, because they all will at some point.
But unlike what the claim was of the IRS, they've now claimed it's like 20 hard drives crashed within the same week.
That doesn't happen unless somebody does it on purpose.
But a scratched hard drive.
Now, Lois Lerner, I don't know what kind of computer she had.
She probably had uh some form of a desktop computer in the IRS orifice.
And then she had a laptop that she carried around with her at home to work, and maybe that was all she had.
I don't know what the computer setup is at the IRS, and I don't know whether they they have a computer that never leaves the orifice and a laptop that that has data mirrored on it that they travel around with and home.
We know they've got a secret instant message program above and beyond the email, internal email.
But I just want to talk to you about the hard drive for a moment.
This whole notion of the hard drive scratch, do you know what you'd have to do to scratch the hard drive of a computer?
That is something that cannot happen in normal usage.
Now, there are many kind of hard drives.
There's solid state drive and there's the uh standard hard drive, which is a very fast spinning disk with a stylus type thing in there that reads it.
It's those are the slower ones.
They're the common ones, the cheapest, and they're the norm.
And they uh they they make a lot of noise.
The solid state drives are just lickety split fast.
And they're just they're they're cool, but they're Extremely expensive.
And so they have not hit mass usage as of yet.
They are in like, for example, your iPhone.
If you have uh like a 32 gig iPhone, it's 32 gig flash storage in there.
On the max is 64.
I think they're going to up that to 128, but that's the phone has a hard drive in it, called flash storage, and it's 32 gigs or whatever size you have is.
In a computer, you need anywhere from 256 up to a terabyte, and that costs a lot.
So I think she's probably got it's the IRS, remember, not state of the art, probably got old uh standard hard drives that make a lot of no, you can't to scratch one of these things, you'd have to take the computer apart.
You'd have to dig in, you'd have to know where, once you've got the housing off the computer, you'd have to know where in it the hard drive is.
And the average user is not going to know where the hard drive is.
It doesn't say hard drive on it.
It doesn't say disk drive, it doesn't say startup disk.
It's good, it doesn't say any of that.
If you don't know what it is, and now if you do know what it is, you're gonna have to remove it.
And they're usually screwed in very tightly.
So you have to get screwdriver, and it may not be normal size, because computers are made to keep people out of them.
Well, the good ones are.
But if you manage even to get this far, you get the thing torn apart, the housing's all off, you uh you you have the innards exposed, and then you think you know what the hard drive is, then you've got to take it out.
And then once you take it out, you've got to remove the housing that covers the actual disk drive inside.
And then you've got to get something to scratch it.
It's not it's not gonna scratch itself.
Now there may be a few instances where that can happen.
If you're very careless, and you bump the thing around while it's in use, you drop it off the edge of the desk while it's in use.
But they are they are trying to rely on the fact that nobody knows anything about the subject.
So, oh, guess what?
You know what?
We found backup tapes.
Lo and ball, after denying that any of them existed, and then after saying her hard drive crashed, and there was no way of getting a data back.
Now it's just scratched.
Now, what's changed?
What is causing the IRS to go, you know, wait a minute.
Guess what?
You know what?
We uh we sent another team in there, and another team is playing, you know, because it's there are some backup tapes.
You know, we know, but they found them and her hard drive.
It's only scratched.
You've got two.
No nonsense.
Federal judges looking at this now.
One of them is Emmett.
Uh Sullivan, I think.
These two judges are demanding that the IRS say everything they've said up to now under oath.
They have been given 30 days.
That was about a week ago.
And I think they obvious they don't want to run the risk of saying under oath in a federal courtroom what they've been saying in hearings while also under oath, by the way, at various house committees.
Something about lying, something about perjury in a federal court.
It's not someplace they want to go.
So now they're they're backing up on this.
And it's clear that they're in a stall tactic.
That's been clear from the get-go.
They're doing everything.
Now the stall target date is the November elections.
But Trey Gowdy, we have the soundbice.
I didn't have a chance to get to him yesterday.
Trey Gaudi just laid into Coskin.
And Coskinin has just taken fire from all directions.
And he doesn't like it.
He gets snooty and snarky in his responses.
Sort of arrogant as though, you know, you little pipsqueak, what who do you think you are compared to me?
I'm the IRS commissioner.
And you're nothing here, but the only difference between you and a bag of excrement is the bag, Congressman Gallett.
It's the attitude he's got.
And that's typical of statist type regimes who believe that they are above any accountability.
And that these guys are acting exactly uh that way.
But about Coskinen, as he explains all this, I think it's pretty clear.
Let me read the paragraph to you from Fox News.
IRS Commissioner John Coskinen, testifying for House Oversight Subcommittee, stressed that he doesn't know how they found the backup tapes.
And he doesn't know whether there is anything on them or not.
But he said that the inspector general's office told him the investigators are reviewing those tapes to see if they contain any recoverable material.
Now at this point, it's safe to assume Mr. Coskinen doesn't know much of anything that's going on at the IRS.
Now this relevation, sorry, revelation is significant because the IRS claimed when they first told Congress about the missing emails that backup tapes no longer exist because they have been recycled.
And now they found the backup tapes.
Uh-huh.
Now, we still don't know whether the tapes that the in inspector general has contain any Lois Learner emails.
We don't know that yet.
We don't know we're relying on the IG here to be forthcoming, but it's still a regime investigating itself here.
But Coskinen has assured us that the investigators are now checking.
In other words, they're investigating.
What's a hurry?
They're no hurry.
We got until the November elections to find all this out.
Meanwhile, the Democrats slammed the Republicans on the committee for continuing to hassle Coskinen by recalling him before the committee.
Elijah Cummings of the Congressional Black Caucasians said it's unseemly, it's embarrassing, there's not a proper way to run an investigation.
Of course not.
There's no when you run an investigation, when the Republicans are running an investigation, you're not supposed to learn anything.
That's improper.
If you actually want to learn anything, the only investigation that is proper is a Democrat investigation, which is popularly known as a cover-up.
Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day, and doing what I was born to do in the process.
One other little item here about the IRS, the commissioner, John Coskinen, also revealed yesterday that he, and nobody else at the IRS is either.
He is not speaking to any potential witnesses in the missing emails case while the IRS Inspector General conducts his own investigation.
Coskinen said, look, we've got our IG out there looking into it.
I'm not doing anything.
I'm not investigating anymore.
I'm not looking at.
So it's it's it's obviously delay technique.
I I've I've been told that the IRS has already submitted the demands, the affidavits demanded by Emmett Sullivan, the no nonsense federal judge, and in those affidavits, which are sworn under oath, the um IRS has asserted that Lois Lerner's disc had been wiped clean.
So this revelation comes after their under oath affidavit submission.
So they're gonna have to go in and change the affidavit.
Well not necessarily.
It depends on whether the scratched hard drive means that the data's gone.
But a scratched hard drive does not get rid of data, folks.
We've got no the IT guy just hung up.
We had an IT guy claiming to be one on a cell call from Texas.
He was either robbed by an illegal immigrant, and who knows what happened to him, or he lost his connection.
But I was ready to go to him.
That's not why the guy is not here anymore.
But he was going to point out that that a scratched hard drive does not equal loss of data.
There's plenty of data to recover there.
Some of it's going to be partial, and some of it's going to be damaged, but it doesn't, I mean it's because there's a little scratch in there, unless somebody's gone in with a scratch all and just scratch the whole thing.
But if that is the case, then it's purposeful, and somebody who knew what they were doing was going in there and did it.
So bottom line is I think it's safe to conclude that this commissioner and Lois Lerner and everybody else involved know exactly what they did.
They know exactly they were doing Obama's, but they they they knew and on purpose were trying to impede and harm political efforts of Tea Party types.
They know they did this, and there's a stall campaign underway to make sure that that data, that information is not produced before the midterm elections.
And maybe ever.
Because I'm sure these people don't want to face any federal charges.
Not that they would, because that would mean the Justice Department have to get involved, and we know that that isn't going to happen.
Well, since since our IT expert bombed out, let's go to Frederick Meryland.
We'll start with Walt.
And so you have the honor of being first today, Walt.
Thank you very much for calling.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
I just wanted to um to call to see if you would help refresh my memory from a couple weeks ago.
Sure.
Um if my memory recalls, um, wasn't uh Obama just down visiting Rick Perry and where he uh turned down a trip to the border because he knew everything that was going on down there.
Well uh yes, he did he did refuse uh numerous invitations to go to the border, whether he said because he knew what was going on, and I don't recall that could be.
I just don't remember him saying that.
But he didn't go.
I thought that he was um he made the statement that uh everybody was keeping him up to date and he knew everything that was going on down there, so there was no reason for him to uh to go there himself.
Well you may be right, but because he he did say that the border is secure.
Right.
So somebody would have had to tell him that.
So it's it's a little uh ironic now that um you know, after he turned down that opportunity, now he's got to send his experts down to uh to see exactly what is really going on down there.
Well, I I think Rick Perry forced his hand.
Uh look, remember Obama is a guy.
Perry, I think is illustrating how it's done here, by the way.
That I was I was talking to a to a friend of mine uh late last night.
We were again marveling, folks, at the absolute absence of any ideological, political, partisan party pushback against Barack Obama.
And we were remembering what it was the way the Democrats treated Reagan, the way Reagan treated Democrats, the way reacted, he told people who they are, what they were all about.
None of that going on now.
I know the racial component of Obama is a big factor.
There's just a fear.
But something else we were discussing is that inside Washington, inside establishment Washington, there isn't that much disagreement with what Obama's doing.
Because they're all part of the government, the center of the universe crowd.
They're all part of the corporate uh cronyism crowd now.
Uh where government and big money get together, form alliances, and that's that.
Lobbying is the key.
Both parties do it.
No pushback against Obama because the many Republicans, when it's their turn, want to be able to do much the same thing, although not ideologically, but still have the same kind of power.
But the the thing here that so Obama goes on, he says, well, no, it's just we're secure down there.
I'm no problem.
Everything's clunky dory.
Rick Perry calls his bluff.
Rick Perry takes a bunch of media people with him to the border, shows them what's going on, we got pictures.
Uh-oh, worse thing can happen.
And then Perry sends them National Guard people because he says, I got to protect the people of my state.
We're being overrun here.
It's kind of forced Obama's hands.
There are pictures now.
There are pictures of what's going on.
The regime has made sure that didn't happen.
These recruitment centers Or treatment centers or halfway houses that these kids are being run through.
But now they're pictures.
And so the uh the regime is forced now to act like they've just discovered a problem, maybe a problem.
They're going to look into it now.
They're never going to acknowledge that Perry was first and Perry was right, but it it is, I think, a good way of exposing Obama.
It takes action and pushback, and Perry's doing.
In the National Football League, there is another target.
The media has identified, in addition now to Tony Dungey.
He's a former wide receiver for the New York Giants, David Tyree.
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