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July 24, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 24, 2014, Thursday, Hour #2
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On the cutting edge of societal evolution, Rush Limbaugh with talent on loan from God.
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So Obama's in LA yesterday.
I had a friend who landed at LAX about 6:30.
Well, I'd be 9 30, 6 30 local time, and said the place was shut down.
Couldn't get anywhere.
Obama was in town.
It was starting to just start to loosen up as he was uh getting in a car heading to wherever he was going from the airport.
And so I came across this story.
Witnesses say a pregnant woman in labor was prevented by authorities from crossing a Los Angeles street to a hospital yesterday because the road had been closed for Obama's impending motorcade.
In other words, Obama was not nearby.
He was going to be passing by the location at some point.
He wasn't there yet.
If you have never, if you ever lived anywhere where a president shows up, you cannot really imagine what happens to that area.
They close airports for the time he's on the ground in many cases.
Now they don't, they can't get away with well, sometimes even in New York they do.
Now I remember I went to Houston, it's where I met Gorbachev.
I went, I went to Houston at uh at what was then Reliant Stadium.
Uh no, not Reliant Stadium, it was the uh the baseball uh park.
It was George H.W. Bur uh Bush's 80th birthday, and he had a whole weekend of festivities, and I went to the Saturday night thing.
And I flew into uh Houston Hobby, which is one of the two major airports there you can use.
And I went over to the thing, and I that's where I met Gorbachev.
Had my picture taken with Mikhail You know what that picture?
His birthmark was on my forehead when that picture ended up on my website.
At any rate, uh met Gorbachev, a good time with some people, but I didn't stay for the whole thing.
I left early because I had to fly back to Florida.
So I went back to the airport thinking, cool, I'm gonna get a head start, get out of here.
I wasn't allowed to leave until George W. Bush left because the president was also there.
And nobody was allowed to take off while he was on the ground at the baseball stadium.
So I had I may as well not have left.
I sat on my airplane for three hours before I could get out of there.
For street traffic, it's just as bad.
They'll close down streets hours before the president's motorcade's supposed to even get there.
It just makes a mess of everything.
It was so bad in LA yesterday that people who claim to be Obama supporters started tweeting angry, frustrated things.
And then I saw this story, this pregnant woman in labor was prevented by authorities from crossing a street to a hospital because the road was closed in anticipation of Obama's eventual arrival.
The unidentified woman was barred from walking the few hundred feet to the hospital for 30 minutes, as authorities waited for the president's motorcade to show up and pass by.
One witness said, Well, I really feel bad for.
You know, it it does happen when Obama comes to LA, or I'm sure anywhere else, it paralyzes the city, makes it complicated.
You just you can't do the things that you had set out to do because the president's in town, which includes apparently giving birth.
So I think the Republicans have an ad here.
Obama denies woman reproductive rights.
And then you can ask a question what if she was crossing the street to planned parenthood to get an abortion?
You think they would have let her.
What are you smirking in there for?
I think it's a darn good question.
Here's a woman, she wants to cross street, give birth, can't.
Obama's do.
I have to get across the street for an embrace and it has to be done within a few minutes.
I gotta go.
Come on, okay, okay, okay.
Obama would approve.
Come on.
I know.
Maybe a bit of a stretch, but it could be a fun ad.
Ladies and gentlemen, uh, over the course of the many years I have hosted this program, I have been unabashed in defining for you liberals, hoping to persuade as many people to agree with me as I can.
You know, not not not everybody does that.
For example, I don't want to mention any names, but there are many in the conservative commentariat.
Uh newspaper columns, website bloggers.
And they're not interested in moving public opinion.
That's not why they do what they do.
They're not they're not interested in in having their work measured in that way.
How many opinions did they change or how much action did they cause?
They have a whole different reason for writing or for appearing on TV or what have you.
And in many cases, if it's inside the beltway people, they're doing what they do for everybody else in the beltway, trying to show everybody else how smart they are.
But when it comes to well, I mean, I've and I know this because I've asked them.
I've I've when I was new to all this and talking to people, I would I would ask them, uh, well, now, okay, so you you write opinion columns.
Do you track whether or not your columns influence?
No, no.
Who's got time for that?
How could you do it anyway?
That's not why I do that.
Well, so why are you doing it?
I I I would think if you're writing an opinion piece, you want to be somewhat influential or persuasive.
No, no, no, I haven't got time for that.
That's that's not the point.
The point I'm doing commentary.
Well, speaking for myself, I have always sought to be persuasive.
I'm very proud of what I believe, so I'm writing these two books for the kids.
And a third, which will no doubt drop at some point.
I'm doing it to be persuasive.
I'm doing it to counter what they're being taught elsewhere.
Writing history books for kids, actually for everybody in the family.
There's a mission there.
There's a there's a desire to spread the truth.
There's a desire to counter the current curriculum.
There's a desire.
I mean, I love this country.
I want everybody to.
I'm very proud of this country.
I wish everybody was.
I appreciate being born in this country.
I wish everybody did.
I, of course, am trying to spread that word.
I love sharing my passions.
I happen to be very passionate about freedom and market economics and prosperity and abundance and the opportunity for more.
I'm very, very bullish on people being the best they can be.
I know that leads to happiness and contentment.
I'm very bullish on all these things.
I want everybody to know what they're like.
I want everybody to be the best they can be.
I want everybody to at least give it a shot.
I mean, I understand the realities.
Not everybody will, but you want you want I've always believed, because I it's happened to me, people are much, they're capable of much more than they know.
Everybody needs somebody pushing them.
Very few self starters out there.
There are some, but not very many, particularly expressed as a percentage of the whole population.
Everybody needs push.
I don't mean help.
I mean everybody needs somebody tell them, yes, you can do it.
Everybody needs somebody that believes in them.
Everybody needs somebody saying you are better than you think you are.
You can do more than you think you can.
You can be more than you think you can be.
You can accomplish more than you think you can.
We all need encouragement.
Everybody needs encouragement.
Even after you do a good job and you know it's a good job.
You love hearing feedback.
We just it and people need this.
I want people to think the way I do.
I'm very proud of it.
I make no apologies for that.
I'm I'm so I'm trying to be as persuasive as I can.
I'm constantly looking for new ways to be persuasive.
I have learned what doesn't work.
I've learned some things that do.
I'm frustrated that there's so much rigid opposition based on it's just easier to take things than it is to provide them yourself.
It's easier to let somebody go steal something and give it to you than to work for it yourself and some people.
That's the kind of thing I would like to counter.
But it's it when you boiled it all down.
The purpose of the books is to encourage young people to love this country and to appreciate it, to have a reverence for it because it's worth it.
It's to help them to understand the the really glorious opportunity they have because they were born here.
It's all about the ingredients necessary for there to be, for this to be great country.
So, yeah, I am trying to persuade.
So when I come here each and every day and tell you what I think about liberals, it's not just to bash them.
It's not, it's not just uh crack jokes or be funny or say things that nobody else will say.
I really want you to think it.
I wouldn't say it if I didn't believe it.
When I say I hope he fails, I damn well meant every word of it.
And I was prepared and did explain precisely why.
And it had nothing to do with America failing.
And it was not nuanced.
It was it was right there, flat out in the open.
When I say, and it's very sad that this is the case, there are people in this country who really don't like it.
There are people in this country who hate it.
It's true.
And I wish it weren't.
I don't understand it.
I mean, I do understand it.
But there's a part of me that doesn't.
And there's a part of me that thinks that kind of thing ought to be able to be overcome.
We ought to be able to somehow reach people who hate this country and tell them they're wrong and turn them in a different direction for their own good.
And for the country's own good.
When I tell you that there are people that have a chip on their shoulder about this kind of think it's it's it's not deserving of superpower status, that the country was founded in immorality.
It was unjust.
It was a stacked deck from the people that believe this stuff.
They they really, really do.
I'm not just trying to be outrageous in my claims so that you'll remember it.
In other words, there's not a uh marketing or programming technique here other than just being honest with you.
I think Barack Obama's one of these guys.
I think we I think he's one of these guys that was that was raised and taught that this country is actually an imperialist colonialist place that's run around stealing the resources of other countries, bringing them back here and use them to create our wealth, that we really are not prosperous on our own.
It couldn't happen.
No country could be this far ahead of any other country without some crime being committed.
And he clearly thinks this country needs to be cut down to size, and he clearly does not believe that this country has any moral authority over any other.
He clearly, and the Democrat Party's just like him, they All believe that this country is not exceptional, that there's nothing special about it.
And in fact, it's guilty of things racism and bigotry and sexism and homophobia and all this stuff, and it's about time.
This country was chopped down to size.
Now, when I say these things, I'm trying to be persuasive.
I mean it when I say I think the one of the cures for what ills us is if more people saw the world ideologically.
We don't need bipartisanship.
What we need is superpartisanship.
We need more people admitting that they are conservative and voting that way, and that's how this country's going to be saved.
We need more people willing to speak up proudly, even though being conservatives mocked and ridiculed, laughed at, made fun of, scorned in the drive-by media, it's worth standing up for.
It is the solution.
It's the way the country was founded.
And I have no qualms whatsoever in saying so.
And I am trying to effect as much change in that direction as I can.
On the radio, I could...
I know some, well, you could do more than just do it on a I know, I know, but where I am happens to be on the radio.
Now here comes all of that is a prelude to a little news item here that I found at the great website, Breitbart.
And it illustrates exactly what I'm talking about, and it illustrates what we're up against.
La Raza president and CEO, Janet Margia, said that it sickened her to hear Americans against illegal immigration chanting USA, USA at protests around the country.
And she singled out the people who live in Murietta, California, and the people there who demonstrated during her keynote address at La Raza's annual conference in Los Angeles this past Monday.
She accused these people of having cloaked their hatred in patriotism by shouting USA USA again and again.
It made me angry, she said.
In fact, I was outraged.
And she demanded that the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants currently here receive amnesty and said the road to the White House of Republicans goes through the Latino community and La Raza.
Well, if it does, we're never going to win because they are never going to support a Republican.
Never.
She also said Republicans who want to rescind the deferred action for childhood arrivals, the DACA program, or do not want to pass comprehensive amnesty legislation, will not get Hispanic votes.
and she repeatedly claimed that protesting illegal immigration was un-American.
My point to you is that this stuff that's going on at the border is all about liberals not liking this country.
What I gotta take a break.
I just saw a call.
We'll be right back.
And we're back.
Great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network.
Now, here's the point.
What's going on down at the border?
This LaRosa babe says that when she hears people showing up, shout the USA, USA, that what she hears is hatred.
Cloaked in patriotism.
And let me just tell her how she's wrong.
This is Janet Margia, the CEO of La Raza.
Janet, what you're hearing when you hear people at your speeches shout a USA, USA.
hearing love.
People of Murrieta, California, love America.
up.
They don't hate it.
And they don't hate you.
And they don't hate these kids crossing the border.
They love America.
The truth of the matter is that what's going on at the border here, the Democrat Party is helping attract people like those who are coming by criticizing, By blaming.
This country is evil.
This country's filled with injustice.
This country is filled with racism and sexism, and we must let these people in to prove to the world how we're not any of those things and so forth.
But there isn't.
I mean, the fact is that the people behind this, the people who are trying to engineer a permanent underclass of voters for the Democrat Party.
They are the people that have a problem with America.
These people that are coming in the country, they're downtrodden and poor.
You know why they're downtrodden and poor?
Because America made them that way.
That's what they think.
We got too much.
They don't have enough.
It's unfair.
We should be forced to give them what we've taken from them from the first place.
That's what's driving all of this.
We'll be back.
There's a reason why Obama is not going to visit the border, and that's because once you see what's going on there, you have no choice, you got to shut it down.
But if he's done if he doesn't go, if he doesn't see it, then he won't shut it down.
And that he does not want to shut this down.
The Democrats do not want to shut this down.
The Democrats think we deserve this.
The Democrats think it's somehow this country's fault that these people living are living the way they're living.
It's either our thirst for drugs that's causing the existence of the drug cartels, or it's the fact that our economic policies have resulted in us getting all the goodies in the world and depriving the rest of the world what was rightfully theirs.
It's the same belief why there are poor people in America because the rich stole it from them.
The rich have an unfair share, and they got rich on the backs of the poor, so we got to raise taxes on the rich and give it to the poor to make it even.
There's poverty in Meiko and El Salvador and Ecuador, Guatemala, because we have taken all the good stuff.
We get all the money.
We make all the products, and we export all the oil, and we use all the oil, and we're polluting the planet, we're destroying the planet, and these people are in dirt poor poverty, and it's our fault, and they only have a right to improve their lives.
And if they happen to do that by coming here to who are we that say no, and that's what's driving this.
There's no love driving this.
None.
The people who love this country are the people like those in Murietta who show up and tell Janet Marghia, USA USA.
They are expressing love for their country, not hatred for somebody else.
And another thing, opposing liberalism does not equal hate.
But that's what they want it to be.
You oppose Obama, you hate him.
You oppose Biden, you hate him.
You oppose La Raza, you must hate Hispanics.
If you oppose the Reverend Axe, you must hate black.
Screw that, folks.
There isn't any hate that drives any of this.
What drives this, what drives this partisan divide is love for this country that we all feel, and the shock and the anger and the fear that we see what's happening to it.
You want a little bit more evidence here?
Try this from a very, very disturbed, saddened, almost crying Associated Press.
Honduran families deported back to a bleak future.
Elsa Ramirez already had lost two brothers to violence in this remote Caribbean region, Honduras, when co-workers handling clandestine cocaine flights from South America murdered her husband four months ago.
Then the killers came looking for her.
Why?
Well, the story doesn't tell us why.
We're never told why.
Elsa Ramirez is being targeted by killers.
So we're left to assume, well, maybe her husband Was a drug dealer, which might be why there's a lot of violence in Honduras.
But let me continue with the story.
Ramirez had seen Facebook messages and heard from relatives that mothers traveling to the U.S. with children would be allowed to stay if they made it across the border.
So you see, she is targeted for murder.
Everything's a disaster where she lives, but there's this beacon.
She wore Facebook.
Come to America and you can stay.
Welcome to America.
I'm Barack Obama.
I'm taking care of you.
Whatever the message.
It's a sign out there.
And so they show up.
She took off north with her eight-year-old Sandra, their five-year-old Cesar, named for his dead father.
She had seen Facebook messages and heard from relatives that mothers traveling to America with children would be allowed to stay.
Where did they get that idea?
We've never had open borders.
We don't just let anybody in.
We never have.
From 18 some odd to 1965, no, from 1924 to 1965, we shut down immigration.
How many people know that there was none?
We closed the borders.
So that those who had arrived could assimilate and become American, which they wanted to do, by the way.
They learned English.
They became accustomed to American holidays.
They wanted to become Americans.
That's not happening with immigration today.
At least not universally.
And then Ted Kennedy came along and said, This is not good.
We gotta we're gonna let it open up, and I guarantee you we're gonna control it.
And it was only 20 years later, Simpson Mazzoli.
We had to do amnesty for three million.
After no immigration from 24 to 65, then we opened the uh the border again, and in 20 years we're out of control.
Three million undocumented, living in the shadows.
You know the drill.
Ted Kennedy comes, we gotta do amnesty Simpson Mazzoli.
Reagan signed it with the promise that we would secure the border, close it, it wouldn't happen again.
Now we're up to well, the public numbers 12 million now.
The early promises in 86 securing the border meant nothing.
Just like it meant nothing in 65 when Ted Kennedy started making the case again.
It's all predictable.
So anyway, back here to Ilsa Ramirez and the I think what's meant to be the mother of all sob stories.
Two weeks and many thousands of miles later, a U.S. immigration and customs enforcement flight brought Elsa Ramirez back to the bad lands of Honduras in Cologne province, still fearing her husband's killers, and now lacking a plan for survival.
I didn't want to come back, she said.
I wanted to give my children a better life, and I can't do that here.
Overwhelmed by unaccompanied minors and women with children crossing illegally.
U.S. authorities have stepped up deportations back to Central America.
Ramirez was one of 58 women and children who returned last week on a U.S. flight to San Pedro Sula, considered one of the most dangerous cities in the world.
Actually, the number was only 36.
There has been no stepping up.
There is still only deportation, one deportation fight that we've heard about.
It has not been stepped up.
We're not deporting in mass.
It isn't happening.
In fact, the real news is that hundreds of thousands of people who have entered the country since January are not showing up for their court dates to report in and further the process.
They have somehow found their way to the shadows.
Now right here on schedule is AP trying to tug at our heartstrings.
This story, they're trying to influence you.
They're trying to change your mind.
They're trying to be persuasive.
They're trying to ladle guilt upon guilt upon guilt on you, so that you'll finally cave in and say, Oh, come on, I can't stand we can't send people back to a war-torn murder area.
Let them stay.
And that's what they are trying to affect.
And it isn't that hard because we're compassionate people and we we do have big hearts.
But that doesn't mean because we're compassionate and have big hearts, that doesn't mean we have to stand by and commit national suicide in the process.
Because if we do, there isn't going to be any place...
For people in Honduras to flee.
America isn't going to be any kind of a escape.
It's not going to be any better than what they've got it.
If this kind of thing were to go on for a long time.
Let's take a break.
I'll come back.
I promise, get back to the phone, so be patient.
Back before you know it.
Yeah, one quick thing here.
Migrant children no shows at Dallas Immigration Hearings.
We're among twenty from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala who were set to appear in Federal Immigration Court uh Tuesday for initial deportation hearings, but they weren't there.
Eighteen of the children whose cases were set to be heard did not show up for Tuesday in court.
Such naughty scamps.
They they gave their word they would show up.
What what happened?
Again, they promised they promised that they were gonna they didn't show up, and now they're in the shadows.
It was an absentee rate that Federal Immigration Judge Michael Baird said was highly unusual.
It was so high, eighteen out of twenty, and he reset the hearings for August 11th, rather than possibly issuing a deportation order, because it isn't gonna happen.
We're not gonna deport them because they're future Democrats.
All right, Manchester, New Hampshire, this is uh this is Ben.
Thank you very much for waiting and welcome to the program.
Hello.
Hey, Ross Megadetto's.
Thank you.
Yeah, long time listening, but listen to you pretty much my whole life.
Um I want to go back to the uh what you're talking about at the end of last hour about the uh Lois Learner hard drive.
Yes, sir.
Um so I work in I work in uh IT security.
Um so I got a a little familiarity with uh how some of this works.
Okay, since you do, do you have any idea what kind of computer she uses?
Do you have any clue or you even a best guess estimate?
Um honestly not 100% sure I know like companies like Dell and um they probably government probably wouldn't use Lenovo because they're based in China, but probably something like Dell or HP or something like that.
And they're using Windows, obviously.
Most likely in most cases.
Okay.
Sh would would she have the same data in the cloud, or would she have data exclusively on that hard drive that's not on a desktop that she's and most likely she would have it stored on so that for the uh the emails most likely be stored on their exchange servers and all their backgrounds?
Right, exactly right.
Exactly so she can find it wherever she happens to.
Exactly.
Yeah, and and also, you know, it the emails wherever she sent them should be um on other people's computers, or you should be able to go into the exchange server and be able to pull tour from her.
They're on a server somewhere.
Yeah.
As far as the uh the physical damage goes, uh like the thing it it sounds like it's a s a scratch or whatever, and like you said, that's pretty either it's gonna be a um you know uh a drive going via like you know, normal wear and tear, or it's gonna be, you know, the computer was decided.
So how would you scratch a hard drive?
Well, if in fact, you you you're probably good at answer answering this.
What is scratching or is it exactly what it sounds like?
Um pretty much so like you said, the hard drive, you know, there's a bunch of spinning plates in there, and it's got a magnetic head that reads and writes the data.
Um so sometimes if the uh either you know something just wears down the head, you a lot of times the dam the initial damage is done by the head.
Right.
If you throw it off the table while it's in action, you can cause that head to scratch it.
Yeah, exactly.
They the head while reading your writing will, you know, move out of where it's supposed to be and either dig it out or write the data in the wrong place or something like that.
That'll that'll cause a uh it could cause a physical damage to it.
Yeah, folks, to t to v envision this, what we're talking think of an old turntable with a hard drive is the pro is the platter, is the record, and it except it spins real fast, and instead of a needle stylus, there's a magnetic head in there that's reading and writing the data.
But that's what we're talking about with a hard drive.
It's not a block of metal with uh with stuff on it.
It's actually spinning plate and there are different capacities of it, but it's protected by the computer, and then it's protected inside the computer by its own shell, right?
Yep.
Correct.
So how would you get to if you wanted to manually scratch a hard drive, what would you do?
You'd have to while it's running, you'd have to shake it pretty good, um, or you'd have to actually pull it open and physically damage it.
Um that's really the the best way to do it, honestly.
Um usually uh most cases a laptop hard drive is more susceptible to you know damage like that because you're moving it around or whatever.
Typically a desktop doesn't um wouldn't get damaged that easily from you know uh violent movement or whatever.
So it if the hard drive's gonna go in a desktop, it's typically because you know it's old, you know, components wear out inside.
Um and typically it'll start with something small, maybe a little chip in the one of the plates.
Um that small little chip might spin around and start damaging other portions of the plates in there as well.
Uh you work in an IT department.
Can you tell me how often you encounter somebody working at a any business with a with a scratched hard drive.
How often do you encounter this?
Um not terribly often, honestly.
Um and typically when we do, uh, we have backup systems in place that will be able to recover most of the data.
Um and then you usually have you have warning signs that the drive is going.
It doesn't usually go just instantaneously.
Um like I had a drive, I had a drive going me, I think a couple months ago, um, and I had warning signs.
I started seeing data corruption and stuff.
I and I was still able to recover quite a bit of the data without really using anything super sophisticated to get the data back.
Um but some of the data was corrupted.
I was still able to get the vast majority of it though.
But in l but a literally scratched hard drive, which is what they're claiming happened to hers, it this is not a frequently occurring problem with computers.
Typically not, and especially um, you know, in corporations and most likely in the government as well, they have a um like hardware life cycle where every couple of years they'll you know migrate everything over to a new system that would include a new hard drive.
Um so the likelihood of uh you know the hard drive aging out and starting to go because of age should be diminished because of that.
Right.
So when she said that her hard drive crashed and and and and so did others and they lost the data, that's if if that's the case, then this place is not being run responsibly because there ought to be backups of everything multiple times a week, and they ought to be off-site and they ought to be on different formats.
There ought to a hard drive crash on a laptop ought not result in any data loss.
Yeah, and if if the hard if the drives did go, even you know, if it happened before all this came out, um they should have you know, if there's sensitive information on there that was only on there, they should have gone and uh through you know great lengths to try to get that data back.
And there are ways to um get data off of a drive that's either uh partially damaged or you know, even severely damaged in some cases.
Well now, Dave Camp, who is the uh uh uh is a former federal law enforcement uh Department of Defense uh well, he's uh he's a congressman.
He said that experts in federal law enforcement and Department of Defense forensic experts that he talked to say that most of the data on a scratched drive, like learners, should have been recoverable from the drive.
From the drive.
You wouldn't even have to go to the backup.
Yep.
Well, there you go.
Well, I'm glad you called.
I'm I'm I'm because here you have somebody in IT, does this stuff for a living, knows what he's talking about.
There you have it.
Quick timeout, we'll be back after this.
Don't go away.
Okay, we still have just a c a couple little more things here on the the latest on illegal immigration, and particularly the children that are arriving, and that continues unabated, by the way.
There's no end in sight to that.
Uh the drive-by's have stock stopped uh reporting on it uh intensely, well, if they ever did, but it's it's still happening.
I also want to try to get to these Trey Gowdy sound bites where he uh really rakes John Cosk and over the calls, because he's been he's a he's a great appointment to head up this committee uh looking into this.
And of course, there's even more in the NFL.
Tony Dungey and his comments on Michael Sam.
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