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So Obama's in L.A. yesterday.
I had a friend who landed at LAX about 6.30.
Well, that'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 just starting to loosen up as he was 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 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 to Houston at what was then Reliant Stadium.
No, not Reliant Stadium.
It was the baseball park.
It was George H.W. Bush's 80th birthday.
And he had a whole weekend of festivities.
And I went to the Saturday night thing.
And I flew into Houston Hobby, which is one of the two major airports there you can use.
And I went over to the thing, and it'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, met Gorbachev, had 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 going to get a head start and 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 is supposed to even get there.
It just makes a mess of everything.
It was so bad in L.A. yesterday that people who claim to be Obama's 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 felt bad for her.
You know, it does happen when Obama comes to L.A., 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 the Republicans have an ad here.
Obama denies woman reproductive rights.
And then you could 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 the street, give birth, can't.
Obama's due.
I have to get across the street for an abortion, and it has to be done within a few minutes.
I got to go.
There's planned parents.
Come on.
Okay.
Obama would approve.
Come on.
I know.
Maybe a bit of a stretch, but it could be a fun ad.
Ladies and gentlemen, over the course of the many years I have hosted this program, I have been unabashed in defining for you liberals and hoping to persuade as many people to agree with me as I can.
You know, not everybody does that.
For example, I don't want to mention any names, but there are many in the conservative commentariat, 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 interested 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 know this because I've asked them.
When I was new to all this and talking to people, I would ask them, well, okay, so 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, I said, why are you doing it?
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 not 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.
That's why 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 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, I've always believed, because 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 to 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.
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.
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 when you boil 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 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 just to 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 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 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 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 marketing or programming technique here other than just being honest with you.
I think Barack Obama is one of these guys.
I think he's one of these guys 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 using 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 is 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 super partisanship.
We need more people admitting that they are conservative and voting that way, and that's how this country is 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 know you're telling me, well, you could do more than just do it.
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 Marguilla, 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 Murieta, 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 got to take a break.
I just saw it.
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 La Raza babe says that when she hears people showing up, shouting 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 out to USA, USA.
You're hearing love.
People of Murieta, California, love America.
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 is 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 doesn't go, if he doesn't see it, then he won't shut it down.
And 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 of 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've got to raise taxes on the rich and give it to the poor to make it even.
Because this country's so unjust.
It's the same thinking.
There's poverty in Mexico 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, who are we that they know?
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 Murieta who show up and tell Janet Marguilla, 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 Jackson, 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 Sundra and her 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?
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.
We shut it down and then Ted Kennedy came along and said, this is not good, we got it, we're gonna let it open up and I guarantee you we're gonna control it.
And it was only 20 years later Simpsonzoli, we had to do amnesty for 3 million, after no immigration from 24 to 65.
Then we opened the the border again and in 20 years we're out of control, 3 million undocumented living in the shadows.
You know the drill.
Ted Kennedy comes.
We gotta, we've got to do amnesty.
Simpson Mazzoli reaged it with the promise that we would secure the border close.
It wouldn't happen again.
Now we're up to the public number's 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 back here to Elsa 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 badlands 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 en masse.
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.
And 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, let them 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.
Utes.
We're among 20 from Honduras, El Savador, and Guatemala who were set to appear in federal immigration court Tuesday for initial deportation hearings, but they weren't there.
18 of the children whose cases were set to be heard did not show up for Tuesday in court.
Such naughty scamps.
They gave their word they would show up.
What happened?
They promised.
They promised that they were going to show up.
And now they're in the shadows.
It was an absentee rate that Federal Immigration Judge Michael Beard said was highly unusual.
It was so high, 18 out of 20, that he reset the hearings for August 11th rather than possibly issuing a deportation order because it isn't going to happen.
We're not going to deport them because they're future Democrats.
All right, Manchester, New Hampshire, this is Ben.
Thank you very much for waiting, and welcome to the program.
Hello.
Hey, Rush Megadittos.
Thank you.
Yeah, long time listener.
I've been listening to pretty much my whole life.
I want to go back to what you were talking about at the end of last hour about the Lois Learner hard drive.
Yes, sir.
So I work in IT security, so I got a little familiarity with 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?
Are you even a best-guess estimate?
Honestly, not 100% sure.
I know companies like Dell and the 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.
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?
Most likely she would have it stored on so that for the emails, most likely it would 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 also, you know, the emails, wherever she sent them, should be on other people's computers, or you should be able to go into the Exchange server and be able to pull to or from her.
They're on a server somewhere.
Yeah.
And as far as the physical damage goes, they're saying it sounds like it's a scratch or whatever.
And like you said, that's pretty.
Either it's going to be a drive going via normal wear and tear, or it's going to be the computer was displayed.
How would you scratch a hard drive?
In fact, you're probably good at answering this.
What is scratching?
Is it exactly what it sounds like?
Pretty much.
So, like you said, the hard drive is a bunch of spinning plates in there, and it's got a magnetic head that reads and writes the data.
So sometimes either something just wears down, a lot of times 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.
The head, while it's reading your writing, will 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 cause a could cause a physical damage to it.
Folks, to envision this, what we're talking about, think of an old turntable where the hard drive is the platter, is the record, except it spins real fast, and instead of a needle stylus, there's a magnetic head in there that's reading it arriving the data.
But that's what we're talking about with a hard drive.
It's not a block of metal 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, or you'd have to actually pull it open and physically damage it.
That's really the best way to do it, honestly.
Usually, in most cases, a laptop hard drive is more susceptible to damage like that because you're moving it around, or whatever.
Typically, a desktop wouldn't get damaged that easily from violent movement or whatever.
So if the hard drive is going to go on a desktop, it's typically because it's old, components wear out inside.
And typically it'll start with something small, maybe a little chip in one of the plates.
That small little chip might spin around and start damaging other portions of the plates in there as well.
You work in an IT department.
Can you tell me how often you encounter somebody working at any business with a scratched hard drive?
How often do you encounter this?
Not terribly often, honestly.
And typically when we do, we have backup systems in place that will be able to recover most of the data.
And then usually you have warning signs that the drive is going.
It doesn't usually go just instantaneously.
Like I had a drive going me, I think, a couple months ago, and I had warning signs.
I started seeing data corruption and stuff.
And I was still able to recover quite a bit of the data without really using anything super sophisticated to get the data back.
But some of the data was corrupted.
I was still able to get the vast majority of it, though.
But a literally scratched hard drive, which is what they're claiming happened to her, is this is not a frequently occurring problem with computers.
Typically not.
And especially in corporations and most likely in the government as well, they have a hardware life cycle where every couple of years they'll migrate everything over to a new system that would include a new hard drive.
So the likelihood of 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 so did others and they lost the data, that's if that's the case, and 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.
A hard drive crash on a laptop ought not result in any data loss.
Yeah, if the drives did go, even if it happened before all this came out, they should have, if there's sensitive information on there that was only on there, they should have gone and through great lengths to try to get that data back.
And there are ways to get data off of a drive that's either partially damaged or even severely damaged in some cases.
Well, now Dave Camp, who's a former federal law enforcement, Department of Defense, 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.
Because here you have somebody in IT, does this stuff for a living, knows what he's talking about.
There you have it.
Quick time out.
We'll be back after this.
Don't go away.
Okay, we still have just a couple little more things here on 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.
The drive-bys have stopped reporting on it intensely.
Well, if they ever did, but it's still happening.
I also want to try to get to these Trey Gowdy soundbites where he really rakes John Coskin over the calls because he's a great appointment to head up this committee looking into this.
And of course, there's even more in the NFL, Tony Dungy, and his comments on Michael Sam.