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July 28, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 28, 2014, Monday, Hour #2
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Views expressed by the host on this program documented to be almost always right 99.7% of the time Rush Limbaugh with talent on the loan from God.
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I need to remind you about Madeline Albright.
This is back in 1998.
It was an AP story.
Never forgotten it.
Albright says U.S. doesn't want to be sole superpower.
Remember this?
And here is the money quote.
We very much don't want to be.
And by the way, this was to cover for Clinton.
This is right in the middle of Lewinsky.
And Clinton's bombing Iraq on Saturday nights, killing janitors, trying to distract people after he bombed an acetaminophen plant in somewhere in Africa.
Make it look like he was tough, and he was rattling a change about Saddam's chemical weapons and so forth.
But Madeline Albright said, we very much don't want to be out there by ourselves as the organizer and the only superpower.
People don't believe that.
They think we just want to be king of the hill, but we don't.
And she went on to talk about how the United States needed a competitor.
That a single superpower would, by definition, destabilize the world.
We needed somebody to rein us in.
And so you see the moral equivalence.
We weren't the good guys.
We're just as bad as the bad guys.
We're no different than the bad guys.
Our intentions, our morality, our existence is no different.
So she was very upset when the wall came.
She was very upset when the Soviet Union fell because it left us as the lone superpower.
And that to her was a destabilizing thing.
And to Obama and to John Kerry and to Hillary and all of the modern day Democrat Party.
The United States is the problem of the world.
It is not the solution.
And the United States as the world's lone superpower is not good.
And that's just absurd, folks.
It is literally absurd.
It's dumb.
It is stupid.
And it's classic of how people, we're told, much smarter than we are.
They're the best and the brightest.
They're literal idiots.
They're educated beyond any possibility of common sense.
Not even educated.
They are indoctrinated.
But they're just wrong.
Everything.
They're wrong as they can be.
And yet, they get all these accolades because they're supposedly so smart.
And not just so smart, they're so much smarter than all the rest of us that we just basically have to genuflect in their presence and thank God that they're alive to do for us what we can't do for ourselves and all the other happy horse manure.
I think it's frustrating.
It's frustrating to have things so important run by blithering fools, dithering idiots.
And we are surrounded by them.
I guess we always are to one extent or another.
But Albright, she said she was worried when the Berlin Wall was torn down.
She's worried because that, see, they never talk about why it was there.
Who put it up?
They never talked about the impact of the existence of the wall.
And I want to play this soundbite for you again from Obama.
Was at the inaugural summit of the Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders.
For those of you in Rio Linda, it means it was the first one of these things ever.
So we have a bunch of young African leaders in Washington learning how to lead from Barack Hussein Obama.
And after his speech, one of the audience members had a question.
Mr. President, if somehow Africa unified into a United States of Africa, excuse me, when you spoke with the new leader, what would be the first two things you would want to discuss with the new president of the United States of Africa?
The thing that I would emphasize first and foremost is the issue of governance.
Now, sometimes this is an issue that raises some sensitivities because I think people feel like, who's the United States to tell us how to govern?
See.
We have different systems.
We have different traditions.
See.
What may work for the United States may not work for us.
See.
Oh, and by the way, the United States, we don't see that Congress is always cooperating so well, and your system is not perfect.
I understand all that.
So let's acknowledge all that.
Hey, the first thing I tell them is, don't emulate us.
Our system isn't perfect.
Look, I can't get these idiots in Congress to go along and cooperate with me.
And so you may ever think that's because you're a lousy leader.
You know what presidents are supposed to do is lead?
Maybe you're not a good leader.
Maybe you're lousy at it.
Maybe that's why they don't cooperate with you.
But of course, no, it's their fault because they're just not cooperative.
They won't bend over, grab the ankles, do whatever Obama wants.
So don't emulate us, United States of Africa.
Besides, who's the United States to tell people how to govern?
Right.
There's nothing special about the United States.
Only the freest, wealthiest, richest, greatest country ever.
Nothing great about us.
Country that's done more for the world, done more good for the world, been there for the world.
Nothing special about us.
Don't try to, you know, don't listen to the U.S. tell you how to do things.
Come up with your own system.
That's not embarrassment, folks.
But that's who our president is, and he's a direct descendant of the past.
The United States is the problem in the world.
You know what else he said?
Get this.
One of the other things Obama told these young African leaders was, and I'm going to quote this, he said, female genital mutilation isn't a tradition worth hanging on to.
Female genital mutilation is not a tradition worth hanging on to.
Note that he didn't condemn female genital mutilation.
That would have been telling Africans what to do.
And he would never impose his views on them because we're from the U.S. and who are we?
And he just said, you know, this female genital mutilation, it's not worth hanging on to.
I wouldn't.
But he doesn't condemn it.
He just tells them, I wouldn't hang on to that if I were you.
And I don't see, what do you mean, Mr. Lambo?
He didn't condemn it.
He just told them, hey, you know what?
You're not going to get away with that.
You know, that's not something you really, if you're going to do that, you know, turn it over to Boko Harrim.
Don't do it yourselves.
And then there's this.
Again, at the inaugural summit of the Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, another question from the audience.
I just wanted to find out how committed is the United States to assisting Africa in closing gender inequalities from contributing to gender-based violence, which threatens the achievements of many millennium development goals, such as access to universal education.
Did this question make any sense to anybody?
Let's try this again.
Future African leaders.
Question.
I'm going to read the question verbatim.
I just wanted to find out how committed is the U.S. to assisting Africa in closing gender inequalities from contributing to gender-based violence, which threatens the achievements of many millennium development goals, such as access to universal education, eradicating HIV, and AIDS.
Now, remember the questions about gender inequalities and what would the U.S. do to assist in closing them?
Well, okay.
It's kind of a, it's a question.
You couldn't diagram that sentence.
You could not diagram that.
It doesn't make any sense.
The modifiers are all wrong.
The syntax is bad.
It's like bad code in an app.
But Obama nevertheless took the question and here is the answer.
This is where sometimes traditions can get in the way.
As many of you know, my father was from Kenya.
We see this in other parts of the world.
Some of the old ways of gender relations might have made sense in a particular setting.
So in Kenya, for example, in the Luo tribe, polygamy existed.
It was based on the idea that women had their own compounds.
They had their own land.
And so they were empowered in that area to be self-sufficient.
And then urbanization happens.
Suddenly, the men may be traveling to the city, and suddenly there's another family in the city, and the women who are left back in the villages may not be empowered.
No wonder this guy hates the suburbs.
No wonder.
But that's a side issue.
Did you?
Did you hear what you just heard?
You want me to translate this for you?
Because I am perhaps the only one who can.
All right, listen to it again.
Here's the answer.
Forget the question.
It's about gender inequalities and what would the U.S. do to help Africa get rid of them.
And Obama basically said, wait a minute.
There are certain times, like when my dad was alive, that polygamy, gender inequality, hey, it was cool.
This is where sometimes traditions can get in the way.
As many of you know, my father was from Kenya.
We see this in other parts of the world.
Some of the old ways of gender relations might have made sense in a particular setting, right?
So in Kenya, for example, in the Luo tribe, polygamy existed.
It was based on the idea that women had their own compounds.
They had their own land.
And so they were empowered in that area to be self-sufficient.
And then urbanization happens.
Suddenly, the men may be traveling to the city.
And suddenly there's another family in the city.
And the women who are left back in the villages may not be empowered.
All right.
Now, wait a second now.
Let's just take this phrase by phrase, because this is not hard to diagram.
It's not hard to translate.
It really isn't.
Okay.
Well, Sometimes traditions are getting away.
My father was from Kenya.
A that means everything that follows is okay.
Dreams of my father.
We see it in other parts of the world.
Some of the old ways of gender relations might have made sense.
It was okay in a particular setting, okay?
Let's not judge too harshly here.
So Kenya, where my dad's from, polygamy existed.
And then he sets out to justify it on the basis that women, because the guy had more than one wife, they had to have their own place to live.
All of these families couldn't live in the same place.
That wouldn't work.
So the other wives had their own property, i.e. compounds, presumably larger than the hut in which his brother lives.
And certainly not like the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport.
Don't get confused, but they still had their own property.
The other wives.
They had their own land.
And so they were self-sufficient.
When does Obama support that?
Self-sufficiency is the number one enemy of modern-day liberalism.
But back then, if you wanted a bunch of babes and you wanted to marry them, you needed them to be able to take care of themselves because you couldn't support all of them.
And so having their own property, their own compounds, and their own places to live, why, that was cool because they could support themselves, didn't have to bleed you dry.
Very sexist, by the way.
And then urbanization came.
Oh, yeah.
They started building up the cities and the men wanted to be where the action was.
There's nothing out there in the sticks, just the wife and the kids in the compound.
They started building up the cities and there's excitement there.
There's clubs and who knows what else.
So the men, they migrate to the city and get married again.
See?
And then there's another family in the city.
And then you've got the other woman and the family out in the compound, in the village.
And then they may not end up being as empowered as they were because now the guy's got a preferred family in the city.
But still, polygamy is what empowered women because it made them self-sufficient.
It gave them their own compounds and property.
That's what he's saying.
Now, I don't know what if you are one of these future African leaders and you're invited to a summit in the U.S. to teach you how to do it.
I would have to think that most of them are thinking that they've got a prize gig here.
I bet these people think the U.S. is a pretty great place and there's a lot to learn.
This is a great opportunity.
It's my point.
That's what they're thinking.
And what do they hear?
They come here, and the first thing they hear from Obama is, ignore what we do.
No great shakes here.
Second thing is, polygamy, hey, ain't so bad, depending on if your dad liked it or not.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm just going to be, I could do the remainder of the program without pausing.
I mean, even for commercial breaks, there's that much here.
I can do the rest of the program without taking any phone calls, but that would mean that would not be good.
I've invited people to call.
I've given the number.
So the task at hand is to mix it all together each and every day.
So I'm going to go to the phones.
Way of explaining what I'm doing here, but hang tough because, I mean, there's just gobs and gobs of stuff upcoming here that you don't want to miss, including Luis Gutierrez, who first became noticed by me when on 60 Minutes he gave up the ghost on what happens to freshman Democrats in the House of Representatives.
Well, I mean, we knew it, but he went public with it.
He got slapped down.
He since has denied it.
He just did it again.
He just blurbed.
He just pretty much shouted why the Democrats care about immigration.
It has nothing to do with the children.
He just vomited it out there.
And I've got a story here out of Baltimore, vagina justice, which is going to require those of you with young children to turn the radio off.
And I'll give you ample warning when that comes up.
But in the meantime, we go to the phones.
Clifton, Virginia, this is Lawrence.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
How are you?
Very well, sir.
Longtime listener, first-time caller.
Thank you very much.
Appreciate that, sir.
I wanted to give you a little bit of perspective about the Berlin Wall and the Cold War that happened in and around that city because I have some first-hand experience.
I, in fact, was the commander at Checkpoint Charlie from 1986 to 1989 and also a liaison officer to the Soviet commander in East Berlin during that same period.
So I was also standing in close proximity to President Reagan when he made his speech and requested that Mr. Gorbachev tear down the wall in 1987.
So if there ever was a place in the Cold War where good and evil faced off, it was right there in Berlin at Checkpoint Charlie and in front of the Brandenburg Gate.
So a little perspective about why the wall went up.
You had asked that question earlier in the show.
No, no, wait, wait.
No, we know why the wall went up.
My point was Obama doesn't care why it went up.
When Obama rips Reagan, when Obama rips the American Cold War and he then praises the wall coming down, he never talks about why it was there.
He never blames the Soviet Union.
He never blamed Eastern Germany.
He never blamed Eric Schauniker.
Never goes there.
They never did anything wrong.
It was always the U.S. was wrong.
Correct.
And you know who the leader of the KEB was right across the wall during that period in the late 80s?
That was Mr. Vladimir Putin.
Right.
And no one ever leaves the KGB.
Oh, correct.
Even when they disband the KGB, which they supposedly did, you don't leave it.
Yeah, well, that may have had something to do with why Mr. Obama didn't attend the 20-year anniversary of the wall coming down.
Which he didn't.
He did not.
They claimed that the reason Obama didn't go to the 20th anniversary of the wall coming down was he didn't want to anger Putin.
The real reason he didn't go is because it was Reagan's deal.
And he's not going to take part in anything that lifts up Reagan.
Now, I love this.
This is so typical.
I checked the email during the break, and there's a couple in there from some libs who think that I'm taking cheap shots at Obama and polygamy.
And what happened here?
And I'm sitting here, I'm minding my own business, as I do every day, kind of like the United States, not bothering anybody until it's time to liberate some people.
Then I go into gear.
Or I get up every day and I look at the traditions, institutions I believe in under assault and attack, and I ramp up and defend them.
And I'm called names for that.
I don't sit here and plot who to attack.
I don't even look at myself as an attacker.
I'm a defender.
And so I get the audio soundbite roster.
And there's this thing in Washington called the Inaugural Summit of Future African Leaders.
And Obama gets a question about how can the United States help Africa deal with gender problems.
And Obama brings up polygamy.
I play the soundbite.
I get attacked for taking cheap shots at Obama.
And I didn't even bring it up.
But let me maybe give some of you out there on the left some family history just because Obama did say, hey, now, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Now, these are all these traditions I'm talking about.
Sometimes there's things and traditions out there that you may not understand that they're okay.
I'm holding here my formerly nicotine-stained fingers, a paragraph from a story of the Washington Post on April 12th of 2012.
Right here.
And it was an opinion piece.
Obama and Romney both come from ancestry of polygamy.
It's an opinion piece.
Again, I'm minding my own business and I'm just recounting something from the past.
Washington Times, knowing full well that this was in Obama's past, had to go out and talk about polygamy in the Mormon church and bash Romney for it so that Obama didn't stand out on the subject.
But Romney has never been part of a polygamist relationship.
He's not had multiple wives, nor is Obama, but let me just read to you the paragraph.
The line of polygamists in Obama's family can be traced back generations in western Kenya, where it was an accepted practice within the Luo tribe, which Obama just talked about.
His great-grandfather, Obama Opio, had five wives, including two wives who were his sisters.
So not only was there some polygamy going on, there was some incest happening.
Well, incest once removed by Obama's great-grandfather.
Obama's grandfather, Hussein Onyongo, had at least four wives, one of whom, Akumu, gave birth to Obama's father, Barack Obama, before fleeing her abusive husband, Obama's grandfather.
Obama Sr., Barack's dad, was already married when he left Kenya to study at the University of Hawaii, where he married again.
Obama's dad had two wives at the same time.
His American wife to be was Stanley Ann Dunham.
She was not yet 18.
She didn't know that he was married to somebody else when she became pregnant with Barack Obama Jr. in 1961.
So the Washington Post, knowing this stuff was out there, had to do a piece on how, well, Obama and Romney both come from ancestry of polygamy.
Romney does not.
And the one thing they don't, you know, they'll clearly bash the Mormon church when it comes to polygamy, but they will not cite the source of polygamy, say, in the Onyango bunch here.
And it's not Kenya, folks.
If I tell you what it is, I'll have the people that care all over me.
Now, I'm just bringing this up because back to granddad.
His grandfather, Hussein Anyango, had at least four wives.
Great-grandfather Obama Opio had five wives, including two who were sisters.
Well, that's, you know, incest once removed, if we want to look at it that way.
Hey, it's none of our business.
Whatever worked for them, worked for them.
That was Obama's answer to the crowd.
And that's why this all came up.
He was, it's my point, folks.
You are a future leader of Africa.
Somehow you've maneuvered yourself and you're a future leader of Africa.
There's a brand new group, future leaders of African.
You come to the United States.
You get to meet the president of the United States.
My God, what an opportunity.
You get to ask the president questions about leadership.
You might end up leading Africa someday.
And what do you learn?
You learn the United States is not worth emulating and that don't be too quick to judge polygamy.
I didn't say any of it.
And we're only talking about it because Obama said it.
Pure and simple.
Now, Luis Gutierrez.
He's from Illinois.
He's a member of Congress.
I first heard of Luis Gutierrez.
In fact, he was all scheduled to be interviewed by me in the Limbaugh Letter and backed out.
Because I had heard him say it was a really rancorous time.
I guess it always is.
And the Democrat Party had lost the House, 1993 elections, 1994, the Republicans took control for the first time in 40 years.
And there was a lot of problems on the Democrat side.
And during the campaign, 1993, there were a bunch of Democrats who were being threatened by the leadership, either vote certain ways or we're not going to help you in your reelection effort.
And I just happen to point out that this is what happens on the Democrat side.
The reason they're able to get such loyalty is every freshman, every newbie, they bring them in and the speaker's office leadership and they read them the right act and they tell them, if you want to stay here more than your first term, you'll vote the way we tell you to vote and we'll make sure you get reelected.
We'll find donors for you from outside the district if we have to.
But if you go renegade on it, if you try to forge your own career, if you try to build your own ladder and climb your own ladder here, we're going to cut it out from under you and you won't be here a second term.
Well, Luis Gutierrez went on TV and said exactly that.
He was not complaining so much, a little bit of complaint, but he was just informing.
And so since he had gone public and proven me right, I wanted to talk to him.
And we were all scheduled to interview him for the Limbaugh Letter and he backed out.
If I'm not mistaken, I think he backed out at the last moment because the leadership was not happy.
He'd given up the ghost.
Well, now he's done it again.
Democrat leader accidentally spills the beans about real reason for amnesty.
And he did it on TV.
This is from BizPAC Review.
U.S. Representative Luis Gutierrez, Democrat Illinois, inadvertently tipped the Democrat Party's hand Friday on why they so doggedly pursue amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants in the United States.
While appearing on Scarborough's show on PMS NBC, Gutierrez crowed about going to the White House later that day to negotiate how the president, with a stroke of the pen, can legalize up to 5 million illegal immigrants.
President Obama's expected executive action will in effect not only nullify the immigration laws of the country, but serve to create a legion of brand new Democrat voters, a fact that didn't escape Gutilleris.
And he's all happy about this.
It's pretty clear the Democrats want amnesty and are flooding the country with new illegals in the hopes of overwhelming the electoral system with more Democrat voters addicted to handouts and freebies.
And the quote from Luis Gutierrez, when you use public policy, divine through electoral votes, the human rights or civil rights suffer.
We must put the rights of the people ahead of the benefits that we might construe to come to our party.
And in effect, Luis Gutierrez gave up the ghost on national TV.
He admitted what...
Now, folks, there's no big...
We all know it.
It says they've never admitted it.
They always mask what they're doing or camouflage it in compassion terms.
Look at these poor kids.
Oh, my gosh, they're starving.
We've got to help the children.
They never, in fact, what do they do?
They try to tell the Republicans that if they don't get on board, they're never going to win because these people will never vote for them if they oppose amnesty and this, that, and the other thing.
That's a separate story.
Obama, with a stroke of his pen, just legalizing another 5 million.
Now, I think part of this is he is really trying to goad the House Republicans into impeaching him.
Really trying.
I mean, very hard.
It's become obvious.
It's so obvious he's not fooling anybody with it.
However, I was watching CNN this morning.
Well, I don't watch CNN.
It's on.
And I happened to glance up at a moment and I saw a headline.
GOP wants to impeach Obama.
And I looked at that and I said, no, no, that headline is a lie.
And so I turned on the sound.
And that headline went with a story about Obama trying to goad the GOP into impeaching him.
The graphic, the headline on screen said nothing about Obama.
It just said GOP wants to impeach Obama.
So even without them doing it, they're going to get blamed for it.
CNN, and I need you to keep a sharp eye on this.
CNN and other drive-by media are going to report this not as something Obama is trying to make happen.
They're going to report this as something the Republicans want to happen so that they get creamed by it, even if they do nothing.
It's a strategy.
There is no journalism anymore.
Don't forget, there's only advocacy and support for the Democrat agenda, disguised as the news.
Back to the phones.
This is Lisa in New Orleans.
Great to have you on the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hey, how's it going, Rosh?
It's great.
How are you?
I'm great.
I was piqued up by your topic while I was running around the house today.
And I wanted to let you know, I have always told my kids through the whole Obama administration that he's basically intellectually lazy.
He has been since day one.
And over and over again, he's shown it, whether it was how he ran on the economy, even when it blew up.
He's still charged ahead with all these policies.
that never really sparked the economy.
And he knew this.
He knew it would happen.
He's also always treated foreign policy like a big inconvenience.
He never wants to address it because it gets in the way of everything else he's had on his mind for the last 20 years.
And that's the one thing I've always told my kids, you know, think for yourself.
Look at what he's doing.
Look at how he behaves.
How old are you?
And you can figure this guy out just like you always say, just like the back of your hand.
How old are you?
I'm sorry?
How old are your kids?
13 and 16.
They're both in high school.
All right.
Are your efforts to convince them successful?
Absolutely.
You know, my daughter's gone toe-to-toe in some of her classrooms, and the teachers have let her.
She's in a very think-for-yourself kind of place.
And we use a lot of private school systems here in New Orleans, and hers is no exception.
She's taken them on nose-to-nose in class to think for themselves on things like oil production and supply and demand and things like that that she's always heard in the house.
And she has, you know, a working teenage knowledge of those things.
And her teachers have let her fly on those thoughts because it's basically saying, you know, you can be led by your nose or you can stop and think.
She's probably saying things her teachers haven't even heard.
And so they're probably mesmerized by it.
May in fact be if she's talking about free markets and things like that, that may well be the first time some of her teachers have heard this stuff.
And if your daughter is articulate and compelling, it could be why the teacher shut up.
But I want to take a little bit of issue with you on this intellectual laziness.
I know what you mean by it.
And I'm not predisposed to disagree.
I think what we might call intellectual laziness is actually arrogance.
Now, you're right.
He looks at a whole lot of things as irritating interruptions and distractions for what he really is interested in or cares about, which is the domestic transformation of the United States away from a free market, capitalist-based society to a command and control government making decisions for everybody society.
Socialism, whatever you want to call it, command and control, centralized economy.
However, don't discount the way I opened the program today.
He is an active, intellectually active Cold War mentality kind of guy.
He hasn't let it go.
It is a very active intellectual engagement that he believes the U.S. is the problem in the world.
And he's not alone.
John Kerry is this way.
Hillary Clinton is this way.
Many of the Democrats that were in school in the 80s, Madeline Albright, they carry around the same belief system that The Cold War existed because of the United States refusing to let people run their own lives and run their own governments and run their own affairs.
We had no business.
And he is obsessed now with finally establishing a United States that behaves in a world with that belief system, i.e., if Putin wants Ukraine, fine.
It's none of our business.
Who are we to say he shouldn't take it?
We took Alaska.
And if you want to, we took Mexico way back then.
And if you want to go back to the Louisiana purchase, we took New Orleans.
So who are we to say that Putin shouldn't take Ukraine or Crimea?
Who are we to say that Putin shouldn't have Cuba if he wants it?
It's none of our business.
And that the United States trying to stop all these other places from having what they want has caused all of the problems in the world.
Israel has a state.
Who says the Hamas can't?
Who says that the Muslim Brotherhood can't?
What business is it of ours?
That's not intellectually lazy.
I know what you mean by it, and I get your point, but this is not happening because he doesn't care.
CNN has a poll out that says if the election were held again today, that Mitt Romney would beat Barack Obama in a landslide.
But that's not why they released the poll.
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