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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 Express 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.
Firmly ensconced behind the distinguished and prestigious Golden EIB microphone, broadcast excellence for two more hours today, 800-282-2882 is the number, the email address Lrushbow at EIBNet.com.
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 on that.
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 acetaminophine plant in uh somewhere in Africa.
Make it look like he was tough and he was rattling a chains about about uh Saddam's chemical weapons and so forth.
But Madel Albright said, we 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 down.
She's very upset when the Soviet Union fell because it left us as the lone superpower, and 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 is 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 of 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 uh Albright, she she she said she was worried when the Berlin Wall was torn down.
She's worried because that 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 sound bite for you again from Obama.
He 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 uh young African leaders in Washington learning how to lead from Barack Hussein Obama.
Mm-mm-mm.
And after his speech, one of the audience members had a question.
Mr. President, uh, 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.
C. We have different systems, we have different traditions.
C. What may work for the United States may not work for us.
C. Oh, and by the way, the United States, we don't see that uh Congress is always, you know, 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 him 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 never think that's because you're a lousy leader.
Isn't that 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, grabbed 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 the wrong system.
That's not it's 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.
But 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 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 jud uh genital mutilation.
It's not worth hanging on to that.
I wouldn't uh but he doesn't condemn it.
He just tells him I wouldn't hang on to that if I were you.
I don't see me.
What do you mean, Mr. Lombaugh?
He didn't commit.
He didn't condemn it.
He just told him, hey, you know what?
You're not going to get away with that.
You know, that's not something really.
If you're going to do that, you know, turn it over to Boharem.
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 or did this question make it any sense to anybody?
Let's try this again.
Future African leaders.
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, right?
So in Kenya, for example, if you 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, no wonder that but that's that's a side issue.
Did you did you hear what you just heard?
You want 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 says, Now, wait a minute.
There are certain times, like when my dad was alive, that uh 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, if you 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, no, wait, 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, uh, sometimes traditions are getting away.
Uh, my father was from Kenya.
A, that means everything it 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 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 and the kids in the compound.
They start 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 in the village.
And then they may not end up being as empowered as they were, because now the guys 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 I don't know what you 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.
These 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, is 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 um I'm just gonna 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 mean, I invited people to call, I've given the number.
So the um the task at hand is to mix it all together each and every day.
So I'm gonna go to the phones.
Long 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 at 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 is 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, uh Vagina Justice, which is gonna require uh those of you with young children to turn the radio off.
I give you ample warning when that comes up.
But in the meantime, we go to the phones.
Clifton, uh Virginia, this is Lawrence.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
How are you?
Very well, sir.
Long, long time listener, first time caller.
Thank you very much.
Appreciate that, sir.
I wanted to give you a little bit of perspective about uh the Berlin Wall and uh the the Cold War that happened in and around that city because I have some you know firsthand experience.
I in fact was the commander at checkpoint, Charlie, 1986, 1989.
And uh also uh an a liaison officer to the Soviet commander in East Berlin during that same period.
So uh I was also standing uh in close proximity to uh President Reagan when he made his uh speech and requested that Mr. Gorbachev tear down the wall in 1987.
So if there ever was a place in a cold war where good and evil face off, it was right there in Berlin at uh checkpoint Charlie and in front of the Brandenburg Gate.
So um a little perspective about why the wall went up, you had asked that question earlier in the show.
And you know, well, no, no, no, no, 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 war Wall coming down.
He never talks about why it was there.
He never blames the Soviet Union.
He never blamed Eastern Germany.
Never blamed Eric Schonaker.
Never goes there.
They never did anything wrong.
It was always the U.S. was wrong.
Correct.
And you know who the uh leader of the KEB was right across the wall there in that period in the late 80s.
That was uh 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 uh Mr. Obama didn't attend the 20-year anniversary of uh 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 gonna take part in anything that lifts up Reagan.
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?
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 uh 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 things and traditions out there that you may not understand that uh they're okay.
I'm holding here my formerly nicotine-stained fingers, uh 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.
Is this again?
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 was 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 On Youngo had at least four wives, one of whom, Akumo, 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 Onjango bunch here.
And it's not Kenya, folks.
If I tell you what it is, I'll have the people at care all over me.
Now I'm just bringing this up because grandfather Hussein Anyango had at least four wives.
Great grandfather, not random.
great-grandfather Obama Opio had five wives, including two who were sisters.
Well, it's, you know, incest once removed.
If we want to look at it that way.
Say, it's none of our business.
Whatever worked for them, worked for them.
That was Obama's answer to the crowd.
Well, that's why this all came up.
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 Africa.
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 leaving 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 there was a there was a uh 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 are being threatened by the leadership, either vote certain ways or we're not going to help you in your re-election effort.
And I just happened 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 they had 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 re-elected.
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, if you try to build your own ladder and climb your own ladder here, we're gonna cut it off 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 from BizPack 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 five million illegal immigrants.
President Obama's expected executive action will effect not only nullify the immigration laws of the country but served to create a legion of brand new Democrat voters, a fact that didn't escape Gutierrez, 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 of civil rights suffer.
We must put the rights of the people ahead of the benefits that we might construe to come to our party.
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's just 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 gonna win because these people will never vote for him if they oppose amnesty and this and that and the other thing.
That's a separate story.
Obama with a stroke of his pen just legalizing another five 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 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 go to 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 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, Rush?
It's great.
How are you?
I'm great.
I was uh peaked 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 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.
How old are your kids?
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?
Uh thirteen and sixteen.
They're both start, they're both uh in high school.
All right.
Are your efforts to convince them successful?
Absolutely.
Um, 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 she's in a very uh think for yourself kind of place, and we use a lot of private school systems here in New Orleans, and hers is no exception.
It's she's taken them on nose to nose in class to think for themselves on 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 let her fly on those thoughts.
Because it's basically saying, you know, yeah, you you can you can be led by your nose, or you can stop and change.
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 copies 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 I'm not predisposed to disagree.
I just I 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 decided society.
Socialism, whatever you want to call it, command and control, centralized economy.
However, I don't 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 have 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, 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?
None of our Business.
And that the United States trying to stop all these other places from having what they want is caused all of the problems in the world.
Israel has a state.
Who says the Hamas can't?
Who says that the is uh uh uh Muslim Brotherhood can't?
What business is it of ours?
That's that's not intellectually lazy.
I know what you mean by it, and I I get your point, but this 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 land slide.
But that's not why they released the poll.
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