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Aug. 1, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 1, 2014, Friday, Hour #3
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Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
It's our 26th anniversary of busy broadcast service today, folks, and it's live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
It's a long time.
Starting year number 27, it's a long time.
But it doesn't seem like it.
Seems like all these things just happened yesterday.
Seems like I was just doing rush and bought a television show yesterday.
But it was 20 years ago.
The concept of time is a fascinating thing.
Because at the same time something seems like it's dragging and taking forever, it just zips by.
26 years is just I don't know.
It's unbelievable.
Especially in broadcasting, it just doesn't happen.
But it has here, and it's because of you.
It really is.
Your loyalty, and you've you've you've you've hung in there during all of the efforts that the left is engaged in to try to make you think I'm not worth it.
All the effort the left, the media have engaged in to make you think that I lie to you, or that I don't believe what I say, or that I'm a reprobate, or whatever.
You hang in there.
And that's why whenever these moments arise, I always endeavor to thank you people first, because I know I'm here doing it and so forth.
But if you weren't, it would all be academic.
So I thank you again.
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You know, last night something, I don't know what it was.
It might have been a TV show I was watching, but it just had a sort of like a flash thought in my brain.
I'm thinking about all of these kids flooding our southern border.
And we're being told we've got to let them in.
I mean, yeah, their children rush.
We've got we've got to let them in.
Why now?
I don't think anybody's really thinking about that because that was then, this is now now they're on the border, but it takes 45 days to get here.
And I just don't believe that out of the clear blue, 65,000 children decided to leave their homes in El Salvador and Guatemala.
And come here, Honduras.
I just there has to be a reason why they're on the way here.
Somebody has to have convinced somebody down there that it's gonna be utopia when they get here, that when they get here, they're gonna be able to stay, that when they get here, that they're gonna be readily assimilated and moved into our society.
They're gonna be fine.
Why else come?
And some would say, well, Rush, you know what they're fleeing.
Well, yeah, but that's not new.
The circumstances they're fleeing are not new.
Why now?
Why when we have Barack Obama as president?
Why now is this happening?
And I'm I'm telling you, folks, there's a reason this is happening, and it's not coincidental.
It's not accidental, and I think at some point we're gonna find out why this is it.
I think we're gonna uncover proof.
We're gonna find out later on, somehow.
Quirk of fate, we're gonna find out what what is really behind this.
Because this just doesn't happen on its own.
And no, I'm not talking about any kind of conspiracy doesn't have to be a conspiracy.
All it would take is some Spanish language ab campaign and some obscure publications in these countries, and that's all it would take.
But it is clear the Democrat Party's not upset by this.
It is clear the Democrat Party wants this.
So we're gonna find at some point that this is not just the result of America being a great place.
And this is not the result of some kids finally getting old enough to realize what a great place this is.
You just don't leave your family like this in these numbers, and your parents don't just kick you out of the house and put you on a train for 45 days, or to hook you up with coyotes.
And I think that gets lost in this because this is an actual on-the-ground crisis with circumstances that have to be dealt with independent of why.
To most people, the why is irrelevant now because they're here.
Well, the why is really interesting to me.
The why and the how fascinating me, because there has to be a reason.
And I think we all pretty much have an idea what it is.
Now the UA UK Daily Mail has a story that I guarantee you, you will not see in American media.
Headline.
And naturally it's an exclusive.
A lot of people die out here.
All this blood is on Obama's hands.
Shocking images show corpses of illegal immigrants left to die after border crossings.
Here are the subheadlines.
Rancher shares grotesque photos with mail online saying Obama bears the blame for a rising death toll among illegal immigrants.
Volunteer Patrol Network in South Texas has found 259 bodies in one county alone, which is maybe 20% of the actual body count.
Border Patrol source concedes that the agency has no idea how many are dying between the border and the official government checkpoints.
Now, remember what Rick Perry said that Obama has moved the border patrol checkpoints 45 miles inland.
I don't mean in places like San Diego and Juarez and El Paso.
Other border poor border checkpoints, they're not major crossings.
The border patrol, they're 45 miles inland.
See you cross the border, and you still got 45 miles before you encounter anybody.
And it's in that sliver that dead bodies are being found.
And a rancher, for example, has documented it with photographs, shared the photographs with the Daily Mail, they've published some with the grotesque nature of the photos pixeled out.
Another subhead filmmaker says he warned Congress in 2007 that children were becoming drug cartels' newest pawns on the border.
Okay, 2007, drug cartels, uh coyote.
Well, yeah, but this is that that's been the case for for a long time.
This mass arrival, and there's no end in sight to it.
This is more than the drug cartels, is my point.
I understand that people are fleeing drug cartels and crime in their native countries, but this is more than that.
Because this politically is a godsend for the Democrat Party.
I'm sorry, folks.
That's how I look at things.
Every major event is always used to advance the Democrat Party agenda.
They politicize everything.
Some of you newer rivals in the audience, you can think I'm a little wacko on this if you want, but you wait.
Time is going to prove me right as it always has on these things.
Dead bodies of illegal immigrants turning up in South Texas as Central Americans pour across the U.S. Mexico border.
And a veterinarian who ranches cattle 70 miles from ground zero has the photos to prove it.
You can see it.
Just go to Daily Mail Online.
It's on Drudge.
We'll link to it at rushlimb.com.
Now let's go to the audio sound bites, Luis Gutierrez.
We Talked earlier.
Why are the Republicans doing this?
Why are they voting on an immigration bill that's not going to go anywhere?
It's not going to ever see the light of day in the Senate.
If it did, Obama's not going to sign it.
Look, I don't want to repeat the first half hour of the program.
But the Republicans do not have a position or policy of their own.
They're trying to please two different groups of people, a their donors and B, their voters.
And they're trying to occupy positions that satisfy both of us.
The voters, they want you to think that they're trying to stop this.
They want their donors to think that they're making it happen.
So how do they do that?
By having these votes the last two days.
Now the vote today, there's there's uh there are two bills, the Marsha Blackburn bill, which freezes DACA, which is the legalization of all illegal children under the age of 16 and under.
Obama did that in 2012.
Uh the Blackburn bill would freeze it.
No more.
Obama would have to counter it with an executive order, which he will.
We all everybody expects this.
But the Republicans want to go on record.
The conservative Tea Party Republicans want to go on record and vote for that.
So they're going to do that.
Then the other bill is the supplemental, which is the money to give Obama he wants to deal with this crisis.
And the Republicans are going to do that, show the Hispanics they love them, to show the Hispanic voters that they don't hate them.
That's the whole point.
Everything the Republicans are doing here.
Satisfy their donors, uh, try to satisfy their voters who don't like any of this.
But there's a third thing they're trying to do, and that is they're trying, they're desperate to show the Hispanic voters that what the Democrats are saying about them isn't true.
Democrats are saying that they hate the Hispanics because they're racist and they don't like stupid people, and the Hispanics are stupid, uh, and they're bigots and and and they're exclusionary, and the Republicans are like rich bankers and so forth, and they don't want you here, and the Democrats position themselves as the only ones standing up for these poor Hispanic voters.
If it weren't for Democrats, they wouldn't have a chance.
Republicans, if they could, would still just get rid of all of them, deport all of them, and never allow another one in.
That's what the Democrats say.
No matter what the Republicans do, no matter what they do.
And here's proof.
The Republicans, the past two days are doing everything they can.
Right, wrong, indifferent.
They're doing everything they can.
They're practically begging Hispanics in this country to love them.
They're begging.
They're desperate.
Please don't hate us.
We love you.
We want your votes.
We care about you.
We have compassion for it.
That's what they're trying to send out.
So now on Capitol Hill, Democrat press conference, responding to what the Republicans are doing.
Here is Illinois Representative Luis Gutierrez.
For weeks, they have been calling those that have come fleeing murder, mayhem, terror, drug dealers.
They have said that they are disease-ridden, lice-filled, gangbangers, drug dealers, mules of the drug cartels who have come here in hordes to invade our nation, and now they are demonstrating that that's how they feel in their legislation.
Because they have to go down to the least common denominator of hatefulness towards an immigrant community.
And when they say it about the children, they say it about all of us.
So there's what you're getting, Mr. Boehner and all of this is what you're getting for your efforts.
So you're just hoping that your donors don't care.
But this is what they're saying about you.
And this is what happens when you don't have a position.
This is what happens when you don't have a position you can articulate, a policy or series of policies that you can articulate.
This is what happens when you're not willing to stand up for what a great place America is and how and why and how you get here and you welcome people in and what you...
This is what happens when you pander.
It's what happens when you're on defense.
Gutierrez, by the way, was just getting wound up.
It Is though the Republican caucus that began to reach out after the 2012 November debacle as we re-elected President Barack Obama and they said we need to do something different.
We need to reach out to that Latino community.
It's as though they have amnesia and have forgotten and have abandoned that road.
And they have taken the road of those who will be filled with spitefulness and hatred toward our community.
The way you treat one of us today is the way you have treated all of us.
And we will remember that.
Lastly, not only do they treat the children that are in such need of protection, it is almost as though they despise and hate all of our children.
They despise and hate all of our children.
They despise and hate all of our children.
The Republicans, who are doing what?
They're doing everything they think they know how to do to convey just the opposite.
They're trying to pass comprehensive immigration reform, so-called amnesty.
They're doing everything they can to send the signal to the Hispanics that they don't despise them, and that they don't hate them or their children.
And look what it gets.
But the point is that Democrats, and this has been the way it is for, I don't know, it's been this way 30 years.
They're gonna say whatever they're gonna say, no matter what you do.
It's like Carval last night.
Goes on Ted O'Baxter's show, lies through his serpent head teeth, says that I came out for impeachment yesterday.
I did not.
You heard me say that they would say this about me, and you heard me say, I am not proposing impeachment.
All I said was, I don't think it should be taken off the table as a future option, but I did not come out for it.
Well, if you didn't hear me yesterday, you're watching Fox last night.
You probably think I'm one of these groups of people in the groups demanding impeachment, but I'm not.
Here's Gutierrez just lying through his teeth.
But that's what they do.
That's my point.
They are going to do this no matter what.
The Republicans cannot buy off Luis Gutierrez.
The Republicans can't do a thing to make him stop doing this.
There's not one thing they can do to stop him lying about them.
Doing what he wants will not make him if if Luis Gutierrez supports blanket amnesty and the Republicans come out for it.
Luis Gutierrez is still gonna say that they hate and despise Hispanic children.
That is the technique.
That is the politics.
Here's another example.
Sheila Jackson Lee on the House floor today.
To think of the words, no room at the end.
Our Republicans are confused.
They are prosecuting the children.
Why?
Because they're taking away basic due process rights for humble children who have come just for opportunity.
Not only that, they don't even want to give resources to all the cities in America who are helping the good Samaritans.
And then they want legislation that literally undermines due process for these children.
This is a bad bill.
Do not pass it.
Pass comprehensive immigration reform.
Pass it now.
Right.
And the Israelis hate children too.
The Republicans hate children.
Everybody, the Democrats.
It's just amazing how that happens, isn't it?
Back to the phones we go.
This is uh Gretchen in Long Beach, Mississippi.
Great to have you on the program, Gretchen.
How are you?
I'm fine.
Happy anniversary.
How are you?
I'm doing great.
Appreciate that.
Thank you very much.
I'm doing well.
Okay, good.
Well, this is just kind of a comment or idea that just kind of popped in my head, but it seems to solve a lot of problems.
Why don't we offer territorial status to Guatemala, Honduras, whoever wants it down there?
That wouldn't stop them.
You know, remote kids back with their family.
You can you can you can call it anything, and they're still want to get it, get it out of there.
Well, but you know, then they'll be part of the territory like Puerto Rico that'll have the benefits of The part of the U.S. Puerto Rico protests us all the time.
We got some bomb ranges down there where we test explosions and so forth.
called Jesse Jackson.
Yeah, that's a recent development because some people want to develop that land for resort over in Puerto Rico.
Right.
Well, let me let me just tell you your idea.
Your idea is not as far-fetched as an idea that's been advanced by Luis Gutierrez.
You may not know this.
The man who I just played sound bites from, who said the Republicans hate Hispanic children and despise them.
Luis Gutierrez has said in the past that we need to find every Hispanic that has been deported and bring them back.
Because none of it has been legal and none of it has been compassionate, and we owe these people an apology for sending them back home, and we should find them and bring them back.
Luis Gutierrez.
I guess Obama's going to make some huge statement on something here.
And it says at 2.35, so that'll be 3 o'clock when he shows up.
Eastern time.
Although he might want to show up and think he could interrupt this program uh on anniversary day.
But I guess all the drive-bys think that his statement's going to be on um the Middle East.
Well, that's what they're all talking about.
So I guess they think he's going to come out and say something about an Israeli defense force soldier supposedly kidnapped, but now they're denying that.
The Palestinian, we didn't capture any kidnap any.
What do you mean?
We didn't capture an Israeli soldiers.
There's a ceasefire going on.
Yeah, it lasted for 90 seconds.
The name Keishon Johnson ring a bell, Mr. Sturdley.
Keishon Johnson.
Just give me the damn bowl.
A former wide receiver for the New Jersey Jets and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and had a rivalry with Wayne Cribett, which he called a midget or something.
Well, he's getting married.
After all of these years, Keyshawn Johnson is getting married.
He's marrying a woman named Jennifer Conrad.
They have a child.
They sent out their wedding invitations recently.
Their wedding invitations were on iPads.
Everybody they're inviting to their wedding was sent an iPad.
And the Miss Manners crowd is just appalled.
The proper way to do this, they say, is with engraved invitations.
Classy engraved invitations with the right tissue paper in there and all.
Send out iPads, how gauche.
In addition to that, guess what else the iPads had on it?
A direct link to where they registered for wedding presents.
Yes, they thought of everything.
So you get your wedding invitation on your iPad, and on that iPad is a direct link to wherever they're registered.
I don't know where it is.
Uh Neiman Marcus or Nordstrom, whatever the heck it is.
It's a direct link.
And uh they've made it easy for their guests to buy them wedding gifts by including the registry right on the iPad.
But there's some people that think this is really over the top, not classy.
All this money that they're spending on the iPads, and they're they're they don't know this, but they're asking these critics.
I wonder are these iPod uh is the iPad set up so that's all you can do with it is read the invitation and go to the store to buy some, or can you actually use this thing after their wedding?
Nobody knows yet.
Well, I guess the people that have received them do, if they've been sent out.
I don't know, but something over a hundred of these things that they've bought.
You think it's you think it's pretty cool?
You think pretty cool?
That's all I know.
That's all I don't know when the wedding is.
I don't know where the wedding is, but the that has obviously all that uh information on it.
There's a photo gallery, There's a guest book and a countdown to the big day.
The iPads, it turns out were sent to several guests a few weeks ago.
And once they're turned on, a program opens informing the recipients about the wedding event.
So when you get the iPad, it you start it up and it boots to the app that was created that has the wedding invitation on it.
And I assume you get to keep the iPad.
I mean, you I said it back.
Yeah.
You think it's well, they I they could have engraved the iPad on the back.
That's very true.
Like we have engraved EIB IP.
We don't have any right now, but we always uh get them in.
Anyway, the the the Hoiti Toity crowd is just outraged at this.
This is such a breach of protocol.
It's a cheap attempt to buy class and to be hip, they're saying.
Uh let's see.
Oh, get this.
This is uh from the Great Falls Montana Tribune.
The Washington Redskins have donated $200,000 for a playground to a Montana Indian tribe.
This is not going over well, except to the Indian tribe.
The Indian tribe is ecstatic.
The Indian tribe is happy as they can be.
They're gonna keep the money, they got a nice new playground for their kids, but the critics are out in force, saying it's nothing but a bribe.
Mike Sangri understands some people think that his Chippewa Cree tribe is selling out by taking money from the Washington NFL team's original Americans Foundation.
See, they won't even call them the Redskins in this story.
They call them the Washington NFL team.
The Redskins have set up, and they have this is for a long time.
It's not new, something called the Original Americans Foundation.
And Mike Sangry is a chief, and he doesn't care.
He doesn't care that he's being called a sellout or a bribe taker.
Because he's got a brand spanking new playground scheduled to open at noon today on the Rocky Boys Reservation, and that's what matters to him.
It's a rodeo-themed playground, and it belongs to the tribe.
But the branding belongs to the Washington Redskins.
There's the Redskins mark is all over the playground.
The place is a wash in the team colors of Burgundy and Gold.
The team's logo appears four times near a slide here and a teeter-totter there.
The Teams Foundation paid about 200 grand for this gleaming tribute to itself.
I have no problems with it, said the tribal chairman, Rick Morset.
And if they're willing to help our youth, well, that's good too.
But just like when David Koch gave $25 million to the United Negro College Fund.
The left is demanding the tribe give the money back.
Because this is nothing more than Washington's NFL team trying to bribe an Indian tribe in the midst of the controversy over the name of the team.
This is Charlene in Prescott, Arizona.
It's great to have you.
Thank you very much for waiting.
Hello.
Thanks, Bush.
Um, I have to say that I'm ready to impeach Obama.
I know you never said it first, but I'm saying it.
I think it's the smart it's not necessarily the smart thing to do.
But it's the right thing to do, and I'd like to see Boehner do one thing right.
It would just really please me.
Here's my thinking.
The president holds the Congress and the people of the United States hostage with threats of more illegal aliens, more amnesties, and more wasted billions unless everyone concedes to immigration Obama style.
And it must be Obama style.
But that that you don't impeach him for that.
Well that's see that I this whole impeachment.
I understand what you want to do.
You're looking for a way to stand up for what's right, regardless of the fallout, because right is right and everybody should know, and we can't keep putting off what is destroying the country.
You've got to stop it, blah, blah.
Understand that.
But there's a there's a there's an old saw here.
You know, impeachment uh in the Constitution is is written about and discussed as uh as a legal thing, but it's a purely political event.
And you you it's one of these, it's like a lawyer granting immunity to a witness.
You never do that without knowing what the witness is going to say.
You just don't do it.
In this case, you don't do this unless you know you're gonna win it.
And it's a political thing.
And then they haven't built a political case for it.
And the Republicans in office today are not going to do that.
And the reason they're not gonna do it is because they think there's no way we're ever gonna get a conviction in the Senate with with Harry Reed leading.
We're just not gonna do it.
Now you mentioned you mentioned the results, illegal immigration, all that.
All of those things are the result of Obama's lawlessness.
He has proven that he can't be trusted with the power of the office.
That has to be the basis on which he would be impeached.
And that case would have to be made.
Nobody's making that case.
Somebody needs to stand up and make it.
Well, that I don't I don't disagree with that.
I I've just I'm telling you that the the players that we have now are not the ones who are going to do it.
The I'm I'm I'm telling you, and see, I and uh there's one thing I want to be very clear on here.
The inside the beltway uh cogno sense, the uh the best in the right is the uh those of the conventional wisdom all say that there is no way the Republicans can do anything but destroy themselves if they do this.
And I do not agree with that.
I I think it's a mistake to assume that if the Republicans were to embark on the right course that they would be harmful.
This is everybody inside the beltway is telling Republicans if you want to to wipe your own selves out, if you want to take yourselves to the bare bones of irrelevance, you do it.
It's a losing proposition.
Obama thinks this.
Obama's trying to goad them into doing it.
Obama thinks, I mean he can't run on any policy, but if the Republicans are out to get the first black president, why he thinks his base will just rise up in indignant outrage and show up in droves and re-elect Democrats in November and another Democrat in 2016 just to show the that's the conventional wisdom of the politics is.
I don't happen to agree.
I don't think that it has to be an automatic losing proposition for the Republicans.
And I'm you probably agree with me on that.
But with the current climate, you and I are the only ones outside the beltway that think that.
It's just so sad and pitiful.
It's watching my country turn into a third world country where I have no say, where my neighbors are placed here by Obama, where every I think Obama should leave the country after he retires.
See, they're just gonna see, you're just a bigot and a racist.
And what's wrong with other why why don't you want to live with these poor people from Honduras?
What do you got against them?
Charlene, what makes you so much better than them?
That's what people will say to you.
I know, I know.
They call me a racist on CNN because I didn't agree with Obama.
They call me a racist for an entire year.
That's why I don't watch CNN anymore.
CNN called you a racist?
Yes, they had.
Every well, not personally.
They called everyone who did not agree with Obama.
They always had a speaker on there.
Racist faces, faces.
That's all we heard for a year.
Oh, look at this.
Obama's not House Republicans are blocking our global diplomats.
What?
It just never ends.
It it just he's talking about Washington gridlock now.
And uh the this American people demand and deserve to focus there.
So he's he's uh he's ramping up the pressure.
He's trying to make them so mad that they will initiate when they're not prepared to do it the right way.
Impeachment proceedings.
Anyway, Charlene, look, I know it's hard.
I'm like you.
This this stuff is ripping me apart.
It's a lot of people.
This is and I'm Frustrated what to do about it.
And I don't have anything for you, uh, other than what I believe myself.
And I just I have a faith.
I cannot do any better than that.
But I think all this is going to be overcome.
I don't know when, but I think they're going to be that at some point it's going to bottom out.
I'll admit I've been thinking that 27 years.
Have a great weekend, folks.
Thank you so much for 26 years, and who knows how many more.
But we'll be here for them, however many it is.
In the meantime, back on Monday.
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