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Aug. 14, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 14, 2014, Thursday, Hour #3
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And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
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There are other things happening out there.
And I want to turn the page and get into some of those.
If you still wish to talk about what's happening in St. Louis and Ferguson, feel free at 800-282-2882.
Just one more thing before we move on to other things.
The governor of St. Louis, Jay Nixon, and everybody involved here is saying that the reporters should not have been arrested at the McDonald's yesterday.
The Huffington Puffington Post reporter and the Washington Post reporter.
And everybody agrees.
Shouldn't have happened.
Shouldn't have been arrested.
But I know something else there.
Maybe their phone shouldn't be tapped either.
You think maybe everybody's saying these reporters need to be apologized to.
The cops need to apologize to them.
The uh governor, mayor, whatever, need to apologize to these reporters, because that was uncalled for to arrest them.
They were just in there, you know, preparing their biased remote something caught in my throat.
They were just preparing their reports, and they were they were in McDonald's.
And apparently they got kind of roughed up.
So everybody's saying they should be apologized to.
But maybe should the regime apologize to them for tapping their phones.
I mean, we've learned that the NSA and the regime well, aren't they?
Phones are being tapped.
Nobody seems worried about that.
And that's not just a couple of journalists in St. Louis.
That's every journalist in Washington.
Their phones are tapped.
And I know a couple of reporters expressed outrage about it when they when they found out.
But you know, many of them, you mean Obama's listening to me?
Cool.
Oh, wow.
I can get noticed.
Mrs. Clinton, ladies and gentlemen.
I think there is something, I don't know if it's been said, because a lot of people are talking about the distance that she is putting between herself and Obama and the regime.
And everybody's pretty much up to speed on this.
I predicted to you on Monday that this is going to happen.
Well, I predicted to you, we'd already started seeing it happen on Sunday.
Meet the press.
Remember both David uh David Gregory and F. Chuck Todd ripped into Obama.
They had polling data.
Obama's numbers are plummeting.
They were criticizing Obama's foreign policy.
And I found this noteworthy.
These attacks on Obama were unprecedented.
These media people, none of the big media have gone after Obama at all.
And it started, I started seeing a trend.
And there was Dana Milbank's piece in the Washington Post on Monday that uh headlined, While the World Burns, Obama plays golf.
And what I detected, shared with you was that I think the media has decided it's time now to start promoting the Hillary candidacy for 2016.
They figure Obama is done.
He's not running again for sure.
He'd take care of himself.
They have protected him for six years.
They've done their duty, pretty much on his own.
They'll look after him in a way, but it really, and I'm serious now, I'm not trying to sound funny, but it's really time now for the next Democrat nominee to be set up to win.
And in their minds, that's Hillary.
And one of the ways that this has to happen, and this you're seeing everybody say, that Mrs. Clinton has to distance herself from the Obama foreign policy because it's so bad.
Benghazi, Ukraine.
I mean, the the the conventional wisdom on Obama is that his foreign policy is do nothing.
And sit around and wait, see what happens.
In fact, I will share with you the Obama foreign policy after the break.
I need to print it out because it's a reply email I sent to a friend.
A friend of mine sent me a uh one of these emails with rush, rush, you're really gonna read this analysis.
I mean, this is right in the money.
You know, I don't normally send you things like this, but this is even better than what I would come up with, meaning himself.
And it was a website that specializes in the analysis of foreign policy, and I read it, and it was a bunch of gobbledygook.
It didn't say anything.
It it basically said anything can happen, and that we don't know what's going to happen, so we just sit there and wait.
But it took three pages to say that.
So I replied to my friends, said, Yeah, I agree, and I summed up, and I'll share that with you.
But the point here is that they've got to distance Hillary from the Obama foreign policy, and she has to distance herself.
She was Secretary of State.
So they have to set up a believable circumstance or set of circumstances where Hillary really was not that powerful as Secretary of State.
It was really Obama's foreign policy, not hers.
That Benghazi, she really was a good soldier, but it was Obama who didn't know what he was doing.
It was Obama who didn't care.
And it was Hillary who took the hits for all of the mistakes or inaction of Obama.
This is what they're doing.
But here's the point.
I'm sorry for the long buildup.
Here is the point.
Mrs. Clinton is actively participating in this herself.
It is not just the media distancing Hillary from the Obama foreign policy.
Well, it's actually not only the Obama foreign policy.
They are distancing Hillary from the Obama administration.
But she is too.
She's taking swipes.
She is characterizing the Obama foreign policy as sitting around waiting, doing nothing.
And how that's not a good foundation.
She's taking her shots.
And remember, they asked Obama what he thought of what she said, and he said, that's horse hockey.
It's horse manure.
And so last night at the Vernon Jordan party, they were supposed to have a big hug and apologize.
And supposedly Hillary called the White House, gave him a heads up, she's going to do this.
Look, you understand, I'm running for president.
I've got to, and I've got to distance myself.
You understand and the regime wrote, but no, we don't understand, because with this administration, nobody disses him, especially a former regime member.
Nobody insults them, and they're not going to sit there and act like, well, it's just business and we understand it.
Now, I think the real point here is, you know, everybody's so caught up in the horse race and and so non-plussed with Hillary as a serious person that they've never stopped to think.
Why would Hillary trash Obama this early?
It's still a year.
No.
It's it's it's it's yeah, a year, year and a half in earnest for the campaign in earnest begins.
Why now?
Why before the midterms?
Hillary hasn't even declared.
Why is she being so hard-hitting?
Trashing Obama.
And I think I know the answer.
And the answer is I think Hillary knows and is convinced that a whole lot worse is yet to come.
What's happening now?
Iran, Iraq, Syria, immigration, you name it.
What's happening now may be bad, maybe uncomfortable.
But with Obama basically disengaged, uninterested, incompetent.
What does she and John Kerry, who's no better, what does she know that we don't know that she thinks might be happening in the next two years that she doesn't want to be anywhere near.
She doesn't want to be associated with this regime.
She doesn't want to be thought of in the same sentence.
I'm telling you, I think the reason that she's distancing herself so decisively, so decidedly, and so soon, is because she has an idea of how bad it could potentially get.
And she doesn't want to be anywhere near it if something blows up.
Because it's a little early for this wide a division between these two people to begin.
Just a little early.
Normally you would think after the midterms and the results settle in, and particularly if the Democrats lose big, that would provide Hillary a golden opportunity to ride in the white horse, say I'm the solution, I'm the answer.
I get the Democrats back to power.
I think she knows, for example, I think all the Democrats know the midterms are going to be pretty bad.
They're all thinking it's going to be bad.
Who really knows?
But they I think they're all of the opinion they're gonna get wiped out.
So just keep a sharp eye.
And the idea that it could get much worse than it is now is entirely understandable given the quality and the competence of leadership that we have now in American foreign policy and at the State Department.
So that's why I think all of this is happening in earth, including the media, starting at full speed to distance her from Obama and to build her up and to get her candidacy up and running.
Now, before we go to the break, a couple of sound bites.
I want to play for you something I said on the program a couple of days ago on Tuesday, was describing Occupy Wall Street.
I was explaining it, reminding people how it began, what it consisted of, the people in it, what they hope to achieve, their mindset, their worldview, and all of that.
And it was to illustrate a point, and the point that I was making, which you will hear was confirmed in a phone call to C-SPAN.
But for the phone call to C-SPAN happened today, to be fully understood in full context, you have to hear this.
The Occupy Wall Street people basically attempted to convey that things, the stuff that you get in life does not come from work.
That that's a fool's errand.
People who buy into the notion that you have to work to get your stuff are victims of a big con game.
The one percent never worked.
They have all the money and they share it only with themselves, and it's all a giant trick to get everybody toiling away for meager wages to benefit the already rich one percent.
It was built on resentment of capitalism, anger at the unfairness of the distribution of resources and all of that crap.
Well, I think, using the snerdly doctrine, when it comes to explaining looters, I think looters have much the same kind of thought process.
That stuff, things, houses, cars, what have you, that work is not going to give you those things, because it's stacked deck.
If you engage in work, you're just working for the man.
You're working for the 1%, you're toiling away to make him richer, but you ain't getting any of it.
You aren't seeing any of it.
And indeed, social justice pretty much teaches this exact thing.
And therefore, social justice tells People who don't have things that they are entitled to take whatever the hell they want when they can and when they want it because they are entitled to it because it's being purposely denied them.
Now I can imagine, as is always the case, some of you listening on Tuesday when I said, come on, Rush, that that's a little bit over the top, don't you think?
Listen, don't doubt me.
Here's a caller on C-SPAN's Washington Journal today.
They were taking call-ins on the riots in Ferguson, Missouri.
This is Rick from Ohio.
The number one tool for the top one percent to control all the wealth is divide and conquer.
Divide and conquer.
This goes back to the Romans, it goes back to the Nazis.
And in this country, the media, Fox News, promotes racism like it's promoting a sale at Walmart.
The Disney Corporation put Rush Limbaugh and Dennis Miller in the booth on Monday Night Football to promote racism.
So you see, ladies and the one percent, they've got all the money, and they're keeping it from everybody just like the Romans did and just like the Nazis did.
Divide and conquer, divide and conquer Fox News promotes racism, the media.
I didn't know that I was in the Monday night football booth.
I must have been dreaming.
Am I dreaming now?
And I'm gonna wake up and and realize I was there and got fired there too.
Grab a quick call.
Birmingham, Alabama.
This is Michael.
Michael, thank you for waiting.
It's great to have you here.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, Crimson Tide Ditto's from Alabama.
I just wanted to call and ask you.
Um I wanted to comment on the liberal media taking your quotes out of context regarding Robin Williams.
It's not that they took things out of context.
They just made things up, Michael.
I mean, they took things out of context, but they just attributed things to me that I never said, which is happening more and more, and it's all started by media matters.
But but what what did you observe?
Well, what happened yesterday um I was on Facebook and I saw that I saw a guy made a huge comment.
He's like, You won't believe the things that he said, uh Rush Limbaugh, he's despicable.
And when I was looking at it, I was like, what?
I just got done listening to his podcast, and I didn't hear anything.
So I looked at the article, and I think it was an article from the Washington Post, and I read the article.
It was the Washington Times, not the Washington Post.
Yeah.
Well, when I saw it, I was like, this is unbelievably uh false.
So what I did was uh my girlfriend sent him a link to your full transcript of the show, and I was like, okay, good.
He'll see the transcript, he'll see that the record's been set straight, and he'll he'll realize it was a mistake.
Well, what he did was he responded, I just read the transcript, and I no doubt believe that he is using this as a Robin Williams death to his right wing agenda.
And I was just in shock because I thought to myself, if he if he sees this proof right in his face, he will realize what happened that you know the.
I'm glad that you experienced this.
He was confronted with proof that it was wrong, and he immediately didn't dismissed it and then recast it to fit another bias that he has.
Right.
And uh another one of his buddies uh commented, I read another article from the from Yahoo News, and I just started laughing at that point.
And I just I really wanted to get some insight from you about how do you battle willful ignorance like that, and I just see them as if they see proof, they just put their hands over their eyes, put earplugs in the city.
You can't want to hear it.
It's impossible to deal with it.
That's what I'm glad you learned.
They found out that what they wanted to believe was dead wrong, and they couldn't accept it.
Therefore, they're not interested in the truth.
They're interested every day in feeding their their corrupt, perverted worldview and and their pre-existing bias or their prejudice.
And they feed it, and anything that challenges it is uh uh Uh they don't know what to do with it.
Uh garbage in garbage uh uh uh so they have to immediately recast it.
Well, well, maybe so, but see, I can see how he's just using this to advance his right-wing agenda.
That's what he was doing.
Even though you confront them with what incontrovertible evidence, my own words that what they what this guy respond, well, I don't care.
I just saw on Yahoo News.
Wait a minute.
I'm sending you what he really said, and you're quoting Yahoo News to me.
So the the pro you can't change their minds.
They don't want their minds changed.
They're not interested.
This is this is your classic low information voter, Michael.
Yes.
They do not know what they don't know, and they don't want to know what they don't know because they think they know it all.
I I like to think that the uh news outlets, you know, the the news media, they they have to report things in a negative light, no matter what.
However, you know, you you hope that for you know the normal rank and file person if they do see proof to their face that they would change their mind, that they have more of an open mind.
I used to think that.
I used to think I'm being very honest with you.
I used to think back 20 years ago, 25 years, I used to think people won't believe this.
People will be able to see and read No, they believe it.
They believe everything they see there.
They believe everything they see on TV, they believe everything that's published, and when they're confronted with what they believe then they're not gonna they just can't live in a world where Yahoo News is wrong.
They can't live in a world where the New York Times is wrong.
So even though you can fr you you confront them with the truth of what I said, there's a trick.
There's there's still something uh that that they're able to spot that you aren't.
They're able to translate what I really mean, like coded words or whatever the hell they think I'm sending tofer to my agenda.
It's uh it's a it's just what it is.
Here's uh here's Carl in St. Louis, as we head back to the phones.
Welcome, sir, to the program.
Hi.
Yes, sir.
Thank you.
You bet.
I want to comment on the two drive-bys or the two journalists in the restaurant.
They were camping out there.
They were there for hours and hours and hours and hours, and the management wanted them to leave because it's eating establishment.
And they wouldn't leave.
So then they called the cops.
And then they were belligerent on leaving.
Now I don't know this for sure, but I know this because of a local station.
And local information is better than once it gets to Washington or wherever.
So the source for your story is local St. Louis Media.
Yes, Jamie Allman.
Check him out.
Uh, okay.
Check him out in there.
Uh okay, we'll check him out.
Now, back to your story, because I've not heard this before.
I know that they were in McDonald's.
Right.
And uh but they are saying that they had just made a purchase.
They just gone up and bought something and they were sitting there doing their work, and the cops came in and demanded they leave and didn't pack up soon enough, so they got manhandled out and quote unquote arrested.
That's what they want you to believe.
But your local source says that they're camping out in there, that they may they basically set up a base of operation.
Their office away from home.
And they wouldn't leave.
And they wouldn't leave.
And you say the the management wanted them out of there?
The management wanted them out of there, and they called the cops because the management couldn't get rid of them because it was a restaurant, and here's a quote, and I couldn't make this up.
The guy said to the cop, can't you see I'm working?
Now, I'm retired army, and one thing I can't stand is attitude, and that's attitude.
If your virgin of events is true, that does cast a different light on it.
Absolutely.
Now they're making themselves out to be martyrs.
Well, it's i nobody is above the law is is the point.
I mean, if if what you're saying is true, then it would be proper to have a reaction along the lines of, well, what makes these people so special that they don't have to listen to the cops?
Bingo.
If what you say is I can't do it.
I wasn't there.
Okay, but did why else would the cops have been there?
Because they were asked to come.
Because the management tried to say you can't stay here all day long and buy one cup of coffee and this and that and the other thing.
But reporters are supposed to be, you know, out there uh on the ground seeing what happens and and reporting to those of us who aren't there what was happening.
I mean, can you see the riots and protests from a table at McDonald's?
Well, no, I can't see that.
But what I can see is these guys now going back to their newspapers, their liber liberal newspapers, and saying we really got screwed.
But in actuality, they did not get screwed.
They were asked to leave.
They wouldn't do it.
And when the cops came.
They still were belligerent.
I don't know if they were belligerent, but I'm sure they weren't cooperative.
Look at I read the accounts of these two reporters today, and uh, you know, me, student of these people and their work.
Um they make themselves sound like they're little smart ass, they're a little smart alecky and so forth.
Uh bingo.
Um but uh the cops were only there because they were called by the manager.
That's just what I think.
That's okay.
That's what I heard.
Your story and you're sticking to it.
Okay.
Well, as you say, we will check it out with our Please do limitless ability and check it out with Jamie Alman.
He's got a program in the morning.
Oh, yeah.
I heard it.
Absolutely we'll check it out.
You got it.
Thank you, Carl, very much.
Brief time out.
Do not go away.
My apologies to the management of KMOX in St. Louis.
I thought our last caller was was was talking about Johnny Rabbit.
And uh so asking the programming staff, Cambox to uh understand there.
Uh really thought he was Johnny Rabbit.
Here is uh Nancy, Southeastern Massachusetts.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Hi, how are you?
Good.
When you were talking about why Obama was going back to Washington, right, right.
Uh I was curious myself.
Like some people think he's going to sign an executive audit.
He could have did it, you know, in Martha's Vineyard if he wanted to.
But yesterday when I was watching that press conference, they read off, you know, his you know, agenda, and they said that um Sasha came with them when they originally came to Martha's Vineyard, the younger the uh no, Malia came with them, the older daughter.
Right.
And Malia will be going back with him when he leaves on Sunday, and then he's gonna bring back Sasha when they come back.
So I don't know if that has anything to do with it.
Well, now why the cost is phenomenal.
I know, it's over like a million point two or something like that, but why not why why would he have to go back to to get the daughter?
Why why why couldn't Biden bring her?
Or put her on a I mean, I I d I think ridiculous.
When he goes back when he goes back, that's Air Force One.
Uh-huh.
And so I that well I I don't think that Biden um I don't think Biden's there because I don't think anybody on Martha Martha's Vineyard wants him there.
And that's why Obama has to go back.
He's got to meet with Biden about something.
But that's that's that's that's I just thought it was odd when they questioned, you know, why, you know, only one daughter it was like no information available.
Right.
You know, why won't they they didn't come as a family.
Well, that's understandable.
These these daughters are old enough now, they got other things going on.
I mean, what these daughters you think Martha's Vineyard's really all that exciting to them.
No, I've never been there.
I live in Massachusetts and actually.
I mean, as far as the daughters are concerned, that's that's uh it's already the old folks home.
Uh Motha's Vineyard, I don't think there's anybody there under 60.
Uh other than the employees at places.
Uh and if the Kennedys got lost ended up there instead of Hyanna's, but other than that, I I just that's gonna hang.
Was no, they no, that was a different oh, it might have been Matha's Vineyard where Michelle and the daughters went early with their own range retinue, or they just uh I'm not isn't she old enough to couldn't they put her on a that's weird to go back.
I I don't know.
I don't know.
I that's I that uh I'm sorry.
That doesn't make any sense to me, but then I'm not a parent.
Uh uh but just send the grandmother back.
Uh we'll just have to wait and find out.
What's wrong with that?
Send a family member back.
To pick up the good the if if there's a daughter that hasn't been able to make the trip yet.
Now until what did I step in by saying that?
What did I step in by saying send the grandmother back?
Well, isn't that any how's that difference in the president's gonna go get her?
She's a family member.
Honestly, are we actually concerned about this?
Anyway, Orin a trucker on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
Hello, sir.
Hi, how are you?
Good, thank you.
Got about a minute.
Okay, I'll be quick.
Um great honor, by the way.
Obama, the the Obama and and Hillary thing, the rift.
Do you think that might be theater?
Um I mean, everybody knows he has low approval ratings.
Um, and maybe that's just uh just for public showing.
And and the second thing, real quick is uh the Robin Williams thing that you've been talking about the last couple of days is particularly disgusting as far as the misrepresentation in the in the media.
Anyway, I mean you have legions of fans here.
Um we'd be willing to boycott maybe the parents, the uh the advertisers of the companies that these uh these so-called journalists work for.
That the Oh, well, if you wanted to do that, uh you could.
I don't end the you you can leave that charge.
I mean, we'd be right behind you.
Well, I know, but I never have.
I never have uh done it.
I don't have the time to tell you now why.
There is news, however, on the Robin Williams front.
His wife has issued a statement saying he was in the early onset stages of Parkinson's disease.
And I remember well that's just the latest.
Quick time out, my friends, we'll be back after this.
We had a bunch of news today that I didn't get to on immigration and Obamacare, so I've put it in the stack for tomorrow.
In addition to Open Line Friday.
It is Friday tomorrow, right?
Yeah.
Cool.
Okay, good.
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