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Aug. 15, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 15, 2014, Friday, Hour #3
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Fastest three hours in media.
Two down, one to go.
It's Friday on the EIB network.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny, South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program is 800 282-2882 and the email address, L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
Openline Friday means.
Whatever you wish to talk about, have at it.
The content portion of program is all yours.
Now, as is always the case, there are other things that are happening out there, in addition to what is the dominant media story of the day.
And I want to get to some of those things.
We've spent two hours on the dominant media story of the day.
And if you live in Hollywood, this story, well, California, if you live in California, this story might tend to aggravate you.
If you used to live in California, and if you left California, say you're a small business owner, or for any reason, just left because it's become too expensive to live there.
A California bill to expand state tax credits for movie and television production was given a dollar amount Thursday.
400 million dollars a year.
That number, subject to amendment by the legislature.
Governor Jerry Brown is four times what the state has handed out since 2009, and it was announced by the Senate Appropriations Committee in a unanimous vote.
Now, if this passes, this would become the second highest in the country behind only New York, which offers the movie and television business 420 million a year in tax benefits.
Now what's been happening?
Hollywood movie and TV executives have been threatening to leave in terms of production.
They're going to leave the executive orifices there.
But they've been threatening to move production to a whole bunch of different places where it's cheaper.
Canada, especially Canada, a number of other states, which are competing with California.
They everybody wants movie and film production.
Everybody and TV.
And they're prepared to give them tax breaks, tax incentives, all kinds of things.
California doing the same thing to keep them.
Now, if you're in the tire business, if you happen to be in a real estate business, if you're in the restaurant business in California, if you're in any other business, how would you feel that these people in Hollywood in television and movies are getting a massive tax break exemption to stay and do business there, and you don't.
It's just, I just wonder if there is that reaction or if people have gotten a point that this is don't care, expect it to happen, and it is what it is.
There has been a new study, ladies and gentlemen.
They have found in this study a link between vitamin D and dementia.
And what they have found is it's an international team led by Dr. David Llewellyn, University of Exeter Medical School.
They found that study participants who were severely vitamin D deficient were more than twice as likely to develop dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
The team studied elderly Americans, seasoned citizens who took part in the cardiovascular health study.
They discovered that the adults in the study who were moderately deficient in vitamin D had a 53% increased risk of developing dementia of any kind.
The risk increased to 125% in those who were severely deficient.
Do you know What the primary source of vitamin D is the sun.
The increase in dementia and Alzheimer's may be due to all of the news, the past generation.
Stay out of the sun.
Don't go into the sun.
You go in the sun, you're gonna get skin cancer.
Or you're gonna get melanoma.
Well, skin can you're gonna get cancer of whatever.
Make sure you use one thousand degree sunscreen.
Make sure you don't go to the if you go to the sun, make sure you're clothed head to toe.
Whatever you do, do not expose yourself to this.
The sun is the deadliest thing you will find outside, other than an angry polar bear.
And people believed it.
Because it was on the media.
They saw it on television.
I play golf with people who slather so much damn sunscreen on.
They look like the invisible man wrapped in white bandages.
I tell you what, the ice people are not going to be comfortable with this.
Homeland Security, folks.
Do you remember shortly after the regime took office?
Homeland Security, I think it was uh Janet Napolitano, issued a warning that the real terror threat came internally from right wing groups.
Remember that?
And there was an outrage in reaction, and the regime said that they're gonna dilute back and take those uh warnings out.
Uh keep a sharp eye out for Tea Party groups, uh, keep a sharp eye out for any right wing group because they are domestic terrorists.
And there was an outrage, and it got supposedly shoved back aside and was not operative.
A leaked document from the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Intelligence and Analysis is now not warning.
They are predicting increased anti-government violence over the next year.
The document says the inspiration for this anti-government violence is Cliven Bundy's Bunkerville standoff with the Bureau of Land Management from earlier in the year.
Clive Bundy?
Are you kidding me?
So the cliven cliven, for those of you in Rio Linda.
The Cliven Bundy Bunkerville standoff apparently still has people seething.
And the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Intelligence and Analysis is predicting increased anti-government violence over the next year.
Would we call what happened in Ferguson anti-government violence or not?
We wouldn't.
But we don't, right?
That's called, what will we call that?
That's right.
Civil disobedience, civil unrest looting, uh, but it's not anti-government violence, right?
So anti-government violence can only be action that's taken by right wingers and kooks, which are the same thing.
Right wingers and kooks are the same thing.
So the left wing cook, but but exactly unibomber, left-wing cooks are all over the place.
Chuck Manson and left-wing kooks are everywhere, but they're not considered anti-government.
Like like like you know, echoterrorist like Bill Ayers.
Blew up the Pentagon, but they do not call him an anti-government.
They call him what?
Uh they don't even call him a yeah, a left left-wing radical.
They don't even call him a terrorist.
He's just a left-wing radical, students for a democratic society.
Americans for democratic action.
Are you kidding me?
A bunch of right-wing kooks still ticked off about Cliven Cliven, for those of you in real end.
Bundy.
It's an actual paper.
It is an actual report.
Let's go back to the audio sound bites.
I want you to grab sound bite number five.
Just a brief departure.
Now back to the dominant story of the day.
Last night, CNN, desperate to hold on to this like the missing airliner.
Situation Rome Wolf Blitzer speaking with St. Louis County NAA LCP board member John Gaskin about the situation if Ferguson was.
By the way, let me paint you a picture.
Downtown St. Louis last night, Bush Stadium.
The Pittsburgh Pirates are in town to play the St. Louis Cardinals.
Bush Stadium sold out.
Downtown St. Louis.
A stadium filled with people, relaxing, enjoying the national past.
Well, it used to be the national past, a baseball game.
Sold out.
Mere, mere miles north is a powder kick.
Bush Stadium, St. Louis sold out last night as though there was nothing going on.
Outside that stadium.
Inside that stadium, it was the Cardinals and the Pirates.
It was a good old baseball game.
Bring me your popcorn peanuts and cracker jacket, what have you?
And there wasn't a care in the world inside that stadium.
You didn't have to go very many miles north of near Lambert International Spaceport.
Ferguson, Missouri.
Bam o you don't.
I mean, the contrast is striking.
Anyway, CNN.
Speaking to the St. Louis County MAA LCP board member John Gaskin about Ferguson.
Blitzer said, the Ferguson police chief called a situation the city a powder keg.
He's going to be speaking shortly, having another news conference.
What do you want to hear from the police chief in Ferguson?
This was last night.
The first thing we want to hear from the police chief and the local NACP has discussed this this afternoon is an apology to the family.
This is not the first time that this local police department has had an issue with the way that they treat BMWs, as we say at the NACP, black men walking.
The Ferguson Police Department has had issues.
It's our hope that the American Congress will use this policy window as an opportunity to address police brutality on a national stage in Congress.
Never let a good crisis go to waste.
This guy comes up and says it.
National legislation to address police treatment of BMWs.
Have you heard that one before?
You have really?
You've heard black men walking can be look.
I was I was here ten years ago, and I don't remember that.
Okay, well, there you have it.
Black men walking, the national legislation to address police treatment of black men walking.
And here is Emmanuel Cleaver, Democrat Missouri, I think yes.
He's also on with Blitzer, who has said, what should we be bracing for tonight in Ferguson?
Mr. Cleaver.
When you get the military equipment out of the way, I think it gives the protesters the feeling that we can now protest peacefully, and there's no threat hanging over us.
The heavy equipment probably should only go to cities like New York, uh, Chicago, Los Angeles, where there uh is always the threat of some kind of a terrorist attack.
But in Middle America, you don't need uh leftover equipment from Iraq.
ISIS is using that equipment now.
ISIS is using the uh leftover military in the heartland in the hands of cops, is like ISIS.
Wolf Blitzer said the St. Louis County police were in charge.
The governor says no more.
The highway patrol is coming.
What did they do wrong?
Some of the officers there, I think, seem to have the idea that the Constitution is not a document that we have to uh embrace.
I mean, you don't arrest reporters.
You don't take their equipment in the United States.
That's what they do, you know, in Syria.
And so I think they somehow uh need to be retrained and desegregated.
Wow, retrained and desegregated.
So suddenly Emmanuel Cleaver believes the Constitution separates us from what goes on in Syria.
How about that?
Cardinals played the Padres last night.
I erroneously and with verbal dyslexia said to Pittsburgh pirates.
But the Cardinals played the Padre.
Everything else about it was true, just I had the wrong team in town.
Here is uh Russ in Oakdale, California.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Thank you, Rush.
What an honor.
Thank you.
Uh before I get to my point, your story about the uh Missouri State Police reminded me of an early 70s.
My buddy and I were riding in the car with his parents in Northern California, which you know a lot about Northern California.
Northern California are you all away in that area?
Yeah.
And we pulled over.
And he got out and started yelling at my friend's mom, and we're like, what's going on?
until I looked at the bumper.
She had a bumper sticker on her cart.
Said, if you think the police are bad, next time you need help, call a hippie.
Anyway, he took offense to that.
But I need reason the way the reason I called, I don't know if you're aware of what happened a couple weeks ago in Stockton, California, a few miles south of your home city of your adopted home city of Sacramento.
Stokedon, what happened in Stockton?
They had a 60-minute, over 60-minute running gun battle with three gang members, attempted to rob a bank, took hostages.
One of the hostages unfortunately ended up succumbing to a gunshot wound.
They kicked two of the hostages out of the car.
And they're still looking for the driver of the people, the person who dropped them off at the bank.
So when these people talk about how the police don't need this, they shot from my understanding is they shot the tires out of the armored vehicle, which couldn't keep up with the um rest of the vehicles and research how many of those police vehicles had bullet holes from the AK-47s, these robbers were using the.
See, that's that's the point.
If I'd heard, I don't recall these details about Stockton.
But I do remember the California bank robbery in the in the 90s, and I'll I'll it it's been it's more than one story where the the bad guys had military-grade weapons, and the cops are out there with peace shooter pistols.
And they're just totally overpowered.
And it it brought about a debate over are the cops sufficiently armed?
And you had people yes, they don't need any bigger pistols than what they've got.
I don't care what the bad guys have, because if you give the cops any bigger weapons, it's gonna become a police state support.
And other people said, if you don't let the cops arm themselves in ways where they can stay equal, then you're not gonna have law enforcement even at a chance.
It was a it was a really high-pitched debate, but it's the reason why police departments in certain cities have leftover unused military grade equipment.
But of course, here comes the media feeding the notion that the only reason that certain police departments have those kinds of weapons and that kind of equipment is because they're racist.
And because it's assumed that minorities in these towns are going to require that level of armament to be kept in control.
And it's just it's bogus, but it doesn't matter because you can't make them believe the truth.
They have been lied to about so much for so long that they believe it all.
I mean, we we actually had John Lewis call for martial law in Ferguson, wanted Obama or somebody To declare martial law.
And that's not the solution to this.
The solution to things like this is something that'll never happen because nobody could get away with saying it.
Nobody could get away with suggesting it.
And the reason they can't get away with suggesting it is that nobody can correctly identify the root problem.
The blame, the root problem is America is racist.
The root problem is America is bigoted and racist.
No matter what steps have been taken, no matter the fact that we've elected the first African American president, no matter that we've had years of affirmative action, no matter what we do as a remedy.
America is still racist.
And it we may as well still have Bull Connor and the fire hoses and the dogs and all that, which again I remind everybody that was old Democrats doing that.
But the point is that progress is not permitted to be recorded.
And so you can't ever identify the root problem.
You can't ever get down and have the actual remedy addressed or even spoken.
Because it assigns blame where people do not think the blame ought to go.
So we have to keep putting up with it.
In event after event, and it just becomes something that becomes part of the American fabric.
Every now we're gonna have race riots.
Every now and then we're gonna have this or that, and we'll just do our best with them when they happen, and we'll try to get through it and we move on.
We just think it's part of our heritage that we must have these things and put up with them and so forth.
And that's a defeatist attitude, in my humble opinion.
Quickly to the phones we go, and then we're gonna give it a audio sound bites, and and once again document poof.
And what I told you was happening with Hillary and the media inside the beltway and her candidacy 2016 is indeed happening.
But first, ladies and gentlemen, here's AJ in Chicago.
Hi, AJ.
Welcome to the program.
Hello, how are you?
Well, AJ, I'm pretty good.
I'm on the Russell and Boss.
This is my first address to the nation as a famous man once out at CPAC.
As a famous man once that at CPAC.
Can't understand what he's saying.
What is he saying?
I said uh this is my first address to the nation.
Oh, you you are as a caller, this is your first address.
Well, that's not what callers do.
Callers don't get to address the nation on this program.
I have a small bone to put you up.
Well, what you're saying, hey, I can't understand the word.
I'm sorry, I've been understanding I don't want to talk to you anymore, hey.
I just don't want to talk to you.
Our transcription couldn't keep up with him.
I don't know what I could not understand what he was saying.
To the audio sound bites we go.
No, I know what he was gonna say.
You know what he was gonna say what he was gonna say, but I didn't have patience to stick with it, folks.
I'll tell you what I told what he told Snerdley it was gonna say.
He was going to say in his first address to the nation, that since I never criticized George Bush's spending, I'm not a real conservative.
I'm not a legitimate conservative.
That's that's what he wanted to say.
And there's where do you take that?
Okay, AJ, when did you last beat your wife?
You know, what what where do you go with that?
Sit here and document for him all the times I criticize Bush, and all the times I criticize for a whole host of things for not responding to the Democrats for creating a brand new entitlement.
What is that?
If that's not criticizing Bush for spending.
Medicare Part B. I can't tell you the number of times.
I had emissaries from the Bush administration call me, come down here, try to get my mind right.
Immigration, they sent, they sent poor old Tom Delay.
They had him call me.
You're understanding this wrong.
Medicare Part B. It's Tom, it looks like it's a brand new entitlement.
That's not what Republicans do.
It's not.
It's market-based.
It's private sector.
It's the federal government mandating it.
Tom, it's a it's a it's it's a it's a new entitlement.
This is not what we do.
Well, I'd just soon tell you that rather than try to muddle through.
It sounded like he stars on the bridge.
No offense, AJ.
It was your phone Line wasn't you.
And now to the audio sound bites.
Let's remind you what I said on this program on Tuesday.
Just a very brief reminder.
Ladies and gentlemen, you may have noticed it already.
If not, I think it's safe to say that the worm has turned in Washington.
I think behind the scenes, a formal decision has been made on the part of the media, and that is to focus on their treatment of Hillary.
While casting Obama aside.
Obama is over.
He's yesterday's news.
There's nothing positive to report.
It's time to build Hillary up.
That's just a reminder for those of you who were here this week that starting with my analysis of what happened last Sunday on Meet the Depressed, and in the Dana Milbank column in the Washington Post, there was the worm turned.
And all these people started really ripping into Obama.
And we all know why.
Hillary is the next Democrat nominee.
Hell, she's the next Democrat president.
We got to get her elected.
And the way they're going to get her, they have to distance her from Obama.
And they really have to distance her from Obama on foreign policy.
Because it's a disaster.
And she was Secretary of State.
And they're trying to make it sound like, well, she was just a figurehead that was really Obama made her do all that stupid stuff like Benghazi.
That's what's setting up.
Okay.
Last night on PBS.
PBS, without your pledge, we cannot dust.
Charlie Rose show.
And he's talking to David Brooks of the New York Times.
Now remember, David Brooks is the guy who was privileged to have dinner with Obama at George Will's house.
And in addition to George Will and David Brooks, and Larry Cudlow was there, Dr. Knuthammer was there, and there are a couple others.
It was Obama trying to identify the conservatives he could deal with.
And to try to convince them that he was an okay guy that they could support.
And with David Brooks, it worked.
David Brooks is the guy who said after that dinner that he knew Obama was going to be a great president because of the crease in his slacks.
So now David Brooks is back with Charlie Rose last night, and are talking about Hillary.
And Hillary's rebirth, and the worm is turned, and it's time now to build Hillary up.
Now, David Brooks.
When he's on PBS, he is a conservative.
He is the conservative columnist in the New York Times, or what passes for one.
And what's interesting, he's the conservative at PBS, and he's come, he's he's he's lauding Hillary, as you will hear.
Here's the first of two sound bites.
I've really been struck at sort of dinner party conversation around Washington, around New York, around the country, when the Clinton people, some of the people who are in the Clinton State Department with her, and some of the people in the orbit talk about President Obama.
They do so in critical to sometimes quite critical terms, as someone who is too hesitant to use power.
Oh, so he's falling right in line.
The acknowledged conservative of PBS and conservative columnist of the New York Times is falling right in line in besmirching Obama, whose crease he used to love, and now building Hillary up.
So he has started attending dinner parties with the Clinton people.
And when that starts happening, when David Brooks starts attending dinner parties with the Clinton people, that tells you Washington has moved on from Obama.
They are now ready for Hillary.
And here is the next this a continuation.
To her credit, you know, Hillary Clinton, we've talked about this interview with Jeff Goldberg, it's so confrontational, but she's very modest throughout it.
It's kind of winning interview.
I really liked her uh after reading it, because she's saying, of course, we'll never knew.
I could have been wrong, maybe he was right.
She's very human uh in the way she conducted herself.
Yeah.
Oh man.
You know what?
I really liked her after reading that interview, because she's saying, of course, we'll never know.
I could have been wrong.
Maybe he was right.
That makes her very human In the way she conducted herself.
Uh it's like I agree wholeheartedly.
Obama might do that, but he might not.
And if he does, we won't know why.
And we won't know when.
So we just have to wait for him to do or not do whatever he doesn't do.
Things could go either way, that way or the other way.
Or the way over there, or the way we can't predict.
It's really bad out there.
I mean, all of this nothingness.
All of this vacuous nothingness is now intellectual heft.
And humanity.
She's very human in the way she conducted herself in that interview.
She said Obama could have been right.
We'll never know.
He could have been right.
I could have been right.
I could have been wrong.
Obama might have been right.
He could have been wrong.
I don't know.
It's depressing.
That this is what now constitutes intellectual heft and reason and substance.
I'm kind of liking her now.
I really liked her after reading it because you know, wow, she could have been wrong.
Hillary Clinton, we are talking about Hillary Clinton.
Oh well, I gotta take a brief time out, my friends uh sit tight as we gather ourselves for the return to content portion.
Hi, welcome back, Rush Lynn Boy.
So I guess in David Brooksville.
Barack Obama's crease in his slacks qualifies him to be a great president, means he's gonna be a great president.
With Hillary Clinton, she's very human.
Very human.
That answer in that interview.
Very human.
So very human equals a crease in pants.
What human being isn't human?
What does that even mean?
I thought she was very human.
What is human mean?
Meaning you could be wrong?
That makes you human, this gobbledygook kind of lingo that's designed to make everybody sound so sophisticated and learned and elite is just dumb.
Remember Barack Hussein Obama, mm-mm.
That'll be replaced by Hillary Clinton.
Ha ha ha ha.
I don't know, folks.
I think I need a vacation.
Some of this stuff is just starting, I it it it it is beginning to just all run together as sheer nothingness.
Oh yeah, I was on the dinner party circuit.
Yes, I was on the dinner parties every night, because I'm an important person, of course, and I get the right invitations and everything.
We're talking about Hillary Clinton, she's very human.
What gobbledygook?
These are qualifications, these are reasons to support her after everything we know about her.
In my world, most human beings are all too human.
How can a human being not be human?
Here is Sarah in Albany, Georgia.
Great to have you.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi.
Um I'm very nervous.
I'm uh I've called you many times.
I'm a conservative political science professor.
And um a lot of that's your fault.
My fault.
Yes.
Um You don't sound old enough to be a professor.
I I am.
I am.
Barely.
I'm I'm young.
Um I'm in my early 30s, but um you gave me the political curiosity, the intellectual curiosity.
My father used to um watch your show and listen to you, and then he would explain it to us.
And it lit an interest that I took twelve years to finish my education and I've focused on political science.
Well, that is great.
Congratulations.
I wanted to thank you for that.
Well, you like it then, obviously, you felt like I love it.
I love it.
What age group do you teach?
College.
Ooh.
So what how do you go about that?
Um are they are they freshmen, juniors, sophomores?
What are they?
They're nicely.
Uh uh, it's nicely freshman and sophomores.
Freshmen sophomores.
So what do you assume they know?
I mean, what when when they arrive in your classroom.
What's your starting point?
Very little.
We start at the very, very beginning, and we learn the language and the terms, and I give them a media literacy assignment where they have to compare different media outlets on the same political event, and I try to give them the tool set.
I certainly don't teach them what to think, but I more or less try to teach them how to think.
Right.
Critical thinking.
That's my attempt, yes.
So you teach them media literacy.
You give them the terms to help them understand what the media is saying.
I I try to.
I try to um help them understand that there's always a bias.
Yeah.
And that you just have to find it.
You have to dig down and find it.
Well, that's good for you.
You're responsible.
I just wanted you to, I've been dying to tell you that for the last fifteen years.
Um you gave me the curiosity.
For sure.
Well, thank you.
I no, you're you're responsible because you're the one who accomplished it.
You're the one you you you you developed an interest and you went out there and you did it.
So you achieved it.
Well well yes, but uh you you were part of that.
I was whether you're aware of it or not.
Well, I pre no I understand what you mean.
I uh it it you this program gave you the interest in it, inspired you to want to learn more about it, and so you did.
And now you're a teacher.
I you made my day, I appreciate that.
I really do.
We probably need more of you out there, actually.
Well, I teach a bunch every semester.
You know what I'm thinking though?
I'm thinking your children's books are gonna do for the children what my father did for me.
He made your material accessible to me as a child, and I think that you better watch out.
Your children's books maybe.
So your your father would your father would listen to the program and he would tell you in his own words that he knew you could understand what what kind of things happened on the program here?
Yes, sir.
He's listening now, and he he loves you.
Oh, he's listening now.
What's your father's first name?
Stephen from Amelia Island.
Amelia Island, well, you know, everybody has to be someplace, and that's not a bad place to be.
That's what he thinks.
Well, he's right.
Stephen, thanks.
And and and Sarah, thank you.
What a what a what a great call to end the day on open line Friday.
Thank you so much.
I really appreciate that.
I hope I hope these children's books have that exact effect.
That is the mission.
And there is a mission behind these books, and that is exactly what it is.
So I appreciate your call and I appreciate your uh mentioning that.
And don't lose your humanity.
That's it, folks.
I hope you have a great weekend.
It's always great to be here with you, and I cannot thank you enough for spending your time with us.
It's always appreciated.
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