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Aug. 22, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 22, 2014, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Have you heard the latest reason from a Democrat why we need to grant illegal immigrants amnesty?
I'm not kidding.
If we don't, they'll become terrorists.
If we don't grant the illegals amnesty, they will get so mad that they will join ISIS and become terrorists, just like Chuck Hagel said.
The uh slate apparently isn't working, so hit the uh hit the um live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
I'm I'm not kidding.
You think I'm making this up?
Snurdly thinks I'm making that up.
It's open line Friday, ladies and gentlemen.
Great to have you here.
Yes, sir, Bob.
Whatever you want to talk about, fine and dandy.
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There's also, I should tell you, I didn't bother printing this out because I don't need the details.
All you need is the Associated Press.
By the way, folks, I'm going to start today, I think, with some things that don't have to do with Obama and golf, because we're going to get to that.
And I'm going to start with things that don't have any to do with Ferguson, because we're going to get to that.
And uh the ISIS and that stuff, we're going to get to that.
But there's some other things out there, like V.S. Divianos' Sterling's gay.
I mean, there's some things.
It's open line Friday.
We just, yeah, she was his beard.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's what she's saying.
Uh I mean, there's all kinds of stuff like that.
It's been accumulating while we've been focused on these other things.
The media is starting to get really, really worried about Obama checking out, playing golf, uh, not being interested, really, really worried.
It's gotten the point that Juan Williams says, hey, you know what?
We want him doing it.
We don't want him acting like he's dominated by ISIS.
We don't want him acting like uh anything they do stops him, paralyzes him and so forth, like it did Jimmy Carter.
No, no, we don't want that, but we don't want this either.
Anyway, Snerdley, right here it is.
The oh, the AP.
The AP has a story that immigration is a non-factor in the November elections.
Congressional House races, it's a non-factor.
And in the Senate races, it's just amazing.
It just it's dropped off with all this stuff going on.
Ferguson and ISIS and Al Qaeda and all the rest of it.
Uh the voters don't care about immigration anymore.
That's the point of the story.
Immigration's dropped off the radar.
You people don't care about it.
It isn't going to be a factor in congressional races in November.
has the story.
Daily Caller has this.
Iowa Democrat state representative and candidate for U.S. representative Pat Murphy said Tuesday...
That if the underage migrants who have come to the U.S. from El Salvador and Ecuador and the rest of the other Third Nation in Central America, if they aren't given a pathway to citizenship, if they are not given amnesty, they could become terrorists.
He was on public radio in Iowa.
He said that we need to make sure we take care of the children that are coming here.
He said they're not from Mayaco.
They're coming from farther south.
We need to make sure that when we're talking about these children, we need to treat them like they are our children or our grandchildren.
If they're going to be refugees, which several of them are going to be, we need to make sure that we have one we take care of them, and we create a pathway to citizenship for them and set up education for them so they don't become the same problem that we're currently having in the Middle East.
That'll be terrorists a generation from now.
And this is, remember now, AP says immigration is a non-factor in.
It's just amazing how it's disappeared.
It has nothing to do and will have nothing to do with the house races in November.
And now this guy, a state representative in Iowa, Pat Murphy, seeking a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
So we better grant these kids amnesty, because if we don't, what he's essentially saying is, if we don't grant them amnesty, they're going to get so mad, they're going to become terrorists.
And we don't want them to become terrorists.
We don't want, so we better give them health care, and we better give them citizenship, and we better give them welfare, and we better take care of them like they're our own children and like they are our own grandchildren.
Otherwise they're going to become terrorists.
You think I'm making this up now?
We have.
This is this is certifiable proof that Democrats, some Democrats in Iowa, are insane.
I I'm it's I don't know who it's an insult to.
Yes, it's an insult to the children, but yet you talk about what must this guy think of the voters in Iowa, who he wants to elect him.
How stupid does he think they are?
How frightened, how scared does he think they are instead of being angry.
I mean, you see, but it follows, doesn't it?
Folks, think about this.
This guy's dead serious.
It follows.
The U.S. is the problem in the world.
We better make amends.
We better make sure that they find out a different story about us.
They want to come here so bad.
They are doing, I mean, they're traveling 45 days, sometimes on the top of trains.
They're being brought here by coyotes.
They're leaving their own parents, they're leaving their own homes.
They want to come here so bad.
And if we don't be nice, why they're going to become terrorists.
Well, I mean, you realize that kind of thinking could handcuff us.
That kind of defensive, guilt-laden, frightened way of thinking, could lead us to do anything that's detrimental to our own national interests.
Now, just wanted to pass that on.
Because Alex and some companion stories that as CNN says that over 400 British citizens are members of ISIS, and that ISIS is uh is targeting the uh the United States.
And then Rick Perry spoke at the Heritage Foundation, and he said that there's a real possibility ISIS is already here.
So I would tell uh Pat Murphy and Iowa, hey, we don't have to worry about the kids getting mad at us and becoming terrorists.
Apparently, well, we know it's not a mystery.
They are already here.
Anyway, some other things here, folks, before we get down to this hand-wringing, oh my God, it's so serious.
Oh, gee, what's happening?
Oh no, no, no, no more of this.
Some lighthearted stuff.
Donald Sterling ex-girlfriend claims that the, I'm reading here from the New York Post, claims that the racist, former LA Clippers owner, is a homosexual and used her as a beard to hide his lifestyle.
Leggy personal assistant V. Stiviano states in a lawsuit that she never slept with Sterling and that the 80-year-old billionaire businessman employed her only to help cover up the fact that he prefers male companions.
According to TMZ.
The legal papers state that Steviano believes Sterling is a homosexual and enjoys sexual acts and or sexual Congress with males.
The papers were filed in LA Superior Court against Sterling's wife Shelley to counter her claim that V. Stiviano took unauthorized gifts from Donald Sterling.
I predicted this yesterday.
I knew this was going to happen.
This is such a telltale thing.
I mentioned yesterday that the uh the doctor, who was part of the missionary uh engagement over in uh in Africa.
Kent Brantley, who contracted Ebola, was brought back to the U.S. with a co-worker, Nancy Winterbull.
They were given this super secret special serum to combat Ebola that is grown exclusively in a tobacco plant in Kentucky.
I mean, that's the primary source material for the serum.
Anyway, he was released in the hospital yesterday, is totally recovered.
No more Ebola.
He had a press conference, and I mentioned after I'd seen it, I'd it's been a long time.
It's been many years since we've seen something like this in this country.
This guy went out, was all God all the time.
Thank God for his recovery, talked about prayers.
I mean, he's there's no question he's he's a Christian missionary, but he didn't hide it.
He did not camouflage it.
He was bold and out front with his Christianity.
Christianity was witnessing everything.
There was no fear whatsoever.
Now, my point, we don't see this anymore.
We um we we don't we don't see public recognitions of and devotion to God because it's laughed at and mocked and made fun of.
Even that's been politicized, you see.
Yeah, only pro-life wacko nutcase right wingers believe in God.
They're the only ones that do.
And nobody wants to be thought of as a Looney Tune right winger, pro-lifer cook, and so nobody talks about God, even religious people, other than evangelists and media preachers and so forth.
But just average citizens just don't bring it up.
Look what happened the other day in school in uh in Tennessee.
Female student sneezes, female student shouts, bless you.
She gets suspended.
Because the teacher says, We're not going to have godly stuff like that in my classroom.
There's no there's no blessing anybody in this classroom, and the woman, the teacher, suspended the student.
Student had to spend the rest of the suspension period in the principal's office.
There's no praying or referencing of God at commencement ceremonies.
National anthems, you don't, you're very, very well, well, Pledge of Allegiance.
Can't do that.
Uh high school football games, no reference, no prayers, pregame prayers or anything that this is very, very odd to see somebody just come out and unabashedly express their love and thanks for God, and as a result of this, there is absolute fury on Twitter.
There is fury and anger all over the social media directed at Kent Brantley.
His was a feel-good story.
And it wasn't that long ago that what he said would not have been controversial at all.
In fact, it would have been quite normal.
It was not that long ago that things like what he did yesterday are pretty much part of the uh the national fabric.
An open expression of belief in God, a public acknowledgement and thanks, prayer, and this kind of thing, but of course it's just been under assault uh and under attack for a generation, maybe more, intensely, and now there's a lot of fear, and people hide even their Christianity because it's just it become politicized, as everything is.
And so Twitter, they just lit the guy up.
They called him, I mean, the the names on these things.
I I uh, you know, Walter Isaacson, let me run an idea by you.
Walter Isaacson, who wrote the um biography of Steve Jobs, and Benjamin Franklin, a couple of others, used to be managing editor at Time.
He's now head of the Aspen Institute, which is headquartered in Washington, but they have their meetings in Aspen.
It's kind of a cool gig.
And he used to uh for a short time run CNN.
He had a piece that ran on the Aspen Institute website that uh Time Magazine reprinted on their website yesterday, and it had to do with the notion of privacy versus anonymity.
And he tried to make the case that the two are entirely different things, but that many people are confusing them.
And that they're wrong.
People who think that privacy equals anonymity are wrong.
Anonymity is one thing, privacy's quite another.
But he made the point that he doesn't like all this anonymity, particularly on social media.
And he has a theory.
His theory is quite simple, that if you couldn't say things without anybody knowing who you are, you wouldn't say over half of what you say.
If everybody, if you had no anonymity, I don't care if it's Twitter or if it's in the barbershop or wherever.
If anonymity were eliminated, if everybody had to be identified by their real name on these places, that it would clean up all of this drivel and all of this obscenity and all of this mindless, senseless, gutter-filled rhetoric that shows up, not just on Twitter, but in the comment sections of a lot of websites.
He didn't propose anything.
He didn't propose mandatory, didn't propose government get involved.
It was just him ruminating and thinking that it might be something that would raise the level of discourse.
Everybody talks about civility and how we're losing civility, and his theory is one of the reasons why is that you can say whatever you want in so many places in this country with nobody knowing who you are.
And the moment people know who you are, you will not say some of the trash.
You won't talk some of the trash that you talk.
And I started the piece, I was prepared to reject it when I when I started it because it's a thin line, anonymity, privacy.
And one of the reasons I was prepared to reject it is that I've often said if there's one thing I could have back that I've lost in life, it's anonymity.
I would I would love to be anonymous.
I can't tell you, but of course, it's impossible.
I'm on the radio.
My chosen profession, I have to wave anonymity goodbye.
I mean, it's it's senseless to even dream about it.
It's simply not possible.
But it doesn't mean that I can and do dream about it.
But it's not because I want to post stuff.
It's not because I want to say things without anybody knowing.
I want my name attached to what I say, because I'm proud of what I say.
I love hearing myself say what I say.
I'm proud of what I think, I believe it, and I want everybody to hear it.
But there are times where I'd like to be anonymous, not because I don't want people to know what I'm saying, but for other reasons.
It's not possible.
Anyway, I got to take a break here.
I'm up against it on the first obscene profit timeout, so don't go away.
Oh, yeah, on Twitter they're calling Keith Brantley names like douchebag.
I mean, and that's just that's minor compared to some of the names they're calling him.
And then you've got some of the snarky, oh yeah, oh yeah, God decides to save the white doctor, but let hundreds of blacks die with Ebola.
What kind of God is your God, Brantley?
And it's just vicious stuff.
And it's all anonymous.
And that's why this piece by Walter Isaacson, he starts out using Uber as uh as his example, is that one of the many cool things about Uber is that it allows passengers to rate the driver.
And so the theory, the driver, because he knows he's going to be rated, behaves politely, very nice, very friendly.
But in addition to that, you know what?
The drivers can rate the passengers.
And so if passengers get poor ratings, drivers don't want to carry them, don't want to drive them, pick up the account.
His point is that when everybody is being rated, everybody's more civil.
You're likely to be a bit nicer.
The world becomes slightly more civil, Isaacson says.
You've heard the old saw that character is what you do when nobody's looking.
Character's how you behave when nobody's looking.
Same thing with the morality.
That's actually traceable back to Plato in the Republic who was ruminating about it philosophically and how you define goodness and decency and so forth.
Anyway, it's a fascinating piece.
I'll give you a couple more outtakes from it when we get back from another break here, and then we'll get into other things happening out there.
It's open line Friday, just getting rolling, hang in there.
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So anyway, I think there's something to this.
If if everybody who posted something on the internet had to be identified by who they really are.
I'm not suggesting it, but I think the theory is true.
If everybody had to go by who they really are, their true identity, that you'd have a lot less of this.
I mean, it's it's folks, it's it's it's it's just guttural out there on social media.
And it's it's it's it's expanding left and right, and not just Twitter and Facebook, but comments on uh on various websites.
Some people are affected by it psychologically.
Some people read this stuff and think, my God, what's happening to our country?
Is it always been this way?
Have we always had this many stupid people out there?
Have people always been this vulgar?
And people don't have the answers to that because there hasn't been any way to measure it up until now.
So you don't know if it's simply allowing for people who've always been this way to finally come out and behave this way, or if it is creating this new level of uh uncivil discourse.
Some people get concerned about it.
The dangerous slope is that thin line between anonymity and privacy.
They're not the same thing, but what if they became the same thing?
That would be a distinct problem.
Anyway, I just found it fascinating because this this poor doctor was just ripped to shreds simply for thanking God that he's still alive.
And it's it's you know, it's one thing you can disagree with the guy's religion, and people have different beliefs.
It's it's it's one thing to uh to say you don't believe in God.
But man, when you get so angry and upset by people who do, especially Brantley's harmless.
Brantley's not using his God as an excuse to kill people, he's doing quite the exact opposite.
It's all quite illustrative.
In um in Wickassett, Wiscassett, Maine.
Officials there are renaming a road after the local high school's former mascot, which was changed because some people found it offensive.
The Board of Selectmen voted this week to grant a residence request to rename her street Redskins Drive.
They gotta love this.
There's a woman so fed up with what's happening with this supposed nationwide, massively supported effort to demand that the Washington Redskins change their name.
And of course, common tactic of the left is when they get behind a cause, whatever it is, they make it look like everybody agrees with them.
They speak for everybody, and it creates this impression that's false.
Creates this false impression that there is no disagreement.
So if you do disagree, you're automatically supposed to feel odd and weird and behind the times, unhip, uncool, whatever the World's passing you by when in fact you're not odd.
You may in fact be in the majority.
And the liberals, the sports media or whoever, who are demanding this change because of political correctness are the ones actually in a minority.
But their hubris and their superiority and their arrogance makes them act all-knowing and perfect.
And as though everybody now agrees with them, and any opposition is silly and misguided and racist, maybe, or sexist, or what have you.
Now, as to um as to v.
Stiviano saying that she was Donald Sterling's beard to cover up the fact that he's homosexual.
What was his wife?
He was married for 50 years.
Why did he need V Steviano?
No, I know why we're divorced.
But still, why do you need V. Stiviano?
Guy's 80 years old.
People continuing on this massive quest for the big payoff.
We now know, ladies and gentlemen, why Obama went back to Washington, left uh Martha's Vineyard, split from the vacation.
Major Garrett had the details on CBS this morning.
In addition to golf, the president's vacation scorecard includes three dinners out, two beach days, one bike ride, a jazz concert, and a fundraiser for Senate Democrats.
Not to mention a five-hour bachelor party Monday in the Washington home of former White House chef Sam Cass.
Aha, that's what it is.
He had to come back for a bachelor party.
He left his own vacation, one set of parties, and the golf course for another party.
Didn't announce that until after it was over, and it wasn't even announced as a bachelor party.
It was just a five-hour dinner party when it was first mentioned.
No bachelor party aspect to it.
Speaking of the golf course.
This business of making a really half-hearted statement about the beheading of James Foley and then immediately dashing back to the golf course is causing a great sense of panic among the drive-by media.
So many of them had such lofty goals, so many of them invested totally in Obama.
So many of them thought that we were going to reach utopia, that Nirvana was within our grasp, that Obama finally represented all of the idealism they knew existed out there.
And then back in 2008, and here it was, and an added bonus he was African American.
Oh my God, it's orgasm time.
We're going to have utopia, and it's going to be brought to us by the historical first African American president.
They were totally invested.
And being totally invested meant believing that there was nobody even close to Obama.
In all of the liberal characteristics that matter and set them apart.
Compassion.
Not being biased, not discriminating, believing in equality, and believing in fairness, and understanding the plight of the disadvantaged and the poor.
I mean, it was the whole package.
And I think for the maybe first two years they were still invested, still thinking all this.
But I actually believe that it's longer than just this year that they have been suffering doubts.
I think there has been a lot of unease and a lot of questioning and a lot of lack of or loss of confidence in all of this going on for three years, maybe four.
And they've done everything they could to say, no, this is just, you know, he's just so far ahead of us that we can't possibly interest him.
He's just so intellectually ahead of all of us.
The job of president just doesn't.
Hold any fascination.
Where most mortals would simply be in awe every day of going to work in the White House, becoming one of the few people in a very exclusive club to be president of the United States, where most people would have such reverence and respect for the office.
Like Ronald Reagan, they wouldn't even take off their suit coat while in the Oval Office.
Most people would think that if they were in the White House every day, they would be in awe.
It would be studying it, looking at it, and lost in all of the history.
But with Barack Obama, he doesn't even like going to the office.
He doesn't like even being in the office.
And the White House is more like a prison to him.
He doesn't particularly have any reverence for it at all.
And that was assigned to his superior intellect.
Oh, yeah, it's nothing that he It's not that he doesn't like it.
It's just not challenging.
There's a world out there.
And Obama's a prisoner in the White House.
He's capable of so much more.
You remember the speeches.
And now, folks, this year especially, but I think trending the last two or three years, all of these people who had all of these investments, made all these investments, had all of this respect and love, all these high hopes.
Their world is crashing down on them.
Because once again, a liberal icon has failed to meet expectations, much less surpassed them.
The one who we had all been waiting for, the one who was going to make it all come true finally, after years of bungling by people like Mao, after all the mistakes made by good people like Fidel, after the close but no cigar efforts of the great leaders of the Soviet Union, finally we had amongst us the man who was going to bring about a socialist utopia worldwide.
There was going to be no more hatred.
There wasn't going to be any more racism.
There wasn't going to be any more bigotry.
And if there was, we would kill them.
Judging of anybody.
The poor were going to become rich.
The rich were going to be gotten even with.
And finally, everybody was going to have what they wanted.
Global warming would be fixed.
We would get rid of the use of oil.
We would all be flying around in solar-powered jets.
Going to the moon if we wanted to, with Richard Branson and one of his virgin jets.
Alas, ladies and gentlemen, the reality has set in.
The dream remains aloof.
The dream remains illusory.
It's nothing more than a far off.
Impossible to reach.
Once again, beautiful place.
The one man better qualified, more able, chosen by history and destiny to take us all to this wonderful utopia.
Can't get himself off the damn golf course.
Couldn't it be anything?
Couldn't it be chess?
Couldn't it be golf?
Do you know how much the left hates golf?
You know why the left hates golf?
Global warming.
There's too much empty space out there.
Look at all that green.
Look at all the water that's being used to keep that golf.
For who?
The top one percent.
These rich SOBs riding around their golf carts, drinking scotch smoking cigars while the rest of the country suffers and starves and sweats.
Hmm?
They hate, oh yeah, plus it's uh ladies weren't allowed for the longest time.
Well, it's still true in some courses, yeah.
In some, in some places in New York, in fact, there are some places where women are only allowed to drop their husbands off.
They're not allowed to get out of the car, they're not allowed to park in the parking lot they've got to drop their husband off and leave.
Now, these places have ladies' day, usually one day a week for a couple of hours when it rains.
The liberals, oh yeah, you got a lot of liberals playing here, a bunch of hypocrites.
There are not many, but there are in New York, there are still, I'm not gonna name them, don't want to cause them any trouble.
Beautiful places that they don't want to see women.
They're not permitted.
I doesn't matter who they are, not permitted.
So now the left hates all that.
Now here's their guy.
And what's he doing?
Why, he can't even fake being interested in the job.
He can't even fake caring about it.
He can't wait to get himself off the back on the golf course.
So now the dream.
The dream is falling apart, and they're beside themselves, folks.
He's let them down.
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CNBC Squawkbox this morning, the co-host Joe Kernan speaking with the chief economic correspondent for Politico.
His name is Ben White, and they're talking about Obama playing golf right after his remarks on the killing of James Foley.
And uh Kernan says, Look, even the New York Times has decided to start talking about this.
I mean, is it is it kosher go out and play golf so soon after this speech?
Some people are concerned about optics.
I'm not concerned about how things look.
I'm concerned about reality and how he took a turn for the serious this past week.
One minute he's on TV talking about the beheading of an American journalist.
People are scared.
People are freaked out about ISIS.
They're certainly scared about what happened to this uh young man and his family.
And then he's smiling with Alonzo Morning on the golf course.
And about 10 minutes later.
The juxtaposition of those images is troubling to people, and not just Republicans who will always criticize him for whatever he does, but for Democrats.
There are Democrats on the record quoted in that New York Times story and elsewhere saying this was a bad idea.
This was a bad move on his part, because it reinforces this narrative and this notion that people have that he's somewhat checked out from the job right now.
Which I believe is a stratagem, but I don't want to belabor that point.
I don't believe he doesn't care.
I don't believe that he's lost interest in transforming the country.
I think it's actually quite brilliant the way he's been pulling this off.
He's the one doing all of this.
He's the one making sure it all happens.
And yet he's the guy supposedly not interested.
He's the guy supposedly is checked out.
I think this, if you want to know the truth, I think he's just selfish.
I think he's just I don't, and I I don't think he cares.
I don't think he cares about the problems with Obamacare.
I don't think any of it matters.
That's what's beneath him.
He's gonna do what he wants to do.
Uh there may be a strain of, there could be a possibility here.
Like we discussed yesterday.
Obama grew up, was educated and fervently believes that America is the problem.
In the world.
United States is not the solution, it's the problem.
United States is why there is Al-Qaeda, for example.
Our policy with Israel, um, the fact that they're poor and we're rich and that we've made them poor and we laugh at them.
Whatever, they are who they are because of us.
But he also believed this silly, ridiculous notion that his election was going to end all this, and finally the bad guys of the world are gonna realize that America has a president that sees the world like they do.
There'd be no need for them to oppose us any, no need to attack us because we're not a threat anymore.
And it's now worse than it's ever been.
Despite Obama saying the war on terror is over, then saying we can't even say it, the war on terror, and saying Al-Qaeda's been vanquished, and GM's alive, Bin Laden said, all that stuff, it's just the exact opposite.
And so maybe he's in a state of shock.
And it's possible, narcissistic as he is.
Quick time out, don't go away.
It could also be that Obama knows full well his policies are a failure.
But it doesn't matter.
In fact, it might even make him even more committed.
Resentment.
He's an ideologue.
He's gonna keep transforming this country, and he's gonna maybe even speed it up.
Because people refuse to appreciate just how genius he is.
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