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Aug. 25, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 25, 2014, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I can't believe you haven't seen it.
But look, today's not the day to use it.
Whatever you do.
I mean, this is a funeral.
You don't want to use that picture today.
Oh, hey, folks, how are you?
Greetings and welcome.
And great to have you here as we kick off another exciting big broadcast week on the Excellence and Broadcasting Network, hosted by me, your guiding light, America's real anchor man, a doctor of democracy, and America's truth detector all combined in America's uh harmless uh lovable fuzzball package.
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Any looting in Napa.
Has anybody seen any looting in Napa?
Well, there was a big earthquake there.
I mean, it was a destroyer.
You got store fronts that have blown wide open.
I mean, it's just it's it's it's it's made to order.
Has there been any?
I haven't seen any reports of looting in Napa.
I mean, the lights were out, the electricity was off.
Uh is there no social injustice there that would make people think that what's in those stores is theirs just for the taking?
I mean, you could just walk in there.
What, the looters are still in Ferguson?
No, no, no.
That's not true because that's that's starting to straighten out.
We've got some audio sound by some CNN.
You know, more money has been raised for the cop.
You know, there there are legal defense funds uh for both the uh the gentle giants family, a funeral, by the way, underway as we speak in St. Louis and Ferguson, and the uh and for the police officer and the police officer's legal defense fund is outpacing the gentle giants, not sitting well with those who are politically attached to this.
In other earth shattering news, turns out that they have identified Jihadi John.
Do you know who this guy is?
Sitting down, his father, Jihadi John, the the the guy that beheaded James Foley.
His father is a terrorist from Egypt.
Who would have thought?
Who would have ever guessed that Jihadi John's dad might be a terrorist as well?
And here we were thinking he was just one of these straight, sophisticated, stiff upper lip British guys.
Turns out terrorism runs in the family.
In fact, Jihadi John's father is being held in prison in Manhattan for embassy bombings in West Africa.
Apparently, the the son, Jihadi John, joined up with ISIS to protest the unfairness of it all.
The fact that his father's being held prisoner.
Apparently, rapping about it wasn't enough.
Did you know that?
Jihadi John was a rapper.
He was.
He was a rapper, and rapping wasn't enough.
Didn't get the job done, so had to join ISIS, make it official.
You may have seen reports that the uh some forensic investigators.
Oh, speaking of which, of forensic investigators.
Would you be surprised to learn?
Would it mean anything?
Would it have any relevance?
Would it bother you or is it no big deal?
The New York Times was allowed to be present during the family autopsy of the gentle giant.
I saw that on a I forget the name, but I don't have it in front of me, right?
A conservative website, and they made it was a very, very long treatment of this one fact.
Photographer got in.
It was all about how Biden really didn't do much but show up and sign a form, and that the uh his assistant from Kansas is not even licensed.
I mean, the point of the story was that this autopsy was kind of strange.
A New York Times and a photographer were allowed in there.
Well, I don't know if the photographer was, but a reporter was in when the autopsy was taking place.
And in the uh in the diagram that was made of the body and the shots, there were no shots identified as having coming from the rear in the official sketch or diagram, but the one the family attorneys brought out and showed on television had a red dot to indicate a shot from behind on the right arm.
And it's it's a long treatment of the whole notion that even the autopsy was politicized by allowing the New York Times in, and that it was conducted by somebody not even licensed, and that Biden just showed up, was paid some money to put his signature on it and to okay it to give it credibility and so forth.
Does that I mean the blurring of the lines?
I mean, I think it kind of illustrates, doesn't it, that the news is not about the news anymore.
The New York Times clearly isn't about the news.
It's about advancing the agenda, spreading the word, helping to write the daily script of the soap opera.
In fact, let's go to the audio sound bites.
Last week I had a little fun.
Grab audio soundbite number one, because this was last Tuesday, and we a lot of people were opining, and this was one of the many salient points that I happen to make last week.
Ferguson, Missouri is attracting a lot of people who like Obama and Holder, wish they had been alive during the civil rights movement in the 60s, and that's another thing that's going on here.
This is a flashback, this is an opportunity.
Remember, Obama, Obama has wistfully spoken of the 60s.
He wasn't around then.
But he says he wishes he had been.
Well, here's a chance to relive some history.
Here's a chance to flash forward.
Here's a back to the future moment if there ever was one.
The 60s civil rights movement all of a sudden is back in full glory.
Some of the Ferguson protesters, like the new Black Panthers, are claiming to be the new civil rights movement, which I guess only natural.
The civil rights era is the only period in our nation's history that's glorified in the schools these days, and it is.
And by the way, make no mistake about that, and I I I don't know, I don't know if you observe things the way I do, which is why I share my observations with you.
One of the things that I have picked up over the period of time I've been doing this program, particular once I learned the game that sports media is all about.
One thing you can't, if you pay attention to it, and sometimes you don't even have to pay attention, you bludgeoned with it.
You can't get past the fact that for the for the most part, the exceptions, of course, but the the single most animating aspect of our culture of our society that impassions sports media is race.
They are simply obsessed with it.
And it it took me a while to figure this out.
I I've I suffered so many misconceptions about sports media.
I thought they were unaffected.
I thought they were purely into sports.
Groupies into sports got a chance to get close to it, write about it.
It wasn't until late in life that I learned they are as big, if not bigger, liberals, than their buddies in the news media.
And once you learn that, you become sensitized to it, you know how to look at it and how to listen for it.
You find out that race is the single biggest most important thing to these people in the cultural aspects of America, how sports reflects America, and where sports is ahead of or behind sociological progression in the city.
Race is the number one thing.
Homosexuality is giving it a run for its money right now, but race is the biggie.
And it's taught.
You know, a lot of the sports writers today are young and they weren't alive in the 60s either.
They don't know about the 60 rights uh 60 civil rights movement, except for what's taught about it.
My only point here is when I say, as I said in that soundbite from last week, that the civil rights era is the only period in our nation's history glorified in schools.
In a in a way, I'm dead serious.
The schools today do not glorify much about American history.
Because remember, they've got a problem with it.
America was founded immorally, unfairly, unjustly, with an with an original sin.
And of course, a sin can never be absolved, and that is race, slavery, and so forth.
But the civil rights era, where supposedly the nation, for the first time in its history came together and did something decent, and that's the way it's taught.
And that's why so many young people in the media who were not alive then think they know everything about it.
They speak of it and write about it as though they were alive then.
They are taught incorrect things about it.
For example, the Civil Rights Act, 1964, required a larger percentage of Republican votes in the Senate to pass than Democrat votes.
The Democrats were the segregationists back then.
The Democrats, every Democrat that tried to keep a black kid out of school or tried to hose him and put him in jail was a Democrat.
Every person, Lester Maddox, George Wallace, Bull Conner, they were all Democrats.
Well, the Civil Rights Movement's been rewritten to make all those Democrats modern-day Republicans.
So this situation in Ferguson offered a chance for all of these people who have been taught, but didn't live through it because they're too young, have been taught the romanticized.
The version of the civil rights movement, and it is taught as one of the high points, one of the glories of American history.
But you see, even though it was a high point then, even though it was a great thing back then, we have fallen.
Because Republicans have continued to win elections.
Republicans continue to be in power.
Republicans are automatically the race, as you know.
And so it's an ongoing, it's an ongoing battle.
And this thing in Ferguson, that is one of the attractions of it, was an opportunity for a bunch of people to either relive it because they had been there and it was a glory day and they want to go back.
Everybody loves nostalgia.
How many times have you had a great time, a spontaneous, say a spontaneous party that happened, oh, say on a Saturday was so cool you want to do it again.
So you schedule another party for the next Saturday with the same, and it never comes off the way it did when it was spontaneous.
You can never go back.
And that's what's happening here with the civil rights movement.
Uh, in a sense, a lot of people who weren't alive wish they were and would have been and are trying to relive it with these incidents.
And people who were alive then, who came of age and maybe established businesses in the race industry, such as the Reverend Jackson, also want to relive it and try to reignite it and have it never ever go away and never ever allow it to change, to get better, especially.
And along those lines, look at what I have here.
Why I have a story right here in the politico, under Obama, racial hope, but no change.
They could have written this story last week, two years ago, they could have written a story one year into the Obama presidency.
And if they had really had guts, they could have predicted this before he even was inaugurated, as did I, your host.
Six years ago, Barack Obama's election was going to usher in a new era of racial understanding, but that hasn't happened, writes the politico.
I should say laments.
The politico.
Few, if any, anticipated that the man whose election itself was historic Would be in a constant lose-lose situation as president when it came to race.
Few, if any, let me raise my hand, because I guess I'm one of the, if any.
I anticipated everything that it's, and I'm not saying this to pat myself on the back, because with you people, I don't need to.
You've been here, you know what happened.
You know what was said on this program.
You knew it too.
All of you within this audience who understand liberalism, and you knew full well that the election of the first African American president.
Let me put it this way.
Let's let's try a different different thought experiment.
Let's imagine that the first African American president was Dr. Benjamin Carson.
Do you think they would have even written stories about how this will put to bed all racial problems?
Hell no, they wouldn't even gotten close to that dream.
If Dr. Carson had been elected the first African American president, they would have been out there predicting, oh, this is a disaster.
This is the worst thing that could happen to American blacks.
It's the worst thing could happen to the civil rights.
Oh my God, conservative, whoa, no.
And he would be tarred, feathered trashed, high-tech lynched, what have you.
There would not have been any pretense.
That the election of Dr. Carson or any Thomas Hall, pick your pick your poison.
Any conservative African American happened to be elected president first, and even if Dr. Carson's elected after Obama, if he runs if he happens to be elected president sometime, you're never going to get these kinds of stories filled of hope and change.
Oh, what deep meaning.
Oh, this could end forever.
America's racial.
And the thing is, the election of Dr. Carson would have much more meaning in that regard than the election of Obama.
So anyway, it was easy to know, if you know liberals, that the election of Obama, or any the first African American president was not going to be allowed to solve anything.
It was going to be used to advance the agenda.
They quickly realized no criticism will be allowed.
Presidents are criticized all the time.
They have to be.
They're the most powerful people in the country.
You have to be able to criticize the president.
Well, Bobby, you can't without being called a racist.
So it was a it was a well-thought-out strategy.
The civil rights movement and uh.
Well, I've also characterized the news of the day as the daily soap opera.
I have, I have a see I told you so soundbite here from Gwen Eiffel from Meet the Press Yesterday.
You have to hear.
We'll get to it.
We come back.
Don't go away.
Okay, so the incident in Ferguson, uh, really the point of what I'm saying is that they would love you to think that it's about the gentle giant Michael Graham, but it really isn't for a lot of these people.
I mean, for some it is, obviously.
But for many in the media, it's a chance to relive the civil rights movement.
Yay!
For those who aren't alive, it's a chance to find out what it was like.
It's so good.
And you have to, in order to understand this, you've got to know how that era is taught to young people, particularly in journalism schools.
That era is so glorified.
So here came an opportunity to relive it.
Listen to Gwen Eiffel.
I mean, she's she's on Meet the Press yesterday during the panel discussion, and the fill-in host was Chris Chansing.
And she said the attorney general went there.
What did he have to say?
His own personal experience.
He shared about being a young black man being stopped helped to calm the fears.
But there's a question that's still out there about whether the president should do more.
Questions raised about the tone of the remarks he made.
What do you think is the president's role in this, Gwen?
We like to cover it like a soap opera.
More important is watching what's happening behind it.
There's a new civil rights movement which has sprung up.
We've been looking backward 50 years for the last couple of months at 50-year signings of bills and laws.
These young people in the streets, these young people who created a social media movement around Michael Brown, there's something which we can't miss in what feels different to me than Trayvon Martin.
It feels different to me than Rodney King.
It feels to me like Americans, not just African Americans are picking themselves up and saying, the first picture is we saw out of Ferguson, the common response was, is that America?
And I think people are saying, let's address that.
Nobody is saying that except you people who write the soap opera.
That is amazing.
Trayvon Martin, Rodney King just feels different.
We had full-blown riots in LA after Rodney King.
Full blown riots for days televised.
Somehow this feels different.
What the heck?
This just feels different.
She admits we like to cover it like a soap opera.
I mean admitting, and then the new civil rights movement that sprung up.
We like looking backward 50 years.
Exactly right.
First pictures they saw out of Ferguson Commerce.
Is that America?
This is you can see they're in love with the event.
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Now tell you that that Gwynne Eiffel soundlight from Meet the Press yesterday is just, it's it's a gem.
I mean, it is just loaded.
I mean, yeah, it's obviously loaded with C I told you so, but it's loaded with all kinds of information about just who the drive-bys are today.
Grab it again.
Let's parse it as we go.
And I would ask the broadcast engineer to be quick on the button when I say stop.
In fact, I'm going to say stop after the first line.
Out cue is opera.
So here we go.
We like to cover it like a soap opera.
Stop the date.
See?
Good.
Good job.
We like to cover it like a soap opera.
Look, folks, I I am reaching around my back and patting myself here.
Who was it?
It was my friend Andrew McCarthy who wrote that the news of the day is nothing more than a soap opera with the drive-by media writing the script.
It's not the news anymore.
Here she is admitting it.
We like to cover it like a soap opera.
This is not adding prestige to this.
It is not prestigious to admit that you in the drive-bys cover stories like this, the death of the gentle giant as a soap opera.
And then always say you tell you that the news isn't about the news anymore.
The news isn't just somebody on scene where you aren't learning what happened and telling you, which is what is news.
No, no, the news now is the Democrat Party agenda, the leftist agenda.
And here she says, more important than the story, more important than the soap opera is.
More important is watching what's happening behind it.
There's a new civil rights movement which has sprung up.
Stop the tape!
New civil rights movement, which has sprung up.
I'm reaching behind my left shoulder and patting myself on the back again.
They're admitting it.
New civil rights movement.
We've been looking backward 50 years for the last couple of months.
We've been looking backward 50 years for the last couple of months of 50-year signings of bills and laws.
These young people in the streets, these young people who created a social media movement around Michael Brown, there's something which we can't miss in what feels different to me than Trayvon Martin.
It feels different to me than Rodney King.
Stop the tape.
Feels different than Trayvon Martin.
Why?
Why does it feel different than Rodney King?
Why does it feel different?
Because for some reason, those two events did not automatically take everybody back to the 60s.
I don't know why, but they didn't.
I mean, it was cops in the Rodney King circumstance on tape.
It was a security guard, first white Hispanic in America, George Zimmerman.
But somehow those events, no, no, there's something about this one, you see.
Something about this one.
I wonder what that could be.
And here she tells us.
It feels to me like Americans, not just African Americans are picking themselves up and saying, the first picture is we saw out of Ferguson, the comment response was, is that America?
And I think people are saying, let's address that.
People are not saying, is that America?
People are fed up with that being America.
They're not asking, is that America?
Way too many people long ago concluded that it is, and they're fed up with it.
Anyway, a lot of conversation now.
And even last week.
Remember the videotape that you could watch if you wanted to, of James Foley being murdered, being beheaded.
If you wanted to watch it, you could.
And Obama comes out and he does a an attempt at solemnity and seriousness and commitment.
But he just didn't bring it off.
He didn't bring off the solemn.
He didn't bring off the commitment.
He didn't even bring off that he really cared.
It was more like it just appeared he did it because it was called for.
And that was given further credence when a mere 10 minutes later a picture is taken of Obama yawking it up and laughing, having a grand old time on the golf course.
And even some Democrats, an increasing number of Democrats began to wring their hands and say this is not good.
And they dragged out some usual suspects in the media to say, hey, he's smarter than all of us.
And he's just letting ISIS know that they don't bother him.
He's just letting ISIS know that they don't dictate his day.
He's just letting them know that he's not going to let get him be captivated and captured in the White House like Jimmy Carter was in the Iranian hostage crisis back in 1979.
But those were lame excuses, and now you've heard it, and you can't get away from it.
The media and the Democrats, oh, they're wringing their hands and go, oh my God, what has happened to Obama?
Has he checked out?
Does he no longer care?
Which means does he no longer care about us?
When all of these leftists lament that Obama appears not to care about the job anymore.
What they really mean is he doesn't care about them, or he doesn't care about us, the citizens, because of course we can't get through the day without our leader, the president, Washington looking out for us.
And my Obama doesn't even care.
He doesn't care about us, he doesn't think oh, and they're just beside themselves in pain and sadness and disappointment.
And I still think, folks, and I know that I'm uh in a minority on this, but I still think that this checked out, appearing uninterested, is could well be.
I will not say definitely, could well be a stratagem that is designed to make Obama look like he doesn't care, like he's not engaged, while every aspect of his agenda marches on.
We have to admit that's happening, right?
We're on the verge of granting amnesty to how many millions of people crossing the border.
The leftist agenda is marching on.
The Democrats may get wiped out of this election, but the leftist agenda's marping up marching on.
I mean, the IRS was still doing Obama's work.
You take take whatever issue you want.
Obamacare, it's falling apart, but it's still marching on.
I mean, his stated objective of transforming the country is still underway, even though he appears.
My point is, he has appeared unengaged or disengaged from the get-go.
It's been part of a strategy to avoid accountability for anything.
You know, the old limball theorem argument.
Every appearance Obama makes looks like it's a campaign appearance.
He's running for office or campaigning against somebody or some issue.
And that creates the illusion that, man, he's fed up with what's happening, and he's doing everything he can to stop it, even though what's happening is the implementation of his policies.
So this is just the next phase.
Obama's out playing golf.
He's enabled himself to look like he has nothing to do with what's going on while it's all happening.
Thank you.
Thank you.
And I think much easier if you represent an ideology that's not anywhere near the majority thinking in the country.
And let's be honest about something.
I don't care how it looks in the media, and I don't care what you read and see, liberalism is not the dominant culture.
It's what it take it back, it may be the dominant culture, but it is not representative of the majority of thinking.
Most people in this country are not liberals, even in polls asking people to self-identify, far more twice as many people say that they are conservative as say they are liberal.
More people admit to being conservative than being independent, moderate, or liberal.
They are a minority, folks.
Just like most people think the gay population is 30, 35%, it's not.
It's 1.2, 1.3% of the country.
The media makes it look otherwise.
And that's the benefit the pop culture has for the left is that it makes what they believe appear mainstream as low.
Everybody agrees when it's not the case.
So if you represent an ideology that is really extreme, and Obama does, and his ideology is rooted in the fact that he disagrees profoundly with America, disagrees profoundly with the founding, the principles, the concepts, this whole notion of limited government, individual liberty and freedom, totally opposed to all that.
If you wanted to transform that, if you wanted to transform America and say, turn it into a socialist democracy, much like in Western Europe, do you think you'd have a better chance at doing it in a stealth way?
Or if you got up and announced every day that's what you're trying to do.
Has he ever said beyond I want to transform the country what he really means by it?
It's all been left up to interpretation.
You have to know who Obama is to know what he means by that.
If you don't really know who Obama is, you'll you'll you'll be clueless.
But if you know who he is, you know what it means.
But has anybody ever heard him stand up and say, other than what he apologizes for the country overseas, has anybody ever heard him stand up and say that his intention is to essentially rewrite the Constitution and get rid of this silly notion of the founding and all this stuff, and uh his founders got it all wrong.
Has he ever stood up and said anything like, no way, wouldn't have a prayer of succeeding or getting elected.
But the more disengaged and the more aloof.
You know, the left always has to camouflage what they do.
That's why they don't debate, and that's why they want to eliminate opposition.
They lose in the arena of ideas nationally.
They really do.
More often than not, way more often than not.
So they're always masking themselves.
My point is, I'm not altogether sure that Obama's checked out.
Because I don't think we're seeing anything new.
This is, I'm sorry for the long circuitous route here, but all these people wringing their hands, oh no, Obama doesn't care.
Oh no, he's checked out, oh no, I can't believe he's still don't no, does he not?
Know how bad the picture looks.
Everybody thinks that we got a new Obama here.
And see, I don't.
I think this is the same guy that's been running the show since he took office, since before he was elected.
He's the same cold calculating guy.
I don't think there's really anything new here, but because the drive-bys have invested so much in a myth, and the myth is falling apart and being replaced by a reality that's always been there that they didn't see.
Now they're panicking.
Well, I will explain what I mean when we come back.
Welcome back, my friends, Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
So Gwen Eifel on Meet the Press yesterday said, People looking at what happened in Ferguson, Missouri, and the common response was, is that America?
Is that America?
Gwen, let me tell you something.
When I discovered that Obama wants to grant amnesty to 12 million Americans, that's when I asked myself, is that America?
When I saw the IRS specifically targeting conservative groups and denying them tax exempt status, when I saw the federal government being used as a weapon against a particular belief system, I said, is that America?
That's when I asked, is that America?
When I learned the full breadth and scope of Barack Obama's desire to totally change the American health care system, which is the finest in the world.
And when I watched a woman on ABC and primetime TV ask the president if he would permit her mother to get life-saving surgery when she was 99 years old.
That's when I said to Mice, is that America?
I can't believe this.
A citizen is actually asking the president if her mother will be allowed to get life-saving surgery under his health care plan, and then he said no, give her a pain pill.
That's when I started asking myself, Gwen, and a lot of other people did too.
Is this America?
When our ambassador in Benghazi and three others were murdered in an attack on our consulate, and I heard the president and Secretary of State blame it on a YouTube video nobody'd ever seen.
That's when I said, Is this America?
When I saw the president propose his stimulus package of nearly a trillion dollars for shovel-ready jobs that was going to get the economy going, start hiring people and said, wait a minute, you can't.
I said, is this America?
And when I saw these job summits at the White House with columnists and reporters in the New York Times as lecturers at a White House summit on jobs, is this America?
I mean, Gwen Eiffel, my point is a lot of people have been asking, is this America?
Is that America long before Ferguson, Missouri happened?
When I heard the president of the United States lie repeatedly that Americans could keep their doctors if they liked them and keep their health insurance policies if they liked them, that's when I America is any of this.
When I heard the president go around the world and apologize for the supposed mistakes, transgressions against people this country has made.
My point, none of this is new.
Obama detached or playing golf or being cold or what I mean, he's the same guy.
Same guy who promised cancer patients they could keep their doctors and their insurance, same guy who told that woman that, no, your mother can't probably get the life-saving surgery, we'll give her a pill at age 99.
Not going to give her a pacemaker.
Not probably the same guy.
Same guy who yucked it up after the Fort Hood terror attack and said it wasn't terrorism, it was workplace violence.
same guy.
It's not a different Obama here.
Yeah.
Remember Obama skipping out of the situation room, jetting off to Las Vegas after his ambassador and three others were killed at Benghazi, being off the grid for seven hours.
And he's off to another fundraiser?
Same guy.
And then blaming it on a video and telling the families of those four that it was a video that was responsible and they were going to get the video maker.
Same guy.
Same guy's always been.
Well, this is nothing new here.
Shouts bless you in a classroom when a fellow student sneezes, and that student is suspended because the teacher says, We're not gonna have godly talk in my classroom.
That, Gwen Eiffel, is when I start asking, is this America?
Sit side, my friends, much more straight ahead right after this.
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