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Aug. 26, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 26, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Well, there he is.
Obama's in uh North Carolina addressing the nation's veterans.
They don't look too uh crazy about have you?
By the way, have you heard the latest about it?
All those delays meant nothing.
Those delays at the VA hospitals had nothing to do with people dying.
Yeah, yeah.
And it had nothing to do with people getting sicker.
The delays had nothing to do with it.
Absolutely not, and don't think otherwise.
Hi, folks.
How are you?
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I think I think, ladies and gentlemen, I might have started something.
Because I'm holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers a story from the Hill.com.
And the headline, White House checked out Obama is a media myth.
The White House is reacting to this now.
And uh I everybody in the drive-by isn't worried that Obama has checked out that he's not interested, and I'm cautioning everybody.
There were two things.
There was one thing I mentioned yesterday, uh, and and that is that the the White House is was up until today was not trying to push back on this.
But there's another, you know that picture of Obama ten minutes after uh the uh the attempt at the solemnified reaction to the murder of James Foley.
Yeah, that the picture of him laughing and yucking it up in the golf court.
That was not a paparazzi picture.
That was taken by the regime as a White House released picture.
Now they don't allow paparazzi on Martha's venue, Indian casinos, yeah.
But oh, you haven't heard about that?
Ho ho ho ho ho ho ho!
Well, sit tight.
No, the regime took that picture.
That was a White House photo, and they released that photo.
Now from the Hill.com, the White House is bristling at suggestions of President Obama's disconnected, checked out, or out of touch.
The White House allies, White House allies maintain that the storyline of a checked-out president is a myth drummed up by the media during the summer doldrums.
It's BS, said one former senior administration official.
This is a guy who reads ten letters a day simply to keep in touch with the American people.
Oh, that's a ringing endorsement.
He is so busy.
He reads ten letters a day just to keep in touch with the American people.
He spends all his time thinking about the economy and improving the lives of the American people.
It's time wasted.
He's not doing that.
That's a hell of an admission.
For this for this former staffer to say he spends all his time thinking about the economy and improving lives of the American people.
It ain't working.
He's constantly in touch.
You know, it's pretty darn scary to learn that a senior White House official thinks that reading ten letters a day and thinking about the economy constitutes hard work and being in touch.
That is quite eye-opening, is it not?
Here you have a White House, a former White House official attempting to disprove the notion the president has checked out.
And I think this is pretty scary.
The evidence that he hasn't checked out, he reads ten letters a day and is thinking about the economy all the time.
And that constitutes being in touch.
I'll tell you what I think's going on.
I think I think the drive-by's know that he hasn't checked out, too.
I think it's a stratagem, folks.
I think it's a media stratum stratagem designed to allow him to be disconnected from what is happening.
Can I there's evidence of that in a story today?
You may have seen it yourself, but I wonder if you noticed it on TV.
Here's an AP story.
Sources.
U.S. surveillance planes fly over Syria.
Now listen to this first paragraph.
What stands out here?
The U.S. has begun surveillance flights over Syria after President Barack Obama gave the okay.
On cable TV, there was a story.
Obama approves of drone flights over...
What is this?
Gave the okay and approves.
It's his decision.
Is he approving of himself?
Did he write himself a memo and give the okay?
I mean, what is this?
This is another example of it.
So here's this guy's in North Carolina, and somebody said, Yeah, yeah, we want to fly some drones over Syria.
Okay, approve.
Approve that.
Okay, that what?
Well, that's another thing.
Whether you mean up till now we haven't been flying drones over Syria.
That's another matter.
The point here is that we're flying drones over Syria.
Who knows and who cares when it started?
And the story is that White House, Obama, approved it.
That Obama gave the okay.
This is this is what I'm talking about, the way they strategically position this guy so that he's not initiating anything, that he's not directly responsible.
So if let's say a drone crashes and blows up Basher Assad's house, since it's to take some accident that happens, Obama, he didn't initiate it.
Somebody else came up with the idea.
Yeah, he approved it, he okayed it, but he has some distance.
I think what's going on here, I think the drive-by's no Obama hasn't checked out, but they are tired of him looking like he has because it isn't going to look good and isn't gonna help the 2014 midterms.
I think the media and the Democrat Party are trying to ratchet up this criticism of Obama as a way of forcing him to get engaged and to do some more executive orders.
I think that's what this is all about.
And in fact, how about this?
Luis Gutierrez, Democrat Illinois, proudly squawking around all over yesterday, telling everybody to get ready for executive amnesty for at least five million illegals by Labor Day.
Luis Gutierrez is running around squawking about everybody has to get ready.
This is going to be major, it's going to be huge, and we're going to have to get ramped up and ready to make this a reality.
Because after Obama grants amnesty via executive order, then some real life things have to start happening.
We have to find those five million, we have to identify them because they're supposedly 11 or 12 million of them.
But Luis Gutierrez is excited.
He can't even contain himself.
He's so excited about this.
And I think that this stratagem of appearing disconnects, it's silly.
It's silly to think that this is the this is the most ideological.
President we've had in the White House, and I don't know how long, the most partisan, committed president we've had in I don't know how long.
And the idea that he's checked out and has lost interest is a trick.
I'm telling you, it is a ruse to allow him to get away with even more.
And you see evidence of it, and I think that the media and some Democrats don't like the strategy.
I don't think they like the trick because they're looking at low information uh voters reading and seeing, well, reading, seeing these news reports about how Obama's bored and he's checked out, and that's not good.
I mean, if the guy, if our hero doesn't care anymore, And if he doesn't like us anymore, and if he's not going to take care of us, then why vote?
So I think they're really concerned.
I think they want him to issue more executive actions to overcome this sweep that's going to happen in November, likely sweep.
That's another thing.
That's another Larry Sabato, political scientist at uh University of Virginia, the Sabato Center, is holding up his hands and saying, wait a minute, wait a minute, there is no evidence here of a wave.
Where is this wave of wave?
There's no, there's no evidence the Republicans are going to take the Senate.
All this talk about the Republicans taking the Senate, where's the evidence?
Meaning, where's the polling data?
And that led to a very interesting investigation.
Jim Garrity at National Review Campaign Stop found out there aren't any polls being.
Do you want to understand?
The media's not taking any polls on these upper-grab Senate races.
There aren't any.
I wonder why not.
I wonder why there aren't any polls being taken.
So you have Sabato saying, Where's the wave?
There isn't any evidence of a wave.
Jim Gertie says, wait a minute, that's that's right.
There isn't any.
So the drive-bys, the Democrats do not like the Obama strategy of appearing disconnected, bored checked out, tired, what have you.
And believe me, the White House is responsible for that.
Again, the picture of Obama yucking it up ten minutes after the James Foley speech is a White House photo.
It's not a paparazzi picture.
You heard about the bycot?
The bycott that happened in uh in Ferguson in St. Louis yesterday.
Actually, it's been going on for a while.
From the Heritage Foundation, St. Louis County residents who wanted their voices to be heard decided to show up in Ferguson.
And their goal is to give some much needed business to the shops damaged by vandals and looters.
Those are the looters from Napa.
Because there isn't any been any diluting in Napa after the hurricane, sorry, after the earthquake.
And so there wasn't any diluting in Napa.
It has to be that they're not there.
They're all in Ferguson.
So more than 40 members of the St. Louis Tea Party coalition headed Ferguson.
Last Thursday night, we're just learning about this.
To shop at the small businesses and to support the local economy, led by Bill Hennessy, one of the group's founders.
They shopped at a variety of stores in Ferguson and made plans to bycott the St. Louis suburb again next weekend.
People have in their minds that Ferguson's a very dangerous place, and it's not.
We're not, we're we're going to continue to have occasional bycots long after this is over to keep reminding people that they can go back there.
The easiest way to have a long-term problem in Ferguson is for everybody to abandon the businesses.
No, this is not an AP story.
Sorry.
No, no, no, no, no.
It's not UPI.
Nope, nope, nope.
It's not CNN.
No, no, no, no, not New York Times.
No, no, no, no, no, not Washington Post.
Uh-uh, not USA Today.
Nope, CNN hadn't covered it.
No, uh.
ABC, C B S B, not because it's a Heritage Foundation story.
Uh drive-by's haven't covered this.
The Tea Party's leading a bycott in Ferguson.
And they've been doing this since Thursday going back next weekend.
But you won't find it in the drive-by media.
As I noted yesterday, speaking of the oh, folks, folks, how could I have failed to mention this?
Out of the blue, some forensic audiologist has somehow come across on brand new, never before heard tape of the shooting incident of the gentle giant.
Yes, sir, Rebob.
CNN, it's been all they've been covering all morning is this new tape and the audiologist who's analyzed it.
And there are way more than six shots in this tape.
And there's a gap after the first six shots.
Yeah.
And the CNN Said today, that gap is everything.
There's a gap.
I don't know how long the gap is, but after the gap, there's at least four more shots.
And of course, CNN's concluding since that the gentle giant was unarmed, it had to be the cop going crazy.
There's only one problem.
Nobody can confirm it.
They're running with a totally rumor story.
But it's now out there, and everybody's reacting to it as though it's a part of the investigation.
And that the cops have had it and it's been suppressed and what have you, but somebody's just discovered it.
Anyway, what I was going to say noted yesterday, while watching at Times live television coverage of the funeral of the gentle giant that the funeral crashers weren't there.
The Clintons, the Clintons got nowhere near there.
Now, the White House, as uh we talked about in our morning update today, the White House sent a delegation.
They sent more people to the funeral of the gentle giant than they sent to the Arlington National Cemetery funeral of a two-star general killed in Afghanistan recently, named General Moore.
They didn't send anybody.
Not one representative from the regime traveled across town in Washington to attend his funeral at Arlington.
The regime sent more people to the funeral of the gentle giant than they sent to the funeral of Margaret Thatcher.
But anyway, the funeral crashers were not there.
Okay.
The Clintons, whenever, whenever there is a political funeral, the Clintons, you can't keep them out, and you can't keep Bill away from the microphone delivering a eulogy.
But they weren't there.
And their absence was noticed by others in the drive-bys, and they are not happy.
I'll let you see, let you hear what I'm talking about when we get back.
We had a caller last week who uh is from Utah.
He said, Rush, you know, there's a crime out here where a uh a white kid was shot, and the media referred to the cop as something other than white.
Oh, yeah, we haven't heard about that story.
Oh, yeah, it's big out here, but uh point is that we have a white kid shot.
It's in St. Louis in reverse.
We have a white kid, when I was not armed, shot.
And in the media out here, the police are describing the officer as something other than White.
I've been waiting.
The story has finally appeared.
In the Washington Times.
So it hasn't appeared yet.
Details coming up.
Here is Sunday, West Hampton Beach, New York, booking books, the Hamptons.
Hillary, after signing more than 700 books, an unidentified reporter ran into her and asked her a question.
Secretary Clinton, they all have to be a good one.
What's your reaction to Ferguson?
Secretary Clinton.
Thank you all so much.
Uh, Secretary Clinton, uh, what is your reaction to Ferguson, thank you guys!
Thank you, guys, thank you very much.
Thank you all so much.
Not a word.
Well, this did not sit well with Mark Lamont Hill.
Yesterday afternoon, CNN's newsroom, the uh filling anchor was on Narcabrera speaking with Mark Lamont Hill of now Morehouse College.
And she says, so she pretended not to hear it, Mark.
She pretended not to hear the question.
Did you hear that?
She pretended not to hear the question about Ferguson.
How long do you think she can avoid questions on difficult issues like this one, Mark?
Not much longer because I think people are frustrated.
Her decision to ignore the question and to not proactively and assertively address the the Ferguson issue is shameful.
Hillary Clinton should be ashamed of herself.
The Clintons have made so much of their political bones on the backs of black voters, getting black support, getting black love, identifying black causes.
Hillary Clinton will go to Selma in 2008 and clap with black people and put on a Fake Southern accent and pretend to identify with black struggle and black pain.
But now that real black issues are on the table, now that real black struggle is in the public eye, she has said nothing, and her silence is both telling and disappointing.
Folks, I've got to parse that.
I just have.
I mean, I I have to parse that, but I've I don't have enough time to to do it before the break.
So here, grab Sun by Six.
This is what he's talking about.
This is what he's talking about with Mrs. Clinton in CILM in 2007.
I don't feel no ways tired.
I come too far.
From where I started from.
Nobody told me that the road would be easy.
I don't believe he brought me this far to leave me.
Right, that's Mrs. Clinton with her black dialect.
She doesn't have a gift, Harry.
Uh, from Selm in 2007.
I don't feel no way tired.
I have to take a break.
Yes, we've have to parse this.
Okay, let me first speculate, informed.
Speculation.
Why are the Clintons not in Ferguson?
Why haven't they shown up?
Why haven't they dropped in and dropped out?
I mean, they didn't even spend five minutes there.
They have not even gone to Missouri, much less St. Louis.
Why not?
Yeah, but why is it poison?
Why is it point there has to be polling data that shows the public is not buying the anti-cop version of the story.
There has to be a Clintons don't do anything without polling it first.
Particularly something is a firecracker like this.
They're not going in there because there's obviously polling data that shows the public is not siding with the gentle giant side or version of the story.
That has to be why.
And of course, it's got the civil rights community in an uproar because they think that they propped up Bill Clinton and gave him credibility as the first black president when he's out there calling himself that.
Well, actually, Tony Morrison called him that, but he accepted it.
So let's go back, grab somebody number 15.
I want to play the thing.
Let's see.
No, let's do a start-stop.
That's the best way to parse this would be to start-stop.
So you have your finger standing by on the computer stop button there, because this may go line by line.
I mean, this this parse, this is this is gonna be very instructive, folks.
First off, Mark Lamont Hill.
He is an accredited member of the Civil Rights Coalition.
He's a professor of black studies and whatever else.
And he's taught at Columbia.
He has, he's taught uh, see, I don't know, when he used to be on TV, he was always from Philadelphia, so he did something there.
Now he is at Morehouse College.
He's on Fox, he's on CNN, he travels around.
He has become an accredited spokesman, almost like the black Farid Jacari GPS.
He just everywhere.
And he is one of the new accredited TV civil rights movement guests that the media always turn to to find out exactly what the conventional wisdom in the Democrat Party Black America is.
So he's important in that regard.
So here he is.
They play the audio tape, the video of Hillary blowing off the question from the reporter in the Hamptons about Ferguson, just blowing it off, ignoring the reporter.
He is outraged yesterday afternoon explaining why.
Not much longer because I think people are frustrated.
Her decision to ignore the question and to not proactively and assertively address the Ferguson issue is shameful.
Hillary Clinton should be ashamed of herself.
The Clintons have made so much of their political bones on the backs of black voters, getting black support, getting black love, identifying black causes and tape.
Stop the tape right there.
Mark Lamont Hill is admitting That the Clintons and the black community has always been a game.
It's always been an arrangement.
It's always been a mutually beneficial arrangement.
It has always been a game.
In other words, it isn't real.
It's manufactured or it's strategic.
The Clintons have made so much of their political bones on the backs of black voters.
That means black voters have propped them up.
That means the Clintons have used black voters.
This is a this is one of the a major break in the Clinton Civil Rights Coalition alliance.
Now it's just one guy, but that's my point.
He speaks for a lot of a lot of them are ticked off that uh Hillary didn't show up for the Gentle Giants funeral or to show up in March with uh Shopton and the rest of the crew.
And so when he says something, he's not just speaking for himself.
Okay, so that's the first thing to note.
He's admitting it's an arrangement and always has been, it's always mutually beneficial, it's a strategy, and the Clintons and the black community knew it.
Black community props up the Clintons, Clintons benefit from it, and they return the favors.
But now Hillary has gone sour on the deal.
By dissing them, I mean blowing off the question, not even answering the question.
You don't know, folks, this is a huge diss.
What Hillary did in that soundback.
Here, play, well, no, you can't.
Just we'll lose our place on 15.
Okay, let's just keep going.
Resume 15 here.
Clinton will go to Selma in 2008 and clap with black people and put on a fake Southern accent and pretend to identify with black struggle and black pain.
The tapes that's the first time I have ever heard anybody in the Democrat Party tell the truth about Hillary Clinton's purpose and presence in Selma.
The first time I have never heard a ranking civil rights person properly and with anger categorize Mrs. Clinton's appearance in film in 2007 as the phony baloney plastic banana good time rock and roller event that it was.
And by the way, ladies and gentlemen, who, besides us ever plays that video anymore?
The drive-bys don't keep repeating that.
You don't find Hillary and her black dialect impersonation all over the media.
You hear it here on this program.
We play it whenever it's appropriate.
But yet Mark Lamont Hill knew.
Now, whether he heard about it on this show, I don't know.
Maybe not.
Maybe the truth is that they were irritated the first time they heard Hillary do it.
They know the bottom line, this whole soundbite.
They're admitting this whole alliance is phony.
It's also, I'll tell you what else I think is going on.
I think Hillary is acting as though if she's a nominee, she's gonna get the black vote no matter what.
She has to go to Ferguson.
She'd have to risk anything if the polling data says that people aren't buying the Gentle Giant version of the story.
Stay away.
She says, no harm, because I'm gonna get the black vote no matter what.
I guess Mark Lamont Hill has a deep resentment for that assumption as well.
But I've never heard this before.
I've never heard Mrs. Clinton be called out by another black or another Democrat for faking that appearance in Selma.
Here it is again.
This is what he was talking about.
I don't feel no ways tired.
I come too far from where I started from.
Nobody told me that the road would be easy.
I don't believe he brought me this far to leave me.
2007, Selma, Hillary trying to show she'd down for the struggle.
And all this time, all this time the left civil rights leaders have known it was a bogus phony thing, and they always look the other way because the arrangement between the black community and the Clintons was what it was.
But look at how fragile that relationship.
If just not answering one drive-by guy's question.
Now it's a temporary thing.
I know I sound like I'm making a big deal of this.
But I what what it does mean is that this coalition, this alignment, this Democrat that Clinton's and then it's all strategic.
It's not real.
Folks, it's not real.
The black community doesn't look at the Clinton of the Clintons as nicer and sweeter and more supportive.
They don't look at them that way.
They're just liberals.
The one thing that unites them is their ideology.
Which is a point that I've been trying to make since I began the show.
What the Democrat Party is a group of disparate, is a is a coalition of disparate groups that have all kinds of competing interests, but the one thing they've got in common, two things.
They hate Republicans and conservatives, and they love liberalism and big government.
The feminists have their agenda, the global warmers have theirs, the uh the civil rights guys have their agenda, and it's quite different.
Sometimes it's a challenge to keep all those people unified.
And here is to me evidence that they don't tell you this psychologically.
You know, you sit around and you look at the media treat.
Bill Clinton is a reprobate.
I mean, it's just full-fledged, unapologetic reprobate, yet he's the biggest star in American politics.
And you wonder what's wrong here.
And we have people on our side that are moral and nice and clean-cut and do everything right, and they're called racist, sexist, big and home office.
Here you have got this guy having sex with an intern, not respecting the oval office, all this lying before Grand Jury, and he's a hero and a star, and it's because he's so popular and he's so liked.
Don't buy that, folks.
I'm telling you, the reason these people are aligned isn't personal.
And this is just illustrating it.
So it can be shattered.
My point is this can be shattered.
This coalition can be busted up.
Let's finish with the Mark Lamont Hill soundbite and parse.
Real black issues are on the table now that real black struggle is in the public eye.
She has said nothing, and her silence is both telling and disappointing.
Wait a minute now.
So the gentle giant story in Ferguson means that real black issues are on the table.
Real black struggle is in the public eye.
And when it gets real, she isn't there.
And neither is Bill.
Now, what have was Rodney King not real?
Was Trayvon Martin not real?
What is it about this?
What is it about this that separates it from all the others?
Why is it that Mark Lamont Hill thinks that this is the real black issue?
Finally, real black issues on the table, real black struggle in the public eye, and Hillary hasn't showed up.
That means that all the things that everybody thinks the Clintons have done for African Americans the past number of years don't count for anything, because that wasn't real.
This, for some reason, is.
Now, grab sound by 14.
This is what got this all started.
Mrs. Clinton at a book signing in the Hamptons.
I mean, you don't get whiter than the Hamptons.
You don't get whiter, you don't get more liberal, you don't get wealthier than the Hamptons.
And while the gentle giant is in the funeral home, and the wake is taking place, and people are coming to town to pay their respects.
Where is Hillary trying to reverse the ill fortunes of her horrible book?
By sitting in a bookstore in the white liberal Hamptons selling 700 copies, trying to earn a profit, while real black issues are on the table.
She's not there.
And a reporter asks her about Ferguson.
Secretary Clinton.
What's your reaction, Ferguson?
Secretary Clinton.
Thank you all so much.
I ain't no way tired.
I have another standing to get to.
First time, ladies and gentlemen.
It is the first time a Democrat has mocked Hillary Clinton's fake black dialect.
It is the first time that a black has mocked Hillary's fake black dialect.
And let's go back.
One more quick little soundbite.
This is October 14th, 2007.
And Hillary was running around at the remember in 2007, in 2007, this was just the run-up to the coronation.
Remember in 2007, the Democrat Party presidential nomination, 2008 was hers.
Guaranteed payback.
All those years of propping up Bill, all that stuff.
It was hers.
It was going to be a coronation.
Obama hadn't yet surfaced as a darling of the media.
It's her turn.
It's her time.
And she is on TV one, one-on-one, Senator Hillary Clinton remarks about African American voters.
I want African Americans to feel that when I'm president, it's another Clinton presidency, and we're going to be doing everything we can to get this country to be on the side of them and people who are working hard and struggling so that they can have a better chance.
Clinton presidency.
So she was whining and dining the black community back in 2007 and And she thought she had them.
And she probably thinks that if she gets a nomination now, she'll have them.
She thinks she probably thinking it's Ferguson.
Nobody's going to remember this in 2016.
Between me and whoever the Republicans through up the black votes are going to come my way.
She's not going to worry about it.
So she's not going to go to Ferguson, because I'm telling you, there has to be polling data to stay away.
Here is Mike in Raleigh, North Carolina.
You're up first today, sir.
It's great to have you here.
Hi.
Oh, it's great to be on, Rush.
Thanks a lot.
You bet, sir.
Um I disagree a little with you, though, on this polling day the reason.
I think it's revenge that they dissed her in 2008.
You mean the reason she's not going to Ferguson?
Right.
It's revenge.
Are you kidding?
You think that Clintons are that uh filled with revenge type motives.
Do you think Clintons are just focused on oh yeah, I'll show you kind of get even with them, isn't it?
Um let me throw that back at you.
Don't you?
Well, yeah.
For Republic.
Okay, so let's put it out there.
Okay, m my theory is that there's polling data, and I'm not abandoning this, by the way, but there's polling data out there that that the Clintons have, and a lot of people have it.
They're not the only Democrats that are not going in there.
Right, right.
And it may well be that it this is an Obama-owned and operated event, and Sharpton is Obama's guy, and it may be off-limits to everybody else.
Who I don't know what arrangements have been made.
But for whatever reason, she not there, and I posit that it's polling that you think, and I kind of like this.
You think that Hillary's nose is still out of joint because African Americans rejected her for Obama in 2008, gave him the nomination after all she and Bill had done for them.
That's what I believe, and that's what their machine does.
And so this is payback.
This is all right.
You don't support me, you abandon me to hell with this thing in Ferguson.
Absolutely.
Kind of short-sighted.
Do you know um politicians who treat voters that way?
Well, they're only treating a segment in Ferguson this way.
Uh other black people aren't gonna be upset.
Well, I know, but once Mark Lamont Hill and the rest of the coalition goes monkers over it, it is now beyond the bounds of Ferguson.
Well, I just uh I I I just think they are that vindictive and um they still have a strategy.
Well, they are they are that vindictive against the donors that abandon them or uh politicians that abandon them, but voters who abandon them uh besides besides at the end, like I just in 2016, if she's the nominee, they're gonna blow they're gonna vote for her no matter what.
They're not gonna vote for Romney again, whoever it is.
I don't know who it's gonna be, folks.
I'm don't get scared.
I just just that I've time to say, I ain't no way tired.
That's right, folks.
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