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Aug. 29, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 29, 2014, Friday, Hour #3
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It's Rush Limboy and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
One big exciting busy broadcast hour, ladies and gentlemen, for you to use to talk about whatever it is that interests you, whether I care about it or not.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882.
The email address L Rushbo at EIB net.com.
Okay, Kevin in Fort Myers, Florida, our last caller.
If it sounded like I was giving a short shrift, it wasn't.
There wasn't much time.
I didn't have time to ask him questions with in-depth answers who replicate it on time.
I didn't want to ask him to hold on for 10 minutes of the break and so forth.
So let me uh let me tackle it here.
His basic premise was that Romney needs to run again.
Only this time.
Romney needs to have 19 things that he's going to talk about.
And a few things that he's not going to talk about.
He's going to tell the media, not talking about abortion.
It doesn't matter, a hill of beans.
It has no impact on what's wrong with this country.
It has no impact on fixing what's wrong with this country.
It's not going to be a factor in the way I govern the country, not talking about it.
Not going to talk about Bain Capital, has nothing to do with anything.
And a couple of other things that he wanted to mention.
Instead, put out position paper, 10 pages, 2 pages, 5 pages, 19 points, ABC, and D, here's who I am, this is what I believe.
This is what I'm going to do.
Don't bring up that other stuff.
My immediate reaction that I did not voice in the phone call is this.
I have noticed that there are a I don't know, bunch.
There are some people who are trying to revive a Mitt Romney rerun in night in 2016.
And Romney himself has stated that, well, you know, all kinds of things change.
Who knows what 2016 will bring, leaving it open, of course.
Now you know you people do not make this easy.
But I must respond honestly, truthfully, and straightforwardly.
I don't understand the Romney rerun.
He lost.
And he lost quite handily.
And he lost not because of abortion.
He didn't lose because of contraception.
He didn't lose because of Bain Capital.
He lost because of Romney care.
He lost because a bunch of blue-collar Democrats chose to stay with B. Hussein O, and he lost because four million Republicans who had voted in 2008 decided not to in 2012.
I've seen a number of different analyses or analyses that if those four million Republicans had showed up, that Romney would be president.
But I I know uh abortion.
See, people react to the media, and I know what drives a lot of this.
I'm just like you.
Look at I despise them too.
It's so predictable.
Every Republican candidate, no matter who it is, is going to be asked relentlessly about abortion.
The media wants to stigmatize the Republican nominee as anti reproductive rights, as anti-female freedom.
And they're not going to stop until they do it, no matter what the candidate says.
The Republican candidate's not going to have to say a word.
If any Republican candidate goes to the entire campaign and doesn't talk about abortion, he's still going to be categorized as anti-female reproductive freedom.
There's no requirement the media be honest about Republican nominees, Why we expect it in 2016.
When you when you ask Romney not to talk about Bain Capital while at the same time asking him to focus on his business experience, how can you leave Bain Capital out of it?
Kevin and Ford Myers, Florida said, Well, you gotta leave Bain Capital out because that's that's uh investment banking, and that that's that's got a bad connotation to it.
People think investment bankers are you know, whatever.
Okay, so he ran the Olympics and he had some businesses, but he, you know, Bain Capital is where he hung his hat.
And to shelve that and ignore that while talking about other business, the media's not gonna let that happen either.
Even if take it you take your pick, any Republican candidate whatsoever, pick your favorite one.
Whatever baggage, look at Romney's hated Hannibal's because he put his dog on the roof of the station wagon on vacation.
Look at Harry Reid lying and making up the fact that he didn't pay his taxes.
I mean the the the you cannot, you cannot dictate to the media what they will and will not talk about.
That's my only point here.
And if you telegraph what you don't want to talk about by saying this is what I refuse to talk about, you're just begging them to dig as deep as they can into that area.
Because when you say to the media, I refuse to discuss abortion, it doesn't have anything to do with the future of this country, it has nothing to do with the problems that we have, it has nothing to do with fixing the problems, it's irrelevant, and I'm not going there.
The media is going to act like you've got something to hide, and they're gonna start digging deep, and they're gonna find instances where you have talked about abortion and play those.
And they're going to find instances where you've been involved with it, maybe, and they'll play those.
And no matter what you tell them, the more you tell them you're not going to talk about something, the more they are gonna focus on it.
I also remembered, because Kevin suggested it, Romney have this 19-point plan.
I remember that Romney had a 59-point plan.
So I went back and I searched my searchable archives.
I have mastered search, by the way.
Some people are intimidated by it because they don't know what to search for.
Don't know how to construct a search, they don't use tags, some people keyword search, but it doesn't produce what they want, so they don't know how to narrow it.
I didn't searching is not automatic, but I have structured an information database for myself based on all of my show prep.
I go back and find things.
So point plan is a search item for me.
59.1.
I remember I made one, save the story.
Here it is.
Mitt Romney breathed new life into his presidential campaign Wednesday night using the first presidential debate at 2012 to go head to head with Barack Obama over jobs, health care, and their competing visions of the role of federal government.
Romney was well prepared, even keeled and competent, deflecting accusations he was being evasive by offering Obama a handful of specific policy ideas.
But while those proposals may sound new, the ideas have actually been in Romney's campaign platform for more than a year as part of the candidate's 59-point economic plan.
So, how is it being used in this story?
If you remember that first debate, Romney skunked Obama, and the Democrats were worried, scared stiff, if you remember.
It was a slam dunk.
I mean, it changed the landscape for a couple of days dramatically.
And many on the Democrat side were worried that Obama didn't care, didn't look like he was engaged, lost interest, and Romney looked sharp and Competent and prepared, and it was amazing.
And then the next two debates, the second debate, kind of lukewarm in a third debate, Benghazi was just waiting to be mentioned, and Romney didn't go there because it came to be understood that we thought we had it in a bag then.
So we were practicing in the third debate the policy we're putting into practice.
Now, don't say anything to take anybody off.
Romney's strategy in debate three was don't say anything.
Don't take up No, no, no, don't anger people.
We got this in the bag.
And then, of course, Candy Crowley came along and stood up for Obama and blew that smidereen.
But the point here is Romney had a 59-point economic plan, detailed everything he wanted to do.
Media was making fun of it here.
While crediting Romney for a great performance in the first debate, they said, but this is nothing new.
This is from his 59 point plan that's been out there for a year.
So he didn't come up with anything new in this debate.
There's no new Romney.
There's no real fresh Romney.
So what this all boils down to.
So how?
How is this all overcome is the question?
Kevin from Fort Myers correctly, whether he intended to or not, identified that our number one opponent in any election is the media.
And everybody, Kevin included, is trying to devise ways of beating the media.
Beating the media defined as rendering them ineffective against the Republican nominee.
How do you destroy the media's credibility as they try to discredit the Republican nominee?
But the media really isn't the opponent.
The Democrat nominee is.
And Romney was a decent man, he's a great moral.
I don't have no criticism of Benton Romney as a human being whatsoever, but he refused to go after Obama.
We still haven't, folks.
We still haven't pegged Obama as a liberal, an extreme liberal, statist, or worse.
We haven't called him a tyrant, which is what he is.
We haven't done, we don't go anywhere near that.
And it's not enough to try to fashion ways of flummoxing the media.
That's right.
My staff is yelling at me.
You know what they're selling saying to me?
My staff's yelling, that's right, Rush.
Only one person that we know of ever had the guts to say they hoped Obama failed.
That happens to, that's my that makes my point.
We don't have anybody going after it.
I'm talking about an elected politics.
You want to beat Obama, you want to beat the Democrats, show some leadership, characterize them.
Tell everybody who they really are.
We don't have to explain theory.
We're living it.
We're living who they are.
People down on the dumps can't find jobs, tell them why.
People have lost hope for the future.
Tell them why.
I've got a Gallup poll here.
Americans are more than twice as likely to say they strongly disapprove of Obama's job performance as they are to say they strongly approve of it.
39% strongly disapprove, only 17% strongly approve.
This is a Gallup poll that's out, and it is devastating to Obama.
And you cannot take this poll and say any of it is Bush's fault or the Republicans'fault or the fault of the weather or the fault of hurricanes or whatever.
We haven't had anybody willing to take the Democrats on properly, identify them.
No, what are we doing?
We're trying to agree with them on such divisive things as uh amnesty and all of that.
Leadership.
There is, I was talking about it yesterday.
There is a there is a a majority of people.
We are still the majority of thinking in this country.
We are not the minority.
We're being governed by a minority folks.
We're being governed by a pretty small minority.
They have the media makes them look big, but but there's millions and millions and millions of you who are waiting to be mobilized, Waiting to be energized, waiting to in effect, been be given marching orders.
That requires leadership.
And then it won't matter what the media says or does.
There's evidence, there's track records for this.
Now the Democrats nominated And Leigh Stevenson twice, and it didn't work out either time.
I personally enjoy Mitt Romney very much, and I've had I've had a couple serious conversations with him meetings here at the EIB Southern Command, in fact, in uh in one of them.
But he lost.
And he lost big and he lost in a key area, Republican-based voters.
So it's I there I look, I understand the frustration with the media.
Look, folks.
If I wanted to, I could come here and complain every day about the what what they've done to me.
But you can't do that.
It's the league that you play in, and there's certain things that happen in this league, and in this league, the media hates conservatives.
And the more effective the conservative is, the more they're going to be subject to be destroyed.
Credibility destroyed because of the effectiveness.
I understand that.
I don't there's not a day.
There's not a single day that I come in here and think my job is to make you think that what the media is saying about me isn't true.
The media is not on my mind on this program, except to explain them and define them and to show you how they work.
But I don't think I have to defeat the media in order to get you to listen to this program.
All I have to do is relate to you.
And I find that easy because I'm no different than you.
I want the same things you do.
I have the same desires.
I have the same reverence for the country, the same hope for the future.
All I have to do is share it with passion.
And then not cower away from it when the pressure ratchets up.
But I'm not comparing myself to politician, but I am I'm in one sense here.
There's not a day that I come in here and think that my job is somehow convincing you that what the media is saying about me isn't true, is my point.
Yet you want candidates to do that.
And they can't.
They've got to get through to you on their own, and whatever the media says about them won't matter if they're genuine, if they're leaders, and if they are the right person for your support.
I gotta take a break.
I'm a little long.
Sit tight, my friends.
We'll be back after this.
Don't go away.
Back to the folks.
By the way, trouble in St. Louis, trouble in Ferguson, folks.
Details in a moment.
It's not good.
It's not good.
A gentle giant may have an arrest record.
Uh but they're looking.
Uh may just sit tight.
Uh Annie in Miami.
I'm glad you call.
Welcome to the EIB network, hi.
Hello, Rosh.
How are you?
Just fine.
I just hope I have enough time here.
Um you are one uh Mavericks.
I I I've said it to your to your people there.
Um we all love you uh all over the place.
Uh after all, you are the most listened to broadcaster or radio station uh over 600 stations.
Uh you are great.
But one thing that identifies you with us people, the same is that you speak from the heart, and that is what we need.
You speak heartfully and you're choosing, and you are telling us to do likewise, to speak from the from the bottom of our hearts, you know, to speak out loud and not to stay um uh quiet, to be vigilant, to be alert, to choose our candidates.
These candidates have to have transparency, something that we don't have in this administration, never have had it.
Um we believe in the Bill of Rights, those founding fathers who made the declaration of independence, the Constitution, the pre declarative allegiance, which is the promise to stay true to our uh conviction, living in these uh United States, to doing it in the right proper way.
We have the right to go to vote.
Go to vote.
Don't give it up.
In Cuba, they're not allowed to vote.
90 miles away.
Okay?
And we have to choose.
We have to be vigilant.
Um, I I appreciate I know what you I really I um I know what you mean by by uh heartfelt and saying what needs to be heard or said, and I appreciate that I'm the most listened to person station 600s um out there.
And I it it it boils down to that people that run for office always seem so cautious.
Always on the defensive, always in fear of something, which is totally understandable, but it's also very obvious.
And it's off putting.
I appreciate it, Annie.
Be back in a sec, folks.
All right, from AOL.com, soon to be followed up by the St. Louis Post Dispatch dot com.
An explosive new lawsuit filed in St. Louis, seeking the release of the gentle giant's juvenile criminal record alleges that the gentle giant was a gang member and faced a second degree murder charge.
You had not heard this, I can tell by the Oh, you had not heard the details.
I can tell, but look on your face that this is uh news to you.
The citizen journalism website got news, took St. Louis County authorities to court on Wednesday to secure the release of the records because it believes they don't need to be kept private since the gentle giant is no longer alive.
The unarmed gentle giant was fatally shot earlier this month by white Ferguson police officer, Darren Wilson.
The gentle giant has no criminal record as an adult, but only because he had recently turned 18, claims Gott News editor-in-chief Charles Johnson.
The citizen journalist wrote in a Wednesday afternoon post to his site and on Twitter, that he was told by law enforcement sources that the gentle giant has a juvenile arrest record that's being kept private.
Charles Johnson also claims that cops told him that the gentle giant's juvenile arrest record contains a second degree murder charge, and that there are rumors the gentle giant was a member of the Crips, the notorious Cripps street gang.
Johnson insisted to find out if these police officers are correct requires seeing the gentle giant's juvenile arrest record, which ought to be freely available given that the gentle giant has passed away, and therefore has no right to privacy remaining.
Knowing the truth about the gentle giant's past will help us gauge the credibility of his parents and family who have called him a gentle giant.
And from Jim Hofft at the Gateway Pundit, St. Louis Post Dispatch has also filed suit now for the gentle giant's arrest records.
The last video of 18-year-old Gentle Giant shows the Normandy high school graduate robbing a local convenience door before walking down the street to grandmother's house, eagerly thinking about his forthcoming college days.
Last week a lawsuit was filed seeking the release of any juvenile records that might exist on the central figure in the Ferguson Deadly shooting case.
Now, according to our blowtorch affiliate, Camo X, the Citizen Journalist website got news, has filed suit in St. Louis County Circuit Court seeking possible juvenile records on the gentle giant.
And there are rumors that the gentle giant was involved in a second-degree murder case before his death.
Attorney Jonathan Burns of the Burns Law Firm in St. Louis is handling the case.
So the St. Louis Post Dispatch has joined this lawsuit.
It's filed a lawsuit.
Maybe not joined, but they filed uh a lawsuit.
So it's two two different uh groups here seeking the juvenile arrest records of the gentle giant.
Now I folks, I uh you you have this website called Got News, and they think that there's a juvenile arrest record out there of second degree murder charge.
Now it could well be that the St. Louis Post Dispatch wants to get in there.
No, no, no, that's not true.
Who knows why?
Or maybe they could want a piggyback.
We uh we we don't know.
What do you think of the um does the right to privacy vanish when you die?
You don't think it should.
You don't think the right to privacy should vanish once you have passed away.
Well, that's right, the estate's still a legal entity, and the estate's still got stuff in it, like your books that you were going to use when you went to college and uh whatever else, the box cigars.
Um the latest, by the way, CNN won't let it go.
The latest on the sex tape.
Remember where they heard an additional four shots after a two-second break.
And Don Lemon breathlessly aired that, and then they went out and they got their authorities, their experts, their forensic audiologists to authenticate it, and he came back that it it might not, it was a bit of hoax.
Well, now it turns out that this guy was not sex chatting.
This guy was making a sex or some he was making, he was recording a video for his girlfriend.
He was not chatting with her.
There was not a two-way sex chat going on.
He was simply recording it, and the company, the app that he was using, has authenticated the timestamp.
Which doesn't mean anything except to CNN.
They've authenticated, so CNN, hey, hey, the company that made the app has authenticated a timestamp.
So when the guy was making a sex video is when he was making it.
And it was made right when the shooting took place.
So there must be four additional shots on there.
Okay, where are the four additional wounds on the autopsy report?
That's incidental.
So CNN desperately trying to revive that.
Keep it alive.
Let's go to Audio Soundbites 22 and 23.
This is Gail King on CBS this morning.
I just want to illustrate that what I've been telling you today is is accurate.
The uh the drive-by's are they love Roger Goodell now.
They love nothing more than when a high-powered official admits a mistake.
Oh, they don't like it when a public person admits they were wrong.
They just love it.
Many people say he should be applauded for even admitting, listen, I got it wrong and I want to change it.
Absolutely.
That's how businesses improve.
They look at what they've done poorly, they fix it and they get better.
That last voice, Amy Trask, the former CEO of the Oakland Raiders, is now part of CBS website pregame coverage on Game Day Sunday in the NFL.
Here is Jim Gray this morning on America's newsroom on the Fox News channel.
Yes, they have.
Roger Goodell heard the outrage of the public, of the fans, of women across the country, of men, of everybody who coalesced and came together and let them know they didn't like the decision that he had made on Ray Rice.
It's been often said a wise man will change his mind, a fool never will.
Roger Goodell is a wise man.
He listened.
We can only hope that some of the people in Washington are listening.
He didn't dig in.
He's gotten it right now by saying he didn't get it right.
So we can only hope that some of the people in Washington, I don't know if that means redskins or if that means politicians.
We can only hope that some of the people in Washington are listening.
It's got to be Redskins.
It has to mean Dan Snyder.
We only hope Dan Snyder could be next and admit that he has made a mistake.
And we will love him too if he will just admit that he made a mistake, is the uh is the implic implication.
Do you remember back during the uh the gay marriage debate?
One of the things uh I said and and many others did too, that once you obliterate the definition of marriage that then you you you better look out because anything can follow.
And I was poo-pooed.
And many people launched me and said I was just conducting a campaign of fear.
That just because gay people would be married doesn't mean that people could marry their their bed spreads.
They couldn't marry their gerbils.
They couldn't, they weren't gonna go out and marry their dogs or whatever.
It was silly.
That was fear-mongering.
Well, a UK woman did marry her dog.
I told people it was gonna happen.
A woman in the UK has married her dog.
She confesses I am totally her B.I. itch.
She said that about her dog.
But then there's this.
A judge has ruled that part of Utah's law banning polygamy are unconstitutional, effectively decriminalizing the practice.
This is a victory for the family that appears in the reality TV show Sister Wives.
Cody Brown, who stars in the TLC reality show with his four wives, filed a lawsuit against the state after leaving Utah, fearing prosecution after the program aired.
Now a federal judge, not a state, a federal judge has issued his final ruling in the case that strikes down parts of Utah's anti-polygamy law.
The judge has ruled that uh anything banning cohabitation violates religious freedom, in this case of the Browns.
And the UO Utah Attorney General's office say they're going to review this.
They don't want, they can't, they can't let this stand because now polygamy.
If you're in real linda, look it up.
Polygamy has just been decriminalized in Utah.
Because marriage is no longer, folks.
Once you take the definite words mean things.
Marriage was a union of a man and a woman.
Once you change that, it can become anything.
And it's in the process of becoming anything.
Chris in Peoria, I'm glad you called, sir.
Thank you for waiting.
Hello.
Hi, Rosh.
God bless you.
I'm a one-and-no.
Well, thank you very much.
That's fine with me.
It's absolutely fine with me.
Well, you kind of uh got me thinking when you said that he wasn't so optimistic.
And I'm thinking, isn't that what he ran on?
Yes, we can.
When did it change to, yes, we can to maybe uh no I can't, or no I won't.
Well, now see, I have a totally different take.
She's she's asking me essentially, whatever happened to the Obama battle cry, yes, we can.
Because he's out there saying about ISIS, no, we can't.
We can't wipe him out.
The answer to your question, Chris, what happened to Obama's battle cry, yes, we can't.
Nothing.
It's still occurring.
Obamacare is still proceeding at full speed.
Amnesty is on track to happen.
Illegal immigrants are pouring across the border every day, and more and more of them are coming, and Obama's flirting with executive action not to deport any and to grant them amnesty.
Obama's economic policies are in full force, and they are continuing to do great harm to the job market.
Uh students continue to not be able to find work.
Uh Obama's rallying cry of yes, we can, meaning move his agenda forward is still active.
He may not act as though he's in charge of it.
He may not act like he's moving his agenda forward, but that's part of a studied strategy, if you ask me.
But I don't care what you look at.
If you look at ISIS or all that stuff and you see incompetence on parade and inaction and disinterest, don't be fooled.
The Obama agenda's on the march.
They're all full speed ahead, the DOJ.
They're doing everything they can to implement Obama's agenda.
Yes, we can is still what is mobilizing the true believers in the regime.
Don't be fooled.
Okay, folks, don't have much time.
But I'm not going to be here next week.
Just taking a full-fledged vacation.
We got a best of show on Monday and a series of guest hosts next week.
Mark Stein's among them, right?
Yeah, Mark Mark Stein and Eric Erickson will be in here next week.
And they'll be back on uh either the 8th or 9th.
Depends on how I feel when I get back on whatever date I get back.
Depends on what Apple's doing.
Uh whether I come back on the 8th or the 9th.
I'm still not sure.
But uh anyway, that's that.
Thanks always for being with us.
And see you in 10 days or so.
One more time, folks.
Thank you so much.
It's always, I mean, it's just such a thrill to be able to be with you each and every day here at the EIB Network.
But I got a scheduled vacation week, and I decided I'm gonna go ahead and take it because they're gonna heat up as we head into the fall.
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