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Sept. 25, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 25, 2014, Thursday, Hour #3
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The FBI says they know who Jihad John is.
The FBI says they have identified the hostage executioner who killed James Foley.
They're not going to tell us the name, because they don't want the guy to know that we know who it is.
But if we're going to announce that we know, he might from the Southern Command in Sunny, South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
We'll have to wait and see.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
Rush Liv.
Well.
800-28282.
Man who murdered James Foley.
And actually, all three, Stephen Soltloff and David Haynes been identified by FBI officials.
Thus far, he's been known only as Jihad John, John the Beatle, what have you.
He was known to intelligence officials.
This really printed out in an unreadable way.
Anyway, while the identity is now known to intelligence OF, I got to imagine what comes next.
Officials, I'm sure it says, it will not be publicly released.
Presumably as the military works to apprehend him.
See, we don't want him to know that we know who he is.
But he we announced that we know who it is, so he might suspect that we know that it's him.
In which case he might try to keep us from finding him.
It's doubtful.
But stranger things have it.
Most crooks do try to get away with it.
And I suspect this guy will too.
Greetings, folks, welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh here.
Again, 800 282-2882 is the number if you want to be on the program.
A little bit more here on the Colorado screw situation.
We had a story yesterday, day before.
Students protested, didn't want to learn about capitalism.
Didn't want to learn about free markets.
No, no, no, no.
They wanted they wanted to hear about socialism.
Well, there's more to this.
The Colorado student walkout, and that was part of what they did in protest.
The Colorado student walkout and all the controversy about the conservative curriculum.
It turns out has it's not real.
It's been ginned up by the teachers union there.
It wasn't real.
The students, in other words, were not acting of their own volition.
Here are the details.
The head of the Jefferson County Board of Education, Ken Witt, was on Fox News this morning.
He said the teachers are using the students' pawns and the curriculum plans as an excuse to walk out because the Board of Education has decided to pay the teachers based on merit.
That's what this is about.
And the teachers don't want to have their performance graded.
They don't want their compensation based on how good or how poorly they're doing their jobs.
Ken Witt also said there were no plans to cut the civil rights movement or slavery or anything else from the curriculum.
That was all a lie.
And all of this is borne out in local media reports.
There's one from the Denver Post back on September 10th.
Jeff Co teachers issue no confidence vote in board president Ken Witt.
Denver Post.
And I got the link.
And from that article, Jeff Code Teachers this week issued a vote of no confidence in Jeff CO school board president Ken Witt.
It was announced Wednesday afternoon.
The no confidence vote was taken after the board's conservative majority in late August rejected an independent review.
That founds the dist found the district's teacher evaluation system too flawed to set salaries, and they moved to restrict pay raises for teachers deemed partially effective.
So the real reason the teachers told their students to walk out.
They didn't want to be paid on merit.
They they coerced the students into walking out based on the premise that the students didn't want this new conservative curriculum.
And I'm sure it was quote unquote understood that good grades might be on the other end of this walkout if the students participated.
Now that's not to say, by the way.
I I don't want to just totally disregard the premise of the story that the students didn't want to learn about capitalism.
I I I wouldn't be surprised if if they have been taught the evils of free market capitalism.
I'm no doubt they're being taught that.
So it doesn't.
The truth of the story that the teachers ginned it up, that it was not a spontaneous student walkout, does not mean the students didn't mean what they were saying.
But they could have been programmed to say it.
Time will tell.
But as always, when something like this happens, the truth is always beneath the surface.
And when liberals are involved, nothing is ever really as it appears.
From the Heritage Foundation, American support for same-sex marriage has fallen, according to a new Pew Research Center poll.
According to the poll, 49% of Americans now support same-sex marriage, 41% are opposed.
That is a drop of five percentage points since February.
It's too early to know if this modest decline is an anomaly or the beginning of a reversal or a leveling off in attitudes toward gay marriage.
They noted at Pew, 47% of respondents said that businesses should be allowed to refuse to provide wedding services for same-sex couples for religious reasons.
49% believe they should be required.
So that's a dead heat.
The argument in support of marriage as the union of a man and a woman has not been heard and rejected, it simply hasn't been heard, said one of the guys who took the poll.
But when it is heard, people who responded accordingly, in the long run, the truth about marriage will prevail, meaning it's that between a man and a woman.
So it's plummeting, but they're watching it because as they say, they don't know if it's a trend or an anomaly.
Obama's approval rating is plummeting in deep blue states, including in New York.
From the Hill.com, just weeks after President Obama's approval rating hit record lows in California.
There's a new survey that shows the president in trouble in New York.
39% of New York registered voters surveyed in a Marist College poll said Obama's doing an excellent or good job.
That's the lowest level for Obama in the poll since the beginning of his presidency.
And I'll tell you, they they may try to downplay this and say, well, yeah, it's second term and there's fatigue, and so don't believe any of that.
This is bad news for the Democrat Party across the board, and it doesn't mean very much about the Republicans.
This is 39%.
We're in George W. Bush territory here now.
I mean, I guarantee you, in the deep dark crevices of Democrat Party power centers, this is creating panic.
Because right here, they see African American turnout sitting home.
They see hardly any passion on the left with the president, the Messiah.
You gotta put this in context of how Obama was presented to these people.
Only stands to reason.
The economy alone, Obama care and the way it's affecting people.
You know who Richard Branson is, Snertley.
Virgin Virgin Airlines.
Virgin Space, Virgin Airlines, the old Virgin Records.
SpaceX, yeah, he's got an island down there in the Pacific that he that he goes to.
Story from the UK Daily Mail a couple days ago.
Interest in jobs at Virgin is likely to soar following suggestions by the boss, Richard Branson, that people should be able to take time off work whenever they want.
Branson wrote in an excerpt from his new book, The Virgin Way, Everything I Know About Leadership.
It is left to the employee alone to decide if and when he or she feels like taking a few hours a day, taking a few months off, taking a week off.
It's up to the employee.
Branson released this on his blog.
He said the plan was in action at Virgin offices in Britain and the U.S., he says if it works, he doesn't know yet.
He just implemented.
If it works, he is then going to encourage all of the company's subsidiaries to stop counting holiday leave.
He says the plan worked on the assumption that employees will only take time off when they think it won't impact them or the company.
That they'll be responsible, that they'll show up and they'll only take time off when they know they won't be missed.
He said he first decided to try this plan out after seeing an article on how Netflix did it.
You see, Netflix does not track staff vacation time.
You take time at Netflix, they don't know.
Now there's a big difference, however, in Netflix and Virgin.
Virgin is an airline that needs to have airplanes pass inspection, mechanically, be certified safe to fly.
Virgin is an airline.
Those airplanes have to depart and land on time.
And when they're in the air, they have to stay in the air.
Netflix does not have those requirements.
Richard Branson recalled his daughter telling him, I have a friend whose company's done the same thing, and they've apparently experienced a marked upward spike in everything morale.
Morale, creativity, productivity have all gone through the roof since they stopped tabulating when people don't show up.
Morale through the Now that all sounds wonderful, doesn't it?
I would like to see some proof of that.
If there's a company out there doing that, I would like to see the proof.
I'd like to see the measurements of creativity, morale, and productivity.
Well, I yeah, that's my point.
That's Netflix versus Virgin, it depends on the type of company, but what they're relying on here is the belief that most people are responsible.
And the theory is this, that if you tell people, hey, you don't wanna come to work, don't come to work.
We're not gonna even notice.
If you can't make it until one o'clock, that's cool.
We're not going to be keeping track.
The theory is that people will be imbued with a new sense of responsibility and will show up even more and will ultimately develop feelings of guilt over taking time off.
That's the theory behind it.
Now, obviously they've never heard of unions.
But we shall see.
Once again, you know, I made a note the other day that I've I've I've been surprised at the number of people I know with millennial kids who are treating what their kids think as gospel and changing their own worldview based on what their kids think, and I'm thinking how different that is from when I was growing up.
The adults of my day, I mean, they were respectful and were curious about what I thought, but it never made them change their minds.
I hadn't lived long enough to have the same level of experience.
But here's Branson.
Yeah, I was talking to my daughter, and my daughter said, hey, Dad, you know what?
Bam o he's gonna try it.
Try this headline from the AP.
Air strikes alone may not defeat Sunni militants.
Now they tell us.
Now they tell us, even though we've been saying this for weeks, now that this whole campaign's up and running and off the runners, now they tell us that it's not going to be enough.
It's an AP story out of Baghdad.
In their Syrian strongholds, extremists from the Islamic state had been moving into civilian apartment buildings for cover days before the U.S. and its allies, the five Arab allies, began pounding them before Dawn Tuesday.
It's just one sign of the difficulties in trying to destroy the group by relying mainly on air strikes.
So it won't work, folks.
They're telling us it isn't going to work.
Air strikes alone may not be enough.
I know I have a soundbite.
What is it?
Grab uh soundlight number 12.
12 and 13.
This is yesterday in New York City at the United Nations, Obama addressing the Security Council summit on foreign terrorist fighters.
This resolution recognizes that there is no military solution to the problem of misguided individuals seeking to join terrorist organizations.
And it therefore calls on nations to work together to counter the violent extremism that can radicalize, recruit, and mobilize individuals to engage in terrorism.
Potential recruits must hear the words of former terrorist fighters who have seen the truth.
What?
It doesn't matter.
What matters is this UN resolution recognizes there is no military solution to the problem of misguided individuals seeking to join terrorist organizations.
Well, that is terrorist organizations, misguided individuals.
And there's no military solution.
Now they tell us after we launch one, and here's David Cameron.
Portion of his remarks, he's the UK prime minister.
This has nothing to do with the religion of Islam.
A religion of peace.
And we need Muslim country after Muslim country and Muslim leader after Muslim leader to speak out as the King of Jordan did so clearly today, condemning these people that say they speak in the name of Islam when they do no such thing.
I'll leave that one to you folks, Kenneth says it all.
No, no, no.
I left comment analysis of the David Cameron sound back to the audience, because it's obvious.
What is this religion of peace?
Come on, what?
Everything ISIS is doing is in the Quran.
Can anybody point to anything in the Quran that that speaks against what ISIS is doing?
You can't find that.
Why why would anybody think that the Islamic State is not Islamic?
They've all got they've got Britain has a huge population.
It is what it is.
They've got they're walk- everybody's walking on eggshells here, where this is considered.
By the way, I was making a joke earlier.
And when I make jokes, they come true.
Get this.
Al Sharpton said that he is engaged in immediate conversation with the White House as they work to name a successor to Eric Holder.
I told you I was making a joke that the next attorney general would be Sharp or somebody, and Sharpton says that he is involved in converse intimate conversations at the White House to find the new attorney general.
And his national action network.
Al Sharpton and his organizations.
Right here, DusinessInsider.com.
Here's Lois in Naples, Florida.
Hi, Lois.
I'm glad you waited.
I really appreciate that.
Welcome.
I've just had a college course in patience and listening to the news.
Well, you need that.
You definitely need that if you're going to do that.
Yes.
Well, why I was calling us all the polls that you listed was talking about today, and the first poll that you mentioned about what a woman would want in a man.
Uh a husband.
Steady job, it says.
I think that poll was given mostly to the younger women.
Because I think when you get over 70, it's quite different.
Um My poll Would say I'd talk I want a man that would talk to you, commune with you, and love you.
Are you um are you are you in that age group?
I'm over 80.
You're over 80.
Yes.
Well, let me ask you.
Are you and I'm not trying to pry, I'm trying to learn.
Yes.
You're eight do you have a man who listens to you and loves you?
I have it most of the time.
There are a few times I have to work at that.
Yeah, see?
It's never it's never solid, is it?
No, but it's never.
You always have to keep manipulating things to get it directly.
I know, but this is our second time around, and it's been 38 years, wonderful years.
So wait, you married the same man twice?
No.
I married one for 21 years, and then I married again.
Oh, it's a it's a new new husband.
New husband.
Well, 38 years, but it's a second husband.
Yes.
And loves to travel.
Oh, well, that's great.
That's great.
We've been all over the world, and it's a wonderful world, but still the United States is one of the best.
Oh, there's now does your husband have a job?
Do you all still work or are you retired?
No, he was 30 years with the LA City Fire Department.
Los Angeles, City Fire.
And you're in Naples for so he's retired.
So him having a job doesn't matter because you got the retirement.
Okay.
You know what they got to do?
He got to go to Washington D.C. with the veterans the other day.
No kidding.
Oh, that was the wonderful thing that they did for them.
I can imagine how meaningful that was.
Well, look, Lois, thank you for the perspective.
It makes total sense in your demographic area that you would want love and somebody to talk to.
Totally understand it.
Look at this.
Look at it right here.
It is WW.bizjournals.com.
The Philadelphia Eagles are the whitest team in the NFL.
Says it right here in the headline.
Somebody needs to call the Department of Justice before Eric Holder leaves.
Say, get this fixed.
It's great to live in an era where sports are a true meritocracy.
Sure, there are politics and personalities to contend with, but generally if you're bigger, stronger, faster, smarter, you're going to make the team over somebody else.
Unless you pull a Ray Rice or something like that.
That said, it's interesting to note that the Philadelphia Eagles have more white players than any other team in the NFL, according to a new study from Best Tickets.com.
The Eagles have 25 white players.
That's five white players more than the team with the next highest total, the Houston Texans with 20.
In case you're wondering, there are 53 players on an active NFL roster.
45 on game day.
That also means the Eagles have the fewest black players of any club with 27.
The Texans have the next lowest total with 30.
The Philadelphia Eagles also have one of the league's 18 Hispanic players, Mark Sanchez.
Overall, the NFL is 68% black and 28% white.
Roughly 4.5% of the NFL made up of Hispanics, Pacific Islanders, and other races.
Some of these guys are from the University of Mars, for example.
Now, a question here.
Should Jeffrey Lurie lose his team over this?
I mean, what motivated this survey?
Who cares?
Well what what what's behind this?
What in the world?
Who's doing this?
Who's calculating this?
I mean, it's easy to figure out.
Rosters are public, obviously.
Players have names on their jerseys, and you can see their skin through the uniforms.
So it's not a mystery here, but why point this out?
If the Eagles go to the Super Bowl, it might be a problem.
Philadelphia Eagles, whitest team in the NFL.
Listen.
Philadelphia Business Journal is the source of the story.
I wonder If they will tell Roger Goodell.
And if so, will anybody be suspended?
And on one basis.
Promised in the first hour, and it's time.
Peace update.
So yesterday we made mention of the fact that despite launching military action, the Democrat president against ISIS.
In other words, using the U.S. military dropping bombs from fighter jets, well, bombers and fighter jets.
There were no peace protesters.
It even made the news in California that the peace protesters didn't show up.
And they were given an excuse.
Well, they're worn out from the weekend's global warming protests, which begged the question what is global warming have to do with peace?
Why would global warming protesters be peace protesters?
And of course, the truth is they're all the same thing.
They're just a bunch of leftist malcontents.
But nevertheless, they didn't show up.
They weren't protesting, and they claim they're for peace, and they hate the military.
But see, it only happens when they're Republicans in the White House.
So I made mention of this.
Yesterday I told the peace movement in San Francisco they let me down, and I wanted to play Slim Whitman yesterday.
Very sad, very disappointed.
I was all ready to go, expecting them to get in gear, and they sat on their asses doing whatever without protesting anything.
Well, they heard my call, ladies and gentlemen.
A loud but peaceful group of protesters descended on downtown San Francisco yesterday, last night, to voice their opposition to recent airstrikes in Iraq and Syria.
The group, comma, which numbered above 50 at its peak.
What an embarrassment.
What an embarrassment.
That's an asterisk.
That's not a peace protest.
For crying out loud, these people usually show up in hundreds, sometimes thousands.
Fifty people in San Francisco is all they could muster.
For about an hour.
It happened near the corner of Powell and Market Streets around 5 30.
People making speeches, calling for an end to the bombing, and groups chanting against U.S. military involvement in the Middle East.
Speakers came to the microphone blasting the Obama regime for what they call the most recent in a long string of unnecessary costly military interventions in a region halfway around the world.
Nathalie Carizi, a public screw old teacher who brought her young son to the protest, said millions upon millions upon millions of dollars are being spent to kill people in countries that have never done anything to us.
Money for jobs and education, she chanted.
Money for jobs and education, not money for bombs.
An enthusiastic crowd shouted back.
Not for war, not for occupation.
Money for jobs, money for education, money for an addictuases.
People showed up.
They always show up these days.
Be right back, folks.
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And here's Tina in New Orleans.
Great to have you on the program.
I'm glad you waited and welcome.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks so much.
It's an honor to talk to you again.
Um, yesterday, as you were saying, you know, no casualties will be reported under this president with our bombing.
And it jarred my memory of when I heard Charlie Gibson say one time during Bush's, you know, Iraq.
Um, he said, well, in as far as um news goes in Iraq, there is no news.
And that's referring to the fact that there were no casualties.
And I'm thinking of myself, that is news.
Yeah, remember that.
I remember yeah, yeah.
Charlie Gibson introed his newscast one night uh by saying there was no news on a day, no casualties in Iraq.
This uh during the Iraq war.
There was no news today about Iraq because there were no casualties.
And the point is that with before this thing started, I made a list of things, or maybe it was the day it started.
I made a list of things here that I was going to be looking for in the media.
Uh American deaths counted up every day as a means of reporting how useless and unnecessary the war is.
Collateral damage, how many Iraqi and Syrian citizens have been killed by American bombs.
And then I thought, no, we won't hear about that either.
Uh and all the other things that we were treated to by the media during the Iraq war will be absent here.
And in fact, that's still the case.
Although it it just to remind you now, this is about an hour and a half old.
CNN reported that ISIS has overrun an Iraqi army base near Baghdad.
Up to 300 Iraqi soldiers have been executed.
Not killed in action, is the word executed is used on purpose, essentially killed in action, but they were lined up and executed.
Uh and all of this, while we're being told that we got ISIS on the run and that our bombs are wreaking havoc.
Here's Richard Myrtle Beach.
Richard, thank you for calling, sir.
You're next.
Hello.
Thank you.
Always a pleasure.
Listen, I question the timing of this air holder resignation.
They won't find a replacement for him before election day.
And I think that he's going to go on a little tour to galvanize the black and uh minority vote.
And he won't be held to any kind of standard because there can't be any repercussions because he's already resigned.
So you can't ask for his resignation.
This I believe that it's going to be inflammatory.
I believe that we're going to understand that one of the reasons he's stepping down is I heard this last night, that there's a great inequity in the judicial system in the court system, how we treat blacks compared to whites.
I know there's a statistic that stipulates that the majority of violent in uh most crime, and it's like 70% is African American.
Now I can't be quoted on that.
But I believe they're going to use this as an opportunity to really make race a divisive issue in this country.
That is an interesting thought.
Because they do everything that way.
Go ahead.
Well, no, they do have to gin up turnout.
And the congressional black Caucasians, we played audio sound bites today, John Lewis and some others, they're already talking about how we're going to be back in the days of slavery if we don't if we don't win this election in November.
Well, I like your theory about him going to the Supreme Court.
Well, I hadn't heard that.
That's one of the things I thought of.
I don't think nobody's going to do anything to him.
There isn't going to be any investigation, Eric Holder.
Now, there may be a health thing that nobody knows about.
Uh who knows.
But it's it just caught everybody's flat footed and totally by surprise.
I my my first theory was that he's getting himself out of DOJ so that he can be selected as the next Supreme Court nominee.
Now, here's one thing.
If that's if that's if that turns out to be accurate, Richard, then it kind of dongs your theory a little bit.
Because if he's well, I don't know.
But I I like your theory too.
He's already resigned and just waiting to be replaced.
It won't be before the election.
So we can go out and raise hell, vote turnout and all kinds of things.
And what can anybody do?
He's already gone.
And nothing we can do.
We can't impeach, sanction, because he's already resigned.
But if he does that in as blatant a way as you described, might be problematic for future confirmation for the Supreme Court.
Might not either.
Depends on who's doing the confirming.
Meaning who runs the Senate.
Um I know they were nice to it.
Don't make me relive this.
I can I can't.
There you nobody because that's that was the beginning of the kiss um the suck up.
You know, shortly after the election, he names Holders, the attorney, and Republican after Republican after Republican.
Conservative think tank judicial expert after another one.
Oh, what a great choice.
Why, this is an enlightenment.
I'm I'm watching this in stunned disbelief.
And that's when I realized why everybody got so mad at me when I said I hope he fails, because the exact opposite was going on.
Everybody, everybody was sucking up to try to show that they were not racist and that they I it was just.
Yes, he's the guy that got the Mark Rich pardon.
He represented Mark Rich.
Anyway, Richard, that's an interesting theory, and because of it, we will keep a sharp eye.
It's gonna be interesting to see.
He could do that on the sly, too.
You know, without nobody knowing he's gonna.
We will see.
There has to be a reason.
Has to be a reason.
And at some point it may be known.
That's it for today, folks.
But there's always more because there's always tomorrow.
And tomorrow happens to be open line Friday.
And so it's uh NFL tonight, uh Jim Nansen Phil.
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