All Episodes
Previous Next
Dec. 5, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
37:28
December 5, 2014, Friday, Hour #2
| Copy link to current segment

Time Text
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
You are tuned to the most listened to radio talk show in America.
I am Rushlin Boh, and this is the EIB Network, and it is Friday, so let's hit it.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's Open Line Friday!
Great to have you here two hours to go as we wrap up yet another exciting, busy broadcast week.
Telephone numbers 800-282 2882.
Email address.
We check the emails, as you know.
Email address, lrushbo at eibnet.com.
Now let me clear something up as I check the email.
I think, and it's not a big deal, but I just want to get this straight out.
I was one hour ago opening the program, explaining I'm going to be on Fox News Sunday as the first guest at the top of the show.
9 a.m. Eastern is when it broadcasts live on the on, not the Fox News channel.
It's the Fox Broadcast Network.
Anyway, and I was talking about how I'm not a big fan of television.
I don't do it much.
And the reason why is, to me, it never seems normal.
I don't know why that is.
I know I'm an oddball when it comes to this.
Most people can't wait to get on TV.
To me, it's just hurry up and wait.
It's lighting, it's makeup, it's meetings, it's pre-meetings, makeup, green room, all that.
So anyway, I've gotten myself a very, very enviable position in life.
I actually wish everybody could experience this.
Outside of marriage, I don't have to do anything I don't want to do.
And there aren't too many people that can – there aren't – yeah, well, no husband has that kind of freedom, but I mean everywhere else.
I don't have to do things I don't want to do anymore in order to be successful or what have you.
I've gotten there.
So when I decide to do TV, it really is just an instinct reaction.
A normal reaction again, turn it down.
Nope, not interested.
Sorry.
And sometimes, I said, wait a minute.
And that's what one of these is.
But I mentioned in discussing this an hour ago that I'm too self-conscious.
And people are emailing.
What do you mean self-conscious?
All kinds of self-conscious people are ego freaks.
I don't mean self-conscious in the fact that they don't think of themselves.
I'm talking about, for example, me, and I've done sitcoms.
What I mean by self-conscious, I spend so much time trying to remember my lines that I don't, I couldn't play anybody other than me.
Memorizing lines just paralyzes me.
And I spend all of my conscious moments thinking about the lines rather than becoming the person uttering the lines.
That's what I mean.
I don't mean that actors are not ego freaks.
Everybody's self-conscious.
At the moment that you're engaged, whether you're on TV or acting in a television show, you have to be able to get outside yourself.
And television for me has just been very difficult.
I don't mind admitting it.
It's been very, very difficult for me.
I admire people who can do it.
I don't have that problem, obviously, on a radio.
I don't even think about it.
To me, this is oh, not you're all.
But I don't want anybody thinking that I believe that all these movie and TV people don't have egos.
That's not what I was trying to say.
So I appreciate the opportunity here to clarify it.
Now, I also had the email, Rush, I don't believe, you really, the congressional black Caucasians want the families of the gentle giant and Garner to be honored guests at the State of the Union?
Yeah, I've got it right here from theHill.com.
Black lawmakers want Brown Garner families invited to the State of the Union.
Members of the Congressional Black Caucasians are talking about inviting the families of Eric Garner and Michael Brown to Obama's State of the Union address in Washington next month.
Stop and think about it now.
See, in certain places, like on CNN, in the New York Times, on MSNBC, on CBS, ABC, and NBC, these people are heroes.
Don't laugh.
The Gentle Giant's a hero.
Look at all the people that watch the unit.
Well, there aren't that many, but the people who do have been lied to from the get-go about this.
They have those five players for the Rams that came out during pregame introductions last Sunday with their hands raised.
Don't shoot, hands up.
They probably believe they've, I'm sure that they have been lied to about what really happened there.
That's what journalism has become.
And so, as such, they're heroes.
They're legitimate heroes to people that are dead wrong about all this.
Garner is a hero, and the gentle giant is a hero, and to the congressional black Caucasians, these people are heroes.
They died for the cause.
And what's the cause?
That there is an inherent flaw in the founding of the country, and we haven't done a damn thing to address it.
We thought electing the first black president would fix it, but as Wrangell said, that's only made it worse.
Why leave out Trayvon Martin's family?
If you're going to invite these bunch, invite Trayvon Martin's family in there.
And maybe the family of the Fort Hood shooter.
Well, I don't know.
I mean, there's all kinds of racism out there that leads to this kind of behavior that we need to take time stop and try to understand.
The lawmakers who have universally condemned the justice system's response to the killings of the two black men at the hands of white police officers, see how this works, say the presence of the two men's relatives would send a strong signal that Washington policymakers are serious about tackling criminal justice reform head on.
What are we supposed to do?
Is the criminal justice system supposed to be reformed so that the criminals are allowed to be criminals?
Do we reform it in such a way the criminals are allowed to get away with it?
I mean, what are we talking about here?
The mayor of New York, de Blasio, says the cops need to go away for three days to have sensitivity training to be able to learn situational sensitivity training.
And what else did he call it some sort of non-judgmental posture training?
The cops are supposed to show up at a criminal act and not be judgmental about it.
And nobody, nobody dares suggest that the criminal element change its behavior.
Not one person.
And if you do, if you happen to suggest, well, you know, maybe the criminal element needs to change its behavior, then here come the arrows aimed right at you.
You don't understand.
You're perpetuating the flawed nature of the founding of the country.
You are illustrating the inherent racism that exists.
Racism Means you should apprehend people breaking the law.
What are we supposed to do?
Let them get away with it.
Listen to this again.
The lawmakers say the presence of the two men's relatives sitting at Mrs. Obama's side, State of the Union, would send a strong signal that Washington policymakers are serious about tackling criminal justice reform head on.
Are they going to do something about training the criminal element to stop attacking policemen?
Do you think maybe that ought to go on at the same time?
Let me tell you all, I was telling Snerdley this story to me.
Certain of us are raised in certain ways, and certain of us aren't.
I remember when I was 10, 10, 9, something like that.
My brother would have been a couple years younger.
And my dad, we lived in Southeast Missouri.
My dad had to go to Arkansas for, it might have gone down for a Missoula, Arkansas football game.
I don't know which, but he got pulled over late at night by an African-American state trooper in Arkansas.
And he was speeding.
And he came home and told me about it.
And he used it as a lesson.
He told me, I said, well, what did you do?
Were you speeding?
He said, I was.
I said, I'm a little kid.
Did you go to jail?
No, no.
He said, son, whenever a trooper, whenever a policeman stops you, just sir them out.
I'll never forget him saying that to me.
Just whatever they say, yes, sir, yes, sir, yes, sir.
You show them respect.
Sir them out, is what my dad said, meaning just show them all the respect in the world.
And that's how I grew up.
And I didn't grow up fearful.
I grew up respectful.
But some people don't, obviously, when I understand why.
But in this era in which we find ourselves, don't you think it's a little scary, ladies and gentlemen, that the reform only needs to happen among law enforcement?
We had criminal acts occur in both of these scenarios.
And that is ignored.
And to listen to the news media and all of the people involved in that scientist talk about this, the only acts that were egregious here were committed by the cops.
The mayor is throwing them under the bus.
And I want to repeat something I said an hour ago, too, is I think this is kind of ironic.
The left loves big government, do they not?
Oh, I was thinking about this last night when I was chatting email-wise with some friends.
The left loves big government and they love power, do they not?
That's what they love big government for.
They live and breathe for the government to exercise that power, especially against their enemies.
So when Obama tells the IRS to really give the Tea Party the business and they do it, the left applauds.
The left is all for massive shows of government force and power, except here.
After all, what is the police?
It's the state.
The police is the law enforcement branch of the government.
But they're not supposed to use force.
Isn't that fascinating?
They're not supposed to be powerful.
They're not.
So here's the left basically getting what they ask for.
And they don't like it.
They want powerful governments, powerful states.
They want armed forces dealing with their enemies.
domestically, of course.
And yet, when it happens, they become the biggest conservatives in the world in the sense that that's too much force.
That's too much power.
We got to dial back to power, the cops.
Isn't it fascinating, folks?
It is to me.
These people, when they reap what they sow, they don't like it at all.
And now we throw President Obama in the mix from a reporter here at theHill.com named Amy Parnes.
President Obama said yesterday, many Americans feel there's a deep unfairness about how laws are applied on a day-to-day basis, responding to the news a day earlier of a New York City police officer who was not indicted for choking an unarmed black man.
By the way, once again, let me find it.
He was not choked.
It was not a chokehold.
This is another gross misrepresentation, violation of the truth and what happened here.
There was no chokehold.
Eric Garner was not choked.
Let me take you back to August 2014, New York Post.
Bo Deedle, not one of my big fans, by the way.
One time expressed a desire that even I be in jail.
But nevertheless, Bo Deedle, well-known New York law enforcement figure, consultant, cop, and so forth, had an op-ed in the New York Post, not August.
August, at the very front end of this.
And he starts his piece, it wasn't a chokehold.
That's just the biggest single distortion in all the talk about the Eric Garner case, in which the public has been misinformed and misled from the start.
The Reverend Al Sharpton has never had to put himself in harm's way to protect our streets against crime, as our cops do every day.
He is in no way qualified to stand on his soapbox and dictate procedures.
I spent decades in law enforcement.
During my time with the NYPD, I was responsible for over 1,400 felony arrests, any of which could have required the use of deadly physical force.
Now, as owner of a security company here in the city, I consult for police departments across the country.
So I speak with some authority on the events surrounding Garner's attempted arrest and death.
It's tragic that a life was lost, but I'm outraged at how this incident's being used to hobble the NYPD.
This is Bo Deedle back in August.
It wasn't a chokehold.
A good friend of mine's a former SWAT commander of Sacramento Police Force.
He's been sending me an - it wasn't a chokehold.
He's been telling me what it is.
Specific names for these types of techniques that are used.
But it wasn't a chokehold.
It doesn't matter.
The people in the media and the people on the left have determined it's going to be a chokehold, and that's what people are going to be told, and that's what we're going to cover, and that's what we're going to have guests commenting on.
And by the time we're finished with this, everybody in our audience is going to believe he was choked at.
But he wasn't.
Bo Deedle.
Officers who approached Garner were responding to community complaints about his ongoing activities.
When he grew uncooperative and resisted arrest, they followed protocol on taking him into custody.
Officers are required to be as quick as they can in getting a perp into custody so he has no chance to injure the officer, innocent bystanders, or himself.
Got to take a break.
But the point is, it wasn't a chokehold.
And people have been told it wasn't a chokehold since August.
And the media knows it wasn't a chokehold.
They choose to ignore and instead make it up based entirely on what they want people to think it was.
And I'm telling you, this stuff is tearing our culture and our country apart.
We'll be back.
Anyway, Bo Daedal goes on to describe the kind of headlock that was used, but not a chokehold.
And everybody knows, which is the, again, the real threat.
Everybody knows.
The people lying about this know.
They, everybody, who didn't mention a chokehold?
Yeah, the autopsy didn't mention chokehold.
There was no choke.
It did not die from a chokehold.
And the people saying it know that they're lying.
They know they're making it up.
We used to have a mechanism that prevented this kind of thing.
It used to be called the media.
It's been a long time since the media really cared about any of that.
Now it's strictly advance the agenda, whatever it takes, obliterate the truth, redefine what journalism is, make it a narrative, whatever.
But I know.
They're trying to drum up a march.
Look, ever since Ferguson, they have been hell-bent on recreating Selma.
Some of the dinosaurs of the civil rights movement, John Lewis's and Selma, just been hoping to recreate the whole thing.
Anyway, Walter in Long Island, it's great to have you.
I'm glad you called.
You're on Open Line Friday.
Hello, sir.
Hello, Rush.
Good afternoon.
Thank you.
I'd like to say I'm a first-time caller, but I'm a long-time fan.
Appreciate that.
WOR Chow 9 days.
And I like to say this comment.
From the most transparent administration in history, I'm trying to understand the body cameras for cops pushed by the administration.
If we apply the fairness principle, or simply, like you like to say quite often, what's good for the goose is good for the gander, shouldn't politicians doing the public bidding also wear body cameras?
I'm talking on the local, state, and federal level.
And maybe I can put, I'm thinking of putting something on whitehouse.gov, something to the effect of, Mr. President, why don't you lead and put on the first body camera?
How about that?
Politicians, body cameras on.
That would have been cool if Bill Clinton would have had one.
Ted Kennedy, if Ted Kennedy had had a body camera, oh man, can you think this guy may be on to something here?
I bet you originally thought Bavis is kind of kooky and Rush will have fun with this.
But this guy's got a point.
The whole notion of body cams on cops, let's be honest, you can make a case for it.
But what's the impetus?
The impetus is they're a bunch of frauds and cheats.
The impetus is it's the cops of the problem.
The cops, the cops of the problem.
We need body cameras on the perps.
We're way out of faith on all of this, folks.
We are just totally out of phase.
We're almost to the point now where the Sharptons and Jacksons of the world may as well come out and say crime is legal as a form of getting even for what happened at the founding.
See, right there, right there on CNN right now, inside view of chokehold death protests.
There was no chokehold death.
And it may well be that whoever is anchoring at CNN really doesn't know it.
It could well be that they do such a good of lying, a good job of lying, they convince themselves.
Not that it matters, but they're lying.
They are getting it dead wrong.
And it ought to be a teachable moment.
It ought to be a teachable moment for they are lying openly about all of this.
How do you trust them on anything?
But there it is, flat, wide out in the open.
Great to have you back open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh at 800-282-2882.
Here's Dan in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome.
Thank you.
It's an honor, Mr. Rushball.
I've been really wanting to call and talk about this matter.
Well, what I really have a big beef with the whole legal immigration is I've served two times in Afghanistan, and I really had a real respect for my local translator interpreters.
And all these guys really wanted to do is earn the right to call themselves Americans.
And they'd fight day in, day out.
While we were doing one-year tour, they were there for the full 10 years.
And a lot of them are actually coming over here to the United States now because of their safety.
And they've earned that right.
And it's sickening to me that all these people that have come here illegally are really getting a cut in the line.
They're being able to become citizens, and they have done nothing to earn it.
Oh, yes, they have.
And how's that, Mr. Yes, they have.
You think the lawbreaker, I'm sorry, you think the line cutters, you think the people here illegally haven't done anything to earn, my God, look at how some of them are 45 days on a train from Central America without their parents.
And then what do they do?
They promise to come here and immediately vote Democrat.
That's the assumption.
They are valuable.
They are going to become members of the permanent underclass of this country, which the Democrat Party desperately needs.
That is their contribution.
It's so sad because these guys, not only do they serve with us, but a lot of them don't make it over here.
They die.
Their families are constantly in danger.
They lie to their families about what they're doing.
This is funny.
This is true.
The larger point here that he's making is you have all kinds of people, quality people.
And I don't mean to be saying anything untoward about those that are in the shadows.
But we have educated, quality people that really want to become Americans.
They really want to be American citizens.
They want to buy into it, and many of them learn the oath that they have to take at their naturalization ceremony before they get there.
I've known a couple.
I knew a couple people that were going to be naturalized, and what happens is at the ceremony, they're given an oath.
And it's a repeat after me kind of thing, like the presidential oath or any other oath.
They knew it.
They were so excited.
They knew the oath.
They could recite it from memory because it meant so much to them.
And those people are the ones that are in line and getting in at a trickle rate.
And they do.
They see all over the country this mass migration.
And after a certain number of years, the political class throws up its hands in supposed futility and says, well, we may as well get them out of the shadows here.
They're here anyway.
And they've been paying taxes and whatever other thing that makes them valorous.
And so we must get them citizenship.
And it's they serve two purposes.
Either going to be cheap labor, they're going to vote Democrat.
I mean, that's the thought.
And the Republicans think they might have a chance of getting them as voters, too.
Speaking of all this, we have a grab audio soundbites six and seven.
Last night on Greta Van Susteren's show on a Fox news channel.
It's called On the Record with Greta Van Susterin.
She has an eponymous show, by the way.
And she said to McConnell, how do you have no government shutdown if you and the president are deeply divided on any particular issue?
How do we as a nation avoid that?
Greta, what are you doing to me?
You know better than this.
But she's feeding right into, oh my God, Senator McConnell, how do you have no government shutdown if you and the presidents don't invite?
Oh my God, how do we as a nation avoid a government shutdown?
And so McConnell set up, and here's what he said.
You pass each bill that funds the government separately.
And in those bills, if you object to bureaucratic regulations of one kind or another or presidential actions of one kind or another, you literally write into the spending bill restrictions.
But if you do each bill separately, you take away from the president the argument that you're shutting down the government.
He may veto the bill, but if he does, it doesn't have cataclysmic impact all across the entire government.
Neither does so-called shutting it down.
Okay, here we go.
So if you do each bill separately, you take away from the president the argument that you're shutting down the government.
So here is this rampant fear again rearing its head.
You take a look at the 2010 elections, the Democrats got shellacked.
They lost 700 seats all across the ballot from Washington down to local races.
In 2012, they would have lost the presidency except for 4 million Republicans decided to stay home and not vote.
In 2014, the Democrats got shellacked again.
It is so bad for the Democrats that you got Tom Harkin and Chuck Schumer now publicly admitting Obamacare was a mistake.
Henry Nosteritis waxman quitting.
The Democrats lost control of the Senate.
The Democrat Party, I maintain to you, is in a state of disarray and it could be exploited if the Republicans had the ability to think and act like winners.
Stop and think of what's happened here.
Yeah, Obama's there in the White House.
And yeah, he's doing executive orders.
And yeah, I know pop culture is left.
And I know that they're continuing to do drastic damage to our country and the co, I know all that's happening.
But in the world of politics, the Democrat Party is in a world of hurt.
Mary Lander is going to get creamed by 24 points.
There's not going to be a single Southern Democrat in the Senate.
She's going to get wiped out this Saturday in that runoff election with Cassidy.
They're getting shellacked everywhere, no matter how you look at it across the board, politically, electorally, they're losing left and right, other than in their bastions of New York and San Francisco and places like that.
As far as issues are concerned, the Republicans that won election this year all ran against Obamacare.
The Republican Party nationally said nothing.
This was a total rejection of the Democrat Party.
And in the midst of all that, we have Republicans saying that they can't stop Obama because he might accuse us of shutting down the government.
Oh, my God, you know what I'm going to say about it?
It doesn't make any sense.
The Democrat Party's not on the ropes.
They're on the canvas.
And in the midst of all of this, the Republican Party is acting frightened that the president might accuse them of a government shutdown, which happened exactly one year ago.
They did it again.
They accused Republicans of shutting down the government.
It was so bad.
My God, do you remember, folks?
My God, it was so bad.
The Republicans won in a landslide election 10 months later, just a month ago.
That's how bad it was.
I, just in a purely intellectual sense, this makes no sense whatsoever.
This fear, I am convinced this government shutdown thing is simply an excuse because the Republicans, for whatever reason, don't want to stop Obama on immigration.
We know that's the case because Trent Lott was just with the Christian Science Monitor, blame me for getting you all riled up and stopping it in 2007.
And I don't know if you've heard about this.
Mitt Romney on Monday said Republicans could just swallow hard and go all in for total amnesty, comprehensive immigration reform, not this chump change $5 million.
Just do it for all of them.
Beat Obama to the punch.
Jeb Bush wants to run for the presidency on the basis of the same thing, comprehensive immigration reform.
I think we've got enough evidence to suggest the Republican establishment is also in favor of comprehensive immigration reform slash amnesty, whatever.
And over here, boy, that government shutdown thing, that's a really cool thing to hide behind.
No, Mr. Limboy, you don't understand.
You're not in politics, sir.
We understand that.
You're not in politics, but we've got polling there.
The American people don't want their government shut down, Mr. Limboy.
And if it happens, they're going to blame us.
Well, I may not understand the business of politics, but I do know a little bit about connecting with an audience and connecting with voters.
And I'm telling you, that's not happening here.
This government shutdown is just too, it comes up every, isn't it amazing how often this comes up?
Four times a year, government shutdown.
And every time it comes up, it's the reason the Republicans can't stop Obama or the Democrats.
Yeah, polling data says that, yeah, we'd get blamed for it.
And you know, people love their government, Mr. Limboy, and they really don't like it shut down.
Yeah, really?
I'd venture to say 95% don't even know when it happens.
Okay, the government shut down last year, last December.
Think back, folks.
Think hard.
Think long.
Think deep.
How did it affect you?
What happened to you?
Did your welfare check stop coming?
No.
Did your social security check stop coming?
No.
Did you have Christmas?
Yes.
Were you able to watch the wire if you wanted to?
Yes.
Were you able to play whatever your video game favorite is?
Yes.
Did you have New Year's Eve?
Yes.
Were you able to put gasoline in your cargo where you wanted to go?
Yes.
Did you have a job?
No, but that was before the government shut down.
What happened?
The only people that could probably remember what happened is the World War II vets who had spent a long time saving for a trip to their memorial in Washington, and President Obama told them they couldn't visit.
And he turned the space over to a rally for pro-illegal immigrant activists.
While the World War II vets couldn't show.
Aside of that, can any of you tell me what the government shutdown did to you?
I know the media was running around.
They had their men on the street, camera teams, microphones jammed in people's faces.
How's the government shutdown affecting you?
What?
What?
How's what affecting the government shutdown?
Well, I don't know, but I think it's bad.
See, Republicans suck, is how it works.
It's just an excuse.
Is there one more McConnell Blind here?
Yeah, Greta said if the Supreme Court does rule with King, this is the subsidies, so forth.
Never mind.
The question's longer than his answer here.
Let me take a break.
I've got something else I want to tell you about anyway to get back.
So don't go away.
Say, it's Open Line Friday, and you stick to the issues, folks.
You may get upset with me here because I'm going to divert for just a second here to the Adventures of Rush Revere series.
You have heard me talk about the interactivity that we are promoting and creating for our young readers of the three-book series on both the Rush Revere website and the Rush Revere Facebook page.
And I want you to bear with me here for just a second because this really is part of the issues.
What we're trying to do here, and it's working.
I eventually want to be able to show you how this is working, how we are reaching the youth of America with the truth of this country and getting them involved.
They're not just reading about it and learning about it, they are beginning to live it.
And I'm telling you, it's one of the most rewarding things that has happened to me.
Now, we started out this series.
They realized that there was a real void of quality, true American history books for young people.
We didn't start this just to sell books.
We created these characters and everything to do with the book series in order to inspire the young people of this country, young generations that teach them that American history can be fun and that it's exceptional in every way.
And we didn't just put a picture book together.
We said, how can we make young Americans feel they were there?
They were part of it.
How can we make them actually live, relive these amazing events like Paul Revere's Ride or The Pilgrims Arriving?
So they can not only memorize the names, really experience and understand the values of our country today.
That's the mission here.
It was always to engage the young readers in creative ways.
So we recently ran several challenges at the Rush Revere website, and we required that all the entries be submitted by November 30th.
And I am telling you, these entries are over the top.
They're videos.
We required and asked them to submit their videos.
One of the challenges, we wanted 30-second videos of kids reading part of the Constitution, part that really mattered to them, that they really liked.
We told them there'd be more points for creativity and passion.
And I am telling you what these short videos give me.
When I looked at these things, Catherine, I said I looked at them.
I'm telling you, give you hope.
People ask me, how do you stay optimistic?
This is one of the ways that it works for me.
Now, there are millions of young, exceptional Americans out there, tremendous parents that want them to engage in these types of challenges.
So Catherine and I, we have a panel of judges.
We're going to have a really tough time selecting the winners.
Now, just so you know what we're dealing with here, we're going to post a few video samples of what we have asked these kids to submit.
The Rush Revere Facebook page and at www.rushrevere.com under featured video.
It's specifically for the Adventures of Rush Revere series, and it's where we showcase the artwork and the photos and the letters that these people are sending us, the readers, the kids and their parents and their grandparents as well.
And I have to tell you, Catherine has been working tirelessly around the clock on this whole thing.
Concept, co-writing, leading the team, design concepts, everything.
And this is just the videos.
I wish you could see them all.
But we're going to post a couple just so that you know what's being submitted for prizes.
They're actually prizes going to be awarded and so forth.
A bunch of different categories, too.
So we've got one up.
Now, if you want to take a chance, when you have time, go look at it.
Rush Revere Facebook page or rushrevere.com.
You'll see just one example.
We're going to be posting more and more so that you know the kind of stuff that is coming into us.
And it will lift your spirits, I guarantee you.
You know, all these people that want cameras on the cops, body camera, they're the first people to object to all the cameras on the stoplights.
They're the first people to object to cameras watching them.
▲
Export Selection