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So just to repeat, you notice what's going on today, folks.
On the very day, Jonathan Gruber is testifying before a House committee about all the things he said in which he lied and admitted the American people are stupid and they relied on that to trick the American people.
And he was even, he went into detail on the Cadillac tax on top-drawer health plans.
A Democrat on the committee, a former union guy, just laid into him over that.
They have that going on, but hardly anybody notices because Die Fi has released her report of what a rotten country the United States was back when George W. Bush was president and how we, if we're not vigilant, will remain a rotten place.
And she released her report today, read from it on the floor of the Senate, making it very clear that we have a lot of explaining to do to the world.
That we commitTedros human rights violations and we've got a lot of ground to cover before we can ever expect the rest of the world to respect us again.
And shortly after, Jack in the Box John McCain stood up and basically endorsed what she had said with a couple of caveats.
You remember President Clinton, 1998?
By the way, speaking of, every time I can't help, I think of Bill Cosby.
I don't know why.
You know, Clinton was the first black president and the first white Bill Cosby.
But I saw today that people, LAPD, LAPD, is going to go to the Playboy Mansion, Hugh Hefner's house, near the LA Country Club, and they're going to search for evidence because there are 15 women that claim that Cosby raped them at the Playboy Mansion.
40 years ago, four decades ago, they're going to go in there and see if they can find any trace evidence to support the claims these women have made.
And Hugh Hefner said, well, I can categorically tell you it didn't go on in here because I wouldn't put up with that kind of thing at my mansion.
But 40 years ago, and they think they're going to find evidence?
So anyway, anyway, Clinton 1998 attacked a, it was a Tylenol factory in the Sudan to distract the American public from the Lewinsky scandal.
Remember that?
And at the time we were told it might be a munitions plant.
We were told it might be a weapons of mass destruction installation, and Clinton launched that.
It turned out it was aspirin or Tylenol or something.
And that begot a movie called Wag the Dog, which put it on TV, make it up, produce a war, get B-roll footage of two sides shooting each other, put it on TV, claim it's an actual ongoing war, get people all focused on it to distract their attention from what you're doing.
First responders.
Can't forget first responders just a few years ago were America's greatest heroes.
After 9-11, the first responders, man, were they celebrated today.
First responders are now the focus of evil in a country that's gone off the tracks.
Primarily the cops.
Our military tortures people abroad.
White police abuse African Americans at home and in the streets.
That's the narrative today.
That's the media narrative today.
If you want to know what the news is, the daily soap opera script today, I just described it to you.
It is, in a way, you could say it's a playbook from the 60s.
And of course, these people of 60s are now adults, and they've got their own nostalgia, and they think it's cool to relive those days.
And so now they're doing it from the position that they once hated, power.
So let's, oh, oh, folks, Dianne Feinstein today absolved one Republican from any blame.
One Republican had nothing to do with torture.
Only one Republican would have stood up and demanded it stopped if he had known.
Only one Republican out there would have had the honor and the guts to stop it.
And therefore, only one Republican is worthy of being exempted and absolved of any blame for all of this torture and all of the assault on our good values and so forth.
Who do you think that one Republican who is blameless is?
I ran this by snurdly saying, that's easy.
It's McCain.
said, nope, it is not McCain.
The one Republican above criticism, the one Republican who would never have put up with this heading, no, the one Republican absolved of any blame or involvement is none other than.
There are CIA records stating that Colin Powell wasn't told about the program at first because there were concerns that, and I quote, Powell would blow his stack if he were briefed.
Source email from John Rizzo, dated July 31, 2003.
2003?
2003?
We hadn't captured anybody.
But we had barely, well, maybe we had, but we had, 2003 was when the Iraq wall began.
2003, Colin Powell, good loyal trooper, went up there to the UN and showed the world all of the weapons of mass destruction installations in Iraq.
And boy, was he fit to be tied when we didn't find any.
And he felt he had been used.
He felt that his impeccable character had been utilized to grant Bush and Cheney the same standard when they didn't deserve it.
He felt really used.
So he got his deputy up there.
The next day, a couple of guys, Richard Armitage and his spokesman, I forget Colonel Colin Powell's spokesman, but there was a third guy, and That's when they launched into Scooter Libby and the entire Bush White House trying to frog march any of them at the White House over the leak of the Valerie Plain name.
Now, look what the Democrats are doing.
Democrats have this massive report out, all this torture.
I don't know if they've released any names or not.
Remember how upset they were that Valerie Plain's name was made public as a CIA agent?
Oh, yeah, that was really an assault on our values.
But yet today, they do this.
Okay, now to the House Committee looking into Jonathan Gruber.
Ranking Democrat on the committee is Elijah Cummings, former chairman of Congressional Black Caucasians.
And all of these ranking members get to make opening remarks before the interrogation begins.
And we have a portion of Elijah Cummings' opening remarks.
As far as I can tell, we are here today to beat up on Jonathan Gruber for stupid, I mean, absolutely stupid comments.
They were irresponsible, incredibly disrespectful, and did not reflect reality.
And they were indeed insulting.
Dr. Gruber does not speak for me or the chairman of the other committees who worked tirelessly on this bill.
Never once did I believe or did anyone suggest that we were somehow hiding our goals from the American people.
But worst of all, Dr. Gruber's statements gave Republicans a public relations gift.
You see, that's the rub.
Worst of all, not the lies, if he may have told lies, not the fact that he's lying about what he told America.
No, no, the worst offense that this Gruber guy did, and that's why he's there to be beat up.
How about that lingo from America Congress?
As far as I can tell, we are here today to beat up on Jonathan Gruber for stupid comments.
No, the real offense was he gave Republicans a PR gift.
That's why he's being thrown overboard.
That's why he's being keel-hauled under the bus.
That's why he's just being destroyed today because this guy couldn't shut up and he had to run around and brag about how they did this because they did mislead the American people.
On purpose, Gruber has admitted that he was telling the truth when he said all that on those YouTube videos, that he was not lying.
But the worst part of it all is it gave the Republicans a PR gift.
But Congressman Cummings don't sweat it.
They're not using it.
The Republicans are not using the PR gift in any way, shape, man, or form.
Here's the second soundbite opening.
Oh, I'm sorry, this is questioning.
This is from Elijah Cummings questioning, and here he scolds Gruber for giving the Republicans a gift and asks him to answer to the Republicans.
I got to tell you, they were insulting.
They were especially harmful because they gave the opponents of the ACA a PR gift.
Man, you did a great job.
You wrapped it up with a bow.
My question is this.
Sitting here today, what do you say to those people who are trying to eliminate the ACA?
I would say that I made a series of inexcusable and offensive comments where I conjectured with a tone of expertise to try to make myself seem smarter by demeaning others.
And I apologize for that.
But that my flaws as a private citizen, not a politician, not a political advisor, my flaws as a private citizen should not reflect on either the process by which the ACA was passed or the success of that law.
Oh, gee, do you talk about a guy falling on a sword?
Here he's got the former chairman of Congressional Black Caucasian leaning down on him, looking down on him.
You idiot, you reprobate.
We are here to beat you up because you gave the enemies of the ACA a huge gift.
You're right.
I was stupid.
I was dumb.
I was inexcusable.
My comments were offensive.
And I was trying to make myself seem smarter than I am by demeaning others.
I apologize.
I'm really not that much smarter than anybody else.
Maybe a little bit, not as much as I lied about.
And I am flawed.
Oh, as a private citizen, I am so flawed.
I'm not a politician.
I'm not nearly as good as you.
I'm not nearly as adept as you.
I'm not nearly as skilled as you.
I'm not nearly as qualified as you.
I have diarrhea in the mouth, Congressman.
And I can't stop myself talking about how wonderfully brilliant I am when we all know I'm a stupid idiot.
That is the essence of Gruber's answer to Elijah Cummings.
But he wasn't through.
Here's a portion of his opening statement.
I'd like to begin by apologizing sincerely for the offending comments that I've made.
In some cases, I made uninformed and glib comments about the political process behind healthcare reform.
I sincerely apologize for conjecturing with the tone of expertise and for doing so in such a disparaging fashion.
It's never appropriate to make oneself seem more important or smarter by demeaning others.
I knew better.
I know better.
I'm embarrassed and I'm sorry.
And I'm not worthy.
And I'm certainly not worthy of being a ranking member of the regime.
I'm not worthy of being a ranking member of the party.
I'll just have to make a go of it at MIT.
Or at least they respect me.
But now is when he's lying.
Now that he's under, now is when he, because clearly he was happy insulting people.
He was happy acting smarter than everybody else.
He was happy bragging how they relied on what he thought was the stupidity of the American people.
In truth, let me say again, what Gruber was really doing was admitting the American people would have figured it out, so they had to lie to the American people.
He really, when you get down to it, was afraid.
He was afraid the American people would understand exactly what scam was, and that's why they had to lie.
He's out there talking about how they use the stupidity, American people, their economic stupidity, in order to make this thing happen.
But he knew full well, just like every one of these Democrats knows, if they ever go public with full honesty about their agenda, their toast.
Even now, even after six years of Obama, their toast, if they're honest about it, they have to misdirect.
They have to cover up.
They have to deflect.
have to lie about who they are, what they really want to do.
So he wasn't really, I mean, if he was relying on the stupidity of American people, he'd be bragging about how they were honest.
Oh, yeah, we came out.
We were honest.
We told people your taxes are going to go up.
You're not going to be able to keep your doctor.
You're not going to keep your plan.
And they still voted for it, these idiots.
But that's not what happened.
He had to lie to them.
This guy is so in so deep, as all narcissists end up being, that he doesn't know where to go.
So he's just taking his medicine now.
And he's relying on his counsel to answer questions about how much money he was paid and all that.
I got to take a brief time out.
There's more of this.
Your phone calls.
And as you can tell here, folks, I'm wound up now.
My mouth can't keep up with the speed of my brain.
It's always a sign we're cooking here.
Don't go away.
Back to the phones to go to Little Rock, home of the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor.
This is Jeff.
Welcome, sir, to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Well, gosh, it's a great honor to talk to you.
I've never done this before.
Thank you, sir.
It's great to have you here.
And I'm not usually one who does something like this, but today was just, I've just fed up.
I did 21 years as a pilot in the Army.
And my daughter just had a baby yesterday, and she's bringing her home, so I have to go because she lives.
But they're willing to sacrifice my grandkids for political gain when they can go out and get the information to save us for something like this happening.
And the people we've elected in Congress or the ones that are there are afraid to stand up and put a stop to this crap.
I'm sorry.
I'm just really angry.
I understand you're being angry.
A lot of people are because when this was going on, the Democrats, Pelosi is misrepresented.
She was told about a lot.
The Democrats got reports of what was going on, and they didn't object.
They didn't object when it was happening because we're in the heat of the moment.
Everybody knew back then we had to find out what these people knew.
We had to head off future attacks.
But then shortly after that, the whole anti-Bush, anti-Iraq war, and even anti-war on terror Democrat objective began.
And so it was all in for all criticism of anybody who had anything to do with the war effort because it was coming up on election time.
It was in the Democrat Party, nothing is sacred.
And so it came time to throw these people overboard.
And I don't understand.
If we keep going the way we're going, we might as well pull the flag down and raise the white cheeks.
Well, let me just tell you, Obama has, I've got it somewhere in the stack here.
Obviously, I didn't intend to get to it now or it'd be at the top of the stack.
But Obama has ordered the DOJ or the DOJ with Obama's approval has ordered that criminal records of people seeking visas either for a long period of time or even permanently are to be ignored now.
I don't get it.
I don't understand it.
Well, I can tell you that I'm blue in the face explaining this, but it is as far as people like Obama and the Democrat Party today believe this country is so flawed from the days of its founding that we owe all of the people of this world that we've denied admittance to our country.
All of the we are responsible for the fact that they're criminals.
We are responsible for their behavior because we have been so mean, because we have had such punishing laws.
We're responsible.
It's time we face the music.
It's time that we face the consequences of how discriminatory and biased and racist that we have been as a nation for over 200 years.
That's why the floodgates are open to anybody and everybody.
Here it is, I think.
It's a story from Breitbart, leaked documents.
USA vulnerable to criminals and terrorists entering without scrutiny after Obama executive amnesty.
Speaking of which, do you know that Obama has not signed any executive action or order for this?
Folks, this is even more corrupt than anybody conceived.
He just wrote a memo instructing Homeland Security not to deport 5 million people.
There is no actual executive order.
The reason for this is abundantly clear.
If anybody wants to prosecute this, what do you prosecute?
There's no executive order.
There's no person to go focus on.
I mean, the lying that's going on in mainstream America today in the media.
Look at this Lena Dunham situation.
Lena Dunham, who is a heroine to the pop culture in this country, she's an absolute star.
She's got this HBO show called Girls.
So popular, so hip, so cool that Obama used her in a campaign commercial in the war on women back in 2012.
So she, what is she?
17 years old?
I know she's in her 20s.
She's got an autobiography.
Oh, yes.
She has an autobiography.
You know what the prominent event in her autobiography is?
Yes, she was raped by a conservative Republican.
Right.
She was raped by a conservative Republican named Barry at Oberlin College in Ohio.
And she described this guy.
And it was easy to find who it was, except a problem arose when he said that he didn't do it.
And he had evidence that he didn't do it.
And so then people were confused because Lena Dunham, why, she's a heroine.
And she wouldn't lie about this because women don't lie about this.
So what do we do?
The guy says he didn't do it.
It looks like he's telling the truth, but we know she wouldn't lie.
So what happened?
And this festered and effervesced.
And it began to become a very harmful thing for this book project.
So the publisher finally came out and said, well, turns out that Barry is a euphemism, sort of like a made-up name.
It's a name that's not the real guy.
It's a pseudonym type thing and so forth.
And so they're okay, well, let's go looking for another Republican guy who might have raped Lena Dunn.
They can't find anybody.
So the publisher has basically tried to walk this back.
Lena Dunham, they will not apologize to this Barry guy, but everybody knows that looked into this who he is, and he didn't do it.
But the publisher is now saying it wasn't him, but there's no apology.
Lena Dunham, as far as I know, sitting here today, hasn't said anything about this one way or the other.
But it turns out that the whole story is probably made up, and it was used to advance this whole notion of war on women and how women are being targeted by a bunch of male predators, primarily at universities, because there is a rape culture on American universities now, because men are such predators.
And then the Rolling Stone story about how a gang rape of a female student at UVA took place.
And then they had to walk that back.
So it turns out that the writer of that story made it up and didn't even talk to the members of the fraternity who had been accused.
So Lena Dunham lies about a Republican college student, Barry, raping her.
A Rolling Stone reporter falsely accused a fraternity University of Virginia of gang raping a young woman.
The leading publication for pop culture, sex, drugs, and rock and roll, I guess is going to have to walk itself back now and just limit itself to drugs and rock and roll because it can't be believed when it writes about sex.
And it's been learned that the author of the Rolling Stone story has done this before.
She has made up these kind of events, rape, before.
But before everybody figured out that Rolling Stone's story was bogus, the University of Virginia suspended the entire fraternity system over these false allegations.
It turns out that the Dean Wormer over there, whoever he happens to be at the UVA, shouldn't have put the fraternities and sororities on double secret probation.
And I doubt that anything's going to happen Rolling Stone Reporter because everybody is in a circle the wagons, CYA mode, just like they did with Dan Rather, when Dan Rather obviously ran a totally made-up story on George Bush and the National Guard.
Drive-by media scheduled a brand new award and a ceremony and a dinner that Dan Rather was the first recipient of because they couldn't let the news suffer.
They couldn't let liberalism suffer.
And they couldn't let journalism suffer.
And they couldn't let the networks take a hit.
So they had to circle the wagons and make Dan Rather some great new award winner.
And that's what's happening now with Lena Dunham.
The same thing tried to protect her.
The publisher's neck is hanging out on the news here.
And this Rolling Stone situation is the same thing.
The lying.
The lying based on totally false political assumptions.
Lena Dunham being raped by some guy in Oberlin Company.
That's political.
What do you mean, Rush?
How's that political?
If you had any idea what's taught at feminist studies, can I remind you, remember the name Catherine McKinnon?
This goes back now to the 90s.
Catherine McKinnon was a militant feminazi.
She happened to teach women's studies at the University of Michigan.
She was famous for teaching the women in her class that all sex is rape, even the sex in marriage.
Because men are basically predators, heartless, with no feelings, who essentially just force themselves on undesiring women, even in marriage.
Now, you listen to this, and you listen to her say it, and you think, this is crazy.
Nobody's going to believe this, except they did.
The young women in her class, a certain percentage of them, did.
I'm convinced that a lot of this cultural rot, which is taking place in journalism, is happening in journalism school.
I really do believe that we are not fully aware, even though we intellectually know, but I don't think we're fully aware of just how radical the faculty at most major universities has become.
I think the faculty is the repository for the most radical extremists in our culture.
Bill Ayers, for example, is a faculty member at some college or university.
And I think they're scattered all over the place.
And I think they're filling their young skulls full of mush with lies and hatred for practically everything to do with American tradition, with American institutions.
And they're taking these young skulls full of mush, and they really are filling them with the kind of hatred that you can't imagine.
And it's taught to them in such a way, hey, I'm letting you in on something you, because you're fortunate enough to be in this class.
I'm going to tell you what's really going on in this country.
I'm going to tell you who the Republicans really are.
I'm going to tell you who the Tea Party really is.
I'm going to tell you who the conservatives really are.
And they launch with the hate.
And they launch with the bias and they launch with the bigotry.
These young kids come out of the womb thinking this stuff.
They probably didn't go to college thinking this stuff.
Some might, and just had it affirmed or confirmed.
But many of them show up just going to college because this next phase in life, and they end up being radicalized by these professors.
I have no doubt that's what's happening.
And now they're entering the mainstream as reporters and journalists.
And they're carrying the agenda that they've been inculcated with and taught right into their jobs.
And there are more and more women in the news business.
Management, assignment editors, producers, you name it, not just on camera and writers, on-camera reporters and writers.
And it is rearing its ugly head everywhere you go in the middle of what is called American pop culture.
And it is another thing that's literally tearing this country apart.
And these, I'm sure that this writer for Rolling Stone, I mean, I don't know for somebody, I would wager if I had to, that she would have written a story even if she knew it was false.
The premise being, well, it may not be true here, but we know it's happening everywhere.
We know there's a rape culture, and therefore it's important and needs to be written about.
And who cares if my story doesn't actually contain real people and real names?
I know there are advocates saying it right now in order to defend her.
They're saying, well, she might have gotten the details here wrong, but everybody knows it's a problem.
And she has raised the curtain.
She's lifted the curtain on one of the evils happening at American universities, gang rape.
So we have to look past the fact that she might have made this up because she's doing a service in shining a light on a horrible thing that's becoming standard operating procedure in the American fraternity system.
And that's how it's justified.
And the same excuse would be made with Lena Dunham.
Well, okay, maybe she took some liberties here, but we cannot deny that women are under siege on American campuses.
And this is to justify.
It's like when that ill-fated moment when somebody leaked that I was in a group trying to purchase the St. Louis Rams.
And all of a sudden, there are reams of fake quotes attributed to me that I never said about race, slavery, race relations.
And the sports drive-bys are publishing it without even checking it out.
And they're all being heralded as heroes.
And then finally, it was pointed out to all of them that I had never said it.
And the man who made them up had been identified.
He wouldn't take it back, but he admitted that he had taken some liberties.
They all knew that they had published total lies.
And the way they dealt with it was to say, well, Limbaugh didn't say it.
Okay, didn't say it, didn't say it, but we know he thinks it.
And it's the same thing that's being done here with all of these rape stories and whatever else that fits into the war on women meme that the Democrat Party has established.
And therefore, the truth.
The truth is the biggest casually because the truth has become relative.
The truth is all dependent on what the powerful can make it be or the people who think they are powerful.
In this case, it's journalists.
And to them, power, not truth, is the key.
And if you have the power to write a story that is factually incorrect, but you think identifies a larger problem, fine.
Go ahead and do it because you're serving the greater good by illuminating a problem, even if you had to fictionalize an account of it.
And they're applauding themselves and patting themselves on the back for this.
And it's the same mentality.
Well, Limbaugh didn't say it.
Okay.
They were upset when they found out he didn't say it.
But then they had to say to cover their own bases, well, we know he probably has thought it.
We know he probably thinks it because we know Limbaugh.
So character assassination, defamation, you name it.
But this has a real world result.
They are tearing apart the fabric of society.
They are rendering meaningless the truth.
They are being able, getting away with using power to make the truth relative, to fit whatever their political agenda is.
And as such, innocent bystanders, which happen to be the American people, their heads are spinning, not knowing what's what, but afraid to speak up because they know what happens to people who do.
Same thing in St. Louis.
Hands up didn't shoot did not happen.
Hands up, don't shoot, did not happen.
And Eric Garner was not killed with a chokehold.
He had a heart attack.
He had all kinds of health problems, diabetes, type 2, I think, and respiratory problems.
It wasn't a chokehold.
Doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
And now, you know, I can remember asking some friends of mine who have been in the business of sports, primarily on the management side in broadcasting.
I remember asking them, why don't athletes speak up on some of these political things?
I mean, you realize how much credibility they have.
Take a favorite player you have anywhere, and there's a controversy in America.
You know that if an athlete spoke up to a lot of people, it would settle the issue.
And these guys said to me, it'll never happen.
Athletes are never going to go there.
Their endorsements will be on the line.
They have nothing to gain, Rush.
They got nothing to gain by angering half the country with a political point of view.
So they're going to stay out of it.
Well, guess what?
That's gone by now.
And I knew it was going to happen when those five guys at the Rams came out and put their hands up, solidarity with the protesters.
And it wasn't just the next week.
It's, I can't breathe all over t-shirts or I can't breathe all over shoes.
And LeBron James is out there, I can't breathe on the court.
And so now the corrupting influences that sports was an escape from, the corrupting events that sports provided an escape from, sports has now been corrupted as well.
There is no escape from it.
I know.
Clearing of the throat from the broadcast engineer means I have to stop.
I'm going to go back to the phones to Bend Oregon.
This is Tom.
You're next, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Hello.
Oh, thank you.
I've been listening since Sacramento, the exit.
I sounded just like you.
But my question is, why don't we have pictures of ISIS and then what they're doing to children beheading the women and children there like they do with the Abu Graph pictures?
This is a very good question.
It's a very interesting question.
Have you noticed, Tom, that every anniversary of 9-11, something isn't shown?
If you notice, we don't any longer on the major cable and broadcast networks, there may be an exception to Fox now, we do not see footage of the planes hitting the Twin Towers.
We don't see footage of people leaping out of the buildings, plunging to their deaths to avoid being burned alive.
We don't see any dead.
We don't see the beheadings.
It's just too gross.
It's just we're not capable of it.
We're not capable of dealing with it.
It's too horrific.
But your point is well taken.
One of the reasons that that video footage isn't shown is precisely so that the American people will over time forget the intensity. of the acts and the horrors.
No question about that.
Look, I went long in the last segment.
That's why this one's short.
That's not good on my part, but I did it.
So this is another break.
I have to take folks.
Sorry for that.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Honestly, don't know where the time's going.
I really, my energy level feels like I just sat down here and already two of the three busy broadcast hours are in the can.