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Jan. 16, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 16, 2015, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, a rebound.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
It's Rush Limboff.
It's the EIB Network at the Limboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies on Friday.
Major, major controversy in Hollywood.
No black nominees.
Al Sharpton on the protest prowl.
I have a solution.
Meryl Streep has a bunch of them.
Probably some she doesn't even deserve to have won.
Maybe she could give some of hers away to some black actresses.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
Well, why not?
What liberalism does, takes the people it don't deserve and give it to everybody else who does.
Whether you earn it or not is irrelevant.
Redistributed shit to the Oscars.
We're going to redistribute income.
We're going to redistribute health care.
Why not redistribute?
Redistribute Academy Awards.
This is absurd.
The number of things that are absurd in the news today.
Thank God it's Open Line Friday.
And you know what, folks?
I overslept today for the first time and I can't tell you when.
Unlike mere mortals, there are no alarms that work for me.
And because Catherine's out of town, I going El Solo.
And the only thing that'll wake me up is light.
There's no alarm.
There's no alarm made.
I've tried those vibrant.
The cat couldn't care less.
If the cat isn't hungry, it ain't going to wake me up.
A cat doesn't need to wake you up to go outside because it can get litter box on its own.
So anyway, it's been a brutal week.
It has just been brutal in terms of stuff not here, just life stuff.
And I guess it caught up with me last night.
I had to go to New York on, what was it, Wednesday?
I got back at four in the morning and a bunch of stuff last night.
And it just caught up with me.
And I left every shade wide open.
And what is freaking overcast out there?
So there was not enough sunlight coming in.
And I woke up and I looked at the clock and it said 9.20.
And folks, that is panic city.
I mean, I still had two and a half hours and I am in absolute panic.
So I have felt just compressed all morning getting ready for today's busy broadcast.
And I'm telling you, it is a doozy.
There's just so much absurdity today.
Let me just give you an example.
Let me just run through some of the headlines.
Women's College retires annual vagina monologues presentation as transphobic.
Well, transphobic.
This is Mount Holyoke College.
It's an old women's college in Massachusetts.
Is going to quit performing its annual production of vagina monologues because the play is not inclusive of transgender students.
In other words, guys who've had a chop a dick off of me and have become, don't actually have vaginas.
So it is insulting to transgenders who think they're women, but don't have vaginas to do the vagina monologues.
It's insulting to the transgenders.
So they're going to ban it.
Now, you remember that the vagina monologues used to be one of the anthems.
Eve Ensler wrote it, and every modern-day feminazi swore by it, went to Broadway or wherever they had to go to see it performed.
Jane Fonda raved about it even during the exercise videos, might have even had some fun there, if you know what I mean.
But now it's become sexist.
It's become bigoted.
The vagina monologues.
You think these people are not absolute looney tunes.
That's just one headline.
Pot-based sex spray for women hitting Colorado shelves.
A new pot spray, i.e., marijuana, promising to help women have better sex, will hit the shelves in Colorado next week.
Right.
I mean, if you're going to ban the vagina monologues, what do you need to replace it?
Sex spray based on marijuana, right there.
I'm going to get the details later.
If you want to know where to spray it, hang on.
John Kerry.
John Kerry, this is unbelievable.
My friends, I'm embarrassed.
I'm literally embarrassed.
John Kerry went over to France.
They're trying to make up for the fact that Obama didn't go and be part of the big rally over there.
So they sent John Kerry over for some sort of press conference with the French and the French media and intended for the French people.
They actually dragged James Taylor and had and Kerry spoke French again, which is embarrassing enough in itself.
And then James Taylor sang You've Got a Friend.
My, I am embarrassed to be an American today.
To have to take James Taylor over there.
You know what's going to happen?
John Bolton's going to be a Secretary of State someday, we hope.
And I can't wait till he goes someplace in the Middle East and takes along with him the famous rock group, The Clash.
They can sing Rock the Casbah, whatever.
This is, and James Taylor just, of course, I'll be happy to sing You've Got a Friend.
And they sang it, and the French are sitting there listening to this.
And, oh my God, what a bunch of wusses.
What a bunch of mush.
It's squishy.
And the militant Islamists all over the world cannot believe the good luck that they've been handed.
And then you add to this, you want to hear more absurdity?
What is the focus of militant Islamism today?
It's Yemeni al-Qaeda, is it not, Ms. Sturdley?
Al-Qaeda in Yemen is the new focus.
They're the guys that supposedly blew up Charl Hebdo and all that.
So what's Obama doing?
He's releasing Al-Qaeda from Yemen prisoners at Club Gitmo in the middle of all this.
I'm watching Fox News today.
And of course, they're trying to understand it because nobody can come to the grips.
I'm listening to them ask questions of each other.
You know, is it possible that maybe, you know, Obama is so far off the beaten path of where most Americans are.
Is it possible that maybe, oh, it couldn't be, but I know a lot of people are.
Is it possible that he's like really doing this on purpose?
We're into our seventh year, and there's still people can't get their arms around all this.
Is it possible that Obama might be?
Oh, no.
Don't told you.
Let me ask you a question.
Why?
When the focus of the most recent terror attacks happens to be Al-Qaeda in Yemen, why the hell is Obama releasing Al-Qaeda from Yemen from Club Goodwill?
Why is he doing it?
Two reasons.
Yeah, In Your Face is part of it.
But I'm going to give you the charitable reason.
And it's going to be pretty close to right.
Obama really believes that the prison at Guantanamo is responsible for all of this.
I think Obama and a number of leftists actually believe that when a terrorist says, Yeah, I saw those pictures, boy, that's what made me a terrorist.
I think he believes it.
They're so invested in Bush being the devil.
They're so invested in Bush being to blame for all this.
They're so invested in having the convenience of being able to blame George W. Bush and Gitmo's Bush.
I think Obama can tell the world, I'm just trying to stop this stuff.
I'm just trying to stop these attacks.
He doesn't realize that by releasing Al-Qaeda in Yemen prisoners, they're free to go perform jihad.
He thinks releasing them is the akin to appeasing them.
That's the charitable view, Snurd.
That's the charitable view.
That's being as charitable as I can.
I'm just telling you, I'm being as charitable as I can.
I'm not telling you I believe this.
I'm just telling you, that's the most charitable I can be to explain it.
He really, really believes that our prison at Guantanamo Bay is the reason the Islamists hate us and the reason they keep attacking people.
And he's just, he promised he was going to close it and he hadn't done it.
And if he's going to keep trying to get dribble prisoners out of there as a means of stopping terrorists, you don't think he's that stupid.
Well, then, then what are you?
Well, then, why else would he be doing this?
Unless he wants these people to go act the reason they got imprisoned in the first place, is he releasing them so they'll go continue to perform militant acts of terror?
You really want to say that?
Is that what you want to level?
Isn't it?
Of course, you don't want to say it.
Well, they do.
We do know there's a recidivism rate.
We do know that many released terrorists go back and join their buddies on the battlefield.
He knows it too.
Exactly right.
Anyway, that news actually, it's absurd.
It's totally absurd.
The problem is that has dire consequences.
Mount Holyoke College canceling the vagina monologues because some of the women there don't have vaginas now.
That doesn't have major consequences.
Actually, that does too.
That could screw a whole nother.
It's a mess out there.
Anyway, what else do I have?
Then, John Kern, you've got a friend.
Al Sharpton, an emergency meeting to address the appalling all-white Oscar nominees.
And the media is all behind this.
What has happened to us?
Here we have a literal buffoon of a human being, Al Sharpton.
A hoaxer, a fraud, a tax cheat, a tax evader, a man who has inspired riots in Harlem.
And this man holds positions of prominence in our culture today.
What is wrong with him?
What's wrong with this picture?
Al Sharpton?
Tell me about a nation of wusses and cowards.
I mean, the Sony hack happens, and the first thing they do is bend over and grab the ankles called Al Sharpton.
Now, Sharpton is raising holy hell about Academy Awards nominees.
And they're listening.
Al Sharpton?
I mean, despicable.
Forget making jokes and stuff of usual political commentary.
Just Al Sharpton, Tawana Brawley hoax, the Freddie's fashion mart deaths and riots, the tax cheat stuff, this buffoonery.
And yet has a position of prominence because he sits at the right hand of Barack Hussein.
Oh, he sits at the right hand of Obama.
Not an accident there either.
Let's see.
Oh, grab soundbite number 18.
If you've been – oh, wait a minute.
You know, Elon Musk.
Tesla, he's the inventor of the Tesla electric car, and he's very popular amongst young tech-aspiring Steve Jobs types.
They love the guy.
He's got a SpaceX program, and he's trying to launch spaceships to Mars and maybe take Stephen Hawking with him so Hawking will live forever because Hawking thinks we're all doomed to death here on Earth.
Anyway, which we are, by the way.
I don't know anybody yet who hasn't died.
Hawking says we're all going to, and everybody stops it.
Really?
Stephen Hawking says we're all going to die on Earth.
No, no.
Yes, we must colonize.
Oh, okay.
And they start thinking about it.
We're surrounded.
Do you realize we're surrounded by genuine idiocy that is presented to us as genius beyond which we can ever hope to understand?
Elon Musk has donated $10 million to keep artificial intelligence from wiping out humanity.
Elon Musk has been talking about the dangers of artificial intelligence going genocidal for months, and now he's putting $10 million.
He's giving it to the Future of Life Institute.
That's a nonprofit.
The goal of working to mitigate existential risks facing humanity.
The organization will distribute Musk's donation to scientists, working toward keeping artificial intelligence beneficial to humanity.
Certainly, they're not supposed to ask that question.
Certainly, it's, well, who's working on the evil version of artificial intelligence?
That just goes to show you don't understand it.
See, the problem is artificial intelligence is going to make itself evil.
We're going to build artificial intelligence.
The intelligence we build is going to be independently intelligent.
It's not going to depend on lines of code.
It's not going to depend on input from us.
It's going to grow on its own.
It's going to expand its intellect.
And as such, it will automatically go to the evil side.
And so Elon Musk is trying to get money to engineers and scientists to make sure that artificial intelligence stays on the good side.
It's above my pay grade.
But this is how global warming got started.
People being recipients of donor grants.
Ladies and gentlemen, have you, you Fortiner fans and you NFL fans, have you been a little perplexed at why Jim Harbaugh was summarily fired at the Fortiners?
Here's a guy who took over a losing franchise year after year after year after year after year.
He ends up turning that franchise around, drafts a quarterback that could end up being a superstar quarterback in the league.
They make the playoffs three years in a row, go to the Super Bowl for the first time in many, many, many, many years.
They have one bad season, eight and eight this year, and Harbaugh is gone and they chalked it up.
They just, you know, we couldn't get along with the guy.
I'm like, he's a control freak.
Nobody in the office liked the guy.
The owner of the team is the son of Denise York DeBartolo, Jed York.
He's 33, 34, maybe 38.
He's got all the degrees.
And they hired a head coach from Within.
I think he was the defensive coordinator.
His name is Jim Tomsulla or Tom Sulla.
I don't know how you pronounce it, so I'm doing it both ways so as not to.
We may have the answer why Harbaugh is gone.
Here's the new head coach during his introductory press conference.
With the San Francisco 49ers, and we talk about the organization that these men have built and ladies have built.
What a village.
I'm that guy, it's into the village.
I believe it takes a village.
I believe no one man does anything by himself.
Okay, so I think now we know why Harbaugh's gone.
Very simple.
And I don't have time to explain it.
I got to take a break.
If you want me to explain it, I will.
Look at this here, folklore, for the Oakland Tribune.
I think the Oakland Tribune probably has the best media presentation of the controversy over the Oscars.
A headline above the full top story, and the Oscar for Best Caucasian goes to.
That's their headline on this controversy.
The media just falls into lockstep on this.
Oh, yeah, a little way down in a hole, Stevie Earl.
Open line Friday, Rush Limb bought 800-282-2882, the email address, LRushbow at EIBnet.com.
Jim Tomsula or Tomsulla is not even the defensive coordinator.
He's a defensive line coach of the 49ers.
Now, I'd always heard that Harbaugh was a Republican, but that doesn't mean anything anymore.
I don't know if Harbaugh's a conservative or not.
I've never met Harbaugh.
I don't know any of the Harbaughs.
I've never met them.
I only know them like anybody else does on TV.
But this soundbite makes it pretty clear to me what happened to Harbaugh.
It makes it pretty clear to me if the stories we got, what were coming out of the Fortiners, that they just couldn't get along with the guy.
And he was, you know, he was portrayed, and he was a soldier in this.
He never responded to it.
He was the summit professional.
But he was being trashed everywhere as a bad actor, volatile, volcanic personality, very, very hard to get along with.
Had to be his way or no way was it.
Except the players all love the guy from everything we heard.
And then we get this press conference from the new coach, and we get talk about all of the great men and ladies who have built the Fortiners.
And then this new coach talks about how the whole thing, the Fortiners and the team, is a village and says, I believe it takes a village.
I believe no one man does anything by himself.
That's slapping Harbaugh.
That's comporting with what.
I think this is a political rip.
I think it was just a bunch of libs and the Fortiners and a conservative head coach, and they couldn't get along.
Like so much in this country.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, look.
Look, I know that there's big immigration news out there, and I was right.
Moehner was just shining us on, folks.
As we suspected earlier in the week, the GOP annual retreat is going on.
And Mitch McConnell has basically told the House Republicans, I don't care what you send over here on immigration.
We probably are not going to pass it.
And it's one of the things that we speculated on earlier in the week.
One of two things is going to happen with the House Immigration Bill.
And this is an immigration bill designed to deny Obama the money necessary to implement his amnesty executive orders.
The bill's either going to die in the Senate or they'll pass it and Obama will veto it.
And they don't have enough votes to override it.
And after the veto, or after the bill dies, I said that's where the real focus is, because then we'll know what the real intentions are.
Well, I think we already know now, because the retreat McConnell has pretty much said we're not going to pass this thing.
The donors to the Republican Party do not want any opposition to amnesty, however it happens.
If Obama does it, if Republican, they don't care.
They just want an end to deportations and the normalization of the illegal immigrants who are here now.
And so all of the talk that we've been here, tough talk about Obama violating the Constitution, Obama this, Obama that, we're going to stand up to it, how Obama himself is setting him to power to do all this.
It appears that that was just a little red meat for the Republican base to feast on for a while in an attempt to tide them over through the next hunger strike.
But I have more details on that as the program unfolds.
I've still got one more thing that I put here in the absurd stack today.
The silly stack or what have you.
Listen to this headline.
This is from the Weekly Standards, but Daniel Halper.
Pedophile's fixer maintains close ties to the Clintons and even raised more money for Bill.
Okay, pedophile, that's Jeffrey Epstein, the fixer.
Okay, who is that?
Well, this is the woman named Ghillane Maxwell.
Her name, if you've seen it in print and not been sure how to pronounce it, her name is spelled G-H-I-S-L-A-I-N.
He looks like Ghislaine.
She's the daughter of the late press Baron Robert Maxwell, who at one time owned the New York Daily News.
He's the guy who was found floating dead in the ocean a few feet from his luxury yacht.
Drowned or some such thing years and years ago, back in the 90s.
Now, Ghillaine Maxwell is a societal.
I mean, she's a socialite.
She's up there.
She ranks.
She's Brit, and she ranks high there.
She's a friend of Tony Blair.
She ranks up there.
She ranks everywhere.
She's a huge socialite.
And she is said to be the fixer for Epstein.
She is said to be almost the mother hen to the young girls that Epstein would bring into the house to do sex acts for Epstein's buddies.
And that's what has looped in now Prince Andrew, because there's this 17-year-old, then 17, now 30-year-old woman who was one of these underage women brought in to provide sex and massages and whatever else for the friends of Jeffrey Epstein.
And there were convictions on this or this deal.
And we know it happened is the bottom line.
Epstein didn't admit to nearly all of it, but we know it happened.
And the Palm Beach police specifically know all that happened.
And there was a lot of frustration here, folks, because the Democrat Party got involved here, and the case was turned over to the state attorney away from the local Palm Beach police.
And it was there a very, very sweetheart deal was swung, said to be with influence from other locales, New York and Washington.
So Epstein got 13 months, I think, and then some in-home arrests, and then it's done, except he is a level one sex offender and has to register wherever he goes.
But he really got off lightly compared to what the evidence against him was.
Anyway, this woman is now writing about all this, and there's documentation, and some of it can be confirmed.
A lot of it can be confirmed in the court records, the case file.
So everybody knows the woman isn't lying.
Some people suggest she's exaggerating, and there are some who claim she's lying.
But the bottom line, this happened.
Epstein did provide underage women for an endless parade of men, some local, some national, some superstars.
He flew them around all over the world.
He had a Boeing 727.
He's a donor, a huge donor to education and science, and those people rallied to him in the midst of his court case.
I mean, he's given gazillions.
He has underwritten science experimentation like you can't believe.
He has underwritten education like you can't believe.
So those people came to his rescue when need be.
He has flown people.
Bill Clinton is high on Clinton and Epstein were inseparable at one point.
Now, Clinton's name and the young underage girls have never been linked.
This is an association type thing.
And there was a point in time during all this when Clinton, when the court case, the legal case against Epstein finally went public, that's when Clinton had a very public splint and went South and said he wants no more to do with Epstein.
But before all that, Epstein was flying Clinton to Africa, donating to Clinton's charities, and they were very close.
So people are continuing now to look into this.
Even though it's for those of us who live here, this is old news, and it's kind of surprising how long it's taken to surface.
But the reason it's surfacing is that one of the underage girls has come forth with details.
Now, anyway, here's the latest story on this.
I'll get to why I put this in the absurds deck.
A woman alleged to have been the fixer for Jeffrey Epstein, a pedophile and a friend of Bill Clinton, has herself had long ties to the former president of the United States.
And indeed, it's clear that even as her associate, Epstein, admitted to procuring sex with someone under the age of 18 and registered as a sex offender in 2008, Ghelane Maxwell's relationship with the Clintons flourished, even while all this had come to light.
And Ghelane Maxwell was on Epstein's payroll.
Ghelane Maxwell, nobody knows, but if these young women needed a female shoulder to cry on, it was Ghelane Maxwell.
It'll be okay, honey.
This is fun.
She knew what was going on and helped facilitate it.
That's the fixer business.
But even she did not break off with Clinton.
She continued to raise money for the Clintons and for Bill Clinton.
The reason all this is, shall we say, relevant now, is the political aspirations of Mrs. Clinton.
And if any of this that's surfacing now will continue to surface and not being damaging to Mrs. Clinton.
What do we have?
How many jokes can you pack into one party?
We have the L sharp.
If that's not a joke on a political party, I don't know what is.
Here we have, I mean this in a non-inflammatory way.
We have a genuine, despicable buffoon of a human being who has destroyed I don't know how many people with false allegations and false charges.
He has perpetrated hoaxes, he has perpetrated riots, he owes millions of dollars to the IRS and gets away with it because he's a close friend of the president, apparently.
And you?
How does somebody like this percolate to the top of the Democrat Party?
Well, one of the reasons is he's a close buddy of Obama's.
And for Obama, Sharpton's perfect.
I mean, serves a perfect purpose for what Obama has in mind.
Okay, that's one joke.
But now look at the Clintons for crying out loud.
Look at all of this that we know.
In what fantasy, in what land of fantasy can a woman partially responsible for the death of four people in Benghazi and then lying about it, whose husband is a well-known skirt chaser and womanizer and has been caught lying before a federal grand jury,
whose husband was so notorious for treating women like they were slaves that this woman, his wife, had to create the Bimbos eruption unit in order to try to destroy those women with whom her husband had had numerous affairs.
The wife of this man, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton services and leads the effort to destroy the reputations and lives of the women her husband had affairs with.
Destroy them, their character, their reputations, their honesty in order to preserve his political career.
And this woman is said to be a hero?
This woman is said to be the most powerful woman in the Democratic Party.
This woman has all kinds of reputation and status.
This is the kind of thing, if somebody wrote a novel about this, it would be sent back from the publisher as, sorry, this is such a big fantasy.
There's not one shred of believability in this story.
You need to change it.
No publisher would publish this.
But it happens to be the reality.
And now the woman who helped the pedophile find these underage women for the pedophiles' male friends to have sex with is a best buddy of this woman's husband, Bill Clinton, and was even at Chelsea's wedding after having raised money for the foundation.
Elaine Maxwell was another person in Epstein's inner circle and a co-conspirator in Epstein's sexual abuse.
She was someone who consequently also appreciated the immunity granted to the NPA for the crimes she committed in Florida, reads a recently released court document related to the scandal.
She was someone consequently who also appreciated the immunity granted by the NPA for the crime she committed.
Look at this den of thieves.
Look at this.
And yet, throughout this country, they're held up as role models.
They are rock stars.
They're heroes.
When in truth, these people are all reprobates.
You wouldn't let them in your church.
You wouldn't want them in your church.
You wouldn't want them in your neighborhood.
And we're talking here about one of them running for president after all of these long years of being so unfairly denied her rightful chance to lead this country.
And a woman is an absolute incompetent.
I once said on this pro and I caught a lot of grief for it.
And I'm going to have to even paraphrase myself.
I don't remember the exact quote, but I was looking.
How many look at the way Hillary herself has been treated in all this?
You can't say her husband respects her.
I mean, it's just all of this.
And then you throw Al Sharpton on it and then take Annie.
John Kerry going over to France and talking France French and James Taylor's we've got a friend.
Every day it's a new joke.
It's a new absurdity.
It just never ever ends.
Now, Wesley Prudent has a piece today, The Washington Times, Why Hillary Won't Run for President.
Calls her the most downtrodden woman in America.
I wish I could remember what I said about it.
It's something like that, actually.
It was the most rejected or most.
You know, I'm going to do a site search because I know I'll find it because I remember catching a lot of hell for it.
And that just means it was right on the money.
Get to a quick timeout here, folks.
Be right back.
I found it up in there, folks.
I found it up in there.
I went to my website.
It was October 16, 2007, when I said Hillary Clinton, the most cheated-on woman in the history of the world.
That's what I remember.
That's what, seven, eight years ago.
Well, seven and a half, this would be October.
And she is.
I could go review the comments that I made on the program that day, but we got Wesley Pruden now.
Why Hillary Won't Run for President?
Basically, he says she can't win, and that's why she won't run.
She may not even know that yet herself, but a lot of Democrats want her because she's all they got.
No, they don't.
They've got Elizabeth Warren, and I'm going to tell you that woman star is rising in the Democrat Party.
I'll tell you why it's rising.
You know, Hillary is doing her best, whatever she's doing right now, she's doing her best to distance herself from Obama, foreign policy, and the economy.
But here comes Elizabeth Warren.
And what the conventional wisdom is that Elizabeth Warren is succeeding in moving the Democrat Party even further to the left on the economy.
And that her magnetic field, so to speak, this is another absurdity, but that this woman is a legitimate contender for a particular political party's presidential nomination.
That you didn't build it.
Elizabeth Warren, who faked having Indian blood in order to qualify for some affirmative action victimization.
This party is presenting to us joke after joke after joke.
And these jokes are presented as paragons of virtue.
It is sick.
Anyway, Elizabeth Warren is such a star and such a heroine in the extreme, insane Democrat base.
She is said now to even be dragging Hillary back to the left with economic comments and so forth.
So anyway, all of this is factored in, not all of it, but Prudent talks about how Obama's baggage is going to be too much for Hillary and even Bill's baggage is going to be too much when the moment of truth comes.
The parties already reject how many presidential primary seasons was it Hillary's?
And they've always found somebody.
She's the most.
She's treated like an abused wife.
She's the most cheated on.
It was hers in 2008, and here came Obama, and they just cast her aside.
And they want to blame her for Benghazi when all the stuff happens.
Obama brings her in to take all the hits for what he knows is going to be a disastrous foreign policy because he intends that to be the case.
This is the most abused woman in America.
The most cheated on, the most abused woman.
I spoke up in her defense on this a number of times.
I ran Operation Chaos to keep her campaign viable in 2008.
But it doesn't matter.
It's all just one joke.
Sick, sorry joke after another.
And I got to take another time out.
Don't go away.
Well, it's Open Line Friday, and I didn't get to a call.
I intended to.
So my intentions were honorable.
So I'm above criticism.
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