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Jan. 16, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 16, 2015, Friday, Hour #3
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Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have your guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, tumult, murkiness, absurdity, insanity, lunacy.
It makes no sense out there.
And even the good times.
Il Rushbo, America's real anchorman on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
Open Line Friday where, well, it doesn't even really matter.
What have we done in taking two calls today?
I'm sorry.
It just over.
I'm overloaded today.
I just have stuff that I am compelled to talk about.
To do Open Line Friday, right?
You know, I have to just broom everything that I want to talk about.
Just go to the phones and let's let that be it.
And who knows, someday that may happen.
Okay, the proof for you who thought it was a joke that John Kerry actually took James Taylor over to Paris to sing You've Got a Friend to the French people and the French media in a press conference.
It actually happened.
This is continued fallout from Obama not going and not sending anybody to the rally in Paris last weekend.
The fallout's huge.
So the State Department, Jean-François Carey, who served in Vietnam, by the way, is trying to make amends.
Speaks French.
Marie Harve said, hey, we've gone out of the way to be conciliatory, to be nice to the French.
Why, John Kerry's even speaking French to them.
She actually says that.
As though that is an indication of how much we care.
And we didn't mean to snub them.
The Secretary of State is actually speaking to them in their native tongue.
James Taylor.
You've got a friend.
Whatever.
Didn't he once have a relationship with Carol King?
Way, way back.
I'm talking 60s and 70s.
Oh, no, he did have a relationship with Carly Simon.
Yeah, but I think, I think, well, I don't know that they were married, but I think there was a tough time.
It's a long time ago.
I don't remember.
I wasn't big fans at the time.
In my first Tonight Show appearance, Jay Leno, James Taylor was scheduled to appear and canceled.
And the producers, a real nice guy, Dave Berg, who's written a book, by the way, now about his time as a producer, booker at the Tonight Show.
Dave Berg said, look, James Taylor did not cancel because you're coming on.
I just want you to know.
I don't want you to think James, he just had a schedule conflict and he had to cancel last moment.
But I don't want you to think it had anything to do with the fact that you're going to be on the show, which told me it was because I was on the show that James Taylor canceled.
And this is back in my naive days.
I'm not even aware I'm hated and despised yet.
Eye-opening things.
So we'll get to that soundbite in just a second.
But Jim Clancy, does the name ring a bell, Snerdley?
A 34-year reporter at CNN.
You would recognize him if you saw him.
He's now got white hair and he looks like your barber.
Well, not yours, mine.
Looks like he could be my barber.
But he left in a storm of controversy.
And it's all because of Twitter.
He got involved in a back and forth on Twitter, and he's eventually resigned because of it.
And I think this is, I think, we're just discussing why are these leftists so reluctant to criticize Islamic terrorism?
Why are they so insistent that you not call it what it is?
And I ran through all the possible answers to that.
That, well, they feel a common bond.
I mean, you've got groups here who think America is a big problem in the world, and a lot of Democrats who think America is a big problem in the world.
So there's one bond of commonality there.
You could have cowardice as the explanation, fear, appeasement.
Oh, my God.
No, just, you know what?
I think don't criticize them, Mr. Limbeau.
Please don't criticize them.
And that's the best way to make them not hate us.
You know, appease them.
Mr. Limbaugh, mollify them.
Do not call them out.
Do not identify.
That's how we will get peace is to not infuriate.
And that, I think, is a frequent explanation for why they, some people like the Howard Deans, and there's just a bunch of them out there that no matter what you do, no matter what happens, do not call them Islamists.
Don't call it Islamist extremism, whatever you do.
And the reason is, just don't want to make them any madder than they are.
Let's mollify them.
Be nice to them.
Not demonize them.
And they will love us.
And I think that's Jim Clancy.
The story is in Mediaite.
Just one week after he engaged in a heated Twitter debate over the terror attacks on Charl Ebdu, CNN international correspondent Jim Clancy announced that he's leaving the network after more than 30 years.
It's actually 34.
In a short note to his colleagues at CNN, Jim Clancy did not give a reason for his departure.
Here's what he wrote.
After nearly 34 years with the cable news network, the time has come to say farewell.
It's been my honor to work alongside all of you for all of these years.
This is one of the greatest news organizations in the world.
It would be even greater if we had viewers.
It has truly revolutionized information delivery while driving technological advances in how we gather the news.
Through it all, CNN has been a family to my own family, and that means something.
As I reflect on all of the great adventures and achievements of the past, I wish you great success in the future and viewers.
Sincerely, Jim Clancy.
Now, I threw in the part about no viewers.
He didn't really write that.
I just wanted to be honest about that.
But here's what he tweeted.
After the Charl Ebdu attacks, Jim Clancy went to his Twitter account and he said, the cartoons never mocked a prophet.
They mocked how the cowards tried to distort the prophet's word.
Pay attention.
That's what Clancy tweeted on the day of the Paris attacks.
And then after that, he accused Israel and Zionist propaganda of being partially responsible for the attacks.
And then as of yesterday, he had deleted his Twitter account.
A CNN spokesman confirmed the news saying Jim Clancy is no longer with CNN.
He's now one of our few viewers.
We thank him for more than three decades of distinguished service that very few people saw, and we wish him nothing but the best.
I just threw in the parts about viewers that few people saw.
Just want to be honest about that.
I made that up.
CNN didn't really say that.
They think it, but they didn't.
You don't think it was Hebdo tweeting?
Oh, I know.
Seeing it.
But how under fire is CNN for their anti-Israeli views?
This is nothing new.
Why force somebody out because of that?
Well, what do you mean they're not supposed to be made public?
CNN is very well known to think Israel's a big problem in the Middle East peace process and everything else.
Anyway, the cartoons never mocked a prophet.
They never mocked a prophet.
They mocked how the cowards tried to distort the prophet's word.
Pay attention.
I don't even know who he was tweeting.
But you know, once you push that send button, hit the click on the send button on Twitter, your life could be over.
Once you.
It's a crapshoot out there every day.
But then to go on and rip Israel and Zionist propaganda for being responsible for the attacks, that is proposed.
CNN management probably said, whoa.
Okay, we have a PTSD problem here, and we've got to do something about it.
Clearly, Clancy's gone.
All right, here we go, folks.
Here we go.
This is this morning in Paris at Elyse Palace.
Secretary of State Jean-François Carry held a joint press conference with the mayor of Paris and Hidalgo.
And here is a portion of his opening remarks.
On the day of the living nightmare that began at Charlie Hebdo, I had a chance to share a few thoughts with you from back home in Washington.
Today, I just really wanted to come here and share a hug with all of Paris.
I wanted to express to you personally the sheer horror and revulsion all Americans felt for the cowardly and despicable act, the assault on innocent lives.
This is not really happening.
This is not really happening.
This represents some of the greatest plunge dissent in American strength, credibility, and respect.
It's exactly what I feared when they put some guy like Kerry in that job.
I just, you know, really wanted to come here and share a hug with all of Paris.
I'd like to know where Henry Kissinger is today and how he's reacting to this.
Imagine Dr. Kissinger sitting wherever he is, probably at well, where would he be?
Where would he be?
Some restaurants still closing out lunch.
Le Cirque, probably.
That's right where he is.
Le Cirque.
Maybe he's at the new polo bar.
Saying, where else in the world could somebody like me become Secretary of State?
And then all I had to say was, I wanted to come and give Israel a huge hug, and I could have been a hero.
Can you imagine what he's saying about this?
I just wanted to come give Paris share a hug with all of Paris.
Sad thing is, the audience probably thought it was great.
Meaningful, really sincere.
And then Kerry tortured them again with his French and introduced, it's not a joke, James Taylor to sing, You've Got a Friend.
Et la Bouté de Salmusique.
Et les produ d'on lement donchier.
Mais vous attricie au jaudui a récoin pour vous exprémés son emotion et vous aufra chançant.
Madame et monsieur James Taylor.
Okay, and then here you have Jamie.
The irony is that the French did call.
They did call, but you listen to the lyrics of the song.
The French did call and Obama wasn't there.
Obama said, screw you, I got the NFL on.
But anyway, here's James Taylor.
Oh, I will be there.
Yes, I'll be there.
You've got it, friend.
I haven't seen...
Well, I did see a still shot.
I don't see any lighters, candles, cigarette lighters.
I didn't see any of that.
I didn't.
I don't know.
They sang long enough for them to begin swaying back and forth.
All I know is winter, spring, summer, or fall, all you got to do is call.
Well, they called, and Obama sniffed them.
And instead, gets John Kerry speaking French with James Taylor.
Nobody had to convince James Taylor it's a good idea.
He's a lib in good standing.
This is what counts for substance today.
Don't you get it?
It's not embarrassing.
I guarantee you, this is going to go down in Kerry's life and in James Taylor's life and probably in some of the French people's lives who were there.
This is going to end up being reported, written about in memoirs as one of the most meaningful days and moments in Anglo-French foreign policy history.
You watch.
So we have had such a descent from seriousness into the symbolic and the sublime.
This is, I guarantee you, the good vibes these people were feeling.
They think this really mattered today.
This revolutionary, new kind of foreign policy, smart power.
This was empathy.
This was caring.
This was an emotional demonstration of our commitment to each other.
Everybody rolling over in their graves, but I'm just telling you, it's a new day.
I guarantee you when I read my, I'll bet you I could find any number of blogs this afternoon when I finish written by young people who think this is one of the greatest day they have ever seen and think more foreign policy ought to be like this because this is real meaning.
This is more than just some stiff diplomat standing up there talking.
This was the United States demonstrating how it really cares.
Well, don't rule it out.
Do not rule it out.
Obama with Jay-Z and Beyoncé do not rule it out.
Exactly right.
The cutting edge of societal evolution.
Rush Limbaugh serving humanity simply by showing up, being here on a daily basis.
Okay, so I checked the email during the break, and I got more disbelief.
You realize how frequently this is starting to happen?
You may not.
I do.
I will mention something happening in the news, and I'll check the email later.
People think I'm making it up.
Surely that didn't really happen.
Like, surely Kerry didn't take James Taylor and sing, you got a friend to the French to make up for not going to the rally.
Yes.
We just had the evidence.
I pointed out that Marie Harf, who looks like Marie Harf, said, What do you mean we haven't been courteous to the French?
John Kerry spoke to them in French.
That shows how much we care.
I checked the email.
Come on, Rush.
That couldn't possibly have happened.
Why do you keep making these things up?
Play audio soundbite number nine.
Well, I wouldn't put it that way.
We have done a number of things to show solidarity with the French people since those awful attacks.
He is looking forward to being in Paris.
As you know, he has a long history with Paris, speaks French, spoke directly to the French people the day of the attacks.
So I think tomorrow will be a very moving day and a one really for the U.S. to stand by France.
That was last night on CNN's Situation Room when she gave us a Harbinger of Things to Come.
She said, Kerry was going to go to Paris.
He has a long history with Paris.
Speaks French, spoke directly to the French people today.
See?
So I think tomorrow will be a very moving day.
And I guarantee you, she meant to her, this is real heavy stuff.
No, I don't think she knows what she's not.
No, no, no, no.
No.
Let me have a grant.
Tim in Livergrove.
Liver Grove?
There's no such thing as Livergrove.
Livergrove, Illinois.
Is that right?
That's right, Rush.
Sumper 5 from River Grove, Illinois.
Where is it?
Just outside of Chicago near O'Hara Airport.
Is it anywhere near Downer Grove?
No, that's farther south.
Is it anywhere near Little Grove?
No.
I'm sorry.
I thought Snarling misheard you and just typed it up.
Livergrove.
River, River Grove.
It says Liver up there.
That's what I thought.
It's River Grove.
Is that what you're saying?
Yes, sir.
Okay, I was right.
I knew it wasn't Livergrove.
Livergrove.
Okay, anyway, I didn't mean to take that much time.
It will not count against your airtime.
What was it that's on your mind here today, Tim?
Okay, real quick, Rush.
There's a black suburban cop on trial here in the Chicago area for killing a 95-year-old white World War II veteran in a nursing home with a beanbag shotgun.
And I'm not seeing Reverend Al around here.
I'm not seeing the national press covering this.
And the trial is going on as we speak.
Your thoughts?
You have a suburban.
You mean the SUV?
No, no, no.
A suburban cop.
It's a suburb of Chicago.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, you have a cop in a Chicago suburb who's black.
Yes, Park Forest, Illinois is where he's from.
Okay, and he shot a 95-year-old nursing home resident who walks around with a cane with a beanbag gun?
Yes, sir.
And he's on trial today for that excessive force.
Did the 95-year-old man perish?
Yes.
With a beanbag gun?
Yes, he hit a...
Well, hang on a minute.
I...
Yeah, because we got it.
Wow.
Okay, now we go back to Tim in Rivergrove, Illinois.
Now, we have here a black cop suburban Chicago who beanbagged, shot beanbag gun 95-year-old who had a cane, and the cop claims that the 95-year-old is threatening him with the cane.
And the 95-year-old man in the show is dead.
When did this happen?
Do you remember?
No, it's six months ago at least, maybe last summer.
When did the trial start?
Two or three days ago, it's a bench trial.
It's not going before a jury, but it is a bench trial before a judge in Markham, Illinois.
There's a courthouse in Markham, Illinois, and the local press is covering it.
It's in the papers.
Right, the cop's name, I've looked this up.
The cop's name is Charles Taylor, Craig Taylor?
Yeah, yeah, 44-year-old black cop.
He's claiming he feared for his life.
Well, a little caveat to this, Rush, I am a retired police officer, 29 years, and so I know a little bit what I'm talking about here, but for the life of me, I don't understand how this happened.
But they're defending themselves, the police department.
And after he shot him at close range, closer than the beanbag shotgun company allowed, the guy bled out.
He bled out in a hospital.
That's unfortunate.
And so now what you're thinking is, well, in this exact reversal, we have a white cop shooting a young African, and the whole world descends on the white cop and demands that, and you say no attention is being paid to this at all.
You think there's a little hypocrisy going on here?
Oh, there's a lot of hypocrisy going on.
Isn't it, you're a former cop.
Yes, sir.
Wouldn't it be consistent, therefore, to defend the cops' actions?
I mean, that's what's happened here in all of these incidents in Ferguson, Missouri, in Staten Island, the law enforcement crowd, both in the official city, law enforcement, and the public who defends law enforcement.
Wouldn't it be consistent here to support the police officer in this situation?
Well, if you read the facts of the case, which is in the paper every day, no, I can't defend the black cop.
I don't understand how this happened.
I don't get it.
Okay, did the white, the 95-year-old nursing home resident, did he raise his hands and say, don't shoot?
No.
He was delirious from a urinary tract infection, so they called the ambulance.
The ambulance crew couldn't deal with him.
And then they called the police, and the tasers failed to fire or something like that.
And then he raised his hand, and they shot.
Now, what I can't get my mind around here is you have to taser a 95-year-old man with a cane.
How do you think?
And they also, Rush, they also had a police shield with them.
And why they couldn't just attack him with the police shield, pin them against the wall, and disarm them from you are not inclined to support the officer here.
Why?
You think excessive force was used unnecessarily?
I really do.
I really do.
And so do you also believe that because of the racial aspect that the police officer is being given a benefit of the doubt here that he would not otherwise get?
I don't know about the race factor, if they're going easy on him for that.
Maybe not, but still in all, total opposite.
Black cop kills a 95-year-old World War II vet in a nursing home.
And nobody's mad about it.
There's nothing.
Where's Reverend Al?
Well, Reverend Al is.
Well, maybe he would come here and support the black cop.
No, no.
Choice of Hollywood or River Grove, Illinois, where are you going to go?
Hollywood.
Absolutely right.
Al Sharpton has got a brand new mission, and that is may the best Caucasian win in the Academy Awards.
There aren't any African-American Oscar nominees.
It's never happened before.
They're livid.
They are livid.
And this is liberal on liberal now.
This is liberal on liberal crime.
This is going to be great to watch.
This is the left battling the left.
There ain't any conservatives in Hollywood.
They might be a couple of voters, but the Academy, Hollywood, is all liberal, and there's not a single African-American nominee that counts.
This is going to be fun to witness.
I'm sorry, but this cop, he's going to have to settle for whoever Sharpton might have signed from the Junior League, if anybody.
But there's not, your point is that there's no media attention to this at all.
National.
Yeah, and you think there should be, just in a sense of fairness, you think, probably.
Absolutely.
All right.
Well, I appreciate the call.
Thank you much, Tim, very much.
How about this?
Let me read you this headline.
This is the U.K. Daily Mail.
Iowa's hog castrating senator will deliver Republican response to State of the Union Address.
As Joni Ernst, that's Joni Ernst.
Iowa's hog castrating senator, Joni Ernst, will deliver the Republican response to State of the Union show, and Republican aides hope she cuts someone's cojones off.
That's the headline.
Now, this is the UK Daily Mail, but that's all the domestic media is going to need.
Remember how they tried to destroy Marco Rubio's political career forever?
Remember, he was doing a presidential response.
He paused to take a sip of water during his State of the Union response, and they tried to destroy him as he lost composure.
He lost his place.
He had to pause.
It was a fake pause.
He didn't really need the sip of water.
And if he did, it meant his throat was dry, which meant he really knew he was really nervous, and he's not qualified.
Remember all that?
Well, if they went after Rubio for that, can you imagine choosing a hog castrator to give the response to the Obama state?
Can you imagine what the media might conjure up for that?
If I were Joni Ernst and the Republicans, I'd say, hey, hey, it's just Muslim outreach.
Don't read any more into it.
That's all we're trying to do here.
Here's the text of the story.
Newly elected Iowa Senator Joni Ernst will deliver the Republican Party's official response next Tuesday after President Obama delivers his State of the Union address, marking the first such honor for a politician best known for castrating hogs in her youth.
That's what she's best known for.
Castrating hogs.
I mean, they will do anything, anything to denigrate and destroy and well, I know she did.
I know she ran a commercial boasting about that's what she did, and that she's going to go to Washington and do the same, do the same.
So I'm sure she doesn't mind it at all.
But remember, how many people outside Iowa know she did that?
So the low information crowd is going to read that the Republicans elected a hog castrator?
See, this is exactly what we mean.
They're mean.
They're brutes.
If they'll castrate hogs, what are they going to do to you and me?
Why, God, we've been writing about this Republicans all along.
I can just see what they do with this in Santa Fe.
Malibu.
Santa Monica, you wait.
And in another one that I was not making up, it's amazing.
I told you it was absurd today.
Come on, Rush, this isn't true.
Women's College retires their annual performance of the vagina monologues.
It's a Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, all women's college.
They're banning it because they now have women students that have no vaginas.
And it's an insult to them.
The transgender crowd, it's considered to be transphobic.
The vagina monologues is now.
So they've got Chopperdick off of me.
Transgenders there, but they still don't have vaginas, so it's an insult.
They identify as women, but they don't have vaginas, so you can't perform the vagina monologues.
I'm making this up, folks.
You probably pay $20,000 a year to send your kids to this place.
Okay, Scottsdale, Arizona, this is Mike.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome.
Great to have you with us on AEIB Network.
Hello.
It's great to speak to you, Rush.
I'm pleased and happy.
My wife said I would never get on.
Well, here you are.
Here I am.
Going on after the vagina monologues might not be my best introduction.
You can do it.
Okay, all right.
Well, just a quick comment about the fellow that talked about the thing.
Have you ever heard?
Have you, by the way, you ever heard a vagina monologue?
Be careful how you answer this.
Yeah, I think you're exactly right.
I'll pay better attention to that.
But my favorite comic, W.C. Fields, had a great line about Beanbag.
He claimed he saw the championships played in Paris, and many people were killed.
Well, we shouldn't joke about it now because it's actually happening here in Liver Grove.
I will understand.
I'm actually calling to talk about Jim Harbaugh and why he went back to Michigan.
But I have to say, prior to that, in a very quick sentence, my wife and I love it that you never use the word John Kerry without saying served in Vietnam.
Well, he did.
He very seldom fails to mention it either.
And to think, how brutalized did he murder the French language?
Oh, that's just embarrassing.
He thinks it's worldly.
He thinks he's surrounded by this idiocy.
Well, it takes disgusting to know it.
Anyway, what about Harbaugh?
What about Harbaugh, Michigan?
You know, Sharon Butler always said a Michigan man should coach a Michigan team, and I think Harbaugh bought into that program years ago.
Now, my question is, what would make you think he would, as you used to say, not run for president because he couldn't take a lower in pay?
What would make him do this?
He got the same pay at Michigan that he was getting at Fortiners, maybe a half million more a year.
Oh, well.
He got the same.
He got $5 million or $5.5 million, which is what he got at the Fortiners.
But it was clear the Fortiners wanted him out of there.
And I think we now know why.
It's always been a mystery to me.
The guy could not have performed better.
They could not have had a better on-field record three straight years of championship game, one year in the Super Bowl, which they lost to the Ravens after 10, 15 years in the wilderness.
And then we kept hearing all these talks about these stories.
He doesn't get along with Trent Balky, general manager.
Just hard.
He doesn't get along with people in the front office.
He's just a dominating control freak.
He's too out of control.
He's too this and that.
And coaches, they're not docile lambs.
I mean, that's par for the course.
They are control freaks.
That's how they maintain discipline and order among 53 people.
They have to be.
I thought there has to be something more going on here.
And with the soundbite from the new coach, Jim Tom Sula, I think we know.
Did you hear that soundbite earlier?
Oh, yes.
Yes, I did, Rush.
And I think you're exactly right about the soundbite.
It has to be.
It has to be that you've got, you had a contrast of political, massively big political conflict there.
Here, you didn't hear, this is a new head coach.
He's the former defensive line coach.
That's a jump from the DL straight to head coach, not defensive coordinator from the defensive line.
Jim Tom Sula is last night at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara.
With the San Francisco 49ers, and we talk about the organization that these men have built and ladies have built.
What a village.
On that guy, it's into the village.
I believe it takes a village.
I believe no one man does anything by himself.
That has to be a reference to Harbaugh there somehow.
No one man does what he said.
He's currying favor with the new, with the owners.
He's currying favor with management with his bite.
I believe it takes a village.
Yeah.
So the 49ers are getting a lot of credit, and Harbaugh was getting too much.
They didn't like that.
But with this sound bite, I mean, obviously here, I believe it takes a village.
Football team for cringing.
Hillary Clinton writes this book.
It takes a village to raise a child.
Now I get a coach talking about the football team.
I think this exposes what must have been a pretty big political rift in this organism.
Not that, I mean, it can do what they want.
It's fine and dandy by me.
I'm just curious to find out what it was because on the field, what I mean, it was good stuff happening other than this year when they went eight and eight.
Anyway, appreciate the call.
Appreciate it.
Mike.
Have a great weekend, folks.
Let's see.
We're going to have Patriots and Seahawks are going to be in the Super Bowl.
That's what's going to happen on Sunday.
Patriots and Seahawks win.
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