Jan. 22, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Greetings, my good friends, and welcome. | |
| Great to have you here. | |
| Rush Limbaugh with talent online from God. | |
| Most listened to radio talk show in the country and the most talked about radio talk show in the country at 800-282-2882 at the email address lrushbo at eibnet.com. | |
| Okay, let's get to the stick-to-the issues. | |
| Crowd news in no particular order here. | |
| I guess the thing that's happening now that's got everybody and it's foreign policy news. | |
| The president of Yemen, Abdu Rabu Mansur Hadi Sahib Skyhook, has resigned, according to the country's information minister. | |
| In fact, the entire Yemeni government has resigned. | |
| President Sahib Skyhook and the whole cabinet have resigned. | |
| And lest we forget, ladies and gentlemen, last year in Obama's State of the Union show, he cited Yemen's government as a model of how he was working with governments to beat violent extremists. | |
| Also fascinating, Al-Qaeda in Yemen makes up one of the newest, most violent groups of Islamic fundamentalists. | |
| In fact, there might be some tie al-Qaeda in Yemen to the Paris bunch that blew up Charliebdu. | |
| And it was shortly after that that Obama opened up Club Gitmo and released five Yemeni al-Qaeda prisoners and returned them. | |
| And everybody was scratching their heads and saying, what in the world? | |
| Why in the world would Obama release prisoners we know without a shadow of a doubt who are guilty, who have engaged in acts of terror against the United States, and now they are prominently involved in the terror attacks around the world in Paris and so forth. | |
| Why release them? | |
| And people are scratching their heads. | |
| You know, we're into the seventh year now of this administration. | |
| I just, I don't know, folks. | |
| It gets really, really curious to me that so many people, smart people, still ask questions that seem to indicate they don't understand why Obama does what he does. | |
| And this one's pretty easy. | |
| And let's make the charitable answer to this. | |
| Let's give it a charitable tinge. | |
| I mean, let's avoid any conspiracy theory. | |
| Let's avoid the theory that, well, you know, Obama, he doesn't really think these guys are terrorists. | |
| They're freedom fighters. | |
| Let's forget that. | |
| What if it's no more complicated than Obama really believes that the prison at Guantanamo Bay is responsible for terrorism? | |
| You know, there's a bunch of left-wingers out there that talk that way, and they have ever since we started capturing and imprisoning al-Qaeda terrorists. | |
| You know, that's just going to make them madder, they say. | |
| That's just going to irritate them even more. | |
| And Bush, of course, with the Al-Qaeda prisoners and the Abu Grab pictures and Club Gitmo and Black Site Rendition and so forth. | |
| And the Democrats are running around saying, you know, all that, that's just a magnet. | |
| Bush is just, he's just, he's recruiting for terrorism. | |
| He's making us look so bad. | |
| He's creating a bunch of guys that want to become terrorists. | |
| And maybe Obama really believes, maybe Obama seriously does believe that people in the Middle East are becoming jihadists because of Club Gitmo. | |
| And maybe he really believes by letting them out that it's a form of appeasement and they're not going to be as mad at us as they were. | |
| Do not discount that way of thinking among people on the left. | |
| Al-Qaeda in Yemen are the guys who kicked out the president of Yemen. | |
| And what a surprise. | |
| Obama sat back and watched another ally in the war on terror. | |
| I'm sorry, mad-man disasters. | |
| There's no terrorism out there, State Department, Obama said. | |
| But Obama has just sat idly by, watch another supposed ally in the war on terror be driven from power by Muslim extremists. | |
| Up, up, up, up, sorry. | |
| Extremists acting in the name of Islam. | |
| Yes, we must be precise. | |
| The New York Times had a story that was picked up everywhere. | |
| I saw it last night in a news alert that I received from the Washington Times. | |
| And it was highlighting the fact that the Department of Justice had decided that they were not going to prosecute Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. | |
| And the news was received happily and gladly that they had looked and they dug deep and they'd investigated a long time and they just concluded that nothing to see there. | |
| And so DOJ announces, Eric Holder and so forth, that they can't find any evidence that Officer Wilson violated the civil rights of anybody. | |
| And so that investigation shut down. | |
| That's my point. | |
| We knew that. | |
| We knew there was no evidence that was going to make an investigation worthwhile. | |
| We knew it was all for show. | |
| There was never any, the grand jury, I don't care where you go, there was never any evidence that Officer Wilson violated the guy's civil rights or acted outside the normal procedures for a police officer. | |
| But the DOJ and Holder, in order to build a bridge to militant activists, went through this utter show of making it look like they were conducting a deep investigation and they were going to get to the bottom of it. | |
| And Wilson was going to pay, even though the grand jury let him go. | |
| Wilson was going to pay. | |
| And then silently, yesterday, the DOJ, nothing here. | |
| Which, if you remember, we boldly predicted last fall that nothing would come of this because there never was anything there. | |
| But that, my friends, is not the point of this. | |
| The New York Times has the gory details, and they are thus. | |
| This only closes the narrow case of the shooting. | |
| The broader investigation of the Ferguson Police Department is continuing. | |
| And we are seeing exactly what was explained back in December. | |
| The Department of Justice is using this incident, the gentle giant killing in Ferguson, Missouri, as a pretext to conduct a much broader investigation of the entire Ferguson Police Department. | |
| What they're investigating is alleged systematic discrimination on the part of the police departments. | |
| And here's what's, and they've done this in Las Vegas. | |
| They have done this in Newark. | |
| The DOJ has Holder. | |
| They have done this 20 or so police departments around the country. | |
| What they do, they extort these police departments into signing consent decrees, forcing the police departments to conform their practices to Obama and Eric Holder-approved policing methods in their communities. | |
| So the whole thing, investigating Darren Wilson, was a smokescreen. | |
| There was never anything there to find. | |
| DOJ, while supposedly doing that, was actually setting the table for enforcing Obama-style police tactics on the police department. | |
| Then last night they announced: guess what? | |
| There's no evidence to proceed against Officer Wilson. | |
| Everybody thinks the case closed. | |
| DOJ goes home. | |
| No. | |
| What's going to happen here is the DOJ is going to continue to pressure the Ferguson Police Department. | |
| And when I say conform to practices approved by Obama and Holder in terms of police methods, what's going to happen is that, say, if Obama Holder oppose stop and frisk, if they do that in Ferguson, they have to stop. | |
| They have to stop any intelligence gathering that the DOJ claims is rooted in racism. | |
| In other words, the Obama-Holder consent decree forced on local police departments essentially ties the police department's hands and punishes or shapes these police departments under the premise that they have been violating racial and civil rights of the residents for years. | |
| That's the unreported story, even though the New York Times gets a little close to it. | |
| That's what's really going on in Ferguson. | |
| It's already happened to Las Vegas. | |
| It's already happened in Newark. | |
| And it's going to keep happening until these guys leave office. | |
| And it's the way local police departments are being federalized. | |
| It's the way Obama and Holder are making sure local police departments do their jobs based on the political beliefs of the far left. | |
| And the political beliefs of the far left really are rooted around the fact that the criminals and the bad guys in society are having their rights violated. | |
| It's going to end up making the police departments back off just a little here, just a little there in pursuing bad guys. | |
| And I'm telling you the truth, it's based in the belief that the United States, as founded, an unjust, immoral, racially segregated, biased country, has created these bad guys. | |
| The United States, by virtue of its founding, by virtue of its laws, has made these people frustrated and angry and turned them into criminals. | |
| And so, law enforcement must back off. | |
| And that's what's happening. | |
| But the headline, you heard it here first, no civil rights charges against Wilson. | |
| But the fact is, the Ferguson Police Department does remain in the crosshairs of the DOJ. | |
| Vanity Fair magazine, Billionaire Davos, you know, Davos is going on, the Davos Economic Forum. | |
| And this is where the elite economics experts and politicians and even some actors and the global warming crowd, they all gather at this time of year, every year, to discuss what life is like for everybody else. | |
| And here's the headline. | |
| Billionaire Davos attendee thinks that your lifestyle expectations are too high. | |
| Jeff Green is a man who accrued billions of dollars by betting against subprime mortgages. | |
| He's also an attendee of the World Economic Forum, a Davos event during which the ultra-rich get together to take a vacation from skiing and tell everybody else what to do. | |
| I find it fascinating that Vanity Fair is writing about this. | |
| Vanity Fair would normally be slobbering all over these guys. | |
| Vanity Fair would be throwing parties for these guys. | |
| Vanity Fair would be writing profiles, puff piece profiles of these guys. | |
| And I find this fascinating that Vanity Fair is doing essentially a hit piece. | |
| Well, what's going on at Davos? | |
| Normally, Davos is the kind of thing Vanity Fair types would love to be invited to and be part of. | |
| But they're focusing on this guy, Jeff Green. | |
| In Switzerland, Jeff Green spoke to Bloomberg News and offered some depressing advice for the 99%. | |
| He said, America's lifestyle expectations are far too high and need to be adjusted so that we have less things, fewer things, and a smaller, better existence. | |
| He said, we need to reinvent our entire system of life. | |
| Having fewer things, having a smaller existence? | |
| What's that? | |
| But here again, here's this guy in Davos who's got his. | |
| He's a multi-billionaire. | |
| He flew his wife. | |
| He flew his children, his two nannies on a private jet to Davos for the week. | |
| And get this? | |
| He's planning a conference here in Palm Beach, Snerdley, called Closing the Gap. | |
| No, in Palm Beach. | |
| He's not going to close the gap at Palm Beach. | |
| No way, because he's here. | |
| That's the point. | |
| He's the 1%. | |
| And he's doing a conference and running around telling people that the 99%, you're expecting too much. | |
| You demands are too much. | |
| You're expecting way too much out of your life. | |
| You're expecting to get rich. | |
| You're not going to get rich. | |
| You're expecting to have to, from a guy who's a multi-billionaire. | |
| As I said, it's a snarky Vanity Fair piece. | |
| And I just, I can't, I can't believe I'm seeing it in Vanity Fair. | |
| All right, grab audio soundbites. | |
| The Brian Williams bites. | |
| What are they? | |
| Mike, yeah. | |
| 24 and 23. | |
| Talking to a Cuban woman in Havana. | |
| NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams despaired last night over what an influx of American tourists would mean to the revolution in Cuba. | |
| You know, he's not the first. | |
| Andrea Mitchell, NBC News in Washington, also expressed concern. | |
| Remember? | |
| Very, very worried what's going to happen to the beautiful Cuban countryside and the beautiful Cuban skyline in Havana once these evil American tourists and their evil American dollars show up. | |
| Oh my God, it's going to destroy the revolution. | |
| I'm not. | |
| You know, I know Brian Williams. | |
| I remember running into Brian Williams back in the old days when MSNBC had some integrity and quality. | |
| Back when I used to appear on it, I'd go over there when it was in Fort Lee. | |
| And Brian Williams was the lead news guy at MSNB. | |
| He sank at 7 o'clock news hour that he anchored and he did the hourly newscast. | |
| They took breaks between the shows. | |
| This is back when Chris Matthews was still sane. | |
| And I'd go into Brian Williams' office and I'd talk to him. | |
| He's one of the funniest guys that you'd ever run into. | |
| And I'm swearing, this guy has, I don't know what's happened. | |
| I don't know whether this is all an act just to fit in with the bosses at NBC. | |
| But this is just incredible. | |
| Brian Williams worrying that U.S. dollars and U.S. tourists are going to destroy Cuba because they're going to get rid of the 57 Chevys that run around. | |
| Cuban Revolution's logo is a 57 Chevy or a 58 Ford, and American tourists are going to destroy that. | |
| Williams was talking with a 26-year-old Cuban woman, said to have a biology degree, and works as a freelance producer. | |
| Let's just go to the soundbites. | |
| Brian Williams talking to Laura Mendy about the new, more open relations between the U.S. and Cuba. | |
| We have two soundbites. | |
| This is the second one first. | |
| When Americans are here and planes and hotels and the cars are 2015 cars and not 1958 cars, what happens to the revolution? | |
| When you talk about Cuba, you don't have to talk about the revolution. | |
| People have been dragging it for years and years, but to revolutionize something is a moment. | |
| Then it's done. | |
| Now we're having a new revolution. | |
| Americans coming to Cuba is really a revolution for the country. | |
| So that billboard I just passed on the way from the airport with young Fidel Castro saying the revolution lives on. | |
| That's what you mean. | |
| We're living in it now. | |
| We're living in it now. | |
| The revolution has been over for 50 years. | |
| The revolution happened, and then the decline of the country began. | |
| Oh, yeah, my gosh, I just saw, oh, geez. | |
| Seriously, what does it say about people who go to a third world country where the average monthly income is a couple of dollars? | |
| Maybe daily income is a couple of bucks. | |
| I'm talking about Cuba. | |
| It is a destitute third world country. | |
| What does it say about American, well, journalists aren't anymore journalists, the media who go down there and worry what American commerce is going to do to this place? | |
| Well, it's a third world paradise. | |
| It's a sinkhole. | |
| It's a third world paradise. | |
| And American commerce is going to destroy it. | |
| And this idea, the revolution? | |
| The revolution lasted for a year or two. | |
| It was over. | |
| And ever since Castro won, the revolution, the country's been in decline. | |
| Viva, la bedución. | |
| It's absurd. | |
| All of this. | |
| Here's the first soundbite. | |
| This is Brian Williams and this is Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington. | |
| Andrea, I have to say, given the flight we both took here today, given the sense of moment about this, it didn't feel like a big moment to be on it. | |
| The assistant secretary went down the air stairs first, then her assistant. | |
| That left me the third American walking down the stairs, part of no delegation. | |
| I didn't have time to reach for my phone that I know of. | |
| There's no photo of them setting foot and arriving. | |
| We asked to take pictures, but in fact, they did not want pictures. | |
| All I know is we witnessed something here today after a long night's journey that started when the president finished last night in Washington. | |
| So we have a news story about journalists arriving in Cuba. | |
| And sadly, there were no pictures of it. | |
| Oh, gee. | |
| Poor planning. | |
| All I know is, Andrea, that we witnessed something here today after a long night's journey that started when the president finished last night in Washington. | |
| Yeah, we got to Cuba, and we're now obsessed with how American commerce is going to destroy it. | |
| One of those days, folks, where it's all out in the open. | |
| You just have to listen to it, accept it for what it is, and learn who these people really are and what they're not and what they don't do. | |
| And they don't report the news clearly. | |
| Be right back. | |
| Sit tight. | |
| Hey, Wendy, did you see the movie Gone Girl? | |
| Did you like it? | |
| You did? | |
| Did you identify with it? | |
| Could you have been that woman? | |
| Because I see you. | |
| I'm just kidding. | |
| I saw, I watched it. | |
| Did you see it, certainly? | |
| It was filmed in Cape Girardeau, my hometown. | |
| And the whole time it was being filmed there, nobody told me. | |
| Only found out about it after it was done. | |
| Anyway, that's not why I watched it. | |
| But I watched it last night. | |
| I had no idea what it was about. | |
| Well, it's too complicated to explain. | |
| It's based on a novel written by a woman named Jillian Flynn. | |
| And essentially, it's even if I tell you this, it requires a spoiler alert for people that haven't seen it. | |
| But I mean, it's a genuinely, it's about a mentally ill, genuinely sick woman. | |
| But anyway, and it had twists and turns. | |
| I was not able to predict where it was going. | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| More sick than, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| This is, this is. | |
| And it's about two hours and 10 minutes or 20 minutes or something. | |
| And I don't know why. | |
| I just decided to watch it because I had a couple of hours free. | |
| I just decided to give myself a couple hours and I watched it and I thought, I'm not going to like it. | |
| I'll give up after a half hour or so. | |
| And I stuck with it. | |
| And I was just totally unprepared for it. | |
| Not at all. | |
| I'd read some of what it was about and none of what I read prepared me for anything that happened, or very little, anyway, in the movie. | |
| Now, a number of people have written today during the first hour, hour and a half of the program, upset with me for not talking about the Republican, the Senate vote on global warming, and instead talking about DeflateGate with the New England Patriots. | |
| Now, I have to share with you, folks, I'm like many of you, when I saw yesterday, last night, that the Senate voted 98 to 1 to essentially accept the notion and affirm the idea that climate change is real, I about flipped my gourd. | |
| 98 to 1. | |
| I found out the one vote against it was James Inhoff of Oklahoma, which would make perfect sense because he does have his head on straight about global warming. | |
| But then, with Ted Cruz, all these guys, what's the deal here? | |
| So I had to come in and investigate this. | |
| And the politico take on this is somewhat interesting. | |
| And the reason I cite the politico is, remember, the politico I have deduced is the go-to inside-the-beltway publication for Republican establishment leaks. | |
| If the Republican establishment is going to leak, and if they want to get some news out, I have discovered the Politico is where they go. | |
| So that's where I went. | |
| And lo and behold, I found a story. | |
| It says, here, Republicans outfox Democrats on climate votes. | |
| I said, really? | |
| When's the last time this happened? | |
| When's the last time the Republicans outfoxed the Democrats on anything? | |
| So, of course, I was intrigued. | |
| Here's what it says. | |
| The GOP accepts the notion of climate change, but not the way Democrats wanted them to. | |
| Senate Republicans head-faked Democrats on climate change Wednesday, agreeing in a floor vote that the planet's climate was changing. | |
| However, they blocked the language that would have blamed human activity for it. | |
| In a complicated maneuver that was the first politically perilous test for Senate Republicans, the new majority party split up the votes that Democrats had hoped would force the Republicans into an awkward roll call on whether they believed in the science behind climate change just hours after Obama slammed the Republicans in the State of the Union address for dodging the issue. | |
| But the Republicans made an 11th hour change in strategy on two Democrat attempts to divide them. | |
| With Senator James Inhoff, their most vocal denier, joining a leading liberal in a symbolic vote on whether global warming is real and not a hoax. | |
| There is archaeological evidence of that. | |
| There's biblical evidence of the climate changing, Inhoff, the chairman of the Environment and Public Works panel, said on the floor before signing on to a proposal from Senator Sheldon Whitehouse that stopped short of linking climate change to human activities such as burning fossil fuels like coal and oil. | |
| So apparently the Democrats tried to run a scheme on the Republicans to get them to agree with the premise that global warming is man-made and that there needs to be government action to stop it. | |
| And the Republicans said, oh, yeah, well, we'll agree with the climate's changing. | |
| And then they stopped there. | |
| But when I saw the original report, it didn't have this clarification in it. | |
| And it didn't. | |
| So I wonder how many average, ordinary, everyday consumers of news think the Republicans have now changed their mind on global warming and now bought into it. | |
| Because the news that it was not that, that it was the Republicans, yeah, climate's changing, which it is. | |
| I mean, you'd be a fool to disagree with that. | |
| It's always changing. | |
| But they didn't agree with the premise that it's man-made, that's man-causing it. | |
| So there wasn't any vast abandonment of anything on the part of Republicans. | |
| As far as immigration goes, Snerdley, you knew, I think, because we discussed it, you knew that there was a Republican response to the State of the Union in Spanish. | |
| And you knew that the Republican response in Spanish was a new freshman from Florida. | |
| Well, let me ask you, did you know that in the Spanish language Republican response to the State of the Union, there was a call for supporting Obama's executive action on amnesty? | |
| You didn't. | |
| You didn't know. | |
| I didn't either. | |
| And I didn't find out until last night I got an email rush because I knew there was a Republican response in Spanish language, but I just assumed that it was going to be along the lines of Joni Ernst's. | |
| But instead, the Spanish language Republican response was a tantamount agreement with Obama and supporting Obama on his executive action For amnesty for 5 million illegals and whatever number he wants to increase it. | |
| And I thought, well, this gives up the whole game because, remember, all of this maneuvering that Boehner, all these tough floor speeches about Obama violating the Constitution, and we're not going to put up with it and so forth. | |
| And yet, to Spanish language audiences of the Republican response, as far as they're concerned, the Republican Party supports Obama in this executive action. | |
| So the bottom line is that we now know the game. | |
| And we've always suspected, folks, it's not anything new. | |
| We suspected that all of this has just been maneuvering in order to mollify us. | |
| All this tough talk about Obama violating the Constitution, all this tough talk about reigning Obama, all this tough talk. | |
| But we know that Obama is going to veto any bill we send up that tries to stop him on this stuff. | |
| And the focus then becomes, okay, what happens after the veto? | |
| Well, we now know Republicans are all in. | |
| And we know this, that's where the Republican donors are. | |
| So the Republican Spanish language response just kind of gave up the game. | |
| But if you didn't hear it in Spanish, didn't understand it, you may not know. | |
| Hence why I, El Rushbo, am explaining it to those of you who hadn't heard yet or didn't know. | |
| You know, I've had a screener for Gone Girl ever since December, and I never got around to watching it. | |
| I never got a screener for Silma. | |
| I'm one of the many who did not get a Silma screener. | |
| I think anybody did. | |
| And I got a note here from a friend: hey, the movie's one thing, but this woman, Jillian, whatever her name is, wrote the book, they're worse. | |
| Not better. | |
| I mean, they're psychotherapy. | |
| They make the movie look like Romper Room. | |
| Here's Don in Apollo Beach, Florida. | |
| Don, great to have you. | |
| Welcome to the EIB Network. | |
| Hello. | |
| Good morning, Mr. Lushball. | |
| Great to have great. | |
| Did you call me Mr. Lushball? | |
| I don't know why, whatever. | |
| I've been waiting here for two hours and 45 minutes. | |
| Some days it would work. | |
| I love, admire, and enjoy and respect you, so it's worth the wait. | |
| I want to, I'm a guy who called you about your books about five months ago and asked if you saw the National Geographic, whatever, but I want to praise you for the positive impact that you've had on hundreds and thousands of children. | |
| Well, thank you very much. | |
| And your generosity. | |
| I listen to your show all the time, generosity for you giving the callers a book. | |
| Nobody's supposed to know about that. | |
| I appreciate that. | |
| Nobody's supposed to know about that. | |
| Okay, I was going to get the football thing, but I agree with your comments on priorities of people in regards to the football thing. | |
| On the other hand, not with the government, okay? | |
| And I agree with you on Belichick not throwing Brady under the bus, but I think Obama's throwing us all under the bus, okay? | |
| Everybody said Belichick has thrown Brady under the bus with his comments today about InflateGate or DeflateGate. | |
| Well, you have to ask Tom about football. | |
| Brady's press conference is at 4. | |
| It's a little over an hour from now. | |
| And I do not believe Belichick has thrown Brady under the bus. | |
| I think there's a strategy that they've got, and it'll all unfold before the media's eyes at 4 o'clock today. | |
| And I think they wanted to set it up by having everybody think, my God, Belichick just threw Brady overboard. | |
| But I don't think Belichick would do that. | |
| Certainly not 10 days before the Super Bowl. | |
| There's something else going on here. | |
| Won't be long before we find out what it is. | |
| But it's just amazing how automatically people thought Belichick threw his quarterback under the bus, and it's just not going to happen. | |
| Okay, I'm told the Brady press conference has been moved up to 345, about 46, 45 minutes from now, my friends. | |
| See you tomorrow. |
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