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Feb. 23, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 23, 2015, Monday, Hour #3
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Yeah, okay, well, that's the second place that I've seen it, but I haven't seen any real confirmation.
We had a caller up here that we're gonna get to in a minute.
This is Al Sharpton has lost his show at PMS NBC.
And I got an email from a friend earlier today.
And Al Sharpton lost his show at PMSNBC.
I haven't seen it anywhere else.
And it's not on the Drudge Report, and if it's not on a Drudge Report, it hasn't happened.
So I don't know, it has to have gotten started somewhere that they've canceled Sharps.
That's Frank Sinatra III they got rid of as well.
And they some woman, Melissa Harris Ferry Perry, was it is it is that who it is?
Or was this oh yeah, Joy Joy Reed.
Joy Reed I get rid of Joy Reed and Frank Sinatra III.
Uh Ronan Farrow, but everybody knows.
Uh it's not Frank Sinatra Jr., because there is one, who do you know hates me?
Frank Frank Sinatra Jr., the people of Patsy's told me they can't explain it, but he does.
I've seen it elsewhere.
Frank Sinatra Jr., or at least he used to, and hadn't anything change since then.
I don't know why.
I have no clue why.
I never said anything about his dad.
I've always admired his dad, always did admire his dad.
It's not a little throwaway, but I've not seen it elsewhere on Sharpton.
I did see that Frank Sinatra III's gone.
Well, they are worried about ratings.
They have to be.
They don't have any.
But this Frank Sinatra III, this was hilarious.
This guy, what, 26 years old, had never ever done TV.
I would have thought this guy would have been hired in a radio first.
That's generally where people have never done it before get hired.
Excuse me.
Slap my face.
Anyway, after three days on the job, Frank Sinatra III won the Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism after three days on the job.
This classic example of how the liberals and the Democrats circle the wagons.
And by the way, by the way, welcome back.
Uh Rush Limbaugh again, 800 282-2882.
I want to stick with this Scott Walker and Rudy business because Marco Rubio is doing the right thing as well.
And I I want to single out for praise everybody who's doing this the right way.
That the liberal Democrats, whenever there is an attack, like Rather in his bogus report on George Bush and a National Guard, they circle the wagons to protect rather.
They circled the wagons to protect the news and liberalism.
And they didn't so much circle the wagons around Brian Williams, but it's not too late for them to do so.
But the Republicans never do.
The Republicans have always thrown somebody overboard.
Left comes after a Republican.
The Republican reaction is tarnished, soiled, no good to us anymore.
Media attacking him.
He's got to go.
And they throw him overboard.
And this is not happening with Rudy.
It's just the exact opposite.
Marco Rubio, in addition to Scott Walker, is demonstrating how this is done.
TV station in Florida, WPBF.
Is that one of the stations here?
PBF.
I never know these call letters.
It's not here.
What number is it?
What champ PBF?
Is it 25?
It got to be 25 because PTV is five.
Yeah, and PEC is 12.
So this, okay, so it's really up in Tequesta.
Like the studio's near Joe Nayman's house.
And so it's the ABC affiliate here in Palm Beach.
Sorry, West Palm Beach.
We don't have any TV stations in uh in Palm Beach.
And they were interviewing Giuliani, or interviewing Rubio about Giuliani's remarks.
And Marco Rubio said, I don't feel like I'm in a position to have to answer for every person in my party that makes a claim.
A freaking men.
That is exactly the right answer.
Why does every Republican have to condemn comment, period, on something any other Republican says?
Because it's part of the Democrat Party media game of destroying Republicans.
Democrats aren't asked, this is this is Rubio.
Democrats are not asked to answer every time Joe Biden says something embarrassing.
So I don't know why I should answer every time a Republican does.
I'll suffice it to say I believe the president loves America.
I think his ideas are bad.
And then the legal insurrection blog, which is a great conservative blog, William Jacobson.
Three questions all Democrats must answer.
If you think the mainstream media is not out to elect Hillary Clinton in 2016 every bit as much as it was for Obama in 2008 and 2012, and you need your head examined.
The multi-day ongoing demand that Scott Walker verify that Obama is Christian and loves America is a good example.
Why is it that Republican candidates and politicians are required to verify the bona fides of Democrats?
A freaking men, again, why in the world is it up to Republicans to offer qualified support for Democrats?
Here are three questions I have yet to hear Obama or any Democrat ask.
Should Joe Biden stop touching women without consent?
Is Elizabeth Warren really Native American?
Is it okay that Bill Clinton participated in vacations with a pedophile?
That'd be Epstein flew Clinton to his private sex island because he owed Clinton a favor.
Nobody asks Sillary about that.
It is the job of the drive-bys to ferret out information from Obama.
It is not the job of the GOP candidates to opine on it.
And this is a new concept for the drive-by since they have not been doing their jobs for eight years now.
So somebody comes along and makes like Rudy did.
I know he loves America.
What do you mean?
Scott Walker.
You think Rudy Obama loves his country?
Marco Ruby, you think Obama.
I don't know.
Go ask Obama if he loves the country.
What are you asking me for?
I didn't say it.
Well, Rudy did, what do you say about Rudy?
I'm not going to comment on what Rudy said.
Why do we have to comment on everything Republicans?
You go ask Democrats what they're going to comment on what Debbie Wasserman Schultz says every time she opens her big mouth.
That's what never happens.
No Democrat is ever asked to explain.
Extremist, crazy, insane, lunatic fringe comments they make.
And no other Democrat is asked to condemn them.
It just doesn't end.
I'll tell you, folks, I'm beginning to see a positive uptick here in how to deal with this stuff.
And it is so overdue.
I have been begging, I've been advising, I've been cajoling, I've been suggesting, I've been demanding that Republicans stop accepting all of the different premises of these different questions that the media comes up with.
I've been begging Republicans, stop thinking that you can get in good terms with the media.
Stop thinking you can make them respect you.
Stop thinking that you can make them like you.
Stop thinking you can make the media understand you.
Stop thinking that you can set yourself apart from who you think is an extremist in the Republican Party by condemning them because it doesn't work that way.
And now they're starting to take the it's starting to happen.
And there's a because when you get right down to it, the reason why it's happening in this instance is because what Rudy said, everybody else has already thought.
This isn't some off the wall out of the blue comment that nobody's thought of?
And therefore it's not outrageous.
What Rudy said is not outrageous.
It's what everybody has asked themselves now and again for crying out loud at the terrorism summit.
You know, of all groups that should have been there, there is a reform Muslim group of Muslim clerics.
I forget the name of the group, but they are interested in reforming Islam, which is an interesting notion in and of itself.
Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, any number of the worldwide religions are constantly engaging in revisions.
The Catholic Church does it, as you Catholics well know.
You have ecclesiastical conferences, you have uh papal papers that are released.
There was Vatican II, then Vatican III.
I mean, the Catholic Church is constantly not revising the core faith, but they are revising elements of it.
But the one thing you don't ever hear about happening in Islam.
However, it is.
There is a reform Islam Muslim cleric group.
They're the one Islamic group that Obama didn't invite to his White House summit on terrorism.
Of all groups that I would think you would want, there'd be that one.
But I mean, I think that these are the questions that Rudy raised are legitimate, and they're rooted in common sense after six years of observance.
Well, I've just been handed a news flash.
A national association of African American owned media alleges that Sharpton and other advocates have been bought off.
Comcast, wait a minute.
What is this?
Is the Hollywood reporter, Comcast, Al Sharpton hit with $20 billion racial discrimination lawsuit?
Does this say that Sharpton's been canned?
Okay.
Even though the FCC has not yet ruled on a proposed merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable, one group has already filed a lawsuit claiming that at least $20 billion in damages from the way the two giants allegedly discriminate against black-owned media.
The complaint was filed in California on Friday, comes the National Association of African American owned media, which also filed a similar suit against ATT and Direct TV in December.
This time the plaintiff is not only targeting both Comcast and the Time Warner on the verge of what would be the largest pay television distributor in the U.S., if they merge, but also various African American advocacy groups and PMS NBC host Al Sharpton for allegedly facilitating discrimination.
What the hell did?
How did Sharpton discriminate at MSNBC?
Look, does anybody doubt why Sharpton got the gig?
You know, this is anybody.
Journalistic talent.
Al Sharpton can't even read a teleprompter.
The journalistic talent, he's not a journalist.
If anything, he might come alive and be the real Al if they gave him a megaphone.
One of those handheld megaphone things.
From the old Mach days, the public match, the protest days, but put him on TV.
They bought him off.
One of the reasons you hire Sharpton is to is to get him to not oppose your merger.
Shake that.
There's no doubt why they hired Sharpton.
But I've had two different people tell me Sharpton has been fired.
I can't find it.
This is on Media as well as a Hollywood report.
The lawsuit goes on to say that Comcast made large cash donations to obtain its support for its acquisition.
This is all about the merger with uh Time Warner.
The money includes.
See, here you go, live right here it is.
$3.8 million paid to Al Sharpton and a national action.
And despite that, the guy still owes the IRS four million ducks.
So the lawsuit says that Comcast, which owns NBC, paid Al Sharpton $3.8 million.
Sharpton and the National Action Network.
The money was meant to pay Sharpton to endorse the NBC Universal Deal and divert attention away from discrimination.
As for Sharpton's MSNBC job, the complaint in a lawsuit says, despite the notoriously low ratings that Sharpton's show generates, Comcast has allowed Sharpton to maintain his hosting position for more than three years in exchange for Sharpton's continued public support for I knew this one.
So somebody's filed a lawsuit based on all this.
Okay, cool.
The National Association of African American owned media is making this charge.
This is black on black lawsuit action here.
This is this is not, you can't say this is racism.
You can't say it's discriminated.
This is this is NAA, the NAAOM.
That's the act.
That's why they're why why would they fire him because the lawsuit?
Well.
Well, no, it does now they're shouting at me that Sharpton's been fired now because paying him off didn't work.
They got sued anyway.
Doesn't matter.
They haven't won the suit yet.
Well, it was supposed to no, it wasn't supposed to prevent the suit.
It was supposed to prevent Sharpton opposing the merger.
And the Reverend Jackson.
Now he didn't get a gig, but the Justice Brothers.
You buy one, you buy both.
This lawsuit just codifies exactly what or spells out exactly why the Sharpton job was was created, why he was hired.
It's payoff.
This is how you keep Sharpton from getting his rabble rousers all up the protest march, protesting the mergers.
How you stop that from happening.
Anyway, let's take a brief uh brief timeout.
Still searching to see if it is actually true that Sharpton, you can't find it.
Can't I can't either.
I've looked.
I've looked.
Grab line.
Let me just now I gotta take the break.
Gotta take the break.
If I don't take the break, I'm gonna be really up the creek, so I gotta take the break.
Okay, I have found it.
Sharpton's not gonna be fired.
He's gonna be moved.
They're gonna end the Monday through Friday Sharpton show and move him to the weekends if he accepts that move.
If he doesn't, then yeah.
You know, Sayanara.
The source is uh Atlanta Daily, something in Atlanta, backed up by the C the Huffing and Puffington Post, or what is it?
Two or three places I've seen it now.
Here's Scott and Middlesex, uh, North Carolina.
Great to have you, sir.
Where do where did you hear about the Sharpton business?
That's what you're calling about, it says.
Yeah, yes, Russ.
Uh to be on the show.
Uh I heard about that this morning.
Uh I was listening to uh Glenn Beck show and heard that that uh the Al Sharpen show was going to be canceled, and like you said, I believe he's gonna get uh a weekend show uh one day a week instead of the five that he's been normally been on.
It's called the graveyard.
My main question is, or what uh what I want to uh speak about is when it comes to Al Sharpton, why has no one called him what he really is?
He's the most extreme racist in the country.
But yet the left and the right, nobody wants to call him that.
Well, no, sir.
No, no, no, that's not entirely true.
There are people on the right who have, certain media people.
You you you won't hear uh elected Republicans talking about him that way, but Um it's not very many, and I and I get your point.
But there have been people who do the reason for your the the answer to your question, and there is a good answer to the question, and it's not just of Sharpton, it's why the same answer would apply to the Reverend Jackson or Sheila Jackson or you pick it,
and the answer is they have been such a put upon abused minority since the founding days of the country that it simply isn't possible for them to exercise racism because they don't have the power to actually implement the racist beliefs and ideas that they have.
There's such an aggrieved minority that it this is their own answer.
This is this is what leftists have said when Jesse Jackson, like everything word out of his mouth is racist.
No, no, they can't be racist, they don't have any power.
Which of course is bogus to say they don't have any power.
Well, that's for sure because you know, you look at the access that uh Mr. Sharpton has with the White House.
It's it well actually that's just unbelievable that someone like that has the access to the president.
No, it's not unbelievable at all.
It is totally believable if you know who Obama is.
Why would a radical not welcome another radical to the Oval Office?
It it's it's not unbelievable at all.
What's unbelievable is who's in the Oval Office.
What's unbelievable is who's extending the invitation.
It's not unbelievable that Sharpton would go there.
What would be unbelievable is if we had a Republican president wanting Sharpton up there all day, every day to give advice.
That would be unbelievable.
This Obama calling Reverend Al and Holder up there for advice on what to do about, say, Ferguson makes all the sense in the world from their perspective.
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All right, now on the Sharpton business, the reason for the confusion is that there's confusion.
The truth revolt got the whole thing started and they got it wrong.
here's the bottom line.
Sharpton probably is going to lose the daily gig and move to weekends.
Joy Reid is also going to lose whatever it is she does there.
Now the Daily Beast, which is a left-wing comedy publication also on the internet.
They have a headline.
After MSNBC axes Frank Sinatra III and Joy Reed's show is Chris Hayes next.
They are speculating that this uh be real careful here, Il Rushbo, be real careful.
The uh person who hosts the 8 p.m. show might also be on the way out of town.
And that uh if that is the case, that the person who's on there at eight would be replaced with Rachel Maddow.
How can you tell the difference?
Slap my face I didn't say that.
It's a legitimate question.
Okay, little ISIS news, ladies and gentlemen, from the UK Daily Mail.
Islamic State militants have vowed online, I'm not making this up by the way, it's the UK Daily Mail.
It's somewhat humorous, but it's actually not.
Islamic State militants have vowed online to take over Rome.
They're coming after the Catholic Church, and in fact, the Vatican is taking it seriously and is doubling tripling security.
But that's not it.
That's not all.
ISIS have vowed online to take over Rome and quote, throw homosexuals off the leaning tower of pizza.
And they wrote pizza instead of PISA.
It actually says P I Z A. In the message posted by a confirmed Twitter account linked to ISIS.
The ISIS supporter threatens to bring Sharia law to the Italian Capitol.
Of course, they're just pretending to want Sharia law.
They really aren't Muslims.
That's what Obama says.
Obama says they're not Islamic.
He says they're not Islamic.
Obama's saying it.
Don't get mad at me.
Obama says they're not Islamic and they're not a state and they're not Muslims, or whatever they're doing, they're doing in the name of Islam, but they're not Islamic.
Why the No, they are beheading people.
And yes, they they are setting people on fire in cages, yes.
But but they're not, they don't want Sharia, and they don't want this what Obama says.
In the uh in the threat posted today, Twitter user Abu Abdullah Brittani, Al Sahib Skyhook, who openly publicizes ISIS activity, wrote, We are coming to Rome with slaughter.
The message was soon followed by one that read, We are coming to Rome, we will conquer and establish the justice of Sharia.
We will use your leaning tower of pizza to throw off homosexuals.
That's just silly.
That's just leading tower of pizza is not in Rome.
It's in Pisa.
But that's what the message honestly does say.
In the wake of the threat, Italian security chiefs have approved plans to put 4,800 soldiers on the country streets and post them to sensitive sites to help prevent terror attacks.
Reports claim 500 security people will be deployed in Rome, where soldiers are already guarding diplomatic residences, synagogues, and Jewish schools.
rules Meanwhile, the commander of Vatican City's 110 man Swiss Guard said that his forces are ready to defend Pope Francis if ISIS attempts a strike.
So homosexuals thrown off the leading tower of pizza in Rome, according to ISIS.
That Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, right?
Or Isla.
Or Islamic State of ISIS of uh uh yeah, of the Levant, but um why would they be what what what what you're because they're try why would they be calling themselves the Islamic State if they're not Islamic?
I don't know, because if maybe to fake people out.
Maybe maybe they're just trying to give Islam a bad name.
I I you're asking me, I'm not a member.
You know, why should I speak up?
I'm not I'm gonna sit here and explain ISIS to you.
Who do you think you are to mainstream media and I'm some Republican presidential candidate?
What do I gotta explain ISIS for?
I know how to play this game.
The Department of Homeland Security, government watchdog says the Obama regime is continuing to award multimillion dollar contracts to firms to quickly process millions of illegal immigrants despite the federal judge decision to put a stay on the executive amnesty order.
This is just like what happened a year ago.
In January a year ago, the regime posted ads on government websites for logistics companies.
They were seeking companies to help transfer and transport all of those kids that were later in the late and coming months going to cross the border from Central America.
Remember those tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors, the government a month before they began arriving, started advertising for jobs, a job applicants for transportation companies.
Now what the point of this Is that even though the judge has issued a stay on Obama's executive amnesty, the government is still continuing to hire the million dollar contracts.
They're hiring businesses that will help the government quickly process the millions of illegals that will be granted amnesty.
So the regime is proceeding.
They're getting ready for the day they they uh beat the stay that has been issued by the uh by the judge.
And in accompanying story at the Hill.com, the regime is going to seek an emergency court order to move forward with Obama's executive action on immigration.
Officials at Department of Homeland Security plan to seek what is known as an emergency stay that would essentially undo the Texas federal judges' injunction from earlier this week.
So they want to put a stay on the stay.
What in the hell is the rush here?
Seriously, what is the rush?
Obama's got two years before the next election, and there's nobody that's gonna stop him.
Other than this Texas judge.
But seriously, why not?
I mean, why have to go after this in an emergency basis?
I'll tell you why they want to get this, because the more they get done, the thinking is it's all that much more difficult to unravel it.
That's why they want to get it done.
That's why they want Obama's executive action happening now because it's much easier to stop something from happening than to unravel it once it has been implemented.
Have some more really good media sound bites on their frustration.
With Scott Walker refusing to play the game, refusing to condemn Rudy Giuliani.
The media is beside itself.
Up first, Jonathan Martin, our old buddy from Politico, now over at the New York Times.
He was on CNN's New Day this morning.
And John King asked him the following question.
What do you make of it, John?
I mean, Walker won't play.
He's not going to answer your questions about Rudy.
Scott Walker is nobody's fool, and he doesn't want to answer these kinds of questions, which gives him an opportunity on the right.
It's all kind of a depressing cynical exercise, frankly.
Because you know, Walker doesn't want to play the game.
And by not playing the game, he then gins up sympathy on the right against the media, which enables him to raise more money, and it's all very circular deal.
It's depressing.
It's cynical that Walker will not fall for the tramp.
It's cynical.
It's depressing that Walker is too smart for these guys and won't fall in for it because what happens?
What happens is that he gins up sympathy, i.e., support on the right against the media, which enables him to raise more money.
That's not what we had in mind here at the media.
They're so frustrated, they're openly admitting this.
Well, yeah, he won't play the game.
And that means he's getting all kinds of support from the right, and he's able to raise money against the media for it.
It's really a very circular deal.
And cynical.
And then Nora O'Donnell, Nora O'Donnell on CBS this morning today.
She's talking to political uh news director, John Dickerson about all of this.
Scott Walker refused to say if he believes Obama loves America.
Is this the new standard?
Scott Walker's trying to, he's being very safe.
He's on top of the world for the moment in the Republican primary process, and he doesn't want to make a mistake.
And we've seen that on several things.
He's very risk-averse.
Is this the new standard?
What are we gonna do, John?
If we can't keep playing these tricks on these guys, if they're not gonna fall for it, is this the new standard?
It does not answer our questions and help us destroy them.
And so Dickerson says, Well, yeah, Scott Walker, he's trying to be very safe.
He's on top of the world right now.
You don't want to make any mistakes.
He's very risk averse.
No, he's not risk averse, he's smart.
He's not risk averse.
He's finally decided, as has Rubio.
It's none of his business to say.
You guys do not ask Democrats these same questions.
So then Charlie Rose butts in and says, Can you be too safe, John?
I mean, can you be too safe?
I mean, he had momentum and attention coming out of Iowa.
He did.
And Republican primary voters are going to be fine.
It's not that this is going to hurt him.
It's just that it was an opportunity when the camera swung over to him for him to do something clever, for him to say something defining.
He's have maybe other opportunities to do that.
But what this suggests is a certain cautiousness, and you know, he'll uh have to get past that.
The vanity or the narcissism or the hubris of these people.
They are running a scam and listening to them talk about it is surreal to hear them act offended that the guy will not fall for their scam.
They know they're trying to trip up a Republican here.
They know that they're trying to get Scott Walker to say something that's gonna hurt him.
And he's too smart for it.
And won't so now he's a coward, but this is gonna catch up with him.
It's gonna catch up.
These people actually believe that voters are going to be unhappy with Scott Walker because he's not answering their question.
They haven't the slide.
You know, it would be so easy for these people to figure out why they're wrong and how they're wrong.
All they would have to do is study how Walker behaved and comported himself and campaigned, winning three elections in four years.
They think he's the one screwing up.
He's the guy that's won three elections in four years.
He's the guy that's implemented a conservative agenda in a blue state.
They think he's the one screwing up.
It's uh this is actually to me profound to listen to these people.
This trick, this device is so ingrained that when the Republican doesn't play along, why?
Somehow this means irreparable harm to the Republican down the road.
This is really instructive, folks, to listen to this.
For you had Jonathan Martin, F. Chuck Todd all upset about it, Nora O'Donnell and uh John Dickerson, and it is quite illustrative.
Now we know who the media is.
Don't misunderstand.
There's nothing new there.
This is about their attitude here.
It's as though the Republicans are supposed to go along with this device that is designed to take them out.
And when the Republican doesn't go along with it, somehow the Republicans screwing up.
Because the natural order of things, don't you know, is media destroying Republican candidates.
And if Republicans are not going to play along with that, then the Republicans have a problem.
Just amazing.
Thank you so much for being with us here today, folks.
Another rousing start to another busy broadcast week here on the Rush Limbaugh program.
We have a 21 hour break, and then we will be back.
Can't wait.
See you then, folks.
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