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March 10, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 10, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Greetings, my friends.
Great to have you here.
And it is great for me to be back.
Happy to be back in the prestigious Attila the Hun chair here at the Distinguished Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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So yesterday was the annual charity golf tournament that Ernie Ells puts on.
I think it's fifth or sixth, maybe seventh year now.
I've been to all of them.
And he, way back at the founding days of this, set up a foundation called Ells for Autism.
He and his wife Lysel did.
They have an autistic son.
And it has become one of the most incredible endeavors.
I talked to him yesterday, and I said, did you ever envision?
I mean, they're breaking ground, building a school now here in South Florida for children with autism.
And they're doing just some really great work and they've got golf tournaments all over the country around the year-round.
It's just incredible.
And that's just one of the things that they're doing.
And I asked Ernie after the event yesterday.
Played with Ricky Fowler, by the way.
Ricky Fowler was our pro.
And I had one of the most horrible days in a competitive round of golf I have ever had.
My hand-eye coordination just wasn't there.
When that's not there, there's no fix for that.
And for those of you who play the game, this is how bad it was.
Caddy said, you know what?
Maybe you'll want to swing harder.
The rule of thumb is, Caddy said, you know what?
You're jerking it from the top.
Slow down.
Tempo, tempo, tempo.
This guy was telling me to speed it up.
And it did help.
But it was a fun day all the way around.
Met a lot of great people.
Dennis Eckersley, great relief pitcher for the Red Sox and the Oakland A's and his wife were there.
But the place was loaded.
Every golf pro you could imagine was there, and they've had such great turnout for it over the years.
And they have just, I mean, Ernie, I was going to tell you, Ernie told me yesterday he never envisioned it getting as big as it is.
And he was just so grateful for all the pros.
I mean, they had a tournament yesterday down in Florida and Sunday down in Miami that is wrapped up.
And practically all of them were up here for the thing yesterday.
And he was very moved by that.
And I said, well, that's a testament to you.
So it's just a great event to be part of.
And it's got demonstrable impact that it is making on a, I don't know, a disease or a condition that affects millions of Americans.
They've got an autistic son, and they're actually making great strides in dealing with this.
Of course, the co-sponsor is one of my best friends, the shot maker, Marvin Shankin, who's Ernie's partner in this golf tournament and in many other things.
Marvin started the magazine Cigar Aficionado and branched out to Wine Spectator.
And they're now lifestyle magazines, and they're just, they're fantastic.
It was a good day.
Even though I played horribly.
You never want to play horribly, but there was enough going on out there that Mayor Giuliani was in our force.
That always is the case.
And so it was Rudy and Marvin and me and Ricky Fowler, who was great.
He was in the cart with Marvin.
So you figured, okay, he'd be helping Marvin.
He'd read Marvin's putts and give him.
He was helping all of us.
He was really gracious and nice guy, as is most everybody in professional golf.
So it was a fun day, and that's what was going on.
Now, the world is captivated by Mrs. Clinton again today, who has decided that she's going to do a press conference, two o'clock, explain the emails, is even going to answer questions.
This is not going to be an easy event to control.
They're going to do it with credentials.
They're going to try to control who gets into this thing with credentials.
But it is amazing to watch the Democrat media continues to pile on Mrs. Clinton.
I mean, it's close, at least in my memory, and in my perception, it's not, but it's close to being unprecedented.
I mean, they're all lined up.
I mean, anybody is anybody on the left in the drive-by media, just really aiming at her.
And I still have to chuckle over this of all the things that Clinton is.
In fact, Ron Fournier, who's, I think, written now five or six pieces on this.
I don't know what's going on.
If he got guilt or what have you, but he had a piece on Sunday, said, you know, this email stuff is this not even really what this is about.
This is about pay-for-play.
This is about all of the money the Clinton Foundation is raising from dubious characters, pimps, purse-snatchers, muggers, world leaders all over the place.
That's the real scandal here.
Who's donating and what are they expecting for the money?
I mean, she's sitting Secretary of State and they're donating all of this money and it's private.
And everybody assumes that she's going to be president.
What do these people expect for their money?
That was one of his focus, that primary focus.
But I have some, what?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
The Apple Watch.
Yeah, folks.
Now, I know when I start talking Apple, many of you stick to the issues people start getting angry at me out there.
But the things happening with this watch, they're going to fit right in with exactly what this program is about each and every day.
We're going to have a teachable moment in marketing.
We're going to have a teachable moment in class envy and resentment, all with this Apple watch that was announced yesterday.
And Apple, Apple is doing something I can't believe.
I can't believe the marketing, one of the marketing spokes that they are trying on this watch, it boggles my mind, actually.
And I don't mean this in a positive way.
I'm scratching my head, trying to figure out what they are thinking.
But that is for later.
We'll lead off with Mrs. Clinton here.
And the Republicans.
By the way, John Bolton has it right on this whole Republican.
The 47 Republicans send a letter to Iran.
You know, the media writing about that.
Isn't it convenient?
They're forgetting all the letters written by all the Democrats to the Soviet Union led by Ted Kennedy trying to undermine Ronaldos Magnus.
They're not talking at all about the Democrat Party's effort to undermine Reagan in Nicaragua for crying out loud that practically the whole Democrat House of Representatives was aligned with the Soviet communists in Nicaragua.
Dear Comandante, some of the guys, John Kerry, some of the people that wrote that letter or signed that letter are still in government in one way, one capacity or another.
The Democrats own this.
Look at what the Democrats did during the Iraq war.
They did everything they could to undermine the entire war effort and secure defeat.
So here come the Republicans.
God bless them.
They grew a gonad.
And they wrote a letter and 47 of them signed it in the Senate warning the Iranians, hey, just remember this.
Whatever deal you sign with Obama can be changed in less than two years when Obama is gone.
Oh, and that reminds me.
Guy by the name of Jack Coleman, who is at the Media Research Center's newsbuster site, happened to be listening the other day.
We had a caller here asking what I thought if Obama decided to blow up the 22nd Amendment and serve a third term.
And I answered it without due respect for the caller and so forth and took it seriously as a premise and asked you to.
And I need to go through this again because as I read my own transcript, you know what happened?
I said, you know, I should have said this there, and I should have said that.
And I was on a roll anyway.
I wasn't bad.
But man, I thought of things I should have added to it.
So we'll do that before the program ends today.
But the Iranians now are thinking that the U.S. government's corrupt and it can't be trusted.
John Bolton was on Fox News recently.
I'm getting the audio of this assembled even as we speak.
John Bolton, did you hear what he said, Snerdley?
He said, letter Schmetter.
I mean, a letter's fine, but that's not what the story is.
The story is Obama with this deal with Iran is surrendering to Iran.
That's what Obama's Iran deal is.
And I was immediately reminded of what Dr. Soule said to me in an interview with the Limbaugh.
We got a Limbaugh Letter interview today, don't we?
Do we have a Limbaugh letter?
I've got it on my calendar.
Did I get the date wrong?
I thought we did.
Hey, if it's not, if you don't.
Good, my memory.
And it's with one of the FCC commissioners on net neutrality, Ajit Pai.
Really looking forward.
Anyway, I was talking to Dr. Soule, previous issue of the Limbaugh Letter, and he told me, I still can't believe this.
He said, imagine we wake up one day in New York or Chicago has been devastated by an Iran nuclear weapon.
I said, yeah, well, what?
He said, Obama would surrender.
So what do you mean surrender?
Obama isn't going to fight.
That's what he said was his number one concern.
So when I saw Bolton essentially characterize the deal Obama wants to do with Iran, securing them a nuclear weapon, giving them permission, giving them time to do it, Bolton said, Obama is surrendering.
The letter's fine and dandy for what it is, but that's not the story.
The reason for the letter is precisely that Obama is surrendering.
So we'll have an audio soundbite coming up.
But as always, it comes back to Mrs. Clinton.
On the golf course yesterday, people were asking me, and I always get this.
Who do you think?
Who do you like in a Republican race rush?
Who do you like in a Republican nominee?
Who is it?
Who is it?
So I told them who I thought.
I always do a market.
And they looked at me kind of, hmm, interesting, interesting, head and saw to him, which is quite of Scott Walker's who I told them.
And I had to make his case for him.
They didn't.
You know, they're looking at the traditional name, Jeb, Romney, get back in, Ted Cruz over.
And I said, ah, love Ted Cruz.
You know that.
And I love Rubio.
But I had to make the case for Scott Walker.
They didn't know it.
And these are, I mean, these are donor types, folks.
I mean, these are not the donor class that wants amnesty.
These are conservative donors.
And they just didn't know.
That doesn't mean to get scared by that because Walker is continuing to lead the polling data and he just signed into law in Wisconsin.
Oh, my God, is Obama ticked off?
Oh, he's madder than when he found out Hillary was using a private email server.
He is so mad at Scott Walker.
Scott Walker signed a bill into law in Wisconsin that gets rid of mandated union dues.
And you know what that means?
That gets rid of mandated Democrat Party donations.
And Obama is livid.
So I mentioned the name Scott Walker, and I always have to make the case for him.
And then after I do, they start, oh, yeah, cool.
And what I find interesting about that, folks, is that all of us conservatives want somebody to what?
Fight back, right?
No matter who we are, we're sick and tired of all of this.
Well, you know, we can't oppose Obama, it upset the independents.
And we can't be critical of Obama, the media will kill us.
Well, I mean, Scott Walker has been attacked by these people like every other Republican has, and maybe even worse.
He's had to win three elections out of four, four years, and he did, and he's implemented his agenda.
I mean, you've heard me go through this, but I find it fascinating.
I have to make the case for the guy for a lot of people I run into who don't know it.
Now, that's his job, by the way.
That's going to be his responsibility in the campaign, to make himself known and to make his resume known, not up to me or anybody else.
Now, Mrs. Clinton, you can tell I really don't want to talk about this, right?
Because I keep interrupting myself.
Because frankly, Mrs. Clinton bores me.
You have to understand for 27 years, Hillary and Bill Clinton have been in the top five of issues that seem to be discussed in this program because they're in the top five newsmakers.
And I just, I hate getting caught up in conventional wisdom.
And the conventional wisdom is that Hillary's the nominee.
And then the second phase of conventional wisdom is that she can't be beat.
It's impossible to beat her.
The third phase of the conventional wisdom is everybody's afraid of her because of that.
And I don't fit into any of that.
I'm not afraid of her.
I don't think she's a lock.
I think she can be defeated.
And I think the conventional wisdom is being upset even as we speak, what with the energy some on the left are heading for her.
So she's going to do this press.
She's got a speech at the UN.
She's obviously using the Claire Underwood model here from House of Cards as a means of extricating herself from problems.
When in doubt, go to the UN and promise to give away some American money.
And you will find newfound love.
And it's after that, her speech is at 1:30 at the UN.
These times are ballpark.
And after that, she has her press conference with the media about the emails and the servers.
And, oh, by the way, by the way, we have, ladies and gentlemen, I think the Clintons are missing.
I think they should have done pay-per-view.
I think they should have put the press conference on pay-per-view.
You realize what a money-making opportunity this is.
And that's how the Clintons look at things.
I mean, everything to them is a money-making opportunity.
Can you imagine the pay-per-view revenue for this press conference?
Imagine how that would go.
Last time I remember anybody having to do a press conference like this, Geraldine Ferraro, when she had to go out there and answer questions, explain why her husband was so mobbed up.
Remember that snerdly?
Now, this is a little bit different because in this case, it's Hillary who may be mobbed up.
Well, the Wiener press conference might be, but he's a guy.
He's a guy.
And it was about what makes him a guy.
This is about Mrs. Clinton and bribes.
I mean, I don't know if they're going to get into the money of the foundation.
That really is where this should end up going.
And that's why this stuff was done in private with her private server.
I have some questions, nevertheless.
By the way, about that Geraldine Ferraro press conference, let's not forget that she ended that and the media gave her a standing O. Her husband was mobbed up, so it was said.
She had to go out and explain why she didn't divorce, I guess, stood by the guy, what that meant for her candidacy, what it might mean for the Democrat nominee was Walter Mondoll.
And she got a standing O from the media after that.
But they weren't biased back then, of course.
In this case, the media looks like they've got all their ammo aimed at Mrs. Clinton, but we will just have to see.
Now, I mentioned the way they're going to try to control this is with credentials.
They can't control the questions they're going to get.
The only way they can control this is to control the people who get in from the media to answer questions.
And to get credentials, get this, it's at the UN.
And to get credentials at the United Nations, for anything going on there, you have to apply 24 hours in advance.
Now, this means that none of the reporters had time to get credentials for Hillary's press conference.
So it looks like she's only going to have to answer questions from the United Nations reporters, the beat reporters assigned to the UN from wherever.
And they're dweebs at best.
I mean, these are people who think the UN is church.
So I don't know how many traditional drive-buyers are going to even get into this press conference, but that would be one way of controlling it.
My question's coming up.
Okay, the questions that I would ask Mrs. Clinton this afternoon were I to get credentialed and be there.
Mrs. Clinton, how many scandals make a pattern?
Mrs. Clinton, if it was necessary and appropriate to have a secret server as a cabinet secretary, Secretary of State, you think you'll really need one as president, right?
Mrs. Clinton, did you get the idea for secret email accounts from your husband?
How many secret email accounts did he have for communicating with the Playboy pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein?
Mrs. Clinton, when Chelsea was working for NBC News, did that influence Brian Williams from investigating you and the suspicious donations to the Clinton Foundation?
In other words, did NBC hiring Hillary give you some insurance that NBC would not look into your activities?
Mrs. Clinton, if you have nothing to hide, will you turn your servers over to Judicial Watch, who's issued a Freedom of Information Act request for them?
Mrs. Clinton, explain how your server was less vulnerable to hacks than government servers.
Mrs. Clinton, was it a hard choice not to disclose your secret server in your book?
Or did you disclose your secret server in your book?
But since no one read your book, nobody knows that.
Mrs. Clinton, was it a hard choice not to have an open press conference about this?
Mrs. Clinton, how do we know which politicians are susceptible to bribes?
Just have to ask them.
Mrs. Clinton, is buying access just something that Republicans do, but nobody else.
If you find legal equivalency with Jeb Bush, Mrs. Clinton, a question, when was Jeb Bush Secretary of State?
You know, she cited Jeb Bush.
Hey, Jeff had private.
Yeah, but he's released them all to boot.
Mrs. Clinton, I see that you were absent from Selma this past weekend.
So you weren't no ways tired.
By the way, speaking of Selma, did you see what the New York Times did?
BS, have they never heard of Photoshop?
Get this.
They cropped George and Laura Bush out of the picture of people crossing the bridge.
Bush was on the far right and they cropped him out.
And they went to the New York Times, said, why do you do that?
Well, you know, Bush, it was overexposed.
There was too much light on that part of the bridge.
And it just, it wouldn't look, what if you people never heard it for crying out on?
I could fix that.
And I wouldn't even need Photoshop to fix that.
Just isolate that part of the picture and reduce the exposure.
They cropped Bush out.
They didn't want Bush seen by their readers as part of the anniversary at Selma.
And he was there.
He was in the front row.
But he was way off, at least camera.
He was on the right side.
He was on everybody's left as they were crossing the bridge.
But what a hokey excuse.
We didn't crop him.
We made an editorial decision.
His part of the photo was so overexposed that it didn't look good.
It would have distracted everybody's attention away from other parts.
They cropped him out, and they can't even admit it.
Ah, the venerable New York Times.
Anyway, Hillary's press conference is at 1.30 or 2 o'clock.
And I've got an entire Hillary stack here.
Apparently, Carville just blew up, went off the rails defending Hillary and her email scandal.
And he went so far as to accuse the New York Times of reporting from right-wing talking points.
We don't have the audio of this because it happened on MSNBC.
And we have a ban.
I have a ban on all audio from MSNBC.
And again, that ban has worked.
By not giving MSNBC any publicity beyond what they can generate themselves, their audience has plunged.
There is nobody.
And did you see there's a new poll out?
Oh, and this just irritates the drive-by media that Fox News is now the mainstream media is the way the poll reports it.
More Americans trust Fox News than any other news network.
The number that Fox garners is 29%.
They're ahead of CNN.
They are ahead of all the other TV cable news networks.
And the drive-bys are, I think it's a Quinnipiac poll.
I don't have it right in front of me.
And the excuse given, well, yeah, but 58% of Fox's audience is Republican.
So what do you think they're going to say?
Doesn't matter.
That's mainstream audience.
Fox News has become the most trusted.
And I wonder these people at CNN, for example, when this kind of thing happens, and there's been a lot of it happening lately.
I mean, we're getting story after story about CNN's audience plunging, hardly anybody watching.
Ditto MSNBC.
And Fox is just running away with everything and now with the credibility polls as well.
The integrity, believability, honesty, credibility polls as well.
And when you look at CNN people on the talk about this, it is clear that they are so arrogant.
They are in denial about this.
The way they deal with it, they tell themselves that Fox is not even in the real world and that the Fox audience is not even in the real world.
It's all Fox and its audience is a bunch of extreme kooks, the fringe of American society, the fringe of American politics.
CNN people lie to themselves.
They still tell themselves that they are the network of record.
They still tell themselves that they own integrity and character and honesty and all this.
You can see it.
I can see it.
I know how to spot the personality characteristic traits, character traits when I'm watching this stuff.
And that's how they do it.
You know, I've asked often on this program, how do you work there and deal with the fact that nobody's watching?
I mean, the whole point of getting into this business is to acquire an audience.
And everybody on the air at CNN knows they don't have one.
They do not have an audience.
They've got a national cable news network.
And their audience numbers in the hundreds of thousands or even not even a half million nationwide.
It's pathetic.
And here's Fox blowing everybody away.
And they lie to themselves.
They tell themselves, as I say, that Fox and its audience are just fringe way over here.
They don't even want these people CNN watching.
And that's the product of arrogance.
I mean, they sit there and only they are doing the truth.
Only they are doing the real news.
It's a psychological thing.
I don't know how else they could do it.
I mean, if I were told that my audience had become 300,000, I couldn't come in here and fake it.
That would be a clear sign to me that I'm doing something wrong.
But CNN blames their audience.
And MSNBC blames their audience.
So anyway, there's all kinds of indicators, if you can find them, and they're not hard to, all over the culture that liberalism is not nearly as dominant and pervasive as it seems to be.
It's big.
I mean, don't misunderstand.
But we outnumber them.
I have to take a break.
We'll come back and get started with your phone calls after this, folks.
Sit tight, El Rushball, the EIB network, back after this.
Okay, so last week, Valerie Jarrett said that she'd never heard from Hillary.
Hillary didn't send her emails, and Obama had never gotten any emails from Hillary.
And Josh Ernest went out and said, no, no.
The president doesn't recall.
He didn't know that Hillary was using a private email server until he read about it in the media, just like the rest of you.
But now it turns out that the press secretary, Josh Ernest, admits that Hillary Clinton and Obama did indeed exchange emails while she was in the regime.
Josh Ernest said the president, I think as many people expected, did over the course of his first several years in office, trade emails with his Secretary of State.
But the number wasn't large.
That's kind of like, yeah, I smoked, but I didn't inhale.
It was never believable that Obama didn't know that Hillary was using a private server.
In fact, I'm going to offer you a little analogy.
You know who else was using a private server for emails?
General David Petraeus.
And you know what was happening in those private emails?
He was conducting a relationship with his paramour, with his mistress, Paula Broadwell.
The way they did it, they had a common Gmail email account, and they used the drafts folder to communicate with each other.
They didn't ever send each other any actual emails.
Whenever they wanted a comment, they would just compose a draft of an email, not send it, put it in the drafts folder.
And then they would each log into the Gmail account and read whatever was in the drafts folder, and they would each find the latest note from one to the other.
None of them had ever been sent.
They did this to keep it on the download.
But here's the thing.
The regime knew.
The regime knew, and they held it.
They didn't tell Petraeus that they knew.
They didn't tell anybody, but Obama dude, they knew.
So then Benghazi happened.
And they wanted Petraeus to say X, Y, and Z about Benghazi, which was to parrot the regime line.
And Petraeus, not aware that they knew about his little Gmail draft folder technique, refused.
The regime responded accordingly by leaking the fact that Petraeus was having an affair.
And this was because Petraeus would not toe the line on whatever the regime wanted.
They probably wanted him to go out and blame the video.
I don't remember what it was.
Well, here we have Mrs. Clinton, and she's got this private server.
And here's Obama saying, I didn't know about that till the same time you found out about it.
I didn't know about that till I saw it in the news.
Except they knew.
And Ernest has now admitted, but he didn't know it very much.
I mean, there weren't a whole lot of emails, but they knew.
Everybody, and this is the most spied on country by a president ever.
Barack Obama and his regime are spying on Americans like no president ever has.
Richard Nixon, a piker.
George W. Bush, a piker.
Why, just today, ladies, there is one of the latest document dumps from Edward Snowden says that the CIA has been trying since 2005, which actually it would be 2007, to crack the hardware and firmware encryption that Apple uses to keep iPhones and iPads secure.
And Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, is perhaps the most vocal in standing up for the privacy rights of Apple customers.
He is not responding.
The regime, the CIA, the FBI, everybody is hounding Apple for the decryption keys.
And Apple is not handing them over.
And Snowden's latest document dump says that the CIA has been, and this company, it's not just Snowden.
There was actually a conference that happens every now and again with reports on this kind of thing made to the intelligence community by the intelligence community.
And the latest report confirms what Snowden's document dump says, that they have been trying to crack Apple security, iPhones and iPads, and they can't.
And Apple will not give them the decryption keys.
You can encrypt hardware and firmware.
And they can't.
CIA cannot crack Apple's.
And local law enforcement can't.
And the FBI can't.
And they all claim they need to be able to to stop crime, of course.
And Obama is right in there leading the charge, wanting to know what's on Apple devices.
He wants that security crack like everybody else does.
And these little tech bloggers that I read, it's been so much fun to read these guys about the watch, folks.
I can't wait till we get to that.
But that's for later.
They're just livid that Obama is participating in his administration, is participating in trying to crack Apple security.
And they're saying things like, this will not bode well for Obama.
This one thing will not bode well for Obama in history.
They say, why can't you little guys here see that Obama's desire to crack the security of your iPad is not just contained to that?
Why can't you see who Obama really is?
He gets a pass on everything else, but they don't like him, and they don't understand why he's trying to violate their privacy.
They not know what Obama cares all about.
Do they not know what everything Obama's doing is all about?
Is about violating everybody's privacy so they can end up controlling everybody?
So anyway, now we've got Hillary and her secret email server and address.
And the regime is saying, we didn't know about it, but they did.
And I'm just waiting for the possible Petraeus moment.
What do they know about Mrs. Clinton?
And if Obama has any desire to sabotage her, believe me, he's got the goods.
I'm sure they've, just like they had him on Petraeus.
So here's anyway, the soundbite.
This is Obama's CBS Sunday morning.
Let's see.
This is Bill Plant interviewing Obama.
The question, when did you first learn that Hillary Clinton used an email system outside the governments for official biddings while she was Secretary of State?
At the same time, everybody else learned it through news reports.
You say that you have the most transparent administration ever.
You said it again just a couple of weeks ago.
That's true.
How does this square with that?
Well, I think that the fact that she's going to be putting them forward will allow us to make sure that people have the information they need.
This is a crock, the idea that he didn't find out about it.
We put together a montage, all the other things Obama didn't find out about until they were in the news.
I just heard about this.
I first learned about it from the same news reports that I think most people learned about this.
I heard on the news about this.
If it turns out, some of the allegations that have been made in the press are confirmed.
I certainly did not know anything about the IG report before the IG report had been leaked through the press.
It was something we found out about along with all of you.
At the same time, everybody else learned it through news reports.
He was talking about John Gruber and making American people had to be stupid.
He sort of fast and furious, IRS targeting Americans, Secret Service scandal, IRS targeting Americans, Air Force Flame flying over Manhattan, all of those things.
I didn't find out about it until I read the news, just like the rest of you.
Anyway, Josh Ernest admitted that Obama knew about the emails before he read it in the news.
And we have more coming up on that.
And I really I'm puzzled by how Apple is marketing the Apple Watch.
And I will explain all this when we get back.
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