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March 11, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 11, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #2
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You know, some of the people who send me emails are funny.
I checked the email during the break.
Hey, Rush, that was really clever of you going back and giving yourself credit for the pretty and pink press conference in 1990, trying to relate it to today just to give yourself an animal.
That's not what I was doing.
Let me tell you something, folks.
There are people, young people, millennials, who abandoned Mrs. Clinton in 2008.
They chose Obama instead.
They don't like her.
They instinctively don't like her.
Some of them do, however.
They weren't alive back then.
We've been at this 26 years.
That's a generation.
And there are people in this audience who do not know Mrs. Clinton from that era.
And my purpose was to tell them that nothing's changed.
That Clintons are still the same Clintons they were, especially her.
But since she's the one that still hasn't had the prize of sitting in the Oval Off as her own.
But going back to the pretty in pink, including the soundbite from back then was to illustrate it's the same victimized woman from the 90s that's still living there.
She thinks that her ticket, that her success track is, she hasn't moved forward.
She is stuck in a time warp.
She's stuck in the 1990s, and the techniques that she used.
That pretty and pink press conference, the I should have made it a little bit more clear.
The pretty in pink press conference, the press was dazzled.
They were in awe.
They couldn't believe how composed and how on she was.
And any thought that the Clintons were lying about what was in their health care plan or any idea that the Clintons were doing something chicanerous in her case, turning 10 grand to 100 grand in the candle futures market when she didn't want to think about, all of that was erased.
And Mrs. Clinton was considered once again the smartest woman in the world.
And my point was she tried the same tactic, the same technique, with the same restrictions on the press that she tried in the pretty in pink yesterday, and it didn't work this time.
Her United Nations press conference was done with the same mindset that she had back in the 90s.
She's a victim.
She's being put upon the evil Republicans or the evil whoever is out to get her.
The vast right-wing conspiracy, what is always out to get her, and it didn't work this time.
The media was not dazzled by what she did yesterday.
Quite the contrary.
Many in the media on the left wing and the drive-by media are writing about how embarrassing it was to sit through it.
And how incompetent she appeared.
And and and how any number of adjectives were used.
Shrewish.
Woman scorned.
Victim feeling sorry for herself, but it was she she has managed to stay current, is the point.
The reason she thinks that she is in trouble, same reasons in the 90s.
The way she thinks to extricate herself is not changed.
She still uses the same techniques they tried in the 90s.
Not working.
That was one of the reasons.
It was to educate people that weren't around paying attention back then.
It's no different today than it was then.
I mean, I this this is the woman.
I lived rent-free in their heads for two terms.
I mean, Clinton's flying into St. Louis on Air Force One, and he calls KMOX to complain that I'm coming up next.
And there's no truth detector, and I get three hours to say whatever I want to.
He's president of the United States.
He's got that bully pulpit, and he's complaining and whining to the morning show at Cam Ox.
There's nobody controlling me.
And they tried to reinstate the fairness doctrine.
They tried to blame me for the Oklahoma City bombing.
Look, this is all before there was a Fox News.
This is all before there was any other conservative blogosphere or any of that.
And she's still stuck there, is my only point.
And it's it I mean to offer that up as information opportunity.
And how bit I when I say she's the most cheated on woman in America, I mean it.
Stop and think.
Just in her in her inner marriage alone.
But it goes beyond that.
And undeniable truth number 24 comes to mind and explaining why she's owed this and why she deserves this, and none of it's because she's earned it in a traditional merit-based sense.
It's uh I mean it's been payback Hillary time now since 2008, but it hasn't manifested itself the way she and everybody thought.
Now, look, I want to get some other things out there.
We'll get back to this, and if you're on hold and you want to talk about the Hillary thing, feel free.
We just don't go away.
We're coming to you, El Quico.
The first thing I haven't, I haven't commented on the uh what happened in um University of Oklahoma, and that and that fraternity that uh has been banned and closed down on campus, uh the racist rants and so forth.
You know, it's fascinating.
Let me before I there's another story I think is relevant to this in its own way, and it's going to be my job to link them.
Story from Fortune magazine.
And here's the headline.
American millennials are among the world's least skilled.
Researchers at uh Princeton-based educational testing service, ETS.
Oh, let me read the opening paragraph.
We hear about the superior tech savvy of people born after 1980 so often that we tend to assume that it must be true.
And how many people do?
I think this is true.
A lot of people think that the millennials, because they understand tech are light years ahead of where we were when we were their age, and they're they're bright and they're smart and they're fast and they're quick.
And what's happened here is that researchers at Princeton-based educational testing service thought that would be the case when they administered a test called the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies.
It's sponsored by the OECD.
The test was designed to measure the job skills of adults aged 16 to 65 in 23 different countries.
And when the results were analyzed by age group and nationality, the Princeton-based educational testing service got a shock.
It turns out that millennials in the United States fall way short when it comes to the skills employers want most.
Literacy, including the ability to follow simple instructions, practical mathematics, and hold on to your hat, a category called problem solving in technology-rich environments.
Not only do Generation Y Americans lag far behind their overseas peers by every measure, they even score lower than other age groups of Americans.
Take literacy, for example.
American millennials scored lower than their counterparts in every country that participated except Spain and Italy, Japan's number one, by the way.
In numeracy, meaning the ability to apply basic math, which is addition and subtraction and multiplication division, basic math to everyday situations, millennials in the U.S. rank dead last.
Okay, but what about making smart use of technology?
This is where millennials are supposed to be way ahead of everybody else, right?
Well, again, America scored at the bottom of the heap in a four-way tie for last place with the Slovak Republic, Ireland, and Poland.
Even the best educated millennials in America could not compete with their counterparts in Japan, Finland, South Korea, Belgium, Sweden, or elsewhere.
Well, no, they probably are setting up home servers.
That's the point.
The broadcast engineer Snidley said to me, guess they won't be setting up any home servers.
No, they probably are.
At any rate, here's the with a master's degree, for example.
Americans scored higher in numeracy than peers in just three countries, Ireland, Poland, and Spain.
Altogether, the top U.S. millennials in the 90th percentile scored lower than their counterparts in 15 countries.
The ETS researcher who worked on the study said, we really thought that U.S. millennials would do better than the general adult population, either compared to older uh co-workers in the U.S. or to the same age group in other countries.
But they didn't.
In fact, their scores were abysmal.
Now, what does this mean for U.S. employers hiring people born since 1980?
Goodman notes that hiring managers shouldn't overestimate the practical value of a four-year degree.
Because all these people are going to college and they don't have anything to show for it.
U.S. millennials with college credentials did score a little higher on this than Americans with only a half scroll diploma, but not measurably.
College degree may not be enough, Goodman says to prove it somebody is adept with basic English can do what she calls work-a-day math or has the ability to use technology in a job.
And what are people spending for this?
200 grand?
That's what is your average student alone debt bill now, is 200 grand to come out of there and not be able to do daily day math.
So, okay.
You said, well, how does this relate to what happened in Oklahoma?
Well, one other story.
A threat of violence prompted the University of California Irvine to cancel a meeting on Tuesday that was set to discuss a ban on flags, including the U.S. flag in student government offices.
Campus officials at UC Irvine on Tuesday received a viable threat of violence associated with the recent controversy.
And while the threat was not specific, it was being taken seriously.
Campus cops had increased security and were asking students to report suspicious activities.
The debate erupted.
With nearly 30,000 students when somebody removed a U.S. flag that hung on a wall in a common area of the student government suite.
Six undergraduate members of the Associated Students Legislative Council then passed a ban on posting flags of any nation in the office lobby last week.
A higher student panel vetoed it two days later amid condemnation from some vet.
Anyway, some people didn't like the fact the American flag was being displayed on campus.
They took it down.
And they wanted to replace it.
And so the solution.
Conflict resolution 101.
The solution is no flag, so that nobody will be offended.
No flag will be portrayed.
No flag will be on display at UC Irvine.
Because we don't want to offend anybody.
Okay, so we've got this.
We've got American millennials among the world's least skilled in basic day-to-day vocational activity.
And we've got these fret boys at the University of Oklahoma singing a racist song that uses the N-word hanging from a tree thrown out of school and the fraternity cut down.
What, if anything, is common here?
Would it surprise you to learn that on MSNBC this morning?
Rap music was blamed for what happened at the University of Oklahoma.
Not Republicans, not conservatives, but a rapper, a specific name escapes me at the moment, but a specific rapper and his lyrics.
And the point was made: hey, look, these kids are just a product of their culture.
That's they hear that word, they turn on the radio, they hear the N-word, they hear ho, they hear bitch, they hear all it's common.
It's every day.
And the people using the words are Big stars, and they're making gazillions of dollars, and they're running around dating the Kardashians, and they're and they're and they're staying in Las Vegas.
I mean, they're living the life all these young kids want to live, and how they get there by doing all this stuff.
And so even on MSNBC, it was theorized.
We just had a bunch of copycats, not racists.
I am not kidding you.
And you know who advanced this theory first?
Mika Bzzinski.
It's on, it's it's uncanny.
Mikab Zhinski advanced this theory.
I didn't watch it because I have instituted a personal ban on MSNBC.
Okay, so let's take that.
You see Irvine.
We're talking millennials here.
In every story, we're talking millennials.
This story from Fortune magazine about the uh educational testing service at Princeton that found American millennials among the world's least skilled.
We really shouldn't be surprised by this.
I don't think anybody paying any kind of attention over the last 25 or 30 years of hard left control of public elementary and secondary education, as well as the pop culture couldn't and shouldn't possibly be shocked by this.
This generation, these millennials, I mean, look at them, they how many of them still live at home?
They, by virtue of this story, fortune, they're not equipped to function day-to-day in the work-aday world, but where they've been educated in their schools, starting at kindergarten all the way through high school and college, no doubt.
Things that are useful in life are not taught.
Like the ability to follow simple instructions.
No, instead, what are their heads being filled with useless crazy aspects of the leftist agenda?
They know everything about climate change.
They know everything about the polar bears dying, they know everything about electric power and electric cars and who's making them.
You know, all of this useless stuff.
They have been taught about white rage.
They have been guilted into being white, they have been guilted into believing that if they're white, they're automatically committing criminal activity and sin just by virtue of being white.
We've had the audio sound bites of students on this program.
We've read their quotes, where this is what they're taught.
And then they've been taught that everything should be equal and it ought to be equal, and it can be equal, and everybody can be the same, and there's never any discrimination, there shouldn't be any discrimination.
All of this, they've been taught this phony baloney, plastic banana, good time rock and roll, utopia.
They've been told it's attainable.
They've been told they can achieve it.
And they have been told who's responsible for it not happening.
I have to take a break here.
But I want to wrap this up before too long get back here with it.
My point is you got millennials testing out as incompetent.
You got what happened, you see Irvine, no flag.
The American flag is oppressive and all that says we can't do any flag, and then we've got this thing in Oklahoma.
And all of it could be chalked up to environmental reasons.
Not inherent racism, but instead what people have been taught or not taught, and what they're consuming as entertainment.
And every rap star in the world that uses the N-word and talks about women as hoes and bitches for all intents and purposes, they're multimillionaires.
They're superstars.
They got big cribs, they got giant cars with diamond-decked wheels on them.
They're always in Las Vegas, and there's always a Kardashian with a big butt around it.
Everybody seems to want to be part of.
And so this rapper schedules a concert nearby, and these kids go nuts and do their own video.
Some people are thinking it's copycat now rather than just inherent racism, but in fact it could be, but they're being taught in school that White guilt, white rage.
They're being taught that they're destroying the environment or that their parents did.
Women are being taught that wherever they go, they're gonna get raped by predatory men.
They're being educated and filled with a bunch of useless drivel and garbage that's not even true.
And while that's happening, they're not learning anything practical.
Can't even do day-to-day math like basic addition, subtraction, multiplication.
I don't know, folks.
It's it all just it ties together.
It um it makes sense.
And I, you know, I keep talking about uh, well, I reference my tech blogs.
I'll tell you what that's become.
To me, it's not about the tech anymore.
This has become a cultural study for me.
This has become almost a project.
I'm studying the millennial culture, at least in this segment of it, by just I mean, they do react to political things.
They react like this business with the CIA trying to crack Apple.
You would not believe some of the inability to connect dots on the one Obama's the greatest guy, compassion, he loves everybody, he's the smartest guy.
Over here, he's trying to crack their iPhone, and they say, you know, history's not going to treat him well.
They do not have the ability to think, well, if he's trying to crack my iPhone, what might he be doing with the healthcare server?
And what might he be trying to do with any other pro they just it's it's uncanny, the inability for critical thought, and it's right in front of your face.
And I have learned that Twitter is blowing up.
Twitter should be blown up, if you ask me.
I think some of the most revulsive hate and disgust in this country is on Twitter countless thousands, millions of times a day.
But beyond that, Twitter is blowing up angry as hell at Mika Bzinski for daring to say that the frat boys at OU were simply mimicking a rap song.
You don't think they were okay?
Here's the here's here's here's the thing.
Here's the thing doesn't matter.
Whatever happened, Mika and the whole morning Joe crew thinks that that rappers, a particular rapper, a particular tune inspired this, which dumbfounds me.
I mean, what happened over there?
Normally something like this happens, and you blame the whole Republican Party, and then you blame talk radio, and then you blame the conservative blogosphere.
But now they're blaming rap, it doesn't happen.
Okay.
But now, let me put this in a different perspective.
Along with this American Millennials Among the World's Least Skilled and the stuff that happened at UC Irvine.
If this had been a song by Kim Kardashian's husband...
And they'd sung this song at the Grammys, it'd be a hit.
Can we agree with that?
That's number one.
Snerdley doesn't think I have a point on this.
Snerdley thinks I might be wrong in my uh attempt here to be down for the struggle.
But I'm telling you, this stuff gets awards, and the people that sing it are portrayed as American royalty in terms of celebrity.
You can't deny that.
And again, I want to go back to education.
Look at what millennial kids are subjected to under the guise of being educated in the classroom.
And it's just the left-wing liberal agenda.
They have been taught, and I want to give this a little bit different perspective.
I want to talk about what happened at the OU fraternity as a total failure of the education agenda.
It's an embarrassing total failure of the education agenda.
Look what happened.
These kids in this fraternity, sometimes they went to high school before they got to OU.
When they were in high school, when they're in junior high school, probably when they were in K school.
They were taught not to hate.
They were taught everybody's special.
They were taught everybody gets a prize.
They were taught that white people are bad because it's unfair there are more of them than anybody else.
They were taught about white guilt.
They were taught about white rage.
They've been taught that white Europeans brought all the poison that affect this country today.
They have been taught that African Americans are deserving.
They have been taught that homosexuals are as normal and free and clear and love as anything else is.
They've been taught to accept it.
They've been taught to promote it.
They have been taught all of the minority status that feels victimized.
They have been taught to accept and promote it all.
They have been taught not to bully.
They may have been bullied themselves, but they have been taught that bullying is bad.
There have been movies made about bullies.
They have been forced to watch those movies in school.
They have been told not to play rough.
They have told, been taught not to point your finger like a gun.
They have been taught to eat a bunch of rotten gut vegetable garbage that's considered to be health food, as defined by Michelle My Bell Obama.
They have been treated to Black History Month every February for their entire lives.
They have been taught about gender, wealth, race, orientation, and equality from the first step they ever took inside a school.
And social justice, exactly right.
They have they have had social justice labeled to them as part of every class.
Even mathematics is presented as social justice.
And yet, despite this indoctrination, despite the best efforts of the liberal education elite, these fretboys at the University of Oklahoma, despite this liberal indoctrination, are singing a racist song at the top of their lungs.
Would somebody tell me how does that happen?
How does that happen when they have been subjected to an educational process their whole lives that has denounced and ridiculed everything that they got caught doing?
Everything that they did has been impugned, it has been criticized, it's been taught as filthy and dirty, and yet they're doing it.
Talk about failure.
You talk about a liberal educational failure.
What happened here?
Why are you laughing?
Why?
Well, my point is, even if even if you think that these frat boys are nothing but perfect 100% racists.
Is that what you think?
Okay.
All right.
Even if you think that they come from racist, viciously discriminatory, prejudiced homes with with with the Confederate flag on their dad's driver's side door of the Ford 150.
Well, why didn't the liberal education system wash it out?
They've been subjected to it.
They've had all the corrective measures.
Why didn't the liberal education system fix all of this?
Conflict resolution 101, obviously failed, but I mean all of it failed.
Big time.
Diversity training, they've done it all.
Where are the positive results?
This is one of the biggest failures.
Education I can believe.
And then there's also there's another possibility, folks, to explain this.
It could well be that these are just a bunch of horny Little SOBs trying to impress girls with outlaw behavior, risky, risque behavior, trying to get noticed.
This is their way of showing they're brave, and they don't answer to anybody, and nobody tells them what to do.
Hey, babe, look at me.
I'm Mr. Tough Guy.
Of course, that's out the window now, but who knows what's inspiring this guy.
My point is the liberal education establishment has had control of these kids for 15 or 20 years, and what do they have to show for it?
Zilch Zero.
Notta.
And I'm going to take a call here, folks, but we went back to the audio soundbite archives, and we have the soundbite of me on nightline, Ted Coppel back in 1994, that precipitated and caused Hillary's pretty in pink press conference two days later.
That's coming up.
But first, here's Connie in uh in Gainesville, Florida.
Hi, Connie, great to have you with us.
Hello.
Oh, hi.
Thank you, Mr. Rimba, for taking my call.
You bet.
To get to point quickly, I was listening to your caller in the first hour when you were explained to them that uh it wasn't uh the Republicans didn't have to fear this whole thing that that's not who Hillary even got the server for you.
You said Hillary got the server to protect herself from Obama.
And you was almost just uh almost a throwaway line, but it was like a lightning vote for me.
I'm like, of course, of course.
I was looking yesterday when you were talking about uh Petraeus and how he put the email to the in the draft folder, but Obama knew about that.
And I remembered, you know, Menendez spoke against Obama, and bam, he got hit with the Department of Justice investigations with leak.
So I remember back when you're you thought we were trying to think that's the primary point, huh?
You thought that was a good point.
Yeah, I mean, that's it.
She knows Obama.
She remembers when he was trying to say they opened the uh divorce files for Jack Ryan.
She knows Obama, she knows the Chicago way, and I think that is who she was protecting us from.
They're both a Linskyites, so they both know the rules for radicals.
They're both from Chicago.
Hillary's more from Chicago than Obama is.
I mean, Hillary actually grew up in uh Chicago suburbs.
Well, what that by the way, Connie, thanks much.
I've got a soundbite to support what you the point you just made, uh, from Ed Klein, who's one of their biographers, or has written about them, the Clintons.
But just to refresh, we had a caller in the first hour who thought that Hillary with this private server is just trying to set up the Republicans, trying to rope a dopamine to demanding it, demanding it, because there's ought to be stuff on Benghazi in there, and there's got to be all kinds of incriminating stuff, and the Republicans are gonna demand to see it, and when they get it, it falls flat, and they look embarrassed.
That's what the caller thought.
And I said, No, I think if anything's going on here, it's it's Obama.
And Connie said, bingo, that's what it is.
And she's right.
Petraeus, and I don't I hate to be repetitive.
We talked about this yesterday, but Obama named Petraeus as uh Secretary of Defense and a CIA director.
And while he was in one of those, or maybe both those positions, he was having a biography written about him.
He ended up having an affair with the woman who was writing the biography.
And the way he communicated with the mistress was via the drafts folder in the common Gmail account.
They never sent each other emails.
There was never an email trail to follow.
They both would log in to a common Gmail account, probably hers, and each message they wanted to send, they would compose it, but not send it.
They would save it as a draft.
And then when they log in, and they go to the draft folder, and they would each find the latest email from the other, and that's how they would communicate.
And the regime, obviously, knew about this and kept it in reserve for the moment they needed it.
And the moment came when Petraeus refused to go out and spout the company line on Benghazi.
And that's when we all found out that Petraeus was having an affair with the biographer.
And that led to Petraeus copping a plea to avoid a trial.
He went from the pinnacle of the greatest reputation in America down to common criminal, could have been going to court all because the regime knew what was going on in that drafts folder and knew he was having, you know, they were uh it was uh it was down and dirty in there in the draft folder and they knew about this.
And so Mrs. Clinton knew that they knew because she was Secretary of State when they sent Ben uh what's his face uh Patrias out there to spout the company line refused to do it.
Plus she knew Obama to get it, so that server is to keep things from Obama.
I always believe now let's go to the audio sound, but take a break.
Audio soundbites of Ed Klein to back this up when we get back.
Don't go away.
Yeah, right here we are back at it.
Ill Rushbone, cutting edge.
Okay, Fox and Friends today.
Clayton Morris speaking with Ed Klein, author of the book Blood Feud, about the uh lack of support coming from the Obama regime uh regarding Hillary's email scandal.
Clayton Morris said to Ed Klein, you think this is an inside job, right?
You think the regime is throwing Hillary under the bus.
It's not only me who thinks this, Bill Clinton thinks this as well.
He has said, according to my sources, that the White House is leaking to their friends in the mainstream media stories about the Clintons, not only about Hillary, but about him and about what she did while she was in the State Department.
And it's my understanding that, and this is from sources within the White House, that the Clintons know that Hillary is under not one but six different investigations prompted by the White House.
And it was my instincts that our previous caller Connie was reacting to, thinking right on the money.
Just in the first hour of the program, I just instinctively said this is not the re she's not setting the Republicans up with this.
She's protecting herself from Obama.
That's what's going on.
And Klein's confirming that.
And in the next bite, he actually names Valerie Jarrett as the impetus as the uh the actual agent conducting this operation.
Clayton Morris said, you've also spoken to sources at the State Department about this, Ed.
What are your sources there telling you?
They're saying that they're taking tons of documents, they see them being wheeled through the corridors from Clinton's old offices, and they're going through these looking for problems on her expense account, on her dealings with foreign leaders.
All of this, I'm told is prompted by Valerie Jarrett and the president who do not want to see Hillary Clinton, president of the United States.
They feel that the Clintons are very centrist as far as the Democratic Party is concerned.
That if Hillary becomes president, she won't carry out the legacy of Barack Obama.
Aha!
If that's true, and I'm not sure I buy that, but if that's true, it would make sense.
I mean, I I can I can think of a bunch of other reasons why Obama would want to take Hillary out before that one, but that's also a valid reason.
Look, Obama has said that he'd not leaving Washington right away.
He's gonna hang around.
I guarantee you, whoever the next president is, Republican, Democrat, Martian, who every, if they do one thing, if they ever begin the process of unraveling any of this Obama stuff, he's gonna be on TV with his buddy buddy press corps denouncing this new president.
This is why I have to revisit this just for the fun of it.
Last week we had a caller about this.
Now, I've got to save it.
I've got it, yeah.
I just run it out of time here because now I wanted to get this uh nightline bite in, but I'm not gonna have time to do that now either.
Look, let me just stay on trans thought.
We had a caller last week asked me a hypothetical.
What happens if um if Obama just decides not to leave?
Pretends there isn't a 22nd amendment, just doesn't leave.
The Republicans have said it, they're gonna stop him.
And I said, well, that's you know, it's an inconceivable scenario.
But let's play with it anyway.
Let's construct a hypothetical.
And and I did, and they wrote about it.
They were so dazzled by it at newsbusters that they that they wrote about it.
Uh and they ultimately disagreed with, of course, because at some point they believe That uh the Republicans would impeach Obama if he decided not to leave.
But that would be the straw that breaks the camel's back.
But I posited, and I think this is pretty on point.
I said the Republicans would not stop Obama from serving a third term or trying to win a third term.
They wouldn't stop him because of their fear of angering the independents.
They criticize him.
So they'd let him run all over the 22nd Amendment and try to beat him in a general election.
And some people took that seriously and thought that I might have had a point.
When I was just cracking a joke about the ineffectiveness of the GOP.
At any rate, it is.
I think it is Obama that Mrs. Clinton was trying to shield herself from.
Top of the hour break coming up, but we uh we do have the audio soundbite from Nightline back in 1994, which I accused the Clintons of being untruthful, spawned the pretty in pink press conference.
And you can hear it yourself that spawned it all.
We'll take a break and be right back.
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