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March 11, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 11, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaldi, Excellence in Broadcasting Network and the Limboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I am America's real anchor man.
America's truth detector and the doctor of democracy.
A telebone number, you want to be on the program 800 282-2882 in the email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
So if we had the pretty and pink press conference back in 1994, what was yesterday?
Ugly and herringbone?
No, can't say ugly.
Because the people would misunderstand.
We wouldn't be talking about Mrs. Clinton, we talked about the attitude and the atmosphere.
It was not pretty.
It certainly wasn't pretty at the UN yesterday.
Anyway, folks, telephone number if you want to be on the program, 800 282-2882, the email address, L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
AP has some breaking news.
Speaking of rappers, the Associated Press is reporting that police have responded to a report of four people shot at the Miami Beach home of the rapper Little Wayne.
Oh, you found that?
You're reading about that even.
Little Wayne.
That's not the rapper that was in question at Oklahoma U. That was a different rapper.
Anyway.
Okay, let's set this up.
I'm I'm sorry this there's so much distance here between the first hour and now when I talked about this.
But yesterday, the whole point, and I don't want to have to reset this table, but uh people have noticed that the press, not all of it, but quite a lot of the drive-by media is really hammering Mrs. Clinton.
Even before her press conference yesterday, but especially after it, on the basis of, oh no, this was just the 90s all over.
We don't want to go through this again.
It's amazing to read these guys, by the way.
Because the impression that everybody has is these reporters all love the 90s.
Oh man, those were the salad days.
Yeah.
We had Clinton, and he overcame this Republican onslaught led by Newt Gingrich.
They won the house in 94, and Clinton made mincemeat of them in the 95 bunch of deal, and basically just ran roughshot over them, and the and Clinton was loved and adored because he so easily beat the Republicans, and they loved how he did it.
He lied.
He got away with lying to a grand jury, had an affair with an intern.
Any other president would have been thrown out of office, but Clinton not only survived, he became a biggest rock star in the Democrat Party.
And so people think the media love the 90s.
What is true is they love Bill Clinton.
But they were not enamored of Hillary and the victimization game that she constantly played.
And my point was that the press conference that we got yesterday was an exact replay.
She tried to recapture the magic of the 1994 Pretty and Pink Press Conference, which I say with no ego, I was responsible for.
The Pretty and Pink Press Conference took place after a nightline episode in which I accused the Clintons of lying and made the point.
It was an it was some sort of town hall edition of Nightline.
Everybody was in Iowa, but I was in my TV studio in New York.
And I just I made the point, which you'll hear in a minute, that I I don't know why we're even talking about it, because why do we believe them?
And I linked Whitewater to healthcare, and that just wasn't supposed to happen.
And since I've been talking about it, Cookie went back to our archives and got the audio.
We have two bytes.
And the first one is a is is a setup.
Both of these bytes are from April 25th of 1994.
The Pretty in Pink Press Conference occurred on April the 22nd, I believe.
I might get that date a little wrong, But they happened, I mean, just right back to back.
So here is the first button.
I'm not sure what this is.
It looks like it's a I mean, it's 20 years ago, folks.
It looks like it's a phone call.
Let's just play it.
I'll be able to tell what this is.
I wonder who she might be talking about.
I wonder who could it possibly be that she who in the last few days has sought to link Whitewater to health care?
We haven't taken that person.
You do?
Yes.
We know on this show who she's talking about.
Yeah.
We know who did it?
Yes.
Well, by all means, let's find out who did it.
So I guess that was an audience member that was uh shouting at me.
What had happened here was that uh Hillary had started complaining about some of the opponents of health care trying to use Whitewater as a proxy for their opposition to health care.
She was talking about me.
And that's why I was having that little humorous back and forth with the audience member.
And I wonder who she could have been talking about.
So here it is on April, we played the bite.
The uh nightline episode was April 19th of 1994.
And it was in Iowa, it was a town hall meeting in Iowa, and it had James Carville and uh Geneva Overhauls.
It's a bunch of people.
I think Floyd Abrams was on this show.
I mean, it was a lot of people, and I was the only one not there.
I was on satellite location, my TV studio in New York.
And I think Whitewater is about health care.
Whitewater's about Bosnia.
Whitewater is about crime and welfare reform, and I'll tell you why.
Character, the issue of character was put on hold during the 1992 campaign.
Uh nobody cared about it because uh so many people were upset with the economic situation they wanted to change, and it's now coming home to roost.
Uh most people think that health care is a good idea, but they haven't read the plan.
They're taking the president's word for it.
Now, I think if the president's word is what we're going to rely on for his policies.
This isn't a debate in the arena of ideas, and this is the man setting the agenda.
And if people are going to base their support uh for the plan on whether or not they can take his word, I think it's fair to examine whether or not he keeps his word.
This is not about getting rid of the president.
This is about people who would like to stop health care in a legitimate democratic sense, trying to compete for the minds and hearts of the American people, the basis that maybe what the president's saying isn't true.
Well, that's all it took.
Because you have to every everybody on that panel was salivating for Clinton to succeed.
I mean, this was the Salah Days.
This was 1994, the second year in office.
The Republicans hadn't done anything yet.
They wouldn't win the House election until November of that year.
This is April.
And uh there were efforts underway to undermine them with Whitewater and so forth, but nobody had linked Whitewater to health care the way I did there.
And the audience was laughing because the camera had cut to Carville, who was making reptilian faces at me uh as I was making those comments.
And I couldn't see him, of course, because I wasn't there, so it wasn't a distraction, but people watching it could see.
But anyway, it was this little bite, and there, and by the way, there's much more that happened.
That's just a sample bite.
Uh it was just days after this that Hillary called that press conference explain Whitewater and and uh that they don't lie and that they were being honest, you can trust them, and uh people are out to get them and this kind of thing.
And I think she tried a repeat of that the whole point of playing this is that she stuck in this time warp of the 90s, and this is this is how she sought to extract herself, same way she did.
She got rave reviews for the Pretty and Pink Press Conference back in 1994, and she did not get rave reviews.
AP.
The Associated Press filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the State Department to force the release of email correspondence and government documents from Hillary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State.
Legal action comes after repeated requests filed under the Freedom of Information Act have gone unfulfilled, and they include one request that the Associated Press made five years ago and others Pending since the summer of 2013.
Now, would the AP wait five years to sue a Republican official like Dick Cheney for refusing to honor a Freedom of Information Act request?
The answer is no.
So I think what's happened here is that the AP's probably been shamed into this by the by the Hillary email scandal.
I mean, this is this is a tough one for the drive-by's to swallow.
And I still am amazed by it.
Of all the things the Clintons have done, I mean, over here is Benghazi, and the press couldn't care.
They want to cover for her on Benghazi.
They want to cover for because they're covering for Obama.
I mean, that's the bottom line there.
So Hillary is actually being protected by the press's love and devotion for Obama.
But this email thing, this is all hers.
She owns this.
They can target her and not have to include Obama in it.
And I think what we are seeing, and again, a stark difference from the nineties.
We are seeing that many in the drive-by media once again are apparently prepared to throw her overboard just as they did in 2008.
This could be, and I know some people think that this is all a ruse, that they're battle testing Hillary and they're getting this out of the way now so that she can say she survived it and triumphed over it.
Uh and that's a common analysis that has been made about occasions when the media has decided to be critical of the Clintons.
This is different.
This has gone on and on and on, and the difference here is Obama.
There is a Democrat that they value more.
There's a Democrat they want to protect more.
That's Obama.
And remember how many of them just immediately abandoned her and went over to his camp in uh in two thousand eight.
Another word I'm starting to see in media coverage of Mrs. Clinton is this word likeability.
And how she doesn't have it.
And so you might say, well, why did the press seem so friendly or supportive all these because they love Bill Clinton?
And this was part of the deal.
But now, you know, she's kind of on her own.
Now they could they can they can target Hillary without taking anybody else out.
They're not going to harm Bill binding it happens here because he doesn't send email.
There's nothing he did.
They're not going to harm Obama if they go get Hillary.
And I know there are plenty of other things that you would think would be far more valid in terms of mistakes that she's made that should be called on, but this is easy.
It often comes down to the easiest, the most simple explanation, something it's like the House Bank scandal.
I mean, there were a lot of things going on.
The Democrats were doing back in the late 80s and early 90s that were scandal-ridden, but the House bank was so easy to understand.
It didn't require any explanation.
All you had to do was tell people that members of the House could go to their own bank and cash checks for money that was not in their account.
The House Bank, you know, if Congressman Smorgish board had 25 bucks in his checking account and walked in with a check for a thousand dollars, they'd cash it.
You couldn't do that.
Your bank would not do that for you.
But the House bank was doing it for House members.
And that nobody had to explain what the controversy was, and nobody had to explain what this can.
It was easy.
So's this.
Mrs. Clinton has a server in her house where she is shielding all of her work email from the country and from everybody, including the president, and it's against the law.
And it's easily understood.
So it doesn't take a lot of press effort to explain this.
And for those that do want to get her out of the way, say for Elizabeth Warren, this is made to order, and it's why they're engaging in it.
Okay, you got to kick a brief obscene profit timeout, my friends.
Much more your phone calls on tap here and other things as well when we get back.
So do not go away.
Okay, back to the phones we go.
John in Kensington uh Connecticut.
It's great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hey, good uh good afternoon.
You know, I was thinking this isn't a throwback to the to the nineties.
This is a throwback to the 70s.
When I heard Hillary say, you know, she was releasing 55,000 emails that reminded me of Nixon sitting with behind him thousands of uh black uh three-punch hole binders, and he's saying I'm releasing all this information, and then when they opened the binders, there was only like one page in each.
And then she said, I'm not giving up the s uh the server.
It's like uh Nixon not wanting to give up checkers as dog.
Well, and if you want to go there, it'd be like Nixon say, Okay, look, I have twenty-four hours of tapes here.
And there's eighteen minutes of it that's blank, but you can rely on my judgment.
There's nothing in those eighteen minutes missing that you need to hear.
So I'll give you the twenty-three hours and fifty-five or forty-four minutes, whatever it is of tapes.
The eighteen minutes that we don't have, don't worry.
Trust me, there's nothing there that's any use to you.
That that would be the analogy.
Her voice sounded like Nixon's voice with the checker speech when she said, I'm not giving up the server that had her private emails about her mother's funeral and her daughter's dress.
Well, yeah, I can see it.
Uh and you know, she was involved in the Watergate investigation, got thrown off by the lawyer heading up the Watergate investigation against Nick, she was thrown off of it because of her um mean-spirited, uncontrollable partisan uh nature.
Uh State Department is now saying, by the way, and of course, no, sir, but State Department saying it's gonna take months to go through Hillary's emails.
The election's gonna be over by the time they go through these things and release whatever you found, because it's paper.
She printed out thirty thousand some odd emails.
There's no way to keywords and no way to search anything.
They're gonna have to rescan them and then subject them to OCR, which is not flawless.
You always end up with typotype errors when you optical character recognize.
What an absolute mess.
She's she's not giving up the server.
She is not giving up digital electronic copies.
She she had them printed out.
And so now some poor schlub.
Can you imagine?
And it was all done on purpose.
Now, Hillary wanted to deny Nixon counsel.
That's why she was thrown.
She wanted to deny him a lawyer.
And she hid her work on that committee, too.
She was doing things that were not assigned and that nobody knew.
Ken in Springfield, Illinois.
Glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Ross.
It's uh great to be able to talk to you.
This is my first time through, been trying many times.
But it's great to talk to you, and I want to thank you for all that you do for the conservative movement.
Well, thank you, sir.
I appreciate that.
Well, my my thinking is um if I uh now at this point, Hillary, of course, is a private citizen.
Um and if I were a if I were holding a server in my home as a private citizen that had sensitive federal documents on it.
Would the FBI not be at my door today wanting to seize that uh server?
You would uh I I think that would be a natural concern that you might have, yes.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, that does it does come down to this interesting question.
And I don't know that I haven't followed this.
I mean, every dotted I and cross T. But has it been discovered?
Has it even been discussed who owns this server?
Is it hers, or is it the State Department pay for it and it and put it in her house?
Does anybody know?
Well, it seems to me that she has made the comment uh it's a personal server but that that that doesn't necessarily mean that she paid for it I suppose so that that's a good question.
I I don't know who actually paid for the server.
Uh it make would certainly make an even stronger case that if uh taxpayer dollars were used to pay for it that we would certainly be able to acquire the well I'll guarantee you this Clinton dollars didn't pay for it.
It might have been the Sultan of Brunei or somebody like that that did, but Clinton dollars didn't.
Clinton dollars don't buy anything.
Yeah, it's just interesting to me that we see people who happen to hack into government systems, and, of course, every computer in their house is confiscated.
Yet here's a situation where we know a server holds potentially confidential information on it, and it's just sitting there and it's not going to be turned over.
Well, I'll tell you what, the FBI seized David Petraeus'emails.
goals.
so I mean your instincts are right they they the FBI seized his and it is it is a felony to hold federal government documents.
And when you leave the state there's a there's a whole form Andy McCarthy sent it to me today and it's uh I didn't have a chance to go through all of it but it clearly spells out the felonious violations if you do not comply with Title 18 and Title 50 requirements in this form of turning over property that's not yours when you leave the State Department.
Right.
And all that so I mean either's all kinds of uh you would think exposure here the FBI still in Benghazi this is Tony Washington DC great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello Ross love your show and it's really an honor to speak with you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you for what you're doing for our country.
I appreciate it.
I have um two things one is a question I need you to explain um a little bit more about it and then I have an idea for you uh that I'd like to share with you but um the question is if if the AP gets Hillary's emails on and if there's stuff on Benghazi in there, How would it not expose Obama?
It depends on what's in it.
And it depends on whether AP decided to make public what they found.
Well, if they get the emails, wouldn't then Trey Gowdy, the committees, those who are investigating, also have them?
And would they be as predisposed as to not expose Obama?
I have in all candor I don't I don't look I'm being dead wrong about this but I don't think that what AP is doing has any commonality with Trey Gowdy's committee.
Now, are you asking if AP can get them, why can't Trey Gowdy?
Yeah, or anybody that's investigating it.
Because the AP, the mainstream would never expose Obama.
No, that's true.
They will shield Obama.
And they have been shielding Obama on Benghazi.
That's what the video was responsible for.
It's all about.
Well, in the case of Trey Gowdy's committee, there's this thing called separation of powers.
And the White House will go to as great a length as they can to tell Congress to pound sand.
you think you're entitled to our emails screw you buddy go to court go to court however long that takes AP other media outlets it's a it's a different legal proceeding uh with with different legal aspects to it uh so I I the the your your ultimate question is if if they discover something in these emails that negatively impacts Obama we're never gonna hear about is that your is that your fear?
Well I'm just yeah I guess why would they want them if I mean they're gonna expose Hillary but wouldn't it also expose Obama?
Maybe but the AP's not even asking for Benghazi era emails.
Benghazi's not even mentioned in the AP's lawsuit.
Oh okay.
They all they're trying to get is the emails That Hillary is refusing to release.
They're not asking for everything.
Hillary only gave up half of her email.
She's keeping the other half on her server.
Claiming that about yoga and uh her daughter's wedding.
That yoga bit.
I I'm sorry, folks.
I'm sorry.
I just why everybody isn't busting a gut over that, I don't understand.
Are we actually to believe this woman goes yoga in?
That's just me.
But uh well, I I don't know.
So even you're saying uh they're not gonna even get to those Benghazi emails, so it's probably protected.
I th uh look.
Here here here's let me read to you from the AP story on this.
This is the on on their own lawsuit.
Says here the FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, request and lawsuit seek materials related to her public and private calendars, correspondence involving longtime aides likely to play key roles in her expected campaign for president, and Clinton-related emails about the Osama bin Laden raid and national security agency surveillance practices.
No mention of Benghazi.
Which means that even if there are Benghazi emails in the treasure trove that they're seeking, they're not gonna be provided because they're not seeking them.
AP's not even asking to see them.
So they would be withheld.
If AP wins the suit, they would be withheld from what's released.
Because in an FOIA request, you get what you request, nothing more.
And if they're not requesting anything to do with Benghazi, then they're not gonna get anything related to Benghazi.
Uh and would you like to hear uh my idea for you as well?
Oh, by by all means, I'm open to the ideas.
I am um wondering if you uh are have ever thought about um taking the success you've had with the Rush Revere series and the success that you've had with the um two if by T endeavor, and thought of maybe um including in two if by T a Liberty Lemonade.
Liberty Lemonade.
Liberty.
That's uh Snerdley like that's that's that's that's uh that's an interesting creative see now.
But if we do that, here you come with your own lawyers, probably reported on by AP wanting royalties.
That's the danger proposing ideas to uh uh big time celebrities like me.
If I happen to go do that now, I've got 20 million people that can line up and say I stole it from you and join you in a class action.
I'm giving it to you.
And now you have it on the radio.
I I know I get that, and I appreciate it.
It's a great idea.
It really is.
And I uh I'm flattered that you're thinking in that regard.
I really am.
Now on the Benghazi emails, uh Trey Trey Gowdy says there's a three-month gap in the Hillary emails around the time of Benghazi.
He's been very clear.
Everybody she is withholding everybody with an open mind knows that something happened at Benghazi that they are still covering up, and they are not going to release them.
And if and the AP is not even asking for them, so they won't get them.
And I think the regime here is employing a run out the clock uh strategy on this.
Um, I know if I were Hollywood, I'd say, you know, I but we've been thinking about Liberty Lemonade for years here.
We haven't acted.
I could have cut you off at the past.
But I'm an honest guy.
That's how they do it in Hollywood.
Whenever somebody poses an idea, they say, Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
We've been thinking about that for years.
Look at this the documentation.
And then they go immediately make it up.
Anyway, I've got to take a break.
Joni, I appreciate the call.
Thanks much.
We will be back after this.
Do not go away.
Here's Ron in Benton County, Indiana.
Great to have you, sir, on the EIB network.
Hello.
Megadin over there, Rush Limbaugh.
Uh long time listener.
Um the only thing I c I just don't understand is he's she's such a pain.
She's got so much baggage with her.
I mean, every time you turn around, it'll be another another scandal, another another controversy of some kind.
I mean, this is and they never nothing ever sticks to them.
Uh, I can't believe the DMC is really gonna run her.
I really can't.
I'm more along the lines of you that I believe that she's done it at the end of it.
She's not gonna run.
Because I just don't know how she can carry that the weight of all this.
Well, I don't know.
She gonna she's supposed to be announcing in uh in a matter of weeks.
Well, if you seen her yesterday, looked at her real close, her eye expression, uh, the way she just looked, uh, you know, she looked like a deer and a w and the headlights.
And the Lord knows I've run on enough deer out here in Indiana.
I know I know what they look like when they're like that.
And uh I just I can't see the DMC wasting that kind of time and money.
I can actually see them, you know, really hanging her up or for the end.
Just like they did with Obama the first time.
They don't have anybody else.
I know that's what I'm saying.
I mean, you know, even Republican who wants to sit there and make make his make his line.
We'll just lay it up there.
Uh there's only three planks that we need to be going through now in America right now, and uh three planks on either side of the coin goes it goes like this, bro.
Uh the the first thing is flat tax or consumption tax on everything but food medication.
The second thing is term limits on these guys down here.
Uh so if you're gonna have uh eight two terms for uh your sick county sheriff and then two terms for United States president, everything else is exempt, that's bull.
We need term limits there.
That'd be the biggest factor of all of it.
The third thing is just like they did in England.
Uh not too long ago, that loser play calls.
You won't take the fibless law suits into court if you think you're gonna lose and lose money.
I'll tell you that right now.
But those three things should be the plank of the Republican or Conservative platform right there.
I think that was the Harold Stassen agenda.
Well, I it should be it should be the first three things they did when the last term and these two guys got voted in there.
The first thing they should have come down there and done is right away, held it up and made them made them vote on it.
All three of them.
At least they brought it up.
Hey, we brought up the flat consumption tax.
I know I don't hear anybody talking about those things.
Uh we're not anywhere near there yet.
We we're so far away from that.
I mean, that's all those are great things, but so much has to happen before we even get there.
That's a good illustration of just how we've got mountains of stuff to do just to stop the direction we're headed in before we even change direction.
The flat tax isn't gonna fix Obamacare and immigration amnesty and all that other stuff.
That's gotta be dealt with.
Before this other stuff comes up.
Sadly true.
I mean, I those are all valid points and would make a huge difference, but there are things that a uh drive-by caller that didn't want to go in the air, ask Snerdly to ask me if if uh my opinion is that does Bill really want Hillary to win?
I know.
I think he does.
I think I think, yeah, uh I don't have time to tell you right now all the reasons why.
But one, it would lock her there.
Number two, it'd get him back in there as as faux president.
Um it would increase their tank to the foundation.
Well, that's it, my friends.
Another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence in the can.
No more time left for today, but we will be back tomorrow and do it all over again, revved and ready and prepped.
Whatever happens between now and then.
Thanks so much for being with us today, folks.
I always appreciate that.
And we'll do it tomorrow.
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