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March 17, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 17, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day, Rush Limbaugh.
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Okay, folks, it is time to get into the Mrs. Clinton chapter today of the latest news involving Mrs. Clinton and the email server and what it all might mean to the future Mrs. Clinton Democrat Party.
Oh, one other little let me get one other thing about Israel, the elections today.
And it is about the uh the Arab population.
And there's no question that the Arab population, if this is if it holds true to form in the past, the Arab population will be a factor.
According to the Daily Beast, 75% of the Arab population in Israel participated in the 1999 election that swept the labor candidate, a Hud Barak, to the premiership.
It was a disaster, but nevertheless he won.
That is a huge percentage.
75, the Arab population of 1.7 million Arabs, living, working, breathing, enjoying total free democracy in Israel.
It's stunning.
It'd be one of the things if you ever go to Israel, if you've never been, it would stand out, how many Arabs there are.
And the reason why you've been told the Arabs hate the Jews.
You've been told the Arabs hate the Israelis.
You've been told all this, and you see them walking around with full-fledged rights.
They've got access to everything anybody else has in Israel, water, food, they vote.
They've got more freedom and democracy in Israel than in many of their home countries.
But it it'll shock you.
If you arrive in Israel and you all you know is the conventional wisdom story that the Arabs hate the Jews and the Jews hate the Arabs, you're going to be stunned.
You would be.
The population, the Arab population, 1.7 million in Israel today.
And back in 1999, 75% of that population showed up to vote, and they secured victory for Ehud Barak.
That's an amazing turnout, folks.
Thanks.
So I imagine they used the equivalent of bussing.
Whatever that may in fact be.
Bussing.
Now, in the 2009 elections that Netanyahu won, the Arab turnout was 53%.
53% versus 75% back in uh 1999.
That's not much to go on.
That's a widespread date range there, but it does illustrate the impact that the Arab population has on Israeli elections.
And I guarantee you, just once again, people only know Israel and the Middle East by virtue of watching drive-by media coverage would be shocked and stunned at the number of Arabs living peacefully within the confines of Israel in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv.
Now, Mrs. Clinton, this is a fascinating little addendum to the server story.
As you know, ladies and gentlemen, I've made a uh a note many times here that my hobby is staying abreast with gadget high-tech.
And it's now become even more than that.
Now it has become a way that I study the social political trends of millennials.
Because most of the tech blogger community fits into that demographic.
And it's fascinating.
It's fascinating to read what they write, to listen to the things they say, because they're they're like all young people.
I think they know it all.
They think they know everything.
Older people don't know beans, they're old fashioned, they're squirts, they're just to be tolerated.
But the young are hip and the young are cool, and the young know what's what and what's not.
And it's I remember when I was that age, and I remember the humility I had.
I always, when I was that age, I never thought I knew more than people older than I. Exceptions, of course.
I mean, if it's around somebody that's been an idiot all their life and didn't know anything, that's but as a general sense, I always had enough humility and respect for older people that they, to me, they were resources for advice, knowledge, and learning and so forth.
This group, I don't think that's the case so much.
But I found this piece interesting because this is from the Devorjak news blog.
It's by a guy named Mark Perkle.
And he has outlined how Mrs. Clinton left her email wide open to anyone.
He spends his entire post here documenting how absolutely risky and silly and dangerous Mrs. Clinton's home server setup was.com
for the various domains.
Now we were talking the other day because somebody asked me, well, hey, could I have a home server?
Could I set up my own email like Mrs. Clinton?
Yeah, anybody can.
Because any computer can be made to us into a server for all intents and purposes.
Server's just a hard drive.
It's the software that makes the server.
But I said if you do that, you're taking on everything.
You're taking on the SSL security, you're you're you've got to pay for the security of the sockets, you've got to do all the spam filtering.
If if you're going to run the email, your email, you've got to buy a domain.
So if you want your own email address rather than go through iCloud or Gmail or Yahoo or AOL or who wherever, if you want them to have your own domain, then you've got to do your own spam filter.
You have to do everything yourself.
You have to administer it, which means in Mrs. Kinton's case, she had to go hire up somebody to do it.
She doesn't know this stuff.
And Bill doesn't know this stuff.
She did this for utter privacy.
We know she did this for privacy.
She did this precisely and specifically to avoid oversight.
And we know this because James Carville admitted it.
This is not even a matter of speculation anymore.
Carvel admitted it Sunday on this week on ABC when he said, Well, imagine she didn't want Louis Gomer, Rothman There are email.
Here, listen to the soundbite.
This is how it happened Sunday morning, ABC's this week with George Stephanopoulos.
It was something that she did.
It was legal.
I suspect she didn't want Louis Gommett rifling through an email, which seems to me to be a kind of reasonable position for someone to take.
So it amounts to just like everything else before it.
It amounts to nothing but a bunch of people flapping their jaws about nothing.
Right, but that's not what it is.
It's not flapping her jaws about nothing.
She set up this private server specifically to avoid any oversight by either the State Department where she worked or Congress.
And that's not legal.
Despite what Carvel says, Carville, my and I maintain when I played this about yesterday, I maintained that the Carvel of 20 years ago would not have made this mistake.
If this were the 1990s, where the Clintons still clearly think it is, in terms of the way they can strategize and beat this stuff, Carville would have never given up the ghost this way, and everybody knows that he did.
We have a little montage from yesterday and last night.
Ron Fournier, Mark Halpern, it's a whole bunch of people commenting as I did yesterday on what you just heard Carville say.
What Carville did is give up the goods.
He gave up the goods.
He sold her out.
Carville says he suspects Hillary Clinton withheld the emails because she didn't want congressional oversight.
What Carvo essentially said was she was doing this to hide stuff.
Jim Carve is apparently saying, don't believe what she said last week.
James Carvel revealed the truth.
James is saying it wasn't convenience and the friends like that, you know, to me can star.
And that last voice, of course, and Ray Mitchell and BC News Washington.
So everybody agrees Carver blew it by admitting that what Mrs. Clinton was doing with the private server was hiding.
She did not want congressional oversight.
She didn't want anybody to be able to see what she was doing.
And there are many countless reasons for that.
She is soliciting donations to the Clinton Family Foundation from foreign governments, from foreign businesses for who knows what purpose down the road.
And I'm telling you, I tell you today, as I told you yesterday, that Democrats are flat out nervous as they can be about that.
They don't care that she had a private server.
They can handle that.
They don't care that she didn't want Louis Golmert reading it.
They can handle that.
They got the media on their side.
If that's all this was, no sweat.
The problem is all of that money that she was soliciting.
The problem is all of those donations that she was soliciting for the Clinton Family Foundation.
Now that we know in some cases from who and how much, I mean it leads to clear conflict of interest problems.
And Ron Fournier is back again today with yet another piece on how damaged Hillary is and how precarious her position is, and how the Democrats are scared to.
did I'm beginning that Ron Fournier has had six or seven pieces on this now and I'm beginning to think he may know something that has yet to surface about this because I mean he's not pulling any punches he's not saying if this and if that then she could be interested He is saying flat out the Democrats are scared to death about the foundation.
But before we get, let's go back to this email business.
And the fact that this despite the fact she did this to keep it from everybody, that she was hiding.
She didn't want anybody to see her emails, she inadvertently made it possible for every one of those emails to be disseminated publicly.
It didn't happen, but she made it possible by virtue of her choice.
She hired a spam filtering service.
Now you, you have an email account, say at Gmail, or um iCloud, or I don't care where it is, they provide the spam service for you.
It's the junk filter.
And you can turn it on and you can change the sensitivity.
And the the risk is that a bunch of stuff you need is going to be determined as junk or spam, and it's going to be sent off to the junk or spam folder.
And if you don't regularly check what's in there, you may miss something important.
So spam filters are actually very precise things.
You can enhance or decrease the sensitivity.
If you decrease the sensitivity, you're going to get a lot of junk in your inbox.
That's going to clog it up and frustrate you, and you have to manually put it in another folder.
You can increase the sensitivity, but a professional spam filtering service allows you to designate, you get an email that's spam.
You can designate the incoming email address to the spam filter, and anything ever again arriving with that email address automatically goes there.
And spam filtering services are good, bad, better, best.
It's just depending on what you want to pay for and who you want to buy and how detailed with it you want to get, but it's something you have to do if you are going to set up your own server in your basement like the Clintons did in Chappaquar, wherever the heck it was.
In her case, the filtering service she used is MXLogic.
And what happens in a nutshell is that all email is encrypted, both sent and received.
But when the spam filter gets it, the spam filter decrypts it.
And pri this all happens in microseconds, by the way.
The spam filter gets the email, it decrypts it, it searches it, scans it, determines what its state is, then re-encrypts it and sends it on.
Now there are human beings that work at these spam filtering services.
And every email that comes in is for a time decrypted.
And anybody working at the spam filtering service, well, not anybody, but certain people, certain clearances, could have access, in this case, to every email that arrived on Mrs. Clinton's server.
I mean, that's it's just part and parcel of the process.
So if you're Mrs. Clinton right now, if you're Bill Clinton, if anybody, if you're Huma, if you're anybody that had an address on that server, you don't know.
You can't be sure that some of those emails haven't been seen.
You can't be sure that some of those emails weren't copied.
You can't be sure that some of those emails weren't saved and being held for potential later use.
The odds are it didn't happen, but the the the that's not the point.
The point is it's entirely possible.
Because it does happen.
The emails end up decrypted for a time while the spam filter does.
I'm really shortening the process here of explanation.
But basically, mail comes to your server from the internet and then is decrypted and goes through the spam filter.
After the spam filter finishes with it, it's then re-encrypted and sent to your server.
So the point is it does not arrive first at your server.
It goes to your spam service first.
And depending on who's at the spam service, and depending on how curious they are, and depending on a whole bunch of human characteristics and factors, people at the spam service could have no interest and not care, or you could have some pay, you know, this is Hillary Clinton's email.
It's Clinton email.
Oh, wow, wonder what.
And anything is possible.
That's the point.
This is one of the reasons why they have rules in government that you use their servers because they control all of this.
They own the spam service.
They own every aspect of the emails from time they hit the internet to the state employees server, it never leaves government control.
And that's why the rules are in place.
In Mrs. Clinton's case, her emails made a stop before they got to her server.
And at that stop, they were decrypted.
They were plain text English.
Anybody could have read them.
So the point is they weren't secure.
She's doing all this ostensibly for security and privacy, uh, keep it away from prying eyes, and we also now know that she was doing this to avoid congressional oversight.
Yes, I just saw the clock.
I know.
We've got a ticket.
So here, ladies and gentlemen, is the bottom line regarding Mrs. Clinton and her servers and all this.
While that email, after it comes to from the internet to the spam service, and in Mrs. Clinton's case, this is McAfee, they own the spam service MXLogic.
While that email is at the spam service being investigated for spam, anybody who works at the spam service who has access to the spam filtering system can read any email coming into Mrs. Clinton's domain.
Which means that, say, Vladimir Putin could bribe somebody at this spam service to send him anything that mentions him or Ukraine or whatever or Iran, whatever he wants, forward it.
If somebody at the spam service works actually at the Filtering system.
Spam services have a lot of employees do a lot of things.
If somebody's involved in the actual filtering system when the email's decrypted, they can tap and tap on it.
They see it in an inbox just like you have it.
Tap and read any email going to the Clinton address, the domain.
And that means that any employee there would be subject to being bribed.
Or if the employee may not be an employee, it could just be a plant.
The point is, Mrs. Clinton's emails, and we know that email official email having to do with her Secretary of State duties arrived on her server.
The point is, before it got to her server, it went through her spam filtering service.
And while it's there, it's decrypted, and anybody in the actual filtering service department at the spam filter company could tap into it and read it.
And then forward it on to say a Putin or a Yang Ying Lang or whoever.
It's possible is the point.
Now just one thing before we go back to the phones.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, the little tech blogger who provided much of the information I just passed on to you regarding McAfee, Mrs. Clinton's spam filter and how it uh all works in this.
And by the way, this company, McAfee, was uh hacked by a bunch of white hat hackers back in March 2011.
A white hat hacker is a hacker that hacks something to help the hacked find out how they can be hacked and cover it up.
A white hat hacker is somebody that exposes vulnerabilities for uh in assistance in helping people close them.
A black hat hacker is a criminal.
So white hat hackers released a report that they had identified serious vulnerabilities to security at McAfee.com.
This company owns Mrs. Clinton's service 2011.
That's when this thing was up and running.
There were vulnerabilities in the spam server company she was using.
And they pointed out flaws that could have led to information disclosure and other issues.
Anyway, the little tech blogger who I just want to read the end of his post here.
What email went through this system that could have been tapped?
Emails about Libya, Syria, Egypt, Israel, Putin, ISIS, the Bin Laden raid, Chelsea's wedding guest list, oh my God.
Shouldn't the Secretary of State of the United States use a server that isn't weak?
And then I have been a Clinton supporter.
If she's the candidate, I would still vote for her in the general election over any Republican.
Yuck.
But in the primary, I still dream of Elizabeth Warren, but I'll settle for Biden.
And isn't that just a little sad?
The bottom line, none of this would have happened if she had just played by the rules.
See, here are some.
This is what I mean by they think they're smarter than everybody else.
Who's been totally exposed as a fraud, as somebody trying to act in secret and botching it big time?
Exposing her work to vulnerability and who knows what kind of danger.
And the guy said I'd still vote for any Republican.
Yuck.
And they think they're smart.
They think they're the brightest people out there.
Anyway, back to the phones we go.
Dave in Albuquerque, I'm glad you waited, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rushbo.
Uh, earlier in your show, you mentioned how Clinton appears the Arabat.
Um and Arafat actually didn't want peace, but all of which is factual.
But haven't we at uh the U.S. or Republicans done the same to Israel over the last several years by giving them a blank check to really do whatever they want with it?
And a lot of our support for Israel comes from a misinterpretation of scripture.
Uh they're not the prophet land anymore.
But let me ask you this, Rush.
What has Israel done for us as a country?
And more than that, why do you support the Jews so much when they're all so liberal?
Uh well, in this it's not a question of supporting Jews.
That's that's not the way I look at this.
You obviously do.
Um I do not.
By the way, this this moral equivalence that you've set up doesn't exist either.
There is no there is nothing at all similar in what Israel has been offered in a negotiation with the Palestinians that comes even close to what Clinton offered Arafat.
I mean, Arafat's making demand left demand, right?
Arafat's demanding all kinds of things, and Clinton gave it to him, and he turned it down.
And the point of that is Arafat, when given everything, when given a solution, when given a Palestinian state, when given everything he demanded, walked away from it because he didn't want a solution.
I don't know what the equivalent that you think is that we have offered Israel.
They are an ally, so yeah, we provide them with money, but they they are an ally.
They have been an ally since their founding days.
Uh you know, what Israel does for us.
That's a sad question.
Israel represents the same Judeo-Christian democratic values that we represent and stand for the world over.
But to me, this is not has anything to do with biblical prophecy or any of that.
This is this is straight.
I mean, it's involved, but as far as I'm concerned, uh I don't I'm not even taking that into account here.
This is a strict geopolitical deal.
This is this is good versus evil, as far as I'm concerned.
I I don't know what the I I really don't understand the concept here, how people like you do not understand the concept of good and evil, good guys and bad guys, and how it never seems to fail, we're not the good guys anymore.
Or are uh maybe that's sometimes in question.
And it isn't.
I believe in the United States of America all the time.
I don't believe we're perfect.
I don't believe that we have done things uh perfectly.
I don't believe we haven't made mistakes.
But I'm nowhere near selling out my own country.
I'm nowhere near that's and and selling out allies, which is what we've been doing lately.
But I don't know what the commensurate is.
Uh if if we if Clinton offered Arafat everything he wanted, I don't think we've ever offered Israel everything.
We've always told Israel, depending on the administration, Israel has always been asked to give something up.
Usually land.
Israel is attacked and wins wars and claims territory, and everybody says you gotta give it back.
You know, it was not fair.
Well, we were minding our own business, we were attacked.
And they still give up the land.
They make concession after they got a nine-mile-wide country at its narrowest.
They at one point had the goal on the heights had to give that away.
And now you've got the the president of the United States is actually running around condemning our ally and painting our ally as the problem in that region.
I don't know what the equivalent is.
I don't know, I don't know where we are giving Israel everything and anything it wants, and I don't know that we ever have.
That's my point.
We've been trying to broker a peace here ever since Israel was formed in 1947.
We've been trying to broker a peace with the same futility.
Everything is is the same except the people change.
The diplomats change, the secretaries of state change.
And the same thing in the other countries, and yet the same arguments over and over again with never ever any resolution.
In fact, this whole Israeli Palestinian peace thing has become its own thing.
There's A solution is not even dreamed of anymore.
Anyway, I appreciate the call, nevertheless.
Mark in Pittsburgh, you're next.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Mega Happy St. Patrick's Day Ditto's you.
My question about the uh uh server is how do you know the email was encrypted?
Uh I've had I've got 20 years experience in running email servers.
Uh I own a small ISP.
And you don't have to encrypt to uh send and receive emails.
You can receive emails on port 110.
That's not encrypted.
That's always open.
No, that's if you own your own email server, you have a uh dedicated connection, so you're allowed to send out on port 25.
Talking about the spam filtering.
No, no, no.
I'm talking about the actual the actual machine itself, the email server itself.
You know, it's either going to be a Linux box, Unix Fox, or a uh uh Microsoft Exchange.
I'm talking about what happens email before it gets to her server.
Well, I'm I'm saying is the the email itself can be sent unencrypted by the server because the server supports it.
You don't know if she is sending the mail encrypted.
You have to set up your email client.
And even then, the email server may send out on port 25 by default, you'd have to change that specifically.
That's all academic.
The point is what happens at the spam server.
She did not have her own spam server software.
She hired it, third party, and it was there, supposedly, ostensibly, that the emails coming from the internet before getting to her server were in were decrypted and sent to the spam filter.
Happens in microseconds, understandably, but if somebody is there at the time and is in the in that pr uh uh part of the company where they're doing the the filtering, they could have access to the decrypted email that's coming in.
That's the whole point.
We don't know that it happened.
The whole the point of this is that while Mrs. Clinton was doing all of this to stay hidden and to to avoid detection.
Fact is that she probably ended up, she ran the risk of having every email she received or sent being exposed, potentially.
Don't know that it was.
But she defeated her own purpose here by the way and the virtue of the way she had things set up, according to the tech gods that have looked into her server set up and what she had running.
They've accessed it themselves.
Now I'm debating whether or not to tell a story.
Well, I'll tell a story.
This this snarky, and I'll leave the names up.
We just had this snarky caller who do you care about this.
A bunch of Jews, the Jews are all liberal.
What do you like the Jews for?
Clearly, a call filled with snark.
Now, the caller could have been one of two things.
Could have been an extreme way, way out anarchist right-wing type, or could have been a died-in-the-wool leftist.
More than likely the guy was a leftist.
And of course, I treated the caller with respect, and I did not respond to the snark.
It reminded me of a of a story.
I went on a guy golf trip.
I've told you about this trip before, I think.
I just can't remember if I used all the names.
I probably didn't.
So I won't know.
But it was, I mean, there's some Hollywood actors on this trip, some morning TV stars on this trip.
And as usual, I was the circus act.
I was invited to provide the political yucks.
Everybody else on this guest list for w was either agnostic or highly liberal.
And I knew it, but it was a trip to Ireland and Scott.
I said, What the hell I'll go.
Play golf over there, I'll put up with it.
I can handle it.
I knew full well that I was the circus act.
I mean, it just happens.
So we get on the plane.
We have to stop in New York.
We uh we leave here, we stop in New York to pick up the New York contingent.
We're gonna head on over to Ireland overnight.
Get off the plane over there, start playing golf.
And one of the Hollywood actors gets on the plane, just I can just tell he's looking around trying to find me.
Just trying to find me, spots me, comes walking down, it sits across the aisle, and immediately first thing he says to me, and his father's well known.
And first thing he says to me is, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I asked him how his father was.
How's your how's your dad doing?
Is your dad okay?
Yeah, he's reading the Talmud.
You know what that is?
And I said, the Talmud?
Sure, I know what that is.
Well, that's what he's doing.
It probably really bothers you, doesn't it?
Uh, no, not at all.
In fact, I'm I'm not surprised he's reading the Talmud at his age.
Is he enjoying it?
Is it helping?
Is it is it?
Guy was floored.
Because the guy expected me to be an anti-Semite, you know, whatever his caricature of a conservative right winger was.
And he was, he was I I actually stunned that I knew what the Talmud was, and then stunned that I didn't put on some public display of disgust or whatever.
And it's not the first time that happened.
I also back the era of my first book.
I happened to be invited to an Oscar night watching party somewhere down in the village in Manhattan at the at that time, the CEO of HBO's house.
Told you about this.
This is Ron Silver moment.
And I'm in there with my book editor.
And Ron Silver comes in and blows a gasket.
Carly Simon came and blew a gasket that I was even there.
And the head honcho of uh of HBO made a point.
I said, hi, I'm I'm glad to be here.
This is uh nice of you to have me.
I just want you to know I'm a Jew and I'm proud to be.
Fine.
What what the hell?
Dude, fine, you're a proud Jew.
Cool.
I love Israel.
What is this?
The caricatures that these people have, and I think this caller had it, you know, the the same, the same thing.
And to me, this whole Israeli-Palestinian thing, I mean, the supporting Israel for me is not a because they're Jewish.
It has nothing to do with the Bible.
I mean, I can go there if you want me to, but I support Netanyahu because he's one of us.
Same values, same ideology, same decency.
It has nothing to do with anybody's religion.
But I'd say, you know this is what the people on the left, these they accused everybody else of being, what is it, sexist or racist or what they are the most surface-oriented people.
They judge everybody on the surface characteristics, what they look like, what their sexual orientation is, what their gender is, their skin color is.
That's how they look at people.
That's how they decide whether they like them or not.
That's how they judge them.
Not uh certainly not me.
I couldn't care less about any of that.
But boy, you're these people are just they're so uh lost in in their little cocoons where they live with all of this prejudice and bile, and they've convinced themselves that they're right about it, and then they're encountered they run into people like me, and they are convinced, and when it doesn't play out, they're totally confused.
Shocked, stunned.
And from that moment, I was ignored by the rest of the golf trip.
I was totally ignored because I wasn't gonna be any fun.
On the flight home, flight home from Weber was Scotland, flight home, I finally decided to throw down and I started getting into political discussions.
For the first time in the trip, first time, I wasn't gonna be the Circus Act.
That's what I was invited, but I wasn't gonna give him the satisfaction.
The flight home, somebody brought up Bob Graham, Senator.
Now that just so we started talking about politics, and the host looked at me with a smile, but actually somewhat angry.
Where the hell has this been?
They were hoping for this.
It was like a 10-day trip.
Seven or ten-day trip.
Anyhow, uh I have to take a break, my friends.
But we've got more we always do right after this.
Don't go away.
No, I knew what the guy from Pittsburgh was saying.
He was he was asking me why do we think Hillary's emails were encrypted at all?
What she would have been an idiot for them not to be.
Are you kidding me?
Uh, but we know that she is.
Uh on matters like this, probably an idiot, so I guess it could be, but I just Ah, here we go.
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