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April 8, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 8, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #2
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America's real anchor man and truth detector, the Doctor of Democracy, Rush Limbaugh, meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
Great to have you on the program, my friends, 800 282-2882 is the number of you want to be on the program and the email address lrushbaugh at EIBNet.com.
I really think, just expanding a bit on my salient closing comments that were brief because of the constraints of time.
When it comes to the Iranians and a nuclear bomb, and the people of this country, I don't know how many people actually care.
It's a given the low information crowd doesn't care about it.
It isn't a big deal.
Most people that are on the fringes.
It's amazing how things of the young generations change and differ.
As I mentioned earlier this week, back in the 70s and 80s.
Young people then, particularly the children of Hollywood were obsessed with nuclear war.
Let's focus in the 80s.
And it coincided with Reagan being president.
I mean, I didn't matter.
I've I've used the example of Laura Durin on Donahue, but she was by no means the only one.
They were they were running around in a daily panic.
I mean, daily.
They were scared to death.
The world was going to go up in flames.
Because we had the Soviets, we had the United States, and we were the bad guys.
That was the whole point of Gorbachev was this was the savior in their minds.
And they lived with this daily fear of nuclear annihilation, and they had all kinds of they had peace marches, they had die-ins.
I mean, they they did it all.
And uh today, if if every generation is apocalyptic.
Every generation fears the end.
Today they think global warming is gonna be why the world goes up in flames.
In the 80s it was nuclear bombs.
Uh today it's racism, bigotry, homophobia, and global warming that are going to cause the world a collapse.
And the Iranians were a nuke, come on.
Come on, Mr. Limbaugh, get serious.
Besides, there's no stopping them.
Nobody's willing to go to war.
Not even the Mossad.
Not even the Israelis.
Not even nothing.
All the huffing and puffing, there's nobody willing to militarily take Iran and a nuclear program out.
So it's a fate accomplishment.
And I think this is probably most people's attitude.
And I think it happens to be the attitude of a lot of adults.
Nothing anybody's going to do about it, so why get so exercised?
It's just another day we have to get them roll of dice.
And then everybody prays this.
Let's just hope that the mullahs use it for extortion and blackmail and don't really get caught up in the 12th Imam.
Because if they get caught up in a 12th imam, that could that could be bad.
But if they just extort us, and if they just blackmail us, fine, can deal with that.
But I seriously, I mean, I I shouldn't be flippant about this.
I'm just it's real.
I'm just reading it to what's real.
Nuclear bombs in Iran, or my who's real?
The people I'm talking about are the fact.
Oh, yeah, it is real.
They're not concerned about it.
Well, in some cases, you can understand why they there's nothing they think they can do about it.
And they clearly see a president who's not doing it about it.
So if he's not, why should they?
President after president, candidate after candidate, has promised, has sworn that Iran will not go nuke on their watch.
Uh but nothing is ever really done about it.
We try sanctions, we try words, speeches, the Red Cross, you name it.
But I think it's it's it's still noteworthy to chronicle the difference.
Um, it's just the neocons, yes.
The rooms filled in the Chinese, the neocons.
They just want to go to war everywhere.
And we gotta stop the neocons.
So we'll we'll see.
Probably same kind of apathy as there was about the Norx getting nuclear weapons.
I think isn't it amazing to chronicle today?
Young people probably don't even consider it something that's likely to happen.
They've lived in a nuclear world now for so many years, and nobody's launched one at us.
And nobody's tried to take us out, so it's probably something they don't think about very much.
And when they listen to people get all exercised over Iran getting a nuke, they probably just aren't able to marshal the emotion about it.
But nevertheless, I wanted to tell you where we are on the deal and what's what.
And I just I want to remind you.
Um I interviewed Dr. Thomas Sowell for the Limbaugh Letter, the most widely read political newsletter in America, two issues ago.
And I forget how the subject came up, but he had he told me that one of his great fears was that Iran would succeed in getting a nuclear weapon and would decide to take out a couple of American cities.
And that at that point his fear that was that Obama would surrender.
And I was flat footed.
I was totally taken aback.
I had never heard anybody posit that the United States would surrender instead of fighting back, but Dr. Sowell was convinced that there wouldn't be any fighting back.
That's who Obama is.
So that kind of was a wake-up call for me.
Now let's add something to this, shall we?
We we we learned, ladies and gentlemen, that as Slim Pickens said, one of my all-time favorite movies, Dr. Strangelove, toe-to-toe with the Ruskies in nuclear combat.
As he's riding the nuclear bomb out of the B-52 bombay door bay, and he's headed down, riding the bomb down to detonation.
The Ruskis have been hacking.
I shouldn't laugh.
The Ruskis have been hacking the White House, the executive office of the President, and the State Department for what seems like a long time.
Russian hackers, and CNN has a has a story about this, it's just very casual.
In fact, their headline, how the U.S. thinks Russian thinks Russians hacked the White House.
Russian hackers behind the damaging cyber intrusion of the U.S. State Department recent months used that perch to penetrate sensitive parts of the White House computer system, according to U.S. officials briefed on the investigation.
While the White House has said the breach only affected an unclassified system, that description belies the seriousness of the intrusion.
The hackers had access to sensitive information like real-time, non-public details of Obama's schedule.
Now, while such information is not classified, it still is highly sensitive and prized by foreign intelligence agencies, U.S. officials say.
That would be Obama's private schedule, as opposed to the one that's made public every day and is readily accessible.
And the private schedule is highly sensitive.
If it isn't officially classified, it's only because it's assumed nobody but those with the need to know would ever see it.
Now to get to the White House, the hackers first broke into the State Department investigators believe.
Now what?
Who was running the State Department when this happened?
That would be Mrs. Clinton.
Oh, there's a story.
I can't wait to get to this today.
Clinton supporters are urging each other to not call her by her first name.
Too casual, not respectful enough That she needs to be referred to as Mrs. Clinton, not Hillary.
But anyway, can we make can we connect some dots?
You can only connect the dots in the past.
You can't connect the dots in the future.
Okay.
Hillary with their that reset button with the Rooskies, which was a joke and it was embarrassing.
They actually made this little plastic red reset button, and she went over to the Russians and met with them.
And it was to reset relations and uh and renew them because they had deteriorated so badly because of George W. Bush, right?
And then we learned that Mrs. Clinton does not use the State Department email system, that instead she sets up her own server at her home in Chappaqua, and we have further learned that the first three months she had literally no security on that server at all.
Investors Business Daily has a very long and detailed story today about how Mrs. Clinton's server would have been an ideal target and probably for hackers and probably was successfully hacked.
And even though Mrs. Clinton has not revealed or released all of the data that was on her server, there are people concluding that the Russians probably had it.
Probably got it.
Even when she did uh add some some uh encryption to her server, it wasn't anywhere near the uh the best and was easily cracked.
The reason being that the encryption service she had actually decrypted all of the email before it ran its various performance tasks on it and and re-encrypting it.
So all of her email was unencrypted for quite a long time, and in uh in computer terms, just a couple of three seconds is all anybody would really need.
So anyway, we've been the victim of a massive hack.
Here's Mrs. Clinton.
What did she know about this?
Could this have anything to do with why Mrs. Clinton decided not to use the State Department system because she knew it was already being hacked?
It didn't help her because her server was ripe for attack anyway.
One official said the Russian hackers have owned the State Department system for months, and it's not clear the hackers have been fully eradicated from the system.
Well, how cool is that?
Just imagine what again, I want to reiterate what the Russians have been able to do with Hillary's Rinky Dink home server.
Her home server would be no way could she set up a home server that was off limits to the Russian hackers.
It would be easier for them.
She had her name in the domain for crying out loud.
I mean, there was no way she was going to be able, if they hacked the State Department system, which is really, really secure, then it would have been nothing to hack her own home server in uh in Chappaqua.
I mean, this is stunning.
The degree to which the executive office of the president and the State Department have been uh have been hacked.
Let me take a brief time out.
I'm gonna come back and get uh started on more of your phone calls after the break, so sit tight, my friends, back before you know it.
Don't go away.
The judge in Texas, Andrew Hammond, who first halted the Obama executive amnesty in February, just two days before it was take effect, said that he is even more convinced of his decision now, particularly after the president earlier this year said he intends for his policies to supersede federal law.
In other words, Obama's deportation amnesty remains halted.
The judge, Andrew Hammond said that government lawyers lied to him.
And the and this judge is even more profound when he says he's even more confident of his original decision now, particularly after he found out that Obama earlier this year said that he intends for his policies, executive amnesty, to supersede federal law.
Does it I mean, everybody's celebrating this.
It's kind of scary to me that we've found one judge that is willing to stand up and say you can't supersede the law.
There's nothing bigger than the Constitution.
You're not bigger than the Constitution.
We're all celebrating with a judge.
In a sane world, it would be most judges only concede.
We're going to have some liberal swamp judges out there who are going to act as though there isn't any constitution.
But anyway, we will take it.
The judge is essentially saying that Obama's lawyers lied to him.
And he's not going to put up with this.
So Obama's executive amnesty remains on hold.
Remember when the judge first issued a stay on Obama implementing his executive amnesty?
Remember the drive-by media?
Ah, this will be just a couple days.
The regime will come up with a – get something to reverse the stay.
And then they'll ask for a different appeals court, a different circuit to hear the appeal, a more friendly to Obama circuit, and this will be we'll sweep this judge aside in a couple of days.
And it's been a couple of months.
And the regime hasn't been able to mount a legal presentation to this judge to convince him that his stay was wrong and to lift it.
That's the point.
Judge Hannon pointed Obama's comments at a February town hall when the president warned immigration agents to adhere to his policies or else face the consequences.
This is what the judge wrote.
In summary, the chief executive, that be the president, for those of you in Rio Linda, has ordered that the laws requiring removal of illegal immigrants that conflict with the 2014 DHS directive are not to be enforced.
And that anybody who attempts to enforce them be punished.
This is not merely ineffective enforcement.
This is total non-enforcement, the judge continued, saying that Obama's own descriptions of how he's carrying out his policies have hurt his case.
So finally, a judge is saying, you know, you you may think you're bigger than the law, and you may think you're so much bigger than the law that you can go out and brag about it, but not in this court.
And the stay stays.
The stay remains in force.
And Obama's executive amnesty.
Now, Obama's not stopping.
You know that there's this continuing influx of uh illegal miners traversing the border every day.
And I think it's number two thousand.
So it's it's not as big as it was a year ago, but still significant number.
And Obama and his his buddies are still preparing the uh laying the groundwork for when he eventually is able to issue his executive order, just granting amnesty to however many millions of illegals he wants.
But legally to this point, he has been uh shut down.
Okay, Chris in Oklahoma City, it's great to have you on the EIB network.
Welcome and hello.
Hello, Russ.
Um, I make my uh yeah, the two questions.
First is um Iran is going to get the bomb.
Either way.
And they're gonna get this bomb without this deal.
So I think that they are uh set up the deal so that um they'll be protected from being attacked by uh Israel.
And uh other countries in that area that don't want them to get the bomb either.
Right.
That would be them a threat to the United States.
They do that by agreeing to the 10-year portion of the deal.
During the 10 years, Iran supposedly has agreed to slow down and pull up short of weaponizing their uranium in exchange for being able to go to town 10, 12, 13 years from now.
And the purpose of that 10 years, there's no there'd be no reason to bomb them.
They've agreed not to do it for 10 years, so everybody backs off.
So you're right about that.
What's your second question?
Okay.
That ties up into the first one.
Now the administration can't have war breakout.
Iran probably just threatening, you know, war, conflict.
Now, it being election year, if anything happens, any conflict, it will reflect bad upon the United States and especially the uh liberals.
So they have a 15-year window if this agreement goes through that they won't get the blame for anything.
They will seem like they're doing like a positive, because no one wants war.
Even though the Iran can't really do anything to us.
Just the uh the threat of war politically would make them look horrible.
Okay, so let me let me let me see.
So you're not asking questions, you're actually making a point.
Let me see if I understand this one.
Your point is your point is that one thing that would hurt the Democrats is a war.
They don't want a war.
And so they get this 10-15-year deal where the Iranians promise not to develop a nuke, but they keep working on it, and they get closer and closer and closer.
There's no reason to bomb them, no reason to stop them because they promise they're not gonna do it.
But in the end, they're gonna get the bomb, no matter what we do, because there isn't gonna be a war, and because there's not a war, the Democrats are gonna end up looking great because they have made sure that the world remains secure for the next 10 years.
Is that basically your theory?
Yeah.
Would you agree that they would save everything uh diplomatically?
But they get a um, we're gonna run out of time here.
Finally we got to a question after three minutes, and I know what it is.
Mr. Snerdly, do you know what the last caller's question was?
You have any idea what he was going to get to?
All right, well, um basically his his point is that the overarching umbrella is nobody's gonna bomb Iran.
It ain't gonna happen.
Uh we're not gonna do it.
The French are gonna do it, the British aren't gonna do it, the Ruskies aren't gonna do it, the Norcans aren't gonna do it, the Chicons aren't gonna do it, uh, and the Israelis are not gonna do it.
So it doesn't matter.
Everything else doesn't matter.
We're never gonna know the terms of the deal anyway.
Bottom line.
Uh nobody's gonna know if Iran's cheating.
We aren't going to know what the terms of the deal are, so we won't even know if they are cheating.
But his point is that the last thing Obama wants is any kind of military activity going into an election year.
Now that requires us to believe that Obama cares about the Democrat Party going forward.
And I would think that he does, because he's gonna be hell bent on making sure whatever he's done and accomplished when he finishes is not rolled back.
So they don't want a war.
Well, I mean, if there's a the popular consumer, and the Mossad's not going to do it because they're not going to risk losing every dollar of aid that we give them.
You don't think Obama would cut them off?
Sure he would.
They're not going to risk it.
That's the popular, I'm I don't know.
I have no clue.
I'm telling you what the popular consensus, the conventional wisdom is, is that Israel is not going to do it.
Hasn't there been news that haven't we seen stories that Obama threatened the Israelis that if they try this, we will not offer them uh permission to go over various airspace war for refueling.
And the um there's some question whether Israeli bombers can get to Tehran back without being refueled.
That may be moot anyway, but the point is Obama Democrats, they don't want a war over anything, much less this.
Uh at any time they're going into an election.
The Iranians know it.
The Iranians agree to this deal that says they won't do anything for ten years.
They sign it, we sign it.
Well, there may not be a signature.
There may not even be a piece of paper.
We may get nothing more than what we've got.
But the point is everybody will stand down.
Okay, Iran said they're not going to do anything on weaponizing anything for 10 years, 12 years, so everybody's cool.
Ten years, 12 years, the current crop of leaders aren't even going to be here.
They wash their hands of it.
Somebody else's problem ten years, twelve years from now.
So nobody does anything.
The Iranians in the meantime take this ten years where they're promising to do nothing and they just keep building and building and building.
And the reason that's gonna happen is because at the top of everything, nobody is going to launch a military assault on them.
And back to Norman Pedoris' point.
The only way of stopping them is that.
Now you may not want to hear that, but there's no I don't know of any other alternative.
They're not going to agree to stop.
We have withdrawn every other measure designed to harm them economically, politically.
We have withdrawn all of those measures.
So there is no harm.
The Iranians are running around fat, dumb, and happy.
They're smiling ear to ear over all of this.
So people don't want to hear it, but it's been it's it's the case in humanity since the beginning of time.
Every major conflict between nations or people solved one way or the other by who kills the most of the enemy and who tears up most of the enemy's stuff, forcing the enemy to say, I quit.
That's how it happens.
Nobody volunteers to lose on a piece of paper.
Nobody negotiates defeat.
And that's why this never works.
And you don't negotiate victory either until you actually have achieved it.
And you don't achieve victory on paper.
Think it's radical and extreme to say it.
It happens to be the truth.
Here's Regina, Lake City, Florida.
Hi, Regina, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
I'm a huge, huge fan.
Finally got through after all these years of trying.
My mother told me years ago how liberal the media was, and I looked at her like she had two heads.
And um, I'm calling to say that I am thrilled that Rand Paul came out swinging.
However, he should have come out swinging with both fists.
Are you talking about on the Today Show today?
No, I'm talking about his um uh yesterday, when he was when we heard all of the um him up in that conference hall when he was out um I don't I can't, I'm sorry, I'm nervous.
Um, you know, when he was going on and on about how he was going to change the world, we need to take America back.
Yeah.
You mean his announcement?
His announcement, thank you.
And uh he should have come out swinging with both fists, because I don't understand, Rush, why um uh they continue to lie about us, call us homophobes, women haters, racists.
Why, why, why doesn't one of our candidates address this and say, obviously you have the need to say this, you know it's not true, it's a lie, but if you have to say it, well, go ahead and say it.
But in the meantime now, let's move on to the truth and some real issues.
And it uh you know, it seems like they uh they, meaning the uh militant progressives, can say anything they want about us, and we just cower in the corner.
And we never come back, you know, and refute this with with what I feel is is a strong counter.
Well, give me an example of what you would do.
Okay, well I'll pretend to be a liberal.
All right, and you've you've called me, you've called me, and you're telling me uh uh uh various things, and I said, ma'am, I don't even know why I took your call.
You're racist, you're a bigot, you're a sexist, you hate, you're an extremist, and and everybody you vote for is to it.
I don't have any idea why you even called me.
Okay, so tell me what would you say?
First of all, I would say why do you think we are all of the things you just named?
And at that point, at that point you have just lost.
Okay.
Why is that?
Because I don't have to answer.
The very fact that you're asking me to explain it gives me another Shot at you.
Why are you a racist?
Because look what you did in Ferguson.
And look what you did in Indiana.
And look at the people you nominate.
Ted Cruz hates people.
And Sarah Palin hates people.
Why do I think you're a racist?
Why do I think I don't think it?
I know it.
I know what you're a racist.
Sickest pig.
Okay, Rush.
Okay, then what I would do is I would just come out and address it and say, we are not homophobes, we are not women haters, we are not racist, but obviously you have to you have the need to say this.
So look, I understand your frustration.
People have been trying to figure this out for a long time.
And uh I understand your frustration.
The point is, the truth is, you can't change their minds with anything you would say to them.
You can't, you could give every dollar you have to GLAAD and the NAACP.
And you know what they would say?
You're a phony.
You're doing that because you know you're guilty.
You're doing that because you know you're anti-gay and you know you're a racist, and you're just trying to cover it up.
Like after David Koch gave $55 million to the NAA LCP, there are a bunch of people came around, give it back, give it back.
He doesn't mean it.
He's actually a racist and just trying to cover up for it.
When he gave another $25 million to a cancer hospital in St. Louis, the nurses and some of the doctors at the place.
Give it back, give it back.
He doesn't mean it.
He's trying to buy love and affection.
He's really trying to cover up what he really is.
These people are irrational.
You want to approach them rationally.
You can't.
They have to be defeated.
Now I know what you want.
I understand I want the same thing.
You turn on the news and you listen to everything you believe in trashed.
You believe that you you hear and see everybody that you believe in trashed.
And you want somebody to fire back and tell them what is and stand up and say you're wrong.
And people have been doing that for beginning of time, but it's it's not going to change their opinion.
They may not even really think it.
It's just what they have been led to believe.
Maybe they do really believe it, but they're mostly just spouting it because they are incapable of dealing with you in the arena of ideas.
They're incapable of debating ideas with you.
They don't even think they should have to, because you're such a reprobate.
So they're that's why I've always said these people are not to be negotiated with.
It's like I've I finally learned.
I was thinking just, I don't know what spurred this.
Uh, but it was earlier this morning.
I was prowling around the hallways here at the EIB Southern Command.
Something made me think of Barbara.
Oh, I know what it was.
There's a drudge has a post.
Liz Smith, the ancient gossip columnist, just turned 92.
And the post on the Drudge page is Liz Smith says that Barbara Walters stopped being her friend when she lost her column.
And they were buddies.
I'm I went to a Christmas party, those two hosted once.
And this is my point in a roundabout way.
I didn't realize until the the night was almost over that I was invited only for one reason, and that was to entertain them.
I was this new conservative, strange animal beast in town.
I was the circus act.
They didn't really want me there like they wanted everybody else there because they were genuinely friends.
I was this new whatever, and they didn't understand it, and it was garnering a lot of attention, my program was, so they just wanted to find out what's what.
And it was you should have seen what they did.
You should have heard the conversations.
I can't repeat them because some of these people still alive, but they were trying to taunt me.
They were trying to just I could tell now they were trying to get me all worked up.
They wanted me to walk out and leave in a fit of shock.
And I just sat there and smiled at them.
And then when I professed not to care about the Menendez trial, you should have seen them think, well, you're not serious about anything.
I was seated next to Cynthia McFadden, who at the time was working for Court TV.
And I didn't watch court TV, and all I knew about the Menendez trial was that the jury was a bunch of idiots.
So I, you know, I was not able to converse on it at a regular basis, and that was a big thing to them.
And the fact that I didn't know, they were just aghast.
They were just shocked.
So if you're a Christian and never heard of Christ, that kind of reaction.
But anyway, I was thinking back to all of the early interviews I did shortly after getting to New York.
And I I don't know why this crossed my mind, but I was thinking there were people, not a lot.
Cut to the chase, nobody adequately prepared me for what I was doing and how to deal with it, and nobody even warned me about it.
And so I was it it was a fly blind circumstance with every one of these early interviews, and I had to learn by doing, which is fine.
And I did, uh to the point I don't do them now, but I I remember my my first mistake was assuming they actually were interested in me, and that's why they invited me to be profiled or to appear, that they really were interested.
They really were interested in what I had to say.
I really believed that they were all this objective, uninvolved, uninvested, genuinely naive stuff.
And I approached it that way, and it didn't take long for me to figure out that I was dead wrong about this.
And there were some people at the time who could have told me these things, but didn't for whatever reasons, and I had to learn it on my on my own.
Uh and the formulas that take place.
Every time I watch a profile, I can tell you what's coming next.
There's the sit-down, different angles, and then at some point the uh the host and the guest are going to go walking down a hallway or walking in the park.
You're not going to hear it.
It's B-roll.
The picture is of the host, even getting more acquainted with the guest, and the guest loving being with the host, and all this, and it's all image making by virtue of pictures that is supposed to send its own message.
Uh, but but the formula I didn't even know.
And now I realize what all these things, when you're a conservative anyway, are all about.
And as such, I don't even subject myself to them anymore.
It's no, there's no point, which is the roundabout way of what I'm trying to tell you.
You want there to be pushback.
You want there to be these people to be straightened out.
They can't be.
They don't want to be straightened out.
They don't want to think anything else of you other than what they do.
And I just I've got to take a break here because of clock again.
So just hang.
Welcome back, El Rushball on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
You know, I have a piece here.
Let me do it.
Ah.
A professor at Rutgers.
This piece is headlined.
This is a professor at Rutgers.
And I'm thinking of reading this thing word for word, just to show you how impossible and what a waste of time it is to try to engage these people.
They are not sane, folks.
They're not sane.
They are not rational.
The people you're talking about, people that the previous caller was talking about, who want somebody to stand up and basically tell them to go to hell and succeed.
This woman's name is Brittany Cooper.
She's an assess assistant professor of women's and gender studies at Rutgers.
And the headline, I can't even read one of the words in the headline.
Christian conservatives worship butthole God and white supremacist Jesus.
Now, this woman's teaching your kids that you send them to Rutgers, what does it cost?
A public school, 20 grand a year?
I don't know.
Women's and gender studies.
Sonja Sotomayor, Rutgers, uh Michelle Obama.
I don't know if she went to Rutgers or not, but there's one thing that all of these modern era grads at universities with uh advanced women's studies programs have, and that is rage.
They arrived on campus enraged, and they had their anger fueled, and they came out of there further enraged, and they have taken that rage into the world with them, and yet dominates practically every aspect of their lives, both personal and professional.
And I say this thing might be worth reading top to bottom, just to expose the real hatred that the left has for Christianity.
And I sorry, but the clock, I have to stop again.
I look it's why I say the only way to deal with these people is to defeat them.
And I'm talking about the ballot box, the people that you run into at the diner, wherever you go, the coffee, they're never going to run for election.
You can't beat them that way.
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