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April 21, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 21, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #2
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And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
Happy to have you here, Rushland bought 800-282-288 to an email address.
Hillrushbow at EIBNet.com.
Folks, a couple other things I hope to be able to get to today.
They are both involved.
They are both, you know, one of the things I do on this program, one of the things I've always claimed, is to make the complex understandable.
And there are a couple of stories that are, if not complex, incredibly detailed.
And in both instances, I am going to have to send you to websites for you to be able to get the full impact of both stories.
At the same time, I want to be able to convey enough to you in an understandable way.
I mean, give you an example.
These things print out to seven and eleven pages each.
Now, if I were to just start to read either of these, the six-page story of the 11-page story, I'd lose you at some point, no matter how good I am at interpretive reading, I'd lose you.
You get bored.
You know, listening to what's written is is a tough thing, unless you know going in that's what you're doing, like an audio book.
So the challenge is to come up with a way to synthesize 11 pages or six pages in a couple or three minutes and give you the essence of it.
And it's going to be really hard to do.
One of them involves some truly outrageous things that have gone on in the state of Wisconsin that have happened at the same time as and as part of the effort to destroy Scott Walker.
A similar effort, almost identical effort, was made to destroy anybody and everybody who supported him and voted for him or donated money to him.
And this effort was conducted by law enforcement.
Think of it this way.
What do you think the greatest fear of the innocent is if law enforcement comes calling?
Have you ever thought about this?
Maybe some of you have experienced it.
You are totally innocent.
Nevertheless, you are being pursued.
What is your greatest fear?
Your greatest fear is the system is going to totally fail you.
And that there is nobody to stop an out-of-control cop, nobody to stop an out-of-control prosecutor, nobody to stop a corrupt judge.
And that you're going to be had no matter the fact that you are terribly innocent.
That is a fear a lot of people have.
And it was routinely occurring in the state of Wisconsin during the recall efforts of Scott Walker and during the general elections and campaigns of Scott Walker.
Now everybody knows what he went through.
Everybody knows what his family went through.
What nobody outside the state of Wisconsin knows until now, because National Review has uncovered it in great detail, a story by David French.
Nobody knew what just average ordinary nameless faceless people who happen to just donate to him or vote for him went through as well.
Midnight raids on their homes.
Police with battering rams breaking down their front doors at midnight at one or two in the morning.
Never explained why law enforcement was after them.
They were forbidden to tell anybody what was going on.
The neighborhood saw it all happen.
The neighborhood people in the neighborhood, what in the world did that family do?
My God, but they got scared to death.
The cops didn't have to explain anything.
Whatever the prosecutor wanted, and his name is one I hope you will never forget.
As well as the judge involved in this, I hope neither of these names do you ever forget, because they are the essence of liberal democrat corruption run amok with no limits and no stops whatsoever.
It is it is frighteningly outrageous.
It's the kind of stuff that Hollywood makes movies about that when you watch, you might fear it, but you would never ever dream of it really happening.
That's why it's in a movie.
So I want to try to explain in a little bit more detail what this story is about, but ultimately you're going to have to read it at National Review.
The other one is a story that ran in of all places the Daily Beast, and it's the second of its kind about the absolute disaster that has befallen California.
It's not just the drought, it is why the drought is so bad.
And it's not climate change, and it's not the weather, it's Democrats.
It's leftists.
It is, as I say, there are two stories about this, and they remarkably dovetail.
They cross paths remarkably in a number of places.
The one in the Daily Beast is written by Joel Kotkin.
The Daily Beast is a left-wing publication.
And the headline of its story, The Big Idea, California is so over.
And it details how liberalism, both top to bottom, north to south, east to west, all the way down the coasts and in the interior, policy after policy after policy, and it's not just environmentalism, it's a whole bunch of stuff, has literally wrecked this state, which was the state that held some of the greatest promise.
Go west, young man and all that.
These stories are incredibly rich with detail and example and cites CITES evidence.
They're not just opinion pieces.
They're dotted and include a lot of...
Well, just down-to-earth evidence.
Both of them are shocking stories.
And the piece here in the Daily Beast, given that it's a left-wing publication, just sings the highest praises of the former Governor Pat Brown, the father of the current governor Moonbeam.
But at the same time, this story destroys Jerry Brown and puts him at the center of everything wrong in California and why it is falling apart.
It happens to be right.
California's become an oligarchy.
You have the elite wealthy of San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Southern California Hollywood, and then you've got the rest of the state.
The rest of the state is an economic disaster, where the coastal elites are doing well, creating the false impression the state's healthy and fine.
But you look at what's happened in California, all of it, and it's a mess.
All of it you can trace to liberal policy after liberal policy after liberal policy, which is what both of these stories do.
Not exclusively, but they don't eliminate, they don't leave them out either.
I mean, they don't chalk it all up to liberalism, but where liberalism is to blame, it's called out in leftist publications.
So those are the two in-depth things.
Been sitting on the Wisconsin Scott Walker story.
I got it Sunday night.
They sent me a pre-publicate uh pre-publication copy, a PDF file, and I started reading it, and I said, There is no way that I'm gonna be ready to do this justice by Monday, which was yesterday.
So I spent a little bit more time on it.
So Holfville get to it today.
Um, with just enough of a summary to intrigue you enough to make you go read it.
You've got to read this.
You have to, it's a national review.
And it's uh it's by by David French.
Let me give you the actual title of the story, John Doe's Tyranny.
Wisconsin conservatives have been subjected to secretive baseless investigation.
But that subhead, that doesn't even come close to telling the reader what he's about to discover.
It's about the John Doe Laws in Wisconsin, which we have discussed on occasion on this program.
John Doe means the state can, there's a they can literally investigate anybody without telling them why.
And they can deny them lawyers, they can take it.
I mean, it's just it's incredible.
They can literally set out to destroy, and the only thing standing in the way of it is the honor system.
If you have a corrupt prosecutor, which this story has, and if you have a corrupt judge, which this story has, and if you have a police department that is also corrupt, this happened in Milwaukee, mostly, then you can pull this off.
There's even a quote from a couple police officers who were who were forced to participate in these midnight raids on innocent people who've not done a thing other than support Scott Walker.
That's all they had done.
And cop car after cop car, cop after cop.
SWAT teams, you name it, show up with battering rams to break into these people's homes.
They're kicked out of their homes at midnight at one o'clock in the morning, not allowed to take anything.
They're not told why.
They're not allowed to explain to anybody that this has happened beside the neighborhood which could see it.
Years after the fact, mothers are reporting their young kids that were at home and this happened, still traumatized.
People are reporting today that they just they get scared and traumatized and panicked when they see a uniformed police officer just walking a beat.
They hightail it away.
It is the fear that I think a lot of innocent people experience when law enforcement is pursuing them.
I know I've been there, and I know I know a number of things.
Law enforcement's never doubted, other than the civil rights community.
The media doesn't doubt them.
Law enforcement can leak anything they want about anybody, and the media writes it, and that it becomes fact.
Because even average ordinary Americans, why would the cops lie?
Why I mean they take it on faith.
Why would a prosecutor lie?
Why would a prosecutor say somebody's guilty if they're not?
They don't have time to waste on this.
There are too many guilty people to go again, they will waste time on the innocent.
The innocent in Wisconsin were guilty because they were conservative.
The left in Wisconsin was losing everything.
They were losing their union domination and control.
Scott Walker was decimating all the systems they had put in place, and they literally lashed out in panic, anger, and you name it, to punish people who had voted for Walker, who had raised money for him, who they thought had voted for him.
It was it was the kind of thing that Vladimir Putin does, and we all laugh about because that's what we expect in a tyrannical dictatorship like the Soviet Union or Russia.
And we find out that it can happen here and has happened here, and there has there was no mechanism to stop it.
Prosecutor's name is Chisholm.
John Chisholm.
And I hope his name is never forgotten.
He has tarnished the reputation of prosecutors all over this country.
He belongs right up there with Mike Knife.
In fact, Mike Nyphong Is a piker compared to what happened in this case.
Nifong is an amateur compared to what happened here in Wisconsin.
The one puzzling thing about this to me, there's one puzzling thing about it, is Scott Walker doesn't talk about it.
Now, I didn't, until I read the National Review piece.
You know, I knew the John Doe laws, and I knew they'd been abused, and I'd heard this or that, but I did not know until Sunday night.
Just how outrageous.
The application of the John Doe Laws, which is a term that has been developed to describe what happened here.
Lawfare, as in warfare, except this warfare conducted by law enforcement, lawfare.
And Walker hasn't talked about it.
I mean, he's everybody knows what he went through.
Everybody knows the attacks on him.
What nobody outside Wisconsin knows, or very few, they will now, is the same stuff was done to hundreds of people that supported him.
So there's that, plus the California stuff, and all the rest of just the average ordinary common news that's been made since the last time we were here, including the Republican candidates are continuing to go after Mrs. Clinton.
And Mrs. Clinton is now responding to them by mocking them by saying, well, I guess they've got nothing else to talk about than me.
I mean, if they want to talk about me, she's mocking them.
And some of the people on our side are beginning to get cold feet now.
You know what?
Maybe this is not a good idea.
Maybe we shouldn't be attacking Mrs. Clinton.
Maybe we should just go out to liberalism in general.
Maybe we because you know what?
It's just going to create sympathy for it.
And I'm starting to hear the same stupid rationale that the Republicans use for not attacking Obama.
It's gonna make people mad.
It's gonna make people me think we're being mean to the woman instead of mean to the African American president.
It's gonna make people think that we're extreme, that we're uncooperative, and so I'm seeing this.
This Democrat trick that works on Republicans seen every time it's tried to eliminate criticism of the Democrats, because somehow it's gonna hurt the Republicans.
So you sit tight.
As you can see, full vote today.
Don't go away back after this.
A more little piece of information about these Wisconsin raids.
Everybody, and by the way, they were all innocent.
Nobody was guilty of anything.
They hadn't done anything.
The John Doe Law allowed for anonymous prosecution.
Law enforcement simply allowed to target anybody they thought might be guilty of a crime under the terms of this of this law, and they had to tell nobody, including the accused.
This violated the U.S. Constitution in so many ways, and one of the things they did, just think of a battering ram breaking down your house.
You live in suburbia, a battering ram breaking down your house at 1 a.m.
And cops jackbooted or otherwise come in and steal every telephone and every computer, and you never get them back.
And they don't tell you why.
You're left to assume it.
I mean, that's just one of the things that happened.
And it was all done by a bunch of aggrieved loser at the ballot box, liberal Democrats, who thought the state was forever their personal fiefdom.
And then Walker had to go and beat them three times, and they just lost it.
And in the process, became exactly who they are.
The one plus in this, if there is a plus, is that the left in these incidences in or incidents in in Wisconsin, they threw down all a camouflage.
They got rid of every mask.
They hid behind nothing.
Exactly who they are, if left unchecked and unopposed, was made obvious.
Here's Rita in Corona, California, as we start On the phones a little late today, but nevertheless we're there.
Rita, I'm glad you waited.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Oh, gosh, I'm nervous again.
This is like talking to the Pope.
Well, thank you very much.
I I used to send you over undercover things when Obamacare was just coming out because I was uh privy to being on the wall.
And I would sign myself a constitutional conservative gal on the far left coast.
Well, it's worse all the time.
California is probably the worst state to have anything in.
That's ten times the taxpayers' money for one half of the original promise.
And covered California is the worst of all.
Okay, that's the second California story that I have here is what a mess.
But this one was predictable.
Covered California is the uh the state, the state, the subsidy agent in the state of California.
They are the uh ex the exchange, they're the health care exchange.
Cover California, they're run by the unions.
They're run pure and some nothing more than voter registration for illegals and money laundering for union operations under the guise of providing subsidies and access to health insurance.
It's a total scam.
Worst thing of all, I'm 64 years old.
I have now maternity coverage, and uh the policy that I can buy for $711 a month for myself has a six thousand three hundred and fifty dollar out of pocket, and I can't afford to buy the same coverages as the illegal alien families are getting for free.
Yep, yep, yep.
That's it.
Folks, she's not lying about that's exactly a great example, the kind of thing that's happening.
Did you note she's 64?
She had to include maternity coverage in her policy.
Okay, so I checked the email in the break there, and I got some people who did not believe Rita from Corona, California.
Rita said that it cost her something of $700 a month to get what illegal aliens get Obamacare for free.
Come on, Rush.
People throw that out and you just accept it.
It can't possibly be true.
Except that it is.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have an acquaintance in New York who has told me the same story long before I took the call today from Rita in Corona, California.
For this guy who lives in the Upper West Side, because that's where the actors live, you gotta you gotta hang with the well anyway.
For this guy to get the same coverage, no deductible, no copay, same coverage that under Obamacare in New York that illegal aliens get, it cost him 900 bucks a month.
He could get the same policy they've got, but it cost him 900 a month.
It was no deductible and no copay.
And he told me that even then it was difficult, almost impossible to find anyone who would take Obamacare.
Which is not a problem if you're an illegal alien.
Because the ER cannot turn you away.
If you're an illegal alien and they won't sell you the policy or they won't give it to you, it's fine.
Just go to the ER, which is what they've been doing, which is why a number of them in Southern California have shut down.
They stopped making any money.
So the the you you asked me in an email.
How can this be they can't be?
It can't be that the illegals get it for free and it most certainly can't.
What do you think this is, folks?
You some of you people that doubt this are going to have to wake up.
And I don't mean those of you that are regularly here in this audience.
I mean people that would send me an email saying you don't believe this.
You're gonna have to wake up and understand what this is.
Most favored nation status has been conferred to illegal aliens on a number of Obamacare policies.
And not just Obamacare, but any number of other government policies, particularly where money is given away.
Where do you think the money, at least a pretense of it, is coming from?
Somebody's got to pay into this.
And if you're an illegal and doesn't have a job or doesn't have a high-paying job by definition, they can't look to you for money.
You're the beneficiary.
You're the victim.
You are the target.
You are being given this because life has so screwed you over.
Primarily the United States of America has so screwed you over because you're a minority and probably a person of color.
And this is how we're going to get even with all these powerful people in the majority who've given everything to themselves and left out these poor minorities.
Now it's the majority's time to get stuck.
And so the people who have the money, whether they have it or whether it can be taken from them in a tax refund, are going to pay for this.
What do you think Obama is?
Forget Obamacare.
What do you think Obama is?
What do you think?
Transforming America.
What do you think the redistribution of wealth is?
This is it exactly.
Natural born American citizen, 900 bucks a month for what an illegal alien in the country can get for Zilch.
It's designed that way.
The illegal alien or the welfare recipient or the poor person or whatever is the person with the grievance that must be addressed.
There is no merit-based anything.
Everything is identity politics and racial politics.
And if you are white, if you're in a majority, if you're wealthy, you have benefited from unfairness tilted in your favor.
Your whole life.
Time to give up now.
Time to make even, time to pay back.
Obama has come to balance the scales.
Obama has come to take care of those who have been systematically left out by an evil, mean spirited extremist majority since the days of this country's founding.
That's exactly what this is.
It's why it has always had majority opposition.
It is why a majority of states did not sign up for an Obamacare exchange.
They don't have the money that Obamacare shifts to them as a responsibility.
We have the money for him in $18 trillion national debt.
David in Cincinnati, your next.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Russ.
How are you doing?
Good, sir.
Thank you very much.
Good.
Hey, that vitamin article that you were talking about earlier.
Uh I'm a physician.
I treat people using diet and vitamins.
Been doing it 25 years.
That article is simply an indictment on the use of synthetic vitamins, has nothing to do with natural high-quality vitamins.
Okay, let me grab the story here again.
Down supplements that they think are getting health boost.
Research has found they have the opposite effect.
Widely taken over-the-counter pills and supplements, vitamin E tablets, beta carotene, and folic acid.
Those are the three focuses on here.
So your point is those are um.
The review of 30 years of literature that Dr. Byers did, I've seen the same literature over the 25 years that I've been in this.
And whenever they do a study like this versus placebo, they're always using a synthetic vitamin.
Um if you look at the folic acid as an example that they're citing there, folic acid, most people don't even know this, is not really found much in nature.
And we have now of a synonymous term, folic acid and folate.
Well, folate is the natural form that's found in our food.
I have a little experience with folic acid because of one of the 15 or 25 diets I've tried.
I forget which one, but it said I had to have at least four-tenths of a gram of the stuff a day.
Yes, but you but you what you probably don't know is if you were taking folic acid or folate.
And that's the difference.
The folate is the natural form found in our food.
Folic is a good thing.
No, wait, wait, you just said it isn't found in nature.
That was going to be my question.
If folic acid isn't found in nature, then who the hell determined that we need it?
And where do we get it if it's not in nature?
I mean, where did the people in biblical times go to get their folic acid or their folate?
Well, they didn't.
They got folate from their food.
And then in 1943, I believe, it was synthesized.
And in 1989, it was required to be placed in all grains to fortify it to prevent spina bifida and birth defects for women.
the the foliate is not is not what's in our food supply when it's made by man but it's in our natural food supply.
Oh okay so what you're saying here is that uh is that the Tim Tim Byers is essentially full of it well he's not full of it he's doing what he does I mean he's a he's a researcher that does what he does and so that he's looking at research and the research shows it this is a bad sign.
This is a bad deal for people who take low quality inexpensive vitamins.
If you're taking that kind of stuff you are taking a risk and you probably are increasing your cancer risk.
Okay give me an example of what you're talking about low quality inexpensive what do you mean the easiest way to tell in a multivitamin vitamin E is also known as a tocopherol.
So there are mixed tocopherols available to us in our food supply.
When they take one of those tocopherals usually the D version which is the delta version you'll see it on the label as DL alpha tocopherol the L is what tells you it's synthetic.
You don't want a DL alpha tocopheral you want a D alpha tocopheral makes a big difference.
If a company is using the DL form it is a chief inexpensive vitamin so but so you've got to know enough to look for the L on the label at the health food store to find out whether or not you're you're swallowing junk.
That is the easiest way to sell on a multivitamin it gets a little more difficult with other vitamins but the beta carotene and the folic acid those are synthetic that buyers looked at that research you know one of the the dumbest things I could honestly say about vitamins to make of this point is that the more expensive the vitamin probably within reason the better it's going to be for you is that right the more the more expensive it is the better.
Okay give me the give me the down low sorry give me the low down on on uh on the uh what's the fish oil um uh that's in C A D H A. What EPA D H A No no no there's a there's a sp oh yeah the omega the omega oil the fish oils I mean I know I know people that down that stuff left and right thinking they're healthy as they can be.
Yeah they're not there there's I don't know I don't think there's any form of uh uh omega threes that are synthetic um they there's there's different levels and and there's a couple different things you do need to know about omega 3s um there's ETA and there's d H A. They have to be in some sort of a balance.
Right.
Um this is easy there's a krill acryl oil form of it.
The krill oil is a crustacean so if you're allergic to shellfish you shouldn't be taking that there's a lot to know there but essentially uh omega 3s are are good and there's not a lot of risk in taking them okay well I I'm I'm glad you cleared that up essentially there's nothing to worry about unless you're taking synthetics and then buyers could be right you could be killing yourself.
Otherwise spend as much as you can on vitamins and you're safe.
I totally agree can I make one more comment to you please before I by all means by all means.
I wanted to thank you for helping me raise a rush baby who's 35 years old now and one outstanding human being 35 years old Rush I picked up on your radio station the first day you were on here in Cincinnati on I think it was called W C K Y back then it's now 55 KRC.
Right?
But uh day one there you were and I and I just listened ever since and my son was in the room with me and what was that 28 million years ago?
I I really do.
I really thank you so much for that I appreciate it.
It's great to have you in the audience I'm helped glad that you helped to uh to uh clarify clarify this Cincinnati uh I recall was one of the last major market holdouts on this program I and I it was I even if I remember why it probably would make sense just to shut up about it so we'll hi welcome back rush limb on a cutting edge.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Okay, let's go to the White House, the press briefing, Josh Ernest, uh conducting a major garret.
Remember, we had the news today.
Eli Lake reporting it, Doomberg News.
Netanyahu was right.
And Obama knew it at the time.
Iran is only months away from getting a nuclear weapon.
They said Netanyahu was lying, making it up, didn't know what he was talking about.
They knew at the time that Netanyahu was right.
So Josh Ernest is asked about this today.
Major Garrett says the suggestion of the story was the president knew.
It was two or three months, two years ago, and said it was a year instead of the months in order to quiet and calm concerns.
And now the president's being more candid because, in the context of political framework, he wants to intensify concern.
So now he's saying he's admitting that the Iranians should get a nuke in two to three months when he's known that for two years, and he's just now saying it to intensify people so that they will agree with him and give him a deal.
Uh you know, you deny on the president's behalf any attempt to mislead or to manipulate understanding of what Iran's actual capability was.
This is an important question.
Obama's lied about this, and everybody working for him has lied about it for two years.
So Major Garrett is saying, do you deny on the president's behalf any attempt to mislead or manipulate the understanding of what Iran's actual capability was these past two years?
I feel uh confident in conveying to you without having seen the story that the president, I think, throughout this process of engaging in a diplomatic effort to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, has sought to use intelligence assessments to the best of his ability to give people an accurate understanding of the threat that Iran poses.
And there are obviously limitations uh in terms of how detailed the president or anybody else can be.
The president uh all along uh has worked to help the United States people and our allies uh understand exactly what this threat is, so that we can design the best mechanism for addressing that threat.
Look at that, just flat out BS, okay.
Obama knew two years ago that Iran's months away.
He lied to everybody, and then lied about what was in the deal, claiming the deal made Iran pledge to stay a year away for 13 years.
Netanyahu saying, no, no, no, no.
This deal as it is, they're gonna have ramped up in two to three months.
They can get there whenever they want.
Within three months, they can get new get a deal.
And so Major Garrett asks, did you guys shield this?
You've known this a little bit.
And Ernest didn't deny it.
The point is he does not deny this.
He basically said, you gotta trust Obama that he was doing what he thought was best.
He was doing exactly what he thought and and and he was convinced the intelligence assessments uh to the best of his ability.
Right.
Those didn't count during the Iraq War, remember.
Yeah, Bush wasn't allowed to rely on the intelligence assessments on weapons of mass destruction because Bush lied, people died.
Yeah, but now we come to it, and Obama is he's safe and secure behind his intelligence assessments.
And uh he wanted to give people accurate understanding of the threat that Iran poses, and there are limits on what the president can say.
It's a limit to what the president can announce.
Apparently no limits on how often the president can lie, Mr. Ernest.
Look, they've been exposed here.
But they're not gonna own up to it, obviously, and the drive-by's aren't gonna pursue this any further than than that that you just heard, so it's pretty much it.
Speaking of press secretary is our buddy Marie Harf's back in action.
Reporter got a little testy at the State Department with her today during an exchange on Iran.
The reporter from Reuters, R. Shah Mohammed.
And R. Shad asked Harf about what the U.S. is doing to get Iran to change its behavior.
Which seems kind of academic now, but this has to do with Yemen and uh funding terrorists all over.
And Harf touted the sanctions that have been cut off, among other things, and Iran's ability to fund terrorists.
We're making great inroads and limiting what the Iranians can do.
And then she said, I agree with you that it's a challenge.
Arshad Mohammed of Reuters then told her that's not what he said.
I didn't ask you that.
I didn't say that.
What are you agreeing with me that's a challenge?
I didn't say that.
And Harf said, You don't think it's a challenge?
And Mohammed of Reuters said, I'm not here to answer your questions.
I'm here to try to get answers to mine.
And from there he just went back to grilling her on foreign policy, and she kept obfuscating the valley girl linking.
You know this babe, she ought to she ought to run into what's her face.
Uh what's that ESPN babe that went with postal on the oh yeah, Britt McHenry.
What a pair these two would be.
Bring it on.
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Two exciting busy broadcast hours in the can.
And one remaining exciting busy broadcast hour coming up.
Back at it before you know it, so leave at your own risk.
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