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May 7, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 7, 2015, Thursday, Hour #3
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Yeah, you know, I've had this for a couple of days.
I've intended to get to this, and I'm going to do it this hour because it, I'll tell you, it infuriates me.
And this is something else being done on purpose that's being done to rip this country apart, and it's unconscionable.
No, no, this business about Michelle Obama saying that museums are for white people.
What's the point of this?
Yeah, she's about when I was young, I would walk by museums, but I would know that's not for me.
I'm not allowed in places that people don't want me.
Black people to this day, museums, they know that that's not just for them.
This is ridiculous.
Why play the race card over something like that?
Anyway, get to this in just a second.
Greetings and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh here at 800-282-2882, the email address, LRushbow at EIBnet.com.
First Lady Moochell Obama gave a speech on Monday that was supposed to be celebrating the opening of a new museum.
And it was a dedication, a $420 million dedication for a new building at the Whitney Museum in New York City on Monday.
And a whole bunch of Democrat luminaries were there, Bill de Blasio, the mayor, the architect Renzo Piano, and Mucha Obama.
And instead of just congratulating the staff and praising the museum or whatever you do at a museum opening, she decided to lecture everybody about diversity.
Everything has to be about race with these people.
And, you know, we were supposed to be post-racial with the election of Obama.
Supposed to have put all that behind us.
His election was supposed to mean something.
It was supposed to signify that we had overcome and gotten past the original sin of slavery.
And instead, as I knew would be the case, it's gotten worse by design.
And this is one of the reasons why.
Here, her husband is president, first African-American president in our history.
And instead of lauding this new museum and whatever, you know, these effete snobs that these museums do, to take the occasion here to widen the racial gap, she said, museums and concert halls just don't welcome non-white visitors, especially children, the way they welcome white people.
You imagine being in the audience for this?
I mean, even if you're a committed liberal, I mean, you don't want to hear this stuff all the time, I wouldn't think.
You hear a new museum dedication, and you want to hear an angry first lady stand up and start complaining about stuff like this.
Speaking at the new Whitney Museum in the meat packing district in New York, Michelle Obama said that she grew up thinking that museums were not places for someone who looks like me.
No different than if I had a son, he would look just like Trayvon.
You see, she said, there are so many kids in this country.
You look at places like museums and concert halls and other cultural centers, and they think to themselves, well, that's not a place for me, for someone who looks like me, for someone who comes from my neighborhood.
In fact, I guarantee you, right now, there are kids living less than a mile from this museum who would never in a million years dream that they would be welcome in this museum.
Can you imagine insulting the people who run the museum that you're there to dedicate?
All for the purpose of stirring things up in the seventh year of your husband's presidency.
Now, here's the thing.
Michelle Mulkin has this Twitter website called Twitchy, where she curates a bunch of different tweets, subject to subject and person to person.
And according to the curation that she did on this, Moochell Obama's remarks went largely unnoticed outside of the event until a local radio host reported on it.
Nobody at the event thought a thing of it.
But there was a little blurb about it that some local radio host, don't know who heard about it, and museums as white spaces.
The tone of her speech was eerily similar to her husband's remarks during the launch of My Brother's Keeper Alliance in New York City on Monday, in which Obama cites boys and young men of color being treated differently by law enforcement when it comes to stops and arrests.
So she was just carrying forward a theme that her husband had laid down earlier in the week.
By design, it was a strategy.
There is a purposeful effort here to divide the people of this country along racial lines.
Make no mistake about it.
John Gabriel at Ricochet decided to write about this.
And he said, instead of merely congratulating the museum staff and praising their mission, the first lady decided to lecture them about diversity.
And one of her claims struck me as quite odd.
You see, there's so many kids in this country who look at places like museums and concert halls and blah, blah, blah.
It's not a place for me, for someone who looks like me, for someone who comes from my neighborhood.
This guy points out that he's been to Chicago.
I've been to several Chicago museums on many occasions, whether I was at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Field Museum, Adler Planetarium, or the Museum of Science and Industry.
The bustling crowds were made up of every ethnicity and socioeconomic status you could imagine.
Buses brought in school kids from each neighborhood in Chicago and every suburb surrounding it.
And I'm sure a young Moochell Obama participated in similar field trips many times, meaning she had to have been taken to museums.
She did not grow up in a poor side of Chicago.
She's not from the wrong side of town.
Or as Johnny Rivers would say, the poor side of town.
It's not as if she grew up in poverty, relegated to the Southside's infamous housing projects like some of my friends.
This is, again, John Gabriel writing.
The first lady had a thoroughly middle-class upbringing in a stable nuclear family.
Her excellent grades got her into Chicago's superb Whitney Young magnet haskruel, where she was given one of the finest secondary educations in the state.
Did this smart, successful student actually think Chicago's many popular museums were closed to someone who looks like me?
For someone who comes from my neighborhood, did she never in a million years dream that she would be welcome in these places, even though her school must have had field trips to most of them?
He writes, I just find this incredibly hard to believe.
So why does she continue to identify herself and people like her as oppressed, aggrieved victims rather than strong, capable winners?
And you see, folks, that's the question.
She wasn't excluded from anything in Chicago ever.
Why do, of all people, the president and the first lady, historical by any stretch, pinnacle of achievement, talk about overcoming what some would say are impossible odds.
Why continue to run around angry and with a chip on your shoulder as though you are an aggrieved victim of something when you clearly are not?
And why not instead take the occasion of your achievement and your accomplishment and motivate and inspire?
If you remember my first nationally televised speech to the nation, remember that Snerdley at CPAC, I chided Obama for this back in, this would have been 2009, February 2009.
He'd just been immaculated.
And I praised his oratorical skills, if the prompter's written right.
And I said he's got so much potential.
He could be so inspirational and so uplifting if he chose to.
But no.
It was true then and it's true now.
I mean, it'd be one thing, you know, if they let somebody incarcerated out of jail to go help open a museum and started talking about being a victim and this and that.
And I can't believe they let me out of jail to come to this museum.
But she's the first lady of the United States.
Why not take the occasion of all this to inspire all these people?
You ever stop to think maybe a museum and thing like that is not in their cultural upbringing and maybe it should be?
You think maybe the reason they don't go there is because places like that are mocked and laughed at?
Well, what's the popular phrase?
They're too white.
You don't go to a museum.
It's too white.
Nobody goes there.
It's not cool.
I just, this is, this is to me, you talk about a disservice to people.
Museums are for white people, not welcoming someone like me, portraying herself and her husband as discriminated against victims.
Can you imagine the good they could do with just a positive mental, inspirational attitude?
You realize how they could motivate and inspire people if they wanted to?
Why don't they want to do that?
They don't, obviously.
They need victims.
They need a permanent underclass.
They need people thinking the deck's stacked against them.
They need people who believe they need representation, representatives, people standing up for them because they can't do it on your own.
Her senior thesis, if you remember, and I do because I'm me, Michelle Obama's senior thesis, remember where it was?
Remember where she went to school?
Well, it wasn't East OveryU.
It was Princeton.
It was Princeton.
It wasn't some place in the sticks.
And her senior thesis was all about how out of place she felt there.
And Soto Mayor had a similar thesis at the same place.
And both of them were filled with rage and anger.
And there they are there.
They aren't there.
They got admitted.
They're studying there.
They're succeeding there.
And their thesis, hers was about how out of place she felt.
And it seems to me that Michelle Obama has spent a lot of her time as first lady complaining about not feeling welcome.
And you go back to the campaign.
The first time she ever felt proud of her country, right, was when her husband was running for president.
Well, yeah, but everybody that lives in the White House calls it a prison.
That's, I'm sure they don't look at the White House.
I mean, they look at some prison because of security and they can't get out of there.
But I don't.
When she went to Spain, what's that got to do with where they they welcome her everywhere.
That's the point.
They welcome her everywhere she goes.
And they talk about her as a fashion leader in a fashion plate.
They welcome her everywhere.
It's a chip on the Mike.
Just rein it in here, Rush.
You're up to the edge already on this.
You had to mention White House.
Can you imagine what they really think of that place?
Well, Obama said it.
Michael, what do I think?
He made a speech recently and referred to it as a place we and other slaves built.
Remember that?
Yes, right.
It was at Silm when they're commemorating the anniversary of what happened, the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Silma, in the movie.
Silma.
He did.
He started talking about how the White House was built by – he used a personal pronoun somewhere in there.
Anyway, so is it any wonder what's going on in Baltimore is going on?
Is it any wonder what's happening in Ferguson, Missouri is going on?
Oh, and by the way, what's her name?
Loretta Lynch says that she is considering the request of the Baltimore mayor to go in and totally rework the police department.
Yeah, Grab Soundbite 21.
This is a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on the Department of Justice budget request.
And the new Attorney General Loretta Lynch testified, said this.
You know, the mayor there, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, asked the DOJ to come in and fix the police department.
And this was her response.
We're currently in the process of considering the request from city officials and community and police leaders for an investigation into whether the Baltimore City Police Department engaged in a pattern or practice of civil rights violations.
And I intend to have a decision in the coming days.
Really?
You're still up in the air?
Where are you going?
What are you going to get a bunch of saps here?
What can we expect in the next couple of days?
We have decided to turn down the request of the mayor in Baltimore, and we are not going to determine whether or not the city of Baltimore Police Department engaged in a pattern of civil rights violation.
They're not going to do that.
They're going to go in there.
But they may not.
I mean, it's not like they're going into an all-white police department.
Anyway, yep, good time.
Take a break.
We'll do it and return before you know it.
Don't go away.
Head back to the phone, Scott, Columbus, Montana.
Great to have you on the EIB Network.
Hello, Scott.
Hello, sir.
And an unending mega ditto.
Thank you.
Montana.
Oh, I thought you said unenvied.
No, unending.
Unending, yes.
Forever.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
You know, I find it funny that, you know, because I, about 8 o'clock this morning, was ticked off.
You know, after all the findings that came out about Tom Brady, the Patriots, etc.
And it's like, you know, I'm kind of gotten over it since then.
At the same time, I wonder, you know, why all, you know, okay, all the fur that's going on in the press right now, what are they sneaking behind us?
What's backdooring?
What is going on that, you know, our attention does not need to be paid to.
You mean in the NFL or in general?
In general.
Because it seems like, you know, whenever there's like some big social issue, they'll sneak a few things in behind us, and then we find out later.
I don't think that's the case.
I think the Brady NFL story is, in fact, genuine and it's real.
I don't think it's contrived.
It happened.
I don't think it's there to mask anything else.
Because it isn't masked.
It's a really bad disease.
I am a Denver Broncos fan.
And I had somebody send me an email today.
Just to answer your question, I had one of the graphics designers at the Limbaugh Letter sent me a note today saying, don't fall for this rush.
This Brady story, this deflategate, is just to cover up Rapegate.
It's just to take everybody's attention away from all the rape stuff in the NFL.
That's why they're doing this.
The NFL would much rather have people worried about underinflated footballs than all of the domestic abuse going on out there.
No, it makes sense, except there isn't a current Rapegate story going on.
There's a lot of off-field criminality stuff going on, but nothing prominent, not like Ray Rice.
But just to answer your question, I mean, I've got CNN on here all day, and they're covering everything.
They're covering their story about the police investigation undermining the state attorney in Baltimore, which I've been promising for two and a half hours to get to today.
And it's coming next, after the break.
And they're covering that.
They're covering everything.
They're not going wall-to-wall Brady, and neither is Fox.
So it's not overwhelming any other story.
By the way, I have the audio sound bites of Mrs. Clinton now that I referenced early that the Republican National Committee is making public.
Let's first go back Tuesday night this week in Vegas at Rancho Heskruel, Mrs. Clinton, with a roundtable discussion campaign event.
Remember?
The facts are really clear.
You know, we know how much people who are working hard contribute to our economy, both in what they buy and in what they pay in taxes.
In fact, in New York, which I know a little bit about because I represented it for eight years and I live there now, our undocumented workers in New York pay more in taxes than some of the biggest corporations in New York.
Now, that's preposterous.
But remember, that was this Tuesday.
Let's go back February 2003, WOR in New York.
We've got to do several things, and I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants.
I made this exception basically on humanitarian grounds because of the individual stories.
But certainly we've got to do more at our borders, and people have to stop employing illegal immigrants.
Come up to Westchester, go to Suffolk and Nassau counties, stand in the street corners in Brooklyn or the Bronx.
You're going to see loads of people waiting to get picked up to go do yard work and construction work and domestic work.
And she doesn't sound like she likes them at all.
I mean, that's just, what, 12 years ago, folks?
What a reversal for Mrs. Clinton.
And I'm looking at the call roster here.
I don't see anybody cares about Baltimore, Snerdley.
You should have heard what Snerdley just said to me about Michelle Obama.
He said, you know, you're missing the point about Michelle and this white people at the museum.
He says, she's really telling us more than anything else what she thinks of lower-class black people.
And I said, what do you mean?
He said, why do you think they kicked their kids out of Sitwell school when they got to war?
They didn't want to hang around with the single-parent black mother kids.
I said, no, no, no, no.
Obama closed down that school choice business to shore up the teachers' unions and the public schools.
He said, well, I don't know.
I think they're class-conscious.
Who isn't class-conscious?
Especially people that have always aspired to be elites and then they get there, they think they are.
They may think they're too good for others.
Is that what you're basically saying?
All right, well, I have coming up here, I hope to get to Baltimore, but I've got audio of what she said at the museum.
And apparently it's even worse than just when I read it to you.
But okay, here is Michelle Obama.
This is on April 30th is when this happened.
In New York at the dedication of the Whitney Museum of American Art in the meat packing district of Manhattan.
You see, there are so many kids in this country who look at places like museums and concert halls and other cultural centers and they think to themselves, well, that's not a place for me, for someone who looks like me, for someone who comes from my neighborhood.
In fact, I guarantee you that right now there are kids living less than a mile from here who would never in a million years dream that they would be welcome in this museum.
And growing up on the south side of Chicago, I was one of those kids myself.
So I know the feeling of not belonging in a place like this.
And today as First Lady, I know how that feeling limits the horizons of far too many of our young people.
Yeah, and what are you doing to lift them?
What are you doing to expand them?
This is incredible.
How race-obsessed do you have to be to turn even a museum opening into a race thing?
And as our previous blogger, John Gabriel, suggests, she's probably been to a museum as a kid in Chicago.
She didn't grow up on the poor side of town.
Johnny Rivers, 1968.
But listen to this.
She's dedicating a museum.
A new wing or a new building somewhere that some rich guy probably paid for.
I guarantee you right now, kids living less than a mile from here who would never in a million years dream they'd be, well, wait, just indict everybody that works at this museum?
What have they not engaged in racial outreach?
How big a chip on your shoulder must you have to even be thinking of this at the dedication of a museum?
That what it stands for, what the museum represents, is just another in a long line of examples of stay away.
You're not wanted.
You're not welcome.
Man, oh man, you talk about wasted opportunities that this, the president and the first lady, have had.
I don't know about you.
Do you ever think about what you would do if you were president?
Do you ever imagine what it would be like to actually win an election and live there in the White House?
Do you not, when you think of it, do you not think of what an honor?
What a rare privilege and honor it would be?
Do you not think all the history that you would be surrounded by and thus by virtue of your election part of?
I can't relate to somebody who is obsessed with resentment after achieving that pinnacle.
But these two apparently are.
Now, I'll add a caveat.
Mr. Snerdley has raised my consciousness level about people who have genuine blood trace back to slavery and what the White House could represent something not positive.
I understand to some people that that could be genuine.
But these two, this is not, it's not them.
They're not from the down with the struggle crowd.
Obama especially isn't.
But I just can't imagine what it would be like to run for the office of president and win and what that alone says.
And then to have this deep-seated, never-ending resentment for where you live, I can't, I can try to understand it, but I really cannot relate to it.
And I don't think it furthers anything or elevates or improves anything to not use all the opportunities such a victory means to inspire and uplift people.
I just, that's all I would do.
In fact, you know, that's how I would win.
If I ever thought about running, I would talk about things that inspiring the country.
That's what Reagan did.
People that win the presidency do inspire people to be better than they think they can be.
I don't understand this.
I really, I mean, I can understand having a chip on your shoulder.
I can understand thinking, but get over it at some point.
And what better chance to get over it is there than becoming president of the United States for crying out loud.
What am I missing, Snerdley?
It's like getting in the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame and being ticked off about it.
Doesn't make sense.
And by the way, nobody is.
Last I looked.
Yeah, I've got this Baltimore story here.
I've got it here.
Here, let me just, if I don't get to this, people are going to be really mad.
Here's the...
Here's the sum total of this.
The Baltimore police investigation into the death of Freddie Gray does not support some of the charges, including the most serious, that were filed by Marilyn Mosby, the state attorney.
Lawyers for two of the cops have challenged a key finding in her case.
That's the knife that was found on Freddie Gray, she claims was legal and perfectly okay.
And the police investigation say, nope, that knife was illegal.
In addition, homicide investigators who were briefed by the medical examiner's office believe the examiner's autopsy report would find the cause of death to fall short of homicide.
Do you remember on Thursday Of last week, one week ago today, there was a leak from somewhere within the city government of Baltimore.
And it was that the medical examiner had found no cause for homicide.
It was a big news story.
It ran all through the day Thursday.
Then when she goes out on Friday with her press conference and claims that the ME declared the case a homicide, everybody was shocked.
Now, I know leaks can be purposely wrong and erroneous to throw people off.
But people now, because of this, the cops, the internal police investigation shows so much at variance with what Mosby's investigation, she did her own.
She didn't rely on traditional investigative units in the police department.
What does that say?
But it's at such variance that everybody's wondering now about its credibility.
And I'm telling you, there are people now worried, sick, that if she loses this case, that the city is going to blow up.
And by the way, another thought about that.
If that's really, if there are really legitimate fears like that, then what's to say the deck won't be stacked somehow, some way won't be tried to be stacked to find guilt on enough charges just to prevent further riots.
If such case happens, that's, of course, corruption in the police department.
But this is an absolute mess.
And this report comes from CNN in a random act of journalism.
A lot of new and shocking details buried at the end of this story.
Like the medical examiner was pressured to come up with a homicide determination since he had previously indicated that it would not be ruled a homicide.
Then she ignored the Baltimore Police Department's investigation of Gray's death and used her own investigation, which was led by a man who was demoted by the Baltimore Police Department in 2009 for his mishandling of a case.
The guy who led the investigation for her has a grudge against the department, big time.
Avon Mackle is his name.
A few months after his demotion, Mackle had a drunken run-in with the police that involved a SWAT team being sent to his house.
He was tasered.
He barricaded himself in his bedroom.
The implication is he might have a slight grudge against the police department.
That's who led her investigation.
Here is Joe in Frederick, Maryland.
Thank you for waiting, sir.
Great to have you here on the program.
Hi.
Thank you, sir.
It's an honor to speak here, Rush.
Appreciate it.
Hey, I wanted to make two comments, one hypothetical.
Could you imagine Barbara Bush being invited to a ceremony when she was first lady at the Apollo theater?
No, not even if she had a legitimate grievance.
I can't imagine her taking that occasion to deal with it.
No.
I know.
That's what gets me.
I mean, can you imagine growing up a white girl in South Texas?
I never thought that I'd ever make it to the Apollo.
It's ridiculous.
It wouldn't happen.
I know.
That's a good point.
But it just shows how insensitive you are.
Well, the other point I wanted to make was you mentioned something about Sonia Sodomeyer.
There's one thing that I was amazed and was never brought up was that, do you remember Chuck Schumer was championing for her?
I'd say, oh, she was a poor Puerto Rican girl, grew up in the South, grew up in the Bronx and blah, blah, blah, you know, immigrant parents.
Well, she actually grew up in Co-op City.
And Co-op City, if a lot of people will do the history on it, will be a little bit more.
Unfortunately, I've got to, I should have told you I only had a minute because that's all I have.
We'll have to leave everybody hanging at Co-op City, and we'll pick that up tomorrow.
I don't know what that is.
You know what, Co-op another sad moment, folks.
Tears of sadness.
The end of the program for today actually doesn't end.
We just have to take a timeout of 21 hours.
And we will see you back here tomorrow for Open Line Friday.
We'll look forward to it.
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