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May 11, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 11, 2015, Monday, Hour #2
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I love saying what I say, and I love hearing myself say it because I like being right, and I'm right with confidence and bravado.
And that of course is off-putting to some who think that nobody should be that sure of themselves about anything.
But rest assured, my friends, I am.
8282-2882, if you want to be on the program, Michelle Obama is on a roll.
She is playing the race card, she's doubling down on it.
And the reason I didn't start with this in the first hour, I would be real honest with you, is it depresses me.
To think of the opportunity that this couple had.
Look at the hope that was invested in them by virtue of their election.
Look at how many, well-intentioned, uh otherwise fine citizens.
Look at how many white people voted for this couple, desperately hoping that doing so would help us to get past all of this that has created this racial divide in this country.
There was, I mean, I think the essence of hope and change, I think the hope was not so much hope for the country's future economically, hope for people's personal economic success.
I think the hope was that if this country made the statement, a majority white country electing an African American president that that alone would serve a significant role, play a significant role,
and cause there to be massive progress toward eliminating or not eliminating, but reducing the racial strife in this country.
And the exact opposite has happened.
And I'm sad to remind you that I predicted that what has happened would happen.
And I did it because I understand politics.
I understand the Democrat Party and I understand liberalism.
And I knew full well that the election of Barack Obama was going to exacerbate racial tensions because, for one simple reason, the President of the United States is the most powerful man in the world.
As such, everything he does is under the microscope.
Some of it's going to be supported, some of it's going to be criticized.
It's just the way it is.
And I knew that every word of criticism would immediately be disqualified and rendered baseless and useless because it would be said to come from racism.
And therefore, no legitimate criticism of the President of the United States would be permitted, which meant that he was going to have a free reign, an open road.
There wouldn't be the normal checks and balances or vetting or anything that would reign him in.
And since I knew that he was a an extreme leftist, that did not portend good things to me.
And that's why I said that I think racial tensions are going to be exacerbated.
I also knew, I knew it, I was hoping I was wrong.
But I knew.
You know, Michelle Obama's running around the campaign saying for the first time in my country.
First time in my life, I'm proud of my country.
You listen to Reverend Wright.
You know what these people think.
You know what they have been exposed to.
You know that they have got a giant chip on their shoulder.
And she's making it plain that she always has had, and that it's getting worse after six, seven years almost in the White House, it's getting worse.
It isn't getting better.
According to her own words, this depresses me.
People with the power of the presidency and the first lady have a remarkable ability to inspire.
They have a they have a uh just uh a rare opportunity to extol virtue, to lift people up.
And the exact opposite has happened.
And that's why I didn't lead off with this, because it's just it's in the first hour, because all of this just depresses me.
Like One of the things that Michelle Obama now is claiming that she is offended by when she is referred to as Obama's baby mama.
Well, excuse me, but if you recall, I just asked Cookie to see if we have this in our archives.
I'll never forget this, folks.
2004, Obama's addressing the Democrat Convention.
This is the convention, John Kerry, who, by the way, uh served in Vietnam, retook Boston Harbor.
He and some of his Swift boat buddies got in a Swift boat mock-up, and they sailed across Boston Harbor to the convention.
But Obama gave a speech.
Might have been the keynote, I don't remember, but it it's what put him on the map.
Up until 2004, Barack Obama was not nationally known.
He was known Illinois, known Chicago.
He was known with limited uh Washington social circles.
That speech put him on the map.
What I remember though is his wife's introduction.
I've never seen one like it.
I have never seen a wife, period, political otherwise, endorse, introduce her spouse the way Michelle Obama did that night, introducing her husband Barack Obama.
She had passion, she had energy, she was upbeat.
She was uh, when I say shouting enthusiastically, I mean she was shouting.
This was not standing at the podium docile.
It was firebrand, and I mean it in a positive way.
But during that introduction, she kept referring to him as my baby's daddy.
You remember Mr. Snerdley?
My baby's daddy, my man!
My man!
The greatest man in the world!
She went on, it was like that her whole introduction.
My baby's daddy!
And then the next thing I remember about it, he came out and virtually ignored her.
And I couldn't believe if if that had been me, and if my wife had just introduced me that way, the first thing I would have done would go up and hug her and embrace her, and I would have whispered in her ear, shouted if I'd have had to to overcome the noise.
Thank you.
God thank you.
I mean, it was unlike any introduction.
He just came out and didn't even shake her hand.
He didn't quite ignore her, but he acted like, well, that's what should have happened here.
Nothing abnormal about that.
That's the way everybody treats me.
It was overwhelming, folks.
I wonder how many of you who remember watching it remember any of this.
I remember it like it was yesterday.
You had forgotten it.
My baby's daddy.
I mean, proudly.
And now she's running around upset because she's called a baby mama.
It's somehow a sign of disrespect to black women, she says.
Well, where does it come from?
Who gave us that term baby mama?
Who gave us the term baby daddy?
Where did all this stuff come from?
Hint, not Frank Sinatra.
Frank Sinatra never song sang songs about baby mamas.
The Beatles, it didn't come from the Beatles.
Didn't come from Tony Bennett, didn't come from Lady Gaga, didn't even come from Madonna.
Where did it come from, Snerdley?
You think it came from the hip hop culture?
Is that what you would think a baby mama came from the hip hop culture?
Really?
In that speech, by the way, Obama thanked Reverend Wright.
Folks, none of this was a mystery.
Everything that's happened was foretold.
It was right in front of our face.
We got it, we should those of us who cared to notice it noticed it, saw it.
But apparently most everybody else didn't want to believe what they were hearing.
When Reverend Wright spoke, this nah, that Obama can't possibly No, he only spent 20 years there.
Well, you can't possibly believe that.
He just did it for because it was too unsettling.
Nobody wanted to believe we're actually going to elect somebody believe that stuff, but we have.
We did.
And after six years, look, I hate to keep harping on this.
Six and a half years now.
I harp on it because I think it's damned important.
The very people who thought this was going to be a transformative event in its own right, are unhappier today and angrier today than they were six and a half years ago.
You talk about an opportunity blown.
I mean, Barack Obama's going to go down in the history books, but he could have gone down to the history books.
He could Barack Obama could have played this.
He could have wiped out the Republican Party.
He could have rendered the Republican Party unnecessary.
If he would have just been colorblind.
If he would have just sought to inspire everybody, if he would have just taken his oratorical talents and skills and passion and sought to build people up and build the country up.
And I'm not talking about lying about it.
But no, that's not what we got.
We have a president who's ashamed of this country, angry at this country, and made no bones about it, still is.
And if you listen to the first lady, she's even angrier than he is, and they're by no means anywhere near getting over it.
They haven't gotten through getting even with it yet.
These next 21 months, whatever it is, keep a sharp eye, folks.
It's depressing.
My baby's daddy, my man!
I never will forget that.
So many aspects of it.
And him coming out and acting like she wasn't even on the stage.
I it was so bad, I actually expected there to be some news about it the next day.
Is there something wrong with their marriage?
Is there some I expected something because it was a it was it was a diss.
Again, something with which about which Frank Sinatra never sang.
But it it looked to me like a not a diss.
It just like she brush up like she wasn't even there, or like she she'd done her duty, and that was that.
Okay, good job, fine, thanks.
Now I got a speech to give.
Out of here.
I've never gotten an introduction like that by anybody.
I doubt that I ever will.
It was that over the top.
And it was it it that introduction had as much to do with the perception of his speech as his speech did.
I'll give you audio sound bites.
We got some of this, some of what she is saying.
It's it's it goes beyond now this the museums do not welcome people like me.
They never have welcomed people who look like me, and they never will welcome.
And she talks about how, even now as First Lady, that she's gone places where people think she's the help.
I'm sorry, I just don't believe that.
Michelle Obama cannot show up anywhere and be confused with a housekeeper.
She's too well known, it's absurd, but she wants it to be believed.
And maybe in her mind she has been treated that way by some of these people around the world she's met.
Maybe she hasn't and just thought she would be, or maybe they didn't fawn enough, and that's why, so she's telling herself stories about what they think of her.
You know, human beings do that.
But it's just it's also really unnecessary and and unfortunate, and it's not helpful at all.
It is continuing to royal the culture rile up people who ought to have a different approach being made to them.
Just sad, folks, is what it is, in addition to everything else.
But I have to take a break.
An obscene profit timeout.
Back with more after this.
Look, I got a soundbite here of uh Michelle Obama saying what I just told you she said it.
This is also in 2004.
And it is at the Barack Obama Senate victory speech.
After he had been elected to the Senate in 2004, she went out and introduced him.
And this is uh it's about 25 seconds, but this will give you an example of that, which I was just talking about.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's my privilege to introduce to you the next United States Senator from the state of Illinois, my husband.
My honey, my man, my baby's daddy.
Barack Obama.
Yeah, and he walks out like she's not even there.
But there it is.
My husband, my honey, my man, my baby daddy.
And she's today all bent out of shape, about referred to as Obama's baby mama.
Anyway, I'm gonna get back to this.
But uh it's time to grab some phone calls because I haven't done one yet.
Almost halfway into the program.
Boynton Beach, Florida, this is Bill.
Glad you waited, sir.
You're up first today.
Hello.
I'm honored, Rush.
Thank you.
Just some quick quick points.
Uh, I think what's happening here is that Michelle Obama is positioning herself that when Hillary finally drops and dies, as far as this election campaign is concerned, then Michelle's gonna step up and say, hey, I'm a woman, I'm black, I can be the first woman black president, and uh we'll still have Obama's policy.
What a team.
What do you think?
You think that all of this is a predicate for Mrs. Clinton announcing or Mrs. Obama announcing her candidacy for president?
Well, she'll she'll wait like uh like uh like uh Barry did and and wait until uh everybody's in the in the pot, you know.
But uh when Hillary's not gonna make it, as far as I see, Hillary's not the not the Democratic uh nominator.
Wait, just a minute now.
Why isn't Hillary gonna make it?
Because Hillary just keeps stepping on herself.
Well, anytime Hillary opens her mouth, she steps on herself.
Hillary always has stepped on herself.
Well, I understand that.
But see, this is the viable alternative because we already know that Elizabeth Warren's not doing it.
Well, that's I I I know we think there's a viable alternative.
We think there is, but she has an announcing.
There's just a bunch of hubbub in the media about her, but there she hasn't announced it.
She said just the opposite, of course.
Doesn't mean that.
Well, it is May of 2015.
Uh come from November next year.
Maybe I'll give you a call back and see how I did.
All right, well, we'll prognosticator.
All right, all right.
I'll take your uh take your prediction.
Under advisement, we'll keep it off to the side over here.
I have heard rumblings that uh Muchell wants to run for the Senate.
Uh but here, look, even if you're right about that, it still does not make what she's doing now understandable.
I mean, they've got the black vote.
They don't have to do anything for that.
They don't she doesn't have to prove herself.
There's something more going on here.
I it it I understand when we get to this point in time.
There's a reason, folks, that I'm not talking about Republican presidential politics or Democrat president, because it doesn't matter right now.
I have I have learned this game.
I used to be like everybody else is doing now, reporting every poll.
Jeb up five in Iowa, Rubio down two in New Hampshire, Ben Carson up 17 in Wyoming.
Doesn't matter.
None of it matters right now.
Not a single thing in all that matters except Who's raising the most money right now?
Polls don't matter now.
The crowd, uh the field is too crowded.
There's gonna be a winnowing.
When that starts, that's when it gets interesting.
But right now, all this stuff is just drive-by media daily soap opera stuff.
And it doesn't it doesn't mean anything.
So uh looking at what Michelle Obama is doing here, to me, I'm not looking at this through the prism of presidential politics.
You might, and you're perfectly uh free and able to do so.
But I think there's something much more than that going on.
There's much more than that behind all this anger.
I mean, this is and it's not it's not good.
Um, let me uh I I would like to develop this further, and I will, except I can't do it in five seconds, and that's what I have left here in the segment.
Just sit tight.
Any questions you have based on what I've alluded to so far will be answered.
If you're patient and hang in there.
Welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Lindbaugh meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
This Chuck in Cincinnati.
Great to have you, sir.
Hello, you're Rush Cigar Smoker Ditto's to you, sir.
I was calling regarding your ESPN uh earlier about the uh folks that were athletes that uh went through the schools or the colleges, and I was a uh professor's assistant uh at one of the major universities here in Ohio as a young fellow, and uh I taught a class, two athletes and people that were not uh really qualified to be at uh university called Sports Illustrated as Literature.
And needless to say, athletes loved it because it was an easy grade, and the uh university also paid for the subscriptions for each and every member of that class.
He even had to pay for the subscription.
That's like paying for the textbook.
Yeah, well, exactly right.
And uh, of course, you know, many other anecdotal situations uh from my tenure, uh and having learned what goes on in major universities.
I opted for a uh a uh responsible career in business uh after I got out of college rather than pursuing an academic uh uh sheltered life.
And uh uh one of the other situations, uh I taught a class, and this just goes to show when people you know when they try to push people into school that are not qualified.
I taught a class uh history of Cincinnati.
And one of the individuals, of course, uh was you could tell he didn't belong in school.
And here I get this term paper that was written wonderfully, and of course, after class I could you know I I called him off.
Now wait, wait, wait, wait, hold it, hold it.
Quite was this guy an athlete?
Yes.
Okay, absolutely.
I just wanted to make sure we're talking.
I just want to make sure you haven't changed subjects on that year.
All athletes in this class except maybe one or two, but this was definitely an athlete.
And so I get this paper that was obviously well beyond his uh abilities uh from what he had turned in earlier.
And so I uh asked him to stay after class, and I congratulated him on the improvement that he had made.
But I uh saw that uh since it was only a four-page paper, I had asked him uh about this uh note that was left in parentheses.
It says, see illustration on page 43.
So I asked him, I said that was a great paper, but uh can you please show me the illustration on page 43 on your basically your four-page term paper?
And he stood there and looked at me, and he didn't even know what illustration meant.
Obviously, I had the book that he had taken it from in front of him and showed it to him, and I said, Does this look familiar to you?
But again, well, did you ever find out who wrote the pink the thing for him?
I'm uh no, well, he just copied it out of a book.
He just did total straight plagiarism.
Oh, anyway, so uh you know, needs to say when I took it to the umbudsman uh who deals with these sort of things, since he was an athlete, uh it was basically dropped, and he had to write another paper, and uh somebody else graded it.
So uh Yeah, because you had demonstrated bias and and prejudice.
So they had to get somebody in it that was not of clouded mind to be fair and impartial in judging the young student athlete's work.
Well, I appreciate that.
I've I've heard these stories over and over.
Chuck, I appreciate it.
Now, if you wonder what he's talking about.
I mentioned this kind of fast in the first hour.
Um it is where, by the way, I got the stats over the number of abortions in the black population compared to the total number of lynchings in American history.
There are more blacks aborted every week in America than have been lynched in the history of the country.
And if you care, I've got the backup for this.
I'll send it up to Coco, we'll put it at Rush Linbaugh.com.
Uh I'm sure the drive-by's are gonna have at me on this at some point.
But the it comes from a larger story about ESPN, which is what old Chuck here was calling about.
And the author of the story is Mike Adams.
He is a PhD in criminology.
And I don't, it's somewhere in, I think in North Carolina, University of North Carolina.
And he's writing about ESPN, the Enlightened Socialist Progressive Network.
And the piece actually starts this way.
Watching ESPN is painful these days.
What used to be a good sports channel is now a platform for bad pop sociology and progressive political commentary.
The commentary was in full force recently as I watched a sports commentator try to explain how the riots in Baltimore were a function of socioeconomic factors.
He had it wrong from the beginning.
The cultural disintegration that's happening in Baltimore and indeed all around the country is not due to a lack of money.
It is mainly due to a lack of education, or to put it more bluntly, willful ignorance.
And there's a reason why, and this is the thrust of the piece here.
There's a reason why you hear so many class warfare sermons from television sports casters.
And who he's talking about, I don't want to mention any names because frankly none come to mind.
But ESPN now used to have, I know you'll have noticed this.
Not that long ago, ESPN's experts in baseball, football, basketball were journalists.
For better or worse, they were journalists.
And in fact, let me give you another little tidbit.
Print journalism has hated TV journalism since TV was invented.
And the reasons are fame and money.
The people on TV are richer, they are paid more, and they obviously have much more fame than the ink-stained wretches.
The print guys also resent the TV guys because they think they're idiots.
That they're not really journalists.
They're reading things on a telepromp.
Well, this could not work.
ESPN had to find a way to build a bridge to the print guys.
So they started hiring them and made them expert analysts.
So on the one hand, you would have the ESPN sports anchors, take your pick of whoever you want to name as somebody you remember or know.
And then the expert analyst to come in and talk about anything going on in any league or in any game would be a journalist.
In addition, you have these ESPN documentaries like 30 on 30, 60 on 60, 515, whatever it is.
And all of the experts are print journalists.
And it's not because the TV guys think they're any better, it's to it's it's it's to get rid of this divide and also share some of the wealth.
It's a way of getting the ink-stained wretches, the newspaper guys, the print guys, some money so that there will be less resentment.
I mean, after all, ESPN does not want the sports writers ripping ESPN all the time.
And you might remember Howard Cosell had an ongoing, never-ending hate fest with sports writers.
He hated them.
He thought they were the dumbest walking human beings on the planet.
And he openly stated so, and as such, they hated him.
That predates ESPN.
But this television sports writer divide has been huge.
And ESPN's tried to bridge it by hiring newspaper and magazine writers to come in and be expert analysts.
But now ESPN has gotten rid of, I mean, they still have the writers, but the writers are relegated to the website for the most part.
And now the expert analysts are former players.
They're jocks.
Almost every, for example, in ESPN the other day, after the Brady report came out from Ted Wells, Ted Wells report on Brady Deflate Gate.
The big money segment on ESPN took place between two former players.
Not journalists, but players, Teddy Bruski, number 54, linebacker for the Patriots and Damian Woody, who played center and guard for the Patriots and the New York Jets, and I think one other team.
And it was an interesting bit of television.
I mean, Damian Woody said, yeah, Brady's so competitive, I can clearly think he would cheat like this.
And Bruce said, Tom Brady's a friend of mine.
A personal friend of mine.
I know Tom Brady.
Tom Brady is an honorable man with dignity.
He would never knowingly do anything like this.
And they went at it back and forth.
And the point of this piece here by good old Mike Adams is that these commentators on ESPN now are no longer journalists.
They are student athletes who were not scholastically qualified to even be in college, but they were there because they were playing a sport.
They had to go through the motion to go into class.
So they were given majors such as physical education, sociology, and his point is that the reason there is so much progressive liberal socioeconomic diatribe drivel on ESPN is because of the woeful education of all the student athletes who went on to become pros who have retired who are now working at ESPN.
You can supply the names yourself.
I mean, they're I mean, every time a name player retires, he's given a job at ESPN, and in many cases it's an analyst job, and it's prominent.
I mean, Ray Lewis, Ray Lewis has become an expert commentator in socioeconomic.
Ray Lewis has been on ESPN talking about what's going on in Baltimore.
You know what CNN went out and found you?
That Ray Lewis, right?
University of Miami, I'm sure he was Magna Cum Loud at uh at Miami.
Warren Sapp, University of this is the kind of anyway.
Look.
CNN went out the other day when this Baltimore thing first flared.
Did you see the wire?
You watch the wire.
Okay, seasons four and five.
You know the character Snoop?
You love Snoop, right?
You, folks, if you haven't seen this, you've got to get, I think, episode one, season four, where Snoop walks in to a hardware store to buy a nail gun.
It is one of the most classic scenes in television you will ever see.
You've got this, I mean, this the salesman is so white, he's wonderbred.
And you've got this murderer for one of the drug lords walking in, looking like well, I can't say thug anymore, but looks like a total, but she's a female, but she's a just a total.
Every well, the cornrows, she does.
She almost looked like a guy.
I mean, she was she you would almost until she speaks, you she could be either male or female.
And she walks in and she starts looking for these various nail guns, and this guy starts giving her the various selling points.
Well, now the DX535 here, this is excellent.
What are you, by the way, using this for?
Well, you know, man, we gotta, and here comes F-bombs and the N-word and what's going to be done with them, and they're being boarded up after they're killed, and she can't tell him that.
Uh, and he's just, as she emits the F-bombs, the N-word, he just can't believe what he's hearing.
She finally decides on which nail gun she wants.
He tells her it's 600 bucks.
She peels off money.
He's no, no, pay for it up at the casual.
No, man, no, man, you aren't in this.
You're doing far more than what and she peels off like 800 bucks and walks out with it, tells him to keep the change.
Can't believe it.
Her buddy's out there, and she tells him the story about what a dork she had to deal with.
Uh to get it's classic.
Anyway, CNN brought her on as an expert to explain what had gone wrong with Freddie Gray.
No, she was there.
Snoop was a was a featured guest.
Snoop's got her own webpage.
I I happen just as an actress.
I love Snoop.
That scene, I have that scene separated.
I actually got my iPhone while I was playing this scene on my big screen TV.
I went up there and just videotaped it so I don't have to load up the whole episode to watch that.
I've another one of those.
There's a movie out called The Gambler.
And I think it's I got these guys, Marker Donnie Wahlberg, Mark Wahlberg.
John Goodman.
Have you seen this?
Oh, I showed Snurdley.
John Goodman, Fred Flintstone, John Goodman, a comedic act, plays the meanest, most vicious-looking loan shark you have ever seen.
He's shaved head.
He doesn't even look like himself.
And this Wahlberg guy shows up and needs, he's the gambler, and he needs money to stay alive.
And the terms that Goodman sets and the facial expressions.
I was so I I rewound that scene ten times to watch it.
Just the facial expressions that Goodman was able to manifest.
And I've got that in my photos file, too.
But anyway, Snoop was on CN is an expert in Baltimore.
The whole point here is, if I can circle back to this, is that ESPN has become this home of far-left liberal sociolog uh socialism because the student athletes were only educated in left-wing sociology.
And that's the extent of their education.
Anyway, I have to take a brief time out.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Charlotte, North Carolina next.
This is uh Neil or Nell.
Looks like Neil.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Thanks for taking my call, Rush.
Hey, there's been some uh talk, even in uh liberal media about Bill Clinton uh seeming to lose his political mojo when it comes to this foundation uh issue, but I just want to say that he hasn't lost any mojo.
Uh he's he's got it.
He just he doesn't want anything to do with the Hillary campaign or Hillary uh as president.
There's not one positive aspect of Hillary becoming president or running for president that works out for Bill Clinton.
I mean, look at last week.
Everything's getting dumped on him.
The man is living the life, and now he's got to relive everything in his life.
He does not want to be in the White House.
And of that you are convinced.
Convinced, totally convinced.
So you think Bill is trying to undermine Hillary's efforts here.
I believe that Bill and Hillary have probably had their roundabout discussions about this.
Well, why is Hillary permitting him to undermine what she's doing?
What can she do?
She's going her way.
She does not like him, he does not like her, they don't want to be together.
Bill's living the good life.
This would be a disaster for Bill Clinton.
If she became president, think about it.
She would undermine his legacy.
She'd be the first female president.
Goodbye, Bill.
Uh well, I've heard other people I've advanced the theory that he doesn't want Hillary to in any way equate the stature he achieved by being elected president, and he doesn't want to be outshined by her.
I've heard this theory bandied about by people, and I've heard your theory bandied about that he really, you know, if if he gets, if she gets elected and the skirt chasing ends because there's gonna be so much more scrutiny on him, and even by her, because anything he does could have a detrimental effect uh on her presidency.
It could really undermine the skirt chasing and the traveling all over the world with pedophiles.
I've heard all that.
But on the other hand, the kind of power they are they are hungry for that power, and they are both ideologues.
I'm telling you, she is every bit the ideologue that Barack Obama is, and so is he.
I think they've always been a team with assigned roles with a long-term objective.
And what, you know, running for president isn't easy.
It is a pain in the rear.
It's arduous, and if she really didn't want to do it, she wouldn't be.
She wants it badly.
She thinks that it is owed to her.
And I think a part of him relishes the power that would once again uh, in this case, descend to him.
I don't think he looks at it at all as constraining, but we will see.
Hey, look now, folks, the the answers to all the questions about the Clintons and what their real intentions are, like Bill, does he really want Hillary to all the answers to all those questions are found at the Clinton Crime Family Foundation, which wouldn't exist if Hillary weren't running.
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