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May 14, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 14, 2015, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Somebody asked me this morning, it was Mr. Snerdley.
Mr. Snerdley came in today and said, Does it ever get boring?
And I said, What are you talking about?
Everything you mentioned, everything you predict when it comes to the Democrats comes true.
I said, What are you talking about?
This Amtrak stuff, everything you told us yesterday, the Democrats are doing infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure, no matter what else.
No, it never gets boring.
You know, I used to ask professional golfers that did it ever get boring hitting it straight every time.
They said, Never.
Does it ever get boring the ball going where you want it to go?
Never.
I said, Really?
I would never know on the golf course, but I know about this.
And folks, it never gets boring being able to predict.
It gets frustrating that it always works.
You know, the Democrats, well, look, by the way, great to have you, Rushland Baugh 800-282-2882.
So we have a tragedy.
We have a down-to-earth tragedy.
We have a train derailing.
We've got people dead.
We've got hundreds of people injured.
And the first thing the Democrat Party sees is an opportunity.
They want you to see or want you to think that they are the ones that see tragedy and they have the compassion necessary to deal with it.
They don't see the tragedy.
They see the opportunity.
It's the Republicans that see the tragedy and get caught flat-footed dealing with it that way.
It's amazing.
Within minutes of this train derailment, you just knew the word infrastructure was going to be bandied about all over the place.
And it was.
And the word infrastructure was halfway around the world before anybody found out that infrastructure had nothing to do with this.
That it was a driver, an engineer, who now says he doesn't remember, who was doing twice the choo-choo train speed limit at the turn.
And so now it's infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure, and the low-information voters.
What do they end up knowing?
Well, to find out, you got to go to Yahoo News, turn on CNN, or whatever it is, Facebook, wherever they get their news, and they're going to once again hear that a terrible accident happened because the Republicans are chintzy, the Republicans are cheap, the Republicans don't care about people.
So, no, it doesn't get boring being able to predict it, but it gets frustrating that the Democrats get away with this all the time.
All of this based on, did you hear about Stephanopoulos today?
Have you heard about this?
George Stephanopoulos, it has been discovered, and he has apologized for not telling us, that he has donated $50,000 to the Clinton Crime Family Foundation over the years.
Now, see, Snerdley's in there shaking this.
So what?
Not surprising.
That's the point, right?
Not a surprise.
He never left the Clinton crime family.
Is the point?
He's not a journalist.
He's not an anchor man.
He's a political hack.
All he did was change his location.
But you see, the thing is, once again, there's a whole generation of millennials.
They don't know Stephanopoulos had anything to do with the Clintons in the 90s.
They don't know that Stephanopoulos was half of the war room with Serpent Head.
They don't know anything about anything.
All they know of Stephanopoulos is that he's the guy that tripped up Mitt Romney on contraception and got that whole stupid war on women thing going.
So now he's been caught donating 50 grand to the Clinton Crime Family Foundation.
And the reaction that Snurdley has is the right one.
So what?
He's never left the Clinton family.
He's always been part of it.
He's a Democrat Party hack.
He's a Clinton hack.
And he got hired at ABC's cover for it.
And everybody's running around now as predictable.
Did you see what Stephanopoulos did?
Oh my God, what a conflict of interest.
Conflict.
How can you be a conflict of interest when there is no conflict?
The only thing is he didn't tell anybody.
He's out of politics.
You know what?
I am sorry.
I failed to disclose that I'm actually still a Clinton operative when I was reporting on the above board and totally clean Clinton Foundation.
He's not sorry for anything.
The real question is, how many other reporters have donated to the Clinton Crime Family Foundation?
That's what I want to know.
I don't think it stops with Stephanopoulos.
You think he's the only one of these guys giving that foundation?
Every damn one of these people, the Clintons have let it be known.
If you want them, you have to buy them.
If you want access, you have to pay for it.
You want to interview them?
You have to pay, except for NBC because they hired Chelsea.
So Chelsea's hiring was the equivalent of a donation to the Clinton Crime Family Foundation.
So what other reporters have given money to this pair?
What other reporters and news people and who knows who else have donated to the Clinton Crime Family Foundation?
That, to me, is the big question.
And I don't know that we're ever going to get an answer.
Wouldn't it be funny if a New England Patriots have.
Just kidding.
Just kidding.
I just had a little heads-up.
I just got a little bit of a peek at what the some of the I'm dancing around this because I don't know how to characterize it.
The Patriots have until Brady has until 5 o'clock today or maybe midnight tonight to respond and to announce he's going to appeal.
And the Patriots have responded to the Ted Wells report, and it's pretty weak.
You know, they called the guy that was letting the air out of the footballs.
He had a nickname, the deflator.
The Patriots are saying, no, no, no.
And they're serious.
The Patriots are saying, no, no, he lost a lot of weight.
That's why he was called the deflator.
Come on.
There's never been a person in the world that lost a lot of weight that anybody ever called him the deflator.
They also say, okay, so there's what?
A minute and 40 seconds when he leaves the officials' locker room with the footballs.
He goes to the bathroom.
He stops and then he heads to the field.
And everybody's wondering what went on in the bathroom.
And a minute and 40 seconds, did you ever stop to think that maybe he was using the bathroom?
And that's it.
That's their response to that.
I don't know, folks.
I don't know.
And the Brady team's lawyering up with some pretty powerful people.
And some of the tweets that are out there in response to the report from the Brady in New England.
I mean, the media is smirking at him, especially the deflator line.
Are you kidding me?
The guy gets called a deflator because he lost.
By the way, the latest pictures of the guy, he hasn't lost any weight.
It doesn't look like to me.
So I don't know what the deflator looked like before he started deflating.
Anyway, ladies and gentlemen.
So here we have Amtrak not underfunded.
There aren't any budget cuts ever.
It's the same old, same old.
It's the same old story.
It's the same old tactic.
It's the same pattern repeated time and time and time again.
And the low information conclusion, once again, is that the Republicans are cheapskates.
They're chintzy.
They only care about the rich.
They don't care about the poor.
They don't care about the middle class.
And they don't care if people die.
Now, the Republicans did push back on the floor of the House.
And they had some serious arguments that took place on that.
We have the audio sound bites to back all of this up.
Oh, by the way, did you know, did you know?
And I'm not saying there's any big deal about this, mind you.
Did you know that the did you know that the engineer, the Amtrak engineer, was a same-sex marriage advocate?
You didn't know that?
Well, I'm not making a big deal of it.
I mean, that's not my point to say that the Amtrak engineer was an advocate for gay marriage.
I'm not trying to make a big deal out of that.
If he was a Tea Party supporter, can you imagine that would be the reason for everything?
Tea Party supporter, you know what they would say?
Well, it all makes sense now.
He was reading blogs or he was reading something, the latest Tea Party literature.
He was all excited about taking it to Obama and embarrassing the Democrats.
He took his eyes off the tracks.
But gay marriage activist, what could he have been doing instead of watching the tracks?
I mean, if we're going to play this the way the media, look at it if the guy were a Tea Party activist, you know, but that's all you would know about him.
Right?
Can we agree on this?
If he was a Tea Party activist, if he listened to talk radio, that's all we would know about the guy.
And it would be the reason why he was guilty.
And it might even overcome the idea that there wasn't enough spending on infrastructure.
But he wasn't Tea Party.
He wasn't a radio talk show fan.
He was and is a supporter of gay marriage.
So if we played the game the way they do, what would we speculate the engineer was doing instead of watching the tracks as an advocate for gay marriage?
Same-sex marriage.
What would you think he might be doing?
Hmm?
Entertaining himself.
How?
Specifically, sir, what are you referring to when you say by the way, you want to hear frustrating?
I got an email today from a guy in the Rush 24-7 email inbox who said, you know what, Rush?
You're getting boring.
I'm not hearing any opinions anymore.
All I'm hearing you read news reports.
Anybody can do that.
I haven't heard any opinions.
I'm not hearing any jokes.
I'm not hearing any satire.
What's going on?
Gee, whiz.
Now, you imagine me reading that email, somebody complaining there aren't enough opinions on this program from me.
You know, it's a good thing, folks.
I have a strong, strong constitution spine and am well adjusted.
Otherwise, I would be in a looney bin.
I mean, that I'm not hearing enough opinions from you, Rush.
You're going soft on us out there.
You're getting boring.
I actually think it's a seminar emailer.
Those people like to try to play psychological games.
Let's see.
Oh, have you seen Marco Rubio?
Marco Rubio is lighting it up.
And there are two things that have happened here.
The first thing that happened is that Larry Ellison of Oracle, worth something like $57 billion, Is throwing a huge fundraiser for Rubio out in California where he lives.
I was telling you about Ellison the other day.
He has about 35 or 40 houses.
That's where he parks his wealth.
He buys real estate.
And he keeps on and not cheaply.
I mean, he buys massive estates.
He owns whole islands.
Wealthy people have all kinds of different strategeries as to what to do with their money.
And part of his strategy is real estate all over the world, yachts and this kind of stuff.
I came to find out that Ellison was a big donor and supporter for Romney.
So it's not a shock.
It is to people that didn't know.
Silicon Valley, left coast, assumed to be all in for the Democrats.
But Larry Ellison going public, rather than a quiet donor and a quiet fundraiser, going public with it, I mean, it shook things up on the Republican side.
And then Rubio shows up at the Council on Foreign Relations and literally ran rings around everybody, including Jeb Bush.
I read that Jeb Bush's speech and performance, a QA at the Council on Foreign Relations was not inspiring, that it appeared unprepared, a little halting and unsure of himself.
Whereas Rubio was conversant on anything that was brought up.
He was able to answer any question that anybody asked him.
His speech was all inclusive.
And in fact, he even corrected Charlie Rose a couple of times, who had incorrect information in a question that he was asked and did it with style and class and aplomb.
But the question that is said to have set Rubio apart is based on a question and answer that Jeb got a day or two earlier.
Knowing what you know now, they asked Jeb, would you still invade Iraq?
And Jeb said, yes, I would.
Now, everybody should know that what Jeb was doing there was brotherly loyalty, family and brotherly loyalty.
The one thing that the Bushes are, they're tight.
They are a very tight family, and loyalty is the coin of the realm to them.
And I say that in a non-critical way.
I'm just trying to be informative.
And Jeb is not going to throw his brother under the bus at the Council on Foreign Relations.
But it still was not what people think and consider to be an informed presidential answer, because, of course, the popular consensus is that the reason we went to Iraq turned out to be non-existent.
There were no weapons of mass destruction.
I know, I know, I know.
There have been some found.
I'm just telling you that the conventional wisdom is that the reason we went turned out to be baseless.
And on that reason alone, that basis alone, you can answer, no, I wouldn't go, knowing what we know now.
Well, that's what Rubio said.
Rubio said, knowing what we know now, not only would I not invade Iraq, President Bush wouldn't either if he knew then what he knows now.
And everybody was just, yeah, man, right answer.
It was really impressive is the bottom line.
And not just, you know, the Council on Foreign Relations crowd, I mean, it's made up of all kinds of people.
It's made up of little despots that want to take over the world.
It's made up of journalists.
It's made up of scholars, corporate people.
I mean, it's a mix of all kinds of people.
And they all think they're powerful.
Many of them are wealthy.
And they do think that they have influence over policy matters.
It's an arm of the Trilateral Commission and so forth.
And I'm not going to get into the conspiracy angles of it, but they are who they are.
And the important thing is that they think they're important.
They think they matter.
They think.
I mean, their egos are huge.
And Rubio impressed them.
Rubio went in there and he did it in a very upbeat way.
It was a stunning thing for a lot of people who think Rubio is too young, too inexperienced.
And it was a massive, massive statement and massive move for Rubio this week.
And it's not alone.
That's not just the only thing that Rubio has done that has begun to put some distance between himself and others in the field.
That's still early.
And it is why there aren't really any momentous things happening right now.
There are of the moment, but in terms of anything happening today that's going to sew up the nomination for somebody, very unlikely.
And this was also not one of those things.
Now, back to the Amtrak derailment here.
Because I have some audio soundbites on this that I want you to hear.
But let me go through some things here.
Because the first thing that happens, very, look at the New York Times headline.
One day after Wreck, increased funding for Amtrak fails in a House panel.
You can't have any more purposeful bias in a news story and headline than that.
One day after Wreck, increased funding for Amtrak fails in a House panel.
So idiots that read the New York Times are supposed to conclude that the derailment happened because the Republicans are cheap and don't care about people and don't like trains.
That's right.
The Republicans don't like trains.
You know why?
Because trains are big in Europe.
And the Democrats love Europe.
And leftists love Europe.
And that means leftists love trains.
And Republicans hate Europe.
And Republicans hate leftists.
And Republicans hate socialists.
And socialists love trains.
So Republicans hate trains.
I mean, that's how it goes.
That's the line of thought.
That is the message for your average Democrat Party base voter and low-information voter.
But let's review, shall we?
Let's plug some reality into all this.
The over $800 billion stimulus bill back in 2009 was an infrastructure bill.
So we were told, repair roads, bridges, schools, and all that.
Turns out to be as big a lie as Obamacare.
The stimulus bill wasn't about infrastructure any more than Obamacare is about affordable health insurance.
Both the stimulus bill and Obamacare are executive fraud, pure and simple.
More money has been misdirected and misspent in Obamacare and the stimulus bill than we can comprehend.
But the point is, you can never fully fund fraud.
You can never satisfy con men.
And fraud is what we have been subjected to all too often from our government.
Way too much, way too often.
And you cannot fully fund it.
Fraud is never ever totally paid for.
Hey, Snerdley, you think Stephanopoulos will be suspended like Brian Williams was?
Snarly says, no, he'll get a raise.
He won't be suspended.
They didn't do anything wrong, folks, as long as he's now disclosed.
The fact of the matter is, everybody in ABC knows that he's still a Clinton hack.
He was hired for that reason.
Now, some of you may not believe that.
You may think that there's still a line between journalism and politicians, the president.
That's gone.
It's totally gone.
Stephanopoulos had never been on TV, folks.
He didn't start anywhere and work up from small market to media market to big market.
His only experience being on TV, he never hosted, he was a guest.
He had never run a television program.
He had never hosted a TV program.
He'd never done anything like it.
And he went from Clinton hack, from Clinton war room defender and hack and campaign strategist right to Good Morning America.
There's only one reason that happens, and that's ABC's buying access to the Clintons.
Now, they may have some studies that women like the way Stephanopoulos looks, and in a morning show, that's what you want.
Whip, yip, yip, yip, yip, yahoo, but that's a secondary reason.
He wasn't even a journalist.
He didn't even a journalism pedigree.
He's a political strategist, a campaign consultant.
He was hired as such.
So the fact that Stephanopoulos is caught now having donated 50 grand to the Clinton Crime Family Foundation, I guarantee you, not only is it not a surprise, it's not a problem.
ABC will make you think that it's a problem if, you know, they'll run the numbers and think that some audience members might think it's a problem.
So they'll act duly apologetic.
And Stephanopoulos will assume for a couple of days a posture of mild embarrassment.
Not that he had done it, but that he failed to disclose.
And he'll beat himself up for failing to be upfront and totally candid with the audience.
And he'll say something like, I apologize if anybody was offended or bothered.
This is not who I am.
And I don't intend to ever keep something like this from you again.
The next time I send $50,000 to the Clintons, I will tell you.
And the idea that he might be suspended like Brian Williams, don't, don't, don't get, that ain't going to happen.
But I want to finish my train of thought on all of this fraud that is occurring to the American people.
It didn't start with Obama, and I don't want anybody to think that that's what I believe.
Fraud at the highest levels of the U.S. government has been going on for a while.
It'd be hard actually to peg when it began.
It would be hard for it not to have.
I mean, Washington is where every dollar in this country goes to then be dispersed.
There's a reason so many people want to live in Washington.
If you want money, that's where it is.
That's where it's allocated.
That's where it's taxed.
That's where it's collected.
That's where it's banked.
That's where it is spent.
So it's just obvious that people would go there.
When there's a big pile of money around and all you have to do is just maybe reach your fist out and grab some of it.
It's very tempting.
But the degree and the level of fraud and deceit in the past six and a half years is so bad and so deep that it's the reason we have the Tea Party.
The degree of fraud, the irresponsible spending of money that we don't have, has millions of Americans legitimately concerned for the future of the country, particularly in terms of economic opportunity for their kids and grandkids.
Because people instinctively know.
So here comes Obama in 2009, his first couple of months in office, loving the fact that the economy is in bad shape.
Blame it on Bush, blame it on Iraq, just continue that theme, and say, you know what, I'm going to come out here.
I'm going to step on the gas.
And I'm going to get this economy kicking again.
I'm going to get it churning.
We're going to speed back that recovery.
I want $800 billion to stimulate this economy.
And the low information currently, yay, new president can do anything he wants.
They love him.
Whatever they want him to be is who he is.
So they're going to, the economy's jump-started and he adds to it by telling and promising people are going to rebuild all these roads and bridges and schools.
And it's just, it's going to be utopia, man.
It's going to be so cool.
Finally, somebody knows what to do.
Nobody stops to think that there is no way to pump $800 billion of found money that's not already being used into the economy because we're already at that point $12 trillion in debt.
Where do you get the $800 billion that you're going to pump into the economy, for example?
It's not as though there's $800 billion laying around that isn't being used.
It's not as though there's $800 billion or a trillion or $500 million or a quarter.
There's not that money laying around idle.
That you can just take it and put it in a syringe and inject it into the economy and massively grow it.
It's not how it happens.
Where does the government get the money?
They have to take it in the form of taxes or borrowing.
They take the money from the economy that they're going to stimulate.
It simply was mathematically, economically impossible to stimulate the federal economy the way they did it.
The way they did it was to take $800 million out of it and then put it back in.
But it was worse than that because their money didn't go to infrastructure.
It didn't go to roads and bridges and schools and all that.
It went to union employees so that they would not lose their jobs, so that their dues would continue to be paid and circuitously end up back in campaign coffers of Democrats.
It was total fraud, just like Obamacare.
The stimulus bill was not about infrastructure anymore than Obamacare is about affordable health insurance.
And as I said before the break, you cannot fully fund fraud.
You can never satisfy conmen.
Look, the Democrats, when Elizabeth Warren said this, the Democrats stood up and cheered and Obama even picked up on it.
The Democrats tell us we didn't build our businesses.
They did.
They tell us that we did not raise our families.
They did.
A village did.
You didn't achieve anything on your own.
You got nothing to brag about.
You got nothing to feel good about.
Your success wouldn't have happened without us, the Democrats.
Your kids, your kids turn out the way they are because of us, because of all of our education and our preschool and kindergarten, all that stuff.
Head start, we are raising your kids.
The village raises it.
You don't know how to do it.
Hillary wrote the book about it.
They tell us that we don't care about our kids.
That's why they have to take over.
Yet look at the crud Michelle Obama decides to feed your kids at what is called lunch in the public schools.
Her husband has tried to take away school choice from those who need it most.
So you didn't build your business.
They did.
You didn't raise your families.
No, no, the village did.
The Democrat Party, the American left, they know how.
They care more.
You're not even good at feeding your kids.
Michelle Obama had to take that over and look at it.
They tell us we don't care enough about infrastructure, but we handed them $800 billion when they assured us they were going to rebuild all these things.
Even after it was learned that the train was going twice, the speed limit didn't matter.
Infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure, Republicans cheap.
Accident because of Republicans not caring about average people.
Republicans only care about the rich.
Average people die.
Republicans don't care.
We Democrats do.
Well, who's been in charge of the, where were all of the speed reduction systems?
There's supposed to be some, but do you know the National Transportation Safety Board has given Amtrak until the end of the year to install them all?
They weren't installed yet.
At some point, there will be speed arrest devices on these tracks, but they're not there yet, not in time.
Who's running the show here?
Who's in charge of all this infrastructure spending?
Who's in charge of fixing roads, bridges, schools?
Who has been in charge of everything for the past seven years?
And yet, magically and mysteriously, it's always the Republicans' fault.
When normal people, yesterday, average ordinary, the people that make this country work, when they were mourning the dead, when they were seriously worried about the accident and the damage and the injuries, the Democrats were out celebrating a crisis while the bodies were still scattered across an accident site.
The Democrats saw the dead bodies.
They saw the injured.
They saw the mangled wreckage.
And what did they see?
They saw an opportunity to advance their agenda.
They saw an opportunity to expand government.
They saw an opportunity to once again defame conservatives and Republicans.
They misstated facts, such as dilapidated infrastructure was the cause of the derailment.
They did that to get more guilt money to launder for their political party.
But that's the MO, folks.
That's the MO of the Democrat Party.
This is how Democrats work.
Clinton Crime Family Foundation is the stimulus bill, is Obamacare.
It's a lie packaged as compassion.
Well, here's a good laugh.
Dylan Byers at the Politico has just tweeted breaking news.
I said it's a breaking tweet.
Breaking tweet.
ABC News will not take punitive action against George Stephanopoulos.
Quote, we accept his apology.
It was an honest mistake.
They think we're idiots, folks.
They think we are absolute stupid fools.
They think that we ride around on turnip trucks.
It was an honest mistake.
Of course we accept his apology.
It was an honest mistake.
What was the mistake?
What was the mistake?
The mistake was the news being discovered, not the donation.
Anyway, I've got that.
I've got this.
Should I do ABC eeny meany miny?
Okay, try this from collegefix.com.
Straight women are marginalizing other victims of sexual assault at the University of Oregon.
You know what?
I think this is time for a gay community update.
All right, folks, the news here is from College Fix.
Let it keep going, Friday.
This never ends.
Straight college women who claim they were sexually assaulted are forming their own clique that excludes everyone else.
That's according to a daily emerald story from the University of Oregon where last month's Take Back the Night event featured sexual violence estimates of non-straight communities that make the unreliable one in five statistic look quaint.
Anyway, the point is that the lesbian women on campus are upset at the straight women claiming they're assaulted because that means that the lesbian victims are being marginalized and not really cared about, my friends.
Straight women screwing it up again.
Lesbians trying to get noticed.
And Barbie comes along and hogs all the attention as usual.
I'm not making this up.
According to the 2010 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, 44% of lesbian women and 61% of bisexual women have been victims of intimate partner violence in the form of rape, physical violence, and or stalking compared to 35% of heterosexual women.
I know you say, so what's the problem?
Well, the problem is that the lesbian and bisexual women claim to be much bigger victims, and nobody talks about what happens to them because the heterosexual women are hogging all of the limelight.
Well, limelight, attention.
Whenever a heterosexual woman is abused, raped, assaulted, that gets all the news.
And nobody ever hears about what's happening to the intimate partners of lesbian and bisexual women on campus.
It's a big problem.
Okay, Jeb Bush got seminar yesterday at where was it, Reno?
This is such a teachable moment.
What happened to Jeb Bush yesterday?
So, so much to learn from this.
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