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May 29, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 29, 2015, Friday, Hour #2
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Greetings, welcome back.
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It should be me, documented to be almost always right 99.7% of the time.
Great to have you here on Friday, folks.
So let us just keep going.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's Open Line Friday.
Open Line Friday.
Callers get to choose what we talk about.
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Yeah, I'm just going through the Hillary stack here.
Here it is.
This is what I'm looking for.
By the way, speaking, have you seen any of the stories that are out there on Google had their developers conference yesterday?
And one of the things they showed was the latest tech that they have on virtual reality.
And a number of companies are working on this.
And apparently, virtual reality is getting closer and closer.
If it were to hit the market today, it would be cost-prohibitive.
It's still at that stage where only the rich could afford it.
And then the rich buy it, which would enable mass production, which would then bring the price down.
But they're still not quite ready for this.
You know, Oculus is a company that deals in this.
But I've been thinking about this virtual reality business for quite a while.
And those of you who've listened to me over the years know that I have a tendency to see all sides of everything, not just the highly touted upside aspect of things.
And I think about virtual reality.
And virtual reality is exactly what it is.
It's virtual.
It can take you places and make you think you are somewhere you are not.
And on the surface, wow, that just seems cool as it can be.
Just put on this little headset here and these 3D glasses or whatever the tech requirements are.
And then tell the machine where you want to go and you're transformed there.
You don't move a muscle.
You don't move an inch, but you feel and it looks exactly like you're there.
And for people who want to escape reality, I'm not so sure it's all cracked up to be.
But again, I don't want to be the old doddering uncle in the basement poo-pooing every advancement either.
Got to be very, very careful because I'm one of the biggest high-tech advanced guys you'll ever run into.
I love it.
But, well, there's a story on Drudge right now about this.
And the piece, it's a long piece.
I don't know how many of you have read it.
I would not endeavor to read the whole thing to you.
And my comment here might be overly personal to me, but I do have a long-term worry about this.
And that is that a virtual world is by definition going to be awesome.
I mean, nobody is going to create a virtual reality to send you to a slum.
I mean, you might be able to go there just to see what it's like for people who live in them, but you're not going to spend any time there.
People are going to use virtual reality for other things.
And I think here's what it comes down to as a possibility.
And I'm not trying to see a problem where one doesn't exist.
I'm not quite fully decided on all this.
But by definition, virtual reality, a virtual world is going to end up being far more interesting to people than their real world.
And I think we already have, you know, a whole slew of people fantasizing constantly, living in fantasies.
And I'm, no, sexual fantasy like Bernie Sanders.
I'm just talking about escapist fantasies.
Let me put it this way.
I think one of, you know, I'm the mayor of Rielville.
I believe in what's real.
I believe in knowing it, understanding it, accepting it, and changing it on the basis of deeply, really understanding it.
And the whole idea of escaping reality is problematic to me.
I don't want to make more of this than it is.
I mean, I'm not even sure I'm ready to fully divulge my thinking on this, but because I may not be completely fully formed on all of it.
I've got to be very careful.
I'm not trying to see a problem where one doesn't exist.
So, but I just wanted to alert you to it that I'm on the case, that I'm aware of it, studying it, sensitive to it.
And it is going to be one when it hits, there's going to be no stopping it.
So it's not about that.
You can't stop that kind of tech progress.
But it is about maintaining a proper perspective with it.
It's going to have applications and uses far beyond, like everything in technology, far beyond what the original designers foresee.
I'll guarantee you, the people that designed the first iPhone had no idea it would become what it is today.
And I'm not saying that's bad, don't misunderstand.
I'm just saying things take on a life of their own, and not even designers can tell you where they're going and how they're going to be used.
So maybe at a different time today or later on down the road, we'll get into this in more detail.
In the meantime, there's a little story here at PJ Media.
He says, I just thought I'd contribute a detail to the latest news about Bill Clinton's, the Clinton's Byzantine financial arrangements, specifically the limited liability company Bill Clinton used to channel his consulting profits.
This is something we learned yesterday.
He's got a Shell Corporation, a pass-through, and it was using that to hide money.
He was using that to shelter money that he was starting a consulting business.
In addition, everything else, the Crime Family Foundation, the Clinton Library Massage Parlor, the Charitable Foundation, all these things.
He then added a consultancy business to it, and the payments were funneled through the Shell Corporation.
The original AP story said, and the name of the Shell Corporation is WJC LLC, William Jefferson Clinton LLC.
It was formed in Delaware in 2008, but it's more interesting when you find out the specific date.
So PJ Media researched this.
They researched the database of the Delaware Department of State's Division of Corporations.
And there's only one listing for WJC LLC.
So that's Clinton's.
And according to the information on file, WJC LLC, the Clinton Shell Corporation pass-through, was formed on December 3rd, 2008.
So you're saying, okay, big deal, big whoop.
Well, no.
Because Obama confirmed Hillary as his choice for Secretary of State just two days prior.
Obama names her Secretary of State December 1st, 2008.
Two days later, Clinton forms his Shell Corporation, his past-through corporation, to accept payments for his new consultancy group.
The point of this is, is that everything this couple has done, every dime they've raised, well, the vast majority, every dime they've raised has been on the come.
It has been bribes.
It has been payoffs for what people donating expect to get in return.
Hillary Secretary of State, maybe Hillary the next president, Bill the former president, they're giving money to people powerful enough to be able to make what these people want to happen happen.
And here Clinton sets up the Shell Corporation to facilitate these people that want to donate all of this money to his consultancy group or hire him to consult them.
And of course, as they point out here in PJ Media, nobody's drawing any conclusions here.
Just simply note that this is a pattern in the ongoing Clinton controversy.
For instance, the domain name for the Clintonemail.com, Hillary's private email system, that domain name was registered on January 13, 2009, eight days before Hillary was confirmed as Secretary of State.
So in about a one-month period, the Clintons established numerous and massive secret private ways to collect money from people who wanted things done by a Secretary of State and a potential future president and a former president.
And just the appearance of this makes it look like this was the express reason why these things were set up.
Our buddies at Campus Reform have uncovered some truths about Arizona State University, which has almost doubled its tuition over the past 10 years amid claims that they just need more money.
They need more state money.
Arizona State has been in trouble, but they somehow had the money to give half a million dollars to the Clinton Foundation.
According to the Arizona Republic, the public university paid $500 large to the Clinton Foundation to host the former president, former Secretary of State, and their daughter, Bill Hillary in Chelsea, during a Clinton Global Initiative University event in 2014.
So they've got the Bill Hillary and Clinton Foundation and as subsidiary is the Clinton Global Initiative.
And over here, you've got Arizona State, which is crying the blues about being out of money.
They don't have any money.
State-funded, and they're running low on money.
So they call the Clinton Crime Family Foundation.
Hey, you've got this Clinton Global Initiative thing, right?
Yeah, we sure do.
What can we do for you?
Well, we'd like you to have a session of it here.
Oh, really?
You want us to come out and do a, you mean like we do in New York every year with the UNC?
Exactly right.
Well, you know, it's going to cost you.
It is?
I thought you were a charity.
Oh, yeah, we are, but you pay it.
Well, what are you talking about?
We need some help.
We need you to come out here and do one of your three-day Clinton Global Initiative things, and it'll attract people, and we can charge admission.
It'd be a great thing, university setting.
Well, I agree with all that, but you're going to pay me to do it.
And they did.
Arizona State, amid finance problems, paid the Clintons half a million dollars just last year to come out and do a three-day Clinton Global Initiative event.
Mark Johnson, an ASU spokesman, told the Republic, the Arizona Republic newspaper, the university was a payment for the event, not a contribution to the Clintons.
Right.
See, that's the fine line.
Oh, no, we weren't paying for the event.
We were donating to the Clinton charity.
But wait a minute, wasn't the idea?
Here's you got the Clinton Global Initiative, and you want them on campus to do a three-day seminar discussion of whatever it is they do because you want to attract eggheads and you want to up the reputation of the university and you want to make it look like all kinds of highbrow stuff goes on.
So you want the Clinton Global Initiative to come on and they're charging it.
No, they didn't charge us any.
We donated to them.
Oh, okay.
It was in March in 2014.
ASU, get this now.
Arizona State University played host to the Clinton Global Initiative in March 2014.
They played host and still had to pay them.
It featured Clinton and Hillary in a program aimed at bringing together college students to find practical, innovative solutions to global challenges.
So you know what this was?
It was just a bunch of BS.
It was a stage event, and you got Clinton, you got a backdrop.
This is Clinton Global Initiative, probably the Arizona State logo or icon.
And it's a bunch of people sitting up there just talking about aimless stuff, just intellectual speak.
Yeah, you know what?
I think what really need the great work college students can do here is to join us in our worldwide efforts to stop spread of AIDS.
Oh, yeah.
And then they go on and talk.
And that's all that happens, just a bunch of talk.
Nothing happens, but when it's all over, everybody thinks they've changed the world.
And the Clintons leave town with 500 grand.
Arizona Republic also reported while the university has lobbied the State Department, university officials claim the lobbying occurred after Hillary stepped down.
The Clinton Global Initiative U website boasts more than 1,100 students attended the event to raise $60,000 and participate in a day of action in the community.
See, it's exactly, it's just meaningless stuff.
It's feel-good stuff.
So they paid the Clinton Global Initiative half a million dollars to show up and raised $60,000.
The Clintons come to town, leave town half a million dollars richer.
And Arizona State is ecstatic because they raised $60,000 in, what, I don't know, whatever, it was tickets or this.
Now, the other thing I mentioned in the first hour, and in no less than the New York Times, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, what an anniversary to commemorate.
Who are these people?
You know, commemorate the 10th anniversary of something as destructive as the tsunami, but they did it.
To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, Petra Nemkova, a Czech model who survived the disaster by clinging to a palm tree, decided to pull out all the stops for the annual fundraiser of her school building charity, the Happy Hearts Fund.
So she, but she's looking, you can't blame her.
I mean, she survived it, and she feels it's divine presence that helped her survive this was horrific and horrible.
And she's of the mind.
She wants to give back.
We heard that all the time.
She wants to do something to acknowledge her good fortune.
So she set up this charity called the Happy Hearts Fund.
And the 10th anniversary was going to be a big blowout fundraiser.
So she booked Cipriani 42nd Street, Manhattan.
And she greeted the guests there with Bellini cocktails on silver trays.
She flew in Cheryl Crowe and her band and her crew for a 20-minute set.
She special ordered heart-shaped floral centerpieces, heart-shaped chocolate parfaits, heart-shaped tiramisu.
And because orange is her charity's color, they had an orange carpet rather than a red carpet outside where all the celebrities and attendees could walk as they arrived in.
She imported a Swiss auctioneer.
She handed out orange rulers to serve as auction paddles, playfully threatening to use hers to spank the highest bidder for an exotic vacation.
And I have to take a break.
I just noticed the clock don't go away.
Hey, cookie, cookie, cookie, you got to get me something.
The FIFA, the FIFA president, Sepp Blatter, was just re-elected as the president of FIFA.
And give me like the last couple of minutes of his acceptance, maybe three, where he's, you can think good, or maybe if you like Allah, you can take Allah, whatever you're going.
I promise you, we will have a FIFA that when my next tournament is completed, kids will be in a strong position.
Anyway, it was hilarious.
And then when it's over, Wolf Blitzer goes to the reporter.
They've got a, he says, does this guy not get it?
Does this guy not know the organization he runs is under indictment?
If the guy that doesn't get it is Blitzer, these guys don't have any idea what's really gone on.
They just, it's since the Obama Justice Department has proclaimed these FIFA guys to be bad guys, then that's all Wolf needs to know.
They're all bad guys.
And Wolf expects them all to come out and commit suicide in public to make amends.
And this guy came out and didn't commit suicide, didn't admit guilt, didn't say anything except we're kicking butt here at FIFA and we're going to keep kicking butt at FIFA and screw any of you who don't think it or like it.
And Wolf can't believe the guy didn't turn himself in and ask to be killed.
This is just struck me as funny.
So we'll get it because I'm sure we were rolling on it.
We'll have it for you in a moment.
Anyway, back to this petronym COVID charity minute, Cipriani Danna Walsh.
The point of this all is after spending all this money at Cheryl Crowe and all this money on parfaits and stuff, she gave a lifetime achievement award to Bill Clinton for all the great work he's done in Haiti and tsunamis and all that.
He charged her half a million dollars at her 10th anniversary fundraiser for tsunami relief.
He charged her half a million.
She paid it happily.
No, no, no, no.
My point is: here's a woman, a model, who barely escaped the tsunami alive.
She is very thankful and is seeking to raise money for people victimized by it, people whose lives were wiped out.
Everything they had was wiped out in the tsunami.
She has made it a cause of hers to help raise money to restore them.
And Bill Clinton was an official UN envoy, by the way, to the tsunami relief.
And Bill Clinton was an official UN envoy to Haiti.
And in both instances, he used both occasions to get filthy rich.
He used both of these opportunities to extort or make somehow big money out of disaster relief.
To me, that's always stuff that you've done as a volunteer, the goodness of your heart.
So here's this model, Petra Nemkova, who obviously, like everybody else in that business, thinks Bill Clinton is the end of everything.
This is the greatest guy that ever lived.
It's the biggest deal to have him at your party.
And to get him there, you offer him a lifetime achievement award for all the great work he's done to help all the people around the world who are suffering from tsunamis or poverty or hurricanes or earthquakes or whatever.
And the guy has the audacity to charge her half a million dollars.
I guarantee you she didn't raise that much during this night with all the expenses she had.
And furthermore, he has to be given a lifetime achievement award just to show up and then charges her 500 grand and she paid it and he took it.
My point about this is that's the kind of thing I always thought people did out of the goodness of their hearts.
I always thought that was something you did because your conscience dictated you do it.
Character.
You know, the things you do when nobody's looking.
Do you do the right thing when nobody's looking?
That's character.
And this just seems so beneath dignity.
I mean, even something like this, the Clintons see as an opportunity to skim money off the top.
And in the midst of this, Clinton and his wife continue to be regaled as some of the greatest, most compassionate people, doing more for the poor and downtrodden around the world than anybody in the world.
And what they're doing is getting rich off the misery and suffering of others, which, by the way, is exactly what they accuse us of doing.
And the Koch brothers and whoever else happened to be their enemy of the day.
And yet, look at what they are doing.
A former president, and it's the New York Times that disgustedly exposed this, by the way.
Former president, United States agreed to accept a lifetime achievement award at the June 2014 event after Ms. Nemkova offered a half a million dollar contribution to the Bill Hillary and Chelsea Foundation.
Hell's Bell, she's raising money for her own.
And to get him to show up, she had to give a competing charity half a million bucks.
The donation made late last year after the foundation sent the charity an invoice.
They actually invoiced her.
They freaking invoiced her.
It amounted to almost a quarter of the evening's net proceeds.
Clinton ate up nearly a fourth of what this poor woman's charity generated.
And as it's pointed out here, that half million dollars would be enough to build 10 kindergartens in Indonesia.
And what do we always hear?
Clintons from that, well, we believe in education and job training programs and infrastructure, rebuilding roads and bridges and schools and so forth.
Oh, yeah, we're big on that.
Big on that.
Yeah.
A bunch of frauds, folks.
They're just a bunch of in-public frauds.
And while committing this fraud, they get accolades as great examples of great humanity.
When it's just absolute BS.
Okay, back to the phones.
Open Line Friday.
Here is Jan and Billings, Montana.
I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you here.
Oh, thank you.
Mega Dittos Rush.
I have new information on the $15 an hour minimum wage hike.
Oh, yes.
Yes.
The unions which have pushed for this wage hike, they now want to be exempt from it.
And this is according to the LA Times and other sources.
Yeah, you know, I had that yesterday.
It's right here in this stack the other day.
There's a lot of stuff in the stack.
No, no, no, no, no.
Don't feel bad.
I'm just, I don't want you to think that I didn't know about it and I don't care.
I do.
Oh, but it's huge because it's, in addition to the hypocrisy, the $15 an hour quest, minimum wage quest, as we pointed out, is costing Seattle so far.
11 restaurants have closed.
And there are some people that have drawn a conclusion this may be the objective.
Well, exactly, because the strategy is that businesses, rather than shut down, will let unions in, and workers, rather than lose their jobs, will join the unions.
Right.
And they already got this exemption in San Francisco and Oakland and Chicago.
That's exactly right.
They didn't ask for it in L.A.
They didn't get it in Seattle.
So what they do is they wait till the law is almost ready to pass.
And then they ask for this exemption and they argue that unions can best negotiate fair pay for their workers and no minimum is needed.
Exactly right.
That's exactly right.
They wait till the law is the law of the land.
Then they go and say, wait a minute, we don't need to be subject to it because we do collective bargaining.
We're experts and we're better equipped and best able to handle the pay scale for our members.
And thus they ask exemption from the minimum wage.
Yeah, well, it's.
But that's not all.
What happens, Jan, when you raise the minimum wage to anything, when you increase it by any amount, the unions then say, see what you've just done?
Well, by virtue of raising a minimum wage, you must raise our overall baseline wage structure because we're better than minimum wage people.
And that's one of the reasons unions push it.
People have asked me, why do unions care about the minimum wage?
None of them make it.
They make much more because every time the minimum wage goes up, so does the ceiling or the floor rather, the foundation floor of union contracts.
They automatically demand their wages go up on the theory that they are much better employees and far more competent than these schlubs being paid minimum wage.
Yeah, thanks, Rush.
You bet.
You're right on the money.
Here's another thing from the stack yesterday, folks, that I didn't get to.
I mean, and every day there's a story like this that I say, really?
I didn't even know.
I had no clue.
Let me just give you the headline.
New U.S. LGBTI envoy seeking global LGBTI rights.
WTF, OMG.
Let me tell you what this means.
The State Department has an official appointed envoy for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex.
That's what the I is.
LGBTI, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex persons.
We've got an envoy in the State Department for those people.
And he said three days ago that he is leaving on a 15-country, five-week trip to encourage foreign governments to include protection for homosexuals in their constitutions.
Speaking at the United States Institute for Peace, did you know we actually had one of those?
Yeah, it's called the Defense Department.
But no, they have actually, under Obama, or I forget, there actually is a U.S. Institution of Peace.
It's in Washington.
I'm not making this up.
There is one.
Now, really, that's what the Department of Defense is.
But no, that's not.
The Department of Defense is like the police department.
It's provocative.
It causes wars, according to the left.
So, this guy, his name is Randy Berry, State Department's first envoy for LGBTI persons.
He was speaking at the U.S. Institution of Peace and head of a panel of gay rights activists from all over the world.
He said that gay rights and human rights are issues we hold very, very dear.
Constitutional change has provided a unique opportunity for groups to mobilize for their members' rights and recognition.
He didn't say which countries that he will be visiting.
He said constitutions and constitutional courts are powerful tools to protect the rights of members of minority groups.
Constitutional protection for homosexuals creates a more durable, healthier nation, Barry said.
All of this, this is for less than 2% of the population.
Well, I was just going to say, I don't know what Muslim countries he's going to be visiting.
However, there's a actually, there's a part of this story.
One of the countries is Iran.
Iran, apparently, from what this story says, Iran actually tolerates transgender people, but not gay people.
If you're that's that's right, they don't have any gays, that's what I'm saying.
They don't tolerate gay people, they don't have any gays, but they do tolerate transgender people.
That's what the story says.
So, the guy is going to be going to Iran, but he's not going to be talking homosexuality in Iran, he's going to be talking transgender.
Apparently, that must mean one of the mullahs has a relative that's you know, it's got to be well.
I still don't know what that is.
I don't, I thought LGBT covered everything, but apparently, it doesn't.
They have to run the eye for intersex.
Bisexual, I thought, covered intersex.
What, what, what is, I'm kind of proud not to know, to be honest with you.
But our government is engaging in this for less than 2% of the population.
And by the way, folks, exactly as I told the gay rights, oh, Betty Friedan, is it Betty Friedan or Jermaine Greer?
One of the original feminazis really took out after Elton John the other day over the fact that he and his partner David Furnish have two kids.
And what ticks her, you know, you talk about things going full circle and come home.
I think it's Jermaine Greer, might be Betty Fred.
I think it's Jermaine Greer, one of the original feminists.
She found out that on one of the kids' birth certificates, David Furnish, Elton John's partner, is listed as wife.
And for some reason, this sent her off.
And she's now offended that men have taken over the concept of motherhood, which she claims is an exclusively female thing.
Now, the reason why this is fascinating to me, and I say it's come full circle, is because the modern era of feminism got going and got up to speed attacking motherhood, attacking everything conventional, attacking relationships, attacking motherhood from the basis that a woman who agreed to be a wife and mother was short, shorting herself.
She was denying herself her full potential.
She was denying herself her full opportunities in life.
And she was subjugating and subordinating herself to a man and traditional patriarchal society.
So the militant feminizes of the late 60s and early 70s, they just ripped the whole concept of motherhood, nuclear family motherhood and so forth.
And now, what, some 50 years later, all because Elton John's partner lists himself as wife on a birth certificate, she's flipping out and claiming that men cannot do this.
They cannot take over motherhood like this.
Just, I don't know, all this stuff is just sometimes too much to keep up with, but we try.
Okay, folks, we've got the audio here from Sepp Blatter, re-elected as the FIFA head honcho.
But before that, time to get back to the phones.
Marietta, Georgia, this is Chris, 13 years old today, right?
Yes, sir.
Well, happy birthday, Chris, and I'm glad you spent some of it calling here.
Thank you.
What's up?
What's happening?
I just wanted to call to tell you that I read all of your books and I really enjoyed them because they tell the truth about American history, not some hocus pocus.
Thank you.
I cannot tell you how much I appreciate you saying that because that's exactly what we're striving to do and exactly for people just like you.
So you have made my day.
I thank you very much for that, Chris.
Which one's your favorite?
Do you have a favorite of the three?
Yes, the first Patriot, the second one.
The second was your favorite.
Cool.
Because of the Boston Tea Party.
I didn't know that it happened at night and that they dressed as Indians.
Like, I wasn't told that.
Have you, you're 13.
What is it?
Are you like in the seventh grade?
Yes, sir.
What have you been taught about?
Have you been taught about the Boston Tea Party yet?
I have, but it wasn't like in detail.
Was it just presented as something to do with taxes and so forth?
Or did they get more complicated or detailed than that?
It was more of like a, you know, yeah, it was taxes and just really skimmed over it.
Skimmed over it, huh?
Skimmed over.
See, that's, I'm glad you said that too, because too much of what is really, really important and inspiring, by the way, about American history is being ignored in much of the public school curriculum.
And so it just makes my day that you found the books useful and good and entertaining.
I really appreciate that.
You know, I tell you what, I want you to hang on here because I want to send you the CDs of the audio versions of all three.
They are of me reading so you can relive them this way without having to reread them.
And we'll throw some other stuff in there too, Chris.
But look, thank you very much.
I appreciate it because you are exactly the guy, the kind of person for whom these books are written.
And it's been a while since we've had a young crumb cruncher call here about one of the Rush Revere books.
And so I'm honored that you took the time.
Now, folks, the audio sound bite here of the new FIFA president, his name is Sepp Blatter.
You know what is kind of interesting?
And again, I'll tell you what I'm going to do.
The monologue segment next hour, you have got to hear about the guy who ended up being, I guess, the lead informant.
This is an unbelievable story about this guy who became a big FIFA elite.
He started out as a kid's soccer coach, just in some local community somewhere.
And he ended up racking up credit card charges in the millions.
And they caught him, and they ended up using him as an informant.
But the fascinating thing here, everybody at FIFA except the president is accused, indicted.
Targeted.
But this president guy, who's been around for as long as FIFA has, practically, is unscathed.
And he was re-elected to a new term today.
His name is Sepp Blatter.
It happened in Zurich, and we've got the audio coming up.
Don't go away.
It remains the fastest three hours in media, two of them here already down and in the can on the way over to be processed, digitized, and compressed for the Limbaugh Broadcast Museum, which you can see at rushlimbaugh.com.
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