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June 18, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 18, 2015, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 247 Podcast.
Dylan Storm Roof is this guy's name.
They've captured him.
They captured him 245 miles away from Charleston, South Carolina, and they captured him in North Carolina.
He uh he parked the black Hyundai under a tree.
Either ran out of gas or just stopped to rest overnight or what have you, but he he was uh he was captured and didn't present any problems upon arrest.
Such a sad event.
It's just it's you know, every day.
The news is just depressing, you gotta work past it, you gotta work through it each and every day.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, telephone numbers 800-282-2882, and the email address, L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
We here at the EIB Network are gonna jump to no conclusions whatsoever, and we are not going to try to make whatever happened here in Charleston, South Carolina fit any kind of a narrative that we would want.
We're just gonna wait.
We're gonna back off, we're gonna wait, we're gonna find out what it is that there is to know about this shooter rather than jump to any conclusions, not even gonna make any predictions.
Uh I I know that the the left and the drive-bys are out now trying to hunt a Tea Party connection.
Or see, you know, well, you know that's happening.
You know that they're they're they're just they're they're turning over every rock, they're doing everything they can to try to find a way to link this in a way that would advance their political agenda.
And all I'm saying is we're not gonna do that here in any way, shape, manner, or form.
We're just gonna wait until whatever there is to be learned about this uh well, give you a picture.
He looks like a kid.
Um so I'm just gonna wait.
We all here at the EIB network are going to wait.
It's such you know, uh stuff just it's just frustrating.
It's angering all of the emotions.
Just just why?
Why in the world is somebody wanted to why you go into a church and you sit and pray with people for an hour and then you open up, you start firing.
I mean, this is just pure unadulterated evil for whatever reason, and it's inexplicable to civilized people.
It just simply is inexplicable.
Keep in mind there are more people dead.
This church in Charleston, South Carolina than uh than in the in the Boston bombing.
And I'm just trying to draw a comparison here.
I mean, it's real terrorism if you want to look at it.
There was it was certainly terror for the people in uh in that church.
So needless to say, our prayers and condolences are with everybody on this, but it's just another one of these inexplicable cultural moments that has us all saying what is happening to our country.
Anyway, as I say, I I I don't want to go much further on this because anything further is speculation.
Everybody knows the facts of uh of what happened here.
So just sit back and be alert and stand by and be ready for whatever the people who want to turn this into a political opportunity do with it.
And you know that they exist.
The Pope, ladies and gentlemen, the Pope has thrown one of the biggest curveballs at the American left.
I can remember.
If I'm understanding this right, if I'm reading this right, and there's only one place that I have found this, it's in the National Journal.
And here's the headline.
I'm not gonna I'm just setting the table for you, I'm not gonna get into depth in this yet, but I just want you to know that it's coming.
Here's the headline.
Pope Francis Colen.
Climate change and abortion are interrelated.
So what has happened here over the past couple of days, this week, there have been leaks upon leaks, that there's a papal encyclical coming, or the Pope is going to double down on climate change.
He's going to agree with the concept that man is destroying the planet, and he's going to agree with the concept that governments need to get bigger and start taxing people, and that people need to give more than what they're even taxed.
They need to donate until they themselves are poor, in order to save the planet.
And the left has just been salivating it.
Oh my goodness, the left, understand now, the left is culturally predisposed to fearing the Catholic Church.
And any religion.
And that's why they don't like it.
In some cases, they hate it, but it's really rooted in fear.
Religion, the Catholic Church, stands for things that the left wants to obliterate.
And so when the Pope comes along and appears to agree with the left, say on economic matters, they get all hopeful and they get jazzed and they get all excited.
And that's what's been going on this week.
And then today, the Pope says, I'll tell you what this means.
He's essentially saying, look, you cannot have an attitude that says we must do everything to save the planet and be pro-choice at the same time.
If you're going to be an environmentalist wacko, if you're going to devote yourself to saving the planet via climate change, you had better stop killing embryos.
Whoa!
You've got Pelosi up until this game, you got Pelosi, all the Democrats out there singing the praises of Il Papa, and then he throws this at them.
It makes me wonder.
It makes me curious about the uh, you know, this this is a this is gonna turn them upside down and and into knots if it gets it will be reported, it just hasn't been yet.
It's just in the National Journal.
Oh, also, folks, and that you know, we're coming up now full-fledged on tea season.
And so we've got a major big sweepstakes promotion today from two of my T. And I'll be telling you about that as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears.
Late yesterday in the program, I got an email from Cookie, who said she had come across a couple of great audio sound bites from back in the early 90s when Hillary Clinton was organizing her bus tour for Hillary care that started out in Seattle.
And the sound bites were basically of Hillary expressing her concern and anger at the right wing talk radio.
Remember when this all happened, there wasn't any blogs yet.
There weren't any blogs, there wasn't Fox News.
It was talk radio was it in terms of right wing or conservative media, alternative media.
None of the other stuff had come to life yet.
And it's interesting, we had a call, I've got the call ready to go.
A guy some months ago, a few short weeks ago, talking about the Hillary care bus tour that started in Seattle and how we successfully disrupted this thing.
Well, it turns out now that Donna Shalela, Shalou, who used to run the University of Miami, used to be the uh, she was a cabinet official.
What was she?
Uh housing and urban development, help and human service, health.
Yeah, HA, Health and Human Service.
She was secretary in the Clinton administration.
She's now running Clinton Foundation, and she's out there.
I don't know if she knew the tape was running or not, but she's on tape talking about how literally paranoid the Clintons were about talk radio back in the early 90s.
Yeah, we've got the audio soundbites of that.
And then we've got uh a lot of people reacting, I should say this uh soundbites, people reacting to the Pope.
Uh John Heileman, Who does that TV show on Bloomberg with Mark Halpern says it's just not possible?
Nobody who is a climate denier can ever be elected president.
And that's just foolish.
Most people don't believe climate change.
What he's basically saying is if you're not a socialist in this country, you can't be elected president, is what he's saying.
I can't wait to get to uh to that sound bite.
I mean, we just we're loaded here, folks.
And we've uh there's a Gallup survey out of Gallup pollout.
Americans have lost confidence, dot, dot, dot in everything.
And this piggybacks well with some of the cultural comments that I have been brilliantly making and pointing out all this busy broadcast week, in addition to Americans losing confidence in everything, they're losing confidence in religion.
Confidence in religion has hit a new low.
Everything's on the everything's bottoming out.
American people losing faith in everything.
The one element that's missing, they're likely losing faith in the economy.
They're losing faith in the country.
And this feeds, by the way, right into the leftist agenda.
Lose faith with everything and turn to government for the solution to everything.
Exactly the way the Democrat Party envisions this.
And so the missing link here is that if you go back six years, just six years, you didn't have survey results like this.
I mean, you might have had anger at Bush's approval numbers, might have been low, and there might have been some anger at the Iraq War.
The media had successfully drummed that up.
But you didn't have massive majority numbers of the American people thinking it was over, that the country's best days were behind us.
That didn't start till Obama became president.
This is really fundamental to me.
This is it's it's stunning to me.
Six years ago, ten years ago, you did not have polling data like this.
People did not think that the economy was forever in the tank.
People did not report that they had lost confidence in institution after institution.
I mean, up until the last two years of the Bush administration, we had full employment, 4.7% unemployment, which is statistically full employment.
It's just in the last six years that all of this polling data reflects all of this real utter despair.
And yet, despite that, it's I mean, if we're to believe the polling data, nobody associates any of this with the current administration.
And that's a first.
It really is.
Normally in, I mean, we've been through cycles where people have uh been very down about the economy, and they've been very down about their economic future.
And more often than not, it's tied to things happening at that moment.
Policy things happening at presidents have always either gotten all the blame or all the credit for the economy.
Well, here you have, I mean, the epitome of bad polling results.
Lost confidence in everything, and none of it touches Obama.
None of it is related to government policy.
I've made this observation before, but I make it again because it continues to it doesn't puzzle me because I know why.
It frustrates me because I know why.
The San Francisco Foreigners.
You might be saying, what do the San Francisco foreigners have do with it?
Well, we've been talking a lot about the culture, and I've told you it's one of the things that really fascinates me and interests me right now.
The Forderners have decided they need to make massive changes in the way the team is run.
Day-to-day operations, not in the front office, but in the locker room on the field during the practice week, because the players are millennials.
And millennials are different.
So the Fordner, just one thing to do.
The Forders are shortening every meeting by 10 minutes.
So if the offensive line has its meeting or the linebackers have their meeting, it's it's a 30-minute meeting.
It's now a 20-minute meeting, and after the meeting, players are given 10 minutes to check their smartphones and their social media websites to stay informed as they do.
The Fordiners have decided that players are going to go nuts.
They essentially are saying that players are addicted to social media.
They're addicted to their iPhones and iPads.
And if they don't get to check them every half hour, we're going to have a problem.
So they have shortened meetings and allow players now, will allow players to access social media, answer their phone calls, messages, texts, you name it, and then go to the next meeting.
That's just one thing.
The headline of the story here, this is from the Wall Street Journal.
Foreigners are changing how they operate to cater to the iPhone generation.
The issue is how to relate to a generation that has been raised on smartphones and instant information.
So the team, the foreigners, the executives, consulted with experts, ranging from researchers at Stanford to advertising executives to learn how exactly the young brain works.
Hey, they could have called me and I would have charged them nothing.
How does the young brain work?
It doesn't.
I'm just teasing.
But I could have given them advice.
And they noticed sweeping changes designed to cater to how research shows that millennials learn.
So the Foreigners turn a typical meeting, which on some teams can go for as long as two hours, and that's true.
You'll have a meeting on Monday for Wednesday.
The practice is used in the afternoon, the meetings are in the morning.
The offense will have its meeting and it'll break out the offensive line, running backs, quarterbacks meeting, then they go out and practice.
Well, the Fordiners are going to reduce all meetings to 30 minutes max with 10 minute breaks between them.
The coach said, Yeah, we want the players to be able to go grab their phones, do their multitasking, get their fix before returning to the next meeting.
Oh no.
No, you can't ship.
No, no, no, no, no.
The league does not permit cell phones or any of that sort of stuff on the field, sideline included, during games.
The league does not.
But if some team figures, hey, you know, that could help us win.
You know, here we're cut, we're heading to the day.
I'll tell you what's gonna happen.
I don't like this, by the way.
We're getting to the point where it ain't gonna be long.
Running back X scores a touchdown on a crazy plane, goes to the sideline, watches the video of himself doing it and posts it on his Twitter account, and is commenting to people during the game about his TD that he just scored.
And then the networks are gonna tap into the feed, they're gonna be reporting it, and pretty soon there's not going to be any difference in the stage and the audience.
And that's when it's all gonna crumble.
Gotta take a break.
Be after this, don't go away, folks.
Greetings and welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Linbaugh, 800-282-2882.
You know, I just think we need to send the Shelby, North Carolina police department up to New York.
They caught this guy in what, less than twelve hours.
And the two convicts, I heard the two convicts in New York that escaped and were having sex with that guard.
I mean, there's this more stuff.
Who would believe that?
If you told, if you would.
Well, I heard they're in Mexico, that they may already be in Mako, which means they want to come back and not get noticed.
And that's the way to do it.
We ought to send the Shelby, North Carolina police.
I mean, look at how fast they caught the guy.
Obama's ticked, by the way.
Now, Obama, basically say what I just said.
He's not going to comment on any details here until facts are known.
Easy like to, but he's going to restrain himself.
He's not going to say a word about it.
You've got the best and brightest in the FBI and a local law enforcement are on the case.
But he said he doesn't feel any constraints in talking about the emotions that are attached to the event.
And he looks mad.
He's got that Clinton lip thing going.
A frown with a Downward smile, which is a very hard thing to do, by the way.
And his point is guns.
He made it plain, he said, once again, once again, something horrific happens because of how easy it is to get a gun in the United States.
And then he said that things like this do not happen in other advanced countries.
You just never hear about things like this in other advanced countries.
You just don't have massacres like this.
And his claim is that they've all got reasonable, responsible gun control.
And we don't, and that's why these things keep happening.
It's because guns are so easily available.
I'm reminded Trump and his announcement the other day, where he reported some woman told him that she'd been anti-gun her whole life.
And then something happened where she lived.
Some some criminals did some bad stuff.
So she finally she told Trump that her husband had always been a big gun guy.
But she wasn't a gun gal.
But now she has joined her husband.
She's a gun gal, her husband's a gun guy, and they've got a gun on every table.
And Trump said that she told him, Mr. Trump, we're ready to start shooting.
I don't know.
So anyway, uh, at least the first, the first political agenda item is now officially on the table, and it was predictable.
And that is uh gun control, straight for the White House and President Obama.
And we will be back.
Don't go away.
Welcome back.
L. Rushbo and the most listened to radio talk show in America.
Something else on the radar today, big.
Potentially big.
An Uber driver in California, just one for now, was said by the California Labor Commission to be an employee, not an independent contractor.
It has Uber quaking in their boots.
You know, Uber has all these drivers all over the country.
Many of the drivers work two and three different jobs.
Uber does not have to provide health care to one of them.
That's why Uber and their CEO have been running around saying, oh, we love Obamacare.
Obama get away.
It's the most stabilizing thing for our business that there's ever been.
Because they don't have to provide it to anybody.
Except now they do.
Now they're going to appeal this.
The uh the decision was issued in March, but it became public only yesterday or Tuesday, because Uber has filed an appeal.
It's just one Uber driver in California.
The California Labor Commission has ruled that this Uber driver actually is an employee.
And that means that Uber could be facing if this were to be applied to every Uber driver across the fruited plain, Uber could be looking at having to spend a hundred and fifty million dollars on health care for all of their drivers that it currently does not have to provide.
That's one of the ways they can keep their prices low.
It's one of the ways, because none of their drivers work a full 30 hours a week.
That's that's one of the Obamacare requirements.
Anything under 29 under 30 hours a week is considered part-time, and such employers are not required to provide health care for such people.
But the California Labor Commission looked at this one driver, the one driver made a complaint.
I want health care from Uber.
And I'm not an independent contractor, I'm an employee.
So the labor commission looked at this, and they concluded, you know what?
That driver does look more like an employee than an independent contractor to us.
So now Uber's quaking in their boots Over the potential nationwide ramifications.
This is one driver for now.
So they're going to try to head this off at the past.
Brian Williams has been resurrected from the anchor man graveyard by the new news honcho at NBC News.
His name is Andy Lack.
I know Andy Lack.
Andy Lack.
I made this comment to you not long ago when the Brian Williams stuff started.
Way back in the early 90s, back when the Clintons were paranoid and really worried about me and everybody else on talk radio.
Andy Lack was running NBC News, and I got a call.
He wanted to meet.
And he he wanted me to give up this show and go to work for NBC News Dateline.
Yeah, what are you doing on radio?
I mean, uh make a TV star out of it or some such thing.
I mean, that was the objective.
He didn't come out and say that.
That's what the objective was.
So that's how I know Andy Lack.
What Andy Lack has decided, or somebody at NBC's, it might be Steve Burke, one of the Comcast guys.
Brian Williams is going to get his job back, but not the anchor chair.
Lester Holt is going to hold on to that.
They're going to send Brian Williams either over back where he used to be MSNBC or a roving correspondent, or somewhere back on Dateline where you get his credibility back.
But if they actually send him back to MSNBC, then he's being punished because nobody watches it anymore.
It is a literal punishment.
But he is not going to be fired.
Okay, so that kind of sets a table.
There are other things out there, uh, such as the government has decided that the $10 bill needs a change, need to have a woman on the $10 bill.
Snurley, when is that supposed to happen?
It's not immediate.
2020.
Have a woman on the $10 bill by 2020.
So who it could be anybody?
Who would who who would who would you put on the on the $10 bill?
Yeah.
Really?
Wait.
Oh, wait, is it the $10 bill or the $20?
It's okay, but oh, the feminazis are urging there'd be a $20 bill.
They don't like, they don't they don't like Andrew Jackson on $10 bill.
A $20 bill.
But yeah, but the $10 bill, I mean, that's kind of cheap, too.
I mean, woman's worth more than $10, right?
You know, you know.
So that so the number one, and the feminist polling.
The feminists are polling it out.
The number one choice is Harriet Tubman.
What was she?
Underground Railroad?
Yeah.
Not Rachel Doldezole.
Uh that would identify as a 25.
If you put Rachel Dolazal on the $10 bill, she gets it to $20.
Not Oprah, not Gloria Steinem.
So it's got to be a feminist.
It has to, it has to everybody's thinking it has to be.
If you're going to put a woman on a bill, it's going to be a feminist, right?
Well, Susan B. Anthony's on uh she was in a silver dollar.
Some such thing.
Um, and I guess you wouldn't want to the Mustang ranch owners on this.
I don't know.
I guess that's as good as anything else.
Harriet Tubman.
So anyway, there's that.
There's all kinds of little things uh like that happening out there.
Grab audio soundbite number 10.
This is exactly what I was talking about.
This is this morning in Washington on Capitol History.
Nancy Pelosi, she did her weekly press briefing, and among other things said.
Hope France writes with beauty, with clarity, and with moral force.
Uh this and circle stance is an urgent call for government to industry and the whole community to honor the responsibility to preserve God's creation.
Uh oh.
This planet is God's creation, and we have a moral responsibility to preserve it.
Uh oh.
And as we do so, we have to recognize the impact of climate change on the poor.
And we have to further recognize the impact of solutions to reversing climate, the climate crisis uh solutions and their impact on the poor.
She just stepped in it.
She just stepped in it big time, and she's not even aware of it yet.
That's the beauty of this.
She's not the Pope has thrown her a curveball.
If you're gonna say, well, the planet is God's creation, and we have a moral responsibility to preserve it, so is a human being.
If you know what Pelosi just done, she's just told the evolutionists to go take a walk.
The planet is God's creation.
What does that mean?
Everything on the planet is God's creation.
That means human beings are God's creation.
Nancy Pelosi reserves for herself and her friends the right to willy-nilly end the life of a God-created human being in the womb.
And she argues for that right and protests for that right and demands that right.
But when it comes to destroying the planet, you better not take one step in that direction.
The Pope has just said we must preserve God's creation, quote Nancy Pelosi, except where you find it in the womb, apparently.
Let's now turn to Pope Francis.
National Journal.
Pope Francis climate change and abortion are interrelated.
Key takeaways from the Vatican's encyclical on climate change.
The highly anticipated document says that global warming is real, is caused partly by human activity and is a grave threat to humanity.
The Vatican hopes it'll pave the way for a strong international climate deal later this year when diplomats descend on Paris for the United Nations talks.
But Pope Francis wants the encyclical to be read by everyone, and the Vatican hopes that the document will influence much more than just the Paris talks.
For Pope Francis, look at me, folks.
Look at me.
For Pope Francis, caring about the environment goes hand in hand with taking a strong stand against abortion.
Quote, the encyclical, since everything is interrelated, concern for the protection of nature is incompatible with the justification of abortion.
How can we genuinely teach the importance of concern for other vulnerable things, however troublesome or inconvenient they may be, if we fail to protect a human embryo, even when its presence is uncomfortable and creates difficulties.
Il Papa goes on to say that population control is not the answer.
Uh...
To climate change, fewer people is not the answer.
Abortion is not permitted.
Pelosi's just stepped in it.
Now what's she gonna do?
If this doesn't get beyond the National Journal, she's never even gonna have to comment.
That's the only place we've seen this so far.
But it's there in the encyclical.
And so the Pope is basically saying, you environmentalist wackos, how in the world can you go batty like you do over saving this plant or that block of ice and not have the same concern for a human embryo?
It doesn't make any sense.
It's in Congress.
numbers.
Oh, this has the potential.
Because I mean, he set them up.
I have to admit, he set them up.
He had the left go, he had the left.
Oh my God, we finally got a Pope on our side.
Oh, they're so happy they were giddy.
And then after they've committed themselves to supporting the Pope and the encyclical, here it comes, And something nobody leaked is the Pope equating the preservation of the planet and nature with the preservation of human beings in the womb.
Greetings.
Welcome back, Rushlin Boy, your guiding light.
And moving artfully through the fastest week in media, the Washington Free Beacon has the story.
Actually, it's a lot of uh different websites have the story.
Clinton Foundation head accused Clinton's a paranoia.
Now look, I'm gonna have to do this story in stages.
There's no way I could do this in one segment, getting all the audio sound bites in with it.
But I do want to get started on this because I'm um already factoring in, mixing telephone calls and everything for a properly and well-balanced program, as only a highly trained broadcast specialist can execute without a producer.
Oh, speaking of I look, I'm sorry, this is inside baseball, and I but I just I can't, since I've reminded myself of it.
What?
You don't think I should mention it?
Yeah, I'm not gonna mention any names.
I just you don't think I should mention this.
Why, it's no big deal.
I mean, what's the what's what could possibly go wrong?
Do not put doubt in front of me like this.
Here I was proceeding full speed with confidence and bravado, and now you're making me doubt what I was gonna do.
It's harmless.
What could go wrong?
Tell what what in the world are you worried about if I'm it could all go wrong, did you say?
I'm not I'm not gonna mention any names.
Was never gonna mention any names.
It's really not a big deal.
I just I just saw that that's too inside baseball.
You know what?
Even if you understood it, you wouldn't care.
You think they would?
Oh, now you're really confusing me.
You think they would care.
I mean, talking about you folks, the uh audience.
Well, look.
Now that now that this cloud of doubt has been seated, I shall pause and consider whether or not to discuss and just stick with the Hillary stuff here.
Because the audio has been discovered.
Clinton Foundation had Donna Shalila privately expressed concerns about Bill and Hillary Clinton's mental state around 1994 and 1995, saying they had become paranoid and fixated on right-wing conspiracies.
All of this is according to previously unpublished audio recordings that the Washington Free Beacon committing a random act of journalism found.
In 1994, four years before Hillary Clinton said that a vast right-wing conspiracy was trying to take down her husband's presidency.
Donna Shalila, who was Health and Human Services Secretary, said that this theory of a right-wing conspiracy was already embraced by the Clintons.
They've become paranoid, paranoia, thinking people are out to get them.
This right-wing conspiracy stuff, said Shalila.
And she was in a good position to know.
She was chairman of the Children's Defense Fund from 1992 to 1993, where she worked Mrs. Clinton, and she left there, and Mary and Wright Edelman took over.
In 1993, Bill Clinton appointed Shalila to be a Secretary of Health and Human Services, and she served for eight years in that role, becoming a nation's longest-serving health and human services secretary.
Then she went to University of Miami, so she'll be close to Janet Reno.
They took a pickup truck trip together.
Remember that?
Shalila was actually told what fun it was to get in in Reno's pickup truck, and they did they would have just pedaled the metal and hit the road.
So that's who is speaking.
She was recently appointed president of the Clinton Foundation.
The tapes are part of a series of interviews with Hillary and Top Aides conducted by Haynes Johnson, who used to be at the Washington Post.
He's a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Haynes Johnson, who's on the Sunday shows all the time back then.
And the Washington Free Beacon got a hold of him from the Wisconsin Historical Society on the University of Wisconsin campus because Shillela was the president of the University of Wisconsin before the Clintons tapped her for greatness in 1993.
The recordings provide additional insight into how Hillary Clinton was affected by her unsuccessful push for health care reform.
AID feared at the time that Hillary had become paranoid, burnt out, and prone to angry outbursts, according to the tapes.
Shillela says the Clintons are feeling sorry for themselves.
They talk about conspiracies all the time.
That there really is a conspiracy out there to get us, that we don't have a chance, that people don't understand how much good we've done.
Our message isn't getting out because these people are beating it.
She's talking about talk radio.
Folks, there was no Fox News then.
There was no conservative blogosphere.
It was just me and what the Clintons referred to on the tape, you will hear it in a moment as the Limbaugh clones.
And we?
How about that for a tease?
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