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June 19, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 19, 2015, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 Podcast.
Hiya, folks.
How are you?
Rush Limbaugh and the EIB Network.
Wrapping up a superb week of broadcast excellence here on the EIB network.
We can sum up the week in one sentence.
Phony race, phony genders, phony science, phony gun control arguments, phony newsmen, real destruction.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Doesn't that about sum it up?
Okay.
So I can now go get the guest host.
I mean, that's the show.
Well, we'll elaborate.
Of course we'll elaborate.
Phony race, phony genders, phony science, phony gun control arguments, phony newsmen.
Real destruction.
800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program.
L Rushbo at EIB net.com is the address if you want to send an email.
Open line Friday differs from open line or differs from Monday to Thursday.
In two ways.
What we try to take more phone calls on Friday.
Don't often succeed at that, but we try to.
And we are much less restrictive in the call screening process.
So if you uh want to talk about something that may not fit the mold.
I mean, people think this is a primarily political program.
You want to talk about something that's not politics?
Have at it.
That's what uh today is for.
Again, 800-282-2882 and the email address, L Rushball at EIB net.com.
I want to start before we get into the serious stuff, and there's there's just there's way too much of that.
Grab audio soundbite number two.
Yesterday I was having a little discussion, just kind of a break from the heavy stuff about the new ways the San Francisco fritters are gonna deal with their young millennial team mate members.
And one of the ways they're gonna do it, they're gonna reduce meeting times.
They're gonna cut meeting times way back, and after the shortened meetings, they're gonna give all players a 10-minute break to go get their smartphone fix so that they can Facebook, so that they can Instagram, so that they can tweet, so that they can go find out who's been Instagramming about them, so that they can go find out who's been tweeting about them.
And then after the 10-minute smartphone fix, then it's back to the next meeting or back to the next on-field practice.
And I made the observation that we're not long.
It isn't gonna be long before a player on game day is gonna like running back, star running back X scores a touchdown, heads back to the sideline, grabs his iPad or iPhone, gets a video of himself scoring and starts tweeting it out.
And I said, We're gonna have the elimination.
There's not gonna be any difference between the stage and the audience.
And lo and behold, it happened last night.
It happened.
It happened in Boston.
Well, actually, in Atlanta, the Boston Red Sox at Turner Field playing the Braves.
Red Sox manager John Farrell spoke with reporters because what happened was that the third baseman, Pablo Sandoval, I still do not understand, by the way, how it is physically possible for Pablo Sandoval to field a grand ball.
Do you, Brian?
But there he is, he's out there doing a Cinema Giants at a great World Series.
He goes to the Red Sox in free agency in the offseason.
He's playing third base for the Red Sox.
He went to the bench and Instagrammed one of his great achievements during the game from the bench.
He has been I called it.
I mean, I speculated it was gonna happen in the NFL.
It happened.
In Major League Baseball last night, here is the Red Sox manager.
It's disappointing.
Uh it's disappointing because uh it's a a rule that is known by all.
And like I said, it's very disappointing.
It's not tolerable.
Uh, And as a result, uh, he's on the bench tonight.
The clubhouse is not one that has run amok.
This is an incident uh that I believe is isolated.
Uh and uh like I said, my focus is to continue to do what we can to get better on the field each and every day.
Now the Red Sox are in Kansas City for a weekend series starting tonight, and uh, I tell you, this is gonna open the floodgates exactly what I was talking about yesterday.
And it's not gonna be long before this is allowed and encouraged because they're not gonna be able to stop it.
If a whole bunch of play can't suspend the whole team, and they can't suspend the starting lineup if the starting lineup endeavors to engage in this opportunity, and it's trending that way.
And I'm just gonna tell you, as a performer, when you draw, when you blur the line, when you obscure the difference in the stage and the audience, you are going to ruin whatever is on the stage, be it baseball, football, a play, a musical on Broadway.
When the audience becomes part of what's happening on the stage, it's over.
What's happening on the stage is going to cease being special.
It's going to cease being unique.
And I don't expect most people to agree with that, and I frankly don't expect a whole lot of people to understand it.
But you watch, it isn't going to be long before that's going to happen.
And I'll tell you who is the late the late arrivals to this are going to be broadcast TV and cable TV rights holders who who telecast and broadcast these uh these games.
Because if a player, after accomplishing some great feat during a game, can go to the sidelines and immediately tweet and post something about it with pictures and reruns.
You're not going to need a TV network to tell you what went on.
The player's going to do it himself.
And then the fans are going to be interacting, and it it it's it's it's they don't get a handle on this.
I know people rush, it's changing you can't stop change.
I know, I know.
Just I'm just making a prediction.
I'm not predicting the end of anything.
There's somebody else doing that.
You know, folks, there's been a running theme on the program this week, and that is the very real fact, very real circumstance that we are watching the deterioration of our culture right in front of us.
It's one of those things where sometimes you know you don't you don't see it happening because you're in the forest, you don't see the trees fall because you're there.
People living history are really not aware of it because they're living it, and it isn't until later when people who are not involved can look back on it and see what was going on, whether it was positive or negative or destructive or what have you.
But it is so bad.
The cultural rot and deterioration is so bad that people are openly asking themselves why it's happening.
And of course, the shooting in Charleston, South Carolina is a one of the latest events about which people are scratching their heads and trying to find the deeper meaning, the deeper explanation.
It can't just be that we've got a sick, perhaps drug-addled psychological mess of evil.
No, it's got to be much, much more than that.
It's got to be political.
The left, led by President Obama, with his immediate rant on guns, and his silly statement.
You know, I knew it when I when we played the audio yesterday.
Obama's out there saying it doesn't happen in other countries.
And it does.
It happens all the time.
It's the story of humanity.
Violence has been around ever since the beginning of time.
The idea that gun violence or violence like this only happens in this country is absurd.
I mean, Charlie Ebdu or Charles Norway for crying out loud, it happens all over the world many more times than it happens in the United States.
But There he is, saying it doesn't happen anywhere else.
It only happens here because we're the only civilized country that does not have responsible gun control laws.
It's just flat out absurd.
And I've got a list of just a very short list of examples of things like this happening all over the world, not just here.
The left is busy trying to politicize this.
The left is busy trying to establish a connection to conservatism, to the Tea Party, to you name it.
Other people are honestly trying to figure out what in the world would make somebody do this.
The reason people want to know that is because discovering the motivation might lead to prevention down the road.
If we can find out what it is that's screwing people up.
Is it the misprescribing of drugs?
Is it who knows?
But the one thing that most people do not want to accept the simple explanation that we've just got somebody mentally ill who is sick and deranged, the evil at heart.
No, no, no, no, no.
It's gotta be more than that because this crisis is too great to waste.
So everybody's trying to figure out why would Dylan Roof do this?
What in the world could have made him do this?
And they've gone to talk to his friends.
Did he indicate any such bias, prejudice, hatred?
Did he, yeah, they found a friend who said for the last six months he's been talking about wanting to start a race war?
Yeah, they found a appropriate number of people to give credence to whatever political outcome from this that they want.
So as long as people have opened a door to try to find all of the real reasons why this could happen.
There is a story today that is, I think, perfect to make a point I want to make about cultural rut and children.
You know, I mentioned yesterday we had a poll, Gallup poll.
Millennials have lost faith in everything.
Millennials have lost confidence in everything.
In fact, it isn't just millennials, it's a whole bunch of different demographic groups have lost confidence or have lost faith, either in the country at large or in uh the institution of religion or some other institution, but it is oppressive.
There is a cloud of pessimism and negativity that people think has just blanketed the nation.
And people are scratching their heads, how can this happen?
Why is there so little faith?
I mean, we've got the first African American president, we've got a great economy, that's what the media says.
We got a roaring economy, unemployment coming out.
How can it be?
Well, let me just posit a couple of things.
How often do you think you have to tell a 10-year-old, a 12-year-old, a 15-year-old, that their parents are destroying the planet before they get scared stilt?
How often does it, how much how many how many times does it take?
How many cartoon shows?
How many lectures in class?
How many casual observances of cable TV?
How often, how many times does it take for a kid to hear that the polar bears are dying because of mom and dad in the car they drive?
Or that the ice pole is melting and there might be no more Santa Claus, all because of the way mom and dad live, all because of the way the United States is.
Because the United States, the only country it's ever blamed for any of this stuff.
How long does it take before a kid becomes despondent, thinks there's no future, thinks his country is a criminal enterprise.
How long does it take?
Does it take one year?
Does it take two years?
Does it take a week?
Well, however long it takes, your average 30-year-old is grown up hearing it.
Your average 30-year-old has heard nothing else.
Your average 30-year-old just in climate change alone.
That's just one issue.
Take every other item in it.
You're going to eat this, you die.
If you do that, you're going to result in people dying.
If you do that, you might be responsible for people dying.
Take your pick.
There is an endless supply of stories in the news that are consumed and absorbed by young, impressionable minds that are nothing but apocalyptic.
And it's always the adults who are to blame for it.
And if you want to get even more disciplined, then it's always conservative or Republican people who are actually doing the damage.
Eat this, you get cancer.
Eat that, you get TB.
Eat that, don't eat that, you get whatever.
It is a steady drumbeat of apocalyptic news from the moment they turn the TV on or their iPhones on until they go to bed at night.
And then they dream about it.
And we wonder why.
People are doing whatever they can to escape that reality or why people have lost faith.
We wonder why people are pessimistic.
Put yourself, if you can, in the position of an eight-year-old, a ten-year-old, a twelve-year-old who hears nothing but that kind of stuff.
If they turn on Saturday morning cartoons, they see that kind of stuff.
And I'm not talking about Batman and Robin and all.
I'm talking about actual things like Captain Planet, which is a Ted Turner sponsored cartoon about how evil corporations are because they are polluting the planet and killing the animals, and we're next.
I'm talking about political content that is disguised as children's programming.
You find it everywhere.
I'm just asking, how long does it take?
Is it weeks, days, months, years before the consumption of all of that takes root.
Here's the latest example of it.
A child born today may live to see the end of humanity.
It's a serious news story by an Australian microbiologist named Frank Fenner.
Reuters can't wait to write this story.
Reuters, you can you can see the saliva on your computer screen as the reporters were salivating writing this up.
Have to take a break.
Be right back after this.
Don't go away.
Let me interrupt myself here because I'm really not.
It fits.
Sunday 23, Hillary Clinton on a PBS show in Nevada yesterday.
I want you to listen to who she blames for what happened in Charleston, South Carolina.
The PBS host question is you said in your speech today what happened at Charleston, the absolute horror that happened there.
You addressed it.
The line that you used was how many people do we have to see cut down before we act?
If you're president, how would you act?
What can you do about it?
Unfortunately, the public discourse is sometimes hotter and more negative than it should be, which can, in my opinion, trigger people who are less than stable to do something like what we're doing.
Stop that, though, can you?
A recent entry into the Republican presidential campaign said some very inflammatory things about Mexicans.
You know, everybody should stand up and say that's not acceptable.
You know, you don't talk like that on talk radio.
You don't talk like that on uh, you know, uh the kind of uh political campaigns.
No, I but I think he is emblematic.
You know, so I want people to understand it's not about him, it's about everybody.
Really?
Donald Trump's responsible now for what happened in Charleston.
And of course, here's Hillary and the obligatory talk radio.
And she says here that the public discourse, folks, you're new to this program.
We went Back and played you, audio sound bites of the Clintons from 1994, utterly obsessed with me and this program.
If you had not heard them, I don't it was you know, to me, it happened yesterday.
So I think everybody listening knows it.
Um obviously people listening here yesterday, many of them, maybe not since 1994, probably heard it for the first time.
Clintons were utterly paranoid.
Donna Shalela even admitted paranoid.
But my point is going back to 1992, 93, 94, the Clintons and the Democrat Party have been trying to blame the so-called rhetoric and talk radio for these.
Every damn time one of these happens.
Remember Brian Ross.
School shooting in Colorado, the first thing he did was try to find a name, the shooter on a Tea Party membership roster.
My point is it isn't the incendiary rhetoric that happens here, we're focused on upbeat positive.
It is the language of the left that is destroying people's faith in the future.
It's the language of the left and their intellectuals and their scientists who are giving people apocalyptic ideas.
And let me give you another example.
The Washington Post has a story today.
I forget the I think a deputy opinion editor is the source here.
And here's the money quote from her piece.
The truth is that the kids are not all right when it comes to racial equality.
Studies have shown that millennials are just about as racist as previous generations.
See?
Millennials, they're just as racist as everybody else.
So all of these wonderful efforts to eliminate racism, absolutely no progress whatsoever.
So every one of you millennials, you represent the worst of the past, even though you are the faces of change.
You are the youth in whom we invest all of our hope and promises, and yet it's just as racist as everybody else.
My point is, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, the Democrat Party for 25 years, folks, have been trying to blame.
Every time there's an event like this, the first thing that happens is to explore ways to turn it into a way to advance the Democrat Party or the leftist political agenda.
And they get away with that, and they also get away with making themselves look like they're the ones, the only ones who care.
The only ones who are not racist, the only ones who have compassion.
When in fact, they're using everybody involved in this, they're using all of the things that they can gain control of to advance their political agenda, which is the elimination of any political opposition, by the way.
I'm just asking, how long does it take for people to be pummeled with this stuff before it begins to affect your outlook on life?
Particularly if you're a young child.
I don't know how many of you parents have had your kids come to you demand that you get rid of the car because it's killing polar bears, but I'll bet you it's a lot.
And if it's not that example, it's something else.
And how many of you have sat them down and told them what they're hearing is BS?
Versus how many of you have tried to placate them by assuring them that you're not trying to destroy the planet and you'll do better?
And how many of you have actually gone out and changed cars because of it.
Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, the rest of the Democrat Party, try to blame talk radio.
Believe me, they have tried to saddle every event like this, starting with me, and then talk radio at large, and then they started adding Fox News to the mix.
Oklahoma City bombing in 1994, Bill Clinton, then president, actually did blame me for it.
And even told a joke about it in a White House correspondence dinner.
So it's it's nothing new.
Here's Hillary now blaming Trump and by association talk radio for what happened in Charleston, South Carolina.
And yet, you want to hear the truth, ladies and gentlemen, every time they try to establish this connection, there isn't one.
There really Isn't a connection between prominent conservative media and any of these horrible public crimes, mass shootings, things like this happened in Charleston or the school shootings, wherever you go, there isn't a conservative link.
Most often what's been found is a kid mind fried on some kind of psych drug.
Vast majority of cases it's been that.
There have been instances where media influences have been predominantly left, such as left-wing music, left wing politics or what have you.
But in fact, let me give you an example.
Some of you may have forgotten this.
There's this hate group down in the South somewhere called the Southern Poverty Law Center.
And there's this real goofy guy running it by the name of Mark Potok.
He happens to be a featured, favored guest on all of left-wing media.
And you know what his expertise is?
Conservative hate mongering.
He's the go-to guy.
Whenever the media wants anybody to give details on where the conservatives are hating people and how it's manifesting itself, you go get Mark Potok.
So Mark Potak has a website, and on his website, he lists all the various hate organizations that his organization has studied and uncovered.
And one of those hate organizations is the Family Research Council.
And one of the deranged supporters of the Southern Poverty Law Center actually went out and got a gun, went to the Family Research Council headquarters and starts shooting.
Directly tied to a left-wing hate group.
Not supposed, not maybe, not could be, but definitely the guy was inspired to go get a gun.
A good liberal, a good Democrat.
He was inspired to go get a gun and start shooting up the Family Research Council.
This, of course, was totally ignored.
The incident totally ignored by the rest of the media and the drive-bys.
There have been other instances of absolute wacko lunatic leftists attempting plots in Washington, D.C. When the plot originally uncovered media went into gear, has to be connection to talk radio.
Found out, nope, it was a connection to liberal hate groups, special interest groups, media, politics, what have you?
As hard as the media looks, they seldom find this magical right-wing connection that they will use and be able to use to eliminate conservative media.
And believe me, they've been looking for 25 years.
And they're looking now.
In the meantime, back to the standard ordinary everyday news, a child born today may live to see humanity's ends.
This is Frank Fenner, an Australian microbiologist, and obviously he's a fearmonger.
Now, how many guys like this are there on the left?
How many people are predicting the end of the human race?
How many people are telling young people if we don't do something in 10, 20 years, it's the end of us?
Ted Danson did it 25 years ago.
Al Gore's been doing it for 25 years.
The Pope now joins the bandwagon.
And we got this guy.
I'm asking, how often does a child have to be exposed to this before it really sets in and begins to affect the child and his outlook on his own life in the future?
Yet we are the fearmongers, according to them.
These doomsayers, these phony baloney, plastic banana, good time rock and roll doomsayers, are never held responsible for their blatantly wrong predictions.
You know why?
Because their intentions are good.
Yeah, they're only trying to save a planet.
They're only trying to advise and guide humanity into taking the right steps so that we're all not wiped out.
So their intentions.
The nature of the evidence, forget whether they're right or wrong.
They have big hearts.
They're trying to help.
And that is a thousand percent wrong.
They are fear mongering.
They are lying.
They are making money, getting grants, promulgating false allegations and predictions.
It's nonsense.
How much is this nonsense cost us financially over the years?
How much money has been wasted preparing for a doom that isn't happening?
That hasn't happened.
That isn't going to happen.
And how about the costs that are not dollars and cents?
How about the effect on people?
How many lunatics has this created?
How many genuinely normal people have been driven to the brink of insanity simply by the news media every day?
We know that not everybody is rock solid stable.
How many times does somebody have to read that the end of the, and I'm not talking about from a preacher raising money with the globe on fire on TV, which I've seen.
I'm talking about the drive-by mainstream media, the media that everybody believes, the media that everybody trusts, the media that very few people think has a bias.
And this Frank Fenner, microbiologist, is not perceived as a religious kook.
He's not perceived as some sort of odd boy.
No, he's a mainstream microbiome.
He's a scientist.
And he said, right here it is human business Reuters.
Humans, by the way, an ecstatic Reuters.
I can't wait to write this story.
Humans will be extinct in 100 years because the planet will be uninhabitable.
Do you realize there's not one leftist scientist who has predicted anything like this, who has ever been right, and the top of that class is Paul Ehrlich, who back in 1970 some odd wrote a book called The Population Bomb, saying by 2000, we'd be finished.
That the Earth could no longer couldn't even come close to supporting a population that the world indeed has today.
He's still a guru.
He's still a hero.
He's still a go-to source.
He's still at Stanford.
He hasn't been discredited at all.
He couldn't be more wrong.
He's still a leftist hero.
Because he advances the liberal agenda.
Which is fear, chaos, panic, you name it, whatever it takes to get people to sign on and vote for bigger government, higher taxes, less freedom.
So he's ideal.
So's this guy.
Humans will be extinct in a hundred years, because the planet will be uninhabitable, according to Australian microbiologist Frank Fenner, one of the leaders, one of the leaders of the effort to eradicate smallpox 1970s.
See?
Eminently credible.
He blames overcrowding, denuded resources, and climate change.
Of course.
Fenner's prediction, Reuters assures us, is not a sure bet.
But they say, he is correct that there is no way emissions reductions will be enough to save us from our trend toward doom.
This is a mainstream news story.
There's nothing we can do to save us from our trend towards doom.
Now we adults are smart enough to read this and let it go in one ear and out the other.
Particularly we conservative adults, but you take the fragile minds of most people on the left and children absorbed to this stuff, and I ask you, is it really hard to understand when you learn they've lost confidence and faith in everything.
Another headline.
Explains why she's both sexes.
You may think, who the hell is this?
Well, for people that stream video, Netflix is big and popular and they love it.
And this is one of its biggest shows.
Orange is the new black.
If you don't know what lesbianism is and you'd like to see it in action, go watch the show.
I'm told that even lesbians learn things from watching this show.
Snurdly, your eyes are lighting up.
If you're a fan of Netflix's popular series Orange is the New Black, chances are you recognize its newest star, Ruby Rose, the tattooed actress and model who identifies as gender fluid.
Rose, Rose has been promoting the idea of gender fluidity recently, she told L.com that although she was born a woman, she doesn't feel like one.
Therefore she doesn't identify as any specific gender.
Gender fluidity is not really feeling like you're at one end of the spectrum or the other.
Now it used to be, folks, when we had people around us with mental illnesses like this, we ignored them at best, or we sent them away for treatment.
Today we give them reality shows.
Today we make stars out of them.
We put mentally ill people on TV, mostly in reality shows.
We create stars out of them, and it makes other people want to get just as whatever so they can get on a TV show too.
And we all watch them.
And we all it's like going to the circus of the freak show without having to leave home.
But for you young people in the audience, let me just tell you, you cannot be both sexes any more than you can be black when you're white.
You can't be white when you're black.
You can't be black when you're white, and you can't be both sexes.
It simply isn't possible.
We'll be back after this.
Do you realize that families are killing each other over global warming?
You go back to 2010, UK telegraph, baby survives parents global warming suicide pact.
Seven-month-old article, or seven-month-old girl, survived for three days alone with a bullet in her chest after being shot by her parents as part of a suicide pact over their fears about global warming.
Francisco Lotrera, 56, and Miriam Coletti, 23 shot their daughter and her toddler before killing themselves.
Their son died instantly after being hit in the back.
Unnamed daughter cheated death after the bullet from her father's handgun missed her vital organs.
People have been killing themselves and others, that's in the UK, because of global warming fear mongering.
Now, the above happened in Argentina.
It could happen anywhere.
It's a hoax.
There isn't any truth to it.
The earth is always warming.
Look, and I'm not even going to relitigate the arguments.
There is the whole business that they're promoting here, man-made global warming, because of life in the United States today, is not the reason.
It's just absurd.
The whole thing is just flat out absurd, insultingly absurd.
To the phones, we go to Michael in Detroit.
Glad you called, sir.
You're up first today in Open Line Friday.
It's great to have you here.
Hi.
Thank you so much, Mr. Limbaugh, for taking my call.
That's really a thrill to be able to speak with you.
Thank you, sir.
I've been an avid listener of your program since 1989.
Some people might even call me a rabbit listener.
Well, that's all that makes you a lifer.
Yes, it does, sir.
But I was uh I've been retired from suck for some time now, and I was up early this morning as I usually am, and I was incensed, absolutely incensed, which incited which really got me thinking that I needed to call you.
Okay, what only got one minute, so I need you to get to what incensed you.
Okay, what incensed me was a guest uh host on a WJR morning radio talk show.
Oh no.
Who was trying to understand what would drive this young man in Charleston to act out and commit this egregious crime that he did.
And he said, you know, the guy, the young man was only active on his computer all the time.
It's not like he was watching Fox News or listening to talk radio, quote unquote, from the morning host on WGR Radio.
That about blew my mind that he wouldn't.
Wait, wait, wait, I'm confused.
He's blaming the kid watching computers.
No, the kid, the kid, he said the kid was innocently working on his computer, and he did that often, but it's not like he was watching Fox News or listening to talk radio.
So where did that thought Even enter this.
Yeah, I if it's not like the kid was watching Fox News or Talk Radio, then it's not Fox News or Talk Radio that's responsible for this.
Well, the way he worded it, it was that would have been if he had been watching Fox News or listening to Talk Radio.
So you think would have drove him to commit this act.
All right, so he you think that the host on our affiliate in Detroit was blaming Fox News and Talk Radio.
See?
That's how pervasive this stuff is.
Because that's easy.
But it's the easiest thing in the world.
Doesn't take any brains whatsoever to make some silly prediction like.
Anyway, back after this.
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