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June 25, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 25, 2015, Thursday, Hour #3
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It gets even better, folks.
It just it just gets even better.
By the way, let's see audio soundboard.
I want you to stand by here.
Number one, number two, number five, number nine.
Oh, it's all out of order here.
I'll give you the order as we go to these things.
One more thing, by the way, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh 800-282-2882 in the email address Lrushbow at EIV net.com.
Just just one more thing on this disastrous Supreme Court ruling today.
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John, folks, look, please do not doubt me.
I have no reason to lie to you.
There's no point in making things up in order to persuade you what I want you to think.
There's no staying power in that.
And anybody who lies to you to get you to believe something is going to end up losing their credibility once you find out you've been lied to.
There is no point in me lying to you, and I never do it.
This law, Obamacare, was written specifically.
And said so specifically that only the states that set up exchanges, i.e., places to go by Obamacare policies, would be offered subsidies.
People living in those states would be offered subsidies.
There was there is no doubt.
The Congress, when they wrote this law did not mean every exchange.
They meant just the states, and the intention was political.
The Congr this is an incompetent law.
It is a horribly written law.
It's stupid.
It's a political document, and the whole point of this was to leave some people without subsidies so that the governors in states that made that happen would not be re-elected.
This was an attempt by Democrats, the only ones that wrote this law, and the only ones that voted for it.
It was an attempt to isolate Republicans and have them defeated.
It's what the purpose of this whole subsidy setup was.
Plus to offload expenses from the federal ledger so that the whole cost would come in under a trillion dollars.
Congress specifically, and it has been backed up by countless assertions of the primary architect Jonathan Gruber, that the subsidies will only be available to people who live in states that set up Obamacare exchanges.
And states that did not would not have subsidies.
The Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and I'm gonna paraphrase his ruling, said that if that were the case, that the entire program would be in tumult and chaos.
And clearly that was not intended.
He said we can't have some people in states get subsidies and some people not get subsidies.
So I am going to find in favor of the federal government who tell me that they really meant the state to mean the national government, the federal government.
He just flat out interpreted this the way he wanted to interpret it, ignoring the intent of Congress.
He ignored the rule of law, he ignored the words in the law, the statute, he ignored the intent of Congress, and wrote his own law again.
Using his own preferences, and his stated reason was to avoid chaos in the in the health insurance markets.
But it was that chaos that was intended.
Not everything Congress does is brilliant, not everything Congress does is right, but what they did was what they did.
And Roberts appointed himself savior of a bunch of incompetent statutory requirements in Obamacare.
But I just want to tell you also that there's a there's a a building theme in the drive-by media.
The most recent story I saw is quoting Stanley Hoyer, uh Democrat from Maryland, who said, Yeah, I just ran into Paul Ryan on the House floor, and he was smiling real big when telling me he disagreed with the court's decision.
And you know why he was smiling?
Because the Republicans are counting their lucky stars.
Because the Republicans would have been up a creek if the court had ruled against Obamacare.
Because the Republicans would have been blamed for leaving people without subsidies.
And they are happy.
And so this is a recurring theme, and you're going to see this if you haven't already.
You're going to see this blossom out there that the Republicans secretly, maybe not even secretly openly very, very happy with the outcome.
And by the way, there may be some of them who are.
They didn't have a backup plan here to speak of, not that anybody knows.
So anyway, that's that.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, a couple of days ago on this program in the midst of the latest assault on the South, and on South Carolina, and on the Confederate flag, I spent some time explaining to you what was really happening and what the assault was really not about the flag.
The flag provided a timely symbol for the Democrats in the left to target and isolate and give it the Alinsky once over.
But what the real target was yet another opportunity to trash an entire culture in this country.
Southern culture, uh geographic Republican stronghold, an attempt to make people think that what Dylan Roof did is common in the South.
At least people want to do what he did.
People doing it may not be common, but the attempt has been made, tar in fact, everybody lives in the South, not just South Carolina, with harboring these kinds of desires, uhgations of intent racism.
And I said, given all of this, because it's not really about the flag.
The flag provides the opportunity for the attack, the next thing that's going to happen is the American flag will come under assault.
Well, Fox News the next morning on Fox and Friends, and we played for you the Montag soundbite, uh, all but Steve Deucey thought that I had lost my marbles, or some variation of that.
I thought it was crazy, that it was senseless, come on, because they had been swept up into this.
The beauty of the of the Democrat trap is they attack the flag and link what Dylan Roof did to the flag, and then everybody Oh, yeah, I must join this effort because I don't want to ever be uh so everybody joins the effort, Republicans, conservatives, and the media jump on the bandwagon too, so that they can have protection.
Uh and they don't see.
It's amazing to me.
It I I don't quite know how to say this.
Uh uh but it's amazing to me how few people really see what's happening right in front of them.
Now, I'm kind of like, you know what they used to say about Wayne Gretzky?
The great hockey star.
Wayne Gretzky had the unique ability to skate to where he knew the puck was going to be.
And that's why everybody thought he was so good.
Well, in a way that's what I do.
I look at where this is all headed, and I tell you what's next, and I get there.
And then when it happens, or before it happens, whoa, what an idiot.
Well, you don't know what he's talking about.
This is just.
In fact, this morning, when they talked about this again on Fox and Friends, Brian killed me.
Did you hear how they introduced this snurtly?
On Fox and Friends, they introduced their segment on Have I Lost My Mind or whatever by saying I'm paraphrasing it something like Does Rush Limbaugh have a point, or is he simply an extremist who was marginalized years ago?
And then they brought on Eric Erickson from Red State to discuss my prediction that the next target would be the American flag.
Now, something interesting happened After I made the prediction, just a few short hours after I made the prediction, and Drudge highlighted the prediction on his page.
That means everybody saw it.
And that means everybody thought, well, here goes old Rush again.
And you know what people think?
They think I just say things to be talked about.
They think I just say things to be outrageous so that I'll get my name talked.
That's the way the last thing I do, I'm gonna be talked about anyway.
I frankly rather not be, if you want to know the truth.
They impugned my motives, but he's just saying these outrageous things just to get no.
That's the you know the what I've told you this before.
When I first began this kind of radio back in Sacramento, best piece of advice I ever got.
It was uh KFPK Sacramento, and I was I was being told what they would support and what they wouldn't.
And the the general manager of the radio station, a consultant took me aside and they said to me, we will back you up.
Whatever you say, if you really mean it, if you believe it, you can show why you have evidence, proof, whatever.
If you but what their point was, we are not gonna support you if you're just gonna get on the radio and try to shock people.
We're not gonna back you.
It's not what we want.
We're not afraid of controversy, but we don't want BS.
We don't want conspiracy theories, we don't, we don't want wild accusations about people that aren't true.
We don't want any of that.
But if if you really believe something, we will back it up.
Now they had made the determination I was not insane or a lunatics, they felt safe, offering these conditions.
And every I took that to heart, and and I've by the way, it's just a matter of philosophy.
There's no point lying to you.
And there's no point in trying to get noticed.
There's no point in saying outrageous things.
I leave that to other people.
It's not a technique.
When I tell you that I think the next thing the left is going to do is go after the American flag in a symbolic way, I mean it.
They're already doing it.
Name for me an American tradition or institution that is not under assault.
The left's on the march here, folks.
And if they're going to use the Confederate flag as a symbolic way to go after a Republican stronghold, i.e.
the South, well then somebody's gonna pop up and say the American flag has flown over much worse atrocities than the Confederate flag.
And by the way, a few short hours after the prediction, it came true.
And yet there was this assumption that I was just flapping my gums, and I was just saying all this just to get noticed.
After 26, 27 years, still these mindless assertions.
And what's really frustrating about it, if I may be bold and honest, what's really frustrating is why am I the only one that ceased this?
There's a whole lot of what I consider to be smart people out there who are just bamboozled by all this media narrative, soap opera stuff every day.
They fall right along and join it, help promulgate it.
Let's go to the audio sound bites, give you some evidence here what I'm talking about.
Let's start with uh C-SPAN, Washington Journal today.
This actually is uh it's not bad.
It's a caller named Doc in the caller section of Washington Journal C-SPAN this morning.
Just the other day, uh Rush Limbaugh said that, you know, with this Confederate flag issue that the next flag would be coming down would be the American flag.
And of course, the leftists, the liberals, well, that can't be.
And then uh the Lewis Farrakhan said something in church that the American flag needs to come down.
Rush Limbaugh is smarter than all those politicians put together.
Hey, it wasn't the it wasn't the Democrats.
And then there may have been some Democrats.
It was conservatives, folks.
It was repo so-called conservative Republican media jumped in my chili on this, asking if I'm just an extremist, marginalized years ago.
Uh and here's how it happened.
This was this morning, and they talked about this on several segments.
This is Fox and Friends.
We got Steve Ducey, Brian Kilmead, Elizabeth Hasselbeck.
Uh this is not from yesterday when they they totally everybody but Deucey yesterday poo-pooted.
Deucey, I don't know that they may have a point.
Everybody it's ridiculous.
Come on, that's so funny.
No way.
No way.
American flag, no way, not.
This is what happened today.
Meanwhile, Rush Limbaugh warned the American flag was next to be banned.
Well, now his prediction is a little closer to being true.
The far left, Louis Farrakhan calling for a revolt of the American flag.
Is this just the beginning?
Coming up, Rush Limbaugh warned the fight over the Confederate flag was only the beginning.
And with protesters from Colorado to South Carolina burning the American flag, does he have a point?
Wow, uh, Rush Limbaugh making that bold prediction this week and getting a lot of criticism, and then his video comes out.
Protesters burning the American flag in the wake of the South Carolina shooting.
Is Russia's prediction closer to becoming truth?
Rush Limbaugh warned that the American flag was next to be banned, and now his prediction is one step closer to coming true.
The far left and Lewis Farrakhan calling for a revolt of old glory.
So is this just the beginning?
Rush Limbaugh on his program on Tuesday had the observation that given the fact that the culture is moving so fast.
Don't be surprised if one day, next stop, old glory.
Well, that is disgusting.
Russia's right.
Now, it's not just they're burning the flag, folks.
You remember the story at UC Irvine.
The American flag could not be shown because it offended immigrants.
Student immigrants.
There was some I don't know, some uh meeting, some rally or some such thing.
It you know, I've spoken at UC Irvine, it may have been that auditorium, but whatever it was, it was uh Hispanic immigrants protested the presence of the American flag, and they took it down.
University took it down.
UC Irvine took it and didn't want to offend the immigrants.
And that's not the only example.
There are countless other examples of the American flag not being allowed at certain public places because it offends somebody.
The points look it really, it's it's already happening.
Now here's Calypso Lewis, and now let me take the break so I have some time after it will come back.
Calypso Lewis at the Metropolitan AME church in Washington yesterday, making the prediction come true.
Yeah, it was the it was even worse.
The UC Irvine's student body voted to ban the U.S. flag from campus at uh some event because the immigrant students felt offended.
Don't uh don't doubt me on this and don't and don't underestimate this.
Now here's Calypso Lewis in Washington, Metropolitan AME church, a couple of bites.
I don't know what the hell the fight is about over the Confederate flag.
We need to put the American flag down because we've got as much hell under that as the Confederate flag.
Who are we fighting today?
It's the people that carry the American flag.
What flag do the police have?
What flag flies over the non-justice department?
What flag flies over the White House?
Where black men live this call every day?
What about that flag?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's this old Russians.
It's the extremist, marginalized years ago.
Is Calypso Louie now promising to take action based on what he just observed?
Now we're gonna pull the flag down.
That's as easy as it is pulling your pants down.
You gotta answer a call to nature, you pull your pants down.
That's easy.
Pull a flag down and you supposed to go away satisfied?
See, you don't know what justice looks like.
If somebody can pull a flag down and you're happy as though they did something, we want justice under that flag.
Or what the hell is the use of us paying allegiance to a flag under which we get no justice?
And now, I know what some of you probably say.
Rush, this is Calypso Louis a lunatic.
He's a lame brain.
You can't count that.
Where do you think the Ferguson protesters come from?
Where do you think the Baltimore Maryland protesters come from?
Where do you think all the shoot em ups in Chicago are coming from?
Maybe 25 years ago, like everything else in the left, we looked at it and think it's obscure, it's marginalized, it's fringe, and we laugh at it.
But folks, it isn't 25 years ago.
And this stuff is becoming mainstream, and this stuff becomes eventually sponsored one way or another by the Democrat Party.
I don't expect the Democrat Party to ever join a call to pull down the American flag.
They're not going to have to.
Calypso Louie's done it for them.
But they can clearly easily pick up the point of the argument that America is flawed.
And That America is deeply flawed and needs major transformation.
It's already happening.
I hate to pick on Fox, but Greg Gutfeld uh was on the five yesterday afternoon where they were also discussing my prediction.
To me, this is absurd.
And I think this is where the left and the right often mirror each other.
They're gonna take our flags as like a leftist saying they're gonna take my birth control pills.
It's a fear tactic.
And I do think that we're combining issues.
The Confederate flag speaks to a specific division.
I think what Rush and conservatives are focusing on is that there seems to be a crusade against our common past.
So when you see the Confederate flag being attacked, you extrapolate it to the American flag.
I don't think they're right.
I don't think I think it's absurd to if you would think that the American flag is gonna go away.
That's like a leftist saying they're gonna take my birth control pills.
No, it's not.
That's not at all what I'm saying.
And I don't I kind of resent being compared to those lame brains on the left who want to be paid three thousand dollars a month to screw like Minx.
Did you see the the movie critic for the New York Post?
The New York Post is supposed to be a conservative paper, if it's anything.
And the movie critic there is a guy named uh Lou Lumenick, or Lou Luminick, I'm not sure how he pronounces it.
Anyway.
He said in a piece that ran last night, actually, I think it's in today's paper, that the movie Gone with the Wind is a national embarrassment and needs to be banned from television and movie theatrical release and available to be seen only in museums.
Now there's some black actors who won an Oscar in that movie.
Haddy McDaniel won an Oscar.
Um it was the first role for many of them.
Many people, Hollywood thing is the greatest movie ever.
But this bandwagon critic really wants to score points here with the inertia that's in motion.
Yeah, let's let's let's ban that movie to museum.
Yeah, that's right on.
All it takes is somebody making a prediction and others who want to be thought of the same way.
Yes, it's a wonderful thing, Justin, and I think I could easily concur and agree with that.
Rather than, are you crazy?
Why are we so afraid of our comp we fixed it?
We know we went to war.
We more people died in the civil war to fix and correct.
I guess what's so frustrating is all of this is taking place, the assumption that there have been no changes since the days of this country's founding, that it's just as bad as it's always been.
Here is Mark in uh in South Carolina.
I really appreciate your patience, Mark, in waiting.
Thank you very much.
Sure, Mr. Limbaugh, I appreciate you having me on.
Uh longtime listener, first time caller.
I am a student of your institute, but I have to admit I'm not a perfect attendance record.
So uh excuse me if I speak out a lot.
And I may have used the term rhetoric a little too quickly when I was describing what I wanted to talk about.
Um, but I do think um I want to tell you something from someone who is out in the heartland of America, not hard land, but in the southern part of America, uh just an everyday 60-year-old Southern conservative out of work.
Uh I think the people out here are tired, or at least I'm tired, of hearing you um supporting the Republican Party.
Um, not necessarily supporting them in every manner, but whenever anybody says something or anything is done or anything comes on TV, it's always related back to the Democratic Party.
Well, I think the Republicans are just as guilty now as a Democrat.
I've lost all faith in the in the Republican Party.
I've lost all faith in uh Congress, I've lost all faith in our federal justice system, I've lost all faith in our uh military system for that matter, because they're they're tearing that away from us.
I'm at the point where I'm tired of fighting all this.
I'm just tired of fighting, trying to live a regular life, be a regular American, be proud of who I am.
They're taking my flag from me now, they're taking my gun from me eventually, they're taking my right to speak freely eventually.
I don't I I'm just tired.
I'm tired of fighting everybody.
There doesn't seem like there's anybody that that cares anymore.
I I'm I'm just frustrated.
I'm I'm somewhere between frustrated, mad, um, ready to give up hope, and don't know where to turn.
I agree with all of that.
I I agree with all, and I know that you are not alone.
And I can tell you right now, there are probably millions of people standing up and applauding what you just said.
The frustration level out there, I don't think is calculable.
And the frustration is aimed at the Republican Party because there's no pushback.
And I, by the way, I I I do not shirk from pointing that out constantly.
I know exactly I let me tell you something, Mark.
I feel exactly as frustrated as you do.
You know, maybe even more so, because just like you, it's patently obvious to all of us what's happening, and there isn't any pushback.
And I, for one, I come here every day.
I'm sick and tired of playing defense every day.
I'm sick and tired of getting up every day and looking at things I believe in under assault and coming here and trying to defend them.
But that's the job.
That's where we are.
That's happen that happens to be what's called for.
Now, I commented at the beginning of the program, the leftists have been very clever about getting all of this socialism into our culture to now where the conservative movement has been reduced to not debating it and getting rid of it, but rather fine-tuning it like Obamacare.
We're not going to repeal it, we're going to replace it.
We're going to do it smarter.
We're going to make it more efficient.
That's what even today, Republicans are quoted as saying.
There's no, there's there's there's we never have time to go on offense because every day we wake up and yet another dear thing we believe in is under assault.
And I have been doing my whatever it adds up to my best for the last 27 years, clarity and call every day.
That's what this program has been.
I've tried mocking the left, I've tried laughing at them, I've tried ridiculing, I've tried everything.
But every look at this this flag business, uh I make this prediction, and even I, on conservative outlets are ridiculed and impugned and and and cast off as as some you know extremist wacko.
But I keep doing it because I see exactly what's happening and where we're headed.
I wish, like you, we were on offense.
I wish we were implementing conservatism.
I wish the American people had a genuine conservative candidate to vote for.
People between 18 and 34 have never had that chance.
They've never even heard a conservative candidate.
They don't even know what it stands for.
I wish we had time to go on offense.
I wish there was some way to make it happen.
But the left, as oppressive as their march is, has to be defended.
Now I've got a I want to recommend a piece to you.
Not that it's going to persuade you and change your mind.
Uh, but I would be curious to know what you thought of it.
It it appears at National Review Online.
They posted it at 4 a.m. today.
It's by Kevin D. Williamson.
It was written before the Supreme Court decision today.
And it's called We Have Officially Reached Peak Leftism.
And let me tell you what is point.
Mark, are you still there?
He hung up.
No.
Oh, you're still there.
Okay.
Yes.
You're still you're still with me, okay?
Yes, sir.
He's his point here is that the left is just this close to imploding that they're going crazy right before everybody's eyes.
Here's how it begins.
A progressive panic attack begins as the Obama era wanes.
It if it seems to you that the left has collectively lost its damned mind as the curtain rises on the last act of the Obama administration.
You are not imagining things.
It's a well-written rant.
It's basically my program from last week, if you want to know the case.
But what he believes is that the left is overreached on so much.
and That there is such a stink of desperation about what they're doing, that they are on the verge of being totally rejected by the American people.
And the and the cherry on the top is what they're doing in South Carolina.
It says today the South is an economic powerhouse dominated by Republicans, attracting new African American residents by the thousands.
And so the left and its creature, the Democrat Party insist that Southern identity as such must be gotten rid of.
The horrific crime that shocked the nation, notwithstanding black life in Charleston remains very different in attractive ways from black life in such left dominated horror shows as Cleveland and Detroit.
And all of that's true.
Life for African Americans in South Carolina and the South is much better than life for African Americans in Detroit and in Cleveland and in a number of other places.
His point is that you should be thinking positive.
That it's all about to implode on them.
Now, I doubt that he'd persuade you.
I doubt that you see that as being the case, but he has written it's a long three pages when you print it out.
I'll link to it at Rushlinbaugh.com today.
You can see it if you want to check into it.
I appreciate that.
Yes, sir, I will.
If I may if I make you one more minute, um I would like to say something about that lady that called regarding the the um the flag here in South Carolina and in the South for that matter.
Right.
That flag is that flag has not been referred to, at least by me and by a lot of Southern uh raised and born people that I know as the Confederate flag since 1865.
That flag has become the Southern heritage flag.
It flies proudly in my yard.
It will continue to fly proudly in my yard until somebody comes in my yard and tries to rip it down, and then the second amendment rights will kick in on my part.
But um, see now what she thinks is that you flying that flag is going to inspire somebody else to go out and do a Dylan Roof.
That is ridiculous.
That flag is looked on by everyone that I know, and believe me, I know a lot of people who are much more deeply Southern rooted in in history than I am, that look at that flag with pride.
They look at it as a way of life.
I look at that flag and I see sitting out in my backyard around my fire pit, smoking a cigar with some buddies, listening to the whipple wheels wing uh singing in the background.
That's what I that's what I look at when I see that Southern flag, Southern Heritage flag.
Um I don't see what it stood for.
Well, she thinks that you're longing to own slaves.
I I couldn't afford them if I did, to be honest with you.
Um not with minimum wage going up like it is.
Um, not to mention health care costs.
I mean, exactly.
No one in my family ever owned slaves, nor did they want to.
They worked the fields themselves.
Doesn't matter.
Uh doesn't matter.
You lived in a place where slaves were owned, and so I would ask her.
Um I happened to see something yesterday on one of the social media sites.
Um the chairman of the Black Panther Group was in Charleston, and he was espousing the um for all of the uh That was Malik Shabbaz, our old buddy Malik Shabbaz.
I I know I don't I can't remember what he said either, but I I remember reading about it.
I'm I'm sorry to interrupt because I have to go.
It's obscene profit time.
I appreciate the call, Mark, and I I'm glad you waited.
Yeah, look, I I I hate to remind you again, but there's gonna be a another whole wave of Supreme Court cases uh decisions announced tomorrow, and probably gay marriage is gonna be among them.
And you should probably, again, using uh experience guided by intelligence, uh, give you an indication of how that's gonna be.
So you'd be be prepared to just be frothing again all over.
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for being with us today, and be here tomorrow.
Among other things, we will keep you sane.
And we'll do our best.
See you then.
Thanks so much for joining us today.
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