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July 1, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 1, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Hi, welcome back, friends.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Rushland bought 800-282-2882 in the email address.
Lrushbo at EIBNet.com.
Great to have you with us as always.
All right, look, uh you can't avoid this kind of stuff happening out there.
The uh uh emails, check them at the top of the uh top of the hour.
Hey, you're giving all this time to Trump.
You know, Christie announced yesterday.
Why don't you give him Okay, okay, okay, I hear you.
I understand.
I do not want to be accused of showing anybody any favoritism.
This is why we don't have them on the program, folks.
It's why I don't start interviewing one, then I'm gonna have to interview all.
What are you frown?
Well, I did talk, I did talk about Christie, but but but but hey, you know, I've I I happen to have some Christie sound bites here, so it ain't any big deal.
But I don't I don't want to have to start the interview process and then have them all in here.
There's what 16.
I don't care what that many of them think.
Well, that's not true.
I'm just joking here, folks.
But let's Christie was on with Hannity last night on the uh on the Fox News channel.
Up to sound bites 14, what we have here.
14 and uh and 15.
So one of Hannity's questions to Chris Christie was it was six days before the 2012 election.
So after Hurricane Sandy, President Obama shows up, Bloomberg said no to Obama, Cuomo said no, and you let the president come to New Jersey.
And I thought my personal opinion was it was a photo op.
And then there was the hug.
You hug the guy.
There was no hug.
First of all, Bloomberg and Cuomo didn't say no.
The president didn't ask to go to New York.
He asked to come to New Jersey.
My job was to make sure that when the president came there, I was courteous, I was respectful, and I asked him for the federal government's help.
And if I had to do all over again, I wouldn't do anything differently.
Wait a minute.
Now I'm under a different impression.
Uh uh I I have always believed that Bloomberg and Cuomo said no to Obama, that Obama did offer to come in and offer his.
I can't believe that he didn't.
If it's a campaign, it's right before the 2012 election.
I would think Obama'd want to be in every damaged area.
He could be.
But Governor Christie said that Obama only called him.
Didn't call Bloomberg and didn't call Cuomo.
But you you hear in the answer, he asked to come.
My job was to make sure that when he came that I was courteous, I was respectful, and I asked him for the federal government's help.
That's I mean, that's right in line with what he said yesterday in his announ in in his announcement that we've got to show we can work together, and that we have to uh cooperate.
Uh bipartisanship.
Look, say what you want.
Chris Christie is using the Republican Party establishment manual on how to be elected president.
There obviously is a blueprint for this from the Republican establishment, and it has as one of its requirements, you must talk about bipartisanship.
You must talk about cooperation.
You must pledge that you will work with the Democrats.
You must pledge that you want to work with Democrats, that you want Washington to work, and that you're the guy who can make it happen.
And there's a bunch of Republicans that subscribe to that theory.
They've all lost.
But clearly, Governor Christie has it believes in the blueprint.
That what I know they did Republicans in the North.
That's what they tell you in the North.
This is exactly my point.
Republican in the Northeast, that's what you have to do, because most of the people live there are Democrats.
And you can't win with just Republican votes in the Northeast.
You have to get some Democrat votes.
They say, yeah, so the way you get the Democrat votes is to say you want to work with these Democrats, cooperate with them, and...
I think there's more to it than that, though.
I think specifically saying that an admission on the part of the candidate that he believes all these assaults the media makes on Republicans, that they're intransigent, in uncooperative and and and all of that.
But also the belief that's what the American people want.
I I don't know.
We'll just have to wait and see.
The next question, Hannity said, Well, what do you say to people that that that maybe still think that the way you behave with Obama six days before the election hurt Romney's campaign?
None of the polling information that's come out afterwards indicated that at all.
Secondly, talk to Mitt Romney.
Because Mitt Romney will tell you it didn't hurt him.
He said the storm hurt him.
I didn't hurt him.
Let me say one last thing.
You know, if people in this country want someone who's going to play politics 24 hours a day, seven days a week, don't vote for me.
What I'm going to do is do the job that people elected me to do.
That's what I'll always do, and I'll do it unapologetically.
There you have it.
Okay, so people elected me to do this, I'm going to go do it.
I'm not going to play politics 24.
You see, what is playing politics 24-7 mean, as he as he said it there?
What does that mean?
What is seriously now?
Tell me what you think playing politics 24-7.
Translate that for me.
Mm-hmm.
No.
Playing politics 24-7, that's not what he means.
No, no, let me read it to you again.
He said, let me say one last thing.
You know, if people in this country want somebody who's going to play politics 24-7, don't vote for me.
What I'm going to do is do the job people elected me to do.
That's what I'll always do, and I'll do it unapologetically.
Okay, so what is he saying that he's not going to do when he's not going to play politics 24?
Exactly right.
Exactly right.
He is not going to be a partisan.
He is not going to argue about or with Democrats.
He is not going to rip and criticize Democrats.
That's politics.
And he's not going to do that.
He's going to do his job.
Very good, Mr. Snertley.
You're on top of your game today.
I must, I must really applaud you.
I thought that I might need to take five or six minutes to get a wild gas answer very well.
No, the Democrats never stop playing.
Politics is their life.
Politics is their life blood.
Everything is contentious with them.
Everything is political.
That's the point.
That's the point I've been trying to drill into people for I don't know how long.
Everything the Democrats do, even funerals, is political.
Everything.
There isn't a thing that happens that they don't try to convert it into something they can advance their agenda with.
Everything.
Crisis, disaster, you name it.
And the bigger the better.
And that's what Governor Christie says he's not going to do.
He's not going to play politics.
So let's see.
Christie, then he went over last night that he was on Hannity that was on a Today Show with Matt Wauer today.
And this is a setup, and this is, you know, I I predict this going to happen.
We had the first setup here from Matt Wauer interviewing Christie during a discussion about Christie running before they start talking to Christie.
That's what Matt Wauer said.
When this country elected Barack Obama's president six years ago, history was made.
He became the first African American president in U.S. history.
And yet if you look at this country today, you could argue that it is as racially divided and racially tense as it has been in decades.
So if Barack Obama couldn't help bridge the racial divide, how can President Chris Christie?
And it took them seven years to figure this out.
Do you realize what a you realize what an admission that is?
It took Mount Wauer seven years to realize that the election of the first African American president has made race relations worse.
He said it.
Right Here he said it.
Became the first African American president U.S. history, and if you look at this country today, you could argue that it's as racially divided and tense as it has been in decades.
I think so.
It's angrier, more miserable, unhappy.
But see, Governor Christie, he yesterday said, no, no, there's no anger out there.
I travel a fruited plane.
I travel a country, I don't see the American people angry, I see anxiety.
Well, here's how Governor Christie answered the question.
The question was so if an African American can't help bridge the racial divide, how can you?
I've learned here in my state, which is the most ethnically diverse state in the country.
But the first way to do it is to show up in all those places.
And listen.
So for instance, when the tragedy happened in Charleston, African American ministers in my state called and said they wanted to have a prayer service.
And I went on Father's Day and sat with African American ministers and members of their congregation and spoke very clearly about racism.
That racism is the cause of what happened in Charleston.
Okay.
So that's what Governor Christie is.
Why are you smiling at me?
Come on, why are you in there laughing at me?
Tell me.
Say it.
Say it.
Why are you laughing?
You don't have the go dance to tell me what you're laughing about.
I know what you're laughing at.
You think this is silly.
Were you able to understand that?
Bob there's a lot of background noise.
Let me let me read the transfer.
For those of you who may not have been able to hear exactly what he said.
He said, I've learned here in my state, which is the most ethnically diverse state in the country, that the first way to do that, to uh bridge the racial divide, is to show up in all those places and to listen.
So for instance, when the tragedy happened in Charleston, African American ministers in my state called me and said they wanted to have a prayer service.
And I went on Father's Day and I sat with African American ministers and members of their congregation, and I spoke very clearly about racism.
That racism is the cause of what happened in Charleston.
That's how he's going to bridge the racial divide.
Okay, that's what he said.
No, no, no, no, no.
You get your own show and say that.
This is another example, Snerdley shouting at me.
That's another reason why they don't have microphones in their phone.
We'd be hitting the edit button.
I can't tell you how.
Jeez.
That's...
Oh, God.
See, well, I would I would bridge the racial divide this way.
I have black friends, and I would sit with them on Father's Day.
That's how I would do it.
That's not what he said.
You think that's what he said?
That's not.
That's not.
That's that's that's it was not saying I've got black friends, and they called me on Father's Day, and I said, that's not that's not.
You're being really snarky in there.
You are being really, really, really cynical.
This is uh well, anyway.
Uh see, let me take a break here, folks.
I've got a uh a great Ted Cruz soundbite talking about Ted uh uh Justice Rob uh Thomas, Clarence Thomas.
But let me take a break so I don't get too far behind here.
We'll come back and start melding your phone calls back into the busy broadcast mix after this.
Here what TV Land has done, they have pulled the Dukes of Hazard.
They have uh not only is I think did iTunes get rid of it too?
I'm not sure, but the uh TV Land, the TV network, cable network, uh, has uh it's owned by Viacom.
They have quietly, it says here, remove a Dukes of Hazzard from their programming schedule in the wake of recent controversy regarding the show's extensive use of the Confederate flag.
Now, I think they might have made a hasty decision here.
You ever seen the Dukes of Hazard?
Well, here's the thing about it.
Um Bo and Luke Duke, that's who the Dukes of Hazzard are.
They hated the white cops in their County.
And their county was Hazard County.
They hated the cops.
They'd have been right at home today, the Democrat Party's anti-cop movement.
And so the Democrat Party actually shooting itself in the foot by banning this program because it was it was a great anti-cop show.
I mean, made buffoons out of the cops.
You remember the cop in this show was a Jackie Gleason type tub-looking guy, constantly couldn't speak.
Like a Buford T. Justice kind of character.
I mean, they literally made fun of the cops on practically every episode.
And they pulled the entire series because the roof of the Dodge Charger in the car had the Confederate flag painted on.
Jimmy Carter.
Jimmy Carter is back.
Folks, I gotta tell you a story.
Setting this up.
It was at the funeral for Richard Nixon.
Jimmy Carter and Rosalind were there, and Dr. Kissinger was there.
Well, everybody was there.
I mean, even Clinton showed up.
Cliff Clinton made a party out of it.
He put a bunch of his buds on Air Force One and flew in out there.
Southern California.
They made a weekend of it.
Orgies and stuff, you know.
And Reagan and Nancy showed up, and everybody lauded Richard Nixon.
I mean every eulogy.
He why might he open the door to China?
He was the greatest at this, he was the greatest at that.
And the cameras would cut to Jimmy Carter sitting there, and you could then he and Rosalind, they were fuming.
They were just fuming.
And you know what happened after that.
I'm sure that the Carters left the Nixon funeral.
And Roseland said to him, You see what's happening here?
I mean, here that Richard Nixon, the hatest worst president ever, and they're making him out like to be a hero.
You better do something, or they're gonna start talking about you as the biggest loser president we've ever had.
And that's when Jimmy Carter joined Habitat for Humanity.
Was after the Nixon funeral.
Well, and he's he's had a chip on his shoulder.
He doesn't like being called the worst president of the century.
He doesn't like the fact that the economy tanked and that failed rescue effort for the Iranian hostages.
So whenever he is asked to render his opinion on any president's foreign policy, you can guarantee he's always gonna rip it.
And he has done so with uh Barack Hussein O. Jimmy Carter told an Aspen Institute audience that Obama's accomplishments in foreign policy have been minimal, and that the United States influence is lower than it was six or seven years ago.
That happens to be when Obama was immaculated.
Here just a brief audio soundbite from the QA yesterday at the Aspen Institute, Walter Isaacson, who wrote the book on jobs, said to Jimmy Carter, what about President Obama's success or failures on the world stage?
How would you assess that?
On the world stage, I think they've been minimal.
I think he's done some good things domestically, but uh on the world stage, just to be objective about it as I can.
I can't think of many nations in the world where we have a better relationship now than we did when he took over.
I'm telling you, he says this because of what happened at the Nixon funeral.
That's the only reason he's going to throw a Democrat president under the bus.
Guaranteed.
He's trying to still salvage his own foreign policy reputation because that a that hor at that Iran hostage crisis.
That was the that was the coffin closing on the Carter presidency.
Here's Susan at Rockville Center in New York.
I've always loved the name of that town.
Rock Rockville Center.
How are you doing, Susan?
I'm doing great, and I am so honored that I actually got through, and I can actually speak to you.
Well, thank you very much.
Um you were talking about Hillary Clinton and how she's technologically challenged.
I had a thought back to when I worked for Apple Computer in one of their retail stores.
Um, and we used to have people come in and we would teach them how to use their computers.
Right.
And when you told the story of Hillary, what popped into my head was the over 70 crowd used to always sit down and we would ask them, what would you like to learn about?
And they would say, Can you teach me about the Google?
They didn't understand that Google was a search engine.
Right.
Can you teach me about the Google?
Can you teach me about the Google?
And I guess because well, you know what?
Snergley laughed a lot harder than you are.
But it was really funny.
Well, I'm polite.
But but that's I mean you can understand it with the over 70 crowd.
But but but Hillary, she's not quite 70, or is she?
No, but she's just, you know, for somebody who hasn't driven a car herself for 20 years, you can understand how she's just a very good question.
Well, they gotta be careful.
You know, I didn't drive myself for what was it, eight years, eight or ten years.
One of the reasons I moved, by the way, is so I could drive again.
Um anyway, can you look, Susan?
I I'm out of time.
Can you hang on during the break?
Yes, sure.
Yeah, good, good, good.
Be right back.
Now back to Susan and Rockville Center.
You know, you talked about people of 70 years of age coming in and wanting to know about the Google.
I can't.
Look at in her emails.
Hillary talks about there's a there's a quote she sends an email to somebody.
She's she says, there have been a bunch of Facebook on me.
No, that's what made me th that's what made me think about the Google.
Well, how did you think she said the Facebooks?
How long ago did you did you uh were you at the genius bar at the Apple store?
Oh, um I wasn't a genius, but um I was I was more of the creative type.
I'm a photographer.
Um and and just a backstory quickly, I went to work for them because my husband lost his job in 2007, and we needed health care coverage, and we wound up paying for it out of our own pockets for two years, and that's when I decided I couldn't do it anymore because I'm one of those people who had to go into 401k money in order to survive the way I, you know, with two kids in college and everything else.
So that's why I went to work for them.
So I worked for them in um from 2009 until 2011 when he finally got a job with m with medical coverage uh one month in, and I I I had to leave.
But well, were you were you able to teach these 70 somethings about Google?
Yeah, yeah.
Absolutely.
I mean, there were certain people who were just they didn't get it, and they would come back, you know, week after week and have you teach them the Well, you know, God bless them for wanting to learn, and then there's a lot of people, that stuff just intimidates them, and they don't want to get anywhere near it.
Um people that have iPhones and they and they love taking pictures and you try to show them additional things.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I don't want to, I don't have it.
Would you would you would you like maybe to No, no, I know, I know, but it's good that the the people wanted to learn this stuff.
And um you may need a little bit more patience with them, but still.
Um the Google Facebook.
You know, you know what Fox is reporting about the Hillary emails, I'm just watching Gretchen Carlson, who, by the way, herself has a new book out.
And it's a memoir, and I don't have the title of it right in front of me.
Darn it.
It's really good, folks.
I didn't know uh a lot of stuff about Gretchen Carlson I didn't know.
Such well uh some of it she should be the one to say.
But if you look at her now, you would not if you saw see pictures in the book of Gretchen Carlson when she's 12 or 15, you wouldn't recognize her.
She was she's been stalked.
Uh viciously so and so forth.
It's it's quite an amazing story in her book.
Anyway, getting it real, getting real.
Yeah, Gretchen Carlson's book is getting real, and it's good.
Uh memoir type type uh type book.
Now what was I gonna say?
Now I changed my train of thought.
Something something I was gonna say to remind oh oh, it was a book.
Gretchen Carlson, blah, blah, blah, blah.
It'll come to me.
Before I do forget this next, though, I grabbed soundbite number 21.
This is Ted Cruz.
This is Last Night is on with Meghan Kelly.
Um, and he's got a new book called A Time for Truth.
That's what I was gonna say.
Everybody's got new books out now.
Anyway.
Megan Kelly said one of the stories in your book I thought was so great was about Justice Thomas.
When you clerked, you're a young guy, you're clerking for the chief justice, but Justice Thomas agreed to see an African American boy who was paying a visit to the court.
Tell the viewers what happened.
Justice Thomas sat down with this little boy, spent two hours talking with this junior high kid, and I gotta tell you, what particularly impressed Carlos was Justice Thomas is a big Dallas Cowboys fan.
He had a frame picture of himself with Troy Aikman.
At the end of two hours, Justice Thomas walked to his desk and he had on his desk a Super Bowl ticket encased in Lucite that was signed by Emmett Smith.
He picked it up, he gave it to Carlos, and he said, Carlos, I'll tell you what, I'm going to give you this, but I want you to promise me you're going to get A's in school next year.
And Carlos, with his eyes big and bright, nodded and said, Absolutely, sir, I will.
Justice Thomas had moments like that over and over and over again.
He's a man with an incredible heart, heart for people.
See, this is another example.
I I I don't understand why anybody would want to destroy Dr. Ben Carson, but they're trying to.
The Democrats are.
He's one of the decent, most finest human beings we have in the country.
And Clarence Thomas is the same.
And yet they're out destroying him, and they've not stopped trying.
This guy, there's this guy that has a show on Comedy Central.
And I I don't re the I don't remember the name.
But he thinks he's telling a joke.
This is after one of the Supreme Court decisions this week.
And he says, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know what?
I would, I just love to see Clarence Thomas walking down the street, just fall into a manhole and just keep falling and falling and falling.
Not even a joke.
It's just an open-ended desire for Clarence Har Clarence Thomas to have harm befall him and to disappear.
All because of what he wrote in a dissenting opinion.
The problem was gay marriage.
Be my guess.
Anyway, I take the take a break.
We'll come back and uh continue with phone calls after this, folks.
Do not go away.
Yet another shark attack in North Carolina.
This is shark attack number six in three weeks.
And it took him a while, but there's an official explanation now.
Global warming.
I'm not kidding you.
Some experts put out uh a five-point uh well, a paper, five reasons why shark attack.
Number five, global warming.
Um actually, I think the sea turtle explanation makes a lot of sense, actually.
You know, you can't do anything to disturb sea turtles and the sharks, and the sharks eat.
I mean, uh so the uh sea turtles are being born and they're swimming out in the ocean of sharks just waiting for them.
And so that's probably part of it.
Who knows why?
Who knows why?
We'll have to ask the sharks.
Uh Nelson in Pittsburgh, I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Thanks for having me, Rush.
It's a great honor to speak with you.
Thank you, sir.
From the Steel City.
Um, I really believe as a conservative Hispanic, and that I actually fall into that millennial generation.
We really need to get on the ball with with our conservative movement.
The veteran candidates very early, closed the gap on all this misinformation that's been propagated by the liberal media.
It's getting to a point where we're just gonna be handing a victory to the Clinton uh camp.
And I like you said, that Katie Curry interview with Cruz, for all intents and purposes, that was a little gotcha moment.
You know, that it was one of these things with, oh, you know, she doesn't get she doesn't, you know.
We really need to make sure that it doesn't happen like Palin, where they're scrutinizing her over not knowing what news sources she reads or or what have you.
And but then you look at the liberal side and you look at the Hillary Clinton saying, well, she doesn't know how to operate a fax machine.
How cute.
You know, look look at that.
But then they really scrutinize it if Cruz is Cuban enough and and and try to be inquisitive on his knowledge on Cuban cuisine.
I mean, come on.
I think we as Americans are smarter than that.
Times are changing.
We're definitely doing our due diligence.
And I just have I just have a real fear that it's gonna come down to well, she she's so nice, and look at her resume.
Isn't isn't it strong?
But it doesn't have any any value to it.
It's just a resume enhancer.
That's all I see.
Do you agree with that?
Yeah, I do.
Nelson, I mean, you you you are presenting me with a serious challenge here.
And I'm not overstating this.
I I I would like to ask you your age.
37.
You're 37.
Okay, that's good.
You sound younger than that.
There's no wrong answer.
I was I'm just curious.
Um I have been saying, not just on this program, my whole life.
I have been saying exactly what you just said, the only difference, the issues.
And my point is we all have.
We have all been bitching about the media for all of our lives.
And as a young conservative, here you come.
You're all fired up and you're revved up.
And I don't I don't want to discourage that by telling you that it's not gonna change.
Um, at least it hasn't changed in my lifetime.
It's just gotten worse.
In fact, it it probably is truthful to say it has gotten worse.
The media has now become more partisan than ever.
Especially since their monopoly has been blown to smithereens.
Nelson, look, I'm out of time here.
Would you let Mr. Snerdley have your phone number if we call you back uh tomorrow and talk about this when we have a little bit more time?
Because this is real to me, this is important.
People like you staying engaged, having ideas, and not giving up the fight at your age.
It's really, really crucial.
There's not a whole lot of that happening on our side.
Well, there is.
It's it's it's that's not true to say.
But I've I've put you on hold here.
Mr. Snerdley will pick up the phone and and see if uh you'll agree.
Because I really want to probe this further with you.
I just haven't got the time right now to do it.
We've uh come to a screeching halt here.
Mr. Snerdley, get a get his number if if he'll permit us to uh call him back.
We're gonna do open line Friday on Thursday tomorrow because uh I've been forced into taking Friday off, the official observance day for Independence Day.
So that's why we're not gonna be here Friday.
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