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July 10, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 10, 2015, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
What a day, folks, what a great day and happiness.
Happiness spreading all over the world.
The Greek bailout.
The Germans have relented.
The Germans have caved.
Merkel has said, okay, I'll take care of it again.
Everybody's happy.
Wall Street's rebounding.
The Confederate flag is down in South Carolina.
And even the NAALCP leader, the judge who refused to marry the lesbian couple.
Another judge came along and said, No problem, I'll do it.
It's not an issue.
Everybody's feeling great.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line.
Friday!
Great to have you here, folks.
We're wrap up yet another busy broadcast week here on the one and only Excellence and Broadcasting Network.
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I'm going to explain to you how the Greek bailout happens.
I mean, what actually happens in a Greek bailout?
I've had it explained to me, and I'm gonna share it with you.
And it's it's it's fascinating.
Fascinating the way this works.
And of course, let's just take a review.
What are the top news stories today?
An American president assisting and legitimizing the world's number one exporter of terrorism as a nuclear power.
Have you seen that story around today?
How about the Secretary of State, former Secretary of State using an illegal server for her emails, destroyed evidence, and sold over a hundred million dollars for a worth of access to corporations in foreign countries?
And then claims that she's never had a subpoena about it, and yet the people that issued the subpoena showed the subpoena.
Clearly indicating that she'd lied once again.
Has that shown up big in the news today?
No.
Sanctuary cities and uncontrolled borders.
Are you seeing much about that in the news today?
Maybe a little bit.
By the way, have you heard what President Obama said about the death of Catherine Steinley in San Francisco following the wanton act of murder by the illegal immigrant?
Have you heard his words?
Have you heard his words?
Precisely that.
Snerdley was shouting, what's he say?
What's he said?
I haven't heard anything.
He hadn't said a word.
A little dead air never hurt anybody.
How about this?
The White House, the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the IRS colluding to jail political enemies before the 2012 election.
Have you seen that story?
I mean, I mentioned it yesterday, but have you heard that?
Is that story big anywhere?
And how about the latest ChICOM hack, not just of the Office of Personnel Management.
Another 20 million federal employees have had every piece of information about them on their computers hacked by the ChICOM.
Have you heard a big deal being made about that?
Very, very little.
On the other hand, is Caitlin Jenner still in the news?
Oh, yeah, big time.
Now they've got video of the traffic accident which somebody died, Caitlin Jenner.
I think was still Bruce Jenner driving the car at the time.
How about the Confederate flag?
Have you found anything about the Confederate flag in the news?
The Confederate flag, news all over the place.
But you can't find anything about Obama assisting in legitimizing Iran as a nuclear power.
But the Confederate flag, you can't miss it no matter where you go.
Wherever there is news, you would think that is the only thing happening today.
Oh, that and Donald Trump.
It's getting absurd now, the people who are trying to distance themselves from Trump Trump.
Details are coming up in a moment.
And I could go on with the list of things that are making big, big news out there.
One of the things I think Trump ought to get hold of this, this report that I have here in my formerly nicotine stained fingers and start carrying it around and waving it around with him.
There is a group, and they admit it that they're conservative group.
The group's called Family Security Matters.
And what they have done is researched and they have footnoted this thing like Apple patented the iPhone.
They have footnoted this report.
It prints out to 11 pages.
Non-American, and then the headline of the story of the report is Trump is right.
Illegal alien crime is staggering in scope and savagery.
Non-Americans commit over five times more serious crimes per capita than Americans.
It is estimated that there are some 133,741 foreign criminals in prisons and jails in the USA.
If you add the nearly 169,000 convicted criminal immigrants who have final orders of removal, i.e.
deportation, but nevertheless who remain at large in America.
And then you add in another 179,000 convicted criminal aliens with deportation cases pending, but who are also at large.
We have a grand total of non-American felon population of 481,439.
Me cut to the chase on this.
The non-American felon population in the United States of America is currently at 481,439 people.
That number is the size of our 35th largest city and my adopted hometown, Sacramento, California.
That number is larger than the entire populations each of Atlanta, Kansas City, Omaha, Miami, and Minneapolis.
Looking at it another way, illegal aliens constitute 27% of the federal prison population.
This means that a group which comprises less than 5% of the population nationally is committing 27% of federal crimes.
So just by that metric alone, illegal aliens commit over five times more serious crimes on a per capita basis than residents do.
But here is another fact.
We're not through here, folks.
According to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, GAO, according to the regime, in an April 7th, 2005 report to Congress entitled Information on Criminal Aliens incarcerated in federal and state prisons and in local jails.
The percentage of all federal prisoners who are criminal aliens has remained the same over the last three years, about 27%.
The majority of criminal aliens incarcerated at the end of calendar year 2004 were identified as citizens of Mexico.
Mexico.
Where have we heard Mexico mentioned in the news?
Oh yeah.
It's been mentioned by the Trumpster, the Donald.
And this, again, those numbers are from 2004-2005.
Now, admittedly, there are a lot of numbers here that I have peppered you with.
And they're hard to follow.
You can't you forget the previous number when you hear a new number mentioned.
So Family Security Matters is the website, and we will link to this at Rush Limbaugh.com.
It'll be up there at the top of our home page so that you can click on it yourself and absorb the data.
But here's just a selection of crimes committed against Americans by illegals, again from Family Security Matters.
Now, they're very upfront about the fact they're a conservative group, but as I say, this thing is footnoted, everything included, every statistic, every number is cited and footnoted and traced back to its source.
And the source for much of this is our own government.
So just a selection of crimes committed against Americans by illegals.
The Sanctuary City of San Francisco protected the previously convicted illegal alien gang member charged in the murder of Michael Bologna, 20.
His brother Matthew and his father Anthony, 48.
Illegal alien stabs to death 24-year-old college student Warren Bump.
Illegal alien charged with murder for vicious stabbing of Kathleen Bayham in Walmart parking lot.
The article goes on to list 11 more savage crimes allegedly committed by illegal aliens.
So the bottom line is that what Trump has been running around saying, he's right.
He's more right maybe than he knows.
Or maybe he has been made privy to this.
But the bottom line is he's right.
He's not making anything up and he's not speaking in generalities.
It just sounds like it because the numbers are so huge.
Okay.
So again, we will link to that at Rush Limbaugh.com, and you can peruse the whole it's very, very long and detailed and uh documented, as I say.
Uh footnoted.
Okay, big deal about the Confederate flag coming down.
It happened just, I think it was just after 10 o'clock this morning, or just after nine, something like that.
Um, and it's just the beginning, as I have said countless times over the course of this amazing broadcast career that spans now twenty six years.
A liberal solution to a problem is never the end of anything.
There are never liberal solutions.
A liberal solution is actually the beginning of a new problem or a continuation of an existing problem, but they never solve anything.
And the reason they never solve anything is because they are the ones never satisfied with what they get.
Mark my words.
There are two things that happen.
The Confederate flag came down in South Carolina, but there's a companion piece to it.
The companion piece is that it was a Republican thing.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
There's been a huge victory over the Republicans in this, folks.
That Confederate flag that was owned and flown and operated by the Republican Party.
Don't you know?
Except that it wasn't.
The Confederate flag flew over South Carolina because of a Democrat.
His name was Ernest Hollings.
He used to be the governor back then in the 70s.
He's the one who raised it.
In fact, it was attempted.
The removal of the flag was attempted long ago.
Long prior to today.
A sitting Republican governor by the name of Beasley attempted to remove the Confederate flag.
Do you know what happened to him?
He was thrown out of office and accused of engaging in showmanship.
He was thrown out of office and thrown By Democrats who accused him of insincerity and showboating.
A Democrat raises the flag.
A Republican governor tries to lower the flag, gets thrown out of office because of it.
Grab audio soundbite number one.
And today, the flag comes down, and the only reason it did was because somebody was finally able to convince enough racist Republicans that it had to come down.
Special coverage on NBC today.
Anchor Matt Wauer speaking with Chuck Todd about the Governor Nikki Haley and her call to remove the flag that led to the law that she signed at four o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Matt Wauer says, Governor Haley, there's been so much attention on her over the last several weeks, so much praise, but also so much criticism, Chuck.
What has this done to impact Nikki Haley's career and her political future?
We see this all the time in politics.
You meet a moment, it's an unexpected moment.
How do you handle that moment?
And I think that it's pretty clear.
You could say she was late to the game.
That criticism is there.
She's accepted that criticism.
But again, without her, Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott locking arms on this.
I don't know if that South Carolina Republican-controlled legislature does this.
They pulled this off.
See how this happens?
See how this happens.
So Nikki Haley, late in her political career, somehow, some way, by miracle of media pressure or whatever, she saw the light.
Nikki Haley, well-known, documented Republican, which means racist, somehow miraculously saw the light.
But she didn't have the juice alone to get this done.
So what did she have to do?
She had to go talk to Lindsay Grahamnesty.
And then she had to go talk to Tim Scott.
They had to link arm in arm.
And if she hadn't gotten with those two Republicans to put pressure on other Republicans, why?
That flag could still be flying.
Because the Republican control legislature, South Carolina.
They had no desire whatsoever to lower that flag.
Don't you know it.
So you see, the flag is now down.
It's on a way over to museum.
And the Republicans were defeated in the process.
Even though it's a Republican governor presiding over the flag coming down, even though it's a Republican governor signing the bill.
Republicans wanted that flag to stay.
Chuck Todd just told everybody.
Yeah.
And Nikki Haley, she knew.
She saw the light.
She knew her fellow Republicans are a bunch of pigs.
So she got together with Tim Scott and Lindsey Grahamnesty, and that triumvirate labeled guilt upon guilt over all those racist Republicans in the South Carolina legislature.
And finally, the flag came down.
So as I say, this is never, these things are never solutions because the left is never happy with what they get.
They're not happy here.
Do you know what they're doing in Memphis?
They're digging up the grave of a Confederate general to move it.
I don't know where they're going to put it.
Doesn't matter.
They're never happy, folks.
This is not going to breed contentment.
So many people on our side, ah, we've kicked another issue down the canon.
Boy, aren't we brilliant?
We got rid of another issue right before the election.
Man, this paves the way for our victory.
I get so sick and tired of listening to this philosophy.
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You want to hear a world-class liar at work?
Do you want to hear how it's really done?
If you want to be a liar and get away with it and be heralded, there's only one man to teach you.
This is last night in Dallas at the graduation of the Presidential Leadership Scholars Program.
New partnership between Presidents George W. Bush and William Jefferson Blythe Clinton.
Here is what the man you should learn from if you want to become a great liar said.
I almost cried when I saw that picture of the South Carolina legislature yesterday with the Republicans and the Democrats and the African Americans and the white people embracing each other and making that vote and seeing the decisive speech made by a woman who is a direct descendant of Jefferson Davis.
Don't tell me that we can't get together across the lines that divide.
We just have to keep working at it.
Oh man, I almost cried.
You know what reminded me of?
It reminded me of that time that I signed legislation that raised the Confederate flag over the State House in Arkansas.
Yeah, I cried then.
Man, I was so happy I was the one who raised the American flag.
Yeah.
That's I mean, that's in my history.
You can look it up.
And then yesterday I cried again.
I cried again when those fools in South Carolina fell for this whole thing and took it down.
Oh man, is it a great day to be a Democrat or what?
No, no, no, no, folks, do not be confused by the impression.
Bill Clinton signed the bill that put the Confederate flag over the State House in Arkansas.
When he was governor of Arkansas, the Confederate flag was raised high over the state capitol because of his signature on a bill.
And there he is at uh guess he was at the Bush Presidential Library.
For those of you in Rio Linda, the library, and it was uh joint appearance with uh George W. Bush, the presidential leader scholars program or leadership scholars program.
As I almost cried when I saw that picture, South Carolina legislature yesterday.
Republicans and the Democrats, African Americans and the white people embracing each other, making that vote, seeing a decisive speech by a woman, direct to Senator Jefferson Davis.
Don't tell me we can't work together, Cross.
Don't tell me you can't.
We just keep working at it.
It's balance.
Just balance.
Oh, he's balance on us, just keep working at it.
So you want to learn how to lie.
Don't study Hillary.
She's not good at it.
One of the reasons she's in trouble is she just can't pull it off.
But Bill, Bill is the best liar this country's produced in politics.
He makes you love him as he lies to you.
Bill Clinton lies to your face, and you stand there and you marvel.
You know he's lying and you marvel at how good at it he is.
That is why he had the press and the media in the palm of his hand.
Fredericksburg, Virginia, from the Fox TV affiliate in Washington, a Virginia bakery in Fredericksburg, Crumb and Get It is the name of the bakery.
Clever, eh?
Crumb and get it.
Has made a cookie cake.
You ever had a cookie cake?
Those things are delicious.
You ever had a cookie?
You don't because you're a vegan.
Man, you don't know what you're missing in a cookie cake.
Anyway, this bakery in Fredericksburg, Crum and Get It, made a cookie cake that features the Confederate flag.
It was for us a business decision to do that, said Mike Sweeney.
Why did they make the decision?
Well, because somebody asked us to.
We had like a two-minute conversation about it, he said.
Mike and Sarah Sweeney have owned the bakery for about eight months.
Don't worry, they'll never make it to 12.
Once this gets out that they baked a cookie cake with a Confederate flag on it in the midst of all this.
Mike Sweeney told Fox Eyeball News Washington, it should still be that you can agree to disagree with somebody, and if they don't agree with you, you just move on and keep living your life.
No, Mike, that's not how it works anymore.
You disagree with the left.
It's not enough to just go on about your life.
They're not interested in your disagreement.
They're not tolerant of that.
Not only are you going to agree with them, you're going to love doing so.
Folks, do not do not ignore me on this.
This is exactly what's going on.
That's that's why this whole notion of the Clinton referencing it here again, and you heard Christie say it when he announced his presidential run.
Uh, all this idea, this notion of crossing the aisle and cooperating and bipartisan.
That's not what they're interested in.
They don't want cooperation.
The only way there's going to be tolerance is if we cave.
But cave, uh by cave, I mean cave.
It's not just enough to agree.
You have to become one of them.
Or you are going to be targeted and harassed until you do.
Or at least until you say so.
Now, the old America was a place where you can agree to disagree with somebody, and if they don't agree with you, you just move on to keep living your life.
No.
It's not the way it works now.
If you are in a circumstance in which you disagree with a leftist, there's no going about your business.
You will be made to agree.
And if you oppose and if you refuse, they're going to harass you, bug you, try to put your business out of business.
Whatever it takes, you're going to be punished for disagreeing.
Feel free to disagree with me, folks, but you see evidence of it all over the place.
That's what actually denotes this new America.
There is no bipartisanship, and there is no crossing the aisle to work with the other side.
There is no cooperation.
This is the new wave or new form of totalitarianism.
And it's not just among government people, it's rank and file leftists.
Average ordinary cellar dwelling pajama clad leftists who are the sewer trolls on Twitter.
And in some cases, Facebook.
Mike Sweeney said, Yeah, we had someone threatening to sue us and threaten to protest our store and making all these demands.
To us, it just seemed like strong arming, trying to get their way versus realizing we're all individuals with our own opinions.
No, you're not.
Not for long.
You do not have that kind of freedom.
Not when a committed leftist is involved with whatever your disagreement is about.
Wouldn't be surprised if this bakery ends up on the Southern Poverty Law Center's hate watch list.
When people asked about something else that's been in the news, gay marriage, Mike Sweeney said, the owner of the bakery said, Well, we had people calling for those, and we told them we'd be happy to make a cake celebrating that.
But that's not going to be enough to save them.
The only way that this can possibly be saved is if the Democrats run into their own conflict.
Let me give you an example of that.
You remember this story from maybe yesterday, day before.
A municipal court judge in Toledo, who happened to be the head honcho of the Toledo NAA LCP.
An African American refused to perform a same-sex wedding this week in court.
A couple of lesbians walked in and asked him to marry them.
And he said, I'm sorry, I'm can't.
I'm Christian, and my beliefs do not encompass gay marriage, and so I can't marry you.
I'm not interested in conducting the ceremony.
Well, doesn't miss the conflict is, okay, here is an NAALCP leader.
I mean, okay, that's protected membership of the leftist coalition.
African American.
Okay, so we can't.
Democrats can't anger.
So what do we do here?
We got a black judge refusing to marry some gays.
What the hell do we do?
It's a real conflict.
They were saved by Toledo Municipal Judge Michelle Wagner, who heard about this and said she doesn't want to see a same-sex couple go before a judge who's not interested in conducting the ceremony.
She said it would be her privilege to perform the weddings.
So a huge Democrat choke point was alleviated by virtue of the fact that municipal judge Michelle Wagner came on.
Don't worry, I don't care about that racist judge, and he won't marry you, I will.
I'd be honored to marry you in court.
Her decision came after her colleague, municipal judge C. Alan McConnell said that he didn't marry same-sex couple earlier this week because of his religious beliefs.
Another judge was brought in to perform the wedding the same day.
Now we don't know what's going to happen to the NAALCP leader and judge.
We're not quite sure what's going to happen to him.
At some point he's going to have to face the wrath for not having had his mind right on this, but he's also the NAALCP is a protected group.
So thankfully another judge came along and say today, the Connecticut Democrat Party is considering renaming its annual fundraiser dinner because its namesake Thomas Jefferson owned slaves.
You've heard of the annual Jefferson Jackson dinner.
Thank you.
Well, since Dylan Roof's mass shooting at a traditionally African American church in South Carolina, states have taken down statues and they've renamed buildings that commemorate leaders from U.S. history that were linked to Confederacy.
And now the Connecticut Post is reporting Connecticut is jumping on the bandwagon and extending the movement to all historic leaders who were in any way associated with slavery since the beginning of American history.
Connecticut Democrat Party Chairman Nick Balletto has produced, or proposed rather, to strike Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson from the title of the party's 67-year-old fundraiser, the Jefferson Jackson Bailey Dinner.
Democrats are the party of inclusion, Balletto said in a statement, and in my opinion, the time has come to reevaluate the name to reflect the diverse makeup and forward-looking vision of our party.
And we can't have a dinner named after an avowed racist and owner of slaves, Thomas Jefferson.
We're just not going to do it anymore.
Among those in support of the proposal, the Connecticut and NAALCP.
And the President Scott Xdale, who is pressuring Connecticut Democrats to reconsider honoring these figures in history.
Democrats have a deeply rooted history with slavery, Esdale said to the Hartford Current.
They need to do the right.
This guy's gonna somebody's gonna have to have a meeting with this guy.
But you don't say in public that, quote, Democrats have a deeply rooted history of slavery.
You just don't.
The Confederacy was Democrats, folks.
The Confederacy, the slave owners, the plantation owners, the police were Democrats.
And here comes this Esdale guy pointing at no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Somebody's gonna have to.
The old proverbial trip to the woodshed is soon to be upcoming here.
It's open line Friday, and every Friday, I always try, mostly fail, but I always try to get to phones in the first hour.
And I'm not gonna fail this time.
We're gonna succeed, and we are going to start with Gary in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Welcome, sir.
It's great to have you here.
Welcome, Rush.
I've got a straight and simple message.
Rush for president.
Rush, the battle for our country is not between Democratic versus the Republican parties, but rather a liberal view versus a conservative view of America and our collective future.
You recently said that being part of something greater than yourself, such as your love for the country is greater than your self-interest.
And considering that Obama is an empty suit and a proven liar, it is his skills as a liberal orator that elected him the president twice and not his vision for America.
Obama is all about the facade of a photo office.
He spins his convoluted narrative.
Conversely, there's not a more effective communicator in support of a conservative worldview in America today than Rush Limbaugh.
And everybody recognizes that.
Well, uh that's it.
I'm sure some would debate you strenuously on That, by the way.
There are many who would disagree with you on that.
Well, Rush would 20 years ago they wouldn't have, but today they would.
Well, with the truth on your side and a direct dialogue with the people centered on substance, you'll motivate the lecture not to surrender to the culture, but truly to bring about hope and change.
All right, let me share.
You know, I I was it's we all have thoughts.
We all in private moments sit around and think.
And I do too.
In fact, I sometimes think that I think too much.
Sometimes I envy the ignorant.
I envy people you turn it off and be blissful and not care.
But that isn't me.
I just have never found a way.
I mean, even on vacation.
And during moments of real despair over the direction of the country, I have, I guess, fantasized over buying an hour on all three major networks, or maybe even only one the other two had covered.
And giving a speech to the people of country.
And I always come up with reasons why it might not be helpful or productive.
Again, because of things I have done that make me a target, things that I have done that that make me uh open to criticism being discredited.
It doesn't deter me from the desire to do it, but I you know when thinking about it, it's always always boiled down to will it be effective?
You know, how to make it effective, how to do it effectively, because it certainly wouldn't be about me.
I mean, I'm famous enough.
I don't need any more of that.
Certainly.
The idea of running for president, I've never ever in these private little moments where I never have considered that because I wouldn't make it past my presidential announcement.
Look at him, the guy who invented the word feminazi.
I mean, there's the first negative ad that would be run.
And you could pull any number.
See, here's the thing.
This is the why a a campaign would be problematic.
Getting an audience is a far different thing than getting votes.
As a host of a program which is said to be controversial.
I've always rejected the idea by the way this program is controversial because most people agree with me.
I mean, where's the controversy?
Any controversy here.
Ninety-five percent of people listening agree, if not more.
However, I can make a good living, I can continue to work with half or 30 or 20 percent of the audience hating me.
In fact, one of the things that I've had to do psychologically in order to thrive, I've had to learn how to take being reviled and hated as a sign of success.
Most people are not raised.
I certainly wasn't to want to be hated.
I can only think maybe one or two people who were, Hitler, maybe somebody, maybe Saddam, but I don't I don't know anybody who whose parents raised them.
Son, if you go out there, the more people hate you, the bigger impact you're making.
I just don't know who's raised that way.
Parents raise their kids to be loved because every parent wants their kids to be loved, and every parent when it was a kid wanted to be loved.
So I've had to learn how to take being reviled and hated by the 25 or 30 percent of liberals out there as a sign of success.
But you can't you cannot win elections being hated.
People just aren't going to vote for you, like they will listen to you or like they will watch you if you have to have a TV program.
Uh but regardless, I I I know that your purpose of your call here was to extend uh that great compliment, and I sincerely appreciate it.
Um I am genuinely modest and and humble, and so I have a tough time knowing how to properly accept compliments like that, other than To say uh thank you.
But I'm I'm with you on where we are and what the argument in the country is really about, meaning it's not Democrat Republican.
It's actually more specific, even than to say liberal versus conservative.
It's more specific than that.
But I have to take a brief time out again.
Gary, thanks much for the call.
I really do appreciate it.
Be back, folks.
Don't go away.
I'm convinced that most people voting for Obama had no idea what was going to happen.
Obama wouldn't have gotten elected if he had run on this agenda.
But still, you look at his approval number, I know the racial component.
We've got more.
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