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July 15, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 15, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #2
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So they're really ticked off out there, huh?
I knew, I knew when I warned you people, if we if we go to funds on this, you're gonna be shocked at what you hear.
Snurdley tells me that he's being bombarded by calls from New York shouting at him, telling me where to go, and I'm lying, that they've read the New York Times story about this, and I'm making all this up.
This didn't happen, and then they're hanging up.
Snerdley says he hasn't seen response to anything like this in a in a long, long time.
And so I'm folks, I'm not in any way surprised.
Look at would you would you like to listen to the Cosmo magazine reaction to this?
I mean, it's you shouldn't be surprised.
I know everybody keeps thinking there's gonna be a tipping point, there's gonna be something that happens that wakes everybody up and alerts them that we are close to the edge here, and if we don't change our ways, we're finished.
And that's well, it may happen, but it isn't this.
The author of the Cosmo piece on this is uh Robin Marty.
And this is really all you need to know.
I've read the emails, I've watched the short version video, I've read the website and the other anti-abortion action groups, press releases.
I've even poked through all the primary sources posted so far in the document vault, and now, frankly, I'm just going to yawn.
And then she goes on to parrot the planned parenthood press release talking points.
And then says, overall, yeah, the video put out by the Center for Medical Progress is upsetting and it's off-putting.
The highlights of the conversation were unpleasant.
I shuddered when listening to the discussion of how the fetus can be removed and the idea of a menu of fetal tissue and organs that could be procured, depending on the gestational age of the pregnancies being terminated and the number of patients who consent to donating is one I hope I never have to encounter again.
However, medicine overall is often gory and gruesome.
That's your reaction from Cosmo.
Frankly, I'm just gonna yawn.
Medicine overall is often gory and gruesome.
This is medicine, you see.
This is scientific research.
Well, Dr. Mengela.
Oh, doctor, if you just mentioning that name probably will inspire a bunch more calls from New York.
How dare you!
Mingalou, shame with this.
You know, I I was once interviewed by Jeff Greenfield at the 92nd Street.
Why?
Way back there.
Way back there.
And and when I began the explanations of why I was pro-life, all the cultural society, nothing to do with forcing anybody to do anything.
I was always for a change of hearts.
I've never been for some massive control.
Authoritarian center in the government requiring and demanding anything.
That's not the way you persuade people.
I've always hoped to reach people's minds and hearts.
You're not gonna stop these things from happening.
Nobody's gonna, you can't legislate it away.
You you couldn't have uh government bureaucracy set up to stop it and have it stop.
That's not the point.
What you want to do is reduce the frequency of the instances.
And you want to reduce this kind of stuff associated with it.
But now they see this this is the depravity here, folks.
We have a uh procedure called abortion, and and and and now people have found another way to make money off of it.
And to cover it up, it's being called scientific research.
Medicine.
It's insulting.
Because that's not at all what is going on.
The actual cosmo piece ends this way.
Abortion opponents may be winning in their own media circles with this PR campaign against Planned Parenthood.
But when it comes to actually proving illegal activity at this point, their evidence is sorely lacking.
Really?
Evidence is sorely lacking on a taped video confession of the practice.
And that isn't evidence.
The kind of stuff that puts people behind bars every day in courts all over the country.
But here it's I've always loved the you should have seen the audience the story, the 92nd Street.
Why?
They just were outraged at my principled explanation of why I was pro-life.
But everybody assumes that.
You know, we're not the big government gang here, folks.
We're not the ones that want to set up a bureaucracy over here that tells you how you have to live.
That's what you people on the left do.
We want to provide spiritual moral guidance.
We have guardrails, we want to have law, we want to have moral indicators.
We realize people are going to be depraved.
Not everybody's going to be clean and pure as the wind driven snow.
It's how you deal with the ones who aren't.
Robert, don't accuse us of trying to set up some massive government to intrude on your privacy to have you do what we want you to do.
We're not those people.
That is who you people are, if I may be honest.
You're the ones that try to determine who everybody eats.
You're the ones determining what we think about climate change.
You're the ones demanding that we not only support your causes, but that we love them at the same time.
Don't dare confuse us with you.
You're the totalitarians, not us.
We just don't believe that freedom includes the ability to wantonly break the law.
And we are concerned about the long-term impacts of moral depravity.
That's all it is.
Now moving on to other things.
Obama, as you know, has yet to reach out to the family of Catherine or Katie Steinley in San Francisco.
And I answered people, people were sending me emails.
Rush, why is this?
I mean, why is Obama?
He reaches out to the family of Trayvon Martin.
He reached out to the people in Charleston, South Carolina.
I mean, he calls everyone.
Why is it?
And I said, the answer is very simple.
If Obama cannot make it about him in a favorable way, he's not going to involve himself.
Well, there's no way to involve himself in the sanctuary city debate, San Francisco that resulted in an illegal committing murder.
There's no way he can involve himself in that and come out a winner.
So he stays away from it.
It's pure and simple.
People need to understand Obama's an egotist.
This Iran deal's about Obama.
This Iran deals about Obama's legacy.
The Siran deals about a second Nobel Peace Prize, maybe, but that's he's already got one of those.
This is really about the legacy.
This is all about years from now.
People talking about Barack Obama as the only human being who ever what got a deal with Iran on nukes.
Whoever finally secured health care for all Americans.
It's all about legacy.
It's all about ego.
He doesn't care that Obama cares an abomination and doesn't work.
That doesn't matter.
He knows that his side's going to write the history.
And the history is going to be he's the guy who overcame decades of Republican opposition and secured affordable health care for all Americans.
And that's the historical note.
They're not going to talk in history about his broken promises on keeping your doctor and keeping your plan and your premium coming down $2,500.
They're not going to make mention of those lies in the history of this, at least not the immediate history.
When it comes to the Iranian nuke deal, they're not going to say that Obama sold out the United States of America.
They're going to say that Obama single-handedly secured Iran as a world superpower with nuclear weapons.
They're going to report that Barack Obama was the first president and the only president in the history of the United States of America to get a deal where Iran promised not to develop nuclear weapons.
How do I know that?
Because that's what they're saying now.
That is the narrative in the drive-by media now.
And that's what the administration is saying, so it's the media's parroting.
That's the legacy.
Obama saved the world from Iran nukes.
That's what he wants.
He doesn't care that Iran's going to get nukes down the road.
Whatever it took to get the deal, the deal is what matters.
Same thing with any of these other massive assaults on America's economy, or on our private sector, or what have you.
Barack Obama, the first president to come along and unite people from all hemispheres.
And to expand the glorious melting pot that is the United States, Barack Obama, the first and only president to end bigotry and discrimination.
Barack Obama who persuaded a nation to unite around love and devotion in the issue of gay marriage.
This is what he wants.
Obama knows that there are whatever, however many presidents there are preceding him.
40, I forget the exact number.
But as far as the historical legacy is concerned, he wants it written about all of these things that he was the only, he was the first to able get anything done.
And by the way, that's why he admires Reagan, and that's why he often talks about Reagan.
He views Reagan as a transformative president in that regard, given, you know, what's what's Reagan's historical legacy?
Beat Soviet communism.
Except in Reagan's case, it happens to be true.
The Berlin Wall came down.
Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall.
Mr. Reagan stood up to Soviet Union communism, and it's gone.
Obama's jealous of that.
That's the kind of stuff he wants.
So he equates himself with Reagan.
He's even doing it now.
We got an audio subway coming up, where he equates himself with Rinaldous Magnus.
The details of these things are irrelevant.
Now, nearly two weeks after 32-year-old Catherine Steinley was murdered at Pier 14, San Francisco, by an illegal alien, a convicted felon who was released from prison earlier this year.
President Obama has failed to contact the victim's family.
Not only that, Obama's not even mentioned Catherine Steinley in public yet.
Obama took the time to write 46 personal letters this month to felons imprisoned for nonviolent drug offenses, whose sentences he has commuted.
Not only did he write those letters, he has released them.
Oh, yes.
Like the 46 felons to whom Obama wrote, Juan Francisco Lopez Sanchez had served time for nonviolent offenses, some of them drug related.
Critics have noted that Obama was quick to reach out to the family of Michael Brown, the gentle giant, who was killed in Ferguson, Missouri last year.
He's done the same in other similar cases.
Obama sent three personal emissaries to the gentle giant's funeral.
None were sent to the funeral of Miss Steinley, and even yesterday we had the audio soundbite of the Homeland Security Director, Jay Johnson, testifying before Congress, being asked about he didn't even know the woman's name.
He didn't even know who he was being asked about.
Republican Congressman asked Jay Johnson about Catherine Steinman.
He said, Who?
He didn't know.
And he was perfectly fine with admitting that he didn't know.
So while that family gets ignored, the incident is ignored.
Obama doesn't even reference that he writes 46 letters, which are essentially apology letters and acknowledging that there are a lot of people like these 46 that are in jail that really shouldn't be there, and he's letting them out.
And he talks in the letter about himself, by the way.
These letters to these 46 are actually about Obama.
About what he's done as president, about how he views the presidency, about the commutation power is among the most important and powerful things a president can do.
And he wants these 46 to know that he really is going to bet for them, and he really is looking out for him.
And he's the one who really cares about them.
And by inference, he's the one who knows that they've been put in jail unjustly, and by golly, by gosh, he's gonna fix it.
That's the point of his letters to these people.
Audio sound bites on this.
We start here, this is uh last night in Philadelphia, the NAA LCP National Convention.
On Thursday, I will be the first sitting president to visit a federal prison.
While the people in our prisons have made some mistakes and sometimes big mistakes.
They are also Americans.
And we have to make sure that as they do their time and pay back their debt to society, that we are increasing the possibility that they can turn their lives around.
And if folks have served their time and they've re-entered society, they should be able to vote.
There you have it.
There you have it, folks.
They should be Do you notice all of the applause lines here?
He says he's gonna be the first sitting president to go to prison, and he gets a standing O for it.
Who in the hell must be in the audience if this is it?
Well, it's the NWA LCP.
Standing O for announcing you're going to a prison.
A standing O for talk, they're Americans, too.
They may be.
Whatever.
They're Americans.
They're just as American as any conservative is.
And I'm all let about.
They've they paid their debts and they should be able to vote.
Yay.
And this is the next bite we have from it.
We should not be tolerating overcrowding in prison.
We should not be tolerating gang activity in prison.
We should not be tolerating rape in prison.
And we shouldn't be making jokes about it in our popular culture.
That's no joke.
These things are unacceptable.
I don't know.
What is he doing there?
We should not be tolerating overcrowding.
We should not be tolerating gang activity.
We should not be.
Well, who glorifies that stuff?
His donors in Hollywood.
Who the hell glorifies his own people are the ones that make money off doing that?
Okay, time to hit the phones.
And we start, as I say, Coronado, California.
Smoky, I'm glad you waited.
Really appreciate your patience.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Um, several years ago, you said that you wanted President Obama to fail.
And uh to be honest, at the time you were pilloried by the press, and it did seem very harsh.
I have to say, you know, you look back over time with the Iran deal, the Bergdahl deal, this Auschwitz-like video that appeared in the last couple days from Parenthood.
I think now you don't have to explain why you wanted him to fail.
I think now you could just say I wanted him to fail, and it's it stands for itself.
It came true.
Yeah, I would hope.
I I'm I appreciate your um your comment and your and your honesty.
I I want to be honest with you back.
Uh six years ago, six and a half, I guess now, when I first said I hope he failed.
I had no idea.
I really didn't.
I mean, well, let me put I knew it was gonna be, I knew it'd anger some people on the left, I knew it'd anger some Democrats.
I did not realize that it would be judged even by people on my side of the aisle as harsh.
I thought everybody on my side of the aisle wanted the same thing I did.
Why in the world would we want anything this guy believes in to work or succeed?
I thought it was common sense.
And I was I was I was a little uh I was more amused than anything over the outrage that it caused.
But now you think all I would have to say is hey I I hoped he failed and you think more people now will understand and agree with me.
Well Rush I think so I I honestly think you underestimated him too.
I mean I don't think you ever thought he would trade five terrorists for a deserter I don't think the IRS scandal which they were likely involved with would ever happen in our free society.
I I think every I mean I think we become desensitized by each like what happened with Planned Parenthood people should watch the video.
Smokey, let me watch that video and not become sick.
Now, wait, let me let me jump here in the first place on this Planned Parenthood story.
You what you need to do, all of you, you need to find this story on the Web and read the comments.
And I warn you, you had better be steeled.
Because the anger and vitriol at the people who made the video is palpable.
The vast majority of comments to this story on the Web do not believe.
it.
They think it's a typical conservative lie that has been made up it isn't possible and they are livid not at Dr. Nukotola or at Planned Parenthood but at the people they think faked.
Now Smokey don't hang up how are you and we're back now to Smokey and Coronado Smokey I just wanted to I just wanted to say one more thing before you go and it is to correct you on it.
When I when I said that I hope Obama fails I I want to assure you I did not underestimate him at all.
Now I didn't know he was going to do Bergdahl of course nobody had that kind of foresight but I wasn't surprised at anything that he has done and this is the point that I have I've really labored to make with people and it's well it's I I all I can do is tell people what I think it's up to to believe nothing he's done a surprise me from Obamacare to you nothing this Iran deal nothing has surprised me.
It was all telegraphed but if you understand the guy is a radical radical leftist if you look at who raised him if you look at who educated him if you look at who his friends were all of this was foretold.
This has been the most frustrating aspect of this to be one of maybe 15 people who gets it who got it from day one do you realize what a minority is I'm so sick and tired of hearing people whine and moan about being in a minority I've been in the biggest minority in this country for six years the people who get Obama and I no matter what it has been impossible because most of the things that I knew know expected people don't even want to believe it.
They don't want to believe they elected a president that sold us out to Iran.
They don't want to believe they elected a president who has wrecked the U.S. economy they don't want to believe they've erected a president who has more sympathy with criminals illegal aliens and so forth than he does with his own citizens.
People don't want to believe that so I was up against long odds at the outset which is why I simply said the whole genesis for this by the way the Wall Street Journal called and they were asking a bunch of people to write 400 word op-eds their hopes for the first black president it was supposed to be just a wonderful thing and I wrote him back and I said I don't need 400 all I need is four.
I hope he fails.
Well they rejected because that wouldn't be an op-ed that's a letter to the end but anyway so I just I told the story and that's where it all started.
But Smokey I just I just it's not that I'm trying to correct you I just want you to know I didn't underestimate.
I couldn't specifically predict Bergdahl for example which is one of the instances you cite but I have not been surprised by any of this I have been I have been devastated I've been disappointed I've been saddened but more so what Obama has done has so little surprised me.
I have been more disappointed and saddened by watching the American people not get it.
I cannot tell you how frustrating that has been.
Well, Russ, I have to say this video, if people watch the video, I can't I can't I I it's a it's a low that I cannot believe.
I was shocked.
And I have believe me, I have no faith in Planned Parenthood.
Yeah.
But it was horrible.
It was it's Nazi-esque.
I mean, for them to ever refer to the right wing as Nazis from now on.
I mean, that video is uh that stopped me dead in my tracks.
I mean, well, just so you the New York Times says this video and this story, this could hurt the GOP for mentioning it.
Because the social issues destroy Republicans, and the New York Times says that past attempts to defund Planned Parenthood have failed, and that suggests the political danger for the party if the issue is revived.
Meaning it's it's it's exactly what the left and the New York Times say about everything.
You guys had better stop talking about this, or it's gonna kill you.
You better stop talking about it, or you're never gonna win another election, as though they care whether we win another.
They don't want us to win another election.
They want us to shut up about this stuff because they are vulnerable on it.
So they come out and they warn us, you know, you guys better drop this.
Look at how it's early.
And then our numbskull moderates read this stuff in the New York Times, and then they call me and say, You better stop talking about the social issues.
You're killing us.
These social issues are killing the party.
How do you know?
New York Times says so.
Oh, really?
Yep.
And so that's how this stuff builds.
Yeah.
Russian election is being served on a platter to the Republicans.
It is.
And I'm gonna tell you just that Carly Fiorina Scott Walker, Carly Fiorina Scott Walker, Carly Fiorina Scott Walker.
And some others we could throw in the list too.
Anyway, Smoky, I'm uh I'm glad, I'm glad you called.
Uh Snerdley's asking me how I think the tech bloggers would react.
That's not hard.
They won't be moved by it at all.
This is the thing.
I warned everybody before I began this that if you expect this to be a mind changer or a game changer, it isn't gonna be.
That's not how the left works.
When something happens that really exposes them and really raises their vulnerability levels, what do they do?
They double down on the attacks of those making the news the information public.
They try to discredit it.
They attack and impug those who in galaxy.
I gotta tell you, read the comments of this story from the that's posted if it's at life news.com.
There's any number of places you can go.
Just find a version of this story that's not AP.
Find find a version of the story that thinks what happened is horrible, and then look at the comments.
And you you you will find a bunch of angry pro-choicers who either don't believe it, that the video is doctored, edited, and made up, it's not real, it's a cheap trick.
Um I don't I don't think.
I mean, it's it some people are gonna be moved by it.
I don't mean to say that it's not gonna have any impact at all, but it's not gonna have the impact it should for a host of reasons.
Which, you know, I'm not I don't want to get into them because all that does is just add uh to the confidence of the left.
So just leave it for what it is.
I'm just telling you that uh the reaction you will hope to see, you're not gonna see it very much.
You'll see some outrage.
But you're not gonna see, gosh, you know, I used to think abortion was no big deal, but after this, oh my God, never you're not gonna see any of that, folks.
You're not gonna see that.
That's not how the left reacts to stuff.
That skewers them, exposes them, which is what this does.
I mean, this is an expose par excellence.
You're not gonna have anybody resign at Planned Parenthood.
You're not gonna have anybody admitting any guilt.
And the AP is covering it up by not even calling it what it is.
It's just disposal of fetal waste or fetal I don't know, tissue, what have you.
Anyway, Dave out of Long Island, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hi, Rush.
Can you hear me?
Yep, I do.
Okay, let me tell you why I'm calling you talking about the Planned Parenthood video.
We're talking about fetal waste.
My daughter was born 25 years ago.
She's born in 1990 at 23 and a half weeks gestation.
She was a pound and a half at birth.
She's a living, breathing, creative, working, real person.
We love her.
She's our child.
She's successful in life.
And I just want people to know that.
She teaches in a Yeshiva, a Jewish school.
And uh that's what she is.
Well, you see.
Yeah, I know.
And I'll tell you, your story.
There's here's the thing.
I don't want to be um I've been compartmentally negative on this.
The overall story on abortion is actually pretty good.
It's it's nowhere near a majority support abortion issue anymore.
It's it's always been 50-50.
I don't care what poll you've ever seen, it's never been slam dunk.
Majority of Americans favor abortion.
It never has been.
It's always been a 50-50 issue.
But it's losing now.
The pro-choice side is beginning to lose in polling data.
And the reason is because of stories like this.
The reason is you here again.
For 25, 30, 40 years, you know, we hear the left describe a six-month-old baby as an unviable tissue mass.
Okay, well, there's a great unwashed out there that believes that.
There's a great unwashed that it's an unviable tissue mass.
There's a great unwash that has been made to believe it.
Pregnancy is an illness.
And that dealing with it is a cure for illness.
All the things the left has tried, you have to come to grips with the idea that a bunch of numbskulls, we call them low information voters, believe it.
However, as medical science has advanced and has there been the it's abundant evidence that it isn't an unviable tissue mass.
That it is actually things that you think everybody would understand without having to be told.
Well, these are new recent discoveries to several low information people.
And so the pro-choice crowds taken a little bit of a hit, as have the feminists in Planned Parenthood, both in their fundraising and precisely because of stories like Dave's here.
It's been a slow slog, but nevertheless.
And again, the story to me is how easily the left succeeds with their BS.
How easily people lap that up.
Whatever the BS.
Anyway, I appreciate the call, Dave, and congratulations.
It's uh obviously a huge a pound and a half, twenty-three and a half weeks.
That's not that's that shouldn't even be possible if you listen.
Planned parenthood crowd.
Shouldn't it's not possible.
Shouldn't be, and shouldn't even be tried.
So here's the headline for the Mother Jones story on the Planned Parenthood stealth video.
You ready?
Planned Parenthood sting video is yet another right-wing nothing burger.
It's Mother Jones.
I'm telling you, do not doubt me.
I tell you how the left is gonna react to things when I tell you what Obama's presidency is gonna mean back in 2009.
Don't doubt me.
God, don't doubt.
Jeez.
And I just heard, I can't hear it myself.
Maybe cookies rolling on this, but I got Somebody who just told me Obama's he's doing his White House uh well it's not a press conference, it's the victory lap on this it's a press conference, but it's a victory lap on the Iran deal.
And I have just been told that Obama just said there are very good reasons why Israelis are nervous.
Thank you.
He did say that the Israelis have legitimate concerns.
You mean you mean somebody put that on the teleprompter?
He actually admits that Israelis are nervous, have legitimate concerns.
Well, I know he blows it away, but he said it.
Well, hell's bells, then, folks.
Let me grab another call here before Times run uh runs out.
It's uh to Greg in Lule.
Great to have you on the program, Greg.
Hi.
Hello, Russ.
How are you today?
Good, thank you.
It's always good to talk to you.
Look, I I think I think one thing about the left is they they love the government, they're pretty open about it.
The problem I have with conservatives is conservatives claim they want smaller government, but of course they love the government when it comes to their issues immigration, abortion, drugs, NSA snooping, uh, all the things that they love they want government to do.
And so I think that's a problem with you on the social issues that you have about consistency.
Um I think that's the issue.
Well, you can understand your take on that.
But I would uh I I would offer a bit of a difference here.
When you say that conservatives love big government for our issues, you mention immigration.
We're just in favor of enforcing the law.
The law is being broken right now.
We're not asking for a new department of immigration.
We're not asking for more power for the Department of Immigration.
We're asking that the law be obeyed, in this case, enforced.
And that's pretty much the case on all the issues that you would bring up.
Abortion is the law of the land, so that is a reason.
But but I don't know a single conservative, now maybe there may be, I don't know a single conservative who is in favor of a government taking proactive action to stop the behavior.
I don't know of a single person.
Now there you may, but I don't.
Uh there is a on the on the right side of things, there's there's simply a desire for the rule of law and the rule of morality.
But the I think it's a strawdog to say that we are secret big government guys.
Now, the Republican establishment, you're right, but not on social issues.
The Republican establishment is big government on economic issues.
And that's where you're right, and we will be back.
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