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July 17, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 17, 2015, Friday, Hour #3
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You know, that's right.
In like half a year, I'm going to officially be a seasoned citizen.
Yeah, you have to.
You can't.
You cannot reject it.
You have to tell.
My grandfather tried to.
He didn't want his Social Security to try to get him to keep it, and they wouldn't.
Anyway, folks, greetings.
Welcome back.
It's the EIB Network on Friday, so let's just keep heading on here.
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What is this?
Criminalized social posting.
Screw that.
Hell with that.
Now, I'm just looking.
Is there anything I missed here before we move on to other things?
Just one thing.
Does the name Peter Berg ring a bell for any of you?
The name Peter Berg is a Hollywood producer and director.
He did the, I think it was, yeah, TV show.
He created the TV show Friday Night Lights.
He directed the movie Lone Survivor.
That ring a bell.
The movie, Lone Survivor.
That's about the book.
You know, Marcus Luttrell.
Special Forces Lone Survivor.
Anyway, this guy, Peter Berg, was a little, I don't know, I don't know if upset's the right word, but he thought it was a little unusual.
In fact, he posted something, I guess it was on Instagram.
And this is with a picture.
And he had a picture of a soldier next to a separate image of Caitlin Jenner from the Espies.
And the caption to his picture said, one man traded two legs for the freedom of the other to trade two testicles for two boobs.
Guess which man made the cover of Vanity Fair and was praised for his courage by President Obama and is to be honored with the Arthur Ashe Courage Award by ESPN.
So you have here on Instagram, you get two pictures.
You've got a Marine double amputee, soldier double amputee with Caitlin Jenner.
And you've got that caption.
And Peter Berg says, one man traded two legs for the freedom of the other man to trade two testicles for two boobs.
And guess which of these two gets on the cover of Vanity Fair?
It was praised for his courage by President Obama and is to be honored with the Arthur Ashe Courage Award of ESPN.
Now, what is your reaction to that?
Do you think good for Peter Berg?
Do you think, now there's a guy that's got his perspective right.
There's a guy that's got his sense of priorities and perspective right.
Well, you know what happened to the guy?
He was trolled unmercilessly on Instagram and Twitter and everywhere else by a bunch of literal idiots.
You know, if you look at, if you read the comments to any post that is even the slightest bit controversial anywhere on the internet, or if you read comments Twitter or Instagram, it is the fastest way, I think the fastest way to lose faith in this country that there's been devised.
Because it is in the comments that you see the unabridged, total, complete stupidity that has to be the result of an ongoing educational brainwashing.
This guy was, he has walked it back.
He has clarified his comments.
And he said he didn't mean anything negative to Caitlin Jenner.
But it's clear what he was saying.
Hey, you know, we're kind of out of whack here.
We've got a soldier and soldiers who are being killed and they are losing arms and legs.
And we're giving courage awards to somebody that changes gender.
And the reaction that he got, it wasn't just the mindless trolling.
It was some of the things that I, it was just genuinely stupid.
It was dumb.
People didn't even get the point of what he was.
All they saw was his prejudice and bigotry, anti-gay, anti-tranny, anti-this.
They didn't.
Most of the comments that I saw didn't even understand why the two were mentioned in the same sentence.
You should have some of the comments.
What in the world does military service have to do with transgenderism?
What is it?
These commenters were unable.
They didn't get it.
It didn't.
It just over their heads.
No, no, I don't think, don't misunderstand.
I'm not saying that the country's finished.
I'm saying the best play, if you want to think that it is, if you want to have your faith in the future destroyed, read Twitter.
Find some of the comments on Instagram, Twitter, social media, wherever it is.
You just see complete, complete ignorance.
Maybe bordering on stupidity or whatever.
Now, the original post headline was Hollywood Director Not Afraid to share this post showing what he really thought of the ESPN Courage Award.
But it didn't take long and he backed off.
And he clarified.
And he assured these trolls that he didn't mean what they thought.
It's a combination with these trolls of the to me, it's just sheer, I don't know what a word, stupidity, ignorance, inability to think.
Whatever it is, it's horrible.
It's a bad omen.
Combined with the automatic and jumping to conclusion that there's racism and bigotry.
And it's just, it's just don't read the comments.
Just avoid them.
You know, I think most websites, if they had their heads on straight, would cancel the comments anyway.
They're pointless.
They're worthless.
And they add nothing in most cases.
Anyway, let's move on to the Planned Parenthood stack here.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards.
By the way, do you know who that is?
That's Cecile Richards is the daughter of Ma Richards, the former governor of Texas.
So the Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards apologized for the lack of compassion portrayed by an executive in an undercover video.
It was the tone that was bad.
And it was the, and her tone, we apologize for her tone.
This is Dr. Nukatola who was describing while eating salad and drinking Cabernet how you harvest body parts from aborted babies and then how you make sure that they're whole and intact and not crushed.
And then how you sell them.
And then how you make a little money off of it.
And apologize to any of that.
They just apologize for her attitude.
But she, Cecile Richards, the daughter of Ma Richards, continued to refute claims that the organization is profiting from fetal tissue donation.
Richards spoke in a new video released by the organization yesterday.
It was the first time the organization had addressed the tone of the comments public.
The tone is all they've addressed here.
Ma Richards' daughter said, our top priority is the compassionate care that we provide.
Does that just not want to make you vomit?
Our top priority is the compassionate care that we provide in our abortion factories.
And in the video, one of our staff members, not one of your staff, your medical director, Dr. Nicola Curatola Miracola, whatever, speaks in a way that does not reflect that compassionate Planned Parenthood.
This is unacceptable, and I personally apologize for that staff member's tone and statement.
Big whoop.
Apologizing for the tone.
You see, in liberalism, that counts.
Yes, apologizing for your intentions, apologizing for your attitude and your tone.
That's really all you have to do.
And by the way, Ma Richards' daughter, Cecile Richards, is married to a Tom Poncho at the Service Employees International Union.
And by the way, one other thing.
I kind of got it wrong about Warren Buffett.
Yeah, $100 million.
But in the last 2002 to 2012 or 14 or whatever, $1.2 billion that man has donated Planned Parenthood and abortion, other abortion rights operation.
$1.2 billion Warren Buffett has donated.
That's another, you know why I do that?
They're never going to come after him as a rich guy.
They're never, the barbarians are never going to show up at his gate.
They're never going to demand Warren Buffett give up any of his fortune because he does all those politically correct things.
Same thing with Gates.
And then Ma Richards' daughter said in the video, I want to be really, really, really, really, really clear.
The allegation that Planned Parenthood profits in any way from tissue donation is not true.
Well, prove it then.
It's kind of hard to believe that it costs $24,250 to transport a baby's liver to their harvesting partners.
So what if they don't profit?
They're still doing it.
The evil is the profit in the harvesting of body organs from boarded children.
The real evil there is the profit.
By the way, it does profit.
And you know how we know?
This whole thing does occur for profit.
And guess who let the cat out of the bag on that one?
None other than Media Matters.
Media Matters published a defense of Planned Parenthood on Tuesday night.
And the evidence that they offered proves that Planned Parenthood's clinics were intentionally seeking to profit from the harvesting and sale of fetal organs.
That's right.
In its defense of Planned Parenthood, Media Matters points to a portion of the complete video which did not appear in the nine-minute clip that was circulated around the internet on Tuesday.
And it quotes Dr. Nukatola.
She says, you know, I could throw a number out there that's anywhere from $30 to $100, depending on the facility and what's involved.
It just has to do with space issues.
Are you sending someone there that's going to be doing everything, or is their staff going to be doing it?
What exactly are they going to be doing?
Is there shipping involved?
There's somebody coming to pick it up, meaning an organ.
So I think everybody just wants to – it's really just about if anyone were ever to ask them, well, what do you do for this $60?
How can you justify that?
Or are you basically just doing something completely egregious that you should be doing for free?
So it just needs to be justifiable.
And look, we have 67 affiliates.
They all have different practice environments, very different staff.
So with that number, and the actor in the video said, 67?
And Nukatola said, yeah, 67.
So the actor in the video says, okay, so that number, how much would personally, a personal in there would play into it as far as how we're speaking to it?
Remember, the actors posing as a buyer.
Nukatola.
Well, I think for the affiliates, at the end of the day, they're a non-profit.
They just don't want to break even.
They just want to break even.
And even if they can do a little better than break even and do so in a way that seems reasonable, they're happy to do that.
This was offered as evidence that they're not doing it for profit by Media Matters.
She says her affiliates, Dr. Nukatola says, makes clear Planned Parenthood isn't just covering their costs.
She says that her affiliates are happy to do a little better than break even when possible.
Obviously, when you do better than break even in a financial transaction, that's called what?
Profit.
Exactly right.
So it's an admission that Planned Parenthood is profiting from these sales.
Now, again, Dr. Nukatola is being somewhat careful here because she knows where the legal line prevents her from going.
They can't go wild with their organ prices because they can't make the profit obvious.
But if they can make a little on the side selling organs in a way that, quote, seems reasonable, then they're, quote, happy to do that.
That doesn't prove that they're not profit.
It proves that they are.
Having the director of medical services explain how they skirt the law by keeping profits small enough to not be noticed or to pass muster or what have you.
So, and of course, the next story: Democrats come to defense of planned parenthood in thehill.com.
Congressional Democrats coming to the defense of Planned Parenthood.
As I told you, what happened?
This is not going to change anybody's mind.
And if you're waiting for some Democrats to stand up and say, oh my God, I had no idea this is what Planned Perd was doing.
I conducted.
That's never going to happen, folks.
It just isn't going to happen.
And I'll tell you: if you are a devout Christian, there's nothing anybody can point out to you about Christ to make you change your mind about him, right?
There's nothing any politician, there's no scam video somebody could run.
If you're a devout believer in Christ, there's nobody that's going to talk you out of it.
Well, it's the same thing here.
If you're a devout believer in abortion and Planned Parenthood, there's nothing anybody can do that's going to talk you out of it.
It's their religion.
We go to Ava, New York.
Bob, great to have you.
EIB Network.
Hello.
Oh, greetings.
Okay, I got three quick things.
Number one: if President Obama is such a good Muslim, does he make Michelle and his daughters wear burkers?
Well, I don't think he's a Muslim.
He says he's a Christian.
Okay, number two, they call it domestic terrorism because it's our fault.
We're responsible for it, along with global warming and world hunger.
You mean that's what they mean by it.
Okay, what's number three?
Number three, this Tennessee shooting could not have come at a more opportune time to prove that the Muslims cannot be appeased.
Obama gave Iran everything they wanted to appease them, and the very next day, they're killing us.
Is Mahmoud Yusuf Abdulaziz Iranian?
It doesn't matter.
They have no country.
They've told us we're not fighting a country.
That's true.
They are fighting an ideology.
I understand.
I got your point there about all of this suck up has not stopped any of it.
That's my point earlier in the program.
Call it or whatever you want to call it.
We're sucking up, and it isn't stopping any of it.
Well, it is.
What do you call the State Department doing a seminar a couple of months after 9-11 entitled, Why Do They Hate Us?
Or What Have We Done to Make Them Hate Us?
What have we done to cause this?
By the way, Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, spoke to a schoolmate of Mahmoud Yusuf Abdulaziz.
She asked the schoolmate, well, does Mahmoud enjoy hunting and other small-town Tennessee activities?
And the schoolmate doesn't know what?
Andrew Mitchell says, were guns a big part of social activities, young Mahmoud?
And the school says, what are you talking about?
Look at is this kid a typical southerner?
And we're back.
Great to have you, Rushlin Boy here, the cutting edge of societal evolution.
I have been mispronouncing the name of the alleged, we don't know why he did it, shooter in Chattanooga, because I've got a news story that has it wrong.
I have, yep, I've got a news story here from Reuters that spells it Mahmoud, and it's actually Muhammad.
So, you know, I have not been purposely butchering or making fun of the name.
I just, I had an incorrect source here.
It's Muhammad Yusuf Abdulaziz.
So I got one out of three.
But again, it's ultimately my fault.
I will take the blame.
Mahmoud, Muhammad.
But I have an excuse, but I'm not going to lay it off on the drive-bys.
I mean, I don't expect them to be right anyway, so it's my mistake for not checking second place.
Anyway, just to repeat this, because I had to hurry this through for the break previously.
Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, got hold of a former classmate of Muhammad Yusuf Abdulaziz and started asking the schoolmate what kind of things young Muhammad likes to do.
By the way, Muhammad's family, they're apparently well-to-do, big house, swimming pool.
Anyway, Andrea Mitchell said, well, did Muhammad enjoy hunting and other small-town Tennessee activity?
Yeah, hunting.
Small town Tennessee activity.
Like John Kerry went into, I've been Kentucky.
Is this where I get me a hunting license during the campaign in 2004?
Remember that?
Is this where I get me a hunting license?
And the classmate at the question kind of cocked her and said, I don't know what you're talking about.
Andrew Mitchell said, you know, were guns a big part of activities?
Social or other activities?
And the interviewee said, what?
And Andrew Mitchell kept, did he hunt?
Did he shoot?
Did he have a pickup truck with a gun rack in the back window?
Is he a typical southerner?
Well, she didn't.
I actually made that last part up.
But that's what she meant.
She did say, did he hunt?
Did he shoot?
Was that just part of small-town Tennessee activity?
She's trying to lay this off on southern conservative culture.
We sit here and laugh at it, but Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, is laying out the possibility here that this kid, Muhammad Yusuf Abdulaziz, was inspired to do what he did because of southern, which is conservative culture.
That's what, I mean, apparently parents are well-to-do.
Well, it's a big house.
Who knows?
I don't know what the mortgage is.
Well, no, no, no, no.
Well, maybe it's income inequality, but if his family has a lot of money, it would be guilt over the fact they have a lot of money and some of the other hayseeds, Hicks, Tennessee, don't.
I don't know.
But she might as well just have said, does he have any Confederate flag decals anywhere?
Have you ever seen him with a Confederate flag anywhere?
Now, look, you laugh at.
I'm telling you, that's what she's setting up here with this question.
Why ask if Muhammad Yusuf Abdulaziz was a product of small-town Tennessee activities and culture?
Because you know what Andrew Mitchell thinks of those.
Small-town Tennessee, southern conservative hunt guns, shoot things.
Mike McCall, who is a member of Congress from Texas, he's chairman of Homeland Security, was on Wolf with CNN this afternoon and made this statement.
I just got off the phone with the FBI and had a very good briefing with them.
I can tell you this.
They have opened this case now as a terrorism case, which is very significant.
Right now, his communication devices, they're on the airplane as I speak, going to Washington.
My assumption is based on my experience, both as a federal prosecutor and as a chairman of Homeland Security, and that is we've seen too much of this traffic.
There are too many of the warning signs.
The targets are identical to the targets called by ISIS to attack.
So my judgment, in my experience, is that this was an ISIS-inspired attack.
He's not waiting for Josh Ernest and the regime to finish their investigation to figure it out.
He's putting together things that he knows and has seen as both the prosecutor and chairman of Homeland Security ISIS-inspired attack.
He said, we've seen too much of this traffic.
Too many of the warning signs.
Meanwhile, Emre Mitchell, NBC News in Washington, is trying to lay the blame on Southern culture.
And other drive-bys are doing similar work, trying to make it look like the last thing this guy is, is an Islamic terrorist.
That couldn't possibly be.
I mean, we don't have any alleged motivations yet to tie it to that.
There's nothing to see here.
We don't even know if he's a Muslim.
We're not even sure how we know he's there.
I'm really a Muslim.
You guys are a bunch of racists jumping these conclusions.
We're looking at this responsibly.
And it probably, you know, the Duke's a hazard if you watch that show.
And a number of other things here.
We'll get to the bottom of this.
That's Mike McCall again.
He's from Texas.
Scott Walker weighed in last night on the Kelly file on the Fox News channel.
Megan Kelly said that Dr. Krauthammer came out tonight, listening to the president, said the president errs in the side of downplaying the threat of radical Islam, describing this man as a lone gunman.
And there are other examples with respect to the underwear bomber who called an isolated extremist.
And then, of course, Benghazi, where Obama refused to call it a terrorist attack at all.
Does Dr. Krauthammer have a point?
We need to acknowledge that we're at war and radical Islamic terrorism is our enemy.
And it's not enough just to have containment anymore.
When you talked about the policies that prohibited our military personnel from being armed at an establishment like this, those are outdated.
Containment was something that might have been good during the Cold War, but we're facing an enemy in radical Islamic terrorism that's willing to take the fight to us.
Republican presidential hopeful Scott Walker, and then he kept going on Planned Parenthood.
Years ago, when I first became governor of the state of Wisconsin, my first budget, I defunded Planned Parenthood.
I took some attacks from some of the media and some of the left, but this video is just a prime example.
This is not a non-controversial entity.
This is obviously a disturbing, disgusting act that they're talking about.
We've outlawed that in Wisconsin in the past.
We need to be defunding Planned Parenthood, not only state by state, but I think across the country, and instead put resources into women's health issues, but put them into non-controversial entities.
Dr. Benjamin Carson also in the Kelly file last night.
She said, the argument is that those fetal organs are going for a good use.
What is your take on that, Dr. Carson?
It's been over-promised what the benefits of fetal research would be and very much under-delivered.
It's a spurious argument, but you know, what's really disturbing is the fact that we have become so callous that a lot of people don't even realize that this is shocking to see the callousness with which we are treating human life.
It's interesting that there's so many people who are concerned about snail darters and little spiders and things.
And yet, the human being inside of that mother's womb, just beyond 10 weeks, is much more sophisticated than many of these creatures that they're trying to preserve.
You know, that's obviously true and right on the money.
And I just, I hear comments like this, and I think of the idiot trolls on Twitter.
I think of the dumb idiots on the tech blogs, and so the commenters.
I mean, just, I think, I just, you know, what have they become based on how they've been taught?
There's no human life anyway in the womb.
It's an unviable tissue mass.
There's not a human life until the woman decides what to do with it.
And that's what they think.
And it's nobody's business.
Screw you, Dr. Carson.
Who the hell are you?
Dr. Carson continued, by the way.
Just want to get the closing statement here.
We'll get into it.
Distorted things to the point where people believe that if the mother can't kill the baby, then anybody who's advocating that is an enemy of women.
How can we be so foolish as to believe such a thing?
A little developing baby is just an incredible sight to behold.
Got a nice little nose and little fingers and hands and the heart's beating, and it can respond to environmental stimulus.
I mean, how can you believe that that's just an irrelevant mass of cells?
And that's what they want you to believe when, in fact, it is a human being.
No, it is not.
Because if it's a human being, then the left must face their conscience.
That they will never do.
So it isn't a human being.
And nobody can convince them otherwise.
It's not a human.
At nine months and aborted, it's not a human being.
As far as they're concerned.
We will be back.
Don't go away.
By the way, for those of you curious about the British Open Tiger is last I saw a half hour ago, plus five.
And the leaders are minus nine, minus ten.
So he's 15 shots off the leading a lot of people in front of him.
Here's Bob in Washington, D.C. Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hi, I got three things.
Last year, the Washington Post on one of the front sections of the paper had an article saying that there are 100,000 Sinaloa gang members in Chicago alone.
They said the reason why there's so many there is because it's one of several distribution hubs that the Sinaloa gang has.
Another thing was, you remember Doris Meisner back in 96 when they were trying to take the election for Clinton.
They changed the head of the INS.
The guy in charge was letting everybody in except for he was doing criminal background checks.
So they put Doris Meisner in there to stop doing the criminal background checks.
So bringing in criminals has been by design.
About three years ago, they also had a study saying that illegals were killing in the United States around somebody every 39 minutes or something like that and raiding somebody every seven minutes.
I don't, you know, be on the internet, but I don't have that.
So it's just incredible what's been going on.
So that kind of validates a little bit of what Donald Trump was saying.
Speaking of Donald Trump, the Huffing and Puffington Post just made an announcement.
The Huffing and Puffington Post just announced that they are no longer going to cover Trump's campaign as news.
Trump's campaign will be covered as entertainment.
Could you not?
Big editorial statement, Huffing and Puffington Post.
They're no longer going to treat Trump's campaign as a serious political story, but rather as an ongoing entertainment.
Well, sideshow, whatever.
But they're going to put it in their entertainment section rather than in the news section.
He happens to be leading in the polls.
He and Scott Walker are leading him.
Jeb Bush is out in San Francisco.
So he hails an Uber car.
And the Uber driver doesn't know who he is.
This is the lead story on Drudge.
The Uber driver has no idea he's driving Jeb Bush around.
And when he's told it's Jeb Bush, he has to stop that.
Who's that?
He's not a big political guy, doesn't vote much, but he is going to vote for Hillary.
He's a Democrat, this Uber driver.
And his name is, I don't know, Mahmoud Muhammad something, Swahili.
I don't know what it is.
Well, I can't remember what it was.
Let me find it.
I don't have time.
I got it because we have a 10-year-old on hold here for a while from Centerville, Virginia.
Name is Matthew.
And Matthew, I appreciate very much that you have held on for quite a while.
I welcome you to the program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
How are you doing today?
Good.
How are you?
I'm fine and dandy, especially since I have a chance to talk to you.
So.
What did you call about, Matthew?
I called that I read your books.
I liked them.
And since I'm from Ohio, I was going to think about Lake Erie.
And since there was a major naval battle there and we're in the War of 1812, I would ask if you would do a part of one of your books, if you do it, War of 1812, about the Battle of Put-in Bay near Lake Erie.
You know, we're getting, which we love, by the way, Matthew, we have readers, young people like you, are now sending in requests for events that they want Rush Revere and Liberty to go to.
Yeah.
And write about.
It's really cool, I have to tell you.
We've got young readers who want us to do a book on World War II.
You have just mentioned the War of 1812 and the battle near Lake Erie.
And I've got others that want us to do a book on slavery.
You know, what it was, how it started.
We're getting all kinds of requests.
What was that?
Well, what slavery was like.
What, what?
Slavery was like.
Oh, you would be interested in a book on what slavery was about?
Yeah, that too.
Well, that would be, for the age group that we're looking at, Tennant, that would be a challenge.
But that's what we're about here.
We're looking for truthful opportunities to present American history to people your age so that you'll learn it and be interested in it and want to learn more as you get older.
That's our challenge.
And it's something that we really look forward to it.
And getting calls like yours is an inspiration.
I mean, you're 10 and you know about the Battle of 1812, but you want to see Rush Revere and the gang time travel back there.
So I appreciate the request.
And I can't tell you if we'll do it or when, but note that we have made a note of it ourselves.
And we appreciate it, Matthew, very much.
Hang on, Matthew, because I want to find out if there's anything you need from the gang at Rush Revere and Liberty.
We've got all the books and the audio CD.
So hang on for Mr. Snerdley, and we will be back after this, folks.
Well, that's it, folks.
Too bad, too, because it's a good show today.
Well, they all are, but I mean, we're rocking today.
Open line Friday Twilight Zone.
But that's it.
We send you off into the weekend, prepared and steeled for whatever insanity awaits us, and back here Monday to chronicle it and talk about it.
See you then.
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