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July 22, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 22, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
You know, I often joke around calling myself America's real anchor man.
You know, I really am.
I really, really am, particularly on this whole Trump story, folks, as I made clear toward the end of the program yesterday.
That's why the drive-bys misunderstand what I'm doing.
They don't understand objectivity.
They don't understand reporting on something without an opinion attached to it.
They really don't.
That's why they think I'm supporting Trump because I'm not denouncing him.
If I'm not denouncing Trump, I'm supporting him.
And that's not at all what I have said or done, and they don't get they understand the nuance.
They they finally figured out very nuanced.
I'm not this uh simpleton.
Well, today they think that.
Um I'll be back to being a simpleton next week sometime.
Anyways, fascinating, it's case study.
Great to have you here, folks, Rush Limbaugh, America's real anchor man, the truth detector too, and Doctor of Democracy, as I say all combined, one harmless, lovable little fuzzball bundle.
The telephone number, if you want to be on the program's 800 282-2882, the email address L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
Jerry Brown, the governor of California, setting a table here.
Jerry Brown, Governor California, trying to get everybody's attention on climate change, says, look, people aren't listening to you.
We are talking about the extinction of human race here.
I also have it on good authority that uh a couple of government sponsored uh weather entities.
I'm not gonna name them, I don't know if it's NOAA or whatever.
They're actually falsifying the data of the last 15 or 20 years to make it look like there is warming.
Uh I have it on good authority from one of the groups that is reporting honestly the temperature data.
It's being fudged.
Uh, and this is it's done to coincide with the with the Pope's big conference on this later in the year, which is going to be attended by the mayor of New York, famed climatologist Bill Noblasio, is going to address the climate change conference of the Vatican.
Also, we have Ted Cruz just made mince meat yesterday during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration enforcement.
The ICE director, Immigration Customs Enforcement Director, Sarah Soldona, or Soldonia, and he just made mincemeat of her, and he ended up getting her to agree that he was right, but that she didn't care.
And it's all about the crimes that are being committed by illegal immigrants.
Wait, and by the way, Obama has granted illegal aliens to uh edit the oath they take when becoming citizens.
They can leave out certain things if it offends them.
In the oath that they are required to take.
In addition to that, we have the latest on Trump and Kasich and the media fall.
The media, it's fascinating here in a way because like Dana Besh, Dana Bash of CNN was out there following Trump around, and she has uh a report.
We have the soundbite coming up.
Shocked.
Literally admits to being surprised that the audience actually listens to what Trump's saying.
Meaning they're not just a bunch of red meat fire breathing numbskulls.
They actually are listening to what he's saying, and she's scared.
George Stephanopoulos asked John Kasich.
Kasich went on Good Morning America, Stephanopoulos.
Stephanopoulos said, is the Republican Party ready to accept that you care about black people.
George Stephanopoulos interviewing Casey.
Are you ready to accept?
Is the GOP ready to accept that you care about black people?
New York magazine.
I had this story yesterday.
I didn't have a chance to get to it.
New York magazine, a guy writing a story On feminism.
And how feminism has liberated him.
What open marriage taught one man about feminism.
The guy's name, New York magazine, is Michael Sonmore.
He might pronounce it some more, I don't know, it's S O N-O-R-E.
What open marriage taught one man about feminism.
And I will just read to you the second paragraph to give you a little teaser.
Before my wife started sleeping with other men, I certainly considered myself a feminist.
But I really only understood it in the abstract.
When I quit working to stay at home with the kids, I began to understand it in a whole new level.
I'm an economically dependent house husband coping with the withering drudgery of child rearing.
Now that I understand the reality of the situation, I don't blame women for demanding more for themselves than the life of the housewife.
And he's perfectly fine with his wife sleeping around.
Got an open marriage, perfectly that's what feminism is to him.
And because he's now the house husband with the drudgery of raising the kids, he totally understands why women are ticked off.
This guy's missed it here by about 40 years.
But anyway, it's instructive.
And we will have it for you as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears.
Ladies and gentlemen, there's a couple of things also in the drive-by media today, which uh bear me out.
Uh something I've often said about Mrs. Clinton.
And that is the more she speaks, the worse her public approval numbers go.
The less she speaks, the higher they go.
And some drive-by media people have discovered this now, even F. Chuck Todd, and they're even reporting it.
No credit given, of course, to your host, but it's an observation I have made for years.
And it's an observation based on observation.
So anyway, they've discovered this in the drive-by's, and they are worried.
Now they're not worried that Hillary could lose yet, because they are convinced that anybody with a D next to their name is going to win.
But they really want it to be Hillary for all the reasons that you can imagine.
It's her turn.
She deserves it.
After the excrement sandwich she's been forced to eat because of her husband and everything else.
They really want it to be Hillary because she's the smartest woman in the world.
But she's none of those things.
Well, she is the most cheated on woman in America.
That is undeniable.
But she is not charismatic.
She is not exciting.
She does not, she does not excite a crowd.
She puts a crowd to sleep.
And they but they don't think that's a problem because of the electoral map, and because they are convinced that the country hates Republicans, that the Republicans don't have a chance, no matter who they nominate.
It really doesn't.
The biggest chance the Republicans have for victory, according to drive-by, is Jeb Bush.
If the Republicans nominate Jeb, then maybe the Republicans have a chance because of immigration, and uh Jeb's the only guy that Latinos don't hate on the Republican side.
But even then, they don't think any Republican has a chance just because of the electoral map, uh, the demographics, uh the fact that Republicans are hated and despised.
So it really doesn't matter who the Democrat nominee is, but they really want it to be Hillary, and but they're now waking up, they're shocked at the unpopularity of Hillary Clinton in the swing states.
F Chuck Todd was on MSNBC, and I'm not gonna lift the ban.
I'm just gonna tell you what he said.
I'm not gonna lift the ban, I'm not gonna start playing soundbites.
What good's a ban if you violate the ban.
And if Chuck Todd said this fits another pattern of Hillary's.
Whenever she'd been out front as the face of the Democrat Party, her numbers have gone down.
I wonder if he really meant to say it that way.
When she's the face of the Democrat Party.
Well, that's what he said.
Whenever she'd been out front as the face of the Democrat Party, her numbers have gone down.
They always have whenever she's the focal point.
When asked why that is, F. Chuck answered, Americans like Clinton more when she is in a supportive or operative role.
They don't like her when she's the focal point.
They don't like her in a leadership role.
As F. Chuck said, you could just simply say she doesn't wear well.
But the swing state business is polling data, and they're finding that Hillary's popularity is sinking and waning, and then all this stuff going on with Bernie Sanders is real.
It may not be real in terms of Bernie winning the nomination, but it's real in terms of it's hurting Hillary.
And then there's this.
This is a story I found that just fits in almost precisely with a theme of mine in the past weeks on this program.
And if you've been listening steadily for the last couple of weeks or three or longer, you know that one of my focal points has been the status, the state of American culture, American society.
And is it really as gone and lost as it appears?
Has it truly been corrupted with no moral guardrails restraining any aberrant behavior anymore?
Is it just a free-for-all out there with no foundation of morality undergirding it?
And this is it came up a number of times yesterday in the context of analyzing the reaction to Trump and the drive-by surprise or lack of surprise, depending on what the incidents are.
But the best way to remind you is that whenever the media reports on something controversial, there's always this assumption that a majority of the American people also feel the same way.
So if there's outrage, say at Sarah Palin, the presumption is that the whole country is outraged.
If the gay mafia attacks a pizza shop in Indiana, the presumption is that the entire country thinks that pizza shop should be shut down.
And it's an image that is created by the media as they reported these things, report these things that what it serves to do is dispirit and depress people into thinking that there aren't any guardrails anymore.
There's no stopgap.
There's no bottom.
There's no floor to this perversion and wickedness, it just happens.
And the worst part of it is that most of the American people agree with it is the presumption, the assumption that is included with reporting.
So here's a story in the Washington Post.
Americans unhappy about the left's social issue wins.
Washington Post, folks.
Liberals have won a series of victories on social issues.
Most Americans are not thrilled about it.
Now, this is a point that I have been making steadily and steadfastly for quite a while now.
And it is what I've been saying as well.
As well as making the point, making the observation, I have offered the opinion, I don't think we've reached a tipping point.
I don't think a majority of Americans now support the kind of wickedness and perversion that's happening in our pop culture all over it.
I made a big deal about this yesterday or the day before.
I just don't believe when the media reports these things with this accompanying presumption that the majority of the country also agrees with it, that's true.
Despite the media's claims to the contrary, according to the Washington Post here, it's actually the left that's pushing pushing social issues.
Another point that I have made.
By the way, do you hear what the Planned Parenthood reaction, New York Times story?
They finally have said something about it.
You know what it is?
Campaign of deception against Planned Parenthood.
New York Times.
And everybody's been waiting for the Times to erupt.
And check and see how the Times is going to report this.
And everybody's been waiting for Noted Democrat politicians to speak up about this.
And in fact, A. B. Stoddard of the Hill.com, and who appears on Fox says if some Democrats don't speak up about this Planned Parenthood thing soon, they're going to be in trouble.
Thereby indicating, again, a vast majority of the American people do not come close to supporting what Planned Parenthood is doing here with their baby chop shop activities.
Selling baby body parts harvested during abortions.
That kind of cultural rot, that kind of depravity that is taking place.
And I've I've grown weary of even some friends of mine, Republican friends of mine, but even not friends coming up and saying, seeing them say, we've got to stop talking about the social issues.
The social issues are killing us.
We've got to stay focused on the economy and taxes.
We've got to drop this social issues.
And I have always maintained it's not us.
We're not pushing social issues.
We get up every day, we see things that we believe in under assault, and we defend them.
Such as human life.
Human life to me is more than a social issue, it's about sanctity.
We get up, we're minding our own business.
We get up, we see record numbers of abortions taking place, and then we find out what Planned Parenthood is doing with their abortions and the aborted babies, and we get repulsed and we talk it.
Somehow we then get blamed for injecting social issues in the campaign.
Well, this story in the Washington Post makes it clear, as I have opined, that it's actually the left pushing social issues, and that conservatives are only being told to shut up about social issues, so the left doesn't have any opposition.
Exactly what I've been saying.
It's right here in this story that the left doesn't want to debate.
They're not interested in hashing things out.
They are oriented specifically toward eliminating opposition.
In fact, many in the public don't even think there is an opposing view since they seldom hear it because the Republicans are so reluctant to speak up about social issues anymore.
And the irony is the opposing views are usually embraced by a majority of the American public.
All of that is in this little story in the Washington Post.
The Washington Post even says at the bottom that many Democrats are unhappy with all of these social victories that the left is achieving.
You know, which leads you to ask, could it be that there are even some Democrats out there who don't want to see America fundamentally transformed?
And that's another way of looking at it as well.
But that story's there, and we'll spend some time with it.
And Ted Cruz and this open marriage guy, we're loaded here today, folks.
Plus the latest with Trump and the latest on the Iran deal.
That just continues to defy common sense and believability.
All that coming up.
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So...
On the cutting edge of societal evolution, Senator Tom Cotton.
Congressman Mike Pompeo have discovered backroom Iran deals that were not shared with Congress.
Not surprised, right?
It turns out that the United States made a secret side deal with Iran on two of the more important sticking points in the negotiations.
Number one, the inspection of a military base, where Iran had done major nuclear weapons research in the past, and number two, the requirement that Iran tell us about their past nuclear work, which is necessary in order for there to be a baseline for the inspectors.
I mean, we have to know how far they've made it in order to judge how far they're going.
And both of those points.
According to Cotton and Pompeo, there'll be a secret opaque procedure to verify Iran's compliance with these side agreements.
They say that both arrangements will not be vetted by any Organization other than Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency.
They'll not be released, even to the nations that negotiated the Iran agreement, which means that the secret arrangements have not been released for public scrutiny and have not been submitted to Congress as part of the deal.
Which means will have no way of knowing whether Iran complied with either of these side agreements.
The United States has been shut out of this aspect of the verification of the deal.
The inspection of a military base where Iran had done major nuclear weapons research.
We have no access to it.
We agreed to this.
Senator Kerry agreed to this, Secretary of State Kerry.
And the requirement that Iran tell us about their past nuclear work so we can get a baseline of how far they had made it.
We're not allowed to know that.
Two side deals made between the United States and Iran to eliminate the U.S. ability to learn either data point.
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Now back to the story about Tom Cotton, Senator Cotton, and Congressman Mike Pompeo, who is from Kansas, Republican Kansas.
The story appears in National Review.
And they essentially say, just reiterate that the United States made a secret side deal with Iran on two of the more important sticking points in the negotiations.
The first one is the inspection of a military base where Iran had done major nuclear weapons research in the past and may still be.
We don't know.
We're not allowed to see.
By virtue of a side deal, we're not allowed to go.
The second aspect, the requirement that Iran fess up, the requirement that Iran tell everybody, including us, about their past nuclear work, which is necessary in order for there to be a baseline for the inspectors, which I guess we don't need a baseline for the inspectors because they're really not going to get any inspectors.
Because there's a 24-day window that the Iranians have to clean up whatever mess that somebody claims they have made before any inspectors can get in there.
And the Iranians have to approve the inspectors anyway, so inspection and verification is actually a uh a pipe dream in this deal.
But even so, even if it weren't, the Iranians do not have to openly admit, demonstrate, prove where they are in terms of their stage of nuclear development now.
And if they don't have to do it, we can't establish a baseline to discover whether they are making progress or not.
The fact that these two items are agreed to in a side deal that are not part of the main agreement.
It means that these two crucial measures of Iranian compliance with the nuclear agreement will not be disclosed to Congress.
I know, but you're shouting, what about the Corker bill, the Corker bill?
Well, folks, you've got to get the corker bill out of your mind because the corker bill is a just a disastrous mistake.
The corker bill is classic republicanism.
It is a it's a construct to make Republican voters think that Obama is being opposed, that Obama is being made to work hard to get what he wants.
It's a false construct.
It does not prevent Obama from getting anything he wants.
It doesn't have the ability to.
It's just a showpiece.
It's just one of these things that's designed again to allow the Republicans to leave the impression that they're working hard, keeping Obama in line, and opposing him when necessary.
The fact of the matter is, the corker bill, it in fact requires disclosures like this to be made.
The corker bill requires the regime To provide the U.S. Congress with all the documents associated with the agreement.
These two will not be provided.
So the regime will be in violation of the Corker Bill and in violation of a whole bunch, and nothing is going to happen with it.
And meanwhile John Kerry is running around saying that he's disturbed that the Ayatollah hominy is running around saying bad things about us.
I don't want to dwell on this more than necessary, but I think it's key to understand the psychology of people, the philosophical psychology of people.
One of the things that we are told to accept and believe every day is the superior intelligence and IQ and competence of everybody on the left.
The Democrats are just naturally smarter.
They're more sophisticated.
They're worldly, they are appreciated more by people of the world than these crass Republicans.
And we're told to believe that they're a cut above everybody.
I mean, they are the best and the brightest, and they are the wizards of smart.
And in fact, John Kerry is the exact opposite.
He's a self-absorbed megalomaniac who hasn't the ability to know what he doesn't know.
And he believes that he is universally loved and appreciated because he can speak French, because he can speak Spanish, because he's an American and a Democrat.
They think the world loves him.
And that the world has universal respect for.
He thinks the world loves him because of what he did after the Vietnam War.
Kerry is the kind of guy that does go to bed at night, well, waits to go to bed.
Everybody else in the house is asleep.
He turns the lights down, sits down, and has an adult beverage and ponders his going greatness.
He's the kind of guy that does that.
He'll look at himself in the mirror and think of his own greatness.
And he's the kind of guy who'll sit down for months and months of meetings with representatives of a nation that has sworn to wipe out our allies and us and think that he is seriously changing their mind based on his ability to make them respect and like him.
And at the end of the process, he'll tell us, yeah, he and the Iranian foreign minister, we stood up and you know we shared tears.
It was such a beautiful thing.
We actually cried over this massive achievement that we both admit.
And then not two days later, here goes the Supreme Leader with yet another from the podium diatribe on the evils of the United States and a death to America chance, and Kerry publicly admits that he's disturbed by it and doesn't understand it.
That's dangerous.
All of these, that's precisely why people on the left, these self presumed superior intellects.
Narcissism, this is why they are dangerous.
They tell themselves stories about how loved and adored they are by our enemies.
And then beyond that, they tell themselves, because of the power of their words and speeches and personality and their open-mindness and their brilliance, or whatever else it is about them they think is superior, then all these bad guys in the world have been brought to heal.
The Kerry and the boys, they have in fact tamed the Mullas.
And when the Mullers don't play along and start kissing Kerry's butt like everybody else should be doing, he's stunned and doesn't know how to deal with it, and he can't believe it.
And that's why he wouldn't make side deals with them like this.
He ends up trusting them because he is convinced of his own greatness.
Those kind of people are dangerous.
I don't know if you know people like to do nothing but think about themselves.
I mean, just constantly self-absorbed.
I don't mean in an egotistical way, although that's part of it.
People think they're smarter than everybody else.
People think they are the smartest people in the room.
They carry that attitude around.
It's it's uh it's arrogance and condescension.
Those two things that accompany an attitude like that are really off-putting to me.
And then there's this story from the Jewish press.
U.S. to protect Iranian nuke sites from Israeli attack.
Now, I mentioned this to you a Couple of days ago.
But I want to mention it again with what we have been informed here by Tom Cotton and Mike Pompeo.
The agreement, the Iranian nuclear agreement, states cooperation to strengthen Iran's ability to prevent, protect, and respond to nuclear security threats to nuclear facilities and to protect against sabotage.
The Obama nuclear deal with Iran explicitly states it is not left to be assumed, it's not implied.
It's not to be inferred.
It's it explicitly states that the United States and the other P5 plus one powers will help Iran deflect and even respond to sabotage and nuclear threats to its nuclear sites.
The evidence that the Obama deal directly allows Western powers to help Iran protect its nuclear sites and possibly even to stage a counterattack on the source of the threat is stated in Annex III of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the JCPOA.
Congress is reviewing the agreement, has the option to cancel America's commitments under the deal.
But that takes us to the Corker Bill, which makes it nigh on impossible to cancel the deal by virtue of the way the Corker Bill's bill's vote structure is spelled out.
So not only have we tied our own hands on learning about Iran's nuclear strength status today, and our inability to inspect a prominent military site where they were developing nuclear weapons.
Now we learn that we have also agreed to defend Iran against any external threat.
Read Israel in this.
to properly understand it.
If the Israelis decide that they don't like this deal and they don't want to live next to a nation that is planning to wipe them out and want to take steps to eliminate Iran's nuclear plan, the United States has promised the Iranians to defend the Iranians against the Israelis.
our allies.
That is the latest on the Iranian nuclear agreement.
And we'll take a brief pause, an obscene profit timeout, and we'll resume after this.
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Here's some details of the Washington Post story on social issues.
And by the way, the authors of this piece, Peyton, Craig Hill, and Scott Clement.
And again, I'm just going to tell you the Washington Post, when they're reporting on the latest ABC News Washington Post poll.
Liberals have won a string of victories on gay marriage and health care reform this year.
But a new Washington Post ABC News poll finds a large majority of Americans are unhappy with where the nation is headed on social issues.
Are you ready for this?
63% of people say they are uncomfortable with the country's overall direction on social issues these days.
Four in ten feel strongly uncomfortable about the nation's changes.
Now, how many of you surprised?
Honestly, how many of you are surprised?
Remember my point here, and I don't mind being redundant on this.
As all of these things are report, gay marriage, the Supreme Court decision on gay marriage, or every incidental little thing in the gay marriage story, such as what happened in Indiana with the uh installation there of the religious freedom restoration act.
It's it's classic.
It's classic.
Leftist activists move in because remember, they don't want any opposition either.
When they win something, they're never happy because there is lingering Opposition.
There's always opposition.
That's why the left is never happy.
They never win anything 100%, and very rarely do they win things by virtue of a legitimate Democrat vote, folks.
It takes activist judges and other similar things in order to inflict liberalism on our culture.
It doesn't happen by virtue of the Democrat process.
And gay marriage hadn't yet happened by the Democrat press.
Some people say it was on its way, but it hadn't yet.
The Supreme Court took care of that.
Same kind of thing with abortion, never voted on by the American people.
But you take all of these things, the Supreme Court decision or the Indiana incident where there were three separate gay mafia attacks on institutions, small businesses, what have you.
The media reports all of those stories as though everybody agrees with the activists.
The media reports all of these incidents as though there is very little opposition.
And this is the new America, and this is just what everybody thinks.
And so a lone little pizza store owner or photography store owner or bakery get ramrod over by people because everybody thinks that they're a bunch of hay seed hick minority members and uh they're old fogies, and it's time for everybody to get with it.
When in fact it's the exact opposite.
The vast majority of American people do not agree with what the left's transformation of our culture is doing.
They do not want it to have, they do not support it.
Sixty some odd percent in the Washington Post ABC news poll, with 40% strongly opposing it.
And see, I believe the left knows this.
I think the left knows they're a minority.
I think the left knows in most of these things they're a minority.
They get what they want by bullying, silencing opposition, but even after they get it, they're never happy because of lingering opposition.
And lingering opposition means that whatever gain they just made is still vulnerable.
And I think deep down the left knows that their opposition is actually a sleeping giant.
And if that sleeping giant ever gets mad enough and ever wakes up, then all of this that they have gained is tenuous.
Now the Supreme Court can't do anything about that.
That's why they're so eager to get it there.
There's even a story I had, I think yesterday or the day before.
Massive disagreement with the Supreme Court decision on gay marriage.
There's not massive support for that decision.
There's massive opposition to it.
So my point is be of good cheer here on in some at some level, because we're not being ram rotted.
Well, we are, but we're being bullied.
But it's by virtue of a minority and their tactics.
The country has not been lost yet.
We've not gone over the cliff, the tipping point, however you want to describe it.
And this Washington Post poll goes even further and points out that a significant number of Democrats are uncomfortable with where all this is headed.
Sixty-three percent of people say they are uncomfortable with the country's overall direction on social issues these days.
The downbeat results in the aftermath of a series of landmark Supreme Court rulings earlier this summer runs parallel to how people see the nation's overall direction.
Sixty-five percent say it's on the wrong track.
Almost the same exact percentage that say they don't like the direction of the culture.
Americans who see themselves on the losing side of these high-profile debates are most negative about the nation's direction on social issues.
See, my contention is that the social issues are a giant winning opportunity.
And the left has been artful once again at convincing Republicans, rhinos, moderates, establishment types, that they are losing because of social issues, and specifically they are losing because of abortion.
Yeah, they're losing the Latino vote because of amnesty, and they oppose that.
And they're losing the women's vote because they're not feminists, they don't support feminism, and they are not pro-choice.
It's just the opposite.
There is a golden opportunity, particularly as expressed in this polling data for somebody who knows how to do it to turn these social issues into a huge opportunity for victory.
Just like massive opposition to Obamacare, it was just waiting for the Republican Party to come along and coalesce with it.
And it never happened.
It frustratingly never happened.
Just getting warmed up here, folks.
We still have Ted Cruz destroying the ice, babe.
We got Trump, and we got the New York Magazine article on this recent discovery of true feminism by a cuckolded New York magazine writer.
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