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June 13, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 13, 2016, Monday, Hour #3
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Yes, America's anchorman is wrapping up his vacation.
He will return tomorrow.
Do not fear, the season of guest hosts is drawing to a close.
The man himself is back for authentic, full-strength, all-American excellence in broadcasting starting tomorrow and through the end of the week.
Rush is back, and there have been dramatic events over the weekend in his home state of Florida, and he will be addressing those as only he can.
Speaking of Florida, Marco Rubio is now thinking of maybe running for the Senate again after what happened in Orlando.
He said it wasn't part of his plans.
He's been saying basically since his presidential hopes went belly up that he would be a private citizen.
But he's now saying that maybe what happened in Orlando will cause him to rethink.
My family and I will be praying about all this, and we'll see what I need to do next with my life with regards to how I can best serve, he said.
So Marco Rubio may be staying in the Senate.
People have their differences with Marco Rubio.
I completely disagreed with him on this amnesty business.
And I thought that basically crippled him in the presidential run once Trump made illegal immigration an issue.
It kind of scuttled him.
And I thought he made a chump of himself in that final New Hampshire debate, too.
But I will say this, I thought over the weekend I was listening to a lot of the reaction and it's, and to be honest, it's terribly depressing listening to what the official spokesperson say after events like this.
And I thought Marco Rubio made actually a very perceptive point when he said all this there's this obsession with whether this guy is a card-carrying member of ISIS, whether he had ISIS contacts, whether he met with his local ISIS.
Because we've all seen these CIA thrillers, these Cold War thrillers, where some guy goes to a dead drop in a park in Washington, D.C., and he looks under the rock and his instructions from his control at the Soviet embassy are there, and he memorizes them and then swallows the bit of paper and then goes on.
And it doesn't work like that.
And Marco Rubio said it really doesn't matter if this guy has had contact with some ISIS control guy.
The idea that you have to find a sort of chain of command stretching back to Raqqa in Syria is ridiculous.
Because if he hasn't, if there actually is no formal contact between him and ISIS, then that's even more brilliant in a way.
If people just kind of self-combust and they carry out ISIS's plan, if they kind of auto-ji-had in the privacy of their own homes and then go out and achieve ISIS aims, that's actually more effective.
It's a lot more efficient than the old Soviet way of leaving your instructions under a rock in a park in Washington, D.C. And Marco Rubio made that point yesterday.
And it does remind you that whatever the chaos and rubble of his presidential campaign, he does have some things to contribute.
So Marco Rubio may be returning to the United States Senate next January after all.
He's having a think about it and we'll see what he does.
I wanted to say one thing about the kind of symbolism of this.
As I said, it's 49 gay nightclubbers killed by a Muslim.
And there is something, whatever you feel about gay nightclubs or whatever, there's something kind of poignant about that.
I spoke on the 10th anniversary of the Mohammed cartoons in the Danish parliament about nine months ago with a couple of other people.
And it was a heavily guarded event, a very heavily guarded event.
We were protected by the PET, which is the Danish intelligence and security service.
They have very nice ceremonial uniforms, and they weren't all wearing them because they had to blend in with all the crazies trying to get us.
And the United States State Department and the British Foreign Office put out alerts saying it was dangerous for American and British nationals to be anywhere near my event.
So if you see that I'm coming to your town, give it a wide berth, because according to the US State Department, it's dangerous to come anywhere near me.
And afterwards, we were all supposed to go out for dinner to be some big sweet.
We'd given the speeches.
was in the Danish Parliament, it was a big triumph, and we were supposed to go out and have dinner in some swank restaurant, as is often the way after these things.
And the Danish intelligence service was going to accompany us to the event, and they would be posted at the doors to make sure people didn't get into the restaurant and kill us.
And of course, when the restaurant got wind of this, they decided that their other fancy diners wouldn't like having to have dinner with a bunch of people who required the Danish security service to protect them.
So they cancelled the reservation.
So as a result, we wound up just kind of wandering the streets, this knot of people surrounded by Danish security agents, and eventually wound up in some rather sort of seedy Copenhagen bar that was full of just like regular clubbing Danes, pub-going Danes, except for the fact that there was us and these Danish intelligence operatives there.
And it was full of these hot Nordic blondes, and they have like a little tradition there.
If you say a magnum of champagne, they don't open, they don't pop the cork.
The blonde girl takes the sword out, a sword out of the scabbard, and slices the top off the bottle, slices through the glass, so the glass top of the bottle goes flying over the other side of the room and takes some guy's eye out.
And then the champagne is all flowing everywhere.
And it's nice at the end.
I enjoyed it, to be honest, more than I would have enjoyed being at the swanky restaurant with all the dull, stiff, elite members of Copenhagen society, because I had all this hot blonde totty waving swords around and slicing the tops off magnums of champagne.
So I had a pretty good time.
And Douglas Murray, who writes for The Spectator in Britain and has spoken out on this subject as often as I have on Islam and free speech and all the rest of it, he said afterwards, the whole event was a bit like a party at the end of the world.
And I've thought about that phrase a lot since then.
We were the only ones.
People gave us a sort of funny look when we went into this bar, because we were a bit overdressed, and obviously we had a security detail and they couldn't quite figure out why we were there or what we were doing there.
And you have the idea that this problem that the world is grappling with, that most people, 15 years after 9-11, most people in the Western world still have no idea what it is.
And that phrase that Douglas Murray used to me, a party at the end of the world, that's kind of what it felt it felt like at the idea of being trapped in that gay nightclub in Orlando for three hours between two and five when that guy was holding the joint down and the police hadn't bust in on him.
And he shoots, he shoots one in three of the people in there, either killed or wounded.
A nightclub.
Everyone's dancing.
As far as I can tell from the dead, they're mostly Latino names.
It was a Latino dance event of some kind.
They're dancing away and they're cut down.
They're gunned down.
They're dead as they dance.
And if you read these texts, they're almost unbearably painful to read.
There's a series of texts somebody's making last texts to their mother as the guy is coming for them.
And to think about that, it's a Saturday night.
It's a Saturday night.
And you lead a hedonistic Florida lifestyle.
You don't give a thought to all this boring stuff, this depressing, boring stuff.
Somewhere up the end of the dial, there are these boring news channels where there are people talking about this boring stuff all day long, every day, and you don't care about it.
Because life is great.
You're in southern Florida.
It's a great climate.
It's a fabulous town.
You can party all night.
And it's an all-night party.
And you go to the party at the end of the world and you are gunned down.
And I'll relay one other poignant detail from the events of the early hours of Sunday morning that I think also speaks to that idea of the Western world as a party at the end of the world.
And that is the police that are going in.
I gather the majority of bodies are still there in that nightclub.
And the police have been going in there.
And they're going through the nightclub.
They're looking for clues.
They're looking for this.
They're looking for that.
And from the lifeless corpse on the floor, every so often, the cell phone rings.
Because all over Florida and beyond, there are loved ones trying to get in contact with someone who isn't returning calls.
And they're still trying to call that number, call that number, in hope someone will pick up an answer.
And the idea of those police officers going through that club painstakingly yesterday, and there were these lifeless bodies on the floor with the persistent every few seconds another chiming ring from a phone in the pocket.
And I think a lot about Douglas Murray's words to me that night in Copenhagen, the sense of a party at the end of the world.
Most people don't know.
Most people don't want to think about it.
They want to believe the liberal illusion, because as on so many things, we wonder sometimes at the conservative end, why is conservatism such a tough sell?
Because conservatism deals with the hard facts of life with reality.
And it's easier, it's easier to let the default setting of society be the left side, to say there's nothing to worry about here.
There's nothing to worry about.
We can all just gamble and frolic on the diversity quilt together.
And there is no Islamic enemy.
And there is no civilizational clash.
And there is no bloody borders between one culture and another as it loops up from West Africa through the Maghreb into the Middle East and through Asia until eventually it snakes through the dance floor of a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
And it's easier to believe the liberal illusions.
And bear that in mind when you look at the stupid news headlines and the idiotic tweets this morning.
We will all be upset about these people, and then we will start looking for the clichés that will get us over it.
The candlelight vigils, the holding hands, the idea that an act of love beats an act of hate, holding a Tony Awards ceremony with the cast of Hamilton, but not carrying the muskets.
We want to believe it's that easy because the alternative to those pathetic, stupid hashtag avatar gestures are too hard and unpleasant for the state of the Western world today.
But I think Douglas Murray is right.
I think that that image of his on a Saturday night in a bar in Copenhagen with blonde women slicing the tops of champagne bottles, most people cannot bear reality.
And we are in a party at the end of the world.
We'll take your calls straight ahead.
Dick Durbin, Senator, Democrat, Illinois, called on Congress to pass new gun control laws following the Orlando, Florida shooting.
If Congress does not act, Durbin says it will be complicit in the next killing.
Bear in mind that Omar Mateen, the killer in the Orlando nightclub, was a security guard who provided security for federal buildings such as courthouses.
He aced that background check.
Maybe his cousin is providing security at Senator Durbin's office.
Who knows?
Let's go to Tristan, who's calling from Arizona.
Tristan, you're live on the Rushlinbo Show.
Great to have you with us.
Hi, Mr. Stein.
Hi, good to be with you.
What's on your mind today?
Well, I am 15 years old, and I have two points to make here.
The first, I will be making a point about the Orlando shooting, but first I want to say that I love your books, and I'm a big fan of A Disgrace to the Profession.
That's my book on climate change and the hockey stick guy, Michael Mann, who is suing me in the choked toilet of the District of Columbia court system.
Thank you very much for reading that book, and I'll gratefully accept that plug, Tristan.
Thanks a lot.
A paper recently about global warming, and I had conveniently just read that book.
So I emailed my teacher and told her that I couldn't write about global warming because I didn't believe in it.
And then I got this reply that said that it was, quote, state standards, and there was no alternative assignment, so I'd write about global warming anyway.
But I was able to debunk the whole notion of climate change because of the facts that your book provided.
Oh, well, I'm glad to hear that.
Next time your teacher says that you have to do it, though, do what the Yale students do when they're told they have to study Shakespeare and say that you're triggered by the climate change course.
So just say you regard it as a microaggression and it's triggering for you because of your cultural background.
I will keep that in mind.
That's great.
And then the school board will be looking at some huge great lawsuit and they won't want to go there.
So you'll probably benefit from that.
Thank you.
Yeah, yeah.
That's good.
That's good.
But anyway, to my second point, I was thinking that the Orlando shooting could have the adverse effect for the Liberal Party because I live in Mesa, Arizona.
And recently, I guess I saw in the news that the Phoenix LGBT community, for example, just endorsed Donald Trump because they admit on their social media page, quote, enough is enough.
So I think that the LGBT, some at least, and I hope all are starting to realize that liberals are backing and protecting the religion of peace, and now it is at the LGBT's expense.
And I hope that they are starting to realize that the only people that can prevent this homegrown terrorism, like the Orlando shooting, are the conservative movement and a President Trump versus a Hillary.
Well, that's interesting, Tristan, because I think I saw that.
I can't remember whether it was at Salon or Slate or somewhere.
Earlier today, a liberal columnist essentially doing what you said, saying, well, you have to admit that maybe Trump's, there's something to what Trump says on this issue.
I look at it this way.
Everyone thinks that the whole sort of victims' rights thing, that they battle each other to a standstill.
In my book, America Alone, I quote a guy called Sir Iqbal Sakrani, who was head of the Muslim Council of Britain or whatever, and such a moderate Muslim, he got knighted by the Queen.
He said on the BBC that everyone knows homosexuality is filthy and spreads diseases and should be outlawed and all the rest of it.
And some gay group reported him to Scotland Yard for homophobia.
Well, then simultaneously, a gay group said that Muslims believe that homosexuals are unclean and spread disease and all the rest of it.
So a Muslim group reported the gay group to Scotland Yard for Islamophobia.
And we all think that that's the way it is.
That in the end, we on the right think, well, we don't have a dog in this fight, so let's just watch all the left's preferred identity groups battle themselves to a grand standstill like this.
But it doesn't work like that, Tristan, because there's a hierarchy of victim groups.
And I think you get the sense of it now.
As you see in Europe with the sexual assaults in Cologne, women's rights, and when the Vienna police chief says it's not safe for women to go out at night, that women's rights takes a back seat to Muslim rights there.
And I think the same can be said here.
You notice that the gay groups are usually very careful not to provoke Islam.
It's a Christian bakery they go to when they want to demand somebody bake a gay wedding cake.
And they take the Christian bakery to court or the Christian pizza place to court.
They don't go to the best baklava joint in Dearborn, Michigan and say, here, bake me some baklava for my gay wedding, because they understand that you don't want to poke that particular bear, that that's not going to go anywhere.
And they don't want it to.
And that's why all these things, the conflict between religion and we're just shadowboxing at the moment.
The real showdown will be when somebody, when the gay nightclub is across the street from the mosque in some part of town, and which ends up winning that one.
And I would bet I would put my money on Islam, Tristan, after what's happened the way these things are going.
There's always a hierarchy with victims' rights.
Yes, this is not just homophobia.
This is radical Islamic terrorism.
And I think the liberals would try to spin the story with silly excuses.
Yeah, they're already doing that.
Thanks for your call, Tristan.
I'm glad you like disgrace to the profession.
There's always a hierarchy with victims' rights.
And I would recommend, actually, if you follow a guy called Bruce Bauer, B-A-W-E-R, and he is a gay guy who worked for Conservative Publications over here, and then he emigrated to Europe.
He wound up leaving Amsterdam because of the hostility to homosexuality from young Muslim men and eventually settling in Oslo, which he thinks is a couple of years beyond where things are in Amsterdam.
So he's bought himself a little bit of time.
But he says the same thing is happening there.
And the more, it's a very, it's a very Islam often winds up being king on a field of corpses.
They drive everybody else out.
This says, you see what is happening with ISIS.
They're killing the Yazidi.
They're killing the Christians.
They're driving everybody out.
And at the end, there they stand, king on a field of corpses.
And the question for cities like Amsterdam is what's to stop that happening there too.
Rush is going to be back.
You will be glad to know the season of guest hosts is drawing to a close.
Rush will be back tomorrow and he will be talking about all the events that have taken place.
And the, yeah, yes, yes, Mr. Snerdly.
What's that?
How many books have I written?
Dame Edna Everidge, the great Australian talk show host, once asked Jeffrey Archer, the airport novelist, how many books he'd written.
And he said, whatever it was, 37.
And she said to the audience rather cruelly, how many here have read any of them?
And nobody put their hands up.
And she said to she turned to the embarrassed novelist and said, you're going too fast.
We can't keep up with you.
So when you say to me, how many books have I written?
I'm going too fast, Mr. Snerdley.
You can't keep up with me.
I don't know how many I've written.
Yeah, that's a disgrace to the profession, which is about this whole hockey stick business and has to prop up my legal bills.
But I only kind of edited that because actually that's the words of eminent scientists, the world scientists, basically, what they think about global warming.
So I've done a little bit of an intro saying who each scientist is, and I make the odd comment occasionally, but it's basically the world scientists in their own words.
And these are eminent guys.
These are real genuine Nobel Prize winners, fellows with a bunch of letters after their name, what they think about global warming.
Because one of the things you always hear is, oh, there's a 97% consensus about global warming.
Well, if there's a 97% consensus, why is it always the same five scientists talking about it whenever you switch on a TV show?
So that's what that book's about.
Which book was that?
can't remember oh america alone the end of the yeah now that's a very if i do say so myself and let's face it i might as well That is a very prescient book.
I mean, there are basically two views of what is going on in the world today.
The one is the view of Hillary Clinton, of Barack Obama, of John Kerry, that this is nothing to do with Islam.
And the other view is the view I propound in America Alone, which looks basically at what happens when Western societies semi-Islamize.
And that book is very prescient.
You would not have been surprised by Brussels, by Paris, by San Bernardino, or by Orlando if you'd read America Alone 10 years ago.
I don't say anything higher.
I wish it wasn't true.
I wish people had acted on it and changed the way we were doing things.
But we didn't.
And so here we are.
And that's really the.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I've written more books than I've made CDs.
You'll be glad to hear, Mr. Snerdley.
There's that.
Oh, when am I coming to Broadway?
Well, actually, I have to see.
I watched about ten minutes of the Tony Awards, and then I figured, you know, Irving Berlin and Rodgers and Hammerstein were turning over in their graves.
So maybe I'll bring the cat album to Broadway.
If there's a producer out there who would like to see my cat album on stage, we could call it Cats, but that title has been used, I think.
So if you want to see it at the Wintergarden Theatre, do give me a call.
I'll be happy to take it.
I don't necessarily have to appear in it myself every night, although I may just turn up and do the big dance number for 20 minutes at the end because I wasn't too thrilled by the choreography on that Tony Awards thing last night.
Let's go to Greg in Richland, Washington.
Greg, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Hi, Mark.
It was a pleasure being on your show today.
Many pleasure to have you.
I just wanted to make the comment: isn't it ironic how this president has no problem allowing all these illegal aliens from all over the planet to come into our country, many of which third world countries, barbaric countries, you know, the terrorists, let alone all the Hispanics that are coming in here by the tens of thousands and committing crime.
He has no problem letting them in to commit these heinous crimes, but yet at the same time, he has no problem disarming law-abiding citizens and taking our firearms away.
It's, you know, we're living in a time where we've, in my opinion, this is the first time ever where we've had an actual anti-American president.
We've had some bad ones along the way, but this guy, in my opinion, is the worst of the worst and by far the most dangerous.
No, I think that's right.
And I think whatever one feels about certain presidents in the past, you didn't actually question their entire view of America's role in the world, which you do with Obama, because he thinks generally an assertive America is bad for the world.
And he thinks, and what we're seeing now is something quite extraordinary: that borders, which are the organizing principle of the world, are bad for the world.
And so, as you say, Greg, there's a contradiction because at the one hand, he says, well, we've got like the world's most expensive homeland security, but we're not going to enforce borders.
There's not going to be any borders.
If you want to walk across the river, the Rio Grande and walk into the country, that's fine.
You go ahead and do it.
We're not going to stop you.
And yet, at the same time, they want to roll back individual defense.
If there are no national borders, then you surely do have the right to defend yourself as an individual against the fact that the president has dissolved American sovereignty at the borders.
And to go back to the point you were making earlier, it's amazing to me.
I think this is insane.
When I listen to people saying, oh, we're now going to have to have metal detectors in nightclubs, security in nightclubs.
There's some nightclub in Ohio or somewhere that's now going to have to have armed security in response to Orlando.
Okay, so what happens next?
They blow up a bakery.
They blow up a little pastry shop.
So then you're going to have to have metal detectors to get into the pastry shop.
What happens then?
They blow up a new stand.
So to get inside the new stand, you're going to have to have a metal detector.
So instead of having all these individual perimeters around every Dunkin' Donuts franchise or every gas station or every JCPenney, why not have just one big perimeter around the country?
We could call it like, I'm just reaching for a word here.
We could call it a border.
And we could have like a border security instead of having to have security around every McDonald's, every Burger King, every Starbucks, which is what it's going to come to if we have these attacks on soft targets again and again and again, Greg.
Absolutely.
It's as though he absolutely does not care, he being the president, about inconveniencing and changing the things that make America great.
He cares more about these foreigners coming in here and changing our demographic and changing our heritage and our way of life and destroying the Constitution, among other things.
And Obama, I'm sure we're going to learn a lot about this guy when he's finally out of office.
And I think there's a whole scary side to him that Americans are going to, a lot of us are knowing that we're going to, you know, know already we're going to find out about all these things.
But I think it's going to be quite shocking as to some of the background about him that hasn't surfaced yet.
Well, I think he represents a strain in the Democrat Party that genuinely believes that there is virtue in importing a new people, that kind of Americans, the Americans who are here, which is who he is nominally responsible for, and who President Hillary Clinton or President Bernie Sanders will be nominally responsible for, aren't interesting enough to these guys.
They can't get excited about it.
They can't get pumped about them.
And they'd like more people to come here.
And they have the view of all truly arrogant people that they can bend everyone to their will, that there is no difference between people.
It's interesting, Bernie Sanders, he's always completely out of the conversation on this because he has no interest in global affairs at all.
He couldn't be less interested.
To him, Muslims are just another little crescent on the diversity quilt.
And other than that, he has no interest in foreign affairs at all.
And he doesn't want to be bothered by it.
So things like this are a great inconvenience to him.
But his fellow Vermonter, Howard Dean, he and I did an event up in Canada a couple of years ago.
And he made this very interesting point that the crowd loved because it has that sentimental, just that kind of sentimental gooeiness that crowds love.
He said, when he saw young people today at the University of Vermont and similar places, and he goes, they're different from the way we are, you know, meaning his generation, your generation, my generation.
He goes, they all get along with each other, all different races and orientations, and they all get along with each other, and they all date each other, as he put it.
And everyone goes, ah, isn't that nice?
But it isn't actually true.
It's true that you can see the black guy dating the Eurasian girl, and the Filipina girl has a lesbian affair with the Slovene girl, and that's all fine and dandy.
And the transitioning Hispanic has an affair with the Uzbek goat herd, and that's all fine, up to a point, up to a point.
You don't see Muslim girls at the University of Vermont dating the big swinging bi guy from New York.
You know, there's a great difference, and he can't seem to address that.
What happens when an avowedly tolerant society becomes so tolerant that it tolerates the explicitly intolerant?
And Howard Dean and Bernie Sanders and so on have no answer for that.
Thanks for your call.
We'll take more straight ahead.
Mark Stein in Farush, Donald Trump is visiting my state, New Hampshire, today.
He's down at St. Anselm's College in just outside Manchester, New Hampshire.
And I believe around about now he's planning to hit the stage.
And he will be talking about terrorism.
The left always assumes that social progress goes in one direction, that it's like inventing the wheel or the internal combustion engine, that once you invent it, it cannot be uninvented.
And all over the world, if you look at women's rights, if you look at Afghanistan, where when this killer's father was a young man, there were record stores in Kabul where the girls went in, they were Beatles fans, they wore mini skirts and sweaters, they looked like girls in New York or Los Angeles or Carnaby Street in London.
And then it changed, and now the women are in body bags.
If you look at Alexandria, Egypt, anyone who was old enough to have lived in Alexandria in Egypt up to about the early 1960s will know that it was a big, bustling, cosmopolitan place.
It was full of the English, Greeks, Jews, Coptic Christians, big gay community.
And now it's not.
Now they're all gone.
Now they're gone.
And Lawrence Durrell wrote a great book on that period in Alexandria, the Alexandria Quartets.
And his character, Balthazar, who's this Jewish Homosexual.
He talks one time about how he loves the desert because there the wind blew out one's footsteps like candle flames.
So it seems to me does reality.
And that's what the left doesn't want to think about.
That maybe this is just a gay moment or a feminist moment, and the resurgent Islam, hard, fierce Islam around the world will blow out your footsteps in the desert like candle flames.
And that reality will pass over you, and it will be like the girls in the mini skirts in the Kabul record stores.
And 50 years later, there are just the women in the body bags.
It will be like the gay community in Alexandria 50 years ago, and now gone, nothing.
It will be like the Copts in Egypt.
Their church is burnt.
It will be like the last Christian church in Afghanistan destroyed on America's watch.
It will be like the Iraq Christian community decimated on America's watch.
Social progress for gays, for the transgendered, for women, for whoever is not like the internal combustion engine.
It can be uninvented.
And around the world, a lot of those rights have been uninvented in the last 50 years.
Mark Stein for Rush, we'll close it out in a moment.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
You guys are awfully sporting about putting up with us guest hosts, but fear not, because the man himself is going to be back tomorrow for four days of the real thing.
Real, true, honest, all-American excellence in broadcasting from Florida, the scene of the worst mass shooting in American history.
And we can all disagree on this or that aspect of it, but all I would say to you is do not swallow the official lies.
Whether they're coming from Mitt Romney's Republican Spectre board meeting, where he's playing Blofeld and outraged that anyone would question whether Elizabeth Warren is Harvard Law School's first woman of colour, or whether they're coming from people who are telling you that what happened in that gay nightclub in Florida is somehow the fault of the Christian right.
Don't swallow the official lies.
Don't buy the up is down, black is white.
Live in truth.
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