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June 14, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 14, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I don't mean to be insensitive here, folks, but it never fails.
It never fails.
I leave.
And all hell breaks loose.
Even before the terrorist, they wouldn't, the Democrats would not have dared declare Hillary the winner the day before the California primary if I was here that day.
I'm just here telling you.
They wouldn't have done it.
I mean, they took such advantage of my absence is incredible.
But I'm not surprised because I know them.
I know them like every square inch of my glorious naked money.
Hey, great to be back, folks.
Really, is Rush Limbaugh here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies?
The telephone number, if you want to be on the program today, is 800-282-2882, and the email address L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
What have I tried to explain?
Gee, I don't know how many times.
Tell me if this doesn't describe you.
You learn of the attack by a genuine militant Islamist who's a registered Democrat, whose father hates America.
And they might even vote Democrat.
I don't know.
If they were Republicans, the media would already have found that out.
So you have a genuine Islamist militant who exemplifies everything about Islam, anti-gay, anti-women, anti-this, anti-that, anti-American, and goes and does what he does.
And how many of you thought finally this is going to wake Hillary Clinton?
Finally, Obama.
Finally, the Democrats are going to see.
How many of you thought that would be the case?
How many of you thought that would be the obvious reaction?
And now how many of you are stunned to find out that that's not the reaction they have at all?
No, no, no, no.
This is all because of American gun control laws and the second amendment.
This is all because of conservatives.
Yes.
This is all because of the NRA.
How many of you surprised when you heard that?
You shouldn't be.
I don't know how many different ways to explain.
And I know you hear it, and I know everybody does hear it.
It is, it is hard to embrace, but the simple fact of the matter is that the American left and the Democrat Party.
We conservatives, we Republicans are their biggest enemy.
They fear us, hate us far more than they are bothered by Islam, militant Islam, Islamic terrorism.
And if you doubt that, just take a look at the efforts that were expended to try to ultimately find a way to blame this on everybody other than the person responsible.
You would think, you would think that the worst terrorist attack since 9-11 would finally wake up.
Barack Hussein Oh and Hillary Clinton and the rest of the Democrat Party and the rest of the appeasers on the left.
But as we have said before, they despise us more than they despise militant Islam.
Now do you know why?
It really isn't complicated.
No matter what Omar Sadiq Mateen did.
He wasn't trying to defeat a Democrat in an election.
We are, therefore, we are hated and despised and must be destroyed.
But Omar Sadiki Mateen, nah, he wasn't threatening the Democrats.
He just threatened a nightclub filled with Democrat donors, supporters.
Oops, sorry.
The Democrats couldn't even express loyalty with a constituency group that they thought was their own.
They had to go out and try to blame people.
Literally had nothing whatsoever to do with this.
I've had emails of people who were telling me they're profoundly depressed over this.
And I wrote them back and said you shouldn't be.
This is perfectly predictable.
And I'm not trying to sound like a know it all, folks.
I'm I'm I think it's it's it's it's it's time people understand really what we're up against, and that we're not all in this together.
I mean, there's only one common sense reaction to what happened in Orlando, but the Democrat Party's not participating in it.
The Democrat Party, the American left, the American Professoriate, those who work in academe.
No, no, no, no.
They're not going to stop until they can find what they believe to be a credible way to blame this on talk radio, Fox News, the Republican Party, the NRA, the Second Amendment, out-of-control guns, the AR-15, whatever, which this guy didn't even use.
In fact, every event like this is an opportunity for them.
Every event like this is an opportunity for them to once again strike out again at us and try to further damage our reputations, our brand, whatever you want to call it.
There's an old American Indian saying that you can't wake up somebody who's only pretending to be asleep.
And of course, that describes the Democrat Party pretending to be asleep.
Now we shouldn't wonder why.
You know, Trump, Donald Trump being blasted for wondering about that, even though every thinking American must have the same exact questions that Trump raised.
But the media's blasting Trump for still having the nerve to say it out loud.
Did you hear what Carl Bernstein said?
What Trump said is abhorrent.
It's absolutely abhorrent, and it's going to be terribly effective.
Carl Bernstein, Watergate.
Well, if it's if it's if it's profoundly abhorrent, how can it be effective?
Why, must be right.
Why is it abhorrent?
Is the question's abhorrent because you're just not supposed to say that kind.
We're not supposed to violate political correctness.
We're not supposed to say that stuff.
This is exactly why Trump is where he is too.
Is anybody talking about the Mexican judge, by the way?
Every time a Democrats, by the way, there's no evidence that Trump's been hurt by that.
I looked.
I spent no polling evidence whatsoever.
What do you think you found some?
There doesn't any evidence that Trump got hurt by the Mexican judge thing.
And it of course it is a fruit frontal, but the point is it didn't hurt him.
I have yet to find any polling data that suggests it did.
And of course, it's not been wiped off the map with this, which is also another predictor indicator.
These are the kinds of things that are gonna Trump's gonna say something now and then.
I can't believe that.
I mean the vapors that they some events are gonna come along, make everybody forget it, or some events gonna come along and make people, you know, Trump knows what he's talking about.
Or at least Trump's got the guts to say what we're all thinking that nobody else has the guts to say.
Trump's willing to say out loud what so many people are thinking.
Speech today, great example of that.
In that speech, I think Trump seems to have crystallized what a lot of Americans have been worried about for at least the last seven and a half years.
But I know this boggles the mind, and we're gonna go through it.
I've I just assembled a stack of stuff here of various news stories in in random order.
I'm just gonna go through the stack here and I'm just gonna react to them.
Because it's it's it's unbelievable.
The links to which the truth and facts of this event have to be ignored and glossed over in the left's attempt to make sure people think that ultimately all of this is happening because there are Republicans and because there are conservatives.
Top story at Yahoo News all day yesterday was from a site called.
Mike.
In rush to explain Orlando shooting, Americans blame everything but America.
You see, Yahoo News, headquarters for low information News consumers.
We arrogant Americans are running around blaming everybody, but who's really responsible, and that's the United States of America.
From the article, in the rush to explain Mateen's motivations, we have ascribed Omar Mateen's crimes to everything but his most obvious and aggressively glossed over trait that he was a male bigot born and raised in the United States of America.
Obama, he was radical, but the first thing Obama the series of statements from Obama and this is outrageous.
And ultimately, he says the guy was radicalized by the internet.
Radicalized by the Internet.
Wasn't radicalized by his religion, wasn't radicalized by his militant father, wasn't radical.
No, no, he was an American bigot.
Turns out he's gay.
Do you know that his girlfriend, or if somebody dated says he's gay?
This is a major, major problem now.
Try this headline at TheAtlantic.com.
The complicated pain of America's queer Muslims.
That's a quoted headline, not me, folks.
That's from the Atlantic, the complicated pain of America's queer Muslims.
No, the complicated pain for American Muslims is having to read that headline and story.
But you see how Omar Sadiqi Mateen is now responsible for this.
He was a male bigot.
Born and raised in the United States of America, that means it's America's fault.
America radicalized him to an anti-gay, anti-female bigot and murderer.
People are wondering what happened?
How could he have become so radicalized?
You know, when you stop the details of this story.
Omar Sadiqi Mateen was killing 49 people, injuring 53.
He stopped to explain himself.
He called 911.
Do you know the San Bernardino 2 did the same thing?
They called him, hey, we're gonna shoot up some places, and we're just letting you know we're doing it in name of Allah ISIS, whatever, uh Allahu Akbar, whatever they do, and they get back to their business.
The FBI had the guy on a watch list.
The FBI FBI was investigating the guy.
Nothing to see here.
Calls 911, told the cops he had pledged allegiance to ISIS, then he resumed his murderous terror attack.
The Washington Post even reported that fact.
They also reported that his terror attack occurred during Ramadan, Islamic holy days.
They reported the attack came during gay pride celebrations in many American cities.
They even reported that Mr. Omar Sadiqi Mateen's family originally came from Afghanistan, but that doesn't matter because he was born and raised in America and a male bigot.
And even with all that information at their disposal, the Washington Post still swerved and spun and tried to find a direction to take this story that would lead right to the Republican Party slash conservatives America itself.
The Washington Post said it's not entirely clear what inspired Omar Mateen to commit the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.
By the way, it's not.
It's not.
Wounded knee is.
I don't know if it was all shooting, but wounded knee is a bigger massacre than this was.
But I'm not doing anything but factually disagreeing with experts.
I'm not suggesting this is no big deal.
Don't misunderstand.
I'm just saying they're wrong.
Wounded knee.
More people died than in the bar in Orlando.
That doesn't mean anything other than I'm just factually correcting the record.
But it's not entirely clear what inspired Omar Mateen to commit the worst mass shooting in U.S. history or what might have been done to stop it.
Of course it's not possible to know.
We couldn't possibly, there's not a single clue to indicate why the guy did what he did.
Not his own tweets, not his own scats, not his own Facebook, not his own Snapchat, not his own Instagram, his own dad, no, no.
His own words?
No, his own videos.
There's no evidence whatsoever that would lead us to understand.
Oh gosh, now here's Obama.
You know, this is supposed to happen before noon.
The guy shows up late on purpose today.
Everybody knows this is my first day back.
Everybody knows it.
What is he up there doing, making a statement here about the Orlando terror attack and the fight against ISIS?
And he's either clueless or it's something else.
Maybe there's something Omar Mateen could have done differently to make his inspiration clear to the Washington Post.
What if instead of calling 911, he had called the Washington Spoke Post and spoke to their reporters?
He could have explained to them what pledging allegiance to ISIS means.
Because I guess the reporters at the Washington Post don't know what that means.
Don't know what pledging allegiance to ISIS is that part of the NRA, ISIS?
Limbaugh belonged to that group?
What is ISIS?
Pledging allegiance to ISIS?
What is that?
Talk radio?
What is it?
ISIS?
Washington Post must be clueless.
He could have told Post reporters he wanted to kill as many enemies of Islam as he could.
He could have explained it in Islam, it's called jihad, a holy war against infidels, non-believers.
He could have said this is not militant or extreme.
This is mainstream Islam.
And the Washington Post Islam.
Islam.
Is that a conservative religion?
What is Islam?
What is ISIS?
Anyway, my point is they are working hard in the drive-by media and on the Democrat Party side to not get this right.
Gotta take a brief time out, folks.
Sit tight, we'll be back and continue in mere moments.
Welcome back.
Great to have you here, Rushlin Baugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Check out this editorial from the Los Angeles Times.
Trump smearing Obama with innuendo over Muslims and Orlando is a new low, even for Trump.
Donald J. Trump, the loose canon who would be president, hinted Monday that Obama might be complicit in terror attacks by Islamic extremists, including Sunday's bloodbath in Orlando, Florida.
That accusation by Innuendo marks a new and repugnant low for Trump, who, along with his surrogates, is engaged in a smear campaign reminiscent of the dark days of McCarthyism.
A smear campaign.
tell you who's being smeared is us.
The NRA is being smeared and it's Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and the Democrat Party doing it.
You know something, folks?
Let me ask you a question.
If if if you were gay, either a gay activist, a militant gay, just gay, but you're a loyal Democrat.
You've donated money to the Democrat Party.
You have given to the Democrat Party.
You have protested, you've marched, you've done whatever you can do to elect Democrats.
You voted for them.
And then one day, a militant Islamist extremist comes along and guns down everybody he can in a gay nightclub.
He was targeting homosexuals because of his religious beliefs.
He was doing everything he could to wipe them out and said so.
And the people you voted for, the people you have been supporting because you think they're out to protect you, then turn around and blame people who had nothing in the world to do with it.
And so you know that going forward that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and the Democrat Party aren't going to do a thing about this.
They're making excuses for why it happened.
They're not making any effort whatsoever to stop these kinds of things from happening.
It doesn't appear.
So you, as a gay person, continue to be at risk.
While you listen to the people you've supported, donated to, voted for, blame people that had nothing to do with it.
Would you feel safer?
Would you feel more secure?
Would you maybe begin questioning your support for the Democrat Party?
I don't know.
I I would if If I were gay and this whole thing had happened, and I'm watching this, I would be scared to death.
I would know that I've been targeted.
I would know that it's military Islamists.
I would know they're pouring into the country for your open borders.
I would know this.
And then I would listen to the people.
I vote for people, I supported people I've raised money for and donated for, act like it didn't happen the way it did, and that people had nothing to do with it are responsible.
I don't know what I'd be, but I wouldn't be relieved, and I would not feel safer.
And I'd certainly be questioning people I think I've been supporting.
Well, I just listened to a little bit of Obama.
I guess he's getting near the end of his adred.
Wherever he is.
He's somewhere in Washington, and he's making some speech about this.
You know what he just said?
Cookie, I want you to, whatever you're doing, drop it, and just give me the last two minutes of what Obama just said.
Whatever you're doing, as quickly as you can, because I've got to paraphrase this.
Obama says something along the lines of all of this.
My critics, my friends on the other side of the aisle, have been saying that I'm not taking any of this seriously, because I refuse to use a label radical Islam.
And after saying that, he started asking questions.
He said, is gonna is calling them radical Islamists?
Is it gonna change their strategy?
Is it gonna make them cower in fear?
Is it gonna make them run away?
Does it increase our odds of beating them by calling them radical Islamists?
What difference does this label make?
And he's missing the entire point of it.
Obviously, on purpose.
Now he's trying to say it doesn't matter what they are because they are perverting a great religion, and he's working with Islamist leaders all over the world to try to rein in these radical Islamists who are perverting this great religion.
And then he says that ISIS numbers are the lowest they have been in two and a half years, that we are practically on the verge of wiping them out.
I'm paraphrasing.
And then he goes back to this label business.
I hate to tell my friends on the other side of the house, but calling them radical Islamists is not gonna make them go away.
I mean, I don't know what they think is gonna happen.
He is entirely missing the point of why people are raising the issue that he nor anybody in his regime will actually identify what we are up against.
It's not that using a label to describe them will affect them.
It's that people have a legitimate question of whether or not Obama opposes them.
Or rather, if they're just some the latest enemy of the day, that there's nothing unique about them, they're just your average anti-American protest militant group that happens to be pretty brutal.
People are trying to decide, people are trying to determine if our president is serious about this.
That's what this all means, and he, of course, is skirting all around that.
He's talking about this label as being pointless in terms of strategies, pointless in terms of it being intimidating, because just because we Call them radical Islamists, it doesn't mean they're gonna lay down their arms, doesn't mean they're gonna start crying, doesn't mean they're gonna retreat.
And just because we call them radical Islamists does not make our effort any stronger, does not make our weapons any more powerful, it doesn't make our strategy any better.
So I don't get the point, he says, I don't get the point.
I don't know what difference does it make.
Now, is he being honest, or is this more Obama cluelessness?
Now, is he being honest?
We never had any problem calling the Nazis Nazis, right?
We weren't worried about what they might think.
And by the way, the Nazis were perverting a great ideology, socialism.
I'm being facetious, but the left thinks socialism is the greatest thing on earth, and the Nazis were socialists in addition to everything else they did.
Could we not say the Nazis were perverting a great ideology?
Now we still call them the Nazis.
We call them worse than that.
We didn't shy away from naming our enemies in the Pacific theater.
No, I'm not saying the Japanese.
There were other names used.
They're not acceptable anymore.
No, no, now we have to get up every day and see that Donald Trump is Adolf Hitler.
And there are no militant Islamists.
No, no, no, it's just a right wing creationist designed to get these right wingers who do nothing but listen to Rush Limbaugh in the VFW halls all worked up into a frenzy.
That's Obama.
And his vision of America at this time of day, every day.
A bunch of Republican drunkards to VFW Hall, reliving old war stories and ripping into militant Islam while listening to Rush Limbaugh.
Bitter clingers.
He's been clear about how extremist groups are perverting Islam.
I'm sorry.
But they're not.
They're doing Islam.
They are practicing Islam.
This is no perversion.
Now again, is that Obama been clueless, or is this Obama trying to keep the peace?
Is it Obama trying to be politically correct?
Or is Obama really just not know what he's talking about?
I want to go back to the example I used before the end of the first half hour of the break at the bottom of the hour.
I was asking how I would feel if I were ardent homosexual and had been loyal to the Democrat Party for as long as I've been able to vote and raise money, donate money.
And then the largest terror attacks is 9-11, targeted homosexuals, murdering 43 and injuring 50 some odd more homosexual by design and on purpose.
And the people I've been supporting, the people I've been raising money for, the people I have been advocating for.
Ignore who did it and try to blame it on people that had nothing to do with it.
How would I feel?
I certainly don't think I'd feel any safer.
If I were honest with myself, if I were homosexual gay militant or otherwise, and I have been trained to suspect, despise and hate Republicans and conservatives.
And all of a sudden Orlando happens.
And I see my president and I see my attempted first lady president candidate, Hillary Clinton wrong away, whatever.
Both jump on this train, NRA, conservatives, republicans, bigots, so forth.
Wait a minute.
They didn't have anything to do with this.
Well, it just so happens there's a column written by somebody calling themselves anonymous at Pajamas Media, PJ Media.
Headline, I'm a gay activist, and after Orlando, I've switched my vote to Trump.
Not going to read the whole thing, just a few excerpts.
This is the saddest day of my life.
I can't even wrap my mind around the horror of what happened in Orlando, where 50.
I'm just, folks, I'm just reading verbatim here.
Where 50 joyful dancing queers were murdered by a religious extremist.
I'm sad.
I'm devastated in my soul about that.
But I'm also sad That the events of Orlando have shattered my political beliefs as I can no longer swear allegiance to a peace, love, and unicorns progressive philosophy that only seems to help my fellow queers get killed.
I'm reading now, folks, just in case you're just tuning in.
Yes, there's a war between the religious fundamentalism and the spirit of love and tolerance, but we progressives here in America still labor under the delusion that the religion we need to combat is Christianity.
But that is a straw man opponent, and has been for decades.
Since the 1990s, Christian extremists have essentially lost all their power and are now toothless non-players in the culture wars.
Meanwhile, Muslim extremists with guns murder us.
And on the left, our only response is to bleat about Islamophobia, jump through hoops trying to explain away the self-evident religious motivation for the killings of gays.
Oh, sure.
All year I've been playing the Bernie or Hillary game with all the other default Democrats in my social and professional circles, but this is no longer some kind of game.
Our lives are on the line.
Although I voted for Hillary in the primary, I now cringe inwardly with shame and embarrassment at having done so.
And in November, I will now vote for Trump.
Why?
Yeah, I know Trump is a Trump is a well, it's uh it's a it's a word here for the uh anal, uh the uh orifice there.
Trump, Trump, Trump.
Trump's a clown, Trump's a motormouth buffoon.
You don't have to convince me of that, but he's also the only person saying anything about putting the brakes on Islamic extremism.
And in light of what happened last night in Orlando, suddenly that's the only issue that really matters when it comes to the health, well-being, and safety of the queer community.
Look, I know we can't say the word, they can't, I'm reading it.
As an aside, Trump has never said anything homophobic.
He's always gotten along well with the gay community in New York, so there's that in his favor as well.
I also now realize with brutal clarity, that in a Democrat hierarchy of identity groups, Muslims are above gays.
It's exactly what I was wondering.
It's exactly what I was curious about.
How do gay people feel today after seeing this happen and see the Democrat Party, their party, the progressive movement, do everything they can to absolve Islam for this, to absolve the shooter, and to find a way to blame Christians for what the shooter did.
I now realize with brutal clarity that in the progressive hierarchy of identity groups, Muslims are above gays in the Democrat Party.
Yep.
By the speaking of Trump, you know, I'm reviewing things that happened while I was gone.
I've got 53 sound bites.
I'm about half of them.
I can't believe even when I'm not here.
Anyway, sound bites 52 and 53 are Donald Trump on American exceptionalism.
Somebody is gonna have to talk to him about this.
Okay, if you're on hold, hang on, we're coming to you quickly.
I have the Obama sound, but have you noticed, by the way, that Obama really, really, really gets concerned about offending religious people.
Oh, yeah, it really, really bothered out there about offending Islamists.
He doesn't seem concerned about Christianity.
And he is a Christian.
If he is to get upset about attacks on Christianity, never comes out defends Christianity.
Never, ever comes out, corrects the record about things his party says about Christians.
No, if anything, he echoes them.
So it's clear that Obama is right at home denigrating certain religions, and he'll go to the end of the day to defend others.
Just saying.
Here is Obama from 20 minutes ago.
I paraphrase it.
This is a couple of minutes here of Obama talking about why he doesn't use the label radical Islamist.
For a while now, uh the main contribution of some of my friends on the other side of the aisle in the fight against ISIL is to criticize this administration and me for not using the phrase radical Islam.
It's a term.
That's the key.
They tell us.
It's a term.
We can't beat ISIL unless we call them radical Islamists.
That's not what we say.
What exactly would using this label accomplish?
Tell us who you exactly would it change.
Tell us who you are.
Would it make ISIL less committed to trying to kill Americans?
Don't insult us.
Would it bring in more allies?
Is there a military strategy that is served by this?
What a defensive thing to say.
The answer is none of the above.
Obviously bothered by it.
Calling a threat by a different name does not make it go away.
That's not what the terms are a political distraction.
It's not either.
Since before I was president, I've been clear about how extremist groups have perverted Islam to justify terrorism.
No, you haven't.
As president, I have repeatedly called on our Muslim friends and allies at home and around the world to work with us to reject this twisted interpretation of one of the world's great religions.
And how's that work?
There's not been a moment in my seven and a half years as president where we have not been able to pursue a strategy because we didn't use the label radical Islam.
What strategy?
Not once has an advisor of mine said, Man, if we really use that phrase, we're going to turn this whole thing around.
No, no.
Not once.
So someone seriously thinks that we don't know who we're fighting.
If there's anyone out there who thinks we're confused about who our enemies are?
We don't think you're confused.
That would come as a surprise to the thousands of terrorists who've we've taken off the battlefield.
We're not confused.
Does that sound kind of defensive to you?
I mean, why even bring that up?
Why even bring that up?
I said we go to the phones.
I've got time to squeeze Michael in Orlando.
Uh you're up first today.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Russ.
Hey, it's an honor to talk to you.
I do want to tell you I was at that rally last night in in Orlando.
And um it's true what you were saying that um it was there was a lot of talk about anti-gun violence.
That was that was probably the major major theme.
At the there was a rally last was it a memorial rally or just a r what what was the purpose of the rally?
It was uh a vigil for the uh Okay.
A vigil.
It was really it was a great vigil, it was really beautiful, but the attendees, the attendees said the problem was guns, we got to get uh get rid of guns.
Uh anti-gun violence is a problem here.
There was a lot of signs that uh, you know, ban automatic weapons.
Well, of course, you realize that whenever there's these people are funeral crashers, they're vigil crashers.
These are professional random mobsters who show up whenever there's an announced vigil like this.
They show up and they try to pretend that they are part of the group conducting the vigil when they're not.
And they hold up their signs and they try to make it look like the very group that was slaughtered, doesn't even have any anger about who did it.
They're angry at the NRA.
It's all part of the, and the media is right there.
Right.
The media is right there to broadcast the pictures and so forth.
And you're here to tell the story.
There was also a lot of talk about um, you know, no violence towards uh Muslims, things like that.
There was a lot we in other words, they were they were saying we must not overreact.
And we must not lash out at our Muslim friends over this because that that that that must not be a backlash uh against Muslims, something along those lines.
Yep.
Exactly.
Well, uh did you say anything of this thing, or were you just there observing and noting?
Uh just observing.
So how do you feel when you left and you walked away from it?
Um I just thought it got a little too political.
It was just a lot of talk, like there was a um Yeah, they had different clergy people up to the critical What I'm sorry, but what you were at, what you attended, was an event that was hijacked by professional leftists to make it appear to be something that it was.
I don't doubt that some of the people there actually held the views that you're describing.
I have to go, though.
There's more.
Don't go away.
I don't know where it went, but it's gone the first hour, our excursion into broadcast excellence.
Now any ether.
Really, not the ether, it's on the way to the Limbaugh Broadcast Museum archives at rushlimbaugh.com.
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