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June 17, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 17, 2016, Friday, Hour #3
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Okay, folks, here we are back at it.
L. Rush Motomos listened to radio talk show in America, the most talked about radio talk show and host in America, and today is exactly why.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Yeah, open line Friday.
One call we've taken.
I'm sorry about that, but we're gonna fix that in this hour.
The staff is falling asleep at well, they're not falling.
Nobody can fall asleep listening to me.
But they haven't had anything to do in there.
Haven't had any calls to transcribe, no calls to screen because we've had a full boat for two of them, but I'm gonna fix it.
It's 800-282-2882.
Let's see here what is this uh look at this.
I've already touched on this, but here's a a news story from the uh from the Washington Free Beacon on Obama and his memorial yesterday in Orlando.
Those, he said, those who defend the easy accessibility of assault weapons should meet these families and explain why that makes sense.
Why is it they think our liberty requires these repeated tragedies?
That I folks, he is equating your liberty and freedom with this act of terror, is what he did.
He's essentially asking, when are you gun nuts gonna stop letting this happen?
I cannot articulate the anger and the rage that this kind of statement makes me feel.
And it's best that I don't try.
This this is I can't think of very many presidents who would even get close to something like this.
Maybe Bill Clinton in his first term.
Stop and think of this.
Let me read this to you.
Those, this is Obama at the memorial for 53 dead, essentially Democrats, gay activists, gays, I don't know whether activists or not, but odds are Democrats.
Anyway, it doesn't matter.
Those who defend the easy accessibility of assault weapons should meet these families and explain why that makes sense.
Why is it they think our liberty requires these repeated tragedies?
It's not the meaning of liberty.
That's not the meaning that that bastardizes what happened here to the to a degree that uh is unspeakable.
You I just want you realize what he said there.
Your liberty.
Your freedom, the Constitution is what made and makes acts of terror possible.
Not only that, your liberty, your your stupid demand for freedom to have your guns requires these acts of terror.
How is it that that comforts the families of the dead?
I mean, the second amendment, gun condition, has nothing to do with this.
This you can find if you want to find out why this happened, go to Sharia Law.
That's the law that needs to be consulted.
That's the law that needs to be changed.
Go find out militant Islamic ideology.
Does anybody really think that if we had confiscated all guns, if we had eliminated the Second Amendment, this wouldn't have happened?
If we get rid of all these guns, if we get rid of the Second Amendment, 9-11 would have never happened.
They would have never hijacked uh four airplanes and flown them into targets if we had just had gun control.
This is offensive.
It's insulting, it's time I moved on because I might end up saying something.
Deep doo-doo.
New York Times long and genuine hugs.
This is simply to back up the point I made earlier.
That as far as the drive by's are concerned, the only relevant thing in this memorial is how well Obama did.
Did Obama do good?
Did Obama help himself?
Is Obama gonna go up in the polls as a result of his memorial service?
Did Obama do it well?
Did Obama make a connection with the families?
How's this gonna help Obama?
Will it hurt Obama?
How's it gonna work out for Obama?
This wasn't about Obama.
Obama.
Well, even I could amend that.
New York Times.
Shooting victims.
Relatives recall Obama's empathy.
It was a wrenching ritual that has become all too familiar for poor President Obama.
I adding the word poor may mean it to be there.
One by one on Thursday.
Inside an arena in downtown Orlando where friends and families of the relatives of the victims of the nation's deadliest mass shooting had congregated.
Mr. Obama embraced mourners sick with loss.
He told them the nation stood with them.
And that his own heart was broken, offering words of comfort for a tragedy that he confessed he could not fathom.
Really?
You know, that's a mouth.
If President Obama cannot fathom a Muslim terrorist attack, then that explains a lot.
Obama thinks.
No, no, he knows.
He wants as many people as possible to think that this happened because of the easy accessibility of guns.
Because he doesn't admit that there's anything like Islamic terrorism.
You know, we're I'm gonna move on.
Really, if if I keep going here, I don't need to say it.
You understand it already, you agree.
It's just that it's outrageous.
Try this in Denver.
Gun sales surge among gays, lesbians after Orlando shooting.
Homosexuals seem to be learning that they are their own best defense.
It seems like even gays are realizing they can't count on the regime.
The gays can't count on the FBI, the gays can't count on the administration to save them.
Nope, they gotta go arm up.
That's right, your monolithic Democrat voting block.
Your Democrats cannot and will not protect you from a radical Muslim terrorist.
Not even you.
Maybe it's not a big deal when a radical Muslim terrorist attacks a bunch of others, but when he targets gays, that's when you, as a as a protected Democrat constituents, that's when you would expect your government to do whatever they could to stop it, to prevent it, punish whoever did it.
Nope.
Apparently, gays and lesbians are arming up.
Does not Obama know, by the way, I know he does, and this is strategic too.
Obama has to know that every time he goes out and starts talking anti-gun, he knows that he is the best salesman for guns in the country.
Let's admit it, folks, you know he knows that.
You know that Obama knows that even more guns are sold every time he opens his mouth about it.
So given that he knows that and continues to do it, for what purpose?
Anyone want to hazard a guess?
Be honest here.
Obama is not ignorant here.
He knows full and that it happens every time there's an event.
People go out and buy guns, and you hear the stories, the stories are written, the media writes them because they can't stand it.
And now gun sales among gays and lesbians.
How does anybody know, by the way, that gays and lesbians specifically are arming up in Denver?
How do they know?
Not I'm just asking here, I'm just asking a concerned citizen.
You know, you work, you work, you work at a gun shop, the door opens, here come some people want to buy guns, and all of us, hey, man, you ought to see my business among gays and lesbians is skyrocket.
Yeah, how do you know?
Are they telling you?
Are they telling you are they telling you in there?
Look at uh I just saw 53 of my uh people gunned down in Orlando.
I uh can't count on anybody else.
I need a gun.
Is that how they know?
Remember, this is open-minded nonjudgmental Colorado we're talking about here.
What do you mean maybe it's two girls coming in together?
You telling me the gun shop owners are gonna assume that they're lesbians if two girls walk in there and want to buy guns?
Gun sales surging in the wake of Sunday's deadly mass shooting in Orlando tragedy generating a new debate over gun control reform and the right to bear arms, which is absurd.
However, what's different this time around is the clientele.
Mike Smith, a firearms instructor in Colorado Springs is one of many closely tracking the sudden surge in gays and lesbians buying weapons, and he said.
I think right now, because of what happened, people are looking for answers.
You walk into a gun shop, you expect to see people, frankly, who look like me.
I think we forget that we're a country of all people, not just people who fit the predetermined mold of gun owner.
There's profiling people.
The pink pistols.
If you're just patient, you knew I would have the answer for you here.
The Pink Pistols is a national gun club for gays and lesbians.
It saw its membership soar from about 1,500 members on Saturday to 3500 members on Monday.
Dozens of new chapters of the Pink Pistols are springing up, including one that Mike Smith is creating in Colorado Springs.
He said it's something he feels compelled to do, even though he's straight.
He is in solidarity with gays.
I look at it as a disenfranchised minority to need somebody who's willing to say I'm a resource, I'm here and willing to help, and here's what it costs.
Well, he's selling guns.
He says they strut.
Says he's straight, but he's he's he's helping the pink pistols expand their membership and uh and arm up.
Washington free beacon.
Obama gets political at memorial, attacks Republicans for opposition and gun control.
Gun control, nothing.
I I'm getting blue in the face.
I mean, for 27 years, I have and others have been for as long or not longer, if longer.
There ought not to be a single person that doesn't know the truth about this.
This is what we're up against.
And yet Obama goes out there and blames the second amendment and blames Republicans and a shockingly large number of people.
Right on, dude, right on, you tell him.
Agree with him.
LGBT community explodes with positive social media support for Donald Trump.
Trump received over 40,000 likes after speaking up for gays and lesbians.
I actually think I made mention of this yesterday.
I think, folks, that we might have to start looking at polling data a little different and you know, weighing it with likes and retweets and stuff.
I mean, we've got there's already polling data that's being generated by by actual people on all of this social media.
40,000 likes.
4,000 shares, hundreds of comments within 30 minutes.
38 minutes.
From the Hill.com, House of Representatives rejects an effort to ban illegal immigrants from military service.
House of Representatives yesterday broke with its own voting record and rejected two Republican proposals aimed at preventing young illegal immigrants from serving in the military.
Democrats sought to tie the provisions to the harsh rhetoric on immigration from presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.
More than 30 Republicans with more centrist views on immigration joined all Democrats in opposing the two amendments offered to a defense department spending bill.
The amendments failed narrowly, votes of 207 to 214 and 210 to 21.
What do you think about that?
What do you think about illegal aliens serving in the military?
Why?
Why?
How dare you ask why?
Don't you know the answer?
Have you not been listening to Democrats talk about people that joined the military for the last 25 years?
Why do they do it?
Because they got nothing else.
Because this country.
Where are they from?
They're from much of hayseed hicks in the sticks.
They come from poor families.
They got no chance at an education.
They got no chance at ever making the military's all they've got.
Haven't you heard the Democrats disparage people who sign up?
Something I've I've never understood.
Okay, you don't like the military.
Fine and dandy.
But why impugn the people that sign up?
They're signing up knowing full well they're volunteering.
They're offering their lives potentially.
Why impugn them?
Why go out?
Because it's an opportunity to criticize America, that's why.
Because in the Democrat world, nobody would ever join the military.
Good lord, we'd go to Yale.
We'd go to hell, we go to Dartmouth before we go to the military.
We sure as hell wouldn't join the damn army.
No freaking way.
So these people do.
They make it out to be that's all they've got.
This country's so abandoned them.
They have no educational opportunities.
They're basically, you know, a little slow in the intellect department, and this is all they've got.
That's what the Democrats have said.
Well, who fits that description better than an uneducated, unskilled illegal immigrant?
It's all they've got.
Countries already biased against them.
You'd rather have them on the welfare rolls, Mr. Snirdley, rather than defending your country.
It's the way they well.
Anyway, it is kind of an illegal an undocumented, illegal, not a citizen joining the military.
No problem with it.
You know, any loyalty questions?
You have any no concerns about.
I mean, where are they from?
I mean, we don't know, it's an individual basis question, but just the blanket.
Assertion.
Hell yes, they ought to be able to sign up and join.
But if you're a liberal Democrat, it fits perfectly with your theme that they've got nothing else.
This country is so abandoned them.
This country is so forgotten them.
It's all they've got.
Nobody in their right mind.
Remember John Kerry?
Was out there on the left coast summer making a speech to a bunch of college students.
And he said there's all kinds of people in life.
Some people go to Yale.
Some of the unfortunate end up wearing a uniform.
Remember that something like that?
Now paraphrasing.
That's what they think.
The military is where the hopeless go.
Back in just in their view.
Okay, back to the phones, and we're gonna go to Navarre, Florida.
This is uh Rich.
Rich, great that you waited.
Thank you.
Hello.
Yeah, very nice to speak with you, Rush.
Uh, I appreciate you being able to work me in.
Uh Rush, the real reason that the uh massacre took place at the uh uh at the club in Orlando by uh Omar Mateen was that the club was a gun-free zone.
Uh and it wasn't a gun-free zone because they wanted it to be.
It was a gun-free zone because the state of Florida and its infinite uh lack of wisdom in this case actually has a law in the books, statute 790.06 that makes it illegal to carry a weapon of any kind into uh into a bar, essentially.
Uh and uh the that that was really tantamount to allowing this massacre to occur in this case, because here in Florida there are 1.4 million uh people who have uh uh weapons carry permits.
And that's one of every ten uh adults walking around loose.
And since there were 300 people in the club, that means that uh if if we use that rough figure one in ten, there would have been 30 people with weapons in that club to have opposed Mateen had they been permitted to carry their weapons into the club, but they weren't by Florida law.
So I think uh we need to get these bad laws off the books, and we need to get rid of gun-free zones to prevent these massacres from occurring again.
Let me ask you a question, Rich.
Do you think guys like Mateen and other mass murderers take the time to learn and pick targets that they know are gun-free zones like schools and so forth because they are confident they're not gonna have any armed opposition at least for a while when they launched the attack.
Well, that would be a logical assumption, but i in the teen's case we have more than logic to go on because he was he was trained as as a security card, uh worked for G4S, um uh he he knew police procedure.
He would have known Florida law.
He had scouted this place out repeatedly.
All of these reports that he was a secret closet gay, uh, because he had gone to the to this club on many occasions, maybe he was scouting the club.
I think that's what he was doing.
So he he knew that there was one armed guard there.
Uh he quickly disposed of him when he came on the scene on the night of the massacre.
Uh, he knew that none of these people were armed.
He knew Florida law, no doubt about it.
He scouted this place out.
In the teens case, he knew exactly what he was doing.
So gun-free zones are self-defeating.
They're absolutely ludicrous, are they not?
Yeah, they're a gun free zone is a is uh is a red flag to a bull.
Uh definitely.
I mean, it it's totally illogical because a criminal is not going to follow the law.
Exactly.
It's like making a school, a gun-free zone.
It's supposed to comfort the parents.
It means little Johnny's second grade classmate can't grab mommy's gun and bring it to school.
I I don't know.
The the I pr Rich, thank you.
Well stated in a brief short of time, excellent.
Brevity sold wit and all that, you get an award.
No prize, but you get an award.
It's just there's so much insanity out there today you can't keep up with it.
That's right, a man, a legend, a way of life, and as always, half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair.
I just saw that the Russian track team has been banned from the Olympics.
The mail track team, why why would that be?
I just saw I have no idea why.
Is there a doping scandal?
Oh, you'd heard about this, but I just saw you knew about this before I saw the Go ahead, Lonzer.
I can understand if the East German women's team had been banned, but they don't exist anymore.
They're now prison guards.
It's Siberia.
Bob in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
It's great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Well, thank you very much.
I've been listening to you since 1985, so I'll try and be as brief as possible.
I don't know if you're aware, but uh the U.S. Senate on Monday passed a bill.
I think it's 83 to 13 that starting January 2018, any girl 18 must register for the draft.
Now I have objections to this.
And my objections aren't so much to draft, but the way the U.S. government today treats his soldiers, i.e., the president of the United States won't even salute a man or a soldier in uniform getting off his aircraft.
And various others like the VA, the uh fact that we have to have a wounded warriors organization just to take care of our bets after they come back wounded, and the fact that I know of individuals who had to buy their own prosthesis because the government won't supply them one that would work for them.
What's your opinions on that?
Well, let's go back to the first thing you mentioned.
I have not seen this.
Um was it let me put my glasses on and read what you said.
Was it just the Senate?
This is not law yet.
It's just No, it is not law yet.
It hasn't gone to Congress, it hasn't gone to the President.
Okay, so just the Senate uh women.
Yes, women.
When they turn 18 must register with selective service, right?
Yes.
And you don't like that.
Well, I don't like the way the soldiers are being treated mainly, and why are we uh why is it a necessity just to dovetail what you said before?
I served from 65 to 67 in the U.S. Army at the government's request.
And we did have foreigners come in and what do you mean the government's request?
You're talking draft.
I was drawing government's request.
Look, uh I I I have to tell you, Bob, you know, you heard the previous comment because you referenced it about about illegal aliens.
The uh now have been cleared to uh join the military.
I think it's just a continuation of something that started in the Clinton presidency, and that is the United States military has become a social experimentation playground or laboratory.
Uh women in combat don't ask, don't tell gays in the military.
Beginning with the Clinton administration, the purpose of the U.S. military changed.
Beg Became perverted, polluted, corrupted, bastardized, whatever you want to say.
The purpose of the United States military is to kill people and break things.
It is not to provide jobs.
It's not to provide health care.
It's not about doctors, nurses, clean water, fairness, negotiations, non-discrimination, any of that.
It's to kill people and break things.
And people who were drafted or people who sign up are taught how to do that.
Basic training and specialization is all about killing people and break.
It used to be.
Now it's not.
The United States military is even and even with this, it remains one of the last remaining meritocracy based institutions in the country.
But even that is under assault.
Now women being forced to register with selective service.
That's much different than women who want to join the all-American First Cavalry Amazon battalion.
I mean, you want to join the Amazons, that's a voluntary thing, and you want to go off and kill people and break, but the selective service.
There isn't a draft, but everybody turns 18 has to register in case there's a big emergency or some Christian gets loose and starts killing people.
Then they might reinstitute the draft.
And uh they need people have signed up and are ready.
The fact that they're going to include women just in the Senate, it hasn't become law yet.
Is that what being a woman is?
Is that feminism?
Is that emancipation?
Is that women's progress that they now are required to register with selective service to be available in such time in the future as there is a draft?
All of this, folks.
Bob, you're ancient.
You're in the military 67 year, you're my age.
This it's a different era, Bob.
This is all about tearing down these institutions.
Under the guise of modernizing them and growing them and bringing them into the 21st century.
It's the left is on the march.
And anything they think is destructive or bad or wrong, they're hellbent on transforming it or fixing it.
So that's the answer.
Back in a second.
Folks, don't go away.
How come millennial girls are not demanding to be drafted for a because they're young snowflakes?
How in the hell is this going to work?
Young millennial women on college camp high are now being called these innocent snowflakes.
They need safe zones from people who say things they don't want to hear.
Can you imagine these innocent snowflakes as basic training?
Oh, screw it.
Screw it quality.
It's not a it's never been about equality.
That's just that's just been the rallying call.
It's never been about a quality.
You know, I have to tell you something.
Uh Hillary Clinton, I looked this up too.
I wanted to make sure I got this right.
Hillary Clinton is in favor of women in the draft.
Of course, she wanted to be a Marine.
Didn't she say she signed up in a Marine office and they and they called her a dog or something and made her leave?
Or no, they used a marine term dog face or something, and she thought they were talking about her.
Didn't she tell that story?
She wanted to join the Marines.
This is right after she learned that she was named after Edmund Hillary.
Thank you.
I don't know, it's one of these days.
I just feel surrounded by absolute total Nimrod idiots.
Everybody.
The low information crowd, the regime, Hillary, the Democrat Party.
Well, Brian in Orlando.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Yeah, hi.
Uh, quick one for you.
I don't know why this isn't more of an issue in the media, but doesn't it seem to you that the fact that Putin has uh Hillary's files or emails and the files on the server, that that's kind of put him in the position of being a kingmaker.
Blackmail him.
Well, yeah, he can choose to either release the information or not.
So if he prefers Hillary, he does one thing if he prefers Trump, he does something else.
He's not, he's not gonna release it.
He's gonna use it to blackmail her if he's got it.
He's also got the Russians hacked the DNC servers.
They've apparently got all the DNC opposition research on Trump.
But that's just the point.
So if he has the DNC files, he could be using that to determine which uh person he prefers.
Right.
Either way, it doesn't matter.
It puts him in the position of having influence over a U.S. election.
Well, you know, Trump thinks that Putin endorsed him and and went out and expressed his appreciation for Putin.
So there might be, you know, Putin might like him.
But that's not what Putin's gonna make is who can he best manipulate, who can he best manhandle, who can he best uh who can he get the best deal with out of those two?
But you're right, I don't mean to sound flippant.
He can.
He's got enough.
I saw this.
Where was it?
Uh you're right.
I can't remember the source, but it's enough to blackmail her.
Why isn't that an issue in the media?
I mean, that should be a major, major issue.
Why do you think it isn't?
What well I don't want it to be, but that's not the point.
I mean, it should someone should make it an issue.
The fact that you have someone who is in a position because of someone's incompetence uh to be blackmailed, and that person is right now running for president.
If that were the case, the fact that what she did with her email server and all that should have been a disqualifier from the get-go.
But the media's gonna continue to cover for her no matter what.
I mean, I uh you're I know your question's rhetorical, don't misunderstand.
Um the enemy.
We are.
You and me, conservative republic, we're the enemy.
Putin's not he's a good guy.
Putin.
Strong man, but he reacted well to Hillary's new red reset button.
Everything's cool, not a problem.
Okay, we'll have to get into this on Monday, but get this headline.
This is from NBC News.
All female college agrees, this is Smith College.
All female college agrees to accept men who identify as women.
This is not going to end well.
This is not.
We're gonna track this.
No, this is not how Hillary got into Wellesley.
Stop that.
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