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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.
El Rush Moda, most 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 going to fix that in this hour.
The staff is falling asleep.
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, but I'm going to fix it.
It's 800-282-2882.
Let's see here.
What is this?
Look at this.
I've already touched on this, but here's a news story 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?
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 going to 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, this is, I can't think of very many presidents who would even get close up 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 they're 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 bastardizes what happened here to a degree that is unspeakable.
I just want you to 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 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.
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 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-bys are concerned, the only relevant thing in this memorial is how well Obama did.
Did Obama do good?
Did Obama help himself?
Is Obama going to 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 going to help Obama?
Will it hurt Obama?
How's it going to work out for Obama?
This wasn't about 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.
Adding the word poor, they 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 mouthful.
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.
I'm going to move on.
Really, if I keep going here, I don't need to say it.
You understand it already.
You agree.
It's just 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 got to go arm up.
That's right.
Your monolithic Democrat voting bloc.
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 protected Democrat constituency, 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?
Anybody want to hazard a guess?
Be honest here.
Obama is not ignorant here.
He knows full, 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?
No, I'm just asking here.
I'm just asking a concerned citizen.
You know, you work at a gun shop.
The door opens.
Here comes some people who want to buy guns.
And all of a sudden, hey, man, you ought to see my business among gays and lesbians is skyrocketing.
How do you know?
Are they telling you?
Are they telling you in there?
Look at, I just saw 53 of my people gunned down in Orlando.
I can't count on anybody else.
I need a gun.
Is that how they know?
Remember, this is open-minded, non-judgmental Colorado we're talking about here.
What do you mean, maybe it's two girls coming in?
You telling me the gun shop owners are going to 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 3,500 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 that needs 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 he's stretch.
He says he's straight, but he's helping the Pink Pistols expand their membership and arm up.
Washington Free Beacon.
Obama gets political at Memorial, attacks Republicans for opposition and gun control.
Gun control, nothing.
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 actual people on all of his social media.
40,000 likes, 4,000 shares, hundreds of comments within 30 minutes, 38 minutes.
From theHill.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 207 to 214 and 210 to 211.
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 a bunch 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 is all they've got.
Haven't you heard the Democrats disparage people who sign up?
Something 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'd go to Dartmouth before we go to the military.
But 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 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.
Country's already biased against them.
Would you rather have them on the welfare rolls, Mr. Snirdley, rather than defending your country?
It's the way that.
Well.
Anyway.
It is kind of an illegal, an undocumented, illegal, not a citizen joining the military.
No problem with it.
You don't have 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 has so abandoned them.
This country has 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?
I'm paraphrasing.
That's what they think.
The military is where the hopeless go.
Back in their view.
Okay, back to the phones, and we're going to go to Navarre, Florida.
This is Rich.
Rich, great that you waited.
Thank you.
Hello.
Yeah, very nice to speak with you, Rush.
I appreciate you being able to work me in.
Rush, the real reason that the massacre took place at the club in Orlando by Omar Mateen was that the club was a gun-free zone.
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, in its infinite 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 a bar, essentially.
And that was really tantamount to allowing this massacre to occur in this case because here in Florida, there are 1.4 million people who have weapons carry permits.
And that's one of every 10 adults walking around loose.
And since there were 300 people in the club, that means that if we use that rough figure one in 10, 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 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 going to have any armed opposition at least for a while when they launch the attack?
Well, that would be a logical assumption, but in Mateen's case, we have more than logic to go on because he was trained as a security card, worked for G4S.
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, and because he had gone to this club on many occasions, maybe he was scouting the club.
I think that's what he was doing.
So he knew that there was one armed guard there.
He quickly disposed of him when he came on the scene on the night of the massacre.
He knew that none of these people were armed.
He knew Florida law.
No doubt about it.
He scouted this place out.
In Mateen's 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 red flag to a bull.
Definitely.
I mean, 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 don't know.
Rich, thank you.
Well stated in a brief short of time, excellent.
Brevity, soul of 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 male track deal.
Why would that be?
I just saw, I have no idea why.
Is there a doping scandal?
Oh, you'd heard about this.
I just saw you knew about this before I saw the headlines.
I can understand if the East German women's team had been banned, but they don't exist anymore.
They're now prison guards in 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.
Appreciate it.
I don't know if you're aware, but 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 the draft, but the way the U.S. government today treats its 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 fact that we have to have a wounded warriors organization just to take care of our vets 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 with 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.
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.
Women.
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 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.
What do you mean the government's request?
You're talking draft.
I was drafted.
Government's request.
Look, I have to tell you, Bob, you know, you heard the previous comment because you referenced it about illegal aliens.
The now have been cleared to 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.
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, 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.
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 they need people to 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 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 of you, you're my age.
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, the left is on the march.
And anything they think is destructive or bad or wrong, they're hell-bent on transforming it or fixing it.
So that's the answer.
Back in a sec, folks.
Don't go away.
How come millennial girls are not demanding to be drafted for because they're young snowflakes?
How in the hell is this going to work?
Young millennial women on college campaign are now being called these innocent snowflakes.
They need safe zones from people who say things they don't want to.
Can you imagine these innocent snowflakes' basic training?
Oh, screw it.
Screw equality.
It's never been about equality.
That's just been the rallying call.
It's never been about equality.
You know, I have to tell you something.
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 at a Marine office and they called her a dog or something and made her leave?
No, they used a Marine term dogface 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.
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.
A 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 Hillary's files, her emails, and the files on the server, that that's kind of put him in the position of being a kingmaker?
Blackmail her.
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 going to release it.
He's going to 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 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 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 going to make.
Who can he best manipulate?
Who can he best manhandle?
Who can he best, 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?
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?
Well, I don't want it to be, but that's not the point.
I mean, someone should make it an issue.
The fact that you have someone who is in a position because of someone's incompetence 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 is going to continue to cover for her no matter what.
I mean, I know your question's rhetorical.
Don't misunderstand.
Remember, Putin's not the enemy.
We are.
Brian, 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 going to track this.
No, this is not how Hillary got into Wellesley.
Stop that.
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