Yeah, I'll stand by audio soundbite 16 and order from there.
We got to get to an in-depth discussion of the sit-in that just ended.
There's a simple way to understand what happened here, folks, and you're never going to get the simple explanation if you watch the drive-by media.
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Now, we're going to get to the sit-in in just a second.
But before I get into soundbites, I just want to tell you what really happened so that you can understand what a stunt that it was.
And largely it was fundraising, but it was also agitation.
The Senate had four different bills that were designed to deny due process to the American citizens and their right to own guns.
It was four different legislative attempts to abase to basically deny the existence of the Second Amendment.
Not one of those bills even got 50 votes.
Not one of those bills even got out of committee.
Those bills were never even close.
You need 60 votes in the Senate before you have a final vote.
And none of those four even came close.
They didn't even get 50 votes.
They were show votes.
It was show legislation, meaning it was never intended to pass.
It was being used by Democrats in conjunction with friendly media to promote the idea that the situation in America has gotten so bad that due process doesn't matter.
The compelling interest is to take guns away from people if we're going to save ourselves.
And four different attempts failed.
So these guys in the House decided, since nothing succeeded and no bill came over to the House from the Senate, they decided to have their little sit-in to make it look like they were being denied due process.
John Lewis and Rangel and Pelosi and Clyburn were all trying to make it look like they were the ones being denied due process.
When it was the Senate, the legislation had never even gotten to the House.
And it was never going to get to the House as written.
So they staged this sit-in.
And they had people bringing them pillows.
They had people bringing them food.
They were trying to make it look like that they were doing the equivalent of getting beat up by people like Bull Connor, the equivalent of the dogs being turned loose on them again, like happened in Mississippi and the fire hoses.
They're trying to make it look like that they were really, really being mistreated.
But they were having catered food brought in.
They were brought blankets and pillows and so forth to sit comfortably on the floor of the House of Representatives.
And folks, it was nothing more than a stunt.
One of the purposes was fundraising, and the other point was intimidation.
They know they've got friendly media, so they've got a media that will report something about this that is not relevant.
And it happened.
They were reported as great, compassionate, caring, and concerned people, only interested in saving lives.
And of course, who was opposed to saving lives?
Why, the Republican leadership, of course.
The Republican leadership didn't care about saving lives.
The Republican leadership couldn't have cared less who had guns and what they did with them.
When, in fact, the action was in the Senate and there wasn't any action.
The whole thing was a stunt.
And it got knocked down, drag out, and our old buddy Louis Goemert took it to them.
Good old Louis.
I mean, Louie is one of the, he's from Texas.
And, you know, these people are in there shouting, we shall overcome, we shall over this, singing, we shall overcome.
And they've got all these chants going on.
So Louis stands up and he goes over there and says, your problem is this.
Militant Islam is responsible for the shootings.
Militant Islam is responsible for the death.
Militant Islam is killing Americans.
And these people on the Democrat side blew up.
And they got face to face with Louie and it looked like fisticuffs were going to break out.
And Louie did not give an inch of ground.
Here we go, starting with audio soundbite number 16.
We've got enough here to paint the picture for you.
We are not brave, our time to leave.
This is puke city.
We are not the first time.
We are not afraid, they're singing.
We are not afraid.
We're not afraid today.
Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe we shall overcome someday.
Overcome what?
Who's oppressing them?
Nobody's oppressing these people.
These are some of the richest and most powerful Democrats in the country for crying out loud.
I'll tell you something else that happened.
And I think this is a big deal.
You know, C-SPAN televises the House.
But you know who runs the House?
It's the party in power.
The party of the speakership.
The Republican Party controls when the cameras are turned on and when they're turned off.
And it's always been that way.
When the Democrats run the House, it was Pelosi that controlled when the cameras are turned on and turned off.
And she routinely turned cameras off during special orders.
I remember back in the 70s, when I first heard of Newt Gingrich, I was in Kansas City, late 70s, early 80s.
That was the 80s.
It was the early 80s.
Tip O'Neill was the Speaker of the House.
The Republicans had their usual, what, 200 and some odd members, but Reagan was taking the country by storm.
It was three or four years into his first term, three years.
And Newt was doing special orders.
The special order, the House closes for business.
But as long as a member of the House is on the floor speaking, the cameras are turned on.
And Tip O'Neill at the time, I didn't think anything of a big deal.
I mean, who's watching C-SPAN at 8 o'clock at night?
And everybody else is getting drunk.
Who's watching C-SPAN?
So he didn't figure it's a problem.
But Newt's special orders were so good and so powerful that they attracted attention.
And other people in the House joined Newt, and these became broadcaster shows in and of themselves.
And basically what it was was Newt defending Reagan and conservatism against the daily attacks and onslaughts taking place in the House and in the media.
This is where I first heard of Newt.
Tip O'Neill, I don't think, now I have to, he might have turned the cameras off at some point in this one.
When they got really big, he can do it.
The Speaker of the House determines when the House is televised.
Well, Ryan yesterday turned off the cameras.
In the middle of the sit-in, Paul Ryan decreed that we're not going to let this stunt work.
We're not going to give these people airtime on C-SPAN.
So he ordered the cameras turned off, and C-SPAN did.
However, members of the Democrats in the sit-in had their phones with them, and they simply lit up the Periscope app.
The Periscope app is part of Twitter.
Well, it's owned by Twitter.
It started independent.
Twitter bought it.
Periscope app.
I've got it on my phone.
It makes anybody a video operator, makes anybody a videographer.
All you have to do is fire up your phone, fire up the Periscope app, and aim your phone at whatever, and it's being televised to the entire Twitter network and people that have Periscope.
They can watch it.
They can amplify it, broadcast it themselves, and it makes, I'm telling you this, that mainstream drive-by journalists are really worried about this because it turns everybody into a cameraman anywhere they are.
Anything.
Now, at this point in time, you have to have Periscope to see if there are a couple other competing companies that do the same thing.
Well, C-SPAN took a feed from one of these Democrats' phones and televised it.
And people are saying, wait a second, that's not.
They shouldn't do that.
The House runs the cameras.
The House ordered the cameras shut down.
The House ordered that no proceedings after the House had been shut down for official business be televised.
And yet C-SPAN took the feed from one of those guys' Periscope apps and ran that.
That's how everybody saw what was going on.
And I think the Periscope app is free.
Anybody can use it.
Shooting video is against House rules.
I was surprised you could take your cell phone in there and use it.
I thought it was kind of like Country Club.
You could.
Anyway, people are now opining on C-SPAN's role here.
C-SPAN has forever gotten away with the idea they're nonpartisan.
Well, they're not thought of as nonpartisan anymore.
Well, that's what I mean.
Last night they're not, but up until last night, they still enjoyed that reputation, right?
That they turned on the cameras and whatever happened.
They just showed it to you and they had their call-in programs and all that, but they were always perceived as middle-eroaders.
But taking that feed last night, that blew that up.
Taking that feed from whoever was providing it among the Democrats on their Periscope app on their phones, C-SPAN kind of signaled their allegiance there, which I think is first.
A lot of people are saying this is not good.
And then Paul Ryan came into, came into his fair criticism for even allowing this to happen.
Why?
You know, speakers of the House in the old days would have shut this down, would have gabbled the House out of session and ended this whole thing.
But the Democrats began their sit-in when Ryan wasn't even there.
He was up doing a speech at AEI, I think.
Yeah, yeah, that's right.
He did recess, shut it down.
They refused to go.
That was the whole point of the sit-in.
We shall overcome.
And they ended it today walking down the steps singing for overcome.
Well, no, he's going to have the sorry.
He's not.
Dad was never going to have sergeant of arms arrested.
Yeah, it was not going to happen.
Here's Louie, by the way.
You've got to hear this.
It's just 12 seconds, but this is Louie on the House floor last night trying to tell these Democrats, taking guns out of the hands of people who have nothing to do with what happened in Orlando anyway, which is what these people are all bouncing off.
This is the latest mass shooting.
Blame it on the guns.
And Louie had had it.
He couldn't take it anymore.
Radical Islam!
Kill these people!
And you know what the terrorists with a gun?
Don't let terrorists have a gun!
Don't let terrorists have radical Islam!
Kill it!
And it just went on and they got face to face.
It got really, really close.
Here's Ryan last night on CNN.
He was asked, why don't you at least allow a vote on this on the floor of the House?
This is nothing more than a publicity stunt.
This bill was already defeated in the United States Senate.
Number three, we're not going to take away a citizen's due process rights.
We're not going to take away a citizen's constitutional rights without due process.
Now, let's focus on the issue at hand here, terrorism.
And let's find out what we need to do to prevent future terrorist attacks.
That's something we should be able to do in a calm and cool manner without these sort of dilatory publicity stunt tactics to try and bring a bill that already died over in the Senate to the House floor.
I'm biting my tongue here.
I sometimes want.
He knows what they're doing.
It's nothing more than a public.
But appealing to them to be reasonable is such a waste of time.
Appealing to them to change their focus and join everybody together in stopping terrorism.
It's never going to happen.
It's not what the Democrats are interested in.
The Democrats really are not interested in keeping guns out of the hands of terrorists.
They're interested in keeping you from being able to get guns.
And folks, there's no doubt about that.
There is no law in the world.
There is no law unwritten.
There's no law on the books that's going to stop a criminal from getting a gun.
It just doesn't work that way.
Any new gun control is simply going to infringe on the law-abiding's ability to exercise constitutional rights.
There's not a single law that could be written, that has been written, that could be passed that would stop Omar Mateen from getting a gun and shooting people up.
The law does not exist that would make that happen.
There's not a law that could be written.
There's not an amendment that could be changed that would have prevented Omar Mateen from doing what he did.
Well, then, how do you stop it?
I know you're asking, how do you stop it?
You listen to the intel.
We had plenty of intel.
We had plenty of signs this guy was unstable.
We had plenty of indication this guy was possibly able to do.
We had plenty of indication here that this guy was potentially inclined to do this.
We could have studied him.
We could have kept him on watch.
We could have done any number of things.
And then once this began, we could have not waited three hours for SWAT to get situation.
We could have taken the guy out the first few moments we learned about this.
Any number of things we could have done, but a new law would not have stopped it.
It isn't possible.
These people ought to know it firsthand.
They violate so many as it is.
They shouldn't have to.
Your guiding light, El Rushball, with half my brain time behind my back, just to make it fair, one of the most maligned, misrepresented, lied about, yet envied people in America.
Here's Neil, San Diego, California.
Great to have you with us, Neil.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
Say, Rush, I'm calling because of the discussion you've had about the immigration challenges in terms of the Supreme Court decision over Barack Obama's attempt to mandate some illegal activity, is how I would characterize it.
And I've got a suggestion, and that is to borrow from something you shared with your audience, and that is to say that what we might want to consider doing is just putting a stop to all forms of immigration into this country.
I'm calling from California.
California, by what you have observed, has been culturally changed by way of illegal immigration in California now is permanently lost to the Democrat Party because of the change of demographics and thus the change of party registration.
Legal immigration in terms of the needs of our country is a canard that is foisted upon the American people.
We were able to put a man on the moon with a population significantly smaller than what we have now.
We can educate our own folk.
We don't need to import folk from other parts of the world in order to accomplish our desired ends in terms of manufacturing and technology and what have you.
And while listening to your broadcast, there was that other matter of the gun control thing in which a congressman talked about radical Islam.
And Rush, I would be negligent if I didn't share with you a suggestion, and that is that I would encourage you to get a book called What Every American Needs to Know About the Koran, A History of Islam.
Well, we have to break it.
Yeah.
Saga does continue.
A man, a legend, a way of life.
Happy to have you here.
Didn't have time to answer the last guy and his hey, Rush.
What?
Neil in San Diego's name, right?
His basic point was, hey, Rush, I heard you say there wasn't any immigration in 1924-65.
Why don't we do it again?
It's roiling the country.
We don't need right now.
We put a man on the moon with fewer people than we have in the country.
Again, to review, why do we do it in 1924?
It's a different country, folks, and understandably so.
I mean, change is inexorable.
Change, you can't stop it.
But so things are going to evolve and modernize.
Some are going to be stagnant and change.
But change happens.
In 1924, we had had mass immigration after two wars and World War I and the European, Eastern European immigration was massive through Ellis Island and other places.
And the reason we shut it down in 1924 was that so many immigrants arrived, we stopped to assimilate them.
There was an active assimilation, called it a program or not, it just happened.
It was understood by everybody that newly arrived immigrants had to learn about the place they had come.
They wanted to come.
They dreamed of coming here.
They had great expectations.
They were fleeing human conditions that we didn't face in large part.
Suffering born of poverty, of tyranny, of bondage.
It was the story of humanity for most of the human existence is not a pretty one.
And that's, look, I don't want to be redundant, but that's what genuine American exceptionalism means.
A country comes along founded on the basis of freedom and liberty and God-given rights, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.
It had never been done before, so that was the exception.
So why can't we do it again today?
Well, the political will is not there.
There is no assimilation that goes on right now anyway.
As we live and breathe today, in fact, from the Democrat Party and progressives, America today is nothing to be admired.
America today is nothing to aspire to.
America today is something that better damn well be transformed.
America today is guilty.
America today is racism, sexism, bigotry, all of these isms, and it's unjust and it's unfair and it's been immoral and it's stolen things from people and it's robbed people and it's killed people and there's nothing worth emulating about America today.
No, America must change.
America must be brought to its knees.
America must find out what the rest of the world has had to endure, largely because of America.
America stole things from this land and that land and that people and this people and it's time we paid the price.
So the idea that there's something to assimilate to here is not incumbent with today's immigration.
The purpose of today's immigration is to change America.
As far as the Democrats are concerned, this is not an exaggeration.
And it's not also the Democrat Party as you've known it most of your life.
This attitude, it's always been there.
Liberalism, progressive has always been there, but it's totally captivated the Democrat Party now.
This is not the Democrat Party of even 15 years ago or 20, much less 30 or 40.
The Democrat Party is entirely progressive, and the purpose of immigration is to further along the transformation of America.
You might even call it the punishment of America.
Because many educated progressives today think this country needs to be taught a lesson or two.
And especially certain people in this country need to be taught a lesson.
They need to be cut down to size.
They need to find out the kind of crap they've put people through for 200 plus years.
Second thing is the reason there's no desire for assimilation, well, beyond that, is that there's no desire to stop immigration on either party.
The Republicans have donors who want low-skilled and ill-educated people.
They'll work cheap.
So this is the Chamber of Commerce position.
So the short answer is there's no inertia.
There's no mindset for a temporary stoppage on immigration so that we can get a handle on who's coming in, how they've got here, where they are, and finding them and assimilating them.
You know what?
If we were to do that, we hear about these 11 million or whatever number they are living in the shadows.
I will bet you, this is a wild guess, but I will bet you you could get a decent amount of support from a group of conservative Republican Americans today opposed to illegal immigration.
I'll bet you could convert that to support if there became, as part and parcel of comprehensive immigration reform, a serious effort to assimilate these people and not assimilate them to the Democrat Party, but assimilate them to America.
If there were a focus on American greatness and American exceptionalism and bringing 11 or 12 million people who have been here illegally for a long time out of the shadows and actually assimilating them into a great America, you'd probably have more support for something like that than you might think.
You'd be surprised, I think, the number of people it would support bringing them out of the shadows.
But as long as the whole purpose here is to register voters for the Democrat Party or to keep them on welfare programs or whatever cost Americans and put more budget strain, you're never going to have support for it.
And everybody knows that's what the Democrat Party agenda is.
That's what comprehensive immigration reform is and cheap labor on the Republican side.
And most Americans look at it and don't see the benefit.
They don't see the benefit to the country.
They don't see the benefit to them.
And they don't see the benefit to the illegal immigrants who are not going to be educated.
They're not going to be fairly compensated.
They're going to continue to be dependent and in need.
So they look at this.
They don't see any compassion anywhere.
Yet, while the Democrats get all the credit in the world for being compassionate, there isn't any.
These are just a bunch of people, poor people, going to end up being used as political footballs to further enrich and empower the Democrat Party.
But if comprehensive immigration reform actually included making these people Americans, teaching them about America, teaching them English, inspiring them to want to become part of a distinct American culture, you'd have maybe, I don't know, a shift of support.
But even if you did that, you would have some people not trusted who would think that that was a trick, too, simply because of the nature of the Democrat Party today.
And you couldn't blame them.
And all you got to do is watch Barack Obama and the Democrats.
And it's very clear what their objective is.
They want to water this country down.
They want to water down whatever the majorities have been.
They want to water down the greatness.
They want to dilute every aspect of this country that made it great.
There's no other way to describe their agenda.
Because at the end of it all, they want to be in power.
Because that equals control of the money.
It's always about money, folks.
The Democrats will tell you about compassion.
It's about big hearts.
It's about love.
It's about money.
It's always about money.
They just will be the ones that never admit it.
So last night, minding my own business, bothering nobody, I got an email from my cousin's son.
So what would that be?
Cousin once removed, nephew once removed.
I don't know what it is.
Stephen III, I've told you, he plays a concert pianist and composer.
In fact, he did the music for Dinesh D'Souza's new and upcoming movie on Hillary.
He said, I am seriously considering deleting every social media account I've got and just maintaining a professional website for business purposes.
He's a millennial.
He says another reason why social media is the absolute worst, becoming a wasteland.
He sent me a link to a Facebook account, Facebook page, which I sent to Coco so you can watch it.
Go to rushlimbaugh.com.
Coco, go ahead and link it now.
I'm going to take a break.
I'm going to come back and tell you what this is.
And you'll understand why he's just losing faith in the overall intelligence of average ordinary Americans.
It's self-explanatory when you hear it when we get back.
Don't go away.
Yeah, I know the Freddie Gray Van driver not guilty.
Three not guilties.
All decisions from a judge, the prosecutor, Marilyn Mosby, humiliated and embarrassed Baltimore City Hall.
What a joke it was from the beginning.
Remember all the great things that were ahead for her, political stardom?
Who knows?
Could be even the next Oprah.
Not now.
Okay, so they emailed.
This is what my cousin once removed found on Facebook that's just causing him maybe to abandon it.
You go to the link, we put it at rushlimbaugh.com.
What you'll find is there's some guy with a mohawk claiming that he has rigged his truck to get 56% better gas mileage by using two jars of water with some baking soda that causes his engine to waste less energy.
The title of this post is Oil Companies Don't Want You to See This.
Every generation has these.
I remember growing up, I remember all the charlatans out there telling me how, oh yeah, they've got the ability to get 100 miles a gallon.
They just don't want you to have it.
The oil company's conspiring with the manufacturers, but it's there.
It's there.
You know what?
The automobile company, every time somebody comes along, they buy it up and they put it in a drawer.
They buy the patent.
They buy the invention.
Sometimes they even kill the inventor.
Every generation.
The difference here is the commenters.
My cousin once removed, petrified by the things he saw, everybody agreeing with it.
Everybody thinking this guy has actually found a way using water and baking soda to improve his gas mileage 56%.
Even some African Americans commenting that if they rigged this up and put it in the trunk and the cops saw it, they would shoot them.
And that triggered a whole new thread of anti-cop hatred.
The comments are the worst part, though, and mostly consist of minorities claiming they can't drive around with two jars in the trunk that look like that because the cops will shoot them or the cops in Fox News will throw them in jail for terrorism.
Others lament that this guy is going to get assassinated by the oil companies.
A couple of skeptics with what appears to be some engineering knowledge totally debunking this are met with 20 plus people cussing them out.
Aside from all the cool kids having left the platform like they did MySpace and Twitter, I don't see how this kind of disinformation can be stopped.
His point is that the lowest common denominator has taken over these social media places and it's just filth.
It's a sewer.
It's made up of people that don't know Diddley Squad.
I don't think that's a new.
I actually think what social media is doing is illustrating what's always been there.
I think social media is by its very existence providing a platform or forum for this kind of behavior and thinking.
It's always been there.
It just never had an outlet.
They never had a way.
They could write letters to the editor.
They could do that, but nobody ever saw it.
The editors never published it because it was insane.
But now this stuff is everywhere.
And I think it is depressing for people who think they live in a country that's made up of mostly smart, educated, involved people.
Social media is showing that, no, it's really scary out there.
It is really, really scary.
And stuff like this.
And by the way, the poster is part of an anonymous group.
Actually, the poster is part of a group actually called 4chan, which is also known as anonymous.
These are the people that hacked the Ferguson Police Department website and posted the names and addresses of the Ferguson police and their families.
Same group that is responsible for this post demonstrating that the auto manufacturers and the oil companies are defrauding everybody.
And all you need is a couple of jars with distilled water and baking soda.
And you can get 56% better gas mileage.
And I see that it's amazing.
As you get older, you see these things.
You've seen them all your life.
And you watch people who see it for the first time react to it.
It just takes you back.
Hell, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have needs to stop for a minute a while.
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