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June 23, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 23, 2016, Thursday, Hour #3
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Yeah, standby audio soundbite 16 in an order from there.
Uh 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.
Greetings and welcome back.
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By the way, where is it here?
I got a note from Coco up at Rush Limbaugh.com that our Hillary Clinton, a never Hillary bumper sticker, we can't keep them in stock.
You know, we originally started out, you get one free if you sign up for a uh joint subscription limbaugh letter and uh rush 24-7.
And I don't care what it costs, it's the best deal you've got going based on the information that you are going to have access to, not the least of which is the substantive comment, uh commentary and content of this program each and every day that accumulates, it's ongoing, it's always there, it's researchable, it's it's searchable, it's findable.
It's encyclopedic.
Uh many of the sources we use for show prep each and every day are also there.
But we've also decided to put the bumper sticker for sale as a standalone item.
Because as always, when we start out, we have a new premium for new subscribers.
Uh people, recent subscribers.
Hey, hey, what about us, they say.
You know, we we signed up last month, two months ago, and you weren't giving that away.
What do we do?
You can't avoid that.
No matter when you offer a premium, you're always going to have people that just signed up not long ago who are not eligible.
So what we do, what we've done in this case, the Coco told me we've made it available as a standalone.
I can't uh the price right off the bat, I'm not sure what it is.
But here it is, where I'm showing it on the ditto cam right now.
Never Hillary.
It uses her logo of the Royal Blue background, her name in white, and she's got that red arrow that points to the right.
We've got the word never over that red arrow.
It's really, really clever.
And it'll uh uniquely stand out on the bumper of your car or wherever you happen to put it.
Now we're gonna get to the sit-in in just a second, but but before I get into soundbites, I just want to tell you what really happened so that you could 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 a base 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 and none of those four even came close.
They didn't even get 50 votes.
They were show votes.
They were it was 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's gotten so bad that due process doesn't matter.
The compelling interest is to take guns away from people if we're gonna 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 uh John John John.
John Lewis and Wrangell and Pelosi and uh and Clyburn were all trying to make it look like they were the ones being denied due process.
When it was the Senate, it was the the legislation had never even gotten to the House.
And it was never gonna get to the House's 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.
And 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 I'm telling 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 that 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 yanks.
The whole thing was a stunt, and it got knocked down drag out, and our old buddy Louis Gomert took it to him.
Good old Louis.
I mean, Louie is one of the great, he's from Texas, and then you know these people are in there shouting, we shall overcome, we shall over 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 Louis, and it looked like fisticuffs were gonna break out.
And Louis 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 afraid.
We are not afraid to live.
Hold me in my heart.
God, this is true.
Rise to you!
This is puke city!
This is puke city!
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 is 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 uh in the 70s, when I first heard of Newt Gingrich.
I was I was in Kans 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 country by storm.
It was three or four years into the first term, three years.
And uh 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 eight 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 it 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 I he might have turned the cameras off at some point in this one that 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, 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 it's owned by Twitter.
It started independently.
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.
See, there are a couple other competing companies that have 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 just 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.
And that's how everybody saw what was going on.
And I think the Periscope app is free.
You can uh anybody can use it.
Shooting videos against House rules.
I'm not I'm I'm I was surprised you could take your cell phone in there and and use it.
Thought it was kind of like country clever 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, I that's what I mean now last night they're not, but I uh up until last night they still enjoyed that reputation, right?
That they turned on the cameras and whatever happened.
They just they showed it to you and they had they had their call-in programs and all that, but they were always perceived as middle of rotors.
But taking that feed last night, that blew that up.
Taking that feed from whoever was uh 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 in to came into his fair criticism for even allowing this to happen.
Why if it, you know, speakers of the house in the old days would have shut this down, would have would have would have gaveled the house out of out of 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.
Some.
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, uh singing for overcome.
Well, I know he's gonna have the sorry.
He's not, Dad was never gonna have Sergeant of Arms arrest.
Nah was not gonna happen.
Oh.
Here's Louie, uh, by the way, you gotta hear this.
This is uh 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 with the gun.
Don't let terrorists have a gun!
No let terror to radical Islam killing.
It was 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 uh publicity stunt tactics to try and bring a bill that already died over in the Senate to the House floor.
I biting my tongue here.
I sometimes he knows what they're doing.
It's nothing more than a 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 is it's it's never gonna 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 gonna 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, L Rushball with half my brain tied 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.
Uh say, Rosh, I'm calling because of the uh discussion you've had about uh the immigration challenges um in terms of uh the uh Supreme Court decision over Barack Obama's uh attempt to mandate uh some illegal activity, is how I would characterize it.
And I've got a suggestion, and that is uh uh to borrow from something you shared with your audience, and uh 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.
Uh, 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 uh to the Democrat Party because of the change of demographics and thus the change of party registration.
Um legal immigration uh in terms of uh the needs of our country is a uh canard that is uh foisted upon the American people.
Uh we were able to put uh a man on the moon with a population significantly smaller than what we have now.
Uh we can educate our own folk.
We don't need to import folk from other parts uh of the world in order to accomplish uh you know our our desired ends in terms of manufacturing and technology and uh uh and and what have you.
And uh while listening to your uh broadcast, there was that other matter of the gun control uh thing in which um 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 uh I would encourage you to get a book called What Every American Needs to Know About the Quran, a history of Islam.
Well, we have I uh break it.
Yeah.
Saga does continue, a man, a legend, a way of life.
Happy to have you here.
Uh didn't have time to answer the uh last guy and his uh hey Rush, uh what?
Neil and Sandy gives his name, right?
He he uh his basic point was, hey Rush, we 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.
Um again to review why do we do it in 1924?
It's a different country, folks, and and understandably so.
I mean, uh change is inexorable.
Change uh it it you can't stop it.
But but so things are going to evolve and and modernize.
Some are going to be stagnant and change.
But there's change happens.
In 1924, we had had mass immigration after two wars, uh and and World War I and the European, uh Eastern European immigration was massive through Ellis Island, 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, call 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 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 the genuine American exceptionalism means.
Uh country comes along founded on the basis of freedom and liberty and God-given rights, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness has never been done before, so that was the exception.
So why can't we do it again today?
Well, uh 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 it 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 for this land and that land and that people and this people.
And it's time we paid 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 have known it most of your life.
This attitude, it's always been there.
Liberalism, progressive, 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.
This 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, or 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 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 it, where they are, and finding them and assimilating them.
You know what?
If we were to do that, you know, we we hear about these 11 million or who 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 uh 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.
Say, look at this, they don't see any compassion anywhere.
Yet while the Democrats get all the credit in the world for being compassion, 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 I get 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.
And I get 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 he's a concert pianist and uh composer.
In fact, did the music for Dinesh de Seuss'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 he's a millennial.
He says another reason why social media is the absolute worst, becoming a wasteland.
And he sent me a link to a Facebook account, Facebook page, which I sent to Coco.
So you can watch it.
Go to Rushlinbaugh.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 I uh you'll ex- you'll understand why he's 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.
Um remember all the great things that were ahead for her, political stardom, who knows?
It could be even the next Oprah.
Not now.
Okay, so the email.
This is 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 it 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's gonna 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 the social media places, and it's just filth.
It's it's it's it's a sewer.
It's made up of people that don't know Diddley Squad.
I don't think that's any 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 can 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, uh involved people.
Social media is showing that uh 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.
The um actually it's a it's a poster's part of a group actually called uh 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 on the same same group that is responsible for this post demonstrating that the auto manufacturers and the oil companies are frauding 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.
Um 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.
Well, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have needs to needs to stop for a minute a while.
We'll be back here in 21 hours, open line Friday.
Be thinking about what it is that you want to talk to me about.
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