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June 30, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 30, 2016, Thursday, Hour #3
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No, you've got that wrong.
The reason why we can let sexually confused people in the military now is because we've got ISIS on the run.
Don't you remember what Obama said yesterday, and John Kerry said they're desperate.
We have them on the run.
They are.
They're losing.
So we've got time now to expand the scope of the Department of Defense, which is really shrinking.
You know, the number of people in the Army, the number of ships in the Navy, that I mean, it's.
And what did I just read today?
The Navy's getting rid of the word man.
Like you can't say cormon or so the Marines are not.
Which the Marines or the Navy doing it.
I thought it was the Marines resisting the change, that it was the Navy that was making the change.
Well, it's one of the two.
I don't have the story I didn't print it out.
But I mean, the number of ships we have in the Navy is way down.
The number of uh actual soldiers in the Army is way down.
Whoever the next president is, if we're serious about national defense captain, it's the Marines.
The Marines are eliminating the word man in 19 job titles to make women feel more comfortable.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Okay, so it's the Marines doing it.
I thought it was the Navy.
Okay.
Doesn't matter.
It's it's it's one or the other.
And and now we're opening the armed forces to transgenders.
Because we got ISIS on the run now.
ISIS on the run to Orlando.
They're on the run to San Bernardino.
They're on a run to Fort Hood.
Right.
They're on the run to Times Square.
Yeah, we got them on the run, all right.
We do.
We really, I'm not, folks, I'm not kidding.
The defense secretary just did a long press conference announcing this historic change.
Lift lifting to ban, lifting the ban on transgenders in the military.
That's certainly not going to help ISIS recruit anything, is it?
No, no way.
Um I'm sorry, you know what?
It's the Marines and the Navy that are both getting rid of it.
It's the Air Force that is keeping airmen.
The Air Force.
I knew one of the one of the branches was holding on to tradition.
But it's the Marines and the Navy both that are eliminating the word man, M-A-N from 19 different job titles.
All of this, while supposedly focusing on actual military matters.
I did tell you long ago that the military is not the place for social experimentation, a social plague, but that's what it's become.
It's what the left has always wanted it to be.
It's exactly what it is, a social laboratory.
United States military, something they control is a call it a test environment.
For some of these silly social policies, they believe a social justice and all of that.
I didn't see what he said, but uh but uh David David, the Axelrod, the guy that ran Obama's came and he's had a statement on this Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton meeting.
So a lot of Democrats are coming out of the woodwork here to uh I think it what it was, it was a tweet, but then the close captioning was on top of it.
So I didn't I wasn't able to see what the quote was attributed to Axelrod.
Here's what I think.
Well, look at that.
Romney is at the Aspen Ideas Festival, too.
You know, Romney's running around talking about how Trump's no good, he can vote for Trump might write in his wife's name.
Anyway, Axelrod, I think what Axelrod said was that these are two people with great integrity.
There would be no way to suspect, but I can see why people might.
I think that's okay.
Axelrod said it was a foolish thing to do, even though both of them are beyond reproach.
Even though both of them clearly couldn't have been anything to see here, it was foolish to do, nevertheless.
Okay, let's say that it was foolish.
They did it anyway.
It must have been important enough to risk it being found out and reported whatever happened in that meeting, it had to be important enough that whatever was going to be said about it, they can figure out they had to do it anyway.
Of course, I'm telling you, if we know it looks bad, they have to know it looks bad, but it's my point, it's important enough for them to do it anyway.
Everybody here knows it looks bad.
That's why Schumer's coming out saying trying to defend it, dingy Harry, now Axel Rod, there will be others on the Democrat side.
Do you wonder?
For you've heard of the phrase uh the appearance of impropriety as a legal phrase.
Do you know why it exists?
Do you know why the appearance of impropriety is a substantive allegation?
It is.
Now the Democrats have bastardized it and they've converted it.
For example, during the Clarence Thomas and Eda Hill hearings, somebody comes up with an absolute worthless baseless charge.
Or even better example.
In 1992, Gary Sick, a professor at Columbia, writes a book claiming that George H.W. Bush was flown to Paris on an itch on an SR-71 Blackbird to meet with representatives of Iran to secure the release of the hostages after the election.
After Ronald Reagan wins, do not release them during the campaign.
That was what H. W. Bush supposedly negotiated with the arena.
There was never any evidence because it didn't happen.
It didn't even come close to happening.
But there's Tom Foley, the Speaker of the House, who said, even though there is no evidence, the seriousness of the charge mandates that we investigate.
And they did.
The House of Representatives, as part of the presidential campaign in 92, endeavored to investigate this charge made by this Columbia professor in a book.
So with the Democrats, the nature of the evidence, which Republican, it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter if there's any evidence or not.
It's the seriousness of the charge, and that's all it takes.
Now, when you turn it around, when the Democrats are involved, the seriousness of the charge is irrelevant.
The appearance of impropriety is irrelevant.
You better damn well have evidence, or we're not doing anything on this.
And that's exactly how it works.
Republicans, you don't need evidence to charge them, you don't need evidence to investigate.
With Democrats, you do.
You can't get away with just an outrageous allegation and cause hell to unfold.
The legal ethics standard is appearance of impropriety because there is an assumption, there is an assumption that people in high positions say at the Department of Justice.
There is a vast assumption, and it's a proper one, that there are ethical people there.
We are not supposed to have to worry about whether there is any impropriety.
Thank you.
That's one of the trusted elements in a trusted institution like the Department of Justice.
The normal everyday belief is that there isn't any impropriety.
Because we're going to have really ethical people in charge.
That's just so.
The rule is, the standard operating rule is that ethical people, by definition, stay out of situations that look bad.
If they're ethical, they don't even go there.
That is why the legal ethics standard is appearance of impropriety.
We're not supposed to have to worry about it if they actually did anything bad because we are to trust the fact that they're ethical.
So when something happens that makes us...
us question that trust, that equals the appearance of impropriety and is justifying an investigation.
And that's where we are.
Because there's clearly an appearance of impropriety.
And with one of these two people, the benefit of the doubt on ethical behavior does not extend.
And that that's to Bill Clinton.
So another very important point to remember here, you might not think it's a big deal.
We wouldn't even know about this if it weren't for a local Phoenix ABC affiliate.
Stop and think about that.
And I don't know how they got onto it.
I don't know whether they have somebody at the airport.
I don't know if they suddenly leak to them.
You know, they might just have a bureau, for lack of a better word, at the airport, just to have somebody on station 24-7 if something happens there.
Airports are areas of terrorist activity, uh, aircraft accidents, any number of things.
So you might have somebody there as a Bureau 24-7.
But aside from that, if that wasn't the case, somebody had to inform them.
But if it weren't for that local affiliate, we wouldn't even know this happened.
We wouldn't have a shred of knowledge about it.
Does the name Gersh Kuntzman ring a bell to anybody?
It shouldn't.
He's a sports writer and columnist for the New York Daily News.
And he has a column in the New York Daily News today.
Major League Baseball must permanently retire.
God bless America, a song that offends everyone.
It's time for God to stop blessing America during the seventh inning stretch by gay or Gersh Kuntzman.
Welcome to the July 4th weekend, when once again baseball fans will be assaulted by the saccharine sweet non-anthem, God bless America at Stadia all over this great land.
But no matter which home team you root for, God bless America should be permanently sent to the bench.
Now don't get me wrong, he says, when Major League Baseball ordered all teams to play the patriotic jingle, he calls it after 9-11.
I didn't immediately object, standing with my fellow fans as one and singing a pean to our country provided catharsis and comfort and shared heartache.
But it wasn't long before heartache became headache.
The Yankees still play it at every game, but most teams, like my beloved Mets, play God Bless America only on Sundays or holidays, but even that is too much.
What would prompt somebody to write a piece like this?
We are on the verge of the Fourth of July weekend.
Okay, say you want to ban it for what it but to describe it as a song that offends everyone.
Saccharin sweet non-anthem, patriotic jingle.
God bless America.
It's just another little bit of evidence to demonstrate to people exactly where the Democrat Party, America's Progressives,
the left, whatever you want to call them, the direction they want to take this country, and how desperately they are to transform it, and how eager they are to erase all of the deep roots of our founding, which give us and our country its genuine identity and meaning.
Back to the phones we go.
This is uh where we're going on the phones, where are we going?
Give me a line.
Where are we going?
I see.
Well, okay, let's see.
This is All right, Vanessa in Vernon, Connecticut.
I was reviewing the various lines here, folks.
Stay on topic here.
Vanessa High, how are you?
Okay, there's nobody there.
Obviously, give me somebody else.
Let's try Ron in Grand Junction, Colorado.
Hello and welcome.
Great to have you here.
Hey, Rush.
Thanks for having me on.
Thank you.
You bet.
You're awesome.
Hey, I I sort of think that maybe there was nothing really said at that meeting.
It was just I think Bill was letting Loretta Lynch off the hook.
I I couldn't imagine wanting to make a decision to move forward against the Clintons on this indictment.
So did he just kind of maybe let her off the hook?
Well, if if if he can't imagine, if you can't imagine any going forward, there's no indictment.
Why would he have it?
Why have to have a meeting to thank her?
Why why why would he have to have a meeting at all with her?
Well, I was sort of thinking that that the FBI is probably getting ready to recommend and go against the Clintons.
And I just think that she doesn't want to be put in that position of you know, kind of between her integrity and the uh power of the Clintons and the president.
Okay, I'm losing you here.
You're saying Clinton gave her a pass, telling her Well, I'm just thinking that if the FBI recommends charges, Loretta Lynch doesn't want to have to make that call.
So I think by doing something that looks sketchy, she can step back from it and say, because I had this meeting.
Oh, you're thinking she's gonna recuse herself?
Exactly.
Yeah.
I don't I don't think she wants to make that call.
It's not okay.
Let's process this.
Let's press, even though we're told by by virtue of the way the story has been reported, and that's of course we can't count on anything anymore in the media.
The story is that Clinton wanted the meeting, that Clinton found out she was in Phoenix.
Hey, you know, I'm on my way out of here.
She landing?
We're told that he was told that she was arriving soon.
He wanted to go meet her.
So if that's the case, uh your theory doesn't hold up.
But your theory in and of itself that she knows that Comey is going to recommend an indictment.
She doesn't want to go anywhere there.
So the best way to get out of it is to have a meeting with Clinton that is uncovered, making it necessary for her to recuse herself.
Possibly.
Here's the Axelrod tweet, by the way.
I take them at their word that the Justice Department's probe into Hillary's email server did not come up, but foolish to create such optics.
Okay, but they're not fools.
See, this is the point, folks.
They're not fools.
They had to know that if this were uncovered, this would be the normal reaction to have.
They had to know that.
So, who benefits here?
Who benefits from public knowledge, public awareness of a meeting between Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch?
Who benefits from this?
Because there has to be a benefit for this to happen.
Because they're not fools.
Axelrod says, foolish to create such optics, but they did.
Now, they may be leftists, but they are not fools.
They may think they're untouchable.
They may be so arrogant as to think they could get away with they're not fools.
Okay, so one theory is she wants a reason to recuse herself.
I need to ask a legal beagle expert of mine a question.
I mean, you have quite an assumption in your point that Comey is going to recommend an indictment, that the FBI is gonna recommend an indictment.
Can she not head that off?
Can she say to Comey, look, don't waste your time.
It's not happening.
Remember who we're talking about here.
Now the Wild card in that is Comey.
Comey is Mr. Law and Order.
Comey has this reputation of strict by the book law and order stuff.
Nonpartisan guy.
So if she were to say something like that to him, hey, look, Jim, great work, but sorry, don't even present because we're not, we're not gonna do anything.
Would he stay quiet on that?
Or he go public?
I don't know.
Would that be a risk for her to do that?
Sounds extraordinary.
Sounds like no way Jose would anything like that happen.
But remember who we're talking about here.
We always, people always forget who we're talking about.
Bill Clinton, we are talking about the Obama administration, which Constitution, when they don't want it to exist, it doesn't.
Nothing is out of the realm of possibility.
But I'm still drawn to this Axelrod tweet.
I take them at their word.
That the Justice Department's probe into Hillary Clinton's email server.
Note that he got that out there.
I mean, he he's providing details of what this is all about.
That's not necessary, but he did it.
I'm sure that did not come up, but it was foolish to create such uh optics.
But they did.
You're said, but Rush, nobody would have known if it weren't for that ABC affiliate, like you're saying.
I know, I know, but believe me, when you do this, you always assume people are gonna find out.
Something like this.
You always assume that.
Alright, so I got some snarky emails for a comment that I made not long ago.
About a half hour ago, I made mention that we were witnessing history, the Secretary of Defense announcing the lifting of the ban on transgenders in the U.S. military.
And I said this is all so that we, U.S. taxpayers, now have the privilege of paying for their sex change operations.
And I got these snark emails.
You just you don't know that's well not what it's about.
How dare you?
Everything you can imagine.
Words I can't repeat here.
Well, let's go to audio sound by 24.
After the press conference is a QA, a reporter and Secretary Carter had this little exchange.
Someone who is already in the military, if if he is he or she is deemed uh medically uh if sex change surgery is deemed medically necessary, the military will pay for it.
That's correct.
So one day I rest my case.
I'm telling you, you people don't doubt me here.
I don't care, you leftists.
When I nail it, you're obviously gonna be offended.
A little lesson for you leftists going forward.
The more offended you are, the more correct I am.
That will be a good rule of thumb for you.
It's just don't doubt me.
So if I say something here and you're a leftist and you get offended and righteously indignant and outraged, you should now take that to mean I'm right.
Otherwise you wouldn't get so ticked off.
The reason you get ticked off is because I'm right about it.
I spent this is exactly what this is partially about, paying for sex change operations.
And I don't just pluck these things out of the air.
I remember.
I have a great memory, almost as good as Trump's.
And I remember what they did out in San Francisco as part of the city health care plan.
What do you think the atacticomy procedure came from?
City of San Francisco now pays for sex change operations for members of the city administration and city employees.
Look at Bradley Manning, who's now Chelsea Manning.
Don't doubt me.
Why would the question even be asked?
Of all the questions that you could ask, here the Secretary of Defense has just announced lifting the ban on transgender people in the Military.
And the question that somebody comes up with is well, if somebody who is already in the military, oh he or she is deemed medically if sex chain surgery is deemed medically necessary, the military would pay for it.
That's correct.
That's one of the first questions the Secretary of Defense was asked.
What do you think this is about?
Creating a new group of warriors.
You know what?
We've got to get to audio soundbite number one.
Uh because Obama went on a tirade yesterday on populism and national.
He won a tirade on everything that is Trump, but he never mentioned Trump's name.
And Jake Tamper over at CNN reporting on this described this as Trump living rent free in Obama's brain.
Another phrase popularized on this program now is entering the mainstream media lexicon.
Here's Jake Tapper describing this.
This kicks it off.
It is one of the grandest ironies of this political year is that a giant real estate developer in New York is currently living rent-free in President Obama's head.
Whatever the topic is, President Obama is eager to go after the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, whether the topic is ISIS after the Orlando shootings, or the topic is trade, or in this case, the question was about clean energy, and President Obama wanted to give a lesson as to what populism truly is.
Yes, we did invent it here because that's where I live too.
I live rent-free in the Clinton's brains and have been since the early 1990s.
We popularized the phrase here.
So anyway, uh I I guess Obama had a a summit meeting there.
He was in Ottawa.
He had the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the Mexican president Enrique Peñanieto.
And these people are called by the media, the three amigos.
Not me.
You know who the original three amigos were?
Three wide receivers, Denver Broncos back during the John Elway era.
Their names escape me at the moment, but that's my first.
There might be some movie Three Amigos way back.
I don't remember, but that's my first awareness of somebody group of people being called three amigos.
And then anyway, that's Obama and these two guys are called three amigos.
And their summit.
And uh we have a a montage here.
Trump obsessed media.
First question after they made their perfunctor remarks after their summit.
Each of the three amigos, the first question to each of them was about Trump.
One of the candidates who wants to replace President Obama has already said he wants to renegotiate NAFTA.
You seem to be quite careful when you talk about Mr. Trump.
So the first three questions, those are the first questions each of the three amigos got it about Trump.
So first, we now go to President Obama who's obsessed with Trump.
He's obsessed with Trump and what Trump might do to unravel whatever great things Obama's done.
So he goes on a rant here about immigration and populism.
A reporter says, President Obama, I'd like to ask you how the election process is going in the U.S. There's a an anti-immigrant anti-Mexican rhetoric by Donald Trump.
And I'd like to ask you, did you address this issue during your meeting with the two other amigos?
And how can you bring sense the agreements that you have described and the positive outcomes of your trilateral relationship?
Unless you are a Native American, somebody somewhere in your past showed up from someplace else.
And they didn't always have papers.
We've had times throughout our history where anti-immigration sentiment is exploited by demagogues.
It was directed at the Irish, it was directed at Poles and Italians.
They're different, they're not gonna fit, they won't assimilate, they bring crime.
Guess what?
They kept coming.
And they kept coming because America offered possibility for their children and their grandchildren.
And even if they were initially discriminated against, they understood that our system will over time allow them to become part of this one American family.
What is this unless you are a Native American, somebody somewhere in your past showed up from somewhere else.
I know what it means.
I know he's saying every one of you white people here was an illegal immigrant that came here and stole everything here from the Native Americans, but that's not factually correct.
They came here from somewhere else too.
They weren't born here.
They came over across the Aleutians and down Canada and so forth.
They displaced some people over here.
The Vikings got here before the uh Native Americans did and decided there was nothing here.
What do you doubt me on this?
You don't like you don't think the Vikings got here before the Native Americans?
That's not what they told you in school.
They told you that the Native Americans were the only stuff.
At one with the land at one with nature, they told you they were the only ones ever here.
You were taught that the Native Americans were the only ones who had ever been here until white guys but but what the Vikings did not steal their land, the Vikings came and left.
Now the white guys that came and showed up were the Christopher Columbus gang and the people that came after him, that's who we're talking about when you're talking about the white guys.
They brought the horses, they brought syphilis, they brought homophobia, they brought sexism, they brought climate change.
It's Christopher Columbus and his uh his gang.
The Vikings showed up.
And they went to Minnesota and they said, you know, it gets too hot here in the summer and left.
Okay.
But look, Obama wasn't through.
He kept on going with this rant against Trump and immigration and all.
I'm not prepared to concede the notion that some of the rhetoric that's been popping up is populist.
When I ran in 2008, and the reason I ran again, and the reason even after I leave this office, I will continue to work in some capacity in public service, is because I care about people, and I want to make sure every kid in America has the same opportunities that I had.
You really care about poor people who are working really hard and don't have a chance to advance.
And I care about workers being able to have a collective voice in the workplace and get their fair share of the pie.
I suppose that makes me a populist.
Wrong, oh, big guy.
You haven't even gotten close to describing populism.
You have described Uber socialism here.
But this this whole notion I care about people.
They get away with this.
The left, the Democrats, liberals get away with this, that they're the only ones with compassion.
And just look around you.
Are any of their constituent groups happy?
Have they ever gotten close to the promised utopia?
If you ask me, every Democrat constituent group is angrier today than they were when Obama was immaculated eight years ago.
Or seven and a half, whatever it is.
I mean, there's genuine rage out there, and it's the lift that's fit to be tied.
There certainly isn't any cheerfulness, there's certainly in any happiness, there's certainly in any laughter out there, even leftist comedians are ticked off and enraged.
And I guess you know, Obama, social justice is what populism is.
He doesn't even know what populism is.
All he knows is I'll tell you what he knows.
I think what he's obviously, I maybe try to figure it out.
He's scared.
These people are all scared of Trump.
If Trump's this boob that doesn't have a chance, if Trump is this charlatan that has no idea what he's doing and has no idea how to run a camp, why in the world are they so worried?
We'll be right back, folks.
Don't go away here.
The Denver Broncos' three amigos, Vance Johnson and Mark Jackson, and Ricky Nateal.
Those are the three amigo wide receivers for LA back in the eighties?
Let's say 1980s probably.
Mark in uh Big Lake, Minnesota.
Great to have you, sir.
You're next.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
Uh, I have a different theory about why Bill Clinton requested that meeting with Loretta Lynch.
I think he went there to beg her to indict.
Think about it.
Think about it.
If you're married to Hillary, wouldn't you want her to go away for 10 to 20?
You know, I think you're you're you're you're funny.
Your call is is uproariously funny and intriguingly attractive as a theory.
But I think people don't understand the Clinton relationship.
Um Bill's got everything in the world he could possibly want.
He's got a wife that covers for him when he cheats.
He's got a wife that tries to destroy the concubines, not him.
He's got a wife who has perfected making a quarter million dollars for 20 minute speech.
He has a wife who is as obsessed about money as he is.
He has a wife who is as obsessed ideologically as he is.
He has all the freedom in the world.
He can fly around the world on a pedophile-owned jet.
And he has it with impunity.
He can go play golf anywhere he wants.
He can stay at home at Chappaqua and have the women come to him.
He can pal around with anybody.
He's got this foundation and this uh charitable organization that has netted these people influence and hundreds of millions of dollars.
And now he's about to be vaulted back into the White House with no responsibilities once he gets there.
I don't think he has any desire to be rid of Hillary Clinton.
There's no need to.
Folks, we will be here tomorrow.
A lot of lesser people take the day off and score an extra weekend day, but not us.
We're gonna be here.
So you be here.
Open line Friday.
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