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July 1, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 1, 2016, Friday, Hour #3
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Here's that story.
I just want to do this quick.
I've got other things besides Loretta Lynch and stuff I want to get to, but I got one more point about that.
But I mentioned to our 12-year-old caller James that I was reading my tech blogs, and they've got uh this story, it's almost definitely too late to save our planet from catastrophic climate change.
This is a tech blog that's made up of college-educated uh tech journalists.
This story is actually from a new report from Nature Magazine, despite the renewed zeal of the world's leaders to limit the impact of climate change.
It might already be too late.
Now, I don't know if these young kids at this blog know this, but over the course of the 27 years we've been doing this program, this story's run at least ten times that it's too late.
It's too late to fix it.
So the point is why do anything?
But this is not new.
They just keep recycling this stuff.
These kids are seeing it for the first time, and they're panicking.
These young journalists and the lefties, tech bloggers, and a whole lot of buy this stuff, hook, line, and sinker.
This is one of the reasons they vote Democrat.
They really believe the world as we know it is over.
They really believe this stuff, folks.
That's why they're so despondent.
That's why the millennial generation is the first to come along in a long time that does not have an overly optimistic view of their country in the future.
They've been taught this their whole lives, their parents, their schools.
They've been taught every apocalyptic extremist theory there is, and they believe it.
Now, this story actually comes from nature.
Despite the renewed zeal of the world's leaders to limit the impact of climate change, it might already be too late.
Might already be.
Like everything else in this story, nobody knows.
It's just panic-oriented headlines and lead sentences.
The window for limiting warming to below one and a half degrees Celsius with high probability and without temporarily exceeding that level already seems to have closed.
So as far as these kids are concerned, we've blown it.
It's over.
We cannot stop the rise in temperatures beyond one and a half degrees centigrade over the next hundred years, it means.
And there's a picture accompanying this.
And it's a lone polar bear standing on about a five square foot ice floe in a melting body of water.
This picture of ice, this piece of ice is the biggest piece of ice in this giant picture with a great horizon of mountains and so forth.
and the polar bear looks forlorn and near death.
But we know that the polar bear population is bigger than ever, and that the ice is not melding.
The picture's a fraud, just like the picture in Al Gore's movie depicting the same thing was a fraud.
And they reject it.
They reject the evidence that what they believe is wrong.
They reject it out of hand.
They believe the apocalypse.
They believe the doom and gloom.
They believe you can't persuade them otherwise.
Dr. Spencer, our official climatologist here, Dr. Roy Spencer, University of Alabama Huntsville, on his blog has just reported that they just measured the second fastest temperature drop in the 38-year satellite record.
The the fastest second fastest temperature drop in 38 years.
And Roy, at the beginning of this year, on his own blog, predicted that 2016 was going to be a very hot year.
And he's had to revise it now because of this overwhelmingly rapid temperature drop.
I don't know.
I'm I'm I'm worn out on this.
This has been a 27-year topic, if you will, on this program.
And it is frustrating to deal with with this.
The psychology of it more than anything else.
The human tendency, the human, it's almost the natural inclination of human beings to believe the worst.
That takes no effort whatsoever.
Pessimism is easy.
Optimism is hard.
Even when optimism is true.
Even when you can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt the apocalyptic news you believe is wrong, it doesn't phase people.
You couple that with the story we have here on universities not teaching American history.
It's work is cut out for us.
It's never, it's never going to end.
Now, one more thing on Lynch and Clinton and Obama.
And then there's some other things that I want to get to here, particularly Trump in trouble here because he made a joke about a Mexican airplane flying over one of his rallies.
This is hilarious.
Trying to get Trump on a phony charity purchase, too, trying to claim he violated IRS laws.
So we'll get to all that here in just a second.
But I want to go back because there are a lot of things in conflict here.
I will admit, if you're confused even by some of the things that I've said, I wouldn't blame you.
Because over the course of this whole Hillary email story, there are many components.
And one of the components is that the news has just kept drip drip dripping out.
And with each drip drip drip, it arguably looks bad and then worse for Hillary.
And I have made the point to you several times that Obama is responsible for this.
That Obama is in charge of this drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, that Obama, by allowing this investigation to drag on, is actually permitting this taint to Hillary Clinton's image.
And then you've heard me say other times, including today, that in my view, there is no way the Democrat Party is going to sit idly by and take out its own presidential nominee.
And I believe that too.
I cannot imagine they run the DOJ, they run the executive branch, they run everything.
They're in charge of it, and they want the power.
Loretta Lynch not recusing herself is evidence that rules and ethics don't matter to these people.
Andy McCarthy's right.
She should recuse herself the second this meeting was discovered.
She should have recused herself because she took the meeting, whether it was discovered or not.
If ethics and rules mattered, she should recuse herself from this case right now.
There should not be any appearance of impropriety anywhere in this case.
There should not be any appearance of impropriety in anything run by the DOJ.
It's supposed to be colorblind by definition and by design.
And we know, you know as well as I do, the Democrat Party seeks this power to use it to advance their agenda.
They want the reins of power.
They want government to use it to destroy their enemies, to advance their agenda.
There's nothing about protecting and defending the Constitution per se in the way they go about things.
Unless and extend it it can be helpful to them.
And that's a that's a stark difference between us and them.
We do not want to use government to destroy anybody.
We don't want to use government to imprison our enemies or anything of the sort.
We want to de-emphasize it.
We want to take it and make it smaller.
We want to get it out of people's way.
They're just the opposite.
They complain that the Constitution limits them too much.
Well, now we've elected somebody who doesn't care if he goes outside it in order to govern and to implement his agenda.
So in that context, why would they sit idly by and let an FBI director who may not be one of them actually conduct an investigation that could damage their presidential nominee?
It just doesn't make any sense.
Well, let me tell you who that doesn't make sense to as well.
Well, Bill and Hillary Clinton.
This whole thing, folks, has so many tentacles.
There are so many intricate webs of deceit in this entire Clinton email story that it is difficult to unravel all of this and find out what is really going on because I'm going to share some thoughts with you that will contradict directly contradict some of the things I've already said today that I also firmly believe.
But I believe these things are possible too.
If you put yourself in the shoes of Bill and Hillary Clinton, and this email story is going on out there, and it's going on, and it's going on, and it's going on.
And it never ends.
And in fact, there are leaks weekly that make it look even worse for Hillary.
New emails discovered.
New testimony about emails.
Her IT guy taken the fifth 125 times.
The news isn't going away.
The story isn't going away.
It's being amplified.
Now, if you're standing where Bill and Hillary are, you've got to be livid over this because you know that your president, Barack Obama, fellow Democrat, could shut this down any time he wanted to.
He could end this.
He could have ended it years ago.
He could end it yesterday.
He could have ended it last week.
And he doesn't.
And they have to be fuming over this.
Now Clinton himself is being investigated by Obama's DOJ on the Clinton Foundation.
They've got to be livid.
Because they know how this party works.
They know how this party uses power when they have it.
They could shut this down and make it go away.
Obama could anytime he wants, and he hasn't.
Now they're probably pretty sure that Obama's not going to do anything that's going to result in her being indicted.
But they've got to be livid, he allows it to keep dribbling on like this.
I'm just trying to put myself in their shoes.
And use my psychological understanding of the Clintons and liberals to try to get a handle on this.
Because the truth of the matter is, given who we are talking about, this whole thing could have been swept under the rug, could have been ended any time Barack Obama decided to.
He could have stopped the DOJ and the FBI from even investigating.
He is that power.
He runs the executive branch.
He could have called over there.
He could have sent a message.
He got a good message to Cole.
Shut it down.
You are not investigating this.
It's over.
He would have had to put up with a miffed Comey.
He might have had to put up with Comey going out there and doing a press conference talking about, but so what?
Nothing hurts Obama.
Nothing taints him.
He's at 53% approval.
The Republican Party doesn't exist as an opposition party.
So let Comey complain.
If he wanted to shut this down, he could have.
And if he did, he would have had a three-day story.
Three or four-day story.
If he shuts down the investigation, if he tells Comey to bag it, Comey makes a big deal of resigning, goes out, does some Sunday show appearances, but it's over in three days.
The media is going to be harsher to Comey than to Obama.
The media is always going to be on Obama's side, no matter what he does.
So it's a three-day story and it's over.
And Obama's not up for re-election anyway, so it doesn't matter.
And you know the Clintons have to be thinking this way too.
So Obama could have halted the investigation, even if he didn't want to do it that way.
There's another way.
He could pardon her.
He could pardon her in advance.
He could announce the pardon in a way that makes it look like this whole thing is ridiculous, but it's distracting everybody from the serious business of the country, and he's issuing a pardon.
And you're thinking, oh rush, that'd be depth.
No, that'd be the biggest pep rally for the left that you could imagine.
You realize how popular he would be with the left.
His approval numbers would zoom to 60.
The Clintons would be beholden to him for the rest of his life and theirs.
And it would be over.
And all he would have to do is put up with shows like this one complaining about it, which he has to put up with every day anyway.
There's any number of ways.
My point is any number of ways he could have ended this with no damage to himself.
And forget the legacy, too, because the media that loves him today is going to write the immediate legacy, the so-called history books.
And history isn't taught anymore anyway, so big deal.
You know, he could go out there and say, I've reviewed the emails, the so-called classified information, and there's nothing there.
I've looked at it.
There's nothing in those emails that violates our values.
There's nothing in Hillary's emails that takes us away from who we are.
Whatever he would say.
He'd go on and say, what is important is that we have an administration that can look forward and continue to govern and not be tied up and hamstrung in a silly partisan dispute.
And I'm ending it today.
Anything like that that he wants.
The media would applaud the Democrats would love it.
His approval numbers are doomed to 60% of the Democrat side.
The Clintons would owe him.
The Republicans would be fuming and on television talking about this or that, but that's all they'd be doing is talking.
There wouldn't be any impeachment hearings.
They've already promised they're not going to do any of that.
It would have been easy for him to do this.
But here's the key to all this.
Whether you disagree with the specifics of how Obama could have ended it, the fact remains that Bill and Hillary Clinton have to know that this decision, This cloud of scandal is hanging over their heads every day.
And the clouds are getting darker and darker every day because Barack Obama is allowing it to.
Remember, Bill Clinton was once president.
He had Janet Reno out there threatening banks that if they didn't make loans to people who couldn't pay them back, they're going to be investigated.
Clinton knows how this is done.
He knows the power of an ex-president over the DOJ over the attorney general, especially one that's a sycophant.
He knows exactly.
And he knows Obama could do it if he wanted to.
And he knows Obama's not doing it.
But Obama's doing it everywhere else.
Obama's bending the law for his own benefit, be it executive action on immigration or whatever else, but he's not doing it to help Hillary.
He's not doing it to help the Clintons.
He could have ended it at any point.
The Clintons know this.
There has to be bad blood here.
I'm just saying.
You look at Fast and Furious.
Did you hear about the news about Fast and Furious?
There's there's one of the one of the weapons.
In the Paris jihad attack, one of those, a couple of the weapons, a couple, might have actually a link to Fast and Furious.
Those guns might have come from a Phoenix gun store that was part of the fast and furious operation at Mexican cartel drug lords had.
That story was out there a couple.
That story has gotten no traction whatsoever.
We've barely heard anything about Fast and Furious anyway.
Now there's a story in the last couple of days.
There might be a fast and furious link to the Paris jihad attack in sort of the weapons.
Nothing's happened on that.
My point is that when they want to bury a scandal, they can bury a scandal.
The media helps them.
They not burying the Hillary.
Scandal in the Clintons have to be ticked as hell.
Open line Friday and back to the phones we go.
This is Mike in Elizabeth, Kentucky.
Welcome.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Hi.
Thank you, Rush.
Mega retired Army duddos from a 25-year listener.
Thank you, sir, for your service.
You're more than welcome, sir.
It was a privilege.
You know, I've tried to call you hundreds of times over the years and finally got through today.
Many of the things I want to talk to you about, you've already covered today, but specifically with Mr. Snerdley.
He wanted me to talk about How we have underestimated the Obama administration and especially the attorneys general under him this whole time.
Look at everything they have gotten away with.
You mentioned it a while ago reference.
Well, yeah, I mean, the the this this administration has totally politicized the DOJ as a weapon.
The IRS has become a weapon, a DOJ.
They're using it as a weapon to implement their agenda and thwart their enemies.
There's no question about it.
Yes, sir.
And just, you know, you named Fast and Furious a while ago, the uh Affordable Care Act, all his executive orders he signed.
Evidently, the Republican leadership is not smart enough to catch him on any of this.
No, it's not that.
They get it.
They just don't want to.
It's too hard.
It's brought with too much danger.
That's right, my friends.
Open line Friday, serving humanity, L. Rushbow with talent on loan.
From God.
And here is Mark in Dover, North Carolina.
Greetings, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Hi.
Greetings, sir.
Thank you so much for taking my call.
I'm a five-year Air Force veteran, and I got out in 2008, thank goodness, before this current commander-in-chief.
And uh I wanted to ask you about the stories.
I don't know if you've heard about them, uh, two active duty enlisted Air Force members who have uh both gone against what the DOD story had been about not having the assets to send to help in Benghazi during the attack.
Oh, we had we had assets to send.
We had eight hours to get there.
We had the the the last uh there were four people that died.
The last two, it was eight hours that they were able to hold on, I think after this attack began.
We had we had people in uh tripoli, we had people over in Italy, we had drones, we had any number, there was we weren't gonna do it.
And I'm uh look, it is it has since been discovered, Mark, that there are two excuses offered.
We didn't want to offend the Libyans by virtue of sending armed military forces in because we just liberated the place, theoretically.
Hillary Clinton's grand strategy of getting rid of Moamar Kadhafi.
Libya was supposed to be this new haven, new location peaceful, and the uh population was supposed to be ecstatically happy and approving of the United States, and to send in an armed military force to put down some remember protests because of a video.
Why, that would not have looked good.
So they they they didn't want to, these are almost exact words, did not want to offend the Libyans.
Um, and they didn't want to ask permission, and so forth.
They're just and Obama had an election coming up in 56 days, and they're there they weren't gonna take a chance.
The decision was made at the outset of this thing that whatever happens, we we're gonna downplay this.
It was this that's why this is so stinky.
It's why this is so horrible.
I I still don't think people have gotten their arms around this.
The United States government let four people die.
You never leave people behind.
That's one that's a U.S. motto throughout the armed forces.
You never leave people behind.
Then the second thing.
Stop and think of this.
Just you know, we're bombarded so much every day with stories of government excess and abuse that admittedly they begin to dull the senses, and after a while, what used to be a major big deal so m isn't so much anymore.
We actually arrested an innocent, Totally buffoonish, innocent filmmaker, and put him in jail to carry out this lie that some outrageous video was responsible for a protest in Benghazi.
They tried to tell us it wasn't a protest, or that it was just a protest.
It wasn't terrorism.
It wasn't a plan to say, even though he knew it was.
They knew that night it was.
They knew before it happened it was likely to be.
They lied to their teeth to everybody but this video.
And to carry out that lie, they arrested and put in jail a totally flummoxed, scared and intimidated American citizen to carry out this illusion.
That doesn't happen except in banana republics.
You know what this country's become?
I've been trying to think of a way to describe it.
My last little uh riff on the Obamas and Clintons and how much hatred there must be there on the Clinton side.
They they know Obama could shut this down.
But stop and think of that.
We're all sitting here agreeing that we have such an abuse of power president that he could stop due process any time he wants to.
We readily acknowledge it.
We readily admit that we've got a guy as president who would stop due process with a snap of his fingers if he wanted to, because he's done it any number of times.
In this case, he's choosing not to.
These people are playing in a different league, folks.
And what's different is we still have the freedom to sit here on the radio and TV, analyze it and talk about it every day.
I almost feel like for now, I almost feel like I'm in Game of Thrones with a radio talk show to talk about the Lannisters and how they're polluting Westeros and getting away with it.
Well, but it this is we are we are so far beyond what was envisioned for this country by the founders.
This is not at all.
But it's a slow build of all of these abuses.
It's like it's like perversion.
It's like uh 50 years ago, you you you you couldn't show a couple, a married couple sleeping in the same bed.
You had to have separate beds.
And then uh when that changed after you could do that for a while, but you couldn't show them having any kind of relationship whatsoever.
And then a couple years later, then you could.
You could show them kissing in bed in their pajamas.
Then someday they could be nude, and then it got to the point where you can now say piss on the radio, and nobody bats an eye.
And you can have two guys naked in the bed, and it gets an award.
So point is if all this stuff had happened overnight from the Danny Thomas days, you would have a revolt.
Oh my God, but it happens gradually.
So they keep moving the line, you know, where some people have as a uh part of part of their media strategy, outrageousness.
Like George Carlin, seven words you can't say.
You can say them now.
But it's happened so gradually that with each new acceptance, like Moynihan defining deviancy down, you finally figure out you can't stop this kind of crime, so you say it's normal.
So we don't pursue it anymore.
And we just keep defining all this deviancy down, and people that stake out as their career being outrageous, they have to get more and more outrageous every year in order to be noticed or heard because the line that defines outrageous moving.
Was the same thing with government, an abuse of power.
He's talking about thinking what this Benghazi thing really is.
And look at how people sneer at you and laugh at you.
And so I actually watched on Fox News the other night.
It was the all-star panel.
I don't remember who it was, but some guy, some newspaper writer, I think, was saying, I still don't think there's anything to see here in Benghazi.
I still don't know what the scandal is, but I'll answer your question anyway.
Uh Mr. Baer and so forth.
I'm looking at this.
And here's a guy in the drive-by media who doesn't see anything noteworthy.
There's nothing newsworthy.
There certainly isn't anything that rises to the level of even being a campaign issue in what happened in Benghazi.
And four Americans are dead.
And an administration admittedly lied to the world and to the country for months about the cause.
And this guy says, I don't see what the big deal is.
I just I don't think there's scandal here.
But I'll answer your question anyway.
Well, I don't care how you how you roll, this is huge.
This is major scand.
Just the lying itself.
Such a tremendous lie.
Such a this is not a little white lie like Bill Clinton.
I never had sex with that woman, not a single.
Four Americans are dead here.
The administration knowingly lying about it all, including to the families of the four dead, in order to protect political careers.
No, I'm not saying that hasn't happened before.
I'm just saying the fact that it doesn't even register with people shows you how far gone we are.
Here's uh here's Christopher in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Christopher, I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
I need your advice today.
I um began a PhD program this fall in Old Testament Hebrew.
And I'm looking to buy a new computer before I start.
And because of the software that we use.
And I'm not sure if I should buy one now.
Or if I should wait till the spring, the early 2017, when they typically make changes to the Apple model.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Mainly I'm worried about the charger.
Because I know that they changed the charger for the MacBooks, and I'm worried if I buy a new MacBook Pro now.
The cable, yeah.
Right.
What do you have now?
What are you using now?
You're gonna laugh at me if I tell you.
No, I won't.
I have an early 2011 13-inch MacBook Pro.
A 2011.
That's a great machine.
Is it is in fact the 2011, is it 13 or 15 inch?
13-inch MacBook.
That's one of the greatest computers they ever made.
It's not a retina screen, right?
It's uh there's just a lot of optical CD drive in it.
Yes, sir.
Yeah, that's one of their still top-selling computers.
Because of the price.
And and people somehow still they still want a DVD DVD drive in it.
Here's all I know.
The MacBook Pro line, and this is all rumor.
Nobody knows.
Okay.
The MacBook Pro line is supposed to be refreshed toward the by the end of the year.
And uh you can probably count on the fact that they're gonna use USB C instead of the current mag safe like you have on your 13-inch.
So they will probably change cables and charging mechanisms and so forth.
Um but if you're not thinking of buying a new computer until the first quarter of next year anyway, I'd wait.
You think I should well I I can the problem I have is my my mem my processor is a 2.3 and has the core F5.
And so it's beginning to run really slow, especially with some of the language software that I have to use.
I know.
But but but you said you weren't thinking of of upgrading until early next year, or you what are you thinking of upgrading like the next couple of months?
I I had thought about upgrading before school starts, but I'd hate to spend the money and then Well, look, I I you if you went out and bought the current 13 or 15-inch MacBook Pro, you're gonna have just within its own standalone universe, one heck of a machine.
You're gonna have a you're gonna have a great processor, you're gonna have if you want a discrete graphics card, depends on how you want to outfit it, how much you want to pay.
There's always going to be a new computer coming, and there's always gonna be a faster processor coming, and there's always gonna be technology, no matter when you buy.
Right.
The thing is, if it's coming next month, yeah, wait.
If it's coming in two months, wait, but it's not coming for six or seven months, and nobody even knows it's all rumor, and your need is immediate.
And I'm sure Apple would work with you on a trade in at some point if you really wanted to work.
I'm not I'm not giving away policy.
I'm just saying you can trade these things in or sell them and And upgrade whenever you want.
I don't know what kind of you not get full value when you sell, but upgrading is um they're they're they're trying to make that easier with the phones anyway, and I'm sure with their computers as well.
But I at the end of the day, since you don't know when this new one's coming, it's just a rumor, and you know it has to be.
It has to be soon.
They haven't refreshed them in a year, so you know it's coming at some point.
And the the odds are based on the way Apple rolls out new products, it'll be in the fourth quarter.
So uh if you want the latest greatest and you can wait six months instead of two, do it.
If you need it right now, and you can't wait, then go get what they have now.
It's absolutely fabulous.
I know it's not.
Thank you very much.
I just, you know, the the frustrating part is they always upgrade it so quickly.
And they're and then every time I get a new computer, a new one.
Wait a minute.
On the Mac line, it's not as fast as it is on the on the iPad and phone.
I mean, the upgrades are a little slower because they're they're prisoners to Intel and how fast Intel can upgrade the processors, which is a whole nother thing Apple might do on their own someday.
But they really are, and Intel just announced that they're slowing down their upgrade process on processors anyway, so um I'm hesitant to tell you what to do.
That's that's the data that I would have.
I always uh myself, I always I always wait.
When I think I'm within six months or three months, I wait for what I think is coming.
Even if it's just based on a rumor.
I have I wait and wait for the upgrade.
If I can deal with what I have now for six more months, I do.
I gotta run.
I'm way long here.
Since since we had a call on Apple, I've got to share with you, I'm I'm getting more than usual number of emails from people who know that I uh occasionally install Apple beta software on the iPhone software.
And people are asking me, it's really strange too, uh, why I think there's been so much time since the first beta, because usually after in two weeks, beta two comes along.
I don't know why people are asking me.
I don't talk about it that much, but I'll give you my theory since I'm getting so many emails.
I actually think that the first beta combined beta one and beta two, because this beta has excellent battery life.
Usually first beta's don't.
This first beta is pretty solid.
Uh not like usual first betas.
For some reason I combined them.
I think beta two comes July 5.
I'll just predict it.
I'll just make a prediction or we'll find out next week.
Um see, do we have I don't have enough time.
Um we have let's yeah, let's do.
Let's uh see if we can call him back next Tuesday.
Make make a reminder note.
We have a we have another rush revere caller.
No, it wouldn't have mattered, even if I hadn't talked Apple stuff, it wouldn't have mattered.
I still wouldn't have time.
I can anticipate the snark from you people out there now about this.
I still wouldn't have had time.
Because it's it would have only what 30 seconds, and that was still wouldn't have been time to be fair with the call.
So let me just wish you happy Independence Day.
Remember the Hillsdale College request.
Print out the Declaration of Independence.
And at some point when your family is together this weekend, read it out loud.
You might think, oh, that's corny.
That's no, it's not.
Not when you realize it isn't being taught anymore, not when you realize how so many people do not even know this weekend why we're celebrating what it's all read it out loud with your family.
It will have an impact.
Have a great weekend, folks.
I probably shouldn't have predicted July 5th, because they'll hear about it and do it a different day, just so I won't be right.
So I'm gonna withdraw my prediction and say, I have no idea when the next one is coming.
Just be patient.
It's gotta come sometime.
In the meantime, happy independence weekend.
We got a best stuff show Monday.
We'll be right back here on Tuesday.
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