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July 11, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 11, 2016, Monday, Hour #2
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No, no, I've actually had people.
I have had professionals tell me that what my grandmother did with me and making me afraid of the police was a bad, bad, bad thing to do.
And I asked them, well, then why don't I hate cops if that's the case?
Yeah, maybe.
Okay, let me explain this again.
Greetings and welcome back.
Rushland Baugh here at 800-282-2882, the email address, illrushbo at EIBNet.com.
In the first hour of the program, if you're a welfare recipient, just getting up, just turning on the radio, I don't want you to miss this.
We had some discussions about all this that's happening in the country.
And I happened to mention that my father was pulled up when I was eight or nine years old.
And we were driving through Arkansas on the way back home in Missouri.
We got stopped.
It was nighttime.
And I'm in the back seat with my brother, my dad and mom up in the front seat.
And I never, I mean, I didn't get a good look at the trooper, but it was an Arkansas highway patrolman.
And my dad, everything he said was yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
He never once argued.
He didn't dispute anything.
I don't remember what happened.
I don't remember why we were stopped.
I just asked my dad, why did all you say was yes, sir?
And he said, ser them out, son.
Whenever you're stopped, he added, they're all wives' tales.
I've also heard this about Oklahoma when I was driving to California.
Get this.
I'm driving to California on my way to Sacramento.
It's 1984.
And it's wintertime.
So I'm taking the southern route to avoid snowstorms, which didn't work because when I got to flagstaff, I got snowed.
Anyway, be careful going through Oklahoma.
If they pull you over in Oklahoma, you're done for.
So I stayed five minutes, five miles below the speed limit for the little time I was in Oklahoma.
I said, not even if I drop Barry Switcher's, don't drop anybody's name.
Just don't get stopped in Oklahoma.
Well, my memory is the same thing was said about Arkansas when I was a kid.
My dad said, look, when they pull you over in Arkansas, just serve them out.
But he meant anywhere.
And this began, we had a couple calls from people saying, yeah, yeah, I was raised the same way.
The lesson there is respect authority.
It's the path of least resistance, no matter what.
And it doesn't seem to exist.
There isn't that universal respect for authority now.
It's being challenged everywhere by our grievance-based culture today.
But there was another thing that happened.
I was, again, nine or 10 years old, and my mother, it was time to go visit my grandparents down at Kennett, Missouri, which is, if you drive, it's about two hours south of Cape Girardeau.
And they put me on a bus.
Put me on a bus from Cape Girardo to Bloomfield by myself.
And my grandmother was going to meet me at the bus stop in Bloomfield and pick me up and drive me to her house in Kennett.
And the bus stop in Bloomfield was a truck stop.
It was a diner.
It was not a big, massive truck.
It was a diner type place.
And when she picked me up, she took me inside.
You want a Coke?
You want a cheeseburger or something?
And I said, sure.
What?
You said.
So we're sitting there and a highway patrolman, a Missouri highway patrolman saunters in, and my grandmother looks at me.
He's going to get you.
He's going to get you.
You better be good.
You better be good.
He's going to get you.
He's going to get you.
I'm sitting.
What have I done?
Nothing, but he's going to get you.
If you're not good, he's going to get you.
He's going to get you.
And I got scared to death sitting in there.
Now, I've told people this over the course of my life.
They said, that's the kind of thing that can give you a complex you don't know you've got.
I said, what are you talking about?
He said, those are the kinds of little things that make an indelible impression.
I said, well, then tell me why I'm not afraid of the cops today.
Tell me why I don't, why didn't that stick with me?
Why am I not somebody that doesn't like cops today?
Given that you think what my grandmother did to me was, well, I've had people say that was really a cruel thing to do, to make you at age nine think that you were going to go to jail for just sitting in a diner.
And I said, I don't remember it.
But sitting here thinking about it now, I don't recall having, I mean, I remember being scared, But I don't, that didn't last.
I haven't been, every time I see a law enforcement officer, I don't get palpitations.
I don't cower in fear in the corner and all that.
But I've had professionals say that's the kind of thing that could have a lasting impact.
It could lower your self-esteem, could make you think you're not worthy of things.
Are you kidding me?
So my point is that who knows how many people are told things like that today in certain neighborhoods, a cop goes driving by or walking, he's going to get you.
He's going to get you.
And people today, some obviously believe it.
I hadn't done anything.
I wasn't old enough to have done anything.
I'm sitting there with a cheeseburger in a diner in Bloomfield, Missouri.
And I'm sure you all have stories like this.
We all have stories from our childhood about our parents' encounters with the police or maybe our own.
I've had a few.
I've had none of them end up poorly.
I don't recall ever having been unfairly treated, mistreated, falsely, none of that stuff.
But see, there are people to whom all of that has happened.
And it only takes once.
And then that can be exploited.
And that's where we are.
That's where we are now.
You know, I mentioned too that I asked Heather McDonald after I had her on the program for 45 minutes on Friday.
She's got all this data that disproves everything Black Lives Matter says.
It just disproves it.
I said, what would you do if somebody read your book, became familiar with your scholarly work, and asked you to be part of the solution dealing with aggrieved groups?
What would you do?
She said, I would try something that hasn't been done.
I would try the truth.
And there's some cynics who would say, well, good luck, but that's not going to work because you're not dealing with people that want to know the truth.
You're dealing with people who instead are comfortable with their anger or their racism or what have you.
And the truth isn't going to make an impression.
And that may be true.
I mean, the same thing is true in politics.
How many people do you know who believe things about conservatism that isn't anywhere near the truth?
And you tell them, and they still don't want to believe you.
They still don't want to have, they didn't even want to try to believe you because they've got their little cocoon of what they believe built in which they live.
And they don't want anything challenging it.
I have a friend who, when we made these Hillary bumper stickers, these never Hillary bumper stickers available with new signups for the Rush 24-7 website in the Limbo Letters.
A guy called, do you have any couple of those laying around?
I want to give them away to some friends.
So I happened to have a couple.
I gave them to him.
He tried giving them away.
He couldn't give them away, even to people who are not going to vote for Hillary because they didn't want their liberal friends to see.
So they're not going to vote for Hillary, but they don't want anybody to know it.
They're afraid of getting grief from their friends who like Hillary or who are going to, so they didn't want to accept the bumper sticker, much less put them on their car.
And it's the same thing.
And they don't want to, putting the bumper sticker onto them was the equivalent of trying to persuade people, and they didn't want to try.
They did not even want to try to persuade people to agree with them on why they were voting against Hillary.
They didn't want to go there, too big a confrontation.
They did, in some cases, didn't want their friends to even know that they were opposed to Hillary, even though their friends probably already do.
So all of these things tell me something.
I mean, not a uniform something.
All these things tell me things about where we are and what we face if we're actually going to change things, reform things for the better, and rectify them.
We're dealing with a lot of people scared to death of the left.
They're scared to death of the media.
They're scared to death of actual liberals.
They're scared to death of what people are going to say about them.
They're scared to death of what people are going to do to them.
They just don't want to get involved in any way, shape, man, or form.
They might vote for Trump or whoever, but they don't want to be an evangelist for Trump.
They don't want to join an argument and try to persuade people to join them.
If they're liberals, they don't even want to go there.
That's why this police chief and what he said, he had a press conference today, the police chief in Dallas, and he said, serve your communities.
Don't be part of the problem.
We're hiring.
Get off that protest line and put an application here.
Can you imagine telling Black Lives Matter, get off the protest line and become a cop?
If you really want to solve the problem, drop the protest, join us.
We'll even deploy you to your neighborhood, he said.
If something like this is fixable, and it isn't right now with our current leadership, it just isn't.
That's something everybody's got to realize.
There are too many people, particularly in an election year, who are trying to benefit from all this, which makes me sick.
But it's nevertheless true.
A story from Breitbart about Mrs. Clinton back on July 8th.
This is just three days ago.
Hillary Clinton used a CNN interview on Friday to completely embrace the Democrats' claim that white people and cops must change to help reduce the number of African Americans killed in tense exchanges with the cops.
Quote, Hillary Clinton, I will call for white people like me to put ourselves in the shoes of those African American families who fear every time their children go somewhere, who have to have the talk about, you know, how to really protect themselves from the police when they're the ones who should be expecting protection from encounters with the police.
Now, obviously, Mrs. Clinton, this is for those of you who think I'm a little bit overboard saying there are people trying to benefit from this.
What do you call this?
Hillary Clinton is in deep trouble.
If you look at the polling data, she can't pull ahead of Trump no matter what he does.
She, for the most part, there are a couple of outliers, but for the most part, Hillary and Trump are locked in a margin of error tie.
But beyond that, the internals of these polls show that Hillary Clinton is trailing Trump in all kinds of key areas.
Of course, there's then this.
You've seen this.
56% of people think Hillary Clinton should have been indicted or charged.
But half of that 56% is going to vote for her anyway.
So you say, what's the point?
Well, I mean, if 56% think that she has committed an indictable offense with American national security and half of them are going to vote for her anyway.
Now, Hillary, it is said that Trump is going to have to really clean up with independence.
What Hillary is going to have to do is turn out the African American vote.
If she doesn't turn out the African-American vote anywhere near turned out for Obama, then she is going to be in trouble.
Ergo, here she comes.
I call on white people to put ourselves in the shoes of those African Americans.
She blames white people, blames the cops.
You tell me this isn't trying to benefit from this?
It's blatant benefiting.
I mean, it's transparent as it can be.
You can see right through this.
Fact of the matter is, Rudy made this point on TV over the weekend.
Heather McDonald has made the point.
And it's not a point.
It is actual evidence.
It is data, the product of research.
90% of all blacks are killed as a result of black-on-black crime.
The percentage of black people killed by cops pales in comparison to the percentage of African Americans killed in black-on-black crime.
But that doesn't do Mrs. Clinton any good.
She cannot say that.
She cannot use the truth.
The truth does not help her.
She went on, she said, I'm going to be talking to white people.
We're the ones who have to start listening to the legitimate cries coming from our African-American fellow citizens.
We've got to figure out what's happening when routine traffic stops, when routine arrests escalate into killings.
Well, this is, it's tricky because that happens.
It happens to white people too.
You just never hear about it.
The point is, there is not an epidemic of it, and no evidence can be found to support that there is an epidemic of it.
And I'll remind you again of the associate of the professor of economics at Harvard, the youngest African-American professor of economics at Harvard, who, after the Michael Brown Ferguson, said, I got to get to the bottom of this.
And he studied data and he found out that there is no greater instance of the cops shooting black suspects than white suspects.
It's almost equal.
And his conclusion is: well, whatever's going on, there isn't any racial bias here.
If the number of killings by police, white and black, are almost equal, then he couldn't find any race.
He said, the most shocking, get that.
He admitted it is, let me find his quote exactly what he said here.
It is the most surprising result of my career.
Now, here is a Harvard tenured professor of economics, under 40, got an award for being the brightest, youngest economist at Harvard, under 40.
What must he have thought?
He must have believed hands up, don't shoot, happened.
He must have believed that the cops were shooting white suspects all the time, and that we finally reached our limit.
And Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin or whatever, it's over.
We've got to put a stop to this.
He starts researching.
He finds no evidence to support what he believed.
Now, if he has an education capable of making him understand it, imagine people that don't.
Anyway, I've got to take a break because time is just racing by, but we will continue.
As always, sit tight.
Okay, now back to this Harvard professor who says it was the biggest, the most surprising result of his career.
He said the result contradicts the mental image of police shootings that many Americans hold.
Well, a question.
Why do many Americans hold that mental image that cops are shooting African Americans all the time?
That it's something common.
It's so common, we got to stop.
Who's giving them an idea?
Whose fault?
In other words, where is this evidence, quote unquote, where is this evidence for white cops killing blacks all the time?
Where is it?
I'll tell you where it is.
It's in the New York Times.
It's in the Washington Post.
It's on CNN.
It's on NBC.
It's on ABC.
It's on CBS.
It's all through the drive-by media.
It's all over the print media.
Every instance is portrayed as the latest in a never-ending string of them.
But it isn't happening.
And I know it's a fine line.
I know what some of you are saying, but Rush, you're not dealing with the reality.
The reality is they think it's happening, and that's what has to be dealt with.
Well, I know, but it's the same old argument we always have about dealing with liberalism.
What's the most productive way of dealing with it?
Telling people what they think isn't true or acknowledging that we know what they believe and giving them credit for believing, acknowledging what they believe, and then trying to tell them it isn't true.
How do you go about this?
My contention is that the leadership of these movements, whether they know or not, they don't want it to be otherwise.
When the evidence is produced that demonstrates they are wrong, what happens?
They go after the people producing the evidence.
When there is an apparent lack of desire for the truth to prevail, then what do you do?
Then how do you deal with it?
And if you go about it the wrong way, you're going to end up, whether you intend to or not, cementing what they believe in order to not be confrontational so that you can continue the discussion.
And at that point, you may as well just forget trying to persuade them because you've acknowledged what they think.
Now, just to illustrate what we are up against here, bear in mind here, folks, that the Obama administration could not find.
If you recall, they couldn't find any evidence whatsoever that the IRS targeted the Tea Party when there was tons of it.
Evidence was dripping out of pores everywhere, but they said at the regime that they couldn't find any.
But now they find evidence of white police targeting black men, targeting, targeting black.
There isn't any evidence of that, folks.
There just isn't any evidence.
And yet the regime has no problem believing it and acting accordingly, speaking accordingly.
And yet they couldn't find any evidence whatsoever of the IRS targeting Tea Party, tax-exempt, non-exempt groups.
Another point is how we ever, you can't rely on the administration for the solution to this.
How many people do you think want there actually to be a solution to this on the left?
Serious question.
While you ponder that, we go back to the phones.
Jennifer in Floyd, Iowa.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, how are you doing?
Just fine.
Thanks, Martha.
Well, I decided to share this with you.
A couple weeks ago, I was going door to door for a candidate running for state senate.
And while I was doing it, I started talking to this gentleman, and he said, he was a Democrat until 2008.
And I said, well, can I ask you what changed your mind?
And he said, well, he traveled a lot for his job, and he decided to turn on the radio to hear what the enemy was saying.
And so he started listening to you, and he thought, wait a minute, this rush really makes sense.
And he started to see who the Democrats really were and how they were hurting our nation.
And so now, I just think that you're making such a difference, and people will see who the real enemy is, and they will see that you're a friend and a hero to our nation.
And I just, I had to just share that with you.
That is such a cool story.
To hear that in the midst of all this is really uplifting.
I thank you for that.
Well, thank you for what you do.
Ah, no, no, no, no.
We all have our roles here, but that's just, that's, you know, I've heard versions of that story over the years.
There have been two or three or four instances of this, actually more than that.
And every time I hear it, look at what this guy told you.
He said, I'm going to tune in and find out what the enemy thinks.
He'd never listened.
He'd never listened, or very little, and yet he thought he knew everything about me.
Where do you think he learned all this stuff that was wrong?
Media.
Of course.
Now, why would the media the question that I ask myself, and folks don't laugh here.
I'm trying to make a point with it.
Why would the media want to try to waste time telling people whether what I'm saying is right or wrong?
In other words, why does the media treat me like a political opponent?
Why does the media treat me as though I'm a candidate running for office that must be discredited?
Why do they do this?
I mean, I'm not, the first eight sound bites in my soundbite roster today are me being discussed over the weekend in the usual, he's just a flamethrower.
He's just not trying to agitate.
They didn't call me a racist in any of these bites, but it just they got very, very close.
No, I haven't played him yet.
I'm going to start with Rudy at audio soundbite number nine.
Even Rudy was asked to respond to me.
They're not telling you that.
What got Rudy going was being asked to respond to me.
But no, stop and think.
So here's this guy.
I've been on the radio since 1985.
Well, 1988 here.
And 20 years later, 2008, this guy, you know what?
I'm going to listen to the enemy.
What does he think is the enemy?
And then, I will guarantee you it didn't take him very long to realize everything that he thought he knew was not true.
And now he's an acolyte.
Now he's a daily listener because of our friend Jennifer here.
Let us know about that.
Now, so the guy tunes in and he listens.
And he has an awakening.
He says, oh, my gosh, this is, I don't disagree with this guy at all.
One of the things that we do here as well as anybody is deconstruct liberalism and liberals and Democrats.
And that is probably one of the most beneficial things that happens here in terms of potentially persuading people, persuading liberal Democrats to give it up.
But it still is amazing.
I'll tell you why.
Let me answer my own question.
Why do the media spend time discrediting me?
I'm a guy on the radio.
I have a three-hour radio show here.
Why is the media, and not just one or two elements, but why is the entire Drive-By Media devoted to trying to convince people that I am a liar, that I am a reprobate, that I am a provocateur, that I'm whatever they say I am.
Why?
And the answer is very simple.
You notice they never challenge what I say.
All they do is try to destroy my credibility with people.
And that's what they do with everybody on the right.
I've never seen them actually engage in a debate about ideas.
When they encounter somebody that is trying to expose them, rather than show how the people like me are wrong, they never do.
They just try to tell people, you can't trust what this guy says.
This guy's racist, sexist, big and home, whatever it is they throw out there.
And they convince people, you can't listen to what this guy says, but they cannot refute what I say.
And so each person who has this preconceived notion, it's not just me.
It's what conservatism is.
When people find out what conservatism really is, they find out how damn close to it they already are.
And they learn why it is they think all this, and it's the media.
Jennifer, thanks very much.
I appreciate it.
This is Nell at St. Mary's, Georgia.
You're next.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Thank you so much for taking my call, Rush.
This is an urgent question.
I'm sorry, it's Neil.
I look like Nell.
I'm sorry, it's Neil.
Well, I can be Neil if you want me to.
I'm just happy to be on the show.
Well, who are you?
I am Neil from St. Mary's, Georgia.
Okay.
Camden County, the closest place you can get to Jacksonville, Florida.
No, no, I just wanted to make sure that you were not a random unscreened call.
No, no, no, I'm not a random.
Okay.
I'm just happy to be here.
Quick question, though, and it's not a quick question because I can respond to a lot of things that you responded about, talked about today, but who's paying for all these people going to different cities all over the United States of America to organize these marches?
Who in the hell is paying for these things?
There's a march planned in Camden County, which is where I live, in a little area down in Southeast Georgia.
Who's paying for people to come here to do that?
How do people understand this?
How are they organized?
I don't understand.
The largest benefactor of Black Lives Matter is George Soros.
Yes, sir.
You know who that is?
I do.
Well, he's a very extreme, angry, and mean-spirited liberal who is doing his best to destroy capitalism wherever it is in the world.
And of course, since we are the greatest, largest capitalist outpost.
He wants to collapse this country.
Want to collapse the country, exactly right.
Don't ask me why.
My ability to understand these people in that sense, I've never understood why people want to tear down the greatest economic engine that has ever been that enables everything they believe, enables all their welfare benefits, it enables all of their whatever.
I've never understood why they want to tear it down, but they do.
And George Soros, the amount of money I was stunned last week, I've learned George Soros has given these people $33 million in the last three or four years.
$33 million.
That's a drop in the bucket to what's coming in for Hillary's campaign.
Oh, of course, but a protest group, a presidential campaign, it's understandable.
Somebody would donate big money to that.
But here's a protest group that's not running for office.
Well, well, well, well, well, take that back.
They have a lot of influence with people who are in office and are running for it.
$33 million to a protest group.
You know, who's, you can't believe it's guys like Tom Hayden who are having to rob 7-Elevens to get money for the students or Democrats and society.
These guys, 33 million.
What are they using it for?
How much does it cost to organize a bunch of malcontents to show up and stand around somewhere with signs and so forth?
How much does it cost?
Folks, I'm going to tell you, there is a story here in my stack unrelated to any of this.
And I'm going to dig it out here.
I've got to take a break right now.
I'm going to dig it out.
It's about a, I just found it.
It's about a Democrat, two Democrats, and how they have turned public office.
They're in the House of Representatives about how they have turned public office into their own private bank.
It's always true.
You know, as you find the answer to something, follow the money.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Hey, one of the things that we know is part and parcel of elective office is fundraising.
And what do we think we know because of what we've been told?
We have been told, and thus we believe, that it's very expensive to win election, and it's very expensive to stay in office.
And we've been told that if you're in the Senate, the vast majority of your time after you win election is fundraising for the next election six years down the road.
In the House, it's even worse because the election is two years away, so you are constantly fundraising.
Now, we know that something like 90%, if not more, of all House races are won by the incumbent.
Do we not?
There are exceptions like 1994 and 2014, but for the most part, the incumbents win.
And they win because they're in office and have a track record of giving goodies away from the federal treasury to people in the district, a new bridge, a new old folks home, a new hospital, or what have you, that an incumbent just can't compete with.
And yet, they're out raising money left and right.
They raise more money than they need.
And it's always for reelection efforts, always to run campaign commercials and bus signs and campaign signs and vote, get out the vote efforts and phone banks.
And I thought about that the other day when I ran across this story at the Washington Free Beacon.
Here's the headline: Representative Bobby Rush, who's a Democrat Chicago, paid his wife $550,000 from his campaign funds.
And he kicked in $190,000 to a church that he founded from his campaign funds.
Well, now, who writes the rules on what these members of Congress can do with their campaign funds?
They do.
They write the rules.
So have you ever wondered why it is that a member of Congress can't, or the Senate, whatever, can use unspent campaign funds to pay off campaign debt or convert to, do you know that they can convert some of it legally to personal use if they are leaving office?
They write the rules for this.
Where does a guy get $550,000 to pay his wife and for what?
This is just one example.
Bobby Rush has paid both his wife and the church.
He founded hundreds of thousands of dollars from his campaign coffers since 2002.
This is according to campaign finance records.
Campaign expenditures also show funds were given to a number of his family members throughout the years.
Additionally, get this, more than $14 million in taxpayer-backed government grants were awarded to a wellness center associated with the church that he founded in Chicago.
Representative Rush, elected in 1992, first began paying his wife in 2002.
More than $67,000 in payments were made to her name during his election cycle.
For the 2002, 2004 cycles, she was paid $6,000 for salary and wages for Citizens for Rush, the campaigns, the Congressman's Campaign Committee.
Mrs. Rush began receiving checks for consulting services in 2008 on top of salary and wages as she pulled in $98,000 from the reelection committee.
She was not the only family member to appear on his campaign's payroll.
Marlon Rush, his brother, has collected more than $10,000 from the committee.
His son, Flynn, pocketed hundreds of dollars for polling and petition drives.
In addition to the payments made to the family members, Congressman Rush also kicked over $200,000 from his campaign funds to the beloved Community Christian Church in Chicago.
That's the church that he founded in 2002.
Now, where does he get this money?
By the way, the story goes on to describe the creation of a nonprofit.
He requested a $100,000 earmark for the nonprofit that was ultimately approved in 2008.
The earmark was tacked on to an appropriations bill, was made in the amount of $305,000.
The nonprofit also received a $290,000 grant from the Department of Justice.
You know what you could call this?
This is called How to Get Rich by finding ways to get money from the state, the federal, and local governments.
The Clintons managed to pull this off, not only doing that, but with foreign governments chipping in.
And nobody is going to say no to Congressman Bobby Rush.
Just like nobody's going to ever say no to Barack Hussein, oh, when you get down to it.
So why does he have almost a million dollars in campaign funds that are not being used for the campaign?
Well, obviously he raised it.
Obviously, there were people willing to donate it.
Fine and dandy.
But for crying out loud, I don't, folks, I don't care who you are, you and I, in no way can we score that kind of matching funds from the federal government for a church that we found.
As we're conservatives, the IRS is not even going to grant us the status to fundraise, which is what happened to Catherine Engelbrecht.
Tea Party Foundation, Lois Learners, sorry, you don't qualify.
This is just one congressman.
You go to Washington, that's where the money is.
The U.S. Treasury, where $4 trillion is spent every year and $3 trillion is collected.
That's where you go.
No, no, I know.
I've been sitting on these soundbites all day, and I do have to get started with them.
We're probably going to start there at number nine, like I said, with Rudy.
Maybe number eight.
And we'll just go from there.
And we'll just knock them down as they come up.
Soundbite after another will fall, and we'll do the next one.
They're pretty good.
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