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July 12, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 12, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
So once again, folks, I'm sitting here, as is my duty, and I'm watching this Bernie Sanders Hillary Clinton rally in New Hampshire.
And I have to tell you, every time I watch one of these, I remain, I go, I have a range of emotions.
I start laughing, first off, at what I'm hearing.
Then I stop myself because I realize there's a bunch of dunderheads out there that are buying every syllable of it.
And that makes me scared.
And then after I get scared, then I start getting angry.
It's absurd what these people are saying and what is being applauded.
It is dangerous.
It is wrong.
It is the reason the country is in the shape it is in.
And I just, I circle back to the fact that I don't know what percentage, but it's a good percentage of people in this country applaud every syllable of this nonsense and don't see it as nonsense at all.
They see it as, I don't know if they call it brilliance or whatever, but it, and it's, you know, we joke about it and we say, well, anybody can go up and be Santa Claus.
It's more than that.
I mean, it is that.
They're promising everything.
They're promising utopia.
They're promising to give away everything.
They're promising to wipe away every negative, to erase every problem, to get rid of every bad person, to get rid of every gun.
And they can't do it.
They haven't the slightest idea.
They can't do it because they are the cause for most of the problems that we face in this country.
And more of what they believe is only going to make things worse in this country.
Anyway, greetings.
Great to have you.
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So just a couple little specific points.
In the first place, watching this thing was hilarious because there was Bernie up there being Bernie.
And standing next to him was Hillary, who looked like a bobblehead doll.
She's just standing there smiling, got his vacant smile on her hair, like the last place she wanted to be was playing second fiddle to this old Codger.
But she had to bite the bullet, and she had to do it.
And he's up there, and Bernie is making everybody in this crowd regret that he's not the nominee.
Make no mistake about that.
It's a Bernie rally.
And even when he finished and introduced her, and she stands there smiling and beaming and squawking and squealing and whatever she does, the crowd's chanting, Bernie, Bernie.
And you can see she got a little ticked.
I mean, you had to, it was fleeting.
It was momentary.
And it didn't last long.
She eventually talked over them and they gave way.
And then she began her remarks, which a combination of squeaking and squealing and whining and complaining and fabricating, distorting, and feeding the prejudice, the anger, the bias of the crowd at this rally.
And it just struck me, and I keep circling back to this, that I don't know what percentage is, it's close to 50.
We have to think that close to 50% of the country that buys all of this, hook, line, and sinker.
And you got 94 million Americans not working with no hope of finding a job.
What are you going to turn to?
What is going to appeal to you?
Somebody that says they're going to make it all better just by you voting for them?
Somebody going to make it all better by punishing the people that are responsible for your circumstances in life.
Oh, yeah, it plays well.
Except never works.
These people have had what?
Seven and a half years, almost unopposed, to do whatever they wanted to do.
Barack Hussein Obama, as the first African-American president, has had no stop signs.
It has been blue skies and green lights.
There has been not a serious effort.
And this is not a comment on the Republicans.
Don't misunderstand me here.
Pretty much everything Obama wanted, he has been able to get with minimal opposition.
Minimal serious verbal, minimal serious congressional opposition.
If he hasn't gotten everything he's wanted, it's because he botched the way he went about it.
It's not because people successfully stood in his way.
The point is this, that after seven and a half years, you would think that they would be well on their way to achieving some of this idiocy that makes up their agenda.
But after seven and a half years, if you listen to Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, you would think this country has lost ground.
We have lost ground.
We're going backwards.
We are getting worse.
They've been running everything.
They have had the ability to get done whatever they want, and they've done a lot.
They have destroyed the health care system under the premise of making it affordable, cheap, and fair.
None of that's happened.
Yet more Obamacare co-ops are shutting down because they're out of money and they can't operate under terms of the law.
And you don't see that reported very much.
And when it is, you don't see it analyzed very greatly and very deeply.
But I mean, no matter what it is, whether it's cultural disunification, whether it's economic disaster, whether it's foreign policy screw-ups, nothing's better.
They've had seven and a half years to implement every aspect of their utopia.
And after seven and a half years, you listen to these two people, you listen to Hillary and Bernie, and their audience, they're angrier than ever.
We've been losing ground.
How is this possible?
When are people going to realize what they say about losing ground?
Yeah, we are losing ground.
We're treading water or we're going backwards precisely because of these people and precisely because of their policies, precisely because of their agenda.
And here they are acting like none of it's been implemented because there have been these massive roadblocks and this massive opposition.
Seven and a half years of the first presidency of an African-American in this country, and you would think they'd be celebrating it and talking about how great things are, but we can still do even better.
And we can build on what Obama has done.
We can build on the great achievements of it.
There's none of that.
There's none of that.
There's nothing uplifting.
There's nothing positive.
All it is is grievance after grievance after grievance after anger after anger after anger after unhappiness after unhappiness after unhappiness.
I mean, it is a litany of doom, gloom, despair, and apocalyptic outlooks.
And all of it is being cheered wildly with great anticipation for more.
Oh yeah, they're going to give away student loans now.
They're going to give away college education.
Hillary Clinton just said, and I'm going to do my best not to imitate her when I speak because I know how irritating it is.
And I'm very good at it.
And probably not very many people better at imitating Hillary than I am.
And certainly not very many people better at imitating her husband than I am.
And I'm going to pull back on it because it's irritating even to me to do it.
But she's out there saying that if she's elected president, we're going to make, get this now, serious investments in the best paying jobs since World War II.
We're going to make serious investments.
And we're going to create the best paying jobs since World War II.
What have you been doing the last seven and a half years?
Why are you waiting to do all this?
Why don't you call Obama today and tell him how to do it?
He's in Dallas, supposedly unifying people.
Why don't you call Obama and give him the secret?
Why don't you do something and start creating these great paying jobs right now?
Why do we have to wait for you to be elected for this magic to happen?
And then crazy Bernie, crazy Bernie's up there saying, and this is key, folks.
We become stronger.
We become stronger when we all stand together.
That's Bernie this morning for Hillary.
We become stronger when we all stand together.
Stand together for what?
What is the unifying thing in our country today?
Can somebody tell me, is there one?
No, no.
I'm not trying to be snarky or humorous or I'm serious.
What is there in America that we can all unify around?
Police brutality, cops mistreating black.
What is it?
They don't ever identify what it is we all have in common.
They don't ever identify what it is that we can all rally around and stand together so that we can become stronger.
We become stronger and we all stand together.
Doing what?
Standing together for what?
And who gets things done when they're standing around anyway?
What does it mean, stand together?
Stand together for what?
Stand together for who?
What cause are we unifying around?
What is it that we all have in common?
That the Democrats, Bernie, and Hillary see that if we all just came to a common understanding, it'd be no holds barred and we could just make tracks for greatness like it's never been experienced before.
What is this unifying thing?
What is this principle?
What is this idea?
What's the notion?
What is this mysterious unknown?
And if we all unified and stood together around it, magic would happen.
Well, here's the truth.
There isn't anything.
There isn't a single thing around which we can all unify anymore.
These people have torn that aside.
There used to be, there used to be a single thing that everybody stood together on, unified around.
I don't even like that terminology.
It's the way liberal Democrats speak.
But there used to be something that we all had in common.
You know what it is?
One take it.
No.
Well, I've got wild guesses coming in now from the staff.
Terrorism, no, I'm not thinking.
Yeah.
There you go.
Snurdle is close.
What used to unify us all?
One thing we all had in common is we were all Americans.
They've blown that up.
They don't like America.
They don't like the America as founded.
They don't like the America of eight years ago.
It doesn't sound much like they like the America of today, even after seven and a half years of Barack Husseino.
Yeah, we all used to have that one thing in common.
We were all Americans, meaning there was a common cultural understanding of who we are and how that distinguishes us.
And they have been assaulting that intensely since the 1960s.
There has been an all-out assault on the concept of being an American.
Because to these people, to Hillary Clinton, to her husband, to Barack Obama, to Bernie Sanders, take your pick.
They're all a bunch of leftist progressive now.
And nothing redeemable about that America.
It has to be what transformed, I think is the word Obama used.
Yes, we must transform.
The old America, that thing we all used to have in common, yeah, that was always bogus.
That was always racism.
It's a bunch of bigotry, a bunch of homophobia.
People weren't nice to the transgenders.
It was a police state.
It was destroying the planet, fossil fuels.
Virtually everything, ladies and gentlemen, that has distinguished this nation as great, these people have been attacking since the 1960s.
Virtually everything that set this nation apart, virtually everything that defined this nation as exceptional.
They have been on the warpath trying to tear it apart, tear it down.
And they still are.
I'm sorry, there's nothing to unify.
I don't want to unify with these people.
I want to beat them.
I don't want to stand together with them.
I want to stand over them in victory.
I want them relegated to the minority they probably actually are, which is going to require a lot of education.
It's going to require a lot of persuasion.
Along these lines, Victor Davis Hansen, a brilliant piece, National Review Online today.
Just the beginning here.
Multicultural societies, from 19th century Austria-Hungary to contemporary Iraq, Lebanon, the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, you name it, multicultural societies have a poor record of keeping the peace between competing tribes.
They usually end up mired in nihilistic and endemic violence.
Multiculturalism has been an active part of the American educational curriculum for 20 years.
I correctly identified it when I saw it.
Multiculturalism exists specifically to destroy the single dominant American culture and to replace it with a bunch of tribal balkanized population groups.
Back to Victor Davis Hanson, the only hope for history's rare, multiracial, multi-ethnic, and multi-religious nations is to adopt a common culture.
One that artificially suppresses the natural instinct of humans to identify first with their particular tribe.
America, in the logical spirit of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, was exceptional among modern societies in slowly evolving from its original, largely European immigrant population to a 21st century assimilated,
integrated, and intermarried multiracial society in which religious and racial affiliations were incidental, not essential to one's public character and identity.
Have to interrupt myself, take a break, but I won't lose my place, and don't you either.
Back to Victor Davis Hansen.
He's pessimistic, by the way.
He's close to believing that Obama has succeeded in fundamentally transforming America and destroying this thing that we once all had in common, this distinct American culture that every immigrant that came to this country wanted.
And that was to be an American.
This distinct American culture was rooted in liberty and freedom, and they all wanted, we were escaping tyranny bondage, but they wanted that.
And yeah, they might have lived together among their similar nationalities, but that was secondary to them.
They wanted to be Americans.
Not today's progressives.
Being an American got to be torn down.
Being an American, nothing proud about that.
No, America's guilty.
America's evil.
America is racist, sexist, bigoted.
His point here is, the only hope for history's rare, multiracial, multi-ethnic, multi-religious nation is to adopt a common culture.
But multicultural societies always end up descending into warfare.
Mired in violence, as tribes segregate rather than unify around something they all have in common.
But such a bold experiment was always tenuous and against the cruel grain of history in which the hard work of centuries could be easily torn apart by the brief demagoguery of the moment.
The point here is, from the founding 240 years forward, it was a marvelous, successful foray into a common culture.
And along comes a disgruntled, angry, unhappy, grievance-based president who in seven and a half years can deal near-fatal blows to it.
Easily be torn apart by the brief demagoguery of the moment.
Unfortunately, President Obama, ever since he first appeared on the national political scene in 2008, has systematically adopted a rhetoric and an agenda that is predicated on dividing up the country according to tribal grievances in hopes of recalibrating various factions into a majority grievance culture.
In large part, he has succeeded politically, but in doing so, he has nearly torn the country apart.
Indeed, it is no exaggeration to suggest that no other recent president has offered such a level of polarizing and divisive racial bombast.
So I go back to Bernie Sanders.
We become stronger when we all stand together, right?
Around what?
For what?
What is the one common thing organizing us?
There isn't anymore.
Because you people, the progressive left, have done your best to rip it to shreds.
This distinct, unique American culture, you have now labeled guilty.
You are attacking those who you think were guilty of creating it.
You seek further punishment of those who you accuse of creating this fraud known as the United States of America.
And we are indeed being torn apart and descending into a nation of groups that have as their number one noteworthy aspect grievance.
They're mad.
They're ticked off.
They have to make up reasons to be in large part.
Let me give you a specific.
And Mrs. Clinton mentioned, of course, she and Bernie brought up how unfair the cops are in America and how racist the cops are and how we need federal this and federal that and national this and national that to deal with these problems brought on by systemic,
implicit bias that she said only exists, well, not only, but primarily exists with law enforcement.
That's how New Yorkers say it, so I'm just trying to relate.
So one of the things that Hillary Clinton said was she shouted, she screamed it, she squawked it, she, you know, that screaming, that irritating voice, she said, we need national guidelines on police use of force.
Yeah, that's all we need.
A bunch of wusses like this, handcuffing local law enforcement the way they have handcuffed the United States military with some of the most senseless rules of engagement that you could possibly dream of for a nation that sends its soldiers off to war.
That's all we need.
Hillary Clinton and her Justice Department in charge of national guidelines on local police department use of force.
But, hey, we're already on the way because the DOJ has already populated 30 major police departments in America, Ferguson, Missouri, to Baltimore, by demanding new definitions of racism, implementing federal guidelines on policing in local communities in exchange for the continued receipt of federal funding.
So why not add to it and have federal, national, Hillary Clinton-inspired guidelines on police use of force?
Can you imagine what those would be?
I mean, you couldn't raise a green flag or turn on a green light to criminal intent any faster than putting these people in charge of national guidelines on the use of force.
And then she said, and we must, we must remove the possibility that weapons of war can be used on the streets of America.
Rounds of applause.
But don't think for a moment she wasn't also talking about militarized police departments as well and SWAT units, you name it.
We've had seven and a half years.
We've all had seven and a half years to see the utter destruction that progressivism and liberalism brings to a country.
Politically, culturally, socially, economically.
No matter where you look, we can see the crumbling.
How many of you have been to Rome?
See the famous Roman Colosseum.
Until they were able to stop it, it was falling apart, crumbling at the edges, fraying away because of age and so forth.
Sometimes I feel like that about this country.
It's just happening right before our eyes.
And the frustrating thing is that we're living it.
Seven and a half years.
We're living it.
And people still, somehow, some way, find a way to blame George W. Bush for this.
Or who knows who else.
Anybody other than those are actually responsible for it.
Okay, other things in the news.
Jeb Bush went, of all places, to MSNBC to kind of lay into Donald Trump.
What do you want?
What he actually said, we have the audio soundbase coming up, but the point that he made was two points.
He said that you Trump supporters, you're going to be very, very unhappy.
You're going to be so disillusioned if he wins.
If he becomes president, you're going to feel like you bought the biggest bill of goods because there's not going to be a wall.
And there isn't going to be any change on immigration.
There isn't going to be any serious action taken on Muslim immigration.
In other words, everything you think Trump's going to do, he's not going to do it.
He's not going to do it.
He doesn't even really want to do it.
And when it comes down to peddle-to-the-metal time, he won't do it.
And you're going to feel so disillusioned.
You're going to regret what you did.
And then Jeb actually laid the blame for some of this at the feet of Il Papa.
Pope Francis.
You know why?
Because the Pope did a mass there at the border, an open borders mass, if you will, that attracted tens of thousands, and it provided a picture to go along with what Trump was warning about and saying he wasn't going to permit.
So Jeb thinks the fact that the Pope came over there and then did a giant mass at the border did not help either.
Did not help him.
Did not help Ted Cruz.
Didn't help any of the other Republican candidates.
Hear about the Cleveland Browns player whose name is Isaiah Kroll.
Do you hear what this guy did?
Did you see what this guy did?
This guy, well, he posted it, fake book or was it Twitter?
Instagram, it was Instagram.
This guy had a drawing, pretty close to an actual-looking photograph, but it was an artist rendering, of an African-American slitting the throat of a uniformed policeman, much as ISIS beheading videos look.
Posted it on Instagram.
Of course, Black Lives Matter inspiring things.
They're not a terrorist group, right?
No, no, no.
And they're not racist.
No way.
They're just inspiring crap like that.
Well, anyway, the Browns, Cleveland Browns, told us, oh my gosh, we can't win a game anyway.
We're quarterbacks into rehab and make him a suicide.
We had to get rid of him.
Now we got this to deal with.
So they pulled it down.
It was put up less than 24 hours after the attack in Dallas.
And this kid, Isaiah Kroll, the player for the Browns, is 23, shocking image on Instagram, man dressed in all black, slitting the throat of a white cop, kneeling on the ground.
Remembers, it mirrors ISIS beheading videos.
He has deleted the picture and he has apologized, saying that he was emotional over shooting deaths of two black men by the police last week.
By the way, do you know?
Let me ask you, how many of you know the race of the police officer in Minnesota and the police officer in Louisiana?
Do you know?
To this day, you don't know?
You really, you don't know.
They were not white.
That's why you don't know.
I just read that this morning.
I didn't know either that the cop in the Minnesota video with the man bleeding out in the car seat there and the Louisiana, the Baton Rouge cop, I read today they were both non-white.
Did not identify them other than that.
This is non-whites.
We don't know what they are.
I guess since we're multi-cultural, all the same, it doesn't matter, right?
Non-white's all you need.
We don't know if they were African-American.
We don't know if they were Hispanic.
We don't know if they were Islamic.
We don't know if they were women.
We don't know anything.
We just know they were non-white.
But everybody was free to assume they were white, just like you did.
Did you know that, Mr. Sturdley?
You were busy screening calls.
Did you know they were non-white?
When did you know that?
When did you first?
A few days ago, you learned.
I just learned about it this morning.
Well, anyway, so this guy, this player for the Browns, watches all this and he just gets, we just, he thinks they're white cops.
So, finds this drawing of an ISIS-like beheading of a uniformed police officer, posts it on Instagram, thinks he's cool, thinks he's hip.
Hey, he's just doing what he felt like doing after reading about and watching what happened and the way it was covered.
They're not a terrorist group.
No, Rush, you're just way over the line on that.
And Rudy, they're not racist.
Rudy, you got to shut up.
You and Limbaugh got to shut up.
They're saying, you just got to shut up because Black Lives Matter, they're not racist and it's not a terror group.
Really?
Really?
Fine.
Anyway, Isaiah Crowell has apologized.
You know what he said?
My values and beliefs do not match that image.
What?
Isn't this typical?
That's not who I am.
That's not who I was.
I'm really, really.
Sorry if I offended anybody.
My values and beliefs do not match that image.
You want to see the image?
Hang on, if you haven't seen this, I'm, oops, wrong remote.
Got a bunch of different remotes here.
Let me zoom in here on the Ditto Cam, folks, and I'll show you this.
And let me make sure there's no secret data here, like an email address.
Okay, here we go.
Had you seen that?
Cleveland Brown player 23 post this on Instagram less than 24 hours after Dallas.
The Browns made him take it down, and they're now saying an apology is really not enough.
I mean, there's got to be more than just an apology.
This is so outrageous.
Wait a minute, he's 23 years old.
Why did he do it?
He thinks this is what happens.
He thinks this is what needs to happen to make things right.
He thinks the opposite of that picture is what is happening to young black men all over this country every day by white cops.
I'm not exonerating him, but for crying out loud, if this kid turns on Facebook, if he turns on Twitter, if he turns on CNN or any cable news, what's he going to think about what's happening?
Hell, all he has to do is listen to any Democrat talk about this, and he can get an idea about this that isn't true.
Anyway, I take a break.
We have, as you can see, we're loaded.
We got lots of stuff coming up.
You hang in, folks.
Back with much more right after this.
And we're back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, behind the Golden EIB microphone.
Also, this: a police union official says that four off-duty Minneapolis officers working in the WNBA game, the women's NBA game, walked off the job at the Target Center in Minneapolis Saturday after Minnesota Lynx players wore pregame warm-up jerseys supporting the Black Lives Matter movement.
The shirts list the names of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, both fatally shot by cops last week.
Castile was killed by an officer in suburban St. Paul during a traffic stop.
The shirt also showed the Dallas police shield above the phrase Black Lives Matter.
The interesting thing here is that the police union, Police Federation President Bob Kroll, told the Minneapolis Star Tribune he commends the officers.
The union stood behind the officers walking out of the game.
The union's a bunch of leftists, too.
I mean, they are unions.
It still happened.
Obama, Washington Post, Obama tells police, by the way, Hillary in her speech today was basically just carrying Obama's water that he had already spilled, if you will.
Obama spent yesterday preparing to address the nation at a memorial service in Dallas later today for five slain cops meeting with advocates of the White House.
President met for nearly two hours with leaders of eight law enforcement groups Monday, telling them that he considered the killing of the five cops a hate crime.
He told the police, I am your best hope for relations with communities of color.
Obama said he would work actively to serve as an intermediary between minority activists and the police.
And I am your best hope.
This according to fraternal order of police James Pasco, one of the meetings attendees.
Well, then, God help the police.
When's the last time Obama said?
You know, I saw this.
I said, he said this before.
Do you remember the last time he said something?
It may not be the last time.
It may have been probably the first time, the first time Obama said something like this.
Remember when I forget the name of the protest group, it might have been Occupy Wall Street now that I think of it, were protesting on the front lawns of AIG executives and other Wall Street firms in suburban New York, up in Connecticut, and so forth.
What did Obama say to them?
I'm the only thing standing between you and the people with their pitchforks.
Something like that.
I'm paraphrasing that, but you remember that?
Obama told these AIG people, and he was ripping them, he was trashing them, he was ripping into their bonuses, they didn't deserve it.
I'm the only thing separating you from these peasants with their pitchforks storming your neighborhoods.
Well, maybe Dodd-Frank, I guess maybe they're pushing it Dodd Frank.
I don't know.
But it doesn't matter what they were trying to get pushed.
The fact that here's Obama holding himself out, you know, I'm your best hope.
In other words, all this stuff is legitimate, you AIG people.
These people want to storm your yard.
It's legitimate.
I'm the only guy.
I'm the only, I'm your only protector.
I'm the only guy that can talk them down.
And now he's telling the cops, I'm your best hope for relations with communities of color.
Really?
Okay, what's common?
What are we all going to unify around?
What are we all going to stand together for or about?
Well, I say, God help the police because it seems to me like Obama and his minions have been doing everything they can to whip up hatred against the cops.
We can't deny this.
I know it's not politically correct to say it.
But Obama, he's clearly been saying things and acting out as though he too is a person with a grievance against the cops.
And in that way, he establishes a commonality with these people who are protesting them.
Can't deny that he does that.
He's got the politics of grievance down, Pat.
It's one of his identifying markers.
And then Biden jumped in with something.
Biden was at this meeting, too.
What did Biden say?
Biden said something.
We're coming up on a break, and I'm trying to find it here before I will.
Don't have time to have it.
Biden said something along the lines, you know, after Obama says, I'm your best hope.
Biden said, maybe you guys didn't hear what he said.
Maybe you weren't listening carefully enough to what Obama said or some such thing.
But Obama doesn't have a track record of unifying people, folks.
He just doesn't.
I mean, I wish it weren't the case.
I really wish none of this stuff were going on, but we can't deny that it is.
One of the things that Biden did, this is a Neil Monroe story at Breitbart.
Obama tells cops in a White House meeting their police forces are racist.
And he said, but you also have to recognize there's still institutional discrimination.
That doesn't just exist in policing.
It exists in many other areas.
Hiring, housing, and you, well, maybe we, the law enforcement organization, reach out and say, look, we understand why you may be concerned.
Let's have a conversation.
But police forces are racist.
That's what Obama's telling you.
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