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July 19, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 19, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #3
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You know, to show you how much I've been paying attention here, my top monitor has been stuck.
It's been frozen on a Time Life commercial for Georgie Girl by the Seekers.
Obviously, some commercial for some old album of treasured hits from the golden years or whatever.
Stopped during a thunderstorm and it has not resumed.
So for three hours, I've been looking at that.
And I should have seen that it was CNN, and it didn't even register.
That's still in commercial.
Let me see if I can get it off of there.
I'm frozen.
It's frozen on this Georgie girl seekers care.
Not that that would matter to you people.
I'm just telling you that it's funny.
No, I didn't start singing.
I haven't been singing a song.
I've been thinking, who in the world would box the song now?
But don't, don't, don't.
I'm sure the seekers were fine people.
In fact, there was a parody of that song that I really liked.
Hey there, Gorky Boy about communists.
Okay, got it back.
Is it CNN?
It is.
Okay.
Welcome back, folks.
El Rushbo here, 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, the email address is El Rushbo at EIBnet.com.
Since I mentioned it, I'm going to play you these soundbites of Malik Zulu Shabazz.
Now, this is not the name he was born with.
I know what the name he was born with is, and I can't remember.
This guy goes way, way back.
I mean, he was a youth in New York when I arrived there in 1988.
And he shows up at all the Republican conventions and starts rabble-rousing on racism and the Klan.
And Newt Gingrich was his old target.
But this is just to show you how this utter lie of hands up, don't shoot is still the fuel for all of this destruction that's happening.
It's sick.
It could have been Paris Lewis, that's his name.
He changed his name to Malik Zulu Shabazz because Shabazz, that name, is that a Malcolm X family name?
I think it is.
So, no, what?
It's on headline news.
Let me, let's see if I get it back.
What channel is it?
202?
Yeah, there we go.
So here it is.
This is last night in the Kelly file.
And they broke away from what was happening on the convention.
And it wasn't the Rudy speech, but they broke away.
It might have been Jeff Sessions.
Jeff Sessions was giving his stem winder, and Fox broke away to interview Malik Zulu Shabazz.
And the first question here has to do with comments that Malik Shabazz made, where he said he could understand how some people see the Dallas cop killer is a hero.
Micah X Johnson.
Oh, yeah.
Malik Shabazz.
Oh, yeah, I can totally understand why the guy is a hero.
And the question was, well, what facts do you have that Michael Brown was not the aggressor, that Officer Darren Wilson was the aggressor in that episode?
Because I've lived in St. Louis and I talked to some of the witnesses, and I know that in America, unless you have a videotape, then the word of the officers prevails.
Do you understand that at least five black witnesses came forward in that case to say that Michael Brown was the aggressor?
Michael Brown was unarmed and Michael Brown was unfortunate.
He was unarmed until he tried to steal the cops' guns.
And your attitude is part of the problem.
Your attitude of blame.
So you see how this goes.
So he is confronted with the fact that the gentle giant was the aggressor.
And the answer to that, he was unarmed.
He was unarmed.
He was not the aggressor.
Well, he was unarmed until he tried to take the cops' gun away from him by lunging into the cop car.
The way they deal with that is, see, see, see, your attitude is part of the problem.
Your attitude is blame the victim.
That's what always happens.
Blame the victim.
And the response, no attitude here other than to uphold the truth.
And Shabazz going, no, no, no, no.
Your attitude is blame the victim.
He was not the aggressor.
He was innocent.
And you are blaming the victim.
He was not the aggressor.
And Shabazz then continued perpetuating the myth.
That basic position of what we call white supremacy, white privilege, is believing that an unarmed black man, all of us unarmed, being killed by armed police officers, somehow it's our fault.
But we don't see white males in America.
For the record, I'm not a white supremacist.
No, that's the position.
Excuse me.
The position that you believe that your lives are better than ours.
Well, I believe that you are the one who has made the racially insensitive statements here.
No, no, man.
It's a racial.
It's a racially insensitive country.
That's why it's hard to take you seriously when you try to speak out about police and issues of race.
So it says white supremacy, white privilege, believing that an unarmed black man, all of us being unarmed, being killed by armed police officers now somehow it's our fault, but we don't see unarmed being killed by police officers or white people.
Well, the cops kill many more white men than they kill black men.
Are you aware of that?
Do you know that black men kill more black men than cops kill black men?
And I saw somebody the other day said, you know, this is the wrong comparison.
Racial comparisons don't work here because you get 16% of the population is black and half of that is male.
And then you've got, what, 40, 50% of the population is white, half of that is male.
You don't have even numbers to compare here.
What you need to look at is men versus women.
And the truth is the cops are killing men like 95% of all victims are men, regardless of race, if you wanted to look at it that way.
So men could come along and say that the cops are inherently biased against men because 95% of all shooting victims by the police are men.
But you don't see men's groups coming out and saying that.
But that is much more true than anything Malik Zulu Shabazz is.
But here's the point of all this.
This ignorance, this obvious, I'm trying to categorize it here in a powerful way.
It's more than just lying.
I mean, this purposely carrying forth this false narrative has been given energy by Barack Obama, is my point.
There is no evidence whatsoever to support what Malik Shabazz is saying.
I don't know that he actually believes what he's saying or not.
He's just into activism here.
And he's into talking and identifying white privilege and white supremacy.
And he knows he's got a built-in winner in the narrative that white cops kill innocent black men because they've succeeded in making a significant percentage of the black population believe that.
And it's another one of these things that isn't anywhere close to being true.
And it's tearing apart the country.
It's tearing apart our culture.
It is guaranteeing that it is impossible for there to ever be any unity.
And the president of the United States could change all of this if he wanted to.
Well, you don't think he could?
Well, he look at my point is the president doesn't even make the effort.
The president, when he goes out and talks about things like this, always seems to come down on the side of the anti-establishment activists.
And it just fuels all this stuff.
And it's not so much that it's Barack Obama saying it, it's that the president is saying it.
Just the office of the presidency has this built-in authority.
As I said yesterday, it took the media five years to destroy the Bush presidency and everything that's associated with it.
People instinctively trust, instinctively believe because they want to believe the president.
It's the closest thing we have to, in the sense of an infallible leader.
Sadly, the president's just the most powerful political figure in the country anymore, but isn't seen that way.
And Barack Obama may be the most partisan political president we have ever had, ever.
And I'm including Woodrow Wilson in that.
And I'm including FDR.
And he is not seen that way.
The most politically partisan president we have ever had.
Well, I can't, I should say in my lifetime.
That is kind of a broad statement.
There are too many other previous presidents back in the old days, pre-Civil War, that I really don't know.
But it's also unnecessary.
That's the frustrating thing.
All of this is built on a lie.
And I'm to the point now that I don't think it would change if the truth were convincingly reported to these.
I don't think it would change anything now.
They're too deep into it.
They're too committed to the premise.
They have too big a winning issue.
It always comes down to who benefits.
How do we get out of this?
How do we get?
Well, would you define for me coming out of this?
When you ask me, sternly saying, how do we get out of this?
Define coming out of this.
Define for me what you think fixing this would be.
What would be the day-to-day existence in the country if we quote unquote fixed this?
Okay, okay, de-escalation of war on police.
Okay, even if that happens, this doesn't go away.
They're staging.
You de-escalate the war on police, but you're not, that isn't going to de-escalate the venom.
That isn't going to de-escalate or reduce the amount of hatred that exists because you're always going to have people throwing gasoline on it, trying to revive it.
So is it realistic?
I'm asking, open it, is it realistic to think that somebody someday, somewhere, somehow could come along and convince people that what they believe isn't true?
You think that could happen.
So in this case, you think it's possible that there is somebody someday somewhere who could come along and who could convince Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Malik Shabazz, and these kids that run Black Lives Matter that they're wrong.
Okay, so they couldn't be convinced, but you think there are people who could convince the general public, the black general public, the white general public, the Hispanic general, that all of this is a bunch of beautiful.
Okay, all right, so if that happened, if there was, somebody someday somewhere came along and convinced the mass public that all of this is a bunch of lies, that hands-up don't shoot didn't happen, that there is not a preponderance of cops shooting innocent black victims.
It's just not happening.
Someday you think we could someday convince people of this.
What then would the Al Sharptons and the Jesse Jacksons and the Malik Shabazz's and whoever the heck else out there in Black Lives Matter, what would they do when that happened?
Do you think they would say, well, we gave it our best shot, but I guess we lost.
And I guess we're now going to have to assimilate and get rid of our race hustling business.
Do you think they would do that?
Okay, so they would not be persuaded.
They would not be convinced to, shall we say, lay down arms.
They would not be convinced to set aside the grievance and try to get along.
What future for them in that is there?
Right.
Right.
I know, yes, we can all, we can all, Jesse Jackson, yeah, he, Jesse Jackson admitted that he too gets scared when he sees he's being followed by an African-American street at night.
He said it, I know.
But I disagree.
I don't think I don't think that the circumstance I just described is going to happen anytime soon.
Precisely because of the existence of the Sharptons and the Jacksons and whoever their heirs are, because there's going to be people come along and pick up the slack when they're not around, and the Malik Shabazzas and the Black Lives Matter, because they're all part of what?
No matter what they are individually, they are all part of what?
The Democrat Party.
How do they vote?
For whom do they vote?
And what do they believe?
They exist on the basis of they have a devil as an enemy.
It is white people and the Republican Party.
And maybe if you want to take a deeper Christianity, the Democrat Party is who benefits from all of this.
Is the Democrat Party ever going to, are we ever going to see the day where the Democrat Party calls a press conference, powerful people in the party, and tells its various factions, look, stop.
You're tearing the country apart.
We're tearing the country apart.
This has to stop.
We got to face the truth here.
Hands up, don't shoot, didn't happen.
Do you ever see that happening?
No, it's not going to happen.
So, what do we do?
What is our only recourse?
Well, of course we have to keep telling the truth, but what's the upshot of that?
I mean, what is the result?
We keep telling the truth.
We keep standing for right.
We keep standing for justice.
We keep trying to do what we can to protect people.
What they have to lose.
They have to lose political power.
It is the achievement of political power that enables them to carry forth with all of this.
It's been my argument from day one.
We can't.
There isn't common ground here between us and liberals, which is why I've always smirked at this notion that the future is rooted in, I'm the guy who can cross the aisle and show the other people that they don't have to fear us.
I'm the guy who can cross the aisle and show that we can govern together.
We can make war.
That's not going to get us anywhere.
They have to be defeated at the good old-fashioned ballot box.
They have to become an electoral minority.
And that still isn't going to shut them up.
It still isn't going to stop all this.
But it's going to convey moral authority to the winners.
And that is what is missing here.
All moral authority has been blown to smithereens, and nobody is permitted to possess it.
And that's another neat trick of the left.
They have totally destroyed the moral order on the basis that it was never legitimate because of who created it.
I have to take a break.
We'll be back in just a second.
Back to the phone, Shigo, El Rushbond, cutting edge, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
You would too.
If you were right, as often as I am, Nathan, Lynchburg, Virginia, great to have you here.
Hello.
Hey, you make plenty of money, man.
You should send Hillary a year's worth of dynamite, and Billy Bob Clinton can stick it in her fruit loops every morning.
Get her nice-looking hair back and get all those ugly wrinkles off her face.
You know what?
I'd rather send her a cat.
Hey, that's not the reason I called.
I wanted to talk to you.
I was really mad like an hour and a half ago or whatever, but I've calmed down a lot.
But Ken Cuccinelli, I'm from Virginia, and Ken Cuccinelli was the face of that little protest yesterday at the RNC.
And I just wanted to let you know that Virginians, he does not represent us.
He's not one of us.
I represent Virginia more than he does.
And we're going to have to fix that mistake that we made there with that guy.
He's part of the reason why Trump has been elected.
And the whole – I just don't understand these politicians.
Are they – I'm not a smart guy, but I can clearly see through the crap that they're doing.
And you would think that if he was such a good politician and a smart one, he would want to keep his position.
But obviously, he's not very intelligent.
So, yeah, we're just going to go ahead and this is just fascinating to me.
It wasn't very long ago that Ken Cuccinelli was a star in Virginia among Republicans, among conservative Republicans.
He ran for governor.
He would have won if he hadn't been sold out by a bunch of quasi-conservatives.
It wasn't that long ago.
Ken Cuccinelli was the model conservative.
He was the prototype for conservatism of the future.
He had it all, people thought.
He had every ingredient.
And now, look, now we get a call talking about Cuccinelli as not very intelligent, as a sellout, as somebody who's not a Republican anymore.
Holy smokes.
Wow.
A man, a legend, a way of life.
Okay, so I just got a soundbite here from Carl Bernstein, famous for being a part of Woodward and Bernstein, who are credited and acclaimed for destroying Richard Nixon.
Carl Bernstein was on CNN's newsroom this afternoon with Brooke Baldwin, and they were talking about the first night of the Republican Convention.
Now, Bernstein is a connected leftist.
I mean, he's a joke to many of us, but to them, this guy is the guru dev.
I mean, he goes way, way back, and his take on things is seen as representative of what the deep, dark left actually believes before they go out and lie about it.
So given your understanding of that, listen to this.
This election is the Gettysburg of the culture wars.
It is that important.
Whoever wins this election, the culture wars may be over, but they're never going to be the same.
It is about two Americas.
Whoever wins, we are going to see a different America.
And that, what we saw in the hall last night was that battle being waged.
And I think somewhat effectively in terms of those who are in the middle, who are independents.
I think that there was some ground gained in the culture wars last night for the Trump people.
Now, I'm telling you that Bernstein going on television saying that, that tells us what they really think before they go out and start commenting on how rotten and horrible the mother of the Benghazi victim was and how Melania was a plagiarist and all that.
What they're really thinking, you know, these people, they made a great play.
The Trump people made a great play for the independence last night.
And they did it on the culture, the basis of culture, and the disintegrating moral rot that is taking over our culture.
And Bernstein's very much aware of it and very much concerned that last night was a good night for that aspect.
And by the way, I think he's right about this culture war business.
I don't think there's any – we've been in a culture war for decades now.
But I think he's right.
And it – this – This election is going to determine the ultimate winner.
And by the way, the left is winning it, folks.
I just spoke eloquently, I think, too, about the lack of any moral authority in our culture.
There isn't anybody with any moral authority.
Nobody's allowed to have any.
That has been one of the objectives of the left is to destroy any sense that anybody can define morality.
Morality doesn't exist.
What you want to do is what being an American means.
And there is no limit to it.
And anybody tries to limit you as a bigot or is prejudiced or is racist or is homophobic or is whatever else.
There is no morality.
Nobody gets to define what's right and wrong because the left knows that if anybody's able to do that other than them, they're going to be on the wrong much more than they're going to be on the right side.
And they don't want that.
They hate judgmentalism.
They despise it.
And that's what they think of morality.
Hence, that's why we have the culture war.
Some simple concepts as right and wrong.
No, you don't get to determine that, they tell us.
It's not up to you.
And it's not up to anybody.
And it's not up to the Bible because they don't believe in the Bible.
The Bible is a bunch of phony baloney plastic banana, good time rock and rollism.
Not the Bible.
The Bible's a bunch of gunk.
God doesn't exist.
That's just made up by a bunch of people who give them authority and power.
They don't want to think about it.
That's why the environment is God or any other inanimate object becomes the deity because there is no learned morality that descends from it.
Don't doubt me on this, folks.
When you take the morality away, when you take away moral authority, when you seek and succeed in blowing it up so that there isn't anybody's perceived to have any and you're not allowed to define it for a mass culture, be a free reign.
Do whatever you want to do without any condemnation, without any guilt, without any doubt.
And we are right smack dab in the middle of it, and it is exactly what is happening.
And last night, the speakers, the people that gave speeches, whether they intended to or not, were addressing the entire concept.
This is what Bernstein picked up on.
So, now I checked the break.
Rush, why do you want to give Hillary Clinton a cat?
Caller didn't seem interested in knowing why you call her last hour suggested that give Hillary dynamite.
Is that what he said?
Dynomite.
Dynamite.
What did he mean?
Dynamite or dyno.
Oh, there's a pet medicine called Dynomite.
Well, I've got pets.
I never heard of it.
Oh, oh, that.
Okay, okay, okay.
Okay.
I was thinking Jimmy, Jimmy, the comedian.
Dynomite.
Well, I suggested giving her a cat instead.
And he wasn't interested.
And I got people saying, why do you want to send her a cat?
Well, because of this.
I have right here, folks.
It is in my formerly nicotine stained fingers.
It's from the Daily Mail.
A credible news source, as credible as anything you're going to find out there in the world.
Headline, woman with stomachache is horrified when doctors remove a two-inch ball of cat hair from her vagina, caused by pets molting in her bed.
Many a cat lover lets their freeline friends sleep in their bed, but one woman got a rather unexpected, not to mention disgusting, added extra after several nights of snuggling up.
Michelle Barrow is mother to Cricket and Donut, who, while cute, shed a torrent of hair all over the bed.
And while unsightly, she never dreamed what would happen next.
Sometime later, during a routine appointment with her gynecologist, she mentioned the dull ache she'd felt in her abdomen for the last month.
The cause turned out to be a two-inch ball of cat hair inside her vagina.
So that's why I that's why I thought it would be fun.
Send Hillary a cat.
I'm looking at the soundbite roster here, folks, and I'm trying to get to okay, 2122.
Yeah, let me take the break now.
We'll have some time coming back because I want to get Pat Smith because that's got the Democrats all ticked off.
Then we'll go to Rudy.
So hang on, coming right back.
Don't go away.
Jack in Nashville.
Hello, sir.
How are you?
Hello, Rush.
Good to talk to you.
Thank you.
I'm calling today because I'm very upset about the way the media is treating Patricia Smith, who is the mother of Sean Smith.
For those of your audience who don't know, she's been derided in the media as of last night as out of line for suggesting Hillary Clinton left Sean, Tyrone Woods, Glenn Doherty, and Ambassador Stevens to die in Benghazi.
Van Jones at CNN stated that she should just get over it.
Chris Matthews said that it ruined their evening, that is the GOP's evening, by allowing her to speak and that everybody knew that what she was saying wasn't true.
Right.
The Washington Post said that her speech took the convention into the gutter.
Well, Cindy Sheehan, I seem to recall when she was being held up as a paragon of virtue, which she was venting her bile and bereavement.
You know, that is an excellent point.
You are exactly right.
They were parading Cindy Sheehan around everywhere.
She lost a son in the Iraq War, and she was a rock star.
Everywhere the Democrat Party had an event, and the media followed her everywhere and made her a great hero and spokeswoman.
It might have even made documentary movies about her, if I recall.
But Pat Smith is sullying the experience every day.
He's horrible.
Let's just a little bit of what she said.
Grab soundbite number 21 and give just a bit of a for all of this loss, for all of this grief, for all of the cynicism the tragedy in Bayenghazi has brought upon America.
I blame Hillary Clinton.
I blame Hillary Clinton personally for the death of my son.
In an email to her daughter shortly after the attack, Hillary Clinton blamed it on terrorism.
But when I saw Hillary Clinton at Sean's coffin ceremony just days later, she looked me squarely in the eye and told me a video was responsible.
Did she tell Obama too?
They were lying to everybody about that video and so forth.
And she, this woman, was personally lied to.
And Cindy Sheehan was running around blaming George W. Bush and Rumsfeld and everybody else.
And the media would then go question Bush about it.
And they would go question Rums.
So they give Cindy Sheehan every ounce of credibility they could give her.
That is an excellent, excellent point.
Look, I want you to hear a little bit of Rudy last night if you didn't, because one of the objectives of the coverage of Melania today is to make sure nobody saw Rudy.
We have the first, we've got a bunch of bites.
I'm going to try to squeeze some of them in here.
We'll start at number 27.
We say thank you to every police officer and law enforcement agent who's out tonight protecting us.
Black, white, Latino of every race, every color, every creed, every sexual orientation.
When they come to save your life, they don't ask if you are black or white.
They just come to save you.
And some people were saying he was too caffeinated.
He was too wild.
He was making too many gestures.
He was too, he was just shouting.
It was too much.
They're worried.
Because that means he was too effective.
And this one, this was a great soundbite.
What happened to?
What happened to?
There's no black America.
There's no white America.
There is just America.
What happened to it?
Where did it go?
How has it flown away?
I know we can change it because I did it by changing New York City from the crime capital of America to the safest large city in the United States.
What I did for New York, Donald Trump will do for America.
That was a direct hit there on Obama, who got great credit in 2004 for his convention speech.
There is no black America.
There's no white America.
There's no red states.
There's no blue states.
And of course, Rudy, where is that Amir?
What happened to it?
Well, we all know.
And here's Rudy defending Trump and doing it pretty well.
Every time New York suffered a tragedy, Donald Trump was there to help.
He's not going to like my telling you this, but he did it anonymously when police officers were shot, when firefighters were hurt, when people were in trouble.
He came forward and he helped and he asked not to be mentioned.
I am telling you this because I am sick and tired of the defamation of Donald Trump by the media and by the Clinton campaign.
I am sick and tired of it.
This is a good man.
Rudy Giuliani, who was the firebrand of the night last night of what all in was a really good night, first night for the Republican convention.
Tonight, it's Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, Chris Christie, Ben Carson, a lot of elected Republicans on the podium tonight at the Republican convention.
I got a question for you.
I can imagine what your answer is going to be.
The Trump children, two Trump children, is it Ivanka and Donald Jr. that are speaking tonight?
Tiffany and Don Jr., what happens if one of them wouldn't come out?
Say Don Jr. comes out and opens his speech fourscore and seven years ago, just to put all this to bed, just to make a joke of it.
What do you think?
You think people would see it as funny or it's a bad idea?
It's a bad idea.
It's probably a bad idea.
But anyway.
Thank you, folks.
We'll see you tomorrow.
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