It's Friday, live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
Well, you know who I am, and you know what this is.
And Open Line Friday, by now you know what it is.
Monday through Thursday, we go to the phones.
Callers have to talk about what interests me, or we don't take the call.
Because I'm not going to sit here and be bored and sound bored because nobody's going to want to listen to that.
Well, on Friday, engage here in what is a tremendous career risk.
And that is turning over the content of the program to lovable, couldn't do without them, but nevertheless, rank amateurs.
Whatever you want to talk about, it's fine on Friday.
I mean, we have some exceptions, but not worth mentioning.
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The National Inquirer.
Now, the National Inquirer was a Pulitzer Prize nominee.
They were a candidate.
They didn't get the Pulitzer, but they were nominated for one because of their John Edwards coverage.
No, I'm not kidding you.
Well, you think that, you don't, if the Washington Post or New York Times or L.A. Times had done the Edwards story, you think that they got the Pulitzer for it?
No, hell yes, they would have gotten a Pulitzer for that.
If they had done everything, I mean, the Inquirer staked the guy up, followed him into bathrooms out in LA.
They knew what was going on out there.
You don't, they'd get a Pulitzer.
Any other paper would.
The Inquirer didn't.
Anyway, the point is, the Inquirer has a story that you can't read it online.
You have to go get the actual newsstand copy, which ain't going to happen here.
That says Tiger Woods had 121 women, not 14.
121.
And apparently the Inquirer is saying that his wife Elen, when she found out that one of these women was the next-door neighbor or something down the street, 22-year-old down the street, and that was it.
That she called him during the master's tournament and said, this is the level of betrayal here.
I can't even, we're finished.
I don't know if that's true or not.
And the source for this is that this is what Tiger had to admit to in sex rehab, in sex addiction rehab.
You do have to, you do.
That's what you, you have to go through that he mentioned everyone but the 22-year-old neighbor.
When I was where I was going, HR, this is what I was going to add.
I don't know how you remember 121.
Maybe, I don't know how you remember the faces.
I don't know how you remember the names.
Unless they all have, maybe you got their names when you wrote the check.
I don't know.
But you've heard from a friend of yours that it's possible to remember that.
This is Snerdly Snerdly.
What is the guy keep a spreadsheet?
And what do you write the write the name down after each encounter?
Something like that.
Something here I'm not figuring out.
Now, what was the number Wilt Chamberlain gave out?
20,000.
So Tigers, you know, with Chump Chain still, but 121.
And to remember, This is, ladies and gentlemen, trust me here.
The things being said to me are precisely why those saying them do not have microphones.
Well, anyway, I just, that's the same, I don't know 121.
Anyway, that's that.
You know, it's New York Post has a story here today.
We had this yesterday.
Ken Salazar, the Interior Secretary, after nine years of hassle and haggle, decided to go ahead and just approve the Massachusetts wind farm that was opposed by Senator Kennedy.
But now that Senator Kennedy has passed away, they just go ahead and authorize the thing.
And the headline in the New York Post, big blow to Kennedy's.
The Obama administration's given the green light for the nation's first offshore wind farm off the pristine coast of Cape Cod, a surprise move in direct opposition to the wishes of the mighty Massachusetts political icon who helped propel the president to power.
The U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar made the announcement yesterday in Boston, capping a nine-year federal review process that pitted the liberal Kennedy Klan against fellow Democrats and some environmental groups.
Now, the Hyannis Port compound is near where the future wind farm is going to be.
A month before he died, Ted Kennedy wrote the president a letter begging him to stop the wind farm from being erected.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and environmentalist wacko said Ted Kennedy would be heartbroken.
Some environmentalist wackos accused the longtime Massachusetts senator who often sailed off the waters of Cape Cod of opposing the wind farm simply because it would mar the picturesque views of the Nantucket Sound from the family's compound.
Robert Kennedy, who also opposes the wind farm, scoffed.
No Kennedy has ever said that.
Of course, he never said that.
He said the Kennedys and other groups oppose it for a number of reasons, including fears for the local fishing industry and the belief that there are cheaper ways to tap wind energies.
Naturally, folks, the Kennedys are famous for their concern for industries, trying to find ways to do things cheaper, other people's money.
But this is every aspect of this story is just juicily, typically liberal.
First, you have the wind farm.
Got to do it.
Clean energy.
Unobtrusively clean energy.
And then don't put it anywhere near where we live.
The environmentalists say, but the best place for it in this entire area is right out there.
Right out there.
And the liberals say we need wind energy.
It's the future, but not where we live.
So Ted Kennedy, fighting as hard to stop the windmill farm as he did to pass health care, one month before passing away, writes the leader of the regime a letter I'm sure he figures will tug at the heartstrings of the regime leader, begging not to put the wind farm there.
Please do not dishonor my memory this way.
Senator Kennedy passes away, and after a few months' passage of time for an appropriate amount of respect to be paid, the Interior Secretary from Colorado goes to Massachusetts wearing his cowboy hat and says, screw all of you.
We're putting a wind farm out there.
I mean, it's just basically I've just, ah, well, he does.
Salazar wears a cowboy hat, everybody goes.
I just, I love, it's just every, you want everything that these people are.
Double crossers, liars, cheats.
Put it everywhere but where we're going to be.
Sock all these inconveniences to everybody, the little people, but spare us.
Yeah, we need wind farm energy.
We need all this, but not where we live.
We'll continue to burn coal and use electricity.
And everybody else is going to use this wind farm, not us.
And Obama says, you'll want to bet.
So there's the double cross and the total lack of respect for a dying man's last wish.
They're doing what?
Well, big whoop.
So I've just been informed here.
You mean the blades, the propeller blue.
They're painting it off-white to blend in with what?
The sky?
Well, so that's the solution.
You paint the windmills.
You paint the blades, the propellers, the superstructure, you paint it off-white.
Okay?
So I guess it blends in with the people that live there then.
Because, you know, you don't find, you have to go over to Martha's Vineyard to find African Americans.
The Cape Cod, they're servants, but they're not living there.
So you make sense now.
So you paint the windmill white so it blends in with the people that live there.
So at least it's not offensive in that regard.
That makes sense.
You know, you really do have to feel sorry for Ted Kennedy.
Well, I mean, look at he lost his seat and he lost his view.
All because Obama ignored the last desires of a dying man.
And it's one thing to lose your seat, but then to lose your view.
And then to have your insult, your intelligence insulted by saying, don't worry, we're going to paint them off-white.
So blend in with the population.
I wonder how the Kennedys would feel with a project or two of illegal aliens out there running the wind farm.
Speaking, you had that story earlier about Arizona eliminating ethnic classes, ethnic studies classes.
There's something in that story I didn't get to.
Teachers with accents can no longer teach English.
In a move that was more covert until the Wall Street Journal uncovered it, the Arizona Department of Education has told screws that teachers with heavy or ungrammatical accents are no longer allowed to teach English classes in Arizona.
As outlined by the journal, Arizona's recent pattern of discriminatory education policies is ironic, likely a function of No Child Left Behind funding requirements, given that the state spent a decade recruiting teachers for whom English was a second language.
Teachers who don't meet the new fluency standards have the option of taking classes to improve their own English.
But if they fail to teach the state's targets, would be fired or reassigned.
No more ethnic studies can be taught.
No more how to protest against America.
No more courses that result in separatism of people.
And now teachers with no accents, teachers with accents can no longer teach English.
Whoa.
Wait till Obama finds out about that.
Ethnic studies are bad enough, but wait till he finds out that English teachers cannot have accents, heavy accents.
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Who's next?
Joel in Huma, Louisiana.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
It's a great honor to talk to you, sir.
Appreciate that.
I am a 19-year-old college student living here in South Louisiana.
I'm only about 60 miles north of the coast.
And this is going to, this oil spill is really going to affect our economy.
But I'm worried that the liberals are going to come out and say, well, this is the reason we shouldn't have any oil explorations anymore.
Yeah, they're already doing that.
Right.
But I'm reminded of the words of President Reagan when he made his challenger address.
This is the cost of discovery and exploration.
It's not for the faint of heart.
We have to do these kind of things.
And some of this, sometimes this stuff happens, but we have to continue to press forward, you know?
You're 19.
Yes, sir.
You're 19 going on 40 with your education.
You know, you're exactly right.
And so was Ronaldo's Magnus, but there's a big difference.
The opposition to oil is a political thing.
It is only made to look like they care about the environment and the global warming and saving the place.
It's a political agenda to get control of the oil industry as well and to decrease our use of what Obama wants the price of gasoline up.
It's all political.
So saying these kind of things happen when you take a look at what he's doing in the space program and tell me if you see any exploration going on there.
Oh, absolutely not.
Zip zero nuta.
It's an object lesson here in what liberals are.
And anytime, in whatever endeavor is taking, if a bunch of 10-year-olds are playing dodgeball and some kid gets hit in the head and cries, they cancel it all over the country.
If junior high school football teams, if one of them happens to be really good and skunks every other team by 30 or 40 points, eventually the liberals will say, We got to stop keeping score, or this really good team starts 20 points in a hole.
The thing the liberals don't get is that in those circumstances, the kids are keeping score in their minds.
They're playing to win.
But liberals are trying to take hurt, harm, risk, and pain out of everyday life.
And the only way you can do that is with a pain pill.
The only way you want to numb everybody up to them, the essence of life is unfair.
Just life itself is unfair because there are days that people hurt.
There are days that people suffer.
And they always assign the suffering to economic or racial reasons.
People are suffering because they don't have as much as the next guy does.
Or they're suffering because they're of a minority skin color or what have you.
Folks, liberalism is hideous.
It is the antithesis of being pro-human.
It looks at life as a burden in and of itself to be managed, rather as a blessing to be explored and lived to the fullest.
When you live life to the fullest, that's when, in the liberal frame of mind, that's when things go wrong.
That's when things happen.
Who's next?
Vincent Fort Worth.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hi.
Thank you, Rush.
Mega Dittos.
You bet.
I want to say mega Rush Baby Dittos, but I'm not even a Rush Baby paternity test, depending on what year you started broadcasting in Palace.
Okay.
All right.
I guess under Obamacare, at age 26, I could still be a Rush Baby, so it would qualify either way.
All right.
I wanted to talk about the Puerto Rico status bill that went through the House of Representatives yesterday.
It's headed to the Senate.
There's a lot of Republicans and Democrats on both sides of that bill.
It sets up a vote in Puerto Rico every eight years to see if they want to remain a territory.
And I just wanted to caution people against doing what Obama's doing and looking at Puerto Rico and assuming that because they're all Hispanics or Latinos, that that must mean that they're all liberal Democrats.
Puerto Rico has a strong conservative movement.
In 2008, when we were electing Obama, they were electing a Republican who ran on the platform for smaller government and of obtaining this vote on the territorial status.
And he won in a landslide.
It's like you say, conservatism works every time it's tried.
And this bill is a good opportunity to set up a recurring vote in Puerto Rico to give people the right to decide on that status.
And I don't, I hate to see it conflated or confused with the immigration issue because everybody in Puerto Rico is already a U.S. citizen.
Well, I don't know that I don't know how many people are confusing it with the immigration issue.
I'm sure some people are.
But there is a bit of prejudice here on the part of some people who assume that because they're a Caribbean nation, that they are automatically going to be predisposed to vote for people who give them handouts.
Yeah, I've seen a lot of that.
And the Democrats are the ones that think that.
It's largely Democrats.
The Democrats are also making a push to get the District of Columbia made a state of look at the reason they're doing, they're going to need these votes.
And that's the comparison to the whole illegal alien problem here.
The Democrats need these votes.
They know they have alienated over half the people in this country.
They're going to have to make up the votes they've lost, especially among independents and the so-called moderates.
And so they're the ones pushing all of this.
And whenever they want, it's the Democrats, folks, when the Democrats want new votes, they want new wards of the state.
They don't want independent thinking people.
They don't want, that's not the people they want, voting for them in their party.
Open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
This from CBS News in New York.
Organ donation has become a vital way to save lives around the world, but a vast shortage of donors continues to mean that people are losing their lives while they are on waiting lists.
But there is a unique proposal that could change all of that.
New York State Assemblyman Richard Brodsky nearly lost his daughter, Willie, at four years old when she needed a kidney transplant.
And again, 10 years later, when her second kidney failed.
We have 10,000 New Yorkers on the list today waiting for organs.
We import half the organs we transplant.
It's an unacceptable failed system, Brodsky said.
So to fix it, he introduced a new bill in Albany that would enroll all New Yorkers as organ donors unless they actually opt out of it.
Sounded like the Book of the Month Club.
You know, you sign up for the Book of the Month Club in the old days and you had to tell everyone, I don't want this election, or they sent it to you.
Now you're automatically registered as an organ donor, but now it's going to be up to you to tell them no.
You don't want to be an organ donor.
And imagine this.
See, this is Guilt Trip 101.
When you're getting a driver's license, they always ask you, do you want to donate your organs?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, very compassionate answer.
Oh, your organs will be donated unless you object.
You're going to say, I damn right object.
You rotten, stinking, heartless fool, the DMV person will say.
So it's much easier to say, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'd love to donate my organs than to say, no, my organs are mine and are nobody else's business.
Other than that, government's business, donate your organs.
Overseas, 24 nations have this.
Israel has it.
Others have, if Israel has it, it can't be good.
According to these clowns, Israel is the biggest problem we face in the world, according to this regime.
See, the Israelis do it.
That's automatic grounds for not doing it.
Here's Marie in New Liberia, Louisiana.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi.
It's a pleasure to speak to you.
Thank you.
To finally get through.
I have two points.
One, in the state of Louisiana, when you go to vote, you have to show your driver's license or sign an affidavit that you are saying who you say you are.
So there is, they do want to see your papers when you vote.
Right here.
The only requirement then is that you know who you are when you go vote.
Right.
And the second thing is our economy has taken a downturn just like the rest of the country.
If they stop drilling and stop allowing us to produce oil, Louisiana could be in a worse problem than California because our budget is based on oil.
The price of oil is one of the major factors that affects the Louisiana state budget.
And some people don't realize that.
And it is very important that we continue to drill.
And we need to drill, and we need to be a self-sufficient.
Of course, we do.
I mean, no reasonable person disagrees with you at all.
What the reality we're all facing is, as this guy in the American thinker said today, trying to figure out what is it about this Obama guy that doesn't like it.
It feels like we're being ruled by, we're being occupied by a foreign bunch of people.
It's a foreign occupation.
Nothing that's happening here is the way things get done in America.
Part of that is we know all of us, most of Americans agree wholeheartedly what you just said, but we know that we've got people running the country who want to get rid of our use of oil, who want to stop drilling for it, who, for whatever reason, think that it is worse than hell.
Exactly.
You know, what is worse, not being able to put food on your table or drilling for oil, having money, and being able to put food on your table?
You know, there's no.
Well, there's no comparison.
No way to say no.
No, no, no.
That's a good question.
It depends on the perspective of who's asking it.
From the regime standpoint, it's perfectly fine if you have no money because that means you need them for money.
Exactly.
Exactly.
And something to say.
They are going to run out of money.
Because when the people run out of money, then where is the government going to get their money?
Well, they don't have any money now.
I hate to tell you out there, Marie, but they're printing it.
They're borrowing it from the Chika.
We don't have any money now.
We technically, not technically, we literally don't have any money.
National debt around $14 trillion, the sum total of all of our deficits, the deficit this year is $1.4 to $1.5 trillion.
We don't have any money.
We're borrowing it or we're printing it.
It's not real.
None of this is real, except sadly, it is.
But it's all built on false assumptions.
And look at this.
Marie, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
We sympathize with everybody in Louisiana over this because you're about to get double-dipped here.
You really are.
And nothing funny about it.
And you have Obama demonstrating he's not interested in being a chief executive or managing the affairs of this country.
He's not running the bureaucracy.
This job to him, it's all about finally getting even with this country, advancing this transformational agenda that he's got.
And he's moving full speed ahead at it.
In the LA Times today, 99ers dread the future without jobless benefits.
Now, I happen to know that the 99s is actually a club of female private pilots.
My mom was a member of the 99s.
But that's not what the 99s being talked about here are.
These are the people who've been on unemployment for 99 weeks whose extensions are not going to happen.
Carl Schaefer says he's tried for hundreds of jobs since he was laid off from a truck factory more than two years ago.
Still waiting to get hired.
The 52-year-old Ohio man has suffered the indignity of applying for food stamps and asking his elderly mother for help.
Well, there is no indignity.
We've had stories that there's no stigma any longer attached to food stamps.
I mean, joyous news agencies have reported this with happiness.
Weary of her own job search, former customer service representative Wagma Omar of Mission Viejo is thinking about applying for a dangerous civilian job in Afghanistan.
In California's wine country, Kay Stevens, 56, frantically looking to cut her living expenses so that her unemployment doesn't become a burden to her 30-year-old daughter.
Schaefer, Omar, and Stevens are among the increasing number of unemployed Americans whose burdens just got heavier.
They've exhausted their 99 weeks of jobless benefits and now must figure out how to get by on even more meager resources.
One unemployment benefits, or once they run out, people are eligible for general relief, but that only pays a maximum of $221 a month in L.A. County, compared with as much as $2,000 a month for unemployment.
You got to be kidding me.
Unemployment compensation and benefits, $2,000 a month in L.A. County?
$24,000 a year?
And I know you've got to pay taxes on it, but you know, I don't have a lot of experience with unemployment.
I mean, I do, but not recently.
And I think I only went on it for a two-week period of time one time.
And it wasn't anywhere near $2,000 a month.
Shazam.
So, anyway, here's in the next paragraph.
That's left the 99ers to fend for themselves.
In interviews, people who have recently lost their benefits say they're pursuing a variety of strategies, including turning to family members for help, putting expenses on credit cards, and applying for food stamps and other social services.
In Chicago, 55-year-old Cindy Safstrom said she went through her retirement savings and is renting out rooms in her house to earn money.
In Fresno, Rebecca Morgato had to tell her daughter that prom was out of the question because her unemployment checks ran out and she hasn't been able to find a job since being laid off as a food quality inspector.
Well, I'm not Snerdley.
Snerdley's begging me to stop because I'm killing him in there.
You know what's amazing?
This LA Times, I could understand if Bush was in the White House.
We're getting this story in the midst of the Obama presidency.
None of this was supposed to happen.
8% maximum unemployment if we did the stimulus bill.
We're going to be roaring back.
The economy, we've turned back from it twice now in the past six months.
These are the kind of stories, folks, these kind of sob stories were every day when unemployment was 5% during the Bush term, during the Bush years, because they were trying to sell us on how hard life was.
Bush's tax cuts were making it impossible for government services to take care of people.
And unemployment was 5%.
Oh, no, we got sob stories, how hard it was.
I've never seen a story like this.
This is the first one since Obama assumed office.
Now, none of it's blamed on Obama like it would be blamed on Bush, but nevertheless, stories, this story is there.
And 99 weeks, I mean, it's almost two years.
Almost two years.
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Okay, back to the phones we go on Open Line Friday to Charleston, West Virginia.
This is Patricia, and I'm glad you called.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Ditto's from Wild Wonderful West Virginia.
Thank you.
Actually, I called about accentless teachers, but I can't resist making the comment that if you were only on unemployment for two weeks when you needed it, you just obviously don't know how to work the system.
I look at, and I was hoping nobody would ever find out.
Exactly.
I mean, it was embarrassing.
Exactly.
I had the same experience when I was younger.
Really, what I called about, though, was to ask you, what constitutes an accent?
Is it a British accent, Southern accent, Appalachian accent?
How do they?
Well, before I answer the question, there's something very interesting about this.
And we have to be fair, Arizona is just enforcing an existing law that Ted Kennedy helped to write.
This is in the No Child Left Behind law.
It says that teachers teaching English must be fluent, and the teachers in Arizona are not.
Hence, the law has been emphasized here.
In the 90s, Arizona hired hundreds of teachers whose first language was Spanish as part of a bilingual education program.
Many were recruited from Latin America.
And then in the year 2000, voters passed a ballot measure in Arizona stipulating that instruction be offered only in English.
Bilingual teachers who had been instructing in Spanish switched to English.
So a lot of these teachers are not necessarily as fluent in English as they should be.
So I think more fluency than accent, but the news story reports accent-wise.
So they don't specify which kinds of accents.
Well, that's right.
I mean, for example, I mean, if it was Harry Reid, he would probably say Negro dialect.
Like he would talk about Obama once as a very good guy who can speak with a Negro dialect when he wants to.
So to Harry Reid, the Negro dialect is an accent.
Well, the other thing I kind of resent is that the showing of green cards or green, you know, the reason for being here, when Americans travel abroad, we have to have our passport everywhere we go.
So, you know, I'm sorry.
I don't see the problem there.
Well, yes, you do.
I mean, you know what's going on here.
Well, I do, but I'm saying, somehow we've got to get the pendulum back towards at least the middle.
Yeah, well, with a current crop of people in Washington, it's not going to happen.
Unfortunately.
Sadly.
with the president and moving downward.
Anyway, folks, just so you don't have this horrible...
Thanks for the call out there, Patricia.
You don't have this horrible attitude about Arizona.
I mean, what a.
It can't teach ethnic studies anymore.
It can't teach how to overthrow the, apparently it was being taught.
You can't teach how to overthrow the government.
You can't teach separatism.
You got to treat every student as an individual.
And then on top of that, they come back and reinforce the law that you're teaching English.
You have to be fluent in it.
Now, to many people, this is extreme.
To those of us who have common sense, does it not make sense that if you're going to teach English, you should be fluent in it?
What point would it be taking Spanish if the person teaching you doesn't know how to speak it?
What would be the point?
But Arizona, from what I'm told, ladies and gentlemen, are they offering other teaching jobs to the teachers who are losing their gigs because they're not fluent in English.
Remember, these teachers are unionized.
So all of this phony outrage here, it's ginned up, it's purely phony just to keep the culture and society in chaos and tumult because everything in Arizona here is being done under the umbrella of pure common sense.
Back in a moment.
Another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence now in the can and soon to be motored over to the museum with a warehouse housing artifacts for the Limbaugh Broadcast Museum.
I am chomping at the bit to hit the highway.
My iPad showed up at 11:30 this morning at home, and I get to leave here.
Well, I got to do the update after the program.
It better be in one take, or I'm going to get mad.
If it takes me two takes, be a lot of profanity that'll be honored.
Have a great weekend, folks, and we will be back here on Monday.