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Jan. 18, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 18, 2011, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Great to have you here.
Yet you heard right, uh, ladies and gentlemen, from Gallup.
Unemployment as measured by Gallup without seasonal adjustment remained at 9.6% in mid-January, the same as at the end of December.
This um this marks a one percentage point improvement from 10.6% in mid-January.
Now, this is Gallup's unemployment number.
This is not Obama's.
So even even Gallup has decided to join the Sunshine Boys on this uh unemployment steady.
9.6%.
Gallup's finding that the uh U.S. unemployment rate was unchanged in mid-January is good news.
Good news for those looking for work and for the U.S. economy as a whole, because Gallup's unemployment measure is not seasonally adjusted.
It would normally tend to increase at this time of the year as hiring declines and weather affects the ability to do some outdoor jobs.
Therefore, the uh the absence of an increase suggests that jobs aren't getting even harder to find right now, as happened early last winter.
Okay, Gallup, anything you say.
There you have it.
I had this story in the stack yesterday.
I didn't get to it.
Prime Minister David Cameron, I teased it.
But I uh didn't get to it.
Uh Prime Minister David Cameron, UK, yesterday waded into terrain where past British governments have foundered, promising fundamental changes to the country's expensive and overstressed public health care system.
Cameron said that the reforms would cut red tape and improve treatment, but critics claim they will cause chaos and could lead to backdoor privatization.
Backdoor privatization of the much criticized but widely popular National Health Care Service.
This is not a UK news story.
This is our own beloved and treasured associated press, the author, Jill Lawless.
We don't call them uh reporters here.
We call them authors.
The writer, the stenographer.
What have you, the British leader who is conservative party heads the country's coalition government said he would save money and cut red tape by giving control over management to family practitioners rather than bureaucrats and allow private companies, charities, and social enterprises to bid for contracts within the public health service.
Making health care more efficient has proved an elusive goal for successive British governments.
Why?
Because it's not possible when government bureaucracies are in charge of everything.
The exact direction that we are headed, by the way, the House repeal vote is tomorrow.
On Obamacare, they are debating it today.
Exactly one week after my birthday.
It was the original date.
The original repeal bill offered on my birthday, but they cancel it because of the Tucson shooting.
In a uh in a speech outlining the government's plans to overhaul public services, Prime Minister Cameron promised to get rid of top-down command and control bureaucracy and target.
Well, no wonder the AP is distressed here.
He said that with an aging population and growing demand for new medical treatments, pretending that there's some easy option of sticking with the status quo and hoping that a little bit of extra money will smooth over the challenges is a complete fiction.
The government, due to publish details of its reforms in the health and social care bill on Wednesday, the Health Service.
Get this now.
And soon to be true in our great country.
The health service is Britain's biggest employer.
It costs more than 158 billion dollars a year.
Man, wouldn't we go for that?
It is a political football reformed and criticized by government since it was established in 1948.
Despite the constant tinkering, no major political party proposes privatizing the health service, and even free market politicians like Cameron go out of their way to praise it.
On Monday, Cameron said a free National Health Service at the point of use for everybody was part of Britain.
Part of Britishness.
Yeah.
It's got them into so much so much trouble that now it is a backdoor privatization scheme in order to fix it.
He spoke of the care received by his son Ivan, who died in 2009 from cerebral palsy and a rare and severe epileptic condition in the medical staff who delivered his baby daughter Florence last year.
Oh, speaking of delivering babies, there's a new term out there.
Let me find this.
Uh Keith Urban and the lovely Nicole Kidman.
Here we are.
Nicole Kidman, Keith Urban, welcome a daughter.
They reveal this Monday they're the parents of a baby girl.
Faith Margaret Kidman Urban arrived December 28th at the women's hospital at Centennial in Nashville.
Faith was born through a gestational carrier.
and is the biological daughter of Kidman and Urban.
Our family truly blessed and just so thankful to have been given the gift of baby Faith Margaret.
The family says in a statement, no words can adequately convey the incredible gratitude we feel for everyone who is so supportive throughout this process, in particular our gestational carrier.
This this is a this is a new term for surrogate, right?
Like circame is a is a new term for um succumbed.
Gestation carrier.
Almost sounds like a disease.
And some women pregnancy is a disease.
I mean the feminazis, of course.
I I don't know.
Uh certainly, I don't know if it was a medical reason uh for this.
Maybe she doesn't want to bother with getting pregnant again.
I don't know.
Or maybe there was a I I I just I don't know.
I'm not even gonna not even gonna hazard a uh a guess on uh on that.
Uh anyway, uh uh just keep a sharp eye.
Government plans major health care reform, they're gonna get rid of the freebies, essentially.
And their charges of backdoor privatization.
As I said, look, Obama's got this great piece.
Everybody's hailing it.
Well, not everybody.
A lot of people praising Obama's peace for uh a review of burdensome regulations in the Wall Street Journal today.
If he were serious, if he were serious about getting rid of obstacles in our way, he'd get rid of a lot of the regulations dealing with uh his moratorium on oil drilling, and he would join us in repealing his own health care bill.
Good lord, the number of regulations in that bill and open-ended regulations, as the Secretary shall determine, as the Secretary shall see fit, as the Secretary shall decide.
It's an open-ended disaster.
Sarah Palin appeared last night on Fox and just made all these establishment ruling class people crazy again.
She appeared in a the cliche as a wide-ranging interview with Sean Hannity to describe how she saw the left blame her and all of us for the shooting.
Hannity said, when did you first realize you were being connected to this tragedy?
I read my name in the reports, and then um I read Rush Limbaugh, and then soon your name Sean And Mark Levin and soon Tea Party Patriots and soon the entire state of Arizona was being falsely accused of somehow being accessories to this horrendous, horrendous crime.
That is why I was puzzled at first as to why, before facts were even gathered, why it would be that the mainstream media would start accusing and using such a tragedy for what appeared to be right off the bat some political gain.
So Hannity said, well, what what can you tell us about this map?
Uh uh crosshair map.
For many, many years, maps in political races have been used to target certain districts that people would feel that they can um get into those districts and find someone whom they believe would represent the constituents' will better than an incumbent.
And that's not original.
In fact, Democrats have been using it for years.
In fact, Bob Beckle, I believe that he had bragged on your show, Sean, that he is the one who invented these crosshairs or these targets.
They're not going to shut me up.
They're not going to shut you up or rush, or um Mark Levin or Tea Party Patriots, or those who, as I say, respectfully and um patriotically petition their government for change, they can't make us sit down and shut up.
And if they ever were to succeed in doing that, then our republic will be destroyed.
Then he asked you about blood libel.
Some of your critics saying that you didn't know the historical significance.
Others criticize you for the phrase.
I want you to address the timing and that phrase.
What is it?
The blood libel obviously means being falsely accused of having blood on your hands.
And in this case, uh, that's exactly what was going on.
And yes, the historical knowledge that people have of the term blood libel, it goes back to the Jews who were falsely accused back in medieval European times of using the the blood of children.
And you know, the criticism of even the timing of this statement is being used as another diversion.
Because I believe that there are many on the left, many critics, who don't want, for instance, Congress to buckle down, get back to work.
So she was uh remarkably composed, once again, on the uh on the Hannity show last night.
She was uh what what do you think of the uh President's speech the other night out in uh Tucson?
Well, I thought that there were parts of it that really hit home that all of us can hold on to and can live out, obviously.
Uh I agree with it with those who have said that the setting was a bit bizarre.
It was kind of like a pep rally, kind of like a a campaign stop, and that was unfortunate.
You ever have moments of doubt, feeling that you would like the comfort of not having to deal with all of this all the time?
Other people are facing much greater hardships and making greater sacrifices that I am in just engaging in debate, and I'm thankful for the opportunity that I have to speak for many, and um I will continue to do so.
I feel very blessed to be in the position that I am, and I'll take the darts and the arrows because I know others have my back and I have their back.
You know, I still say I don't I don't care what you think about this woman, and I don't care what you think about her presidential uh possibilities, qualifications, or any of that.
But I just have to tell you, I don't know of anybody.
The political arena has who has been more impugned, libeled, slandered, uh ripped, mischaracterized.
I it's it it has been vicious, personally vicious and merciless.
And she appears untainted by it.
In fact, she has risen above it.
And as you know, our party is filled with people who just cave at at the first sign of this, and they try to make peace with the critics.
Oh, no, no, don't think of me that way.
I'm of it.
She has not done that at all.
So whatever else you think of Sarah Palin, folks, you have to marvel at the at how she has dealt with this and risen above it, not become bitter by it.
And it just continues and it increases in its intensity.
What snurderly, what do you um sturdily asked me if I can appreciate it more than most because I know what she's going through.
I I've got a microphone if I want to address it every day.
She, up until she's decided to go to Facebook, she didn't.
Uh but I don't uh I don't want to get into a into a into a comparison of it because I think it's uh the the left is always gonna criticize those and try to destroy those who think are their biggest enemies, the biggest threats.
And it's uh I don't know.
It just it's it can be a tough thing to deal with.
I'm just particularly, you know, get getting audience is different than getting votes.
I mean, that's why people ask you, ask me, you're gonna run for office.
Uh and I always do the pay cut line, but getting votes is a whole lot different than getting an audience.
In in uh in radio, it doesn't matter how many people hate you.
Politics, you can't win with people hating you.
You just can't.
Uh and so it's an entirely different uh mindset that you have to have in dealing with this kind of uh criticism when you're when you're in politics.
And the f and the moment, the moment you act affected by it, and the moment you respond to it, they just pounce on you as not having character, not having the steel spine, not having the uh ability to deal with it, that's where she has totally befuddled them.
She's gotten stronger throughout all this, I think.
Hey, uh Snerdley, you ever get sick after an orgasm?
You do.
There's a mysterious syndrome out there, mysterious syndrome from Reuters out of London, where they have free health care.
A mysterious syndrome in which men come down with a flu-like illness after an orgasm may be caused by an allergy to semen.
This according to Dutch scientists.
Men with the condition known as the things you learn on this program, even as host.
Men with the condition, known as the post-orgasmic illness syndrome, or POES, POIS, and documented in medical journals since 2002, get flu-like symptoms such as feverishness, runny nose, extreme fatigue, and burning eyes immediately after orgasms.
Symptoms can last for up to a week.
Marcel Waldinger, a professor of sexual psychopharmacology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, published two studies in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, which suggests that men with POAS have an allergy to their own semen, and the treatment known as hyposensitization therapy can help reduce its impact.
Waldinger said that while the syndrome is probably rare, it is likely that many men who suffer with it do not know that it is a recognized condition, and so do not come forward to doctors.
Now who would in the world would associate the two?
And does it affect women for crying out loud?
This thing uh says it only affects men.
Uh they uh soon as the soon as the soon as uh soon as the right after that they became ill.
Thirty-three of them agreed to undergo a standard skin prick allergy test using a diluted form of their own semen.
Of those 29, or 88% had a positive skin reaction indicating an autoimmune response or allergic reaction.
Yeah, I know it's just it's coming up, it is lunchtime in the eastern and central time zones and coming up on brunch and in the Western time zone.
We'll be back.
Phones next.
And welcome back, Rush Limbaugh to the Phones We Go.
As uh as promised, this is Mary in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
You're on fire today.
Thank you very much.
Every day.
Yes, every day.
Today is just how high are the flames.
Say, uh the reason I'm calling is is because of this book that has come out by um uh Ronald Reagan's son, where he states that he believes his father could have had Alzheimer's disease while he was in office.
And my thought on that is if he was as great a president as he was with Alzheimer's, my gosh, what would he be like without it?
Well, it just goes to show that uh Reagan also could do his job with half his brain tied behind my back, just like I do.
It was uh but it's it's such a such a I mean his dad's 100th birthday and this this son hawking his book with this story.
It's made the order for the left has believed this.
They've they've wanted to believe Reagan was stupid from the day he was born.
Uh so he has Ron Reagan's still feeding the left what they want to hear for whatever acceptance issues he's got.
I don't know.
This is this is um look, every family has wacko kids.
Uh and and every family has kids who think they've got wacko parents.
And uh some see the need to want to give even for the rest of their lives.
I can't relate to it.
But I guess I guess it does exist.
I just think it's very small.
I think it's small, and I think it's pretty sad.
And uh it just shows you that civility comes in all different shapes and sizes.
Yeah, that's the point I made when I mentioned this in the last hour.
It is real civil, isn't it?
Yeah.
My dad had Alzheimer's when he was president.
Very civil.
Thanks, Mary.
I appreciate that.
By the way, here are the details.
An Oklahoma couple urging thieves to return a stolen computer they say has the power to save millions of lives.
Last Sunday, Souk Shin was carrying a possible cure for cancer on a small Apple computer, had years of data not backed up.
Suk Shin said, I can't eat, I can't sleep since last Sunday.
I'm devastated, I feel so guilty.
Suk Shin and her husband are leading cancer researchers at an OU research lab.
They have committed their lives, working long hours, often seven days a week to find a cure for prostate cancer.
Unfortunately, most of the data was never backed up.
A mistake Sheen said could be a major setback in the fight against cancer.
Some of the data can never be replicated, even.
Other parts of that research could take up to two years to do over.
This is earth-shattering, considering 30,000 men die in the U.S. every year from prostate cancer, meaning people could lose their lives all because of a crime.
They are offering a $1,000 reward.
$1,000 reward.
That's well, I that that I'll just I'll just report it.
There's a good journalist.
They are offering a $1,000 reward for the return of potentially life-saving data which can't be replicated.
If there's ever a we're gonna follow this.
I want to see if the thieves bring it back.
Let's see what do we have here.
Let's see if I want to use this sound bite.
Let's go ahead.
This afternoon is Chicago campaign rally for Ron Emmanuel, the first black president spoke and said this.
It's number 29.
I forgot to tell a broadcast engineer, I just assume he knows what I know when I get the roster, he's got it.
Number 29, 321.
Look, we're gonna get out of this mess we're in, and we're gonna go forward.
And I agree with Rom.
A lot of that is because of the difficult decisions the president made, and that he helped to make and implement in the first two years.
It reminds me eerily of what happened in my first two years.
So again, Clinton's out campaigning for somebody.
It's all about him.
Obama goes to a memorial and it's all about him.
Uh uh what Rom's doing out there, it's it's it's crazy.
It reminds me of what I went through.
Bill Clinton saving a day.
Eric in Houston, you're next on the uh EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you, Mr. Rush, for uh taking my call.
You bet, sir.
Hey, I wanted to point out um I was uh born and raised in Tucson, Arizona, and uh just recently moved to Houston, and when I before I came here, one of the things that I remember happening was Ann Coulter being attacked at the University of Arizona.
And I never saw a call for civility or anything like that when she was being attacked by the moon bats in that city, and um I'm wondering why they're so adamant about calling for it now.
Well, you can answer, and by the way, the same sheriff was the sheriff.
Sheriff uh Sheriff uh dipstick was the shame.
Yeah, sheriff then is the same same sheriff, and there was your right.
But see, Coulter is an approved target.
Coulter promotes uncivility, so it's only fair she should be treated that way.
That's that's the justification for it.
Well, the charges were even the charges were dropped by the uh university.
Yes.
Well, and Ann didn't pursue it either herself, did she?
Uh no, I don't not not no, she used it uh in a in a wise way.
Students did three thousand dollars damage, but uh that is not in her nature.
She would like she tried, but if she figured out you she knew the game, uh it it it it it wasn't gonna go very far.
I mean, look at you've got the same law enforcement people out there.
Right.
Well, if I may point out a couple things, uh Tucson is an extremely liberal city.
And really people that yeah, really Phoenix isn't, but but Tucson is.
Yeah.
And um, one of the things about uh this this little get together that Gabby was uh putting on was all the people that were there were liberals.
And from my perspective, it was a liberal that actually went and shot her.
And they the first thing they did was they started blaming conservatives.
And for me personally, I can't speak for everybody, but it was very offensive, and it just and strengthens my resolve to um you know vote against anybody that that even wavers the slightest bit towards a liberal.
Uh in other words, if you're a rhino, you don't get my vote.
Just bottom line, and I'm tired of being blamed for all the ills in the in this country.
I'm tired of seeing people like you, I'm tired of seeing people like Ann.
Um, you know, you you guys, you you speak what's on our minds on a daily basis, and you're slammed, you're attacked, and you're not being attacked by your own.
You're being attacked by the liberals.
So for me personally, um I I thank you for allowing me to say what I'm saying.
You're more than welcome.
I I've got the solution to all this.
I I've I've got the solution of most crime in America.
From this day forward, somebody propose it.
Liberals should not be allowed to buy guns.
Just that simple.
Liberals should have their speech controlled and not be allowed to buy guns.
I mean, if we want to get serious about this, if we want to get if we want to face this head on, we're gonna have to openly admit liberals should not be allowed to buy guns, nor should they uh be allowed to use computer uh keyboards or typewriters, word processors or emails, and they should have their speech controlled.
If we did those three or four things, I can't tell you what a sane, calm, civil, fun-loving society we would have.
Take guns out of the possession out of the hands of liberals, take the typewriters and their keyboards away from them.
Don't let them anywhere near a gun and control their speech.
And you would wipe out 90% of the crime, eighty-five to ninety-five percent of the hate, and a hundred percent of the whys from society.
Rush Limbaugh, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
And uh Pedro from Jacksonville, Florida.
Nice to have you on the program, Pedro.
Testing.
One, two, three, Pedro.
Pedro.
No stay key.
Vamos.
Uno dos tres Pedro.
Okay, John in Nashville, you're next in the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
Thank you.
Uh we've been a long time listener.
First time I got an opportunity to talk to you, and I appreciate that.
I'll get right to my point.
Um I worked for the State of Ohio Department of Youth Services for several years.
And when I retired, of course, our pension setup to where I know I'm a little off subject with you today, but our uh pension setup where we donate or don't donate, we put in so much of our own money through our paycheck that to our uh Yeah, I know where you're going.
Your pension isn't there, basically is what you're gonna say.
Well, no, basically what I'm gonna say is that if the if the state is gonna uh have to take our pensions because of the shortfall, you know, it's not working out too well.
Um I think at least we ought to be able to to uh receive our money that we personally put in along with some interest.
Wait a second.
You have a pension.
You are willing for the state to take it, except for your personal contribution with interest.
Yeah, I mean, if if that's what it takes That's your civility.
That is uh that is your compromise.
Well you know Let me give you the facts of the let me let me tell you how this is going.
Let me give it.
I have a I have a story here from the Financial Times.
The headline States warned of two trillion pensions, two trillion dollar pension shortfall.
U.S. public pensions face a shortfall of two and a half trillion dollars that will force state and local governments to sell assets and make deep cuts to services, according to the former chairman of New Jersey's pension fund.
The severe U.S. economic recessions cast a spotlight on years of fiscal mismanagement, including chronic underfunding of retirement promises.
Your money isn't there.
They didn't save it for you.
It has been spent.
Well, nothing is real.
What's the case?
All the people like you who think you have a pension out there, two and a half trillion unfunded nationwide.
California, Illinois, New York leading the way.
I don't know what situation is in Ohio, but it's got to be pretty similar.
Well, no, uh actually, Ohio is pretty solvent.
Our pension plan is set up to where uh the money that was they have to have ten years by law worth of funds to fund the pension for ten years by PRS and and Ohio State Law.
Well, they're the same laws exist in California.
The money's not there.
The same laws existed in Vallejo, California.
They got nothing.
It's nothing.
I mean Zilch.
Yeah, ours ours is pretty sovereign.
If you take a look at uh at uh at the pension in Ohio, actually it's in pretty good shape.
It's you know, it's it's not perfect, but it's in a whole lot of the same.
Well, then why are you willing to let them keep state?
Well, then why are you willing to let them keep most of it?
Well we we make agreements with folks.
And I do business mostly on a handshake.
And if they can't ob you know, if they can't live up to their obligations, that's not.
No, no, no, I don't but you've said they've lived up to them.
You're pension fund solvent.
Well, yeah, it is.
It's pretty it's pretty sovereign.
All right, so if it is, why are you willing to make compromise with them only take out what you've put in?
Well, Rush, because that's all I earned.
Well, I understand that, but you said you made a deal that your pension is X, they're gonna be matched or what have you, or a certain percentage of what you contribute is is matched, and you're willing to forego that in a solvent fund.
If yeah, if if things if things are as bad for our country as they say, we have to come out we have to come out of this bind that our country's in.
Our individual comfort you are willing to accept the penalty and the blame for something it's not your fault.
Well, we do our damnedest to do what we have to do.
Uh we the pe men and women that serve in our military.
How about this?
Why don't you why not would you support this?
Would you support what they're doing in Illinois?
Raise income taxes 66% to deal with the uh pension shortfall.
No.
Why?
I mean, that's everybody contributing.
That's we've got to all pay a price.
Do you want the states to be bailed out by the federal government?
No, I don't.
I want the states to be able to be able to go on their own.
Okay, so you want to feel the pain.
You it's not that I want to feel the pain, Rush.
Okay.
Well, I'm looking, I live in Realville.
It'll be painful.
It'll be pa it'll be painful if if you do what you what you want to do here.
You improvise, you adapt, and you overcome.
Okay, I understand the valor.
I under I understand you're this is uh this sounds like it's a patriotic thing to you.
Uh because what you think you're doing is saving the country.
You're working with other people, all these unfunded pensions.
Okay, you'll forgo a portion of what you're owed if that money will go to help somebody else get a portion of theirs, uh, where they not might not be getting anything.
Is that am I basically reading that right?
That's I don't know if that's right or not, Rush.
You know, I'm gonna go back on a little something and kind of go around the bush a little bit, if you'll bear with me.
Sure, sure.
Go right in.
And 19 or yeah, 2008, I'm working for the state.
The big shots from the union come around.
Yeah.
They're pushing Obama for a president.
Well, I'm up front of the communication center.
And we politely tell them, hey, I'm sorry you union bosses, but you're wrong.
He's not the right guy for our for our country.
So just go on out.
We're not gonna leadership.
You're gonna tell me now you've lost I know your kneecaps, right?
And you can't walk anymore.
And forgive me.
That's for another time.
I'll stick with the pension funds.
I think that what our country needs is for men and women to step up and do what we have to do to keep our country from falling into the hands of the Chinese.
Oh, okay.
Well, I want to try to comfort you a little bit.
A lot of the you know, the the uh ChaiCom uh premier Hu Xin Tao is in town, and uh a bunch of people have done some stories today on the real situation we have with China, that they're not outperforming us economically, that they don't own our debt.
They own eleven percent of it, that we actually manufacture more stuff now than we did in the 1950s.
There are a lot of myths about us uh losing to China when in fact the ChICOMs are only where they are because they have adopted in part a capitalist economic system.
At any rate, I gotta run now.
I appreciate the phone call, and I understand what you're talking about.
I was not lying, ladies and gentlemen.
The story is U.S. public pensions face a shortfall of two and a half trillion dollars.
That'll force state and local governments to sell assets and make deep cuts to services like the cops and the school teachers, which they won't cut.
You'll just do it less to avoid all that.
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