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Feb. 25, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 25, 2011, Friday, Hour #3
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Yeah, yeah, I know.
I know.
I'm just sitting here.
I got some late arriving stuff.
It's Friday, folks.
Let's hit it.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
We are experiencing right now the largest one-day surge in oil prices since Hurricane Katrina.
Apparently, though, it's nitpicking to expect the president to be involved.
One of the things I just printed out in the printer, I don't have it in front of me.
It came in late.
I can't turn around and get it here.
But Cybercast News Story has a story that Cybercast News Service has a story that Alaska could be.
Actually, let me turn around here and get it.
Let me see.
Let's see.
What is it here?
No, I must not have printed it out.
Let's see.
Where is it?
Where is it?
Yeah, here it is.
New study shows that offshore drilling could make Alaska the eighth largest oil producer in the world.
Cybercast News Service.
Eighth largest oil producer in the world if we would drill.
But we're not drilling.
Great to have you back, folks.
Open line Friday.
Rush Lynn Boy.
Telephone number 800-282-2882.
And the email address, LRushbaugh at EIBnet.com if you would rather go that route.
From the Daily Caller website, Michelle Obama isn't the only one waging a war on obesity.
Unbeknownst to them, taxpayers are too.
A stimulus-funded anti-obesity campaign has spread throughout the country.
And the $650 million Recovery Act program called Communities Putting Prevention to Work, the CPPW, that sounds communist-like.
Yeah, FDR-like.
You know, the CCCP, that was a USSR.
The $650 million Recovery Act program called Communities Putting Prevention to Work is funding not just anti-obesity campaigns in New York City, but campaigns throughout the country.
31 localities from cities in Hawaii.
Oh, did you hear, by the way, did you hear about the Honolulu City Council?
I saw this three days ago.
Maybe it's a couple days ago now.
The Honolulu City Council has passed an official resolution condemning me over my so-called impersonation of Hu Zhintao.
No, I'm not kidding.
You know, I am responsible for quite a bit of economic stimulus in Hawaii from their medical community to the hospitality community to the golf course community.
The city of Honolulu, my in-laws live there for crying out loud.
They're afraid to show their face anywhere outside the hotel.
I'm just kidding about that.
They probably think I deserve it.
Anyway, the city, the city council of Honolulu, an official condemnation of me, resolution demanding that I apologize to the 1.7 odd million Chinese Americans who live in Hawaii and the remaining members of Chinese descent that live throughout the country.
Yeah, I just saw this quite by accident a couple of days ago.
The City Council of Honolulu.
I don't know.
I have no clue.
Well, we don't know that.
We'd have to check the archives to see if the Honolulu City Council ever did issue a condemnation of Mao Tzedong for the genocide of Chinese people back when the Cultural Revolution, the Great Leap Forward and all that stuff took place.
Don't know.
At any rate, back to the story, 31 localities from cities in Hawaii to Maine to South Carolina have received grants to combat the effects of sugary drinks and trans fats on residents' waistlines.
The state of California was by far the biggest beneficiary.
They got $55 million from the stimulus bill to study things like reducing sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and promote healthy eating and implement physical education policies in the schools.
Now, that money would hire a lot of teachers if they were concerned about jobs.
So we have a total here of $650 million spent on this anti-obesity program.
31 localities, state of California got $55 million of the $55 million to study reducing sugar-sweetened beverage consumption.
$32 million went to Los Angeles.
$16 million went to San Diego.
$6.9 million went to Santa Clara.
And it says here that California is one of the country's slimmest states.
Washington State got $25.5 million in taxpayer dollars to fight obesity.
The grant went directly to the Seattle and King County Department of Public Health.
However, according to Forbes rankings, Seattle is one of the top 10 fittest cities in America.
Nonetheless, in 2010, Seattle announced a campaign to reduce consumption of sugary drinks modeled after materials developed in New York City.
Philadelphia Department of Public Health got $25.4 million to make healthy foods more available and affordable and remove unhealthy food from schools.
Why does this cost any money?
What in the world is the cost here of social?
You have a campaign.
Okay, don't drink sugary drinks.
What does it require?
I don't even want to go there.
I don't even want to go to tabulating the money.
The idea that this is, that taxpayer dollars in a recession were used for this during a time we were told it was all for job creation.
This is, you know, the balance, which 75, 80% of the money in Wisconsin went to teachers.
The balance of it went stuff like this.
That's why there are no new roads or bridges or any of the of the sort.
From Washington, this is from our old buddies at the Associated Press.
With global food prices rising and more corn being diverted to the production of ethanol fuel, Bill Clinton is warning of food riots in poor nations.
You know, I remember, it's just been three weeks or a month ago, when the uprising starting in Egypt, I pointed out that one of the problems here was at its root, economics.
And I said that it was QE2, The printing of money here in this country, which was helping to escalate the price of commodities, wheat, corn, this kind of thing, which was causing rampant food inflation all over the world and was leading participatory cause in some of these riots that were happening around the world.
I got ridiculed by the blogs on the left.
I got ridiculed in the mainstream media and their publications.
Bernanke was asked about it even after I made the point.
And so here comes Clinton and he's a hero for pointing it out.
But this isn't this the same Bill Clinton who once said we just have to slow down our economy to combat global warming and save the planet.
And the AP in this story doesn't mention that Clinton used to champion ethanol as recently as 2007, or that as president, Clinton tried to get more tax breaks for ethanol producers.
2007.
The AP also fails to note the inconvenient truth that even Al Gore has recently had to admit that his strident ethanol support was a big mistake.
Now, if these two guys are Republicans, why they would get no such pass.
So here's Clinton, who has promoted ethanol, used to be a huge champion.
Now, all of a sudden, he's a hero.
Of course, the Clinton, what's the name of the stupid thing?
The Clinton World Economic Forum.
You know, no, that's Davos.
The Clinton Global Initiative.
Too much ethanol could spark food riots, and he is a hero.
Ladies and gentlemen, there is apparently a billboard, or was there, I have a picture of it here.
There was a billboard in New York City that has been pulled down.
It was a picture of a little African-American girl.
Outdoor advertising company has taken down the New York City anti-abortion billboard.
It showed a black girl along with the tagline, the most dangerous place for an African American is the womb.
A manager for Louisiana-based Lamar Advertising confirmed yesterday the company had decided to take down the billboard.
Some black residents said they found it offensive.
The Reverend Sharpton praised the decision and canceled plans to protest the billboard.
Does Reverend Sharpton believe that having half of New York City pregnancies end in abortion is a good thing for the black community?
You know, this is the dirty little secret here.
This billboard was in Soho, by the way, the trendy, uber-expensive Soho district.
And according to the Gothamist, the advertising company actually took the sign down because they were worried about the waiters and waitresses in the building's restaurant.
Now, apparently, apparently, now it is racist to try to save black children from abortion.
This is really stunning here.
The billboard was placed in a busy Manhattan neighborhood, Soho, by the group Life Always as part of a national campaign tied to Black History Month.
The group says that its message highlights Planned Parenthood's targeting of minority neighborhoods.
Planned Parenthood quality advertised with a condescending effort to stigmatize and shame African American women.
Some black activists are now complaining that Planned Parenthood has more clinics in black neighborhoods than anywhere else, which, folks, was the dream of Margaret Sanger.
Eugenics, anybody, she was the founder of Planned Parenthood.
And it wasn't about family planning.
It was about how to say this.
Okay.
It was about genocide of black people.
That's what it was about.
And the numbers of abortions in the black community, what's the number I saw?
47% of African-American pregnancies are terminated in New York City?
It's really, really high.
The exact number escapes me, but I think I saw the number 47%.
47% of African-American pregnancies are terminated.
So they put the billboard up.
The most dangerous place for an African-American is in the womb.
Tear it down.
Get rid of it.
Sharpton was going to protest.
And now he's not going to protest.
It is interesting the things he's doing to protest, protest a billboard here.
But here half of New York City pregnancies end in abortion.
I don't understand.
No, I mean, I do, but I intellectually, I don't, politically, I understand, but intellectually, I don't understand how anybody claiming to be an advocate for African Americans can sit idly by while half of black pregnancies in New York City are aborted.
That's to take the race out of it.
That's horrible.
Billboard was, if you just go by statistics, accurate.
The billboard was accurate.
Had to tear it down.
Well, interloper into Liberalville, Soho, interloper outside the city, Louisiana-based Lamar advertising.
They had decided to take it down because some black residents said they found it.
I bet they did find it offensive.
Anyway, Margaret Sanger, I guess, is smiling somewhere.
Got to take a brief time out here.
Open Line Friday continues after this.
Don't go away.
Open Line Friday, Rush Limbaugh executing assigned host duties, flawlessly, zero mistakes to Billings, Montana.
Hello, Mark.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hi, Rush.
January 12th, Ditto to you.
Thank you, sir.
Happy birthday.
Very much.
I appreciate that.
Yeah, I want to know when collective bargaining became a right rather than a privilege.
I have an independent sales business, thanks to you, by the way.
And the main company we represent decided to help their bottom line by not offering a bonus this year.
And I can either take that, or I can say, or they can get somebody else who will accept that deal.
I have no collective bargaining rights, and I don't think most of the people in this country do.
No, they don't.
It's not a right.
A right is something that can't be taken away from you.
It's not.
I hear it every five minutes on the radio.
Well, you also hear abortion is a right.
You also hear that all kinds of things are rights.
That term has been diluted and overblown to the point nobody understands what it means anymore.
It's purely used politically.
There's no right.
That's something you have to bargain for.
Somebody has to agree to give you that in a negotiation.
And if they don't want to give you collective bargaining rights, then tough toenails go somewhere else where they will.
Well, I just hear that every day, and I think that's not a right.
It's a privilege that they have the opportunity to bargain that.
It's a right or it's a right, or you can call it it is something to win in a negotiation, but it isn't a right.
You're absolutely right.
By the way, we have people who have collective bargaining rights usually can only bargain about their salaries anyway.
But here's the number on the abortion rate for black women in New York City.
It's just under 60%.
It's 59 point-something percent.
Now, that we're approaching the stupidity now of the dropout rate in school.
I mean, that something tells me, sternly, we discussed this within the last three months in an unrelated story.
It was unrelated to a billboard.
And New York City is the abortion capital of the world.
That's right, 59, I think it's 59.7% from the New York Times.
Mr. Feeler said the event was prompted by the release last month of City Health Department stats showing a 41% rate of abortion overall in 2009, including a rate close to 60% for black women in New York.
So the New York City, I distinctly remember this now, the New York City abortion rate, 41%, nearly 60% in the African-American community in New York City.
And you want to really stir things up.
Talk about who owns and runs Planned Parenthood.
And where are these clinics being put?
They're being put in black neighborhoods.
Who's making money?
Who's profiting?
Liberals, leftists, obviously, pro-abortion types.
Now, who's defending them?
Somebody puts a billboard up trying to defend it.
They get run out of town by Al Sharpton and the rest.
My God, folks, this is intolerable.
Well, I don't know if we're going to go that far.
Planned Parenthood doing the job the Klan could never finish.
Is that what you think?
I don't know.
But that's unacceptable.
It is 60% abortion rate among black women in New York City.
And then you turn around and look, who are they probably voting for?
Under what premise?
They're voting for Democrats under the premise that Democrats care about them.
They're voting for them under the premise the Democrats are going to protect them.
The Democrats are going to protect him from racism and sexism and bigotry and homophobia and all these other rotten things that conservative Republicans are doing to them.
Was it a black minister who put up the billboard?
A black minister was responsible for the billboard from Louisiana or Alabama, wherever it was.
Black minister put the billboard up.
And the Reverend Sharpton came along and was threatening to protest the billboard.
Stop and think of this.
Would you be voting for, giving money to, marching for, supporting a party that is quasi-responsible for 60% of your babies being killed?
No need to think about it.
We do that for you here as an added bonus on the EIB network.
All right.
They had to take that billboard down.
The most dangerous place to be for a black child is in the, the most dangerous place for an African American to be is in the womb.
They took that billboard down.
It was on the side of a building in Soho.
They took the billboard down over concerns about the safety of the people who worked in the building where the billboard was posted.
This is the new civility.
They tell us that it's the Tea Party that's going to throw up and blow up and causing all kinds of problems.
Who would be threatening people inside the building?
Pro-choicers.
The pro-abort crowd, which just can't stand to see the results of their handiwork apparently on display.
Ought to be proud.
I mean, if you're a pro-abort type, if you're pro-choice, if you're pro-Planned Parenthood, and you learn that the abortion rate in New York City is 41%, don't you throw a party?
That's a hell of a success rate.
And then when you learn that the African-American abortion rate is almost 60%, why?
My gosh, if you have that kind of success, you need a bonus.
And yet to put that billboard up might cause violence, so they have to take it down from the peace-loving left.
We went back, we looked at the archives at rushlimbaugh.com.
It was a Ronald Brownstein story on January 7th where we had these numbers, and the numbers came from CatholicVote.com.
The abortion rate, New York City, 41%.
ABC News had it, 41%.
Wall Street Journal, 41.3, 41.3%, Hispanic.
But Ronald Brownstein with the National Journal had a story, white flight and abortion could spell doom for Democrats' future.
He saw these numbers, and he was, well, these are all Democrat voters that are being aborted, which we have mentioned on this program.
We've always said, if you just be patient, folks, the Democrats are aborting themselves out of a majority.
And we weren't talking about specific races, just New York City, Mecca, 41% of pregnancies are aborted.
Who's doing that?
The Democrats are wiping themselves out.
And you still don't see any big celebratory parties taking place.
That's a tremendous success rate.
Mike in Hudson, New York.
Appreciate your patience.
Glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Thanks, Bruce.
I told your screener that I'm a liberal, and I listen a lot, and I think that you only tell half the story way too often.
So he asked me to give some examples, and I'll do that.
The first example is your talk about the Wisconsin school reading rate.
Two-thirds don't read at a proficient level.
Well, the truth is, that's half the story.
The other half the story is that the Wisconsin teachers are getting better results than the rest of the nation on average.
Another example.
Wait, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Just a second.
Sir.
I don't dispute you, but let's look at this at the root level.
Two-thirds of Wisconsin eighth graders have a below-average reading level, and we're supposed to say, that's good news.
Good news, Marby.
No, no.
Well, you want the other half of the story?
Wisconsin's doing better than the rest of the states.
Okay, two-thirds, wow, doing great in Wisconsin.
Okay, there's the other half of the other half of the story.
Hello?
What happened?
Did you guys hit a, did you hit a button in there?
Did anybody hit the did you hit the deedle button?
Well, I didn't hear a hang up.
Mike, are you there?
Well, what the heck happened?
Was he on a cell call?
Do we maybe lose the signal?
Well, I guess we lost the signal if he was on a cell call.
I didn't hear a click.
Yeah, we still had the line up.
Okay, half the story.
Let me see if I can make his case for him.
Something happened.
He's not here.
I only tell half the story.
Wisconsin eighth grade reading rate, two-thirds, let's put it this way, only 34% of eighth graders read at a good level.
However, what I didn't tell you is that Wisconsin's doing better than a number of other states.
And I guess also Wisconsin is probably spending less per pupil than other states with worse results.
But Wisconsin's still spending $10,000 or $11,000 a student versus some of these other places spending $14,000.
So the other half of the story that I didn't tell you is, is that while only one-third of Wisconsin's eighth graders can read, essentially, that's better than a lot of other states.
So the other half of the story is, when you strip it all away, only one-third of Wisconsin eighth graders can read, and that fact makes them better than a lot of other states.
And we're supposed to be happy.
So that's the other half of the other half of the story.
Now, I don't think this guy hung up just because I made that.
But I think something happened to the line.
But, I mean, if...
Okay, he was going to say what?
That blue states wouldn't be broke if it weren't for revenue sharing?
What?
Blue?
Blue states send all of their money to the red states.
Okay, so I get that argument is, for example, New York's tax rates are such that they send X amount of dollars to Washington, but they don't get as much.
They don't get that back in services and benefits from Washington.
So the blue states are subsidizing red states, and I'm not okay.
Okay, so the other half of the story is that while the blue states suck, the reason they suck is because they're sending more to Washington than the Red States send.
And the Red States are getting an unfair share of benefits back in federal legislation than the blue states are.
Oh, okay.
Got it.
Got it.
So I take it.
Why would this even come up?
What would prompt this guy to call?
See, this is the kind of stuff, folks, that here, let's just take the raw statistic.
One-third, and just to boil this down to its essentials, one-third of Wisconsin's eighth graders can read.
In the midst of a debate over the quality of public education in Wisconsin, we know that the Wisconsin public schools of teachers make in salary and benefit twice the national average.
A huge, we know that it's a money laundering operation.
This whole public sector union setup is the stimulus or money laundering operation.
So, obviously, this is an effort here to diminish the impact of what I am saying.
And this guy's hmm.
All right.
Well, track this stuff.
So the story is, apparently, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
Caller got his info from a David from column rebutting me.
Oh, okay.
Well, that explains all this.
So somebody from whatever, listening to what I said, I'm just reporting facts.
One-third of Wisconsin students can read eighth graders.
And rather than deal with the absolute horror of that fact, let's see if we can find where Limbaugh is shading things.
And we found a way.
One-third of Wisconsin eighth graders being able to read is better than some of the other states where only one-fourth of them can read.
Ha ha!
We got limbo.
In the meantime, eighth graders can't read in America.
So it's an attempt to make me a bad guy when I've got nothing to do with any of it.
I can read.
Brief timeout.
Back after this.
Don't go away.
Okay.
So the liberal caller here that vanished, unfortunately, somehow ended up damning the whole teaching profession.
He seemed to be making the point, ladies and gentlemen, that apparently Wisconsin is the high watermark.
And I wasn't telling the whole story.
One-third of Wisconsin eighth graders can read.
That's the high watermark.
So in an effort here to impugn my tactics and my presentation, say only tell half the story, the guy just wiped out the teaching profession.
He just wiped it out.
You know, the power of the word no is not to be underestimated.
Wisconsin Republicans in their assembly used the word last night to their credit.
Now, imagine if enough Republicans and Democrats in Washington use the same word when they face a bill to raise our debt for the 73rd time in our history.
Our eyes in Washington, the Heritage Foundation, are paying attention to the conversations on Capitol Hill about this vote.
And I think one or more of the staffers of Heritage have actually testified before Congress on the perils of raising the debt limit by another trillion dollars, too.
Heritage produced a cartoon.
They put it online.
Now, it's not going to get them any animation work soon with a family guy, but it does simplify the question: how our nation got into this and how to get out of the problem.
The cartoon is called The Debt Limit Made Simple.
It's posted online at askheritage.org.
It illustrates the power of the word no.
If you're an elected official in Washington, D.C. You can watch it this afternoon or over the weekend.
Is at askheritage.org.
And you'll be happy to know that most of your membership money is going to the research and communications work on Capitol Hill.
Very little of it is going to the animation department.
Don't think that you're buying cartoons when you become a member of the Heritage Foundation, but you should become a member.
I mean, have access to all of that thinking, all of that scholarship.
I mean, it's just, it really is great.
$25 a year, folks, or more if you want.
You can do it all today at askheritage.org.
Jim in Billings, Montana.
Hello, sir.
Great to have you on Openline Friday.
Yes.
Good to talk to you.
Thank you very much, sir.
You were talking earlier about Brian Schweitz and some of the things that he's doing.
We here in Montana pretty much support what he's doing.
We're tired of having Obama's agenda rammed down our throat.
Damn right.
And, you know, I don't know if you are aware.
Brian Schweitzer, of course, is a Democrat governor, but our lieutenant governor is a Republican.
Were you aware of that?
I was not aware of that until just now when you told me.
Yeah, you know, he caught a lot of flag for it back during the campaign, but nevertheless, he won anyway.
And historically, over the last couple of decades here, our local state legislature, the Democrats, have been more conservative than our Republican delegates up there.
And, you know, everything balls out to local, of course, in the state level.
But, you know, we're relatively pleased with Schweitzer.
You are relatively pleased with Governor Schweitzer.
Yes.
Well, how about that civility?
Civility on display from Montana, and you just had an AP story written about you guys as though you're a bunch of Neanderthals.
Oh, I know that.
And that's kind of okay, too.
We'd love for everybody to kind of stay away and leave us alone.
Yeah, yeah, I've been to Montana a couple times.
Well, welcome back anytime you want to, and I'll be happy to be a guide for you through Yellowstone if you like.
Well, I appreciate that.
Thank you very much.
I've been to Ketchum.
No, wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
I'm thinking of Idaho.
Where have I been to Montana?
Oh, darn it.
A couple summers ago, I played golf in a great, great...
Oh, I'm having a metal block.
Having a metal block.
But it was blue skies flying all over the place when I saw it.
I do need to go there more.
You're absolutely right.
It's a wonderful place to live.
I'm sure it is.
Really is.
Be able to shoot people you don't agree with?
I'm just, we have a parody that that, you know, Walter Brennan talking about little Luke and so forth going off on the wrong path.
Anyway, Jim, thanks.
I appreciate it.
I really do.
It's the end of the day, folks.
It's the end of the week.
We get a little giddy here.
Chris in Dallas, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
Thank you, sir.
My name is Chris, and I'm with Infowars.com and the V4 Victory campaign.
And I just wanted to say that Alex Jones is a true patriot, and everyone should go to Infowars.com and listen to him.
Well, I don't know who Alex Jones is, actually, other than Charlie Sheen's buddy.
But I appreciate your call and your plug.
Way to go.
Liar Chester in St. Louis, welcome to the program.
Great to have you on the program.
Thank you, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
Is it St. Louis, Nebraska?
Is there a St. Louis, Nebraska?
Is that right?
No, no, St. Louis, Missouri.
I was going to say.
All right.
No, I don't think that the public or the average person realizes what would happen if the country went bankrupt.
It is bankrupt.
And I think you need to explain to the people, they think it's going to go on just like every day it is right now.
I think you need to tell them just what's going to happen to them if the country does go bankrupt.
Well, we got 30 seconds.
You tell us what's going to happen.
Well, you know, we'll be a banana country.
They aren't going to have the services that we have now.
I mean, there's so many things that you know more than I do.
And I think they would need more coming from you than they would for me.
Right.
All right.
Well, I appreciate a note of it for next week.
I'm just getting a note here.
Spitzer has prevailed.
The Ditzer is gone at CNN.
Kathleen Parker, the Ditzer part of Spitzer and the Ditzer, is out at CNN.
You know, CNN, I still can't figure them out.
What a sexist move.
Get rid of the lady and keep client number nine.
Keep the guy who had the prostitutes.
Keep him.
And you get rid of the lady, Kathleen Parker.
Maybe her problem was, she said, I agree with you too much, Elliot.
He said, if you're going to agree with me, why do I need you here?
You're supposed to be the conservative.
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