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March 2, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 2, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #3
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All right, some things going on out there.
U.S. servicemen based in the U.K. attacked in Germany today.
We also have Kosovo National being held for shooting U.S. Army bus full of troops on their way to deploy in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The attack killed two soldiers, wounded two more.
Reports are that he shouted, God is great in Arabic, but we're warned not to jump to conclusions about his motives.
He said, Allahu Akbar, but we're not supposed to jump to conclusions about what that might mean.
So an attack on Germany, I think I don't have it in front of me here.
I don't know if soldiers are dead or severely wounded.
Let's see, yeah, took the lives of two Americans and wounded two others.
So it's high season on American military personnel.
We're not supposed to jump to any conclusions.
Remember, our president won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Hi, folks.
How are you, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, 800-282-2882?
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What is this?
I got a find that Clarence Thomas is being told he needs to recuse himself from any health care hearings.
Clarence Thomas?
Not Elena Kagan?
There are calls for Thomas to recuse himself?
Democrats are making that?
These people never go away.
Do they just?
You know what?
Life is like a vice grips for them, and they've got their hands on the handle, and our heads are in the grips.
I don't care what's happening.
Just amazing.
Fox Nation has learned exclusively from a highly placed source within Wisconsin state politics that the 14 AWOL Democrats are experiencing dissension in the ranks.
State Senator Julie Lassa, Democrat, pregnant, extremely unhappy about being on the run.
State Senator John Urpenbach, Democrat, has been hit particularly hard by his paycheck being withheld.
Wisconsin State Senate leadership is currently negotiating with eight of the 14 to come home.
Governor Scott Walker has declared today the deadline for action on his budget repair bill.
Plans to give a budget address at 5 o'clock Eastern this afternoon.
A deal may be announced around that time.
State Senator Julie Lassa is pregnant, extremely unhappy about being on the run.
So here you have pregnant woman, Democrat Senator Wisconsin, being pressured to abandon her job and democracy, being pressured to abandon her responsibilities as a wife and mother to stay on the road.
This is insane.
Man, these people can be cruel.
These public sector union leaders, these be cruel masters.
And these Democrats are taking orders from them.
Imagine, as I said, if a private sector company kept a pregnant woman away from home in order to secure a contractor profit.
Imagine this woman worked for Walmart and she's on the road on company business and wants to come home because she's pregnant and they won't let her.
There would be senatorial hearings.
To be shutting down Walmarts all over the place.
It is Anthony Weiner, appropriately named, by the way, asking Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from possible health care hearings.
Wiener and 73 other representatives sent a letter to Clarence Thomas asking him to recuse himself from a potential challenge to the new health care law because of his wife's lobbying work.
Now, Justice Thomas responded to all this over the weekend.
He made a speech and he fired back at these people.
And that's why Weiner is on television today explaining himself and being asked questions about it.
You know, they're going to really open a can of worms.
You remember Stephen Reinhart, who was, I mean, he's the number one apparatchic at the Ninth Circus.
And all the while he was the number one apparatchi, his wife was the famed Ramona Ripston.
Now, it sounds like a pole dancer, but she wasn't.
Ramona Ribston was head of the ACLU at the time her husband's running the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
And nobody ever said he had to disqualify himself or recuse himself because of anything his wife, Ramona, was involved in.
Are you thinking, Mr. Lumbaugh, that women named Ramona like pole dancers for you?
No, it's Ripston.
It's the alliteration.
Ramona rips it.
Ripston, you just conjure.
I'm sorry.
Names make me conjure up images.
Pole dancing, lab dancing, what's the difference?
Whatever she was doing, it was fine with the ACLU.
He didn't have to recuse himself.
Mr. Newcastrovi, I think he is telling him to go.
They can't do anything to him.
They can't do anything.
They're just trying to make his life miserable.
They're trying to discredit him.
They're trying to raise questions about the validity of a future ruling.
You think these people are getting to the point where the Supreme Court's not going to be the last word if the liberals disagree with it.
That's where this is headed.
Supreme Court's not going to be the last word if they don't return a decision the liberals want.
That's what all this.
Look at these people.
No, they lost their shirts in November.
They lost everything.
When they lose at the ballot box, what do they do?
They implement marching orders to all of their troops that are involved in the bureaucracy, try to take over and run things from there.
This is from Illinois Education website.
It's a new study out there from Champaign, Illinois.
A review of more than 160 studies of human and animal subjects has found clear and compelling evidence that all else being equal, happy people tend to live longer and experience better health than their unhappy peers.
What is this all else being equal business?
That's a minor little note there.
All else being equal, happy people tend to live longer.
The study in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Health and Well-being, is the most comprehensive review so far of the evidence linking happiness to health outcomes.
Its lead author, University of Illinois Professor Emeritus of Psychology Ed Diner, who also is a senior scientist for the Gallup organization, analyzed long-term studies of human subjects, experimental human and animal trials, and studies that evaluate the health status of people stressed by natural events.
Positive emotions and enjoyment of life, the conclusion here, contribute to better health and a longer lifespan.
By the way, that's and they say that this data is stronger than the data linking obesity to reduced longevity.
That's what they conclude here.
Did you hear me on this?
Positive emotions, happiness, enjoyment of life contribute more to better health and a longer lifespan than obesity reducing longevity does.
Okay, so now we have to discuss what makes people happy.
Well, I'll tell you what makes me happy.
Not being nagged.
Not being nagged.
I don't want to be lectured to about eating twigs and berries.
It's stressful.
It's nobody's business.
And there's not a normal person in the world who wants to listen to or be lectured to what they have to eat, the government making them eat or not eat various things from people who that night will consume a 2,200 calorie steak.
Being told that you're fat, lazy, that's that's a stress we can do without.
Being taxed, regulated, and bullied, that stresses people out.
Being jobless, that doesn't make you happy.
Underemployment, that's stressful.
Expensive gasoline.
By the way, I'm just telling you what could be contributing to people's unhappiness here.
And it's all traced or traceable to liberalism.
I just saw a month or a year ago, the average price of gasoline in the country was $2.64 a gallon.
Today it's $3.37.
And we're not far from the tipping point of $4 a gallon.
You see any news on this?
If this were Bush, my God, not only would the stories of 10% unemployment be 20%, but the rising price of gasoline, I mean, folks, you would be pummeled every day with how rotten the economy is, how woeful it is setting up the 2012 election.
Now, we've got a legitimately rising gasoline price.
You won't see stories about it.
Well, indeed, you do.
There won't be any condemnation.
It'll be barely mentioned whatsoever.
But we might be headed way beyond $4 a gallon, given what's going on here in the Middle East.
Happiness, you boil it down.
Freedom, liberty, low cost of living, free markets, competition, federal government minds its own damn business.
I mean, to some people, that's happiness.
Everybody's got a different definition of it.
You were raising your hand in there.
I can't wait for this.
What's oh, come on, snurdly.
You save that for your own show whenever you get one.
You know full well what I meant when I said not being nagged.
I'm talking about Muchel Maybel lecturing everybody what they should eat.
I don't want to be nagged by the first lady.
We're all going to get nagged at home, but we don't have to get nagged from the White House.
That just adds to it.
I mean, there's an expectation of nagging at home.
I mean, no, but being nagged from the White House, that's not helpful.
It's just that simple.
Back to the phones we go.
This is Melanie.
She's 14.
She's in Thorndale, Pennsylvania.
Glad you called, Melanie.
Hi.
Hello, Mr. Limbaugh.
Thank you so much for taking my call.
Yes.
And thank you to my dad, the best dad in the world, for introducing me to your show.
Well, thank you very much.
You're more than welcome.
Well, here's what I was going to say.
Aren't these liberals and teachers littering all over the city of Madison?
Aren't they the ones who tell us that littering hurts the planet?
Exactly right.
That is an excellent point.
You are right on the money.
The same people lecturing us on all this pollution and stuff are the ones trashing every event they attend.
Littering.
You're exactly right.
Chief Nakahoma is crying tears every time he sees it.
Excellent point, Melanie.
I'm glad you called.
You're off to a good start in life.
Thank you so much.
You bet.
By the way, why are you not in school today?
Is it teachers' meetings?
Is it school break?
A spring break?
Oh, no, I'm homeschooled, but I've been working while I've been waiting.
Oh, okay.
What are you going to do if you're homeschooled?
That means your mom or dad teach you?
Yes, my mom does.
What are you going to do if she goes on strike?
Gosh, I don't know.
I just keep working.
You know, she's a teacher.
She could demand that you pay a bigger pension and health benefits for her.
You've got to be prepared for these.
Anything can happen.
Okay.
Just kidding.
You understand.
I'm just kidding.
Yeah, I know.
Yeah, okay.
All right.
And Chief Nakahoma, the mascot for the Atlanta Braves, and I was just teasing about that.
It's Iron Eyes Cody that was crying in a litter commercial.
Those are before you were born.
But Melanie, the anti-litter people used to run as a public service announcement a commercial of people like your family driving along an interstate highway.
Mom and dad, the 2.8 kids, you know, having Big Mac in the back seat.
Little kid threw the wrapper out the back window.
And the camera would zero in on Chief Cody as a founder of the country.
Of course, one with the earth.
And he would have a tear strolling down, streaming down his cheek over this wonderful land that he used to own, but no longer did because he was conquered, crying.
That's just pathetic.
Oh, it was a great tear jerker back in the day.
I think the chief's now in the casino business.
But back then, he was a TV star in commercials for anti-pollution.
You are extremely observant.
I'm glad you called.
I'm happy to know you're in the audience, Melanie, and thank you very much for calling.
Oh, thank you, Rush.
You bet.
Pleasure's mine.
Thank you, Rush.
I like that.
Yeah, it's a momentary confusion, Chief Nakahoma and Chief Coda.
Well, Chief Nakahoma was the Indian in the TP at Atlanta Fulton County Stadium.
When the Braves had a home run, Chief Nakahoma come out and do a rain dance or do something.
Yeah, different color.
Chief Nakahoma had different color smoke.
Oh, that's what Chief.
See, Chief Nakahoma was in Milwaukee.
It was the Milwaukee Braves.
And the smoke would come out of the TP when somebody in the Braves hit a home run.
They moved to Atlanta to change the color of smoke.
That was at the same time as a tomahawk chop.
Chief Nakahoma, they got rid of the...
I don't know when the Braves retired Chief Nakahoma.
And I don't know when they got rid of the Tomahawk chop, if they ever have.
I don't know if the Tomahawk chop is still done or not.
And by the way, a little-known secret.
Iron Eyes Cody in that commercial was not an Indian.
No.
It was typical left-wing flim flammery.
He was Italian.
Chief Iron Eyes Cody was born Espera Oscar DeCorty in Kaplan, Louisiana.
He was the son of Antonio DeCorty and his wife Francesca Salpietra.
They were immigrants from Sicily.
He died at the age of 94 in 1999, just couldn't handle any more pollution.
Who's next?
Marty in our nation's capital, Washington, D.C. Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi.
Thanks.
Thanks, Rush.
It's a privilege.
Yeah, thank you.
Hey, Rush, listen, I'm real concerned about this deal the Republicans made with Obama.
I mean, it sure looks to me like we're caving because the math doesn't add up.
I mean, Paul Ryan was talking pretty tough about how Republicans were going to demand $4 billion in savings every two weeks.
The Democrats and Obama delayed in signing a budget.
Well, if $4 billion is all we save for the next two months, two weeks, and this keeps up, then the way I figure is 26 two-week periods times $4 billion every two weeks only adds up to $104 billion a year in cuts, and that's the same figure Obama himself came up with.
So if I'm Obama Reid and Pelosi, I'm going to take that deal every time.
They must be laughing up their sleeves at the Republicans.
Is there something I don't understand here, Rush?
Not only that, we got to keep going through the process.
If it's just a two-week stopgap, guess what we've got to do for the next two weeks?
We've got to go through this whole thing all over again.
It's a repeating, self-repeating cycle.
But wouldn't they just keep doing it every two weeks?
I mean, it seems like we haven't done anything.
Well, these $4 billion cuts were Obama's cuts from his budget.
Yeah, that's right.
He didn't give up anything.
He wasn't going to give up anyway.
I know.
The GOP did this so that the Democrats could not object.
I mean, that was one of the strategies here.
It's Obama's cuts so that the Democrats couldn't object.
The next cuts are going to be the Republicans.
Let's keep a sharp eye on the next two weeks.
Before we be hastily depressed here, let's see what happens in the next two weeks.
These next round with their cuts, see what happens.
Back in a moment.
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And even the good times.
I'm Rush Limbaugh.
This is the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Every now and then, ladies and gentlemen, we have on this program things that are called, see, I told you so's.
Way back when, one of my all-time favorite bunch of near-skeletal, nanny-ish, intrusive liberals created a bogus organization called the Center for Science and the Public Interest.
Two people, a man, a woman, if you put them side by side, are not nearly as thick as the new iPad is thin.
They created a logo.
They got a fax machine, and they started sending out bogus information on how various foods can harm you and kill you.
And they succeeded in having a number of foods banned because they could kill you.
And among one of the food products that they succeeded in banning was called coconut oil.
They succeeded in having coconut oil banned from the use of popping popcorn, particularly in movie theaters and other places, concession stand areas where popcorn was sold.
They said it was high, polyunsaturated fat, stuff that clogged you up so bad that coconut oil is what they would scrape out of you during a bypass operation.
Now, coconut oil happened to be the absolute most delicious oil you could use popping popcorn.
It's coconut oil that made a movie theater smell the way it smelled.
It's the way it made popcorn taste the way it tasted.
And in its stead, we had to use canola oil or Wesson or Crisco or what nothing came close.
And of course the concessionaires were a little bit livid because when you're popping popcorn for large venues like arenas and stadiums, you don't pop the popcorn as needed and as ordered.
You can never keep up with it.
You have to pop it well in advance.
I personally saw this when I worked for the Kansas City Royals, Volume Services with the Concessionaire, and they were located in the bowels of the Truman Sports Complex in Kansas City beneath parking lot M, which is the lot between Royal Stadium, now Kaufman Stadium, and Arrowhead Stadium.
There's a big tunnel underneath.
You could walk back and forth between the two stadiums.
Volume Services operations were there so they could service both stations.
And it was in there that I watched them, first time I'd ever seen it, pop popcorn on a massive, I'd never seen kettles this big.
I had never seen anything near this large to pop popcorn.
My experience had been microwaves, stovetops, and the way people do it.
One of the first things I did, and this is long before Center for the Science of Public Interest, these guys, you know, they're still eating peanut butter and jelly when this happened.
So one of the first things I did after signing on with the Royals was to go down there and get to know the concession people and how they worked and so forth, get to know them and all that.
And I had a secret mission to walk out of there with some coconut oil to be able to take home and use it at home to pop popcorn, which they gladly, eagerly gave me some.
And me being curious, wanting to know as much as I could, I was always amazed.
Why could you not buy this stuff retail?
In fact, I've always been one of these people.
I want what we can't have.
Industrial uses for products.
You and I know full.
For example, I would to this day would love to know, even though I saw it, I didn't take enough notice.
You're going to think I'm nuts.
I played baseball and football, and try as hard as she could.
My mother could never get grass stains out of anything.
Bleach, tide, whatever.
They're there.
Faintly, but they're there.
Yet, professional athletes, football, baseball, whatever, every day those uniforms are brand spanking clean.
Look brand new every time they're put on.
Doesn't matter what kind of junk, garbage, blood, sweat, dirt, doesn't matter getting up on them during the game.
I'm going to, how does this happen?
Obviously, there is a way to get this stuff spick and span clean.
Why can't we do this at home?
And sorry, it's not OxyClean.
Not running it down, but it wasn't OxyClean.
Sorry, Billy, what was his name?
Billy Mays, I'm sorry, but it wasn't OxiClean.
And it wasn't dry cleaning so much.
I watched those uniforms be delivered by the cleaner every day.
They were shipped out and they'd be brought back.
I didn't think to ask the guy because frankly, you know, last thing I'm going to do is say, hey, how do you get those uniforms so clean?
Didn't figure that would be a question that would stand me in good stead with management of the team.
Oh, really?
You care about laundering uniform?
We got a job open there.
You want to go there?
But I was interested in what did they use?
And you go to a restaurant.
How come restaurants can get food service products you can't get at a grocery store?
Why is this?
I've always been curious about that.
And coconut oil was one of those things.
Why can't you buy this at a grocery store?
And I still don't know, by the way.
I think, interestingly enough, you can get it at a health food store.
Now, I still don't know.
All I know is I wanted to get some.
So the guy, the concessionaire gave me some, and I watched him pop this stuff up, and he said, for us, the only thing that works is coconut oil because it'll hold the popcorn for a week.
We can pop this stuff, we bag it for a week, all we've got to do is put it under a heat lamp the day we use it, and you can't tell it was popped a week ago.
Coconut oil holds popcorn.
So it had not just the taste and smell, but it had an applicable economic reason for being used.
And then these guys come along and ban it because it's going to clog up your arteries.
You're going to die.
New York Times.
And I've been railing on these people since the mid-90s.
Center for Science of Public Interest, I have been railing on them.
New York Times.
Once a villain, coconut oil charms the health food world.
Once again, I.L. Rushbo ahead of the curve.
This is a long story.
Here's a picture of coconut oil roasted sweet potatoes.
The oil enhances their caramelized flavor.
It's detail after detail of desserts, other things, popcorn made with coconut oil, and how much better it tastes and how it is one of the healthiest oils.
Oh, there it is.
And this Center for Science and the Public Interest is like so much of all these special interest groups on the left.
They're just frauds.
The stuff they say just isn't true, which is why, and a lot of these people are in government, which is why I pay no attention to any of these special interests.
One day it's oat brand you got to eat to save your life.
The next day, coffee's going to kill you because of caffeine.
Then it's not.
They keep people in a constant state of fear.
You ever stopped to listen to people talk about a meal?
People order something at a restaurant and they feel guilty because they think somebody's going to get mad at them for ordering the fried chicken.
Don't you know that doesn't help?
All this is going on.
You know, life expectancy is skyrocketing and people are still eating and drinking what they want, still driving SUVs.
Giant SUV, or giant, see, I told you so here.
Robert B. Reich.
You got to hear this.
Let me find the sound bite.
It's not number 14.
It's, see, what is it?
This is number 19.
I was just going to say that.
Number 19, Robert B. Reich, was on MSNBC Live last night with the anchor Sink Uyghur.
And he spoke with Reich and Sink Uyghur said, look, this isn't about let's get the money from the rich because that's where it is and they've accumulated all the wealth at the top.
It also makes sense for the rich if we had more equal distribution of income because of the effect it would have on the middle class.
Tell us about that.
Why do you think it's better to redistribute the wealth?
Why, I mean, if you go buying less cars and less homes and less everything, how are corporations and rich people supposed to make any money?
I mean, it hurts everybody if you make everybody poorer, doesn't it, Secretary Reich?
Also breeds a kind of anger.
I mean, so many middle-class people, lower-middle-class people, working-class people are frustrated.
Republicans are very good at channeling that anger toward what?
Government, immigrants, public employees?
Well, an angry population and an angry populace could just as easily turn their anger toward the very rich.
Again, it is in the interest of the people at the top to actually call for a more equitable distribution of the gains of economic growth and a better tax system, a tax system that is fair.
Did you hear that?
He's talking in terms of an actual war.
He's telling the rich, you better give up the money before the people with pitchforks come to your house and get it from you.
He's saying, you rich people, you better willingly give it up because these people are soon going to figure out how to get into your house and steal it from you.
And you'd feel a lot safer if you gave it up.
He's actually saying this.
Robert Reich arguing the rich should welcome redistributing more their income to prevent an angry American populace from turning on them.
As though if it were to happen, he would encourage it.
That's where we are, the American left.
And this, by the way, isn't that already happening?
Isn't that what's happening in Wisconsin?
Can we be honest?
Isn't this sort of what all this is about?
All these people occupying the Capitol building and demanding all these public sector union people's people, but it's not the rich they're demanding it from, is it?
It's average Americans.
Average Americans, many of whom are underemployed, unemployed, or what have you.
Isn't that who these teachers and public employees are saying, give us more, give us more?
You fund our health care, you fund our retirement.
But they're not saying it to the rich, are they?
It's what the king of Saudi Arabia is doing.
It's what Gaddafi is doing.
Quick time out, folks.
Sit tight.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
We heard from the government accounting office yesterday, the GAO, the non-partisan auditing entity of the country, U.S. government, they published a 345-page report on wasteful government spending.
You know how long it takes to read a 345-page book?
It takes a while for most people.
You know what the highlight of the report was?
They found $100 billion in wasteful spending in 34 different areas of government.
345 pages to find 100 million bucks.
Of course, Heritage was all over the information.
Make their summary of it immediately available to all.
You can find out online at askheritage.org.
And when you're there reading and shaking your head in absolute frustration on this kind of wasteful spend, wait till you see the redundancy.
Wait till you see the 80 different programs funding various kinds of education and then react the next time somebody says we're not investing enough in education.
Anyway, when you're at askheritage.org and looking at all this waste that you find, Heritage has a new quiz to test your knowledge of government spending and legislation.
It's a true-false quiz.
No trick questions.
And you people will ace it.
I'm confident.
Here's an example.
True or false, 64 million Americans are dependent on government welfare.
64 million Americans are dependent on government welfare.
True or false?
What do you think, Stirdley?
What do you think, Dawn?
True or false?
She thinks true as well.
What about you, Brian?
Yes, it's true or false.
True, okay.
Yes.
Does it have a VU meter?
It's true or false.
Well, the answer is there at askheritage.org.
And while you're there, you can renew your membership, or if you're not a member, become one.
These people in Heritage doing great work on our behalf.
What do you mean?
What's the answer?
Don't be silly.
Don't be silly.
64 million Americans dependent on government welfare?
Anybody has to answer the, or has to ask the answer to that question.
Doesn't deserve the answer.
Including you, Snurdley.
I'm not going to tell you.
You have to ask me about that.
Dan in St. Louis, welcome to the EIB Network.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Many of self-employed dittos, Rush.
Thank you very much, sir.
It's a distinct pleasure to talk to you today.
Appreciate that.
Thank you, and I wish you good health and Godspeed.
Yeah, thank you very much for that, too.
I had a question for the all-knowing, all-seeing Ma Rushi.
Was the president telling people to stop demonizing the public sector workers in Wisconsin?
That's right.
I was wondering, aren't the Republican legislature and the Republican governor of Wisconsin public service employees also?
And they are our neighbors.
They are neighbors, and they are our friends, and they do barbecues and all the things that other neighbors and friends do.
Yeah, you're right.
Well, it's surprising to see all the Nazi and Hitler and Mubarak size outside the Capitol.
And it just seems to me that that's kind of a denigration and a demonization.
No, by golly, you're right.
The public workers are being vilified.
Despite the president, let's see, the president's over two here.
He's called for civility, and his troops aren't being civil.
And he's said that we not vilify these public sector people.
They work for us.
They're our neighbors.
And they're being vilified.
Denigrated, in fact, if you will.
Well, I tell you what, my idea of happiness is the opportunity to be able to get up every day and work my own job and be able to listen to you.
Well, I appreciate that.
I mean, I really do.
I thank you very much for that.
That's great, Dan.
Thanks a whole lot.
I appreciate you.
Have a good day, okay?
You too.
Thank you.
Dan in St. Louis, and we'll be back.
Governor Chris Christie is in the Politico quoted as saying, I could win the White House.
Governor Christie says, I could win the White House.
I'm not ready to win the White House.
I'm not running for the White House, but I could win the White House.
Well, it is an interesting development.
But he says he could win the White House.
He says he knows he could win the White House if he ran.
But he says he's not ready to run.
He says he knows he's not ready for the job.
But he could win it if he ran.
Keeping a sharp eye, as I'm sure you will too.
Back in 21 hours.
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