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March 16, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 16, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Ladies and gentlemen, I've just been told that I am uh I've been mispronouncing uh uh the name of the goddess of Earth.
And I swear I have not been doing it on purpose.
I'm told that it is incorrect to say Gaia.
That the correct pronunciation is Gaia.
Well, it matters, Snerdley, if they think I'm I'm mispronouncing it on purpose to make fun of it.
I don't know how that would be making fun of it.
I'm not mispronouncing it on purpose.
I've never heard the word pronounced, and I'm deaf.
I just see it and I try to pronounce things as they are spelled.
I try to imagine the phonetic pronunciation.
Okay, so it's Gaia.
There we have it.
Now, by the way, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh and the EIB network.
800 282-2882, email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
I have to get this out of the way.
This a New York Times headline, Clinton in Egypt embraces a revolt she wants discouraged.
She?
Who's president for crying out loud?
She once discouraged.
Anyway.
Um, ladies and gentlemen, the uh the uh phone call yesterday we had in this program from a guy who uh wondered why this happened in Japan, given the efforts in Japan to save the planet.
Well, the Prius uh recycling electric cars.
I mean, the notion that humanity is destroying the planet with climate change is something that a lot of people with too much time on their hands believe.
And it is said that well, you know the drill.
Everybody in government around the world wants higher taxes.
One of the ways to get higher taxes is to make you believe you're destroying something.
You, your lifestyle, you're destroying the climate.
But there's a way that you can make amends.
There's a way you can save.
Buy an electric car, buy a pre as a uh uh hybrid uh roll back your life.
All these things that we're supposed to do, these are these are guilt-laden things.
And so efforts have been undertaken all over the world to save the planet.
The guy called in here yesterday and the Earth must be very unappreciative.
Gaia must not really appreciate these efforts because look what got slammed here by an act of Gaia.
Remember, these goddess is Earth.
And we're trying to destroy Earth, but it saved Earth St. Time.
The efforts to save the Earth just got swamped in a hurricane followed by a tsunami.
Caller was saying this is a very ungrateful Gaia.
I thought, you know what?
Illustrating absurdity by being absurd makes sense.
The Hollywood reporter is having a cow over this, along with my making fun of Diane Sawyer.
Look, it's recycling.
Snerdley just told me that the UK Daily Mail has picked up on this.
The UK Daily Mail has been a big story now, and I'm sure, you know, it's not a caller that did it, it's I did it.
I'm the one and I'm the one.
It's mentioned way down in the article, but it's and with all these other people.
Gilbert Gottfried, and he uh had to apologize here for uh making jokes as the F Lak Duck or whatever it is.
The point is that I, El Rushbow, am showing no sensitivity whatsoever.
Well, since the cat's out of the bag, we have a call up here.
Grab let's grab this call because this call is going to lead into a brief monologue of some thoughts I've got about all this that's happening.
The caller is Robert in Washington, Indiana.
Hi, Robert.
Great to have you on the program, sir, and welcome.
Good day, Mr. Limbaugh.
Yes.
I would like to just express some ditto from uh I'm a bass player with Panama Red, Kinky Friedman, and the Texas Chew Boys.
No.
Wait a second now.
You're not helping me here, Robert.
Did you hear that?
Yeah, well, I read it.
I read it here.
I wasn't sure what I heard, so I read it.
Uh you are a uh did you say bass player?
With Panama Red, which came who, the man, Panama Red, Danny Finley, is his actual name on his driver's license, but his stage name is Panama Red, came out of the Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jew Boys Band back in the day.
Right, but you're not with Kinky Friedman Jew Boys.
You are with Panama Red.
Every time I have a chance.
Okay.
We do Cleveland uh Pittsburgh area Nashville, blah blah.
Let me just folks let me just go on the record here.
I I I've heard of Kinky Friedman, but not the Jew Boys.
You saw him smoking a cigar with the cowboy hat off.
I've seen that.
I've I've I've seen that, but I don't know anything about the Jew Boys band.
I just for the We're in enough hot water here, Robert.
Now you have just you turned me into like a nuclear reactor here.
I wanted to draw my rods.
Uh because I don't know anything about China's nuclear program.
And uh my question is, why don't China, their next door neighbor, help out these Japanese?
Yeah.
That that's your question.
Why don't why aren't the Chicoms helping the Japanese?
Is that a is that a viable question?
Yeah.
It's uh it's in fact, not only why aren't the Chicons helping, why isn't the EU helping?
Now follow me on this.
Why isn't India helping?
And when you get down to brass tacks outside of the U.S. military, what are we doing?
China's sending some aid.
All right.
Here's um I know that Kinky Friedman and Texas, well, they are the real band, Kinky Friedman, Texas Jew Boys uh real band.
The ChaiCon say they are helping.
Here look it.
Folks, we opened this week, this is Wednesday.
We opened this week with a I did with a lesson on the media and how they operate and exaggerate and so forth.
Let me give you some recent examples.
Let's go back to Hurricane...
Forget Katrina.
Let's go back to the BP oil spill.
Do you remember at the end of it all, they couldn't find very much oil.
And yet it was the worst disaster ever.
Biggest disaster in history.
There wasn't any oil.
They kept warning us.
Be prepared.
Those oil soaked birds.
Don't let your children see.
But there never were any oil-soaked birds.
Remember?
There was some school kids, a class school kids in St. Louis who were taken down there on a field trip to look at it.
All of the devastation and the damage from the BP oil spill.
And there wasn't.
Some, but it wasn't the catastrophe that it was portrayed to be.
It wasn't the catastrophe that it was uh predicted to be.
At some point, we got all these shocked as we can be stories about microbes in the ocean that just ate the oil.
It's amazing.
It just happened.
This was after I had told people when this thing first happened, the ocean is a very powerful and mean thing, and it can destroy a whole lot of stuff.
You can't survive in it very long.
Stranded or whatever.
You are in deep doo-doo.
Oceans very tough.
I was born out to be correct.
So we have all these people on the media that we've never heard of, who never heard from ever before, making calls to evacuate.
Something called the EU energy agent is saying all of this is uncontrollable.
We had a panic story yesterday that the one of the reactors was in the process of meltdown.
It was so bad that all the workers had been sent out, then we realized today.
No, but it was an error in translation.
They were just temporarily dispatched.
They've been sent back in.
We have holed, been told about this gaseous, noxious uh trail or cloud path of radioactivity that's going to fly over Hawaii and then to California and wipe out a bunch of people, and it's not going to happen.
They're not going to get there.
It doesn't have the power, it'll dissipate.
People are people in the media calling this worse than Hiroshima.
Now we know how they operate.
But I'm not saying that this isn't bad, but for crying out loud, there's not a whole lot.
Chinese say they're sending some aid.
Nobody's doing a whole lot here.
And I get emails from people who are living in Tokyo saying, Yeah, we're playing golf today.
People are going about their business and living.
The reports are that this country is on the verge of sinking.
The whole country, the whole island, is on the verge of disappearing.
Remember the BP oil spill, the worst oil spill ever, except there wasn't any oil.
The ocean ate it.
Remember all those dire predictions?
Seriously.
Remember the head of BP came out and said, wait a minute now, don't panic.
The water volume in the Gulf is so large that the amount of oil here is not even a speck.
Nobody's gonna notice it.
Guy was run out of town on a rail.
Turns out he was more than right.
This is just a plea not to panic.
FDR.
I don't quote much of what the guy said, but he did say we have nothing to fear but fear itself.
And all we're getting is fear.
From all sides.
That's what news has become.
Fear, crisis, and scaremongering.
Is all it is.
If it's where is all the assistance.
You know, it's almost as though there are some people, clowns, whatever, don't mind whatever economic damage happens to Japan, because it's a competitive world out there, and uh we'll make up the slack.
We'll see.
Audio sound bites.
This is uh this Rick Santelli.
Uh, this is from uh, let's see, this morning on Squawk Box on CNBC.
He's talking about the housing numbers and inflation.
We have data, we have a lot of data.
Let's go with the starts, 479,000.
That is a humongous drop.
We're looking at permits, 517,000, another just humongous drop from 563,000.
So that puts starts, what?
Down 22, 23%.
Let's go to the producer prices.
Shocking, up 1.6.
Hey, that includes food and energy.
Now, it was in April of 2010 that I told everybody that these Obama policies are gonna lead to just this kind of thing.
Housing numbers, inflation, all of this, and it's now coming to fruition.
And Obama's out picking his teams for the uh NCAA brackets.
Now we've been laughing about this.
Here's the audio soundbite.
Sam Mateo, California, yesterday.
NBC Bay Area correspondent Damien Trujillo interviewing the surgeon general Regina Benjamin during a discussion about nuclear preparedness and the reports of people buying iodide.
The question was asked of the surgeon general, is this appropriate?
It's definitely appropriate.
We have to be prepared.
We've learned from anything in my experience at Katrina.
We need to be as prepared as we can.
The more you prepare, um, the better you can be.
The more lives we save, the less disability.
Right.
So rather buying more iodide.
By the way, the Dow Jones Industrial averages down nearly 300 right now.
My guess is that the street really doesn't like Obama's NCAA brackets.
No, no, no.
I am a huge kinky Friedman fan.
What?
How can how can a highly trained broadcast professional, the finest communicator in American media today?
Apparently be so misunderstood by people.
I did not criticize Kinky Friedman.
I love Kinky Friedman.
I smoke cigars.
I've seen him on Fox.
He's a great entertainer.
He's just a lot of people trying to stir things up out there today.
And it's all I'll tell you what it's all about.
It's all about this Gaia business.
And there are some Diane Sawyer people out there got their noses out of joint.
I'm sorry.
You know, I call them as I see them.
I see them as they are, and I love hearing myself say it.
You would too, if you're right as often as I am.
How many of you in trouble at home?
Um maybe not in trouble.
Maybe you're just um you want to tell the special someone in your life that you love them.
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It always works, particularly on a day like this, where there's absolutely no reason to send anybody flowers.
What is the day?
March the 16th.
Don let me ask you.
You're a woman in good standing.
Is there anything about March 16th that would say to you, I'm gonna get flowers today?
No.
No.
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Mm-hmm.
If you sent Diane Sawyer some roses, I guarantee you send Barbara Walter some roses.
I don't care who.
You send them some roses to the on a day like this, the last thing they're expecting.
I guarantee you there's no woman that other than having a birthday or anniversary, or maybe a woman who celebrates her divorce date.
No way she's expecting flowers.
I mean it.
Uh you can recycle the flowers.
Yeah, you can recycle them.
But you're not gonna You're not gonna have to for seven or eight days.
Well, Diane Sawyer would love them.
Yeah, they are recyclable roses, and she'd love them.
Um but you're not gonna have to for a week.
Rush Proflowers.com, Jenna in Rimmer, Minnesota.
Hello and welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Russ.
It's uh it's a real um real pleasure to talk to you.
I'm just really I'm really thrilled.
Thank you very much.
Um and uh totally white sheep of a DFL family ditto, too.
Uh oh, you're the only one, not DFL.
Yeah, my dad's a farmer.
Yeah, he doesn't like you very much.
Why?
Does your why do you know why he doesn't like me very much?
Well, I you know, he doesn't listen to you.
That's probably why.
So he's heard other people's criticism of me and decided that he doesn't like that.
Yeah, that's right.
That's right.
Totally that's exactly the reason.
So what are you gonna do?
You can't call your dad stupid.
No, no, he's eighty-one, so can't do that.
Can't do that.
Eighty one.
Wow.
Yes, I can't change his mind.
Can't change his mind.
And he's he's your father.
Yeah.
Yeah, I sound a lot younger than I really am.
I was gonna say.
Yeah.
I learned you know just you know you're not supposed to judge people by you know how they sound, but you do not sound old enough to have an eighty one-year-old father.
I know.
People I I get by with telling telemarketers, my parents aren't home all the time.
Wow, very cool.
Yeah.
So the reason I called is um I was just wondering about, you know, this whole NCAA bracket stuff.
Did um did President Bush ever do this?
No, President Dush, uh President Bush did not.
What he did do was invite Hall of Fame baseball players to the White House for lunch now and then.
Uh and I he did play the guitar at a fundraiser uh uh shortly after Hurricane Katrina happened, and he got hammered for it, Jamma.
He went to a fundraiser and he strummed on a guitar and he caught literal hell for it.
And it took nobody televised it.
He didn't make a big deal, it was just a fundraiser.
There was some news B-roll footage of it.
But no, he didn't fill out uh well, look, maybe he did do break.
He didn't make a big deal of it.
He didn't go public with it if he did.
Yeah, I I work in a social services office, and um I had to live through eight years of hearing nasty stuff about Bush.
And I I figured I would have heard, you know, any particular complaint if he would have done, you know, spent any wasteful time.
That's exactly right.
Now you you're you're you can ask that question, you can make that observation about any news event that happens today.
Can you imagine if a Republican president were doing it?
And the resulting uh panic attack that would take place in the media.
Janet, thanks much for the call.
Great to talk to you.
We'll take a brief time out, be right back.
Welcome back.
Oh no.
No way.
Great to have you back.
It's L. Rushbo's serving humanity, simply by showing up.
Here he is uh from the political.
Let me get to this stack here.
I've spoken about it all day.
This is a rising tide of concern over lack of leadership.
President Obama.
First story from the uh politico.
Now I had to read this three times to make sure I didn't miss something, like this is being April 1st or something, and I've been asleep for three weeks.
The headline of the story, Obama flaunts openness award.
President Obama's only event at the White House that is not closed to the press today, is a ceremony in which he'll accept an award for being open to the press.
According to his public schedule, Obama has four behind closed door meetings from ten o'clock to three o'clock, a daily briefing.
He talks to the U.S. AID administrator, a session with senior advisors, and a huddle with his defense secretary.
All of these are off.
Well, they're they're closed press, and no media allowed.
But at 255.
Twenty minutes from now.
Obama will emerge to an accept an award from a coalition of good government groups and transparency advocates to recognize his deep commitment to an open and transparent government of by and for the people in conjunction with Sunsign Week, Sunshine Week.
So a guy who's not transparent, a guy who is not open, a guy with four closed press meetings today is emerging to get an award for being open.
Now we're not supposed to laugh at this.
This is a comedy of errors.
And this from Fox News, Obama urged to seize reigns as crises pile up.
A conflict approaching civil war in Libya, an end times tsunami in Japan, a Congress that can't reach a budget, and gender inequality, the topic of Obama's weekend radio address is raise some eyebrows as Obama has met mounting crises with the same restraint And cool that characterized his slow and steady campaign for president.
You see the kind of this is utter drivel.
This is making excuses for an incompetent.
Good lord, would you look at Fox?
Look at that babe on the right.
They got some.
Look at the eye makeup.
She thinks St. Patrick's Day is today to get literal folks, green eye makeup.
I know I'm not supposed to send the audience away from here to Fox, but you gotta see this.
There she is again.
Green make it.
Uh, with red ch She's blinking a lot, too.
Have you noticed that?
She's the Leb on this show, so maybe the Fox you know the commie bay makeup artist works at Fox for my old TV show.
Maybe.
Well, you never know.
Where was I?
Oh yes.
The way these people make excuses for utter incompetence.
There's nothing cool and calm and steady about this.
Remember, remember how long it took him to address the BP oil spill.
You know, every time we have a crisis, the left eventually notices that they have to ask Obama to get involved.
It took him six, was it a was it a month?
Six weeks after the BP.
He did send somebody down there to look at it, but he didn't do anything.
He never mentioned the flash flooding last fall.
Uh and this, this is exactly the kind of opportunity the Republicans are not using to their political advantage.
I mean, this is Fox, but there are now stories where the the drive-bys are one, where is Obama?
Well, I mean, serious things here.
Uh political, Obama in a crisis, cool competence or passivity.
They only give us two adjective.
I'm sorry I gotta I gotta change channels.
That's just too distracting.
Hang on a second, folks.
I'm gonna turn it to ESPN.
Maybe I got reruns here of Obama picking the brackets.
I have never that's if that's purposeful.
And you watch, there'll be hate posts for daring to mention this.
I don't even know who it was.
All right, where was I?
Oh, yes, Obama in a crisis, cool competence or passivity.
These are the two choices they give us.
And I, in this story, by the way, I'm depicted as fuming.
Most people, when it comes to Obama, you know what they're anticipating?
His NCAA brackets, limbaugh fumed on his radio show Tuesday.
Limbaugh fumed.
But politico's asking, where is he?
Cool competence or pass?
How can you put how can you put the word competence in any of his behavior here?
Passivity?
Yeah.
Maybe.
Adrian Peterson, running back, Minnesota Vikings.
Have you heard about this?
This also, this is a great example of what I was talking about in the first hour about how there's just so much sympathy for minorities that they are, they're just not held to very high standards.
They can pretty much say and do whatever they want, and there's always a reason for it.
Including maybe they just didn't think about it before they spoke.
Adrian Peterson joined fellow players in decrying the negotiating tactics of NFL owners in the current labor battle.
But Adrian Peterson used an unusual analogy to describe the status of players.
It's modern day slavery, you know.
People kind of laugh at that, but there are people working at regular jobs who get treated the same way we two.
With all the money, the owners are trying to get a different percentage and bring in more money.
I understand that.
These are business-minded people.
Of course, this is what they're gonna want to do.
I understand that.
It's how they got to where they are now.
But as players, we have to stand our ground and say, hey, without us, there's no football.
Wrong.
Mr. Peterson, I hate to tell you, without owners there's no football.
Multimillionaire said.
Yeah, now here's what happened.
Now, but let me tell you something, though.
He said it's modern day slavery.
Look!
Spike Lee said this about LeBron James on ESPN.
It's modern day slavery.
Now, when you read left wing sports commentary, well, you know, maybe we didn't, maybe, maybe we don't have this in context.
We need to get hold of Adrian to see what he really meant.
In the meantime, Yahoo Sports removed that from his post.
They they took, they just took it upon themselves to take the modern day slavery comments out of the story.
Then they talked to Adrian Peterson's agent.
No, he meant it, so they put it back in.
But maybe.
Well, you just have to understand where these players are coming from.
That's this is my point is that what would allow for this to be excused?
Sympathy.
Well, he really didn't know what he would say, well, you know, maybe we don't have it quite in the right context.
Uh I mean, the the proof that they know this is damaging is they take it out.
You think they would ever remove some quote of mine that they made up?
Remember, these same people make up things that I never said about slavery and insert them into news stories.
Here this guy says it and they take it out at Yahoo.
So as not to embarrass him.
So well.
No, and what one sports writer said, well, what they what he really means is indentured servant.
He really means indentured servant, a la Kurt Flood, meaning he doesn't have the choice to play where he wants to.
He's an indigenous, but he really didn't mean slavery.
And it's about time they say that, because the guy makes millions upon millions of.
There's literally slaves did not get paid.
They didn't get six months off.
They didn't have universal health care.
It's it's it's it's it's ridiculous.
But kid gloves can't be condemnatory because, well, we just have to understand.
It's just a little.
But this notion there wouldn't be football without players.
And you, folks, you understand something now.
I live in Littoralville.
I understand economics, and I love the NFL, as you well know.
Many of you in a stick to the issues crowd hate the fact I love the NFL.
And you know that I have, like everybody else does, supreme admiration for the athletes that can play that game.
Something I wish I could do.
Can't do it.
Never have been able to do it, but I would love to be able to.
But there would not be football without owners.
Football players go out on a sand lot, play all they want.
But if one of the players or a series of them didn't start making investments, try to own franchises, build stadiums, do whatever it is they have to do to have a professional league, there would not be a professional league.
This is and this is not criticism.
I'm not I'm not taking sides.
Just like Obama hasn't chosen signs between uh Qaddafi and the rebels.
He hasn't.
He hasn't.
I'm not choosing sides here yet.
I'm just saying this notion that there wouldn't be the NFL without players is not really true.
One quick uh one quick sound by Charles Crowdhammer, Fox special report last night, the all-star panel, Brett Bayer.
Fifty-four Republicans voted to oppose the continuing resolution that cut six billion dollars from the budget to extend another three weeks.
Charles, what about this?
What about the battle that's brewing between the Republicans on these budget cuts?
As to the revolt among the conservatives, that's very interesting in the on the Republican side.
I think the conservatives are rather zealous here, and they may be overreaching.
You don't want to shut down.
It's not going to help the Republicans.
All right, so the conservatives in the House are uh rather zealous.
Overreaching.
Should be satisfied with six billion dollars.
Should be satisfied with ten billion dollars.
Otherwise, it could be a shutdown.
We don't want to shut down.
It's not going to help the Republicans.
Earlier, we had a story about the fallout that's occurring in the Republican leadership.
Not crazy about the new arrivals, the freshmen, some of the Tea Party people.
They don't understand how it works in Washington, that they too are being uh overzealous, they're reaching too far.
I wonder does the Republican leadership think that these new governors like uh Scott Walker are right wing extremists?
Scott Walker, zealous, overzealous.
Scott Walker reaching too far.
Because all Scott Walker's trying to do is do what the Republicans in the House were elected to do.
Cut his state's spending.
It's out of control.
John Kasich's up next.
He presented his budget last night.
We talked to him yesterday for upcoming interview in the Limbaugh Letter.
He's gonna have the same problem with the unions there.
Are these guys overzealous?
Are they zealous and overreaching?
They're just trying to do what the conservatives in the House are trying to do.
I guess these governors, too.
They're really going too far.
Not gonna help the Republicans in the end of the going too far.
Is that what we're is that what we're that was that what they believe?
I don't know.
I'm just asking.
Okay.
Time back to the audio soundmates.
Jay Carney.
There's one guy in Washington who wishes he had said no when the job offer was made.
It's no doubt Jay Kearney's the White House press secretary.
NBC White House correspondent Mike Vicera asked any thought to postponing the Latin American trip.
This is the Rio vacation this weekend.
NBC didn't want to characterize it as that, but we will.
Any chance Obama postponed the vacation to Rio this weekend?
We are...
We still very much plan to take the trip.
I just want to emphasize with all we are leaving on schedule on uh on Friday.
The it bears repeating that this is a crisis.
There is no question about it, and it is a crisis in Japan.
It is not a crisis in the United States.
All right, it's Japan's crisis, it's not Obama's crisis.
We're going to Rio.
Let Bush say it.
Let B. It's a crisis.
There's no question about it.
It's a crisis in Japan, not a crisis in the U.S. We're going to Rio.
Jay Carney.
What looks like Mrs. Clinton wants out.
Interview with Wolf Blitzer.
Question.
If the president's reelected, do you want to serve a second term as Secretary of State?
No.
Would you like to serve as Secretary of Defense?
No.
Would you like to be vice president of the United States?
No.
Would you like to be president of the United States?
No.
Mrs. Clinton said no.
She also said that Democrat dreams can be dashed by new autocrats or ideologues who use violence or deception to seize power or advance an undemocratic agenda.
That's a pretty harsh slam on Obama.
No wonder she wants out.
See you tomorrow, folks.
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