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June 20, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 20, 2011, Monday, Hour #3
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There he is.
Senator McCain now on defense after blaming illegal immigrants for the wildfires in Arizona now backtracking, had no uh had no evidence for that.
He'd been all over the place.
Uh meet the press yesterday, Senator McCain was blaming the Republican Party for being isolationist or all presidential nominees at least.
At any rate, here we are.
We are in Los Angeles, uh, Southern California, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
This is the uh this is the place where Hollywood liberals really delve deep into cocktail party chit-chat, think they're discussing very serious policy things.
It's uh it's fun.
I mean, they hear these people run into them now and then.
You can see went out to uh dinner last night with some friends, and you should have seen the looks I got walking in this place.
It's the you know an alien.
It was like, what the hell is he doing here?
But the place was great.
I'm not gonna mention the place.
I'll get them in trouble.
But they were they were not, it was it was um I mean for the minute we walked in the door, you could just I've learned, you know, for security purposes to uh recognize this stuff.
And it wasn't a large place that everybody did double take.
One guy needed a neck brace, his double take was so severe to uh get out of there.
Anyway, here's the phone number uh for our final hour of the program, 800 282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, our email address, lrushbow at eIBNet.com, Jay Leno made a joke about two if by tea on the Tonight Show Friday night.
Rush Limbaugh has come out with his own brand of iced tea, which shows Rush on a horse dressed up like Paul Revere.
Well, how confusing is this going to be for Sarah Pamela?
She must have no idea.
Uh, yes, and as I mentioned earlier, folks, uh, people are you know, you can you can uh if you're clever like I am, and if you're if you have empathy, very sensitive like I am, you can realize and people are trying to manipulate you.
And I've got a bunch of little notes from people telling a design to get me to once again discuss the tea.
And I'll do it very quickly because I did get one serious note from it was a friend of a friend who sent the note, it's third party, heard all about this tea and went to the store and couldn't find it.
And sent a note to my friend, where is it?
And so just briefly, two if by tea is the name of the tea.
It's four flavors, and it's folks, it's I've I'm holding it right.
I've got this Diet Raspberry in my in my formerly nicotine stained fingers.
It's the best bottle.
It is the best label by far.
This label's gonna win awards.
It's the best tea.
And people have finally they've received their first shipments and they've tasted it, and it is the best tea.
Whatever the flavor, we get diet raspberry, regular raspberry, uh, and and regular flea uh regular flavored tea and uh sweetened and also calorie-free.
No calories, and you taste the tea in it.
Tea does not overpowered, but either the raspberry or the sweetener.
And it is just the best that you've ever had, and it's only available at our website, to if by tea.com.
Well, there's a phone number.
We have a call center too.
Let me give you that number, 8662-1776.
We sell it in 12 packs.
It's the only way you can buy it.
We ship it free.
Imagine.
$23.76 for 12 bottles and the shipping is free.
You'll have it within three days.
If you want to request next day shipping, you can uh at an added expense.
We don't see the shipper gets it.
We, if you do so standard and we absorb it, because we're such believers in uh in the product.
We have official sponsor, the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
They will get uh, or we, two if by tea will contribute a minimum of 100,000 to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation this year.
M. Cleff, affectionately known to us, provides college scholarships for the children of Marines killed in action, and in some cases, the children of um other members of the service, Army, Air Force, uh, who are killed in action, depending on on circumstances.
That was ten months in the making.
Lest somebody else steal the idea.
But from tea to shining tea, two if by tea, two if by tea.com.
We got the best pickers picking the best stuff.
We got the best selectors.
We got the best bottlers.
We got the best packers.
We have the best taste testers.
We got the best product.
It's over the top.
Excellent and superb.
And again, 12 packs and for 2376.
Free shipping.
Try that anywhere else.
It's not in retail stores because we couldn't get it distributed in retail stores everywhere by the launch date.
We didn't even want to try.
There's a lot involved in that.
We wanted everybody to be able to get it.
It's no more complicated than that.
But it's our little venture here, our little entrepreneurial entrepreneurial project.
And who knows where it's going, but it was it's been fun.
It's uh I'll tell you, oh, another reason that I did this, folks, is I want to put my money where my mouth is or my mouth or my money, or whatever.
We live in a period of time where the president of the United States and his buddies are launching all out of talk, uh, attack, all out of salt on the private sector of the country.
And they're making startup like this very hard to do.
And I wanted to find out just how hard.
And I wanted to do it of an educational experience anyway, but to go through the legals on the label, the FDA, the ingredients, everything that we had to do to bring this to market has been an eye-opening education for me.
And I now have, even though I have a great respect for everybody in business small and large, it's newfound and added uh with uh with the experience of doing this.
Also to show that it can be done despite the leadership that we have at present.
It can be done.
I don't know if we're gonna make a profit on it, of course, that isn't guaranteed, but we've had a uh tremendous time doing it, and we are extremely excited and proud of the product because it is the best.
You're not gonna throw the bottles away.
You're gonna keep the bottles of labels.
These are gonna win awards.
We're gonna have billboards going up someday soon here, folks.
Keep a sharp eye.
We're gonna have posters out there.
We're gonna have shrink wrap on giant trucks taking this stuff into various cities down the line before this is all over.
We have just begun.
And the key to it all, of course, is that we did it.
It's ours.
The second key is that you like it.
And up to now, the evidence is in that you do.
So the demand is increasing, and we are and national rollout, and we are in no danger of running it.
We made sure we had enough product.
This is another thing.
One more thing, and I'll get off of this.
We thought about the Apple marketing technique.
And that is to say, sorry, we're sold out after the first two hours.
To make it look like there was such a demand that we are so shocked and so stunned and try to create demand that way.
No, that's not gonna do that.
We're gonna have something for sale.
Let's make sure it's available.
People want to buy it.
So that's what we opted to do.
And we uh we made sure there's plenty of product to satisfy a huge national demand by a thirsty nation.
Twoif by tea.com or 866-662-1776.
All right, a brief time out.
We'll come back, we'll continue.
We've got more of your phone calls coming, and um lots of other stuff in the stack of stuff.
We're basically scratch the surface.
Sit tight.
Back before you know it.
I tell you, you know, McCain can be on defense all he wants in his wildfire comment, the illegals.
He ought to be on defense for trashing the Republican presidential field the way he did, gratuitously for what reason, what purpose did that serve yesterday on Meet the Press?
He's not running for president again.
These guys, uh, we know, not we hope.
These guys are not his enemy to run around and and and to call all these guys isolationist simply because they have some questions about the purpose.
We're in Libya.
Did I say year?
Oh, no, I was we're We are donating a hundred thousand dollars this month to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
Not this year.
I um I I guess I misspoke.
I thought I said this month.
Okay, back to the phones we go.
This is uh Kathy Muncie, Indiana.
Thanks so much for waiting.
Welcome to the program.
Hi.
Hi.
It's good to talk to you.
Thank you very much.
I'm shocked that I even got through.
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet your big showbiz break.
My sister sent me uh your tea.
Yeah.
And your regular tea.
I'm not opening it.
She sent me a bottle for my birthday.
My birthday was in May.
And anyway opening it, I just read the bottles.
There's no way anybody's touching it.
I'm put I put it in a box.
There's other bottles.
There's I mean, you can open a drink and you could get another bottle and and say, Do you want to save the first bottle you got?
Is that what it is?
No.
I haven't had a birthday and remember when you had a birthday cake on TV and you had a football birthday cake and it was real huge.
Yeah.
I tend like that was my birthday cake too.
I mean it might say I was I was only about seventeen something, and I just I was like, oh my God, look at that beautiful cake.
But anyway, she sent me a bottle because she knows that I love Rush.
Right.
And I used to sit down every night with my dad and watched you on TV.
When you took your T the show off TV, I sat there and cried.
I was like, we'll never see him again.
What's that was?
Which I was very happy about uh for a while.
I wasn't I was crying.
Well, no, seeking anonymity.
I was seeking anonymity.
I didn't mean it that way.
Well look, let me what what what kind of tea did she give you?
Which flavor?
It was just uh the regular tea.
I didn't blue label.
Uh yeah, the blue label you ha you was on a horse.
Oh god, I thought that was so sweet.
Rush Revere.
Yeah the figure is so cute.
And I was like, oh man, I sit there and I wrapped it in tissue paper and stuff, put my uh bottle on the uh because I'm a collector, and when I get something like that, I don't even want anybody touching it.
Wow.
So Well look, I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna send you a case.
This is this is unreal.
You can't sit there and just not taste it.
Well if you're sitting here, if you're having your birthday cakes vicariously through mine, the least I can do is that birthday cake because of I was saying really haven't had a birthday, what you call it, a birthday cake or anything.
And I thought, you know, and you had that great big old cake, and I was like, oh my God, I never knew cake was that big.
Of course, you know, my dad was a custodian of Ball State, and you know, my mom and dad kept food on the table and roof over a head and now and shoes and clothes on her feet, and that was the most important thing in the world.
It was a luxury.
Well, okay, look, I want you to hold on, Kathy.
Don't hang up.
Uh Mr. Snerdley, the nice man who answered the phone when you called.
Uh we'll pick up the uh pick up the phone to get your address and we'll uh we'll ship you a cake.
What do you want?
What flavor do you want?
I don't care.
No, name something.
It's either raspberry or diet raspberry or regular or diet regular.
Uh Diet Regular.
Diet regular.
Yeah, my husband, he's a diabetic.
Okay, fine.
Well, our this stuff is great for diabetics.
Don't doubt me.
Okay, Kathy, thanks much.
Very we'll send you a case of this stuff out.
El Quicko.
Snerdley, you still have Snerdley says he goes.
Now he's not opening his either.
Nah, that's just a desperate ploy for me to give him a case.
That's all Dawn's drinking hers.
Thanks, Kathy.
Appreciate it.
Joe and Ellie J. Georgia.
Thank you, sir, for waiting.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Rush, thank you so much.
I just want to say that I am extremely fired up about Mitt Romney.
I got to meet him four years ago, and I am so excited.
I wear Romney for president sticker every day.
I answer my phone, Romney for president.
He knows how to create jobs.
He's you know, after he's had a great marriage.
He's just a incredible salesman for free enterprise and capitalism.
And Russ, I get up every day, and I am for the next year and a half, doing all I can to elect the great Mitt Romney, president of the United States of America.
there you go.
Okay, so we we got a Romney support.
Thanks for the uh thanks for the call, Joe.
Appreciate it.
Didn't hear any doubt there.
The guy is uh firm in his conviction from Mitt Romney.
Now, you remember the uh you remember the Wisconsin battle over public employees and their wages and their pensions and collective bargaining and so forth.
Listen to this.
This is from the San Francisco Chronicle.
San Francisco, city pension.
Pension for city employees.
The pension pays more than the average worker in San Francisco is paid.
The figures show most retirees aren't getting anywhere near the fat packages that outrage many city residents, like the $264,000 pension paid to the former police chief Heather Fong last year, but city retirees are doing pretty well compared with working San Franciscans.
Census data show that the median family income in San Francisco is eighty-six thousand dollars, five hundred and forty-six a year.
Per capita income forty-four thousand.
The public defender Jeff Adachi is gathering signatures to place a measure on the November ballot that would require city workers to pay far more of their salaries toward their pensions.
Currently, most pay seven and a half percent of their paychecks.
But some highly paid employees would pay double that in bad economic times.
I mean, this that they've got some relative uh comparisons here, what people making, but the bottom line is that people who work for the city of San Francisco's pensions when they retire, in other words, what they are being paid by the taxpayers is more than what the taxpayers earn.
And this is starting to r be realized by people all over the country.
It's not sustainable.
It simply will not work.
It can't.
Once the taxpayers find out how much they are paying people not to work when they retire.
And when they find out that it is almost double what they earn when they're working, the average retiree from San Francisco city government earns an annual pension of $46,000.
The average retiree who worked at least 30 years in city government earns an annual pension of $76,000.
The average pension for a retiree from the fire department, $108,000.
dollars.
Thank you.
From the police department, $95,000.
Everybody else is forty-one thousand dollars a year.
Unsustainable.
Catherine, Boca Raton, Florida.
Hi, and welcome to the EIB network.
Thank you, Rush, and thank you for taking my call.
You bet.
Um, and congratulations, and I hope you do extremely well with your upstart c uh company business, and I'm sure you will, and I'm sure we'll get some of your tea.
But on a more serious note, as I said to the call screener, I am personally outraged by the golfing outing.
And I don't know how many of your listeners, I'm sure you know, but what truly was even far worse than yesterday was the president of the United States played golf on Memorial Day.
I am almost my voice cracks when I hear that.
And in full disclosure, I come from a military family.
I cannot believe that he could take a Reese to Arlington for a photo opt and play golf while our sons and daughters and mine included.
My father served in World War II.
I'm just about your age.
So my brother and my brother-in-law served in Vietnam and I watched this fraud being played out in front of us.
The absurdity, the outrage out here, and I am so upset.
I've had it now with Boehner, and I liked him.
I'd had it with a Kasich, and I liked him.
I thought he was one of the most outstanding governors, and the reason I liked him was when he served in the Congress, he knew when to go home.
I cannot believe he knew when to go home.
He knew when to go home.
He knew, as our founding fathers put it, we represent our district.
And as you know, uh we have a fine uh representative, Lieutenant Colonel Alan West from our district here in Boca Ratone.
That's right.
And I I'm telling you, people are this is beyond now.
This is truly beyond Democrat or Republican.
This is about Catherine, do you not understand that our president needs a relief uh from the stressful situation being present?
I don't think he knows.
All the media experts are telling us he needs to do this in order to stay focused, though.
Well, I'm really sorry about that, but he's not representing me or or what our family has given to this country and loads and loads of other people that I know, and like you said, people are trying to hold on to their houses.
Fortunately, both my husband and I are hardworking people, i.e., we do live in Boca, and we are conservative people.
We are active in the Tea Party movement.
I am very pro-life.
I am I what I liked about Sarah Palin so much was her vigorous defense for the second amendment of the United States.
Well, I'm gonna tell you, there are more people like you out there than you know who are silently seething over that photo op of the golf course.
You're you're not alone on that.
Don't doubt me.
Ladies and gentlemen, I've been asked a quick question.
Uh, can you drink two if by tea with a wiener or a Frank?
Or is that in bad taste?
Um we've looked into that.
There's no problem in drinking two if by tea with a wiener or with a Frank.
Uh well, I mean, within within limits.
Not a problem.
Uh I've been talking about I wanted to hear what McCain said.
I've been talking about McCain treating the uh Republican presidential field as a bunch of fire hydrants.
What he said on uh this week, he was not Christian Amanpo on ABC's this week.
They were talking about the War Powers Act and the war against Libya.
And Christian Amanpore said, Are you concerned about the message that we're hearing?
You've talked about the partisan uh share.
What's going on in Congress?
Are are you concerned, for instance, about what Speaker Boehner is saying about this?
Well, I was more concerned about what the candidates uh in New Hampshire the other night uh said.
Uh this is uh isolationism.
There's always been an isolation strain, uh isolation strain in the Republican Party, the Pat Buchanan wing of our party, but now it seems to have moved uh more center stage, so to speak.
Come on here.
What are we supposed to do?
Everywhere in the world we're supposed to go, Congo Sudan.
It's our place, every case use the military where there are human rights violations on the scale.
Isolationism?
Why do this?
What is the I don't know.
I mean we need it, as I said earlier, we need a new definition of what he means by isolationism because this is just over the top.
And I think, you know, he's out today blaming illegal immigrants for these wildfires, and I gotta tell you, that's as inane as anything else, and I probably he's outdoing that to make sure people don't talk about his comment on Meet the Press.
Because that's what I'm sure he's embarrassed by or wants to have people not focus on.
Because that I mean it's senseless.
Literally no sense whatsoever.
This is a kind of he would never Say something like that about Obama when he was running for office himself.
When he's running for the presidency, he wouldn't criticize Obama that way.
I don't know who he's trying to curry favor with now.
I mean, uh, what's what's the what's the point?
Uh, who's next?
Where are we going next?
I don't see anybody highlighted up there on the uh on the board.
Ah.
Uh, this is Muncie Louise, uh, Muncie, Indiana.
Dennis, thanks for calling, sir, and welcome to the EIB network.
How Kimasabe.
Hey.
This is Dennis from Muncie, Indiana.
I got that.
I I have about 20 years of stuff to talk to you about.
But I wanted to tell my my youngest daughter has been trying to get a hold of you forever, and she's going to die when she knows I've talked to you today.
Well, you better make it count then.
Well, I'm gonna make it count in a public school where she goes to school at.
She did a report on you in an advanced placement class in her sophomore year, which just passed.
What kind of report?
Like, what was it for?
Well, it was uh uh uh it was uh I think it was like a literature class.
And she did a report on Rush Limbaugh.
I can imagine what's gonna happen next.
She got a hundred and forty-six points out of a possible hundred and sixty.
Well, that surprises me.
Well, now this school, I dare not say the name, but they pray, they teach right from wrong, and and they and they they prepare their students for life.
Well, that's good.
You had me thinking that something the exact opposite happened.
Oh no, this was a great thing.
Oh no, everybody knows her as a she's 16 years old Rush, and she's leaving this Sunday to go to Hillsdale College, and she's going to be leaving with them to go to England for a land in literature study tour.
Well, congratulations.
That is you could you can't do better than that.
That is congratulations to you.
That's a great place for her.
And I'm happy to 146 out of 60 doing a report on me.
It obviously not a public school.
It was a public.
It was a public school.
It was a public scrule, and he doesn't want to mention name of Scruel.
Oh well.
We'll take see, folks.
There are hot spots out there where it is okay.
All is not lost.
No reason to pack it up in cave in.
I've always told you that I'll tell you when it's time to do that.
CNN saying that the um head of the ATF getting ready to uh resign over this uh this bungled operation, fast and furious to send AK-47's other weapons to Mexico as a means of finding and tracking drug lords.
That's not what this was.
Obama's out there saying he's doing about it.
Uh I this all up.
The attorney general knew what was going on, and the Justice Department knew here.
And the real purpose of this, folks, was uh was a presidential assault on the second amendment, trying to create the impression American guns are finding their way into Mexico and they're ending up being used by drug cartel members to kill uh border agents, ice agents, this guy.
I mean, it was really this a despicable thing here.
We had this story, went with it today.
We had the story back in March.
And so everybody said, well, we didn't know about this operation going on.
This ATF guy was on his own, a rogue operation.
Obama didn't know.
Holder didn't know, nobody knew, but somebody had to authorize it somewhere.
I mean, but this is this is uh this is absurd.
This is how leftists work.
Stage something like this, say that's ostensibly to help us track the movement of weapons among the drug cartels by using America.
And these these were guns that were bought illegally at gun shows in Phoenix, the gun shops.
We knew and allowed them to be transported across the border.
We were told the purpose of it, yeah, we're gonna track them.
We're gonna find out who the drug lords are and where they are.
These weapons ended up being used against Americans.
And you remember before anybody knew this had happened, when the shootings started, that's when we started getting stories about how, man, look at American guns.
Why we need to do something about controlling guns and being used by Mexicans to kill Americans.
That was the that was the objective is to have everybody just rise up in protest and outrage over how this could happen.
Was designed for that uh result.
Now it backfired, and everybody is aware of it.
And so we've got a uh fall guy, the ATF guy, who may in fact have been involved, but the idea that he alone conceived this plan, that he alone executed the plan, and that uh nobody in the regime knew about it.
Sorry.
I don't know.
I'm really uh not buying it.
This is what's called a false flag operation, by the way.
The name for this kind of stuff, and it's known.
Here's uh here's Greg in uh Chatham, New Jersey.
Greg, I appreciate your patience and holding on.
Welcome to the program.
Yes, hi, Rush.
I wanted to comment on the growing outrage over uh what NBC did in their coverage of the fourth round of the U.S. Open yesterday.
They ran a patriotic tribute consisting of words and and uh pictures spliced together with the Pledge of Allegiance, and they left out the words under God, and uh the response was immediate, so much so that it was either Nance or the other uh announcer uh towards the end of the show had a non-apology apology where again they didn't mention that the words that were edited out were those words under God.
And I myself called the USGA headquarters uh a couple hours ago, and they've received additional hundreds of calls this morning, and they are scheduled to release a very scathing and critical uh press release castigizing uh NBC for their actions.
Castigizing.
Castigating.
Castigating.
Criticizing.
Uh yeah, ripping them.
Exactly.
You know, I I uh uh Dan Hicks, who uh was the lead play-by-play anchor, said they just forgot it that wasn't intentional.
It just didn't it just it just it just happened just somehow it was omitted.
Now that's what they're saying.
Under God has been in the Pledge of Allegiance for how many years?
50?
At least Red Skeleton did his his deal, and uh we've got that red skeleton tape where he teaches young boys and girls about the Pledge of Allegiance and its history.
It's at least 50 years old.
It's been in there.
Now, you know, with all that we know about behind the scenes producers and editors at television news networks and the things that they do manipulate.
It's a little hard to believe that this was an accident, because this you you you you you you you have to consciously take action to take something out of it that's already in it, such as under God.
It's not like they forgot to add something to it.
They actively took something out.
And that's hard to square with an accident.
NBC apologized and apologize to those of you who might have been offended by it.
Obviously, you didn't accept the apology.
Absolutely not, Rush.
Uh uh I uh, you know, golf is one of the last bastions of honorable sports in America.
It does re represent everything that's good about America, and uh for NBC to try to pull that dirty trick, uh I think is a travesty, and they should be harshly criticized uh for that.
And I believe it's it'll be interesting to see.
I I think the lesson here for uh for less for NBC is if it was an accident, they ought to learn how much this really matters to people.
I don't know if they really know that.
Under God was added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954.
Almost my entire life, the Pledge of Allegiance has contained the words under God.
So for it not to show up on NBC, yes, somebody had to take it out, which is an actual physical movement or decision.
Folks, have a great Monday.
We'll see you back here in 21 hours, same time.
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