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Oct. 21, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 21, 2011, Friday, Hour #3
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David, my brother is having problems setting up iCloud.
He's sending me notes.
I'm trying to help him.
You need iPhoto 9.2 for PhotoStream to work.
That means photos in iCloud showing up on all your devices after you take a picture on an iPhone.
You need iPhoto 9.2, which is part of iLife 11.
It's Friday.
Let's go, folks.
Here we go.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line live.
And if you have iPhoto 9.2, you have to click on the Photo Stream button, both in iPhoto and on your iPad or your iPhone.
PhotoStream is like a photo album where those photos go to the cloud and back to your devices.
I hope that helps.
Multitasking.
It's what we're known for here at the EIB network.
I do my own show and help other people do their work at the same time.
800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program, the email address, El Rushbo, and I love it, by the way.
I'm a big evangel for this stuff.
Oh, I could, I tell you what, I could spend as much time talking to you about the new Apple things as I could football.
And the Stick to the Issues crowd would go nuts.
They would literally go nuts.
I'm tempted to get my phone out here and show you what this Siri will do.
I demonstrated Siri in the iPhone for Snirdly the other day, and he was blown away.
I asked Siri if people are playing with this because the phone, the computer talks back to you.
It's artificial intelligence.
It's not just programmed words.
So I asked the iPhone, I said, would you marry me?
And it came back and said, my end-user agreement doesn't permit things like that.
I said, what's your bust size?
I'm not allowed to answer those questions.
That's fun.
Everybody's trying to figure out what all you can do with this, and there's all kinds of room for growth in it.
Anyway, Open Line Friday, whatever you want to talk about is fine.
Telephone numbers 800-282.
Have I asked Siri any political questions?
I haven't.
Let's just try something.
Let's see how liberal Siri is on the iPhone.
And I've not done this.
This is a live demo.
I have no idea what's going to happen here.
All I know is that there's never any profanity out of this phone, so I'm safe there.
Okay, turn on the speaker to the mute off.
Here we go.
Siri, should I vote for Obama in 2012?
Doesn't know.
That's the first time I haven't gotten an answer.
Oh, it says one minute, one moment to try to figure it out.
Oh, let's try something else.
Let's try another demo.
Just a couple more seconds, it says here.
Maybe I'll be lucky and the phone doesn't know who Obama is.
Still nothing.
This is what happens with live demos.
Let's get rid of it and let's try.
Let's see.
What question do you want asked of the phone, Snerdley?
You got a question off the top of your head?
Okay.
Let's see.
Let's try it a different way.
will be elected president in the United States in 2012.
Checking on that for you.
Did you hear that?
How about a web search for who will be elected president in the United States in 2012?
No, thanks.
I don't want a web search to find that.
If the phone can't answer it, that's one of the questions that you get.
Okay, let's try this.
One more.
What is the distance?
What is the distance from the earth to the moon?
Let me check on that.
Okay, here you go.
And the answer is on the screen from Wolfram Alfra.
The answer is 232,993 miles.
You can have it do math problems, anything of the sort, but you can have it set up appointments, calendars, make phone calls.
You can dictate emails and text messages to it.
It's no, you can't rename it, but you can ask it to call you something else.
Let's try this.
Call me El Rushbo.
I don't have a phone number for El Rushdo.
You have to have a contact in your database with that name before it'll call you that.
So I'd have to go in.
If I wanted to, if I wanted a phone to call me El Rushbow, I'd have to create a contact database card, El Rushboe, and it would do that.
Speaking of all of this, the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson is due on Monday.
It was actually due in January.
Then they moved it up because of his death.
And there have been a number of leaks.
And one of the leaks of information that is in the book, Huffington Post got a copy of the book.
AP got a copy of the book.
The Huffing and Puffington Post revealed a very interesting tidbit, namely that upon meeting Obama in 2010, Steve Jobs told him you're headed for a one-term presidency.
According to the Huffing and Puffington Post, which read the book, Jobs was critical of the Obama regime for not being business-friendly and blasted the nation's education system as it is crippling or crippled by union work rules.
Jobs told Obama that regulations and unnecessary costs make doing business in the United States as opposed to China prohibitive.
Though Jobs was not that impressed by Obama, telling Isaacson that his focus on the reasons that things can't get done infuriates him, they did keep in touch.
They talked my phone a few times.
Jobs even offered to help create Obama's political ads for the 2012 campaign.
He had made the same offer in 2008, but he'd become annoyed when Obama's strategist David Axelrod wasn't totally deferential.
According to Isaacson, Jobs later told him that he wanted to do for Obama what the legendary Morning in America ads had done for Ronaldo's Magnus.
Now, I have been a student of Steve Jobs for a long time.
There are a lot of things about him that would surprise people.
He was as profit-oriented as any capitalist you have ever met.
He was one of the stories that the left is very uncomfortable with about Jobs.
When he took Apple back over in 1997, he went back after being exiled.
He went back in 1997 and after a few months became interim CEO, then full-time.
And the first thing he did was cancel every philanthropic program that Apple had because they were in a loss situation.
He said, I'm not going to give away money here while we're losing it.
And after Apple started turning profitable, he did not re-implement, did not reinstitute the philanthropic programs that Apple had in place.
And nobody knows what he did in private.
But Apple as a corporation did not have any official philanthropic programs, which bugged a lot of people and made it sound very, very strange.
Wozniak tells stories that they'd go when they were first starting out in the garage.
One of the things they built was blue boxes.
You know what a blue box was?
A blue box tricked the phone company.
You could make long-distance calls, and the phone company never knew that the phone had been taken off the hook.
I, El Rushmo, had one when I lived in Pittsburgh.
It worked.
And Wozniak and Jobs made these blue boxes, and they ran around the college dormitories and they sold them.
And Wozniak tells people he felt guilty over how much Jobs was charging versus how much it cost to make them.
That Jobs would sell something for 60 bucks that cost them six cents.
And Wozniak said, I wasn't interested in making money.
I just like build things.
I was a business side.
But Steve, all he wanted to do was just profit and profit and make a lot of money.
And I guess we needed that part of ourselves working together because we were totally different in that way.
Because if Steve hadn't cared about the money, we'd have never made any.
On the other hand, there was no questioning that Jobs would in no way give any indication to anybody at any time, anywhere, what his political leanings were, that they were anything but liberal.
And they probably were anything but liberal.
But when it came to running that business of his, he was as capitalist as any capitalist this world has ever produced, has been.
And I totally believe, I don't think they're leaking lies from Isaacson's book.
It's going to be out Monday.
We'll be able to check.
But, you know, all of Apple's products, and 99% of them, made in China.
They're made in China because if they weren't, they'd be prohibitively expensive made in the United States.
The fact that he would tell Obama that unions are destroying the schools is perfectly true.
It's perfectly true.
And that you're going to be one-term president.
There are a lot of Democrats who think that now.
If the election were tomorrow, he would be a one-term president.
There are other tidbits in the Walter Isaacson book where he slammed Bill Gates as a competitor.
This is another thing.
The Android operating system for Google phones, he just thought that he had been stolen, copied from by Google.
And the book says that he was going to spend every dollar he had to put them out of business.
I mean, there was nothing anti-competition.
There was no guilt over winning.
There was none of these liberal traits that you associate with the wishy-washy, spineless, linguine type behavior of liberals existed in Steve Jobs when it came to his business.
When he came to his business, he was going to triumph.
He was going to win, and he was going to be the only one in it.
They weren't going to be any competitors if he had his way.
He was going to wipe them all out.
He made no secret of the fact to people that he thought Windows was a total ripoff on copy.
However, if it hadn't been for Bill Gates, there might not have been a second iteration of Apple.
Gates invested $150 million when Apple was in trouble.
I think in 1997, and that wasn't because they were friends.
Largely, Gates did it because Microsoft even then was just huge and monopolistic, and give your competitor $150 million.
It keeps the wolves at bay in the federal government, and it helps keep the industry alive at the same time.
It was insurance against the government.
There were some other factors in play, too.
But it was clearly $150 million was not a big hit at all to Microsoft at the time.
Microsoft had other places to steal from.
But it kept Apple going.
And it was to Microsoft's credit that could be said they had a role in helping a competitor stay alive rather than go out of business.
So there was that political benefit to it, too.
But some of the stuff that's been leaked is fascinatingly interesting.
Let me try one more time here.
People on the blogs are writing all these questions about how they stumped Siri.
And I've stumped Siri twice here.
First, let's list his Siri.
What is your bust size?
Yes?
What is your bust size?
What is your bust size?
It's nice of you to ask.
Now, can I help you with something?
Yes.
Are you a communist or a conservative?
We are waiting.
Are you a communist or conservative?
I'm sorry, Rush.
I'm afraid I can't answer that.
There you go.
People are having fun trying to figure out what kind of things you can get the phone to say to you.
But you can have it do real things: schedule appointments, dictate emails, dictate texts.
And that's, in my experience, near-flawless translation of voice to text.
Thing is just amazing.
I take a break here, folks.
We'll sit back and continue right after this.
Do not go away.
Open Live Friday and back to the phones.
Brian and Joaneda, Nebraska.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Mega Cornbelt Dittos from America's Heartland.
Thank you very much, sir.
Appreciate you being out there, sir.
I consider myself a student of History Rush as well as a graduate student of the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
And there's one thing I want to talk about today.
It's been bothering me for quite a while.
The Occupy Wall Street movement, to me, seems very analogous to the unrest that we saw in the streets of Weimar, Germany, in the 20s.
The things that they're asking for are the same.
The people that they are blaming are the same.
And I wanted to get your thoughts on that.
Well, I think you could probably go back to a number of different points in history and find commonality or similarity because leftists are leftists, regardless of the era, regardless of the decade, the millennium, the century.
Leftists are leftists.
And uneducated people are uneducated people at whatever point in time that you want to talk about.
And there has always befuddles me.
Intellectually, intellectually, I try to understand this.
And that, of course, is very frustrating because a lot of this with these people is emotional.
But I don't understand them intellectually.
I could no more, I have no more in common with those people.
I have nothing in common with them.
Let's put it that way.
Nothing other than the frustration and anger over the fact that things aren't working.
But their reasons for being mad are as far away from mine as they could be.
See, I think these people are protesting the wrong people.
They're protesting the wrong thing just based on what they say they want, just based on what they say has them angry.
Wall Street has not done to them what they think has happened to them.
Government has.
You know, the biggest failing, you know what has really failed most of these people is the education system.
That's where they ought to be protesting.
If this thing were intellectually honest, they would be protesting every college that every one of them went to because that's where they have been failed.
That's where they have been misguided.
That's where they have been ill or maleducated or not educated at all.
This is where their minds have been propagandized and poisoned.
They're blaming the wrong people.
First and foremost, they have no sense of personal responsibility or stake in this at all.
The second thing is they're not going to get anything that they want going about it the way they're going about it.
So intellectually, I have no way to relate to it.
Intellectually, I have nothing whatsoever, not a smidgen in common with them.
But one important thing about your asking about the Weimar Republic, they was a republic.
The people in the streets were protesting a republic.
They wanted a different system.
They hated representative government back in the 20s.
The people you're asking me about, they were not protesting oppression or they were protesting freedom, essentially.
And I actually think that there's an element of that in this group.
They wouldn't understand it.
They think that what they're about is total freedom when it's not.
These people are begging to be controlled.
These people are begging for everybody to be controlled.
They're begging for everybody to lose as much economic freedom as can be taken away from them while they think that they're demanding and protesting for just the exact opposite.
But the people in the streets in Germany blamed Wall Street bankers.
That's why you think there's similarities, and you're right.
There are.
And to that extent, history repeats.
It's also clear we don't learn from it.
Back to the phones open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh to Palm Harbor, Florida.
Hi, Chris.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
How are you?
Nice to speak with you.
Thank you, sir.
So I wanted to get your thoughts on Tim Tebow starting on Sunday.
I have an entirely different view of this from what appears to be the consensus of the sports writer community.
The consensus of the, and not just the sports writer, I mean, coach Bill Cower, former Steelers running back Meryl Hodge, the list seems never ending that he doesn't have the ability to make it as a pro-style quarterback.
Sure, that's the consensus.
I'm not so sure.
They claim his throwing motion release is not quick enough, that he can't be a pocket passer.
I remember Champ Bailey, cornerback of the Broncos, number 24, saying early on in Tebow's arrival in Denver after the draft, he has never seen anybody work any harder than Tebow.
He clearly has the fans behind him in Denver, at least for now, but his first game's on the road against the Dolphins in Miami.
I don't know.
My gut is all I've got on this.
My gut tells me that Tebow's going to surprise people.
Well, you know, they're also honoring the 2008 Gators team before the game.
Yeah, is there any other reason to go see the Dolphins right now?
I mean, this is the new owner down there has decided to go Hollywood.
He's got all these limited partners that wouldn't know a football if they saw one, like Fergie and Jennifer Lopez and Mark Anthony and so forth.
So here comes Tebow, and the sports writer community is even ripping the Dolphins for doing that, but they sold out.
They had the earliest sellout that they've had all season honoring the Gators and Tebow coming in.
So there's clearly a lot of interest.
I don't know.
I'm just a fan.
So you're pulling for him.
Of course.
Absolutely.
I'm pulling for the guy.
Okay.
Yeah.
I mean, I think it's going to be an interesting week.
I'm pulling for him as well.
I think it's interesting.
You have to respect people who play the game.
You have to respect the coaches.
You have to respect the people whose business is professional football.
And there aren't too many people who think he's got the ability to be a successful pro quarterback.
Well, Steve Young's eye on him.
He is.
I hadn't heard that.
He is.
It's good to know.
I hadn't heard it, Young.
Anybody else that you know that's high on him?
You know, it's scant, but Steve Young seems like an honest person.
He was of the same style as Tebow, I think, early in his career.
Yeah, scrambler, big guy, could run, get out of trouble.
Did have a rather elongated flowing motion in his throwing motion.
Right.
Anyway, just thought I get that out there.
It's an interesting.
What about you?
What about me?
Your thoughts on Tebow?
Well, I think he's a winner, and I think that supersedes any sort of you can never quantify that.
Yeah.
You know, Merrill Hodge and all those guys, they can come on.
But I think it's clear that Tim Tebow, just like Michael Jordan or Lance Armstrong, are these guys who just know, you know, when you can close a deal, you can close a deal.
Let me ask you this.
How much do you think the criticism of Tebow is rooted in the fact that he is publicly devout Christian?
I would say from the analyst standpoint, it's probably very small.
But I would think most of the talking heads out there, of course, it's probably 85%.
Okay, so in the sports writer community, it's a big deal.
The people who play the game, not that big a deal.
No, I don't think Merrill Hodge could care less that he's a conservative Christian.
I mean, do you?
Well, no, not with Meryl Hodge.
No.
I don't think it would matter.
I don't think it would matter a hill of beans to Bill Cower.
Right.
So, but yeah, the sports writers, the beat writers should.
I'm sure they detest it.
Right.
Okay.
Well, I appreciate the call.
Thanks a lot, Russia.
You bet.
That's a great Open Line Friday kind of question.
Way to find it out there, Snerdley.
Brett Taylor, South Carolina.
Hello, and welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi.
Hey, Ross, Brett Anderson from South Carolina.
How are you doing?
Very good, sir.
Thanks much.
Hey, listen, I wanted to get your views on these new girly man NFL rules.
You know, you can't touch the quarterback, the defenseless receiver, and all that kind of stuff.
Let's explain what's happening.
Some people may not know.
The National Football League has become obsessed with preventing head injuries.
They are just obsessed with concussions, head injuries, particularly against defenseless players.
You know what you ought to do?
You ought to go back if you can.
I've done this.
Get some footage of college football back in the 1940s, 50s, 60s.
You will find a rough as nails game, but you will not find players launching at each other.
You won't find headshots.
You don't find kill shots, but you'll find classic, properly taught and executed tackling.
The game did morph and evolve into quite a different game than it has been in years past.
Now, the professional game is different.
If you go back 40s and 50s to professional game, those guys were headhunters.
It is a pansy game today compared.
As a standalone, it's not a pansy game, and they're not using girly man rules today.
But compared to what the pro game used to be, clotheslining was allowed.
The San Francisco 49ers had a guy that played in the 50s named Hardy Brown.
They were worried in that era that Hardy Brown was going to kill somebody is how hard that he hit.
The pro game, I mean, Chuck Bednerick, look what Chuck Bednerick did to Frank Gifford.
Chuck Bednerick took out Chuck Noel.
Chuck Noll was a player for the Cleveland Browns.
I mean, Chuck Bednerick, some of these guys way back in the old days when the NFL was new and it was lawless, it was an entirely different game.
And it is police now.
I know what's going on with the NFL.
If you take a look, after every play, there is a potential, not after every play, but after, seems like a lot of plays, there is a potential for a total breakdown.
Massive brawls and fights are possible after every play.
Players are getting each other's faces.
The league is doing what it can to control it for marketing reasons.
And it's a cultural thing that they're dealing with.
And I think they're doing their best.
They have uncovered, done a lot of research about head injuries and trying to stop those while not take away from the true spirit of the game.
The problem for the players is that anything, and it would be any players, when you dramatically change rules on a dime at any time, the players subject to the rules change are going to have a count.
And this particular point in time, these players, mainly defensive players are being targeted here, have been taught their whole lives to play the game in a way now that the league says it's going to cost you $20,000 if you play it that way.
Or $75,000 in James Harrison's case for the Steelers.
So they're being told they've got to change the way they've been taught to play the game overnight on a dime.
And they're saying, I can't change the way I play.
That's the way I play.
I'm going to keep playing.
I don't care about the fines.
The NFL claims to have stats that show that head injuries are down.
The number of concussions are down.
Not that injuries themselves are down, but serious head injuries, concussions are down, which is what they're after.
But I think if you think that it's that there are girly man rules, and if you think they've softened the game, I know you can't do this, but I wish you could.
Watch a game even today from the sideline.
If you could get as close to it, the truth of the matter is that the people that play that game are so tough.
You and I would not last if we were offensive or defensive linemen or wide receivers.
You and I wouldn't last two plays before we're carted off and sent to the hospital or something.
The game is a man's game, and it is there's nothing soft about it.
It's in the context of the rules changes that they're making and the things they're saying about it, coupled with the comments being made by players subject to the rules change that are creating the impression that they're softening it.
But it's still a brutal game, and they're never going to be able to take that out of it unless they go flag and take the face mask off the helmet.
And that'd be the only thing they could do.
And they're not going to do that.
So appreciate the call.
We've got to take a little time out.
We'll do it.
Be back right after this.
Don't go away.
You know, I'll even say this, and a lot of you are not going to understand this.
You're not going to think I don't know what I'm talking about.
The average human being could not catch a John Elway pass.
It would knock you down.
But you'd get out of the way of it before it did.
You wouldn't want any part of it.
It's an entirely different level.
And I just, I say this because a lot of people think the NFL is going girly man now with these rules changes.
And it is not a soft game.
Just put it that way.
By the way, wait till the unions hear about this.
Walmart stores, the nation's largest private employer, scaling back health care coverage for future part-time workers while raising premiums for many of its full-time workers, particularly tobacco users.
Walmart employs more than 1.4 million people.
They said that rising healthcare costs are forcing them to eliminate healthcare coverage for future part-time workers who work less than 24 hours a week.
Many workers will also see their premiums rise, and the company will be reducing by half the amount it contributes for healthcare expenses that are not covered under their plan.
Spokesman said the decision was not in response to the new healthcare law, but rather to the harsh realities of escalating health care costs, which are only going to get worse as the regime's healthcare plan is implemented.
Michael, my adopted hometown of Sacramento, welcome to the program.
Hi.
Hi, how's it going, Rush?
Good.
Thank you, sir.
I just wanted to comment on the fact that, you know, this whole Occupy Wall Street thing, they're pretty much delusional in their pursuits of what they're looking for.
I mean, what they want is they want a form of communism where essentially the ideal is that people voluntarily give up their wealth because it's for the good of the people.
But you can't mandate that via government instrument.
It's never going to work out.
They've already tried it in Russia.
They've tried it in China.
It's not going to work.
That doesn't matter to them.
Exactly.
Exactly.
See, they're completely short-sighted.
They don't understand the implications of what they're doing.
They're actually just making a ruckus, and it's hurting businesses around them.
And again, it's not helping towards the cause.
The cause is that people voluntarily give up their wealth and give it to the good of the people or whatever.
But that's not going to work.
No, but I also don't think that some of them would just be satisfied for wealthy people to voluntarily give it up.
I think some of these people are all for violence to take it away from them.
Don't know how many.
AP has a pollout, APGFK, 37% of the public back the protests.
Most Americans say that the protests are making them mad.
So you Democrats, you go ahead, you own it, you launch onto it, and you tell us it's you and they're yours and you support it because it's a minority movement.
I don't even believe the 37%.
I don't even think it's that high.
That's it, my friends.
Another exciting week of broadcast excellence is now in the rearview mirror on its way to the Limbaugh Broadcast Museum at rushlimbaugh.com.
Hope you have a great weekend.
I always do.
Hope you do too.
We'll see you back here Monday.
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