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Dec. 16, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 16, 2011, Friday, Hour #3
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Well, I knew that this was coming.
But I would have never guessed where it's coming from.
It's Friday.
Let's hit it, folks.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program, 800-282-288-2.
The email address, Lrushbow at EIBNet.com.
Great to have you here.
As the fastest three hours of media roll right on.
I'm not disappointed that it's coming from where it's coming from.
I'm just a little surprised.
I knew it was coming.
Jealousy of Tim Tebow has surfaced in the National Football League.
Brian, you're a you're a you're a big football official.
Now tell me which quarterback has just expressed frustration and jealousy.
You don't know yet, do you?
So he's like a wild guess.
Which quarterback has expressed frustration and jealousy over the coverage Tebow is getting.
No, not Aaron Rodgers.
Not Tony Romo.
Don't worry, Sterdley.
Joe Flacco of the Baltimore Ravens.
And frankly, as a Steelers fan, this is not disappointing to me.
A Tebow backlash has emerged as Mike Florio from his blog, Pro Football Talk at NBC.
Flacco was on a radio station in Baltimore.
He said, I mean, look at Tim Tebow.
I mean, I like Tim, but you have a tendency to want to.
I mean, I don't want to see Tim do bad, but my God.
Look at what happens after he wins a football game.
If you watch Sports Center today, it was Tim Tebow, then something else.
Tim Tebow, then something else.
Tim Tebow, then something else.
When we beat the Steelers, were we on TV?
No.
I couldn't even find a Baltimore Ravens highlight.
I think it's kind of the way it is around Baltimore.
We'd always get that respect, but you gotta deal with it.
Go out every week, just win football games.
Flacco believes the Ravens are disrespected by the national media.
Bottom line is we don't need a lot of help.
We got a great fan base.
We win football games.
We're sick and tired of seeing Tebow.
We didn't say that, but it's it's implied here.
We're not a losing football team, needs to be out there in the media, be talked up like we're all world.
We already are.
This, I am stunned.
I am I've I've not.
I can't think of the last time something like this is happening.
I know I know look at these guys.
Feel this stuff.
I know in the privacy of the locker room at home, they're all saying Tebow for crying out loud.
It's our rookie.
Look at what I'm doing.
I'm lighting it up.
Why and I getting covered.
But you never go public and whine about it.
Ooh.
I gotta.
I just I don't know, find it.
Speaking of Tebow, I wonder if Flacco was watching the debate last night and heard Rick Perry.
Audio.
As a matter of fact, I hope Obama and I debate a lot, and I'll get there early.
And we will get it on, and we will talk about our differences, which are great.
There are a lot of folks that said Tim Tebow wasn't going to be a very good uh NFL quarterback.
Uh there are people that stood up and said, well, he doesn't have the right throwing mechanisms, or he doesn't, you know, he's not playing the game right.
And uh, you know, he won two national championships, and that looked pretty good.
We're the national champions in job creation back in Texas.
And so, but am I ready for the next level?
Let me tell you, I hope I am the Tim Tebow of the Iowa caucuses.
I am the Tim Tebow of the Iowa.
He did not say I am the Joe Flacco of the Iowa Caucuses.
I am the Tim Tebow of the Now.
I don't know, I don't know whether Tebow was watching uh Flacco was watching the debate last night.
Can you imagine if he was?
He watches the debate last night.
My first reaction when he said my first reaction when I saw Rick Perry say he wanted to be the Tim Tebow, I I I thought I thought what it was, and it was an attempt to create linkage between something that's very hot and popular right now.
Um and I thought, little bit of a stretch.
Little bit of a stretch.
But you have to remember, Perry makes me laugh in a good way.
And I thought Perry was alive last night.
Perry was, he had this, he has I think a charismatic personality.
He had a as a he has a great smile.
He's the smile.
In fact, there was one time the camera caught him frowning last night, and it was the first time I've really ever seen him frown.
I'm sure that he frowns more than I've seen.
Camera hasn't been on him when he's but it it stood out because he was frowned.
I don't remember what the question was, but normally he's got this big wide grin and looks like even when he gets tongue-tied, he's having a great time up there.
But he didn't get tongue-tied.
Here's Rick Perry on Fast and Furious, audio soundbite number eight.
The question was to Megan Kelly.
Are you and other Republicans politicizing the issue as attorney general holder claims?
If I'm the president of the United States, and I find out that there is an operation like Fast and Furious, and my attorney general didn't know about it, I would have him resign immediately.
The President of the United States comes to El Paso, Texas earlier this year and proclaims that the border of Texas and Mexico, the U.S. border with Mexico is safer than it's ever been.
Well, let me tell you, I've been dealing with this issue for 11 years.
I've sent Texas Ranger recon teams there.
Our law enforcement men and women face fire from across the border or in the U.S. side from these drug cartels.
It is not safe there.
Our country is at jeopardy.
Yep.
He was on last night.
He he was he was really on.
And Santorum came back.
I wouldn't wait for my attorney general to resign.
If I found out he knew about Fast and Furious, I'd fire him.
Which was which was uh good because Holder's excuses I didn't know.
What your attorney general, you're on the Justice Department, that's where the ATF is, is where I what do you mean you didn't know?
So, I mean, these guys, these guys were on.
By the way, the one trillion dollar spending bill it just passed in the House, the Senate is expected to pass it later today because they all want to get out of their go home for Christmas, includes language that forbids the regime from spending money to enforce its incandescent light bulb ban.
So the 100-watt incandescent belt incon incandescent bulb, supposed to be banned starting January 1st, has a new life.
They have not reversed the ban.
This is key.
What they've done is say they're not going to implement the funding to get it off shelves.
They say it's just temporary.
What has happened here is a huge, it's an election year cave, is what this is, from somewhere, some quarters.
I should have said this last week, two weeks ago, should have said it a month ago, a year ago.
I never once in my bones thought this ban would ever really happen.
But I never said so.
I thought it.
You know, I could come here and tell you I said it.
I could tell you I said it, and how could you prove that I didn't?
Uh and I could always say what other shows do say, well, we destroyed the tape that day.
But I didn't say it, but I've never thought this ban was going to happen.
Well, well, it's not just the merchants have stopped caring, they're people hoarding them.
But the uh what was it by 2014 the 40s have to be gone too?
50s and 40s.
70s, whatever.
But but anyway, they'll be back.
Um so the the uh bottom line is we're to spend a trillion dollars more.
Uh and the funding mechanism being taken out will kill the ban of the incandescent light bulb.
I like you say, I'm not so sure if if the manufacturers have uh have have dialed back the manufacturing, are they gonna retool and ramp up if in two months the thing could be funded and then implemented.
So I don't know.
Sterdy, were you you were you thinking it was sacrilegious to compare yourself to Tebow?
If you're uh if you're Rick Perry.
Tacky.
You thought it was a little tacky out there to compare yourself to Tebow.
Could be.
I I don't know.
I didn't look at it as tacky.
I uh I thought uh this is okay is here's Perry just he's trying to make a connection uh relate, perhaps.
By the way, in other news, the Associated Press folks reporting the Egyptian military has stormed a protesters' camp in Cairo, and that at least two protesters have been killed.
All this despite them having been named Time Magazine's person of the year.
What rotten luck?
Time magazine names you person of the year, and then the Egyptians run in there and wipe you out.
What a bad day.
How about this notion of the protester as the person of the year?
No, it's what is w putting the occupiers in with the protesters in Libya is disgusting to who?
Why you?
You think what no, no, no.
You've got the pro you're no.
You're you these protesters in Egypt, well, maybe Tunisia, but in Egypt, it's it's it's this is these are militant Islamists that are protesting in in in disguise, made to look like freedom fighters.
No democracy movement going on over there.
They are they're they fit hand in glove with the Occupy Wall Street crowd.
I have a uh a friend acquaintance, Hondo, who um writes a Friday piece during football season for the New York Post.
It's uh you know, I I I used to do the environmentalist wacko picks as a means of discussing football while tying it to issues so as not to tick off the stick to the issues crowd.
It was also a way to make football picks interesting to women.
Uh Hondo has a piece where he picks winners based on the point spread, but he does it intermingled with political commentary.
For example, Hondo has picked the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to cover against the Cowboys.
The Saturday night game.
I don't know what the point spread is this game.
I haven't looked at it, but he thinks that the Buccaneers are gonna cover.
Here's what he says about the game.
Despite the slight, Hondo's still willing to give props to the protester.
It's a wonderful honor for somebody who whined about income disparity, the lack of jobs, of course they're so hard to find when you don't look, while disrupting the income flow of local businesses sexually assaulting women, generating ear-splitting noise pollution, mugging your fellow protesters, trying unsuccessfully to ward off genital scabies and other STDs and turning the park in which he lived into an unflushable toilet right on Time Magazine, power to the protester.
Exactly right.
Power to the protester.
I mean, Time magazine is basically just named an endless parade of human debris as the man of the year.
Back to the phones.
It's open line Friday, and where are we going?
Winchester, Virginia.
David, thank you for waiting, sir.
I appreciate your call.
Yes, Rush, what a pleasure it is to talk to you.
Thank you very much.
You are the master of common sense, and I really appreciate what you do.
Um listen, Rush, I'm I'm a single father, unemployed, and struggling to survive, trying to put something under the tree for Christmas.
Um there are two topics I feel that should be part of the discussion that we um with the candidates and what's going on today, and one is um the Abolishing the use of corn ethanol and our gasoline, and the other uh is the seem seemingly agreeing with the premise that immigrants or illegals are doing jobs that Americans just won't do.
I'm out here right now, Rush, delivering phone books just so we can have a Christmas, so we can survive.
I'll do any job, no matter how small, to uh help my family.
Uh phone book?
Phone books, yeah.
I answer an ad on Craigslist.
Uh to deliver phone books, you know.
And it's uh it's a tedious is in a phone book.
Advertisements, business advertisements.
It's uh one of the Verizon books, I believe, throw them in the driveway.
People use phone books?
Yes.
Phone books.
I got to bag them up.
Still use phone books?
No, no, no, no, no.
I Well you mean like yellow pages and stuff.
Yes.
That's right.
They still publish 'em?
They do, surprisingly.
I was I've been asking myself every day delivering these why they are.
Uh well then you're obviously doing something that's very needed.
Well you deliver these things.
It's something to put food on the table.
It's something honestly it's right before Christmas.
No no I'm proud of you.
I appreciate it.
I I think it's great.
I I think it's uh uh needs to be done.
I'm just happy to have a little extra.
Yeah I I know.
I know.
I've uh I've I've what was what you the ethanol was the other thing you mentioned what was your question oh why are we still using corn for fuel?
Right.
We need to get rid of this.
It's rising it's raising all our costs on food.
You're hungry.
Let me tell you by the way, folks, by the way I did in 2008, January or to 2008, 2008 I did say that the light bulb would never be banned.
I did say it.
Even when I think I'm wrong, I'm right.
I did say it we got it on my website.
I did say it.
Now ethanol um but say a funny little story about this David it was either last election cycle or two election cycles ago I got on this whole biz of ethanol about how it was driving food prices up, particularly for Mexicans.
Yeah you wouldn't believe what was happening to tacos the price at tacos and it with with when that's a food staple for people who don't have a whole lot of money.
And I got calls from Republicans in Iowa and I thought I was a Republican Rush, you do care about winning elections, right?
Well yeah of course well ethanol if you are opposed to ethanol subsidies you are not going to win Iowa.
You remember those calls I would I mean I got raked over the coals for it.
It's another it's another government subsidy.
It's based on the uh a false premise of cleaner energy.
It actually costs more it's less efficient but it's a way of buying votes.
And it's a way of dealing with a surplus of a crop that we have when we have it I I it it's uh I may and by the way I am making no friends saying this in in the in the corn industry or in the few industry.
It's it's a mi we use it's money.
Will you follow the money and you'll get the answer to practically every question you're capable of asking what I want to do here.
800 two eight two eight eight two if you want to be on the program let's go to Erie, Pennsylvania Laura, great to have you here.
Hello.
Oh happy holidays and mega pro life dittoes to you thank you thanks very much.
Thanks for entertaining us every day.
Ah I appreciate appreciate that well I'm calling because I'm kind of object to those who call Mr. Romney a flip flopper on the topic of abortion there are many people that were pro-choice that just didn't think about it a lot, just joined the crowd and they've come to a change of heart.
They are now pro-life including Norma McCorby, the original roe of Roe v.
Wade and many many others and there are crisis pregnancy centers um across this country that are doing just that trying to convert the hearts of people to say these these unborn babies deserve life and I don't think it's a flip flop.
I think it's a wonderful conversion in the right direction in a conservative direction.
And I I just don't see it like that.
I don't know what you think about it.
Well, as explained it last I the explain last explanation last night was uh a little more cogent than it has been on previous occasions.
Because last night he actually made it sound like that he changed his mind.
Uh admitted that he changed his mind.
Gore, for example, changed his mind the other direction.
Gore and Clinton both were pro-life when they decided they needed national orifice as Democrats, they had to go pro-choice.
There are people who don't think you can look at this and isolate it from other Romney flip flops.
I'm just telling you what others who have worries about Romney's solid conservative credentials.
Say, look, he flip-slops on too many things at too timely a moment here and there.
And had to be pro-choice in Massachusetts get elected, now seeking the presidency as a Republican, he can't bear uh can't dare be.
And so they're looking at this in context of other uh instances which they have been flip-flops and saying, eh, we're not we're not sure.
You're taking him at his word, and others are a little afraid to.
And it's strictly a judgment call.
Who knows what's in somebody else's heart?
You have to trust them when they when they when they say it.
And you obviously do, which for you works and is fine.
Yes.
And um I I just want to thank you always for defending the unborn uh when you have examples.
You're just a great advocate, and um those of us in the pro-life community just really applaud you for that.
Well, thank you very much.
I don't know how one can't.
You know, you said something very interesting.
You said a lot of pro-choice people, it was just the thing to be uh and didn't think about it much.
And I happen to think that that is a good point.
I think there were a lot of casual uh pro-choice, casual pro-choicers who purposely didn't want to think about it.
The moment they really started thinking about it or were confronted with it in their lives.
Ah, it's not for me.
This is not it it it wa it is not the easy thing that the radical pro-choice movement people tried to make it out to be.
It's certainly nothing as simple and identifying and liberating as the feminazis wanted people to believe.
And I really think it was it's one of those issues where everybody who was a casual participant in politics happened to think that the enlightened, common smart position was pro-choice.
So they just said that's what they were, and then stopped thinking about it and never wanted to discuss it.
Precisely because it there that kind of lackadaisical attachment to it would not hold up in an in a serious discussion about it.
And I think what happened was is the education of what happens in abortion takes pl uh began to happen.
And and as the left got even more radical with partial birth abortion, and then actually coming out supporting infanticide, as Obama did as a senator in Illinois.
It made it harder and harder and harder for the casual to stay loyal to that position.
It never was an 80 percent, 20 percent in favor of pro-choice uh opinion in this kind.
It never was that.
Now the media made it look like it was.
The enlightened position, all the cool people, all the hip people, all the actors, all the actresses, all the singers, all the writers, all of the uh prominent pop culture figures.
They were all pro-choice.
So there was a there was a public peer pressure type thing to be that way.
And of course, they gave you an easy way to support it.
A woman's right to choose.
My body, I can do with it whatever I want.
Hell would you?
They gave it without considering the moral outcome.
Did not the minute the moral outcome was faced and discussed, that's when it all began to crumble for people who had a casual attachment to it.
Uh Laura here is exactly right.
And now it's nowhere near I mean, i it's not even 50-50.
The majority position is pro-life.
And if it weren't, I guarantee you that embryonic stem cells would be happening left and right all over the country.
It would have been it it's then that's still a huge battle that they can't win.
And it's still controversial.
And in fact, I gotta tell you know, in all candor, that is there are a lot of small things, or they appear small in the big picture.
That this whole uh cultural attitude the country has in the majority position toward the pro-life side of this is one of the things that constantly gives me faith that the country isn't lost when you get right down.
I know that there might be other bits of evidence that fly in the face of that simple cultural rot that you see uh exhibited uh more and more television movies and so forth.
When you get down to brass tax, though.
Uh it's not reflected in the way people are living their lives when it comes to the sanctity of life and the uh and and the unborn.
And I actually think to add one more thing to this that one of the real hidden purposes of the Obamacare business is to make killing at both spectrum, the end of the both of life uh acceptable and common, based on all kinds of uh immoral choices in terms of the elderly.
Well, you know, they wouldn't want to live like this.
They put they they want to be a burden to people.
I mean, give them the pain pill.
He wouldn't want to bring that child into a neighborhood like that.
You wouldn't want to bring that child into a world of poverty like that.
You cloak it as you cloak death and killing is compassion.
And then you say it's liberating, it's woman's right choose, or it's this freedom or that freedom, and furthermore, guess what?
That rich millionaire guy's gonna pay for it also.
Okay, and they have to fight for that.
They can't do that out in the open, they do it out in the open, they lose it.
That's one of the things that continues to give me hope and strength that we haven't lost this culture altogether.
That we uh and we and that we have not lost the uh the country.
I got a quick break on I want to play the uh Laura, thanks for the call.
I want you to hear a new bite here on the Keystone Pipeline from the debate last night.
The question came from Neil Cavuto.
Speaker Gingrich, as you know, the president has rejected any effort to tie a payroll tax extension with a Keystone pipeline and to reopen it and to explore reopening it as well.
He said uh any other way to connect the two would be akin to adding an extraneous issue.
Given his opposition, the likelihood the Keystone issue could be up in the air is number 14, up in the air for a year or more.
How do you recommend Republicans deal with this to force the issue?
You know, Neil, I sometimes get accused of using language that's too strong.
So I've been standing here editing.
I'm very concerned about not appearing to be zany.
And I'm using mild words here.
Utterly irrational to say I'm now gonna veto a middle class tax cut to protect left-wing environmental extremists in San Francisco so that we're gonna kill American jobs, weaken American energy, make us more vulnerable to the Iranians, and do so in a way that makes no sense to any normal, rational America.
We've cut the applause, but it went on and on and on.
And and every one of these people, except for Ron Paul, he'd have a good night last night.
He had his moments of applause, but everybody on that stage last night had similar moments to this.
And I gotta take a brief time out here as open line Friday resumes after this.
Don't go anywhere.
Whoa, I just grabbed some my 28-29, I just saw this.
Dana Perino says that I give people spine in the Republican Party.
Is she still have a job today?
I I I did not.
Here it is.
It was on that Fox show at 5 o'clock called the Five.
Here it is.
And she's talking, she was uh Dana Perino with Andrea Tanteros.
And Beckle is on the show, and they're talking about uh let's see.
Mitt Romney took uh some advice, Danny.
You think Romney did listen to Rush Limbaugh and tack to the right?
I think Mitt Romney has tried several times, and then he's got these things that he said in his past that come back to haunt him.
Rush Limbaugh, with tens of millions of listeners a day, and for years has been tireless.
One of the things that he has done is being able to give people that little bit of a spine that they need.
And look today.
The White House is announcing that they are going to back off on the millionaire surtax to pay for a payroll tax extension, not because of defense of millionaires and apologists for millionaires, but because it's bad policy and it doesn't work.
And I think that somebody like uh Rush Limbaugh is the one who helps on the policy side of things.
That's Dana Perino, former spokeswoman for George W. Bush.
And it continued, Andrea Tentairos uh said, Well, you you think he's the head of the Republican Party.
I'm sure they're laughing about this joke.
And Beck's in the background on this one.
I don't think he's had a republic.
I don't think he would call himself.
I think he would call himself a good sheriff.
And by the way, couldn't get the vote.
Uh Beck okay, I knew Beckle wouldn't be able to deal with it.
Everybody wants to be me, and Beckle knows he's not.
But not everybody can be me.
In fact, there can only be one me, and I am it.
Open line Friday, Larry in Kalama, Washington.
Hi.
Or is it Calam?
I'm how am I pronouncing it right?
Kalama.
Kalama.
How are you, sir?
Good, Rush.
Hey, you know, on the eve of the uh moving of our troops out of Iraq, I think there's an important point that these candidates uh should really uh walk on.
What's that?
In fact, that is the fact that you know everything that we have just gained in Iraq, as our troops come home, we will most likely have lost.
Um with the Muslim Brotherhood rising up in Egypt and the loss of technology and respect in Iran with the way this this administration deals with our foreign policy, because of this president's idol uh ideology and his bias towards Islam, uh he's constantly out there on the campaigning trail instead of leading us as a nation.
And I think time will time will tell that the Muslim Brotherhood rising up in what used to be an ally uh is going to be just as big of uh a loss as we gained in Iraq.
Well, I think so too.
I I don't about Iraq, but I throughout the I think Iran is gonna be the problem in Iraq.
I think Iran's gonna be the problem throughout the uh region.
But you know, you have you have a little bit of a point, Larry, because when Obama this week on two separate occasions went out there and and took credit for victory, he never used the word.
I don't think he he talked about winning.
He didn't use the word win.
He didn't use the word winning or victory.
It wasn't that.
It was it was look what I've done.
I succeeded in our mission, and I'm bringing them home.
Bring them home.
Uh time for my trip to Hawaii.
That's what I'm done.
I bring them home.
Did not use the word victory.
That is exactly right.
Folks, it's unbelievable.
We have temporarily sold out of blueberry.
We have I'm not kidding.
I just got the flash.
We are temporarily with the trucks are arriving at our warehouse now to restock.
No, don't stop.
No, no, no.
Who said that?
Don't stop.
No, I'm just saying temporarily the trucks are rolling in now to replenish the warehouse.
Well, from the warehouse to the uh fulfillment place.
Uh ho, we awesome, bro.
Snurt snerdlies is a testament now.
Just take the bottle off of it and you smell the blueberry.
Anyway, folks, it's been a great week.
Actually, we've we've been on a roll here for about 23 years.
But um this has been great.
The past two, three weeks has been fabulous.
And unlike most hosts, I'm here next week.
Well, for some of it, for some of it, but I'm gonna be here longer than most hosts, at least those at the bottom of the totem pole who have no choice.
And I'll see you Monday.
Can't wait.
Have a wonderful weekend.
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