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Jan. 13, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 13, 2012, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I know they react retracted it.
You have to tell me that.
I know that.
What am I?
A potted plant here?
Chop?
Well, I know they I knew that two hours ago.
What do you mean they retracted it?
If you just be patient, I'm the one that's going to tell you they retracted it.
Oh, I'm talking about CNB.
They had this story yesterday.
I'll tell you in a minute.
But it was bogus.
Tell me something's been retracted.
I'm the one that tells people when things have been retracted.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Look, I know they're just trying to be helpful, but don't insult me.
Rush Lindbaugh with talent on loan from God before Tim Tebow.
It's Friday.
It's open line Friday.
It's great to have you folks.
Whatever you want to talk about today, that's what goes.
For the most part.
I mean, there are restrictions and limits on everything.
But normally Monday through Thursday.
You only can talk about what I care about, because I don't want to sit here and be bored.
But on Friday, I risk it.
It's the all-important content portion of the program.
We always turn it over to callers on Friday and we also try to take more calls on Friday as well.
There you go.
All right.
Yesterday afternoon, there was breaking news.
Everybody would go on absolutely nuts.
Breaking news.
And here's basically the story that was the breaking news.
Remember, set this up.
I'm having there we go.
I had lost my battery contact and my cochlear implant as 100% deaf there for the last 30 seconds, but I just fixed it.
It wouldn't have happened if somebody hadn't told me what I already knew.
And the story's been retracted.
Anyway, remember when I a couple days ago started the program by saying, are you sitting down?
I informed you that Mitt Romney in defending his time at bay, said, hey, you know, we did the same thing that Obama did.
We took over General Motors.
He was trying to save the business just like we were.
You go in there, you have to you close some dealerships and you have to cut some employees off and so forth.
Obama did it.
Everybody knows that's what you know, and I had a conniption fit here because Obama wasn't doing anything that was oriented in capitalism.
Obama wasn't trying to save the company for profitability.
He doesn't care about that.
He was trying to take the company away from its rightful owners and give it to the unions.
And I cringed at Romney comparing himself to Obama.
Then yesterday, a story came out on CNBC, and I'm to the blogs went nuts with this.
Did you hear about this?
The story yesterday from CNBC was that Bain Capitol had advised and consulted Obama in which dealerships to cut when they took over General Motors.
This led to speculation.
Well, maybe that's why Romney cited Obama, because he knew that Bain did not when, you know, uh Romney hasn't been in Bain Capitol in what, 10 years, 20 years, whatever.
So none of this involved Romney, but Bain Capital is Romney for all practical intents in terms of political perception.
So the story hit yesterday from CNBC that Bain Capitol had had uh consulted and advised Obama on how to cut General Motors down to size.
And I can't tell you the number of emails I got from people.
Oh my gosh, just when we think we're getting ahead, this guy does something stupid like that.
How the hell could this possibly happen?
And I said, I'll let's just be patient on this.
I wasn't thrilled, don't misunderstand.
Um blogs wrote pages of analysis on this.
Pages.
Literally pages of analysis on what this means for Romney.
Why in the world would Bain do this?
Um why in the world?
Now we know why Romney tried to equate Bain with Obama because Romney knew what nobody else knew at the time that Obama had consulted with Bain.
And of course, that would be strike two, because Obama's advisors are out there saying, yeah, we told Obama how to put together health care bill.
So this would have been strike two.
So this morning, my good friend Andy McCarthy, National Review, he posts a brilliant piece about this.
And about, what was it, an hour and a half ago?
No, two hours ago now.
CNBC runs a correction.
A previous story, incorrectly reported that Mitt Romney's former firm, Bain and Company, was part of a team of consulting companies that advised Obama on a decision to shut her car dealerships during the auto bailout.
Bain and company said it has no connection to the Bain consulting firm referenced in government documents.
There was a Bain company, but it wasn't Romney's.
So, never mind.
So that's the so that I got it right before the program said, by the way, there's been a retraction.
I knew that two hours ago.
Anyway, it's out there, and the retraction, folks, is about one tenth the size of the original story.
But if you were aware of that, if you were aware, if you if you had seen the news, if you're a blog reader, uh, and you had seen the news that Bain had consulted Obama, that Bain had been sought out by Obama, and that Bain had told Obama which dealerships to cut, it's not true.
It didn't happen.
Not the Bain that Romney had anything to do with.
I love this next.
You know, as I told you yesterday, and I think I did it yesterday.
I love puncturing myths.
I love blowing things up.
Stupid conventional wisdom stuff that people believe and act on, like coffee will kill you, or that oat bran will make your bowel movements more regular.
Whatever that they they try to say out there.
There is a great story.
This is in the Atlantic, and it's by a babe named Megan McCartell.
And the reason I like this is because Megan McCartell, whether she is intended to or not, has much better than I ever have over the course of many years of doing this program, expressed an opinion I have about all of that.
All of these so-called stories that we get on our health.
What are they all oriented about?
Or towards?
If you've play them out so that we'll never die.
Don't do that, no trans fat, watch your salt, uh, you know, whatever.
Whatever the nanny state, don't eat too much sugar, or whatever it is they think, because it's all going to do what?
It's going to lead to disease, heart attack, death, or what have you.
As though that can be missed, as though that can be avoided.
And here's a just cuts right to the chase, simple as pie.
Everyone, as they get older will get sick and die.
It's a news flash to the people at the Atlantic.
Now they tell us we're gonna die.
You mean it doesn't matter what I do?
That's right.
You are going to die.
It doesn't matter what you do.
This is something that gets obscured in today's medical reporting.
Everybody as they get older will get sick for some reason and die.
What is the biggest risk factor for heart disease and cancer?
It is not smoking, it is not tobacco, it's not cholesterol, it's not blood pressure, it's age.
And to a large extent, the incidence of those diseases is random.
Doing everything right lowers your risk of disease, but not to zero.
And usually not to that small a fraction of the risk for the general population.
There's no magic set of behavior that will prevent disease.
There's no magic set of behavior that will prevent you from getting sick.
There's no magic set of behavior That will expand your health measurably.
No legislation either.
That's exactly where there is no legislation that will make you healthy.
I just said it.
Well, how else can I say it any more plainly than I just said it?
There is no magic set of behavior that will prevent disease.
Now, you might think this, you might not think this is earth-shattering.
To me, uh it's earth-shattering only because you know how I reject conventional wisdom.
I just, I'm not a follower, I reject it.
Where the crowd goes, I don't go.
When the crowd forms, I pull back.
I'm not a conformist, a group thinker, or anything of the sort, and I really, for some reason, I have a pet peeve about people who get caught up in it.
And all it takes is from some stupid group like Center for the Science and Public Interest to come out and say that Chinese food is an early killer.
It's a crock.
It is an absolute crock.
All of these health warnings from the standpoint of, I mean, what's their purpose?
Their purpose is to control us.
And that's what I resent about all.
That's what that's the root of my problem with all of this.
Don't eat trans fat, don't the government deciding who can and who can't and where it's going to be served.
Don't that's that's a great incursion on our freedom, and that's what I reject.
And so here it is plain as day.
The biggest risk factor for heart disease and cancer is age.
There it is.
And there's nothing you can do about that.
There is not a single thing you can do about that.
You can't wear a wrinkly ribbon.
There is no ribbon for aging.
There is not a thing you can do.
It doesn't matter what you inject yourself with, it doesn't look the Pelosi route and go all Botox, but it doesn't matter.
You're still gonna get old.
And the older you get, the greater the risk that you're going to die.
The older you get, the greater the risk that you're going to get a disease.
These health scares are just, I'll tell you what they are.
They are nothing more than tiny little, almost unnoticeable losses of freedom.
Incremental, all designed for what?
Our own self-interest, our own life improvement.
They care.
They have the greatest of compassion for.
They don't want us to get sick.
They don't want us to die.
They don't want us to get cancer.
They don't want us to have high blood pressure.
They don't want us to do any of that.
And so don't do that.
And don't do this.
I mean, this, all of these health scares, and that's exactly.
I've often said, if you really care about death, ban the wheel.
A number of people killed by the automobile every year dwarfs those who die by virtue of disease.
Ban the wheel.
And they're not going to ban tobacco.
Of course, tobacco is a s is a lifetime killer.
It doesn't kill you instantly.
That's another thing that's absurd about that.
So the basic lesson is life kills.
If you are alive, you are at risk.
I hate to break it to you.
If you're alive, you are at risk.
You are going to get sick.
We had this stupid story yesterday that 27% of people who sit in a couch and watch T no, watch TV and drive cars, have heart attacks.
Do you realize how absurd that is?
That's exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about.
Do you realize everybody who has eaten carrots is or will be dead?
That's about what that statistic means.
What are the numbers on the people who've eaten carrots who've been involved in automobile accidents in the following six months?
I guarantee you it's almost total damn high.
So we stop eating carrots, and we're not going to get any auto accidents.
I resent attempts at mind control.
I resent the attempts at mass manipulation, and that's what the left does.
And they use these health scares as just another tiny little way to get everybody dependent on the government.
The government has safety warnings.
The government will protect you.
The government will care for you when you get sick.
The government this, the government that.
Look at the news about red wine.
Sixty minutes does a story on the French are thin and they have red wine, and the secret is they have cheese with it.
That protein.
I have read it's in the South Beach diet.
Go ahead and drink the red wine but have some cheese with it.
That's what the French do.
That cuts the insulin released in half.
And insulin is a trigger in weight gain.
So if you want to drink, have some cheese or protein nearby to cut the insulin release.
Well, fine, and now that doesn't matter to Hill of Beans now because the story came out yesterday, the researcher that came up with all this made it up.
Just like the global warming crop made it up, and these are all people with government grants or involved in government linkage some way, and they're all liberals.
And they're all using control mechanisms here under the compassionate guise of having your best interests at heart.
Here, I happen to have a companion story.
This is this is outrageous, and this, if if I let me just tell you, energy drinks can trigger heart attacks.
A prominent Sydney Australia cardiologist.
So one doctor, one doctor in Sydney, Australia can make worldwide news.
A prominent Sydney cardiologist has called for greater caution with the purchase of energy drinks, warning that they can trigger heart attacks and other life-threatening conditions in young people.
Well, when I read that, I said, okay, buying them does that.
What about drinking them?
This idiot doctor or this idiot journalist said the purchase of energy drinks can trigger heart attacks.
Just mean buying them.
Do you understand that?
You don't even have to drink them.
You just go buy them, and your heart attack risk is increased.
That's how silly and stupid this does anybody believe one doctor in Australia.
How does this even make worldwide news?
But it did.
Because we're all oriented to panic.
We all want to be told how we're going to die.
No, that's not right.
We all want to be told how we can escape it.
We all, how much of what you deny yourself is based on the fact that you think you're increasing your lifespan.
How much of what you deny yourself enjoyment or otherwise is because you've been convinced you will live longer.
It's bogus.
And look at this, folks.
Here is some more health news.
This is from Fox News.
The news is this.
One out of every 900 sex acts transmits the HIV virus.
Well, that just tells us to stop at 899, then.
I said, really?
Wilt Chamberlain Jr. here.
Bobby, what is this?
One in 900 sex acts transmits the HIV virus.
Barack Hussein Obama had a big meeting at the White House today.
Where all of a sudden, Barack Obama wants to make the government smaller.
All of a sudden, Barack Obama's concerned about the inefficiency of the bureaucracy.
All of a sudden, Barack Obama has realized that government isn't working for small business.
All of a sudden, Barack Obama has realized the troubles that average people have dealing with the government.
All of a sudden, Barack Obama has realized that there are one.
Oh.
No, this is the way to put it.
The Department of Homeland Security, according to Barack Obama, just moments ago.
The Department of Homeland Security reports to 100 different congressional committees and subcommittees and agencies.
And all of a sudden, Barack Obama said, that's too much paper.
That's too many reports.
We've got to streamline this.
The streamlining Barack Obama's talking about will be unnoticeable after his health care bill is implemented.
What a joke.
What an absolute transparent, phony baloney, plastic banana, good time rock and roller, FM type of a scam.
All of a sudden, Obama's the great small government reformer in an election year, with health care just waiting to be implemented, which will blow the size of this government up in ways that people cannot imagine.
And in yesterday he had a big meeting on insourcing jobs.
Have some thoughts on that.
Your calls as well.
Open Mind Friday.
All of a sudden, Barack Obama wants to streamline government.
Wow, isn't it a beautiful thing?
Well, let's look, shall we, at what it is Obama wants to shrink.
These are the agencies that Obama suggests that we merge, downsize, shrink, what have you.
The Commerce Department.
The Small Business Administration.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
The Export-Import Bank.
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
The Trade and Development Agency.
Now, what do these agencies all have in common?
They're all pro-business.
They are all pro-business.
And this is where Obama wants to shrink.
You can even say those agencies might lean to being pro-Republican or pro-conservative.
And that's what Obama wants to shrink.
He had this big press conference yesterday, or this big whatever it was in the White House, where he introduced a new term in sourcing, as opposed to outsourcing jobs.
Now I have a question.
And I brought this up earlier.
Are we to presume that Barack Hussein Obama and Leon Panetta and Hillary Rodham Clinton will enjoy firing those four soldiers captured in the worst than Abu Grab video?
You heard about this, right?
Dawn, you haven't heard about this?
Well, there's a video.
Nobody knows how old it is.
Of some U.S. Marines urinating on the bodies of Taliban combatants in Afghanistan.
It peed on them.
And of course, it's Marines.
It violated the rules.
This is there's there's no defense of this.
The overreaction of this is nuts, but still it happened.
You know, 80,000 soldiers were fired by the regime.
Oh yeah, we're gonna cut defense.
We don't care.
We'll cut defense.
80,000 soldiers fired, 80,000 soldiers laid off without a lot of tears from the regime.
So what's getting rid of four more?
But when it comes to laying off cops, uh-uh-uh-uh-uh, no way.
Can't lay off cops.
Why, cops are too important.
Armed resistance in our neighborhoods, the first responders, the police in your local community, whenever local leaders tell you that they just don't have the money anymore.
They have to make budget cuts, and the first to go to be the cops and the teachers and the fire.
What do you do?
No, no, no, don't cut our fire bill.
Oh, no, I don't want to be led.
Okay, fine, then we can't cut anything.
No problem cutting 80,000 soldiers.
Snap your fingers.
It's done.
80,000 soldiers.
Outsource, in source, doesn't matter.
Big difference is that the soldiers are not unionized and can't kick anything back to Obama.
The cops are.
More health news.
I mean, it just once you once this stuff starts, it's like a snowball.
It's from CBS News.
Is drinking America's favorite pastime.
The CDC, the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.
Estimate that 38 million U.S. adults binge drink.
What would the number be if they added teenagers to this?
You seen the binge drinking goes on in sororities and fraternities?
This is just adults.
38 million U.S. adults binge drink.
That means that one in six people drink at least four or five adult beverages on a single occasion.
Who can blame us?
I was stunned it's only 38 million.
I was stunned, it's only four or five.
Where I live, sipping cocktails, gin and tonic, preferably at 4 30 in the afternoon, is what you have to do to be in the club.
That's what the Queen drinks.
Prince Charles, gin and tonic start at 4 30 in the afternoon.
That's what you sip cocktails.
Binge, five or six, hell, that's the first half hour.
Heck, that's the first half hour.
I'm not trying to be profane here.
So how many of you over the course of a nice dinner might have three or four glasses of wine?
Oh, come on, Dawn, I've seen it.
I have seen it.
Do you consider yourself a binge drinker?
Of course not.
But now we all are.
You have five or six adult beverages or a binge drinker, and there are 38 million of us, and listen to the last paragraph.
The CDC listen to this.
Look at me.
The CDC is calling on federal and local governments to roll out community strategies to educate people on the dangers of binge drinking.
Right.
We need our governments to spend time and money educating us on binge drinking.
They've been warning against this since I have been alive.
But this is exactly my point.
So you put out a number, $38 million, binge drink, who can blame them, again, given the Obama administration.
Thank you.
And then the CDC urges federal and local governments to roll out community strategies.
And then, of course, there's a companion story.
It doesn't stop there.
This is from Blast Magazine.
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg and his regime have come up with another health initiative for New York City.
Limit the sale of alcohol in the city to curb excessive drinking.
You see how this works.
I think this Bloomberg news is before the CDC report.
I don't think the CDC caused this.
Bloomberg is just naturally inclined this way.
Trans fats, smoking, salt, what have you.
Michael Bloomberg wants the city of New York to limit the sale of alcohol in the city to curb binge drinking.
This is how they control you, folks.
This is how they try.
And of course, this is what will cause you what?
Get sick, might get liver disease, cirrhosis, then you get cancer, then you might die.
As though you won't otherwise.
This, my friends, is how it worked.
This is interesting.
Moving on, I know the stick to the issues.
Come on, Rush, what about Romney?
What about Newt stick to the issue?
Okay.
Here you go.
Newt Gingrich released the following statement calling for truth and accuracy from campaigns and so-called super packs supporting candidates.
Newt said American people have a right to know the facts about the records of the men and women who are seeking their vote.
Governor Romney is running as somebody who knows how to create jobs.
In fact, he has Claimed to have created 100,000 jobs while at Bain Capitol.
However, numerous analyses have said that figure is inaccurate, as President Obama's claim to have saved or created millions of jobs.
Furthermore, Governor Romney's experience as a portfolio manager didn't help him create an environment in Massachusetts that was friendly to job creation.
So basically it goes on.
What Newt is is saying here, what he what he announced today.
I am calling for the winning our future super PAC, supporting me to either edit its King of Bane advertisement and movie to remove the inaccuracies or to pull it off the air and off the internet entirely, and I am urging Romney to do the same.
So Newt seeking the high ground.
Newt says, okay, I'll pull my lies out if Romney pull up sorry I'll pull our errors out.
I don't even think he's making it contingent on what Romney does.
He's just saying he will do that.
Gingrich is repudiating the things that are wrong in his super PAC ad.
And now the pressure, they're trying to put pressure on Romney to do the same thing.
I'm calling for the winning our future super PAC supporting me to either edit its King of Bain advertisement and movie to remove its inaccuracies or to pull it off the air and off the internet entirely.
Now that's not the point.
They could, but Sturdy just asked me, could they uh could they come out now and say that Newt's coordinating with his super PAC?
Uh because you can't.
There's the super PAC, there is no allowed contact between the candidate and the PAC.
But this does not, I I there's nothing I don't believe that proscribes a candidate from going out publicly and asking his PAC to do something.
He can't make them do it.
This is all bog.
Everybody knows this.
This is typical.
What do you mean they don't have contact with the super PAC?
What are we?
Bunch of idiots?
We know that they do.
The idea that they don't is absurd.
But I mean the law says they can't, so we'll we'll run with the illusion that they don't.
But here's Newt saying, okay, I'll now you you could say that if Newt had not gone nuclear already, if Newt hadn't gone nuclear this past week, this this could have been a good move.
It might still yet be a good move.
Because in the process of nominating and electing candidates, you do want to know who they are.
You do want them vetted.
That's been our problem with the media and Obama all along.
Nobody vetted the guy.
And nobody's going to vet him now.
That's why it's going to be up to our candidate to do it, and our powers that be don't want that to happen because they think it's going to frighten the independence.
So you can say Newt had a great idea, but didn't execute it well because he just was the recipient of 96% of all the negative ads in Iowa, and it just flipped his wig because he thought so much of it was lies.
So now he's taking the high road.
I'll I'll I'm urging.
I'm calling on my pack to edit the King of Bane advertising a movie to remove the inaccuracies or to pull it off the air.
Now, clearly, what's supposed to happen now is that a gaggle of so-called journalists with cameras and microphones will find Romney.
Mr. Romney, Mr. Romney, Newtys is going to get rid of these lies.
Newt says he's going to pull out the inaccuracy.
Will you do the same?
Will you do the same?
That's what the Newt Camp hope happens here.
I'm not sure that Newt.
Well, he does.
Furthermore, I am once again calling on Governor Romney to issue a similar call for the super PAC.
So he is calling for Romney to coordinate with his super PAC the same way Newt's coordinating with his super PAC in ways, of course, that they're not allowed to coordinate with their super PACs.
Hey, hey, hey, get this.
This is some CBS News.
The ATT Pebble Beach National Pro Am, which is broadcast on CBS, and let's see, that's uh ATT, of course, the corporate sponsor, considering issuing an invitation to Tim Tebow to play in the Pebble Beach Program, the former Crosby Klambeck.
And if he accepts, they want to pair him with Tiger Woods.
I don't know if Tebow plays golf.
All I know is if he doesn't, he'll be good.
He's an athlete.
John Lway, John Elway, picked up golf clubs for the first time while a student at Stanford and was a five handicap from the first day he played the game.
That's what he told that's what he told me.
And I, if not a, I mean, he was he was an excellent golfer from the first day he took it up.
I played golf in, I mean, I had a trip with uh with Howard Slusher, and it was a sports agent.
It was at the time I knew he was at Nike, uh, working with Phil Knight, Paul Westfall, former coach of the Phoenix Suns, and the Hutch.
That's where I met the Hutch on this fishing trip to Vancouver Island.
And one day that we didn't go salmon fishing, we played golf.
And the Hutch, I don't think it ever played, and the Hutch broke 80.
And he's a linebacker.
Not a sinewy, willowy, I mean, the guy's balked up, he's out there breaking 80.
And I've been playing five or six years by this time.
I still can't play.
So if Tebow hasn't played, I have no doubt that he would he would do well.
He's an athlete.
But I also don't know that he would accept it.
Um he's a recluse by design.
He's he's trying to keep his life in perspective.
He doesn't go out to dinner.
He is his family and friends surround him.
Uh he says he's not making friends outside of sports.
It's too hard to do.
I understand that totally.
So uh this let me let me let me tell you how this CBS story is worded.
I think it's worded this way.
It is.
Listen to this.
This is uh what is the news source here?
Global Golf Post.
I never heard of them.
Global Golf, so they're not mainstream.
You mean you're not you'd have to go searching for them on Bing or Google or whatever.
They report it this way.
Tebow, a self-confessed virgin who says he's waiting for marriage to have sex, would be teeming up with Woods, a man whose marriage failed after cheating on his wife with numerous women.
It's that I kid you not, that's in this blog post at Global Golf Post.
So I and as you people well know, I have played five or six times in the Pebble Beach Pro Am.
I'm not gonna play this time around, but I have played in it, and it's it's fun.
There's no question.
However, uh, if the Broncos big if make the Super Bowl, I don't know that the timing works out because the Pebble Beach Pro Am, I think is the week after Super Bowl.
Anyway, Tiger Woods, Tim Tebow, the Pebble Beach.
Somebody has put this news out.
I guarantee you that Clint Eastwood and the boys are not happy that this news has gotten out.
Clint Eastwood is one of the big organizers.
It's a huge charitable event, essentially.
Uh the Monterey uh Beach Founder, Monterey uh Peninsula Foundation, this great, great work out there.
It's it's really a fun week to be to be a part of.
Um what is this?
This is uh from Gallup.
We got two interesting Gallup polls, folks.
The first one, conservatives remain the largest ideological group in America.
The number of people who say they're conservative, 40%.
The number of people who say they're moderates 35%, the number of people who say they're liberal, 21%.
Why is it then that every poll oversamples Democrats?
Do you realize we are the majority in this country?
And we are being ruled and governed by a minority.
Unless you want to add the moderates to liberals, in which case you'd get uh 56% to 40.
But still fan that the largest ideological identified group, people willing to identify themselves ideologically.
Conservatives.
40%.
It's not even close.
Libs at 21.
The headline of the day is in today's Philadelphia Daily News.
The story is written by Dana DiFilippo.
What the journalists usually don't write the headlines.
But maybe I don't even know if Dana's male or female.
Here's the headline.
Philadelphia Daily News.
Woman says her fake penis got her fired.
And not, it's not, no, snurdly, it's not a vibrating one.
No, no, no, no.
I can say woman says her fake penis got her.
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