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Jan. 13, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 13, 2012, Friday, Hour #3
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Okay.
All right.
Why don't I just admit it?
And then we can move on.
I am the problem.
The problem.
Communicating conservatism is that we all, you all expect the candidates to be as good at it as I am.
And they are live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line.
And so I am the problem.
Well, uh as a matter of comparison.
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There's a poll out there from Rasmussen that at first is disquieting and alarming, but on reflection, I understand it.
Not that I agree with it.
Sixty-four percent of the American people favor the FCC regulating television and radio.
Sixty-four percent.
I'll tell you why.
I don't believe it's because they're statists, the people, and I don't believe that they want government to have control over speech.
I think they're tired of the filth.
I think when they're asked, you think the FCC should uh regulate content, television, and radio.
I think a lot of them, yeah, tired of all the liberalism, yeah.
I'm tired of all the filth, yeah.
I'm tired of all the profanity, yeah.
I'm tired of all the crap, I'm tired of all the wardrobe malfunctions.
That would be my guess.
In explaining that poll.
By the way, according to report that I saw earlier today, we are not going to let this terrible peeing scandal stop us from negotiating the Taliban's takeover in Afghanistan.
Some people are starting to call this uh uh urine gate.
Taliban, Taliban says marine tape will not hurt Afghanistan talks.
Now, what is that?
You go back to the Bush years, we had the Abu Grab pictures, and oh no.
My God, that's the end of the U.S. military.
Oh, what a horrible country.
Oh, gee, what a great terrorist recruitment to oh no, Abu Grab, that stupid Bush.
Oh no, how horrible that.
Remember when I said that looks like a fraternity hazing frame.
Oh, they got all over me on that.
And that the left, they used that to destroy or try to destroy the media, uh the military and its credibility and the mission, and oh, it was this.
You remember.
So now we have a video tape of some Marines breaking the rules.
Sort of a little taping it.
That's a little curious why they did that, and then somehow now it's gotten out.
And I'm gonna tell you, this Snerdley, which do you think is more offensive, uh greater transgression, Abu Grab photos or the urination on corpses, the Taliban.
ABUGRAB far worse.
Abu Grab far worse than urinating on Taliban corpses.
Okay, well, I know if they were Taliban.
We don't know when this happened.
Uh The details are sketchy.
So we'll just discuss matter.
We'll take it as it is.
But get this Reuters story.
Taliban says marine tape will not hurt Afghanistan talks.
Now, what does that tell you?
What does that tell you?
All of a sudden, you have something that if they wanted to, the left could exploit this as another.
Abu Ghrab.
Well, that goes without saying, Abu Grab blamed on Bush.
Why isn't this blamed on Obama?
Pure and simple, the media, nothing can go wrong with it.
This will be blamed on the individuals.
Not Bush, not Obama.
When a president is Republican, everything that the government does is blamed on him.
But the more important question here, the Taliban, those, according to his story, was their people who were dead, who were the Euro Navies.
And the Taliban says that that tape is not going to hurt anything.
We're not bothered by that.
I'm simply yet.
What does that tell you?
No.
That doesn't tell us that they're tired of being hit by drones.
It tells us that they're winning and they're close, and if they start raising hell about this, it's going to delay the ultimate.
Karzai is out there saying one thing or another.
A senior member of the Afghan government's high peace council said such actions will leave a very, very bad impact on peace efforts.
But the Taliban says, ah, not going to hurt anything here.
Taliban must think they're close to winning.
Taliban must think they're pretty close to taking over Afghanistan.
There are peace talks going on.
And the Taliban must think that we're pretty close to surrendering it to them and getting out.
And they don't want this to come along.
Stop F process and delay.
That's how I interpret it.
This would be my wild guess.
Obviously, urinate will not interrupt the process of turning the country over to the Taliban.
If they wanted to, they could go after Obama.
They could make they could be, they could be out there saying that Panetta should resign.
Where is Code Pink?
Where are all these anti-war groups?
Where are these people who hate the military?
Compared to the way they were around her in Abu Ghrab.
You remember the fake stories about flushing Koran down the toilet from Michael Isakoff.
They wanted a frog march uh Bush Cheney into the into jail over Abu Ghrab.
Now this.
Abu Grab was on the front page of the New York Times above the fold.
Get this for 32 straight days.
Urinate.
Eh.
What's the big deal?
No big deal.
We can't even pinpoint when it happened.
We can't even.
We'll deal with it internally.
Panetta gets away with talking about how outraged he is.
He won't put up with okay, fine.
That's all we need to hear.
Let's move on.
Nothing to see here.
This afternoon on CNN's newsroom.
They have a show there.
It's called Newsroom.
It's hosted by a guy named Don Lemon.
And he was discussing the Republican primary with the editor of Conservativch.com.
Crystal Wright.
Sturdley, have you ever heard of Crystal Wright?
Have you ever heard of uh it does sound like a competing lemonade.
Crystal crystalright, Conservative Black Chick.com.
Have you heard of that?
Well, that's who she is.
Crystal Wright, W-R-I-G-H-T.
And Don Lemon said to her, okay, Crystal.
Rush Limbaugh, Rudy Giuliani among the rivals saying to Newt and DePerry, knock it off, the stuff against Romney.
Well, you know, the reality is people like Rush Limbaugh and Carl Rove like to think that they're calling the shots.
They kind of remind me of American Idol Judges, you know, the so-called Republican establishment.
And what Newt's rise in South Carolina shows us is that the voters have not finished deciding.
This woman might be for Newt.
So now I somehow have made it into the Republican establishment with Carl Rove, but all we are American Idol Judges.
We'll come back.
We'll take a break.
Oh, Snee, you're at the website now.
What was the name of uh Conservative Black Chick.com is that what it is.
Well, is it worth checking out?
Okay, I won't.
And we'll take a break and we'll come back.
And we've got people on the phones.
So don't go away.
Time to go back to the phones as promised, and we go to Prince Frederick, Maryland.
Gloria, thank you so much for waiting.
Nice to have you here.
Oh, hi, Russian.
I'm so ecstatic to talk to you.
Thank you.
Thanks very much.
I just want to let you know I love you.
So I thought earlier I had maybe I misunderstood that you had compared Abu Ghraib to what went on with these four kids, these four Marines, and I was going to give you a dusting on it, but I think I don't know.
Maybe I misunderstood you.
Well, I might no, I didn't.
I I I talked about them in the same sentence, but I I didn't no, I did not equate them.
Okay.
Other than in the way they're being reacted to.
I know, and I I'm so mad.
I just I don't want these kids to suffer anything.
I I don't care if they get a little slap on their hands, but they did nothing wrong.
These troglodytes deserved more than just a little whiz on them.
And it really it just boggles my brain that these are.
Now, my understanding, my understanding is that uh, and this is from the father of two Marines, who has written about this, wrote about it last night's name Michael Michael Ladin, uh, a friend of mine, and he says that they did break rules, that this is not something that is taught, recommended, or what have you.
The thing is, everybody knows it happens on both sides.
There is a famous picture of George Patton urinating in the Rhine River before making a march on Hitler.
We know this stuff happens.
We know they do it, and worse.
What happened here was videotaping this and putting it out there.
That's that's we we know this.
This is war for crying out loud.
Absolutely.
And we all know they have to take whizzes, like you said.
Exactly.
And what they failed to mention is what the Taliban do to these poor villagers and their women and the children when they go into them.
And it why don't they show those atrocities?
And they're worried about our guys taking a little leak on these.
Because in fact, in fact, you know something?
This is actually a good point.
Do you remember after Abu Grab and Club Gitmo?
Now just stick with me on this.
After Abu Grab and Club Gitmo, all we heard about from Obama himself, while he's a candidate, and all the other Democrats was how this was this is not America.
This is destroying our values.
This is why the world hates us.
Remember all that talk about American values?
Where is that now?
Why why why aren't the same Democrats concerned about the um the hit to American values with this?
All of this is so political, and it's always so political.
And I I just the differences in the way stories like this are covered are so obvious.
I was uh watching one of I'll tell you a fact if you haven't seen this show, you should watch this.
Show called Homeland.
It's on, well, it was on Showtime.
It's still available.
Uh Showtime on Demand.
If your cable company provides it, I know that DirecTV does.
Home Comcast still kid Comcast has Showtime on Demand.
It was 12 episodes and it ran last fall into December.
And it was co-created by Howard Gordon, who was the showrunner for 24.
Joel Cerno's good buddy.
And Howard's got a couple novels that he's also written.
And it's an excellent show.
It stars Claire Danes as a CIA agent, and uh it's got a pretty good cast.
Uh, Mandy Petinkan uh is uh her superior and so it's really I liked it.
It's a terrific, terrific show.
And there's a scene in this show where the uh the male lead is a POW captured for seven years in Iraq.
I don't want to take too much because it's a spoiler.
But during the seven years of his captivity, they routinely portray the guard urinating on him.
My point, we all know this kind of stuff happens.
And when people start out, oh horrible.
This is all rigorous.
And she's right, this is nothing compared to what happens to the innocent women and children of the Taliban, how they hide behind them and so forth and subject them to the drones, drone attacks, which is about what this show's about, interestingly.
But you really ought to watch it's 12 episodes about the last episode's an hour and a half.
The others are anywhere from 52 minutes to uh to an hour, and there are no commercials in them.
And I didn't know about it till it was almost over.
Uh Joel Cerno, well, I did, but I didn't pay enough attention.
Joel said to me uh, I was out playing golf in California, said, Have you seen Howardo's new show?
And I said, No, what is this?
It's a homeland that's on showtime.
Oh, okay.
And I hit my next shot and I forgot about it.
And then somebody sent me an email or somebody told me about it, and I said, wait a minute, I've heard of this.
What is it?
And I remembered it's Howardo's show.
And uh so I started watching, and Catherine and I started had a marathon watching these things while we're in Hawaii.
We got the DVDs because Showtime on demand wasn't available in the hotel.
So I had to pull strings and get DVDs fedxed all over the place to uh to get them out to the hotel.
But it it's it's yeah, I don't there's no ban on vampire movies, I just don't watch them.
I just no, I haven't seen Twilight.
If look, I will just tell you this.
It's you know, we all have things that just if I see I'll scan through the guide on the TV screen, and if the description of the show mentions the word vampire, that's it.
Right past it, don't stop.
I have I've never, the last vampire I show show I saw was uh the old black and white with Bella Legosi.
Dracula.
It's the last one I saw.
I don't read the Ann Rice books.
I just nothing against anybody that writes or does TV shows about vampires.
It's just I not only do I not watch it, it's one thing I literally do not understand anybody else being interested in.
Because where do I live?
I live in Reaville, and there are no such things.
There's a whoa, that stuff's possible.
Science fiction fantasy stuff is all podcast.
Look at look at how many of the techno gizmo gadgets that we have today were in sci-fi movies in the 50s.
The iPad goes way back to the Twilight Zone.
The iPad actually goes back to 2001 of Space Odyssey.
Those two astronauts had an iPad in it.
But vampires are just now.
See, I'm getting myself in trouble because a lot of people like vampire stuff and think I'm ripping vampires.
And uh we just have enough bloodsuckers with the Democrat Party to deal with here every day to have to go home and turn on a television and and watch, and they're all beautiful people.
Uh it frankly amazes me that television and movie writers and book writers have been able to make such hay out of people biting each other's necks.
Essentially all it is.
Uh why don't we do a show on hickeys?
Well, I know it's a movie on hickeys, but but uh I just I don't know.
Vampire sex is a big you mean two vampires having sex or the Yeah, see that's the vampire, yeah.
See, that's the thing.
That's where I lose it.
That's where I lose it.
If it was two vampires having sex, that's a whole different thing.
But it's always a vampire going after some innocent, unsuspecting virgin who ends up being corrupted, and then he got the werewolf guy that's gonna show up somewhere else later in it, and it's just all predictable.
Okay, back to the phones open line Friday, James in Louis.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello, Rosh?
Yes, sir.
All right, let's get down to it.
Uh on this thing about uh Mitt Romney running for uh for the president.
Yeah, we all gotta vote for him so he can be the Republican um candidate.
Now here's the deal.
Everybody thinks he's a flip-flopper.
Yeah.
What we do is we all get together, we elect his butt.
When he gets into office, then we're gonna stay on him like white on rice.
He's gonna we're gonna make him every day, 24 hours a day, make sure he stays on focus.
And if we do that So you want to elect his butt, then bulldoze his butt, make sure he stays conservative.
Absolutely.
There's no other way.
I've thought about this thing six ways from Sunday.
We have nobody us running uh that's a conservative or Republican.
Well, I have cited uh a a column by uh Daniel Henninger in the Wall Street Journal that came out last winter, sometime in November basically said the same thing.
Romney is going to always have to be pushed to the right, that his natural inclination is to move to the center or the left, he's gonna have to constantly be pushed there, and that's what he was hoping Henninger was hoping that would happen during the primary, that the pressure from the other conservative candidates would move Romney to the right.
And I think I think that this is uh uh uh true.
It's gonna have to happen.
And and the media is gonna be obviously trying to push him to the left if he happens to get elected, or he will even after he is nominated.
But I think you're exactly right.
I think it's gonna require uh pretty consistent pressure.
Oh, yeah, we gotta bulldoze him.
He's in other words, he's gotta know is that there is no safe haven.
If he's gonna represent the uh the Republican ticket, uh then he's gonna have to uh let me tell you something I heard him say.
All right.
That I don't know that he said publicly.
He said if he wins, he thinks he'll only last one.
Now you talking about Obama, you're talking about Romney.
He says that he is going to so roll back all the stuff the left has done.
He is going to he's gonna ban Obamacare, he's gonna he's gonna fix Medicaid, he's gonna take on social security, he's gonna do all he says, I've got four years to save this country, and if I succeed, I'm gonna be so hated I may not get re-elected.
Well, I tell you all.
And he's what he's what he means by that is he's gonna the media and the left is gonna come after him like crazy because he is going to be taking on every one of their sacred cause.
Well, if he knows that we're all behind him, then he's not gonna lose.
He's gonna win.
This is really an important election.
Well, that's the thing, and I I heard him say that if he does that, he wins in a landslide his reelection if he does all if he really pulls that off.
Absolutely.
The problem is always gonna be the media for our people and wanting to please them.
if we can if we can get somebody, James, if we could get somebody to not care about the media, or to actually have fun in tweaking them.
Uh that's why it's very difficult.
Um because most well a president could do it.
He has a bully pulp, but most people don't have a microphone every day to to counter it, but uh as I do.
But if we the the media would be gonna be a huge pressure point, and a lot of Republicans want to please the media.
They still do, that's one of our big problems.
There's more of us than there is of them.
And I'm telling you what, this is this is too big, and I know And it's too crucial out there.
Oh, and well, I'm gonna tell you something.
I know that the o you know that actually uh the Democrats uh are hoping that Romney's gonna be elected to represent us.
But we're gonna do is we're gonna put the pressure on Mitt is that he's got no choice.
Well, you think the Democrats have to do it.
You think the Democrats you think Obama wants Romney?
Absolutely.
They go they they think they're gonna eat his lunch.
But I'm telling you, if we all get together right now, and it's gotta be now, because this thing is getting down to the line here.
I already know that the other guys that uh that are running um are not they don't have a chance of ever being elected to anything.
What guys?
Excuse me?
Newt and Santorum and uh uh they don't have a Yeah, I mean they they've got some good ideas, but they don't have the fire in the middle, and they ain't got the They got the balls for it.
Well why do you think Rom why do you think Romney does?
Because we gonna make You're just sitting here talking about we've got a bulldoze Romney.
No.
Well, we're gonna make him do it.
So you you you know we're gonna we're gonna v make him follow the line.
You think there is nobody that can beat Romney in the nomination process.
Absolutely not.
How much time do we have does it to delete this?
I'm sorry, excuse me.
Oh, you already did it?
Okay, you already did it.
Okay.
Well, James, I'll tell you that's interesting uh point of view.
I think a lot of people are going to could we just end this now because this they're gonna look at this as as destructive.
But look.
One thousand one hundred and forty-four delegates are needed, and right now Romney leads with twelve.
South Carolina's next week, and then Florida, and then February, nothing.
They take the month of February off, and then Super Tuesday hits.
So these next two um are going to be pretty indicative.
James, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
Open line Friday means more calls, and the next up is Dwayne in uh Huntington, Indiana.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Thank you for taking my call, Rush and be late.
Happy birthday.
Thank you very much, sir.
Hey, I told Bo I'm coming from I'm got you by twenty-one years.
I've been sixty years active in the Republican Party locally.
Uh I've been a candidate, an office holder, precinct worker, all those things.
Wow.
I'm a conservative.
I had the advantage of being in school when they still taught proper history and economics, and I have held my nose for the last time.
I'm the one who called you four years ago and suggested McCain step across the aisle and touch the empty chair and stay there.
You like that.
I also predicted last spring what was going to happen between the Rhinos and their media trying to select our candidate.
Now, my whole attitude now is different.
If we're gonna go to a Marxist dictatorship, let the people who are experts at it do it all at once, rather than I I can't bring myself to vote for a sneak who wants to do it a little bit slower.
And I'm here to say that there is no way that I'm going to vote for John Mitt McRomney King.
Uh he has if not only flip flopped, he has implemented some of his beliefs, notably the socialized medicine and sent uh uh helpers to the Obama to help him.
But wait a minute, I want to make sure I understand this.
You think that if we're gonna go Marxist.
Let them do it right out.
I mean, we're gonna uh don't do it so painfully.
You mean just ceded to Obama rather than electing a pretender?
I don't think I'm uh let me say it this way, Rush, make it a little more civilized.
I don't see anything right now in Romney's attitude that could cause me to vote for him.
It's gonna be Newt or uh any other conservative.
Now they say Newt is foot flopped too.
The thing difference is Newt never implemented any of his policies, then changed his mind.
He may have made some mistakes, but he corrected him.
We're all human.
We make mistakes.
He balanced a budget.
He is able to take it, not in debates, but on the road, he could take it to Obama, and providing the rhinos don't choke him off from attribution.
You can't check, you can't attack the uh programs without attribution to the person who designed them.
But we don't.
I'm gonna tell you something.
Look, I know the point you're trying to make.
I really feel if Obama gets four more years, there's no coming back from it.
Well, that's what I'm afraid of.
But at the same time, well, then I'll take slowing it down.
Okay.
Okay, well, you may I'm not gonna agree with you that Romney's a Marxist.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Because you're gonna end up if he if he's the nominee, are you gonna go silent?
Or you gonna are you not going to ask me what happens if Romney is the candidate?
I said I have to weigh that in my mind.
Today, I'm inclined not to vote.
Well, that's you gotta realize there's huge difference, even with whatever the worst of Romney is, it isn't Obama.
Yeah.
Well, you're right.
Now I understand your frustration, though.
I understand everybody's frustration.
Here we've got.
It's infuriating.
I know exactly how you feel, folks.
Here we've got the most defeatable candidate we could have genuine Marxist who has destroyed the U.S. economy, whether by design or by accident, the numbers of people out of work, the hopelessness, the ongoing saga of the decline of America.
It's infuriating there isn't a full-fledged 100% conservative out there that could take this.
But it is what it is.
And I'm not even I'm not even talking about purity.
Uh I know people were hoping for a palin.
Uh there's some the the Chris Christie camp thinks that he is a full-fledged 100% conservative.
And he said, no, Marco Rubio, where are these people?
Bobby Gendal, there's a whole lot of people.
There's a lot of conservatives out there, and they know where are they?
And there's a disappointment over that.
I understand it, folks.
I totally do.
Anyway, I gotta run.
Dwayne, I appreciate the call.
I um I really do.
I just got an email.
It said, Rush, you just illustrated your point.
I was never more bored listening to you than when you were talking about vampires.
And you say that you'll sound bored when you're talking about things you don't care about.
You're talking about vampires, it's not like you didn't care about it.
You were very boring.
See?
Point made.
By the way, ladies and gentlemen, more health news as we started the program with get this.
This is James Gallagher, the health reporter at BBC.
A link between eating processed meat like bacon and pancreatic cancer has been suggested by researchers in Sweden.
Eating bacon is linked, maybe, to pancreatic cancer.
They said eating an extra 50 grams of processed meat, which is a basically one sausage every day would increase your risk by 19%.
The World Cancer Research Fund suggested a link maybe reduced if you uh if you if you lose weight.
So, this is the way bacon is going to kill you.
That's the bacon could 19% chance bacon could kill you.
And people accept this.
They hear this and they run around, they believe this be a and when in fact what kills people is age.
Getting older.
Nothing more, nothing less, other than accidents, of course.
But this pancreatic cancer.
And then there's this.
Bed, Bath & Beyond.
How many of you go to Bed, Bath & Beyond?
Bed, Bath & Beyond has just issued a recall for a tissue holder.
And here is why.
You know that's right.
Muslims do get pancreatic cancer.
You don't need bacon.
So there goes that theory out the window.
Anyway, Bed Bath and Beyond has issued a recall for its dual ridge metal boutique tissue holder after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said the production contained a material that emits low levels of radiation.
You believe this?
A tissue holder bought at Bed Bath and Beyond threatens you with radiation.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is measuring tissue holders while the Iranians are pursuing a nuclear bomb.
And Bed Bath & Beyond is going to recall a tissue holder!
Kleenex!
*phone rings* Because it emits low levels of radi.
I just is unbelievable.
The AP story, Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman David McIntyre said that home products company has pulled the tissue holder from its stores.
No threat to human health from the tissue holder, but it's better to avoid unnecessary exposure to radiation.
So then how come everybody has to get scanned at airports?
They're going to pull tissue holders and still send people through the scanners?
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