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Feb. 10, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 10, 2012, Friday, Hour #3
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Now, speaking of Planned Parenthood here, ladies and gentlemen, just a quick question here.
If insurance companies are now mandated by Obama to provide free birth control and morning after pills, sterilization services.
If insurance companies are mandated to do this, why does the government need to fund planned parenthood anymore?
Live from the left post at our satellite studios in Los Angeles.
It's open line Friday.
And one busy, exciting broadcast hour remains from Los Angeles.
We always have a great time here in Los Angeles.
Telephone number 800-282-2882 and the email address, L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
Now in this program, well, when I was planning the program.
And I went out to dinner with some friends last night.
We went to my buddy Stan Schuster's Grand Havana Club.
Place was packed.
I was happy to see it.
People in there smoking cigars, sometimes two at a time.
I just, I just jamming it down this.
Yeah.
At the Grand Havana Club.
It's uh it's over, it's it's in Beverly Hills on uh on Canaan Driver Canon as it's pronounced.
Canon Canaan would.
And I'm telling you, it's a gorgeous place.
Big TV is all over the place for watching sports, but we weren't doing that.
Uh but Joel Cerno and Howard Gordon and and uh uh and Jeff Benson, who's Cerno's agent when uh Howard did um homeland, and I'm trying to get out of him what the next season's plot line is.
But it was just great to place a jam pack, some people smoking two cigars at once, just jamming it right down the throats of the health Nazis.
And I asked Stan, I said, How's it doing?
It's never been better.
Business has never been better.
He said the same thing about the Gran Havana Club in New York City.
Is I can't keep Rudy Giuliani out of the place in New York.
Not that I want to, but he's in, he loves it in this.
So anyway, these guys, it got to be uh nine o'clock.
They asked me, what do you got to do but show prep?
I said, Well, I really need to get I I I I've I spent uh four and a half hours at ear doctor yesterday afternoon, and I I haven't had a chance to um do any show preps.
I really I need to go, so I left about 9 30 or 10 o'clock.
And it turns out all the work I did last night, I mean, I haven't even gotten to 90% of it because of Obama's stupid announcement this morning, and I found out about two hours, hour and a half before the the program started.
And I was gonna say I intended today to have a lighthearted, laid back last day in LA open line Friday, lots of phone calls, and then the guy starts the day by robbing us of more of our liberty and freedom while people on our side think that he's caving a waste.
I had to deal with that.
And I is it's a slow way of getting to the fact.
I apologize, you people on the phone.
I really meant to flood the zone with calls today.
And it just hasn't happened out there.
So I'll try to squeeze more phone calls in uh in this uh in this busy broadcast hour.
NBC, MSNBC just ran a graphic employers to offer birth control without copies.
Making it sound like it's their idea.
Obama has just mandated it for God's sake.
Pardon me.
Obama has just mandated it, and now MSNBC is making it look like employers have come up with the idea on their own.
The purpose there is to insulate Obama from what's happened here, and that is the exercise of unconstitutional authority.
So MSNBC trying to make it look like it's employer's idea with the insurance companies to provide free of charge contraception, birth control pills, you name it.
This this next story, this is Laugh Out Loud Funny, I think.
I don't know about you.
I'm some I still mail my monthly bills.
I have never taken the five hours it would take to set up electronic payment.
I just have I haven't done it.
As much as I love computers, as much as I love playing with computers, I haven't taken the time to do that.
And I don't let anybody else do it.
Uh so Kat and I do it ourselves.
That's it.
Nobody's so you just haven't taken the time to do this.
I still mail bills.
From the Hill.com.
Eight House Democrats yesterday proposed legislation that would require companies to consider bills as paid on the postmark date because the post office is so lousy at delivering mail.
The post office can't do its job.
The post office is so bad, and it's government run.
It's union staffed.
So now we have to have a law mandating that your bill is paid the date it's postmarked, not when the company gets it.
And the law is a piece of legislation that will mandate that companies make this change.
That you get credit for paying your bill on the date it's postmarked rather than the date they receive it.
Representative Steve Cohen, Democrat Tennessee, the lead sponsor of the bill, said the Postal Service has announced service cutbacks that would eliminate the chance of next day mail service for letters dropped in home mailboxes and would slow down all first class mail.
Said his bill would make it easier for people to avoid late fees when they choose to mail their bills by treating these bills as paid as soon as they're received by.
See, this is how your brilliant government solves its problems, acknowledges a failure, and then pays for it.
acknowledges the failure and then subsidizes it.
Santorum made his speech today at CPAC.
He also from the Politico.com, and I got this.
This was uh in fact last night, some of the show prep that I was uh doing.
He said something about the global warming uh issue that just I just it made I'll tell you, it made my heart sing.
He said, you hear all the time, the left, oh, those conservatives are the anti-science party.
Santorum said, no, we're not.
We're the truth party.
The left is always looking for a way to control you.
They're always trying to make you feel guilty so that you'll give them power so they can lord it over you.
They do it on the environment all the time.
It was a uh speech remarks he made about how the uh energy wackos distort the truth, and he's so right about this.
They call people that don't believe in the global warming hoax deniers, and so forth, and he's doubly right the way they get people to drive these little electric cars, the way they get people to accept tax increases, and the way they get people to do all this silly stuff to save the planet is to blame them for.
Guilt them.
You have caused climate change.
Not your fault, you didn't know.
All those big cars and all the pollution and all the other things, the food that you're eating.
These one of these guys I mentioned the other day, one of former big believers in man-made global warming, a participant in the UN's IPCC bunch, the international panel on climate, whatever it was or is, you know, he's written a book saying he feels duped by the whole movement now.
And one of the examples he gave when I read that the United Nations, no, when I read that some blogger made a point on a blog and the United Nations accepted it as science that we need to stop eating beef grown in Argentina because it's contributing to global warming.
He said, I uh I'm not gonna be a fool here.
I am not gonna keep my name attached to this kind of insanity.
Yet how many people, well-intentioned duped people believe that eating beef leads to man-made global warming?
That's part of the left's attempt to guilt you into accepting blame so that you will then become part of the solution to be a good person, raising taxes, giving up some of your freedom and so forth to save the plan.
Santorum is dead on right.
I hope he keeps talking in this vein.
I hope he keeps talking this way.
Because it's it's it's in addition to being right, it is also confidence in spying among among voters.
Now, let's we're there's uh one other story here.
I have here it is.
As you know, we got in trouble on this program for making fun of school dinner in Memphis.
The local Memphis media got ticked off, started running reports of what I was saying, essentially laughing about what they were doing.
But this the Huffing and Puffington Post.
You've heard about free scroll lunch and breakfast, but how about school supper in California dinner is now being served to students at two hundred scruels.
These California squirrels are joining a new federally funded effort to provide three meals a day to children from low-income families who also attend after school programs across the state.
When Congress passed the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act near the end of 2010.
The healthy hunger-free kids act.
Because folks, a survey in 2010 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture found that 15% of American households were food insecure.
Right there.
Fifteen percent of households are food insecure.
Yet at the same time, we got Moochel Obama worried about obese.
Do you hear what she did?
She went to the millage.
She went to some military place after she's getting on the military for being obese.
She's telling them the the military to stop.
How can you be obese and be in the military?
That doesn't compute.
Anyway, she's she's doing that.
So now school dinner at 200 California schools.
Well, that's right.
They're throwing away the uh kids in California at school lunch are refusing to eat the healthful stuff.
They're throwing it all away.
There's a the part of the story here is that I on honest folks, honest to Pete, i i in this story that they whine and moan, uh uh a child will not eat an apple because the child was told that the peel is bad for you and doesn't know how to peel an apple.
So they spent time in class showing students how to peel an apple.
And that wasn't even anything about abortion or contraception or condoms.
That was just how to peel an apple so the students would eat it because too many students were eating fruit packed in fructose syrup, all kinds of sugar.
It's insane.
It's literally insane what's going on in the American school system today.
And how education being bastard.
Back to the phones, as promised, Michelle in Starr, Idaho.
Thanks for calling.
Thanks for waiting.
It's great to have you here.
I've been talking listening to you since 1988, since I graduated from high school.
My mom, Mary Beth, introduced uh my boyfriend at the time, who's my husband now, and um we've listened to you ever since.
We just love you.
Well, I appreciate that.
Thank you.
You're a lifer that you've been around since the very beginning, 88.
That's right.
My mom found you and we graduated, and I feel like um I didn't go to college, but I feel like I I did go to your university, and um you speak my mind.
So you are the man that speaks my mind.
See, that's it.
We validate on this one.
We don't create my number about she already agreed with me before I even she even knew me.
Exactly right.
I I do want to agree.
Um, the bigger issue is the assaults on our constitution.
Um, but I do want to address the Catholic Church issue.
I know it's a side issue.
That's the assault that's an assault on the Constitution.
It's it's all wrapped up in that.
Oh, it is.
It is, and I think that um it's just a real shame what the Catholic Church has done to itself.
I think that um when you look over time, they um basically are reaching what they showed.
They they there's consequences to their actions, and with their schools, their hospitals, and their universities, they started um accepting state and federal funds.
And so you can see the deterioration uh across the board.
Um, you can go into a Catholic school and th those children are not even learning church history.
My son goes to a um classical Christian school, and he is learning um all about church history, about um you know, America's history, world history, medieval times, you know, everything.
And he's in fourth grade, and he just learned about St. Thomas and um how he became a saint and how he was standing up against the king.
And um how history just is repeating itself.
And it's just a real shame what the Catholic Church has um has done.
I was baptized Catholic, raised Catholic, and I have to say I left the church um when I was burdened with a child.
Um I decided, you know, first and foremost, the most most important thing to me was his education, and And luckily I was able to find a a school um that is teaching him all of this and and it reinforcing our values and our principles.
But um, yeah, the Catholic Church, I think they really dropped the ball when they, you know, when they started also on the other issues like illegal immigration, um, when they let our borders stay wide open and did said nothing and and took these people into the hospitals, it's created this this problem we're having with the health care system and the cost of everything.
Yeah, I you know, it's this is a it's an interesting point.
Um once once you accept federal money uh uh funding, federal money, uh they by definition are going to have or going to assert government will, some say so, or some control.
Uh in fact, uh great illustration of this, the school lunch program.
When schools accept federal funds for the school lunch program, the feds then turn around and use that as as the linkage to the curriculum.
The feds say, if you're going to take money for the school program, we're gonna tell you what you can and can't teach.
This is how the feds insert themselves via the Yeah, so it and and it's the same thing.
Half the population.
We had the story yesterday about the rising dependence.
It's not excuse me, just the Catholic Church.
The Democrat Democrat Party has set out to it purposely enslave as many people as possible to federal money, and as much of their lives as possible paid for by federal money.
So they'll constantly vote Democrat and in and entrenched Democrats in uh in in power.
No, I'm not I'm not I'm not saying that people end up being corrupted by it.
I'm just you know, follow the money and you'll find an answer to practically every question that that you ask.
And it's an allure.
You know, this giant stash of money from the federal government, they offer it to you.
Everybody needs more money, everybody wants more money.
They come along and offer it to you in legislation.
When you're Catholic church, Catholic school, whatever, you take it.
Uh and then and the feds will use that as a way inside your door.
It's uh it's a tough thing.
I uh I don't know.
This the solution is more people like me.
And it's easy for me to say.
I don't know when this happened to me.
I don't know when it was sometime early in my life when I was not able to totally provide for myself.
I've been fired of something, and I just hated that.
I just I vowed one of my goals in life was I was never going to be dependent on anybody for my needs.
Because I figure when you're dependent on people for your needs, they own you.
It's over.
And I vowed that that was going to be something that I would never experience again.
And people when I say that, well, you know, easy for you to say.
Well, it no, I mean it it hasn't been easy.
That's the point.
No, no, social Darwin.
It's not, it's called it's called social responsibility.
Social Darwin is a natural selection, all that garbage.
This is you know, Darwin was full of it.
One of the biggest problems culture has is that Darwin is considered an authority on things.
But that's that's for another day.
I appreciate the call.
The the the whole notion of accepting federal money uh is as far as the Catholic Church is concerned, is an accurate thing to say.
It does provide uh the the federal government a a way in.
Folks, the um 25 billion dollar settlement with the banks over foreclosure abuses.
There's a story Bloomberg has this today's pretty big out there.
It may result in a wave of home seizures inflicting short-term pain on delinquent U.S. borrowers while making a long-term housing recovery more likely.
But the the the the new foreclosures that are gonna take place with Obama funding, this is going to have an immediate deleterious effect on the housing market.
A lot of concern about it.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Okay, audio soundbite time.
I promised Mitt Romney sound bites from CPAC, and here we go.
We have one, two, three, and eighth page.
I got four of them here.
And well, just run them here.
I'm not gonna comment on them as warranted.
As conservatives, we're uh united by a set of core convictions.
Not everyone has taken the same path to get here.
There are college students at this conference who are reading Burke and uh.
My guess is some of you got here by reading Burke and Hayek.
When I was your age, you could have told me that they were infielders for the Detroit Tigers.
Whoa, that doesn't sound like it went over very well.
Um, what Romney's doing there, he's acknowledging that uh he he hadn't been a conservative uh from conception uh or birth, and that he has uh arrived at his conservatism via his own path.
And by the way, I'm told uh anecdotally, I haven't seen pictures myself, but that the crowd at CPAC this year is huge and that it is large.
Uh I don't know how many of them are Ron Paul bots, but but uh nevertheless if that that could account for some of the youths uh who are there.
But Burke, of course, fundamental to uh understanding conservatism, so is Friedrich von Hayek.
And Romney saying, look, I'm I'm one of you.
I'm a conservative, I just didn't get here the way you did.
Back when I was your age, I didn't know who Friedrich von Hayek was.
And I know some of you, when do you learn who von Hayek was, Lindzelmore?
When do you learn?
Uh that would be from uh National Review and William F. Buckley's magazine.
In fact, I'll tell you a little story.
Short little story.
Back in the 70s, I heard about National Review.
And I thought you had to have permission to subscribe to it.
I mean, I I know that sounds stupid, and it sounds, and it was, and it was silly, and I remember I uh I kept hearing about it, but I'd never seen it.
So I thought it was very exclusive.
I never saw it on a newsstand.
I never saw anybody that had it, but I heard about it, so I got the guts one day to call them.
And I sure I sounded very tentative and nervous on the phone.
I didn't even realize I didn't know if I had the permission to even call.
So the operator answered, hi, National Review.
I said, hi, I'm calling from it in Kansas City at the time.
Is there anything special I have to do uh to subscribe to the magazine?
She said, yes, pay for it.
And I is that all?
You you I you I don't need permission.
She had she was dumbfounded that I was asking permission to subscribe.
So anyway, I subscribed to it and I started reading it.
Next up was the American Spectator.
And it was I don't even remember who wrote the pin.
It might have been Mr. Buckley himself, uh talking about Hayek taxation.
And I was enthralled immediately, and I said, I never heard of this.
Who is it?
Began to learn everything I could about Friedrich Van Hayek and the two primary books, The Road to Serfdom, which uh the Heritage Foundation has given away to people in this audience for a time who joined the Heritage Foundation, and then uh The Constitution of Liberty, which is a really that's deeper than the Road to Serf, but they're brilliant books.
They are they're definitional.
They're defining.
And all Romney's saying here, I didn't know who Hayek was.
It almost might be just dropping the name now, in fact.
Don't know that he's read Hayek on Hayek.
I mean, wants people to think that he has.
Here's the uh next bite, and we will analyze as warranted.
In business, if you're not fiscally conservative, you're bankrupt.
I mean, I spent 25 Years balancing budgets, eliminating waste.
By the way, keeping as far away from government as humanly possible.
I did some of the very things conservatism is designed for.
I started new businesses and turned around broken ones.
And I'm not ashamed to say that I was successful in doing it.
So there.
He's explaining how his business experience brought him to conservatism.
And uh you heard the applause.
It went on and on a little longer.
We've added it for brevity here, but uh again, making the proclamation that he's not ashamed of his success.
Here's the next bite.
When I am president, I will defend the Defense of Marriage Act, and I will fight for an amendment to our constitution that defines marriage as a relationship between a man and a woman.
During my term in office, I also stood up to those who wanted to call into question the very definition of life.
I vetoed a bill that would have opened the door to cloning and to embryo farming.
I vetoed a bill that would have allowed young girls to obtain access to abortion inducing drugs.
I fought for abstinence education in our schools.
My state was a leading indicator of what liberals would be trying to do across the country and are trying to do right now.
And I fought against long odds in a deep blue state.
But I was a severely conservative Republican governor.
Thank you.
I've uh well, you look, I don't know what to make anybody mad here.
It's it's the end of a really hectic and busy week here.
And I've, you know, I'm not a complainer.
You people have no idea of the distractions that each program has had this week.
I've had to fight through and try to ignore, because I don't complain.
So don't get mad, I may be a little giddy here.
I have never heard anybody say I'm severely conservative.
Don't I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm no, I've never heard anybody say it.
I I'm I'm I'm just uh I'm no I'm not challenging his claim to be conservative.
Don't miss, I don't I don't want to get inundated here by Romney Sport.
I'm not putting him down.
I'm just observing here.
I've never heard it said.
Yeah, I'm a severe conservative, but I know what he's trying to say.
Now, I should add something here.
Remember last year, during the early days of the prime of the campaign, before the votes even began, before any primaries had taken place.
I successfully correctly identified for you what the Republican establishment strategy was.
They were running a primary campaign 180 degrees out of phase from normal.
The way you normally run a primary campaign, either party, is you and this is conventional wisdom.
You to get the base of your party's votes, you uh you pander to them.
You speak to them, you just go, in this case, Romney's be conservative.
And then after you win the nomination, go to the general election, then you move to the center, try to get the moderates.
That's the formula.
I frankly reject it, but that's the formula.
I hate formulas, period, that involve people.
There's too much dynamism there for a formula to be constantly applicable.
Nevertheless, this year, the Republican establishment did it the exact opposite.
They tried to secure the moderates first.
That's why there was such an effort to get this nomination wrapped up for Mitt Romney before the votes even took place.
You may have forgotten, but going back through last fall and into the last uh the uh Christmas holidays, uh full court press.
Let's get these primaries going.
Nobody else had a prayer.
They wanted Romney nominated and this thing done with, and they were doing it, running not for the conservative vote for the moderate independent votes.
And uh I'll tell you what that's resulted in.
This morning, before his speech, Romney, or maybe it was yesterday, had a meeting with conservative leaders to assure them that he is one of them.
He had a private meeting in a presidential suite in a hotel to assure various leaders from the NRA and and uh other such conservative groups that he is conservative.
Severe conservative.
He had a meeting to share a severe conservative.
Well, I don't know if it was a severe meeting.
Uh I I wasn't there.
Um but I don't know.
I let's just go on to the next Romney sound bite.
You know, we uh I've lost my place.
Where are we?
Oh, severely conservative.
Here's the big finish.
This is the last Romney bite that we've got.
We believe in the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence.
We believe in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
We know the brilliance that suggested that individuals pursuing their own dreams would make us the most powerful nation on earth, not a government trying to guide our lives.
This is who we are.
This passion we must take to the American people.
This is our moment.
This is why we're conservatives.
The task before us now is to reaffirm the convictions that unite us and go forward shoulder to shoulder to secure the victory that America so desperately needs and deserves.
Let's do it together.
Thank you.
And God bless America.
Thank you.
Right on, dude.
Right on.
I mean, that's that's uh what do you think of that, Snerdly?
Did you like that?
That was severe.
It was that was severely conservative.
You know that I'm just gonna get beat up so bad for this.
I just don't mean anything by talents on lawn from God.
Great to have you with us, folks, the EIB network.
Um also I I'll tell you, the I haven't had a chance, obviously, to watch much of what's gone on at CPAC, but the uh apparently, so for all the speeches that people telling me about it, all the speeches they have seen have been excellent.
Positive uplifting, especially the Republican candidates and their supporters have for the most part stuck to laying out their vision for conservatism rather than sniping at each other.
That's uh I if that's an accurate representation of what's going on, that's a good thing.
I think Newt's up this afternoon sometime, and that would uh that'd take care of the candidates for the uh for the most part.
Paul in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello, sir.
Yeah, great to speak with you, Rosh.
Uh listening to those clips um by uh Mr. Romney, I have to say that it's going to take some kind of a Jedi mind trick for him to convince those of us on the conservative side of the party that he's a conservative.
But anyway, the uh the last Hold well whoa, whoa, whoa, hold a second.
So you the the soundbites we just played did not convince you.
Rom Romney did not convince you of his conservatism there?
Not at all.
Uh, if you look at his record and what he's been saying so far in the campaign, uh they're almost polar opposites.
But uh what I wanted to do is get to uh Okay, wait, wait, no, no, no, no, no, I uh you're you you'll have time.
I just want to make sure I get this.
So you didn't think that that speech that you heard the sound bites from the speech uh alleved uh alleviated any fears people might have over the the record that you think he's got, that speech didn't make you think, okay, that's the past, this is the real Romney now, this is the guy, and I can go forward that didn't work like that with you.
No, it's a wonderful speech.
He presses all the right buttons, he says all the right words, but the good but the problem is we know what he's been doing in the past, and he has a record he has to be.
Okay, so is there in your for you, is there anything he could do to change your perception of it?
In my case, no.
Okay.
That's fair.
My uh uh I I'd like to speak for a moment, if I may, about the last true conservative in the race, uh Senator Santorum.
You played some trips clips uh of his speech at CPAC earlier, and not only is he giving strong pieces uh speeches at CPAC, but he's also winning primaries.
On Tuesday, he won three primaries, uh two caucuses, uh one Colorado, Minnesota.
Uh he uh beat Romney 45 to uh 17 in the Minnesota Clarks at 28 point win.
And in the Missouri uh primary contest, which was actually a presidential preference primary, he beat Romney by 30 points, 55 to 25.
And what was particularly notable about the Missouri contest was that on the Democratic side of the House, Barack Obama was at the head of the ticket and received sixty-four thousand four hundred and five votes, and Mr. Romney on the Republican side got sixty-three thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.
So the president outscored Mr. Romney in the Missouri Presidential Preference Primary Contest.
More bad news for Mr. Romney, the uh um Secretary of State of uh I'm sorry, the Department of State of Florida released the final statistics from January 31st, Florida primary, uh, which reveal that uh although Mr. Romney won the overall contest with uh 46.4% of the vote, he lost almost all the northern counties, which is uh uh since we both live in Florida.
That that's that that was somewhat expected, and it's also expected that uh uh Newt and or Santorum are going to do uh better in the Southern State primaries Super Tuesday uh than Romney.
That's that's not uh unexpected.
It's it's it's not the slam dunk for Romney that they thought uh it was going to be.
There's no there's no question about it.
The the not Romney, there's somebody still continues to surface in that role right now at Santorum.
Folks, to sum up here uh from the top of the program here to the conclusion.
Major focus today was Obama supposedly caving on the Catholic Church, providing abortion services, contraception.
The problem with all of this mandate stuff is what was never birth control.
The problem with it was never really abortion.
It is the loss of individual liberty and freedom, government control, asserted unconstitutionally by the president.
It continues.
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