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Feb. 14, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 14, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
I am Rush Limbaugh, the real anchorman in this country, the real truth detector in this country, and the real doctor of democracy in this country.
I am also a harmless, lovable little fuzzball.
Great to have you with us as we prepare to execute another hour of broadcast excellence.
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Let me see if I can reorganize the audio soundbites.
I want to go back to the top.
I was originally going to do this in the first hour, but I got sidetracked by the new contraception conspiracy that the Democrat Party and Obama and the media are now perpetrating.
We've covered that.
I do want to spend a little bit more time here on this electric car business.
I'm going to have trouble expressing myself on this, but I'm going to give it a shot.
Once again, a college professor, university professor at Tennessee, and a grad assistant, an assistant professor, have done a study on emissions, and they have found, and they did it in China, and they have found that electric cars are more polluting than gasoline cars are.
Now, I'm not going to bore you with all the minutiae here, but it has to do with what they call fine particles.
And they did environmental health impacts five different vehicle technologies in 34 major Chikom cities, and they found what they found defies conventional wisdom.
Electric cars cause much more overall harmful particulate matter pollution than gasoline cars do.
And I was thinking about the overwhelming advances in lifestyle, technology, standard of living in the 20th century.
It's overwhelming when you stop to think what happened in those 100 years and maybe add 10 years of the late 1800s to it.
It literally is overwhelming.
If you just go the first 60 years of the 20th century, you look at the people who built the railroads.
I don't care who was used as laborers.
Don't look at this as some sort of a, yeah, well, they were discriminated against and they were paid.
It doesn't matter.
It got done.
It got done by hard, tough, fearless people.
The same thing with discovering oil and getting it out of the ground.
And where would we be without it?
What we find ourselves in the midst of now is a world, and certainly our country part of this, a culture now that is anti-progress.
Whether they know it or not, I'm sure some of the dupes in this think that they are totally into progress.
That we're getting rid of all this bad, old-fashioned, filthy, rotten, polluting, disgusting stuff like the internal combustion engine.
It turns out the internal combustion engine means more to freedom, liberty, economic advancement than any electric car ever will.
The electric car is the product of cowards.
The electric car is the product of people who are afraid to go outside and live.
All of the environmentalist wacko movement is made up of wusses who want you to think that they are trying to achieve what is impossible.
Heaven on earth.
Pristine, no filth, no dirt, no grime, no nothing.
Not possible.
I think back to the hard, scrabble, tough people that built this country.
And I'm not talking about the founding fathers.
That's a separate category.
That's political.
I'm talking about people that rolled up their sleeves and did the impossible.
And look at all they accomplished.
We don't have people like that today.
If we do, they're not allowed to function.
Do you realize if we had the same mindset today and the same government, the same regulations, the same union characteristics, the same environmentalist movement, the same tort bar, the 1900s wouldn't have happened.
They'd have stopped the railroad.
They would have stopped rockets.
They would have stopped the jet engine.
They would have stopped it all.
Who knows if the telephone would have even survived?
And I am not exaggerating.
We have people today who are so anti-progress.
And of course, they're cloaked and they cloak themselves in this notion of purity and heaven on earth, utopia.
And they are making wusses out of everybody that they come in contact with.
I could cite all these examples that we've mentioned over the course of the 23 years of this program, but this notion here that electric cars are more harmful than gasoline cars.
And these guys are shocked.
See, I'm not shocked.
I see conventional wisdom and I distrust it immediately.
What is conventional wisdom?
Conventional wisdom is a bunch of nothings agreeing.
When everybody agrees on something, something's wrong.
So these guys are shocked.
Just like how many people are shocked that coffee does not cause heart attacks now?
How many people shocked that red wine does not lower cholesterol?
All these malarkey things that we've been led to believe.
We've got agents in kindergarten inspecting lunch boxes and finding that a turkey and cheese sandwich and a banana don't qualify as edible because it's not healthy.
Says who?
I remember when Little League Baseball, I made a team my first year, eight or nine years old.
The next year, it was a big honor to be chosen as catcher for tryouts.
And during the tryouts, a pitcher, while pitch, I ran back to get it and I cut my head on the backstop fence.
And it was bleeding pretty bad.
And the coach, don't worry about it.
He grabbed some dirt, rubbed it in there, get back behind the plan.
Nine years, do you realize that coach would be in jail today?
Child abuse, you name it.
I'm sure you can think of your own examples, this kind of stuff.
My problem is, is we are not progressing.
We are not taking giant leaps.
We are in certain areas, high-tech, indisputable.
But we're going backwards in areas that are crucial to our liberty and freedom and economic advancement.
We're going backwards in areas that are important for making men out of boys and women out of girls.
We're wussifying everybody.
When you look at what people are afraid of today in everyday life and you look at what those fears prevent from happening and the progress that those fears stop, Not to mention all the political crap that is going along.
Fear is being used to stop progress.
I mean, back in the 19 or 1890s, there were people who were predicting doom if we got rid of the horse and buggy.
Fear has always been used to try to squelch human progress and advancement.
Problem is, we're making up our fears.
We are inventing our traumas.
I love to tell this story.
It's about the greatest generation, the World War II bunch, and what they faced and what our parents and grandparents, what they had to go through just to survive.
Two World Wars, a Great Depression.
Their kids, the baby boomers, and I'm one of them, have had so much idle time, have had it so easy.
We've had to invent our traumas.
So we come up with attention deficit disorder and whatever else that we think is causing us stress.
But I'm not denying the stress is real.
But I don't think we know what it really is compared to our parents and grandparents.
But we make it real.
I mean, it paralyzes us.
There's no question it does.
And the way we deal with things today versus the way they used to be dealt with, such as bullies, can't play dodgeball anymore.
Somebody gets hurt.
Can't throw a freaking football on the beach in California or a frisbee.
That was enacted last week when I was out in California.
Good God.
And under what pretext is that?
That you can't throw a football on the beach.
What did somebody get hit by one?
Really?
I made a prediction last fall that I wouldn't be surprised in my lifetime if football is banned.
If football becomes as it's played today.
And the media, the sports, by and large is contributing to it and they don't even know it.
I saw something funny.
I was reading a football blog and the subject of football being banned came up and they were out.
And I'm thinking, you guys are leading the charge and you don't even know it.
And the reason it's going to be banned is because it's risky.
And what's going to happen is they're going to do concussion studies and they're going to do studies on head injuries and they're going to find that it's much worse and that football players who die at age 50 or 60, we can't tolerate this.
We cannot permit this.
And it's going to be found that it will be criminal to allow this kind of activity to go on.
So you take the risk out of everything.
People that want to take the risk, people that want to engage in these, knowing full well the consequences.
The huffing in Puffington Post, November 11, 2009, should we ban football?
I'm telling you, it is going to happen in our lifetimes.
The serious discussion of banning football will happen.
And the people at the NFL had better understand that it is going to happen.
Not snurdily, it'll never, it'll never happen.
It may never happen, but I'm going to tell you, serious effort's going to be made.
You think these Namby-Bambi do-gooders are going to just stop and go away?
I don't know where the line in the sand is.
The line in the sand continually moves here because we've got more and more dumb masses that are oblivious to all that's happening to them.
I'm just telling you, if football isn't banned, it won't be for lack of trying.
Somebody someday and sooner than you think is going to suggest it, just like they suggested banning the SUV.
Just like all this rotten stuff happening with the so-called environmental movement.
It's all based on it's too risky, it's too dangerous.
People might get hurt, can't do this.
If you can't throw a football on a beach, at some point, you're not going to be allowed to in a stadium.
Once this stuff starts, the people behind it who start it don't ever stop.
They don't give up.
They don't realize the errors of their ways.
We think we're committing or making progress with all these electric cars.
I've got nothing against any of these companies.
Why wouldn't they, if the government's going to subsidize you and give you hundreds of millions of dollars for producing one and then pay you to give it away to a customer who doesn't want, that's, they want to get involved with the government that way, go ahead.
I'm just here to tell you that in a pure common sense, there's nothing better than the internal combustion engine right now.
And until market forces require the innovation and invention of a free people, there won't be.
But you cannot mandate improvement like this.
It just doesn't come from the top down.
You can't have a bunch of bureaucrats who wouldn't know how to start a car tell you how to make one.
And that's what's happening in way too many areas of life.
And every day, little by little, freedom, liberty is lost.
And it's so infinitesimal, especially if it's couched in, well, it's better for society at large and people will get rid of it.
And if you tie security to it, if you say, well, this will make you safer.
You realize how much freedom people give up for that alone?
Whether it's real or imagined?
Anyway, I take a break here, folks.
A little long.
We'll be back and continue and weave more of your phone calls into this when we get back.
Who's next?
Where are we going on the phones?
Denise in Trenton, Michigan.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
Happy Valentine's Day.
You have made my day now that I've talked to my three-year-through guys.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
You know, I just really, it's annoying me to no end how they keep talking about everybody needs access to birth control.
And there's a big difference between access and free.
We already have access to birth control.
You can see in a lot of these public schools, they're trying to hand out condoms to elementary students.
And this is an excellent point, by the way.
Contraception isn't denied to anybody.
No, nobody.
And you know what?
They say that it's good for my health if I brush my teeth.
It prevents tooth decay.
It's good for my physical body.
And so should the taxpayers provide me toothpaste and a toothbrush?
No.
I go to the store and I buy it.
If I want contraception, I can go to a doctor.
I can get a prescription.
And I can pay a co-pay.
It is accessible.
It is not something that's being prevented.
So why does this point not come up every time they say, oh, we have to provide access, we have to provide access?
There is access.
And, you know, here's a thought.
Okay, so what's your theory?
How would you answer the question?
My theory is there's already access.
I mean, that's the theory.
And if you really want to take it to the extreme of how about some personal responsibility, if you don't want to have a baby, don't have sex.
I mean, that's pretty simple.
These women talk about how...
Do you realize how hurtful that is?
And that's easy for you to say.
That's so easy for you to say.
Don't have sex.
You realize you can't stop kids from having sex.
They're going to have sex.
There's nothing we can do to stop it.
That's what I'm saying.
Well, if we want to be, you know, live in a defeatist country, well, then sure, we can say that.
My question to you, Denise, is why contraception, why is the regime trying to make it clear that somebody else needs to provide your contraception when they don't provide your toothpaste?
What is it about contraception that the Democrat Party is going to hitch itself to and said, this must be free.
It must be plentiful, and it must be made available by everybody for everybody.
Because it's just another one of the entitlement and mentalities that the people...
Yeah, but why not toothpaste?
Why not mouthwash?
Well, because probably the people who are going to get abortions really don't care a lot about that kind of stuff.
I mean, they want their free stuff.
They want to be able to go out, like you said.
They want to act like minks.
They don't care about that kind of stuff.
But they want to be able to live their life the way they want.
The answer is none of that.
I don't mean to put you down.
No, no, no, no, no.
The answer is to be found in politics.
You got close when you equated contraception with abortion.
It's women's rights.
It is a way to set up the notion that Republicans are Neanderthals and don't like women and oppose women's rights.
And we are back.
Let me try answering my question.
Why is contraception so important that it must be paid for by somebody else?
It's so important that you have contraceptives.
It can't be left up to you to even take the initiative to provide them for yourself.
They have to be provided for you.
Why not toothpaste?
Why not hotel rooms?
Why not a car?
What is it as far as liberals are concerned that makes contraceptive, or contraception, contraceptives a must have?
You want to take a stab at it snurdily or do you need to think about it, Fro Need to think about it?
I'm sure a lot of you need to think about it.
Also, this language, this language deception, that contraception not covered by government or taxpayer money equals contraception outlawed is typical of the left.
They are trying to convince people that if contraception isn't covered by your insurance plan or isn't covered by Obamacare, if it isn't paid for by somebody else, then somebody's trying to outlaw it.
And this is how they use the language and how they work.
And it's the language of the politics of fear.
And this then begs the question, why are so many people afraid of birth?
Have to ask the question, if contraception is this crucial, what's the fear of not having contraception?
What's the result of not having a contraceptive?
The result is birth.
Or abortion.
Well, abortion is covered.
Planned Parenthood is probably a close second to the unions in a money laundering operation for the Democrat Party.
Planned Parenthood is rolling in dough from abortion.
So why would the Democrat Party want to make sure that there aren't any pregnancies?
What is this deal?
is so crucial about this.
Now, when you come to the language games that they play, contraception not covered by government or taxpayer money equals contraception outlawed?
That's what they want.
If the government isn't providing for it, if your insurance company doesn't give it to you, then somehow it's outlawed.
That's what they want you to think.
Fear.
It's the same mindset that anything not done by the government doesn't exist, such as private charity.
If the government doesn't do it, it doesn't happen.
The left wants you to believe.
So in one regard here, we have a language trap.
Most end up debating the issue while making the mistake of accepting the premise.
And I always find my way to the premise because that's where the Republicans get in trouble.
It's always the Democrats who are announcing these massive initiatives.
And it's always the Republicans who react to them.
And they accept the, like, somebody will say, we need national health care.
And the Republicans will not say, no, we don't.
They'll say the way you're doing it is wrong.
What we need to do is, okay, health care insurance, everybody finds out we need medical insurance counts, savings accounts, or what have you.
Now, is it possible?
I'm going to throw some things out for you to think about, not necessarily that I agree with.
What is this great fear of pregnancy?
Because if you don't have a contraceptive, and if you engage in sexual activity, the result is going to be pregnancy.
That's the fear, right?
What's wrong with that?
What do Democrats inherently fear about pregnancy?
Well, they've made it into a disease.
Pregnancy is a great health risk for women.
If you haven't noticed, we had the quotes last week.
They say that pregnancy is a greater health risk than abortion.
It's a means of getting women to the abortion clinics to pay whatever it costs, $300, $500.
Money laundering operation of the Democrat Party.
Could it be that Democrats fear kids?
I mean, they are aborting their own people.
The vast majority of people having abortions are Democrat voters.
Apart from, look at what people lead to, global warming, overpopulation, starvation, pestilence.
Look at all the things liberals claim will happen if there are too many people.
Paul Ehrlich, the population bomb, totally disproven, yet still a Bible for the American left.
Overpopulation will lead to disease, starvation, famine, thirst, squalor, poverty.
Can't have any of that.
So, got to pass out the contraceptives.
Maybe if you're an average Democrat couple, you fear that if you have a boy, he'll grow up to be a horrible man.
You'll have a boy.
He'll grow up to be a man.
That's not good.
What are men?
Predators?
They don't shave every day.
Risque brutes.
Smelly, stinky, share bathrooms with them, ugh.
If it's a girl, it's not any better because if a girl she'll grow up to either be Madonna or a slave to some horrible man, so you could have that.
I don't want to have a child.
If I have a little girl, she's going to grow up to be a slave to some man.
And if I have a little boy, he's going to grow up to be a man who enslaves some little girl.
Give me my contraceptive.
We don't get guns for free.
What if somebody said every American ought to have a gun?
It's right there, Second Amendment.
Why don't the Democrats say every American should have a gun?
And if you don't, your health insurance company is going to provide you one.
It's fascinating to me because the left wants us to fear an intrusive government when the Republicans are running it.
A government that can take away their abortions.
It's hilarious.
That's what they fear.
But when Obama was talking about his own little girls and abortion, do you remember what he said?
I'm going to paraphrase, but the president of the United States referred to the possibility that his little girls could be punished with a baby.
Remember?
Could be punished with a baby.
There's something liberals look at.
The birth of a child causes them problems.
It's either going to lead to global warming, famine, overpopulation, pestilence, mosquitoes, malaria, hunger, you name it.
They never see the good in it.
And if the contraception doesn't work, then we'll march them into Planned Parenthood.
Okay, so back to the question, which is the premise.
Why, of all things, must contraception be free?
Why must everyone have it?
Men or women, either a condom or the birth control pill, or if you screw up, RU486, which is an abortion pill, because that happens after conception, right?
So, why?
What is it?
Save the planet, kill the people.
There are wacko environmentalists who think that the earth is threatened by people, and they are leftists, and they are more common than you think.
They were all over Occupy Wall Street.
But pregnancy can mean being punished with a baby.
The president of the United States said that himself.
So you think about it.
See if you come up with an answer because they are hell-bent.
It is their issue.
They started with this on January 7th in a Republican debate.
It became the focal point of this whole Catholic Church business last week.
And now they're running fundraising letters, the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee, claiming Republicans want to ban contraception.
Quick timeout, El Rushboe, back with more after this.
Something else to look at, ladies and gentlemen, when trying to answer the question: why contraceptives?
Why is the regime and the Democrat Party hell-bent on contraception being free, provided by government, mandated by government via insurance?
Why?
Take a look at political polling.
I'm just a wild guess.
Where does Obama stand with women on the re-elect?
I don't know.
Find out, might get the answer there.
I don't pretend to know every answer to this.
I think it's multifaceted.
But I do know that there is a culture of death associated with the Democrat Party.
They are obsessed with it.
College girls just check the Obama re-elect numbers on women.
It could well be, it could be aimed at the dumb asses that we're talking about.
I'm sorry, dumb masses.
I said that wrong.
The dumb masses that are still watching Whitney Houston death coverage.
That's who Obama's gunning for in terms of re-elect.
Find out where he is with women on the numbers, on the re-elect numbers.
By the way, I'm told, remember this Obama tweet where he asked on the White House Twitter page for people to respond what $40 a month means to them with the payroll tax cut extension.
And the first one that responded was somebody named Scare Baby.
And Scare Baby says, I have a very small business and $40 will help me with my internet bill or whatever.
And I said, Scare Baby, you're an idiot.
You're self-employed.
You don't qualify for the payroll tax cut.
No self-employed person gets the payroll tax cut.
You got to be an employee.
If you're a small business owner, a very small business owner, a tiny small business owner, you're not an employee.
Well, guess what?
Scare Baby posted on the Democrat Underground that she's upset because I'm sliming her.
Turns out Scare Baby is a woman.
Says, I got slimed by Rush today on a show.
Need your help.
So somebody from the White House is feeling that I'm slimming them.
Scare Baby.
Mike Chula Vista, California.
Glad you waited your next EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hi.
Yeah, Rush.
The question I have is: if this birth control mandate is so important, why was it not included when they wrote the bill originally?
Well, it doesn't have to be, as we're, they can, they can do this even outside of Obamacare, but within Obamacare, they can mandate anything.
Once it is declared constitutional, as the secretary shall determine, is in the bill throughout the 2,700 pages.
And so if they decide that you can only have two babies, they can do that.
I'm not exaggerating.
This is a great illustration.
It's a great question.
It's a fabulous question.
And it permits me to illustrate what we're really dealing with here.
It doesn't have to be in there, is the point.
And they wouldn't have got this passed if it was in there.
If this had been discovered, if it was specified that the government could mandate that your insurance company either pay for an abortion or contraception, it would have raised all kinds of hell.
Remember what Bart Stupak, how is Bart Stupak feeling these days?
This is the kind of stuff they promised Bart Stupak wasn't going to happen in order to get his vote.
Congressman from Michigan.
If the secretary, if Kathleen Sebelius happens to be a freak and she wants you to wear your underwear on the outside, guess what?
His underwear could be an indicator of a health problem.
You're forced to wear it on the outside.
A Medicare, Medicaid mandated.
I don't know yet, but this is just the beginning.
Hey, scare baby.
Understand you're trying to find tape of me saying what I said about you.
I'll say some more about you.
You are the Democrat mascot, scare baby.
A Democrat Party's entire political agenda depends on fear of pregnancy.
Stop and think about that.
Not to mention literally terrorizing babies in the womb, fear of pregnancy.
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