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Feb. 17, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 17, 2012, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
No, that's pretty much true.
There's not a single thing in the stack of stuff that floats my boat today.
It's a good thing it's Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's open live Friday.
And the telephone number is 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program today, email address lrushbow at EIBnet.com.
Now, for those of you new to the program, what's different about Friday is that we exert very little command and control over the callers.
Monday through Thursday, callers pretty much have to talk about something I care about.
On Friday, that doesn't matter.
Pretty much whatever you want to talk about.
Question, comment, could be the Whitney Houston funeral.
It could be anything.
It doesn't matter.
I don't have to care about it.
It's a golden opportunity and it's a career risk.
Turning over the all-important content of the program to rank amateurs.
Rank amateurs we love and respect, but still amateurs nonetheless.
Telephone number again, 800-282-2882.
And I'm sitting here.
I'm doing show prep.
I'm doing some stuff for last night.
And I have to, I'll be honest with you, I don't care about anything today.
There's not one thing in the stack that floats my boat.
I got a note from a friend, 20 minutes.
What are you going to lead with today?
I said, I have no idea.
Zilch Zero Nada.
And I said, well, something will come up.
Something always happens when nothing came up.
I mean, I've got stuff at the top of the stack, at the bottom of the stack.
So it's a good thing it's Friday because you people get to carry the program today.
Now, I also want to point out I will be here on Monday.
Normally, it's a three-day weekend, President's Day.
Normally, what happens is I show up here not knowing that it's a three-day holiday.
This year, the staff advised me in advance that it's a three-day weekend, a Monday holiday, and I had the option of deciding whether or not I wanted to come into work or not.
I will be here.
We will be here.
They didn't trick me this year.
They actually gave me news up front.
Now, yesterday we played a soundbite, Foster Freeze, one of the big donors to Rick Santorum, on the program.
It was an appearance he made with Andrea Mitchell NBC News Washington, in which he said back in his day, contraception, it didn't cost anything.
The girls just put an aspirin between their knees, and that was it.
It was very cheap.
And I predicted, once that comment made it outside Andrea Mitchell NBC News Washington, that all hell would break loose.
And it has.
And I've got the audio soundbites.
All hell has broken loose over that.
But this is an anniversary.
And I want to take you back three years ago, February 17th, 2009.
Barack Obama had been in office barely a month, not even a month.
It was getting close, but less than four weeks.
And he announced the stimulus, the Porculus bill.
And just as we have been doing all week, going back to our archives, playing for you soundbites of me on this program, predicting what was going to happen and having it illustrated that I was right on the money.
I want to do it again.
I want to take you back to this program, February 17, 2009, the day of the porculus.
I want you to listen.
You heard it back then, but this is to jog your memory as to what I said was in store for us because of this bill.
I'm an eternal optimist, which is why, you know, it would be a mistake to say that the stimulus bill is going to wipe us out.
What is more proper to say is that we now have elected a president and we have a Congress made up of extreme radical leftists, and they're going to take aim at capitalism.
And it's going to be an epic battle.
Will they be able to fundamentally transform this nation into what would officially technically be called a socialist nation?
This stimulus bill by itself is going to do tremendous damage down the road.
The question is, will it do damage immediately?
Is this stimulus bill large enough to overcome the capitalist entrepreneurial tendencies of Americans?
This thing's going to get signed in one hour.
If we don't see unemployment drop in two months, we can say it didn't work.
And we're going to proclaim it loudly that it didn't work.
If we don't see a bunch of new schools being built, if we don't see a bunch of roads and bridges being repaired above what's already happening, we're going to say, hey, this isn't working.
Because I'll tell you what's going to happen when the economy rebounds for whatever reason.
And it will not be the stimulus package.
But we have a totally in the tank sycophantic.
They're going to die of anal poisoning someday media that cannot wait to credit Barack Obama for any, the smallest little economic uptick.
The fix is in, folks.
The fix is in to make this guy the most successful, the most rapidly successful president ever.
And they tried.
They did everything they could.
That stimulus bill was portrayed as the single greatest piece of legislation to come down the pike since the New Deal.
Well, it's three years into it, and we know it was an abject failure from our standpoint.
From his, it was a total success.
It was a resounding success.
Yesterday, in Washington, there was a budget committee hearing.
House of Representatives passed Paul Ryan's 2012 budget for fiscal year 2012.
Paul Ryan's budget seeks to drastically limit government spending next year and in years to follow.
But the vote on the measure, which, by the way, imposed $5.8 trillion in spending cuts over the next 10 years, 5.8 trillion in real spending cuts came after a clear sign that at least half of the Republican caucus supports even tougher spending cuts.
Now, try to imagine the media explosion if a Bush official made the following statement.
At this committee hearing, little Timmy, the tax cheat, Tim Geithner, showed up and he said, Obama's a failure.
We have no plan for reducing the deficit.
He admitted it up front, boldly.
He said, we're not coming before you to say we have a definitive solution to our long-term problem.
What we do know is that we don't like yours.
That's what the Treasury Secretary said to a congressional committee yesterday.
Funny, shocking?
After three years, the regime tells us they have no solution to the deficit.
Not only folks do they have no solution, they have no intention, no desire.
They're going to spend and spend and spend.
And if he's re-elected, he's going to spend and spend and spend.
He wants to go down in the history books as the guy who finally cut the United States down to size.
The guy who finally showed the United States what it has been like for the rest of the world because of the United States.
If he's added $5 trillion in these three years, he'll add another $5 trillion in the next two years if he's re-elected.
And then guess what?
When we get to 2017, 2018, whoever is elected then will have to deal with this.
At that point, will it all be academic and too late?
By that time, if the Supreme Court finds the health care bill constitutional, we're going to be living in such a drastically different country anyway.
Will it matter?
We're already heading down the pike where the number of people working is reduced.
The number of jobs.
I got a very scathing and angry email yesterday from a subscriber to my Rush 24-7 website.
I said, you don't know what you're talking about.
You keep saying that they've reduced jobs.
It's not that they've reduced jobs.
You keep missing it.
What's happening is people are losing jobs.
Let me try this again.
They are simply eliminating jobs from the universe of available jobs.
They just, in December alone, they just erased 1.3 million jobs.
They just said there are that many less jobs to get.
Businesses have closed.
However you want to imagine that being defined.
Those jobs are gone.
Fini.
They're not waiting to be filled.
They're gone.
Just 1.2 million of them.
This is the labor force participation rate.
And the only reason this unemployment rate is in the 8% region is because they have reduced the number of jobs against which they are comparing the number of people looking and the number of people who have stopped looking, the total number of people out of work for whatever reason.
If the same number of jobs were available today as there were when Obama took office, and that's about 2 million plus, the unemployment rate would be close to 9.5%.
Gallup says the real unemployment rate actually is 9%.
The CBO has said we're going to be facing 8% unemployment throughout until the year 2014.
That's, again, with Jimmy's numbers, I guarantee you.
But here comes Tim Geithner.
We're not coming before you to say we have a definitive solution to our long-term problem.
What we do know is that we don't like yours.
They have no intention of dealing with this.
Unemployment is higher today than when the stimulus bill was signed three years ago.
When the stimulus bill was signed, unemployment was 7.2%.
But something people forget.
If you go back and look starting in November of 2008 after the election, you will see the number of people applying for unemployment benefits shoots up over 400,000.
It actually started with the election of Obama.
With the election of Obama, small businesses began to downsize.
They knew what was coming.
The people with skin in the game, i.e., people who are putting money at work, investing capital, they knew what was in store, at least in a broad-based way.
Unemployment actually started skyrocketing upon Obama's election.
But when the stimulus was signed, it was 7.2%.
Now it's 8.3, down from a high of nearly 10%.
I don't know how anybody can look back over these past three years.
It's like a couple of days ago, maybe it was yesterday, is Obama ever going to get blamed for anything?
Is anything going on in the economy ever going to be said to relate to anything he's done?
As far as he's concerned and the media is concerned, no, this is all the result of Bush.
Still today, it's all the result of Bush.
He hasn't done anything.
It's just now that the economy, in their estimation, starting to kick back in, it's finally working.
It was so bad, it was worse than we knew.
And now our policies are finally starting to take hold.
The reason he's not touting the stimulus is because nobody wants another one.
The stimulus, go out and poll it, and you'll find it negatively polls.
He's not campaigning on anything to do with the economy.
Oh, he's out there trying to talk about it.
He's going to get people psyched up about it.
But this whole campaign right now is based on contraception.
Another lie.
Misrepresentation based on social issues.
Got to take a break.
We'll come back.
We'll get into some of these soundbites, Foster Freeze, and how the media just flipped out over the aspirin company.
Can you imagine if he'd said, well, you know, back in my day, you know, women just put a welfare check between their knees and that was it.
Didn't cost much.
And you didn't have a pregnancy.
Can you imagine if he would have substituted a welfare check for aspirin?
Sit tight, folks.
Back with much more after this.
Don't go away.
Open Lion Friday, Rush Limboy at 800-282-2882.
All right, let's move forward in audio soundbite number five.
This gets it started.
This was, let's see.
Yep, this is Foster Freeze.
And he was on Andrea Mitchell.
NBC News washing at her show at 1 o'clock Eastern yesterday afternoon.
Back in my days, they used bare aspirin for contraceptives.
The gals put it between their knees and it wasn't that costly.
Excuse me, I'm just trying to catch my breath from that, Mr. Freeze, frankly.
Excuse me, I was just trying to catch my breath from that, Mr. Freeze.
Frankly, I am stuck.
Folks, it is, I guess, factual now to say that our culture is Obsessed with sex.
And the conventional wisdom is now everybody, particularly kids.
Folks, just focus on kids.
They have sex.
It's fine that they have sex.
There's nothing unusual about it.
We shouldn't be concerned.
We shouldn't try to stop this.
This is silly to think there's anything wrong with it.
In fact, Planned Parenthood, Planned Parent, how do they make their money?
Abortions.
What do they need?
They know they need unwanted pregnancies.
Not babies, snirdly.
They kill babies.
Planned parenthood needs sex.
Planned parenthood must have sex going on as much as possible.
And particularly among the youths of America.
Go to the Planned Parenthood website.
Check out all of the instructional materials there for anybody.
If you took, if you printed a page from the Planned Parenthood website and went to a park and found a bunch of kids 10 and 12 years old or 14 years old playing on a seesaw and showed them that page, you'd end up in jail.
Planned Parenthood pushes sex.
They push pornography.
They instruct about it.
They have been for the longest time.
I remember hosting this program back in the 90s, early 90s, when cucumbers and so forth were used to demo condoms in the schools.
And back then, Mr. Limbaugh, you can't stop them.
They're going to have sex.
We've got to teach them safety.
I had a woman call a mother from out of Hampton and say, I would much prefer that my daughter bring her boyfriend home and have sex in one of our guest rooms rather than in the back of the car.
Why?
Because it's cleaner in the bedroom.
You mean you can't stop it.
It's going to happen.
That's right.
Rush, you got to get out of the dark ages.
I said, well, do you provide them a pack of cigarettes on the nightstand?
Well, why would I do that?
Well, that's traditionally what happens after you have sex.
Light up a cigarette.
Well, no, of course I don't advocate smoking.
Oh, you don't advocate smoking, but you will sanction and promote your teenage daughter having sex with a boyfriend in your house.
Yes, if the only alternative is that they're going to do it in the back of a car.
So it's inculcated now.
Foster Freeze is not that old, and it's not that long ago that there was a stigma.
And it's not that long ago.
I mean, just put an aspirin between your knees.
And Andrea Mitchell just can't believe.
I'm trying to catch my breath from that, Mr. Freeze, frankly.
Play it again.
We can fit it in before the break.
Number five, play it again.
Back in my days, they used bare aspirin for contraceptives.
The gals put it between their knees, and it wasn't that costly.
Excuse me, I'm just trying to catch my breath from that, Mr. Freeze.
Frankly.
All right, well, Andrea Mitchell catching her breath probably still, and the rest of the drive-bys went nuts too.
Open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
No, I'm not making, I really don't care.
I'm just one of these days.
Come on, folks.
Don't tell me you don't have these days where you just don't care.
It's not, no, it's not that I think all's lost.
No, no, no, no, no.
Just, I don't care.
In fact, being completely honest, back in the early days when this program was rocketing the media, well, how long are you going to do this?
Eager for me to say tomorrow, I'm quitting.
Well, how am I going to do this?
And I said, I don't know.
Well, you've got to have some idea when it's going to end.
I said, well, do you?
Some guy, some journalist, I forget.
There were a bunch of them.
Do you have any idea when you're going to quit your job?
Well, no, but clearly this can't go on this way.
Why can't it go on this way?
Well, it just can't.
I said, look, let me answer your question.
If I ever get up, I actually said this.
If I ever get up someday and what's in the newspaper doesn't interest me, then I'll know.
Really?
I said, yeah, it's going to take a whole bunch of days getting up where I don't care what's in the newspaper.
Now, is this the first of one of those many days?
No.
I just don't care.
There's nothing in this stack that I said, I can't wait to talk about.
There's nothing in here that said this deserves to be at the top of the stack.
And by the same token, there's nothing in here that said it deserves to be at the bottom.
It doesn't matter.
No, I'm not depressed.
No, no, nothing happened.
Do you ever look at?
I know every one of you, someday, some days, you just don't care.
Nothing floats your boat.
Not depressed.
You just flatline.
You don't care.
I'm talking about mood flatline.
I'm not talking about heart rate.
Come on, folks.
You got to come me some slack.
This is like the third day in 23 years I haven't cared.
Now, I could come in here and fake it, but that's not what Open Line Friday is all about.
I fake it Monday through Thursday.
On Friday, I just let it hang loose.
So I don't really care.
I mean, it's Andrew Mitchell stuff.
See, everything happening, I predicted.
We're living in exactly what I thought was going to happen.
Nothing surprises me.
There's not one thing in the news that shocks me.
Not one thing.
What they're trying to do to Santorum.
I mean, Newt's guy, Mr. Las Vegas, he's going to pump 10, what is it, 10 billion million, 10 million more in the Newts campaign.
Catherine asked me last night, where is this Republican nomination?
I said, I can't begin to tell you where this Republican nomination is.
I can't begin to tell you where it's going.
Right now, I couldn't tell you that any of these three guys has a better chance than the other of winning this thing.
It's wide open as far as I'm concerned.
And I'll tell you this.
Whoever wins it, I don't, there's no doubt in my mind, it's going to be pedal of the metal support time because I don't think this election's about our guys.
They're trying to make it about our guys.
This election's about Obama.
As far as I'm concerned, it's always going to be about Obama.
It's not going to be about anybody else.
You have to deal with the deck that you have, the cards that you're dealt.
And we don't have Ronald Reagan in a list of nominees.
We just don't have it.
It's not there.
You can pretend and get up.
We just don't have Reagan out there.
He's not in this.
There hasn't been a Reagan since Reagan other than me, and I'm not running.
Palin's not running.
Marco Rubio's not running.
They're not running.
Wait, there's Heraldo on TV.
Somebody die?
Virginia look close.
He's talking about a murder trial.
Yeah.
Yep.
The Grim Reaper.
All right, here, let's go back to the media here.
We'll play started again.
This is Foster Freeze.
This is the guy who's donating to the super PAC for Santorum.
And as you know, they're trying to say that Santorum wants every woman barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen.
And he's trying to eliminate contraception.
All this silly stuff.
And by the way, this isn't going to work.
CNN has a poll out 50%.
I think it's just a little over, statistically, a little over.
50% disagree with the president's notion that contraception should be provided free of charge by somebody else.
50%.
It's not, like most everything else is, it is not an 80-20 issue.
The Democrats are not winning on this.
They're not dominating on this.
It's a CNN poll, and it clearly indicates that it is a 50-50 proposition.
The Democrats do not own this.
You would think, the way the media is covering this, that 80% of the country is in favor of insurance companies or churches or somebody else providing their contraceptions free of charge.
And if it's denied, they're ready to burn down the house, burn down the town.
It's not the case.
Anyway, all of that coming up, because that stuff I just mentioned is in the stack somewhere.
Here we go, just to set it all up again.
This is Foster Freeze yesterday with Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington on her show.
Back in my days, they used bare aspirin for contraceptives.
The gals put it between their knees, and it wasn't that costly.
Excuse me, I'm just trying to catch my breath from that, Mr. Freeze, frankly.
Now, are you right now, are you picturing Andrea Mitchell with an aspirin between her knees?
Because I am.
You know, that's what ticks her off.
Can you imagine Andrea Mitchell sitting at her anchor desk with an aspirin between her knees, all ticked off?
I can't, I just can't really.
So last night and this morning, we have a montage of a bunch of media people sliming Foster Freeze and bashing Santorum for his association with it.
His problem is that he has now a public association with a very flaky seeming guy.
The creepy supporter, the guy who says something really creepy.
Is Foster Freeze a made-up name?
Any day where you have to go on TV and declare that your chief supporter is not creepy, it's a bad day in my estimation.
These main super PAC guys are the creepiest guys.
You're talking about a guy from the Cro-Magnon area.
All right.
Now, so you got Foster Freeze, and what he said was innocent as it could be.
And it was an accurate depiction of social mores not that long ago in the country.
And now all of a sudden, he's Cro-Magnon.
He's a creep.
And Santorum is guilty.
Guilty of association.
Santorum's just as creepy because this guy's creepy.
But I happen to remember a guy by the name of Jeremiah Wright who was out saying some really, really anti-American, dirty, provocative, profane, insulting stuff.
And the drive-by said, well, no, no, you know, no, no, no.
Obama's not Reverend Wright.
Yeah, Reverend Wright had nothing to do with Obama.
Oh, Obama hardly knew Reverend Wright.
No, no, no.
Wright's not even an advisor.
Obama never even listened to Reverend Wright.
He sat there for 20 years in the pupil.
He never heard this.
You can't do that.
That's dirty puddle.
You can't say this because Wright said that and Obama was in his church for 20 years and Obama agrees with that.
Obama never even heard that.
Wright's not even part of the campaign.
Come on, there's nothing here.
Move on.
Remember, that's what they all told us about Reverend Ryan.
Now, here's Foster Freeze with an aspirin between Andrea Mitchell's knees.
And the media is going, Jack, you know what?
The media is going crazy and they're trying to bury Santorum.
He's guilty by association with a Cro-Magnon creep.
Greta Van Susteren last night on the record, she interviewed Santorum.
They talked about it.
There are two issues.
One is the creepy supporter.
You know, the guy who says something really creepy about you and who's a huge fundraiser for your campaign.
Will you at least correct him about, I mean, I think most women don't think it's particularly funny, his comment.
Foster is known in political circles as telling a lot of jokes, and some of them are not particularly funny.
This one was not.
He's not creepy.
He's a good man.
He's a great philanthropist.
He's a very successful businessman.
Told a bad, off-color joke, and he shouldn't have done it, but that's his business.
It was a stupid joke.
Oh, now, wait just a second.
What the heck was off-color about it?
You want to see off-color?
Go to the Planned Parenthood website.
Off-color?
What in the world is off-color about making a joke about Andrea Mitchell putting an aspirin between her knees?
Well, well, I'm sorry.
Forgive me.
Liberal, tight-but women don't think it's funny, and so therefore it's impermissible, and therefore it's off-color.
Off-color?
An aspirin between their knees is off-color?
No, not true.
Snerdley just said to me, anything between their knees is off-color.
Not true.
Go to the Planned Parenthood website.
There are accepted things for women to put between their knees.
Now, you won't find an aspirin there, but you'll find dildos and whatever else on the Planned Parenthood.
You'll find it all there.
You'll find every sex aid pie.
You'll find instructions on how to use them at the Planned Parenthood website.
And no age restriction on this stuff.
What?
Are you upset because I used the word?
Okay, give me a substitute word then.
What is the acceptable substitute word?
Because I'm about to be Foster Freezed here, right?
So what was that?
Okay, vibrator.
You like that?
Look, we're all adults here, folks.
The kids are in school, and the ones who aren't, believe me, don't know where they are.
And they know about this stuff anyway.
In fact, many of them are trying the aspirin trick right now to see if they were going to, if they could defy it.
Yeah, in fact, you probably can't, you can't even get an aspirin in school now without the nurse.
You can get a condom.
You can get an abortion.
You can't get an aspirin.
Off-color?
Off-color joke?
You know what my mother, you know how my mother described loose women?
You know what I mean by loose women.
And by the way, why is there not something called loose men?
It's expected behavior.
Expected behavior.
My mother said the way she described them to my brother and me was she described them as round heels.
I said, what do you mean, mother?
Round heels, son.
They just roll right over.
That's from the same era as the aspirin between the knees.
Round heels.
Anyway, we're not there.
That's Greta.
She talked to Santor and Santor.
It's a bad joke.
It was an off-color joke.
The pregnancy rates when I, oh, yeah, the pregnancy rates were nothing compared to what they are today.
Oh, yeah.
Planned Parenthood would not have been able to stay in business back then.
They had boring two-parent families.
Gee, I can remember when I was a junior high, the principal, principal, somebody found a condom on the school grounds, and they conducted a week-long investigation to try to find out whose it was because they wanted to suspend them.
Today, they give them away.
I know I'm dating myself here.
I don't care.
I don't think there's anything off-color about an aspirin between her knees.
It's just, you know, it's just another way.
Gosh, I'm really going to get into it now.
I'll just tell you.
All Foster Freeze did was have a cute, funny way of describing virtue.
We'll take a little time out.
Don't go away.
Be right back.
You boil it all down.
And what you end up with is something very simple.
Liberals want life without consequences.
Fail at your job.
No consequences.
Doesn't matter.
There's all kinds of government help.
Fail at being a father?
No problem.
There's no consequences.
Sex, whenever you want it.
No matter the outcome, no problem.
We've got abortion.
We've got birth control pills.
We got condoms.
No consequences.
And without consequences, there's no virtue.
And that's all Foster Freeze was talking about.
Simply talking about women with virtue.
Pure and simple.
And the fact that so few people understand that, shocking.
Sad, but shocking.
Let me tell you a little bit about Foster Freeze.
He's involved in numerous charitable activities.
He and his wife run the Freeze Family Foundation.
Their activities include supporting Christian mobile medical services.
They sponsor Water Missions International's work to provide clean water in Malawi.
They donate to relief and recovery efforts following natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina, the tsunami in Indonesia, the 2010 Haitian earthquake.
Foster Freeze sponsored a matching grant program to raise $2 million for relief efforts for the Indonesian tsunami.
He personally traveled to the areas most affected by the earthquake and the tsunami in order to speak with local church and organization leaders.
He sponsored another matching grant for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.
He raised more than $4 million for Katrina victims.
Some of the awards that he has received for his philanthropy, Child Help Spirit of the Children Award, the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award, the Humanitarian of the Year presented at the National Charity Awards Dinner, the Albert Schweitzer Leadership Award, the David R. Jones Award for Leadership in Philanthropy, and Thomas J. Reese Award from the Catholic Charities.
That's who he is.
A man of virtue.
A man who's done far more for people than any liberal in politics today from Barack Obama on down.
And so now he has to be summarily destroyed while we were told to ignore Jeremiah Wright.
No, Jeremiah Wright had nothing to do with Obama.
Nothing to see here.
In 1965, 24 of black infants and 3 of white infants were born to single mothers.
By 1990 and that's still 20 years ago by 1990 the rates had risen to 64 percent of black infants and 18% of white infants born to single mothers.
It's got to be worse now.
This is statistics from the Brookings Institute, from a 1996 report.
New York Times 2009, unmarried mothers gave birth to four out of every 10 babies born in the U.S. in 2007.
He was just talking about virtue, nothing more.
You know, it's funny what offends liberals.
It's funny what offends the liberal media.
Bill Clinton abusing and ruining the life of an intern.
JFK Ditto.
That's admirable.
That's behavior they want to emulate.
But an aspirin joke.
Boy, look how that offends them.
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