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March 2, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 2, 2012, Friday, Hour #2
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And I am Rush Limbaugh, the most dangerous man in America.
Now, why am I?
According to everything you're seeing in the media today, I am the most dangerous man in America.
Why is that?
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's open line Friday.
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A Missouri House of Representatives member frustrated with recent legislative debates over birth control and reproductive health is proposing to restrict vasectomies.
Legislation sponsored by Democrat Ms. Stacey Newman would allow vasectomies only when necessary to protect a man from serious injury or death.
You will not find the name Rush Limbaugh anywhere on this legislation, nor do I know Ms. Newman.
I'm not in cahoots with her.
In the state of Missouri, a woman frustrated with recent legislative debates over birth control and reproductive health has proposed legislation that would deny men the right to have a vasectomy whenever and for whatever reason they wanted.
Men would have to get that approved.
Vasectomies would have to be performed in a hospital, ambulatory surgery center, or health facility licensed by the State Department of Health and Senior Services.
What is this?
Are there back alley vasectomies going on that we don't know about?
Have you heard of this, Snerdley?
Are there back alley vasectomies taking place?
The Missouri House last week approved a resolution objecting to the federal health care law and a requirement that most employers or insurers cover contraceptives.
Newman, who is from St. Louis County, says such issues affect women the most.
Really?
Affect women the most?
She says men must also make family planning decisions.
So, here you have it, folks.
Now we're going to restrict vasectomies.
Legislators, state representative in Missouri wants to regulate and restrict vasectomies.
Can I do this?
Do I have this power?
I do not.
And yet it is happening.
And I, seriously, what is there about me to fear?
Oh, is that, is that, well, that's touching.
Obama just called Sandra Fluke to make sure she was all right.
Aw.
That is so compassionate.
What a great guy.
The president called her to make sure she's okay.
Was she 30 years old?
Thirty years old, a student at Georgetown Law who admits to have so much sex that she can't afford it anymore.
And thus, a new welfare entitlement must be created so that society will...
You know, somebody asked me, why are you so insulting?
Me?
Can anybody understand that a whole lot of us are insulted by this?
Here we are.
We're minding our business one day.
We're bothering nobody.
We can't anyway.
We can't inspect your kids' lunchbox.
We can't raise your taxes.
We can't send your kids off to war.
We can't make you buy a certain kind of car.
We can't do anything.
And all of a sudden, we're told that people who want to have sex without consequence, sex with no responsibility, we have to pay for it.
We're told we have to pay for it.
And if we object that somehow we're Neanderthal, just out of nowhere, this comes up.
Now, that to me is insulting.
It's no different than if somebody knocked on my door that I don't know and said, you know what?
I'm out of money.
I can't afford birth control pills and I'm supposed to have sex with three guys tonight.
Well, why are you coming to me?
Well, because you've got the money.
Well, have you ever thought maybe you shouldn't, if you can't afford it, you can't do it?
Where is it written that all of a sudden, if you want something and don't have the money for it, somebody else has to pay for it?
I think the whole notion of being insulted here, there are a lot of us insulted by this whole idea that is growing throughout the Obama administration that the people who make this country work are somehow not doing their fair share, not paying their fair share.
We've got to be punished even more.
And here's the latest example of it.
So the president has called her and asked her if she's all right.
She said she was, I hope.
Do we know what she said?
Oh, she told that to Andrew Mitchell.
You know, people tell me, I offered to pay for aspirins.
I thought I've been quite compassionate here.
You know, also, one thing that's patently obvious is that when the left wants to pretend they have no sense of humor, they are excellent at it.
Yesterday in the riff about, okay, okay, fine.
Well, if we're going to pay for this, at least let us have something for it.
How about some sex videos?
If anybody doesn't realize that we are illustrating absurdity here by being absurd and that that is the trademark of this program.
Oh, no.
Oh, that's the, that's, I mean, of everything else you've said, that's now, that's the lowest and the low.
Demanding sex video.
What do you think?
Lighten up.
Remember using that phrase all the way back in 1989?
Lighten up.
You're also upset because I called Danica Patrick a woman driver.
Yeah, I know.
Thirdly, I told you this is going to be bigger than the phony soldiers, and he didn't think it was.
And I said, oh, it should be 10 times bigger.
This will be 10 times bigger than the Phony Soldiers.
It's going to be 10 times bigger than the Michael J. Fox thing.
Because the Democrats are desperate.
The Democrats are desperate.
And why they want people to, well, I do know why they want people to fear me.
This is all they've got is to go out and try to discredit their critics to impugn and discredit the people who disagree with them because they can't.
There's no way if we actually sat down, had a debate about this proposition, there's no way anybody on the left can win this in a sane world where there is common sense.
Apparently, Sandra Fluke told Obama when he asked her if she's okay.
She said that Obama told her that she should tell her parents they should be proud.
Okay, I'm button my lip on that one.
The president tells Sandra Fluke, 30-year-old Sandra Fluke, parents should be proud.
Okay, let me ask you a question.
I might be surprised with the answer I would get to this question.
Your daughter appears before a congressional committee and says she's having so much sex she can't pay for it and wants a new welfare program to pay for it.
Would you be proud?
I don't know.
I'd be embarrassed.
I'd disconnect the phone.
I'd go into hiding.
I hope the media didn't find me.
See, everybody forgets what starts this or what started this whole thing.
Or maybe they don't.
Maybe that's normal behavior on the left now, for all I know.
But it's one thing for Obama to call and ask her if she's okay.
I'm waiting for Bill Clinton to call her.
Have I denied Sandra Fluke her birth control pills?
No, but you would.
No, I wouldn't.
I wouldn't deny her her birth control pills.
It's not what this is about.
This isn't about birth control pills anyway, folks.
This isn't about contraception anyway.
This is about expanding the reach and power of government into your womb if you're a woman.
This is about the Democrat Party wanting more and more control over you.
What was early feminism all about?
Emancipation, individuality, freedom, liberation, all of these things.
Now, here comes Danica Patrick out and she says, I'm perfectly comfortable letting the government make my health decisions for me.
Folks, I'm going to tell you right there, that's the death and the end of feminism.
When Danica Patrick can come out and say, oh, I'm perfectly fine with the government making these healthcare decisions for me.
And that's feminism.
I don't want to make these decisions.
Nobody is denying Ms. Fluke her birth control pills.
Ms. Fluke is approaching everybody and asking us to pay for them.
I take it back.
The president of Georgetown University, whose name is John DeGoya, D-E capital G-O-I-A, I hope he pronounces it DeGoya.
I've never heard it pronounced, so I don't know.
Georgetown University President John DeGoya blasting my comments as misogynistic and vitriolic.
But who is it exactly that is denying Sandra Fluke her free birth control pills?
Isn't it this guy?
Who's she upset at?
Georgetown.
She went to Georgetown knowing that they did not provide free contraception as part of their health plan, whatever it is.
And this guy, the president of the university, is thus the man denying her birth control pills.
She's mad at me.
This guy says I'm misogynistic and vitriolic, and he's the guy that's denying Ms. Fluke her free birth control pills.
Yet I, L. Rushball, a harmless, lovable little fuzzball, am the enemy here.
A dirty little secret is nobody's denying Sandra Fluke her birth control pills, obviously.
Isn't it obvious?
As frequently as she has sex and not be pregnant, she's obviously succeeding in contraception.
So nobody's denying her, and nobody wanted to.
Certainly not I.
I don't care, except when I'm told that policy makes it that the rest of society must assume responsibility and cost for behavior that people want to engage in with no consequences and no responsibility themselves.
That's insulting.
Pure insulting.
Now, the definition of a misogynist is a man who hates women almost as much as women hate women.
That's what a misogynist is.
You know that, certainly.
A misogynist is a guy who hates women almost as much as women hate women.
And I do not hate women.
Why should gay people have to pay taxes to supply birth control for straight people, for the breeders?
Why should they?
Where's the social justice in that?
Open Line Friday.
Let's move on.
Scotts Bluff, Nebraska.
This is Tamara.
Great to have you.
And welcome to the program.
Thank you, sir.
Good afternoon.
I will get right to the point.
You know, over the last couple of days, listening to your show, never once was I offended or insulted by any statements you made.
What insulted me and offended me and quite frankly made me furious was the comments made by the women of this whole proceeding, those who were hosting it, those were the commentators that reacted to it.
The entire time I listened to Sandra Fluke speak, all I could think of was, you are setting every woman in this country back decades.
How?
You make it sound like we are incompetent and ignorant and not capable of thinking of a way to take care of ourselves.
You're smart enough to be accepted into Georgetown law, but you can't think of a way to pay for birth control as if that's even as important as housing, a roof over your head, clothes for your body, food for your mouth.
You've got to be kidding me.
That's a good point.
But where does it stop once contraceptives are paid for by everybody else?
What about food next?
What about clothes, the manoloblonics?
What about?
My point, that was the first thing.
When I was putting myself through college, I paid for every dime of it myself.
And there were months I was scared to death because I didn't know how I was going to make the money to pay for the next semester.
But I did it, and I did it because I had a job.
But never in my entire college career did I say, oh, golly, how am I going to pay for my birth control this month?
It didn't cross my mind.
It wasn't a need.
It was my responsibility to take care of my education, my food, and my body, and nobody else's.
You want us to take care of our own bodies, yet you're going to make the argument that somebody else needs to pay for your child?
That's an excellent point.
I'll tell you what, I would go further.
Once this is permissible, once you, any citizen, let's say women, once a woman opens the door of the government providing contraception at no charge, the door is open.
And with Obamacare in place, dictates on all aspects of our behavior can then take place.
You have hit the nail on the head.
And I can't believe there aren't more women from the left screaming at the top of their lungs, shut your mouths, please.
Well, because you're not going to be able to do that.
Look, let me, I say this really with the absence of all ego.
What this is about now is getting me.
This is about silencing me, removing my voice as a credible critic.
This is not even about contraception or any of that anymore because you raise another good point.
The assumption in this is that every woman in this country is angered by what I've said.
Every woman in this country.
We're not.
We're angered by them.
And you can button your leg all you want.
I'll handle this one myself because I can take care of myself.
And every parent out there should be embarrassed if they had a daughter that stood up and said, I'm sorry, I can't take care of this one.
Will someone handle this for me?
I pray every morning and every night when I send my little girl out of my home when she turns 18 or even sooner if she chooses, if she has a job and she can take care of herself, is that she goes through this world and I have armed her with enough intelligence and self-worth and common sense that she can take care of herself and she doesn't have to rely on anybody else but herself.
And then she can use the gifts God gave her to help anybody she chooses in any way she wishes.
Well, the gifts take care of herself.
The gifts that God gave her, the Democrat Party today.
That's what you're supposed to think.
That's what Sandra Fluke thinks, and Danica Patrick thinks, and that's what you're supposed to think.
But the question is, whatever happened, terms of feminism, whatever happened to hands off our bodies.
So now we've got a woman in Missouri upset over all this who now wants to restrict dasectomies.
The door is open.
That's what's insulting to me.
And I'll tell you something else.
In addition to being insulting, what's frightening is how few people apparently see this.
Now, the media, they're just in lockstep.
I mean, this is the template.
This is the narrative.
As I say, this is the third or fourth such attempt as this.
And there will be more.
I got to take a break.
I appreciate your call.
Camera, we'll be right back.
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And even the good times.
What would happen if I went before a congressional committee, snurdly, and said, I want to be paid by the government for $3,000 worth of condoms a year?
What would happen?
I guarantee you what would happen.
People want to hang out with me.
Ooh, ooh, where are you going?
What are you doing?
No, would they?
I'd be laughed out of the place.
I'd be literally laughed out of the place.
Somebody just sent me, oh, by the way, on the notion of will Sandra Fluke be fine.
May I take the occasion here to illustrate something?
Sandra Fluke is going to be just.
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if it isn't long before she runs for Congress with the announcement ceremony with Pelosi and Stenny Hoyer.
And she'll run on the women's rights, the contraception, whatever platform, whatever.
But as you ponder this notion of the Democrat Party taking care of Sandra Fluke, I want you to think of another woman, Monica Lewinsky.
What happened to Monica Lewinsky?
Monica Lewinsky was having, what would you say, protected sex with a sitting president.
They destroyed her life.
Kathleen Willey.
Paula Jones.
There was James Carbo.
Oh, you never know what you got to get.
Did a dollar bell dragon to a tread of pockets.
What you got to come up with?
Paula Jones.
Yeah, this is the party that cares and loves women.
Cares about, loves women.
Monica Lewinsky had her life destroyed by Bill Clinton and the media.
But Sandra Fluke's on the right side of this issue with the media.
So she's going to be fine.
Now, there's a piece here in a blog called TheCollegeConservative.com.
It's by Angela Moribito.
Sandra Fluke does not speak for me.
I'm a proud Georgetown woman, upset about another Georgetown woman who may have no pride at all.
How else do you explain Ms. Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown law student, now famous for testimony she never gave, jumping up to talk about her sex life with the Senate minority leader and with the liberal media and ask for the cost of her sex life to be subsidized by other students at a Jesuit school?
Sandra Fluke was declined the privilege, the privilege, not a right, of testifying in front of a Senate committee on the proposed contraceptive mandate.
Her name was submitted too late to be admitted to testify.
She's not a lawyer.
She's not a member of the clergy, which would be crucial for a hearing on religious freedom, wouldn't you say?
That's what Representative Isis said.
Her one claim to fame in the reproductive health care debate is being a student club leader.
Me, I love some extracurricular involvement.
The difference between Sandra and me is that I don't think it qualifies me to speak in front of Congress.
Having been told by Congress to more or less shut up and go home, Sandra found a sympathetic ear in Nancy Pelosi.
She's not going to find one on the Georgetown campus.
She's wildly out of step on Georgetown's campus, folks, says Angela Moribito.
Senate Democrats needed a show pony for this circus, and they knew they could find a liberal woman on a college campus who would willingly trot around the ring.
That's why Nancy and pals created a photo op with all the props, the microphones, the podium, an era of pretense, the all-important liberal media for Sandra to tell her story.
And it's just that, a story told on a stage.
But Nancy Pelosi and the liberal media should know that they can no longer rely on college campuses and an endless source of liberal support.
My colleagues and I at the College Conservative are creating a new wave on campuses across the country.
Every day, we make it a little safer to be conservative out in public without fear of bad grades as a result of our views.
Sandra should know that we have no fear in calling out a classmate for thoughtless liberal ideology.
Ms. Moribito writes here that Sandra Fluke doesn't speak for me or for Georgetown.
And the piece goes on, but you get the gist of it there.
Just point out here that the president of the university is who's denying her her contraceptive pills.
It is not I, El Rushbo.
Here's Douglas in Birmingham, Alabama.
Great to have you on the EIB Network show on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, man.
It's a blessing and an honor to talk to you today.
I really appreciate you taking my call.
You bet, sir.
Thank you.
You don't know it, man, but you're a blessing to me and my family.
I was a Democrat growing up down here in Alabama.
And I guess, you know, in my mind, just being in the black community, you're automatically a Democrat.
And somebody told me you was a racist.
And so I'm a big fact checker, and I check behind people.
And so I went looking to try to find the racism that you exhibit in your speech.
And I found something totally different in which draw me to listen to you.
And I mean, you just kind of confirm things that I already felt in my heart but did not know how to express.
And I'm telling you, you know, every opportunity that I have to go back and download your videos, my wife and I, we listen at them.
And both of us are educators.
You know, she's a teacher and I'm a teacher.
And it's kind of difficult because when you start speaking out against, you know, things that our president is doing and people like our president, you know, you lose a lot of friends because, you know, if you're black, you don't speak out against anybody black.
You know, it's been kind of tough.
But believe me, I hear you.
I know exactly what you're talking about.
Right, but it's a blessing because it's a lot of relief off your chest, too.
I'm unlike you.
I couldn't be a politician because I don't compromise.
I don't change my feelings based on what other people think.
If something is the truth and if it's a fact, then you speak the truth and you speak the fact hoping that the information would change how people think, you know, but you don't change who you are based on popular opinion or how people perceive you.
And I'm telling you, when I heard your monologues on personal responsibilities and those kind of things, you know, I mean, it's just a blessing.
And I'm telling you, you know, my wife and I, we sit down together and listen at pieces of your videos together.
What do you teach?
What do you teach, Douglas?
Well, I teach at a private school and I teach religious subjects.
My wife, she's a public school teacher.
And so I teach the religious part of the private school.
How long have you been doing it?
About four years now.
Yeah, about four years now.
And I love it.
Do you think you're doing, is this your calling?
You think you're doing what you're born to do?
You love it?
I have no doubt.
I have no doubt, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
And many times, I get caught up in a situation because the liberals have been made, when liberals want religious people to be quiet, what they do is take something religious and say it's politics and they try to silence you.
But I don't do that.
When it comes to moral things such as homosexuality, abortion and anything, I speak about those things and I try to teach people that this is not politics.
This is the moral fabric of our country that we're dealing with here.
And I'm not going to be quiet on that.
God bless you.
What's the most rewarding aspect of your job?
The most rewarding aspect for my job is when my students look back at the things that I've said and they can repeat it in their own words, that lets me know that they understand.
I teach my students not to repeat things that I say, but I teach them to gather the information, understand the information, come to a conviction, and once you do that, you're in a position to where you can help somebody else.
But if you don't have a conclusion, don't try to teach anybody else.
When they can do that, I mean, it's just like a great relief.
Right, that's Nirvana.
That's when you reach them.
That's when you know you've reached them.
That's exactly right.
You know, but you have been, you've been a blessing.
And if I could, you know, I would let them listen at you a lot.
But, you know, you've been a blessing to me and my family.
And, you know, we're hooked now.
Well, look, you know, I'll tell you something.
The...
The clearer the truth, and I'm sure you've learned this now.
The clearer, the plainer, the simpler the truth, the louder the outrage to it will be.
Now, you access my website, you watch videos and stuff, right?
Well, I can't when I do when I can.
You know, we can't.
Well, I want to make it possible for you to do it whenever you want.
I've got a bunch of laptop computers here that I have in my stash prize closet for just this circumstance.
And I want to send you one.
Now, they're Macs.
I've got MacBook Airs 11 and 13, and I've got MacBook Pros 15 and 17.
We said it was 17s back there, right?
So which one do you want?
Man, Rush, let me tell you something.
I wouldn't dare tell you which one I won't.
Choose this case.
How can I tell you that you're giving me something, man?
Okay, no problem.
I'll handle it.
I'll send you one.
You're going to be home tomorrow.
Yes, I will.
Okay, we'll FedEx it today so that you have it tomorrow.
Now, I need you to stay on hold so that Mr. Snerdley can get your shipping information so we can FedEx this to you tomorrow, okay?
Thank you, Rush, and you're a blessing.
You're doing the Lord's work out there, Douglas, and you love it.
And I know what you mean, the rewarding aspect of reaching people.
So that's cool.
That's cool.
Stick with it.
Thank you.
You bet, man.
You bet.
Thank you.
Now, hang on.
Don't go away.
And we'll be right back after this.
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Spokane, Washington, next.
Dennis, glad you called.
Thank you for waiting and hello.
Hello.
Thanks for taking my call.
It's been 22 years since we spoke, but I had to call in about these items all dovetail together.
The fluke lady, she's got contraceptive, and I am a Catholic, independent voter.
She just didn't do her follow-through.
She could have just got pregnant and had an abortion, paid for.
You know, that is an interesting aspect of this that has not been discussed.
I didn't take it out to that logical conclusion.
Okay, and also...
Why don't I make sure I understand?
My hearing.
I want to make sure I understood this right.
She's got contraceptives.
You're a Catholic independent voter.
She didn't follow through.
She could have just gone ahead and gotten pregnant, had an abortion, had it paid for, and that takes care of the consequences and all that.
Exactly.
Accomplish the same thing.
Obviously, I'm being satirical because of my Catholic upbringing, but obviously.
However, this...
Well, no, no, no.
You...
You think you're being satirical.
Well, I'm also being honest.
No, the other side doesn't understand satire or irony or any of them.
No, no, no, no.
You're not permitted that.
Well, and I also have to get this in.
You are absolutely correct.
This is about socialism versus capitalism.
And your listeners need to go back to 1920 and read about evolutionary socialism.
This is the 92nd year.
It's a slow process, just like the Taliban.
However, I have been out of work for four years.
I'm a casualty of the radio broadcast industry.
I didn't get a penny of anything.
I pulled my bootstraps up.
I became an entrepreneur.
I went out and made my own money.
You cannot do that in the social industry.
You're now a target.
You're now a target.
You're an achiever.
You're going to be in the 1% regardless of what your income is.
Well, exactly.
But I get so tired of these people saying, you know, I need more unemployment.
I need this.
I need that.
And there are jobs.
I don't care if it's, I cut firewood in the beginning just to make some money.
I live 60 miles from the nearest Safeway store, but I don't owe anybody a dime.
And I'm making my own money in various sorts of ways, but I'm making my own money.
Anybody can do it.
I'm so tired of this.
Give me money.
I'm tired of it.
That was the one aspect of feminism I liked, that women are going to pull themselves up by their bra straps.
But it's just vanished.
Now, all of these things that feminism had as its goals, they're gone.
They really are gone.
They're back to being subservient and dependent, demanding, demanding dependence.
Let me throw another thing.
Thanks for the call, Dennis.
Let me throw another little think piece into this.
Georgetown University, it's a Jesuit school.
Their policy is that they are not going to provide contraceptives.
Ms. Fluke enrolled there knowing this.
In fact, she said, she's implied that she enrolled there, hoping to change this.
So she enrolls in the place as an activist intent on changing their policy.
How does it happen?
This is very instructive point here, folks.
How does it happen that we just accept the premise that she asserts that her right, put that in capital letters, her right to free contraceptives is greater than Georgetown's right not to be compelled to pay for her contraception?
The moment that this notion was posited, all of a sudden, Georgetown's rights cease to exist.
Georgetown became an oppressor.
Georgetown's had this policy for a long time.
People that go there understand it before they enroll.
The moment the activist, Ms. Fluke, asserts her right to free contraceptive to handle her sex life, and it's, by her own admission, quite active, then all of a sudden, Georgetown loses its right to say no and becomes the oppressor.
And then the president of Georgetown comes out and calls me a misogynist, and he's the one denying her her pills.
Not I, Il Rochebo.
Now, does a government with the power to compel Georgetown University to provide contraception against its will, does that government also have the power to make you take the pill?
Let's open the doors here.
We're going to open one door and let's look at what else opens.
You go to the government and you demand that they tell Georgetown that they have to give you your birth control pills.
That government is now involved, just as they've been involved in the school lunch program gives them access to the curriculum at the public schools.
Does that government then have the power to make you take the contraception?
Or, better stated, the government then has the power to deny you the contraception.
Once you allow them the power to provide it to you, alternately, you are granting them power to deny it to you.
Or you're allowing them to set circumstances under which you must behave before you can get it.
All this is possible.
Once you've opened the door and allowed the government to tell the university they have to provide you contraception, does that same government have the power to make one of your anonymous co-eds take contraception against her will?
No, that would never happen.
Tell that to the men of Missouri where they're starting to regulate, or somebody wants to regulate vasectomies.
Could that same government force you or your co-eds to have an abortion if the contraception didn't work?
If the answer to any of these questions is no, then what we have here, we've got a policy debate, not a rights debate, and that's what this is all about.
I'll tell you what this means, folks.
This headlong dive into contraception, it is evidence of the utter political and moral failure of their abortion push.
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