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March 6, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 6, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Folks, it's so predictable and it's hilarious.
MS NBC, PMSNBC, practically 24-7, has decided their new theme is the war on women.
Chiron Graphic.
They have guests.
They have shows.
They have hosts.
Talking about the war on women, and it's hilarious.
I can't think, Snerdley, I know you'll agree with me on this.
I can't think of a single red-blooded American male who wouldn't surrender to any woman in a war.
Here, take me prisoner.
I'm all yours.
This whole notion of a war on women, it's so contrived, it's so forced, it feels so unnatural.
Because there is no war on women.
How are you, folks?
It's great to have you back.
Rush Limbaugh here again behind the golden EIB microphone, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Here, please take me captive, madam.
If there's a war on women, I want to surrender.
It reminds me of the Peacenic bumper stickers back from the 1960s.
What if they gave a war and nobody showed up?
Was a popular bumper sticker back in the 60s when I was a teenager.
Our side certainly hasn't shown up in uh in this war on women, mostly because there isn't one.
What there is is a war on freedom.
There is a war on freedom being waged daily from the White House.
It's being orchestrated by Obama and his willing sycophants in the drive-by media.
And not just religious freedom.
Freedom of everybody, including women.
The avowed purpose, the express purpose of the Obama administration is to grow this government to as massive a size as they can pull off and take as can take control over as much as they can.
I have a story here in the stack.
I should have put this up at the front.
Let me find this.
It is on a par with when I found out that the Sierra Club was going to target your SUV.
This is back in 1996.
And I warned you people, keep a sharp eye because they're going to be coming after your SUV.
And everybody poo-pooed me.
No way.
Come on, Rush, get serious.
There's no way anybody would go after our SUVs.
It's just a bunch of wacko leftists, nobody's gonna pick up, and you know they tried.
And they still are.
What do you think the Chevy Vault is?
What do you think all of these hybrids are?
What do you think the involvement of the regime in buying an automobile company and then trying to downsize all the vehicles is all about?
They're not gonna stop until they succeed at this.
This is the point.
Now here's the story.
This is in the New York Times, and I think the date of this was uh yeah, March.
Take it back, February 21st.
And I've been holding on to this.
Before the food arrives on your plate, so much goes on behind the scenes.
Let me give you the pull quote from this story that you need.
Now look at me.
Here's the pull quote from this story.
Food is one of the only base human needs where the American government lets the private market dictate its delivery to our communities, but not for long.
I added the, but not for long.
You know, we have social justice.
We have food justice.
We already have food insecurity out there.
Food insecurity is when the people who run out of food stamps get hungry.
Who is the Susie authorette?
It doesn't matter.
One of the first things to like about Tracy McMillan, the author of The American Way of Eating is her forthrightness.
She's a blue-collar girl.
She grew up eating a lot of tuna helper and Ortega taco dinners because her mother was gravely ill for ten years, and her father, who sold lawn equipment, had little time to cook.
About these boxed meals, she said, yeah, I like Them.
Expensive food that took time to prepare?
It wasn't for people like us, she writes.
Ah, you see, already, paragraph two.
There's discrimination in food.
Expensive food that took time to prepare wasn't for people like us.
See the dirty little secret is the food that takes time to prepare is cheaper than all this boxed processed prefab stuff.
Expensive food that took time to prepare wasn't for people like us.
Oh.
What, somebody was denying you expensive food that took time to prepare?
She goes on, this is Tracy McMillan again, the author of The American Way of Eating.
It was it was for the people my grandmother described with equal parts envy and derision as fancy.
My father's word was snob, and I wasn't about to be like that.
Well, this is a voice the food world needs, says the writer of the story in the New York Times.
Now, folks, I know you're thinking, some of you think what every time I find evidence of a massive forthcoming event to take away a little bit of our freedom here and there under the guise of improving our health or our safety or our security, I am going to warn you about it, because the ultimate end game is to take away your freedom.
And so now we have a book by a woman named Tracy McMillan, the American Way of Eating, which has, according to the New York Times, as its premise that only the fancy and the snobs get good food.
Average ordinary Americans, the 99% are denied expensive food takes time to prepare.
That food wasn't for people like us, writes Ms. McMillan.
Ms. McMillan, like a lot of us, has grown to take an interest in fresh, well prepared food.
You've seen this interest, I'm sure.
Every time you travel, you say you talk to when's the last conversation you have with people about fresh, well prepared food.
I mean, it's a common topic at dinner parties, isn't it not?
People showing up at McDonald's, it's a common ordinary everyday discussion item.
Is it well it's portrayed that way here?
Ms. McMillan has grown to take an interest in fresh, well prepared food.
She's written for Savour Magazine, a pretty fancy journal.
She knows her way around the kitchen, but her central concern in her journalism and in this provocative book is food and class.
She stares at America's bounty, noting that so few seem able to share in it fully, and she asks, what would it take for all of us to eat well?
And I take you back to the pool quote.
Food is one of the only base human needs where the American government lets the private market dictate its deliver.
So capitalism and the private sector are discriminating against the average ordinary American by not delivering them quality food.
The junk food is going to the poor and the miserable and the fancy and the snobs are getting the good stuff.
And that's because the government is not regulating the delivery.
You put this together with Muchell My Bell Obama, what she's trying to do.
You put this together with a story we had out of North Carolina.
With a federal food agent, telling a four-year-old that what was in her box lunch from home didn't meet standards.
Now what's the message there?
Your mommy doesn't really know what's best for you.
we here at the school do.
I don't want you to doubt me on this.
There's not a war on women.
There's a war on freedom.
And anything that the government does not have its hands in is the focus and the target for this regime.
And now it's food.
And the distribution of food.
What would it take for us all to eat well?
What would it take for us all to have a nice car?
What would it take for all of us to have birth control pills?
What would it take for all of us to have a house on the beach?
What would it take for all of us to have air conditioning?
What would it take for all of us to never get sick?
What would it take for all of us who do get sick to get totally well and not have to pay for it?
What would it take to have everything you want and not have to pay for it?
And that's what this regime attempts to answer to people.
Four people.
The title of Tracy McMillan's book, The American Way of Eating, pays fealty to Jessica Mitford's classic of English nonfiction prose, The American Way of Death, published in 1963.
Ms. McMillan's sentences don't have Mitford's high style.
They're a pile of leeks, not shallots.
But both books traffic in dark humor, specifically.
Standing in a Walmart, where she's taken a minimum wage job, Ms. McMillan observes that its produce section is nothing less than an expansive life support system.
Most days when it comes to vegetables, she's putting lipstick on corpses.
Whatever that means, don't ask me, I do not know what that means.
I know what lipstick on a pig is, but I don't know what lipstick on a corpse is.
And I don't know what it's got to do with the vegetable department at Walmart, except maybe they're killing people there, and we haven't heard about it yet.
The book Ms. McMillan's most resembles is Barbara Aaron Reich's bestseller nickel and dimed on not getting by in America.
Like Ms. Aaron Reich, Ms. McMillan goes undercover amid this country's working poor.
She takes jobs picking grapes, peaches, and garlic in California.
Stocking produce in a Walmart in Detroit working in a busy Applebee's in the flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn.
She tries and often fails to live on only the money she earns.
The news Ms. McMillan brings about life on the front lines is mostly grim.
Of course it is.
And it's grim because the government doesn't control everything yet.
And it will only be a panacea and a utopia when the government controls everything yet.
Food justice now.
You will soon be hearing this demand.
You watch.
Mark my words, I don't know when.
But it won't take long.
Ms. McMillan's chapters about Walmart and Applebee's are the book's best.
Naturally.
A journalist writing about Walmart who says the vegetable department is like lipstick on a on a on a on a corpse.
She is not a slash and burn critic of either company.
Both provide needed jobs, treat their employees at least moderately well, but you will steer clear of both places after reading about her travails.
Now let's put that together.
She's not a slash and burn critic of either company, but you will steal uh steer clear of both places after you read her book.
It's not slash and burn once you read what she's got to say about Walmart and Applebee's, you'll never go back.
That's not slash and burn.
The produce sold at the Walmart where she works is second rate, often slimy, mushy, merely bland.
Walmart always doesn't have the freshest fruit and stuff, one manager says to her, that's how we keep the prices low.
So he quotes a Walmart guy say, yeah, we're selling garbage here, and that's how it's cheap.
The produce management is so sloppy that the newer among us are still working our way from recognition to acceptance as if advancing through the stages of grief.
It's about working at Walmart.
Much of her time in Walmart's produce department is spent trimming rotted leaves and crisping a method of rehydrating limp green so they appear to be fresh.
In other words, most of her time is spent screwing customers by deceiving them that what they're buying is actually quality.
At Appleby's, almost no actual cooking is done.
Premade food in plastic baggies is heated in microwaves dumped onto plates.
Ms. McMillan deplores this practice while also finding it fascinating.
Yes, I watch an endless assembly line, she writes, a large-scale mashup that hits the sweet spot between McDonald's and Sandra Lee's semi-homemade cooking.
Much of the action, sorry, much of the friction in the American way of eating comes from Ms. McMillan's writing about being a woman, an unmarried white woman to boot working at the bottom rungs of the food.
So the war on women now includes unmarried white women working at these horrible places like Walmart and Applebee's.
The bottom rungs of the food industry.
And I take you back.
It's the one base.
The only base human need.
The American government lets the private market dictate its delivery to our communities.
Miss McZ McMillan is an amiable writer, it says here, yet her book is lighted from within by anger.
The poor food options many in this country face.
Noting that Detroit is a city of 700,000 without a single store from a national grocery chain.
She writes, food is one of the only base human needs where the American government lets the private market dictate its delivery to our communities.
And of course, it's bad out there, so we gotta have the government.
Government's got involved, gotta get involved in making sure that food gets to the right places.
We should hate Walmart because they offer low cost produce.
Google food justice.
Think it's a new term?
Google it.
One million eight hundred and ten thousand hits.
This is happening right in front of us for years.
This kind of thing.
Food is the next front in the left-wing war on the private sector.
Food justice, mark my words, will soon be joining the term social justice.
It'll be appearing in news stories.
The drive-by reporters will accept this from the left uncritically and won't even bother to define it.
I'm sorry, they will define it.
They will define it.
Food justice.
Private sector hates the poor.
Private sector doesn't care if its customers live even.
Private sector doesn't care if its customers get sick.
Private sector will make sure that cheap, low-cost, rotten, limp, needing lipstick produce is the only thing you have available to you.
Great to have you back, Rush Limbaugh.
As always, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Let me grab this phone call real quick.
This could be constructive.
Here is Craig in Detroit.
Craig, glad you called.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Hey, Rush.
Pleasure to talk to you.
Thank you.
I know.
Yeah, I just wanted to let you know that um I work often in Detroit, and uh there's certain items my wife will give me to pick up in Detroit.
Uh several of them are fresh produce.
Uh there's a great market not far from downtown Detroit.
I was there the other day.
Peppers, carrots, blueberries, you name it.
Um, all over the place.
Well, to to rebuke that that myth that there's no place uh to get fresh produce in Detroit.
That's true.
That's what you think.
That's what she not only is there fresh produce, but there's tons of available land to grow your own produce.
Now, Craig, I'm really glad you called, because you're gonna assist me here in making a point.
It's like the war on women.
Stop and think of this for a second.
The Republican Party is conducting a war on women.
Now, what's the objective of the Republican Party to win elections, is it not?
Well, we think.
Now that maybe even the matter of doubt.
But theoretically, the purpose of the Republican Party is to win elections.
So what sense would it make for the Republican Party to conduct a war on women?
By the same token.
Here I have just announced, just shared this story from the New York Times about how the uh the authorette is talking about the unfairness in food justice, because the really good food Is going to the snobs because the government doesn't control distribution.
You called to refute the charge.
Wait a minute, I can get great produce here in Detroit.
And that's great.
Don't misunderstand.
But that isn't the point of the article.
This is how this is how people get I don't say not duped, but it's how people get thrown off in the wrong direction.
Of course, Craig, in Detroit, one can find quality produce.
Anywhere in America you can find quality produce.
That's not the refutation of this piece.
This piece really isn't about quality produce.
This piece is about the fact that the federal government doesn't have any say so in food distribution.
And it represents yet another area for the left to have the government move into to have more and more power and strip away more and more freedom.
It's about freedom.
It's not about produce.
Please understand this.
And so you see, folks, what I'm introducing to you today is a new crisis.
We've uncovered another crisis for the government to solve.
And that is basically what?
See, it's not enough.
It's not enough that Walmart offers unprocessed food to low income families.
Oh no, that's not enough.
Now it has to be the best.
It has to be the best.
It has to be the most expensive, but it has to be practically given away.
Otherwise, what, Walmart is racist?
That's how this works.
This is how pressure is brought to bear on people in the private sector, heals them of racism, discrimination, servicing only a few small percentage points of the market, force them to cave to the all-powerful demands of the federal government, because to do otherwise is to incur their wrath, and nobody wants that.
What is it with all of these young single white women overeducated?
Doesn't mean intelligent.
For example, Tracy McMillan, the author of this book, seems to be just out of college.
And already she has been showered with awards, including the 2006 James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism.
Social justice journalism, this woman who wrote the book on food inequality, food justice, got an award for social justice journalism.
She won a national prize.
Rewarding journalism that measures business, governmental, and social affairs against the clear ideals of the common good.
Her degree is not in food or nutrition.
She has a BA from New York University in political science.
She's a political scientist.
She's a journalist.
She has received awards for social justice journalism, and she has a book out on food justice.
I know.
You're saying Rush there's super Tuesday going on.
I know, Super Tuesday is going on, and there are election laws.
You can't really electier on election day.
Super Tuesday is what it is.
The polls are open and people are voting.
What's left now is to count them tonight.
We still have some audio sound bites coming up.
Don't misunderstand.
This is important, folks.
It's important all of this.
Everything we discuss on this program, given the inauguration of Barack Obama is about the loss of freedom, the loss of economic freedom, the loss of religious freedom, the loss of speech freedom, the loss of freedom overall.
And with it, the vanishing opportunity for prosperity on the part of all of our citizens.
It matters.
It's an all-out assault, and it's coming from young college students, fresh, idealistic, wide-eyed, interested in social Justice and the common good?
And how only government can do that?
What happens when the government is in charge of food purchases?
Have you heard the story of pink slime for school lunches?
Have you heard about this?
Ground connective tissue and beef scraps normally destined for dog food treated with ammonia hydroxide or ending up in school lunches?
I hold here my formerly nicotine stained fingers a story from The Daily, which is an app for the iPad.
It's a joint effort between Apple and News Corp.
Rupert Murdoch.
U.S. Department of Agriculture's continued purchase of so-called pink slime for scruwel lunches makes no sense, according to two former microbiologists at the Food Safety Inspection Service.
Gerald Zernstein, microbiologist told the Daily, I have a two-year-old son.
You better believe I don't want him eating pink slime when he starts going to school.
It was Gerald Zernstein who first coined the term pink slime after touring a beef products incorporated production facility in 2002.
As part of an investigation into Salmonella contamination in packaged ground beef in an email to his colleague shortly after the visit, Zernstein said he didn't consider the stuff to be ground beef.
It's made by grinding together connective tissue, beef scraps normally destined for dog food and rendering.
The lean beef trimmings are then treated with ammonia hydroxide, a process that kills pathogens such as salmonella and E. coli.
The resulting pinkish substance is later blended into traditional ground beef and hamburger patties.
For retired microbiologist Carl Custer, 35 year veteran of the Food Safety Inspection Service, the idea of mixing in BPI's lean beef trimmings into more nutritious pure ground beef was problematic.
We originally called it soilant pink.
We looked at the product, we objected to it because it used connective tissues instead of muscle, which is what meat is.
If you didn't know.
They're using connective tissue in this stuff.
You didn't know that, Snerdley?
Well, what did you think it was?
What did you think beef is?
Yeah, but what part of the cow did you think beef I know you don't eat it, but what did you think it was?
No, it's the muscle.
And it's not cows, it's steers.
Cow meat goes into this garbage they give the kids at school when the federal government's in charge of it.
Cow meat goes into chili and soup and stuff.
USD Well, I don't know about McDonald's chicken McNuggets, but there are a lot of so-called chicken McNuggets that are just called McNuggets or Nuggets and not chicken.
They're made to look like it but aren't, made to taste like it but aren't.
Well, how can you how can you make how can you make vodka taste like blueberry?
You go out, you can make tea tastes like blueberry, what we do at two of my tea, you get some flavorings, you pour it in there.
Come on, don't be ignorant in there.
You know exactly what I'm doing.
Beef that you eat, USDA prime beef, chop it's muscle.
The point here is that what they're giving to kids is the connective tissue, cartilage tendons is the point here.
This my point is this is what happens when you let the federal government into this process.
When you keep the private sector out of it, when you let the government involve, why is the government more qualified to do food than people who are in that business?
The really angering thing here is the presumption or the assumption by government and by these wide-eyed idealistic college grads that anything in the private sector is by definition corrupt.
The people in the private sector are by definition sharks, and and and they are corrupt.
And they're out every one of them to cheat you.
And yet on the other end of the scale, There is the federal government clean and pure as the wind driven snow when everybody knows that's not true.
So this is what happens if you let the government get involved.
Pink slime.
That's that's said to be ground beef, but it isn't.
Serve to your unsuspecting kids at school.
Meanwhile, they tell us the problem is Walmart and Applebees.
So, like the war on women, again I hearken back to this, the war on women, really, the Republican Party is waging a war on women.
Their objective is to win elections, and they're gonna do that by conducting a war on women.
Where's the logic?
Where is the sense in this?
McDonald's, Walmart, Applebee's.
They have as their express purpose to sell garbage so that their customers get sick.
Everything about liberalism is a lie.
Everything about it.
Everything about it is deceit.
Everything about it is a trick designed to get you to give up your freedom because you get angry when you hear that Walmart's screwing you or Applebee's or the big oil company, or whoever.
And who gets to ride in and save the day?
Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, whoever, on a white horse.
By the way, speaking of the federal food agent in North Carolina that told the four-year-old that her boxed lunch from home didn't meet standards.
And really, again, what is the message there?
The message is the very safe and protective and loving federal agent cares more about the four-year-old than her own mommy.
Yes, little four-year-old, your mommy sent you to school with an unsafe lunch.
Here, eat what we have for you.
This is hideous stuff.
Now, from the Carolina News Journal, teacher suspended over chicken nugget incident.
The teacher involved in supplementing a prescrul's lunch with chicken nuggets in Hoke County has been suspended indefinitely.
Parents of students in the pre-kindergarten program at West Hoke Elementary School in Rayford got a letter from assistant superintendent Bob Barnes last week saying a substitute teacher would take over the prescrew class until the issue is resolved.
Remains unclear why the teachers' actions violated district policy.
State officials responsible for monitoring homemade lunches for pre-screwers have told a Carolina Journal at the January 30th incident that caused a nationwide uproar satisfied state policy.
So now what they're saying is a teacher didn't know what the policy was.
Teacher, whoever the federal agent, whoever it was that absconded with the four-year-old's box lunch did it did it mistakenly.
When will the teachers wake up to the reality that they're nothing but tools for a liberal agenda?
Well, I take it back many of them know that they are, and happily serve as such.
But there are so many rules and regulations and laws coming from so many different agencies and bureaucracies that teachers like this one are forced and expected to monitor and enforce they can't possibly understand them all.
They need an extra degree just to figure out bureaucratic BS.
And when they do try to follow the rules, you can count on the bureaucrats, the government agents throw them under the bus, just like happened here.
Gotta take a quick timeout.
Sit tight, my friends, back with much more after this.
So at the Hoke County School, the teacher is being scapegoated, not the federal agent.
Remember this story originally, a federal agent absconded the four-year-old's lunch.
Now a teacher's being scapegoated.
But since I understand the left, see, folks, I understand why the teacher is being punished.
It's very simple.
She let the kid go home and rat him out.
She didn't scare the kid enough.
The kid was not supposed to go home and tell the mother that her boxed lunch was taken away from her.
The kid wasn't sufficiently intimidated by the teacher.
So the kid goes home.
Mommy, mommy, dick, this tool, get to my lunch.
You don't care about me.
It's my day too.
What the hell's going on at school?
Mother goes up there and all hell breaks loose.
Say I have a meeting with a teacher.
Look.
And you're gonna do this, you have to understand you've got to put the fear of God in that four-year-old.
She's not gonna say a word about this.
Don't let it happen next time.
We're gonna suspend you for a while.
Next time the kid gets its lunch taken is supposed to be so don't you think I'm trying to be funny?
And yes, certainly an element of that, folks.
I know who these people are.
You're seeing it play out every day.
Here's uh here's Terry in Mace, Arizona, as we go back to the phones.
Great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hi, Russ.
Thanks for taking my call.
Hey, listen.
Um, I just wanted to talk about this food justice thing.
I can't speak on behalf of Applebee's, but I can sure the heck speak on behalf of Walmart.
My wife's been part of a nationally recognized um weight loss program for many, many years, and she looks great.
She's lost a lot of weight, she looks fabulous.
And we buy all of our produce over at Walmart, right?
Yeah, and you know why your wife's losing weight is because the stuff she's buying is not nutritionally sound, it doesn't have all the proper calories, and she's wasting away, she's not losing weight.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
I beg to differ.
She is not wasting away.
She's still as voluptuous as she was when I heard her.
And I gotta tell you, Rush, let me tell you, uh, the food she makes these stir fries at night, she makes salads, she makes the best dog on salad, and all of that produce, I guarantee you, probably for the last eight, ten years.
Of course, come from Walmart.
Of course, the allegation is baseless.
Of course, Walmart's stuff is good quality.
They wouldn't be, they wouldn't be number one in their field if it was.
That's not the point.
I understand the desire to defend Walmart.
Believe me, I've tried it.
I understand it.
That's that, and and I'm glad that you're doing it.
I don't like, I don't like these private sector companies made up of entrepreneurs who take great risks, who try to provide value at the cheapest price for their customers.
I don't see why they get ripped.
I know why they do get ripped by the left.
But the point here, the point here, is not Walmart's produce.
This is simply an allegation, doesn't have to be true.
It's now been alleged by an award-winning political scientist journalist writing it about it in a book.
So it's true now.
You you can spend the rest of your life defending the produce at Walmart, but as far as the people playing offense on this, the book and the allegation make the allegation true.
Not what is true.
And so the focus here is to take over the distribution of food by the federal government.
It's the this is about the expansion of government.
It is not about whether or not the food at Walmart or Applebee's is any good.
They have to malign these places.
What part and parcel of the scheme.
You have to malign, impugn the private sector or whatever target that you've zeroed in on.
You malign them by accusing them of harming their customers or being discriminatory toward their customers, being racist toward their customers, or what have you.
And that sets the stage for the White Knight federal government to take in ostensibly to save the day when all they're doing is expanding their power.
I find it extremely curious that they focus this this young student, sorry, graduate, focuses on one of the biggest failures of liberal government ever.
Detroit, Michigan.
As the area where food justice isn't taking place.
There's no food justice in Detroit.
And who's been running that show?
Liberals.
Think about it.
President Obama eagerly preparing as we speak for a 45-minute press conference scheduled at what is it, 115?
It's always late to a press conference scheduled to start at 1.15.
Why would the president be calling a press conference today?
I've been trying to figure this out.
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