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March 21, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 21, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Yeah, they're doing the right doing the story the right way up there on Fox Business on the uh Keystone Pipeline.
This Obama going to Oklahoma today.
It's it's folks, it's a dog and pony show.
It is nothing more than a photo up and a big lie.
He's not authorizing the Keystone Pipeline.
It's going to be reported that he did, but it's not happening.
Great to have you back, Rush Limbaugh behind the Golden EIB microphone, EIB Network, Limbaugh Institute, Advanced Conservative Studies.
And we roll right on.
It's already Wednesday.
Fastest week in media.
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So the coach of the New Orleans Saints is gone for a year, Sean Payton.
The former defensive coordinator of the Saints, Greg Williams, who had been hired by the St. Louis Rams, suspended indefinitely.
He was the, according to the NFL's own investigation.
He was the architect of the bounty program, paying players additional money to take opposing players out of the game.
It's always gone on.
In fact, the money, I think was incident a hundred bucks, a thousand bucks.
It was the recognition these guys got for accomplishing the job.
And Williams denied it for a long time in the investigation before coming clean.
The general manager of the Saints, a guy named Mickey Loomis, suspended for eight games.
The owner Tom Benson didn't know what was going on.
He's uh he's safe.
Plus, the Saints have been fined half a million dollars, and they lose their second round draft pick this year and next year.
That's punitive.
That's that's that's a punishment that affects the competitive balance in their division.
So Brian, you ought to be happy being in the Tampa Bay fan.
Now something gives them a chance.
Then you have uh Tim Tebow going to the New York Jets for a fourth round draft choice.
I think that's pretty insulting.
I I I think I think the Broncos, they could have gotten Jeremy Lynn thrown in for that too from the Knicks for Tebow.
So now they made a public display of being interested in Peyton Manning.
That shook up the confidence of Mark Sanchez.
Now they go get Tebow under the uh Rex Ryan circus at the New York Jets.
Oh it's fast.
This is this is one of the most active, engaging off seasons in the NFL that I can remember.
Story from the Washington Times headline, number of adults returning to their family homes is growing.
Thirty percent of young Americans, this is from the pew research center, PEW.
About 30% of young Americans age 25 to 34 who once left the family home have moved back in.
30% who left have come back.
Now some of these adult children may be happy with the arrangement.
They may think that they're better off than they were when Obama took office.
This is the I I want to know how these people are gonna vote.
Who have had to move back home or who have moved in with a friend or family due to deteriorating economic conditions?
You know, the Democrats are always out there asking for sob stories in order to sell their latest idea.
They have an endless parade of victims they bring up either to their congressional or senate hearings or uh photo op displays, public appearances.
How about people right into the RNC and tell their stories, not being able to get a job, losing their home, and then moving in with relatives.
Was that the change people are hoping for?
Here's Obama, Mr. Hopin change.
And what's the change?
People get educated, they get jobs, they leave home, Obama gets elected, after three years, they move back home.
It's the only solution some of them Have.
How about those young Obama voters who were in college or grad school back in 2008, especially those who campaigned for him, lectured their parents about the great Barack Obama, and then two, three years later, they move back into the old bedrooms and those silly hope and change posters, probably still on the bedroom walls.
Sounds like the premise of them, oh, except they already did a movie on this failure to launch, because it had nothing to do with Obama, so they could redo failure to launch.
And this time make it about Obama.
Anybody who moved back in with their parents and then helps Obama's re-election campaign needs to go home from an organizing meeting and find their clothes on the front step of mommy and daddy's house.
Mommy and Daddy need to kick them out of the house if they show up at an Obama campaign rally.
Dear son, you have been evicted due to a failure to grow up.
See you for Christmas dinner.
Now, Pew, you must know, I've read the story.
Pugh did not ask if the parents are happy.
The Pew Center tries to make this sound like it's a great development, folks.
When you read the story, the Pew people make, oh, this is wonderful for families, and wonderful for family togetherness.
Remember when the first huge wave of unemployment hit shortly after Obama was immaculated.
We started getting stories about the wonders of being unemployed.
how wonderful it was, what a great opportunity being unemployed was.
They even had a slogan for it.
I've forgotten what the slogan was, a name for these people.
But there were stories after story after story of these people that had found each other and found new friendships and had time now to really explore the meaning of life without having this hassle of a job or of work.
It was like back in the 90s when Clinton was lying every time he opened his mouth.
We had stories fun employment.
That's what it was.
They called it fun employment.
People who were engaged in fun employment.
Yeah, it was the thing to do.
Just two years ago.
It's like in the 90s, Clinton lying every time he opened his mouth.
We had stories now, lying is good for us.
Lying is helpful.
Lying spares people hurt feelings.
It's actually a wonderful thing.
Here's a story from Fox News.
This I have a sense of things in this country.
I believe there is a great silent majority.
I think you're in it.
The silent majority is made up of people who are not represented by the Democrat Party or the mainstream media.
The silent majority are the people who get up and go to work Try to play by the rules, try to do everything right according to their morality and their sense of ethics and their right and wrong.
They get laughed at and made fun of for it in movies and books, TV shows and songs.
Consistently impugned.
They're called old fashioned fuddy duddies, hayseeds, unrealistic, what have you.
But they're there and it's a huge number.
And my impression, my gut instinct about the silent majority, is it's about to explode.
it's about had enough.
A lot of small incremental things have happened over 20 or 30 years.
But now with Obama, those small incremental things are becoming bigger.
And more impactful with each instance.
And they carry with them close to a call to action.
In the past, these incremental changes or deteriorations in our culture in society.
Just, okay, well, just chalk that up.
It's another sign of deterioration, And you go about your life.
Now these things that are happening are giving people in the silent majority great pause.
And they're saying this isn't okay.
They don't know quite what to do about it, but they are ready to explode, and this next story is the kind of thing that I'm talking about.
It's from Fox News.
It's about Stony Brook University in New York.
And I will just read it to you as it's written, as it's published.
Stony Brook University New York has decided to no longer cancel classes for major Christian and Jewish holidays.
This in an effort to ensure that some religions aren't given special treatment and to quote afford equal support and equal respect to students and faculty from all faiths.
So Stony Brook University is no longer going to recognize major Christian and Jewish holidays, because it might offend people who aren't Christian or Jewish.
Jewish students at Stony Brook would be impacted on Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Passover, and Holy Week.
No longer are classes going to be canceled.
You either you observe the holiday, you get no credit for showing up because the classes are going on.
Christian students would be impacted on Good Friday.
The Christmas holiday is already protected under a union contract and occurs when classes are traditionally not in session anyway.
So there won't be any change over the Christmas break because that's protected under a union contract.
But if the unions didn't have a contract saying they weren't working over those two weeks, then I guess we're to assume here that classes would not be canceled for Christmas either.
The university had considered allowing faculty to schedule exams on Saturday and Sunday.
A time when many students attend worship services.
However, that decision was tabled after reaching a compromise with students.
Charles Robbins, the vice provost for undergraduate education of Stonybrook, said as a secular university, as a state-funded university, our priority must be to maximize instructional opportunities for our students.
First and foremost, it's important to note that while I respect everybody's concerns, the reality is it's a relatively small number of people who are upset here.
It's just the Christians and the Jews.
He didn't say that.
A relatively small number of people who are upset, close quote.
I'm saying, yet like it's just the Christians and the Jews.
Charles Robbins told Fox News the university's decision to stop canceling classes for Christian and Jewish holidays offers equal protection under the regulations to everybody, and no one is getting quote unquote special treatment.
Charles Robbins, the vice provost of undergraduate education at Stonybrook, has a background in social justice.
He said many religions, including the Muslims and the Buddhists have never had their holidays officially recognized by the university, and that that isn't right.
He said now all segments of our student population will be equally recognized.
It really is the American fair thing to do.
This is the kind of story that's going to cause an eruption in the silent majority.
The silent majority made up of Christians and Jews alike are not doing anything to destroy this country.
They're not doing one thing to harm it.
And yet they're sitting around and watching the destruction take place all around them.
And then they hear That because they are a majority, that their very existence makes life unfair for others, and so we're gonna take away your holiday, and we're gonna take away your tradition.
Except for Christmas because the unions have a deal there.
Stonebrook University has 24,100 undergraduate and graduate students.
They are not as religiously diverse as the vice provost said.
According to a report in the Jewish Week, 26% of the students at Stonebrook are Roman Catholic.
24% are Christian, 8% are Muslim, 5% are Jewish, 5% are Hindu.
Bill Donahue, president of the Catholic League, told Fox News the University's Board of Trustees should conduct an investigation into this matter.
The goal here is radical secularism being shoved down the throats of the people at Stonebook.
It's right, and it's come to some of these social justice guys.
So, once and again, it's an attack on the people who make the country work.
It's an attack on the traditions and institutions which have defined uh the greatness of this country.
And it's an attack on people who aren't doing anything.
These people are not destroying the country.
They're not taking steps to pervert the culture.
So call it what you want.
Political correctness, censorship, fear, superiority, arrogance, what have you.
Here you have a liberal who has majored in social justice studies, mandating that classes will no longer be canceled for Christian and Jewish holidays.
Because it just isn't fair to the others.
A number of faculty and students are outraged over the decision.
I should add that.
Aaron Gershoff told CBS News, you really have to choose between my faith and my school work.
I don't want to be put in that position.
Well, they just put you in that position.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Phone calls are next.
All right, time to go to the phones.
We're going to start in Chelsea, Oklahoma.
Hi, Katrina.
You're up first, and it's great to have you here with us.
Hi, great to be on your show, Russ.
Thank you very much.
I'm good.
Thank you.
Well, we're not real happy about him coming, and it it was worse than when it was on our news outlets that he his people had uh said that our governor and their people weren't invited to anything that he was gonna do.
And uh that was a little unnerving.
It's like having a party at someone's house and then telling them you're not invited.
Well, this whole this this whole thing's a dog and pony show.
You're just being used.
Probably, but I just want to let him know that uh we're marking our oil tanks with uh to let it, you know, how much is in there, so if uh any disappears after he leaves and it's suddenly discovered under Michelle's garden, we'll uh you know, we'll know where it came from.
Well, I don't I wouldn't I wouldn't expect uh wouldn't expect that.
This this is really just a uh uh a dog and pony show.
Obama's going in there to make it appear that he is authorizing now, and uh approving the Keystone Pipeline.
His visit to Cushing, by the way, is not open to the public.
That's according to media reports, not open to the public.
It's just a photo up.
You'll see some still shots, maybe some video from approved media when it's all over.
But this is uh this the southern leg of the Keystone Pipeline route that he's gonna authorize, which already has been for all intents and purposes.
This is really instructive, folks.
This really illustrates the pressure Obama is under.
This really illustrates where he is in his re-elect effort.
This is a signature issue of his opposing oil, opposing new sources of oil, and yet he's got to go to Cushing, Oklahoma today for a media op, a photo op, to make it appear like that he's uh opening up the Keystone Pipeline is risking his base, and that's why it's not open to public.
This is a managed news event.
Gil in Philadelphia, you're next.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Go away.
Is this Gill.
Well, who are we going to next?
This obviously is uh Kurt in Lafayette, Louisiana.
Are you there?
Hello.
Hey.
Hey, Rush.
Hey.
I remember when I first heard you, it was catharsis, 1988.
Celebrated.
Wow, one of us finally made it.
And you're still celebrating.
Oh, great.
Well, um I've spent my adult life on oil rigs in the oil field.
And just one thing almost no one knows that the reason there are more wells drilled in the United States of America than all the wells in the rest of the world, and there's more rigs running now in the United States of America than the rest of the world, is because only in the United States do property owners have mineral rights.
I've worked all over the world.
I've always worked for National Oil Council.
And it's not guaranteed.
Each county and states different.
You got to check your contract.
But overall, people who own property get to enjoy the value of their minerals in the United States.
And that's why there's drilling on private land.
Well, it does it the important thing about that is that drilling and oil production on federal lands is way down under Obama, and yet he's out there talking about all this record oil production.
He's got nothing to do with it because he can't stop it because it is occurring on privately owned land.
Oh, it's tomorrow.
Okay, Obama's going to Cushing Oklahoma tomorrow.
I thought it was today.
It's going to start about 10 o'clock in the morning.
It's closed to the public.
The governor and a lieutenant governor are out of the state, and Obama's first presidential visit to Oklahoma will not be officially welcomed by state officials.
So it's it's uh it's tomorrow that he's uh heading into Oklahoma.
Okay, not today.
I was misinformed.
From the examiner.com.
Democrats fighting hard for illegal alien vote.
In December 2011, Eric Holder announced that the Department of Justice will begin investigating Texas and South Carolina over their recently enacted laws requiring voters to present a photo ID before casting their ballots.
The laws were designed to reduce voter fraud a problem in every election.
Read that to you again.
In December 2011, Eric Holder, Attorney General, announced the Department of Justice will begin investigating Texas and South Carolina over their recently enacted laws requiring voters to present a photo ID.
During a speech, the LBJ presidential library Holder said, in jurisdictions across the country, both overt and subtle forms of discrimination remain all too common.
The old photo ID business.
Can you think of anything you do in your life where you do not need a photo ID?
You need a photo ID cash check.
You need a photo ID to get on an airplane, you need a photo ID for most mundane things in life, you need a photo ID.
But yet Eric Holder and his gang tell us that to require a photo ID when one votes is intimidation.
And it is discrimination.
And it will cause people to hole up in their homes and not vote when people say, well, no, no, no.
Uh we'll be glad to provide them a photo ID free if they if they just come down to City Hall.
That's a trick also to get people out of their house out of their homes.
It's the state using its awesome fist to discriminate and intimidate people who don't have photo ID.
Okay, all well and done.
Let's let's take it at face value.
The Democrat Party standing tall, standing strong for people, who want to be able to vote, but who can't prove who they are?
Now, by the same token, to these people who do not have photo IDs, are they thus able not also to get on an airplane?
Are they not able to get a credit card?
Are they not able to cash check?
I mean, look at all the things you can't do if you don't have a photo ID.
Look at all of the areas in our society, in our economy, where you are shut out if you don't have a photo ID.
Just think about it.
The Democrat Party, which claims to stand for the little guy, wants to maintain that status for certain of its constituents.
No photo ID.
Because it's just too scary and intimidating to have to have one of those to vote.
But at the same time, those people are shut out of the U.S. economy.
And you would think the Democrat Party would care about that.
I mean, here are people, they're voters, can't get on an airplane, can't cash a check, can't whatever you need a photo ID for.
They can't do it.
Married, whatever, you can't get whatever.
And the Democrat Party seems content for them to be shut out of such a large part of the U.S. economy.
Now, why don't we ever hear anything about that?
Why don't we ever hear that the Democrat Party doesn't care a whit about their voters being shut out and excluded from so much of the economy because they don't have an ID photo ID.
All the Democrats care is that they don't have a photo ID so that they can vote.
Ask yourself this.
What is discriminatory about producing a photo ID to vote and not discriminatory, produce a photo ID to get on an airplane or to get married.
Where why is one discriminatory and the other's not?
Well, we all know the answer to this.
The answer is vote fraud.
The answer is a Democrats want to cheat.
And a photo ID goes a long way towards stopping voter fraud.
People can vote numerous times, pretending to be different people.
But you can't pretend to be somebody else if you have to produce a photo ID.
And like this story says, illegal aliens, by definition, will not have a photo ID.
The Democrat Party wants them to vote.
It's voter fraud.
But maybe the way to go about this is to point out all of the other aspects of the economy these Democrat voters are shut out of or from, cannot participate in the economy.
And the Democrat Party seems to be totally fine with that.
It's just more evidence that the Democrat Party really doesn't care about the little guy.
The Democrat Party uses the little guy.
The Democrat Party's policies end up harming the little guy, and this is a classic example.
If you are a Democrat voter and you are a minority, the Democrats do not want you having a photo ID.
They certainly don't want you having to show it at a polling place.
Now there's not a person on earth with common sense who understands The charge that a photo ID is discriminatory.
There's not a single person with a shred of common sense who understands that argument.
You can have the civil rights coalition leaders all stand up with their megaphones and start shouting threatening caterwalling complaining about having a photo ID is discriminatory will take us back to Jim Crow Day.
How does that possibly compute?
What is this it is it what are they afraid of?
Are there people who are already living lives that are a lie?
Are they afraid so many of their voters are going to be found to be not who they are?
Are they going to find that Jack Smith is actually Jack somebody else?
The idea that having to have a photo ID is discriminatory and intimidating should mean that it's discriminatory and intimidating everywhere you have to display one.
They never say that only when you vote.
There's not a person in this country with a shred of common sense who doesn't understand what this is all about.
Plain and simple.
This is about making sure that the Democrats can continue to cheat and have people vote more than one time.
That's what they're trying to protect.
They're also trying to ensure that it is never established that that in fact is happening.
And the requirement of photo IDs would lead to all kinds of discoveries like that.
Okay, to Hayzen, Arkansas.
Eric, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Thank you, Rush.
I'll get right to it.
Um just wanted to remind the audience that this is the same attorney general that has refused to investigate the Black Panther Party in Philadelphia when they uh they obstructed people's right to vote there.
He didn't he shut the investigation down, is what he did.
In the face of the evidence, he just shut it down.
We love you out here, Rush.
Thanks very much.
He he uh that that holder, we have J J. Christian uh Adams, I think is the lawyer who quit and uh said that uh uh throughout the Justice Department uh the holder regime says we're just not gonna investigate minorities in this department.
We're just not we're not we're not gonna do that.
So, yeah, it's the same guy.
I mean, it's and and by the way, Holder is suing states and harassing states who want to try to implement the voter ID laws that have been passed in uh in those states.
Larry in Chicago, you're next.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Hello.
Hey Dennis Rush, great to talk to you.
I had a uh interesting comment about the voting from yesterday here in Chicago.
My aunt, who's uh 85 years old, went to the polling place yesterday, and she is a registered Republican and asked for a Republican ballot at the beginning, and the lady behind the desk handed her a ballot and says, Here you go, young lady, and she grabbed the ballot and put her glasses on and read it, and it turned out to be a Democratic ballot.
So she went back and said, Excuse me, ma'am, but you gave me a Democratic ballot, and she goes, I'm actually a Republican, and that's the way in which I'm voting.
And the lady handed her another ballot, turned out to be another Democratic ballot.
She went back inside and says, ma'am, I am a registered Republican.
So the lady went back and handed her uh what she thought was one Republican ballot, and it turned out to be two Republican ballots.
And she goes, ma'am, you gave me two.
She goes, It's okay, honey, you can vote twice today.
You gotta be, you gotta be kidding me.
I I kid you not.
I I talked to my aunt last night because I wanted to make sure she got out and voted, and I I she shared that story with me, and I says, You're you're you're not kidding with me.
She goes, nope.
She goes, that's exactly what happened.
Why?
What was the point?
Try to get her to vote illegally on purpose?
Absolutely.
If you vote illegally on purpose, your vote would be disqualified as a Republican, Rush.
Well, but did this woman, did this poll worker have any idea who your your aunt was going to vote for?
Well, obviously, if she's from the Republican Party, uh, you're gonna vote for somebody on the Republican side.
So if you weren't going to allow her to vote on the Democratic side with the two ballots that she mistakenly handed to her twice, so what do you do?
You hand her two Republican ballots, so at that point your Republican vote would not be counted at all.
The reason this doesn't make any sense is that there's no opposition that's a dead that doesn't make any difference who your aunt votes for.
And it really doesn't make any difference if her votes disqualified.
When you get, I mean, other than legally, because I guess we're assuming here that the poll worker is a Democrat trying to mess with the system here, but there's this is not a general election.
This is an election between uh between Republicans and I mean, other than just general mischief.
Um I know it's an open primary, but it should it shouldn't, it shouldn't be that open.
Well, I don't know.
We hear stories, folks like this.
Um anecdotal stories like this all the time, every election.
Your aunt's very sharp.
Very sharply.
Larry, thanks for the call, Gill.
We're gonna try Gill again in Philadelphia.
Hello, sir, and welcome to the EIB network.
Hello, Rush.
I didn't tell your caller I was gonna your screener I was gonna say this, but you said something earlier that touched me, and that is the familiar familial relationship uh, you know, to you and your audience.
I've been listening to you, man, for 20 years, and I have to say I I feel like you're uh uh I really love you, and all your listeners, I feel like they're just really good friends.
I haven't met yet.
So thank you very much for being there.
We love you, and we're behind you.
We support your sponsors and everything else.
Thank you very much.
I know you do.
I really appreciate it.
Hey, no problem.
By the way, this is the 22nd time you and I are speaking.
Um what I called to say, Rush, was that this idea that you uh an industrial nation can't drill its way out of an oil shortage is like telling a starving man he can't farm his way out of hunger.
I'm an energy engineer and I've been in this industry since 1972.
I started in uh the nuclear fields, I worked on Three Mile Island, Peach Bottom, Perry, then they destroyed the nuclear industry.
Then I went to the to the fossil fuel industry.
I worked on coal uh, you know, coal fired power plants.
After that, uh I went to the petrochemical industry, and they destroyed that industry.
So the government keeps on taking, they take from us the meat, and then they give us chicken, and then they take the chicken, and after a while they've got us eating tow food.
And, you know, one industry after another, they destroy, they destroy the economics, they legislate it out of existence, they regulate it out of existence.
Right now here in Philadelphia, they are closing uh, I think it's three oil refineries, and in Pennsylvania, they're closing five uh coal mines.
This the it it's gotta stop.
That's the same thing that they're doing the same thing in Illinois near Chicago.
The other thing, Rush, uh as an energy engineer, for years I've been doing energy audits and I've been trying to to encourage people to do energy conservation because it makes sense economically, not for political correctness.
And this whole thing with the green energy, I want to tell you, you are absolutely right when you say there is no such thing as alternative energies.
Rush, that the solar wind, uh the biofuels, it's tablum for the masses.
It's nothing more, you know, I call it the That's exactly right.
That that is exactly right.
Opiate Pablum for the masses.
Pure and simple.
I give you an illustration.
I read a story today, and I wasn't even gonna mention it here until Gill reminded me of it.
I frankly forgotten about it.
But there's there's a story somewhere on Boeing.
Working on some extraordinary brand new invention to power jet engines in the future.
It's clean.
It is robust.
It's plenty, it's just it's a miracle.
It's it's forward thinking it's a you know what it is, natural gas.
Now I hate to remind people of this.
Natural gas is a fossil fuel.
Natural gas results from oil exploration in large part.
And yet, Boeing trying to score some PR points, can't blame them.
The administration's trying to harm them by not letting them build a manufacturing plant in South Carolina, right to work state.
So Boeing's trying to score some PR points.
We're working on a new wave of jet engines to the future.
Going to use natural gas.
Fine and dandy if it works, but that ain't green energy and it's nothing new.
And it's not a result of Obama, anything else.
Natural gas has been around as long as oil's been around.
It's cleaner, but it's a fossil fuel, which, according to people like Obama, seals its fate.
Fossil fuels are evil.
I gotta take a break.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
And two of them are already gone and in the can.
Got to take a brief time out here to top of the hour.
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