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March 30, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 30, 2012, Friday, Hour #3
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No, I'm here.
I just I've always got five other life altering things going on during every show that I have to deal with.
And sometimes I'm not able to deal with all of it during the commercial break, so but we're here.
It's Friday, and let's move on.
It's Friday, and let's move on.
And we're back.
Open line Friday, and you have a golden opportunity today.
Whatever you want to talk about is okay.
That's not the rule Monday through Thursday.
Has to be what I care about.
But we uh we waived that on Friday to your benefit.
Telephone number 800 282-2882 and the email address, L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
I want to go back and repeat something from the first hour just to make sure that everybody has a chance to understand this because of the way the media is dealing with the vote today.
It's already happened in the Supreme Court.
Happened this morning.
And what happened today is not any different than what has happened for 222 years of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Now there's an AP story.
Justices meet Friday to vote on health care cases.
Listen to the way the story starts.
While the rest of us have to wait until June, the justices of the Supreme Court will know the likely outcome of the health care case by the time they go home.
Well, doesn't that stand a reason?
They're the ones voting.
What is this?
Unfair they know, but we don't.
They will know the outcome by the time they go home, unlike the rest of us.
Well, duh.
And that's always the way, and it's the way it is on every case.
I this AP Mark Sherman Mark, it may be news to you, but the court always knows how they voted before we do.
In fact, I can't think of a time where the court didn't know how it voted.
Do you?
Can you even intellectually understand the concept of the court not knowing how it voted until June?
Mr. Lumarth is entirely understandable if the voter secret and the justice do not know how the other vote then they have to wait like the No, because they see every opinion, Mr. Neil Castradi, and they react to those opinions.
The majority opinion is written, the descending opinion is written, and they go back and forth.
The opinions are assigned.
I sometimes marvel at the sheer idiocy.
And I'm not trying to be offensive when I say this, but I'm just trying to be descriptive.
How in the world is it unfair?
This is like saying the two baseball teams know the outcome of the game before you do the fans.
Or they know the lineups before you do.
It's it's it's it's just silly.
After months of anticipation, thousands of pages of briefs and more than six hours of arguments.
The justices will vote on the fate of Obama's health care.
No, they're gonna vote on the fate of the country.
They're not voting on the fate of Obama's bill.
They're voting on the fate of the country.
They will meet in a wood panel conference room on the court's main floor.
No one else will be present.
I tell you, it is hilarious and pathetic how the media are all a flutter about how the court is gonna vote on Obamacare today and not announce it until June.
It just isn't fair that they know for so long before we know.
And then the rest of the story is essentially the AP begging a clerk to leak the result to them.
Which I don't think has ever happened.
I don't think a leak has ever come out of that place.
I can't think of one.
The news media are always the last to know when it comes to Supreme Court, and they can't stand it.
No one will know precisely when decisions on particular cases will be coming until perhaps Roberts ends a court session in late June by announcing the next meeting will be the last until October.
Then it's a safe bet that whatever hasn't been decided will be on the last day.
Supreme Court opinions rarely find their way to the public before they are read in the Marble Courtroom, although the court inadvertently posted opinions and orders on its website about a half hour too soon in December.
Oh, please do it again, they're asking.
They're asking for somebody, please do it again.
Please tell us.
The last apparent security breach occurred more than 30 years ago when Tim O'Brien, a reporter for ABC News, informed viewers at the court planned to issue a particular opinion the following day.
Chief Justice Warren Berger accused an employee in the printing shop of tipping O'Brien and had the employee transferred to a different job.
So that did happen once, I guess.
I didn't even remember it.
So here and in all the other breathless reports from our media watchdogs being subtly suggested how unfair it is that the justices know and we don't.
There are no note takers, there's no clerk, there are no secretaries, just the nine justices.
There are no arguments, they don't try to persuade each other.
They vote, opinions are assigned.
The vote can change.
Whatever vote today is not necessarily the final one.
Off it is, doesn't have to be.
Notes are taken by Justice Kagan, she's the newest justice.
Somebody wants coffee, she goes and gets it.
That's the rule.
It's not because she's a woman, it's because she's the newest justice.
You wait.
Some feminist group is going to learn that Kagan has to go get the coffee and they're gonna raise hell over the sexist attitudes of the court.
And somebody's gonna have to tell them no, no, no.
Scalia once had to do it too.
The most junior justice does all this.
Oh, really?
Well, it should stop when it's a woman then.
In this day and age, how demeaning is in the Supreme Court just as a woman out to get coffee for a man.
How can we possibly I wouldn't be surprised they raise hell about it if they find out that happened.
I I got a I got a fascinating email from a friend of mine last night who I want to share this with you.
My uh my friend's heart and mind.
The biggest and most generous you'll ever find, and he's totally, totally uh immersed in saving the country.
And he is dumbfounded and saddened that it appears Romney will be the Republican nominee.
And I not gonna tell you who it is.
You wouldn't know.
I mean, not a famous person.
I want to read to you his note to me.
Well, looks like Romney, so I wish us must much luck.
Look at what happened.
The Tea Party rises up, the Tea Party delivers the House of Representatives to the GOP, the Tea Party nearly takes out the Democrat Senate in 2010, and our nominee is gonna be a former Rhino governor of Massachusetts who invented Romney care.
Rush.
This could be ugly.
And if Romney wins, the best we can say is he's not Obama, which is important, but it's not enough to stem the tide of big government disaster.
So the establishment's gonna win again.
If Romney loses, which is possible, then everybody who has been trying to warn people about Romney are gonna be blamed for not getting behind him sooner.
Like the left, the establishment Republicans can never admit responsibility for their own handiwork.
So we're all gonna be good soldiers and we'll fight for our nominee, even though they don't ever fight for ours.
The Tea Party made this chance possible.
The Tea Party did everything, and we enough rhino.
My friends beside himself, folks.
George Romney was a disaster.
He was successfully blocked by conservatives.
Myth's no different.
Mitt Romney's like Nixon.
I can't name three serious conservative things he's ever done.
And I look at these endorsements.
Bill Weld, Massachusetts, the Bush family, McCain, every Washington insider and former Republican politician.
And they didn't do one thing.
They didn't do one thing to deliver the House to the Republicans.
They didn't do one thing to help nearly take out the Senate, the Democrat Senate in 2010.
They didn't do one thing.
They sit there and they take all the spoils, but they didn't do one thing to help.
Scary.
You can tell my friends not happy.
Thank you.
He says the reason that we've had several wonderful days at the Supreme Court, although who actually knows what they'll do, is because conservatives are fighting the good fight.
Conservatives are filing the briefs.
Conservatives are making the arguments, not establishment Republicans.
Establishment Republicans don't even think the guy can be beat.
It's frustrating, Rush.
Whatever progress is made on our side, it's always due to the conservatives, not Republican operatives, not the consultants, not the insiders, not the establishment.
My friend obviously was hoping for a far more conservative nominee than an establishment guy.
He didn't have anything against Romney personally.
It's not that.
This is strictly there were so many hopes.
Okay, Tea Party, an uprising, conservative grassroots.
And there's the old establishment GOP benefiting from it while not doing one thing to assist.
Or to make it happen.
Quick timeout.
We'll get to your phone calls when we come back.
Don't go away.
Don't go away.
Open line Friday, and this is Isabella, one of my old-time top ten favorite female names, Isabella.
She is from Elgin, Texas.
Hi, and welcome to Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
I can't believe I got through in talking to you.
I've won the lottery.
I don't need to go buy a ticket now.
But Rush, you were talking to that young lady with regard to Trayvon's picture on the front of the people magazine.
You were trying to describe what, you know, kind of your sense and her sense of indignation toward, you know, more attention being paid to Trayvon versus our soldiers.
And I'm wondering if the what you were looking for was the a prioritization, uh ability of the uh the American people to prioritarize.
Let's, you know, our soldiers under fire versus, you know, granted, a young a young boy being shot is is very um important, of course.
But you know, we need to prioritize.
I mean, our Constitution is being shredded.
Um, you know, w let's let's let's enumerate what is important in our day-to-day life rather than Well, that's close.
You know, that's that's helpful.
Um in helping me explain this.
As I as I read, for example, of uh I don't read people, so I can't give any examples out of that other than the one that was cited.
But as as I read sports blogs, sports websites, sports stories, uh I I wonder, okay, does this reporter know what's going on outside this?
Does this reporter know that uh his freedoms at stake here does the I I just wonder if they're detached.
It's uh the the his priority, these people are sports reporters, that's what they talk about, that's what they write about, and they don't want to mix politics in.
I understand that.
That's I'm wondering what's in their heads.
I'm wondering if they're in the game.
I'm wondering if they know what's going on or if they're just totally detached in their little world of sports and have no clue because my point is they could be helpful.
Right.
They would help influence people.
If if somebody that some kid idolizes, some athlete also knew how to talk about constitutional freedom, also knew how to talk about what's wrong with health care.
It would help.
It would help the it would help defeat the.
Now, people, I don't expect people to do stories on the military unless it's a story about how the government mistreats them.
People is Time magazine.
It's a pop culture celebrity thing, and the Trayvon Martin story made the order for people magazine.
It it fits it's Duke La Crosso.
that picture that they put on the cover is three years old.
It's an angelic looking picture.
It's not who the boy was when he was killed.
Now I'm I there's nothing in this story that justifies the kid being killed that we know so far.
I don't mean that, but I I'm not I'm not at all surprised that people and the people that work there are not even interested in doing a story on the U.S. military and the trials and tribulations.
The only time they're interested in the military is when one of them goes berserk and shoots himself or family or when and when they can take a shot at the military.
They're not interested in building it up.
No.
But they'll build up the Kardashians all day long.
They will build up the they'll build but because they sell magazines and and you know whether you know it or not, there are millions of young women who want to be Kim Kardashian.
Yeah, yeah.
There are millions of them.
Uh Rush, uh will you indulge me?
May I make one more brief point and then I will I will have to go?
Yeah, sure.
You do you remember, I believe it was your memory is oftentimes better than mine, but do you remember back in 2006 when the stock market started going up and the press got on George Bush, President George Bush at that time, that the stock market was going up, but it was a jobless recovery and only the rich were getting well or g getting along and getting better.
And here we have the stock market going up, but I haven't heard I haven't heard any stories along that line.
I don't know if you recall that.
I do, of course, and you're exactly right.
Of course I remember that.
I also remember the media back then when the unemployment rate was 4.7 to 5%, trying to tell everybody we were in a recession.
I remember oh, yes.
That's as clear as a bill.
When Obama or Democrats are in power, is the stock market going up a good thing.
When Republicans are in office and the stock market goes up, that means that whoever the Republican president is rich friends are getting rich because he's doing policies to help him get rich while screwing the little guy.
When gasoline prices were rising in the Bush years, that was Bush and Cheney's fault because they uh Cheney used to run Halliburton, that's oil to these people, and Bush family oil.
So Bush and Cheney were manipulating the oil market for their own personal portfolio benefit.
And it was something that had to be done.
But now gas prices are going up, and the stories we get are there really isn't anything a president can do.
So you are absolutely uh right.
That 2006 jobless recovery, unemployment was around four and a half percent back then.
As opposed to what they say it is now, eight what is it, eight point three they say it is now?
Something like that.
Isabella, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
This is Shuri in Chino Hills, California.
Hi.
Hi, Rash.
How are you?
Fine and dandy.
Thanks very much.
Yes, I'm calling.
I'll just get right to the point.
I'm calling because I'm upset as a Californian with the uh liberal Democrats in our state.
I'm calling about SB 48, which is Senate Bill 48, written by Mark Leno in San Francisco, passed by all the Democrats last year, and now is law signed by Governor Brown, and it's taking away parent parental rights, and of course there's no media coverage whatsoever on it.
That's why I'm calling.
Um it's basically uh mandatory, mandatory gay history teaching starting in kindergarten to the twelfth grade with no opt-out for parents.
Uh normally in sex education in high school, you can opt out.
But this particular bill, which I'm getting uh signatures for because they're changing around trying to repeal it, is taking away the rights of parents.
They cannot opt out of it, so they're gonna teach a kindergartner, five, six, seven, eight-year-old, uh, try and explain to them gay history, and that's a sexual content that is inappropriate.
Well, wait a second, just a second here, uh uh Sheree.
What is gay history?
They uh they want to uh the bill is written to uh include a lesbian, homosexual, transgender, and uh the LBT LBJT uh uh uh Right.
But what's the history?
Is it like great homosexuals?
Someone's gay in history, then we want to say, well, besides all his attributes, uh, okay, he was also gay in history.
So you bring up the problem is is then well the kindergarten is going to say, well, what is gay?
So you're bringing in sexual content that is inappropriate.
Well, wait, but how I guess what I don't understand.
See, we're all Americans here.
We're all living the same.
How can they have a different history?
How can what what is different about their history?
If they want to say and identify great figures in history who were gay, that's probably what it is.
But we all live the same history.
I love this next story.
It's about FoxCon.
FoxCon is this massive manufacturing company.
They are headquartered in Taiwan, but they have factories throughout China.
They employ in one factory a hundred and twenty thousand people.
And every factory they have employees about that.
It's just overwhelming.
They make iPhones and iPads and iPods and Macintosh computers and so forth.
And they make electronic gadgets for a lot of other companies as well.
They're huge.
Well, it's also China.
And they employ all these people, but by our standards, they don't pay them very much.
And by our standards, they work too much.
By our standards, Foxconn's a slave labor camp.
At least as far as human rights groups are concerned.
Now there was this guy.
I had never heard of this guy, and I don't know that you have either.
His name is Mike Daisy, and he is he's uh a monologuist.
He's uh so he's he's an artist.
He does a stage show where he sits down and basically lies about things he didn't see at these factories in China about how cruel people are treated and how they die and how they die in explosions and so forth.
All the time, building your iPhone and your iPad and so forth.
He's been documented to be uh fabulous.
She fabricates things.
He makes them up, and he's had to apologize and all that.
But in the middle of all this, there's a a group that audits the behavior of management at big factories like this.
It's uh called the Fair Labor Association, and they audit places to determine how well or how poorly the employees they're treated.
And Apple is a big target because of course Apple is too successful.
Apple's making too much money, the stock price is too high.
Uh they don't give too much to very much of charity.
Just they're they're targets because they're highly, highly profitable and successful capitalist enterprise.
So the CEO of Apple decided that when all this attention started that they would let it play out and encounter with an audit, which found for the most part that many of the claims were untrue about how poorly these employers.
Now, remember, we're talking about China.
We're not talking about the United States.
These factories employ 120,000 people, and there are 20,000 in line hoping to go to work there.
People in China want to work at these places.
Well, the latest audit found that some of these employees are being forced to work 60 hours a week.
You talk to your average entrepreneur in America who's ever made anything of himself, and that's chump change.
Your average entrepreneur works 24-7.
The job's never off of his mind.
But Mr. Lumbaugh, we're not talking entrepreneur through.
We're talking about slave labor employees being forced to work all of the long arguing with our for peanut Mr. Lumbaugh, sir.
Mr. Newcastradi.
They're young people.
It's China.
The premier, Hu Jintao, loves this because these factories are not in his biggest cities.
Some of them are, but most of these factories are out in a country where he wants to keep the people.
Hu Jin Tao knows that if the population of his country floods Beijing, Shanghai, and all these other places, he's got major profits, but the jobs aren't there for him.
So he loves Foxconn.
He loves Apple, providing jobs for Chicom people out in the hinterlands.
It's wonderful.
They've got hospitals inside the factories, restaurants.
Some of the boys live there.
Look, it's not anything, there's nothing comparable to it here, but the attempt to apply our standards has resulted in Foxconn saying, okay, we're going to reduce their hours now.
Nobody's going to work any longer than 49 hours.
And guess who's unhappy?
Who do you think's unhappy?
The Foxconn employees.
Foxconn workers question why hours are being cut after the Fair Labor Association review.
Workers at Apple supplier FoxCon are reportedly worried after it's been announced that their hours will be cut following an audit of its facilities.
Twenty-three-year-old Wu Jun is used to working long overtime hours to earn the bulk of her income.
But after Foxconn announced that it will cut hours for its employees, she and other employees expressed concern to Reuters that they won't make enough money to support their families.
Foxconn announced yesterday that it would reduce employee working hours to 49 per week, including overtime now in response to these demands being made by people that don't live in China.
Responding to demands made by good old mind everybody's business but their own liberals.
Gotta put their noses under every tent in the world.
There wasn't really an overwhelming problem here.
It was just we gotta get Apple, we gotta get Foxconn.
Everybody's making too much money there.
And we got this guy out there doing this stage show that's filled with lies about all the atrocities taking place, which are not taking place at nearly the scale that they were, everybody was led to believe.
I mean, a place is not a panacea.
Don't misunderstand.
This is not jobs that the American people would do anymore.
That's but to these people, this is their this is this is their ticket out.
This is it's it's the equivalent to your starter job.
It's the equivalent to a hamburger flipper job when you're a teenager to get yourself in the market, to learn how it all works, get paid for doing something, it's all good.
Now, granted, not every boss is an angel.
The real world is the real world.
Employees get mistreated sometimes.
But now, because all these do-gooders know how to do it better than anybody else, no more than 49 hours.
And the Foxconn employees are the ones who are on happy management doesn't care.
They'll just hire more people.
Now the answer is some of you may say, well, why doesn't Foxconn just pay them more so they don't have to?
Well, they have done that.
Apple secured raises.
There was an ongoing process to improve conditions.
And it they're not ideal, and I'm not, don't want to be misunderstood here.
It's not a panacea, it's not nirvana, but nothing is.
And hard work happens all over the world.
Hard work still happens here.
I know we're trying to shield our children from hard work, but it still happens in other parts of the world.
And it's beneficial.
Sometimes I think back.
I'm 61.
And I think back when I was a teenager, my first job in radio, and you couldn't kick me out of that station.
I would have lived there.
I didn't care how.
I was making 75 cents an hour.
Didn't matter.
Lived at home.
Gave the money to my father.
He put it in a savings account for me, unbeknownst to me.
Presented it to me two years later when I was 18 years old.
I was able to buy a car.
But the point is...
uh I look back on it, remember one day the um transmitter of the station, tube blue.
And so we're off the air.
And that's unacceptable.
And the owner, well, we'll take care of it tomorrow.
So tomorrow we're off the air.
I drove to St. Louis to get the tube to put in the transmitter.
And then we'd be back on the air.
It took two hours to get up there and two hours to get up.
So we're on the air in five hours after I left.
But throughout my young working group, I think back on it all the time, and I won't I don't have the energy now that I did then.
I mean, I've got it, but in different ways.
I think back to some of the things that happened and some of the garbage that I had to put up with.
And you're the same.
We're all the same.
And I read stories like this, and uh what do people expect happens when you're working?
It's it's it's not utopia out there.
And so we're talking about a communist country.
I don't care.
Whatever else advancements are being, we're still talking about a communist country, and this is a place that provides an opportunity for people to work and they can take care of their families by working there, which is the objective.
And now the opportunity to do that's being taken away from 'em by reducing their hours because some outsiders think it's unfair what's been going on there.
So all these people sometimes who think they're doing wonderful things in the area of human rights end up causing more harm than they intended.
So always these unintended consequences.
And again, I am not, don't have anybody misunderstand me here.
I'm not suggesting that slave labor is fine and that atroc atrocities are fine, or poor working conditions are fine.
But it's different in China.
These are human beings, they live and have to deal with their own set of circumstances, and it's you know, not every country's the United States.
And frankly, we're heading in a direction to be more like the rest of the world than the rest of the world is heading to be more like us.
Which is a shame.
But I just I find it amusing that all these do-gooders go out there and they raise hell and they point fingers at blame and they blame Apple and they demand action and then they ultimately get it, and the people are trying to help are the ones that get hurt.
And if that isn't liberalism, I don't know what is.
The American Pronunciation Guide Presents "How to Pronounce The World"By the way, I should point out Foxconn in China is golden compared to some of the genuine sweatshops that exist there where people work.
The reason that 20,000 people lined up outside the place, see everything's relative, folks.
And the reason that 20,000 people lined up outside the place every day trying to get a job there is because it's the king of the hill.
In fact, there's a uh a quote from uh worker in this Reuters story.
This is a good company to work for because the working conditions are better than a lot of other small factories.
They want to work at Foxconn.
It may not be up to our standards, but it's better than anything over there, and therefore better than anything they know.
And the outsiders come in, hey, we're here to help you.
Just like liberalism's that help everybody, and they end up making it worse for everybody they claim that they're trying to help.
Here's Shirley in Hampton Road, Virginia.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Happy Friday, Rush.
I'm a proud mom of three rich babies.
Thank you very much.
Uh, I'd like to paint a picture for you of what this Republican primary boils down to for me.
Yeah.
Okay, it's it's ten minutes till closing at the Fox Keys car lot.
Moderate Milton Romney is a used car salesman who has been hounding me all afternoon and is frantically trying to steal a deal with me on a vehicle I really don't want.
Looks so canny outside.
It has a weird smell inside, which I suspect indicates it might have been salvaged from a flood.
So I asked for the car facts, and he swears, telling me that it was only driven to church on Sunday and to bingo on Wednesday by a sweet little old lady.
When I tell him I'm going to go back to check the car down the road that I like better at the other dealership, he starts trashing up a dealership.
Death McMommy for me.
The man has no core convictions, no principles, no anchor, like the interim does.
I have to talk.
I uh you know, folks, I must be honest with you.
I hear this all the time from people about about Romney, and I know him and I've talked to him.
I mean, he came here, and he sat down, and he told me what his plan was, and it sounded like anything you and I would say.
And he even said to me, if I accomplish everything I want to do, I may only be a one-term president.
I said, What do you mean?
Because I I am gonna so fix this, I am going to I'm gonna everything I do is gonna be dramatic.
We've got to reverse this, we gotta stop this.
That children's future's at stake here, and I'm gonna stop the direction that we're headed, and if they throw me out after four years, fine and dandy.
Uh and from here, from right of the studio, he left to go to a huge fundraiser here in uh in Palm Beach.
First traffic jam I've ever been in since I lived here, trying to get home past.
No, I don't go to fundraising.
Of course I was invited, I don't go to those things.
Uh but i I hear what she just said, no core, no I I can't tell you how many people I hear this from.
And it surprises me a little.
There's got to be some core there.
There has to be some core.
I that but there is a a tremendous amount of what is it, suspicion?
Distrust.
And I know why.
Back in two thousand six, oh no, I'm not really a conservative.
I'm not really for Paul Songas as a Democrat.
There weren't any Republicans on the ballot, and then there's Romney Kerr and all that.
I think what the note I read from my friend really sums it up.
Tea Party did all the heavy lifting.
Tea Party actually presented this opportunity.
I think some of the some of the anger at Romney is actually anger at the Republican establishment itself.
Maybe develop that, talk further about that next week.
Okay, reminder, the Supreme Court voted today on the health care bill.
But we won't know until June.
And the media thinks that that's totally unfair, even though it's been the practice for 22 years.
So we'll just have to wait.
Darn it.
But you won't have to wait that long for me because I will be back on Monday.
And we'll kick it off again.
See you then, and thanks very much for being with us today.
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