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April 2, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 2, 2012, Monday, Hour #2
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Snerdley, what happened to the caller up there who's been listening for 18 months, voted for Obama, and is now seeing the light?
It callered you.
Do you get their number by any chance to call them back?
Ah, that was going to be a great call, but we're never going to hear it because Snerdley screwed up.
Anyway, welcome back, Rushland Boy, 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, the email address, LRushmo at EIBnet.com.
We'll get to your phone calls in this half hour.
That promise I make to you.
So NBC is investigated.
This was last Tuesday.
And I want you to hear this again.
This is in this order.
It's down by 15 and 14.
This is what actually happened.
This is the 9-11 call from George Zimmerman to the cops in Sanford, Florida.
And this a month ago now, four or five weeks ago now.
Here's the original call.
This guy looks like he's up to no good or he's on drugs or something.
It's raining.
He's just walking around looking about.
Okay, this guy, is he white, black, or Hispanic?
He looks black.
Okay, is he white, black, or Hispanic?
Note he was not asked.
Is he white Hispanic?
This is what NBC aired last Tuesday on the Today Show.
This guy looks like he's up to no good.
He looks black.
And NBC has begun an exhaustive investigation to find out exactly what happened here.
NBC News looking at how in the hell could this have happened?
NBC News trying to find out what happened.
NBC News trying to get to the bottom of this.
It's a sham investigation.
What NBC is doing is trying, they're focus grouping a bunch of explanations here to see which one hurts them the least.
You telling me that NBC News does not know by now all the details about their effort to influence a criminal investigation, spread some hate at the same time?
That's exactly what they did here.
They're trying to influence a criminal investigation and spread some hate.
I don't expect them to come to that conclusion.
In their minds, they're impossible or incapable of hating anybody.
Liberalism, there's no hate there.
We don't hate.
Liberals don't hate.
They're so out of touch with themselves, everybody else, that that's not possible.
Influence a criminal investigation?
Surely this is what they're doing.
Will they admit it?
No.
But what are they investigating here?
What is there to investigate?
Now, the truck that NBC blew up on Dateline, yeah, it was Dateline.
What did I say?
Okay, it's GM, the Dateline story, and GM eventually sued NBC over the story.
NBC, they settled out of court.
Jane Pauley read a three-minute apology on the air.
But it's not just NBC.
Do you remember ABC doing a story on Food Lions some years ago, accusing them of purposely selling tainted fish and meat?
And that turned out to be not true.
Food Lion decided not to sue because the slander libel laws are such that it's hardly practical to do so.
So they went about it in different ways, going after ABC and the civil on the civil side rather than the criminal.
But it's a good story.
This is a good story.
The Koran burnings is another thing.
What's his name?
Issakoff.
Totally made up a news week.
Totally made up the fact that Korans are flushed down the Komodes at Club Gitmo.
Totally made it up.
That led to riots and all kinds of stuff in the Middle East.
Totally made it up.
But it was a good story.
And so was that truck blowing up.
It's a good story.
And so is Food Lions selling a bunch of tainted food.
That's a good story.
So is George Zimmerman being a racist?
That's a good story.
It's not true.
Didn't happen.
They purposely, this is the point.
I don't know what there is to investigate.
NBC News purposely lied, knowingly structured the 9-11 call to make you think something that wasn't true.
And in the process, spread a little hate for George Zimmerman and influence a criminal investigation.
It's not just NBC, been misleading the public.
ABC News is now admitting that the police tape they were the first to air does indeed show some abrasion or gash on the back of Zimmerman's head.
They're admitting that the police tape that they first had did show that after saying that Zimmerman looks clean and pure as the wind-driven snow out there.
We have learned that Zimmerman was cleaned up before he appeared on that tape.
Not to mention the fact that his bloody nose and his head are specifically mentioned in the original on-site police report.
And here's another thing.
We know now also that Zimmerman was questioned by the Sanford, Florida police for five hours immediately after the incident.
How many times were we told that he was basically just let go?
In fact, how many of you are hearing for the first time that the local police interviewed him for five hours after the incident?
How many of you have been of the belief that all that happened was that Zimmerman told his story to say, oh, okay, fine, you're out of here.
That's what the media wanted you to believe happened.
I wonder if anybody will mount a campaign to boycott the advertisers of NBC News.
I wonder if anybody will mount such a campaign for spreading hate and doctoring a tape and putting forth an absolutely untrue, not just a false, but an untrue version of events.
Think anybody will start harassing NBC's advertisers now?
I don't think so.
Don't think that that's going to happen because NBC is not capable of misinformation.
It's the only conservatives are able to do that.
But liberals in the primary news media, not possible.
We don't engage in misinformation.
It's a good story.
And why is NBC doing the internal investigation?
Where's the independent prosecutor?
Where's the outside investment?
Where's the impartial investment?
This is serious.
We're sitting here laughing about it, but this is a serious thing that they did here.
Where's the arrest?
Shouldn't somebody, NBC, be arrested for what they did?
Mr. Limbaugh, don't be ridiculous.
Have you never heard of the First Amendment to the Constitution?
Freedom of the press.
Yeah, I know.
Mr. New Castradi is right.
They're free.
They can lie.
They can make it up all they want.
They can.
They have to police themselves.
There's no doubt about that.
New York Times can hire all the plagiarists in the world and use them until they get caught.
Washington Post can hire all the plagiarists in the world and use them until they get caught and then fire them.
But that's all that can happen.
This is not insignificant.
This is a major, major breach of honesty and ethics.
It's an influence attempt to influence a criminal investigation.
It's an effort to spread hate.
I got some emails off the snurgly.
You'll laugh at this.
I got some emails at the top of the.
Don't you think you ought to back off NBC?
Rush, they're going to be gunning for you.
Is it going to be?
Gonna be gunning for me?
I don't have it up.
I don't have them on up here anymore.
I don't play their sound bites anymore.
I don't have them on here anymore.
But the point is, it is a serious, serious breach, especially from a group of people that claim they want to be trusted and never doubted, have instant credibility.
This is a, I think, a crucially, profoundly important thing that's happened here.
The fact that it's sort of greeted with a ho-hum in places is simply a testament to how frequently it happens.
That's why there aren't a whole lot of people that shocked about it.
When has NBC ever been able to investigate anything?
That's not their job anyway.
They used to be.
When was the last time NBC was suspicious of anybody who had any power?
No, they're going to go out and destroy people like George Zimmerman.
Think they would ever doctor a tape of Obama or Bill Ayers?
Well, that's true.
That's true to make them look good.
That's right.
They might doctor a tape to make Obama look good.
Yep, could well be.
If you don't believe in climate change, you must be sick.
This from a professor, Oregon University, who likens skepticism of global warming to racism.
This, again, is not from an American paper.
This is in the UK Daily Mail.
An Oregon University professor has controversially compared skepticism of global warming to racism.
Sociology and environmental studies, professor.
Now, how did those two go together?
Sociology and environmental studies, professor.
Her name here is Kari Norgaard.
Wrote a paper criticizing non-believers, suggesting that doubters need to have a sickness.
This professor holds a B.S. in biology and a master's and PhD in sociology.
She argued that cultural resistance to accepting humans as being responsible for climate change must be recognized and treated as an aberrant sociological behavior.
Resolving skepticism about climate change alarmists, she added, is a challenge equitable to overcoming racism or slavery in the U.S. South.
Now, if you doubt man-made global warming, you are sick and the equivalent of a slave owner.
Now, before you start laughing at this, understand That this woman is teaching impressionable young skulls full of mush this stuff, and they're coming out of Oregon University believing this.
And if they're not challenged anymore the rest of their life, they're going to believe this everywhere they go.
And if some of these students end up at the Environmental Protection Agency or end up in a Democrat administration, either at the State House level or at the presidential level, this is the kind of person that Obama would hire.
This is the kind of person Obama has hired.
This is the kind of thinking that Obama believes and sponsors.
It's what he believes, it's what he was taught.
This is what has passed for science education for over 10 years now.
And it is not science, it's pure politics, it's pure politics disguised as science.
This professor, if you read the whole story, this Kari Norgard sociology and environmental studies professor wants everybody packed into the cities so that we are not strolling around nature and ruining it.
She wants it something seen only in pictures with accredited photographers allowed to go there and take pictures of nature, but the mass population should not be allowed.
She added that effective international action on climate change is being hampered by weak responses to the crisis by both individuals and societies.
She said, We must first be aware that this resistance is happening at all levels of our society.
If you have to push a heavy weight, it doesn't mean it can't be moved, but in order to push it, you had better know that you have something heavy and figure out how to move it and where to put the lever to shift the weight.
This is what passes for a PhD.
Norgard last week attended the annual four-day Planet Under Pressure International Conference in London, where she presented her controversial paper to the delegates.
The scientists behind the event recently put out a statement calling for humans to be packed into denser cities so that the rest of the planet can be surrendered to Mother Nature.
A fellow attendee, Yale University professor Karen Sito, told MSNBC: We certainly don't want humans strolling about the entire countryside.
We want them to save land for nature by living closely together.
Man is not part of nature, you see.
We corrupt it, we pollute it, we destroy it.
No, nobody stands up and says they're nuts, and they don't, there's nobody there that thinks they're nuts.
There's nobody there.
The media covering this doesn't think they're nuts.
The other attendees don't think they're nuts.
The hotel staff might think they're nuts, but they would rather have their money.
I'm sure the waiters and waitresses running might think it's absolutely insane what they're listening to, but they're holding out for tips.
So I got to rip them.
There's nobody to tell this.
This woman wouldn't know what to do with a serious scientific challenge to her political belief.
She would set out to destroy whoever was criticizing her order to impugn their character or what have you.
I looked at this woman's bio.
I wanted to find out a little bit about her.
I enjoy being outdoors, especially hiking, whitewater rafting, kayaking, skiing, both telemark and cross-country, pretty much any excuse I can get to sleep on the ground.
So it's okay for her to go out and enjoy nature, but not the rest of us.
It's fine for her to because she's sensitive and understands.
And she knows not to trample on the twigs or whatever it is she knows not to damage when she's out there.
But we don't have anyway, it all adds up to centralized command and control power, federal government getting bigger.
This woman would support that to deny people the right to go into whatever she thinks is nature.
Look, it's lunacy, but she's teaching students.
And there are a diamond dozen these people.
They're all over the place.
Okay, to the phones we go.
Gonna start in Huntington Beach, California.
This is Lorenzo.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hi.
I'm honored to be here with you.
Thank you.
Goodness.
Hello?
Hi, you're on the air.
Your big show is breaking.
I wanted to say, I was an ultra-liberal all my life from teen days, from being a hippie.
And I had a woman that I worked with.
When Obama was elected, I thought it was the end.
The revolution was over, and everything was going to be all right, and we were going to take everything over, and everything was going to be fine.
But then, you know, I started listening to you, and because a woman that I work with, she used to say, oh, listen to Rush Limbaugh.
And I'd say, all right.
So I listened, and we thought you were nuts.
But one day you were talking about political correctness and free speech.
And that hit me so hard because you couldn't say something.
And I started thinking.
And then I started reading, like you were talking about some columnists in the Washington Post.
And I started reading them and realizing what they were saying was okay for them, but for anybody else to do it was wrong.
And then when you were talking about the bailout and the bailout with all this money, and really nobody ever saw it, you know, it never went anywhere.
And it hit home.
And then I realized everything you said was true.
And these people were liars.
And they were trying, like you were just talking a little while ago about them, trying to control the whole country, what we think, what we eat, what we do, everything, all of our rights and everything that we grew up with.
You know, Lorenzo, this is fast because it normally takes more than a few, I don't know, what period of time happened here for your conversion to be fully complete?
I would say about three years.
Oh, okay.
It sounded like it might have happened over a course of two months, and I was going to think.
Well, a lot of it did, but a lot of it did.
You know, as I look more and more, but I still couldn't believe it.
You know, you still have these tinges, and I kept wanting to say, no, he's okay.
No, he's okay.
No, he's okay.
But my goodness, you know, we had no gravitas anywhere in the world.
You know, it was unsafe to travel anywhere anymore.
You know, when you used to go somewhere as an American, they loved you.
And now it's like everyone wants to kill you.
And it's just, no matter what, everything's become unsafe.
Money, there's nothing.
I need you to hold on here.
I've got a break I must take.
Can you hold on for a couple minutes here?
Good.
Well, I want to find out what revolution you were talking about.
Back to Lorenzo in Huntington Beach, California.
You said, and this is a semantic thing here, but you said with Obama's election, you're all happy back then that a revolution was completely.
Now, seriously, this is not a trick question, and there's no wrong answer here.
I'm just genuinely curious about your attitude and others.
What revolution did you think was underway and thus complete with Obama's victory?
Well, that our thoughts and programs and everything we've always believed in as liberals and ultra-liberals was finally going to be recognized around the world and that we would be looked at as the elitists we thought we were.
And, of course, we were going to make sure that every corporation was going to hire the poor, and everyone was going to be fed, and there was going to be a house for everyone, and the consequential of the cost.
But you never think of anything like when you're pushing all these things because there's so noble.
See, this is what's fascinating to me, Lorenzo, because I believe that throughout liberalism, you have, just like any other group, by the way, you have the leaders, you have the rank and file, you have the followers and so forth.
I do believe that many of what I would just call citizen liberals actually believe what you just said is possible.
That utopia is entirely possible.
That nobody's ever hungry, that nobody's ever poor, that nobody's ever unhappy, that nobody's ever laughed at, that nobody's ever made fun of.
They really believe now, at the same time, the liberal elites who are exploiting that know full well it's not possible.
Yes, and they also, with every cause, all of a sudden you start helping them and raising money for them, everything becomes a cause where the whole nation is at crisis and we have to stop Russell Limbaugh, we have to stop this, we have to stop whoever it is.
And they send out a million letters saying, we've got to get you.
We need your money.
You've got to do it.
And I realized all these people I was helping, they were collecting money.
And they were collecting money after money after money for everything.
I said, well, what the heck were they doing with it all?
Well, what's interesting about this to me is if I remember what you said correctly, it all began to unravel for you when we had an explanation or discussion here of political correctness and who could say what and who couldn't.
And therefore, there really wasn't any freedom of speech.
And that, from the way you spoke, it sounded like that it unraveled pretty quickly.
And that's somewhat amazing to me.
That's why I asked you how long this awakening took you.
When you said three years, that made sense.
It sounded like you switched overnight, but that's not what it was.
Well, being a writer by profession, you know, I deal with words all the time, but it's so funny.
You don't look into the depth of some words.
I could look into it, but not on all these political speak and all these senators and all these people that all of a sudden, when you looked at them, you realize they were saying nothing and everything was staged, everything was fake, and yet they wanted us.
You couldn't call a name to somebody or you couldn't raise your voice to anyone or, God forbid, you may say something, you know, that was out of sorts.
Somebody thought about it.
Why do most liberals like you not experience this awakening?
Because they don't want to, because they have to look within themselves.
But you did.
What was it that, I mean, you had this woman who kept telling you to listen to me, but you thought I was nuts.
You thought I was Looney Tune to know what I was talking about.
Yet one thing that I said happened to cause everything to unravel for you.
So you had to be skeptical a little bit on your own.
Well, possibly there was, of course, there was some skepticism.
I mean, when you had people, you know, like the Schumers and that type that you knew were not out for the good of the people.
But I always believed in the people, you know, from Robert Kennedy and that type.
Maybe it was idealistic way back then, but being young, we thought, you know, this was out for the good of the people and the good of everyone for the country.
And to have peace, prosperity, you know, helping each other, that feeling back in the 60s where you reached out across and you helped people, but that was gone and it became so divisive.
And a lot of it was just because they were always making, they were giving to us these images to cast anyone who was conservative as a devil.
And really, I mean, they all had the same noble thoughts in their heart.
We'd all like to see everybody taken care of, but in their own way.
And the hardest thing was doing the work yourself, not having that.
That was the other thing.
One day you were talking about doing the work and watching these friends that were just never working, but they were always taking and taking and taking.
So finally I said, you know, you borrowed this much or that, whatever, but from the country they were taking, from the government they were taking, generations.
You know, I have a friend.
She's a grandmother, but her granddaughter lives in public housing.
Her great-granddaughter lives in public housing, and they have for generations.
I said, why did she ever just go out and get a job and move on?
Lorenzo, let me go back to something else.
Why is among a group of people that you used to be part of, why is there so much hate for people who are really nothing more than political opponents?
And nobody's trying to shut you down.
Nobody was trying to kick you out of society.
Nobody was trying to prevent you from speaking.
Why is there such hate among these people?
Do you think?
Because when you start with becoming a liberal, what's fostered in it is the cause that all the others are looking to take advantage of the poor.
They're looking to take advantage of anyone to make something off of them, to treat them like slaves almost, are workers, et cetera, et cetera.
And so you start with that to begin with, that everyone that is not liberal or radical or whatever is, you know, a capitalist extreme.
And they're out there to just take the money and that's it.
Nothing.
Okay, so they really believe that the achieved and the accomplished are literally seeking to harm other people.
And that makes them mad.
Interesting.
Well, look, this is eye-opening.
I'm glad you called.
And congratulations.
And welcome home.
It's really cool to have you here with us, Lorenzo.
Thanks very much.
Up next, in Atlantis, Betty.
Hello, Betty.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush.
Can you hear me?
Yeah, hear you fine.
God, I can't believe it.
My heart is beating so fast.
I just love you to death.
Well, thank you very much.
I've listened to you since when you were on TV.
That's when I started listening.
That's 1992.
But anyway, this is the reason why I'm calling you today about Trayvon Martin.
You have the story wrong.
I don't want you to take sides on this.
I want you to stay out of this.
First of all, this little boy was walking in the rain with his hoodie on, and he was talking on the phone to his girlfriend.
And he told her that someone was following him.
It was Zimmerman.
Okay.
Zimmerman called 911 to tell them that somebody suspicious was walking.
So the person on the 911 call says, don't follow him.
But he kept following this little boy.
The little boy called him.
Betty, hang on here just a second.
You see, we should not talk about it in your first place.
He's six feet tall.
He's a football player.
He's not a little boy, but we're not talking about Trayvon today.
You're talking about the media.
I haven't talked about the media.
The media, I do not listen to.
When I listen to the media, I listen to Fox.
Well, there is a, well, that's what we're talking about.
NBC Dr. the 9-1.
None of us knows what happened yet.
That's the whole point here.
But the news media and the civil rights coalitions have jumped to conclusions because they want it to fit a particular template.
That's why the New York Times refers to Zimmerman as a white Hispanic.
You've got to have that in there.
Zimmerman did stop following the guy at some point.
But I'm not talking about that because I don't know what all I know is that NBC doctored a tape.
ABC doctored a videotape of Zimmerman's so-called non-injuries on his head and so forth.
Okay.
I'm not, I don't think this kid deserves to be dead.
And I don't, this is, this is a really unfortunate thing that happened, but we don't know.
But you know what?
The reason why this is coming out.
See, the media does not report anything on black people when they're killed.
They do not report anything that has to do with blacks.
This kid had been dead for like a month.
That's what anything can happen.
Exactly.
Can I explain why to you?
I'll be happy to explain why to you.
Because when Trayvon Martin died, the media was engaged in some other plan.
And that was the war on women.
Well, no, I was part of it, but they had this whole effort to portray the Republican war on women.
And that until the Civil Rights Coalition has got in gear, the media didn't care.
You say, why don't they do coverage on black crime or whatever?
But they never do.
They never do.
No, they do.
No, they do.
They do.
When Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton get involved, that's when they talk about it.
On their own, they don't.
You're right.
Well, I'm going to tell you another thing, too.
It may draw attention to the fact as to why so many kids in that town have been killed by the police.
No one knows about that.
A lot of kids have been killed by the police for no reason in that town.
I hadn't heard that.
I didn't know that.
And Trayvon Martin, people don't know, he laid in the morgue for three days before his parents found out.
No, that's inexcusable.
I heard that.
That's reprehensible.
And the parents who were looking for him, they could not find him.
They called the morgue, and nobody said, oh, your child is here.
That boy laid in the morgue for three days.
I understand that.
That's reprehensible.
There's nothing in this story that's get happy about on any side.
Problem is, there are people who are.
That's sort of what's disgusting, Betty, is that there are some people really excited about this because of the opportunity it presents them.
It's despicable, if you ask me.
This whole way you're right, it happens five weeks ago now.
It lies dormant for three weeks till the media finishes with their war on women.
Then all of a sudden they shift gears to go into this.
It's all about Obama's reelection, pure and simple.
And until Obama or Jackson or Sharpton lead them to a story, the media is not going to go there on something like this because it's all about protecting or building up Obama.
And that has been going on the whole remainder of the year.
Now, Trayvon Martin, he was killed 60 feet from his house.
Where were his neighbors?
Feet, unrecognized or unknown or whatever for three days in the morgue.
That's despicable.
Everything about this story, there's nothing about this is this story is doing more harm to the black community than anything else out there right now.
There's nothing that is uplifting or admirable.
There's no nothing about this is pretends good.
It's just a shame.
All the way around.
And now with what the media is doing, I should say, what NBC has done with the doctoring of this 9-11 call, it's just that's beyond the pale.
It's an attempt to inflame.
It's an attempt to spread hate.
It's an attempt to influence a criminal investigation with lies and distortions.
It's reprehensible.
It's not doing anybody any good.
We're back, Rushland Ball, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Barack Obama.
Once again, this was either late last week or over the weekend.
Obama's out talking about the economy.
And it might have been in his Saturday radio address.
I'm not sure.
I said it before, so it's not new, but he said it again.
He said, we won't win the race for new jobs and new businesses and middle-class security if we cling to this same old, worn-out, tired, you're on your own economics at the other side is peddling.
It was tried in the decades before the Great Depression.
It didn't work then.
It was tried in the last decade.
It didn't work.
You know, the idea that you would keep on doing the same thing over and over again, even though it's been proven not to work, that's a sign of madness.
This is Barack Obama essentially saying that America has never worked since the days of its founding.
That this you're on your own economics hasn't worked.
I would love to sit down.
I would love to have a conversation with him and say, we've got $16 trillion in debt.
No end in sight because of the deficits you're running up.
Every program that you have put in place has failed, and every program that people like you have put in place has failed in its objective.
Would you give me one instance where what you believe in has resulted in private sector economic growth and prosperity?
And would you please look back over the history of this country and tell me it didn't work and give me examples?
I want to know what was it before the New Deal that didn't work?
What was it, by the way, the thing that saved this country economically after the New Deal, because the New Deal was destroying this economy, was World War II.
The New Deal was an abject failure, just like Obamaomics is an abject failure.
But it's even, the characterization of capitalism as you're on your own economics is so flawed as to be insulting.
This is what I mean about these people being ignorant, conceited, ignorant.
I have no doubt he believes this.
He's been taught this.
He's theorized about it in the faculty lounge.
He believes that capitalism is you're on your own.
He believes that capitalism is people destroying each other, stealing from each other.
That's what he thinks of competition.
Competition is immoral.
It's unhealthy because all it does is lead to cheaters.
And who are the cheaters?
The people that win.
This is striking to have this kind of conceit and arrogance combined with ignorance in the president of the United States is profoundly dangerous.
Shockingly dangerous to have this kind of thinking.
He's put this in his books another way.
He has written, White Man's Greed Runs a World in Need.
But capitalism is not you're on your own.
Capitalism is free markets and self-interest.
And you see, that's what these people can't abide, the self-interest.
The mother and father who go to work attempting to improve their family's economic standing is self-interest.
It isn't selfishness.
And they're not doing what they're doing to take from other people, but Obama thinks they are.
They're not doing what they're doing to destroy other people.
They're doing what they're doing to improve their own lot in life.
And as they do, their children's lives improve.
And so do the lives in their neighborhoods and their communities improve.
And this works geometrically in proportion.
But President of the United States thinks this country has never worked.
The most prosperous, generous, good country on the face of the earth in the history of the world.
Capitalism is simply economic freedom.
If you're against capitalism, you're against basic economic freedom.
Simple as that.
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