All Episodes
Previous Next
April 16, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
30:15
April 16, 2012, Monday, Hour #3
| Copy link to current segment

Time Text
Greetings, my good friends, and welcome back.
Rush Limboss serving humanity, America's real anchor man.
Doctor of Democracy.
And America's Truth Detector.
Great to have you here.
Our telephone number is 800 282-2882.
The email address L Rushpo at EIBNet.com.
More than a half a million.
That would be 500,000 for those of you in Rio Linda.
More than half a million wealthy Britons are expected to move out of the country in the next two years.
Amid concerns about crumbling road and rail networks, crime, and high taxes, according to a survey in the UK Daily Mail.
Some nineteen percent of people with savings and investments worth more than two hundred and fifty thousand pounds are considering a new life overseas, which is up from 17% six months ago and 14% a year ago.
The figures suggest that at least 500,000 people in Great Britain with that level of personal wealth may leave the UK in the uh in the next two years.
Investing in improving the infrastructure, such as roads, railway, and communications networks is seen as the most important way to make the UK a more attractive place to live.
61% of wealthy people choosing this option.
But cutting regulatory red tape for businesses, lowering taxes, improving public services like health care education, and police were high on the agenda.
500,000 people moving out in two years from the UK.
We're we're on that road.
I you're not going to believe me.
Sometimes I don't believe it.
I I can't go anywhere without this subject coming up.
At least one person asking me if I know a safe place to park money, If I were to leave the country, where would I go?
I know people who have bought property in Brazil in case they have to flee the country.
There are people in this country actually thinking about that.
What was the um the direction that we are on?
It's up to now what is the story?
Twenty?
The New York Post is reporting that according to their sources, as many as twenty Secret Service agents may be involved in the so-called Columbia Hooker scandal.
So far, eleven agents have been suspended with pay.
The shenanigans came to light after one of the agents allegedly refused to pay his escort $47.
As I said in the first hour, we gotta find this guy and give him a promotion.
I mean, here's a guy.
He wants to find a hooker, he finds when he gets in and out of there for 47 dollars.
And was even arguing about that, thought that was too high.
And the argument spilled out in the hall, and people heard about it, and that's how people know about this.
47 bucks.
And as I also said earlier in the program, the most important question about this is one that has not been answered yet.
And that is who paid for the hooker's contraceptives.
I mean, what with the Republican war on women and everything?
That's a big deal here.
And the question hasn't been raised.
Did you know?
This is from the UK Daily Mail.
It's from February 28th of 2011.
It's a little over a year ago.
Story.
Late U.S. Senator Edward Ted Kennedy rented out a Chilean brothel for the entire night.
Claims FBI files.
Ted Kennedy rented a brothel for a whole night on an official visit to Chile, according to declassified FBI files.
The late U.S. Senators reported to have invited one of his chauffeurs to participate in the night's activities during the 1961 stay in the Capitol Santiago.
I wonder what Bill Clinton's views are on all of this.
The Secret Service and Hookers for 47 bucks and no country.
I'm sure that the agents didn't have to pay for that.
I mean, I'm asking the question.
I'm asking the question, but I don't think they they paid for the contraception.
Probably built in the price, who knows?
But I doubt that they paid for it.
But I wonder what Bill Clinton thinks of all this.
I would uh Well, we don't know that, do we?
Isn't that some of that early reporting from that era that Snerdley is is telling me that Clinton used to send the state troopers out to procure that we don't know that for sure, do we?
Is that is that for certain?
Is that was that was I think that was just lower.
I I I don't know that uh that was ever confirmed.
By the way, while the uh the uh Secret Service agent was getting in and out of uh uh night with a hooker for 47 bucks, Mrs. Clinton was having a party at some pro-Cuban bar.
Clinton boozed at Cuban Bar in Cartagena, Hillary Havana heck of a good time.
Uh America's top diplomat all smiles as she arrived after midnight with a dozen pals and her State Department Security detail at Cafe Havana in the Colombian seaside town, and she uh ordered a dozen beers, two shots, and bottles of water, and they lift the waiter a $40 tip, which is less than the $47 the Secret Service agent uh spent on the hooker.
Well, we're just we're interested in in in prices, you know, money being uh thrown around.
Well, looks like that she had a good time is after midnight in uh at Club Havana.
Uh dancing around his pictures of her dancing around.
She's got some beer.
Yeah, there was real music dancing this time.
Snerdley's asked, he's being a wise acre here.
What back in uh what I forget the year that the Lewinsky story broke.
Uh a month before the story broke, and nobody could figure this out at the time, folks.
A month before the story broke.
In fact, here's the whole thing.
One morning, the LA Times on the front page had a black and white photo of Bill and Hillary Clinton dancing in their swimwear on a beach somewhere in the Virgin Islands.
Just in the LA Times.
At the White House press briefing that afternoon, six hours after the paper hits the streets, or maybe seven hours.
Mike McCurry, the White House press secretary, is doing the briefing, and some reporter says, What uh what is this picture in front of the LA Times?
Well, what is that?
And McCurry gets all righteously indignant.
That's that is a most outrageous invasion of privacy.
Oh, we can't believe that.
The Clintons were enjoying a private moment on the beach, and that long lens was and up to that time nobody had heard of the picture.
It's the LA Times.
They wanted that picture out, as it turns out, because it was just a month later Lewinsky story hits.
And it was later learned, ladies and gentlemen, that the whole thing was posed.
Mrs. Clinton was in a one-piece.
Bill was in um a one-piece, and they were dancing.
It turns out there was no music.
They were on the beach, the whole thing was staged.
There was no music, there was dancing, and it got a bunch of still shots.
And that hit a month before Lewinsky, so that picture was able to be revisited when the Lewinsky story hit when they first denied that there was anything to it.
Why look at this loving couple?
Just a month ago, they're on vacation to Virgin Islands, and they're having a great time together dancing on the beach.
And I forget who it was, but somebody looked into it and found out that there were no speakers, no music, no thing.
Um we asked on Friday, and we were being rhetorical, if Barack Obama's secretary paid a higher tax rate than he did.
That she did.
It turns out that she did.
Obama, like Buffett, this is the New York Times had a lower tax rate than his secretary for months?
Obama has marveled that the billionaire investor Warren Buffett pays a lower tax rate than his secretary.
Turns out another famous, well compensated American does too, Mr. Obama.
The president, his wife, reported adjusted gross income of $789,000.
They pay just over 20% of that in federal taxes, according to their returns in a gift tax return released by the White House on Friday.
And they confirmed that Obama's secretary, Anita Decker Breckenridge, paid a slightly higher tax rate than her boss in 2011 on a salary of $95,000.
Well, Shazanne, how wonderful.
What a magical occurrence.
What a coincidence, isn't it?
As uh by the way, they're voting on the Buffett rule today.
It's not going to go anywhere.
I mean, the last thing anybody wants is for this to pass, folks.
Except there's some polling data.
The American people are, depending on the poll in support of this.
Yep, that's true.
But but Buffett doesn't want it to pass.
Obama doesn't want it to pass.
The Democrats don't want it to pass.
All it is is a campaign vehicle.
Pure and simple.
Nothing more than that.
Let me take a brief time out.
We'll do that.
We'll continue much more straight ahead.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, and the Limbaugh Institute.
Back after this.
By the way, Fud, the Obamas did not have to pay a 20% rate.
They could have paid the top rate of 35% if they wanted to.
They feel they are undertaxed.
The president said he's undertaxed.
Clinton says he's undertaxed.
But boy, these people take advantage of every evil deduction the tax code offers them, don't they?
I don't see any of these people claiming to be undertaxed writing checks to the Treasury, which they can do.
So if Obama wanted to pay a higher tax rate than his secretary, because it's not right that she pays a higher rate than he does.
He could have.
He could have written a check.
They use these evil deductions to get their rate lower.
So you could you could say that we the taxpayers are subsidizing the Obamas.
Just like we're subsidizing big oil.
According to Obama's logic.
Nancy Roanoke, Virginia, thank you so much for waiting.
Great to have you on the program.
Thank you, Rush.
I just wanted to say that I believe the real reason that we stay-at-home mothers are seen as a threat is that we're home every day listening together with our children to you.
You know, uh that's that's not just a joke.
I I think that's part and parcel of what the anger with with stay-at-home moms is homeschooling, all that stuff.
Listening to talk radio.
Um, not giving your life over to the government, to the state, to the Democratic Party.
There's, I mean, there's all kinds of reasons that are rolled up into this resentment.
Right.
Well, my children grew up listening to you, and they're all three conservative adults at this point.
So And they're fine people so far, right?
Very much, yeah.
Well, that's very sweet of you.
I'm I'm uh how old are they now?
Um, our youngest is getting ready to graduate from c from college.
Our middle is a doctor of pharmacy, and our oldest son is uh West Point Brad in the army.
Wow.
Well, congratulations.
But they grew up on you.
They subscribe to the Limbaugh Letter, and uh we're just really grateful for the influence that you played on that line.
Well, I can't thank you enough.
I I you you're you're making my day here.
That's just thank you for all that you do.
No, no, no.
It's it's uh look, I appreciate it, but that's that's um that's just great.
Um I hear this kind of stuff, and I it kind of I'm still a little embarrassed.
I don't know quite how to thank people properly for that.
But I appreciate it more than you can possibly know.
But yeah, since it's a war on rush babies, too.
Uh, because like she said, her children grew up listening to this program.
I the the resentment and the hostility.
Uh uh why why be angry at women who stay home and raise their Kids.
What is there to be mad at about that?
I mean, even it's none of your business.
Okay, you're a woman, you're a feminist, and you want to go work and so forth.
Fine.
What's so wrong with a woman who wants to stay home and raise the kids?
Well, I'll tell you what, it's because there's a husband there supporting it all, and that's what's a violation of one of the first tenets of uh feminism.
Don't make a man part of your life.
Don't make a relationship that big a deal in terms of your happiness.
It's not supposed to happen.
National Football League.
Have you heard about this?
The National Football League is going to require that unruly fans who get kicked out of stadiums pass a code of conduct exam given by licensed psychotherapists before they can get back into the stadium and go back to a game.
No, no.
It's all over the place.
Unruly fans booted from stadiums this year will be required to pass a code of conduct test, or they won't be allowed back in for another game.
The idea was hatched by a licensed psychotherapist.
We're not trying to squash anybody's passion.
We're just trying to say don't be violent, so Dr. Ari Novik, the Californian who's the brains behind the program.
Requirements will vary depending on the stadium, but most of the time the stadium louts will have to pass the test before being allowed back in.
The classes are an effort to stem the rising tide of ugly stadium behavior that has included everything from bare knuckles brawls to lewd Jets fans who screamed obscenities at women until they exposed their breasts in a rude gate D tradition at the old Giant Stadium.
That's exactly what was happening.
That's exactly what Jets fans were screaming obscenities at women until they exposed their breasts at Gate D. It was a tradition.
Yep.
And they and they at the old Giant Stadium.
I don't know that it's happening at Met Life Stadium, but it did happen at the old stadium, Jets Games.
This is an ongoing problem.
No, no.
No, no, no.
Unruly fan behavior at uh at stadiums.
I think a sobriety test would be enough.
Uh but but still, no, no, it's it's it's uh the league is is very serious about this.
Well, I'll tell you why.
They have got to make the stadium experience as pleasant as possible because now with high definition TV, bigger and bigger screens, a bathroom that's free right down the hall, uh food that you get yourself or make yourself much, much cheaper than at the stadium, same thing with the beer.
Uh you're not out in the elements.
It's much more inviting to stay at home.
They've got to do something.
It's why people like Jerry Jones are building these stadiums that make going to a game an all-day affair.
You go to the stadium before the game, all kinds of stuff to do.
You stay after the game, all kinds of stuff to do.
They've got to do, they've got to keep, they don't want it becoming a studio show, plus they need the revenue from tickets.
And and the more problems they have with uh drunkenness and lewd fan behavior in front of kids and so forth, the bigger problem they're gonna have uh keeping people so they're dead serious about this.
Now, you can laugh about having to pass some kind of psychotherapy test.
That's why I said sobriety test would probably suffice.
But they're uh they're dead serious about it.
Yes, it is.
It it especially at night games, it is that big a problem in a lot of stadiums.
It is a huge problem in the NFA.
You don't think it they wouldn't be doing this kind of thing if it weren't a big deal.
Well, looking for a couple of uh uh hits here from the past.
I've got one of them here on my computer, looking for it in New York.
The other one we got, we're just gonna set it up here for just a second.
Uh one song 1968, Sandy Posey, Born a Woman.
And there's all kinds of these songs out there.
Uh the songs that just sent Gloria Steinem and the Gals to the Roof.
Wish it and Hopen by Dusty Springfield.
Now, the reason for that, this this would be Dusty Springfield's 73rd birthday today.
Uh I think her real name was Mary O'Grady.
But I remember she she was one of my the look of love from the Thomas Crown Affair.
Which by the way, they aired, they used in the first episode of Mad Men This Year.
What a great tune.
You don't have to say you love me, I'll never tie you down.
Of course, all lies.
Uh uh, but still, what a voice.
But wishing and hoping, one of her first tunes in 1964.
We're digging it out of the the groove yard of forgotten favorites.
And I want you to listen to this 1964.
For those of you may never have heard this song in this audience.
If some of you are young enough, may never have heard this was a hit.
This was a huge hit in 1964.
From Dusty Springfield, this is what young girls grew up thinking life was all about.
Who is bringing planning and dreaming each night of his jobs that won't get to into his own.
So if you're looking at love, you can share.
All you gotta do is hold and kiss him and love him, and show him that you can.
That's all you gotta do.
Show him that you care, just by him.
Do the things he likes to do.
Wear your hair just for him.
Cause you won't get in thinking and praying.
Wishing and hoping.
Just wishing and hoping and thinking and praying.
Planning and dreaming.
This is the route, folks.
Cook his meals, iron shirts, put out his slippers, and do it with a smile.
And that's what it was all about.
That now that I was thirteen when this song hit.
And I knew when I was 13, I wanted to be in radio.
And I was uh So 1964, I was uh four years, three years, four years away from my first job in radio.
So now that's that.
Hey, Mike, see if you can find the Syndicate of Sound and Hey Little Girl.
We gotta do the male version of this.
Our profit system has everything.
All I have to do is say we got the biggest grooveyard of forgotten favorites.
So you can find Syndicate of Sound, hey Little Girl.
But first, now here's a different spin on it.
This is 1968, and this is Sandy Posey, the daughter of Jim Posey.
It makes no difference if you're rich or poor, or if you're smart or dumb.
A woman's place in the snow world is under some man's thong.
And if you were born a woman.
Listen to it, listen to it.
Hurt, not heard.
Cheated on and treated like you're born a woman.
You want to do that.
In fact, that song, for one of our early feminist update uh theme songs, if you remember Snurley, way back about 23 years ago, 22 years.
So that's 1968, uh 17.
Uh, I was 17 then.
You can imagine the modern era feminine, literally at two years later, one two years later sprung up.
And uh uh, things were big changes.
Things are changed, but but but it didn't I'll tell you when I knew it.
Well, it's this is too inside baseball esoteric.
But uh No, I'll tell you, I've done I on Saturday mornings, I had to take our remote turntable and broadcast equipment, go to Sears and do a couple hours of a radio show from Sears.
And one day, program director got the idea to have some, because I was in high school doing this one, Bring a couple high school girls in and have a discussion about something.
I don't I'm still taking orders back in those days.
And one of the high school girls that showed up started talking about women's lib.
And I'm uh I'm 18 and I'm hearing militancy, and and she was one of the most popular girls.
This was not some uh angry uh uh uh you know one of the big click.
And I didn't, I wasn't smart enough to realize I just thought well, this is I didn't know what I was in the middle of then, but uh it didn't take me long to figure it out.
And as I was uh junior senior in high school, I started hearing this this this young one was just angry, she's ticked off.
Wow, I'd never heard anything like this before.
So at the time I didn't know what she'd been reading.
Uh anyway, can't find the syndicative sound uh hey little girl.
But uh it's the it's the I it's the male version of you know of what's expected to go along with Sandy Posey and Dusty Springfield.
Dusty Springfield's real name, by the way, was Mary O'Brien.
I said, Oh, Grady.
And she would have been seventy-three years old today.
Gotta take a break.
We'll do it, we'll be back and continue in mere moments.
Don't go away.
Yeah, I just sit here listening to Under My Thumb by the Rolling Stones, and that's from I think 6465.
I got fired.
One of my seven or eight times being fired was for playing that song too often.
Uh in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, WIXZ.
I really got fired, violating the programming format by playing that song too often in rotation.
It wasn't a an oldie's format.
I just I liked it got can for it.
By the way, Gallup has done their first head-to-head poll of Romney versus Obama.
Romney is ahead by two points in the first poll here.
Uh and the headline, Romney Obama in tight race as Gallup Daily Tracking Begins.
And then there's this subheadline.
Romney voters slightly more certain they will vote.
Romney voters are certain they'll vote over Obama voters 47 to 45.
Romney even beats the one with independence 45 to 39.
Right now in the Gallup Daily Tracking Poll, the first one of the season, Romney is up over Obama in independence 45 to 39.
Hearings are getting underway on Capitol Hill on the GSA scandal.
We got an audio sound bite.
And I want you to listen to this.
This is your Obama regime.
Daryl Issa, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the GSA spending, a region nine commissioner and acting administrator Jeff Neely, who is currently on administrative leave, testified that during the QA, Neely and Daryl Issa had this exchange.
Chairman, on the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my Fifth Amendment constitutional privilege.
Mr. Neely, did you attend the 2010 Western Regional Conference in Las Vegas?
Mr. Chairman, on the advice of my counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my Fifth Amendment constitutional privilege.
Mr. Neely, did you approve the funding for the 2010 Western Regional Conference?
Mr. Chairman, on the advice of my council, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my Fifth Amendment constitutional privilege.
Just a few more.
Mr. Chairman, on the advice of my counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my Fifth Amendment constitutional privilege.
This is the Region 9 Commissioner, Acting Administrator Jeff Neely on administrative leave, the General Services Administration, refusing to answer these questions.
Please, the fifth to every question.
That's your Obama regime in action.
Jim and Reno, Nevada, glad you called, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Well, thank you.
And hello.
Um I just called to add another reason why full-time mothers are despised.
Okay.
And I'm hoping we have time for me to add one thing to your list of undeniable truths.
But the thing that is not liked about full time mothers, and you know, we can let the left label them as stay at home moms, and that implies somebody who never gets their uh you know what out the front door.
But they are full time parents as opposed to ones that uh split their time and then do not devote all their time to their children.
At any rate, they also they're not only independent, but they raise independent children because there's no government programming there.
They're not Oh, that's that's very much true.
The the children are not introduced to statist programs either.
The children end up becoming self-sufficient, self-reliant, and not needing government.
And that you're no, you're absolutely right.
It's a great adjunct.
That's the threat.
Well, you're exactly right.
But I'm gonna cut you off before you add to the 35 undeniable truths of life, because nobody does that.
Um I've always said don't try this at home.
The 35 undeniable truths, I'm sure I'm in fact I tried to do it again.
I tried to come up with the second 35.
And they're good, but they're not nearly as powerful as the originals.
But that's that that is a th th th there's more truth to what he said than than you think at first blush.
Because the children are raised to be self-sufficient and self-reliant.
And because that's the experience the parents have had.
And that's where the morals, the the values that's all taught.
Now, you've got stragglers, some of them don't, you know, uh nobody's family ever turns out beaver cleaverish.
Uh everybody's got a couple bad apples in their family.
And but for the most part, the theory uh holds, and that's how you get rush babies.
And by the way, you know, it's how else you get free thinkers.
Stay-at-home mom, traditional nuclear family, raising kids, teach them to be free thinkers.
Which when you stopped, that used to be a liberal thing.
You're liberals used to be the ones open-minded, tolerant, afraid of nothing.
And uh they always ran around saying it was it was uh right wingers that wanted to censor them.
And look at how things have changed.
Every censor around practically is uh is on the left.
And they're dead serious about it.
If they don't want to hear it, it shouldn't be said.
And if somebody says something they don't want to hear, they want that person to be punished.
No question about it.
Folks, I have to tell you, if the regime will stonewall as something as relatively innocuous as the GSA scandals, how are we ever gonna get to the truth on something like Fast and Furious?
Because I mean, this is chump change compared to Fast and Furious, and they're stonewalling this.
As far as I know, nobody died from GSA spending.
And I'm sure that all the contraceptives are paid for GSA spending.
Because that was a lot of money, a lot of sex going on.
I don't think anybody died.
Not true of Fast and Furious.
▲
Export Selection