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May 15, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 15, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #3
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You are listening to the latest, most recent inductee into the Missouri famous Hall of Famous Missourians.
Exactly what it is.
It happened yesterday in the state capitol in Jefferson City, Missouri, complete with a bust.
Who knows where the bust is now?
Fully expect that bust to be stolen, put on eBay.
Who knows what might happen to the bus?
Such controversy attached to it.
But it was a wonderful, it was a great day, and all the details will be on rushlinbaugh.com.
In fact, they're probably up there by now if you want to check it out.
Great to have you here, folks.
Another week of Broadcast Excellence fully underway.
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If you want to be on the program, the email address, lrushbo at eibnet.com.
You know, Memorial Day is right around the corner, folks.
Summertime, soon in full swing.
Let me ask you, what could be better than an Allen Brothers feast on a brand new top-of-the-line grill?
And I'm not talking about some podunk little kettle thing out there that's got room for one or two hot dogs.
No, we're talking top-of-the-line, typical EIB 2F by T quality.
We call this T Season.
And in honor of T Season, we are getting you ready for the summer.
If you are one of the lucky winners of our latest and greatest 2F by T sweepstakes, you will be able to invite your friends and family, maybe the entire town, over to your place for a Memorial Day feast.
And here's something to remember.
I want to point this out.
We don't have any restrictions.
If you end up winning this grand sweepstakes, you can gift it to somebody else.
These high-value prize packs that we offer can be gifted to somebody else.
If you decide that you don't have the space for a large grill, if you don't have a refrigerator large enough to stock it full of Allen's Brothers beef, you can give the prize, say, to a military family in honor of Memorial Day.
Whatever you want to do with it after you get it is up to you.
Just keep in mind that these prize packs can be gifted to somebody else.
They make a perfect Father's Day gift as well.
We try to cover multiple birds with one stone.
Now listen carefully because here are the details of the sweepstakes.
Beginning right now through tomorrow at 1159 p.m. Pacific time, you can be automatically entered to win simply by shopping at 2IFBT.com.
For this limited time, every case of 2F by T is $2 off.
Such a deal.
And we've got the latest, if you want to call it flavor, plain tea, unsweetened.
So we are loaded.
We've got raspberry, blueberry, peach, regular.
We've got diet and regular versions of all.
We have sweetened and unsweetened regular tea.
We have every base covered.
Now, there are going to be a total of 10 winners in this sweepstakes, three grand prize winners.
And here's what the grand prize winners get.
Large Allen Brothers gift pack.
This includes USDA Prime.
And this is really prime.
This is the stuff that you cannot get in a grocery store.
The reason is it goes to restaurants.
There's not that much of genuine prime.
So the three grand prize winners will receive a large Allen Brothers gift pack, including Prime Fillet, Jumbo Hot Dogs, and Steak Burgers.
Now, if you're new to the program, Allen Brothers is the highest quality, delicious, melt-in-your-mouth top-grade beef, only served in the finest steakhouses.
You can't get it.
By the way, there's nothing against grocery stores.
There just isn't enough of this stuff to go around.
That's why it goes to restaurants.
But Allen Brothers makes it available to us and limited quantities to the public as well.
There is nothing quite like a perfectly grilled Allen Brothers filet mignon.
Every time we put hot dogs out when we're having a sports bar menu, have people over for dinner.
And the jumbo hot dogs are huge, but whatever it is from Allen Brothers, people stop and comment on it.
It is that good.
Every time we serve these steaks at home, people go nuts.
They're delicious.
And I mean, people aren't coming to visit me anymore.
When we invite people over for dinner, they're coming from the Allen Brothers.
They assume that that's what we're going to be serving.
And they're right.
The grand prize winners, in addition to all of this great beef and the jumbo hot dogs from Allen Brothers, will receive a top of the line grill.
And here's the interesting thing about this.
You pick the top of the line grill.
It's your choice.
Not some rinky, dinky little grill for one hot dog that you bring to a campsite.
This is similar to the type of grill that we use at the house.
It's huge.
This is a professional grill that you will be able to choose from.
It's built to serve an army of guests.
The retail value here is at least $1,500.
In addition to the best steak and the best grill, the grand prize winners also get 10 cases of the best tea in the country and a very cool iron brander that'll patriotically brand USA on your steak.
You just heat up this brander, heat it up on the coals or over the grill and brand the steak with it.
It says USA on it.
I have one with the EIB logo on it.
That was given to me as a gift.
That's where I learned that these things are available.
You get a grilling apron that is personally signed by me and a set of new personalized engraved grill tools to go along with your top-of-the-line grill and the Allen Brothers beef that you can't get anywhere else and the 10 cases of tea.
Now, you know the drill.
To be automatically entered into the sweepsteaks, you just shop at 2fbit.com right now through tomorrow at 11.59 p.m. Pacific time.
You go to 2fbit.com and shop and you are automatically entered.
The official rules are posted at 2fbit.com along with pictures of the whole spread and the whole layout here that celebrates the beginning of summer, Memorial Day, the troops, Father's Day.
It's all combined here into one great prize and three grand prize winners here of the big package.
All explained at 2fbit.com.
But you have to do your shopping at 2fbit.com by 11.59 p.m. Pacific time tomorrow.
But go to the website.
Well, you have to anyway.
And look at the graphic that we have displayed that shows all of the contents, all the ingredients, if you will, of this fabulous prize.
I'd say this is one of the most exciting ones because of the Allen Brothers steak.
Snurdy is a vegetarian.
He's not excited about it.
But believe me, you've heard me talking about it.
Some of you have gone and looked at it and found it to be pricey, which it is because it's in limited quantity.
But it is the best that you've ever tasted.
It's just...
And I love being able to get things that you can't ordinarily get.
That's one of my big thrills in life.
That's one of the reasons I love the stuff from Allen Brothers.
You can't get it anywhere, except we are giving it to you if you happen to be one of the three sweepstakes winners.
So shop at 2fbit.com between now and 11.59 p.m. Pacific tomorrow.
Brief time out here at the EIB Network.
be right back and roll right on right after this you know what else excites me about this latest sweepstakes two of my tea i'm just thinking here come the giant carbon footprint that we are helping to create here massive massive grills steaks hot dogs hamburgers being grilled out there on our massive massive professional type grill that the winners get to pick They get to choose.
Think of the carbon footprint that we are helping to spread here.
Oh, it's a win-win all the way around.
Here is that Politico story.
Nearly two-thirds, by the way, they ran this late on Friday, the Politico did, and I think in an effort to try to bury the details of the story late Friday afternoon White House type document dump.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the U.S. benefits from having a rich class.
That is a slam dunk defeat for Obama.
That is what Obama has been trying to wipe out.
Obama wants six or two-thirds of the American people to hate the rich.
He wants them to love the government.
Two-thirds of Americans believe the United States benefits from having a wealthy class.
And that figure, by the way, is unchanged from over 20 years ago, according to the new survey released on Friday.
63% of Americans believe that the country is better off having a class of wealthy.
This is according to Gallup.
Only 34% believe that the country does not benefit from having an upper class.
Now, even as the president has called on the rich to pay their fair share, by the way, you know what's funny?
The actor Will Smith, he was all in favor.
He was so excited.
Obama calling for higher taxes on the rich until he heard that the new French president was going to raise taxes on the rich to 75%.
And then Will Smith said, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute.
I'm not in favor of that.
And somebody said, well, what's the difference?
Says, oh, fine when Obama is going to raise taxes when he finds out the French guy is going to top out at a 75% rate.
Will Smith, the white went on.
He said, oh, my gosh, what if that would happen here?
Even as the president has called on the rich to pay their fair share in taxes, they occupy Wall Street protests.
And amid a public debate over the so-called Buffett rule, Americans' views of the rich have not changed in 20 years.
Big failure for Obama.
Folks, I'm telling you, it's why this news was buried on Friday.
And I'm serious when I tell you this is the kind of news that would disappoint Obama.
He's been working for three and a half years to change this number.
Obama wants as many Americans as possible resenting the rich, despising, hating, that may be going too far.
But he wants all of that respect and admiration for the rich transferred to government.
That's what he wants, and thus to him.
In 1990, 62% thought the U.S. was better off with a class of wealthy people compared with 32%.
So 20 years, it really hasn't changed.
But on this topic, and this is what the caller pointed out, there's a partisan gap.
A majority of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents all agree that having a class of rich people benefits the U.S. 52% of Democrats, 59% of Independents, 80% of Republicans.
Only 52% of Democrats, 48% of Democrats think it's a rotten idea.
63% of Americans say that they would personally want to be rich, compared with 35% who said they would prefer not to be if they had a choice.
Well, hey, you do.
You have a choice.
Now, what do you...
What do you...
If they had a choice?
What?
You mean you're just going to become wealthy one day when you wake up?
Only 28% of Americans, however, thought it was very or somewhat likely that they would be rich in their lifetimes.
Well, we've got to get that number up.
That's where Obama has succeeded.
But we have to get that number up.
Gallup poll conducted May 3rd through the 6th, a sample of 1,024 adults margin of error plus or minus 3 percentage points.
CBS News out of Baltimore just days after Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage.
And that's all he did.
That's all he did.
Pastors and priests around Maryland took to their own pulpits and their reaction, in some cases, condemned the president.
Derek Valcourt explains the president's comments have folks on both sides of the issue fired.
I should point out that this story is about African-American church leaders.
African-American church leaders are condemning Obama for gay marriage support.
You know what that dunce governor of North Carolina said, Beverly Perdue?
By the way, you know, Purdue is a famous name.
Chicken.
And the Purdue chicken people are publicly saying that they're, by the way, this woman is not related to us.
The Purdue chickens, as Frank Purdue, the Purdue chicken people want everybody to know that Beverly Purdue Dumplin has nothing to do with them.
Did you hear what she said?
After North Carolina affirmed via constitutional amendment that marriage is a union between a man and a woman, she said something to the effect that people are going to start thinking of people in her state like they do Mississippi.
Well, naturally the people of Mississippi heard about that and said, well, what's wrong with us?
And the governor of Mississippi wasn't happy about it.
Lieutenant Governor Mississippi wasn't happy about it.
But what is it that I've always told you?
These elitist liberal Democrats, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, they just think that is the epitome of deliverance.
Everybody lives in Mississippi stars in deliverance.
Everybody who lives in Alabama stars in deliverance.
They play one of the roles in deliverance.
They're a bunch of hayseed, hick, retarded people.
And Beverly Dumplin Perdue has just confirmed it.
This woman is now stepping in it every time she opens her mouth.
So the African-American church leaders are anti-Obama gay marriage.
There is a Filipino boxer by the name of Manny Pacquiao, and he has ripped Obama's views on gay marriage.
Pacquiao?
Pacquiao?
That's it, Pacquiao?
Pacquiao.
Okay, my pronouncer is wrong here.
No, no, no, no big deal.
Boxing champion Manny Pacquiao has come out swinging against Obama's personal endorsement of same-sex marriage.
In an interview with the National Conservative Examiner, the religious Pacquiao said Obama's view was nothing more than a direct attack on the morals of society and the will of God.
And this guy is popular within the universe in which he moves and operates.
He's a folk hero to people.
He said, God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married only if they are so in love with each other.
It should not be of the same sex so as to adulterate the altar of matrimony, like in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah of old, he said.
Forbes magazine has Manny Pacquiao as the fourth most influential athlete in America.
And he says America should be the model of morality for other countries to emulate, and this will not do it.
And then there's this from the hill.com: Senate Democrats facing difficult reelections are breaking with Obama's endorsement of same-sex marriage, a sign the issue is politically dangerous in battleground states.
Senators John Tester, Montana, Claire McCaskill, Missouri, the two most vulnerable Democrat senators, have declined to endorse Obama's call for the legalization of gay marriage.
Senators Joe Manchin, West Virginia, Bob Casey, Pennsylvania, Bill Nelson, Florida, Democrats who have easier races, but in states that could become more competitive by November, have also backed away from Obama's stance.
They all represent states with constitutional amendments or laws banning same-sex marriage.
So you have Democrats here that are being forced now to back farther away from Obama.
And if they all didn't have to back away from Obama based on Obamacare and the economy, now in order to get re-elected, they have to disavow Obama on gay marriage as well.
Obama's driving Democrats away from him.
Practically, issue by issue, every week something comes up that is, and Dana Dana Milbank has a column from yesterday in the Washington Post: Barack Obama, the first female president.
And I guess when I was being inducted into the Missouri Hall of Famous Citizens yesterday, Obama was on the view.
And Milbank was watching it.
And you read this piece, Milbank is really twisted.
He's not comfortable with what's happening here.
Obama is the first female president.
Obama is the first Jewish president.
Obama's the first gay president, as it was in the cover of Newsweek magazine.
Here's a pull quote from Milbank: Consider his activities on Monday.
He sat down to tape a session with the ladies of ABC's The View, his fourth appearance on the talk show by women and for women.
He accepted an award from Barnard College, gave the commencement speech to graduates of the women's school.
Heck, he even appeared in public wearing a gown.
Dana Milbank, overall, not happy with the way Obama's running things.
And because these people are all for Obama, they're all desperate for Obama to win reelection.
Newsweek ran their cover of Obama Wonder, a halo of all the gay colors.
And here at the Atlantic, they've got a story: Barack Obama, our first gay, female, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish president.
They're laughing now.
And if they're not laughing, they're being serious about it Or attempting to.
First Irish.
That's right.
He's claimed to be Irish, too.
So it's just all this identity politics, all this group stuff.
Folks, this.
It's not working.
It just isn't working.
Yeah, make sure the guy doesn't go away.
Make sure he's still there.
We're back, Rushlin Boy here, the cutting edge of societal evolution.
800-282-2882.
Look at this.
Folks, Barack Obama, the fourth time he's been on the view.
He's out slowjamming the news with the prezy as the prezy with Jimmy Fallon.
He's out raising money.
He hasn't presented.
The Democrats haven't had a working, reasonable, responsible budget in over a thousand days.
What do you think the public perception of the guy is?
See, we all get caught up in the notion that most of America thinks Obama's cool.
He's hip.
He's one of the presidency is still the presidency.
And while there are a lot of Americans who look at Obama as the celebrity of the United States rather than president, there are, don't doubt me on this.
There are many more Americans who think a president ought to be working and not hanging around with Whoopee Goldberg and Barbara Walters on television all the time or with Jimmy Fallon or wherever he goes or fundraising or hanging around with Hollywood people.
They may think that's hip and cool and will attract young people and whatever other groups.
But the people of this country whose lives have been profoundly devastated by this man take their futures and their lives and their country very seriously.
And it's very apparent that he doesn't.
Don't forget, here's the guy who said in Seattle last week, I sometimes forget just how bad the recession is.
And people expect this guy to win in a cakewalk.
Back to the phones, Kilgore, Texas.
Philip, I'm glad you called.
Glad you waited.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Oh, what an honor, Rush.
What an honor.
Thank you very much, sir.
I appreciate that.
You know, I've been listening to you so long.
It's just like talking to an old friend.
You're very, very good at what you do.
I appreciate your saying that.
Thank you very much, sir.
And one more thing before I get to my question.
I just appreciate you allowing Mark Davis to host your show.
He's truly a missed in Dallas.
Well, he's a good guy.
And he's, you know, you will not find anybody harder working and more loyal than Mark Davis.
Whoever he works for has got one of the most loyal employees they could ever have.
Oh, yes.
The question I had for you, I heard you talking earlier about CNN's dismal.
Are you Mark's father?
No, sir.
I've just listened to him ever since he's been in Dallas.
Yeah, good.
Okay.
I'm just having fun on you, you know.
No, thanks, sir.
You know, one other thing before I get to my question.
You know, one thing I love about you the most is your sarcasm.
It's just truly genius.
I appreciate the way you add that to your show.
Thank you, sir.
By the way, thank you for getting it.
Yeah, it tickles me to death.
I love sarcasm, and you're probably the king sarcastic person I know.
But the question I had, you were talking about CNN and their dismal viewership.
If you was allowed to, how long would it take you to turn CNN around and make it similar to what Fox is?
A couple of days.
Just the announcement that I was going to run CNN would add a million viewers a night.
Just the announcement that I was going to run it would cause a million people to start tuning in.
And then when we started making changes, it wouldn't take long at all.
Yeah, I think he'd probably do it within a week anyway.
That'll never happen.
Don't sweat it.
Well, let me just tell you something.
This is a classic CNN.
This is classic.
Good friend of all of ours, Bob Tyrrell, his magazine's The American Spectator.
And the American Spectator has been around long before I started my radio program, even in Sacramento, back in 1984.
The American Spectator was one of the, I guess, the foundation building blocks for me in establishing conservative.
They're one of the places that helped me to understand why I knew what I knew, why I thought what I thought.
And Bob Tyrrell, you talk about humor and sarcasm.
He has a column called A Continuing Crisis.
And he has a way with words that's unique.
A lot of people today writing, a lot of people blogging.
And Bob Tyrrell is classic with his use of words.
Some of the stuff that he wrote in the continuing crisis back 1984 and 85 when I was living in Sacramento, it was just, I envied it.
Anyway, he's got a new book.
His book is called The Death of Liberalism.
And he firmly believed that liberalism is dead as a practical matter, just in terms of numbers.
He said the numbers of people who are liberal is not all that high.
He said liberalism doesn't have policies that work.
And he makes this case.
I see Snurdley's in there frowning.
Liberalism isn't dead.
And of course, as a living, breathing, functioning ideology, of course it's not dead.
Tyrrell's point is that if we all grew up and matured a little bit and stopped being afraid of these people, we'd understand what a genuine minority they are.
And if we honestly assess the results of their policies, they're disastrous.
They don't work.
Liberalism doesn't work.
And he goes into the reasons why it looks like liberalism succeeds, why it looks like it's powerful.
But his point is that liberalism has died.
Not that it's no longer alive and around, but in terms of substantive relevance.
Liberalism has lost it.
Anyway, it's a great book.
And you might disagree with it when you read it, but you should.
It's just been out a couple of weeks or so.
Death of Liberalism.
And his name is spelled with two Rs and two L's.
R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.
Most people say Tyrrell, but it's Tyrrell.
T-Y-R-R-E-L-L Jr.
R. Emmett Tyrrell.
Just Amazon Surgeon, Death of Liberal.
Anyway, he was scheduled to be on CNN to be interviewed about his book.
He was going to be interviewed by our stalker, Carol Costello.
Carol Costello is the CNN reporter that's assigned to follow me around in the news and then report on what I'm doing.
Of course, Carol never listens to the program or calls me to report what we're doing.
She reads media matters or listens to excerpts of sound bites of the program to learn.
It's amazing how so few, and this is one of Bob's points, by the way.
All the news media is liberal, and here they're writing on me, for example, or in his magazine.
They don't read his magazine when they write it.
They don't listen to this radio show when they write about it.
They have to go somewhere else to find out what they think happened here.
At any rate, he was scheduled to be interviewed in a typical book publicity interview on CNN by Carol Costello, and his book publicist received word that he had been disinvited.
And the reason CNN disinvited him because Bob had called Obama a stealth socialist.
And that they thought at CNN was being rude to Obama.
So no appearance on CNN with Ms. Costello.
And I have this on highest authority from somebody at American Spectator.
American Spectator, by the way, is where Jeff Lord works, who's been doing just some fabulous reporting on the left lately, ever since this phony Republican war on women stuff.
Now, you look at all the names that CNN people call George Bush, Bush Hitler, Bush this.
But maybe what upset CNN was that Bob calls him a stealth socialist.
Maybe they're upset that he didn't call him a full-fledged closet socialist.
Maybe they're upset they called him stealth.
Anyway, he was disinvited because of this.
What I would do with CNN, well, it's not hard.
Basically, what I would do is I would have every editor there listen to this program, and then in prime time, everything we covered on this program would be treated as the news of the day.
Because that's what I do.
I do the news of the day.
They ignore the stuff that we find on this program.
I just put the news on that they don't find interesting or that they don't think is news.
I mean, this is a broad, broad overview.
I mean, philosophically, what CNN's got to do is decide who they want to be and then admit it.
Right now, they've got themselves believing that they are objective nonpartisan journalists.
They believe that MSNBC is liberal, that Fox is conservative, and that they are Edward R. Murrow.
That's what they think.
Don't doubt me.
It's exactly what they think.
They also believe that the news should have no opinions while they are full of opinion.
The problem is they won't own up to their opinions.
They won't admit to it.
You've got to be competitive in the arena in which you choose to battle.
And it's very clear what cable news has become.
It's become personality-oriented opinion.
Unabashed, fearless personality opinion.
Anything else is pretense.
And if you're going to do personality-oriented opinion and then deny that's what you're doing, then you're never going to put it off because people are going to realize you're not even being honest with yourself.
But the fix, I don't want to leave anybody to believe that it would be simple.
Don't misunderstand.
But I do think if it were announced that I were going to be running CNN, do you imagine the excrement storm from everywhere if that happened?
But the tune-in factor would be through the roof, the curiosity tune-in factor.
Do any of you doubt that you could improve it?
Every one of you thinks you can improve it.
Just go show by show.
Go segment by segment.
Nope, wouldn't have done that.
Here's the way to do that.
Segment by segment, you could fix CNN, show by show.
Got a break.
Sit tight.
We're back with much more after this.
Hi, great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Have my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
You know, this Ed Klein book, The Amateur?
Admittedly, it has all this stuff in there about Obama, but this stuff in this book about Michelle Obama and Oprah?
Whoa!
Like, for example, this: Oprah was eventually convinced to respond in a diplomatic note, which the first lady allegedly treated with scorn.
Michelle Obama told her staff, quote, Oprah with her yo-yo dieting and huge girth is a terrible role model.
Kids will look at Oprah, who's rich and famous and huge, and figure it's okay to be fat.
Another quote from the book: Michelle hates fat people.
This is Oprah.
Michelle hates fat people and doesn't want me waddling around the White House.
The book also claims that for a while, Obama was calling Oprah for policy advice until Valerie Jarrett and Michelle found out about it and shut it down.
Now, can you some of this stuff?
Folks, I got it's hard to believe.
And then it isn't hard to believe.
But Obama used to be most favored nation girth in the White House until Michelle put her foot down because Obama, Oprah's a bad role model.
She's too fat, waddling around the White House.
Don't want her there.
It reads like a soap opera.
This book about these personalities in the White with their petty jealousies that we're talking about the presidency of the United States here.
Anyway, Wisconsin Democrats, furious with the Democrat National Committee.
You see, it's even falling apart in the Scott Walker recall.
And don't forget what happened in Indiana.
And don't forget what happened in Utah with Tea Party victories.
Luger losing by 20, 21 points.
Scott Walker was supposed to be dead in the water.
This union money and all these phony signatures, it was supposed to add up to Walker being voted out of office.
And yet, primary day, Scott Walker got more votes than the two Democrats combined.
And there was no reason to vote for him that day.
People showed up to support him, to let the media and everybody know what the lay of the land there was.
And now top Wisconsin Democrats are mad at the National Party and the DNC for refusing their request for a major investment of money in the battle to recall Scott Walker.
This is Greg Sargent reporting in the Washington Post: National Democrats refusing to send money into the recall Scott Walker effort.
That tells you they think it would be a waste.
I wish we had more time, folks, but we don't.
But there's always tomorrow in 21 hours.
Don't forget, folks, at this very moment, Oprah's magazine.
Oh, I kid you not.
At this very moment, Oprah's magazine is celebrating National Chocolate Chip Day.
I'm not kidding.
That's what's going on at Oprah's magazine.
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