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May 23, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 23, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #3
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I just saw us I just printed it out.
I'm an New York GOP congressional candidate embraces limbaugh despite recent controversial Limbaugh rule invoked in New York.
Well, I'll get to details in a just second.
I don't know what that's about.
I just now got the email.
It's obviously a courageous Republican.
Anyway, great to have you back, folks, Rush Limbaugh and the EIB Network.
Happy to have you with us as we are in service to humanity.
Telephone number 800 282-2882 if you want to be on the program.
The news media does not know who to blame on this on this Facebook thing.
They're still a little confused.
They go back and forth.
They want to blame the banks, but then sometimes they swerve back to blaming Facebook and Zuckerberg.
But Wall Street Journal had it.
Facebook insiders had told prospective shareholders of their plans to sell some of their shares in an S1 filing last week.
So Zuckerberg selling a billion dollars worth of shares right after the IPO was something they had said they were going to do in an official filing.
It was investors, everybody was entitled to know this.
They didn't keep him.
There was no scam being run here.
This is why these guys do IPOs.
Now get this.
This is from the New York Post.
It's about Mayor Doomberg.
The mayor of New York, Mike Doomberg, says he's got a plan to save cities.
Mayor Doomberg yesterday suggested that the federal government deliberately force large municipalities.
There'd be cities for those of you in Rio Linda.
You're not one.
Large municipalities to take in immigrants as the only hope for salvaging battered economies.
For those of you who live in New York City, that is the solution to your economic woes according to your mayor.
Having the federal government deliberately force large cities to take in immigrants.
That's the only hope for salvaging battered economies.
Doomberg spoke at a forum where he was joined by Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas, whose company helped underwrite the research that this idea is based on.
Doomberg said the federal government should deliberately force some places that don't want immigrants to take them.
Because that's the only solution for these big, hollowed-out cities where industry is left is never going to come back unless you get some people to move there.
Now, Doomberg is talking here about illegal aliens.
That's what he's talking about.
And Doomberg at the same time has been blasting Obama for deporting illegal aliens.
So the mayor of New York City thinks the only way to get these industries back who are leaving is not lower their taxes and not make it a more productive business environment.
No, no, no, no.
deliberately force large cities to allow illegals in to work?
Ta-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
Brent Bozell been running the Media Research Center for 25 years.
The Media Research Center is an organization that documents not just the bias of the left-wing media, the mainstream media, but virtually every characteristic and example of unfairness, bias, agenda movement, whatever it is.
There's nobody better at what they do than Bozell and the Media Research Center.
Now, when the President of the United States closes speeches with God bless America and God bless the United States.
What does that mean if we have no religious freedom?
Thank you.
What does it mean when a president who doesn't believe in religious freedom says God bless America?
God bless the United States of America.
Bozell has written a column about this.
Let me read to you portions of it.
Said you'd think the largest legal action in American history in defense of religious liberty would be a major news story.
But ABC, CBS NBC don't judge news events by their inherent importance, as relates to the future of our freedom.
They deliver the news according to a simple formula.
Does it or doesn't it advance the re-election of Barack Obama?
And if it doesn't, it isn't news.
On May twenty first, forty three Catholic diocese and organizations sued the Obama administration over its ridiculously narrow idea of how a religious institution can be defined under their Obamacare law.
Never has the Catholic Church or any other, any order for that matter, undertaken something of this magnitude.
It is truly jaw dropping that ABC and NBC completely ignored this action on their evening newscasts, while the CBS Evening News devoted just nineteen seconds to this historic event.
Now let's be blunt.
They spiked the news.
This is, writes Bozell, the worst example of shameless bias by omission that I have seen in the twenty-five year history of the Media Research Center.
We recall the Chicom's withholding from its citizenry for twenty years the news that the U.S. had landed on the moon because it reflected poorly on their government.
Never, never would the United States news media behave thusly, but they just did.
And it's not an honest mistake.
It was not an editorial oversight by the broadcast networks.
It did not occur too late for the evening deadline.
This was a deliberate and insidious withholding of national news to protect the chosen one, who ABC, CBS, and NBC have worked so hard to elect and for whom they are now abusing their journalistic influence.
Even when CBS mentioned the suit ever so briefly, like so many others, they deliberately distorted the issue by framing it as a contraception lawsuit.
When it is much broader, it's a religious freedom issue, and they know it.
This should be seen as a very dark cloud on Obama's political horizon.
The Catholic Church, sixty million Americans describing themselves as Catholic.
The Catholic Church has unleashed legal Armageddon on the administration promising we will not comply with a health care law that strips Catholics of their religious liberty.
If that isn't news, then there's no such thing as news.
This should be leading newscasts and the subject of special in-depth reports.
So what trumped this story?
What took its place?
Well, ABC led their evening broadcast and devoted an incredible three minutes and thirty seconds to the sentencing of the Rutgers student who spied on his gay roommate with a web camera.
NBC aired an entire story on a lunar eclipse.
Both CBS and NBC devoted their first three and a half minutes to prostate cancer screening.
Catholic taxpayers who help fund national public radio were also ignored on the evening newscast with that sad joke of a title, all things considered.
The print press isn't much better for the Washington Post, a little one column story buried on page A six.
The fish wrap known as USA Today had a really tiny headline, a 128-word item at the very bottom of A2.
The New York Times had a perfunctory 419 word dispatch on page A seventeen.
Two pages later, the Times defined as News what it prefers to report on Catholics.
Quote, two Philadelphia priests punished in sexual abuse cases.
The paper noted one priest has been suspended from ministry for two years.
The other had been placed on leave in December, based on abuse that occurred about 40 years ago.
This wasn't really news as a current matter, but this is always and everywhere the bigoted narrative that Times prefers to perpetuate.
Cardinal Timothy Dalton of New York, the head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic bishops, used the word horror to describe what Obama is mandating.
On the only broadcast show to give Catholics some coverage.
CBS This Morning anchor Charlie Rose asked Dolan if the White House misled him on the issue.
Dolan began by saying he hesitated to question the president's sincerity, even though anyone who heard Obama's 2009 commencement speech at Notre Dame about honoring the conscience of his opponents on abortion is proven that he's completely insincere.
Cardinal Dolan said, I worry, Charlie, members of Obama's team might not particularly understand our horror at the restrictive nature of this exemption that they are giving us.
That for the first time that we can remember, a Bureau of the federal government seems to be radically intruding into the internal definition of what a church is.
We can't seem to get that across.
And he's not finding much help getting anything across from the supposed mediators of the National Press Corps.
And Bosell's exactly right about this.
This is a huge story.
Forty-three Catholic dioceses and organizations sue the regime over Obamacare.
Religious freedom, First Amendment.
It's unprecedented.
And narry a mention on most of the networks.
It is a great illustration, folks, of the not just the bias, but something else about the news.
What they don't report that is oftentimes as instructive about what they do as what they do report and how.
All right, a brief timeout.
We'll get to your phone calls when we come back.
Sit tight, much more straight ahead.
Okay, we are back.
Let's go to line two, Tom and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
How are you doing, Rush?
Very well, thank you.
Thank you for all the uh service you've done for this.
Appreciate that, sir.
Thank you very much.
I listened to you since you came on the scene in New York.
In fact, I didn't listen to you.
I listened to people talking about you, and I said, Well, I gotta listen to this guy myself.
And from that point on, I was pretty damn impressed with what you've done.
Even through uh Clinton single-handedly attacking you as if you created the Murtaugh bombing, and I said, holy cow, something skewed in our society.
And yet you live through that.
My question to you is how do you deal with the animus towards you that you encounter?
I don't understand it.
I never did understand it.
How do I deal with it?
You have a point of view.
Okay, that's fine.
But why engender this kind of animus?
I don't get it.
Well, um, there's a good reason for the media hating me.
And once I came to grips with that fact that there's a reason they should hate me, then it makes sense.
One of the toughest things I had to do was learn to psychologically accept the fact that being hated was a sign of success.
Most people aren't raised to be hated.
We're all raised to be loved.
We want to be loved, we're told to do things to be loved and appreciated and liked.
We're raised, don't offend anybody, be nice as you everybody wants total acceptance.
Everybody wants respect, everybody wants to be loved.
And so when you when you learn that what you do is going to engender hatred, you have to learn to accept that as a sign of success.
That was a tough psychological thing for me.
I didn't understand it at first.
I've never been in my life.
Nobody who knows me has ever thought I was a racist, big bigot, sex, any of this stuff.
All of a sudden I'm on the radio and I become one.
If you listen to liberal critics, all of a sudden I'm a racist, sexist, big and home, I'm a hater and all this stuff, and on none of those things and never have been.
And it's all because of my political views.
As far as the media is concerned, they ought to hate me, Tom.
Before I came along, they had a monopoly.
Before I came along nationally, all there was was the three networks, the big newspapers, and CNN.
When I started in 88, that was it.
And now look, that monopoly they had is gone.
Now there is Fox News from 1997, that was nine years after I started.
Got all kinds of conservative talk radio out there now.
And that's done nothing but grow.
I have not lost a single listener because of all the other shows.
We've grown the pie, so to speak.
So the conservative media, which did not exist except in magazines, it's basically where it was.
And maybe the Washington Times.
That would nationally, that was it.
But now it's all different.
And the media has lost its monopoly.
They have lost the monopoly effort or opportunity they had to define what's news and what isn't news, as Bozell just wrote about.
They have lost the monopoly on telling people what to think, as in commentary and this kind of thing.
And in the process of this program's evolution, the media have been frequent targets of mine and pointing out how they do run their businesses and the stories they are ignored.
So it makes total sense that they would not like me.
Both personally and professionally.
Now, dealing with it, I don't know, was it was when I when I first started, I tell you, I didn't, I didn't understand it, and there was nobody that I knew who could tell me how to deal with it.
I had I had uh nobody around me that could advise, for example, a TV report would come out that I'm something I'm not, racist, sexist, whatever.
And I would have people say, you can't let that stand.
You've got to respond to that.
So I would respond to it, and all it did was make the accusers happy.
Because I had reacted to it.
Oh, it must have hit a sore spot.
Limbaugh must be defensive about this.
So they piled on even more.
Other people said, ignore it.
If you acknowledge it, you're just going to make their day, you just have to ignore it.
And people said, if you ignore it, then you're letting it stand.
You're letting all these accusations stand.
And nobody was around to tell me what the right way to deal with this stuff is.
And even to this day, most people in public life don't know either how to deal with it.
Because what we we do not, on our side of the aisle, attempt to rid the world of our enemies by personally impugning them or destroying them or shutting them down.
Like I was saying last week, or actually on uh on Monday.
If we don't like a radio or TV show, we turn it off.
If they don't like it, they try to shut it down.
If we don't want to eat vegetables, we don't eat them.
If they want to eat, they want everybody else to do what they do and not do what they don't do.
And so a lot of people on our side have no idea how to deal with this.
But I'll tell you one thing it happened.
I was at dinner one night at a restaurant in New York, 21, and my host said the restroom attendant is a huge fan of yours and has a copy of your book.
Would you go in and sign it?
And I said, I'd be happy to.
So I went in there.
The restroom attendant was a guy named Rev. He was a reverend from Westchester County, and he when I walked in, he saw me, and I didn't say a word, didn't have a chance.
He started talking, how much he admired my program, would I sign his book?
And he said, he said to me, this is the second biggest day of my life.
The first was when I met President Reagan.
And he just he looked at me and said, you know what, Mr. Limbaugh, he just laughed at him.
All he ever did.
We just laughed at him.
And this comes out at me out of the blue.
I had not said a word.
So I figured, well, here's some divine intervention.
I've got a Reverend at 21 just out of the blue telling me Ronald Reagan just laughed at him.
So that's what I started doing.
I just laugh at him.
And coming up on 24 years, you can argue pro or con whether or not their attacks and assaults on me on these years have hurt and have been harmful.
I mean, you could probably make a case for the fact that it has.
And then on the other hand, I'm still here and I'm still prospering and larger than ever, so because it hasn't.
So who knows?
Uh all I know is the one thing I was told in all this was that success is the sweetest revenge.
When they try to wipe you out, when they try to shut you down.
Just like this last time they tried to.
They thought they had me.
They just they thought that it was nirvana.
They thought the day had finally come.
And they are now so discombobulated that they failed that they don't understand it.
Their days were ruined.
And of course, take satisfaction in that.
But then it's another way I deal with it.
Well, I chose to do this.
I chose to be public about what I believe and who I am.
And statistically, when you say something, half the people who hear it are going to disagree with you.
So another thing I tell myself is this is the league I play in, and this is just the way it is for conservatives versus liberals.
And once you realize that's the way it is, and you can't change it, and you have to live with it, everything's fine.
Hey, folks, look, I I don't want to minimize this.
I mean, I I don't want to try to appear too cavalier about this.
I mean, it's tough.
I'm I'm I'm not I'm not gonna lie to you.
It can get really tough to deal with sometimes.
I'm a very, very sensitive guy.
A lot of people don't know that about me, but I am, and you have to you know put yourself in my shoes.
How can a sensitive human being like me, for example, handle seven women showing up to protest you?
That actually happened to me last week.
Seven women showed up in Washington, D.C. It can get tough sometimes.
I don't know how many people could bear up under this.
Seven women showing up.
Now imagine that was the nags, and they planned that for like a month.
Can you imagine if they'd had some real time to organize that protest?
I don't know how many of you could bear up under seven women wanting you gone.
And I have to do it.
Somebody has to.
But I'll tell you, it's it for me, it really doesn't, I'll tell you the honest to God's true, it does not bother me at all anymore, but it does my family.
Um it eats them pretty good.
Sometimes, not all the time, but some of the stuff really and that's why when I was inducted in the Missouri Hall of Famous Missourians, um, that's why I've I spent so much time thanking my family, because they didn't ask for any of this.
I do.
I ask for it every day.
They don't.
And not once has anybody in the family uh put pressure on me to stop what I'm doing so it make it easier on them.
Not one time.
And that's that kind of uh loyalty and support, you cannot you you just cannot buy.
I love them for it.
I appreciate it, because they really they didn't ask and they don't ask for any of this, and then and I and and I do.
And I get it.
Yes, sir.
Okay.
Sparta, Tennessee, back to the phones.
This is Will, and I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on the program.
Howdy, Rush.
How are you doing?
Very well, sir.
Thank you.
How are you?
Pretty good.
Been working busy lately.
Been busy?
Yep.
That's better than being bored.
I know it.
You're 17, it says here, is that right?
Yes, sir, it is.
17 years old.
Well, I'm flattered that you uh are are listening to the program at age 17.
That's cool.
Yeah, I've been listening since I was nine.
I just wanted to call you and tell you what an impact you've made on my life.
I'm into politics since I was probably about twelve.
what was it your parents listened and and you heard it that way?
Yep.
I've they've been listening since as long as I can remember, but I started really listening and comprehending that nine Wow well I started comprehending about in nine or ten the Kennedy campaign, Kennedy 60, I was nine years old and I that's that's that's my first real active memory of of of comprehending what was going on at least being at the at the outset of it.
So I know exactly uh how you feel it's exciting isn't it when you when you understand this stuff and get a a feel for what's happening and can explain it to people.
Yeah.
Yeah I've got a lot of friends, you know, and sometimes you know they're kind of toward more the Republican establishment playing it and I try to keep 'em back on the conservative trail using a lot of your arguments and I you just really help in all your things you say on the radio and well that's cool.
I can't thank you that that's awesome.
Yeah.
But do you succeed?
Uh generally sometimes.
Some there's a few who don't like to listen all the time but where is this at school where this happens?
Well actually I'm homeschooled but there's a lot of friends I have outside of you know just how many of your friends you're seventeen.
How many of your friends are interested in um politics, affairs of state, that kind of thing there's a couple in particular but actually there's a few I brought some limbo letters that I've got and I let 'em read through those.
And I actually read those and they got a lot more interested in it and I've you know I need to need to hire you as a PR agent that's uh that's are you are you making copies of the Limbaugh letter are you giving them yours?
No, actually what I do is my grandpa gets in and then he gives them to me and I give them out to them, you know, loan them out.
Well I mean that that is uh that's that's you you you you um are the kind of guy believe me that people in this audience love hearing because you're the future you know and when when people like you call it your age, what we all hope is that you are able to maintain your interest in this and we all hope that by the time you go away to college some professor's not going to get hold of you and turn you into a commie guy.
Oh yeah.
I actually I'd like to go to Hillsdale.
I just took their course on the Constitution, their free constitution course.
Wow my gosh you are a devotee I don't think the left can get you if you've done that.
If you took the Hillsdale course we own you.
Yeah I don't intend to turn that's good that's good.
Well okay look I've um I I want to make you a subscriber so you have your own copy of the Limbaugh.
Okay.
So you don't have to wait for grandpa and and all do you have a computer do you uh you surf the web I do.
Uh okay then well I want to also make you a complimentary member of of my website uh rush twenty four seven the least I could do.
What what kind of computer do you have?
Um it's just a regular computer.
Yeah you're not very you're not proud of that computer I can tell.
Yeah or if you had if you had your druthers would you would you want a a laptop computer or say an iPad um I know it's a tough call.
I know it's it's a tough decision.
I don't know.
Probably a iPad that'd be fine.
I don't never had one of them.
Have you ever used one?
I have not, but I know a friend who does I've seen it well we'll fix that.
Um all right so I'm gonna I'm gonna you want a black one well wait a bit we have any black ones left back there engraved?
I don't think we do.
I think the only only the only engraved ones we've got are white.
But that's okay.
Um you're a beggar you can't be a chooser.
Yeah.
So um we I'm just teasing.
You haven't begged for anything.
I want you to hang on after we go to the break here, and Mr. Snurdly will get your address, and we'll send you an iPad.
We'll make you a subscriber to the other stuff, too.
Okay.
I I can't thank you enough, sir.
This is No, I appreciate that.
Uh you you um you've made my day here.
Uh, we hear get calls like this from 17-year-olds, and it's for how do you people how how do you put up with it?
You know, stuff like this.
Uh like Will here in Sparta Tennessee makes it all worth it.
It's nothing better than this.
Will thanks very much, and hold on.
Do not hang up the phone.
Hi, welcome back.
We move on down the line.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
This is Dan.
Thank you for calling, sir.
Nice to have you on the program.
Uh, thank you, Rush.
Uh I heard your whole first hour about the private equity situation.
Yes, sir.
And went to a news conference, just left it uh half hour ago, where Governor Gendal down here announced uh $30 million uh feasibility study that's gonna grow into an eight hundred million dollar investment in a chemical plant.
And the company that uh owns this plant is a private equity company.
And it's going to team up with a multinational uh to build uh a huge eight hundred million dollar uh ammonia plant down in Louisiana.
Now that's gonna be uh saving or helping save four hundred jobs that are already at the plant, and it's gonna mean another 40 permanent jobs that pay sixty thousand dollars a year just in salary, no benefits, okay.
So what you have here is you have a a a chemical company, a petrochemical plant, uh, you know, the industry that wants to be crucified by the DPA using natural gas, which is a a a you know, a fossil fuel, for heaven's sake.
Yeah.
Uh uh being uh funded funded by a private equity firm.
So you have the three things that are demonized by the Obama administration still rising to the This is why.
This is why Corey Booker of New Jersey of Newark likes private capital.
Private equity.
This is why Governor Patrick in Massachusetts likes it.
Why Governor Rindell of Pennsylvania is speaking out for us, why Steve Ratner likes it.
These guys better not make a profit, though, or Obama will be after them.
Well, it is it is a metaphor for uh the the type of uh of arrangements that these private firms can do because they have the ability and they have the maneuverability to do it.
And it's going to mean uh a tremendous investment in South Louisiana.
It is, and it but it but here's the it's private money.
It's not government, and that's why Obama doesn't like it.
It's private money, it's people taking a risk, but look at all the benefits it'll accrue if it pays off, if it works.
I'm telling you, th Obama's in trouble on this, folks.
This is he's running against capitalism.
I uh the this this the can't end well for him on you know doing stuff like this.
And this Bain thing is backfiring.
All he sees is Romney when he sees Bain.
He doesn't even know what these private equity people do.
They all he knows is they earn a profit equals bad.
Um Dan, thanks for the call.
Faye, Jefferson City, Missouri.
Welcome to the program.
Hello.
Hey, hello.
Hi.
Um I told uh the screener that yesterday was my birthday, my sixty-first birthday.
Yeah.
My husband asked me what I wanted to do, and I said I want to go to Jeff City, and I want to see Rush, and I want to have my picture taken with him.
So that's what we did.
On your birthday.
So you went to State Capitol.
You you uh state capital.
They did.
I live in Columbia.
They posted they they they put my bust in the Missouri Hall of Famous Missourians on display after all the brew haha, the bust is right outside the entry to the house chamber, I believe, right?
Well, you know, I I don't know.
It's on the third floor, and you're right across uh from um Warren Hearns and right down the the wife from uh Stan Mutual.
Okay, I didn't notice.
I think I read that they they put it they sent me a picture of it.
So the the my bus is uh is is on this one.
Well, that's for your birthday, that's what you wanted to do.
That's what I wanted to do.
God bless you.
Thank you.
Well, I look thank you very much.
That's that's um.
You know, don't hang up.
Snurdly, ask her if she can email a picture that she took and we'll put it at rush limbaugh.com or tweet it out or something like that.
That's cool.
So don't don't go away, Faye.
If you got a picture, we'll get your private email address.
You can send it to Snerdley.
You gotta still know.
Cool.
All right, got so we ought to maybe get that later today, or if she knows how to email pictures, certainly by uh by tomorrow.
Citigroup has just issued its new economic forecast.
Rest of the year, they predict economic growth of 1.7%.
Isn't that wonderful?
Citigroup, they're in the business of knowing.
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