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June 12, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 12, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Hi folks, how are you?
Great to have you with us, Rush Limbaugh, your guiding light, America's real anchor man, America's truth detector, and a doctor of democracy.
All combined, one harmless, lovable little fuzzball.
And we are here at the EIB network, a network named after my level of performance.
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Couple things here about Apple Incorporated.
One of them personal.
Yesterday was a big day.
I have been waiting and hoping, without knowing, for an upgrade to my chosen computer that they sell.
It's called a Mac Pro.
It is their fastest, most powerful computer.
I have two of them, one here, one at home.
I used to have four of them back when I had a New York apartment and a New York studio.
And I'm down to two of them.
They have not been modernized in two years.
The last refresh was June of 2001.
In those two years, massive improvements in data transfer technology have been invented, created.
One of them is called Thunderbolt.
It's a data transfer protocol that is much faster than USB, much faster than FireWire.
Every Apple computer in the last year has it.
The top of the line Apple computer never has had it.
I have been waiting.
There has been no word.
In fact, there were rumors that Apple was going to discontinue my computer.
It's not their biggest seller.
It is their most expensive.
It's used by video professionals and graphics professionals who need a lot of processing power.
I don't need all the power it has, but I want it.
So why have it?
I have a lot of data.
I have a lot of video files.
I have a lot of audio files.
And even though the Mac Pro comes with eight terabytes of built-in storage, I only have two of those terabytes actually available for storage because the other six I use for backup.
I have two different backups.
One is their time machine backup, and I've unified two of the four hard drives into one four terabyte drive, leaving got four two terabyte drives in it.
The other two terabyte drive I use for the other backup, so I've got two terabytes.
And it's on the verge of always being filled.
So what I wanted to do was get an external RAID array, and I have it in.
I've had them in there for two years waiting.
It's called Promises Pegasus.
Is there any numbers you can get?
But you can get them from anywhere from four terabytes up to twelve terabytes that connect via Thunderbolt, and they become external storage for whatever you want to use it for.
I was going to use it for storing all of the audio and video because I'm always up to the edge on my two terabyte part.
I know it sounds weird to have eight terabytes in the machine and use only two, but backup is crucial.
Power failures where I live, uh power surges, glitches, it's the data's too important.
I'm backed up everywhere as insurance.
So, but there's a way around it.
But there was no Thunderbolt, and I didn't want to connect via Firewire or USB because it takes for ages to transfer data.
So I've been waiting, and I've been waiting.
And in these two years, word leaked out that they maybe were going to discontinue the computer, but they never said anything.
A bunch of Mac Pro users actually started a Facebook petition.
Simply asking Apple just to tell them, are you gonna modernize it or you're gonna get rid of it?
Our business depends on it.
To hell with your secrecy.
It's not like you have any competitors here that you got to keep this secret.
Just tell us.
And they wouldn't.
They had as many as 16, 17,000 signatories to this Facebook petition.
So yesterday, the worldwide developer conference and their rumors leading up to it, claiming that there would be a refresh.
And everybody was singing hallelujah and Hunkadora and everything with worldwide developer conference happens and they don't say a thing about it.
So we all go to the Apple store after the keynote address is over, and we find, whoa, look at they've upgraded all right, they've upgraded the Mac.
And I started looking at the specs.
And they're not even using the brand new latest available chips that came out in March.
The upgrade is insignificant.
There is no Thunderbolt in their top of the line machine, and I was ready to come here today and say Steve Jobs would have never permitted this.
What in the world are they their top of the line?
If you're not going to get rid of it, why not?
I mean, Thunderbolt's been out of year.
Why can't you?
Anyway, I was going through all this.
And I'm fit to be tied because I've been waiting to expand.
There are other options.
I can go IMAC.
It's not as fast.
It doesn't have all the internal storage, but it would work fine.
I could connect my external drive to it, solve my problem, but I've been waiting.
So last night on an Apple blog, I discover that David Pogue, who's the tech blogger and writer at the New York Times, posts a little piece that says an Apple executive told him that the Mac Pro and the iMac are both being redesigned and face major upgrades, but not until next year.
Well, here we are.
Back to where I started two years ago, waving, and but Apple hadn't officially said this.
It's just some nameless exec talking to the New York Times, and we know how that can go.
It's the New York Times.
So now I don't know what to do.
I'm sitting here with a two-year-old computer, which is unacceptable.
The upgrade is not worth it.
Doesn't make any sense to do it.
I what I have now is 12 core.
The speed bump is not that big.
It's not, it's not without the Thunderbolt, without USB 3, without some of the other little things that other Macs have.
The MacBook Airs, these things that cost 900 bucks have Thunderbolt.
I don't understand it.
I don't understand the marketing.
I don't I I know that maybe redesign.
They've got their explanations, but they never tell anybody.
So I'm sitting here not knowing what to do.
And I don't want to wait a year.
But here's something I know.
If I go ahead and do something as a substitute, another Mac, and they do upgrade it a year from now, I'm gonna sit there and say, why didn't I wait?
And I'll get it anyway, and I'll find some homeless guy to give my system to.
Like Snerdly.
Well, I've I can spend all day talking about the 15-inch MacBook Pro.
It's apparently it's to die for.
It's just nothing like it.
Apparently, it's it's gonna wipe out all the other competition.
That's fine.
That computer's gonna cost close to four grand if you max it out.
A 15-inch laptop's gonna cost four to four grand if you if you load the thing up.
So I don't know how many of them they're actually gonna sell at the max out configuration.
So anyway, I'm sitting here, I have no clue what to do, and Apple will never tell you what they're gonna do with this, even though they don't have to guard this one with secrecy.
There aren't any competitors at the at the Mac Pro line, there aren't that they gotta keep secrets from, but still, so I'm sitting here, frustrated as I can be.
I really want Thunderbolt.
And for those of you, I know you think I'm nuts, and I think but I and they offer it on every computer.
But they don't offer it on a computer that is wicked fast and can handle all that I put a computer through.
Computer's my life.
It's my primary form of communication.
So that's one thing.
But then they're on the other side of it.
There's a story at Business Insider that I want to relate to you aspects of it, and try to bounce it off of Obama yesterday, and we need, and an Axelrod, we need more policemen and firefighters and teachers, and that's how we're going to grow the economy.
Because this story, Business Insider, is this guy, the writer, I don't, his name didn't print.
But his piece here is about how Apple is actually trying to kill Google.
And remember, Steve Jobs, before he passed away, said that Android is a stolen product, and he would go thermonuclear war to destroy Google.
At the time Apple had 40 billion dollars in the bank, and he pledged to spend every penny of it to destroy Google.
And this guy's theory at Business Insider is that with the announcements yesterday, it has begun.
The effort to destroy Google by Apple is underway.
Now, this is the essence of private sector competition so forth.
And I just want to share a little bit about this story with you.
I've got to take a brief time out now.
We'll do that and come back.
Don't go away, my friends.
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Now, let me give you another analogy here, folks.
Here I am, El Rushbow of the EIB network.
I have money that I am willing to put into play.
I want to put my money in play.
I don't care what Apple's going to charge for this new computer.
I just want it.
But I don't know if they're even going to make the thing.
As such, I don't know that I'm going to spend another penny with Apple until I do find out whether or not they're going to do it.
And they may not tell me.
I don't know.
I got money sitting around here, it's on the sideline.
In a way, my little quote-unquote problem is a microcosm for what's going on throughout the American economy.
As small business and other business sit around and wait until they find out what's going to happen with taxes and health care and Obama and the presidential election.
It's I don't think it's a stretch.
I'm sitting on money I am willing to spend that I want to spend, but there's uncertainty out there.
I don't know if it's going to make sense for me to spend it on something I'm really not crazy about getting instead of waiting for what might become.
I don't know.
It's in fact I'm a little bit afraid to spend something on what I don't really want because what if they do make what I want to make the same thing is happening throughout our economy.
Businesses, large and small, are sitting on growth.
They are standing by.
They are idle because they don't know whether Obama's going to be re-elected, and then they don't know what their taxes are going to be.
They don't know what the punitive costs of hiring people are going to be.
They don't know what their health care requirements are going to be.
They don't know.
So they're sitting around and they have no clue how to spend their money yet.
And I, El Rush Bow, I'm in the same situation.
I'm sitting on money.
I'm willing to spend it.
I have it.
I want to spend it.
But not on something that I don't want.
Now, this story, the title of the story, uh Apple really is going to try to kill Google.
And it's just one little segment.
I want you to keep in mind.
Obama and Axarod are out there saying jobs, we need to rebuild this economy.
Teachers, firefighters, and police officers.
Excerpt from this story.
Apple's Passbook, which is a feature that they announced yesterday for their mobile operating system.
Apple's Passbook has the potential to be a better version of Google Wallet.
Apple and Google are in a battle to own the next generation of payments through mobile.
Apple has 400 million iTunes accounts with credit cards.
So Apple has a good starting point to build something with payments.
Passbook is a template for companies to build applications for users.
The Passbook applications are like loyalty card programs.
Now it sounds silly, but Starbucks is already doing it.
We can load up our Starbucks app on the phone with money to spend at Starbucks.
We go in and we buy a coffee, just wave the phone at the Starbucks scanner, and it's deducted.
Now imagine if we didn't have to load up money.
Imagine if the money would just pull from our iTunes account straight Starbucks.
The point of this is this guy's speculating.
If Apple gets control of this, the mobile payments market, the wallet becomes their phone, or the phone becomes your wallet, they own it.
They own the mobile payments for whatever you get a restaurant, whatever store you wave your phone at their cash register, and your iTunes account is billed on one credit card, and you get one bill for all this stuff, and Apple gets commissioned.
Apple owns it, and that's one of the ways they're going to try to put Google out of business.
And this guy claims that the thing they announced yesterday, this feature called Passbook puts them way ahead of the game.
There are no payments yet.
What this Passbook does is put all your boarding passes and your movie tickets in one place when you have to show them electronically.
They're there.
But it's the template.
It is the beginning.
Apple showed that a Starbucks app could send us notifications about when we are near a Starbucks.
So you're walking around, you're driving around, you pass a Starbucks, your phone tells you, by the way, if you want a coffee to Starbucks, Starbucks would pay Apple for that notification.
And any other company would pay Apple for a notification.
If you're driving by anything, a Fry's computer, by the way, you're driving by Fry's here, so we've got a deal here on this and that.
Now you could be bombarded with notifications.
I mean, you could you could filter the ones you don't want.
But the point is it has the potential to be a huge, big disruptive opportunity.
And Google is going to get nothing from it.
Now the I'm speaking too fast.
The point here is this.
There's a reason Apple's the number one company out there.
There's a reason their market cap is what it.
This kind of innovation that's happening in just their mobile operating system.
I don't think Obama and Axarod have the slightest clue this kind of stuff goes on.
I don't think they have the slightest clue understanding it when it's explained to them.
I don't think they have the slightest clue of understanding the value of it.
Because they're stuck in a Marxist-Leninist paradigm where employees are workers and nobody has careers, they have jobs.
And they don't really like their jobs.
Now all they want to do is position themselves so that the government treats them right and they get their benefits and here and then our benefits there.
Meanwhile, real economic growth, innovation, Americanism, exceptionalism is going on despite them.
You may not have any interest in any of this.
It may not titillate you at all.
I don't have a Starbucks app.
I don't buy Starbucks coffee.
I'm still fascinated and intrigued by the whole concept here.
And I do know that Google or Facebook is having problems with their mobile ads working.
Apple gonna beat them too.
They've just partnered with Facebook, by the way.
That was announced yesterday too, and that's another assault on Google.
Basically, Google, despite everything they do, they make their money on searches, advertising on search pages, and they just Apple just expanded Siri yesterday, and this guy's point is that Apple is gonna make the internet irrelevant.
Internet searches are gonna be irrelevant, replaced by apps for every thing you're interested in.
You're no longer gonna have to search.
It's a long way off.
But I mean, this kind of forward thinking that is just fascinating to me.
It blows my mind that people have the ability to make this happen to conceive it.
And I can tell you that the people running our country are nowhere in that class and nowhere in that league, and don't they couldn't stop this if they wanted to.
They couldn't may try to punish it and so forth.
But it's the contrast here is mind-boggling.
The people we have running this country, the Democrat Party, are just, we may as well be living back in the 1930s and driving Model A's and Model T's.
That they want to replace with a hundred-year-old electric car technology.
It just boggles the mind.
The lack of caliber.
The lack of creativity, ingenuity that we have at the top levels.
Our commerce secretary ought to be all over this kind of stuff.
Promoting it.
Just like Bob Mossbacker was with HDTV back in the day when he was the Commerce Secretary for Bush 41.
Now, our commerce secretary has a car accident, and we learn for the first time we even have a commerce secretary.
Unappointed, unelected, and unknown running around gumming up the private sector works.
And Obama doesn't even have any curiosity about any of this stuff.
He's not hell, he's still using Blackberry.
And I don't know if you know, but not looking good there.
And we'll be back.
Okay, Dean in Two Rivers, Wisconsin.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Great to have you here.
Thank you.
First uh longtime listener, first time caller.
Uh President Obama dropped the ball twice last week.
He didn't support Tom Barrett in the state of Wisconsin, and he didn't do a thing for students and tuition costs because the University of Wisconsin, Board of Regents, up tuition costs across the board, five point five percent.
He could have been here, organized the protest.
Wait a second.
Students up in arms.
Just a minute here.
Are you telling me that while everybody was distracted with the recall election, the Board of Regents, the University of Wisconsin, snuck a five percent tuition increase in there?
Well, they're proud of it.
It's on the news.
Well, they're they're proud that it passed, but they snuck the effort in there while all this is going on, right?
Yes, only one no vote.
Only one no vote in the Board of Regions.
Board of Regents.
You you University of Wisconsin Board of Regents.
Only one no vote.
Well, Obama, that's crazy.
I don't believe that, because Obama just made a speech where he condemned rising tuition costs.
We just played the tape today.
He should have been here organizing a protest.
They should have been.
You're right.
He blew it twice.
He didn't help Tom Barrett, and now the students at Wisconsin get the shaft.
All because Obama was doing 153 fundraisers flying all around and over the state, but could not bring himself to land.
Terrible, huh?
Selfish.
Selfish.
What'd you say, H.R.?
Bad week.
It was about you said bad leak, and then that would work too.
Uh Dean, I appreciate the call.
This is Don in Charleston, West Virginia.
You are next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hello, Russia.
Mount there didos to you.
Thank you very much.
Yes, sir.
Uh, when you first started talking about the Obama administration's leaks on military issues, I reminded me back when Carter debated for President Reagan in 1980, and he gave he revealed information about the technology that the Defense Department had developed later to be known as stealth technology.
And it reminded me a lot of what Obama's doing.
The two of them are trying to show up there how strongly are military issues.
What's your feeling about that?
Do you agree with that feeling?
Uh totally.
If I understand you, right, you're saying Obama just trying to be John Wayne.
Yeah, exactly.
Like what we're trying to do with Ronald Reagan when Ronald Reagan was calling him on his military positions.
Well, I've got stealth technology.
Yeah.
Uh Here you have Democrats who are doves 364 days a year.
On the day that they need to campaign to get elected, they become hawks.
There's no question it's what Obama's doing with the kill list.
Obama is leaking the stuff.
And everybody's supposed to conclude, wow, this guy's not the wuss we thought he was.
Why this guy goes for the jugular, personally picking the terrorists that are going to die.
And all this.
Yeah, and I don't think it's fooling anybody.
And all it's doing is angering his buddies on the left.
I got this story here that I teased.
CBS AP, it's from Providence, Rhode Island headline, Liberals threaten not to vote in November over disappointment with the Bamster.
They're trying to be hopeful, but the Democrat Party's most passionate voters are struggling to hide their frustration with President Kardashian.
Republicans attack the president, it's a big government liberal, but many liberals meeting Thursday at the net roots nation, which Obama did not attend this year.
They describe, by the way, these leftists as a giant family reunion for the left.
They're arguing that Obama hasn't fought hard enough for progressive priorities on taxes, health care, and the economy, even more problematic for President Kardashian.
With the election just five months away, some of these people threatening not to donate money or time or even vote in November for the man who overwhelmingly ignited their passions and captured their imaginations four years ago.
And I'll tell you, this story doesn't talk about it.
But they are livid on the left at this big militaristic Obama portrayed by these leaks.
This is the guy supposed to be shutting down Club Gitmo.
This is the guy who's supposed to be making sure that terrorists are represented fairly by American lawyers in court.
This is the guy who's supposed to be pulling our troops out of war zones.
This is the guy who's supposed to be stopping the effort to kill terrorists.
And here's Obama, you know, going out there so he's Jack Lane puffing himself up out there acting like he's the big tough guy, which I don't think uh.
I don't think anybody's buying it.
What people are focused on is the outrageousness of these leaks.
Folks, I uh the you uh we've got sound bites in the Rumsfeld, uh a bunch of these old warriors from the Cold War era and forward, who understand the whole concept of national security, secrecy, uh the need to maintain plausible deniability, privacy.
They're astounded.
And I think if I'll just tell you this, if they understood like Obama like I do, they wouldn't be astounded.
They would know what I know.
Obama doesn't take national security that seriously.
He doesn't think of us as a superpower.
He think it's he thinks it's gauche.
And it's arrogant to think that way.
It's braggadocious, it's insulting.
We're not a superpower.
Other countries think they're exceptional too.
We're nothing special.
That's how he looks.
We don't have any secrets.
In fact, the problems that we've had in his view all descend from this notion that we've thought ourselves special and that we've had secrets, and that we appoint ourselves the guardians of the world.
Who are we?
That's how Obama and his ilk have been educated and informed.
We have no business doing any of this stuff around the world.
Who are we?
We deserve it, kind of like Ron Paul.
We deserve some of this stuff that's happening to us.
So I I don't think Obama looks at these leaks as anything damaging.
Look what he told Dmitry Medvedev, or Medvedev, sorry.
He told him to tell Vladimir Putin, relax, relax.
I'll have more flexibility after the election.
They're talking about the United States eliminating nuclear weapons.
Obama basically told Medvedev to tell Putin, it'll all happen since I get re-elected when nobody can do anything to me.
Now, the caller is referring to the fact that in 1980, in September 1980, in a campaign, Jimmy Carter revealed that we had stealth technology.
He was trying to boost his foreign policy and defense credentials.
And Carter had just promised to kill a B-1 bomber.
He had just promised to kill Democrats are all arguing back then who would be the first to get us out of this part of the world and that part of the world.
And so Carmer Carter was trying to, you know, buff himself up.
Uh as a uh as a last ditch effort.
I got to take a timeout here, folks, as the time seems to go by quicker and quicker each day.
Here is Mark Shreport, Louisiana.
Welcome, sir.
Great to have you here.
Sumacum lawdy ditto's from Northwest Louisiana, where Cajun meets Cowboy Rush.
That's right.
That's right.
Listening to your point's preface to my main point.
Other than things you say, one of the best quotes I ever heard about what liberals understand about economics and American exceptionalism came from Bush 41, no less, when he said they love to tinker with the mechanism, but they don't understand the beauty of the machine.
And I've always loved that because that captures in a thumbnail.
A lot of the stuff that you've been saying today in the last few days, responding to some of their crazy actions.
My main point that I announced this early was something that last winter I wanted a good read and sat down by the fire and curled up with a good world almanac.
And I was reading the 56 election returns of President of the United States in our history, and I found what I think is a profound fact that I've heard no one talk about.
I'd like to share with your audience, share my feeling, and then let you run for the touchdown with it.
Okay.
There have been 15 presidents elected twice.
All 15, no exceptions, were re-elected by a larger margin than they were first elected.
What does that mean?
It means the election when an incumbent's running is all about his first term.
It doesn't matter how pretty the challenger is or how ugly.
And if the people think he deserves a second term, he'll get re-upped.
No matter how moderate, liberal, conservative the world is.
If these 15 incumbents have won re-election do it by a larger margin than their original victory, that means that Barack Kardashian is in heap big trouble because he is backtracking.
He'd not even treading water as we sit here today.
That's a fascinating stat.
I'm glad you called.
Try this heartwarming statistics.
Since eighteen twenty-five, more than two-thirds of U.S. presidents were not re-elected.
Since 1825, more than two-thirds were not re-elected.
And that's it.
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