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June 18, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 18, 2012, Monday, Hour #2
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Greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists on across the fruited plane.
I'm Rush Limbaugh, your real American anchor man.
Real anchor man.
Also, I am America's truth detector.
And America's doctor of democracy.
It's great to have you here.
The telephone number, if you want to be on the program, is 800 282882.
And the email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
By the way, the New York Times story is just talking about they have an alternative headline.
Yep, they get two headlines with the uh with the with the story.
Uh and it the second one is Obama re-election complicated by world events.
Both headlines basically say the same thing.
But it's all about the world is not cooperating with Obama.
Europe not cooperating with Obama as far as his re-election is concerned.
Middle East not cooperating with Obama.
Russia, not cooperating.
And don't forget, this is really a slap from Putin.
Because you remember what what Obama said to Medvedev a couple months ago, said, hey, tell Vlad to chill out.
I'll have a lot more flexibility after I'm re-elected.
He was talking about us getting rid of nuclear weapons, nuclear missiles.
You just tell Vlad, chill.
I'll have a lot of flexibility, a lot more flexibility after I win.
So what does Putin do?
Hey, no one ever leaves Dick KGB.
And Putin is sending defense missiles to Syria.
And of course, that's viewed as unhelpful to Obama's re-election.
I want to know what president did the world cooperate with for a I would venture to say that the world helped get Obama elected.
If you recall back in the campaign 2008, Ahmed and Izad would say something about America, and it sounded just like any other Democrat and what he was saying.
I remember saying, my gosh, you know, if I if if if if the leader of Iran is criticizing my country the same way I do, I'd be embarrassed.
But not these guys, not these Democrats.
But it was clear that the world wanted Obama elected.
Now the world apparently doesn't want him re-elected.
And they're they don't have their priorities straight.
New York Times is trying to embarrass the world here into shaping up and getting into the right frame of mind.
You know, this is not the first time that Obama has had uh to bypass Congress by ignoring its laws.
Gotta remember that Obama decided to no longer enforce or defend the Defense of Marriage Act, just decreed that one day.
He's decided not to prosecute medical marijuana cases.
He has issued countless waivers to Obamacare for his friends, and he's allowed states to opt out of the no child left behind requirements.
So this immigration thing is not the first time that he's gone to the Constitution.
It's it's a habit for the guy.
Well, exactly.
If you look at the shenanigans they had to employ to get Obamacare passed in the uh in the first place.
But I'll tell you, if you read this New York Times piece through and through, you don't have to, because I've done it for you.
In a nutshell, the New York Times piece says Obama's failures aren't just Bush's fault.
The world is to blame too.
Not Obama.
None of this is his fault.
It's Bush's fault in Europe's and the Middle East and North Korea and Russia.
And probably Hugo Chavez, I'll throw him in just for the uh sake of it.
Um New York Daily News.
Soda, not main culprit of childhood obesity, according to study.
What was it last week or the week before?
Mayor Doomberg suggested that we limit the size of soft drinks to 16 ounces to limit the amount of Sugar consumed by stupid idiot New Yorkers who don't know what's good for them.
Right.
As New Yorkers continue to debate a controversial proposal to ban supersized sodas, a new study out of Canada says the link between the consumption of sweetened beverages and childhood obesity is weak at best.
It's the latest study to weigh in on the controversy which has divided New York City, supporters lauding Mayor Doomberg's initiative to combat rising obesity, and others calling the strategy short-sighted, a Canadian study be published in October.
The October issue of applied physiology, nutrition, and metabolism.
It's one of my favorite magazines.
In fact, I just renewed the subscription on the iPad over the weekend.
They determined that more than the consumption of sugary drinks, the main predictors of childhood obesity among Canadian children were household income, ethnicity, and household food security.
Also found that the intake of sweetened beverages and the risk of obesity indeed played a factor in boys age six to eleven, but it's not the main culprit.
Not the main culprit.
More than the consumption of sugary drinks, the main predictors of childhood obesity among Canadian children were household income, ethnicity, and household food security.
What this tells me is that capitalism will help make us all thinner.
Well, capitalism's the fix for all these things.
One higher income, capitalism.
You want ethnicity not mattering to the outcome?
Capitalism.
Household food security, whatever the hell that is.
The absence of food deserts.
The absence of food desert.
That's a double negative.
Food security is food deserts.
Oh.
Oh, is that what that means?
Food.
Not worrying about your next meal.
It's about not worrying about food security is not worrying about your next meal.
Right.
Okay, so they measure it.
Do you might oh that's right.
That's right, I remember now.
Food security is do you think you might miss a meal?
And if you do, you are food insecure.
Right, okay.
Talking about the United States of America.
By the way, there's a there's a store in Omaha called Come and Go, K-U-M.
I'm not kidding.
Kate.
Yes, sir.
They sell 100 ounce soft drinks to stick it to Doomberg.
In Omaha, store called Come and Go is now selling sodas in 100 ounce containers.
Just to stick it to Doomberg.
I I all of these, all these myths.
Soft drinks, main culprit, soft drinks at obesity.
Then the study comes, no, sorry, not not not true.
I don't know who paid for the study.
No, not the Coke press.
No, the Coke.
This C O K E brother.
The polar bear association.
No.
Doesn't say who this is the study will be published in the October issue of applied physiology, nutrition, and metabolism.
No mention of here who paid for the study.
Look, uh, I got a couple stories here on uh on women.
Oh, by the way.
I uh let me check something here.
Did you hear about this couple?
The bucketless couple that lost everything.
Did you hear about aw this this from uh it's an Australian couple?
The guy was wrongly diagnosed with terminal cancer.
So he and his Wife went out, they compiled their bucket list, and they went and did everything.
They sold their house.
They maxed out their credit cards.
They went way beyond the credit cards.
They went to the total $100,000 in debt, and then were told the diagnosis was incorrect.
He did not have terminal cancer.
Frank 69 and Wilma, 65, don't want their surname published.
Say they had nothing to lose after Frank was told in May of 2010 he only had a few months to live.
The medical advice turned out to be wrong.
And though they're happy that Frank's alive, their quality of life has been eroded by a spending spree, which included trips to Australia and Fiji.
Frank, I guess in New Zealand.
Frank had part of his lung removed following a brush with cancer, and after chemotherapy started getting chest pains, was short of breath.
He had an ultrasound done.
Fluid was taken from his pericardium.
And a month later, he was given the devastating news.
It was likely the cancer had returned to his heart, and he only had a few months to live.
So Frank and Wilma did what many people do.
They made every day count.
Frank used to own a handyman business in Auckland.
They gave away $30,000 worth of tools, fishing gear, and a quad bike, gave away clothes and household items.
They sold their house at a loss of $70,000.
They canceled their health insurance.
Frank began smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee after quitting during his first cancer diagnosis.
They went to Fiji for 10 days.
They blew $30,000 on food, a five-star resort, fishing activities, expected his life insurance to cover the cost.
Yeah, we had a good time, spent too much money on food, went around New Zealand so far.
It wasn't until their hospice care came for his monthly checkup.
23 months after Frank was told he was on his way out.
Twenty-three months later, the hospice caregiver comes over and says, you know what?
We uh we made a mistake, Frank.
Uh I'm here for the last time.
You you don't have cancer.
So they're busted.
They're broke.
They've got nothing, and they are massive amounts of dollars in debt.
Because he was told he only had a few months to live.
Did you hear?
I was gonna check.
I don't let me check the sound real quick.
I'm looking for Biden, Biden, Biden, but no.
Did you a Biden said?
Real clear politics has this.
And I don't know when Biden said this.
It's recently.
Here's Biden said, my dad never worked in a food fair.
My dad never wore a blue collar.
Barack makes me sound like I just climbed out of a mine in Scranton, Pennsylvania carrying a lunch bucket.
That was Biden speaking at a conference, U.S. mayors in Orlando, I think it was last week.
He said, no one in my family ever worked at a factory.
He's ticked off here.
Biden's ticked off because apparently Obama runs around and tells everybody what a blue-collar guy his vice president is.
Obama tells everybody, my vice president, blue-collar guy, and for some reason this offended Biden.
My dad never worked in a food fair.
My never, my dad never wore a blue collar.
Barack makes me sound like I just climbed out of a mine in Scranton carrying a lunch bucket.
No one in my family worked in a factory.
Now why would Biden say this?
Why do rats jump off sinking ships?
It's because they know the ship is sinking.
But I I can't find a plausible explanation for why Biden would do it.
He sounds really ticked off.
That he's blue collar.
He's insulted by being blue collar.
A Democrat's is supposed to be a badge honor to be blue-collar.
Your roots to blue collar status of the Democrat Party or what qualify you to be a Democrat.
Here's old, here's Biden, my dad never worked at food fair.
My dad never wore blue collar.
Brock makes me sound like I just climbed out of a mine in Scranton, Pennsylvania, carrying a lunch bucket.
Nobody in my family worked in a factory.
Man.
And we have a couple of stories about women here, folks.
And the first one was by Elizabeth Wirtzel.
It's in the Atlantic.
One percent wives are helping kill feminism and make the war on women possible.
This is a story attacking the wives in the 1%.
And the subhead of this story, being a mother isn't a real job, and the men who run the world know it.
That's exactly right.
That's what it says here.
This is Elizabeth Wertzel.
She's a lawyer with Boys Schiller and Flexner in New York.
It'd be David Boy's.
She's the author of Prozac Nation, Young and Depressed in America.
Uh, and more now again, a memoir of addiction.
Elizabeth Wertzel, 1% wives are helping kill feminism.
She's she's basically saying rich women who are ruining feminism for the rest of us.
And that being a mother isn't a real job, and the men who run the world know it.
That there's that story, and then there's this one.
People are stressed out more than ever, finds new study.
Women especially vulnerable to high stress.
And at that, 23% of small business owners went a year without paying themselves.
Folks, sit tight.
We barely scratched the surface.
Plus, we've got your phone calls all to throw in the mix when we get back.
You know, I really I I can't get over this.
Joe Biden disgusted and insulted at the thought that any might might think that anybody in his family ever did any real work.
Joe Biden, so insulted that Obama says his family's blue collar, he has to go out and defend his family's honor to a U.S. conference of mayor, mayors, by pointing out my family never did any real work.
My family never worked in a mall, my family never worked in a mine, my family never blue collar, my family never worked in a factory.
Biden's got to be confused, because remember, he said Obama's different.
He's clean, he's articulate.
No, Biden's family didn't work at 7-Eleven because you have to speak Indian to work at a 7-Eleven, and Biden's family doesn't speak Indian.
That's what Biden said.
Seriously.
You Democrats, you union people, the vice president is acting insulted and disgusted that anybody would think that anybody in his family ever did any real work.
Now, this story here and uh rich women are ruining feminism for the rest of us.
I'll bet you if I read that story, I bet you it's an attack on Ann Romney.
I'll lay you 10 to 1, either implied or direct.
It's an it's a direct attack on Anne Romney, and it's gonna backfire on them.
Uh folks, in Chicago, Obama's hometown.
Well, there's also Kapui, whatever it is in Hawaii, but but Chicago.
That's that's Obama's town.
And Chicago Tribune.
One eight, or one dead, eight wounded in shootings across city overnight.
This is last night.
The overnight violence raised the weekend total, seven fatal shootings and one fatal stabbing between Friday afternoon and early Monday morning.
It is more dangerous in Obama's hometown than it is in Kabul, Afghanistan.
But let me tell you something.
I've got the Chicago Tribune store, and there is a Google map of murders in Chicago.
Do you know you can you can Google map murder locations in Chicago?
That's how common as though anybody would want to go to these places, but you can do it.
I'm looking at it.
Let's go to the phones.
Marty in Stafford, Virginia.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Marty probably not there anymore.
So who's next?
Where do we want to go next?
Someone give me a line we want to go to.
John in Leander, Texas.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello.
Hi.
How are you?
Good.
Your comment reading about these stories about has the modern day president become too much for one man.
The answer to that is yes if it's a liberal president.
Because liberal presidents must tell uh women what their birth control shall be and what little kids shall eat, and all this is completely beyond the capability of any man or woman.
However, if the president would simply read the U.S. Constitution and carry out those duties that are there and ignore the other things he wants to do, then frankly, even if I were president today, this country would be better off.
No question.
No questions.
Like Mr. Buckley once said.
Take the first 500 names from the Boston phone book, rather be governed by any of those people than by the Harvard faculty.
You got it.
And what you're saying here is that the reason the job's gotten too big is because people like Obama are trying to micromanage everything for everybody and the rest of the world.
But what they're really saying, they think the force of Obama's personality, the force of his charisma and intellect.
That alone should shape event domestically and internationally.
And when the magic doesn't happen, it can't be Obama's fault.
It's got to be the fault of the governed, and it's got to be the fault of uh previous presidents and Europe and the job is just too big for one man.
But it's a great call.
It's a great point, John.
And we are coming right back.
Obama's chief aide and Muchell's Galpal, Valerie Jarrett, had 200 policemen reassigned, by the way, to protect your daughter's wedding in Chicago.
You hear that?
Valerie Jarrett has a daughter.
A daughter got married, B, and had a reassigned 200 cops to protect the daughter's wedding in Chicago.
Now the Obamas attended, of course, uh, as did Eric Holder.
And everyone, including young children, were frisked before being allowed to enter and participate in the joyous ceremonies.
And I wouldn't be surprised if they required photo ID to get into the wedding.
I wouldn't be surprised.
We have the Joe Biden audio.
It was from Friday.
Last Friday in Orlando, the 2012 annual meeting, the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
My dad never worked in a food fair.
My dad never wore a blue collar, and Le Brock makes me sound like I just climbed out of a mine in Scranton, Pennsylvania carrying a lunch bucket.
No one of my family worked in a factory.
Well, there you have it.
So don't anybody in this room known any of you think my family ever did any real work?
My family never worked in a factory, carried a lunch bucket, worked in a mine, a food fair, blue collar.
No, not in my family.
What's Richard Trump going to do when he hears about this?
All these union thug leaders.
New York Daily News.
New study confirms what you may already suspect.
People are more stressed out today than they were 25 years ago.
This is um psychologist and lead author Sheldon Cohen, the director of Carnegie Mellon's laboratory for the study of stress, immunity, and disease.
The data suggests there's been an increase in stress in the last 25 years.
Three separate studies.
The results find that women, people with lower incomes, and those with less education experience.
Sorry, those with less less education should be a comma there, experience the highest levels of stress.
Men were more susceptible to Stress during difficult financial periods.
But it's not all bad news out there.
Findings show that as you get older, your stress decreases, and you know why?
When you get older, you just don't care anymore.
Your emotional reservoir runs dry.
And you have no more capacity to listen to people complain and whine and moan.
But when you're young, and everybody's out there whining and complaining.
Everybody thinks that they're caretakers, and everybody thinks they have to fix it.
So somebody comes and whines to you and oh my gosh, what I gotta do, I gotta fix it, I gotta stop the whining.
And you do this for most of your life.
And then finally you say, I don't care anymore.
Your problem, I've tried, you fix it, I'm out of here.
And you don't worry about it anymore.
If more people could do that when they were younger, there would be less stress out there.
So lower incomes make us stressed out.
We had a previous story, lower incomes make us fat.
So lower incomes make us stressed and fat.
And the answer is the opposite of what we're doing now as a country.
Nothing that the left, Moochell, Obama, the Democrats, the Socialists are doing is producing any good results for anybody.
If you want to know why there's added stress, it's the rise of liberalism.
And of course they had to toss in here that women are especially vulnerable.
Anne Romney heckles hecklers.
During Mitt Romney's campaign stop in Newark, Ohio.
This is from Jim Hoft, by the way, Gateway Pundit.
During Romney's campaign stop in Newark, Ohio yesterday, Anne Romney took a swipe at Obama protesters screaming outside the rally.
She said, We got some detractors out there, but we can be just as loud about how much we love this country.
The crowd loved it.
The Obama campaign and Democrats have been sending their lackeys to disrupt Romney events across the country.
And this is why Romney is doing the same thing.
This is why the Romney campaign went and heckled and harassed Axlarod in Boston last week.
It's why the Romney bus circled the community college, Cuyahoga Community College, Obama's inside speaking at that miserable 54 minute speech.
The Obama campaign is dishing it right back to them.
And here's the Elizabeth Wertzel story.
She remembered now as a lawyer with boys, Schiller, and Flexner in New York.
One percent wives are helping kill feminism and make the war on women possible.
Being a mother is not a real job, and the men who run the world know it.
Those are the headlines.
Here's how it starts.
It's in the Atlantic, by the way.
When my mind gets stuck on everything that's wrong with feminism, it brings out the nineteenth century poet in me, she says.
Let me count the ways.
Most of all, feminism is pretty much a nice girl who really, really wants so badly to be liked by everybody, ladies who lunch, men who hate women, all the morons who demand choice and don't understand responsibility, that it's become the easy lay of social movements.
That one word perked snertily up.
He was screaming calls, he heard the word lay and he stopped everything he was doing.
Okay, let me run through this sentence again.
Because it is a bit of a run-on sentence.
So I will apply my highly trained broadcast specialist talents to this and make this understandable.
Feminism, I should properly state feminists are pretty much nice girls who just want to be liked by everybody.
So badly they want to be liked by everybody.
The ladies who lunch, they want to be liked by men who hate women, they want to be liked by all the morons who demand choice and don't understand responsibility, that feminism has become the easy lay of social movements.
I am going to smack the next idiot who tells me that raising her children full time is her feminist choice.
Who can possibly take feminism seriously when it allows everything as long as women choose it?
The whole point to begin with was that women were losing their minds pushing mops and strollers all day without a room or a salary of their own.
So let's please be serious grown ups.
Real feminists don't depend on men.
Real feminists earn a living.
Real feminists have money.
Real feminists have means of their own.
If the movement had been serious about being serious, then the idea could not have caught on that equal is how you feel.
All right, I know this complicated, it's because it's convoluted.
Read that sentence to you again.
If the movement, if feminism had been serious about being serious, then the idea of feminism could not have caught on that equal is how you feel.
And that's where feminism equal is how you feel, not what it is.
Men know better.
They look at numbers, and here is how the statistics are running.
Years after women first started screaming and yelling and burning bras, women still earn eighty one percent of what men do.
And an act to make things more fair was blocked in Congress by Republicans.
For anybody who doesn't care to count, but understands traffic signals mixed with policy speculation, I think it's safe to say that the day is near when a teenage girl will be forced to get a vaginal probe before she's issued a learner's permit in the state of Virginia.
And this is all because feminism has misread its mission of equality as something open to interpretation, as expressive and impressive, not absolute.
Are you following this?
Well, that's your problem then.
I mean this this is a serious feminist.
She livid, she is angry, she is outraged, she is stressed out, she's perpetually on well, this comment that for anyone who doesn't care to count but understands traffic signals mixed with policy speculation, and I don't know what that means.
I don't even care.
She writes, I think it's safe to say that the day is near when a teenage girl be forced to get a vaginal probe before she's issued a learner's permit, state of Virginia.
That's that's because the uh the sonogram legislation prior to an abortion.
She really ticked about that.
And then she says, You don't agree with me?
Well try this.
Smart is how you feel.
Pretty is how you feel.
Talented is how you feel.
Okay, then we're all beautiful geniuses.
Feminism should not be inclusive, and like most terms that are meaningful, it should mean something.
It should mean equality.
What she's ticked off here is about is that any woman can claim she's a feminist simply by exercising a choice.
That alone makes her a feminist.
Doesn't matter what the choice, she can choose to be a stay at home mom and be and call herself no, she can't.
A stay at home mom is the problem.
A stay at home mom betrays feminism.
There is no such thing as she wants feminism to have a rigid definition where not too many women qualify.
That's what she wants.
That's what she if I understand this.
She's all upset smart is how you feel.
No, it's not.
Smart's measurable.
Pretty is how you feel, no, it's not.
Tell that to the people at bowling alley.
Talented is how you feel?
No, tell that to the people who are on off Broadway three and four streets.
We're all beautiful geniuses.
No, we're not.
We might lie to ourselves and tell us that we are, but we're not.
Feminism should not be inclusive.
It ought to be rigid.
Membership requirements ought to be very difficult, with Elizabeth Wertzel in charge.
And there really is, back to her pee, there really is only one kind of equality.
It precedes all this emotional hullaboo.
It's economic.
If you can't pay your own rent, you are not an adult.
You are dependent.
But because feminism has always been about men.
Our relationships with them, our differences from them, as much or more than about money, it's had few consistent tenets.
So, remember Catherine McKinnon, all sex is rape even in marriage?
If it involves a man, you can't be a feminist.
This woman's a throwback.
She's going back to the late 60s, early 70s.
She's a purist.
This is what it was back then.
You're not supposed to take your happiness from a relationship.
You're not supposed to be continued or linked to a man in any way.
And if if you're not, if you're married and you're a woman and you're not paying your own rent, you're kept.
You are dependent.
You are not independent.
You are not a feminist.
If you're living with a husband or a man and he's paying the freight, you are nobody.
You are not equal.
You are dependent.
And as such, you are betraying feminism.
And then later on in a piece, she says failing as a feminist is a unique problem of the wealthy.
But consequences impact women all the way down the line.
To be a stay-at-home mom is a privilege.
And most of the housewives I've ever met, none of whom do anything around the house, live in New York City and Los Angeles, far from Peoria.
These women are the reason their husbands think all women are dumb, and I don't blame them.
I gotta take a break, because I'm a little long, but don't worry, we will circle back to this.
The babe who wrote what I'm reading to you is Elizabeth Wertzall.
She is a lawyer and author of Prozac Nation, Young and Depressed in America.
And she admits that she discovered that she was depressed when she was ten.
And I think that she still is.
And I should also point out, Elizabeth Wurzel, I'm pretty sure about this, is not a mother.
Now what have we been told about that?
If you're not a mother, you're not qualified to talk about mothers or child rearing.
Have we not heard that?
If you're not a soldier, you can't talk about the defense budget.
Here she is.
Seems to be pretty depressed to me, professionally depressed.
I mean, I think it's her job to be depressed and angry and write about it.
She even by the way, she's so depressed that she admits she only got into Yale Law School because of affirmative action.
But again, here folks, this is original feminism.
This is the feminism of my late teens and early twenties.
This is what it was like.
This is what the pressures on young women were back then.
Failing as a feminist is a unique problem of the wealthy.
To be a stay-at-home mom is a privilege, and most of the housewives I've ever met, none of whom do anything around the house, live in LA and New York, far from priori.
These women, these stay-at-home moms, these rich, wealthy, kept women, these dependent women, are the reason their husbands think that all women are dumb.
And she writes, I don't blame these men.
I don't blame these men for thinking all women are dumb.
Sit around the house, don't do anything all day, go out to lunch with other ladies who lunch.
I don't blame them.
The men for thinking that all women are dumb.
As it happens, fewer than five percent of the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, 16% of corporate execs, 17% of law partners are women.
The men, the husbands of the 1% are on trading floors or in office complexes with other men all day, and to the extent that they see anybody who isn't male, it's pretty much a secretaries and assistants.
And they go home to whatever.
What are they supposed to think?
They pay gargantuan American Express bills, and they don't know why or what for.
And then they give money to Mitt Romney.
Being A rich mom, even with five sons, bless her heart, is not even sort of a job.
So she's doubling down on the Hillary Rosen comment that Ann Romney never worked a day in her life.
All the cultish glorification of home and heart still leaves us in a world where most of the people paid to chef and chauffeur are men.
Which is to say, something becomes a job when you're paid for it, and until then, it's just a part of life.
So, for whatever reason, Elizabeth Wertzel still depressed, still angry, still feeling betrayed, sold out, lost, and uh and what have you.
And she's not a mother.
So we don't know what her qualifications to opine on all this really are anyway.
We really are having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, and we do it every day here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I don't think Miss Wirzel is at any risk when it comes to marrying a one percenter.
I think she's pretty safe.
That regard.
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