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July 20, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 20, 2012, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 Podcast.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away today, and this is your undocumented anchor man, Mark Stein sitting in.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever coming to you live from Ice Station EIB in far northern New Hampshire.
I just uh just came galloping across the Canadian border this morning on Anne Romney's uh horse.
I I kidnapped it at a uh at a dressage event she was attending.
Rush will be back on uh Monday.
Twelve people dead, uh thirty-eight injured at a screening of the Dark Night Rises, the new Batman movie, a midnight screening in Aurora, Colorado uh last night.
Uh about twenty minutes into the movie, a man walks through the exit door.
He is wearing some kind of mask on his head, and he tosses what appear to be smoke canisters, and most of the audience assume that this is part of the show.
These midnight screenings on the Thursday night before the official Friday opening uh are a uh part of the general hype and publicity for big movies.
This is a big movie, it's opening on four thousand screens uh this weekend, and they do the this kind of thing.
I went to see uh the I think it was the first Mission Impossible movie at uh at a uh uh broken down little theater in uh in Plymouth, New Hampshire, and even there on the first performance they had uh they had men in Black Polenex, like rather camp versions of Tom Cruise repelling down the uh side of the movie theatre on Main Street Plymouth, New Hampshire.
So movie theaters, the big movie theaters put on a lot of this kind of thing.
So you're sitting there twenty minutes into the movie.
I haven't seen The Dark Knight Rises.
I saw the uh last uh Dark Knight movie, the one with Heath Ledger as the Joker, a lot of lot of violence in that.
That big about twenty minutes in, I figure we'd still be probably just about the end of that big opening scene uh where the Joker uh is pulling off that bank robbery.
Uh there's the lot of that heightened movie violence in it, the that uh that kind of visceral thrill violence where cars flip over, people die in in strange, lurid ways.
But you're watching it on a giant screen.
They die large.
Uh there's there's a a kind of heightened reality to it.
So if about twenty minutes in on the on the first night on this super sneak midnight preview that you manage to get into, uh a guy comes through one of the exit doors and he seems to be wearing a mask, and he tosses a couple of gas canisters, smoke canisters into the crowd, you'd think it was some kind of promotional thing.
And then he began shooting.
And the midnight showing of this violent R-rated movie uh apparently included uh a l a relatively large number of grade school children, and in fact preschool children, including a three-month-old baby who is among the injured.
Uh twelve people are dead.
A man is in custody.
His name is James Holmes.
He is described as a six-foot-three white male aged twenty-four years old.
Uh Warner Brothers has cancelled the Paris premier of the movie, and uh President Obama uh has suspended campaign events uh for today, as has Mitt Romney.
Uh I believe the Romney campaign has also pulled its ads off the air in Colorado.
These these seem slightly strange reactions to me, I have to say.
Uh th I gather the the official position is that at a time of uh uh w what both uh candidates called a tragedy.
It's not, by the way, it's not a tragedy, it's an it's an outrage.
It's a criminal act.
It's a criminal act of mass murder, and uh there there wasn't quite enough uh emphasis on that in either man's statement from my point of view.
It's not a tragedy.
A tragedy is like a tsunami or a hurricane or whatever.
This isn't a tragedy.
Uh both men have suspended their campaigns to uh taking ads off the air.
The decision not to politicize the event in a sense uh uh becomes itself political.
The president ostentatiously returning to Washington uh as if this uh falls within his jurisdiction.
It doesn't really.
Uh he was assured in the early hours of the morning that there's no terrorist connection.
It's a local law enforcement matter uh for the police department of Aurora, Colorado.
Nevertheless, he he he wants to be seen uh to be uh reacting to it, and so he has gone back to Washington and Mitt Romney has uh has pulled ads off the air.
Uh it's uh it's a funny business when something like this happens.
Uh because it's not political at all.
And so for a political show like this, it's not something that uh would normally fall within our remit.
I mentioned the tsunami earlier.
You remember the big tsunami five or six years ago.
Uh I'm in the opinion business, and uh a tsunami doesn't seem the sort of thing you you're required to have an opinion on.
I mean, nobody's pro-tsunami, uh nobody's in favor of the uh something sweeping in and devastating uh large uh amounts of property and uh and and um having a devastating effect and killing large numbers of people, but within a couple of days, y everybody had an opinion of it on it because it had become political.
Uh some United Nations guy stood up and started complaining uh about the American reaction.
The only people actually saving lives at that point was not the UN guy.
The UN guy was back in New York holding press conferences.
The only people on the ground was uh it was a US carrier uh task force and the Royal Australian Navy.
They were the only people saving lives and restoring the water supply and everything.
And uh but for the UN guy, the UN guy decided a tsunami is something you have to have an opinion on, and his opinion was that Americans were being stingy because they weren't giving enough money to the UN.
So eventually everything becomes political.
Nobody is pro-tunami, nobody is pro gunning down large numbers of people at movie theaters.
Uh but there is a rush to politicise these things.
Only one kind of event, by the way, not all these kinds of events.
If you're saying a major in the United States military, and you have soldier of alor on your business card, and you uh give a PowerPoint presentation uh on how G had is uh and uh is entirely reasonable reaction uh and uh killing American soldiers is an entirely legitimate business, and then you wind up on a table at an American military base gunning down large numbers of people while while shooting Alahu Akbar.
That has no political significance whatsoever.
That's simply an isolated one off from some crazy guy.
All G had is local.
That's just a one crazy isolated incident of no broader significance whatsoever.
But if you are Jared Lochner in the Gabby Giffords thing in uh in Arizona, or if you are James Holmes, whoever he is, a twenty-four-year-old guy, uh disturbed guy, uh takes the takes a small armory, takes more firepower than the average European Union Army can muster at short notice, and decides to go and gun down a movie theatre.
Unlike Major Hassan, that is not local.
That is not specific.
That is not a one off.
It uh it's gotta be something bigger than that.
And what it's got to be is it's Tea Party, it's talk radio.
So Brian Ross of ABC News this morning tells uh good morning American viewer, good morning America viewers, uh that there was a James Holmes listed at a Colorado Tea Party site.
And uh and and by and George Stephanopoulos, who uh hosts Good Morning America.
If you wonder what George has been doing the last few years, he uh he's apparently a host on uh Good Morning America.
Uh and Stephanopoulos says, I'm gonna go to Brian Ross.
You've been investigating the background of Jim Holmes here.
You found something that might be significant.
And Brian Ross says there's a Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colorado.
Uh he's got a page on the Colorado Tea Party side as well, talking about him joining the Tea Party last year.
Brian Ross, uh who has been, according to George Stephanopoulos, doing some investigating.
He hasn't been investigating.
He went uh what a your average seven-year-old boy could do.
He went on Twitter and he Googled, and he came up with a uh Jim Holmes in Aurora, Colorado.
Jim Holmes, that's that's uh that's an exotic name, isn't it?
Uh there's not can't possibly be many people called Jim Holmes in Colorado.
I mean it's not a common name like Slobodon Milosevich or Kruz Bustamente, is it?
It's a perfectly common name, a perfectly uh unusual name, Jim Holmes.
Jim Holmes.
Uh there are thirty James Holmes in Colorado, listed apparently in the phone book, and uh probably a few more unlisted.
One of them has already gone on Facebook to say, please look, don't don't pester me.
I'm I'm not the uh I'm not the mass murderer.
My my girlfriend went to a job interview uh today, and she was already asked about why she's uh dating a serial killer.
I'm not that James Holmes.
But to Brian Ross of ABC News, it doesn't matter.
So Brian Ross and James Stephanopoulos go on national television and announce with nothing to go on that uh that uh Jim Holmes, the guy who killed these people, apparently killed these people in Colorado, uh has uh joined the Tea Party last year.
So Tea Party guy guns people.
Now, ABC News has now been forced to apologize.
Because the James Holmes who is in custody is twenty-four.
And the James Holmes who joined the Tea Party is a guy, a middle-aged guy, looks like he's in his fifties.
Uh he in fact appears to be younger than the mother of the James Holmes who is in custody.
So that is that is the fantastic investigative job that Brian Ross has done on ABC News.
There's all kinds of stories floating out there, but we don't really know.
We in the end we don't know anything about this twenty-four-year-old guy.
He's just in custody.
But don't let that stop you, Jay Brian Ross and George Stephanopoulos from going out there and blaming it on the uh on the Tea Party guy.
George Stephanopoulos, by the way, has a long history on this kind of thing.
He's the one who uh back in the nineties with Timothy McVay, uh, was part of the uh excellent job that the Clinton administration did, uh hanging Timothy McVeigh around uh talk uh radio, if you remember in in the in the nineties.
And uh a couple of years later, uh her roy uh uh the the Princess of Wales, Diana Princess of Wales dies in a car crash in Paris, and uh Tony Blair finds himself dealing having to deal with it uh uh back in Britain.
And George Stephanophilus, Stephanopoulos bumps into uh Christopher Hitchens, the commentator, uh, in their lobby of their apartment building.
Uh Christopher Hitchens died uh a few months ago, but he used to tell this story uh in a very droll way, because he thought it was an excellent example of how these guys looked at things.
Uh Tony Blair had been going on TV and calling uh the late uh Diana, Princess of Wales, the people's princess, and all this kind of thing.
And George Stephanopoulos uh goes up to Christopher Hitchens and says, Hey, his isn't Tony Blair doing a great job with Diana.
This is his Oklahoma City.
This is his Oklahoma City.
And as Christopher Hitchens used to say, that's how these guys look at things.
And so almost two decades later, after Oklahoma almost two decades after Oklahoma City, George Stephanopoulos is on television at ABC News, and this is still how he looks at things.
So he gets Brian Ross, his so-called investigative, so-called journalist, to go out there and uh and claim that a fifty-five-year-old member of the Tea Party with the highly exotic name of James Holmes is in fact the same person as the twenty-four-year-old James Holmes who gunned down people in a Colorado movie theater.
Uh this is the point that they can't wait certain events they can't wait to politicize.
Uh whereas certain other ones, guy standing on the table screaming Alahu Akbar, pay no attention to that.
Alahu Akbar is Arabic for nothing to see here.
Don't worry about it.
You don't have to think about it at all.
Uh, and that's the way it's gonna be.
Uh so we'll talk about that today, but it is the end of the week, and you know what that means.
Live from Ice Station EIB, it's open line Friday.
Yes, you know how this works.
Monday to Thursday, a highly trained broadcast specialist controls the content of this broadcast.
But we have no highly trained broadcast specialist behind the microphone today, so anything goes, anything you want to talk about, 1-800-282-2882.
Uh, we will talk about the events in Colorado, but we will talk about the rest of the uh news too.
I'm not sure it is uh entirely proper in a uh in a democratic society to suspend all conversation uh simply because uh a one-off insane killer goes berserk at a movie theater.
So anything else you want to talk about?
If you want to talk about the Romney campaign, if you want to talk about you didn't build that, if you want to talk about the uh uh startling news that for the first time in history the average Canadian household is worth more money than the average American household.
If you want to talk about giving food stamps to Mexicans, if you uh want to talk about the fact that uh speaking of uh lone killers, uh according to the Bulgarians, uh the fellow who killed those Israelis in uh Bulgaria the other day uh is a guy who was in Guantanamo Bay but was released from Guantanamo Guantanamo Bay and is what you might call a repeat offender.
Uh that's that's the difference.
If you kill a bunch of people in Colorado, you'll go to a Colorado jail and you won't be coming out until they carry you out by the handles.
But if you uh if you kill a bunch of people in the course of the war on terror, you'll be going to Gitmo and they'll release you and you're free to kill again.
And it looks like that's what's been happening in Bulgaria.
So we'll take your calls on those or any other subjects.
Open Line Friday on the EIB network starts momentarily.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network, 1-800-282-2882, open line Friday.
We talk about anything you want to talk about.
1-800-282-2882.
Uh one thing I want to get out of the way, and uh Rush will deal with this if he's got anything to say about it on Monday.
And the only reason I mention it is because I woke up to a bunch of st this stuff in my inbox this morning before I'd heard a word about the shooting uh in Colorado.
Uh people blaming it not just on talk radio or the Tea Party or poisonous right wing rhetoric, but on Rush specifically, uh, because Rush happened to mention this movie a few days ago.
He mentioned it yesterday, he's been having great fun with the fact that the uh uh the the villain in it is called Bain, and he had a little ba back and forth with the uh writers of the movie who are uh uh you know, right wing guys.
That's how they describe themselves, in fact.
I think uh one of them describes himself as a uh as a right wing extremist and is happy to do so.
And the film, insofar as it has any political content at all, is uh uh is uh is a kind of um uh it can be interpreted at any rate as a kind of uh anti-Occupy Wall Street movie.
In other words, it looks the town, Gotham City, looks like uh the way a city would look like if the Occupy Wall Street guys ever got to take it over if it was Occupy Gotham.
So anyway, uh Rush is talking about this and he's having some fun with it, and uh I wake up this morning to a bunch of tweets from uh people saying uh Rush is responsible for this matter, that uh hate monger Limbaugh uh inspired this guy to go into the movie theatre and uh and kill all these people.
Uh I've been I've been uh had a bit of this myself at the time uh Andes Brevik, the Norwegian guy, killed all those people in uh Norway.
He'd left some vast two thousand word manifesto in which he quotes me, he actually quotes me unfavorably, he quotes uh Nami Klein, my fellow Canadian, who's a Canadian who writes for uh The Nation magazine.
He quotes all kinds, he quotes Jefferson, he quotes Churchill, uh he quotes uh all kinds of people in in this crazy manifesto.
Uh but but but the but the idea, the the uh as in every other issue, uh the left used that as a call for for shutting down political discussion.
And it is amazing, it is absolutely amazing how this is uh treated entirely normally now.
I if you listened, actually listened to what Rush said about uh the Batman movie.
The idea that it should somehow be illegal, or somehow it's irresponsible, or uh somehow it ought to be uh forbidden, and that we need a repeal of the First Amendment to prevent people discussing the plots of motion pictures.
Because you never know.
There's seven billion people out there on the planet, but just one of them might hear that.
Uh might hear that, and he and he might uh decide to do something crazy like gun down people.
Now this only again, this is like all the other uh calls about uh f for civility.
By the way, Rush was entirely civil about the Batman movie.
He was discussing he was discussing a Batman movie.
He was discussing a guy who likes to climb into long underwear and go swinging around the city uh late at night.
So he's not discussing uh the crippling multi-trillion dollar debt.
He's not discussing the overthrow of President Assad.
He's taking a little light relief from all the real bad stuff out there in the world today, and he's discussing a long underwear guy.
A guy who wears spandex for a living uh and goes twirling around uh the streets of a fictitious city.
And he's discussing uh the plot of a movie about a fictitious person who goes uh twirling around the streets of a fictitious city.
And uh the left now say, Well, this is this is hate speech, it should be forbidden, it should be illegal.
The next thing you know, he'll be discussing the plot of the Spider-Man movie.
Why Rush might Rush might detect some political metaphor in Ice Age twelve or Madagascar seventeen or whatever other piece of fluff is at the uh as at the multiplex.
Uh this only goes one way, by the way.
Uh you you remember all that uh stuff at the Tucson thing when uh when when a deranged nut was going on about Gabby Gifford's uh that was our fault too.
Yes, open line Friday, one eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two.
I just want to finish up that uh that thought of mine on Rush and uh what he was saying about about Batman.
Rush Rush has been talking about the Batman movie all week.
He wasn't the first, by the way, as he pointed out uh to talk about uh the uh political metaphor in the Batman movie, Chris Lahane, the Democratic Strategist, I think was the first one and uh and and various uh liberal types in the media had also been talking about it.
But Rush is apparently uh it's different when liberals do it.
Liberals can be trusted to understand sophisticated concepts such as metaphor and uh analogy.
So uh it doesn't matter when they have this.
Uh you remember last time it was all uh the fault of uh Sarah Palin's extreme rhetoric because she was, quote, targeting marginal seats.
Uh and uh this uh that that's a problem when when Republicans do it.
It's not a problem when uh the Clinton campaign documentary uh is called the war room.
Uh liberals are sophisticated to know uh that it's it's not an actual war where they're expected to grab their guns and start shooting.
And when, you know, Democratic Congressman Paul Kanjorski uh uh says that uh uh uh when it comes to the uh Republican governor of Florida, he'd like to quote put him up against the wall and shoot him, unquote.
Liberals are sophisticated enough uh to understand when something is a mere figure of speech or an analogy or a metaphor.
But you're not you're not that sophisticated.
So you have to be uh restricted, and we can't have uh we can't have radio hosts uh talking about uh plots of motion pictures uh because we have no idea when somebody, one person out there, all it takes is one person out there to go crazy and uh and to gun down.
Now again, this only applies one way.
Nobody ever says where did Major Hassan get the ideas that made him want to stand on a table shouting Alahu Akbar and gun down a bunch of people.
That is an isolated one-off.
It doesn't have anything to do with any books he might have read, uh or any uh spiritual advisers he might have listened to.
That's an entirely isolated one-off.
Uh but when it comes to some guy of no known political affiliation, of no polit who may have no political affiliations whatsoever whatsoever, uh, but when he decides to uh walk uh into a motion picture theater and kill a bunch of people, then the first thing that has to be happened is that ha that has to be pinned on right wing talk radio and Fox News and all kinds of other stuff.
This is pathetic.
Uh it's abysmal, it's not worth talking about, and uh I don't intend to say any more about it unless uh you've got something to say about it, but I'm sure if Rush has anything to say about it, he'll be doing so midday.
Uh Monday, Eastern time, when he returns and he can and he can deal with that himself.
But it only cuts one way this.
And uh and the idea just think about the world you would live in if what Rush said about Batman was no longer uh to be within the approved level of political discourse.
Think that would be the equivalent of living in a straitjacket.
We live in very peculiar times.
We live in times when people can't tell the difference uh between between what they see in the movies and their experiences in real life.
Uh We l we we live at a time when people watch reality shows that are entirely artificial and yet somehow think these are real people with whom they are engaged.
And it is a simple fact of the kind of world we live in, where we live in an electronically sensuous world uh where we're being electronically stimulated uh by all kinds of uh strange little entertainment phenomena.
Uh the the the the line between uh those uh those things becomes extremely blurred.
Nobody knows yet why this guy did it.
Uh there was a dark night comic book in nineteen eighty six, I believe it came out, uh, that actually prefigures this plot in which some kind of crazed loner, it's a Batman comic book.
A dark night comic book, in which a crazed loner goes to a movie theater and kills a bunch of people.
It actually comes.
So long before Rush had anything to say about it, uh Batman's uh writers and artists and editors and publishers had foreseen this precise scenario uh in a dark night comic book.
That doesn't mean by the way that we should ban Batman.
Uh it means that it means that we have to start hanging responsibility for people's acts uh on the perpetrators.
Uh this isn't like something in the water.
This isn't like uh rush isn't sending out little signals to to m to to put in people's brains.
Talk radio doesn't do uh talk radio doesn't do that.
Human beings are not animals.
They're responsible for their own acts.
Uh the the the person who killed these people, James Holmes, the twenty-four-year-old suspect, if he turns out to be the guy who killed these people, James Holmes killed these people.
And the idea of living in a world uh where the state uh would have powers to restrict the right of people uh uh to say a few words uh on a radio show about a forthcoming movie about a guy who wears long underwear and swings through the streets of a fictitious city.
Uh the idea that that is somehow uh is hate speech, hate speech.
Uh you imagine the powers the government would have to have uh to to control that, and in the end you'd have more bombings.
Because in s it's in societies where you can't talk about anything, uh the only option is for people to blow it up.
In Saudi Arabia, for example, where there's mysterious explosions all the time, people always burn up things because you can't say anything.
You can't say anything, you can't do anything, all you can do so if you object to something, all you can do is blow it up.
The left should be ashamed.
They've already had to walk back one story, Brian Ross's disgraceful story, they should be ashamed at going down this route.
Brian Ross uh can't tell the difference between a fifty-five year old Tea Party member and a twenty-four-year-old nut who's in custody.
So he goes and says it on national TV anyway, and then after the event, after everybody's already bombarding the Facebook page and the Twitter feed and the email of the other guy, then he starts to walk it back.
Open line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh Show, let us go to Ken in New Market.
Uh and it says New Market M. I don't know what state that is, but I know it begins with M. Which state?
Maryland.
Okay.
That's great.
I was outside DC, the Cesspool.
Okay, I was gonna shoot for Maine or Montana, but it's New Market uh Maryland.
Oh uh did was your power knocked out, by the way, uh a couple of weeks ago.
Yeah, thankfully I'm in a neighborhood where we put our power lines underground.
When you say the whole time.
Okay, well, when you said we put our power lines underground, you didn't do that.
You didn't build that.
Obama built that.
Just remember that.
Okay, yeah, the government does everything.
Everything that works, Obama did.
Just remember that.
Uh okay, Ken, what's on your mind today?
Well, um, I just want to make comment about Bat the Batman movie.
I actually went to the midnight screening last night.
This is the first time I've done that in years that decided to do it.
And I was actually taken back by the whole storyline because as I'm sitting there watching it, to me, it was a huge parallel of what was happening in America because Seriously, the the main character sounded like he was giving Obama's uh speeches.
Like uh he was saying the same things about class warfare was saying these elitists were holding you down, and that that was the whole plot of the movie was the the rich were the bad people, the poor were he is helping the poor rise up, but as you watched, as that happened, the city deteriorated more and more and more and more.
And it was to the point where they were arresting the rich simply for being successful.
And on trial because they were successful, they were bad.
And I I haven't seen I should say I haven't seen this picture yet, but I I understand that uh it begin i the the movie features scenes of things like the Gotham City Stock Exchange uh and financial district being blown up by these guys.
Like, yeah, he was blown up like the wealth.
But but not really.
He was taking it for himself.
But it's the whole the whole parallel of and literally every speech that this the Bane character gave sounded like an Obama campaign speech.
And I was just in there and my friends and I were all just in there like that is crazy, unbelievable that Hollywood would allow something like that to get out.
But like, yeah, and and uh and Batman is uh this this is Rush's theory that in fact uh Batman is uh is Mitt Romney, he's the goofy bra Bruce Wayne guy, uh the g the the goofy rich guy who who finds himself called upon uh by the events of his time.
Okay, okay, yeah, we we don't want to do any uh thank you, Mr. Sn.
We don't want to do uh we're gonna we want to uh restrict some of the plot spoilers.
He wasn't doing I don't think Ken was doing a lot of that, but Ken was making the point that we do see scenes of the financial institutions of Gotham City uh being blown up and uh and and uh Bain uh affecting a populist left wing uh rhetoric.
Uh let's go to Pam in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Pam, it's great to have you on open line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hi, um I have a couple points.
My one point is that nobody ever got to the bottom of Fast and Furious.
And how do you know that in fact this guy didn't get a hold of some of the ammunition guns?
Nobody even knows what the heck the Mexicans got.
Uh we do know they came from the United States.
How do you know he they didn't get uh some of the guns um and ammunition from them?
And uh we never got to the bottom of whatever went on there.
And and and my next point is that Occupy Wall Street, I mean, it's okay to go in there and break everything.
There was a murder in there, and this is because of the Obama administration allowing all this stuff to go oh he was bad, okay.
Let's go all do that.
Now when a guy goes into uh a theater and he he he all of a sudden he cares.
Well, why doesn't he care about the Terry guy that died?
Why why doesn't he care about and get to the bottom of where these guns really came from or or who they really went to and who was responsible for it.
Yeah, the uh the Fast and Furious guns, which came from the government of the United States, killed uh not only uh uh Agent Terry, uh a uh uh a US uh government agent, but they also killed uh large numbers of innocent Mexicans.
A large numbers of innocent Mexicans under Fast and Furious, under uh Eric Holder's Fast and Furious program, large numbers of third world people were killed with guns supplied to gangs by the government of the United States.
Uh and uh nobody seems bothered about that.
Uh I think I think ABC News, the the same ABC News that couldn't wait to finger this guy uh uh Holmes as a Tea Party member.
Uh the the that's the same ABC News that I think did only did its first story uh on Fast and Furious a couple of weeks ago.
In other words, if you get your news from people like Brian Ross and George Stephanopoulos, you've got no idea what uh what what this thing is all about.
Uh and that's a and that's a very good point, uh that's a very good point, Pam.
Mark Stein Infrarush, lots more straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for us, the University of Colorado has released a picture of James Holmes.
Uh they say he was a student at uh the medical school there, but recently withdrew.
He looks like a young man in this picture, 24-year-old James Holmes looks like a young comic book fan.
Looks like the kind of guy uh you'd expect to see at a Batman movie.
Uh open line Friday, 1800-282-2882.
Before I go any further, I want to um thank Sean.
If you listened to uh Rush yesterday, Sean came on and uh uh endeavored to help Rush reboot his w w what was it, Mr. Snerdley?
I had no idea what it was that he was uh his reboot his iPhone by reinstalling his it sounded like uh a surrey.
Is that I can't possibly be a a Syri.
So not a Surrey is a like a a nice horse and buggy you you take to the uh the fancy town picnic with the checking tablecloth.
Uh it's not it's not that.
A series is something else, is it.
It's the iPhone.
It's the It's the Oh, so there's a live voice that that's okay.
I didn't I didn't know.
Yeah.
No, I can't.
I'm in a very primitive state here, so I have no idea, Mr. Snerdley, what what so he his his live helpmate.
I didn't I didn't know you got a live helpmate on an iPhone.
That that uh Yeah, I hadn't I had no idea.
I like I live in a Oh, he had the beta of IOS six, and that's not the desirable helpmate that you that's not a it's n it's not a state of the art helpmate.
I I dunno.
I mean we have long winters here in New Hampshire, and and the idea of having an iPhone helpmate to help me get through the long winter isn't is not without its appeal.
Anyway, Sean did such a we wanna we wanna just put it on the record here that uh the second time after the show, Rush did what Sean recommended, and he has rebooted his iPhone helpmate or whatever.
It also I'm sure it's not as much fun as it sounds, but he's rebooted his iPhone helpmate, so Sean does deserve to win.
The uh the um uh the the new Mac uh that Rush sent.
Rush sent him some uh exciting new Mac uh a MacBook Pro.
A MacBook Pro uh that he won, and some people were saying, well, this is like uh this is like an Obama thing.
Prizes for everybody.
Uh it's uh it's like all the people uh going on disability.
A more people go on disability every month now than get new jobs, and it's and and it's the same thing with uh Rush handing out free man.
Did he earn it?
Did he earn his success?
Uh did he build the road that the MacBook came on?
Well, yes, Sean did earn his success because he did succeed in uh in reinstalling the Siri helpmate of uh I it's a mystery to me.
We're gonna get Sean up here to iStation EIB and we're gonna see if he can put a new roll of fax paper in our nineteen eighty-three fax machine because that that's the he's he's he's mastered this state of the art technological assistant, uh so we'll see what he can we can do next.
Let us go to uh Victor in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Victor, you are live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Hi, Mark.
I wanted to talk about the uh anniversary.
This today, forty-three years ago, the uh Apollo eleven landed on the moon.
Oh and the astronauts you know walked on the moon.
I was really thrilled about it.
I followed the space program um throughout my life.
Um I'm sixty-five now.
And I was really thrilled.
I was hoping that some of the science fiction I listened to when I was growing up would become science fact, and some of it already have.
But being blind, I was especially thrilled with some of the electronics that's come out through thanks to miniaturization.
Um I remember getting the first talking calculator in 1976.
And that was three hundred and ninety-five dollars.
Now you can get 'em from maybe two or three dollars.
And I remember the first communication satellite, Telstar.
That was fifty years ago on July the tenth.
That's right.
Everybody made a big deal from a fifteen minute program live from France.
Right, right.
So Yes, sir.
Yeah, no, no, you're you th you have a s I take it though, you cause Obama was mentioning this in his speech in his you didn't build that speech.
He said, We went uh we went to the moon together.
So you're you're on board with the uh uh with Obama and the moon shot business.
No, Obama had nothing to do with it.
He was born before uh he was born um r uh before John Glenn even made his uh first three orbits around the earth in nineteen sixty-two.
Right.
Now he his his uh uh the the the point about this though is that the the level of human achievement, if you think of it, from the moment President Kennedy said, put a man on the moon by the end of this decade.
And America did that in the space of whatever it was, seven or eight years, start to finish.
And there was nothing there's nothing phony about this.
It's not like saying, well, just like let's have an electronic I two R two D two thing wandering around the moon.
Let's have an unmanned drone on the moon.
Let's put an American man on the moon with an American flag.
And America did it in seven years.
Could we do that today?
More to come.
James Holmes was a uh graduate student in neurosciences, uh, it seems at the medical school at the University of Colorado in Denver.
Uh we will talk about that and all the rest of the day's news.
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