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July 27, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 27, 2012, Friday, Hour #3
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Hi, how are you?
Welcome back, Rush Limboy, EIB Network, Limboy Institute.
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So I have a I got a very thought-provoking note.
And I'm sure by the way that this note is going to reflect the way a whole lot of you feel.
It's an interesting think piece.
Dear Rush.
Don't you think that when the government has as its purpose the destruction of the institutions that promote the kind of society we've had in the past.
When the government buys off more people to the point where they outnumber the rest of us, don't you?
Don't you the country cannot survive as a free country?
We can't survive as a free people.
It's not just Hispanics, blacks, Asians, etc.
More and more whites are getting caught up in this.
It's a huge problem.
It's hard to fix.
And as Buchanan's piece points out, we already knew it.
The big blue states demonstrate it.
And the big blue cities in the big blue states in many cases illustrate it.
Now let's take a look at Buchanan's piece.
Let's focus California.
It's a great example.
The thing about it is I love California.
Every time I used to live there, I lived in Sacramento for three and a half years.
I have a lot of friends in Southern California, and every time I'm out there, I absolutely love it.
Now I don't pay their taxes, and I don't live there.
But how do I say this?
Because I don't dispute anything Buchanan said about this, but I've first time I was in California was 1985.
And every time I've been back since it looks the same.
Places I go in California look the same.
The things that I do there are the same.
And yet I know that the state is a mess.
And I talk to my friends who live in California.
You know what's coming?
Your tax, your tax base, your tax rates already, but you know what's coming?
They all, all of my friends wouldn't even think of leaving.
Now, most of them are in the media business and it's a media capital, Southern California, so, and all their friends are there.
And yet there are people leaving left and right.
It kind of goes to my point.
Uh earlier, we hear all this talk about, well, we're you you see we see Greece, that's us, and you see Spain, that's us.
But a lot of people don't see us that way.
And therefore, and they've never have seen the U.S. that way.
And even if they look at blue states or blue cities that have fallen apart, they still don't look at the country that way.
Because in their minds it really hasn't happened.
So all these warning clarions about hey, where we're headed, people don't see any sign of it.
And one of the reasons they don't is there's this benevolent government ready to pick up the slack in case you fall on hard times.
But there's no denying that the government, and particularly this Administration.
No denying that they are destroying the institutions that promote the kind of society we have in the past.
Let me talk about this business with Chick-fil-A and Chicago and Boston.
I personally am in stunned disbelief over the reaction to this.
On conservative blogs, what do we have?
We have two mayors who are essentially Stalinists who have had no problem whatsoever.
That not one at all with going before the microphones and telling an American business.
You are not welcome here, and if you come here, you will be penalized or whatever the All because the guy who owns the outfit happens to be a publicly professed Christian who believes that marriage has a specific definition.
Now this is a classic example of a government destroying an institution that has promoted the kind of society we have had in the past and a kind of society we've always wanted.
This is direct assault.
It was a that's a direct assault on Christianity.
That is a direct assault on Christians, with economic punishment thrown in, including threats from government officials that are in clear violation of the Constitution.
And I read about it on conservative blogs, and I can't believe what I'm reading.
I'm reading intellectual treatises on, well, you know, they have the right to say these things, and the solution here is let Chick-fil-A open a store in Chicago and let's see if the people will visit.
That's not the reaction to the reaction to have is who the hell do you think you are, Ram Emanuel?
Who the hell do you think you are?
What country do you think you're in?
And we want to have an intellectual debate here over the First Amendment.
Well, a solution to this is to let Chick-fil-A open it.
Yeah, let Chick-fil-A open a store with the mayor of Chicago threatening anybody that walks into one.
Meanwhile, this company hires gays.
They serve gays.
They don't discriminate.
It's just that the owner happens to be a publicly professed witnessing Christian.
My God, you would think that he's the worst enemy Chicago ever had, and the worst enemy Boston ever had.
Thirty years ago, if this would have happened in this country, there would have been an uprising against Manino and Rahm Emanuel, or daily, whoever would have done it.
Today we get intellectual debates on who's got the right to do what and say what and say this and do that, do what where the sense of proportion is all out of whack, and there's no outrage.
So yeah, I fully understand losing institutions.
We're sitting by we are watching every day the institutions and traditions that have made this country great come under assault day in and day out.
And I've been making that comment for 24 years.
Too much of all of this has become nothing more than an opportunity for people to show how smart they are, how open-minded they are when these debate these things, rather than having an actual human real life reaction to this, which this is outrageous.
The mayor of San Francisco, what is his name?
I think his last name is Lee.
The mayor of San Francisco got in on this, and he warned Chick fil A, you better not come here.
You had better keep out of you'd better stay.
I I am in stunned disbelief.
A restaurant chain that serves chicken sandwiches is a threat.
That cannot be abided.
Meanwhile, I have a story in the stack here today.
And on some of the Bay Area rampant transit escalators are human feces.
People are defecating on the on the escalators, and the mayor of San Francisco wants everybody to know that he's not gonna permit any damn Christians in town.
Edwin Lee is the guy's nest.
He wants everybody, he wants every San Franciscan to understand that he's not gonna put up with any Christians coming to town.
And as long as he does that, they people can defecate all over the Bard Escalators all they want, and it won't matter because the Christians are going to be kept out of town.
No, no, I'm not saying Christian country, but we can't deny.
Go back and look at anything George Washington ever said.
First inaugural, last inaugural, farewell address, first Thanksgiving address.
This whole country was put together with thanks every day to God.
Blessings every day to God.
One of the very foundations of this country's founding is under daily assault by one of the two popular political parties in this, the Democrat Party.
Fewer people can identify Obama's religion than Romney's.
Fewer than 50% of the people in this country believe Obama's a Christian.
That means something that you we wouldn't have a president.
Why is it?
Well, I don't think.
If you go back and you listen to uh pick it pick a pick a speech at a period of time from any president you want, except Woodrow Wilson, throw him out.
Even FDR, you can't escape presidents quoting the Bible, reading passages from it, thanking God this guy doesn't.
He gives no indication he's familiar with it.
No, I'm not saying he's not a Christian.
Please don't listen to what I'm saying.
Snurdley asked me why don't at least 50% think he's a Christian.
He doesn't sound like one.
That's as far as it goes.
I don't know what they think he is.
Doesn't talk about what they think he is, and that's not the point of what I'm saying.
I'm talking about the really cultural transformational changes that have occurred throughout the country.
Just in the last 24 years that I've been doing this, but it's been going on for much, much longer than that.
Oh, I'm told Woodrow Wilson quoted a Bible all the time.
Well, that's even better for the point.
You can't find it here.
You just it's not.
It's it's not part of this president's experience.
I'm not saying it's good or bad.
Don't I'm just it's an acknowledgement of what is.
But I've I have been fascinated.
I don't mean to be redundant here, but I have been fascinated to watch the reaction to Ram Emanuel and Thomas Manino threaten something that's unconstitutional, threaten something that is illegal, and just so blatantly do so on the basis of you would think that the vast majority of people in the country are gay,
and you would think that gay marriage is the only marriage there is, and that these guys at Chick-fil-A represent 2% of the country, and as such represent a threat.
These Democrats have to do some of the most perverted things to appeal to their base that I have ever seen in politics.
They have to say, they have to do, they have to promise, they have to engage.
Rom Emanuel to the murdering gangsters in Chicago.
Leave the kids alone.
Take your murderous activity somewhere else.
Not stop your murderous.
just take it somewhere, leave our kids alone.
What a caring guy.
Oh man, our mayor is really compassionate.
He really loves the kids.
So yeah, the government all out of salt on the uh institutions that promote the kind of society that we have and buying people off left and right.
And California is a microcosm.
That's Buchanan's whole point.
You want to see America down there would look at California in terms of party politics.
Let me take a brief timeout here, my friends.
It's open line Friday, and we'll come back and throw you in the mix of all this.
I still working on my iPad trying to get LTE since I just turned it on, so I'll do that and be back and join you just a second.
You know, you have to love folks.
Uh the irony.
Here is Rom Emanuel saying that Chick-fil-A doesn't represent the values of Chicago.
Well, what are the values of Chicago?
Chicago leads the country in political corruption.
And I don't know if the murder rate in any other city is what it is in Chicago these days.
What was the number I had?
234 people dead in Chicago this year so far, year to date.
When talking about what happened in uh in Aurora, Colorado.
But maybe maybe Mayor Emmanuel is right.
After all, Calypso Louis Farrakhan are there and and uh and and Reverend Wright.
Uh uh Reverend uh Jack, Bill Ayers, Rod Blagoyovich, Tony Resco.
Um yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's Chicago values.
That's Chicago values.
Uh Chick fil A. No, we can't have that.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
Now maybe if the CEO of Chick-fil-A were a gangster.
Maybe we'd uh have a little bit more respect.
Laguna Nigel, California.
Hi, Donnie.
Great to have you, sir.
The EIB network open line Friday hello.
How are you doing, Rush?
Good.
Thank you, sir.
Can you hear me all right?
Yeah, I hear you great.
Awesome.
I was just uh curious if uh ATT was able to get your iPad working yet.
Uh no, we're working on it.
It's uh I won't bore you with uh what happened was I got iPad one, iPad two, I had the uh uh the data cellular data account, and instead of canceling with the new iPad and getting a new account, I went to the website, transferred it over using the UDID of the iPad, and that's where we think the mess up is.
So they're working it, they're actively working trying to get it resolved.
Okay.
Well, I I shot you over an email.
Uh I I I used to be uh contracted technician with Apple, so I shot you over an email with a couple of uh couple of tips that you if you can't get the kid can't get it to work with those two things, then in all reality, there's only other thing you can do is to restore it in your computer.
I don't know.
I don't know what ATT is trying to do for you, but they're really not the uh not the uh Apple iPad experts.
That's what I hope for.
I have, but it's their account.
Uh all I'm trying to get the all I'm trying to get the iPad to do is reflect LTE.
Yeah, and it's there's only the as long as it's uh enabled in the settings and the cellular data, you know, as long as that little switch is switched on, because uh when you when you first get it, it's off.
It is.
It is.
And I've done I've done I've done restarts, cold restarts.
I've played with a SIM card.
I've done it all.
But holding down the power button and the phone button at the same time until the apple shows up.
Yep.
And then going into settings and how are we?
I've gone to settings, I've turned it off and on, I've done I've done everything you could suggest.
You're gonna I they can they can pretty much do what they want.
Well, then I've if that's the case, I got a defective iPad, and I just need to go back there and and and and get a get a new one out of the rack there.
And uh I've I've not done that simply because I want to try to be economical here.
I already got an ATT IP account.
I don't want to have a second one.
That's thirty bucks a month or something.
Yeah, it's it's kind of pricey.
You know, I'll I'll uh I'll tell you though, Russ, with uh um, you know, like you had a uh call a few callers ago is talking about um, you know, being uh app how do you feel about Apple locking, you know, cust uh c the consumer out, you know, as far as being able to do what you want with your I with your iPhone.
You know, I i it it used to be a point where, you know, like when the first iPhone came out, you know, the first two generations and the first iPad generation came out, you know, they were really strict about not being able to do anything to your phone without avoiding the warranty.
Well, it's great now, the fact that it just a couple of years ago, and I'm pretty sure it was a congressional hearing that was passed that says that they're not allowed to do that to you anymore.
You probably're not damaging you're damaging the hardware.
You're just doing something, you know, that that that anybody, just like with a PC, you know.
Yeah, but this guy that this guy was called, he was calling from the developer standpoint.
He's talking about the restrictions on software writers, uh having sandbox for for the for the Mac OS.
Uh yeah, I've th you're talking about jailbreaking the thing, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, but it's not, you know, uh everybody still has in their mindset, you know, that doesn't know and understand what they're actually doing.
They're like, oh no, no, no, just the term jailbreak.
They're just scared, you know, and they're saying, oh no, I know, they're afraid they're gonna break it.
Everybody's afraid, yeah.
And a lot of but it doesn't, though.
You know, you you can't all we're gonna do it.
No, it doesn't, but but people are afraid of technology.
They think they're gonna break it, so they're timid.
That's the hardest thing to overcome in teaching somebody these things.
Just use it.
It won't break.
And if it does, you get a new one.
Okay, folks, uh a little warning.
I'm not familiar with this website.
Bank MyBanktracker.com.
There's so many websites out there, but our show prep knows no boundaries.
And uh this this outfit is talking about a University of Colorado Denver study.
So that's probably actually the source, the website, my banktracker.com, and the study.
Some women are deemed too attractive to hire.
Some women may be deemed too hot to hire in more masculine workplaces, according to a University of Colorado at Denver study.
Attractive women are overlooked for certain jobs, including manager of research and development, director of finance, mechanical engineer, construction supervisor.
The uh news service also pointed out that uh other traditionally masculine job categories that were found to discriminate against good-looking women.
Um they were overlooked for categories like director of security, hardware salesperson, prison guard, tow truck driver.
Study was published in the Journal of Social Psychology.
Now, folks, this is fabulous news for the feminazis.
This is what this is what they've been dreaming of.
This had been what one of the primary reasons of feminism.
Undeniable truth of life number 24, feminism what written by me.
Feminism was established so as to permit easier access to the mainstream unattractive women.
Pure and simple.
And so here now a story out of the University of Colorado at Denver.
Some women are deemed too attractive to hire.
Right up their alley.
The thing is, this is discrimination.
And it's serious.
It is serious.
And it there are women who complain about the fact that they're too attractive.
They don't complain about that.
They say that's a problem in uh in in being hired.
The researchers had a stack of fifty is how they conducted the research.
You had a stack of 55 photos of male candidates and 55 photos of female candidates that they handed out to the participants.
And each participant was given a list of jobs and asked to sort The previously mentioned photos according to suitability for certain jobs.
And the researchers found that women who were attractive were ruled out for certain jobs, while men who were attractive were always at an advantage.
Researcher Stephanie Johnson said in every other kind of job, attractive women were preferred.
This wasn't the case with men, uh which shows that there's still a double standard when it comes to gender.
Unattractive women were preferred.
Every other kind of job on the track.
So who would have ever thought you see something like that?
Just uh another sign.
Another sign, folks.
Now let me before we get back to the phones.
Uh let's see.
Let's see, grab somebody six.
I told Mike we're gonna do number two, but I want to go to this Romney business.
Romney went to UK, he's over there.
The obligatory foreign trip for presidential candidates.
And here is supposedly Romney's big gaff.
This was Wednesday night on the NBC Nightly News with the anchor Brian Williams, who said, in the short time you've been here in London, do they look ready for the Olympics?
Your experienced eye.
You know, it's hard to know just how well it will turn out.
There are a few things that were disconcerting, the stories about the uh private security firm not having enough people, the supposed strike of the immigration and customs officials, that obviously is not something which is encouraging.
Wait a minute.
Apparently, kind of honesty is a no-no, see.
Political correctness.
You can't tell the truth.
You got a question are they ready here, Mitt?
Oh, yeah!
I have never seen a more ready-to-go group of people, and I have got experience.
I have run the Olympics, and let me tell you something, Brian.
Uh not only are you a boring white guy, this bunch of people probably better than anybody else to run an Olympics I've ever seen.
That's the politically correct answer.
Romney said, Well, you know, it's hard to know how it's going to turn out.
A few things that were disconcerting.
The stories about the private security firm not having enough people, uh, supposed strike of the immigration of custom officials.
That's not something that's encouraging.
I understand.
It's widespread.
That's exactly right.
Now, Romney could have played dumb.
He could have played it safe.
He could have said everything was peachy and moved on.
But he um he didn't.
So here's David Cameron, who is the UK prime minister, and his response to what Romney said.
We are holding an Olympic Games in one of the busiest, most active bustling cities anywhere in the world.
I mean, of course it's easier if you hold an Olympic games in the middle of nowhere.
By Jew.
You hold an Olympics in the middle of nowhere amongst a bunch of boring people, but of course.
Now here's uh Boris uh Johnson, uh mayor of London.
There's some people who are coming from around the world who don't yet know about all the preparations we've done to get London ready in the last seven years.
I hear there's a guy, there's a guy called Mitt Romney, who wants to know whether we're ready.
He wants to know whether we're ready.
Are we ready?
Okay, so that's Cameron S. Johnson.
Then, yesterday, CNN's newsroom.
Anchor Brooke Baldwin spoke to Piers Morgan, Piers Morgan, uh now the new Larry King, and he's from the U.K. And she said, I gotta ask you first.
Uh we played the Romney soundbite.
I believe the the word he used describing the Olympics for the preparation uh or lack thereof in terms security is disconcerted.
I'm just curious, how are the Brits feeling today over Romney's comments?
I thought he was absolutely right, wasn't he?
I mean, it's no secret over here that for the last three weeks the security around the Olympics has been a shambles.
I thought he was perfectly entitled to be critical.
Clearly, he had to slightly change his rhetoric after the Brits pointed out, hang on a second, old boy, you know.
You've got to talk us up a bit, but I thought it's a bit of a fuss about nothing.
They have had some issues here, especially about security, and he was uh just speaking the truth, which sometimes can be rather unpalatable.
I'll tell you the most politically incorrect thing going today is the truth.
You just don't get anywhere near it.
Mitt's supposed to have said, hey.
I've never seen anybody better.
Yep.
Now the mayor of London, Boris Johnson's already walked his comments back.
Um if if if Romney had sugarcoated everything and then something terrible happened, uh who would have been attacked.
Romney.
Ah, he comes over here, he looks around, he thinks everybody's cool.
This guy, he's no good for the truth is a it's a hard thing to lose, folks.
I li uh uh this bothers me.
Truth becoming a casualty.
Political correctness.
Here's Joy Somewhere in Illinois.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush, and Mega, God bless you always did.
Oz from the crony socialist enclave that's greenwashed in Illinois.
Thank you very much.
And I want to tell you about something that hasn't really gotten any notice nationally that I've seen.
Three weeks ago, actually, today, do you remember the transportation student loan highway bill, etcetera that Obama signed?
Yeah.
Well, stealthily and cunningly snuck in there was a uh little clause that outlawed these little mom and pop shops that sold roll your own.
Oh, yeah, I saw that, that's right.
And Max Bachis was the instigator.
He was, of course, lobbied by Philip Morris now, known as Altria.
So there was campaign donations, I'm sure.
Mm-hmm.
He he earmarked a four hundred million dollar um sector for himself for his state in Montana.
So this as a Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
A four hundred million dollar suctor?
Yes, he did.
He he ear earmarked four hundred million dollars in that bill for his state's highway system very mischievously.
And so this has been very quietly under the radar.
But the thing that burns me here with the swipe of a pen, Obama just put thousands of people out of work.
This as a consumer of this legal product, which I know is not popular, but nevertheless it is legal.
There was an inventor, I don't know who he was, that came up with the most fantastic entrepreneurial invention.
A machine about the size of an ATM.
You put your tobacco blend in the top, you choose uh it mixes it up, you choose your firmness level, the box of empty filters, which I understand papers and tobacco of which were were free of the chemicals that the major manufacturers put in to these products, the filters, the paper, and the tobacco.
And in twenty minutes, out at the bottom trough comes a carton of cigarettes that you load into your box, pay the man, and go on your way.
Right.
Well, I remember this.
I I were I I remember with a stroke of his pen Obama wiping this out.
He wiped out thousands of jobs, mom and pop companies and family businesses, some had five, six shops.
These machines sold for thirty-three to thirty-seven thousand each.
They are now really outlawed.
They can't even recoup a dime, they can't resell them.
They're just shut down and shut out.
And all their help and all those jobs are as well.
So I didn't know if you were aware of that.
Yeah, I you know what.
In fact, I'm still drawing a a bit of a mental blank because when I saw it, Joy, uh the the reason that it was being written about, whoever was was commenting on it, were outraged over over the fact that Obama was able to do it with just a signature that he had violated some he was signing something into law, but but this I I this the mental block.
I'm I'm having a I'm having trouble remembering what it was this person writing about was really outraged about it.
He was just snuck in there, just like they do the Democrats do so often.
Well, like they're trying to sneak gun control.
You know, they're they're trying to sneak gun control uh the Democrats are into as many bills as they can.
I do, Rush, and We're dealing with a demonic group of people.
I just urge your listeners to keep praying because this this cannot stand.
It just cannot.
This is a uh an a lawless government.
And and we have to be so careful, but yet we're are our folks.
Where are those that are standing for us?
Because obviously both Republicans and Democrats voted for this bill because they made it about student loans highways.
That's the way this stuff always happens.
You can legalize rape if you call it the Civil Rights Act of 2012.
But you can say that he wiped out thousands of jobs with a swipe of a pen three weeks ago today, and he did.
Joy, thanks for the call.
I appreciate the reminder.
I've still don't remember what the thing was that really irritated person writing about this was, but I'll find out.
I'll find out.
In the meantime, another obscene profit timeout here at the EIB network.
Here is Tom Can't Say, Tennessee.
Mega did a rush.
God bless you and yours.
Thank you very much.
Same to you, sir.
Thank you.
Hey, I I wanted to make a comment about the Denver study on attractive women being discriminated against.
As a hiring manager, um, and others like me in in in my field.
Um, we tend to favor older, more experienced, less attractive, not unattractive, but less attractive women because of the risk of sexual harassment accusations from Oh man, are you stepping in it?
Oh, gee.
I'm glad you're the one saying this and none me.
Well, it's true.
I mean, it's uh especially God help you if they're feminists or or democrats.
Well, okay, tell us what an unattractive woman looks like.
See what I mean?
See Well, in my industry, the looks don't count for much.
So it's it's really an issue of are it are you at risk for false accusations.
So you're I let me guess.
You hire an attractive liberal female.
The odds are you got a feminist, you are playing with fire.
It's a nightmare waiting to happen.
Um we tend to shy away from that type of hire.
We we we like to play it safer and we're under cutting edge, societal evolution.
That's it.
That's what we do here.
Okay, folks, hope you have a uh wonderful weekend.
Uh whatever you have planned, the opening ceremony for the Olympics tonight.
7 30 to midnight, I've heard.
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