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Sept. 25, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 25, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Folks, I'm going to tell you the NFL has never been better.
It has you don't know how much I love saying that.
Really, these games, if this kept up, you'd have ratings skyrocketing through the roof.
The unpredictability of these games would cause people that are not even football fans to watch it just to listen to the sportscasters go bananas over the referees.
Anyway, how are you, folks?
Great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh loaded for bear here at the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Our telephone number, if you want to be in the program, is 800-282-2882.
And the email address, lrushbo at eibnet.com.
I watched it last.
Snerdley, did you watch the game last day?
Did you stick with it to the end?
Well, there was no question that the reps got it wrong at the end of the game.
And a lot of people misunderstand replay.
What happened?
The Packers intercepted that last-minute Hail Mary pass, but the Seahawks were given credit for the touchdown, which was the game winner.
But they reviewed it, and people don't understand how the replay works.
The replay, the review, does not determine possession.
They just determined, did the ball hit the ground?
Everybody in bounds?
The call on the field is what goes.
It was a touchdown.
That's not reversed, but just making sure that it was a score.
Because it's just the way the replay rule is written.
It's not to determine possession or any of that.
This new rule on every touchdown being reviewed, just to make sure the play was clean.
The call on the field stands.
Well, here's the thing.
Here's the thing.
Look, folks, you know me.
I mean, I'm no bigger football fan than El Rushbo.
You know that.
I got up today and I see that the number one subject on Twitter is this game last night.
It's the number everything going on.
There are more people, for example, talking about this game last night than vote on American Idol.
And I got to thinking about it.
What's it mad about?
The referees are incompetent.
Well, as I said yesterday, doesn't Obama say give everybody a fair shot?
Doesn't Obama say we must be tolerant?
Doesn't Obama and the left in general don't don't they promote the advancement of the incompetent based on the fact that they're incompetent?
Screw standards and testing.
We don't need to go find the best.
That's unfair, in fact.
In fact, if somebody's better than somebody else, we're going to penalize them.
Outcome-based education.
Remember that?
Two plus two is five?
It is, if you think so.
Rather than humiliate you and tell you you're wrong.
The left has been messing up with standards.
They don't like standards, particularly standards of excellence, because not everybody attains it and they want equality of outcomes.
But here's another thing.
How many of you, and I'm serious now, how many of you are genuinely livid over this?
I'm the Seahawks fans, probably a little guilty, but some jubilant Packers fans, livid over this.
And people who love and revere the NFL game itself are livid over this because of what it's doing to the integrity of the game.
What if the Packers don't make the playoffs because of one loss?
And it's last night.
The integrity of the game, for all my jokes about loving this and so forth.
The fact of the matter is, the integrity of the game is at stake here.
And true football fans understand that and they're worried about it.
Why are they upset?
Because the referees are not people that know what they're doing.
It doesn't make any difference if the referees are cheating or if they're incompetent.
The fact is, they're still getting it wrong, and somebody's ending up with the short end of the stick every Sunday in at least every game, at least one or two times.
And driving in this morning, something hit me.
You and I, and every conservative, and I don't want to make too big a deal out of this, but I think it's a good analogy.
You and I, every day of the week for the last 50 years, have dealt with this.
You people out there who are livid over the incompetence of these reps, livid over that call last night.
Welcome to the real world.
Now you know how we feel watching the mainstream media every day.
The mainstream media purposely gets things wrong, purposely doesn't call Obama out on his mistakes, purposely tries to paint Romney or any conservative in a bad light, joins the effort to destroy the careers of conservatives oftentimes.
And there's nothing we can do about it.
And we're told, don't complain because it isn't manly, it isn't mature, it's reality.
You got to deal with it and move on.
Well, hello.
How to explain what to the kids?
This ending last, well, how do you explain the media to your kids?
My point here is that what's happening in this NFL season and that game last night, I believe suffices as a microcosm for what certain people, fans, we conservatives are fans of conservatives, conservatism, we're cheated against every day.
We're lied about every day.
The media gets it wrong on purpose against us every day.
Now, I think it's a good analogy.
I just raise it to make a point.
I'm not suggesting anything changed because of it.
I'm just trying to, for all of you people who are livid over this, what's happening, the integrity of the game.
Well, how about the integrity of the presidential election?
How about the integrity of the American way of life?
You know, it's under assault by one particular party in this country.
And that assault is aided and abetted by people who are supposed to be nonpartisan arbiters, referees.
But the so-called referees with constitutional protection have chosen sides, and it's not ours.
And for my life, my entire life, I've had a deal with an unlevel playing field, an unfair stack deck.
And every time we bring it up and talk about it, we're poo-pooed.
Oh, come on, there's no media bias or get over it.
So we now have our own media.
And they're out there trying to silence that now.
In fact, this takes me to Obama.
I thought Obama, by the way, was better on the view than he was at the UN.
I did.
I really do.
On the view, he finally admitted that the attack on the consulate in Libya was terrorism.
He didn't have a nerve to say that at the United Nations, this speech, which was, you know, it's basically a campaign speech.
But Obama said some interesting things in this speech.
The notion that we can control the flow of information is obsolete.
Well, what is this?
A few years ago, it was okay to control the flow of information.
That sounded like a complaint, by the way, when he said it.
The notion that we can control the flow of information is obsolete.
Now, what he's doing, he's responding, obviously, to the Morses and the Muslim Brotherhood guy in Egypt and others in the Middle East, who, if we are to believe what we're told, are raising hell with Obama about this video, which came up again at the UN speech.
He spent considerable time.
I want to assure the members here at the UN, the government of the United States has nothing to do with it.
But we have to put up with it.
Used to be we could control the flow of information.
It's obsolete to control the flow of information.
The notion that we can do that's obsolete.
Although we're trying.
Have you seen what they're doing to Dinesh D'Souza's movie?
The regime is doing everything they can to tamp down viewership of Dinesh D'Souza's movie.
In fact, they put out a giant lie over the weekend that Fox News was going to run the thing, I think, Sunday afternoon.
Well, if you hear that Fox News is going to run the movie, why go to the theater?
Well, Fox News wasn't going to run.
It was a total lie.
The regime's campaign put out a total lie that Dinesh Desoul's 2016 Obama's America was going to run on Fox.
And there are a couple of other acts that they've engaged in, try to suppress people watching the movie.
They're worried about it.
I think they're worried about a lot of things in this campaign.
As we go through the program today, as it unfolds before your very eyes and ears, I will explain it to you.
But I have to, I have to tell you, all the time spent in this speech at the UN on this straw man video, no video has ever been more highly promoted by an elected official than this one.
Every time he talks about this video, he creates a curiosity about it.
The most people haven't seen it.
Now he goes to the UN, he starts talking about vile, vile rank, whatever, however he described it.
And I guarantee you if people, whoa, whoa, whoa, see that?
What's he talking about?
And they make a mad dash to YouTube trying to find a thing.
In essence, Obama is promoting it.
It's a one-man promotional department.
What he calls a disgusting, inflammatory video.
And all of that is to distract from the fact that the embassies were vulnerable and were attacked on his watch.
And it's a green light to more violence.
Now, he did throw in there at times that no video and no words justify violence.
There's no such thing.
It just doesn't happen.
There's no way a video or whatever can justify violence, which is not what this crowd, I mean, the UN.
How many people in there are armed?
I'm just kidding.
Although, Yasser Arafat did show up.
This is a group that doesn't want to hear about nonviolence.
This is a group that doesn't want to hear about tolerance.
At any rate, folks, we've got so much to share with you today.
Selma, do you realize – let's just go through some headlines.
Oh, quick trivia question.
Snerdwee, how many people, you know, the iPhone 5, all Apple products, the most manufactured by the CheiComs.
How many employees at Foxconn are assigned to assembling the iPhone 5?
And by the way, they can't meet demand.
They sold 5 million in the first weekend, and they can't meet demand.
Nobody knows how many they could have sold.
There's a supply problem.
The new display has the touch panel built into it rather than having the touch sensor being an additional layer on the screen.
That's why they made it thinner.
So the touch panel, three manufacturers are making it, and one of them, Sharp, couldn't do any of them right and only started shipping to Apple finished displays, I think, the middle of the month.
So nobody knows how many could have sold.
But how many employees do you think?
I'll listen to you probably had time to look it up.
How many employees at Foxconn manufacture the iPhone?
Yeah, you looked it up.
I know you looked.
You're sitting in there.
You're lying to me.
You're lying through your time.
I know you.
It's $150,000.
$150,000 alone.
Now, this place manufactures every other gadget in Gizmo.
They manufacture every other Apple computer.
They manufacture the iPad.
People wonder, the reason I bring it up, people wonder why these things can't be made in America.
And no way.
It would cost you $150,000.
And they still can't keep up.
They still can't keep up with the demand.
Paddling could be back soon in Florida, in schools.
The idea, it's Okala.
The idea of corporal punishment and screws may seem like something out of another era, but screw officials in Marion County may bring it back.
They may bring back paddling.
All the other stuff isn't working.
Lots of complaints all across the fruited plane about Michelle Obama's new lunch menu.
Kids at schools all across the country are complaining about the food and about the quantity.
They're starving.
They're going hungry.
They're not getting enough to eat, and they don't like what it is they're being served.
Michelle getting some heat.
France is set to ban the words mother and father from all official documents.
That's exactly right.
The move has outraged Catholics.
It means only the word parents would be used in identical marriage ceremonies for all heterosexual and same-sex couples.
They're doing this to acknowledge they're going to gay marriage.
So you can't have mother and father.
You got two mothers, you got two fathers.
Oh, maybe you got to ban husband and wife because who's who in a same-sex marriage?
So bye-bye, mother and father in France, and soon bye-bye husband and wife just to accommodate gay marriage.
Okay, what else we have?
That's off.
That's just the light-hearted stack.
Got the audio sound bites, in-depth analysis of Obama on the View and at the UN, and your phone calls.
So you sit tight, folks.
We're coming back all revved up, ready to go right after this.
There we go.
Have my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Of course, the half not being used didn't tell me to turn on the microphone there.
But here we are: 800-282-2882.
If you're going to be on the program, Mrs. Clinton, you know, Obama is not meeting with anybody.
He went on the view and he described himself as eye candy on the view.
You know what I think happened?
I think that somebody scribbled that as a note on the teleprompter and he thought he was supposed to say it.
Why would you describe yourself as eye candy sitting there?
Wouldn't the women be the eye candy?
I mean, if you're really a guy who's trying to portray this notion that Republicans hate women, why is he going on the view anyway?
You know why he's going on the view?
Because the gender gap is tightening.
The war on women is bombing out.
And that's why it goes on there.
Wolf Blitzer last week said it made perfect sense that Obama would go on Letterman.
I mean, if you're out trolling for votes, what makes more sense?
Going on Letterman or meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu?
It's a great move by Obama, said Wolf Blitz.
Now, Wolf's done a 180.
Wolf and the drive-bys are a little worried that Obama's not meeting any world leaders.
He's going on the view.
Dana Milbank in the Washington Post called it almost scandalous.
Well, he's what?
Throwing a.
Well, big whoop.
Obama's throwing a party having a reception.
He's going to meet him.
It's not official meetings.
That's just, you know, a little grab handling or whatever goes on to these things.
But there's no official meetings, which are standard operating procedure.
Hillary's doing all those.
Unbeknownst to people, Hillary is the one meeting with Morsi and the guy from Iran and the guy from wherever.
Hillary's taking all these meetings.
There are photos of it while Obama's on the view and the drive-bys are wringing their hands.
Even Jacob Tapper doesn't understand this.
And Wolf's done a 180.
Wolf Blitzer says, okay, to go on Letterman rather than meet Netanyahu, but now Wolf's a little concerned.
Why are they hanging around with the women on the view?
They're worried.
It's all about the voters that Obama's targeting.
It's all totally.
So is the speech today.
You know, you people on the left, you like to think of yourselves as the smartest among us.
And yet you pride yourself, Obama's the smartest.
Do you realize how dumb the average Obama voter is?
Do you realize how, well, not dumb, uninformed?
Do you realize that Obama is trying to put together a majority coalition made up of the least informed people in this country?
And in some cases, maybe the dumbest.
He's not targeting the brains of our society.
He's not targeting the brains.
He may figure he has academia all wrapped up, but I mean, his big electoral push is for the mental midgets in this country.
Proudly so.
And yet, you people on the left, you sit out there feeling all high and mighty how smart Obama is, how smart you are, when in fact your guy can't get elected without a majority of the dumb vote, the moron vote.
And that's what he's trying to coalesce.
Okay, we've got a call from Stuttgart, Germany, but I want to get to quick.
It's Robert, and we are happy to have you on the program.
Hello, sir.
Hey there, Rush, Mega Dittos, Apple, and Cigar Loving Dittos from the home of Mercedes.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate the call.
Well, thanks for taking it.
It's a real pleasure for me.
I called because we had a fantastic customer service experience from 2FIT.
I ordered for myself and for some other folks stateside some of the blueberry iced tea when it came out.
They told me, It wasn't clear on the website at the time, but we had a delay, and they told me APO addresses over here in Europe are not considered free shipping.
But after, I think because of the time difference, going through a couple of days worth of emails, they said, well, hey, we've delayed you long enough.
We're going to go ahead and just pay for it this time.
No shipping.
And by the way, here's a free case of tea.
So we got our blueberry, which it's my favorite tea.
And my wife, God love her.
She's not your biggest fan, but she said that your blueberry iced tea was the cat's meow.
Well, we're close to getting her one over.
That's the first step.
I hope so.
First step.
Here you are in the land of beer, calling to tell us how much you like our tea.
That's fabulous.
That's absolutely terrific.
And look, we have some people in the 2F by T customer service department who some of the best people in the world.
Elizabeth runs that department.
I don't know if that's who you spoke to or dealt with, but I appreciate all these comments because that's something that we spend a lot of time on is customers.
That's our direct link to people and the customer.
And I just love having it validated with calls like yours.
But I'm also happy to know that we are giving away the tea.
I need to look into that.
Just the one time, they told me, but the delay, I guess, is what prompted that.
And what they did was they did a good marketing ploy.
They sent a second case, but it was a different case.
Oh, it's great marketing.
Give the product away.
There's no better marketing ploy.
You're absolutely right.
We didn't even know we liked Peach.
And that's the second case now.
Well, look, that's a great story.
I'm really glad that you were able to get through all the way from Stuttgart and happy to hear the story because it's something we spend a lot of time on at 2FIT.
I say it's a direct link to the customers and people in this audience.
And so it's great to hear that you had such pleasant experience with it.
Well, as an active duty service member, I thank you for your service to our country.
Well, we all have our roles.
We all have our roles.
And everybody here has profound love and respect for what you do and the choices you've made.
You volunteered, so everybody understands that and has great appreciation for you, too.
Well, thanks for the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation support.
I'm not a Marine, but I appreciate anything that folks do voluntarily on behalf of the military.
When are you coming home?
We should cycle back next summer.
Next summer.
Oh, yeah.
Well, it's great to have you in the audience.
Great to have you.
Again, glad you got through, and thanks very much.
All the best to you.
Thank you, sir.
I'd offer you iPad or iPhone, but you already got free tea.
So just kidding.
Hey, folks, that's Robert from Stuttgart, Germany.
Obama has received another endorsement.
It's from Madonna.
It was at one of her concerts last night.
We have the audio here.
We've had to bleep it.
It's got F-bombs in it.
It's got the Lord's name taken in vain throughout this thing.
And a lot of bleeps were required.
And I wanted you to hear this.
Last night at the Verizon Center, this is the well-known pop star Madonna in concert during the show endorsing Obama.
Y'all better fucking f ⁇ Obama, okay?
Amazing s.
It means there is hope in this country.
And Obama is fighting for gay rights.
Will they?
And there you have it.
Another uplifting Obama endorsement filled with profanity as Obama and his agents seek the dumb vote.
Well, I'll have to read it to you.
I know.
I have a transcript, so I know.
Did you hear her say we have a black Muslim in the White House?
You thought you heard that?
You're no one sure.
Well, let's listen to it again.
I've got the transcript here.
And when you listen to it again, and now that you know it's coming, here's, y'all better push for F-bombing Obama, she says.
Okay?
And then there are cheers, which we edited.
The cheers went on and on and on.
For better or worse, all right, we have a black Muslim in the White House.
More cheers, which we edited.
Now, that is some sh we bleep that.
That's some amazing sh, and we bleep that.
It means there's hope in this country.
We got an F-bombing black Muslim president, and that's some shit.
And that gives us hope.
And Obama's fighting for gay rights, okay?
And more cheers, which we edited.
So support the man.
And then she did her own Jeremiah Wright.
Gee damn it.
Gee, damn it.
So now that you know what she says, here's the bite again.
Y'all better fucking f ⁇ Obama, okay?
We have a black Muslim in the White House.
That is a s.
Amazing shit.
That means there is hope in this country.
And Obama is fighting for gay rights.
Right on.
One of America's cultural icons, Madonna, in concert of Washington, D.C. at the Verizon Center with another outstanding, uplifting endorsement of Barack Obama.
You want to see the whole thing in print with no redactions?
Well, I can get that to you.
We're going to post a transcript at rushlimbo.com, but we're still going to bleep out the world.
I'm not going to print that vile stuff on the website.
We're still going to I know it's a First Amendment issue, and we've worked hard here to control the flow of information.
It's obsolete now.
Here's, by the way, here's Obama saying that.
This is at the UN this morning speaking to his fellow leaders, their annual UN speech.
I know that not all countries in this body share this particular understanding of the protection of free speech.
We recognize that.
But in 2012, at a time when anyone with a cell phone can spread offensive views around the world with a click of a button, the notion that we can control the flow of information is obsolete.
Who's even thinking about that?
The fact that he's thinking about this is an indicator, folks, means we could at one time control the flow of information, or at least at one time we had the notion that we could.
With cell phones, now it's just, damn it, we can't.
But then let's go back earlier.
You know me.
There's nobody better at parsing soundbites than me.
I mean, everybody airs these soundbites now, granted, but nobody parses them better than I do because I know these people.
I know that not all countries in this body share this particular understanding of the protection of free speech.
He had just talked about the First Amendment of the Constitution as though these idiots at the UN didn't know about free speech.
They all know about it because they hate it.
Free speech is their number one enemy.
Most of these leaders are the UN.
Anyway, he says, I know that not all countries in this body share this particular understanding of the protection of free speech.
We recognize that.
Oh, you do.
We understand.
We totally understand you don't like free speech.
We get that.
We totally get it.
We do.
You know, in the old days, America believed that it was the last best hope on earth.
In the old days, we had presidents who thought America was the solution to the world's problems.
Now we've got somebody who believes that America contributes to the world's problems in a large way.
So we recognize that some of you don't like free speech.
What is that?
He's paying homage to these guys.
We know some of you don't like free speech, and that's cool.
It's okay.
We get it.
But the day where we can all control all of information, that's obsolete now because these damn cell phones until we get those off the market.
Or until I can get control of that internet kill switch.
But it's nice to know.
I think all my corporate partners will be happy to learn here that Obama's finally given up trying to get me off the air.
That's what this means.
It's obsolete now, right?
Anybody believe that?
Okay, we'll take a timeout, an obscene profit timeout.
Be right back.
I mentioned earlier that it is Hillary Clinton who is taking all these meetings with world leaders.
It's not Obama.
Obama's out on the view and with Letterman and so forth.
And that's who he's gumming for at that audience.
He's really coalescing the moron vote.
And he's banking on the fact that there's a, of the universe of Americans who vote, that there's a winning majority of morons in there.
If you add to the, he's got academia and he's got the media and he's got the Hollywood crowd.
And then he's going after the actual Americans outside those institutions.
He's going for not the middle class.
He's going for the morons.
So the Clinton Global Initiative is going on.
The Clinton Global Initiative goes on every year at the same time that the UN goes on.
And the Clinton Global Initiative is Bill Clinton's way of trying to repair the Lewinsky deal.
And it's basically all these world leaders that come into town for the annual UN meeting.
Clinton hits them up for donations, money, and so forth, and has a little party and three days of speeches.
Romney was there today.
And so was Hillary.
Hillary dropped by the Clinton Global Initiative.
You know, if Obama, if I think if these world leaders would fork up 40 grand, he'd meet him.
That's what it costs to get your picture taken with him or attend an Obama fundraiser.
So if he says, hey, Morsey, you want to meet me?
40 grand.
Of course, I'm not so sure that it's Obama saying he doesn't want to meet with these guys.
And I'm serious about that.
Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood guy, the president of Egypt, is making it clear.
He said, well, we're kind of in the middle here between friend and ally.
And Morsi's made it, he wants that filmmaker in jail.
He wants something to happen to filmmaker, and he's given other commands.
And Obama has not followed through on them, not followed the orders, and so there's no meeting.
But Hillary, I want you to listen to what she said.
Just going to read it to you.
Annual meeting, Clinton Global Initiative, Hillary Clinton yesterday, this according to the New York Times.
And people were applauding and laughing while she said this.
Quote, you know, I'm out of American politics now.
What?
Secretary of State's out of American politics?
When did that happen?
I know it's the objective, but let's get real.
She says, you know, I'm out of American politics now, but it's a fact that around the world, the elites of every country are making money.
There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don't contribute to the growth of their own countries.
They don't invest in public schools.
They don't invest in public hospitals and other kinds of development internally.
Really?
Is that right?
Now, last time I was in New York, I have to go visit somebody in the hospital, and it was named after somebody who donated the money to build the wing of the hospital.
I think it was the Langong something or other.
And then there's the Perelman and all these rich people are donating entire wings of hospitals.
And yeah, they get their names on them.
But what is she talking about here?
The rich don't contribute to the growth of their own.
Well, who the hell does then?
They don't invest in public schools.
For those of you who think that Hillary would be far preferable to Obama, they're both the Linskyites.
They're both radicals on the left.
She's just as big a fan of the Linsky.
Her thesis, her term paper, whatever, when she was at Wellesley was written on Alinsky.
She's a big fan.
So who is it that pays the taxes that build the schools and the hospitals and all these other internal developments?
Are the poor building these things?
Is that what the poor, the middle class, they're the ones building everything?
See, that's the meme.
Elizabeth Warren gets it started.
The rich.
You didn't build it.
You didn't make that happen.
Somebody built the roads.
Somebody built the bridges.
And guess who it is?
The downtrodden.
Yep.
People getting squished by the rich.
Every day.
The downtrodden.
They're the ones that built the roads and bridges.
They're the ones that made it all possible.
And there's Mrs. Clinton saying so at the Clinton Global Initiative to laughter and applause.
And Obama, for him, he's the UN today, and this speech of his, parts of it were okay, but it was a campaign speech, but a lot of it was vacuous.
For example, the road is hard, but the way is clear.
Oh, man.
How profound was that?
The road's hard.
The road is hard, but the way it's clear.
And then he talked about people who had built bridges across the oceans.
Where is there a bridge across the ocean?
Why don't we see that bridge?
And where are the roads that lead to the bridge across the ocean?
I know what he meant, but for crying out loud, this is just, it's cliché central.
Vacuous platitudes.
It was a speech, again, given as if he's never been in office.
A campaign speech.
The road is hard.
The way is clear.
And the road is bumpy.
And we have more reparations from the Obama administration, the USDA, Department of Agriculture, offering women and Hispanic farmers over $1.3 billion in discrimination payouts.
This is the third time they've gone to the Pigford lawsuit route.
Details are coming up.
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