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Sept. 28, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 28, 2012, Friday, Hour #3
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And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, and conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
It is the award-winning thrill-packed, ever-exciting, increasingly popular, growing by leaps and bounds rush limbaugh program here on the EIB network on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's open live Friday.
That's right.
And your phone calls are coming up here.
Promise, folks, we'll try to jam quite a few of them in there in this hour.
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I have a lot of email people asking me what I think of the new iPhone.
And I'm purposely not telling you because I know it would make you mad.
You don't want to hear about the iPhone.
You want to hear about football and you want to hear about the replacement reps.
I know you get stick to the issues, crap.
Well, let me tell you, this iPhone, I'm going to be honest with you.
When I first saw what it was going to be, I was disappointed because I was expecting a major revision in Form Factor since it had two years to work on it.
And a larger screen, just longer by a half an inch, that was no big deal to me.
LTE, I've been using an LTE hotspot for a year and a half with Wi-Fi.
So the fact that the phone was going to have it built in, eh, no big deal.
I really, there was no Siri-like feature announced for the phone this year.
I saw the iOS 6, the new software, the system.
I saw it a month.
Nothing great shakes in this.
This is more a system upgrade where Apple's going to separate itself from Google.
But I got the phone anyway because I'm in a cutting edge.
And I'll tell you, there's nothing like it.
It is a precision work of art instrument.
It's got a processor.
It's twice as fast as the iPad.
I'm talking about processing power, not internet speed, which is lightning fast anyway.
It's twice as fast as any handheld computer of any type out there.
It is amazing.
And you don't even feel it in your pocket.
It's that light.
It's that thin.
This maps business, the CEO of Apple apologized today.
Sent out a letter, open letter to everybody apologizing for the Maps fiasco.
It's not that bad.
Now, it is bad internationally, but it's not that bad.
I've played with it.
I've said, I've clicked on Siri.
I said, take me to such and such a restaurant.
And it did it.
Gave me the address, showed me the directions, turned by turn.
It was there.
I haven't had a problem with the MAPS, but it is bad in certain parts of the country.
What's interesting to me is they knew it was that bad, and they released it.
And that they've never done.
Now, I understand that they had to make the break with Google at some point.
I understand that.
They could have told everybody, look, it's a beta.
It's a long way to go.
They didn't.
They did the exact opposite.
That's the only thing I don't understand about.
The iPhone's cool.
I thought it was not going to be any big deal.
What's that?
The 4S.
Now, I go back to the previous one.
It feels like a rock that heavy and much bigger.
And it seems, it's a good phone, but it just, no, it's, it's, um, seems slower.
I'd be disappointed if I had to go back to the 4s.
I would.
That's now let's, oh, folks, it's Open Line Friday, and we're trying to lighten things up here a little bit.
And there's a fascinating news study out that says Democrat women are more likely to look like men.
Now, I have suspected this for many moons.
In fact, I've gotten close to the edge, the bounds of propriety, in commenting on such things over the years here on this program.
But it's a story from BuzzFeed.
Can you tell a woman's politics by looking at her face?
And I have long held that you can.
Psychologists Colleen Carpinella and Carrie Johnson gave undergraduates at UCLA a study published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
The undergrads were significantly better at guessing than would be expected by chance, and they were especially accurate with women.
The likely reason, according to this study, why the UCLA students were able to identify Democrat versus Republican women by looking at them, the reason, the likely reason, according to the study, is that Republican women are more likely than Democrat ones to have stereotypically feminine facial features.
Republican women look more feminine than Democrat women.
That's from a UCLA study.
This is not El Rushbox saying it.
It's from a UCLA study where the two scientists conducted the study and they had students conducting the tests.
In another experiment, Carpinella and Johnson, the two psychologists, used a computer program to measure how sex typical the faces of male and female representatives were, looking at characteristics like shape of jaw, lip fullness, cheekbone placement.
They discounted things like hair, makeup, and jewelry.
They found that Republican women were more likely to have stereotypically feminine faces.
And the effect was more pronounced the more conservative their voting records were.
And the reverse was true for Democrats.
The more liberal their voting records, the less traditionally feminine their faces looked.
The study's authors call this the Michelle Bachmann effect.
And I kid you not, that's what they call it, the Michelle Bachman effect.
Now, would you like to run a test on this?
And by the way, it's the story that says, not me, the story that says Democrat women are more likely to look like men.
No, they didn't close the loop and say, what do men find more attractive?
But is that open for question?
And today's society, you have a point.
Yeah, it is an open question.
But I mean, could we say draw some names out of a hat and apply the test of this study and see if it makes any sense?
Well, you want to try it?
Let's see.
Okay.
Let's see.
Conservative women.
Who do we know?
Give me a demonstration.
Okay, Michelle Bachman, Barbara Mikulski.
Point-proven?
Okay.
Let's see.
Sarah Palin, Big Sis, Janet Napolitano.
Hmm.
Okay.
Give me another conservative woman.
Well, none of the people are going to know what Mary Mono looks like.
Let's see.
None of the people.
Mia love.
Mia Love, if you've seen her, Mia Love, Rosa DeLauro.
Let's see.
Who else can we do?
It's conservative women.
Let's see.
I think it's a media type, Sturdy.
Okay.
Let's see.
Okay.
Let's see.
Who we compare her to?
Ann Coulter, Hillary Clinton.
You want to keep going here?
We're trying to establish here the scientific point made by these two psychologists at UCLA.
Anyway, that story is indeed out there.
And ladies and gentlemen, in addition to the Clinton bump out there, there's all kinds of bumps taking place, including in the road.
And back to the phones we got, Columbus, Ohio.
This is Timmy.
I'm glad you called, sir.
You're up.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Pleasure to speak with you, sir.
Thank you very much, sir.
Rush, I want to start out by telling you, I was an Obama campaigner.
I actually worked for a city bus company out here, part of the union, and we was asked to go and campaign for him.
Hey, and Timmy, could you do me a favor?
Sure.
Could you move that phone closer to your mouth, right?
You speak right into it so I can hear you a little better.
Can you hear me now?
Yeah, you got a little bit better during one of your couple of words there.
Just keep going.
I'll make do.
Okay.
Well, what I wanted to say is that I have since, I've been listening to you for probably a little more than three years.
And ever since healthcare, I've been a staunch.
I really don't like where Obama's going right now.
And you talked earlier.
Now, remember, I've been a Democrat for about 30 years.
And since healthcare was what changed me, healthcare was one of the things that just changed me altogether.
Really?
I would think as a 30-year Democrat that healthcare would be nirvana for you.
That's something that all Democrats claim to have wanted all their lives is universal national health care.
I was okay with it in the beginning, but the way they went about putting it in place and not letting nobody reading it and the whole thing, because when Obama became president, he says we're going to put everything on a line, let you read it days before.
That never happened.
So then I had attended a tea party rally that they had downtown in the downtown area.
And I went there with animosity in my heart.
I wanted to see how racist these guys were.
I'm an African-American, by the way.
So I went up there, and everything they talked about, I agreed with.
I was like, wow, they're not that bad.
And you had spoke earlier.
I want to get a couple other things in real quick.
You had spoken earlier about how NBC has been lying.
I don't know if you heard the latest, but this is the whopper of them all.
NBC did a, I was at a rally out here that Romney was at just recently.
I'm sure you heard about it.
And NBC has been reporting that they, at the end of Ryan's speech, they started saying, Ryan, Ryan, Ryan.
And then they said, well, Mitt Romney jumped in there kind of jealous saying, no, no, no, guys, say Romney Ryan, Romney Ryan.
Well, that's not what happened at all.
That was a complete lie.
Because I was actually there.
What happened was that after Ryan spoke, they were saying, Romney, Romney, Romney.
And then Mitt Romney jumped in and says, no, no, guys, it's Romney Ryan, Romney Romney.
Now, wait a second.
I had not heard that.
NBC.
It's been heard all day today.
That same thing.
And they were saying that, you know, well, support's falling off.
Everybody wants Ryan on top of the ticket.
It's a complete and utter lie.
And I'm getting to the point now with NBC.
They have been committed to just lying constantly.
I don't even, I wouldn't, I'm not for the whole boycott thing, really, but I would suggest people don't listen to them at all.
Don't pay any attention because everything that comes out of that.
Okay, I get.
Timmy, I need to ask you a question.
I had not heard this, but this doesn't surprise me.
So what they were saying was, Romney, Romney, Romney.
And Romney goes, says, no, it's Romney Ryan.
And NBC reported they were shouting, Ryan, Ryan, Ryan, and Romney wanted his name thrown in.
You couldn't lie any more clearly than that.
My question to you is, the news today, the narrative of the day is that the American people, a majority of them, are totally down with the economy.
They're fine with the way Obama's handling it, that he's the best guy to handle it, that he cares, that he's working hard, and that people like you believed Bill Clinton when Bill Clinton said nobody could do any better than Obama's doing.
It's people like you that we're told in the polling data today are all in for Obama now.
And you're obviously, if you're out there finding NBC lies and you're upset with the lack of transparency, that's great, Timmy.
That is, if every citizen were as attentive as you are, we wouldn't be in this mess.
Well, Rush, let me tell you, like I said, I've been listening.
I'll be honest with you.
I used to believe all of that.
Anything that came out of the media, I believed it.
I believed it like it was the gospel.
Up until, I'll be honest with you, since I've been listening to you, I'm telling you, honest God truth, I've learned more about politics in the last three years than my whole 30 years of being a Democrat.
Now.
Wait, I need to ask you a question.
I need to ask you a question about that.
And for my own professional knowledge so that I can use this.
I'm going to take advantage of what you've just said.
I'm very curious about something.
How did that happen?
Because I'm sure that you, in addition to believing everything the media said about Obama being loved and being great, I'm sure you believed what the media said about me.
That's a very good point.
And what you, I'm doing it.
Remember, I was a part of a union.
You were a topic of conversation quite often a lot.
And they was always calling you racist.
And they was always saying, oh, don't wrestle bar.
Did you hear what he said?
And as a curiosity note, because I drive and I listen to the radio, I started tuning you in because you used to come in, I think, right after Glenn Beck at one point.
And I started listening to you just to see, you know, how racist you really were.
I wanted to see.
And as a result, I actually started listening to what you were saying.
I was such a racist, you had to find out how big it was.
Exactly.
And as I kept listening, I never heard, I don't hear that coming out of his mouth.
I mean, what are y'all talking about?
And I don't know.
I never heard anything like what you was portrayed as as to what I was listening to.
It was like night and day.
Like when you first discovered that Santa Claus doesn't exist.
It's like wow, I mean all this stuff actually believed and you but everybody that said that never listened to you.
That's what I doubt.
That's true.
And then when I actually started listening, I actually started listening to your content of your show and listening to what you were saying and actually doing my own homework and actually looking up with you and everything that you were saying was absolutely true.
And then I would watch the other channel and I would find so many flaws in everything they would say.
They would say things that were kind of true, but they would leave out little good parts of the story that you would find out that would actually make the story a lot than what they were reporting.
Timmy, you're a special guy because I'm sure a lot of people encounter this, but you somehow were able to overcome whatever prejudice or bias you had about this stuff.
And the things that you did not believe somehow penetrated and got through to you.
Right.
Where they don't other people.
Other people, they live in their cocoon and they have what they believe.
And anything that challenges it, they automatically reject it rather than consider it.
You considered it.
You wanted to do a side-by-side comparison of what people were telling you and decide for yourself.
Well, I wanted the truth, really.
I just didn't, I didn't want somebody telling me what to think.
And I think that Democrats, and I've just recently discovered this myself.
I think Democrats as a whole want you to all follow the leader.
I've never really, you know, like the whole abortion thing.
I really was not a person who favored abortion.
I didn't favor gay marriage and stuff, but yet I was still a Democrat.
And I think a lot of people in the African-American community feel that same way.
Yeah.
Timmy, I got to take a break here, but hang on.
We're just going to be about a few short minutes, and then we'll be back.
And we'll complete Timmy's call when we get back.
Okay, Timmy, welcome back.
Timmy, Columbus, Ohio.
I tell you what, during the break, I went and found the story about the Romney-Ryan Valley rally you talked about.
Yes, sir.
It's a Breitbart story, and here's the essence of it.
A clip from a recent Romney-Ryan rally has recently been played over and over at MSNBC, highlighting what appears to be an embarrassing moment on the campaign trail for Romney.
Originally aired on Wednesday's Morning Joe, the clip shows Paul Ryan introducing Romney as the MSNBC added text.
The Chiron graphic on the screen says that the crowd is shouting, Ryan, Ryan.
Romney gets to the mic and asks the crowd to say Romney, Ryan.
Scarborough covers his face and says, sweet Jesus.
According to people at the event, and you say you were there?
Yes, I was.
The crowd was screaming, Romney, Romney, Romney, and Romney, being the gentleman that he is, went to the microphone and asked them to say Ryan along with his name.
And the Breitbart source, the reporter says he studied the tape and, quote, what appears to be an unpopular Romney seeking appreciation and attention from a Ryan-infatuated audience is really a man who is generously deflecting attention away from himself onto his VP nominee.
And you say that you were there.
That's what really happened.
Exactly.
And to me, what they were trying to do is make Romney seem like he was, you know, embarrassed and, you know, wanting to, you know.
They're making him trying to look insignificant and an ego freak at the same time.
Insecure, insecure, and an ego freak.
Exactly.
And what it actually showed is a person who had actual character, in my opinion, because he was, you know, deflecting all these attention from him and saying, no, guys, we're a team.
This is my guy.
Give him some credit also.
Timmy, you said something really interesting before the break.
You said you want the truth.
And I can't tell you how wonderful that is to hear because you realize most partisan Democrats are going to watch what MSNBC is doing and applauding it as a clever campaign maneuver in the war against Romney.
And you were on the verge of saying it.
You're tired of the Democrat Party's lies.
I am.
I am.
And Rush, you got to understand that I live in an all-African-American community.
When politics come up, especially over the last two years, I am not the most popular person.
I'm surrounded.
I'm literally surrounded.
I know how you feel.
Being bashed.
I feel like Ann Colta on the view yesterday.
And I'm being bashed.
And I'm basically, you know, trying to get people to see what's really going on.
Because I don't really feel that, especially in the African community, they feel like because Barack Obama is black, you have to vote for him.
Why?
Why do I have to vote for somebody because of his color?
Not because of his character.
It's not just African Americans.
There's a bunch of white liberals, and actually, not just liberals, guilty white people who think they have to vote for the black candidate, otherwise they're racist.
I mean, that's a large part of Obama's vote in 2008 was guilty white people who were trying to demonstrate that they're not racist anymore.
And they were hoping that electing Obama would get rid of all the racism in the country.
That there really were a lot of people hoping that.
Of course, we here knew that the left would only take the occasion here to ratchet up racism by saying any criticism of Obama was racist, and that's exactly what they've done.
And that's offensive to me, too.
And that's one of the parts that really offends me is that when I watch people, especially on MSNBC, bring up every single issue as racist and trying to make me believe what Chris O'Donnell is saying, which he's a complete joke, but wants me to believe that because he says it, I should be.
I'm an African.
I know what racism is.
Because somebody brings up the sport of golf doesn't make him trying to make Rock that doesn't come out as racist to me.
I mean, he had brought up a subject about golf.
That's a reach.
That's a reach.
I know.
But their whole existence is a reach.
Their whole campaign is a reach.
Look, Timmy, I have to run here, but you are a fact.
I can't tell you how thrilled I am to have a guy like you in this audience.
I wish everybody, if we just had 51% of the country made up of people like you, well, 55% to account for some stragglers that defect.
If 55% of the people in the country were as sharp and as aware as you are, there'd be a lot of us with a lot fewer concerns.
Well, I appreciate it, sir.
And it was a pleasure talking to you.
Now, before you go away, are you a computer enthusiast?
Do you have a computer to use one or iPad or any of that stuff?
Yeah, I have a ThinkPad.
IBM ThinkPad.
It's pretty good.
I like it.
I'd be embarrassed.
Well, it's okay.
It makes it worse.
Okay, so you got your ThinkPad.
You like it.
So I'm going to give you a choice here.
I'm going to give you a choice.
I have, let's see.
I'm pretty sure.
If I don't, I will have soon.
I've got a Verizon iPhone 5 or a Mac Pro, the MacBook Pro, the 15-inch Retina Display laptop computer.
And normally I would decide what the guest gets and force it on them.
But you pick which one do you want?
Are you serious?
Yeah.
I have a stash of stuff back.
You said Santa Claus.
I like playing Santa Claus now and then when it feels right.
It feels right here.
So.
Rush, I really wasn't expecting that.
That makes it even better.
I would love the Max Look, I guess.
All right.
Well, then we'll get it out today.
And you hang on, Mr. Snurdy will get your address, and you'll have it tomorrow, FedEx Saturday delivery.
Well, Rush, thank you.
And Timmy, you really appreciate that.
No, we appreciate you.
And everybody in this audience is appreciated.
Everybody in this, I'm telling you, you've got people in this audience applauding and wishing that there are a whole lot more people like you out there.
Because the country, we think, depends on, we think we're on the verge of losing the country as it was founded, and we desperately want to hold on to it.
And we know it's going to require people like you being informed up to speed and being passionate and just wanting the truth.
You said the magic words.
So it's been great talking to you.
You hang on.
Do not hang up.
The next voice you hear will be the official Obama criticizer, Bo Snerdley.
And we'll be back after this, folks, with much more.
Do not go away.
Open Line Friday, Rush Limboss, serving humanity with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
That's all I need, folks.
Especially with the level of stupidity that we are told exists in the American people today.
You get a call like Timmy's and you realize it doesn't have to be that way at all.
And it probably isn't.
And we will find out sooner than later.
Here's Rick, Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey.
Great to have you on the program.
You know, I've often, how does some place get named Little Egg Harbor?
Do you know?
I mean, you're from there.
Do you have any idea how that got its name?
No, Rush.
I just moved here in February.
Have no idea.
Well, there's got to be a reason.
I'll find it on Wikipedia.
Yeah, I know.
I don't know if there's a Big Egg Harbor, but I'm Little Egg Harbor.
I was wondering, following Timmy's call, by the way, congratulations, Timmy.
I think you're great.
And I think there are lots of people out there that think along the lines of thinking.
Certainly hope so.
Okay, but I was wondering if you came across an article by Stephen Ratner in the New York Times called Beyond Obamacare, where the very first line of the article is, we need death panels.
No, when was that?
It was dated September 17th.
I think it was in Saturday's New York Times.
I was 100% sure.
I don't see anything in the New York Times if somebody sends it to me.
Yeah, I don't see it either.
I don't really call me.
Steven Ratner was the car czar.
He was the first car czar.
He's Little Pinch Schulzberger's best friend.
I think together they weigh about 140.
Yeah, but I just want to say that.
And their wives together weigh about 80.
Well, whatever.
And it just actually started out by saying.
We need death panels.
First sentence.
First of all, it's the New York Times, so I can't read the whole article because I want to just put my fist through my computer.
I got to find that.
Now, no offense, but anybody can call here, say anything.
And I would have thought that somebody would have told me about this.
I thought that I was the first.
You are the first, and it's 11 days ago this happened.
Yeah.
Well, I tried to get you yesterday because you were talking about somebody bringing up how stupid Sarah Palin is.
And I'm sitting here saying, I remember how crazy the left went when she brought up death panels, or Betsy McCoy would bring it up, or you would bring it up, or Glenn Beck brings it up.
And we're always crazy when we bring up these things.
But here we are right here in the New York Times.
Steven Ratner, one of Obama's guys, sits it right out there.
We need death panels.
Then he goes on to say, well, maybe we should call it rationing.
You know what?
I don't know what he's wishing for.
They're already there.
Yeah.
We've already got rationing in Obamacare.
There's already going to be death panels.
Snerdley just found it and has confirmed your reading of the story.
Yeah, but another quote that I think is kind of exciting is that you're talking about how Obama's giving away all the cell phones and all of that stuff.
I guess we're entitled to cell phones, but it says here that elderly Americans are not entitled to every conceivable medical procedure or pharmaceutical.
So they'll give you phones and they'll give you food stamps, but they won't give you life.
Let me tell you what this is.
Let me tell you what this is.
Rattner just doesn't one day decide to write this piece.
No.
Just like last November, Thomas Edsel didn't just decide to write a piece that the Obama campaign was writing off white middle class or white working class voters.
That piece was aimed right at New York Times readers.
And the purpose of that piece is to get it out there that there are going to be death panels so that when it happens, and particularly the death panels are going to be judging whether or not the elderly, exactly what we've all said, whether or not it makes sense to spend the money to keep them alive.
Amen.
And there it is right there.
Obama, you remember that ABC special where the woman asked Obama about her 100-year-old mother whether or not she'd get a pacemaker?
And Obama said, no, no, maybe someday let's give him a pill.
The death panels have always been in there.
Palin put it out there, and the reason they jumped on her is because she was right.
She revealed what was supposed to be a hidden truth.
Yep.
And that just goes back to a truth that you always said, Rush, that you can always tell when you hit a nerve by the way they react.
When the truth comes out, if they react really nuts, then you hit them.
Stuck out of the street.
Stuck pigs.
Okay, well, thanks for the heads up, Rick.
So, Stephen Ratner, Obama's carzar, big friend of Little Pin Schulzberger, Obamacare.
It's a piece entitled Beyond Obamacare?
Is that what it is?
Beyond Obamacare by Stephen Ratner, we need death panels.
That's how it starts.
Well, see, Ratner knows that there are already death panels in it, by death panel, as the secretary shall determine.
That's the Secretary of Health and Human Services right now, Sebelius.
So she will appoint panels that will decide once Obamacare is fully implemented, folks.
Once it's fully implemented, there will be rationing.
There can't be any alternative to that.
Once the government's responsible for paying for everything, look, they don't have an endless supply of money either.
And the question will be, does it make more sense to spend money, a lot of money, on surgery or treatment, pharmaceuticals, for somebody statistically close to death?
Or does it make sense to save that money and spend it on a young person who might end up in an accident?
What have you?
That's going to be the calculation.
Your life will actually come down to dollars and cents value assigned you as a number, by the way, by the government.
And it was always part of Obamacare.
Sarah Palin was right.
It was always part.
We've all been right.
They're lying about everything to us.
In fact, that debate next Wednesday night, you know what we ought to do?
Do a lieometer.
We all ought to just sit there and just scrap every time Obama lies about something, make a note, and at the end of the debate, add them up.
Because it's going to be one lie after another.
That's all Obama's been doing.
That's all he can do.
If his record comes up, is lie about it.
All right, folks, that's it.
Another exciting excursion into Broadcast Excellence is Fini.
Toto la completa, but there's much more, as there always is.
Just take a little couple days off for the weekend, and you have a relatively enjoyable time if you can.
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