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Dec. 3, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 3, 2012, Monday, Hour #3
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And greetings once again, ladies and gentlemen.
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You know what?
I think I think Jason Whitlock is running a publicity stunt campaign.
I think his original column on the Javon Belcher shooting was a publicity stunt to get him attention, and it worked.
Bob Costus, halftime, Sunday Night Football last night quoted from Whitlock.
So Whitlock, a PR master, now seeking to expand on his publicity stunt, apparently went on Roland Martin show today, wherever that is, wherever the Roland Martin show takes place.
And Jason Whitlock said that the modern day KKK is the NRA.
So Jason wants his name to remain in the public domain, and he wants to remain being talked about.
So he'll engage in his publicity stunt, and we will oblige here at the EIB network.
Here's what he said.
This is um it's it's from Newsbusters.com, and I'm trying to figure out where he I think he said this to Roland Martin.
Hell I don't know.
I thought I read that.
I thought he read it was on CNN this morning or somewhere wherever Roland Martin.
Anyway, here's what he said this morning.
Sports gets so much attention, people tune out the real world, and I try to take advantage of the opportunity to talk about the real world when sports lends itself to that.
And I try to open people's eyes.
You know, I didn't go as far as I'd like to go because my thoughts on the NRA and America's gun culture, I believe the NRA is the new KKK.
And that the arming of so many black youths and loading up our community with drugs, and then just having an open shooting gallery is the work of people who obviously don't have our best interests at heart.
So Jason Whitlock, seeking to expand on his publicity stunt, is now saying that the NRA is arming black youths and as a side business, funneling drugs into black neighborhoods so they wipe each other out.
The NRA is encouraging people to shoot people who play loud music.
The NRA is encouraging black football players to shoot their girlfriends and the mothers of their children.
I don't believe even Jason Whitlock believes this.
Because the I mean the fact the fact of the matter is the KKK represented the Democrat Party.
The KKK was founded in the Democrat Party.
It was white on black crime.
And it the KKK committed their crimes against people who couldn't defend themselves.
The KKK committed their crimes against slaves and poor blacks who had no guns.
If anything, the NRA is helping people defend themselves from bad guys by standing up for the second amendment.
So let's take it this publicity stunt a little further.
We know that the NRA, we know that Jason was wrong when he said that he said uh handguns do not enhance our safety, they exacerbate our flaws.
We know.
We cited the the the stats.
States that have concealed carry laws have lower murder rates, crime rates, rape rates, you name it.
States with the most stringent gun control laws have the highest crime rate.
So Jason, his publicity stunt here says that the KKK is arming the black neighborhoods.
They're shooting each other, wiping each other out because they're the new KKK.
When in fact it's the KKK that is helping people defend themselves from bad guys.
And they're bad guys in every neighborhood, bad guys in every community.
Let's take the black community, so what Jason is talking about.
Let's say that somebody is rolling trucks of guns into the black community.
Somebody's still picking those guns up and using them, right?
The KKK's not putting the guns in, but the KKK doesn't have an instruction manual or the NRA, the NRA is not demanding that only certain people be shot.
The problem here, in fact, Jason, you know, you might want to look into an operation called Fast and Furious.
You might have heard about that.
Fast and Furious where the Obama administration allowed the sale of automatic weapons, I mean big time rifles and stuff, to be bought in gun shops in Arizona and walked across the border to Mexico and given to drug lords.
And the Obama administration wanted those guns used in crime, which it was.
They were.
And the whole point, Jason, was that when the American public heard about all the death and the murder and the mayhem in Mexico by drug lords committed with guns bought easily in America, the American people were supposed to stand up in righteous indignation and demand that everybody's gun be taken away from them.
That was the plan.
Didn't work, didn't work out.
What happened was an American border patrol agent was shot and killed.
And it uh it was discovered.
The plot was discovered for what it was.
Fast and furious, the guns were made available by the government.
Just like Jason, I might point out that it's the Democrat Party that owns most urban communities.
It's a Democrat Party that represents most urban communities.
It's the Democrat Party that has the political power, the law enforcement power, the education power.
How does the NRA even get in there to do all this?
How does the NRA get into these communities?
They drive in in big trucks and just open a back gate and here's if you want a gun, take it.
How does this happen?
So it's clearly a publicity stunt.
The NRA is the new KKK.
And in saying this, what Jason is saying is the people in these communities are so irresponsible that you load them up with guns and the first thing they think to do is start shooting each other with them.
Why do they start shooting each other with them?
There's a there's a societal cause here that's much deeper than simply the presence or the availability of uh of guns.
Another story, I love this one.
I love I have been predicting this more than predicting it.
This is a story from Daniel Fisher at Forbes.
Here's the headline.
Tell me if you've heard this anywhere before.
Fewer smokers means higher taxpayer costs, comma, study fines.
Where have we heard that, folks?
Where have we heard this notion that, okay, you raise taxes on cigarettes, you make cigarettes harder to buy, and you make it practically impossible to legally use them.
Nicotine's addictive, people that smoke cigarettes are addicted to them.
So you want the money.
You you and you take all the tax revenue from cigarette sales, tobacco sales, and you pay for children's health care plans, which is what we're doing.
A number of child health care plans are funded totally with cigarette sales taxes.
And I always thought that the day is going to come where as you price the cigarettes out of popular affordability, and then even for people who can buy them, you can't smoke them legally anywhere.
There will result in fewer sales.
And there will be thus less tax revenue.
And then at the end of this equation is less money for child health care Programs.
This was so easy to spot.
Typical unintended consequence of stupid Democrats.
Well, lo and behold, a study detailed in the most recent New England Journal of Medicine confirms what opponents of tobacco litigation said all along.
The government makes money off of smokers and could spend more if enough of them quit.
The argument was dismissed as ghoulish, and I I said smokers deserve medals.
Instead of looking at smokers with derision and contempt, we need all of us love them.
We need to encourage them.
They are paying for child health care programs.
The sales tax revenue from their tobacco purchases are paying for the health care for your kid.
Why do you hate smokers?
You need to love them.
We need to give them medals.
And I said as you price them out of the market, you're going to reduce the revenue and your and your health care plan is going to suffer.
And it has.
A congressional budget office analysis of the financial impact of a fifty cent per pack increase in cigarette taxes shows that while cutting the number of smokers trims government outlays over the short run.
The increased longevity and higher end of life expenses of nonsmokers will cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars more for Medicare and Social Security.
So it's a dual-edged killer.
Follow me on this.
As fewer people smoke, there's fewer dollars, there's less revenue for health care programs.
As fewer people smoke, they live longer.
They don't die soon enough.
They live longer, and they end up on Medicare and Social Security, which costs us even more.
So it kills finances twice.
In other words, the survey data says let people smoke and let them die early, and they'll put less pressure on health care costs because there'll be fewer people to care for because they'll kill themselves with the smoke.
And at the same time, all that revenue will come in, you'll fund child health care programs.
Now what do we have?
We have less revenue coming in.
The child health care programs are suffering, and the smokers who quit are living longer and becoming a financial burden to the rest of us.
Thanks to the unintended consequence.
And all of this was utterly and totally predictable, and I did predict it.
You know, folks, it really gets frustrating watch watching this parade of utter stupidity march on unimpeded.
In fact, not only unimpeded, but aided and abetted by other stupidity.
We'll be back.
We will continue your phone calls when we get back.
Don't go away.
And I hold here, ladies and gentlemen, in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers, my left hand...
A story from CNN which kind of illustrates the problem that we've got here.
Here's the headline.
Questions surround fifty-five million dollar program to cut violence in Chicago.
Now I don't know what this story says.
I haven't read it yet.
I'll read some parts of it here in a minute, but I'm just going to tell you that there's no way we're gonna cut violence by spending fifty-five million dollars.
It's not a spending problem.
And the idea that the answer to every problem in this country spend money on it is absurd.
It's ludicrous.
So what is this story say?
A chilly afternoon this fall, teenagers across Chicago South Side were busy at work, earning eight seventy-five an hour to hand out flyers with a message of nonviolence.
Our message that we're giving out today is about being healthy, says 18-year-old Lucia Eloisa.
One of the key pointers is about taking time to reflect and seek inner peace.
Elois's part-time job was paid for by an ambitious state funded program to keep at risk teenagers out of trouble.
It pumped nearly fifty-five million dollars into Chicago's toughest neighborhoods and three of its suburbs to stem unrelenting gang violence.
Are you kidding me?
We we we really think that we're going to stop gang violence with flyers and pamphlets on inner peace.
Well, somebody does.
Somebody in a position of responsibility in Chicago thinks so.
So here we go again.
Never are we allowed to look at the real issues that might actually lead to a solution to this problem.
We have to have our money taken from us.
We have to have our taxes raised.
We have to have our property taken away from us so that liberals and Democrats can throw our money at an issue and make it look like the issue is being dealt with.
They need our money to make themselves look like they care.
And caring is all a liberal has to do.
A liberal never has to solve a problem.
A conservative in this culture must solve the problem, or he or she is worthless.
A liberal doesn't have to solve jack anything.
All the liberal has to do is care.
And it's very cheap for a liberal to care.
They take your money, they go print up some meaningless ridiculous flyers on Inner Peace, go out and hire some typical low information voters that think they're really mattering and making a difference, have them stand on the corner and pass out something asking gangbangers to consult their inner peace.
And then they say problem solve.
See, we care, we're good people.
And we point out, but yeah, but you you haven't solved anything.
Well, we care.
All you do is sit around and criticize, at least we care.
And a majority of Americans buys that.
A majority of Americans who vote.
Yep, they care.
Well, is the way they're handling the problem fixing it?
Doesn't matter.
They care.
You don't.
They care.
You're making fun of what they're trying to do.
Damn right we are because it's silly.
Why don't you go to Wall Street and hand out a flyer to every hedge fund guy and ask him to stop what he's doing and instead consult inner peace and see if it would work.
Nothing illustrates the liberals' penchant for solving a problem more than throwing money at it and then not caring whether it solved the problem or not.
This is a long article here at CNN investigating a failed expensive program voted on by politicians in Chicago.
Illinois, $55 million to cut violence.
It didn't work.
Everybody's scratching their heads.
But at the end of the day, they're also patting themselves on the back because they care.
Here's Bert Henderson, Colorado.
Bert, thank you for waiting.
Great to have you on the EIB Network.
Hi, Resh.
It's an honor to speak with you.
Uh Megadeth from Snowlist, Colorado.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, um, I just had some comments regarding the uh violence with our youth and everything right now.
I think it all just goes down to no accountability anymore.
You know, parents aren't at home anymore.
They're both working to try to live the American dream, and these kids are not being disciplined whatsoever.
They're not getting um, you know, uh stinkins at home anymore.
You're not able to punish your kids because uh it's not TC anymore.
And these kids, you know, think that uh they can basically do whatever they want and get away with it.
You know, I was uh one of the first responders at the uh I rare shooting on uh 720, and uh, you know, I see this kind of stuff every day.
I mean, I see people Which uh which shooting was that?
Was that the Batman shooting?
Yes, it was.
Yeah, okay.
There's so many in Colorado I forgot.
Yeah, I mean, it uh it I see it Every day, I mean, whether it be from the uh the uh medical aspect of it or whatever, because you know, we have people that use the system day in and day out.
I mean, and that's what I'll tell you.
Oh, well, I called uh 911 um because I don't have enough money for a cab, and it's like, okay, you don't have enough money to pay for a cab, but yet you're gonna take a twelve hundred dollar ambulance job to the hospital, and the reason they don't care is because they're not accountable, and they know that you and I and everybody else who's working and and uh trying to make it in this world are paying for it.
True.
And it's just in many cases, other people are paying for it.
But in the uh, you know, in the case of people who commit the kind of violence that took place at the Batman movie, and uh Gabby Gifford's people are lunatics.
I agree.
They're absolutely lunatic, but you can't say that.
They're lunatics because of society.
There's always an escape mechanism, always an excuse advanced for them.
Yes.
And it's always something that represents a flaw in America that explains why these lunatics do what they do.
There are also evil people.
They're just plain old evil people out there, no matter what you do.
That's not politically correct to say, so we're gonna find a flaw in America that made them do what they did and made them uh a lunatic.
It's always blame America first, no matter what the circumstance.
A couple sound bites.
I thought at the time I played a couple sound bites.
I haven't played because I've basically said in my own voice, which is what people want to hear, some of the sound bites that we have here.
So but I'm gonna play a couple we I got you gotta hear Jason Whitlock, because he doesn't believe this.
This Jason Whitlock has written enough criticism of the hip hop culture and the gang culture, particularly at the NBA All-Star game in Las Vegas that turned that place into a shooting gallery.
Jason Whitlock wrote about that in ways that did not gain him any favor.
Jason's black, and he wrote about that in ways that didn't gain him any favor.
He was a lone voice, and he wasn't blaming guns when he was writing about it, but he was blaming the culture.
He was blaming.
Now he's out.
I just want you to hear him say it was on Roland Martin's website.
Big deal.
Is on Roland Martin's website saying that the NRA is the new KKK, and I'm telling you based on things he's written before, he doesn't really believe this.
This is just he's trying to capitalize on Costas quoting him last night.
The NRA is the new KKK, and that the the arming of so many black youth and loading up our communities with drugs and then just having an open shooting gallery is is the work of people that you know obviously don't have our best interest.
And I I think it's obvious if you travel abroad and travel to countries where they actually have some legitimate gun laws, we don't have to have what we have here in America, where people think a gun somehow enhances their liberty, and where people think that a gun somehow makes them safer, i it just doesn't.
A gun turns some kids listening to music into a murder scene.
No.
Nope.
Nope dare I say it, Mr. Snerdley.
What's turning kids what's turning that situation into murder scene?
The gun or the music?
Or the entire culture?
What's what's anyway?
The point is, you know the answer.
The the the NRA, not just guns, but drugs into the black community.
But here he makes the same mistake.
States in this country with concealed carry laws have less crime, less murder.
States in this country where the good guys are allowed to be armed have less crime, less violent crime.
The states with the strictest gun control laws have the highest murder rates, the highest gun usage, Chicago, New York, Washington.
But this is just silly.
The NRA is about self-defense.
The NR that Jason, you better go read about Margaret Sanger.
If you want to talk about what you're talking about, Brady Quinn is the quarterback of the Kansas City Chiefs.
Notre Dame Gred.
After the game Sunday between the Carolina Panthers and the Chiefs, post-game press conference.
This is what Brady Quinn said.
I was sitting in my head thinking, what could I have done differently?
You know, when you ask someone how they're doing, do you really mean it?
When you answer something back, how are you doing?
Are you really telling the truth?
You know, we live in a society of social networks and Twitter pages and Facebook, and that's that's fine and stuff, but you know, we have contact with our work associates, our family, our friends, and it seems like half a sign we're more preoccupied with our phone and other things going on instead of the actual relationships we have in front of us.
And hopefully people can learn from this and try to actually figure out if someone's battling something you know deeper on the inside than what they may be revealing on a day-to-day basis.
Yeah, it's an interesting point.
Well, I'll tell you why it's interesting, not the Twitter and Facebook.
I mean, look, you can't walk that stuff and put it back in a g in a bottle.
That genie's out of the bottle, and people text more than they talk to each other.
I mean, that's just that's life now.
But look at all the different stories there have been about Javon Belcher.
Let me just I still don't know.
I'll tell you what I've read.
I've read that it was a model relationship, that he loved her and she loved him, and they were proud as hell of a baby, and they had all these Facebook pages, and it couldn't have been better.
Hunky Dory, he was grateful for the job that he had.
Then I read that he's had concussion injuries, which the Chiefs do not confirm, by the way.
Brain injury, uh blows to the head, he's not normal.
He was depressed, he was an alcoholic, he was taking pain pills.
That's a pretty wide area for the truth to be in.
From model relationship, they loved each other.
She had just moved up to be with him.
They've been together three years, another player introduced them, they had the baby, the baby's happy, look at the pictures on Facebook, everything's hunky-dory.
Two, she's out till one in the morning on Sunday with her friend, or Saturday.
Um she goes to a concert, he doesn't go, he gets mad, he gets jealous, she doesn't uh appreciate him being not trusting her.
He doesn't like her being out till one o'clock without him with her girlfriends.
He started an argument when they get home at one in the morning, the argument goes on till seven, finally he blows it, grabs a gun, fires nine times, and goes kills himself.
What Brady Quinn is saying here, you know, it might have been interesting if somebody actually tried to delve beneath the surface in uh in all the the quote, how are you doing?
Great man, great.
It's just throwaway lines.
The question doesn't mean anything, and neither does the answer.
But were there any signs that this guy was close to cracking?
Because we we've got a couple stories say yeah, and then there's a couple over here saying, no way, I couldn't ever can't believe that.
Then I had I'm sorry I got to keep mentioning this all day long, yesterday, pregame shows of the NFL, during the day, even to last night.
You had to really listen close to hear Mr. Belcher described as a murderer.
The primary way he was described was a grateful, troubled individual who really appreciated the Chiefs' management for giving him a shot.
He loved them so much, he went to the facility, he ran into Scott Paoli, the GM, he asked Paoli.
Here's another thing, but you are the general manager of the Chiefs.
Eight o'clock in the morning in the parking lot of your practice facility.
Here's a guy, obviously on edge, he's got a gun.
He's just shot somebody, the cops are on the way, and he asks you to call two people out from the office to come out to the parking lot.
Now, Paoli said never was the gun pointed at me.
I never felt threatened.
I don't know.
I wasn't in the situ uh and and it's impossible for any of us to really say what we would do if we were thrust into that.
But I gotta tell you, I'd have a tough time making the phone call asking two more people to come out.
But he did, so he must have felt that Belcher wasn't a threat, right?
So Belcher must have been thankful.
He must have been believable in his gratitude, expressions of gratitude.
He called those, he called a head coach out and an assistant coach out.
There's three of them.
And then Belcher finally thanks them all profusely for giving him a chance and walks away, turns away, walks away and fires, and he's dead.
And they saw it all.
That's stop and think about making that phone call if two more people come out and end up being in the line of fire.
And somebody by definition holding that gun's got to be unstable.
No matter how they appear.
At any rate, we don't know.
And you know what, folks?
Here's another thing.
We'll never know.
Because the only two people to know are dead.
Maybe the mother that was in the house can shed some light on the nature of the argument and the past relationship, but she may not wish to.
Short of that, there's no way anybody is ever going to really know why this happened.
And when things like this happen, we seem obsessed with the why.
Because there's some people that want to blame the country for it.
Some people want to politicize every issue like this that comes along.
And lo and behold, as an old reliable NBC news or sports, doesn't matter.
The biggest politicization of the issue occurred in halftime of the football game last night.
A quick timeout and a quick return.
Kansas City, Missouri, hi Lisa.
Great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello.
Hi, thanks for having me.
Hey, I just had one comment to make, and it just drives me crazy every time I hear the liberals talking one more thing about how they're gonna protect people.
I think the black community should be really offended by well, specifically in this situation in regard to the shooting that happened over the weekend that with the Chiefs and Jason Whitlaw going on and saying that it's like the KKK and if you drive guns into the black community that the blacks aren't gonna be intelligent enough to not kill themselves.
Well, you know, it gets ridiculous.
That is kind of an interesting point.
You could make the case that Jason Whitlock is indeed saying, and all you gotta do is truckload a bunch of guns in to the black community and they'll start killing each other.
That's basically what he's saying.
And it is an insult.
It is an insult to those communities.
Here comes the NRA truck.
They're gonna it's a dump truck.
They're gonna load up the trailer, they're gonna raise it up, the guns fall out.
Oops.
People grab and start shooting each other.
That's it is an insult to those people.
They have nothing better to do than shoot each other.
That's why this is a publicity stuff.
He just Jason is feasting on Costus quoting him last night.
What's nerdly what?
Well, in Chicago is a I I gotta talk about that tomorrow.
So Obama went to Twitter at two o'clock today to encourage low information voters to support his plan to raise taxes 1.8 or 1.6 trillion dollars.
His last tweet was gotta go, thanks, keep pressure on Congress, call email, tweet your member, tell them what $2,000 means to you.
Let's get it done.
Obama rallying his low information voters to raise taxes on themselves.
They just don't know it.
We'll see you uh tomorrow, folks, in 21 hours.
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