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Dec. 7, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 7, 2012, Friday, Hour #3
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Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
Great to have you.
It's L Rushball, the all knowing, all caring, all sensing, all feeling, all concern, Maha Rushi.
Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
Talent on loan from God on Friday.
So let's live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday where you get to choose whatever it is that you want to talk about.
This is your day.
Monday through Thursday doesn't work that way.
You have to talk about what I care about or you don't make it.
But on Friday, it doesn't matter.
I will willingly be bored if I don't care about it and still take the call.
And I'll still engage you in conversation.
It's the greatest career risk taken in modern media by a major media figure.
And that is turning over the content portion of program to rank amateurs.
Lovable rank amateurs, but nevertheless, compared to me, a highly trained broadcast specialist and professional.
We're all professionals here.
This is the way it works.
Telephone number again, eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two.
Okay, it's Christmas time, and that means uh, ladies and gentlemen, that there are a lot of letters that are written to Santa Claus.
No, not not the letters written to Obama.
However, the story does come and is about USA.gov.
Says here the Postal Service gets over 500,000 pieces of mail every year for Santa Claus.
And say you can help by adopting a letter.
Learn how at this website and to United States Postal Service.
Subsidiary here, USA.gov.
It's it's an Obama place.
Does five hundred thousand letters to Santa sound like a lot to you or not very many?
It does not sound like a lot to me.
I used to write letters to Santa.
My mom would mail them.
I'd make her, I mean, I'd make her take me while she put it in the mailbox down in the corner.
It's a kind of five hundred thousand in a country of three hundred plus million seems rather low.
But that's not my point here.
This website is about the letters to Santa program and how to adopt a letter.
Individual customers and representatives of organizations wanting to adopt a letter must come.
You must go to a participating Operation Santa Post Office in person.
Both individual customers and organizational representatives have to fill out a form.
And wait for it.
You have to show ID.
You have to show photo ID to be able to adopt a letter to Santa Claus.
Mandated by the Obama regime.
For organizations wanting to adopt the letter, please send a representative with correspondence on letterhead from your company or organization authorizing the representative to view the letters on behalf of your company and organization.
Your representative must present his or her employee ID and a valid state driver's license or state issued ID card.
Ladies and gentlemen, uh we do not require a photo ID in selecting or voting for the leader of the free world.
But you cannot adopt a dear Santa letter at the post office without showing an ID.
That's just mind boggling.
Do you know, uh ladies and gentlemen, over the years, as host of this program and others, and as a participant on many other programs, I have had my share of run ins with well, run it when I've engaged in discussions involving women.
From the early days of feminism to the uh realization that there were feminizes, and even to just innocent everyday discussions of women and women and men and relationships, I seem to always find myself in boiling water.
It's never eventless.
And one such time, and I forget when I first articulated, it must have been Kansas City back in the 1970s.
I was either hosting a show or guesting on one.
And I made the observation that guys never notice it.
But women spend more time inspecting other women than men do.
I said, women are inherently more judgmental of other women than men are.
And you wouldn't believe the hell that raised.
Among women, how dare you?
Why everybody knows that men don't do anything but ogle and inspect and approve.
I say, yeah, but you know what?
Men never notice it because they're busy looking too.
But I said, this is my example.
Go walking down the street.
If you as a guy happen to see an attractive woman, you're looking at her.
What you're not noticing is every other woman looking at her.
And if she disapproves others staring daggers at her, how dare she wear her hair like that?
How dare she wear a skirt that short?
Who does she think she is?
Well, I'd offer this opinion, based on intelligence guided by experience, all hell would break loose.
I've learned I was violating some sort of convention or custom.
Well, lo and behold, I mean, I know I've been right about this from the very moment that I even before I talked about it.
UK Daily Mail.
Story is from December the 5th, a couple days ago.
When it comes to checking out competition, women should not worry about men checking them out, but women instead.
Women spend more time ogling other females than their male partners do.
And that's according to research carried out, which suggests that women ogle the bodies of other women far longer than their male partners do.
Now, why is that?
Okay, you want me to get into further trouble?
And I'm not I'm not trying to.
This is one of these things you can't be you better not be right about it, or you're gonna be in big trouble.
But I'll tell you what's going on, and I'll tell you right now whether or not I've hit are scored by virtue of dawn's facial expressions.
The only woman here I can use to judge this.
Women are checking to see if there's any plastic surgery and if it's any good or not.
They're looking for fake boobs.
They're looking to see if there's any Botox, any extensions.
See if there's been any liposuction.
Any plumping, because women know the tricks, and they're looking for all the signs in other women.
And the more attractive the woman, the more interesting the inspection is to find out if what they're looking at is real or whether it's fake.
So they are looking at the construction job.
That's right.
Just like men, they're looking at the surface.
They're looking at what's on the outside.
That's true, too.
Absolutely.
Oh, oh, that's absolutely true.
It could also be looking at the shoes.
Ooh, those are nice chews, I gotta get a pair.
Might be looking at the dress.
Is that Chanel?
Isn't that Ralph Wall?
Oh, all of that, yes, much exactly my point.
All of that's going on.
And there will also be disapproval.
How dare she think she can wear pumps that high?
Who does she think she has she looked at her legs?
Who does she think?
All that's going on.
But men are the ones who get hit on for doing that.
Men are the ones that pay the price for this.
Men are said to be predators and oglers and inspectors and so forth.
I just find it fascinating.
It's no big deal.
I just find it fascinating.
University researchers discovered that while men stare at the faces of people in photographs, fine art paintings, women are more interested in looking at other women's breasts, and that is from the research.
Men, on the other hand, it says, made many more eye movements, scanning the whole image, and paused only to stare at faces.
Now that's conditioning.
Men used to look at breasts too.
That's back when men were men, but now you don't dare get caught doing that.
That's sexist.
Now you'll look at other stuff.
The report concludes, and here's another the report concludes men and women are different.
Really.
Remember that was on the cover of Time Magazine?
Long research.
Stop and think of this.
This is 1995 or 1997.
Time magazine actually did a cover story on men and women are born different.
Now, if that was news to the editor at Time, what must that person have thought?
The fact that men and women are different was big news.
That was worth a cover.
And Camille Paglia has a column out in the Hollywood reporter, Taylor Swift, Katie Perry, and Hollywood are ruining women.
It's about all the female heroes in movies and television shows, and the kind of women they are is disgusting.
Rotten role model.
I'm not gonna spend a whole lot of time in details here.
But let me give you a pull quote from Camille Paglia's piece.
But middle class white girls told that every career is open to them and encouraged to excel at athletics, are faced with slacker white boys nagged by the PC thought police into suppressing their masculinity, which gets diverted instead into video games and the flourishing genre of online pornography.
The emotional deficiencies in sanitized middle class life have led to the blockbuster success of the five Twilight movies, as well as this year's hunger games.
Their stars are nice little white girls thrust into extreme situations looking for strength.
But the movies are set in abnormal environments.
Supernatural vampires are the s are the heroes.
Or there is dystopian survivalism.
Romance is peculiarly in t in intertwined with bloody atrocities and the yearning fabrication of foster families.
This is noted feminist Camille Pallier ripping into Hollywood.
Middle class white girls, told that every career is open to them, encouraged to excel at athletics, are faced with slacker white boys nagged by the PC police into suppressing their masculinity.
And because of that, they find vampires as heroes.
Or dystopian renegades.
Anyway, this is all about the culture, folks.
That's I find it stuff fascinating.
Uh listen to what people think about why we're headed where we are and why certain things make an impression and why certain things don't, and why what used to be traditionally strong and masculine is now old fashioned, predatory, and barbaric, and it is.
But I I have a profound disagreement with Miss Palya on this.
I'm not so sure that it's Hollywood that's ruining women so much as it has been feminism.
Which has.
Back after this.
Yes, a little Mannheim steamroller has joined our Christmas bump rotation, my friends, as we get deeper and deeper into the Christmas season.
and And no matter what else is going on, it is my all-time favorite period in the year.
I just I just it has a positive effect on me like very little else does, seasonally, that is.
Here's uh here Janice in Naples, Florida, as we go back to the phones and open line Friday.
Hi.
Hey, hi, Rash.
Sucker punch did it.
Thank you.
Thanks very much.
Oh, Harbor!
Wait a minute.
Well, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold it.
What is sucker punch dittoes?
Well, sucker punch is just instead of saying hello, Merry Christmas, I feel sucker punched.
Oh.
by the election.
I'm calling from the lady from two calls ago when you were talking about our reaction the next day, the next week.
You know, it's like a sucker punch, babe.
And you know, this is how this country was, what, seventy-one years ago, although you wouldn't know it on the news today because uh nobody wants to talk about Pearl Harbor and what where our country was then, but let's go to the present, okay?
And I'll tell you, you know, this and just everything you just said about women and looking oh, you're so right, you're so right.
And this is my Merry Christmas present to myself, just talking with you.
Because uh you I don't know where we just pray for your daily effort on this.
Well, thank you very much because I need it.
I and I I appreciate all you must be so worn out because we're worn out, but by golly, you know, and and for me, I've got two two boys, military, one just came back.
When you stand with your kid at Arlington and he's buried one of his men, okay, you get it.
You get what we're fighting for and what the people before us have done, and we we cannot quit.
I am scared, I am I am realistic.
I am in the real world.
What you and I think we were sucker punched with uh the stimulus.
We came so close to closing down Obamacare, but I can't.
No, that's not what you're sucker punched about.
Let me try let me let me help out, because I know.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think I am.
What really has you flabbergasted is the scary thought that we've lost the country that of the people who vote, a majority believe this crap.
You're you're and you're one how in the world do we change that?
How do we reach these people?
That's what your frustrating we will never do it with public schools.
I've come out of the public schools as a teacher for the last twenty-five, thirty years, and your your remarks on that have been right on, and I have said that it's a wonder we still even have a chance.
When those seniors vote in an election because they they do all voting, I'm telling you, it's ninety to ninety-five percent vote as demos.
How can we fight that?
That's been going on for twenty, twenty-five, thirty years.
They come out programmed.
Well, a lot of people have been thinking that events just by themselves.
Uh as an example, living through such a horrible economy with so few job prospects.
Many people have been thinking that would do it.
And the the real sobering, shocking reality is that it doesn't.
That we have two things.
We have a welfare, we have we have a Santa Claus president who is providing what work used to provide, and a media, which is blaming people have nothing to do with this for the problem.
And you are scratching your head like everybody when how do we penetrate this?
How do we stop this?
Because you're like everybody you don't want to cede the country, no matter what happened to this election.
You don't want to give it up.
You call here talking about Pearl Harbor.
Pearl Harbor was nineteen forty-one.
Pearl Harbor probably isn't taught much.
And if it is I'll uh my fear is that it is really downplayed as uh as an event, and it may even be a vehicle for teaching how horrible this country is with nuclear weapons.
In the public school system, Pearl Harbor is probably a gateway for some anti-war teacher to say it was uh Pearl Harbor in the United States overreacting and killing innocent people with two nuclear bombs and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Uh, and the true nature of Pearl Harbor, what it meant, and what it revived.
Pearl Harbor was the catalyst for bringing this economy back out of FDR's stagnation due to the New Deal.
Pearl Harbor awakened a great country and allowed this country to show what it's made of and what it could again in liberating millions of people, millions of oppressed people from tyranny.
And now you see people in this country unwittingly, you hope, voting for a modified tyranny.
Voting for an ever expanding.
Washington, D.C. with ever expanding power over the individual.
You see developing a totally different relationship between citizen and government.
And you're scared to death.
You think that a pretty good shot was spent fighting this.
A fairly decent effort, not the best, but a fairly decent effort was made in repelling it and beating it back, educating people, it's the wrong way to go, and it didn't work.
And so you're at your wit's end.
Everything you believe in, you think people are laughing at.
Everything you believe in, you think people don't think is important anymore.
Everything you believe in, you think you get the impression that people mock.
And so your tennis is the heck with it.
You know, why I why why should I care anymore?
But as much as you'd like to quote unquote tune out, you can't because you do care too much.
And it does matter too much.
And you're not quitters.
I mean, you're talking to Pearl Harbor to me, you're not a quitter.
So I know that uh you're always gonna be counted.
Greetings and welcome back.
L. Rushball here on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
I've got a stat here.
Yes.
Right here it is, ladies and gentlemen.
This is from Daniel Halper at the Weekly Standard, but it's actually, according to the Senate budget committee.
Welfare spending.
Let me relate this to Pearl Harbor, if I may.
Seventy-one years ago, December 7, 1941, or as FDR said, December some.
A day which will live in...
1941.
41.
one.
Seventy-one years ago.
We went to war to defend our country from tyranny.
We were attacked from outside.
Now we are watching it being given away.
All throughout the Great Depression, into World War II, we fought to liberate people from tyranny from oppression.
Country that stood for freedom and rugged individualism and you know it's a it's a term that gets thrown around.
I actually think this probably tests negatively entrepreneurial.
I think it almost if I had to guess the Democrats focus group that word and it tests negative, like the rich tests negatively, so probably ought to stop using it.
But look at what we've become here.
According to the Senate budget committee, welfare spending per day per household in poverty is one hundred sixty-eight dollars.
That's higher than the one hundred and thirty-seven dollar medium in uh median income per day.
Now when you break that down per hour, welfare spending per hour per household in poverty is thirty dollars.
That's higher than the twenty-five dollar median income per hour.
We're spending a hundred and sixty-eight dollars every day for every household in poverty.
And by the way, we're not eradicating it.
We are spending more in poverty than the median income in this country.
In other words, we are giving more Money away than the median family is earning.
What's gonna happen?
That's a tipping point.
People are gonna say, why work?
I can get more not working.
And welfare benefits are not taxed.
In addition.
Now, this is said to be compassionate.
This is said to be caring for the downtrodden.
It's not compassionate.
This is consigning people to lives far less than what they could be on their own.
But we can't it just it's insensitive to say that.
Mean and all that.
That's an amazing stat to me.
And a stat, it's a figure.
Here is Mary Ann Vista, California.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you so much, Rush.
What a pleasure to talk to you.
Thank you.
Anyway, this is about my daughter and her Obamacare for her, I know, started in November.
Uh her insurance doubled, and she works at the Goodwill of California, making eleven dollars an hour.
Okay.
Her husband is a truck driver, and he has his own policy through the trucking company, and he pays ninety-seven dollars a week just for his own medical, dental, and prescription.
He went to the doctor on Monday with a sinus infection and was charged seventy-five dollars for the prescription and twenty-five dollars for the office visit.
My daughter was told two days ago she's no longer eligible for a yearly pap smear.
It will now be once every three years.
So I don't know where this money is $97 a week for him, and hers darling is going what what's it going for?
I just don't get it.
Let me see if I can help you understand this.
I know.
Let me start off by telling you the following: we are as a nation 16 trillion dollars in debt and we as a nation spend over a trillion dollars in debt we don't have.
The largest percentage of the deficit is health care spending.
Barack Obama and the Democrats have wanted to gain control of health care spending or health care and insurance.
Democrats, liberals have wanted this for decades because it allows them to totally control all aspects of life because they can relate every behavior to health, and they can either deny you coverage, deny you treatment by virtue of the fact you haven't lived right.
It is actually an opportunity to deny people treatment, deny people insurance, deny people coverage while selling it as the exact opposite.
It is an opportunity to make a serious dent in in in some deficit spending.
But everything you've heard in selling Obamacare, well, most everything that you've heard in selling Obamacare has been misleading.
It's not going to be cheaper, it's not going to be more plentiful, you're not going to be able to keep your doctor.
Everything is not going to be covered.
Every malady that you have will not necessarily be guaranteed to be treated because there isn't the money for it.
And now in a few years, there will be a penalty if you have your own money and can pay for it and decide not to insure yourself or not to get insurance, you're going to pay a penalty for not doing that and join the whole government control.
So health care benefits.
Mary Ann, what's happening is your daughter, husband, son-in-law, whatever.
Benefits are being spread around now.
There are limited resources being spread around under the guise of fairness.
And what that means is it's just like people that live off government now.
They're not prosperous.
They get by, but they are not becoming wealthy.
And it's going to be the same with health care.
Your health care is not going to become more plentiful, just like your income doesn't if you depend on government.
Nothing is.
It's not going to become more plentiful.
It's not going to become better.
You think, Rush, that I should wait for my granny pill in the mail or what?
They're not going to mail it to you.
They're going to make you drive to pick it up.
My granny pill.
Okay.
Mail you your granny pill.
You're talking about when Obama told a woman, just tell your mother to take a pill.
Exactly.
Yes.
And since I'm 70 but not senile, and I live in California, maybe I should be really worried about my granny pill.
Well, that no, you know, you're laughing about it, but that actually happened.
I mean, that the the president of the United States actually told a citizen.
I can't believe that whole thing was an ABC television show primetime on Obama and Health and America.
And a woman shows up.
I couldn't believe this happened in my country.
A citizen showed up to ask of all people the president, whether or not he would permit her mother to get a pacemaker.
Or a hearing aid or some such, whatever it was.
Since when do citizens of this country think they have to go ask the president whether or not a member of their family will be treated for a medical need.
And then after she asks him, the and she wanted, you know, the mother is over a hundred or getting close to a hundred and had a real will to live.
And the woman asked the president, would that factor into your decision with your health care plan?
My mother really wants to live.
And Obama said point blank, no, we can't take that into account.
I mean, that that's a tough thing to assess, but we can't we can't use that as criteria.
And he said sometimes it's just gonna make more sense to give them a pill and try to enjoy what's left rather than engage in treatment that might not work or might not be successful to the degree everybody wants, it might just make more sense to you.
I was stunned.
I I uh it's part of so many things that happened during the first term.
Maybe how does this guy ever get reelected?
And it's it's it's shocking to think that there are a lot of people like that woman who think nothing of.
I mean, it's as normal as turning on the water faucet.
Ask the president if my mother get a pacemaker.
Ask the government, ask Central Authority.
That's not the way I conceive of living.
It's not what I call li I that it's just boggled my mind.
The fact that the question was asked, and the fact that he took it seriously.
The fact that all he enjoyed the question.
And I'm saying, who is this guy?
He's a community organizer.
He's never been in medicine.
He doesn't know a thing about research and development, coming up with drugs and therapy, doesn't know anything.
Never went to medical school.
He's never managed a business.
What is happening?
Who the heck is he to tell this woman, no, your mom probably will be given a pill.
Uh it just I was speechless.
So when this woman calls and jokes about it, it's reality.
It's it's not it's not some concoction of some extreme right winger making a prediction, some conspiracy theory.
The president of the United States has already deemed that course of action to be likely.
So if you happen to be elderly and you need a pacemaker or surgery or something, I guarantee you there will be an advisory board, call it a death panel or whatever you that'll assess your case, and you are nothing but a number with a dollar value assigned, and the dollar value is what it's gonna cost to treat what's wrong with you.
And if this advisory board, in the opinion of the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary, deems that it's too expensive and not worth it, they're not gonna spend it, and you get the pill.
Figuratively speaking, you get drugged up so that you don't feel the pain in your last days.
And that got re-elected.
I've just.
I know how you feel about all this, folks.
But but I gotta take a break.
I'm sorry.
I just saw the clock.
Be right back.
Don't go away.
Paul in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.
I've got about 35 seconds, but I wanted to get to you.
Hello.
Awesome to speak with you, Rush.
As quickly as I can.
There was a path to victory for Mr. Romney, and as was discussed on your program during the primary season, that path to victory was through the South.
It's been since 1972, no Republican has been elected president who's lost more than one Southern state.
McCain lost three, and Romney lost two.
All Romney had to do to win, he had the path to victory, was mend fences with the Tea Party and meet with the evangelicals and get their support, and he had a path to victory.
The reason being Ohio and Colorado always come along with the South.
Check the electoral records.
They had a path to victory.
Now that's true, but there were there's some other factors too.
But but you have to be conservative to want to do all that.
And I don't mean to be cutting or critical, but we.
Okay, folks, that's it.
We are out of busy broadcast moments because it's the end of the show.
I hope you have a great weekend, and we will be back here on Monday, uh revved up and ready to do it again for another full, exciting week of broadcast excellence.
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