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Dec. 14, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 14, 2012, Friday, Hour #2
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Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
Great to have you here.
This is Rush Limbaugh, your cornball conservative brother, here on the radio on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's Open Line Friday.
Yes, sir, Rebond, great to have you on.
Our telephone number, if.
You want to appear on the program 800-282-2882 at an email address, LRushbo at EIBnet.com.
We distinguish things on Friday because it's a little different.
People who call on Friday don't have to talk about things that interest me in order to get on.
You can talk about whatever you want.
You can use the occasion to call and beg.
You can ask a question.
You can do anything.
Let your imagination be your guide.
Telephone number again, 800-282-2882.
And a terrible and awful thing has happened in Connecticut.
At a school in, I don't know if it's Newton or Newtown, how they pronounce it.
Newtown, Connecticut, I'm told.
A shooting at a school, 26 people dead, including 18 children.
It is just awful.
It is terrible, incomprehensible.
But I'm going to tell you something.
As we sit here at this very moment, you know it and I know it.
There are liberals trying to find a way to blame this on conservatives or Republicans.
It may sound a little hard-edged to say that, but I've lived through these things for 25 plus years.
Every such incident as this, even Hurricane Katrina, they tried to blame on Bush.
Actually had people saying he didn't care.
He wants to steer it if he could have to get rid of the population there.
So we shall soon see, it won't be long.
Gabby Gifford's shooting, you name it.
Any incident like this.
There was the Dark Knight Rises shooting in Aurora, Colorado.
Brian Ross, ABC News, blamed it on the Tea Party.
So it may sound a little hard-edged to say it, but I'm telling you, there are elements of the mainstream media who are doing everything they can with their number one objective is to see if there's anything they can blame on conservative media or Republican policies or the Second Amendment.
I don't care what it is.
You know that that's coming.
I just want to get it out there and prepare you for it.
Also, ladies and gentlemen, in addition to the racial controversy at ESPN, which really has become a racist place, you go back to my short five-week stint there, and I ended up resigning because I didn't want all the controversy that ensued.
I mean, I really liked that pregame show.
And I mistakenly liked the people on it.
It was misplaced affection.
And we're discussing Donovan McNabb's slump.
And I essentially say, I don't think it's a slump.
I don't think he's as good as everybody seems to think.
I think there's a lot of media people, liberals, who have a desire that black quarterbacks do well because they feel sorry for them.
And I said, the media that is perpetuated the myth that McNabb's a better quarterback than he is.
And I said, I think the defense carried it.
Well, two days later, the Philadelphia print media blew up, and that was that.
That wasn't a racist comment at all.
It was a comment on media behavior.
But ESPN wanted no part of it.
Now, I got this guy, Rob Parker, who, by the way, has a track record.
He doesn't arrive at ESPN as clean and pure as the wind-driven snow.
He's from Detroit.
He's got a track record as being sort of outside the bounds of media propriety, if there is such a thing.
So you know the story by now.
Robert Griffin III, black quarterback of the Redskins, is not authentically black because he's got a white fiancée, might be a Republican, and he's a cornball brother.
He's not down for the cause.
He's not a black guy that the other black guys don't want to hang around with.
And so he's been suspended indefinitely by ESPN.
But try this.
This is not the only thing that happened to ESPN from the AP, Santa Clara, California.
The women's basketball team at Mission College expected the bleachers to be full and the hecklers ready when its newest player made her home court debut.
In the days leading up to the game, people had plenty to say about 6'6, 220-pound Gabrielle Ludwig, who joined the Lady Saints as a mid-season walk-on and became, according to advocates, the first transsexual to play college hoops as both a man and a woman.
Coach Corey Cafferata worried the outside noise was getting to his players, particularly the 50-year-old Ludwig.
50 years old playing college basketball.
She's a transgender.
She has played both as a guy and as a gal.
A pair of ESPN radio hosts laughed at her looks, referred to her as it.
Online threats and anonymous calls prompted the two-year college to assign the Navy veteran of Operation Desert Storm a safer parking place next to the gym and two police guards.
Last week, Ludwig gathered her 10 teammates at practice and offered to quit.
This was their time to shine, she told a group of 18, 19, and 20-year-olds.
Again, she's 50 playing college basketball.
She didn't want to be a distraction for the team.
Oh, come up.
What do you mean?
Didn't want to be a distraught didn't she?
50-year-old transgender player didn't want to be a distraction for the team.
The other women said that if Ludwig, who they nickname Big Sexy and Princess, didn't play, that they wouldn't either.
And so the AP did, right?
Didn't she know she was the glue holding the team together?
A 50-year-old, transgender, formerly male, now female basketball player was the glue holding together the 18, 19, 20-year-olds on the other team, or the other players on the team together.
And ESPN radio hosts were calling her it.
That's just, I'll tell you, folks, this disrespect for people and their differences is all over ESPN.
I had not heard about this story.
Snerdley had run across the transgender story.
I don't know which came.
I don't know if there was an addedictomy in this.
I don't know which came first, Mr. Snerdley.
This story doesn't say.
So, anyway, you might want to get her together with Hank Johnson, a congressman from Georgia who got himself in trouble talking about midgets on the floor of the house.
There might be some common ground there.
I love this next story.
Because I know how this next story is going to irritate people.
And it's from the Wall Street Journal, which means it's irrefutable.
It's true.
A new study says that a round of golf is as good for you as a 100-mile bike ride.
That's exactly right.
Any talk of golf as exercise could make cyclists choke on their energy bars or their steroids.
But a new study suggests that a round of golf can confer longevity benefits just as robust as a 100-mile bike ride.
The study in the Christmas edition of BMJ, the peer-reviewed publication formerly known as the British Medical Journal, is based on the mortality records of about 10,000 athletes who competed in the Olympics between 1896 and 1936.
They found that engaging in cycling and rowing, which are high cardiovascular intensity exercises, had no added survival benefit compared with playing golf or playing cricket.
The study adds to a small but growing body of research suggesting that years-long doses of extreme exercise may be unproductive, if not counterproductive.
It's the same old tune: everything we thought we knew is wrong.
Everything that we thought we knew, we ended up being lied to.
A round of golf, just as contributory to a long life as a 100-mile bike ride.
When I tell this story, I can just see people in the audience gnashing their teeth, upset.
Oh, folks, this is a horrible story.
AP, brace yourselves.
Obamacare means fewer health care options for illegal immigrants.
What kind of country are we becoming?
What kind of people are we?
Who are we?
How can this be?
For years, Sonia Lemis would drag her daughters to the emergency room whenever they felt sick.
As an illegal immigrant, she had no health insurance.
The only place that she knew to seek treatment was the hospital emergency room, the most expensive setting for those covering the cost.
The family's options improved somewhat a decade ago with the expansion of community health clinics, which offered free or low-cost care with help from the benevolent and godly federal government.
But President Obama's health care overhaul threatens to roll back some of those services if the clinics and the hospitals are overwhelmed with newly insured patients and can't afford to care for as many poor families or immigrants.
You see what's happening here, folks?
Another sign of something we predicted that would happen under Obamacare in a nutshell.
AP trying to make several points here.
Obamacare doesn't cover illegal aliens.
And they are soon going to be the largest group without health insurance.
And you know what that means?
We're going to have to expand Obamacare to cover them.
The second, second, the illegal immigrants will be second only to those who don't want health insurance.
Some of the states that have the highest illegal alien populations are refusing to expand Medicaid.
So this SOB Story article is implicitly arguing that since taxpayers are already paying for illegal aliens to get treated in the ER anyway, we might as well give them Obamacare.
That's the point of the story.
See, the story says right now, illegals can head on over to the ER and some of these clinics and get treated because the law says you show up to ER, you get treated, health insurance or not.
But Obamacare is going to insure a minimum 30 million people who don't now have it.
And what's going to happen then?
Well, theoretically, when you give 30 million people something they don't now have, they're going to start using it.
So when you give them these 30 million health insurance for the first time in their lives, they're going to start getting sick more often just so they can use the benefit.
And they are going to clog up the ER.
They're going to clog up the clinics.
You have 30 million people who don't show up now because they don't have insurance are going to start showing up.
And that will mean less space, less room, less availability for the poor illegals who don't have insurance because they're not covered theoretically.
Now, you and I both know that.
And so when the word gets out that, look, illegals aren't covered and the Republicans and Democrats are moving fast on amnesty.
Can you see what's going to happen here?
Why, we're going to have a brand new expansion of Obamacare that nobody even thought except us.
We told you, we warned you that this was going to happen.
I'm going to get to the phones, but before we're doing, just a couple of quick things.
And snerdly, a question for you.
But first, even as I was explaining and reacting to this horrible shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, maybe, what, 14, 16, 18 children are dead, some four or five years old.
I said, and even as I was saying, predicting that the left, the media, trying to figure out how they could blame this on conservatives or politicize it, turn it into an event to advance their agenda.
As I was saying that, a hostette at MSNBC, Alex Wagner, said, hopefully, this shooting will result in political capital to reform gun laws.
It is hopefully, and we say this every single time we cover one of these things, there's got to be some kind of measurable change, some kind of reaction.
One would hope there'll be some political capital to reform the way in which we handle gun and gun violence in this country.
So they're already calculating.
That's what so peeves me about these.
You've got a horrible event here, and they're already looking to politicize it.
And it's not what it is.
It's an opportunity.
These people look at stuff like this as an opportunity.
It's sickening to advance their agenda or blame conservatives.
Shooters dead.
CBS says a second person is in custody, Jake Carney.
The White House has already been asked if the shooting will help advance gun control.
Mr. Snerdley, a question.
I'm still trying to, honestly, now, you know, I'm trying to figure out what it is that Rob Parker doesn't like about RG3.
And what I've done here, I've constructed a brief profile of RG3.
And I want to run through this small, brief little profile and ask you, could this be why?
Robert Griffin III has a supportive father and mother.
They're married to each other, and they raised him.
They are both former military, his parents.
He is very, very well-spoken.
He's extremely articulate.
Well, but like Obama is.
He's Christian.
He is disciplined.
You think these could be contributing factors to why militant blacks should look at RG3C, not one of us?
Well-spoken.
Parents, two parents raised him, still married, former military.
Not good.
Not good.
Not realistic.
That's not – well, Republicans grow up like that.
You know, skunks like Robney grew up like that.
Okay, to the phones, Open Line Friday, Douglas, Appleton, Wisconsin, one of my all-time favorite towns.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Well, hey, Rush, great to talk to you.
And I'm using Skype to make the call, so I thought you'd like that.
I appreciate that, sir.
Yes, sir.
Well, I was wondering, you were talking about all the high-tech stuff, and I'm a big high-tech guy.
I love all this stuff.
Now, I'm kind of going back and forth between wanting to get an iPod or the iPad or the now Microsoft has their thing called Microsoft Touch.
You mean the surface?
The surface, yeah.
Microsoft Surface.
And I was just wondering what you thought, what you thought about it.
I'm biased.
You understand this going in.
Oh, yeah.
I'm biased pro-Apple products.
You always have been since way back.
I have not used a surface.
I've only read about it.
And what I have read, if it's to be believed, the surface doesn't quite match up well with the iPad in terms of battery life, screen resolution.
It's got some, it has a cover that opens and is a keyboard, which the iPad doesn't have.
If that matters to you, that could be something advent.
I got an idea.
Why don't I send you an iPad and you can use it for a while and then determine whether or not you like it?
And if you don't, then you go buy a surface.
That sounds like a plan to me.
All right, so now you tell me what kind of iPad you want.
You want the iPad Mini or you want the iPad fourth generation retina display screaming fast processor with about a 12-hour battery.
That sounds great.
I'm a photographer, and that would be fantastic.
There's two of them.
The iPad Mini is a 7.8-inch screen.
The fourth-generation iPad with a retina is about a 10-inch, 9.7 screen.
But the screen resolutions are there's no comparison to the retina screen.
But the mini, it's a cute little thing.
You hold it in one hand.
It's very, very light, but still an iPad.
You tell me which one you want.
Well, because I would use it for my work.
I would display for my customers my photography.
Well, then you need the iPad fourth generation.
There's no question.
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Hang on.
We'll get your address.
You'll have it tomorrow if you want it tomorrow.
See ya.
By the way, to all you leftists who in a sickening fashion are trying to conceive ways to politicize this just awful incident at Newtown, Connecticut, trying to find a way to get rid of guns, find a way to politicize this and advance your agenda.
Let me just point out, we had guns 30, 40, 50, 100 years ago.
And we didn't have mass murders every other month.
So what's changed?
It is not the number of guns that's changed.
If you people on the left is so eager to control things, we actually need some values control.
We actually need some social guardrails.
And I don't even know if that would eliminate stuff like this.
We don't know why yet.
Purpose, reason.
And the psychological community is eagerly trying to understand this, too.
That's another aspect of this.
We must dig deep, Mr. Limbaugh, into the psyche of the shooter to find out what it is that makes them do these things.
We must learn.
Why?
Well, so that we can attempt to prevent such behavior, recognize it in certain people, and prevent it from happening in the future.
What would you do if you recognized it?
Before they picked up the gun and started firing away, what would you do if you?
Well, of course, that would depend on the nearest jail, Mr. Limbaugh.
But clearly, people fantasizing about, oh, here's Piers Morgan, British import CNN.
He just tweeted, nothing happened after Aurora, and now it must.
So the left is totally, we don't even know what happened yet.
We know the end result of what happened, but we don't know anything about this yet.
And the left is already mobilized, as they always will and always do, try to politicize the event for their advantage.
Mobilize now on their anti-gun highway.
But back to the phones.
It's open line Friday.
We go to Albuquerque and Karen.
Great to have you with us.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
What's changed is the media gets it out there and these copycatters are doing more and more.
But I digress.
On Wednesday, you were discussing unions, and you are absolutely right what you were saying about unions.
I worked for an airline, and in order to get the job, I had to join the union.
And once I was there, you know, I realized they were representing mostly the bad agents.
So I wanted to represent good agents and to find out, really, what the union representatives were doing.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
I need to understand your terminology.
You said they were representing mostly bad agents.
What do you mean bad agents?
Well, the agents that were not doing their job, that were sleeping on the job, that you mean like agents at the gate?
Agents at the gate.
But you're not talking about flight attendants.
No, I'm not.
I'm not talking.
I'm talking about airport employees.
Okay, airport employees.
Okay, gotcha.
Right.
And so anyway, I became a union representative.
And the first union hall meeting I went to, which would be only union representatives, not union members, but the representatives for the members, they had, it was during an election period.
So they had a Democrat who was running for office speak to us.
And after she finished speaking, they asked if anybody had any questions.
So I raised my hand and said, yeah, I have a question.
And they said, okay, sister, my last name, you know, what is your question?
They call each other brothers and sisters.
That's a good communist.
It's like comrade.
It's like comrade.
Exactly, exactly.
So I said, yes, could you tell me when is the Republican person running for this office, when are they going to speak to us?
And the person said, well, we're not going to be having any of that.
And then I got jeered and shouted down, threatened.
In fact, one representative, just one that worked with me at the airport, he told me, well, you better check your tires before you go home.
Well, I know.
I know.
I've heard these horror stories and more.
But you make it sound.
Was this a meeting just of union officials?
This is not the rank and file.
Right.
Yeah.
Right.
And because.
These are the people collecting the dues.
These are the people getting the credit for collecting the dues, which basically were just funneled to the Democrat Party.
That's exactly right.
Absolutely.
I mean, they didn't want, if they found out you were conservative, which they found out I was, I was a problem.
In fact, they had the district union representative, which is even higher, you know, that had her come in, fly in three times to discuss my being too much of an individual.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You weren't down for the cause like RG3.
You were not down for the struggle.
You weren't willing to look at yourself as a member of the oppressed.
Yeah, but well, I'm glad that you heard the discussion.
It was a discussion on the right-to-work stuff in Michigan that she heard.
And I went through my money laundering explanation of how union leaders keep themselves in good graces with the Democrat Party.
And it's all about membership and dues.
And just to reiterate, to explain, if you're hearing this for the first time, because money laundering is a loaded phrase, but it's exactly what it is.
Obama authorizes the stimulus.
We're told it's going to go to shovel-ready jobs and create jobs and road repair, school repairs.
It didn't.
In Wisconsin, for example, minimum 75% went to teachers and public employees so that they would not get fired during the recession because the Democrat Party wants them employed so they can pay their dues because the dues, here you have stimulus, which essentially was used to maintain employment levels for union workers.
Their dues payments were then channeled right back to Obama, the Democrat Party, or to TV advertising for Democrats.
So it's a way for the Democrats to raid the Treasury, folks.
Unionism, organized labor today, is nothing more than a way for the Democrat Party to reach their hands in the public treasury because they can't just yet.
The day will come when they can, but you just can't go to write yourself a check from the U.S. Treasury to Barack Obama, the Democrat National Committee.
So the way you get that money, this way you don't even depend on donations.
You don't even have to depend on fundraising.
That becomes gravy.
And she's describing her experiences with union leaders and how she's a Republican conservative.
She's an outcast.
There's a Hong Kong union.
Have you heard about this?
Flight attendants, Hong Kong Airlines.
Flight attendants are threatening to not serve adult beverages and not smile at passengers because they're in the middle of a labor dispute.
Now, in some instances, the not smiling, that can be beneficial.
You know, in some places, if they all smile at once, you think like you're in a horror movie.
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Seeing this in the Washington Post, did you see this?
Report finds harsh CIA interrogations ineffective.
Now, wait, this is all part of what I'm telling you is going on as part of Obama's transformation of this country and his effort to erase the good from everything in this nation's past.
You remember the CIA agent?
I love this guy.
Cookie, see if you can find this guy in the soundbite.
Leslie Stahl in 60 Minutes.
And she was outraged.
You mean waterboarding?
The United States doesn't do that.
And he said, but we do.
But we do.
And it worked.
One of my all-time favorite soundbites.
This guy, Jose, he's retired.
He's written a book.
He's a hero.
He got the goods from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on 9-11 of what happened.
Who was behind?
Who actually did it?
But the history rewrite now underway.
Report finds harsh CIA interrogations ineffective.
So where are we?
Well, the Community Reinvestment Act had nothing to do with the mortgage meltdown.
Government demanding that banks lend mortgage money to people who could never pay it back had nothing to do with the subprime mortgage crisis.
That was all greedy bankers.
Tax cuts have led to massive unemployment, economic depression, and deficits.
Enhanced interrogations produced no worthwhile intelligence.
This is what the left does.
They revise history.
They destroy mechanisms to solve problems.
In all three of these items, the Community Reinvestment Act, nothing to do with mortgage meltdown.
That was all Wall Street, the big greedy banks.
Tax cuts led to our current economic problems.
Enhanced interrogation produced no actionable intelligence.
Who's the villain in all three of those?
George W. Bush.
Who is Obama blaming for everything that he inherited that's wrong, that's gone wrong?
Bush.
What was Bush?
Republican.
It's happening right in front of our eyes.
We are bearing witness to it, and many on our side are burying their heads in the sand.
They think it's not possible.
They can't succeed with this rush.
The American people are smarter than this.
I've given up thinking that.
At least among those who vote.
A lot of Americans don't vote, so what good are they in discussing these circumstances?
It's all about the people that vote.
It's all about the people that are turned out.
And among those people, we have been outnumbered now.
And they are low-information morons who think, by the way, that they know everything.
It's a deadly combination.
So if Obama, if he gets that concession from the GOP or confession that tax cuts cause deficits, cause unfairness, cause depression, tax cuts cause massive debt.
Tax cuts are the reason people are living in economic pain.
If he gets that, he will have moved the country closer to accepting his narrative that capitalists and capitalism have undermined this country.
And therefore, the founding of this country was immoral and unjust.
Banks caused the mortgage crisis.
Evil, rich, Republican bankers who didn't care about people.
They tricked people into taking out bad loans.
When the truth is, the government made these banks loan money to people who had no way of paying it back.
And the banks tried to get creative and find some value in this rather than watch their business go underneath.
So the banks caused the mortgage crisis.
Tax cuts are the way we steal money from the poor and give it to the rich.
That causes deficits.
Soon, if it hasn't already happened, insurance companies will be the reason why people don't have health care.
So tax cuts, greedy corporate private sector industries have wrecked the economy.
That's the book Obama is writing.
Higher taxes, bigger government, more regulation, government-run health care.
That will save the country.
That will save.
That will fix what capitalism has destroyed.
Folks, this is what happened to big three car companies.
Greedy corporations took more than their fair share.
The banks caused a mortgage crisis that wrecked the economy.
Thank God Obama swooped in, bought up Chrysler and General Motors and saved them.
He saved them from their shareholders.
He saved them from the Bush tax cuts and these greedy bankers.
He saved them from the 2008 collapse.
Obama saved pensions.
Obama saved lifetime health care.
Obama saved the car companies.
Capitalism destroyed them.
Republicans destroyed them.
Obama saved them, just like he's going to save healthcare.
And he's going to do it again, as I say, with the health insurance industry as they crash and burn.
He'll say they mismanaged because of greed and selfishness, and they didn't care about their customers.
They didn't care whether their customers got insurance or not.
And therefore, they didn't care whether their customers got treated or not.
Obamacare will be the salvation.
Obamacare will be the fix.
He'll say that the insurance companies squandered profits on greedy executives and bonuses, not the policyholders.
And as they raised their premiums, they did so to squeeze innocent Americans so that executives could get bonuses.
And Obama will come in and save the day on that.
And he'll make it right.
And he'll make it fair again.
And he'll get even with those people who denied you coverage because of a pre-existing condition and let your mother die.
Obama and the Democrats are going to save this country from these evil, greedy, corporate machine capitalists.
You'll come in, he'll take over.
It'll never be admitted that Obamacare was the cause of higher premiums.
It'll never be written, not in our lifetimes, that Obamacare led to old people being told, just take a pill, we don't have the money to spend on you today.
You see, Obama's got a grand plan.
In order to sell it, he's got to destroy the generally accepted positive narrative that free markets are good.
He has to undermine that idea and make freedom and free markets an impossible sell if he is to take over industry after industry without a fight.
And he's off to a good start.
He has to persuade Americans that corporations aren't people.
They're evil, greedy, rich, animal-like machines.
They're sharks.
They don't care about anybody but themselves.
And they've got to be reined in before they do even more damage.
Profits, just another form of theft.
Profit is how the rich take from the poor.
Profit is what you get when you make somebody well that's sick and must be stopped.
That's the road we're on.
Okay, we got those soundbites.
I'll have them for you.
We get back.
It's Jose Rodriguez, the CIA agent who waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Remember a report out today that said it didn't work.
Enhanced interrogation didn't accomplish a thing.
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