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Dec. 19, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 19, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #2
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You know the theory, and I'm not espousing it.
I just want to bounce off of it.
The theory that Adam Lanzis somehow had been convinced the world was going to end Friday and it was discombobulated by it.
Um and his mother was a prepper and a survivalist and had showed him guns and he went in there and did what he did to um either deal with the pressure of it or maybe save people from the invalid.
Who knows what?
It happened in China is the point.
Some doomsayer in China, we had the story earlier in the week, and I didn't get to it.
I neglected to mention it, but some doomsayer went crazy last week and attacked his mother and then went into a school and stabbed twenty-six or so kids.
He didn't have a gun.
But he had a knife and he stabbed 26 or so kids.
And it was an AP story.
China says stabber affected by doomsday rumors.
Officials say a man who went into a scruol in central China, stabbed 23 children last week, psychologically affected by doomsday predictions.
Min Yangjoon, expected of going into an elderly woman's house Friday morning, stabbing her with a kitchen knife, allegedly went to a nearby elementary school in Chenping village in Gang Shuan County, and injured the 23 children before being stopped by teachers and the uh police.
And today, the Chikoms have arrested more than 500 doomsayers for spreading rumors about the end of the world on Friday.
Boy, don't you think Obama salivating over Sorry.
Sorry, that's the old rush.
That's the threatening, making people nervous, Rush.
But I do know Thomas L. Friedman salivating over it, New York Times.
Oh, that kind of power, wouldn't that be great if government could just shut up wackos like that?
Wouldn't it?
You know Thomas L. Friedman, the column of the New York Times, has ChICOM envy.
A number of these guys wish that Obama would simply seize power like the Chicoms have.
Good, decent, smarter than everybody else people.
So when you have a problem like this, 500 doomsayers running around spreading rumors about the end of the world, you just go grab them and lock them up.
You uh you arrest them.
By the way, there's only and and just to be clear, but there was only one person that I know of who is saying that Adam Lanz's mother was a prepper, and that's the ex-sister-in-law.
She's the only source for that.
Have you heard any more?
Uh I don't know of anybody other than the ex-sister-in-law who says that she was a survivalist or a prepper.
And again, folks, I I I have to remind you that everything that was reported on this for three hours Friday was wrong.
And a lot probably still is.
I don't really believe anything that I see or hear, and and and the things that I'm told are true.
Uh the things I'm I'm told to believe, I uh it's it's it's becoming a bit much.
It seems truth is a huge casualty in our country.
Uh right and wrong don't exist anymore.
It's far worse than I think any of us thought it was gonna be.
I've been making jokes about it over the course of the twenty-five years, how we've been in outcome-based educating reaction, awarding people who think that two plus two is five for trying.
And refusing to tell them that they're wrong is it would hurt their feelings and uh and and humiliate them.
New York Times headline after recession, more young adults are living on the street.
Dwayne Taylor.
This is the new face of the homeless problem, my friends.
Dwayne Taylor was studying the humanities in community college, living in his own place when he lost his job in a round of layoffs.
Then he found and lost a second job, then a third.
And now with what he calls lowered standards and a tenuous new position at a jack in the box restaurant, Mr. Taylor 24 does not make enough to rent an apartment or share one in Seattle.
He sleeps on a mat in a homeless shelter, except when his sister lets him crash on her couch.
At any time I could lose my job, my security here at Jack in the Box, said Mr. Taylor, explaining how he was always the last hired and the first fired.
I'd like to be able to support myself.
That's my only goal, but boy, it's just so hard.
It's so hard.
And the New York Times says here across the country, tens of thousands of underemployed and jobless young people, many with college credits, many with work histories, many with college degrees, are struggling to house themselves in the wake of the recession, which has left workers between 18 and 24 with the highest unemployment rate of all adults.
These young adults are the new face of a new homeless population, one that poverty experts and caseworkers say is growing, and yet the problem is mostly invisible.
Most cities and states have not made special efforts to identify young adults who tend to shy away from ordinary shelters out of fear of being victimized by an older, chronically homeless population.
The unemployment rate, the number of young adults who can't afford c you realize we had a president re-elected in all this.
That as I read this story, how many of these people voted for him?
That's what I can't get past.
How many of these people probably voted for him, believing that their circumstance is all because of George W. Bush.
Mr. Taylor, 24, the fast food worker in Seattle at Jack in the Box, said that he felt lucky when he could find a coveted space at Roots, a shelter for young adults in a church basement.
But such shelters are rare.
For generations, services for the homeless were directed to two groups, dependent children and the elderly.
There was scant attention focused on what experts now call transitional age youth.
Young adults whose needs are distinct.
And then there's a story about another guy here named uh Taino T A N O. Two months ago he gave up an apartment in his native Dallas after losing his job.
He sold his Toyota.
He sought opportunities in the Pacific Northwest.
He rented a room.
He set out with his resume.
You know what his resume expertise is?
Fundraising.
So he set out with that resume, but when his $2,000 in savings withered to nothing, I ended up sleeping on the street.
For the first time in my life, I just kind of had to walk around and try to stay warm.
His career strength was fundraising.
Asking people for money.
Had $2,000 in savings and now it's all gone.
And now he's among the 18 to 24 year old.
Brand new problem.
After the recession, more young adults living on the street.
You believe it, a humanities major.
Loses all these jobs.
Now homeless working at Jack in the Box.
No doubt voted for Obama.
Well, say no doubt, likely voted for Obama.
Likely blames Republicans for his problems.
Probably thought Romney was going to come steal whatever he Had left.
So he voted probably for the guy who's the architect of the problem.
Meanwhile, unemployment's down.
This administration is telling us job creation's happening.
The unemployment rate is plummeting.
There's just one shred of good news here, and that is that these homeless kids can still be on their parents' health insurance.
But at the end of the day, I still don't know how this is possible because I thought the recession had been over for three and a half years.
The recession ended in 2009.
The official calculation of the recession ended in 2009.
And we have we've been growing slowly, but our economy's been expanding since then.
That's what they tell us.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.
This is something else I didn't know.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ordered a worldwide review Tuesday of hiring practices at all U.S. military daycare centers.
This is after the Army revealed it discovered problems with security background checks of workers at a Washington area center.
Shortly after the Army said it was launching an investigation of hiring practice or practices at its 283 daycare centers worldwide.
Panetta's press secretary issued a statement saying Panetta supports the review.
The press secretary said that Panetta has directed each of the military services to conduct similar reviews.
The actions stem from the September 26th arrests of two Army employees accused of assaulting children at a Fort Meyer, Virginia daycare center.
But the problem there apparently is much deeper.
Indications are at least 30 workers at the Fort Meyer facility have histories that call into question their suitability to care for children.
Well, then how did they get the position?
When did the military start running daycare center?
What have I missed?
I read this whole story.
I still don't know what it's really all about.
Panetta orders global probe of military daycare centers.
Military daycare centers.
Oh, you'd be happy to know that Obama and Clinton have escaped blame in the Benghazi report.
Fact is everybody escaped blame.
The official report is out and it says mistakes were made, but nobody made them.
There's a whitewash.
It's a cover up.
It's a scandal.
Here's a pull quote from the story, a Daily Caller.
Despite the chaos, top-level officials refuse to recognize the dangers, say critics, partly because such recognition would highlight flaws in Obama's strategy.
What is this?
The report refused to recognize the dangers at the consulate in Libya.
Because naming the dangers would highlight the flaws in Obama's strategy.
We can't have that in a report.
No.
Because nothing went wrong.
There were mistakes, but nobody made them.
And so it's over.
Then Gazi's now in the past.
Hillary has a concussion and can't testify.
It doesn't matter anyway, because even if she had nobody in this administration's responsible for anything that they do.
I'll take a brief time out.
We'll kick back here and rejoin you in mere moments.
Do not go away.
My friends, we cannot secure ownership by Obama of the last four years.
We can't make him own the we cannot convince people that he's been president the last four years.
We can't convince people that what he's done in the last four years relates to current economic circumstances that people are facing.
They don't believe that.
So if we can't make Obama own the last four years, why does anybody think we can make him own the fiscal cliff.
And why does anybody think we can make him own Benghazi?
I mean, if if this guy can Houdini out of four years of being president, surely he can get out of a day gone wrong at Benghazi.
And speaking, wait till you hear this.
This is this from his press conference where he tried to upstage sorry.
This is from his press availability earlier today where the president spoke to the country in a heartfelt and heartwarming way about eventually taking away their gun.
I can't do it.
I just can't do it.
I'm trying to be less threatening and uh all that, but like I can't.
I can't somehow avoid the truth.
Anyway, he had his little presser today where he upstaged me or tried to.
They all start at noon.
And he's announced that that Biden is going to lead the effort to end gun violence.
The AP correspondent Ben Feller said, can you give us a candid update?
Are we likely to go over the cliff?
Now don't you love it?
Here the AP.
Sir, please, help us.
Reassure us.
We're all really nervous here in the press corps.
Please, please.
Tell us candidly.
Are we likely to go over the cliff?
Are the Republicans going to take us over the cliff?
Is it over, sir?
Or can you stop them?
Can you save this country, sir?
That's the question.
Here's Obama's answer.
Remember what I said during the campaign.
I thought that it was important for us to reduce our deficit in a balanced and responsible way.
Nurse.
I said it was important for us to make sure that millionaires and billionaires paid their fair share.
Doctor.
I have gone at least halfway in meeting some of the Republicans' concerns.
Recognizing that even though we campaigned on these issues, even though the majority of Americans agree with me that we should be raising taxes on the wealthiest few as a means of reducing the deficit.
I have also said that I'm willing to identify some spending cuts that make sense.
I Um right.
He said in the campaign, important to reduce the deficit in a balanced way.
Make sure that millionaires, billionaires pay their fair share.
Anyway, I don't want to repeat it.
Then he he uh pointed out that he's already essentially obtained Boehner's confession that the Republicans are to blame for this.
If you look at what the speaker has proposed, he's conceded that income tax rates should go up.
There it is.
Except right now he owns the state.
Stop the tape.
That's what this has all been about.
He has wanted the Republicans to concede that tax cuts for the rich caused all these problems.
That's what this has all been about.
A confession from the Republicans that what they believe is the reason we're in a recession is the reason unemployment's so high is the reason home value is the reason for everything that's gone wrong.
Benghazi hell throw that in there too.
Tax cuts for the rich from Reagan forward all the way to Bush.
That's the problem.
He has wanted the Republicans to admit that and concede that.
And right here he says, cue that back up to the top.
The speaker has conceded income tax rates should go.
That's exactly what he wants.
He's got Boehner's confession.
That's what that's why he shows up at noon today.
He's out there strutting, popping buttons, suspenders and all that.
This guy, he's having a Merry Christmas.
He is getting everything he wants.
And he isn't getting any of the blame for anything that goes wrong when 90% of it is his fault.
If you look at what the speaker has proposed, he's conceded that income tax rates should go up.
Except right now he only wants to have them go up for millionaires.
If you're making 900,000, somehow he thinks that you can't afford to pay a little more in taxes.
But the principle that rates are going to need to go up, he's conceded.
Yep, he has.
And Obama couldn't be.
But notice the disdain.
If people make 900,000, notice the contempt Obama has for them.
If you're making 900,000 somehow, you can't afford to pay a little more.
But now, ladies and gentlemen, the PS de resistance.
The why we need to do this.
The why Republicans have to cave now.
The why we have to get this deal done now.
You think about what we've gone through over the last couple of months.
A devastating hurricane.
And now one of the worst tragedies in our memory.
Folks to be willing to compromise on behalf of the greater good and not tangle themselves up in a whole bunch of ideological positions that don't make much sense.
So because of the hurricane, because of the shooting in Newtown, we deserve the Republicans caving and compromising on behalf of the American people need something good to hold on to.
The Republicans need to see the Republicans give up and cave in.
They've been through too much already.
Okay, folks, a little statistic here before the next soundbite, then we get back to your phone calls.
Obama's latest offer to raise taxes on everyone making over 400,000 would raise $70 billion a year.
And that $70 billion would go to government.
Now to put that in perspective, the aid package, the federal aid package for Hurricane Sandy, just by itself is $60 billion.
So raising taxes on people to make over $400,000 will raise just $10 billion more than the government's going to spend on Hurricane Sandy aid packages.
Now knowing that I want you to listen to this next bite.
This is the one I referred to at the top of the program.
This is where Obama talks, hey, look, you know, my taxes are going up too, and I wish they weren't.
I will I don't want to be paying that much.
Listen, keep in mind it raises $70 billion.
In terms of the overall federal budget, that's a rounding error.
But here's what he says.
Keep in mind I'm in that income category.
I'd love to, you know, not pay as much uh in taxes, but I also think it's the right thing to do for us to make sure that people who have less, people who are working, people who are striving, people who who you know are hoping for their kids that they have opportunity.
That's what we campaigned about.
That's what we talked about.
And this is not a situation where I'm unwilling to compromise.
I I have a simple question that is rooted in pure logic.
Would somebody, and I'm serious, because obviously I don't get it, would somebody explain to me how $70 billion going to government affects people who are striving, hoping for their kids to have opportunity.
Would somebody explain how that works?
Because I don't understand it.
I don't know how taking $70 billion from people and transferring it to Washington equals relief for people who are striving to succeed so that their kids have opportunity.
What?
Where is the opportunity in taking money away from people who've earned it?
I don't understand.
I literally don't understand the logic.
Does Obama, for example, believe that the U.S. economy is a zero-sum game, that the size of the economy is what it is.
It never grows, it never shrinks.
And that if we take 70 billion away from some people that somehow automatically that money is going to go back into the pool or into the pie, and people who are striving are going to have a chance to earn it.
I don't think so.
He's not even talking about work.
I I I folks, it doesn't make any of course, and I'm sure it doesn't make any sense to you either.
The fact is it doesn't matter to people.
The fact that it makes no sense is of no relevance to people.
Do the people Obama's remember Time magazine named Obama person of the year.
The editor announced it today on today's show.
They named him person of the year, specifically because he has found a way to get the votes of people that don't know anything.
People that don't follow politics, Obama got their votes.
It's magical, and it's it it it's why he's person of the year.
So Time magazine admits we're gonna make this guy person of the year because he's the first president to come along and get elected by absolute ignoramuses.
And somehow this is good for the country.
I don't...
You take 70 billion take take a hundred billion away from people who've earned it.
How does that equal uh opportunity for kids of parents who are striving and hoping?
The two don't have anything to do with one another, and yet that sells.
That makes sense to the vast majority of people who vote.
To them, that's fair.
To them that makes perfect sense.
Yeah, yeah.
In fact, 70 billion make it 170 billion, Obama, and I really love you.
And the fact that a year after all this is done, these people still gonna be striving.
They're still not gonna have any opportunity, they're still not gonna have any jobs, that won't matter.
What'll been what'll be said, well, at least Obama cares.
At least he tried.
All you did was sit on the radio and whine about it.
At least he tried.
I frankly don't know how to communicate with morons.
That that is one of my big problem.
I do not know how to communicate with them.
Pardon?
Yes, I'm sure I do threaten uh the low information voter.
I don't know how to talk to them.
I I mean, uh not really talk to them.
I mean, I can listen to what they say and I can try to hide my laughter and incredulity.
But I don't know how to talk to them.
If somebody said, okay, you are in charge of reaching out to the low information voter, I'd pass.
I say, you need to find somebody stupider than I am to pull that off.
Thee, Mr. Limbaugh, you can't help it.
You have to be so scary.
You have to intimidate people.
You have to you have to make people so nervous talking that way.
I know.
I just can't help it.
I mean who I am.
Okay, back to the phones we go.
This is Scottsdale, Arizona, Heather.
I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hi.
Hi.
Okay, I didn't hear you say my name, so I didn't know if I was on.
You are he you are Heather, correct?
Correct.
All right.
You are on the big show.
Yay.
Okay.
First time caller.
I've listened to you rush on and off over the years.
Um I'm nervous, so I'm gonna have a little shake in my voice.
Um, I have a mental illness and my son has a mental illness.
I raised him as a single mother.
It was so difficult because the help is not enough to provide for somebody to get well and not be ill.
Um, you always have the illness, but you can stabilize it for many people if they get all the help they need.
And the one area where the biggest problem is that I see for all these shooters, um is they have endured rejection from society.
They've been rejected from other kids, they've been made fun of, they're different, and it it it cuts them off.
Yeah, I've heard that theory.
I believe it.
I mean that's what I believe from what I've seen with my son.
Do you think do you think it explains picking up a gun and mowing people down?
Well, I don't know what you mean by if it explains.
Well, justified?
Does it mean you you're making it sound like it makes sense?
It's sick.
It makes them sicker is what I say.
It makes them sicker.
They need everybody needs to be here's here's my problem.
And as you probably don't need this much information.
But I I've been rejected all my life.
I'm rejected every day.
Rush by good mental illness.
Wait a minute, by gazil By gazillion, but in high school I was reject We all are.
Everybody's re everybody's not letting a click.
Everybody's made fun of.
Everybody's laughed at.
Were you the kid that was in the hallway that everybody made fun of and nobody talked to you and you were all al alone, a loner?
They call these people loners.
Why do you think they're alone?
Because they can't connect.
If they can't connect with the I am a loner to this day.
No, no, no.
I'm I'm not d don't have to change don't run away from it.
Don't run away from don't run away from what you believe.
That's not my point.
Okay.
My my point is is that whatever you can say about uh uh Adam Lanza.
Okay you can say about a vast majority of American kids.
You take out the mental illness part because not everybody suffers a mental illness, but everybody's rejected, and everybody's laughed at, and everybody has jokes told about 'em.
Everybody's made fun of for something.
Right.
That's that's correct.
That's my only but not everybody seeks revenge the way he did.
And that's true.
So it's the mental illness that's the problem.
I I I I there are certain parts of life that we're never gonna be able to change.
You're never gonna be able to change some people being rejected by others, made fun of by others or laughed at.
I don't care minimize it though, as a society, can we minimize it?
Can we be nicer to people?
Can't when we're walking down the street and we see someone, can we make that eye contact and say, hey, have a good day?
Uh well, how do you make that happen?
I do it all the time.
You I know you do, but but not enough people do, so how would you make others do it?
Bring awareness for mental health.
Everybody has a mental health status, including your dog.
The way you treat people, you are bioengineering their brain as well as your own.
And when society is rejecting.
Everybody's dog is also potentially unstable.
I think everybody's dog has a mental health status.
I guess the first thing we could do would be to stop bullying.
That's exactly where I'm headed.
That's one that's just one thing.
There's so many things that need to take place for persons with mental illness to be able to be productive, happy, and stable.
Um what is the nature of you you said that you suffer from mental illness.
What's the nature of yours?
I have bipolar disorder and also substance abuse disorder.
And I'm thirteen years clean and sober, which I could not achieve until I found the right psychiatric medication to help me with pain and anxiety.
And here I am having an anxiety attack right now.
So how do you how do you today deal with people who aren't nice to you?
I don't know.
What did they teach you?
What did they what do they teach you in in your efforts to get sober about that?
What did it okay, ask that again?
I I'm assume when your effort to get sober you had some counseling.
I had counseling and I went to AA.
Right, okay.
So what do they tell you about people being mean to you or saying things about you?
I don't know how to answer that.
I don't think it's a big thing.
They say don't give them the power to offend you.
Don't give them the power to affect your feelings, and do not assume that it's your role to make everybody happy.
That's their job.
Were you told that?
I I think so, yeah.
Yeah.
Well, that's if you that's that that's that's the way people who go through what you went through are taught taught to deal with mean people or people who would bring them down.
Don't give them the power.
Don't listen to boundaries, it's called.
Right.
If somebody says something to you it's not right, they're lying about you, let it bounce off.
Don't let it in, don't process it, don't let it screw you up.
Just say the hell would you and move on.
So but that's part of the coping skill for part of the problem.
Because when a person is sick, when they're unstable, here's another thing.
We do not have a chemical imbalance.
We have chemical imbalances.
We have different areas where our brain will go that is not stable.
So when you're experiencing that, you're not stable internally.
There's no self-esteem to say that guy's wrong.
Who he say that about me?
Well wait.
No, I've heard this theory too.
Basically what you're saying is that we really don't have minds of our own, that we are prisoners of our own brain chemistry.
And some days our brain chemistry is okay, and other days it isn't.
And we whack out.
And we lose control.
And we really aren't in control.
And medical science, by the way, is furthering this belief.
With discovery after discovery.
For example, if you're overweight, it's because there's something in their brain is not turning off when you're full.
And so you have to use discipline to t to show you if you listen to this stuff carefully, we really have no self-control.
We have we have no force of will.
We're pre-programmed by however we were created, and we're going to be whoever we are based on that.
And it's a constant struggle and so forth.
Are there people that believe this too?
Anyway, I have to run.
But Heather, I'm glad you called.
I appreciate it.
It's quite instructive here, folks, if you actually heard what she said, because um let me think about it.
I'll be back in just a second.
The phrase I was looking for in that last call is there are more and more people who think that we have no free will as human beings, that we have none.
That we're all robotic.
Prisoners to brain chemistry, uh other aspects of our bodily chemistry.
So you know one of the things I've said to people, and you've probably heard me more times than you wish over the years.
Uh I think this plagues the Republican Party.
But people so concerned about what others think of them.
Most people are.
Most people, in fact, are governed by it.
Most people do what they do, hoping for reactions that they choose from other people, or to be thought of in a good way by other people.
Do you realize how few people really do what they do just because that's who they are and they want to be who they are and they don't care what anybody thinks.
You realize how few people there are.
Most people are imprisoned by what other people think of them.
They're raised that way.
And it's a tough thing to escape.
Uh but this notion that there is no free will is a rising.
It's a way for people to explain away their faults.
It's a and and science is providing it, and a Democrat Party is right in there advocating it.
You're really not responsible.
Uh you have this disorder here.
That's what I mean when I say the baby boomers we had to invent our own traumas because our lives compared to our parents and grandparents, frankly, folks, have been a piece of cake.
But everything is relative.
We did not live through the hellacious Times of our parents and grandparents, so we can't relate.
All we can do is try to understand.
Oh, our point of reference is our own lives.
And as far as most people are concerned, a lot of cases have never been worse.
The economy has never been worse, or people have never been meaner, or what have you.
But the number of people, I think you'd be surprised, is growing.
The number of people who think that nobody's responsible for what they do.
And that all of us are balanced precariously psychologically.
And all of us could be set off with the smallest, slightest thing at the wrong time.
PMS excluded, yes, of course.
There are always exceptions.
Don't give me a PMS they just discovered doesn't exist.
That excuse is out the window.
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