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Dec. 21, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 21, 2012, Friday, Hour #2
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The views expressed by the host on this program documented to be almost always right 99.7% of the time.
And it is Friday.
Here we go, folks.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
And the telephone number is 800-282-2882.
The email address, lrushbo at EIBnet.com.
Open Line Friday.
This is our last live program before the end of the year, for the year, actually.
Be back here on January 13th, annual break that we take between Christmas and New Year's.
Now, look, I don't want to beat a dead horse here, and I realize my problem.
I mean, I'm obsessed with the truth.
I just have a tough time giving up the truth, giving up common sense and what's right.
I don't know.
I'm not going to be able easily to abandon that and become something else.
Now, this plan B going down to defeat and all these conservatives wringing their hands.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
We just lost a chance to expose Obama.
We just lost a chance to make the public realize it was Obama raising taxes.
We just, oh, no.
Republicans, it just, it's, I mean, the argument is that by stopping the Boehner vote on tax increases, it's foolish victory because now the Democrats are capitalizing on it by saying the Republicans just voted to increase tax.
Well, they did.
They did.
Well, it went down a defeat.
They proposed it.
But the fact is, Obama is always going to say that the Republicans raise taxes.
That's, what is the analogy?
That's the golden nugget for Obama.
Now, to prove the point, we're not dealing with reality when we're talking about Obama and the media.
The White House is, here's what they're claim.
I'm going to read to you what is up on the White House website about Plan B.
And let me tell you what Plan B is.
Or was.
Very simple.
The only people who would see their tax rate go up are people that make over a million dollars a year.
Everybody else's taxes would stay the same.
You make less than a million, whatever your tax rate is, it stays the same.
Make more than a million, it goes up to 39.6.
That was Plan B. Here's what's on the White House website.
The wealthy get tax cuts under the Republicans Plan B. Boehner's plan provides an average tax cut of $50,000 for those making over a million dollars.
That's just 0.3% of all American households, while the middle class foots the bill.
25 million working middle-class families would pay an average $1,000 more in tax.
It's an out-and-out lie.
How do you combat that?
All these people out there are going to put the onus on Obama.
They're out there lying through their teeth about what Plan B was, even though it went down the tubes.
That it was a $1,000 a year tax increase in the middle class.
Not true.
11 million families would lose a tax credit that helps pay for college.
There wasn't anything about that in Plan B. Two million Americans looking for work would be cut off from a vital lifeline of unemployment.
So Plan B contained reducing unemployment compensation benefits.
No, it didn't.
And devastating budget cuts would be enacted, crippling investments in education, research.
None of that was in Plan B.
So people on our side think we can end up putting the onus on Obama or expose Obama by passing a tax increase on the rich?
They're just lying through their teeth about what the thing was.
And you know who's going to soak it up and believe it?
The low-information voter.
The media is going to spread it around.
The media is not interested in truth.
The media is interested in wiping out the Republican Party.
The Republican Party, I don't think, understands what they're up against.
This is not just politics as usual where Democrats win one and then we win one and trade horse trade here and horse trade there.
That's not what this is about anymore.
This is about a guy trying to transform this country, and he has said so.
So that's that.
That's my only point.
Now, we've got the Wayne LaPierre soundbites.
Wayne LaPierre and National Rifle Association went out today, press conference just before the program.
We have five soundbites.
Here's the first.
Does anybody really believe that the next Adam Lanza isn't planning his attack on a school he's already identified at this very moment?
How many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame from a national media machine that rewards them with wall-to-wall attention and a sense of identity that they crave while provoking others to try to make their mark?
A dozen more killers, a hundred more?
How can we possibly even guess how many?
This guy, they hate this guy.
So now he's putting the onus on the media.
He's putting the onus on Hollywood you'll hear coming up.
How many copycats are there?
How many people are targeting their schools?
And on what basis are they targeting them?
Here's the next La Pierre soundbite.
There exists in this country, sadly, a callous, corrupt, and corrupting shadow industry that sells and stows violence against its own people through vicious, violent video games.
Here's one.
It's called Kindergarten Killers.
It's been online for 10 years.
How come my research staff can find it and all of yours couldn't or didn't want anyone to know you had found it?
Video game, kindergarten killers, 10 years.
It's out there.
See, this, but you don't do this.
He's calling attention to the stuff that everybody wants ignored or papered over or in fact defended.
No, come on, Hollywood, nothing to do with this.
Grow up.
These people, they're doing it on their own.
The only time the left ever supports personal responsibility is when their institutions are under assault.
Here's the next La Pierre bite.
We have blood-soaked films out there like American Psycho, Natural Born Killers, that are aired like propaganda loops and every single day.
A child growing up in America today witnesses 16,000 murders and 200,000 acts of violence by the time he or she reaches the ripe old age of 18.
Throughout it all, too many in the national media, their corporate owners and their stockholders act as silent enablers, if not complicit co-conspirators.
Rather than face their own moral failings, the media demonize gun owners.
Who had nothing to do with it?
Had nothing whatsoever to do with it.
In fact, I'd venture to say that 99% of the gun owners in this country, had they been there, would have gone over and take the kid out had they had the chance.
But it was a gun-free zone.
Next, LaPierre, the next two bites, let's see, next, let's see.
Not the next two.
This next bite is some of the solutions that he's thinking about.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
I can imagine the headlines, the shocking headlines, you'll print tomorrow.
Your implication will be that guns are evil and have no place in society, much less in our schools.
But since when did the gun automatically become a bad word?
With all the money in the federal budget, can't we afford to put a police officer in every single school?
How many people want that, though?
How many people want schools to become you do?
Well, see, here's the thing: either deal with reality or you say, let's roll back the clock where such a thing isn't necessary.
And which is easier to do?
Put the cop, the arm cop, the arm guard, armed guard in the school.
Everybody knows he's there, just like the Sky Marshal.
You know he's there, but you don't know who he is on the airplane.
You know you got a Sky Marshal.
You know you get somebody with a weapon on this airplane, but you don't know who.
You put somebody in the gunman, make them uniform, let everybody know who it is, but somebody's there.
In every instance of these shootings, what is it that ends it?
Somebody else shows up with a gun aimed at the perp.
That's when he either commits suicide or runs for it and is shot or what have you.
He doesn't complete it, doesn't finish it till somebody shows up that can stop him.
I think most parents would probably say, yep, put an armed guard in there.
It'd be easier than rolling back the clock a couple generations where it wasn't necessary because our culture hadn't spiraled out of control.
But now that it has, we've got to deal with it as it exists.
Well, media didn't like any of this.
Media saw to it that some opponents of Wayne Lampierre got in there by the name of Code Pink.
Reckless behavior coming from the NRA.
The NRA has blood on its hands.
The NRA has blood on its hands.
Shame on the NRA.
Ban assault weapons out.
Ban assault weapons out.
NRA.
Stop killing our children.
We need gun control now.
And the voice of sanity for the low-information voter shows up.
Yep, it's the NRA that's the problem.
Yep, it's the NRA with blood on its hands.
It's the NRA killing our children.
It's what the media believes.
It's what a certain percentage of the country believes.
It's what all leftists believe.
The NRA is to blame here.
The gun culture is to blame, not their culture.
No way, Jose.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back.
Get your phone calls in because it's Open Line Friday.
We'll start with that next.
Okay, we're going to start in Augusta, Georgia with Ben.
Thank you for calling, sir.
Great to have you.
Welcome.
Welcome.
Thank you very much, Rush.
Thank you very much.
You bet.
I just wanted to tell you Merry Christmas, and I hope you have a great holiday.
Thank you very much.
You too, sir.
What I wanted to tell you, a few years ago when I was in college, everything was great.
I didn't have a job and I wasn't paying taxes, grants, and, you know, I did take out student loans to pay.
My parents were giving me money.
Life was great.
Moved away from home.
And I started listening to your show about two or three months before this last election.
And I'd heard your show before.
And to be quite honest with you, and I apologize for being a little uncouth here, but I always thought you were just a blowhard that liked to hear yourself talk.
Well, I do.
If you were right as often as I am, you'd like it to...
See, I'm sorry.
That makes 24-year-old women nervous.
That's threatening.
I take that back.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I appreciate that.
Why did you think I was a blowhard?
Well, just from everything that I'd heard from people.
You know, oh, Rush Limbaugh, he just likes to hear himself talk.
He has such far-fetched ideas about the way the world works and the way the country is, and he's just crazy.
Did you ever hear anybody say Bill Clinton likes to hear himself talk?
Does anybody say that about him?
I think most politicians.
I think all politicians like to hear themselves talk at any one given time, regardless of who they are.
Sometimes they're right, sometimes they're wrong, but they like to hear themselves talk.
Now, I'm part of the working class.
I'm productive, paying taxes.
I have a house, a new family, just got married recently.
And over these past months listening to your show, I've come to realize that you're right.
And you have really changed my perspective and my view of the way that this country is and the way that this country is run and where it's going.
So you think we're finished, too?
I don't think we're finished.
I think we're on that slippery slope.
I think we're sliding down.
And if things continue the way that they are, probably for the next eight to ten years, we probably will be doomed.
Unfortunately, we only have four more years to deal with this guy.
Well, you're more right than you're wrong.
A generation is usually counted as 25 years, and we're in danger of losing a generation.
If Obama succeeds in this effort to transform this country, then people who are currently in their teenagers are going to grow up thinking that Obama and Obama-ism is the answer to problems.
Whether it is or not, it's not going to matter.
They're going to grow up thinking that.
They're going to grow up thinking at least Obama tried.
At least Obama cared.
At least Obama recognized and tried to fix what was wrong.
And he made it fairer.
And he tried to make sure that the haves had not as much more than they needed and so forth.
And when people facing this for a generation as it is now, people are being taught this in kindergarten, grade school, into elementary and so forth.
And they grow up thinking this stuff, and it becomes part of their being.
And changing their minds becomes a very difficult thing to do.
It takes a special leader to be able to change people's minds.
Reagan had the ability, and he's the last one who did on our side.
And I'll agree with you because it took a long time to change my perspective.
You know, I didn't grow up in a liberal household.
Well, you are.
You represent a failure on the part of the Democrats.
They lost you somehow.
How did that happen?
Here you were, you're thinking that I'm a blowhard, and you never listened, but then at some point you started listening.
How'd that happen?
Actually, when I was training at my last job, I would ride with my boss, and all he'd listened to was talk radio.
Yeah.
So that's how I got started.
Then I found myself listening to you on my own.
And a few weeks before the election, you know, I started thinking about all the stuff that you talk about.
And that's the key.
That is the key.
You started thinking.
That is what is not happening.
You started thinking on your own and critically.
And at that point, your intellect, your native intelligence took over.
Your native intelligence triumphed.
And your innate common sense that was always there finally surfaced.
It just took something to bring it out.
I'm glad that this program was it.
I'm really flattered.
I thank you very much, Ben, and Merry Christmas to you.
Here's Brian, Northern California.
You're next on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, how you doing?
Good.
Thank you.
Mega Dittos, I just wanted to kind of start off.
I'm really, really nervous.
I called you once before, and I didn't really listen to you, so I hope I'm going to be a better listener this time.
I liked yesterday's show a lot.
You started off the show tempering your delivery for the 24-year-old girl thing.
And you had a caller that talked about the shooting being the responsibility of the mother.
Yes.
And I just kind of wanted to expand upon that a little bit.
We already have laws on the books that support that.
If my kids, if I throw a party and let my kids drink alcohol or whatnot, and they go out and drive afterwards, I'm responsible for it.
If they hurt somebody or damage property, so that's just sort of a natural extension that, and it's not a popular thing, and that was kind of what I was going to give you props for was it's not, I mean, it's a natural extension that it's the parents' fault that this happened.
We're just not into enforcing the laws that we have on the books.
It's like texting and driving.
Well, we don't want to blame individuals.
In this case, we don't want to blame the mother because she ended up being killed, too.
So instead, we'll blame all of us.
We'll blame the country.
We'll blame society.
We'll blame the NRA.
We'll blame any number of things.
Quick, I've got 15 seconds.
You liked the tempered approach to the 24-year-old single woman?
It wasn't so much that I liked it.
It was that I appreciated the way that you set it up because it was a controversial.
I see.
See?
It worked.
It worked.
Well, there's more of that when we get to the new year.
We've barely scratched the surface on that.
Don't miss it.
Open Line Friday and El Rushball.
They have my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Get this.
A health clinic in the Bronx is promoting its services with a new video featuring Santa Claus distributing free needles and condoms.
Citywide Harm Reduction posted the video titled Santa Passes Out Clean Needles for Christmas on its website for the holiday season.
The video features not only Santa, but also clinic workers dressed like elves dancing to with various needles, drug kits, and condoms.
Citywide is a needle exchange program.
It offers drug users clean needles and other products to help combat HIV and hepatitis C.
The program also provides various support services to the community, such as counseling and testing.
So there you have it, ladies, Santa Claus distributing needles and condoms in the Bronx at a health clinic video.
That's right, Mr. Limbaugh, and that is a sign of a compassionate society.
This is the kind of public community service program that we all need, Mr. Lima.
You are mocking them, and you are prepared to make fun of it.
This is exactly what the American people need.
I don't doubt it.
I mean, there's obviously a demand for this.
Santa Claus, clean needles and condoms.
What'd they do before Santa showed up?
Somebody else gave them away.
They just weren't dressed up like Santa Claus.
Hang on just a second.
I've got to do something here.
Just a minute.
Our tech situation here today is an absolute zoo.
And, well, it may be back, but it's still a zoo in here.
We've still got DNS, SMTP problems out the wazoo.
I can't send from various – I don't want to bother you with it here.
It's distracting.
It's like I can't tell you.
By the way, folks, Tim Thibault has broken up with his girlfriend.
Camille Bell is her name.
And this is from USA Today.
This is big news in USA Today.
The only way December can get worse for Tim Tebow is if it turns out that the Mayans were right.
In the same week that the Jets backup was passed over, but Thibault and the girlfriend consummate the relationship.
would I know that?
I haven't dug deep, as it were, to find out whether or not that, no, it's not in the story.
But U.S. Weekly, one of our favorite magazines here, by the way, points out that their relationship just didn't work out.
Now, the woman, Camille Bell, and Thibault were said to be dating after they were seen holding hands and touching at an October party in Jacksonville.
Camille Bell had been featured in films like The Chum Scrubber and I Break for Gringoes.
Those are her two big claims to fame.
I break for, I'm sure they're on Blue.
What do you mean they're on Blue?
Not only are they on Blu-ray, they're probably at Apple TV for download and Amazon Prime.
I'll bet you could find it on Hulu.
Yes, I know about all this.
And Netflix.
And if you want, I can probably direct you to some of the sites where you can download the stuff as a pirate.
I know the piracy sites.
So if you don't want to pay for the chum scrubber, if you don't want to pay for I Break for Gringo's, there are ways.
Anyway, Tebow has split up with this act.
We don't know who did the splitting up.
Story doesn't say.
But I do remember that it wasn't many weeks ago that story was out that Timo had taken her home to meet his parents.
And you know, when a Christian takes a girlfriend or boyfriend home, that's serious.
That's what USA Today says.
That's what the media says.
From EOnline, ladies and gentlemen, Wiz Khalifa and Amber Rose have a baby boy on the way.
And they're already thinking about teaching him the ways of the world, or the ways of their world anyway.
Asked during an exclusive sit-down with E Entertainment News if getting ready for their son's arrival included making certain changes to his lifestyle, particularly in the marijuana youth department.
Khalifa told us, not as far as that goes, this kid's going to be a smoker.
Our son's going to know that daddy likes to smoke, and if our son wants to smoke, dope, he's going to.
Of course, I'm not going to be smoking right there over the baby because smoke in general being high, not good for a kid, none of that.
But definitely he's going to know what reefer is, and he's going to know the difference between being a child and not being able to use it and being an adult and knowing how to use it.
Our son is going to know that daddy likes to smoke.
That's Wiz Khalifa and Amber Rose.
Amber Rose, the female, in case you didn't know, Wiz Khalifa is the father.
That is the latest.
Who are these people?
These are celebrities, Snerdley.
These are the people that make the country work.
These are the people around whom many people's lives revolve.
David Beckham has bought his wife Victoria Beckham Olivia Von Halley silk pajamas for Christmas.
Right here it is at Entertainment Online.
What do you give the woman who has everything?
Well, you can't go wrong with a few staples that are both sensible and stylish.
Even the adorable David Beckham understands this unspoken rule.
He put his good taste to work while doing some stealth holiday shopping for Victoria this week.
So he phoned in an order to Harrods.
He requested two pairs of dreamy silk pajamas by Olivia Von Halley.
And they cost around $500 each.
But we're talking posh here.
She's worth it.
This is big news to many Americans, Snerdley.
And I'm just letting them know that I know that it's happening.
David Beckham.
Now, Nashville, when I see a story like this, the first thing I ask, how did EOnline find out?
Did somebody at Harrods call EOnline?
Say, you know what?
We just got a call from David Beckham.
And he just bought his wife Posh a couple of $500 a pair of pajamas.
Oh, and by the way, here's the designer name.
Or did Beckham's PR people call E Online and say, Beckham just got off the phone?
What?
That's the wife's name.
Posh Spice.
Where have you been?
She was a Spice girl.
She was Posh Spice.
Victoria Beckham was Posh Spice.
And now she wears Olivia Von Holly silk pajamas, $500 a pair bought for her by her thoughtful, you wouldn't know about this, thoughtful husband who, on his own, not some assistant, on his own, because he really cares, he called Harrods on the phone and ordered them himself.
$500 and E Entertainment Network found out about it.
It's a big story.
You go to the E! Online website, like I did, and you'll see it right there.
When Anne Hathaway took to the red carpet in a fabulous pair of faux leather Tom Ford knee-high gladiator sandals for the New York premiere of Les Mis last week, it was the first time many of us had ever heard of vegan footwear.
This is also from e-Online.
You realize how big this?
Ann Hathaway, she was in the Dark Knight Rises.
She apparently, performance of her lifetime in Les Miz, which opens on Christmas Day.
Did you know that?
You didn't know that I do.
She wore sandals.
Gladiator says, you know what that is.
They sandal all the way up to the knee, Snerdley, and they're vegan.
They are vegan footwear.
Turns out the hardcore vegan has been rocking custom-made, cruelty-free shoes for quite some time.
In fact, when filming the movie, Ann Hathaway made sure that all of her characters' shoes were vegan-friendly.
Now, this also from E-Entertainment.
Now, before you people, what the hell's going on?
What I want you to stop and realize that the people who elected Barack Obama find this fascinating.
The fact that Ann Hathaway cares enough about the planet and animals to make sure that only vegan footwear was worn in all of her scenes in Lame Is is the kind of thing that makes a tremendous impact.
A positive PR statement: Ann Hathaway cares.
She cares about the planet.
She cares about animals.
She's a compassionate soul, and she's a wonderful person.
And she votes Obama.
You see how this works.
Now, I said, you know, we're talking a low-information voter.
A low-information voter is actually a high-liberal information voter.
Most brains are finite in terms of the amount of data they can hold.
And the low-information voter is chocked full of this kind of stuff.
And there just isn't much room left for plan B, deficits, tax cuts, economic matters, the country going to hell in a handbasket, even though there's a shortage of handbaskets.
There's just not room for that stuff because Ann Hathaway or David Beckham.
Seriously, ever wondering how does that make news?
How does that end up at EOnline?
Did Beckham call Herrods?
Did Herrods call E online?
Did Beckham call EOnline?
Did posh Spice call, say, look what I got.
And then some editor had, yeah, this is big news.
David Beckham bought his wife two pairs of PJs at 500 bucks and they make a big story out of it.
This is media.
This is media in 2012.
This is Pop Culture Entertainment Media.
Chris Brown.
You know who Chris Brown is?
Okay, now we're talking.
Now we're talking about somebody that Snerdley knows.
Chris Brown is in Amsterdam.
And to prove it, he took pictures of himself inside one of the city's famous coffee shops with three marijuana joints in his mouth at the same time.
Brown and some of his boys documented their marathon weed smoking session on their Instagram accounts, advising the public, don't worry, it's medicinal.
This from TMZ, Justin Bieber accused of animal cruelty by hamster.org.
Justin Bieber issued a death sentence to his pet hamster when he gave it away to a screaming fan who promised to love and cherish it forever outside of a concert earlier this month, according to the California Hamster Association.
TMZ spoke to a rep for the group, the California Hamster Bunch, who tells us that Justin Bieber committed an act of animal cruelty when he gave away the animal, even if his intentions were good.
The California Hamster Association tells TMZ hamsters are fragile.
They often succumb quickly to illness and death, especially when faced with sudden environmental change.
And Bieber didn't care.
Bieber was heartless.
He thought he was doing good by doing something nice for a fan, but he was sentencing the hamster to death.
And it's all over TMZ that Bieber has no respect for animals.
That Bieber is a heartless, cold.
You know what?
The moment that hamster was handed off to a screaming girl in a harsh, frenzied environment was likely the moment that hamster gazed at the short path to its doom.
So what should Justin Bieber have done?
Well, the California Hamster Association says if Justin no longer wanted the pet, he could have just left it in the care of an animal shelter or a rescue center so they could have handed it off to a responsible new owner instead of some stupid fan at a concert.
As for the hamster pack, he's currently alive and well in the care of Bieber's 18-year-old super fan, Tori, who has vowed to treat the animal like a tiny rodent god.
This from TMZ Lindsay Lohan refused to kiss Charlie three times because his mouth grossed her out.
This was during the scary movie bedroom scene, but she ultimately refused to do it because of Charlie's wild partying pass.
It hot off the press TMZ.
You see what we're all missing, folks?
You see the earth shatterings of your kids?
No, and you don't.
I got to take a quick time out.
Open Line Friday resumes after this.
Don't go away.
And to the phones, we go back now.
This is Open Line Friday.
It's Olivia from Dallas.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Russ.
Hi.
I wanted to ask you what Adam Lanza's political orientation is.
Because the last time I remember there was a really politicized shooting, they were very quick to blame Sarah Palin.
I'm talking about the 2011 Tucson shooting.
Actually, the last time there was a shoot prior to this was the Dark Knight Rising shooting.
But it wasn't like a politicized.
Oh, yes, it was.
ABC News tried to blame it on the Tea Party.
Brian Ross tried to.
They found the guy's name, and the first thing they looked was a local Tea Party roster to see if they could find a name there.
They found the same name, a different guy.
And Brian Ross goes on, Good Morning America says, we think this guy might be a member of the Tea Party.
Right.
So I'm wondering if all this talk about his background and his psychology, I wonder if they haven't unearthed what it was.
Because I remember with the 13.
He can still have political beliefs.
But I remember with Jared Loffner, they said that he was a Republican, and it turned out that he was actually quite liberal.
They all are liberals.
If they're mentally disturbed.
Oh, that's not fair.
you're right that was that's not That was.
I'm sorry.
You're terribly right.
Terribly right.
Yeah, that's one of those things you just can't tell the truth about.
You're right.
I should not.
Take that back.
Take that back.
We don't know what his political affiliation was.
That's right.
There hasn't been any curiosity about that.
I mean, that was my main question.
There must be a reason why.
What do you think?
The reason why nobody would want to find out what his mother's or his.
I mean, she was a supposedly, and we don't even know that.
It's only one source that says that she was a survivalist and a prepper.
We don't even know that's true because these sources haven't been right about very much.
What's your wild guess?
What do you think his political affiliation was?
I mean, I'm not that concerned with what his political affiliation is, if he's liberal or Republican or whatever, but I just find it interesting that it always is assumed to have been some kind of radical right-wing person when okay, got to take a break.
I just saw the clock was off by a minute.
We got to go.
Okay, folks, that's it.
We've got some special Barack Obama Santa Claus Christmas tunes coming up when we get back and other things, too, in our final hour of the year.
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