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Dec. 21, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 21, 2012, Friday, Hour #3
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Merry Christmas, everybody, and happy new year from all of us.
all of you here at the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Thank you.
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yahoo.
One exciting busy broadcast hour remains of open line Friday, and that's when we go to the phones.
You can talk about whatever you want.
That's not the case Monday through Thursday.
You have to talk about stuff I care about so that I don't get bored, but I'll risk it on Friday.
Great opportunity to ask a question, make a comment, or bring up something you think needs to be discussed, which hasn't been.
It's our 25th Christmas together.
You believe that 25th.
20.
I mean you and I, folks, you and I have been together longer than than some couples.
Stop and think of that.
In fact, you and I, well, this is an amazing thing.
And I'll tell you, earlier this year, shortly after the election.
In fact, it was the day after the election.
In fact, it was the night of the election.
Catherine and I are watching the election returns, and we're like everybody were a little discombobulated.
I had seen the exit poll date at five o'clock.
And it it didn't make any sense.
Sixty percent said they still blame Bush for the economy.
And then there was this question cares about people like me.
And that was Obama 81 to 19% over Romney.
And then the actual exit poll voting showed that the real polling was dead right that these states were too close to call.
And as the night wore on.
Turned out that the polling was right and Obama won the thing, and we were all shocked.
Because actually thought we were gonna win.
No way Obama was gonna equal his turnout.
We we thought the country had awakened.
Four years of this mess.
We laughed.
Every time Obama blamed Bush.
We figured that most Americans were adults and would find that very childish and immature and unappealing, just like they would in their kids.
And it slowly dawned on us, wait a minute, we have totally misread the situation.
And Catherine looked at me and she said, Well, you just can't, you can't beat Santa Claus.
And so the next day I came to the EIB network and behind the microphone here, and I made that observation.
We just can't beat Santa Claus.
And all hell broke loose on the Democrat side.
They thought that's insulting to the Obama voters.
How dare I say that?
That this country was a bunch of freeloaders and takers.
That begot the discussion about the 47% that Romney had said he had no hope of winning, and we decided at that point, since we enjoy irritating the left, to actually put all of this to song.
Obama is Santa Claus.
And here was our very first one.
We've got a whole bunch of them to share with you here, but here is the first one.
Barack a clause is coming to town.
Veraco Claus is coming to town.
White comedian Paul Shanklin.
As Barack Obama as Barack coming to town, walking in a welfare wonderland.
Cell phones ran.
Are you listening?
Every day.
Less are working.
A beautiful sa.
Ah, yes, my friends.
Merry Christmas, everybody.
Walking through the welfare wonderland, and we just keep going with white comedian Paul Shankman.
Here's a cover of the Tune Sway ride called Forward.
Just hear those Obama phones ringing that ring to not be singing my turn.
Come on, it's lovely weather to go forward together with you.
Yes, sir, Rebob folks.
Jolly old Saint Obama.
The EIB network.
Jolly old St. Nicholas, you have been replaced.
Followers have sold the soul to me for other goods.
Christmas Eve just Jolly old St. Obama.
Jolly old St. Obama, El Rush Bow playing the hits.
Back to back.
More hits than you'll hear anywhere else.
Our white comedian Paul Shanklin is Obama.
Let it grow.
Oh, the fiscal cliff sure is frightful.
Shrinking government is doubtful.
Cause Republicans can't say no.
Yeah, right.
The EIB network, El Rushbo, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have our final tune in the Obama Christmas Marathon series.
Santa Berry.
Santa Baby.
For me.
Bobo.
That's why I voted.
A yes, my friends.
It's Christmas time here at the EIB network.
That's uh Paul Shanklin in a series of Christmas tunes honoring Baracklaus and what he means to an ever-increasing number of Americans.
Santa Berry, of course, the concluding tune there in our series.
Brief time out.
We'll be back and return to your phone calls after this.
I guess the Mayan thing wasn't right.
I mean, we're still here, and in some parts of the world it's tomorrow.
And so um everything's cool.
Mayans missed it.
We just don't know if they missed it by a day.
And it could be tomorrow.
They might have missed it by a century.
At some point we'll find out.
Here's Don Lake Ron Concamera, Long Island.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Welcome.
Hey, Merry Christmas.
Happy New Year.
I'm glad we survived the Mayan calendar to date.
Thank you very much, sir.
Appreciate that.
Listen, Rush, I had a quick question for you.
Do you believe that it's going to be a serious challenge to Speaker Bonner in the in the wake of the failure of Plan B after this disappointing uh performance of negotiating with him, you know, with closed doors and uh you know, n negotiating with himself, basically.
I have, to be honest with you, no idea.
I haven't the slightest idea whether there's going to be a challenger, and if there is, I couldn't tell you who it'll be.
No, I couldn't tell you neither, but I just was wondering, do you do you think there would be a uh a challenge?
Well, you know, Louis Grimm.
Let me tell you something.
I um let's put it this way.
I'm I have I'm not talking to anybody there about any of this.
I never do.
Uh uh sometimes the phone rings and somebody there wants to talk to me about something, but never about this.
Um and so I'm not wired.
I I'm not connected.
There may be a couple people I can call who might know something's going on, and maybe I should, but I haven't.
Um I know I I I wouldn't expect you, Rush, but I I mean I've noticed that the left hasn't even been attacking him like they would attack Palin or Why would they?
I know it.
I know it, and it's obvious to me and other conservatives.
I mean, if if the coverage I've seen is poor Boehner.
His party's abandoning him.
His party's a bunch of nuts.
Right.
Poor Boehner, he can't, he can't unify these guys.
Boehner's giving it everything he's got.
Poor Baehner, he's uh wackos that he leads.
He can't corral them.
I just I'm so disappointed he didn't take your uh the conservative discussions to talk radio and the audience he would get there.
It just amazes me that he forgot us.
What do you mean?
What do you mean take the conservative discussions to talk radio?
What do you mean?
To your show, Rush.
You mean call here and talk about what's going on on the...
Well, he couldn't give all the details, but at least he could give the tea party a...
Ah, ah, ah.
Well I'm sorry to put you on the spot at the Christmas time.
No, no, I'm I'm what I was let me go back to what I was gonna say here before you uh as caller on Open Line Friday interrupted me.
Uh There are maybe I can count on one hand.
And there may be more, but I could probably count on one hand the number of people who are really hot to trot to make a change in the speaker.
I I just think the Republican Party is so depressed.
I I think they're so discombobulated now.
I think the attitude is let's just ride this out and pray for an event to save us.
I don't I just I don't I don't see any um I have to be very careful because I'd be dead wrong about this.
And I'm not I'm not I'm just trying to be honest in an appraisal.
I'm not trying to be critical here.
Uh I just I I don't see uh a whole lot of energy to advance an agenda.
What I see is the energy spent on defensive things like gee, let's so let's settle we don't get the blame.
Uh let's do something so that uh we don't get criticized.
I just think these guys are so beaten up.
I that they've been beat up their entire careers.
They're sick and tired of it.
They're worn down and they are worn out.
And I just don't know how much fight there is in the leadership level for a month.
I just don't know.
And I could be dead wrong, there might be a lot.
Just haven't seen the signs of it.
So look at, you know, we don't even Obama's not even in his second term yet.
We lost this election.
Elections have consequences.
And because we lost, I mean, that's one of the reasons why we are where we are.
Now I'm not saying we are forever consigned to this position.
But right now, we the the Republicans in Washington do not have a lot going for them.
And they don't think so either.
And they're they're up against insurmountable odds in Obama, the Democrat Party, and the uh and the media.
And I'm not sure they even want to be dealing with this cliff stuff.
They have to.
I'm not sure they.
Now look, folks, there is talk that Congress could be uh called back into session next Thursday.
You know, Boehner sent everybody home for Christmas, and that's what they wanted.
These guys wanted out of town.
They got out of town.
And it was uh I still maintain it it it's a good thing plan B went down, but you understand that it was never close.
It was never close, and no matter what comes out of there, the media and Obama are gonna blame the Republicans in that circumstance.
I always fall back on just do the right thing.
Hang in with your identity, your principles and so forth, because you really can't go wrong doing that.
Whatever happens down the road, you've always got that to fall back on.
If you compromise your principles, that's that's tough.
Get your credibility back in that kind of thing.
Now, if we if if they're called back on Thursday, that's the second day of Kwanzaa.
Is nothing sacred?
You know, Nancy Pelosi has already talked about the fact that Kwanzaa shoppers are not acknowledged and don't have enough of a uh what did she say?
Uh not afforded enough uh uh respect with Christmas shopping and this, but Kwanzaa shoppers somehow get the short end of the stick.
So here here's possibly calling Congress back into session on a second day of Kwanzaa and you're gonna have people say is nothing sacred.
Uh I just I I a number of things here to uh to be considered.
But I also it's like John Kerry.
John Kerry has been named Secretary of State.
Big it's not news.
Everybody knew this was gonna happen.
From the first moment of trouble with Susan Rice.
In fact, I'm not sure Susan Rice was ever intended.
I think Susan Rice was thrown out there as somebody that was automatically rejected so that Carrie would be automatically accepted.
And then Carrie guaranteed he got it by stonewalling a Benghazi investigation and making sure that Hillary's concussion was a valid excuse not to testify, so he's rewarded with Secretary of State.
He's always wanted it.
And it's a done deal.
And it was going to happen, and nothing anybody could have done to stop it.
The Swiftboat guys are not going to have time to organize.
I mean they can, and they can make noise about it, but he's going to get confirmed.
McCain good buddies with Carrie.
I mean, there's the collegial aspect of the Senate and all that.
And just as that was in the cards, so there's going to be I my gut is that there's going to be a deal.
There always is.
Now if we go over to Cliff, I won't be surprised because that's what I think Obama wants, but I'm just telling you, I won't be surprised there's last minute deal.
That's pitched as the greatest thing since sliced bread and so forth.
And then a couple days will go by and then they start reaming the Republicans for whatever.
The only thing arguing against that, as far as I'm concerned, is I think from a purely and I'm blue in the face saying this, I apologize for all the repetition.
But this going over to Cliff is just s it used about Kwanzaa Christmas Hanukkah rolled into one for Obama.
This is ten Christmases rolled into one for him and the Democrats going over the cliff.
You remember the Time magazine cover from 1995, might have been 1996.
That featured the story Men and Women Actually Born Different.
Remember that?
That was a cover story.
I always made the observation that for that to have been news worthy of the cover of Time Magazine.
What must the editors have thought before that?
That men and women are born the same.
You know, even now we had a we had a uh did we do a morning update on this?
Isn't isn't there some wacko trying to make sure the little boys are given these toy oven these easy bakes?
And yeah the gender neutral, we're back to this now, raising your boy in a pink bedroom and giving him dolls and raising your little girl in a blue bedroom with G.I. Joe.
Where this this this feminist corruption that we've already lived through is rearing its head again now.
And now we're giving little boys toy ovens.
I mean, they're they're real ovens, but they're gender free ovens.
Hasbro bake whatever they're called.
Easy bake, easy bake ovens.
So I have here in my formerly nicotine stained fingers a story from Yahoo.com.
It's about a study.
A lot of money was spent on this study.
And you know what the study has shown?
I'll just read the headline to you.
Playing hard to get actually works.
They have spent money to learn that playing hard to get works.
We scoffed earlier this year when we heard that the rules, the 1995 dating guide that encouraged women to be passive and pleasing and play hard to get was making a comeback.
That's a woman, by the way.
Uh Lila Alphonse, the wrote story here.
Lila says we scoffed earlier this year when we heard that the rules were making a comeback.
But new research shows that the rules may be right after all.
Playing hard to get actually works.
Published in the European Journal of Personality, the data from hundreds of people in four different experiments showed that college age men and women who played hard to get ended up with a higher quality partner.
We all want honesty in dating, but This is never going to happen, said the study's author, Peter Jonason, who teaches psychology at the University of Western Sydney in Australia.
We're not overtly lying, but we're always trying to marry up.
Do you remember the trouble I got into when I first observed that most women do?
I caught hell for that, and all it is is true, and it's not an insult.
At any rate, both sexes play the game.
They learned this in this study.
Both sexes play the game, but there are a few slight differences.
While women made themselves seem more interesting by not communicating and filling up their schedules so that they were not available all the time.
Men did so by acting rude and treating others poorly and saying all the right things, but not calling.
In other words, women broadcast their interest and made themselves unavailable, while men appeared available and pretended not to care.
Women derive more benefit from playing hard to get because it allows them to test men out and increase the demand that men place on them, said the study author.
Now this is only as old as civilization.
And it's not just men and women.
It's any deal that you get into.
The more you act like you don't care, the more leverage you've got.
The more eager you are, the less leverage you've got.
This is standard human behavior psychology 101.
And this is another element of interaction between men and women and people that the Feminazis tried to erase by saying we're all the same, and we're no different.
And instead of playing all these games, we ought to just be straightforward and honest.
But that's always been the dream.
It's always been the desire, but it's not human nature.
And some people don't know how to play hard to get, and life runs roughshod over them.
You can you can you can see it because women have greater value in the biological mating market, it says here.
Because they have greater value in the biological mating market.
They can afford to play hard to get more than men can.
Men who are too hard to get may miss out on a mating opportunity.
No kidding.
And that's code for sex, they say here, the uh mating market.
If a casual hookup is all you're looking for, the new research shows that playing hard to get lowers your chances of success if you're f no kidding.
If all you want's a hook up for a couple hours, what are you wasting time playing hard to get?
Just do it.
If that's all you're interested in.
Anyway, this this kind of stuff, folks, to me, we used for for twenty-five years have been reporting this stuff.
And we've been laughing at it and joking, and I've been missing the point all these years.
And the point is that I guess it is that there are people who as that they're as far away from normal human behavior, or they don't like it, they've they've been engaged in trying to change it.
But they're they're not they're not that small a number of people.
Men and women, actually born different, was such a revelation it made the cover of a news magazine.
We laughed at it, made fun of it.
But there were real people who really fought the opposite before they put that on the cover.
And they've been raising kids and they're teachers, and they have been influencing people, and it's it is it has had impact.
We thought these people were just on the margins and kind of odd, weirdo leftists, and it turns out they're much more than that.
There's just much more to have to deal with.
I got a quick timeout here.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
And back to the phones, it's open line Friday, Jim in Indianapolis.
Hi, and welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you, Rosh.
Love your show.
First of all, happy holidays to you, your staff, your loved ones and listeners.
Thank you very much, sir.
We all appreciate it.
I want to give you a quick background on myself.
Um I'm a white male in my mid thirties.
I work sometimes six or seven days a week.
I go to school full time.
I have a wife and two small boys.
The reason why I do all of this is because I need to be a role model for my boys and a man for my wife.
That's my job, not the government.
And I know eventually the Democrats will self-destruct as a party, and you know, the government will restore balance to this country.
And the point I'm trying to make your audience is don't ever lose your high morals and values, don't ever give up, stay optimistic, and eventually it'll pay off.
Well, I know exactly what you're saying.
Uh don't give up, like Churchill said, never, never, never, ever quit.
And I think a a lot of people uh right now, I don't think a lot of people want to quit.
I think people need some time off.
It's it was it's been an intense year.
There were a lot of expectations that turned out uh violently disappointing on election night, and uh just just the I people felt this way when Clinton was elected nineteen ninety-two, but this is a uh feeling that's a multiple of ten over that among people like you who have not compromised, you have not cashed in, you have not given up on the kind of country you grew up in and want your family to grow up in.
You've not and so um you feel outnumbered and uh a lot of people do, and wondering where's this all gonna end.
Then you look at the Republican Party, and not being critical here, I'm just an honest assessment.
You don't see, you don't you don't hear anybody on a daily regular elected person basis that speaks out in opposition to what's happening.
You get somebody now and then will say something, you cheer it, but there isn't there doesn't seem to be any leadership politically right now representing us.
In fact, you might even think that my God, there might not even be as many as conserv as many conservatives uh in the country or in Washington as we thought.
Well it's difficult.
What's difficult with all of this is my family has money.
My grandparents have money, my father has money, and you know, I'm sitting in school trying to think, yeah, you know what I'd rather be at home, I'd rather be at home with my kids, my wife.
Well, what do you mean you have money?
You inherited money or you do well with your work.
My my my my family has money.
They they they've done well in their life.
It's not my money.
That's theirs.
And you know what?
I I I have to instill in my boys, and uh as uh as a normal person, we have to instill these values back in society because we don't have any.
I know that seems such a daunting task, is what I'm saying to a lot of people.
You know, once the gravy train gets established, and once it starts, and once government is seen as the source of prosperity, once the government is seen as the source of uh fairness and where grievances are addressed, uh it it it's it's tough turn that back, especially when you don't hear anybody speaking out against it, other than individuals who are not in any semblance of power to do anything about it.
So what's happened is that people do what you said.
You are confident there will be an event or a series of events that'll wake people up.
Something will happen that will cause people to realize that this can't go on the way it is if we want to have lives and a country and live the way we have been and the way we've dreamed.
And you you're you're exactly right.
I always encourage people to try to stay upbeat and positive about things because you only get one life.
And it already, life in general is gonna prevent or present you with lots of suffering.
But you don't have to add to it.
You don't have to invent your own.
Life presents enough of it as it is.
Um despite what's happening in Washington or elsewhere, shouldn't govern your life.
Not I'm I'm not talking to you specifically, I'm everybody in general.
And people need to seize this this great gift of life, realizing it's the only one you'll ever have.
And to try to do the most with it for yourself, for your family, however that manifests itself to you, each and every day.
And that's the best you can do.
And then let that influence others around you, and that's how uh I think this thing gets turned around.
And I I do have ultimate faith like you do that it will.
We're too great a country, we have too much at stake, and the world needs this country.
Just like folks, I need you in this audience.
And every year at Christmas time is when I really get thankful.
And I I count my lucky stars and and my blessings for the fact.
Twenty-five years.
You people have no idea what you've meant to me and my family, and I can't ever repay you or thank you enough for it.
But I do thank you sincerely from the bottom of my heart.
Thank you again, folks.
It's been fabulous, and the best is still ahead of us.
See you back here on January 3rd.
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