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Jan. 8, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 8, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Rush Limbo here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
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Well, Planned Parenthood is reporting a record year for abortions.
Right on, dude, right on.
It's from the Washington Examiner, but actually it comes from the latest annual report from Planned Parenthood.
Fiscal year 2011 to 2012, Planned Parenthood reveals it performed 334,000 abortions in 2011, a record year for the organization.
And this is something they'll fundraise off of.
According to the annual reports, Planned Parenthood performed 332,000 abortions in 2009, 329,000 abortions in 2010, making a total number of abortions in three years 995,000.
Right on.
Congratulations of Planned Parenthood from all of us.
What is it?
250 bucks a pop?
I mean, I wouldn't.
You you thought it was three or three fifty?
Oh, you would know more than I. So three, three fifty a pop times nine hundred and ninety-five thousand abortions.
Planned Parenthood reported receiving a record $142 million in taxpayer funding.
The news just gets better and better for these people.
Susan B. Anthony List analyzed the report, gave us this information.
The taxpayer funding came in the form of government grants, government contracts, Medicaid reimbursements.
And that amount, that $542 million taxpayer funding, why, that represents almost half of Planned Parenthood's annual revenue.
So in the question of revenue, Planned Parenthood's up.
Planned Parenthood not having a problem.
Marjorie Daddenpfizer, the Susan B. Anthony List president, said, while government subsidies to Planned Parenthood have reached an all-time high, so too has the number of lives ended by the profit-driven abortion business.
Well, those are inconvenient lives, it's no big deal.
Daily Mail, uh, UK Daily Mail.
Let me find I had this yesterday stack, so I've got it in two places here.
Let me I'm gonna find the actual here it is.
I have it here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
The Daily Mail, UK Daily Mail Online, how college students think that they are more special than ever.
Study reveals rocketing sense of entitlement on U.S. campuses.
Here's the story.
Books aside, if you asked a college freshman today who the greatest generation is, they might respond by pointing in a mirror.
Young people's unprecedented level of self-infatuation was revealed in a new analysis of the American Freshman Survey, which have been asking students to rate themselves compared to their peers since 1966.
Roughly nine million young people have taken the survey over the last 47 years.
Psychologist Jean Twing and her colleagues compiled the data found that over the last four decades, there's been a dramatic rise in the number of students who describe themselves as being above average in the areas of academic ability, drive to achieve mathematical ability, and self-confidence.
Well, what's really become prevalent over the last two decades is the idea that being highly self-confident, loving yourself, believing in yourself, that's the key to success, said this uh psychologist Jean Twang.
Now the interesting thing is, she says about that belief is that it's widely held.
It's very deeply held.
And then she says it's also untrue.
Well, no, no, no, it's just based on their own self-assessment.
But you're asking if is the self-assessment based on anything?
Well, apparently not because the psychologist that compiled the data says all the things they believe about themselves is wrong.
It's untrue.
Despite a library's worth of self-help books promoting the idea we can achieve anything if we believe we can, there's very little evidence that raising self-esteem produces positive real world outcomes.
It produces a lot of people running around thinking that they don't stink, but they don't actually do anything as a result.
They don't think they have to.
They're already there.
That's the point that she's making.
Then somebody named Ballmeister found that while successful people did have high self-esteem in many cases, it was unclear what actually caused their success in the first place.
Both self-esteem and success were often influenced by another factor.
So, well, I don't know.
The other factors are not are not stipulated here.
But I figured, since we're on this subject, we might as well move now into our low information voter segment.
And we're going to start with Al Joker.
Al Roker, I'm sorry, he was on NBC's dateline on Sunday night during a report about his gastric bypass surgery.
You know, Al Joker used to be a big guy.
Speaking of gastric bypass surgery, if I may take a brief departure, you know who else had that was Rex Ryan, the coach of the Jets.
And after a what he actually had was a lap band put in there.
He had a and what you can do with a band, from what I understand, he went to the hospital for special surgery in New York, and he had this lap band put in there.
Well, you apparently you can you can adjust it.
There's a screw on on your outside your stomach on your skin that you can expand your stomach or contract it so you can defeat the purpose.
They don't actually take any of your stomach out, they just put a band around so it it gets smaller and fills up faster.
But you can change that.
So when Rex did his first six months, there wasn't much of a change.
So people figured Rex was playing with the screw.
But after that, Rex has lost a lot of weight, and commensurate with his weight loss has been the failing fortunes of the Jets.
As Rex has lost weight, the Jets have played more poorly.
Now I don't know if you know this or not.
I'm sure many of you probably do.
The NFL has a tradition, after the last game of the season, whenever it is, the coach and the general manager do a press conference.
They meet with the press.
They explain what went wrong, what they're going to do to improve next year, any hirings, firings, uh player changes.
And then they're off for a while.
Well, Rex didn't do that.
Rex instead went to Paradise Island over to Bahamas.
There's a couple resorts over there.
There's Atlantis.
There's Atlantis Cove, which is a more exclusive place.
It doesn't really have a lot of kids in it.
You ever been to Atlantis?
Atlantis is like a cruise ship that never leaves.
But it's great.
If you got family kids, it's fabulous.
It's got a m a magnificent walkthrough aquarium that's got incredible things.
It's got a great water slide.
It's a Mayan temple, in fact.
And restaurants go even have a casino.
Then they got a place called the Ocean Club, which is villas and suites, and it's purely adult, and it's part of the complex, but you have to take a car to get there over to Atlantis.
And then they have Atlantis Cove, and that's where Rex went.
And because Rex blew off the media in New York, you don't do that by not doing the postseason conference.
The media followed Rex to the Bahamas to harass him, as in proper rats.
You know what they found?
Rex and his wife, who it's already been discovered of a toe fetish, or foot fetish.
That came out earlier, a couple seasons ago.
They had long lens cameras down there at the Atlantis Cove, and they found that on his right bicep, Rex has a tattoo.
And the tattoo is of his wife wearing a Mark Sanchez number six Jets jersey.
And so the pictures of Rex Ryan's tattoo were all over the New York media and then all over the sports media.
And then, of course, everybody in the sports media started making fun of Rex.
And they started laughing at Rex and talking about, well, no wonder he sticks with Sanchez, who did not have a good season.
He's got his wife tattooed on his bicep wearing a Santez Sanchez jersey.
And wherever Rex went, there were the cameras.
If he was in the water, if he was on a beach, if he was in a lounge chair reading a book next to his wife, the pictures were everywhere.
It was fascinating to me because Rex used to be loved by the New York media because he was a good copy.
But then the Jets started losing and things started falling apart and just uh started losing weight at the same time, and everything sort of shrunk and got smaller.
So now Rex went back to work today.
They did the press conference today that they were supposed to do at the end of the season.
And of course, somebody asked Rex about the tat, and Rex said, if Sanchez doesn't play better, I'm going to go get that number changed on his tattoo of his wife wearing the Sanchez jersey.
That's only because we have a story here about Al Roker and gastric bypass surgery, but I just was reminded that Rex had that too.
And I wanted to get the news in about Rex since it's a low information voter segment.
Here's Al Roker talking about his gastric bypass surgery with the chief medical correspondent for NBC, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, Sunday night on NBC's dateline.
When you have a bypass and you're, you know, your bowel's been reconstructed.
You think you're pretty safe.
And I probably went off uh and eat something I wasn't supposed to.
And as I'm walking to the press room, I'm looking at, you know, pass a little gas here.
So I'm walking by myself, who's gonna know?
Only a little something extra came out.
You pooped in your pants.
I pooped my pants.
Not horribly, but enough that I knew which is a common side effect of this surgery.
Exactly.
And so, you know, I was panicking.
So I got to the restroom in the press room throughout the underwear, you know, and just went commando.
And what did that tell you?
It told me that I've got to be very vigilant as to what I eat.
Man.
Oh man.
As Al Roker admitting on Sunday night's NBC dateline that he pooped his pants in the White House.
In great detail, I might add, Al Roker explaining how flatulence became solids, and he had to find the bathroom in the press office in the White House because he'd pooped his pants to all the underwear out.
And then Nancy Snyderman, chief medical correspondent, showing great concern, said, What did that tell you, Al?
And Al, responding in appropriate solemnity, I've got to be very vigilant as to what I eat.
And a great lesson has been learned.
And America is all the better for it.
Thanks to the courage of Al Roker admitting that he ate something he knew he shouldn't have eaten, having had gastric bypass, which led to flatulence becoming solids, which led to pooping in his pants in the White House.
And now other staff is laughing.
They're missing the whole point.
Now Americans know that if they get gastric bypass surgery, they have to be vigilant about what they eat.
Al Roker has taught Americans a valuable lesson about how not to poop in their pants.
What a courageous guy.
I mean, it's it's not often you get stories like this, folks.
The American people, I'm sure are grateful for having learned this important lesson.
And we're happy here to pass it along and do what little part we can to help further the education.
The American people by sharing Al's courageous story.
Pooping in his pants in the White House.
After he, I mean, it was his fault.
He was not vigilant about what he should eat.
Moving on, the mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villa Raigosa.
By the way, that name is uh a name made by combining his ex-wife's last name and his one of the two was named VR and the other one Raigosa.
And they combined them without a hyphen, and their name became Via Ragosa.
They have since divorced, and he kept the name.
I once met him at a restaurant in New York.
It's where I met Bill Clinton.
Any rate.
This was Sunday morning in Los Angeles, KNBC Eyeball News Channel 4's news conference.
And the host was Conan Nolan, interviewing Antonio Villa Ragosa.
Or Via.
Via, sorry, Ragosa.
And uh Conan Nolan said, You were in the news because of a photograph.
That actor Charlie Sheen tweeted, you're on the arm in Cabo San Lucas with a with a well, he was there with a porn star.
And and you're you're in the news because of a photograph that an actor Charlie Sheen tweeted.
You're you're arm in arm in Cabo San Lucas, apparently opening at a new bar that he has there, and there's porn stars there, Mr. Mayor.
The opening of a hotel.
He has a bar.
And it was a I had a three-minute conversation.
I took a picture with him.
I'm in the picture-taking business.
I take a picture uh virtually every single day, fifty times.
And I took a picture with him.
But you know the ramifications of No, you know what?
I have never said no to anyone who wanted to take a picture.
And so the mayor of Los Angeles with a very gutsy in your face answer, I'm not ashamed of posing for I do it fifty times a day, Nolan.
You're not going to give me grief about ending up in a picture with Charlie Sheen and porn stars.
Hell, I take pictures every day.
And Nolan said you heard him.
But you know the ramifications, just posing a rent.
No.
I have never said no to anybody who wanted a picture.
I'm in the picture-taking business.
Mayor of Los Angeles.
Antonio Villa Raigosa.
What a guy.
And we now move on to NPR, Fresh Air, the host Terry Gross interviewing Hollywood director Quentin Tarantino.
He did the movie Django Unchained.
And she said, you know, there's something I was wondering, uh, so much like uh you know African American popular culture that you really love, Quentin.
And I was wondering, you know, when you were growing up, if you grew up in an integrated neighborhood, if you if you went to an integrated school, if you had an African American friend or two, or if you if you contact with black people, if you're largely through popular culture, did you know them or not?
Just the kind of United Nations aspect that uh my mom's house was in the early 70s, right at the explosion of black culture.
So black culture is my culture growing up.
She was in her twenties.
She was hot.
All right.
Uh she was a hot white girl.
Uh, her best friend was uh named Jackie.
She was a hot black girl, and her other best friend was Lillian, and she was a hot Mexican girl.
And they lived uh in this like swinging singles apartment with me.
It was the 70s, so we was, you know, I I lived with these three hip ladies all going out on dates all the time and dating football players and basketball players.
My mom dated Wilt Chamberlain.
And there you have it, folks.
There you have.
We didn't have to go to TMZ to get that Quentin Tarantino news, folks.
That was right there on NPR that his mom slept with Wilt the Stilt Chamberlain.
Well, we don't know for sure, but we think that everybody will dated he slept with.
That's the image he left, so we have to assume it.
So that that that's where Clinton Tarantino learned the black culture.
That's where he became down for the struggle.
His mom and the other two women in his house dating all these characters.
So he's now got credibility.
And is a hero with a low information voter.
Here's uh Valerie Richardson, Texas.
Welcome to the EIB network, hi.
Hey Rush.
Yeah.
How are you today?
Good.
Fine, thank you very much.
It's a wonderful Tuesday here.
We're getting rain.
Well, You must need it then.
We must need it very badly.
Yes.
It's very nice.
Well, I'm glad you're getting it.
Yeah, me too.
And we got our kids back at school from Christmas break.
That's wonderful.
I can relate to that.
Yeah, well, that it's a good thing.
You were talking about um Al Jazeera and current TV.
Yep.
And and it hit my mind that, you know, we we've been through this road before with the propaganda and uh from foreign lands.
We've we've had that for years.
I grew up in Los Angeles, and we watched how the uh Mexican TV stations took over, and how we had two different news organizations that were going on the English version and the Hispanic version that expanded over to Univision.
Univision and and and Telemundo.
Umrafett, when he would speak to an English audience, he'd say one thing.
When he went to speak to an Arabic language audience, it was entirely different.
And that's what you're saying, right?
Oh, absolutely.
That's how you get your propaganda out.
We ha we had that with um when they're trying to do the amnesties.
Where do they go first?
They go to the Hispanic community, and you you know, my kids are not, you know, they're 14 and 15.
I got two boys.
And they're not dodos, because we straighten them out when they come home from school.
And it's a never ending process.
It's hard work.
Really.
Look, can you hang on a minute here, Valerie?
I got to take a quick obscene profit break.
We'll be back and continue with your point after this.
Either way, folks, an update on the Antonio Villaraigosa story.
Charlie Sheen has told TMZ that the mayor is lying.
When he said he was only with Charlie for three or four minutes, Charlie Sheen says that Mayor Villarigosa partied with him for hours.
From the article at TMZ, Charlie Sheen calling out LA mayor and Tony O Varigosa claiming he was flat out lying when he said that he spent only three minutes with the actor in Cabo San Lucas.
Charlie says the mayor hung with him for hours, chatting it up, drinking with a bunch of hot chicks.
So here we now find ourselves in the middle of a feud.
Why wouldn't the mayor just said he's a single guy?
Why wouldn't he just admit to it?
Good question.
Why if he if he's going to admit being there for three minutes, why not admit three hours?
Charlie Sheen's a cool guy.
He's a party animal.
He knows how to do it right.
What's wrong with hanging out with Charlie?
If you're the mayor of LA.
By the way, uh, ladies and gentlemen, also uh some news here from Oprah's Network, Oxygen pulling out all the stops.
It's from the UK Daily Mail reality show starring a rapper who fathered eleven children by ten women.
And it's not Antonio Cromarty of the Jets.
It's a rapper.
Reality show starring a rapper who fathered eleven children by ten women, all my baby's mamas.
It's the name of the show.
It's set to air this spring on the oxygen network.
And it follows Carlos Shanti Lawker, 36, as he navigates family life in an affluent suburb of Atlanta.
Now wait, oxygen.
That may not be Oprah anymore.
I don't know if it ever was.
That's the O Network.
That doesn't matter.
Oxygen Network, big news show, reality show, a rapper, fathered eleven kids, ten women, all my babies' mamas this spring.
Don't miss it.
Back now to Valerie.
Richardson, Texas.
You were talking about uh Telemundo and Univision and how different things are set for different audits.
You know, Obama says different things to different audiences too.
Yes, he does.
And it's and it's hard for people to understand that when they're being propagandized, they they're they're not able to differentiate anymore.
Oh, absolutely right.
You used to be able to turn on the news and actually get a News report.
You don't get that anymore.
You get what you're supposed to feel about something.
Well, you I know you it's nothing is news anymore.
There really isn't any news.
There is a narrative every day that has in it a bunch of agendas that need to be moved forward, be it the debt limit, be it the fiscal cliff deal, um via the presidential election.
But in terms of just report you know, journalism is telling people what happened somewhere nobody was.
That long gone.
Doesn't happen.
You're exactly right.
No, and and one of the things that you're gonna find is with this cell uh current TV to Al Jazeera, you're not gonna find that you know the left is gonna go after Al Gore for his hypocrisy.
None.
No way to.
No way.
Because they're all hook okay, I was gonna say hookers.
Is that okay?
They're all prostitutes, all of them.
They sell each other out, they sell each other under the table, they sell us out.
Don't say sluts.
Anything but that.
Okay.
But it's true.
And one of the things that my kids have pointed out is that if you're gonna have foreign language news reporting, it should have English subtitles underneath it so that you can know what's being said.
I use subtitles and close captioning anyway, uh out of necessity, and it is extremely helpful.
But that's a good point too.
Yeah.
It really is.
Well, it's great talking to you and same here.
I'm glad you got through.
Because it's you know, it it that that really is a good analogy.
The Univision and Telemundo.
Uh because it in the Spanish language versions, they're they're advising.
For example, in LA, they're advising how to get to the emergency room without having to spend any money, how to call an ambulance, how to get around the health care system, how to navigate it.
Uh they advise how to and the Obama administration actually produced radio commercials for for air in Mexico about how to act uh access food stamps once you get to America.
Uh it's an excellent point.
And it's all derives, it's all springing from the fact that we had a caller earlier who wanted to defend Al Jazeera as a just straight down the line news organization that probably was more reliable objectively than CNN, the caller said.
So the uh the uh point here is is that Al Jazeera is what it is.
Like I said, you have to know the difference between Islamist and Islamist terrorist and Muslim.
You have to know the difference in all those three terms.
But again, I'll just say one more time.
I thought the real irony here, or the hypocrisy is Gore, who has literally become almost a billionaire, a multi multimillionaire in a crusade against oil and oil companies.
And he has just enriched himself hundreds of millions of dollars selling his network to an oil state.
Al Jazeera is from Qatar.
Al Jazeera gave us the Arab Spring.
Look how turned out Al Jazeera is the coverage there.
Anyway, Valerie Thanks.
This is Mike in Atlanta.
Mike, welcome to the uh EIB.
Mike, do you happen to know this uh rapper who is gonna star in All My Babies Mamas uh lives in an affluent suburb of Atlanta?
You know this guy, have you heard of it?
No, I'm afraid I don't know him.
Oh.
You're not even heard of him?
I haven't, but that I'll be.
Well, that won't you you it won't be long before you do because you're gonna be on TV.
Anyway, welcome to the program.
Great to have you here.
Great to talk to you.
I was just I'm kind of bewildered about Al Roker's uh circumstances.
I'm calling in because I've had gastric bypass and know lots and lots of other people through the support groups that I attend who uh who have never heard of such an unfortunate incident happening.
You've not uh had flatulence become solids and had to throw away your underwear.
No.
No, I I've never heard of a doctor even mentioning that as a uh side effect of this wonderful surgery, which is a blessing.
It's great one of the greatest things that's ever happened to me.
Well, Al Al Roker said he was not vigilant in what he ate.
What can you not eat if you have this surgery?
Well, you seem to be indicating that that was a common occurrence, and I'm saying I never heard of it.
You know, there's there's a lot of things if I were to walk in the White House might make me hoot my pants, but I don't want to blame it on gas street bypass.
I don't think that has anything to do with it.
Well, that's an excellent point, but Al was trying to do a service here for the American people who uh have had gastric bypass.
So you can tell in his tone and you can't I wouldn't want anybody that's contemplating having the procedure done to think that that's gonna happen to them because I've never heard of that happen.
Okay, well that's good.
I'm I'm happy to be able to serve the country in this manner by um providing the truth about gastric bypass.
It does not automatically lead to pooping in your pants.
No.
And and yeah, Al Roker made it sound like it's a comedy.
You're right.
But at the same time, remember Al and Nancy Snyder were performing a a service.
They were they were uh helping people.
Uh the the the same unfortunately did not happen to them.
But I think it's funny here because you know, usually folks, it's people who leak to reporters, and in Al's case is a reporter who leaked.
By the way, folks, any interests of factual accuracy, I should probably point out that the Al Roker event happened in March of 2002, not recently.
Uh i Al Roker was in the Bush White House when he pooped his pants.
Not that did not happen in the Obama White House.
I I did not want anybody getting the wrong idea about this.
Taylor Swift and Harry Stiles have broken up after a blowout in the BVI.
Terry was got Hollywood shaken up.
Um it's almost uh the same impact as uh K Stu and our Pets when they blew up.
Uh but it was uh New Year's Eve, New York City.
Taylor Swift had a New York Times performance.
They jetted off to Virgin Gorda, and then it all blew up.
Sad thing.
Uh Kim Kanye Kardashian just bought an eleven million dollar house in Bel Air in California.
They're not married yet.
She got the baby bumped, no baby yet, gotta buy a crib for the crib, 14,000 square feet in the remodel.
And the Octomam.
After just five months off of welfare, the Octomom, Nanya Suleiman is back up on welfare, according to TMZ.
Why may that's not a bad idea to hook her up with the rapper in Atlanta?
I mean that's gonna be a big show.
You wait, you're hearing about it here first, folks.
My baby's mamas.
New to the oxygen network.
Here's Victor Silver Spring, Maryland.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey Rush, it's good to talk to you again.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Um I'm the blind guy you heard on C SPAN a number of years ago, and uh when you talked about the cars uh earlier, um I was one of the people that pushed for the um cars to make some kind of noise because I don't see well enough to judge traffic, and I depend totally on the sound so I know when it's safe to cross the street.
Well, that would make total sense to me.
You're almost blind, I remember you.
Right.
You're almost blind, so you can't really see if something's oncoming, and if you can't hear it, you're at a double disadvantage.
Exactly.
Well, what kind of noise do you want these electric cars to make?
What would what what kind of noise would alert you that it's a car?
Uh they could do a sound effect of an uh of a regular engine, for example, slowing down or speeding up, whatever um is convenient.
So maybe when you hit 18 miles an hour or less, the computer kicks on the sound effects of an engine speeding up.
Or slowing down.
Yeah, but speeding up, I think it'd be better because that would alert you.
Slowing down might give you a sense of security.
Uh I never cross the street until I can hear the traffic going with now.
You need a revving engine.
That's that's what you need.
You know, it might be simple if these people just bought a real car.
Exactly.
But but these These liberals never think when they propose something.
They never think of what could happen.
And I had to point out to the liberals I know.
I said, how am I supposed to cross the street safely if these cars don't make any noise?
That's a good point.
It is an excellent point.
I wouldn't have thought of it.
I wouldn't have.
A lot of people didn't think of it when they proposed uh Do you have a seeing eye dog or any kind of an assistance?
No, I use a cane.
Well, a cane's not going to help you stop a car.
No.
But uh at least it will tell the other drivers that I am blind and uh look out.
Well, you have do you wear a sign?
You had any kind of indications that I can't see?
No, the white keen is the um identification mark that shows people that I have a vision problem.
Is that universally known?
Yes.
Yeah.
You know, maybe the car could make noises like Donna Summer did.
Yeah.
If you're crossing the street and you hear love to love you, baby.
Well, I hear people's, you know, with with their car radios blasting, so I know the traffic is stopped when I hear that radio and it's not moving.
Yeah.
Well, look, I'm I'm I'm glad you called Victor.
I appreciate the uh the crucial input there on that story.
In case you missed it, uh the government has decided electric cars are too quiet.
They pose a threat to people who can't hear them coming.
Not just the blind, but anybody.
And so they're thinking of requiring electric cars after they hit 18 miles an hour or less to make noise.
And the auto manufacturers are going to be given a list of noises approved and accepted by the government that they will put in the car that then the driver can apparently choose from.
I mean we got a great government or what?
Really love us thinking about us like this.
I think it's we take it too for granted, I think.
What about bicycles?
Shouldn't there be bicycles make noises?
How many people get hit by bicycles, especially in New York?
A little bell would do.
Something has got to be done.
And I have I'm still laughing.
Quentin Tarantino bragging about his mother dating Wilt Chamberlain.
I mean, who didn't?
And any great shakes.
Anyway, folks, a uh wonderful busy broadcast today, but a brief now 21-hour break, a brief 21-hour timeout.
Back tomorrow, and we'll see you there.
Thanks so much for being with us today.
Adios.
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