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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, mama.
Congratulations to Planned Parenthood from all of us.
What is it, $250 a pop?
I mean, I wouldn't.
You thought it was $3,030?
Oh, you would know more than I.
So $3,350 a pop times 995,000 abortions.
Planned Parenthood reported receiving a record $542 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 Dannenpfizer, 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, UK Daily Mail.
Let me find.
I had this yesterday stacked, so I've got it in two places here.
I'm going to 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 9 million young people have taken the survey over the last 47 years.
Psychologist Gene 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 psychologist, Gene 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, it's just based on their own self-assessment.
But you're asking, 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.
This is 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, the other factors 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?
It was Rex Ryan, the coach of the Jets.
And after a, what he actually had was a lap band put in there.
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.
Apparently, you can adjust it.
There's a screw 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 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 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, 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 of 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've got family, kids, it's fabulous.
You've got a magnificent walkthrough aquarium that's got incredible things.
They've got a great water slide.
It's a Mayan temple, in fact.
And restaurants go, even have a casino.
Then they've 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 Paparazzi.
You know what they found?
Rex and his wife, who it's already been discovered, have a toe fetish, a 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 No. 6 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 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 good copy.
But then the Jets started losing and things started falling apart and 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 your bowel has been reconstructed, you think you're pretty safe.
And I probably went off and ate something I wasn't supposed to.
And as I'm walking to the press room, I'm like, I got to pass a little gas here.
So I'm walking by myself.
Who's going to 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 I was panicking.
So I got to the restroom of the press room, threw out 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 pooped his pants, throw 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, said, 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...
No, don't...
My 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 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 of 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 Ragosa.
By the way, that name is a name made by combining his ex-wife's last name and his.
One of the two was named VR and the other one Ragosa.
And they combined them without a hyphen, and their name became Villa 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.
At 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, Rigosa.
And 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, well, he was there with a porn star.
And you're in the news because of a photograph that an actor Charlie Sheen tweeted.
You're arm in arm in Cabo San Lucas, apparently opening in 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 virtually every single day, 50 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 50 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 of posing 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 Villaragosa.
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, so much like, 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 went to an integrated school, if you had an African-American friend or two, or 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 my mom's house was in the early 70s, right at the exposion of black culture.
So black culture is my culture growing up.
She was in her 20s.
She was hot.
All right.
She was a hot white girl.
Her best friend was 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 in this like swinging singles apartment with me.
It was the 70s.
So it was, you know, 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 it.
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 Wilt dated he slept with.
That's the image he left.
So we have to assume it.
So that's where Quentin 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 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.
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, it's a good thing.
You were talking about Al Jazeera and current TV.
Yep.
And it hit my mind that, you know, we've been through this road before with the propaganda from foreign lands.
We've had that for years.
grew up in Los Angeles and we watched how the 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 yeah it's like you know version Univision and Telemundo.
Univision and Telemundo.
It's like Yasser Arafat, 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 had that with when they were 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.
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.
By the way, folks, an update on the Antonio Villaragosa 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 Villaragosa partied with him for hours.
From the article at TMZ, Charlie Sheen calling out L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaragosa claiming he was flat out lying when he said that he spent only three minutes with the actor in Cabo Santa 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'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 L.A. By the way, ladies and gentlemen, also some news here for Oprah's network, Oxygen pulling out all the stops.
It's from the UK Daily Mail reality show starring a rapper who fathered 11 children by 10 women.
And it's not Antonio Cromarty of the Jets.
It's a rapper.
Reality show starring a rapper who fathered 11 children by 10 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 Lewalker, 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.
It doesn't matter.
Oxygen Network, big news show, reality show, a rapper fathered 11 kids, 10 women, all my baby's mamas this spring.
Don't miss it.
Back now to Valerie Richardson, Texas.
You were talking about Telemundo and Univision and how different things are set for different audience.
You know, Obama says different things to different audiences, too.
Yes, he does.
And it's hard for people to understand that when they're being propagandized, they're not able to differentiate anymore.
No, 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, nothing is news.
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, be it the presidential election.
But in terms of just report, journalism is telling people what happened someplace where nobody was.
Long gone.
Doesn't happen.
You're exactly right.
No, and one of the things that you're going to find is with this sell of current TV to Al Jazeera, you're not going to find that the left is going to go after Al Gore for his hypocrisy.
None.
There is.
No way.
No way.
Because they're all hooked.
Okay, I was going to 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.
And it's true.
And one of the things that my kids have pointed out is that if you're going to have foreign language news reporting, it should have English subtitles underneath it so that you can know what's being said.
True.
I use subtitles and closed captioning anyway 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.
Same here.
I'm glad you got through because it's, you know, that really is a good analogy.
The Univision and Telemundo, because the Spanish language versions, they're advising, for example, in L.A., 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.
They advise how to – the Obama administration actually produced radio commercials for air in Mexico about how to access food stamps once you get to America.
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 point here 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 think the real irony here or the hypocrisy is Gore, who has literally become almost a billionaire, a multi-multi-millionaire 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 it turned out.
Al Jazeera was the coverage there.
Anyway, Valerie, thanks.
This is Mike in Atlanta.
Mike, welcome to the EIB.
Mike, do you happen to know this rapper who is going to star in All My Baby's Mamas?
He lives in an affluent suburb of Atlanta.
You know this guy?
Do you heard him?
No, I'm afraid I don't know him.
You've not even heard of him?
I haven't, but that on the well, it won't be long before you do because he's going to be on TV.
Anyway, welcome to the program.
Great to have you here.
Great to talk to you.
I'm kind of bewildered about Al Roker's circumstances.
I'm calling him because I've had gastric bypass and know lots and lots of other people through the support groups that I attend who have never heard of such an unfortunate incident happening.
You've not had flatulence become solids and had to throw away your underwear?
No.
No.
I've never heard of a doctor even mentioning that as a side effect of this wonderful surgery, which is a blessing.
It's one of the greatest things that's ever happened to me.
Well, Al Roker said he was not vigilant in what he ate.
What can you not eat if you have this surgery?
You seem to be indicating that that was a common occurrence.
And I'm saying, I never heard of it.
You know, there's a lot of things if I were to walk in the White House might make me poop my pants, but I don't want to blame it on gastric 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 have had gastric bypass.
So you can tell in his tone.
I wouldn't want anybody that's contemplating having the procedure done to think that that's going to happen to them because I've never heard of that happening.
Okay, well, that's good.
I'm happy to be able to serve the country in this manner by providing the truth about gastric bypass.
It does not automatically lead to pooping in your pants.
No.
And, yeah, Al Roker made it sound like it's comedy.
You're right.
But at the same time, remember, Al and Nancy Snyder were performing a service.
They were helping people.
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, it's a reporter who leaked.
By the way, folks, in the interests of factual accuracy, I should probably point out that the Al Roker event happened in March of 2002, not recently.
Al Roker was in the Bush White House when he pooped his pants.
That did not happen in the Obama White House.
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.
Terrell has got Hollywood shaken up.
It's almost the same impact as K-Stew and RPATS when they blew up.
But it was 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.
Kim Kanye, Kardashian, just bought an $11 million house in Bel Air in California.
They're not married yet.
She got the baby bumped.
No baby yet.
Got to buy a crib for the crib.
14,000 square feet in the remodel.
And the octo mom, after just five months off of welfare, the octo mom, Nadia Suleiman, is back up on welfare, according to TMZ.
That's not a bad idea to hook her up with the rapper in Atlanta.
I mean, that's going to 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.
I'm the blind guy you heard on C-SPAN a number of years ago.
And when you talked about the cars earlier, I was one of the people that pushed for the 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 kind of noise would alert you that it's a car?
They could do a sound effect of a regular engine, for example, slowing down or speeding up, whatever 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.
I never cross the street until I can hear the traffic going with me.
Now, you need a revving engine.
That's what you need.
You know, it might be simple if these people just bought a real car.
Exactly.
But 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.
A lot of people didn't think of it when they proposed.
Do you have a seeing eye dog or any kind of an assistant?
No, I use a cane.
Well, a cane's not going to help you stop a car.
No.
But at least it will tell the other drivers that I am blind and look out.
Do you wear a sign?
Any kind of indications I can't see?
No, the white cane is the 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 with their car radios blasting, so I know the traffic has stopped when I hear that radio and it's not moving.
Yeah.
Well, look, I'm glad you called, Victor.
I appreciate the crucial input there on that story.
In case you missed it, 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, have 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 any 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'm still laughing.
Quentin Tarantino bragging about his mother dating Wilt Chamberlain.
I mean, who didn't?
And any great shakes.
Anyway, folks, a wonderful, busy broadcast today, but a brief, now 21-hour break, a brief 21-hour timeout.