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Jan. 9, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 9, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Hi, folks, and welcome back.
A thrill and a delight to have you here.
Ill Rushball.
And uh I finally have admitted it.
New Year's resolution.
And I don't do those.
I think New Year's resolutions are they're fun, but they're just an exercise in frivolity.
But I actually had one this year.
And that is to adopt and assume a less high profile.
A lower profile.
To actively try each and every day not to get noticed.
Which is directly opposite what most people are trying to do.
And I'm not succeeding.
I thought I was until today.
Evidence coming up.
Great to have you here.
Telephone number 800-282-2882, the email address L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
Speaking of Obama's upcoming gun grab.
Here is the Vice President.
I just shared with you the quote as published at the Weekly Standard, but here's the actual audio.
This is at the White House.
Vice President Bite Me held a gun violence task force meeting with victim groups and gun safety organizations.
Victim groups.
And this is what he said.
The president is going to act or executive orders, executive action that can be taken.
We haven't decided what that is yet, but we're compiling it all with help of the attorney general and all the rest of the cabinet members, as well as legislative action, we believe is required.
All right, now when a bunch of liberals get together, start talking about guns and include the possibility of executive orders, executive action that can be taken.
What are they talking about?
Well, of course not involving Congress, but they're talking about taking guns away.
I mean, what are they talking about here?
Executive action to do what?
Shore up the second amendment?
I hardly think so.
So that's what Bite Me's talking about.
My my only point is what could they a bunch of a bunch of liberal Democrats worried about guns, talking about using executive orders, what could it possibly be about?
A gun grab.
Now the Rasmussen Report's website has published a poll and it finds that 74% of American adults, and this is a quote, continue to believe the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right of an average citizen to own a gun.
Now I don't know why Rasmussen worded it that way.
And I'm not sure that that's good news or bad news.
And I mean we would hope that 100% of Americans know that they have that constitutional right.
74%, depending on your perspective, you could see that as good news or bad news.
74% is much higher than 50%.
74% is a majority, but it's meaningless if you have a president who's talking about using executive orders.
If you have a president who thinks that executive orders are more powerful than an amendment to the Constitution.
If you have a president who thinks that executive orders trump the Constitution, it doesn't really matter how many Americans think that the Constitution guarantees them the right to own a gun.
But just in a raw sense, the fact that only 74% realize that.
That can't be good news.
And it has to be an indication of the lack of proper education in the country.
This is not whether they agree with it or not.
This is just a survey on whether or not they're permitted to have one.
Seventy-four percent continue to believe, which is really weirdly, we're continue to believe that the Constitution guarantees them the right to own a gun.
That ought to be a hundred percent.
What do you what do you think how the first amendment would pull?
Seventy-four percent of the American people continue to believe the U.S. Constitution gives them the right to free speech.
That would not be good.
And I submit to you it's not good with the second amendment either.
Now let's go back to 1995, shall we?
Eric Holder, way back in 1995, speaking at the Woman's National Democratic Club.
He was a U.S. attorney back in 1995.
That is a long time ago, folks.
We're talking 17 years ago.
Eric Holder is now the Attorney General.
Here's what he said 17, almost 18 years ago.
We need to do is change the way in which people think about guns, especially young people, and make it something that's not cool, that it's not acceptable.
It's not hip to carry a gun anymore.
In the way in which we've changed our attitudes about cigarettes.
We need to do this every day of the week and just really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way.
Damn Second Amendment.
Damn it.
Damn the NRA.
Damn them.
So we have to brainwash people.
Just like we did with cigarettes.
And that was very successful, by the way.
That was so successful that people 200 feet away in a hermetically sealed apartment claim they can smell cigarette smoke in another hermetically sealed apartment, 200 feet away.
So brainwash the American people 18 years ago.
Here's Biden today talking about the president, the cabinet, the czars considering executive orders, executive action.
So make no mistake, they are planning a gun grab.
And I don't think that they have any qualms with us knowing that that's what they're thinking.
Biden's not hiding it.
It's all over the media.
And by the way, the media's all for it.
There are many lessons people can learn about the left.
One of the key lessons is they never give anything up.
Once they begin a quest, they don't stop until they've got it.
The other thing that you need to learn is they're never happy even after they succeed.
They are never happy because there can never be enough to satisfy them.
They can get everything they want, and it isn't enough.
They always want more.
Now, I was sent uh a note here by an audience member from the right scoop.com.
CNN exposes the hypocrisy of dingy Harry on gun control.
Apparently, Obamacare prohibits the feds from collecting any information on lawful gun owners thanks to dingy Harry.
Harry Reid apparently added a provision to Obamacare to protect gun owners from the federal government collecting information on them in order to keep the NRA off of his back and to woo Second Amendment voters in his state in 2010 when he was running for re-election.
So two years, three years ago, Dingy Harry running for re-election in order to keep the NRA off his back, added a provision to Obamacare to protect gun owners from the feds collecting information on them.
And even in 2012, in the midst of the presidential elections, Reed did not want to talk about gun control after what happened in Aurora, Colorado.
Now, fast forward to today, and there's a CNN transcript I have here in which they're uh talking of Dingy Harry, and his staff says that his stance on gun control is evolving, that he's in a different place than he was in 2010.
So obviously he's been reached, and he got re-elected in 2010.
He doesn't have to run for four more years, so now he can afford to change his mind.
But as we sit here, there are restrictions in Obamacare that prohibit the feds from collecting any info on lawful gun owners, which would also include grabbing their guns.
But we also know that that doesn't matter.
There are immigration laws that Obama has simply overruled with executive orders.
And any number.
Let me grab a quick phone call here before we go to the break.
It's Casey in Seattle.
Thanks so much for waiting.
I appreciate your patience.
Oh, yes.
Hi, Rush.
Hey.
Yeah.
Long time listener.
Uh, yeah, um, I'm calling because of uh uh article that you read about RG3 uh blowing out his knee in Washington in the game against the Seahawks.
And I was wondering if the uh sports reporter there happened to mention that uh Chris Clemens of the Seattle Seahawks, he blew his ACL out as well during the game.
That's a fascinating point, and I'm glad you called.
Let me reset the table.
Cortland Malloy is not, by the way, just so you know, a sports writer.
Cortland, I don't think, I think I've seen his name on the editorial pages, a columnist, and it may be sports.
Um, not sure, but I something says he's not just a sports report.
Anyway.
Yeah, he had a piece today saying the reason RG3 blew out his knee and a reason the Redskins lose is because of bad karma due to the fact that Redskins is racist.
It's derogatory to Native Americans and so forth.
And so what Casey from Seattle here wants to know you have a gives it defensive tackle, right?
Yeah.
Great defensive tackle, part of Blew out his knee.
Yep.
He blew out his knee on the same raspy Redskins field.
Yeah, well, he's out for the playoffs.
There's the Seahawks band.
There's the answer to your question.
Yeah.
It was the field, the rotten Redskins field that caused Clemens to blow out his knee.
And why do the Redskins have a rotten lousy field?
Bad karma.
Because they are using a racist mascot name, Redskins.
Yep, that's it.
That well, that's that I mean, if you if you want to follow it through, anything bad that happened for anybody in Washington on Sunday night in that football game, Sunday afternoon, is because of the bad karma associated with the Redskins name.
That field was in bad shape.
The Seahawks went out there, I forget which player.
A Seahawks player took his iPhone out during the pregame and shot a video of the field, and it did look bad.
And the Redskin player said, This is horrible.
This is this field is going to be gone during the pregame.
The pregame's gonna chew it up.
And uh so now, by the way, speaking of that, there is now in the sports writer community, there is a push for federal control over football fields.
The league has a rule that the head of playing surfaces must certify every field 72 hours prior to every game.
That rule does exist.
Sports writers are convinced that nobody's paying any attention to it.
The rule isn't being enforced, otherwise, something would have been done about FedEx field.
And so naturally the solution being called for is federal control.
If the owners won't do it, if the owners don't care enough about their own players, if the owners are willing to spend all this money on other things and raise all this money, but not spend it, I mean, a quality first-class field ought to be demanded and part of the expectation of every NFL game.
The best field possible.
And if the owners don't care enough to protect their players, don't care about their players' knees, injuries, or what have you, then we got to get the federal government involved.
Sports writer community.
It's the solution to everything, folks.
The solution to every problem is get a federal task force, a federal commission, a federal committee, federal safeguards, what have you.
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Washington National Cathedral.
This is where the nation gathers to mourn tragedies, funerals for great leaders, celebrate new presidents.
The Washington National Cathedral will soon begin performing same-sex marriages.
Cathedral officials tell the Associated Press that the church will be among the first episcopal congregations To implement a new right of marriage for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender members.
The church will announce its new policy today.
And they celebrate at TMZ, ENET Network, Hollywood, and the low information voter clusters.
It's great news and a great day, and that is for many people the big news of the day.
That the Washington National Cathedral will now perform gay marriages.
Here is Bill, East Pennsylvania.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking the call.
You bet, sir.
I just wanted to say that I think the obvious comeback for doctors and other caregivers to the idea of working nonprofit would be that they be excused from paying off the loans that they accrued from getting their education.
Um interesting point.
Doctors accrue a lot of debt in their education.
And so if doctors are not going to be permitted to earn any money practicing medicine, they should be exempt from paying off their student loans.
By the way, what what about this?
If if if if we're going to take the profit motive out of medicine, why should there be any profit in teaching a young child to learn?
There you go.
Correct.
Why should there be any profit in lecturing students in the process of educating them?
Why should there be any profit for universities?
You realize how many people can't go to school because how much it costs?
You realize how many people choose not to because they don't want to incur the student loan.
Can you imagine how much less a higher education would cost if there were no profit?
Now that's in will will that will somebody ever advance that no?
See, the the education institution in this country is profoundly left, profoundly liberal.
It is loved, adored, and appreciated.
And in fact, when you hear all of the complaints about private sector businesses raising prices, big oil, big pharmaceutical, big retail, and you hear politicians railing against all these price increases, railing against profit, railing against exploitation, railing against obscene profit in the case of big oil.
Tuition goes up every year, and you never hear these politicians or anybody in the media rip the high cost of an education.
What do you hear?
Instead of the high cost being criticized or ripped and the people involved in charging those prices ripped and criticized, we hear of more creative ways to finance the expense.
We look for the federal government to take over the student loan program, making it more affordable, supposedly.
Never once are tuition increases criticized the way big oil, big pharmaceutical, big retail, big food are criticized.
And the reason is that the education system in this country is the province of the left, and it is where they do their indoctrination.
And the people who do it are going to be rewarded for it.
They're going to be paid.
They will never take the profit out of education.
They'll never their own people, the professors, the grad assistants, the teaching assists, they will be paid.
The university professors, presidents, they will be paid.
Everybody involved in education, i.e.
the indoctrination of young liberals will be paid.
And they'll be paid pretty well.
And they'll get tenure.
Can't fire them.
And nobody will ever complain about it.
But let a CEO at Big Oil have a golden parachute, and all hell will break loose.
So they protect their own.
And they ensure that their own get paid.
The stimulus bill, the first massive, almost trillion dollar stimulus of Obama in 2009, You know where most of it went?
Teachers.
Teachers' Unions.
Most of the in in Wisconsin, 75% of the stimulus that Wisconsin got went to public sector employees and primarily teachers.
Now there are a bunch of reasons for this.
One is the money laundering scheme that is public sector unions and their relationship to the Democrat Party.
And the way it works is very simple.
You have public sector unions and the union members pay dues.
The dues are collected by union leaders, and the dues are what fund Democrat campaigns.
The dues fund campaign ads, campaign donations.
But there aren't any dues if the teacher doesn't work.
So we had an economy where unemployment was skyrocketing.
The stimulus was to ensure that dues paying union members were not laid off.
So that the money laundering scheme could continue.
The vast majority of the stimulus money went to teachers and other public sector union jobs.
It didn't go to creating work on roads, bridges, repairs, private sector jobs.
It was simply a money crab.
Presented to the country under false pretense.
It was a way for Obama to write the Democrat Party a check for $787 billion.
So the point being, when they assault profit in health care, when they assault profit everywhere in the private sector, which they're doing, they will not assault profit in education.
They will not assault profit that reg that results in anybody in education being paid a very high wage.
They will protect their own because they know that the education system is what is enabling them to advance their agenda relatively easily all across the country.
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and Okay, so the profit motive, if you're just joining us, I made a prediction last year that it wouldn't be long before the left started attacking the profit in health care under the theory, the belief that it's immoral for there to be profit taking in curing people who are sick.
Why should somebody get rich making somebody else well?
Why should anybody profit from the illness of a fellow citizen?
Why should that happen?
And right on cue, the New York Times with a story today raising that very premise and quoting people talking about how immoral it is.
And they even say in the New York Times story that nonprofit hospitals do better.
That there is a higher death rate, mortality rate in for-profit hospitals because they turn people away who can't pay, and the nonprofits, they're just wonderful people, and they treat everybody.
And they have a lower death rate.
And so the push is on for celebrating nonprofits.
And you know, there really is no such thing as a nonprofit.
All a nonprofit is is an organization that claims on its books at the end of every year it didn't make any money.
But the people that work at nonprofits score like bandits.
I would think if they're going to be honest, a nonprofit, nobody should make anything.
They should be reimbursed for the expenses involved, and that's it.
But the people that run nonprofits earn lots of money.
They have nice new buildings.
They have cars, they have expense allowances.
This nonprofit is once again, the low information voter thinks nonprofit are people sacrificing for the common good, and they're not burning any money and they're not getting rich.
Why do so many people want to go into them?
I give an example Of a nonprofit.
You know what nonprofits don't pay taxes.
The Harvard endowment is a nonprofit.
They claim to be.
The Harvard endowment makes about $10 billion in profit every year.
They don't pay a penny in taxes.
Some people say that Harvard is the ultimate hedge fund.
But Harvard has uh has had a pretty good year.
They're returning a 21% return on their investments.
It has an endowment of about 40 billion dollars.
That's that's what's invested.
People donate to Harvard, it goes to the Harvard endowment.
It's there for a rainy day.
And when the rainy day comes, they never spend it.
They ask for a federal bailout or they ask for more donations.
And a lot of nonprofits are that way.
They have this big pool of money for a rainy day when the economy goes town uh south or whatever, but they never spend it.
So Harvard, they have a return on their investment.
The endowment is invested, it returns 21%, $10 billion in profit, no taxes on it.
And I guarantee you the people that work at the Harvard Endowment make a lot of money.
Now here we are with the New York Times today, nonprofits.
They are morally superior.
They don't exploit people.
They don't they don't earn a profit on the misery of others like doctors do and hospitals do, and don't forget Obama accusing doctors of performing needless surgeries and amputations just to charge more.
He did that in 2000 uh 2009.
It won't be long.
We're gonna see bumper stickers.
Profit kills.
Mark my words.
And you know where it's going to happen next?
In fact, I'm surprised it didn't happen here first.
I when I predicted that profit would be attacked in health care, I also said that profit would be attacked in food.
Everybody has to eat.
That isn't an option.
Sometimes going to the doctor, not getting treated for common.
That's an option.
But everybody has to eat to survive.
You have to eat to live.
Well, if that's the case, why should anybody profit on that?
That's something we have no choice over.
We have to eat.
Why should there be profit in it?
Why shouldn't the people who provide food or work in that industry just provide it for what it costs them?
That would be the compassionate thing.
That would be the understanding thing.
Why rip people off?
Why exploit, which is what profit is.
Profit is exploitative.
And that takes me back to Harold Myers in the Washington Post.
He's all upset at Obama's fiscal cliff avoidance bill, where supposedly the rich got a tax increase.
Myerson properly points out, no, no, no, no.
The real rich didn't.
The asset rich don't have any income, therefore they don't pay any income taxes.
The real rich live off of profits.
Capital gains.
A capital gain's a profit on an investment.
And that is not taxed hardly at all compared to income.
Left is never happy.
Who's next?
Curtis, West Jefferson, Ohio.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Russ, glad to speak to you again.
Thank you, sir.
It's an honor to talk to you.
My comments on what you just finished talking about profits.
Uh, you know, doctors making a profit.
Well, you know, they spent the money to hit the education.
They uh you chose that profession to ply, you know, to make their way through the world.
I mean, why should a plumber make a profit then?
I mean, they're what they do is you know, it's uh life-threatening if they let septic tank back up and all that stuff come up in your yard and it makes terrible pests, and somebody could die.
You know, why should they make the profit because they're unionized and unions are protected, and unions are the result of profit seekers.
Unions are the way the average guy gets even with evil corporateers.
The unions are are God sends.
The unions have a special status because they represent the rising up of the average man against the evil corporateers and profiteers.
Well, I don't quite have a lot of people.
And so the plumber or the union guy is simply getting even with the evil management people and the owners.
And that's why they are protected.
Well, I just I don't see the difference between, you know, like I say, even a mechanic.
Your car gets wobbly front end, you can die.
You could crash and die.
Why should we why should a mechanic make a profit?
They're not union.
Well, um, I'm there the once this ball gets fully rolling, you're gonna have people asking these kinds of questions.
I truly believe I'm not gonna do it.
Until it affects them.
Until it affects them, and then they're gonna want an uh an exemption.
Well, I I've been I don't work for a union now, but I've been in two different unions, uh three different ones, as a matter of fact, throughout my lifetime, and I don't see where they helped me at all.
I ended up kicked to the curb with three hundred and fifty other people.
Well, lost my income because of union.
They may not have helped you.
That's that really uh isn't the point.
The point is what the union represents image-wise, brand-wise to the left.
The union, not the individual union member, the union itself, and I guess it it it this might descend to the union member, but the union represents the rising up of the exploited common man,
the hoy pull loy, and after being exploited and used and taken advantage of and underpaid, overworked, the union represents triumphing over evil greed.
And therefore, whatever the unions end up with is moral.
Whatever the unions end up with is justified, and the union the left is going to protect itself.
The left is never going to subject itself uh to to these cockamamy theories, just like uh just like in education.
But the real point of this, folks, is that all of these things and say these are being taught.
Your kids are going to school and they're hearing this.
Your kids are growing up thinking this.
And all it means, or what it means is that they're simply much more easily reached as future Democrat voters, as future believers in the moral superiority of government,
of command and control economies, of central planning, making sure everything's fair, making sure everything is equal and just all of this is not really oriented toward anything other than the never-ending expansion of government and government power, and of course the people in it.
Now take a break.
We'll be back.
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Hello, James.
It's great to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Rush, it's a pleasure talking to you.
Um, yeah, what my comment was is that I used to work for uh uh one of the largest orthopedic companies in the world out in New Mexico, and one of the quote unquote nonprofit hospitals one year made more money than the for-profit company.
And what it basically boils down to is the only thing that's nonprofit about a nonprofit hospital is that they don't pay taxes.
They don't try to take deductions, they don't do anything.
CEOs get paid big bonuses for hitting the process.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Exactly right.
What happened at the end of the year, the books balance and there's no profit.
They're not allowed to make profit, therefore they pay no taxes.
But the people that work at them do pretty well.
Particularly the people that run them do extremely well.
Nonprofits are rising in popularity, growing in popularity.
In fact, take a stroll to your nearby college campus and just grab a random student.
Ask them, what do you want to do?
Why are you here?
And I guarantee you, you'll be surprised at the number of them who tell you they want to go to work for a nonprofit.
Now, as far as a student's concerned, the reason they want to go for a nonprofit is because there's morality there.
There's no profit.
There's just good works.
It's nothing but compassion.
It's nothing but people who care.
There aren't any concerns about people making money.
There is no exploitation.
There's no ripping people off.
It's just it's it it's just it's clean.
And it's really compassionate.
And that's how nonprofits are sold, morally superior to people engaged in profit.
But the people who work at nonprofits, I mean, what do they do?
They go out, raise money, they sell things, they ask for donations.
They live off of other people.
They live quite well off of other people, in fact.
They spend much more than they take in.
It's just that they expense it all on their taxes, and they I mean, they file, they have to file for 501c3 or whatever the form is for nonprofit, and they just uh they're not allowed to be involved in politics, even though they are, they're not allowed to do a lot of things, make profit, but they do.
But he's exactly right.
The people that work for them make big money, and they drive nice cars and they have nice houses.
You gotta spend the money somewhere.
You can't show a profit at the end of the year, no matter what you raise.
So you have to spend so everything is an expense.
A salary is an expense, uh whatever accrues to people.
It can be, not all of them are, but it can be a pretty nice scam.
But they sell themselves on the notion that they're morally superior, that they're not oriented toward money, that they're not doing what they do to earn money.
They really care about social justice and a level playing field and helping the poor, they really care.
And that's why they're attractive to young skulls full of mush, to the audio sound bites, and uh a little low information news here.
Last night, Monday night actually on Nightline.
Barbara Walters was on nightline and she interviewed the singer and American Idol judge Mariah Carey about the feud that she is having with Nikki Monaj.
Here's how that went.
She said that when Nikki walked off the set, multiple people heard Nikki say, if I had a gun, I would shoot that effing bitch.
Did you take what she said seriously?
It felt like an unsafe work environment.
Anytime anybody's reeling threats at somebody, you know, that's just it's not appropriate.
I mean, I've got two babies, I'm not gonna take any chances.
So yeah, I did hire more security.
You believe this?
Barbara Walters.
She used to interview presidents.
She once asked Jimmy Carr Carter what kind of tree he would be.
She used to do serious stuff.
And I guess she still does.
She had Mariah Carey on, is asking her about Nicky Monaj, who said of Mariah Carey, if I had a gun, I would shoot the effing bitch.
Barbara Walters actually said that on Nightline.
And you heard Mariah Carey, she's scared to death.
She had to go hire more security.
You imagine the nightline viewers watching this.
They had to be literally outraged at Nicki Monaj.
That's after they're get ticked off at the Republicans and Bush.
Then they got really mad at Nicki Monaj.
But Barbara Walters wasn't through talking about this with Mariah Carey.
Nikki recently released a song.
It's called Hell Yeah, it's about American Idol.
And she says, I'm quick to check a bitch if she is out of line.
Are you the bitch she's singing about?
Don't know.
Don't know what she's saying.
I didn't know she sang.
I thought she rapped.
Whatever.
Do you think this fight is detracting from American Idol?
I think it's a classic, classy show, and it didn't need this.
I really think it was just a crass moment.
It is outrageous, isn't it?
What's happening to American Idol?
Can you believe?
I mean, that's the side issue here, but folks.
Such a wonderful family-oriented tradition is American Idol is now descended to this, with Nicki Minaj calling Mariah Carey a bitch and threatening to shoot her.
And Barbara Walters being brought into this to sort of get to the bottom of it.
Because America wants to know.
America must know.
America must get to the bottom of this.
What's happening on American Idol?
What's happened to American Idol?
Nicki Minaj.
That's right.
She doesn't sing, she raps.
Hey, welcome back.
By the way, Mariah Carey said she had to beef up her security after Nicki Minaj called her an effing bitch and threatened to shoot her.
Do you think that increased security had guns?
You think Mariah Carey's added security was armed?
And did you hear about the blowout between Carmelo Anthony and Kevin Garnett?
Kevin Garnett plays for the Celtics, Carmelo Anthony for the Knicks, Dawn.
And all during the game on Monday night, trash talking, and Garnett was really insulting Mello, but nobody knew why.
After the game, Carmelo Anthony went over to the Celtics locker room at Madison Square Garden, stood by the bus waiting for Garnett to come out.
It turns out that Garnett was taunting Carmelo Anthony during the game, telling him that his wife Lala tastes like honey nut Cheerios.
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