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Jan. 9, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 9, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #3
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I mean, you have to admit, they're just they're just certain things that one man doesn't say to another man, and you just you don't say your wife tastes like honeynut cheerios.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome back, L. Rushbow here on the Excellence and Broadcasting Network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, telephone number 800 28282, and the email address L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
Yesterday, we happen to tell you about an upcoming uh new television show on the Oxygen Network called All My Baby's Mamas.
Uh All My Baby's Mamas follows a uh uh uh uh rapper.
His name is Shorty Lowe, and the eleven children that he has fathered with ten different women.
And it was going to start a sometime in the uh in in the spring.
It was highly touted.
Uh a lot of anticipation.
But apparently, Advocacy Group, uh Parents Television Council has this week turned its attention to this show.
Uh All My Baby's Mamas, and they're trying to get this thing uh canceled.
They have a statement here, Hollywood doesn't think that there's such a thing as too low, so it'll continue to find even more base material, said the director for public policy at the Parents Television Council.
The premise of this show is crass, it's irresponsible, and it's exploitative.
The oxygen network should be more responsible, and yes, we will hold advertisers publicly accountable for their sponsorship of the program.
Now the network has no intention of backing away from this.
The oxygen network says that they're gonna go ahead with this.
Oxygen's one hour special in development is not meant to be.
A stereotypical representation of everyday life for any one demographic or cross section of society, they said in a statement.
Our show is a look at one unique family and their complicated, intertwined life.
Oxygen Media's diverse team of creative executives will continue developing the show with this point of view.
So they're not folding on this.
The Parents Television Council tried to dump all kinds of societal pressure on them, and Oxygen basically blew them off.
Said, look at we have a show here, All My Babies Mamas.
It features a rapper in Atlanta, by the way, who has fathered eleven children with ten different women.
I think that beats Antonio Cromarty of the New York Jets.
Remember, he couldn't name all of his kids one night on Monday Night Football.
He didn't know their names and in all their names.
And I think he's got eight kids with five women, something like that.
But this rapper, Shawty Lowe, S-H-A-W-T-Y, Shawty Lowe, eleven children, ten different women, and they're gonna follow this guy around in Atlanta on all my babies' mamas.
And Oxygen, in defending the show, again said, Look, our show's not meant to be a stereotypical representation of everyday life for any one demographic or cross-section.
This is just one family, and it's very complicated, and it's unique, and it's intertwined, and we're gonna follow them around.
And we're gonna show America what this family's life is like.
This is realville.
They're not backing off of this.
I didn't I I'm surprised I'm surprised people would think they would back off of this.
If you look at the illegitimacy rates in the country, if you look at the percentage of single mother households, this thing's gonna have a huge audience.
Sadly, this has become a lifestyle to be.
Well, I don't know if it's admired, but clearly these people are going to become famous.
And they're going to Become all kinds of other things.
Sympathetic, admired.
How do you think this family's going to be presented?
You think this network is going to frown on any of this?
This network's going to build them up.
Talk about the challenges they conquer each and every day.
Talk about how tough life is in America.
And what they do to meet those challenges.
And there'll be interviews.
And we'll be sympathizing with, well, those who watch will be sympathizing.
But as I say, why would oxygen back off?
They know who their audience is.
If you look at the again, I'm just going to tell you the illegitimacy rate and the percentage of single mother households.
How how how many of these types of families are there?
How many families are there where some guy has multiple kids with multiple women?
Oxygen is obviously thinking that there's a sizable audience to be reached here.
And they are probably right.
And now oxygen is acting offended that anybody would be upset with this.
And that's how they're trying to cover it all up.
They're acting offended, which is an interesting study on how to react if somebody accuses you of having ill-gotten intentions or ill intentions.
But I tell you what's going to happen here, folks.
I mean, this is the new reality.
This is going to be a lifestyle to be admired when this program is over.
When they finish following Shawty Lowe around Atlanta with his eleven kids and ten different mothers, it will end up being a lifespan to be admired.
Why else would they do this?
You think oxygen's going to condemn this?
In the midst of do you think shorty low, the rapper here would agree to do this if he's going to be creamed?
He's going to be a bigger star.
He's going to become an answer on game shows, a question on Jeopardy.
Never know.
Sky is the limit.
TMZ will make a big deal out of the guy.
He'll have enough money to buy a house to put all these people in it, and that will make the National Inquirer.
And it'd be pictures of the house and the interior and all the bedrooms or all the mothers and the kids are going to live and all the cars and all the garages.
And the oxygen network is going to reap huge profit.
Bad word.
Oxygen will they will be acclaimed for having guts and courage to break new ground in television programming.
Now I mentioned, ladies and gentlemen, at the top of the program that I had a New Year's resolution I didn't tell anybody about.
And it was to become less known, lower profile, not as high profile.
And I don't think it's working.
I mean, it did for a while, but I was probably the number one subject discussed outside of normal everyday news events on CNN yesterday.
One was Ali Velshe, their economics wizard firing back at me for calling him a low information reporter on the debt limit deal.
And uh I also simply quoted from a story in the UK Guardian, which is a mainstream liberal newspaper in the UK.
It's not a fringe publication, it's not a weekly, it's not a tabloid, not a supermarket, it is a daily mainstream UK publication.
And they had a story about the normalization of pedophilia.
And they had quotes from study survey people that did it, and they had quotes from academics, and they said that pedophilia is it ought to be seen for what it is.
It's just a new and different sexual orientation.
And it is not harmful.
In fact, if the kids are treated openly upfront and honestly in it, it can actually benefit them because love is love, and wherever you find it's good.
So I made mention of this.
And I also talked about homosexuality as part of it.
Because I asked you, because I knew as I was telling you this, you're sitting out there saying, Oh, come on, this is never gonna.
this is ridiculous.
What kind of perversion is this?
And I asked you to remember exactly what your first thoughts were when you were first hit with the idea of gay marriage, and you probably thought, oh, that'll never happen.
Oh, that's that's so out of the mainstream, that'll never happen.
And now it's commonplace, normal, and is now taking place and will in the National Cathedral.
They're going to perform gay marriage there.
So and it is going to become something that happens in all 50 states.
It will happen.
So because of that, CNN saw fit to get righteously indignant and outraged.
And Soledad O'Brien convened a panel to discuss this and to poo-poo me and it.
It happened a day, actually, CNN's starting point.
Uh and the uh we have a portion here of Christine Romans, the business reporter, who got all of this started.
Rush Limbaugh is speaking out against what he calls a liberal attempt to normalize pedophilia.
The conservative radio host says it could be the next step for those who support gay marriage.
Limbaugh cited a column in the UK's Guardian newspaper that quotes academic researchers who claim pedophilia is a distinct sexual orientation.
And Limbaugh says the media went easy on Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash, who lost his job on Sesame Street after several men came forward saying they had sexual relationships with Clash when they were teenagers.
Now, that's the setup.
They used their business reporterette to set it up.
And I'm sure you heard the sigh in the Senate.
Rush Limbaugh speaking out against what he calls a liberal attempt to normalize pedophilia.
And then she went on.
And then everything she said happened to be true.
The conservative radio host says it could be the next step for those that support gay marriage, because that's what the story says.
Limbaugh cited a column in the UK Guardian newspaper.
Yep, I did.
That quotes academic researchers.
It does, who claim pedophilia is a distinct sexual orientation.
They do.
I didn't make any of this up.
I didn't make up a syllable of it.
And we linked to this story at Rush Limbaugh.com if you wanted to read it yourself.
And then I pointed out that the media went easy on the Elmo puppeteer, Kevin Clash, who lost his job on Sesame Street after what a minimum three men came forward saying that he had abused them on the show when they were teenagers.
And I pointed out that story didn't get much attention.
In fact, as each new instance was reported, there was sadness.
Oh, it's so sad that this had to happen on Sesame Street and not on some evangelist preacher's show.
But there wasn't any outrage about it.
So that's the setup.
But everything they say happened.
What got their goat is that I was the one who said it.
If this had been discussed by Anderson Cooper, then they would celebrate Anderson Cooper.
And if Anderson Cooper had done exactly what I did and talked about it in the way that just quoted the Guardian, they would have talked about it as revolutionary new news or what have you.
But because I brought it, and why are they upset that it is I who brought it up?
Because they think and they worry that I'm effective in persuading people.
So after Christine Romans, the business reporterette does that setup, then we had a discussion with Soledad O'Brien.
She had the Obama campaign traveling press secretary, Jen Saki, a New Yorker magazine correspondent Ryan Lizza, to talk about this.
Why is he talking about pedophilia?
It's not exactly like there's a massive movement talking about pedophilia or normalizing pedophilia.
Right, exactly.
Yeah, it seems to me the movement here is to equate pedophilia in some way with marriage.
That's what he's up to here.
Right.
Which is absurd.
We are trying to understand the mind of Rush Limbaugh this morning, which is a hard thing to break into.
Well, it's not that hard to figure out, you guys.
Uh the politico, by the way, also had a a piece that ragged on me for comparing the increasing acceptance of pedophilia.
That's why it's not my fault.
The UK Guardian is one of these people's favorite newspapers.
It's a left-wing publication.
In the UK, they're the ones that did the story on the normalization of pedophilia.
They're the ones that went out and found academics to say that it's just another sexual orientation.
They are the ones that did the story and how it can actually be helpful for children.
I just told you about it.
All I did was tell you what was it.
I didn't write it.
I didn't conceive it.
Pedophilia wasn't even on my mind until I started doing the show prep for yesterday's program and saw it.
Now the Guardian article itself makes a very similar comparison.
The Guardian quoted the person in charge of one of the pedophilia studies.
Her name is Sarah Good, G-O-O-D-E.
Here's the quote.
The reclassification of pedophilia as a sexual orientation would, however, play into what good calls the sexual liberation discourse, which has existed since the 70s.
There are a lot of people, she says, who say we outlawed homosexuality and we were wrong.
Perhaps we're wrong about pedophilia.
She made the connection to gays.
The story makes the connection to gays.
I didn't compare pedophilia to gay marriage.
All I said was to those of you who are hearing this, i.e., pedophilia is normal, realize that it's an illiberal publication and it's an advocacy story.
They're advocating for it here.
Or that the people they quote are, it's the purpose of the study.
I didn't make any of this up.
There are people advocating for classifying pedophilia as normal.
They did a study.
A lot of people, the result of the study.
I simply asked you to think what was your first reaction when you heard first about gay marriage.
And I said, uh, you're probably having the same reaction here.
And gay marriage is now standard normal operating procedure.
This could be too.
Once the left gloms onto something, once they have a cause, they don't let go of it.
If you people CNN can't understand my mind, all it means is that I know yours better than you do.
All it means is that I know the liberal mind better than you know it.
I'm not that hard to understand.
I say what I mean.
I don't speak in code.
That's why I am a star and ace communicator.
Everybody knows what I mean when I say it.
So there's one more bite here.
This is Ryan Lizza, and they what they did.
They brought on a senator, Ron Johnson from Wisconsin.
And uh after O'Brien said that bit about trying to understand my mind and what a scary thing that is, they thought they would ask this senator about it.
Senator Rush Limbo on pedophilia, nice easy topic for a senator.
What do you got?
Not gonna happen.
It's like we have no comment on this, so it adds next.
Let's talk about budget.
Let's talk about the budget.
Right.
So uh we did that yesterday as well, too, which CNN also took issue with.
But in my effort here to be to stay low profile and become less high profile, uh doesn't seem it works no matter what I do to try not to get noticed.
All I did was tell you what was in a left-wing newspaper in the U.K. Just read the story.
And they can't figure out what's in my mind.
Let me read you one other thing from this guardian piece here.
Quote Social perceptions do change.
Child brides were once the norm.
In the late 16th century, the age of consent in England was ten.
Which was exactly my point.
Social perceptions do change.
I just happened to use gay marriage as an example.
And that's what really bugged them at CNN because gay marriage is sacrosanct to the drive bys.
Gay marriage is the new escape from slavery for the civil rights crowd for the well, not the civil rights crowd, for the uh the hip left gay marriage is is up from slavery in the in the same sense of punishment or discrimination or what have you.
But and I'll tell you something else in this Guardian piece.
There wasn't one source that they went and spoke to that condemned it.
There wasn't one source in the piece that was critical of pedophilia.
So my mind is not hard to understand is probably one of the easiest in the world if you are honest with yourself.
Okay's Solidan O'Brien CNN who cannot do an interview without crib notes from bloggers she cannot do an interview with somebody opposite her worldview without help wondering about how my mind works.
Now what does it say about these so-called reporters journalists, the best of the best what does it say about these so-called reporters that they couldn't figure out what I was saying when all I was doing was reading from a story from the UK guardian if they couldn't figure that out they probably can't figure out most things maybe what
CNN needs to do is find some people who have comprehension skills this was not hieroglyphics.
I was simply reading from a newspaper article in Great Britain.
Obviously the pro that what as I say their problem is is that I was the one talking about it.
They just have a problem with me which is fine badge of honor and all that stuff but it still is amazing there probably is nobody better at communicating more open about what I really believe and explanatory and why I believe what I believe than I am and yet yeah it's like they got mad at the Magic Nero thing.
All I was doing was quoting from an LA Times story and they acted like I wrote it which is probably what they're doing here.
They think I made all this up or made up half of it anyway it's funny it's hilarious.
It's CNN it's a reason why they've got a hundred thousand viewers because really they've got idiots in positions of prominence over there.
Chuck Hagel David Brooks in the New York Times tells us why Chuck Hagel was picked as Obama's defense secretary it's all about by the way David Brooks is wired into the Obama White House.
David Brooks is the White House favor conservative in the media and Brooks says I'm going to paraphrase him his column yesterday couple days ago now excuse me the reason Obama wanted Chuck Hagel is because Obama wants to dismantle the military to pay for a growing welfare state a la Europe not to save money.
Obama doesn't want to cut defense to save money.
Obama wants to cut defense because he doesn't like it.
To the American left, the American military is the focus of evil in the modern world.
The American left is happy when the American military fails.
It gives them the opportunity.
I talked about this once with Bill Bennett.
It gives them the opportunity to point to the military as a failed institution.
I don't know for as long as I've been alive and I'm sure for the same thing for you you have heard various Democrats presidents members of Congress senators lament all the money we spend on defense and how we could better spend that money on people and social programs And they say it as though we're not spending anything on social programs, that we're not spending anything on education, we're not spending anything on hunger.
We need more.
We need more on hunger, more on education, all this we need to invest stuff.
Well, Obama's gonna do it.
Obama is going to be the first Democrat to actually cut the defense budget.
I shouldn't say cut, dismantle the military.
This is more than cutting the budget.
That's not the right way to put it.
He wants to dismantle the military, just like Western Europe did theirs.
Western Europe was was a actually they can't afford it either, but Western Europe was able to expand their welfare state because they didn't have to spend on their defense.
They had NATO and they had us.
And now there is if Obama succeeds in this, there isn't going to be anybody that will have the ability to project power the way the United States once was, able to do so.
Now, the theory behind Hegel being the choice is that he's a Republican.
Even though he's not that popular among Republicans and even some Democrats, because he's a Republican, it will be easier for Obama to dismantle the military if there is a Republican defense secretary at the time.
That's Brooks's theory.
Now some people disagree with Brooks's theory on the basis that Hegel's not a popular Republican.
That if he found if Obama found a popular Republican to go in here and dismantle a military, that'd be one thing.
I don't think it matters.
The Republicans haven't demonstrated even the desire to stop Obama.
They certainly haven't demonstrated that they have the tactics to do it.
And maybe they can't, but to not even try.
They do have the House of Representatives.
They do have control of the spending.
But for some reason, they're falling back on the idea that all they have is the House, and that's not nearly enough, that they're outnumbered.
So anyway.
David Brooks is making it plain here that the choice of Chuck Hagel is so that a Republican is in charge of defense as the military is dismantled.
Here are a couple of excerpts.
Americans don't particularly like government, but they do want government to subsidize their health care.
They believe that health care spending improves their lives more than any other public good.
In a Quinnipiac poll, typical of many others, Americans opposed any cuts to Medicare by a margin of 70% to 25%.
And of course, now these are people, Brooks, the president, others, who live and die by polls.
You ever noticed how many opinion columns are nothing more than recitations of what polling data says?
And then they analyze it and plug it into whatever the subject is of the column.
Americans don't particularly like government, but they want government to pay for their health care.
They believe that health care spending improved their lives more than any other public good.
And in a democracy, voters get what they want.
So the line tracing the federal health care spending looks like the slope of a jet taking off from an airport.
Medicare spending is set to nearly double over the next decade.
This is crucial element driving all federal spending over the next few decades.
And here Brooks is agreeing with Obama that our deficit is due to health care spending, not any other spending.
Well, they'll throw defense in.
They will say that the budget deficit and the national debt is because we've thrown so many worthless, needless dollars away on defense.
But we got to get our health care spending.
We're not spending too much money anywhere else, is what Obama says.
We're spending money on people, and people want the things we're spending it on, but they do not need a big defense department anymore.
So get a Republican defense secretary to preside over not defense cuts.
This is crucial to understand the distinction.
These are not defense cuts.
I mean they are, but that's not the result of the cuts is the dismantling of the military in order to pay for a growing welfare state.
As the federal government becomes a health care state, there will have to be a generation of defense cuts that overwhelm anything in recent history.
Chuck Hagel has been nominated to supervise the beginning of this generation-long process of dismantling the military.
If a Democrat president is going to slash defense and and and dismantle the military, he probably wants a Republican at the Pentagon for political cover.
As I say, there are a number of wizards of smart who disagree with Brooks on this because they say, well, Hagel's not a popular Republican, so he's not going to give anybody cover.
You know what?
Even Chuck Yu Schumer is worried about Hegel.
Now, Chuck Yu Schumer would love to see the defense budget dismantled.
But Chuck Hugh Schumer also loves Israel.
And Hegel doesn't love Israel.
I don't know that he dislikes Israel, but he's clearly a f he's clearly an undesirable when guys like Chuck Yu Schumer get him from.
So normally Chuck Yu would rubber stamp Hegel because of the dismantling of the military.
But there's the Israeli side of Hegel that they're a little worried about.
So he's not universally and he may not survive the confirmation process.
All that aside, the takeaway is quite simple.
Obama does want to dismantle the military.
He does want a health care state.
And a welfare state, and he wants the money from the defense budget in part to supposedly pay for it.
Okay, West Massachusetts up next in the phones.
This is Jim, great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Russ.
Thanks for taking my call.
Yes.
Hey, I'm an emergency room doc from Western Mass.
Um and uh again, thanks for taking my call and thanks for addressing this issue.
One comment about uh profits in health care.
Um thirteen years to get to where I am today, two hundred and twenty thousand dollars in debt would gladly take a pay cut the day Obama is willing to pony up for my student loans, and when trial lawyers association is willing to back off on the frivolous lawsuits uh and accept tort reform as part of the health care.
Now that is interesting because the Democrat Party will never make a move on the trial lawyers like they will on you.
Never.
In fact, do you know what the regime is actually I've heard this, maybe you know for sure.
I've heard that the regime is forgiving certain doctor student loans if they'll agree to locate in certain places the government wants them to go.
Is that true?
Uh yeah, that is true, but um unfortunately end up working for half the pay at those places.
I did the calculations in the end, it wasn't worth it for me.
Well, I hate to tell you, but you know, you started up by telling us how much your education cost.
Yeah.
Um, there was a time in America where you'd be admired for thirteen years of work and two hundred and twenty thousand dollars that you had to pay back, and you'd be admired because you undertook that because you love it and you want to help people, and you want to make them well and you want to serve your fellow men.
Today, you get no sympathy for that.
And I have to say you know, I I started with nothing but intentions and altruistic intentions and feeling demonized.
And now you have the president of the United States alleging that people like you perform unnecessary procedures for profit.
Well, um unfortunately um I I I take care of a lot of patients on welfare.
I'm happy to do it, but I do it with a gun to my head.
When I make a mistake, I've got a lawyer breathing down my neck.
Yep.
Um, ready to jump on uh me with a frivolous lawsuit.
Hell, even if you don't make a mistake, you run the risk of that.
I know, man.
I I know uh uh I um you you're you're you're not in a protracted protected class.
You're in a target class.
Like a lot of us are.
Then that's what this administration has spawned.
Some are protected, some are targets.
Successful people who are earning are targets.
They're not paying their fair share.
And nobody made you spend that 220.
Nobody made you borrow it.
You want credit.
You want people thinking you're some great guy because you went to this expense and spent all this time.
All you do is profit for making people well.
That's the attitude being conjured about people.
It makes me sick.
Furiates me.
I'm glad you called.
I appreciate it.
Uh Maggie Roundhill, Virginia, hello, and welcome to the EIB network.
Oh, thank you, Rush.
It's such an honor to talk to you.
I've been listening to you for about two decades.
Um I uh I wanted to comment on that new show that they're planning on putting on oxygen that uh Oh, my baby's mamas.
That's the one.
You know, first of all, I find it to be a complete attack on the nuclear family.
Um they're they're degrading family life when they promote this kind of thing.
They're just saying, you know, it's okay to just fornicate with whomever.
And um i you know, i if it's okay to show something like this, where a man has all these women, all these children by all these different women, maybe he has one wife, maybe he has no wife.
Um, then why don't we just do a show on women who have all these children by different men because that happens all the time.
You're missing the point.
All right.
Your insistence on the nuclear family, mom and dad, the two point eight kids and uh white picket fence and the family dog, that's exclusionary.
You are denying people equality.
Family equality.
It's none of your business how people choose to live.
If a guy wants to have ten mothers and eleven kids, none of your business, and we're gonna have a TV show chronicling how this guy does it.
And and he's gonna end up being admired, and you are going to be thought of as a bigot if you continue with this attitude.
Shaughty low, the star of all my babies' mamas says, Don't criticize him.
He has taken care of his family because he's a millionaire.
He used to deal drugs, his own admission.
But don't criticize him.
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