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Jan. 10, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 10, 2013, Thursday, Hour #3
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Folks, did you see this?
David Beckham, bend it like Beckham, big-time soccer star celebrity, 37 years old, back in his underwear again for a new H ⁇ M campaign.
And it's from E Online, a female reporter.
David Beckham back in his underwear again.
Not that we're complaining, she writes.
Guy Ritchie is going to be directing the campaign for David Beckham bodywear at H ⁇ M. David is the perfect leading man, Guy Ritchie said in a statement.
This is more than a campaign, Guy Ritchie said.
This is like directing a short movie.
David Beckham and his underwear.
It's big news at EOnline.
Paris Hilton has weighed in on Kim Kardashian's pregnancy.
Now, you know, you may not know, I know these two are not particularly close.
Paris Hilton, a little jealously.
I mean, Paris Hilton used to be Kim Kardashian.
Then Kim Kardashian came along because he got a bigger butt.
And she edged Paris Hilton out.
But Paris, I mean, they're actually, they're like fierce rivals here, Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian.
But Paris Hilton has told TMZ that she is happy that Kim Kardashian is knocked up with Kanye's baby.
That's what the story says.
TMZ, and it's his exclusive.
Paris Hilton, who is not with child, was on her way into Emerson Nightclub in Hollywood last night.
She was asked how she felt about Kim's being knocked up, and she couldn't be happier.
Couldn't be happier.
By the way, Kobe Bryant's ex-wife has sold a mansion in L.A. for $3.2 million.
It's a 6,000-square-foot home.
It's called a massive mansion.
Kobe Bryant's wife just lost one-third of her real estate portfolio on the loading one of the three Newport Beach mansions that Kobe gave her after they split up in 2011.
This from TMZ.
Well, she didn't actually lose it.
She sold it.
She has the cash equivalent for it now.
Might not have been a bad move.
My question, when did the 6,000 square foot house become a mansion?
What does this guy with 11 kids and 10 mommies live in?
Shawty Low.
Oh, My Baby's Mama's Big Show in Atlanta on the Oxygen Network.
So anyway, and one more, Brittany Spears says that she is not going to be a judge on the X Factor next season, and it's entirely her doing.
She wasn't forced out.
It's entirely her doing.
TMZ claims to have unimpeachable sources that tell them that Brittany Spears loves the show, wants to focus on her music.
So she's off the X Factor.
And it's going to disappoint millions of Americans.
That news right there is going to depress millions of Americans.
So we had to impart it because it's out.
I mean, it's now news.
Britney Spears is no longer on the X Factor.
Let's see.
Let's go to the Andrew Cuomo soundbites.
Andrew, the governor, Mario the Pious, the governor of New York, state of the state speech yesterday in Albany.
And we get three soundbites.
And this was like a Fidel Castro speech.
I mean, it just went on and on and on.
And he was speaking when this show was on yesterday, but he didn't get any of the good stuff until after this show ended.
We have three examples.
We respect hunters and sportsmen.
This is not taking away people's guns.
I own a gun.
I own a Remington shotgun.
I've hunted.
I've shot.
That's not what this is about.
It is about ending the unnecessary risk of high-capacity assault rifles.
That's what this is about.
Oh, oh, okay.
That's what it's about.
Ending the unnecessary risk of high-capacity assault rifles.
That's not what was used at Sandy Hook, though, was it?
The Bushmaster is not a high-capacity assault rifle.
That's a single shot, isn't it?
I could be mistaken.
I'll have to double-check.
But anyway, it's not, see, it's not about taking away your guns.
He loves hunters.
He loves sportsmen.
He owns a gun.
He's got a Remington shotgun.
He's hunted.
He's shot.
That's not what this is about.
It's about ending the unnecessary risk of high-capacity assault rifles.
I know that the issue of gun control is hard.
I know it's political.
I know it's controversial.
But we are proposing today common sense measures.
And I say to you, forget the extremists.
It's simple.
No one hunts with an assault rifle.
No one needs 10 bullets to kill a deer.
And too many innocent people have died already.
And the madness now.
Holy smokes.
It sounds like Hillary Clinton.
Holy cow.
No one needs 10 bullets to kill a deer.
That's amazing.
These people actually want you to think that the Second Amendment is all about hunting and they don't want to take you hunters' guns away from you.
The Second Amendment's not about hunting.
How many bullets are in the clips of Andrew Cuomo's security team?
I wonder.
Here's the next soundbite.
Pass safe, reasonable gun control in the state of New York.
Make this state safer.
Save lives.
Set them an example for the rest of the nation.
Let them look at New York and say, this is what you can do and this is what you should do.
This is New York, the progressive capital.
You show them how we lead.
We can do it.
We've done it before.
We can do it again.
That's a big flourish finale finish from Andrew the Pious.
All about getting rid of 10 bullets to kill a deer.
All about getting rid of high-capacity assault rifles.
We've done it before.
Well, no, no.
He didn't mean on guns.
When he said, we've done it before and we can do it again.
He's talking about advancing liberalism.
That's when he said, this is New York, the progressive capital.
Progressive isn't progressive is in liberalism.
So we'll show them how to lead.
We can do it.
We've done it before.
You know, we've advanced liberal, which he's right about.
They've done that.
New York has shown the way.
Now, the New York Times Headline today, actually, it's a story from yesterday, last night, for Americans under 50, stark findings on health.
Now, folks, here we go.
The New York Times, New York Times story, essentially says here that gun violence is a health issue.
Here's how their story begins.
Younger Americans die earlier and live in poorer health than their counterparts in other developed countries, with far higher rates of death from guns, car accidents, drug addiction, according to a new analysis of health and longevity in the U.S.
378-page study by a panel of experts convened by the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council is the first to systematically compare death rates and health measures for people of all ages, including American youths.
It went further than other studies in documenting the full range of causes of death from diseases to accidents to violence.
The panel called the pattern of higher rates of disease and shorter lives the U.S. health disadvantage.
They said it was responsible for dragging our country to the bottom in terms of life expectancy over the past 30 years.
American men ranked last in life expectancy among the 17 countries in the study.
American women ranked second to last.
And this has nothing to do with illegal immigration, the fact that we keep more accurate stats than most countries.
Car accidents, gun violence, drug overdoses were major contributors.
And so you see, ladies and gentlemen, gun violence is a health issue.
And because of all the gun violence, Americans under 50 are at greater risk than people under 50 in any other country.
In fact, the report suggests, I'm going to read, I'm going to quote from it.
The report suggests cultural factors like individualism and dislike of government interference are playing a role in shortening our life expectancy.
It claims, for instance, that Americans are less likely to wear seatbelts.
They are more likely to ride motorcycles without helmets.
You see?
You see, it's our American individualism and dislike of government that's killing us.
It is our quest for freedom, our desire to be free of the shackles of an oppressive government that's killing us.
Because we're not listening to government, which is only interested in saving our lives.
We don't want any part of it.
And as a result, we're dying at a faster rate than anybody else anywhere in the world.
That's what the report says.
And it's all because of cultural factors like individual.
Folks, this is brazen.
And again, I have to make clear, everybody that is an eager, purposeful subscriber to the New York Times is going to believe this.
They will not question.
This is pure sophistry.
This is out and out BS.
The very idea that a quest for individuality, individualism, and a desire to be left alone by government shortens your life.
There is, and we are living in it, the biggest, most oppressive, full court press to subjugate every citizen to government that I have ever seen in my life.
This is not even media.
Yes, the story appears in the New York Times, but this isn't news.
And these people are not even journalists.
They're not media.
These are propagandists.
These are these reporters.
This is Sabrina Tavernese, the authorette here, but she's not a journalist.
She thinks she is.
But this is the advancement of an agenda.
This is written by a member of the Democrat Party or whatever club, but it is what it is.
It's not journalism.
It's not news.
It's advocacy.
And it can't possibly be true either.
There's that little problem with it.
Rugged individualism shortens your life.
A desire to be free, unshackled from an oppressive government, shortens your life.
But millions of Americans are going to read this.
Millions of Americans are going to believe it.
Millions of Americans are going to believe that to prolong their life, in addition to stopping smoking and whatever other pop culture thing of the day is to never die, now they'll agree to give up their freedom.
Now they'll agree, don't be an individual.
Whatever the group does, do it.
Whatever the zeitgeist is of the day, fall in line.
Spirit of the times.
Whatever your government says, do it.
If your mayor says 32-ounce soft drinks will kill you, don't drink them.
Don't even question it.
It's insidious.
You know what's at the root of this?
At the root of this, and this is really obvious, at the root of this is something I've said countless times over the many years of this broadcast, and that is an arrogant condescension and a contempt for people.
This Sabrina Tavernese, by advocating the results of this study, is pushing the notion that you don't know what's good for you, that you can't take care of yourself on your own.
You all need to be like Julia in that Obama campaign cartoon.
Your life needs to be guided, directed, and sheltered at every step of your life by your government.
Now, some might say, well, why do they care so much?
It's about power.
If you don't have a desire to exhibit power over people, you're going to have a hard time understanding these people.
But that's what it is.
It's couched in altruism.
It is couched in compassion, but that's not what this is.
This is a desire to control everybody, keep everybody in line so that there is no opposition.
There is also this belief, and this is a key fundamental aspect of this, and I think a crucial point in understanding progressives and the left.
As they gaze out over the country, they do not see goodness.
They do not trust that there is inherent goodness in individuals or in groups of people.
They believe that people are not good.
And that's why they must be controlled.
That's why they must have restrictions on their normal inclinations in terms of their behavior, because they do not trust the inherent goodness and decency of people.
They look at people in just the opposite way.
People are liars, cheats, and will steal from other people.
They will kill other people.
They will purposely maim other people.
They will take things that are not theirs from other people.
Government must step in and protect people from all of this evil that's out there.
And this runs counter to what everybody thinks of liberalism.
Everything is liberalism is couched in compassion and love and tolerance, and it's the exact opposite.
It's intolerance, and it is a contemptible view of humanity.
And you can see it everywhere.
Who's destroying the planet?
Us.
Not any other mammal, not any other animal, not any other organism, human beings.
Extreme liberals in the environmentalist wacko movement have actually advocated getting rid of people in order to save the planet.
Humanity is the problem.
We've chronicled that for you over the course of the 25 years or so of this program.
They do not believe in the inherent decency of people.
And as such, they don't trust people.
And the editorial board of the New York Times, this writer, the people that did this study, you who joined the NRA, those of you who do not agree with abortion, those of you who are opposed to amnesty for illegal air, you are not to be trusted.
You are a problem.
You are held in contempt.
You don't know what's best for you, and you don't know what's best for society, and you don't know what's best for country, and that's why you must be legislated or controlled with laws or what have you.
Guns.
You are not decent enough to have them responsibly.
You are not good enough in the sense of character to have a gun.
You will kill people with your gun.
You will kill children with your guns.
And regardless how infrequently it happens, whenever it does happen, a mass shooting such as at Sandy Hook, it is portrayed as something that is either common or increasing in frequency and is used as another example to deny you freedom because, see, this is what happens when we let people behave on their own.
This is what happens.
It's what they do.
They kill kids.
This is how the left looks at you.
And we are going to the phones.
Just a couple things.
Two quick quotes.
Just to illustrate what I was talking about.
Charles de Gaulle, a former prime minister of France, said something once that is really pithy.
He said, to become the master, the politician pretends to be the servant.
Does that not aptly describe so many politicians?
They're just serving your needs.
That's how they become your master.
C.S. Lewis, a brilliant man and writer, of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive tyranny.
Tyranny of guns.
Yes, we've got to get rid of guns for the good of people.
Tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive, right?
New York Times, it's amazing.
Cultural factors like individualism and dislike of government interference are playing a role in shortening your life.
That is as insulting to my intelligence as anything could be.
All right, Fitzburg Main, as we head back to the phones, it's Liz, and I'm glad to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Raj.
I'm calling in reference to something you were talking about in your first hour with the Community Reinvestment Act and the federal regulations forcing banks to make risky loans.
Yeah, let me repeat this just briefly for a second because it was the first hour and some welfare recipients have just probably gotten up in the last hour and listening now.
For the first time, for the first time, federal regulators are writing regulations and laws telling lenders who they must lend to, meaning that people have to be able to prove they can pay back the loan.
For the first time, they're doing this.
This was the news.
And the interpretation is that this is tantamount and admission.
Federal regulators, for the first time, are laying out rules aimed at ensuring that mortgage borrowers can afford to repay the loans they take out.
Now, my point about this was, and I'm sure most of you have had to prove countless ways you can pay it back.
And you're saying, well, whoa, whoa, wait a minute.
The rules already exist.
Not for the people that we're talking about.
Subprime people were never made to prove.
In fact, there were people that everybody knew couldn't pay it back, and they were given the loans anyway.
So I wanted to set that up so people knew what you were talking about.
Right.
Well, I have a true anecdotal story.
In the 90s, under the Clinton years, they were really ramming that through with forcing banks to make these loans.
And my husband was the general counsel of a small regional bank in Virginia.
And the feds came in and pulled three files that they had rejected for mortgages and were sort of putting them all out on a table and asking them, why did you reject this and whatnot?
The one loan, the woman stated her monthly income would be $15 more than what her mortgage payment would be.
And the bankers kind of shrugged their shoulders and looked at the regulator and said, well, that's why we rejected it.
And the regulator, I quote, said, you were making a lifestyle choice for her.
And the bank was fined, and they were reprimanded in that they were not allowed to make a friendly merger for a period of, I think, about nine months.
Folks, I hope you heard what she said because this is exactly what was happening.
The banks were being forced, therefore, to make loans to people who couldn't pay it back.
The federal regulators are coming and threatening the banks.
Janet Reno was threatening with further investigations.
Here they were denied friendly mergers.
They were forced to make the loan.
A woman said, my take-home pay is $15 a month more than the mortgage payment will be.
The banks said, well, that makes no sense for you to think that.
Made the bank loan the money anyway.
And then the feds that were making the lifestyle choice, accusing the bank of doing that.
Right, right.
And then when the whole meltdown happened in 2008, I knew immediately the Wall Street Journal had been following this.
And I knew immediately it was because of Democrat policies.
And yet immediately, George Bush and the Republicans were blamed for the meltdown.
And I just think Robbie should have made a bigger point of that in the campaign because every time Obama would say, you don't want to go back to the policies that got us in this place.
You know why they didn't?
I'm convinced that they didn't is because they think it'd be too complicated to explain, or there might have been some Republicans complicit with it.
There were a lot of people that made a lot of money on this fraud.
Yeah, but even Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were staffed almost entirely by old Democrat husbands that were getting their payoff at the end of their careers.
That's right.
Franklin Raines, Jim Johnson, and that crowd.
I know.
It really is maddening.
I hope people heard what you said because there's a real world example of what was happening.
And it was frustrating.
Immediately when the crash happened, they blame evil Wall Street banks and started accusing them of being predatory lenders, which meant that they were going out and just on the street, dragging these people in and making them take the loans that they couldn't pay back.
It was a massive set of lies.
It wasn't capitalism that failed.
It was government intervention into capitalism that failed.
Disguised as compassion.
Right.
Allowing everybody to experience the American dream.
Again, unintended consequences, which I think were in the past with liberals, but I think the Obama administration and things they're doing now are intended consequences.
I do too.
You're exactly right.
I don't believe in this unintended consequence stuff.
There's nothing innocent about what these people are doing.
No, no.
It's like, you remember the health care law?
I have to remind people.
The health care law is 2,200 pages.
Now, that health care law has, it was sitting in a drawer.
That health care law is a Democrat Party wet dream.
That's been sitting in a drawer for years.
Progressives over the years, congressional staff members wrote that health care law and put it in a drawer waiting for their moment of nirvana when they could introduce it.
They didn't write that 2,200-page law from the time Obama started talking about it until it was passed.
That thing had been sitting there.
That was their prototype and had been written over years.
And I'm telling you this because I want to remind the same thing, whatever Biden and Obama are cooking up with their little chat here on guns, I guarantee you what they want to do with guns is somewhere in a document, a wish list like the health care law was.
Folks, they did not write the 2,200, whatever it is, 2,700-page Obamacare law in two months.
That law has been written over years with input from a lot of people.
Every Democrat constituency has a Christmas morning in that health care bill.
And the same thing is happening this gun control thing.
So whatever Obama and Biden are cooking up, they're out there.
Well, we're talking.
We're coming up with a solution.
It's already written years ago.
The Democrat Party has had and has been salivating over the moment where they could come up with whatever technique they're going to employ to get guns somehow drastically changed in this country.
And it's already written.
This is just a public show.
They're trying to capitalize on the scant attention being paid by people.
You have Sandy Hook, everybody's emotional fever pitch ratcheted way up.
And they have created this impression.
Everybody's put their heads together now.
We've finally reached the breaking point.
It's enough.
We've got to do something.
And they're all huddling and they're coming up with some great plan.
And I'm telling you, the plan has been in a drawer for years, like the health care law was.
Don't doubt me.
I know these people.
I appreciate Liz, the call.
Let's say I want to go to Apple Valley, California.
Larry, are you there?
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
I'm honored that you took my call.
I am a Russian.
It says up here that you are a former SEAL, and I'm honored that you're in the audience and that you called.
Well, I wanted to tell you a couple of things, if I may.
I won't waste any of your time.
After losing my right leg and part of my right arm and fingers and disfigured on my face, I come to a country that after lying in a bed at Walter Reed, and I'm lying there, and I'm listening to the gentleman who was next to me.
He was a lieutenant in the Army, and he was all screwed up, too.
When was this, Larry?
When did this seven months ago?
Seven months ago.
Oh, wow.
Okay.
I did four tours in Iraq, four tours in Afghanistan.
When did you suffer your injuries?
About eight months ago.
Wow.
I was in Ramstein in Germany for three weeks and then Walter Reed.
And now I've been transferred out here closer to where my father lives in San Diego for the rehabilitation portion of this.
Are you still in a medical facility or are you living with family?
I'm with my dad, and he does the best he can.
You know, I can't drive or anything now.
But, you know, there's a lot of new things I have to learn.
But the reason for my call today wasn't to whine about my issues.
When I came back from that part of the world and trying to do the right thing and honor my commitment, I took the same oath of office as this president took, and apparently only one of us got it.
I was next to many, many, many wonderful young men, certainly younger than me.
I'm 33 years old.
The only thing I've ever known as work in my life has been the Marine Corps and being a SEAL.
And I thank God I had the opportunity to do so.
But as you come out of this and you come out of all the medications they have on you, what they can't stop is the feeling that you are a different person now.
A lot of things in your life have to change now.
And when I read papers and I listen to you on the radio, it wasn't even my radio.
It was my fellow ward person's radio.
And I asked him to turn it up so I could hear it every day.
And I'm listening to you talk.
And while I was giving up, you were propping me up.
That there's somebody still left in this country who gives a damn.
And for your work that you've been doing for so many years, and you call it, you know, informing the uninformed, there has to be something else that happens, Mr. Limbaugh, that will make people understand these.
Why have elections if the only thing that people are going there for is themselves?
They're not there to represent constituents.
They're there to represent themselves.
Get a seat on a committee, and maybe you'll get to be a vice chairman or a chairman until there's term limits put in place to where these people can't sit there for year after year after year, where he comes out of a congressional district and the people can hold him absolutely accountable and have a recall opportunity like they did on the governor in Wisconsin.
If they're not doing what the people want them to do, yank their asses out of there.
And guess what?
A lot of the things that you talk about every single day could be solved.
As soon as the Nancy Pelosis and the Harry Reeds, and it isn't only them, there's so many quiet ones like you were talking about earlier today.
The Republicans who call themselves Republicans, who are so weak they can't even probably spell Republican.
They don't know about the values of the Republican Party.
They don't know what conservatism is.
I know.
I took an oath of office.
I understood what morality means.
I understand more than that, Mr. Limbaugh.
I understand honor.
And, sir, you have a lot of honor for what you do.
And I can tell you, even in Washington and out here near San Diego, where Apple Valley is, I listen to you every day.
I listened to you before.
And I don't think I could.
But I get it now.
But you were there with me every day, every step of the way, and made me think about something other than myself.
And for that, sir, I'll tell you.
Let me first thank you.
I profoundly appreciate what you're saying.
But I think the truth is that it's the reason that I still do this and everybody else that's still committed to doing whatever it is they do that's oriented to the same thing do it because there are people like you in the country still.
I don't know that we've reached a tipping point.
It seems to the people who vote, we appear to have reached a tipping point, but we can maybe change the universe of people who vote.
But it really is because of people like you that I thank God for this country.
Not people like me.
This isn't, I'm sitting here talking for three hours.
Look at you.
I know we all have our roles, but still, you'd have every reason in the world to be ticked off and check out and be one of these people that thought only about yourself, but you obviously are not doing that.
Look, I've got to take a commercial timeout.
I'm happy to do it.
And thanks to you, and now I'm going into have to work and study and I'm enrolled back in school.
And by God, I'm going to try to make it.
Well, here, hang on just a second.
Take a break here.
I'm really up against something.
Just don't hang up.
We'll be back in just a second.
That was Larry from Apple Valley, California.
Where else, ladies and gentlemen, can you hear from real life heroes on the phone?
You know, in a long time past, Hollywood would be making movies.
Hollywood would be making movies about guys like Larry.
Guys like Larry would be the kind of hero that kids would be reading about in school, the kind of heroes kids would learn about in movies.
And of course, you know, the media not covering the wars anymore.
Obama ended the war.
Oh, yeah, those are Bush's wars.
They're not covering them anymore.
The body counts have stopped and all that.
But thank God for people like him in the country.
Thank God we still have people like that.
Honestly, thank God we have people like that in this country.
All right, folks, that's it for another excursion into broadcast excellence, an exciting excursion.
And they happen each day.
This is Thursday, right?
It already happens.
Open line Friday tomorrow.
And we'll be here in 21 hours and get that rolling.
Thanks so much for being with us today.
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