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Jan. 14, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 14, 2013, Monday, Hour #3
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Hi folks and welcome back.
Great to have you El Rushbo behind the golden EIB microphone.
Our telephone number is 800-282-2882, the email address LRushbo at EIBnet.com.
It is the fastest three hours in media and the proof is that we're already here starting the third busy broadcast hour today.
Okay, back to this story from January 8th in the Irish Examiner by Alicia Cologne.
It's America's leading Irish newspaper.
Never heard of it.
Some great points raised in it, nevertheless.
When it comes to who makes up the base of the party, this is a pull quote, when it comes to who makes up the base of the party, the GOP establishment is as low info as those who voted for Obama.
I don't know who this woman is, but she's dead on right.
Earlier in the program, I made the point that the way to understand what's happening in the media, inside the Beltway, today, right now, at this moment in time, is to understand the objective.
The objective is the elimination of any effective conservative opposition.
And that goes for the Republican establishment, too.
The Democrat Party, naturally.
And it's Obama's modus operandi.
Obama press conference today.
It was all about the Republicans as the enemy, the Republicans as the bad guys.
Republicans have to be stopped.
There were no solutions proposed.
There were no policies really proposed.
Just it's the Republicans' fault.
They've got to be stopped.
And inside the Beltway, Republicans, the moderate Republicans, the Republican establishment, feel the same way about conservatives.
And I shared with you a couple stories, one in Salad.com, the other in New Yorker, about the effort now to isolate the South because it is an area of heavy concentration of conservatives.
By isolate it, means demonize it.
Just a bunch of old-fashioned hayseed sexists and racists and bigots that don't believe in gay rights, gay marriage.
They believe in slavery.
They don't like feminism.
Just throwbacks.
Kooks.
They've got to be ignored.
Lincoln didn't finish the job is the salon premise.
Lincoln did not finish wiping out the South.
In fact, that's one of the reasons why the movie Lincoln is getting such attention, to focus on Lincoln.
What did he do?
He took out the South.
All this is happening.
And then Ms. Colon says conservatives simply have no one in the media that has any credibility with ill-informed masses.
I sadly think that's true.
And there's a reason for it.
It's not that conservatism doesn't fit.
It's not that conservatism doesn't apply because Reagan did have that credibility.
It's one of the reasons why the revisionists in history have so been so unkind to Reagan.
Reagan was profoundly effective, and they hated him for that simple reason.
And they hate anybody else who is, by the way.
So they have to destroy them.
Now, the difference is, when they launch assaults on to pick your favorite conservative anywhere, elected or in the media, the rest of the conservative establishment usually does not defend that person.
They join in the criticism or they express sorrow and concern and agree that something needs to be done about what that person said.
The reason they do this is because they are trying to curry favor with the critics.
They don't want to be criticized as, well, I don't want to use myself in this.
Probably the easiest way to make the point, but I don't want to make it about me.
If I'm using myself in this, I'm going to come off as whining.
Let me use Sarah Palin because what happened last night at the Golden Globes fits what I'm going to tell you here.
Sarah Palin had to be destroyed.
Sarah Palin was saving the McCain campaign.
Sarah Palin had to be destroyed.
Now, it's understandable the Democrats and the left, who will always tell us who they fear the most, would try to destroy Palin.
But I can't tell you how livid I was when I saw other Republicans joining the premise that she was either an idiot or stupid or uninformed or ill-prepared or unqualified or whatever.
I can't tell you how livid that made me.
The left never does that to its people.
When their people come under attack, they circle the wagons around them and they promote them.
They elevate them.
Dan Rather, classic example, totally destroyed his career in the real world with that phony story on George Bush and the National Guard.
What did they do?
They gave him new awards.
They had dinners in his honor.
Made sure everybody knew it because they knew that they were doing more than protecting rather.
They were protecting the news.
They were protecting journalism.
They were protecting liberalism.
Conservatives are not so inclined.
Let Palin come under assault.
What did most of the conservative establishment do?
Join in.
Because they didn't want to be the next Palin.
So they figure if they join in, they'll show themselves to be smarter than the average dumb conservative and therefore more appreciated by the critics on the left.
It really, I can't tell you how it bothered me.
I've told you I had some friends over at my house for dinner who said, Rush, we've got to throw Palin away.
Media's destroyed her.
And I said, well, you're just going to sit around and let the media destroy every one of our people that comes along that might be effective.
Well, I don't know about that, Russia, but we can't support Palin.
The media's destroyed her.
She's an idiot.
I don't know.
I don't care, but that's what people think.
Are you not interested in defending her anywhere?
Are you not interested in standing up?
You know, she believes everything you believe.
She's right down the middle of everything you believe.
She'd be the best friend you would ever have in the elective.
I don't care.
She's embarrassing.
I said, oh, gee, I can't tell you.
Throughout my career, I've done nothing.
When fellow conservatives come under assault, I defend them.
Clarence Thomas, Ollie North, Robert Bork, you name it.
It has become my number one objective is to stop these people from being destroyed if I can.
But it doesn't happen much.
It doesn't happen much in our blogosphere.
It doesn't happen much in our publication media.
It doesn't happen much in our broadcast media.
It happens sometimes, but not nearly enough.
The most often result is that people distance themselves from the conservative under attack, lest it descend and touch them.
So when there's no defense of a baseless charge, especially when the allegations made about said conservative are dead wrong, stupid, unqualified, ill-equipped, racist, sexist, bigot.
They're not even willing to defend people on that.
And so conservative people end up being destroyed in the eyes of low-information voters, in the eyes of people who are paying scant attention.
That's what they see, and they don't see any defense of it.
In fact, they see other conservatives joining the conversation to one degree or another.
So that when Ms. Cologne writes, conservatives simply have no one in the media that has any credibility with the ill-informed masses, it makes total sense to me why.
Anytime one pops up, the left seeks and destroys.
There's no defense.
I mean, even during the Bush administration, when they were trying to destroy Alberto Gonzalez and any number of Bush appointees and nominees to the federal courts, the Supreme Court, it was the same thing.
There's just it's a very frustrating thing.
And so the fact that conservatives don't have anybody with any credibility with the ill-informed masses is not because there aren't any.
It's because the effort to demonize them and marginalize them is always so successful.
And as that demonization and marginalization takes place, those people under assault find it impossible to broaden their base.
Unlike me, they don't have a microphone to deal with it each day or a TV show to deal with it each day.
And if the people who do are not going to engage in propping them up and speaking up for them and defending them, then they're going to sit there and twist in the wind.
And the left is going to successfully tarnish and feather everyone that comes along.
Last night at the Golden Globes, a movie, Catherine and I watched this HBO movie Game Change, a movie adaptation of the book.
And I told you we watched it, and it weren't for the fact that we were working, and we'd have walked out.
It was a cartoon.
The book was not primarily about Palin, but the movie was all about Palin.
And it mischaracterized her.
It insulted her.
It told things that were not true about her from the standpoint of McCain campaign consultants.
People like Steve Schmidt.
The critics of Sarah Palin in this movie were other Republicans of how embarrassed of her they were, how ashamed of her they were, how they couldn't even vote for McCain because they were so afraid that she might someday be president.
And they couldn't do this.
Well, this show last night won three Golden Globes.
And you know why?
It won three Golden Globes so that everybody involved could walk up to the stage and once again bash Sarah Palin, knowing full well there wouldn't be anybody there to defend her.
Knowing full well there isn't going to be anybody today defend her.
And once the left targets anybody for destruction, there's nothing standing in their way.
So this is the procedure.
This is how it happens.
But even last night awarding this movie three Golden Globes, and then Julianne Moore, the actress that played Palin, I think, I don't know if she won a Golden Globe or not.
Now, Tina Fey, the last year that I was in the list, Barbara Walters' top ten most fascinating Americans, the last time was two or three years ago.
Tina Faye was in it for impersonating Sarah Palin, one of the 10 most fascinating people because of her imps.
She didn't make it as Tina Faye.
Made it as Tina Fey as Sarah Palin.
She ended up being one of Barbara Walters' 10 most fascinating because of her impersonation of Palin.
Meanwhile, Palin is not in the list.
And yet an impersonator is.
So it's clear as a bell to me why it's tough to find a conservative in the media with any credibility, even low-information voters.
Every one of them has been taken out.
There are other reasons why conservatives aren't defended.
The conservative movement is in a constant battle for people in it who want to be seen as the leader, who want to be seen as the smartest person in the room, who want to be seen as the go-to person.
And so somebody getting a lot of media attention is a threat, just in a high school jealousy sense, is a threat.
So you take them out, you help take them out.
It keeps the pathway cleared for you, whoever you are, if you want to be the go-to conservative for the media or the leader of the conservative movement or what have you, if you want to be perceived as such.
So competition, lack of unity, fear of the left, and a desire to be accepted by them all combine to result in conservative after conservative after conservative being tarred and feathered.
And if they're Tea Party conservatives, it's even worse.
They are universally panned and they are never spoken up for by other Republicans.
Okay, I'm told Julianna Moore did not win a Golden Globe, but she accepted.
Did she win?
She accepted.
She did win.
Okay.
Well, even if she hadn't won, they would have sent her up there to accept the award for one of the other three so that she could once again bash Palin because they never let up.
All right, that's that.
I wanted to get that out there because, you know, everybody calls here, and they have ever since I've been doing the show.
Rush, what can a Republican do?
The first thing they could do is unite.
First thing they could do is unite and start defending each other and not letting this character assassination succeed every time the left tries it.
Got to take a break.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Connie in Florida.
Great to have you here with us.
Welcome to the program.
Happy birthday, Rush.
I'm a 20-year fan and Rush 24-7 subscriber.
God bless you.
I thank you so much, and that's very nice of you to say.
Well, thank you for being a pillar of faith and conservatism for those of us who think we are living in a surreal world.
I called today because if lawmakers take money from gun manufacturers, the money is simply going to go to the states, and they're going to put the money in general revenues like they did with the tobacco settlements and lottery money for education here in Florida.
I'll tell you, in this case, the objective primarily will be to get money to trial lawyers, but it's also going to be to decimate the gun manufacturers.
What she's talking about is the Reverend Daxon is just the latest to propose that whenever there is gun violence, whenever, except in Chicago, you exempt Chicago because it's Democrats, whenever there is wherever, blame the gun manufacturer.
Sue the gun manufacturer every time one of his guns is used.
Harassment, paper lawsuits, and with serious damages.
The effort's going to be to put them out of business, which is what they were trying to do with big tobacco.
And then if it gets to the point you're talking about, and this is way down the road, years and years, but if there are big settlements, then of course part of the deal will be that the money goes to the states to use for gun safety programs and education and all that.
And you're saying that just as has happened with the tobacco lawsuits, the money will just be spent.
It'll not go to these specific programs and it will not contribute one thing positive.
Absolutely.
I hate it when our society makes knee-jerk reactions to random bad things that have happened.
We can never fully eradicate evil tendencies in humans.
I heard it said, I think it was last week.
Wait a minute.
Wait, wait, wait.
You're speaking now with too much bold and brazen common sense.
I have found over the course of doing this program the kind of thing you just said that you can't stop, you can't eradicate evil tendencies in human beings, that causes people to think that you're insensitive, that you're hateful, that you have no compassion.
When you see the world as it really is, as you just articulated, you are said to be insensitive, unkind, mean-spirited, and an extremist.
Because the left, of course, believes in the perfection of people.
The left believes in the perfection of everything.
And that's their objective.
Utopia.
Okay, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rush Limbaugh with a balanced, fair approach each and every day here on the EIB network.
This is from theblaze.com.
Applicants for Section 8 housing, Section 8 housing vouchers in Taylor, Michigan went wild on Saturday after authorities asked thousands to go home and come back another time.
CBS Eyeball News Detroit has the story.
Apparently, somewhere between 3,000 and 5,000 people turned out, some of them waiting in line all night, but only 1,000 vouchers of Section 8 housing were available.
When it came time for the vouchers to be distributed, police said there was a mad dash for the door.
People jockeying for position to be the first inside.
Officers tried to control the crowd, but they couldn't.
Fearing the situation was more than they could handle.
Event organizers shut down the entire thing, turned off the lights inside the building.
And witnesses say that that's when things got really ugly.
They were throwing chairs.
They were fighting.
There were riots, much like happened in Detroit for the same type of thing.
That's when our intrepid reporter was up there, went and talked to the people.
So, what are you here for?
Or for our Obama voucher?
Where's Obama getting the money?
I don't know, Obama's dash coming from Obama.
So, 1,000 Section 8 housing vouchers in Taylor, Michigan, 5,000 people showed up.
Authorities weren't prepared, and a riot ensued.
And that, my friends, is a harbinger, a harbinger of things.
Calypso Louie, Minister Farrakhan, grab audio soundbite number one.
This is back on December 30th.
Yourblackworld.net, Syracuse University scholar in residence in entrepreneurship and innovation, Dr. Boyce Watkins spoke with Calypso Louie, The Nation of Islam leader, Minister Lewis Farrakhan, about the new movie Django Unchained.
And the scholar in residence and entrepreneurship said to Calypso Louie, What's your take on that movie when you went to see it?
What did you think of Django Unchained?
To me, the movie had a purpose.
And if a black man came out of that movie thinking like Django, and if white people came out of that movie seeing the slaughter of white people and they are armed to the teeth, it's preparation for race war.
Oh, no.
Minister Farrakhan forecasting a race war because if a black man came out of that movie thinking like Django, and if white people came out of that movie seeing the slaughter of white people and they are armed to the teeth, it's a preparation for a race war.
Calypso Louie said, Can you imagine, folks, if I went to see Django, came behind the golden EIB microphone to report, folks, I'm going to tell you something.
If a lot of white people who are heavily armed go see this movie, there's going to be a race war.
Can you imagine what would happen to me within minutes on liberal cable networks?
This happened on December 30th.
And we're just now hearing about it.
But the bottom line, doesn't matter, Calypso Louie reaches a lot of people.
Calypso Louie is suggesting a race war.
It's possible.
In the meantime, 5,000 people show up for a thousand housing vouchers, Taylor, Michigan.
A riot ensues.
Not saying it's a race.
I'm just telling you there are many more people who want stuff that we don't have to give them.
There are millions of people who expect stuff, millions of people who want stuff, but we don't have all the stuff they want.
What are they going to do?
I hope it remains peaceful in a balanced and fair way.
I really do.
But I mean, you've got Calypso Louie talking about a potential race war.
And then you've got what happened in Taylor, Michigan, and general economic climate.
It isn't pretty.
From the Daily Caller, an undergraduate student at a small women's college in North Carolina, as opposed to a large women's college.
This is a college in North Carolina for small women.
An undergraduate student there is seeking permission to stay at the Skruel and live on the campus of Daskruel after she undergoes gender reassignment surgery next month, which will finalize her transformation into a man.
There is at present an undergrad student at the small women's college in North Carolina who is undergoing addictomy procedures.
And she is requesting to stay on campus after the gender reassignment surgery is complete in February.
The school is Salem College.
Officials there are now considering the thorny issue, says here.
This is from the Winston-Salem Journal.
Michelle Melton, Salem's director of communications, would not identify the addadictomy student.
She cited federal privacy laws as well as the school's confidentiality policies.
There are more than 1,100 students.
800 undergrads are all female, and only females are currently allowed to live on campus.
Men who are at least 23 can participate in teacher education graduate programs and can take adult education courses, but they cannot live or be part of the undergrad campus.
That's what's revolutionary here.
The addedictomy babe wants to stay on campus.
And so now the small college is in the midst of a thorny issue.
They don't know what to do.
I mean, not a girl anymore, but she was.
Well, she won't be.
She still is.
She won't be.
They're going to finish the procedure.
But she was at one time.
That's not the way to look at it.
You look at this the wrong way.
At the end of this, you're going to have one offended student.
That's generally all it takes to change policy anymore.
One offended person is one too many.
One unhappy person is one too many.
One unsettled individual is one too many.
I guarantee you, the school is agonizing over this.
What do we do?
She wants to stay.
What is going to be thought of us if we deny her right to stay?
But wait, it won't be a her.
It'll be a him.
Well, I don't know.
I haven't read enough to know whether the patient wants to still use the.
That's a good point.
Are there male restrooms on campus for the undergrads when no men are allowed?
Not that a man can't sit, of course, but still.
Oh, they'll tell you the burdens of college, the decisions, the tough things that administrators have to deal with these days.
One offended person.
It doesn't take, as you know, wherever in our culture, one offended person can upset hundreds of years of tradition.
One offended person.
Look what it did to smoking.
That's just one example.
UK Telegraph.
Finally, there is an excuse to pick a good red wine with your Sunday roast.
Red wine can diminish the unhealthy effects of eating red meat.
Scientists have now confirmed.
It's no longer theory.
Scientists have discovered that a glass of red wine can prevent the buildup of cholesterol after a meal of dark meat or red meat.
Wait a minute.
What?
Dark meat or red meat?
I've heard of white and dark a chicken, but what is...
Oh, maybe that's what it is.
It's not beef, it's meat.
Okay, you have duck.
I was thinking well done versus rare because well done is usually darker.
But see, I was totally thinking beef.
The scientists found that harmful compounds from the meat would build up in the bloodstream of volunteers as they digested a meal.
That would help to form bad cholesterol.
It can damage blood vessels and increase the risk of heart disease, and then you could die.
And that's not perfect.
The researchers showed, however, that antioxidants in the wine, known as polyphenols, stopped these compounds from being absorbed in the gut.
And so they did not get into the bloodstream, and so they couldn't cause harm.
The red wine shut it all down.
Now, this has been theorized off and on for a long time.
Now they say it has been confirmed.
Hallelujah.
Quick time out.
We'll be back with much more as we roll on, right after this.
You know, the real question to me about the add-ed chick at the small women's college is whether or not he will be able to get free birth control after the surgery is coming.
That's what matters on campus these days, is whether or not the women get free birth control paid for by us.
So will the added dick chick need birth control?
A very, very thorny issue at Salem College.
I mean, you got 1,100 students.
You got one woman unhappy or one future woman unhappy.
It's got to be tough for him.
Here is Roger in Tampa, Florida.
Thank you for waiting, Sir.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, it's a pleasure to finally get through.
I've been listening to you since before you liked the game of golf.
Thank you very much, sir.
Appreciate that.
Yeah, I really, the clips that you played of the president's presser today, you got to give him credit for the use of language.
He has a great way of using qualifiers to build a false premise.
He says the fear that the federal government's going to take away all your guns, the qualifier being all, you know, and nobody, you know, somebody should ask, well, Mr. President, which guns?
Yeah.
Do you want to take away that?
Yeah, you're right.
He does things like, he uses focus grouped words, and he creates straw men.
He says, economists from both parties have all agreed whatever he thinks.
And then he'll create, and as some have said, when nobody has said it, and he'll create a lie.
And then he uses terms like, the American people agree with me.
We have to do this in a fair and balanced way.
And it's focused.
Nobody opposes fairness.
So all he's got to do is say that what he's doing is a fair, balanced approach.
And by intimation, the Republicans is not fair.
The Republicans are cheaters.
But his approach is fair and balanced.
And you're exactly right.
Yeah, he also used today one of his favorite words, that being notion.
He said the notion that the government's going to take away everyone's guns.
That's another qualifier.
Right.
He uses that just basically to ridicule and demonize and marginalize those that oppose him.
You know, none of the press would follow up with, well, Mr. President, then whose guns do you want to?
Well, of course they're not going to.
Yeah.
And of course they wouldn't.
Well, if, of course, this is absurd, then why are you and Biden exploring ways to use executive orders to do it?
What are you actually going to do?
But you've hit on something.
Obama doesn't debate merits of policy.
What Obama does is portray the Republicans as the enemy, Nitt Romney as the enemy.
The merits of his policy, you never hear about the details.
All you hear is that it's fair and balanced, and everybody's got to pay their fair share so that everybody gets a fair shot of what?
Socialism?
What are we talking about?
He never tells you.
He benefits from the assumption that everything he intends or wants to do is great or good.
Just today in his press conference, Obama talked about the Republicans as hostage takers who have a gun to the heads of the country.
So, or the gun to the head of the country.
It's that kind of talk that successfully demonizes opponents.
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