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Jan. 16, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 16, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #3
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And welcome back.
It's uh the Rush Limbaugh program, the award-winning, thrill-packed, ever exciting, increasingly popular, growing by leaps and bounds.
And we come to you from the EIB Southern Command, heavily fortified, legally so, with all the appropriate background checks having taken place.
Speaking of which, we're going to have universal background checks on virtually everybody who buys a gun.
You think maybe it's by it's it's it's time to require a background check on anybody wanting to be president.
I would submit to you, we still have not had a background check on Barack Obama.
We are soon to be starting the second term of Obama's regime, year number five, without a background check.
And by that I mean the media has never vetted Obama.
Low information voters have no idea who he is.
A majority of people who vote don't really know anything about Barack Obama.
Background checks, anybody?
I also want to quote Big Sis to you.
Big Sis today says, hey, whatever you need, Mr. Obama, you want coordination on controlling people and their guns and stuff, I'm right in there.
Whatever we can do to expand your control, we're gonna be there to help.
We want to expand, we want to work with you, we want to help you coordinate.
But Big Sis, Janon DePonatono back in 2002, said the following.
The right to bear arms is enumerated in the Constitution, is therefore fundamental to the liberty interests of all Americans.
I believe elected officials have a duty to ensure that these interests are not abridged.
My position on the Second Amendment is simple.
Existing laws related to firearms and their possession are a sufficient framework by which to ensure the safety of all Arizonians.
Rather than focusing on new legislation, we must first be vigilant in our enforcement of the laws that are already on the books.
Now she was running for governor when she said that.
When she was running for governor, Second Amendment was fine.
We had plenty of laws.
We don't need any more infringements on freedom.
All we got to do is enforce what's already on the books.
She could have said the same thing about immigration.
But somehow, when the governors leave the states and move on to the regime, all that doesn't matter.
And I only mention this for the the hypoc the hypocrisy of it.
And to suggest that she probably didn't mean what she said in 2002.
Either that she's undergone a huge shift.
Andy McCarthy, a friend of mine just sent me a note.
Rush, I love the doctor stuff.
You notice something, Rush?
You notice that this provision requiring the doctors to rat out their patients to the authorities.
This provision essentially targets the innocent and harasses only doctors.
As usual, criminals and lawyers are protected.
This is an excellent point, by the way.
That is, if you are an innocent person and you tell your doctor about legal guns in your house, because he's asking, the doctor is now encouraged to report that to the government, lest the doctor be blamed if something bad happens later.
But Rush old buddy O'Pal, if you are a criminal who's just committed a mass murder, killed a bunch of the children, and you tell your lawyer about what you've done, the lawyer can't tell anybody.
It's a privileged communication.
Your attorney must never disclose it, and if he violates that confidence, the information can never be used against you in court.
Good to know.
As Obama decides which legal privilege to shred, he's making sure to target the right people, the innocent.
It's the innocent who get reported on.
It's the innocent who are interviewed.
It's the innocent who are asked about by the doctors.
And somehow doctor patient privilege does not extend to whatever you tell your doctor about guns in your house.
And don't forget where that started.
This started with Clinton in the 90s with pediatricians being required to ask little kids about their parents, primarily their daddies, and guns in the house.
That's where this all got started.
Remember Carmelo Anthony?
Big problems with Kevin Garnett of the Celtics.
Kevin Garnett, by the way, this has been denied.
Doc Rivers, the coach of the Celtics.
It didn't happen.
I don't care what anybody thinks they heard, and I don't care what was reported, it didn't happen.
Kevin Garnett did not tell Carmelo Anthony his wife tastes like honey cheerios.
Oh, Snurley, you didn't hear about this.
You were out of the country when this happened.
Oh, this was huge.
It was last Monday night, ten days ago.
Celtics and the Knicks at Madison Square Garden, and Kevin Garnett is trash talking mellow all night long.
So bad that Carmelo Anthony waits by the Celtics team bus in the bowels of the garden after the game to give him what for.
And so what's this about?
What's Carmelo up to?
It then was discovered that Kevin Garnett told Anthony his wife Lala tasted like honeynut cheerios.
And it didn't help that Carmelo Anthony and Lala were not Lala at the time.
I don't know, strange, separated, what have you.
Anyway, Doc Rivers has now denied it.
Carmelo and Kevin Garnett are supposedly cool with it now.
But the guys that run the old homestead steakhouse in the meat packing district of Manhattan, the chefs at the old home oldstead steakhouse have put together a special presentation, a giant porter house with honeynut cheerio encrustment.
And they're going to deliver this with a mater D and a limousine to the Knicks locker room for Carmelo Anthony.
I've got it right here.
The Knicks superstars had the honey nut Cheerios taunt turned into a mouthwatering meal by the staff at the old homestead.
What's going to happen here is, and I got a picture of uh of Greg Sherry who owns, it's actually a porter house.
The honey nut borderlays creation, inspired by Carmelo Anthony and Kevin Garnett.
And it's uh Melo, he had a 15-day fast to clean up, and he said that he was in the mood for a big juicy steak after his fast.
And he also said he wanted a bowl of Cheerios.
So a gourmet version of both is going to be delivered by the old homestead with a mater D in a town car to the Knicks locker room on Monday when they face the Brooklyn Nets.
Now, you guys, the old homestead, this is a great PR stump, but you got to know pre-game meals are eaten like four to five hours before the game.
Mello's not going to eat this before the game.
But I mean, I guess your wife tastes like honey nut Cheerios at a local restaurant brings you a steak, borderlays with honeynut cheerios.
And of course, the real question is, how does he know?
That's the real okay now.
Folks, just look at there are a couple of exceptions to this, but I think for the most part you'll you'll get the drift of the question.
Where did Hurricane, what was it, Sandy, where did where did it hit?
What geographical region of the country it happened in the Northeast?
Where did the massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school happen?
Geographically.
Connecticut, the Northeast.
Do you get the sense, as I do, whenever one of these events or disasters happens in the Northeast that there is hell to pay if something isn't done immediately.
Like Right now.
And if it isn't done right now, the media doesn't let go of it.
Everybody's talking about it until something gets done.
Everybody's wailing, whining, moaning, what have you.
Meanwhile, you could have a devastating flood in the Midwest.
You could have the movie theater in Aurora.
And there isn't the same in the media, there isn't the same, what are we gonna do about this?
No, I mean, after uh Gabby Gifford's, after after Aurora Colorado.
There were no demands for massive new gun control laws.
You didn't have the mayors or governors in those states going nuts enacting new laws immediately.
The media wasn't pressuring or demanding that with the Northeast.
There is this pressure.
It's just something I observed.
I don't know that it means anything, but I think there clearly is because the media lives there.
The media is affected by this.
Impacted, as they say, and demands it now.
At this very instance.
More so than when it happened, and and I'm talking about the media, and strictly then elsewhere in the country, uh such things do not happen.
Welfare spending is uh going to increase eighty percent in ten years.
That's faster than the Apple stock price is gonna go up.
Welfare spending is gonna go up eleven trillion dollars in the next ten years.
But don't worry, the six hundred billion dollars in additional taxes over the next ten years on the rich will cover it.
From the weekly standard, federal welfare spending to skyrocket eighty percent in the next decade.
If it does uh we w this this that can't be sustained.
That simply is unsustainable.
Paying people not to work that much money for that length of time will not work.
You just can't do it.
A company can't do it, an individual can't do it, a culture, a society, country can't do it.
You cannot pay people not to work.
I don't care what Pelosi says.
Every dollar unemployment compensation generates jobs, generates a dollar seventy-three of economic output, which is all BS.
Even trillion dollars, and the only offset is Obama's tax increases on the rich, which equals sixty billion a year.
So sixty billion times ten years is six hundred billion, offsetting eleven trillion doesn't even come close.
The only way out of this is to shrink the welfare rolls.
And the only way to do that is to increase productivity and the the job situation and having more people become self-sufficient that this this can't go on.
Oh, Western European countries may be able to get away with it, and little small tin horn banana republics may be able to get.
But the world's lone superpower can't stay.
The world's lone superpower with this kind of future.
Just cannot happen.
You know what we really need is entitlement control.
But if you go out and propose it, well, you're gonna be hit up as mean spirited, extremist, cold hearted, unselfish, exploitative, but if anything needs to be controlled in this country, it's entitlements.
Even trillion dollars of new welfare.
We that that that's all entitlements.
That's that's all obligations.
That's that's just it's Rome, folks, is what it is.
Lucy of Long Island, great to have you.
I'm glad you waited.
Hey, Rush, hey Lucille.
God bless your rush.
I mean, you're wonderful.
Thank you for taking my call.
You know, I'm uh I tell you, I'm a wife, I'm a mother, I'm pro life.
I was a Democrat until Reagan was elected, and then I thought he was just so wonderful.
And I am a newly minted member of the NRA.
Congratulations.
I am so happy.
Let me tell you, I am I am just I weep for my country.
I weep for my children.
They have no idea what the country was like before when I was young, when I was a kid, all the freedoms, all the opportunities that I had.
Yeah.
All the old fashioned, boring women were barefooted and slaves in the kitchen and uh had to put slippers on dad's shoes at night and fix him supper and fix him a drink, make sure the bed was done and the laundry was clean.
Yeah, it was really great.
Oh.
Rush, let me tell you, I I just I am so unhappy with the way things are.
I live in New York.
Could things be any worse in New York?
I mean, I I can't believe it.
I went to a gun store yesterday on Long Island.
I got there, I couldn't find a place to park.
There were so many people.
People coming out with bags and bags and bags of ammo.
Why, Lucille?
Why why are people doing this in your estimation?
I think because they're afraid.
And they kept saying the T-word.
Tyranny.
Tyranny.
If I heard it once, I I think I heard it half a dozen times.
Yeah, I I I'm looking, I'm gonna ask the uh the question.
I I uh I I actually think, Lucille, that Obama is trying to push people in this direction.
I I I think he wants people to snap.
I I I think I think Obama is challenging everybody's sanity.
I I I I I don't I don't know why.
I don't know why he's deliberately making people so upset.
I don't know what's driving him.
I think I have I think I know why, my own opinion.
He's a narcissist.
If he drives them crazy, they think about him all the time.
And he likes people to think about him.
He wants him to be the only thing you think about.
Well, he can be thought of as a great loving guy, too.
I mean, he's the president of the United States.
People are gonna think about the president every day anyway.
There's there's got to be more to it than that.
I think he wants confrontation.
I think he thinks if we have more confrontation, then he can take more control, and I think that's what people are afraid of.
You mean chaos.
Yes.
So the more chaos there is, the more the more requirement there is for him to step in to control the chaos.
Yes.
Absolutely.
And I I really feel that Rush, you know, and we'll I'll talk about it with people and they'll agree with me, but they'll say, Oh, but I won't say anything because people think I'm crazy.
But more people think that than you could imagine.
Well, obviously, it doesn't surprise me.
The lines that you talk about at this one gun store that you went to, Tell the tale.
It's happening all over the country.
Uh membership of the NRA.
A quarter of a million new people in a month.
And of course, but the way the way Obama and the left look at this with with with the condemnation of guns ever since Sandy Hook.
Condemnation of guns, the never-ending media critique of people who use guns.
I think that there's an expectation that people be turning in their guns.
And I think there's an expectation that people be quitting and resigning the NRA.
I think the media is probably a little bit ticked off.
They've been trying to um uh inspire or uh uh influence people to give up their guns because it's not safe, to quit the NRA, because the NRA is responsible for all this, because that's the message that they're carrying.
And people are acting in open defiance of the media and the Democrat Party's desires, and I think that ticks them off.
I think that's part of the reason that that there's this in your face attitude.
I I think I think liberals in general, if you disobey them, if you don't do what they want, you make them even madder at you.
But I understand where you're coming from.
Uh and you're not, as you say, by any stretch of the situation or imagination alone.
Lucille, thanks for the call.
Really appreciate it.
I'm gonna take a stab at answering my question.
Obama literally pushing people to snap, attacking the very sanity of the country.
To what end?
Aside from wanting everybody's name on a list of some kind.
Why is Obama doing all of this?
I mean, all of this is so in our face.
Everything that people hold dear is under assault.
Deliberately making people upset.
This is not what presidents do.
Deliberately making people upset.
And maybe this is about revenge.
And Obama used that word when he was on the campaign trail prior to the election.
He told his supporters in Ohio to go vote and get their revenge.
Revenge against who?
Well, obviously the people that disagree with Obama.
But who are those people?
He clearly knows who they are.
And I think the root of this, I think the answer to my question can be found in the comment that Obama made when he thought he was off the record at a fundraiser in San Francisco, when he talked about the bitter clingers.
These are people that the liberals all know.
These are the not very bright people that want life to never change.
They don't want any progress.
They want to remain cloistered in their archaic antique past.
And when things don't go right, when there's too much change, when there are too much progress or progressivism, uh like when there's civil rights laws, they don't like it.
When there's gay rights and gay marriage, they don't like it.
Uh when there's uh you know, all kinds of cultural rot on TV, uh, they they don't like it.
And so what do these people do?
They're they get bitter and they cling to their guns and they cling to their religion, and they get bitter, they cling to their guns, bitter cling to their religion, and they they cling to their antipathy for people that don't look like them.
And this would have this would include minorities and immigrants and so forth.
Maybe it is that that's who Obama wants revenge on.
Maybe he has an active dislike for the people he calls the bitter clingers.
That birth control mandate was revenge on the bitter clingers.
People clinging to their religion, when things are happening so fast around them they don't understand and they don't like, so they cling to their religion as though being religious is clinging to something.
When people move in, they don't look like them and don't like them, they cling to their archaic sexist and racist views, and they grab their guns or what have you.
He said, I'm not surprised, it's not surprising they get bitter.
They cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
And if you notice now, Obama has found a way to get back at them on every single point.
He is in their face on guns, he's in their face on religion, he's in their face on immigration.
Amnesty by executive order was revenge on those who don't like immigrants, those who don't like people that in his view, in his view and in the view of a lot of leftists.
You people in Kentucky, for example.
You in the hills of Kentucky and West Virginia.
And in uh in Georgia and the Carolinas, down there in Mississippi, uh ABA.
I mean, you people, you you you're the ones.
You don't you don't like all this change, so you cling to all these old fashioned standards.
And you're holding this country back for moving forward, being modern and so forth.
Maybe that's it.
But it it's clearly he has animosity for these people that he calls the bigger bitter clingers, and everything he's done has been in their face.
It really has.
And it continued today.
With this massive new effort now to stop gun violence, which is what they're now calling gun control.
Wanna go to the audio sound bites here.
Go back and replay the uh NRA ed that has the left in a tizzy.
Well, they were this morning.
They're a little mollified now that Obama has spoken.
But the NRA took it right to Obama.
Are the president's kids more important than yours?
Then why is he skeptical about putting armed security in our schools when his kids are protected by armed guards at their school?
Mr. Obama demands the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes.
But he's just another elitist hypocrite when it comes to a fair share of security.
Oh, you don't do that.
You don't call Obama an elitist hypocrite.
His kids are more important than yours.
And you should damn well know that.
You should respect that.
His kids are more important than yours.
He's Barack Obama.
He's more important than you are.
You ought to understand it's ill it's okay for him to do whatever he has to do to stay safe, because he's our leader.
We're nothing without him.
And he's nothing without his family.
You've got to understand that.
We can lose your kids.
We can have your kids get kidnapped.
And that's that's that's one thing, but not his kids kidnapped.
We know no.
That country can't put up with that.
And a bunch of leftist bloggers actually started tweeting things that I just said.
His kids are more important than yours.
Yes, they are.
He's the leader.
He's a deer leader.
He's entitled to better food than you have, he's entitled to more travel, better travel, he's entitled to a nicer house than you.
Because we all need him.
That's what they think.
Here is the state-run media in lockstep on this.
The NRA gets personal against the president.
A harsh personal attack on the president.
An ad that gets very personal.
It's already pretty personal.
It's personal now.
A new NRA web ad makes no bones about it.
We're going for the jugular.
See, Obama's never personal.
His bitter clinger comments, that's not personal.
When he mocks, makes fun of people who aren't like him.
That's not personal.
When Obama says he doesn't know what's in Rush Limbaugh's heart, that's not personal.
When Obama says whatever he says about the NRA or whatever he said about Romney, that wasn't personal.
Calling Romney a felon, his campaign, accusing Romney of heartlessly standing by while a man's wife died from cancer.
That's not personal.
No, no, see, Obama's never personal.
Obama's the essence of a wonderful spirit.
He's the essence of perfection.
The NRA.
That's just getting mean and nasty and personal now.
So Obama can say whoever or whatever about whoever he wants, and it's just the way it is.
And you better damn well agree with it.
If you don't, and if you voice your disapproval, you're getting personal, and that makes you a target.
You don't do that.
Not at all.
Here is uh Yvette Gainesville, Florida.
I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, how are you?
Good.
Thank you very much for calling.
Oh, thank you for having me on.
Okay, gun violence, gun control.
I like the comments of the children standing behind him and writing the letters.
But are those the same children who wrote letters to Santa Claus?
Hoping that he's gonna bring them toys and gifts that Santa Claus isn't real.
So we're gonna put our thoughts behind or our hopes.
Are you questioning the president's commitment to the safety of those children?
I'm questioning the the president's reality.
If he really wants to stop gun violence or reduce gun violence, it's gonna take more or something different than gun control.
Because controlling guns means only the um law abiding citizens will not have guns.
Drug dealers will have guns, terrifys will have guns, you know that's people will have guns.
That's true.
I I I I've often wondered what is so hard for the left to understand about that.
By definition, the law abide if you have gun control laws, the law abiding will be the only people that don't have guns.
I mean, you've y in fact the string most stringent gun control laws in the country today are DC and New York, and they've got the highest crime rates with guns.
Doesn't that tell them something?
So it must it must be something to do with uh not with guns.
It's gotta be about something totally different than gun control.
I think it does.
It's it's terrible that twenty-six people died in Sandy Hook and twenty of them were children.
Terrible.
Very sad, coming up to Christmas, hopes and dreams and young children had their parents and weddings and graduations that would never occur.
However, on any given day in America, more than three thousand children are killed from abortion.
And we have no problems with that.
We're okay with that.
It's it's not an issue.
So you can't spend forty years of telling people and selling children that if I make a mistake, if something comes up, and this child I don't want is in the way of my future, in the way of me graduating high school, is in the way of me going to college, is the way of me being happy, is in the way of whatever I want out of life.
It's okay for me to kill the baby, but later on when I become a disgruntled employee, when I become an unhappy student at school because children are bullying me, that I want to eliminate them and get them out of the way, it's the same concept.
Well, it's a good point.
You know how to stop abortion?
Require that each one occur with a gun.
Holy cow, now the New York police department wants GPS locators on every prescription bottle of medicine.
Yeah, it's a CN just hand the story.
Because of uh th theft.
Theft of prescription drugs out of drug stores, they want GPS locators on the bottles.
Now the way around does anybody know a way around that?
That's right, you put you you you you put them in a different container.
Uh the way they'll deal with that, no, then they'll have a container that only dispenses one at a time within a certain time frame, whatever the prescription is.
You'll have to bash that bottle open to get to them, and when that happens, an alarm is sent out that you have you have creamed a prescription bottle and the cops will descend on you.
Well, where else would it go?
If they come up, what do you think they're gonna do when people figure out how to get thirty-two ounces of coke when they're not allowed to?
They're gonna come up with something they're gonna sit there and be embarrassed or humiliated.
It's exactly right.
They'll get children to write letters to Obama.
Dear President Obama.
I live in New York City.
My name is Zood Johnny.
And the mayor, my Dunberg had just passed a law saying to my parents, no, I can have a shoulder larger than sixteen ounces.
I just saw my sister have one with twenty-four ounces.
Dear President Obama, what can we do to stop this?
So we bring all these kids up to the White House out of the theory that we're poisoning them.
Bring all these brave, courageous kids ratting out everybody they know, having larger than sixteen ounce sodas.
And we'll have soda control.
No, I have to go home and get a haircut and then um I did something I never done before.
I dropped my iPhone.
Abby, the uh the eldest sheepdog, was so happy to see me this morning, she stampeded at me, and I I dropped my iPhone on on my hard sidewalk and the and the glass cracked.
So I gotta go home and and uh activate a new phone.
I've gotta restore, I gotta back up the old one, restore from the back up, then sink.
That takes a couple hours, get a haircut and so forth, and start working on tomorrow's program.
So, no, I can't.
Um, that's what I gotta do.
Anyway, folks, you just be cool and calm.
Everything's going to be fine.
Uh tell you when it's not.
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