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Jan. 29, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 29, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #1
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The drive-by media, the state controlled media is a buzz.
With the fact that Senator Marco Rubio will be our guest on this program in exactly one hour.
They're all talking about it.
And the subject, of course, is amnesty.
Sorry.
Um uh immigration reform.
Comprehensive, meaningful comprehensive immigration reform, and boy, that's what it is.
It's not amnesty.
We don't call it I'm sorry.
It's exactly right, Senator.
It's uh meaningful, comprehensive immigration reform.
And uh look, here's we put together a montage of the media, all a Twitter about Senator Rubio's appearance here in an hour.
Today, he's gonna talk to Rush Limbaugh.
Rush Limbaugh today.
He is the point person in talking to that universe.
One thing I'd say to watch is that Rush Limbaugh interview, because Rush Limbaugh on his show yesterday said, I want to call on Fox News and others to join me in defeating this plan.
Rush Limbaugh still has juice with the base.
I didn't say that.
Did I did you hear me say that?
I'm gonna call on Fox News and others to join me in defeating this plan.
I re I don't recall saying that.
That doesn't matter.
I'm quoted as saying things I never said constantly.
But you see, it's uh it's out there.
Now there's something fast and I'm gonna withhold some of the stuff about immigration until we get Senator Rubio, but the president is flying to uh Las Vegas today, and he's going to announce his own immigration reform plan, and the Democrats, a lot of Democrats are begging him not to do that.
You know, don't insert yourself.
Let the Senate handle this and then deal with whatever comes your way.
But the president is going to propose something that if people who have already spoken on the record mean what they say, this thing doesn't have a snowball's chance of seeing a light of day, because the president has said, see the common denominator here, when you get down, when you when you get when you get down to the brass tax, when you take the politics out of it and the motivation why the Republicans are doing that, after you have that discussion.
The meat and potatoes of this comes down to border security.
That's the common denominator.
That's what the gang of eight is promising.
This gang of eight senators is promising.
It's not gonna be like eighty-six.
We're gonna make sure we secure the border for their prompt, just like they did in 86, by the way.
And just like they did in 2007, just like they always do, they are promising that border security will happen first, and that the law will be enforced, and only then will the process of assimilation and dealing with the uh whatever number of uh illegals are in the country, only then will they be dealt with.
Only then will the path to citizenship be uh uh uh spelled out.
Well, folks, the president's going out to Las Vegas today, and he is going to make the point that he doesn't want any border enforcement in his immigration bill.
He's going to oppose that aspect of the Senate bill.
He's gonna make a point of saying he doesn't want border enforcement in this, and certainly not first.
Now, this goes to something that I have always said, well, always, but I've said frequently.
When you get down to the basics of Republicans versus Democrats, there is no common ground.
There is no place for compromise.
The Democrats have no desire to compromise.
Certainly the president doesn't.
He's all about victory, victory, which that's politics, and I'm not being critical of that.
I mean, don't misunderstand.
It's politics and you know the cliche, all is fair and love and war.
I'm saying the Republicans don't, I'm not sure they understand what they're up against.
You know, everybody talks about bipartisanship and compromise, and the Republicans buy that.
Okay, that's what the voters want.
They want us to get along, bipartisan compromise.
And so they come up with compromise plans.
The president's not going to compromise anything.
He's not going to compromise.
He doesn't want to compromise.
He he is all about ultimate total victory.
He wants to eliminate any viable opposition to him in the media, in the Senate, in the House.
He doesn't want he didn't negotiate on the dead limit.
He said he's not going to negotiate on the on the fiscal cliff, didn't say he's not going to negotiate on the dead limit.
He's not going to negotiate on anything.
As far as he's concerned, he doesn't have to.
He won.
Yet we are, by guys, we, the Republicans are going into this with the idea that they're going to compromise.
There is no compromise.
As such, there is no common ground.
There wasn't any common ground in the fiscal cliff deal.
There isn't any common ground in the debt limit deal.
There's there's nothing in common.
Compromise is not what the president, and I actually think by extension the Democrat Party themselves, are interested in.
And if you were them, why would you want a compromise?
You just won in your mind.
You just won everything and you want it big.
And you're running around thinking the vast majority of American people are with you.
So what is this compromise business?
The media runs around thinking they're a little shocked.
You remember that press conference, F. Chuck Todd and Major Garrett.
Mr. President, why would you compromise?
Don't you think Republicans gave I'm not going to compromise?
And he went on to talk about how the Republicans, the greatest threat to mankind the world has ever faced.
And his objective is to eliminate them.
It's a political force.
So if the if if the gang of eight makes it clear, and by the they did in 86, Tim, this is a way to sell it to you.
If they claim that nothing's going to happen until they secure the border, that's going to happen.
They promise they're going to secure the border.
Ted Kennedy said he was going to do it in '86.
McCain said he's going to do it in '07.
They're saying they're going to do it now, they're going to secure the border.
And only then will we then start talking about a path to uh to citizenship.
But if the president is not interested in it, then what really is going on here?
See, my question is, does the president really want an immigration reform bill on his desk that he can sign, or would he prefer to have this as an ongoing, unsolved issue over which he can beat the Republicans' heads.
He can talk all day long about his balanced approach and how the Republicans refuse to meet him halfway when it's the exact opposite in reality.
He'll use the same language, balanced approach, fair this, fair that.
Everybody having a fair shot, level playing field, equal opportunity.
Everybody's got to give a little bit to come up with this straw men that uh that he claims are standing in the way of this, they'll all happen to be Republicans.
And because I'm telling you, to me, I'm just a casual observer here.
But if the gang of eight is promising everybody border enforcement will happen, that's the common denominator.
That's the thing that has to happen, and the president's out there saying, I'm not gonna have any border security.
I mean, Obama's gonna go to Vegas and make a speech and Oppose the Senate bill's border enforcement requirements.
Does that tell you that he's interested in any kind of a deal?
In any kind of a compromise.
It doesn't say that to me.
I think the president's having a grand old time, folks.
I think he is enjoying beating the Republicans up left and right.
I think he's enjoying the media helping him do that.
I think he's having the time of his life.
Why stop now?
He knows he can get this immigration thing any time he wants it.
Why go ahead and do it now?
And by the way, if the president can play this the right way, he can win the House for the Democrats in 2014 by once again exposing the Republicans as racist, anti-Hispanic, unwilling to compromise, unwilling to meet him halfway in his usual fashion.
Here's Obama's itinerary today.
By the way, that's true.
You know what?
This this quote in this soundbite, and I don't know who is it that's uh Oh, Jim Vande High Politico.
He's the one who said, because Rush said on his show yesterday, I want to call on Fox News and others to join me in defense.
I didn't say that.
Not only did I not say that, I said that I didn't even think Fox News was on our side in the amnesty debate.
What I said was, I think we're all alone out there, folks.
I don't think Fox News is even on our side, the Wall Street Journal's not on our side.
And the same people that own the Wall Street Journal own Fox.
Anyway, President's itinerary, 920, that's three hours ago.
He left for uh the uh departed the White House.
1125 Pacific, and that would be 225 Eastern.
He arrives in Las Vegas.
At 255 Eastern, delivers his speech on immigration at Del Sol Haskrule.
At 2 p.m., 5 p.m.
Pacific, rather, he departs Vegas and comes back.
This guy is flying nine hours to make a 30-minute speech in Las Vegas and then return.
Nine hours total, four and a half out, four and a half back, basically.
And he's making a point that he is not going to support this whole notion of border security.
Of course he's not.
The Democrat Party doesn't want a secure border.
The Democrat Party, you know, as long as a bunch of media people are listening.
Let me just Democrat Party needs a permanent underclass.
We've discussed this before.
You people in media may have missed this.
Democrat Party needs a permanent underclass.
They need a certain number of voters constantly in economic distress, constantly in need of assistance of government.
And open borders is a great way to provide an influx of what I what I call a the the need that they have here for permanent underclass.
They're also future voters.
And I I'll repeat again, you know, uh when the election results were in and everybody was a little bit surprised at the outcome.
What was the what were the two things that were said by Democrats and by the media?
You know, you Republicans, if you if you if you're ever going to change your own fortunes, you're gonna have to change your attitude on Hispanics and immigration and women and abortion.
You're gonna have to.
You're gonna have to, you're gonna have to become open border state.
You're gonna have to support amnesty.
You're you you just you're angering all the Hispanics out there.
And I when I heard that, my my first reaction was really a Democrats are trying to help the Republicans.
Is that right?
They feel so bad over Romney's defeat that they're offering advice.
Hey, you Republicans, you know, you're really gonna have to do more Hispanic outreach.
You're really gonna have to relax your hard views on border control and immigration.
And the Republicans and their consultant class fell right in the line.
It's that's exactly right, they said.
We are we are much perceived to be much too anti Hispanic, anti-immigration.
We've got to totally moderate our tone on that.
We gotta be much more open to the idea of uh open borders and and uh and illegal immigration and a path to citizenship and so forth.
And I thought that's very strange.
The Democrats actually offering to share some of their voters with us.
The Democrats actually offering, give us some of their voters, not just Hispanic voters, but women voters too, because they told us that we're gonna have to change our mind on abortion.
And have to come more pro-choice.
If we did that, we'd get more women voters.
Really, a Democrats are interested in us getting more of their voters.
How nice of them.
Whoever thought these guys would be that magnanimous in victory, that they won by so much that they're willing to give us some of their voters if we'll just change and compromise on our core principles.
Now I want to repeat a proposal.
As we go to our first obscene profit timeout, I want to prep repeat a very simple proposal I made back in November.
Because I am interested in compromise.
I am interested in everybody getting along.
I'm interested in solving problems.
And I suggested this.
I said that I will openly back amnesty.
No questions asked.
Blanket amnesty.
If there would be a ban on illegals voting for 25 years.
Remember that proposal?
I, L. Rush, I will lead the charge for amnesty.
I will lead the charge.
Instant citizenship of everybody who is here at the moment illegally.
With one proviso, none of them could vote for 25 years.
I didn't have any takers.
Nobody in either sub either party offered to support me, or neither party opened their arms and welcomed me to the fold here.
I mean, here I like to say I'm all for amnesty.
Here's my idea.
Because if my point is if if it's really about citizenship, if it's really about freedom, if it's really about opening the country to the oppressed, fine, let them in.
They can't vote for 25 years.
And if they can't vote, then my point was to illustrate how valuable are they really in terms of this immigration debate.
And I just wanted to remind you, I made that offer.
I made that proposal, and even as we speak now, not one taker.
One other little interesting tidbit about President Obama and his immigration plan that he will announce in Las Vegas today.
Same-sex couples will be a part of the proposal for addressing immigration reform.
Obama is scheduled to unveil today in Las Vegas.
This has been confirmed by a website called BuzzFeed.
Democrat source said same-sex couples will be part of his proposal.
A second source confirmed that unlike the Senate framework and a gang of eight released on Monday, same-sex by national couples, BI-national, by national couples, those with one emer one American and one foreign partner will be included in the uh in the White House principles.
There's nothing like mixing agenda items here to get everybody totally confused.
So they're going to have same-sex, bi-national couples.
Those with one American and one foreign partner included in the White House principles.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered American citizens simply have no way to confer citizenship on their romantic partners.
Something that's automatic for straight couples.
That's not fair.
So it's going to be Added in there to Obama's immigration bill.
Hubbahub.
Am I misreading the clock here?
Oh, okay.
The clock.
I'm showing 2930 right now.
Was it 2830?
Okay.
A broadcast format is nothing changed here, folks.
I've got an analog clock I'm looking at.
You know what it happens is sometimes the minute hand gets ahead of where it ought to be.
I was hustling to finish that right at the time I thought the ear splitting tone was gonna hit.
And then it didn't hit, and nobody said anything.
So I looked at the clock, I said, hmm.
And normally things like this are never my fault, so I didn't immediately think that.
Anyway, now we gotta take the break.
We'll do that.
Brief timeout.
We will continue in mere moments after this, to do not vanish.
Do not go away.
And we're back on a cutting edge Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Don't ask you a quick question.
When you go to bed at night, do you lock your front door or your back door?
Are you not afraid that that will offend your neighbors?
Well, I mean, it's the same thing as border security when it comes to um immigration.
People who claim to oppose border security say that it's going to offend people.
That border security is basically a message.
We don't want you here.
So we really we shouldn't do that because it sends a bad message.
And I was just wondering, it's not saying it's border security, but you don't want your house to be secure, so you do lock the door, right?
And you worry about your neighbors being offended?
No, I didn't think so.
Consumer confidence.
Uh according to the uh Paul from Reuters, consumer confidence fell much further than expected in January.
January consumer confidence reading fell to 58.6.
Economists had forecast that consumer confidence would fall to 64 from uh last month's reading of 65.
I don't know what these numbers mean.
I don't know if 120 is great confidence, 115.
But it's plunging and it's plunging uh far faster.
And far further than any of the economic experts expected.
Here's a story right up Snerdley's Alley.
Twin Cities.
The uh University of Minnesota.
University of Minnesota, I'm not kidding here, is set to hold an event this spring designed to help its female undergraduate students achieve more and greater orgasms.
The uh university's official online description of the event entitled The Female Orgasm describes it as open to both male and female students.
Orgasm aficionados, as it says here.
Orgasm aficionados and beginners of all genders are welcome to come learn about everything from multiple orgasms to the mysterious G spot.
Reads the description posted on the screws.
Official events calendar.
Whether you want to learn how to have your first orgasm, how to have better ones, or how to help your girlfriend Kate and Marshall cover it all.
Are you coming?
It asks.
The description of the event, which is hosted by the university's Office of Diversity and Equities Women's Center.
It's a university-sponsored event.
Doesn't say whether there is an age requirement.
While the average age of undergraduates at the University of Minnesota is 21.
It's not uncommon for students to enroll at the age of 17.
By the way, batteries are not included at this event.
You have to bring your own.
University spokeswoman Patricia Mattern suggested there is in fact no wage requirement.
The educational workshop is open to the full university community and participation is voluntary.
The program is going to cost the university $3,406.
And is part of the university's mission of research.
Now, I don't think that this is a Satire piece.
It could well be.
The uh website is called Campus Reform.
And it's ostensibly from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.
Orgasm officionados.
Attending an event designed to help female undergraduate students achieve more and greater.
Don, if your daughter attended this school and the thing, what would you what would your reaction be?
You wouldn't be happy, right?
How many um how many of you guys hearing this saying you volunteer to be professor?
How many?
How many of you say, hey, I'll show up and teach?
No charge, I'll do it, grant us, I'll comp it.
This sounds like a thing made the order for shorty law, the guy in Atlanta, the rapper, eleven kids with uh with ten baby mamas.
I'm not making it up, folks.
The university's Office of Diversity and Equities Women's Center.
And I don't think this is a a uh you know a prank post.
There's a there's a poster for it.
I love I heart the female orgasm.
Jim Harbaugh, the coach of the San Francisco Foreigners, was asked to respond to President Obama saying he probably would not let his son Trayvon play football today.
Harbaugh, the uh media uh uh conference that the Forders had at their hotel in LA yesterday when they got into town reporters said to Harbaugh a few days ago, President Obama made a comment that if if he had a son like Trayvon, he wasn't sure he'd want his son to play football.
Are you concerned that there's a perception that the game of football is unsafe and a lot of parents might feel that way?
President Obama feels that way, then uh be a little less competition for Jack Harbaugh when he gets older.
That's the first thing that jumps into my mind if other parents are thinking that way.
But uh, it's still early.
Jack is only five months old, but he's a really big kid.
He's got an enormous head.
That's Jim Harbaugh, a coach of the Foreigners, talking about his five-month-old son.
It's a great answer.
Well, if uh if if President Obama feels that way, there's gonna be a little less competition for my son.
And we mentioned this.
I don't know.
I really, you know, the the the press release here on the uh the orgasm seminar at the University of Minnesota doesn't say anything about lessons on faking it.
I got an email.
Well, it why assume hands-on experts?
What how else you're gonna do this?
But there's nothing here about um fake orgasms.
And I don't know whether they're gonna be giving away cigarettes.
Everybody knows an orgasm leads to smoking.
Everybody knows that.
And uh I I'm assuming that orgasms are covered under Obamacare.
This uh cost of this thing three thousand four hundred and six dollars.
That's what it's gonna cost the university.
Why is this gonna cost anybody anything?
Oh, it must be.
The three thousand bucks must be for the cigarettes, the post-coital tobacco bliss.
Uh, exactly right.
So Jim Harbaugh is not bothered by the president's position.
It basically saying that football is uh unsafe.
Let's take a brief time out, another obscene profit timeout.
L. Rushbaugh at the EIB network, and again a reminder, Senator Marco Rubio on immigration at the top of the next hour.
Talent on lawn from God.
An Eastern Pennsylvania has scruel says that vandalism has forced it to create a policy in which toilet paper has been taken out of the boys' bathrooms.
Boys at Mahanoi Area High School, or Maho Ma Mahanoi, I guess.
Boys at Mahanoi Area Hascrol must now go to the the principal's office, the school office to request toilet paper and sign it out.
The principal, Thomas Smith, says that it's helped solve a major problem.
Students intentionally clogging the toilets.
It's been going on there for two years.
The principal says that boys have to sign out the toilet paper, and then they have to sign it back in.
The newspaper, the Republican Herald of Pottsville, reports that some parents are protesting the policy.
One parent, Karen Yedcena, says some students are too embarrassed to go to the office to get toilet paper, they're going home sick instead.
I don't understand that.
Okay, so you gotta go now.
You get the boys, not the girls, the boys have to go to the principal's office and s and request toilet paper.
There's none in the bathroom, because these guys have been clogging the toilets with us.
So he took it out of there.
Okay, so you've got to go in there, you have to sign out toilet paper.
In a lot of instances, you don't have this kind of time.
So you go sign out the toilet paper and you go in the bathroom.
Then you've got to take it back and sign it back in.
And one parent said that a lot of students are too embarrassed to go ask for toilet paper, and they are going home sick instead.
I guess what that means is that the child is going to the principal's office.
I'm sick, I feel horrible.
I I I've got to go home.
As an excuse to go home and use the bathroom.
Because they're too embarrassed to go out there and ask for toilet paper, because I assume that the parents says, look, everybody knows what's going to happen here when you go in and ask for toilet paper.
It's a little embarrassing thing to do.
Wait till Cheryl Crow hears about this.
She knows she's gonna love this.
She had this idea of one sheet.
One sheet per person.
This is back when she was dating Lance Arms.
Hell, I would dope too.
Uh let's say, David, near the Colorado border.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
Hi.
Hi, Russ.
I've been listening to you for over 25 years.
Uh when I lived in uh California uh until now.
This situation about the uh Hispanic uh vote, that's all it is that they're they're trying to get.
They keep uh trying to make the Hispanics like a prize.
David, let me interrupt.
Let me let me interrupt to ask you a qu I I need to ask you a question.
Do you hear me?
Yeah.
Okay, I need to ask you because you said something very intriguing to me.
Are are you Hispanic?
Yes, I am.
I'm Puerto Rican.
I was born in New York in Baffert Stuyvesant.
Okay over 75 years ago.
And I'm trying I'm tired of people trying to treat us like we're the prize.
Treat us with respect and integrity.
Stop uh making uh fuss over Hispanics.
We're not any better than any other American in this country, and I get sick and tired of these people trying to make us the prize.
If people want uh a good country to live in and a decent salary and a uh decent way of life, that's all they need.
Hispanic, Italian, Jewish, French, whatever.
And stop making uh situation like we're some kind of uh uh prize that we're gonna get and we're gonna get welfare.
Why did you leave out the Irish?
Are you anti-Irish?
No, no, I was if you know where Bitford Stivus is in Brooklyn.
I was born with every nationality around me that you can think of, including Chinese.
I lived uh one block from a black neighborhood.
I understand block from a Jewish neighborhood.
I understand.
So the the the question I have for you, you are of the opinion.
When you you you're basically saying you you resent being pandered to, you resent being treated like a pawn because what you think this is all about is simply getting your vote.
You don't think that any of this is about you as a human being.
No, it is not.
They're treating us like like I just said, like a pawn.
If you know New York, you uh worked out of there, and 75% of it is Democrat.
They'll promise you everything in the world.
And this president has come up with everything that he can think of to get your vote.
He don't uh honor you or uh you know take the Well see that's that's that's the point, David.
I mean you've you've hit on this.
This is precisely in in a lot of people.
I'm not not I'm not saying everybody who is interested in immigration reform is this way, but I'm gonna say the v vast majority of politicians who are focused on this are are purely seeing votes.
That's exactly what you are.
You are a pawn or you're to be used, you're a uh um uh the object of uh well you you you've been objectified.
Let's put it that way.
You you almost as an Hispanic, you've been stigmatized.
You're unfairly treated, uh that that's the assumption, and we've got to go overboard to treat you fairly, but it is about your vote.
You know, the the question has often been asked in in recent years, why do immigrants come here anymore?
It used to be without question, without any debate, immigration, people that immigrated here sought freedom.
They sought freedom from oppression where they lived.
They simply wanted to be free.
They wanted liberty and they wanted to be Americans.
And they wanted to come here and assimilate and become part of the United States of America.
That's not so much the case in at least certainly not universally anymore.
Uh Heather McDonald, Manhattan Institute, a number of others have done academic research on this, and and they they have found that in terms of uh Hispanic immigrants voting Democrat, it has nothing to do with immigration policy.
It's all about the fact they believe in government as the source of prosperity.
And that's what the Democrat Party loves.
They want people thinking government's the source of prosperity.
I think the number was astounding.
I think if I if I remember right, in the heat of McDonald's piece, seventy-five percent of the Hispanic vote for the Democrat Party is not about immigration.
It's about the their belief.
It's it's maybe a little bit strong to say they're voting for the welfare state, but they certainly believe that government is the source of prosperity.
They believe in it.
They believe in the party of government.
Uh a lot of Republicans seem to think that it's still all about liberty and freedom and being the best you can be and escaping oppression, and it is for some.
But not it's not universal anymore.
Certainly not uh as it used to be.
David, thanks much.
You're Jennifer in Columbia, South Carolina.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
We uh we are really proud to say that here at the University of South Carolina we have um evidently pamphlets all over about the female orgasm course that's gonna be taking place at 8 p.m. tonight here tonight here in Columbia.
So I just wanted to uh make you aware that it sounds like it's not just one year.
Wait a second.
You telling me that this is nationwide?
Well, I can say that it's here in South Carolina.
And you know, honestly, I think President Obama should weigh in on it because for some people, sex and orgasms can be deadly.
So he really it could be very dangerous for our universities to be teaching this, and he needs to weigh in on it.
Well, you're basically you're talking about the concept of orgasm fairness.
Uh well, sure, absolutely.
Orgasm redistribution.
And as a married woman of 19 years and 41 years old, a successful uh executive here in Columbia, I I mean I am not offended at all.
Let's just say it that way by uh by having to be told what to do with my husband.
And for young women not to be able to figure that out with this the person of their voice, it's just ridiculous.
So you know, maybe they need I have two sons.
They might need to have the class for the sons too.
Because I'm not sure they can figure it out.
So, you know, just let's let's be fair about it.
You think there's some guys that may okay, well, uh we we're learning things.
It's not just the University Of Minnesota, where the Orgasm Seminar, female Orgasm Seminar taking place.
Lots of questions about the female orgasm course being offered, apparently now at multiple universities across the country.
Um I do not know if the orgasm course is being offered on the internet.
Something you'll have to uh look into yourself.
Okay, a top of the hour break.
And when we get back, Senator Marco Rubio at the top of the next hour.
Don't go away, folks.
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