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Feb. 6, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 6, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Hey, here's an item might interest Governor Christie.
Just cleared the wires.
Crispy Cream Donuts has teamed up with the makers of Oreo cookies to produce a couple of limited edition donuts.
Go on sale on February 19th and be available only through April 21st.
Cookies and cream donut made with Oreo, so be an Oreo flavored cream filling and Oreo cookie pieces as part of a crispy cream donut.
I have no idea why.
It's a limited edition donut, Krispy Kreme and Oreo.
I don't know what spawned it.
I don't know what the deal is.
Uh donuts are being produced in a licensing agreement with Mandalese International, which owns the Oreo brand.
The Christie Cream donut.
Oreos owned by.
Oh, that's right.
That was part of RJ Arnabisco, which got sold to KKR, which couldn't afford it, which then sold it to.
Yeah, okay.
Forgotten about that.
Greetings, folks, welcome back.
L. Rushball here having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have telephone numbers 800-282-2882.
Do you know that the president thinks it's okay to ask him questions about his drone strikes?
It's okay.
Nothing will happen to you if you ask questions.
The White House press briefing today, Jay Carney, the White House spokes kid, actually said this.
He thinks that uh it is legitimate to uh ask questions about uh how we prosecute uh the war against Al Qaeda.
Uh it is something that he has discussed internally.
It is his belief in these issues, his belief that we need to move forward with more transparency as well as create uh in his words a legal framework uh around how these decisions are made.
Wow, how big of him.
Folks, you realize this is um really magnanimous.
The President Obama thinks it's perfectly legitimate to ask questions about how we're gonna prosecute the war against Al Qaeda.
I guess it I guess there'd been some question about whether or not questions were permitted.
But now I guess it's okay.
Some people wondered whether or not it was permissible to inquire.
Uh now the regime has said that they will permit inquiry.
Permission is given to ask questions about this.
And furthermore, do you know what Obama has discussed uh internally as he believes it's necessary to do.
He's discussed uh internally his belief that we need to move forward more transparency.
So Obama has told people in the Oval Office, you know, uh we we need to make sure people have a better idea what we're doing here.
His belief to be more transparent, this memo was leaked.
They didn't put this out.
This drone strike thing didn't get announced that this memo was leaked.
They were trying to well, somebody leaked it.
I mean, it was probably purposefully, obviously, but they were still trying to keep this under wraps.
But now that it's out there, because Obama's perfectly fine, and his belief that we move forward with more transparency has created a legal framework around how these decisions are made.
I thought that had been done to, you know, I I've just been assuming too much.
Well, I know the legal framework was done during Bush's time, but I don't think so, Sturdley.
I Well, but Bush.
See, here's the thing that gets me about this.
It wasn't all that long ago at the New York Times and all the rest of the libs, and it was during the campaign, were praising Obama for personally picking the targets on the kill list.
Do you remember that?
Obama and it w and and they were doing these stories to show us how brave and courageous and tough Obama is.
He's not your typical liberal softy.
He's not your typical liberal pansy panty waste when it comes to the military.
He is personally picking the targets on the drone kill list.
They've told us that.
Now the same news organizations are doing stories about how dangerous it is that the president has reserved for himself the ability and the authority to just kill anybody that they think might be involved with terrorism, al-Qaeda and all that.
That they think.
Now there's a little concern.
So what happened to all this praise for how the gutsy no nonsense brave, courageous president Obama is.
You know, Congress had asked for this memo and others, and the White House had refused while talking about all this transparency.
They've been asking for this, these memos on the kill list for years from Obama.
And now it's a big one eighty here.
Oh, yeah, perfectly fine to ask questions.
Doesn't mean you're gonna get any answers, by the way, but at least we won't send you to the firing squad for asking.
That's that's the message here.
We will not punish you for asking.
You're perfectly entitled to ask.
You're gonna get diddly squat, know that going in, but we'll entertain the questions.
And you will walk out alive.
You will not be imprisoned, we'll throw you in the dungeon with the rest of our political prisoners like the guy that did the video who's still in jail.
Two Democrat congressmen are tapping into what they call a ground swell of public opinion by introducing legislation to legalize marijuana on the federal level and then tax it and regulate it like alcohol and tobacco.
Well, this was a no-brainer.
You knew this is gonna happen.
What surprises me it's happening at the federal level before California.
But they're gonna legalize it.
Well, I'm not gonna the the push is on.
Now this is the first step to eventually legalizing pot and then taxing it and regulating it.
These are Colorado Representative Jared Police, or Polis, I'm not sure he pronounces it, P O L I S introduced the ending marijuana prohibition act yesterday.
The bill would remove marijuana from the schedule of controlled substances and put the DEA, prohibit the DEA from regulating it.
Marijuana would be regulated under the to-be newly named Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Marijuana and fire like that.
I know we're gonna regulate marijuana.
I mean, they're gonna rename ATF to ATMF.
Really?
They take the regulation of marijuana away from the DEA and they put it at ATF and they're gonna rename the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms to the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Marijuana, and Firearms.
If the bill passed, it would mean that states would be free to set their own marijuana policies without the threat of federal intervention, uh which is currently the greatest hurdle to marijuana industries in Colorado and Washington, which legalize the adult recreational use by wide margins in November.
Americans have increasingly come to the conclusion that the drug war is a failed policy, said Jared Police.
And I'm look, I'm only pronouncing that way because it him uh uh uh what it was, Hilda Solis.
It's P O L I S, I'm assuming it's not police.
Anyway, Americans are sick and tired of the cost of the war on drugs, whether we're talking about the financial costs and uh time of deficits, or whether we're talking about the human costs, said that There's been uh an enormous evolution in public sentiment toward marijuana and that legalization sorry, wrong button is an idea whose time has come.
When I say wrong, but I got two buttons here.
One is a button which tells New York to go to commercial.
The other is the cough button.
And they're real close together.
And when I miss the cough button, your button you can't hear sends an ear splitting tone to the broadcast engineer.
And so when I don't want to go to commercial, I say wrong button.
So I don't want you to be confused out there what I'm talking about.
So I meant that the cough button and I missed it, hit the slate button, and I didn't want to slate anything.
So anyway, I'm probably like you not surprised at all.
This has been coming for the purposes of money.
Tax it.
Regulate it.
Make it available everywhere.
It's harmless.
And besides that, it has medicinal value.
Loveland, Colorado, a second grader, has been s suspended from scrub for a make-believe game that he was playing.
Seven-year-old says that he was trying to save the world in his make-believe game.
Scruel administrators say he broke a key rule during his pretend play.
This is a perfect story as we find ourselves in the midst of an anti-gun hysteria.
A seven-year-old kid, Alex Evans.
I was trying to save people, and I I just can't believe I got I got dispended.
It's called Rescue the World.
That's the game I was playing.
What it is, he's playing a game during recess at the Mary Blair Elementary School in Loveland, and he threw an imaginary hand grenade into a box with pretend evil forces inside.
I pretended the box, there's something shaking in it, and I go pfft.
He fake threw a grenade.
He didn't throw anything real.
He didn't make any threats against anyone.
He said that he was pretending to be the hero so that nothing can get out and destroy the world.
Inside that box is all the evil.
And he was saving the world.
He's in a pretend game.
Little boys do this.
You women may not be aware of this.
But little boys play these pretend games all the time.
They pretend to be cowboys, they pretend to be soldiers, uh G.I. Joe, they pretend to be superheroes, they pretend to be saving the world.
Sometimes they even pretend to be saving women.
And this little kid now's been called on it.
His imaginary play acting broke the school's rules.
The school lists absolutes designed to keep a safe environment.
The list includes absolutely no fighting real or imaginary, no weapons, real or imaginary.
And so, ladies and gentlemen, the left wings war on boys continues.
They have almost succeeded now in removing any semblance of masculinity from boys.
Young Alex ought to consider himself lucky, but if anybody knows young Alex, tell Tell him that he just lucky that the president didn't whack him with a drone.
Here is uh Jeff in Bloomington, Illinois.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Great.
It's an honor to talk to you, Rash.
Thank you, sir.
Um certain Obamacare, who's gonna pay for the people who are on unemployment or don't have jobs, have fallen out of the job market altogether, disability.
And the illegals.
Who are gonna pay for those people who have health insurance?
You and I. Oh.
I mean that's this look, the simple answer, Jeff, is that you and I are paying for everything.
There there's no third party pay for this stuff.
Obama's not paying for it.
The government doesn't Have its own money that doesn't first come from us or is not first borrowed or printed.
So the people who earn income are going to be paying for it.
The people who pay taxes are going to be paying for all those others that you mentioned.
So the penalties, you know, if we don't get it, we have to pay a penalty.
They won't have to pay that either, you think?
The well, let me put it this way.
I don't know for a fact, but my assumption is that given Obama's proclivities, I don't think he intends to put in jail or fine his number one constituents.
And that is the poor and the out of work.
That's true.
I think if anybody is going to be penalized under Obama, it's those of us who work.
Now I don't know the I don't know the machinations here.
I I don't know if somebody's unemployed or on food stamps or whatever, and here comes the IRS, okay.
You owe a fine.
Wait a minute of a job.
I don't I I don't know how that's uh gonna work.
I'm I'm sure for the poor the penalties are waived, but I don't know at what level of poverty they're waived.
I don't know what poor means.
Right in terms of waiving the fines.
But you can be darn sure that Obama's constituents are not gonna be hit up.
They're gonna be the beneficiaries.
You know that as well as I do.
That's the whole objective of this.
Right.
That's why they uh that's why they voted for him, and that's conservatives in the middle of Illinois, as few of us as there are.
Um really didn't have a say in it, so it really can be nothing else.
So you you you uh what what today are the unemployed?
I mean, when when Obama comes forth and explains uh his latest policy, who's he aiming at?
Who is it not paying their fair share?
Who is it that's denying everybody else a fair shake?
Who is it that's got to come up with a little more?
Who is it that has more than they need?
People who are working.
I mean, how how could it be otherwise?
And fine the poor.
He's gonna fine people who don't have jobs, not unless they do videos.
And if they don't do that, they're in the clear.
It's the working people to whatever degree are gonna pay.
By the way, in addition to poor old uh Alex Evans in Loveland, Colorado, suspended for pretending to throw a hand grenade as he saved the world in his pretend game from Florence, Arizona, a Hascruel student in Florence said that he's been suspended because of a picture of a gun.
Daniel McLean Jr., freshman at Poston Butte Hascruel.
It might be but B-U-T-T-E.
We'll stick with Butte.
Post and Butte High School said that he saved the picture as his desktop background on his school-issued computer.
A teacher noticed it and turned him in.
That'll teach him.
So the guy's got his desktop picture on his computer is a gun.
A teacher sees it and turns him in.
You know what this reminds me of?
Los Angeles Firehouse back in the early 90s.
A guy had in his cubicle, a fireman, somewhere in his private space, had a Playboy magazine, a newly commissioned female firewoman, walked by and saw it on his desk or whatever the the was there.
It wasn't open, it's just a playboy.
She reported him.
He got in some kind of trouble.
I don't remember if he was suspended or whatever, just for having a playboy.
For use in his private time and his private space.
So now here comes this uh high school student, desktop picture of a gun, a teacher noticed it and turned him in.
The picture is an AK-47 on top of a flag.
McLean said it to Scruel, initially suspended him for a while and then ramped it up.
He's a freshman.
I don't know if you've heard this or not.
You know, Kim Kardashian.
She signed that pledge after the Sandy Hook massacre.
Bunch of people signed it, whatever it was, but that they signed it.
And then you know what she did?
She posted a picture on Twitter of her pistol.
It has a diamond encrusted handle.
And it's it's a pretty pistol.
It is a really gorgeous.
It's got diamonds.
And she posted a picture of it.
And now she's getting all kinds of grief for being a hypocrite.
Because she signed that pledge, whatever the pledge is, and then she posted on Twitter a picture of her gun, and she's catching grief from the low information crowd as a hypocrite.
Pictures, folks, pictures.
And this is how intimidation works.
This is how you end up with a Phil Mickelson apologizing for talking about maybe moving from California.
This is how you end up getting people to snap to and behave the way you want them to when you suspend them for a picture on their computer.
When you suspend them for pretending to throw a hand grenade, this is how you manipulate behavior.
This is how you get people to fall in line.
This is how you intimidate people into abandoning their identity and individuality.
This is how you intimidate people into conforming.
And this is how the left works.
Here is Mike in True County, Georgia.
Great to have you on the EIB Network.
Hello.
Ditto's from one of those two-party kooks.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I'm calling because it seems that the crass media has not really understood that Phil Nicholson's actions was not against the federal government, but against the state of California.
Because it doesn't matter whether he moved to Texas or to Alaska or Timbuktu, New Jersey, his federal taxes are going to be the same.
He was just getting rid of that extra thirteen percent.
Well, not anymore.
Well, not anymore.
But uh that that was what his he was attempting to do.
And so uh when he said that uh Phil was going to hurt all these federal programs, uh what he what he was planning on doing would not be.
Well, this is actually an excellent point.
What what's happening here, folks, is that our buddy Mike from Two County, Georgia's reacting to the demagogue Keith Ellison, those two sound bites we played, where Keith Ellison was Stuart Varney on Fox yesterday on the Neil Cavuto show.
Keith Ellison said, You're damn right, Mickelson owes the 63%.
You're damn right.
We need infrastructure, we need investments into roads and bridges.
We need investments into medical RD.
And what Mike's pointing out, wait a minute, Mickelson wasn't talking about abandoning his federal taxes, he's talking about leaving California.
So none of Keith Ellison's precious federal programs are to be impacted.
That's an excellent point.
But not to throw cold water on your great call, because it's a great, great point.
But that's not why Phil Mickelson got in trouble.
Phil Mickelson got in trouble because he dared to voice what he was thinking.
Phil Mickelson got in trouble because he made himself a perfect target for the left who wants to intimidate people into accepting their policies.
And there's another lesson here, too, and exactly what you say.
It is the concept of federalism.
Mickelson, as is everybody else in the country, is totally free to leave California and move somewhere else where the tax burden is less.
Of course, he can't now because all hell descended on him when he voiced nothing other than the fact he was thinking about it.
But you can't leave the country.
If you don't like the taxes in New York, you can move.
If you don't like them in Montana, wherever, you can move.
But federal taxes, you can't do anything about it.
And other than renouncing your citizenship, giving up your passport, most people are not going to do that.
So in this case, we don't want that kind of freedom.
We don't want people thinking that way.
We don't want people even pondering not paying taxes.
And we don't want people like Mickelson giving other people any ideas.
So a guy like Mickelson who is totally beholden to public opinion because he endorses products.
He's a he's a spokesman for many corporate sponsors.
So he's totally beholden to public opinion.
Phil Mickelson must be loved and adored.
Phil Mickelson cannot in any way approach controversy, or he will lose his sponsorships.
Well, yes, he will.
Others wouldn't, but Mickelson would because of factors.
And so he had to immediately apologize.
He had to immediately rein it back in.
And now he's almost stuck in California, because now if he does move, then they're going to tar and feather him as an ingrate who's somebody shirking their responsibilities.
Somebody who's failing to meet their patriotic duty.
What, Snerdley?
What?
No, no.
Snerdley says I thought the rich handle these loopholes.
The asset wealthy have loopholes.
There aren't any loopholes for the income earner today.
There aren't any loopholes.
If your income is earned, your tax rate's what it is...
You you can't deduct your mortgage over a million bucks.
You can't deduct your charitable or any other deductions over your tax rate, and that's going to be even less.
And there aren't there's not a whole lot you can do with earned income.
Now you can structure as much income.
You can file as a sub-S and say that 90% of your income is bonus and not pay your Medicare full share.
But that's about it.
There's not it's the asset wealthy who have all of the the carve-outs.
The people who are wealthy because of their annual income.
There's not there's not much left.
There aren't that many tricks.
There aren't that many loopholes.
That's another piece of demagoguery, folks.
Don't doubt me on this.
There just aren't that many loopholes anymore.
That's just typical Obama left-wing demagoguery to accuse highly successful people of shirking their responsibility.
And a loophole is nothing other than something that's in the tax law.
A loophole is now associated with cheating.
Is it not?
Your average low information voter hears The word tax loophole.
Ah, it's a way for the rich to get out of paying that I don't have.
No, it's just it's a you know what a loophole is the mortgage interest deduction.
It's a loophole.
It's a carve out.
It's the government deciding that we're not going to tax certain expenditures.
And it's put in there for the housing market and the lending institutions and all that.
And it may go the way of um Sam Hill.
They may take that away.
But that is an example of a loophole.
So every one of you who deduct the interest on your mortgage, you have a tax loophole.
A loophole is simply tax law.
It's not cheating.
It's not finding a way not to pay your taxes that nobody's ever seen.
It's not it's it's not something that you get away with that you don't get caught.
It's nothing, but that's how they're all portrayed.
That's how tax loopholes are portrayed.
Anyway, I got to take a break.
And we'll do that, be back and continue in mere moments.
Sit tight, we'll be right there.
Here's Leonard in Seattle.
Leonard, I'm glad that you called.
Great to have you with us.
Hi.
Hey, thank you very much.
You know, what I what I believe, what's going on is I think that the Republicans are out to wreck the country by holding America hostage and squeezing Barack Obama into a deal to prevent the sequester from going through.
You know, and I think that this is not right to begin with.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
I want to understand.
I'm a little foggy here.
You think the Republicans want to wreck the economy with the sequester, whether hold Obama hostage so that he what has to go along with it?
Um basically what I'm getting at, sir, is uh what the Republicans want to do is hold is basically wreck the economy with the sequester by holding America hostage and squeezing Obama into a deal.
Let me what how do uh how does that work?
What what how does it work?
Well, we are wrecking the wrecking the economy.
What would wreck the economy?
That's what the sequester is.
Well, I know, but once you tell what is it?
How does it wreck?
How does it wreck the economy?
How did it wreck it?
By crashing the stock market, by crash by basically killing Medicare, Medicaid, the Pentagon, Social Security, you name it.
That's what they're that's what their goal is.
Leonard to destroy everything.
Leonard.
Is this really Joe Biden?
You're really Joe Biden, aren't you?
Because you this is the kind of thing he would call here and say.
No, I'm a Democrat, and I know exactly what the hell I've got to do.
Leonard, you've just admitted you don't know what the hell you're talking about.
And that's that confirms it.
Leonard, there is no crashing of the economy.
There is no crashing Medicare.
There is no killing Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, killing the Pentagon.
We're over the next ten years, Leonard, we're going to spend 44 trillion dollars.
If we do the sequester, we're going to spend 43 trillion dollars, Leonard.
Um, as is the case with all spending cuts, it really not big enough to matter.
Don't doubt me, Leonard.
I wouldn't lie to you.
I have no reason to.
Leonard, you need to be blaming Obama.
The sequester was his idea.
It was Obama who demanded it.
What Leonard said is exactly what the media has been saying all day and all night about this, folks.
That's uh how they get to the low information clan.
We'll see you tomorrow.
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