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Feb. 20, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 20, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #3
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What do you think the optic I told you was coming that that's that's why Panetta did this?
There's your visual aid.
Right now on the Drudge Report, you got a big picture of Obama with his uh facial expression, grimaced in pain, and the giant headline, 800,000 Pentagon layoffs.
And that's exactly what Panetta wanted.
There's your visual aid.
That's just one of the things that's gonna happen with this sequester.
800,000 Pentagon layoffs.
We are talking 44 billion dollars in 2013.
The entire stimulus is 85.
The amount of spending reduction, there's I'm getting blown.
You know what?
I'm so fed up with this.
I've been doing this for 25 years.
This not 20, this actually started with a budget battle in 1995.
And every seems like every three months or six months, it's the same damn crisis put forth by the same damn people, and we fight it in the same way.
They put out their lies, distortions, we respond to it with the truth, and it ends up not mattering.
It doesn't make a smithereen's bit of difference, and I'm frankly fed up with it.
How many I I'm I'm blue in the face.
Forty-four billion dollars of spending cuts, and they're not even cuts, they're just reductions in the rate of growth.
I just I just the lies, the distortions, the fear mongering, and it's not just that the federal, the states do it, local governments do it.
And you get to the local government, they always tell you the cops are gonna get cut, and the thieves are gonna have a heyday in your neighborhood.
Then your teachers are gonna get cut, and your poor little kids aren't gonna learn anything.
And the truth of the matter is, unless we get serious and start talking about trillions of dollars worth of cuts, we're just whistling Dixie here.
We're just we're playing pipe dreams and games.
It's just it's the same thing.
It just keeps repeating, and the Republicans keep falling for it the same way.
And it's like I told you.
What we're really up against here, folks, is that the ruling class inside Washington is not interested in limited government.
They're not interested in reducing the size of government.
They just want to take turns running it.
They want to take turns uh controlling the Senate committee chairmanships.
In other words, they want to take turns at controlling the money.
They want to take turns at uh and having the power to dole it out, give it away, use it for whatever benefits that they can.
And the truth either doesn't get out, or even if it does, it doesn't seem to matter.
So if it's starting to bore me, I can't imagine how it impacts you hearing this over and over and over again.
From the Republicans are gonna starve children, taking food out of the children's mouths.
They're doing that with this too.
Anyway, moving on, the uh Secretary of State, John Kerry, gave his first major foreign policy speech today at the University of Virginia.
The Secretary of State, you know what he spoke about?
Climate change.
John Kerry first speech as Secretary of State said we as a nation must have the foresight and the courage to make the investments necessary to safeguard the most sacred trust we keep for our children and grandchildren, an environment not ravaged by rising seas, deadly Superstorms, devastating droughts, and the other hallmarks of a dramatically changing climate.
That's what we gotta do.
We have to protect the most sacred trust we keep for our children, the environment.
This is not NASA.
This is not the National Institutes of Health Guy.
This is the Secretary of State.
And he wasn't finished.
He said, and let's face it, we are all in this one together.
No nation can stand alone.
We share nothing so completely as our planet.
When we work with others, large and small, to develop and deploy the clean technologies that'll power a new world, we are also helping create new markets and new opportunities for America's second to none innovators and entrepreneurs to succeed in the next great revolution.
And then he called for collective action to deal with the problem.
He said, So let's commit ourselves to doing the smart thing and the right thing and truly commit to tackling the challenge of climate change, because if we don't rise to meet it, rising temperatures and rising sea levels will surely lead to rising costs down the road.
And if we waste this opportunity, it may be the only thing our generations are remembered for.
We need to find the courage to leave a far different legacy.
We cannot talk about the unprecedented changes happening on our planet without talking about the unprecedented changes in its population, another great opportunity at our fingertips.
Midway through his climate change portion of the speech, Carrie paused.
Can we all say thank you?
And to our signers, Secretary of State said, referencing those who were translating his speech into sign language.
and Can we all say thank you to our signers?
And the audience applauded.
So, first major address by our new Secretary of State.
I'll bet you the Chicoms and the Russians really stood up and took notice of this.
You know what they heard?
They're sitting there saying, we cannot believe our good luck.
This bunch of derelicts is actually going to invest in destroying their own economy.
We don't have to do anything.
We don't have to fire a shot, we don't have to spend any money, we just sit down and watch these fools ruin their country and their economy.
By the way, the Russian foreign minister finally returned Carrie's call.
It only took about ten days.
Did you hear that?
You know, Kerry called somebody in Russia, and they didn't call him back.
They made news every day that he didn't call him back.
If I take a week or ten days and the guy...
Call back.
We have an audio soundbite from CNN newsroom this afternoon, Suzanne Malvaux talking to Mary Mitchell of the Chicago Sun Times about the tragic decline of Jesse Jackson Jr.
Suzanne Malvose said, you know the Jackson family very well.
Why did this happen?
Why did this just go downhill and deteriorate, Mary?
I mean, Jesse Jackson Jr. comes from a very prominent family.
His father's had his own problems, yeah, but why did he succumb to all of this?
I see an American tragedy.
You have Jesse Jackson Sr.
And you have a son who was raised at his feet, the feet of civil rights leaders, great education, great opportunity, Chicago royalty.
I have to say this, that even in Chicago, there were signs that something was not quite right.
The high living, the going to Washington and immediately buying a very expensive house in a very expensive neighborhood.
Those things should have been red flags.
I don't think we asked enough questions that could have gotten to the heart of this before it got way down this road.
We never put the dots together.
I think not putting a DOS together allowed him to go on down that path is his own responsibility, but as media people, we should have seen it coming.
Well, so there you have Mary Mitchell of Chicago sometimes saying we could have stopped it in the media if we'd have connected the dots.
It's our fault he's a crook.
If we'd have seen no dots being connected.
We saw the dots.
We just didn't connect them.
And we in the media, I mean, it's his own responsibility, but we in the media, as media people, we should have seen it coming.
And we could have stopped it.
Why, he's out there buying houses in neighborhoods he shouldn't be living in.
Why not?
Why, he's out there.
Let me ask a simple question.
With all the shakedown operations taking place over the years, why would anybody in the media assume that Jesse Jackson Jr. doesn't have any money?
Wouldn't it be quite natural to assume that Jesse Jackson Jr. has access to all kinds of money.
You media people, Chicago, you're putting way too much pressure on yourselves.
The media in Chicago beating themselves up for allowing this to happen.
They saw the dots, they just didn't connect them.
The high living?
Well.
He Jesse Jackson Jr.'s son.
What's he supposed to do?
Live in a slum?
He goes out there and very expensive house, very expensive neighborhood.
Well, then he grow up in one?
What what's what where's he supposed to live?
He Jesse Jackson Jr.
There should have been red flags.
I don't think we asked enough questions.
Could have gotten to the heart of this before it got way down the road.
So they could have stopped him.
They could have saved him.
If they'd have just asked, what are you doing in this neighborhood?
Can you imagine if they had asked that?
Ms. Mitchell, what are you supposed to do a story in the Chicago Sun Times saying, Did Jesse Jackson Jr. buy that Rolex himself?
Is that what you should have done?
Get this, Rasmussen reports eighty-five percent think parents are a bigger factor in a child's success, not the government.
Not Obama.
Not a social program.
It's the parents who are the biggest factor in a child's success.
Eighty-five percent of American adults believe that parents play the biggest role in determining the future.
Success and happiness of a child.
Five percent say it's friends who play the biggest role.
Three percent say it's siblings.
Two percent say it's teachers are the most important, and one percent think it's somebody else.
One thousand American adults surveyed February eleventh and twelfth.
Not one person apparently said that the government is the biggest factor.
Not one person evidently said that Obama is the biggest factor.
On the other hand, only eighty five percent think that parents are the biggest factor.
Most of the others thought the schools, a teacher, a principal, Michael Jordan, Nike.
Quick time out, El Rushball on the cutting edge of societal evolution back after this.
Yeah, I'm sitting here in uncontrollable mirth, ladies and gentlemen.
Mary Mitchell of Chicago Sun Times said the media should have connected the dots on Jesse Jackson Jr.
You mean just like they did on John Edwards?
Just like they did on Bob Menendez.
Just like they did on Bill Clinton.
They never connect the dots.
They never ask the questions about Democrats.
They never expose any of this.
And she's really all she's upset about is they weren't able to cover it up.
That'd be my guess.
Here's Rich in White Plains, New York.
Hi, Rich.
Hey Rush, how are you?
Just uh just dandy, sir.
Thank you.
I just thought of something funny.
Have you ever seen the Geico commercial with Dekembe Matombo?
And he goes around swatting everything in sight.
Not off the top of my head.
I know who Motumbo is, and I know what Geico is, but I'm not sure I've seen that commercial.
Well, they made a funny commercial where he goes around swatting everything.
Somebody tries to throw out a piece of paper and the garbage and he comes out of nowhere and swats it and wags his finger.
Somebody tries to put something in a shopping cart and he knocks it down.
And I'm thinking Obama is Matumbo, and every spending cut that the Congress throws up, Obama swats it down and wags his finger and says, not in my house.
That might not be a bad commercial.
That might not be a bad commercial.
I I'm, you know, I'm sorry to admit that I haven't seen that particular commercial.
Because uh, you know, I'm a pop culture maven, and I don't know how that one slipped by.
Uh but Obama as Matumbo swatting away budget cuts and wagging his finger.
Of course, you know how that would play with the low information voters.
I is this ad take place in a supermarket, Rich.
Yeah, one of them is somebody's trying to put something in their cart in the supermarket, and here comes Dekembe out of nowhere and swats the thing away.
Waves his finger, not in my house.
I didn't know he lived at the grocery store.
But anyway, the uh the concept is interesting.
I'll have a I'll have to keep a sharp eye out for the commercial.
Uh but I have I have to admit, it's be easy for me to say, oh, yeah, yeah, no, exactly.
Laugh along with the gun.
I haven't seen it.
I only know how to be honest with you.
Here's uh Salon in San Antonio, Texas.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Back to getos Rush.
I'm sure I'm glad I had a little time to calm down, suck on my uh Sam Louis Ray series.
Jeez, calm my nerves.
This this president does not take turns.
This sequestration is a setup for the Republicans, and it's gonna bite him in the elections for the midterms, the whole thing is gonna collapse on us.
Tell me how.
Half trillion dollars in military cuts prior to the sequestration.
This thing may be a dime's worth of difference, but it's the dime that's going to bankrupt a lot of operations in the military.
We're not going to be going into the Mediterranean with a second carrier.
We're going to be giving up a lot in the Pacific.
And with China getting agitated like they are and having their young military officers push aggressively to put us in our place, that's not going to work out well.
And if if for instance, if if uh if North Korea drops anything on Japan, South Korea is gonna like that.
And it's gonna make a real problem for us.
Now, who's gonna get the blame for that?
Obviously it's gonna be a good thing.
Wait a second, party.
Wait, just are you saying the South Koreans would approve of the North Koreans nuking Japan?
I didn't say nuking, but if they did, my information from from uh Frank Daphne, Secure Freedom Radio, says they would be happy with that.
That if the North Koreans would approve, I mean the South Koreans would approve Well, that's just Samsung, one to wipe out Sony.
By the way, folks, our caller from San Antonio was right.
Um the Department of Defense, the Pentagon, was cut four hundred and eighty-seven billion dollars last year, over ten years.
There were that that that much was cut out of the defense budget.
487 billion dollars last year, over ten years.
And there was no talk of furloughs, and there were no talk of layoffs, and we certainly didn't hear from Panetta, oh yeah, to lay off 800,000 civilian employees.
Now with with with 44 billion dollars, and really only half of that going to defense.
You don't realize how ridiculous this is.
You know, I don't even want to give the impression here.
I'm sucked in by the premise.
That's a danger you're running even talking about it.
I mean, you almost have to be sucked in by the premise in order to talk about it to spell it.
We're looking at $22 billion in defense cuts in a year, resulting in layoffs and soldiers not having guns and ammo.
I mean, it's just absurd.
This is just all so absurd.
Here's the USA today, January 5th of 2012.
Obama announces Pentagon budget cuts.
And from the article, the new military strategy includes 487 billion dollars in cuts over the next decade.
An additional 500 billion dollars in cuts could be coming if Congress follows through on plans for deeper reductions, and that was referring to the upcoming sequester.
Speaking of the Pentagon.
Chapter 431 million of The World Has Gone Mad.
It's from Terry Jeffrey, the editor to Cybercast News Service.
Story from yesterday.
Outgoing, look at me.
Outgoing.
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has unilaterally issued a directive stating that the U.S. military will now extend certain benefits to unmarried domestic partners that were formerly reserved for married couples, but will only do so if the domestic partners certify in writing that they are of the same sex.
Heterosexual, unmarried partners do not qualify for the benefits, and thus are treated unequally by Panetta's directive.
So the Pentagon has extended benefits.
Certain benefits, I don't know what they are, it's just it's money.
The Pentagon has extended certain benefits only to unmarried partners of gay couples.
A heterosexual couple not married, the partner not in the military doesn't get the benefits.
You have to be of the same sex.
You have to be gay in order to qualify for this new benefit as announced by Panetta.
He issued this directive in a memorandum on February 11th to the secretaries of the military departments and the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness.
The subject line in the memo said extending benefits to same-sex domestic partners of military members, but not to opposite sex.
Partners of military members.
So what this is is reverse discrimination to make amends for past discrimination.
We're going to shift the discrimination under the guise of making things equal, of evening things out, making things fair.
No end in sight was stated for the program, and no exceptions will be allowed.
Now back to the audio sound bites and okay, no the sports reporter story.
I got people reminding me, but I promise to you.
Yep.
It was Pittsburgh last year, last football season, Sunday night game, Ravens and Steelers.
And whenever I go in for a Sunday night game, I always go down the sideline.
And I hang around.
It happened to be Steelers alumni weekend, which means that a bunch of former players were in town as guests of the Steelers, and they'd had a big soiree on Friday night and Saturday night, and then Sunday before the game, they're all out there, uh pre-game sideline, and they had a little bit of a ceremony, not much.
But you had guys, you had Steelers players from the 70 Super Bowl teams, from every Steelers team every year.
They were not all there, but a bunch of them were.
So it was a fun sideline.
There was a lot of talking to Lynn Swan a lot, uh and and uh Chris Hulk.
You know what Chris Hulk took?
This is the most amazing Chris Hulk was the he was a nose tackle, played behind Casey Hampton.
And two or three years ago, I'm sidelined Steelers, and this guy comes on, I knew who he was, I'm a fan.
Chris Hulk comes up during the pregame, and he told me he enjoyed my show, and he gets listens every chance that he gets, and he just wanted to say hi.
So I gave him a couple of pounds on the shoulder pads.
I thanked him, and he ran back out to warmups.
Now as a nose tackle, he's six something and close to 300, maybe a little more.
Blonde headed guy, good looking guy, Chris Hoke.
Steelers alumni weekend is past November.
I'm sidelined.
A guy comes up, starts talking to me.
It's hard to hear down there.
You got the music playing, a lot of conversation.
A guy comes up and starts talking to me.
It's Chris Hoke, minus 120 pounds.
And it took me a while for this to register.
And I looked at him and I finally figured out who he was.
I looked at him and said, My God, you look great.
What'd you do?
And he said, I just started eating normally.
And he explained to me that he had to eat in order to maintain that weight to keep his job.
His workout was the refrigerator.
He had to eat five times what the normal human being ate every day to keep his weight up.
And I said, Well, how do you stay in shape?
Weight room, constantly lifting weights so forth, and he looked in shape when he was at 300, looked in football shape when he was at 300 plus.
But the guy shows up, he looked like an Adonis.
It's skinny, a jutting jaw, his neck was much smaller, waist, of course.
And I had a tough time believing it was him at first because his face had narrowed down.
But he told me he had to eat five times.
He said eating was a job.
He got to the point he got sick of it.
And so he got down to a normal weight simply by eating what a normal person eats.
That's what he told me.
And I just I was I was uh I would love to be able to try it.
But I couldn't eat that much.
I I I couldn't do it.
I didn't get into details of what he ate or any of that.
But I said, What'd you have pregame?
With the pregame, I didn't eat much during pregame.
You gotta feel light.
You gotta be uh light and fast in the pregame.
So you don't want to load yourself down after the game, Saturday night before the game, it was a carbo load like you can't believe.
I just anyway, so I'm watching all this, and and it's a Sunday night game, so the kickoff's around 830 to 840, said 8 o'clock is when if your pregame pass is only pregame, you gotta leave about 8 o'clock.
Now the Steelers come out and start warming the Ravens too, but everybody's doing they're doing their warm-ups in stages, but the full team, the official beginning of warm-ups, is calisthenics, and everybody's out there, they're lined up in the order that uh they must be in.
And at that point, there's no jocularity in the pregame.
Before this happens, they're yucking it up and laughing it up and throwing the football around, but the that's the serious pregame begins, and no media's permitted.
And I look out there, and there is this.
There's a woman running around on the field, and she running around kissing and hugging these players, the Steelers, while they're in the middle of the beginning of the official pregame, the calisthenics.
I'm looking out there and I recognize who it is, and I'm not gonna tell you, because the whole point here is not to embarrass anybody, but I look out there, I recognize who it was, so then I thought, but there's got to be a camera crew somewhere.
You gotta be out there getting news.
And there was no camera crew, and there was no microphone, and there was no notepad, and there was no pencil, just running around hugging people and giving them kisses on the cheek.
And it was a journalist.
I'm thinking, well, I'm gonna start looking at reports on the Steelers a little bit different from this reporter.
Anyway, uh I've been promising to tell the story if it's not as big a deal as you were led to believe.
I didn't I didn't want to build it up on purpose for that reason.
But it's it's just a story about journalism and how these people ending up socializing and becoming close friends and sometimes even more with the people they report on.
Sports, politics doesn't matter.
And the lines get blurred, the lines you shouldn't cross and so forth.
And that leads to explanations of who has access and who doesn't, and how they get the access.
And I'm I'm sure that she just wishing them a happy Thanksgiving.
I'm sure that that's always going on out there.
So did you hear about Alec Baldwin?
He did it again.
He accosted somebody else on the street down in uh Soho or Greenwich Village, wherever it was.
I think it was a New York Post reporter when he started calling them names.
I think the C-word, just all kinds of things, and they're thinking of charging with a hate crime.
And I'm thinking, here's a guy.
How many times has this happened to him?
Alec Baldwin.
He had the audio tape of the way he talked to his daughter on the on the phone message, and then he's constantly doing this stuff, and yet no sponsors ever boycott 30 Rock.
He's always hired to do endorsements for various sponsors on television.
You know, leftist, I guess you can get away with anything.
And I'll hold you accountable for anything.
And I'm thinking about, you know, the the kissing info, babe in Pittsburgh.
And somebody said, Well, you know, I can see a bunch of female reporters doing that with Obama.
I said, Well, I don't know about that, but we know damn well how with Clinton, they were promising to do much more than just embrace the guy.
Nina Burley promised a bunch of Lewinskies just for Clinton protecting abortion.
Yeah, there are people pushing Alec Baldwin to run for mayor.
Yeah, hate crimes are never going to be hell against him.
He's a good liberal.
Okay, let's see.
Let me take a quickly to this.
This second here, folks.
Just a second.
Now I've got these sound bites that prove my theory, but I'm tired of my theory.
It's one of these days I'm tired of being right.
It's too depressing.
So let me just stick with the phones.
Laura in Austin Township, Ohio.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Russ.
Okay, I am calling to um get some information about federal workers.
My husband is a federal worker.
He works at an air base in this area.
We have not had a raise in over three years now.
He makes under a hundred thousand dollars.
He is also required because he has to be a reservist to hold his civilian job.
He's got a security check.
When he's a security check, that means we can have no financial um indiscretions.
We cannot declare bankruptcy.
We cannot default on our mortgage.
We have to find a way to pay our bills.
We don't have a choice or he would lose his job.
So in the past four years, although the cost of living has gone up, we have remained flatlined in our income, and we've worked as much as we can to keep on top of our bills.
I don't know any federal worker making over a hundred thousand dollars.
Oh, they're bel they're out there.
They're all over the place.
Well, they're in Washington.
They're not across the country working at the air bases around the country.
It's not, it's not a uh across the board, Washington, D.C. pay pay cut.
Well, I know they're different General Services Administration pay grades, pay levels, I know, I know that.
Look, I don't uh uh nobody's saying that uh federal workers have it easy, they're just experiencing less unemployment as a percentage than the uh than the general population is.
But look, with with with this economy and this regime, uh, it's bad news for everybody.
Everybody's on edge.
A lot of people are in dire financial straits, and no end in sight to it, sadly, and I hate to put it that way, but that's the way it is.
Vice President Joe Biden says to women don't go out and get a gun, get a shotgun.
That's what you need.
Get a shotgun.
Yeah, you'll hit more people with a shotgun.
Our vice president and his latest safety tip, and we will see you tomorrow.
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