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Feb. 22, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 22, 2013, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Well, I guess so much for my New Year's resolution.
Low profile, not be noticed as much, sort of be invisible kind of now out the window in total.
A little throwaway comment yesterday and a media eruption.
You have to look hard today to find non-Rush Limbaugh news, but we've got it.
And it's Friday, so let's get started.
From the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's open line here.
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I mean, we've been, we've been, folks, we've been working harder than we've worked on anything for two years.
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You know, I've had this in the stack the past two days.
I even had audio from it yesterday.
I forgot to tell Cookie I wanted the audio today.
Maybe she can find it in the archives.
The federal government has, as you know, many bureaucracies.
One of them is the USDA, United States Department of Agriculture.
All of these bureaucracies are conducting sensitivity training seminars.
And one of the things, if you work for the USDA, for example, you have to go to these sensitivity training seminars.
And one of the things that they are teaching is that the pilgrims were illegal immigrants.
That's part of the new sensitivity trend.
The pilgrims were illegal immigrants.
Much like the left tries to associate modern-day homeless people with Mary and Joseph of biblical times, the illegal immigrants of today are no different than the pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower.
It's amazing.
By this new app, Rocks, I just have to tell you.
In fact, I got the app and I got it installed and so forth.
And I got a couple of emails.
Hey, a new limbo, new Rush app rocks.
And it is formatted for the iPhone 5 screen, so it fills it out entirely.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, yeah, yeah, I'm going to get to it in just a second, the being ashamed of my country stuff.
Really, I'll tell you how they came about.
I'm thinking about it.
It happened the night before.
I was emailing back and forth with Mark Levin.
I had it up to here with all of this fear-mongering over the sequester when we're not cutting any spending at all that we never do.
And it just hit me that for 25 years.
I've been coming here and defending against the same silly allegations.
Starving children, polluted air.
It never changes.
And it doesn't matter who the speaker of the house could be Tom Foley.
It could be Pelosi.
It doesn't matter who the president has been.
It's the same old stuff.
And why am I allowing myself or them to play me for a fool to accept the premise and then debate the premise as a losing proposition?
You know, this just ashames me.
And so I came, I mentioned during commercial breakouts, you know what?
Told Snerdley and Dawn and Brian, I said, I am really ashamed.
I probably shouldn't say that.
Oh, no, you got to say that.
Really?
Okay, so I threw it out there.
And then now the drive-bys, we've got to montage the drive-bys, the state-run media, something happened yesterday.
They've changed their tone on these cuts.
And they're not that bad now.
Now, it's amazing.
I go out and say that I'm ashamed of my country and the drive-bys last night and this morning, you know what?
These cuts really aren't that big a deal.
These cuts are really as Obama overplayed.
You'll hear as the program unfolds.
But get this.
People who quit smoking by age 44 tend to live nearly as long as those who have never smoked.
This is, according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from the University of Toronto analyzed health and smoking records collected for more than 200,000 Americans and compared the lifespans of smokers to non-smokers.
And one of the study findings was predictable.
Those who never smoke live a decade longer on average than lifetime smokers.
But for those who quit, even well into middle age, the study results are encouraging men and women who smoke their last butt before turning 44 die just one year earlier on average, not 10 years earlier than those who never smoke.
So basically, the way you can look at this is if you want to smoke, if you are smoking, you're under 44, have at it.
Go ahead.
No problem.
Continue to fund children's health care programs by buying tobacco products and know that you can smoke safely up until age 44.
Then you quit.
Well, I started, you know, I did the random calculations.
Now, I started smoking when I was 16.
I went to electronics school in Dallas at age 16.
Back when I started in this business, you had to have what was called the first-class radio telephone operator's license.
And the reason you had, it was not a broadcasting requirement.
It was nothing about broadcast skill.
It was an electronics demand.
The reason for it was that AM radio stations that had directional arrays or signal patterns had to be monitored very closely and very carefully and at all times to make sure that the signal pattern permitted by the FCC didn't waver.
And the theory was that you needed a first-class radio telephone license to be able to monitor the transmitter and the array and all that.
Now, on small market radio stations, these cheap owners are not going to hire an engineer to sit there and do nothing all day long just to make sure the transmitter is legal.
So they required disc jockeys to have first phones.
That's what they were called.
So there was this school in Dallas, the Elkins Institute.
It was right near Lovefield.
Well, not far from Lovefield.
The Elkins Institute of Radio and Electronics.
And you had to get one of these things if you wanted to be on the radio when you were 16.
So my father loaned me the money, and I went and it was a six-week course, and I wanted out of there.
It was school.
I hated it.
I wanted out of there as soon as I got there.
Nothing wrong with the Elkins Institute, just the whole.
So I got out of there in four weeks.
I did nothing but study and work on this stuff.
I went down there and class every day was eight to 10 hours.
And the way I studied was to go home and rewrote my notes by hand.
Of course, there were no computers.
Rewrote everything.
And you had to get three, the third class license, then the second class.
Second class license was actually the toughest.
The first class, third class license, you can get in two days of study.
And it was basically, you know, do you know the on-off switch over there?
Second class, that was the biggie.
That's where all the electronic theory was of the day.
And the first class, it was TV and fMRA.
It was a snap.
Five weeks for the four weeks for the second class license, a couple days or a week for the first class, and a couple of hours for the third class.
Way, I was the youngest in this school by four or five years, and everybody smoked.
So I started smoking.
I was 16.
And 1983 is when I quit, 82, 80, somewhere around there.
We played flag football.
I was working at Kansas City Royals.
When the baseball season was over, we played Royals' front office, played flag football, with touch football with the Chiefs' front office every Thursday afternoon.
And one day I got a real bad case of bronchitis, almost like walking pneumonia.
I could not smoke a cigarette without coughing spasms.
I said, well, never going to have a better time than now to quit when I can't.
So I quit then.
So see, 16, 51.
So I'm safe.
I got out of it long before I hit 44.
It's like I never smoked because of this research today.
Yeah, I smoke cigars, but I don't inhale the cigars.
You don't inhale those.
William Buckley inhaled his cigars.
I kid you not.
That was a real man.
Mr. Buckley inhaled his cigars.
Now, he didn't smoke them all the time, but when he, and he was very proud of it, he'd blow smoke rings.
He'd exhale smoker.
He loved them.
But he inhaled the things.
Now, I've never done that.
That would change the entire experience.
A cigar is not like, you know, a cigarette's just a nicotine delivery system.
A cigar is a refined, classical, handmade, it's a work of art done right.
And the experience, the aroma, smoking jackets and all that, I mean, there's nothing.
It's nothing like smoking a cigarette.
So anyway, if you are smoking now and providing health care via the sales tax revenue for your purchases, according to this research, you know, let me read the last paragraph here.
Don't think of this as your green light to smoke into your 40s, says Dr. Prabhat Jabba.
Dr. Prabhat Jabba is a professor of public health at the University of Toronto.
And Dr. Prabhat Jabba says that men who quit by 40 are still 20% more likely to die in a given year than those who never smoke.
So what are we supposed to do?
Ignore this, the rest of the survey that says you're free and clear till age 44.
Then, folks, there's a new diet out there I want to tell you about called the Feast and Famine Diet.
It's known as the five-day, two-day diet.
Here's basically what this is.
And of course, according to all the food experts, it's controversial.
It claims to reduce the chance of diabetes and cardiovascular disease and several types of cancers.
So what you do on two non-consecutive days, you eat 500 calories.
Doesn't matter how you get them.
Carbs, protein, what at 500 calories, but not two days in a row.
For men, it's 600 calories.
Then the other five days, go to town, whatever you want, whenever you want, however much you want.
The key is those two days of 500 calories and no more.
So you got to do it on a Monday and a Wednesday or a Tuesday and a Thursday, or you could separate the days by more than one day, but you can't do it two days in a row.
And you supposedly lose weight this way.
And it's painless.
It's not something that You don't have this sense of cheating on those five days where you're eating normally.
The trick is 500 calories is not much.
And so the way you psychologically, well, I'm going to be asleep for eight of the 24 hours.
I can only have 500 calories.
So I've only got to make it through 16 hours.
There's all kinds of psychological tricks.
Now, as you might imagine, the plan has skeptics.
Some experts fear that eating a quarter of your usual calorie intake twice a week will lead to a cycle of binging and starving.
They think they can eat carte blanc those other five days, said Joan Blake of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
Where's the change in behavior to learn how to keep the weight off?
That's what they always complain about.
All these you go out and you lose the weight and they tell you you failed because you didn't change your behavior.
You didn't change your mindset.
You didn't become a liberal.
Until you become a liberal, you're never going to maintain the weight loss.
So anyway, those are our two health tips.
If you're not 44 yet and you're smoking, have at it.
You want a diet two days a week, 500 calories a day, no two days in a row, other five days, go to town and enjoy yourself.
Back after this.
Got these sound bites of the sensitivity training.
Judicial Watch found these videos.
They're from 2011, actually.
Cultural sensitivity training at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
And in the video, the diversity awareness trainer is Samuel Batansis.
And here are two sound bites of the diversity awareness trainer.
I want you to say the pilgrims were illegal aliens.
Say the pilgrims never gave their passport to the Indians.
By the way, I don't like the word minorities.
How about emerging majorities?
All right, don't clear it.
Easy, easy, easy.
Down, down.
But people label minorities are more likely to fail in technical areas because they're less intelligent, true or false.
It's false.
Right.
So the Pilgrims never gave their passport to the Indians.
The Pilgrims were illegal aliens.
I don't like the word minorities.
How about emerging majorities?
I don't know.
Majorities have a pretty good, or minority have a pretty good deal.
And here's one more from Samuel Batansis.
This was actual sensitivity training at the USDA.
Together, we can make an extension of each other's quest to make America stronger, healthier, and freer to work for all of us.
Say thank you, black folks.
Say thank you, black folks.
I want you to say America was founded by outsiders.
Say that.
Who are today's insiders?
I kid you not, 2011 is during the Obama regime.
That's kind of sensitivity training USDA employees had to undergo America founded by outsiders.
We'll be back.
Yeah, I wonder if the sensitivity training seminars will be canceled because of the sequester.
So you got Leon Panetta with horror stories and scare tactics about civilian Pentagon employees that are going to be furloughed.
Now, Ray LaHood, the Secretary of Transportation, says that it had a press briefing here that The sequester has caused them to begin discussions with the unions to eliminate midnight shifts in over 60 control towers across the country.
But what about the sensitivity training seminars?
I want to go back to this.
I don't want to play these soundbites again.
This Samuel Batansis guy, you should know, is from Chicago.
And his sensitivity program was started under Mayor Daly.
And a lot of this nonsense is from a guy by the name of Howard Zinn, Z-I-N-N.
Howard Zinn's textbooks are being used all over the country.
We discuss on this program often how we've lost education to the left.
The liberals have monopolized it from daycare all the way to the academy, to academe.
They own education.
And it's not just at the USDA and sensitivity training seminars where it's being taught that the pilgrims were illegal aliens and that there aren't really any minorities.
There are just emerging majorities.
And America was founded by outsiders.
Mr. Batantis, in his sensitivity training seminar at the USDA, said, I want you to repeat that.
America was founded by outsiders.
And these people have to go to these seminars.
They have to study them.
They have to do them.
And they have to come out of there with their minds right.
Now, these audio soundbites from 2011.
I just want to tell you what's undergirding this.
And I've mentioned it before, but there is no doubt what has happened or what is happening and when what is held as a heartfelt belief by the left is this country is unjust.
This country is immoral.
This country is illegitimate.
This country was founded by people who were not honest.
They were bigots, racists.
They discriminated.
They set up a system whereby the rich would always stay rich.
Nobody else would ever get rich.
They set up a system where the poor would always stay poor.
They set up a system where the minorities would always be minorities.
They believe this, folks, and this is what they are teaching.
This Howard Zinn guy has textbooks in schools all across the country.
John Silber, used to be the president of Boston University, did a study of high school textbooks back in the late 90s, maybe the mid-90s.
John Silber issued a report after he had studied all the textbooks being used in high schools.
He said the longest reference to Abraham Lincoln was a paragraph.
Now, Lincoln has had a resurgence because of the movie and because of Spielberg and because of history revision.
But in textbooks at the time, Lincoln had a reference no longer to one paragraph.
At the same time, Bill Clinton had whole chapters in high school history textbooks.
You have people on the left in the Democrat Party who are running it who have a massive chip on their shoulder.
They're angry.
They do not, you know, I've mentioned to you on this program, I've observed countless times that I intellectually don't understand.
People hate this country.
It's simply the greatest country that's ever been.
It is simply the most wonderful country that's ever been.
It's a miracle how this country was founded, the basis on which it was founded.
It's unparalleled in human history, unequaled in human history.
Now, in truth, intellectually, after I studied, I can understand why people can be made to hate it.
I can understand why people have been taught, you know, you're not really an American.
You were never an American.
The people who founded this country never really wanted you to be an American.
That's a message that's gone out to many minorities.
There's a reason.
The point is, there's a reason that liberals of all ages hate this country.
They have been taught that.
I firmly believe our president has been raised, educated, and taught that this country was illegitimately founded on a basis of immorality, inequality, and unjustness, if that's a word.
And they are about fixing that.
They are here to make amends.
They are here to make sure that these mistakes are corrected.
And that's what they're doing now.
The country's been around for 230-plus years.
Obama's four and a half years into the fix.
It's going to take a long time.
Can't change it overnight.
I firmly believe that's what's going on.
And as hard as it is to get your arms around the fact that people really not just say so, not just have a fleeting emotional moment, but really passionately and constantly every day hate the country.
They do.
They're there, and there are a growing number of them.
And a low-information voter makes up a significant percentage of that group of people.
The game is rigged.
The deck is stacked against them.
They don't have a chance.
And they think that the people who are going to help them escape this bondage, let me put it this way.
What they don't get is that the people they think are going to help them escape this bondage are actually keeping them in it.
The Democrat Party today is not about the creation of wealth.
For example, and I don't mean getting rich.
I'm just talking about improving your lot in life economically.
The Democrat Party wants to take more money away from you as you succeed.
You are the enemy.
You're the target if you're successful, if you achieve something.
It's not fair.
It's not right.
There are other people left behind who don't, and it's your fault because you don't care about them.
This may be a little bit of a simplification, but don't doubt me.
It is why Michelle Obama, in the campaign of 2008, can say, because her husband is running for the presidency and has a legitimate chance to win, it's why Michelle Obama can say for the first time in her life, she's proud of her country.
Michelle Obama, Elena Kagan, Sotomayor, they've all been raised, grown up, Robert B. Reich, you name it.
They've all been raised to believe this is a deeply flawed, unjust, unfair, unequal country, and it's got to be fixed.
And the only way to fix it is to make government in charge of everything, including put government in charge of the outcomes in life, not just guaranteeing equal opportunity to people.
And though you get these seminars, pilgrims never gave their passports to the Indians.
The pilgrims were illegal aliens.
This country, not only was it illegitimately founded, it was illegitimately discovered.
As far as these people are concerned, the pilgrims were a bunch of invaders.
The indigenous peoples were here, the Indians, the Native Americans, who were at one with the dirt, at one with nature, at one with the animal kingdom.
And they were fine.
And there wasn't any racism, and there wasn't any sexism, and there wasn't any homophobia, and there wasn't any environmental destruction.
And then here came the pilgrims.
Well, first came Christopher Columbus.
He brought syphilis, and he brought horses, and he brought all kinds of pestilence and destruction and meanness.
Columbus's crowd should have started beating people up.
And then the pilgrims came.
And they all, you know, white Europeans, and they came over here and they just polluted everything.
They polluted the culture.
They polluted the river.
They polluted the sky, the water, and everything, and they took over.
And they took it from the Indians.
And they didn't have to show any passports.
They were the original illegal immigrants.
Therefore, the country from the days of its discovery, not founding, is illegitimate.
And people believe this, folks.
And the fact of the matter is, the President of the United States is one of the people who believes this stuff.
This is not isolated, these sensitivity training seminars.
This is being taught every day to your kids at all levels of secondary education, all across the fruited plain, all of this and more.
And it's been going on for a long time.
This is one of the reasons we are losing.
It's one of the reasons we have low information voters, in fact, is because of the state of public education.
It's one of the reasons they are such a large percentage of the population.
I've always believed that the genuine rescue of this country is going to involve recapturing education.
This is why so many parents instinctively taking their kids out of school and doing homeschooling, home education.
This is why so many parents want school vouchers to be able to send their kids to private schools that have curricula that are non based on this multicultural distortion.
That's why a voucher plan for public education as well as for health savings accounts would be accepted by many, so many people who have no way out of this public education system, particularly in the inner cities.
So that's, if anybody on our side is really serious about recapturing the country, the education system is going to have to be one of the targets.
By the way, the Department of Justice Eric Holder has decided to join the lawsuit against Lance Armstrong.
Now, the U.S. Postal Service gave Armstrong's team $40 million, the Postal Service and one of the sponsors.
So the Justice Department is going to notify a federal court today, may have already done so, that it is joining one of his former racing teammates in suing him for using performance-enhancing drugs during the Tour de France.
The government is signing onto a lawsuit filed two years ago by Floyd Landis, one of Armstrong's former teammates who's already admitted cheating.
So everybody is now going to make a run at Lambs Armstrong to get sponsorship money back.
And one of the reasons the government's doing it, because he went on Oprah and admitted it.
He thought he was coming clean, cleansing his soul and absolving himself, seeking absolution.
He went on Oprah and admitted it, and that makes him an easier target as far as the litigants are concerned.
Okay, we'll take a brief time out.
We'll come back and continue.
Everything's still ahead on the program today, so do not go away.
Open Line Friday, let's be true to my promise.
Try to take more phone calls on Open Line Friday.
And to do that, we have to take some calls in the first hour.
So we're going to start Birch Bay, Washington with Shirley.
I'm glad you called.
It's great to have you here.
Hi.
Hi, Raj.
How are you?
Very well.
Thank you.
Good.
I want to talk to you about Downton Abbey because you said just right after the season started that the ending was going to come just right out of left field and we would just absolutely be shocked.
Well, when I watched the ending, my mouth dropped and I just kept sitting here and the tears running down my face going, oh no, oh no, oh no.
Now what are we going to do?
Let me ask you a question, Shirley.
Yes.
Because I told you, you're going to have an hour and a half finale, and you're going to watch, that's 90 minutes, you're going to watch 89 and a half minutes of this.
Right.
And then the last 30 seconds are just going to beat you upside the head, totally, I mean, no indication anything of the sort is coming or happening out of the total blue.
However, about 10 seconds before the actual event, did the way they film it give you an idea that something was going to happen?
Yes, I saw the wheels of the truck and then I saw him in his car.
And so they're cluing you that there was a collision coming up.
Yes.
And you knew it.
Here's what happened.
The man who is married to the eldest daughter of the family of the great estate.
I've been watching it all for the last three seasons.
Right.
Well, he recovered from paralysis, and he's a young guy, good-looking guy.
He's going to take over the estate, marry the eldest daughter, and his baby's just been born.
And just give, I mean, on his way back to the estate from the hospital, seeing his baby.
He's actors right now, even thinking about it again.
Right.
He has a collision with a milk truck and dies.
And that's the end of the season.
Nobody inside the Abbey has been told.
As the show ends, nobody knows he's died.
Right.
And already this season, one of the other daughters died in childbirth.
And that kind of shocked people.
That made people mad.
Do you know that there is an in this country and over in the UK when it had this episode aired on Christmas Day in the UK?
Oh, really?
It did.
And there was an there's outrage over this.
And the writer of the series, the creator and writer, is a guy named Julian Fellows.
Yes.
And he said, well, these actors said they're leaving.
They're taking other deals.
This Dan, what's his name?
Is going to do a movie.
So there are now cartoonists who are making fun of this guy, Fellows, because he's killing off all these actors leaving the series.
And other people say, why just recast the character?
Why do you have to kill these people off?
It's like he's got vengeance against the actors.
Oh, my goodness.
This really has upset a lot of people.
I kid you not.
I've been reading about it all week, ever since it aired on Sunday.
Well, they're already filming number four.
That's right.
And it will not air here until next January.
It will air in the fall in the UK.
And if you're like me, if you're a powerful, influential member of the media, you will get the UK version of the episodes by October, maybe November.
Wow.
Oh, wow.
They're already in production on season four.
You know what?
I had forgotten I mentioned that.
So when I saw your call up there, I got excited because you're right.
I tried to give all of you Downton Abbey fans a heads up that this thing is going to end in a way that you won't see coming.
There's no indication of it in the entire show for an hour and a half.
And it was a very popular and beloved character.
His baby's just born.
I mean, he's on the way home to the hospital to tell everybody.
And he's hit by some lug hit in a milk truck.
And the guy driving a milk truck, not a scratch.
Anyway, Shirley, I appreciate the call.
That's a great Open Line Friday call.
So we'll be back after this.
Don't go away.
One good thing, folks, about the TV show Downton Abbey, at least these characters weren't killed off because of the sequester.
Now that would have been...
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