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March 4, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 4, 2013, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Okay, folks, the pressure is on to make you feel the sequester.
Whether you feel it or not, the pressure is on.
Janet Napolitano is saying the wait lines at the TSA, whatever you do, whatever it is there.
And the weight lines are getting longer even though they're not.
The delays are getting longer, even though they're not.
They're doing their best.
They can't afford for this to be seen as a non-event out there.
So they'll have the drive-by is in their back pocket.
And I want you to be ready for an onslaught of stories of how people are suffering because of the sequester, even though you're not.
Reminds me of back in the 2005-2006 era and back in the in the in the Bush 1 years of 88 through 92.
They would report that the economy is heading south.
Now you were doing fine.
Everything was cool, but you hear these news reports, you hear that your neighbor isn't doing well, you feel guilty.
And so somebody comes along and asks you how you feel about the economy.
You think, well, if a polar comes along not doing too well, I've heard about all my neighbors that are in trouble, even though I'm not.
This is kind of a repeat of that.
You're fine, you're unaffected, but you're going to be reading about other people who are, and so you're going to think that the sequester is having a dramatic impact on people.
It isn't.
The Democrats already searching for new ways to raise taxes.
They're very upset they didn't get a tax increase as part of the sequester.
And now we've got a new Secretary of State Dennis Rodman.
Just back from North Korea talking to Kim Jong-un, who just wants Obama to call him.
What a foreign policy team.
Joe Biden, John Kerry who served Vietnam, and Dennis Rodman, who played for the Pistons.
Anyway, folks, great to have you.
Aren't you?
Aren't you excited to be here?
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I don't care where you look now.
The limbaugh theorem, everybody is talking about it as though it's standard operating procedure.
As though it's always been understood.
As though everybody knows what the limbaugh, Mitt Romney on TV yesterday, Michael Barone has a full callow on it today.
No mention of your host, which is fine with your host.
I'm not into this for credit.
I have enough anyway.
I could deal with a credit deficit, not in it for that, but it's still, it's it's it's becoming universal now.
The limbaugh theorem, i.e.
that Obama never governs.
All he does is campaign, and that he's targeting 2014 to effectively have a one-party government to rid himself of any viable opposition.
That's now de rigor.
De rigor.
Everybody thinks that's the modus operandi.
Obama in a constant campaign mode, but what they're putting together with it now is why.
It's so that nothing happening in the country ever attaches to him.
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Let me give you one example of the world is ending because of the sequester.
It's in the Washington Post.
Uh and it is this at Kansas Airport.
Flyers back sequester cuts until they learn that their control tower is being closed.
They went out to the small airport in Kansas and they talked to people.
Hey, hey, how about the sequester?
Yeah, man, I'm all for it.
We need to cut down the federal government.
Federal government too big.
Well, you realize your airport's closed.
No.
No.
And so the message is okay, you stupid hicks in Kansas, you support the sequester.
We'll find your your control tower is closed now.
So suffer.
But if you burrow down into the story, you learn that the control tower in question.
I don't know what little town in Kansas it doesn't say.
But if you if you burrow down into the story, you learn that the tower handles two flights a day.
The rest of the time the tower is closed.
And pilots somehow manage to land and take off by coordinating between themselves and neighboring air traffic control.
You know, I fly into a lot of places.
Hey, Cape Girardo.
We're going to Cape Girarda, CGI, the identifier.
There's no control tower there.
Well, how do you land?
Well, you line up on the runway and you eyeball it.
And when you get near the runway, you just kind of put the throttles up forward and it flaps down and you land.
It's a self-service airport.
They do have fuel.
No, they won, they did have a control tower.
Cape Girarda lost its control tower many, many moons ago.
It's not.
It's not actually a control tower.
It's like the third floor of uh of the administration building.
But seriously, uh you just you still have to coordinate.
So you coordinate it on Memphis or St. Louis to get in and out of there with with uh with radar on IFR, you can do it.
That's why, you know, all of this is really smoke and mirrors, is not going to affect this Kansas town at all.
But it's the kind of it's not designed for the Kansas people.
It's the Washington Post.
And so people reading this.
The point of the story is that these hay seeds in Kansas were all for the sequester until they learned that their control tower was shut down, and now they're not so sure.
So you find stories like that uh, you know, all or Garden City, Kansas.
What a Garden City regional airport, Garden City, Kansas.
And I guarantee you it's not going to have any impact at all.
Pilots are going to be getting in and out of there, VFR, IFR if they want, be getting in and out of there just like it's only two flights a day.
Remember, the federal government bought and paid for an airport in Pennsylvania.
What was that congressman's name who's now he Jack Murphy?
They built an airport that's never used.
One or two flights a week.
Big airport, his name on it.
Here's Romney, by the way.
This is uh No, no, no, no.
Not Roman.
Dennis Rodman.
Dennis Rodman was on ABC's this week yesterday, George Stephanopoulos interviewing Dennis Rodman as seriously as he would interview Henry Kissinger.
Because Rodman was in full uniform.
He had the nose rings, he had all the jewelry, he had the dark glasses, he had the uh he had the baseball cap on.
What?
Lip rings.
That's right.
The lip rings.
I've I've I was overwhelmed by the amount of facial jewelry that I saw.
I can remember it all.
See that nose rings, lip rings, earrings, uh the baseball cap, the shades, I mean, it was Dennis Rodman.
Just back from North Korea.
And Stephanopoulos is interviewing him seriously.
Stephanopoulos, this is uh let's say we have three sound bites, and here is the first one.
I sat with him for two days.
And then one thing he asked me to give uh Obama something to say and do one thing.
He wants Obama to do one thing.
Call him.
He wants a call from President Obama?
That's right.
He told me that.
He said, if you can, Dennis, I don't want to do war.
I don't want to do war.
He said that to me.
He loves basketball.
Obama loves basketball.
Let's talk there.
Last thought there.
See how easy this is.
Dennis Rodman somehow gets into North Korea.
We're assuming he intended to.
Who knows where he thought he was going.
He gets it in North Korea, and now Dennis Rodman has found the basis on which new bilateral relations can occur.
Both Kim Jong-un and Obama like basketball.
And all Kim wants is for Obama to call him.
So Stephanopoulos said, well, what else does he know about the United States and President Obama from what you can tell?
He does a great guy if you sit down and call to him.
You know, perception is perceiving how things are.
Well, you know, and guess what?
It's amazing how we do the same thing here.
We have prison camps here in the United States.
Guess what?
This is all politics, right?
This is all politics, right?
Fit let me tell what what what straight this fits right in?
I mean, Dennis Rodman fits right in with the American left.
They think this.
We may as well have prison camps.
That's why we need to do the voting right.
Oh.
One of the proudest days of my broadcast career will be today.
When I play for you with soundbite, you know, I once said, folks, that if I didn't have my brain, I would want Antonin Scalia's.
So there is a sound bite.
We'll have it coming up.
Some drive-by.
The Supreme Court and oral arguments are renewing, I think part five of the voting rights act.
And Scalia said, what the hell do we need?
He said, you you, you, you, you, any, you call it the voting rights act, and it can read anything and it'll pass.
Nobody's going to vote against anything.
He says the voting rights act, even if it isn't needed.
Anyway, a reporter said this sounded just like a Rush Limbaugh.
Imagine that.
A Supreme Court judge that may be the arguably one of the most well-endowed intellects in the court's history, Antonin Scalia, was accused of sounding like me.
And I'm sure it's a big day for him, too.
This is one of these things that goes both ways.
I know if I were Antonin School, I would be honored, just like I am honored to be compared to uh to him.
So anyway, uh Dennis Rodman is a great guy, he's a great guy.
If you sit down and talk to him, you know, perception is perceiving how things work.
That is a profundity, folks.
Dennis Rodman, unofficial state visit to North Korea once again, explaining to Stepanopoulis how things work in North Korea and how much they are like things that happen here in America.
He's a great guy.
He's just a great guy.
If you sit down and talk to him, you know, perception is perceiving how things are.
A great guy who puts 200,000 people in prison camps?
Well, you know, and guess what?
It's amazing how we do the same thing here.
We have prison camps here in the United States.
We know I'm prison camp.
Guess what?
This is all politics, right?
This is all politics, right?
So what does he mean by that?
That they really don't have prison camps that we just say that about them.
Just like we have prison camps here, but we really don't.
We just say that.
It's just politics.
You just say the United States has 200,000 people in political.
You know, Michael Moore people like believe that.
Al Franken people believe that.
Political prison camp.
Political.
This is what he's talking about.
Political prison camps.
We do have prison and they do have camps.
We just let legal allies right illegal aliens are let go from our prisons every day now.
What are we up to?
5,000?
Who knows?
But they'll all come back once the sequester's over.
Sequester's over, that's a deal.
It's a deal.
The illegals they got let loose, but when the sequester's over, they'll report back for duty at uh at prison.
Okay, so Dennis Rodman, hey, perception is perceiving how things work.
And uh they got prison camps just like we have prison camps.
It's all just politics.
Stefanopoulos says, you know, it sounds to me, Dennis, like you're apologizing for Kim Jong-un.
No, I'm not apologizing for him.
I think the fact that, you know, he's a good guy to me.
Guess what?
He's my friend.
Someone who hypothetically is a murderer who's your friend is still a murderer.
Guess what?
It's just like we do over here in America, right?
It's amazing that we have presidents over here do the same thing, right?
It's amazing that Bill Clinton can do one thing, have sex with his secretary and do one thing, really, and get away with it and still be powerful.
Oh.
Oh, oh, yes.
Oh.
So now whatever goodwill Rodman had built up just went out the window.
Now we're comparing Kim Jong un to Bill Clinton.
It's just, you know, it's power.
Just like we do over here in America.
It's amazing.
We have presidents over here do the same thing.
Who would be more likely to tell the truth about Benghazi?
Dennis Rodman, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, or John Kerry.
If we could send any of these people over there to research this and find out what really happened, who would be more likely to find the truth?
Find the truth and then tell us.
Dennis Rodman, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, or Barack Obama.
Now wait.
We're not through here.
So what did Rodman just do?
He just defended a murderer.
Stephanopoulos pointed out, well, look, someone, he's not, by the way, not hypothetically a murderer.
He's a authoritarian dictator.
That's what they do.
Rodman says, well, guess what?
It's just like we do over here in America, right?
It's amazing we have presidents over here do the same thing, right?
Murder people.
And it's amazing that Bill Clinton could do one thing and have sex with his secretary, do one thing and really get away with it and still be powerful.
I didn't know that Rodman had a problem with Monica Lewinsky.
I I I didn't know that he, and maybe he doesn't.
He didn't say problem.
He just said, hey, it's just like North Korea.
I didn't did you know that Kim Jong-un was banging uh intern.
He must have learned that over there.
It reminded me April 22, 1971.
So here we got Dennis Rodman, who goes to North Korea, comes back, and what does he do?
He basically establishes a moral equivalence.
I know, I know folks.
I know we're just having fun with this, but look at it works.
We're dealing with somebody totally on it.
Doesn't know what he's talking about, but but who on the Democrat side really does?
Remember John Kerry, April 22nd, 1971?
They told the stories of times that they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals, and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies,
randomly shot at civilians, raised villages in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, not isolated incidents, but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with a full awareness of officers at all levels of command.
Well, there's John Kerry, basically say, hey, you know, we do the same thing in North Vietnamese do.
That was April 22, 1971, and he was spelling out the way American troops are behaving in Vietnam.
This is no dummer to Dennis Rodman coming back as hey.
Oh, you know, we prison camps here, we murder people just like him, John.
It's just politics.
And I may as well grab the next one.
I think this is an interesting question.
Bob Schiefer was talking to Senator McCain on Slay the Nation yesterday, and he started out his interview with Senator McCain with this question.
Do you all feel that your party is somehow being held hostage?
The president has talked about kind of a common sense caucus.
And we hear reports this morning that he started calling around, calling some Republicans to see what can be done.
Are people on the extreme ends of your party holding the rest of you hostage here?
I've got to take a break.
I have what McCain said in answer to that.
If you're interested, we'll get to that.
And uh lots of other stuff too, folks.
Barely getting started here, barely scratching the surface.
Sit tight.
We got much more straight ahead.
It didn't go well.
and For Lauren Silberman.
We told you about Lauren Silberman last week.
Lauren Silberman tried out for the National Football League at a regional combine over the weekend.
Wanted to be a female kicker.
So she showed up at the Jets Training Center.
That's uh in Florham Park, New Jersey, which is where the regional combine was.
And her tryout consisted of two kickoffs.
The two kickoffs totaled 30 yards.
One kick was 19 yards.
The other kick was 11, or as a combination, it equaled 30.
30 yards, and then uh she had to retire from the effort.
She aggravated a quadriceps injury that she suffered in training last week.
Quadriceps, for those of you in real Linda, that's a big thigh muscle on the top.
She had an injury there.
That would be relevant if you're trying to kick.
So she had she showed up hurt.
She aggravated the injury after two kickoffs, totaling 30 yards.
And as it says here in USA Today, left a lot of people wondering whether the whole thing was a promotional sham.
Really?
You think so?
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Great to have you, folks.
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I don't know for how much longer, but we still are.
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Now, the female kicker.
Lauren Silberman.
Two kicks.
The AP says 19 and 13 yards.
We had a total of 32 yards, two kicks.
It is obvious that the woman has never kicked a football.
And in fact, according to USA Today, she had to ask other players how to do it.
USA Today saying that, not me.
USA Today reporting that she had to ask other players how to kick the boy.
Fortunately, she left before the debriefing of the other kickers.
According to other media reports, Miss Silberman said at the end of her tryout, look at it's not the length that counts, it's the technique.
No, I'm just making that up.
I just...
She didn't really say that.
Now, folks, there are two ways to report this.
Julie, Julie's in there going to you so bad.
There are two ways to report this, folks.
There's the low information way, and then there's the real way.
Now the low information voter way of reporting this would be to go, oh, what a valiant, you know.
Did you see this lady kicker trap from the National Football League?
You want to talk about guts.
This is a woman who really is challenging the orthodoxy of the day.
This is a woman who's not content with her lot in life and her place in this culture.
And she she wanted a tryout for the National Football League and more power to her.
Why shouldn't she?
And she gave it everything she had.
She tried, she did everything.
She prepped, she worked hard, she did everything possible.
It's just a shame, and boy, we hope that she can get well soon and come back and kick for real so that we can find out how really good she is.
But what an effort.
What a wonderful thing.
And you know, someday, folks, it's gonna be there will be a female kicker in the NFL.
And when that happens, we'll all think back to this weekend and Lauren Silberman who went in there and paved the way for all the other women who thought they never ever would have had a prayer of playing in the NFL, but she broke down that barrier.
She sucked it up.
She went out there and she was willing to humiliate her.
She played hurt.
She cared so much to get in this game.
And that's what we need to learn in this country.
It's not about whether you can or can't.
It's how much you want to.
And how famous you can be for trying.
And how much credit you can get for trying.
Whether you can do it or not doesn't matter.
And we applaud her.
What a gutsy thing to do.
She subjected herself to national humiliation.
She knew she didn't really have what it took that day.
She was she was kicking hurt.
That's the low information way to play it.
And that's how, if they do this on entertainment tonight, that's how you'll see it.
Now, the other way to report this is okay, who's idea was this and for what purpose?
Whose fingerprints are on this move and what are they trying to accomplish?
Who at the NFL wanted to make a big brouhahaha out of some woman coming in knowing there was no way the woman could kick.
There was no way she was ever going to make a team, no way she's ever going to get past this tryout.
They wanted it to happen.
A lot of publicity for what purpose?
And did she wear pink?
Or should she wear pink?
The other way to report this is the honest and true.
What in the hell?
How stupid do they think we are?
But that way it would offend people.
And that would be considered disrespectful of Miss Silberman.
And that's why I led with the low information voter analysis.
And of the two, that's the one I'll stick with.
If I'm going to be quoted, you people in the media, I choose to be quoted on a low information analysis.
It's just it's a beautiful thing.
Well, I you know what?
I'll tell you something.
The National Football League wants to get rid of kickoffs anyway.
You know why?
Because they're too dangerous.
You know why they're too dangerous?
Because these big guys, these big men, are running so fast in opposite directions, and they collide with each other.
That maybe they run into each other for those of you in real linda, they just collide out there.
And you have concussions, like Dennis Rodman.
Nobody can convince me he has not had at least one concussion.
And it's brutal.
And so the National Football League is toying with the idea of getting rid of kickoffs anyway.
But still is a way to get a woman in the game, and that is allow on sidekicks and have her do it.
They are trying to get rid of the kickoff, and uh this might have been a stealth way of uh moving that ball forward.
Anyway, the USA Today headline of the story is female kickers' historic bid ends with injury.
It started that way that way too.
The ChICOMs, ladies and gentlemen, some of the news today is just unbelievably depressing.
The ChICOMs will overtake the United States as the world's biggest luxury car market as early as 2016 as rising incomes and desire for status boost premium auto brands.
This from a consultancy firm today.
McKinsey and Company, well known, highly respected global management consulting firm, said it to ChICOMS, are already the second biggest market for premium cars after the United States sales with one and a quarter million of these things last year.
Now the premium segment in China is defined by McKenzie as cars costing from 200,000 yuan to 1.2 million yuan, which is 32,000 to 190,000.
Now, 32,000, that's not a luxury.
In fact, I saw there was a story I didn't get a chance to get to it on Friday.
But it dovetails with this.
McKinsey and Company says that the ChICOM is going to be the folks, this is a communist country now.
The ChICOMs are going to become the world's largest luxury car market.
That's that.
That's that's troublesome because that says more about the direction we're headed than it does about the direction the Chicoms are headed.
Now the story on Friday was that average American families of four can no longer practically relatively easily afford a brand new car.
Economic circumstances, Low income increases, wage increases, and so forth, have all combined to put the average price of a new car out of range for an increasing number of American families.
In many cases, the price, the average price of a new car now, exceeds the annual income of a significant percentage of the population.
Well, now I'm getting snarky comments in the IFB.
People say, no, no, that's horrible.
It's terrible.
Folks, it is, it's it's it's emblematic of the direction our economy is headed.
It isn't good.
It's it's there's a lot of truth wrapped up in that statistic.
Well, snurdly since they said, here come the subsidies.
They tried the subsidies on the vault, and it didn't work.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, but the the the Cesla, the the the the subsidies for the Tesla, that's a high-end electric car.
Cash for clunkers didn't work.
No, no, no, no.
I just I don't, I don't know.
I look well, that's the thing.
How are people gonna get cars out the how are people gonna get health care without the government?
How are people gonna get ammunition without the government?
I am not getting Charlie Daniels has a piece today.
I put it somewhere in the middle of stack.
I didn't think I'd get to it this quickly.
But Charlie Daniels has a has a column today saying, have you noticed how difficult it is to find ammo today?
For you people own guns and use them for hunting and recreational purposes.
Have you have you found how hard it is to find ammo?
And his conclusion is that the government is somehow limiting the availability of ammo.
And he says, if they can do that, why can't they say affect the supply of food or anything else that they want to impact?
Charlie Daniels is no kook freak extremist by any stretch of the imagination.
I'll tell you, there's there's something else.
I I uh I thought about leaving with this today, but my mood was in a different place.
But at some point today, we're gonna get to what's happening with these eight Republican governors who are caving on the Medicare expansion.
The latest is John Kasich in Ohio, and there are reasons for it.
Bob McDonnell of Virginia, Rick Scott, Florida, Scott was perhaps one of the most vocal in opposing the Medicare expansion.
The Medicare expansion is an Obamacare trick, essentially, but the reason these governors find it attractive, folks, it's all about money and the fact that nobody has any except the federal government.
And Obamacare puts a lot of mandates on the states, shifts a lot of financial burden in administering health care to the states, and in one sense, Medicare.
And at the beginning of Obamacare, the federal government is dangling, is offering a lot of money to help them absorb the costs of this new responsibility of administering Medicaid.
And it's simply apparently, it's just impossible to turn it down.
At least for these eight governors.
It's just they're saying things like, well, if I don't take the money, some other governor will, so you need to applaud me for doing the responsible thing in this state.
One governor said that.
Well, if I don't take it, some other governor will, so I deserve credit.
Every one of these governors opposed it, and in fact, many of these states joined In that now famous lawsuit to stop Obamacare and to stop the Medicare expansion.
The Supreme Court in their ruling on Obamacare ruled the Medicare expansion unconstitutional.
That was the one part of it that they basically rejected, which doesn't apparently matter.
Meaning there is legal grounds for these governors to stand on to resist this.
But they don't have any money.
Most of these states are running deficits, and they can't print money like the federal government.
They can't really borrow it like the federal government.
And the hospitals in these states are all for this because they see the arrival of this federal money as going to them in part to cover the expenses of people who don't pay them.
It's all about money and the fact that nobody has any.
And the real tragedy here is that the longer Obama implements his policies, and the longer he comes up with new policies, the less money everybody is going to have.
And the only way they're going to have any, be they a citizen or a governor or anything, is if the federal government subsidizes them or gives them some.
That's what's being set up here.
And it is anathema to the way this country was founded.
And it's not going to prolong.
And at the end of this, you know, right now the governors are getting this money for nothing.
But years down the road, the federal government is going to stop paying them, and the expenses are going to be have to be borne by them.
They're just kicking the can down the road.
They're not solving it.
I've got to take a break here.
We'll be back in just a second.
Here's what the Supreme Court said involving Medicaid money.
Supreme Court said, they ruled that it would be unconstitutional to force the states to take Medicaid money.
That was the one thing that Obama couldn't do.
I mean, John Roberts caved on everything.
There's nothing constitutional about Obamacare anyway.
The whole bill is unconstitutional.
But it's amazing how quickly that's been forgotten.
And I guess it makes sense.
There's nothing anybody can do about it anyway, apparently.
But you simply can't force people to buy.
And the federal government doesn't have that power, although they do now, thanks to John Roberts, Chief Justice, Supreme Court.
But in the ruling, the one thing they got right was that the states cannot be forced to take Obama's Medicaid money.
But like everybody else, we predicted back then that the states would still take it at the end of the day that they wouldn't be able to resist it.
And that Obama could use other ways to pressure them.
You ever heard of Arizona?
The state of Arizona's in President Obama's crosshairs.
Releasing illegal alien prisoners, suing them for trying to enforce existing immigration law.
So these governors all know that.
These governors all know they're dealing with Hugo Chavez.
And they also know they don't have any money.
Because no no nobody in government does, save for a couple of states where there's an oil boom.
Other than that, nobody has any money.
And increasingly, more and more people don't have any money.
And when you don't have any money, that's all that matters.
And you don't care how you get it.
And you certainly don't care about the Constitution when it comes to getting money.
It comes to paying the bills and it comes to buying food.
You don't care what the Constitution.
You don't care about Ideology then, and this is what Obama knows.
So these states don't have any money.
They've been told they have to administer more and more of Medicaid.
And Obama's bribing them.
Here's 300 billion bucks off the top at first, but after a few years.
It was like the hundred thousand cops program at Clinton's.
The states, cities got a bunch of cops paid for by the federal government for two or three years, and after that they had to pay for it or fire the cops.
It's gonna be the same way here with this.
Eventually the federal money dries up, and then what do they do?
They've created all these people expecting all of this care and treatment.
Everybody knows the governors, Obama, everybody knows that we can't afford this.
But the governors are rightly worried that Obama can take the money away from them at any time if they oppose him too much publicly.
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