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March 8, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 8, 2013, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
No question about it.
There's no question about it.
This Rand Paul business has totally upset the power structure in Washington, the Senate, particularly low information outreach working, successful.
We have audio sunbite proof coming up.
We are loaded today.
McCain has called Senators Paul and Cruz wacko birds.
Senator McCain is calling them wacko birds because of the filibuster.
Plus, it's Friday, folks.
Whoa!
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open live Friday.
Yes, sir, Rebud.
That means that when we go to the phones, you callers determine what it is that we talk about.
You can ask questions.
Use your imagination.
Whatever you want to talk about.
You can ask questions.
You can criticize.
You can belittle.
You can laugh at.
You can make fun of.
You can cajole.
You can praise.
You can do whatever you want.
You can bring up subjects that haven't been discussed.
Whichever is the case.
Well, whatever.
It's a giant career risk taken by me, a major media figure, turning over the content of the program to rank amateurs.
Of course, it isn't all that often because we don't really take all that many calls.
It's a radio talk show unique in that way.
A few number of calls we take, but the calls we do take, we love.
Here's the phone number, 800-282-2882, and the email address, lrushbo at eibnet.com.
Here's a sample of what's coming up on the program today.
The tyranny of the Queen Bee.
It is a story in the Wall Street Journal.
It's not the first time, by the way, that I have seen such a story.
It is about what the feminazis have wrought.
Now, I realize that term might not be useful and helpful in outreach, low information voters, but to heck with it.
I love the term and I'm sticking with it.
Plus, it works.
Long time ago, the feminazis began their quest to make women more like men, which is what feminazism was essentially all about.
Dress like us, acquire power like us, have careers like us, all that.
That's really what it was about.
And so now this is the latest story on how working women who achieve upper echelon ranks in management do not mentor younger women.
They block them.
They sabotage them.
They do everything they can to keep other women from reaching those same heights.
As I say, it's not the first time I've seen the story.
It's two or three iterations of it.
But this is an interesting piece that prints out the four pages, the tyranny of the Queen Bee.
In addition to that, another story on chronic tension for women hurting mental clarity.
It is a tend and befriend kind of response that's required to this.
And this is in relationship to the story we had earlier about why white women are dying sooner than any other age group of women.
So we have that coming up.
We got Moore and Rand Paul in the sequester and the, or rather the filibuster.
And really, there has been, I'm telling you, I can't tell you, because I would be betraying confidences, but I'm telling you that the power structure there has been totally turned upside down in the Senate and in Washington.
And even members of the Drive-By Media are talking about how they sense something major has changed here.
And all it really was, and the reason why it stands out is we had one guy who stood up and dared challenge the regime.
When you boil it all down, that's what happened.
That's how absent that kind of behavior has been, that one guy doing it doesn't either.
I mean, it's important it went for 13 hours, but still somebody did it.
Somebody challenged the administration, and they're alive today to talk about it.
And they're heroes.
They're heroes.
And I'll tell you who else is upset by this.
And I'll explain this as the program unfolds.
The neocons are paranoid.
The neocons are paranoid.
Well, because Rand Paul comes from his father's gene pool and this isolationist wing, worried about maybe there's something more really going on here than simply opposing drone strikes.
And it's all kinds of ramifications.
Well, they might think he's a kook, but they're worried that he's a kook that nobody thinks is a kook.
And so they'll follow him.
It's a stealth kook.
It's their thinking.
I don't think this.
Don't put the, I'm answering questions from the Eager Beaver staff here, who love getting me in trouble, by the way.
It's entertaining for them.
Low information outreach.
I've had people tell me it's not working.
Let's take you to the audio soundbites.
Last night, TNT Network, the coverage of the NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder at the New York Knicks game in the third quarter, we got Marv Albert, play-by-play, color commentary is Reggie Miller, and they're talking about a play that just happened.
How about the foot race between Jason Kidd, who will be 40 years old in two weeks from now, and Derek Fisher, the 17-year pro, who is back with Oklahoma City after a short stint with Dallas.
That's like Charles versus Rush Limbaugh right there.
Three-pointer from straight away.
I apologize, Charles.
No, you don't.
You would beat Rush Limbaugh maybe by a step.
Where does Rush Limbaugh figure into this?
Where does Rush Limbaugh figure it?
Low information outreach is working.
So they see a couple guys on the court, a couple of old bulls.
Jason Kidd, 17-year pro Derek Fisher, and they imagine me in a foot race with Charles Barkley.
Ladies and gentlemen, somebody brought to my attention today a three-minute segment of my old television show back circa 1995.
The budget battle of 1995 and actually the prelude to that is what this three-minute soundbite was about.
It's funny.
It's entertaining.
It's also eye-opening to listen to this.
1995, 13 years ago.
Is that right?
Yeah, I get it.
It's a long time ago.
And the Democrat strategy is no different.
The tactics are identical.
And I want you to hear it in context.
So we're going to start off putting this little segment here with.
You know what?
I'm not going to play this skyfall thing.
I'm not going to scratch that from the repertoire.
Grab sequester is here now.
White comedian Paul Shanklin.
We'll do that and we'll go right into the audio soundbite of my television show, Circa 1995.
The name of the soundbite's the Clinton Hustle, and it's a YouTube link.
We've got it for you if you want to see it at rushlimbaugh.com.
We talked a number of times last week about the Clinton hustle and how this administration sets us up to accept every crisis coming down the pike.
Every problem's a crisis.
We've got to act now or we're going to die.
It's over.
We have put together a video piece here to illustrate this.
The beauty of television is that I don't just have to say it.
I can then show you.
I can show you clips of video left and right.
Bam, bam, bam, bam.
And that's what we've done.
Here is just a brief synopsis of some of this administration's finest effort to instill fear in the American people.
Watch.
Millions of Americans are just a pink slip away from losing their health insurance and one serious illness away from losing all their savings.
Fear is up.
Hope is down.
Today's Labor Day.
And the big question on everybody's mind is horrible.
Will I have a job tomorrow?
We could spend our energy on reforming the health care system, the welfare system, on immunizing every two-year-old, and still not have any Americans left unless we're prepared to seriously confront the issue of AIDS.
Bankruptcies are up.
Real wages are down.
If this doesn't pass, I think you'll see an upspike in interest rates and a quick one.
And what usually follows that is a drop in the stock market.
Stop the taping.
I don't want to see that.
Stop the tape.
Stop the tape.
Stop it right there.
This business of there's going to be an uptick in interest rates of all these things.
If anything, folks, we are in a deflationary cycle and interest rates are going south.
And that effort to try to make you think that interest rates and wild inflation and economic growth are right around the corner if we don't do this budget deal was just an out-and-out lie and full-fledged 100% deceit, as is all this.
Now, pick it up.
There's still a little bit more of this to go.
Drop back into that recession.
This is a global crisis.
We have an environmental crisis.
We have a child care crisis.
A health insurance crisis.
Whether or not we're going to have a cool summer or a long, hot summer is directly related, in our estimation, to the passes of this stimulus plan.
Just remember this, folks.
A lot of folks on Medicare are out there every day making the choice between food and medicine.
Unemployment is up.
Personal income is down.
We will spend close to a trillion dollars this year on health care.
By the year 2000, we'll be spending $2 trillion.
We can't wait, David.
It takes your breath away, doesn't it?
Everything that should be down is up.
Everything that should be up is down.
They've got it upside down, and we're going to turn it right side up with your help.
We came back to meet.
I'm pictured upside down at my desk.
That's why the audience is laughing.
I'm so scared.
I don't know if I can finish the show.
Well, that's just a sample.
Now, imagine two years of that.
That's what's been going on, and there's no end in sight.
And you get pummeled by that kind of stuff every day in the evening news, bam, bam, bam.
And I guarantee you it's going to sink in.
That's 1995.
I'm just, I just, it's a good opportunity, a good way to show you how they never change.
We've got people tuning into this program every day for the first time.
It's an opportunity.
I've got a real challenge here.
For those of you who have been longtime listeners, I must ask you to indulge here, certainly that we know it is established fact now.
Radio survey data, there are people tuning into this program out of curiosity for a number of reasons for the first time every day.
And so some of these things that you've heard, some of these things you've heard me say, some of my theories, points, all that, reiterate it for people who are just joining.
And that's one of the reasons I'm playing this soundbite went three minutes, 15 seconds from the TV show 1995.
It's the same as it is today.
The same fear-mongering, the same crisis-mongering.
This is how despots frighten people into giving up freedom.
This is how they do it.
And they focus on the elderly.
You've heard Clinton in this bite.
And the elderly, people on Medicare, they're now faced with all the, do they buy food?
Do they buy medicine?
And during his administration, by the way, this is the budget battle of 1995.
We didn't even touch on the fear tactics they were using on starving kids, but there was one bite in here where we had, who was it?
I think it was Jay Rockefeller talking about health care.
Back in 1995, he said, we will spend close to a trillion dollars this year on health care by year 2000.
We will be spending $2 trillion.
We can't wait.
What he was saying was, we can't wait to expand the budget.
We can't wait to do health care.
We're already in 1995 spending a trillion a year.
In 2000, we're going to be spending $2 trillion.
What are we spending now on health care?
And is it getting any more affordable?
Is it getting any more plentiful?
Is it becoming any more available for anybody?
No.
It hasn't improved at all.
It has gotten more cumbersome.
It has become more of an obstacle course.
It's become more expensive.
And the only thing that's changed in U.S. health care is that Democrats have had their hands in it all these years.
The only thing that's changed is that the government has gotten more and more involved in it.
This is a profound education right here.
We're spending a trillion dollars a year on health care back in 1995, and they had the red flag warning signals up back then.
And they were worried, Rockefeller, if we don't do this budget deal here and start spending more on health care now, it's going to be out of control in 2000.
13 years ago.
13 years ago.
So Axis is an 18-year-old soundbite.
The year 2000, he was worried about what it was going to be, $2 trillion in spending.
Look at all the money folks were spending on healthcare, and look at how much worse it's getting.
And I don't care where you go in the federal government, it's gotten bigger.
It has become more cumbersome.
And is it any better?
Is anything the government is running improved?
With all of this money, education, you see the news out of New York City.
80, 80 folks, 80% of high school graduates are illiterate.
80%.
How much money are we spending per student in New York?
80% are illiterate.
Who do you think they vote for?
Do you think they ever heard of Paul Revere?
You think they've ever heard of George Washington?
You think the name Abraham Lincoln outside of a guy in a movie means anything to them?
80% cannot read and they got diplomas.
How many college students are illiterate?
That's going to be the next thing.
How many college graduates can't read?
And I bet you there's a number that would make you headspin.
Got to take a break.
I just got an email from a friend of mine in Kansas who just heard the three-minute audio clip from my television show back in 1995.
And he said, you know what that was?
That was the daily show.
You were doing the daily show back then.
He said, he was a fan.
He'd been watching it, listening to a program a long time.
They said, hey, you were doing the daily show, which I have mentioned to people.
This program that you are listening to now has been the forerunner of so much that's in the media today.
Something that I, by the way, privately am very proud of.
New York City, between $18,000 and $20,000 per student is what we spend.
80% of high school graduates are illiterate, can't read.
And this 80%, this is the people who are going to community college.
That's how they found out.
They're going to community college and they can't read.
80% of high school grads going to community college cannot read.
The full-fledged high school population of New York, the rate might be even higher.
Now, who do you think they vote for?
What do you think they expect out of life?
Hi, how are you?
Welcome back.
Open Line Friday.
Rush Limbaugh doing the honors, serving humanity behind the Golden EIB microphone.
Fresh in your mind, the three-minute audio soundbite of a clip of my television show back in 1995, in which every Democrat featured was using the same tactics that you are familiar with today: fear-mongering, scaremongering, warning of utter demise and disaster, people running out of food, no health care, no jobs, if we didn't expand the federal budget.
If we didn't, no health care, no Medicare, no jobs, if we didn't expand the federal budget.
And the only way to expand the federal budget, the only real way to do it, is to tax people more and more.
You can borrow some, you can print some, but the Democrats' favorite way of expanding the federal budget is to take money away from the citizens, which is what taxes are.
And so they have been promising and begging and pleading and hoping and praying for bigger government year in and year out, and they've got it.
They've had some help from the Republicans along the way, not denying that.
But if left to their own devices and if the Republicans are not afraid of everything and pandering to everybody, this is not what they are naturally inclined to do, which is why so many of us are so mad at them all the time.
Conservative Republicans do not want to raise the federal budget, do not want to increase it.
But if they think that's what they have to do to get votes, then they'll cave and do it.
That's what angers us.
But the Democrats, it's another story.
It's all they want to do.
And they promise a panacea.
They promise utopia.
They promise an end to crisis.
They promise contentment and happiness.
They promise an end to all the problems.
And yet, every day they come at you and warn again and fear-monger again and scare you again.
They never let up.
It is the time-tested way to get you to give up a little of your freedom here and a little of it there, some more tomorrow.
Because they make you think you're buying security.
You're going to get your health care.
Nobody's going to take it away from you.
Your Social Security is going to be there when you need it.
Your Medicare is going to be there.
Your kids are going to have lunch and breakfast, whatever, at school.
And after they get what they want, they come back for more and they use and recycle the same approach, scaremongering, fear-mongering.
All the while, federal government gets bigger and bigger.
And what you need to ask yourself is, is anything that they're in charge of improving, is health care more expensive or less?
Is health care more affordable or less?
Is healthcare insurance more affordable or less?
Is health treatment, is it more available or not?
Is it better?
Are you able to get treated when you're sick?
Are you able to pay for it?
Is your insurance covered?
Has anything gotten better with all of this government growth?
No.
It hasn't.
In fact, in many people's minds, it's worsened, which is another Democrat trick.
You create a problem and then you magically come up with the solution.
And you get the solution.
You get bigger government.
When that doesn't work, you say another program is needed to fix that problem that you created.
You blame it on the Republicans, but you created the problem.
And the problem always is government getting bigger with no accountability.
Now we've got 25 programs that deal with preschool education, not clowning Head Start.
I don't know how many programs we have that feed kids before and during school.
We've got redundant programs on top of programs designed to take care of the elderly, make sure they don't suffer.
But no matter what we spend and no matter how big the government gets, nothing improves.
And the proof is the Democrats.
You listen to them and we're almost ready to succumb.
Every day, there's a new crisis.
Every day, there's a new fear.
After they get what they want, every time they get everything they want, and it's still never enough, and it's still a crisis the next day.
And nothing gets better.
At some point, I would think people would begin to assess whether or not all of these efforts, forget the money for a second, because the money is incomprehensible to people.
If all of this compassion, concern, if all these efforts to fix things are actually working.
And as I say, the Democrat Party is our own best evidence that it isn't working.
Because they're the ones that come to us every day and tell us we have a crisis here and a crisis there.
And they're warning us if we don't get even more government, that's going to happen.
It's always you that's going to suffer.
Your fire department's going to be shut down.
Your police department's going to be shut down.
Your school is going to have to close.
Your bridge in your town might crumble.
Your building might collapse.
You're drinking poisoned water while you're breathing poisoned air.
After they get what they want.
After they claim they've got what they need to fix everything.
And for those of you new to the program, I'm into my 25th year of hosting this program, and nothing's changed in those 25 years.
And there's another element to this.
In all of these 25 years, the Republican Party has yet to come up with a way to stop it.
In 25 years, the Republican Party has yet to come up with a strategy that beats it.
Let me correct myself.
There is a strategy that beats this.
It's called conservatism.
You saw a little bit of how it works with Rand Paul's filibuster.
We saw a major illustration of how it works with the eight years of Ronaldo's Magnus.
Conservatism is the best antidote to liberalism that there is.
Just the Republican Party is afraid to use it.
But it works.
Other than that, the Republicans don't have a strategy.
The Democrats have been using this fear-mongering, fear-mongering stuff, scaremongering.
World's going to end for 25, more than that, but 25 years I've been doing this program.
That's what they've been doing.
And the Republicans can't figure out a way to beat it.
Obama's nothing new, folks.
He's just the most radical of these guys.
He's no different than Clinton and Gore.
Unemployment is up.
Jobs are down.
Everything that should be up is down.
Same old thing.
Obama's a copycat.
He's just more radical than the Democrats who came before him.
Here's Obama, by the way.
Fresh in your mind is that three-minute soundbite from my TV show.
And it's on YouTube.
And we've put the link at rushlimbaugh.com if you want to see it.
Because the video of all those soundbites, you can see it and have it make your impression that way.
And you will recognize it as what is commonly called a daily show today.
Show prep for the rest of the media.
Cutting-edge societal evolution forefront, forerunner.
At any rate, I want you to listen to Obama back on February 19th, the old Eisenhower executive office building.
Emergency responders, like the ones who are here today, their ability to help communities respond to and recover from disasters will be degraded.
Border Patrol agents will see their hours reduced.
FBI agents will be furloughed.
Federal prosecutors will have to close cases and let criminals go.
Air traffic controllers and airport security will see cutbacks, which means more delays at airports across the country.
Thousands of teachers and educators will be laid off.
Tens of thousands of parents will have to scramble to find child care for their kids.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans will lose access to primary care and preventive care like flu vaccinations and cancer screenings.
This is not an abstraction.
People will lose their jobs.
The unemployment rate might tick up again.
That was just three weeks ago, two weeks ago, whatever it was.
A never-ending litany.
No different than what you heard Bill Clinton say in 1995.
No different than what you heard in that clip from Jay Rockefeller or Ben Chavis.
He's the NAA LCP director.
He was in that soundbite.
Lloyd Benson, Texas, was in that soundbite.
Al Gore, Bill Clinton, no different.
Clinton said, right now, senior citizens are having to make the decision of whether they buy medicine or food.
The government had to get bigger, so that didn't happen.
Here comes Obama.
It never ends, folks.
It's the same thing, recycled.
But again, the key to it, I think The government has grown geometrically.
Spending is at a record.
National debt's higher than ever.
We've added $6 trillion in new federal spending in four years of Obama.
I mean, they're getting all that they want, and yet not one problem ever gets solved.
According to them.
According to them.
According to their complaints, according to their fear-mongering, nothing ever gets fixed.
All the money in the world they've gotten, it doesn't fix anything.
Everything just keeps getting worse.
Isn't that interesting?
Isn't that interesting?
The government is bigger today than these people were dreaming of in 1995.
They couldn't envision a government this big.
If they did, they would think they had achieved utopia.
Well, here we are.
And where are we?
We're at a point where a majority of people in this country genuinely fear for the future of this country.
We're falling apart so rapidly.
We're going in the wrong direction so rapidly.
The institutions and traditions that have made this country great are under assault, but the Democrats telling us they're protecting them.
They're saving them.
We're getting more money every year.
The government's growing bigger and bigger.
The government's doing more and more.
It's becoming more intertwined and interlocked and involved in your life each and every day and what's happening to your life.
You're getting more and more scared every day because nothing's working.
Which is the plan, by the way.
Nothing ever gets fixed.
We always need more money to fix what they tell you is a brand new problem, but there are no new problems and there are no new solutions.
It's just recycling.
Same playbook, same procedure, same strategy, same tactics.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back after this.
Don't go.
We're back.
May I make one more observation, ladies and gentlemen, before we get to the phones?
That audio soundbite, that three-minute clip of my television show, 1995-1996, if you listen carefully, you will hear the Democrats describe those years as panacea today.
They say we need to go back to the Clinton years, the Clinton year taxation levels.
We need, and they talked about what a boom economy we had back in the 90s, the Clinton years.
All during the fiscal cliff fight, all during the sequester fight, they kept telling us the 90s.
Go back to the, look at it, we were doing great.
We had Clinton-era taxation levels and we had an economic boom and everything was wonderful.
I remember I said, well, let's go back to Clinton-era spending levels.
Oh, no, no, I can't do that.
Well, why not?
I mean, everything was a panacea.
Well, you go back and you listen to these Democrats from 1995, 1996, or it doesn't matter what year, but we have those years.
If you go back and listen, there wasn't any panacea, folks.
We're on the verge of disaster.
The edge of disaster.
We were nearly about to collapse at the time.
There was no boom.
There wasn't anything great going on.
There wasn't any panacea.
There was no utopia.
We were a gnat's eyelash from it all ending.
And yet today, they cite these years as a golden age.
And they refer to these Clinton years as a golden age, an era that we need to return to.
Casey, you turn back the hands of time.
You go back and you listen to them from that era.
And there wasn't anything golden about it.
Just as miserable then as they are today.
Just as unhappy then as they are today.
Just as fear-mongering then as they are today.
Larry in Indianapolis, we always try to take a call or two in the first hour on Open Line Friday.
We'll do it now.
Larry, great to have you on the program.
Hello, sir.
Thank you, sir.
How are you today?
Very good.
Appreciate your call.
Today I'm calling because, you know, I'm just about a 50-year-old man, been in the workforce all my life.
I'm a young conservative in that I was raised a very simple thinker.
I probably became pretty apathetic when it came to politics up until the last half dozen or less years.
I started to pay attention.
Now it's got me scared.
My question really stems from the point, let me give you the example, and maybe we can answer the question there.
When any given politician is asked a question, let's just say you ask that politician, what time is it?
Why do they sit there and tell you how to build a watch instead of just answering the question?
It is the nature of the business to always have untried solutions or better ways of making a watch rather than just making the existing one work.
So to answer your question, how to wind it, wouldn't serve the purpose.
They want you to pay for the funding for the design of a new watch when you don't even need one.
And they want to tell you the watch you currently have is worthless, particularly if a Republican company built it.
All right.
But when it even comes to a yes or no question, they still will meander down a rabbit's trail instead of giving you a yes or a no.
It is the nature of politics as a business.
You're just now arriving here at being interested at this level in this stuff.
You were not all that into this until recently.
Unfortunately, being raised in the public school system and being indoctrinated into so many different civil theologies, if you will.
Unfortunately, yeah, I just now jumped on the train and I'm just now learning.
The best thing, let me give you the best answer to your question.
Don't ask them.
Do it yourself.
Don't ask them why anything is.
Just don't depend on them.
Don't depend on the politician for where you're going to end up in life.
They can't possibly care about you as much as you do.
They can't possibly be as interested in the outcome of your life as you are.
So don't even ask them.
Just do it yourself.
Pure and simple.
Okay, you want the truth of the unemployment news?
We have it for you coming up.
You want the truth about women rising to the top of the corporate suite, not helping other younger women.
We've got that, and we've got much more.
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