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March 12, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 12, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Hi folks, great to have you back, L. Rushball, the EIB Network, and the Limpa Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program 800-282-2882, the email address Lrushbow at EIBNet.com.
Here it is from the Associated Press, even without modern day temptations like fast food or cigarettes.
People had clogged arteries some 4,000 years ago, according to the biggest ever study of mummies searching for the condition researchers say that suggests that heart disease may be a more natural part of human aging rather than being directly tied to America and American behavior and
American risk factors like smoking and eating fatty foods and not exercising.
They did CT scans of 137 mummies, showed evidence of etherosclerosis or hardened arteries in one third of the mummies examined, including those from ancient people believed to have had healthy lifestyles.
Dr. Randall Thompson, a cardiologist, St. Luke's Mid-America Heart Institute, Kans City said, he's the lead author of the study.
Heart disease has been stalking mankind for over 4,000 years all over the globe.
Really?
You're kidding.
They gotta be making that up.
Everybody knows there wasn't such a thing as heart disease until America.
America's wealth and its its lifestyles, sedentary, capitalist success, breeding a bunch of people that don't have to work hard for their food, just go to the processed counter in the store, go home and eat it.
Folks, I am this is one of these moments where I want to get serious with you for a minute.
It's an object lesson here.
Over the course of my life, and yours too.
It seems like every week we are treated to the latest study of that which will kill us.
And it's all rooted, if you'll note it's all rooted in an advanced lifestyle.
Now, you go back, the ancient Egyptians, it is theorized, had life expectancy of 40 years.
Which means that they had hardening of the arteries at very young ages compared to those of us today.
They had clogged arteries, they had cholesterol, they had all of these things that we have 4,000 years ago.
Now the reason some people could look at this, laugh it off, try to make a joke about it, but for some reason I feel compelled to make a big deal out of this.
We are barraged every day with all of these lifestyle and behavioral things that are going to kill us, and everybody believes them.
And I believe, and I know this is where I run the risk of losing people, but I don't know how else to say this.
And I know I've got you low information voters out there, but I really want you to understand this.
I think it's all part of.
It's not even really a conspiracy.
Liberals are just who they are.
And they have a natural tendency, as part of their ideology, to control everybody.
They tell you what you can and can't have, what you should and shouldn't eat, how much you should and shouldn't eat, how much you should and shouldn't exercise, where you should live, what you should and shouldn't drive, and the way they...
And they use fear and scare mongering to gain your conformity.
And they also employ another unique aspect of the trick, and that is to imply that all of these things that are harmful to your health are relatively new.
And they are the result of an American lifestyle which is unhealthy and unproductive and can be tied to or blamed on various characteristics or aspects of freedom.
You have too much freedom that allows you to eat what's not good for you, and they are there to tell you, and they are there to put limits on what you can and can't eat.
As in Mayor Doomberg with some of what it's silly, the things that he believes in.
Literally childishly silly.
But he is he's consumed with this belief that you or nobody in New York knows what's good for them.
And it doesn't matter what.
It could be soda pop, could be guns, could be food, could be cars, could be the way you treat.
He's going to control it all.
Under the auspices of making your life better, under the auspices of making you healthier, under the auspices of having you live longer.
All of it's always done for your own good.
And of course, people eat this stuff up, no pun intended.
Because everybody wants to live longer.
Nobody wants to die.
Everybody wants, and nobody wants to get sick.
And it's the same trick that they use with global warming.
The earth has been around, you can argue hundreds of thousands of years, ten thousand years, billions of years.
But isn't it interesting?
Only now is something abnormal.
Only now are things in the world screwed up.
Only now.
I've often wondered in a global warming debate, for example, which is now proven to be a hoax, the man-made global warming debate.
I've often wondered who knows what normal is.
Who has been alive for all of these hundreds of thousands of years to know what normal is?
Who is to say, for example, that the earth warming a couple of degrees is catastrophic?
Maybe that's natural.
And who's to say that anything bad will come from it, by the way.
But we are all prisoners to this, folks.
We are all uh uh the the the and the overarching thing here is a oppressive, never ending attempt to control your life by by commandeering or taking away from you some of your freedom.
Now, let me be clear on something.
I don't believe that everybody involved in telling you not to eat bacon or what it is a conspiracist.
I don't believe that there's some mad scientist trying to control your freedom.
I think they're true believers.
I think they've been roped in by others, and I think they're true believers.
I think a considerable number of rank and file everyday ordinary average American liberals are just nothing more than dupes themselves, true believers.
I don't believe that every liberal is diabolical and is part of some evil conspiracy to deny freedom.
But I think the people leading them are, I think the people motivating them are the people influenced, people teaching them, the people instructing them, the people that are trying to bend and shape their minds.
Yeah, I think they know exactly what they're doing.
And they've created an army of little liberal robots out there running around repeating all this drivel that they learn.
But seriously, what are we to make of this?
I think this is a big deal.
And I believe in liberty, I believe in freedom, I believe in self reliance, I believe in rugged individualism.
I believe nobody has my bet my best interest at heart than I do.
I was a kid, my parents did.
I wasn't old enough.
I wasn't able to be self reliant.
That's part of good parenting and all that.
But now I don't think Barack Obama cares more than I do about what happens to me.
Or Nancy Pelosi or anybody else in Washington.
I don't think anybody cares as much as I do about what happens to me.
And I don't want to turn my life over to them.
And I don't want to turn my life over to these idiots at the Center for Science in the Public Interest who are telling me not to eat movie popcorn.
Screw them.
None of their business what I like to eat.
And there's no law that says they know exactly they don't know what they're talking about.
They're just a bunch of little fanatics.
The global warming people the same way.
And what they do is transfer guilt to you.
Whatever is wrong, either in your own life or with a country, it's your fault.
It's all of our fault.
We've been living a lifestyle that we either can't afford or it's been unhealthy, or now we've got to pay the price now.
We have come close to destroying the planet, i.e.
in climate change.
Yeah, it's right.
Now we've got to pay the price.
We can make amends.
We can agree to bigger government, telling us what we can't do in order to save the planet.
We will agree to bigger government, bigger mayors telling us what we can't eat in order to save ourselves.
And we will agree to higher taxes, so that people will have the money to tell us what we can't do in order to improve ourselves.
So what do you do?
You true, when you hear that mummies, do you realize give you a little factoid that many of you may not have known?
Herodotus, who wrote in 400 BC, said that only the poorest Egyptians ate pig.
That would be bacon.
It was considered to be unclean.
The upper classes didn't eat it.
The upper classes didn't eat bacon.
Only the upper classes have been mummified.
So the ancient clas ancient Egyptians, the higher class who are mummified, not allowed to eat this rot gut that would clog your arteries, had clogged arteries.
In other words, there's nothing new.
Clogged arteries, heart disease, all these things, and nothing you can do.
It's just there.
It's part of the human experience.
Genetics has a lot to do with it.
Herodotus was a Greek historian who visited Egypt.
He wrote a book on Egypt.
He knew what he was talking about.
And the higher class Egyptians were the ones who are mummified.
Therefore, they're the ones who were discovering it at heart disease.
They didn't eat pig.
Which is where bacon comes from.
Bacon is said to be oh God, it's yuck.
That's the stuff rice that they actually suck out of your veins when you go in for open heart surgery, it is said.
All that grease.
They didn't eat it.
How did their arteries get clogged?
Somebody tell me.
I just am a firm believer, and I will be mocked for this.
I'm fully aware.
I'm a firm believer that wherever you find a liberal, either a blind as a bat, true believer, robot, or some upper level echelon, bending and shaping, informing and controlling these young liberal minds.
You're going to find people who have contempt for individual people who don't think they are able to make the right decisions in their lives, and therefore that has to be done for them.
You're not smart enough to know what to eat and what not to eat.
You're not smart enough to know what to drive, what not to drive.
You're not smart enough to know where to live and where not to live.
You're not smart enough to do anything on your own.
They have to do it.
They have to tell you.
They have compassion.
They care.
Republicans don't care.
If you die, Republicans don't care.
Liberals want to save you.
But in order for you to be saved, you've got to give them all the power over your life that you will.
And you've got to elect bigger government, you've got to pay higher taxes and you've got to give them the money to do this.
And I think it's all hideous.
And it's all based on hoaxes.
I think all of this I don't care one year it's coffee's gonna kill you, then nope.
Guess what?
We found that coffee is actually helpful to Parkinson's, or whatever it is.
Then one year it was oat brand was gonna kill you, the next year no, it's actually good for you.
And you know the drill.
Every month it's some new medical discovery.
And the truth is that people have had clogged arteries and they've been getting cholesterol and all that long before all of these American produced luxuries and food.
My point is just don't listen to 'em.
Live your life the way you want to live it.
Enjoy what you like.
You only get one life, and there's no reason to live it in prison.
There's no reason to live a life of constraints placed upon you by other people who really don't care about you.
And who really can't care about you as much as you care about you.
It's not possible.
Now we've got a story.
A new drug being developed using the compound found in red wine could help humans live until they're a hundred and fifty.
This is resveratrol.
Synthetic versions of resveratrol, which is the ingredient found in red wine.
Research shows that drugs made from resveratrol could prevent cancer and diabetes.
Could turn this stuff into medicine that you would take topically or orally.
No drugs yet developed to target aging skin, but you could never get diabetes.
You could never get cancer.
You could never die.
And it's all there in red wine.
It's all 150.
Well, why not 175?
Why why do they choose 150 as the year you're gonna die?
But this is exactly what I'm talking about.
Now the the I don't know, it's just it's it's it's all absurd.
Yeah, I gotta take a brief time out.
Sit tight.
Oh, one other thing.
Health related too.
News from Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia considering halting beheadings and moving to firing squads.
Uh officials say that the government's running out of swordsmen to uh carry out the executions.
A joint Saudi committee made up of representatives from the interior.
Justice and health departments is deliberating the idea of firing squads instead of beheadings.
Because you just can't find good old-fashioned swordsmen anywhere anymore.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, and time now to go to the phones.
We start Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
And Marcia, thank you for waiting.
Great to have you.
Hi.
Hello, my pontiff of the airwaves.
Well, thank you very much.
Pontiff of the airwaves.
I like that.
I am calling because the other day at Mass, I am a Roman Catholic.
We were praying against certain evils in the world, and one of them we were supposed to pray to end was greedy capitalism.
In Catholic Church mass, you were you were urged to pray against the greedy evils of capitalism?
Yes.
What was the reaction amongst the people in the in in the church?
Well, I shouted out socialism.
And then some I spoke with some friends after after maths, and and they were pretty upset too.
I did email the pastor.
And um bit the gist of it was that I told him that capitalism had been a great force for good in the world.
And um that's you know, Marxism socialism caused human suffering and was hostile to religion.
Whereas capitalism allowed philanthropy, charity, people to rise from poverty.
Did you get a reply to your email?
Yes, I did.
It was kind of a non answer.
He told me that capitalism was neutral.
Well, then why pray against it?
Well, you know, it my point exactly.
And that's you know the r the root of this is that that your priest associates big government liberalism with charity.
Oh, yeah, it's all, you know, liber liberation theology, all that socialism.
Uh and I'm gonna tell you this is the I'm not a Catholic, but I would think that this is a much bigger problem than whether or not they're gonna let gay cardinals choose a Pope.
Absolutely.
I mean, this is just this is but it's it it all of this is seductive, or it is Massachusetts.
Um look, I'm I'm member of the Methodist Church.
Methodist church's been taken over by these people.
That's the same stuff.
That capitalism is evil and greedy because it's unfair in the distribution of assets.
It's unequal in the distribution of wealth and success, and only liberalism and good socialism can compensate for the inequalities and unequalness of capitalism.
And you know, capitalism has fed more poor people than charity ever.
Capitalism has created more wealth for these little irresponsible yokels to distribute than charity ever has.
Capitalism has created more wealth than anything else except dictators confiscating it from the people of their countries.
If you can get away with that, you can get rich pretty quick.
Ask Hugo Chavez, ask Fidel, ask Mao Tseitong, ask any of the old Soviet leaders.
You are you are not yes, you are.
You are going to believe this.
Are you ready for this?
From our old buddies at the Cybercast News Service, the National Institutes of Health, in the midst of the sequester, has awarded a one and a half million dollar study of biological and social factors for why seventy-five percent of lesbians are obese and why gay males are not.
And they are calling this an issue of high public health significance.
And this is exactly what I'm talking about.
What we need to find now are some 4,000-year-old lesbian mummies who are obese.
I am not kidding.
I'm not making the National Institute of Health has awarded a million and a half dollars to some bunch of people to study biological and social reasons for why 75% of lesbians are obese and why gay males aren't.
They call this an issue of high public health significance.
This is in the midst of the sequester.
The investigators say that there has been almost no research devoted to this disparity, and they've set out to find the biological, psychological, and social reasons for it.
However, the National Institutes for Health said the future of the project is uncertain because of the sequester.
So 75% of lesbians are fat, and and gay males are not, and that isn't fair.
And that is unjust.
And so we've got to allocate a million and a half bucks in the sequester to find out why.
To get to the bottom of this.
And we're going to find the biological, psychological, and social factors behind it.
I only hope that some of these 4,000-year-old mummies can be shown to be obese lesbians.
So that we can show that this isn't anything new.
Because I guarantee you what they're gonna tie this to is the Republican war on women.
The whole point of this is you know it's not enough that Republicans hate women.
Now Republicans want lesbian women to get fat and sick as punishment for being liberals.
Well, you think that's a stretch?
You you you think some are you disputing the underlying facts in this survey?
Are you telling me that seventy-five percent of lesbians are not fat?
What do you mean you don't know?
Haven't you looked?
You can't.
You that's right.
You can tell that they're fat, but you can't tell their lesbians.
So how do they know?
They are the government.
They know it's the National Institutes of Health, and they know it's the government.
They know everything.
They know all.
And whatever they say, you can't challenge.
It's infallible.
So the government says 75% of lesbians are fat and gay men aren't, and that isn't fair.
And there's gotta be a reason for it, and they're gonna spend a million and a half dollars to find out why.
And I guarantee you, when they finish this, we're gonna keep tabs on this.
When they finish this, I guarantee you there will be, as part of the explanation, something to do with party politics.
It'll have to do with lesbians feeling oppressed and pressured by Republicans and conservatives, and they eat more, and so who knows?
Why why else do this?
You th you think this is a stretch, Snerdly, but who would have thought that the war on women would work?
But it did, with the low information voters, and it was created out of absolute thin air.
It was created out of a question to Mitt Romney about what?
Contraception and banning it when nobody had even been talking about it.
So now we got a new proposition.
Seventy-five percent of lesbians are fat.
You're not supposed to ask how do they know.
You're supposed to already be feeling sorry for them.
And then you're supposed to understand spending a million and a half dollars to find out why gay males aren't.
Why don't they do a study of heterosexual women to find out why they're not obese or are or whatever, and compare lesbians to straight women and fat or thin.
Why don't they do that and bring the Kardashians in it?
And then make some real inroads.
But they're comparing men and women, I don't know.
What are the lesbians eating?
What what what is Mayor Bloomberg gonna do about what are they eating?
What what do these fat lesbians eat that makes them fat?
This is Mayor Domberg obviously knows or could tell us, and he could he could do something about it.
Okay, Oberlin Park, Kansas, where I used to live in a shack.
Mary, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Ah damn.
Hi.
Uh the reason I called is because you started the program talking about golf, which nothing wrong with that.
But I think our country's going to hell, and I don't think we should be talking about golf.
We should be talking about what's going on.
I am.
I I spent maybe five minutes talking about golf, and and before that and after that, I've been talking about really serious things.
You just heard the last discussion.
About the the survey.
Yeah.
We're gonna spend a million and a half dollars, Mary, to find out why seventy-five percent of lesbians are fat and gay males aren't.
Well, what if I had a survey done to me yesterday uh c from the government, they're checking to see that my uh health care are doing the right thing and putting the right stuff down, because he said, I said, Well, why are you doing this?
And his answer to me was, Well, they want to make sure that when my health people, my doctor sends the thing for payment or whatever, that they're being treated for this right thing.
He said, after all, sometimes the clerks who are just kids that graduated from high school don't know what they're doing.
Right.
And that's money spent that company that the gov it's a government thing.
They're the one and and must have been about twenty-five pages that he had to ask me questions.
So there's another case of waste.
Exactly.
It's all over.
Why don't you just go to my doctor?
He says, No, because like I just explained, his his cur his uh associate might not put the right information in.
These are the things going on.
I know, and it's all so unnecessary.
All that you care about is being able to go to doctor when you're sick and being treated for it and going home.
Right.
And you've got all of this mishmash in the middle of it, and now you have to you have to worry about whether or not the doctor treating you is even gonna know what's wrong with you because some high school graduate who can't read is in charge of putting your information on a form.
For him, he said that.
But I think that's a disgrace.
It is.
I agree with you totally.
And to download people that are working in a doctor's office like that, that's a disgrace.
But of course, this is the way they work.
What do you mean to download people uh in the doctor?
What do you mean?
You mean criticize them?
Um saying negative things about the workers.
Oh, oh.
He's saying negative things about the workers.
He's not saying about the doctor.
He's saying that uh the workers not not put the right information in and they want to make sure it's the right stuff is going in.
I says, Why?
I said, You can get that from my doctor.
They're more or less trying to say that the doctor is putting in more than she should you mean to bill you excessively.
Right.
Yeah.
And that just rub you raw.
Doesn't that just that's just a disgrace charging senior citizens so much for their health care.
I know, I know.
If they needed that money, let it go for the kids that want to go in the White House.
The tours.
The tours.
Yeah.
See, that's more important.
And then they want to close the the parks and stuff.
I mean, where's he come up with these idiotics?
Well, uh d they do this because they don't want to cut any money, and if they're gonna close the park, then they're gonna close the fire department, and they're gonna close the police station, and then you as the citizen, no, no, no, don't do that.
I'd rather pay more taxes.
That's why they tell you they're gonna close that stuff.
The fire in the police department uh from the state or from your city where you live.
Yes, I know.
That's what the federal government's got nothing to say about it, and yet they're part of the sequester.
They're they're insulting the in well, I don't know how insulting the intelligence are being when you're not very smart to begin with, not you, but I mean low information voters.
No, I think a lot of people have gotten so used to the frios that they don't want to give them up.
I mean, let's face it, didn't he go two years for the unemployment, he extended it and extended that the people said, Oh, I'm not gonna look for a job, I'm getting this uh this money anyway.
Right?
You got it so there's another group that's getting a handout.
You're not encouraging the country to get up.
He don't want the country to get up.
Exactly.
Exactly right.
What are you afraid?
I'm not talking about all of this stuff, Mary.
No, I think we should do it more.
I mean, you're singing my song.
You could you could guest host this show one day with the way you think, and you you've wounded me to the heart here.
I mean, you've you've said I'm I'm I'm being derelict in my duty.
Well, because there's some things that are on, like for instance today, our friend McCaskill.
She went through the airport and they m did a search on her and she had a fit.
Oh, let me tell you, you talk about she had a fit.
But I've been pulled out.
Did you did you hear about Claire McCaskill?
Senator from Kansas from from Missouri.
Get this.
Same thing I'm sure happened to your friend Pat.
Senator McCaskill complained yesterday that she was subject to very uncomfortable screening by the Transportation Security Administration.
She's complained about this before.
She tweeted that she was selected for a pat down, and the experience was not a pleasant one.
It got private, more aggressive.
Oh my God, very uncomfortable is what she tweeted.
Now what do you think happened to her, Mary?
Nothing.
She's probably gonna have that person that did the pat down get fired.
Well, I don't know about that, but she clearly something did happen to her.
She got patted down so just like we do.
Yes.
I've been pulled out of the line, and at my age, I think it's a compliment to say.
Have you been patted down privately and uncomfortably?
Well, not that uncomfortable.
Well, that's what she's told.
Well look at this is code language.
We know what she's saying.
She was felt up.
Well, they did that to me, but I wasn't uncomfortable.
This is a woman that was doing her job.
Well, you may enjoy it.
She didn't.
No, I think she's blown it out of proportion that they picked on her to pull her out and do it.
That's why.
Bottom line.
She didn't know.
Oh, because she's a senator.
She thinks that she shouldn't have to subject herself to this.
Well, you may have a point.
She just didn't care for being pulled out like Well, what happened to your friend Pat.
My friend Pat.
You said Pat went went to the airport and got all screened and stuff.
No, no, that was me.
Oh, you?
Oh, I'm not sure.
Yes, I got screened out.
But I I think it's their job.
I mean, let's face it, they have people going through to want to kill us.
And they who do they pick?
They picked grandmothers or somebody in a wheelchair.
I know.
Who's Tommy picked a senator?
And my God.
I know.
They wouldn't carry on.
Grandma, I don't know a grandmother out there'd bomb anybody.
Well.
Do you have you uh uh Mary, have you ever heard of Rory McElroy?
That name sounds to me.
Yeah, yeah.
She's a great, great golfer.
And back to the phones.
Who's next?
Ah.
We have a young man, eleven years old on the phone from Port Charlotte, Florida.
Jacob High, welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
What's up?
Hi, Mr. Limbaugh.
Hi.
I'm 11-year-old conservative.
Getting to know getting to speak with you is just as exciting as it was when I met three of my favorite golfers.
That is wonder.
I I you're making my day.
Thank you so much.
Welcome.
You want me to name them?
You uh uh who are your three favorite golfers?
Greg Norman, Brent Snedeker, and Ricky Fowler.
Where did you meet them?
I met them on uh Naples Florida Shark shootout.
Oh, at the Shark Shootout.
It's Greg Norman's uh tournament.
Yeah, I go there every year.
Well, I've not met Ricky Fowler, and I haven't met Brent Snedeker, but I have met I've met Greg Norman, and you know what?
Jacob, I've even played golf with Greg Norman.
And he was as nice as he could be.
He was helpful.
You know, as you get older, if you have the opportunity to play, a lot of professionals don't want to get caught up dealing with amateurs and trying to teach them or help them because it's hopeless usually.
But Norman was one of those guys that went out of his way to try to be helpful.
Uh it was in a round, in fact, with uh with Raymond Floyd.
I'm sure you've heard of Raymond Floyd.
Yes.
And uh and my friend Marvin Shankin, who I was talking about in the first hour when I was talking about golf.
Well, that's cool.
I'm did you d was so when you met these people, I'm curious to know.
You're eleven, and you obviously were very w d were you were did they did they would have put this.
Sometimes when you meet people at your respect, they uh they disappoint you.
They they're not what you hoped they would be.
Were these guys nice to you?
Did you like them all?
Yeah.
Brent Snedeker gave me his autograph.
Well, that's great.
And he shook my hand.
That's wonderful.
That is I'm happy to hear that.
So you you you um do you have you you play?
Yeah, I've been playing for four years.
Are you good?
I guess I'd say that.
Good.
What how how how good are you?
How would you describe that you're good to me?
Well, I have a sister that's named Gabby.
She uh she's good, but I think I'm a little better.
Well, you should be.
Hmm.
You should be.
But that how old is Gabby?
She's eleven, too.
We're twins.
Oh, oh, even if it so, but like do you have you played enough yet to have a handicap?
No.
No, okay.
But you love it.
You like it, right?
Yes.
You get to play as much as you'd like to?
Yes, I go every single Saturday.
Well, I hope you keep it up.
It's it's it's great when people your age find out something they really like and have a chance to pursue it.
And Jacob, thanks for the call.
You're welcome.
Appreciate it.
And uh and continued improvement at golf.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Okay, we'll get into the uh the details of the Paul Ryan budget, ramifications, White House reaction, and what it all means when we get back from this brief obscene profit timeout here at the top of the hour.
So be patient, folks.
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