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March 14, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 14, 2013, Thursday, Hour #3
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And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists, all across the fruited plane, broadcast excellence, all yours, hosted by me, your guiding light, your bulwark, El Rushbo, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, all-concerned, Maharashi.
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This is very curious, folks.
Last night, had a story here about from Breitbart.com about Jay Carney contradicting Obama on the closure of the White House tours.
And Obama said the Secret Service made him do it.
And Jay Carney said, no, the Secret Service told us what was, gave us the particulars, the data, but it was up to us.
We're the only ones that can shut down the tours.
And it just blatantly totally contradicted Obama within one half hour of each other.
And I pointed it out yesterday when it happened.
And when it happened, I thought I didn't say this to you because I was a little dumbfounded by it.
I said, something here is just really, really out of whack.
Carney, up till now, has been the most loyal mouthpiece and regurgitator you could hope for.
Whatever unbelievable statement Obama makes, there's Carney repeating it and embellishing it.
And frankly, I thought Carney was oftentimes making a fool of himself saying things in order to stay on the same page as Obama.
This White House tour business came up and it was a direct contradiction.
And now, right before the break at the top of the hour, have this story from Media8 and a pull quote: Are the wheels coming off in the White House?
Over the past few weeks, however, a noticeable behavior has manifested itself in Carney's daily briefings.
He's become more testy, more combative, more personal with the White House press corpse than anyone in his position prior.
It seems if any reporter questions this White House, they are attacked publicly and directly.
That's a pull quote from a story whose headline is White House press secretary clearly stressed and burnt out.
And they're asking here if Carney maybe should go.
If the pressure is getting to be too much, you know, maybe the guy's got a conscience.
Maybe the guy doesn't want to appear to be a fool.
I mean, look, to have to run out there and tell people that the Secret Service ordered us to shut down the tours, maybe that was a last straw kind of thing.
But I don't know that anybody believes that.
I think that is one of the indications the wheels are coming off.
Remember now, folks, it is simple, easily understood things that trip up master manipulators like Obama.
Now, this White House tour business, that's hard to it's not hard to understand here.
People plan for a month.
We've got this government sequester, have to cut back spending, and don't understand the White House tours being canceled.
Kids get to see the White House and so forth.
It doesn't compute.
Because other crazy things are still going on.
The government hasn't shut down.
Then Obama goes out and says he had nothing to do with it.
Secret Service.
And people just instinctively said that's not true.
And Carney did not want to repeat that.
And Carney also said today that the White House is not going to reverse itself.
The White House tours are going to remain closed.
The decision to cancel the tours will not be revised.
Carney said that today.
Now, I'm wondering if other White House operatives might be circulating this news to media that Carney's frazzled and burnt out and the wheels are coming off.
I'm just wondering if there are other White House operatives in there who are attempting to backstab the guy because this is really weird.
Of all the things to have a disagreement about, a falling out over, of all the things for Carney to quite obviously disagree with the president about, it's very, very puzzling.
The CPAC is underway.
As I said earlier, I don't even know why they do CPAC anymore.
After my speech, what is there left to be said?
But I guess it is a social weekend for the youngsters.
They come and hobnob and play around.
You know, there are people out there, folks, when I say things like that.
See, he really means it.
He really thinks he's so big and so important and so smart that CPAC really shouldn't even have a convention anymore because he's made the one speech that nobody ever can top at any rate.
Marco Rubio, and by the way, Alan West was electrifying when he opened the thing this morning.
And we have West soundbites.
We've got Rubio, too.
Here's Rubio.
We got two soundbites of Rubio standing up for life and traditional marriage and American exceptionalism.
Here, the first of the two.
In order to work together with people that you disagree with, there has to be mutual respect.
That means I respect people that disagree with me on certain things, but they have to respect me too.
Just because I believe that states should have the right to define marriage in a traditional way does not make me a bigot.
Just because we believe that life, all life, all human life, is worthy of protection at every stage in its development does not make you a chauvinist.
In fact, the people who are actually closed-minded in American politics are the people that love to preach about the certainty of science when regards to our climate, but ignore the absolute fact that science has proven that life begins at conception.
Now, how many of you Republicans out there think we got to get rid of the social issues if we're going to win?
Did you hear the applause there?
Here's more from Rubio: American exceptionalism.
That's what's at stake in America's greatness.
This is not just about national pride.
The truth of the matter is, don't take this for granted.
What we have here is different and special and historic.
In the vast history of the world and of mankind, almost everyone that's ever been born is poor and disadvantaged with no ability to get ahead.
What's made us different is that here people have had the real chance to get a better life no matter where they started out.
And do not underestimate what that has meant for the world.
Now, as soon as I'm done speaking, I'll tell you what the criticism on the left is going to be.
Number one, he drank too much water.
Number two, that he didn't offer any new ideas.
And there's the fallacy of it.
We don't need a new idea.
There is an idea.
The idea is called America.
And it still works.
Right on.
Right on.
American exceptionalism.
You know what?
I was talking to a couple of young people about this recently.
And they were uncomfortable with the term.
You know why?
Because they think that people who use the term think that they're bragging, that America is better than any place else, and that Americans are better than anybody else.
And I said, that's not what it means.
Even though it's true, our way of life, we offer more opportunity for people than any country ever has, but that's not what it is.
Is it?
No.
What is it?
They asked.
It's very simple.
The history of the world.
Rubio touched on everybody in the world is born into total dependence.
Almost everybody that's ever been born has been born poor and disadvantaged.
And most every human being that's ever walked this planet has lived in bondage, in tyranny, under dictatorship.
You can look it up.
That's the history of the world.
Until the United States came along.
Now, there were free societies, but none structured like the United States of America with our Constitution and our recognition in our founding documents of where our natural God-given liberty emanates.
There had never been a country ever founded on the basis that the individual and his or her freedom is supreme and paramount.
It had always been the state that is.
Everybody had always been a subject.
We were the exception to the rule of tyranny and bondage.
American exceptionalism is not a bunch of braggarts saying that we're better, that our country's better, that we're smarter, that you're worse than we are, that you're inferior to us.
And it's not hard.
What's the root word of American exceptionalism?
Except.
But it isn't hard to explain, but so many people get the wrong idea of it.
And it's amazing how many young people don't want to think that they live in a country that's great and greater than any other.
For whatever reason, it's not fair.
And this is the product of their education.
That there isn't anything special about America.
And there is.
And the thing that's special is not our DNA.
It's not the fact that we are Americans per se.
It's that this place is the exception to the rule of human life before it.
Mike, grab Alan West.
Let's stick with CPAC here for his soundbites 8, 9, and 10.
Alan West opened it up, kicked off CPAC today by doing what he does best.
He went right after the left and just firing both barrels.
We have three soundbites from Alan West.
And here's the first one.
Folks, I'm speaking from experience when I tell you that there's nothing on this green earth that a liberal progressive fears more than a black American who wants a better life and a smaller government.
I'm tired of liberals dividing this country up into little groups, setting them upon each other, breathing spite and envy, and then having the nerve to say and accuse conservatives of hatred.
Right.
Next, he cackles the whole notion of liberals, conservatives, and fairness.
In the real world, I see conservatives giving to more charity than liberals, even though their paychecks may be smaller.
In the real world, I see conservatives volunteering at adoption agencies, at churches, at bait sales, and the local American Legion posts, while the only charity of progressive sins is a smug sermon on fair share and what fairness is.
And finally, Alan West from Florida, decorated Army veteran and a former member of Congress from South Florida, tells the crowd that we are going to thrive and survive and prosper beyond Obama.
When British tyranny besieged our colonies, we survived.
When flames danced from the White House windows in 1812, we endured.
When the Union split itself into two, almost perishing from this earth, we rebuilt.
When the soup lines of the Depression stretched down shuttered city blocks, we recovered.
When an unstoppable Nazi regime and war machine threatened to extinguish the light of free nations, we triumphed.
And ladies and gentlemen, when Barack Obama packs his bags and beats a hasty retreat back to Chicago, we will persevere.
Right on.
Except he's going to Hawaii and the Barack and Michelle Institute for Social Justice or whatever.
Speaking of which.
Now, by the way, here you go, Rubio, Hispanic minority, Alan West, African-American minority.
You won't find.
You won't find two greater men, finer people, good conservatives.
These are the kind of people who get maligned, impugned, their characters questioned and destroyed by people that couldn't hold candles to them.
And they're out there taking the arrows.
And they deserve to be supported rather than people being afraid of the trouble they might cause.
Now, Muchell Obama is featured on the cover of the latest Vogue magazine.
Have you seen it?
And she looks hot on that cover, Sterling.
You have to admit, I don't know what your thoughts on the bangs are, but Muchell looks hot.
And then there's a paragraph.
The president and the First Lady and all that they are doing to inspire Americans.
And I about choked at that.
Because if anything, that's not what they're doing.
There's no inspiration coming out of the White House.
There's no uplifting anything practically from anybody in Washington.
There isn't any uplift.
There isn't any inspiration, motivation.
Everybody's doom and gloom.
But in this article, I remember one day I was watching Oprah and George Gilder.
You remember George Gilder?
George Gilder was a philosopher.
He's a writer.
He was a social scientist, a number of things.
And he had written at the time, this is the late 80s, early 90s, and he'd written a number of tracts on the relationships men and women and their relationship to culture and society and how women, in his view, were civilizing.
It was women who determined the outcome of a culture by the choices they make.
And he basically said something like that.
Oprah threw him off the show.
Threw him off the show because it was an insult to women for him to say that they civilize men.
And he didn't mean that men were a bunch of brutes and apes running around.
What he meant was that women bring out the best in men, keep them focused, and have them doing what their intended job is, being fathers, providers, and all.
And she just, she blew a gasket.
I don't know that she's ever thrown anybody else off the show.
So I read this vogue, read an encapsulation of the Vogue story.
What does Michelle say?
Or what does Barack say?
Michelle makes me tidy up.
Michelle cleans me up.
Michelle reminds me every day of the virtues of order, being on time, hanging up your clothes, being intentional about planning time with your kids.
Michelle keeps Obama said exactly what George Gilder said.
And in Vogue, she's praised and he's praised.
Oh, how wonderful.
Michelle civilizes Barack.
Michelle turns him from his outer ape into his inner peace.
His runaway guy, like all men are.
Men are these runaway renegades, and if you don't control them, they'll be doing all these destructive, crazy things.
But Michelle civilizes him.
George Gilder gets thrown off the show for saying that.
And here's Michelle basically being characterized by Obama the same way, being praised.
Yeah, yeah.
And it was Michelle who threw Oprah out of the White House and off of the campaign.
Don't forget that.
Obama says in that vogue story, no doubt I'm a better man having spent time with Michelle.
George Gilder got thrown off the Oprah show for saying stuff like that.
Here's Sissy in Southern Maryland.
I'm really glad you waited.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
It's an honor to speak to you.
Thank you so much.
That I will put down in my diary, even though I don't have a diary.
Well, it's worth starting with.
I just wanted to say two things.
Thank you very much for what you said about our Pope.
I'm a Catholic.
I'm a practicing Catholic.
And especially for listeners of yours that are not Catholic, that our Pope stands for something, unlike the liberals, who don't stand for anything but to destroy things that are tradition.
And I appreciate so much how you described our Pope.
Well, I appreciate you saying that.
I think he's a remarkable man to have been exiled essentially by the left-wing Jesuits in Argentina, teaching math in high schools in little towns in northern Argentina.
Pope John Paul II rescues him, makes him archbishop, and then a cardinal.
Now he's the Pope.
And he's a humble man.
And I think the liberals, they don't like that.
They don't know what humility means.
And Pope Francis is a humble man.
Well, they just look.
The left is afraid of that kind of certainty.
Remember now, Karl Marx and every communist philosopher ever has done their best to eliminate religion.
Religion is a competitor to the notion that the state is what's infallible.
The state is where you are to have your blind faith, not religion.
Got to get rid of it.
Dave in Lake Tahoe, California.
What a gorgeous place this is.
Welcome to the program.
Yes, sir.
It's an honor to talk to the man behind the golden microphone that I've been listening to most of my life and learned so much from.
Well, thank you very much.
I really appreciate that.
I wanted to bring something to your attention that really concerns me.
It was brought to my attention by a U.S. Marine.
His name is Peter Santilli.
Have you ever heard of Peter?
He's an outspoken Marine that doesn't want to be told what he has to do by the military, but what he thinks is right for our country.
And he informed me that they're grooming Michelle Obama to enhance Barack Obama's dynasty for two more terms.
I want to get your opinion on that.
Well, first of all, who is they are grooming Mucho?
Who is they?
The Democrats the, the powers that be, the Democrats, the establishment?
I don't know who to pinpoint it on, but I, I was, I was uh, made aware of this.
Well, let me ask you a question.
Yes sir, Obama's second term ends early in January 2017.
Do you see Michelle going to Hawaii with Barack and sitting on the beach eating bonbons?
Yes, I do see that.
Well then, you don't think she would run?
Oh yeah, they'll take one of their 20 vacations that they take.
Oh no, I'm thinking permanently.
I'm saying 2017.
Okay, we've done this, we've been there, done that time now to go to the the the, the Obama Institute FOR Social Justice in Honolulu, and sit on the beach and eat bonbons?
Yes, I was amazed that when I heard this, because I never even thought of that concept, but when I read it on, it was, he actually has a website.
If you want to have one of your producers, look at it.
It's called Petersantilli.com.
We don't.
We don't have producers here, but it was just yesterday that I, L Rushbo, E L R U S H B O dot com mentioned that the Democrats are already floating a dream ticket of Hillary, Michelle for 2016.
So there's no question that it's it's being toyed with and pondered.
I can't I mean, Hillary must really be into them for a lot if that were to happen.
But these people are about power.
These people are all about lifetime power.
I wouldn't be surprised.
I wouldn't be surprised if Michelle being groomed for this, nothing at all would surprise me.
The Democrat bench I mean there, there is, there really isn't one?
Everybody focuses on the Republicans and what bad shape they're.
But somebody tell me what the Democrat bench you Hillary, I mean.
With all due respect, by the time 2016 comes around that's.
1990, 30 years of Clintons I mean that that's not exactly a youth movement and that's why I can, I can partially believe it.
Bill Gates thanks, thanks for the call, Dave.
Bill Gates Said that some days he just wishes that the U.S. Political system were like England's, so that Obama could have just more power than he Does.
Gates was asked his assessment of Obama's job performance during an interview at Politico's Playbook Cocktails event.
I didn't know that Politico had an event called Playbook.
Speaking of, do you know?
I got an invitation.
Where is it here?
I got an invitation by the Time 100 bash, and I know I'm not one of the Time 100.
Now, I have been, and maybe once you've been there, I've never been, but once you've been listed, then you get invited, but I don't think I was invited last year.
Now, why would I be invited at the time?
And it's next month.
I mean, the invitation to me is arriving a little late.
It's like 30 days from now, April 18th or some such thing.
I'm guessing.
Hang on just a second.
Here it is.
What's the date?
April 23rd.
Time 100 cordially invite you at Lincoln Center at Cocktail 7, dinner, 8:30, black tie.
That rules me out.
At Tuesday, April 23rd.
So just over a month.
Now, why would I be getting an invitation to this?
Well, no.
Yeah, they do publicize who's been invited.
They can't publicize who's going to be there.
Well, I guess they could based on their RSVPs.
But I wasn't invited last year.
And I don't think I was invited the year before.
I've never attended.
I did make the Time 100 list once.
There's a reason why I was invited.
If you stop and think about it, it'll come to you, thirdly.
It's right there in front of your face.
Remember now, people like me are invited to things like this as circus acts.
We're invited to things.
I remember I was invited to the 60 Minutes at the time.
What was it?
20th anniversary show or 150th anniversary show, whatever it was.
Steve Croft invited, and they put me at Camille Paglia's table, remember?
And they thought, okay, here's Camille Paglia, a noted feminist, lesbian, activist.
And they put me, what they didn't know was that I already had an email relationship with her, and everything was cool.
And when we ended up having great conversations, you should have seen it that night.
Croft would come walk by the table every 10 minutes.
I didn't realize at the time what was going on here.
I thought I was really invited because I'd been profiled.
It wasn't it.
I was invited because they thought fireworks were going to happen.
And they wanted there to be a little, they thought some liberal and I would get into it.
And then Ed Bradley would take a little tour around the table.
And I kept, I was so naive.
I didn't know what was going on.
All these CBS guys would come circular, and they weren't working the whole room.
They just come work around our table.
And there were never any fireworks.
So I know I'm invited as a circus act.
So knowing that, come on, Snerdly.
That's why It's strictly for one.
Anyway, back to Bill Gates.
Bill Gates says he would like the president, in this case, Obama, to have the kind of power that a prime minister in the U.K. has.
And then he said, let them have their power and then let people see what they do.
And then if they don't like it, vote them out.
But this gridlock isn't getting anybody anywhere.
Gates proving, folks, that sometimes the wealthiest among us are not the smartest.
At least in this area.
Now, Gates, there's no questioning his smarts in his area of expertise.
There are major, major Obamacare price increases coming.
This is another story on this.
This is AP.
AP story says that health insurers are warning of massive price increases beginning next year.
I'll tell you, there is so much excrement coming down the road in Obamacare starting the latter half of this year, and next year, I think people are going to be absolutely blindsided.
They believed premiums come down $2,500, keep their doctor coverage expanded, treatment expanded, all this.
It's going to be fascinating to see when reality hits these low-information people.
And it isn't going to be pretty, folks.
Here's Kevin, Gig Harbor, Washington.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Rush.
Hi.
It's an absolute pleasure to talk to you.
I've been listening to you for over half my life.
It's about 1990.
So thanks for taking my call.
Thank you, sir.
Well, so there's a couple of things I wanted to touch on that strike me when I listen to the election of our new Pope and the way that the media covers this.
And partially what irritates me to the core is their inability to look at anything without looking through the prism of politics.
And it's a complete ignorance of the Catholic faith and more importantly, an arrogance that they have.
You played a clip earlier today from someone in the media who said that she was a fallen away Catholic.
And maybe if this new Pope would bend and change the church to comply with what she believes, that maybe she'll come back.
And that's just an ignorance of the faith and really, more importantly, arrogance.
I just don't understand it.
And it really irritates me.
Well, you know, it depends on the person.
In one instance, it could be arrogance.
In another person's case, it could be ignorance.
Could be hubris.
Could be any number of explanations here.
But what it is in all those examples is an utter two things.
Lack of understanding of the purpose of a church or religion, but thinking you know and then equating it with a political organization or ideology and thinking that it's there to bend and shape so as to agree with what the parishioners want.
It's not at all what it is.
But beyond all that, some of these people are not stupid.
Some of them are not arrogant.
Some of them are not at all confused.
They just don't like it and have a mission to corrupt.
So there's all kinds of possibilities here.
But don't ignore the last one, the desire to corrupt it, because it's a threat.
By the way, one quick thing, Bill Gates, Obama doesn't have enough power.
Doesn't that sort of prove the Limbaugh theorem as well?
That a guy like Gates Can come along and actually think Obama doesn't have enough power in the midst of all of this damage Obama is causing.
Limbaugh theorem works even on the super wealthy.
Okay, we'll be back tomorrow.
Tomorrow, Open Line Friday, and two FIT contest winners are here tomorrow to visit and watch the program.
They always love, watches Snerdley get mad at callers when he screams them.
It's worth the price of admission.
And we'll see you then.
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