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March 19, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 19, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #2
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The views expressed by the host on this program, now documented to be almost always right 99.7% of the time.
I was really expecting the latest audit to go up to 99.8 when I called and created, stumbled across whatever, the Limbaugh theorem.
But nope, nope, I got to be right a whole bunch more times to move it even a tenth of a point.
Just added motivation.
Happy to have you here, folks.
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If you want to be on the program, the email address, lrushbaugh at EIBnet.com, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, a church.
A local church has elected to stop performing marriage ceremonies for heterosexual couples until homosexual marriage is legalized.
The Green Street United Methodist Church, in a statement posted on the front page of their website, said that they ask other churches to join the movement to, quote, refuse to sign any state marriage licenses until this right is granted to homosexual couples.
This is a church.
Now, I know people don't like to hear about this, but when you bring God into this, and when you bring religion into this, when you bring the Bible, the Bible is very specific on the subject of marriage and its definition.
Now, some people are offended and put off by that, but that's just one of those things.
It happens to be the way it is.
So a lot of people will look at this.
They'll hear this news.
How can a church forget refusing to perform same-sex marriage?
How can a church perform homosexual marriage?
A church.
And the answer is that the church is wavering from its own teachings because it's becoming politicized.
It's the only answer to it.
It's an amazing thing, this issue, folks.
I've been telling people that I, my friends, I said, you look out, this thing, you don't know.
This, for some reason, this issue has surfaced.
It is the most important thing.
It's a top of everybody's list out there.
You will not, you're going to be stunned.
And it's happened, and nobody can figure out why or how this manifested itself.
Where did it come from?
And you look at Hillary and Bill Clinton.
I mean, it wasn't that long ago.
I mean, Obama, six months ago, well, 18 months ago now.
What was it?
Nine months, just last year sometime.
In fact, it wasn't Obama that changed.
It was Biden.
Biden went out there and changed the game for Obama, forcing Obama to evolve.
Well, I know the celebrity class has been driving this.
The pop culture class has been driving this.
But it's also happening on college campaign, which might be the same thing.
But I mean, it's big out there, and it's all rooted in love.
And who's to stop somebody from loving one another?
Who are we?
It's what we were talking about yesterday.
It's freedom without virtue or freedom without morality.
It's freedom being redefined in a libertarian sense, freedom with no limits, which is not what freedom is.
Anyway, this is still the tip of the iceberg.
This is going to continue.
But again, interesting thing, whenever this issue comes up for a vote, it loses.
It is by no means enjoying majority support across the country in terms of people, population.
Prop 8 in California, it lost in California.
By the way, the constitutionality of Prop 8 is now being debated and decided by the Supreme Court, and that's one of the reasons all of this attention in Washington is being, because there's an attempt here to bend and shape the thinking of the justices on the Supreme Court.
Dr. Benjamin Carson has taken the world by storm.
Dr. Benjamin Carson from Johns Hopkins University took CPAC by storm anytime he's on Hannity last night.
He just dominates.
Everybody loves Dr. Carson.
And the reason they love Dr. Carson is that he is able to articulate and explain conservatism in a way that is persuasive without raising his voice at all.
It sounds like your dad talking to you, not your dad, your best buddy talking to you at a table or in a bar or whatever the most non-threatening place you can be.
And he's not, you know, people throw the idea of him running for office and he's not discouraging that.
He's saying, well, you know, I am going to retire in 130 days and two hours, five minutes, and four seconds.
And who knows?
And I think Dr. Benjamin Carson probably got everybody in the Democrat Party scared to death.
It's going to be really hard to demonize this guy.
Really, really hard.
Partially because of his race, but not just because he's African American.
It's because you can call this guy all kinds of demonic names.
He just doesn't fit the bill.
You can say he's all these horrible things.
Then you hear him and see him and listen to him and it doesn't click.
He saves children.
He saves children with his hands.
He saves their little brains.
He saves little children.
He's a pediatric neurosurgeon.
He saves the children.
And he probably doesn't exude the signs of overt wealth.
There's not a character in the TV series, the Bible, that looks like him.
By the way, grab, this is funny.
Don't tell me that this outreach of the low information clowns isn't working.
Grab soundbite number 10, Jimmy Fallon.
Jimmy Fallon late night NBC last night.
Goes by pretty fast, but here it is.
Audio soundbite number 10.
The guy who plays Satan on the Bible looks like President Obama.
Even Rush Limbaugh was outraged.
He was like, how can you do that to Satan?
You know he thought about it.
You know he thought about it.
How can he do that to Satan?
See, we can laugh at ourselves here.
Jimmy Fallon.
So anyway, Dr. Carson said something interesting.
He was on with Hannity again last night, and he said, if ever the mainstream media reaches a point where they recognize that if we destroy this nation and destroy the economy, they too will be destroyed.
I think at that point, they're going to start asking the tough questions and helping to move the population in the right direction.
Dr. Carson did something fascinating in his CPAC speech.
He said, I'm going to put myself in the Oval Office for a second here, and let's pretend, what would I do if I wanted to destroy this nation?
Well, I've done it, but see, he's insulated.
He's come out of nowhere for one thing.
I mean, in terms of the mainstream, he's always been doing what he's doing, and he's always had an audience for what he's doing.
He's shown up at the prayer breakfasts, for example, as people know who he is.
But he broke out this year at the prayer breakfast because he took it right to Obama, although nobody even thought that's what he was doing, which is my point.
He basically, in a figurative sense here, just slapped Obama upside the head at the national prayer breakfast, but nobody saw it that way.
All he did was, you know, healthcare what I would do.
And he offers a prescription that's the exact opposite of what Obama is doing.
And nobody took it as an insult to Obama.
Everybody took it solely within the universe of Ben Carson.
So he did the same thing at CPAC.
He's still, okay, let's pretend I'm in the White House.
If I wanted to destroy this nation, what would I do?
And he proceeded to list everything Obama has done.
And his point was, as not very many others have said, that this nation is being purposely destroyed.
Now, I've said it.
I said it on Fox News Sunday.
I've said it in a number of places.
I haven't, I'll be honest with you about this.
I have not gotten any reaction to that at all.
Now, Snerdly, you back me up on this.
Chris Wallace came down here and I did a Fox News Sunday interview and I said to him, Chris, I went through the economic policy.
I went through all the stuff and I said, I think it's being done on purpose.
Oh, rush.
I said, no, are you for real?
I said, I really do.
I think it's being done on purpose.
There hasn't been.
I mean, for all the things I get criticized for saying and for the way I say it, nobody's touched that one.
I would think that would be made to order to characterize me as some wacko nutcase fruitcake that's not worthy of being listened to.
This guy thinks Obama.
Now, they criticized me for a bunch of other things, but that one hasn't been touched, and Carson hasn't either.
When Ben Carson did his CPAC routine and essentially illustrated, not accused, this is a key point.
He illustrated how Obama is destroying the country.
Nobody said to him, how dare you accuse a sitting president of trying to destroy.
Nobody has said that.
And I find it fascinating.
And he's done it here again in this little clip, this little statement he made with Hannity last night talking about the media.
If ever the mainstream media reaches a point where they recognize that if we destroy this nation and destroy the economy, they too will be destroyed.
So he's once again making no bones about what he thinks is happening.
It's not by quirk of fate that this stuff is happening.
It is by design.
He clearly believes that Obama's policies are designed to destroy the country as founded.
There's always going to be an America, don't misunderstand, but destroy it as founded.
And nobody is calling him on that.
Nobody's saying that's really, really below your dignity.
That's beneath your dignity, doctor, to accuse a sitting president of Trump.
Nobody's saying that.
I find it fascinating.
But what about the other point he's making here?
That the mainstream media will come around once they realize, too, that Obama is doing what he's doing.
Because what he's saying here is right now the media doesn't get it.
Right now, it's his opinion, the media really doesn't see yet what's going on.
They don't see the economy being destroyed right in front of their eyes.
And when they do, that's when they are going to change because that's when they realize they will be destroyed economically.
Individuals, they'll start asking the tough questions and helping to move the population in the right direction.
That's what he predicted last night.
Now, coincidentally, now Snerdley's in there shaking his head and says, no, it's never going to happen.
I've mentioned this to a lot of other people.
Nah, never going to happen.
The media is never going to turn on Obama, no matter what.
Never going to.
I myself attach myself to that theory.
I don't think they're going to turn.
I think some sort of event is going to happen that'll make the country turn.
It's not going to be the media that turns the country.
I just don't, I don't think that's going to happen.
But it, and I don't mean a hurricane kind of event.
I'm not talking about a natural disaster.
I'm talking about a political event that I inconceivable right now.
But it was something like the Cyprus business.
If Obama were ever just, you know what?
I'm taking 10% of your bank account.
Something like that, folks.
By the way, Cavuto had an interesting point yesterday.
Let me find the soundbite.
We've got him saying this.
Let me find out what number it is.
Bear with me here as I go through the individual pages.
Takes me a while to do this.
The pages stick to get soundbite number 20.
Thank you for finding it.
Here is Neil Cavuto.
While no one is taxing our bank holdings, thanks to Obamacare, they are going after some of our other assets.
Remember that 3.8% Medicare surtex on investment sales larger than a couple hundred grand.
Surprise.
The next time you try to sell your house, trust me, you'll be hitting the roof.
I want you to think about that.
A tax not on your income, earned or unearned, but your assets, what you have, what you own, your tangible assets.
Homes here, bank accounts there.
Is there really a difference?
No.
His point is, in Cyprus, they made a move.
They haven't pulled it off yet.
They made a move to just claim between 6% and 10% of everybody's money that's in the bank.
You know how they tried to modify this yesterday?
They tried class envy.
They went to the people and said, okay, okay, we'll just take the money of the rich.
And the people of Cyprus said, screw you, you're not taking anybody's money.
They didn't fall for it.
The middle class and the poor in Cyprus did not say, oh, okay, go ahead and take theirs and leave ours alone.
They did not go for that.
Anyway, Cavuto's point is Obama's already doing it.
And you'll find out when you sell your house or sell anything.
And he's right.
There's a 3.8% Medicare surtex on the sale of any asset over a couple hundred grand, which will include your house.
So if you sell your house somewhere down the road, you are going to all of a sudden, don't expect a real estate agent to tell you about it at the get-go.
A lot of people, a lot of low-information people are going to find out there's a 3.8% Obamacare tax, federal tax on the transaction, on the sale.
So Cavuto's point, they've already done it here.
They didn't go for a bank account, so they went for other assets, but private property is private property.
Now I got to take a break.
Sit tight.
We'll come back.
I'm going to finish the point about Ben Carson.
We'll get to your phone calls.
Lots of stuff still ahead.
Don't miss any of it.
Okay, now, what I was going to conclude with the Ben Carson thing and talking about the media and his belief the media will eventually see the light once they realize that they are being destroyed too, economically, that they will do a 180 and start asking tough questions and help move the population of the country in the right direction.
Most everybody I know disagrees with that.
I think the media is in the tank for Obama forever for a host of reasons.
And it's logical to think that the mainstream media is already going down the tubes and they don't seem to mind.
They're losing advertising dollars.
They're losing subscribers in their Dead Tree edition, the newspapers.
They can't figure out how to monetize the internet.
So they're giving away the product there for the most part.
Other than banner ads, they don't know how to make any money from it.
They're losing viewers on the nightly news.
The New York Times is way, way down.
So this economic disaster is in place for the mainstream media.
But most reporters are not management, and as such, they don't care.
Most reporters and editors resent management and think they ought to be exempt from bottom line concerns anyway because it's a badge of honor.
The news business, the news division should lose money.
As a matter of course, it should lose money so we can show that we're not motivated by evil corporatist profit.
We only care about the objectivity of our presentation and all that rot gut.
But Friday night, real time with Bill Maher, it actually happened.
Bill Maher actually said, and he was serious, that he doesn't know if he can stay in California with the high taxes.
He may have reached his tipping point.
He actually said on his show, Liberals, you may lose me.
He said, look, I'm a liberal and I'm all for paying my fair share, but this is ridiculous.
I'm paraphrasing.
And then he said something that I was pleasantly amused by.
He said, he just learned.
Now, you and I, you've known this for 20 years.
This is instruction.
He just learned that the top 1% are paying 40% of the taxes.
And when he learned that, he was beside himself.
He just learned it.
He told everybody.
I just saw it today.
I just saw the statistic.
I just saw.
Here it is.
Soundbike 22.
I think we can squeeze it in.
Let's give it a shot.
This is what he said.
Rich people, I'm sure you'd agree with this, actually do pay the freight in this later.
I just saw these statistics.
I mean, something like 70%.
And here in California, I just want to say, liberals, you could actually lose me.
It's outrageous what we're paying.
Over 50%.
I'm willing to pay my share.
But yeah, I mean, it's ridiculous.
So he said he just saw it.
He just saw it.
The top 5% paying 70%.
He just saw that.
It's amazing.
It's amazing the things liberals do not know.
And it's amazing the things that they do know that are not right.
Double whammy.
Be right back.
Amberbach, El Rush Ball, and cutting edge to the phones we go.
Iowa City, Iowa.
This is Betty, and welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hi.
Rush, Republicans have got to learn from our own history.
The only way Hawaii was admitted as a state, and it's happened when I was in high school, was in a deal that Alaska had to be admitted at the same time.
Because I don't know what the debate was in Congress.
I know what was said around my school.
Well, yeah, because Hawaii is Democrat, and Alaska's always going to be Republican.
So who told you that that's why they had to go at the same time?
Oh, I just heard teachers talking.
I went to a very, you know, this is a long time ago.
Okay, so what is that?
You were going to relate that to something at present.
Well, at the present, why would Republicans go for admitting people who as a group are voting 70% against them?
I mean, the Republicans and the Democrats.
Because they don't.
That is the question of the day.
That is the question of the day.
And the answer befuddles me.
But it's, you know, I don't know.
The Democrat Party has changed since I was in high school, and I guess the Republican Party has also.
Because I was raised in a very traditional Democrat family.
I worked for Bobby Kennedy, and I ended up voting for Ronald Reagan, and have been a Republican ever since.
So it's, you know, wait a second.
Now, wait, you keep, you keep, you keep opening doors that I have to go through here.
Well, I didn't mean to.
You were really, really concerned about immigration.
I know, I know, but you just equated Bobby Kennedy with Reagan.
Or at least you indicated they're not that far apart.
I mean, you were once you're a Bobby Kennedyite, and then you ended up with Reagan.
And I'm telling you, there wasn't all that much commonality.
It's probably how it was perceived in the heartland.
Don't doubt me.
I understand the Bobby Kennedy thing.
Let me tell you something.
It's a little story.
I was in Haskruel.
This would be 1968 when Bobby Kennedy was 17 years old.
And Bobby Kennedy came to our town, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, for a rally.
He was just driving through town, and a good friend of mine, I'm not going to mention his name.
His family was eh, because they had a convertible, one of the only convertibles in town.
That family was asked if Bobby Kennedy could use their car for the rally because it had a convertible.
And they, of course, said yes.
But after that, all they care about, Bobby Kennedy, it was a pure cult.
Bobby Kennedy was a I think he was a precursor to Obama in many ways.
But Bobby Kennedy, with the time he ran, he's coming off his brother having been assassinated, and he was an empty canvas.
People could make of him whatever they wanted.
This is the guy that wiretapped Martin Luther King.
This was the guy.
What are you smirking at me for, Sterling?
But I know.
Bobby Kennedy, Sterling is saying that Bobby Kennedy was perceived to be a genuine, what do you mean genuine?
Mean a night.
He was a that's my point.
He is our real guy.
He was the Kennedy that really cared about people.
And that's part of the mythology.
I'm telling you, I know I was only 17, but I'd never forget that campaign.
I remember listening to people tell me about Bobby Kennedy, and it didn't matter what he believed.
It didn't matter.
Just like it didn't matter with what Obama believed.
People didn't care.
They didn't even want to know.
They just loved Bobby Kennedy.
But look, I know this is not the main point you called about here, and I'm not.
Betty, I'm not yelling at you.
Please, you've got to understand.
You understand that, right?
I'm not yelling at you.
Oh, no, absolutely.
Okay, you're not crying or anything, are you?
Oh, no.
Okay, okay.
No, two of my brothers were in Vietnam.
Their original point about Hawaii.
Here's the interesting thing about Hawaii.
They now, they had a movement not long ago where they, in effect, can secede.
They want to set up their own distinct, unique culture, and their senator, Senator Akaka, one of my all-time favorite senator names.
I love the Senate roll call when I get to his name.
Senator Akaka.
He set it up.
I forget the details.
This is a name for it, but I remember I got golf buddies in Hawaii.
And this was going on three or four years ago.
We're out there playing golf in the June Jones tournament.
Jun Jones celebrity, a coach of University of Hawaii at the time, not SMU.
And this was all going on, and the native Hawaiians that I was playing with, guys, you can't believe it.
These are the people that asked to join this country, and now they're trying to distance themselves and separate.
It was a big deal, the point.
So just an added little item to your notion that Hawaii, they did ask to become a part of the country.
Now, I did not know that somebody said, well, you better let Alaska in to balance out all the Democrats in Hawaii.
Well, the thing is, I don't know what was going on.
I wasn't reading newspapers or listening to the radio.
I was just in high school.
I just know.
There's no excuse.
I was listening to radio and TV and reading when I was high school.
What were you doing?
Baking?
I was studying.
I'm just kidding.
I'm not yelling at you.
You understand that?
No, going to college.
You were studying.
You were home echo.
Going to dancing.
I was like, my mother was determined I was going to go to college.
I only had one.
Did you?
Did you go to college?
Yeah.
Yep.
Good.
Terrific.
I didn't.
Yeah, well, it's not.
I also didn't support Bobby Kennedy.
You what?
I didn't support Bobby Kennedy.
Yeah, it's it was, you're right.
It was sort of like coming out of a cult to the years after that.
Yeah.
That family wouldn't even clean the interior of the car where he sat.
You that's as close as you got to him?
Well, I didn't go to the rally.
Well, yeah, it's it was at the town plaza, the town plaza shopping center.
It's actually the name of it.
There was a Woolworths and an auto part store, and they called it a shopping center.
All right.
Right.
And a bank.
Anyway, I appreciate the call.
Betty, I hate to do this.
It is.
Yeah, what was the point, Betty?
Why did you call?
I called because I don't understand why the Republican Party was smart enough to make sure that Alaska came in at the same time as Hawaii did.
Why they were that smart then, and they don't have a clue now.
It is the $64,000 question.
I'm like you.
I do not understand that the math is the math, and the polling data is the polling data.
And there's no, there is literally no evidence to suggest that upon being granted citizenship, anywhere near a majority of the Hispanics who are currently illegal aliens would vote Republicans.
There's no evidence whatsoever.
You're talking about the illegals you're talking about two generations after them will vote Democrat.
Well, of course.
Of course, it's like the Cuban exile community.
The adults, the at-present adults and the adults of the past number of years, were just rock-solid Republicans.
The people who escaped Castro in 59, 60, 61, 60, went to Miami, rock-solid Republicans.
Their kids voted Obama.
Majority of their kids voted Obama.
So her point here is, folks, it's not just the whatever number of illegals that we're talking about now that would be granted amnesty.
12 million is the popular number, but I'll bet that it's higher.
They're going to have kids, and that number is going to multiply.
And it is, you know, why, what is it that the Republicans see there that none of us do, other than a chance?
But if they looking at, okay, but there's a whole brand new universal peace, a chance to approach them with our ideas and our beliefs.
Well, okay, why don't you do that with existing citizens first and perfect the technique?
I don't know, just myself.
Betty, I have no idea what we talked about other than Bobby Kennedy, but I'm glad you called.
I appreciate it.
And he did wiretap Martin Luther King, and he did all kinds of stuff that never, the Kennedys never got called on in any of that stuff.
He was attorney general, and he was a no-nonsense.
I mean, there was civil rights, civil liberties.
It's a joke.
Anyway, got to go.
Be right back after this.
Don't go away.
Tom in Dexter, Michigan.
Tom, I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hi.
Rush, it's good to be here.
And I couldn't have asked for a better lead-in than that Hillsdale piece.
Because what I wanted to talk to you about is Obama's quantitative easing and the separate bank account seizure.
Okay.
And this is in context with a book I received from a publisher that was a new book by a Hillsdale economics prof, a guy by the name of Gary Wolfram.
And Wolfram likens dollars to shares of stock.
And when you do something like expanding the money supply, it's like a private company diluting their stock, which in the real world is a form of counterfeiting.
It's illegal.
So what you had here in Cyprus is that it may not be subtle, but at least they're honest about it.
They walked into the banks with a gun and said, stick them up.
They're seizing assets.
Whereas we get something like quantitative easing or the expansion of the money supply, it's a very subtle thing where they just kind of leach this worthless paper out there in the market.
You know, you, I must tell you something, Tom.
You are very shrewd.
Quantitative easing, which the simple definition of printing money.
Counterfeiting.
But even more than that is what are they doing with this money they're printing?
They are giving it.
Well, you can call it counterfeiting.
I mean, in a sense, it's...
The net result is the same.
It's not money that's based on anything.
It's not...
It's just expanding the money supply.
Then they're giving the money to people, a specific group of people, to invest in the stock market.
It's being used essentially to buy securities.
But forget that for a moment.
The point is that they're devaluing the dollar.
They are essentially doing a separate move.
Like you say, instead of walking in a bank with a gun and saying, here, give me your money, they're essentially devaluing the dollar.
And everybody's savings are losing a lot of value, probably more than 10% as a result of this.
What are we up to?
QE3?
Yeah, and the $1,400 in the stock market now is nowhere near the $1,400 four years ago because the money's different.
The $14,000.
The $14,000.
The $14,000 is different because we're using a different yardstick now.
Well, it's hard for people, though, to understand.
It's like, I've got a soundbite coming up.
Elizabeth Warren, the new center of Massachusetts, wondering, why isn't the minimum wage $22?
And, of course, well, why isn't it 50?
Now, most people...
It's a wonderful book, The Capitalist Manifesto.
And it's although it's brilliant, but it gets into a lot of this.
And I just found this analogy on the quantitative easing fascinating.
Are you the author?
I am not the author.
It's Gary Wolfram's the author.
You're not Gary Wolfram?
No.
Oh.
No, I'm just a writer.
Well, it's obviously moved you.
It has.
Is it easily understood by lay people?
Interesting issues, and I thought you'd like this one about the money supply.
It's like a Cyprus.
They're Cyprus doing what they're doing.
Right.
Well, I'll tell you this, this whole thing, when you tell people printing money, to them, oh, there's more money out there.
That's cool, Mabel.
No, it's devaluing supply and demand.
Look at economic education in this country has never been that good, but it is really woefully bad now.
So when people talk about quantitative easing or printing more money, and you say, yeah, well, that's really devaluing the value of your savings.
They don't have any idea why.
They don't get the connection.
More money equals mine's worth less?
Yeah, it's supply and demand.
Well, what is that?
How does that affect money?
I thought supply and demand was like TVs and cars.
No, no, it's money too.
And then you say, when she asks, why shouldn't the minimum wage be 22 bucks?
I guarantee you, most every low-information person is going to say, yeah, why isn't it 22?
And you try to explain it to them, and you lose them.
But I'm going to try.
I'm still going to try.
How many times have I tried this?
I'm going to try it again.
Well, the assault weapons ban.
The assault weapons ban that Dianne Feinstein wanted is gone.
It's been pulled out of the piece of legislation it was part of.
She's taking it on the chin yet again.
We got much more.
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