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March 20, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 20, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
He almost forgot to tell you 21 and 23 to start and we'll go back to the top.
Greetings, folks.
Great to have you.
Here we are, broadcast excellence, hosted by me, Rush Limbaugh already.
Fastest week in media.
Here we are already at Wednesday.
It's great to be here.
It always is.
Look forward to it each and every day.
Terrific opportunity.
And we got all kinds we have.
I'm sorry, grammatically correct here.
We have all kinds of stuff here today, including your telephone calls at 800-282-288-2, the email address, L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
Yesterday morning in Washington, House of Representatives, the House Science Space and Technology Committee hearing on the possibility of another asteroid colliding with the Earth.
I what what will a House committee hearing on another asteroid hitting the Earth?
These people can't do anything wrong.
What do you mean the House Committee?
We have to turn to a House committee.
Do you know what to do?
If an asteroid's coming, anyway.
Bill Posey, a Republican from Florida, is talking to the NASA administrator, Charles Balden.
He said, What would we do if you detected even a small asteroid like the one that detonated in Russia that was headed for New York in three weeks?
What would you do?
What would we do?
What could anybody do?
The bottom line is always the funding did not come.
So the answer to you is if it's coming in three weeks, uh pray.
If we find that out right now, and and that's not bad, that's reality.
That's not bad policy.
I'm a practicing episcopalian and I love what the Pope's doing right now.
I'll tell you, things have happened.
You gotta pray.
That's it.
We're gonna pray because they don't have the funding.
I've don't have the funding.
By the way, I have decided I saw something on TV today that has made me rethink the limbaugh theorem.
Andy Card was on Fox News this morning, is being interviewed by Martha McCallum.
And she asked him a great question that he just blew right by.
The essence of her question was, okay, we believe in smaller government.
Well, she didn't say we, but the the for people who believe in smaller government, you Republicans, that's going to mean that people's benefits get cut.
How are you going to explain that to them when he just blew right by it and started talking?
His whole theme throughout his interview was how the Republican Party is exclusionary, and it doesn't have a prayer if it doesn't become inclusive.
And I sat there and I looked at that and I said, Well, who are they excluding?
And who's running this party?
Who has been running this party?
Ain't us, folks.
Who's been running the Republicanists, not the conservatives?
So I thought, sitting there, the Limbaugh theorem may have to be expanded to include some some some Republicans as well.
I'll explain that as the uh program unfolds before your very eyes and ease.
Now let's move on to Bernie Marcus.
Bernie Marcus is one of the co-founders of the Home Depot.
Deepot, for those of you in uh in Rio Linda.
And he was on uh yesterday with uh Neil Cavuto on Fox.
And Cavuto said there's a front page story about how tax cuts are not beneficial.
He didn't say what newspaper, but he's telling me he's asking Bernie Marcus.
Well, what do you what do you make of this?
You have a front page story about how tax cuts are not beneficial.
In fact, you get more bang for the buck with tax increases, this newspaper story said.
The whole world's upside down, Barney, but that speaks of an age in which we deny basic economic principles and favor continuing big government.
And he's I don't know what newspaper it was.
It had to be the New York Times or the Washington Post, but one of the two with tax increases are what make things work.
Tax cuts are not beneficial at all.
Here is Bernie Marcus's reply, co-founder Home Depot.
I think that the American people haven't awakened, and I think that they haven't understood.
Look, when January 1st came around, I spoke to a lot of business people speaking to small businesses.
They all tell me the same thing.
When January 1st came around, and that first week of paychecks came in, and they got the benefit the this benefit of having less money in their payrolls because of the tax increase.
You know who they blame?
They blame the employer.
Nobody blamed the administration.
Stop and think of that.
Stop it.
Here we were, folks, to go back to the latter part of the year, go back to the last two weeks of December, even the whole month of December.
And we're all we're we're all waiting for an event, something that is going to awaken the American people.
Something that is going to open their eyes to the truth of Obama and his regime.
We've explained it until we're blue in the face.
We've tried everything we can think.
We've used every word there is.
We've tried every persuasive tactic that we know.
We've tried honesty, we've tried cajoling, we've tried anecdotes, we've tried illustrations, we've done everything we can except, by those that say, an effective TV ad campaign.
But other than that, we've done everything.
And waiting for this seminal event, something that's going to awaken the American people so they realize what's happening, because it's this is offshoot of the uh limbaugh theorem.
Obama does not attach to anything bad happening in the country.
His policies are universally opposed by people, but his policies are not deemed to have any effect on what's happening in the country.
As far as low information voters are concerned, so most amazing thing, even to this day, I'm still amazed by it.
The American people in mass think the country's head in the wrong direction.
They don't like Obama's policies, but they love him, although his approval numbers are plummeting.
Well, no, I wouldn't say plummeting yet, but they are under 50% in more than one poll.
That's right, a 47% in a gallup poll, disapproval at 50%.
So his approval numbers are coming down, but they weren't in December.
So we're sitting around, okay, we've tried everything.
And people thought, okay, wait till the payroll tax holiday ends, and the first paychecks that people get in January, they're gonna see their take-home pay go down, and then they're gonna know what Bernie Marcus just said is that he talked to some of his business buddies, and he's they they told him that employees are blaming the companies, not the government.
Employees are blaming the employer for their take-home pay being reduced.
How does that happen?
When did it ever start?
I have never ever in my entire working life assumed my employer had anything to do with the deductions in my paycheck.
I I've always known what taxes are.
I've always known what the payroll tax is and how much it is.
I've always known this from the from the when I was making a dollar quarter an hour when I was 16.
I've known that.
How does this happen?
So I'm telling folks, we're dealing in a genuine low information universe.
It's perhaps worse than we even know.
And I was talking to a friend this morning.
I came to a conclusion.
We're talking about this event, and I've mentioned on this program a number of times that we've exhausted all of our persuasive attempts, other than a concerted TV ad campaign.
We've exhausted every bit of persuasive talent that we have.
We own talk radio, Fox News for the most part.
We've done everything we can, and yet no impact.
So we've all been waiting for an event.
And when I've said this, people have assumed I meant a hurricane or a uh uh uh tornado, some sort of natural disaster, God event.
No, no, no, I don't mean I'm talking about an event in politics.
And let me tell you what I think it's gonna be.
Something to wake people up about Obama.
It isn't gonna be anything serious.
It isn't gonna be anything substantive.
Something like this is gonna happen.
Obama is gonna be talking to somebody on open mic, and he's gonna dissintimate's latest CD, and the country is gonna get outraged.
And they'll turn on Obama.
See, it's gonna be something like, or he'll diss Beyoncé.
By the way, there are a lot of people dissing Beyonce.
Have you heard about Beyonce?
Have you heard what Beyonce?
Beyonce, let me give you a little history on Beyoncé.
Beyonce used to be the lead for a was a three-girl group called Destiny's Child.
And their songs were attempts to inspire young women not to take any grief from men.
Isn't that right, Mr. Snertley?
Essentially, don't take any grief.
Don't let these guys walk all over.
You don't do this, don't do that.
No, just walk away.
You don't need to put up with that.
She's done a 180.
Beyoncé, now having been married, having been impregnated and given birth to Blue Ivy, she's going out on a new tour, and they may as well call it the Bow Down B.I.H. tour.
She's got a new song.
Can I say it?
It's it's it's a it's in a popular bow down, bitches.
Is a new tune.
A total 180.
Beyonce's now saying, go ahead and put up with it.
And you know why?
I'll tell you why.
Because she got married.
She married the rich guy.
She's even calling herself Mrs. Carter on the tour.
Dawn, Dawn, look at me.
She has shelved Beyonce.
She's no longer being called, she's going to call herself Mrs. Carter on the Bow Down Bitches Tour.
And that song, that that's the title of the single that's fronting the tour.
And the advice is to these women, go ahead and put up with it.
Put up with it now.
Bow down, Bia Itches.
Because why?
She got married.
She married the rich guy, she now understands.
She now understands it's worth it to bow down.
And so now she's passing on this advice.
And there's a big story about this in the UK telegraph.
A major story about this in the UK, not Obama's trip to Israel.
A major story about Beyoncé's tour and what it's called, and she's Mrs. Carter, and how she's now advising women to put up with whatever.
When you find the right guy, you put up with it.
Bow down.
And the story in the UK telegraph is written by an angry woman who feels betrayed by Beyoncé.
This woman not going to bow down.
The woman who wrote this piece is not.
I've got so many stacks of stuff.
You can't.
If I get everything in this program, there's going to be one for the ages.
If I find I've got 15 stacks here.
I don't know where I put it right here.
Ah, ah, here it is.
Bow down.
Felicity capen or capone, C-A-P-O-O-N.
Beyonce's new single marks a change in direction for the independent woman the U.S. president hand picks to play at his parties.
And Felicity Capone explains why the lyrics leave a bitter taste.
It's a huge story.
So I'm telling you.
The thing that's going to shake this country up is going to be Obama on an open mic dissing Timberlake's latest CD or his latest fashion line, or maybe saying something negative about Beyoncé.
You watch.
Don't doubt me.
How are you?
Welcome back.
Rush Linball, the EIB Network from NBC News School District in Maryland is putting limits on some of the trappings of elementary school.
I'm not making this up.
A school district in Maryland has now banned hugs Of children from grown-ups who are not their parents.
An adult cannot hug a child in school if it's not his or her child.
Birthday party invitations have been banned because not everybody is invited to every birthday party.
And there will be no more bringing cupcakes to school for the whole class.
Parents who visit the 17 elementary schools in St. Mary's County are still allowed to hug their own kids for now, but nobody else's.
Only parents registered as volunteers are allowed on the playground, and even they cannot push other people's kids on the swings.
Your kids, kids in school, get on the swing.
If you're not a kid's parent, you can't push them and help them gain speed on the you can't touch them.
You know why?
You touch their dairy air in a lot of cases when you do it.
Can't do it.
Now who is it doing this?
This is not a bunch of conservatives getting in the way here and limiting people's freedom, is it?
This is a bunch of this is a bunch of liberals.
This is a bunch of liberals putting limits on the fun people have.
This is a bunch of liberals putting limits on the kind of comforting affection an adult can provide a child.
No birthday party invites any more in 17 elementary schools in Maryland.
St. Mary's County, Maryland, no more.
Because not everybody gets invited to every party.
So you can't, can't, nobody can send out birthday invitations.
No more cupcakes brought school.
Even if you bring them for the whole school, no more cupcakes.
Sugar.
Fattening obesity.
Yeah, prepackage and advice.
Let's see.
Well, no more bringing cupcakes for the whole class.
That can lead to obesity and then lesbianism, apparently.
I told you I sense that school was jail back when I was in it.
And once again, proving what ahead of my times I was.
Anyway, it's not a bunch of liberals or conservatives doing this.
It's not a bunch of conservatives putting limits on normal human action.
It's a bunch of libs doing this, folks.
It's not conservatives who want to deny all of this childhood fun and all of this childhood joy.
It's the liberals doing this.
Here are the new rules.
It's fine to send a homemade cupcake to scroll for your own child, but not for the rest of the class.
District officials are concerned about food allergies.
They want parents to send only store-bought treats.
It have the ingredients listed.
Processed food, exactly right.
Don't bake your own cupcake for your own child.
As for party invitations, the district suggested to PTA groups develop phone and email lists for the parents.
If there are twenty individuals in the class and someone brings in seven birthday invitations, it was creating an academic disruption.
People were getting their feelings hurt.
Not everybody's happy with these restrictions.
One member of the school board, Kathy Allen told MBC Washington that they're horrible, but she's in the minority.
So I run through this list again.
Parents are only allowed to hug their own children when they visit school.
Nobody else's kids.
Only parents registered with the school as volunteers are allowed on the playground.
And even those registered volunteers cannot push other people's kids on the swings.
You can send a homemade cupcake to Scruel for your own child, but not for the rest of the class, and district officials really don't want you to send a homemade cupcake because they're concerned about food allergies.
So they want parents to send only store bought treats processed that have all the ingredients on there.
And no more birthday party invitations.
You think that's bad, try this from the UK.
This is from the Sun newspaper.
And it this maybe you want to take this in a great assault, but still, I'm not doubting this actually.
The schools in the UK, certain schools, are banning children making best friends.
Teachers are banning school kids from having best friends so they don't get upset by the fallout.
You cannot make a best friend in a UK school anymore because the friendship may not last.
And when the friendship falls out, or when you break up with your good friend, the emotional pain may be such that you can't deal with it.
So to eliminate the potential pain of a busted friendship, students will not be allowed to make best friends.
Educational psychologist, Gayners Batoni, said the policy's been used at Scruals in Kingston, Southwest London, and Surrey.
She added, I've noticed that teachers tell children they shouldn't have a best friend, and everybody should play together, and that is working out very well.
Doesn't matter where the left is, is only screw up.
Welcome back, folks.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh here, cutting edge societal evolution.
Telephone number, you want to be on the program 800 28282.
Email address Lrushbow EIB net.com.
I want to review again here this, just to go through this again, the 17 scruels, the elementary scruels in St. Mary's County, Maryland.
do.
No hugs of anybody's kids but your own.
You have to be a registered volunteer to go out on a playground during recess, but even if you qualify, you are not allowed to touch the children, including helping them gain momentum on the swing set.
You're not allowed to do cupcakes.
You have to bring store-bought cupcakes and only one for your child.
You cannot bring cupcakes in for everybody.
There will be no more birthday party invitations.
And the reason for that is that not everybody gets invited.
And so they're trying to spare hurt feelings.
In the UK, a spreading phenomenon of schools banning children making best friends.
They want to protect the children from the emotional stress and pain of a friendship breaking up.
And so they want to reserve all of the emotional attachments for the school, for the state.
The student is supposed to have all emotional attachments to the school, to the teacher, to the government.
But no best friends not being permitted.
Some might say it's related, I don't know.
Kevin Clash, the exelmo puppeteer on the Sesame Street in a children's workshop, the Elmo puppeteer.
Kevin Clash, who previously faced allegations of sex abuse, is once again at the center of another lawsuit.
The man behind the Sesame Street character Elmo is named in a sexual abuse lawsuit filed by Sheldon Stevens, who was the first individual to accuse Clash of abuse in 2012.
That's not a conservative That is engaging in this predatory behavior.
This is a liberal, a good liberal.
Ex-ELMO puppeteer with yet another allegation.
This story's not widespread.
It's a good thing Kevin Clash is not a religious person or a conservative.
Otherwise, this story would be all over the news nonstop.
As such, it's being hidden.
In more education news from a website called campus reform.
There's an upcoming workshop at Brown University.
And it's set up by a group of Brown University students.
They're preparing an on-campus workshop in which, it's what they say here.
Queer participants will separate by race to work past their sexual attraction to Caucasians.
We find ourselves falling always for the white queers, wishing we could have more agency in the process, but more intentional about who we desire and how.
Reads the official Facebook description of the event.
How many of you have kids going to university at Brown?
And do you know that this kind of stuff is going on?
We are invested, it says here, in generating a politics of sexuality that compels us to interrogate beauty as privilege and constructed by systems of white supremacy, ableism, capitalism, and heteronormativity.
Hetero normativity.
The workshop is called Protect Me From What I Want.
A workshop on privilege, power, and desire, sponsored by an organization called the what is it uh uh what's the name of the organization.
I didn't print the second page.
I only print one page of anything I look at because I got too many pieces of paper anyway.
But uh anyway, uh it is Brown University helping queer minorities overcome their desires.
And it's their usage of the word queer.
I'm just quoting them.
It's an on-campus workshop in which queer participants separate by race to work past their sexual attraction to Caucasians.
There is a problem, in other words, in being attracted to Caucasians.
This is a workshop to help people deal with that.
Now, it doesn't say that.
Here's the headline from the Brown University piece itself.
Upcoming workshop at Brown University is set up to help queer minorities overcome attraction to queer whites.
Brown University, Ivy League, Brown University, Ivy League.
I'm looking, I'm just folks you know, what are you rush doing?
I I sit here every day, and we have to listen to all this cockamami BS about how we conservatives are stifling and no fun and old-fashioned and fuddy duddy, and we're denying people a good time, and so forth.
I'm trying to sit here and illustrate that these are the people freedom have come to define freedom as pure hedonism, the pursuit of pure sibaritic delights, no boundaries, no limits on it whatsoever.
The country can't survive that way.
This freedom defined that way is going to lead to the total moral collapse of the society at some point.
So these are three little stories, and individually you laugh at them, no big deal, but I mean I the the Maryland University School thing.
That's absurd.
All of that's ridiculous, totally absurd.
No best friends in the UK's gets a bunch of liberals doing that.
So once again, what we're engaged in here, folks, is simply an attempt to inform and educate people about who liberals are, what they do, how they think, what the world would look like, what the country would look like if there were no check and balance in these people.
In this country, you can go to any city that has been run by elected liberal Democrats without any opposition for years and years, and you can see the results.
They're bulldozing these cities.
These cities are absolute disasters.
Precisely because there are no limits on anything.
Freedom is designed as whatever you want to do with other people's money.
And there's no limit on how much of other people's money you are entitled to.
Now Bernie Marcus, co-founder of the Home Depot, tells me talking to fellow business people, and employees are blaming the employer for their paychecks being smaller in January when the payroll tax holiday ended.
So there was basically a federal government tax increase that most employees are blaming the employer for, which is not possible.
And we sit here and we just marvel at it.
I want to go grab a phone call quickly, and I want uh Jeff in Albany in New York as our first call.
Jeff, I'm glad you waited.
I'm glad you called.
It's great to have you with us.
Welcome, sir, to the program.
Hey, Rosh, thanks for having me on.
You bet.
Looking at the idea that we have major problems with literacy in our schools overall, and that's a major problem for us to tackle, but far, far worse is the level of economic illiteracy that exists among people.
And it just seems as though the president is worsening that problem and deliberately so with his public pronunciation.
He's invested or interested in having people misunderstand basic economics because then he can pose as their great ally and protector from these demons that just simply do not exist.
How long have you had this opinion?
How long have you thought this?
I've thought this I think since he campaigned in 2008.
Because he was saying things that just weren't making sense to me.
You mind if I ask how old you are, Jeff?
I'm 38.
38.
So basically, when you were 33, 34 is when you um you first saw this.
Yeah, the arguments just seem disingenuous.
Well, no, you're right.
Now don't misunderstand.
You're dead on right.
In fact, they want to express purposes of liberal domination of the public school system is to dumb down the people in school.
And they're work it's working in New York City.
Get this 80% of high school graduates, Jeff, can't read.
Now you you move on to economics and start talking about literacy, and I'm telling you, it's a total lost cause.
If you've got a public school system where you are graduating 80% of your students that can't read, then I'll uh uh then other subject you want to talk about, I guarantee you they're going to be profoundly ignorant about.
And they're not going to have been taught how to think, how to learn, how to absorb, and how to understand anything.
And I think, you know, I'm glad you realized this.
I'm I'm frankly, I wish you'd have this not a criticism.
I wish you'd have realized it when you were 20, but you did any whatever you do.
You're dead on right.
It's exactly right, and it's it's it's more widespread than just economics education.
It's every element of education.
In the public system where people are being dumbed down.
I would lower my own expectations to the hope that people understand that their employers are not their enemies, uh, that taxing the top one or two percent in this country will not forever fund our expanding welfare state.
And I'm just hoping that these little anecdotal stories that people have, something like the White House tours closing while other things remain open and funded while these crazy studies are still getting done and people are still having to wait in long lines at the airport.
I hope these things start to show people that how about Harry Reed.
We get seven Marines dead in a Nevada military base accident.
He runs around and blames the sequester for it.
Now that's reprehensible.
It is obscene, and yet we have to conclude we have to assume that a whole bunch of people believe him because their foundational starting base for knowledge is non-existent.
And they believe what they hear from government, they believe what they see on TV, they believe what they see on the news.
So if you got a major senator out there saying blaming the sequester for this, we are gonna have to accept that people do believe that.
Rather than react the way we do and poo-poo it and laugh at it or get offended.
How dare he?
He knows exactly what he's doing.
The Democrats know exactly who their audience is.
They are perfectly happy with a dumbed down, totally dependent population.
Perfectly happy with that.
Because they view themselves as elitists anyway.
They don't need those people to make the country work.
They don't need a thriving, growing middle class.
The Democrats need, in fact, a permanent underclass that is constantly dependent.
And as members of that underclass somehow manage to become educated and more economically prosperous and move out of the underclass, they got to be replaced.
They got to find more poor, uneducated, uninformed people who will remain deadlocked Democrat voters.
Hello, amnesty.
It's exactly what it is and exactly what it's all about.
So the Democrats have an entirely different view.
You and I, we want an informed public, an educated public going about their business pursuing excellence.
That's the definition of a great country.
It's how it happens.
Using the freedom that exists in this country, that's how we became greatest superpower in the history of mankind.
The Democrats don't care about that.
They don't care.
That's not all they need is a bunch of people voting for them to keep them in power, and that's how the country works.
And what the country is and what its status is, irrelevant.
As long as they have theirs, as long as they are in the upper echelon of the elite perpetually, that's cool.
They do not look at this government of by and for the people.
I do, speak for myself.
I look at people I'm talking about are people who do make the country work.
And we're not, they're not able to when they're not educated, they're not informed, they're not ambitious.
When they have no inspiration, no ambition, when they have no expectation, they are not doing anything but becoming dead weight.
And the country can't afford that.
Not if it's to maintain its greatness.
That's what bothers me.
Not to mention the absolute loss of dignity and humanity all these people undergo by virtue of not being educated, by not learning, by not being informed, by not reaching their potential, but not even trying to.
Frosts me.
I can't begin to tell you how much.
By the way, I still have the story from yesterday.
There's now a companion story to it.
Story from yesterday, Rise of the Happy Housewife.
How a new wave of feminists are giving up their careers to stay at home because they want to.
And there's a companion story today, a new one, that uh that goes with this.
It's called the it's in New York magazine, the retro wife.
Feminists who say they're having it all by choosing to stay home.
Two stories.
One UK, one domestic.
Details coming up.
Boy, I'll tell you this came out of nowhere.
The NFL owners have passed that helmet rule.
Ian Rappaport of the NFL Network says the rule passed by a wide margin.
Voters of the NFL voted just now to outlaw the use of the crown of the helmet by offensive or defensive players in the open field.
Eric Dickerson, Hall of Famer, one of the leading ground gainers in the NFL was quoted.
Even he's in part of that that massive player lawsuit against the NFL over concussions.
But he said, this is nuts.
You can't make an inherently violent game safe.
He said his helmet law is crazy.
Emmett Smith said it's crazy.
Emmett Smith, the Hall of Fame running back, shoot the Dallas Cowboys.
It's a natural thing.
If you've never played football, I'm telling you, if you've never played, and you end up in a sand lot game of touch football, and you happen to be running the ball, you catch a pass and running at a handoff and run.
You run up to somebody, your natural instinct is to is to duck your head.
You just do it.
Without being coached or trained, it's a natural reaction in that circus.
It's been outlawed.
Now it's going to be at least a 15-yard penalty if it happens outside the tackle boxes.
And of course, guess who's been all for this ever since it was proposed?
The media.
The sports writers who've not played the game and who think it's a wonderful thing to try to make the game safer.
And it's a very, very compassionate thing to try to take the head out of all of the violence in the game.
If you want to protect the head, take away helmets.
Make them play without helmets, and everything will be fine.
But I'm telling you, folks, uh this was the last report on this this morning was that this was so far from being reality.
They're going to table the helmet rule until the next round of owners' meetings in May.
And obviously that was a smoke screen, because it apparently passed by a wide margin just now.
Cincinnati Bengals were the only team that voted against the helmet rule.
Snerdley just said, ah, come on, they're really going to enforce this.
I could not believe.
Are they going to enforce it?
It's a 15-yard penalty.
If you do it a second time, it's even worse.
Are they going to enforce it?
You damn straight they're going to enforce it.
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