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March 20, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 20, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #2
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And greetings and welcome back.
Great to have you here, folks.
It's uh Rush Limbaugh and the EIB network here at the distinguished prestigious Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Happy to have you here.
Telephone number 800-282-2882 and the email address, L Rushbo at EIB net.com.
I w I really apologize, although if some of you think I need to, I will.
Our previous caller in the program, I I checked the email.
Some people why why were you so short with the guy?
I didn't mean to be sure.
His name was Jeff, and he had a great point about economic illiteracy in the schools.
And he was talking about he was bouncing on Bernie Marcus, the Home Depot founder, saying that he talked to a bunch of his business buddies and employees who saw their paychecks get smaller in January because the pay troll payroll tax holiday ended, blame the employer.
They don't even know that it's the government that ended the payroll tax holiday and restored the full-fledged tax on Social Security.
They blame the employers for it.
The guy called and chalked it up to economic illiteracy, and I asked him how old he was because I wanted to find out how long he learned this.
So when he first observed it, he said he was 38, and he first became aware of this kind of thing four years ago when he was 34.
And I did say to him, that's that's great.
I I wish you'd have seen it at when you were 20.
Not anything about him.
I just I was merely talking about the more people who become aware of what's going on as early in their lives as possible, the better off we're all going to be.
I I did not mean to sound dismissive or critical at all.
I was ecstatic.
Did I sound disrespectful to the guy, Snertly?
Do you think I sounded disrespectful to the first caller?
I didn't mean to.
I really didn't.
I was just discovered at 34, came to a conclusion at 34, and he's dead right on it.
There is no economic literacy in the country.
But I didn't mean to impugn what he was thinking or or whatever.
I'm just curious.
I I'm I'm fascinated at what age people see the obvious and how they see it.
And I guess that's the key to to me and a lot of people that the fact that education in this country is corrupt practically in its incompetence.
I'd just be happy if more people saw it earlier, but I did not mean anything disrespectful to that first caller.
Also, a lot of people say, Have you heard about Obama's limousine breaking down?
Limousine didn't break down.
It's worse than that.
Obama's limousine, the primary limousine, somebody in his entourage, somebody in charge of filling it up, put diesel in it, and it's not a diesel engine.
Now, how does that folks this is the president of the United States?
This is limbo.
They fly this limbo wherever he is.
When the president goes on a trip like this, there's a C-5 that loads up all of this stuff a day or two in advance.
And in this case, they took two limos, because I guess he's going to Jordan and they have the second limo in Jordan, which they now got to go get and bring down to Israel or over to Israel because somebody tried to put diesel in Obama's limbo.
Now, I can't understand how anybody who is part of the Obama traveling entourage would not know that this is a gasoline-powered car.
And if it's somebody outside the Obama entourage filling it up, how is that happening?
I don't know.
It's not a minor deal to me.
NFL helmet rule.
Let me tell you what I think is really going on here.
And it's not a big surprise.
There's this giant lawsuit out there.
Thousands of former players are suing the NFL.
Players who claim that they've got concussion, long-term damage, brain damage, memory loss, all that stuff.
There are thousands of them suing the NFL on the grounds that the NFL didn't tell them how dangerous the game was.
The NFL sent them back into games after they suffered concussions when they shouldn't have been sent back in and all that.
So what's happened here?
The vote was 31 to 1, no longer can a running back lower his head, running into a defender outside the tackle box.
On plunge plays, you know, off tackle, uh the gap between the guards and center, you can do it.
Don't know why.
If it's not good outside, why is it okay inside?
I mean, that's my question.
If you can't, well, Mr. Limbaugh, the reason is that outside the taco box, the player they're in a wide open field, and there's only one or two players left to tackle somebody, and the speeds, the speeds outside are just incredibly fast.
The game is not that fast inside the taco.
Well, it doesn't matter how fast it is, the collision speed will take care of whatever lack of speed there is individually.
But if if using the helmet is unhealthy and not good, why is it permitted inside the tackle book?
That's just me.
But what's going on here is that fear of attorneys, fear of the plaintiff's bar is now running the NFL.
This rule is designed to protect the owners from lawyers, not designed to protect the players.
Now they will say it's designed to protect the players, and they'll they'll be applauded in certain sectors for trying to protect the players.
But what they're actually trying to do here is protect the owners from plaintiffs' attorneys and lawsuits down the road.
And there will probably be what's next, knees.
You blow out your knee play in this game, and that can make you uh uh I can't say crippled anymore.
Yeah, it makes you uh disabled for the rest of your life.
Uh and maybe somebody's gonna let nobody told me I could blow up my knee play in this game.
You mean you never saw that happen on T. No, I never knew it.
I never saw I never knew I could blow up my lawyer told me to tell you I never knew I could blow out my knee play in a game.
So we'll give us some rule on that.
Everybody's gonna wear a knee brace or some such thing.
But once once the game is starting uh to be run by fear of lawyers, it is going to change forever and inexorably.
To the audio sound bites, Dr. Benjamin Carson was back on Fox News this morning, and they asked him to react to a couple of things that I said about him on this program yesterday.
Was on with uh uh Steve Ducey and Alison Camarata.
In the first bite, this is this is uh in fact the whole interview was getting his reaction to things I said.
Here's the first example of it.
Rush Limbaugh said that right now, Dr. Carson, you've got Democrats terrified.
Here's a little rush.
I think Dr. Benjamin Carson probably got everybody in the Democrat Party scared to death.
It's gonna 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.
Well, Dr. Carson is Rush Wright.
And here's what Dr. Carson said.
Well, I certainly hope so.
I've tried to lead the right kind of life, a life that is uh inspired by my love of God and my love of my fellow man.
And uh it isn't very difficult to demonize someone under those circumstances, but I don't think it's just Democrats, you know, Republicans have been involved too in deceit and in trying to uh rule by fear.
Now, I think any politician who is doing that, I'm very happy to expose them.
And uh more importantly, I think we need to offer solutions for the problems, not just complain.
Now, this is the second time that Dr. Carson has explicitly distanced himself from the Republican Party.
At CPAC over the weekend, it was either at C No, it was on CNN following CPAC.
He said, if I'm not mistaken, and don't not being critical here with nobody to have a cow.
He said he was an independent, not a Republican.
Distancing him.
Now this soundbite.
But I don't think it's just Democrats that demonize people.
You know, Republicans have been involved too in deceit in trying to rule by fear.
And I think any politician is doing that.
So this is very interesting to me.
Very interesting what Dr. Carson is doing here.
Not a Republican.
And pretty much out of the blue.
I mean, up until the CNN interview post-CPAC, I don't think there was any doubt, was there?
Let's contrast this with uh with the titular head of the Republican Party, uh Colonel Colin Powell, or Colonel Colonel Powell, whatever it is.
Back in the 90s, his approval numbers, when you ask people, he was coming off of being Secretary of State, uh, no, not Secretary of State, he was uh Chairman Joint Chiefs.
Reagan had made him uh that, and he was thinking about running for office, but nobody knew what party he was in.
And he wouldn't say.
He wouldn't say what party he was a member, and he wouldn't take a position on any issue.
They'd ask him pro-life, uh ask him about any issue, and he would avoid it because he didn't want it to his approval numbers in the 80s.
And I remember saying it's really he is being touted by the Republicans as a you know presidential candidate in waiting.
And it's kind of, but he won't identify what party.
He eventually did come out as a Republican and has been one ever since, except he endorses Democrats now.
Dr. Carson, I don't think anybody doubted from the moment when we first became everybody first became aware of him.
A lot of people have known about him for a long time.
But at the prayer breakfast this year, when he took it straight to Obama on Obamacare and a number of other things, I don't think anybody doubted that he's a conservative and a Republican.
And then all through subsequent TV appearances, I don't think there's any doubt about it.
Uh and then through CPAC, there wasn't any doubt about it.
Then the CNN interview after CPAC, he says he's not a Republican independent, or I think he said that.
And now this.
So I interpret this as that he is preparing for a possibility to seek high office.
And he doesn't want to be tied to any particular party or ideology per se right now.
This is a good indication here of what's going on.
And no, I'm not being critical of it.
I just find it.
I find it interesting.
Well, I think it's I think it's fair to say he leans right.
Yeah.
He's about to fall over, he's leaning so far, but he doesn't want to say so is the key.
Remember the what people love conservative ideas until they find out Republicans hold them.
That was the Hill dot com poll we talked about yesterday.
You put a list of ideas and solutions in front of people that are conservative and they eat them up.
They love them.
Support it 55 to 31%, issue after issue after issue.
Then you tell them, oh, those are Republican ideas.
Forget that.
So he's trying to avoid any kind of label whatsoever.
Dr. Carson Rush Limbaugh also went on to say something else about you.
He said, Dr. Carson is able to articulate and explain conservatism in a way that is persuasive without raising his voice at all.
Do you ever raise your voice?
That probably comes from my training as a nurse surgeon.
Nurse surgeons tend to be very calm under fire.
They have to be because you deal with some pretty stressful situations.
Dr. Benjamin Carson asked on Fox News today to respond to things that I said about him yesterday.
And yeah, let's do the next grab number four.
It doesn't have any to do with Ben Carson, but it does mention me, so I may as well get it out of the way because I think it's the last one today that mentions me.
It was headline news.
CNN headline news yesterday afternoon, the show Raising America with Ciara Phillips, who, for those of you who care, she is, I think the wife of John Roberts of Fox News.
He used to be at CNN.
And that's, I think, where they met and canoodled.
And then I think they're married.
Then he left and went to Fox, and they stayed married.
She's got her own show, Raising America with Kira Phillips.
And she had as a guest the author and comedian, Carolyn Castiglia.
And talking about the tension between stay-at-home moms and working mothers.
This is in some circles known as the mommy wars.
And like I said, I've got two stories, and I promise you I'm going to get to these.
One from New York magazine from the UK Daily Mail, and they're both about feminists who say the way for women to have it all is become mothers and stay home.
Two different stories.
So that's what this Castiglia babe is talking about with Ciara Phillips.
The mommy wars.
And Kira Phillips says, How many of you moms have a problem and are out there ripping each other?
And why are you so judgmental?
Come on, we all do it.
Let's admit it.
What is it about this issue that makes mothers so defensive?
Carolyn, what do you think?
I think the phrase stay at home mom is really played out at this point.
You know, it sounds to me like something that Rush Limbaugh would say, like, stay at home moms.
You know, like it's more of a command, you know what I mean?
She's stay-at-home mom doesn't work because it sounds like something I would order a woman to do.
So misunderstood, am I. So misunderstood.
It's unbelievable.
Okay, back to the phones now.
And uh we go to Springfield, Missouri.
Is Chris great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program?
Hi.
Hey, Rush, how are you doing?
Very good, sir.
Thank you.
Hey, you know, I was just driving along and I heard you say that they were gonna do this.
Uh you can't lower your helmet deal.
And I was just thinking, wouldn't it be awesome if when they do the throwback uniforms, they'd take the face mask off or change the helmet on that.
What do you think of that?
Well, you know, Coach Dicka has said, if you want, if you want to take the head out of the game, then take the face mask off of the helmet.
Just just no face masks allowed, and you'll take the head out of the game.
If you really want to take the head out of the game, no helmet.
And you wouldn't have anybody leading with the head.
You wouldn't have you wouldn't have anything going on with the head or face without a face mask.
You wouldn't have the head being used as a weapon on any play if there were no face mask or no helmet.
So his idea, well, when they go back to throwback uniforms, go throw back all the way.
Go to leather helmet with no face mask and see what happens.
It would be an interesting illustration.
You're Snerdley's looking at me like, what are you talking about?
No face mask.
I'm just telling you, nobody is gonna purposely throw their head or face into a full-fledged contact situation with no protection.
Well, you might you you wouldn't.
That's the point.
You wouldn't get hurt.
He might be the incidental bloody nose.
Uh, but nobody's gonna use their head on your head.
It's not gonna happen.
Although a running back would lower his head.
I hate to tell you, but no matter what they do, a running back instinctively will do that.
This is gonna be a really interesting rule for these guys uh to uh to police.
Mike and Quantico, Virginia.
Thank you for waiting.
Great to have you with us.
Hello.
Thank you for having me, Rush.
You bet, sir.
Uh I was calling in regards to the comments made by Harry Reed about the uh about the Marines and politicizing a training accident's death, and that's absolutely disgraceful.
Uh I am also a Marine, and I just it makes my blood boil rush.
Let's listen to Grab Sun by number 13.
It's Harry Reid on the Senate floor during general speeches yesterday about the um Nevada Marine deaths.
It was quite a big explosion.
And well, we'll follow this news very closely.
I'm going to do whatever I can going forward to support the United States military and the families of the fallen Marines.
One of the things in sequester is we cut back in training and maintenance.
That's the way sequester was written.
This sequester should go away.
We've cut already huge amounts of money and deficit reduction.
It's just not appropriate, Mr. President, that our military can't train and do the maintenance necessary.
These men and women are Marines were training there in Hawthorne.
And with the sequester, it's going to cut the stuff back.
It's disgusting, but that's who he is.
Is blaming the sequester for these seven marine deaths.
And you're appalled by that, right?
Absolutely.
If the sequester cut money for training and maintenance, then they would have never been there training to begin with.
Well, uh it's worse than that.
This was an accident.
This was going to happen whether there was a sequester or not.
Just because the sequester happened does not be I get your point.
If the sequester really stopped this activity, the activity wouldn't have been taking place, thus the accident wouldn't have uh happened.
But here's it, Mike.
Outside the Universe of Marines and and a few other people, most low information people who hear Harry Reed are going to go, yeah, yeah, that's exactly right.
That's what happens when the government gets smaller.
You cut spinning and people die.
It's not good.
It's not good.
The reason that there were seven Marine deaths in the training accident in Nevada had nothing to do with the sequester.
It had nothing to do with a puny one percent cut of the budget.
The mortar rounds seem to be defective.
And that has nothing to do with the sequester.
What's happened is that the apparently the Navy and the Marines have stopped all training with them now.
Nothing to do with the sequester.
But here's Harry Reed trying to take advantage, make a political point.
I'll tell you these people politicize everything, including seven Marines die.
And what does Harry Reed do?
The first thought he has how can I turn this into a political advantage?
And these people claim to be in possession of all the world's compassion.
People like Harry Reed, the Democrat Party, they're the ones with the big hearts.
They're the ones that really care about people.
We don't.
We conservatives.
We're just mean-spirited extremists.
We order people around, and we cut the size of government, putting everybody's life at risk.
The Democrats, they love people and they care about people, and they're good people.
And so seven Marines die in an accident.
And the compassionate Democrats start calculating how they can extract a political advantage from those deaths.
It's despicable, not to mention distasteful.
All right, now this there's a phenomenon out there.
It's not new, but it's being covered in the media like it's new.
This has actually been going on for over ten years and maybe longer.
Time flies.
It seems to me that this has been going on since the mid-90s.
I remember chronicling for people more and more women who were dyed in the wool feminists.
They bought it hook, line, and sinker.
They went to college, and they said they're going to sign up for feminism and what that meant.
And what that meant was the hell with having a life other than one at work.
They're going to go out there and they're going to be career-focused and career-oriented, and they're going to be just like men.
And they're not going to have any pleasure from a relationship.
They're not going to subject themselves to uh emotional hurt at the hands of a man and say just go hellbent to the job.
And then one of two things happened.
They met a man and got married and had a child.
And they fully expected to follow the feminist prescription.
Have the child, farm it out to daycare somehow, nanny, what have you, and go back to work.
And then the others didn't find a man, didn't get married, and the biological time bomb started ticking.
And as they approached 40, they began to think that they were missing a lot of stuff in life.
They didn't have a relationship.
They didn't have a man, and they didn't have a child.
And a biological time bomb theoretically hit 40, and that's when it becomes dangerous to have children, and so they started checking out.
And in both instances, these died in the wolf feminists who bought everything the feminizes had told them.
After going home and doing the maternity leave, more and more of them wanted to stay home.
They didn't want to go back to work, and the entire foundation of what the feminists were trying to do was blown to smithereens.
And it kept happening with greater frequency, and it kept being reported here and there, but not in a massive kind of way, but enough that I noticed it because I was looking for it.
And you can find these stories.
Now, folks, it has become the norm.
And now there are things called the mommy wars, where more and more women, liberal feminist women, are deciding that the way to really have it all is to get married, have a child, and stay home and raise the kid.
And the feminazis are beside themselves.
This is not how it was supposed to happen.
This was not how it was supposed to work.
So now the mommy wars have erupted.
And the feminists are upset at more and more women for deciding to let down the sisterhood, so to speak.
But increasingly, and by definition here, the numbers of women who are betraying feminism are liberal women.
And they are discovering what you and I have always known.
It's kind of funny.
All these liberal women and some liberal guys, if they've got the guts to say so, act like they've come across some brand new discovery.
Becoming a mother and actually staying home and raising the child.
And they're writing articles about it.
I got two of them right here.
As though it's a new thing.
It's never been done before.
And the feminist, the liberal ego, is such that only they have the answers to everything, and only they discover new things.
Only they encounter new truths.
And to them, I'm not kidding you.
You read these stories, to them, it's funny.
These newly arrived liberal women who are eschewing feminism, having babies and wanting to stay home and being perfectly fulfilled and happy, think they've come across something brand new that's never been done before.
And they're writing stories about it.
It's the most amazing thing to come across these.
And you have to read the right liberal publications to run into these stories.
But it's it's hilarious.
It's only been the way of the world since the beginning of time.
But they think they've encountered something brand new and revolutionary.
And such is their hubris and ego.
Now, here's the story from New York magazine about this.
It's called the retro wife.
Feminists who say they are having it all by choosing to stay home.
And I'm telling you, by definition, in New York magazine or any other mainstream media publication, a feminist cannot be a conservative woman.
In fact, conservative women are not allowed to call themselves feminists, just like if you happen to be pro-choice but you choose life, you're not allowed to be pro-choice.
Because pro-choice doesn't mean choosing.
Pro-choice means pro abortion.
So if you happen to be pro choice, but say I choose life, they will not let you in the club.
Same thing.
A conservative woman will never be allowed to be a feminist.
So when the headline says the retro wife feminists who say they're having it all by choosing to stay home, it's liberal Democrat babes.
When Kelly McKino was a little girl, she loved to go orienteering.
You ever heard of that word?
Do you know what you know what orienteering is?
How HR knows what it is.
Snurdly know what it is.
I never heard of it either.
Here's how it's described.
Orienteering to explore the wilderness and find your way back home with a compass and a map.
And when Kelly McKino was a little girl, she loved to go orienteering to orient yourself.
Learn how to find out where you are and how to get back.
In case you're with a man who refuses to stop and ask for directions.
That's where it has its roots.
Men refuse to ask for directions, women have to find out, so it's called orienteering.
And of course, you wouldn't use a smartphone for this, no way, because men like smartphones.
You go out there with a compass and a sextant.
And who the hell knows what else?
And this is about Kelly McKino.
She loved to go orienteering, to explore the wilderness near her Pennsylvania home, finding her way back with a compass and a map.
And the future that she imagined for herself was equally adventuresome.
Until she was about 16, she wanted to be a CIA operative, a spy, like La Femnaquita.
She put herself through college at Georgia State, working in bars and slinging burgers, planning that with her degree in social work, she would move abroad to India or Africa to do humanitarian work for a couple of years.
Her husband would be nerdy hip, and they'd settle down in some place like Williamsburg in New York City, not colonial Williams, Williamsburg, New York City.
And when she eventually had children, she would continue working full-time like her mother did, moving up the nonprofit ladder to finally run a United Way chapter, be the CEO.
That is how she imagined her future.
Well, now she's 33.
And if dreams were the wind, you might say that hers have shifted.
She believes that every household needs one primary caretaker.
That women are, broadly speaking, better at that job than men are.
And that no amount of professional success could possibly console her if she felt that her two young children, five and four, were not being looked after the right way.
Classic, folks.
This is classic.
This is what has been happening maybe since further back in the mid-90s.
Here's this story.
Young was 16.
She had her feminist dream all mapped out.
And it blew up when confronted by reality.
The maternal instinct, it says here, is a real thing, and Kelly McKino says that.
Girls play with dolls from childhood, so women are raised from the get-go to raise children successfully.
When we're moms, we have a better toolbox, she said.
Women, she believes, are conditioned to be more patient with children.
Now, mind you, folks, the way to read this, to her, this is, and I'm not being insulting.
This is instructive.
To this woman, I wish I hadn't even mentioned her name because now tell her about it.
She's gonna get she's gonna be told the wrong things about what I'm saying.
But my point is she's just discovering this.
She thinks that she's on to something revolutionary, that women are nurturers, that women should be the primary person in the household raising the child.
This is an age-old feminist who dreamed of running around Africa in place helping the poor.
United Way working for nonprofits.
She's been confronted by reality, but she thinks it's something brand new.
Women are better multitaskers, she said.
They're to be raised to be more tolerant of the quotidian grind of play dates and temper tantrums.
Women, she says, keep it together better than guys do.
So last summer, when her husband took a new position requiring more travel, she made a decision.
They would live off of his six-figure income.
She would quit her job, which was running a program for at-risk kids in a public school, and she would stay home full time.
She calls herself a flaming liberal and a feminist.
I want my daughter to be able to do anything she wants, but I also want to say, have a career that you can walk away from at the drop of a hat.
And this proves another point that I've always.
Women have had all the flexibility in careers that men do not have.
And I've got to take a break here, folks, but we're not finished.
Hang tight.
So some women, conservative, traditional, whatever you want to call them, have always known, have always instinctively said, I don't want to be a man.
I want to marry one.
And they stay home, raise the kids, and they're fulfilled and they're utterly happy.
And those women were ripped to shreds by feminists.
And they were made to feel guilty.
And they were they were said to be traitors.
And now all of these admittedly flaming liberal women are discovering nature and instinct and think they're on to something new.
It's kind of it's heartwarming to see it happen.
It's amusing at the same time.
Jeff in Jackson, Michigan, we go back to the phones.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hi.
Well, I hate to take you off your roll, Rush.
You're on a good roll there.
And I just wanted to uh quickly um change the subject to the football again.
Sure.
Done a great job covering it.
Um Emmett Smith and Dickerson on one side of the football have said no way this can happen.
And I'm uh gonna turn it around on you and say, how is any professional football player ever going to be able to make a tackle in the open field or otherwise on the defensive side of the ball without their head in front of their shoulder?
Well, that is an excellent question.
I uh uh w one thing that's an interesting thing to do, and it's if you can be fascinating, go back and get some tapes of college football from the forties and fifties, and I you'll see what I think the NFL has in mind here.
That kind of football.
But what they're really trying to stop on the defensive side is these defensive backs launching them, so leaving their feet with their head first.
That that's the real thing that that they're trying to stop.
The running back side of it is uh that's just gonna be real hard to to uh police, particularly out on the open field.
But the def the launching, the defensive backs launching themselves like missiles, that has not been traditionally the way the game's played.
It is relatively new in the uh in the NFL.
I've let me have to take a break here, but we're not through talking about this either.
So sit tight.
Another line from the New Yorker story Feminism has fizzled its promise.
Only half fulfilled.
New Yorker, this air, New York magazine, liberals writing this stuff.
There's um more to say about this.
I just gotta take another brief time out here, set up the next hour.
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