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March 21, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 21, 2013, Thursday, Hour #2
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No, checking battery life.
They came out with a new upgrade to the OS.
6.1.3.
And I I use three phones.
And I put it on one phone.
Always do this just to test it.
And it's really churning the battery.
So I'm I'm testing one of the phones I did not put it on to see if the battery usage is any different.
And if I'm right, then I'm not going to put the new OS on this phone, that's all.
Why are you looking at your phone?
was the question.
That's what I'm answering.
Anyway, great to have you back here, folks.
L Rushbow, EIB Network, Limbaugh Institute, Advanced Conservative Studies, telephone numbers 800-282-2882, and the email address L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
So just to just to clarify here, I was wrong, we played the Obama sound bites.
I was wrong when he decried or said that the days had passed where he could uh no longer negotiate peace with a bunch of autocratic leaders.
And I misunderstood.
It wasn't that he really disdained that.
It's that those days are gone, and he was talking about Arab autocratic leaders.
And by autocratic, you gotta understand Obama finds autocratic leaders perfect to do business with.
They're all powerful.
They don't have to take their plans to some Congress and get approval.
So if Obama wants to make an agreement with an autocratic leader, he loves it.
The autocratic leader can do it.
And he was telling people the days where I can make a deal with an autocratic leader go.
It's a lot harder.
And what he meant by that was that he can't deal with these all powerful autocratic leaders anymore who can just snap their fingers and get something done.
Israel now has to deal with radical a radical Muslim caliphate that has sprung up and is basically slowly overtaking the Middle East thanks to the Arab Spring.
So he's got to deal with the nut case up in Turkey.
He's got to deal with the lightweight in uh in Egypt now, Morsi.
Uh and the the Israelis do, not Obama.
And of course, that's not really that bad a deal either.
The Arab Spring is something the Obama regime was all for, but it is a rising Arab caliphate that that that's uh springing up.
Anyway, so that's that.
I just I just wanted to straighten that out because I uh uh I did hear some things incorrectly as I was doing show prep and listening out of one ear.
And I've only got one ear that works to uh Obama speech.
The head of the National Weather Service.
What's this guy's name?
His name is uh Lewis Uccellini.
He's the new head of the National Weather Service, or the director.
And he said yesterday that wild weather in recent years, Hurricane Sandy, deadly tornado outbreaks to extremes of drought and floods, likely can be traced in part to climate change, but that name is no longer going to be used.
What they're now going to he says we now face a new normal of extremes.
Global warming didn't work, climate change didn't work as a political movement.
So now we have extremes, and that's the new normal, and that's because of climate change.
And all of these outrageous storms, unusual.
We've never had them before.
That's what he wants the low information crowd to believe.
And remember what we're dealing with here.
The low information crowd's historical perspective begins with the day they turned 15 and started paying attention to things, and nothing was ever worse than when they were 15.
So a hurricane comes along, and there was nothing ever worse.
Maybe Katrina, but everything gets measured against it.
So the latest way that they have decided they're gonna push uh global warming and climate change is to simply say we got a new normal of weather extremes brought on by climate change.
Uh just like the economy.
You know, 7.5, 8% unemployment.
That's the new normal.
That's just the way it is.
That's as good as we can do.
So we are as a culture settling.
We are in decline and we are accepting it.
I should say we're being told to accept it as the as the new norm.
A bunch of football players have spoken up, in addition to those yesterday, Jerome Bettis, Eric Dickerson, Emmett Smith, a number of them critical of the new rule in the NFL that claims it's going to be a big penalty to lower the head and hit somebody outside the tackle box with the crown of your helmet.
No good can't happen.
The referees police this now.
The Cincinnati Bengals are the only team to vote against it, and here's why, and it's a good reason.
The owner of the Bengals, a guy named Mike Brown, and other people by the way agree with this.
Look at we're putting everything in this game in the hands of the referees.
And everything is an opinion.
Everything is subjective.
The referees are going to decide if the crown of the helmet was used instead of the forehead area of the helmet or the face mask.
The referees are going to decide this.
And we're going to have more pauses for more replays.
And the referees are going to end up deciding more outcomes.
And we don't want that.
The Bengals' point was why we want the players to decide the outcome of the game, not this.
But the attorneys have gotten their hooks in.
And so in addition to football, now there's a move on.
The movement on should should science on brain injury inspire a ban on boxing.
A story out of London.
Advances in modern neuroscience mean that scientists know more than ever about chronic brain damage and the long-term trauma that can result from frequent knocks to the head.
So now they're training their sights on boxing.
And they cite women's boxing.
There's a scientist quoted in the story, said he couldn't believe what he was watching.
Well, he watched the Olympics this year and there was female boxing.
And he couldn't believe it.
He couldn't believe it, our cultures had become so barbaric as to sponsor an event like that.
So the move is on here, folks.
Once they get their hooks in, you know, once the concussion business gets their hooks in, these people on the left do not stop.
Have you heard about the latest outrage involving Obamacare?
CVS, the pharmacy giant, has told its employees in San Francisco, the Bay Area, and actually around the country, not just all over the place.
Every employee at CVS will have to reveal their weight and other health information or pay extra for health coverage.
The company announced yesterday what it called a plan for health that features a mix of rewards and penalties for employees.
And among the measures, employees must report their weight, their body fat, their cholesterol, their blood pressure, their blood sugar levels.
Workers must also be tobacco free or enroll in an addiction program by next year.
All of this, all of this because of Obamacare.
Now I'll tell you what's going to happen here.
Remember we had the quote, who was it for the soundbite from yesterday?
Some business.
Oh, it was Bernie Marcus.
Bernie Marcus, the co-founders of Home Depot.
Said he was talking to some fellow friends of his that run businesses.
The payroll tax holiday ended on January 1st, so the first paychecks of the year for everybody.
Their take home pay went down as the payroll tax was restored.
And Bernie Marcus said that a bunch of his friends that run businesses told him that their employees were blaming the employer for this.
When it was in fact an Obama tax increase.
But the employees were getting mad at their managers and their owners for their paychecks getting smaller.
They had no idea what the payroll tax even was.
They thought it was something that was assessed by the business.
So what do you think CVS employees are going to do?
You think you're going to blame Obamacare or will they blame CVS?
CVS can be honest with no, no, we're doing this because of Obamacare requirements.
No, you're not.
You just don't like Obama, and you're laying it off and we know you you business people, you treat employees like crap anyway, and you're making us do this just because you're the boss.
Don't be surprised, folks, if as Obamacare items are implemented and they cause things like this that the businesses, they're the end users, they're the ones implementing this.
The directive didn't come from Washington.
It was CVS who told their employers, employees what they're going to have to do.
They're going to get the blame.
When all these Obamacare rules get implemented, we all thought, yeah, that when that happens, there's going to be hell to pay.
People are getting mad at Obama, the Democrats.
Maybe not at first.
They may end up blaming their bosses.
Because it's not Obama making them go get a checkup or enroll in an addiction program because they smoke.
It's not Obama as far as they're concerned.
It's not Obama making them measure their body fat.
It's management at CVS.
And CVS, they're not going to know how to deal with it.
These manager people don't know how to deal with this kind of content.
They're not going to know how to market to their own employees.
No, we're only doing this because this is the federal law.
And even if they do do that, these low information employees at CVS are probably going to say, no, Obama said he's not going to do this.
Obama said our premiums are going to go down.
Obama said that we're going to keep our doctor.
Obama said that none of this was going to happen.
So it must be you guys doing it.
Don't doubt me on this.
I can see the tea leaves.
We've already had a couple of examples of this.
The Bernie Marcus story being one of them.
And of course, here's the headline at the CBS website, CVS ordering workers to reveal weight and health info.
You have to read pretty far down the story to find out they're only complying with Obamacare.
You have to read further into this story than your average low information reader is going to go.
So this may not be the event that everybody thought it might be.
Depends.
Depends on how management at these companies deals with it.
Now, in years past, when the left has done things like eliminate keeping score during high school sporting events, because it was truly not fair.
They're trying.
Why should there be any humiliation for losing?
So we started making jokes about where this would lead.
And now the things that we joked about back in the 90s are actually happening.
Try this.
A Massachusetts principal has canceled Honors Night at his school because it could be devastating to the students who worked hard but didn't get good enough grades to be honor students.
So there won't be any honors night.
They might still have the honor students, but they're not going to recognize them.
Publicly, there will be no notice of their achievement.
There will be no bells rung, no trumpets, no ceremony whatsoever.
Because this guy says we just can't allow these students to be disappointed.
We just can't allow it.
Honors night is the principal is David Fabrizio, Ipswich Middle School.
Notified parents last week of his plan to eliminate Honors Night.
He said the honors night, which can be a great sense of pride for the recipients' families, can also be devastating to a child who has worked extremely hard in a difficult class, but who, despite growth, has not been able to maintain a high grade point average.
Fabrizio also said he decided to make the change because academic success can be influenced by the amount of support a student gets at home.
And not all the students get the same level of emotional and academic support at home.
So it's not fair.
Do you remember?
You'll all remember this when I tell you, half baked Moon Bay.
In California back in the 90s, banned homework.
Because it wasn't fair to say that some students who went home to decrepit homes or broken homes, violent homes, non-existent homes, homes that were shopping carts.
It wasn't fair to make them do homework because their circumstances were such that they couldn't.
So homework was banned in Half Moon Bay, California.
And we started, okay, that happens.
It's an isolated incident.
We start making jokes about what the future will hold.
And lo and behold, it's all happening.
We really have a touchy feely principal who really thinks we can't have honors night because it's unfair to the kids who didn't make it.
Now this guy's in his life, he had to be educated this way.
He had to be taught this.
Somebody had to influence.
He thinks he's doing the Lord's work.
He thinks he's the epitome of fairness.
This guy thinks he's got compassion.
And he's got a lock on it.
This guy thinks he's the he's the he's the walking embodiment of fairness and niceness.
I can't tell you the number of times in high school I was allowed to be disappointed for not making the grade.
It was part of it because it's part of life.
So the young students who are being taught by radical leftists in this country are going to end up growing up in a world for which they are totally unprepared and unequipped.
At least for a while until the rest of the world becomes like this, although the rest of the world never will.
You're never gonna have this kind of treatment in the real world where things count.
Quick timeout.
We'll make a break and get back here and uh reintroduce phone calls to the mix here after this.
Don't go away.
I should point out that in half-baked Moon Bay, California, the students were opposed to the idea of no homework.
Back then, what was was uh uh 1994.
No, no, I'll never forget this.
We're because we're laughing at it, we're making fun of it, and the students were concerned they wanted back then to learn, and they looked at viewing home.
It wasn't so much the parents, although some of them spoke up too.
It was students who thought it was a dumb idea.
Now, I couldn't understand that.
I hated homework.
I never wanted to do homework, so if I ever had somebody officially tell me I didn't have to do it, I would have said, fine, and I wouldn't have done it.
I didn't do it anyway.
Primarily because I believed all my friends who told me they never did homework.
Except they were lying to me.
They did.
They told me they were out partering, partying all night.
They never did homework, never studied, and they're getting A's and B's.
I believed them.
Anyway, students back in 1994 wanted to do the homework, but the administration at the school said, no, no, it's not fair because some students don't have a proper home.
And we started telling jokes about where this is gonna Now the jokes we were telling back in the mid-90s about where this is gonna lead are reality today.
It's not good, folks.
It's it's entirely destructive.
Here is Mitchell in Fresno, California.
Hi, Mitchell.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Hey Russ, how are you doing?
Very well, sir.
Yeah, in regards to uh Beyonce, you'd asked about the uh the term chopped and screwed.
Well, yet it does sound kind of funny out there, Mitchell, and I I I had the courage to admit I didn't know what it was.
You know, I I used to actually work in a studio that my friends did some of that, and even I still don't know quite what it is, but uh but uh yeah, it's just an audio effect.
Um it's sort of a sound effect they use across the song, and it created this whole uh genre of music that I guess that's what she says she's paying tribute to.
Uh but that it really makes no sense because it has nothing to do with what you say in the song, and uh that that has nothing to do with one or the other.
That that's just a bad excuse.
But it it fits right in line with you know the kind of world that her and her husband have um the way they've carried themselves.
I mean he's he drew criticism over the years, been popular for uh using a nickname where basically he's referring to himself as God, and he's gotten people in whole arenas to kind of wave their arms in the air like they're worshiping him as a god and and then he draws a lot of criticism for that from people that you know, even from that culture uh serious stuff, you know, but then when they're running around with Obama all of a sudden like hypocrisy.
Let me tell you about that.
They don't run around with Obama, they are God.
Obama invites them to the inauguration and they show up, but they don't go to any of the parties.
They're too big for that.
Yeah, yeah, I know you're right.
So she she showed up and she sang the tune or lip synced it, and then and then they were off to other god stuff while all the mortals went to the parties.
They were they were they were too big to even go to the parties.
Yeah, bow down, right?
Yeah, so anyway, I looked up Chop and Screw.
He's right.
It's a mixing technique.
Chopped and screwed.
Well, you gotta break.
Minute minute.
As I was saying, I was rudely interrupting there by the obscene profit break.
Chopped and screwed is a technique.
Uh just just as the caller said, uh it remixes hip hop music, which I'm told developed in Houston.
Well, it's the the chop and screw developed in here.
Not hip hop.
The chop chop and screw technique remixes hip hop music with the kind of music that was in Houston in the nineteen nineties in the hip hop scene.
And it's done by slowing down to tempo and skipping beats.
And it it ends up sound like a chopped up version of a tune.
And so it's called Chop and Screw.
And there's even an app for it.
You can get a chop and screw app for your chop and screw your iTunes music.
You get an app for it.
Check the iTunes app store, chop and screw your your your iTunes music, and you can you can do this mixing.
It's a it's a specific technique.
Now uh this is this is only a factor because it was referenced by somebody in the story about Beyonce's new album.
Bow Down well, the title song of the album, uh single, Bow Down B. I itches.
And the the screwed part, chopped and screwed, that that comes from the name of the DJ who made it popular, DJ Screw Davis.
He's the guy who who popular popularized the uh the remix.
Robert DJ Screw Davis.
Kid you not.
So anyway, f folks, no, uh uh I want you to, again, um I'm this is a slight it's a request, not an admonishment.
I want you to hang with me on this low information outreach business.
It's working.
And there is a uh we got a w uh well it's like marketing.
I'm not gonna give you the plan.
We're just gonna execute it, which we're doing.
Just hang in there be tough.
Now we move on.
Don in Charleston, West Virginia.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Uh continue with this low information, uh, information about Beyonce.
I remember years ago when uh she accepted a million dollars from the Qaddafi family to sing for them before they before they left the country.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, just a second.
Beyonce?
Was this during Destiny's Child or after she'd married Mr. Carter?
Uh It could have been I don't think she was with Destiny Child.
She was big enough for the Qaddafi's boys, I think, not necessarily.
She accepted a million dollars from the Qaddafi family to sing for them.
Right before the Qaddafi.
Oh, wait a minute, I remember that.
Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I do remember that.
No negative fallout from it at all.
No, there wasn't.
Of course not.
None whatsoever.
You're you are you are exactly exactly right.
May I make one more comment?
Yeah.
Now fire away.
Yes, sir.
Uh had to do with uh the audiocratic leaders that uh Obama was referring to.
I remember back at the end of the Clinton administration, he had an autocratic leader, which was uh uh Arafat.
And at that time he was trying to get a legacy for himself, Clinton was.
So he had Arafat in his house more often than Hillary was there.
Uh he got the Israeli government and Arafat together, and the Israeli government pretty much gave him 99% of what he wanted to get peace in the Middle East, supposedly, and Arafat turned it down.
Yeah, that it's a hundred percent.
He gave him the Israelis were arm twisted by Clinton to give Arafat everything he was asking for, and he turned it down and ran the other way and made additional impossible demands.
And the reason for that was he didn't want peace.
He never wanted a solution or a settlement to any of this.
That would have been the end of his power, and it would have been the end of his reason for existing.
Sounds like Barry.
Well, it's it's you know, it it's true of the civil rights movement in this country.
There's so many people that that that think that the activists in an issue are actually about solving it, and they're not.
They get rich off the acrimony.
They get rich off the chaos.
They get rich off of being part of the oppressed.
If it's ever solved, for example, using rip if if there is ever a day where the end of racism is proclaimed in this country, you're gonna have a riot.
Civil rights leaders ticked off about the about the whole thing.
Jobs will be lost, all kinds of was it's never it's never going to be allowed to happen.
Too many people are too famous, too prominent, and too rich.
But but you know this guy's Qaddafi gave Beyonce two million dollars to sing for him.
And she claimed that she gave the money to her cane or Haitian uh hurricane relief.
If uh if you recall.
Anyway, I appreciate the call, Don Much very much.
Paul in Hickory, North Carolina.
Great to have you, sir.
Hi.
Hey Rush, thanks.
I appreciate it.
I heard your story about the uh school district or a school that was canceling the honors night for their um best duties.
And it got me thinking to where my daughter was a senior in high school up here.
Um I know you hated high school, Russia.
I know you hated it, but uh when you graduated, I know you had the Val Dictorian salutatorian being able to speak to the uh old school.
Um they're still gonna do that at my daughter's school.
However, what they've said now, because that's not fair to everybody else, any senior is gonna be able to speak as well as they receive their diplomas uh once they walk across the stage.
Because it's just not fair that they can't speak because they're not the Valedictorian or the Salutatorian.
So the the valedictorian and the salutatorian are going to speak, and then an average run-of-the-mill C student is gonna speak.
If they want to, they have the choice.
They can speak if they want to, or they don't have to.
So what I'm thinking, then I might be into a 15-hour graduation ceremony if they all decide to talk.
Well, it's the outgrowth of fairness and trying to make sure that nobody is offended.
You know, the real question is why were there ever honors for anything anyway?
To listen to this principle in um in Massachusetts, at the Ipswich Middle School, or to listen to the people that had the the no homework assignment at half baked moon bay, they would tell you that they were never justified.
It was always unfair and immoral and unjust to have honors set aside for high achievers.
Don't forget, you know, the w the way the left runs things, uh back during outcome based education.
Outcome based education, by the way, is exactly what the name implies.
Outcome based.
education is your education is what you think is right on any given day.
For example, and this is not, contrary to what critics would say, this is not an exaggeration or an extreme example.
It actually happened.
If two plus, if you thought as a second or third grader, two plus two is five, it was until you learned it was four.
You were not going to be told you were wrong.
Another characteristic of outcome-based education was to try to deny that there were A students and then C and D students.
One characteristic of the left, be it economics or grades or any other kind of performance, the left never ever seeks to elevate those at the bottom and raise them up.
The left looks at what they see as class distinctions or economic distinctions, and they penalize the people at the top and lower them.
So in the example of education, high performing students.
When I went to school, there was a there were three classifications.
I forget what they were called, but students were grouped based upon their learning abilities and so forth, so everybody was learning at the same pace.
That was deemed to be unfair, and because it had a special classification for the high-speed high learning students.
And it was not fair.
They should be in an advanced education circumstance with other students in the same school.
And again, it's another example of the left taking high performing students, students who were excelling, and they put those students in classes with much less qualified and far more underperforming students.
And they slowed down the learning progress of the gifted.
They slowed it down on purpose because it wasn't fair that certain students were smarter than others or had the ability to learn faster, or even had the ability to take tests better, you know, whatever they determined the reason for these kids getting higher grades than anybody else was, they just they lowered them.
And it begets the question, why were there ever honors for anything anyway?
Why is there a congressional medal of honor, for example?
Why are there honors for various kinds of valor?
One of the reasons why there have been honors is to inspire people to strive to do better.
It's always been a common factor.
It's always been something that exists in American culture.
Striving to do better.
That's one thing America was about.
You could be as good as you wanted to apply yourself to be.
And for people who really worked hard, studied hard, achieved great things, we honored them.
As a way of, A, honoring them, just within that context, and secondly, inspiring others to the same performance, to the same behavior.
That is vanishing.
That's deemed to be unfair.
That's deemed to be discriminatory.
That's deemed to be humiliating to the kids that don't get the honor.
And so here you have it.
This Massachusetts principal is canceling honors night because it could be devastating to the students who theoretically also worked hard but just fell short of getting the grades to qualify.
So you penalize people of high achievement and you lower them.
Rather than try to elevate those at the bottom and find ways to improve them or to help themselves to improve or to get better.
The real truth here is the left does not want people to strive to.
to do better.
The left wants people to accept their lot in life, whatever it is, and whatever it is that's missing in their life, the left will provide via the state.
The state will take care of equalizing everything, including outcomes.
The state will make sure that you don't get short changed.
So rather than promote you, inspire you.
Ask yourself, when was the last politician, elected official anywhere that you remember speaking within a context of inspiration and uplifting motivation.
It just doesn't happen.
Now we've got a bunch of hand wringers who lament the way things are.
And they talk about glory days in the past.
How unfair they were.
And you do have some who might reference a better day in the future where things improve, but you don't have anybody consistently known for trying to inspire people to be better than they are or better than they can be.
And in fact, within the universe of leftists, it's just the exact opposite.
They're doing everything they can to tamp down people striving to do better.
Don't worry about it.
State will make up the difference.
State will take care of you.
State will make sure you've got health care.
State will make sure that uh that that you've got uh a park uh to uh to go lollygag around in after you have used your state food stamps to eat dinner.
State will take care of it all.
Because the left doesn't think you have what it takes to get there anyway.
They don't think you have the ability to succeed at much anyway.
Only a special rare few have the ability to really triumph.
And it's just too humiliating for those who can't and uh and who don't.
Now, the left has no problem giving themselves honors, Nobel prizes, Pulitzers, Oscars, Grammys, Tonies, you name it.
They give themselves awards fifteen times a week, but not you.
A brief timeout will continue with much more after this.
Don't go away.
And welcome back, El Rushbow and Daily Outreach to the low information voters that make this country go.
We're here at the EIB network 800-282-2882.
Let me let me codify this or boil this all down to its essence.
The reason why we're not doing honor students anymore.
Well, it's not everywhere, but it's a trend.
It's been going on for a long time.
And I'm gonna tell you why.
The left wants to end the idea that we judge people on the basis of their accomplishments.
The left wants to get rid of the idea that we judge people on the basis of their achievements.
Instead, we're gonna judge them on surface things, their gender, their sexual orientation, their skin color.
It is on that basis the left wants people judged and looked at.
That's how they do it.
They want to eliminate this idea that we acknowledge people by virtue of their achievement, because that what is that?
That's the essence of inequality.
Because nobody, no two people achieve the same things.
And we have to have sameness.
Sameness equals equality.
We cannot have people good and great when others aren't.
So we're gonna dig just d get rid of it.
End the distinction.
That's what's going on.
Here's uh here's Rob in Dykesboro, Delaware.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hi.
Hey, how are you today?
Good.
Good, good, good.
Uh, first thing, uh 25, I'm a small business owner.
I've been listening to you since I was about 19.
I think I'm the only person my age around Delaware that listens to you.
Happy to have you.
But Hey, what are you gonna do?
Um, I don't want to change the subject too much, but earlier you were talking about um chopped and screwed.
And uh it's actually a music style meant for people who um drink a lot of robotussin, they do the robo tripping, or they drink chlorocetin.
Um, because when you do that, um supposedly you trip or everything becomes slowed down and this and that.
So this music was created by a few different artists who were known for rapping about, you know, sipping on syrup and chlorocidin, and so you mean codeine, right?
Codeine, codeine.
Codeine, yeah.
Yeah, the this past week the rapper Little Wayne had a seizure and they induced him into a coma, and uh, you know, it was because he drank too much codeine.
And everyone's praising him and wanting him to get better, but he's been doing this for years.
So they they came up with the mix to handle people who are slowing themselves down and chopped it all up so as to just accommodate their heartbeat?
No, it's uh you can you can listen to it.
It's like um in the 70s.
But it is rightly the heartbeat.
I mean, look at hey Rob, don't go away.
I've got to take a break here.
I've got time constraints, problems, but we'll be back.
I'm telling you this, it's it's uh people were ODing on Robotusin.
Uh this DJ Screw guy died of a Robotusin overdose.
Robo tripping was a predecessor of chopped and screwed, and you can't leave out purple drink when talking about this stuff either, folks.
That's another form of uh ODing or codeine.
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