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March 21, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 21, 2013, Thursday, Hour #3
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Look, folks, I want to explain where this all got started.
I can imagine some of you out there that go, what the hell are you talking about?
Chopped and screwed and robo-tripping and purple drink.
We've got to go back to yesterday to bring this up speed, to put this all in context, so that you understand what is going on here.
Because we're not going to accomplish anything if you're in the dark and don't get it.
And I don't ever want that to be the case.
Yesterday, I began a discussion.
Everybody is pulling their hair out, like this CVC thing today.
CVC drugstores have told their employees, you got to show us your weight, your blood sugar, every health aspect of you.
You've got to go get checked and your employment hinges on it.
And if you smoke, you got to go to an addiction rehab thing.
We're not going to have it.
It's all part of Obamacare.
Obamacare is demanding this.
But the employees at CVC are not mad at Obama.
They're not mad at Obamacare.
They're mad at CVC.
CVS.
They think CVS is doing this.
Not Obama.
They're not associating the government with it.
Now, you and I, we're at our wit's end.
We've been waiting for something to wake people in the country up.
And I was talking about the futility of all this.
The payroll tax holiday ended on January 1st.
So people's take-home pay in their first check of this year was smaller.
Bernie Marcus, co-founder, Home Depot, said yesterday that most employees are not blaming the government.
They are blaming their employers for not paying them as much.
So in a discussion yesterday of a prediction I have made that's going to, you know, words, we've exhausted every word there is.
We've tried every which way from Sunday to Monday to persuade people about what's going on.
I said it's going to take an event that wakes people up.
And I said, not a hurricane, not a natural disaster.
It's going to take something like Obama on an open mic, openly dissing Justin Timberlake's latest CD that just totally ticks people off and turns them against Obama.
And in describing that, I mentioned that something similar might be happening with Beyonce because Beyonce has a new album out with a new single that is a 180 from the way Beyonce used to be before she hooked up with Jay-Z, which is Destiny's Child.
And back in those days, she was urging women to not take it.
Be independent.
Don't be part of some guy's harem or any of that.
You stand up for yourself.
Now she's got a song called Bowed Down Bitches, Bowed Down B.I. Itches, and it is basically take it.
Like she's done.
She's gone out.
She's found a guy.
She got married.
It's all worth it now.
And there was a story in the UK Daily Mail, I think it was, In which she is universally, some UK newspaper, in which she is universally ripped to shreds for this.
She's being criticized to no end for the 180 she's done by a pop critic in a UK news.
So I read that story and I comment on it as only I can.
And I'm the only one that adds the word BI itches to the title, which is in there, but nobody else was adding.
So today, the New York radio station 1010 Winds is doing a story in New York Daily News, all these people doing a story on what I am saying about Beyoncé.
And all I did was hold a mirror up to them.
I hold a mirror up, they see themselves, and they blame me.
That begot my playing soundbites today of the examples of me taking Beyoncé to task for no longer being a feminist.
And one of the sound bites was from Channel 11 in Houston.
And here it is.
Stars like RB singer Keisha Cole are calling Beyoncé a hypocrite since she normally promotes girl power.
Twitter is still going crazy with fans who refuse to bow down.
And Rush Limbaugh even weighing in here, claiming it's bad for the president since Beyonce rubs elbows with the Obamas.
People here in Houston say the rest of the world just doesn't get it because the song pays homage to Houston's chop and screw music style.
Twitter, a lot of people saying she's overexposed.
Let her just be.
Chop and screw.
All right.
Okay.
There, you heard it.
The chop and screw music style in Houston.
Well, quite naturally, people say, what in the name of Sam Hill is that?
So we began to explain what the chop and screw music style is in Houston.
And it's a way of remixing music.
And here are the roots of it.
It goes back to the 90s, back in the days where people would go to clubs all overdosed and revved up on Robotuscin.
It was called Robo-Tripping.
I don't know if you've overdosed, or not overdosed, if you've taken a lot of Robotussin before they came out with the non-alcoholic stuff.
It did do weird things to you if you took enough of it.
And people go to the clubs and be tripping on it.
And so the DJ, a guy by the name of Robert DJ Screw is the guy who came up with the mix.
He's in Houston.
He died of a Robotussin overdose, folks.
Have you ever heard of that?
Robert DJ Screw Davis came up with the chop and screw.
He mixed it based on people in clubs who were all hopped up.
When you're hopped up on Robotusin, you're actually slowed down.
So it's a way of mixing the music, skipping beats and so forth to replicate what's happening in your body.
You can go to the iTunes App Store, chop and screw your iTunes music.
You can apply this mix to your iTunes music if you want.
So we've had various experts in the discipline in this artistry call us today to further explain it.
And we have Rob from Dykesboro, Delaware.
He claims he's been listening since he was 19.
He thinks he's the only Delaware listener listening to this program.
By the way, there's two more that I know, Robert.
So you're one of three at least.
I was saying in my age group, because there's no young, younger guys.
You might be surprised.
But regardless, Robert here wants to explain he is a chop and screw artist, and he wants to explain it in ways that you lay people might understand it.
So take a stab at this, my man.
Okay, just like in the late 60s, early 70s, when people would drop acid or smoke pot, they listened to Pink Floyd and Grateful Dead and Phish.
That type of music was for those type of people, pretty much.
And now, the people that listen to the chopped and screwed, not all of them.
Some people just like the music, but, you know, a lot of them do not.
But it's hip-hop music that you're remixing, right?
It's hip-hop.
Well, it's anything.
There's been, you know, hip-hop, pop music, rock, I mean, a little bit of everything.
So the chop and screw discipline could be applied to Pink Floyd if you wanted to.
Oh, absolutely.
Everything's been remixed already by DJs just trying to get recognition from it, you know?
Okay, cool.
But I think people are more intrigued by the lifestyle.
Like, they'll listen to it and be like, oh, it's just slowed down, you know, 40 beats per minute or whatever.
Maybe I should try the Robitussin.
Maybe it'll sound different.
The key is, why is it slow?
Why try to replicate what people are experiencing while Robo-Tripping?
But you slow it down, right?
Well, I guess it's make more album sales because, you know, kids, it's readily available for them to go to your CVS or your Walgreens, get DXM or Robitussin or, you know, even Benadryl, you know, and take as much as they can and turn on this music and listen to it.
It's an experience that the rappers glorified.
Right.
And so the mix tried to replicate the way people felt while they were doing the purple drink or the robo-tripping or what have you.
That would be it, yeah.
Exactly.
So there we go.
So, and the guy who invented it overdosed on Robotussin.
Yep.
Robert DJ Screw.
His last name was Davis.
So, and the only reason this came up is because the chopped and screw crowd in Houston is also dissing Beyoncé for her bow down song.
So, Robert, Rob, thank you for your taking the time to call and explain this to the audience who's dying to know what this was all about.
Thank you, Rush, for accepting my call.
You bet.
What is your line of work?
Are you a mixer?
No, actually, no, I'm a musician.
I own a pizza place.
That's my small business.
But I'm a musician.
I play eight or nine instruments.
I've played in bands my whole life.
But when you play in cover bands, you have to learn all sorts of different music.
And this is how you get into the stuff that I normally wouldn't listen to.
You like chop and screw?
Not necessarily, no.
Not a huge fan of it.
I mean, if you like an original song and then they slow it, like I said, 40, 50 beats per minute, and they repeat the same line 15 times.
That's what you've got to do to people and minds are fried.
And we keep up with one lyric line at a time.
You can't tell a story in songs like this with those people.
Yeah, it's, well, I mean, pop music today, there's no real storytelling the way it is.
So I don't know.
I'm just, when I listen to music today, it upsets me.
Whether it's been chopped or screwed or whether it's been remixed or whether anything.
You wouldn't play it at a wedding.
No.
Thank you.
That's all people need to know.
Rob, I appreciate the call.
Hang in.
We got a quick timeout, my friends.
And no, I was a DJ, but I was a DJ on the radio.
No, no, we weren't mixing anything.
This was in the 60s.
Disco hadn't even shown up yet.
We're just pure old top 40.
Mick Jagger before he got chopped and screwed.
That's my point, Snerley just asked me if I thought Obama has any chopped and screwed on his iPod.
I see, that's what I'm talking about.
There's going to be, you know, Obama's going to be somewhere.
There's going to be an open mic, and he's going to diss chop and screw it, or he's going to diss Justin Timberlake's latest CD or some such thing, and kids are going to turn on him.
And it'll be that kind of event that's going to wake people up.
If he comes out and disses chopped and screwed, says he wouldn't dare have it on his iPod.
You look at the number of people he will lose.
And by the way, as a result of this program, everybody needs now to show a photo ID to buy Robotus and don't blame that on me.
Back to the phones.
This is Paula, Roanoke, Virginia.
Hi, Paula.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, thanks for having my call.
I appreciate it.
Listen, I wanted to touch on your comments on getting the conservative message out to low-information voters.
Yes, ma'am.
Let me tell you a little bit about what I've been doing and what I think I might be accomplishing.
After 2012, I started a one-woman email campaign to John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, the RNC, any conservative Republicans I could find on the internet, begging them to get minority conservatives out to minority neighborhoods, sit down with small groups of people, stay in their church meeting rooms where they'll be comfortable, and explain conservatism versus liberalism.
Not Republicanism, not Democrats, but conservatism in the vein of Dr. Carson.
He just tickled me to death when he got up and spoke at that prayer breakfast.
Right.
Now, just the other day, I couldn't believe this.
Rines Priebus came out and said that they are going to start sending out their employees to neighborhoods.
I hope that's what he's talking about.
Well, I don't want to disappoint you.
No, no, I don't.
Because I hope that what you are envisioning at some point does happen.
You know what the real key to that is?
It's not just explaining conservatism.
The real thing is telling these people about liberalism.
You realize the Republican Party has stopped doing that, and it's an automatic winner.
I can't believe this.
It wasn't that long ago, Paula.
The word liberal was the worst thing that you could say about a Democrat.
They didn't want it.
It meant their defeat.
And they've pulled off a 180, and now Republican has come to mean something as negative as liberal did to people.
So your observation here is right on the money.
Not just explain conservatism, but also explain liberalism to these people.
Right.
Because they don't.
My parents are elderly.
My mother's in her upper 80s.
My dad is low 90s.
Democrats their entire life.
My mother asked me the other day, what happened to my Democrat Party?
And I said, Mom, your Democrat Party ended with Jack Kennedy.
Well, see, now, in that little story, is a germ, actually a little gem of truth, is that Democrats at a certain age don't recognize what's happened to their party.
And I'm telling you that can happen to a lot of people.
Now, the other thing, what I was going to tell you was that Jack Kemp, who was at the right hand of Ronald Reagan throughout the 80s and early 90s, he had such programs.
They recalled reaching out to enterprise zones and a number of other things where they had as an agenda to actually go into minority populated areas, primarily Democrat voters, and try to, what they tried to do was introduce capitalism, which that had its own negative connotations.
They didn't really explain ideology.
I think you're so right on.
I think that what is missing in every bit of Republican outrage is ideology.
You know me, folks.
I've always believed if people understood what liberalism is, no Democrat would ever get elected.
Well, that was true 15 years ago.
Now, and I still think it could be made to be the case.
I don't think people were voting ideologically for Obama.
Obama was something that was apolitical to them.
Now, you mentioned Dr. Carson, and I'm glad you brought him up again because I want to make another point, or I want to make the same point again.
I think that the, if you want to characterize it as the fact that he's got a secret, a secret to his success, because Dr. Carson, let me be blatant, let me be honest here.
This is not criticism.
Please don't take it that way.
Dr. Carson is saying things that are no different than other conservatives say or have said.
So why, this is the question, why is Dr. Carson being so embraced?
Why is there such hope invested in Ben Carson?
Why are people so eager to embrace him?
He's not the first to criticize Obamacare.
He's not the first to offer an alternative to Obamacare.
He wasn't the first to offer his alternative to Obamacare.
Countless Republicans have done that.
Countless conservatives in the Republican primary campaigns, there were all kinds of people that pointed out the fallacies of Obamacare and had really good ways of getting rid of it and really good ways of fixing health care.
Now, don't misunderstand.
I am not at all criticizing Dr. Carson, but just the opposite.
Why is it, this is the question that I think Republicans could be well served if they would answer this honestly.
What is it about Ben Carson that does not frighten people?
What is it about Ben Carson that doesn't scare people who aren't conservative?
Well, he scares the Democrat Party, but I'm not counting those people.
I'm probably just average ordinary Americans, voters.
What is it about him that does not threaten them?
Yet they are threatened by, pick your conservative, picked up, rather threatened by Romney or threatened by Newton.
I mean, take your pick, threatened by me.
It doesn't matter.
Why are they not threatened by him?
There's an answer to this.
And it is, I think, that Dr. Carson is not perceived to have an agenda.
He has the ability to speak to people without raising his voice as though he's sitting in their living room and they're just having a conversation or at the kitchen table, whatever circumstance you want to imagine.
It's entirely non-threatening.
There's no pointing fingers.
There are no accusations about anybody.
There aren't, there's just nothing threatening.
And I think it is really key that he is perceived as not having an agenda.
Now, does he have an agenda?
Well, of course, if he has a vision for the country that differs from what we're currently doing, he obviously does.
But he doesn't present himself that way.
And as such, he doesn't come off as threatening.
People with agendas are seen as wanting to control people or wanting to deny people certain things.
He doesn't come across that way at all.
And I think he just does this instinctively.
I think he's got the knack.
Obama's got the same talent, by the way.
Back in just a second.
Don't go away.
You know what?
Something has gone wrong temporarily.
We're working on it on our Ditto Cam stream.
It's chopped.
I just heard from Coco.
They're working on it.
Our Ditto Cam stream is stopping and pausing outside of the user's control.
It's our own version of Chopped and Screwed.
And the Ditto Cam stream.
You want to hear something totally outrageous?
This is going to tick some of you people off.
I can't tell you how much.
Netflix has decided to raise everybody's monthly charge to pay for those who can't afford it.
What an outrage is that.
Netflix, this would be like beer going up $5 a case to pay for beer for those that can't pay for it or can't afford it.
This is not taxes on the rich.
This is not price increases on the rich.
No, Netflix is raising the monthly charge to help pay for those who can't afford it.
Just got the news here.
Now, that'll be far more understood than the payroll tax.
Just don't doubt me on this, folks.
Tell people their Netflix is going up to help people who can't afford it pay for it.
They're not going to put up with that.
Tell them taxes are going up on the rich.
They won't give a.
One more thing about Ben Carson here, folks.
It's not, it's.
I do think he comes across as unthreatening in the sense of he's not trying to push anything on anybody.
He's not.
Nobody has any suspicions of him yet.
He's going to have the predictable, automatic opposition from wacko leftists.
But as of yet, there hasn't been any substantive opposition arise.
And I think people are attracted to Dr. Carson for another reason.
There he was, sitting right next to Obama at the prayer breakfast, right there in the face of ultimate power in this country, and faced him down.
He was sitting side by side with the most powerful guy in this country and ripped that guy to shreds without appearing to attack him.
He just ripped Obama's ideas apart.
He just exposed them for being the fraudulent ideas Obamacare that they are.
He took it directly to Obama, just like Rand Paul did on the Senate floor in his filibuster, as a matter of fact.
So, in addition to all this other stuff, Ben Carson demonstrates leadership and principle.
He makes you want to follow him.
So he's got there are a lot of reasons to explain his attraction right now, his effectiveness.
And because I don't mean this as a put-down.
I really don't.
In fact, I think this is really fascinating.
Now, he did say it to Obama's face.
That's something that hasn't happened other than when Paul Ryan did it in a budget meeting that nobody saw.
Prayer breakfast, everybody saw that.
But nobody takes it to Obama.
Now, there are all kinds of people that have the same ideas about Obamacare, same criticisms, same fixes.
But they address them in a static kind of way that doesn't really inspire any leadership to follow them.
Carson does that.
Here's John in Stafford, New Jersey.
John, I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Mr. Limbaugh, it's an honor.
I'm a 25-year-old medical student.
And, you know, when I want a study break, sometimes I'll read an article, scroll down to the comments section.
And if I want to laugh or get infuriated, I'll go to the New York Times and read it.
So here's what they had to say about Benjamin Carson here in that comment section.
But it gives good insight to what the liberal talking heads will probably soon be saying in the media.
So here's three of them I like.
One, that he is the black conservative flavor of the month, much like Herman Kaine was and Michael Steele.
Two, he grew up in the inner city with assistants, but now he's rich and he's turning his back on that.
And three, I like this one, that surgeons notoriously have large egos, bad interpersonal skills, and lack compassion.
You know, kind of a stereotype that harkens back to the old joke that what's the difference between the two.
Right, now let me tell you something.
Those are the comments.
That's from the comment section of the New York Times piece on him?
Yes, sir.
Yeah.
Now, every one of those comments is rooted in fear of the guy.
And it's also rooted in the only thing the left has, and that's the smear.
They are not, you'll note, this article talks about what he believes in.
This article talks about his ideas.
Those comments, I'll wager you, you can't find one comment that objects to any idea he's got.
Those comments are all personal assaults, insults, mischaracterizations, impugning him, this kind of thing, correct?
Yeah.
That's all they've got.
But it works.
The problem is it works if it's not reacted to.
It worked in the case of Romney.
Now, in the case of the New York Times piece in the comments, that's pro forma.
But it is out there in the radical, the people that read the New York Times are radical leftists anymore.
The New York Times is not a mainstream American newspaper, contrary to what people might think.
It is a radical left newspaper.
Its readers are radical leftists, and they make up the idiocracy of this country.
And it's a harbinger of what you're right.
It's a harbinger of what will be coming his way if he is to demonstrate that he's got aspirations beyond just being a guest on TV shows.
So the New York Times, they don't really open their comment section very much, but they did open it on the Carson story because they're collecting ammo.
This is some opposition research inspiration.
It's one of the reasons why they've opened the comment section on it.
I got to take a quick timeout again here, folks.
I'm sorry, but we do.
We'll be back and continue with much more when we get back.
I'm telling you, he's an absolute full-fledged fool to let this happen.
Oh, oh, well, folks, welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network.
Okay.
Mission partially accomplished based on my email.
Netflix is not raising their prices for any reason.
I was, I made that up to see what kind of reaction that it would get because I'm trying to illustrate a point here.
And if I would have said, well, can you imagine if Netflix would say they're raising prices to pay for people that can't afford it?
Oh, yeah, interesting.
But if I come out and actually say, guess what I just heard, then people are going to react to it the way I thought and predicted that they would.
But I just, based on my email, people are outraged at this in my email more than they get outraged over reading Obama does.
Hell, the stock price, it'll result.
There hasn't been enough time for the stock price to be effective.
I was just kidding.
I was just making a point.
Now, if I'd let the program end and not wrap this up, I'd have been in for it.
I've made that mistake when I've let something go overnight like that before.
They're not raising their price.
It was an illustration, no more of an illustration that what I think is going to totally upset Obama is if an open mic catches him dissing Timberlake's latest CD.
Here we are in the middle of our idiocracy.
The people get livid at Obama over that while he's taking away their freedoms and raising the cost of living.
I couldn't care less.
Let him diss Timberlake, and that's it.
Okay, well, let Netflix raise their price so that other people don't have to pay for it.
You'd have hell to pay.
Same thing if Anheuser-Busch said beer is going to cost more for those of you who buy it so that others who can't afford it can drink it.
Be the same thing.
Netflix has not raised their price.
Now, maybe they did after I gave them clearance.
No, they haven't.
They're just toying here.
Illustrating absurdity.
Something this program has long been known for.
Quickly, Ron in Houston, welcome to the program.
Great to have you, sir.
Hi.
Thanks, Russ.
It's a pleasure to talk with you.
You commented earlier about the liberal agenda warning sameness and equal outcomes.
And I was curious as to why that didn't apply to Hollywood with all their egos.
Equal outcomes is far from the norm out there.
Well, you know what?
I'm glad you called about this because while it might appear to you that they give themselves Oscars and stuff, listen to them.
You know, they expanded the number of movies to 10 that qualify for best movie to include more so that fewer people's feelings are hurt.
Nomination is a big deal.
But listen to all of these people when they win.
They all praise the other nominees.
They all express regret for winning, embarrassment for winning, or what have you.
Hollywood is filled with people who outwardly and publicly criticize the competition involved in the Oscars.
Best actor.
How dare we?
They are happy to accept it when they win it, though.
And they parade around and they hold those Oscars and they go to the after parties and they're proud as they can be waving them around.
But they try to make people think they're embarrassed by the competition.
So it's a good point that you raise.
They're hypocrites.
They pay money.
They have advertising campaigns to try to win.
They try to stack the vote to try to win the thing all the while making people think they really don't like this competition.
It's so unseemly.
Excellent point.
And again, just to be clear, Netflix did not raise its price in order to make it more affordable for those who can't pay for it.
It was an illustration of the kind of economic occurrence that would really outrage people when similar things done by government doesn't even raise a peep.
Back in a moment.
In fitting with the theme, one of the many themes of the program today, National Review Online has video.
We don't have it here yet.
We'll have it tomorrow.
They have video of Nancy Pelosi regretting that anybody has to lose in the NCAA basketball tournament.
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