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March 22, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 22, 2013, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
How's this even possible?
$585,000 one night in Paris, Joe Biden.
The night before in London, Joe Biden, $459,000.
So two nights in two hotels, Paris and London, the vice president shelled out a million.
Well, he didn't because he doesn't have it.
We did.
Friday, folks, how are you?
Let's go.
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I don't know.
I don't know how many people are in Biden's traveling party.
I've been trying to find it out.
But $585,000.
It was at the, it's a five-star intercontinental hotel.
$585,000 a night.
London the night before was $459,000.
We're in the middle of a sequester.
Budget cuts left and right.
They're going to announce closing 200 airport control towers this afternoon.
They've announced they're going to control.
I'm going to name the 200 they're going to close.
The Easter egg roll at the White House is off and on.
We don't know.
1% defense budget cuts.
Spending $150 million to upgrade Club Gitmo.
And there's a funny story.
The Washington Post, maybe the New York Times with a story about how disappointed the inmates there are that they're not getting out.
They believed Obama was going to close it.
He's not going to close it.
We're going to have $150 million to upgrade it.
So we've got that.
But folks, we have to pick up with where we left off, chop and screw.
This Beyonce thing has just blown way out of proportion.
And normally I would let this go.
It's pop culture, but as you know, we're in the middle here of a vast outreach of low-information voters.
And this is right up their alley.
And this is a golden opportunity here.
Now, normally, you just have to trust me on this.
Stick with me on this.
I'll try to get through this as quickly as we can, but it isn't healthcare.
It's not Obamacare.
We're not going to be talking about any of that.
We're talking about what low-information voters are talking about today.
As you know, as you know, day before yesterday, maybe it was yesterday, I forget which, a UK newspaper story came out ripping Beyoncé and her new song, album, whatever it is, called Bowed Down, B.I. Itches.
And the criticism was that Beyonce's song was all of now that she's married, now she's got the rich guy, now she's got the home and the kid, now it's okay to bow down to the guy.
During the Destiny's Child days, it was no bow down to man.
Don't bow down to any guy.
You stand up for yourselves, girls, and all that.
It wasn't me who had that analysis.
I haven't heard the song.
I'm deaf.
I can't hear it.
I can only read the lyrics.
I haven't heard it.
I only read the analysis.
Also, in the Washington Post, you know, Skip Gates, Obama's buddy at Harvard, now and then he's got a magazine called The Root, and it's about civil rights problems in America, and they piggyback in the Washington Post.
Once or twice a week, stuff in the root ends up in the Washington Post.
Skip Gates, Harvard professor, he also, I don't know if he did it, but The Root via the Washington Post had a piece ripping Beyoncé for doing a 180 on telling women to stand up for themselves and not bow down.
Well, what has happened is that there are people since I got into this.
See, I'm not allowed into pop culture.
It's like the same thing as when I went to ESPN.
I'm not allowed there.
The drive-bys do not like me venturing outside of my own area of expertise.
So if you look carefully today, you can find stories in the New York Daily News elsewhere, where I'm the biggest boob on the face of the earth.
I do not know what I'm talking about.
It's not about bowing down to men.
It's Beyonce saying bow down to other female singers that they are nowhere near as big as she is, and they should bow down to her because she's the queen.
And that analysis has sprung up simply as a way of making me look like I don't know what I'm talking about when I never offered the opinion in the first place.
All I did was hold up a mirror, and the left saw themselves in it, didn't like what they saw when they saw themselves, had to start blaming me.
But here's the from the Root DC Live section of the Washington Post, Beyoncé sabotages her female empowerment efforts with bow down.
That's exactly what I said.
Skip Gates is saying it.
A couple of other of Beyoncé's contemporary singers are saying it.
But because I'm joining the chorus, it can't be right.
I have to be wrong because I'm never wrong.
But I've got to be wrong here.
They're not going to allow me into pop culture.
They're not going to allow me access to low-information voters.
They're afraid of that.
So there are all kinds of efforts out now to discredit me on this Beyoncé story, which, between you and me, I could give a rip, but they're making a it's all part of the low-information outreach.
It's just hanging with me.
Even in Houston, Channel 11 TV, they had a bit on this.
We played the audio yesterday.
They have another bit today.
We'll get the audio of all this in just a second.
Where they now say, I'm eating crow because I got the analysis of the Beyoncé song all wrong.
Not eating crow, I'm not eating anything.
I'm on a diet.
But I'm not eating crow specifically.
Now, in the midst of all of this, we came across a new way.
Well, not news, it's actually an old way of mixing music for clubbers and occasionally for radio mixes called chop and screw.
And we talked about it all day yesterday.
We had some callers tell us what it was and come to find out, come to find out, folks, because I am on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
I was doing chop and screw mixes on this program before I even knew what it was.
Now, the first thing we're going to do, and we've got soundbites and all this stuff, just sit tight, but I want to do the chop and screw business because we talked about it all day yesterday, and I'm sure people, what the hell is chop and screw music mix?
And it was described, for those of you who weren't here, we had a bunch of experts call and say it got started during the Robo-Tripping days.
In clubs and elsewhere, Robo-Tripping, people would get high on Robotussin.
Young people would start guzzling Robotussin, go to the clubs, and they started mixing music to fit the mood these people were in as they were ODing on Robotus.
It's called Robo-Tripping.
Now, one of the things that happens to you when you OD on Robotusson is that your heart slows down.
You sort of zone out.
So they mix the music to match that.
Now, little did I know, I was reminded yesterday by our crack broadcast engineer, Mike got to snuck that one in there, didn't I?
Snerdly.
I was reminded yesterday by the broadcast engineer that, as always, I'm before my time.
We were doing Chop and Screw long before we even knew what it was.
We were doing Chop and Screw music mixing here on the EIB network.
And now we take a brief time out.
We come back with all the rest of today's program.
After this, don't go away.
You know, folks, I could very well be the father of Chop and Screw because Chop and Screw started in Houston.
Chop and Screw started in Houston, at least according to the Channel 11 TV clowns.
And I don't know, but I'm thinking that what we did with the Houston Oilers number one song might predate what that DJ Richard Screw was doing.
Let's go back and let's listen to these TV clowns on Channel 11 in Houston.
This is last night.
Guy's name is Greg Hearst, and he's part of the chorus that said, I didn't know what I was talking about in my analysis of the Beyoncé song.
Why Rush Limbaugh is having to eat his words after taking Houston's own Beyoncé to task over her new single?
Beyonce has been taking heat over her new single, Bow Down, but one of her critics maybe should have done his homework.
Rush Limbaugh said Beyonce used to inspire women, but that her new song takes a 180 by telling women to bow down to their husbands.
The problem is, Beyonce was really telling people to bow down to her because her song is apparently targeted to other female singers who have tried to take her place.
That doesn't say much about her either, does it, Mr. Hearst?
I mean, here she is at the top of the roost.
You're not supposed to be disrespectful of the young women you should be mentoring, telling them to bow down to you.
But anyway, it wasn't my take.
It was the take first off of a UK newspaper writer and then a singer, Keisha Knightley, or whatever, and then Skip Gates at Harvard from the Root DC live section.
Washington Post Beyonce sabotages her female empowerment efforts with Bow Down.
So I would just suggest to you, ladies and gentlemen, not only am I probably the father of Chop and Screw.
And by the way, how about Houston Oilers number, Keisha Cole?
Keisha Cole's the singer, and she was the first one to start to rip into Beyoncé for being, you know, doing her 180 and now saying, okay, gals, find a bow down to men or what have you.
It wasn't me.
I'm simply reporting with the pop culture analysts were saying.
But again, when I enter that arena, they don't like it.
So even if Beyonce is still telling women to bow down to her, is that better?
Yeah, better.
However way you want it.
It's up to you.
We'll be back.
Don't go away, folks.
Hey, welcome back, Open Line Friday.
El Rushbo here on the cutting edge, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
And just to give you a flavor for this, let's go to the Today show.
Earlier today, in the third hour, the co-host Natalie Morales and a fill-in co-host, Jason Kennedy, are talking about the Beyoncé song, in which, well, as I mentioned yesterday, she's starting her big new world tour.
Mrs. Carter's World Tour is the title of the tour.
Not Beyoncé on stage or anybody, but Mrs. Carter World Tour.
Anyway, here's how this whole thing happened.
They actually discussed it throughout the Today Show, but I just won't play one bite because we got other things to do.
But just to illustrate the third hour of the Today Show, as you know, Rush Limbaugh is he slammed the song, and I think many people, a lot of insiders, are saying that his attack was misguided.
It's not about Beyoncé bowing down to men.
It's quite the contrary.
It's people bowing down to her because she's at the top of the game right now.
What he said was apparently that, you know, she married a rich guy and she understands now it's time to bow down.
And that's he's like, well, she's the one who's all about women empowerment.
And now she's done a complete 180 from the Destiny's Child version.
She says, I took some time to live my life, but don't think I'm just his little wife.
So people are saying he just took the title of the song and just completely read into it the wrong way.
Keisha Cole slammed her as well, and she's in the rap game.
So it's not just Rush Limbaugh.
She does look gorgeous, though.
Which is all that matters in the end of it.
She looks gorgeous.
But again, I simply was repeating what was in the pop culture about the song.
I held up a mirror.
They saw themselves.
Didn't like the fact I was the one holding up the mirror.
Benjamin Carson is still on the What Do You Think of Rush Limbaugh tour?
Now it's CNN and Jacob Tapper.
We move on here to audio soundbites five and six.
Last night, CNN's new show, hosted by Jake Tapper, the lead, Benjamin Carson, pediatric neurosurgeon Johns Hopkins.
Jake Tapper wanted to ask Dr. Carson about me as he had been the previous day on Fox.
Rush Limbaugh says you've got Democrats terrified.
Listen to him.
I think Dr. Benjamin Carson probably got everybody in the Democrat Party scared to death.
It's going to be really hard to demonize this guy.
Really, really hard.
Partially because of his race, but not just because he's African American.
It's because you can call this guy all kinds of demonic names.
He just doesn't fit the bill.
He says it's not because of your race, sir.
And I take him at his word.
But I do wonder, as a conservative or a libertarian or an independent conservative, wherever you are on the spectrum, why do you think there are so few African-American conservatives?
That's kind of a disjointed question.
Well, I take Limbaugh at his word that he doesn't think you've got people scared because of your race.
I mean that, folks.
I mean, his race is part of it.
The Democrats are totally focused on race and gender and other surface identifiers of people.
The left totally focuses on that.
And they're going to be scared to death of just like they were of Clarence Thomas.
If Ben Carson desires a political career and is successful, he is going to stand as an example that you can become whatever you want, the best in the world at something, and you don't have to be a Democrat to do it.
You don't have to go through the Democrat civil rights movement to do it.
You don't have to go through Jesse Jackson or Al Sharp to do it.
And that's the threat that he poses as far as the racial aspect is concerned.
And it's the same threat that Clarence Thomas posed when he was nominated for the Supreme Court.
Clarence Thomas, arguably one of the most powerful black men in the country, and no affirmative action there.
And he didn't bow down to the Democrat Party or play off of what happened to Sylm or any of that sort of stuff.
He just lived his life.
And sending Dr. Carson.
Dr. Carson has an up-from-nothing success story that the Democrat Party says is not possible in America.
He's got an up-from-nothing success story that scares them because it stands in stark contrast to their message to not just African Americans, but to everybody.
The Democrat Party doesn't want people to think that becoming Ben Carson is possible in America.
It's too unjust.
It's too unfair.
It's too immoral.
There's no way a black guy can become that good and that powerful.
Not on his own.
And he threatens all that.
But there's another reason he threatens them, and that is he's impossible to demonize.
Now, I talked about this yesterday.
Why is Ben Carson tough to demonize?
There are many reasons for it.
Among them is he doesn't appear to have an agenda, and as such is non-threatening.
But he also exudes leadership.
This is fundamental.
And this is what's scary.
And what will come even scarier to the Democrats is that Ben Carson attracts people precisely because he simply exudes leadership.
Look what he did.
The national prayer breakfast.
He stood up to the president of the United States without appearing to do so, and certainly without being disrespectful.
He didn't even address the president in standing up to him.
He essentially presented an alternative idea to the way the president wants to do things, and it was attractive to people, and that's going to be frightening.
He showed leadership, principle, inspires people, that's why, and impossible to demonize, and that's why he's scary.
So Jake Tapper, in asking the question is, okay, I'll take Limbaugh's word that he's really not talking about you being untouchable because you're black, and then jumps off to another area entirely.
Why do you think there are so few African-American conservatives?
And here's what Dr. Carson said.
I actually know quite a few of them, but I think, you know, there has developed a culture where one party in particular tends to be seen as the one that is protecting you, that is protecting your rights.
And that happens to be the Democratic Party for many people in the African-American community.
What I really would like to aim toward is a situation where we get people to rise and to utilize the tremendous potential that God has given them and to work with each other so that we can all rise together, rather than pretty much having a class of people, and we kind of pat them on the head and say, there, you poor little thing.
We're going to take care of you.
Oh, man, oh, man, oh, man.
But you hear how he said that?
He could have been talking to the Kiwanis Club.
He could have been talking to you and your family in the kitchen or in the living room.
It was as casual and as unthreatening as it could be.
But it was pointed, it was correct, and it, I think, was inspiring.
He took Tapper's question and he expanded on it.
Well, why aren't there any more black conservatives?
And he took the occasion to explain how the Democrat Party actually isn't helping anybody.
Yeah, we're going to protect you.
Okay, we'll protect you.
You've got the deck stacked against you.
You don't have a prayer in this country.
You don't have a chance.
We'll protect you.
Carson wants people to have a different attitude on life.
He wants people to realize their potential.
He wants people to realize how good they can be, how much they can do, what they can accomplish.
Recognize their God-given talents, their God-given freedom to rise up instead of sitting around being patted on top of the head and saying, there, you poor thing, we're going to take care of you.
But he says all that in a way that is impossible.
Well, it's not impossible to demonize because they're going to try.
Mark my words.
They will.
They don't know anything else.
The left, if he does act on aspirations, seek political office, they will try to demonize him.
It's all they can do.
It's all they know how to do.
They're certainly not going to deal with him on his ideas like they don't deal with any of us on our ideas.
Did you hear what the Pope did?
The Pope called the newspaper delivery company where he lived in Argentina and canceled the delivery of his newspaper.
The guy's at the kiosk, the phone rings, hula, or whatever language it was.
And he says, hi, I'm Cardinal Jorge, and I want you to cancel a newspaper.
And the guy, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, who is this playing a joke?
No, no, no.
It really is.
And he called him by his name, and he said, I'm not going to be home for a while, so I don't need the newspaper anymore.
Go ahead and cancel it.
Now, Biden would have had somebody call, or probably flown there and spent a half million dollars overnight with a traveling party to cancel the newspaper delivery the next day.
I still can't get over that.
$585,000.
I don't care how many people in your traveling party.
$585,000 for one night, five-star.
It's the Intercontinental in Paris.
I'm having a metal block on the name of the hotel.
But, folks, can I tell you another, can I tell you why?
In addition to the entitlement, in addition to the fact that our leaders today consider themselves members of the aristocracy, there is another reason.
And that is that these guys know they'll never be able to pay for anything like this themselves.
I don't care what private sector gig Biden gets when this is all over.
He'll never be able to take a bunch of friends $585,000 worth for one night in Paris.
Never, ever be able to afford that on his own.
So, doesn't matter.
He's entitled.
He's a vice president.
He's a member of the aristocracy.
And these people, you take a look at these charitable donations, and you'll find there are three figures, 150 here, 25 there.
Love to spend other people's money, even on themselves, not just on other people.
Be right back.
Hi, how are you?
Obam Line Friday El Rushpo.
The hotel in Paris where Biden stayed is the Intercontinental Le Grande.
And in London, it was the Hyatt Regency.
And $585,000 one night in Paris.
And 400,000, what was it, in London, $459,000?
You couldn't come close to that hitting the mini bar, even at those exorbitant prices.
Now, I understand they took out the whole hotel So they might put it in some sort of perspective, but what's that for?
You know, Obama has what did I see?
He's got a traveling party of 6,000 in Israel.
If you count media and every, I think I saw that number.
I know it's not 600.
I think I saw number 6,000 in the Obama Traveling Party.
They've taken out two hotels and whatever else they need to be funny if they were staying in some settlements on the West Bank.
All right, to the phones, Maria in Gainesville, Virginia.
Welcome.
You're up first on Open Line Friday.
Great to have you.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Good.
Thank you.
Thanks for taking my call.
I just wanted to talk about Dr. Carson.
He actually operated on my 10-year-old daughter two years ago.
And he is the real deal.
He is one of the most humble people I have ever met.
And he, you know, people are saying because he's a surgeon, he must think he's better than everyone.
He's not like that at all.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Hold it just a second.
Who have you heard say that?
Well, I heard somebody called in yesterday and was reading different comments and saying that he's, you know, as far as surgeons are concerned, and I've actually dealt with doctors before who aren't going to spend very much time with you, but he's completely different.
He spent, I think the first time we saw him, we were in his office for an hour.
And he spent most of the time talking to my daughter.
He asked her about school, how are her grades, what kind of activities is she in.
He took a real interest in her.
And that really, you know, she was 10 years old, terrified about to go in to have brain surgery.
And she told me, I'm really not that scared, Mom, because it's Dr. Carson operating on me.
And I trust him.
He's great.
And he is.
He really is.
He's so humble.
The way he speaks in his speeches, the first time I saw him at the prayer breakfast, I couldn't believe it.
And that's how he talks to us.
Just, you know, like you say, like he's just in your living room talking to you.
And that's the way that it is in his office.
I think it's a key ingredient, fundamental ingredient who he is.
But I think I know what the reason I asked you who said that about him, this is a hasty generalization that some people make.
I mean, there are some doctors who have very, very healthy egos, particularly surgeons who specialize in something that is extremely intricate, like the brain.
Exactly.
But I think a lot of people have, there's a built-in respect for doctors, surgeons, and awe.
And that's a starting point.
Now, some people have bad experiences with doctors, no bad side manner, that kind of thing.
Clearly, none of that applies to him.
None of it does.
Oh, no.
Oh, no, no, no.
Not at all.
He is, when he came out of surgery, he just said, you know, everything went great.
Things are going really well.
And praise God, he says.
So he was just a wonderful, wonderful man.
And I was pretty sure he was conservative with how much he was interested in education.
And I am a public school teacher myself.
So I was pretty sure he was conservative.
And of course, I'm in the minority as a conservative teacher.
I'm picking on something.
He doesn't want to be labeled.
Somebody calls him a Republican, he'll talk about the Democrats that he knows.
If somebody references the fact he's a conservative, he'll talk about the Libertarians that he knows.
He's studiously avoiding the labels.
Understandably so.
Labels equal branding.
And he doesn't want to be associated with any of it.
I think just from, I haven't met him.
I only know him by virtue of television and the sound bites that we played here.
But it's obvious he's a traditionalist.
He's obvious that he's an American.
I mean, above all else, this guy is an American of our founding.
That's what he is.
He's compassionate.
He has great concern for people who can't help themselves.
But he's ruggedly individualistic and self-reliant and believes in that.
I just, I think the guy is just an American, solid American of our founding.
Exactly the kind of guy the founding fathers had in mind.
They wrote the Constitution and imagined a citizenry capable of maintaining it.
Okay, I guess I was wrong.
It is a traveling party of 600 for Obama.
And I thought, I honestly thought I read a number much, much larger than that.
But the official news is a traveling party of 600 with Obama in Israel and elsewhere.
We'll be back, folks.
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