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March 22, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 22, 2013, Friday, Hour #2
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A Florida Atlantic University student said that he was punished after he refused a professor's directive to stomp on a piece of paper with the word Jesus written on it.
University, meanwhile, is defending the assignment as a lesson in debate.
Student Ryan Rotella told the local TV station, CBS Eyeball News, WPEC, Channel 12, I'm not going to be sitting in a class having my religious rights desecrated.
I truly see this as I'm being punished.
Rotella is a devout Mormon.
He said the instructor in his intercultural communications class.
Now, what do you think that is?
Intercultural communications class.
That's kind of obvious.
It's trying to teach people who are from majorities how to speak to and understand minorities.
It's basically just how to get along with minorities.
This is a college course.
He said the instructor in this course, Intercultural Communications, told the students to write the name Jesus on a sheet of paper, and then they were told to put the paper on the floor.
He had us all stand up, and then he said, stomp on it.
I picked up the paper from the floor.
I put it right back on the table.
I refused to stomp on it.
The young student told his instructor, DeAndre Poole, that the assignment was insulting and offensive.
I said to the professor, with all due respect to your authority as a professor, I don't believe what you told us to do was appropriate, Rotella said.
I believe it was unprofessional, and I was deeply offended by what you told me to do.
That's a key word.
Because isn't it the case that wherever we go in our culture, if somebody is offended by something, it must stop?
Well, apparently not.
If a Christian is offended, tough toenails.
If a conservative is offended, too bad.
Get used to it.
Now you know what other people feel like.
But minorities are allowed to be offended every day.
And not only are they allowed to be offended, we stop and change everything when they are.
So when the professor, DeAndre Poole, did not listen to the student, the student took his concerns to the supervisor, and he got suspended from class.
That's the piece des résistance.
He was suspended.
They had him write Jesus on a piece of paper to put on a floor.
A class had the stomp on it.
They all had to do that.
He refused to do it.
He complained.
He was suspended from class.
Now, according to the university profile, DeAndre Poole is a male, has a Ph.D. from Howard University, is writing a book titled Obama Mania, The Rise of a Mythical – oh, I forgot to print the second page.
Anyway, the bottom line is that DeAndre Poole is a Democrat and vice chairman of the Palm Beach County Democrat Party.
Vice Chairman, Palm Beach County Democrat Party is also a university professor instructing students to write the name Jesus on a piece of paper and then stomp on it.
This is a Florida Atlantic University.
You know where that is, don't you?
It's just, yeah, it's right down there.
It's right down there.
Exactly right.
Did you know that Eastern Florida, Southern State, or whatever it is, is in Tampa?
Now there is some weird South Florida little college in Tampa.
Anyway, so the university is backing the professor.
But here's the question.
Could you, what did the professor say?
I want you to write down the name Muhammad on a piece of paper, and then I want you to put the paper on the floor, and I want you to stomp on it.
That's exactly my point.
If there were an Islamic student in that class that I'm offended by it, they would fire the professor or put him on some sort of sensitivity training leave.
But it is, I guess they, they, they, I don't know, you just, you don't need me to fill in the blanks for you.
You can do it.
Los Angeles parents were outraged.
Their children were forced to use port-a-potties after a plumbing problem caused a sewage backup at a South LA elementary school.
The incident happened on Tuesday morning.
The Los Angeles Unified School District said a clogged pipe forced the sewage to spill into the kitchen and several student bathrooms.
So they had to bring in port-a-potties for one day, and the parents went berserk.
It's unsanitary.
It's disgusting, said one parent.
If I didn't come and drop off my daughter here, I would have never known this is happening because the screw is not calling and letting the parents know there are 20 port-a-potties here for them to use.
What are these kids going to use at the local concert?
Anyway, from Port St. Lucie, Florida, you remember what's famous about Port St. Lucie, don't you?
Other than the fact that the Mets routinely engage in spring wishful thinking, a woman three years ago went into a McDonald's in Port St. Lucie and ordered some chicken McNuggets.
And when they didn't have any, she called 911, thinking she was reaching Obama to complain about it.
So Port St. Lucie is on our radar as having a unique population and does unique things.
And so here we go.
A Port St. Lucie woman was arrested after threatening to kill her husband when he got home from a trip to Brazil and did not bring her a present.
36-year-old Sandra Giddies was arrested on a charge of aggravated assault, taken to the St. Louis County Jail following the incident on March the 2nd.
When her husband went to another room to check on items that they didn't bring her one, she followed him.
She had a 12-inch knife in her hand, said, if you go back into the bedroom, I'm going to kill you and I'm going to tell the police that you harmed me.
All because the guy came back from a business trip to Brazil and did not bring her anything.
Whoa.
And the University of Tennessee, organizers of the first ever Sex Week at the University of Tennessee, are going to have to find a new source of funding after embattled university officials reversed course and announced that they're not going to pay for the program with state tax dollars.
Chancellor Jimmy Cheek at the University of Tennessee.
Chancellor Jimmy Cheek said we support the process of Sex Week and we support the students involved in Sex Week, but we shouldn't use state money for Sex Week.
Jimmy Cheek made the announcement after reviewing the final agenda of Sex Week.
As a result, the student-led event will be forced to find about $11,000 in additional funding.
The university will continue to let the group use about $7,000 in student fees.
Now, Sex Week, if you're wondering what this is, Sex Week is scheduled for April the 7th through the 12th.
It includes 30 events.
But if you, let's see, if you are bothered by discussions of sex, or if you have a young child listening, you'd rather them not hear what's coming.
I don't want to shock anybody.
I'm not here to offend anybody.
I'm going to count down from five, and you know, to go away for a while and come back after that.
If you stay around after I count down from five and you're still here, you got no reason to complain.
You've been warned, all right?
Five, four, three, two, one.
Here are the events, 30 events.
Well, these are some of them.
That were scheduled for Sex Week at the University of Tennessee, which has been suspended by Chancellor Jimmy Cheek.
Getting laid.
Sex positivity.
Queer as a verb.
Bochika Boa.
How to talk to your parents about sex.
Loud and queer.
And how many licks does it take?
That was a workshop on oral sex.
Those are the events planned for Sex Week at the University of Tennessee.
And don't forget, the Chancellor Jimmy Cheek said, look, we understand the process and we support it and the students involved, but we shouldn't use state money for this.
Snurdley off the top of your head, how many licks does it take?
What do you think that's a course on?
Think of the silken swirl and you might, might have an answer.
And you are listening to probably the father of chopping screw, the unique way of mixing music, Rush Limboy.
Happened when I didn't even know I was inventing something, but I no doubt did.
We're here on Open Line Friday, and we go back to the phone.
Sheldon in New York City, I'm glad you waited, Sheldon, and welcome to the program.
Thank you, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
Yes.
I want to talk about the Beyonce situation.
Beyonce and Bow Down BI itches.
Yes.
Right.
There's sort of like a Twitter feud going on between Keisha Cole and Beyonce.
And it's been going back and forth since I believe it was halftime in the Super Bowl.
Sheldon, hang on.
Just need to interrupt here.
Does Beyonce actually Twitter?
Does she tweet?
Or is it somebody doing it for her?
That I'm not sure.
So you say there's a Twitter feud between Keisha, Keisha Cole, and Beyonce.
Is it actually those two, or is it a feud between supporters, fans of those two?
That's a good question.
Probably fans, but they might be tweeting.
You never know.
Most people do.
Right.
So I feel that the only reason why Keisha Cole got into the made the comments that she made was because she felt that Beyonce was talking about her.
So, and when Beyonce says bow down, bitches, she really means that she's talking to all the other artists, female artists.
Yeah.
That's beneath her.
And that's the only reason why I think Keisha Cole made a comment that she made.
All right, so Beyonce is basically saying, look, I'm the queen.
I'm the head honcho.
I'm the top door.
I'm bigger than any of you.
And you all need to be bowing down to me because you're a bunch of no-talent louts.
That's correct.
Pretty much it.
Okay, that's really admirable.
That's very admirable.
Sheldon, how long have you been listening to the EIB Network, this show?
About a year now.
Cool.
Very cool.
Well, the Beyonce controversy has taken the nation by storm.
Did you hear about this on TMZ?
Yes.
Yeah.
What's happened here is that the first story I saw about this was in a UK newspaper, and they ripped Beyonce because they didn't interpret it as she's saying bowed down to these other female singers.
They interpreted it as Obama, as Beyonce sort of cashing in her feminist chips and saying bow down to your guy, to these women.
But you're saying that Keisha Cole took this thing personally, and that's why she's ripping Beyonce on Twitter.
Right.
You really have to be like a Beyonce fan to really understand what she's saying.
Yeah.
When she's saying bow down, bitches, she's not bowing down to a man.
She's saying that for other females to bow down to a man.
Now, Sheldon, you may be right as a Beyoncé expert, but Skip Gates, African-American professor of everything at Harvard, his publication has also ripped Beyoncé for betraying her feminism on this.
So there are a bunch of different interpretations as to what—has Beyoncé said anything, Sheldon? Have you— Have you talked to her?
Have you heard anything that she might have said about this?
No, she hasn't come out and said anything yet.
She probably would be wise not to.
I mean, when they're talking about you, the thing to do is shut up.
Yes, I agree.
Well, Sheldon, I appreciate the call.
Thanks much.
I appreciate the input.
Thank you, Rush.
You bet.
That's Sheldon in New York City.
Been with the program for about a year.
Outreach program, ladies and gentlemen, have to say, it's working.
Here's Tracy in Bedford, Indiana, next up on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, thank you so much for taking my call.
You bet.
Listen, I wanted to let you know that Obamacare hit our school system this week.
I'm a Title I teaching assistant in the public school system here, and it affects, I don't know, maybe eight elementary schools, three middle schools, and the high school.
What they have done is, first of all, the IRS is apparently overseeing Obamacare in Indiana.
I guess everywhere maybe.
I don't know.
But they've reclassified full-time from 32 down to 30 hours.
So what the school system has done is the whole entire support staff has been cut to 28 hours so they will not have to offer us health care.
That affects teachers' assistants, roommates, cafeteria workers, coaches.
Now, Tracy, my guess is that you knew this before it happened, but you're talking about people who didn't know it, who are now surprised by it.
Oh, my gosh.
People were, they were blindsided, a lot of them.
They are fit to be tied, you know, because now here's the question.
Who are they blaming now?
The school system, I'll bet.
The school system is blaming the federal government.
Right.
But are the employees blaming the federal government or are they blaming the school system?
Both.
Some are blaming the school system.
Most are blaming the federal government.
Most are blaming the federal government.
Really?
Yes.
Oh, yes.
In fact, one lady in our meeting that we had Wednesday, when we were given this news that we were all being cut to 28 hours so we would not have to be offered health care, got up and preached about people.
You have to know what you are voting for.
Well, and the whole room erupted.
And let me tell you what's next for these people if they lose their employer provided health care.
They are faced with one of two things, they are either going to have to pay a fine for not having health insurance and the IRS will find them, or they are going to have to visit a state exchange.
They told us that that's right.
They're going to have to find a state exchange in Indian.
Wait till they do that, wait till they find out what's in store for them there.
Well, they told us that and, in fact, and wait till they find out what it's going to cost them there.
Do you remember the?
The WALL Street Journal has a story out today on health insurers warning on premiums, next year they're going to double.
Do you remember the?
Not just not just you Tracy, but every, all of you in the audience.
Do you remember the balloon mortgages as part of the, the subprime mortgage mess.
They suckered in a bunch of gullible home buyers with an adjustable rate mortgage, but it was very, very low and nobody ever thought the rate was going to go up.
But they ballooned the mortgages ballooned ended up being called balloon mortgages and we're now being faced if you're having a trouble understanding it, but you know what a balloon mortgage is balloon health care.
That's what this is adding up to.
Well, listen to this.
They told us that um I, I work at the school.
I'm paid by the school, but I also do a job for the school system as a volunteer.
I'm a newspaper sponsor.
I can't even do that.
The kids are losing that extracurricular activity because I can't even give the appearance that I am putting in more than 28 hours at the school.
So not only am I losing paid hours, they're even dictating what I can do as a volunteer, exactly because they exact as a volunteer.
And that's key.
You can't even volunteer because of the appearance.
And look who's getting hurt with all the children.
Welcome back.
It's Open Line Friday.
I am Rush Limboy, your guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, chaos.
Even the Good Times Wall Street Journal with a story today, the nation's big health insurers, Aetna, for example, say that they expect health insurance premiums or the cost for coverage to rise.
Now get this, folks.
Health insurance prices are going to rise anywhere from 20 to 100% for millions of people starting in January.
2014 is really the year where everything in Obamacare gets implemented.
It doesn't fully vest or fully implement, but 2014 is where what has yet to happen begins to.
And it's very important, keep this in mind now.
So the insurance companies are now saying that their premiums are going to go anywhere up from 20 to 100% for millions of people as a result of Obamacare being implemented.
Mark Bertolini, the CEO of Aetna, says that these price increases are going to be a shock, a literal shock to people.
We've done the math.
We've shared it with the regulators.
We've shared it with all the people in Washington that need to see it.
And I think it's a big concern.
Most people have no idea.
And particularly the low-information voters.
Now, you and I are blue in the face for about three years now, trying to tell people what's going to happen.
But it's tough to get people to listen.
And certain doom and gloom predictions people don't want to hear, particularly if they're about Obama.
They don't want to hear bad things about Obama.
They don't want to confront that.
So this balloon health care analogy to balloon mortgages, I think you might want to give this a shot.
For three years, we have heard nothing but all the sweet stuff.
We have heard nobody can be refused insurance, right?
We have heard you get covered for free, even if you have a pre-existing condition.
If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.
If you like your plan, you can keep your plan.
Your kids can stay on your policy until they are 26.
Millions and millions more Americans will be getting affordable health care with such good people.
Your rates will not go up.
In fact, not only will your rates not go up, the average premium Obama said will go down $2,500.
And of course, you'll be able to keep your provider and your insurer.
This is what people have heard.
Like it or not, people, and particularly the low-information voters who don't pay attention to politics, but very infrequently during election years.
But they do hear the president say things when he makes speeches or they catch him on TV.
And I'm telling you, most people believe what their president tells them.
It's very frustrating for us who know how this guy and Clinton were such strangers to the truth.
But the fact is, and one thing we have to recognize, most people believe their president.
And this, Obama has assured people that nobody can be refused insurance.
The kids get to stay on their parents' policies till they're 26.
Millions and millions more Americans are going to get health care.
It ain't going to cost anybody but millionaires any more money.
The rich are going to be paying for it all.
Your rates aren't going to go up.
In fact, your rates are going to go down.
And you keep your doctor and you keep your plan if you like it.
Everything's hunky-dory, except it isn't when it starts to happen.
And just like when people bought into the subprime mortgage market and they were sold ARMs, adjustable rate mortgages, and they were sucked in with very, very low interest rates.
And then magically, unpredictably, their rates started going up and they could no longer afford the mortgage.
Well, our caller from Indiana, you and I have known for three years that any company with less than 30 full-time employees is not subject to Obamacare to start.
And you and I have known that companies are going to fire people or lay them off or recategorize them to part-time and give them fewer hours so that they don't qualify as full-time.
So they're going to get under the 30 hours a week and the employees that would qualify.
And it's starting to happen, but these people don't know why.
They've been expecting free health care.
Doctor and policy, they get to keep it if they like it.
They don't know about all this stuff happening.
So when it starts happening, it's why I asked her, who are they blaming, the school or the federal government?
Because remember Bernie Marcus, the co-founder of Home Depot, when the payroll tax holiday ended and people's paychecks, their take-home pay got smaller in January, he said that a lot of business owners that he knows, their employees blame the employer, not the government.
The employer didn't raise anybody's taxes.
So that's why I asked her, are they mad at the school district or at the federal government?
She said, most of them are mad at the federal government.
But anyway, what Obama has done here, what the Democrats have done, they've hooked everybody on this, the low-information crowd.
And I'm talking about the 40, 45% who support it.
They're the ones that have no idea what's coming until it affects them.
Then after they get pushed out of their coverage, they're going to lose it as school district or any other employer downsizes, lays people off, reduces hours, so they don't have to provide coverage for everybody again.
It's so predictable.
These people that lose their insurance are now going to have to find their way to a state exchange and wait until they do that and then wait until they find out there's a fine if they don't.
This is why, by the way, none of this stuff implements until 2014, long after Obama's been reelected.
And no matter how mad people get at him, it won't matter because he's not up for re-election again, supposedly.
Even the New York Times today, folks, has a story about a bakery that is going to lose more than half of its profits because of the New York Times.
And its story is not angry at the bakery, amazingly so.
I am not, the New York Times has a story about this little mom-and-pop bakery that's going to lose more than half of its profits by complying with Obamacare.
Let me put it this way.
I'm going to lose half of its profits if it complies.
They're obviously going to take steps to do just the bare minimum compliance so as not to lose more than half their profits because that's the reason to stay in business is profits.
Start losing your profit, you lose your reason to stay open.
And I'm telling you, they're 40, 45, maybe half the country, 50%, is clueless about what's headed their way.
And that's why this stuff didn't implement the day it was signed into law.
Here's who's next?
Joyce in Pittsburgh.
Hey, Joyce, great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi.
Good afternoon, Rush and Mega Dittos from a self-employed screwed bought the health insurance increase on myself, CPA tax time dittos.
You didn't stutter once during that.
That's great.
Well, hey, I love you, so why would I be nervous?
Anyway, hey, what I wanted to talk about today, Mr. Sterling and I had a bit of a chat.
I love him.
Anyway, I am a college graduate from the 70s where I went to a really conservative Christian school, but still came out pretty much programmed to be a feminist.
No matter where I was religiously, you came out of the school in the 80s and the 70s, programmed completely from high school on to be a feminist.
Define that.
Wait a minute.
I'm intrigued.
You go to a conservative Christian college.
I went to Grove City.
If you're familiar with Grove City College.
Oh, very well.
Very much so.
Okay, so what, when you say you came out of there a feminist, what's a Grove city feminist?
My sister the same way.
I mean, she went to a school in Ohio.
We both came out being women working in men's professions, which were predominantly men's professions back in the 70s.
She's a pharmacist, I'm a CPA.
You came out of there being that you had to have it all.
You had to work, have kids, be married.
You know, it was a super mom at the time.
Well, now, wait.
I don't mean a nitpick, but...
Yes.
I was in Pittsburgh in the 70s.
I will never forget it.
I probably still screwed up from those years because I came of age at 2021 when all that crap was happening.
And it has forever tainted me in just the way I deal with women.
But my question to you, back then, getting married was not something you do.
You did not derive happiness from a man or a relationship.
Nope, you didn't.
That's why you had to work full-time.
Well, there was no marriage involved.
I mean, that wasn't on the card.
That wasn't part of having it all.
No, it wasn't part of it.
But if you did choose to get married, then you were expected to have the kids, have the job, have the career.
Kids went off to date daycare at the end of six weeks.
I mean, that's what they did.
And if you didn't do that, if, I mean, I actually found myself looking down my nose at women that chose to quit their jobs and stay home.
Because it just seemed, why would you do that if you spent all that time in college?
And, you know, what a waste.
And, you know, as you evolve professionally and maturity and your brain ceases to be mush, you know, as you talk about college youngsters, which is so true, you start to understand and you do normally temper and become a conservative through it.
But the shame of it is, is just how much that has screwed up so many families, so many women, so many men.
And I think no wonder folks were happier in the 50s and 60s because the roles were clearly defined.
You know, you really did.
I mean, my family was basically Ozzie and Harriet.
Right.
We had a great life, and dad worked, you know, mom stayed home with us and raised us.
Well, you say that you say the roles in the 50s and 60s were clearly defined.
Who defined them back then?
I think everybody was happy with the definitions.
I mean, women were happy, you know, to stay home and raise their families.
Society itself, I think the culture was just much more organized.
I think there was far less stress in families.
Men were allowed to be the provider, and they were allowed to be strong and the disciplinarians of the kids.
And, you know, mothers were the nurturers, and that's the way it's always been.
So back in the 50s, Beyoncé would have not had to say bowed down.
Women just did it.
No, well, if they were in a happy marriage, I couldn't resist it.
I know you couldn't.
That's pretty funny.
But look, I'm watching, I watch Mad Men, and Mad Men is taking place through the 60s, and they're touching on, it's fairly realistic, in the mid-60s now, how women are starting to get a little bit upset at the role you just described.
And that's right.
It's because of the late 60s is when what you're talking about.
70s for you.
Late 60s is when this new era started to manifest itself.
It did.
And I think, you know, and that, of course, is coming out of Vietnam and all the cultural things that, you know, you and I can recall.
Well, what do you say?
Joyce, what do you say to people who think, you know what, Joyce, you're just old-fashioned.
You're stuck in the past.
We can never go back to it.
It wasn't what it was.
And it's a little fuddy-duddy, and you're going to have to modernize or society is going to leave you behind.
What's your reaction to that?
Well, my reaction to that is, well, haven't we just done a great job of redefining the family unit?
What's the ratio of children being born out of wedlock right now?
What's the ratio of folks that are not happy?
What's the divorce rate?
Perhaps we need to take a step back and think about what has all this progressiveness really done to our culture.
And I think we know the answer to that.
Well, yeah, no doubt.
But it's all based in love.
Everybody loves each other, and so whatever happens is fine.
I guess I'm a little bit cynical for that, you know, but you see that happening.
And, you know, and every time you talk about these.
I love my sofa.
And I sit on it every night.
And it loves me back.
What, your cell phone?
Sofa.
My soft.
Oh, your sofa.
A seat.
I love mine, too, although I haven't seen it in a few months because of tax season.
If I could marry my sofa, I might think about it.
Well.
And maybe in a few years, it could be possible.
You never know.
We'll be back, folks.
Wait till you hear the details on this bakery.
The New York Times talks about involving health care.
I'm going to grab a call now.
I'll have those numbers for you at the top of the hour.
But this would be nothing will put things in better perspective than the numbers associated with this bakery.
But Eric in Chesapeake, Virginia, I want to grab you before time expires here.
Hello, sir, and how are you?
Hey, how are you doing, Russ?
First time called, been listening to you for a good number of years.
I just wanted to give my reasoning why I think the Democrats are terrified of Dr. Carlson.
The reason why, the main reason why I think he represents such a threat to Democrats is because he is an exact alternative to how the Democrats define black men to society.
He reminds me a lot of how I grew up where I've had a single, I had a single mother that would not let me just not do my work and just, you know, put off things that are important.
And as a result, I've learned over time how to rely on myself because I've actually seen the results of that.
And what I'm proud of is the fact that he's out there and he's not afraid of anybody.
He's quick on his feet.
Somebody attacks him.
He doesn't necessarily counterattack, but he throws common sense back at them.
And that's almost indefensible.
You can't, it's hard to even fight against that.
You know, that, Eric, I have to tell you, that's an important thing you've added here.
He's fearless.
He doesn't appear as though he could be intimidated into changing these core principles that he has, or at least not if not intimidating into changing them, intimidating into shut up about them.
It doesn't seem like that can happen.
He does exude a calm confidence.
I agree.
If you grew up like he did, he had to work hard for the things he has done in life.
And he has such a large compassion that he's not afraid to try to show people the right way to get.
Well, that's exactly right.
You know why the Democrats don't like that?
The reason why the Democrats don't like these up-from-nothing success stories that feature hard work is because they think it doesn't work for everybody.
And that's not fair.
And obviously, this guy had some kind of an advantage that we don't know about yet.
It might be his IQ, but he had some kind of advantage that we don't know about yet.
But if it were the real America where he grew up, it wouldn't have happened.
That's the attitude they have about it.
But look, I appreciate the call.
I'm glad for your input on it.
It's true.
We'll be back.
King Abdullah Jordan just said Syrian refugees are costing him $500 billion.
And Obama said, that's okay.
We'll give you $200 billion to help defer it.
What happened to our sequester?
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