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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, the CBS Ebole 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 am being punished.
Rotella is a devout Mormon.
He said the instructor in his intercultural communic communications class.
Now what do you think that is?
Intercultural communications class.
That's kind of obvious to try to teach people who are from majorities how to speak to and understand 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 when 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 PS de Resistance.
He was suspended.
They had him write Jesus on a piece of paper to put on a floor.
A class had to stomp on it.
They all had to do the he refused to do it.
He complained he was suspended from class.
Now, the the according to the university profile, DeAndre Poole is a male, has a PhD 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, um.
So the university is backing the professor.
But here's the question.
Could you what if the professor said I want you to write down the name Mohammed on a piece of paper, and then I want you to all 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, and I'm offended by it, they would fire the professor or put him on some sort of sensitivity training leave.
But it is um.
I guess they they they 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 portapotes 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 set a clogged pipe, forced the sewage to spill into the kitchen, and several student bathrooms.
So they had to bring in porta potties for one day, and the parents went berserk.
It's unsanitary, it's disgusting, said one parent.
If 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 a parent know there are 20 porta 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 he 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 Giddeys 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 he but 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 a police that you harmed me.
All because the guy came back from a business trip to Brazil and did not bring her anything.
Whoo.
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 eleven thousand dollars 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 if you uh 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 gonna 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, right?
Five four three two one.
Here are the events.
Thirty 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.
Bochicka 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.
Sturdley off top of your head, um, how many licks does it take?
What do you think that's a course on think of the silken swirl, and you 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.
B.I. itches, yes.
Right.
There's a there's sort of like a twitter feud going on between Keisha Cole and Beyonce.
And it's been going back and forth since uh, I believe was uh 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 uh into the made the comments that she made was because she felt that Beyonce was talking about her.
So and when Beyoncé say bow down bitches, she really means that she's talking to all the other artists, female audits.
Yeah.
Benefer.
And that's the only reason why I think a comment that she made.
All right, so Beyoncé is basically saying, look, I'm the queen.
I'm I'm I'm on the head honcho.
I'm the top court.
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 that's really admirable.
That's very admirable.
Sheldon, how long you've been listening to the EIB Network, this show?
About a year now.
Cool.
Very cool.
Well, the uh the Beyonce controversy has taken the nation by storm.
Um did you hear about this on TMZ?
Uh yes.
Yeah.
Um what's what's happened here is that the the first story I saw about this was in a UK newspaper and they ripped Beyoncé because they didn't interpret it as she's saying bow down to these other female singers.
They interpreted it as Obama uh as as uh Beyoncé sort of uh cashing in her feminist chips and saying uh bow down to your guy to these uh to these women.
But you're saying that Keisha Cole took this thing personally, and that's why she's ripping Beyoncé on Twitter.
Right.
Uh you really have to be like a Beyonce fan to really understand what she's saying.
Yeah.
When she when she's saying bow down, bitches she's not bowing down to a man, she's saying that of a female to bow down to a now Sheldon, you may be right as a Beyonce expert, but uh Skip Gates, uh African American professor of everything in Harvard.
Um his publication is also ripped Beyonce for betraying her feminism on this.
So there are a bunch of different interpretations as to what has Beyoncé said anything, Sheldon?
Have you uh have you talked to her?
Have uh you heard any anything that she might have said about this?
No, she hasn't come out and said anything yet.
She probably will 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 so 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.
Um I'm a title and 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 um apparently overseeing um 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 twenty-eight hours, so they will not have to offer us health care.
That uh that affects teachers' assistance, room aids, cafeteria workers, coaches.
Now, Tracy, yeah my guess is that you knew this before it happened, but you're talking about people who didn't know it, who are who are now surprised by it.
Oh my gosh.
People were they were blindsided, a lot of them.
They are fit to be tight, you know, because now here's the question.
Who are they blaming now?
The school system, I'll bet.
Um the school system is blaming the federal government.
Right.
But are they 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 f really.
Yes.
Oh, yes.
In fact, one lady in in our meeting that we had Wednesday when they we were given this news that we were be all being cut to twenty-eight hours.
Right.
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.
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.
Yeah, it's right.
They're gonna have to find a state exchange in Indiana.
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, wait till they find out what it's gonna 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 uh uh not just not just you, Tracy, but every all of you in the audience, 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 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's 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 twenty to a hundred percent 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.
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 uh 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 preexisting 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 twenty-six.
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 twenty five hundred dollars.
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 gonna cost anybody but millionaires any more money.
The rich are gonna be paying for it all.
Your rates aren't gonna go up, in fact, your rates are gonna 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 gonna 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 gonna 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.
It's that they've been expecting free health care, doctor in policy, they get to keep it if they like it.
They don't know about all this stuff happening.
So when it starts happening, that's why I asked her, who are they blaming, the school or the federal government?
Because remember Bernie Marcus, the the co-founder of Home Depot, when the payroll tax holiday ended and people's paychecks, their 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 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.
I'm talking about the forty forty-five percent 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 gonna 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 gonna have to find their way to a state exchange and wait until they do that, and then wait till 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 re-elected, 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 a little mom and pop bakery that's gonna lose more than half of its profits by complying with Obamacare.
Let me put it this way, I'm gonna 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 forty forty-five, maybe half the country, fifty percent, 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 uh who's next to Joyce in Pittsburgh.
Hey Joyce, great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, good afternoon, Russian Megadetto from a self-employed screedbot the health insurance increase on myself, CPA tax time dittoes.
You didn't stutter once during that.
That's great.
Well, hey, I love you, so why why would I be nervous?
Anyway, um hey, what I want to talk about today, Mr. Shernoy and I had a bit of a chat.
I love him.
Anyway, um I am a ch uh college graduate from the seventies, where I went to a really conservative Christian school, but still came out pretty much programmed um to be a feminist.
No matter where I was religiously, you came out of the schools in the eighties and the seventies, programmed completely from high school on to be a feminist.
Define that woman wait a minute.
I went to Grove City.
If you're familiar with Grove City College, very well.
Very much so.
Okay, so so b so d what when you say you came out of there a feminist, what what's a Grove City feminist?
My sister the same way.
I mean, she went to a school in Ohio.
We both came out um being women working in men's professions, which were pr predominantly men's professions back in the seventies.
Um she's a pharmacist, I'm a CPA.
Um 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 the it was a supermom at the time.
Well, now wait.
I I don't mean a nitpick, but I was in Pittsburgh in the seven I'm the that uh I will never the forget it the f I I probably still screwed up from those years, because I came of age at 2021 when all that crap was happening.
And is forever it has forever tainted me in just the way I d deal with women, but but my my question to you back back then, getting married was not something you did.
You did not get 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're expected to, you know, have the kids, have the job, have the career.
Kids went off the date, day care and 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.
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 you know 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 fifties and sixties because the roles were clearly defined.
You know, you really did.
I mean, my family was basically Ozzy and Harriet.
Right.
We had a great life, and dad worked, you know, mom stayed home with us and uh raised us.
Well, you you say that you say the roles in the fifties and sixties were clearly defined.
Who defined them back then?
Uh 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 four far less stress in families.
Men were allowed to be the provider, and they were allowed to be strong in 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 fifties, Beyoncé would have not had to say bowed down.
Women just did it.
No, well, they if they were in a happy mare.
I couldn't resist.
I know you couldn't.
That's pretty funny.
But look at I'm watching I watch Mad Men and Mad Men are taking place again through the sixties, and they're touching on uh it's fairly realistic in the mid-sixties now, how women are starting to get a little bit upset at the role you just described.
And it's right, it's because of the late sixties is when what you're talking of you said seventies for you, late sixties is when this new era uh 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, but 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 duty, and you're gonna have to modernize or society is gonna 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 what's the ratio of children being born, you know, out of wedlock right now?
What's the ratio of folks that are, you know, not happy?
What's the divorce rate?
Um perhaps we need to take a step back and think about what have all what has all this progressiveness really done to to our culture.
And I think we know the answer to that.
Well I I yeah.
No doubt.
But it's all based in love.
Everybody loves each other, and so whatever happens is fine.
I I guess I'm a little bit cynical for that, you know, but uh you see you see that happening, and you know, and every time you talk about the I love my sofa.
And I sit on it every night.
And it loves me back.
What your cell phone?
Sofa.
My sofa.
Sofa.
Uh seats.
I I I love 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, uh could be possible.
You never know.
We'll be back.
Wait till you hear the details on this bakery.
The New York Times talks about involving health care.
Um I'm gonna grab a call now, and I'll have those numbers for you at the top of the hour, but this would be this this nothing will 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?
How are you doing, Russ?
Um first time called, been listening to you for a good number of years.
Uh I just want to uh give my uh my reasoning why I think the Democrats are uh terrified of uh Dr. Carlson.
Uh the the reason why the main reason why I think he's he represents such a threat to Democrats is because he is an exact alternative to how the Democrats define black meat in society.
Um you know, I I've uh he he r he reminds me a lot of how I grew up where um I've had a had a single mother that would not let me just not do my work and and just you know put off things that are important and I've as 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 he throws common sense back at him, and that is that's almost indefensible.
You can't you it's hard to even fight against that.
You know, that Eric, I have to tell you, that's that's uh an important thing you've added here.
He's fearless.
He um he doesn't 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 he does exude a um a calm confidence.
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.
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