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March 27, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 27, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #3
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I don't know.
I may have to go get another one.
This is not drawing well.
Let me just second here.
I want to get a hernia if I keep smoking this thing.
See that there's just not that much smoke.
I mean, there's a lot of smoke, but it's coming out the wrong end.
You get.
And now I gotta wait.
I can't I can't I can't just stop everything here.
I just grabbed it out of the humidor and uh clipped it and lit it up here, but it's a second.
Yeah, see, there's nothing to it.
It's it's a bad role.
Typical communist role.
Uh greetings and uh welcome back, folks.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies for you aviation buffs, I gotta tell you, you fly boys.
You know what I got to do on Tuesday?
Or was it Monday?
It's Monday, yeah, because this is only Wednesday.
I got to see the new Gulfstream G650.
It is the uh it's their new entry, as they say, into the corporate jet market.
And the only reason I'm telling you the story is because it's gonna irritate the Democrats talking about corporate jets.
Uh and I've I I went out, they flew one in here.
It was actually on its way to Montana and China, and it's one of their demos, and they're flying it around to uh to show people.
And gosh, is it is it is it amazing.
Uh it's an amazing airplane.
It's for those of you familiar, it's about 18 inches, a foot and a half wider than um any of the other G's, the 350, 450, 550, 250.
It's uh and it's a huge difference.
Uh cabin height.
I was standing with a guy 6'3 in this cabin who had plenty of room.
Uh didn't have to duck your head even to go in the door.
And the windows uh Gulf Stream's windows are trademarked.
They're a an identifier.
They're even bigger in this plan.
Everybody's wondering how they got FAA approval for that, but they did.
But it is uh it's just a gorgeous airplane, and all of the lighting, the uh climate control, the audio video, everything is controlled with an app on your iPhone.
So you are you are sitting there, and you put you put on your iPhone, iPad, IPOD, and there's a diagram of however you have uh designed the interior, a bunch of different configurations, but you can touch every seat and control the lighting, audio, video, and temperature at every seat in this thing.
One person can do that.
The guy in the power seat can do that.
So if you got somebody flying with you that you're ticked off at, you can freeze them out.
Or you can sweat them out.
Uh it's it's it just Yeah, it's a well it's a free yeah, it's a free app.
It comes with the airplane.
Snergly.
They throw that in.
Yeah, they include the app for your iPhone.
They'll even include they I think they include 14 iPods.
They they include one for every seat.
Which well, it's uh they're 150 dollars.
That's that's nothing.
I mean, that's that's not even a rounding error for one of these things.
But it was uh it seven the range of this thing is sixteen hours is the best way to put it.
Um it's over seven thousand miles at Mach.9.
Now, just as a compared the G5, the G550 is 6700 miles at Mach 8.8.
This is over 7,000 miles.
What they've done, they kept this thing just under a hundred thousand pounds gross weight so that it it it it is uh legal at uh Teterborough.
A corporate jet will not sell if you can't fly it into Teterborough in New York.
There's no point in buying one of these if you have to take it into Kennedy.
Or big air.
Well, it actually it it the fuel consumption they say, the engines are much more efficient.
Um airplane is huge.
It is amazing how big this airplane is.
I've got I took a couple pictures standing uh standing out.
They gave me a model of it, just like I have here a VIB one.
they gave me a model.
Um it's just it's a gorgeous airplane.
It's uh the four-year waiting list.
And the the way you aviation buffs will understand what I'm talking about.
Some people don't want to wait four years, so they'll try to buy a position somebody ahead of them.
No longer allowed.
They void the warranty if somebody sells their airplane in line before it's been manufactured.
Uh, which makes sense uh to me.
So you're looking at uh third quarter 2017 if you buy one now.
I think Steve Wynne and got the first two, or one of the first couple or three uh that were delivered recently at at his hotels out in in Las Vegas.
But it's a stunning airplane, and it was a real treat to be able to see it.
And I just, you know, I wonder when I'm on there, is Jay-Z got one.
He and Beyonce flying around on one of these things yet.
Well, you it the configuration of it, you can configure it all the way, 18 to 12, depending on here's another thing.
The sofa in this thing actually converts to a bed larger than a conventional twin, which is unusual for a corporate jet.
The sofas are not that big usually, but there's so much room in the uh in the cabin.
But uh 5 made to order for Clinton.
Made to order for Clinton.
But it's uh state of the art, as you would, as you would imagine.
I didn't know it was just I'm like my dad in this regard.
I just I'm fascinated by the whole thing.
I still, even though I understand aerodynamics, I still marvel that's that things that heavy and that big get off the ground.
I know how it works.
I know intellectually how it works.
It still amazes me.
And I uh I love airplanes, I love whole everything about aviation, and this is a it was it was a lot of fun to be able to see the thing.
It was uh and I'm I'm flattered they came in and showed it to me.
And I was the only one.
I was I I thought when I went out there to be a parade of people that were uh taking occasion of its being here, but no, I was I had it all to myself for as long as I wanted.
No, they didn't take it up.
Uh it was a it was a ground visit.
Anyway, folks, welcome back.
Great to have you here.
Just wanted to share that with you flyboys out there, you aviation buffs, uh, because it's uh it's it's it's everything that you you have imagined that it would uh it would be.
It's just class state of the art.
Now, what do we have?
What do we have?
Oh, this was a big story today on CNN.
I kind of enjoyed watching this because the the CNN Info babe, the anchor and the reporter were fit to be tied over this.
They just thought this was the most unfair thing, and how could this happen?
The Indiana Supreme Court yesterday unanimously upheld the state's school voucher program, which extends to middle income families the opportunity to send their kids to private schools with public assistance.
A coalition of teachers, parents, and union officials had challenged the voucher program as unconstitutional.
They said it used public money to promote religious education.
See, this is classic.
That's not what voucher programs.
You know what voucher programs are?
It's a way for people who otherwise can't afford it out of the public school system.
Because the the public school system is deteriorated now into nothing more than a little left-wing indoctrination program.
It's ridiculous what's happening in public schools.
They're deteriorating, they're in bad shape, stuff that's taught in there is uh counter to what a lot of parents are, you know, and the way they want to raise their kids.
So the voucher program puts parents back in charge of where their kids go to school.
There was one of these programs in Washington, and it was overwhelmingly successful.
It was aimed at poor and minority families in Washington.
And it enabled people to go to schools like Sidwell Friends, where Obama uh sends his kids, uh, where Chelsea Clinton went to school, where Al Gore's kids went to school.
Uh oh, big program in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin's actually the um uh what would you say ground zero for this for this program?
But Barack Obama, one of the first things he did as president was cancel the the voucher program in uh in Washington.
And that was done uh out of loyalty to the unions, the teachers' unions and the public school system.
They don't care about the quality, just keep them open to keep the teachers employed.
But this was classic watching this being reported on CNN is how outrageous this is, how unfair it is.
And it uses public money to select a few people that go to these good schools.
It isn't fair that not everybody can go.
And of course, then they bring in the religious angle as a means of trying to get people to think that it's rigged and unfair and taught by a bunch of Bible thumpers, uh and so forth.
This is Mike Pence, who's the governor of uh of Indiana now, uh, a big supporter of this thing, both uh in in theory and in practice.
And the Christian Science Monitor has a story here today because this voucher program was extended to middle class families.
And you look at it this way.
We have transfers of wealth in this country all over the place.
We have income redistribution all over the place, and the left believes in it.
It's uh taking from the rich and giving to the poor, because the rich got rich by taking from the poor.
Never understood the math on that, but they say it.
And this is theoretically how the poor get their money back by raising taxes on the rich.
So here comes a school voucher program that that essentially takes money that is allocated for public education and redirects it to a voucher program so that families, it's it's their money that they just get to use.
It it as though they had the money themselves could afford it and choose to send their kids to a better school.
The voucher program takes the money that they've otherwise put into the system via property tax and everything else and gives it back to them.
It's their money in the first place, and they get to use it.
And it's a pilot program.
It's a way of competition or competing with the public schools, and it is it it it outdoes them.
Every time one of these plans is opened up, the list, the line of people who want to access the program is much longer than can be accommodated because everybody cares about their kids getting the best education possible.
And when you extend it to middle class and lower middle class families, they just eat it up, and it's a great, great thing.
And here comes the left, the usual suspects, the teachers, unions, uh, liberal parents, teachers themselves, and the public schools opposing it, uh, which is reason number one to support it in a lot of people's minds.
And and from the Christian Science Monitor story, the gr the ruling is considered a precedent for other states that say parents should have greater choice in where their children attend school.
What's wrong with that?
You know that this freedom's an interesting thing, isn't it?
When the left when it comes to homosexual marriage, well, I want to get married.
You can't deny me.
I want to.
That will make me happy.
Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.
Okay, fine, go get married.
A family comes along as you know what would make me happy is my kid going to a decent school.
That makes me happy.
I want my kid to get a decent education.
You can't do that.
We're not going to have school choice.
We're not going to have that kind of choice.
This is like an abortion, pro-choice.
There's no such thing as choice.
If you're pro-choice, you better be pro-abortion or run you out of the pro-choice movement.
So it's it's it's kind of fun to throw their own words and philosophy back at them.
Well, you know, I just life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.
I could be very happy if my kids are at a good school.
And here's a program that allows my kids to go to a good school.
The voucher program makes me very happy.
Well, you shouldn't have that choice.
You shouldn't have that freedom.
Why?
Well, because not everybody else can.
So the ruling was unanimous, and it will have the left in an uproar once they get around to it, after they expend all their energy on DOMA and homosexual marriage.
The LA Times, by the way, on homosexual marriage headlines, Supreme Court seems willing to restore gay marriage in California.
The sharply divided justices also appear uncomfortable with legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.
None of them spoke up for a sweeping ruling, but the consensus is that either by dismissing the case, and probably by dismissing it, on the basis of standing that what'll happen is Prop 8 will be invalidated.
And that's the popular interpretation of what happened yesterday at the Supreme Court in the drive-by media.
Madison Alabama teachers at Heritage Elementary School, Madison, Alabama, were informed Monday that their plans to have an academic egg hunt with their kindergarten and second grade students would need to be scrapped because they're getting rid of the word Easter.
Easter not permitted.
There can still be an Easter bunny, but it's just a bunny.
There can be an Easter egg roll, but it can't be an Easter egg roll.
It's gonna be an egg roll.
Easter is being eliminated because it's not inclusive.
Madison, Alabama, the school's principal, Lydia Davenport informed staff.
No activities related to or centered around any religious holiday would be allowed in the interests of religious diversity among the students.
So we get religious diversity means no religion.
Does it work that way with other diversities?
So the principal, Lydia Davenport said, Yeah, we had it in the past, uh, but but we're we're gonna get rid of it.
This this this Easter business, it's too exclusionary.
Not everybody's a Christian, not everybody believes in Easter.
We're not gonna force Easter on people in our school.
We're not gonna permit it to happen.
So it's gone.
Alabama back after this.
All right, here we go.
This is uh we got sound here.
We got audio sound, uh sound bite of the principal in uh in Alabama, uh Lydia Davenport announcing the elimination of anything to do with Easter at her scruol.
Kids love the bunny, and we just try to make sure that we don't say the Easter bunny so that we don't infringe on the rights of others because people relate the Easter bunny to religion.
Really?
Who worships Easter bunny?
Why did what why even have a bunny if it's I mean it's Easter?
Well, they're gonna have the bunny, but we're not gonna have anything to do with Easter.
So why have the bunny?
Kids loved bunny, but we're not gonna say the Easter bunny.
So we don't want people to know that there's anything going on here that's religious.
Well, what's the point?
Well, just the bunny holiday.
What why are we celebrating a bunny?
What's the big deal?
Who worships a bunny?
Why even bother with this?
Well, I tell you what, let's do the bunny thing in August when no school's going on.
Do the bunny thing before school starts, so this principal is not faced with this kind of pressure.
The eggs might spoil a little bit out there.
You have to take some care on that, but still.
Did you know that anybody worshiped a bunny?
Neither.
Back to the phones.
Jerry in San Francisco.
Great to have you on the phone, sir.
Hello.
Oh, good morning.
I guess afternoon, where you're at.
Yeah, um, I think there's a couple concepts that need to be discussed regarding the gay marriage thing.
We've got a group, uh, major group of hetero uh uh homophobic phobics.
They are so afraid of being labeled homophobics.
They will literally apologize for forever for for not being homosexual.
And I think that's why they're so gung ho supporting gay marriage.
And we have another group, the heterophobes, which is basically your militant gays that actually hate us breeders.
And will do everything they can to bring us down to their level.
Wait a minute.
Uh gay people hate straight people?
Well, not all of them, but the militants.
The militants are actually heterophobic.
Well, that word's not been bandied about much.
Heterophobes.
But homophobes is all over the place.
So you think they're homophobic homophobes who are afraid to say anything anti-gay because they'll be ripped to shreds and they don't want to be ripped.
Oh, yeah.
I've actually heard Al Sharpman on his uh radio show apologize for two minutes for not being homosexual when he was asked if he had any of those tendencies.
Taking two minutes to say heterosexual.
He's not he's a homophobic phobic.
Wow, he's not.
I didn't know that.
I did, not that there's anything wrong with it.
I didn't know that.
Two minutes a poly wow.
Hey, folks, uh uh Beyonce has weighed in on same-sex marriage.
And here's what Beyonce she's she is uh showing her support for marriage equality.
She made her sympathies clear today in a handwritten note posted on Facebook.
She said if you like it, you should be able to put a ring on it.
And that's what she said.
That's she well, she's supporting marriage equality.
And it says it's time for people to come together.
If you like it, you should be able to put a ring on it.
Marriage equality is here to stay, whatever it is.
If you like it, you should be able to put a ring on it.
Thank you.
That's what she said.
We will unite for marriage equality.
If you like it, you should be able to put a ring on it.
So there.
Uh what else did I uh oh, oh, let's go to Fox.
Audio sound by Bill O'Reilly and Megan Kelly.
We're discussing this last night on Ted Baxter's show.
And the the subject came up.
Megan Kelly said, you know, I had an interview with Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, and I asked him, what is it about calling a gay union a marriage that offends you, Tony?
How does it hurt a traditional or a heterosexual marriage?
And I didn't hear anything articulated by Tony Perkins that was particularly persuasive.
I agree with you a hundred percent.
The compelling argument is on the side of homosexuals.
That's where the compelling argument is.
We're Americans.
We just want to be treated like everybody else.
That is a compelling argument.
And to deny that, you've got to have a very strong argument on the other side.
And the other side hasn't been able to do anything but thump the bite.
Well, so uh how many of you who who watch Fox are Bible thumpers.
Do you think there are any Bible thumpers, quote unquote, that watch Fox?
Because last night, you were you're a sort of marginalized on the factor as not having a compelling argument and just being a bunch of Bible thumpers.
This uh this continued the well, not O'Reilly and Megan Kelly, but David Letterman interviewed Brian Williams.
And this was funny.
Low information Supreme Court analysis by Letterman and Brian Williams.
Here's the first of two sound bites we've got.
Are there gay justices on the Supreme Court?
No, there are not.
How do you know?
I don't know.
I'm sorry.
I shouldn't.
I'm sorry.
You're a true uh uh journalistic and war hero, and I'm I'm just a I'm just a dumbass.
Yep.
So you got two low information guys here analyzing what happened at the Supreme Court.
Uh Letterman said to Brian Williams, the anchor of the NBC Nightly News, why is this an issue of constitutional concern?
It's taken constitutional cases to stop the internment of uh Japanese Americans, to stop the illegality of mixed race marriages in our country to stop the illegality of homosexual acts in a private home.
The court doesn't like to move too fast.
They also don't like to be on the wrong side of history when we look back on it.
So this represents a very interesting case.
Not wanting to move too fast, I understand not wanting to be on the wrong side of history is pretty much seals the deal because this is inevitable and overdue, as we all understand.
Oh, yeah, inevitable overdoe.
We all understand this is a matter of time, and it's uh it probably is when you get down to Brass Axe.
Maureen, Ocean Port, New Jersey.
I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you with us.
Hi.
Thank you so much.
Um I was listening in and out today as I was in and out of the car and caught your Ben Carson comment earlier, who I just admire him so much for having the courage of his convictions, regardless of the color of his skin.
But then as you were talking about the Gulf Stream Jets, and at the end sort of popped in there humorously, you know, I wonder if Jay-Z has his yet.
It struck me that it is acceptable to the left for a black man to be a successful musician or a successful athlete, but not to be a successful pediatric neurosurgeon.
Well, he could be a successful pediatric neurosurgeon if he were a left-wing liberal loyal to the Democrat Party, believing in the state having power over all.
If he would do that, he could do anything he wants.
The what what we've learned is with with this thing that happened to Ben Carson, is there's only one way to be black in America and be accepted.
There's only one way, and you can't follow the route that Ben Carson did.
You can on the line.
Right.
You can't, you can't have an up from nothing story unless you're going to credit the Democrat Party for your success.
Unless you're going to credit one of their programs for your success.
Affirmative action quotas you name it, unless you're going to bow down and be and and be loyal to some big government or a series of programs, you can't be black.
You are going to be either authentically black or you're going to be Uncle Tom.
Right.
Well, last night on TV when he was talking about, you know, he's looked at the one part of the body that makes you what you are, your brain.
And the exterior is merely for variety in life.
If if people could just hear that, if that if he could just get that point across to the millions of people who need to hear it, and let them think for themselves with that brain.
Well, y he did say that.
Here's what he said.
I've got the quote right here, and then it was in response to the uh the really mindless juvenile uh insults that that were spewed by that that young fool over at um MSNBC said I like to say this is what Carson said.
I like to say the reason I don't talk about race that often is because I'm a neurosurgeon.
And I look at the thing that actually makes the person who they are.
It's not the cover.
But for them, the cover is everything because they are superficial thinkers.
And that's Carson talking about the people focused on skin color, sexual orientation, gender, you name it, as the number one thing that identifies you.
And he was simply saying, I do work on what really makes the person who they are, their brain.
Particularly the brains of children.
He's a world-class neurosurgeon.
And and people respect him for his skills, for his humanity and his grace.
Now they can respect him for his uh for his wit in responding to this.
But what what is what is clearly the case now?
There's only one way that you can be authentically black in America.
Only one.
And somebody who is African American, like Dr. Ben Carson, cannot be authentically black.
They will kick him out of the club.
They will impugn and try to destroy his character and reputation.
And if they could, his life.
And they are the ones, don't forget who claim they have all the tolerance for diversity.
They are the ones who claim to have all the compassion.
They are the ones claim to have the big hearted understanding.
They are the ones they claim to have the big tent.
They, in truth, are the narrow-minded, exclusionary, small-minded peanut brain bigots.
And they couldn't hold a candle to Ben Carson, not a one of them.
And yet they have the audacity to insult his humanity, is really what they're insulting when they take after him the way they did.
Maureen, I'm glad you called.
I appreciate it.
We've got a break.
Be back with more after this.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Rushlin bought talent on loan from God.
Quickly, Bill in Fernando, Mississippi.
Not much time, but I wanted to get to you, sir.
Hello.
Yes, sir.
I like listening to your show every day, and I'm definitely one of the low information people.
I've only been listening for a few months.
But I honestly believe that all this stuff they got going on now about gay marriage and all the coverage that media's doing on it is just basically just a discret distraction, a small screen getting them away from the spending, the budget, and everything else that people really should be focusing on, in my opinion anyway.
Well, it's a good thought, Bill.
Um it it in most places maybe it is serving as a distraction.
However, not here.
We cover it all.
You haven't been listening that long, you said, but all those things you mentioned that are not being covered in these last couple days, doesn't know the people that listen every day here know everything they need to know about those issues.
We are able to touch on everything.
We don't get distracted.
But this is not the proponents of this are not bringing this forward as a distraction either.
They're dead serious about this.
For a whole bunch of reasons.
I'm glad you're here.
But if you hang in every day, you'll find out that nothing, nothing gets past us.
Sadly, my friends, that's it for today.
We are out of time.
Busy broadcast moments have expired, but there's always tomorrow.
And I can't wait.
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