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March 28, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 28, 2013, Thursday, Hour #3
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No, I am kind of curious about that.
I uh Snerdley just asked me uh folks about the sound by we have Bill Bill O'Reilly, who uh came out for gay marriage when he previously was against it, found some evidence of that.
And but but more than that, he said that the people that oppose it are just a bunch of Bible thumpers.
And Snerdley's asking me about it, even in a professional uh sense, of course.
And I am, I have to admit that I'm I'm still shaking my head over that.
Um, over the host of the factor calling the people who oppose same-sex marriage Bible thumpers.
I mean, he's writing a book called Killing Jesus.
And I guarantee you he's aiming that book at Bible thumpers, as he calls them.
I would think I would think if you may write a book called Killing Jesus, that you hope Bible thumpers buy it, but not if you call them that.
I I I could be wrong.
He could have called them bitter clingers.
Uh well, that's yeah, the the everybody that opposes a Bible thumper.
I mean, if it's 40 percent that oppose it or 50 percent, whatever it is, that did it call them Bible thumpers.
I don't know.
I just that's it was I have to admit it was curious, but I'm just answering the question.
Greetings, welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network of the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies Dodgeball has been banned.
In New Hampshire, Wyndham schools due to concerns about violence and bullying.
And so the wussification of America continues.
Dodgeball banned at Windham Schools, concerns about violence and bullying.
The school board voted four to one last week to remove Dodgeball and nine other human target activities from the curriculum.
The vote was taken after a committee of Fizz Ed teachers studied the issue and then recommended eliminating the games.
The superintendent, Dr. Henry LeBranch, said we spend a lot of time making sure that our kids are violence free.
Now here we have games where we use children as targets.
That seems to be counter to what we're trying to accomplish with our anti-bullying campaign.
So does that mean tag is gone because somebody's a target there?
A middle school parent complained that his child was bullied during a game of dodgeball.
And that prompted the superintendent to form the teacher's committee to uh to uh to study human target games.
Those games include prison ball, slaughter, bombardment, and uh others.
And you know what?
If you read all the way down to the end of the story, you find out they were using foam dodgeballs.
They had already switched from real dodgeballs to foam dodgeballs.
And they still uh they still canceled it.
No, that's idiotic.
They don't think they're idiotic.
They're courageous.
These people think of themselves a courageous, snurdly, they're brave.
They're taking a stand here to protect the children from bullying and for becoming targets.
Just as we predicted, the furloughs at the Pentagon are being dialed back.
Defense officials say that the Pentagon will sharply cut the number of unpaid furlough days that civilians will have to take in the next several months from 22 down to 14, reducing the financial impact of the sequester on as many as 700,000 workers.
We told you the minute Panetta announced this that this was not going to happen, and even if it did, that they would be receiving full back pay, which they will.
But the furloughs have been reduced dramatically.
They were never ever going to be as drastic as was predicted.
From a website called Campus Reform.
We've done our due diligence.
This bunch pretty much is uh uh on the ball.
It was campus reform that told us about University of Wisconsin and Minnesota where they were teaching that it was bad to be white.
New York University celebrated March as women's herstery month, not history, women's hearstory, with a presentation by a burlesque dancer named Chicava Honeychild.
The burlesque dancer named Chicava Honeychild chaired a workshop titled 69 Ways to Use Saran Wrap.
New York University, Hurstory Month, Burlesque Dancer, 69 Ways to Use Saran Rap Sexual Workshop.
They were not teaching about how to take leftovers home.
The events which took place at NYU were sponsored by the school's lesbian gay bisexual transsexual student center and camp GRRL, a club for queer women.
That's the word in the story.
They were paid for with scrubal funds, which came from tuition and student fees.
Monday's event, 69 ways to use saran rep, answered questions such as what entails more risk, scissoring or 69.
And are dental dams better for anal or vaginal sex?
This this was on the university's calendar.
Saran wrap, Snurdly.
69 ways to use saran wrap.
I would venture to say that most of you can't even name one.
And here the females at New York University are being taught sixty-nine different ways in a sexual workshop to use saran wrap by Chicava Honeychild, a well-known burlesque dancer.
Rasmussen reports Americans continue to believe that too many of their fellow citizens are financially dependent on the government, but they're less critical of the programs that do it.
A new Rasmussen Reports National Survey: 64% of American adults think that there are too many Americans dependent on the government for financial aid.
So what are we to conclude here?
People know it's happening.
They know it's wrong.
There's no way to stop it.
They'll only say so anonymously, by the way.
They wouldn't tell you face to face, but in a poll anonymously, they'll say so.
And not just Rasmussen, CBS News, 80% of Americans are unhappy with Washington.
And this is a second article on this poll from CBS, also found that support for gun control is waning.
That was yesterday.
And that was big, and that's why Obama is out big time today trying to move the public opinion back to majority gun control position, which he hasn't been able to pull off.
But yesterday, CBS did have a poll that found support for gun control is waning.
You know what they found?
As gun control is talked about less, so is support for it.
So the less it's talked about, the less there is support for it, which makes total sense.
That's why Obama's back out there today.
But the second part of the poll is that 80% of Americans are unhappy with Washington.
It's actually more than two thirds are unhappy, And 30% are angry.
So if you if you add the two quintiles, you come up with 80% total.
That's the highest number recorded since they began polling this question in 2010.
And across the board, Obama's numbers have plummeted since February.
And they're at CBS, they're chalking that up to the uh sequester gambit not having worked.
But there's also troubling news for the country here.
Most Americans do not see a clear connection between a lower deficit and an improved economy.
So 80% are unhappy with Washington, but they were asked, well, what do you think lowering the deficit would help?
Nope.
Fewer than half believe cutting the deficit will make the economy better.
39% say they weren't sure about that.
On the other hand, just six percent say it would make things worse.
Fascinating stuff if you happen to be a political party that wants to win elections on the basis of the economy.
And I frankly believe that that's where the Republican Party is going to have to end up succeeding.
That that I don't care what else is out there, that is where the Democrat Party's a sitting duck.
And there's no question they're a sitting duck.
The challenge here is to find a way to beat the limbaugh theorem.
There has to be a way to attach Obama to what's happening to the country.
Now, the way Obama continues to escape that attachment is by always campaigning, never appearing to govern.
And thereby he never seems to be in charge of anything that's going wrong.
People here, and of course, we talked about what's happening to news business and who accesses news and how they're being informed in the first hour of the program.
The simple fact of the matter is that Obama has an agenda, and people disagree with it, but they do not associate, they do not link Obama's agenda with the bad things happening in the economy.
They hear Obama say health care premium is going to come down 2500 bucks.
They hear Obama say, I don't care what I do, I'm not raising the deficit by a dime.
And if a program does, I'm not going to do it.
So they hear Obama say all these things because he's president, they believe him, and as such, they're not attaching or associating any of his agenda items, policies, with the direction of the country, which they don't like by a total of 80%.
So it's clear what the Republicans' job is here.
They have got to find a way to overcome the limbaugh theorem.
They have got to find a way to attach Obama to his policies.
And it's going to be very tough for them because they don't really want to be critical of Obama.
Because they think that that's not going to work.
They think that they'll only be criticized.
They think it'll be called racists or bigots or what have you.
But I I know that the gay marriage argument has a lot of people worked up, but I don't think as many as you would be led to believe.
I I think the economy is what has people really, really concerned.
Backpocket.
There's no question.
You know, gay marriage all day long.
If you can't buy gasoline or food, or if you're not confident that you're going to be able to hold on to your house, or worse than that, if you're not confident that the government's not going to come and take the money out of your bank account, you don't care who's marrying who.
If you see what's happening in Cyprus, now we don't know really how many people are, probably very few.
Until ESPN does a story on it, the sports crowd won't know.
Until TMZ does a story on it, the Kardashian crowd won't know.
Till eentertainment network does it, the Justin Bieber crowd won't know.
Until Roger Friedman does a piece on it, the Justin Timberlake crowd won't know.
So we don't know how many Americans know what's happening in Cyprus.
But those who do are scared to death that it could happen here, and they're running around asking if it could.
And the answer is yes.
A statist is a statist, no matter where the statist is.
And an elitist or a series of them who've run their own countries into the ground are going to do everything they can to avoid the blame for it.
And they're also going to make a beeline for the money and wherever it is.
And if it's yours, they're going to come for it.
It's a legitimate fear to have.
And I'm telling you that there are some very wealthy and powerful money manager types that I know, banking people that I know, they're they're terrified that what's happening in Cyprus could in fact happen here.
And that in fact we have in place the very kind of people who would do it.
And would get away with it.
With their voters, the low information crowd.
Try this.
U.S. economy expanded at less than one half of one percent.
Economic growth.
Slightly faster, but still anemic.
Zero point four percent in the fourth quarter of last year.
Commerce department had the news today.
That was slightly better than the previous estimate of 0.1% growth.
Do you believe this?
We're actually this is uh AP trying to make good news out of economic growth of less than one half of one percent.
Zero point four, hey, it's better than what they predicted at 0.1%.
And jobless claims.
The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits rose more than expected last week.
But probably not enough to suggest that the labor market recovery was taking a step back.
No, of course not.
Because the new normal is 8% unemployment.
We have an absolute economic disaster on our hands, and it doesn't matter what's happening with gay marriage or DOMA or any of that.
Those those things are bad, and I I'm not trying to diminish them.
Like the Boy Scouts are convinced they're being bullied by gay rights activists.
Story on that.
Um here.
Anyway, I gotta take a break.
I just saw the clock, and I I've got to get some phone calls in here, so and I'll do that too.
So sit tight.
We continue after this.
Okay, let me grab another phone call here so I can be true to my promises.
This is Philip down in Boca Ratona, Florida.
Hello, sir, and welcome to the EIB network.
Hello, Rush, what a pleasure.
I am so glad I got in today to chime in a little bit about this uh this media issue that uh you brought up in the first hours.
Yes, sir.
I uh I made my transition professionally from terrestrial to digital media or actually streaming media back in 94.
So as such a little backdrop, uh fast forward now, in January of this year after the election, I was invited by three GOP consultant types to have lunch in Boca Ratown to discuss programming ideas to get into how we change this GOP message.
And uh their concept very simply was CNN news style, you know, Fox News style talking heads with the suits and the whole thing, and I just started shaking my head.
I said, you know what?
This is not gonna work for one simple reason.
And he said, What's that?
I said, This does not fit the cultural templates that the audience you're trying to reach desires to watch or receive that message.
It's just not gonna work.
I said, let me demonstrate this.
I said, let me illustrate this.
Our server came up.
Now, this is not just a sandwich dive shop.
We were at a nice restaurant.
Our server came up.
I said, before we give the order, do you mind if I ask you a couple of questions?
He goes, sure, go ahead.
I said, How old are you?
He said, 28.
I said, Did you go to college?
He says, Well, I'm back now.
I'm taking courses to finish up.
I said, Great.
When it's time to get your news, when you get your news, where do you get your information from?
Rush, the M on Mum.
Did that even make it out of my tongue?
And he said, Comedy Central.
And if you would have seen, now the next second was actually an hour almost because the gas in the jaw drop from the three individuals that I was sitting with at lunch was so apparent.
It took the shit aback.
He was like, but I also get my news from the case.
Wait a second.
Well, wait, are you telling me that you were with three consultants, Republicans who were surprised that a 28-year-old watched Comedy Central?
No, they had his news from Comedy Central.
Well, yeah, same difference.
Right, exactly.
Exactly.
And these guys were surprised by that?
They were totally taking them back to an impromptu one question.
Just asking somebody that that was the response.
They were dumbfounded.
Totally dumbfounded.
Well, what were they expecting this 28-year-old to say when you asked him that question or where he gets his news?
Well, obviously they maybe would have thought CNN or MSNBC or what's some of the conventional means by which you and I were used to getting our news as we were growing up that plat that uh platform of, you know, you watch one guy at an anchor desk, and that's how you get news.
Now, the story goes as on, he started bringing out, he says, I have my mobile phone, and I get headlines from this service.
And I know the service, it's called fluent news, and you can just scroll down and get headlines, but you can filter what you want.
Wait, wait, wait, hold on, what's it called?
Fluent news.
I have nothing to do with it, by the way.
It's just I just this is what he showed me.
No, it does have to do with it.
They got a twenty-eight-year-old who's got a website that's feeding him news, and I'm I'm trying to spell it for me.
What is it?
It's an aggregate, it's an aggregate.
Fluent, F-L-U-E-N-T.
It's a it's a news aggregate.
Are you calling us on Skype, by the way?
Uh no, I'm on my mobile phone.
Okay.
It's obviously not an iPhone.
Yes, it is.
I just have my Bluetooth.
It is an iPhone.
That's why it sounds so good.
I th I th I thought I thought you were on Skype.
Well, anyway, it's it's a uh I can't believe that these guys were shocked that a 28-year-old be watching Comedy Central.
I had a uh during the break, I had an email.
Rush.
In all of this talk about gay marriage, I haven't heard what you think about it.
I thought about that.
I asked myself, is my position on this really not known.
Snergley, are you curious as to my position on gay marriage?
Well, let me try it this.
A friend of mine sent me a note, actually.
And it's uh it's got some things in it that I think are are on point.
And as usual, what we're talking about, again, with the left is the language.
The language game, the left really excels at changing the language to benefit them politically.
And they do it in such a way that a lot of people on our side have no idea what's happened until it is too late and the issue is already lost, which this issue is.
This issue is lost.
I I don't care what the Supreme Court does, this is now inevitable.
And it's inevitable because we lost the language on this.
I mentioned the other day that that I've heard people talk about opposite sex marriage, or you might have heard people say traditional marriage.
You might have heard people say heteromarriage.
I maintain to you that we lost the issue when we started allowing the word marriage to be bastardized and redefined by simply adding words to it.
Because marriage is one thing.
And it was not established on the basis of discrimination, it wasn't established on the basis of denying people anything.
Marriage is not a tradition that a bunch of people concocted to be mean to other people with.
But we allowed the left to have people believe that it was structured that way.
And I would go so far as to say that there are some people who think marriage is an evil Republican idea.
Simply because they're the ones that want to hold on to it.
So as far as I'm concerned, once we started talking about gay marriage, traditional marriage, opposite sex marriage, same-sex marriage, heteromarriage, we lost.
It was over.
It was just a matter of time.
Because in uh w once and this is the the point that the friend of mine sent me a note about.
Once you decide to modify the word marriage, then the other side is one.
Or at least they're 90% of the way home.
The best thing that marriage had going for it was basically what they teach you the first day in law school.
If you hang on a horse a sign that says cow, it does not make it a cow.
Although today it might.
And that's where we are.
Five plus five could equal eleven if it works for the Democrats.
And a cow could be a horse if it works for the Democrats.
The thing is, discrimination has never been a part of marriage.
It evolved as the best way to unite men and women in raising a family and in cohabitating a life.
It's not perfect, the divorce rate's what it is, but it evolved as a purpose with a purpose.
It was not a creation of a bunch of elitists wanting to deny people a good time.
It was not created as something to deny people benefits, but it became that.
Once we started bastardizing the definition.
But discrimination is not an issue, and it never was.
No one sensible is against giving homosexuals the rights of contract or inheritance or hospital visits.
There's nobody that wants to deny them that.
The issue has always been denying them a status that they can't have by definition.
And by definition, solely by definition, same-sex people cannot be married.
So instead of maintaining that and holding fast to that, we allowed the argument to be made that the definition needed to change.
on the basis that we're dealing with something discriminatory, bigoted, and all of these mystical things that it's not and never has been.
Let me give you an example.
If I were to say the Obama family has more rights than I do, Obama's family, which hasn't been elected to anything, he was, but he wasn't, or his family wasn't elected to anything.
They get millions of dollars in government benefits.
They are globally admired in a way that I'm not.
My self-esteem is wounded.
The world loves the Obamas and they don't love me.
Therefore, I want to be considered an Obama.
From now on, I want to be an Obama so that people respect me and love me and so that I too can take a vacation every month on a big 747.
So that I too can have access to the Federal Treasury.
I want to be an Obama.
I want to be Rush Hudson Obama the first.
Look at all the benefits the Obamas have.
And by the way, the Obamas, only one of them got elected to anything.
But look at all the benefits they get that I don't get.
And look at all the admiration that they get that I don't get.
And look at all the media fawning they get that I don't get.
Don't tell me that I can't be an Obama just because I'm not an Obama.
Just because I'm not a member of the family doesn't mean I can't be an Obama.
I want to be an Obama.
And I want to have all the benefits Obama gets.
I want to be loved.
I want to be rich without having to use any of my own money.
I want to be able to blame everybody else for what's going on, and I want to be able to get away with not being blamed for anything.
I really, really want to be an Obama.
And they won't let me.
They're discriminating against me.
Being an Obama would make me happy.
The Constitution says the right or the declaration of right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.
I would be happy if I was an Obama.
And they won't let me be an Obama.
So the law has to change.
The law has to change so that I can become an Obama.
Just change the definition of what a family is.
And I could be an Obama.
It's easy.
The whole definition of a family is perverted in this country.
Why can't everybody be a Rockefeller?
Why can't everybody be a Kennedy?
Why can't everybody be an Obama?
I want to be an Obama.
That'd make me happy.
I would even I'd probably be a loving person if I were an Obama.
Well, this is what we're hearing about marriage.
I want to be happy.
It's not affecting anybody else.
Wouldn't matter to anybody.
Pursuit of happiness, love.
And don't don't don't tell me that I already have all the same legal rights as Michelle has.
That's not good enough.
I want to feel like an Obama.
And so the law has to change so that I can say I am an Obama.
And if you think that that's absurd, if you think that my wanting to be an Obama for all the reasons that I've stated, and if you think that my feelings being hurt because I can't be an Obama, and if you think my being offended because I can't be an Obama, you're a bigot.
You're a hater.
You are trying to deny me something I want that wouldn't hurt anybody else.
Wouldn't affect anybody else.
Wouldn't affect anybody else.
I just want to be an Obama.
And the fact that this society isn't liberated enough, and is not kind enough to let me be an Obama means it has to change.
even if I have to take this all the way to Supreme Court.
Don't wait, Rush, you're not an Obama.
It doesn't matter.
I want to be one.
And it's this stupid country's problem and fault that I can't.
And I'm unhappy and I'm miserable, I'm discriminated against.
Look at all I'm missing out on.
Really, folks, look at all that I am not getting because I can't be an Obama.
What?
And so I think the law has to change, and I think we have to change the definition of family.
So that I can be an Obama.
Back in just a second.
In the drive-by media yesterday, the push was gay marriage.
Today, in the drive-by media, the push is gun control.
That's all they're talking about.
So tomorrow, a wild guess that we'll be back to amnesty.
Tomorrow.
And that'll set us up for Sunday shows on all three.
And then Monday, back to whatever's hot then.
Anyway, folks, have a uh have a great rest of the day today.
Thanks so much as always for being with us.
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