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March 29, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 29, 2013, Friday, Hour #3
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Look at this.
George Stephanopoulos on ABC said that the Treasury, U.S. Treasury could gain an additional.
Let's see, up to one billion dollars a year with gay marriage.
That gay marriage would benefit the government one billion dollars a year.
Let's let's take a look at that using this DOMA case here just a second, shall we?
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And again on Friday, whatever you want to talk about is hunky dory.
It's cool, it's fine, no restrictions, as there are Monday through Thursday.
And the only restriction there is that you have to talk about something I care about.
I'm not going to sit here and be bored because in the audience will be bored and then they won't listen.
And that's why Friday's a great risk.
I throw it open to people that might even bore me, but I'll try to not act like it.
See, that's the key.
Again, 800-282-2882.
Okay, uh, the widow Windsor in the DOMA case.
Now, as I mentioned to the um the caller from Nutley, New Jersey.
If if Edie Windsor, the woman in the case, and her partner were sisters, she'd have to pay this tax.
So why isn't it discrimination that sisters cannot marry in order to avoid this tax?
Now you see the approach here to conservatives to support this is, hey, you guys don't like taxes.
We all think government takes too much money, government's too powerful, so we ought to come together on this and agree that Edie Windsor ought to be able to have her marriage acknowledged so that she doesn't have to give up any of her inheritance.
Like a standard spouse would not have to give up when he or she became widowed or widowed.
And it illustrates, I think, uh, an interesting point.
Maybe, let's throw this out there.
Maybe the libertarians have a point on this.
The problem is that we give benefits that we shouldn't give.
Folks, I'm gonna tell you the government starts passing out money, and that's it.
You you talked to any beat cop in a city with homeless shelters, and the minute the word spreads there's free food, the lines increase like crazy.
You start giving things away.
People realize the government exists or think the government exists for them to live off of and to get money.
What are they gonna do?
Try this.
Enrollment in food stamps is skyrocketing.
Now, theoretically, we're in an economic recovery.
I'm saying theoretically, the the the media and uh in the realm of low information voters, we're in a recovery, right?
To low information voters, pay attention only to the mainstream media and and the Obama-loving Twitter universe, we're in a recovery.
Well, that ought to cause a reduction in food stamp rolls, and it always has in the past.
When the economy is growing, enrollment in such programs like like the food stamp decline.
Supplemental nutritional assistance program, the buy beer program with a government credit card program.
Those participants usually decrease in number, not happening.
As our economy continues in recovery, the food stamp rolls are increasing.
Now, I know the economy isn't in recovery, so it sort of blows the theory.
But just for the sake of argument.
Maybe the problem is here is money that we are giving benefits that we ought not give.
Maybe there ought not be any government financial benefit to being married.
Then a lot of these issues might go away.
Not all of them, though, because a lot of people in the gay marriage side are simply looking to have their behavior sanctioned with the official government approval of marriage.
It's a quest for lack of a better word for normalcy.
But why are there financial benefits in marriage?
Why is there the personal exemption for every crumb cruncher you produce?
Because the state has a vested interest in the population maintaining or growing.
And an acknowledgement by the state that it's expensive to have children.
You have to feed them, you have to clothe them and so forth.
So there was a basic acknowledgement of two things.
It was in the state's interest, the society, the population's interest for there to be at least at bare minimum a replacement level birth rate, meaning keep the population what it is.
Ideally, you want a growing population.
So the benefits were meant to encourage families.
But we've blown the notion of family to smithereens, or we're in the process of it.
So that argument has sort of been has been watered down.
In other words, the widow Windsor should have to pay $363,000 she owed in back taxes, just like anybody else would that isn't married, that inherits money.
There's 55% inheritance tax.
But maybe we ought to say that nobody gets any breaks because of being married.
No health care breaks, no tax breaks, no nothing.
In fact, that may be the way things are bound to turn out, because we can't afford all this anyway.
We can't afford to give breaks even to opposite sex marriages.
Look at me, there I go, bastardizing my own term.
Opposite sex marriage.
Now let's go to the audio soundbite, shall we?
Take you back to me on this program March 26th, was just three days ago.
There is a movement in this country that you don't hear much about called polyamory.
Our caller art said, oh no, no, no, no, no, no.
That's where I draw the line.
You can't have more than two people get married.
Well, there's a movement for that.
And the proponents are being urged to shut up about it and just do it.
There is a movement, polyamory, multiple spouses, and we had the story about the movement as an official, you know, trade organization, lobbying group, but the members are being urged to shut up about it so that nobody knows, so that there won't be any pushback.
DOMA was pushback, by the way.
DOMA was pushed back against gay marriage.
Bill Clinton and Hillary and all the Democrats that supported DOMA back in 1997 didn't have the guts to say they were opposed to same-sex marriage because of the campaign donations that come in from the from the gay community, Hollywood particularly, but all over.
They didn't have the guts to say they were opposed to same-sex marriage, so they came up with DOLMA, the Defense of Marriage Act, which defined marriage federal purposes of that between a man and a woman.
Because back then, that's that that's how you, if you're Clinton, that's how you kept your approval rating at 60%, or you got re-elected.
But DOMA, in in one sense, was pushback.
Minor pushback, but nevertheless that it was.
So now we get polyamory.
Let's go to the audio summary.
You know, last night ABC has a show in primetime called Wife Swap.
They do.
They have a program Called Wife Swap.
And last night, they swap a Tea Party activist with a polyamorous family.
I'm not kidding you.
And the Tea Partiers are painted as the Bible thumping freaks.
And the polyamorous family portrayed as the open-minded, full of love, and sympathetic bunch.
The wives are Gina Loudoun, a San Diego Tea Party activist, and a New York polyamorous wife, Angela Envy.
And here is how the program opened.
Tonight on Wife Swap.
Two very different wives, a gun-toting Tea Party activist.
If you can't defend your rights, then you don't have any rights.
And a polyamorous wife who lives with her husband and their girlfriend.
I couldn't imagine that without her.
It's crazy, but I love it.
You shouldn't doubt me.
ABC last night, sw wife swap.
The official program observer has raised his hand for question.
Yes, Mr. Snerdley, what is it?
I don't know, Snerdley.
I don't know how far.
I mean, I just I I happen to stumble across this last night.
I don't even know how.
But it bottom line is how far does the wife swap thing go?
Well, do you want to play?
I I I saw I assume they do.
It's like home makeover.
I assume they they literally swap.
That's what the program is.
Do they totally Yeah, I know what you mean.
I know what swapping wives mean.
That we see Dawn, Dawn singing.
There's no kissing or that we see.
We don't know what's we don't know what goes on when the cameras aren't rolling.
Strip poker, who knows what's going on in there.
Anyway, my my my point here is that they've got a Tea Party activist that they swap with a woman in a polyamorous relationship.
And the Tea Party activist is a funny duty Bible thumping closed-minded bigot.
And the wife that's in the polyamorous relationship is loving open-minded and loves both of her partners.
Here, listen to the setup again.
Grab soundbite number eight again, and place the setup is the intro to the ABC show Wife Swap.
Tonight on Wife Swap, two very different wives, a gun-toting tea party activist.
If you can't defend your rights, then you don't have any rights.
And a polyamorous wife who lives with her husband and their girlfriend.
I couldn't imagine that without her.
It's crazy, but I love it.
I worked live for two weeks.
Okay, and the tea party wife is Gina Loudon, and the polyamorous wife is Angela Envy, and she lives with her husband and their girlfriend.
Not his or her girlfriend, their girlfriend.
Now here's another bite on the tea party side.
This is another portion of the announcer describing the scene in the program Wife Swap.
Meet Gina Loudoun from San Diego, California.
You take Hitler, you take Mussolini, you take Paul Pot.
They're all liberals.
Let's not forget that.
Gina is a journalist, author, political pundit, and staunch supporter of the Tea Party movement.
Faith is the cornerstone of the Loudoun family.
He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the Lord.
My family is grounded in God.
We are Christians.
We believe in Jesus Christ.
I don't think the government should regulate how many guns I own.
People are afraid of the guns, so they just want to throw them all away.
Did you did you hear that?
They have her said, My family's grounded in God.
We're Christians, we believe in Jesus Christ.
And then that there's a gunshot.
ABC puts a gunshot in there.
Did you catch that?
All right.
So they we get one more.
Here's how they describe the polyamorous tree.
You just, you just heard it.
This this woman may as well be Sarah Palin, right?
Bible thumping.
Everybody in the left Hitler Mussolini Pole Pot.
They were liberals.
Let's grab our gun and kill everybody.
Is how the Tea Party wife is portrayed.
Now let's go to the polyamorous wife and listen to the announcer talk about this trio.
In New York is the non-political and polyamorous Envy family.
Me and Cruss have been married eight years now.
And Ashley is our girlfriend, Chris.
Angela and I have like a very passionate, loving relationship.
I've just become part of the whole family.
I had no idea that it was gonna develop into an actual relationship, but uh happy it did.
Ashley fits into the family perfectly.
I was hanging out with them more as friends in the beginning, and it just turned into more.
I went from being a college girl to living in a house with four children.
The trio all live together with Chris and Angela's children.
Oh, how loving.
Oh man, how wonderful are these people.
Now, can I now that you've heard it, I'm gonna go back and I'll play those two things back to back for you.
And I just want to tell you that it's an hour-long show.
We could have done endless sound bites.
But the way it turns out, the way the show turns out is about three-quarters of the way through the show, the Tea Party wife gets thrown out of the polyamorous house.
The Tea Party family drops out of the show.
They are painted as intolerant Bible thumping prudes.
The polyamorous family are the normal, loving, sympathetic characters whose worst trait is eating a lot of junk food.
If you watch the whole show, that's how it unfolded.
Now, this is not insignificant, folks.
This is prime time television.
This is the kind of thing that has been going on and taking place that slowly but surely chips away at what used to be normal and now what justifies all these days.
Perfectly, it's cool.
Three people in a relationship, four people, cool.
I love it.
Fine, man, let's all get married.
And this is how young people get softened up to it to accept all this, having no clue what they're doing, because they haven't been raised with any moral foundation, and yet the Tea Party family is thrown off the show because they're a bunch of closed-minded.
Intolerant Bible thumping prudes.
Let me take a break.
We'll come back.
I'll play those two things back to back so that you can once again hear the different ways the two families are portrayed.
Don't go away.
And we're back.
Okay, I want to play these uh sound bites back to back.
Snerdley just said, when did this start?
The network deciding to publicize, promote what have you the whole notion of polyamory.
I don't know.
But it's aid it's Disney.
Disney owns ABC.
That's not the point here.
That there's another quote.
Why would this Loudoun family do this?
This is this is why, folks, we need an academy.
For conservatives to tell them, I don't care how much you want you want fame, do not rely on the mainstream media or networks to give it to you.
They're gonna just impugn you, laugh at you, make fun of you and so forth, which is what's which is what's happening.
Okay, here's the announcer introducing the Loudoun family, the Tea Partiers.
Meet Gina Loudo from San Diego, California.
You take Hitler, you take Mussolini, you take Paul Pot.
They were all liberals.
Let's not forget that.
Gina is a journalist, author, political pundit, and staunch supporter of the Tea Party movement.
Faith is the cornerstone of the Loudoun family.
He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the Lord.
My family is grounded in God.
We are Christians, we believe in Jesus Christ.
I don't think the government should regulate how many guns I own.
People are afraid of the guns, so they just want to throw them all away.
Me and Crus have been married eight years now, and Ashley is our girlfriend, Chris.
Angela and I have like a very passionate, loving relationship.
I've just become part of the whole family.
I had no idea that it was gonna develop into an actual relationship, but uh happy it did.
Ashley fits into the family perfectly.
I was hanging out with them more as friends in the beginning, and it just turned into more.
I went from being a college girl to living in a house with four children.
The trio all live together with Chris and Angela's children.
So the Louden family, we believe in Jesus Christ.
Gunshot.
Bang.
This other the the polyamorous family.
Oh, they're loving.
They're sensitive.
They just love the kids.
The other much Hitler Mussolini.
Give us our guns.
We want to shoot people right after we praise Christ.
Bang.
Anyway, I gotta take a dunno, folks.
Timeout.
Back after this.
Don't go away.
Now that that wife swap show, I mean, folks, that's it.
That that if you if you go to any online discussion forum, I check this.
You go to any online discussion forum where they are talking about this episode, you will see that the Tea Party family is being excoriated and ridiculed for being a bunch of bigoted hicks.
That show is a microcosm of how we've lost the low information or who the low information voters are.
That that that episode right there.
Now, before we get back to the phones, two more things.
I don't know if you've heard this or not.
Dr. Benjamin Carson.
This literally depresses me.
That I have I have no other way characterizing this.
Neurosurgeon, Johns Hopkins, Medical Center.
The medical students graduating class have asked that he be replaced as their commencement speaker.
And he said, okay, fine, I'll step aside.
It's their day.
I don't want to intrude on their day.
But man, these are students where this guy works, and they don't want him to be their commencement speaker because of his political beliefs as espoused on TV.
Medical students.
Not social workers, medical students.
To me, that's evidence that that I don't know what it is.
We're losing the country or what have you.
Now let's let's let's move on.
It gets even better.
There's a an internet sports site called SB blog.
I think it's called SB blog.
I'm not sure which.
That's close enough.
The other day, they were covering on their website a playoff game in the NCAA tournament.
They posted a picture of like eight or nine white guy fans who were cheering their team's victory.
This blog posted a picture of these guys, made fun of them for being too white.
They looked like spastics the way they were cheering.
And why were they even there in the first place?
I saw the picture.
These guys were just enjoying the game.
Their team was winning or did win.
These guys were in their 50s and 60s, and they were just excoriated, laughed at, impugned, and for for cheering in in a way that they were just too white.
Now we go to last night on CBS Road to the Final Four pregame show.
Panel discussion before Marquette Miami.
The co-host Greg Anthony said to coanalyst Doug Gottlieb, I I think we're gonna have four terrific games tonight, Doug.
I think they're gonna be pretty evenly matched as it should be for the sweet sixteen.
I don't know why you guys ask me.
I'm just here to bring diversity to the set here.
Give the kind of white man's perspective on things.
Point guard position, no.
No.
There's sparse laughter because they were embarrassed.
These guys are four guys in the set.
Doug Gottlieb says, I don't even know why I'm here.
I'm just, I guess just to bring the white man's perspective on things.
And they say, Oh, you're the point guard, meaning.
Why would you talk about how how polarized are we?
How sensitized.
The white guy on the CBS set has to have essentially said, I don't know why I'm here, maybe just to give the white man's perspective on things.
Now, amazingly, you know, we do the people he was cracking a joke.
He was trying to be funny, but still the sensitization that this guy has to feel to make that joke.
And then he makes the joke, and nobody thought it was funny.
They got livid out there.
And last night on CBS road to the final four during the halftime show.
They called in Chuck Barkley.
And they wanted Chuck to offer input.
And this is what Chuck said.
I know this has nothing to do with the game.
I want to say something about Doug Gottlieb.
He made a joke earlier tonight, and people are going crazy, all those idiots on Twitter, which I would never ever do.
Listen, me Kenny and Greg Outley and Greg Gilman did not take that personally.
So all you people at home who got no life who are talking bad about Doug Gobley, get a life.
It's over with.
Apparently there was outrage out there on Twitter that Gottlieb would ever say I'm just a white guy here with my perspective on things.
And Chuck wanted everybody to know that it wasn't any big deal.
To the black guys on the set.
I still can't believe that the med students at Johns Hopkins said we don't want Ben Carson here.
You can it's over same-sex marriage.
Of course.
I know.
He made a comment about same-sex marriage court.
I forgot to throw that in.
So about same-sex marriage, and the offended me and one there.
They don't want him there.
Here's uh do you understand why I said this is inevitable now, folks.
Okay, here's here's uh Mark in Orlando Markets.
Great to have you.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Thank you, sir.
When I woke up this morning, I had no idea I would be talking to the Pope on Good Friday.
And in Rush, unlike Joe Bite me, I would kiss your ring.
Just to let you know.
I appreciate that, sir.
I I wouldn't let you, but I appreciate the uh well.
I'll just tell you, Rush, my four-year-old Reagan is in awe that I get to speak to you today, so thank you.
MSNBC, right now they were moments ago, had a graphic headline on the screen.
Dr. Carson under fire for controversial comments.
All you have to do in America, and I heard him and his his same-sex marriage comments, and they were they were offered and delivered in the mildest manner possible.
As he says everything.
And you would have thought that this guy has just suggested putting people in jail.
And so the students, the graduating med students don't want any part of Dr. Ben Carson.
Now it's all over the Ben Carson.
Under fire.
Controversial comments.
Doesn't he have a civil right to free speech?
A brief timeout.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Okay, folks, what we are witnessing here, we are in the midst of mob rule.
There is no other way to characterize this.
Ridicule and wear down anyone or institution that does not relent.
Now, here is what here's what Ben Carson said here's some of the gay marriage definition.
And he said this uh uh last night on Fox said it's a well-established fundamental pillar of society, marriages and no group, be they gays, be they namla, be they people who believe in bestiality, it doesn't matter what they are.
They don't get to change the definition.
So it's not something that's just against gays.
He's talking about anybody who wants to come along and change the fundamental definitions of the pillars of society.
It has significant ramifications.
And he's not going to sit there and be silent while people want to come around and change the fundamental definitions of pillars of society.
He's saying what Chief Justice Roberts said.
And before the quote that I just read you, Dr. Carson said, well, my thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman.
It's a well-established, fundamental pillar of society.
And no group, be they gays, be they Nambla, be they people who believe in bestiality, it doesn't matter what they are.
They don't get to change the definition.
Well, So Carson said it's not something against gays, it's against anybody who wants to come along and change the fundamental definitions of pillars of society.
And so now we've got mob rule.
In the midst of all this talk about equality, folks, in the midst of all this talk about the pursuit of happiness and equality.
Dr. Benjamin Carson, who is the epitome of grace, by the way, not allowed to voice his opinion.
Which is a formerly mainstream position, by the way.
He's not allowed to do that without being punished.
The First Amendment applies to vile, hateful people, but not to a thoughtful, brilliant surgeon.
Vile, hateful people can say whatever they want about whoever.
And the way this happened, he goes on Fox, he says this, Media Matters pulled the quote and sent it out to their trolls.
The mainstream media caught up with it, flavored it, shaped it the way they wanted it.
And the medical students at John's Hopkins said, My God, our professor's a bigot.
We can't have our commencement speaker be a bigot.
Meanwhile, have you heard about the black lawmaker down in Alabama?
What is this guy?
Joseph Mitchell of Mobile.
He sent an email to a constituent, Jefferson County, Alabama guy.
And in his email, he said he referred to the constituents, slave holding, murdering, adulterous, baby raping incestuous kinfolk.
It's an African American member of the legislature in Alabama.
And a black lawmaker that he didn't now say that he didn't break any legislative rules when writing that email referring to a white constituent's ancestors as incestuous slave owners.
This from the Alabama House of Representatives leader, Republican House Speaker Mike Hubbard of Auburn, said today that neither he nor most other legislators share the views of Democrat Representative Joseph Mitchell of Mobile.
I can't believe he'd put something like that out, but he's got his free speech rights, and he can write his constituent that all day long.
He can he can call his constituent a slaveholding, murderous, adulterous, baby raping, incestuous kinfolk.
And Republicans in Alabama will defend his First Amendment rights to do that.
Ben Carson goes on Fox and says you don't get to redefine the definition of a pillar of society.
Doesn't matter who you are.
Barack Obama, by the way, said much the same thing in 2004.
In a U.S. Senate campaign debate with Alan Keyes.
Obama said marriage is between one man and one woman.
He said that he supports civil unions, but not gay marriage.
He stated that his religion dictated that marriage was defined this way, and that when a man and a woman are married, they are performing something before God.
In June of 2006, Obama, Senator Obama, said on the Senate floor that marriage was between one man and one woman.
He spoke during the debate over a constitutional amendment on marriage and asserted his support for marriage as one man and one woman and his view that debating the issue was merely a distraction from real issues.
That was Obama.
Now I guarantee you the med students at Johns Hopkins would welcome Obama.
So folks, I'm telling you, we we're in the midst of mob rule now.
In this case, led by the trolls at Media Matters, and then aided and abetted by the so-called mainstream media, the drive-bys.
You ridicule and you wear down any one or institution that does not relent.
Amidst all this talk of equality.
Ben Carson's not allowed to voice his opinion.
His opinion is a formerly mainstream position.
He can't he can't articulate that now without being punished.
So we're going to protect the vile, hateful people out there, but not Ben Carson.
After him, as far as Carson, he said about being removed, replaced.
Well, that's okay.
It's their day.
I've got to close it out.
Be back here in just a second.
I hope you have a wonderful Easter.
Gosh, can I say that?
I can still say have a happy Easter.
Good.
At least this year we can.
Have a happy Easter and a great weekend, folks.
It's not a three-day holiday, so we will be back on Monday.
We would be here anyway, even if it was.
See you Monday.
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