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April 2, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 2, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #3
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As promised, here we are, big friends.
We're back at it.
Rush Limbaugh occupying the distinguished and prestigious Attila the Hun chair at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
It's great to have you here.
Telephone number 800-282-2882 and the email address, illrushbo at eibnet.com.
Time magazine, latest cover shows two men kissing and has the blaring headline, gay marriage all ready one.
W-O-N.
Two men are kissing.
There's also another cover with two women kissing, same headline.
And it reminds me of the Newsweek cover that said, we're all socialists now.
It reminds me of the old Time magazine cover when they learned that men and women are actually different.
I did a cover story on that.
So there is a guy at CNN.
I forget his name.
He's one of their opinion writers.
I never heard of him.
It doesn't matter who it is.
Writing a piece based on the Time magazine cover.
You know what he says?
Hey, since Limbaugh said it, that's it.
That Limbaugh said gay marriage is inevitable, it's inevitable.
That's not this guy's problem.
Since I said it, gay marriage is going to happen.
But his problem is when?
He said, if the Supreme Court does not have a sweeping ruling and make gay marriage legal in all 50 states, what happens between now and the time Limbaugh's right?
And Limbaugh says it's inevitable, it's going to happen, but when is it going to happen?
And what happens in the interim?
So even when they think they're on the cusp of victory, they have to find something to worry about regarding it.
How about this?
Somebody, I don't remember who wrote this or might have been a blog post, whoever it was was speculating.
But in an era where fewer and fewer people seem to value marriage, period, in an era when fewer and fewer people want to get married, the gay community is making tracks to get married.
So this, whoever it was that wrote this post, had a question.
Is it possible that marriage relationships could do more to upset the balance of nature in the gay community than anything else by stigmatizing those who aren't married?
In other words, this guy, I wish I could remember who it was, but it was one of these posts which had the theme, be careful what you ask for, you might get it.
And it was sort of a warning to homosexuals, are you sure you really want this?
Well, no, no, not that they're going to be miserable being married, but not all of them are going to get married.
And what about those who don't, but continue to have, you know, cohabitating relationship but don't get married?
Will there be a stigma attached to them?
Either they're not advancing the cause or some such thing.
Or in the case of the old days when heteros lived together but didn't get married, and that was frowned upon at one point in our culture.
Parents didn't like that.
The old shotgun wedding, shacking up, it was called.
And so this guy, I wish, I really, it might have been a woman, I can't recall, was wondering if homosexual marriage will segregate the gay community in ways they've never pondered being segregated.
I have no idea.
I thought it was an interesting thought pattern to have.
Because there is, in the gay community, there is this headlong push to get married.
Now, now, I know, I know, I know, I know.
I know what some of you are saying.
You're probably shouting at the radio.
Rush, it isn't about marriage.
It's actually about tearing it apart.
I understand you think that.
It's about redefining things so that more and more is considered standard, ordinary, everyday normal.
It's not that there's this desire to get married because marriage is great.
It's because of the achievement here of breaking down another barrier.
But even so, even if that's relevant, there are going to be gay couples married and gay couples who aren't married.
And will there be any kind of a stigma attached to either side of that?
Well, I remember back when John and Yoko got married, the big question that they were always asked was, why'd you bother to get married?
It's so unhip and so uncool.
And they said, John and Yoko said, yeah, I know, marriage is a joke, but we like the ritual.
You remember that?
It was, yeah, after the sleep-in.
Tommy Smothers sitting there strumming on a banjo in the bed.
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
All I could say is, has anybody changed the bed sheets lately?
Okay, what's his name?
Bob Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television.
He is not a happy camper out there.
BET founder Bob Johnson said last week America would never tolerate white unemployment at 14 or 15 percent as it is in the black community.
And yet unemployment for black community has been double that of white Americans for over 50 years.
This country would never tolerate white unemployment, 14 or 15 percent.
No one would ever stay in office at 14 or 15 percent unemployment in this nation.
We've had that double unemployment for over 50 years.
Bob Johnson speaking at a national press club, he said that the challenge was to figure out why the unemployment rate for blacks has been so high.
And if that doesn't change, somebody's going to have to pay, he said.
Bob Johnson, BET, self-made, said, if this unemployment situation doesn't change, somebody is going to have to pay 34 million African Americans are not going to leave this country just because they don't have jobs.
Somebody's going to have to pay them.
If you won't hire them, you're going to have to pay them.
Somebody's going to have to pay for them, he said.
Somebody's going to have to take care of them.
And if somebody's going to have to take care of them, that money's got to come from somebody.
And whoever's paying for it is going to be upset about it.
And they're going to start looking for somebody to blame.
You know what the real question is here?
Because I'm amazed that this A happens and B gets reported in a vacuum.
Now, we currently have the first black president.
And many African Americans thought that alone meant a reversal of their fortunes.
Many black Americans thought the election of Barack Obama would end their economic plight.
And of course it hasn't.
In fact, let's be honest, it's gotten worse.
Black unemployment is worse.
It's not the same as it was for 50 years.
It's gotten worse.
That's what Johnson doesn't talk about.
He talks about nobody get elected.
The real question here is what happened?
This nation supposedly overcame all of this discrimination and inequality.
We elected the first black president.
Why is there so much black unemployment?
That's the question.
I myself wonder how many in the black community who voted for Obama are asking the same thing.
I wonder how many of them are saying, I thought you were going to fix this, bro.
And then there's another question.
How many African Americans have been dumbed down watching BET?
How many of young African Americans have been watching BET and don't care that they're unemployed?
Does Bob Johnson have any responsibility or does Obama have any responsibility?
I mean, you know, you know that not just African Americans, there were a bunch of white Americans that voted for Obama on the belief, with the belief that all these things were going to change.
Many African Americans thought the election of a black president was going to mean a 180 degrees phase reversal in their lives.
They really thought it was going to mean that, and everything has gotten worse.
There has to be this undertow of quit, but the distrust and dislike of Republicans is still much, much greater than the disappointment, to whatever degree it exists, with Obama for failing to come through.
How about this headline, New York Post?
A disease called childhood.
Do you know, ladies and gentlemen, one out of every five kids in this country is struggling with mental illness.
We're told in this story.
One out of every five kids is on a drug for attention deficit disorder.
One of every five, primarily boys, but all kids, one out of every five is hyper.
One out of every five, something dramatically wrong.
They need drugs.
This is a diagnosis.
This is not, well, I don't think it's reality.
It's what somebody claims is reality.
Alan Francis, MD, chairperson of the task force for the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, has a new book called Saving Normal: An Insider's Revolt Against Out of Control Psychiatric Diagnosis.
Last week, New York Post reported that more than 145,000 city children, 145,000 kids in New York City, struggle with mental illness or other emotional problems.
That estimate equals an amazing one in five kids.
Could it possibly be true?
This guy believes that there's a massive mislabeling of psychiatric diagnosis among children because of recent medical fads.
In the last 20 years, the rates of attention deficit disorder have tripled, while autistic disorder and childhood bipolar disorder have each increased by a remarkable 40-fold.
So, in the last 20 years, in fact, let's go back prior to the last 20 years, we'd never heard of attention deficit disorder.
We'd never heard of this hyperkinetic diagnosis.
We hadn't heard of autism, or we were on the verges of it.
Now, one in five kids has it.
And the parents, basically, we're drugging kids into a mellow, non-interruptive, don't bother the parents state.
Isn't that what it is?
Don't bother the teachers.
Don't bother the parents.
Here's some riddling or whatever you give them.
Don't bother the girls.
Oh, yeah.
Don't bother the girls.
Don't be too active.
Stay still.
Except when Michelle wants you to get active, then you get active.
But other than that, don't.
We don't want to have to worry about where you're going or what you're doing.
In other words, we don't want you to be boys.
We don't want you to be what nature had in store for you because we don't want to deal with it.
So we've come up with these.
Now, I'm going to tell you, I have shared this theory with a bunch of people I know who have kids, and they won't hear of it.
They will not hear of it.
It is stunning to me how many people are comfortable with having themselves or their kids diagnosed with some disorder because it's an excuse.
It's an explanation.
It's a justification for a whole bunch of things that don't go right.
The drug companies enjoy it.
The therapist community, if you can call it that, enjoys it.
And the girls enjoy it because they're not being harassed.
They enjoy it for a while.
Then they start thinking it's them.
At some point, girls want the attention of boys.
At some point.
If only to reject it, they still want it.
The boys are not even going to college anymore in greater and greater numbers because there's nothing there for them other than the girls, and the girls are not worth being around.
Because the girls have been told various things about the boys.
You can get government benefits if your child has attention deficit disorder.
And adults can get SSDI if they have attention deficit disorder.
We had one on the phone yesterday.
SSDI, SSI, food stamps, 10 different pharmacists, bipolar, depression.
Everybody's screwed up.
And now we have justification reason for it.
I got to take a break.
Back with more.
Don't go away.
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Welcome back.
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There's an interesting statistic in this New York Post story about how drugged up kids are.
Medication use in children in America has skyrocketed.
The biggest drugs being prescribed are anti-psychotic drugs, which, it says here, cause an average 12-pound weight gain in 12 weeks in kids who started out weighing 110 pounds.
So many of the anti-psychotic drugs happen to feature weight gain.
One of the reasons why is they slowed down the metabolism.
It's all part of the mellowing out process.
And the metabolism is slowed and weight gain takes place.
But seriously, the amount of medication being prescribed to children in America today would not even have been thought of 20 years ago.
Many people look at this as progress.
A lot of other people don't.
Got more coming up.
Don't go away.
And did you know that people who slack off at work do a better job?
Well, I've got both those stories.
But first, we are going to go to Marshall in Dayton, Ohio.
Hi, Marshall.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
How you doing, Rush?
I said hi.
Yeah, I said hi.
I said, how are you doing?
I'm doing great.
How are you?
Excellent, excellent, excellent.
All right, let's talk about the Obamacare situation because way back when you were talking about that, that's when I called in and talked to Mr. Snurgly.
And what I was talking about was an opportunity that is presenting itself if certain individuals decide to take advantage of it.
And that is primarily the so-called low-information voters, as you call them.
When they start getting these high bills for insurance, because for example, in the state of Ohio, where I'm located, health insurance premiums are expected to go up as high as 80%.
Now, you know, kind of like that analogy where, you know, how do you get the attention of a donkey, you know, it's not paying attention to you.
You want him to move.
Just smack him upside the head with a two-by-four.
Well, when these people get these bills that are coming, they're going to be basically smacked upside the head, and they're going to realize that this is not supposed to be what was supposed to happen.
Obama kept talking about the Affordable Health Care Act was going to lower insurance rates and all this kind of thing.
So when the exact opposite happens, and these people realize they have to pay for it, they're going to be pretty picked off.
And if there's a campaign already in place to take advantage of the fact that, hey, look, we told you this was going to happen, but you didn't listen to us, but we told you it was going to happen.
And now what you need to do is vote those people out of Congress that voted for this stuff because they knew it was going to happen.
They knew that you were going to be paying higher rates.
And there you go.
There is one potential problem with your scenario.
Frustrates me to say so, but there's one potential problem.
And don't doubt me on this.
Right now, the Republican brand, if you will, is so mired in negativity that nobody wants them to be right.
I understand that.
I got the answer.
And the answer is this, because Republicans have proven that they are not smart enough to handle this particular situation to begin with.
They're the ones that allowed their brand to become so sully and tainted, okay?
And actually, and this is something I really don't have an answer for, it all really kind of began when W was in office because, for example, he allowed his brand to be sully and tainted over the weapons of mass destruction thing.
Oh, there was no weapons of mass destruction.
It was all a lie, blah, blah, blah, blah.
However, the truth was, and he knew it, and Carl Rose knew it as well.
The truth was that the original intelligence about the weapons of mass destruction being over there in Iraq came from the Clinton administration and was reported by ABC News and the Guardian UK.
All right?
As a matter of fact, if people go on the internet and look for that, they'll find it.
As a matter of fact, if you will remember the big CNN debacle that happened in Columbus, Ohio, when Castleberger, Madeline Albright, and William Cohen had that town meeting that CNN promoted, and it was going to be about the explanation of why we got to bomb Iraq.
I remember it.
I remember it.
Bernie Shaw lost control of the crowd.
And I was there credentialed as a media representative.
I was boots on the ground.
I saw it personally.
And so the thing about it is this.
That is where the whole weapons of mass destruction idea came from.
So after 9-11, when both Condie Rice and W are talking about we can't wait for a mushroom cloud to happen, it's because there's a situation whereby we had to take these murmur serious because people were willing to kill Americans and had already proven it.
So when the media started hitting W about you lied about weapons of mass destruction, you're ever going to have weapons of mass destruction.
Now, wait, wait just a second.
Wait a minute.
All of this doesn't matter.
You're not.
Everything you're saying is true, but nobody is blaming the Democrats today for it.
Nobody's blaming the intelligence community.
Everybody's blaming Bush for lying about it, no matter what you know to be right.
My point is, let me finish the statement here.
The other day, a group of people sat down with some people and proposed solutions to the country's problems, issue by issue, overwhelming.
55, 60% of people agreed with a conservative solution until they found out they were Republican ideas and they said to hell with it and they ran away.
Now, in your scenario, in your scenario where we start setting a table, we know what's going to go wrong.
We know the price is going to skyrocket.
We wait for it to happen to these young punks.
When it happens to them, we're there.
We say, see, we told you so.
They're going to say you're Republicans and we don't want to hear anything from you, and we don't want you to be right.
And so we're going to stick with the Democrats.
That's how bad the situation is.
I have the solution, okay, to that.
Well, because this idea, by the way, Rush, I'm not a Republican.
I'm an independent.
Just tell me what the solution is.
Don't take me back to Clinton in 1998 and Dayton.
I won't, because here's the solution.
The solution is that it's not a Republican effort.
In other words, we have a fifth column effort going on.
We have a totally different group of people that get just concerned about the truth and getting the truth out there and has the stones to get the job done the way it's got to be done, which Republicans have proved they do not have.
Okay?
Now, I said I'm an independent.
I'm a conservative independent, but I'm an independent.
All right?
And the thing I recognize, which a lot of Republicans obviously seem to be clueless about, is that this is not politics as usual anymore.
This is a cold war, cold civil war.
This is information warfare.
That's how the battles are fought now.
So if you don't understand how information warfare works, then you are not capable of waging a war against the Democrats because that's exactly what they're doing.
I understand what's going on.
And the solution is to basically devise ways to get around these traps and pitfalls that the Republicans allow themselves to fall into.
Let me give you a scenario, and you tell me what your solution to this is.
We've got young man and young woman, 30, 35 years old, vote Democrat, think Obamacare was going to lower their prices, and they really believed it.
They get their bills.
It's not implemented.
The price skyrockets, and you're there, and you say, we told you so.
And they say, who are you?
Okay, I'll answer that.
We don't say we told you so.
Basically, what we do is we expose the fact that Obama told them exactly the opposite.
There are tons of video material out there and soundbites where Obama's talking about all the things that Obamacare is going to do for everyone to make it all wonderful.
And you play that stuff, just to pose what the real reality is.
And then you expose all the facts of all these people that voted for it, knowing that it was going to happen.
You see, the problem is that we're not losing the information war with high-information voters.
We're losing it with low-information people.
And you are going to treat them as though they're high-information people when you tell them what went wrong about what they believed.
Okay, I just responded to you what you just said.
What you described to me necessarily.
Well, but I was only mad.
You said that we're going to tell them we told you so.
And I'm just telling you that when the we told you so crowd is Republicans, they're going to reject it.
Right.
Unless something changes.
It can't be Republicans.
The Republican brand is too damaged.
Well, then who's going to tell them?
What am I?
If I say, let's say they call here, boy, I'll tell you what, you know, my prices are going to, I know I told you.
You just call you, Rush, then you tell them.
Okay?
What I'm saying is that to the point of the spear of the message, okay, it can't be necessary to Republicans because you're exactly right.
Their brand is so damaged.
But those of us out there, they are not necessarily recognized as Republicans.
Okay, so you're going to tell them.
You're going to tell them.
Okay, you're going to tell them.
Because there's enough of us out here who are conservative and also very smart and savvy and know to do communication that can handle this kind of thing if we get organized to do this.
Because the thing is, it can't come from the RNC.
The message can't come from them.
It's going to have to come from a third party, but the job can be done.
And the battle can be won.
What you do is you identify all these people like Nancy Pelosi, you know, that said, oh, we've got to vote for it so we can see what's in it.
And now when these people find out what's in it and it's coming out of their pocketbook, they're going to be kicked off.
And you have to channel that energy and that anger directly at the Democrats and get them out in 2014 so it becomes like a question.
There's no question about that.
It's going to be, all I'm telling you is it's going to be a trick to pull that off.
They have an emotional investment in their vote for Obama, and they have an emotional investment.
Hell, they're all emotionally invested.
There isn't any real intellectual application here into votes for Democrats.
There can't possibly be.
Now, they might think they're being intellectual in their analysis of Democrats.
People vote for Democrats purely on emotion.
Purely.
Any, any, the slightest bit of genuine thought about what you're doing, you would never vote for a Democrat unless you have the ability to fool yourself into thinking that you are thinking when you're not.
And sadly, a lot of people are exactly able to do that.
I'm not trying to be a stick in the mud, folks.
I've been doing this my whole career.
How many times have you heard us play audio soundbites of Obama explaining exactly what he wants to do with healthcare, turning into single player, a single payer?
I mean, we have the conservative blogosphere for four or five years does nothing else but expose all of the lies, misrepresentations, everything to do with Obama and the Democrat Party.
The thing is, and how well is that working?
How many people is it actually persuading?
The problem is, and I'm dead serious about this, we are dealing with children in adult bodies when we talk about the low-information voter out there.
Dealing with intellectual children.
They are strictly feel.
They are strictly emotion.
And they do not like being told, I told you so.
They hate it.
They recoil.
They will stay mired in what is incorrect and wrong on purpose just to defy you if you approach them with a see I told you so.
That's why the art of persuasion, I have spent countless hours on this program explaining the art of persuasion.
And it's not done wagging a finger in somebody's face.
And it's not done poking them in the chest.
The simple best way that I've found is to set up circumstances where they conclude what's right without them having any idea you've told them, without them having any idea you have steered them.
But if you tell them that an emotional investment they made was wrong, when they think it was an intellectual investment, all they're going to hear is you're going to be in a C I Told You So mode, and the last thing they want is to be wrong.
They don't chalk that up as learning.
More on this on tomorrow's program.
Smithsonian MAG, Smithsonian MAG, people who never apologize are happier.
When you refuse to apologize, it actually makes you feel more empowered.
The power and control seems to translate into greater feelings of self-worth.
Smithsonian magazine.
And I was quoting the researcher on this, Tyler Okimoto, who made his findings available at NPR.
Now, there's a companion story.
I'm also going to save that for tomorrow.
Wall Street Journal, bad at their jobs and loving it.
I kid you not.
Never apologize, you're happier.
Bad at your job and loving it.
Little white lies, they're great for everybody.
Being unemployed, wonderful way to put the family back together.
Every liberal disaster has a silver lining that makes you actually better off for it.
Had to take Punk and the cat into the vet this morning for a procedure that required her not to be able to eat after midnight last night.
So got up this morning and the little cat made a beeline for where her food bowls weren't.
Didn't understand it.
You could see on her face, total confusion.
Didn't understand.
Looking at me with those big eyes, it broke my heart.
I said, sweetie, I can't feed you.
It's for your own good.
This little thing started biting my ankles when I was shaving.
Oh!
Oh, geez.
Anyway, we'll see you tomorrow, folks.
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