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April 4, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 4, 2013, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And we are ready to thrill and dazzle the nation.
And that would include you, Rush Limboy, here behind the golden EIB microphone, envied, jealousy, respected, imitated, never equaled.
Everybody wants what I have and who I am.
But there's only one EIB network, and this is it.
And you're here, and it's great to have you here.
The telephone number, if you want to be on the program today, 800-282-2882, and the email address, lrushbo at eibnet.com.
Now, I'm not going to apologize for not getting to the story on how apologizing makes you unhappy.
I've been intending to do this for two days.
I got it here at the top.
I'm going to get to this story.
I'm going to try to get to it in this hour.
But it's a couple of days old, and I've already referenced it a couple of times.
So there are things which take precedence.
You remember, ladies and gentlemen, where, I guess it was last week.
It was one of those days, and I think every day is one of those days where people were discussing, ruminating, what's it going to take to wake people up?
What's it going to take to cause people to see this administration, this president, for what they really are?
What's it going to take?
And it's obvious that five years of alternative news and words and all that hasn't done it.
And when I began speculating on this, people say, oh, you're talking about like a hurricane or natural disaster where the government flubs up.
No, no, no, no, anything like that at all.
I'm talking about some cultural political event that's going to cause people.
And I cited as a gave an example.
Let's say Obama's chat with some people is an open mic and he happens to start dissing Justin Timberlake's latest CD.
It's going to be something like that.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, it may, this may not be it, but it's this kind of thing that I'm talking about.
Because Obama, at least yesterday, lost ESPN.
This I can't tell you how upset his supporters are that he bricked 20 out of 22 free throws.
His supporters are still beside themselves.
He can destroy the economy.
He can raise taxes.
He can screw up health care all he wants.
But if he can only make two out of 22 basketball shots, then they're starting to get worried.
And here it is, even over on ESPN, and pardon the interruption.
Michael Wilbon and Tony Kornheiser were discussing this.
And Wilbon starts off by saying, should Obama be embarrassed by this?
His two for 22 shooting performance yesterday, Kornheiser said, that's brutal.
They weren't jump shots.
He was missing layups.
He was unguarded.
You got to walk away, man.
You miss five, six, or eight.
You got to walk away.
You got to stop the bleeding.
You can't come back and say, oh, give me another ball.
And Wilbur says, why not?
The shooters do.
Kornheiser, nope, nope.
You walk away.
When you don't have it that day, you walk away.
And then Kornheiser said, this will go down as the most embarrassing moment of Obama's presidency.
Now, When you're on the verge of losing ESPN, when they are telling you you are an embarrassment, you should have walked away.
It's little things, folks.
Don't doubt me.
It's little things like this.
Because he snerdly is looking at me like you can't possibly believe what you're saying.
Are you doubting me on this?
That's exactly what I'm telling you.
Of all the things he's done, this is it.
This is the most embarrassing thing.
And I guarantee, if there were any shots of him playing golf with Tiger, that would have been it.
But I'm telling you this, it's this kind of stuff.
That's exactly this pop culture kind of stuff.
It's this kind of stuff that's going to cause people to lose respect for Obama.
I'm not making this up.
And I'm not trying to be funny.
I'm not trying to be provocative, outrageous.
That happens anyway.
I'm not trying to do any of that.
I'm telling you, I really think.
Wilbund said, well, you know, Tony, you've absurdly turned this into a great American tragedy.
Cornister said, no, it's a great American comedy.
Now, these guys may have been yanking everybody's chains, but the point is they said it in a low-information crowd out there is hearing it, and they're already upset that Obama can only make two out of 20.
I mean, this is a big deal.
They're still talking about how embarrassed they were for the guy.
And you didn't hear much about it, but you know when he threw out the first pitch at the Washington Nationals game wearing the mom jeans and that that was embarrassing just to watch Obama try to throw a baseball, but he's supposed to be good at basketball.
Isn't there a little racism, by the way, attached to that theory?
Why is Obama supposed to be good at basketball?
No, no, no.
Somebody tell me.
Where is the supposition?
Where is the assumption?
From where does it come that Obama would excel at basketball?
Just asking, just asking.
That's all I'm doing is asking.
He's tall.
He can jump.
Fine.
You want to skirt around this thirdly?
You go ahead, you skirt around it all day.
Why would the media presume, assume Obama would be slam dunk at basketball?
They did.
All these high expectations.
He goes out there, shoots two, makes two out of 22, and I'm telling you, they're embarrassed.
And this kind of thing, mark my words, just it's in the same category here as dissing a Timberlake CD.
Remember who we're talking about now, folks.
We're talking about the low-information pop culture news consumers.
He is the celebrity of the United States.
He's not the president of the United States to these people.
Outraged parents in Attleboro, Massachusetts are beside themselves.
Attleboro, Massachusetts, screw officials say, this is a shocking story, folks.
School officials say that as many as 25 students at a Massachusetts screw were denied lunch this week because they either couldn't pay or their prepaid accounts did not contain enough money.
Outraged parents say that some students at Coelho Middle School in Attleboro cried when they were told by a worker they could not eat Tuesday, two days ago.
I want you to imagine this now.
Young skulls full of mush in school to engage in intellectual inquiry, there to learn everything there is to learn, being taught about the Constitution, Abraham Lincoln, Bill Clinton, Spike Lee, Tom Brady, being taught about all the great things in America.
All the workers at the school doing everything they can to Selma and any number of important things that happen in America.
Lunchtime, 25 kids go hungry.
Massachusetts, not Arkansas.
The students cried, folks.
There weren't any Republicans around.
The Republicans starve kids elsewhere, but there aren't any Republicans in Massachusetts.
25 kids went home in tears because the workers said, well, your prepaid card doesn't have enough money on it.
And the students couldn't pay because they don't have any money.
Superintendent Pia Durkin told the Sun Chronicle of Attleboro that a worker for the contractor that provides lunch service at City Scruels has been suspended.
She also has scheduled a meeting with officials at the company, companies called Whitsons.
Meanwhile, workers have been told never, ever again to deny any child a meal.
Holly Van Segern, the vice president for marketing and marketing community relations for Whitsons, says the company apologizes and is investigating why one of their workers brought 25 students to tears by refusing them food in scruple.
Well, they didn't pay for it.
So why should that stop anybody?
I know it used to, but it doesn't anymore.
Anyway, so the news, no matter where you look, folks, it's just shocking.
The low-information crowd can't catch a break.
Now let's move on to the what this happened on the Today Show yesterday.
It did happen on the this now.
Seriously, this kind of thing literally, I have to admit, it boggles my mind.
It really does.
I mean, I know that there is blatant assumptive stupidity out there, but I just, sometimes I can't understand it.
Hard as I try, and as solid as my instincts are, I want you to listen.
We have here, there was a news story out about all the conspiracies and stuff that people believe.
7% of Americans think that lizard people are running the country.
And 13% believe in the Trilateral Commission, a New World Order.
That kind of survey.
And in this survey, it was announced 37% of the American people do not believe in global warming.
So on the Today Show, that's what they focused on.
They went and got Al Roker, who, by the way, is still talking about having pooped in his pants at the White House.
He's still talking about it as though it was a funny, great thing to have happened because of where it happened.
Who else is admitted to this besides Al Roker?
It put him on the map with the low-information audience.
So listen to this soundbite.
They took 20 widespread conspiracy theories and asked the American public what it thought.
Do you believe in these?
What does this say about us?
Global warming is a hoax.
37% believe that.
Wow.
37% of these people don't believe in global warming.
They think it's a hoax.
I mean, talking about Superstorm Sandy.
Do you realize, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to try to be nice here.
This is the weatherman today show, Al Roker.
Now, you know, everybody knows if they just want to, the man-made global warming thing is a hoax.
There's another story about it today, about a firm that has been caught lying about its data and falsely interpreting its data, which shows a temperature plunge.
They changed it to show a massive temperature increase over some historical period.
They have admitted the lie.
We have the emails from East Anglia.
It is, for those engaged in intellectual inquiry, a hoax.
The whole thing is made up.
It was phony from the get-go.
And my guess is that Al Roker has no clue that any of this science has been rejected.
My guess is that Al Roker doesn't read enough, isn't curious enough to know.
Al Roker lives in the pop culture bubble.
And in the pop culture bubble, global warming is happening and we're causing it and it's destroying everything and everything flows from that.
And so, confronted with the news that 37% of the American people think it's a hoax, Al can't believe it and says, I got two words for you.
Superstorm Sandy.
That's three words, number one.
Superstorm Sandy is, well, they might say superstorm is one word.
It was a hurricane.
A hurricane.
A hurricane is proof of global warming to Al Roker.
It's just, folks, it's, it's, I think, and we sit here, I laugh at it, you laugh at it, but I'm telling you, it's problematic.
It is a huge problem.
This is how people are being ill-educated, dumbed down.
What is education?
I've read some description of, you know, I always laugh at this too.
We know what goes on at college.
Students are there just to bide their time to figure out what they want to do.
And they're going to sorority busts and beer busts and they're doing all this stuff.
And to listen to these educators talk about the intellectual inquiry going on at the academy, there isn't any intellectual inquiry going on at the academy.
There is propaganda going on at the academy.
Intellectual inquiry.
Would that there were some.
But Al Roker is proof positive there isn't any curiosity or intellectual presence, much less inquiry at NBC.
Wow, you don't believe global warming.
Wow.
I'll give two words, Superstorm Sandy.
And everybody goes, Yeah, yeah, Superstorm Sandy.
They all think the same thing.
They all believe the same thing.
They all say the same thing.
They're robots.
They're followers.
Not one of them.
Not one of them has dared even try to figure out what really is happening.
It's just the reason why in the old days, folks, this is true, even though there was a bias.
In the old days, I hate that phrase, but when I was a kid, the people on TV were smarter than everybody else.
People on TV did know more than everybody else.
There weren't that many of them either because there weren't that many TV networks.
The people on TV did have to meet certain qualifications.
Now anybody can be on TV, and anybody is.
We've gotten to the point now where the people who are in positions in media and in classrooms are probably dumber than their students, some cases, and certainly their audiences.
Breathtaking to behold to me.
Okay, I got to take a brief time out as we kick off another busy broadcast day.
Sit tight.
We'll be back with more.
I'll tell you what these people do.
You got Al Roker and Willie Geist and whoever the female was.
And they're talking about the poll.
37% of the American people think that global warming is a hoax.
If you listen to the reaction of Al Roker and these guys, what do they do?
They ridicule people in their audience who are in that 37% group, which is one of the techniques these people.
It's right out of Olinski, by the way, but it's a technique that anybody can use.
Ridicule is hard to outdo.
I mean, if you can get away with ridiculing, making your opponent look ridiculous, that's over half the battle won in a quasi-debate.
And that's what they do.
They sit here from this lofty perch of pomposity.
They are the champions of ignorance.
They don't know what they're talking about.
It's clearly the things you and I know are out there for anybody to discover, but they're not reported in the mainstream media.
And so people like Al Roker and Willie Geist are never going to come across.
It's like Juan Williams.
I'll never forget this.
Lord Moncton, a famous individual from Great Britain, long an advocate of exposing the fraud that is the man-made global warming branch of liberalism.
And he was in Washington and he happened to be speaking in National Press Club.
Williams was there.
He went on Fox efforts.
You know, I never heard any of that before.
I never heard it.
He said, I'm rethinking what I believe about global warming.
I never heard any of that before.
I'm sitting there, I'm nodding my head.
Yep, here's a guy, highly paid, commentator, expert, knows more than the audience does on Fox.
Never heard of one argument counter to the premise of man-made global warming.
And when he did, he was confused because he heard it from somebody he thought had credibility.
Well, Al Roker and his crowd have never even heard it.
They live in a world where that news has never been seen.
And so they have this arrogant, condescending belief that everything they know is right.
And then when they run across people that don't believe what they do, they start laughing at them, making fun of them, ridiculing them, even if they're in their own audience.
And that's how they intimidate people, by the way.
Get away with it, too.
Now, here's what happened.
And I'm going to move on.
I've made my point.
Here's what happened that caused Hurricane Sandy.
It was a hurricane.
Pure and simple.
Hurricanes happen during a particular time of the year, whether it's global warming or not.
And by the way, we are in the middle of a global warming period because we're warming up from an ice age 4,000 years ago.
So we are warming.
That's not the question.
The question, you know, we warm and we cool and we have nothing to do with it.
We can't cause it.
We can't stop it.
We can't cause a thunderstorm.
We can't stop one.
Can't cause a snowstorm.
Can't fix a drought.
We can't do anything.
We cannot cause global warming.
We cannot cause storms.
Anyway, you have a hurricane, natural occurrence.
They do happen.
It happened to collide with a massive amount of cold air from Canada during a full moon.
That meant high tide.
The alignment of those events could not have been more conducive to a massive storm.
Now, did global warming have anything to do with the full moon?
How can there be a massive cold front from Canada with man-made global warming?
I don't know.
Maybe I'm making too big a deal out of this.
But the blatant, rampant ignorance from people who are proud of, they're proud of it is just.
I'll tell you why I think about this.
If I had gone to school when people like this were around, I shudder to think what I would believe today.
I shudder to think what I would not know today.
If I had teachers like that, like I read about today, if I had political activists as TV weather people, you know, what would I believe today?
The major, major challenge that I think we have.
Interesting story here from the Americans for Tax Reform.
Tony Romo, the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys, is now the highest paid player in the National Football League.
What do you mean, absurd?
Oh, you're speaking from a cowboy fan standpoint.
I thought you're disagreeing with the premise.
Tony Romo is the highest paid player in the NFL, but he doesn't earn the most.
Got you, didn't I?
Tony Romo is the highest paid player in the NFL, but he doesn't earn the most.
He lives and works in a no-income tax state.
Over Easter weekend, Tony Romo signed a six-year, $108 million contract extension to remain a quarterback of the Cowboys.
It's an estimated $18 million a year.
That makes him the fifth highest paid player based on salary.
But while he is the fifth highest paid player, he is actually the highest paid player after taxes in the NFL.
And I'm telling you, it's going to be things like this that are going to open people's eyes to.
These guys are competitive, and I don't care what you think.
They do keep score.
They do compare contracts.
They do run around and say, I've got the biggest contract, my contract figure in yours.
I'm making more than you are.
And when these guys, these four guys ahead of Romo, find out that he ends up with more spending money than they do, even though he's fifth on the line.
They're going to, how does that happen?
Who's taking my money?
And then they're going to find out who's taking their money.
It's little things like this that you never see, that you never hear about, that can lead to seismic shifts in overall public attitudes.
Tony Romo now claims the top spot previously held by Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints because of no state income taxes.
With Romo's income tax burden being 39.6%, which is the top marginal federal income tax rate, he has an estimated tax liability of $7.12 million.
He will earn, or a better way to say it, he will keep $752,000 more than Drew Brees will.
And Tony Romo is an he's an example of why businesses and people are leaving high-tax states and moving to places like Texas and Kentucky and Florida, where there are no state income taxes.
Under Governor Rick Perry, Texas has continued to thrive and experience economic growth throughout the recession because of low tax rates and economic competitiveness.
Now, I don't have the four players, well, three, not Drews, Drew Brees, I don't have the other three who are ahead of Romo in gross earnings, but they know who they are.
And the word will spread.
It's little things.
You may never hear about it.
Little things like there could be barely a ripple and nobody might ever see.
Same thing with Obama.
Just totally, totally embarrassing his buddies in the pop culture media.
You're supposed to walk away.
If you're having such a bad day, you can't make Warden two out of 22 shots walk away.
But see, Obama doesn't look at himself that way.
He doesn't look at himself as never having it on a given day.
But yeah, Kornheuser says, yeah, that's the most embarrassing, embarrassing day of his presidency.
I don't know whether Kornheiser means it or hell, I don't know.
But the point is, to a lot of people, that's true.
A lot of people were embarrassed for Obama.
A lot of his voters.
I know you think I'm really stretching here.
Trust me.
Don't doubt me.
I'm not.
And now to these two stories that I have been holding the past couple of days that I promised, here's the first one.
It's from SmithSoningandMag.com.
People who never apologize are happier.
And here's how this story begins.
You remember the intense, seemingly physical pain that you felt as a kid when an adult told you to say you were sorry.
Maybe you kicked Jimmy in the shins.
Maybe you took something you weren't supposed to.
Maybe you were just generally being a brat.
But the worst part of the whole experience wasn't getting into trouble or having dessert taken away or having to sit in a corner.
It was actually having to apologize.
And that distaste for saying you're sorry hasn't gone away as an adult either.
Not apologizing still makes us feel better than apologizing makes us feel.
Psychologists tend to be interested in these sorts of seemingly universal feelings.
Recently, a few researchers looked into just why it is so rewarding to avoid saying sorry.
So they asked people to recall transgressions, some as small as cutting somebody off on the road, some as big as stealing.
And they asked these participants if they had apologized or not and how they felt.
The last step was participants could compose an email either apologizing or refusing to apologize.
Now, if you're a parent, you've probably told your kid that apologizing will make you feel better.
If you're a parent, you've probably, you know, you say you're sorry.
Saying you're sorry, it will remove the tensions and it will put the incident behind both of you and then you can move on and everybody will be able to forget it.
This is what parents tell their kids.
But what the researchers found is in fact the opposite.
The email that refused to apologize made people feel much better than the email confessing to the deed and taking the blame.
One of the researchers, Tyler Okimoto, explained his interpretation of the results this way.
He said, when you refuse to apologize, it actually makes you feel more empowered.
When you refuse to apologize, it makes you feel more in control of yourself.
It makes you feel more dominant.
It makes you feel less subservient.
It makes you feel not guilty.
The power and the control seems to translate into greater feelings of self-worth.
You can actually think you're a better person if you do not apologize.
Ironically, Okimoto said people who refused to apologize ended up with higher feelings of integrity.
So the next time that you tell your kids that apologizing will make them feel better in the long run, you might be imparting incorrect information to them.
Now, what do you think of this?
Modern day psychobabble?
As a professional broadcaster, I can tell you that over the course of my career, there is an adage, don't care what you do, don't ever apologize.
Never.
You don't apologize for it.
I don't care what it is.
Now, this is advice that's given people in the public arena.
Don't ever do it.
And I must tell you, my instincts are to never follow.
Now, there are days, folks, where I go home and I think, you know, I just, I was very unhappy with that day's program.
And I feel guilty that I did not give it my best.
And so I do come in here and I, you know, I will apologize for my poor performance the previous day.
But that's not really an apology for committing an egregious act.
That's just basically saying, you know, I know that you deserve better.
I should have done better.
You've got high expectations in this program and I didn't deliver them yesterday.
But in the realm of where there are actual transgressions that have taken place, this research says the people who feel more empowered and of a higher integrity, self-worth, are the people that never apologize.
Quick timeout.
Don't go away.
We'll be right back.
And we're back.
Great to have you.
El Rushbow, cutting edge of societal evolution.
The second part of that story on people who never apologize are happier is a Wall Street Journal story by Lauren Weber, bad at their jobs and loving it.
A company's best employees should also be its happiest and its most engaged.
But that's not always the case.
New study.
New study finds that in 42% of companies, low performers actually say they are more engaged and they're more motivated and they're more likely to enjoy working at the company than middle and high performers.
So here, low performer, low information, low motivation, don't care as much.
They're more engaged.
They're more motivated.
I don't see how those two go together, but that's what this says.
Middle-level performers, high-performers don't enjoy it as much.
There's more stress is what they're saying.
Findings suggest that many organizations are not holding employees accountable for their work, which allows the worst workers to skate by.
That from Mark Murphy, CEO of Leadership IQ, Atlanta-based consulting firm that consulted or conducted the survey.
Many organizations not holding employees accountable for their work, allowing the worst workers to skate by.
Low performers often end up with the easiest jobs because managers don't ask much of them.
So they're under less stress.
They're more satisfied with their daily work lives.
Now, that does make perfect sense.
And who could they possibly be talking about there?
Is there a type of worker or a line of work that immediately comes to mind when I describe all those circumstances?
Yes, there is to me too.
Okay, we're going to go to the phones.
We're going to start in Indianapolis.
And Amy, so glad that you called.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, I can't believe I'm talking wrestling ball.
Hey, I wanted to tell you that I was a public school teacher once upon a time, long time ago.
And I had a baby at home.
I was pregnant with my second child.
And I remember talking to the educational psychologists there and telling them that my husband and I had plans to teach our children the proper way to apologize to one another.
And you know what they told me?
They told me that that was psychologically damaging to my children, that I should not teach my children to apologize to one another.
It was too difficult for them to do.
It wasn't healthy.
And you know what?
After 16 years, I now have eight children.
We now homeschool our children.
I've got to tell you that that is a bunch of rubbish.
It is so important that we teach our children how to apologize to one another and to apologize to each other.
Our kids aren't going to want to feel good about it.
What is important about it to you?
It's not a matter of feeling.
It doesn't matter if the kids feel better or worse.
It's a matter that they take responsibility for their action.
We not only, and also apologizing is not about how you feel if you did something wrong.
It's not to make you feel better.
It's to make the person you did something wrong to feel better.
And it's to put it right.
We don't tell our kids just to apologize, by the way.
Wait a minute.
Are you maintaining that apologizing is not to make you feel better?
If I apologize, it doesn't have to make me feel better.
I'm the one who did something wrong, if I did something wrong.
I need to go and apologize to the person I did something to and then ask for their forgiveness.
What if you didn't do anything wrong and somebody is still demanding that you apologize just to get the issue behind everybody?
Well, I don't know about that.
You're saying that if I didn't do anything wrong.
I hate to tell you, but I don't doubt that that happens every day in school after school after school.
I have no doubt that a teacher would look to the weakest in the confrontation, just apologize, just apologize and be done with it and move on.
Well, well, then, because no, because justice isn't being served.
And in that case, if the teacher is bullying a student and saying that a student has to apologize for something the student didn't do, well, of course that student is not going to feel better because he said he's sorry because he didn't do anything wrong in the first place.
According to who, see?
Common sense.
You see, you believe there's an absolute truth and falsehood in every element of a story or whatever, or an occurrence.
And we're dealing with people that don't believe that at all.
Everything's relative.
But theoretically, it's fascinating.
You do believe that apologizing when justified is the right thing to do.
Absolutely is the right thing.
And not only apologizing, but asking for forgiveness after that.
Oh.
Yeah.
Well, survey says people that do that end up not liking themselves very much.
Okay, folks, that's it.
Another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence is on the way over to the Limbaugh Broadcast Museum.
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