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April 5, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 5, 2013, Friday, Hour #3
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Hi, folks.
Great to have you back.
Rush Limbaugh, the fastest three hours in media and the fastest week.
Already, it's Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
Yes, sir.
Yip, yip, yahoo, El Rushbo in the final hour of Open Line Friday, 800-282-2882.
The email address, lrushbo at EIBNet.com.
We go to the phones, whatever you want to talk about, Hunky Dory, and fine.
The North Koreans are rattling again.
Kim Jong-un is promising to nuke us.
In fact, we have, ladies and gentlemen, a message from Kim Jong-un to Obama and the American people that we intercepted.
Now, an official taunting to President Airball from the youthful yet powerful leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, protector of the revolution, sovereign head of state, and overwhelmingly voted most likely to succeed by his seventh-grade shop class.
To the clumsy and ineffectual leader of the supposed socialist states of America, I, Kim Jong-un, have survived basketball, the most lethal game ever devised by imperialism.
Laugh at you.
You send Dennis Rodman to shame me into submission.
But he was already brainwashed by the airport state TV.
I only picked him up in my party bus.
He spilled his guts to me, making me now the best powerful in all of North Korea.
So we prepare to launch our missiles for your treachery.
But why waste our nuclear weapons when I can attack you yet again with greenhouse gases and cause another superstorm just by declaring it National Cabbage Month once again.
Either way, the moment of explosion is fast approaching.
So respect my game or suffer.
For real.
For real.
Kim.
Well, not happy.
Not happy in Pyongyang being disrespected by Obama.
Fellow hoopster.
I'm surprised that Kim didn't make fun of Obama, only sinking two out of 22 shots.
But nevertheless, there you have it.
AP story.
Headline.
Pregnant man, transgender divorce.
I kid you not.
An Arizona resident, Thomas Beatty, is angry at a court ruling that found the Beatty's marriage to be invalid.
Now, Tom Beatty promises to continue to fight to end the nine-year marriage so that the children can understand that the marriage was legitimate.
Now, hang in there with me here, folks, because it will make some sense.
It'll sort of some sense here in a minute.
Here's the background.
Tom, Tom Beatty, was born a woman, Tracy.
Tracy wanted to be a man, so Tracy had a double mastectomy and testosterone treatments.
Tracy became Tom, but kept Tracy's female reproductive organs.
So Tom was born a woman, Tracy.
Tracy, born a woman, wanted to be a man.
So Tracy had a double mastectomy, because he's born a woman, and had testosterone treatments.
Tracy became Tom, but kept Tracy's female reproductive organs in all of this.
After the double mastectomy and after the testosterone treatments, after the name change, Tom, who became Tracy, then kept the female reproductive organs.
So Tom, you with me on this?
Because every bit of this is true.
Tom then married partner Nancy in Honolulu.
Since Nancy was unable to have children, Tom got pregnant with donated sperm.
Tom has now given birth to three children.
Got all that?
Okay.
The baby family then moved to Arizona, but when Tom and Nancy decided to divorce, there were some complications.
This week, Maricopa County Family Court Judge Douglas Gerlock ruled that because Tom was a biological female when he married Nancy, and because same-sex marriages aren't legal in Arizona yet, the baby's marriage can't be recognized as valid, so they can't divorce.
Tom, remember, was born a woman, Tracy.
Tom, holding his new girlfriend's hand, said after this ruling that Arizona's bigoted, that Arizona is unaccepting of transgender people and vows to keep fighting.
Their father, or this father, and the biological mother complained to reporters that his kids will know that a court declared that's not your daddy.
And he asks us to, quote, imagine what this is doing to my children.
We are, Mr. Beatty.
We really are.
Everything in this story, ladies and gentlemen, is true.
I did not fabricate anything.
If you lost track of it, doesn't matter.
It's true.
Tom was born a woman.
He was born a woman.
Tracy, who wanted to be a man.
So, bye-bye, boobs.
Hello, testosterone.
Voila.
Tracy becomes Tom.
Kept the reproductive organs of Tracy, though.
Female reproductive organs untouched.
And then goes and marries partner Nancy in Honolulu.
But Nancy can't have kids.
Oh, no.
So Tom, who was born Tracy, got pregnant anyway, donated sperm.
Tom, born Tracy, now a man, gave birth to three kids.
And the court said, you can't get a divorce and the kids aren't yours because none of this is possible.
And Tom said, can you imagine what this is doing to my children?
Tom, can we imagine what you were doing to your children?
You're asking what the court's doing.
And how about Muchell My Belle Obama?
Did you hear this in Burlington, Vermont yesterday?
She was being interviewed on WCAX-TV, WCAC-TV.
A correspondent, Bridget Barry Caswell, said, Can you talk to me about the issues of access and affordability?
I mean, it all sounds great, but it's not that easy.
And the reality is a family in America today who are busy, not home every night.
How do you tackle that?
Believe me, as a busy single mother, or I should say single as a busy mother.
Sometimes, you know, when you've got a husband who's president, it can feel a little single, but he's there.
Whoa.
Folks, folks, what was this really now?
The first lady referred to herself right off the bat as a single mother.
Could it be that's how she actually feels?
Could it be that Barack's not around?
He's too busy as president.
I mean, that's, believe me, as a single mother.
I shouldn't say single.
I was a busy mother, busy mother.
Sometimes when you got a husband who's president, it can feel a little bit like a single mother.
Whoa.
Okay, that's officially stepping in it.
But that happened after Obama stepped in it.
Obama was somewhere, and he started talking about the Attorney General, state of California.
He was in Averton.
Atherton is, Atherton, Atherton.
Atherton is one of the top five zip codes, wealth in the country, Bay Area.
I mean, it's loaded, loaded.
And Bam's out there raising money.
For what?
He's not running for anything.
What's he raising money?
He's not raising money for the Democrats.
He's raising money for organizing for action.
Anyway, he was talking about the Attorney General, state of California.
Name is Kamala Harris.
And Obama said, oh, yeah, she's brilliant.
She's dedicated.
She's tough.
And she happens to be by far the best-looking Attorney General.
Oh, no.
Now, in 1968 or 69, that would have been so cool.
That would have been a great compliment.
It would have been just, today it's an insult.
Today, that's sexist.
For the president to comment on the attractiveness of any woman, it had nothing to do with the fact that he's married to a single mother.
It has to do with the fact that it's anti-feminist teaching.
You are not supposed to praise a woman's appearance.
That is to sell her short.
I shouldn't be yelling this because it scares people, but I'm telling you, honestly, he's in trouble over this.
I told you, I told you the things that are going to slip Obama up are things like dissing Timberlake CD or going two for 22 on the basketball court or now talking about the beauty of the California Attorney General.
I mean, he can screw up the economy all he wants.
He can screw everything up.
That won't hurt.
But this kind of stuff, you're not supposed.
Add to it that he's married and that the media is doing everything they can to make Michelle out to be the bell of the ball.
I mean, the media is telling everybody that Michelle Obama is the most beautiful babe out there.
Here's Obama out there salivating over the California Attorney General.
She's brilliant, she's dedicated, and she happens to be by far the best-looking attorney general.
And the left chattering class is nervous because this is not what a good feminist guy does.
To compliment a woman on her appearance is sexist, it's objectifying her.
It says all she is is her looks.
And this is the attorney general.
So let's go to the audio soundbites.
Howard Kurtz, CNN starting point today, he was on and he's worried.
Howard Kurtz is worried about this sexist slip.
Here's the first soundbite.
I'm sorry.
This is the media, PC, police run amok.
Now, I'm more than willing to criticize President Obama when he says something dumb.
You're likable enough, Hillary.
That was dumb.
You didn't build that?
That was dumb.
Making a light comment about the Attorney General of California and a party fundraiser.
I haven't seen anything where she took any offense.
Yeah, so we got to excuse him here.
Howard Kurtz is worried.
Media, PC, police run amok.
Now, I'm more than willing to criticize Obama when he says something dumb like, you're likable enough, Hillary.
That was dumb.
Or you didn't build that.
That was dumb.
But making a light comment about the AG of California party fundraisers.
I haven't seen anything where she took offense.
He's worried.
Kurtz is worried.
The next soundbite is: this is Howard Kurtz and the business correspondent, Christine Romans.
Good thing for the president that doesn't seem to be on videotape unless a secret round the 47% video surfaces.
Then you all get to play it over and over.
Well, he and Michelle Obama can discuss tonight each of their gaps to decide who needs to apologize for which one.
Hey, folks.
So they both stepped in it.
Michelle called herself a single mother.
Obama.
Look at Michelle's been on the cover of everything.
I'm telling you that the media has done everything they can to portray her as the nation's most beautiful, most fashionable woman.
And then here's Obama out there praising the AG of California while Michelle is talking about herself as a single mother.
Don't forget Clinton.
Folks, you've forgotten this.
In the 90s, there was some old artifact exhibit that rolled through town, and Clinton went out there to look at it.
It featured a mummy, an 8,000,000, whatever, to a year old mummy.
We played this on my TV show.
Clinton says, you know, if that mummy were dead, I might ask her out.
That mummy looking pretty good.
And then there was a woman's basketball team that showed up at the White House.
They'd won some tournament.
They make the obligatory trip to the White House, and this babe is taller than Clinton, which to a guy like Clinton is a massive, massive turnout.
He lost his cookies over that girl.
Those were just, and nobody worried about Hillary in any of this.
But they're all concerned here about complimenting the AG of Arizona.
What's it going to do to his marriage?
They're worried about this.
These are the kind of faux pas I'm telling you they're going to be worried about.
Okay, back to the phones because it's open line Friday.
Yeah, yeah.
There's a, what was it, a judge?
Yeah, a judge has demanded that birth control pills for kids be offered over the counter now.
Yeah, within 30 days.
No age limit, yeah.
No parental permission, none of that.
Here I am asking the parents of a 13-year-old if they mind if I give him an iPad.
Here's a judge saying, no, girl, any age, 30 days, go get some birth control pills.
No problem.
The next thing is authorizing these girls to be able to get them without paying for them.
Somebody else have to pay for them.
And that may be part of it already.
I don't know.
Anyway, Jimmy in Houston, I'm glad you called, sir.
Great to have you on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Great.
Thanks, Russ.
Hey, Rush, earlier in the show, you mentioned the 2014 midterm elections.
And I believe we need to have four big ideas, four common sense ideas that have ubiquitous support across every party line.
Number one, education.
Russ, I believe that school choice vouchers and charter schools are a great idea to get behind and push for.
And I think that is a great educational reform item.
Secondly, fiscal reform, economic reform, push to the state level welfare reform, allowing states, and some are starting to do this, to test recipients for drug use in order to get their welfare benefits.
Very easy in terms of gaining support, and I think it appeals to a lot of people.
Thirdly, government reform.
Totally eliminates earmarks.
That appeals to a lot of voters.
This is the low-information voter can get behind four big ideas.
And lastly, social.
Rush, I think we need to push this whole gay rights decision to the state level, allow states to make the decision, let people decide which state they want to live in, and we don't make it a federal issue.
So this is how I believe we get to the low-information voter with four big ideas.
So we push gay marriage to the states, we ban earmarks, we promote school choice and vouchers, and require drug tests for welfare recipients at state level.
Those are the issues?
Four big ideas, one each.
Very easy for the low information voter to understand.
Well, that's one thing.
What about having him agree with it?
You know what?
I understand what you're saying, but I'm a sales guy.
Whether you make the sale or not, you come forward with a big idea.
And I think we've got nothing to lose in 2014.
Interesting.
Okay, look, I've got to take a break here at the bottom of the hour.
I appreciate that.
Think about that.
Before you start poo-pooing stuff, folks, that stuff's better than agreeing with the Democrats on amnesty.
Okay, the AD at Rutgers has been canned along with the head basketball coach.
So they're both gone.
The AD who hired the coach, coach's name is Rice.
A.T. is, Mike Rice is gone.
The AD is Perini, I think is his name.
So the head coach Rice, he was cursing the players.
He's yelling at the players.
He's throwing basketballs at them in practice.
He's screaming at them during games.
And the call from faculty members and politicians to get rid of him grew louder.
Yesterday, a day after he was fired for mistreating players, for shoving them, he berated them with gay slurs, called them insulting gay names.
He's cyanaris out of there.
And today, the AD, athletic director, is gone.
Now, granted, if you wanted to say that this was abuse of the players, you could.
Snirdly, do you know?
I had not heard of this story until anybody else did.
The video surfaced on ESPN.
They had their sight line store, whatever it is, the 60-minute type show, outside the lines.
Were any of the players complaining publicly?
Some have written in his defense after them.
Some of the players are tweeting even now that the coach didn't deserve to be fired.
Well, it got me to thinking, you know, all of this hysteria about the players being screamed at, having basketballs thrown at them, insults thrown at them.
Not surprising that the left would be filled with hysterics over this.
But you know, folks, here I am in my captain stir-it-up mode here.
The fact is that each and every day in some college campus all over this country, these same outraged faculty members posing as educators are abusing potentially millions of college students by discounting, ridiculing, teasing, intimidating, threatening failure.
How many students are assaulted verbally by professors for ideological reasons?
We've had students call here over the course of this program, and we've all read stories about professors that intellectually berate students and so forth.
Mocked and made fun of if they're Christians, mocked and made fun of, and by the way, stigmatized, pointed out, pointed at in class if they hold Christian or conservative values, mocked, laughed, made fun of.
Because everybody knows the intent of modern propagandists, educators today is to beat those ideas out of young skulls full of mush.
Had a friend say to me, you know what it really is, Rush?
It's emotional waterboarding.
These leftist professors try to humiliate students that are Christians or conservatives.
They mock them.
They point them out.
They torture them.
They browbeat them into conformity.
They may not be throwing things at them.
They may not be physically shoving them, but they're calling them out.
And they're laughing at them and they're making fun of them and they're humiliating them for what they believe.
And the worst of it is that what this does, this denies the free flow of all ideas that is vital to overall education.
I mentioned yesterday, I just, I literally laugh.
The average college student today has one thing he cares about, and that's legalizing marijuana.
And yet, when you listen to these highfalutin educators talk about intellectual inquiry going on at the academy, there is no intellectual inquiry.
You ask the wrong thing at the academy, that's when you get shouted down.
That's when you get pointed at.
That's when you get laughed at and made fun of.
There is no intellectual inquiry.
By the way, speaking of legalizing marijuana, there's a I've got a poll here.
I'm serious about this.
I've got a story here with a polling data that says a majority of students, and it may be populationwide, maybe a majority of the American people, want marijuana legalized.
No, wait, stick with me on this.
Let me see.
Oh, did you see this?
There's a story on Breitbart.
Republican National Committee declares war on conservative grassroots and the professional right.
I've got to, you know, I should have put this at the top.
It was at the top of the stack until the unemployment news hit today.
And it took precedence.
This deserves some attention.
Anyway, majority of some group, maybe the whole population, wants marijuana legalized.
What a great issue for the Republican Party to come out in support of that.
Well, the Republican Party is being told that to get the Hispanic vote, you better do what they want, right?
Stick with me on this.
The Republican Party and the Republican leadership is reacting this way as though, okay, they must.
The Republican Party is willing, apparently, to put aside their principles in the quest to get minority voters.
So in the case of Hispanics, the media, the Democrats are telling Republicans, you guys had better get with it.
You better understand the Hispanic population of this country doesn't like your attitude on immigration.
They think you want to deport them.
They think you don't like them.
You better change.
You better be accepting.
You better support amnesty.
And the Republicans are doing what?
They're trying to make that happen.
Are they not?
I'm talking about at the RNC level, at the consultant level, they are doing everything they can without saying it yet.
I mean, they're pushing immigration reform.
They're getting behind a Democrat bill that is all about amnesty.
Rubio accepted.
I'm not lumping him in there.
Now, my only point is that if you are going to set aside principles, or if, I should better state,
if you are going to have floating principles, because that is a sign of open-mindedness, and if you are going to set aside your principles on immigration and try to make the Hispanic population understand that you are supported, why not go for the drug legalization vote?
I mean, you talk about getting the young people.
You talk about getting the youths.
You talk about wrapping up the libertarians.
Is it well?
Well, you're talking about losing your base either way, but either with immigration, with amnesty, with abortion, whatever.
The Republican establishment seems okay with losing the base.
But I'm not, that's not even the point I'm trying to make.
Certainly, you're looking at this as though I'm offering a way to win elections.
I'm not.
The Republicans want to be liked.
The Republicans don't want to be thought of as closed-minded, short-sighted, all that stuff.
Well, you and I think the goal's elections, and the Republicans do, too.
But the point is, there's some Republican establishment types who actually have been made to believe that they can win elections if they also come out for some form of amnesty.
And if they change their opinion on contraceptives and all these things, the Republicans who think they lost last November because of these issues.
Now, all I'm saying is, if they are willing to be flexible on that, and you've got a poll here that says a majority of some group of voters wants to legalize marijuana, why not come out for that?
Well, no, Russia, we're not, now we're talking drugs.
We're not going to compromise on our principles on drugs.
Well, why?
Well, I mean, compromising principles on social issues.
What's the difference?
And if this is what it takes to win election, I'm just asking a rhetorical question here.
I'm not advocating anything.
Don't anybody misunderstand.
Just asking a rhetorical question.
See, I got sidetracked.
Something in my, it was going to be a great monologue, too, on the abuse of conservative students in the academy.
And nobody ever gets fired for that abuse.
And nobody, no professor, no dean ever gets called out for that abuse.
But they'll get rid of a basketball coach, Bobby Knight, this guy Rice, whoever.
I got to take a break, folks.
Open Line Friday.
We'll be back much more straight ahead after this.
I don't know how you pronounce your name.
Kathy Bowden Boudin, the former Weather Underground domestic terrorist who's been hired at Columbia University in New York.
She's an adjunct professor of social work, adjunct professor, Columbia University Scruel of social work.
She is a domestic terrorist.
She was a member of the Weather Underground.
She was convicted of murdering a cop.
She'd been hired as an adjunct professor in the School of Social Work.
Now, do you think this babe might bully some students?
She only killed a cop.
And Bill Ayers, who tried to blow up the Pentagon, he's been hired by universities.
You think there's not some abuse of students going on in our institutions of higher learning?
Nobody thinks to think about it.
By the way, I am told I didn't know that Obama has apologized to Kamala Harris, the Attorney General of California.
He called her up and he apologized for creating such a distraction.
Well, I got to tell you, I don't know.
A guy compliments a woman's appearance and has to call and apologize.
I mean, what the hell?
What in the name of Sam Hill?
Come on, Mr. Limbaugh, you know that it was inappropriate to do because this is a situation, it's fundraising, it's political, it's professional, it's a business-related situation, and to take it about the Attorney General.
Oh, you mean you're criticizing Obama?
Well, he shouldn't have done it, but he did apologize for it.
It was a distraction.
What have we come to?
Okay, I'm sorry I noticed that you're attractive.
I'll forget it from now on.
Next time I look at you, I'm going to think you're just a potato sack.
Ashley in Marshall, Minnesota, welcome to EIB Network.
Hello.
Hi, thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
Being in Minnesota, we are, the legislature is going through a bill now that would allow undocumented immigrants to pay in-state tuition.
Oh, yeah.
And also, for the bill would also authorize state schools to give private financial aid to students affected by this law.
It's not just Minnesota.
This is another thing.
Offering cheaper tuition to illegal aliens and their children than natural-born citizens, right?
Now, what explains that?
What do you think explains that?
I'll probably a lot of things.
I mean, you know, with Minnesota, it's the first time in 20 years that the DFL has actually had complete control of the state capital.
And the Democrat Farm Labor Party folks.
That's Hubert Humphreys, Walter Mondo.
I mean, a bunch of leftists is what you need to know about that.
But still, why?
Okay, you've got these DFL guys, and they're sitting there and they're thinking, all right, well, let's offer what are they hoping to achieve here?
What is the AP?
What's the point here banning illegal immigrant from the style book or now today, Islamist?
My point is we've gone beyond bias here and just political choice.
Infiltration, something, it doesn't make any sense.
There's no real-world common sense.
There's something else going on here.
I don't mean conspiratorially.
It's just why?
Is it we feel so guilty that these DFLers feel so guilty at the way illegals have been treated that here, please don't think so poorly of us.
We're going to let you come to school cheaper than anybody else.
What could possibly explain this?
I don't know, but the senator in Minnesota said that she has been working on this for at least 10 years.
And she thinks that, well, she's arguing that Minnesota economy depends on educated workforce and that this would benefit everybody.
And I don't see how it can benefit everybody.
I mean, that's like American going over to a foreign country and not paying any taxes, going to school for free, and getting a discounted college education.
Okay, so I'm going to answer my question for you.
You have some people, and by the way, Ashley, this is happening everywhere, not just Minnesota.
It's happening everywhere.
And it's being brought to you by people that have a real chip on their shoulder about this country.
They believe this country has been unfair and discriminatory and almost violative of people of color.
And this is about making amends.
This is about making them feel better about themselves.
They're good people.
But this is about the fact that they think this country is immoral and unjust.
And all this stuff about needing a workforce and all that, that's just window dressing to sell it to people who otherwise would oppose it and make it harder to oppose it.
But this is just people who want to tear down the country it's founded and rebuild it are the kind of people doing this.
By the way, I would say the DREAM Act is probably going to contain things like this.
I've got to take a break.
Don't go away.
Okay, folks, that's it.
Another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence is in the can.
Another great week of busy broadcast moments.
And we've got a weekend coming up, and we'll be back on Monday, revved up.
Do it all over again.
Don't worry about what happens.
That's what we're here for.
We'll pay attention to what happens on Mondays and add a bonus.
We'll tell you what to think about what happens as well.
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