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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.
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yahoo, L Rushbow, and the final hour of open line Friday, 800 28282.
The email address, L Rushbow at EIB net.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 Earbaugh from the youthful yet powerful leader of North Korea.
Kim Jong.
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'll have survived basketball.
The most lethal game ever devised by Imperialists.
Laugh at you.
You send Dennis Rodman to shame me into submission.
But he was already brainwashed by the airport state TV.
Go and pick him up when we didn't.
Then we picked him up in my party bus.
He spilled his guts to me.
Making me now best power for in all of North Korea.
So we prepare to launch our missiles for your treachery.
But why waste our nuclear weapons on you?
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 that Kim didn't make fun of Obama only sinking two out of twenty-two shots, but nevertheless, there you uh 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, 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 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 organ.
So Tom, you with me on this?
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 Gurlock 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.
Tomember 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 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.
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?
We said, Tom, can we imagine what you were doing to your children?
You were asking what the court's doing.
And how about Mo Chell, my Belle Obama?
Did you hear this?
In Burlington, Vermont yesterday.
She was being interviewed on WCAX TV, WCACS TV.
The 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 realities of 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 shouldn't say single as a busy mother.
Sometimes it, you know, when you've got the husband who's president, it can feel a little single, but he's there.
Oh.
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 at president.
I mean, that's believe me, as a single mother.
I shouldn't say single, I'm a busy mother, busy mother.
Sometimes when you got a husband who's president can feel a little bit like single mother.
Whoa.
Okay, that's officially stepping in it.
But that happened after Obama stepped in it.
Obama was somewhere, and he he started talking about the attorney general state of California.
He was in Averton.
Averton is Adderton, Atherton is one of top five zip codes.
Wealth in the country.
I mean, it's loaded.
Moated.
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 uh 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'd 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 has 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, it 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 are 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 that just this is 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 dedicated, and she happens to be by far the best-looking attorney general.
And the 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 sound bites.
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, 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 was dumb.
But make it a light comment about the AG of California, party funders.
I haven't seen any thing where she took a fan's.
He's worried.
Kurtz is worried.
The next sound bite 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 it's 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 guests to decide who uh who needs to apologize for which one.
Hey, folks, so they both stepped in it.
Michelle called herself a single mother.
Obama.
Now look at Michelle's been on a 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 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, whatever, year old mummy.
We played this on my TV show.
Clinton said, you know, if that mummy were dead, I might ask her out.
She that mummy looking pretty good.
And then there was a the 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 together 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.
The End 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.
What 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, Ross.
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 I believe that school choice vouchers and charter schools are a great uh 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 uh benefits.
Um very easy in terms of gaining support, and I think it appeals to a lot of people.
Thirdly, government reform.
Totally eliminate earmarks.
That appeals to a lot of voters.
This is the low information voter can get behind four big ideas.
And lastly, social.
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.
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 the state level.
Those are the issues.
Four big ideas, one each.
Very easy for the low information voter to understand.
It has.
Well, that's one thing.
What about having him agree with it?
Well, you know what?
I understand what you're saying.
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 I've got to take a break here at the bottom of the hour.
I appreciate that.
Um think about that.
Is it before you start poo-pooing stuff, folks?
That stuff's better than agreeing with the Democrats on amnesty.
The End Okay, the A D at Rutgers has been canned along with the head basketball coach.
So they're both gone.
The A D who hired the coach, coach's name is Rice, AT is uh Mike Rice is gone.
The AD is Purini, I think is his name.
So the head coach Rice was cursing the players, he's yelling at the players.
He was uh is throwing basketballs at them in practice, he's screaming at them during during games.
And the uh 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 uh insulting gay names.
So he's cyanari out of there.
And today the A.D., athletic director, is uh is gone.
Now, granted, if you if you wanted to say that this was abuse of the players, you could.
Snurdly, do you know were were I I had not heard of this story until anybody else did.
The video surfaced on ESPN, they had the their their sight line store, whatever it is, they 60 minute type show outside the lines.
Were any of the players complaining publicly?
I some have written in his defense after them.
What the play?
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 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 are assaulted verbally by professors for ideological reasons?
We've had 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 they they browbeat them into conformity.
They may not be throwing things at them.
And 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, 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 population-wide, maybe a majority of the American people, want marijuana legalized.
Now, 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 till 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.
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 they're pushing immigration reform.
They're getting behind a Democrat bill that is all about amnesty.
Rubio accepted.
Don't, 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 to youths, you talk about wrapping up the libertarians.
Is it well, you're talking about losing your base either way, but my my 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.
Stu startly you're 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 close-minded, short-sighted, all that stuff.
Well, 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, marijuana, why not come out for that?
Well, no, Russia, we're not, we're that we're now we're talking drugs.
We're not, we're not gonna we're not gonna compromise on our principles on drugs.
Well, why?
Well, I mean compromising principles on social issues.
What's the difference?
And if this is 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 uh question.
See, I got sidetracked.
Something in my was gonna 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 they'll get rid of a basketball coach, Bobby Knight, this guy Rice.
Whoever.
I gotta take a break, folks.
Open line Friday.
We'll be back much more straight ahead after this.
We'll be back.
I don't know how you pronounce her name.
Kathy Bowden Bouden, the former weather underground domestic terrorist who's been hired at Columbia University in New York.
She's uh 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 a thing about it.
By the way, I am told I didn't know that uh Obama has apologized to Kamala Harris, the attorney general of California.
Call her up, and he apologized for creating such a a distraction.
Well, I gotta 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, Mytholimbaugh, you know that it was inappropriate to do it because this is the 50 way through the fundraising, it's political, it's professional, it's a business-related way through, and the table the attorney general was done it's too oh, you mean you're criticizing over well they shouldn't have done it, but he did apologize for it.
It wasn't detracting.
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 gonna think you're just a potato sack.
Ashley and Marshall, Minnesota.
Welcome to EIB Network.
Hello.
Hi, thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
Um, being in Minnesota, um, 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 affected by this law.
So it's not just Minnesota.
This is another thing.
Offering cheaper tuition to illegal aliens and their children than natural born citizens, right?
That's that's now what explains that?
What do you think explains that?
Um tally 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 capitol.
And the Democrat Farm Labor Party, folks.
That's Hubert Humphrey's Walter Mondel.
I mean, they're a bunch of leftists, is what you need to know about that.
Yeah.
But still why why okay, you've got these DFL guys and they're sitting there and they're thinking, all right, well, let's let's offer what what are they hoping to achieve here?
What is the it's like AP.
What what what's the point here?
Banning illegal immigrant from the style book or or now today, Islamist.
What's my point is we've gone beyond bias here and and just you know, political uh choice.
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?
What is it?
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?
Uh you we're gonna let you come to school cheaper than anybody else.
What could what could possibly explain this?
I don't know, but the senator in Minnesota said that she's been working on this for at least ten 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 gonna 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 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, the good people, but this is about the fact that they think this country is immoral and unjust.
And all this stuff about needing a you know a workforce and all that, that's that's just window dressing to sell it uh to to people who otherwise would would oppose it and make it harder to oppose it.
It's but it's this is just uh people who want to tear down 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 gotta take a break.
Don't go away.
Don't go away.
Okay, folks, that's it.
Another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence is in the can.
Another great week of uh of busy broadcast moments.
And we 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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