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April 9, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 9, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Well, I'm not so sure.
Um, some people think that Obama's trying to ram through this agenda of his, and others think that he's not.
I'm I'm kind of in that in that ballpark.
I'm not sure Obama wants to ram through all this stuff and get it get it approved right now.
Gun control, all this other thing.
They could, but I still think he loves the issue.
I still think he loves having the issue unresolved to campaign against the Republicans with and then uh execute the limbaugh theorem.
Anyway, I will explain what I am talking about as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh back here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, the telephone number 800-282-288-2, and the email address, El Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
Let me start with a couple things here.
The um there nuclear threat.
The little dictator in Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinizad, has announced that Iran has gone nuclear.
Whether it has or not, nobody knows.
But he's saying that Iran has gone nuclear.
And uh Ahmadinezad has ordered officials to speedily start five more nuclear reactors.
So it looks like we better try to talk them into a sequester too.
After sequesters seem to be more effective than any sanctions have been.
But but seriously, um North Korea threatening to launch nuclear missiles.
North Korea somehow feels like they can threaten us with impunity.
You've got Ahmadini Zad bragging about the fact that they have gone nuclear now.
And all of this terrible foreign policy news is coming out, and I don't know how many of you know this, all of this terrible foreign policy news coming out during the same week where it is being announced that Hillary Clinton has been given a $14 million advance to have somebody ghostwrite her memoirs of her brilliant time as Secretary of State.
14 million dollars.
If a book by Hillary Clinton earns 14 million dollars, I for one will be shocked.
And this is how this kind of stuff works.
Here come these publishers, and remember now, everything is part of the Democrat Party.
Everything is part of the agenda, and they're all oriented toward propping up their elites and propping up their leaders.
This is just a way to get Mrs. Clinton 14 million dollars.
It's yeah, that's what an advance is.
An advance is guaranteed.
Now, in some book contracts, uh the the it's it's an advance against royalties, and if you don't get there, then you've got to give some of the advance back.
But let's be nobody's gonna come to Mrs. Clinton and say, Ms. Clinton, that book didn't sell quite as well as we thought, and we want some of the 14 million dollars, but it's not gonna happen.
So this this is the left making sure to Clinton stay rolling in dough.
I mean, what in the world is there that's remarkable about her tenure as Secretary of State, Benghazi?
North Korea, Iran, where is the success?
Where is anything in a book that anybody would want to read about Mrs. Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State?
What are her monuments?
North Korea, Iran, Benghazi, Latin America, somebody give me a foreign policy success story.
You know, you go back last four years of the Bush administration and you listen to these same people talk about how we're hated, the world hates us, Obama's gonna make the world love us, we're gonna close Club Gitmo, we're gonna fix Iran, we're gonna fix Iraq, we're gonna get all this stuff back to normal so that everybody's happy and everybody loves us and it's all fallen apart.
We're still in Afghanistan.
Where, you know, monuments to her success, where are they?
What is it that she's done that justifies 14 million dollars?
Now, free market, I guess.
For some people, it remains a free market.
If she can get 14 million dollars some publisher to write her memoirs on her time as Secretary of State, fine.
She can write them down, write whatever she wants, have it ghostwritten, whatever, and people buy it and everybody's happy.
But the working title of this book ought to be What Difference Did I Make?
I mean, that's the working title of Mrs. Clinton's time as secretary say, what difference did I make?
How I passed off my utter failures to John Kerry.
Is everybody feeling better now?
What an utter disaster.
We're living in an utter disaster, no matter where you look.
We're looking we're in the midst of a dying country domestically.
And in the area of foreign policy, we got people who think this country has never deserved to be a superpower.
They presided over what they think needs to be done, which is cutting us down to size.
In the process, our so-called enemies are empowered, entrenched, not curtailed.
The United States no longer seems to stand for freedom around the world.
And yet, Mrs. Clinton, here's 14 million dollars.
We would love for you to write about your years as Secretary of State.
What difference did I make?
Now, speaking of foreign policy and so forth, somewhat related.
In the United Kingdom, following the announcement of the death of Margaret Thatcher, tens of thousands of purely depraved people took to the streets in various enclaves and cities of the United Kingdom to celebrate the death of Margaret Thatcher.
Celebrate the death of Margaret Thatcher.
UK Daily Mail dancing on Maggie's grave, how the left celebrated her death with smashed shops and anarchy in the streets.
Two women arrested for burglary after being found inside a shop.
Bernardo's shop front smashed in Brighton, South London.
One policeman seriously injured after being pelted with bottles in Bristol.
Hundreds took to the streets.
As Thatcher death parties were held across the country last night, organized by critics of the Iron Lady.
In Bristol, seven cops were injured, one seriously as violence erupted at a street party of 200 people, officers were pelted with bottles, cans, and rubbish, heads and out the riot cops.
Now, folks.
Margaret Thatcher saved that country.
Margaret Thatcher, I'm gonna give you a little historical perspective.
Margaret Thatcher took over the leadership of Great Britain at a time when that country was in almost an identical situation as we are in this country today.
Liberalism seemed to be empowered forever.
There wasn't any opposition leadership to speak of.
There were no efforts to curtail the Labor Party and its march.
The economy of Great Britain stunk.
The unemployment rate was sky high.
Tax rates were sky high.
It was an absolute disaster.
And she took over that country and she reversed it and she turned it into an actual competing top five worldwide power economically.
Now in the process, one of the things that she did was to bust a bunch of unions.
And that provides, I think, the uh the ammo, if you will, for these what what what what kind of meaningless life must You have.
I mean, Margaret Thatcher hasn't been in office over 20 years.
Margaret Thatcher hasn't been a factor in anything in twenty years.
If Margaret Thatcher ruined these worthless, endless parade of human debris lives, then why haven't they improved in the last twenty years?
Why haven't these people's lives gotten better in the last twenty years since she's gone?
You would think that if she's the reason their lives are so miserable, she hasn't been in power for twenty years.
Sometime in this twenty years their lives would have improved.
But no, they continue to be miserable, unhappy, mired in disappointment and squalor and whatever else dominates their daily existence.
And so she dies, and she has to take to the streets.
They take to the streets to celebrate this with all kinds of parties.
Must have a lot of free time.
Must not have very many responsibilities.
They must not matter much in Great Britain.
If all these people can go on this kind of a so-called celebration, blaming her.
Blaming her for whatever misery their pathetic lives have become.
I mean, you would think, you would think if you look at the videotape and read the accounts of these deaf celebrations, well, you would think some dictator had just been dispatched.
You would think that somebody who came in and seized power and put people in prison had just died.
But it's just the opposite.
A great liberator.
A woman literally saved Great Britain from the abyss.
Turned that country around and made it a world power once again.
They celebrate her passing.
And if it hadn't been for Meryl Streep, they'd hate her even more.
Meryl Streep bought her some good vibes, you see, because people like Merrill Streep.
Meryl Street portrayed Lady Thatcher in a movie that was an abomination, but still it was a good portrayal, and so people she couldn't have been too bad.
Meryl Streep didn't mind being her for two hours on screen, so she couldn't have been that bad, but they still when you laugh, that's how they look at it.
Well, Thatcher couldn't have been that bad if Meryl Streep agreed to be her for two hours.
But nevertheless.
We're looking at people celebrating her death, their lives utterly meaningless, in ruins, they're blaming her.
She hasn't been around in twenty years.
So long after she's gone, these people can't you really you can you fathom the kind of hate people like that must be harboring?
Can you understand that?
Can you imagine the hate that these people have to be holding on to?
That it has to be festering, effervescing, coursing through their veins and arteries and limited brain cells.
And her death gives these people a reason to celebrate.
My gosh, how utterly miserable.
Who's been running that country for the last twenty years?
Why in the world is there such misery?
Hasn't a labor party been running this country for the most part in the last ten anyway.
They accused her of creating grand international larceny for the rich.
The greatest case of international larceny in history, far harsher than even Ronaldo's Magnus' economic policies.
They say that Thatcher destroyed whole industries in places like Wales and Scotland just to be rid of the unions supported by those industries.
Destroyed whole industries, places like Wales and Scotland, got rid of the unions.
All she did was save the British economy.
But this, folks, is it's an illustration right there for everybody to see.
This is what happens with a brainwashed young population.
Which we're dealing with in this country.
Same kind of brainwashing, same kind of poisoning of the mind has taken place.
Everything seems a hundred eighty degrees out of phase, but I'm just want to reiterate she took over Great Britain at a time when that that country was in a similar circumstance to what the United States is in today.
And members of her own party didn't think she had a chance at winning.
She told her when she was running, she was dead serious.
Well, what are you going to do when you lose?
I'm not going to lose, I'm going to win.
Well, what are you going to do when you win?
As though it was irrelevant.
So I'm going to.
She spelled out what she was going to do, and then she went and did it.
The point is she had people in her own party.
Not thinking it was possible.
People in her own party thinking it was a pipe dream.
People in her own party thinking that it couldn't be done.
And there was no reason.
Same kind of people then as as exist now.
Do not do anything to make the media, you know, don't do anything on Monday going to make the media hate you on Tuesday.
And don't do anything Tuesday is going to make the media hate you on Wednesday.
Same kind of people that she was dealing with in the Conservative Party in the UK as exist in in places here.
She doesn't care.
And she revived that country.
That takes me to this circumstance with Obama that I that I led with.
You know, he's we've got some sound bites here.
This is some the media not happy that Obama's underwater in the polling data on all these issues, immigration, gun control, whatever else.
He's under 50%.
Media worried about this.
They're not accustomed to Obama being underwater.
They're accustomed to Obama, no matter what's happening in the country at 55%.
They they're they're accustomed to whatever's happening in the country not attaching itself to Obama.
Now it looks like some of it might be attaching itself to Obama, and they're a little bit concerned about it.
And it may even be that Obama's concerned about it.
Did you hear what did you hear what he said in Connecticut?
This let me find this exact quote.
No, no, not the not the worst Davis president.
No, no, it was it was something it was su really I I um something about we can't make it as easy for them to gun down our kids or some such I mean it was the most is that a number three play play this soundbite.
I well here let me take a break.
If I don't take a break, then we're gonna be in uh in deep trouble.
But this quote is so I I don't know.
I don't even ought to characterize it.
It's not presidential, that's for one thing.
Back here in Jesus.
You imagine what would have happened if a bunch of people had taken to the streets in this country to celebrate the death of Ted Kennedy.
If they had engaged in violent civil disobedience, started throwing death parties to Ted Kennedy.
Can you imagine the reaction what happened?
Now here's Obama.
This is Hartford, Connecticut.
And to me, this is this is disgusting.
And it's another illustration of limbaugh theorem.
But what are these can you imagine what these parents are going through in Connecticut still, and to be and to be trotted out as props for the advancement of an Obama policy.
I don't know what that must feel like.
But here's what our president said.
We have to tell Congress it's time to restore the ban on military-style assault weapons and a ten-round limit for magazines to make it harder for a gunman to fire 154 bullets into his victims in less than five minutes.
Let's put that to a vote.
I don't think I don't think there's anything on the table.
No proposal on the table that would have stopped what happened at Sandy Hook Elementary.
But here's the this is the the in this next bite contains the quote that just has me puzzled.
I've also heard some in the Washington press suggest that what happens to gun violence legislation in Congress this week will either be a political victory or defeat For me.
Connecticut, this is not about me, bull.
This is not about politics.
It's all about this is about doing the right thing for all the families who are here that have been torn apart by gun violence.
That's what this is about.
This is not about politics.
Yes, it is.
This is not about politics.
This is about these families and families all across the country who are saying let's make it a little harder for our kids to get gunned down.
What in the hell does that mean?
Let's make it a little harder for our kids to get gunned down.
Why don't you go to Chicago and drag those people into your speech?
What in the name of Sam Hill?
Boy, in the list of quotes of great presidents, can you see this one?
Let's make it, let's make it a little harder for our kids to get gunned down.
I mean, if we're going to get gunned down, let's make it really hard to do.
What in the for crying out loud, folks?
Where are we here?
It's a politician, a politician with a capital P, a politician in front of a crowd that he has arranged that is made up of parents of victims of random gunfire in a school says this isn't about politics.
Right.
A politician.
The country's leading politician.
The country's craftiest.
The country's most adept politician.
The country's slickest politician.
This isn't about politics.
Yeah, what else is it about then?
I mean, what what what it what who are you?
All you do is politic.
This isn't about politics.
Right.
It ain't about me.
It's in about me.
It isn't.
It ain't about you.
I uh but I still, ladies and gentlemen, this is about these families and families all across the country who were saying let's make it a little harder for our kids to get gunned down.
Thank you.
Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers, ask not what your country can do for you.
Ask what you can do for your country.
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
Hey, let's make it a little harder for our kids to get gunned down.
Now maybe I'm alone.
Maybe, maybe in today's lost culture, and in today's lost society, dominated by low information people, maybe that sings.
Maybe that is a great melody.
Maybe, maybe that is a profundity.
Maybe that's a great president of the United States.
What family members of kids killed at a school?
Let's make it a little harder.
For our kids to get gunned down.
A little harder.
Let's acknowledge our kids are gonna get gunned down.
Let's just make it harder.
Our kids are gonna get gunned down.
Because there are too many guns.
But let's make it a little harder for our kids to get gunned down.
Is anybody really care why this is happening?
Does it?
Is it just me or is there an agknowledgement, if you will, an acceptance of the decay and deterioration of the culture that kids are gonna get gunned down?
And so, since kids are gonna get gunned down, let's make it harder for the gunned downers to get away with gunning down our kids.
And how are we gonna do that?
Well, we're gonna get rid of those 10 clip magazines, and we're gonna get rid of 45 clip magazines, get it rid of magazines, get rid of clips and automatic weapons.
And these clowns have no idea what they're talking about.
And they're not even getting the root problem.
Do you think the existence of guns is what drove Brian Lanza Ryan Lanza into that classroom?
Or could it be the kid was zoned down on drugs that maybe he didn't need to be on?
Could it be the kid's just mentally ill and ought not have been walking around free as a bird?
Is anybody really interested in getting to the bottom of why Gabby Giffords got shot?
Why did that trigger puller do what he did?
What was it?
Was it the existence of the gun?
Was it the fact that there aren't enough laws in Washington covering guns that enabled it?
Of course not.
So once again, we have a series of tragedies being utilized, purely politicized by the Democrat Party for the express advancement of their agenda, which is a growing government and less freedom for every citizen.
That's what this is about.
It's being made to look like it's about saving kids.
It's being made to look like it's about safety.
It's being made to look like it's about the fact we care about all this, but what it really is about is the same thing Obamacare is about.
And the same thing the stimulus was about.
And the same thing Fast and Furious was about, the same thing Cylindra is about.
The same thing, same thing all the green policies are.
It's all about expanding the government, shrinking the private sector, taking away economic prosperity and liberty at the same time.
And all of that taking place under false premise.
Let's make it a little harder for our kids to get gunned down.
I don't know, folks.
That one.
I saw that.
I didn't hear it.
I heard it with you the first time today.
I just I don't turn the TV on to news much anymore.
It's too depressing.
Just I don't care to see a bunch of human debris celebrating Margaret Thatcher's death.
I just don't want to watch it.
And it's getting harder and harder to watch what passes for news and all that on cable networks when it's just an endless parade of stupidity and ignorance.
So I watch Real Mayhem and Murder, Game of Thrones.
Yeah, I got into it.
Over the weekend, I decided if I did.
I started season one.
I wanted to find out what all it's all about.
So I had seen episode one of the first 20 minutes of it, and I don't like medieval stuff.
And you know, when they start gutting animals and ripping the intestines out, okay, time to change the channel.
Just not my cupboard.
But I stuck with this.
And it's uh it I I understand why it is captivated people.
I haven't read any of the Game of Thrones books, but but I've I've caught up.
And I went back to episode one, season one, watch all where I'm on my um a bad omen though.
I got this episode one season two late yesterday afternoon, and I found myself doing other things while it was on without hitting the pause button.
So it may be harder for me to stick with it during season two, but I shall um endeavor.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, have you oh no, I'm not gonna go to gay infertility yet.
Oh, wait till you hear about this, though.
I want to play you an audio soundbite.
Let's go back to soundbite number one.
Listen, good morning America today.
Yes, gay infertility.
It is um it is about mandated insurance coverage for the inability to have babies.
I know you're scratching.
Wait, wait, wait a minute.
There's no such thing as gay infertility.
Oh, yes, there is now.
Language doesn't mean anything anymore, folks.
Truth doesn't mean anything anymore.
Language doesn't mean anything.
So if a bunch of activists want to create the concept of gay infertility and in tax all the rest of us to compensate them for the fact they can't have babies, then that's gonna happen.
You haven't missed anything yet.
I'm just I'm just just teasing you as to what's coming.
Gays now think it's not fair they can't have babies.
So they're calling that infertility.
And it will uh it w it will require mandatory health insurance because of it.
That yeah I know they're not infertile, but that doesn't matter, they can't have babies.
Even after they're married, they can't do it.
And that's not fair to them.
That is culturally unfair.
Well, you mean the guy with the uh artificial womb?
But oh that guy, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That guy.
Well, I don't think they all want to go through that.
See, that's the point.
They want to have to do mastectomies, chopadicomies, adodicomies.
They don't want to have to do all that.
Just gonna be easier to um.
Folks, don't d if you're thinking this never gonna happen, you what time to wake up.
Time to wake up.
All right, here's this sound.
This is uh I just I mentioned this, so I'm I've got to play this now just to make sure I don't leave it behind.
It's good morning, America, George Stepanopoulos, and Jeff Zelony of the New York Times worrying, fretting over Obama's approval numbers being underwater, particularly on gun control.
We're gonna turn out a President Obama's all hands-on-deck push for gun control.
He flew in families of the Newtown victims on Air Force One last night, hoping they can convince lawmakers to back some kind of compromise on the key issue of background checks for gun buyers.
ABC's Jeff Zellani is covering all this from the Capitol, and Jeff, the President needs all the help he can get.
Resistance continues to grow.
That's right, George.
The White House is facing stiff headwinds on its gun control plan with a new CNN poll this morning showing that 52% of Americans disapprove of how President Obama is handling gun control.
But now the President is hoping that a bipartisan agreement can be reached before the momentum slips away.
Uh oh, see they don't like this.
They've been operating under the the theory, the narrative that the country became a hundred percent liberal when Romney lost.
And they've been operating in a theory that a massive majority of Americans support everything they want to do.
They are learning that that isn't the case.
Not that it will matter, not that it will stop them, but it still has them discombobulated.
It just means you're gonna have to take another route to get what they want.
If the people don't want it, the hell with that, we'll just have to take a different route, such as uh an executive something or other.
Um yeah, just what they did with Obamacare.
Nobody wanted that, but they they found a way to get it done.
But they're just they're a little worried because they you know they they want Obama to be loved and the number one celebrity in the country and all that, and 52% of people do not support his gun control poly difficult thing for them to compute to comprehend.
Because if if in their view, i the public if they're gonna support Obama on anything, it would be his gun control bill.
They just can't believe that fifty-two percent of people do not want this.
Same thing with immigration, they don't care, same thing with uh health care, but the gun control.
I mean, this, you know, this is gun control is that latest orgasm they're all waiting to have.
And it's it's almost like you know they don't have a willing partner here.
So it ain't gonna be as much fun.
Jay Carney, the White House press briefing this afternoon, a question from ABC Radio White House reporter at Ann Compton.
She said in President Obama's talks with the New Town parents, would background checks have made any difference in Newtown, Jay?
There would still be gun violence in America, there's no question.
But it is incumbent upon those lawmakers who are sent here by their constituents and coming upon the president and the vice president who were elected by the entire country to do whatever they can that is sensible and common sense that will reduce gun violence that will save the lives of children like the children of Newtown.
It won't eliminate the problem.
But the problem needs to be addressed.
Right.
It won't eliminate the problem, but that's not the point.
We're talking about it, and that's all that matters, so shut up.
Don't ask me whether what we're doing is gonna work.
That's not the point.
The point is we're talking about it, and we care, and we gotta make it harder for our kids to get gunned down.
And that's what we're doing, and shut up.
We need common sense.
We need we need sensible common sense that'll reduce gun violence.
And we need the president working on it, vice president working on it, all these state local legislators would work and we need everybody caring.
Still gonna be gun violence after we do this.
There's still gonna be gun violence, no question about that, but we still gotta do something.
Why don't you tax it?
You want to tax everything, tax gun violence.
You know, go go go tax the family of uh of Adam Lanza, whatever.
Yes, I'm a little testy today.
I have reasons for it, but I'm not gonna bother you with it.
Now, gay infertility.
Are you paying attention?
This is from front page magazine is David Horowitz's great publication.
It's interesting sometimes to read about the last days of past civilizations.
It's hard not to notice during these readings that the last days were filled with completely irrational ideas and behaviors that couldn't be explained in any way outside of a total collapse of reason.
And boy are we seemingly there.
You know, most societies die of suicide.
Not attack.
Did you know that?
Most societies wipe themselves out.
And it's interesting to read about the last days of past civilizations.
You'll note that the last days of past civilizations were filled with idiotic, irrational ideas and behaviors that couldn't be explained by reason.
Now, in entirely unrelated news, there's a new proposal to mandate coverage for gay infertility.
Now the problem is that gay infertility is just biology.
Two men and two women are not infertile.
They're just not capable of impregnating each other.
Not a medical problem.
It's a it's a it's uh well, it's a it's a mental problem.
It's a it's a physiological problem.
Infertility coverage is meant to cover natural couples who would be capable of conceiving a child if not for medical problems.
Gay rights activists will predictably argue that couples in which one partner has deeper medical problems may also be covered, but that is only as a part of a larger set of natural couplers.
What they're getting at here is that infertility coverage for heterosexual couples.
It's not fair that coverage is not available to gay couples.
And you say, well, wait a minute.
Gay couples are not infertile.
They just by definition can't have babies.
Doesn't matter.
It's not fair that they can't have babies.
When other people can.
Not fair that gay couples can't have babies.
And so we want access to infertility coverage.
This is going to be the next push, according to this story in the magazine, and and while you come on, Rush, it's never gonna happen.
Right.
Never gonna happen, right?
Yeah, wait.
So I'm watching CNN.
It says here that um Halle Berry has decided to fight hunger.
That's all it says.
Um what is she gonna start gorging herself?
What what what what does that mean?
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