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April 16, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 16, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Man, don't you just hate it when that happens?
I've got something in my eye here, and I can't get it out.
No matter what I do.
No, I have no idea what it is.
No, there aren't any pressure cookers around here.
It can't be that.
I have no Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
L Rushbow back at you behind the golden EIB microphone here serving humanity simply by showing up.
A telephone number if you want to be on the program, 800-28282, and the email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
Well, the uh the quest continues to find out just what happened in Boston at the marathon, who did it, and of course the ever present why did they do it.
Now, I mentioned earlier in the program in the first hour that this is how Bill Ayers got his start.
This is how Bernadine Dorn got her start.
Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorn are now accredited educators in America.
They occupy lofty positions at universities, think tanks, and so forth.
Bill Ayers blew up the Pentagon.
Police departments in uh in New York City.
Uh Kathy Bowden, not sure how she pronounces it.
Kathy Bowden is a professor at Columbia University.
She's a terrorist who has killed a person.
I'm not kidding.
She's a faculty member at Columbia, adjunct professor, some such thing.
So whoever did this might someday be teaching your kids on a major American university college campus.
I have a story here.
Bill Ayers to university students.
Ayers spoke at the University of Oregon last week on the subject of teaching and organizing for social justice.
His speech was not free of the radical sentiments that he's well known for espousing, especially in the company of young people.
He spoke of the end of America.
He spoke of a new world and what our role ought to be in all of it.
Almost as interesting as his speech itself was how he was introduced by the university students.
One girl who described herself as a doctoral student at the University of Oregon spoke of the privilege they would have with their honored guest in an evening of radical imagination.
To others, an associate professor at the university and a graduate student said, most of us have in one way or another acknowledged the sovereign authority of the U.S. government or the state of Oregon in order to be here tonight.
Either admission to the university, applying for a job, or just paying the parking meter.
We have not, however, asked permission of the Native Americans whose ancestral home this is.
And to fail to acknowledge this that this remains disputed territory would in effect be taking sides and reinforce the erasure of indigenous history and indigenous peoples.
You want me to read this to you?
This is a an associate professor at the university undergraduate student, talking about the privilege of having a terrorist.
Bill Ayers, who got his start doing what happened in Boston on Monday.
Most of us have in one way or another acknowledged the sovereign authority of the U.S. government, state of Oregon.
We've acknowledged that authority in order to be here tonight, uh, either by admission to the university or applying for a job or paying the parking meter, but we have not asked permission of the Native Americans whose ancestral home this is, meaning the land the university is on.
And to fail to acknowledge this, to fail to acknowledge that this remains disputed territory would in effect be taking sides and reinforce the erasure of so these people are sitting there fretting and they're wringing their hands That while they're at the University of Oregon and in the company of Bill Ayers, they're also occupying land that isn't theirs.
It's the Native Americans' land, and it was taken away from them, and they feel guilty about it.
Because they are there.
They have therefore erased indigenous history and erased indigenous peoples.
And they're feeling guilty over the fact that they're at the University of Oregon in the state of Oregon because it wouldn't be there had the Indians not been dispatched.
When Bill Ayers got up to speak, it was largely of how the American Empire is over and what this means for her citizens.
The great challenge for our generation is to find a way, not just to live differently as individuals, but to find a way to think differently about what work means, to think differently about citizenship, what that means, to think differently about what it means to be a citizen of the world.
One of the great dangers that we live in right now is I don't think there's any question, and I don't think any of you would question that the American empire is in decline.
Economically, politically, and in some ways culturally, we are in decline.
The difference is he is happy about it.
Bill Ayers is happy about that.
That's what he's been working toward.
One of his best friends is Barack Obama.
And I agree with him.
We are living in a decaying country.
We are living in a dying country.
The difference is I cry about it.
The difference is I cringe deeply over it.
Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dorn, and these students think it's a good thing that America is in decline.
But then Ayers said, and despite all of this, the United States remains the most powerful weaponized military system the earth has ever known.
He's not happy about that.
So while we may be in decline, we still have a lot of decline left to effect.
We still have a lot we have to destroy.
Ayers said that this decline, while still being the most powerful weaponized military system the earth has ever known, is a treacherous combination.
A declining economic power and an expanding military power, and we're going to have to find ways to reimagine what it means to live in this country in this world.
Here we are, 4% of the world's population consuming vast amounts of natural resources, consuming vast amounts of finished goods, and no politician will say that the empire is declining and that the game is over.
Well, it's over.
Now what?
So here comes this nonsense again, rooted in guilt.
We're 4% of the population.
We are using 25% of the world's resources.
That makes us guilty and evil.
That makes us thieves, you see.
We're stealing, we're purloining, we're commandeering, conquering, we're taking everything from everybody, and we're making the rest of the world poor while we're enriching ourselves.
And now we're paying the price because we're in decline, but our military is getting bigger, and we got to rethink this.
Whoever blew up the Boston Marathon may as well be Ayers.
It's exactly how Bill Ayers got his start today.
Bill Ayers, who did the same thing as happened yesterday in Boston, is a celebrated figure on college campaign.
A celebrated figure in the American Academy.
For those of you in Rio Linda, that means the university, where there is supposedly intellectual inquiry going on.
There's no intellectual inquiry going on.
There is propagandizing going on.
And worse.
So there you have it.
Bill Ayers and our future.
How does he see it?
Well, for me, that means it's our responsibility to fight here and now for a little more democracy, a little more participation, a little more peace.
Keep putting our shoulder on what on that wheel because the opposition is fighting for, you know, another world is definitely coming, but that doesn't mean it's going to be a better world.
It's our responsibility to jump in.
So this former terrorist.
And now expert at corrupting America's youth and education shows up on a college campus to decry America to rip America to say America's bad.
We're in decline.
That's good.
We deserve to be in decline.
But our military is getting too big.
It's a new world.
We need to find out how we're going to be citizens of it because we're no longer really going to be satisfied to be Americans because America's in decline.
And that's what's celebrated today on the American left.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back and continue here on the EIB network after this.
Look, I don't want to make too big a deal out of this.
Bill Ayers didn't blow up the Boston Marathon, but somebody like him did.
Somebody like him did, and that could mean that whoever did this could someday be celebrated in this country if things don't change.
Whoever did it could end up being on the faculty at Columbia University.
And just one more thing about just last week, Bill Ayers finally confirmed what Obama has always denied.
Obama has denied knowing airs, other than as some casual acquaintance from the neighborhood.
Bill Ayers confirmed what Obama has denied, that Ayers held a fundraiser in his living room for Obama.
It was in an interview last week with the Daily Beast.
Ayers recalled a fundraiser.
We were friendly, that was true.
We served in a couple of boards together, that was true.
He held a fundraiser in our living room.
That was true.
It was all true.
Everything that was said about Obama and Ayers back in 2008 that was denied is all true, and Ayres now has admitted it because what's to lose?
America's finally in decline.
Everybody's getting what they want.
Nobody can do anything to Obama now, so what the hell?
Why not admit it?
And Ayers did.
By the way, Ayers was awarded visiting scholar status at Minnesota State University just last month.
School officials, Minnesota State University have selected the left-wing radical and admitted terrorist Bill Ayers as the 2013 College of Education and Human Services visiting scholar.
Professor Steve Grinneski, who helped select Ayers for the award, said he's somebody who's written a lot through his teaching in the area of social justice, which social justice is just plain BS.
It's just code lingo for advancing socialism.
Pure and simple.
And again, I didn't make this up.
Given everything happening, people rushing, he really has some good lines on his show today.
Well, this is not one of them.
The Department of Homeland Security today did, in fact, advise police agencies to be on the lookout for any pressure cookers on the street.
and deem them suspicious.
It's in the New York Post.
Well, it's everywhere now.
Particularly pressure cookers with timers.
These pressure cookers had timers on them.
Pressure cookers in black bags.
So now everybody be vigilant, be uh vigilant, be you know, on the lookout for pressure cookers.
Sorry, I had the wrong button pushed.
I had stupid TV Monitor on in here, and I was looking at it, and I'm sorry about that, folks.
I I just I uh my bad, my bad.
I am I was listening to the wrong monitor, and I couldn't tell the difference.
Anyway, we're back, El Rush Ball, the cutting edge of societal uh evolution.
We have here a soundbite, Sheila Jackson Lee this morning in Washington on the House floor.
And I this is a one-minute speeches.
There's no press conference or question here.
She's just flying blind after looking at the Mars rover on the moon.
I serve as well, Mr. Speaker, on the Homeland Security Committee, and I think it is important to say and be honest that the sequester is devastating to America's homeland security.
What?
We are asked the question about the securing of the homeland.
We are feeling the pain, along with our colleagues, of the tragedies that have occurred, the attempted Times Square bombing, the successful bombing in Boston.
The Speaker of the House needs to immediately appoint budget conferees to move us forward.
The conference and to get rid of the sequester was not the fault of the American people.
Well, she called it the sequester at first.
That's why I was confused.
So what is she talking about here?
So the sequester is to blame.
The sequester did it.
We have to get rid of the sequester.
The sequester was not the fault of the American people.
We need budget conferees.
We need spending.
We need to spend more.
That's that that's why this happened.
Oh me.
Don't call me if you see a pressure cooker.
You are to call local police.
Don't I've got emails.
Russia, I just saw a pressure court.
Don't send the emails to me.
A question.
Uh very very quickly.
Uh.
Hey, cookie, roll roll on Fox right now.
My buddy Andy McCarthy's on with uh with Megan roll roll on Andy.
Thank you.
Uh Al Qaeda.
Have you noticed that the drive-bys are going out of their way?
That the authorities are going out of their way.
To assure us this is not Al Qaeda.
There's no way it's Al Qaeda.
It's not that Saudi guy is no, no, no.
Don't make any connections.
Saudi guy was 100% innocent, uh, came in fully cooperative.
No, no, it's not Al Qaeda.
Now they don't know who, but they know it wasn't Al Qaeda.
How do they know it wasn't Al Qaeda?
Why can't it be Al Qaeda is the question.
And you know why it can't be Al Qaeda?
Is because Al Qaeda's on the run.
And the reason it can't be Al Qaeda is because nobody said that there was a video that ticked them off enough to make them do this.
I don't think.
At the beginning of the program, I nobody had blamed a video for this, right?
And there hasn't been any yet.
It still could happen.
Well, that filmmaker is still in jail, but there could have been another video filmmaker out there.
There could there could be a video we don't know about yet.
Folks, don't.
If it happened once, it can happen again.
If a video caused Benghazi, a video not yet discovered, could have caused this.
Well, I'm just throwing out.
No, I'm not kidding.
What in do I do?
I show up here every day.
I take note of what I read, see, and hear.
When I hear absurdity, I comment on it.
When I hear the things that I hold dear attacked, I defend them.
Same thing with people that I hold dear.
What do I do here?
I come here every day and defend things that I love that are under assault that are being attacked, which is happening today.
The left is hellbent on finding some right winger or right wing organization to blame this on, folks.
They couldn't wait.
And just to remind you, right here, my formerly nicotine stained fingers, Ron Fournier, writing in the National Journal.
It is scarier to kill people pursuing happiness as in a marathon than it is to kill people working on Wall Street.
I kid you not.
Let me read from his piece.
The Boston attack is notable, not for the number of deaths, but for its social significance.
It's one thing, a dastardly evil thing to strike symbols of economic and military power.
I mean, it's one thing to attack Wall Street on 9-11.
It's one thing to attack the Pentagon on 9-11, but it's quite another to hit the heart of America.
And death at the finish line in Boston is the heart of America.
Because that was people pursuing happiness.
And that makes it worse than 9-11.
And that's what he is saying.
Can you believe it?
You see, corporations aren't people, and Wall Street is corporations.
So the 3,000 people that died in 9-11, many of them on Wall Street, symbols.
Symbols of corporate greed.
Symbols of economic and military power.
But runners at the Boston Marathon, those are people.
I am not making this up.
This man actually wants to make a comparison in which acts are more grievous and which acts are worse.
And it turns out the Boston Marathon bombing is far worse than 9-11 because the attacks in 9-11 just attack symbols.
Wall Street, the World Trade Center, evil corporations work there.
And the Pentagon.
But the Boston Marathon, that's people pursuing happiness.
The heart of America.
Frankly, running has never made me happy, but that's another thing.
Running is the most arduous thing anybody's ever made me do, but that's just me.
People who text frequently tend to be more racist and shallow.
Did you know that?
CBS News Cleveland, a new study indicates that people who engage in text messaging tend to be more racist and shallow than their less technologically savvy counterparts.
Researchers at the University of Winnipeg found that young people are specifically susceptible to the trend.
The study was conducted by observing 2300 psychological students or psychology students for three years.
Psychology students.
People who text frequently tend to be more racist and more shallow.
They are unprincipled, have low ethics, and they are poor thinkers.
That's what it says.
I imagine the same thing is true of you tweeters.
Because you uh communicate in short bursts as well, and that's what their complaint is.
No, I'm not making this up.
It's it's CBS Cleveland.
Ultra brief social media like texting and Twitter encourages rapid, relatively shallow thought, and consequently very frequently uh frequent daily use of such media should be associated with cognitive and moral shallowness, which is how we get racism.
Okay, Chris uh Sand Point, Idaho.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Russ, how's it going?
Very well, sir.
Thank you.
I'd like you to consider this scenario really quick.
So let's say that global man-made global warming is a disease that you can contract.
Um let's say you go to the doctor, and the doctor is telling you, hey, you've got man-made global warming.
And you just keep going to the doctor, and he keeps telling you you've got it, you've got it, and then one day you show up, and he's like, hey, you may not have global warming, man-made global warming.
You would think the doctor would be like, oh.
And you'd be happy to be told that you don't have global warming anymore.
Absolutely.
Well, that's it.
this is what they're doing with, you know, this whole thing.
This is it, folks.
This is an excellent point here from old Chris in Sand Point, Idaho.
Let me explain this to you.
What he's saying is that the scientists and the left are in a panic and have been for 25, 30 years about global warming.
It's gonna kill you, it's gonna destroy the planet.
Oh my God, oh my god, it's horrible out there.
We're gonna cook.
We're destroying the ice flows of polar bears.
And then one day they learn it's not happening.
It ought to be good news.
But it isn't.
They're panicked.
They're wondering what's wrong with their prediction, and then they're wondering where is this heat that's destroying everything.
And then they say, you know what they're saying, by the way?
The heat is somehow being trapped in the depths of the ocean.
And it's not escaping.
They don't know how yet, but it's getting down there really deep in the ocean.
And someday the ocean's gonna let it loose.
And then we're gonna really be sweat city.
No, they are.
They're they're blaming it on deep ocean depths, deep ocean uh phenomena, trapping the heat.
But that's an excellent point.
If global warming is this horrible thing, and all of a sudden it isn't, isn't that good news?
Isn't that something to be happy about?
He's right.
And yet they're not happy about it.
They're panicked.
In fact, they're insistent on you believing it's still happening.
It is global warming is a disease.
Let's say it's cancer.
You walk in, you've got cancer.
Oh, it's horrible.
Then one day you don't.
You mean I don't have cancer?
No, no, no.
I still have to have cancer.
You've got to find a way.
I've got to still be sick.
You know, folks, the left is not happy that the sequester has not caused the end of the world either.
The sequester was supposed to cause a bunch of disaster, but it hasn't.
I fully expect this whole program to be maligned, impugned, mischaracterized, and ripped to shreds by the drive-by media later today and tonight, and later in this week, once they catch up to it and are told what happened here today, and then they're able to misquote it all.
But we'll be back tomorrow, nevertheless.
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