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April 22, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 22, 2013, Monday, Hour #2
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And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain, the award-winning, thrill-packed, ever-exciting, and increasingly popular, not demographically challenged, Rush Limbaugh program here on the EIB network.
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And even wounded and even dead, these two guys accomplished a lot after what they accomplished in the bombing.
They then shut the city down for a day.
As it turned out, a wounded 19-year-old hiding under a tarp and a guy's boat in the backyard that was only discovered because the guy is an evil smoker had people locked in their homes, cowering in the corners, the authorities saying, don't go outside, don't venture out, stay at home, don't leave the hotel.
We're going to cancel the basketball or the hockey game and the baseball game.
Stay where you are.
So these guys accomplished quite a lot.
And while all this was going on, while all this was going on, elected officials were gathered in Washington with another scheme to take even more action on gun control against law-abiding citizens.
Went down to defeat, but that was all those things were happening simultaneously.
And by the way, new immigration procedures were being discussed.
Open border amnesty.
While the city of Boston was effectively shut down.
Now, this Ruth O'Brien, the New York University professoret, this is classic, folks.
This is realize how far ahead of the game we could be if we could simply instruct citizens into understanding that when they watch the news, they're just watching the liberal agenda.
All weekend long, I was in Kansas City for a funeral on Friday.
Good friend Joni Fry passed away of cancer.
She was George Brett's gal Friday.
She did everything.
When George was called up at age 20 by the Royals, he met Joni and Joni took over all the things in his life that would allow him to stay focused on baseball.
And she became a good friend to everybody.
Joni, I met her when I, even before I started working for the Royals.
And these are my peon days.
And Joni had no reason to give me the time of day, but she did.
And if you were a friend of one of her best friends, you were her best friend.
You automatically were trusted and you were welcomed in.
And I met people I wouldn't have met had I not met Joni.
She was just classy, funny.
She had quirks that everybody was remembering and laughing at at the memorial, which was Friday afternoon In Mission Hills, Kansas.
And we all went out to dinner Friday night.
We're going to play golf Saturday.
It's a little chilly, so we went to a hole in the wall called a peanut for BLTs.
And then we went out.
There was a barbecue.
What do you call it?
Contest?
Championship, whatever.
Near Overland Park.
78 teams entered.
Friend of George's, Meet Mitch, M-E-A-T, meet Mitch.com.
This guy entered in the barbecue championship.
We went out, saw his tent.
It was an amazing 78 teams had been there all night Friday, barbecuing, preparing their submissions to the judges.
Now, Mitch works for Taylor-Made Golf.
This is his barbecue stuff as his hobby.
Anyway, during this whole weekend, and it was among the best barbecue I've ever tasted, by the way.
Anyway, during the whole weekend, people were asking me, Rush, are you watching any TV?
And I, folks, I honestly didn't.
I didn't have to, as I was going to be told what people were seeing.
But I just, I don't, something's happening to me in cable news.
I just can't watch it.
I just know I'm watching the liberal agenda on cable news.
Like there was a on, I can't avoid it here at studio.
I have it on in the monitors as part of show prep.
Some network, I don't even know which, had some doctor on today.
Guess why bomber number one did what he did?
Because he, this guy wants to, he wants his brain.
He might have suffered brain injuries while boxing.
And that might have led him to terrorism.
And this guy's all over cable news.
Not just happens to coincide with the NFL and everybody else being concerned about concussions and altering human behavior.
And whatever people do is not their fault anymore.
It's always some outside reason, some extracurricular activity.
In this case, the kid boxed now and then and he might have suffered brain damage.
I'm sorry, I just can't stomach this stuff.
I don't even want to.
I will gather what I need to know from trusted, accredited sources on the internet.
I just can't.
It's becoming more and more frustrating, particularly CNN and PMSNBC.
I just can't do it.
So, no, I didn't watch TV on this all weekend.
I just, why want to be frustrated?
Sit there and shout at the TV every five minutes.
Anyway, it's nothing more than the liberal agenda on TV.
If we could, folks, do you realize how far ahead of the game, if we could just convince another 10 million people that what they're watching is not news anymore?
Do you know what the news on this, let me just tell you, the news, quote unquote, on MSNBC and CNN all last week and into the weekend was oriented on how can we make sure this does not taint Obama and his agenda.
How can we make sure that whatever conservatives think isn't proven true?
That's really what it is.
That is really the purpose of mainstream media today is to make sure that whoever's watching is convinced that whatever conservatives think about something isn't true.
It is an ongoing 24-hour, seven-day-a-week effort to discredit Conservatives, conservative theory, Republicans, you name it, while at the same time advancing the liberal agenda.
It can be reduced to that.
It certainly isn't newsgathering.
Mr. Limbaugh, what are you talking about?
I watched what happened with the Boston News coverage with nothing but news.
Yes, yes, of course it was news gathering.
Yeah, but with an agenda in mind to make sure that whatever you learned was positioned in your mind the proper way.
Anyway, this Ruth O'Brien, for all practical purposes, she could get a hosting slot on cable news.
She's the one who, the talk at the top of the hour, has written an op-ed piece saying that the cops use too much force in capturing the Boston bombers.
Yep, the cops are too mean.
They use too much force.
They sent a bad message all over the world about America.
And I'm sick of that meme.
I'm sick of the whole notion of what happens in this country sends a bad message to people around the world and tells them that America is an unfair, bigoted, racist state or nation.
Here, let me read you a couple more things from her article.
The United States that I love hunts down terrorists and follows human rights during capture.
That's the United States I love.
Yeah, we hunt down terrorists, but we follow human rights during capture.
Giving the worst criminal or terrorist the most dignity during captivity shows why we should not be feared as a nation and is the best antidote to terrorism.
So this professor who is teaching your kids at New York University actually believes that giving the worst criminal or terrorist the most dignity during captivity is the best thing we can do to show what a great nation we are.
Would somebody tell me how would that have defeated Hitler?
For those of you who have heard of him, how would that have defeated Japan?
For those of you who have heard about that, how would that have helped us defeat Mussolini, for those of you who have heard about him?
How?
Somebody tell me how treating terrorists or criminals with the gravest dignity during captivity would be the best statement about this country that could be made.
By the way, she's a major Obama sycophant.
What I read to you is right after the quote above, her final sentence.
We accept difference as a nation and we should champion our greatest strength, inclusivity, at these extreme moments if we want the character of the United States not to be judged harshly by the global community.
Once all the adrenaline subsides, I hope we will all be witnesses to the internal affairs investigation about undue force in Boston.
Undue force, you've got a dead cop on the MIT campus.
You've got an injured undue force.
Undue force.
It was the bomber number two who ran over his brother and killed him.
What?
They were throwing bombs at the cops for crying out loud.
And here's this professor, an Obama sycophant, worried about what the world thinks and getting it totally wrong in the process.
If we want the character of the United States not to be judged harshly by the global, who the hell is the global community?
And what makes them better than us?
And why in the world do we have to do whatever in order to please this so-called global community?
The only way you can think like this is if you believe your country is guilty of something of anything.
Your country is guilty.
Your country is bad.
Your country and it, we must atone.
We must have a carbon tax.
We must have a carbon tax to cut down on CO2 emissions to show the world that we are sorry for destroying it.
It's that kind of cockamame, loony tunes thinking.
And the woman is a professor of so-called higher learning.
She just written a fawning biography of Obama.
It's called Out of Many, One, Obama and the Third American Political Tradition.
I got to take a brief time out.
We'll get to your phone calls when we come back.
Sit tight, folks.
Don't go away.
I met this guy, by the way, at dinner and after dinner.
I met this guy who'd never listened to this program before.
But he knew who I was.
He'd never listened before.
So he started asking me probing questions about the program.
And it was all about the caller.
Well, how many callers do you say?
How do you treat the caller?
How do you decide which callers you're going to take?
Do you know what the callers are going to say?
Do you have your insults ready to go?
Do you know what you're going to do?
I said, I may take five calls a day.
It's not about that.
Didn't matter.
All he wanted was with callers.
So I said, well, why don't you, you know, the easiest thing to do is just call rushlimbaugh.com or 980KMBZ here in Kansas City.
It's a radio.
You turn it on, you find the station, switch it there, and put it on scan.
You'll eventually get there.
You've not heard my voice, you'll recognize it.
The callers, though, I really want to, how do you decide which ones you're going to take?
And does somebody scream them?
You really scream them?
Isn't that unfair?
It's a learning experience every time I venture out there, folks.
Speaking of that, I just wanted to tell you that because we're going to go grab a caller.
And yes, I know what he's going to say.
Well, I think I know what he thinks he's going to say.
But when they get on the air, sometimes they get nervous.
Sometimes they're liars, tricksters.
You never know.
Sometimes they're great.
Oh, you should have, when I told this guy, the purpose of a caller is to make me look good.
Oh, yeah, yeah, I'll bet it is.
You just want him to call and compliment you.
No, no.
And I tried to explain what making me look good is.
Anyway, Jim Spokane, Washington.
Great to have you on the programs.
Not to put any pressure on you here, Jim, but I just wanted to welcome you to the show.
Well, thank you.
And, you know, I usually agree with you, Rush, on most things, but I think this terror connection that we have in Boston isn't because of radical Islam and the teachings and the going to Russia.
But I think it's probably bullying that they had here at school.
Bullying?
One of them was a boxer.
Well, yeah, but it's the psychological bullying they would get.
They didn't feel like they were part of the U.S. and they didn't have to be able to do it.
Well, you know, that's true.
They didn't have any friends.
And they said one of them didn't have any friends and didn't particularly like it here.
But yeah, bullied.
I hadn't considered that, but you may be on to something here.
I think we'll hear more about it because it's ingrained in America that we don't accept people usually.
Well, we don't.
We're not inclusive.
Right.
We hate people from other parts of the world.
But I think we need to look into that and maybe get some help with our friends on the left and the right.
What do you mean, get some help from our friends?
Well, to help lead us down the path to understand what could have caused this because the path to understanding.
Correct.
Yeah, I've heard about that path.
Yeah.
But I know you'll come around sooner or later and see it my way, Russia.
Bullying.
Bullying.
Well, I'm not that far away yet.
I hadn't considered bullying.
I'm not sure we'll hear about it.
Because, well, it is not their fault.
Look, folks, I have a piece here.
Thank you, Jim, very much for the call.
I have a piece here.
It's the Boston Globe, it ran Saturday.
And the headline, Islam might have had a secondary role in the Boston attacks.
And it is written by Lisa Wangsness.
Islam might have had a secondary role in the Boston attacks.
She said, we family, neighbors, friends, social media sources painted a complex picture of the brothers' religiosity.
So Islam might have had a secondary role in the Boston attacks.
This inspired James Taranto, best of the web today, Wall Street Journal, to write a series of typical Boston Globe headlines on Twitter to help illustrate the absurdity of Lisa Wangsness and her piece,
Islam might have had a secondary role in the Boston attacks, such as Booz might have had a secondary role in a hangover.
Gravity might have had a secondary role in the fall.
Fault might have had a secondary role in the quake.
The Surgeon General has determined that cigarette smoking might have a secondary role in lung cancer.
Brando might have had a secondary role in the Godfather.
The bomb might have played a secondary role in Japan's defeat.
Anti-Semitism might have played a secondary role in the pogrom.
Slavery might have played a secondary role in the Civil War.
Racism might have played a secondary role in crossburning.
Abortion might have played a secondary role in the Gosnell case.
That would be if the Boston Globe were covering the Bosnell case.
The LA Times is reporting that the Sinnaevs attended services at the Islamic Center of Boston Mosque in Cambridge near their apartment.
And the Times had no trouble finding members who recalled them.
But the Boston Globe said that Islam might have had a secondary role in the Boston attacks.
Given that, it's entirely possible that bullying could have been the culprit.
Hey, don't laugh about this bullying business, even as we, well, not now, but during the break mere moments ago, CNN was running through possible defenses for Jokar Sernaev.
I'm not kidding.
This is my point.
CNN had somebody on to discuss possible defenses for Jokar.
And they're talking about how he could blame everything on his older brother.
His older brother radicalized him.
His older brother bullied him.
You see how this could work out.
How about this?
You think Lisa Wangsness at the Boston Globe would ever write a story with the following headline.
Guns might have had a secondary role in the Newtown shooting.
Islam might have played a secondary role in the Boston bombings.
The White House says that the Boston bombing suspect will not be treated as an enemy combatant.
The Boston bombing suspect will be mirandized, which means that he'll be read his rights and at that point can shut up and not tell anybody.
The White House said today surviving suspect, Jokar, will not be treated as an enemy combatant in response to calls from Republican lawmakers to consider that option.
See?
See?
Republicans always wrong.
Doesn't matter.
That's the point of all the news.
The press spokeskid, Jake Carney, said that U.S. citizens like suspect Jokar Senaev cannot be tried in military commissions and stressed that the civilian court system can handle such.
Oh, yeah.
And it's going to be a great trial.
You imagine what they're going to have to do in Boston during that trial.
Mayor Doomberg in New York wants to raise the age limit for buying cigarettes to 21.
Nobody under 21 be able to buy cigarettes in New York City under a new proposal announced today that marks the latest in a decade of moves to crack down on smoking in New York City.
Could have an unintended consequence of letting more terrorists go free.
Remember, it was a smoker out in the backyard for an afternoon puff, noticing something odd about his winterized boat that led him to investigate.
And he found Jokar in there, half conscious.
Thankfully, he called the cops.
Wasn't worried he'd be called a bigot.
But there's still time for that.
Earth Day, 2, what was it?
43?
Geez, 43 years ago.
Earth Day, 1970.
I have here from our friends at Freedom Works.
They went back and did the research, 13 worst predictions made on Earth Day, 1970.
Now, this is important, folks.
These are the environmentalist wackos who are alive and thriving today.
43 years ago, we have survived.
These people are still hysterical.
They're still completely wrong about everything.
Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.
That was Harvard biologist George Wald.
Earth Day, April 22nd, 1970.
We got 15 or 30 years.
Take your pick.
Number two, we are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.
Washington University biologist Barry Conner.
New York Times editorial on that day.
Man must stop pollution, conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence, but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.
Number four, Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich, who has yet to be right about anything.
Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increase in food supplies we make.
The death rate will increase until at least 100 to 200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next 10 years.
Number five, again from Paul Ehrlich, most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born.
By 1975, some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions.
Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food population collision will not occur until the decade of the 80s.
Dennis Hayes, chief organizer, Earth Day, it's already too late to avoid mass starvation.
All these things were said on Earth Day 1970.
North Texas State University professor Peter Gunter said, Demographers agree almost unanimously, just like Obama's economists, by the way, on the following grim timetable.
By 1975, widespread famines will begin in India.
These will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China, and the Near East, Africa.
By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions.
By the year 2000, 30 years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.
Life magazine on Earth Day 1970.
In a decade, 10 years for those of you in Rio Linda, in a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution.
By 1985, air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching Earth by one half.
All of this stuff was said back in 1970, and a bunch of leftists believed it and began making policy based on it, folks.
This stuff is absurd.
It's asinine.
It's lunatic insane, but they get action on it.
This is why there are attacks on your cars.
This is why the snail darter takes precedence over you, ditto the kangaroo rat.
This is why the spotted out because of these literal lunatics in 1970.
Ecologist Kenneth Watt said on the original Earth Day at the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it's only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.
Only a matter of time.
Paul Ehrlich, air pollution is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.
Ecologist Kenneth Watt.
By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we'll be using up crude oil at such a rate, there won't be any more crude oil.
You'll drive up to the pump and say, fill her up, buddy.
And he'll say, I'm very sorry there isn't any.
Well, then, why would he be open?
So in 1970, there wasn't going to be the gas because there wasn't going to be any oil by the year 2000.
Newsweek magazine on Earth Day 1970, one theory assumes that the Earth's cloud cover will continue to thicken as more dust, fumes, and water vapor are belched into the atmosphere by industrial smokestacks and jet planes.
Screened from the sun's heat, the planet will cool, the water vapor will fall and freeze, and a new ice age will be born.
You imagine people reading all this stuff back in 1970, pulling their hair out, being confused.
I was alive.
I was 19.
Or 20.
I was 20 years old.
And I thought all this was bogus then.
But man, everybody that I knew my age is just eating it up.
Couldn't get enough of it.
I'm telling you, these people ended up making policy, folks.
This is why Al Gore's out there with his insane movies and books, becoming a multi-millionaire, scaring kids with polar bear disaster stories and so forth.
Not one of these people were anywhere near being right.
They were all part of a leftist political agenda.
Here is the 13th worst prediction made on Earth Day 1970 by Kenneth Watt, once again the ecologist.
The world has been chilling sharply for about 20 years.
If present trends continue, the world will be about 4 degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but 11 degrees colder in the year 2000.
This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.
These quotes actually come from Earth Day Then and Now by Ronald Bailey.
Reason.com, May 1st, 2000.
Kenneth Watt, ecologist, an ice age by the year 2000.
Others, famine, no oil, starvation everywhere, but the United States, Canada, Western Europe, and Australia.
None of it right.
And yet to this day, these people and their descendants have total credibility with the Democrat Party in the mainstream media.
I really do hope we honor the smoker in Boston.
I give the guy some kind of recognition citation.
This guy was willing to risk his life for a smoke.
I mean, he's risking his life smoking.
He risked his life to go outside and smoke while the authorities were saying, don't do that.
Stay in your home.
This guy risked his life while smoking, risked his life for a smoke.
And discover Joe Carr hiding in the boat.
Now, about food production, I just want to give you one statistic on corn.
1970, you heard all these guys predicting famine, going to run out of food, we're going to run out of sunlight, we're going to run out of arid soil, all of these things.
U.S. corn yield in 1970, 72 bushels per acre.
That's how much corn we got per acre in 1970.
This year, 2013, you know what the yield is going to be?
Between 150 and 160 bushels of corn per acre.
We've more than doubled our corn yield or production in 43 years.
We figure out how to make life better.
We figure out how to feed the world.
We figure out how to improve things.
We figure out how to do things better.
We don't just sit there and die.
Here's Kevin, Columbus, Ohio.
You're next as we head back to the phones.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Great to talk to you today.
Thank you, sir.
Beautiful day in Ohio.
Well, you had the story earlier about the character of the United States.
I heard over the weekend the interview with the terrorist suspects, quote suspects.
Mother, where's the evidence?
Where is the evidence?
That was an aunt.
Oh, okay.
Any ants?
Well.
And I kind of like that, babe.
Right.
I mean, I kind of liked her.
She's out there.
She's fiery.
She's defending her.
Where's the evidence?
Where's the evidence?
I think this is all made up.
She was fired up.
She was good television, as they say.
Right.
Well, this is obviously going to be prosecuted in federal court.
And you were just speaking a while ago about all the defenses and all the strategies for this guy's defense.
And it's plain as day.
They're going to stand up and say, this is the United States government.
How can we believe them when you take into account Benghazi, the Black Panther's cover-up, Fast and Furious, and all the unanswered truths, what's going on in the government?
How's anybody going to believe the government that prosecuting these two?
Well, those are all valid questions, but you have to find a lawyer who is going to make the case that way.
I understand, but I'm talking directly about the character of our government.
It looks so crappy to the world.
I mean, we got a guy that's supposed to be leading us who can't present the truth about anything.
That's my well, it's look, it's an interesting question.
Okay, so we go to court, and Jokar is accused of the Boston bombing, along with his brother.
And the lawyers say, wait a minute, this is the same government that did Fast and Furious.
This is the same government's not telling us anything about what happened in Menghaz.
They lied about it.
The guy that's supposed to video is still in jail, by the way.
The same government that didn't prosecute voter fraud among the new Black Panther Party.
The same government that could not vet Obama when he was running for president.
Well, I have to tell you, a lot of people are going to be outraged by this, but the Obama administration itself has helped make these claims plausible.
If somebody, I don't know that you're ever going to find a lawyer.
Joker is going to get a lawyer to do that.
But it could well be that a lot of citizens will be thinking this.
I mean, think what the other nations around the world think when they look at the United States.
We can't come clean with anything.
Now, how do we know they're telling the truth about the bombing suspects?
Well, because Bush isn't president.
Remember, the world hated Bush, loves Obama, and everything is hunky-dory now.
And since we're not trying the young man as an enemy combatant, we didn't waterboard him.
He'll be fine.
Yeah, I have to believe you.
It's sad, isn't it?
Courage.
Thank you, Kevin.
Great to have you on the program.
It could be said in this trial.
In fact, Reverend Wright, I can see him in sermon.
Obama's Chechens have come home to Russ.
And we're back, Rush Limbaugh.
Great to have you here.
A Massachusetts police official says that the brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon did not have gun permits.
They didn't have gun permits for the four guns.
They didn't have permits for their pressure cookers.
They didn't have permits for the pipe bombs.
They didn't have permits for the hand grenades.
I mean, not that you can get them, but they didn't have permits for anything.
They fired at least 80 rounds in the shootout where the older brother was killed.
Meanwhile, we're told that no one needs more than 10 bullets to defend oneself nowadays.
They fired at least 80 rounds.
So nobody needs more than 10 bullets to defend themselves.
Nobody.
All you need is a shotgun.
Another detail that's been studiously underreported is that they told the driver of the car they hijacked that they were heading to New York City.
They were the mad bombers.
They were heading to New York City, presumably to do more bombing.
These guys know that New York City has even more strict gun control laws than Boston.
They didn't care.
This is the point.
Whatever gun laws existed, these guys didn't care.
And it didn't stop them.
They have a gun permit.
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