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April 26, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 26, 2013, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's Open Line Friday.
And greetings to you, music lovers, drill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain.
It is indeed Open Line Friday here in the EIB Network.
And we are looking forward to speaking with you.
Telephone number, if you want to be on the program, is 800-282-2882.
The email address, Elrushbo at EIBNet.com.
Now, remember, Open Line Friday, you can talk about whatever you want.
Monday through Thursday, it is all about what I think and what I care about and what interests me.
And if you don't care about any of that, you don't get on.
But on Friday, we reverse it, and it doesn't matter whether I'm interested or whether I care.
And so it's a I mean, it's a huge career risk.
And nobody in major media turns over the content of their program to rank amateurs like this.
But I'm still here.
Now, radio stations hire rank amateurs.
Anyway, you're lovable, rank amateurs.
You realize I say that in all affection.
I was a rank amateur, well, when I was 15 to 18, yeah, 15 to 18.
Oh, well, I picked up on this pretty quick.
I was a rank amateur 15 when I started.
Obviously, I'd never done it before.
But then the next day, was I an amateur or a veteran?
So I was born to do this.
I was actually, that's why I'm so blessed.
Why I feel so fortunate every day.
I really do.
I mean, I'm doing what I was born to do.
I've got, you know, I have this story from yesterday that I teased and never got to.
And it's from some website called Penelope Trunk Blog.
I never heard of it.
I don't know if Penelope Trunk is somebody's name or if it's Penelope and her trunk.
And she got a blog in the trunk.
I have no clue.
I didn't look it up.
I just found this because it's intriguing to me.
I don't know who this is.
It could be just some random individual young person.
It probably is.
But the thing is called New Paths to a Great Job.
I read this thing, and it's all about new ways of thinking about getting jobs.
And in truth, to me, there's nothing new about it.
It's exactly what I did.
And I was able to do what I did because I was fortunate.
I knew what I wanted to do when I was eight.
And maybe earlier than that, because I hated school.
I maybe have to track this to the first grade.
Folks, one of the worst days of my life was the first day of school, first grade.
I walked up to that school in abject fear for a whole host of reasons.
I hated it.
It was like prison.
And the worst thing about school was there was windows.
And you can see outside.
You can see free people driving, walking, doing whatever they were doing.
And to a young person like me, those people were totally free.
They didn't have bosses.
I didn't understand that.
So they were out free and able to do what they wanted to do and that they were doing what they wanted to do.
It was much later in life I learned that most people are not doing what they really want to do.
But as I was getting ready for school every morning, my mother would be making the French toast or whatever it was, and the radio would be on.
The guy on the radio was having fun.
It's 7 o'clock in the morning.
I'm mad that I had to get up in the first place.
This guy on the radio is having fun.
The exact opposite, the way I felt every day when I woke up.
I said, I want to do that.
And then I really got into music, DJing, and that kind of thing.
And so it just, it all fell together.
And I've really, over the course of my life, I've never, ever forgotten it, nor do I take for granted how lucky I was that I found out what I wanted to do and was able to do it.
It's a definition of success, by the way, is finding what you want to do and doing it well.
There's nothing better when your job doesn't seem like a job, when your work doesn't seem like work.
So anyway, I know what I got to do, I've known what I wanted to do for the longest time.
So was I an amateur?
Yeah, but it didn't take long before I became a seasoned professional and then eventually a highly trained, experienced professional.
And today on Friday, we let you, who have no idea what you're doing here, have precious moments of the content of the most listened-to radio program in the country.
And you should take advantage of it.
Whatever you want to talk about, it's fine.
Questions, comments, whatever.
If you think that there's something that needs to be talked about that hasn't been here or anywhere else.
Again, the telephone number 800-282-2882.
Yesterday we had this story.
Now, I'll get to the jobs thing here.
Just be cool.
Also, NFL draft Mantai Tao did not get chosen in the first round.
There are whispers taking place, folks, throughout the sports media.
Throughout the National Football League, there are whispers because Mantai Tao did not get taken.
And the whispers are: is it because of his possible sexual orientation?
Is it because there is discrimination?
Nobody knows.
Nobody will ever know.
Nobody can say.
But there are media people highly suspicious of this.
The commissioner of the National Football League, Roger Goodell, let's grab something at number 21, Friday.
This is yesterday in the morning on the radio, and the commissioner got a question.
A couple of different issues around the league right now.
One that certainly has a lot of attention.
Several of your players have come out in support of gay marriage.
And there's a lot of question about what would happen if an NFL player were to come out as gay and an expectation that perhaps that'll happen soon.
Generally speaking, how do you feel about NFL players taking stands on potentially divisive political issues?
I respect and admire our players for what they do on the field, but also for what they do off the field.
They're leaders.
They're thoughtful and they want to make a difference in their communities and they feel passionately about this subject.
We as the league obviously embrace this also, would be incredibly supportive of this and not just to the point of tolerance, but to the point of acceptance.
And I think you're hearing that from our players and I'm proud of them for that.
Okay, I have a theory.
Now, you've heard me say it, but I'm going to expand on it today.
I think the National Football League is over.
It just nobody knows it yet.
And there's a chance to save it.
It's not totally gone, but it's on track.
It has all the ingredients for being a target.
It has all of the modern relevant ingredients the left doesn't like and sees as an opportunity to change or eliminate.
And I will run through those on the program today.
Also here, this is somewhat related, folks.
There is a new logo for the Huskies, University of Connecticut sports teams.
The new logo promotes rape, says one student.
The new logo for the University of Connecticut sports teams is a terrifying Husky dog that calls to mind images of sexual assault, says one student.
This is on the Daily Caller website.
The new logo was unveiled last week, receiving mixed to negative reviews from UConn fans who preferred the older, cuter Husky.
But one student went much further, criticizing the new meaner logo for being a pro-rape symbol.
In an open letter to the University of Connecticut President Susan Herbst, self-described feminist student Carolyn Luby wrote that the redesigned team logo will intimidate women and empower rape culture.
One student, University of Connecticut, upset with the new Husky logo.
UConn basketball coach said the logo is looking right through you and saying, don't mess with me.
It's a streamlined fighting dog, and I cannot wait for it to be on our uniforms and on the court, said the basketball coach.
In response, the self-described feminist student Carolyn Luby wrote, What terrifies me about the admiration of such traits is that I know what it feels like to have a real-life Husky look straight through you and to feel powerless and to wonder if even the administration cannot mess with them.
And I know I am not alone.
Folks, we're talking about a cartoon character.
We are talking about a drawing.
We're talking about a logo, an icon that will appear on basketball uniform, maybe on the football helmet.
The self-described feminist student Carolyn Luby said there were two sexual assaults at UConn involving athletes in the past year.
The logo and the teams it represents are menacing to women.
The face of real-life UConn athletes and athletics is certainly capable of frightening college women.
You think football isn't in the crosshairs of people when a new icon, a new logo, I have a picture of it here.
I don't know how in the world anybody looks at this and sees rape.
But one student at UConn has, and let's just see what happens.
This one student claiming the new logo to new icon promotes rape shows up in the Daily Caller.
Now I, El Rushbo, have amplified it and made it even bigger.
Let's see what happens.
The university president did not respond.
Susan Herbst did not respond to requests for comment.
Now, I have been told that I, El Rushbo, scare when I raise my voice, when I get passionate, when I really, really, really get into something.
I've been told that I scare and frighten 24-year-old women, not 25-year-olds and not 23, but 24-year-old women.
I scare them.
I left.
That's not my problem.
And now all of a sudden, a cartoon has a co-ed at UConn thinking it's about rape.
So I'm going to take a brief timeout here.
And then when I'm in the timeout, I'm going to fix the ditto cam so I can show you this.
If you're watching, I want to show you this cartoon of the new mascot, the redesigned logo of the Husky at UConn that promotes rape.
And you see what you think.
And we're back.
Great to have you here, my friend.
Rush Limbaugh serving humanity, executing assigned host duties flawlessly on Open Line Friday.
Okay, here it is.
By the way, this new logo and icon is used by the UConn female Huskies basketball team.
So I wonder if the female basketball team members feel like they're being raped when they see a teammate approaching them in uniform.
Folks, some of you, why are you spending time?
Because this is the kind of little stuff that ends up ballooning.
One student offended, one student scared, one student raising a ruckus.
It's in the Daily Caller.
Now I'm talking about it.
And this is how the left and their unwitting dupes, by the way, end up affecting major cultural change in America in ways they prefer that are totally anti-normal.
Now, this is all under the rubric that I think football as a sport in this country is about over, but nobody knows it yet.
And it's not immediate.
But all the ingredients are present and they're being mixed together now to eventually lead to football becoming something that it isn't.
Now, I'm going to turn on the ditto cam and there it is.
There is the new icon at the University of Connecticut that a student claims makes her think of rape.
When she sees that, she gets scared.
When she sees that, she thinks male domination.
She thinks violence, brutality, predator, everything associated with rape.
That's it.
The new cartoon character that is the University of Connecticut new logo, the Husky.
Now, what, What kind of thought process, what kind of whatever does it take to look at this and see rape?
What could possibly be inspiring this woman or motivating her?
What?
Okay, I'm now going to take this down.
I'm sorry, those of you who don't have the ditto camera not watching, I realize how frustrating this is.
You'll be able to see it at rushlimbaugh.com, but I've had to zoom the camera in way tight, so I'm turning it off, and I'm not going to turn it back on until the next commercial break when I can widen it out, zoom out.
If I turned it back on, you'd see my teeth right now, which would not be cool.
So if 24-year-old girls are frightened by the fact that I get passionate sometimes and may raise my voice and then think that conservatism is bad because of that, what hope do I have if a cartoon of the new icon, University of Connecticut Huskies, makes one of them think of rape?
Did you think rape when you saw this, Mr. Snerdley?
Did you, Dawn?
Seriously, no.
Of course not.
There was a piece in the Chicago Tribune two days ago by one of their sports writers named John Cass.
He's an admitted football fanatic, loves it.
His piece is on how the National Football League is finished.
It's over.
His reasoning, his theory is that it is now known that football played normally scrambles the human brain.
Football played as it is intended leads to scrambled brains, injuries, concussions, premature death, potential suicide, all of the things associated with concussions in football.
And his theory is that parents know this now.
And no responsible parent, and the number of parents is going to grow, will ever let their kids play football anymore, knowing that they are destroying their brains, that they are damaging their brains for life.
And it's only a matter of time before the feeder system for the NFL dies out.
I mean, if kids don't start playing football at Pop Warner and in a junior high and has screw on into college, the NFL feeder system is gone.
That's his theory.
He's dead serious with it.
And he's got a point up to a certain degree, but he doesn't understand that he is unwittingly a part of this process that risks the survivability of football.
Sit tight.
Much more when we get back.
It's open line Friday.
Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
President Obama, and we're waiting on the audio for this.
It's coming up.
But Obama, he didn't do the keynote last night, Planned Parenthood, but he did show up, make a speech.
And his comments were the first to Planned Parenthood by a sitting president.
And he lauded them.
He praised their nearly 100 years of service to women.
This makes me ill, by the way, that a president of the United States shows up at an abortion factory, essentially, and praises their work.
You know what Elsie said?
He said the opponents of abortion want to return to the 1950s.
Yep, that's right.
Opponents of abortion, just a bunch of old-fashioned fuddy-duddies.
They can't modernize.
They're not hip.
They're not cool.
They're not with it.
They want to go back to Beaver and Cleaver, Donna Reed.
My three sons.
They want to go back to the days in America that really weren't real.
America never was Donna Reed.
America never was Beaver and Cleaver or Beaver Cleaver and Leave It to Beaver.
America never was my three sons.
That was always fake and phony because back then, America was still racist and devoted to slavery and so forth.
There hadn't been any civil rights legislation.
So the 50s, oh man, that's one of the worst eras of the United States.
If Margaret Sanger had had her way, there's a chance Barack Obama would not have been born, and she's the founder of Planned Parenthood.
But a sitting president goes and shows up in the midst of the Kermit Gosnell trial to boot and praises an abortion factory.
He said when politicians try to turn Planned Parenthood into a punching bag, they're not just talking about you.
They're talking about the millions of women who you serve.
Well, you know the drill on this.
Nothing I can say that you haven't said or thought yourself about this.
Planned Parenthood will not condemn Kermit Gosnell.
Some Planned Parenthood hedonsha would not condemn it.
They can't afford to.
Planned Parenthood cannot afford to condemn any abortion.
Afterbirth, partial birth, doesn't, they can't condemn any.
They can't take action in one way, one syllable, one word.
They can't oppose any type of abortion or they destroy their own purpose.
The Planned Parenthood, every abortion is good.
Every pregnancy is a potential disease.
Every pregnancy is the result of male domination.
Every abortion equals female freedom and emancipation.
Every abortion equals women saying, screw you.
Barack Obama, who as a senator in Illinois, actively, maybe more than any other legislation, supported the idea that a baby surviving a botched abortion should go ahead and be killed.
Because that was the original intention of the mother.
And when we're talking about the original intention of abortion, we should always be loyal to it.
Now, the original intention of the Constitution, no, no.
But Constitution is a living, reading document, female body.
The original intent is abortion.
Okay, if the abortion doctor messes up, fine, bring another doctor in and complete the job.
Obama actively supported such legislation.
Kermit Gosnell.
Now, it's one thing to go to Planned Parenthood and sing their praise.
It's another thing to impugn people dedicated to saving lives.
It's another thing to impugn people dedicating to saving the lives of women.
How perverted is it that people who are dedicated to saving the lives of women are said to be engaging in a war on women?
And that's how cockeyed and out of kilter our culture is today.
Obama asserted that an assault on women's rights is underway across the country with bills being introduced in nearly every state legislature to limit or ban abortion or restrict access to birth control.
That isn't true.
There is no restriction or access to birth control.
Totally made up, totally manufactured by him and his party.
He said the fact is after decades of progress, I'd say, I am sickened by how people on the left define progress.
Progress?
A million abortions a year?
Progress?
After decades of progress?
He said there's still those who want to turn back the clock to do policies more suited to the 50s than the 21st century.
They've been involved in an orchestrated historic effort to roll back basic rights when it comes to women's health.
I'm going to tell you something.
This is more than just remaining loyal to a Democrat issue.
Showing up and saying these things to the people at Planford, that's more than just making sure that the pro-choice money keeps rolling in.
There's more to it here than just being loyal to this constituency.
is an activism here it's a heartlessness i guess i Obama says that he fought for his health care law to ensure people have the right to make their own medical choices.
What an absolute crock.
People are losing choices in their health care left and right.
The Democrat Party is running as far away from Obamacare as they can.
The Republican Party would be making a huge mistake to help them fix this.
The Democrats are realizing nobody can afford this damn thing and they want to make changes in it.
The Republicans ought to say, nope, we're not helping you.
This is your bill.
We had nothing to do with passing this bill.
We had nothing to do with voting for Obamacare.
It's an absolute mess and you own it.
And the only thing we're going to do is help you repeal it.
The Republicans ought not lift a finger to help the Democrats out here.
The Democrats, remember we had the story the other day yesterday in the Politico, actually on Wednesday, that they wanted to carve out exemptions for members of Congress, the Senate, and their aides.
Well, all hell eventually did break on that, and now the Democrats are running away from that and say, no, no, no, no, that's not what we ever intended.
A couple of pathological liars have gotten in the game here, Pelosi and Reed, and they're talking about, no, no, no, no, that's not what we ever intended.
It's, of course, exactly what you intended.
Obama encouraged those in attendance at the Planned Parenthood gathering to continue fighting for abortion rights.
And you've also got a president who's going to be right there with you, fighting every step of the way.
We can't afford to go back to the 50s in this country.
Of course, that's this mythical reference to the back alley stuff going on.
At any rate, it sickens me, folks.
I'm sorry.
It just this whole thing, here we are in the midst of the Gosnell trial and everybody knowing what an absolute hellhouse that guy was running.
Planned Parenthood won't condemn it.
Here's Obama.
I'm praising him to the hilt.
I don't know.
I just everything's upside down.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back.
Don't go away, folks.
Open line Friday.
We have some audio now.
President Obama this morning at the Planned Parenthood Gala.
A gala, they call it.
Oh, yeah, it's a gala.
Gala, however you pronounce it.
Celebration, Planned Parenthood.
Celebrate.
What are they celebrating at Planned Parenthood?
Mr. Limbaugh, they are celebrating women's freedom and women's liberation and women's freedom of toytha, women's rights.
Is that really what they're celebrating at Planned Parenthood?
Really, that's what it is?
That's threatened.
Women's liberation, women's freedom of choice, all that stuff.
It's threatened in America today.
We've got three soundbites.
I want to play the last one first.
I want you to listen.
I have no words for this.
No words.
Planned Parenthood is not going anywhere.
It's not going anywhere today.
It's not going anywhere tomorrow.
As long as we've got to fight to make sure women have access to quality, affordable health care, and as long as we've got to fight to protect a woman's right to make her own choices about her own health, I want you to know that you've also got a president who's going to be right there with you, fighting every step of the way.
Thank you, Planned Parenthood.
God bless you.
God bless you.
Thank you.
God bless you.
That's, I have no words.
And I think I'm right about that.
The AP says, I think they're right, that Obama's the first sitting president to show up and address them.
First, not even Clinton.
And Parenthood would have been a gold mine for Slick Willie.
Think of all the action he could have picked up there, but not even he went there.
God bless you.
Sniffle on purpose.
There you have it.
Our president, God bless you, Planned Parenthood, Bob in Coronado, California.
You're first as we go to the phones on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Thank you.
And some knockoff jihadi dittos.
I have a question for you.
Maybe you can help me with.
It's regarding the Yukon Husky.
Yeah.
How do we know for sure that this is a male husky?
We don't, but the female student does.
That is the point.
One female student saw the new logo.
It's a drawing.
It is a cartoon figure.
And oh my God, I got things like I'm going to be raped.
And it made the news.
If it weren't in the Daily Caller, I wouldn't be talking about it.
The whole country knows about it.
Now, this is way beyond the Daily Caller.
So now it's out there.
The new UConn icon, the new UConn logo promotes rape.
What do you think they're going to do at UConn?
They'll change it.
You know damn well they will.
What do you mean they can't give in?
All it takes is one person to be offended by anything, and anything stops.
That's the nature of life in him.
Yeah, there's got to be a line where somebody says, sorry, sweetheart, that's a little odd.
And, you know, go talk to counselor or something.
We're not changing.
Well, I've been waiting for that line, Snerdley, for 25 years, and I have yet to see it.
I think we've hit that line.
I don't know how many times.
At some point, okay, enough is enough.
Enough depravity, enough insanity, enough lunaticism.
But no, we just keep getting more.
So one woman, one woman on the UConn campus.
By the way, she won't be one anymore.
She's going to have allies now.
You wait.
Well, they may be.
Snerdley says that he's got a call.
Was it a drive-by or somebody on hold?
There's a drive-by said, 22-year-old, from where?
California saying that they're making fun of this babe on websites and Twitter.
Yeah, but I bet they're not laughing at the administration office at UConn.
It's a serious thing.
Be accused of promoting rape?
That's a serious—they'll have to commission a blue-ribbon panel of faculty?
They'll have to go get a political consultant, an upholster in there to start exam focus grouping this.
And whoever drew this is probably slinking and hoping that his name is never made public.
And they'll look into his life.
Has he ever tried to rape a woman?
And is that why he drew it the way he did?
I know this stuff.
It's why I know.
This John Cass guy, I'm going to read parts of his piece to you, Chicago Tribune.
Football's over.
It's dead.
There's just nobody knows it yet.
Once parents realize the game scrambles the brains of kids, that's it.
Parents aren't going to let kids play.
That's it.
It's over.
Nobody knows it yet.
This is a sports column, the Chicago Tribune, who loves the game, covers it, I think, earns his living covering it.
Thinks it's over.
And it is.
It is now targeted.
It's risky.
It's dangerous.
And it's popular.
The more popular it is, the bigger target it is among the left.
SUVs is one example.
So the caller said, how do we know that it's a male husky?
That's as good a question as anything else that'd be brought up here.
Who's next?
Jonathan Monticello, Kentucky.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
How are you today?
Just fine, sir.
Glad that you caught up.
Great day.
Hunky Dory, Planned Parenthood to everybody.
Oh, wow.
I can't believe I'm actually getting to talk to you.
I've been a listener ever since you were on TV, so I wish you were back on it.
Well, I appreciate that.
Thank you.
I'm not crazy about TV, but I appreciate your saying that.
Yes.
I thought I'd bring a little bit of light-hearted conversation to the show today since Petsoka Line Friday.
There is a television show that is a hilarious show, and it's got millions of views.
It comes on, I think it's the name of it.
It's called Duck Dynasty.
Oh, I've heard of that, yeah.
Yeah.
Well, it's a very popular show, and I think it's an opportunity for you to tap into the politically uninformed population of the world.
Let me tell you about this show.
The show's in Louisiana, isn't it?
Is that where they it?
It's about a family that have become multi-millionaires in the duck calling business.
These guys make the clank, clank, clank things that hunters used to call ducks.
They're the strativarius of duck calls, and they have made multiple millions.
And there's a reality TV show about these people.
And it's called Duck Dynasty.
I was reading about it.
I haven't seen an episode yet.
Well, I take it back.
I did watch 10 minutes of an episode this morning because I read a story about how it is cleaning up in the ratings.
It's wiping everything out.
Duck Dynasty.
And the episode I watched, folks, I'm sorry.
I don't know.
I've got to take a break.
I don't have enough time to go into it now, but I will.
I'm not ducking it.
Duck Dynasty.
If you know Duck Dynasty, you know America.
Duck Dynasty is Cable's top-rated reality series this year.
It beat the finale of American Idol, and it is the number two original series overall behind The Walking Dead.
Now, I can't tell the difference.
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