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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 247 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 plane.
It is indeed Open Line Friday here on the EIB Network.
And we are looking forward to speaking with you.
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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.
Umateur, well, I did I did when I was 15 to uh 18, yeah, 15 to oh, I I picked up on this pretty quick.
I was a rank amateur at 15 when I started.
Obviously, I'd never done it before.
Uh, but then the next day was I an amateur or a veteran.
So I was born to do this.
I was actually that that's that's why I'm so blessed.
And why I feel so fortunate every day.
I really do.
I mean, I'm 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's got a blog in the trunk.
I have no clue.
I didn't look it up.
I just 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'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 didn't 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 an abject fear.
For a whole host of reasons.
Well, I just I hated it.
It was it was like prison.
And that the worst thing about school was there was windows.
And you could 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 breaking making me 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 um 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, uh I know what I gotta 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 uh 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 is 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 800822882.
Yesterday we had the story.
Now I'll get to the jobs thing here, just be cool.
Also, um, NFL draft mentio did not get chosen in the first in the first round.
There are whispers taking place, folks, throughout the sports media.
Throughout the National Football League, there are whispers.
Because Man Tai Teo 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 some by number 21 Friday.
This is uh yesterday in the morning on the radio, and the commissioner got a question.
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 uh for what they do on the field, but also for what they do off the field.
They're leaders, they're 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 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 I'm gonna 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.
Also, here, this is uh 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 redesign team logo will intimidate women and empower rape culture.
One student, University of Connecticut, upset with the new Husky logo.
Yukon 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 Yukon involving athletes in the past year.
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 let's just see what happens.
Since 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, Il 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 Yukon thinking it's about rape.
So I'm going to take a brief time out 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 Yukon that promotes rape.
And you see what you think.
And we're back.
Great to have you here, my friends.
Rush Limbaugh, serving humanity, executing assigned host duties flawlessly on Open Line Friday.
Okay.
Okay.
Here it by the way, this new logo and icon is used by the Yukon 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 a uniform.
Now you may folks, I uh some of you, why are you spending time with it?
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 you what this is how the left and their unwitting dupes, by the way, end up affecting major cultural change in America in in ways they prefer that are 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, 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 gonna 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 must 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 dental camera not watching, I realize how frustrating this is.
You'll be able to see it at Rush Limbaugh.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 till 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, Don?
Seriously now.
Of course not.
There was a piece in the Chicago Tribune two days ago by one of their sports writers named John Cass.
Is 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 scroll on into college, the NFL feeder system is gone.
That's his theory.
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 and 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.
I don't, I nothing I can say that you haven't said or thought yourself about this.
Planned Parenthood will not condemn Kermit Gosnell.
Some Planned Parenthood head on show would not condemn it.
They can't afford to.
Planned Parenthood cannot afford to condemn any abortion after birth, 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, active, 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, no, no, no.
No, no, no.
But Constitution is a living breeding document.
Female body is not.
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.
Now 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 Planet Hero.
That 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.
There is an activism here.
It's a heartlessness, I guess.
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 will 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 are going 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 that yesterday in the politico, actually on Wednesday, that they wanted to carve out exemptions for members of Congress and the Senate and their aides.
Well, all hell eventually did break on that, and now the Democrats are running away from that and saying, 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.
That'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 gonna 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.
Praise it of the hilt.
I don't know.
I just everything's upside down.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back.
Don't go away, folks.
Don't go away, folks.
Open line Friday.
We have uh some audio now.
President Obama this morning at the Planned Parenthood Gala.
Uh 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 toit and women's right.
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's it's threatened in America today.
We've got three sound bites.
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 a 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, Plan Paranoid.
God bless you.
God bless America.
Thank you.
God bless you.
So 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 city, not even Clinton.
And Planned 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.
*sniff*
Sniffle on purpose.
God bless you, Planned Parenthood, Bob in uh Coronado, California.
You're first as we go to the phones on open line Friday.
Hi.
Thank you.
And some knockoff jihadi ditos.
Um, 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 everything like I'm gonna be raped.
And it made the news.
If it weren't in a 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 out it's out there.
The new Yukon icon, the new Yukon logo promotes rape.
What do you think they're gonna 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 them.
Yeah.
There's got to be a line where somebody says, sorry, sweetheart.
Uh that's a little odd, and uh, you know, go go go go talk to counselors or something.
We're not changing.
Well, I've been waiting for that line, Snertley, for 25 years, and I have yet to see it.
I uh I 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 Yukon campus.
By the way, she won't be one anymore.
She's gonna have allies now.
You wait.
If they 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 years old from where?
California saying that they're uh making fun of this babe on websites and Twitter.
Yeah, I get, 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 and a pollster in there to start an exam.
Focus grouping this.
And whoever draw the whoever drew this is probably slinking and hoping that his name is never made public.
And they'll look into his wife and has he ever tried to rape a woman?
And is that why he drew it the way you I know this stuff.
It's why I know.
This this John Cass guy, I'm gonna read parts of his piece to you, the 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 gonna let up kids play.
That's it, it's over.
Yes, nobody knows it yet.
And I 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 says, how do we know that it's a male husky?
It'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, Russ.
How are you today?
Just fine, sir.
Glad that you call it a 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 uh wish you were back on it.
Well, I appreciate that.
Thank you.
I'm I'm I'm not crazy about TV, but I appreciate your saying that.
Yes.
I uh thought I'd bring a little bit of loud hearted conversation to the uh show today since it's open long Friday.
Uh there is a uh television show uh that is it's a a hilarious show, and it's uh it's it's got millions of viewers.
It comes on um I think it's the uh what'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 uh to tap into the uh politically uninformed population.
Well, let me tell you about this show.
This the show's in Louisiana, isn't it?
Is that where they it's about it's about a family that have become multi-millionaires in the duck calling business.
These guys make the clank clan things that you that hunters used to call ducks.
They're the stratavarius of duck calls, and they have made multiple millions, and there's a reality TV show about these people.
And it's it's it's called um uh 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, 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 final 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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