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April 26, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 26, 2013, Friday, Hour #3
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Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
It's Rush Limbaugh, the open line Friday edition of our program.
Get started now.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
One big exciting hour remains.
Our telephone number is 800-28282.
And we uh we try to take more calls on Friday, and whenever we go to the phones, whatever you want to talk about, hunky dory, everything's fine, everything's cool, no restrictions to speak of.
Again, the number 800-282-2882.
Friday, instead of grabbing uh uh number four, do grab somebody number two for me, and then we'll go to uh go to number four.
Now about this football business, I don't want any of what I predicted to happen.
Don't misunderstand.
I just know the left, folks.
I know these people.
I know the media, I know what motivates them.
I know I just know, and I hope I'm wrong.
I and if anything, and I'm dead serious, if anything is scrambling brains in this country, it is liberalism.
If anything is disabling people and robbing them of their dignity, their potential as human beings.
It is liberalism, not football.
High school, college, NFL, what have you.
I want you to listen to something from Eric Holder.
He's the attorney general.
This is uh Wednesday in Washington.
April 24th.
This is speech to the Mexican Mexican American legal defense and educational fund awards Gala.
Creating a pathway to earned citizenship for the 11 million unauthorized immigrants in this country is absolutely essential.
The way we treat our friends and neighbors who are undocumented, by creating a mechanism for them to earn citizenship and to move out of the shadows, transcends the issue of immigration status.
This is a matter of civil and human rights.
It is about who we are as a nation, and it goes to the core of our treasured American principle of equal opportunity.
Okay, so you can't oppose amnesty now because amnesty is a civil right.
This is a matter of civil and human rights.
A mechanism for them to earn citizenship citizenship, move out of the shadows, transcends the issue of immigration status.
It's a civil right.
So you can't oppose Amnesty now.
Just like illegal aliens'right to serve on juries.
You've heard them say that.
Just like their inalienable right to get food stamps.
Amnesty, a civil right.
Amnesty is the equivalent of wiping out slavery.
And so you can't oppose that.
By the way, from the Washington Examiner, USDA to Mexico, illegal immigrants can have food stamps.
With food stamp spending in the U.S. skyrocketing since the beginning of the recession, the Department of Agriculture is paying to promote food stamp usage to illegal immigrants for the sake of their American children, according to documents obtained by government watchdog.
In fact, food stamp usage is now higher than at any time during the so-called Great Recession.
The promotion of the food stamp program, now known as SNAP, the supplemental nutrition assistance program, includes a Spanish language flyer provided to the Mexican provided to the Mexican embassy by the USDA with a statement advising Mexicans in the U.S. that they do not need to declare their status in order to get food stamps.
It's emphasized in bold and underlined.
The statement reads, You need not divulge information regarding your immigration status in seeking food stamps for your children.
after all, they do not want to discourage any future Democrat voters, which is what this is about.
USDA said the program's designed to help American children.
It is about future Democrat voters.
Hank Johnson is uh, I just have to play this for you.
This is Hank Johnson.
You remember Hank?
Hank grab somebody number five.
Just so you know Hank Johnson, this is March 25th of 2010.
The House Armed Services Committee, during testimony about the defense budget request for 2011, Hank Johnson, Democrat from Georgia, was having a conversation with Admiral Robert F. Willard of the United States Navy, and they were talking about Guam.
This is an island that at its widest level is what, 12 miles from shore to shore, and at its smallest level, smallest location at seven miles between one shore and the other.
My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and uh and capsize.
Oh, we don't anticipate that.
Yeah, uh Congressman Hank Johnson, Democrat Georgia, was afraid that Guam, if it had too many people on it, would tip over and capsize.
And that during a defense budget hearing in 2011.
So, just so you know who he is.
Yesterday on the House floor during debate on federal helium reserve management.
Did you know that we have a problem with helium?
We do.
We have a helium problem, and we need to better manage our reserves of it.
And so Hank Johnson weighed in.
I rise in full support of the responsible helium administration and stewardship act.
I'm pleased to support this bill, which shows that this Tea Party Congress will make the tough choice to keep children's birthday parties on schedule and give industries that rely on helium the lift that they deserve.
Imagine, Mr. Speaker, a world without balloons.
How can we make sure that the injustice of there being no helium for comedians to get that high-pitched voice that we all hold near and dear to our hearts?
Imagine a world without balloons.
You heard right, folks.
Every word of that was actually stated on the floor of the House of Representatives yesterday in defense of helium.
I I did you know that the their uh helium was endangered or threatened?
Did you notice a run?
What is a Hunt family trying to make a run on helium like they did silver not long?
Or maybe a Koch brothers.
Coke Coke brothers are trying to corner helium, that's what it is, so that kids can't have birthday parties.
That's what it is.
The Coke brothers are doing it.
The Coke brothers are trying to corner the helium market.
And Hank here was saying that he supported the responsible helium administration stewardship act.
Georgia.
He's from Georgia.
And uh he he was pleased to support the bill, which shows that this Tea Party Congress will make a tough choice to keep children's birthday parties on schedule and give industries that rely on helium the lift that they deserve.
Imagine, my friends, a world without balloons.
How could we make sure that the injustice, the injustice, mind you, the injustice of there being no helium for comedians to get that high-pitched voice That we all hold near and dear to our hearts.
Imagine a world without balloons.
Hank Johnson, Democrat, Georgia.
Democrat senators at a caucus meeting with White House officials expressed concerns yesterday about how the regime is carrying out the health care law they adopted three years ago.
Democrats in both houses of Congress said some members of their party were getting nervous that they could pay a political price if the rollout of this law was messy, or if premiums went up significantly.
In other words, folks, Democrat senators are begging Obama to find a way to put off the major cost increases and lie about Obamacare's terrible impact on business until after the midterms.
That's what it's all about 2014.
They're getting nervous, pay a political price, i.e.
lose re-election 2014.
So let's lie about it some more and let's delay the implementation past 2014, Mr. President.
That's what they want.
Midterms clearly weighing heavily on the Democrat minds.
Tells me that their internal polling must not be looking very good for taking the House.
And maybe even holding the Senate.
So the Senate Democrats are begging Obama to find a way to put off these huge increases as part of the rollout of Obamacare and to lie about the rest of it until after they get re-elected.
That's what this means.
That's what this means.
Yes, you Eric Holder said that amnesty is.
You heard him.
It's a civil right.
That there are there are seven billion people on earth, and that means that every one of them has a civil right to move to the United States.
If amnesty is a civil right, folks, if amnesty, if if if illegally being in America is a civil right, we can't deny anybody.
Got to take a break.
I've not forgotten.
I'm going to do this job thing that I talked about in the first hour.
It's coming up.
It's open line Friday.
I got some phone calls.
We're going to start with Aaron in Macy, Washington.
Yes, sir.
Thank you for calling.
Yes, sir, Rush.
It's such an honor to talk to you.
I just wanted to thank you.
I wanted to let you know that you got through to me.
Um I was raised in a conservative household.
And as a matter of fact, my whole life my dad listened to you, and every day I would get honored.
This is so boring, Dad.
Why do you listen to this?
Why do you listen to this?
And uh, you know, uh after high school, I I went and joined the Army, and I did a couple years in Korea.
And after seeing when you go to Korea, you can you can go on tours of of the DMZ and actually look across the river and see North Korea.
And after seeing the the desolation and the emptiness of North Korea with my own eyes, everything I ever heard my dad say, everything I'd have ever heard you say just clicked.
And uh I just I just want to thank you for that.
You are more than welcome.
I'm flattered that you uh would call and tell me this.
I really am.
So you were in a you were in a conservative household, but you got kind of tired of hearing about it.
You said, Dad, what the hell is this thing?
I don't care, I don't care.
You move and and you ended up seeing it for yourself or seeing something that made you think back to what your dad was saying that was correct.
Yes, yes.
Uh when I was in Korea for for a while, I got really homesick for anything American.
And uh, you know, I I started listening more to talk radio.
Uh of course I had to listen to it on the internet, but I started listening to more talk radio being uh listening more to you because it because it reminded me of my family.
It reminded me of of what I was used to in my home environment, and that comforted me.
And listening to you helped get me through that that hard period of of my life.
And uh You know something.
I I have to tell you something if a friend of mine at one of the uh many events in the past that there have been to honor me said something similar to what you just said and it was very moving to me.
He said uh that when he's traveling abroad when he gets back home and he hears this program it finally hits him he's home this program makes him feel like he's home not his house not the city where hearing this program made him feel like he was at home and that's that's um essentially what you you're saying and I really appreciate that.
Well I appreciate everything you do sir.
I very much thank you very much.
I uh uh uh what do you do now?
Um I am currently looking for a job actually right now.
What do you want to do?
Uh well uh hopefully something in human resources well those jobs are plentiful because there are lots of humans and there's resources it's a tough time for everybody.
So I'm I'm looking and uh sure something will work out sometime soon.
It will it will hang in there.
Um you have more control over this than you might think but they're nothing better than than talking to somebody who's had it confirmed by life experience that what they've heard is um is is actually true.
But you know it's not a tough time for a lot of people if you look at um the Obamas Michelle and and uh Ember Rock are traveling a lot the kids are three different spring breaks in one parties, travel, vacation you should look into that.
I mean there's a lot of human resources there in the Obama vacation business that you're paying for but nevertheless I appreciate I I'll tell you I have um I I know what he felt like we've all got those things that happen that I mean I was in Seattle once I went to Seattle one time.
You're gonna think this is stupid and crazy and I'm not gonna be able to explain it properly but there were two examples one time in Hawaii I happened to see a military flyover fly by just like a Super Bowl once that made me feel like an American like seldom I have felt though so few things do.
But I was standing at the, I don't know, it was somewhere near the Seattle airport.
Might have been on the way out of town.
Might have been at the airport, at the terminal.
And I saw a FedEx jet taking off.
And I just, I felt patriotic.
Knowing the story of FedEx.
And nobody thought it was possible, including the Harvard professor.
We all have these things that ground us and make it, yeah.
Yeah.
so I'm I'm flattered when uh somebody thinks it's this show uh in their life here is Michelle in upstate New York welcome to the EIB network.
Hello oh good afternoon Rosh Megadow longtime listener first time caller.
Thank you very much.
Yeah, just a funny note, I listen to you almost every day or as often as humanly possible.
And I heard you talk about Duck Dynasty and how they were, you know, trying to parallel park.
And, you know, it's more about life's adventures.
And Phil Robertson, the dad of Willie, was actually up for the NFL draft and gave up his eligibility in his last year to go make these duck calls.
You know, I thought it was interesting, you know, your football story and your duck dynasty story kind of all coming together today.
Interesting I didn't know that he had uh um had any football play experience I actually I looked it up and back when Terry Bradshaw was drafted in the seven nineteen seventy I think to hit um rate right in that same year so it was pretty uh Pretty impressive that you know he his passion was duck called and and look where it landed him today and and then your topic on football.
I'm sure that the duck call business is something Brad Shaw's regretting got away from him.
Yeah, probably so.
But the I'd never heard of Duck Dynasty till this morning.
Um just one of those random shows.
The family loves it when we get a chance to tune in.
Kind of a reality away from reality, and you know, some of the same struggles that almost all of us go through, you know.
Well, I was reading uh the TV section of a newspaper, a website, and it was about duck dynasty season finale, record ratings, and coming back for a fourth season.
And I think I'm connected and in touch.
And when a show is that popular and it's been around for three years, and I don't know about it, I'm curious.
So I read about it, learned a little bit about it, and I went to iTunes and I downloaded season two and season three, because season one, I I couldn't tell that it was closed, captioned or not.
If it isn't, it's worthless to me.
But seasons two and season three were, so I downloaded them.
And I put like five or six episodes on the iPad.
And I'm gonna be on the uh it'll be in the airplane this afternoon, so I'm gonna watch some of plus the Sunday night episode of the Good Wife on the airplane this afternoon.
So I'll be but by the time three or four hours from now, I'll be totally up to speed on the Duck Dynasty.
Well, I hope you enjoy it.
It was it's definitely something that we find that intrigues us, and and you know, it is only a half an hour show, it keeps us watching All I can think of is that it's the Arts and Entertainment Network, which the Liberals think they own, and it that's you know, highbrow opera stuff.
I I when I saw about ten minutes of it, and I wonder what New York elitists and Boston and Northeastern elitists think when they watch this.
I w they've got they've gotta be scared to death.
Then they learn it's the highest rated show.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, and this is Bobby in Wilburg, Virginia.
Hi, Bobby, great to have you here.
Hello.
Hey, Megah Dennis Rush from Williamsburg, Virginia.
Williamsburg.
Okay, thank you.
Hey, no problem.
I I know you don't like to talk about yourself, but I've always wondered when do you eat lunch?
What do you like to eat?
Do you eat before the show, after the show?
Do you get a chance to eat with your wife?
I mean, how does this work?
Uh what's that in the background there, uh, Bobby?
That's my my little daughter.
She's four, and then I've got my son, he's two.
It's Nicholas and Natalie.
Oh, cool.
Okay.
Well, uh you serious?
Uh when do I have the pregame meal and all that?
Yeah, I've just always wondered.
You know, I get to my favorite time is when I turn in your show and eat my lunch and get to listen, and I always wondered, is Rush hungry?
Or does he have to, you know, shove something down before the show starts or what?
Well, uh since since you've asked, I have a combination of uh I have brunch at 10 fifteen.
Okay.
Every morning.
Okay.
And I seldom have dinner, maybe three nights a week.
Um I have lunch at 10 fifteen.
I I get out of here, finish your three, go home, and I've immediately when I get home, I just chill.
I just veg.
I sit down, uh, and and I just indulge myself in everything but politics for a couple of hours, and then I get back into it full bore, and I snack on things that are just easy and and light, and have to sit down and have a f I I just as time goes on, I just am less and less interested in going to a restaurant for two hours.
I just I get fidgety.
I you know, when I finish eating, I want to get up and go, and people want to sit there and linger and talk for another 45 minutes, so it's it's uh hearing is a problem for me at those things anyway.
So um uh but no, we don't we don't we don't have formal dinner uh but three times a week, if that.
Yeah.
Well that's that's great.
I just you know, I'm glad you shared that with me.
I was just curious, and uh is that at home with are you eating at home with pumpkin or are you in the office at that time?
Are you in the studio at ten fifteen?
I'm in a studio.
Gotcha.
I'm in the studio.
I uh I don't I don't e don't eat breakfast at home.
I don't eat I I mean I when I get up, I'm out of there in twenty minutes.
Wow.
Uh in twenty minutes.
That's as quickly as I can.
Once I get up, I've got to get to it.
Well, that's that's great.
Thanks for sharing that, and I wish you well.
Have a good weekend.
I'm happy to provide the data.
I'm fascinated you're interested.
Why?
What?
Oh, you think that this guy might have been probing for security weaknesses.
There's a little suspicion of the guy from Williamsburg on the other side of the glass here.
Are you at home?
Or do you?
I don't, I think the guy was uh I think he was genuinely.
I think food's a big deal to him.
He's curious how other people eat and so forth.
I did not, my antenna are pretty tuned to that kind of curiosity.
And so I think he was on the list.
I don't have anything to worry about.
Um what security breach could I have possibly made there?
Now, this job hunting thing.
I mentioned at the top of the, I mentioned actually a couple days ago, and I just haven't gotten to it.
It's a website I never heard of.
It's called Penelope Trunk Blog, and I don't know what it is.
I don't know if Penelope Trunk is the name.
I don't know if Penelope has a trunk, and that's what the blog is.
I have no idea.
I just know that I ran across this, new paths to get a great job, and I read it, and I'm fascinated.
She's obviously a young person.
It's an it's an advice piece, and I'm reading it, and I'm saying it's exactly what I did 40 years ago.
But yet to her, it's it's brand new.
And she starts, I think it's a she because of Penelope.
Don't even know if I'm right about that.
But this thing starts this way.
Of course I have to open this post with something about how stupid college is.
Now that grabbed me right at the get-go.
Colleges are finally responding to the problem that they charge tons of money, and then graduates are unemployable and in debt.
Colleges are responding by becoming job preparation centers.
Frank Bruni, the opinion editor for the New York Times, says that this is a waste of time and resources.
Here's what's better.
Number one, skipping college.
The real issue we have with admitting that college is not a path to the work world, is then we have to ask ourselves, well, then why do we send our kids to high school?
There's plenty of data to show that teenagers are able to manage their lives without the constraints of school.
The book, Escaping the Endless Adolescence is chock full of data, and a recent article by my favorite journalist, Jennifer Sr.
Should high school's not just necessary, but actually damaging to teenagers who need much more freedom to grow than high school affords.
Now you can see how this was attractive to me, because I looked at all this as prison.
I looked at all this as holding me back.
I knew what I wanted to do.
And and in high school and stuff was an obstacle.
It was keeping me from doing what I wanted.
Now, don't misunderstand.
I'm not, you got kids listening.
I'm not trying to tell people don't go to school.
I'm just telling you how I looked at it.
I'm not advocating not going to high school.
Of course I picked things up and learned things absorbed.
But as a young person, I didn't want to be there.
I knew what I wanted to do.
And by the way, I didn't do well informal education.
And at the time I remember having conversations with my parents.
I said, because they were obsessed with me getting good grades, making the honor roll, of course, uh it's parental pride.
I never gave them that.
I did get an A in penmanship one time.
My mother was thrilled that I got an A in something.
But I talked to him, I said, you know, this is this is too formulaic.
And my dad said, well, they have to do it this way.
There are too many kids.
They have to come up with a formula that is the best for the most in terms of educating people.
They can't tailor education to each individual.
Which I understood and I understand that now.
But my problem was I didn't fit the formula.
But yet I got plugged into it, like everybody did.
And I didn't like it.
I found ways around it, by the way.
I've I found ways to do what I wanted to do at the expense of doing other things.
Now this piece here says, focus on internships instead of school.
Kids should be working in internships in high school because the best path to a good job is a bunch of great internships.
But great internships don't go to people who need money.
They're mostly for young people.
And this is probably illegal and classist and bad for a fluid society, but we're not going to debate that here.
Instead, we will debate why kids need to go to college if it's internships are what make them employable.
The whole point of this is that we've got a factory set up here.
We've got a formula that starts with kindergarten, preschool, whatever it's called, then elementary school, then middle school, then high school, then college.
And this is a young person who's starting to say, Wait a minute, what what I I finish all that and I'm still not employable.
I finished all that, and I'm still not trained to do anything, and yet I owe somebody anywhere from 25 to 200,000.
So you've got young people starting to ask themselves about the formula that they're being plugged into and looking at alternatives to actually learning something.
It's fascinating.
This is internships.
Think of apprenticeships.
Think of things that have been done in the past that this young person doesn't know, or does she think she's on to something, or whoever this is, thinks they're on to something brand new, never happened before, when in fact everything this person wants or thinks ought to be done has been done before and is now something that's in the past and is supposedly outdated or outmoded.
Apprenticeships, internships, you figure out what you want to do and you go there instead of going to high school, or you combine the two.
But that's how you end up becoming employable.
You actually get experience doing something.
Now, understandably, some careers require a lot of education and a piece of paper saying you have been, and then you have to pass certain tests, doctors, lawyers.
I mean, there's no substitute.
You have to know that stuff, and you have to be admitted to certain schools.
So there are exceptions, but person points out that you cannot take this route if you're saddled with huge student loans.
You can't take this route if you're inundated by homework in required subjects you don't care about.
Amen.
You can't take this route if you have no word work experience when you graduate college.
It's too late.
Don't tell me you need to go to school to learn.
People just don't believe this anymore.
Then the next suggestion here is start a company instead of writing a resume.
And she talks about the latest phenomenon of how startups are happening in Silicon Valley.
And it she's right, or whoever wrote this is right about.
You know what's happening in Silicon Valley.
Entrepreneurs are starting internet type companies that provide a recent one is something called Wavy, W A V I I. It's about 10 or 12 people, I think.
And they created a bunch of algorithms that will take AP, New York Times, whatever it is, news copy, and immediately rewrite it in conversational language in an app for your phone or your iPad.
Well, Google just snapped these guys up.
It's called an acqui-hire.
It's essentially they acquired the business, but what Google really did was hire these people.
So these guys who started Wavy, and this is one example, and I may not be fully up to speed on it.
But rather than these guys having to stick with it and maybe go out of business in the process, they were hired as employees while they're and their company was bought too.
But it was it was a uh essentially their business was was purchased by them becoming employees of Google to develop the program with Google engineers on tap.
And there are countless examples of this type of thing happening in uh in Silicon Valley.
That's just that's just one.
And those type things are referenced in this piece as young people actually in the workforce rather than in school.
They're just focusing on things they love, they like to do, using their talents and expertise, and they're earning a lot of money doing it without any real formal education.
So young people are seeing this happen.
And they're asking themselves, why am I in school here?
I don't know if anything that come of it.
I it's to me, it it is primarily fascinating because all of this is about going against the grain.
Forget the formula, screw what everybody says you have to do, find what you're interested in, and find a way to go do it, which is what I did.
What they think is it's new, was what made me chuckle.
Quick time out, folks, back with more in a second.
Don't go away.
Don't go away.
Gus in Houston, I'm glad you called her.
I've got about a minute, but I wanted to get to you.
Hey, Rush, I tuned in to hear you talking about the demise of football and wanted to tell you about my uh my family.
My my brother-in-law was a big-time football player at the University of Texas.
His first year was Earl Campbell's last year, so he's in his early 50s.
All right.
He blew he blew his knee out, so he couldn't go pro.
Move all these years later, and my sister and her husband have three or four kids, three daughters and a son who was groomed to be a good big football player.
Well, with all the stuff going on with the injuries, with all the stuff going on that you read what you're talking about, he is now the stud they wanted to be him to be on the field, but it's on the lacrosse field.
They've taken they've taken him out of football, and this kid is thriving at lacrosse.
But you know, there's a lot of people that are thinking just the way you were talking about what this is going to do to their kid.
That's what I'm that that that's the theory of the Chicago Tribune writer.
And it's gonna be fascinating to watch this uh this play out.
I appreciate your story, Gus.
Thanks much.
back with more in a second here.
A White House Correspondents Association dinner is tomorrow night, Saturday night, Washington.
I I will not be there for a record 23rd straight year.
And we're gonna keep a sharp eye on this rapist oriented stylist, whatever logo at UConn.
Had that at the top of the program, the new sports mascot said to be inspiring rape by a single female student at UConn.
See you Monday, folks.
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