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May 1, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 1, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #3
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I know, I know, but I don't know.
I mean, I uh Snardley is saying, don't Snurdley's, don't feel guilty.
People want stuff from you.
Okay, okay.
Anyway, greetings, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, fastest three hours in media.
I can't believe how fast this is going by.
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If they're gonna get to this uh media stack and the concern about Obama in just a sec, but a couple sound bites came in during the break top of the hour.
Jay Carney has weighed in on the 15-year-olds being able to get legally over the counter morning after birth control pills.
Ed Henry at Fox News said to the spokes kid, and I believe in December of 2011, the president was in this room, and he spoke pretty emotionally.
I think he mentioned his own daughters, and he said that a 10-year-old or an 11-year-old shouldn't be able to go to a grocery store and buy this morning after birth control stuff alongside bubblegum or batteries.
So, Jay, are you saying the president's comfortable now with a 15-year-old buying this pill next to the bubblegum or the batteries?
I didn't talk about this particular issue with him.
The FDA has made a decision based on an amended application by a manufacturer that uh stipulates that it would be made available to uh teens 15 and older.
And the as you cited the president, he was he referred to younger girls, and I believe so did Secretary Sebelius.
But you know, in terms of the the assessments made about this decision, I think you could go to HHS to get the secretary's views, uh, because again, the president was speaking in support of a decision that Secretary Sibelius had made at the time.
So again, it it's the limbaugh theorem.
Obama's got nothing to do with this.
Don't ask me about 15-year-olds and birth control pills, go ask the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
And go talk to the manufacturers.
They're the ones that wanted this.
Well, of course they do.
But Jay Carney, you've got kids about 15-16.
I wonder, I would love to ask him.
What if your daughter runs and gets a pack of these things, Jay?
What do you feel about it?
Well, you know, the Health and Human Services says it's okay.
And Kathleen Sabilia says it's okay.
And uh manufacturer says it's okay.
And the president said, go talk to them about it.
Let's go back.
March 29, 2008, Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
This is Obama at a town hall meeting.
Look, I've got two daughters, nine years old and six years old.
I'm gonna teach them, first of all, about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
I don't want them punished with an STD at the age of 16.
You know, so it it doesn't make sense to not give them information.
And information now equals a morning after pill.
Because I wouldn't want, you know, I want to teach them morality and all that, but I don't want them punished with a baby.
Well, pregnancy is a disease.
I mean, the feminists have been teaching us this word.
Okay, here's that stack.
Let's in no particular order.
I didn't even take time to put it in order because it doesn't need to be.
I'm just gonna give you excerpts.
Dana Milbank, Washington Post in the tank for every Democrat president, particularly Obama.
And by the way, I folks, I need to add a codicle, if you will, to the limbaugh theorem.
Because I think, I'm pretty sure that one of the reasons the media are worried is that they think the Democrats might not win control of Congress in the midterms.
I think they're beginning to face that.
They've thought it's been in the tank.
They thought that it's been a fate of complete, winning the House in 2014.
And I think they're beginning to think that that's not gonna happen.
And here's the thing.
Since demonizing the GOP over guns and the sequester has not worked.
They're now getting worried.
Demonizing the Republicans over guns and the sequester was supposed to pave the way for winning the House in 2014.
And demonizing the Republicans on guns and the sequester has not worked.
That's why they had to start messing around with the air traffic controllers and creating flight delays and canceling the White House tours.
So part and parcel of this whole stack, part and parcel of all these guys expressing their concern, I think, is the media pushing Obama to be more aggressive.
And that means, since Congress refuses to act on so much of his agenda that he needs to bypass them again and start issuing even more executive orders.
That's the subtext of this Millbank article.
I think I think what they're doing.
Sometimes the press just doesn't sit there when their guy is screwing up and say, okay, he's screwing up.
They try to fix it for him.
And they saw a guy not even there yesterday.
They saw a guy not even interested.
They saw a guy look like he didn't want to be there.
And that really worries them.
So I think all of these stories today about how rotten he was yesterday, all these stories about how scared everybody is, how detached he was.
He's supposed to hear about this and say, oh, yeah, watch this and get back in gear.
I think that's the purpose of all of these stories.
Because trust me, they're not really having a falling out with the guy yet.
They're not giving up on him.
They just want it to look that way to spur him into action.
Dana Milbank.
It's never a good sign for a president when he feels compelled to assure the public that he still has a pulse.
Hence the unbelievable position Obama was in yesterday morning when he held a news conference in the White House briefing room, faced a profusion of questions about the stalled pieces of his legislative program.
Back in 1995, Bill Clinton assured Americans he was still relevant.
This may be the first time a president asserted he was still alive.
By the way, some of you may have forgotten, that whole thing of Clinton in 1995 asserting he was relevant was because I was saying he had become irrelevant.
And it didn't take long, just a couple of days.
This was after the Republicans won the House in '94.
The health care thing was on the way down the tubes, and the Republicans owned it at the time.
They hadn't screwed it up yet.
And I was talking about how irrelevant Clinton was.
And he went out and he had a press conference.
I am still relevant.
I am still a president of the United States.
I'm still here in this White House, I still have the bully pulpit.
No, he didn't raid, no, he didn't reference me.
But nobody else was calling him irrelevant.
I was the only one who was.
And he trots out that I am still relevant.
I'm still a president of the United States, I'm still here in the bully pulpit.
I have all this, I'm still in the White House, blah, blah, blah, oval office.
One hundred days into his second term, Obama has already lost control of the agenda if he ever had control in the first place.
He ricoched through his news conference, as he has through his presidency recently, between issues and crises, not of his choice.
This is the Limbaugh theorem in action in his press conference.
I think it's funny how so many in the media are dancing around that point.
They're trying to come up with other explanations to account for his performance yesterday.
But if you look for the simplest theory to explain a phenomenon, you have to admit the limbaugh theorem is the best explanation.
What is that?
That his fingerprints are not going to be on anything, that he doesn't even appear to be governing, that he's still an outsider.
He's still campaigning.
All these things going wrong are have nothing to do with him and his agenda, his agenda about fixing all this stuff.
That's what he's maintaining.
That's what the constant campaign is.
That's what his position press conference was.
Boston.
Ah, nothing to do with the people in Boston a great job after the fact.
Oh, yeah, uh Syria.
Well, the State Department dealing with that and Benghazi, well, the State Department Hillary did it with that.
15-year-old girls in Bertons.
Well, talk to Kathleen Seville.
He's literally folks is attaching himself to nothing.
And that's what they noticed yesterday.
Ron Fournier in the National Journal, Obama channels Clinton's worst day in office, raises doubts about relevancy.
In this piece, Fournier does his best to help Obama even if he doesn't understand the strategy.
Here's a sample from his article.
As much as we'd like to believe otherwise, a president's powers to fix problems are limited.
That's certainly the case on an issue such as Syria, where Obama has no good options.
Remember all the times that Ron Fournier wrote things like that about Bush's options being limited?
Never.
But with with Obama's options are limited, he doesn't have a whole lot he can do.
Fournier even regrets in this piece Obama doesn't have Superman powers.
He writes, well, he can't turn back time to stop the Boston Marathon bombings.
Even to be sure the federal investigators did all they could to prevent it.
He can't do anything about it.
Most disgustingly of all, at the end of this news article, Fournier, I don't know, seems to be yearning for a tragic event like Clinton got with the OKC bombing that the media can rally around to save Obama's president.
Folks, I'll go through this whole thing, but I'm telling you, I cannot emphasize enough the media yesterday with that press conference.
And most of the country didn't see it this way.
Most of the country didn't see it, but they did.
They were there, and I'm telling you, they think it was a disaster yesterday.
They and they're petrified.
They're worried that Obama's lost interest.
He doesn't care anymore.
Every story in this stack.
Here's a treatment from the uh uh newsbusters website.
And it is uh it's a Glenn Thrush story at the Politico.
And the original headline on Gren Thrush's first story was Obama, hey guys, I'm still here, and they changed it to Hey Guys, I'm still relevant.
President Barack Obama marking the 100th day since he delivered an ambitious inaugural address brimming with expansive plans, sparred with the White House press over a succession of issues over which he has conspicuously clipped control.
From his response to the game changer revelation that Syrian government forces use Saren gas to the failure of his gun control push to his continued efforts to shutter Gitmo.
Obama who seemed a lot less lighthearted than during his stand-up routine at the White House Correspondents Association dinner on Saturday.
They loved that, but this guy seemed totally detached, very, very worried.
Paul Bedard, D.C. examiner, a revealing new book from one of the media's longest serving White House correspondents reports that Obama surrounds himself only with idolizers.
And top aides make sure that those whose views might shake him up too much are shoved aside.
The author, Walsh, called top Chicago aide Valerie Jarrett, one of the leading idolizers who blocks access of critics to her boss.
Jarrett has gone too far in limiting others' access to the president, according to a number of White House congressional sources, says Walsh in the book was due out June 1st.
Her goal is to keep Obama in a cocoon of admirers who will not shake him up too much or present views that what we've got here is a king.
And nobody dares tell him anything that what they think he wants to hear.
And he gets an entirely jaundice.
Like he thinks Obamacare has been implemented.
I'm sure they are telling him it's going great.
What this book is saying is nobody's got the guts to go in there and tell him what's going wrong.
Think Game of Thrones and King Joffrey.
The little nineteen-year-old kid or sixteen-year-old kid, whatever he is.
That kid's a good actor.
You hate his guts watching that show, right, Snertley.
Democrat polster Peter Hart told Walsh that Obama's more performer than a seasoned politician.
Yeah, he likes performing.
He likes the crowd, said the polster.
But uh Obama's White House is too distant from people in Congress who can help him.
He's closed off, he's insular, shut out.
John Carl, Mr. President, you're 100 days into your second term.
The gun bill, you did everything you could to get it passed, but it didn't.
Congress is ignoring your efforts to try to get an undo of the sequester.
There's even a bill that you threatened to veto that had 92 Democrats in the House voting, yes.
My question to you is do you still have the juice to get the rest of your agenda through Congress?
And the president said, Well, if you put it that way, John, maybe I just ought to pack up and go home.
Now that folks is a that that is a degree of sensitivity that you don't expect in presidents.
Presidents are confident, they're egocentric.
You can't shake them.
Well, if you're gonna say, all right, maybe I'll just take the ball and go home.
And then you see what happened.
All right, that's all I'll do.
Maybe I just want to leave.
Well, make you happy, right, John?
Make you happy, I'll get out of here.
Is that that's what he's thinking.
He's livid that this little toad in the press corps would dare challenge his achievements and competence.
Well, I'll tell you, well, I just leave, and then we'll see what happens.
Well, very, very strange out there.
And then there's this botched Obamacare rollout tops Democrat fears for 2014.
That goes along with the Kaiser Family Foundation story on 42% don't even know it's a law of the land.
Now, folks, don't misunderstand.
I I am not at all saying that Obama's finished and his agenda's nothing.
I'm not not don't don't misunderstand.
What I'm telling you is the press is scared of that.
They didn't like what they saw yesterday.
This is what they saw yet, he's not the guy they elected.
He's not the guy they believe in.
They're worried.
And they're trying to goose him to get back in the game.
Gotta take a break.
Be back with more after this.
Don't go away.
So the only thing that made Clinton irrelevant again, well, not the only thing, but but the thing that that that brought Clinton back to the forefront was the Oklahoma City bombing.
And that's why Fournier was uh ruminating about it.
And of course he blamed that on me.
Which Obama and these guys uh every time something happens, try to blame it on me, Tea Party, what have you.
Here is uh and the media used the Oklahoma City bombing to rally Clinton from his uh state of irrelevancy.
Here's Elizabeth in Atlanta.
Elizabeth, I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Thank you.
It's nice to speak with you.
Free uh pleasure pleasure's mine.
Thank you.
I am getting completely frustrated by the notion that parents have nothing to say regarding keeping their children out of sexual activity uh until they're married or until they're full-grown adults who are smart enough to make that kind of serious decision.
Well, who do you think is doing this?
Who do who do you think is is uh is promulgating this notion that parents don't know what they're doing, don't have their kids' best interests at heart, and if you leave kids with their parents that the the best things for them are not gonna happen.
Who do you think's putting that out?
Who'd think believes?
Well, I uh I really believe a lot of parents are lazy.
That um and and they're like the low information voters.
They just don't it it is not difficult.
And um with my children, we started young.
Um we started, and it's different from boys and girls.
With our daughter, we demonstrated modesty.
I would show her pictures of Catherine Hepburn and say, isn't she beautiful?
Look how beautiful.
Okay, let me ask you a question.
I got about a minute, and let me ask you a point blank question.
As a mother, do you think it is impossible today to raise a chaste daughter?
Absolutely not.
Um my daughter just started uh like through high school, we did not allow serious dating.
They dated but not uh one-on-one committed relationship.
Now she's a college freshman, and uh when she started dating her current boyfriend, she just let him know.
Um if if you're interested in a sexual relationship, you're with the wrong girl.
Well, I'll tell you this.
You have to The Democrat Party disagrees with you.
The Democrat Party thinks your kid is gonna have sex no matter what you do.
And therefore, we must talk to them about it, and we must teach them about safety.
Now, when the subject is guns, we can't do that.
You can't say, well, kids are gonna grab gunshoot them anyway.
We better teach gun safety.
No, no, no, no.
We're gonna get that gun out of the house and out of the country, and we're gonna make it illegal.
Sex, you can't stop them.
They're gonna do it.
In fact, we're gonna help them.
We're gonna teach them how.
And then we're gonna give them the morning after birth control pills, there are no consequences.
You parents can't be trusted.
We are the Democrat Party.
That's who's behind this.
I'm telling you, the family is one of the last obstacles in the way of the left's being able to gain control over your kids.
Here's George and Warren, Ohio.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Uh, Rush, thanks for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
Right, you know, all the stuff that Obama's doing to me sure looks like everything is associated with his war on success in America.
I mean, stop to look at all the things that that he's been doing.
If you save too much in a retirement plan, well, he's got a tax debt because that could make you successful.
If you go to college and succeed and qualify for a salaried position in the automotive industry, while you have no commercial value, while there's all the unions get to have everything taken care of.
Seems to me that he gave, was it 29 billion dollars according to the Heritage Foundation to the UAW and another billion to IUE and steel workers that did not have contracts with new GM.
It's all part of his war on success, because he wants to have everybody dependent on the government.
Well, I agree with a lot of that.
You know, war on success may be how it manifests itself, but what is really doing is transforming the country and trying to abandon capitalism.
And capitalism is where individuals are successful.
Capitalism is the best opportunity for that.
And by the way, this this gets to exactly what Mike Lee was talking about in his speech, which was at the uh Heritage Foundation.
But when you when you transform the country and have the government as the focal point, and everything comes from the government, when everybody gets the majority of what they have from the government, there isn't going to be the creation of wealth among too many people.
What it's gonna end up now, the people who will get wealthy are the crony capitalists and the associates of the president's party who will benefit from government largesse.
But the idea of learning a trade or or uh having a career and and immersing yourself in it and becoming the best you can be at it.
That is what is fleeting.
If Obama succeeds in this transformation.
And I'll tell you why.
As the government grows, it can only grow by having the private sector shrink.
And instead of saying private shre sector, which who knows 42% don't even know that Obamacare is implemented.
How many of the hell of them know what the private sector is?
The way to look at it is as the government grows, the economy shrinks.
It has to.
And the government grow at the same time.
Because the government can only grow if it takes away from the economy.
Government doesn't produce anything.
Government destroys wealth.
It does not create it.
Individuals create wealth.
Companies, corporations, which are create wealth and wealth opportunities.
The government does not do that.
Unless, unless you happen to be a big Democrat donor and a Democrats are in the White House, and as a reward, you set up a phony solar energy company, and the president sends you a couple hundred, three hundred billion dollars, ostensibly to start up your business, but that doesn't happen.
You just get rich.
Or you happen to be the CEO of GE, rolling in dough, but nevertheless, you take government handouts for your green energy initiative.
Thereby your corporation saves a bunch of money because the government's giving you some.
But where did they get it?
From taxpayers.
So for Obama's vision to be complete, the economy has to shrink.
It's mathematics.
And it isn't really complicated.
And it gets down to one simple, undeniable truth, and that is this.
Real prosperity comes from everybody in the country working together in a growth mode.
Real prosperity comes as a result of people's own initiative and efforts and so forth.
Prosperity, if it comes from the government, is not prosperity.
It's an existence or a subsistence or whatever, but it isn't prosperity.
Quick timeout.
Be back with more after this.
Don't go away.
I am holding here my formerly nicotine-stained fingers proof.
Ffff.
Of a point that I made earlier in the week, talking about culture and morality.
And the left, and I I said to you that what really motivates the left is sticking it to us.
They look at us and look at us a bunch of Quakers, Puritans.
We are we're people highly moral.
We conservatives don't.
We don't, we we want to punish people who don't behave as we do.
We think people are immoral, irreligious.
That's how they look, and they love sticking it to us.
They love that's why they get so excited about a gay guy coming out in the NBA, because that they think that's sticking it to us.
They think that's really beating us.
That's the political value.
They don't care about Jason Collins.
They say they do.
But what what excites them about it is that they think it's in our face.
They think they are throwing our morality right at us and making us eat it.
And they love it.
Here we go from the website campus reform.
A well-known female liberal blogger and radio host of the University of Wyoming is being accused by the police of making up a rape threat against herself and making it appear as if it came from a conservative.
It was an obscene message directed at the activist Meg Lanker Simons posted on a college crush Facebook page earlier this week.
It immediately ignited outrage from the college community.
The message is obscene.
I can't read it to you.
It's got F bombs in it, And it's all about wanting to make this woman just wanting to, I mean, just brutally rape her, mistreater, and owner.
And the whole thing's made up.
It's left-wing activist, the cute the police say she made it up because they can't find any real-life examples of conservatives blowing up the Boston Marathon.
Every time a massive gun shooting happens, they pray it's a Tea Party person.
And since it doesn't happen, they have to make it up.
And this woman did.
She made up a Facebook post of threatened rape from a supposed Republican conservative.
Just made it up.
Ignited the whole campus.
That is who they are.
Okay, okay, okay.
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And can't wait for tomorrow.
We'll see you then.
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