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May 2, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 2, 2013, Thursday, Hour #3
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Have you guys looked outside lately?
It is almost dark as night out there.
It's raining pretty hard, but it is almost dark as night outside.
I love it.
I I love stormy weather.
I love global warming.
I love all of this stuff.
Greetings and welcome back, folks.
It's great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
The largest free education institution known to exist in the free or oppressed world.
There are no graduates, there are no degrees, because the learning never stops.
By the way, this spring, 2013, has been the second coldest spring in the entire history of the United States.
Second only to 1975.
And interestingly, 1975 was the beginning of the global warming or the global cooling panic, by the way.
As recently as 1979, Newsweek had a cover story on the coming ice age.
Second coldest spring in the entire history of the United States.
It only stands to reason that two days ago, Al Gore with a major speech at the Milken Global Conference on global warming.
This new eating disorder, it's called orthorexia.
And I'll spell it for you.
O R T H O Rsia, E XIA, orthorexia.
This is the time of year when many people are excited to get in shape and eat healthier.
The problem is.
A dangerous phenomenon called orthorexia is becoming more prevalent.
Now staying healthy means following a balanced diet.
Growing number of people, however, are eliminating entire food groups because they've been told nothing but negative things about them.
So people are eliminating dairy, eggs, meats, grains, and fats.
In other words, everybody that's following all of this is becoming a vegetarian.
And they're losing their health.
This is a CBS story out of Boston, by the way.
Boston University nutritionist Jean Culbert defines orthorexia this way.
What it essentially means is somebody is obsessed with eating only healthy food that they consider to be pure.
The problem is, according to Gene Culbert, is that our bodies need those so-called bad foods.
You need fat.
Fat helps to absorb fat-soluble vitamins like A, D, E, and K. It also helps us absorb phytochemicals in fruits and vegetables.
Whole grains have been shown to be heart healthy.
Dairy's a great source of protein, great source of calcium, vitamin D. But when you're no longer able to enjoy any of the foods you once did, and you're no longer able to participate in a family meal or going out with a friend, you got a problem.
Orthorexia.
You know, you know where this comes from?
Years and years and years of these wacko leftist groups like Center for Science and the Public Interest, telling you don't eat that, you'll die.
Don't eat that, you'll die.
Don't eat that, you'll die.
And they're not the only group all kinds.
And then it spreads.
Then you hear it from your friend.
You never heard of Center for the Science Public Interest, but you heard it on TV that eggs have cholesterol, and you could die 20 years in advance of what you should.
Because I'm not gonna eat eggs, and you sp you tell somebody, and the word spreads.
And so orthorexia is the new term for explaining this as opposed to what was the other Rexia, nerdly.
What is uh Yeah, the anorexia we don't eat anything.
Orthorexia is where you eat and you lose your health and your life gradually.
Anorexia is when it can happen quickly.
And it does.
It leads to vegetarianism.
That's what people end up eliminating.
Dairy, eggs, meat, grain, fat.
They're told all those things are horrible.
We're told all those things are dangerous.
All those things are unhealthy.
All those things have cholesterol.
All those things lead to heart attack.
Stroke.
Who knows whatever else.
And so people curtail eating those things.
Back to the audio sound bites.
Yesterday we had the story that men in the presence of women they find beautiful, attractive, literally wilt.
They lose all rationality.
They do things that they would never otherwise do.
They say things they would never otherwise say.
Something about the effect of a woman, a man just thinks is beautiful, will f will just send him loco.
The story said that there is a cure for this.
It's basically an antibiotic, a derivative of tetracycline.
If you take tetracycline, you can ward off this danger that happens to men when they are in the presence of a woman, they think just knockout gorgeous.
Because what tetracycline does, monocycline, which is the derivative.
What it does is keeps your reasoning ability up.
That's what men lose in the presence of beautiful women, the ability to reason.
And I made the observation that had we known this back in the late 60s, we could have given everybody tetracycline, we would not have needed feminism.
Because after all, what is feminism?
Undeniable truth of life number 24 at its root level.
Take the politics out of it.
Obviously, feminism is a leftist activist thing movement.
But what is it that inspired the early feminizes to get all bent out of shape?
Undeniable truth of life number 24.
Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.
Well, with that in mind, we now go back to the audio sound bites and the Today Show today.
Matt Wauer interviewed the man who carjacked, was carjacked by the Sanayev brothers.
Now the guy who was carjacked is keeping his identity a secret and going by the nickname Danny.
And during a discussion about his kidnapping and his subsequent escape, Matt Wauer and Danny had this little chat.
During this time, you thought about a young lady.
Yes.
I saw nobody in New York.
Why did you think about her?
I must say I like her.
And uh I think that gives me encouragement.
I want to say her okay.
That's that's what I was thinking.
We have found evidence in this seemingly irrelevant soundbite that perhaps an attraction to women does not always impede a man's mental abilities.
Actually, it can save lives.
This guy, Danny, said that during the time of the hijacking, he thought about this young lady.
He thought about a girl in New York that he likes.
Thinking about her gave him encouragement.
He wanted to see her again.
He wanted to live.
That's what he was thinking.
It's a good thing this guy was not taking tetracycline.
So Matt Wauer, after hearing this, had this to say.
Have you had the chance to tell her that since this ordeal ended?
I thought of her.
I thought her.
How'd she feel about that?
She feel, you know, she feels it's unbelievable.
Oh my God.
And then she said she's a product of me.
Yeah.
My guy, you used me to stay alive.
You thought about me.
I was your guidance.
She was, she was just blown away by that.
So, and there are no tetracycline involved here.
So, in this one instance, we've kind of blown the theory sky high.
Yesterday afternoon in Boston, Robert Stahl, the attorney for one of the newly arrested suspects in the Boston bombing case held a press conference.
And during the QA, a reporter said he didn't take the fireworks and the knapsack to the dump.
Mr. Khadrabaev told the FBI about that.
He did not know that those items were involved in a bombing or of any interest in a bombing or any evidential value.
So that's all we have to say on that.
So that's why he threw it all away.
He threw away the evidence.
Oh no idea any of that stuff was going to be used or had been used in a bombing.
They asked Rudy about this yesterday afternoon on Neil Cavuto on Fox.
And Cavuto basics is if Rudy helped me out with this.
A couple of days after a bombing like this, somebody wants you to throw a knapsack in the river.
Yeah, I mean, and then but he's not drawing any profound or any connection.
Whatsoever.
These guys are college students?
All right.
So there's a very shocked as everyone.
I don't think it'd be suspicious if a mile away from where the bombing took place.
Two guys uh who come from Dagestan tell you, hey, I got to get rid of some stuff in my apartment.
So Rudy is saying, you know, the lawyer, not quite credible here, was asking us to believe a lot.
Thank you.
Say, folks, here is a poll.
Guarantee you this poll is going to be ignored.
It is a um Paul, I just saw this in the Associated Press.
Very simply, four out of five Americans do not think the Washington Redskins ought to change the name of the team.
That's 80%.
The media, the sports media not going to be happy.
RG3 will be happy.
Dan Snyder owns the Redskins will be happy.
Dwight Schar also owns part of the Redskins.
Be happy.
Eighty percent of Americans do not think the Redskins...
So are are you people on the left now prepared to say 80% of America's a bunch of racist pigs?
Probably so.
Scott Jacksonville, Florida, welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Hi.
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Thank you, sir, very much.
I had two questions for you.
Number one, why is Planned Parenthood supporting the Plan B pill in the first place?
Won't it cut down on abortions?
Well, great question.
You want to try taking a stab at answering it yourself?
That's a good response.
The reason why I think they are because Planned Parenthood is now coming out, they're mad at the Obama administration for doing away with it.
So they're playing it both ways.
Well, that could be.
But what does Planned Parenthood stand for?
Abortion.
Women aborting babies.
However, they do it.
However they do it, other than the back alley.
However they do it.
So if it's the more the thing is that the morning after birth control pill at age 15 conditions, women, this is no big deal.
Planned Parenthood would have to support.
Look at liberals are liberals first.
Abortion is the sacrament.
If you look at liberalism as a religion, abortion is the sacrament.
So whatever moves the agenda forward is okay.
And this moves the agenda forward.
The agenda forward is women having abortion.
Whenever, however, that is how a woman proclaims her independence.
It's how a woman proclaims her freedom.
It is true that the plan B morning after after pill will impact the Planned Parenthood bottom line.
So it just means that they'll go into the manufacturing business.
Or they'll invest.
I don't know.
It's a great question, but but the answer is A, what's the objective?
Abortions.
Now I know, I know there are people in this audience cannot possibly think I really mean that.
I folks, I not only do I really mean it, it it's true.
Don't blame me if you can't get your arms around that.
There are over a million abortions a year.
Planned parenthood supports them, performs them.
It's not even controversial to say that when planned parenthood is about is abortions, and as many as possible.
It might sound what?
What they knew that the Planned Parenthood knew what was going on in Gosnell's horror house and would not condemn it.
It was up to the victims to report it.
And if the victims didn't report it, no f no harm, no crime, no foul.
If the victims didn't report that was the planned parenthood position.
If the victims didn't report it, no big deal.
They can't condemn it.
If you stand for something, it's got that you have to support it wherever and whenever.
And abortion is not some incidental thing that happened to them.
It is their reason for existence.
questions.
Planned parenthood.
I was thinking about this.
When I first heard of Planned Parenthood, to show you how the left uses the language.
When I first heard of Planned Parenthood, I thought it was exactly what planned parenthood.
I thought that and I was very young, teens, early twenties, I thought you went to Planned Parenthood and they would help you plan your family.
Help you deal with the economics of it and raise that's what I thought they did.
Planned parenthood.
That's not at all what they do.
They want people to think that.
So when somebody like me comes along and points out what they really No, no, no, that can't I don't some people don't even want to conceive that that's what they do, but it is.
Bringing the truth to people that they may not want to hear, therefore it makes me divisive.
Back in just a second.
Back in just a second.
Okay, one more time.
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Okay, here's David in Greenville, South Carolina.
Hi, great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hey, Bruce, it's an honor to speak to you, sir.
Thank you very much, sir.
I'm calling you today because uh what I went on hold a little while back, but since then uh it was about 115 today that I lost my job due to the healthcare reform, the thing that you've been warning everyone about.
It's not it's not going to just be hours being cut.
I actually lost my job today because of this.
Your listeners really need to pay attention to you.
Wait a minute.
You lost your you know at 115 today you were told you're out of your job.
Yes, sir.
Did he tell you why?
Yes, sir, he did.
Now keep in mind that this is a gentleman that I fought side by side side by side with in Iraq and Afghanistan.
We started this company a year ago together.
And he told me, as I can't uh I was actually off of work today.
I my little girl was born about a month ago, and I'm still home with my wife.
He called me into work today, and he told me, look, I understand that you need a job.
I'm gonna try to help you maybe to find another one.
And and keeping in mind that he wasn't even a Republican when we started this company.
It's because of me, and because I turned him on to your program that he w became aware, and his knowledge was expanded.
Because I let him in the note of rush, listen to Russ.
He's gonna tell you about what's going on.
You don't need to vote this guy into office.
He did it anyway, now he's regretting it.
And now he came to me earlier about 115 this afternoon and said, Look, man.
David didn't try to cut my losses now.
David, wait a minute.
I this is this is uh it's upsetting.
What the he what he was he was he was pained at having to do this, he was upset having to do this.
he sounds like he was upset about doing it, but he sounds like he was making an informed decision, which I can't really fault him for, but what he said when he came to me was I know I can't pay you much right now, and I know I'm not paying you well enough for you to have to get health insurance, but you're gonna have to either get it by yourself or you you're going to I'm I'm gonna have to let you go one or the other.
Why, because he couldn't afford to keep you employed and provide you health insurance under the law that that is being implemented?
Exactly.
And he said, I'm gonna have to let you go.
I can't afford to pay you enough to go out and get your own health insurance for you and your family.
I'm going to have to let you go because I can't it's it's gonna be even more expensive to keep you on.
How many people how many people work at this at this company?
Six.
Now five.
Wow.
Wow, wow.
I was I w I was the one that helped them start it after we came home.
And this this is And I must ask you a question, and please don't be offended by the question, okay?
I just I have to because you sound as honest as the day is long, but I have to anybody can call here and say anything.
Yes, sir.
Are you do you think that's the real reason he fired you?
Or is there could have been some other reason?
And he just is falling back on that.
There could be no other reason, sir.
Me and him were marines together.
We worked hard together.
I put my money and my blood and my sweat into this company.
I'm not sure if he let anyone else go today either, but I know he did let me go, and this is the reason that he gave me.
And I think it's sad that the rest of the country is not paying attention to what the president they voted into office is doing.
It it's not just going to be your hours.
Eventually these your employers are going to get to the point to where they're saying it's going to be cheaper to let you go than to even keep you here part-time.
So your boss did not want to provide you with insurance and he couldn't afford to pay the penalty of not providing you insurance, right?
Yes, sir.
That is exactly what he told me today at 115 this afternoon.
Now are you are you vested?
Are you you uh uh or were you just a straight employee?
You said you started a company with him, or uh did you own part of this company or you're just an employee?
I don't own part of the company, but I did give him money when he was having a hard time.
I gave him money out of something called a TSP, which is a thrift savings program, which the military provides that that that I had and I was putting money into while I was overseas.
I provided him money out of that and said, Hey man, you just provide me a job.
I'll give you some money to go towards your company.
Ma'am, I you know, I thought Obamacare didn't affect people uh uh uh jobs, businesses under f under thirty or fifty employees and fifty fifty employees, but obviously this this guy is under the impression that he can't afford you anymore because of health care.
That's it.
Which is probably true.
I it it it it's so uh people get it as a benefit, they really don't know what it costs.
Um I know health care premiums are skyrocketing no matter how many employees you have, they're still the the premiums are skyrocketing, whether Obamacare exists or not.
Well, this is terrible.
Um what uh what what kind of work were you doing?
I worked with industrial compressors.
Uh the ones that you you you go into to get your tire change at uh Firestone, the the pneumatic drill that you hear, those work off of thirty and forty thousand dollar air compressors.
Yeah.
I was the service coordinator.
I knew those things inside and out.
I I thought I was a value and an asset to the company.
He probably were.
You're not gonna be the only one, but that doesn't help you.
No, it doesn't.
But uh Well look, let's make away it we'll make a way.
Let me I I I I have to do something here.
I don't know what it would be, but uh I wanna I want to send you um something that you might be able to uh to use down there.
Would an iPad be of any assistance, even if it's just for fun.
Would that would an iPad be an assistance to you?
It'd be something my wife can poke on while she's at home, Russia, tell you the truth, instead of poking at me.
All right, Taylor.
Well, I'm looking hang on here.
I'll get your address snerdly, we'll get your address, and we'll send you um we'll send you an iPad, uh iPad four, but uh and I'm gonna I'm gonna throw in a couple of my new tumblers uh from TI two of my T just for the heck of it, too.
Uh so hang on, David.
I appreciate the call.
Sad to hear the detail.
Now don't go away because Snurley's gotta get your address for us to send this stuff.
Uh we're under the belief here that it's fifty employees.
Well yeah, it's yeah part it's it's it's fifty employees in thirty hours.
That's that's what it is.
That the well, a lot of it doesn't implement until 2014, but it's the the companies are exempt uh with people that work under 30 hours or fewer than fifty.
But I guess in this case it's just the cost of the premiums.
It has to be that resulted in uh in this.
But that's folks, this is happening all over the country, and it has been.
This kind of thing has been happening all over the country since 2009.
Actually started the the big increase in unemployment starting it started in November 2008, really right after the election.
It that's where the numbers began to balloon.
It really did.
And it's not changed at all.
Jim in Manassas, Virginia, you are next on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Rush, it's great to talk to you.
Uh I uh just want to let you know this Benghazi thing has really roiled me, and the the cover-up that's ongoing is monstrous.
Uh this is uh unprecedented.
I worked in the White House situation room under three presidents.
Nixon, Carter, and Reagan.
And nobody Wait, wait, wait, wait, well, how does that happen?
You couldn't have been a political appointee then.
You had to be career.
I was an intelligence officer.
Okay, okay.
And no president would have summarily gone to bed after having been told by a secretary of defense that an ambassador was missing and under attack and that people were being uh killed.
There's no way at Carter.
I mean Jim, that's the thing.
What we don't know that he went to bed, but from five o'clock until three the next morning or four, he's off the grid.
Nobody knows where he went.
He told Hillary and Leon Panetta, you guys deal with it, whatever you need to do.
But the the the consulate and the ambassador under assault under military attack, and nobody knows where he went.
Well, the the thing is the three principals didn't even talk to each other.
Hillary or uh Panetta or uh Obama.
I mean, this this is this is outrageous.
Given the um connectivity that's uh available in the situation room, uh I worked there a day decades ago, but then you you can imagine what it is now.
Uh and you know, uh it is just uh they they have their finger on the pulse of everything everywhere.
Jim, get over it.
Yeah, it's a it happened eight months ago.
No, but but these men they they they their lives were snuffed out.
They they they could have been helped and uh saved.
And this man, this president and Panetta and Hillary turned their backs on them.
This is you know, it looks that way.
That that's the thing.
It looks that then they then they blame it on the video and they they treated this incident as though it's akin to the cost of doing business.
Well, if you're gonna have a custom, it's gonna sometime come under tech when somebody does a video.
It's gonna happen.
If it's ever learned that he was out shooting hoops in the in the White House gym, if it is ever if the i don't know, no, no.
I don't know that that's what was going on.
Nope.
Well, i i if if the attention continues to be ratcheted up on this, and then in context, yeah, he was out playing basketball.
Yeah, low information voters would care about that.
If just out of the blue, he's playing basketball and uh thing happened seven months ago.
If that's all that's known about it, no, it wouldn't have any impact on him at all.
But it's gonna be hard for the media to defend, though, for the hell with a low information voter if that's ever learned.
It'd be tough for Koki Roberts to broke out a go on TV.
Well, we totally understand.
You know, I gotta play hoops, get ready for your uh for your brackets or whatever the hell.
That's going to be a hard thing to defend.
That's going to be a hard thing to defend.
Cheryl Atkison, CBS News.
She'd been one of the few drive-by reporters pursuing the Benghazi story.
And she said yesterday that she feels alone pursuing it.
She really has been.
She's really been the lone wolf pursuing Benghazi, but it's continuing to unfold.
It really has.
Okay, folks, that's it.
That's it.
I'm gonna go pour an adult beverage in my new tumbler with uh rush revere on one side and the revered rush on the other.
And we'll see you tomorrow.
Well, not an adult beverage now, maybe in a few hours.
But whatever.
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