Saw these three guys in Cleveland who kidnapped the women, raped them.
And I think when a pregnancy happened, they aborted it.
Anyway, their brothers, their last names are Castro.
I just saw their pictures on TV.
What a motley bunch of people.
Yeah, grungy to say the least.
Anyway, and you figure that was their best look.
Greetings, folks.
Great to have you.
Are those mug shots?
Well, yeah, one of them don't look too bad.
Looks like it works at a Benny Hanna.
Doesn't work there.
Just first thing came to my mind when I saw the picture.
Anyway, great to have you back, folks.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
Now, yesterday, I haven't heard anything about this, but I want to explain myself.
At the end of every program, we record our morning update, which is a 90-second commentary that runs in the morning on all of our EIB affiliates.
Oh, you know what this reminds me of, folks?
We have something that we send out every day, free of charge, from our website, the radio show called Rush in a Hurry.
This is maybe one of the finest services provided by anybody in broadcasting.
And I say that in full Donald Trump mode.
We call it Rush in a Hurry.
And what it is, is a summary of the radio program each day.
And it's very inclusive.
And it contains links that are used by me on the program, links to the website for stories that already have been updated that we talked about, including transcripts, links to audio and video that are referenced.
And it's free.
And there are no strings attached to it.
It's advertiser supported, so you're not hit upon.
It's just, it really is, is as simple as going to rushlimbaugh.com and signing up for it.
And you do not have to be a website member.
You do not have to be a 24-7 member to get Rush in a Hurry.
And I am remiss in not promoting this because it is an excellent, excellent summary of what actually happened on this program every day, as opposed to what somebody else says happens on this program.
It is extremely well done by our graphic artist team, which is one person.
And Coco and the boys put together the content.
And it really, really, really is something that we are really, really proud of here.
And to get it, it goes out about 30 minutes, usually 30 minutes after the program every day.
It's that quick.
It's called Rush in a Hurry, sent to whatever email address you want.
And it's free.
There is no charge, and there's nothing hidden in it.
There are no tricks to it.
It's advertiser supported in and of itself, so it doesn't cost you anything.
And it really is a fast, fantastic summary of what happens each day on this program.
And it was originally started as a way in the old days when we first started the website.
It took a while, usually three hours, to fully update the site to reflect that day's program.
And I was always bothered by that.
Why can't we get it up there immediately? I said.
And I've Website update technology explained to me, but we've gotten faster at it and better at it.
But Rush in a Hurry was a creation to bridge the gap from the end of the program to full website update.
Well, the Russian a Hurry is not a full website update, but it's pretty close.
But it's a great, great summary of what happened in case you missed the program.
And it has links to some of the fabulous stuff that happened.
So I just wanted to mention that to you.
Anyway, doing yesterday's morning update, it was about a bunch of hoaxes and phony things that are spread around, such as global warming.
And I ended it, I went off script at the very end of it, and I mentioned that this gluten business is also a bit of a hoax.
And I thought by now I would have heard from radical meal people, from radical food people, from the militant foodies.
And they're all over the place out there.
These people that tell you what you should and shouldn't eat.
And I wanted to share with you the story that made me give that little ad lib at the end of the program.
It is from the UK Daily Mail.
The gluten-free con.
It's the star's favorite food fad.
But costly wheat-free products just make people fatter with no health benefits at all.
Now, I'll tell you where I first became aware of this.
Well, how?
No, I'm trying to decide how to tell this.
Let's see.
Okay, Super Bowl party or Masters final round party or some other special occasion.
Invite a bunch of people over.
And at these occasions, I lay out a sports bar spread, the buffet menu, a couple different spots in the house.
And I started noticing that people would say, well, hey, I need some gluten-free stuff.
Why?
Well, I can't eat.
I mean, I'll die if I eat wheat and gluten.
I can't eat it.
I'll get very sick and my face will swell up and I'll make every other guest sick and I might die.
So, without questioning it, went around and procured all this gluten-free chicken wing batter and chicken strip batter and did all this stuff.
I had never heard of this gluten, and I wasn't disputing it.
I was trying to be a good host.
And all this time, I thought it was a legitimate thing, like a peanut allergy or whatever.
And I see this story in the UK Daily Mail about gluten-free being a con.
So I read the story.
Here it is.
There's one celebrity craze seems to be taking over the world.
Whip-it-thin stars, including Victoria Beckham, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Miley Cyrus, all talk about their healthy wheat-free lifestyles.
With their enviable figures, it's no wonder thousands of women are following their lead.
But giving up bread, pizza, pasta, and cakes, which all contain gluten, which is a gluey protein found in wheat and barley and rye, giving it up is not as easy as they make it seem, especially when you don't have a personal chef to whip up your tasty alternatives.
So over the past few years, the food bidneys, seeing a burgeoning gap in the market, have filled it with an ever-expanding range of free-from gluten products.
Walk into any supermarket, you'll find at least one aisle stacked with gluten-free foods, everything from fusili pasta to fruity flapjacks, even sausages, usually bulked out with breadcrumbs, can be bought by people wanting to avoid gluten.
Of course, for people with coliac disease who are physically intolerant to product, ciliac well, okay, okay, ciliac, C-O-E-L-I-A-C is pronounced ciliac really, okay.
Now for people with celiac disease pardon me, I never heard of it.
I heard a ciliac, but I'd never seen the word.
Coliac is what it looks like to me who are physically intolerant to products containing wheat free from options, make life a lot easier.
But celiacs can't be the only people buying this stuff.
According to the FOOD Standards Agency UK version of the FDA, only an estimated one percent of the population is classified as ciliacs.
Yet this market's growing by 15 percent every year.
It's worth 238 million pounds annually.
So what is the truth behind the gluten-free boom?
Well, the authors of a recent paper in the British Medical Journal suggest that the surge in gluten-free living has come about because its products are not only sought by celiacs but now by the fashionable.
Obviously, you can do without avoiding gluten.
Selling this myth that gluten is as addictive as heroin or that it's this terrible poison, simply treats people like idiots.
But that's that's how I began.
Yellow yeah, it's a poison.
I can't eat it.
I, I can't, I can't, I can't have it, I can't.
It's poison, it's addictive and so forth.
It's fattening okay well, well.
So we ran around and we started making gluten-free stuff.
You know, out of 30 people, we'd have one who showed up or two that demanded gluten-free and it started to get a little bigger.
I said what the hell?
And I didn't think anything of it, because I take people at their word.
Then all of a sudden I run into this story and it's another little health hoax going on for a lot of people, excluding you celiacs, of course, or coliacs as it looks like here.
What's more, as a ciliac Ian says this is a guy in the story.
I find it strange that people might be following guidelines for a disease they don't have.
The prevalence of food intolerances among the general public is criminally overstitzed, and now we got celiacs out there who are offended that other people who are not celiacs are taking up the gluten-free food supply.
So we've got an all-out battle taking place in the Uk over this stuff, all because Victoria Spice Girl happens to not like it, or Gwyneth Paltrow or whoever.
Now, if Chase AND Collins is gluten-free, that'll be another thing, but until then okay, I looked it up.
The word ciliac is a diphthong.
A diphthong is where you pronounce the second letter.
So in this case, it's C-O-E-L-I-A-C, celiac.
Forget the O.
And that's called a diphthong.
And I guess I may be a gluten for punishment.
Okay, John and Billings, Montana.
Welcome to EIB Network.
Hi.
Thank you.
I'm just going to ask who you think Americans believe more.
Barack Obama and his administration or Jodi Arias and her defense team.
Oh, there's no question about it.
Jodi Arias.
Who do Americans care more about?
What are they more?
Who do they believe more?
Oh, who do they believe more?
Yes.
Oh, who do they believe more?
Obama administration.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, Obama, Jason Collins, Chris Christie, Obama.
But who are they paying attention to?
More?
Probably Jodi Arias.
Okay, thank you.
Is that it?
Yes.
Okay.
Happy to help.
You see, folks, it's working.
Get this.
From the Associated Press, the Seattle Police Department collected more than 700 guns during a buyback.
What are you laughing at in there?
It is.
It's working.
For those of you scratching your head, say, what was that all about?
It's working.
The outreach.
He asked me who do I think Americans believe more, Obama or the Jodi Arias defense team?
Of course I know who she is.
Of course I know who Jodi Arias is.
Just like I know who's the other woman that has been on trial for 25 years, that Alexis Alex, whatever, in Italy.
Yeah, of course I know this stuff.
I'm up on all this.
Anyway, Seattle Police did a buyback.
They collected more than 700 guns during a buyback in January.
And now they have a plan for what to do with the 700 guns.
The mayor of Seattle, Mike McGinn, is expected to announce today, may have already announced it.
I don't know.
Amanda Knox, that's who I'm thinking of.
Amanda Knox and Jodi Arias.
Of course I'm up on this stuff.
The mayor of Seattle, I'm going to finish this story if it's the last thing I do today.
Mayor Mike McGinn is expected to announce today they're going to melt these 700 guns into bricks carrying messages of peace.
And then the bricks will be placed around the city.
The gun buyback program was announced a month after last December's elementary school massacre in a massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.
Private sponsors, including Amazon.com, contributed tens of thousands of dollars so that people could anonymously turn in their weapons for shopping cards worth up to $200.
716 guns were turned in with support from the charitable foundation of famed Galas artist Dale Chihuli.
They're going to be turned into bricks.
Peace bricks.
Guns will be turned into bricks with messages of peace on them, and then they will be placed around the city.
The mayor plans to visit public schools around the city to hear from the students about how gun violence affects them.
And their messages of peace will be represented on the bricks that used to be guns.
I kid you not.
Peace bricks made out of guns placed around the city with messages of peace on them.
And of course, this is to do what?
Stop people from using guns.
It's whatever the students say.
The mayor is going to visit public schools around the city to hear from students about how gun violence affects them.
And those messages of peace will then be represented on the bricks.
And then what's supposed to happen, if you live in Seattle and you are tempted to use a gun, you don't.
And you go to the nearest peace brick and you read it.
And that will inspire you not to use your gun.
Or you try to steal the peace brick and try to use it as a gun, which, of course, it won't do.
Now, here are some interesting stats.
This is from theblaze.com.
The firearm statistics that gun control advocates don't want anybody to see.
And it's very simple.
17 of the 20 highest gun murder states are Democrat-controlled blue states and with the strongest gun control laws.
17 of the 20 highest gun murder states are Democrat-controlled blue states with the most stringent gun control laws in the country.
And those stats come from the FBI's uniform crime reports.
California had the highest number of gun murders in 2011 with 1,220.
68% of all murders in the state in 2011 were gun murders.
That equates to 3.25 murders per 100,000 people.
Well, I'm just saying that these, all the 17 of the 20 highest gun murder states are run by Democrats with the stringent gun control laws.
If you put them in charge of it, what do you get?
You get peace bricks and people who are disarmed and unable to defend themselves.
Here's John in Northern Michigan.
John, hi, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
Well, I was kind of hoping to comment and hear your thoughts on what I've been hearing in the news a lot lately: the proverbial smartest man and the smartest person in the room is a confusing term to me.
And it seems to me that the smartest person in the room or an incredibly smart person can be good or evil.
And why does everybody automatically assume that the smartest person in the room is good and whatever they say or do is good and they just follow him or her blindly?
That's an excellent question.
Thank you.
Well, I think the root of that is that depending on who's doing the categorization here, the fact of the matter is that the smartest people in the room usually aren't the smartest people in the room.
Like Mrs. Clinton is nowhere near the smartest woman in the world.
And I don't think Obama's particularly smart or competent.
But the conventional wisdom is just the opposite.
Those two are the smartest.
And you're going to throw Clinton in there, Bill Clinton, too.
The liberals are smart, and you hayseeds are idiots, and that's just the way it is.
Here's Mike in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Hi, great.
Excuse me, great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
How are you?
Very good, sir.
Thank you very much.
Very good.
So I just wanted to follow up on your comment about the gluten-free food market.
You kind of limited it by saying that was only for people with celiac sprew disease.
And my wife actually has that disease, but I'm also a purchaser of gluten-free products because I myself am wheat-free.
So there was a very popular book that has been on the market for a couple of years now called Wheat Belly.
And after following the advice of the author, Dr. Davis, I've been looking for gluten-free options when I'm eating and purchasing food.
Do you feel better avoiding gluten?
You do?
I do.
Absolutely.
I think the biggest benefit that I see is that I'm not as hungry as I used to be.
So, you know, I used to eat a big breakfast, a couple bowls of cereal, go to work, and by 11 o'clock, I'd be dying for lunch.
Wait a minute.
What kind of cereal are you having, gluten-free?
This is like healthy cereal, or purportedly to be healthy cereal.
So, you know, special K with strawberries.
You know, the whole grain food is what is being promoted.
Special K is gluten-free?
No, it's not.
No, that's what I was eating.
So I stopped eating that.
I thought you said you were eating special K. You're not eating any cells.
No, no, no, no.
I am not eating any wheat.
Okay.
I'm avoiding wheat.
Well, so what's the cereal?
Well, instead of having cereal in the morning, I have an omelette or a.
Oh, instead of cereal.
I'm sorry.
Yes.
Okay.
So anyway, I've been doing this since December, and I probably have lost over 20 pounds.
And I'm doing the same amount of exercising as I was doing before.
Yeah.
And it's really seemed to level off my appetite quite a bit.
And, you know, clothes are starting to fit better, and things are progressing.
Doesn't that feel great when clothes start to feel better?
Absolutely.
I mean, it does.
When you fasten the waist on the slacks and it's not a tight grip, it's great.
I know that I know that feeling well.
I've experienced it a number of times.
Yeah, yeah.
So, anyway, I just wanted to throw that in there because it's not just the celiac people that are looking for gluten-free apples.
Oh, I know.
That was the point of the story: that the celiacs are one thing, but it's become now a health fad.
And the point of the story is that it's like anything else.
The story is in the UK Daily Mail, and it points out that people for the longest time didn't eat eggs because of cholesterol.
Turns out they're very good for you.
And the point of this story was that if you're going gluten-free, you may be encountering health problems.
And it was blaming celebrities for this.
When did what?
Oh, eggs became cool.
Last week, I saw something on eggs.
The egg is one of the most maligned, one of the most maligned foods out there that you can possibly imagine.
The whole dairy industry was under assault for a while as high cholesterol and all that.
But this story said that gluten is addictive.
It's like heroin and it makes you hungry.
You always want more.
They cite pizza as an example.
You can't just eat one slice because the gluten in there is like an addictive poison and just makes you overeat and overeat and overeat until you're full and you burst and so forth.
So anyway, if you're enjoying it, I have no problem whatsoever.
I'm totally hands-off.
You can eat whatever you want.
My problem begins is when you gluten-free people become an army and start demanding nobody else eat it, then when you become like the militant vegetarians and start addicting, when you become science in the public interest and start banning coconut oil from popcorn, you are going to lose me.
And that's, I find that food activists, and Bloomberg is one, mayor of New York.
You know, if he wants to run around and eat and drink the way he does, fine.
But he's trying to force everybody in that city to follow his dictates on this.
It's none of his business.
But he claims it is because his way will save the city money.
So how long is it going to be before we hear a slogan, live wheat-free and die or die?
Sorry, live wheat-free or die.
Let's go to the audio soundbites.
Grab 25 and 26.
This afternoon at the White House, President Obama got mad.
He got mad at a reporter's questions on Syria.
He had a joint press conference this afternoon with the president of the Republic of Korea, South Korea, obviously.
A man's name is Park Gun-Hei.
And during the QA, a reporter said, Mr. President, does the United States have a core national security interest in stopping the slaughter in Syria, or merely a strong moral desire to see the violence end?
And at what point does the cost of not intervening in a more direct way than you have done so far outweigh the cost of doing so?
I think there'd be severe costs in doing nothing.
That's why we're not doing nothing.
That's why we are actively invested in the process.
If what you're asking is, are there continuing re-evaluations about what we do, what actions we take in conjunction with other international partners to optimize the day when, or to hasten the day, when we can see a better situation in Syria?
We've been doing that all along and we'll continue to do that.
Right.
Okay, that's fine and dandy as far as it goes.
But then the president obviously thought that answer was a little mealy-mouthed.
So he continued.
You suggested, even in your question, a perceived crossing of a red line.
The operative word there, I guess, Stephen, is perceived.
And what I've said is that we have evidence that there has been the use of chemical weapons inside of Syria, but I don't make decisions based on perceived, and I can't organize international coalitions around perceived.
We've tried that in the past, by the way, and it didn't work out well.
But in the end, whether it's bin Laden or Gaddafi, if we say we're taking a position, I would think at this point the international community has a pretty good sense that we typically follow through on our commitments.
Man, what a smart guy.
I understood everything he was trying to say, didn't you?
And that's rare, folks, that I have been in the presence of such smartness and such brilliance.
I mean, he really, really, really handed it to Bush there.
You hear that?
I can't organize international coalitions around perceived.
We tried that in the past, by the way.
They didn't work out very well.
And this poor reporter, he just, at what point are we going to go in there and save people in Syria?
And Obama said, screw you, Bush messed up.
I'm not going to.
Next question.
Arlene, Chicago, Illinois.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi.
Hi, thank you, Rush.
I want to take you back to the day that we saw the funeral for our ambassador and our fallen heroes on television.
When I saw the president and Hillary shaking hands, my first thought was, what was that all about?
My second thought was, well, I'm surprised their hands didn't stick because of all the blood that they have on their hands.
You mean shaking hands of the family members of the deceased?
No, they shook hands in front of the family members at the funeral.
Oh.
You mean this was at Andrews Air Force Base with Hillary and Obama shook each other's hands after their memorial speeches.
That is exactly right.
And my second thought was, wow, I'm surprised their hands didn't stick with all the blood on them.
Well, why shouldn't they shake their hands?
No, they were shaking each other's hands.
I know.
Why shouldn't they do that?
Why shouldn't they do it?
My thought was, why didn't their hands stick when they have all that blood on them?
As far as I'm concerned, I hope this investigation will show the truth finally.
I hope for the health of all these people who are going to be testifying because I believe we were lied to again.
Yeah.
Well, let me share with you a concern that I've heard.
I don't know that I share it, but there are some who are questioning whether or not the testimony that will be given tomorrow should have essentially been leaked or provided or given in the previous days because that will then allow the Democrats prep time to dispute it or disqualify it or to discount it in one way or another.
I hadn't even thought of that because I'm assuming the testimony is truthful and factual.
And then I remembered it's Washington we're talking about where that may not matter.
But there are people who are very, very alarmed.
Maybe the Republicans got a little bit too confident here.
And the whistleblower, it wasn't the Republicans or the whistleblowers showed up on TV first and testified essentially there.
But there's no question that the Democrats on the committee have had time now to prep themselves for however they want to deal with this.
And believe me, the Democrats on these committees, they are going to circle the wagons around the President and Hillary.
Make no mistake about that.
One way or the other.
So we'll see how that all manifests itself.
But I don't know.
I hadn't, maybe I was remiss in not thinking of that, but there are people who've brought that to my intention.
Now, Hillary and Obama shaking each other's hands after their speeches.
That's easily understood.
Good job, Mr. President.
Good job, Hillary.
So they were acknowledging each other's terrific performance, the ceremony.
Yeah, save those for tomorrow.
Have the dingy hairy attempts to insult Ted Cruz and Ted Cruz simply not accepting it and not being cowed at all by the Senate Majority Leader.
And we'll get to those tomorrow.
And whatever happens between now and then, we'll have it for you.
And as an added bonus, we will have what you are to think about it as well.