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May 9, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 9, 2013, Thursday, Hour #3
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Talent on lawn from God.
And half my brain died behind my back just to make it fair.
Your guiding life through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, lying, alternative universes, everything upside down, and even the good times.
I'm Rush Limbaugh, and it's great to be with you.
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Ladies and gentlemen.
Ariel Castro.
The uh the perp in Cleveland and the kidnapping and did he did he he raped?
Yeah, he had to rape those girls.
His bail was just set at eight million dollars.
What do you think of that, Schnerdley?
That means he's got to come up with $800,000 to get.
You think they're making sure he stays there.
Eight million dollars bail for Ariel Castro.
By the way, the video maker has been denied bail.
The man by the name of Nakula Nakula, the maker of the ostensible anti-Mohammed video that nobody has ever seen.
That was posted on YouTube last July.
Is sitting in jail still on a bank fraud charge.
He's not even in the well, he's in jail because of the video, but they're not saying that.
And he's been denied bail.
Kid you not, but Ariel Castro, eight million dollars bail.
Do you think he'll come up with it?
Do you think somebody will come up with it for him?
You don't think the media'd rather have this guy out of jail walking around town and being able to be covered?
Wouldn't that guy walking around town making it?
Wouldn't it be a fascinating story covered as good?
It's gonna be a long time for this guy's trial.
They don't want to wait for that.
No, I'm not predicting that.
I'm just just raising a little question.
U.S. temperatures.
I mentioned this right at the top of the uh of the the end of the previous hour.
This is doubtless true.
I I don't know about you, folks.
We are in the middle of May, almost.
Just I know all of this is anecdotal, but this is this is true.
Uh I was in Kansas City a couple of weeks ago, and it was winter time.
Thirty degrees at night, fifty-five for the highs.
It was in May, late April.
Uh in much of the country, this is the coldest and the latest spring that people everywhere are experiencing.
Even here where we live, normally by now, May is one of the nicest months of the year here, and it's proving to be the case.
We have no humidity.
The summertime humidity is not here.
It usually shows up in April.
We don't have any humidity.
It's 82 out there, and it is delightful.
Some people think it's cold at 82 here because of no humidity.
It does make a huge difference.
So sp at night, well, for some people, I think it's delightful anyway, but at nighttime it is chilly for a lot of people here.
And this guy, Stephen Goddard at WordPress.com has calculated that the temperatures in America have dropped almost three degrees centigrade over just over the past year.
You know, there's so many inconvenient facts that are running up against the left every day.
It's just, it's just an absolute shame that they don't matter.
Like the gun control numbers.
I mean, this is really, really, I think, important.
Gun crime in America is down dramatically.
The American people don't know this.
The American people, If you just ask them in a survey, they'll tell you the gun crime has to be up.
And it's logical to understand why most people would think that.
If you watch the media, every schoolhouse shooting or movie theater shooting, it's covered for days and days, and the gun control debate that takes place on cable TV after that, and it's just routinely about we've got to get guns off the street.
There's so many damn guns out there, so much ammo out there, people are dying left and right, and we've got to do something about it.
When you do gun control bill, it's logical to assume that we got a gun problem that's just out of control.
The fact of the matter is, killings by gun are down 69% since 1993.
I don't know down 49%.
Regular old gun crime is down 69%.
I mean, that's dramatic.
And yet, I'm going to go back to it.
If I can find it here, the Christian Science Monitor today.
Yeah, here it is.
With gun violence down, is America arming against an imagined threat.
Now I'm not quite sure how they mean this.
The answer to the question is an excellent observation.
Americans are arming up against an imagined threat.
Now, the connection that's not made until the very end of this piece, and they have to go out and they talk to some special interest group leader, independent...
something or other is the name of the group.
And this guy points out that anybody stop to think maybe one of the reasons gun crime is down because gun ownership is way up.
That's an inescapable correlation.
Gun ownership is way up.
Gun sales are way up.
Gun crime is way down.
Concealed carry permits, way up.
Gun ownership, way up gun sales, way up concealed permit carry.
Concealed carry permit, way up gun crime, way down.
The media scratching is wait a minute, Americans are arming up against an imagined threat.
There's no reason for these people to be having all these guns.
There's no reason for these uh hicks and hazy to be buying all these guns.
There's no reason.
And they don't stop to think.
Now, wait a minute.
Gun crime is way down, and not just last year, and not just in the last three years, but since the mid-1990s, steady, dramatic decline in crimes committed with guns.
Because there are more guns in the hands of law-abiding people who would end up as victims were they not armed.
The places where gun crime is up are in gun-free zones, where the perpetrators, bad guys, know they're gonna be the only ones with the guns.
Why do you think they target a school or a movie theater?
They know that nobody is allowed to have a gun in these places.
So that's where they go.
What is it always without exception stops them?
Somebody else with a gun showing up firing at them.
Every time.
Conflict resolution doesn't stop them.
Shrieks.
People begging, please put the gun down.
Please don't shoot me.
Doesn't work.
Somebody showing up with another gun does every time.
That's what makes them stop.
And as we're learning now, the realization that there are more guns everywhere is resulting in dramatic decline in gun crime.
Now, the American people don't know that, but there's been two surveys this week prove it.
Same thing now with the temperature.
Although I I think there's an increasing number of people who now think that global warming, man-made anyway, is uh a made up hoax.
And if they don't think it's a hoax, they think something screwy about it, because it isn't getting warmer.
In fact, it's getting dramatically colder.
Three degree drop in one year.
Folks, the global warming nut cases are warning us about a one to one and a half degree rise in centigrade temperatures over 50 to 100 years and the devastation that that would cause.
And now we've got a three-degree centigrade drop in one year, the past year.
You surprised you haven't heard this?
Media not reporting this?
Are you surprised about that?
You see, if the facts don't fit the narrative, then the story gets gosnelled.
And if you don't know what gosnelled means, you just found out.
What's that exactly?
And the facts don't fit the narrative on guns and the facts on temperature.
Do not fit the narrative.
I want you to hear it, even though I have assured you it's true, and you know it.
The media is portraying Benghazi as nothing more than a failed and cheap Republican political trick to try to embarrass our great and beloved president.
No, this is the coldest spring since 1975.
Uh it is.
Not just this year.
This is the coldest spring in America since 1975.
And by the way, 1975, if you go back then, you'll find cover stories in Newsweek on a coming ice age and global cooling.
And then by 1980, they were all turned around and talking about Sweat City.
Anyway, here's a montage yesterday and last night of all kinds of different media people on Benghazi.
This is ridiculous.
This is a partisan witch hunt.
The political battle lines were clear.
This is political.
So much political energy bashing the administration.
Democrats say the Republicans are trying to score political points.
The partisan nature of the hearing it was pretty partisanly divided.
Passion through a partisan prison.
Partisan rhetoric is now become a partisan situation.
Partisan lines have clearly been drawn to the partisan Paul over the hearing.
Could the vast right wing conspiracy be back?
That was F. Chuck Todd.
So now it's the vast right-wing conspiracy.
And you also note there is never ever a left-wing partisan witch hunt or a partisan hearing or a partisan operation.
Never, never on the part of the Democrats.
Never.
Only the Republicans mount these things.
Evan Bye was on Fox News last night.
Brett Baer.
And uh it was talking about Hillary and her possible presidential bid in 2016.
It's largely a political spinning uh in an attempt to harm her for three years from now.
And there's just so much that's going to happen over the next three years, it's hard for me to believe that this will still have legs at that point in time, absent something more than we've seen to date.
This is a cheap partisan political effort, this Benghazi thing to get Hillary.
Four people dead.
Administration with no answers, no explanations, other than it was a video, and we didn't have time to go in there and save them.
And we have testimony under oath by people on the ground that all that is untrue.
And it's a partisan political effort.
So it's not just the Republicans who are being impugned, but Greg Hicks.
Every one of these witnesses that testified under oath.
Nothing more than political hacks, partisan political hacks out to get our beloved president.
Such a shame.
Back after this, folks.
Time to go back to the phones, and we go to Dexter, Michigan.
Hi, Tom, I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hi, Russ.
It's good to be here.
I want to jump back to a report you ran at the very beginning of the show about the uh short names having a beneficial effect on income.
I have a theory about this, but I'm wondering, did it say anything about last name?
Nope, not that I saw.
All it said was short first name.
In fact, that is the headline.
Short first names mean bigger paychecks, comma study says.
All right.
Because my my theory is just that they fit better on uh business cards.
And in my case, it fits better on novels.
Um first name, short last names.
I only have two syllables in my entire name.
Well, why would that make somebody pay you more?
Well, I think it it just makes things fit better.
It makes it easier to remember people's names because you don't have a lot of syllables in there.
Right.
So it it brings your name to the surface more quickly.
It certainly makes them bigger on you know, or more prominent on a business card.
In fact, if I put on my credentials, I have more letters after my name than I have in my name.
You have more letters after your w well what do you mean?
Well, I'm an architect, so you've you've got AIA, N C I R B, L E E D, all that stuff after your name, all the credentials.
I have more letters after than I've got in the name.
I see.
I see.
And on my books, you know, they can put my name right across the top, all the letters.
They don't have to break the name up into a first name, last name thing.
Some authors have really long names and they you know wrap around the cover.
Well, let's see.
Dan Brown sells a lot of books.
Tom Clancy, nice short name, two syllables.
Clancy says a lot of books.
Uh so you think there might be something to this.
There may be.
I think I think it it makes it easier for people to remember.
Even your name, which has more letters in it, still is Limbaugh, two syllables.
It's pretty easy.
Yeah, but people who are all the terrorists, and they've got these really long names with lots of syllables in them.
Right.
Even the uh Ariel lady or whatever's got three syllables and five letters.
That's a lot of syllables.
That is.
That is clutter.
That is a cluttered name, Ariel.
There's no question about it.
So I think those of us with short names, you know, are easier to remember.
Maybe we're just nicer people.
In my case, you really have a good boy.
You don't even need my last name for people to know who I am.
You've got yeah, you've gone completely to one name.
That's right.
And uh well, you you you may be honest with that folks.
If you are just joining us, you say, what the hell is this?
There is a story in the Los Angeles Times today.
The shorter your first name, the more you will earn on average.
And this is according to a study done by an online career site that's called The Ladder.
L A D D E Rs.
Or E R L the Ladders, L A D D E R S. The people at the Ladders when I did a study, and they found that every additional letter to a name after four letters c correlates to a thirty-six hundred dollar drop in annual salary.
Those who go by a shorter nickname also out earn counterparts who go by the corresponding full name.
So if your name is William, you should go by Bill.
You'll earn more than going by William.
And Debbie earns more than Deborah.
So forth and so on.
Now the the top five highest paid male names are, and I don't know how they know this.
I don't have the methodology here.
I just have the LA Times story.
Tom, Rob, Dale, Doug, and Wayne.
All of those are five letters or fewer.
Now, women break the pattern a bit.
The highest paid female names are Lynn, Melissa, Kathy, Dana, and Christine.
I do not know one actress.
Lynn.
Do you know an actress named Lynn?
Lynn Redgrave.
That's the that's that's that's dinosaur.
Uh uh Melissa.
Uh Kathy.
Uh Dana.
Kathy Bates.
She's not among the highest paid actresses.
Dana.
Uh let's see, Christine.
Christine Lottie, the only one I know.
But look at the top five most admired Americans.
Tom, Hanks.
Uh, Cruz.
But he's not one of the top five.
He was down there.
Sandra Bullock.
Maya Angelou, Merrill Streep.
There may be something to this, although I don't know.
As I say the methodology.
Wesley in Asheville, North Carolina.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, it's an honor to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
Absolutely.
Thank you.
Um, hey, I want to make a comparison uh with Benghazi.
An American consulate under attack.
Four Americans die.
The president is MIA for seven hours.
To me, that's a big story.
Now let's go back to 2001.
I'll uh I'll try to recall the story best I can.
During the 9-11 attacks, President George Bush was uh reading a book or telling the story to elementary school children.
Now, when he initially found out about the attacks, it was reported that supposedly he sat in that classroom for an additional seven minutes before he took action.
And the media rush had a field day with it.
They went crazy over it.
Lack of leadership, deer, you know, caught in the headlights.
Wesley, it's not even it's I mean, it's even worse than that.
Yeah, Bush sat there continuing to read to the kids because he didn't want the kids to know that a massive emergency had happened.
That's right.
But then he got aboard Air Force One and didn't come back to Washington.
They called him a coward.
Snodley and I were talking about that.
That's exactly right.
And and Peter Jennings, I'll never forget Peter Jennings of ABC News, after inferring, implying that Bush is a coward for staying aboard Air Force One and not landing in Washington, then said some presidents are just better at this kind of thing than others.
And he was talking about Bill Clinton.
But we knew where Bush was every moment.
9-11.
And he was ripped to shreds for it.
A Huffing and Puffington Post says that Benghazi reveals incompetent, but no cover up.
Yes, it was incompetent.
The White House, the regime is incompetent, but that's all there was to it.
Uh ladies and gentlemen, in in just a moment, I I want to tell you what the most important thing is about Benghazi, so that you'll have no doubt about it.
By the way, can I read to you a tweet from the White House?
Unless you are a Native American, you came from someplace else.
Share your family's story with us.
The White House is making a big push for the gang of eight immigration bill.
And the White House point is you're no different than the people who were here illegally.
You, your family, your your descendants, your pr your your your ancestry.
They were here and they're they were illegal too one time.
The only way, the only way that you didn't come here from someplace else is if you are an Indian.
You're a Native American.
This is the new mobilizing tactic that the regime is using to support the gang of eight amnesty bill.
You got it?
You're no different than any of these eleven million people who are here illegally.
You were here illegally at one time, or your parents were, or your grandparents to me.
Nobody except the Native Americans was really ever here.
Everybody else came from someplace else.
Well, I know we came to Ellis Island processed that doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
What what matters is that you came from someplace else.
That this is not your country.
Somewhere else is your country.
The only people whose this country really is is the Native Americans.
And so I know the Native Americans migrated here too.
Of course they did.
But we not nobody knows that, and we're not going to take time to teach it.
The White House does not interest in the fact that the Indians came here from somewhere else.
In fact, the scientific consensus, I love saying that in this case, the scientific consensus has long held that the Indians came here from Asia over the Bering Straits.
And they killed the buffalo.
They killed a well, I don't want to even, but unless you're a Native American, you came from someplace else.
And you're supposed to share your family story with the White House at their website.
It's Whitehouse.gov.
Yep, yep.
And so, you see, millions and millions and millions of Americans were never Americans.
They were something else first.
Then they came here.
Just like these 11 million.
You're no different than them.
The difference is nobody told you you were committing a crime.
Nobody told you you were illegal.
Nobody told you you couldn't be here.
Nobody threatened to send you back, blah, blah, blah.
That's what they're trying to convey at the White House as they promote the gang of eight.
Now, the one thing to learn about Benghazi.
I'm gonna tell you what it is.
I, L. Rushbow, am going to tell you the most important thing about Benghazi is to get it behind us.
And make Hillary Clinton the first female president of this country.
That's the most important thing.
I know, folks, I know on her watch, an American ambassador and three others were murdered.
And I know that Hillary's judgment regarding security for these people was fatally flawed.
And I know that it was unforgivable, a dereliction of duty not to do everything possible to save these people once the attack began.
And it was wrong to tell multiple groups who wanted to save these people to stand down twice, no matter who did it.
And it was wrong not to fight for the attempt to save them.
And that, by the way, was due to Hillary's negligence and her poor judgment in the first place.
And I know it was deplorable and perhaps legally actionable to lie about a video being responsible for what was known to be a sophisticated coordinated terror attack.
The video was not a factor.
I know that.
I grant you all of that.
Okay.
But that's not what's important.
It is imperative for the good of this nation and for the good of her gender, for the advancement of her career and the satisfaction of the media that Hillary Clinton be the next president.
That's what is important about Benghazi.
That is what matters about Benghazi.
All this other stuff is a distraction.
All this other stuff is a partisan political trick to hurt Mrs. Clinton and get in the way of her destiny and what is hers.
All that other stuff is now water under the bridge.
All that other stuff, all the facts is collateral damage.
All of that small potatoes in the big scheme of things.
All of that doesn't matter.
We are talking about the woman who Bill Clinton cheated on who knows however many times through the years.
And the fact of the matter is she is owed.
We owe it to her.
Forget the fact that she screwed up health care and nearly cost her husband a second term.
Forget Whitewater, forget the Rose Law Firm phone records, forget Cattlegate, forget Travelgate.
Forget that she accomplished nothing as a carpet bagging senator.
Forget that she ran a lousy campaign against Obama.
She stubbornly refused to give a damn about caucus states.
Forget the fact that she accomplished nothing as Secretary of State beyond making a fool of herself with that ridiculous Russian reset button.
And then her gross negligence that led to what happened in Benghazi.
forget that she lied about the whole thing.
This Benghazi is about Hillary Clinton becoming president.
It's not about you.
It isn't about me.
It isn't about the country.
And it isn't about what happened in Benghazi.
It's about making sure that what happened there is quickly forgotten and mischaracterized as a cheap political stunt aimed at denying Hillary and this country what she is owed.
This is about Hillary Clinton.
Pure and simple.
And a little bit in an ancillary way it's all also about Barack Obama.
But from the standpoint of the drive-by media.
This is about making sure that nothing impedes Mrs. Clinton's road to the White House.
That's all you have to know about Benghazi.
You know, folks, incompetence is used often by the Democrats to cover up a cover-up.
Do you remember Sandy Burglar?
Sandy Burglar stole Tom's secret documents from the National Archives in his pants.
Put them in his pants and in his socks.
And he walked out of there with them.
The scandal went away when a Democrat said, you know, Sandy's so disorganized.
They had Clinton on it.
Yeah, I remember that guy.
I'd walk in that guy's office, I swear I couldn't even see the top of the desk.
He had so much stuff up there, had so much garbage and clutter in there.
He's just the greatest guy.
Sandy Burglar has one of my longtime friends, but man, this guy is so disorganized.
I'm sure he walked out of there, and he didn't even know.
He put no documents in his socks.
I'm sure he didn't even know.
He wouldn't intended to do that on purpose.
The guy just a putting.
They use this incompetent law.
Tim Geitner and uh Charlie Wrangle.
Tax cheats.
Come on, Limbaugh, you know that tax jeez.
They didn't understand that tax program.
Uh turbo tax Charlie.
I mean, come on, he's just so disorganized.
That guy spent all of his time down there, Dominican Republic on the beach.
He didn't know what was going on.
No, everybody's people defraud anybody.
All the Democrat tax cheats that I can remember have used the uh incompetent or disorganized.
When, hey, it wasn't my fault, I'm incompetent is offered as a cover, folks.
You know the actual scandal is really awful.
You can make a book on it.
Now, Glenn Reynolds posted something his website, Instapundit.
You know, Terry McCulliff running for the governorship of Virginia against Ken Cuccinelli.
And of course, it's the Democrats who say the Republicans have war on women.
Yeah, we just hate women.
These Republicans, you know, they're women barefoot and pregnant, keep them in the kitchen, don't give them birth control, whatever.
Terry McCauliff has a woman problem.
National Journal.
Democrat Terry McCaulliff has drawn a portrait of his marriage.
He had a in a book.
He talked about the time that he ditched his wife Dorothy while she was in labor, giving birth to one of their kids in the hospital.
He walked in, and the story is that she said, Terry, you go ahead.
I know you've got a meeting with the Washington Post reporter, you got a party to go to, go.
I don't want you to be here, Terry.
So he left his wife about to give birth to go to a political party.
He wrote about that.
There's another one, though.
The more problematic anecdote is one that involved the birth of another baby, in this case a newborn son, whom McCauliff left in the car with his wife Dorothy on the way home from the hospital while he spent 15 minutes at a fundraiser.
On the way home with the newborn, he stopped off and left Dorothy in the car with the baby while he went in to attend the fundraiser.
He writes that she was in tears.
Now, how are women going to react to this?
I can tell you, it isn't going to be a big deal.
Why would it be?
It's not going to be a big deal to women.
Democrats love women.
Whatever women want, the Democrats will let them have.
It's not going to hurt him.
Reality doesn't apply.
There is no conventional reality that applies to Democrats, folks.
It just doesn't happen.
Here's Cindy in my hometown, Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
Hi, Cindy.
I had a little bit of time.
I wanted to get to you.
How are you?
Hi, Rush.
Uh megaspace heater dittoes in May.
Thank you very much.
Appreciate that.
Hey, um I you've made this point, but I was hoping to um make it to, you know, it's obvious that we've proven that uh the whole video thing about Benghazi was a lie.
So why can't the Republicans just stipulate everything that they say with that?
Like the Dems do with uh gay marriage, like uh, you know, the Americans are for gay marriage, Americans are for abortion, all this kind of stuff.
And why can't we stipulate and say, well, of course the video was a lie.
It's been proven to be a lie.
So what are we left with?
We're left with either they chose not to act, or they're not.
You know what?
I'll tell you the answer.
The Republicans still make the mistake of thinking the facts will carry the day.
They don't think the facts need to be flavored or positioned or spunk, just the facts alone will carry the day.
They don't anymore.
Somebody remind me to make a very important observation about it's just political.
The Republicans are just doing this for politics.
Somebody remind me there's a major, major point that has to be made about that.
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