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June 11, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 11, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hey, Snerdley.
Hey, Snerdley.
You would not believe a number of emails, texts, and so forth that I got yesterday from people.
In our rush, yesterday's show was one of the best you've done in a long time.
I said, I cannot believe that.
I mean, I appreciate it.
Don't misunderstand, but man, if you people knew what was going on here yesterday, you would.
Anyway, can you believe that?
I mentioned it to my brother.
He said, you know, you just can't screw up.
Your instincts are just so finely tuned that no matter what your mind is doing, no matter where you are, you can't screw up.
Right?
Anyway, folks, it's wonderful to have you back here with us.
Great to be with you, El Rushbo, doing what I was born to do.
Host this program behind the Golden EIB microphone.
Great to have you.
As always, the telephone number, if you want to appear on the program, 800-282-2882, the email address, ilrushbow at eibnet.com.
Big question.
Big question.
Where is Edward Snowden?
Wouldn't it be a kick if the New England Patriots signed the guy along with Tim Tebow?
Anyway, I don't know where he is.
They have no idea where he is.
And the long knives are out now.
This guy is a traitor.
If you know, it's amazing how much he looks like Jay Carney.
Anyway, folks, non-scandal news.
Unless you consider Obamacare a scandal, which I do, the Ohio Department of Insurance has announced Obamacare is going to drive up health insurance premiums by 88%.
This is just one state.
This is the story that we're hearing no matter where.
Recent enlightenment over insurance premiums is being discovered.
88% increase in Ohio because of Obamacare.
And how much did Obama win Ohio by again?
You know, it's a pity that news like this didn't come out before the election.
This was known.
Every aspect of Obamacare was known prior to the election.
What would have happened in Ohio if, and no, folks, look, don't misunderstand here.
I'm not crying over spilt milk.
It's ongoing education effort here.
But can you imagine what might have happened had there been news in the drive-by media that health insurance premiums are going to go up 88% if that news had hit last October?
I don't know.
Might not have mattered.
Low information voters aren't going to be buying health insurance.
They don't think they're going to be buying it, which is the key.
So it might not have mattered in any way.
But this is happening all over the country with premiums.
They're calling it rate shock.
But it isn't shocking to anyone who's been paying attention.
Not shocking when you come to realize just how expensive free health care really is.
Anyway, it's more like rate rape.
Insurance rate rate.
Oh, I told Mike sound bites, but I'm going to change my mind here.
I need Al Joker.
Grab audio soundbite number 13.
Obama signed it into law, whatever he did.
Now, the over-the-counter abortion pill, free to any, well, not free, but available to anybody without a prescription.
It's now the law of the land.
There's no stopping it, turning it back.
You don't have to be 17 now.
You can walk in to any pharmacy, any drugstore, and get an abortion pill, the morning after pill.
What?
No, it's totally believable.
It's totally believable.
But here's, see, this is, how long has this been the news?
How long have we known that this was coming?
In fact, how many of you were probably, well, wait a minute, hasn't that already happened?
Because you're up to speed and you listen here, but it was made official by presidential directive.
So let's go to the Today Show this morning.
The news anchorette, Natalie Morales, speaking with the weatherman, Al Joker, about the news that the morning after pill will be available over the counter to people of any age.
The Infobabe said now it'll be available to all ages without a prescription.
Critics, a lot of people questioning if this means it's open to anyone at any age.
What else could it mean?
This is an infobabe on the today show.
Can I read you this question again?
Listen, here's the news.
The news is that the morning after pill is available to all ages without a prescription.
That is the news.
Now it'll be available to all ages without a prescription.
Critics, a lot of people question if this means it's open to anyone at any age.
What in the world does people of any age mean?
Anyway, she's asked this Al Joker, and this is what Al Joker said.
A little disturbing.
I've got a 14-year-old daughter, and I'm not comfortable with the idea that she could just go and buy this.
It goes to obviously other issues as well, but I think it kind of almost in a way removes the parent from part of the process.
I swear, you know, you just want to give up.
You just, this is the Weatherman Today Show.
Where's he been?
Where's his head?
Is his head someplace that the sun doesn't shine?
Where has he been?
How is this news to him?
This is, this is, I don't know, I just a little disturbing.
It's just very, very disturbing.
I've got a 14-year-old daughter.
I'm not comfortable with the idea.
She can just go and buy this.
It goes to obviously other issues as well, but I think almost in a way it removes the parent from part of the process.
Yeah, Al.
You ever heard of the Democrat Party?
You ever heard of Head Start?
You ever heard of home, of daycare?
Have you ever heard of, I mean, this is just next, the latest step in removing the parent from the.
It's a good question.
When can we go get steroids over the counter?
Well, it's steroids in a way.
It is hormonal, but still, we can't do it.
Speaking of steroids and stuff, did you hear what happened to Chad Ocho Cenco today?
Well, we got the soundbite for this too, but I got to find it here.
Hang on just a second.
Let me bang with me here.
I didn't understand his audience is right.
Let me find the soundbite.
Let's see.
I know I saw it in here.
Where the heck is it?
I'm sorry, folks, I can't keep track of the numbers and nobody's, where is it?
Here it is.
Looks like it's number 18.
Chad Ocho Cenko, It was yesterday in Fort Lauderdale, Broward County.
Chad Ochosinki has been in trouble ever since he left the New England Patriots.
He went to Miami Dolphins.
He got cut.
He got married.
And then a few short days after was in a dispute over beating up his wife, and they got divorced.
And he's been issued various court orders to stay away from her, to shape up, ship out, any number of things.
Yesterday, he was in court where he was sentenced to 30 days in jail for a probation violation in a domestic violence case.
And the ruling, as originally announced by the judge, was favorable, no jail time.
And Chad Ochosinko then slapped his lawyer on the butt, like football players do on the field, say, way to go, dude, way to go.
And the judge saw it and didn't like it.
And then the courtroom started laughing.
And the judge said, You find this funny, Mr. Ochosinko?
And she ended up sending him to jail because he mocked the court.
Here's how it sounded.
He's an excellent attorney.
He did a great job of you, sir.
Do you have any questions about Mr. Swift?
This isn't a joke.
I didn't do it.
That's a joke.
Everybody in the courtroom was laughing.
I'm not accepting these plea negotiations.
That was the judge, Kathleen McHugh.
All he had, he slapped his lawyer on the butt after beating the rap, meaning no jail time.
And then the courtroom started laughing, and the judge said, I'm not putting up with this.
This isn't funny.
And she said, I'm not accepting the plea negotiations.
And now he's got 30 days in jail.
It is, well, it's harsh in what realm?
No, no, no, no, no.
Not come on.
Where is our culture going?
Courtrooms are not sound stages.
Courtrooms are not locker rooms.
There has to be a modicum of respect shown.
And this guy has had, well, I don't know what him.
Snurdly said, obviously, the guy's an idiot.
I don't know that he's an idiot.
And in the way you mean it, I just doesn't matter if he can't help it.
He can't help it.
It's not an excuse.
Anyway, the judge felt you just don't play around with this kind of stuff.
You know, hug the lawyer, say, thanks, man, slap on the button, the courtroom starts laughing.
The judge was obviously not pleased with this in the first place.
Why, if, if, if Chad would have just said, Judge, judge, judge, I was just trying to show solidarity with Gaze here.
That's all I was.
He might have been able to beat in the rep, but no, he didn't.
He wasn't thinking on his feet fast enough.
If he would have just, no, no, judge, judges, I'm just trying to show the butt slap, just solidarity with gaze.
And they know what I'm talking about, Judge.
And it would have been tough for the judge to throw out the plea agreement, but she did.
I got an email that I want to read to you.
Dear Rush, this is from a subscriber at Rush24-7, the RushLimbaw.com website.
Dear Rush, I'm at a point where I'm torn as to what to do.
Where this country stands, there's little point in listening to your show and subscribing to your webpage until maybe the 2014 elections, if we get Senate.
The reason for this is that you indicate we can't make a difference in what's happening in this country until that time.
You say we can't impeach Obama, so to me, that means we can't stop him.
Without your help, we don't have any impact on Congress.
There are only a handful of Republicans with the onions to speak up.
So basically, we are without a meaningful voice in the country as Obama takes us down to the point of no return, even now.
Rubio said that in his amnesty bill, legalization is now first, and then securing the border is later.
That's in complete contrast to his earlier written-in-stone position.
That is, I have to say that he said that in an interview with the Spanish language network, and that bothered me.
That just disappointed me.
Am I right?
Rubio has always said security first, nothing else.
He'll pull out of the bill.
So he told an Hispanic-speaking audience that legalization has to come first and then border security.
Anyway, the email writer observes that, as opposed to being resigned to our country's demise, it's time to grab the pitchforks that Obama referenced.
Take America back starting with Washington.
The election's 15 months away.
And us taking a sit-back and wait attitude that's been portrayed on your show isn't an option.
Have I conveyed?
I'm asking, I'm not being rhetorical.
I'm asking, seriously, have I conveyed unwittingly here that the only thing we can do is sit back and wait for the elections of 2014?
No, seriously, if anybody has gotten that impression, then try to disabuse yourself of the notion because it isn't true.
I know what this guy's reacting to.
We had a call, first call of the day yesterday, somebody who wanted to impeach Obama as a matter of principle.
The hell with where it ends up doesn't matter.
The idea that it will succeed is irrelevant.
The idea that it would fail, irrelevant.
We have to do it.
We have to plant the flag.
This is who we are.
We're not putting up with this.
And I answered him within a political framework and said it would be disastrous.
And I made the point, once again, I reiterated to him my belief that there is nothing that's going to happen between now and 2016 that is going to result in Barack Obama leaving office unless he quits.
And that, I don't mean for that to depress anybody.
I don't mean for that to distress anybody and send you off to the Netherlands until the midterm elections.
That's not the point.
I could be wrong.
I'm simply telling you what I honestly believe.
But just because, look, I've offered an alternative, just because, in fact, my alternative makes more sense in going after Obama.
Obama's one guy.
He wouldn't be succeeding in all this without a political party at his beck and call.
Barack Obama's the Democrat part of the Democrat Party doing all this.
We've got soundbite from Charlie Range, all kinds of, you know, we've got a pollout from Pew, Washington Post.
Guess what?
All these Democrats love all the spying.
Democrats, by a huge number, gets into 70%, even more, maybe even more, approve of everything the NSA is doing.
They approve of everything PRISM is doing.
They approve of all the spying, all the hoovering, all the information.
They approve of all of it because their guy is doing it.
When Bush was doing it, they hate it.
It's exactly what I told you yesterday in reverse.
It matters who's doing this stuff.
The ideology of the person doing it matters.
Well, that's what people on the left think, too.
They happen to think Obama is the end of the world in a great way.
He's it.
There's nothing better.
Obama is the Messiah.
He still has that affection, or people still have that kind of affection for him.
So they cannot, and this is part of the Limbaugh theorem.
His supporters simply are incapable of attaching negative motives to him.
Just, it's not going to happen, which is my point.
They're wedded to Obama for a host of reasons, ideological loyalty, race, hatred of conservatism.
They are going to support anything that denies us any kind of a real or perceived victory.
I have to take a break, but I'll come back and finish this here after miss.
Don't go away.
Welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Maybe I am performing a service.
If you are out there.
Folks, let me tell you something.
I try not to share a whole lot of personal stuff with you because I don't, you know, this is, I feel like they'd be taking advantage of you, but I'm just going to tell you something.
I am depressed every day.
I'm just like you are over what's happening in this country.
I'm depressed at what seems to be a futility in stopping this, getting people to care about it, getting people to see it for what it is.
I'm just like you.
Economics here don't really matter.
I mean, some people say, you know what, why do you still, you could be on the beach.
I mean, you could be on vacation every week.
25 years, nothing left to prove.
What are you doing?
Well, I happen to love this.
I mean, this is what I do.
It's what I love doing.
It isn't work.
But I'm just like you.
I'm at my wit's end over this.
I mean, in one sense, imagine you're me.
I've had a microphone for 25 years, and still this stuff has happened.
So I'm not.
I've got to take another break here.
Rather than start another thought, let me hold that one and pick it up when we get back.
Hey, we're back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh and the EIB network.
Another exciting big week of broadcast excellence.
So I'm in the same boat that you're in.
It's entirely frustrating.
The futility is – well, I don't – I fight the futility.
That's, I mean, it's there.
But, folks, I'm just as disturbed as you are.
It's hard to say what's the most disturbing about all this.
The ignorance of so many Americans, the apathy of so many Americans, The desire of a major American political party to basically turn this country inside out and upside down.
The lack of any pushback on that from our party in Washington.
Now, you add to that, I know people are still clinging to some dream that Obama can somehow be sent packing out of office, or that the media is going to somehow turn and realize what's happening and start paying attention to all these scandals, holding truth to power, speaking truth to power, and holding Obama up.
I just don't see any of that happening.
And when it comes to impeachment, it's futile.
The Democrats would absolutely love that.
It would be disastrous, especially if it's done for show.
That's one of those things.
You've heard the old adage, if you're going to take the king out, you better not miss.
You better do it or you're finished.
And impeachment for show, impeachment as a means of education, impeachment as an instrument of informing.
That's the wrong reason to do it.
And it's not, folks, it's not even in the cards.
It's not even on the table.
But there are all kinds of things that we can do besides impeachment, which would be shooting ourselves in the foot.
Obama isn't up for reelection.
The next phase of this is that the Democrats have to be thrown out of office.
There are two things that we have to do, or that we have to at least spend all of our time trying to do in whatever creative ways we can.
And they're both going to be really tough.
We have to stop amnesty, and we have to hold the House, at the very least.
If we lose the House, then the Democrats have their one-party rule, and there really is nothing stopping them other than some unforeseen event that forces the country to turn totally against them.
And those are the kind of things you can't sit around and wait on, and you can't force those kinds of things to happen.
That's just fate, nature taking its course.
But amnesty, you've seen what's happened to California.
We've been all through this.
We just have to keep opposing it.
There are all kinds of people.
I talk about freedom works constantly on this program.
The grassroots Tea Party group, they are working as best they can to get proper people elected and the wrong people defeated in the electoral process, which is where a lot of people think that the remedy for all of this is, is at the ballot box.
Well, I know how discouraging all of this can be, but I don't want you to think I'm sitting here ambivalent or even uncaring about it.
It is a heavy weight on me every day.
The country is up for grabs here.
I don't want to get too in-depth about how all this makes me feel, but I'm telling you, I'm in the same boat with you.
I am not at all above it, feeling unaffected by it.
It matters too much to me.
So we do what we can.
The 2014 elections are crucial.
Stopping amnesty.
And I think amnesty can be stopped still, or I wouldn't be wasting breath on it.
And I think that we can hold the House in 2014.
Or I wouldn't be wasting breath on that.
That's not to say that the news each and every day isn't depressing.
You've got to keep in mind the news is designed to depress you.
It isn't news.
You're tuning into the Democrat Party agenda every day.
You're asking Obama.
When you're asking the media to stop doing what they're doing, you're asking Obama to all of a sudden forget he's a Democrat and become one of us.
It isn't going to happen.
You're never, ever going to be satisfied if you're waiting for the media to, quote, see the truth and start reporting it because they don't do that.
The media is just a huge branch office of the Democrat Party.
Here from the Washington Post, most Americans back the NSA tracking phone records and prioritized probes over privacy.
A large majority, large majority of Americans say the federal government should focus on investigating possible terrorist threats, even if personal privacy is compromised.
Most support the blanket tracking of telephone records in an effort to uncover terrorist activity, according to a new Washington Post Pew Research Center poll.
The numbers are 56 to 41.
56% support the government doing whatever, whenever, however.
41% oppose it.
45% of all Americans say the government should be able to go further than it is, saying that it should be able to monitor everybody's online activity if doing so would prevent terror attacks.
52% say that no such broad-based monitoring should occur.
Now, did we see polls like this from the media even after 9-11, 2001 or after other terror attacks?
I don't know.
Maybe we did, but I don't remember them.
But all of a sudden now, in the midst of all of these scandals, PRISM, Verizon, all of this stuff, now we're getting polling data that shows a vast majority support it and not only support it, but want more of it.
More Americans back government tracking than they did in 2006 when word of this first came out.
Even though we've been told the president has told us the war on terror is over, that the Washington Post claims that it's because Obama being president, with a Democrat president at the helm instead of a Republican, partisan views have turned around significantly.
And the Democrat turnaround, this is hilarious, for instance, from the article.
Compared with a 2002 Pew Poll, Democrats are now 12 percentage points more likely to support the government's monitoring of all emails and other online activity if officials say that it might help prevent terror attacks.
So the Democrats, if the government says they've got to do it, it's fine with us.
If our government tells us that they've got to sweep every bit of online day-to-day conflicts, fine with us.
Apparently, the only right to privacy Democrats now believe in is the right to privacy that allows for universal abortions and over-the-counter morning after abortion pills for everybody.
But the important difference to bear in mind here is that we now know that Obama is targeting Americans and we're getting these polling results.
It would be one thing These polls would make sense if the American people were being told that all of this data mining were focusing on foreigners and al-Qaeda and external threats, but we're not being told that.
We're being told bluntly with no attempt to hide it that it is Americans data which is being mined.
It is Americans who are being targeted, which Bush never did.
But it looks like the Democrats are fine with that, according to this poll in the Washington Post.
As long as Obama's targeting the right Americans, like those dangerous Tea Party people, then everything's fine with these Democrats.
Just amazing.
That's the Washington Post version of the poll.
I've got the Pew Research Center version of the poll in this next story.
Majority views the NSA phone tracking as acceptable anti-terror tactic.
But it breaks down along party lines.
The Democrats, vast majority, all for it.
Doesn't matter.
Doesn't matter what the details are.
If it's the Obama administration doing it, then they're all in.
Now, there's another story here from Politico.
And it's something that we touched on last week.
Here's the headline of the story.
President Obama welcomes the plot twist.
Obama welcomes all of this news on Edward Snowden.
President Obama needed a plot twist badly.
So enter Edward Snowden, 29-year-old contractor who says that he leaked the documents on the National Security Agency's snooping activities has becoming, or has become a gripping story, stealing the show from the spying program itself.
Exactly.
Which is why I said yesterday, the guy is insignificant.
Who he is, where he is, how old he is, everything about him, aside from it being interesting, he is irrelevant.
We are being spied on and monitored at an unprecedented level.
It has never happened.
Sweeping levels, multiple programs.
That should be the focus.
And Obama knows it.
But since there's a guy to focus on now, like in a spy novel, Edward Snowden, Obama is ecstatic that this guy's story has surfaced because it's got everybody's attention diverted.
And now the media is fixated on new questions about Snowden and why he did it.
His background, the decisions, like the one to go to Hong Kong, where he is.
It is a reprieve for Obama.
If you think back, Obama was taking some hits in the press, even from Democrats, for running a program, building on a program that everybody hated supposedly when Bush was administering it.
But now Snowden surfaces and takes Obama off the hook, or at least the focus away from Obama.
The Prism story, it's a little bit of a distraction.
And you know how I know that, or you know why I think that?
Because of how eager the media is to cover it.
How happy the media is to cover it.
Because one thing I know, the media is never, and this is going to depress you.
I know this is going to make you throw up your hands and say, well, what are we doing this for, Rush?
What are we doing?
The media is never going to do anything that will result in real harm to Obama.
It isn't going to happen.
No matter what.
No matter what.
It isn't going to happen.
There isn't anything.
I can't think of a thing within the realm of reality that could happen that would make the media turn on Obama.
So therefore, when they focus on Prism, it's because they think focusing on Prism helps him.
And the reason focusing on Prism helps him is because it ignores the other NSA scandals.
It ignores the IRS scandal.
It ignores the DOJ scandal.
It once again puts Benghazi off the other side.
And it also distracts attention away from immigration and amnesty, all of which are far more damning.
I got to take a break.
I just saw the clock.
Jeez, don't go away, folks.
Okay, we're going to start on the phones in Hillsboro, Ohio.
This is Josh.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network.
Great to have you.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, how are you today?
I'm pretty good, actually.
All things considered, doing well.
Absolutely.
Well, hey, I thought we'd change directions just a little bit and talk about something a little more exciting than all this junk that's going on.
Wanted to see what your thoughts were on Apple's big announcements yesterday with OS X Mavericks and iOS 7 and all some of the security features, even like the activation lock that they have put in now in light of all the other stuff that's going on.
Well, let me ask you, before I answer the question, how much do you know about it?
How much do I know about it?
Have you read a lot of blogs?
Do you have, have you seen any of the betas, any of the software that was released?
I haven't seen any of the betas.
It's all from what I watched yesterday, live streaming, plus what I've read on some of the blogs about it that came out last night and this morning.
Yeah.
Well, you know, I'm running both betas.
I'm running a beta of the new iOS 7, and I installed the beta of Mavericks on my laptop last night.
And they're first-generation betas, and they're filled with bugs and a number of things.
And I'm still wading through it all.
iOS 7 is a massive change.
It is, I think for certain iPhone customers, iOS 7 is going to cause people to throw their hands up in frustration.
Even though the operation is the same, it looks so much different.
Some of the new features are, I love them.
I love every new feature.
I love it.
I don't want to be misunderstood here.
But I know some people that barely know how to turn the thing on and get lost after that.
And they are going to just be pulling their hair out over this.
And they're not the majority of users by any stretch of the imagination.
When it comes to iOS 7, some of the so-called flat design, I understand why they're doing it.
I think some of the home screen icons are a little funky and look a little toyish.
But I think, I don't think this is what this is going to end up being.
This is just the first beta.
And I think this is the reason there are betas.
The developers play around with it, find out how tough it's going to be to make their apps work with it.
Feedback is be forthcoming.
But overall, the innovation, the level of excitement, Apple having to show massive steps forward because of public demand, media demand, I think they've done that.
And they have done, as I say, detailing them here because there's an NDA, but some of the features are just fabulous.
I'm a, as you know, I'm a fanboy.
And I think it's all good.
I think you're going to like it, those of you into it.
No, no, no.
The new Mac Pro is state of the arts.
The new Mac Pro is, I cannot wait to get my hands on a couple of those babies.
Whoa.
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