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June 21, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 21, 2013, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I bet you thought today'd never get here, folks.
I bet you just thought that noon on Friday Eastern Time wouldn't not get here, but here it is.
And here we are, El Rushball, the Limbaugh Institute, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, all together on Friday.
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So I'm getting ready for the program today.
I'm reading a New York Post, and they found the cause of death for James Gandolfini.
It was four shots of rum, two piña coladas, and two beers, along with two orders of fried king prawns and a large portion of foie gras.
That's, I'm reading the New York Post and the headline, Soprano star Gandalfini guzzled at least eight drinks during final meal.
And the story goes into great detail about what Gandolfini ate three hours before his heart attack, heart attack, with the clear implication that his dinner killed him.
What he had for dinner killed him.
And it fits right in line with all of the stuff that you've heard over the years about what you shouldn't eat.
So I fully expect the death certificate will mention the cause of death as eight adult beverages, two orders of fried king prawns, and a large portion of foie gras.
Now as we had a heart attack, the autopsy has confirmed a massive heart attack.
Snerdley's in there on his head yet because he's a vegan.
And he's entirely believable that meal could have been what led to Gandalfini's death.
Caused it.
Not led to, caused it.
Well, I thought, let me tell you something.
I'll bet you a thousand people could go eat that exact meal tonight and survive it.
What do you think of that?
How many people ate adult beverages?
What do you mean at times?
Well, one day it'll catch up.
Can't do it every night.
Don't know that he did it every night.
That's not in the story.
That's just how it begins.
Gandalfini guzzled four shots of rum, struggled with Boo's addiction in his final weeks.
I mean, this is a this is a really this is a mean story.
I didn't know Gandolfini.
I met James Gandalfini one time.
It was at our annual cigar dinner.
The Sopranos people were on the cover of an issue in that year, and Marvin Shankin invited, and Dominic Chianese was there.
And Vincent Curatola, who played Johnny Sack, was there.
And Paulie Walnuts was there.
And Gandalfini was there.
And I thought Gandalfini was shy.
He was really withdrawn and shy, or laid back, I should say.
But he did make some remarks during the night.
And he, and I understand from people that know him that this was pretty common.
He stood up and he thanked whoever and whatever for the recognition that was being handed out that night.
And then he asked everybody to remember that while we were all decked out in tuxedos and having a grand time, even though it was for charity, to remember that there were a whole lot of less fortunate and more unfortunate people out there.
And he said, let's not forget them ever.
And everybody that I've spoken to that knows the guy said that he was, well, not obsessed with that, but that was something that he was consciously aware of.
He heard the story as he's just an average guy from the bowels of New Jersey who made it late in life, by the way, as an actor.
And he just always wanted to be focused on the less fortunate.
And he always was.
And I thought he was as nice as he could be.
There was nothing standoffish or aloof about him.
And I just read this New York Post story today, and it really is brutal.
Soprano star James Gandalfini struggled with Boo's addiction in his final weeks, scarfed down a decadent final meal that included eight alcoholic drinks.
Comma, the post has learned.
Whoa, eight alcoholic drinks.
Whoever heard of anybody doing that.
Gandalfini guzzled four shots of rum, two piña coladas, and two beers at dinner with his son while he chowed down on two orders of fried king prawns and a large portion of foie.
If you, Riolinda, we're talking big shrimp, king prawns, and a large portion of foie gras.
For those of you in Riolinda, that would be duck liver.
You don't like duck liver?
You don't like that?
Wait, we had a large portion of that.
Photos of Gandalfini in Rome show the actor looking haggard in the days leading up to his death.
And he spent a lot of time with a drink in his hand.
Hours before he keeled over from a massive heart attack, the actor sat down for a 7 p.m. meal with his son, 13-year-old Michael, at the Boscolo Exidra Roma Hotel's outdoor restaurant, Alfresca for you and Rio Linda.
Gandalfini, 51, first ordered a piña colada with two rum shots on the side.
He followed that up with an identical round, another piña colada and two shots, and then down two beers, the source said.
There are pictures of this, by the way.
People sitting nearby were taking phone photos and sending them all over the place.
Gandalfini also enjoyed back-to-back orders of fried prawns slathered with mayonnaise, chili sauce, as well as a heaping portion of foie gras.
He ate the whole meal himself.
His son looked on starving.
No, it doesn't say that.
But that's the implication.
He didn't share.
He ordered all this stuff and he went Henry VIII on everybody.
He ate the entire meal himself.
Michael had his own dinner and two virgin piña colossals.
Whoever heard of people having their own dinner at a dinner table.
Nearly everything Gandalfini ordered was fried.
Obviously, that's going to cause problems with your heart, the source said.
So there's a single source who is obsessed with what people eat, who wants everybody to think that the cause of death was eight shots of booze and piña coladas and beer, two orders of king crab, foie gras, and whatever, and then three hours later, hardness.
So let's look at the death certificate.
Let's see what it says.
Did you know that foie gras could kill you?
Did you know that king prawns could kill you?
Did you know that piña coladas could kill you?
Did you know that beer could kill you?
Did you know that fried stuff could kill you?
Well, taken together.
See, I'm trying to make a point here.
And I'm losing.
Everybody here thinks, oh, yeah, this is deadly.
You got to really have got to really ask yourself why you think that.
You have got to really ask yourself why you think a single final meal could cause this.
That is a great illustration and an example of how you have been propagandized by the food Nazis, like the people at the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
I guarantee you.
Because it happened.
What?
What were you going to tell me?
Because.
Yeah, it happened.
It happened.
He had a heart attack.
What?
We can't do what-ifs, but he had a heart attack.
By the way, I figured out more on Michael Jackson speaking about this stuff.
It turns out that Michael Jackson did not have any real sleep for two straight months.
60 days.
Real sleep is rapid eye movement sleep, REM sleep.
And when you take propofol, you don't go into REM sleep.
Michael Jackson, for two months, got no real sleep.
Now, REM sleep, that is where, if you look at the brain as a computer, REM sleep is shutdown time, rest time, refurbish time.
You clean out all the garbage, and the brain, you wake up, and the brain is rebooted and ready to go.
Jackson had none of that for 60 days.
He had insomnia.
So this guy was giving him the propofol, but the propofol does it actually prevents people from actually sleeping.
It anesthetizes them.
And you go that long, I mean, you go five or ten days without REM sleep, and you are in really, really bad neurological problem.
Michael Jackson never had a chance.
Now, again, that's just the story I read.
With anything in the media today these days, there has to be an asterisk that it could all be wrong and it could all be mistaken.
So, anyway, I thought about going out and having the Gandalfini meal tonight.
See what happens.
Look at these people.
Don't do it.
Don't do it.
They're all serious.
I know.
Look, I can't imagine piña coladas with foie gras either, but he did it.
Again, according to eyewitness, one eyewitness.
But anyway, you ought to see these people.
They're serious.
When I, when they believe me, I tell them I'm going to go have this exact meal.
Don't do it.
Don't do it.
So this, because of this story, foie gras, piña coladas, king prawns leads to heart attack.
That's how this all happens.
Beer.
You think if you'd have had vodka instead of rum, maybe that would have made some difference.
Greetings, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
Open line Friday.
Great to have you, my friends.
We chug on into the weekend.
There was another castmate, cast member of the Sopranos at the cigar dinner that night, Joseph Ganiscoli.
He played Vito Spatifory and just was one of the nicest guys.
He has a soup restaurant in Bay Ridge.
I can't remember the whole name of it, Soup something or other.
It's on a corner in Bay Ridge, in Brooklyn.
And he was just the nicest guy.
They all were.
Dominic Gianese.
I ran into him another time at Elaines.
And he was Pauli Wallace.
These guys, Vincent Curatola, they were all fabulous people to meet.
Gandalfini was, I'm telling you, he was shy and reserved.
They were really, it was fun to meet them.
But I got to tell you, does anybody?
How odd is it that a restaurant in Rome is serving piña coladas?
Now, any bar probably makes piña coladas, but the one thing you don't associate with Rome is piña coladas.
And then a Jersey guy.
Can you see Chris Christie ordering a piña colada?
I can't even see Snookie ordering a oh, did you hear this?
Did you hear what Snookie said?
Snookie is hoping, really hoping that she has a gay son someday.
Nicole Pelozzi, Palazzi, Pelizzi, Paluzzi, whatever her last name.
She said she really can't wait to have a gay little boy.
And did you hear what Chelsea said?
Chelsea Clinton, this is one of the strangest things I have ever heard.
Let me see if we've got soundbit in this.
I don't think.
In fact, I'm going to have to paraphrase this.
I've got it somewhere here in the stack.
Chelsea Clinton was talking about her grandmother or her great-grandmother, one of the two had to be her great-grandmother.
Chelsea Clinton was lamenting how unfortunate it was that there was no planned parenthood around when her great-grandmother.
Well, now, what in the world was Chelsea saying, gee, if there had been a planned parenthood, my mother might not have been born?
Can you imagine?
I mean, I know what Chelsea's trying to do.
She's trying to make points, score points on the left with the right politically correct answer about Planned Parenthood.
But to put it in your own family to lament that your own great-grandmother, my great-grandmother, did not have access to Planned Parenthood.
Well, what if she had?
Maybe your mother wouldn't be here.
And if she weren't here, you wouldn't be.
What are you saying with this?
Some of these young leftists, you know, they make these oddball mistakes before they get old enough to know really how to speak publicly.
Well, her NBC career got her prepared for all this.
Chelsea Clinton laments, my great-grandmother didn't have access to Planned Parenthood from the stage at the recent Women Deliver Conference.
Chelsea Clinton revealed that her much-admired maternal grandmother was the child of unwed teenage parents who didn't have access to services that are so crucial Planned Parenthood helps provide.
Well, what in the world does Planned Parenthood do besides abortion?
That's a strange, strange.
I mean, okay, Chelsea, let's finish it up.
Let's wrap it.
She revealed that her much-admired maternal grandmother was the child of unwed teenage parents.
Oh, and because there wasn't Planned Parenthood, they couldn't do an abortion.
Oh.
So we're supposed to feel sorry for Chelsea's great-grandmother.
Didn't have, but if we do that, if we wish that Chelsea's great-grandmother had access to Planned Parenthood, it might not be a Chelsea because there might not be a Hillary.
And I will leave it at that.
Do you see this headline from the AP?
Six white women to serve as jurors for the George Zimmerman trial, even though their lead sentence says a jury of six women, five of them white, was picked Thursday for the second-degree murder trial of George Zimmerman.
Six white women, that's the headline, but only five of them are white.
AP story goes on to say: the race and ethnicity of the sixth juror was not immediately available.
That really matters, folks.
Oh, yeah, that's all that matters to the media: the ethnicity and the race of the jury.
And yet, even though they didn't know the race of the sixth juror, they still ran with their race-baiting headline: maybe the sixth woman's a white Hispanic.
What do you mean, Mr. Limbaugh?
There's not that thing of the white Hispanic.
This is another example of you trying to stir things up.
It's the voice of Mr. Newt Castrati.
No.
The New York Times referred to George Zimmerman himself as a white Hispanic in order to stir up racial animosity and feelings in this case involving Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin.
Okay, that's it for the low information outreach.
We've got updates on the immigration story, updates on the farm bill, and number of down bites plus Open Line Friday.
Your phone calls featured prominently, all coming up when we get back.
Open Line Friday, Rush Limbaugh.
Okay, folks, they still don't have their 60 votes in the Senate for the Gang of Eight immigration bill.
Don't care what you're hearing in the media.
I don't care how close you're hearing it is.
They don't have 60 votes.
If they had their 60 votes, Dingy Harry would be lassoing these guys in for the vote.
They don't have their 70 votes.
They don't have their 60.
And I'm given to understand, by the way, that after Senator Cruz's appearance on this program, that you can't get into Washington telephonically.
You cannot make a phone.
Well, you couldn't that day and into the next.
Probably lightened up a bit.
But here is the latest from Senator Corker.
He's one half of the Hoven.
I'm sure I get that name of it.
He and another senator have offered an amendment.
And he was on Fox this morning on Happening Now with Jenna Lee, who said it's interesting you mentioned the benefits of what happens with some of the people that are already here illegally.
And it comes to the issue of accountability, Senator Corker, and that's something that a lot of people have questions about in your amendment.
We're talking about securing the border.
But what's the measure of success in your amendment?
What tells us that the border is now secure and all these other efforts in immigration reform can happen?
What is the measure?
Immigrants cannot get a green card until all 20,000 Border Patrol agents are in place.
They cannot get a green card until all 3.2 billion of the technology that the Border Control has asked for is in place.
They cannot get a green card until the exit visa program that candidly is very important is in place.
They cannot get a green card until E-Verify is in place.
So this has the most tangible, not subjective, tangible triggers that you can possibly put in place.
Anyone who criticizes this bill because of border security, in my opinion, is just looking for a reason to criticize a bill.
Strawman, therefore, anybody who criticizes this just isn't criticizing it on substance.
See, they just don't want the bill.
Well, let's go back to the Cornyn Amendment.
The Cornyn Amendment answered Jenna Lee's question.
What is the measure of border security success?
And the Cornyn Amendment was voted down, by the way.
The Cornyn Amendment simply said you have to be able to demonstrate that you're apprehending 90% of all attempts illegally to get in the country.
And the Senate voted that down.
They said, well, if you do that as a goal, we'll support it.
If you do that as an objective, we'll support it.
But Cornyn said, nope, the 90,000 is hard.
You have to prove that you are capturing, apprehending 90% of those who try to get in.
Senate voted it down.
So with that in mind, let's go back to what Corker says here.
Immigrants can't get a green card until all 20,000 border agents are in place.
Border agents being in place doesn't mean anything.
Okay, so we're going to hire an additional 20,000 border agents, and I assume we're going to deploy them.
Big whoop.
What are their instructions?
So immigrants can't get a green card until all 20,000 border agents are in place.
They cannot get a green card until all 3.2 billion of the technology, he's talking about dollars here, until all $3.2 billion technology that the border control has asked for is in place.
There's nothing about any of it being used.
That's an assumption.
I don't know if you're willing to make that.
There's nothing about it being used successfully.
They cannot get a green card until the exit visa program is in place.
And he said that's very important.
And the exit visa program, this is the program designed to find out who's overstaying their visas.
They can't get a green card until E-Verify is in place.
Okay, in place doesn't mean anything.
New border agents hired and in place doesn't mean anything.
All $3.2 billion of technology the border controls asked for is in place.
What good does that do?
Okay, now let's move on to something else that's related to this.
You know, and I know that this 13-year waiting period where they grant illegals the pathway, but they are not granting them citizenship for 13 years.
They can't vote for 13 years.
They can't get benefits for 13 years.
And we've often theorized here on the program that that 13 years isn't going to last because in a few hours after the bill's signed, Democrats are going to find the nearest camera and talk about how unfair that is.
We just put them on the pathway to citizenship.
We just told them that they're illegal for all intents and purposes.
And then they can't vote for 13 years.
They can't get Obamacare for 13 years.
How fair is that?
And then they make a move.
It's already happened.
There's an op-ed into Politico today by a senator from Hawaii.
Imagine that you buy homeowners insurance, but the policy won't cover your house if it catches fire until 13 years after you start paying premiums.
That would obviously not be fair.
But that's exactly the situation in which people on the pathway to citizenship will find themselves because of restrictions in the Senate Bill S-44.
So the Democrats are already starting to build the case for federal benefits for illegal immigrants long before the 13-year waiting period is concluded.
They're not even waiting.
They're already laying the groundwork for it.
What are wrong are the policies in the bill that prohibit most immigrant taxpayers from being able to use federal safety net programs for at least 13 years, the minimum length of time on the pathway.
Their taxes pay for these programs, so they can't use them.
That is profoundly unfair.
So we already have a table being set to overturn or dump the 13-year requirement.
Now, the bill will pass if it does pass.
The bill will be voted on in the Senate if it is with this 13 years in there.
But this piece by the Democrat senator from Hawaii, and I would pronounce her name, but it's printed out so small, I don't want to make it stab at this.
I can't read it.
And I'm not sure of her name, so I don't want to be accused of making fun or purposely mispronouncing it.
But she's new.
I think she replaced Senator Akaka.
And she didn't replace Senator Akaka.
And she replaced Senator Inno Way.
Maisie, I think, is her first name, M-A-Z-I-A.
Anyway, so you see, folks, they're already starting now to work on this 13 years.
I'm telling you, that 13-year pathway to citizenship isn't going to matter.
Heel of Beans, it isn't going to hold up.
It ain't going to last.
Here you have a Democrat's going to vote for the bill.
This Democrat is going to vote for the bill.
She's already jerking tears from people how unfair it is.
We put them on the pathway and we deny them the safety net while their taxes are paying for it.
That isn't fair.
I thought, by the way, and I know I'm right about this, that illegals already get welfare benefits.
I know Obama's aunt Zatuti is getting, I mean, she's been lived in public housing for decades.
Aunt Zatudi, Obama's Aunt Zatudi wrote about it, got welfare-free HIP replacements while she was an illegal alien.
Maisie Hirono is the name of the senator from Hawaii who has written this piece.
We should all want immigrants to be successful and start businesses and continue contributing to the economy.
However, few people would use their life savings to start a business if they think their children will go hungry or go without health care if the business fails.
The safety net programs exist so people can take risks to improve their economy.
What in the world?
Get this, folks.
We should all want immigrants to be successful, start businesses, and continue contributing to the economy.
However, few people would use their life savings to start a business if they think their children will go hungry or go without health care if the business fails.
And that's why we need welfare.
How many of you who have started small businesses planned on using welfare if it failed?
I mean, you know, Catherine and I started a little small business, 2FIT.
By the way, this is the last day of the big Jeep Patriot sweepstakes.
I mean, I've got all the details coming up, but this is it.
You're automatically registered to win if you shop at 2FIT.com.
You've got to do that by 11:59 p.m. Pacific.
Oh, one other thing.
We have restocked the Turvist Tumblrs with Revered Rush on one side and Rush Revere on the other side.
These are awesome.
And they're back in stock.
We ran out.
We sold out of these things.
Lickety split.
We tried to get them back in for Father's Day, but we didn't make it.
But they're there now.
But when we started this business, we didn't plan on using welfare if it failed.
Who in the world is she talking about?
How many of you who have thought about or have started small businesses planned on using welfare if it didn't work to feed your families?
So we want the illegals to come here, get on the pathway.
We want them to start businesses, but if it doesn't work, they've got to be able to go on.
This is ignorant.
Well, probably what they think life should be or is like.
I have to take a brief time out here, folks.
You sit tight.
We'll be back with much more after this.
Okay, we're going to grab a phone call here in just a second.
I want to clarify something or add to something with Senator Corker and his soundbite.
If you recall, he said immigrants can't get a green card until all 20,000.
I know you were shouting at me out there.
Immigrants can't get a green card until all 20,000 Border Patrol agents are in place.
We're not even talking about.
They're going to get legal status before they get green cards.
Senator Corker, I'm going to be very careful here because he's the senator and I'm the media guy and therefore he's supposed to know more about this than I do.
But what we are talking about in the Gang of Eight bill is giving these people legal status.
The first step, which will happen within six months of Obama signing this thing, is that these 11 million people get provisional legal status.
And you and I know that that is never going to be revoked.
It doesn't matter what you do with the new Border Patrol agents or what you do with the new technology or the exit visa program.
Immigrants can't get a green card till all 20,000 Border Patrol agents are in place.
They're going to get legal before they get a green card.
They're going to get provisional legal status, but they're never going to.
Once that happens, they're here.
Nobody's talking about deportation anyway, even without this bill.
So this really is muddling the issue.
The green card would come after the provisional legal status, but the provisional legal status is never going to be revoked.
Green card means permanent.
That's the simplest way to remember it.
Green card means permanent.
But once they get the provisional legal status, six months after the bill's signed into law, that's not going to be taken away.
So they can't get the green card till all 20,000 border agents are in place.
The point still holds.
The border agents can be in place, but what are they doing?
What measure of success are the new agents having in securing the border?
That's not part of the Hoven-Corker Amendment.
That's why the Cornyn Amendment is so relevant here.
He was demanding a 90% apprehension rate, provable.
Not a goal, not an objective, but a demonstrable 90%.
And all these guys are saying is that we're going to have these new procedures in place, but we're not going to have any measure of success or failure of the new procedures.
And this is supposed to tide us over, those of us who think the border has to be nailed down.
Here's Bob in Clinton, Connecticut, as we start on the phones on Open Line Friday.
Hi, Bob.
Great to have you here.
Hi, Rush.
Might tell what to say, but I think you're just a good friend I haven't met yet.
Can you hear me okay?
No, you just...
Oh, I'm a friend you haven't met yet.
No, you...
Yeah, exactly.
Well, the reason why I'm calling is with your trip to Normandy and your tribute to Vince Flynn, you said something about 15 years ago that had such an impact on my life.
You talked about what your father taught you, and you stated that you can tell the character of a man by how he treats somebody that can do absolutely nothing.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's exactly right.
And when you said that, that just really struck me and had such a, like I said, a profound impact.
And I tried to live by that rule and raise my kids that way.
And I just wanted to thank you for that.
I mean, you said that a long time ago, 15, 20 years ago, and it's stuck with me all these years.
I'm glad you reminded me of that, particularly in the context of Vince, because that was exactly the kind of person he was.
Yeah, folks, my father always said the best measure of the character of a man is to observe how he treats people who can't do anything for him.
Everybody's going to be nice to people who can do things for you.
Everybody's going to go out of their way to be of service or to be nice if you think somebody can do something for you.
But how do you treat people who can't do anything for you?
And that is the true measure of character and integrity.
And I'm glad you reminded me of that, Bob, because you're exactly right.
Especially as I say as it relates to Vince.
Right.
And also that your trip to Normandy.
My dad was Omaha Beach on June 8th.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, and I have his diary in Fountain Penny.
Have you been?
No, I haven't.
And it just moved me when you gave that tribute how you went there.
I just, you know, I've seen pictures and I just said, oh, my gosh, I have to get there.
Well, the pictures are amazing.
But you have.
I hope you're able to go someday, Bob, because you won't.
I don't care the stories that you've heard, but you can't.
You can appreciate it.
But the level of understanding and appreciation you'll have once you see what you know what happened, when you see where it happened and know what happened, it floors you.
It looks impossible what happened there that day.
You should be very proud.
I'm really glad you got through.
Thanks very much.
Appreciate your first comments.
We'll be right back.
Don't go.
Senator McCain says they've got the 60 votes.
They may even have 61 votes, but they're not going to have the vote yet because they need the evangelical community to convince people on amnesty.
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