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June 28, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 28, 2013, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And here we are, ladies and gentlemen.
It is the Rush Limbaugh program, right here, the Limboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies in the EIB Network on Friday.
Yes, sir.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Open line Friday, as opposed to closed line Monday through Thursday.
And all it means is that we don't screen the callers nearly as tightly today as we do Monday through Thursday.
Normally, if you're going to get on this program as a caller, you have to be able to speak.
You have to be able to talk about something I'm interested in.
But today you could be the star witness for the prosecution in the Zimmerman case and get on this program.
Telephone numbers 800-282-2882, and the no, the staff here missed it.
They're chatting amongst themselves about something.com.
Have you have you noticed now it may it may be just me.
But the drive-bys are not talking about the amnesty bill vote yesterday very much.
They're not bringing this up hardly at all.
I mean, the stories about it are Schumer praises Rubio, McCain says, we're ready, we're ready, and negotiate with how but there's nothing about the achievement.
There's nothing about the vote.
There's very, very little out there.
They got 68 votes for their amnesty bill in the Senate yesterday, not the 70 that they wanted, but they're not talking about it.
I I think partly here they're trying to shield this debacle from everybody.
I think they're I I they don't want to report what's in this bill.
They don't want people concerned with Alec Baldwin's latest rant to know what's in this.
They don't want people occupied, focused on Paula Dean to know what's in this.
They don't want people who can't believe the star witness at the Zimmerman case.
Star witness in Obama's imagined sons trial.
Well, it's not he, Trayvon Martin.
But the people are focused on that.
Alec Baldwin, the latest is that his wife.
It was reported by some Brit newspaper that Alec Baldwin's wife was tweeting smoothie recipes from the funeral for James Gandalfy.
This has caused Alec Baldwin to erupt yet again.
He's threatening all kinds of.
Well, I mean, some of the stuff he's threatening is sexually threatening.
It's dangerous.
He's threatening to just do all kinds of things to this guy's various orifices in his body.
I because claiming his wife didn't tweet during the Gandolfini funeral about smoothies or anything else.
That they were in the church for the funeral for a good friend of theirs, and this attempt at besmirch and to in and impune his wife is not gonna let it go by uncommon.
So Baldwin is off on just another out-of-control tirade, which means he'll pick up another corporate sponsorship.
Paula Dean, Paula Dean said the N-word 30 years ago, has probably cried 15 buckets of tears about it.
All week long.
It's on the Today Show, then she's not on Today Show, then she's on the Today Show, and Matt Lauer interviews her.
And Matt Lauer went out and played golf at Deepdale after interviewing Paula Dean about using the N-word 30 years ago, whenever she used it.
But the low information crowd totally absorbed with this, then Obama's imagined sons star witness getting massive cable coverage said to be misunderstood.
There's a piece at a website called A Global Grind by a young African American woman by the name of Christina Coleman, why black people understand Rachel Gentel.
And then there's a companion piece, why white people don't understand.
If you're harboring any hope that this country's ever going to come together and be unified, you can throw it out.
You can literally forget it.
I got right here, why black people understand Rachel Gentel and why white there's another piece why white people don't.
And it's basically white people never gonna understand.
It centers around the fact that the lawyer, Dan West, couldn't believe she didn't call a cops.
And this piece is what you white people don't understand.
We don't call a cops in black neighborhoods.
What do you think happens if we call a cops?
They take us the way we don't call a cops.
It makes total sense to us watching her.
It makes total sense she can't speak English.
She can't read it or write it.
It makes total sense to us.
You people don't care about the education of African Americans.
You people don't.
It's just it's I mean, it's just it's amazing.
And then and then the salon that the white people not understanding it, that's in Salon.com, not on a specialized African American website, that's at Salon.com.
And basically the thrust of the two pieces is that you white people, you're so backwards, you're just such a bunch of crackers.
You're just such a bunch of crazy ass crackers, honkies, you people is so backwards and stupid and so white, wonderbred white, you don't know beans about anything.
Well, the the the uh the white Hispanics, there's only one, and that's that's uh Zimmerman.
There's only one white Hispanic in the country, and he's on trial for murder.
Another witness today, I think it was a prosecution witness, maybe not.
Maybe it was a defense witness.
Anyway, just totally, totally undermine the prosecution today in this trial.
If again, if the jury by the way, I I I shouldn't do this, but the jury is six people, and five of them are white.
And that equals six of them are white.
Okay.
White Hispanic is a second, okay.
So we have a second white Hispanic in America, and it's on the jury.
So we've got let's just call it six white people.
After this yesterday, if this verdict, I don't have to tell you.
Oh man.
Oh man, anyway, all this is about the media not talking about the amnesty bill.
They're really not.
They're talking about all the ancillaries to it, but they're not talking about it.
They're not in the business of informing the public anymore.
This is about advancing the Obama agenda.
And in order to advance the Obama agenda, you cover it up.
You hide it.
Now, I folks, you know that I'm a big Apple officianado, but you also know that I don't, I mean, buy what you want.
I'm not, I don't ever tell anybody what they have to do.
Let's tell you what I like.
I like to share my passions.
And I got a note today from a friend of mine who is, this is fascinating.
This guy is as well versed in politics, he understands media bias, he understands the bias that takes place in polling.
He understands instinctively everything about politics.
So he sends me a note that he's upset at the latest ad that Apple is running on TV.
And it's a it's basically a bunch of people using Apple products, and the ad features touchy feely kind of text and and audio, and it ends up designed in California.
That's our signature.
we go blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
This guy sends me a note.
Don't these people at Apple under Oh, and part of the story was that there is a survey that the American people hate that ad.
That that ad probably going to be pulled pretty soon, this latest Apple ad, because it just it's rating really low down there.
Only 26% of people have seen the ad like it.
So this guy sends me the note saying, why do these people in Apple, do they understand we don't care about California?
Why can't they say say made in America?
And I said, Do you do you understand?
I was very patient.
I said, you are, this is a teachable moment here, folks.
This ad that Apple is running.
Whether you've seen it or not, I don't care.
There is a story.
It's all over the tech media.
It's all over the advertising media, all over the advertising community.
This ad is not liked at all by the American consumer.
Do you know who did the survey?
The advertising agency for Samsung.
Apple's chief rival.
Apple's chief rival, Ace Metrics or something is the name of the advertising.
They do all of Samsung's advertising and marketing.
They're the ones reporting that nobody likes the Apple commercial.
They're trying to get the commercial pulled because it's probably very effective.
It took me three emails to explain this guy.
I said, Do you understand the correlation to American politics?
Look at you.
You're not skeptical at all about what you see in tech media.
You're not skeptical at all.
You see a story, nobody likes the Apple ad.
You don't care who ran the poll.
I'm not being critical.
And finally, I was I was able to get through, but even I don't think I actually fully did.
Here you have Apple's number one rival report, and none of the tech media is reporting that it's Samsung's agency that did the survey that shows most Americans hate the Apple ad.
Now Apple, like everybody at top, doesn't say.
They don't respond to this stuff.
They just keep doing what they do.
And which is in their minds build the best stuff, and it speaks for itself.
Apple fans, by the way, wish they would speak out against this, but they never do.
They never refute any of this stuff.
They let their products do the talk.
Anyway.
So I said, do you understand the correlation here?
You instinctively understand that a poll done by the Washington Post that is bad for Romney may be on purpose because they're trying to affect public opinion, not report it.
They're trying to change.
They're trying to create public opinion against Romney.
I totally understood that.
So it was a great illustration.
This is the way low information people see political news.
Just like you don't know the full details of the story on the Apple ad.
You just you totally believe it.
You believe everything you read, and you got mad at Apple.
Well, imagine low information Americans dealing with politics that way.
They're not skeptical of any of it.
They're not skeptical of the drive-bys.
They believe everything in the drive-by's that they see.
So what the Samsung advertising agency is trying to do to Apple has been done to the Republican Party by the Democrat Party and its advertising agency, so to speak.
And I actually think I had somebody tell me yesterday that they think so little is making sense of the Republican Party these days.
That story that we had, Steve Schmidt, the McCain campaign guy, and a couple of others joining with the AC freaking LU to help spread gay marriage to the states for the benefit of the Republican Party.
A friend said, if I didn't know better, I would say that the libs, in addition to infiltrating the schools and the universities and Hollywood music, they've also infiltrated the Republican Party.
We got a bunch of people in the Republican Party who are acting like liberals.
We got a bunch of People in the Republican Party actively undermining it.
They're calling themselves Republicans, sometimes even call themselves conservatives.
I said, now wait a minute, that's a serious charge.
And then I said, it's the seriousness of the charge that matters.
The evidence is irrelevant.
So you got people thinking that so little of what the Republican Party is doing.
You go back to 2009.
I've got a story of Marco Rubio just ripping Reagan for amnesty.
When Rubio was campaigning, when Rubio was trying to establish himself with conservatives.
Now he's done a 180 on this.
Nobody can understand it.
But he's so loved and adored, nobody wants to criticize him.
But there's a that's just one example.
The things there are Republicans.
Well, there are people who call themselves Republicans who are advocating things that common sense tells you is going to really harm this party.
And logically, I sometimes wish I weren't, folks.
I wish I weren't as logical as I am, and I wish I weren't as smart as I am, because I'd be happier.
There's this ignorance and bliss thing.
There's got to be something to it.
Anyway, a lot of it is just not making any sense.
Because it looks like there are people in the Republican Party actively purposely trying to harm it, saying that they're trying to save it.
That they're trying to get it into the 21st century, that they're trying to modernize it.
So now we gotta do amnesty.
Gotta we gotta do amnesty to make the Hispanics love us.
And now we got this big movement to get the Republican Party on the right side of the gay marriage issue so that the gays don't hate us.
What's it doing?
But driving the primary base of voters of the Republican Party away from it.
And then you add to it, we've got Democrats advising these Republicans.
You know, you guys had better get right on immigration, or you're never gonna win the presidency.
As though they want us to.
I'm sorry to keep making a big deal of this, folks, but I'm sorry, I just don't believe that any Democrat really cares about us winning the presidency, and therefore is willy, really willing to offer us advice on how to do it.
I think what the Democrats want is for the Republican Party to never ever again be a viable opponent.
And it looks like they're affecting that, making that happen.
Anyway, sorry, a lot of tangents in there, and now a brief timeout.
We'll come back and you know, I shook a lot of things up there.
We'll organize it, we'll synthesize it, and we'll get back.
We haven't talked about Aaron Hernandez yet, so we'll do that.
Aaron Hernandez and the gang mentality of the NFL.
But it wasn't me saying that.
And we're back, Rush Limbaugh, the cutting edge of societal evolution.
It's open line Friday.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
It was this morning on the Fox News Channels, Fox and Friends, Haroldo Rivera was the guest.
And they were talking about the case and the arrest of the former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez.
And Steve Ducey said, you know, Haraldo, this guy, Hernandez, he had a 40 million dollar contract.
The gangbangies got the gang tattoos all over him.
It wasn't even in the heat of passion.
It wasn't a beep over a girlfriend.
What it was is you have offended my macho pride.
Now I'm going to, you know, uh do this kind of uh jungle ethos.
I'm gonna hunt you down, I'm gonna kill you.
How dare you disrespect me?
I mean, so many uh youngsters from the uh inner city from the ghetto go down that road where meaningless deaths uh just pile up, like in Chicago, this whole gang thing.
So there's Haroldo Rivera claiming that the gang mentality exists in the National Football League.
The jungle ethos.
You don't diss me, dude.
I'm gonna kill you just for looking at me the wrong way.
Got the tattoos.
It wasn't even the heat of passion, wasn't even a beef over a girlfriend.
At least we would have understood it if it was that.
But this was just because he got dissed.
Geraldo then uh yep, we got time.
Continue.
I don't know why the league that recruits these kids from the inner city, how they don't have minders.
How the agents who are collecting 10% of 40 million dollars, where are they in all this?
Why aren't they mentoring these young men who are fatherless, many of them?
Ray Lewis and all the rest of the Michael Vick.
You can count them uh, you know, as a ton of them.
They sign them because they're superb athletes and they do nothing at all to preserve their character and to put them on the right road.
Holy cow, it's almost like he's saying that the NFL's like a contest between the Crips and the Bloods.
It's almost like Heraldo's the gang culture's taken over the NFL.
And he's probably not gonna get any trouble for that.
And welcome back.
Great to have you here, folks.
Open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
I've got this Apple ad coming up here to this the audio of it.
I've had I've checked the email, and uh this apparently I didn't either I went through it too fast, or I didn't explain it well, or maybe maybe this is not as crystal clear to everybody as it is to me, which again is disappointing.
But I'm gonna I'm gonna try to explain it again to what is happening here because it has, folks, it has a beeline correlation to politics and low information voters and the way they see and react to things.
It's it's one of the best teachable moments that's uh that's presented itself.
Well, before I get to that, I want to go back to Geraldo here.
After basically saying that what Aaron Hernandez did, he did because he's got the gang mentality.
He's a gang guy.
He's got on a tats.
He's a blood.
Been a gang member in Bristol, Connecticut.
The jungle ethos.
Let me try to describe the NFL that way.
But Geraldo is the stamp of approval of the American left, so he can say these things.
And then he said, he doesn't know why the league doesn't provide minders, why the agents don't mentor these young men who are fatherless.
Why don't the owners provide mentors?
What are the teams now supposed to become fathers?
Are businesses supposed to become fathers in addition to everything else?
They have to do as employers.
Why aren't they mentoring these young men who are fatherless, many of them?
Ray Lewis, why are they mentoring people?
Why hadn't Michael Vick?
Heroldo, would you want either of those two guys mentoring your kids?
But anyway, uh, folks, all we've got here's the Aaron Hernandez story.
We don't know yet anything beyond alleged.
And here's Geraldo basically saying that the NFL looks like it's the Crips and the Bloods.
Gang ethos, jungle eat those, you dissed me, you dissed me.
I remember when when I said that sometimes the NFL looks like that to me, I was I was ripped across the whole country for race baiting and bigotry and all of that stuff.
Geraldo, probably nobody would even pay it any attention had I not amplified it for you.
Now this Apple ad, put aside for the moment, if you will, folks, that I'm a um an Apple guy.
I like their products.
Put put that aside for a moment.
Apple's running an ad.
You may have seen it.
It's called Our Signature.
I have the ad.
I have the audio of the ad.
It's a very visual ad.
It is uh still shots of people using Apple products.
And there's some narration to it.
There's not a lot.
Very economical with the words, but I want, and of course, has a music bid, I want to play it for you, and then try to walk you through the reaction to the ad in the tech media and in the advertising community.
And now keep in mind that Apple's stock price has plummeted from just last year at 705 to now under 400.
Their profits are still through the everything about, they just haven't had a new product in a few months.
There's a lot going on here that is, I mean, it's directly relatable to politics.
And I want to try to make that connection here.
So set aside what you think about Apple.
If you don't like them because a bunch of you know Silicon Valley weenies and leftists and put that aside.
This is a teachable moment here.
Here first is the Apple ad called Our Signature.
This is it.
This is what matters.
The experience of a product.
How will it make someone feel?
Will it make life better?
Does it deserve to exist?
We spend a lot of time on a few great things.
Until every idea we touch enhances each life it touches.
You may rarely look at it, but you'll always feel it.
This is our signature.
And it means everything.
Now, at that point, this is our signature.
The graphic on the screen is designed by Apple in California.
Okay?
Yeah, that's the ad.
Earlier this week, I'll try to explain this chronologically.
Earlier this week, a story hit the tech media and the advertising media that only 26% of people who see the ad like it.
That it's a dud, that the ad is a dismal failure.
And the story is reporting that only 26% of the American people who see the ad like it.
The story is also predicted that Apple will have to pull this ad very soon because people really don't like it, that it is really hurting Apple.
Two days after I saw the first story, I then learned that the company that did the survey of people taking their opinions is the advertising agency for Samsung.
Ace metrics.
They do the ads for Samsung.
They do the marketing for Samsung, Samsung, they are part of the primary rivalry to Apple, Samsung in the mobile phone business.
And I said, wait a second That corrupts the whole report That corrupts the whole survey.
That just renders it irrelevant.
It has to be biased.
This is part of a campaign to dismurge it.
It'd be no different if whatever your business is, if your chief rival puts out a story saying everybody hates your product.
But that fact isn't known.
It appears to be a totally objective survey, a totally objective poll, a totally objective company doing it.
So you read the story and you go on this Apple ad, well, it's really been nobody likes the Apple apple.
And don't tell you none of the stories, even now include the fact that the company that does the survey is in the employee of Samsung.
From the article on this in advertising age, since May, Samsung Has had eight ads that scored an average of over 600 according to ACE Metrics.
Apple's new ad, which calls the words designed by Apple in California our signature, and it means everything, scored 528 versus the industry average of 603.
So not only do only 26% of people who see the ad like it, it's scoring way below the industry average in all ads.
But nobody's telling anybody that the company doing this works for Samsung, is hired by Samsung.
So today I get an email from a guy who's all upset at Apple over the ad because he doesn't like people in California.
He's a big political guy.
He's as versed on politics as anybody I know is.
He's just nothing gets past him.
You can't fool him on it.
He said, why do these people on California, why do they think we care what goes on in California?
Why couldn't they say designed in America by Apple?
So I wrote him back, I said, you're missing the point.
And I told him the story I just told you.
He didn't understand it at first.
So I drew an analogy.
This is a direct correlation to American politics.
Look what we have here.
We have you talking to my friend.
You're totally believing of everything you read in the tech media.
You're not skeptical at all.
You're just a consumer.
You don't care.
You're not invested in it.
All you are is a consumer.
You read a story.
Nobody likes the Apple ad.
You don't like California, so Apple has a double whammy in your mind.
You hate Apple, you hate California, you don't like anything coming out of there, and you think they're a bunch of arrogant uh SOBs.
The fact of the matter is, you're not skeptical, so you don't care.
You don't even know that the report on Apple's ad may be full of garbage.
It may be totally bogus.
It may be part of a campaign by an Apple competitor to actually have a successful Apple ad pulled.
By the way, which is all fair and fine and dandy with me.
I mean, capitalism is, I mean, it's the this is the nature of competition.
I don't want to be misunderstood.
I'm not belly aching or whining or moaning for Apple.
If Samsung can pull this off, more power to him.
But what does it require?
It requires a gullible, unskeptical, totally accepting public.
Okay, now let's take it to politics.
I submit to you that the same thing happens to the Republican Party every day in the news media.
They're reported to what?
Hate gays, hate women, hate blacks, hate this, hate that, racist, sexist, bigot homophobes.
Who's reporting this?
Polling units that are owned and operated by partisan Democrats.
Who sees these polls?
Low information voters.
People who are not skeptical at all.
They don't dig deep.
They don't care that the Washington Post runs its own poll.
They don't know who Gallup is.
They just see this stuff and they automatically eat it up.
And they believe it.
But yet the same kind of sophisticated people who are able to understand that about politics, themselves are fooled by the same thing happening to Apple.
Now, let's take a look at Apple versus the Republican Party.
The Republican Party doesn't respond to any of this stuff, and you get livid.
Bush didn't respond to any of the attacks on him.
Carl Rove has since admitted it might have been a mistake they made.
They don't respond.
Apple doesn't respond.
But what's the difference in Apple and the Republican Party?
Apple is acknowledged as the best.
Apple's number one, Apple's on top.
Apple lets their products speak for it.
They do not get down in the gutter.
They may run similar type competitive campaigns against Samsung, I don't know.
But this one, I don't believe is up and up.
Ace Metrics puts out news that nobody likes an Apple ad, and they work for Samsung, right there, I just discount everything that Ace Metrics is telling.
I don't care how valid their survey is, or how pure it might be, how unbiased it might have been the fact that it's Samsung's age and nobody's telling the.
I mean, I had to dig deep to find this.
This is not being reported.
Well, the same thing in politics, folks.
The people with the bias and the people who who was vested interest in the Republican Party destroying itself, they're not reported as having anything to do with any of the stories that cast the Republican Party into bad light.
Or conservatives, take your pick.
So to me, it was it was a real fascinating thing.
Because even after taking time to explain it, my friend still wasn't all that interested.
He still had so much animus for a company that would brag about being in California that he didn't care about how the ad agency ripping the Apple ad was actually bought and paid for by Samsung.
But he cares deeply about the left-wing media and all of its allies besmirching the Republican Party.
But this is how it happens.
This is, you know, this guy and most other, no, not skeptical.
Let's see this report in the Apple ad thinks the ad's horrible.
Apple's troubles continue.
That's it.
Not skeptical.
Don't care to find out who did the survey.
Same thing with low information voters in politics, folks.
That's a teachable moment.
And so the question becomes how do you reach them?
How do you reach people who just automatically believe everything they see in the media?
How do you reach them?
And that, frankly, has been one of the unstated but primary objectives I've had in this program is reaching people like that.
Making the complex understandable, doing the job the mainstream media used to do, uncovering the deceit from all of this garbage and exposing it.
I gotta take a break now because I'm way long.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Let's move on to the audio sunbite.
So much is uh number five.
This this is uh on Sports Center.
This morning on ESPN 2, Aaron Hernandez's arrest and possible gang ties are being discussed.
And here is Bristol County, Connecticut.
I'm sorry.
Bristol County, Massachusetts.
Now wait a second.
I know that the story I had yesterday said Bristol, Connecticut was where Hernandez gang is.
Is there a Bristol County, Massachusetts too?
I'm running out of time.
I just hate being wrong.
I hate being misinformed, is what I hate.
Anyway, here's a sheriff, some sheriff somewhere talking about Aaron Hernandez.
Our gang intelligence unit is already interviewed him once, so they're gonna be dealing with him again.
And um obviously the concern around that is if in fact there were any affiliations with gang members or currently we have to make sure when we place them in a unit that that there aren't issues around rival gang members because we have a lot of gang people who are housed here, so uh that could create a security uh concern for us for anyone who has uh rival issues.
Holy cow, folks, so now they're investigating his gang ties to figure out where to put him in prison.
Because there are a lot of rival gangs in there, and they can't put him in the population with the wrong gang.
And they might have a riot, another murder, mayhem, who knows what.
This guy is a star player in the National Football League, a star player for the New England Patriots.
This has the potential to blow the lid open on the NFL and gangs and the whole I'll never forget this.
The former coach, University of Tennessee, a man by the name of Philip Fulmer.
There was a ESP an announcer, Ron Radio kind of got puker.
They were doing Tennessee games, he'd always pronounce his name Philip Foodby.
You know, these guys that kind of vomit their words in the radio.
These Philip Food me.
Anyway, the University of Tennessee had about half the team arrested one year.
And Philip Fulmer said, For the life of me, I can't understand why young men with just one of the greatest futures in store for them would come here and get involved in criminal activity like this.
And I was blown away.
That the coach couldn't understand.
I'm still blown away, but Fulmer's a good coach, too.
Don't misunderstand.
I just I don't know.
I take a break here again.
I'm being ham hamstrung by time constraints, folks.
Okay, here it is.
Aaron Hernandez grew up in Bristol, Connecticut, where he was a member of the gang there known as ESPN.
He lives in Bristol County, Massachusetts, which is where North Attleboro is.
Okay.
So there's two Bristols.
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