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July 1, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 1, 2013, Monday, Hour #2
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You know what's going on over in Egypt is just stunning.
17 million people protesting what they did.
How many years ago was it they installed the Muslim Brotherhood?
How many, was it last year, two years ago?
I forgot.
How many?
It seems like it was last year, but my gosh, time is flying by.
The Arab Spring, whatever it was.
17 million Egyptians.
I mean, it is huge, folks.
Even at Breitbart Media, I gotta love this.
2010, three years ago, the Arab Spring.
And the same people who went to the streets to demand change are now in the streets demanding to get rid of what they demanded in the first place.
But the the Breitbart.com story on this has huge protests against the Muslim Brotherhood backed government, Egypt have gone on for several days.
The crowds have now swelled to an estimated 17 million.
That's 17 million for those of you on Rio Linda.
It says right here in the Breitbart story.
So for those of you in Rio Linda is now part of the official lexicon on the right.
December 2010, it started.
It was the spring of 2011 when uh it all took place in Egypt.
And before it's all said and done, we're gonna learn that the CIA started the whole thing and got it going and it was a giant uh destabilizing operation.
You wait, that's what will I just finished reading a novel all about that.
So that's how I know it's true.
Well, you people see it in movies.
I read about it in novels.
I just read a novel about this.
Well, uh it's Brad Thor's book that comes out next-oh, I think it's come like in a week, July 9th.
Brad Thor's oh, and I'm having a metal block on the title of it.
I'll get the title in just a second.
But his it it his book is, yeah, it it's about basically it's a great, great thriller about the Federal Reserve.
Uh I'm not gonna give the plot away.
But in the novel, it alleges the CIA did the Arab Spring to destabilize all these Middle Eastern governments because we wanted to uh basically take a big chunk out of their terrorist machine in the Middle East.
So I read about it in a book, so it's obviously true.
Well, the low information crowd says they saw it in a movie, it has to be true.
I read it in the book, it has to be true.
Well, I've I just read it.
Hidden Order, hidden order, that's right.
They sent me a PDF.
They didn't even have the electronic book ready yet.
So that the Thor sent me a uh a PDF of Hidden Honor, and I just I just finished reading it.
Now they the Arab Spring is an ancillary part of it, and it's not, it's it's a it's really a novel uh thriller about the Federal Reserve.
It's got historical data about the Fed and the plot line involves a conspiracy.
Many conspiracies of the Fed.
See why I'm looking at all these people, 17 million protesting in Egypt, and essentially they're protesting what they got.
July 9th, yeah, that's what they said.
Why are you writing me a note that reminds me of what I just said?
Oh, you didn't hear me say oh you didn't hear the part where I said July 9th, yeah.
Hidden order.
Brand Thor.
T H O R for those of you in Rio Linda, like the Vikings.
Now, um I'm trying to make a point here about about what's going on in Egypt.
They're protesting Morsi.
Morse's Obama's guy.
Obama loves Morsi.
Morsi's a front for the militant, he's a he's a front for the Muslim Brotherhood, which is taking over the Middle East, by the way, in conjunction with Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey, and it's all related to Syria.
I mean, this is amazing to watch this.
Remember, this was our old buddy Nick Robertson at CNN was over there in the original Air Spring asking these Egyptians if they had anything wonderful and thanks to say to Obama for making all this happen.
He talked to Mustafa.
He talked to Ahmed, and they're some of my all-time favorite cookie grabbed those bites for me.
No hurry.
We got the rest of the show.
But there are two of my or three, whatever they are, all-time favorite audio sound bites.
I just absolutely love them.
The Muslim Brotherhood were elected to power almost exactly one year ago.
And here's here now is this giant protest against them.
And the this it's classic.
Here are the Egyptian people protesting what they advocated for or agitated for, at least.
That's the um that's the picture.
Ladies and gentlemen, as you know, regular listeners to this program uh know that uh Mr. Snerdley is a vegan, and that over the course of many broadcast years, we've had a little back and forth over militant vegetarianism.
Snerdley is always claimed that there really isn't militant vegetarianism, and I've always maintained that there is and that they are trying to force their way of eating on everybody else.
They're not just content, and you know that's true.
I mean, these people try to take over Burger King and get veggie burgers served in a Burger King in Berkeley, California, and it's not even arguable.
From the New York Observer, a vegan extremist website is taking ex-vegans to task for betraying the cause.com.
Let's shut down another website.
Xvegan or exvegans.com, also known as the vegan sellout list, publishes names, descriptions, and photographs of former vegans in an effort to publicly humiliate them for renouncing the vegan lifestyle.
There is an entire website up now, just as certain homosexuals are outed.
Well, now we've got a vegan website that lists traitors, people who have decided that they want to eat meat and they want to eat chicken.
This is ticked off the vegans.
They're not content to just be vegans.
They want everybody else to be.
And they want, of course, the federal government to come in under the guise of health administration and force it on everybody.
Because they're just a bunch of classic leftist advocates.
Get this story.
Now, we've talked on this program a lot about this overwhelming desire for fame among people in this country.
That they do things on these social websites.
They tell everybody, everything about themselves.
Where they're going.
How far away they are from where they're going.
When they get where they're going.
When they're going to leave where they are.
You know there are apps for this?
There are mobile telephone apps for you and your friends.
And you are able to advise your friends where you're going.
Of your route.
How far along the route you are.
How many minutes from the destination you are.
How long you're going to be at the destination.
And then there's a place in the app to rate whether or not the restaurant or cafe or wherever you happen to be going is worth it.
And then how long you're going to be there.
And then when you leave.
And then how long ago you left.
I mean it's stunning what people are willing to divulge about themselves.
Not to mention the pictures of themselves that they post.
And that's what's of note here.
It's a story from Mediaite.
When the security supervisor.
For JFK International Airport.
The security supervisor.
Now.
Let that soak in.
The security supervisor for JFK International Airport.
Thought.
He was email blasting his coworkers with images of a car accident.
Instead.
What he ended up doing.
Was email blasting pictures of himself.
Nude from the waist down.
That's right, for those of you in real Linda, he email blasted pictures of his penis.
I don't know if he sent one to Wiener.
Since you ask.
I have no idea if the security guy at JFK knows Wiener.
By the way, at the gay rights parade over the weekend, Wiener was marching.
And all of the gays on both sides of the street were saying, Wiener!
Wiener!
Wiener!
And Weiner actually said, You guys know that's my name, or are you saying something else?
Honestly, he did.
Of course they were shouting his name.
Wiener!
Wiener!
Wiener at a gay rights parade or a gay celebration, whatever it was.
Anyway, the security supervisor for JFK email blasts a nude photo of his penis and his belly and everything below it.
Using his company issued BlackBerry, the guy the guy's name is well, Gerard Robeson is his name.
He accidentally blasted the picture out to 24 co-workers and higher level executives at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
And after attempting in vain to delete them to recall them, he sent an apology to everybody.
Earlier this morning when I was sending out a notification regarding a motor vehicle accident comma, I had taken several pictures of the vehicle.
In error, I accidentally attached a very inappropriate photo of me.
And without realizing the mistake, continued to send out the notification with that photo attached.
Please accept my sincere apology as I am truly sorry for my actions.
So the guy is employed by FJC security contractor that works with the local transportation authorities.
A company spokesman told the New York Post that Robson has been suspended before joking that maybe he'll run for mayor.
Now, here's my question.
Dawn, do you take nude photos of yourself from the waist down?
Brian, do you take nude photos?
Snerdley, do you take nude photos of yourself from the waist down?
Okay, one out of three does.
Are you okay?
You're yanking my chain.
Okay.
Okay, so you had me going.
Look at what you can make me believe.
Sorry, wrong button.
So that's my question.
Who does this?
Who has nude photos of themselves that they take that could be accidentally sent out?
Well, that's the answer everybody does.
Apparently a lot of people do.
Teenagers particularly.
Up and coming media hosts and potential candidates.
There's gonna be more and more of this stuff pop up because they've sent these people that have taken nude photos of themselves have blasted them out.
Somebody has them.
So when one of these clowns is gonna run for office one day, it's gonna happen.
Somebody's gonna have the picture and put it.
But why my point here about the the whole notion of fame and wanting to be known, everybody know everything about you, stop and this is a security guy.
By virtue of his job, this guy ought to be oriented toward keeping things close to the vest.
And this guy is taking nude photos of himself.
If he had not done that, he could not have accidentally sent them out.
And then the question, did he actually accidentally send them out?
Or did he do it on purpose for the yucks of it?
And this is the cover up.
Who knows?
But who does this?
And then after answering that, why do they do this?
Why would anyone take a photo like this in the first place?
Now we got a guy who did it is running for mayor of New York and may in fact win.
Anthony Wiener.
Now I feel safe in saying that I don't know anybody who would do this.
I can't imagine that Dawn knows anybody who would do this.
Well, wait, maybe one person.
Quick time.
Sorry, I couldn't.
Couldn't help it.
I don't know.
I'm reminded by somebody very snarky, by the way.
Remember the uh way, way, way back when this program was first starting in the late 80s, probably early 90s.
Uh people uh saw a marketing report on talk radio that said women average 40% of the audience.
And they said, Rush, you need uh you need to up the female participation.
You need more women callers and make it sound like more women listen.
So, in an effort to boost the female participation, came up with an idea that required all women who were gonna call and be on the air to have a photo on file with us.
An innocent little idea.
That if you're gonna be a caller on the program and you're a woman, you had to have a photo on file.
Yeah, what?
Yeah, we didn't ask for nude photos.
And I don't know that we got any nude photos.
We got we got women in bikinis on the rocks at the beach, but I don't know that we got nude, but we did not well, maybe there we didn't require them.
But it wasn't very many.
But anyway, I caught hell for this idea.
And it was all it was was a was a way to increase the female participation in the program, had a little fun with it, had a photo on photo.
I I I'll tell you I still can't believe the grief that I got for that.
But we didn't require nude photos.
We didn't, and there might have been a couple in there.
Uh one of the snerdly brothers handled the photos.
I never even really saw them.
Mario Snurgley, who was one of the uh I don't know, second or third call screener, he handled the photos.
But he never he never walked in and showed me any nude pictures.
I did see, as I say, bikini shots on the rocks at uh at my uh uh uh Northern California beaches and stuff, but you remember you kept the nudes, is that right?
You kept the nude.
How many of them are there?
Yeah, he's just meant there aren't any.
I'm just telling you, nobody we didn't get any nude photos.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I know you just people snark, hey, hey, you're you.
Okay, well, HR says we did get nine or ten.
But see, that's different.
That's different than posting pictures nude of yourself on social media.
These weren't going to be posted anywhere, and the people who sent the pictures knew that they weren't going to be posted anywhere.
They were for internal use only in our in our filing system.
And it was there was you can't even you can't even say it's the same thing.
And we did not ask anything more than you must have a photo on file.
The kinds of photos we got totally up to the women who sent them.
There were no requirements or limits.
Just had to be recognizable so that we could put a face to the voice.
I thought it was a brilliant idea at the time, and I still do, but I I did the the grief that we got.
John in Westchester, New York, great to have you on the program, sir, as we head back to the phones.
Welcome.
Hi, Rush.
Uh, I want to speak to you today about the immigration bill that's going to the House.
Yeah.
Uh You've had Pelosi, Reed, Schumer, and Obama all telling you that it's such a bad idea for us not to pass it and that we gotta push this through, otherwise we'll we have no shot of getting the House in 2016.
And if that doesn't set up a red flag that these four knuckleheads are telling you that you have to pass this, I don't know what is.
Reed has been sticking stuff in a drawer for the last five years.
Why don't we just take this bill, stick it in the drawer, and tell him when we have the Senate, we'll come up with something good.
Well, here's the thing.
I mean, I and I I continue.
But by the way, there's there's more on this.
There are uh Republican establishment figures who are in the news today.
They're out making personal appearances.
And they're bragging about how Republicans voted on uh the amnesty bill in the Senate.
They're bragging about the gang of eight Republicans, and they're out there saying we love you to uh to Hispanic groups, and that this ought to this ought to show you that uh we love you.
I I'm I'm just the establishment of this party is authoring its demise.
And you talk about Pelosi and Reed and Schumer, all these other Democrats, Bob Menendez, the Democrat senator from New Jersey, all warning us that if we don't do this on immigration, we're never gonna win the White House, as though they are interested in us winning the White House.
I mean, the idea that the Democrats are advising us to do things to help us, which means that they would lose.
I just I'm sorry.
I don't think the Democrats ever want us to win the White House ever again.
You know, I just saw it.
Give me line one.
We're gonna go to the phones.
I just was gonna mention this.
And if I mention this, I'm gonna make the caller mad because the caller wants to mention it, so you may as well let the caller do it.
It's Tom in Anderson, South Carolina.
Tom, great to have you.
Hello, sir.
We're listening to you.
Uh Russ, the man wants to set down our coal plants, our coal digging, everything, but yet he unveiled Sunday a seven billion dollar paid for U.S. taxpayer money to power Africa for hydro wind solar power.
It just doesn't make sense.
I mean, we can't even open up the White House to the kids, but we can spend seven million dollar on taxpayer money in Africa.
Yeah, this is you know, you are you are uh so right about this.
Here are the details.
Obama is, you know, is on a vacation in Africa.
Sixty million to a hundred million dollar vacation.
Well he's he's uh actually has some official business as well.
Now, while he was in Kenya, he did two things.
The first thing he did in Kenya, well, I don't know if chronologically, one of the two things he did in Kenya was to give them a speech about how they need to modernize and accept gay marriage.
Now, obviously that speech was intended for U.S. domestic consumption.
The idea was keep gay campaign money pouring in.
So he goes to Kenya, makes a speech there, designed to be heard in America.
Wow, look, man, our president, he really great going around the world now selling gay marriage.
This is really our guy.
Okay, we gotta keep funding this guy.
But he nevertheless did it in Kenya.
He tried to sell them on getting with it and legalizing gay marriage.
The deputy president of Kenya is named William Ruto.
And William Ruto yesterday urged Obama to essentially be quiet.
William Ruto, the deputy president of Kenya, urged Obama to respect Kenyan's culture, saying they would not abandon their traditions that condemn same-sex marriage.
What a bigot this guy must be, this Ruto guy.
What an enemy of civilization this guy must be.
Somebody needs to tell Justice Kennedy about this guy.
Somebody needs to tell Anthony Kennedy about William Ruto, because this guy's an is anti-human, he's a bigot.
The deputy president William Ruto said Kenya was ready to work with other sovereign and God-fearing nations, adding that the government would continue to foster these relations.
He said no one should have any worry about Kenya's stand as a God-fearing nation.
President Obama's a powerful man, but we trust in God, as it is written in the Bible that cursed is the man who puts trust in another man.
Whoa.
You know, if uh if President Bush or even Mitt Romney had gotten that kind of slapdown from a foreign leader, it'd be the biggest story of the week.
But this story is being ignored by the drive-by media.
Obama goes over there and tells these people to modernize and get with it and legalize gay marriage, and the Kenyans say, screw you, buddy, we believe in God.
We believe in the Bible, not you.
To which Obama says, Well, I thought I was God.
And in my country, I'm the Bible.
Now this is a folks, this is a major, major slap down.
This is a sub-Saharan African country.
Obama's family is there.
His brother still lives in a hut there.
Yes, he does.
The brother still lives in a six by nine foot hut.
I'm not going to go through that again, but it's nothing's changed.
Twenty bucks would change this guy's life.
He's still living in a hut.
Anyway, the deputy president of Kenya told Obama to pound sand.
Now, if if any foreign leader had said anything like this to George W. Bush or to Mitt Romney, that's all we would be hearing about.
But this was especially devastating because this man said, you know what, Mr. President, you can do whatever you want.
You're powerful in your country, but we are going to continue to stand as a God-fearing nation.
We trust in God, as it's written in the Bible.
Thank you, take it somewhere else.
The second thing Obama did, this is what Tom Anderson, South Carolina, was calling about.
Kenya is one of the six sub-Saharan African countries that Obama is giving seven billion dollars to help them boost their electricity.
oh yeah Obama's declared war on electricity in our country By virtue of declaring war on coal, he has declared war on electricity.
If Obama succeeds, but all you electric car buyers out there, you need to really stop...
If this man succeeds in his war on coal, you're not going to have anywhere near cheap electricity to recharge your car battery.
I don't know if you electric car people know it or not, you are totally dependent on coal.
And Obama's launched an all-out war on coal.
But he's giving Africa money for electricity, seven billion dollars.
So he must hate them.
He must want them to die of CO2 emissions.
He must not really care about global warming.
Well, he's given them seven billion dollars to get electricity grid up and running, and electricity's killing the planet.
Coal-fired electricity is destroying the climate.
And yet Obama wants these guys to do it.
Obama also announced when talking about the seven billion dollars for electricity, that he wants the U.S. to help Africa without interfering like colonial powers did in the past.
Except when it's a matter of gay rights or women's rights or abortion and then the heck with it.
He's going to act like a colonial power, and he's going to try to impose what he wants on them.
So while he's over there suggesting, quote unquote, that uh that they legalize gay marriage and handing out seven billion dollars for electricity, he's telling them he's not going to act like an old colonial power.
You gotta love this deputy president of Kenya, William Rudo, basically saying to the President of the United States, respect our culture, please, and stop imposing yours on us.
Now, here are two stories that well they constitute journalistic malpractice to me.
Here's the first one from Forbes.
Why health care costs are about to explode.
Word out of Washington is that Obamacare is finally fulfilling its promise to bend the nation's health care cost curve.
Unfortunately, it's bending it the wrong way.
The increasing cost of care is projected to rise dramatically as Obamacare is fully implemented.
In California, for example, it was recently reported that the cost of insurance on the Obamacare mandated exchange will be more than 100% higher than current rates for the healthiest young adults.
Let me give you the number.
This was the story we had two weeks ago that young Californians, well, young young Americans, because of their age and their relative health spend on average five hundred and eighty-four dollars a year on health care.
Actual care, actual treatment.
Their insurance premiums are going to go up.
Mandatory, $5,500 a year.
Young people, mandatory minimum $5,500 a year.
Or they can pay a fine for a couple of years that'll be less than that, but not for long, and then the fines eventually catch up.
The young are going to be forced to pay these exorbitant premiums that they don't need, nor would they ever want in order to help defray the costs of the elderly.
So it's sort of a reverse redistribution of wealth.
Actually, it's not.
It's the same old thing.
Young, able-bodied people, highly taxed to fund retirement and health benefits for the seasoned citizen population.
Anyway, the Forbes story here, that's the 10% or the 100% increase they're talking about.
I mean they're not they're not wrong.
And they also point out that the reason these costs are going to skyrocket is because competition is going to plummet.
Because Obamacare is effectively going to end the private sector health insurance market, taking away those options for customers to buy, leaving only the exchange to go to.
And when the exchange is all you've got, and you're required by law to have it, you must pay whatever they charge.
And they will not be subject to the competitive forces of a free market.
Therefore, everybody is going to get soaked.
Everybody.
Now, my friends, my point is, everything I've just told you was known a year before the vote on this bill was taken.
Forbes could have written this story the month before the bill was voted on.
And what would have happened had they done that?
And it's not just Forbes.
Every news organization was capable of learning what was going to happen with this bill.
They either chose not to inform themselves, or after they informed themselves, they ignored it so as not to harm the regime.
Because they are in the back pocket of Obama.
The news media in this country is just a branch office of the Democrat Party.
And so they were there to aid and abet Obama's quest.
But they knew, folks.
Now you knew because we knew we had delved into it.
We had dug deeply.
And we found out the details in these 2200 pages.
And we knew about the fine system.
And we knew what the costs were going to be.
We knew that the under one trillion dollar estimate was bogus.
We knew everything about this bill.
We knew more about what was in this bill than Obama knew.
Because the bottom line is Obama didn't care.
All he wanted was the transfer of the nation's health care system to the federal government.
The details.
He doesn't care.
He doesn't care it's going to cost you $5,500 or $10,000.
He's going to go out there and tell you how wonderful it is, your premiums are going down.
He doesn't care.
He got the bill.
He got it out of Congress, able to sign it, the details, you know more about it than he does.
Still to this day.
You probably know more about it in the media.
My point is the media knew this before it was voted on.
This is journalistic malpractice.
The American people could have been informed.
They could have been told they were being lied to.
They could have been properly informed about what this legislation really was and what it was really going to mean to them.
They could have been told all of that.
It was known.
It's in the bill.
Pelosi said we have to pass it to find out what's in it.
No.
We knew what was in it before it was voted on.
Truth of the matter is, most of the people who voted for it did not read it.
Ditto gang of eight immigration bill.
Most of the people that voted on the gang of eight immigration bill did not know all that's in it.
Max Baucus was famous last week for not knowing, I forget specifically what, but something really crucial about the gang eight bill.
He did not know.
And more and more doesn't matter, apparently.
The second story is this.
You people all for gay marriage, guess what?
The federal benefits, they really are not that different.
They're not that big.
Like other married couples, same-sex couples are about to learn that federal benefits for being married might not be all they're cracked up to be.
Really?
Really, you tell us this now.
There's our good old buddies at the AP.
So guess what?
The primary reason, the primary inequality.
The primary inequity, the primary unfairness, federal benefits.
That's why we must have gay marriage, because gay couples are being denied federal benefits.
Guess what?
They're about to learn that federal benefits are being married.
They're not all they're cracked up to be.
So you better be getting married for love.
Otherwise.
Ever heard of the divorce rate?
And we're back.
Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
And that's because I am doing what I was born to do.
And I'm not making this up.
Like other married couples, gay couples are about to learn that federal benefits for being married might not be all they're cracked up to be.
And again, this was known before all of this went down.
Social Security benefits for spouses can be generous, but only for couples with big disparities in their incomes.
The poor gay couples, particularly if they're raising children, are going to face the same huge penalty structure that's now faced by low-income households in general, said Eugene Sterley, a former Treasury official, now a fellow at the Urban Institute.
In that case, they may have won the court battle, but they're still stuck in a social structure where the government basic basically tells them, don't marry, or you're going to lose a lot of money.
Gay couples, if they're raising children, are going to face the same huge penalty structure now faced by low-income households in general.
In fact, gay couples, married gay couples at the top and bottom of the income scale, could face significant tax increases.
Did you know that?
Did you know any of this?
Any of you gay couples planning on getting married now?
Did you know any of this?
That federal benefits being married, not all that big, not all that's cracked up to be.
But be patient because we'll be back.
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