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July 9, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #1

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	Welcome to today's edition.
	Yes, sir.
	Greetings to you.
	Music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists, pornographers, smut peddlers, all of you out there here are the EIB network.
	Rush Limbaugh at 800-282-2882.
	The email address, lrushbow at EIBnet.com.
	Snerdley, you're into music and rap.
	Have you heard this new Jay-Z tune that's on his Magna Carta CD or album, whatever, that was just, well, it was just made available to Samsung phones.
	There's a little controversy about it.
	By the way, folks, great to have you here.
	A little low information reach out here.
	Just stick with me on this.
	Jay-Z, the well-known performing artist and entrepreneur, up-and-coming sports agent, which is you, you NFL fans and NBA, whatever, you haven't seen anything yet until Jay-Z gets some clients and it's happening.
	But that's another subject.
	Samsung, of course, manufactures plastic cell phones.
	And they're competing with Apple, as a lot of people are.
	And so they decided that they would try to get a leg up on Apple.
	They've got this new phone, the Galaxy S4.
	And so they arranged a promotion with the well-known entrepreneur, rapper, and up-and-coming sports agent, Jay-Z, who's, you know, his real name, Snerdley?
	Sean Carter.
	That's why his wife Beyonce is out there on the Mrs. Carter tour.
	And that's a whole other story.
	There are many stories with the Jay-Z family.
	At any rate, the deal was that we're going to download free.
	You're going to be able to receive free if you could download with your new Samsung phone, the latest Jay-Z CD.
	And it's Magna Carta Holy Grail.
	It's a new album.
	Magna Carta Holy Grail.
	Now, not everybody.
	It was like the first million or the first 500,000, whatever it was, first million.
	But here's the thing.
	The app that Samsung used to download it to provide it collected all kinds of data on the telephone owners.
	It was a data mining app that they used to provide the free Jay-Z album with.
	And there was an article published on July 4th in the New York Times criticizing Jay-Z and Samsung for using this app that required users to supply their phone status and their identity and their Facebook or Twitter information,
	which then gave Samsung and Rock Nation, that's Carter's holding company, gave them access to all of this private data from the fans.
	Now, the fans, you can imagine, were totally clueless.
	They had no idea.
	They just thought, holy wowie zowie, Jay-Z, Magna Carta, holy grail for free.
	And they did what they had to do, and they ended up having every bit of data about themselves transferred from their phone back to Samsung and whoever else.
	I don't really know who else got it.
	Maybe the NSA, maybe Vladimir Putin, who knows who got it?
	Edward Snowden on his way to Venezuela.
	They granted him asylum down there.
	So they went, talked to Politico, went and talked to Jay-Z about this, about all this data mining.
	And according to Dylan Byers, Politico, Jay-Z, aka Sean Carter, appears to agree that the data mining involved in the rollout for his new album was too invasive.
	And there was a Twitter back and forth between the politico writer and Mr. Z.
	And Dylan Byers tweeted, what's your reaction to the New York Times charge that your Magna Carta Holy Grail rollout was invasive in its surveillance of your fans?
	And Mr. Carter, Mr. Z, tweeted back, quote, sucks, must do better.
	Sucks, spelled S-U-X.
	Sucks, must do better.
	So there were a lot of people that were upset about this.
	Now, that's the backstory.
	Sucks, must do better.
	Sucks, must do.
	But that's not my point here.
	Jay-Z and this new Magna Carta Holy Grail, the lyrics on some of the tunes here, I can't read to you.
	The N-word is practically in every line of a song about Tom Ford, I guess, the fashion designer.
	And I got a couple of notes about this from people because Walmart is playing the song in certain stores with the lyrics unedited.
	Every other line features the N-word in there or the slang version of the word.
	And there's, for my spies, a bunch of nasty trash talk about women, you know, the whole hoes and B.I. Itch's thing and the N-word in there.
	You know, Mr. Z has become one of the hot gets on the New York media and society circuit.
	And we sit here, ladies and gentlemen, frequently and we talk about culture and who gets in trouble for doing what.
	You see where a bunch of people finally hit up that company, Capital One, say, drop Alec Baldwin.
	This guy's out there slurring.
	It was a conservative group.
	What are you doing when this guy does nothing but bash gaze all the time as your official spokesman?
	But Baldwin can say and do whatever he wants and hold on to all of his sponsors because he's a good liberal.
	And the same thing here with Mr. Carter.
	But, you know, here's, I don't know.
	I imagine that Paula Deen probably is on the comp list for Jay-Z's stuff.
	Snurdly just asked me if Paula Deen – what did you ask me?
	If she downloaded – I don't – I don't know if, I'm just, in all candor here, I don't know if Paula Dean uses Samsung.
	So I don't know if she's, and I don't know that she would use Mr. Carter for research, especially now.
	But my, Jay-Z has a wife at home by the name of Beyoncé Z.
	And I just, I've always wondered, I guess it's just showbiz.
	Mr. Z goes home after the day, tells Beyoncé Z what he recorded and reads the lyrics.
	And he said, Oh, that's great, honey.
	That's great.
	They're really liking it.
	This is so outrageous.
	You might even get that Limbaugh thug talking about you.
	I mean, what are they?
	Don, if your husband trafficked in this stuff and came home, what would I know?
	It's just me, I guess.
	But I just wonder if Beyoncé Z, no, you couldn't.
	You wouldn't sing this to your daughter.
	Don't even ask me to go there.
	I'm not even going to play with the lyrics.
	But anyway, I got an email from a friend of mine that was playing in the Walmart stores today with the lyrics.
	I mean, hot and heavy.
	So I just wanted to mention that.
	Speaking of Politico, those of you who were listening to the program yesterday might remember a call, a guy by the name of Tony from Tampa.
	Tony was fit to be tied.
	Tony was outraged.
	Tony was so mad he was spitting.
	Our phone lines got wet.
	The guy was livid.
	And he was talking very rapidly, which made it difficult for me to understand every word he was saying.
	And he started spouting names at people.
	And I didn't recognize many of the names.
	It turns out that he was watching the Fox business channel, and he was ticked off at listening to all the liberals there.
	And I said, well, Tony, then stop listening to them.
	Stop watching those people.
	That became this on Politico today.
	Headline, Rush Limbaugh tells Caller not to watch Fox.
	Rush Limbaugh had a message for one of his callers.
	Stop watching Fox News.
	Tony from Tampa called into Limbaugh's radio show on Monday to complain about the lack of outrage from the right over Obama's policies and the liberal war on coal.
	Tony mentioned Julie Roginsky saying that coal was horse and buggy stuff and Limbaugh asked who she was.
	Tony said she's a Democrat Obama-Olinskyite on a panel with Charles Payne and Neil Cavuto, at which point Limbaugh cut him off.
	We don't cut people off here.
	I simply said, oh, Tony, when he mentioned Cavuto and Charlie Payne, it's like he's watching Fox.
	And since it's Payne, it's got to be the Fox Business Channel.
	But maybe sometimes Payne crosses over.
	Maybe sometimes Payne guests on Cavuto.
	But I said, Tony, stop watching these people because they're intended to make you question your sanity.
	You need to stop watching these people because they're not going to change.
	That has become, Limbaugh told listeners to stop watching Fox.
	I did not tell anybody to stop watching Fox.
	I said, stop listening to these people that make you so mad.
	What else am I going to say?
	I don't watch these people that make me mad anymore.
	I gave that up years ago.
	What is the point?
	They're not going to.
	I told Tony they're not going to change.
	They're there to tick you off.
	Don't let it get to you.
	I mean, it's not like I haven't criticized Fox before.
	Have they ever heard me talk about Heraldo?
	The Grim Reaper?
	I mean, it is I, El Rushbo, who has opined that whenever you see Geraldo on TV, somebody's died.
	That's when they drag him out.
	Is that telling people not to watch Fox?
	And I know what some of you people, you said last week that the Fox business of the Fox Morning Show wouldn't let you talk about the Republicans and immigrationists.
	That's true.
	But I never said not to watch Fox.
	The Fox and Friends show called and asked me to come.
	HR is not here today.
	He's got a medical day off, but he could back me up on this.
	They requested for a specific couple of reasons.
	I don't need to get into them, but they requested that I appear.
	And I couldn't do it on the days in the week they wanted, but I did it the next week, which was Tuesday.
	And they said, what do you want to talk about?
	And I told them.
	And then that morning, like 15 minutes before the show, I get this note what they're going to talk about, leading all the Egypt.
	And I said, you guys are going to be wasting your time if you ask me about Egypt.
	Well, what do you want to talk about?
	So I told him again.
	And they never brought it up.
	After asking, they actually asked me three or four times, but that was interpreted by people as a blanket overall criticism of Fox.
	And it wasn't, I'm just informing all of it.
	You know, when I do these things, television is such a pain, folks.
	It just is such a pain.
	Even I wasn't even on camera, but I got an email.
	Why didn't you say this?
	Why didn't you talk about it?
	I tried.
	I tried.
	You don't know.
	I tried, but they just, they weren't interested in it that day.
	And that's it.
	Nothing more than that.
	I will be on Fox again.
	I will be urging people to watch Fox.
	Fox is the most watched news network in the country.
	Gallup had it yesterday.
	More people get their news from Fox News than anybody else.
	Now, if you add up the others, they will outnumber Fox.
	But if you take a side-by-side individual network-by-network comparison, Fox is it.
	It's numero-uno.
	I mean, Fox and I were on the same team.
	Even Obama has said the only opposition he got left is me and Fox.
	But see, these people in the media, they just, they can't stand it.
	They can't stand that.
	There's even two voices of opposition to Obama and liberal news.
	So now they're seeking to drive a wedge here.
	And they're trying to create these stories that I, El Rushbo, am urging people not to watch Fox because Fox is whatever.
	And, you know, this is such a big story.
	This is picked up by Mediaite.
	It's been picked up by Salon.
	It's incredible.
	A caller.
	When's the last time a caller made news like this on this program?
	Mediaite, Politico, Salon.
	I'd probably be the lead on the NBC Nightly News tonight.
	Let's take a brief time out, my friend.
	Stranger things have happened.
	Try this headline.
	Texas man accidentally shoots girlfriend while aiming at ex-girlfriend.
	As we continue our low-information outreach today, San Antonio man faces criminal charges after he accidentally shot his girlfriend while aiming at his ex-girlfriend.
	Local authorities say the incident took place early yesterday.
	The man's ex-girlfriend had unexpectedly arrived at his house and a verbal altercation ensued.
	Investigators say that the woman tried to prevent her boyfriend from shooting the ex-girlfriend, was unintentionally shot in the chest by her boyfriend.
	In the process, she was rushed to the hospital in critical condition.
	Her status has since been upgraded to stable.
	Who do you think they voted for?
	The off-season.
	Oh, National Journal.
	We're going to get into this in greater detail.
	This should not come as a surprise.
	National Journal has a story.
	White House has known for months that Obamacare implementation wouldn't work.
	No kidding.
	Now that the cat's out of the bag and now that they can't implement the thing, now we get a story.
	Oh, White House has known for months that it didn't work.
	How did the White House know for months that it wasn't going to work?
	Because it wasn't intended to work when you got right down to it.
	I know that that's something that may be a little bit difficult to believe or comprehend, but it had no prayer of working.
	And it has no prayer of working, but they're going to stick with it.
	The National Football League has seen a 75% increase in player arrests this offseason, according to an analysis of the San Diego Union Tribune's NFL Arrests Database.
	That's right, my friends.
	The San Diego Union Tribune has something called the NFL Arrests Database.
	In other words, it has so much content they had to make a database out of it.
	Keywords searchable, search it by crime, by criminal, by weapon, by victim, by number of arrests, convictions, any number of things.
	The most recent arrest, which has not yet been included in the Union Tribune's NFL Arrests Database, came Saturday when New York Giants linebacker Dan Connor was cuffed at Philadelphia International Airport for carrying a switchblade in his luggage.
	This brings the grand total of NFL incarcerations since February 4th to 35, February 4th, the day after Super Bowl.
	So that's when the offseason for the criminal database purpose begins for the arrest database.
	Labor economist Stephen Bronars analyzed the database, found that 0.78 players per team are arrested every offseason.
	He broke down the arrest by position.
	One out of every six players arrested are wide receivers.
	One out of seven are quarterbacks.
	One out of eight are linebackers.
	Quarterbacks somehow escape it.
	A lifelong Cleveland Browns fan has passed away, but not before making one final request of the team.
	The Browns fan's name was Scott Insminger, 55, lived in Mansfield, Ohio.
	He died on the 4th of July.
	He's a native of Columbus, Ohio.
	He was a musician, a season ticket holder for the Cleveland Browns.
	He wrote a song every year for the team, and he sent the song in, along with his advice on how the team should be run.
	According to his obituary in the Columbus Dispatch, Scott Insminger, Respectfully requests six Cleveland Browns pallbearers so the Browns can let him down one last time.
	The family also requested that everybody wear their Browns clothing to his funeral today.
	No word from the Cleveland Browns on the request for pall bearers to let him down one last time.
	By the way, ladies and gentlemen, the United States continues to lose its status as the number one nation in a number of categories.
	We've lost our number one status in yet another one.
	Mexico has surpassed the United States as the world's fattest country.
	70% of Mexican adults are overweight, obese, or morbidly obese.
	According to the latest estimates, no thanks to trends like industrialized agriculture and the invasion of fast food chains from America.
	It's in the New York Daily News.
	Is Mexico even fatter than the U.S.?
	Well, no thanks to industrialized agriculture, widely available cheap junk food, and the invasion of fast food chains from America.
	Mexicans are the world's new losers at the Battle of the Bulge, according to some estimates.
	70%, think of this now.
	70% of Mexico's population is either overweight or obese, morbidly obese.
	And one in six Mexicans suffers from diabetes.
	That's roughly as many as the country's notorious gang violence.
	70,000 people killed each year of diabetes, it says here, which is many people killed because of notorious gang violence.
	Now, what does this mean for illegal immigration?
	70% of, well, we've got to relate it to one of the hot issues of the 70% of Mexicans are morbidly obese.
	70%.
	You would think they'd be easily spottable if they tried to illegally enter the United States.
	And if they're coming across the border with a couple of happy meals in hand or whatever, then it's probably a dead giveaway.
	But note, even though we have lost our number one status and the Mexicans are now the fattest country in the world, it's still our fault because we are exporting junk food.
	There's a survey that has taken place in the United Kingdom.
	It's discovered that men get bored on a shopping spree with their wife or girlfriend in just 26 minutes.
	However, women get tired of shopping after two hours.
	And that's only because they haven't found anything they like or they haven't found what it is they set out to buy.
	Study of 2,000 Britons found that eight in 10 men found shopping with their partner boring.
	45% admitted that they avoid shopping with their partner altogether, and most of them admit they do it just to avoid the hassle of saying no.
	26 minutes.
	Average fatigue time shopping.
	Okay, audio soundbites.
	I had a, oh, oh, darn it.
	I forgot to send the link up to substitute broadcast engineer here today.
	Friday, Mamon is out antiquing again.
	Speaking of shopping with his wife.
	Friday, I want you to hang on.
	I've got a YouTube link I want to fire up to you, and then I need you to roll it off and have it available as soon as you can get it done.
	I'll get it up to you in the next obscene profit time.
	Darn, it's one thing I forgot.
	By the way, we've got the link posted at my website, rushlimbaugh.com.
	I put it up.
	It's my, what do you call my cousin's son?
	Is that cousin once removed?
	I just call him my cousin because cousin once removed.
	Can you imagine what they think that means in Rio Linda?
	That might mean it's under the forch.
	Somebody under the.
	Anyway, my cousin Stephen Limbaugh III is a famous musician in Hollywood.
	And he posted a YouTube video of his piano version of the Star Spangled Banner with the bobblehead doll of George W. Bush.
	You got it?
	You got it ready to go?
	He's got it.
	This Friday, I'll tell you, this guy is on the case.
	I told him to wait.
	I'll have it up to him in mere minute.
	And he didn't wait.
	He took the initiative and he went ahead and did it on his own.
	Do you realize how rare that is?
	Most people, you tell them to wait, they go, cool, I'll be happy to wait.
	And they hope you forget.
	So do they never have to do it?
	Friday took the initiative.
	Okay.
	Now, this is obviously the audio only, but the video is of my cousin Stephen III at the piano playing the Star Spangled Man.
	It's really cool when you look at it.
	We've got it linked at RushLimbaugh.com.
	A national anthem for piano.
	And again, that's my cousin, Stephen Limbaugh III, the son of my cousin, Stephen Limbaugh III in Hollywood.
	You really have to see the video because he's one of these Leonard Bernstein types who conducted in a wild fashion.
	Stephen plays in a wild fashion.
	He's got a little George Bush bobblehead doll on the piano.
	While we're doing audio, I was sent an email last night that contained a speech by Ted Cruz's father.
	Now, Ted Cruz, the senator from Florida, or Texas, is a great conservative.
	He is a good speaker.
	He's a good orator.
	It turns out he gets it from his dad.
	Saturday night in Salt Lake City, this was during a Free the People rally put on by one of our sponsors, in fact, the people at Freedom Works.
	Raphael Cruz, the father of Senator Ted Cruz, spoke.
	We have three soundbites.
	Here's the first of three.
	I grew up in Cuba under a strong military oppressive dictatorship.
	So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution.
	I remember during that time a young charismatic leader rose up talking about hope and change.
	His name was Fidel Castro.
	And, you know, we all followed him.
	We thought he was going to be our liberator.
	As a result of being involved in the revolution, I was imprisoned, I was tortured, but by the grace of God, I was able to leave Cuba on a student visa and came to the greatest country on the face of the earth.
	Rafael Cruz, the father of Ted Cruz, this was Saturday night of Freedom Works Free the People rally.
	Here's the second soundbite.
	I think the most ominous words I've ever heard was in the last two State of the Union addresses when our president said, if Congress does not act, I will act unilaterally.
	Not much different than that or bearded friend that I left behind in Cuba, governing by decree, by executive order, just like a dictator like Fidel Castro.
	I feel that without a shadow of a doubt, outside of the Bible, the greatest two documents that have ever been penned are the Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence.
	This guy knocking it out of the park, Raphael Cruz, the father of Ted Cruz, the senator from Texas, again at a Freedom Works rally Saturday night in Salt Lake City, Utah, called Free the People.
	Here's the last soundbite.
	The reason those two documents have lasted for 230 years is because they were written on the knees of the framers.
	Men of God seeking wisdom from above.
	And those truths are as relevant today as they were 230 years ago.
	When we see the intrusion on our liberties, when we see whether it is looking at our emails or listening to our telephone calls, or when we see the IRS targeting Tea Party groups, freedom-loving groups for their political ideology, I say we can remain silent no more.
	And that's again Rafael Cruz.
	Ted Cruz is dead.
	Saturday night in Salt Lake City at the Freedom Works Free the People rally.
	Brief timeout.
	Back with much more before you know it.
	You know, there's one thing that did not make it into the story where Mexico has surpassed America as the fattest country on earth, and that is food stamps.
	You know, we advertise food stamps in Mexico.
	The regime runs radio ads, I believe, maybe sometimes even TV, for food stamps.
	For those in Mexico thinking of immigrating, legally or illegally, you have to make that distinction to the United States.
	Okay, from the Wall Street Journal, otherwise known as the Open Borders Cheap Labor Lobby, President Obama plans to mount a Wall Street Journal, Open Borders Cheap Labor Lobby.
	I mean, the journal, well, the whole thing, the whole paper, they're part of the Open Borders Amnesty Crowd.
	They want the influx of labor, cheap labor, for the business audience that they have.
	Everybody knows that.
	That's not controversial.
	Anyway, a story by Peter Nicholas.
	President Obama plans to mount a more visible effort to push through an immigration overhaul that is heading toward an uncertain fate in the Republican-controlled House, marking a risky shift from the largely hands-off approach he has employed to date.
	Now, that is a reference unnamed to the Limbaugh theorem.
	And what the Wall Street Journal writer is really saying here is that Obama is going to risk becoming attached to an issue in order to push it.
	The Limbaugh theorem holds that Obama maintains, of course, it's somewhat slipping now, but for the longest time, a high approval number, even though people disapprove of the way the country's going and disapprove his agenda, Obama never was attached to any of it because he's constantly campaigning against his own agenda, making people think he's fighting for the same things they are.
	And of course, that works like a charm for the low information crowd, so the Limbaugh theorem.
	Well, what the journal is saying here, Obama is going to go out there and he is going to mount a more visible effort in order to pressure House Republicans on the immigration bill.
	Now, what this is, don't be fooled, folks.
	Do not be fooled.
	This is not Obama turning away from the Limbaugh theorem.
	This is just more proof of it.
	One of the things that I have mentioned many times and believed is that Obama wants amnesty to die in the House so that he could use this against the Republicans as a campaign issue for the House and Senate in 2014.
	And I think this could be exactly that, Obama just announcing his midterm campaign.
	With Obama getting out and pushing this, what are the odds?
	Nobody wants this.
	Amnesty is not a majority opinion.
	So here's Obama out essentially pushing it.
	He might drive up opposition to it.
	And if he does, it'll be by design.
	Now, this business of immigration in the House, folks, we're hanging by a thread on this in the House, and I have to tell you why.
	If Boehner, if the leadership brings the Senate bill to the House, it looks like it's got enough Republican, rhino-Republican support that it just might pass.
	Nobody would know for sure, obviously, until the votes are taken.
	But there are reportedly 20 to 30 Republicans in the House that have just drank Kool-Aid, and they are scared to death of being hated by the Hispanics, scared to death to vote against this thing for fear of what Democrat opponents in 2014 would say about him in the campaign.
	So they are hoping that Boehner doesn't bring the bill up because those 20 to 30 might feel the external pressure to vote for it.
	The Democrats all would.
	So it would be tight.
	So the thread that we're hanging by is the Speaker, John Boehner, has pledged not to bring the bill to the floor of the House.
	If he doesn't, then of course the House would have to come up with their own bill, and then there would be a conference.
	And at this point, I said the forces, there are many, well, not many, but some say in the conservative media, formerly in the open borders camp, formerly pro-amnesty, who have now abandoned it because they simply can't abide the House bill or the Senate bill.
	The Senate bill is an absolute, just like Obamacare, it is an absolute disaster.
	It is so bad that Republicans who want amnesty can't even support it.
	It's that bad.
	One of them is Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard, who has a column that he wrote with Rich Lowry condemning, berating, disapproving the Senate bill, the Gang of Hate bill.
	So Obama's out there.
	He's going to start pushing this.
	He's going to pressure Boehner in the House to bring the Senate bill up for a vote.
	We're hanging by a thread here on this.
	You've got to take a break.
	Sit tight.
	We'll be back.
	Don't go away.
	I intended to get a couple of phone calls in in this hour, but it didn't happen.
	It's a sad thing.
	It's very sad.
	And we'll fix that, correct that as the next hour gets underway, which will be momentarily.
	Thanks for being with us today, folks.
	Don't go anywhere.

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