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July 18, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 18, 2013, Thursday, Hour #3
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Yes, sir, we bob, we're back.
Rush Limboy and the Excellence and Broadcasting Network, the Limboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I'm probably one of the nicest guys you'd ever meet.
I'm a harmless, lovable little fuzzball.
I am one of the politest, the most unassuming, the most conscientious, considerate people you would ever run into.
Do you think I ought to tell them what's going on or should I leave that alone?
You know, what should I leave it alone or should I tell them what's going on?
All right.
Well, see, that's the thing.
If I if this is my problem, if I talk about it, it's going to take something happening in a very small place and make it national.
It's just it's uh I'm sorry for even bringing it up, because if I don't now tell you what it is, you're just gonna think that I'm toying with you.
And I'm not.
But this it just, you know, I I I look at this public image I have, and it just astounds me.
I'm one of the most soft spoken, docile, considerate, conscientious, nicest, unobtrusive, get out of everybody's way kind of guys you would ever run into.
I go out of my way not to be noticed.
I go out of my way not to be.
I do.
I try to hide whenever I go anywhere.
I try to stay out of everybody's way.
And yet, I mean, there's some people that think I am Satan incarnate.
Just amazing.
Anyway, we're we're we got one big broadcast hour to go here, folks, and we're doing open line Friday on Thursday because uh who we have tomorrow, guests.
Good, good.
Mark Stein's back in tomorrow.
Um, and I am one of the politest guys too.
I will thank Stein in advance for uh doing the program tomorrow.
From the UK Daily Mail, women who marry poorer spouses make more money over time.
While those women who have high earning husbands actually take home less.
This from new research.
Economists who tracked University of Chicago MBA graduates for more than a decade discovered that the choice of a partner is an important factor in a woman's earning power.
So what does that mean?
It means no matter what you do, a man is still determining how the little lady gets paid.
Well, what other conclusion can you come to?
I What did you think before you knew?
What do you think the survey was gonna say?
That they seek the secret to higher earnings for women is to marry a poor man.
What stands to reason?
Yeah, they have to work harder.
Have to work harder.
You marry some poor schlob and you want to live well, it's gonna be up to you.
Um but if if you if you marry a um higher earning husband, you'll take home less.
And one of the reasons for that is that wherever the woman is employed, the boss will say, Well, your husband does well, and you got two incomes that we don't need to pay you as much.
That probably happens.
And vice versa.
I've been I've I've been employed at places where single people got bigger raises than married people because there were two incomes.
And the boss said, you don't need as big a raise because your your spouse works.
But the single person got, that may be the key to it.
So according to this, who a woman marries is one of the biggest determinants in how much money she will earn.
If he is some poor schlub, she makes more.
It's not her degrees, it's not her experience, not her talent, it's who she marries.
See, that's what the story is saying.
That a woman's fate is still tied to whatever kind of guy she ends up with.
Now, the survey here, and here are the numbers, by the way.
Women whose husbands earn less than $100,000 tend to make more money than those married to wealthier men.
But the greatest impact on women's ambitions is caused by time off to have children.
That is said to be the number one determining factor in women's salaries.
Those who take time off to have children don't earn as much as the women who punt on children.
Now, are there real life case studies that we can look to?
There might be.
Let's examine the Clintons.
And let's go back to college days for the Clintons.
Bill was at Yale.
Hillary was at Wellesley and then ended up at Yale.
And at some point, we don't know the order of events here, but at some point Hillary decided to hitch her wagon to Bill and follow him wherever he went and take over wherever he went and ended up.
Now, Bill also made at some point, and for reasons we'll never know, the decision to hook up with Hillary.
Well, I don't mean hook up in the modern vernacular.
He made the decision to marry Hillary.
That we will never know.
It's just going to be one of those eternal mysteries.
But then they left their university neighborhoods, and they went where?
They went to the swamp.
They went to the domestic jungle known as Arkansas.
That's how elitists look at it.
It's not me.
I grew up in Missouri.
But I'm telling you, Northeastern liberals, Arkansas, may as well be as big a slave state as Mississippi was.
It's the South.
It's hotter than hell, and people have strange accents.
And there's a lot of sand instead of soil.
This is something they notice.
They go to Arkansas, they don't even see real dirt.
They see sand.
They say this place must have been underwater a lot longer than New York was.
And therefore the people that came out of the ocean are stupider than we are.
So they go there.
And Bill returns home.
Arkansas's his home.
Hillary needs a visa.
Bill runs for governor.
The gubernatorial salary is $25,000.
Hillary, Hillary goes to the Rose Law Firm and earns six figures.
So the survey data applies to the Clintons because Bill was poor.
Bill even at one time drove an El Camino.
He put astroTurf in the back as a compromise.
Because there was no back seat in an El Camino.
The back seat was what do you call it?
Trailer deck.
And so Bill, rather than have to use the factory metal and put some astroturf on it.
And like later in life joked about it often.
And how productive he was on that astroturf in the El Camino.
But he's running around for years he's making a gubernatorial salary 25 grand.
Hillary's the breadwinner.
Hillary is earning six figures.
Hillary's learning the stock market.
She's making a killing in cattle futures and pork bellies and things like that.
She even tried her hand at overnight real estate wealth.
It's called Whitewater.
And Bill, while he's making 25 grand is running around with TV info, babes and uh pole dancers.
And Hillary's outplug it away.
The survey works in the case of the Hillary uh the Clintons.
Damn if that isn't amazing.
How about that?
It actually works.
The poorer the man, the higher the salary of the wife will be.
John Kerry, the same thing.
John Kerry, the same thing.
John Kerry, I mean, it literally had nothing until one of his best friends' wife's uh began to appeal to him.
John Hines, who then unfortunately died in a uh in a helicopter crash, which opened the door for Kerry, now carries in there windsurfing and doing stuff that elite rich people do.
And screwing up the State Department.
I mean it in fact, you can look at a lot of people, a lot of elites on the left, you can find that this is true.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
I'm going to start here with uh was it uh number 12, Marco Rubio yesterday during a Senate foreign relations committee hearing interviewed our United Nations ambassadorial nominee, Samantha Power.
Now Samantha Power is a hardcore leftist and as such thinks this country is immoral and unjust in many ways, and has said so and has written so.
And she is married to a man named Cass Sunstein who thinks the Constitution was written ass backwards.
Cass Sunstein believes the Constitution was a mistake because it did not grant specific powers to the government.
What the Constitution does is limit the government, and Cass Sunstein thinks that that was the biggest mistake the founders made.
Because while the Constitution limits what government can do and spells out the freedoms of the people, it limits the quote unquote freedom movement of government, and Cass Sunstein and the boys love the government, and they think the government should have all the power.
So the Constitution's bass acquires, it's 180 degrees wrong, and they have spent their careers saying so.
Cass Sunstein came up, remember husband now Samantha Power came up with the description of the Constitution as a charter of negative liberties.
And I remember when I first heard that, it just intellectually didn't compute.
What in the world?
Negative liberty?
Because the Constitution is about our liberty and freedom.
The individual, it was the first time in recorded human history where a country was founded on the premise that the state served the citizen.
And here come these guys, all upset about that.
Intellectually, when I first came across, I didn't understand.
I couldn't understand that.
How could anybody oppose individual liberty and freedom?
But these people do.
And so the Constitution to them negative liberties, meaning it was negative in its description of what the government could do.
Obama has said the same thing, by the way.
So anyway, that's who Samantha Power.
She's married to that guy, she agrees with him, she thinks this country's unjust and immoral.
She believes this country's imposed its views on the round of the world uh on people.
She believes this country is uh a militaristic uh power which uh uh meddles in places and never should be and go and this kind of thing.
So she'd been nominated to be ambassador to the U.N. And it stands to reason that Republicans on the Senate committee investigating her would ask her about this.
And we would hope to have representatives of this country in foreign policy that like the country, that don't think it was a mistake, that don't disagree with the way it was founded, and Samantha Powers clearly does.
So Marco Rubio had his turn interviewing her yesterday, and this is uh this is about a half minute soundbite excerpt of one such exchange.
Listen to this.
I would categorize the Rwanda situation as a crime, as the words use permitted by the United States.
Which ones did the United States commit or sponsor that you were referring to?
I think this is the greatest country on earth.
Um we have nothing to apologize for.
Okay.
So you don't have any in mind now that we've committed or sponsored.
I will not apologize for America.
I will stand uh very proudly if confirmed uh behind the U.S. placard.
Uh no, I understand, but do you believe the United States has committed or sponsored crimes?
I believe the United States is the greatest country on earth.
I really do.
That's a crock.
She doesn't, and this is he did a great job here because the subject was Rwanda, and she is like every other liberal.
Rwanda is our fault.
Bill Clinton has even apologized for it.
You know, I I was occupied doing other stuff, and you know, I I should have never let that happen.
I should have never let the Tootsies just commit genocide against the Hootsis, and it happened, and I'm terribly sorry.
It's one of the biggest mistakes I made.
And the left, they've run around, they've apologized for it.
What happened to Rome?
There was a genocide, and they believe that the United States made it happen.
And she has said that the United States has committed crimes against people.
She is on record as having said that.
So Rubio brings up Rwanda to her.
Because she did say at one time, I would categorize the Rwanda situation as a crime permitted by the United States.
So he asked her, what crimes did we commit?
I think this is the greatest country ever.
I really do.
If you have to say it, there must be some doubt about it.
And back we are.
Yeah, I've been watching the uh the open championship, the British Open.
I've had it up there on ESPN.
Now I know it's Thursday.
Opening day, and I know that Tigers plague, but there's nobody there.
I mean, there's the the galleries are around Tiger and and maybe one or two other players, but all the stands and bleachers.
And it's a beautiful day over there.
And they're all waiting for the birth of the royal baby.
Everybody probably in London waiting for the birth of the royal baby so they can be part of the story.
The Brits do that.
They wait for some big event, they all go to wherever it's happening.
And they leave flowers and notes and pictures so they can say they were part of the story.
Here's uh here, Jeff in Minneapolis.
Hi, Jeff.
Welcome to the program.
Great to have you.
Hi, Russ.
I've been listening to you since 93, since my older brother kind of got me hooked on to you.
And I know that you are documented to be 98.7 now, I think it went up percent always right.
It's uh right now has been documented as uh almost always right 99.7% of the time.
Well, my question is, I've been listening to you now, what, 20 years?
Why is it so low?
Well, it's not really low.
It it it at this at this level, when you are uh by virtue of official opinion audits almost always right 99.7% of the time.
You've got to be, I have to be right.
Maybe I mean 100% right for a year to move it up one-tenth of a point.
I mean, when you're almost always right 50% of the time, then you don't have to be right very often to move it up.
Right.
But when you're at the level I'm at.
In fact, 93, where you said you were listening, I would think I was uh the the number then I'd have to look it up, but I think it was like 96 point something back then.
That's that's that's how slow the process is.
Got it.
I used to I used to watch you a lot in college, your TV show, and boy, it was it was rough there watching you in college uh on a TV with all the other people around me, but boy, I I've impressed with that number, and I I'm I'm surprised that it has not gone up a little bit higher over the years.
Well, I know I know it's hard.
I look it, I know I and I appreciate this.
I myself have uh you know, I've never said this, but I've disputed the Sullivan group's audits a couple of times.
I mean, there there have been.
See, the problem is when I'm it doesn't matter if I'm really profoundly right when everybody else is wrong.
There's no extra credit for that.
Just being right is all of it.
Even when I'm the only one who got it, there's no extra credit for it.
And I I've disputed them, I think of a couple of times, and they've showed me the uh the data.
And and they've been right.
San Diego mayor refuses to resign after sexual harassment claims.
Who harassed him?
Oh.
Oh, he's a d he harassed.
Well, he's is a Democrat, it's not gonna be a big deal.
Um Democrat San Diego Mayor refuses to resign after sexual harassment.
I uh uh totally understandable.
It's not a big deal anymore.
Democrats do it.
You watch it.
I guarantee you can have Democrat analysts on television excusing it and saying it's a Republicans playing dirty politics again, and this man needs his privacy and he's to work through the issues and so forth.
Just just send Clinton out there to do a I don't know, a fundraiser for the Clinton Global Initiative and include this guy and uh and he can always say he was harassed by a couple of them, and that's where he learned how.
What do you Democrats are never held to the to the standard that for crying out loud, look at Clinton is the biggest star the Democrat Party has right now.
I mean, he's bigger than Obama.
Still bigger than Obama with the nostalgia crowd, the fundraising crowd and all that.
Do you know this date is July 18th?
You know on what happened, it's date 1969.
It's date 69.
You really don't.
Wow.
Look, it's with this San Diego May, it's just sex.
What's the big deal?
And and did it did it uh prevent him from leading doing his job.
Probably not.
July 18, 1969.
Ted Kennedy drove off a bridge and really hurt his neck and had to wear a neck brace for like three months.
It happened in some little place in uh in in uh Massachusetts.
And everybody was worried about Senator Kennedy.
They were worried whether his back was permanently injured from this, and whether he would ever uh walk normally again, whether he would ever be able to make love again, uh at least in the missionary position.
There were great fears that Senator Kennedy would would uh have to wear a neck brace uh for for a long time.
There was uh just now just uh you know he was uh taking some people home and it was late at night and it accidentally drove off the bridge.
And uh it was I mean a lot of people.
I mean, it was it was amazing.
I was that was my second year in broadcasting as the VJ, and the station KMOK Girardo was really working at had mutual news.
Remember the Mutual News Network.
And we got this um now this was not on July 18th, this is like in September, but we got this warning at Senator Kennedy was going to issue a statement.
And I remember it was a daytime radio station.
We had to sign off at a certain time every night per month that coordinated with sundown.
We're not allowed to be on the air at night.
And Senator Kennedy's statement about his neck brace and and uh the anguish that he experienced in this accident.
It's amazing.
He timed the conclusion of it right at that moment we had to sign off.
It was like he was doing it for me, so that I would not violate FCC regulations.
It's just amazing the timing of it.
Um, it was the Dyke Bridge.
The name of the was the Dyke Bridge, no longer there.
The bridge was uh caused so much anguish for Senator Kennedy that the bridge is no longer there.
I remember first time I flew into Martha's Vineyard to play golf, thought about putting uh chaff on uh EIB one in case surfaced air missile attack was launched against me upon my arrival route.
Turned out that wasn't necessary, and I asked my host, could I go see could you show me the bridge where Senator Kennedy was uh was almost killed and and and severely injured?
And he said he's not here anymore.
The uh the bridge, they they they took it down because the bridge it was it was just uh I don't know, it it was something that they didn't want to exist because they didn't want it to remind Senator Kennedy of the near-death experience he had had that the uh neck brace that Senator Kennedy had, I'd never forget that.
That that he was so wounded, he was so uh uh well not wounded, I mean injured in this uh in this accident.
And he was brave, man.
He had to swim a lot.
He had to, you know, it's right he named his dog Splashes after this.
Uh and and he and we gave him nickname Swimmer.
He um he had uh he had to swim a long way.
It was an old mobile that drove off the road.
He was behind the wheel, but it was the car that did it.
And he uh he had to surface and uh very brave and courageous and swam off.
Swam off to the uh to the shore.
And so this is the anniversary of the Ted Kennedy neck brace.
Is essentially uh what it is.
Uh back to the phones.
Here's uh Ryan in uh Louisiana.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Nice to talk to you, Rush.
Thank you, sir.
I have a question.
Um with Obamacare going into effect, a little nervous.
Obamacare going into effect um companies putting hiring people and putting a lot of people at part-time.
Do you think the Democrats will use this as a political ploy in a 2014 elections, midterm elections, to say that they created jobs?
I don't think the Democrats are have to.
I think the media will do that for them.
That is an excellent, by the way, that you are you have swerved into something that's very perceptive.
You are very shrewd.
A lot of jobs in this country are going to be converted to part-time jobs, and they're going to be reported as new.
They will be, folks.
A lot of people will lose full-time work, transferred to part-time status so that companies do not have to pay Obamacare benefits, and they'll be recorded as first-time job holders.
And that's how it's going to be reported.
I wouldn't doubt for a minute the media will try to take those figures and talk about all these new jobs Democrats have created.
Or that Obama has.
But I think it's entirely feasible that something like that would take place.
Ryan, thanks, which I really appreciate it.
We got a brief timeout.
Uh-uh.
Oh, wait a minute.
I just uh holy cow, this guy, this mayor out in Sandy, Bob Filner is his name.
And according to the ABC affiliate, KGTV San Diego, Mayor Bob Filner, to deliver keynote address at benefit for sexual harassment victims.
When was that gonna be?
Are they doing that now?
This has to be something that was before this.
He can't take but I wouldn't put it past it, but I can't believe that.
Let it I'll check.
A brief timeout.
Back after this.
Don't go away.
Okay, here you go from yesterday.
San Diego Television.
Eyeball News 10 has learned that Mayor Bob Filner has agreed to be the keynote speaker at a benefit for sexual harassment victims.
A women's veterans group tells Channel 10 eyeball news that the mayor's camp has just confirmed the appearance.
This was yesterday.
Filner originally scheduled to attend as an award recipient.
The uh the real headline is Mayor Bob Filner to deliver keynote address at benefit for sexual assault victims.
And this part you gotta love.
Filner was originally scheduled to attend as an award recipient.
I understand that Bill Clinton getting the Lifetime Achievement Award at the sexual harassment convention that this Filner guy is uh appearing at.
And you ask me.
I mean, you you you express surprise he's not resigning.
Hell he's not resigning, he's getting an award.
And he's a keynote speaker at an event, I guess, on how to do it.
And that's why I say.
No, of course he's not gonna deny he thirdly, it is a different age.
America is changing.
This isn't the 40s anymore.
This isn't even the nineties anymore.
You better get with it.
He's not denying it.
He's going to be keynoting a speech about it.
Probably will give instructions on how to do it.
And Bill Clinton as the lifetime award recipient.
Cal Yumet Michigan, Jason, your next open line Friday, great to have on Thursday.
Great to have you here.
Yeah, pleasure to be here, Ross.
Uh I just got a really quick question for you.
I haven't been able to get an answer from anybody.
Um as far as this whole Obama agenda here.
Um he's getting everybody or wants to get everybody on the system, welfare, food stamps, free cell phones, and all this stuff.
What happens when everybody's on the system?
Who uh is it gonna be funded?
Who's gonna pay for it then when everybody's there?
Well, uh I I don't understand where this is all going.
Well, that means the uh this the the statistical truth is that not everybody will be.
Uh but all they need is 51%.
And then they will never lose another election.
That's why, Jason.
Okay.
If they the more people, they don't need 100%.
There's always gonna be people gonna work, always gonna have initiative.
They're always gonna be entrepreneurs.
Always people are gonna want more than whatever the government gives them.
There's people, everybody has different ambition levels and uh different levels of drive and that kind of thing.
But all they need is 51% depending on government, and they'll never lose an election, and then they'll have never-ending power, and that's what they want.
And that's the quest.
And they don't care what it costs terms of national debt, uh gross domestic product, uh, economic damage.
They don't care.
The Federal Reserve can print all the money they want, it doesn't matter.
It doesn't have to be the money that they're spending.
The debt doesn't matter to them.
It may as well not exist.
This is all about power and then the level of control over everybody that they will have with power that they see as unchallengeable.
Okay, Mark Stein will be here tomorrow, folks.
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