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Aug. 2, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 2, 2013, Friday, Hour #3
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Hey, Sturley get this in news from the Hill.com.
New York Harlem Congressman Charlie Wrangle says that Tea Party activists are white crackers.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's okay.
He's a blunt.
You can say.
And Ray Don Chong is half black, so she can call Oprah a house.
You know what she really said?
She said if you look at the way Oprah looks.
Ray Don Chong said Oprah looks like 60 years ago she would have been a housekeeper, luckily.
She would not have been a house N-word.
She would have been a field N-word.
Ray Don Chong said that way back on uh July 19th.
But it's okay.
TMZ says it's okay because Ray Don Chong is half black anyway.
It doesn't matter.
Meanwhile, they make up and lie and say that I blamed Detroit's problems on black people when I didn't.
I blame it on liberals and Democrats and the New York the mayor Colem Young.
Ha.
Anyway, the second half of the Greta interview is tonight at 10 on the Fox News Channel, and 85% of it you have not seen.
And if you didn't watch Monday, you haven't seen any of it.
If you watched Monday, 85% of it brand new.
Great to have you on Open Line Friday.
Wow, what a week.
Rush Limbaugh plodding on.
Ladies and gentlemen, Fox, by the way, I really intended to take more phone calls today.
Every time I intend, right to the moment that I intend to go to the phones, some new news story comes out.
I feel compelled.
Because see, folks, I live in a not fear, but it's a it's a compulsion.
If something happens that's fairly newsworthy or major, I don't want over the weekend you hearing about it and think, well, Rush didn't mention this.
I don't want that ever.
This is you on the cutting edge of societal evolution if you listen.
You hear it here first.
For example, I'll give you an example.
There is a Chris Christie, governor of New Jersey, has a new commercial out, and this commercial.
Let me get the exact story here.
New Christie ad embraces Christie Kratz.
A new Chris Christie re-election ad highlights a phenomenon in New Jersey known as Christie Kratz, Democrats who support Governor Christie for re-election.
Some time ago.
Three weeks, month, not sure.
I predicted to you, and some of you might have thought I was kidding, but I wasn't.
And I've said it since, and I think the Democrat presidential nomination is going to be what Governor Christie seeks.
I think he's going to seek the Democrat party nomination.
And nobody from anywhere has called to tell me to be quiet about that or that I'm wrong, or you ought to.
Nobody's called to say, yeah, you're right either.
Don't misunderstand.
Normally something like that creates, you know, it's not true.
What the hell are you talking about?
What are you trying to kill me, man?
That's not been said.
Christy Kratz.
So I don't think Hillary's gonna be the nominee.
I just don't go along with all this conventional wisdom stuff.
I just don't.
Buy it.
No, I think her undoing is she's a has been.
Her undoing is it's been Hillary's turn for eight years now.
Hillary been on the cum for eight years.
Undoing is the fact that she's who she is.
I mean the undoing and what why why is she is she being considered presidential material because she's so great, the country needs her?
No.
She's been considered because Republicans are scared to death of her, and the media's been pushing her, and they still owe her for everything she did for Bill.
And for uh and for Obama.
Reporter with Breitbart just asked Wrangle about the cracker remark.
Oh, he's denying it now.
Said he never said it.
Said it's a Southern term that New Yorkers don't use.
Well, the Hill.com says that Wrangle called Tea Party activist white crackers.
The Hill article is weird.
I mean, I have to admit that.
They don't they don't they don't quote the line where Wrangell uses the word crackers.
Here's the uh here's the Wrangle line from Talking Points Memo.
It's the same group we faced in the South with those white crackers and the dogs and the police.
They didn't care about how they looked.
So he's comparing them to the Tea Party activists or white crackers.
He's making a comparison.
Now the people that Wrangles talking about here were Democrats.
They were white Democrats.
Hillary's over the hill is the point.
I probably shouldn't say that.
That's my impression.
I mean, Hillary's have been there done that thing.
H.R., are you still living in mortal fear she can be the nominee and is gonna get elected?
Oh.
Oh.
My prediction.
Well, yeah, I did.
You know, I did say that I was, I was glaringly wrong in one prediction about Hillary.
You know what it was?
You remember what it was?
That was she would not be senator.
I'd I either said she wouldn't run or she wouldn't get elected.
I said, I forget which one.
And I was profoundly wrong about that.
So my predictions about Hillary have been up and down, if you uh I think I just think she's over the hill and country's probably over the Hillary in the manner speaking.
Uh, let's see.
By the way, news here from Fox.
And in a nutshell, what this story is.
I have it here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
Fox News got a hold of some documents that show the Obama regime is hiring people for a behavioral insights team that'll try to influence people's behavior in any number of ways.
From insulating your attic, saving for retirement.
These documents show the White House is already working on such projects with almost a dozen federal agencies, including Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture.
And now the headline, government knows best, White House creates nudge squad to shape behavior.
Federal government hiring what it calls a behavioral insights team that'll look for ways to subtly influence your behavior.
Program still in its early stages.
Documents show the White House already working on such projects with a dozen federal departments and agencies.
Behavioral sciences can be used to help design public policies that work better, cost but that's this boy.
This is liberalism, folks, exactly what I was talking about yesterday.
You have to behave as they do.
You must.
There is no freedom, there is no liberty.
They must impose their way of life on you.
And I always try to give examples because I know there are people, what do you mean?
That's crazy.
What do you New York Mayor Bloomberg?
It's fine if he doesn't want to eat salt.
But guess what?
Nobody in New York should and can't if he gets his way.
Trans fat smoking, whatever pops, sugar, 16 ounce, soft drinks, and only.
It's exactly what I mean.
You don't know how to live.
You have to be forced to do what they want you to do.
Not even what they think is right, just what they want you to do.
And so now here's the regime, and they've already got a nudge squad.
They're putting together a unit to shape behavior.
They're not content to let you live on your own.
They don't trust you to do what they want you to do.
And you doing what you want to do isn't acceptable.
There's a new poll.
This is from the American Spectator.
77% of Americans support either delaying or repealing Obamacare's individual mandate.
And It's an extensive survey, 2,076 registered voters.
28% say the individual mandate should be delayed.
49% say it should be repealed.
Among those who favor delay or repeal of the mandate, 91% of Republicans, 77% of independence.
And sixty-five percent of Democrats say either repeal it or delay it, the individual mandate.
So here we are again.
Republicans, hello.
I mean, we got an opportunity here to reach out and make a connection with a phenomenal majority of the American population.
Be right back.
We have an update on the monthly employment report that came out today.
Okay.
The unemployment rate among black teenagers in this country is now 41.6%.
Unemployment rate, black teenagers, 41.6%.
And I would ask again, as I have been asking for 25 years, of African Americans, just tell me what it is that the Democrats and their policies are doing for you.
I really would like to know what it is that the Democrat Party and their policies are doing for you.
Black unemployment, adult unemployments in the 18, 19 area percent area, teenage black unemployment.
41.6%.
Under the leadership of the first African American president to boot.
Here's Holly, South Royalton, Vermont.
We go back to the phones.
I'm really glad you waited.
Really appreciate your patience.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
I am so thrilled to speak with you.
Thank you.
I've been a fan.
Oh my gosh.
You got me into politics back in 1990.
I used to watch your show late at night when I got home from my second shift.
And I love you and agree with pretty much everything you have to say.
Well, that's good because sometimes I'm teasing.
Sometimes, yeah.
So you said almost all of that's cool.
Um the other night on Greta, I thought you did a fantastic job.
And when you said that we need to defeat them, you know, I was just so I it was like, yes, finally, because I've been saying that for years.
There is no common ground when our core beliefs are what's at stake here.
And I really believe if we stop focusing on Republicans versus Democrats, and f instead look at conservatives versus the progressives, is the difference.
Well, true.
Not just that, Washington versus the rest of the country.
And the ruling class made up of people, all parties, all races, all creeds.
It's of Washington.
But conservative, liberal, conservative, progressive, yeah, I agree.
And I'm glad you I'm glad you noticed that.
Stenny Hoyer did too.
Stenny Hoyer, who is the leader of the Democrats in the House.
Uh, this on the House floor yesterday during debate on the rules for three bills.
The Republican majority cannot get its act together.
Disagrees with itself, is a deeply divided party.
I was just on television and they played a clip of Rush Limbaugh before that, and Rush Limbaugh said, no, we ought not to compromise because we don't have anything in common with them.
Meaning Democrats.
My response was, oh, I think Rush Limbaugh is wrong.
We're all Americans.
And we're all elected here by Americans to serve them and to serve their country.
Yeah, well, you got nothing in common, Congressman.
You don't have any common with Republicans.
There's nothing, nothing that you believe I want to compromise with.
Your view of government's entirely different than mine.
Your view of Washington, your view of citizenry, entirely different.
Anyway, they noticed.
They noticed by popular demand, ladies and gentlemen.
And in an effort to reach out to 24-year-old women everywhere and prove that I don't shouldn't scare them.
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Kristen's in a top ten list of names.
Kim is one of those names in my all-time top ten favorite female names.
What a great name.
Caitlin, one of my all-time favorite top ten female names.
Ellen, one of my all-time favorite top ten female names.
Elizabeth is one of my all-time top ten favorite female names.
Erin's one of my all-time top ten favorite female names.
And yes, Valerie is uh one of my all-time top ten favorite female names.
Vingenza.
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This is Isabella, one of my all-time top ten favorite female names.
Here's Lori, also in my top ten favorite girl names.
Leslie, that's one of my top ten all-time favorite female names too.
Lila's.
Now one of my all-time top ten favorite female names.
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Laura, one of my all-time top ten favorite female names, too.
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Tina.
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Sheila.
Top ten favorite female names.
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I've never had a caller named Barbie, even though it's in my top ten all-time favorite female names.
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Marjorie, that's one of my all-time top ten favorite female names.
Melanie is one of my all-time top ten favorite female names.
Martha, love that name.
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Cookie, put that together.
For airing yesterday during our 25th anniversary program, and I mentioned it, and people said, Where is it?
Where is it?
So there it was.
Here's Mary Ann in Vista, California, one of my all-time top ten favorite female names.
How are you?
I'm just fine, Rush.
How are you?
And I'm happy to know that Mary Ann's one of your all-time favorite names.
It's right in there.
Oh, thank you so much.
Anyway, I want to congratulate you on your 25th anniversary.
A day late.
And second of all, I thought I had heard everything, but apparently not, because there's a new beauty treatment out there that's called of all things fecal facial.
Have you ever heard of that rush?
Fecal facials.
This is the one they use bird poop for uh for facials.
Oh no, Rush.
I I was driving in my car.
I thought, oh, I tapped the brakes there for a minute, because I couldn't believe it.
But anyway, it says it's new, and I I think that I personally have been getting eco-facials on a daily basis ever since January of 2009.
So how can they say it's new?
That's one way of putting it.
Uh you've been getting fecal facials.
I feel I have.
Yes.
Personally, every day since January of two things.
That's an interesting thing to picture.
I bet it is.
No, by the way, you're not kidding about fecal facials, right?
I mean, no, I'm not.
I'm not.
I heard it on the news this morning, Rush.
And I, like I said, had it tapped the brake of the car for a minute.
I was not joking.
It is bird poop.
Somebody goes out there and uh collects bird poop, and then they glamorize it and they convince women that it will do magic on their faces.
You know, women are so easy on certain things.
It's just inexplicable.
It's open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Have you seen the news about Colin Powell?
The titular head of the Republican Party.
General Powell admits to sending very personal emails to a Romanian female diplomat, but denies having an affair as a hacker threatens to leak their intimate messages.
The 76-year-old former Secretary of State said that he met Karina Creetu, a 45-year-old member of the European Parliament ten years ago, said they began emailing each other in 2005.
The emails became of a very personal nature, but they did not result in an affair.
Some people say if you emotionally stray, it's the same thing as cheating.
If you're heart leaving, you don't have to do the physical nasty.
And so some people are going to say that about General Powell, who was forced to address his relationship with Crete when notorious hacker Goosefer posted some of their emails online.
Might be pronounced Gucci for it's G-U-C-C-I, which is a Gucci with an F E R on the I've never heard it pronounced some in both ways.
In the emails, Critu describes Powell as a love of her life, according to the smoking gun.
Powell has been married for 50 years to his wife Alma and Cretu was married last year, and it's a UK Daily Mail story, and they have pictures with Colonel Powell, General Powell, uh Secretary Powell, and and the uh and the woman.
Republicans are preparing to cut food stamps by five percent.
And the Democrats and the AP are apoplectic.
Republicans propose a five percent cut in food stamps, which is nothing.
I want to go back.
You know, this business with Huma and Wiener and Hillary.
Cookie went back, she found an archival element of the program, something I said back in uh 2011, June 13th, a little over two years ago.
This is back when the when the when the Wiener scandal first broke, when we first learned it Wiener was texting photos of himself to uh to women out there.
And I caused some trouble with what you're gonna hear next, because what you know I in discussing it when it first happened, I posed a question.
I asked, is uh what liberal women have done to men with the militancy of feminism and the the attack on masculinity and and the the chickification of everything?
Uh I said, is it possible that liberal women have helped create these Anthony Wiener types.
This is you can imagine a reaction that guy.
Just to refresh your memory, here's what I said.
I wonder why is it that Anthony Wiener turns out to be the kind of guy he is?
How does that happen?
If we're gonna bring this stuff up, folks, let's talk about it.
Let's bring it up.
What kind of women has Anthony Wiener been around his whole life?
He has been around a bunch of these kinds of women who have been attacking testosterone, who have been attacking traditional male roles.
He's been around women to whom the idea of a real guy is some metrosexual.
Is it any wonder?
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, he's been surrounded with women like them for his whole adult life.
You know, I told you that I had this story from last week.
Hollywood working on four or five, and maybe even six sitcoms about how men have basically just been just beaten down to petty waste milk toast wimps and their comedies.
It's in vogue to make fun of weak, worthless wimp sissies.
That's who the men are in these upcoming now.
How does it how do these men turn out that way?
Who makes them that way?
Because that's not their natural state.
I mean, you look at Wiener, we cannot blame what happened to Wiener on testosterone.
We're looking at a guy here who's he's kiddie whipped.
If you want to get down to brass tacks on this, we're looking at somebody here who's been hanging around these kinds of women, like and he's doing anything he can to break out.
He's doing everything he can to step out and get away from their control.
This to Anthony Wiener's being a guy.
He's not allowed to be a guy hanging around a bunch of liberal women.
No, snurdly, I'm not defending the action.
Snerdley was hoping I was defending the action.
I was um I was not defending the action.
But look at all I was doing back then, any time anything happens, what do the liberals do?
Try to find a societal cause.
Because it's never the fault of the perpetrator.
If it's a school shooting, if it's 9-11, it's never the fault of the people who do it.
Case in 9-11, the State Department convened forum to say, what did we do wrong?
Why do they hate us?
And so I was illustrating absurdity with absurdity.
Okay, so Anthony Wiener really didn't do this.
Who made him do this?
Who is responsible?
Or what about our culture has made Anthony Wiener do this?
I was simply throwing it right back in the left's face.
Well, the reason we went back to the archives for this is because on CNN today they broached the subject.
They actually broach the subject on CN today.
They don't get to the ideological angle, but they do discuss whether Huma played a role in making Wiener do what he did.
So we go to CNN's New Day.
The co-host is Kate Baldwin, and she spoke with the correspondent Kelly Wallace and said the title of the piece that you put together is Huma Abaddon blaming herself.
And you spoke with women across the country to get their thoughts and their insights and their feelings.
What was the reaction that you got?
Women are pretty united.
They feel so sad to think that she might be blaming herself in part, but they also say, Kate, it's so common.
Many women say that some of them had been in that same situation where their husband was cheating, and that they said, could I have done something?
Could I have done something more?
So they say it's so sad and it's so common, but they also say it's not her burden to carry.
They say it's really her husband's issue.
Oh, really?
Is that right?
So all of a sudden now it's the perp's fault.
But with anything else in liberalism, the responsible party never really is.
There is some societal cause.
There's something wrong with America.
There's something wrong with the way America is that causes people to do things.
The Boston Bombers, what did we do wrong?
Why didn't they think we love them?
Some such silliness.
But with Wiener.
Oh no, it's totally his.
He owns it.
Nobody's responsible for it.
But we find out here from Kelly Wallace and uh and Kate Baldwin on CNN.
She said, look, that's also the big part of the conversation, the role that children play in these types of tumultuous periods in a relationship.
Huma Abaddon said the reason she decided not to leave Wiener is because of their son Jordan.
She also said, according to this People magazine article, like that, you know, she blames herself in part because she was focusing so much attention on her newborn son.
We all know when we have a child, it's a big juggling act, of course, and you don't take care of yourself, and maybe you don't always sort of focus on the person in your relationship, but people say, you know, you gotta get the support from your family and friends, and that it takes two in the marriage to take care of that child, too.
So it shouldn't be all on herself that she thinks it's her responsibility.
So apparently, and I haven't seen it, People Magazine Wuma is saying it might be somewhat her fault because she wasn't focusing enough attention on Wiener, but rather spending all of her time on Jordan.
The truth is she was all of her time on Hillary and her job.
Well, she's going through the guilt trip.
Could she, by having paid more attention to Wiener, kept Wiener from the sexting perversion?
It's gotta be a hell of a question to ask yourself, don't you think?
I have a prediction to make about Wiener.
When it's all over, it's all said and done, the thing that Wiener is going to be in the most trouble for choosing the name Carlos Danger.
Because they're they're gonna just they're gonna dump all over the guy.
I mean, already in an interview on Univision, an uh an interviewer, reporter asked Wiener why he picked an Hispanic name to uh to sex under Carlos Danger.
They were upset with that.
Okay, you're gonna go out there's perverted stuff.
Why act like a Hispanic?
Why did you pick one of our names?
Now, when this is all over, if the Republicans play their cards right, they could use Wiener in a campaign to reach out to Hispanics.
Hey, look, we're not the guys out pictures of ourselves naming ourselves Carlos.
It's the Democrats doing that.
Don't laugh, folks.
You watch before it's all sudden the Democrats, that's that in the in the PC world.
The real offense that Wiener's gonna have to face up to is justifying the name Carlos Danger.
If he'd had just chosen, like I suggested yesterday, Carlos Cialis, or Carlos Viagra, then they might have taken it as a compliment.
But this is gonna be a tough time flying.
David in Dallas, you're next on Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Uh, it didn't make the the top ten all-time favorites, but you unknowingly named my last kid, my last daughter.
And uh it came about in about 2009.
You made the statement that there is no name out there that strikes fear in the hearts of liberals quite like the name blank.
And when you said it, I went, that's the name for the for my daughter.
And problem with I'm I'm married to a Santa Cruz, California hippie chick, so we had to come to some compromise.
But do you remember you remember what you said?
Do I remember the name that I chose?
The name.
The name.
And I've gotten a lot of mileage out of it, and I've got to tell you you are 100% correct.
It's a name for your daughter that the left hates.
Yes.
And it's kind of unconventional.
It's Palin.
Uh I'm still trying to think what it was.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
Don't tell me you named your daughter Palin.
I named my daughter Palin.
And I tell you, I first name or middle name.
First.
And I have I've had I'm a sales guy, and sometimes I have to uh go into a national coffee place to get some business done.
And it's always packed with pseudo intellectuals.
And I I was I was stuck at a table sharing it one day, and they were talking about occupy something, and I was just trying to avoid eye contact, and the guy caught me and asked me what I thought, and I just I froze up and I said, I named my daughter Palin.
What do you think I think?
And he and his little girlfriend just stood in silence and looked at each other and looked at me and got up and walked away.
How old is your daughter?
How old is your you said she's born in 2009?
Yeah, she's three down.
Okay, so she doesn't know yet.
No, no, no.
But she's a fearless little kid.
It's it's incredible.
I'm sure.
What's her middle name?
Berkeley.
Burkle, did you say?
Berkeley.
Berkeley.
Palin.
Palin Berkeley, whatever your last name is.
Don't say it.
Don't say it.
Privacy.
Well, this is fascinating.
This is fascinating.
The one name, the liberal Palin.
This is awfully cool.
This is very courageous.
And with the middle name, you give your daughter an alternate way to go.
If um that's very cool.
Well, I appreciate that.
Thanks very much, David.
I appreciate them.
In case she goes to the dark side.
Middle use the middle name, she goes.
I don't think she'd go to the dark side.
She just might get bullied out there.
You never know about these.
Kids are only going to know what their parents know.
You know, actually, there was a time uh back around 2000 uh was it to the seven, two thousand eight that Palin was a very popular first name for a uh for a female.
You have to wonder how many people are are being inspired to name their kids Wiener.
I guess a first name right now.
You think that's happening out there?
Maybe in Santa Cruz.
Anyway, I hope you all have a great weekend.
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