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Aug. 7, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 7, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #3
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I just have to laugh at that.
I'm looking at Obama on the tonight's show, announcing that he's canceling the summit with Putin because of the comments made in Russia about no gay athletes permitted at the Olympics in 2014.
And I just remember all of that falder all during the campaign of 2007 and 2008 with Obama giving Bush all this grief about not meeting. with leaders of Iran and not meeting with leaders of other nations that harbor ill toward us.
I just remember Obama saying, you know, we need to be talking to these people.
And I'm the guy to do it.
I'm the guy that'll make them all love us.
I'm the guy that'll make them all respect us.
I will bring respect to this country back again.
I will make this country loved again.
Yada, yada, yada.
And Bush and his bunch of people don't know what they were doing.
Now, here's Obama acting like a little kid.
When you summit, I mean, using the Obama strategy of 2007, 2008, wouldn't you engage with Putin and get in his face about this and tell him how he's wrong?
Wouldn't you use this as an opportunity to lead?
But it's not that.
It's an opportunity to fundraise for Obama.
It's an opportunity to build another bridge.
Not that he needs one to the lesbian gay, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender group.
Yeah, LGBT.
Another opportunity to build another bridge to that bunch.
But here's a chance to really make, you know, get Putin and Russia into the 21st century, as Obama thinks it should be defined.
And he said, no, I'm going to take his ball and go home.
Didn't want to meet with the guy anyway.
I don't care about Putin.
Anyway, great to have you back, folks, as another hour of broadcast excellence is underway.
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You know, the stories about the things that this mayor in San Diego has been doing.
I mean, it is jaw-dropped.
This is Democrat mayor.
The things that he has been doing to women for years is just jaw-dropping.
And there hasn't been any coverage of it.
I mean, there's starting to be some now, but while it was going on, there was none.
And it is, when you read these stories, it is a textbook case of discrimination and abuse by a guy, a man with more power than the women who work near him, for him, with him.
I mean, you're going to start teaching things in women's studies classes.
This would be something to teach.
I mean, this is textbook how this guy has behaved, how he's gotten away with it as a Democrat.
I mean, the feminazis could use this to raise all kinds of awareness and money for another decade, but they're not because he's a Democrat.
So everybody's trying to sweep it under the...
This guy could have probably called them sluts and nothing would have happened to him.
So you've got 30 seconds here to decide whether we want to let that go or cancel that out.
We're going to let that one go.
Staff approves of that one.
Fine and dandy, it's there.
The response by all the usual suspects to this mayor, his name is Filner, is nothing.
There's no response.
Gloria Allred's not doing it.
It's nothing.
And this is a war on women.
This is how it happens.
This is real discrimination against women.
This is real abuse of women.
This is objectifying them, treating them like second-class citizens.
This is it.
This is what the feminazis have been teaching against forever.
And they ignore it.
Because the guy is a good Democrat.
And above all else, the party and the movement must be saved.
And if, in fact, more than saved, not even harmed.
You compare this.
This is actual abuse.
This is actual discrimination.
Textbook discrimination.
Textbook abuse.
And there is not one reaction of note anywhere.
And you compare that to the just out-of-control, nonsensical reaction to a word that was accidentally used and apologized for.
And I tell you, it is stunning.
Where are those same exact people on this genuinely abhorrent set of abuses by this mayor?
And it's liberal hypocrisy and essentially liberal hypocrisy is not possible.
Liberals are not hypocrites, so it doesn't get talked about, doesn't get reported on.
The AP, in a random act journalism, has actually published a summary type list of this guy's abuses.
And it prints out to almost a page and a half.
And I'm not going to go through it all, but it involves credible evidence that Filner harassed more than one woman, failed to respect women who work for him, intimidated them, forcibly kissed them, texted sexually explicit messages to them, set up dates with other women in the presence of his former fiancé.
Sexual harassment suit was filed against him.
In another instance, a woman claimed that Filner patted her buttocks at a campaign event when he's a congressman.
Now, you might be saying, oh, come on, Russia, it's not a big deal.
It's a pattern.
And you let the wrong person pat the wrong buttocks, and it is a major, major headline if it happens to be a Republican doing this.
Four women, including a retired Navy Rear Admiral, tell KBBS Filner made unwanted sexual advances.
And this guy's defiant as hell.
I'm not going anywhere.
What?
I didn't do anything.
Counseling?
Yeah, maybe, but I didn't do anything.
How would you?
CNN exclusive today.
Two more women come forward, say San Diego mayor harassed them.
And he did it using his power.
This is classic feminism 101.
This is the kind of stuff that they wanted women to believe that every man was capable of and that every man engaged in.
And now here is a man who did all of this in spades, but he happens to be a Democrat, and so it's no big deal.
This story today is about a woman named Fernandez, who say the former chairman of House Veterans Affairs Committee used his significant power and credentials to access military sexual assault survivors, and he preyed on them.
You know why sexual harassers prey on sexual assault survivors?
It's because statistically they are less likely to complain.
It's almost like battered wife syndrome.
Once it's happened, they sort of expect it to happen again, and they don't report it as often as the first timers.
It's all here.
Money quote after money quote after money quote.
I mean, Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz's call for the guy to resign, but that's nothing.
Pretty much non-event, non-story.
On this program yesterday, in discussing Jeff Bezos and the purchase of the Washington Post, I, of course, your host, said many things.
I opined in many ways.
One of the things that I pointed out was that the actual worker bees in journalism, in this case, the Washington Post, don't care about the customers.
Don't care about profit and the bottom line.
Don't think that they should even be subjected to those kinds of pressures because their mission is so important.
They are so important that they shouldn't be bound by these ordinary, average, everyday capitalistic concerns like profit and bottom line.
Hell with that.
We're important people.
And I also pointed out that the news business, and it is one, is one of the few in which the customer is always wrong.
The customer doesn't know anything in the eyes of the people in the business.
The customer is too stupid, too unsophisticated to understand what journalism really is.
And as such, readers, customers, viewers are held in contempt.
I said that most journalists don't even do their jobs for their readers.
Most journalists are writing for other journalists to be impressed or to impress other journalists.
To come up with a point of view that some other journalist hasn't.
The closed community.
So lo and behold, my words have been borne out by somebody who was in the business.
Sam Zell is his name.
He's a real estate tycoon of Chicago.
And full disclosure, at one time, this program's syndication partner was JCOR Communications.
And JCOR Communications was a radio station group, basically, that was owned by Sam Zell.
It was just for a few years.
I never met Sam Zell, never got to know him.
I met his emissaries.
Sam Zell is the guy who I think bought the Los Angeles Times, bought a lot of the Tribune papers, and just lost his shirt.
First time Sam Zell's lost significant money in anything he's tried.
Sam Zell, like any other confident entrepreneur, thought that he could turn around major American newspapers.
So last night, Neil Cavuto caught up with him on the Fox Business Channel and talked to him about Jeff Bezos purchase of the Washington Post.
Cavuto said, you said at the time, quote, in my experience, newspaper people are at least as greedy as anybody else, and any perception to the contrary is perpetuated by the media itself.
What did you mean by that, Sam?
Well, I mean, there's this, you know, this illusion that they're doing, they and Lloyd Blankfein are doing God's work.
And therefore, if you're doing God's work, you should get a pass on economic reality.
You should get a pass when revenue go down 30%.
Instead of lowering the headcount, you should maybe increase it.
Lloyd Blankfein runs Goldman Sachs, and Goldman Sachs is thought to be bigger than God in their own minds, and that's what that comment's about.
Sam Zell is saying, these journalists, they didn't want to be held at the bottom line.
They didn't want to care about that.
They thought they should get a pass on economic reality.
If the newspaper, the news division's losing big money, the owner should just soak it up.
The owner should gladly lose money.
That the news business is so privileged and so important, so chosen that there ought not be any making money in it in the first place.
You almost have a duty to lose money.
And Sam Zell said that he was shocked.
He called them greedy.
And what he meant by that was they're greedy and they wanted to be paid.
They wanted to get everything they were due, whether or not the paper made any money.
They damn well were going to get paid.
They weren't going to lose money.
They weren't going to work for nothing, but the owner should.
I will never forget, folks, Larry Tish of the famous Tish family.
Larry's brother Bob is a co-owner, well, his son's now co-owners of the New York Giants, the Lowe's hotel chain.
Steve Tish.
Steve is a major Hollywood producer.
Their uncle Larry Tish goes and buys CBS in the 90s.
He looks at it and he's looking at the books and he sees that the news division is bleeding money.
So one of the first things he did was to announce cutbacks.
I think he was going to lay off 200 people.
And Dan Rather went bat crazy.
Dan Rather and some of the old war horses, the Charles Keralts of the world in there at the time, they just lost it.
And they said, Tish doesn't know what he's doing.
This is irrelevant.
We can't stand cutbacks here in a news division at CBS.
We shouldn't be forced to work under these kinds of bottom-line pressures.
I'll never forget it.
Of course, Tish, he's another guy, got out of as quickly as he could because he found that the people involved in it didn't care.
In fact, there was even honor in working for a place losing money.
That's why CNN exists the way it does.
There's honor.
There's honor in maintaining the cause while losing money.
The left loves each other in that regard.
So, Cavuto said, well, how would you explain it then?
I mean, you're the boss.
Why didn't you go back there and say, look, whatever your pioneer sky thoughts, we're losing money.
You're not getting it.
You got to get this.
Until we start making money, you're not going to get any more.
Why didn't you tell him that?
Now, the problem comes down to some great philosopher.
I think it was Confucius who said, never pick a fight with a guy who buys ink by the barrel.
And so what you're doing.
You own the barrel.
Well, but that's what I thought.
That's what Jeff Bezos thinks.
What I found out and what he's going to find out is he doesn't own the paper.
That to me is fast.
Sam Zell owned the Chicago Tribune, the Yellow Times.
He owned it.
And he was being excoriated in his own papers.
He was being written up as a slime bucket, cheap SOB.
And he's telling Cavuto, yeah, you never get in an argument with people who buy bank by the barrel.
He said, well, you own the barrel.
I said, no, the owner of the paper doesn't own it.
And Bezos is going to find this out.
He's going to find out he doesn't own the paper.
And what these guys, I don't know that Zell gets it.
I don't know.
What these guys are fighting, liberalism, not so much anti-capitalism, although, of course, the two go hand in hand.
But they're fighting liberalism.
I don't know why people can't see what's in front of their faces ideologically.
There's more to this.
We've got a little bit more.
Carl Bernstein next.
Wait till you hear these.
Last night, Piers Morgan live on CNN spoke with Carl Bernstein, Washington Post, Woodward and Bernstein.
And Piers Morgan said, Jeff Bezos is a genius, a multi-billionaire genius.
Everybody that uses Amazon loves it.
And because it's an incredibly efficient service that provides everything you could possibly want in life.
The great hope here is: look, our failings are an economic model that doesn't work anymore.
And hopefully, by having a genius from the internet age, from internet technology, who will help find a model that will preserve the most enduring aspects of great journalism and marry it with this new culture.
That's the hope.
We need an economic model.
We need somebody who has the deep pockets to sustain great reporting.
That's what's been lacking.
Need the deep pockets to sustain great reporting.
It's a charity.
It's exactly.
He wants somebody to run the New York or the Washington Post as a charity.
Just throw money at it.
Give money to it for great reporting.
When are you people going to realize it is your content that's being rejected?
It's your content that is your problem as much as anything else.
When we're back, and we're going to be getting back to the phones here in just a second.
So hang in there and be tough.
I want to go back to Carl Bernstein.
I'm going to play Soundbite 4 again, and then there's a companion one that follows.
See, he's talking about Piers Morgan last night.
Piers Morgan is going on and on and on about how great Amazon is and a billionaire genius, multi-billionaire genius.
Everybody uses Amazon loves it, which is a key.
I'm going to make that point in a different way in a moment.
But Piers Morgan, he doesn't even know what he's doing, but he's putting it out there.
He's saying to Bernstein, everybody that uses Amazon loves it.
Now, I always need to make allowances.
There are always going to be disgruntled customers.
But Amazon's not hated by half the people in the country, is my point.
People that use it love it.
And they like it.
They think it suits their needs.
It fills the bill, whatever it is.
He's making that point to Bernstein.
So you've got multi-billionaire genius.
Everybody that uses Amazon loves it because it's incredibly efficient.
It provides everything you could possibly want in life.
Now, listen, here's Bernstein.
We're going to play this again because it dovetails with the next bite coming.
The great hope here is: look, our failings are an economic model that doesn't work anymore.
And hopefully, by having a genius, from the internet age from internet technology, who will help find a model that will preserve the most enduring aspects of great journalism and marry it with this new culture.
That's the hope.
We need an economic model.
We need somebody who has the deep pockets to sustain great reporting.
That's what's been lacking.
Yeah, you need somebody that's philanthropic.
You need to treat you as a charity.
There's nothing wrong with a business model.
The Washington Post business model is ours.
You sell advertising.
Now, in order to do that, it's got to work for the people that buy it.
And it's not working for people that buy newspaper advertising.
It's not working anymore.
Why?
Is it because of where it is?
Is it because newspapers?
Is that it?
What is this business model he's talking about?
We're not losing money here at EIB.
We're thriving.
We are continuing to grow.
Same business model.
There's a question that people like Bernstein need to ask themselves as they're heaping praise on Bezos and Amazon.
Mr. Bernstein, ask yourself a question.
Does Amazon insult half of its customers every day?
Like the Washington Post does?
Does Amazon pretend that half the country doesn't even exist?
Like the Washington Post does?
Does Amazon insult and impugn and laugh at and make fun of half the people in the country like the Washington Post does, like the New York Times does, like NBC, CBS, ABC do?
Does it?
It doesn't.
And if Bernstein's going to make, or if Bezos is going to make one change, it's going to be that.
He's a customer service guy.
Brilliant.
He's a genius at marrying things.
He's a genius at how he treats his customers.
He's a genius in the sense that he recognizes what all great business operators that have come before him recognize.
And that is you thank God for your customers every day.
And you constantly appreciate them and try to increase them.
You don't insult them.
You don't laugh at them.
You don't act like you wish they weren't around.
Until that changes in the news media, you can have all the business models you want in Google Matter Hill of Beans.
Why do you think Michael Jordan, he's a full-fledged rock-solid liberal Democrat?
Why do Michael Jordan doesn't talk about that?
Because Republicans buy Air Jordans too.
Michael Jordan is not going to go out and insult half the country at the expense of Nike or his deal with them.
I know you people in the news business have a higher calling.
You are journalists.
And you must deal with the country's enemies.
But Jeff Bezos doesn't look at the population of the country or a portion of it as the enemy.
And you liberals in the news media do.
And you wonder why.
You've got shrinking circulation, shrinking ad pages, shrinking ad revenue, and you wonder why your readers don't even patronize your sponsors.
And you don't even think to look at the number one reason why people would open a newspaper, and that's what's in it.
The content.
I'm sorry to appear to be yelling and scaring 25-year-olds.
This women, this is just passion.
That's all it is.
Because I'm sitting here in a state of abject disbelief at the thick-headedness that exists here and the inability to see something that's patently obvious.
If you're in business, you're in business.
If you're a charity, be a charity.
If you want to do something where you don't have to make money, then don't talk about business models and stuff.
Go out and find a bunch of sugar daddies.
Which is how they're looking at Bezos.
I can tell from the way Bernstein's talking here.
They're looking at this as a sugar daddy.
Deep pockets?
Sustain great reporting?
What kind of money does great reporting, I mean, I don't know what you were paid during Watergate, but it was your salary.
What did it cost you to go out and do your great reporting?
People are knuckleheads.
Okay, so next, Piers Morgan said, look, Carl, this guy's a visionary genius.
If I was at the post, I'd be thrilled about it.
One of the things that Bezos has done is he's shown a willingness to stand by an idea, watch it develop, go through troubled times in the development, continue to fund it and perfect it.
That is part of what we need in the newspaper business or the former newspaper business.
Marry the new technology with the great things we're capable of.
So here again, we're looking at funding.
I don't – look, this is foreign language.
I don't.
I don't understand how it is that not a single journalist seems to understand that it's not funding, that there's a business involved where they work, and that business is trying to earn a profit, and that profit is what enables the business to continue.
Of course, I know they don't think there should be a profit, or if there isn't, it shouldn't matter.
But this is just, it's just telling as it can be.
I wonder if the dinosaurs are running around looking at sugar daddies to save them.
There's no evidence of that, but Well, no, Fox News does not insult half the country.
Somebody's telling me Fox News is.
They do not.
Fox News doesn't insult half the country.
Fox News is what they got one conservative, one really full-fledged conservative show on that network.
Now, the rest of the network's perception is that it's conservative simply because it isn't liberal.
But they've got liberals all over the place at Fox News, all over the place.
They've even hired liberals from the New York Times to appear on their number one news shows.
Fox does not insult half the country.
Anyway, let me see.
Yeah, I better take a break.
We'll take a break and we come back, I promise.
Phone calls are next.
So don't go away.
I wonder what Carl Bernstein's attitude would be if Sam Walton were the multi-billionaire genius buying the Washington Post.
No, no, no, I know he's passed away, but it's just an object exercise.
What would Bernstein's reaction be if Sam Walton booked away?
You think he'd be happy some billionaire genius had picked up the paper?
I'd be talking about funding, great reporting and stuff.
You're talking about the end of the world.
Anyway, here's Nirvana in Jacksonville, Florida.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi.
Hi, Mr. Lumbaugh.
How are you?
I'm great.
Thank you very much.
Hi.
I was wanting to call and comment about one of the things about the, you had commented about feminazis and feminists before, or feminists before.
I am a conservative, but I've been classified often by others as a feminist.
My mom is a liberal, very much feminist.
And in fact, she chose the career.
You know, she chose that path that the feminists were preaching at that time, you know, career.
You don't have to have kids.
You know, she did have me.
And when I decided to stay home with my kids, you know, she was like, well, when are you going to get a real job?
Now, mind you, I'm a former CD.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on.
Slow down just a second.
I have a question.
How old is your mother?
She's in her 50s.
Your mother's in her 50s, and so she's a feminazi feminist, but you're not.
You're a modern feminist, right?
Well, that's how I see it.
Okay, that's how you said it.
You stay home with your kids and your mother asks you, well, when are you going to get a job or go to work?
Get a real job, yeah.
Get a real job.
Yes, sir.
That's just astounding.
Your mother says that to you?
Right.
And my point behind that is there's a lot of backlash between my generation and, say, my mother's generation saying, you know, yay, we're glad you did that work, but you've got to realize it isn't all about career.
It's for the choice that we can do this.
Because like myself, I was sacrificed for the feminist movement of that time.
You know, I was left out in the wind in a lot of ways.
And there was, in fact, there was a daughter of a very pronounced feminist, and I can't remember her name, but she wrote an entire article saying, you know, feminism is a lie.
And that's what this generation is realizing is, you know, we're not staying at home or, you know, we don't want to sacrifice our children in something just because we want a career.
No, it's not us being held out.
You know what?
When your mother, when your mother was growing up, it wasn't get out of the house and go get a job.
It was get a career in business.
If women of your mother's age, when she was just getting out of college, being a teacher, no, don't do anything traditionally female.
Go out and you go where men are and you do what men are doing.
And that's one of the things that was wrong with that feminism.
They didn't distinguish themselves.
They wanted to go out and be just like men.
Nirvana, can I ask you, your mother, you said your mother's in her 50s.
Are you around the age of 24?
I'm a little bit older than that.
But I'm around that.
Yes, sir.
Okay, but you're still, you're close to it, right?
No, at about 10 years.
You're 34.
Oh, okay.
All right.
Well, no, no, I was just going to, if you were 24, I was going to ask you if I scare you.
Oh, no, I didn't.
Well, at first when I first started listening to you, but then, you know, you made some valid points, you know, after realizing, you know.
But I did scare you at first.
Yes, sir, you did.
But it was because, you know, you just, you challenged my views.
You know, I was raised, you know, liberal, Democrat, and then you're going, you know, saying all these opposite viewpoints.
And then I was like, you know, if I'm going to disagree with them, I at least need to understand why.
So then I started listening to you, and I was like, holy smokes, you have a point.
You know, so I've definitely changed over.
Well, this is, look, I'm glad you called.
This is an interesting point because Nirvana here thinks that she's a feminist, but in her mother's eyes, she's letting the cause down by staying at home with her kids.
Imagine that now.
That's how that's how firm or strong the hold was in the early days of the modern era.
You've got to go back to the late 60s or 70s to understand this, modern era and when it began and what it was made up of.
Now we're in a new category here, stay-at-home feminist, which I like.
I like strong women, always have.
I've never wanted a woman that wanted to be like me.
Be a woman for crying out loud.
Anyway, go there.
Dwindling time.
Thank you, Nirvana.
Appreciate that.
This is Phil in Fort Mill, South Carolina.
Great to have you.
You're next.
Hi.
Yeah, Rush, I like to make the connection between why Obama goes on shows like Jay Leno, the millennials you talked about yesterday, and also why Obama's never blamed or held responsible for anything.
It all falls on the fact that the millennials operate under the paradigm that they've been taught since they've been in grade school and all the way through college that they're never to blame for anything.
They're not responsible for anything.
And Obama is one of them.
Now, that is provocative, Phil, because you just said that most of these millennials, age 21, 28, 18 to 29, somewhere in there, have been taught that they're not to blame for anything or responsible for.
And that's why they can relate to Obama.
That's exactly right.
That's exactly right.
Obama, they see Obama as himself.
So Obama goes on Leno.
He tells all his sunshine and rainbows.
They don't blame him.
Yeah, I know.
That's exactly.
He goes out there.
He's creating jobs.
He's working on jobs.
He did his better tomorrow.
Obama is for a happier tomorrow.
And I think you may have a point to an extent there.
Fascinating.
I wish I had more time.
I always do, but I don't.
We got a break.
As always, folks, it's an honor to be able to be with you each and every day.
It's a great thrill, and I always appreciate it.
Never, ever take it for granted.
And I always look forward to the next time, which is 21 hours from now.
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