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Aug. 12, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 12, 2013, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Hi, folks, how are you?
It's great to have you here.
I hope your weekend was fabulous.
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Ladies and gentlemen, last week, you remember the story.
Mr. Schnerdley, I don't know if you were here for this.
Mr. Snurley was out last week, a few days.
But the Oprah ran into some problems over in uh in Zurich.
She walked, she walked into a uh walked into an upscale purse store or accessory store or whatever.
And this as the story went, uh the Oprah spotted a bag, a purse that she wanted, and the clerk, according to the Oprah, said, no, that's not for you.
I don't think you can afford that.
And the Oprah said, why would she say that?
Obviously, it's racism.
That the Swedish.
Wait a minute.
Now I'm getting, was it Switzerland or Sweden where this happened?
Was it Switzerland?
Look, I get this sometimes I get the confused because of the girl with the dragon tattoo with Sweet Switzerland.
All right.
So the the Swiss clerk, according to the Oprah, was was being racist here.
And then the owner of the shops, well, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
We were just trying to be polite.
That bag was $38,000.
I mean, that would we're trying to steer the Oprah to an English, you know, English problems, the person behind the counter didn't speak proper English and all.
The Oprah misunderstood.
Then there was a story that said maybe now how did this go?
Uh well it here's the the upshot of this is something something was referenced about Oprah's size, that there was size bias involved, not so much race bias.
And the uh that the the uh real bias that occurred against the Oprah wasn't she was overweight, and that the overweight tend to be poor.
And it's the rich who are stick thin.
And so the the Oprah, and I happened to make, I don't even remember what it was, but I'm still getting grief.
I am still getting grief over calling Oprah fat.
And I did not call Oprah fat.
I simply I said, is this news to anybody?
When the story came out that there was rate there was size bias, there are a bunch of people outraged over that.
So, well is it news to people that Oprah, I mean, she's kind of made it a big deal on her show that she is uh uh gravitationally challenged.
Whatever happened.
So I continue to get grief because it was reported that I called Oprah fat.
Now there's a story from the UK Guardian that ran over the weekend after all of this went down.
Oprah faced not just fashion retail racism, but size bias too.
Now I'm having trouble to remember the timeline here, but the I don't know if if if it was um That's right, I am the one oh, I remember what it is.
I'm the one.
This is why it's a controversy.
I am the one who posited that it might be uh because Oprah was uh overweight.
And everybody started, I guess this is on Friday, everybody had a cow.
And I remember asking you in the audience, what is this news?
Now, ladies and gentlemen, I myself, over the course of my life have also been fat.
And I'm under the impression if you are something, you can say that about somebody else.
I'm under if you're black, then you can use the N-word.
If you're not, you can't.
By the same token, if you happen to be fat or have been fat, then you can call somebody else fat, and it's fine and dandy, it's okay.
I thought that's the way it went.
But you see, the Oprah, the Oprah is uh a wholly owned category of political correctness.
I mean you can never call a woman fat.
I call a fat guy fat.
What a you can't call a fat woman fat.
Well, I guess she's just a uh what is it, plus size?
Is that what you call them?
Uh plus size woman?
Is that the term for it?
Is that what I should have said?
Well, anyway, uh here from from uh just a couple of days ago in the in the UK Guardian, Oprah Winfrey is a successful billionaire with an empire worth three billion dollars, a woman whose public reputation has been built on self-empowerment.
She's been frank about the stresses in her life, racism and sexism figure often, and about her struggles with her weight.
It is this last aspect that may be the hardest to deal with.
Oprah's thyroid condition makes her weight problems unavoidable.
And on top of that, she big boned, they say.
Well, that's that's she has to deal with the rebellion of her body.
This is, by the way, Heidi Moore writing in the UK Guardian.
The Oprah has to deal with the rebellion of her body.
She may find sympathetic tailors and fabulous shoes, and she may accessorize brilliantly, except from that store, but she likely knows what all women know.
Shop assistants will not be nice to women over a size 10.
And that is especially true of women of color.
Now, the Oprah was that's what it says here.
There's the UK Guardian.
Now, you people get mad at me, all you want right here it is in the left-wing UK Guardian, Oprah had also to deal with the bias of fat.
She had to deal with fat bias from this store clerk in addition to race bias and big bone bias.
She had big bone bias, fat bias, and race bias.
And all she wanted to do was accessorize nicely for Tina Turner's wedding.
That's all she wanted to do.
Oprah walked into one of the uh the stores in Zurich last month, upscale shop, carries clothes from the usual runway names.
Uh, and the shop assistant showed that refused to show the Oprah a $38,000 bag.
And that's that's where all this.
Now, this article, folks, this article is hilariously stupid.
This infobabe here, name is uh again, Heidi Moore, tries to put in as many arguments as possible for why it is wrong to be biased against fat people.
There's a thyroid condition, a big boned uh uh uh uh anatomical structure.
But in the story, she basically admits that that Oprah was probably discriminated against for her weight as much as for her skin color, meaning she couldn't afford it.
This is what all of this adds up to.
The clerk didn't think the Oprah could afford a $38,000 bag because she was black and because she was uh plus size.
And and the story is about how unfair this is.
This is is if the Oprah was discriminated against at all.
The shop owner's trying to say that the Oprah was not discriminated against, by the way.
And the author of the story, the writer here, Heidi Moore says that uh she ends the story by saying that these uh these stores need to stop judging their customers on the basis of shallow things.
If people stop judging others on the basis of shallow things, these stores would go out of business.
These stores exist on the basis of shallow things, Being desired, wanted, purchased, and used like a $38,000 bag.
While we're on the subject, have you heard about this thing that happened at the Missouri State Fair?
Missouri State Fair officials and politicians yesterday condemned a performance of a rodeo clown who donned a mask resembling President Obama during Saturday's bull riding competition.
Apparently the uh the clown's name, Perry Beam, Rodeo clown wore an Obama mask during the bull riding at the Missouri State Fair, which is in Sedalia.
A tempest over the incident erupted after a website reported a Facebook account of it.
The Facebook writer said he had taken a Taiwanese student.
It is just I don't know.
It's sad, funny, it's a whole bunch of things.
The way we're grouping ourselves.
So, yeah, yeah, yeah.
A Facebook writer had taken a Taiwanese student to the rodeo in Sedalia Saturday night, and during the bull riding segment, a rodeo clown appeared wearing an Obama mask.
That wasn't all.
The announcer wanted to know if anybody would like to see the Obama clown run down by a bull.
This is what was posted on Facebook.
And it is reported also on Facebook, the crowd went wild.
So the announcer asked it again and again, louder every time, whipping the audience into a ladder if anybody likes to see Obama run down by a bull.
This caused the governor of Missouri and the lieutenant governor of Missouri and any number of Senator Claire McCaskill to express outrage and shock and sadness and venom over how this could possibly happen.
Who would do this?
Why was the crowd going nuts?
This is absolutely embarrassing.
This is intolerable.
This is unacceptable.
Who do these people think they are?
Why would anybody put on an Obama mask?
As a clown, and why would the announcer ask if anybody wanted the Obama clown run over by a bunch of bulls?
And why would the audience cheer this?
And it was just last week on this program where I with some weight and seriousness, and it's not an Oprah comment on the weight.
I mean, it was heavy, talked about Obama going on a comedy show to tell us something very serious about foreign policy.
And I said, this is this is diminishing the office of the presidency.
What the way Obama's handling is totally diminishing it.
He is reducing the office to the lowest common denominator.
And I would suggest to you that whatever this whatever the truth of this thing is in Missouri, the clown putting on the Obama mask is representative of the fact that there is a declining overall respect for the office of the presidency.
When the President of the United States, more often than not, connects with the American people on late-night comedy shows.
What else can happen other than the diminishing of the office?
Which takes me to audio soundbite number one.
This is yesterday on CNN Farid Zakaria GPS.
He interviewed former newspaper publisher Conrad Black, who, by the way, is the interviewee in the current issue of the limbaugh letter.
Well, I know.
If if if they if these politicians ever find out what the Egyptians, the Egyptian protesters are doing to Obama's image, I mean he'd be burned in effigy over there.
Wait till a governor and Lieutenant Governor Missouri find out what's happening to Obama in Egypt are going to really be mad.
At any rate, well, yeah, Arab Spring, I mean, Obama claimed that as his own, and of course, it's not working out for the Egyptian people at all.
Anyway, Farid Zakaria GPS.
Does that mean he does the show from his car?
I don't understand the name of that show.
Farid's a carry a GPS.
Does he do it on his phone?
Does that do they do they go to the map app and plan the route of the interview?
What is that for readza carry?
Oh, that's what you need a GPS to find Farid show.
That's what it is.
That's what it is.
You need a GPS to find Farid Zakaria GPS.
Okay.
So Conrad Black, who's the current interviewee in the Limbaugh Letter, he has a great book, Flight of the Eagle about the birth of this country and how and why it became what it is, some people's minds was.
And Farid Zakaria accused Conrad Black of dismissing in his book President Obama.
And Conrad Black, who is a brilliant.
I mean, if you if you've ever wondered what an intellectual is, I mean, somebody that does not soil the term, it would be Conrad.
Conrad is a genuine, likable affectionate, if you will intellectually.
He's not a stuffed shirt, hoity, toity elitist type.
He's a he's a good guy.
And he was righteously indignant and offended that Farid Zucari would accuse him of dismissing Obama.
He said, I haven't dismissed Obama.
I don't dismiss any U.S. president.
It's a serious office, Fareed, and I'm shocked that you would say this about me.
And then Farid Zakaria said, So you have a few pages in Obama in the book, though, even though you say you don't dismiss him, you have a few pages in Obama in the book at the end of the book, and then they're quite dismissive.
And Conrad says, no, I'm shareed, I I can't believe you would say that.
I have I'm not dismissive of this office.
I've never been dismissive of anybody who's held it.
But then he went on to say this.
I think there is a leadership problem in the U.S. that has been going on for most of the time since Reagan retired.
I think that there is a very large number of Americans that felt instinctively that the national media and the political establishment had unjustly destroyed a distinguished administration, which Mr. Nixon had in his first term and had scuttled the effort in Vietnam and had never ceased to congratulate themselves for doing it, and the country is uneasy about that.
I think that's why Rush Limbo has 30 million listeners.
And the network newscasts have declined.
No, I didn't play that because of his reference to me.
The point is a clown puts on an Obama face mask at a state fair, and everybody goes nuts.
At how offensive it is and how dismissive it is.
Well, I'm t when you go on late-night comedy shows and you make a joke of the office of president, what do you expect people to do?
When you're shredding the Constitution, when you are when you're when you're taking steps that tear this country apart in ways that people don't want it transformed, what do you expect people to do?
Conrad Black was saying here, I think there's a leadership problem in this country been going on for most of the time since Reagan retired.
And he's right about that.
Now I'm not the clown thing, folks.
Uh I have to take a break here or Friday's gonna have a panic of me back.
And we're back, Rush Limbaugh and the excellence in broadcasting network.
Now, I this close the loop here on this clown thing in Missouri.
Look at the knee-jerk reaction.
Oh, this is outrageous.
Oh, this is unacceptable.
Oh, this can I think there is a very logical, understandable explanation for it.
And that is that the office of the president.
What did I see last week?
Um it was a drudge headline on Friday in the Gallup of Obama's approval number in the in one poll is now down to 41%.
Now you won't see it anywhere.
It was on Drudge for a couple hours and had vanished there.
I don't know where it went, but it his approval numbers are plummeting.
Now, remember if it's Bush's approval numbers plummet plummeting.
CNN devotes the whole day to it.
Obama's approval numbers are plummeting.
And uh presidential masks, I mean you used to be able to buy an Obama mask on Amazon.
There have been George W. Bush masks all over the place used on Halloween and by this is just all of this reactionary knee-jerk political correctness, you know, is a bit phony, if you ask me, because this has a logical explanation behind it.
The filmmaker of the video that caused what happened in Benghazi to happen is out of jail now.
Real clear politics.
And their their average, their rolling average of um excuse me, presidential approvals, Obama now, the rolling average 43.6 percent.
That is Obama's lowest rating of the year.
And the worst it's been since December of 2011.
And that is an average of all the polls out there.
And there is a poll, I think it was Gallup.
It happened late in the show on Friday.
It might have been even after the show when I saw it, at uh at 41 percent.
Of course, if nobody knows that, then there will not be any accompany national attitude about it.
And I'm here to tell you that nobody knows it.
It isn't being reported.
Even that 41% was you know, headline on drudge for a while, but but it it it didn't get picked up by anybody anywhere.
Your host somehow was discussed, you know, my effort here to be low profile, continues to fail.
On uh C SPAN QA with Brian Lamb, the founder.
This was last night.
Uh he interviewed investigative reporter Nikita Stewart from the Washington Post.
By the way, speaking of all of this, it is interesting to read the accounts of all these newspaper sales by reporters who work at these papers.
Boston Globe, Washington Post.
There was a there was a uh a post in a blog in Boston.
I think it's in Boston, but sports writers that used to work there about how second basemen for the Red Sox earn more than the Red Sox owner paid for the Boston Globe.
And they're terribly worried about this.
They're very, very upset now that second baseman, even utility players make more than the Boston Globe was purchased for.
And they openly worry that when a reporter from the Globe shows up in the Red Sox players locker room, that a Red Sox player is gonna, you ink stained rich, you don't I mean, I I'm I can buy your paper with what they pay me.
You think I have to answer your question?
They're all worried that there's going to be a massive loss of respect for reporters from papers that have been sold for so little.
$70 million in the case of the a billion for the uh uh wait.
I always get confused.
It's 70 million, 70 million dollars for the Boston Globe, 93%.
Is that right?
I'm now I'm starting to get confuse me here, folks, it's starting to get confused.
1.1 billion, yes, it's 70 million dollars.
And the New York Times, according and and observe uh the the journalists lament what is happening to these great institutions, and they don't know.
They are stymied, they don't understand what is happening.
They really don't.
They don't understand that that these papers are being rejected by people Because of the content.
Anyway, Brian Lamb talking to this investigative reporter from the Washington Post, interviewing her.
Her name is Nikita Stewart.
and this is how it went.
*Sigh*
Okay, so we can't play the sound bites, is that right?
Okay.
Okay, you can't.
Friday, can you play the soundbite now?
Okay, well then let her rip.
It's the same thing.
I found this on the Rush Limbaugh website just to show you what is talked about in a conservative radio environment to the outside world.
Let's watch this and get your comments.
This is natural, folks.
I'll answer the question for you.
Why are all D.C. mayors corrupt?
That's the question.
Why are all Washington, D.C. It's not my proposition.
CNN did this.
CNN did the story.
CNN asking the question.
Why are all Washington mayors corrupt?
Let me answer that by asking another question.
What party do they come from?
They are all Democrats.
What kind of Democrats are they?
They are all liberal Democrats.
You want to know why every Washington mayor is corrupt?
It's because they are all liberal Democrats.
That's what they do.
Yeah, Marion Berry said the B.I.H. set me up.
That was the cocaine sting in the hotel room.
Okay, so Brian Lamb asks this woman question by playing a soundbite from me that he found he just happened to be tooling around the internet and decided to check out the Rush Limbaugh.com 24-7 website.
So you thought you'd ask this reporter for the Washington Post.
And again, her name is Nikita Stewart, that's what she said.
There's corruption everywhere.
It's in every city, it's in every party.
I myself am a registered independent.
I have been registered as an independent since I was 18 years old.
I just believe that people in power often do things either because they are tempted, or sometimes they compromise their values or their ideals in an effort to, you know, get what they really need.
But I think it is unfair to say that all liberal Democrats are corrupt.
Of course she would think it's unfair, but did I actually say that?
She the question was posed, why are all Washington mayors corrupt?
I said they're all liberal Democrats.
But it's it goes, you can ask the same question of Detroit.
You can ask the same question of any city or town or any institution that is run by liberal Democrats, and I guarantee you, it is going to be rife with corruption.
It's going to be broke.
It's going to have a bunch of people who are not working in it.
It's going to it's going to have all powerful unions.
It's going to be paying pensions and health care for people who stopped working years ago and who expect to continue to be paid long after they stopped working.
what it is.
And of course, just wanted to play it for her because she had to rush in and defend these liberal democrats.
Oh, it's not just Liberal Democrats, it's everybody in uh in politics.
What is the this Matt Damon movie?
Uh the way it looks, it's Elysium, I think, is how you pronounce it.
E L-Y, S-I-U-M.
And it it didn't do too well at the box office, but I think it was number one, and it is a total politic political movie.
What it is about, apparently there's this giant spaceship orbiting the earth where the rich have gone.
And they have left the poor and the squalid on earth defend for themselves.
And Matt Damon, of course, is among the poor and the squalid in a totally bombed-out, destroyed, left for nothing Los Angeles.
And the guy who did this is the same director who did that really kooky crazy movie called District 9 about an alien spaceship that landed in South Africa.
And nobody thought anything of it.
And the people on the spaceship were uh refugees from some Republican conservative regime on another planet, and they came to South Africa, and they're poor and they're they're backwards, and even though they arrived on a spaceship.
The weirdest sci-fi stuff, this thing is in the sci-fi category as well.
But anyway, everybody involved in this is denying that there's a political message to it.
When that's all it is, it is a full-fledged anti-capitalist pro-socialism movie.
And the question I have is why can't the people involved just admit that?
They are doing everything they can.
No, no, no, there's no politics in this movie.
What are you what are you what are you saying?
What do you think you're seeing?
There's no politics here.
The director's name is Neil Blumkampf.
Movie takes place in 2154.
The poor are condemned to live on the shanty town surface of the earth.
The entire surface of the earth is a shantytown.
The rich dwell in comfort on an orbiting space station.
And everybody who's seen this is it's obviously it's a Hollywood movie.
It's it's uh anti-capitalist, it's how the mean or means or richer mean spirited and so forth.
And there's a story here that I've on this everybody involved in the movie, oh no, there's no politics here.
There's not a political message here.
There's no socialism here.
We just wanted to do a good sci-fi movie.
And why can't we all know what Hollywood is?
We all know what the people who live there think politically.
Why can't they just admit it?
Why they put out a movie that is obviously an agenda flick.
And I don't understand why they have to lie about that.
Why can't you just admit what you are?
Why not just admit what the movie is about?
I mean, you have no problem getting it financed.
You had to go to somebody saying, well, we want to do a movie that portrays the rich as a bunch of mean-spirited extremists who are able to escape the hell that they create for people.
Oh, that sounds like a great premise.
How much money you need for this movie?
Well, a couple hundred million ought to do it.
Fine.
Here's the couple hundred million.
Who are you gonna get to star?
Matt Damon.
Oh, wonderful.
You couldn't get a better pro-socialist actor than Matt Damon.
Go ahead, pay him whatever he wants.
Here's 200 million to do the movie, whatever it costs, go do it.
So they have no problem getting it financed.
They have no problem getting it made.
And now when it comes time to have the thing show up to the box office, they deny what it is.
Obviously, it's about box office.
If they came out and admitted that they have an agenda-oriented movie here designed to make the rich look like the typical mean-spirited elitist that they are, they m obviously they're afraid people wouldn't go see it.
And it's just, I don't know, I so much of the left, practically all of them, there are there are exceptions, will never ever be honest about their agenda.
They can't be.
It's one of the things that gives me hope, actually.
I mean, we're in a we're in a fight to the death to save this country, and the left is doing everything they can to propagandize, and that's exactly what they have to do.
They cannot be honest about who they are.
They can't be honest about their policies.
They can't be honest about what their intentions are.
They wouldn't be elected.
So they come out with a movie that's designed to propagandize people.
It's designed to influence and shape opinion, and they say, no, no, no, no, what would give you that idea?
We're just trying to do a very entertaining action film that's got some sci-fi aspects.
It's a bunch of BS.
And I just find it curious that they're going to the end of the earth, like demons.
Oh, no, this is just a summer thrill ride.
This is uh there's no political bit to this movie.
And this is just hypocritical as they can be.
It's fascinating to me, I think, folks.
They can't, and they have no trouble getting it made.
They have to go tell everybody In Hollywood and the banks, what it's going to be about.
Great.
Here's the money.
And when it comes time to market it, don't dare be honest about what it is.
The UK Daily Mail in a stunning dismissal of a head of state with whom he has to work on pressing international matters.
President Obama referred to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday with language more descriptive of a scroll boy than the leader of a hundred and forty-three million people.
Asked whether he can get big stuff done without having a good personal raci relationship with Putin.
Obama said, you know, I know the press likes to focus on body language, and he's got that kind of slouch, looking like the bored kid in the classroom.
That's what Obama said about Putin.
Now remember, it was Obama who asked Dmitry Medvedev to tell Putin to be cool.
But after Obama won re-election 2012, he had a lot more flexibility.
There's been a falling out between these two statists.
It just doesn't seem to work out.
Now, what is this reference to to a uh a slouch looking like the bored kid in the classroom?
You know what that is?
He's talking about duffnering.
Jason Duffner, who won the PGA championship yesterday, went into a school, part of a you know a PR visit, and they snapped a picture of him sitting on the floor up against the wall with his arms down to his side, just totally slouching.
It has become a YouTube and internet rage.
Duffner never shows emotion anyway.
And in this picture, he's just slouching, and you've got all kinds of PGA tour players now imitating Duffner in this pose, and he's in a schoolroom with a bunch of kids slouching and acting bored and uninterested, barely awake.
And I'm sure Obama has seen that.
I'm sure he knows what duffnering is, and I'm sure that's what he's talking about here.
Now, if Bush had said something like this about the leader of Russia, remember under normal circumstances, the leader of Russia is a savior to American Democrats and the Democrat media.
If Bush had said something like this, it would be the news of the week, and we'd be worried about whether or not nuclear war was about to break out, and why in the world is Bush so stupid and insulting a leader like this?
Why in the world is it happening?
Obama says it and ho.
Oscar Wilde was full of great quotes.
One of his great quotes was a gentleman never insults anybody unintentionally.
A gentleman always does it on purpose.
So I guess in this case, Obama's perceived as a gentleman.
But I'm it's duffnering.
We'll get Coco, go get the picture of Duffnering.
Get a picture of Jake, is we're in a red shirt in a classroom, put it on the website or link to it, so people know what I'm talking about.
Here's uh here's Barbara Mansfield, Ohio.
Barbara, I'm glad you waited.
You're first in the phones today.
Great to have you here.
Well, thank you.
And um, first time caller, super longtime listener.
I used to listen to you just in Sacramento.
I raised my kids in up at Chico, and um, thank you for helping me raise good conservative adults.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
Um one of the things I was listening to you on a Friday, and you were doing the report about Oprah.
Before you mentioned what she was wearing, the first thing I thought of was wondering what exactly she was dressed in when she went in the store.
I used to live in Las Vegas and I worked in high-end retail, and I've been in retail for decades.
By far, the majority of people in high in retail, especially those working commission, which most of those stores are.
What they look for, what are you wearing?
Are you wearing high expensive shoes?
Are you wearing expensive clothing?
Because if you are, you're most likely going to buy more.
If you come in down dressed, they think you have no money and you're just looking.
Because that's the majority of customers are just looking.
Well, what they can't afford.
I say the Oprah did go in uh she was dressed down.
You mentioned Donnie Carrington's skirt, but you just said sandals.
Sandals an example, I know the one of the stores I worked in.
What?
On this particular day, um there was a family that came out, a small group of people, and the other sales associate completely blew them off.
Didn't want to have anything to do because the the guy was just standing there wearing a hoodie, looked like a punk team Yeah, well probably was.
The thing I envied was that she got in there unrecognized.
Massive amounts of people are entering the United States in a new wave of illegal immigration by using key words that are essentially granting them asylum.
As we are on the verge of the Congress passing amnesty.
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