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Aug. 14, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 14, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
Okay, so here we are, folks, on Monday.
I'm not kidding, there wasn't anything to talk about.
I mean, there was still nothing that that floated my boat.
They were nothing that lit me up, but today it's the exact opposite.
Today, I've got about 25 things I want to make the first thing here.
I mean, we're literally loaded today.
So just buckle up and prepare to spend the next three hours being dazzled and entertained and informed and uplifted and all of that because it's it's all here.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
This Missouri clown situation is folks, this is so uh out of hand and out of proportion, and I'm gonna tell you what this is like.
And I'm not gonna pull any punches.
It is as this is no different than those countries reacting freakishly when there were cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
That is exactly what this is.
It is as though President Obama is a Messiah or is a god, and this little thing that happened at the Missouri State Fair is a uh a defamation, a denunciation, almost a religious sacrilege that took place.
He's the president of the United States.
They get made fun of.
They get laughed at all the time.
Fun is poked at them.
I know this happens to be the first African American one, but that should not insulate this president from standard, ordinary, everyday treatment, analysis.
Whatever.
You know, the you you people on the left, who the hell do you think you are?
You can't laugh, you can't take a joke, you can't take a punch, you can't take anything.
One little thing that you don't like, and this this clown can never work.
Everybody involved is resigning.
The state of Missouri might secede from the Union.
I mean, where's this gonna end?
Well, I'm joking about the state of Missouri seceding, but I wouldn't be surprised if that was the next thing.
I don't know if it was a consulate to attack it.
I don't know, but if I were the president of the United States, this was happening in the country that I was president, I would call, I would put a stop to this.
This is infantile.
This is childish.
This is this is worse than political correctness.
It's almost as though the president of the United States, a religious leader, and what took place at the Missouri State for a clown.
I mean, it wasn't it wasn't as though some serious journalist or political analyst went out there in Obama mask.
It wasn't like a Democrat doing a minstrel show, like good old Mel Carnahan did back in 1960 in Missouri.
I mean, this is this is just over the top.
And and the way people are caving on this in Missouri, instead of standing up and pointing out with this for what it is, it's wasn't a sacrilege, it's a joke for crying out loud.
And presidents are laughed at and they're poked fun of.
Ask George W. Bush, ask Ronald Reagan, ask George H.W. Bush, ask Clinton for crying out loud.
This burns me.
This this really burns, this is this is outrageous.
This is this is this is no different than what happened in all those countries.
They had the the the cartoons of the prophet and uh and and militant Muslims had a cow over it, went nuts.
It's exactly what's happening here.
What do we have a president of the United States above all this?
We have a president who's above criticism, above being mocked, above being left.
We have not just a president, we have an entire Democrat political party in the American left, which thinks that they are so damn special that they cannot be mocked, they cannot be made fun of.
There's a great quote by C. S. Lewis.
You know who C. S. Lewis was.
I'm not you see, if I even quote C.S. Lewis, I'll get myself in a little bit of trouble here.
I'd have to paraphrase, I don't have it right in front of me.
C.S. Lewis said the devil can't stand being made fun of.
The devil can't stand being mocked.
He actually uses the word mocked.
You people on the left, I know you don't have the capacity for shame, but this, this is just absolutely uh uh a clown now fearing for his life.
Everybody involved in affair quitting, the state of Missouri acting like it's profoundly embarrassed to be alive.
A bunch of people with nothing better on their hands to do, running around trying to make a federal big gigantic issue out of this.
Who cares if it was offensive?
To who?
Haven't heard Obama complain about it.
It's like I'm saying if if I were the president of the United States, and I saw what this was doing, I'd put a stop to it.
I'd call I'd go on television.
Next time I was on TV, I'd represent have a smile on my face, I'd laugh about it, and I'd everybody calm down.
Little leadership.
But no, this guy, I am convinced, he's right in there with all his punishment.
He's right in there with all these people being taken out because of this.
Because he doesn't, he's he's he's above being made fun of.
He's above being mocked.
He's above being criticized.
I have uh I have no doubt about that.
Now, folks, this dovetails into something.
There's something happening out there.
I don't want to make too big a deal of this.
But for four and a half years.
Well, let's give it four years.
Six months people signed on and uh willing to see what happened.
Yeah, here's what the C. S. Lewis quote is the devil.
That proud spirit cannot endure to be mocked.
That's C.S. Lewis.
So don't get mad at me, stupid idiots in the media and the left.
You take it up with C.S. Lewis.
Now, for four years, let's be Jenner's three and a half years.
Practically every one of you in this audience, and what I think is a majority of Americans, have been beside themselves, asking when are people going to wake up in this country and realize what is being made to happen.
When are people going to realize that what is happening is not simply a normal evolution of events, but rather the result of policy?
When are people going to wake up?
And I said not long ago, don't look for some major tsunami type tumultuous political event.
It isn't going to be that.
And then I told a little joke.
No doubt irritated the left.
I said it's going to be something along the lines of Obama dissing the latest CD from Justin Timberlake and ticking off the low information crowd.
Folks, there are series of things out there.
I would go into them in uh in some detail.
Yesterday, we had the audio of Chris Jenner, the Kardashian mother ripping into Obama for making fun of her daughter.
Obama was holding up her daughter and her husband as examples of how not to be.
So the president can dish it out, but he can't take it.
And his defenders can't take it, and his party can't take it.
You imagine being wound so damn tight that what happens at a state fair in Missouri, and it's all race.
Everybody knows this is all race.
You have you put Bill Clinton in the White House and put that clown with a Clinton mask on there, and it doesn't even make the news.
And that's another problematic.
So anyway, here's here's Obama's approval numbers in the real clear politics rolling approval average at 43%.
The low point, 41% right now in Gallup.
You have you have Chris Jenner out there ripping into Obama for mocking.
Her daughter and her husband defending her kid.
Bono the other day, actually slipped up.
Paul Hewson, the leader of the group U2, goes to the name of Bono.
He actually said that aid Is just a stopgap.
Commerce and entrepreneurial capitalism take more people out of poverty than aid.
We need Africa to become an economic powerhouse.
Now Bono has risen to great heights of respectability on the efforts that he's made into philanthropy and charity.
And here is Bono saying, capitalism, commerce, entrepreneurial capitalism take more people out of poverty than aid.
In an Obama administration, somebody in rock and roll is saying this.
Little bitty things.
Little tiny things.
Then there's this.
Film director Oliver Stone, who's made no secret of his liberal political views, called Obama a snake for his role in the NSA spying programs that have become, he said, more about silencing protesters than finding terrorists.
Obama is a snake, Oliver Stone told an audience in Tokyo on Monday.
He's a snake, and we have to turn on him.
Oliver Stone.
The whole I hate to bring this up, the whole Oprah Winfrey story is backfiring on her and is falling apart on her.
And even the noted low information cable network TMZ says the problem is Oprah is full of it.
Oprah is full of it.
TMZ.
Oprah, the low information crowd is hearing all of this.
The low information crowd heard what Kim Kardashian said.
The low information crowd pays attention to what Bono says.
The low information crowd will hear about Oliver Stone.
The low information crowd thinks that Edward Snowden is a hero.
They do.
I forget I read who they equate him with, but he's a big hero.
A young entrepreneurial gutsy warrior.
Kind of hero.
And then Ashton Kutcher.
Ashton Kutcher plays Steve Jobs in a movie that opens this weekend called Jobs.
Ashton Kutcher showed up on the Sunday night at Teen Choice Awards.
He received the Ultimate Choice Award.
I have three sound bites of Ashton Kutcher, a favorite of the low information crowd, accepting his award and what he said could have been written by me.
We'll take a brief time out.
By the way, folks, the UK Telegraph asks today if I am editing the New York Times.
Yes, they do.
The UK telegraph, that's the lead story in a big story, the UK Telegraph.
The New York Times, for some reason has done a thorough expose on the Clinton Global Initiative.
They have ripped the Clinton charity to shreds in the New York Times.
I'm telling you, not to make too big a deal out of any one of these things, but there are a lot of little bitty things starting to align.
Is Rush Limbaugh editing the New York Times?
This piece that is in the New York Times essentially points out that you know that this thing is losing money left and right, it raises money out the wazoo, it's running deficits, and the Clintons are getting rich.
The New York Times is pointing out that the Clintons seem to be one of the few bunches of people that get wealthy giving money away.
Most philanthropy is people giving money away, donating the Clintons are getting rich doing it.
It is a fascinating thing.
Now, when the UK Telegraph asks, is Rush Limbaugh editing the New York Times?
Can I translate that for you?
What that means is, is the New York Times telling the truth about something?
Is New York Times actually doing news?
Is what that means.
So you hang in there.
You be tough.
A brief timeout, we'll come back and continue with all this.
Ashton Kutcher in these soundbites, so we get back.
Don't go away.
Folks, you can try to get to the New York Times story on the Clinton Global Initiative on the web.
I don't think you can.
It's been taken down.
Well, I don't know if it's been taken down or they've just ended the access to it.
But don't worry.
I have enough of it for certain pull quotes.
Oh, it was.
Oh, the whole website's inaccessible.
Not just service, not of it.
So maybe the Times got hacked, so the Clintons.
Okay, Times got hacked out of just that one story pulled down.
All right.
That's it.
It's obviously the Clinton story.
The expose in a Clinton Global Initiative, it's resulted in the Times website being hacked.
That's again the story of the UK Telegraph by Tim Stanley.
New York Times takes down the Clinton Foundation could be devastating for Bill and Hillary as the headline.
The lead is is the New York Times being guest edited by Rush Limbaugh.
So anyway, we'll get to that.
I want to get to these uh Ashton Cooper sound bites.
This is Sunday night, the Ultimate Choice Award he got at the Teen Choice Awards.
He stars as Steve Jobs in the movie Jobs.
By the way, I will be reviewing that movie.
I got my official uh powerful influential member of the media copy.
They even went so far as to close caption it so I can actually see the dialogue as I watch the movie.
Just came in today.
So I'm gonna try to watch it uh later this afternoon.
We have three sound bites from Kutcher here.
And I uh you gotta rip Teen Choice Awards, low information audience.
I want you to listen to this.
Here's the first one.
I believe that opportunity looks a lot like hard work.
I've never had a job in my life that I was better than.
I was always just lucky to have a job.
And every job I had was a stepping stone to my next job.
And I never quit my job until I had my next job.
And so opportunities look a lot like work.
Now right on.
Now, don't ho hum this, folks.
This is a message that young kids today are not hearing, except maybe in their homes from their parents, but they're not hearing this.
They're not hearing this from Obama.
They're not hearing this from presidential or political leadership.
This kind of message of hard work, the traditional American route to success and happiness is what's being made fun of.
It's what's being said is not possible anymore.
The reason why there is a malaise of this fog of depression that has rolled in over this whole country is because young people particularly don't think there's any opportunity for them.
They don't think there's any left.
They don't believe there's any prosperity out there for them.
They have been told that evil corporations and evil Republicans and the rich have taken it all from them.
Do not laugh.
The vast majority of even college graduates are taught this.
So when Kutcher at the Teen Choice Awards stands up and offers a traditional uplifting, motivational and inspirational speech on how he became successful.
It's remarkable.
It's remarkable because the low information crowd watching is hearing it.
They ended up cheering it, and they they're they're not hearing it.
Except perhaps in their homes, we don't know, of course, what goes on with their parents, but we know that everywhere else they go.
We know that the songs they listen to, we know that the movies they watch, we knew that the classrooms that they attend do not give them this message.
Here's the next bite, went on to talk about the importance of intelligence, which he says is what's really sexy.
The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart.
And being thoughtful.
And being generous.
Everything else is crap.
I promise you.
It's just crap that people try to sell to you to make you feel like less.
So don't buy it.
Be smart.
Be thoughtful and be generous.
I find this profound.
Kids watching this show, that age group are not hearing this message.
Smart is made fun of.
Smart is mocked.
Smart is something that it's a sellout to some people.
I know Ashton Kutcher is a Democrat.
Don't ask Democrat, I think.
Anyway, the big the big one is yet to come, so don't go away.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rush Limbaugh.
And what is this?
Already Wednesday here, the fastest week in media.
Snurdly just asked me, and we got one more Ashton Kutcher clip here to go.
He said, where's this coming from?
I have to be very careful.
I don't uh I really am not familiar with with uh Ashton Kutcher's politics.
Uh I know he is married to Demi Moore, and she is a Hollywood uh liberal.
I know he's a Democrat.
Uh you practically have to be.
I don't know if the things he's saying here from Sunday night are things that he has always believed, or if they're new.
I just don't know him well enough to know.
Or I don't know him at all, but I don't know of him.
All I know is that what he said is right on.
All I know is that what he said is exactly what young people in this country need to hear.
What he said, the Teen Choice Awards is not being said to kids.
Again, I'm gonna hold out the possibility that some of their parents do tell them this traditional message, but I do know that in the pop culture media, they don't hear this message.
Hell, they're all depressed.
There is a fog of depression and fog bank fog what just rolled all over this country.
There's pessimism all over, particularly among young people.
And it's because they do not think there's any prosperity left for them.
They don't think there's any stuff left for them.
They don't think there's any money to be earned.
It's all gone.
Their parents or grandparents' generation were the last ones that really had it made.
And they're certainly not hearing this kind of message from anybody in politics that they vote for.
They're not hearing it from Obama, they're not hearing it from any Democrat.
They're not hearing it can do, they're not hearing America's great, they're not hearing anything about American exceptionalism, they're not hearing anything about opportunity equals hard work.
They're not hearing the message that hard work pays off.
They're not hearing the message that having a job is a great way to become successful and prosperous.
They're not hearing about how one job's a stepping stone to another job where you climb like they're not hearing this, folks.
They are not hearing this.
This is one of the, admit it, this is one of the things that has been quietly eating away in all of us.
All the things that we were raised by, all the things we were raised with growing up, they have vanished.
They're laughed at, mocked, and made fun of because it's not possible anymore.
He also said he never quit one job until the next one was lined up.
He said that there was no job that was beneath him.
He didn't say it that way.
What he said was, I never had a job in my life that I was better than.
What he's saying is there was no work that was beneath him.
Now I'm telling you, and I don't want to make too big a deal out of any one of these elements, and I'm not sitting here predicting that there's an undercurrent of anything effervescing, ready to boil over.
But I am telling you that there are some things happening that haven't been.
Oliver Stone calling Obama a snake.
I mean, that's a major thing.
Bono ripping into charity as not ripping into it, but but properly saying aid isn't going to make anybody prosperous.
Philanthropy charity welfare is not the answer.
Entrepreneurial capitalism is the answer.
Bono.
I mean, the the the these are people whose audiences, whose customers are the low information people, the pessimistic, the young 24-year-olds who are scared by me.
24-year-old women that are frightened by me.
I mean, even some of the uh, you know, the millennials that we've been speaking about recently.
The millennials are just overwhelmed with with uh negativism.
Now, here is I think one of the possibilities where Cushton may have picked this stuff up if it's not something that he intrinsically believes in.
I don't know that to be the case.
I really don't I I don't um I I just don't know him, so he could this could be his belief system for all of his life.
I do know that uh most actors are obsessed with working because most actors do not have study work.
And they love it.
I mean, they love their job.
Acting, it's it's the their egos are such, they like working.
And so they they're always trying to find the next gig because most actors don't make a lot of money, and most of them don't have study work.
So he could have held this belief system for a long time.
But this next soundbite is Steve Jobs.
And this is how he finished in his remarks Sunday night, he was receiving the ultimate choice award at the Teen Choice Awards.
Everything around us that we call life was made up by people that are no smarter than you.
And you can build your own things.
You can build your own life that other people can live in.
So build a life.
Don't live one, build one.
Find your opportunities and always be sexy.
And he pointed at his head when he said always be sexy.
Not below his waist.
He pointed at his head.
He said, earlier, intelligence is what's really sexy.
Being smart, being intelligent, sexy.
Now, this last soundbite, one of the reasons I think that there's a tremendous Steve Jobs influence in this is because that last soundbite is Steve Jobs.
That's practically a direct quote from Steve Jobs.
Steve Jobs wrote and spoke often about being young, growing up and entering the adult world.
And he's a little bit of a rebel now and then.
And he looked at what life was.
He saw a lot of formulas.
If people were living formulas and plugging themselves into formulas, and then trying to climb the ladders that existed in the various formulas, and he questioned it.
And he questioned the assumption that everybody was smarter than he was.
Particularly older people and more successful people he claimed were smarter than he was.
I don't want to look at life that way.
Life is not made up people are not necessarily smarter than you are.
He told graduates of Stanford this.
Don't assume that everybody's smarter than you are.
Most people do that.
Most people assume that other people are hipper, have it together more, smarter.
And Jobs was was was obsessed With persuading people and believing in himself that nobody out there is any smarter than you, and it's wrong to think of yourself that way.
It's wrong to go through life subordinating yourself to others because it's either the polite thing to do or it's the proper thing to do for somebody inexperienced.
Don't look at yourself that way.
They only got one life.
Make it what you want to be.
Don't plug yourself into the formulas.
One of the age-old formulas.
When I bought my first house, Sacramento, the guy that I think the realtor, the real estate agent said, Well, don't worry about it, Rush.
I mean, they don't let you make any money in this country until you're 40 anyway.
Well, that was that's a formula.
And it used to be the case.
You could you could track it.
People had to become that age before they were going to be trusted by employers with serious jobs, serious compensation.
It's just the way it was, but it was a formula.
And Jobs was always opining against this.
Make your own life.
Write your own formula.
Don't assume everybody's smarter than you are.
They're not.
The world's made up, people just like you.
In fact, you're probably smarter than a lot of the other people.
Do not put yourself down, was the message.
Do not rest on the realization that you can't make it because there are other people smarter than you.
That's a cop-out, it's an excuse, and don't do it.
Don't assume anything, particularly that you're not as smart as other people, that you're not as creative, that you're not as valid.
And that's really what Jobs was talking about.
Don't question your own worth.
Don't question your own validity because of the formulas that society or life has built.
This was not a political thing with him.
With with Jobs, it was simply the way life was structured.
And he didn't want to be in a structured life that others had written, wanted to write his own.
Now, that quote from Kutcher, I am dead certain that comes from what he learned about Jobs playing this role.
To the extent that uh the other stuff he believes, I thought I'm not gonna question it, he probably does.
But the point is, again, that it well, it's important because the people that he said this to, I'm really one of the things that's been eating away and bothering me is there hasn't been this kind of can-do spirit in this country.
There hasn't been.
I mean, outside of this program.
I mean, I'm talking about where these kids are, where the young people are going to school, the music they're listening to, the movies and TV shows they're watching, the uh you know, stuff going back and forth on Twitter, for God's sake.
Wherever there are liberals, it's nothing but fatalism.
It's nothing but doom and gloom.
It's nothing but the world is screwing everybody.
It's nothing but pain and suffering and lost opportunity and no hope.
And so that's why you have to let somebody like Obama or some other Democrat or a government take care of you, because there isn't any hope for you.
And uh Democrat Party and liberals and genuine and general have built this belief system that is that is rooted in and based on contempt for average people, and the belief that average people can't do anything on their own.
So I I don't I don't know to what extent Ashton Kutcher is a role model to the audience that he has.
But I'll guarantee you that what he had to say on Sunday night now repeated here on the EIB network.
What he had to say are things that the people who heard him say it do not hear it, are not hearing it.
At least they're not hearing it from people that trust or believe, but I don't think they're hearing it.
And I know they're being bombarded with the opposites.
Okay, I got to take a break here, folks.
I want you to sit tight, and we'll be back.
We will uh we'll continue.
He that they that he led into that last quote by saying, I knew this.
He said the third thing is something that I just re-learned when I was making this Movement, Steve Jobs.
That last soundbite is Steve Jobs.
And by the way, it is great advice.
Don't assume you're not valid because you think people have done more than you.
Don't assume you're not valid or qualified because other people are older and more experienced, and don't assume people are smarter than you are, and don't fall prey to the structure that other people have made for you.
Build a life, don't live it.
It is something he fervently believed in, and he did.
Now it's not something everybody's going to be able to do, but this never doesn't matter.
The inspiration, the motivation, the idea that it can happen is what inspires people to start dreaming about.
Let's face it, folks, this is this is one of the many things that has been missing in this country for four and a half years.
So gotta take a break.
Sit tight, we'll be back, and continue after this.
The audio soundbite we have is a clip that's been edited by the drive-by media.
And Ashton Kutcher actually was a little bit more detailed.
So here's Soundbite One again, and I'll tell you what was left out of this.
It's important I believe that opportunity looks a lot like hard work.
I've never had a job in my life that I was better than.
I was always just lucky to have a job.
And every job I had was a stepping stone to my next job.
And I never quit my job until I had my next job.
And so opportunities look a lot like work.
Now that clip obviously would make you think he's talking about acting jobs.
What was edited out of that was that he he described the first jobs he had.
He helped his dad carry his shingles, carried shingles to the roof.
He washed dishes at a restaurant.
He worked in a grocery store deli.
He swept up factory floors.
He mentioned all these things.
They just cut that out.
Whoever we got the bite from edited all that out.
This is what he was talking about, and he listed these jobs as jobs that he did not think he was better than.
He never had a job he thought he was better than.
And he mentioned these things that you didn't hear on the bite.
Carry shingles to the roof, wash dishes at a restaurant, working in a grocery store deli, um, and sweeping a factory.
The full quote uh was found on Business Insider.
Now, Steve Jobs version of what Kuster said in the Kutchers in the Last Soundbite was this.
Your time is limited.
So don't waste it living somebody else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of other people's opinions drown out your own inner voice.
Don't let other people talk you out of believing in yourself.
Don't let other people talk you out of believing that what you want to do is valid and good and worthwhile.
Don't let other people's structure and formula make you feel second rater inconsequential, and most important, have the courage to follow your heart and your intuition.
Your heart and your intuition somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.
So he said, just have the courage.
Believe and think for yourself, live for yourself.
And he's also saying something that you know is really true.
Your heart will never lie to you.
Your heart will never your head will all day long, but your heart won't.
Steve Jobs said that when you grow up, you tend to get told the world's the way it is, and that your life has to be lived inside that world.
Try not to get into too much trouble.
Get an education, get a job, make some money, have a family, but don't make waves.
And Jobs said, hell with that.
Make waves.
Everybody else made waves.
Change the world.
He was he was uh all about he was totally opposed to self-confinement.
He was he was totally realized that most of the limitations that people faced were self-imposed.
And that's what he was at that Stanford commencement speech, trying to get across.
Don't put limits on yourself.
Everybody else is gonna be trying to do that.
Don't let them.
Anyway, I just I'm really uh I'm pleased.
I'm happy that this kind of message was heard for what it is, not making it more than it than it is or was, but I did want to share it with you.
You got a quick time out, folks.
Do not go away.
Be right back.
I'll tell you there's a sad reality.
It's not just the Democrats and the left that are pessimistic and do not ever have an optimistic can-do message.
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