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Aug. 19, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 19, 2013, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
And greetings to you once again, music lovers, drill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
It's Il Rushbow, the all-knowing, all-caring, all sensing, all feeling.
All everything, Maha Rushi.
Here behind the golden EIB microphone, another full week of busy broadcast excellence is on tap.
The telephone number, if you would like to be on the program, is 800-282-2882, and the email address, L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
Did you have a uh a good weekend, Mr. Snerdley?
Ah, so so so.
Yeah, I was uh I was out of town.
Well, I can't tell anybody where I was.
I was at a super secret event.
I made a speech to a super secret group, and I cannot devo.
No, he was not there.
See, you're not gonna trick me.
So they just asked me, was so-and-so there.
No, uh.
No, it was not Area 51.
Look, you are not gonna go to me.
I know this is unfair.
I I know I'm not trying to tease people, but everybody wants to know what I do on the weekend.
I was I was at an uh undisclosed, I mean you didn't know it.
Undisclosed location, uh with uh with an undisclosed task.
And it was uh it was enjoyable, it was a lot of fun.
Now I don't think this is ever going to be declassified.
Well, that's not it maybe someday it may be known.
Like later today may be no.
No, seriously.
I had a great time and and uh uh but I it is it is this super secret group with a super secret agenda and a super secret uh membership, and uh I just but it was it was cool.
I hope your weekend was fine, folks.
We uh we're locked and loaded here as we as we head into another week of broadcast excellence, and again here at the top of the stack as I went through it is Obamacare.
We've got an Obamacare stack, and the New York Times continues to unload on the Clintons.
It is as though I am editing the New York Times.
Maureen Dowd just unloaded on Hillary yesterday.
Today we have news that Vice President Bite Me is putting together his 2016 presidential campaign, and that uh his team is revved up and ready to go, and they feel good about their about their prospects.
Now, we had that one story from the New York Times that ripped into the the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor and the Foundation.
And I remember uh I commented on that on this program, and the observation I made was that because I thought the New York Times had made the same point that here you have this charity that is receiving millions of dollars, and they're running deficits.
They owe money and uh drew the connection that the Clintons are getting rich uh off of philanthropy, which is usually not how it happens.
You don't get rich from philanthropy because philanthropy, for those of you in werewolfism, for those of you in Rio Linda.
That's Lycanthropy.
This is philanthropy, and that's giving money away.
And it's impossible to get rich giving money away.
You do that after you have become rich.
The Clintons are getting rich in the process of giving money away.
But now this this uh the story on Hillary actually takes quite a huge number of shots at both Hillary and Bill for the way they're making money.
Making speeches like Clinton Clinton collected 700 grand for making a speech in Lagos, Nigeria.
Uh, and Hillary gets 200,000 of speech, and the and one of the point I think is the Modo, Colin, the Maureen Downcall, one of the points that she makes is this is unseemly.
And she she talks with Harry Truman, who refused to earn a penny trading on the office.
Refused to accept a penny in his post-presidential life dealing with things like making speeches and so forth.
And it's uh it's a good point, and it's it's all about the decline of the office and the Clinton's quest for money, which has been no secret, and the fact that they have become rich is no secret because they constantly tell everybody.
Anyway, just another couple of stories that just dump all over Hillary, including a column by uh by Maureen Dowd.
Anyway, the story I was talking about, this the first story on the on the foundation, I made the connection, I thought the author was making that the Clintons are getting rich giving money away, and this guy goes on TV.
Now, as usual, when Limbaugh talks about it, it's factually incorrect.
I was talking about the secretaries and the uh the clerical people there, they're not getting rich, and I never was not talking about the who nobody is surprised that Clintons don't pay anybody.
Liberals don't pay people.
They take all the money for themselves.
Look at Cheryl Stanberg, name Ringabel.
She's the uh chief operating officer of Facebook.
She's got this book out about women and how they should do things.
Feminist type book.
And she got a job posting for an unpaid intern.
And when you look at the requirements of the job, it's obviously a job that requires a lot of hours and should pay a lot of money, and she's asking for an intern.
You know, no, no pay.
It's just it's incredible.
And she just, I think, cashed in stock and earned money off the book, totaling $90 million.
There's so much hypocrisy with these people on the left.
Hell, let me find it.
There's a, you know, Caroline Kennedy is up for an ambassadorship to somewhere.
And I think it might be Japan, yeah.
It doesn't matter where.
Remember, she was toying with uh running for the Senate at one time, and you remember how she blew it.
She went, here it is, she went with Sharpton up to uh uh what's the soul food place?
What's Sylvia's?
She went with Sharpton up to Sylvia's soul food up in Harlem, and she made every gaff that you can make.
The cameras are there and she's eating.
You never ever eat.
Politician, you never eat on camera.
You just don't do it.
There's no way it can look dignified, and if you spill something, uh if you speak while chewing, I mean, there's nothing in it to eat.
And there she was chowing down while Sharpton was doing it right.
But it was such such obviously a pander tour that it just didn't work out.
And she she uh I think it was one of these Senate appointed jobs, somebody had moved up or passed away, whatever, and they were going to appoint her.
She pulled out.
Anyway, now, five years after all of that, and the reason why she refused to go to the Senate because she refused to release financial information.
Yeah, it was Hillary's seat.
She was going to take over Hillary's seat, that's what it was, right.
Five years after all of that, newly filed documents reveal a personal fortune for Caroline Kennedy that could be as high as five hundred million dollars.
Now, you know me, folks.
I'm a born and bred capitalist, and I I begrudge nobody success, but I do zero in on hypocrites, people who have theirs, and then support policies that essentially put roadblocks in other people's pathway to success and prosperity, and that's the Democrat Party.
Very private, New York Post story.
Very private Caroline Kennedy declined to release the data in 2008, the financial data.
She subsequently withdrew her Request for then Governor David Patterson to appoint her to Clinton's seat.
She was also unable to speak English.
And she she made that mistake up at Sylvia's Soul Food eating in public.
It was a huge gaffe.
But now she has had to file documents with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics for her nominated role as ambassador to Japan.
Now the estimates in 2008, when she was possibly going to be a senator, were that Caroline Kennedy could be worth anywhere between 100 million and 250 million.
But according to the paperwork that she filed last month, that number could be even higher.
One lawyer who reviewed the publicly available documents said she very rich.
Probably worth between 250 and 500 million dollars from the figures.
It looks like she earns between 12 million and 30 million dollars a year from her trust and from her other investments.
The documents reflect that beyond her holdings and family trusts.
She has positions through Phil Falcone's Harbinger Capital, Apollo, Goldman Sachs, Vornado Realty Trust, J.P. Morgan, Blackstone, and the Arctic Royalty Limited Partnership, which reportedly relates to two family-owned oil companies.
Did you know that?
You know the Kennedy family owns oil companies.
They do.
Evil oil, the Kennedy family's deep into oil.
This is what I mean about left-wing hypocrisy.
They're deep into oil.
It's possible because they get a pass on it.
Because they're liberals and they say the right things and social policy, social justice and taxes and all this, they're good loose.
They get away with the hypocrisy.
Robert Jr., by virtue of being a Kennedy is involved in the oil business.
Look, don't all the Kennedys participate in these family trusts?
Isn't that one of the reasons some of the young Kennedys are in trouble?
They've had to go to work.
Because the family trust, there's so many Kennedys, you know, attached to it, yanking money out of it, that some of them have had to go to work, and that hasn't worked out well.
There's really only been two or three Kennedys that really worked, the old man being one of them.
Anyway, she also reports almost a million dollars annually from speaking engagements and uh and royalties from books.
I just love these rich liberals and how they make their money.
And when they make their money therewise, they're the evil rich investments.
Wall Street, profits, all of these things that they criticize, all these things, not just criticize, they they impugn.
They demean.
They criticize, and there they are, nevertheless, right in the middle, capitalizing on it as much as possible.
And of course, as we discussed last week, so many of them foster this image of not caring about money, that they're solely into charity.
All they care about is others.
But they're not interested in personal gain.
It's all such a crock.
So anyway, she's up for ambassadorship to Japan, had to disclose the financial information, and she's worth $500 million.
Again, uh it is what it is.
I don't know that she's done real work either, but the family trust was what it was.
It's just these people are treated, you know, they're given a pass on all this.
They're allowed to criticize.
They are allowed to come up with policy that actually attempts to do damage to the very way they exist.
And they get to exempt themselves from their own policies, like Obamacare.
And as I say, a huge, well, not a huge, but a fairly sizable Obamacare stack today about how it just can't work.
It's simply falling apart before it's even implemented, but doesn't mean anything is going to change.
It just means we've got utter chaos.
As the uh as the prelude to uh government-run health care.
In New Jersey, Governor Christie has announced that he plans, if he hasn't, he's going to announce it today.
He's going to sign a bill that will ban the practice of trying to convert gay children to a heterosexual lifestyle.
Mr. Christie will note that the American Psychological Association has said gay conversion therapy, also known as reparative therapy, can lead to mental health issues and substance abuse.
Well, so can pornography, so can TV.
Anyway, Governor Christie is going to announce that he plans to sign a bill to ban the practice of trying to convert gay children to a heterosexual lifestyle.
Maybe what we need is a ban on Democrat conversion therapy.
That would mean a ban on the mainstream media.
That would mean a ban on Hollywood.
But if we're gonna ban conversion, why not ban the big one?
Ban converting to Democrat.
Be right back.
Don't go away, folks.
Rush Limbaugh talent on loan from God.
Caroline Kennedy gonna have to learn how to say you know in Japanese.
Well, you've forgotten.
You know, everybody's laughing at that.
But people forget, I mean, I don't.
My memory almost unparalleled.
And this woman, when she was up for the Hillary Senate seat, I mean, that it was, folks, it was everything everybody could do, just not laugh.
It was embarrassing.
I mean, here you have the aura and image of the Kennedys.
And that is one of utter refinement and sophistication.
Uh almost uh areudite elitism, and then Caroline was out there behaving in ways that just surprised people.
I mean, she said you know more than your average high school for, you know, and like while I was like over there, you know, and it just we it okay, that's right.
We I thought my we put a montage of this together back then.
We've got that.
Listen to this.
No, I've uh and you know, um, you know, and um, you know, in my own case, I think, you know, it's in our family, you know, you always think about, you know, going into politics, you know, you know, after 9-11.
I thought about, you know, and I think, you know, you know, everyday New Yorkers, and so um, you know, I think um uh as well as myself, you know, you know, all over, you know, again.
And so I thought, you know, um, you know, what can I do?
You know, I really ought to give it some thought, you know, in the future, you know.
You know, you know, and you know, while I was thinking about it, just sort of there's four minutes of this left, folks.
Unrepeated.
Every one of these things happened individually.
We put this montage together over the course of the period of time that Caroline was being considered to replace Hillary in the Senate.
That's why I say she's gonna have to learn how to say you know in uh in Japanese here.
Let's listen just to get a little bit more flavor of this.
Oh, why don't you be senator?
You know, you'd be great, you know, go for it, we're rooting for you, you know, you know, coming up to me, uh, you know, thought this was real.
So, you know, so I thought, well, you know, because you know But I think, you know, I you know, public service is really uh, you know, and um, you know, I comment this as, you know, a mother, you know, people um, you know, what made America you know, I don't think, you know, we talk, you know, okay.
All right, any more, and people are gonna accuse us of being mean and and making fun of her.
And then of course not the point here.
I mean, she's the one that did it, not us.
See, but you're not supposed to you're just not supposed to.
See, liberals are good people.
They care.
They have compassion.
Biggest hearts, they have such good intentions.
You're not supposed to point out these kinds of well, I don't know, you know, shortcomings or like anything that would uh, you know, detract from the well they're like the uh uh the image.
You know, you're not supposed to do that.
And so they would accuse me of being mean.
That's not what we're trying to do.
I'm just trying to refresh your memory and explain why I said you're gonna have to learn how to pronounce you know in Japanese.
How many of you people worried about all of the GPS tracking and such at the NSA or your email company scanning and monitoring your emails?
What if I were to tell you every NFL player is going to have a tracking device in his uniform?
It's coming.
Your guiding light, El Rushball behind the golden EIB microphone here at the Distinguished Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
The latest collective bargaining agreement between the NFL players and the owners allows the league to require players to wear non-obtrusive tracking devices in select practices and games.
The purpose of these, I mean, why would you have a tracking device and an NFL player?
I mean, where are they gonna go?
Well, offsides, uh, break the plane of the goal line, this guy that sure could lead there, but that's not what they say this is about.
I mean, where the hell is a player going to go that you need to find in uniform?
I mean, they're not Alex Rodriguez uh heading into the stands trying to find babes.
They don't do that.
Where are they gonna go?
Well, here's the story.
The purpose of the tracking devices on NFL players, non-obtrusive, will be to collect positional and performance data.
For example, speed, distance traveled, location on the field.
The data captured from the testing in 2013 will be used for internal evaluation purposes only.
It will not be disclosed to any team.
The league is doing this.
Of what value?
I'm I'm sitting here trying to think of this.
I can I can see sharing it with, I can see the team doing it to track players to coincide with film study of a practice or a game to see who's loafing, to see who's out of position.
But why do you really need a tracking device for that?
We're talking about a football field here.
And all of its videotaped from all kinds of different angles.
You can tell who's loafing.
You can tell who's out of position.
You can tell who's not playing up to snuff.
But you haven't got a tracking devices here.
And the league is going to hold on to the data.
The league is not going to disclose it to the teams.
And it's it was it was negotiated.
I mean, it's not, it's not a surprise.
It was in the latest bargaining agreement that uh happened last summer.
Finally, it is likely that all players will be required to wear devices in all NFL games at some point over the next few seasons.
And I've been sitting here trying to figure out is this about concussions?
Is this about future lawsuits, injuries?
It's gotta be it's gotta be money related somehow.
But anyway, aside from the purpose, just tracking devices of football players on a field where you can see them.
And videotaped where you can see them after the fact, where they were, what they did.
Even a video tape, you can get an idea who's loafing, you can figure out who's fast, who isn't.
It's uh curious.
Okay.
The Obamacare stack.
First up, Forever 21.
You ever heard of Forever 21?
You know what it is?
That's what it is.
Forever 21 is a store.
Forever 21 holds a special place in the hearts of young women who are afraid of me.
24-year-old, you know, that age group, who are easily scared by a uh a confident and enormously successful talk show host.
That would be me.
Forever 21 is a shopping destination of young American women.
And they like working there.
It's a favorite place to work.
Forever 21 sells clothes to women to make them feel young.
That's what the Forever 21 is all about.
And there are two different stories on this today.
The bottom line is that Forever 21 has converted every employee to part-time because of Obamacare.
The predictions and fears of Obamacare's adversaries have become to materialize.
By the way, I'm reading this from a millennials website.
Now, this is fascinating.
It's an interesting study.
Policy Mike.
Policymic.com is the website.
And it's a millennials website.
I was asked to write a commentary for this site some months ago, and I and I did.
Anyway, the predictions and fears of the adversaries of Obamacare have become to materialize, specifically fears that Obamacare will encourage employers to demote employees to part-time positions in order to evade federal health care requirements.
Popular clothing company Forever 21 is the first of what might be many companies to limit its non-management workers to 29 and a half hours a week just below the 30-hour minimum that Obamacare deems to be full-time.
Explaining that the company recently audited its staffing levels and staffing needs and payroll in conjunction with reviewing its overall operating budget.
The Associate Director of Human Resources, Carla Macias, informed employees that effective August 31st, They will no longer be full-time employees of Forever 21.
It is a move that will likely harm the reputation of the company, will absolutely harm the economic circumstances of its employees.
It'll function as a tangible example of Obamacare's consequences and shortcomings.
Now, the second version of this story comes from Cairo 7 Eyeball TV News in Seattle.
What they did, they went out and interviewed a bunch of young women, including some black women.
And it's fascinating, no one, I mean it's the limbaugh theorem at work.
No one, at least none of the women talked to, spoken to, ever come close to blaming this on Obama.
But they all think it's unfair.
This is exactly folks what I've been talking about.
Clothing retailer forever 21 claims that it is mere coincidence that before Obamacare is implemented, it's cutting its employees' hours to 29.5, all of them.
Everybody's going to be part-time at this place.
And so therefore they're stopping providing health insurance, which relieves it, the clothing company here, of the burden of providing mandatory platinum insurance for its healthy young employees.
When interviewed, some of the young customers, and by the way, the target demographic for this company is girls in their teenage years and early 20s.
When interviewed, some of the young customers complained that what Forever 21 was doing isn't fair.
It didn't seem to occur to them that they're doing it because of Obama.
Here you have it, folks, the limbaugh theorem.
Here is a company downsizing every employee to part-time, not providing them health insurance, and the company's getting the blame.
Exactly, by the way, which is exactly the way this was drawn up in Washington.
It's exactly the way the Democrat Party drew this up.
The health insurance company is going to be the bad guys.
Companies that reduce full-time payroll, they're going to be the bad guys.
Obama escapes.
Obamacare escapes.
They're running around talking about how unfair it is, but the company is taking the hit for this.
Classic low information voter impact here.
Classic limbaugh theorem on parade in all caps.
They go interview some of these customers, some of the people that work.
Oh, it's so unfair.
We don't understand why the company would do this.
They don't at all associate Obama or Obamacare with this.
When they are told that Forever 21 is making these changes because of the new health care law, all that well, that's not fair.
That's not right.
And they blame it on the company.
And that's because even though with with apparently a sizable percentage of the low information population, even though it's called Obamacare, they just don't associate him with it.
If something is bad or unfair, it can't be Obama's.
That's just not who he is.
Why he's out there fighting for us.
Well, he's out there trying to get health care for all of us.
Obama is the one trying to make our health care affordable, they think.
Obama is the reason they're losing it, and they don't see it.
It's At least as these stories are reported.
So when talking about this demographic, these young women, it is I, your lovable, harmless fuzzball host.
Who is the enemy.
Along with the company, Forever 21.
Obama, he's out there trying.
He's really working hard for him.
He's doing what he can to change this.
It's just, folks.
It's just amazing what it is.
By the way, I should mention that Forever 21 is claiming that it's not Obamacare making them do this.
No, no, no.
Forever look at here, you have a business downsizing, if not all, most of its employees.
Story I have says all of its employees, every one of them, down to uh 29 and a half hours.
But there might be some disagreement on it.
Whatever.
Here's a company that is converting a vast majority of its people to part-timers, 29 and a half hours to escape Obamacare, and not even the company says that Obamacare is the reason.
Forever 21 says, no, no, no.
We're like all retailers.
We staff our stores based on projected uh sales.
Uh, and it's as completely independent.
They're scared to death.
They are trying to stay in business by staying underneath the Obamacare radar.
And then the story gets out that they're canceling or converting all their people to part-time.
And they say, oh no, no, it has nothing to do with Obama.
We love Obama, we love Obama, it has nothing to do with Obama.
They're scared to death, folks.
They're scared to death.
So they're out there saying that Obamacare got nothing to do with this.
That even if there was no Obamacare, they'd be doing this because of projected sales.
Or some such thing.
Anyway, here's uh here's Tamra on the phone.
First call of the day from Parts Unknown.
Tamara, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Good morning.
I was at the top secret event at the undisclosed location over the weekend.
And I had the unbelievable pleasure of meeting Miss Catherine, your beautiful wife.
Oh, you did.
And I I was able to chat with her for a few minutes, and you definitely married up.
She is.
Isn't that the idea?
But who would want to marry down?
Exact well.
No, you're very clear.
I appreciate that.
I'm glad you had the chance to speak to her.
She was she was there in the green room, and so that must mean you were in the green room.
Um yes, but I did not get a chance to chat with you, which was my loss.
I was swamped and sworn understandable.
But I I really I just it was you know, when you get a feeling, especially when you work in media, as you do and I do, when you meet a lot of people, you get a feeling about certain people that you know they're they're a negative or a positive feeling.
And you know, she looked me in the eye and she just was so sweet.
I just thought, wow, if we live near each other, we would be best friends.
And I just I just had to call you today to say that that I am so happy for you both, and congratulations on that, because truly when you find that person that is so loving and caring, that is your encouragement, and that helps you, and that helps all of us to be encouraged through through your words.
Well, that's you know, that's that's a that's a great observation.
It's really uh it really true.
And thank you for taking the time.
You're busy too, and and just like uh a lot of us that all of us that were there and got a chance to hear you this weekend, you know, we are we're um needing encouragement too to help turn our country around.
Let me tell you something.
I think you know I I I try I try to convey this.
I think you all this is kind of unfair to the audience, but this I know this is as close as you're gonna be allowed to get to it, folks.
I think you all have more power than you than you realize.
And I understand why you don't think you do.
Absolutely.
Um but you know, you're you live and work in a town where every decision, this is key, I think.
And I wish I would have spent more time on this, but you live and work in a town where every decision is based in fear, every content decision is based in fear or greed.
Absolutely.
And and there's no innovation, certainly no tech innovation.
There's copycatism and there's fear.
And once you have a dominant culture, everybody's afraid to break out of it.
That's why I mentioned you guys, just be who you are, live your lives.
You never know who you're gonna influence.
You never know.
You may never meet the people that you end up uh influencing in a positive way or giving courage to.
Well, I'd say it was a great you guys are a great audience.
I have to tell you, I I uh uh I don't remember a time where I was ever that energetic for that long.
Well, you know, Rush, I I I left that the evening saying you were the most raw and real.
And and I am a listener.
My mom is out here, she's probably listening to this call right now.
She has been your biggest fan, and she has listened to you from the first day that you are on the radio.
And I I tell you, I listen almost every day when I can.
I have young children and and I'm an entrepreneur and doing my thing too, but I have to say you were so dead on.
You were so raw and so real.
It really I can tell you because I've already had conversations, how energized people are.
And from my own personal experience, you know, you go through different things, and some people let you go and they say, Oh, well, you know, you're too right, you're too right of center, you have to be more mediocre.
And I have made the decision over the last several years that I I have to stand for the truth, and I'm a twelfth generation granddaughter of Captain Miles Standish.
And no kidding.
Yes, absolutely.
No kidding.
Well, no wonder you and Catherine hit it off.
Oh my is she is she uh a daughter of the John Adams John Adams.
Get out of well, of course, there's some kind of family thing there from the founding of this nation.
And yes, well, let me tell you something.
You guys, you're you're I I've I you you're don't mean to stutter.
You're you're exactly just keep being who you are.
That's right.
The greatest power you have, particularly where you are, is real.
Just be real.
You're you're in a sea of of people afraid to be who they are.
Yeah, I get it.
More people, I'll bet you in that place where you live, lie about what they believe just to avoid hassle.
You just be real.
There's so much power, just be happily so.
Don't be ashamed of anything.
Because there's no need for it.
But I like that raw and real.
Raw.
What was that?
It had a yeah, it had a green room.
It had a green room.
But but anyway, I camera, I gotta go because of the constraints of time here.
I'm out of it.
But I really appreciate the call and uh Catherine will love uh reminding, being reminded of you.
I gotta take a quick time out back after this.
So I'm wondering, what are you all thinking now when you hear Tamra describe the appearance Saturday night as raw and real?
I don't know, I like it.
Because it it's a it's it's actually very descriptive.
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