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Aug. 29, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 29, 2013, Thursday, Hour #3
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Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
El Rushbow meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
It's a thrill and a delight to have you with us.
And I haven't had a whole lot of phone.
We've had one phone call today, so I gotta make up for that.
I may stay uh may start taking some calls in this segment.
So hang in there and be tough.
That statement that Obama made about extraordinary things.
Not too many maids, porters, seamstresses, uh whatever the hell else that he talked about.
Even if it were the case, why I don't understand why you wouldn't want to be inspirational about it.
But except I understand Obama doesn't believe it's possible in this country.
That is the bottom line.
You know, fact of the matter is before he was elected president, Barack Obama was an ordinary guy.
He didn't do anything extraordinary.
Zilch zero nada.
In fact, Obama's extraordinary today, not because of anything he's done as president.
It's because he's been a disaster.
He's extraordinary in the mere fact that he became president.
Few people do that, but what has made him extraordinary is his utter disaster of an administration.
He rose from do nothing state senator to do nothing U.S. Senator to where he is now.
And there are reasons for it.
We all know what it is.
Not going to get into it, but it is what it is.
Now, this NFL business.
The NFL and more than 4500 former players want to resolve concussion-related lawsuits with a $765 million settlement that would fund medical exams, concussion-related compensation, and medical research, according to a federal judge today.
The settlement likely means this is an AP story.
Settlement likely means the NFL will not have to disclose internal files about what it knew when about concussion-linked brain problems.
Lawyers had been eager to learn about the workings of the league's mild traumatic brain injury committee, which was led for more than a decade by a rheumatologist.
But the settlement means they're not going to have to divulge that.
And then the story contains this.
The timing of the settlement allowed the NFL to drop the issue from the national conversation before the start of the new season.
I swear, they think that the concussion-related symptoms and the concussion-injury symptom and factor in the NFL is going to go away because of the settlement.
It isn't.
This is just going to keep the door open because there is a political movement underway to fundamentally transform the game.
And...
And from the Tribune Democrat from Johnstown, Pennsylvania, which is how they say it there, Johnstown, citing low numbers and safety issues, Rockwood area Haskrull has dropped its varsity football program less than a week before the scheduled opening game at United.
Unfortunately, we made the decision for safety reasons to cancel our varsity season, said the superintendent on Tuesday afternoon.
We went to Tussie Mountain for a scrimmage game on Friday night with 12 players.
One of our seniors, one of the only two or three kids with any varsity experience, went out with a season-ending injury.
We went back, we took a look at how many kids we had at that point.
We just felt it was a safety concern, and that we should not be participating on the varsity level.
Now I don't want to sit here and do an I told you so, but I predicted this.
It's just it's gonna continue.
You've even got former NFL players saying this game isn't gonna be around as we know it in 20 years.
One of the safeties for the Steelers, a guy named uh Ryan Clark.
You know, they they've they've now the NFL, you can't hit guys high because of concussions.
And there was an injury in a preseason game, a tight end for the Dolphins.
Uh Dustin Keller used to play with a Jits.
That's how OJ used to say about a Jits.
And he got hit low, blew out a knee, gone for the season.
The NFL is now thinking of making the hit that Keller Bloody's near illegal.
So Ryan Clark says, Well, what the hell is happening?
Can't hit him high, can't hit him low.
When are you gonna put the flag belts on us?
Meaning, when are you gonna turn this into flag football?
Number 25 of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Ryan Clark.
Telling you folks, telling you, time will tell.
Forest Grove, Oregon.
Earlier this month, a local resident called 91 because she was in fray of an invader in her home.
A spider that she described the operator as a massive freaking creature.
The panicked teenager unnamed called 911 after discovering the arachnid on a piece of furniture.
It's a spider.
The 911 tape reveals her saying, I'm home alone, there's a giant spider on the back of my couch, and I'm talking giant.
I've never seen a spider this big.
I have no idea what to do.
After some contemplation and a genuine plea for advice from the caller, the operator ultimately sent a police officer to the house.
So in Port St. Lucie, you call 911 if they don't have McNuggets.
There was a something else happened in a 911 for something else.
Oh!
Cable went out.
Yeah, call 9-11 your cable goes out.
Now call 9-11 because there's a spider on the back of the couch.
And send a cop.
The spider was estimated to be two inches in diameter.
Counting the legs.
Sent a cop out, killed the spider with a newspaper.
The spider killed with a newspaper.
The cop did not even have to draw his weapon.
You imagine if the cop would have shot the spider right through the sofa.
Florida School District has banned cheerleaders from wearing their uniforms to class because they violate the dress code.
A Florida School District has decided its cheerleading uniforms are too sexy for the classroom.
So starting this year, Haskruls in Pinellas County have officially banned the same short skirts and sleeveless tops that they've issued to the girls on the cheerleading squad during the school day.
They can wear them on the sidelines during football games and basketball games, but not in class.
What do you mean ban twerking?
They're gonna ban I've I don't think they permit it now.
Anthony Wiener is having such a hard time generating support for his limp campaign that he has resorted to paying crowds to provide supporters for his events, according to the New York Post.
Campaign, Anthony Wiener's campaign really limping along, says here that he hired actors at $15 an hour.
The California firm Crowds on Demand furnished the actors to act as supporters for Wiener.
15 bucks an hour.
Do you think they're worth more than that?
And you can't, it's not a livable wage.
if you're out acting like you support some lame candidate, $15 an hour, that's not fair.
This seems uh What do you mean?
Wait a minute.
The kids.
Yes, but that's not steady work.
That's not steady work.
You you going to work, you know, supporting the wiener campaign.
How long's that gonna last?
The McDonald's job, don't forget, is forever.
Well, we're talking hamburger work versus wiener work, snurdly and the wiener work.
That's gonna end at some point.
Hamburger work is forever.
CBS News, Obamacare took another punch of the gut today.
77%.
This is a new high.
7% of American voters believe the individual mandate should be repealed or delayed.
77%.
This is a poll conducted by the morning consult.
Not only do 77% of voters think the mandate should be repealed or delayed.
65% of Democrats agree.
It seems like every day there's a new poll showing a rising percentage of people opposed to this law.
And I, for the life of me, I I don't, I really don't.
There's a huge batch of Americans, a majority.
You would agree, Rachel, right?
That 77% is a majority.
Huge number of people, the Republican Party could connect with here and become their champion.
Take up their cause, form a relationship with 65% of Democrats.
And the Republican Party doesn't seem to want to get involved here.
In stopping, delaying, repealing, or defunding Obamacare.
Because they're so afraid of what the media will say about them.
But 75-7% of the American people.
And depending on the poll, it's anywhere from 60 now to 77% who oppose it and want it repealed or some some aspect of it.
That is a huge number of voters with whom the Republicans could form an electoral relationship.
Now take a break.
We come back, we'll get to your calls.
Promise that.
Don't go away.
Okay, back to the phones as promised.
And we go to Vero Beach, Florida.
This is Paul.
Thank you for waiting, sir.
Really appreciate it.
Hello.
Russ, thank you for everything you do.
Listen, the previous caller says let's give minimum wage workers enough to pay the rent and to make a living.
And people in both parties, I am shocked to think that people in both parties actually buy into this crap.
Forget all the businesses, large and small that would lose their job that would close their doors the next day, practically.
By doing what these people are demanding, we would rob America of one of the most massive job creators, and that is incentive.
I mean, do we really want people to be comfortable with entry-level jobs?
I was that guy, Rush, 25 years ago, who is making the $3.35 an hour.
I was halfway through high school, and I knew I couldn't keep making minimum wage and still move out of my dad's house.
And so I created my own job.
I started painting, and I hired two of my buddies.
And I was making five times minimum wage, and they were making twice minimum wage.
And that's how it's done.
Your point was that ordinary people do extraordinary things, and that is true, but that's when they need to, when there's incentive, and not by making everyone comfortable with mediocrity.
Here's the problem.
You mentioned uh both parties.
And I think sadly you're right.
Both parties are not oriented toward the message you just delivered.
Politics today.
Well, but it's it's it's not just the Democrats crashing the economy.
This whole this whole push for the minimum wage to be high enough to support a family of four, that's nothing more than a compassion play.
It's it's it's nothing more than uh uh both parties, but particularly the Democrats, trying to simply relate to people and make them think that they're looking out for them, that they're on their side.
Exactly.
To get their vote, it's not about economics.
It's not about those people improving their lives.
It's not even about a livable wage.
It's about the parties trying in in there competing with each other to try to show these people they care more about them than the other guys do.
Exactly right.
And that's the problem here.
You're you just you offered the recipe.
You were the 335 an hour guy.
And that is a great point.
We do not want entry level work to be comfortable.
I mean, we don't want people to be satisfied with that.
By definition, they can't be anyway, but you're right.
Entry level is entry level.
And uh this whole this whole push is nothing more than pandering.
It's just folks, it's just pandering to low information people.
It's pandering to the lowest common denominator.
That's that is what you ask me, politics has become today.
Sadly, it's what Washington does.
You know, forget party delineation or differentiation.
It's it's it's pandering to the low information population.
It's pandering.
And and they're looking at it from the standpoint of uh numbers.
In this economy, there are far, far more people not doing well than there are people who are doing well.
And you want the votes of a majority of people, so we're pandering to them.
We're making them think we care about them.
We make them think we're looking out for them.
We make them think we've got their best interests at heart.
I want you to go to any constituency group that has believed the Democrat Party has been looking out for them for 50 years and ask them how they're doing.
Ask the African American population.
How has voting Democrat year after year worked out for you?
Ask any Democrat Party last I looked, every Democrat constituency group is enraged over something.
Every group of people who votes Democrats is mad about something.
They're unhappy, they're enraged, they're mad, they feel cheated, mistreated, you name it, they're not happy.
They're not laughing, and they're not enjoying themselves.
And they are turning to the same people to fix it, who have been promising them for however many years to fix it.
And all they do is get pandered to.
Everybody is being dealt with on the cum.
Vote for me and I'll fix those other guys.
Vote for me, and I'll make sure those other guys get punished.
Vote for me, and I'll see that their taxes get increased.
Vote for me, and I'll see that you get this or you get that.
Nobody in politics has the guts to tell people that their fate and fortune rests with them.
Nobody in politics.
It's amazing.
It used to be that that was the exclusive province of the Democrat Party, but now doesn't seem to be anybody in Washington.
All of Washington seems to be totally devoted to Washington getting bigger.
Washington getting more powerful.
And the way they do it is pander to the lowest common denominators in our population, which means punishing people who end up being successful because that's what they think the low information people want.
Christopher, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, great to have you on the program, sir.
Hey, thank you, Rush, for taking my call if you're absolutely honored to talk to you, sir.
Um I want to raise an issue that I constantly hear um liberals and Obama supporters make whenever they attempt to defend Obama's disgraceful records is massive debts and the unacceptable employment rate that is term is going on, and that is to blame Bush.
Well, we inherited this debt.
We inherited this financial nosedive from Bush.
Well, you see, Bush left Us with the recession.
What I always say when I come into contact with this argument is okay, so you inherited a terrible situation from Bush.
Shouldn't that make it easier to improve even a little bit?
I mean, I always use the analogy, let's assume that you buy a house or you inherit a house that is in shambles.
It means a lot of improvement, a lot of restoration.
Now, because it's in such shambles, even replacing the carpet or the drapes would be noticeable, and they'd say, well, you're not all the way there yet, but you know, these are obvious improvements.
But five years goes by and more things are falling off the house.
How how is that not anyone's fault but yours?
How does that happen?
Great point.
Because Bush made it so bad, the mess that we inherited is so bad that we can't improve on it.
We just have to make do with what's left.
We are back.
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Happy to have you with us, my friends.
Let's uh head back to the phones of Mark in Bowling Green, Ohio.
Great to have you, sir.
Hello.
Thanks, Russ, for taking my call.
I'm a big fan.
Hey, earlier you talked about uh what Obama was thinking about during the Martin Luther King anniversary.
I just kind of wanted to offer a little bit different uh interpretive perspective.
When he was talking about the butlers, the cooks, the seamstresses fundamentally changing the world.
I don't think it was about the work they were doing, like Martin Luther King would uh say, like during that uh the best speech he gave, which you talked about today.
Yes.
I think he was talking about they fundamentally changed the world because they voted for him.
It was all about him.
Remember back in 2008 when he said we are five days from finally mentally changing the world?
Yeah.
Well, he also said he was going to fix all the problems that Bush left us with, and he hasn't done that either.
Right.
Well, let's go back, let's listen to the bite.
That's an interesting uh egoistic interpretation you are assigning to our esteemed young president.
So let us uh grab audio soundbite number ten.
So as you listen to this, keep in mind here that Mark from Bowling Green, Ohio here happens to think Obama is talking about himself.
Most of all what I was thinking about was just uh what I talked about in the speech.
All these uh ordinary folks who did extraordinary things.
There aren't that many examples in American history, maybe even world history, where you see maids and uh seamstresses and porters and laborers who uh are able to fundamentally transform the most powerful country on earth.
So you think that he's talking about those people are now able to because they voted for him.
Yeah, that's because when he talked about uh any time I think when he talks about tiny millennium fundamentally changing the world, it's always in the context of supporting him.
No, well well, yeah, but I mean it's it's only he's gonna transform it.
He's gonna transform America.
Right.
Well, so what you're saying here, so he is looking out, and over all these people that their lives didn't amount to diddly squat until they voted for him.
Well, I don't know if I'd go that far, but I would say what they did, Martin Luther King would say what they did as a cook, as a seam tress, or anything like that had value in itself because they did it the best they could.
What he was saying, what they were doing had value, but what they really did to front and line they changed the world was they voted for me.
Wow, if it's that, it's worse than I thought.
If that is the explanation for this.
Remember what Trayvon Martin he comes out, he says, that could have been me.
I mean, there's a million things you could say.
What is he bringing back?
He brings it back to himself.
That's true.
I remember these uh two guys from Newsweek on the night of Obama's uh election in 2008, they were analyzing Obama at Grant Park, and they pointed out it was the first time a winning presidential candidate had gone out there and Kicked his wife and kids off the stage.
And then they said, you know what?
He's watching us watch him.
Hmm.
He's up above us.
And he's watching us watch him.
So you're saying there when Obama says there aren't that many examples in American history, maybe even world history, where you see maids, seamstresses, porters, and laborers who were able to fundamentally transform the most powerful country on earth.
You think that he is saying they are now able to because they voted for him.
Correct.
Interesting.
He is the one.
Interesting.
You know, that's...
Uh...
I had to really stop it, because if that's true, if if that's true, this is this is this is a deeper, deeper case and problem than even I considered.
I don't know.
I uh he could have been, you know, do we have porters on trains anymore?
Do we have do we have porters in hotels?
They do in the UK, do we have porters in hotels anymore?
Uh so you're saying this is Freudian almost.
Yes.
Okay.
I could be wrong, but that's that's I I see a pattern here.
Well, look, I I will, as they uh, as they say, take this under advisement, and I will I'll tell you Snerdley thinks you're on to something, otherwise you would not have made it through the screening process.
So one thing I know is that Snerdley agrees with you.
And that makes me doubt you.
Uh just just being fair, just being.
Okay, there aren't that many examples in American history, maybe even world history, where you see maids, seamstresses, porters, and laborers who are able to fundamentally transform the most powerful country on earth.
Most of all, watch what I was thinking about.
What I talked about in my speech.
Well, they but they they weren't all there, the people that voted for him.
There are barely 20,000 people there.
Uh I don't know.
Look at I an Oprah's mother was a maid.
And Eric Holder's brother, uncle, something or other came from not-I mean, I i I he said.
Oprah's there representing the You guys are off the beaten path.
I just this this if he's that far gone, and I understand it's entirely possible, but I know I'm fascinated by the way people think.
Let me let me take that under consideration.
I I hadn't thought of that, but I will.
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Emerald Isle, North Carolina.
This is Kelly.
It's great to have you with us on the EIB Network.
Hey, Rush.
It is an honor to talk to you.
I'm so excited.
Thank you so much for everything you do for the conservative movement.
Well, thank you.
I appreciate that.
Thank you very much.
Well, I have to tell you, when I got through to snurringly for the first time, I'm a first-time caller.
I pulled over on the side of the road, and my sweet husband has been waiting at the airport for me to come pick him up.
And he's a Steeler fan, and you are the only man on earth I would make him wait to go pick up.
So thank you so much for taking my call.
I am flattered, and you're more than welcome.
Well, I just wanted to let you know my dad was a small businessman in eastern North Carolina, and he listened to you for years.
And he since passed away.
It'll be ten years to Thanksgiving, and I look to you and think about him every day, and I just appreciate just how special you are.
You are a national treasure, and you say the things that we all are thinking out in America, and you give us a voice.
And I just want you to know, you know, how special you are to all of us.
Thank you really very much.
I uh I'm really flattered by that, and I can't tell you how much I appreciate it, really.
Well, you know, you get banged up on in the media and you get picked on, and when they give your soundbite, you never give the full story and well, you know, the pioneers take the arrows.
Well, I know, and I just want you to know that there's just so many of us, and people that maybe you wouldn't even know are calling for you and who are huge fans, and I don't know what we do without you, Ross.
I was talking to one of my girlfriends who I know is listening because I text her when I was waiting.
Let me tell you the truth.
The the the the the I get all that stuff, you're right, but it's the the fact that I know that you all know what the truth is, and that you know that it's all a bunch of BS is really what enables me or gives Me the strength to deal with it and put up with it because I know that you all don't fall for it.
I know that you know it's BS.
And that gives me uh a lot of confidence.
So it's a two-way street here.
Uh we I hope so, because we all talk about it, and and and you're just terrific.
And even yesterday, you know, I did watch a little bit of the president's speech, you know, um, and and the production that was yesterday, like you said, style over substance, and they didn't have Senator Scott there thinking speaking who is a wonderful uh young black conservative from South Carolina, and to deny him the opportunity to take that moment, it just shows you what hypocrites the liberals are.
Well, you know why?
You know why?
You know what they said?
Because what did they say?
Wasn't elected yet.
Uh well, he was appointed by a Republican office.
Another reason he's not valid, right?
That's the real reason.
There weren't any Republicans there, and they didn't invite any Republicans until the day before or some such thing.
Right.
And here these people, they're the ones that try to paint themselves out as the architects of inclusion.
I'm gonna tell you, folks.
That event yesterday, what what has become of the civil rights movement, I think, would really bother Dr. King.
He was an integrationist.
Dr. King was about integration.
And these people that have taken over the civil rights movement are a bunch of segregationists, separatists.
And that's why there's all this racial strife in the country today.
They are standing in the way of integration and acceptance.
They they all they want to do is harp on the divisions.
And they want to try to create divisions where there aren't any and amplify isolated incidents and try to make them look like the norm.
It's really it's it's it's uh it's pathetic, these people are.
But Kelly, thank you again.
I really appreciate it.
Thank you so much.
Yeah, see, it's it's working on this one, but it's not working on the other two.
And I don't I it's gotta be turned off because it's betas.
It's just gotta be turned off.
I don't know what it is, but it I gotta stop being frustrated by this.
I'm beating my head against a wall of concrete and the wall isn't moving.
Anyway, folks, thanks so much.
Been great today.
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