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September 13, 2013, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And greetings, my friends, and once again, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program here on the EIB Network.
It is Friday, and that means...
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email address lrushbow at eibnet.com How many of how many of you people thought about taking the day off today to have sex?
Well, the reason I asked the question is that the Russians are celebrating their eighth annual day of conception today.
They've got a birth rate replacement population problem.
And since Putin is the leader of the free world now, man, oh man, speaking, I've got audio sound bites of Donald Trump and Newt praising Putin's op-ed to the heavens.
Trump probably trying to buy property for a golf course, but Newt, you know, the Moscow gentleman's club maybe Trump trying to arrange, but Newt is all dazzled because you would never have a Soviet leader quoting the Pope.
This is like Putin did in his op-ed.
This is a major, major advancement.
And I swear, every day, folks, I don't know about you, but not every day, but some days I just, I feel more and more distant from people that I think see the world the same way I do.
That op-ed yesterday, by the way, that Putin wrote and American exceptionalism.
I made the point when I analyzed that that Obama doesn't believe in American exceptionalism.
He thinks it's like Putin.
He thinks it's bragging.
It's unseemly.
It's arrogant and conceited.
We're no better than anybody else, and no such thing.
And lo and behold, I found a tweet.
A friend of mine sent me a tweet from Peter Beinard, who's a well-known leftist.
He used to edit The New Republic, I believe.
He's out there.
He's on Sunday shows.
He's a guest on cable.
And he tweeted the following.
At the end of his op-ed, Putin said about American exceptionalism what many liberals feel, but no American politician would say.
So Beinart is admitting the point that I made yesterday.
The left agrees with Putin.
There is no such thing as American exceptionalism.
And I'm telling you, folks, that is a crucially important thing for people to know.
And again, I'm not going to go through the whole definition of American exceptionalism again.
These people don't even understand what it is.
And because of their misconception, the American left is populated by people who really think that it's wrong to think there's anything special about the United States.
And when you have a growing number of people who think that, it does not bode well.
Because this country is exceptional.
And you heard all the reasons for it yesterday.
It's an exception to the rule of what life is like for most people on the planet.
It's an exception to that.
And for these people to not even understand it and not recognize it and want to agree with a former KGB agent on the fact there's nothing special about this country, it's no wonder what's happening to this country is happening to it with these people in charge.
They don't even think there's anything worth preserving here.
And that's why they want to seek to transform it.
They really do believe nothing special here.
And in fact, it's flawed.
The founding of this country was unjust and it was immoral.
We're going to go fix it.
And so what's remarkable to me about this is not that a Russian leader, ex-communist leader, is quoting the Pope in all this.
It is that he writes an op-ed chastising Americans and our president for thinking there's anything special about this country.
And we have a rash of Americans running to agree with him.
Not a good sign.
So I just, well, here, I don't know if I can find him real quick.
So maybe I can't.
I've got these things so out of order now that I...
Yeah, grab 5, 6, and 7.
Here's Trump.
And this last night, he's on the record with Greta.
And she said, last night there was an op-ed in the New York Times by Putin.
And right before on the record started, a news broke.
So I'm curious what you think.
Do you think President Obama knew that this Putin op-ed was coming?
Or was this an end run on the president?
I've read it a number of times.
There are a lot of different ideas in there.
A very well-written letter or op-ed from the standpoint of Russia.
It makes Putin look extremely diplomatic.
It actually makes him sound very reasoned and very reasoning.
And frankly, I don't know that he wrote the letter.
Certainly there were his ideas, but the way it was crafted was very, very interesting.
And it really is talking down to the president.
There's no question about that.
Okay, that's true.
That's true.
There's no question.
I even said the same thing in my own inimitable style.
And it's inimitable by virtue of the fact that Trump doesn't sound like me when he says exactly what I said.
But that's exactly right.
If Putin talking down, Putin asserting the moral authority that the United States used to have.
Here's the next.
Let's see if Vassestra says, okay, so Boehner said he was insulted by some of the remarks in that op-ed.
I assume it was the part where it talked about exceptionalism, and he was insulted by that.
What I thought was extraordinary, this is Greta talking to Trump, is how Putin wanted to speak directly to the American people and bypass the president in addition to sort of the slaps that he made.
It really makes him look like a great leader, frankly.
And when he criticizes the president for using the term American exceptionalism, if you're in Russia, you don't want to hear that America is exceptional.
And if you're in many other countries, and whether it's Germany or other places, you don't want to hear about American exceptionalism because you think you're exceptional.
So I can see that being very insulting to the world.
Frankly, the way our country is being treated right now by Russia and Syria and lots of other places, and with all the mistakes we've made over the years, like Iraq and so many others, it's sort of a hard term to use.
No, it's not a hard term to use when you understand what it is.
The thing is, the Russians do not think they're exceptional.
The Germans can't possibly with I'm not putting them down by any stretch, and I'm not building us up.
You know, this term is so easily explained, and it's so easily understood, and I guess it's so easily misunderstood with everybody thinking that it's a term of braggadocio, and it isn't.
Here's Newt on Crossfire last night, and his comments on Putin's op-ed in the New York Times.
It was a remarkable post-Soviet document because he cites the Pope.
I mean, can you imagine Brezhnev or Khrushchev or Lenin or Stalin?
I mean, you want to know who lost the Cold War?
The Communists lost the Cold War.
Now, that's not a comment on the American exceptionalism, but a remarkable post-Soviet document.
So many people seem to be so willing to, I don't know, award praise to people for whatever reason.
I remember shortly after Obama was elected, he hadn't yet been immaculated, but it was between the election and the immaculation.
And Obama announced somebody in his national security apparatus, some guy was going to put in there.
And Newt was all excited.
Now, if you would have told me that the election of a radical leftist Democrat like Barack Obama would have resulted in, I would have told you you're crazy.
And that one appointment gave Newt the impression that Obama is going to be much, much, much better than any of us thought.
He wasn't going to be anywhere near the radical that we all thought.
It's like when Eric Holder was nominated to be Attorney General, all these idiotic, intellectual, Republican legal people ran to the microphone.
Oh, what a great nomination.
Eric Holder, one of the greatest guys that's ever come down to, why, this changes our opinion of what the Obama presidency is going to be.
And it was a disaster.
And again, it's all because all of these people who are rendering judgment refuse to look at this through the prism of ideology.
The idea that Eric Holder was a sign that Obama was not going to be a radical leftist president.
How do you arrive at that?
How do you get there?
Okay, so just because Putin mentions the Pope, we're supposed to conclude that Russia is a much greater place today than it was.
Then Russia is our enemy.
Russia is attempting to wrest control of the Middle East and ally with Iran.
What is it that people don't get or it's so hard for them to get?
I don't understand in many of these instances.
I just don't.
Anyway, folks, that's that.
The reason I asked if any of you had taken the day off for sex, because they're doing that in Russia.
Skip the whole day, the whole day to procreate.
Putin wants people to give birth over there.
He wants people getting pregnant.
Wants babies born.
They've got a replacement birth rate population in Russia.
They are losing population.
They need people.
I mean, look, folks, one of the reasons that the United States grew into such a world power so fast is the rate of our population growth at the founding.
We had a lot of people.
It takes a lot of people doing a lot of great productive things to become a superpower.
So we had tremendous population growth.
The Russians are losing population.
Their birth rate replacement level is below replacement levels, the proper way to put it.
This is in the UK Independent.
Skip work, have sex.
Russians celebrate Day of Conception as the sporting community continues to criticize Putin's anti-gay legislation.
That's the headline.
Couples in the region of Ulyanovsk told to take the day off in order to procreate while athletes raise concern over Russia's homophobic policies.
That's another thing, by the way.
How in the world do all these people run around praising Putin when he's got this homophobic policy of anti-gay marriage and anti-gay participation at the Olympics and so forth?
Anyway, in our country, the government wants to screw us.
But in Russia, they want everybody screwing each other because they want babies born.
And so, in the past years, this is an actual paragraph in the article.
In past years, prizes have been awarded to couples who give birth in exactly nine months from the unofficial public holiday.
In 2012, the winning pair were presented with a Jeep.
In 2011, the award was a Jeep.
You imagine in our country, some people, I don't know, I just give away, we gave away a Jeep at Tueth by T for doing nothing.
In Russia, you got to have sex, and then you got to have a baby in nine months to get a Jeep.
So you got all these people, all these Russians are out there having sex today.
It is the day of conception.
Putin knows what his population is missing.
Did you hear the news that Richard Stingle is leaving Time magazine and going over to the regime?
I'll tell you, folks, I've mentioned, I don't know how many times, the incestuous relationship that exists between the Washington Press Corps and any Democrat administration.
But I think the Obama administration has seen more members of the Press Corps leave the press corps and join the regime than any previous Democrat regime in my lifetime, anyway.
Richard Stengel was the managing editor of Time magazine, and he has left Time magazine to go over to the State Department.
And it's a whole hummer.
It's not a big deal.
And when you question these people about, I think that little, how in the world can you claim to be objective in the media when you decide to leave the media and go over to the regime?
What's the difference?
And there isn't any difference.
Journalists are simply leftist disguised as reporters.
They're political activists disguised as reporters.
That's all they are.
And this is just the latest example.
According to The Atlantic, Richard Stingle's decision to join the regime is just the latest example of a new trend among mainstream media journalists who are making it official by officially joining the regime rather than being a satellite member at a newspaper or magazine.
Stengel, who is joining the State Department, is just one of, it's either 15 or 19 who have given up a career in journalism to join the Obama regime to fundamentally transform America.
Not only that, it's not just the number of reporters who have decided to make their work for Obama official, rather, as I say, satellite from newspaper magazine or even TV network.
Who they are married to, some of these Obama regime people married to people in the media.
You'd be stunned.
I think it's the numbers in three figures.
You could easily get to 100 if you count the number of reporters who've gone to work through the regime, the number of people in the regime married to reporters, the number of reporters married to people that work at places like Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac.
And so the whole, there's no possibility of objectivity.
It's not even, that's why there's not even a pretense to it anymore.
Just notice the clock.
I got to take a brief break here, folks.
We got a couple of soundbites from Stingle, just to remind you who he is and things that he's he named Obama person of the year for Time Magazine one year because Obama got the votes of low information voters.
That was the qualifying.
Obama was named Time Magazine Person of the Year because he was able to reach out and get the votes of the ignorant.
Okay, December 19th on the Today Show, 2012, Savannah Guthrie talking to Richard Stingle.
And she said, who is Time's person of the year, Richard?
Our person of the year for 2012 is President Barack Obama.
He won re-election despite a higher unemployment rate than anybody's had to face in 70 years.
He's the first Democrat to actually win two consecutive terms with over 50% of the vote.
That's something we haven't seen since Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
And he's basically the beneficiary and the author of a kind of new America, a new demographic, a new cultural America that he is now the symbol of.
The ignorant, low-information voters, Time Magazine, that's Richard Stingle.
He just left Time and is heading over to work for John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, by the way, at the State Department.
See, all of these people are Democrat activists.
When they're at Time Magazine, they're just Democrat activists disguised as journalists.
Then they get the itch and they want to get closer to the center of the action.
And so they abandon the publication and the TV network and they head on over to the regime.
And here this guy, he, what did he say?
Two consecutive terms with over 50% of the vote, higher unemployment rate than anybody's had to face in 70 years.
An unemployment rate he's responsible for, but not in these people's eyes.
No way.
All right, we're back.
It's Open Line Friday.
Your telephone calls are coming up.
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This Richard Sengel, managing editor of Time Magazine, said, yeah, we named Obama person of the year in 2012 because he won re-election despite a higher unemployment rate than anybody had to face in 70 years.
Well, no thanks to you guys, right?
He's in charge of the unemployment rate.
Unemployment, 2 million people have left the workforce.
There are 90 million Americans not working, 90 million Americans not working.
The labor force participation rate is down.
People have given up looking for work.
The job market has been destroyed.
College graduates, nothing to do.
There aren't any careers to be had.
Full-time jobs are being converted to part-time.
We're going to name this guy person of the year, absolutely, if this is what you want to happen to America.
And then, after saying he deserves to be our guy of the year because he got elected, even though the unemployment rate was higher than anybody's had to face in 70 years, how about the unemployment rate that he is responsible for, first Democrat to win two consecutive terms,
and he's the beneficiary and the author of a new kind of America, a new demographic, a new cultural America that he is now the symbol of.
Low-information voters is what he's talking about.
They were all excited at Time magazine that Obama came along and found a way to get the ignorant involved in politics.
Obama came along and found a way to get the ignorant to vote Democrat.
Stengel was asked by Charlie Rose about Obama being person of the year.
And Stengel said they like Obama because they sense something about him that he's not really a part of it.
Limbautherum, Richard Stingle, actually said to Charlie Rose, yeah, they like Obama because they sense something about him that he's not really a part of it.
He's not a part of what's going on.
He's not to blame for what's going on.
He's not responsible for it.
He's not a part of it.
They sense that.
I wonder why that is, Stingle.
Think you guys in the media might have something to do with that?
By not vetting the guy, by not being holding him accountable.
The Obama campaign, this is more Stingle to Charlie Rose.
The Obama campaign discovered that these people who say they're not interested in politics, who don't like the Republicans, who don't like the Democrats, who don't like Washington, you know what they do like?
They like Obama because they sense something about him, that he's not really a part of it, meaning Washington.
So even that first debate, which we all thought was a debacle, a lot of people thought, well, I like that because he's not playing that game.
He's not playing gotcha.
He's not saying nasty things.
That helped tip the balance for him.
So the more Obama appeals to the ignorant, the better he is.
Stingle was ecstatic in naming Obama person of the year.
But this is, I mean, this is Limbaugh Theorem right on the head of the nail.
Obama discovered these people who say they're not interested in politics, don't like the Republicans, who don't like the Democrats, and don't like Washington.
You know what they do like?
They like Obama because they sense something about him and he's not really part of it.
How can that be?
He's president for four years.
How in the world can he not be part of it?
Well, the constant campaign, never appearing to govern, not being held accountable by the media, a brilliant strategy.
And so somebody who's a Democrat activist disguised as a journalist names him person of the year because he found a way to appeal to the ignorant.
Back to the Today Show on December 19th of 2012, David Gregory said to Sengel, well, what about some people who've pushed back on that this year, saying it was more about the lesser of two evils in the course of the campaign?
A lot of the circumstances seem to be bigger than the president compared to when he was first chosen.
Our story by Michael Scheer, our White House correspondent, really probes deeply into the data folks at the White House who really helped make it happen.
And one of the things they found out is that there's about 15% of voters who actually don't care about politics.
These are the people we didn't know who were going to show up at the polls who actually like Barack Obama in the sense they feel like he's outside of politics.
There it is, folks.
It's the Limbaugh Theorem expressed by Snengel in 2012.
These people, they sense that Obama's outside of politics.
He's not responsible for it.
So this guy, anyways, has left Time magazine, now over at the State Department working for John Kerry, who served in Vietnam.
Here's Elliot in Wilmette, Illinois, as we head to the phones.
Great to have you on the program today, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Nervous caller.
Very nice to speak with you.
Thank you.
You don't need to be nervous.
I know how I'd be nervous talking to me, too, on the radio sitting here waiting on hold.
Yes, but I know what it's like.
I've been there.
Ah.
My comment is that I'm excited about your new book on account of it takes advantage of an angle that other conservative books so far have not been able to do.
That is, rather than targeting people who are interested in learning about another side of what's going on, more accurate, I feel, this focuses on to an audience that is much younger,
and it encourages the parents to talk to older teenage children and stuff about these ideas, which is an indirect but quite a direct attack on the monopoly that the leftists seem to have on the education so far.
I hope this is going to make, I think we'll find out that there's a lot of impact on how much people are discussing these things, not just reading about it and getting another viewpoint.
Elliot, you are very shrewd.
Thank you.
You are very perceptive.
That is indeed what excited me about this whole project.
When I talk about having done this before, I don't mean to be dismissive, folks, but people were asking me, I mean, some of you would even call, why don't you do another book?
And I said, well, I've done two.
I've been there and done that.
And a lot of other people have done them.
And why?
You know, I've never just done something because it's being done and whatever.
And plus, I didn't feel it.
So it would not have been good.
And then, as I said, Catherine presented this idea to me.
And this changed my entire perception of doing a book.
My entire position, this was, I got jazzed because exactly what Elliot said here.
We have the truth of this country not being taught anymore at all levels of education, but especially kindergarten, not up, kindergarten, elementary, middle school.
It's not being taught.
And of course, you and I believe that the truth of the founding of this country is glorious.
It's worthy of being overwhelmingly proud of.
It was a great time in world history, and it's very upsetting and frustrating to know how it's being distorted.
Repeat to you again, you may know this.
I didn't know this until last week.
We had a caller call and talk to us about some movie coming out at Christmastime called Free Birds, and it's an animated movie.
That's cartoon for those of you, well, you would know what that is.
And it's about two turkeys that go back to the pilgrims and make the case for no turkeys being served at the original Thanksgiving to spare turkeys.
And at the same time, they make the case about what a bunch of deadbeats and worthless SOBs the pilgrims were.
In a movie, it's been four years in development, a cartoon movie aimed at kids.
And this is the same thing to one degree or another that's been happening in the schools all of these years.
The multiculturalists have gotten hold of the curriculum.
And as you know, the plague of modern civilization were the white Europeans.
They came and they brought pestilence.
They brought syphilis.
They brought horses, which is what enabled everybody to defeat the Indians.
They defeated the Indians.
And then they bastardized the land.
And they turned it into oil fields.
And they just brought all these horrible discrimination and racism and sexism and bigotry and homophobia.
And the white Europeans that arrived at the pilgrims are anti-gay marriage and so forth.
It's all this crap is being taught to young skulls full of mush.
You and I weren't taught this.
And so what we've done is created a character, Rush Revere, the icon of 2F by T. We've given him a talking horse who can time travel.
The name's Liberty.
And they can go anywhere in American history.
And they can take their smartphone.
And with airplay, they can beam American history as it happened back to the classroom.
Once you open up this kind of, I don't know, it's a creativity, but this kind of format, you can do anything with it to make it fun, to not make it preachy.
And it isn't preachy.
It's a fun, fun story.
And it also happens to be the truth.
Yet, Liberty can go to the G20, but afterwards, Liberty can't go anywhere in the future.
And you can't go, Liberty cannot go anywhere but American history.
That's it.
I mean, that's the rules that we put in place.
But Liberty go anywhere in American history, but can't go to the future.
Not going to mess with that because we're dealing with correcting what's wrong about what's being taught.
And this book is Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans.
You know, wait, here's the cover right there.
And by the way, nine days, what?
I didn't.
Here's the cover.
And I don't have time to zoom in on it.
Just give me, is that, is that enough now?
There's Liberty and Rush Revere there.
And anyway, nine days at number one.
Not in the pre-order list, nine days at number one at Amazon.
Now, there is something, I'm very embarrassed.
I'm remiss.
I didn't know this.
Well, I knew it, but I didn't mention enough times.
If you pre-order it, hardcover, the price is $10.79.
It's going to retail for like $19, 1999.
Pre-order it 1079 versus 1999 retail when it comes out.
So there is a reason to pre-order it.
And it's at Amazon, Barnes ⁇ Noble, iBooks, iTunes.
But, Elliot, you nailed what the point here, the point is that while it's aimed at the 10 to 13 group in terms of reading level, it's for everybody.
It is for grandparents and their parents to give to kids, to gift away, and then to discuss and read together or what have you.
And by the way, it's a real book, 200-plus pages, illustrations and so forth.
There's going to be an audio version of it, so we're very proud of it.
And Elliot, I thank you because you nailed one of the critical reasons why this is so appealing to me.
Lavonia, Michigan, our next stop as we stick with the phones on Open Line Friday.
Hello, Ken.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Hello, Rush, and thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
Yeah, I wanted to bring up Obamacare, and I wanted to show you more evidence that not only is Obamacare harmful to the nation, but it's also unaffordable health insurance.
Now, currently I pay out of pocket.
I buy my own health insurance through a major national insurance company.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
You buy your own health insurance, not through your employer, but just as though you were going to go buy auto insurance.
You buy your health insurance as a single individual.
Yes.
Okay.
Now, the insurance I have happens to be a cheap policy, happens to be the lowest policy they have.
Well, here's...
Why?
Why did you do that?
Because that's all I can afford.
What do you get for it?
Okay, for $180 a month, my current policy has a $1,000 deductible.
Well, for crying out loud, you have $1,000 deductible and you're paying $180 a month.
It's the best I can afford, Rush.
No, no, no, no, no, I'm not passing judgment on that.
I'm calculating it in my head here.
You're $18 a month, $1,800.
You're spending over $2,000 a year for a $1,000 deductible.
I know, isn't that insane?
Here's what I want to show you, Rush.
All right, okay.
Well, because of Obamacare, my plan, and the insurance company told me they have no choice.
It's because of the new laws, new regulations, is being discontinued.
If I want to continue to have a similar deductible, a similar plan, because of Obamacare, my premiums have been doubled.
Wait, no, Obama said you get to keep your plan if you like it.
Are you sure about that?
I'm not lied, Rush.
And am I shocked?
No.
Obama said I could keep my plan.
He lied.
He said I could keep my doctors.
Well, we know that's not true either.
He said that your premium was going to go down $2,500 a year.
Well, he lied on that too, Rush.
Wow.
Who knew?
Who knew?
And Rush, a lot of people are getting notified right now.
And over the next few weeks, I think more and more people are going to see the truth that Obamacare is not affordable.
Let me ask you this, though.
Seriously, Ken.
How many people, you know enough to know that Obamacare is responsible for this?
And your insurance company's telling you, right?
Correct.
And now, how many people, like the ignorant that Richard Stingell was praising for voting about, how many of them might be told the same thing and are going to claim, yeah, the insurance company's lying to us.
They're blaming on Obama, but we know it's not him because he really cares about us.
Obama said my premium wasn't going to go up.
So how many of them are going to actually end up blaming the insurance company, do you think?
Well, I think the insurance companies are doing the right thing.
And when questioned, because I did call my insurance company, and they told me point blank that it's because of the national health care.
And so anybody that questions the insurance companies, Rush, will find out the truth.
They'll find out the truth.
Whether they will believe it is another thing.
And I'm not trying to be negative here, but it's much easier to hate an evil corporation.
The Democrat Party's been working on people for 100 years to do that.
You're right about that, Rush.
The Democrat Party has been brainwashing the American people that hate the rich, that hate corporations.
Exactly.
So when the insurance company comes along and says, well, I'm sure your premium is going up because of Obamacare, they're going to say, no, Obamacare is supposed to be cheaper.
It's free.
He told us.
You're screwing us.
Don't be surprised if not as many people as you think blame Obama for this.
That's all I'm saying.
Ken's problem, our previous caller, somebody that self-insures, it's only going to get worse if you are in the same situation he's in.
I will explain that and move on to other things as well right after we get back.
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