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Sept. 13, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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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 live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Open line Friday, where you, ladies and gentlemen, get to determine what it is we talk about on this program when we go to the phones.
That constitutes the largest career risk at anybody in the major media takes.
Turning over the content of the program to people that are not highly trained broadcast specialists.
But that's the fun of it here on Friday.
You talk about whatever you wish.
The telephone number is 800 28282, the email address L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
How many of uh 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 uh 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 knew it.
You know, the Moscow gentleman's club, maybe Trump trying to arrange, but knew it.
Is all dazzled because you would never have a Soviet leader quoting the Pope.
This is uh like Putin did in his op-ed.
This is a major, major advancement.
And I I swear I every day, folks, I don't know about you, but that not every day, but some days I just I feel more and more distant from uh from people that I think see the world the same way I do.
That op-ed yesterday, by the way, uh that Putin wrote and American exceptionalism, I made the point when I analyzed that Obama doesn't believe in American exceptionalism.
He thinks it's it it like Putin.
He thinks it's bragging, it's it's unseemly, it's it's arrogant and conceited.
We're nobody 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, as a well-known leftist.
He used to edit the New Republic, I believe.
He's out there, he's on Sunday shows, he's uh 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 Binart 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 uh 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 uh unjust and it was immoral, and we're gonna go fix it.
And so what's remarkable to me about this is not that a f you know, if 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.
Let's uh maybe I can't.
I've got these things so out of order now that I yeah, grab grab five, six, and and seven.
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 uh by Putin, and and right before on the record started a newsbroke, 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, uh I don't know that he wrote the letter.
Certainly they 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 inimital 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 Vastestra 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, that 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 uh 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 is it is it's so easily understood, and I guess it's so easily misunderstood.
Um, with everybody thinking that that it's a term of braggadocio, and it isn't.
Here's Newt on uh 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 Salon?
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 uh, but a remarkable post-Soviet document.
I know so many people seem to be so willing to uh 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's 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 are entering 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 so just because Putin mentions the Pope.
We're supposed to conclude that Russia's 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 her, it's so hard for them to get.
I don't understand.
In in many of these instances.
I uh I just don't.
Anyway, folks, that's that.
Um the the reason I I asked if any of you had taken a 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, he 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.
The Russians are losing population.
Their birth rate replacement level is believing their birth rate is below replacement level is the proper way to put it.
This is in the UK independence.
Skip work, have sex.
Russians celebrate Day of Conception as sporting community continues to criticize Putin's anti-gay legislation.
That's the headline.
Couples in the region of Ulyanovsky 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 uh participation at the Olympics and so forth.
Uh 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 this is the 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 it, give away.
We gave away a Jeep at two if by T for doing nothing.
In Russia, you gotta have sex, and then you gotta 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 he's uh what his population missing.
Did you hear the news that Richard Stengel is leaving Time magazine and going over to the regime?
I'll tell you, folks, it uh uh uh 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 uh it's not a big deal.
And when you question these people about what you think that little uh 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 Stengel'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 uh, 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 than 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.
It is it you'd be stunned.
I think it's the numbers in three figures.
You you could easily get to 100 if you count the number of reporters who've gone to work for the regime, the number of people in the regime married to reporters, the number of reporters married to people at work at places like Fannie Mayor Freddie Mac.
And so the whole that there is 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 gotta take a brief break here, folks.
We got a couple of sound bites in Stengel, just to remind you who he is and things that he said.
He he named Obama person of the year for Time Magazine one year because Obama got the votes of low information voters.
That was the qualification.
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 Stengel.
And she said, who is Times person of the year, Richard?
Our person of the year for 2012 is President Barack Obama.
He won reelection 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 Stengel.
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.
And then they get to 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 um, 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.
Rush Limbaugh serving humanity here to EIB network.
This Richard Stengel, managing editor 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, two million people have left the workforce.
They're 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 it is anybody's head 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.
But 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.
Limbaugh theorem.
Richard Stengel.
actually said that 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, Stengel.
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.
Stengel 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, and don't like the Democrats and don't like Washington, you know what they do like.
They like Obama because they sent 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 Single, 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 uh circumstances seem to be bigger than the president compared to when he was first chosen.
Our story by Michael Shear, 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 are going to show up at the polls who actually like Barack Obama in the sense that they feel like he's outside of politics.
There it is, folks.
It's the limbaugh theorem.
Expressed by Stengel 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 Estate Department working for uh John Kerry, who uh served in Vietnam.
Here's Elliot in Wilmett, Illinois, as we head to the phones.
Great to have you on the program today, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Uh nervous caller.
Very nice to speak with you there.
Thank you.
You don't need to be nervous.
I know how I I'd be nervous talking to me too on the radio, sitting here waiting on hold.
Yes, because I know what it's like I've been there.
Ah.
My uh comment is that uh I'm excited about your new book on account of it takes advantage of um uh of an angle that that um angle uh that other conservative books so far have not been able to been able to do.
That is in rather than targeting people who are interested in learning about another side of what's going on, uh more accurate, I feel, uh this uh focuses on to uh to an audience that is much younger, and it encourages the parents to talk to uh older uh teenage children and stuff to uh about these ideas,
which is uh an indirect but quite a direct attack on the uh monopoly that the left is seem to have on the uh education so far.
I hope this is gonna make I think we'll find out that there'll there's a lot of impact on 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 uh very perceptive.
That is indeed what excited me about this whole project.
Um I don't uh when I talk about having done this before, I don't mean to be dismissive, folks, but people were asking me, I mean, you some of you would even call, why don't you do another book?
And I've done two.
I've been there and done that.
And and a lot of other people have done them, and why you know I've I've uh never just done something because it's being done and whatever.
And plus I didn't feel it, so uh 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 this 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 on 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 Christmas time called Free Birds, and it's an animated movie.
That's cartoon for those of you in 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.
This 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 and aims 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 uh uh creativity, but this this kind of format, you can do anything with it to make it fun.
To not make it preachy, uh, and it isn't preachy.
It's a fun, fun story, and it also happens to be the truth.
Uh 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 th that's that's the rules that we put in place.
But liberty go anywhere in American history, but can't go to the future.
Not gonna 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 a here's the cover right there.
And by the way, nine days.
What?
I didn't know.
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 did I didn't, 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, $199.
Pre-order it 1079 versus 1999 retail when it comes out.
So there is a reason to pre-order it.
And it's an Amazon Barnes and Noble iBooks, iTunes.
But uh Elliot, you you nailed what the point here.
The point is that while it's it's 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 it's uh and by the way, it's a real book, 200 plus pages, illustrations and so forth.
Uh there's gonna be an audio version of it, so we're very proud of it.
And Elliot, I thank you because you nailed you nailed one of the uh the the critical reasons why this is so appealing to me.
Lavonia, Michigan, our next stop as we uh 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 uh 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, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, 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 uh cheap policy happens to be the lowest uh 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, uh for a hundred and eighty dollars a month, my current current policy has a thousand dollar deductible.
Well, for crying out loud, you got a thousand dollar 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 doing I'm I'm calculating it in my head here.
You're eighteen a month, uh eighteen hundred you're spending over two thousand dollars a year for a one thousand dollar deductible.
I know, isn't that insane?
Here's what uh 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 uh plan if you like it.
Are you sure about that?
And uh 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 is gonna go down twenty-five hundred dollars 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 gonna see the truth that uh Obamacare is not affordable.
Let me ask you this, though, seriously.
Seriously, Ken.
How many people uh 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 these uh the ignorant that Richard Stengel was praising for voting about how many of them might be told the same thing and are gonna claim yeah, the insurance company's lying to us.
They're blaming Obama, but we know it's not him because he really cares about us.
Obama said my premium wasn't gonna go up.
So how many of them are gonna actually 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 to be negative here, but it's much easier to haven't evil corporation.
The Democrat Party's been working on people for a hundred years to do that.
Well, you're right about that, Rush.
The Democrat Party has been brainwashing the American people to hate the rich, to hate corporations.
Exactly.
So when when the insurance company comes along and says, Well, I'm sorry your premium is going up because of Obamacare, they're gonna say, No, Obamacare is supposed to be cheaper, it's free.
He told us.
You're screwing us.
That 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 uh move on to other things as well right after we get back.
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