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Sept. 13, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 13, 2013, Friday, Hour #3
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Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day, Rush Limbaugh here behind the golden EIB microphone at the EIB network, and it is Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's open line Friday!
Man, the devastation at the Jersey boardwalk with that fire is just unbelievable.
And that was an area that was spared any damage during Hurricane Sandy.
I wonder if President Obama will fly to New Jersey this afternoon or maybe Monday and offer assistance to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
What do you think, Snerdley?
Hell no.
You don't think Obama will go to New Jersey to offer Christie any assistance here for the fire?
Well, you wait.
If somebody makes the case that the fire is due to global warming or is causing global warming, I don't know.
You may be right.
That's very, that's just, that's very cold for you to say that.
I can't believe you said that.
That Obama can't use Christie anymore.
There's nothing more he can get out of Christie, so there's no way he's going to go to Jersey.
You mean there's not, what do you mean there's not an election, and so there's no reason to go help Christie?
What do you mean he doesn't respect Christie in the morning?
These are really cold things you're saying in there.
Man, oh man.
Are you from New Jersey originally?
You lived there for a while, that's right.
That's right.
Well, I did too.
I thought there was real affection between Obama and Christie.
You know, back there the week before the election when Hurricane Sandy went in there.
Well, well, it looked like, I mean, they're hugging.
Well, not hugging.
I mean, the hands, not that, but I mean, they were.
It was a little bromance.
Yeah.
It was.
Obama was quick to offer relief aid for New Jersey.
So I was just, it's interesting how this happened.
I was just openly speculating here how soon it'd be Obama goes back in there to help.
And man, the long knives came out from Snerdley in there, like you wouldn't believe.
Obama doesn't respect Christie in the morning?
Whoa.
I wonder how many low-information people understand what you mean when you.
Anyway, greetings and welcome back, folks.
Great to have you here.
By the way, there's even more on the Mikhail Gorbachev story.
Now, the UK Telegraph story in which Mikhail Gorbachev in 2008 admitted that he is a Christian.
Let me get the exact date on that.
That was March the 19th in 2008.
And on March the 24th, five days later, Gorbachev denied it.
And this is why it didn't get a lot of play.
Gorbachev, what is this?
I'm not a closet Catholic.
I'm not a Christian.
All of this is lies.
And he claimed that he remained an atheist.
He said, to sum up and avoid any misunderstandings, let me say I have been and remain an atheist, devout atheist, and that's why the drive-bys didn't report it.
So, because it didn't, it didn't last but five days.
UK Telegraph claims they've been a closet Christian and Catholic.
He denies it five days later and had the birthmark removed.
And today, to this day, claims to be a closet atheist.
Now, let me find this Michelle Obama story because I've had this soundbite sitting here.
Michelle Obama demanding everybody drink water.
Where did I?
And it's a really curious.
Well, now she said she drinks a lot of it.
Here it is.
Here it is.
And grab audio soundbite 17.
This is a political story.
First Lady Moochell Obama's new drive to get Americans to drink more water may seem unlikely to make waves, but it spills into areas that have stirred intense controversy among scientists, public health campaigners, and environmentalist wackos.
In a speech that she is set to deliver Thursday in Watertown, Wisconsin.
Now, that might have been yesterday, as part of her let's move, yeah, was because, yeah, part of her let's move initiative.
The first lady declared that increasing water consumption will improve the health of kids and all Americans.
And she kicked off an intense media campaign, including TV spots featuring her, as well as web ads and social media postings encouraging Americans to drink H2O.
Now, what could this possibly be about?
What in the world?
Would you look at everything going on in this country and around the world where we've got problems and trouble, real trouble, real problems in this country and around the world?
What is this push to drink more water?
Now, we know that Bloomberg doesn't want people drinking sweetened soft drinks, limiting the size to 16 ounces.
I'll tell you what I think it is.
I think there's an all-out assault on soda pop.
Soft drinks.
And that's why, by the way, if you've noticed, all the soft drink companies now have their own version of bottled water.
Coca-Cola has their own version of bottled water.
Sure, Pepsi does.
I don't know what the brand is.
But they're expanding into bottled water.
You know how much bottled water actually comes out of somebody's tap?
You would be amazed.
I can't remember.
I had a story some not long ago about all of the deception in that industry.
You know, I've always been amazed.
The price of bottled water is far more.
If you measure it by the gallon, you go to the store and buy it, far more expensive than a gallon of gasoline.
And the guys that produce the water don't have to do anything.
They have to drill for it.
They don't have to explore for it.
They don't have to get permission from the government to go do things wherever they want them, to scour the world.
They don't have to go down 5,000 feet below the ocean floor to get it.
They just turn on somebody's tap.
And they claim it comes from some spring.
I always thought if I was in the oil business, I'd really be ticked off that the bottled water guys are able to charge that much.
And I get grief for what I charge versus what it costs me to go find the oil and have it refined and turned into gasoline.
Pull quote from the story: several public health experts contacted by Politico said they had concerns about the way the White House is framing this water campaign.
Experts said that the health benefits of increased water consumption are murky.
There are no widely accepted criteria for how much water individuals should drink every day.
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb of the University of Pennsylvania said there really isn't data to support what Mrs. Obama is advocating.
I think, frankly, they're not basing this on really hard science.
It's not a very scientific approach that they're taking here.
To make it a major public health effort, I think it's bizarre.
And this guy's a kidney specialist.
He took issue with the White House claims that drinking more water would boost energy.
The idea that drinking water increases energy absurd.
Water doesn't create energy.
It doesn't increase energy unless somehow you start steaming.
We're designed, he said, this is common sense.
This is not going to be accepted.
He said, we are designed to drink when thirsty.
There's no need to have more than that.
You know who's responsible for drinking a lot of water or causing this?
The diet industry.
Yeah, you've got to have eight glasses of water a day.
Whether you want it or not, you've got to drink eight glasses of water.
That's part of flushing all those worthless calories and poisons and toxins out of your system.
Big, big bottled water, a big bottled water is big soft drink.
That's, I mean, those are the people expanding into this because there's an attack on their product for crying out loud, being led by Moochell and Bloomberg.
So let's go to the audio soundbite.
This morning on CNN's new day, we have here the senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen's report about Muchel's new campaign to get Americans to drink more water and some of the criticism it's getting.
This is really absurd.
Drink more water, none of their business.
Why do they care?
You drink when you're thirsty.
And I don't think there's a water shortage, is there?
The claims about extra water leading to extra health benefits, there's so many myths associated with this.
And here's the CNN health babe in her report here.
The anchor said, What's going on with this, Elizabeth?
The reality is, there is no specific prescription when it comes to drinking water, and that's what some experts say is part of the problem with the First Lady's campaign.
Of course, you should stay hydrated, and water is better than soda, but don't think that one extra glass is going to change your life.
This drink-up campaign that the First Lady is doing, it's being promoted by the American Beverage Association, and the companies in that group, well, they sell soda, among other things.
It seems, though, that that is the message she's sending in that film that they played.
It says, you got to drink something.
Why not make it water?
I get it.
You get it?
I don't get the scrutiny.
I'm with you.
I don't get the scrutiny.
Nobody.
You drink it when you're thirsty.
That's how we're designed.
The goldfarb guy is right.
All this is, folks, is just it's just more command and control.
And there is politics to this because you've got big soda pushing this.
Here's a companion story of sorts from the political: less than half.
Now, this is going to stun you.
Less than half of Americans trust the government to handle problems at an all-time low, according to a new poll.
49% of Americans said they had a great deal or fair amount of confidence in the federal government to handle international problems, according to a Gallup poll released today.
The previous low was in 2007, 51%.
Today, 49%.
The public's trust is even lower when it comes to domestic issues.
Only 42% of Americans answered with a great deal or fair amount of confidence in the government and its ability to handle issues at home.
And when it's broken down by party, Democrats have far more confidence in the government than Republicans.
78% of Democrats trust the government, 35% of Republicans.
Is that enough to shift the election returns?
Well, you've got 42% of Americans don't trust the government, and here's Obama reigning supreme with everybody, it seems, in this country investing in the government to control everything in their lives.
But they aren't.
If you look at poll after poll, a vast majority oppose Obamacare.
So once again, it's confounding polling data.
By virtue of the polls that are out there today, there's no way this guy should be president.
He is elected for different reasons.
He was elected and re-elected for reasons that have nothing to do with his governance, with his leadership, with nothing.
Because no matter where you look, a majority of Americans oppose what's going on.
And I would venture to say that the same majority is afraid to speak up about it individually.
They'll do so anonymously in a poll.
Why would that be, do you think?
How in the world could this happen?
The American people don't trust the government, this one, at all-time record low on domestic or international issues.
Don't like the primary signature policy of this regime by a large majority.
Don't support any Obama administration policy from simple to large majorities.
And yet, nobody knows that until they do a poll.
Why would that be?
How in the world could this happen, do you think?
Anybody figure this out for me?
All right.
All right.
I've had it.
Screw it.
I'm not going to believe anything anybody sends me or tells me that comes from Twitter ever again.
It turns out that the area that's being destroyed by fire was damaged by Hurricane Sandy and was repaired.
And I had something today from somebody sent me that came from Twitter saying this is a different area, and that's why it's really bad because they just started rebuilding and now another area is being destroyed.
And I haven't been watching any TV on this.
So I've been burned by Twitter twice today.
What?
Okay, you say it's not Twitter's fault.
It's some idiot's fault.
Where is the idiot?
I know.
Maybe it's not Twitter's fault.
I don't know.
But I've been burned twice here today.
You know, I don't make these kinds of mistakes when I rely on myself.
And I don't go to Twitter.
No, that won't affect the Sullivan Group ratings because that was a factual error.
The Sullivan group audits my opinions.
That's a big difference.
I mean, if I get a fact wrong, it's probably because I've been misinformed.
I can't be held accountable for that other than it's my show.
But in terms of raising my opinion act, I mean, that's all me.
Nobody else makes my opinions.
I do that.
That's what the Sullivan group rates.
Let me go to the phones.
There have been people waiting up there a long, long time, and I didn't intend to go this long without a call.
Where are we going?
Let's Ellen in Toledo.
Great to have you.
Thank you for waiting.
Hello.
Well, hello, Rush.
It's a great pleasure to speak with you.
I've been listening to you for, oh, 20 years, like the prior caller.
I used to listen to you on my way to college.
My radio station would get one station, one AM station, and you were the lucky one that I got to listen to.
Thank you very much.
I'm glad you're here.
Yes.
Anyway, I have tripped upon a story that disturbed me, so I did some more reading on it.
And I wanted to get your opinion on it or see if you caught wind of it because I haven't heard anything in the news about it.
It's about Poland and how they plan on seizing 50% of their pension.
You know, the people put in money in their pensions.
Well, because of their high debt, the Polish government plans on confiscating 50% of this value to increase the government assets so they can start borrowing more money again because, like us, they also have no, I actually read that on Reuters, so I'm hoping that they didn't get their source from someplace else.
But anyway, as I'm reading it, I'm thinking, well, you know, Obama has this idea that you didn't build it, you know, philosophy and the lack of respect for private property.
I'm kind of concerned about I'm 48 years old.
Yeah.
I'm a diligent saver.
You know, 20 years down the road when I go to retire, who's not to say the government, you go to bed one night, you have multi-thousands of dollars, hundreds of thousands of dollars, your retirement account.
You wake up, the government sneaks in, electronically transfers it to their coffers.
You have nothing.
I mean, well, I'm guessing that somewhere somebody in Washington is laying awake at night thinking of a plan.
Oh, come on, Jesse.
Women.
Ellen, Jesse Jackson, back in the early 90s, suggested this.
Jesse Jackson began advocating for the government to confiscate pension fund money and use it to fund social programs for the poor.
I mean, shortly after this program began, this is something that the left has had their eyes on in this country for a long time.
Now, as far as anybody knows, they haven't done it.
Our government has a division which will absorb pension plans from private industry, which aren't funded and will never be.
Like the General Motors pension plan for their retirees, they just don't have the money, and they're never going to have the money.
And so the government takes that over, but not at full value.
But your fear is understandable.
There are all kinds of Democrats who have designed.
Pension funds are one of the last remaining gigantic stockpiles of real money.
And you're right to be concerned about it, but a digital transfer of what's in your account, you go crazy fearing that.
And a lot of people do fear that they're going to lose everything they've got.
Don't worry about that.
I mean, that's not the way it'll happen.
Yeah, we're back.
It's the fastest three hours in media hosted by me.
Time zips by here on the EIB network.
Here's Liz in Pittsburgh, Maine.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Raj.
I'm an enthusiastic citizen of your benevolent dictatorship.
Well, thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
I believe last week you asked, or you mentioned that people ask you what they can do besides voting to help change or fix what's happening to the country.
Right.
And I've been in the past and somewhat now very involved in pushing for charter schools.
And it's something that people can really do in their own communities or in their state.
And it could really make a difference in the future to break this grip that the unions, the teachers' unions, have on our regular public schools.
Boy, is that ever true?
Because I just believe that unless something is done, and it is the unions.
I have two daughters in their late 20s now.
They both went to public school in rural Virginia.
And there were teachers that I loved and I was good friends with.
I was friends with principals and even the superintendents.
But they both went to different charter high schools in Virginia.
And it was amazing, the difference.
And the difference is unions.
Well, but OK, but what is the what is the real difference?
Subject matter?
The real difference is in a charter school, the teachers are not in a union.
And I told Snerdley that Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking would not be able to teach physics in a normal public high school because they didn't graduate from a teacher college with the teaching credits and credentials.
And the firing is the main thing.
I often, when I get into this argument with people, I say, if you were to given the chore to design a brand new education system for our country, would you put in it that a teacher could not be fired no matter how terrible they are?
We even have teachers that have committed felonies in our country or assaulted a student.
And sometimes the school district, if it's small, it doesn't even have enough money to take them to court to get rid of them.
So it will give them a letter of recommendation and send them off to another school somewhere in another state.
It's the firing that is one of the main problems.
My father, when I was young, was on a school board.
And my older sister had had a terrible, terrible first-grade teacher, and it almost turned her off to education and going to school.
Well, that's no big deal.
Every teacher did that for me, except like a couple of them.
Well, he asked to see her file, and he said it was as thick as a New York City telephone book with complaints, and yet there was nothing you could do.
Well, all of that's true.
There's another aspect to public education.
By the way, we have to be careful that we do not paint, to use a cliche here, with too broad a brush.
There are some good teachers out there that are trying to combat this, but the unions are clearly the problem.
But here's the problem, in a nutshell.
And I don't even know how many of the rank and file teachers are even aware of this.
They're just who they are.
They're products of their own education, and they believe the crap they've been taught, and they teach it.
They become activists.
But the purpose of union control is curriculum control.
The schools have been turned into propaganda re-education camps.
And that's why you can't fire a teacher.
And that's why teachers, unions do not want any review of the teachers.
They don't want any performance-based pay, merit-based.
They don't want any review or testing of the teachers to find out how they're doing or what they know.
It's the left, the powers that the organizers have known for the longest time get hold of education and they control it from kindergarten on up, all the way up to colleges and universities.
You get hold of these young skulls full of mush at very young, impressionable ages, and start teaching them what now is this multicultural curriculum, which basically is that Western civilization is near criminal.
Western civilization is corrupt and it's a lie.
White Europeans arriving here is what led to all the problems and so forth.
That the country is immoral in the way it was structured and founded and all that.
It's hideous.
It's obscene.
Again, one of the reasons why I have undertaken this effort with this book, Rush Revere, and the Brave Pilgrims, to correct the basic story of the pilgrims.
That's been bastardized and distorted.
And now it's taught as something totally untrue in many places, not everywhere, but in many places.
This is why there is such a rise in homeschooling, charter schools as you describe.
But the left knows exactly what they're doing.
It's saying with the control of pop culture and the media, they can't, they'll never win in what I call a fair fight in the arena of ideas, where ideas compete against each other, they'll never win.
They can only win if they discredit and destroy competing ideas and the people who hold them.
And that's all they can do.
And controlling education, they simply don't permit anything but what they believe.
There is no critical thinking taught.
There is no curiosity allowed.
Outcome-based education can't humiliate those who don't do as well.
It's really unfortunate.
Look, I'm glad you called, though.
That's great, Liz.
I have to take a quick time out here, folks, as time marches on back after this.
Don't go away.
Had this story earlier.
Australia, conservatives overwhelmingly elected a new leader.
The guy ran an anti-global warming campaign.
John Fund has a piece at National Review Online, Liberals in Retreat.
Norway, Australia, and you also include Colorado in this with the Second Amendment gun control recall out there.
The White House is calling union leaders ahead of the vote on Obamacare, the resolution.
White House officials are begun calling union leaders about a resolution critical of Obamacare that's set to pass Wednesday at the AFL-CIO convention.
I mean, you've got any number of people lining up trying to stop this Obamacare thing from being fully implemented.
Even now, some of the union people who helped the thing become law, who helped write it, what did they think was going to happen?
They were just blindly, ideologically supporting the cause.
They didn't even read the fine print.
But there is little pockets of evidence that these kinds of things can happen.
Norway, not a big example.
Australia, a bigger example.
But it's a cycle, folks, and it happens.
People just get fed up with liberals.
They just get fed up.
I don't know why they don't stay fed up.
But they do get fed up now and then.
And this is one of those times.
It's beginning to happen again.
If you are going to the Seahawks Fortniters game on Sunday, undercover cops are going to be wearing 49er gear, looking for Seattle fans that want to beat up 49er fans.
Be careful.
A 49er jersey could be being worn by an undercover cop.
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