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Oct. 2, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 2, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane, here we are already on Wednesday.
That's right, my friends.
Fastest week in media.
And it is great to be here.
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Well, the government shutdown continues, and the media is continuing to have a field day with it all.
And as discussed yesterday, the media is really the problem here, folks.
I mean, the Democrats are who they are, and we know that.
Obama's who he is, and we know that.
Harry Reed is who he is, and we know that.
Pelosi's who she is, and we know that.
And we've known this for years.
There's really not a whole lot to be told anymore about them.
Everybody knows.
Well, maybe I mean the low information crowd.
Low information crowd, by the way, is tweeting.
Washington.
I have a story right here in the stack of stuff.
Let me see if I can find this here.
Story about Cory Booker's strip club.
We'll um save that.
Let's see here.
Uh, where the heck is it?
Uh let's see, let me stop being so stupid.
Yeah, here we go.
That's it's uh it's it's the it's an AP story in their technology uh division.
Stop being so stupid, voters tweet to Congress.
They don't understand why a compromise is so elusive.
The roiling debate over the U.S. government shutdowns extending to Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
By the way, wait till you hear.
We get some audio sound bites coming up, Rick Petino.
Uh well-known college basketball coach.
Uh Patino is at uh at the University of Louis.
And it's amazing to listen to him describe recruiting trips.
He said these are these are exceptional high school basketball players.
He's trying to recruit them to uh to play college basketball louable, and he goes on to recruit them, and he can't get them off the um off the computer, the iPhone, or whatever.
He has to talk to their parents because all they're doing is social media.
That's all they care about.
That's all they're doing.
And it's it's you wait till you hear it.
It's it's coming up in the audio sound bites.
And so these the roiling debate over the U.S. government shutdown extending to Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, which is a photo site, as fed up Americans turn to social media to register disgust with federal lawmakers for shutting down the government.
Those posting pulled no punches, calling members at Congress immature, stupid, and idiots who need to grow up.
Mostly, though, tweeters said they couldn't understand why a compromise between the two sides seemed so elusive.
And a low information crowd weighing in on this, and there's a there's a reason for that.
If you're Harry Reed, if you're Nancy Pelosi, if you are Barack Obama, if you're Stanny Hoyer, if you're Charlie Wrangle, if you are any Democrat, and you know that no matter what you say about the Republicans is going to be repeated and amplified,
and if you know that no matter what you do, you will never be criticized.
And you will never be held to account.
Are you not going to have blazing confidence to just launch whatever you want to launch and say whatever you want to say and do whatever you want to do.
Because the group that exists ostensibly as the arbiters, the umpires, if you will, are all on one side.
And when they're on your side, I mean, move this to playing a game of any kind, softball, baseball, if the umpires are on your side and you're going to get every call, and you're going to get the beneficiary, you're gonna you're gonna benefit from even cheating.
You'll be allowed to cheat and it won't be called.
In the case of baseball, your opponents will be called out on strikes that are ten feet outside the strike zone.
What are you gonna do?
You're not gonna be interested in compromise.
You're not gonna be interested in anything other than a total slam dunk.
So, you know, these these uh these poor low information voters want to know why they're in any compromise.
Um, because that's not what's even on the table.
Compromise here isn't even on the table.
What's at stake is the Republican Party disowning the Tea Party and basically disowning itself.
And until that happens, this kind of pressure is gonna keep on.
Look at, as an example, the story at the World War II Memorial.
The White House and the Department of the Interior rejected a request from Representative Stephen Palazzo's office, who asked that World War II vets be allowed to visit the World War II Memorial in Washington.
Palazzo is a Mississippi Republican.
He helped the veterans commit an act of civil disobedience against the Park Service yesterday when these heroes stormed through barricades around the closed memorial.
He asked for it to be opened up and the regime refused.
Palozzo is a Gulf War Marine veteran.
He's participated in all five of the honor flights, which is World War II vets being brought to Washington to visit their memorial.
These people are 70, 80 plus years old.
Some of them, it's the trip of the lifetime for them.
Some of them have never seen it, never been to the memorial.
They've had plans underway.
And what happened yesterday was some of these people just the hell with these barricades and took them down and went to see the memorial anyway.
But the point is that when permission was asked of the regime, could you be a little compassionate here?
Nope, can't.
It's an international park is closed.
Sorry, the vets can't come in.
If you know that the media is going to blame the Republicans for that, if you're Barack Obama or Harry Reader Pelosi, and you think that you might be criticized for flat out just being mean and inconsiderate, you wouldn't mistreat these World War II veterans this way.
You wouldn't have the guts to.
You wouldn't have, you you'd go out of your way to make it look like you were the ones making it possible for them to realize their dreams.
Instead, the Democrat Party is proud and happy to stand up as the obstacles and then shift the blame to the Republicans, knowing full well that's what the media is going to do.
If you've got that kind of support, if you've got this kind of rigged game, backing you up, what in the world would you ever compromise for?
Why should you?
Why would you?
There is no news media.
There's simply a bunch of people on television and in newspapers who are ranking members of the Democrat Party.
Look at how many of them leave their jobs and go work for Obama.
Look at how many of them leave the job with Obama and go to the media and the revolving door.
And meanwhile, the low information crowd, they believe the media is an objective arbiter.
And therefore they believe everything the media says.
There's an example today.
The Republicans released two pictures of the negotiating table.
One half of it was totally empty.
Every chair that was to be occupied by a Democrat was empty.
The Republicans released the picture in an attempt to show they were there to try to negotiate with somebody over this silly shutdown, to try to talk with the Democrats about it, to try to come to an agreement.
Let me read to you a caption to this picture from the website, Gawker.
Just in case anyone forgot that the entire GOP leadership is comprised of white men.
That's the caption.
No reference to the fact the Democrats didn't show up.
No reference to the fact that the Democrats are not there.
No reference to the fact that the Democrats are stonewalling any negotiation, any attempted compromise.
No, what Gawker told its readers is and reminded them, just in case anyone forgot, look at this picture.
The entire GOP leadership is comprised of white men.
Now, if you're a Democrat, you know the media is going to do that.
Why show up and negotiate?
Why, why, why give an inch on anything?
It's not even a matter of giving an inch.
Why?
Why even play fair?
Why, why, why all of this is such a stacked deck.
It's all such a stacked game.
And it's in the midst of this game that the Republicans, God bless them, nevertheless try to get treated fairly by behaving a little like what they think the media wants them to do.
And I just I think that it's a uh a point here that always needs to be remembered.
And that's why the mindset, the low information voter, despite the fact that they're low information, that's why it's important to keep track of it.
This is this is how it is they're coming to be informed.
Now, the question then becomes how do you battle this?
How do you deal with it?
And there's stock answers.
Well, you just do what you do.
Do what you think is right.
And whatever you do, don't play to it.
Okay.
You uh you just but that's tough to do.
It's it's uh I don't know that anybody has the answer to the stacked deck, the rigged game.
Do you know the answer, Mr. Snerdley?
But it clearly this is clearly this is well, yeah, you get if you go on offense, but what they're gonna tell you is, well, even no matter what we do, we won't be covered.
And if we are covered, it'll be lied about.
We'll be, we will be misrepresented.
By the way, on this Gawker thing, I have a slight mistake.
That that was not actually the caption, that was the first comment.
This thing printed out weird.
The first comment, which is just as good, that on the Gawker website with the N the empty negotiating table, all Republicans and no Democrats.
One of the comments posted by a reader of the website was just in case anyone forgot the entire GOP leadership is comprised of white men.
So Gawker didn't even have to say it.
Their readers conclude it, but why?
Where do they not know that the congressional black Caucasians have had to complain and whine at Obama for the lack of diversity in his administration?
No, they don't know that.
The people that read this stupid little website haven't the slightest idea what's really going on.
Most of the people in this country who get their news from the media have no idea what's really going on in the country.
And that's what we're beating our heads up against the wall about.
And that's why the ongoing effort to try to explain to people just who the media is and what they are – Obama and Pelosi is, but then the rejoinder always says, well, if you can't deal with the media the way it is, get out of the game.
If you're gonna be a big baby about it, then just get out of the game.
And all the while, of course, the media denies that they play this role.
They deny there's any liberal bias.
They deny that there's any alliance with the uh with the Democrat Party.
So, anyways, for forget the media now.
Here we have a real Live story.
World War II vets being denied the opportunity by the Democrat president and his party to visit the World War II memorial.
And do the old game.
If this were a Republican president doing this, what do you think the news headlines would be?
Well, we know the answer to that.
Now no, because the Obama administration knew about the World War II veterans' request.
They rejected it.
It's not that the administration didn't know what the Park Service is doing here.
They knew about it.
They rejected the request.
By the way, it might cancel the Army and then Navy football games this weekend.
Doesn't Obama.
Who said that it would be an accopelse?
McCain said that if they cancel the football games to be an apocalypse, the apocalypse You gotta be kidding me.
That's that's what the apocalypse is to McCain if they cancel the Army and Navy football games.
Well, I can just hear it.
That's the acopalypse.
Yes, yes, that's if they do that, that's crossing the red line.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Really?
What about Olay's military?
Didn't that where Obama goes to play golf?
Didn't he play golf on his military bases?
At uh who's holding who hostage?
Could it not be said that the regime is holding World War II veterans hostage, not letting them attend their own memorial?
People who want to go to Grand Canyon, basically a hole in the ground, people can't go to the bottom of the hole in the ground.
The uh so-called government shutdown.
Honor flight to World War II Memorial in Jeopardy due to shutdown.
It's from Toledo, NorthwestOhio.com, locally in the Glass Valley, we can see the effects of the government shutdown at our museums, monuments, and national parks.
But for a group of World War II vets visiting a national memorial in Washington, an all-expense paid trip, which is called an honor flight, the shutdown was not stopping them from seeing the tribute that was inspired by them.
These are World War II heroes that are nearing the end of their lives.
And they were told that they tried to visit the memorial erected in their honor that they'd be arrested.
The trip is scheduled for October the 9th.
This this government shutdown, if you ask me, not going far enough.
The wrong things are still open.
They're shutting down the wrong stuff in this shutdown.
At any rate, I gotta take a break here, folks, because of the programming format and the clock and all that.
Sit tight, we'll be back and continue after this.
Grab a uh quick audio sound by their doctor Drew Pinski last night on Anderson Cooper 22.
Anderson Cooper said to Drew Pinsky, I don't know all the details of what exactly is covered.
Uh it's an incredibly confusing thing.
I spend all day uh reading about it.
This is about Obamacare and uh Drew Pinski and and uh the people he treats and deals with and what they think about it.
There's a really another interesting layer to this that people aren't talking about today.
I often spend a lot of my time trying to find resources for people who don't have insurance.
So today I had three calls.
I said, good news.
You can sign up for Obamacare today.
Not so interested.
Not just interesting spending money.
Just want care.
To get people that have never done this before used to the idea that not only do they have access, they can get this coverage.
Because the people you're trying to feel that they can fall back on the social safety net.
They're used to it.
Which is unfortunate.
We've almost acculturated ourselves to this safety net.
There's uh Drew Pinski, Dr. Drew Pinsky explaining that the people he deals with.
What do you mean pay for it?
I'm not going to this website.
Uh what the hell?
I'll just do the emergency room if I get on any website here.
I'll just I'll just fall back on the social safety net.
I'll be taken care of.
And then he finished.
He added this.
There's a hubristic part of this too, which is the idea that people who are uninsured can Go online.
I can't get my healthy, educated young males to go online and sign up for any insurance.
My uninsured, uneducated, perhaps stricken resourced uh population to get online.
That's hubris to say, oh, just go online and sign up.
Most of his patients, he's saying it, most of his patients don't know how to do this anyway.
What?
You're asking me to go on online, sign up for for what medical.
They're clueless.
And this is a guy on CNN.
And he's admitting that the people he deals with and treats haven't the slightest idea.
Two things.
They have a slightest idea what's going on, and when they find out, well, I'm not doing that.
I'll just rely on the social safety net.
Big surprise, huh?
Big surprise, huh?
So let me summarize what Dr. Drew Pinski was saying in his appearance on CNN last night.
He says, Nobody's gonna want free health care if they have to pay for it.
What do you mean, sign up on a website?
I'm not sign up on a website.
I'll just use the social safety net.
That's what I'll do.
Now, I don't even think they use those terms.
That's just his term for whatever they say to him, but it but it boils down to nobody's gonna want to want free health care if they have to pay for it.
And I think he's being polite.
What Pinski is saying is that Obama's constituents are gonna be able, aren't going to be able to figure out how to sign up online.
I I think that's that if I if I translate that correctly, and I usually do, understand these things, he's being polite.
He's saying that Obama's constituents aren't going to be able how to figure it out.
In fact, even CNN, let's just get the sound bites.
I mean, this is too delicious.
Let's go to Rick Patino.
He's on CBS this morning, having a discussion about his book, The One Day Contract, How to Add Value to Every Minute of Your Life.
He's the head basketball coach at Lou.
And Nora O'Donnell said it's a great idea, the one-day contract, kind of living out every day, trying to live it to the fullest, if you will.
But you can't coach a team that way, can you?
I talk about the trap of technology.
My players admitted the other day that they spend a minimum.
Now they're going to understate their hours to me.
I said, How much do you deal with social media per day?
They said four hours each.
One person said the whole day.
I say, could you imagine if you took two of those hours and got in the gym and worked on your trade, how good you would be?
Four hours, and none of it impacted anyone's lives.
It was it was wasting time.
These are these are his charges.
These are his players.
He says, My gosh, how much better would you be if you just spent a couple of additional hours working on your on your talent?
He continued with this.
You go to a dinner table, and everybody starts taking out their phone.
When they should say, You're the most important person in my life.
You have my undivided attention.
Instead, they're texting underneath the table.
So we just don't allow that with our team.
I'll have some recruits and the parents, we're having great dialogue.
And uh the kids are underneath texting.
So he's talking here about recruiting trips.
And potential uh players at Lou are texting during these recruiting dinners.
Well, Pete Patino's left talk to their parents.
Now, I had a very interesting the way he views himself here.
He said, You go to a dinner table, meaning him, you go to a dinner table, and everybody takes out their phone.
When they should say, You're a most important person in my life right now.
Meaning that's how he thinks they should be receiving him.
He's the head coach at Louis.
He's on a recruiting trip.
He may offer this kid an opportunity to play college basketball at Louisville.
So in Patino's, in Patino's world, back in his day, when the head coach of a major program showed Up that was the most important guy in your life that day.
And he said he's not being treated that way anymore.
The recruits are tweeting and texting under the table, and he ends up having a conversation with the parents.
And the kids are underneath the table texting.
What does this have to do with anything, Mr. Lamar?
No, it's just it's it's just I want to I want to remind you, I have been one of the uh one of the early and only voices for a time uh issuing concerns about all this social media and stuff, and not the time spent on it.
That's not that never was my concern.
I mean that people have always found time to do what they love.
It is why they're there.
The psychology of all of it that is uh it always been worrisome to me.
And again, folks, just so you know, maybe I shouldn't care.
You know, I uh my my um my whole phrase this.
Well, what I usually say is I really I want a great country.
Um I realize that a great country is made up of individuals.
It's it's not a great country's not defined by its government, it's not defined by programs and and safety nets and stuff.
It's defined by greatest number of people possible pursuing excellence.
The greatest number of people possible really trying to accomplish things, the greatest number of people possible trying to improve themselves.
And it's always mattered to me, as I know what it is that makes this country great, and it's us.
It's it's it's it's the the people given, you know, using the freedom that's been acknowledged that we're born with.
And when that gets squandered and taken for granted, and nothing special is thought of it, and no good can come of that.
Uh and I I think about well, look at the World War II Fitz.
Now, I know generations change and and it's it's a dangerous thing to start comparing static things from generations to generation because their dynamics are profound here.
But in the case of uh World War II, we weren't involved in any of that until the Japanese attacked.
We um we were not hankering here to sign up, get involved in the military and go kick butt all over the world.
We really had to be dragged and screaming, kicking it, but when that moment came, guess what happened?
The greatness of this country came to life.
And it was personified and exemplified by those people who then rose to the occasion.
And they rose to the occasion because of cultural values and education and morality, sense of right and wrong, decency, uh, understanding that there were things bigger in life than themselves, all of that was factored.
Now look.
I'll tell this story again, and it's just an illustration.
I'm not attaching any real criticism to anybody here.
I just, you know, I observe.
Shortly after the war in Iraq began, all volunteer force.
After 9-11, don't forget now.
I found myself in Miami on a weekend with some friends, and they wanted to take me to the Versace mansion.
Remember this story, Snerdley?
So I said, well, okay, we went to the Versace mansion, which had it was not owned by Versace at that point.
It was owned By a guy actually of North Carolina, who was a big cable TV magnate at the time, and he just sold it, in fact.
But regardless, this place was populated by people the same age as those who had volunteered and who were in Iraq and who were in Afghanistan, and the people at the Versace Mansion, the same age couldn't have cared less what was going on in Iraq, couldn't have cared less what was going on.
They were in pure hedonism.
And I I looked at it, and I've always had a great appreciation for the military, and particularly now when it's a volunteer force, people that volunteer to do that.
That's why I've always cringed when the media or the Democrats say that, yeah, well, they volunteer because this country's run out of opportunity for them, or they're stupid hicks from the South, and that's all they've got.
You know, I did totally why why diminish people who volunteer for the Army?
Why do that?
What why insult them that way when they're doing a great thing?
And you and I when I took my troop visit to Afghanistan, I asked, why are you here?
They they were doing it to defend their country from 9-11.
These were these were National Guard reserve troops, they were active duty military, they were there to defend their country.
And at the same time this is going on, people their age all over the country were out having fun pursuing hedonism, whatever you want, their education, ran the gamut.
The point is that when that was necessary, we had the number of people.
We had enough people that were willing to volunteer and go put themselves in harm's way.
Now, I said I'm not criticizing, don't misunderstand.
I'm not criticizing the people I saw at the Versace mansion.
I stood there, I watched it, and I was I had an immense, actually immense sense of pride, and what a great country we have with with say you know about diversity.
Say, hold the skin color diversity.
I the diversity I saw was just on display.
Um within our population, we have enough people who, for whatever reason, and I choose to think that they're honorable, volunteer for the armed forces to go defend their country, to represent, defend their country, while others didn't.
And it was such that there were enough who did that the ones who didn't want to go didn't have to.
Now, where I'm going with this is that during World War II, when this happened at the moment of truth, we got dragged kicking and screaming into it because of Pearl Harbor.
Whatever had happened culturally and societally, everybody got on board.
Everybody and went out all over this planet to defend freedom.
And I think for that to happen, it requires a certain kind of culture, values and so forth, morality in society.
That's what concerns me about when I hear Rick Petino say that he goes out on a recruiting trip, and he's right in a sense, the kids he's going to talk to, they ought to be looking at him as the biggest day in their lives,
and you would think that they would be devoting full attention to impressing him, making a good impression, and hoping to be chosen for the Louisville basketball team.
But they weren't able to put the cell phone aside.
Their parents had to do the uh had to do the talking.
And now don't, again, I'm not saying the country's finished or over in that regard.
But folks, look at it's different.
You got half the country, 90 million Americans are not working.
Ninety million are not working, and the vast majority of them want to.
A very sad number also don't want to.
Ninety million people not working.
Work is crucially important, self-worth.
Individually to the economy, any number of things.
So the society and the culture is changing.
And what worries me is that the lowest common denominator aspects of our culture are now the focal point.
It used to be that institutions and employers, I think it is still in their case, wanted the best.
Politicians, political parties appealed to the best people.
Now the Democrat Party is content to appeal to the lowest common denominator and provide whatever is necessary to get support from that group.
The Democrat Party has sought to make the low information casually involved, not very aware, the majority of their constituency.
And that's who they play to.
And so they're not shooting for the best.
They're not tailoring a message designed to enlighten or inspire.
That's why I think if the Republicans would do that, it might be one thing that could be done to shake up the status quo that exists.
But I must take a brief time out.
Sit tight, my friends.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Back we are.
Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
I had a note here that's got a good point.
We don't get a fair shake in the drive-bys.
There's no question.
It's not even a question of getting a fair shake, folks.
There's not even a chance of it.
But despite that, you stopped amnesty in 2007.
Despite the media, the Democrat Party, and the President of the United States at the time, you stopped amnesty in 2007.
That's one of the reasons why you're hated, by the way.
In 1993 and 1994 and 1995, despite the media, and they're all in love for everything Clinton, you stopped Hillary care.
Despite the fact the media was totally opposed to everything you stood for, you stopped Hillary care.
Just recently, I think, excuse me, the case could be made that you stopped boots on the ground military action in Syria.
Despite the fact that the media and the Democrat Party are all in favor of Obama and whatever he wants.
I would point out in 2010, the Tea Party bubbles up from the veritable ground.
And it is made up of people with no formal political involvement at all.
Many had never even been to a town hall meeting.
All they had ever done was vote.
They organized.
And in 2010, despite the media being in love with Barack Obama, and despite the Republican Party being scared to death of its shadow at the time, you won for the Republicans, the House of Representatives, in the 2010 midterms.
I would even say that we are here today discussing and in the middle of this shutdown because a lot of you provided a lot of wind at the back of Ted Cruz, who was almost alone in
opposing what the media wanted, what Obama wanted, what the Democrat Party wanted, and for all intents and purposes, what the Republican Party wanted.
You gave a lot of win, meaning you gave you had his back.
And I think that we are in the midst of this shutdown over your refusal to simply accept the full implement implementation of Obamacare.
So my point is that you've got more power than you think.
The media doesn't win every time.
Which is one of the reasons that there is to be positive about some.
And I think it's a serious point, folks, what the Democrat Party is doing.
The Democrat Party is.
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