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Oct. 4, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 4, 2013, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
I thought the day would never get here.
It is Friday, my friends, and let's hit it.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Open line Friday.
Yes to rebob it signals a bunch of things.
Signals the end of the week.
Really, that's about all it signals.
It's the end of the week.
That's the big deal.
And we screen the calls a little let uh a little looser.
And that's it.
Happy to have you with us.
My friends, a telephone number if you want to be on the program is.
Excuse me, just a second.
Got a little tickle in the throat.
I hope that doesn't mean a cold is coming.
I really it can't, no, because I don't feel anything like it.
800 28282 and the email address Ilrushbow at EIBNet.com.
There was no jobs report today.
Because it shut down and no jobs report.
What what what uh what's an economist to do?
The AP ringing their hands here.
Um latest victims of the government's partial shutdown policy wonks, politicians, TV talking heads losing their monthly opportunity to dissect the jobs report issued by the Department of Labor, the Bureau of Labor stats.
The uh ritual unfolds every month, the jobs report comes out, Wall Street panics or exalts, political advocates spin.
But there isn't one.
Also, I think, ladies and gentlemen, the evidence that what I said yesterday is uh is actually the case.
I think the Democrats are losing this.
And uh isn't it true out there that uh Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul were caught on an open mic actually discussing amongst themselves that they're winning.
That we are winning.
Grab his number is that I just saw it.
Yeah, grabs grabs on by number seven.
This is um this is Wednesday night in Paducah, Kentucky, on WPSD TV, their website, Channel 6, the NBC affiliate, at least it was when I was growing up.
And they posted video of an exchange between Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul.
It was recorded while McConnell was waiting to do an interview with the station.
WPSD TV Channel 6, and here is a portion of what that sounded like.
I'm all wired up here.
I just didn't see an end.
I just go over and over again, we're willing to compromise, we're willing to negotiate.
I don't think they poll tested we won't negotiate.
I think it's awful for them to say that over and over again.
Yeah, I do too.
And uh and I just came back from the two-hour meeting.
And that was like you, proud of it as it was.
I think if we keep saying we wanted to debund it, we fought for that.
But now we're willing to compromise on this.
I think well, I know we don't want to be here, but we're gonna win this, I think.
We're gonna win this, I think.
We're gonna win this.
You know, Obama cancel the Asia trip.
I want to know who in the White House had the brains on that.
Because that was a smart move.
I mean, if he goes over there and starts negotiating with all those people with the Chicoms and whoever else he was going to meet with and refuses to negotiate with the Republicans.
I mean, don't forget this is a guy that was elected because he was gonna end all of this, folks.
I'm telling you, I I I've I know it's hard for you to believe if you if you just look at the media every day.
It's hard to believe.
You look at the media and the Republicans, it's hammered and hammered, my gosh, it's just relentless, but I'm telling you.
Dingy Harry apologized for his nasty tone on the Senate floor.
Harry Reed delivered a striking Maya Copa on the Senate floor today.
As he opened a chamber saying he and his colleagues have simply gotten too personal and nasty in their floor debates.
I don't think he apologized for not caring about the di the lives of kids with cancer.
But I'm telling you, you don't see this.
You leave these people ever apologize for their language or even or their tone.
I'm telling you, it's coming back to bite them.
And don't don't forget, folks, it's crucially important.
Barack Obama was elected because he was going to end all of this.
No matter who was to blame for the bickering, Obama was a new kind of politician.
Obama was going to end it.
Obama was going to bring unity and comedy and uh universal respect and get rid of all the old politics and bring on the new politics.
And everybody just gets along, remember?
And it's gotten worse than many people can remember it ever being.
Given their ages.
So here's Obama.
He's ready to fly off over to Asia for another another confab, but he says, I can't go.
It's just too important for me to stay.
We've got the shutdown, we've got the debt limit coming.
This is not the first time he's canceled an Asia trip.
He canceled an Asia trip to hang in while Obamacare was being voted on.
And he did for another reason.
The Asians may be getting a complex.
Because he he bugs out on them so much.
But somebody at the White House had some brains, because if if he'd have gone ahead with this trip and had been seen negotiating with those guys, the Chikoms and whoever else he was going to meet, but refuses to sit down and talk to the Republicans who he's characterizing in uh very disparaging terms, it would not have looked good.
And the optics are what these people care about.
Have you seen, speaking of optics?
Have you seen the barbed wire they have put up around the World War II memorial to keep people out?
Folks, this is uh this this is just here.
What did I do?
It's it's amazing.
I just had the picture of it here.
Maybe it's something to do there.
No, I can't find it.
But but they did.
There's barbed wire in the fencing around the World War II memorial.
I wonder if the regime ever thought about doing something like that on the border.
Look at the lengths that the regime is willing to go to to keep World War II veterans and anybody else from seeing their memorial.
Barbed wire fence, but no, we can't do anything like that on the border.
Uh at all, and Arizona.
This is uh this is interesting too.
State of Arizona has offered to open the Grand Canyon.
And the regime said no.
And the AP story on this, the snark for these Republicans is unbelievable.
Two Republican senators, uh it's McCain, maybe it's a representative, but somebody elected Republicans uh want to open the Grand Canyon, and the AP story is just snarky as it can be about these people.
Here's that picture.
Here it is, World War II Memorial Barricade wired shut on Tuesday.
Seven National Park Service employees were seen erecting and tending to a barricade around the World War II memorial in uh in Washington.
A couple hours later, the veterans arrived and so forth and so on.
But it's it's it's uh it's barbed wire.
You're gonna you have to donate wire cutters to the vets if if they're to get in to their uh to their memorial.
I don't know.
I I just did this is um I'm looking for the Arizona story now because I want to read the snark too.
What did I do with this?
You know what's happened here, none of this stuff I'm talking about that I intend to lead with.
And it's the first thing that hit my mind when the program started, it's all buried in the stack, and I can't find it.
And I just looks horrible.
I know it just absolutely looks horrible.
I had it right here.
Uh well, anyway, I'll find it during the break.
I'm not gonna waste precious broadcast moments going through a bunch of loose pieces of paper here.
But this AP story on what in the world, why does the regime care?
If the state of Arizona wants to spend the money to open the Grand Canyon.
Why?
The very idea that the regime wants to keep it shut down ought to tell you what the objective here is.
They are trying to cause as much discomfort, inconvenience, in some cases pain as they can.
Because they know that their compatriots in the media are going to try to get away with blaming the Republicans for this.
And lo and behold, here you have some Republicans in Arizona who want to use state money to open the Grand Canyon, and they are destroyed by the AP.
Well, not destroyed, but the uh the snark is unmistakable.
Now, I have another AP story.
This, you talk about you talk about bleeding heart, tug your heart strings.
Oh my gosh, I don't know if I can finish the day story.
I have it here for you from Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Shutdown slash feeding children.
Subhead shutdown jeopardizes nutrition program for poor.
Folks, this is so over the top.
It I laugh at this.
I I go back, I I laugh at it and I get angry, of course, but I I laugh at this.
But this is the kind of thing that most people wouldn't tell you what they really think about it.
That's never stopped me.
Jacob Quick is a fat and happy four month old with a big and expensive appetite.
How do they know he's happy?
He's four months old.
He can't tell anybody how he feels.
When you were when you were four months old, do you remember being happy?
Or sad or whatever.
Do you remember?
He smiles.
I could be indigestion.
It could be gas.
Could be laughing at his mother.
If he's fat, is his mother fat?
Who knows what the kid's smiling about?
Like millions of other poor women, Jacob Quick's mother relies on federal Wick money to pay for infinite uh infant formula, women, infants, and children.
And that aid, of course, is now jeopardized by the shutdown.
Pennsylvania and other states say that they can operate WIC at least through the end of October, easing fears among officials that it would run out of money within days.
But advocates and others worry what'll happen if the shutdown drags on beyond that.
What's gonna happen to my baby?
asked Jacob's mother, Sierra Schoenaburger, as she fed him a bottle of formula bought with her Wick voucher.
And I read that sentence to you again here, folks.
What's gonna happen to my baby?
Asked Fat Jacob's mother.
AP described him as a happy fat for month, though, so I'm just trying to keep you people.
You know, you can't read this.
I'm reading it to you.
I want to make sure you remember the characters here.
Who is going to feed my baby?
Asked Fat Jacob's mother, Sierra Schoenaburger, as she fed him a bottle of formula bought with her Wick voucher.
Am I gonna have to feed him regular milk or am I gonna have to call to scrounge up the little bit of change I do have for formula or even baby food?
Hey, have you ever tried 911 to see if it delivers some McNuggets?
What am I going to feed my baby?
What's gonna happen to my how about how about the baby daddy?
The baby daddy in the equation here.
Wick, the women infants and children's program serves nearly nine million mothers, serves, serves nearly nine million mothers and young children, providing what advocates say is vital nutrition that poor families might otherwise be unable to afford.
They can afford Babies.
They can't afford the nutrition, but they can afford the babies.
That's how it works, see.
Well, I'm just reading this.
I'm just sharing with you.
If you were sitting here with me and we're reading the paper together, reading the wires, this is how I'd be reacting to it.
That's all I'm doing here.
Vital nutrition that poor families might otherwise be unable to afford.
Can afford the babies, but not the nutrition.
Schoenaburger, for example, said her son, that's Fat Jacob, the four-month-old happy kid, goes through about $40 worth of formula a week.
It's like a car payment, said the unemployed mother of three.
So feeding her son is the equivalent to her of a car payment.
And again, I'm sitting here, where is Dada?
You know, where's the baby daddy?
I doubt that he's working at the car wash.
The special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children, better known as WIC, supplies low-income women with checks or debit cards that can be used for infant formula and cereal, fruits and vegetables, dairy items, and other healthy food.
Wick also provides breastfeeding support and nutrition classes.
Poor women with children under five are eligible.
Right, we got nine million of them.
Breastfeeding support.
What is that?
A Brazier.
What's breastfeeding support?
Don't your mother, what would you think of the if if you're on WIC and you need breastfeeding support?
What would you ask for?
What would you?
Oh, it's it's oh, it's training in how to do it.
I guess breastfeeding support.
No, there's more, you can't, it's not just that simple, Mr. Snerdley.
You don't just hold the baby up to the breast and then it feeds.
That's not apparently it's much more complicated than that because these women need breastfeeding support from WIC.
Anyway, just before the uh the government shut down, the U.S. Department of Agriculture had warned that states would run out of WIC money after a week or so.
Now the agency says that WIC should be able to provide benefits in late October with states using a hundred million dollars in federal contingency money released Wednesday, and 280 million dollars in unspent funds from the last budget year.
Doesn't sound like they got a budget problem to me.
It sounds like they're running a surplus here at WIC, if you uh if you if you ask me.
Now, if the aid dries up, desperate moms, that's what it says here, the AP story, desperate moms.
You ever seen a desperate mom?
Get out of the way.
It's like well, desperate moms will probably dilute their baby's formula with water to make it last longer.
Or simply give them water or milk, said the Reverend Douglas Greenaway, the head of the National WIC Association, an advocacy group.
Pediatricians say that children under one should not drink cow's milk because they can develop iron deficiency anemia.
That must be where the uh breastfeeding support comes in.
These mothers have trust and confidence in this program, and that trust and confidence has been shaken by Congress, said Reverend Greenaway.
It's just unconscionable.
No, Reverend, that's not what's unconscionable.
He's trying to tell us that the WIC mothers, they've they they trust the program, but they've their trust and confidence been shaken by Congress.
Danielle Brent, 22, a single mother of three, 22, single mother of three, gets $200 a month in vouchers for food and formula for her two children and a baby.
She being doubly hit hard by the shutdown.
She's a contract worker for the FAA who catalogs records for aircraft certification, and she has been furloughed.
Again, where's Daddy?
Okay, folks, I'm I'm major league embarrassed here.
There is no barbed wire at the World War II veterans memorial.
Somebody sent me a story with the headline, World War II Memorial Barricade wired shut with a picture of barbed wire.
That's what it looks like.
And I assume that there was barbed wire, and there isn't.
The gate has one wire on it.
The gate is wired shut, but there is no barbed wire at the uh at the World War II memorial.
I make sure everybody hears this, and doing this correction loud and clear.
I was uh I was misled by looking at the optics.
Somebody put a picture to a story that doesn't exist.
And even I, L. Rushmo got fooled and tricked by it.
Anyway, sit down.
We're not through with the story of the Wick ladies.
Alban Line Friday, L Rushmow behind the golden EIV micro microphone now, cutting to the end.
This this this wick story, women, infants, and children's story goes on and on.
It prints out to two pages, and it's a sob story, and it's all this the pain and the suffering that might happen in a month because of the shutdown.
And the implication, of course, is that it's the Republicans who hate children.
Now, if you go ask Harry Reed about this, Harry has a bunch of women and babies in the WIC program and might lose formula at the end of the month.
He would likely say, why should I care about that?
I got 1,100 people at Nellis Air Force Base to worry about.
But the end of the story quotes.
A woman, uh Patricia Jones in New Jersey.
He says she's worried about losing her WIC assistance.
You're affecting families that haven't done anything to you, she said.
She's a 34-year-old mother of five.
Because of the shutdown, she was turned away from the Social Security Administration office in Newark.
You're affecting families and haven't done anything to you.
Why are you why are you doing this to it?
We haven't done anything to you.
We haven't hurt you.
Five children.
Mother of five, age 34.
Now, I know there are a bunch of you left us in the audio.
Well, what would you do?
Rush, I mean, come on now.
These women exist and their kids are alive, and what would you do?
It just frees them out.
No, no, no.
But you use them as an object lesson.
This is not the kind of country we want.
This is not the kind of life we want for these people.
We don't want life like this.
You people on the left tolerate this.
And you come up with programs that actually maintain this.
You come up with programs that sustain this kind of lifestyle for people.
You've become the daddy.
Except none of you take personal responsibility.
You use everybody else's taxpayer money, and you credit yourselves for having compassion, and you're destroying lives.
You're not helping anybody here.
You're not promo you're not promoting anybody by by creating policies that essentially promote this kind of behavior.
I mean, the sad thing is liberals love this kind of stuff.
This is the what rips my heart up.
They love this kind of stuff because this is where they derive their power.
And it's people like this.
Liberals be able to claim they're the ones that have compassion.
They're the ones with big hearts.
They're the ones who care.
Really?
These women all sound miserable to me.
These women sound scared to death to me.
These women don't sound like they have any concept of self-reliance.
These mothers don't sound like they have a chance to me.
They're scared to death that whatever they've got's going to be taken away from them.
They haven't the foggiest idea.
What to do if that were to happen?
I think in this country that's an absolute outrage.
And I I don't applaud leftists.
And I don't grant them automatic compassion simply because they're willing to tolerate this all for their own personal political benefit.
That's what's sick about it.
And somebody comes along and actually wants to suggest doing something about this.
And they get attacked and ripped to shred.
Do you realize that this program, folks, the WIC program, women's women, infant and children program, serves 53% of all babies born in this country?
That is just a stunning statistic to me.
And it is quite telling.
And by definition, we're talking single mothers here, are we not?
We know that in the uh in the African American community, 73% of all births are out of wedlock.
That's not doing anybody any good.
Well, Mr. Limbaugh, they're gonna have sex, you can't stop it.
Well, you're you know, the attitude you people on the left have had, this this laissez faire attitude and so forth.
You compassion is the last thing you people have, and it's the last thing you people are exhibiting on the left.
This is this is this is almost a life of torture, these people are living.
Scared to death that they're not even a baby formula?
Don't know what to do.
If a government program runs dry, there's no compassion in that.
Not in this country.
And because it happens to minorities, you get a double whammy.
You get to claim great compassion and the fact that you're not racist because you're willing to sit there and say you're helping, you're not helping.
That's the dirty little secret.
This is not helping these.
Do you think I'm wrong about this, Mr.?
I don't think this is helping anybody.
I mean, temporally, yeah, they're able to babies are weak for, but this is this is not this is no way to live, and it isn't necessary in this country.
That's the thing that irritates me.
Anyway, moving on, Dusty Baker, the manager of the Cincinnati Shreds, has been fired.
But that's not the story.
He has been fired and has blamed racists who hate Obama.
Well, that's that that's a that's that's the upshot here from CBS Sports.
It hurts.
It hurts big time, Dusty Baker said.
It's a double whammy being swept out of the playoffs, and in two days later, this.
It wasn't all about one conversation, of course.
Baker quite likely started to sense that maybe his time was up in Cincinnati.
That's why he said what he said.
He said, The last couple of weeks I've been getting a rash of hate mail, racial mail, he said.
Maybe it is time to go.
This is really ugly.
All sorts of references to Barack Obama, so now I know where they're coming from.
I don't know.
Maybe people are mad at him, so they don't like the idea of blacks in authority.
And of course, Dusty Baker is the manager of the Reds, is the man in authority, and so his people are mad at Obama.
They're racist named at Obama, and he felt the heat.
When I go to the audio sound bites, this is uh uh a couple of really meaningful things to me, but first, last night on NPR, all things considered.
I I haven't heard this.
I read the transcript of it, and I'm I'm not quite certain, just reading the transcript, what the point here is.
It's a portion of the report yesterday on NPR, National Public Radio and the uh all things considered show.
And he's talking about Fox News and me supporting the government shutdown.
No surprise that the single loudest media voice defending conservative Republicans on the shutdown has been Fox News Channel.
At Fox News.com on day one of the shutdown, story after story, referred to it as the government slim down on the web and on cable.
Fox affixes the blame on the president at the same time, there's a clear effort to downplay the impact.
And there's talk radio.
Rush Limbaugh has said the world didn't end because of the government shutdown.
Well, did it?
How in the world does that make news?
And Rush Limbaugh said the world didn't end because of the government shutdown.
Did it, and I missed it.
How in the world is that news?
Maybe they're mad that the world didn't end.
Maybe they're mad that I pointed out the world didn't end.
That has to be what it is.
They want people to think the world is ending or could.
Just like the sequester, just like Y2K, just like the financial crisis in 08.
Up next, C-SPAN Washington Journal this morning, the anchor Pete Slyn spoke with the publisher of National Review, Jack Fowler.
And the subject was what National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr. might think about the Tea Party.
Now I want to preface this.
When those of you listening to the program know very well how respected Mr. Buckley was in my eyes.
He was the one of my heroes and idols.
And it was a dream come true to be able to meet him and to become his friend.
And I've uh recounted many stories, times that we spent together.
And the first time that I did meet him at his uh at his apartment, his home on Park Avenue in Manhattan.
And the first time I ever heard a story about Buckley commenting on me shortly after my program began, I think it must have been three years into it, so it'd be 1991.
And the story was that Buckley was in some city making a speech.
And in the QA section of the speech, somebody asked him, have you heard this new guy on the radio, Rush Limbaugh?
What do you think of him?
And I don't remember verbatim Mr. Buckley's answer, but it it was in the vein of, yeah, let me take you here over to a corner where nobody can hear us.
Yeah, I like him.
And it was uh it was it was a classy way for Buckley to answer the question.
And I tell you it's so different today than it than it was back then.
If Buckley, that's 1991.
Now remember, 1998, 1988, this program starts, and there isn't any national conservative media.
I mean, National Review, probably the closest thing to it, a magazine.
There certainly wasn't any broadcast national conservative media.
And so here I storm in, and nobody knew who I was.
I'd not networked, I had not gotten to know anybody.
I'm just some guy on the radio that's worked all over the country and got a break when I was in Sacramento, end up in New York.
Nobody had never heard of me.
No achievements prior to this of note.
There's no reason they should have heard of me.
Here I come storming out of the gates, and I'm getting all this attention paid to me.
Yet here these people have been in the so-called conservative movement for years, and they're laboring away in the basements doing their research and writing, and if they're fortunate they get published.
They're not making a whole lot of money, and here I come.
And Buckley embraced me and had brought me into his uh his world to a degree.
That wouldn't happen today.
Uh the the I guess it's natural, it's human nature.
This is one of the reasons I value what happens so much.
If people say, Rush, who's gonna be the next you?
There won't be one.
But if there was, if out of the blue some really hot shot, nobody ever heard of them before a conservative popped up, the rest of the conservative media would try to eat the person up and destroy them because it's gotten so competitive now in conservative media.
And that's one of the things I always really consciously appreciated about Buckley was it wasn't a competitive thing for him.
He welcomed anybody into the so-called conservative movement.
And if if they needed a boost, he provided it to them.
With whatever he could do.
And he had a lot of clout within certain areas, particularly in the in the highbrow literary conservative movement.
He had a lot of impact.
And if you had Buckley's stamp of approval or impramat, that that was a big big deal.
These kinds of things don't happen now.
I guess one way of saying it, there's a maybe even still to this day a competition underway within the conservative movement for who is going to be the next Buckley.
And other people don't think he was that big a deal to begin with.
It's it's uh it it runs the gamut.
Anyway, that sets up a uh uh couple of sound bites, because the Jack Fowler, publisher of the magazine, was asked, what would Buckley think of the Tea Party?
Because what they're trying to do is discredit the Tea Party by hanging Mr. Conservative icon.
He would have hated it.
That's what they're hoping Fowler says, and rest assured it's not.
I love how liberals.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Friday, spot break.
Spot break.
We'll do it.
Okay, C-Span Washington Journal this morning, Peter Slending Anchor speaking to Jack Fowler, the uh publisher of National Review, says, I'm sure you remember this editorial from the New York Times.
December of 2012, where have you gone, Bill Buckley, quote, the 1960s?
Buckley largely through his position at National Review displayed political courage and sanity by taking on the John Birch Society, an influential anti-communist group whose members saw conspiracies everywhere they looked.
Fast forward half a century, the modern-day Birchers are the Tea Party.
This guy's quoting a New York Times piece from last year.
Fast forward half a century, modern-day Birchers are the Tea Party.
By loudly espousing extreme rhetoric yet holding untenable beliefs, they have run virtually unchallenged by the Republican leader.
This is how the Tea Party's deal.
This is an outrage.
There's there's the Tea Party, nothing at all in common with the John Birch Society.
Nothing.
But that's what the left thinks of it.
And so here comes Jack Fowler, the publisher of National Review, and they okay come on, Jack.
Come on, just tell us.
Buck Buckley, Buckley would have, he would have, he would have disowned a Tea Party just like he did to Birchers, right, Jack?
Right?
I love how liberals claim Bill Buckley and and try to use him as a cudgel.
One of his most favorite people in the world was Rush Limbaugh.
They were very close, and uh he he loved Rush and loved what Rush did, and the feeling was mutual.
The second thing related to the Tea Party is you know, this is the same Bill Buckley who was famous for saying he'd rather be governed by the first uh 5,000 names in the Boston telephone directory than the faculty of Harvard.
He had great faith in the quote unquote common man as opposed to taking guidance from the establishment.
I think that uh editorial is uh quite off the mark.
Right on the money, it's off the mark.
The Birch Society never, I mean, the Tea Party has nothing whatsoever.
But this is how, you know, to the New York Liberal establishment, Buckley was Mr. Conservative.
They use him to disparage the uh the Tea Party.
Uh and uh no, I don't have time for the next bite.
The next I've got two Buckley bites that'll illustrate.
They are from uh one's from 1965, uh both actually from 1965 on on Meet the Press.
Uh but in 1965, Buckley ran against the Republican Party as a conservative.
And he went on to meet the press to explain why.
And the um the people saying Buckley would be embarrassed by Ted Cruz.
And that simply isn't true, and it represents there are people on the right who are trying to make that connection.
Buckley, he wouldn't approve it at Tea Party.
Ted Cruz, He'd be embarrassed.
No.
If he wasn't embarrassed by me, and he wasn't, he wouldn't be embarrassed by Ted Cruz.
Far from it.
But this is just another indication of just how frightened of you they all remain, folks.
You and the Tea Party.
Don't think for a moment you're losing anything here.
Be right back.
By the way, folks, this editorial in the New York Times that excoriates the Tea Party and refers to them as extreme and compares them to the John Burns Society, was written by a Republican.
David Welch, a former research director for the Republican National Committee, wrote it.
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