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Oct. 8, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 8, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #2
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The views expressed by the host on this program documented to be almost always right and still ninety-nine point seven percent of the time.
Happy to have you here, my friends.
As always, L Rushbow.
With a half my brain tied behind my back.
Just to scare 24-year-old girls.
Telephone number 800 282-288-2 and the email address L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
Okay, some of the news that's off the beaten path from the narrative in Washington today, which is all, there's news in places besides Washington.
Oh, yes, there certainly is.
For example, from Kuwait.
It's in the Middle East.
We once went to war to kick Saddam Hussein out of it.
The story's in the UK Daily Mail.
A medical test is being developed by Kuwait that'll be used to let's let's uh let's let's go ahead.
The Rush Limbaugh program, the EIB network, and a gay community update.
Okay, here's the news, folks, in the UK Daily Mail, a medical test being developed by Kuwait will be used to detect homosexuals and prevent them from entering the country or any of the Gulf Cooperation countries.
Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates deem homosexual acts unlawful.
The story does not say what test will be used to detect homosexuals.
It just says that they're going to introduce medical testing to detect gay people and keep them out of their countries.
Can you imagine that?
They don't say what the test is.
Anyway, it's a true story here.
Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
That that would be uh Dubai and the ports.
Uh United Arab Emirates.
Outlaw homosexuality, but they are toughening their controversial stance.
The director of public health in Kuwait says that gays will be barred.
And I I'm not kidding.
They there's a medical test gonna be developed that'll use to detect homosexuals, keep them out of the country, but they don't say what the test is gonna be.
But what you need to know here is that the story lists countries where homosexuality is punishable by death.
Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Yemen, I mean the list goes, it's it's on and on and on.
Iran has no gay people.
You remember when the uh former Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadini Zad was invited to speak to the students at Columbia.
And this occ this honestly happened.
A student in a Q ⁇ A asked him about gay people, and he said we don't have any of that in Iran, and the audience laughed.
And when the audience began laughing, Mahmoud Ahmadi Zad said, Oh, well, do you do you know someone who is?
Can you tell me where they live?
And the audience kinda stopped laughing.
They got a little quiet in there at uh at Columbia's.
So what could the test possibly be?
What kind of detection could I mean you figure this is at airports?
No, not genome genetic testing.
What are you talking about?
This is getting off the airplane, walking through customs and so forth, they're gonna have some kind of test.
I mean, that's where they gotta stop them.
That's where they have to stop anybody from entering the country.
That's where they have to have the test.
Or maybe the test is at the origin of departure.
They want to catch you before you even get on the plane on the way there.
I don't know how many of you have noticed, but the National Football League every October joins the effort to eliminate breast cancer by just throwing pink everywhere.
They can.
Pink shoes on the players, pink uh pink towels, uh, pink wristbands.
It's it's a lot of pink out there.
They put pink on the field, various places, and on Sunday for the first time, they used pink penalty flags.
And even the television networks televising NFL games, when they graphically tell the audience a flag has been thrown, that's usually in yellow.
Even they were using pink.
I didn't know this.
I didn't know that they had added it.
I'm just watching the games and and I'm seeing all what I think are a bunch of towels all over the field.
No, no, no, those are penalty flags.
They've been calling penalties.
Anyway, the NFL has decided to pull back on the penalty flags.
They're not going to use them starting next week.
And for the same reason that happened to me, I didn't know when a flag was thrown or when somebody just dropped a towel out there.
Pink is no longer the new yellow in the NFL.
They won't will not use pink penalty flags after Monday night's Jets Falcons game.
The pink flags are part of the crucial catch campaign in support of breast cancer awareness, coupled with players' pink equipment, especially gloves and towels, the pink flags caused confusion among broadcasters, fans, players, and coaches on Sunday.
So with the Thursday night game, the Giants and the Bears are going to bring back yellow flags, and back to uh some sense of normalcy.
What was the reaction to all of this pink in the internet?
I mean, it's clearly you can't miss it.
It clearly is raising awareness of uh whatever it represents.
I mean, people may not know breast cancer right off the bat.
Speaking of uh sports newsbusters has this Ted Leonsis, I hope I'm pronouncing his name, he's the owner of the Washington Wizards and the Washington Capitals.
He took a swipe at the newspaper industry in general and the Washington Post in particular yesterday, saying that the Washington Post was, quote, not that important anymore, that newspapers are based on an antiquated business strategy.
He uh made those comments in an interview at George Washington University when asked about his thoughts on the newspaper selling out to Amazon and Jeff Bezos.
And Politico had the uh the story.
It's almost like you have a family friend who has a drinking problem or a drug problem.
I mean, the first thing you have to say to him is they have to admit they have a drinking or drug problem, Leonces said.
They have to say we're not that important anymore, and what we've been doing hasn't been working.
This core model based on print isn't gonna work.
If you said that to the post like I did ten years ago, you should be a platform.
You should be embracing these bloggers and adding to your staff these virtual writers.
They said that these bloggers aren't Washington Post caliber people, they're not journalists, Leonces said.
And I said, they're not, they're better than what you have.
One staffer at the Washington Post, Karen Tumulty, well-known liberal writer, fired back, taking Leonces out of context.
She wrote, Leonces urged the Washington Post to go digital and embrace bloggers.
Why didn't we think of this?
Oh, wait, we did.
But what she missed is that the owner of the Wizards in the Capitals was referring to advice that he gave ten years ago, not saying what he would do with papers now.
But anyway, if just another, I mean, it here's a guy that in the old days, you grovel when the newspaper guys show up.
You need them.
You need them for publicity, for promotion, coverage, PR, all of that.
And here's Leonti, you people, you just you're you're you're like relatives with the drug problem, and you just you're not relevant anymore.
You um you have to admit that you you're not that important anymore.
Newspapers just aren't that important anymore.
That's I get the reality a lot of them know.
And Leonis, okay, sorry, Ted Leonces.
I was been mispronouncing it Leonces, but it's Leonces.
Thank you.
Sorry, I'm happy.
Somebody corrected me when I got a name wrong, right?
Let it get stand out there.
So uh appreciate that.
Port Washington, New York from CBS Eyeball News.
Worries about injuries at a Long Island scruol have led to a surprising ban.
Channel 2 Eyeball News, Jennifer McLogan reported yesterday that officials at Weber Middle School in Port Washington are worried that students are getting hurt during recess.
So they've instituted a ban on football, baseballs, lacrosse balls, or anything that might hurt somebody on the screw grounds.
Tossing a football during recess long seemed to be a right of passage for kids in the screw community.
One student said, I think we need the soccer balls, the footballs and everything we can have some fun, but the students will have no such option anymore.
They were just informed that during recess football is out, and they can use a nerf ball if they want, because that won't hurt anybody.
Hard soccer balls have been banned along with baseballs and the crossballs, rough games of tag, and cartwheels have been banned unless supervised by a coach.
The students were not thrilled with the news.
What do you think students are going to do?
The students.
That's exactly right.
The students are now in reaction to this.
They're going to invent games that use things other than balls.
And you're going to have some kids bring the balls anyway.
Just for the passage of the right of rebellion.
Cartwheels have been banned unless supervised by a coach.
Now, I guarantee you they won't have any problem finding a coach supervising cartwheels.
Well...
Uh let's let's see.
Mr. Snerdley has asked me over the IFB if he would be a sexist, if it would be sexist to ask if a woman was involved in this ban.
Probably, yeah.
But let me uh let me see.
Cartwheels in tag.
Students said it's ridiculous, they're banning that.
You go for recess.
That's your free time to go out loose in charge.
Um, Mr. Snerdley, you have to be right.
The Port Washington Scruals Superintendent Kathleen Maloney said that.
What are you blowing up for in there?
Don't you know this is this is this was all coming.
There is.
And I said this yesterday, I've said it a number of times.
Look at it, I've called it a bunch of different things.
A chickification of our society.
There's another way to.
There's another way to express what's happening here.
And there is an ongoing effort that is being led by women who I'm sure think they're well-intentioned to try to remove as many vestiges of masculinity from our culture as they can.
Because it's considered brutish and predatory and dangerous and mean and all that.
There's no question that there is a uh, I wouldn't uh call it an all-out assault, but there's a steady consistent effort here to remove masculinity from as much, particularly of young culture as they can get away with.
I'm not going to say any question about that.
Condoleezza Rice.
This next story, this is kind of, I better take a break here.
Pat Dye, who is the um uh football coach, he's uh with the uh Auburn, former Auburn football coach, is just well, I wouldn't know if he's livid, but he is just beside himself that Condoleezza Rice has ended up on the college football playoff selection committee.
He doesn't think that she knows anything about football other than what she's read or has been told or what she might have seen on TV.
He's livid about it.
And I have details when we get back.
Okay, folks, of some college football news, the Fox Sports at work on the MSN.
There have been plenty of criticism of the selection of Condoleza Rice of the upcoming college football playoff selection committee, but perhaps no one has taken an approach to the to the former Secretary of State's appointment as misguided as former Auburn football coach Pat Dye.
Pat Dye was on the radio Monday morning.
He lashed out, it says here, accusing Rice of not knowing the game.
Hey, Pat, you know she wants to be the commissioner of the NFL, too.
Here's what Pat Dye said.
Folks, this is not done.
I mean, you talk about violating political correctness and every other tenant today.
Pat Dye said of Condoleezza Rice.
All she knows about football is what somebody told her, or what she read in a book, or what she saw in television.
To understand football, you gotta play with your hand in the dirt.
He said, I love Condoleez Rice.
She probably a good statesman and all of that.
But how in a hell does she know what it's like out there when you can't get your breath and it's 110 degrees, and a coach asks you to keep going?
Dye also indicated the decision to include Rice in the process could impact the fairness of the selection process.
He said that goes back to politics.
Which one she likes the best?
Which one's the smoothest talker, Pat Dyes who's seventy-three years old, by the way.
He uh he last coached in 1992.
He said the game's played on the field, and she's never played the game.
What business does she have selecting teams in the playoffs?
Now, it says here, I'm gonna read this as it says, it's not a given that Dye intended for his statement to come off as sexist.
And perhaps he would have said the same thing about a male politician who was appointed to the committee, but it sure came across that way.
This is a news story.
And now Pat Dye will go down as the latest live radio cautionary tale as a result.
So see, the bottom line is he did it on the radio.
That means radio's bad.
Live radio is too dangerous.
You have all these PC violations and uh and everything.
I think there's something else going on here.
I don't know.
I mean, he's just been asked what the color is for testicular cancer.
I don't know what the uh color is for prostate cancer is.
A ribbon, you have a ribbon?
No, I don't think there is a ribbon for prostate cancer.
I don't think there's a ribbon for men's diseases.
Uh other than AIDS.
I don't I think that's it.
I don't think there's no no.
Why why would they do that?
Why would women's sports wear colored things for men's illnesses?
Why would they do that?
What do you mean is show awareness to who?
Who's watching?
Wait, where's awareness to who?
Who's watching women's sports?
Who's watching it?
This Pat Dye and Condoleezza Rice thing, there's something else going on.
I'm not going to tell you what I think because I could be dead wrong.
And I but the guy is 73.
He obviously is a different generation, he had to work for everything.
But I think there are obviously some things about Condoleezza Rice That uh he doesn't know.
There was a piece on uh ESPN in 2007 about her and her her fascination with the uh with the world of sports.
And it it turns out uh these people that that have talked to her claim that she could ace an aptitude test on football, an X's and O's aptitude test.
When uh when she was born, a football was waiting for her in her crib.
Her father obviously was hoping for a boy.
Father's name was John Rice.
He was a hascral coach and athletic director in Birmingham, Alabama, and he had the football, and she said it.
She said he had a football and he got a girl.
Meaning her, and she's an only child.
She showed her father that she shared his passion for the game.
By the time she turned three, they were watching Cleveland Browns games on uh on TV.
The Browns at the time under Paul Brown were one of the NFL's earliest integrated teams, and she was enamored with uh with Paul Brown and got fired by the Browns, went to the Cincinnati Bengals, and so forth.
And there's this little detail when her father joined the University of Denver faculty in the late 60s.
A number of the Denver Broncos players then would visit his house, her father's house, where football was often topic A. And the story goes, the legend is that these Broncos players that come over to Condoleezza Rice's dad's house were astonished at her knowledge and her pen penetrated questions on the X's and O's aspect of the game.
Uh her uh her family does have a strong background in football.
I don't know if Pat Dye knows that or not.
But clearly there's something going on here that has something other than what it appears to be on the surface.
There has to be something else.
And it it could very well be a uh cultural thing.
One more thing here before we go back to the phone calls.
Jimmy Carter.
Do we have grab some by 23?
This is Jimmy Carter.
This is yesterday on the AP website.
They released an interview they did with him in Oakland at a at a Habitat for Humanity construction site.
Is he back to doing that?
Oh, he never quit doing that then.
30-year anniversary habit.
Wait, what's the okay?
30-year anniversary of for being with Habitat for Humanity.
Not their 30 years married.
It was longer than that.
So he and Rosen celebrate a 30-year anniversary to Habitat for Humanity.
He's in Oakland.
And AP interviewed him, and they put a little bit of the interview on their website.
And this is what Jimmy Carter said about the economy and the disparity between the rich and the pope.
Compared to when I left the White House, the difference is twice as great as it was between the richest people and the poorest people.
And the middle class have now become more like poor people than they were 30 years ago.
Hey, Jimmy, you know, that's really been exacerbated in the last five years.
When the Democrat Party has been running things, Democrat Party economic policies.
And the one thing about Democrat Party economic policies, they don't elevate anybody.
Well, other than their cronies.
I mean, Silicon Valley, people that tie into Democrat Party do well.
CEOs that get into crony capitalism with Democrat President, Jeff M L G E, they do well.
But at Wall Street rich types that tie in with Democrats and donate, they do well, but nobody else does.
The middle class doesn't elevate under the Democrat Party.
The poor do not elevate, and the upper middle class doesn't elevate under Democrat Party policy.
It's amazing.
Democrat Party policies move everybody downward.
That's why the gap is what it is.
The rich always get richer.
That's a mathematical reality.
There's nothing you can do about it.
The rich already start out with more money and they invest it and it grows, and it's just the way it works.
And some Of them lose a lot of it at the same time, too.
So the rich getting richer, that's just a fact of life.
It's not universal.
Some of them go broke and lose everything.
But the fact is that the gap between rich and poor is due to the to the middle class and the poor getting poorer.
And that is a result of Democrat Party policies.
Folks, there's no this is not even arguable.
Just look at the employment numbers.
Look at the number of jobs lost.
Look at the number of jobs converted from full time to part-time because of Obamacare.
What do you think that means to income?
People are earning less.
They're not getting raises.
They're losing hours.
90 million Americans are not even working.
More and more Americans than ever have gone through their unemployment 99 weeks, and so they sign up for Social Security disability.
They think it's the only way they can survive.
When Jimmy Carter was around, it was so bad we had to have a misery index to calculate it.
Inflation, unemployment, interest rates, sky high.
And I always said that the Obama presidency would be Jimmy Carter's second term, and it is.
I'm just amazed.
Here's this former Democrat president, celebrating 30 years at Habitat for Humanity in the midst of an absolute What in the world is happening to my TVs.
I think Samsung is hacking my something's going on in here.
Server not found on both of them?
And I haven't touched anything.
This Samsung stuff, I don't know.
I wish Apple come out with a TV.
Anyway, now network not connected.
Check network settings, use internet services.
What in the world is happening?
Really, folks?
My TVs are acting like computers that can't find the web.
And it's the most curious looking thing.
Server not found.
Please check for the following.
Check for typing error in URL.
It's a TV set.
Anyway, I have not lost my place.
I don't know how it is that a Democrat press after five years of Obama can sit there and start talking about how poor everybody's getting and not understand why.
Well, I understand what they're doing.
They're just trying to basically rip the country.
The country is at fault.
The country is not right.
All these mistakes that Bush and the boys made, and we got to go back and we're still it's all part of the Limbaugh theorem.
But it's it's it's just amazing to me.
Now he's not the first.
Somebody else did it last week, talked about this gap between the rich and the poor.
And it is widening, it's because the middle class and the poor are getting poorer.
They're losing their jobs for crying out loud.
They've been losing their jobs for five years.
Anyway, let me take a brief time out, my friends, and figure out who's hacking my TVs.
I'm only kidding about that, but something it's the strangest thing I've ever seen.
Haven't touched it.
And of course, nobody on the other side of glass even cares.
I mean, I may as well be one of those crazies that John Stewart was talking about.
Well, turns out that Pat Dye is not the first football guy to rip into Condoleezza Rice for being chosen to be on the college football playoff selection committee, David Pollock, who was an analyst on college football on ESPN, warned the audience he was about to say something unpopular during college game day on Saturday, and then according to the UK Daily Mail launched into a sexist remark.
He said, I'm gonna stick my foot in my mouth probably, and I want people on this committee, guys, that can watch tape, that have played football, that are around football, that can tell you different teams on tape, not on paper.
So an ESPN analyst on Saturday ripped into the choice of Condoleezza Rice.
The host, Chris Fowler then chimed in, asking if Pollock's proposed requirement that members must be former players should preclude women from serving on the committee.
Fowler said, so no woman belongs in the committee, and Pollock took the bait.
Yeah, he said, you said that and I'll say it.
Yeah, yeah.
The other panelists, of course, said they disagreed.
Uh Samantha Ponder, Aaron Andrews, Bonnie Bernstein have all reacted.
Who the hell is this guy?
Shut him up.
What really bothers people here, folks?
What is this?
Now with Pat and I, I think I know what's going on, but I am not.
Doesn't matter, so I'm not going to tell you.
But this, what what?
What really bothers people about this, do you think, Snerdly?
John Delisa Rice, what is she?
A, she is a woman.
But what else is she?
She is a black woman.
So far so good, right?
But what else is she?
She is a republican woman.
She worked for W. And therein lies.
No, don't tell me there's no politics at ESPN.
Don't tell me there's no politics in football.
What is it about Condoleezza Rice that has all of these people up in arms?
Normally, a black woman.
Why?
Who was the old um Earl Butts?
Remember him, the agriculture secretary for Nixon?
He said he was talking about the Nixon cabinet.
He said, We got a woman, we got a black, we got a Hispanic, we got this.
All we need is a cripple and we got it covered.
And they practically ran him out of town.
That's a quote by the way he said it, not me.
He said, All we need's a cripple and we got it.
And they practically ran him out of town.
Earl Butts, father of the Butts sisters.
He was, you know, he was one of the greatest cabinet secretaries of all time for entertainment.
That was Wilbur Mills.
He was a House Speaker, House of Fanny Fox, uh in the in the in the fountain.
Wilbur Mills.
Wilbur Mills was the kind of guy when you looked at him and you saw him with Fanny Fox, it just upset that there was that was not possible.
So it had to be money.
But what what what was happening there?
That that just couldn't be.
So anyway, I think that the fact that Condoleez is a Republican is probably what's upsetting some of these PC junkies.
Let me head back to the phones.
People have been patiently waiting.
Bill in Billings, Montana.
You're next.
Great to have you, sir.
Hi.
How are you doing?
Good.
Good.
Great to have you with us.
Hey, I wanted to call and I'll get right to the point.
Uh I'm one of those uh non-essential, furloughed federal workers who happens to be a budget analyst.
I'm also uh retired 20 20-year Navy veteran.
And I wanted to uh clarify what even it seemed that the speaker of the House Boehner doesn't even know what it means when you go past the debt ceiling.
Um default means you can't pay your interest on your debt.
Our interest is about 220 billion dollars a year.
Yeah.
This year we're gonna take in more money and revenue into the treasury than ever before, about 2.5 trillion.
And that's with a $700 billion tax increase in January.
Two point.
We're still gonna be short, $700 billion.
Right.
2.25 trillion.
So your point is even the point is we won't default.
Even if even if we default, we still we're collecting up tax revenue every month to pay our debts on the pay the interest on the debt.
You only have to pay about 20 or 30 billion dollars a month to take in somewhere between 250 and 300 billion a month.
Right.
Unless that's gonna force President Obama in his cabinet to do wait a minute.
Wait, did you say Boehner doesn't know this?
He comes out and says we're gonna default, you know, if we go past the debt ceiling, we're gonna default to the country.
We're not gonna default to the country.
If you can pay the interest on your debt, you do not default.
That means the money that comes into the treasury, Just like what comes into your pocket every month that you earn, you have to live on.
And that's what the President Obama and his cabinet are gonna have to do if we default.
They're gonna have to live within their budget.
They have to make cuts because they don't have any borrowing authority.
Well now Obama's that makes sense.
Yeah, yeah, that makes total sense.
Except Obama said that raising the debt limit does not mean we go into more debt.
It does.
We do go into more debt.
We're sixteen points if you're it's if you're gonna be able to do that.
No, no, I I I know that I'm just telling you what the president says.
The president says that raising a debt limit shouldn't bother anybody.
It doesn't mean that we're gonna add to the debt.
It just means we're gonna pay our bills.
Well, he's inhaling again.
Either what?
He's inhaling again.
He Oh, inhaling.
Inhaling it.
No.
Yeah.
He doesn't know what he's talking about, and he's trying to fool the lower.
He must be out there because that is what a default is.
And if you borrow more money, you go into more debt.
Just like me and you.
Except the greatest thing the Republicans could do is stick to their guns.
Don't go don't borrow any more money.
Don't approve the debt limit, and let and force them to live within a budget.
Since you brought this up, there I'm a I I'm I've got conflicting information.
I read two things this morning.
I don't know which one's accurate, and I hope one of them is.
The thing I read was that Boehner was gonna do what I suggested yesterday, and it not because of me, don't misunderstand.
He was gonna come up with a short-term debt limit thing of a couple of months so as not to lose momentum that they've got going on Obamacare.
And then I read that he had pulled back from that and was gonna combine the two, which I think strategically is a mistake.
I think they need to stay separated.
I think they should keep I think they should buy the two and go play golf.
The House of Representatives.
And don't say another word.
Well, I look just do that get out the get the hell out of Dodge and spare us all.
I understand that.
But but one thing before we go, because time is short, but he is exactly right, folks.
Um we will not default.
We have plenty of tax revenue coming in.
Even without this new tax increase, we have tax revenue sufficient every month to pay the interest on the debt.
It will we will not default, and that's the definition of it.
We will not default, we will pay our bills.
This just this is just panic, crisis creation by the regime.
Okay, I gotta make a correction.
It was not Earl Butts who said, and if we had a cripple, we'd have it thing wrapped up.
It was James Watt in the Reagan administration who said that.
I've been corrected on my error a couple of times here.
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