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Nov. 26, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 26, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #2
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There's new health research out, ladies and gentlemen.
It's from the UK Daily Mail.
And quite simply, it is alcohol does not make you fat.
Drinking does not make you fat.
Does it matter the calories?
It does not make you fat.
In fact, it may in the right quantities facilitate weight loss.
I'm not making it up.
And there's a companion story.
Help yourself to some nuts this holiday season.
Regular nut eaters were less likely to die of cancer or heart disease.
In fact, less likely to die of any cause during a 30-year study at Harvard.
Okay, a couple of wives' tales.
Everybody believes that drinking beer, wine, adult beverages.
Just packs on the pounds because of all the calories.
Turns out not to be true.
A lot of people say, don't eat those nuts, peanuts, cashews, stay away from it.
All the fat in there, horrible.
Apparently, in a 30-year Harvard study, nobody died.
Who was eating nuts?
Peanuts, snerdly, don't.
Geez.
Anyway, folks, greetings.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network at 800 28282.
Drinking does not make you fat.
Sounds too good to be true, but on Saturday, the Daily Mail carried extracts from an extraordinary new book by science writer Tony Edwards, drawing on a wealth of medical evidence that sells says that alcohol is good for your health.
Today, in part two of our serialization, the former BBC TV science producer dispels the myth that drinking makes you fat.
No, no, I know what's happening now.
There's a lot of you out there.
Come on, Rush, don't fall for this.
This is just this is bunk.
This is my point.
How many of you look at all of the health old wives' tales that everybody's believed all these years because somebody said so in the media.
And then eventually look at how many of them get knocked down and go by the wayside.
What it all means, I mean, the end result of all this is to pay no attention.
Live your life.
You only get one life, and it was not meant to be spent in total denial.
And contrary, it was not meant to be spent in total suffering.
Particularly the self-induced kind of suffering.
A lot of people think that there's valor in that, uh, and so forth.
Uh some people may think that they're religious connotations to suffering.
Uh not gonna argue about that, but you take the religion component out of it.
There's no valor in suffering.
It doesn't uh I'm just amazed.
We we only get one life and the number of people, it's it's overwhelming, actually.
I mean, it's it's literally it's a it's a number that swamps.
The majority of people who spend most of their lives in denial or in suffering or or not in denial, but denying themselves things because somehow that's going to prolong their life, but they're miserable at the same time.
I mean, the answer to all this stuff is just live your life.
And use your own instincts.
You are capable of doing what's best for you.
Contrary to what the government says of the Democrat Party.
You are totally capable of taking care of yourself, most of you.
You're totally capable of making the right everybody screws up now and then, but there's nobody out there who cares more about your future than you do.
Contrary to what many people think.
So the the the answer to this is not to get into an argument over which scientist is right or which medical piece of information is right.
The thing to understand is that there's all kinds of leftists and busybodies and do-gooders that want to control you for whatever reason, as all kind of people who think that everything they do is exactly right and everybody else should do it, and they spend all of their lives trying to get everybody to do what they do, including the way they speak, the way they behave.
It's gotten out of hand.
This political correctness has just gotten out of hand.
But here are the details anyway.
Anybody who's ever gone on a diet is told to lay off the booze because it's high in calories.
And of course, that must make it very fattening.
If you go into the National Health Service Direct website, again, this is this is the UK.
Theirs works, by the way.
Their health website works.
You'll be told that a glass of wine contains as many calories as a piece of cake.
Or if you prefer beer, the British Nutrition Foundation reminds you that two pints are roughly the equivalent in calories to a full glass of single cream.
So you may be surprised to learn that there's no scientific evidence whatsoever to support the idea that alcohol makes you put on weight.
In fact, it is hugely counterintuitive, because alcohol certainly is said to contain lots of calories, but the curious fact remains, alcohol is not fattening.
And here's just some of the evidence.
Professor Charles Lieber of Harvard, who died in 2009 was probably the greatest expert on alcohol and health that the world has ever seen.
In the 70s, he founded the first scientific journal on alcohol.
He was also the first to establish a link between alcohol and liver disease.
So he was no friend of the stuff.
Yet in 1991, he firmly rejected the notion that alcohol has any significant effect on weight.
Now he was relying mainly on evidence drawn from studies that were looking at alcohol's other effects.
And it wasn't until later that anyone actually decided to examine this conundrum directly.
In the 90s, researchers at Harvard embarked on a survey of about 20,000 middle-aged women whose drinking habits and weight were tracked for almost 13 years.
At the start, the women were all roughly UK dress sizes 8 to 12.
By the end, about 9,000 had put on significant amounts of weight, and some had become obese.
All other things being equal, you'd expect the fatties to be the drinkers, but they weren't.
The people that had gained the most weight were the women who did not consume adult beverages.
The skinnies were the heaviest drinkers.
In the Harvard study, of thousands of women, 20,000 middle-aged women over 13 years, the women who consumed five grams of adult beverage a day reduced their risk of being overweight by 4%.
Those who drank 15 grams of adult beverage, that's about a medium glass of wine each day, reduced their risk of piling on the pounds by 14%.
Researchers made full allowances for obvious lifestyle differences that might have skewed the results, like exercise, food intake, smoking habits.
Study had been a 13-year trial of a new slimming pill, which turned out to have no effect whatsoever.
Now, the reason that the the I guess you say the scientific reason that uh alcohol is blamed on weight gain is insulin.
Is insulin is one of the primary ingredients to weight gain.
That's why any diet that reduces this is this is the theory.
Any diet that triggers the smallest release of insulin is best.
The more insulin, the more tendency to pack on pounds.
And because alcohol gets metabolized sugar, it is said to trigger massive amounts of insulin in the body, to metabolize it, and thereby is fattening.
But all of that turns out to be, in the scientific research at Harvard, untrue.
Now no, it it's that the massive amounts of insulin are not triggered.
And it doesn't prolong, it doesn't hang around for a long time.
It's it's it's uh, you know, they've 20,000 women over 13 years.
Now, folks, don't misunderstand.
After reading this, I don't know what to believe.
I wouldn't know what to tell you the truth.
That's not my point.
My point is, you can find wherever you go, whatever you want to hear in terms of diet, exercise, food, to back up what you already believe.
My point is much larger.
Ignore it.
You will learn what causes you to gain weight and what doesn't.
You will learn what makes you feel better and what makes you feel worse.
You will learn by virtue of experimenting, what's good for you and what isn't good for you.
And it may differ from other people.
There are no monolithic standards.
We're all different, and everybody's metabolisms are different.
My only point is just live your life and try to enjoy it as much as you can.
There's already enough pressure on everybody out there that makes it arduous.
There's already enough suffering that you can experience that is not self-inflicted without you adding any more to it.
And to go through your life denying yourself a piece of cake or an adult beverage because it's going to kill you 50 years down the line to me seems irrational.
Or because you read it at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, because you might that's why this trans fat stuff is just so much bunk.
Bloomberg doesn't know what he's talking about, nobody else does either.
32 ounce soft drinks, if you want one, have one.
None of his business.
Not everybody that smokes cigarettes gets lung cancer.
Not everybody who smokes cigarettes dies from it.
There are a lot of people that get lung cancer that never touch a cigarette.
We're all different.
I just I think so many people in it, I've just the argument I have is don't be a sheep.
And and don't let these people who want to totally control and manipulate everything you do, have that kind of control.
It'll free you up on any number of other things in your life as well.
I don't have any idea whether these guys are right about this or not.
In fact, to be honest, my experience with alcohol is that it is fattening.
My experience with it is that when I stop drinking and I don't lose weight, my I don't know.
I don't consume that much adult beverage anyway.
Probably not enough to be a factor.
Snerdley is shouting that his experience is if he looks at food, he gains weight.
Well, I can relate to that too.
But I look it, I just I so much believe in the fact that we're all individuals, and I just cringe.
I really do.
I got to cause what?
Gaining weight?
Well, of course there are causes.
But that's another thing.
I mean, I look at the number of people that are just obsessed with that.
I mean, I think if you're obsessed with anything, you've you're defeated.
If you're obsessed with not gaining weight, what are you gonna do?
If you're obsessed with losing weight, what are you gonna do?
Whatever you do, you're gonna end up being miserable.
At the same time, you've just I don't know.
I I really look, because this all has political ties to me.
I look at how easily people are made to follow and made to believe things and lied to and act like sheep, how easy political correctness enforced on people.
I got a couple stories here about what's happening in education, one in this country, one in the UK.
Uh there's a guy, there's a professor.
Let me find this here.
Just found this yesterday.
I'm surprised they haven't heard of this guy.
His name is in Massachusetts College of Art.
Now, I never heard of the Massachusetts College of Art.
I know that there are over 55 major universities in the Boston area.
So this obviously is one of them.
And there's a professor there, a liberal professor named Noel Ignatiev.
And I'll spell it I G N A T I E V. Ignati.
Might be Ignatyev, who knows how he pronounces it.
And he is actually teaching, and I am not making this up.
He is actually teaching and telling white male students to commit suicide to benefit society.
The key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish the white race.
There's a transcript of this lecture published at a website called Diversity Chronicle, which agrees with the guy.
Okay.
Well, now they tell me that this professor's story has been debunked.
Well, it just showed up in a major blog last night.
Okay, so the story is a satire.
It's a major blog.
Where did it show up?
Did not I have to click on the link to find out because the print uh Washington Times reported it in September 2002.
You know, why does something like that work?
There are professors who teach that the problem with the planet is human beings.
There are environmentalist wackos who teach that the world would be much better if there were no human beings.
And the left is filled with these kinds of these uh these extremists.
The other story, this is from Daniel Hammond, the British member of Parliament, a uh a letter was sent to the students, to the parents of students at some school in the UK called the Littleton Green Community School.
It was sent uh on November 20th.
I look at that, I gotta take a break, otherwise I'm gonna run up against it.
Sit tight.
I'll come back and give you the details of this.
Don't go away.
Okay, that professor story, this Ignatiev guy at the Massachusetts Institute of Art, he exists.
He exists, and he is a radical leftist, and he has taught outrageous things.
And that's why this outfit called Diversity Chronicle, which is a satire website, and it's actually pretty funny.
That's why they created the satire on the guy, because there's a basis.
There's a, you know, all good comedy has truth in it.
That's what makes great comedy funny, is that there are elements of truth in it.
This, for example, this diversity chronicle website right now is running a piece.
Brave woman comes forward to denounce former husbands' repeated rapes.
After several years of silence, a brave and heroic 38-year-old woman has come forward to denounce her former husband's repeated rapes over the course of their marriage.
Despite her numerous appeals, local law enforcement, however, refuses to treat her allegations seriously.
These sexist male chauvinist, largely white male officers, actually state, but it is a website that does satire on how white men are blamed for everything.
And so that's the root of this professor.
Now, this professor has said outrageous things about white people.
He's just never suggested they all commit suicide.
But we've chronicled some of the stuff.
Now, this thing at the UK school, this is the Littleton Green Community School.
The basic upshot of this is we will brand your eight-year-old kid a racist for life.
The kids were sent home with a letter to the parents.
Dear parent, as part of the national religious education curriculum, together with the multicultural community in which we live.
It's a statutory requirement for primary school children to experience and learn about different cultures.
The workshop at Staffordshire University will give your child this opportunity to explore other religions.
Children will be looking at religious artifacts Similar to those that would be on display in a museum.
They will not be partaking in any religious practices.
Refusal to allow your child to attend this trip will result in a racial discrimination note being attached to your child's education record, which will remain on this file throughout their school career.
As such, our expectations are that all children, years four to six attend school on Wednesday, November 27th to take part in this field trip.
This, and that's an actual scan of the letter from the school sent home to parents.
This is parental bullying.
This comes from Daniel Hannon, the uh great conservative member of parliament that's often on Fox News.
Uh and really, we're gonna brand your eight-year-old kid a racist for life if you do not let him attend this field trip.
Back to the phones we go.
This is uh Robert in Vermont.
Robert, great to have you here on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Rush, it's a real privilege to speak to you.
Thank you, sir.
Thanks very much.
I have to confess I am a college professor, a business professor at a liberal arts college in Vermont, needless to say, as I told uh your uh sturley I am on the endangered species list.
Um I do want to mention a delicious irony that you're going to witness next year among those 80 to 100 million people who are going to lose their health insurance will be the vast majority of faculty uh at just about every private college and university in the country, as I'm sure you know, most of them are in financial difficulty, um, demographic issues, the ridiculous price of tuition, etc.
etc.
And most small and mid-sized colleges and universities are going to conclude that they have to end their health insurance for their employees and throw them to the mercies of the exchange.
And so all these Obama zombies are going to be looking around as if they've just discovered there's no tooth ferry, and they're gonna be wondering what happened.
And so I I have to call you from the car.
If if my wife heard that I was rooting to see my health insurance canceled, I think my life insurance policy would have to check in.
But uh, you wait till next year.
And I think you're waiting, wait just a second.
Did I just hear you say that you are rooting for your policy to be canceled?
No, I'm rooting for my employer to stay alive financially, and if what it takes is for them to 12 to 15,000 dollars a year that they couldn't.
Well, that's you're you're you've nailed it.
I mean, that's exactly going to be why.
But you see, what Obama's gonna do is come along and blame the insurance companies or blame the Republicans uh hell, blame me.
Um for this.
Look, I I you know what?
I have seen enough.
There have been stories, Robert, out of San Francisco, which is Obama.
That's that's the home field.
Even more so than Chicago.
San Francisco is home field.
There are died in the woe, robotic liberals out there who have had their insurance canceled.
They have lost it all.
They're fundraisers for Obama.
I've seen two different stories on this.
Different people, families, man and wife.
They've had their insurance canceled.
They have decided that they are going to reduce their income in order to qualify for subsidies.
And they still support Obama.
And they still support Obamacare, even though...
Well, you can shake your head in there, but that's what the news said.
Wait a minute.
I know they're not the average people, but I'm what I'm saying is how many look at every not the vast majority of professors in this country are gonna be Obama groupies.
They're not gonna blame Obama.
That's my point.
Just like in San Francisco, these two people that raised money, donated money, they lost it all because of Obama.
They don't blame him.
They still love him, they still support him, they're still gonna do whatever fundraising he asks them to do.
And what they're gonna do is they're gonna reduce their income so that they qualify for subsidies in order to get their insurance back.
They are going to significantly reduce.
These people combined are well into six figures.
And they are going to reduce their combined income to 50 grand a year just to save their health care that somebody else pays for.
I've seen two different examples of it.
Now my point is that, Robert, I know you're looking for some Schadenfreude out there.
And you may not get it, is my point.
I can think of no more loyal group of people than the professor community.
I mean, who are they?
They are the propagandists.
They are the indoctrinators.
They're the true believers.
Obama could not disappoint them or make them mad, no matter what he did, unless he turned conservative.
But whatever he does as a Marxist socialist, they're going to support no matter how it impacts them.
And they will be under the impression that in the end of the day it won't affect them anyway, that he will find a way to take care of them just as he's found a way to take care of the unions.
Now, Robert, in Vermont, I would love it if your if your dream of this comes true.
But you tell me, you know these professors.
Do you actually see the ones you know abandoning Obama?
Absolutely not.
I was trying to inject too, uh Rush, that the one group we might have some hope for are the young people.
I ask in class if people understand the full consequences of this law for them.
And I get the deer in the headlight.
Look, let me tell you a very quick anecdote.
Our daughter, after she finished grad school, lived with us briefly.
She was working part-time at the college, and we bought her a high deductible policy for $57 a month.
$25,000 deductible, but it gave her a break if she had to go to the doctor, covered her prescriptions after the first $250.
That is all a young healthy woman needs.
Anyway, that policy is now illegal.
And I just had lunch two weeks ago with a former student of mine, right, who works for that same insurance company, and the cheapest policy they're going to offer under 30s, catastrophic care here in Vermont will be $300, actually $350.
That's tough for a young person.
I don't think the young people get it.
I think that they're not going to be able to do that.
Now the young people, that's a different story.
They don't.
They they, young people, the millennials that voted for Obama, they don't yet know that they were the guinea pigs.
You are dead on right about that.
They do not know that they are the Marx.
What do you mean by that, Mr. Limbo?
This is the voice of Mr. Newcastle.
Well, the millennials are the ones who are supposed to pay the freight for everybody, Mr. New Castrati.
See, the regime figures that young millennials that are working, making a lot of money, you know, supporting Obama, they'll go in and pay these new rates.
And that'll that'll end up, since they don't make any claims because they're healthy, they're not going to be using health care, but they're going to be buying a lot of it, and that'll pay for the elderly and the sick.
Problem is they don't have any money because they can't find work.
Second problem is most of them remain on mommy and daddy's policy till age 26.
So they're not even going to be in the market themselves until they hit age 27 and are kicked out or otherwise leave the house.
So the primary funding mechanism breaks down.
The primary funding mechanism for Obamacare does not happen.
Now, when the young people find out, these are the true believers.
These are people who believed Obama and everything he said when they find out that they are the So Keys.
Now that you could get your Schadenfreude there.
But I don't think the professorial community, I say that facetiously.
I don't I just don't see the professor community abandoning Obama in mass in great numbers.
The loyalty to the cause is far greater than you can possibly imagine, folks.
It's their life, it's their religion.
It's not with these people, it's not even a practiced belief of it.
It is their religion.
You know, liberalism, the New Deal is their Bible.
Abortion is their sacrament.
And there's no real life experience.
You're a Christian.
Could anything happen to make you renounce it?
Anything somebody says?
Is there anything uh say an atheist could do to make you renounce your Christianity?
There isn't.
Well, that's the same kind of deal we have with these people in Obama.
It's their religion.
And no matter what happens to their health care, they're gonna stay loyal to the Messiah, which goes back and forth from a tree to Obama.
When Obama's not president, the Messiah for them is a tree or some part of nature.
When Obama's at the top dog, then he's the Messiah.
And it's blind faith.
It's total blind faith.
Just like whatever you and your religion is, you get because faith is all you've got.
Nobody can prove their religion.
Faith is it.
That's what's so important about faith.
And these people, that's why they rip into Christianity so much, why they hate it.
It's a threat.
It's a threat to their own religion.
It's a threat to their own religious beliefs.
That's why they target the Catholics so much.
Hell, look at this.
Georgetown University.
Complimentary condom delivery service at Georgetown reportedly plagued with vandalism problems.
Students say that envelopes of condoms they placed on their doors have repeatedly been torn down.
A student threatened to donate the planned parenthood for each act of vandalism.
And this is from the campus reform website.
Members of a liberal student group at Georgetown University, which is a Catholic school, say that unknown vandals have repeatedly ripped down envelopes full of condoms that they place on their doors as part of a campus-wide condom delivery service.
The student group describes itself as a pro-choice, pro-reproductive justice group, began offering the condom service at Georgetown this fall.
Georgetown's administration said that it would not interfere with this, despite their Catholic affiliation.
Because dorm rooms are free speech zones.
Well, hell's bells, folks, if the Catholic, if a Catholic institution is not even going to stand up for itself, in this case, Georgetown, you'd never see the libs caving like this.
Their religion is never going to cave like this.
So they honest to God, folks, they have a condom delivery service at Georgetown.
Can these people not see how that objectifies women on that campus?
What the hell is the purpose of a condom?
And they're doing this under the guise of reproductive justice.
How hard is it to have a condom on hand?
Uh how hard is it to have a condom handy at all times?
Why in the world do you need a condom delivery service unless you are a skin flint who thinks that somebody else, everybody else ought to be buying your condoms and your birth control pills, and we happen to know that there are plenty of them.
And at Georgetown.
Dormitory doors are free speech zones, dormitory doors, and so the administration can't step in and stop the complimentary condom delivery service at Georgetown University.
So it's I just don't uh don't see the professor community betraying falling out with Obama.
Now, folks, there's a story, Lisa Myers here at NBC News.
Large employers cite Obamacare Cadillac tax in reducing benefits.
And this will largely involve, in this case, the university professor.
I have the details.
I got to take a break here.
I mean, I'm losing control of the programming format.
Don't go away.
No, no, let me close the loop on something.
That professor at the uh Massachusetts University of Art or whatever it's called.
His name is Ignaev.
He is a white abolitionist.
He he has uh what is this guy done?
This guy is uh, he calls himself a white abolitionist.
And he's a communist, he's a professed communist, and he does say that he wants to abolish the white race.
He has a website called Race Traitor.
The thing that he hasn't done is ask students to commit suicide.
That that was the parody.
But all the rest of it is true.
He believes the white race is the problem in the world.
And and this is a wacko used to teach at Harvard.
I mean, this stuff is out there.
You know, and I'm just gonna tell you, folks, for all these 25 years, and I'd run across stories like this, like the the bullying letter sent to parents.
You better have your kid on this field trip, or we're gonna put a note that he's a racist and it's gonna stay in his college and high school transcripts for the rest of his life, and blah blah blah.
I'd report that stuff incrementally over all these, I'd laugh about it.
And I'd think who's gonna fall for this.
The fact of the matter is it's common, it's been taught every day, and in the process, we have lost control of education.
These this is it's this stuff that we think is is random and extreme and occasional is common.
Kids are subjected to this stuff and have been every day in schools all over this country.
And I hate to say it looking back on it, but I try to go through life laughing at things.
It was a mistake to only laugh about it and think that it was isolated.
It's common.
It's everywhere.
These people have simply taken over, and it's something that we're gonna have to reclaim.
The entire education system, we're going to have to reclaim it somehow, some way.
It's going to take a pretty massive effort.
Now, NBC News, Lisa Myers, Aaron Baker, 36.
His wife Billy, their two young kids, are covered under a generous health plan offered by the private Midwestern University where he's worked for 10 years.
When they opened their benefits notice this year, they were pleased to see their $385 premium is up by only $4 next year.
However, they were shocked to discover that instead of covering the first dollar they spend with no deductible, the Baker's plan now includes a $1,000 deductible and a $2,500 out-of-pocket maximum.
They also will still have small copies for services.
And according to the enrollment notice, the changes are, quote, to relieve future health plan trend pressure, and to put the university in a position to avoid the excise tax that becomes effective in 2018.
Now, meanwhile, Obama and the media have been telling us that employers cannot be moving employees to part-time jobs yet because the employer mandates been delayed till 2015.
But this 40% excise tax, this is the Cadillac tax, is part of Obamacare and is levied on the most generous health plans.
So this guy has been shocked to him.
Even though his premium only went up four bucks, everything else is priced out of control.
And employers are cutting benefits left and right.
60% of employers are going to see, or employees are going to see benefit changes or outright cancellations.
This, and it is yet to hit yet in this market.
All that's happened so far is the individual market.
Okay, folks, a brief timeout here at the top of the hour.
It's an obscene profit break.
We'll be back and continue right after this.
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