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Dec. 9, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 9, 2013, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Man, what a weekend in the NFL, ladies and gentlemen.
What an amazing series of games yesterday.
In the in the Minnesota Baltimore game, there were five touchdowns scored in the last two minutes.
Everybody thought the game was over four different times in the last two minutes.
But they've got a real problem with the officiating.
That's I mean, every game, every year, you can say they've got some real problems with the officiating bill in the NFL.
Anyway, folks, great to have you here.
Hope your weekend was good.
Uh L Rushbow here at 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, the email address, L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
I was just telling Mr. Snerdley I awoke today to a crisis.
You know, I I cannot sleep with my with my cochlear implant on because it won't stay on.
So I sleep entirely deaf with a series of alarms and uh lights and so forth.
Should something necessitate.
Well, that's where I'm good.
The cat supposedly helps out.
The cat just wants to be fed.
That's fine.
That's cool.
Little still little kitten.
Uh what about four months now, five months.
Anyway, the routine is all I have to do is sit up, and the cat is right there.
No matter what, a cat is right there and demands to be fed and wants a little affection.
I sat up, no cat.
No kitten.
Uh-oh, something weird.
Now cat had tried to wake me up at 5 a.m.
This is about, I guess 7, 7:30.
So I'm looking around.
This is not there's no place to go.
And there's no place to hide.
All the tunnels have been blocked off.
All of the things that would allow her to get into crawl spray spaces and vents, they've all been blocked off.
There's no way she gets.
I thought, okay, did I sleepwalk?
And did I did I open a cabinet that she then went in and I closed in the bathroom?
I started opening every cabinet door.
I went, I looked under the bed.
Um, I I looked uh I looked under the uh the sofa.
I did looked everywhere I could think of.
I went into my closet.
She's got a little place in a nook window there that she likes to sit behind one of the curtains.
I looked there, nothing.
No cat anywhere.
I went opened a can of food, walked around the room.
Here, here Allie, come in.
Nothing, no cat.
So, well, maybe, maybe while I was asleep, somebody came in and got the cat, took it down to see the dogs.
Dog's coming home this morning from being away at the first seasons.
So I said, okay, there's got to be some explanation for this.
Cat can't be no place for it to go.
So I jumped in the shower and I started getting ready.
And normally the shower, like this cat gets in the shower with me.
Will walk in the shower door, will not get wet.
It's a big shower.
And she climbs up on the bench.
It's in there.
It's a steam, too.
See, there's a place to sit.
Anyway, none of that.
Oh, yeah, she gets her problems.
Yeah, and the shower still drips, and she, you know, mesmerized by that, looks up at like a turkey does when it rains.
And the water hits her on the head, and she shakes her and look trying to figure it all.
It's funny.
I mean, these are just lovable funny things.
Anyway, nothing that attracts the cat attracted the cat.
But I'm still not panicking.
There's no place for the thing to be.
Somebody had to come in there and get it while I was asleep.
Catherine had to come in and say hello to it or whatever.
So the last thing I did, I uh as always, I put my implant on as the getting ready to walk out the door.
Unhook the phone from the charger and the iPad mini with retina display from the charger and the iPad air from the charger and the second iPhone from the everything ready to go out the door.
And then I hear her meowing.
I said, uh-oh.
Because it sounded like a panic meow.
And I realize she'd been meowing the whole time, but I haven't able to hear it because I haven't had my implant in.
So I start searching anew.
And I look around and I can't find the cat anywhere.
I look under the bed again.
I start retracing steps.
I open every cabinet I previously opened.
You've been through this, you know how this works.
Every place that you look, you look again.
Can hear the cat, the cat somewhere.
There's nowhere to hide.
So finally I walked, I walked to the to the to the doors that lead out to the to the patio just to get a wide angle view of the room and lo and behold, it's on top of the canopy on top of the bed.
Now, before you people start ripping into me for being out of touch and having a bed canopy, the bed canopy is there to stop the air conditioning from giving us a cold every night.
It deflects the air from the that's don't have a canopy there because we think it's it's it's a functional thing.
Anyway, the cat's up on top of it and afraid to jump down.
So I'm saying, come on, Allie, come here.
Looking at me and crying, and come on, just jump.
I don't want to have to go get a just jump.
Not that far to the bed, just nope, just kept paralleling around.
And I didn't even stop to think, how did she get up there?
Had to climb the walls.
Had to climb the walls to get up there.
So anyway, I had to go get a ladder.
Get the cat down.
And there was no appreciation.
Just ran straight to the food bowl and sat there and kept meowing.
Okay, where's where's breakfast?
I just love these things, though.
I just an adventure.
You just cat's got more personality than any cat I've ever had.
And I've only had three, but it's not a big universe to choose from.
So anyway, that's that.
It's always a great sense of relief when you because it was inexplicable.
It was just and and I can't tell direction of sound.
I have no spatial recognition.
So I could hear the meow, but I can didn't sound like it was above or below.
I just it's somewhere.
And up there on the canopy, looking at me like I'm an idiot.
And probably uh probably was.
At any rate, and then those NFL games yesterday.
I have to I have to tell you the the I'm a you you people in Cleveland, you got robbed.
That pass interference, that phantom pass interference call.
It you know, these things happen, but that one determined the outcome of the game.
That one guaranteed the Browns lose the game.
That's that's why, and and the call in Cincinnati on uh I don't want to go into them, but they've got a problem, I think, at the NFL.
This is because too many of these calls are in games that are really important this time of year, and they're affecting the outcome.
And it's uh it's not a good thing.
And they're calling penalties on guys for helmet hits that are not helmet hits, and they're calling phantom defensive holding on guys that are not defensive.
It's just it's uh troubling thing.
But that game with with the uh the Ravens and the Vikings, those touchdowns in the last two minutes.
The average fan is going to look at that game.
Well, why don't they do that the whole game?
If you can score five touchdowns, two teams, five touchdowns in two minutes, why can't you do it the whole game?
And it's a legitimate question.
There are answers to the question that are also legitimate.
Do you know, folks?
Do you know that you can keep your doctor after all if you're willing to pay more?
That's from Zeke Emanuel, brother of Ram Emanuel, who's one of the architects of Obamacare.
And you can, you you if you're willing to pay more, you can keep your doctor.
And nobody ever said anything else.
Obama didn't lie to you.
He said it's just a matter of choice.
No, no, it's not.
We're losing choice.
I was thinking about something.
This this um for those of you that were not alive in the 1950s, and you hear a lot about it and how uh the old floody dutties want to go back to it because things were simpler and more moral and all that.
But let me tell you something else about the 1950s.
There wasn't choice in anything.
You didn't have but three television choices.
You didn't the technology and uh invention and so forth, there there wasn't there wasn't hardly any choice compared to today.
And Obama is actually taking us back to the 50s in regards to his health care because he's limiting choice by design.
Here, Juan Williams on Fox.
Well, you know, the rich are different.
He said, Those of us on this panel, we're not gonna be affected by anything in health care.
It's any big deal.
Now you let you let anybody other than a minority Democrat or liberal say something as callous and insensitive as hey, you know, we're rich here.
This is gonna affect us.
That person is in deep doo doo and in big trouble.
Oh, would you like a little trivia?
Nelson Mandela, yes, he was in prison 27 years.
Do you know he was offered countless opportunities for release?
Only had to do one thing.
He had to renounce terrorism.
That's all.
Over the 27 years, if he would have renounced terrorism, they would have let him out of prison.
He didn't do it.
He would not renounce terrorism.
I'm not trying to step on anything today.
I'm just passing on truthful information.
The Reverend Jackson says that apartheid still exists in the United States.
He does.
I got it right here.
The Reverend Jackson says apartheid's still happening in the United States.
Maybe not skin-related apartheid, but certainly other aspects of apartheid still exist.
And I kid you not, daily caller.
Liberals want to stop men from checking out women.
Liberals want to make it a crime for men to ogle or otherwise look at or otherwise admire or otherwise dream about or otherwise fantasize about or otherwise look at and laugh, whatever women.
In the progressive future, men will not be able to look at women's bodies because that's a terrible thing to do, and science says so.
Researchers have offered a definitive report into the science of the male, and this is in quotes objectifying gaze.
It's in the December 2013.
G-A-Z-E.
Don't, you know, can you mention low information?
What is objectifying gaze have to do with women?
It's G-A-Z-E.
Means to look upon for those of you in real Linda gaze.
You know, like you look at modern cars driving by your house.
You're gazing at them as that happens.
And it is said that men looking at women automatically objectifies them.
Means puts them down, means sees them as less than human beings.
That men ogling women means that they are not seeing their brains.
You remember when we used to laugh?
We used to laugh and make jokes about the thought police, and here they are.
And these you're laughing in there.
And I know it sounds funny, but these people are serious.
Researchers have offered a definitive report into the science of the male objectifying gaze.
It's in the December 2013 volume of Sex Rolls, the Journal of Research, volume 69, kid you not.
Volume 69, issue 11-12, pages 557 to 57.
Although objectification theory suggests that women frequently experience the objectifying gaze with many adverse consequences.
There is scant research examining the nature and causes of the objectifying gaze for the perceivers.
The main purpose of this work, the research, was to examine the objectifying gaze toward women via eye-tracking technology, according to the abstract of My Eyes Are Up Here, The Nature of the Objectifying Gaze Toward Women.
And it's written by Sarah Gervais.
Arianne Holland, and they found a token guy Michael Dodd.
Consistent with our main hypothesis, we found that participants focused on women's chests and waists.
More than anything else, faces they focused on less when they were appearance focused, which is opposed to personality focused.
Some men in their objectifying gaze look at women's personality, but not enough do.
Moreover, we found that this effect was particularly pronounced for women with high ideal body shapes in line with the hypothetical.
So these people, these idiots, have discovered that attractive women get looked at more often than unattractive women, which takes us right to undeniable truth of life number 24.
But I'm folks, look at you can sit here and laugh at this, and you can think it's a joke, just like you didn't believe me when I told you they're gonna be targeting your SUVs back in 1995.
And just like you never thought 90% of what's happening today would ever really happen.
This is real.
And while this is ludicrous and it is in direct violation of God created nature, these are liberals, it's who they are, it's what they are, and they're dead serious.
And they are the thought police.
This is no different than political correctness of thought, and what they want to try to do is establish a taboo.
Men looking at women is insulting.
Men looking at women is part of the war on women.
Men gazing at women, objectifying women, puts women down.
It facilitates the notion that women are not seen as full-fledged citizens and human beings and what have you, that they're nothing more than sex objects.
And this is just another way these people are trying to get to it.
And they would, I mean, these do not.
I mean, look, it is ridiculous and it's laughable, it's hilarious, it's hysterical.
But the thing is, these people are dead serious.
And they are not going to be laughed at by the left.
They're not going to be laughed at and made fun of by the media.
They're not, it's going to be seriously accepted and studied, and there will be people who digest it and think maybe they're on to something.
This is the it's a kind of study that leftists will hold up when they talk about the rape culture.
Men are natural predators.
This is part of that.
Sex is a weapon.
Sex and objectifying women is how men dominate and overpower women.
And of course, the unattractive women are left out of all of this.
It's discrimination to boot.
Because men do not spend nearly as much time looking and ogling at unattractive women.
They're wrong about that, by the way.
Just different thoughts take place, but the gays still happen, you can't help it.
Very Christmas, everybody.
By the way, the Pope!
Christmas made me think of the Pope.
The Pope.
Where is it?
The Pope is uh apparently going to revise, not with a new official papal document, but he's going to revise something of what he's said, of what he said.
I think on the uh capitalism and the economy business.
Now, folks, on this, I'm I know a lot of you.
You hear this thing, a bunch of leftists want to try to stop men from looking at women, and you think they can't do that.
That's not the point.
Whether they can or can't, it will gain momentum.
And it may not be for years, but this is who they are.
This is how inane and inviolate they are of basic human nature.
It's one of the biggest ways to understand liberal.
They just despise human nature and try to alter it and change it and create it, because many of them just don't fit in with it in many ways.
But there's a way around this, guys.
You gotta have fun with this kind of stuff, as you know.
So let me offer uh the first suggestion, the first way to deal with this that came into my mind.
You find yourself staring, looking at, casually glancing at a woman.
But you know that it's now socially taboo.
You shouldn't be doing it.
And you think everybody is noticing you doing it and condemning you in their minds.
You shouldn't be doing it.
You walk up to the woman and say, would you please ask your breasts to stop staring at my eyes?
Try that.
Might help.
Don't know till you try it.
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Rush Limbaugh, this, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
A thrill and a delight to have you here.
I'm just looking at my health care stack here.
You know, I have literally, uh, folks, I have enough here.
I have enough in this healthcare stack, do the whole show on it.
I it for from doctors pulling out to Zeke Emanuel, saying, What are you talking about?
Can't keep your doctor.
Of course you can if you're willing to pay more.
The New York Times.
The New York Times, which is as responsible as anybody else for helping this thing become law by passing along the fraudulent aspects of it.
The New York Times, as responsible as anybody for helping prep perpetuate a fraud here on everybody, is now all of it.
Guess what they've discovered?
That the deductibles from most people are going to triple.
They just discovered it.
Now, we've been talking about that for months.
Premiums doubling, deductibles tripling out of pocket all over the place.
Let's listen to Zeke.
Zeke Emanuel is the brother of Rom Emanuel, also the brother of Ari Emanuel.
Ari is a probably top five Hollywood agent in terms of power and influence, and he may be the number one guy.
Used to be a guy named Michael Ovitz, but now it's uh it's it's Ari Emanuel.
I met Ari Emanuel once.
Was it the um it was at the ATT celebrity pro am at Pebble Beach.
And the late Teddy Forstman is always a player, and the late Teddy Forceman always on Tuesday night of that week, maybe Wednesday, I forget which, one of the two nights, had a private dinner in one of the rooms at the lodge.
And as a powerful and influential member of the media, I was routinely invited.
And I actually went two or three times.
And it was fun.
And one year, it was kind of like what 60 Minutes did when they seated me next to Camille Paglia at the 25th or 50th or 100th anniversary of 60 minutes.
Steve Croft, who did the profile on me, arranged for me to sit at the table with Camille Paglia, a noted lesbian critic, and they thought that fireworks would erupt.
And I wondered why during the night Croft and Ed Bradley and these guys kept walking by our table with bemused glances on it.
It didn't figure it out right away.
Anyway, Camille Potti and I did not erupt.
We hit it off, actually, had a great time together, which disappointed them.
Well, Teddy in the same vein, sat me next to Ari Emanuel at one of these dinners.
And Ari is a classic.
Never, never is quiet, is constantly talking, is telling everybody, hey, you're the best.
Hey, what's going on?
Invited me to his house to watch the Oscars, which would take place in three weeks or four weeks from whenever this dinner was.
And he was serious.
There was nothing political about him.
I know he is, but it never there was, but again, everybody was expecting fireworks and probably fisticuffs to break out.
And of course, that never happens.
Anyway, the Emmanuel brothers, they're top dog powerful in any number of ways.
Rom, of course, chief of staff to Clinton, chief of staff to Obama, now governor of Illinois.
Zeke Emanuel, their brother.
Mayor, mayor.
Well, you know, I misspoke.
Mayor Chicago, but for all intents and purposes, that is governor of Illinois as well.
That's why I misspoke.
It's a faux pas.
It's the same thing, practically.
And then Zeke is one of the architects of Obamacare, and there's Ari out there running Hollywood.
And they are all top-ranked leftists.
And Zeke Emanuel was on Fox News Sunday yesterday.
And Chris Wallace, yeah, I got the soundbite.
Let me see if this is it.
Grab soundbite number three.
Chris Wallace said, President Obama famously promised, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.
Doesn't that turn out to be just as false, just as misleading as his promise about if you like your plan, you can keep your plan.
Isn't it a fact, sir, that a number, most in fact, of the Obamacare health plans that are being offered in the exchanges exclude a number of doctors and hospitals to lower costs?
The president never said you were going to have unlimited choice of any doctor in the country you want to go to.
Let me just face no.
He asked a question.
If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.
Did he not say that, sir?
He didn't say you can have unlimited choice.
It's a simple yes or no question.
Did he say if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor?
Yes, but look, if you want to pay more for an insurance company that covers your doctor, you can do that.
This is a matter of choice.
It's interesting to note that if that had been what Obama said, instead of that blanket promise for three straight years.
Oh, if you like your doctor, sure if you're willing to pay more for it.
Oh, if you like your plan, sure you can keep it if you're willing to pay more for it.
But that's not what Obama said.
Obama lied.
He told everybody if they like their doctor and their plan, they can keep it, period.
There wouldn't be any change.
And he went out and apologized.
But he did not apologize for lying.
He apologized that you might not have understood him.
He apologized for how you felt.
By the way, do you know Saturday was Pearl Harbor Day?
And Obama posted a picture of him standing outside the, I think the Arizona Memorial.
Another selfie.
Picture of Obama in Nelson Mandela's jail cell.
Picture of Obama on the Rosa Parks bus in the very seat that she refused to move from.
So imagine, folks, how many, how many points would Romney have won by if Obama had said, wait a minute, you like your doctor?
You want to pay more?
You can keep your doctor.
If you like your insurance plan, it covers your doctor.
And if you want to pay more, you can do it.
It's a matter of choice.
That's not what Obama said, and it's not even close.
And this is, again, folks, this is just who they are.
I mean, I I could sit here and express mock outrage over the continued lying and the fraud and the deceit, but the most important thing is for people to learn this is who these people are.
There was everybody knew that Obama was lying.
And they didn't care.
In fact, in the healthcare stack, which again is large enough to fill this entire show, is two or three stories about how they just need to change the messaging.
You know, just if we could just come up with a new PR campaign, we could fix it.
It's just a problem of messaging.
That's all it is.
It's not really a problem with Obamacare.
People really like that.
We just didn't get the right message for it yet.
And there's another story quoting representatives of crisis management PR firms on how the regime can fix this.
And in all of this, in Zeke Emanuel's comments in these stories about crisis management PR, uh, even in all the stories about the unemployment news, there's something that really is major that's missing.
And that is real people are really harmed by what has been done.
It's not a flawed PR message.
It is a disastrous policy.
It is a really harmful policy.
It is a really destructive And damaging to real people.
People who are basically powerless.
These are the people that I routinely and with great respect refer to as the people who make the country work.
They don't know anybody in Washington to lobby to get things done in their favor.
They have faith that the system in which they're participating is valid and honest for the most part and bereft of fraud and corruption and all that.
And they're learning that it isn't, and they're powerless to do anything about it.
And in the midst of real pain that has been caused by a series of lies, to hear one of the primary architects, oh we never did misrepresent anything.
We always said, if you're willing to pay for it, and they never did say that.
Obama lied over and over and told everybody for years that they could keep their doctor and keep their plan and that their premiums were going to come down by an average of $2,500.
It was an all-encompassing lie.
The thing that's missed by the people in Washington as they talk about this is that this is not some abstract theory that's part of a Harvard Kennedy School of Government course that you sit around and talk about and theorize and work up term papers and doctoral theses on.
This is real life.
And real people are being dramatically harmed by this.
And the regime has decided that the best way to approach this now is to tell everybody look, the economy's fixed, it's roaring back.
If you're not participating, it's your problem because it's back.
And the way they're dealing with health care, well, if you wanted to keep your plan, you could.
You just had to pay a little bit more for it, but everything's fine.
Everywhere rolling right along.
They're just declaring everything's fixed, the website's fixed, everything's working.
If it's not going right for you, it's your problem or the Republicans.
And that's how they're dealing with it.
I gotta take a break here, but there's a fascinating couple of stories on wealth.
Do you know, folks, one of the things, talking about wealth and poverty, the poor, the rich.
When I endeavor to explain American exceptionalism, and by the way, if I may be uh a little Obama-like here, in the foreword that I wrote for Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.
Remember that book written for children 10 to 13, primarily, but for everybody.
I wrote my definition of American exceptionalism in a way that young people could understand it.
I at least I tried to.
My uncle read that portion of our Thanksgiving dinner, as part of grace, by the way, brought me to near tears.
But in that, that'd be a good place to go if you have the book to find out what I mean by it.
But over the course of years, when I've attempted to explain it, one of the things I've said that what has been normal for most people since the beginning of time has been tyranny and dictatorship, and no freedom, certainly not political, not economic.
People have had the vast majority of people that have lived, who've lived, the vast majority of people who've walked the earth, have been under the dictatorial control of some despotic type government or regime.
U.S., the United States of America is the exception to that.
Well, I think that might be a productive informative way to describe wealth and poverty.
The natural existence, a natural state.
For the vast majority of people who've lived in the world as poverty.
Most people in the world were born to it, and most of them never escaped it.
Poverty is, and this is just historical fact.
I'm not, I'm not an opinion, I'm not making a political statement.
I'm talking about the poverty is just as common as was living in tyranny.
And again, the United States was the exception to that.
And poverty is discussed frequently in the context it's horrible, and we must do something about it, such as Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty and all that.
And yet we want to get everybody out of it.
We state.
Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty.
What's the opposite?
Wealth.
And what is often criticized by the left?
Wealth.
Wealth is one of the most misunderstood, mischaracterized states of being for a human being, because it's been bastardized by politics.
We want everybody to get out of poverty.
But then the escape from poverty is ripped to shreds by leftists and democrats.
Wealth is a dirty word.
Wealthy is an even dirtier word.
Poverty is what's common.
The wealth, the standard of living produced by the economy of this country, again is the exception.
And there's some stories on this today.
I'm going to tie what I just said into.
So lots on tap, as you can tell.
Don't go away.
Want to get some phone calls in here, folks?
People want to weigh in on the liberal attempt to get men to stop looking at women.
Because it's a put-down.
It's objectifying women.
And we start in Spokane, Washington with Steve.
Hello, sir.
Great to have you.
Hi, Rush.
Uh 48th Assault Helicopter Blue Star Diddos to you.
Well, I think what we need is a government program, and we'll have a government body look at the body, so to speak.
And anybody, any women deemed uh good looking enough should be made to wear burkers.
And uh for those who can't afford them, we'll have a government program to supply them, and we could call it burkas for lookers.
Okay, my only question.
Yes.
Well, I actually have more than one, but who would you appoint to determine which women are deemed good looking enough to be required to wear the burqa?
Well the nags.
I don't know the You can't the nags?
Yes, you he means the National Association of Gals, which is a you can't put them in charge of it.
They're the ones that are upset by it.
They would be the ones who would judge who has to wear a burqa or not.
It would be perfect.
It would stop those evil men from looking at them.
Yeah, but but you've got to have somebody determine because see, attractiveness differs from person to person.
You can I mean, you know that.
I don't make me explain this.
It's all relative.
It really is.
It's relative to what your self-confidence is, what your expectations are, what your ability to perceive reality about yourself are.
Uh you've been many places where you have seen both ways.
You've seen a looker, a woman you'd put in a burqa with one of the ugliest, most just vile looking guys, but there they are.
And by the same token, you you've seen guys with women that you just can't figure what in the world is this guy thinking.
It and somebody finds everybody finds somebody attractive.
There are exceptions, of course, we needn't spell them out, but this is the problem, see.
Uh I think only the government could tell us that.
No, no.
You have to you have to make it voluntary.
The women that don't want to be looked at will proclaim themselves lookers.
And we give them a burqa.
You have to make it voluntary.
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