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Dec. 13, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 13, 2013, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Like Silvio Dante once said on an episode of Sopranos, every time I try to get out, they pull me back in.
Every time I try to get out, they suck me right back in.
That's how I feel.
I haven't purposely said anything about this budget deal, and yet I'm being blamed for it now.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's open line Friday!
I stayed out of it.
You know I've stayed out of it.
I've told everybody I don't even care about it.
It's the same old BS.
It's the same old soap opera script.
There's nothing new in it.
I haven't even gotten worked up about it.
Any audio sound bites?
It's me versus Boehner.
Oh, yes.
Greetings, my good friends, and welcome.
I try to step aside and they suck me back in.
I try to leave it alone and they bring it right back to my doorstep.
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Before we get to this budget business, here again, ladies and gentlemen, another glittering example of one of the greatest gaps, the greatest divides that I think exist in the country.
Do you remember?
Let's put it this way.
The Democrat National Committee is fundraising off of a joke that I told earlier this week.
It might have been late last week, but do you remember, ladies and gentlemen, the story when I told you, I'm sure many of you didn't believe it.
You thought, come on, Rush, this is a bunch of French cooks.
This is going to happen.
A bunch of liberals who wanted to outlaw men gazing at women because the gaze was said to objectify women.
And there is a bunch of liberal pansies who had done some market research or some such thing and said that it was sexism and other negative things for men to do what God created us to do, and that's look at women we think are attractive.
Sorry, liberals, it can't be helped among the heterosexual crowd.
It just can't be helped.
It's instinct.
It's in there.
It's programmed.
It's in the DNA so that there will be babies so that the human race will propagate its called life, making sure that it survives.
Now, this is only relevant in the heterosexual.
In the homosexual community, you're looking at same-sex people the same way, but you can't help it either.
It's absolutely absurd.
It was silly.
It's hilarious that there are actually a bunch of liberals who are going to try to outlaw thoughts that are part of our creation To make it an unnatural act for men to gaze at women they find attractive.
They want to criminalize that.
They want to say that's sexism.
It's objectified.
Well, it's patently absurd.
And so, in the course of discussing this and illustrating the absurdity of this by being absurd, I came up with a classic, I think, line.
Because if the left, there are going to be some women who'll go for this.
There are going to be some women, I could compound the controversy right now with my next sentence, but there are going to be some women that are going to sign on for this because they're going to believe that it's sexist.
They'll be liberal women and they're going to think it's, yeah, this is a good thing.
They don't like being stared at by men.
It makes them nervous.
So let's make it a crime or make it some kind of a taboo or something.
But those women be a minority.
Trust me.
Trust me.
The fact is, most men would love to be stared at by women.
Just don't doubt me on this.
And my guess is that most women actually are intrigued by it and have developed techniques and skills for dealing with it.
They're born with those too.
Don't doubt me.
This all works out.
Now, the line that I uttered, I advised you men that if you were objectifyingly gazing at a woman you found attractive and she didn't like it, and somehow let you know, that what you should do is say, I'm sorry, would you please ask your breasts to stop staring at my eyes?
That's a great line.
I mean, it's a joke to boot, but it is an illustration of the absurdity of what the libs are trying to pull off here, the thought police.
Does that, did that offend you?
Let me ask you, did that, did that?
Okay, then did it have to be altered?
Then, ma'am, would you please ask your butt to stop staring at my eyes?
Whatever it is, breasts just looking at the full frontal here.
I wasn't so anyway.
The DNC is now fundraising off of this, claiming that this is a new chapter in the war on women.
Yep, this evidence, evidence of the war on women conducted by the Republicans, they cite me and the Daily Caller in doing a story on this also had some humorous line that the DNC is trying to fundraise off of.
Yeah.
And the Politico is running the story as though it's deadly serious.
And the DNC is demanding that the Republicans boycott me by not sending guests to this program.
Now, that's going to be a big boycott because it's already in place and it's one that I have established.
I don't, I'm the one that doesn't do guests.
Here's the, well, no, here's the thing.
They are going to get money off of this.
Do you understand?
This is the whole point of this story.
There are people on the left, these wacko nutcase oddballs, they're going to, this is all over the leftist blogosphere as genuine sexism.
I've done it again.
They think they can get me now.
This is it.
I have stepped at it again, and they can finally get me.
They are dead.
They think this is one of the most offensive things that's ever been said in public, and they want advertisers to know it, and they want everybody to know it, and they want everybody at an RNC to boycott me, and they think this is absolutely horrible.
And of course, they are not explaining the context.
They are just telling people that I out of nowhere came up with a line that is not related to one of their cockamamy thought control ideas.
That's impossible anyway.
Nobody's going to ever be able to get men to stop staring at women they think they're attractive or even looking at them to hell with staring.
It's never going to happen.
You can't do it.
It's not possible.
But the left has little wacko people that want to actually make this a penalty.
They want to penalize this or criminalize it to one extent or another.
Here is the, no, Snurdly, it's the mainstream of the American left that is offended by this.
This is my point.
People have got to understand who these people really are.
Here's the political story by the well-known journalist Dylan Byers seeking to reignite the war on women narrative.
Democrat National Committee sent an email to supporters asking them to push Republicans to stop talking to Rush Limbaugh on the Daily Caller because of recent remarks the conservatives made about sexual harassment.
This is the point.
They want to try to make men noticing women that are attracted to them sexual harassment.
This is the chickification of the culture.
Actually, this isn't the chickification.
This is what the feminazis, remember undeniable truth of life number 24.
That's what this is all about.
This is the unattractive women who are never stared at, ticked off.
Well, take it back.
They probably are stared at, but yeah, yeah, not lustily, longingly or any of that.
Anyway, seeking to reignite the war on women narrative, Democrat National Committee sent an email to supporters asking them to push Republicans to stop talking to Rush Limbaugh, the Daily Caller, because of recent remarks the conservatives made about sexual harassment.
Lily Adams, the DNC's deputy communications director, wrote, There's a line, there's a line between casual but unacceptable sexism and justifying sexual harassment.
When someone as prominent as Rush Limbaugh crosses that line, everyone, Democrats and Republicans alike, need to stop the precedent from becoming a habit.
Statements in question, Limbaugh's remark that men shouldn't be criticized for staring at women's breasts, but should instead tell women, will you please ask your breasts to stop staring at my eyes?
I read my own line and I'm laughing myself silly at.
Now, they leave the context out.
They forget to tell people that what my line is in reaction to is a bunch of Stalinism thought control penalties that they are behind.
Let's see.
Can you imagine if they're going to do that to me?
What do they have in store for Bill Clinton?
I mean, there's real sexual harassment there.
I mean, it's absurd.
Now, with Clinton, of course, they applauded it.
They looked it the other way and they didn't mind it, Carville and everybody else out there calling women that Clinton lusted after trailer park trash.
That's what you get, you know, you drag your dollar bill to a trade-off.
That's what Carville said about Clinton's babes.
The daily caller line that offended the Democrat National Committee.
Ladies, how are you going to feel when the progressives prohibit men from paying you a compliment on your walk home from the bar?
You know, there's always one friend of yours who waited all night for that.
So that ticked off.
That's the daily caller line that the DNC's mad at and trying to fundraise off of.
In the email, Lily Adams.
Now, by the way, I want to point out this is something, again, over the last 25 years, this stuff would happen.
I would laugh myself silly, and I would think nobody is going to take this seriously.
And I'm wrong.
Half of the Democrat Party is going to take this seriously, and half of them are going to be outraged.
And it's going to be a discussion item on cable TV before this is all said and done.
And they're going to play it up.
War on women is back.
They're going to put me out there.
They're going to try to fundraise off of this and who knows whatever else.
Imagine people like that, but they are there.
And they have nothing but sympathy in the drive-by media.
I mean, if the drive-by media can name the Pope the man of the year, despite disagreeing with 99% of what he believes in, you think he'll have any problems siding with the Democrat National Committee on this against me and the Daily Caller.
In the email, Lily Adams, the DNC Deputy Comm director, asks supporters to call on the RNC to encourage their fellow Republican leaders to stop making time for interviews with outlets like these, meaning me and the Daily Caller.
The Daily Caller, similarly accused, also has a story.
And then they're making the point they refuse to be intimidated by any of this.
And of course, this is all supposedly in the name of tolerance and diversity.
And I'll tell you, these people have no sense of humor.
They have none, folks.
They cannot laugh.
And particularly at themselves.
Okay, so there's that.
I just wanted to alert you to it.
And I wanted to use the line again, which is the primary reason I did the story.
I think it's a great line.
And up next, up next, the budget, Moehner and me, Republicans and me.
Oh, woe is them.
So-and-so.
They're just dragging me in.
You people know listening to this program.
I stayed out of this.
I didn't get into it.
I didn't do the usual analysis of this thing because, frankly, it bored me from the get.
It's the same old, same old.
I got to take a break now.
We'll come back and we'll start with the audio sound bites on all of that.
Did you know that Paul Ryan interned for John Boehner?
I read that today, and there's a, I don't know, Washington Examiner, some story.
I didn't know that Ryan interned for Boehner way back when.
Not that it matters to anything.
I just, I didn't know it.
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Yeah.
And, ladies and gentlemen, the real war on women is being conducted by Barack Obama.
It's called Obamacare.
We've had women call the program.
We have shared with you sad stories.
Women being thrown off of their insurance policies, thrown, doctors are quitting.
The war on women, the war on American citizens, is being conducted by Barack Obama.
The Democrat Party is conducting war on this country, man, woman, and child.
How many women being denied health care by Obama and his regime?
It's a lot.
By the way, there is a Facebook page that we set up not long ago, Rush Babes for America.
Do you remember that?
In the midst of one of these previous efforts by the DNC to get this silly war on women meme up and running, we set up a Facebook page, Rush Babes for America.
Currently, 73,357 likes.
You should go there.
Rush Babes for America.
Pope Francis, Time Magazine, man of the year, Il Papa.
A couple days ago, Vatican City, the Pope held his weekly general audience.
And during the audience, he issued a statement in honor of yesterday.
Yesterday was the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Dawn, you're Catholic.
You know what the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe is?
Well, the Lady of Guadalupe is venerated as the patroness of the continent of America.
And the Pope delivered a message to the Americas during his general audience on Wednesday.
And this is it: Mary's embrace showed what America, North and South, is called to be: a land where different peoples come together, a land prepared to accept human life at every stage, from the mother's womb to old age.
Oh, geez, did you hear that?
Do you think they want to maybe reconsider this at Time magazine?
The Pope just came out for life in the womb.
Oh, you don't say that to liberal Democrats.
That's like showing Dracula the cross and the elderly to boot.
Old age, both groups expendable, particularly with Obamacare.
As they continue to wage war on the American people.
Hi, how are you?
You know something else Obamacare does?
And we've covered this: Obamacare is promoting divorce.
Obamacare is making people divorce so they can afford it.
And divorce hurts women and the children.
And that is Obamacare and their war on women and all of us.
Okay, here we go to this budget business.
Like Silvio Dante said on an episode of Sopranos, every time I try to get out, they suck me back in.
Every time I try to leave, they pull me back in.
By the way, what was Pelosi talking about when she did she say that supported the big suck?
What is she talking about with the budget business?
Pelosi actually embraced the suck.
What is she talking about?
Anyway, let's start the ABC network this morning on ABC.
This is a correspondent Tomon Bradley reporting on Boehner's criticism of conservative groups for their criticism of the budget.
Republican leadership angered the Tea Party Republicans and the far right who want to cut spending and address the country's soaring debt.
It just seems like the Republican Party is absorbed, is consumed with eliminating any conservative influence inside the party whatsoever.
House Speaker John Boehner took on the Tea Party and outside groups who've undermined his leadership the past couple of years.
There just comes to a point when some people step over the line.
You know, when you criticize something and you have no idea what you're criticizing, it undermines your credibility.
This was the first big battle between the Republican leadership and the Tea Party since the government shutdown.
For many veteran GOP lawmakers, that 16-day ordeal was a turning point.
Make no mistake about it.
They're scared to death of it.
That's exactly right.
But, you know, Boehner keeps talking about people that you criticize something, you have no idea what you're criticizing.
We all knew what was in it.
Everybody knew what was in the budget deal.
They're the ones that told us.
Every day there's a new little bit of information disseminated in it.
It wasn't any big mystery what was in this thing.
And it turns out that what was being criticized by others was accurate.
I don't know what Boehner's talking about on that score.
But this quote of mine, that audio soundbite they got, I mean, it just seems the Republican Party is absorbed.
They could have pulled that from a year ago.
I studiously, I stayed away from this.
I told you all why.
Because I'm not going to get sucked in.
Speaking of embracing the suck, I'm not going to get sucked in by this soap opera business going on every day.
This was a fate accompli, what was going to happen here.
Let's face it.
We talked about this at great length yesterday in a unique way, I think, about Washington, how it's constituted, why it's constituted, the wealth that's being amassed there.
There's nobody there that wants to shrink that town.
There are very few, and I say nobody, very few people in Washington, certainly in elective office who think there's a crisis.
You know, that is the big dividing line, folks.
You and I, you people that call yourselves Tea Party people, you came into existence.
You decided to enter this fray because of all of Obama's spending.
I mean, and it was massive this first couple, three years, and all of that new debt and the Obamacare.
And in 2010, it reached a head, and this is out of control, and they're spending your future, your kids, your grandkids' future.
They are spending already the taxes that would be collected and then some from people not even born yet.
And so the Tea Party came into existence because, as far as they were considered, this is a crisis.
We've reached a tipping point.
But inside the Beltway, folks, the Washington establishment does not think there's a crisis at all.
The debt is not a big deal.
It's no different as a percentage of GDP than it's ever been.
They'll tell you that.
The size of the debt is irrelevant.
The percentage of GDP is all that matters, and it's not that bad compared to the recent past.
So there's no big deal.
Spending, no big deal.
Debt, no big deal.
There isn't any crisis.
That's the big dividing line.
You and me think the country is in peril.
Inside the Beltway, there is hardly anybody who thinks that.
And certainly, in both the Democrat and Republican Party establishments, you will not find that as anywhere near a majority opinion.
That is a very, very small group of people who believe that.
And it is that, among other things, but that's one of the big ones that is causing the fissure between the Republican establishment and the majority of people in its base.
This is just not acceptable.
We don't have the money.
And then they insult us with what they say.
Well, there's $42 billion of deficit reduction.
$42 billion of deficit reduction, a $4 trillion budget?
There isn't any deficit reduction.
So then they insult your intelligence by telling you they're cutting the budget, they're cutting spending, and they're not.
In fact, what they did was lock in spending for Obamacare.
Now, I asked the question yesterday.
I'll pose the question again.
Hypothetical.
Take your pick.
If we had a Republican president and a Republican House and a Republican Senate, do you think the Republican Party as it exists today would repeal Obamacare?
And a lot of people tell you no.
We're not going to go to the trouble, not going to go to the hassle of doing that.
We don't have an alternative.
We'll just make this work.
Too much trouble.
Too much work.
What do you mean repeal Obamacare?
We can't.
It's the law of the land.
The law of the land.
I thought the sequester was the law of the land, but that didn't hold up very long.
The sequester was the law of the land, too, but that's for the most part been given up.
No cuts.
So they don't think there's a crisis, folks.
This is no different than when the national debt was $6 trillion and the budget deficit was $300 billion a year.
And the percentage of GDP that the debt represented was 20%, 18% to 23%.
No big deal.
Same thing.
The numbers don't matter.
The percentages are all that matters, and we're fine.
There's no crisis.
In fact, those people tell you the federal government can never run out of money.
It's not possible.
That printing press.
I've had them tell me this.
Rush, you say that we don't have the money.
Yes, we do.
We can print it.
We can borrow it.
We're never going to run out of money.
There's no, amongst people in the establishment, both parties, there's no pressure, concern.
There's no urgency about balancing anything.
Now, they'll talk now and then near elections as though there is.
But after that, it goes by the wayside.
And it was just talk, just like all the votes on defunding Obamacare.
There were 100 of them, but they were meaningless.
When the time came to really do something about it, the people that actually stood up as an okay time to do it were tarred and feathered and destroyed and called terrorists and hostage takers and ransom demanders and so forth.
So it really boils down to the establishment doesn't think that there's anything even out of the ordinary going on.
This debt, percentage-wise, there's nothing unusual.
We're not threatened by it.
And we can borrow and print all we need anyway.
Well, what you're worried about.
You people are panicked.
You Tea Party people, you're just panicked over nothing.
But the real truth of the matter is, is that there isn't any sentiment whatsoever amongst the establishment in Washington to shrink that town to lessen its role in people's lives.
Not really.
You know, all the money that's there is somebody else's.
This is the thing that irritates me.
Washington, D.C., and the suburbs have become one of the wealthiest enclaves by zip code in the country.
And the money that everybody has there was somebody else's first.
Nothing is really produced there, not by government.
Now, you do have some tech companies and others in suburbia, branch offices.
But for what we're talking about here, government, the real source of wealth where all the money ends up before it gets dispersed, there's nothing produced.
It's just money taken from other people.
So the wealth that exists there is the result of redistribution and taxation, confiscation.
I mean, you know, when Obama was, when Obama was trying to kill the Bush tax cuts, we were told by everybody that the deficit was a matter of national defense.
You know, when the Democrats are trying to destroy Republican agenda items, then the deficit's a horrible thing.
And the debt is a dangerous thing.
And it threatens national security.
It threatens national defense.
Hillary told us that.
Obama told us that.
When they end up in charge of it, it becomes moral, all of a sense.
All the debt, all the spending becomes compassionate and moral.
And if there are any Republicans who speak against it, then here come the usual racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, war on women, mean-spirited extremists.
And the Republicans always cower when such allegations are made.
In this case, I'm telling you what the real animating thing was, was fear of another shutdown.
I will tell you one more time.
The Republican Party establishment is embarrassed of the pro-life element of its base.
And I'm not going to go through all the stories that offer evidence or proof because I've done it, I don't know how many times, and you've heard them all.
But you know it's true.
The Republican Party thinks a sizable percentage of its base is really fringe wackos, kooks, if you will.
And they associate that group with the people who want to shut down government, which to them is just the kookiest idea in the world.
Why would you want to shut down government?
The government is the center of the universe.
Shutting down the government to these people is the equivalent of extinguishing the sun.
You don't do it.
Everybody would die.
The Republicans believe that the vast majority of Americans get up every day and are absorbed totally with what government's doing and how government's taking care of them and how government's giving them benefits.
And then if somebody comes along and shuts the government down, people start getting upset.
They blame somebody for it because their lives go to hell because the government shut down.
The Republicans don't want to get blamed for that.
They will allow the Democrats to do anything rather than the government be shut down.
And the Republicans have given up any leverage that they might want to use down the road by signaling this.
By telling, by admitting, by signaling to the Democratic Party, they are scared to death and they will do anything to avoid a government shutdown.
The Democrats know they can always win and have their way.
And so the Republican, you've got soundbites.
I've got them coming up.
You'll hear this.
You will hear Republicans just cower in fear and anger over the possibility that you freaks, you Tea Party people might engineer another shutdown, and that would be the end of the Republican Party.
You're destroying them.
You just don't understand.
I got to take a timeout now.
We'll come back and continue.
It's Open Line Friday, which means we always try to take a few more calls than we do normally.
So they throw that in, too.
It's Open Line Friday, Rush Limbos, serving humanity simply by being here.
Colorado Springs, Dave, you're up first.
It's great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Oh, my gosh, Rush.
What an honor.
How are you doing?
I'm doing great, sir.
Thanks for calling.
Oh, excellent.
Hey, I just wanted to call it.
You know, I am just fed up unbelievably with the Republicans.
They sit there, they have, like you said, they have 100 votes to try to get rid of Obamacare.
And then when push comes to shove, the red line is in the sand.
They have the opportunity and they fund it for two years.
What are they thinking?
I'm a GOP chair.
I'm a precinct chair here in the Springs.
And it's like, how am I going to get interested?
Okay, let me ask you then, if you're a Republican chair, because here's what they're saying.
They're saying, well, look, we can't win.
We've got a Democrat president who they think is overwhelmingly popular.
We've got a Democrat Senate.
All we have is the House.
We can't win anything.
All we can do is just try to hold the ground that we've got.
And this is a great deal, given that we can't win anything, given that we don't have any power, given that we can't stop it, this is a great, great win, and you ought to realize that and shut up.
Not so.
I mean, this is an opportunity they have.
If the roles were reversed, what do you think the Democrats would do?
They would have, if they had a two-seat majority, they would be able to stop government.
They would shut it down.
They would do whatever's necessary.
Exactly.
Did the Democrats ever stop when the Republicans are in the White House?
Did the Democrats ever say, no, we can do, we can't win?
Absolutely not.
They don't.
They're always on the move.
You know, back when Newt Gingrich was Newt Gingrich, Bill Clinton was in the White House and they didn't give up.
They had their contract with America.
Back when Newt was Newt, they fought the Democrats and they fought Clinton every day, every year.
Ended up going off the rails.
But the fact is that it can be done.
This bunch, for some reason, takes comfort and wants us to take comfort in they can't win and that they shouldn't even try or push back.
And so it leaves us to ask why.
And that's why people then start saying, well, maybe they don't really disagree with what's going on.
If they won't even try, if they won't even try to amass a voting majority to defeat this stuff, if they're just going to retreat into the friendly confines of, hey, we're doing the best we can because we can't win.
We don't have any power.
They got Obama in there and we got Harry Reid over here and we can't win.
Well, I've constantly, I'm amazed.
No pushback.
Look at, I'll say it again.
You look at the opposition to Obamacare, there is a ready-made majority just waiting to be connected to by the Republican Party.
And there's no effort made to do so.
So what else can we conclude other than they're really not that unhappy with what's going on?
And that's why people say that.
Yeah, we can't win.
There's nothing we can do.
They have the White House.
They've got the Senate.
We're barely holding on to the House here.
And we're really, we're just scared to death of a government shutdowns.
There's nothing we can do.
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