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Dec. 18, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 18, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Look, I don't want to make too big a deal about this, but if you're like me, you got a whole bunch of different weather apps on your iPhone and on your iPad.
I mean, I every time a new one comes out it looks intriguing.
I get it.
Yahoo, not long ago, months, came out with a revised new weather app that was really cool.
I mean, the weather information on it was fine, it's like anywhere else.
It had good radar, it had the five or ten-day forecasts.
But what it did was via flicker, like if you wanted weather for Chicago, when you scroll to Chicago, it would flash various pictures that people had taken, beautiful pictures from in and around Chicago.
San Francisco Ditto.
Wherever.
And it was it was fascinating.
And it was you almost run the app just to look at the various pictures that would pop up rather than get the weather.
Well, this week they revised the app and made it universal so that it now works with the iPad.
And now every picture is of the sky.
For example, Las Vegas.
Gonna go to Las Vegas soon, so have Las Vegas in there.
There are two different pictures of Las Vegas.
Two different casinos that pop up.
That's it.
And sometimes at night you just get a black and white picture of the sky.
Here where we live, there's there are none.
Every picture, day or night, is the sky or the moon.
And over half the cities now don't have any pictures.
They just use generic pictures of the sky.
Still mixed with flickers.
This is so sad.
It's so unfortunate.
As I say, the Yahoo weather app, you would you would consult it just to get the the pictures were always fabulous from these places.
And even small towns, we wanted to check the weather in Green Bay for an upcoming football game, pictures actually submitted by people to Flickr from uh Green Bay, which Yahoo owns.
And ever since the universalized or made the app universal that works on both the iPad and the iPhone, the picture support has just, at least for me, vanished.
And it's just a sad thing.
It's just sad.
I'm not mad about it.
I'm just curious.
Because I know that there are pictures from here.
They used to show up before the app went universal.
Now it's just the sky.
Various pictures of clouds.
And how do I know that they were Palm Beach clouds?
They could be clouds from Oshkosh.
Anyway, I just wanted to mention that, because I don't know how many of you are encountering the same problem.
There is an ad running out there.
A friend of John Fund, John Funn sent me a story today.
He said, Rush, this is so great, and I know the Democrats are worried because Chris Saliza wrote about it, the Washington Post.
Apparently, and this is key to understand the Republicans are not running this ad in question.
A Republican consultant, amazingly, put it together, but an outside group is buying and paying for it.
It uses footage of New Hampshire Senator Jean Shaheen, where she says, like Obama said, if you like your insurance, you can keep it.
And on the screen, while she's saying that, graphics note that Obama was awarded the lie of the year by PolitiFact for saying the same thing.
But then where the ad hits the home run is, it ends with this line next November.
If you like your senator, you can keep her.
If not, you know what to do.
It's a great ad.
And I wrote Fund back and I said, John, don't get excited.
A Republicans aren't going to run this ad.
It's too confrontational.
It's not bipartisan.
It's not respectful.
This is the the Republicans aren't going to cause problems.
They're not going to say these kind of mean things.
Outside groups.
I'm being facetious, but I'm saying I'd be shocked if the Republicans actually run this ad.
I can see outside groups doing.
It's a great ad.
Here's Jean Shaheen.
She's one of these Democrats that was echoing Obama.
If you like your doctor, you keep your doctor.
If you like your plan, you get to keep it.
And on the screen, Obama was given the award of Lie of the Year by PolitiFact for saying the same thing.
And it ends up, if you like your senator, next November you can keep her.
If not, you know what to do.
It's a great ad.
But the Republicans might decide it's not bipartisan.
It's too confrontational.
It doesn't represent crossing the aisle.
There's no compromise in this ad.
It might irritate women.
It might upset Hispanics and blacks.
And women and minorities might be hardest hit.
And I was being facetious, but I wanted to send fun to message, because this that's the impression this woman one of the uh the caller from San Jose was making the point that Republicans just don't have the guts to stand up for themselves and to run ads like this.
Two confrontation.
Oh my gosh, make people mad.
We don't want to make people mad.
We're not trying to be partisan here or anything.
There's a gold mine of ads that could be running now.
There's a gold mine of things Republicans could be saying now to take advantage.
And they are not.
Our gay community update.
Phil Robertson in GQ said, it seems to seem like to me a vagina as a man would be more desirable than a man's anus.
I mean, that's just me.
I'm just thinking there's more there.
It's got more to offer.
I mean, come on, dudes.
You know what I'm saying?
But hey, sin, it's not logical, my man.
It's just not logical.
Well, that has caused an uproar out there in the gay community.
The left is hysterical over these comments made by Phil Robertson.
And I would just like to point out to the estimable Pierce Morgan and others that the views expressed by Phil Robertson in GQ happened to totally line up with the views of the drive-by's new best friend forever, the Pope.
And yet the left has totally embraced the Pope.
But the long knives are out for Phil Robertson.
Robertson further said, look, start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there.
You have bestiality sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men.
Don't be deceived.
Neither the adulterers, the idolaters, the male prostitutes, the homosexual offenders, the greedy, the drunkards, the slanderers, the swindlers.
They are not going to inherit the kingdom of God.
Don't deceive yourself.
It's not right.
Well, as you can well imagine, the left is hysterical.
Rather than just let it go, it's the duck dynasty guy.
They're making a huge, huge deal out of it.
It's outrageous.
But his views, I mean, folks, they they line up almost exactly with the views of the new BFF that lives the Catholic Church.
I made a prediction that gay marriage Would lead to other things.
Do you remember what I polygamy?
I said that this, and I wasn't the only one.
Scalia, Justice Scalia has said the same thing in, I think in a Supreme Court ruling in a Texas case.
I, of course, El Rushbo was not the only one.
And I I predicted that before this is all said and done, once we've crossed this barrier that polygamists will have the same legal rights, the same-sex couples.
And we're then going to redefine what a family is.
Once we bust up the definition of marriage, it can then be anything anybody wants it to be.
Marriage was a man and a woman.
And once it's not, then it can be anything that anybody wants to lobby for.
Once it's been blown to schmitterines.
Well, story from the Los Angeles Times.
Advocates for so-called plural marriages are applauding a ruling by a U.S. district court judge that struck down key segments of Utah's anti-polygamy law, saying that they violated constitutional rights to privacy and religious freedom.
In a 91-page decision issued last Friday, Judge Clark Wadups effectively decriminalized polygamy in Utah, ruling that a central phrase in the state's law forbidding cohabitation with another person violated the first and 14th Amendments.
The ruling, which distinguishes between polygamy and bigamy, was the result of a lawsuit filed in 2011 by Cody Brown, star of the reality series Sister Wives, now in its fourth season on cable, TLC, if you're interested.
He's got four wives, who together have 17 children, but he's legally married only to his first wife.
And he has just been upheld.
Polygamy supporters are beside themselves with thrill and delight.
They're excited beyond belief, because parts of the anti-polygamy law in Utah have been struck down.
Jonathan Turley, by the way, was uh one of the lawyers, Washington-based attorney represented the Brown family.
He represented plaintiff.
Polygamists have the same legal standing as same-sex couples.
That's the legal argument.
That was forthcoming.
That's that's what Turley said the ruling is uh is landmark.
Plural family can publicly be what they are in private.
Polygamists have the same legal standing as same-sex couples.
See, folks, this was not a hard prediction.
Once you blow up the marriage, definition of marriage, then it can be anything.
Why are you frowning at me?
Well, you disagree with this one.
It was only natural.
And by the way, this is what the left wants in all of this.
Been predicting this for years, January 2007, when the Heather has two mommies and a daddy came out.
This has been easy to predict.
If they ever blew up the definition of marriage.
In fact, on my website back in uh in March of this year, there was a Supreme Court decision, and we headlined it.
Why draw the line at couples?
Based on the discussion on this program that day.
I'll just say it again.
This this is nobody is confused.
Once you blow up the definition of marriage, for for since the beginning of time, marriage was an official sanctioned union between a man and a woman.
Once you blow that up, it can be anything anybody wants it to be.
Because anybody will be able to find a judge somewhere that will go along with it.
In this case, polygamy now.
Hunky-dory, dude.
Polygamy, fine and dandy.
And now polygamists, this not my words, by the way.
This comes from the news story in the LA Times.
Polygamists have the same legal standing as same-sex couples.
How can they not?
Since marriage has been redefined.
Next up, somebody's gonna marry their pet.
And who's to say no?
Back to the phones we go.
This is uh Brett.
Oh, speaking of which, Layton, Utah.
Hi, Brett.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hey Rose, how are you doing?
I'm doing well, thank you.
Great.
I've got two questions I wanted to ask you for a real long time.
All right.
First is a personal question.
Uh I always hear you mention on the radio your percentage that you're correct 98, 99% of the time.
But uh, I've been married 19 years and you've been married for a little while.
Now I'm wondering what your percentages of being correct at home.
I mean I bat about 143 at my house.
I'm wondering about you.
You bet 143 in your house.
I have to tell you something.
Um I am a fortunate man.
I cannot, I cannot overemphasize how smart and bright my wife is.
She is literally brilliant.
She is indefag defatigable.
I mean, she's tireless, and it never comes down to uh, you know, whether I'm uh right or wrong or any of that.
It's it's uh in the old days, you know, the old the the answer to the question is uh at home, you know, I'm I'm barely even exist.
Uh that any husband would would answer that, trying to get some laughs and some yucks.
But I I have to tell you, since you've since you've asked, uh uh Catherine, she is she is so wicked smart that I just sit there, I don't have any concerns or cares about that at all.
There's a there's you know, they the whole thing about intelligence or lack of it is rooted in insecurity.
And sometimes being right all the time makes other people insecure, bothers them, makes them feel inferior or what have you.
And when you she's she's totally confident she's she's not bugged by any of these outside uh pressures of what people think of her and so forth.
So it really it never comes down to that.
Uh, in uh in our house.
You know, how stupid am I?
Uh it's just a given.
Once you learn to adjust, once you learn to adjust to it, everything's fine and dandy.
I'm glad you called, Brett.
Thanks much.
We will be back.
Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations, Rush Limbaugh sitting here at the distinguished and prestigious Limbaugh Institute for advanced conservative studies.
I mentioned earlier Baba Wawa.
And I just want you to hear it.
This is last night on um uh Piers Morgan Lime.
I don't think this guy would have an audience if it weren't for me.
Like we we built MSNBC and we killed it by banning audio sound bites in the place.
Now I gotta start thinking about that again here.
Anyway, Baba Wawa was on uh and and and just to be fair, she's named me one of the top ten most uh whatever the uh interesting, fascinating, whatever it is, people of the year three times, I think, in the past 25 years.
I've always gotten along with her.
She's been very nice.
So don't misunderstand anything here, but she did step in it.
I mean, well, she didn't step in it, she just admitted that the left looked at Obama as a god.
Here's Morgan said, you've interviewed every president in my lifetime.
Why is Obama facing so much opposition now?
Why is he struggling so much to really uh fulfill the great flame of ambition and excitement that he was expected unoriginally in 2009?
He made so many promises.
We thought that he was going to be, I shouldn't say this is Christmas time, but the next Messiah.
And the whole Obamacare, or whatever you want to call that affordable health act, uh it just hasn't worked for him.
And he stumbled around on it, and people feel very disappointed because they expected more.
Now, normally, we kind of let this slide, but she knew what she was saying because she wanted some understanding.
Look, it's Christmas time, and I know that Christ is the Messiah for a lot of people, but we really we expected Obama to be the next Messiah.
And so did he.
You think all those photos with Obama with a halo over his head, like the presidential seal or shading of you think all that stuff's accidental.
It was all structured part of the marketing plan, the media.
But I kid you not.
I mean, this is how the left promoted Obama.
It's how he promoted himself, and it's how a lot of voters saw him.
No.
I think she's disappointed.
She's not vamping.
Did you say vamping or laughing?
No.
She's he made so many pumises that we thought he was going to be the next Messiah in the whole.
She believe me, she's a believer.
She's not mocking or laughing at this.
See, this is the thing.
Even Snerdley does not believe the real thing he just heard.
Oh no, that can't be.
She's gotta be mocking it.
No.
If she were mocking it, she wouldn't have paused and begged for understanding at Christmas time.
She wanted to say it, but she didn't want anybody to be offended by it.
If she didn't care about people being offended, then she would have been making a joke.
That's what I'm who this is the point, Sterling.
Who in their right mind would put this much on any political?
That's who in their right mind is exactly right.
They're out of their minds, but m this isn't she's not uncommon here.
Among people in the media, especially, and it's dare I say, it's all rooted in race.
It's all rooted in race and sympathy, and it's just it's it's all related to surface things, because they didn't know who Obama was any more than any of the rest of us.
It was all blind faith that makes it even more believable.
Here's how I described it.
This is December 12, 2007.
2007.
This is 11 months before the election.
Just to show you what being on the cutting edge is soundbite five, Michael.
This is me eleven months before the election.
Obama is running almost a messianic campaign.
He is the Messiah.
He has been brought forth in the midst of the partisan rancor.
And with the power of his appealing charismatic personality, is going to heal the wounds of a broken nation.
With what?
Nobody cares.
Because the Oprah doesn't care.
It just matters that he's charismatic.
December 2007, your host nailing it.
Running a messianic campaign.
He is the Messiah.
He's been brought forth in the midst of partisan rancor.
Dare I remind you, Chris Matthews, after he interviewed Obama last week, said he came among us.
Don't doubt anyone that these sycophants in the media bought hook, line and sinker this Messiah business.
In a political sense.
But just in a political savior.
Saving them from the wilderness years of Bush, saving them from the Florida Africa, saving them from the depths of defeat, John Kerry saving them.
He was a Messiah.
He had come to save them, to absolve them.
To once again Assert them upon the pedestals of power.
That's exactly how they saw him.
And they didn't know who he was any more than the rest of us did.
But it was historic.
Remember, who was it?
Biden, he's clean and articulate.
Yeah, Biden's about time.
We found somebody clean and articulate minority.
Be in our party.
Yeah.
Dingy Harry said, yeah, and he didn't have a Negro dialect.
He can turn that on and off whenever he wanted to.
Of course he's the Messiah.
I can't believe it.
People don't get this.
Okay, I want to play you the audio of the that Gene Shaheen ad.
I guess I've I have it here.
It's in New Hampshire.
But this is an outside conservative group running the ad, not the GOP.
GOP is not running the ad.
I say John Funn sent me this note about this ad.
He's all excited about it.
Well, this is the Democrats are scared to death.
Why?
Republicans are never going to run this.
It's too mean.
It's too mean spirited.
It's too extreme.
Tea Party would like it too much.
So it's an outside conservative group that did the ad, uh, ending spending.com is the pack.
Republicans don't believe in that.
This is based on the latest budget.
Ending spending.com.
And it's entitled Like Your Senator, here is the audio of the ad.
Unhealthcare Gene Shaheen didn't tell the truth.
You can keep your insurance if you like it.
It will increase choices for families.
It will promote competition.
The facts.
More than 20,000 New Hampshire patients have had their coverage canceled.
And Obamacare offers only one insurer on New Hampshire's individual market.
So next November, if you like your senator, you can keep her.
If you don't, you know what to do.
Ending spending Inc.
is responsible for the content of this advertising.
Now, Chris Siliza in the in the Washington Post, Washington, uh, if you're Newt Gingrich or for real Linda, uh Chris Elizabeth writes today that every Democrat should fear this ad.
And they should.
I mean, the ad is great, poignant, it's a home run.
It's a grand slam.
And the Democrats are freaking out over it.
But the saving grace is, I am not being facetious.
I mean, I'm I'm not trying to be funny.
I would not be surprised if the Republicans find this ad too confrontational.
Uh too mean-spirited, call it an attack ad.
Remember the Republicans still believe that the way to win elections is to show that they are willing to cross the aisle and work hand in hand with the Democrats in a bipartisan, non-confrontational way.
And when the Republicans learn that an outside conservative group did this, maybe as ties to the Tea Party, that'll turn them off on it.
Now, I'm not predicting that, because I don't, I'm hoping nobody could be that stupid.
But I won't be surprised if they end up being that stupid.
Kevin, Lofton, South Carolina.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
Ditto, self-employed ditto from down here in the land of milk and honey.
Well, uh, nothing better than that.
Yes, sir.
You were talking about the uh why Muslim or Islam, I guess, doesn't get criticized for their anti-gay agenda against the.
Yeah, why doesn't the left rip into them?
Like they ripped into the Catholic church or other Christianity for anti-gay, anti-female uh belief.
Well, it's obvious I'm sitting here thinking about it.
The obvious answer is that they're afraid of the violence.
Only one percent of them are violent, as they say, but they say that uh, you know, one percent are, but they're they're very violent.
That's a segment of them are, and so if you criticize them, they do strike back out.
Yeah.
So that seems like the obvious answer.
Yeah.
Uh thinking Well, what is the rest of it?
Well, because they are so fervently anti-Christian, anti-uh Catholic, anti, you know, Western religion.
That uh that has to have to be the real reason why they're they get very little criticism.
They're they're on the same side.
Wait, who is when you say they're so fervently anti-Christian, anti-Cat.
Who are you talking about?
Media or Islam?
Well, Islam, you know, they're they're they can only be, you know, when you boil it all down, there can only be one religion according to them.
And that is Islam.
Everybody else is infidels.
Well, when you get right down to it, that's true of all religions, is some just have more courage in saying it publicly.
Right.
But there seem to be more uh I mean that's why there's a controversy of Pope saying, no, you'd have to be Christian to get to heaven.
That's new to a lot of people.
Yeah.
But I just think that uh you know it is odd.
And and I I've often pondered that question why they'd get.
I mean, because late what this year alone, six reporters were killed in northern Iraq.
Let's look, it's real simple.
They're scared of Middleton Islam.
They're not afraid of the Catholic Church.
They're so unafraid of the Catholic Church, they're making the Catholic Church pay for and give away contraception.
And they're delighting in doing it.
They're not afraid of them.
And they don't respect them.
And they've declared them an enemy.
They have not done any of that.
When Islam gets going, they conduct seminars.
Why do they hate us?
They never ask, why is the Catholic Church disagree with I don't care.
Islam uh uh uh uh don't want to make them mad.
The answer's obvious.
That's that better no, that better not be controversial.
It just happens to be the truth.
Nothing controversial about that.
Um the I mean look, it this all started, folks.
There were if you've missed the beginning of the program, I like to have some context.
It all started with a story.
And I got a bunch of researchers wanted to find out if a husband could be made happy by a peaceful relationship with his wife based on never disagreeing with her.
Or if he had to pursue had to be right in order to be happy.
And so they had a guy, unbeknownst to his wife, just agree with her all the time.
Whatever she wanted, he did.
Whatever she said was right.
And after twelve days, they were ready to divorce.
That's what got all of this started.
And it'll all be at Rushlinbaugh.com by the time you get there to check it out.
Folks, that's it.
Yeah, yeah, that's it.
I was trying to look and see if we had an extra busy broadcast minute, but we don't.
We're out of here.
But we'll be back tomorrow.
And uh it's uh it'll be our last program before Christmas, last live program on Christmas, at least by me.
So don't miss it.
See you then.
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