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Have audio soundbite number 16 standing by Mike by the way.
And then where else are we going to see?
I forgot to tell the broadcast engineer we're going to do in soundbites.
It's number 16, and we'll go to eight.
And uh and in let's just do 16 right now.
Just get this out of the way because I think it's funny as it can be.
Vladimir Putin is jealous of Obama because he can spy on anybody and get away with it.
I just absolutely love this.
This is uh this morning in Moscow.
Putin held a press conference, and uh during the QA, he was asked about the NSA spying and all that is what he said.
My relations to Obama following Snowden, I envy him because he can do this, and there'll be nothing for him because of this.
But there's nothing specific to be pleased about or to be upset about.
Everything has always been like this festival.
Spying has always gone on since ancient times.
Yeah, yeah, of course it has, but Obama's getting away with this.
I mean, we never dreamed of doing this, even when we were leading the communists of the world.
We never dreamed of this kind of spying, and he's getting away with it.
And here's the former head haunter to KGB complaining he couldn't get away with what Obama's getting away.
Just I don't know, for some reason I found it amusing.
Uh ladies and gentlemen, as you are undoubtedly aware by now, the AE network, which stands for Arts and Entertainment, has put the patriarch of Duck Dynasty, Phil Robertson, on indefinite hiatus.
I think they've essentially fired the guy, and in the process, they have thrown away the largest audience on cable television.
They've just thrown it away.
They've thrown away all that advertising.
I'm uh I want to get into that aspect of this as it relates to what a free market is in a moment.
But first, it is obvious that that Robertson's goose is cooked, the Duck Dynasty Goose is cooked at AE.
I don't know how long it'll be, but some other network will pick up the show.
Some other network at some point will pick up this program.
The look strictly in terms of numbers of popular what the the gay population, which supposedly is offended here, is max two percent.
The Christian population is 250 million people.
So the market is going to reflect that at some point in regards to this program.
Now, Phil Robertson, I don't know him, and I haven't watched I never heard of Duck Dynasty until the reports not long ago of what a great rating success it was.
So I downloaded some episodes from um iTunes.
I've been watching them periodically, Helter Skelter here and there.
And it you know what's clear to me.
Now Robertson's apologized, by the way.
I I I uh a little bit surprised given what I think Robertson is all about, but he he did apologize.
It's not gonna do him any good.
Uh and it's probably even too late for him to do a tirade against unfettered capitalism.
I was thinking if he if he maybe did that, it could turn around some of this hate that the left has for him and turn it into love if he just started.
Well, it's a it's a popular thing to do today.
If you want love and appreciation from the left, you attack capitalism in America.
But I think even that might be too late.
It may even be too late for my help.
I was even thinking I could possibly save his career If I launched into an attack on the guy.
That I thought, maybe it's probably even too late for that.
I doubt that that would do the trick at this stage.
But I do love what the gay rights group, GLAD.
GLAAD wrote to A E commending them for firing Robertson, they said.
And I quote, by taking quick action and removing Roberts from future filming, A and E has said a strong message that discrimination is neither Christian nor an American value.
Now, excuse me for just a second here, but who is being discriminated against here except Phil Robertson, who just lost a job because of his religious beliefs.
Phil Robertson.
Nothing happened to anybody at GLAD.
Nothing happened to any gay people or homosexual people.
Nothing happened to them.
He says what he says in GQ.
He ends up getting fired.
And Glad starts running around talking about we're not gonna put up with this kind of discrimination.
Well then you better start demanding he be rehired because he's the only guy that's been discriminated against.
If you ask me.
Now I don't know why.
A lot of people rush, when are the people on our side gonna learn you don't go doing interviews, GQ.
I don't think, and I was talking to some people last night about this.
I I don't think Phil Robertson is dumb or naive.
I actually believe that the purpose of Duck Dynasty is to spread their religious views, not to spread the word about their duck business.
I think they are devout Christians, and I think they're using that program to spread in their own subtle uh way.
I mean, they don't preach it, they live it, and in in the process, I think they're trying to speak up and spread their Christian value.
They're looking at this as, oh my gosh, we got a TV show to do this, and they're taking full advantage of it.
So I don't think I bet he's not even that concerned about being fired for this.
It may I don't know him, so I could be dead wrong about this, but it it appears to me that spreading the word of God and his belief is a paramount desire that he has and mission accomplished here.
In that sense, I mean, even people that didn't watch Duck Dynasty now, have heard what he believes is the word of God, and that's what his avowed purpose was with the program, I believe.
But really, this, you know, who who's been injured here?
Really, who has been hurt?
This is the whole point we're up to political correctness, a bunch of words.
Who really has been harmed here at the end of the day?
Nobody but Phil Robertson.
Now, John Podesta, has he been suspended yet?
Has he been fired yet?
Because he went out and he called the entire Republican Party Jonestown.
And he compared the Republican Party to Jim Jones and that cult at Jonestown.
Well, they were mass murderers.
They were a genuine cult.
The Duck Dynasty guy here is suspended and fired in an eye blink after what he said Podesta.
What he said offended 10 to 20 times as many people as what Phil Robertson said.
Podesta compares Republicans to Jonestown.
That is vile.
That's vulgar, that's hurtful.
That offends almost half the country, half the country's Republicans.
Anyone really want that kind of hate speech in the White House?
We already have it there, folks, in case you're not aware.
This is common ordinary everyday stuff in the white.
This is who the left is.
That's what they believe.
This is why I get so frustrated that Republicans don't understand who they're up against and what the people are up against really think of them.
They really believe this.
There's a strain of belief, true belief in what Podesta.
They do think the Republicans are the most vile, evil bunch of people running around.
It is a perversion that they think this, but they think it.
But nothing's gonna happen to Podesta.
You know, what's her name?
Jennifer Lawrence.
I got the audio soundbite here.
Jennifer Lawrence, the latest rave in Hollywood.
Was on Conan O'Brien last night talking about, I'm just gonna say it.
I better not.
I'm gonna count down from five.
Got young kids listening, turn off the radio or change shit.
Whatever.
Five 30 seconds and come back.
Five.
Four.
No, no, I'm gonna count down to one.
And if you're still here and you're offended, it's your problem and I'm because I'm giving you abject warning here plenty of time.
I don't'm gonna shock anybody.
I'm just gonna well here.
Well, I don't even need to say it.
If I can find the soundbite number nine, grab sound by number nine.
Jennifer Lawrence last night on Conan on TBS.
And Jennifer Lawrence and the uh sidekick Andy Richter and Conan O'Brien have this exchange.
Now, this is the hottest actress in Hollywood casually telling jokes about well, you'll hear it, and everybody's laughing, and it's just fine, and nobody thinks it's offensive, and nobody thinks it's vile.
It's just perfectly normal American pop culture conversation.
Somebody as a joke bought me a bunch of butt plugs.
It's a long story.
Really not a long story at all.
Out here though, that's a standard Oscar gig.
Yeah, so I had a copious amount of butt plugs, huge amount of different colored butt plugs, and then the maid was coming, so I was like, I'll just shove this under the bed so she doesn't see all these butt plugs.
You get the wrong idea.
Yeah, I got that.
She might not know they're for a joke.
And so, and then I came back, and all of them were brought out of the bed and we're in this beautiful display.
No, no, no.
The maid found them and then put them out for you.
Yeah.
Anybody out there know what a butt plug?
Certainly, you probably do.
Do you know what a butt plug is?
Well, then, I mean, here it is being casually discussed.
That's a late night TV show.
Well, I know there's nothing casual about a butt plug, um, but nobody's offended.
Nobody's laughing and they're joking and they're having a wonderful time, and and all here's the thing, folks.
And my question is for all of you at GQ and all of you leftists who are just mock outraged over this.
And that's what it is.
It's mock outrage.
You don't care what Phil Robertson thinks.
Why would you?
If there's no God, why worry about what Phil Robertson thinks?
If sin is this made up crazy wacko Christian thing, why worry about it if it doesn't exist?
Why get worried about what some hayseed talks about sin and homosexuality and vaginus and anuses?
Why does any of that bother you if what he believes isn't even real?
Why get so upset about it?
If there isn't any God, if there's no sin, if there's no morality, no judgment, no rules that apply to you, then why all the fuss?
Who cares if you're called sinners by some backwoods hick on a duck show?
If it's all BS.
If there's no accountability for the way you live, and if everything's cool and unkydory and the only god, the nearest god you can find is whatever tree you think runs the environment that day, which could be Al Gore, then what's the problem?
Jennifer Lawrence, by the way, not long ago, I think this week, Jennifer Lawrence, said that the word fat should be banned.
It's too offensive.
It's too insulting.
It's demeaning, it hurts people's feelings.
They can't help it.
Fat should be banned by the media because that hurts people's feelings.
And that's just not nice.
You know, I tell you what, say who is interested in this whole thing about butt plugs.
It would have to be Al Roker.
Well, I just found out what a butt plug was.
I didn't even know.
I had a I had to engage in deep consultation to find out.
And I it's not going to go even go any further.
I just said I know what it is.
If if you care enough, um, ask your mom.
No.
Okay, ask your dad, which would be more appropriate.
Who'd be more likely.
I mean, folks, but play a lot of people look like they're wearing one when they're not.
Uh, just to give you seen them.
You can spot them all over.
They're all over MSNBC.
Everybody on MSNBC is using one, except Al Roker.
He needed one when he was at the White House.
And see, we can casually discuss this.
It's not a problem.
And let Phil Robertson go out there and talk about his views on homosexuality as expressed in the Bible.
So forth.
If you can look at what he said, he didn't really say anything and attack anybody.
It's just it really is amazing.
And when you look at the the relative uh tiny population, percentage of the population represented by people are homosexual, uh, versus the 200 plus million who are Christian, who are not homosexual.
And then you put that in the same context of the market here and what AE has done.
It's fascinating.
And you you see how I believe throughout our culture, politically, culturally, we're being governed by a minority.
Being led by, governed by, intimidated by a minority which sits in control of political correctness and speech and even behavior in certain ways.
You know, a lot of a lot of Christians are afraid.
I'm going to call her woman last week, two weeks ago, when Obama's poll numbers started to plummet.
She felt comfortable finally when the polls started reflecting what she always thought, she finally felt comfortable calling and talking about.
She said, Rush, the secret is that everybody has had these low opinion, this low opinion of Obama's job approval.
They just have been afraid to say so.
Even to a pollster, they're afraid to say so because the president's the first African American president, and they just don't like controversy.
People don't like, and I think that's true of a lot of Christians are afraid of having the world hate them.
So they keep silent.
Even when guys like Phil Robertson are attacked, it's just the path of least resistance.
Everybody that doesn't have happened to them what has happened to Phil Robertson does not want that to happen.
So they shut up.
And in their silence, they acquiesce.
So here we have a guy, basically Phil Robertson, who quotes the Bible, and he's said to be behaving in an unchristian way.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
Starting here with uh what did I tell you, number eight?
Is that what I told you?
No, that can't be.
That can't be.
Let me find it.
I thought the eight with well, I guess it looks like it might be.
Everything's all out of order here.
Let's just go.
We got these are these are some sound bites here that drive bys reacting to Phil Robertson's remarks, calling them vile, crude and offensive.
Truly vile and offensive.
His views are vile.
Vile and extreme.
Shocked and appalled, really.
It's deeply offensive to many people in this country.
Crude anti-gay remarks.
I think you should be fought.
I think it's absolutely repulsive.
That was Piers Morgan.
Well, Piers, you got your wish.
Phil Robertson's been fired.
For what?
I mean, who did he really discriminate against?
What power does Phil Robertson have over anybody?
I mean, that's that's my real question.
Now, A and E, folks, don't misunderstand.
They've got, you know, I'm a big believer in the free market.
Um called capitalism.
And if A and E Wants to get rid of anybody.
That's their decision.
If they want to dump the highest rated show in history in cable, they're more than free to do it.
If they don't like, if their top brass doesn't like being associated with this kind of, they're perfectly free to do this.
If the government came in, if the regime came in and demanded they do it, that would be another thing.
But AE is free.
This happens all the time in the media.
The media, I mean, I've been doing what I've been doing since I was 16.
And this is common for station management or ownership or whatever.
Some don't want any controversy at all.
Some don't want the kind of controversy that might erupt.
And so they make a decision that sometimes is not in the immediate near term based on business.
It's based on other concerns.
It's how the market works.
Also, the way the market works is that somewhere, someplace down the line, some other network is going to pick up Duck Dynasty.
That is a given.
If the Robertsons want to keep doing it.
Will the other Robertsons keep doing Duck Dynasty without Phil?
Did AE get rid of the whole show or just Phil?
I don't know.
And will Phil's brood say, well, without Phil, we're not doing the show, and they're just out of there.
And it's it's open.
But that's the way the market works.
And these people at AE are free to do this.
And it's perfectly understandable.
They don't want any part of this.
No way.
At the cocktail parties in the rest of the media.
I'm sure they've been nervous about their attachment to these people anyway.
You're guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, chaos.
Rush limbaugh and the E network.
Human rights campaign has slammed Phil Robertson by saying, we know that being gay is not a choice that someone makes, and that to suggest otherwise can be incredibly harmful.
But substitute heterosexual for gay and see how it sounds.
We know that being heterosexual is not a choice someone makes, and that to suggest otherwise could be incredibly harmful.
Well, Phil Robertson didn't make the choice to be a heterosexual, so why attack him for talking like one?
And if you turn this stuff all around, it's an i i interesting perspective.
Now I had a lot of people email me when they first heard about this, and then they were wringing their hands.
Yeah, we have a liberals win again.
He's got a great family down there, the Robertson family got their duck call business duck dynasty.
And why do people on our side keep talking to the liberal media?
Why would Phil Roberts, who doesn't care about the way he looks, do an interview in GQ.
Why, Rush?
Why?
Can you explain this to me, Rush?
Because the liberals have won again.
AE has shut up, Phil for quoting the Bible and offering a rather obvious opinion on why straight men love women.
I mean, he kind of nailed that, if you want to know the truth about it.
No, I'm not going to get into repeating it here, but he offered a pretty straightforward reason why straight guys like women.
It was it made perfect sense.
But then that's when I started looking into this.
I'm not so sure, folks, and it's too soon to know.
But I'm not so sure that this is a loss in the traditional sense.
I'm not so sure this is a loss like it would be with the Republican Party caving, doing something stupid and then begging forgiveness or any of that.
I'll tell you why.
As I've looked into this, it's become clear to me, and maybe if there are ardent fans of Duck Dynasty out there, you can correct me on this.
But it seems to me that one of the main reasons that these guys are doing this TV show is to spread the word of God.
They don't need the money, and I don't mean that in the liberal sense, meaning they've got more than their shares.
Their business is just going gang, but they don't need to do a TV show to have the lifestyle that they have.
And they don't seem to me to be the kind of people seeking fame and red carpet kind of parties, and they're not seeking out the e-entertainment network or TMZ or any of that.
And then you find out that Phil is a man who has uh was was near destruction because of the way he was living and who found Christ and has credited Christ with saving him.
And you put two and two together, and you figure out that this TV show has been a way for Phil Robertson to express his beliefs in a subtle way.
They don't stand up there and preach, they don't point fingers and any of that, but they clearly live that lifestyle.
And they do it with uh with pride.
They're not ashamed of it, and they don't apologize for it.
And they've been getting more attention than anybody else on cable TV.
So they've attracted a lot of attention.
They've gotten a lot of eyeballs watching what they're doing and listening to what they're saying.
It has allowed them to model, if you will, and talk about their way of life, which happens to be Christian way of life, which I think is why Phil did the GQ interview.
I don't think he's afraid of telling any of these people what he thinks, what he believes.
I don't know him, just a wild guess here.
But I'll tell you, it could be, and this we're not going to know for a while, but I've always thought at some point a tipping point is going to be reached.
At some point, the majority of people are going to get fed up with being lectured to controlled by such a minority of the population.
I think a lot of people are sick and tired of being pushed around by a very small minority of leftists who use weapons like political correctness and censorship, intimidation, and everything else, in order to shut up the people who say things they don't want to hear or disagree with.
Now, the gay population is 2% of the country, and it's like we were talking about yesterday, liberals are just scared to death to say anything critical of Muslims.
The Democrat Party the left will not go, just won't go there.
No matter what, they will not say anything critical, and I think, by the same token, conservatives are terrified, terrified of saying anything about gay population, because the gay population is represented by or they're fronted by the militant political gay element of a gay population.
It's not all liberal, and it's not all militant, and it's not all Democrat, but the face of it is, and I think people are intimidated by it.
It's at some point, Phil Robertson, I don't know what kind of connection the Robertson family had with their audience.
This is a key thing.
And as somebody that's not watched the show, this I don't know.
And what I mean by this is the audience have a personal bond with the Robertsons.
Do they love them?
Would they go to the mat for them?
Would they have a deep appreciation for what they're doing, and when they get in trouble, not abandon them.
Is is if that kind of relationship exists between Phil Robertson and his family and the audience of that show, then there could be an effer vessing tipping point taking place out there beneath the surface right now that nobody's aware of, fed up with this.
Phil Robertson never did anything to anybody, and he still hasn't done anything to anybody.
He's the only one that's been really discriminated against here.
He lost his gig at The Duck Dynasty show.
So I don't know.
It's long overdue.
At some point there's going to be this, maybe a generational thing, it may be an issue-related thing.
It may be something related to an event, but at some point, enough people are going to say, okay, enough with this.
And they're going to stand up and say, just shut up.
You know, we're tired being pushed around here by 5, 10%, whatever it is, the population.
Or if you take the whole liberal universe, 20% of the population.
We're tired of being pushed around by you people.
We don't agree with you, and we don't like what you're trying to do to the country and so forth.
So maybe.
Maybe Phil Robertson's opened the door, and uh I don't know.
It's just way too soon to say.
And it may not be the case at uh at all.
Now the A and E people, this is a whole different A and E people.
They say that they are strong supporters of the LGBT movement, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender movement.
Notice they they are not getting anywhere near saying that they are strong supporters of the Christian community.
Now, strict numbers, the Christian community outnumbers the LGBT community by a factor of 20.
A and E, given where they are, probably who runs them in management there, they are going to side with the 2%.
LGBT.
And they are free to do this, folks.
This is um this is what I mean by free market.
I've been in and around big time broadcasting a long time, and being suspended or fired for saying something that management or ownership doesn't like is nothing new.
And it also doesn't mean that management and ownership is right.
What it means is they don't want to be associated with it for what they don't want the hassle.
They know, for example, that if Christians get offended, nothing's gonna happen.
If the LGBT group gets offended, they're gonna be protested, they're gonna be uh targeted, made fun of, whatever.
They just don't want it.
They just don't want any part of it.
Paula Dean went through it, Food Network.
Over something she said 30 years ago.
Now, the fact that Food Network fired Paula Dean or canceled her show doesn't mean that she should have been.
They decided to take the hit over it, just as AE has obviously decided to take the hit here, and they're gonna take a big hit.
I mean, biggest show on cable TV, and they have just thrown it overboard.
That does not happen.
And maybe the only circumstance in which it could happen is if the program has to be or happens to be related to the Tea Party or Christianity or pro-Lifers or Southern Hayseed Hicks.
That's an easy bunch to throw overboard if you're in top management at a major media organization today.
As I say, if the regime had stepped in and forced and pressured manipulated AE into doing this, that would be another thing.
A and A, they can do what they want to do.
If they want to throw away this money and throw away the ratings, let somebody else have it, they're free and clear to do it.
It's called unfettered capitalism.
Like I say, if I were advising Phil, I would have said to him, yes, Phil, you've got to go out there and attack capitalism right now.
You've got to go out there, you've got to attack capitalism, you've got to attack trickle down.
He would say to me, I don't believe.
Well, do it anyway.
See if you can save yourself.
Just attack trickle.
That's all you got to do.
It's attack trickle down.
If that doesn't work, attack me.
Well, it's the only two chances you have save you.
Now I think it may be too late, even for that.
Hi, folks, it's Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, and this is the last day for me to be with you this year.
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Tomorrow, is it?
Eric Erickson will be here tomorrow.
We've got Mark Stein in here next week and so forth.
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Let me go to the phones.
What I was going to say is open line Friday on Thursday today.
Whatever you want to talk about on the phones is fine.
Have at it.
We'll start West Monroe, Louisiana with Kelly.
Thank you for calling.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, it's an honor to talk to you.
You're my hero.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
Um I've been going to church with the Robertsons for years, and you just could have knocked me over with a ton of bricks when I opened up the newspaper today.
It was a just slap me in the face on the front page.
What knocked you over?
Oh, well, I guess really it shouldn't have the double standard, the usual.
But in a way I was really surprised that they led him almost into this trap.
Because they had to know what his answer was going to be when they asked him the question.
Well, when okay, who do you think led him into the trap?
The interviewer?
Nah.
Like the people at GQ, you think led him into it?
Right, because I mean, that's who they are.
They are devout creatures.
Yeah, but shouldn't shouldn't Phil know that by now?
I mean, I'm shouldn't shouldn't.
So that's why, I mean, Phil does not mince words.
He's gonna tell you what he thinks and takes no prisoner.
Right, there's no way he would survive there was there would be no way that that's why I don't I don't think he got tricked.
I don't think he knew that GQ was out to be I I think he went there on purpose.
But I'm s I'm surprised that he said it I guess, and knowing that it could possibly harm their career, but I'm see that's that's not the case.
That's that's the thing.
Um it's one of two things.
Either he didn't know who GQ was and thought they really wanted to talk to him because they love him and are fascinated with him, in which case he's bought into all this media hype, or he knew exactly who GQ was, part of the liberal media.
I mean, he's gotta ask why why does Gentleman's quarterly, it's it's ostensibly it's about men's fashion.
Why in the world do they want to talk to me?
Would be my question for if I were Phil Robertson.
Okay, so but he still does the interview with them.
The only option is he knows who they are, he knows exactly what they're gonna ask him, and he wants to tell them what he said to them.
Well, he is definitely about spreading the word of what he believes.
Well, there you go.
And I guess maybe he felt like let the chips fall where they may.
Uh, there you go.
You wouldn't describe him as a coward, would you?
Oh my gosh.
No, that would be the last word I would use for him.
Okay.
So if he goes to GQ, he's not gonna get scared wimp out.
He's not gonna the fact that he made the decision to accept the invitation.
I'm uh uh my guess is that all kinds of leftist publications have been dying to interview these guys to try to pull this off.
You know, you know.
Yeah, in some ways I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner.
Yeah, pull a Todd Aiken on him.
Oh, so Phil, what do you think about uh what do you think about abortion?
Uh Phil, what do you think about whatever?
Look at the the the bottom line is the people at GQ, the people at the gay lesbian alliance or so uh uh glad, whatever it is.
Um the people at the human rights watch, for some reason they are really bothered by people like Phil Robertson.
Now that to me is interesting.
What's Phil Robertson, what's f Phil Robertson do anything to them.
What why why are they afraid of it?
But they they've everybody uh ever since that show got big, I guarantee you that there have been conversations, chats, texts, whatever, between various members of the media, about the fun it would be to get hold of one of those A seeds and ruin them.
Let's get one of those hay seeds in here and let's start asking them about God.
And we can take these guys out just like that.
Make no qu make no mistake.
Do it for the fun of it, if for nothing else.
But on the other hand, they're threatened by it, folks.
They are threatened.
And this is my question.
If there is no God, then why worry about people that believe in him?
If there's no sin, and if there isn't any morality or any judgment, why worry about people who believe it?
If it doesn't exist.
How in the world is a guy's got a duck business a threat to you?
Why in the world would the drive-by media want to take that guy out?
And the bottom line, the answer to the question is, they want to take out everybody who does not conform to their belief.
Because they're threatened by it.
Well, why?
Answer that, and then you'll have it all.
Merry Christmas, everybody, and happy new year.
And we've got two more big, exciting broadcast hours left here in 2013.
And I'll try to cover as much of what's relevant today as we can and get your phone calls in.