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Jan. 3, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 3, 2014, Friday, Hour #3
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Hi, folks.
We just have an hour left, and there's a lot of stuff I want to squeeze in here.
I've been holding sound bites all week at the media.
I mean, even when I was out on vacation, still blaming me for whatever the Pope was doing or comparing me with it.
Whatever.
I've got those sound bites.
And uh well, we got other exciting stuff.
Let's just get to it.
It's Friday.
Let's go.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
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You remember last time I was in LA, I went out to dinner.
I told you one of the guys told me very sheepishly, well, not sheepishly, but moderately defensively he had bought a Tesla.
An electric car.
Now Rush!
Wait, no, no, no.
I'm not an environmentalist.
I'm not buying this thing because I'm trying to save the environment.
I just I just like the car.
It's okay.
That's okay.
Fine and dandy.
Well-known TV producer, you would all know.
Show you would all know.
Didn't mention any of that.
That's not the point.
I just thought it was funny that he was.
And I it's the end of the dinner, but a rush or something I gotta tell you.
Yeah, what?
I'm getting a Tesla.
But Rush, but it's nice.
It's not because I'm a wacko.
It's not because I've I'm trying to save the planet.
I just love the car.
I think it's a great car.
It's the best car in the road.
It's the best car you can get out there.
I just can't wait to get it.
I get it in January.
Well, anyway, the guy got his car.
And he just sent me a picture of the dashboard.
He's got my website on the apparently there's internet in his car in his Tesla.
And uh he said he sent it to a friend and he asked the friend to forward it to me.
He says, Can you can you forward this to Rush?
It's his website on my new Tesla screen.
There it is right there.
I just didn't hold it up, but uh it's it's Rush Limbaugh.com right above his map in his uh in his Tesla screen.
He heard me tell the story about him buying a uh Tesla.
You know, talk about football games, uh, the Packers and the Fort Runners.
That if you're really concerned about the uh uh the conditions uh being an advantage or disadvantaged certain team, the real challenge, the real team of the real challenge this weekend is New Orleans.
New Orleans going into Philadelphia.
The Saints just do not win on the road.
They play in the dome, but they just have a tough time.
You can look it up, they have a tough time on the road wherever they go.
And when you start adding cold weather to it, it gets even tougher.
This has been documented for them.
They lose in Seattle.
You remember two years ago, the Saints were, I think were 11-5, the Seahawks were seven and nine, but made the playoffs, won the division at seven and nine, so they got a home game.
The 11 and five Saints go out there and lose.
Because nobody wins in Seattle, because that station's cons uh uh stadium is constructed in such a way as to shield, it's not a dome, but there's a roof, essentially, over the upper deck, so that the fans stay dry in the rains of Seattle.
That keeps the noise in.
It's the noisiest stadium in the league.
And nobody, only one team has won in Seattle, one road team in the last two years, and that's the Arizona Cardinals just last month.
So the Saints have a biggest challenge going into Philadelphia, uh, playing a road game in the elements.
It's gonna be cold.
I don't think there's any snow or rain forecast, but get this.
Let's go to Sal Palantonio this afternoon on Sports Center on ESPN.
Ice and snow and Eagles fans don't exactly mix, so it's a security issue as well as a safety issue.
The Philadelphia Police Department also tells me that what they are doing is adding extra undercover police officers dressed in New Orleans Saints gear.
Why?
Because when the Detroit Lions came here and lost in the snow, a Lions fan wearing a Barry Sanders jersey was attacked outside Lincoln Financial Field and beat up, and they want to crack down on that.
They're putting the word out now that undercover detectives will be in Saints Garb looking for hooligans who decide to act up.
So the latest NFL controversy is undercover cops making sure that Philadelphia fans don't beat up Saints fans.
They just don't engage in general mayhem.
And the undercover cops are going to be wearing Saints garb to attract the hooligans in Philadelphia attacking them.
You know, it does it borders on it.
This is the place the former governor of Pennsylvania was a seasoned ticket holder at the Eagles over at the vet, and he used to throw snowballs from the upper deck.
Ed Rendell.
This is the place Santa Claus got booed.
Yeah, they've they've in Philadelphia, they've got a courtroom in the stadium.
They did.
I don't know if they do at the link, but at the vet they had a courtroom in the stadium to handle misdemeanors that took place and and and many felonies that took place while the game was going on.
And so the Saints are going into a very, very raucous environment there where they don't do well on the road anyway.
That's that's if there's one team with a disadvantage being on the road, you might think it's the Fordiners going into Green Bay.
It's actually the Saints uh going into Philadelphia.
Since we're talking about the NFL, Chris Cloey, the punter for the Minnesota Vikings, the ex-punter, has really started up now.
You know, he got going on gay marriage and became one of the biggest advocates for it, and he's now claiming he was cut.
He was cut by the Vikings, and he claims that the head coach and the general manager were cowards, and that his special teams coach was a bigot.
The special teams coach has denied the charge that he is anti-gay and said the anti-gay things that Chloe said that he said.
So this is a major bro that is erupted.
And we have some audio sound bites on this.
This is uh this is Chloe, he was on ESPN radio uh talking about the article he wrote was for deadspin.com.
And here's Cloey explaining why he was cut by the Vikings.
What is the logical conclusion that I can draw from this?
Because my numbers haven't changed.
They were on my career average, which has been best in Vikings history, and which uh got me a very nice contract with the Vikings, which I had one year left.
And the only thing that changed from the year before to when I got cut was I had started speaking out vocally about same-sex rights.
Yeah, but that what here's it's really what he wrote here.
I mean, he was uh I read I read his dead spin piece, and he was he says that his special teams coach, I can't remember the guy's name right now, he said the special teams coach told him that he was gonna burn in hell with the gays and making fun of gays and uh that the uh head coach uh tried to get him to shut up, don't talk about it, fly into the radar, don't mention his stuff, stay silent.
General manager Rick Spielman said the same thing.
Chloe refused, and he kept talking about it, and he decided to write this piece after the season so as not to be a distraction for the Vikings during the season.
But he's made some serious charges against these guys, and at least the position coach, the special teams coach, is out there denying it with a pretty long statement today.
Uh Chloe now thinks there's no way he's ever gonna play in the NFL again because of this.
And he he thinks of himself as an equal rights uh uh spearhead.
I mean, he's uh he's out there leading the charge for human equality, dignity, and all of this.
Uh, and he thinks that that's why he got Mike Preyfer.
Mike Preiffer is the special teams coach for the Vikings that Cloy says a bigot.
An anti-gay bigot with uh quotes of what the guy said to him.
The coaches denied it, and now there's an investigation.
The Vikings are investigating, the NFL is investigating as all kinds of investigation.
Chloe uh thinks now that his NFL career is over.
I'm pretty sure I did.
You can't really write a piece like that and then uh expect a lot of teams to come calling.
You know, that's one of the realities of the NFL.
And he is one of these uh he's he he believes that gay marriage should be legal under the concept of human equality, that homosexuals denied the right to marry are being denied equality.
And that is his uh impetus.
That's the main thrust of his argument that he's making here.
But it and and he's he's been very outspoken about it for a number of years.
But the piece that he wrote in Denspin is really names names and quotes people, and if they did say what he's quoted them as saying, it's it's uh pretty bad stuff, but they're all denying it.
Well, at least the sp the the special teams, the position coach, is a fevered denial.
Um but I guess I guess for Clue, this is Selma, the equivalent of the uh March and Selma.
Remember the story yesterday of the illegal immigrant who is now allowed to practice law.
State Supreme Court California said that an illegal alien can certainly get a law license in California and can practice law.
CNN caught up with the guy, Sergio Garcia is his name, and the question says look, there are critics who look at this and say that there's an irony that you're now able to practice law even though you don't really have legal status here.
You broke the law coming to this country, now you can practice law.
What do you say, Sergio, about that irony?
Well, I would say, you know, at first blush, that might be the easiest response, but in reality, if you look at all the facts, I was brought here as a minor.
I immediately applied for a green card.
That has been approved.
And I've been waiting for 19 years.
I think if somebody's frustrated with that or has uh some issues with that, I think the federal government is the one to be addressing in um, you know, talking to both Republicans and Democrats in D.C. and telling them to get their act together and fix this immigration system.
So you don't like that I'm a lawyer, change the system.
But I'm a lawyer now, or at least I can become one.
I've got a I've got a law license.
One more bite.
Number 13, Mr. Broadcast Engineer.
This is yesterday, last night in the Fox News special report, Brett Bear, the Fox News All-Stars.
Uh, George Will was talking about the uh economy and jobs and so forth.
And I read a couple of blogs today who thought that this was just the most brilliant thing they've ever heard.
They thought, my God, this is smart.
Wow, we haven't heard this before.
Wow, this is really, really smart.
And here's what George Will said.
We've lowered the unemployment rate largely, not entirely, but largely because workforce participation rate has gone down.
There's more and more workers have been discouraged and are no longer counted anymore because they're not looking for work.
If the workforce participation rate today were as high as it was when the recession began, the unemployment rate would be 11.3%.
We wouldn't be calling it a poor recovery because we wouldn't call it a recovery at all.
What's that?
What's that you say?
I have.
I've been talking about this for two years.
I thought it was three that I've been talking about it.
But regardless, I have.
I've been talk.
You know, I thought it sounded familiar.
And Snerdley is reminding me, I've been talking about this for two or three years.
But the the guy that really started analyzing labor force participation rate and what the current unemployment rate would be, Was our old buddy Jim Pethacoukas at the American Enterprise Institute?
Who is starting to moderate a little bit on the dangers of debt?
It's not that big a deal, he says anymore.
We really, the Republicans need to get over this idea that debt is a problem.
But it was Petha Cucas that first started exam and Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge, who started looking at the labor force participation rate.
This is we have.
We've talked about this for at least two years.
Folks, there there are 91 million Americans not working in this country.
The number of people, the labor force has shrunk by nine million human beings since Obama took office.
This is the point that I've been making the last two years.
The unemployment rate is only low because the universe of people looking for a job has shrunk.
The labor force participation rate is so low, 91 million Americans not working.
Unemployment rate 7.3% is so bogus.
Anyway, I was I read a couple blogs today, and they just thought this was the most brilliant thing they had ever heard.
And they had not heard it before.
And they thought we were so lucky to have such smart people on our side on Fox who can figure this out.
And I thought, well, it sounds familiar.
So thank you for reminding me, Mr. Snerdley.
Okay, so I looked it up.
Uh ladies and gentlemen, the first known instance of me discussing the labor force participation rate and how it was driving down the unemployment rate was get this, February 4th, 2011, almost three years ago.
And numerous times since, maybe so many times that many of you might have gotten tired of hearing about it.
But we first mentioned the phenomena of people leaving the job market, the labor force participation rate shrinking, and that causing the unemployment rate to go down.
Well, that's true.
And so it's it it's it's i it just it's fascinating.
So these two bloggers, I guess because it was on TV.
Wow.
I never thought of that.
Wow, that's so smart.
Anyway, uh just wanted to get it on record three years ago.
This Clis Chris Cloey thing, folks, there's a lesson here.
If you think you are about to lose your job, immediately become an advocate for a very far left wing cause, and then when you lose your job, blame the employer for getting rid of you because he's a bigot.
It's an interesting technique.
Not saying Cloy did it, but there's a lesson here for others.
Others have done this, by the way.
I'm not saying Cloey did it.
I'm not sure he's right about his punting effort.
He he did not have a good year.
One of the reasons he was cut is because he was not having.
But he addresses that in this article.
So, well, the coaches were asking me not to punt it as far.
Because we had such a lousy special team, they couldn't cover deep kicks.
So the coaches were asking me to kick it higher and shorter to give our decrepit team more time to get down to the ball carrier.
He certainly wrote, here's uh here's Dusty in Charleston, West Virginia.
Great to have you on open line Friday.
Hello.
Hey, Russ, how are you, sir?
Fine, thank you much.
I was calling uh pointing out that uh during the uh the push for the Affordable Care Act, the president and other supporters of the law were constantly refer uh referencing the possibility that uh someone could lose their life savings, lose everything they have uh in the event that they didn't have adequate coverage and would, you know, fall ill or have some sort of accident.
Right, one illness away from bankruptcy.
Right, right.
And uh while the the conversation started, they immediately eliminated tort reform from the equation.
And that just goes against that kind of belief.
I don't I don't know why this president doesn't share the same sentiment that the uh you know, a business owner, small business owner, or physician, um, could lose everything that they have, uh, everything that they work for to build up their business or their practice if they were to, you know, have to go through some sort of litigation or some sort of uh uh privilege lawsuit or mouth.
Are you s are you are you being serious?
No, I'm you're being facetious.
Right.
I mean, I I mean I think I know the answer to the question, but I mean, I'm just pointing it out.
I mean, there's a there's a there's quite a yeah, exactly, because this president doesn't care about small business is the villain.
Right.
Business is the villain.
The f the free market, capitalism, the private sector is the villain.
They're where all the mean people are that don't care about their employees' health care, and so the government has to come in and do it for them.
And so the tort bar suing people left and right, putting them out of business is exactly what they deserve.
That's what your modern Democrat Party believes.
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Did you people know that I want Hillary Clinton elected president?
Well, well, it happened uh this morning on on C-SPAN on their Washington Journal show.
Uh Peter Slenn, the host, was interviewing American University Women and Politics Institute director Jennifer Lawless.
And during the interview, they took some phone calls from C-SPAN viewers about women in politics.
And a guy from Rochester, Snowden, no doubt, Andrew, called in and had this to say.
I'm a little afraid that Rush Limbaugh is gonna get uh Hillary Clinton uh elected.
Why do you say that, Andrew?
You're calling on the Republican line.
Well, Rush Limbaugh, I don't think is interested in getting Republicans elected.
I think he's interested in getting uh Democrats elected so that the people that pay Rush Limbaugh can make more money off of a divided country.
That's just what I think.
Anyway, if Rush Limbaugh does get Hillary elected, which is what the people that pay Rush Limbaugh would like him to do, do you think that Hillary Clinton would be a good president, or do you think she's just in it for the money, like a lot of people think?
So the people that pay me are in it for the money, I'm in it for the money, and Hillary's in it for the money.
The people that pay Rush Limbaugh want Hillary elected.
Operation this guy, he maybe remembers Operation Chaos and may be totally confused about what it was.
But I doubt that.
I I just think this is your average low information idiot who thinks he knows everything.
And he doesn't listen here and he doesn't know what goes on here, but he reads what is said or broadcast about me, and he thinks that I don't believe what I say, and I'm just in it for the money, and I want Democrats elected, so I'll have people to oppose and argue about and conflict that I don't want my own guys to win, which is just pure idiocy.
It's lunacy.
Anyway.
So that was Andrew in Rochester.
Here is Jennifer Lawless from American University Women in Politics Institute.
She's the director.
Here's her reaction.
I think that Rush Limbaugh cannot get anybody elected president.
But if we go down the path of assuming that Hillary Clinton is the nominee and then does get elected, she's in a position right now where it would be far more lucrative for her not to run for office and not to be president of the United States.
She and her husband can both command speaking salaries and that far exceed what she would make as president.
It's hard to find a candidate, though, with uh better resume and more diverse experience than she has.
Absolute lunacy all over C SPAN today.
Just total lunacy.
I mean, so say here's this guy who calls and makes it all about money.
And so this woman just says, okay, well, I'll deal with this guy on the base of money, and then say, well, there's no way Hillary could make anywhere near the kind of money being present that she could if she was an elected president, because she couldn't get paid for speeches and so forth.
But if she ran, there's nobody better.
No better resume and more diverse experience.
How about competence, Jennifer?
There isn't any.
Ben Ghazi, Hillary Care, the Bimbo eruptions.
Would somebody explain to me?
So I've told you.
This this business with Hillary is not about her competence.
It is not about her qualifications.
It's about what she is owed for making sure that Clinton survived.
It's about paying her back for all of the excrement sandwiches she had to eat while married to that guy while they were in Arkansas and everywhere else.
During the bimbo eruptions during Clinton running around with Monica Lewinsky, she enabled him to stay in office.
She enabled him to stay married.
She did all of that.
And it's her turn.
And it was her turn in 2008 until Obama came along.
And then the party powers chose the young black guy over the uh uh over her.
And she's been a dutiful soldier since then.
So now it's her turn.
And they tell us diverse and resume and all of this.
What about competence?
Quick call, Sandy.
Sandy in Beaverton, Oregon.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Happy New Year, Rush.
Same to you.
I was listening to you early on your show, and I I just I I had a thought about the uh lovely new communist mayor of uh New York.
The lovely new communist mayor of New York.
Yes, I think his uh constituents are going to be very happy.
He can guarantee he can absolutely guarantee equitable treatment of all the neighborhoods in the snow removal.
The beauty of communism, he can do nothing and everybody will be treated equally.
I like that.
Do nothing and everybody is treated fairly.
Do not and everybody's treated the same.
Exactly.
That's the whole idea of communism, right?
Yeah.
Well, that's the dream.
But the point is he's not gonna do nothing.
That's the problem.
This guy's gonna do a lot under the guise of equality.
Oh, absolutely.
I live in Oregon, Rush.
Yeah.
You know better than most.
That's true.
Well, it's gonna be fun to watch.
Uh to an extent.
It's gonna be painful at the same time.
But it's very painful.
It's gonna be fun to watch.
Because uh, here again, what you have are are a bunch of people now in office who think they've got all the answers.
And they're gonna put their dream in action here.
And there's gonna be total fairness, total equality, equal redistribution.
There ain't gonna be any pain.
There ain't gonna be any suffering.
Uh it's it's just it's gonna it's gonna be utopia now.
New York is what?
Oh, I haven't seen those stories.
Oh, all yet, Florida is about in in terms of population.
Yeah, Florida's about to become more populated than uh than New York is.
But I haven't seen any stories about me, about how.
Yeah.
Well, that's that I mean, let me tell you something.
In fact, I saw a story last night of migration taking place in this country where people are leaving and where they're going.
New York and Connecticut, there is a there's a migration, people are leaving those two states like crazy.
And they are migrating to no income tax states.
In large part, they are coming to Florida.
And of course, it was I, L. Rushball, who began that migration.
They called it the limbaugh migration.
Started in 1997.
There's no question about it.
Back to the phones to go, Brendan, Norfolk, Virginia.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush Baby, Fighting Irish and Surface Navy Ditto's there, Rush.
Uh thank you very much, sir.
Appreciate that.
Hey, at uh on our Christmas travels with my wife and uh two small children.
We had a great time listening to your uh audio version of the Rush Revere book.
Thank you, sir.
Uh I had uh uh a quick question, though, and I know where your allegiances lie, uh, but what type of cell phone does Rush Revere use to transmit video over the space-time continuum.
I'd be uh interested in hearing that.
Well, as you know, the brand of telephone Rush Revere uses is not specified in the book.
Yes, sir.
There are a few reasons for this.
Uh but suffice it to say that Rush Revere is able to take his iPhone with him as he time travels with the horse liberty and is able to take video of what he sees and bring it back and show actual history to his classroom.
Yes, he was.
That that was pretty cool.
Uh I haven't heard you talk about this in a while, and I just would appreciate your comments.
I'm a little bit of electronics buff uh like yourself.
I haven't heard you talk about the new MacBook Pro.
Or no, the the Mac Pro, the new one they come out with.
Uh wonder if you've had it, and I would appreciate any comments on that and the other Apple products that you know have recently come out.
Okay.
Well, look, the Mac Pro.
It's interesting that you should ask about this.
The Mac Pro is Apple's new desktop.
It hasn't been refreshed in three years.
There were some people thought they're going to let it go by the wayside because they don't sell that many of them and they're focusing on mobile uh and and more consumer priced goods.
And the Mac Pro is a pro machine, it's for video, Hollywood, movie TV editing, and this kind of thing.
So this new Mac Pro is out, and I've been very fascinated trying to learn about it.
And I've read a number of reviews who are and the reviews are reviewing the machine as it would be used by professional video editors, but they have not reviewed it as I would use it.
So I haven't actually been able to learn whether it's any faster than what I've some of the reviews have said that the new Mac Pro is no faster in certain configurations than a current iMac or a MacBook Pro laptop.
It turns out that isn't true.
I actually have a Mac Pro.
I don't have it set up.
I haven't had it delivered.
It's in the hands of my IT consultant.
I had him run some tests on it.
And it it outruns in finder operation, for those of you know what I'm talking about.
Just in making copies and dealing with email and and uh standard ordinary finder operations, it just races past anything out there.
And if you do use it for video editing, there's nothing like it.
There's absolutely nothing like it on the market.
And it would it would cost the thing uh it peaks at around 10 grand, and if you wanted to put it together, say on a Windows machine, or it's the cheapest you can get for what you get with it.
If you wanted to put it together uh with parts using other systems, the minimum price would be 13 grand, what it would cost you.
And this thing peaked out is it is it ten, a little bit under ten.
So I'm excited.
Uh I'm not gonna have it installed here for use for two or three weeks, but it's uh it's apparently the real the real deal.
But I I I back to your your question on um on Rush Revere and the and the Brave Pilgrims.
Uh you know, I I just continue, folks, we we just continue to be inundated with with mail from young people who are reading this book and who are loving it.
And I j I I cannot I just don't know how to convey to you uh the sense of achievement or or success that that we all feel with this because we targeted a market here.
This this book uh the this book has a has a as a mission, and the mission is to contradict and to counter some of The falsehoods that are being taught to young people in the public school system and in the university system when they get there about the founding of this country.
This country was not founded in an unjust or immoral way.
It was not founded with inequality.
It was not founded by a bunch of racist, bigot, sexist homophobes.
it That just outrages me.
And so, you know, people have been urging me to do another book, and I said, No, I've been there, done that.
I've done two of them, and the conservative manifesto book market is just everybody's doing one.
And I'm, you know, I don't do things other people have done.
And it was my wife, Catherine, who said, well, you care about education.
Why don't you do a book for kids?
About the pilgrims.
You're big on the true story of Thanksgiving.
And that lit a fire.
That got me all jazzed up and charged.
And so we did it.
And it's uh it's just it's been a great experience, and it's uh it's just a fantastic start to what is a mission.
Now, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, what the the premise is we have Rush Revere, who is the spokesman for Two If by T, the best iced tea company in the world, by the way, and the best tasting iced tea, and he's got a time traveling horse.
And they can go anywhere in American history, anywhere.
You set that vehicle up as a device, as a creative device as an author would do, and it's limitless.
The possibilities are limitless in what you can do in terms of storytelling and conveying the truth of American history.
And the first book, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, was about really the very foundational beginnings of this country, and who those people were, what they went through, how they got here, why they wanted to come, what happened to them when they did get here, and what did they wrought, uh, what they wrought.
It's just it was it's been really exciting.
And uh we had a we had a great fall, great holiday season with the book, and it's it's still out there, still going like gangbusters.
Uh and I I just I I can't tell you how gratified I am by it because it's uh this is it just didn't do another book to do another book.
Just didn't do it to do it because it's out there to be done.
It actually has a mission.
And get these calls from young people who've read it, uh, telling me how much they like it.
It's it's just the best.
It's hard to describe the feeling.
And to read the email that they're sending to the red to the website, 2fbyt.com is the website, and the adventures of Rush Revere portal is there.
Uh and we've got big plans for that.
Huge plans for the entire the entire enterprise.
This is step one.
And to have it received like this has just been uh has been profound.
You know, I haven't been on TV talking about it.
I haven't done any interviews and trying not to overdo it, just mention it occasionally here on the radio program, and it just has been fantastic.
And I I would be remiss if I didn't take a little time here and thank everybody for helping to make it a success.
Because, as is the case, every aspect of this show, none of it do I take for granted.
None of it would be happening without you.
And I have eternal uh humility and gratitude for all that that you are making possible for me.
Got to take a brief time out.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Don't go away.
You know, all of the promotion for Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims has been word of mouth.
Literally.
I purposely didn't put myself all over TV talking about it.
Um, because that's not the purpose.
That wasn't why to do it.
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