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Jan. 10, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 10, 2014, Friday, Hour #2
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Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
And that is no mean feat.
I am Rush Limbaugh, America's real anchor man and America's truth detector here on the EIB network on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Fastest week in media.
Already here we are at Friday and another week of NFL playoffs.
The The Peyton Mannings do play this week.
They play the San Diego Chargers.
And you want to hear an interesting stat.
This is one of those just off the wall statistics that you would never bet on it, but it is kind of interesting.
The last four.
Now listen to me very carefully.
The last four Super Bowl winners were the opposing team for the Philadelphia Eagles home opener that year.
That means if that holds, the San Diego Chargers are going to win the Super Bowl this year because the San Diego Chargers were the visiting team for the Philadelphia Eagles home opener this year.
Is that some stat or is that some stat?
The last four Super Bowl winners were the opposing team for the Philadelphia Eagles home opener.
Not the first week game, the first game the Eagles had at home in that in that season.
And the Chargers are playing the Peyton Mannings.
I think that's Sunday.
Tomorrow's games, you got the New Orleans Aints, Saints.
Shows you how far back I go with it.
The Saints are at the Seahawks.
100% chance of rain, flash flood watch, winter storm watch, 100% chance of 45 degrees in Seattle.
I don't know.
The uh the Seahawks manhandle the Saints in week 13, like 37 to 13 or 34 and 13.
So it's not going to be like that again.
The invincibility of the Seahawks at home is gone because the Cardinals beat him in the last week of the season.
And it was the first time the Seahawks had lost at home in two years.
Yeah.
And then Saturday night, you have the Andrew Lux versus the Tom Brady's.
You got the Colts at the New England Patriots.
And that'll be the 8 o'clock.
I haven't looked at the weather on that guy.
I'll look at the weather on that game.
I haven't looked at the weather on that game.
Uh not that it'll matter.
Uh, but it's it's just that's just such a tough, you know.
You've got Bill Belichick who could uh come up with a defensive scheme that Andrew Luck hasn't seen, but does he have the players to pull off the scheme?
That's the that's the thing.
I mean, if it's what is it, rain and wind.
Well, but yeah, but you you gotta look at Foxborough, not Boston.
Foxboro's closer to Providence.
Visiting teams fly in and stay in Providence, Rhode Island when they when they play the Patriots.
Just a little trivia.
Um Patriots have have not been invincible at home in the playoffs.
Brady's not had his best year, but they're the Patriots.
So tough call.
I'm gonna reserve my uh my pick, and I might have to go environmentalist wacko on that pick.
Um and then the other Sunday game is the Forderners at the Carolina Panthers.
Well, you think the 49ers, but the Panthers have been, they've been sneaking up, they won their last 10.
They have perhaps the best linebacker core in the NFL, the second half of this season.
Um for those of you who watch it, the linebacker core now for the hipsters that call games on television, the second level.
If you're watching some of these announcers on TV and they, well, that running back got to the second level.
what the hell is the second level?
It means a linebacker made to tackle.
If you hear that a team is going vertical, it means they're running straight down the field or throwing straight down the field.
If you hear that a wide receiver got great elevation on that pass, it means he jumped.
Some of the stuff that's happening to the language with uh it's not so much the game announcers as the uh color commentators.
Anyway, folks, great to have you open line Friday, L. Rushbow here, and we've got a a burgeoning audio soundbite stack on the Chris Christie press conference and the reaction.
And I let me just repeat what I what I said to open the program.
It has been fascinating to watch.
And by the way, I've got a couple other things I'm gonna get to before.
This is just this is just the the T's.
Speaking of T's, given these unemployment numbers, you know, Obama's gonna need more than five.
What are they called?
Not poverty, uh what five promise zones, promise zones.
He's gonna with these numbers, he's gonna need a lot more than five.
He's gonna need one at least every state, so he's gonna need 57.
Promise zones, and he's gonna need one in Puerto Rico.
Five Promise Zones is not gonna handle this.
Anyway.
Folks, this has been fascinating.
After the Christie press conference, it was just, it was, it's becoming predictable, and that's not a good thing.
You can you can turn on, well, it Fox has always been unpredictable, but now they're they're starting to become, and that's MSNBC CNN, CBSAB, they've always been you knew what they were going to do with Christie.
And now you know what's going to happen on the Republican side.
And the Republican side take on the Christie press conference was that it was a slam dunk home run.
Man, oh man, this guy, greatest leader, greatest potential leader of the Republican Party is fielded in who knows how many years.
Do you see what this guy did?
He made mince meeting to media, he told the truth, he fired a couple of people, he went out there and he basically buried this thing.
And they really thought that was going to be the end of it.
You can tell by looking at some of the post-press conference comments.
I'm not kidding you.
And I was looking at those comments, and I'm I don't know, folks.
I uh some so much of this is how in the world these learned inside the beltway Republicans slash conservative media people still, and the Republican Party still don't get.
They thought, because of how well they both wanted and thought Christie did yesterday, that that was gonna end it.
And I'm I'm I'm I'm reading these comments some of them are making, and I'm I'm hearing them, and I'm in disbelief.
Because all afternoon, all you had to do was turn on CNN and find out that yesterday was just the beginning.
And they're not gonna stop until they fix it.
They're not gonna stop until they have either gotten rid of or discredited Christie to their satisfaction.
They've got federal action investigations going on.
They've got this uh friend of his at the Port Authority took the Fifth Amendment.
That's got them all excited during a hearing in Trenton.
There's no way they're gonna let this go.
And there's no way Letterman last night had Anderson Cooper on, and they told it was the whole Letterman show last night was, well, not the whole show, but I mean almost the whole just made mincemeat of Christie.
Just sliced and diced and threw him to the whales.
It was I accidentally saw the channel surfing around.
I got I uh finished watching what I was watching.
I was on Apple TV, and I I switched back to direct TV, and for some reason it was on the CBS until maybe from the football game over the weekend.
It was Letterman.
I don't watch Letterman.
But there's Anderson Cooper and Letterman, and they're talking about Christie, and I'm I'm remembering what I heard all these learned Republicans say about how Christian slammed on yesterday and ended it and buried it, and they are just ripping Christie apart.
And everywhere else in the drive-by media, the same thing.
If you go to anything published, if you go to any on the air TV or radio, the left is just salivating now.
And in fact, Paul Bedard at the Washington Examiner and the Media Research Center did some studies and they found out that the big three networks spent 17 times as much or covered Christie's story at a rate of 17 times more coverage in one day than they covered Obama's
IRS scandal in six months.
Just the three broadcast networks, their nightly newscasts and everything, and their cable affiliates, seventeen times in one day, more coverage of Christie, and none of it favorable.
Seventeen times more coverage than they gave the IRS scandal in six months.
And all of these learned inside the Beltway Republican types who said that Christie hit a slam dunk and a grand slam and buried this and gave them what for.
And this is the model for how you do it and all that.
Even they had a caveat, which is he better be telling the truth when he said he didn't know.
He better be telling the truth when he said that he asked his staff for a report and they lied to him.
He better be telling the truth that he had absolutely no knowledge of this in any way, shape, manner.
It better be.
They've attached a caveat to it.
Which, I mean, what does that mean?
No, seriously, what does that mean?
Take your pick.
It doesn't matter the names.
I mean, you want a name?
Um I don't know that this guy said it, but let's just make my point, Britt Hume.
Let's say that Brit Hume was on Fox and praising Christie Grant's land.
I don't know that it was Hume, but let's just throw a name.
Okay, you don't like let's say Dr. Crowdhammer, pick a name.
Doesn't matter.
Okay, Dr. Craut.
Dr. Krauthammer, let's just assume, I don't know if he did or not.
Well, actually I do.
Um, praised Christie's performance of the hilt, slam dunk model.
This is how you do it.
Spend as much time with the media as it takes, tell them what for, get rid of it, sweep it, put it behind you, and move on.
Great leadership, classic illustration of how you do it.
And then you say, but it could all fall apart if he's not telling the truth.
Now, what is when whoever adds that caveat, what does that tell you, the viewer?
Yeah, exactly.
It tells me if they've got to throw in the caveat if he's not lying.
It means they don't know either if he's lying or not.
Now, I don't want to get too fine with this.
But if they are not sure after the two-hour presser that Christie was being honest, then why praise it to the hilt?
No, I'm not trying to stir anything up.
I'm just doing what I always folks, I observe and I come here.
I'm a journalist.
In a sense, I observe and I come here and I tell you what I saw.
And I have I have unending curiosity.
I uh I ask questions about practically everything.
That's how I learn.
So that's all I'm doing.
I'm going to stir the thing up.
Now, the Republican leadership, the establishment, they're all upset because I compared them, the Rhinos to wildebeests.
And we've got all the things I said yesterday, that that's the takeaway.
We got the sound bites on that coming.
So we'll get to that and other details.
But that is a startling stat.
Seventeen times in one day, 17 times the coverage the media spent on Obama and the IRS scandal in six months.
And the second part of the observation on the inside the beltway Republican establishment types.
After they said and thought that Christie had hit a home run in the press conference, they were then shocked.
They were surprised the coverage kept going there.
That's what gets me.
I you know, maybe I'm gonna have to give average ordinary voters a pass for not figuring out the left.
Because if our political people inside the beltway still to this day cannot predict what the left is going to do with a scandal like this, if they do not understand, if they really think that a Republican could go out and end a scandal with a press conference.
*sigh*
It means it tells me that they still don't know the nature of the enemy and what we're really up against.
And that's a shocking but true.
Said reality.
All right, a brief timeout, a couple more things on the economy, and then your calls mixed in with the audio soundbite roster on uh on what are they calling it?
Lane Gate, uh Christie Gate.
What what are they what's the name of this scan?
You haven't heard Bridgegate, that's what it is.
Bridgegate.
Okay.
All that coming up.
I know you can't wait.
I can't wait to get started with a sit type.
Back to the phones we go and Rapid City, South Dakota.
This is Jim.
Thank you for calling, sir.
Great to have you here.
Hey, thanks, Rush.
Rush, you know, I think my take on the uh unemployment problem in this country is I think due to the fact that the typical man in this country is just worn out from a war on real men.
And I I guess I cite Camille Paglia's article.
Um state of the health in this nation is definitely directly related to the health of guys.
And I'm on I'm unabashedly a guy.
I have no problem saying I'm attracted to women, I like to work, I'm a manly guy, and everything that seems to be something I like, I'm being told isn't isn't good, you know.
All our manufacturing is being shipped overseas.
Mining for coal, drilling for oil is bad, yet undocumented citizens from other countries can come here under the table and take those jobs from me.
Um, you know, I don't wear pajamas, and never have since I was in four years old.
So I guess a lot of guys just feel it's like an attrition.
Heck, we like to kill our enemy and blow up things, and yet we're told that women can do that just as well.
Everything that makes a guy a guy is being told you can't do that.
Well, you know, sorry, but that's the problem.
I think a lot of guys are dejected, and they're kind of going a little bit gulf.
And so I think you're seeing that some to some extent in the unemployment.
Well, I uh look, I understand some of it.
I don't think there's any doubt, and I that piece that you cite, uh Camille Paglia, uh I agree with it 100%.
There is, and there has been, and it's it's part and parcel of the uh modern era feminism, an attack on masculinity.
Masculinity has been portrayed as the problem uh in America.
Masculinity, male power is the reason there are so many wars.
Male power is the reason so many people get hurt.
Male power is why women and children are not safe in marriage.
Male power equals predatory behavior.
All of this was either stated directly or an undercurrent of modern feminism.
And there has been and there continues to be an attack on masculinity.
You know, I'm jokingly uh humorously referred to it as the chicken of our society.
But how do tell me again, How do you think this is affecting you finding a job?
Well, I'm um it's not affecting me directly, but I just speak for, I guess, men in general.
I just think that guys are are are worn out because we're told that, you know, all the things that we like to do.
Men like to build, men like to work outdoors, all the things there's no Keystone pipeline being built.
And the the things that we could be doing in this country to make us strong and independent, like drilling and mining, we're being told we have been told for the last 20 years is is wrong.
It'll hurt Mother Gaia.
It's everything is not just that, you're destroying the country.
You're destroying the planet when you do what you really want to do as a man.
Exactly.
Hey, I mean, I I I unabashely call myself a lesbian in a man's body.
And if that's the way I have to talk PC fine.
Well, you know, you don't laugh.
This was the first program to actually discover in 1990, male lesbians.
And it's a direct offshoot of the feminist movement.
No, I'm gonna I'm uh I had it and I filed it, and I gotta go find this would be an ideal time.
There was a story earlier in the week that I vowed to get to, and it's in the New York Times, and it's about how seeking success is unhealthy.
And it it will dovetail nicely with this guy's call.
But I and I had it in a stack here, I kept growing the stack of stuff I didn't get to, and it got so big yesterday and it fit, I just trashed it all.
So I've got it as part of a massive file that I'm gonna have to uh spotlight searches up.
But I'll I'll get it in uh in due course.
But it will dovetail nicely.
New York Times story on how seeking success, working hard can make you sick.
Make you it it it can be unhealthy.
It's just you know, it's it's absurd.
Now we had um uh earlier on the program, we had some discussion about uh unemployment and uh things that people can do, people turning out of the workforce, and uh there were some solutions given by uh well-known leftists as to what you can do.
And I'd rather focus Bernie Marcus, he's the Home Depot co-founder, and he says that rather than listen to Chuck Schumer, Chuck Schumer's out there suggesting that well, this unemployment news today, this is so bad, we've got to really start working now on extending unemployment benefits.
And that's what Obama's doing.
So here we are in the midst of an absolute human tragedy, the U.S. economy.
And I don't think there's any other way to look at it.
There's no other way to describe it.
It is a human tragedy what's happening.
In the United States of America, five years, six years in now.
And by design, it's getting worse.
And by design is on purpose because exactly what Obama and the Democrats want to happen is happening.
People are it's it's gone beyond depending on government.
People are now being supported by the government.
And they're okay with it.
Ninety-two million Americans not working.
And for this to be the design of the Democrat Party, it's not hard to understand.
Growing governments, supporting more and more people is never-ending power.
You create all these people dependent on you, they're gonna keep voting for you.
And that's so the the human tragedy here that that is taking place that's occurring, is is something the Democrats want to occur so they can profit from it in their own way.
They can benefit from it.
But I don't listening to Chuck Schumer and Obama and their solution to this is more unemployment benefits.
The solution to the crumbling job market is more welfare.
That's sick.
The Home Depot co-founder is Bernie Marcus.
And he says that America hasn't seen anything yet when it comes to the problems and additional costs that Obamacare is going to deliver to the middle class.
I I've got another thing coming for some of you.
For those of you who are still working and who file quarterly estimated tax payments, if you are an independent contractor, say, or a doctor, or uh if you're not an employee, and if you're if your taxes are not withheld, and you pay them quarterly, well, it's a new year, and wait till you find out what's in store for you.
And it's not just you, but it's going to hit you in its own way.
But everybody is about to be sucked and shocked and soaked with brand new Obamacare taxes.
And Bernie Marcus here is saying that most people, as bad as it has been with the website signing up, but the insurance company having no record of you signing up, finding out you can't keep your doctor signing up, finding out you can't keep your insurance plan, signing up, finding out that your deductible triples, signing up and finding out your premium might double with all of that, Bernie Marcus says, you don't even know the half of what's coming your way.
You haven't seen anything yet, he says.
When it comes to the problems and additional costs that Obamacare is going to deliver to the middle class.
He was uh with Neil Cavuto Wednesday on Fox News.
He said, Neil, it's just the beginning.
Now you have to remember that the mandate they put off the big companies till 2015.
Well, they're supposed to come in in 2014 with everybody else.
So you haven't really seen that hit yet.
That's yet to come.
And I talked to a lot of business owners and small business, especially, people who have 100, 200, 300, 400 people working for them.
And he said that business people tell him they are studying Obamacare, and they can't say if they're going to stop carrying insurance on their employees or if they're going to put more people into part-time jobs, they don't yet fully know.
Neil, you haven't seen anything yet.
And what you are going to see one year from now, January 2015, right after the elections, this coming November.
Although Democrats look beautiful on this one, it is politics as usual.
They've put off this thing because America is going to be hit.
So what is his point is that this was to be the year that everybody got rocked and socked.
This was to be the year of full implementation.
And they've they've delayed many of the mandates and other things that would equal full implementation until after the November election, so that the Democrats are not harmed by what is coming down the pike.
And Bernie Marcus said all of middle class America is going to get very, very hurt, very, very hurt by this.
Because that is where it's going to come out.
So if you're somebody working for a living, if you have been doing this for a number of years, and your employer has been covering you and paying the premium for you, you're going to end up in two ways.
Number one, you are going to end up with very little insurance, and you're going to end up with very, very high co-pays, and you were going to end up with just a mess on your hands.
And he said that he doesn't buy that as more people enroll, the costs are going to go down, and that more people have good coverage at a good cost.
He said, that's not the real world.
Not when the government's involved.
Costs never go down.
Coverage never goes down.
Efficiency never increases when the government is involved.
Nobody has ever said to me, he said, nobody's ever said to me, and I'm talking about this year, nobody's ever said to me, Nobody has said to me that their costs have gone down on insurance.
Nobody.
Everybody's costs are going up.
And yet the regime is out.
How many years have they been promising everybody?
From premiums to copies to out of pocket to deductible.
All of that was going to go down.
It was going to be more affordable.
We're going to reduce the deficit.
All of this magic, nothing but lies.
Now let's draw on top of this this dismal employment news That we got today for the month of December.
And then put in perspective that all the media can't wait to do today's go destroy Chris Christie.
What the people in the media don't understand, well, maybe they do and they're just not taking the chance.
What they don't understand is that Chris Christie probably dealt himself the fatal blow by walking the boardwalk with Obama.
My guess is that people inside the Beltway have long forgotten that think that, oh, that's going to be such a distant memory, that's not going to hurt Christie by the time the 2016 primaries come around.
And this is another example of how genuinely out of touch people inside the Beltway are.
Because I'm telling you, for I don't, I don't know how many, but it's a sizable number of Republican general election and primary voters.
Christie ended his chances one week before the 2012 elections by embracing Barack Obama.
And that's not something people are going to forget.
This Bridgegate thing.
I have no idea what's going to happen.
I know what's going on.
The Democrats are not taking any chances.
You know what's driving Bridgegate?
There are two polls that show that only Christie defeats Hillary.
26.
And that's it.
There are two polls, and I can't even name the polls for you.
I think one of them might be Gallup.
But remember, these people live and die.
Because the polls are them.
They do the polls.
And to them, the poll equals news.
The poll is not public opinion and a reflection of it.
Poll is news to them.
They go out and do a poll, they look at the results, and that happens to be reality in their world.
And so they have two polls.
The media does, that say, now there may be other polls that don't say this, but those are thrown out and not considered.
There are two polls that suggest the only person that can beat Hillary on the Republican side if the election were today is Christie.
And that's why they're going to try to take him out now on Bridgegate.
That's it.
That's the only reason.
Well, it's not the only reason, but it's the 99% reason.
I mean, the other one or two percent is just what they do.
Republican scandal, great, let's take them out.
Let's destroy them.
That's just what they do.
Like lions kill wildebeests.
The media sees a Republican in a scandal, either unreal, fake, or genuine, and it's okay, let's let's stay on this until the guy's finished.
So there's that element, plus the fact that they are in fear because they have two polls that show Christie is but those polls are worthless and meaningless, but that's all they've got, and they're not taking any chances.
As far as Bridge Gate's concerned, I have no clue.
Is Bridgegate going to be something that impacts Christie's presidential fortunes in 2016?
Far, far, far less than walking arm in arm with Barack Obama one week before the 2012 election, when you did the keynote for Obama for Romney at the convention and you and you didn't really do that well.
This is what they don't see.
I guarantee you the people inside the Beltway, they think that's that's that's nothing.
I mean, people forget about that.
They're worried that Bridgegate simply because it's the latest is going to be the determining thing.
And I have no idea how Bridgate's gonna come out.
So I'm like everybody else.
If he told the truth and he didn't know about any of this, the only thing you can say is, well, why not?
I mean, why didn't you know?
I mean, how really there's another question besides that.
This this aid is that he fired the woman who sent the email.
Okay, time for traffic problems in Fort Lee.
The fact that that meant What it meant.
Means that there is a culture there.
Okay, look it.
If I uh in my normal day, I've let's say I got an email.
Okay, time for traffic problems in Fort I wouldn't have the slightest idea what to do with that.
But somebody did.
They knew exactly what that meant.
That to me is quite telling.
On both ends.
The aide sends the email, and the recipient of the email knew what to do with it.
Okay, time for traffic problems at Fort Lee.
Okay, well, what kind of stuff like that went on before that?
That was essentially the education.
Because I doubt there was ever a meeting.
Look, there may be a day when we'll send you an email and it'll say time for traffic problems in Fort Lee.
What that means is you close down three lanes or two lanes for a month, and you cause all kinds of traffic so that we can end up blaming it on the on the mayor there.
I doubt that meeting was ever held.
So what the email means is that whoever sent it, well, the woman that sent it and and the recipient knew that that means the mayor of Fort Lee is a scumbag, and it's time to get even with this scumbag, and we're gonna pay this scumbag back by ruining traffic in his town.
So there's a culture there.
That is something eventually somebody will get on to that.
Right now they're just focused on whether or not he lied.
I gotta take a time out.
Sit tight, my friends, we'll be back.
Don't go away.
John in Philadelphia, we head back to the phones, the EIB Network here with Rush Limbaugh.
Great to have you, John.
Hi.
Mega Ditto's Rush, I pray that you uh stay healthy forever.
I wanted to uh talk about how my dad he taught me how to think when I was in college, and I think you've actually given me a master's degree in thinking.
Um he was a professor in Philadelphia.
Um and when I was in college, what he did was I came in, you know, being a college punk that I was, um spouting off what my professors were telling me, and basically, you know, telling my dad, it was during the Reagan years, you know, oh look at how terrible Reagan is this, that my dad was like, Look, he was one of only three conservatives on the campus.
The guy used to eat alone because none of the teachers, you know, they they pegged him as the conservative, none of them wanted to eat with him or or be any part of him.
So as his teaching to me, what he did was I had three roommates, we had a quad, and he got me a subscription to the Washington Times, you know, because I was saying, oh, I read the Philadelphia Inquirer, I watch the the local news, and I I get my information, I know what I'm talking about.
And as we started to look at articles that were written the same way, um we started to realize, hey, this is completely different.
This is a different slant.
This is you know, look at look at what we're reading here, and we would debate every night, my roommates, and we learned how to think.
All four of us now are conservatives.
Um I want to thank you, obviously, for producing some uh uh a great book.
I've actually read it myself.
I'm into the uh the Constitution, I'm into the founding, I'm into um you know a lot of the things that you read the Rush Revere book?
I did.
You know what?
I I'm I'm gonna have my uh I'm gonna read it to my seven-year-old at some point when she's either eight or nine.
I'm not sure.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Let me send you an audio version.
You don't have to wait for her to be able to read it.
I'll send the audio version and you can let her hear it.
Well, I mean and then she'll be able to read it later on.
Be able to know.
I'll send her a Ted T. Bear, too.
Oh, that would be awesome.
Yeah, so don't hang up when we finish here, so Snerdley can get your address.
You know, I I appreciate that.
I uh one things I find as I as I get older, I take critical thinking for granted because it was the way I was raised, too.
And I was exposed to it.
First became aware of of thinking, having opinions at nine or ten years old.
And I am as I shouldn't be.
I I am I am dumbstruck.
Uh when I find out th the the robotic thinking that's exact that's out there.
It's it's it's not even really thinking.
It's just blind acceptance of conventional wisdom in every demographic.
And it uh as I say, it shouldn't surprise me, because I understand it, but it does, because thinking isn't that hard.
Anyway, be back after the I still have a lot that I want to get to in the next hour, and it's uh it's a lot.
I may have to go lickety split.
Come back soon and get started with it.
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