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Jan. 17, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 17, 2014, Friday, Hour #3
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El Rushbo and the EIB network on Friday.
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I'm sorry, folks.
I just have to guard against this when it comes to Obama and the Democrats.
I don't even think it is cynicism.
I was going to say I'm a natural cynic.
It's not cynicism.
It's reality.
Now, let me explain this.
I have been reading some of the, shall we say, some of the learned reaction to President Obama's speech today about changes in the NSA surveillance programs of the American people.
And one of the things that I guess is taking hold out there is we got to be very careful not to be critical of President Obama when he was a candidate.
Because it's natural that a candidate would take political shots at a sitting president and then become president and the responsibilities totally changed.
And it's only fair to judge a president as president, but to go back and to compare what he said as a camp.
Now, the reason this is being done is because when Obama was just a senator, he was just laying into Bush and the NSA at every chance he got about how rotten it was to spy and how this was so outside the Constitution and it was not legal and it was government getting too big.
And now, now that Obama's president, NSA is doing more spying on Americans than it ever has, and it's sweeping in more data than it ever has.
And Obama went out there today, and here's more conventional wisdom.
He went out there, and this was a tough balance that he had to strike because he's got to protect the American people.
And he's got to balance doing everything he can to protect the American people with protecting their privacy and their civil rights.
And it's a very, very difficult thing for a president to do.
And I said, what?
We're dealing with a total hypocrite here, in my view.
Now, and this is where it may sound cynical.
And this is where it is crucially important for people to understand what a politician's ideology is.
Obama loves having this power of spying on people.
Folks, I don't think spying on people is what's going on here.
I don't think they're listening to your phone call to find out what you're doing that may be breaking law.
I don't think they care.
I think this is data collection on enemies, domestic enemies.
That's who these people are.
They're not stopping terrorism with all of this data that they're collecting and all the collating they're doing and all of the metadata.
They didn't stop the terrorism at the Boston Marathon, the Sinai brothers, and they had all the data.
They didn't know, I don't know that either they couldn't, which is most likely, because they probably couldn't put it all together.
It's just so much damn data.
It's more than you can conceive.
But these are the kind of people, I think, who relish having the data.
Look at what they did with the IRS.
That's who they are.
You give people who want the government to be as big as it can be.
You give people who want the government to be as intrusive as it can be, of course, for good intentions to make things fair, to make things equal.
You put that kind of people in power, and they're going to avail themselves of every opportunity to use that power and acquire even more as they can.
And if people are going to willfully ignore the kind of people Eric Holder, Obama are and so forth, then what they get, they deserve.
But the key for me is, again, Obama didn't know how bad it was.
How long is this going to go on?
And how long is this going to be a valid excuse?
How long are we going to let people get away with it?
He didn't know.
And boy, when he found out, you should have seen how mad he was.
He didn't know about Benghazi.
He didn't know about Fast and Furious.
He didn't know about the IRS being spied on and the Tea Party being hamstrung by the IRS.
He didn't know any of that.
Really?
Yeah, he didn't know the economy was as bad as it is either.
He didn't know unemployment was as bad.
He didn't know anything.
And that's all part of Obama constructing himself as an outsider, battling against powerful forces trying to undermine him.
It's all part of Obama's continuing quest to somehow get away with not being accountable for anything after five years in office.
Now, if people aren't going to admit, we've got a guy pretending to be dictator here for crying out loud, this guy willy-nilly changing his own health care law, one day exempting that group, the next day exempting that group, and openly promising, you know, if Congress doesn't give me what I want, I'm just going to do it.
Well, we have no excuse for being ignorant.
We're being told from the horse's mouth.
So I just, I'm looking at all the conventional wisdom here now to excuse, because Obama, I mean, as a candidate, was just excoriating Bush and anybody having to do with the NSA.
And now we're told, well, you know, you really can't, you can't hold him accountable for that because he didn't know.
It's really different when you become president, Mr. Limbaugh, because then you hold John Chain.
Then you have to protect the American people and their primacy at the same time.
It's a really tough balance.
And candidates, of course, are going to say what they say.
Yeah, right.
So this is just another example here we have of being told we need to excuse behavior that need not and should not be excusable.
Obama said today, our system of governance built on the premise that our liberty cannot depend on the good intentions of those in power.
It depends upon the law to constrain those in power.
Well, I'm sorry, but the laws that constrain him in his power, he is ignoring.
And it is precisely his good intentions and only his good intentions that we are allowed to judge him on.
And that's true for the whole left.
I mean, they've botched every entitlement program.
It is an absolute mess.
The war on poverty hasn't changed anything.
The great society, the elimination of income and wealth inequality, hasn't done anything.
We're not supposed to judge the results.
We are supposed to judge their big hearts and their good intentions and how much they care.
At least they tried, blah, blah, blah.
Well, I'm sorry.
I've lived long enough now, and I know enough about who these people are, the kind of people they are, to recognize BS when I see it.
And I still think that this thing today, this NSA business, is really nothing more than the latest effort to distract everybody away from the other things that are going disastrously bad.
The economy, Obamacare, which is an absolute mess, it's almost incomprehensible.
They don't know how many people have paid.
People who think they've signed up can't get proof from an insurance company.
Four out of five enrollees are being subsidized.
It's an absolute total mess.
Okay, but the audio soundbites.
And yes, in honor of the late Ken Hutcherson, we will have discussions about the two championship games in the National Football League on Sunday.
Let's start here.
This was this morning in Los Angeles.
KTTV, Fox Eyeball News.
Good day, LA.
Meteorologist Rick Dickert and the co-host Steve Edwards had this on-air exchange about the wildfires out there.
We see wildfires every month now in Southern California.
With global climate change, all the atmospheric scientists agree that our summers will be longer, hotter, and drier with shorter windows of rain and snow.
Okay, well, call Rush Limbaugh and tell him that.
Is that not great?
And they're doing a bunch of BS about mythical global warming in the midst of the coldest winter anybody can remember.
And fires now every week and bigger and better than ever.
And make sure to tell Rush Limbaugh.
I was reading one of my tech blogs today.
Let me see if I, did I print it out?
I think.
I think I did, and I might—it's won a tech blog.
What?
Oh, really?
Three people have been arrested, suspecting of starting the fire.
You mean human beings are starting to fire?
Wait a minute.
What are they arresting people for?
They need to be arresting what?
Carbon dioxide.
They're arresting human beings for starting.
That's right.
CNN says they've arrested three people for starting the fire.
But the LA guys, Rick Dickert and Steve Edwards just said that it was global warming.
They got to let those guys go.
They didn't start the fire.
LA, it was on TV today.
Global warming started and every other fire.
And Rick Dickert and Steve Edwards said so.
KTTV, Fox Eyeball News.
Somebody call them.
Tell them to turn on CNN.
Three human beings have been arrested for starting the fire.
This global warming thing, this is another timely illustration of how the left works and how they've succeeded here.
So you have these two robots, essentially, these LATV guys, they're just global warming.
They're not even curious about it.
They don't even challenge the belief.
They just accept it for whatever reason.
And they actually end up saying things like, global warming starting fires.
Never mind, they've arrested three guys that started the fires.
They really do believe this stuff.
And if they're young enough, that would be the explanation.
They've heard it ever since they first started learning things as students.
So I was reading my tech blogs yesterday.
As you know, it's my hobby.
Read them every day.
And I came across a tech blog called Gizmodo, which is the tech blog of the Gawker guys.
And the world's biggest global warming offenders visualized.
And there's a map here of which countries are the greatest offenders.
Now, UNIA is a hoax.
There is no man-made global warming.
The emails, the fraud, all of it has been discovered.
Doesn't matter.
To these people, the science is settled.
They believe everything the UN tells them.
They believe everything the government tells them.
They are dutiful little children of socialism.
The government is the final authority.
The government never lies.
The government is totally benevolent.
The government is always looking out for them.
The government is the final authority.
Any government.
The THICOM government, the United States government, the United Nations.
They are never questioned.
New calculations show that the U.S., China, Russia, Brazil, India, Germany, the U.K. are responsible for more than 60% of the global warming between 1906 and 2005.
Now, I'm telling you, people that read this are going to, they're also going to accept it as gospel.
So here you have an individual who claims to be able to prove that those countries are responsible for more than 60% of the global warming in a century.
Unquestioned.
The data provided by the UN, unquestioned.
Whatever happened to youth rebelling?
Whatever happened to youth challenging authority?
Whatever happened to that?
Now, these are the biggest slaves to whatever governments say, to whatever the United Nations, it's generally frightening in a sense at how totally manipulable these young people are.
They have been totally manipulated, and they furthermore are arrogant about it.
They think that they understand the science and that they are the experts and that nobody who believes, people that don't believe this are idiots, stupid, or worse, or what have you.
And they're the ones who have no curiosity.
They're the ones who have no suspicion that they might be being misled.
Anyway, if you look at the map, every country here is color-coded according to its contribution.
And while they maintain here in the text of the story that U.S., China, Russia, Brazil, blah, blah, blah, if you look at the color coding of the map, what you'll see here is that the capitalist countries of the world are the great offenders.
And the communist socialist countries of the world are doing the least damage.
The United States is orange, UK and Germany are red.
India is orange.
Japan is orange.
And orange and red represent the greatest offenders.
Here, let me that's the point is.
China's the leading contributor to greenhouse.
China is leading the world in pollution.
China, if there's anything to this, China's the greatest offender.
There's the map.
And this is what every young little tech blogger reader is going to see.
United States, UK, Germany, India, and Japan.
What do they all have in common?
They are all capitalist leading capitalist economies.
Look at that.
They're the ones responsible for 100 years of it.
You can barely see China and Russia on this map.
They're barely contributing anything to it.
And this is how the left creates mind-numbed robots.
Arrogant and condescending mind-numbed robots who are in their late teens and early 20s and who believe this stuff like it's their religion.
And that's what gets me.
There's not one sprig of doubt that maybe they're being lied to.
There isn't one speck of thought that maybe they're being manipulated.
There isn't one bit of idle curiosity about why maybe they would be manipulated.
And when they hear the solution, we need to make our government, our country, smaller.
We need to grow the government.
We need to raise taxes.
And we need to slow down our economy.
They applaud it.
It's entirely an education problem.
And never mind that in 1974, everybody was worried about the next ice age.
And that was in the 100 years that these clowns claim that all of the global warming took place.
Now get this on these wildfire arrests from Fox News.
Glendora chief Tim Staub said the men were trying to keep warm and the wildfire appears to have been an accident.
They were freezing the people that started the California fire.
They were cold.
It was cold and they were trying to stay warm and they started a fire and it got out of control.
It was an accident.
They're just trying to stay warm because they were freezing.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have even more news now on who it was that started the California wildfire.
Once again, from Fox News, Glendora chief Tim Staub said the men who started the California wildfire were simply trying to keep warm.
And the wildfires appear to have been an accident.
And so global cooling is actually the problem.
Somebody call Rick Dickert And Steve Edwards at KTTV, Fox Eyeball News in LA, because they think global warming started all of the LA wildfires.
Global warming's responsible.
They wanted me to be told.
So it's three guys, and get this.
The three who have been arrested for starting the wildfires are in their early 20s.
And at least one of the three who started the fire is homeless.
No.
Say it ain't so.
Because you know, the homeless, when we have a Democrat administration, the homeless are saints.
So a freezing homeless guy in his early 20s is one of three people who started the fire because they were freezing.
They wanted to get warm in the middle of global warming.
To the audio soundbites.
You remember earlier this week, we played for you a soundbite of Bruce Springsteen mocking and making fun of Governor Christie on the Jimmy Fallon late night show on NBC.
I made the comment that I thought it was a pretty low rent thing for Springsteen to do.
And the reason we played some soundbites of Governor Christie himself after Hurricane Sandy.
It's actually kind of sad, if you want the truth about it, Christie was going on and on and on about what a life-changing thing it was for him to talk to Bruce Springsteen.
Springsteen's the greatest guy in the world.
And President Obama called Governor Christie from Air Force One, and Springsteen was with Obama on Air Force One.
And Obama put Springsteen on the phone to say hi to Christie.
And Governor Christie, I mean, it was like meeting God, and that's how he described it to people.
And he said, you know, one Jersey guy, that's great, but two Jersey guys working on Hurricane Sandy, there's nothing can stop us.
Governor Christie has been to 127 Bruce Springsteen concerts.
Governor Christie is a huge fan.
Governor Christie loves Springsteen.
And according to Governor Christie, it was one, it made him cry.
It made him cry.
He was so happy, so moved when he finally got to speak to Bruce Springsteen.
He melted.
He was so happy.
And he told the world this.
And yet there's Springsteen making fun of him in a parody of his song Born to Run on Fallon's late night show, talking about having to take a leak, but he can't because he's tied up in Governor Christie's traffic jam in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
And I thought, how rude is this?
This is downright mean.
And I thought it was an example of some pretty low character for Springsteen to do this.
I know he's more affiliated with Fallon and NBC politically and this kind of thing, but Christie, imagine if you had an idol and you met the idol and you told everybody what a great guy the idol was and then the person goes out and laughs at you and makes fun of you on national TV.
How would you feel?
Well, anyway, I described all this.
And Megan Kelly did a segment on it last night on her show, The Kelly File, on the Fox News Channel.
And she had as her guest, or one of her guests, a columnist from the Daily Beast by the name of Kelly Goff.
And here's how this is Megan Kelly setting it up.
Rush Limbaugh did not find it so funny.
Governor Christie loves this guy.
127 different concerts he's attended.
And he's mocked.
He's made fun of.
He can't be a real fan because he's a Republican.
You can only be a real fan and friend of somebody like Springsteen if you're a Democrat.
And even then, for only as long as they can use you.
Now, that's what she played, but I had made the other points that I just shared with you.
So now, in the next bite, you will hear that I am not allowed to take the moral high ground like this.
I'm not allowed to say the things I said about Springsteen and Christie.
No.
Megan Kelly speaking with Kelly Goff, whoever that is from the Daily Beast.
She said, Rush pointed out that Governor Christie's a huge Springsteen fan.
Actually talked about how he cried.
He cried the first time he talked to Springsteen after Hurricane Sandy.
If he actually felt a connection with Chris Christie or felt moved by the tears that Christie felt upon speaking to him and all the concerts he'd been to, why would he have done this?
Why would he have gone out and lampooned and made fun of and laughed at Governor Christie?
He's suggesting that there's a coldness here.
And the reason that this is okay to do is because Christie is a Republican.
Megan, first of all, Rush Limbaugh's the last person who should be taking the moral high ground with anyone.
I mean, that's a little silly.
He can't point out meanness when he perceives it.
Well, when that's what his image is largely built on.
I mean, we don't have to get it until he no longer comment and listen to.
I think it looks disingenuous and a little silly.
Really?
So in this lunatic's mind, my image is what, mean?
I'm only the politest talk show host on the radio.
Mean?
So therefore, anyway, you hear it.
Why?
It's like if you haven't served in the military, you're not allowed to talk about the defense budget.
And so I'm not qualified.
I can't talk about this because my image, according to her, is largely built on being mean and name-calling.
See, you can't make fun of liberals.
They're above it.
You can't make fun of people in a Democrat Party or on the left.
They are above that.
You can't tell jokes about them.
You can laugh at Chris Christie all day.
You can make fat jokes about him.
You can make fun of him because he's a Republican and likes Bruce Springsteen.
You can make fun of him because there's bridged thing.
You can do anything you want with Chris Christie, but don't you dare talk about Hillary and any aspect of her appearance.
Don't you dare.
Don't you dare make any comment about Michelle Obama and her sizable whatever.
Don't you dare.
There aren't any Republican comedians because they're not allowed.
And so Megan Kelly turned to, who's this guy?
Arthur, defense attorney Arthur Idala.
And Megan talking to Idala about this.
This is the guy that defended, I think, L.T. in that, not as a matter.
I'm just trying to tell you who he is.
He says he's a bald-headed lawyer on Fox comedy.
It's a little overreaching.
No one says they're best friends.
Rush said Christie has seen Bruce all of these times.
He never said Bruce was a big supporter of Christie.
There's not that mutual friendship.
Is that how he treats his fans?
Probably best-known fans?
May I have 20 seconds?
I guess so.
Jimmy Fallon is about to step into the biggest shoes on television, right?
And Springsteen is helping him.
He launches a month from tonight or last night.
That is not the dispute.
The dispute is whether Springsteen should have said, I'd love to help you.
Let's pick a different word.
The words weren't mean.
It's about a guy who's stuck in Travis.
He's got to take a leak.
Right.
Well, okay, so now they weren't even making fun of Christie.
Now, all this was helping Jimmy Fallon launch his show where he's replacing Leno.
And you are listening to Rush Limbaugh, one of the top 10 most influential people in America, according to Forbes magazine today.
And I have no idea who Kelly Goff is, but I was just told that she was an intern for Hillary Clinton.
So that explains it.
Now, the NFL playoffs.
First up at 3 o'clock Eastern on Sunday afternoon, New England Patriots at the Denver Mannings.
And there's a story in the Boston Globe today by Dan Shaughnessy: why does Peyton Manning get less respect than Tom Brady?
Almost like they're calling Peyton Manning the Wilt Chamberlain of Football.
He's got all of these records, but very few titles.
He's won one Super Bowl.
Brady's won, I think, three and been to like four or five.
I forget the numbers.
And the story is really about the myths of the Brady and Peyton comparisons because they don't play against each other.
Brady obviously goes up against the defense of the other team, and Peyton Manning does the other things.
The question, it's a fascinating social media question.
You know, why does Peyton Manning get less respect?
And I think it's Indianapolis versus Boston.
It's Northeast versus Midwest in terms of media coverage, number one.
And there's other extraneous factors.
But this really comes down, as it always does, to the game.
And the weather is not going to be a factor, it doesn't look like.
Almost 60 degrees on Denver, in Denver, on Sunday afternoon.
The Patriots, it's an amazing team.
They are as adaptive as a championship team as I've ever seen.
Brady doesn't have any receivers.
I mean, he's got Danny Amendola.
He's got Julian Epstein, but big guns are hurt and out or in jail or soon will be in jail.
So they come up with a running game.
The defense can't stop anybody, but they win games.
But they had some nail biters this year against teams they should have walked all over.
Buffalo, Cleveland.
And they've had problems in the playoffs.
They've been vulnerable.
They haven't been, they haven't won the Super Bowl since 2004.
They've been to the championship game.
The Patriots has a number of times since then, but they haven't won the Super Bowl since 2004.
It seems like yesterday.
It seems like they get winning it every year, but they haven't been.
This could be Peyton Manning's last year.
There's some talk of that.
And I don't have a feel for it.
This one, It seems to me that on paper, everything is too close.
So it's the intangibles that you can't predict that are going to be factors.
Pregame meal, any distractions, too many autographs, too many requests for pictures that make players mad before the game starts.
It could serve as a distraction.
Is the New England flight going to have a lot of turbulence and make the players upset?
All these intangibles you cannot possibly.
Is Brady going to have an off day?
Is Manning going to have an off day?
Those are the things that you can't predict.
On paper, it seems like it'd be tough to pick.
What is the line?
I haven't even looked at the line.
H.R., do you know what the line in this game is?
Yeah, New England getting four points.
So basically, the home team gets three.
So New England plus four, okay, that means that the smart money is on the Patriots to win this thing.
Not handily, but you've got a home team underdog from the betting standpoint.
I don't know how you pass that up.
Home team dog in the championship game?
However, that hasn't held true either.
Four hours ago, five and a half points.
Okay, so money coming in now in Denver, which is the idea.
Well, some of them, I go with a home team.
The odds are with you 60% you go with the home team.
Same thing in Seattle, even more so.
Now, this game, Seattle and the Fortiners, this is not going to be a football game if the refs lose control of this.
And they lost control of the 49ers and the Carolina Panthers.
That wasn't a football game.
That was a back alley brawl.
The whistle blew, and it didn't stop.
I mean, there was taunting.
There's all kinds of penalties that weren't called.
It kind of bothered me in a way.
It really wasn't football.
It was just street thuggery that was going on.
And I know that the NFL's worried about it.
And I will, I don't know this either, but I'll bet you that the officiating crew has been told you throw the flag as often as you have to to keep this a football game.
Now, Seattle's got this crowd advantage that nobody other than the Arizona Cardinals has been able to overcome.
Just the noise.
But the Fortiners have experience being there.
And the 49ers are a street team, too, when they have to be.
So neither of these teams are going to out-tough the other.
And neither of these teams is going to out-intimidate the other.
And the reps are going to try to keep control of it.
And here again, you've got to go with a home team in Seattle.
You just have to.
You have to pick the home team when the Seahawks are involved in it.
Plus, I don't know if you know this or not.
Harbaugh, the coach of the 49ers, his wife really got on him for buying his slacks at Kmart.
He buys $8 khakis that are pleated, and his wife is embarrassed over his lack of fashion sense.
He needs to be wearing flat-fronted slacks and get rid of the pleats.
And he won't do it.
He likes the pleats.
He's buying eight.
They caught him at the Combine last year in Walmart buying like 10 pair of $8 khakis.
So when the wife is embarrassed of the way the head coach looks, you have to figure that's going to be a factor in the outcome.
So got to go with Denver.
Got to go with the Seahawks.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, if I would have used the environmentalist wacko method of picking the games, it wouldn't have changed.
The Broncos would have beaten the Patriots in an environmentalist wacko choice, and the Seahawks would beat the 49ers.
And the environmentalist wacko determining factor there is which team is more pro-gay, and that would be the Seahawks.
So, either way, environmentalist wacko or straight-up picking, the outcome of the picks identical.
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