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Jan. 20, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 20, 2014, Monday, Hour #2
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Just to clear this out of the way, this is a story from the New Orleans advocate, actor Brad Pitts Make It Right Foundation, which has built 100 energy efficient homes in the Hurricane Katrina Ravaged Lower Ninth Ward is considering legal action against the manufacturer of an innovative glass infused wood that was used in some of the home's outdoor steps and front porches.
And the reason for the contemplated legal action is the wood has begun rotting, despite being guaranteed for forty years.
You know, folks, the amount of fraud in all of these left wing do gooder causes and areas is just too much to keep track of and to count.
Construction crews used the this this magnificent new energy okay, man, save global warming, save the planet really great stuff called Timber SIL.
Timber SIL.
Construction crew has used this product to build decks and stairs for about 30 homes from 2008 to 2010, said a make it right spokeswoman.
Timber Sill is described in promotional materials provided by the South Carolina based manufacturer as offering an effective barrier in lumber to rot, decay, and common wood problems without using toxic ingredients.
See, they came up with magic.
They came up with materials that were going to save the wood from ever rotting, and it was going to save the environment, and it was going to save the climate, it wasn't going to cause any environmental damage.
These leftists are some of the ripest targets for fraud.
And so this is a made-to-order industry.
Got all these do gooder leftists who are demanding all of these brand new products that don't do any damage to the environment.
It's all crock anyway.
So here come these guys with their magic new products, and they sell it to these eager beaver environmentalist wackos.
And it's just fraudulent stuff.
Make it right foundation, known for its homes, eye-catching designs and green building features like solar panels and rainwater collectors.
Make it right was interested in an alternative to conventional treated lumber, which usually uses chemicals.
Chemicals.
In trying to be sustainable and in trying to be green, we didn't want to use decking lumber that had chemicals in it, said the spokesman.
So manufacture, hey, we got just the thing for you.
We got some wood here that's been treated with our own special product.
It ain't never gonna rot on you.
It ain't never gonna stink.
It ain't never going to lose its color.
It ain't never going to lose its strength.
And it yeah, they make it with glass and so forth.
Anyway, the bottom line is the absence of chemicals in the timber sill wood meant that it could be mulched and composted at the end of its life cycles.
Oh it's really good.
Because then you can turn it into compost and mulch after it served its time as a deck.
But now I'm sad the report.
Decks and steps that were built as recently as three years ago are showing signs of wait for it.
Rot.
The wood has taken on a dark gray tinge.
It was unable to withstand moisture, which obviously is a big problem in New Orleans, said the spokeswoman for the Make It Right Foundation.
It's unclear whether the material has gained widespread use in Louisiana or elsewhere across the fruited plain.
Several local home builders and other local nonprofit execs said that they hadn't even heard of it.
No big surprise there.
The only customers are these left wing dupes.
Just it really irritates me.
The assumption that everything now that works that is cost efficient has to be environmentally damaging, has to be itself fraudulent.
So we need an alternative.
And so it's uh you put out the request for an alternative.
Here come the Charlatans, satisfying your every need.
You know, folks, the uh Christie scandal is is being used for a whole lot of reasons.
It's being used to destroy Christie, obviously.
But it is also serving another purpose, and that is it is permitting the media to ignore a whole bunch of other Democrat scandals going out there going on that are not being reported on.
One of them is this Wendy Davis out of uh Texas is a is is a genuine head case.
You remember her.
This this is the uh this is the woman that made a big big splash.
Filibustering and anti-abortion law in Texas.
And so she became an immediate star in the Democrat Party in Texas.
And they began pushing her for higher orifice.
But the problem is she's a leftist and therefore there is fraud and deceit woven through her life story, which it has been discovered now, has some issues.
It seems when you boil it all down that Wendy Davis would have ended up being really poor and destitute were it not for a man.
But that's no problem.
They just made stuff up.
They worked for Obama.
The headline here in the Dallas Morning News is Wendy Davis touts life story in Race for Governor.
Key facts are blurred.
Let me tell you, blurred, folks, is a nice way of saying that her entire biography has been embellished and falsified by her.
She was a poor divorced teenage mother living in a sleazy trailer park, barely escaping her way through college and Harvard Law.
That story is now out the window.
She was actually divorced when she was twenty one.
She only briefly lived in the family mobile home, which could have been on the family property for all we know.
Her wealthy older second husband paid her last two years of tuition at college and at Harvard Law.
And on the day his last loan payment was due, she left him.
She lived a luxury life.
So she had a big house, private schools for her kids, the uh the divorce allegations of her adultery, the loss of custody of her two daughters, and the fact that she was ordered to pay spousal support.
Why, all of this is shocking and new.
Well, we didn't know any of this before.
Do you know how hard it is for a mother to lose custody these days?
So this woman is just a fake.
And she was readily embraced by the Democrat Party because she somehow was able to make some case.
Filibustering an anti abortion law made the order and they embraced her, and just like Brad Pitt brought bought the wood, the Democrats embraced this baby, and it turns out that her life story has been blurred.
So that's one of the scandals.
Blurred is not the work.
She lied about her life story.
And the Dallas Morning News, I mean, just to be honest about this, they're reporting this in what they're trying to make it as soft and least damaging as possible.
In fact, they're trying to report the fact that she lied about her life story in somewhat flattering way.
But her story of being a self-made teenage mother just isn't true.
She's a liberal Democrat.
They make things up.
They lie, just Hillary and Obama lied about a video in Benghazi.
Hillary lied to Bimbo about.
I mean, it just never ends.
There's nothing real or genuine about anything.
Especially their heroes and stars.
These people that climb their ladder of success are the biggest frauds.
She might have committed perjury in furtherance of her mythmaking.
And this is what the Democrats think is their salvation.
They want to win Texas so big.
If they win Texas, if they can turn Texas to a Democrat presidential state, that's the end of Republicans winning the White House.
Because they would have the electoral votes in New York, California, Texas, and that would be it.
And so what's a little mythmaking?
What's a little lying?
What's a little embellishing of life story?
As long as we can sell it.
If Obama's gonna sit there and tell David Rimnik, hey, I've got 44 state months of job growth, I've rescued the economy, we've got great things going on alternative energy, and Remnick reports it and gets disseminated, and the mainstream media roots it out there and the low information people.
Yeah, why don't I like Obama?
It must be because the Republicans are convincing me not to like him because he's black.
Have you heard about Andrew Cuomo basically telling conservatives in New York, get the hell out of the state.
If you're pro-lifer, we don't want you here.
Who was the governor?
Who was the David Patterson?
Remember, David, and the left laughed about this, and of course, in my own way I did too, but nevertheless, Patterson was talking about raising taxes on the rich.
And somebody told him that I had already fled the state because taxes are gone up.
And he said, Well, hell, if I had known that we could get rid of Rush Limbaugh, I would have raised taxes sooner.
And everybody in New York said now here, the sitting governor, can you imagine?
And by the way, I'm getting a little worn out on this argument, but nevertheless, people make it.
It was last week Governor Cuomo told the Capitol press room that those who disagree with him politically should just leave the state.
Just leave.
We don't have any room for you in the state, particularly pro-life.
If you're conservative, get out.
Not being covered.
I mean, it's covered in New York a little bit scantily, and it's it's it's it's amusing.
And in some places it's being cheered.
And of course, people say, can you imagine if a Republican governor had said this?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course.
But the you know that that argument in itself is indicative of a great imbalance that exists.
Because everybody knows what would happen if a Republican did what Cuomo did, but it doesn't change anything.
Well, yeah, yeah, you let a Republican say that.
Okay, fine, but it doesn't change anybody's attitude about what Cuomo said.
He just continues to get away with it.
The Obamacare enrollment numbers.
Totally faked.
They don't know how many people have signed up.
They don't know how many people have paid.
The only thing they know is that four out of five people that are in the system already are getting subsidies.
That's all they know.
And yet, ever since before the holidays, the media has been bragging and talking about how the website's been fixed and people are signing up, and like we got six million people have enrolled.
And we don't know that because nobody can prove it.
The numbers are fake.
And here's the latest in Obamacare from the Blaze.com.
The White House has reportedly delayed another key provision of Obamacare.
This is a provision that prevents employers from providing better health care to top executives than regular employees.
That's been delayed.
So that means that employers can continue to provide executives with better health care than the rank and file employees get.
There was an Obamacare provision that was supposed to change that, but they're delaying it.
And it's uh in the New York Times.
Tax officials said they would not enforce the provision this year because they had yet to issue regulations for employers to follow.
Folks, this is an absolute disaster.
This thing needs to be repealed.
It needs to be gotten rid of now.
It is you know the Republicans have a strategy, and that is let it implode.
Sit back, don't do anything, and let it implode because it will.
And that's a variation of the argument.
Go ahead and let the Democrats win the presidency and let people find out just how much damage they do.
Well, it hasn't worked out for us.
There has to be an alternative that we propose that people are for, that they support, even if it's nothing more than just repealing it.
Which right now a majority of Americans want.
The danger in saying we need an alternative is that the alternative given today's Republicans would be based on the current Obamacare template or premise, which is the government running it, we'll just do it in a smarter, better way.
No.
Whatever happens, this thing needs to implode and be done away with, and the whole notion that the government is front and center in health care needs to be erased.
This is this is if if if if nothing's done about this and it continues to implement and become the law of the land entrenched this way, this is a recipe for authoritarian statists to turn this law into anything they want to hell with the Constitution, to hell with the law itself.
Under the premise, well, we've got to restore order to the chaos here.
We've got to do something.
The only thing is known that is known is that the people who are signing up are the least desired demographic.
And that would be the sick and the elderly.
But we don't know how many.
We know that four out of five are getting subsidies, but they're lying about the enrollment numbers.
It's an absolute disaster.
And this is happening each and every day, and this Christie thing is allowing the media not to talk about any of these things.
Wendy Davis, Andrew Cuomo.
There's a piece here by uh here it is.
Nope.
Gotta take a break.
Be right.
Time to get a phone call in the mix here.
So we'll start Quincy, Illinois.
Hi, Debbie.
You're up first.
It's great to have you here.
Hi.
Hi, Brush.
How are you doing?
Very well, Thanks.
Um, I called today because um I'll just talk about uh Christie and the governor of Hobogan.
Uh I'm sorry, the mayor.
Um has anybody looked at the numbers?
I mean, they received money in the first round of a little over $300,000, according to an article.
And I wondered how they're going to be able to do that.
What article?
Oh, I don't know.
It's something I found on my phone.
I uh just Googled in uh mayor of Hoboken, and then there was an article that they had gotten like $326,000.
So you're saying then, based if you your your opinion and if I read the article is then that the mayor of Hoboken is lying.
Uh yeah, okay, we can go there.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Um that and you haven't a conversation with somebody unless they've legislated that you can only have one topic and then you have to come back and have the second topic.
Uh I can well envision talking about the disbursements and then saying, you know, by the way, uh, we really need your support on this real estate development thing, and communication being sending out a message and perceiving it, who knows, you know, what she actually heard as opposed to what was actually intended.
But you'll never figure out she said she said.
But if you look at the numbers of that disbursement, was it within uh wait on it if I get it if we're gonna take the article you found on your phone at face value and believe it, then there was money from Hurricane Sandy that she's telling people the governor's office, Lieutenant Governor's office wasn't gonna get, which would then lead you, as you said, to conclude that the mayor of Hoboken is lying.
And that's it.
We gotta figure out which one is.
You may be on to something.
I don't know yet.
I want you to hear Governor Cuomo.
I told you what he said, but I want you to hear him say it.
This was last Friday on the public radio show Capitol Press Room.
And we're speaking with a host of this program, Susan Arbetter.
And they were having a discussion about the the split between moderates and conservatives in the Republican Party, and this is the governor of New York.
Who are they?
Are they these extreme conservatives who are right to life, a pro-assault weapon?
Anti-gay.
Is that who they are?
Because if that's who they are, and if they are the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York.
Now, isn't it the uh isn't it the Republicans who are supposed to be not inclusive?
And isn't it supposed to be the Republicans who are intolerant?
And of course, just the opposite.
Of course, it's also if a Republican governor had said this, blah, blah, blah.
Yeah, it wouldn't have changed anything.
Everybody knows.
If a Republican governor would have said it, he would have been around out of town.
If a Democrat governor says it, it's perfectly fine, no matter what would happen to the Republican governor.
So that argument, yeah, well, you believe what would happen to a Republican, it doesn't change anybody because everybody knows it's an unfair, unlevel playing field, and people apparently are okay with that.
Are these extreme conservatives right to life?
Extreme conservative pro-assault weapon.
By the way, speaking of that, it is possible.
It's just possible that Harvey Weinstein may have stepped in it.
And I will tell you why.
Harvey Weinstein said he's gonna do a movie with Merrill Streep in it.
That's gonna make the NRA wish it had never been born.
And this drew some appropriate responses.
Hey, Harvey, pulp fiction.
Hey, Harvey, you can't make a movie Without bullets flying and people dying and blood and gore everywhere.
You can make a movie that doesn't glorify violence.
And Harvey said, you know what?
They have a point.
I am going to stop making movies that glorify gun violence.
But wait, but wait.
I thought movies didn't do that.
Harvey Weinstein may have just, I doubt it, because he'll be covered for, but he may have just stepped in it, at least in the minds of independent critical thinkers, by accidentally swerving into acknowledging that violence in film can in fact influence people who watch film.
Because Harvey Weinstein saying in Hollywood's glorification of guns has changed the way millions of people behave.
He's saying it affects the way they think.
He says it's negative.
And if you read between the lines, Weinstein's saying here that Hollywood's movies have led to untold numbers of gun crimes and murders, and he's not going to be a party to it anymore.
Now, as I say, it's going to require critical independent thinkers to understand what he's done here, because it's going to be covered up for.
But he's, you know, you you you let a uh Sandy Hook elementary thing happen.
And anybody who says, well, I mean, what a what video games a kid watching?
What movie?
Yes, doesn't matter.
Those things don't.
I mean, if movies influence, everybody would be shooting people.
And it's immediately discounted as a theory to explain behavior.
Now here comes Harvey.
You know what?
I'm gonna stop glorifying it, because it does have influence.
Oh, oh, uh-oh.
In a real insane world, it would matter.
Um in our make-believe world by a make-believe president, it's as though he didn't even say it.
Okay, here's Don Zimmer.
Let me get some soundbites in here.
Dawn Zimmer, she is, of course, this is on State of the Union on CNN Sunday.
She is the Hoboken mayor.
And Candy Crowley said, look at in May of last year, when a couple of officials said to you, listen, Sandy Relief Aid will in fact maybe jeopardized if you don't go along with this redevelopment plan.
Why are you here now, Ms. Mayor?
Back in uh May when uh the Lieutenant Governor came and very directly said to me that these two things are connected.
I, you know, I didn't think anyone would believe me.
I really didn't.
I mean, I I do looking back, probably should have come forward, but I really didn't think anyone would believe me.
I was really concerned that if I came forward, no one believed me that we would really be cut out of uh the Sandy funding.
But as I watched the coverage with the Bridge Gate, you do see parallels, and I just felt, you know, I had an obligation to come forward, and as I look at the second tranche of funding that's coming through, I'm concerned we're gonna be cut out.
Okay.
So there was a first tranche of funding, and that's the now acknowledged 300 plus thousand dollars.
But now the second tranche might not be forthcoming.
So she said, as I counted three times, maybe four times in there.
Well, I didn't think anybody would believe me.
I just didn't think anybody would believe me.
But then when Bridgegate hit.
Now, Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington is very upset.
She is very upset about the Democrats.
And Ray Mitchell, in BC News, Washington is very upset because she thinks the Democrats are overdoing this in their attack on Chris Christie.
I think the Democrats are probably overdoing it by following him around and trailing him looking like they're piling on, but he's got to deal with the investigation and make sure that if everything that he said is correct, he's home free.
But he's got to make sure, and there are a lot of emails out there.
Well, that's really gonna help Christie with the Tea Party.
Here comes uh Andrew and Mitchell, NBC Washington, defending Christie.
An accredited member of the NBC News Bureau, which may as well be the Politburo coming out now and defending Christie and getting all over the Democrats.
Now, what does she know that we don't?
She's gotta have some polling data out there, right?
But she's also trying to sustain Christy as a viable candidate.
Why would that be?
Because we know that she's never gonna vote for Chris Christie, no matter what.
So why does she want him on the ballot?
That's well, yeah, but she well, she yeah, he's weakened, and that's bad.
They they they's she is just I mean, Anne Ringa Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, she is invested in Hillary Clinton winning.
And she doesn't like what they're doing to Christy here.
I guess she's afraid maybe there's gonna be a rebound of sympathy for Christie because they overdo it.
And she wants Christy to end up being harmed and get the nomination.
They're all trying to guarantee smooth sailing for Hillary in this.
Now, Christy is the only guy in polling data defeating Hillary, and there are two polls that show that.
And they live and die on these polls, so it's time to take Christy out, and they're if she's worried they're overdoing it.
And then she's also got the caveat.
Well, look, he's home free if he's telling the truth.
Now a lot of emails out there.
If he's not telling the truth, but it's too early for her.
They want they they want taking Christy out now is early enough that there could be somebody else come along and become a genuine threat to Hillary.
Here's uh we folks they got two brothers on the phone, Jay and Argan.
They are eleven and eight years old, and they are happy owners of Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.
They wanted to call, they did call.
And they're here on the program want to talk about it.
Jay and Argan, I'm Rush, and it's great to have you here.
Hi.
Hi, thank you.
Thanks for having me and my brother.
Well, it's it's it's our it's our honor to have you here.
It's it's great that you're you're able to take time to call us today.
Yeah.
I mean, it's your book was, you know, it was awesome.
It was a great book about history.
Me and my brother learned a ton about the pilgrims.
And uh so and um Arjan and me both took the quiz.
We did fairly good.
I got a 16 out of 18, he got a 15 out of 18.
Really, you did?
That's awesome.
That's terrific, because that that that quiz is not easy.
Yeah, I mean I mean, you have to have read the book to be able to get that many right.
Yep.
So um, Argen would like to say a few things about the book.
Um the book was really good.
Um it it was really it was uh it was like my first history book.
That was really fun.
Well, that now you now, Argan, I I I can't thank you enough.
This was your first history book.
That's just great.
I'm I can't tell you.
I can't tell you how happy you guys are making me by telling me how much you liked it.
That is just it's just great because it was written for guys like you, written for people like you.
Yeah, I mean, I it really helped me out in school as well, and I learned a lot of the information, and you know, it really stuck in my head, and you know, all the social studies, uh uh, that's what uh whenever it comes to you know, pilgrims, I'll probably ace it because I still remember this information about the book.
Why do you think that is?
Why do you think you're going to remember it for that long?
Um, probably because it's the first fun history book.
Um, you know, all the other history books are very informative.
They're in chronological order.
You basically just read the pictures most of the time, and they're not that, you know, that's not that fun.
You don't learn about that.
But if you read a really fun history book, it's it sticks in your head, and um, you know, you don't forget it because you know you really like that book.
Now, uh you're Jay, right?
I'm speaking with Jay.
Yeah.
And how old are you, Jay?
I'm 11.
This is just phenomenal.
This is just you you uh you have a a level of of maturity that's way beyond eleven.
You can pass, you could pass for much older.
Thank you.
Well, no, I'm I'm serious.
And the fact that you're obviously a brilliant young man, and the fact that you enjoyed this book is a real compliment to me, and I can't thank you.
And I just I'm you you've you've made my day here, both of you have.
I'll tell you what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna um uh do you have any sisters?
Uh yes, I do.
I have one sister, and she is actually currently reading the book.
Um, so how old is she?
Uh, she's my twin sister.
She's eleven like me.
Oh, cool.
All right.
Well, here's what I'm gonna do.
I've we we got this thing called Ted T Bear.
And I'm gonna send you one that you can give to her.
Yeah, I mean, I mean, if you want one, I'll send you one too.
But I think it's uh probably uh sure.
I'll I guess we'll I'll tell we'll throw three of them in there.
We'll throw three Ted T Bears, and I'm also gonna throw in a couple of uh audio versions of me reading the book.
Well, thank Yeah, yeah.
That way you can listen to it whenever you have time, just to refresh your memory.
Thanks.
Because I do I do a lot.
Pardon me?
That will really help me out a lot, listening to the Audi uh version, and it will fly by much quicker than we're uh you know, I do a pretty good job reading it, and I think you'll find it uh as uh entertaining in its own different way from the book.
But really, you guys, you have uh you've made my day because this is exactly why um that that we wrote, and I'm glad for your for for for for Argon that he heard this version first.
This is the truth, Jay.
This book is the truth.
This is real history about about the pilgrims, and I'm just ecstatic that you guys encountered it.
Thank you.
And um, also I have to give credit to my dad who bought me this book.
You know, I didn't know that you made books at first.
I thought you were just, you know, radio talk host.
Right.
And uh I didn't know you made about history books.
So my dad, you know, he came went out and bought me this book, and I'm just really thankful that he did.
So am I. God bless you and your dad.
Now, now, Jay, hang on, because we gotta get your address to send you all this stuff.
So don't go with thanks again.
Ever so much.
And I've got to take a break.
I'm way long here, folks.
So Jay there said he didn't know that I made books.
You know, I just talked on the radio.
But now that I make books, I become cool overnight.
I make good book, no question.
Peter Bynight.
Remember his name, folks.
Yeah, New Republic.
Uh but he's got a piece in the Atlantic, the questionable ethics of teaching my son to love pro football.
We had a story by Binart last week that I talked about, and it slipped my mind what it was about.
But you know, he's in the for reads that carry a GPS.
Uh demographic.
I mean, the same kind of guys.
Fathers and sons have bonded over football games for generations, but today it's harder for parents to ignore the growing concerns surrounding the sport.
Like countless other middle-aged men, some of my happiest childhood memories involved watching professional sports with my dad.
So it was an unexpected delight when my eight-year-old, previously largely indifferent to my New England Patriots obsession, showed sudden interest a few weeks ago, and last Saturday night, he proudly dug out a long unused Patriots jersey and asked me if he could join me on the couch late into the Night, as the Patriots dispatched the Indianapolis Colts.
It was wonderful.
And it made me a little sick, he writes.
It made me sick, Peter Binart writes, because I could see the game through my son's eyes, and it wasn't pretty.
My son, unfamiliar with the NFL's pieties, assumed that hurting the other team's players was the objective.
To his untutored eye, the violence that guilt ridden fans like myself decry was a feature not a bug.
He didn't cheer the injuries, he's too sweet for that, but despite my insistence to the contrary, I suspect the message he took from the experience was the only thing you need to know about the large man writhing in agony on the screen is whether he's on our team.
and there's a couple more paragraphs of this but this comes on the heels of Obama saying that he wouldn't let his son Travon Martin play football.
And Bob Ryan the Boston Globe apologizing for helping glamorize a brutal sport that maims.
It just keeps coming.
So this guy's son, Peter Binart's son, thinks the object of the game is to injure people on the other team.
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