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Jan. 27, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 27, 2014, Monday, Hour #3
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Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
It's a thrill to be with you here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, this the nation's most listened-to radio talk show, and also the most talked about radio talk show, and perhaps the most feared radio talk show and a radio talk show routinely held up as an obstacle to the President of the United States.
And I don't know what that might mean for this show down the road.
I know a lot of people are worried about that, but I, ladies and gentlemen, am not.
It's great to have you here.
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There's an opera singer out there named Amy Herbst.
And she is suing after surgery that took place while she was giving birth left her with chronic flatulence.
Amy Herbst, who previously performed with the Nashville Opera Company, says that she is now unable to work as a professional singer.
The complication arose after she was given an episiotomy during childbirth, which seized the tissue between the well, yeah, it's the it's uh you people know what an episiotomy is.
Uh, Rio Linda, you may not.
Um what happens is, let's see, it's uh it's a procedure, it's a complication arose.
The tissue be it is the it's it's the well, yeah, I guess you could say it.
It's between it's between it's between the two openings is what happened.
And and uh it it it's it's cut to help with the delivery of the baby.
The tear was repaired, but when the opera singer returned to the hospital for a follow-up visit, she complained that she she could feel gas well, she could feel gastrointestinal gas coming out of the other opening, and she was experiencing difficulty controlling bowel movements.
So essentially, she is unable to sing without flatulence.
Every time she sings, she expels gas out there.
Well, I don't know if it's a baritone, extra baritone voice.
I don't know what the, I don't know what, I don't, I don't know what frequency is.
There's no news on that.
But the nurse found the tear had not healed properly, leaving the mezzo soprano with a complete breakdown of the episiotomy and the perineum and the external sphincter is disrupted, and the vagina and the rectum.
This is a mess.
Basically, it's a mess out there.
And what happens is that she farts when she sings.
We're not talking about makeup here.
This would be horrible.
Can you imagine singing La Traviata?
Can you imagine singing La Boem Puccini?
And don't care whether there's a mic.
It still is, it's disruptive.
She knows that it's happened.
Yeah, that's good.
She's singing a duet, the other person knows.
She has now filed a lawsuit which states, as a result of her incontinence and excessive flatulence, she's been unable to work as a professional opera singer.
That would be horrible.
Ladies and gentlemen, for three days last week, I told you the amazing story of Scott Walker, governor, Wisconsin, and the rebirth and revitalization of his state, a blue state, with conservatism.
Conservative economic policy has revitalized that state.
The upshot of it is that there's a near $1 billion budget surplus that he is returning to the taxpayers in the form of income property tax cuts.
Interestingly, by the way, the Wisconsin legislature is opposing him on this.
They want to spend the money on, what do you think?
Education.
Oh, yes.
We're not spending enough on education.
The magic words, the children.
We've got to spend it.
And I must add, even some Republicans in the Wisconsin legislature are opposing Scott Walker on this and don't want to rebate the surplus.
It is an amazing story.
It did not get reported anywhere that I saw other than little filler AP type stories in Wisconsin.
Our buddies at Newsbusters, which are Brent Bozell's Media Research Center news analysis website, they got around to reporting that it had not been reported on anywhere else.
And look, I'm not spoiling for anything here.
I just make an observation.
Fox News didn't even do this.
Fox News didn't even cover it.
And it's huge, folks.
It's the way out.
It's what the Tea Party claims to want.
It's what conservatives say will happen if you implement the policies that Scott Walker implemented.
And we're right.
They did happen.
Scott Walker was, they tried to destroy his career twice.
His career and more, actually.
They went after his reputation, his political life.
He did everything that conservative voters want their elected officials to do.
He hung in.
He defended himself and his voters.
He stood up for what he believed in.
He fought tooth and nail to get it implemented.
And it worked.
It worked great.
And it still remains a national secret.
Now, we know why the left-wing media is not going to report it.
This is anathema to them.
But it has finally made it outside this program.
UK Telegraph, Tim Stanley, how Scott Walker and the Conservatives Saved Wisconsin.
America Take Note.
And here's a pull quote.
So the message to America and the rest of the world is this.
Get spending under control, cut business taxes, create a welfare system that encourages people to seek work, and you'll balance the budget.
You'll reduce unemployment.
You'll be able to let people keep more of their money.
It turns out that conservative economies applied with determination and care can work.
It really, really worked, folks.
It did.
Everything that we tell you theoretically will happen did.
Unemployment's down.
Prosperity is up.
The government has more money than it needs.
He's rebating it in the form of a tax cut.
Property taxes, big to people, income taxes.
And right here in the UK Telegraph says, how did he do it?
With a mix of conservatism and pragmatism.
But he did it.
Now, I don't know whether you can parlay this into a run for the presidency.
That's not my point here.
The point is, this is the way out of the mess that we are in.
The Republican establishment's not happy about this.
This is not where they are.
Scott Walker de-emphasized the size of government, de-emphasized the role of government.
And even now, when he talks about the budget deficit, he refers to it as the people who own the money.
It's their money.
They produced it.
They earned it.
They had it taxed.
More was taken than was necessary because of the policies they implemented.
This is everything that we have demanded, asked for, suggested, promised, told people would work.
And all of these things matter.
Wisconsin is the American founding playing out again right in front of our faces.
Republican Party has another golden opportunity to latch onto this and make it their own.
He is one of them.
He is a Republican governor.
And I want to remind you something I reminded you last week.
He is very close associated with the Heritage Foundation.
Together they hung in there.
They were extremely loyal to their own policy beliefs.
Now, there's a Wall Street Journal piece.
I guess you call it a companion piece.
The headline here, states weigh new plans for revenue windfalls.
Now, what this story is about is what generally happens when states have budget surpluses.
And primarily Democrat states, when they get a little money, they insist that it be poured into failed systems.
Every time, they insist that their surplus be plowed back into something already overfunded and not working, and maybe because it's overfunded.
And the big department that seems to work the magic is education.
All you have to do is wring your hands and complain, not doing enough to educate the children.
There's a little extra money, send it there.
And it seems that that works in getting the taxpayers to agree because everybody loves their crumb crunchers.
Here's a pull quote from the journal piece.
Last week, Mr. Walker proposed using Wisconsin's revenue increase largely to cut income and property taxes following similar reductions last year.
Yeah, this is not budget gimmicks, by the way, or accounting gimmicks.
This actually, this surplus happened because of policy.
What do you do with a surplus?
You give it back to the people who earned it, Scott Walker said in his state of the state speech.
But he's facing pushback from members of both parties in the Wisconsin Senate, where Republicans hold a slim majority and are concerned about looming cost increases for existing state programs.
Some Democrat legislators argue the state needs to restore money for education.
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal think tank, comma, last year said Wisconsin and 33 other states are providing less funding per student now than before the recession on an inflation-adjusted basis.
Now, they never talk about reforming or changing the failed education industry, do they?
They only ever talk about throwing more money at it.
They never talk about fixing it, except to the extent that they claim the money will fix it.
But it hasn't and it won't.
Because the education system in most of the states, the federal government, is flawed structurally.
It's flawed theoretically.
It's flawed the way it's put together.
So the journal piece is saying, well, you know, yeah, yeah, but the Democrats are always going to be a problem because they're going to want to put the money anywhere but back in the taxpayers' pockets.
And that's absolutely true.
Yahoo News.
Yahoo News.
Now, Yahoo News is where the bulk of the nation's low-information voters go to get their news.
It just is.
Don't ask me to explain why.
It just is.
And you know what?
One of the lead stories at Yahoo News today.
Parents beware.
Shopping carts send 66 kids to the emergency room every day.
Lest you think the worst supermarket threat to your kids lurks in the soda aisle.
A new study has found that perhaps the scariest hazard of all is your shopping cart.
The classic basket on wheels is responsible for an average 24,000 childhood emergency room injuries a year.
That is 66 a day.
While the rate of cart-related concussions is on the upswing.
CART-related concussions.
According to the findings published in the journal Clinical Pediatrics in December, but announced with fanfare last week.
Classic, classic liberalism.
Oh my God, we're killing our kids with shopping carts.
Oh my God, what are we doing to our children?
Shopping carts are concussing our children.
66 to the emergency room.
It's a wonder children survive trips to the shopping cart in the supermarket.
But this is, and I'm not sure I even believe this.
But this is this big brother protectionism.
Incumbent in this story is you're not capable of taking care of your kid when you go to the supermarket.
The supermarket doesn't care about your kid.
And the manufacturers of the shopping carts don't care about your kid.
And as a result, since nobody cares about your kid, these evil capitalist enterprises are resulting or doing things resulting in your kids being injured at the supermarket.
And you need the Consumer Product Safety Commission or some other bureaucracy to come in and punish them.
And you need them to protect you and your kids because you're too stupid to know how to use a shopping cart correctly.
You're too stupid to know the right way and the wrong way to put your little crumb cruncher in the shopping cart.
This offends me.
York Times, over the weekend, is it immoral to watch the Super Bowl?
Sunday, New York Times Magazine published a column titled, Is It Immoral to Watch the Super Bowl?
The writer Steve Ullmond, best known previously for resigning an adjunct professorship at Boston College because Condoleezza Rice was picked as commencement speaker.
That's what he's known for.
He argued that sending men to the NFL was like sending our underclass soldiers off to war in Afghanistan.
Pro sports are, he says, by definition, monetized arenas for hyper masculinity.
Football is nowhere near as overtly vicious as, say, boxing, but it is the one sport that most faithfully recreates our childhood fantasies of war as winnable.
Over the past 12 years, as Americans have fought a distraction from the moral incoherence of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the game has served as a loyal and satisfying proxy for war.
It's become an acceptable way of experiencing our savage impulses, the cultural lodestar when it comes to consuming violence.
What differentiates football from the glut of bloody films and video games we devour is our awareness that the violence in football and the toll of that violence is real.
Is it immoral to watch the Super Bowl?
Back to the phones.
This is Don in Seattle, Washington.
Hi, Don.
Glad you called.
Great to have you on the EIB Network.
Hello.
Thanks, Rush.
Glad to get through.
Hey, I'm liking this answer to the White House correspondence dinner.
I think a new awards program that we could possibly call the Whoppers would be in order.
Not bad.
And I'm going to do Dave in Ohio one better.
I'm willing to spend up to $10,000 if I can get a seat at a table up front.
You would spend $10,000 at a seat or $10,000 on a table.
Well, yeah, sure.
The table.
Yeah.
I'll bring some friends.
If you can give me a table up front for $10,000, sure.
But I'd spend $10K in total.
I think, you know, people are glomming onto this thing really, really loving it.
Because it is.
It's a classic.
Because it gets to the nub of it.
It's a perfect illustration of how people view politics.
And by the way, how the best in the business are rewarded in the modern era.
The best lie, the best hoax, the best puff piece, the best under-the-table payment, the best scandal gotten away with despite front page media coverage.
It's endless, the awards that we could come up with here and turn the White House correspondence dinner into something that means something to people, but watch it.
Mr. Snerdley has asked me a question: what is hypermasculinity as it is used by Steve Allmond in describing war and football?
You know, I've it's it's fascinating to me.
The liberals, it turns out, do hate football.
It apparently has been latent, and this push in the last two years has brought them to the surface.
It's always been there.
Hyper masculinity, I would define honestly as patriotism.
I think that's one of the things that bugs them about football.
But hypermasculinity to these guys is just plain old masculinity.
There is men being men is hyper-masculinity.
What else do you think hyper-masculinity is?
It has to be just plain old masculinity.
From the standpoint of your average leftist male, masculinity to them is what?
It's not, no, no, masculinity to your average leftist male is not masculinity at all.
So therefore, genuine masculinity to them is hypermasculinity.
This is a game.
The only reason people like this game is because they get to watch war.
They get to watch hypermasculinity and war.
It's a substitute for watching war.
People love violence, want to consume violence.
This is the cultural lodestar for that.
And what differentiates it from the glut of bloody movies and video games that we devour is our awareness that the violence in football and the toll of that violence is real.
So from the article, pro sports are, by definition, monetized arenas for hypermasculinity.
So I guess in this guy's framework, hyper-masculinity would be men being violent because men are natural predators.
Don't forget.
They are brutes in their normal state.
They are predators in their normal state.
They are abusers in their normal state.
Violence that is approved, sanctioned, celebrated, and rewarded is hyper-masculine.
Hell, I don't know.
You're asking me to put myself inside the mind of one of these clowns.
Well, I do understand them better than most people do, but hypermasculinity is a new one on me.
It might take some introspection or inspection to figure this out, but I think I've probably got a pretty good handle on it.
It is, it is immoral to watch the Super Bowl.
It's no, in fact, it's immoral to watch the Super Bowl.
It's too violent.
Now, abortion, there's nothing wrong with that at all.
For example, there's nothing immoral about it.
There's nothing violent about it.
There's nothing wrong with that at all as far as these people are concerned.
Look, the Democrat Party today, if you want, the Democrat Party actually sees same-sex marriage as a way to turn out voters.
Now, the Obama record won't work to turn out voters.
You got 48 million Americans, almost 50 million, on food stamps because largely of Democrat policies, and yet they're now making a big state of the coup address is going to be all about inequality, which they are going to try to equate with poverty.
And poverty is not the result of inequality.
But that's the stretch or the connection they want people to make.
And so they're going to take the number of people in economic hard times, put that in this whole mix of inequality and income inequality.
And they're once again to exploit the poor and the disadvantaged.
You see, the Grammys last night had this massive symbolic gay, 40 gay weddings that were administered by Queen Latifah.
It has nothing to do with music.
It has to do with these people mocking their audience.
This is the leftist music industry flipping the bird to the country.
It's a flyover country.
I have no doubt what's going on here.
Football's going to on the violence flag, on the hypermasculinity, barbarism, unconscionable.
We maim people and applaud it.
We cheer it and we killing people.
This would be so predictable.
Hi, how are you?
Welcome back.
Great to have you.
It's the EIB Network and Rush Limbaugh.
McDonald's fighting to be relevant to customers, CEO concedes.
You know, I've got some thoughts about this.
After outperforming rivals for years, McDonald's Corporation facing a shift in eating habits toward foods that people feel are fresher or healthier.
The company has added options like chicken wraps and breakfast sandwiches made with egg whites to keep up with the trend, but it's received a muted response.
It isn't working.
Healthier foods received a muted response.
I mean, who could have guessed that?
Remember Burger King in Berkeley?
Yeah, Burger King in Berkeley.
The leftists in the city council, you can't serve beef.
That stuff kills people.
You got to serve veggie burgers.
So they put veggie burgers on the menu, and they promptly practically went out of business.
Because that's not why people go to Burger King.
And so you have McDonald's here trying harder and harder to do what the left says is nutritionally correct more than what's really important.
If you're in the restaurant business, what's the most important thing?
Well, how the food tastes.
If your food doesn't taste any good, you in trouble.
Are you not?
The worst thing can be said about your restaurant.
Food in there is any good.
What do you think is said about nutritionally healthy food?
By definition, it doesn't taste good.
I don't know.
I'm not in my business.
Admittedly, don't know anything about that business, but I know.
Insurance companies, look at them.
They're trying to do what is government correct more than what is customer correct.
Obamacare policies don't sell because they're unaffordable due to unnecessary coverages.
Car companies are trying to do what's environmentally correct instead of building cars that people want.
It's all out of whack because leftists have taken over the regulatory process and the public guilt process.
And you've got all these people scared to death of you got to make sure environmentally healthy and green and all this stuff.
It's no wonder this stuff is happening to these companies.
I don't know.
It just ticks me off, folks.
It just literally.
Angela Montclair, Virginia.
Hi, welcome to EIB Network.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush, for taking my call.
I just want to say that the Democrat effective political play of their fictitious Republican war on women is to turn the majority of women, regardless of if they're college-aged or working-age, middle-class, into a voting bloc, pretty much the same way they had successfully turned blacks into a voting block.
And they grew people in these voting blocks and then convinced the bloc that they have legitimate historical or political grievance with the Republican Party.
They've been doing that for years.
And I'm concerned that if they are successful, that the same way I'm black and the same way I can easily, depending on where I'm at, be a social outcast because I don't vote Democrat.
The same thing can happen if they're successful with women turning women into a voting block.
They already have been.
Excuse me?
They already have been.
Single women are already bought and paid for and owned by the Democrat Party.
Pure and simple.
Democrat Party is the absentee father, absentee husband.
Democrat Party is the risk taker.
Democrat Party is the provider, by definition and on purpose.
They have already blocked, as you say, that group.
And they've also, you know, I don't have enough time to develop fully, and I need to develop it fully.
What I want to say next about how they're doing this.
So, Angela, I appreciate you starting the fire here, and I will pour gasoline in the flames tomorrow.
There really isn't time here, folks, because there's something else that Democrats are doing where women are concerned.
That if you call them on it, they just have a cow.
And it's demeaning as hell, if you ask me.
But it's working.
Look at how Rand Paul is being pilloried for simply pointing out the historical fact that Bill Clinton was a sexual predator.
Rand Paul is being pilloried for that.
And they're twisting that into an attack on Hillary.
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