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Feb. 7, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 7, 2014, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 247 Podcast.
I'm not kidding you.
I'm not kidding.
I've got the audio sound by trader.
Leslie Stahl was on a CBS, whatever they call it.
CBS This morning.
Do you know what, folks?
They have discovered it's insane.
I'm just telling you it's insane.
Everywhere you look, it's in a Democrat journalist at U.S. News or something.
I don't even know if that's still publishing.
I'm not sure that's even the place.
Said, well, I'll tell you in a minute.
It's Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Right, right.
Openline Friday.
So she said the dirty little secret that everybody knows.
But that we can't talk about slow economic growth is exactly what's called for right now.
And everybody knows it, but nobody dare say it.
And now we've got.
We got a member of Congress.
I got the audio soundbite coming up saying this is good news.
People being liberated from the choice of having to work for health care.
Getting health care and not having to work means that people will be able to be home at night to tuck their kids into bed.
And it's all because of Obamacare.
Obamacare is now the mechanism permitting parents to finally be at home because they're being liberated from having to work now.
Finally able to be at home to tuck in the kids at bedtime.
And all of that because of Obamacare.
And it goes, depending on your perspective, uphill or downhill from there.
Now it was, I forget the year, it was the 90s.
You know, we've talked about the Time magazine cover.
Shocking news, men and women born different.
Leslie Stall apparently must have missed it because uh she's got breaking news on CBS today that could confirms it.
There is a there's a there's a CNN poll.
This this is just this will just get you.
This is a CNN poll.
A majority of Americans still blame Bush for the economy.
Just like in the exit polling from uh the 2012 election.
Now it's going, it's under 50% for the first time.
If the trend line continues by 2016, is this not insane?
If the current polling trend line continues by 2016, more people will blame Obama for the economy after eight years than will blame Bush.
Right now, majority still blame Bush for the economy.
And the the theory of the pollsters is because the formative event in everybody's mind that caused the economy to go south was the financial crisis in 2008 when Bush was in office.
So Bush caused that, and that caused all of this.
And by 2016, we'll have eight years of Obama, and at that point, current trend lines continue.
Uh it's not well, they remember it because it's so it it's so dramatically affected everybody.
I mean, they lost their house, they lost their mortgage, they lost the toilet paper, they lost everything.
And they were threatened with losing the world economy.
Pretty big scare tactics there were piled on people for um uh a couple of months.
Anyway, folks, gonna be a fun day.
Great day here.
Great to have you with us.
The uh telephone numbers 800 282-2882, the email address Ilrushpo at EIBNet.com, Bob Costas and Pink Eye in Sochi in communist Russia.
What's the surprise?
You hear about Bob Costas?
Costus Woka.
You've heard about these stories in Sochi.
I know some people that are over there, and the the stories are being exaggerated about how bad the hotels and stuff are.
I mean, it's some of it's true, but the real story at Sochi, And I've got to be very careful here, folks.
The real story at Sochi is going to be the American performance.
The ice skating, as some of it's already begun.
The Russian figure skaters ran rings around us.
Now the early hints, the early hints are not good for the American team.
Do we just have to wait and see?
And it's it's just like first day here for second day.
But yeah, Costus got up, and everybody's I don't understand it.
Everybody's up in arms because Costus got out there and started praising Putin.
Why is everybody surprised that NBC News would laud praise over a Soviet KGB leader when they are his prisoner for two weeks as the televising network?
And besides that, there's not that much ideological difference anyway.
People apparently upset that Costus referred to Putin as a peacemaker.
Folks, that's right.
This is what do you think liberals think of communists?
They're blood brothers.
The communists were the peacemakers.
We were the problem.
We were the ones stirring the drink.
We were the ones stirring things up.
We were the threat.
Reagan finger on the nuclear button.
We were always the problem.
Gorbachev was always the solution.
So here comes Putin, and he's a tough guy, and he's being called a peacemaker around the world.
It's not a stretch.
People coming to this realization, I guess, maybe a bit of a positive.
I just for me, it is unsurprising.
I mentioned yesterday that John Boehner, we played the soundbite.
John Boehner yesterday essentially said that immigration reform for this year is done.
That it is to oh, oh, folks, by the way, speaking of that, there is a Wall Street Journal.
It's not even an editorial.
This thing is a rant.
Wall Street Journal editorial blaming two different times in this editorial talk radio for the death of immigration reform this year.
And they're angry at the conservatives and talk radio for intimidating the Republican leadership.
And they're angry at the Republican leadership for being intimidated.
And they've just, they're they've had it with talk radio having so much influence over this.
I didn't intimidate leadership.
Here it is.
It's called Washington's growth retreat.
We're right here.
But conservative, I'm just going to give you the highlights there of the of the uh blame for talk radio.
But conservatives and the GOP are as responsible for the failure on immigration.
They give some space here to blaming Obama and the dismal Obamacare.
And they note that Painter said what good would it do to come up with immigration reform when you can't trust the sitting president to faithfully execute the law.
Now people just gloss over that.
Boehner said that yesterday.
The journal acknowledges that that's a factor in immigration reform dying.
Can I go back to that for a second here?
Do you realize?
I mean, that's a bombshell if you have if you ask me.
The speaker of the House, forget that it's I don't care what you think of Boehner.
The speaker of the House says that it is pointless to pass any legislation because this administration can't be trusted to enforce the law.
Now you and I know this is true.
Obama abandons the Constitution, rewrites his own health care law seemingly daily, now wants a three year extension on you being able to keep the plan that you like that was taken away from you for a couple of weeks, and then they let you get three-year extension on this, which conveniently would take us past 2016.
Three-year extension.
You keeping your current plan is a violation of Obamacare.
They're just not punishing you.
They're not going to enforce the law.
That's what Obama said.
Your plan that you liked that was taken away from you that you were promised you could keep is illegal according to that law.
They're just not going to pursue it.
They're not going to enforce it on you.
And now they want to basically tell you that you're going to allow you to be illegal for another three years.
Well, this is what Boehner's talking about.
This willy-nilly application or ignoring of the law.
Why pass anything?
If Obama doesn't like it, he's not going to enforce it anyway.
Stop and think of that.
At any other time in this nation's history, that alone would be grounds for impeachment.
Because that is a direct violation of the presidential oath, which is essentially a promise to defend and protect the United States and the Constitution and its laws.
And we have a president who is willing to openly operate and behave outside of it.
Speaker of the House, and everybody knows it.
And the Speaker of the House is saying, no need to do immigration reform anyway, because the president won't enforce the law if he doesn't like it.
That to me is bombshell profound.
Next logical step, impeachment proceedings.
Except, except.
We will never.
That will never happen to the first black president of the United States, no matter how lawless, no matter how corrupt it isn't going to happen, which everybody knows.
So in effect, the people who make the laws in Washington have thrown up their hands.
The Democrats, as epitomized by Sheila Jackson Lee, are saying that their job is to write executive orders for Obama to sign, the Speaker of the House, the leader of the Republicans to say it doesn't matter what we pass, he's not going to obey it anyway.
What a mess.
What a dangerous mess.
What a crisis, if you ask me.
Seriously.
Seriously.
And of course, the big thing on people's mind is how in the world did Bieber get away with smoking so much pot that his pilots had to wear gas masks that he didn't get charged with anything.
That's what everybody wants to know.
And it is kind of curious.
But I digress.
You think I lost my place, didn't you?
But I didn't write it.
Wall Street Journal.
Well, see, they they allude to the to the real reason that Boehner's not doing it, it's because Obama won't obey it.
Then they say, but conservatives and the GOP are as responsible for the failure in immigration as Obama is.
The populist wing of the party has talked itself into believing the zero-sum economics that immigrants steal jobs from U.S. citizens and reduce American living standards.
Neither claim is true.
But Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions and the Heritage Foundation might as well share research staffs with the AFL CIO.
So the journal is accusing Sessions and the Heritage Foundation of being in bed with Trump.
So great rants the journal.
So great is the House GOP fear of a talk radio backlash.
It wouldn't even pass smaller bills that 75% of Republicans agree on.
And then at the end of the ranting editorial.
So here stand Mr. Obama's two main pro-growth priorities.
Freeer trade looks like it'll die at the hands of Democrats beholding the big labor, while immigration reform is strangled by Republicans dancing to talk radio.
What a display of American economic leadership.
Ladies and gentlemen.
Snerdley walked in, you killed it again.
You can I didn't, snerdly I said, Obama killed it.
Obama killed it.
Boehner said so.
But he would argue, nope, you killed it.
You killed it in 2007, you killed it this year.
He says, right there, Wall Street Journal, Talk Radio.
Who's talk radio?
He said, You did it.
In the midst of all of this insanity, folks, I have a huge dose of sanity and propriety and healthfulness that I want to announce to you when we get back.
Don't go.
In recent weeks, ladies and gentlemen, recent months, actually, I have had to use an amazing amount of discipline.
Seemingly every day we have had telephone calls from young children between 10, 12, 13, 14, some up to 18, who have been reading Rush Revere and The Brave Pilgrims, time travel adventures with exceptional Americans.
And they've been telling me how much they love it, which has been a home run for us because that was the mission and the target.
To hear them say how much they loved it and tell us things they were learning, and tell us how much they love the talking horse.
It was just great.
And then they would invariably say, are you going to make another book?
Well, I knew all along we were going to make another book.
But I couldn't say we were going to make another book.
I had to wait until today to say that we were going to make another book.
And now we've made it.
And I am having, I'm holding it here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
And there it is on the ditto cam.
It is now available for pre-order.
And it this is tough to say.
Because the first book, the first child, they're just, it's nothing like it.
But this we learned from the first, we added to the second.
This is Rush Revere and the first Patriots.
And I don't have some details about the uh the subject matter.
Uh basically but the Boston Tea Party and surrounding uh accompanying events.
But I have to tell you, uh, and it's we've we'll you'll have links to it at Rushlinbaugh.com, Amazon, Barnes and Noble.
But all of you who have written, and all of you've called, and all of you have begged for another one and asked if we're going to do another one, we were always gonna do a second book.
And we have put, I can't tell you the hard work that has gone into this, from the research to making sure it's right, because that's the whole point is to tell the truth of the brilliance and the greatness of the founding and the history of this country to young people who need to learn it as early in life as they can, because sadly many of them are not being taught the truth.
There is no political agenda to any of this.
This is just factually true American history.
And uh there's a great team that puts together the illustrations and lays it all out.
Uh makes sure that uh you know what I write is is gonna is gonna be relevant for the target age group, which is 10 to 13, which again that's the target age group, but the book is for everybody, just like the first book was.
It's for everybody.
It's for parents and grandparents to buy and share with their kids and grandkids, to read to them, to read with them.
And if the experience we uh learned in the first book is the same here in the second, when even the adults are going to learn things that they didn't know because they weren't taught, which I find simply wonderful, that adults can learn something factually true about America in a series of books written for children.
And there is a mission here.
As I say, the mission is to connect with people that normally wouldn't and don't listen to a program like this, but who someday will, and maybe their parents and grandparents do.
And I'm very proud of what I do, and I want as many people to be aware of it as possible.
I'm very proud of what I believe.
I'm very proud of my country.
I want everybody to be.
I really do.
May sound like pie in the sky, but I want everybody to love this country as I do.
Pains me.
It really does to learn that there are people that hate it.
And I wish there were something I could do about it.
And I don't want young people to be taken down the wrong path and taught to feel guilty or ashamed of their country, which is happening in way too many public schools.
So we've got Rush Revere, our spokesman at 2FBIT.com, and is talking horse liberty, and the horse can time travel anywhere they want to go in American history.
And they can take students from the middle school where Rush Revere is a student teacher with them.
It can take their iPhone, their smartphone, and videotape actual history and show it to the class.
It's such fun to do.
And apparently it's such fun to read.
So it's book two.
It's available today wherever you get books.
Open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh off and running, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Let me just say a couple of more things about the new book, Rush Revere and the First Patriots, time travel adventures with exceptional Americans.
We did not write this book after the first book went on sale and saw how popular it was.
There were always going to be two books.
We do not have a factory churning these things out.
They are worked on singularly.
They are their own effort, and as is everything that's part of the EIB network, everything that we have is put into it.
And so it was, it's it's not a last-minute decision to try to capitalize on what people might think was unexpected popularity.
It was always a plan to start with two books.
How do you do an American history series with just one?
Now does this mean Rush that there's going to be a third?
I can't tell you that.
I have to I have to use my discipline again here.
Let me tell you just a little bit about this, without giving it away.
And I say it's a focal point to the Boston Tea Party, but there's much more than that.
Rush Revere and Liberty time travel back with some students to meet Ben Franklin, Patrick Henry, Sam Adams.
And in one of my favorite parts of the book, Rush Revere gets into an argument with King George III over why in the hell he's being so mean to the columns.
What a fun opportunity that was.
And what a, if I can say so myself, what a teachable moment to be able to take young kids back in time and have them learn about the oppressive nature of tyranny.
By having one of the stars of the book actually get into an argument and live to tell the story, by the way, with King George defending the colonists and so forth.
This is pre-revolution.
This is leading up to it.
Stamp Act is part of the book, the Quartering Act.
And while this may sound intimidating, it's just like the first book.
It's going to be easily learnable by the target group of young people.
There will be an audio version as well.
I did that as well.
Now I also want to mention just a couple other things before we move on.
Rush Revere and Liberty both have a mailbox to accept email from young fans.
At the Adventures of Rush Revere World, which is located at the twoifbyt.com website.
You go to twoifyt.com, TWO ifbyt.com.
It's the adventures of Rush Revere portal.
You click on it, and it'll take you to the Adventures of Rush Revere World.
And you can send photos.
You can leave email.
And a lot of it, you know, we try to answer it.
There's a new section located in the town hall that shows some of the letters and photos that have already been sent in from around town, around the country.
And if you click on the town hall and you go to the social center, then you'll see what I'm talking about.
But what what it's it's a uh for you parents, it's a perfect interactive way for your kids who are reading the books to have an interactive experience with the stars of the books at the 2F by T.com website.
Now, in addition, you know, these these two people, uh Liberty and Revere, success of the first book, performers' egos and such.
So they're now demanding even more attention, just the books.
And Revere has asked that I mentioned his new Twitter account, Rush Revere demanded to have a Twitter account.
Started uh as the main spokesperson for 2 if by T. They became the lead character in the adventure series, so now he's got his own Twitter account, uh, so he can remain hip with uh with the Times.
And he wants a lot of followers.
He wants a lot of followers from people reading the book.
So if you're hip and if you have a Twitter account, or if your kids do, you can sign up to follow Rush Revere today.
Got that set up to go.
Anyone that signs up to follow Rush Revere today will be automatically entered to win a personalized book and a special gift.
So that's it.
Pre-orders.
What is the date?
March the 7th 11.
You we're all talking at once.
Is it March 11th?
March the 11th, the book actually goes on sale or is delivered, but it's pre-orders today, the usual places.
Barnes and Noble, Amazon, I mean, everywhere.
I don't want to leave anybody out.
Uh iTunes, uh, you name it.
We're thrilled.
We're excited.
Can't tell you how thrilled and excited.
Uh I mean everybody says you gotta get the young demo.
Well, here we go.
Uh and to be able to do it uh with with with this device and have the truth of American history be the vehicle.
It's a great opportunity, folks, and I thank all of you for helping to make it uh such an overwhelming success that it is.
Let me go to the Leslie Falls on my start number three here.
This is a little review.
How long ago was it?
Time magazine actually ran a cover story, shocking news.
Men and women are actually born different.
Now that's 20 years ago, 18 years ago.
I l let me for those of you that are not that old.
Let me give you a little history of this.
You might be scratching your head.
What do you mean, boys and girls, men and women different?
Everybody knows that.
No, you see, that's the the modern era of feminism began in the late 60s, the modern era.
Feminism has been around for decades, but uh the modern era began in the late 60s, and it manifested itself in a number of different ways.
One of the ways was to basically say that there weren't any differences at men and women.
Women can do anything men can do.
They could be firemen, they could be police, they could serve in combat.
Never mind we have to change the lower some of the physical requirements.
mind that.
There were leftist parents who really believed that the only reason girls ended up being feminine is because they played with dolls and had pink So they let their baby girls play with G.I. Joe and painted a bedroom blue.
And they were shocked that their little girls grew up to be feminine.
Same token, they put their little boy babies with Barbie dolls and pink bedrooms.
And they were shocked when the little boy babies started having war between Barbie and Barbette.
Because there was no G.I. Joe, the sisters had them.
There was this effort to basically say that the only thing that made men and women different was the masculine sexist culture of the United States of Western civilization.
I'm not lying.
There are many of those people who think that to this day, which is why this news that men and women are different is so shocking to them.
So Time magazine learned, and it was such a shock.
Can you imagine you're on the editorial board Time Magazine?
And you are so stunned at the scientific revelation that men and women are different that you stop everything and do a cover story.
It should have been a learnable moment.
We've been laughing and we're laughing now at these leftists and the way they're talking about work and unemployment being liberated from bad choices that you.
we make a mistake laughing.
I mean, all you can do sometimes is laugh at them, but we make a mistake laughing at them because they're dead serious and they end up picking up a lot of low information followers.
So all that's happening now that we're laughing about, the unemployment rate, that's no big deal anymore, Rush.
We're just liberating people from the maddening choice of having to work.
And now we've actually got a member of Congress, a Democrat, who said the great thing about Obamacare is that people can still get their health benefits without having to work, meaning they can be home at night tucking the kids.
Obamacare is promoting family togetherness and families sticking together by eliminating the rotten choice of parents having to work.
Now, you and I, we look around at each other, and we're in shocked disbelief.
And we start laughing, well, how nutty, how loony.
They believe it, folks, is the thing.
And then they grow up and they get elected themselves or get themselves into bureaucracy and they start making policy based on this lunacy.
And it's the same with this men and women are different stuff.
It was Western Civ that made men and women different.
Not biology.
Not physiology.
The only differences that they recognized were gynecological.
But beyond that, the only thing that made men tough guys was the way they were raised.
And we could turn women into tough guys if we raised them the same way.
What do you think the effort to have women take over the corporate world was?
That wasn't about finding the unique differences of women.
It was about women saying they could do everything a man could do and they could do it better.
So they started dressing like men.
Same career paths as men.
Started replacing men.
And now where are men?
And where's our culture?
It's been checkified.
In many, many places.
So that is how.
People who believe that can literally end up being surprised that men and women are different.
And the latest example is Leslie Stahl, who's got, I guess, a 60 Minutes report on this coming up.
And she promoted it on CBS this morning today.
And I'll let you hear that when we get back from this.
Now, just for those of you out there thinking I'm making this up, there is a U.K. industry.
independent story published just today.
You want to hear the headline of this thing?
Why dressing your daughter in pink damages the future of our economy?
No, I'm not.
I'm not kidding you, and I I offer this up as backup evidence of what I'm talking about.
Here we are in 2014, and still debating this this pink versus blue thing, which I'm telling you goes back to the 70s.
Now here's Leslie Stahl, CBS this morning, uh 60 Minutes correspondent.
They're talking about her report on medication and the differences between men and women.
Charlie Rose.
What surprised you most of all the things that you found out?
I guess what the big thing is how pervasive the differences between men and women are.
It's not just that we metabolize medicine differently.
Our lungs are different.
Our cells are different.
Our skin is different.
We used to think it was just, you know, the gynecology areas, the bikini medicine, as they called it.
But now we're learning that we are pervasively different at every level.
Now we are learning that we...
They didn't know that men and women's skin is different.
They didn't know that the lungs were different.
Now, Gail King, Oprah's best friend, follows this immediate.
I want you to hear the first question.
It's the first words that you will hear in this sound bite coming up.
You just heard Leslie Stahl.
We didn't know how pervasive the differences between men and women are.
But now we're learning we are pervasively different at every level.
And Gail King said.
Why didn't we know this before?
You know, that's a great question.
Because research is done originally on animals.
And they use only male animals to this day.
Now they used to only have male in the human studies, but now they have females in the human studies.
However, instead of seeing how women react versus how men react in the study, they put them all together and take the average.
Remember what we talked about yesterday?
How is it that the mainstream media get everything wrong?
Not just slightly wrong, but major profound wrong.
How is this possible?
To be this stupid this ignorant.
How is it possible to not know instinctively that men and women are different?
Why is that such shocking news that Gail King says, why didn't we know this before?
Nora O'Donnell, who is a CBS uh infobe, and Leslie Stahl wrapped it up with this exchange.
Leslie, if we metabolize Ambien differently, do we metabolize statins differently?
I mean, the list could go on and on because men and women are taking the same amount when it comes to lipitor and other pills.
We don't know.
We don't know.
No, you mean we don't know.
Oh no, you mean we could be dying.
Oh no, we don't know.
Oh.
I uh folks.
This is simply.
I I don't I don't know how to describe the the the this is just we're in trouble.
We're big trouble.
Because these people are primary source for news for most people.
We're in big trouble.
Open line Friday.
I didn't get a chance to explain this in detail when the program started.
Basically, it is your day to talk about whatever you want.
Well, whatever.
It doesn't have to be anything you think I care about.
That's the deal.
Whatever.
The one day of the week we do that.
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