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Feb. 7, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 7, 2014, Friday, Hour #3
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It is the most exciting, the most talked about, the most referenced, and the most eagerly anticipated radio talk show in America, Rush Limbaugh on Friday.
From the Southern Command in Sunny, South Florida.
It's open line Friday!
And it's also the fastest three hours in media, and we're smack dab here at the beginning of the last one.
800-282-2882 and the email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
Try to get as many phone calls as we can on Friday.
It just depends on how much news out there I think is really crucial.
And today is just one of those days.
We find ourselves in the midst of yet another political and cultural significant redefinition and upheaval orchestrated by the left that most people on our side, while in the middle of it say, Oh, that's silly.
Oh, that'll never happen.
Oh, nobody will fall for that.
Nobody.
As we continue to not take them seriously, they continue to make inroads and gains.
as a minority.
That's the interesting thing about this.
We're being governed and ruled by an abject minority.
Anyway, telephone number 800 282-2882, the email address Lrushboard EIBNet.com.
So you've seen by now all of the horror stories and some pictures coming out of Sochi.
The media show up, and there are no door handles and half a toilet, a wall cutting the toilet seat in half.
No doorknobs, no lights.
They're running water.
If there is any, it's brown.
Hotels do not have lobbies.
The hotels that do have lobbies, they tell you do not wash your face with the water.
There's dangerous stuff in it.
You've heard all this.
People have been advised, don't don't drink the water, don't take showers.
What what?
Oh, yeah, well, there's people uh journalists have taken pictures of the uh of the brown water.
Uh CNN booked 11 rooms five months ago, and her team gets over there, they had one half of one room ready to go.
Uh there are rats running around, construction crew still running around, curtains falling off the windows.
You've heard all this.
Well, naturally, Putin is denying it.
And Putin's spokesmen are denying it.
Uh Rushi uh sorry, Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Kozak is downright livid at the journalists for doing this.
He claims that what's going on is a is an effort to sabotage Russia and to sabotage the Olympics and to undermine the international image and reputation of the Russians as being a bunch of backward dangerous incompetence that you would never want to visit.
He thinks this is a Western conspiracy to keep tourists and everybody out of Russia.
And he said, for example, we have only received 108 registered complaints, and that's nowhere near what most Olympics get.
Our 108 registered complaints is nothing.
And he says most of those 108 are shams, part of the conspiracy.
And then he said, We have surveillance video from the hotels that shows people turning on the shower and directing the nozzle at the wall and then leaving the room for the whole day.
We have surveillance video showing how people are sabotaging the news company.
Our showers work.
People are able to take showers, but we've got surveillance video that shows Western journalists going in there and turning on the showers and running all the water out and all the hot water out and leaving and not taking a shower And then reporting they never had any hot water.
So then people, wait a minute, you got what?
You've got surveillance video of showers.
Now nobody can find Dmitry Kozak.
Dimitri Kozak has been given the proverbial Putin hook.
They've gotten rid of the guy.
They can't find him.
And now Russian officials, a spokesman for Kozak said yesterday that there is absolutely no surveillance in hotel rooms or bathrooms being occupied by guests.
He said there was surveillance on premises during construction and during the cleaning of the venues.
And that's likely what Mr. Kozak was talking about.
Senior official at a company that built a number of the hotels also said there isn't any surveillance in the rooms occupied by guests.
But Kozak said, hey, we watching you, and we see you taking showers, and we see you using our internet, and we see you doing all this.
You're not fooling us.
So I just think it's hilarious.
The KGB admits if they're surveilling people, they have to yank that guy, probably take him somewhere into Siberia, and then go out and deny it.
By the Snowden?
I I hadn't heard him at Snowden show.
Is there an event for what he does?
I hadn't I didn't know Snowden was going.
No, I don't, I don't, I don't think Snowden's going to show up.
No way Snowden's gonna show up.
Watching what?
What would Snowden show up for?
To talk to them, yeah, but there's also going to be all kinds of authorities that would grab that guy away from all the journalists' friends of Snowden's that love that guy.
I don't think Snowden's gonna show up.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, how many of you?
Classic story here.
How many of you heard the NBC or heard about either one, the NBC News report that said the first time in Sochi after you arrived, when you turned on your telephone or your computer, you were immediately being hacked.
Was Richard Engel at NBC News on the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams.
Story went viral all over the world.
NBC News reports every computer device being hacked by Russian authorities.
That story is totally false.
False.
It turns out that that story is totally bogus.
There is no accuracy to it whatsoever.
Robert Graham of Irata Security, they're in the business to guard against such tackery, calls the report 100% fraudulent.
Absolutely 0% of the story, he said, was about turning on a computer connecting to a Soshi network.
100% of the story was about visiting websites remotely.
Thus, the claim of the story that you'll get hacked immediately upon turning on your computers is fraudulent.
The only thing that can be confirmed by the story is don't let Richard Engel borrow your telephone.
And some other people, so wait a minute, our devices are not that easily hacked.
What do you mean turn it on and somebody can hack it?
If the Russians had figured it out, a lot of other people would have before now.
There's nothing.
But what it shows is what people are willing to believe.
Which I find as fascinating as the fraud.
Because you almost you have to have willing participants or unwitting, if not willing, participants in a fraud.
And for a fraudulent story, every device, smartphone, computer, hacked by the Russians.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
I find it fascinating what people are willing to be defrauded about.
Or willing to be fooled by.
And in this case, I mean you've got we've had weeks, months, what is it, years of stories about the NSA and sweeping phone metadata, hoovering it up, the computer companies and software companies participating with the government to provide back doors to their servers, the government.
See, everybody thinks the NSA is reading their mail.
Everybody thinks the NSA is knowing if they're smoking marijuana or not.
Everybody thinks this at Obama, whoever wants to know, whoever in government wants to know what you're doing can do.
And the sad fact is that there are very few of us, the government actually would care to monitor our lives.
Very, very few.
But everybody thinks that their life is something the government would want to follow.
I just find it all fascinating.
I just do.
I'm fascinated by it.
Here's uh let's see.
Oh yeah, let's go to the audio sound bites.
Um Grab number seven, John Boehner, who, in addition to saying yesterday that we're not going to do immigration reform because hell, the president won't implement it anyway.
He's not obeying the law, abiding by it, so why should we do it?
Press briefing yesterday, QA reporter said to Boehner, there have been reports that you offered to try put forward the approval of the Keystone Pipeline to an extension of the debt limit, but that you ran into problems with your conference, meaning Republicans in Congress.
Now, how how can that not get 218 votes in your conference opening the Keystone Pipeline?
Congress, and how in the world can you not get 218 Republicans to vote for opening the Keystone Pipeline?
You put red state Democrats in a very similar position in the Senate.
How come you can't get 218 in the House for Keystone?
You know, Mother Teresa is a saint now, but, you know, if the Congress wanted to make her a saint and attach that to the debt ceiling, we probably couldn't get 218 Republican votes.
I don't know.
Now, what do you think that was that was that this guy must be really under the gun because he's he's he's the House Republicans couldn't agree to make Mother Teresa a saint, even after she'd been proclaimed one.
The House Republicans wouldn't agree on that.
He I guarantee it, they are within that caucus.
There has got to be so much friction, and Boehner is simply acknowledging it here.
I couldn't get 218 people to agree on anything here.
That's that's how screwed up we are.
And of course, that's all or mostly the fault of talk radio.
Down to soundbite number 19.
You know, I have been waiting.
This sound bite, you've heard it by now, or you've heard of it by now.
It's been viral for 24 hours.
And I am routinely surprised when I think I'm not going to be.
And I'm not surprised, not I don't think I'm gonna be surprised when I am.
This I just wanted to see what kind of reaction this would get.
And it's our beloved one of a kind, Vice President Biden.
He was uh Philadelphia yesterday at the 30th Street station at the unveiling of Amtrak's new city's sprinter electric motive, locomotive, electric train.
And he's talking about the need for infrastructure investment.
And here is, Among other things, what he said.
If I blindfolded someone and took him at two o'clock in the morning into the airport in Hong Kong and said, Where do you think you are?
They said, This must be America.
It's a modern airport.
If I took him blindfolding and took to the LaGuardia Airport in New York, you must think I must be in some third world country.
This is a guy who said you can't go into a 7-Eleven unless you can speak Indian.
Or you can't get a job there unless you are Indian or know somebody.
And now he's calling LaGuardia, LaGuardia Airport in New York, a third world country airport.
And there's been no reaction.
De Blasio in New York, ho, nobody cares.
Now, what would have happened if Cheney had said this?
If Cheney gone to LaGuardia and said, that's a third world airport.
What do you well, what's wrong with the third world?
That's a racist comment.
Do you believe it?
What the vice president's saying is you go into LaGuardia, and all you see is a bunch of a bunch of dark-skinned immigrants and janitors.
And so that's what they would accuse him of meaning.
Now here comes plugs talking about, and admittedly it's an infrastructure deal, but he's talking about LaGuardia as a third world airport.
You ever seen people who have been running a country for more than five years take less responsibility for anything?
How many stimulus dollars have been allocated to upgrade the infrastructure of the airports and the schools and the bridges and the roads and the whatevers.
these people they run around and they trash the country while they are running it The stimulus and all the stimuli was supposed to fix this.
Hell, just the existence of Obama on the scene was supposed to fix this.
I'll tell you what these people are enamored of the Chatcoms.
They do love them.
Biden, Chaicoms can't do anything wrong.
Back to the phones we go.
This is uh Sean in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Great to have you in the program, sir.
Hello.
Absolutely, sir.
I just want to say it's uh it's an honor to talk to you, Mr. Lumbaugh.
I've been uh listening to you since I was 10 years old with my grandfather.
Well, thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
I've talked to quite a few syndicated radio hosts, and it's it's great to find talk to the godfather.
Well, I appreciate that.
Thank you so much.
Absolutely.
Also, I would do I do want to make a small comment before I get to the topic I called in on about the fellow that was talking about uh Americans are finally free and they don't have to work and they can put their kids to sleep.
That uh that offends me because I work six days a week, full-time job.
I I have a part-time job two days a week, and I go to school the other three days.
And you know what?
I I love my boy.
I wish I could put him to bed more, but you know, I I work for what I want, I don't take a hand out.
I uh God bless you.
I hope it always offends you.
I I hope that that kind of talk always offends you.
And uh yeah, I try to pass it along.
I'm young, so it's I don't have too many like-minded friends, but um, yeah, I gotta keep on trekking.
That's all any of us can do.
You gotta keep living by example.
Yes, sir.
Um, but what I was calling about, um, you know, I was watching the family guy, and uh I seen I saw Mr. Rush Limbaugh on there, and I I didn't really know what to think about that, because uh, you know, as most of the country knows, you're the king of conservatism, and Steph McFarland is, you know, kind of an out there liberal.
I was wondering how that kind of came together.
Well, I've actually done three family guy appearances, and the the first one, um the one I'm specifically talking about is the one where Brian was uh making the switch to Republicanism.
Okay, well, that was the third one, and that that was the result of the first two being well received by the family guy uh viewing audience.
Seth McFarlane is the uh the godfather of uh a family guy.
And I've always uh I've got a good relationship with him.
I've always got along with him on the phone.
We he would he would be on the phone directing the first two that I did from just voice only from here.
Uh the one you're talking about, I had to actually spend day and a half out in Los Angeles doing well longer than that, but uh do it doing that one.
And I I've I think that um you know it's hard to explain and anticipate why.
I I just I think Seth did uh did he approach you or Oh yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I didn't uh did uh did they give you a hard time on the on the set or is it kind of a friendly atmosphere?
No, it wasn't it was entirely respectful and friendly, and in fact, I mean I when we had finished and totally wrapped up, he said that the I'll never forget this.
He said that was just incredible work.
He said, You wouldn't believe the number of people who come in here and think just because it's voice, they can just lay it down and leave.
Um, you know, every animated episode takes a year to produce.
Oh wow.
The animation takes one year to bring one of those things to to TV.
And uh he was extremely complimentary and thanked me and and held out the uh option for doing more.
I like the guy.
I I uh I thoroughly enjoyed it, you know.
From what I got from it, um, you know, I understand he's obviously got liberal views, but bringing you in and the way they did it, they kind of made it almost they made conservative views over the top to try to portray.
He's a smart guy.
He's a smart guy, and he doesn't want to remain predictable in the entertainment business.
Here's Doug in Salt Lake City.
Great to have you, sir, on the program.
Hello.
Rush, how are you doing?
Very well.
Thanks much.
So I wanted to call and uh congratulate you on your success, but also thank you.
I'm a direct descendant of William Bradford, and I can't tell you how much I love this book.
It's awesome.
I bought the video copy or the audio, sorry.
Oh, that's amazing.
I you know, you are the second or third person that can trace their genealogy to uh prominent figures in this book.
You can trace yourself to William Bradford.
We go back quite a bit further than that, but uh you know, we were always raised that even though uh William Bradford and and like good people were on that boat, we were pretty much uh asked to regard everybody on that boat because we don't believe that uh anybody there wasn't specifically placed there by God.
It's fantastic what they accomplished.
No question about it.
It's unbelievable.
It it's the odds that they face, the um the risks they took.
And but you know that the the risks that they assumed, far different than what risks are today.
I mean, crossing the ocean back then was a life risking thing.
There was no guarantee, and nobody I mean, very few think of it as a risk today, and more inconvenience by the amount of time it's gonna take.
I just I've I find it fascinating to try to put yourself in people's shoes back then of what they lived through.
They when they when they arrived, there was no place to stay.
They had to stay on the boat for months after they arrived.
The boat was piny for that many people.
It was just it was it was uh a degree of commitment and suffering that you don't find necessary in the country today, largely because of the uh the hard work they did when they did.
I just I'm I'm impressed that and and Bradford's story uh is profound.
His journal is a gift from God as far as I'm concerned.
Oh no, his line dropped.
Oh, I just for a I thought he was just mesmerized by what I said, but his line dropped.
Any rate um well, who's next?
Joe in Fort Lauderdale.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Thank you very much, Rush, and let me tell you what a great pleasure it is to finally make contact with you after trying for many years.
Well, I'm glad you got through, sir.
Thank you much.
So am I. Uh I was wondering I I missed your broadcast where you were discussing uh O'Reilly's interview with the president, and I was wondering what is your opinion of it.
Well, let me remember what I said.
Um the first thing I said about it was that nothing to do with the interview itself.
Um it was it was the the placement of the uh of the interview.
However, this turned out to be uh an incorrect observation.
My my first thought was that during the pre-game, the Super Bowl, I mean, you've got the largest audience of the year specifically wanting to escape things like Obama and politics and stuff.
And the televising network, in this case Fox, it's tradition.
Go get the president.
Did an interview during the pregame show.
Normally you talk to president about American stuff.
Uh football, the game, uh, you know, really innocuous things.
Just the president gets a little PR out of it, the televising network gets a little PR with presidential access, takes ten or fifteen minutes, and you move on.
O'Reilly hit Obama with questions he hadn't been asked, so much so that the AP accused Obama of asking Republican uh accused O'Reilly of asking Republican questions.
And I thought it's a shame it's gonna be wasted.
Nobody's gonna see it, and the people that did see it are not gonna care because it it was gonna come off as an intrusion.
But then O'Reilly was able to play it on his show, and he was able to expose it to three, three and a half million people, uh, and it's they've gotten a lot of fodder on it for the remainder of the week on Fox.
And I thought I I actually thought it was it was it was it was fascinating.
These questions were questions that Obama should have been asked numerous times over the past months, and basically all he did was tell O'Reilly how insolent he was for asking them.
Well, I and whining about I mean, I I d I just can't ever recall any president whining and moaning and complaining about the network that the journalist is from while the interview is going on.
Uh and I you know I don't know how uh instructive it was.
That my my big fear and not it's not a big fear.
That's not the the the probable reality of the thing is that Obama's now able to say I've asked the tough, I've answered the tough questions, I haven't ducked them, and he answered them in a place where the vast majority of the audience that day wasn't interested.
Didn't really care.
I mean, they're not they they do not want at four o'clock on the afternoon of the Super Bowl to be drugged deep down into the bowels of what happened to Benghazi.
And so uh I mean that's I guess an amalgamation of my thoughts.
What were yours?
Say that again.
What were your thoughts?
Well, first off, I agree with everything that you just said.
And uh you and O'Reilly are the two people that I turn to for most of my information and news, and you primarily, because sometimes, in my opinion, O'Reilly isn't uh forceful enough.
Uh and I understand it's because of two different media that you're involved in.
Uh he has a very close time limit on how long he can spend with these people and and they bloviate on him, and he tries to control that where you s you have a little more leeway than he does.
But uh I was very disappointed in him.
Uh I think, especially when he said uh after the uh the live interview, uh when he was replaying it and he was talking, discussing it with other people, and he was saying, I really don't think that Obama is uh a bad person.
I don't think he really wants to hurt the country.
And I think that just destroyed him as far as I'm concerned.
I I really think okay.
You're you you now that is a post interview comment, and I would if you'd asked me about that, I would have told you what I thought.
And I that's a good point to bring up because when the interview was over later on the next day, for whatever it was, he's uh doing the perfunctory appearance on different day parts on Fox, where the ink the anchors act fascinated with what Obama and O'Reilly said in the interview the day before.
It's a standard network promotion.
Um Riley did say, well, you know, I'm not like those right wingers.
I think Obama's a good guy.
I don't think he wants to hurt anybody.
I don't think that he like those right wingers think.
I don't think that he's trying to destroy anybody or anything.
Well, why do you think he does that?
I mean, you say you watch him a lot, and you uh get a lot of your news from him, so why do you think he does that?
And I disagree with him.
I think that Obama is intentionally trying to hurt these things.
I think Obama is a Trojan horse in our country.
And uh in fact, I have a favorite nephew that was a big fan of Obama, and he voted for him, and before he was even sworn in, I told my nephew that mark my words, the day is gonna come when you're when he's gonna be put down in history eventually as if not the most uh worst president,
as one of the most worse one of the worst, but Mess definitely the most dangerous president that we have ever had.
Yeah, I would use that word too.
You would.
Yep.
And uh history that's gonna be written by people not yet alive, yeah.
Yeah, I agree.
And in fact, now he's off he's been in office now for five years, and my nephew last month, we were talking about politics came up, and he was complaining about how disappointed he was in Obama.
And I told him, I said, Do you remember before he was even sworn in when I told you that he was going to be going down in history as one of the worst presidents of all time, but more important, the most dangerous?
He says, Yes.
He said, I remember it distinctly.
He said, You were a hundred percent right.
So at least I got him converted.
Yeah, but see, that's not the that that's all well and good, but think about how much better it would have been if he'd have believed you at the beginning.
I know it's crying over spilt milk.
But all the people that have now been fooled, imagine if they hadn't been.
Thanks, uh Joe.
I appreciate the call.
I gotta take a break, folks.
A little long here be back after this.
Joseph in Fort Lewis, Washington.
Great to have you, sir.
Hi.
Hello, Russ.
Good to uh finally talk to you.
I'm glad you're here, sir.
Thank you.
So um my points are is that the American people um mostly have become lethargic and lazy about how the the government and they just won't let him unramp it.
And I have examples of this because they don't people don't want to work.
And it's because the government's gonna give them everything that they won't, they're not going to.
And one example I have of that is I know somebody that the government gives them a home, gives them money for food, gives them cell phones and everything, and then they turn around and go and buy drugs with these things.
Example number two is the government in the education system.
I can't go from Afghanistan to find my child in kindergarten sailing kindergarten halfway through the school year.
Sir, let me ask you for months.
Joseph, let me ask you a question.
I've got 30 seconds.
Why do you want to begrudge people an enjoyable life?
That's what the Democrats would ask you.
Why are you so angry that people have education and phones and so what is it make you so mad?
Why are you such a bigot?
This is what the media would ask you.
This is what the Democrats would ask you.
And your answer is no, no, no.
I'm not against any of that.
I think you ought to have to work for it.
Well, you know, some people just can't because this country isn't fair.
Now, I agree with you.
I th I think there's a rising percentage that are just as you describe.
The question is, have we reached a tipping point over 50 percent?
I don't think we have yet.
Otherwise, this would All be pointless, and I don't think it is.
It's why it's it's it's worth hanging in there, Joseph, and not caving to what you know is wrong.
I'm glad you're out there.
Be back, folks.
Okay, remember, folks, book two Rush Revere and the First Patriots announced today, available for pre order, on sale March the 11th.
Have a great weekend.
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