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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, the most eagerly anticipated radio talk show in America, Rush Limbaugh, on Friday.
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 lrushbo 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.
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 El Rushbo at 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.
You've heard all this.
People have been advised don't drink the water.
Don't take showers.
What?
Oh, yeah.
Journalists have taken pictures of the brown water.
CNN booked 11 rooms five months ago, and her team gets over there.
They had one half of one room ready to go.
There are rats running around, construction crews still running around, curtains falling off the window.
You've heard all this.
Well, naturally, Putin is denying it.
And Putin's spokesmen are denying it.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak is downright livid at the journalists for doing this.
He claims that what's going on 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 incompetents 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 said 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.
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.
Dmitry 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're 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 that 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 hadn't heard him at Snowden show.
Is there an event for what he does?
I didn't know Snowden was going.
No, I don't think Snowden's going to show up.
No way Snowden's going to 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 going to 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?
It 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.
It turns out that that story is totally bogus.
There is no accuracy to it whatsoever.
Robert Graham of Erata 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 social 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.
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.
Everybody can buy that.
I find it fascinating what people are willing to be defrauded about or willing to be fooled by.
And in this case, 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.
Everybody thinks the NSA is reading their mail.
Everybody thinks the NSA is knowing if they're smoking marijuana or not.
Everybody thinks this and 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, let's see.
Let's go to the audio soundbites.
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, Q ⁇ A, 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 could 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?
We know Mother Teresa is a saint now, but if the Congress wanted to make her a saint and attach that to the debt ceiling, we probably couldn't get 218 Republican votes.
Now, what do you think that was?
That was that this guy must be really under the gun because 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.
I guarantee you, 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 how screwed up we are.
And of course, that's all or mostly the fault of talk radio.
Now to sound bite 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.
I don't think I'm going to 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 at 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 investments.
And here is, among other things, what he said.
If I blindfolded someone and took him at 2 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 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 Airport in New York a third world country airport.
And there's been no reaction.
De Blasio in New York, nobody cares.
Now, what would have happened if Cheney had said this?
If Cheney had gone to LaGuardia and said, that's a third world airport.
What do you there?
Well, what's wrong with the third world?
It's a racist government.
Do you believe it?
What the vice president is saying is you go into LaGuardia and all you see is a bunch of dark-skinned immigrants and janitors.
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.
Have 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 Chi-Coms.
Do you love them?
Doesn't matter Obama, Biden, Shi-Coms can't do anything wrong.
Back to the phones where we go.
This is Sean in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Great to have you in the program, sir.
Hello.
Absolutely, sir.
I just want to say it's an honor to talk to you, Mr. Limbaugh.
I've been 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 great to talk to the Godfather.
Well, I appreciate that.
Thank you so much.
Absolutely.
Also, 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 Americans are finally free, and they don't have to work, and they can put their kids to sleep.
That offends me because I work six days a week, full-time job.
I have a part-time job two days a week, and I go to school the other three days.
And you know what?
I love my boy.
I wish I could put him to bed more, but I work for what I want.
I don't take a handout.
God bless you.
I hope it always offends you.
I hope that kind of talk always offends you.
Yeah, I try to pass it along.
I'm young, so I don't have too many like-minded friends, but you got to keep on tricking.
That's all any of us can do.
You've got to keep living by example.
Yes, sir.
But what I was calling about, you know, I was watching the family guy, and I saw Mr. Rush Limbaugh on there, and I didn't really know what to think about that because, you know, as most of the country knows, you're the king of conservatism, and Seth McFarlane 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 first one the one I'm specifically talking about is the one where Brian makes the switch to Republicanism.
Okay, well, that was the third one, and that was the result of the first two being well received by the Family Guy viewing audience.
Seth McFarlane is the godfather of Family Guy.
And I've always got a good relationship with him.
I've always gotten along with him on the phone.
He would be on the phone directing the first two that I did from just voice only from here.
The one you're talking about, I had to actually spend a day and a half out in Los Angeles.
Well, longer than that, but doing that one.
And I think that, you know, it's hard to explain or anticipate why.
I just, I think Seth.
Did he approach you?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, I didn't.
Did they give you a hard time on the set or is it kind of a friendly atmosphere?
No, it was entirely respectful and friendly.
And in fact, when we had finished and totally wrapped up, he said that 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.
He said, because, you know, every animated episode takes a year to produce.
Oh, wow.
The animation takes one year to bring one of those things to TV.
And he was extremely complimentary and thanked me and held out the option for doing more.
I like the guy.
I thoroughly enjoyed it.
You know, from what I got from it, 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.
I wanted to call and 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.
You are the second or third person that can trace their genealogy to prominent figures in this book.
You can trace yourself to William Bradford.
We go back quite a bit further than that, but we were always raised that even though William Bradford and like good people were on that boat, we were pretty much asked to regard everybody on that boat because we don't believe that anybody there wasn't specifically placed there by God.
It's fantastic what they accomplished.
No question about it.
It's unbelievable.
It's the odds that they face, the risks they took.
And, you know, the risks that they assumed, far different than what risks are today.
And crossing the ocean back then was a life-risking thing.
There was no guarantee.
Nobody, very few, think of it as a risk today.
And more inconvenienced by the amount of time it's going to take.
I just, I find it fascinating to try to put yourself in people's shoes back then and what they lived through.
When they arrived, there was no place to stay.
They had to stay on the boat for months after they arrived.
The boat was tiny for that many people.
It was just, it was a degree of commitment and suffering that you don't find necessary in the country today, largely because of the hard work they did when they did.
I just, I'm impressed.
And Bradford's story is profound.
His journal is a gift from God, as far as I'm concerned.
Oh, no, his line dropped?
Oh.
Well, I thought he was just mesmerized by what I said, but his line dropped.
Any rate, 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.
Oh, am I.
I was wondering, I missed your broadcast where you were discussing O'Reilly's interview with the president, and I was wondering what is your opinion of it.
Well, let me remember what I said.
The first thing I said about it was, and nothing to do with the interview itself.
It was the placement of the interview.
However, this turned out to be an incorrect observation.
My first thought was that during the pregame, 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 a pregame show.
Normally, you talk to the president about American stuff.
Football, the game, 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 10 or 15 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, accused O'Reilly of asking Republican questions.
And I thought, it's a shame.
It's going to be wasted.
Nobody's going to see it.
And the people that did see it are not going to care because it was going to 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.
And they've got a lot of fodder on it for the remainder of the week on Fox.
And I thought, I actually thought 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.
And whining about, I mean, 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.
And I don't know how instructive it was.
My big fear, it's not a big fear.
That's not the real.
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 do not want at 4 o'clock on the afternoon of the Super Bowl to be drugged deep down into the bowels of what happened to Benghazi.
And so, 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 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 forceful enough.
And I understand it's because of two different medias that you're involved in.
He has a very close time limit on how long he can spend with these people, and they blowve it on him, and he tries to control that, where you have a little more leeway than he does.
But I was very disappointed in him.
I think, especially when he said after the live interview, 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 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 really think.
Okay.
Now, that is a post-interview comment.
And if you'd asked me about that, I would have told you what I thought.
And that's a good point you bring up because when the interview was over later on the next day, for whenever it was, he's doing the perfunctory appearance on different day parts on Fox, where the anchors act fascinated with what Obama and O'Reilly said in the interview the day before.
It's a standard network promotion.
O'Reilly 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 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 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 going to come when he's going to be put down in history eventually as if not the most worst president, as one of the worst, but definitely the most dangerous president that we have ever had.
Yeah, I would use that word too.
You would.
Yep.
The history that's going to 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 100% right.
So at least I got him converted.
Yeah, but see, 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.
That's crying over spilt milk.
But all the people that have now been fooled, imagine if they hadn't been.
Thanks, Joe.
I appreciate the call.
I got to take a break, folks.
A little long here.
I'll be back after this.
Joseph in Fort Lewis, Washington.
Great to have you, sir.
Hi.
Hello, Rush.
Good to find you talk to you.
I'm glad you're here, sir.
Thank you.
So my points are that the American people mostly have become lethargic and lazy about how the government, and they just won't let them unramp it.
And I have examples of this because people don't want to work.
And it's because the government's going to give them everything that they want.
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 their education system.
I came up from Afghanistan to find my child in kindergarten failing kindergarten halfway through the school year.
Sir, let me ask you a question.
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 does 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, 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 think there's a rising percentage that are just as you describe.
The question is: have we reached the tipping point over 50%?
And 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 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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