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Feb. 11, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 11, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And here we are back at it, ladies and gentlemen, wound up, revved up, ready to go behind the golden EIB microphone and the Rush Limbaugh program here at the EIB network, Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
A telephone number if you want to be on the program, 800-282-288-288.
And the email address El Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
Well, well, well, well, look.
I know, I know that Obama has done another, in fact, we mentioned yesterday he was going to do it.
This um three-year extension on the employer mandate.
Three years.
Folks, this plan is never gonna work.
It is impossible to implement.
That is what this means.
It really isn't complicated at all.
The only reason Obama's doing this is to make sure this law does not harm him and his party politically.
Period.
That's it.
It is proof positive.
This thing is a disaster.
It is an albatross.
It isn't going to do what everybody supporting it promised it would do.
It is not going to guarantee the uninsured have uh insurance.
It isn't going to lower costs, it isn't going to promote jobs, it isn't going to lower the deficit.
It is nothing more than an albatross around the neck of the whole country.
And the very fact that it cannot be implemented.
Period.
It just it won't work if it's implemented.
It will harm the political prospects of the Democrat Party if it's fully implemented.
That's all you need to know about it.
And that means it isn't going to work.
If this thing were the panacea, it was promoted, they couldn't wait to implement this thing front to back, top to bottom, side to side as quickly as possible, because everybody would love it then and everybody would vote for Democrats and we'd be finished.
But instead, they're having to delay the implementation, which means delay the effect, which means delay the impact, and now, and now the bloom is off the rose, all across the political spectrum in Washington, everywhere.
They all know now.
And this is where I start getting frustrated if I start thinking about this.
This is why, you know, they're they're all now finally realizing Republicans, Democrats, media, whatever, all realizing this is all political.
And that's all it has ever been from the get-go.
I guess we'll take it whenever we can get it.
But this really doesn't need any analysis, and everybody, Ron Ford, who tweeted recently that uh he thinks my head's about to explode with each new post that he puts out.
Ron Fordnier's latest today's, I'm tired.
I can't defend it anymore.
I just can't.
I I and he he's I've got the story.
We'll get to it in a minute, but he's actually wringing his hands and crying, oh, I want it to work so bad, because I want the uninsured to be insured.
I just want it to work so bad, but obviously it isn't gonna it can't work.
And everybody should have known this before it was voted on.
It's not possible for this to work.
It has never been possible.
It was never going to work.
And with each election, the regime itself has confirmed that by delaying it.
By preventing it, by making sure that it doesn't get implemented, by making sure that it doesn't happen.
Now they're delaying the thing until after Obama's gone.
Although, what evidence do we have that Obama's leaving?
Well, Rush, I mean, the Constitution says, Yeah, and it constitution also says he can't do what he's doing here.
The text of Obamacare specifically prohibits what Obama is doing.
But very few people are even talking about that.
They're just saying what I said.
Well, the implications are here that clearly it doesn't work, and Obama's merely making political movers.
He's making illegal maneuvers.
This is not legal.
This isn't permitted.
That's a hoe hummer to most people.
So that train left the station last year.
I think the train ever got to the station, actually.
So when you when you make jokes about Obama having to leave office in 2016, why?
And if he can willy-nilly change the constitution, and he said to this French socialist guy, the great thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.
He said that up at Monticello.
At least he knew where he was.
Gore didn't even know where he was when he went to Montecello.
Remember that?
Al Gore's in there, some foreign dignitary, Al Gorson and Clinton are in there, and they're taking a tour of Monticello, and Gore's trying to act smart and everything.
And he points to a bust, a figurine bust up on a shelf, and asks very intelligently, the curator, and uh, and uh who, who is that?
Oh, that's uh Benjamin Franklin.
Oh, yes, yes, I recognize with the long hippie hair.
Yeah, Benjamin Franklin.
Or was it Thomas Jefferson?
He didn't know Thomas Jefferson in the Monticello, I thought it was whatever.
He didn't know one of the founding fathers.
Didn't recognize him.
And he should have offered his excuse the NFL Hall of Fame.
Well, hell, you can't identify any of those guys by their busts either, so you know cut me some slack.
Bob Kostas in the Soviet Union Russia has to take tonight off now Pink Eye.
Is there anything of all the infections that you could get when you go to a former communist country, pink eye?
It just fits just fits too.
No, it's not bad, mascara, it's just it's it's an eye infection out there.
But I mean the red Soviet Union and get pink.
I just some of this stuff uh folks writes itself.
Now get this.
We've got more on the Obamacare business here of sound bites and everything, too.
But it's just every day there's just more and more confirmation that everything, folks, forgive me on this, but everything that I told you, and a lot of people on our side, uh, everything we told you about this is true.
Everything has come true.
And we knew it before it happened.
We knew what was going to happen before because we know who these people are.
And I still marvel.
There's some some conservative media types, highly acclaimed, highly touted, acting like they're shocked and stunned.
Guy this talented, this eloquent, blah, blah, blah, blah.
How could you not know who the guy was?
Get fooled by the crease in his pants, get fooled by his eloquence, how well he makes a speech.
What about who he is?
Don't tell me you didn't know who he is.
Anybody who wanted to could have known who Obama is, and that would have told you what he was going to do.
That would have told you why he was going to do what he did.
None of this, my point, is a mistois.
There are no surprises here.
Not here.
Nothing that's happening with Obama.
Obama care.
None of it.
There's not a single surprise.
The best thing I can say.
Get this.
Get this.
Massachusetts state representative Carlos Henriquez.
Massachusetts state representative.
His party is not noted here.
What do you think it is?
Massachusetts.
Exactly.
He's a Democrat.
Massachusetts state representative Carlos Enriquez was Convicted last Wednesday of assaulting a woman who refused to have sex with him.
He was sentenced to six months in prison.
Following his conviction, the president of the New England area chapter of the NAA, LCP Juan Cofield, jumped to his defense, comparing the assault on and beating of a woman to jaywalking.
Coalfield, again, the New England area chapter head honcho of the NAALCP was on a radio show last week.
He said Henrique was convicted of two misdemeanors, not felonies, misdemeanors.
There's no standard in the House for expulsion based on misdemeanor convictions.
Almost every one of us commits a misdemeanor.
Jaywalking is a misdemeanor.
Would you have a state representative legislator expelled from the house for jaywalking?
He assaulted a woman who refused to have sex with him.
Six months in prison.
The head honcho of the local and can anybody say war on women.
Here's another.
All of the victims of the war on women happened at the hands of Democrats.
Another woman in Massachusetts.
You can call this the Ted Kennedy sentence that never was.
Six months in prison, beating up a woman who refused to have sex with him.
And the NAA LCP haunches.
Hey, come on.
Misdemeanor.
Would we throw somebody out of the house for this?
Jaywalking.
And of course, what's the reaction?
Psst.
White noise.
Nothing.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, uh yesterday on this program, I mentioned it, but did not discuss it.
And that is Michael Sam, University of Missouri announcing that he's gay prior to entering the NFL.
He wants to enter the NFL.
He's defensive end for Mizzou number 52.
He's going to enter the NFL draft.
He is going into the draft as the first public professional in waiting player to come out.
And the sports world and much of the pop culture world, yesterday was a buzz with this.
I, El Rushbo, stood back.
I stayed on the bench yesterday.
I had some theories about this.
I wanted to see if my overriding two or three theories actually happened.
And they did.
For the most part.
Again, I'm not touting my self here, not beating my own horn.
I'm just telling you, these people in the left, the media are so predictable.
And there are some things about, I don't think a lot of people may not have thought about a couple of things.
The media is going to turn this guy, whether he wants to be one or not, they're going to turn him into an activist.
He is going to become, they're already calling, he's the Rosa Parks.
He's the Martin Luther King.
He's the Jackie Robinson.
They're going to turn this guy into an activist.
I already saw a story praising an unnamed team for drafting me, even if he can't play for drafting him just to make the social statement.
This is going to be a totally media-driven story.
Totally.
And because of that, it's going to mess everything up.
Let's go to the audio soundbites on that.
We have something happened on CNN yesterday.
This is uh last night, Anderson Cooper 360.
Anson Cooper not there.
Fill-in host John Berman was interviewing Jonathan Vilma.
He's a linebacker for the New Orleans Saints.
Vilma has been very public.
I don't think this is going to work out.
I don't know about a gay guy in the showers here in the NFL.
I just, I'm not.
I don't know.
Ryan Clark of the Steelers says, look, I what do we say to the guy?
Do you guys know what goes on in NFL locker room?
Everybody gets teased.
I mean, guys with ugly wives get teased about it.
The fat linemen get teased about it.
I mean, we are we are we we show no mercy.
If a guy's dating an ugly woman, we laugh at him.
We laugh at her.
We make a point of it.
He's quoted as saying all this.
He says, we don't know.
Somebody better tell us what we can and can't say.
The gay guy shows up in the locker room.
We're gonna need some guidelines on this.
And that's where the media is gonna come in be policing all this stuff.
So because Vilma has been somewhat outspoken, CNN breathlessly tracked him down.
And they have this the substitute host for Anderson Cooper, uh John Berman, interviewing Vilma last night.
We've got three sound bites.
And here's Berman's first question.
You talked about the showers, Jonathan.
And this is a subject that does come up quite a bit.
The showers.
You said, you know, if I'm naked in the shower, what if he looks at me?
How am I supposed to react?
Jonathan, what's your concern there?
I mean, you say you're in a shower, you're naked in the shower, and a gay guy comes in and looks at you, and you want to know how you're supposed to react.
What's your concern there, Jonathan?
I mean, what's the big deal?
No, there is no concern.
The point I was trying to make, or the context I was trying to take it in is that I've never been put in that situation.
No player in the NFL has been put in that situation.
So it's not as simple as anyone saying, well, there's nothing wrong with it.
I don't see anything wrong with it.
You have other players that may, you have other players that may not.
Everybody's walking a tightrope here, and this it's this there are gonna be people fall off of this thing, and the media is gonna be waiting for that.
The media is gonna just be waiting to pounce on the first or any instance they perceive to be, because remember who they are and who they champion.
This guy is gonna go in to the NFL as a victim.
He's gonna go in as a victim, he's gonna go in victimized, he's gonna go in put upon, he's gonna go in as a minority, he's gonna go in as a crusader, he's gonna go in as an activist, he's gonna go in as somebody leading a cultural upheaval in America.
There's gonna be all this pressure on the guy.
Now he may want it since he came out.
Who knows?
Berman, again, uh, still interested in the shower situation, apparently.
You showered every day after practice.
You've showered with literally hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of men.
You really think none of them have been gay?
And you know, that's the funny thing about it.
I looked back at my transcript uh when I when I was interviewed by Andrew Kramer, and she said that.
She said, You really don't think anyone's gay?
And I said, Of course.
Odds are that you have 2%, 5% of the locker room is gay.
And she said, Well, do you think they're looking at you?
I was like, I'm not that good looking, so I don't think they're looking at me.
And that wasn't enough for John Berman.
He just couldn't let go of the shower circumstance.
You think there is concern about the showers, though, uh, about being looked at?
I mean, you say, as far as you know, no, as a Yeah, no, that was just a very poor example.
And again, that was a poor example on my part, which is why I'm glad I'm able to actually clarify that.
That's just a poor example, as I also told Andrew Kramer in that interview.
As long as he can play football, I am A-OK with it.
And as Jonathan Vilma uh witnessing there, you see, got his mind right during the interview.
That's what happened.
Okay, so yeah, Jon Berman there at CNN, he just could not let go of the shower questions for Jonathan Vilma.
Now, it's possible the questions were written for Anderson Cooper and Anderson Cooper wasn't there, and so Berman got the questions anyway.
But nevertheless, the preoccupation went okay.
So there you guys all are, and here comes, let's say he's on your team, the first Openly gay player in the NFO.
They're fascinated by it.
They're totally now why are they fascinated by it?
Let me ask you a different question.
Seriously.
Why is homosexuality political?
Why is there a political aspect to or agenda associated with homosexuality?
And why does heterosexuality have no political agenda at all?
What do you mean I don't want the answer?
I'm just posing the question.
Oh, I've I don't know that anybody's gonna answer it.
I'm just no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
No, no, no.
That's not, that's not your answer.
You're wrong.
That's not why homosexuality has no political agenda and heterosexuality has no political agenda and homosexuality does.
You're that's not that's not right.
Of course I know the answer, but I'm I'm just asking, why does homosexuality have a political agenda?
Why is there anything political about homosexuality?
Well heterosexuality has no political agenda and there is no agenda attached to it.
Heterosexuality does not have activists.
Heterosexuality does not have activists.
Don't, don't, you're wrong.
You snartly snartly.
You are but they're under assault.
Hetero you say heterosexuality maybe 95, 98% of the population.
They're under assault by the two to five percent that are homosexual.
So why?
I'm just asking, I'm just throwing it out there.
Why is there a political agenda attached to and driven by homosexuality, and there is no corresponding heterosexual agenda?
Forget minority versus majority.
That that's not what I have in mind here, and it's it's not because a minority must do what it has to do to overcome a majority, because that's not the answer.
Okay.
Okay, cool, good.
That's that's wrong too.
Um I got people shouting what they think in my in my ear.
They're all gonna be wrong.
Um okay, let me keep going.
Uh why is it okay now for a gay man to play football?
I mean, I thought it was dangerous and leads to concussions that was barbaric.
Uh I I thought that uh it it it too dangerous and and leads to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's and early death suicide.
But yet, but yet here comes the first announced gay guy.
Hey, cool, man.
Go for it.
Why is it heroic for a gay man to play football?
So I'm just I'm just positing these questions because there is an answer to all of these questions.
And the answer is key and fundamental to understanding folks, you would not believe this is why you need to ask me all the time, how come we can't hear these people talking to you?
Because of what's happening right now.
I have got I got more people shouting because the media wants a gay football player to succeed.
Okay, that's that's why is the why is a gay man playing football heroic?
Because the media wants a gay player to succeed.
Okay.
You're halfway there.
Why does the media want a gay player to succeed?
You don't mean it that way.
Don't bring in faces here and shoves and that kind of stuff.
And you know, we've got to keep this above board here, family show, children's books and all that we do here.
All right, now I'm just posing the questions.
Um and I've uh I it's all part of my effort to inform, entertain, and educate, and I've it's one of these things if if you come up with the answer to this on your own, all the better.
You'll remember it rather than if I just tell you.
The uh the answers are readily available.
Now you gotta hear this.
You have to hear this.
You know there's a TV station in LA, and I think it's this one, KTLA that constantly plays sound bites of me on, say, global warming or whatever, and in implying that I'm an idiot and don't know what I'm talking about.
I think it's this station, KTLA.
We got a soundbite coming up from them here.
I'm not sure Cookie could go back to our archive and find out if it's the same station, KTLA Eyeball 5 News.
I think it's eyeball 5.
Uh eyeball 4 is NBC out there.
And this is the I think it's Fox.
I'm not sure.
Anyway, Samuel L. Jackson is in a new movie called Robocop.
No, he's not in Robocop.
He is in Robocop.
Yeah, he that's right, he is in Robocop.
And so he's out, he's doing interviews, local and national interviews to promote the release of the new movie.
So it's time to go to KTLA TV, eyeball 5 news in LA.
And the entertainment reporter, naturally, uh, is doing the interview.
He had no questions about showers, but he did have some questions that he wanted to ask Samuel L. Jackson.
And this is how it went.
The Super Bowl commercial.
Did you get a lot of reaction to that Super Bowl commercial?
What Super Bowl commercial?
Oh, you know what?
I didn't my mistake.
I give you a lot of people.
See, you you're as crazy as the people on Twitter.
Right.
I'm not Lars Frisburg.
That's my fault.
I know that.
That was my fault.
Uh my mistake.
You know what?
We don't all look alike.
You're exactly all black and famous.
You are alive and you're the entertainment reporter.
I know.
My mistake.
I apologize.
Now, with as much crosstalk as there was, let me tell you what happened.
Were you able to hear that?
Were you able to?
The guy, the the reporter's name is Sam Rubin, and he he asked Samuel L. Jackson, so how about that Superbowl commercial?
And Jackson said, What's Super Bowl commercial?
And the reporter realizes he's talking to the wrong actor.
And oh gee, you know what?
Oh, my mistake, and Samuel L. Jack.
See what?
See?
You're as crazy as the people on Twitter.
And you didn't hear him say this, but he said, you think we all look alike, but we don't.
And Ruben said, right.
Jackson said, I am not Lawrence Fishburne.
The reporter was asking him about Lawrence Fishburne, who did the Super Bowl commercial.
And Ruben said, I know that.
That was my fault.
My mistake.
You know what, Jackson said, we don't all look alike.
Reporter.
Yeah, you're exactly right.
We may be all black and famous, but we don't all look alike.
Ruben's, I am.
You're the entertainment reporter.
There must be a short line of people wanting your job.
There must be a real short line of people wanting your job, he said to him.
And uh he said not in the bite here, but Samuel L. Jackson said, you know, it might surprise you to know that I am the only black guy in my movie, not a criminal.
What do you think of that?
And the guy, the guy is just shrinking before viewers' eyes.
On KTLA Eyeball 5 News.
Okay, one more little light hearted thing here before we uh head back to How's that Super Bowl commercial?
What Super Bowl commercial?
Oh.
Now, a drug maker working to develop a pill to boost sexual desire in women says that regulators are demanding more studies on the drug, and he's happy to comply.
Sprout pharmaceuticals.
That's exactly right.
Sprout pharmaceuticals said Tuesday that the FDA wants more data on how the company's drug phlebancerin interacts with other medications and how it affects driving ability.
Nearly 10% of women studied in company trials reported sleepiness while taking the pill designed to enhance uh sexual desire.
That kind of doesn't work, right?
If you're taking a pill for sexual desire, you fall asleep.
It could be a problem.
In a news release, Sprout pharmaceuticals president Cindy Whitehead described the development as a significant step toward the approval of phlebancerin.
The three studies requested by the FDA are relatively small, involving 25 to 50 patients each.
We would do it here with five and save everybody a lot of money.
The company says it plans to resubmit its drug application to the FDA in the third quarter.
A company is based in Raleigh, North Carolina, said in December that it had reached an impasse with regulators after the agency issued a second rejection letter on the drug.
Even if the FDA eventually approves flebancerin, sprout pharmaceuticals will have to convince doctors to prescribe the drug for a condition that is still viewed with some skepticism.
What is that?
What does that mean?
Does that mean some are skeptical that a that a pill can enhance women's sexual desire?
What does that mean?
What's what are they skeptical about?
Oh, there's all.
Okay, it is KTLA.
Eyeball 5, whatever it is is obsessed with me.
It is.
We've confirmed that.
And they are owned by the CW network, which is basically, you know what CW network is?
Your kids watch it.
It's it's basically risque fashion shows disguised as sitcoms and stuff for the uh 16 to 19-year-old crowd.
Anyway, what's the skepticism here?
Even if the FDA eventually approves phlebancerin, Sprout, pharmaceuticals will still have to convince doctors to prescribe the drug for a condition still viewed with some skepticism.
I guess the condition is no sexual drive.
That's what the pill is for.
The pill is to boost sexual desire.
That would mean there's skepticism over the need to boost sexual desire in women, as I'm reading this anyway.
I take it back.
KTLA is not the station obsessed with me out there.
Is the station obsessed with me.
So the Steve Rubin guy, I get them confused.
But it's not KTLA that uh harps on me on the time.
That would be KTTV.
So here we have female, this is female Viagra.
And by the way, the pill's pink.
That's what they're waiting on approval for.
And of course, the the question is, is it even needed?
Is what that story is basically about.
Okay, well, let's say it gets FDA approval.
Now you gotta go to the doctors if you can find any convince them to prescribe it.
But there is skepticism that such a thing is necessary because women according to the story.
And then I wonder how this all works with same sex marriage, since we're talking about it.
Sounds like this is a pill, actually, for people.
Other people are out there just totally obsessed with same-sex, but we forget about the some sex.
Marriage.
No, no, no.
Now don't start giving me the cheap stereotypical comments here on headaches and stuff.
That's that's beneath the dignity of this uh of this program.
Here's the audio sound bites.
Let's go to Monticello, Charlottesville, Virginia, Thomas Jefferson's home.
This is Obama and the French president Olan.
By the way, Obama butchered the poor guy's name.
There's a joint presser going on right now.
Did you ever think, by the way, did you ever think that you would see a state press conference where the president, prime minister, whatever of France is to the right of our president.
You ever think you would see a press conference where the president of the United States is a bigger socialist than the head honcho of France.
Anyway, Obama butchered his name.
The French President Francois Hollande.
Hey, get the you know, it's a state dinner tonight.
I'm serious.
State dinner, the overnight low in Washington night, Washington tonight is forecast to be, I think, 17 degrees.
I'll double check that here in a second.
I think last I saw Windchill at four degrees, and this thing's outside in a tent.
And they're going to have to use a tram to escort women and the guests from the White House grounds where they arrive to the tent.
They're gonna heat a tent in 17 degree weather.
I guess they got more people than the state dining room can comfortably legally hold.
But man, outside in a tent.
Anyway, here's Obama with the French president Olaon visiting Monticello.
And he took a moment to look at the landscape.
And here's Obama talking to the president of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Leslie Green Bowman.
We're breaking the protocol here.
That's all right.
That's the good thing about being president.
I can I can do whatever I want.
That's a good thing about being president.
I can do whatever I want.
I, you know, people laughing at it.
It's a throwaway line.
And I agree he may be practicing a little taunting there, but there's always an element of truth, and I guarantee you he looks uh at the job that way.
Here's our favorite Monticello moment.
We mentioned this at the top of the program.
This is back in 1993.
The exact date's January 17th, 1993.
And it's at Montecello, and we got Vice President-elect Al Gore, Tipper Gore, President elect Bill Clinton, and Hillary Clinton taking a tour.
And during the tour, Gore walks into a room and there are busts high up on the wall and on the ceiling.
And Gore and the head honcho at Monticello, the museum portion of it, Daniel Jordan is his name, Gore and Jordan start talking.
Who are these people?
Well, this is George Washington on the extreme right and Benjamin Franklin on the left.
And then we have Lafayette and John Paul Jones.
And John Adams normally is here too, but uh meant to be blown it out.
Uh-huh.
Well, let's uh head briefly in uh to the guest bedroom.
And that's when Clinton got excited.
When the curator wanted to show them the guest bedroom.
You really need to see the video of this.
Because Gore is standing there, and he's just, he's trying to act sophisticated and uh interested and all that.
And he's pointing these busts.
And that's when he says, who and who are these people?
And they're instantly Recognizable.
You heard a guy say, Well, uh, right here, George Washington.
Oh, yeah.
Uh, right here's uh Benjamin Frank.
You should see Clinton.
Clinton is so embarrassed, it's like the way he was at the Ron Brown Memorial.
He's got that W.C. Fields grin on his face, but you can see he's embarrassed and mad as he can be at Gore looking like an idiot in this circumstance.
Say what you want about Bill Clinton.
He knew his busts.
He didn't have to ask anybody in there.
Okay, we gotta take a break here at the top of the hour.
Ladies and gentlemen, more broadcast excellence on the other side.
As we um eh, we'll get into the this substance of the latest bastardization of Obamacare.
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