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Feb. 12, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 12, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #3
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All right, we're back here, folks.
It's great to be with you, Rush Limbaugh, doing what I was born to do.
And so are you.
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Let's go to the soundbite.
I just talked about all of these things with Boehner and Reed and Deadland.
We got sound bites to support all of this.
I think we may as well just listen to it.
We may as well just hear it from the, I mean, I reported it to you.
You can trust me.
But let's do the soundbite.
In fact, let's start with Sally Quinn.
Because we opened the program talking about Muchel Obama's dress that was the talk of the state dinner last night for Francois Olaon.
And of course, the only observation worth making is that dress, honestly, folks, that dress is bigger than Francois Olaon.
The dress is bigger than the president of France.
And of course, the female members of the press corps were abuzz trying to figure out how much it cost.
So they went to the social doy in in Washington, Sally Quinn.
Last night, Aaron Burnett out front on CNN.
So what about the cost of the overall dinner, Sally?
They said the first dinner with NDU, about $600,000.
Where do you think tonight's dinner will rank?
I think that dress probably cost around $12,000.
But that's just my guess.
I bet that's an informed guess, but okay, so there you have it.
That means the dress costs 12,000.
If Sally Quinn said the dress cost 12,000, then today Obama's out talking about income inequality and how rotten it is for people in this country.
And he just universally, he just went out and did it again.
He just issued a fat law.
The executive order, sorry.
My bad.
He issued an executive order raising a minimum wage for federal contractors from seven and a quarter an hour to ten dollars and ten cents an hour.
Now he had telegraphed this last week that he was gonna do it.
But he did it.
Right there.
He's gonna sign it here in just a second.
Who needs Congress?
Well, Rush, they're federal contractors.
What the hell?
He is their boss.
He can do whatever.
Of course.
Why didn't I think of that?
Big signing ceremonies.
There it is, Obama.
Don't forget that soundbite we just played.
Here, you got it.
You grab 26.
Play this again with a little time to put this in context.
This really is amazing.
It's the labor secretary, Thomas Perez.
He's at the White House this afternoon.
They did a daily press briefing.
And this is uh in conjunction with Obama raising a minimum wage for federal contractors.
And this is this guy out talking about how necessary this is.
Do you know, by the way, just to remind you, do you know what percentage of of people who are working earn the minimum wage?
Oh, it's it's 1.2%.
We had it last week.
The number of people who work actually earn the minimum wage is 1.2% of the working workforce, which of course is itself a shrinking number.
The minimum wage is a purely political football designed by and for the Democrats to demonstrate how they have compassion.
How they care about the little guy.
So there's this massive signing ceremony.
But just as you listen to this bite, keep in mind Obama and his policies in force now for five years.
And the unions are his buddies.
He has gone out of the way in these five years To throw goodies to his union buddies.
But this sound bite makes it sound like that we've got a Republican president who's trying to shut down every union shop in this country.
And lo and behold, this guy, Barack Obama, this lone warrior is trying to save the day.
Here's the bite, Tom Perez at the White House earlier today.
I was in New Jersey earlier this week, or last week in Jersey City, listening to baggage workers who are working at Newark Airport talking about how they're making choices between food and health care.
How a guy's son just turned 16, he had to look him in the eye and say, I can't afford to buy a birthday present because I gotta buy food for us.
These are stories that we hear all across the country.
Really?
You do?
After five years, you guys in office and you're getting these kinds of complaints?
What about this guy's health care?
How's he affording that?
He forgot to include the guy being unable to afford health care.
This guy, this labor secretary screwed up.
It's not about food.
It's about health care.
He it's in Chris Christie's New Jersey.
Oh, yeah.
And they still haven't the Democrats haven't given up on trying to link Christie to the traffic jams.
They're still now, Christie.
He's uh he he's he's back on a on a on a roll of sorts.
Grab somebody 25.
This is yesterday in Chicago.
Christie went there to cool off.
And it's a Republican governor association fundraiser.
Well, it's been hot in New Jersey.
It's freezing in Chicago, went there to cool off.
And uh he's the chairman of Republican Governor's Association, and he spoke, and this is what he said about Obama's push for income inequality.
I don't think the American people want income equality.
What they want is income opportunity.
One of the big discussions and conversations over the course of the next two years in national politics is going to be do you want mediocrity or do you want greatness?
You want income equality?
That's mediocrity.
Everybody can have an equal mediocre salary.
That's what we can afford.
Or do you want the opportunity for greatness?
Uh yeah, well, uh, that's true.
I I'm just I'm I'm I'm kind of stunned here that to me, this is like saying having to reteach that two plus two is four.
But nevertheless, I like the phrase pursuing income in or income equality is pursuing mediocrity.
And it is, it's precisely right because the Democrats, when they seek to equalize, always take the people atop and try to bring them down and lower them.
They never seek to elevate people.
Okay, now back to Sally Quinn, Aaron Burnett out front, after saying that she thought that the first lady's dress cost 12,000.
She then said this.
The Obamas have entertained less, have had fewer state dinners than most presidents because they don't particularly like to entertain, um, and they're they keep to themselves a lot.
But also because of the economy.
I mean, you know, they when people are starving and don't don't have jobs, it doesn't look good to spend too much money.
But I think that the economy is up enough now, and it's important for us to entertain the French.
So I think this is it's worth every penny.
That is absolute goblincook.
Every syllable of that is literal lunacy.
In the first place, the Obamas have not cut back on entertaining.
They're just not doing official state.
They've got concerts and all kinds of stuff going on in the White House.
There's all kinds of party down going on in there.
It's constant.
Press just does a report on all they're not cut.
This is the most ostentatiously living first couple I can recall.
And here's Sally Quincy.
Oh, you know, but people starving.
Really?
And uh economy being bad.
You know, you can't spend a lot conspicuously.
This doesn't look good and so forth.
People starving.
This bunch is taking airplanes left and right separately on vacations all over the world.
They're dropping money like it doesn't cost anything.
To say that these people are dialing it back for appearances' sake.
They're living like royalty, and they're on purpose doing so, and they're flaunting it.
And then this silly notion that the economy is up enough now, and it's important for us to entertain the French.
Why?
Why is it important for us to entertain the French?
And on whose evidence is the economy up.
Oh, yeah, but you know that was smoke and mirrors, too.
Moochell had this thing on Saturday night uh about a month ago.
Oh yeah, it was Muchell's 50th birthday.
And they told everybody eat before you come.
And that was before I did that to uh make it look like they were cutting back in solidarity with the starving.
They were serving food at the thing.
There were little finger sandwich, all kinds of hors d'oeuvres.
Fact, it was it was out of their personal, supposedly it was out of their personal budget.
That was the excuse given for why they were dialing it back.
But it was it was um it was heavy hors d'oeuvres.
You ever been to a heavy hors d'oeuvre party?
You don't eat dinner after a heavy hors d'oeuf cocktail party by definition.
So they were serving food at the thing.
Now, if it had been bring your own booze or doobies, that would have been something entirely different.
But bring your own, you know, eat before you come.
I mean, that is.
Here's Boehner.
Let's keep that we're on a roll here, folks.
Let's just keep going.
This is uh uh yesterday, Capitol Hill, House Republicans press conference.
QA reporter said you're putting up a minimum number of votes to get a clean debt ceiling passed.
Well, it's a ballpark minimum.
I mean, I know you had the Sandy vote last year, which was only 49 Republicans.
Isn't that some abdication of the responsibility of the majority party?
Let his party give him the debt ceiling increase that he wants.
It's a disappointing uh moment, I can tell you that.
We don't have 218 votes.
And when you don't have 218 votes, you have nothing.
We've seen that before, we'll see it again.
What is I don't even know how to analyze that.
Hi that that is just let his party give him the debt ceiling increase that he wants.
Let him do it.
We don't have the votes anyway.
We disappointing, I can tell you that.
We don't have 218 votes.
You know what?
The subtext is damn tea party, damn tea party, damn tea party, damn tea party.
I don't think I don't think they cared.
He wasn't out there whipping the vote count.
They didn't care.
That's this is just this is a one of those bumps in a road, get it out of the way, hope the car sees the bump, adjusts the suspension accordingly, and you don't break the axle.
So you keep rolling down the road.
Um let's go back.
Uh May 9th, 2011, Economic Club of New York, Congressman Boehner.
Let me be as clear as I can be.
Without significant spending cuts and changes in the way we spend the American people's money, there will be no increase in the debt limit.
And the cuts should be greater than the accompanying increase in the debt limit that the president is given.
Okay, so that was the throwing down the gauntlet there in uh in 2011.
And then yesterday, let his party give him the debt ceiling increase he wants.
It's a disappointing moment.
We don't have 218 votes.
When you don't have to do 18 votes, you got nothing.
I got nothing.
We're nothing here.
And people still call me and say, why don't the Republicans do?
Sorry to laugh, folks, but what else are you gonna do here?
Here's Dingy Harry praising Boehner for courage.
I commend Speaker Boehner for doing the right thing.
I put nothing past the Tea Party driven Republican Congress.
I can't, folks.
I can't keep a straight face doing this.
I just can't.
Here's Christine in Runson, New Jersey.
Hi, Christine.
Great to have you on the program.
I'm glad you waited.
I really appreciate your patience.
Hi.
Oh, thanks, Rush.
This is such an honor and a privilege.
Thank you.
I can't even tell you.
Hello?
I appreciate that.
Thank you very much.
Oh, you're so welcome.
Well, I have to say it is a little frustrating today to think that there is just absolutely nothing we can do at this point with this nightmare that we're living in.
You know, let me say so.
I I'm I'm sitting here, uh, Christine and the rest of you.
I I'm I'm sitting here, I'm actually fighting pangs of of guilt over this because this is not my my normal mindset is is not one of surrender, and I'm not surrendering now.
I mean, it's it's frustrating, it's unprecedented, it's uncharted territory.
I just want to tell you, I'm gonna, from the bottom of my heart, I think this is all gonna end up uh I don't want to panacea.
We're gonna fix this.
Some somehow, and I'm not living in a in a false premise of of uh insincere positiveness or any of that, or uh I'm not I'm not lying to myself.
I just a genuine I have i in my heart, I love this country, this country is gonna survive, the people of this country are gonna overcome this.
I don't know how, and I don't know when.
I'm not gonna make any predictions, but we're not finished.
This is not it.
And and I just want everybody, despite whatever you might have ascertained about my attitude today, do not think that there's any surrender, give up, or any.
There's all kinds of things that can still happen that we can do.
The Article V convention that Levin talks about in his book with the states.
The states may end up being the salvation to this anyway, regardless whether it's an Article V constitutional convention or not.
There's any number of things.
But there's always the American people.
I still have uh significant faith in the American people uh at at some point to make this right somehow.
And I'm not, again, trying to be phony with this.
I'm just telling what I uh uh every day I think this.
I think I think we're gonna survive this, and these people are going to get theirs at some point.
And I don't know how, and I don't know when.
So I just wanted to make that clear.
Because I I just it doesn't do me any good or you any good to have a defeatist attitude about this.
That's not going to accomplish anything.
And I'm if if I've created that today, please.
I apologize and I would I d do not be confused.
That's not what I'm trying to convey.
So thank you for letting me interrupt you to make that point.
That is extremely inspirational, and we are in this top.
We're all in this together.
We are.
And there are more of us than them.
Absolutely.
I don't care what anybody says.
There there still are, and that is going to matter.
Well, the polls show it, right?
I mean, there's approval rating right now.
They do.
They absolutely do.
Well, the reason why I called Rush is because you were very provocative yesterday.
You kept posing kind of a question over and over again, and you were pushing us to tell you the answer.
I remember that well.
It was a technique that I employed yesterday.
Because normally I answer every question I ask.
And why the liberals or the left, why are they so opposed to traditional values?
Mm-hmm.
And I'm only going by what you have taught me, and that is because traditional values represent conservatism.
And what is conservatism to the left?
We are their arch enemy.
We represent the opposition.
Well, we are their Satan.
Absolutely.
If you want to get democratics.
If liberalism is a religion and if abortion is their sacrament, we are their Satan.
Right.
Yeah.
So I don't know if that was the answer you were looking for, but that's my answer.
Well, it uh that of course is correct, but it it goes um a little deeper, obviously.
There is a number of questions that I posed yesterday.
Why is there a political agenda attached to two men having sex with each other or two women having sex with each other?
What is political about that?
Why is it there is no political agenda to a man and wife or man and woman having sex?
Why is there a political agenda to two men having sex?
Why is there a political aspect to a man who likes to have sex with another man joining the National Football League?
Why what is the agenda and why is there one?
What is the purpose?
And then that evolved into the overall question of what is it about traditional American values, our founding that so angers and scares and threatens the people who have attached a political agenda to two men having sex with each
other.
That's basically it.
A few more questions, even than that, but that's what you're talking about.
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You know, I'm sitting, I'm watching Obama, and he's up there giving away other people's money, and I'm sitting here thinking, how popular could I be if I could give away everybody else's money as much as I wanted every day?
How popular could I be?
I'm looking, he's standing up there, and he's got that facial expression, he's lifting his head up like he's looking over and above everyone.
I got the God reverb going in there, and he's talking about all the great things he's doing for people and raising the federal contractor minimum wage up to $10.10 an hour.
He didn't have to pay for it, not one dime of it's coming out of his pocket, and I'm wondering how popular could I be if I could give away money the way he does?
How popular could I be if I could take money away from people that other people hate, like he does, and give it away and talk about it all day?
How popular could I be if all I did was give money away after taking it from people other people hate, and then spend all day here telling you about it, and then when I finish, tell you how much I'm gonna give away tomorrow to you after I've taken it away from people you hate.
How popular could I be?
How much could I make the media love me?
And furthermore, how would anybody stop me?
How would anybody compete with that?
Okay, so here I am.
I'm giving away other people's money every day to the tune of billions of dollars.
And people thinking I'm great and they love me and I've got big compassion, I've got a big heart, I care about people because I'm giving other people's money away.
And then somebody stands up and says, you know what, that is irresponsible.
We need to get spending in line, we need to be responsible about this.
We simply can't stop or keep spending money we don't have.
How much would people hate that person?
And I wouldn't have to be right about anything.
All I'd have to do is just keep giving money away.
And I could beat all comers.
Now, what would I have to do if I wanted to be like Obama.
Well, I would have to give up everything I believe about personal responsibility, self-reliance, rugged individualism, success, prosperity.
I'd have to give up all of that.
I would have to give up my desire for a great country.
Because all I would care about is being loved and being invincibly popular and being unbeatable.
And that's how I'd do it.
I'd just start giving money away, other people's money.
Willy-nilly.
Maybe I wouldn't even have to give it away.
I'd just have to say I want to.
Maybe promise.
This is what I really want to do.
And the reason I want to give it away is because you aren't getting enough.
The people responsible for the for giving you money aren't paying you enough, giving you enough, or whatever.
But I'm here to fit how much could I be loved?
I could probably have the same view I have on abortion and still be loved if I could give away all kinds of money like Obama is.
And at the same time, there's nobody who could beat me.
Nobody could come along because they would all love me.
Because they would think I'm on their side.
They would think I'm big-hearted and compassionate.
They would think I'm charitable.
And I would brag about it.
I'd brag about how much money I'm giving away.
I would brag about how many lives I'm changing.
I'm brag about all the people I'm hurting, who deserve to be hurt, and I would be loved and adored.
How easy would that be?
The only thing I would need is access to the money.
That's all I would need.
That's how easy it would be.
That's how easy liberalism is.
I'd have to also broom my conscience.
I would have to literally erase what I believe to be right and wrong, good and bad, I have to get rid of all of that.
But that'd be easy because I'd be loved.
Everybody would be thinking about me all the time.
Everybody, all the gossip columns, all of the pop culture meeting, they would love me.
And be interested in everything that I did, every fast food joint I went to eat.
They would even like my wife.
They would even like my family.
They would love everything about they think my they think my wife was setting the fashion world on its ear.
Whatever my wife did, they would love.
It's that easy, folks.
That's all you have to do.
Santa Claus.
But more importantly, I want you to think about how do you oppose that?
So here's a guy making a big deal about all the money he's giving to people.
That's what he's doing.
That's what everything he does is is how much money he's giving people.
And by the way, the reason he's doing it is because you've been shafted.
You've been screwed since this country was founded by people who have not been fair with you with money.
They've taken what you've had, they haven't paid you fairly, they haven't given you health care, they haven't given you this, they don't have that benefit, what have you.
I come along, I'm a fix it all.
Is there anybody who could stand up and start talking about how this just is impossible?
You can't, it doesn't work.
Would people want to even hear that?
Would they want to hear anybody say, sorry, we can't afford to give you any more money.
We just don't have any money to give you.
You're essentially gonna have to learn to provide for yourself.
What chance in hell does that guy have against me as I'm giving everything I can find away?
And by the way, I'm taking plenty for myself too.
I've got a Boeing 747 to fly around on while I give the money away.
And I got a house paid for by everybody else while I'm giving money away.
And I can throw a party and I can get anybody I want To come any day of the week, and they will pay me to come there in the form of a campaign contribution in order to be there while I can give away the money.
And I can go off anywhere I want, any time I want.
And all I've got to do is give the money away.
I don't have to worry about whether the Iranians have a nuke or not.
I don't have to worry about winning a war.
I don't have to worry about.
In fact, I have to tell people that we've been wrong everywhere in the world, and we're going to stop doing that stuff, and people are going to love us just like you love me.
The rest of the world's going to love me because while I'm giving you all this money away and making up for all the dirt sandwiches you've eaten, I'm making sure the rest of the world knows that we're sorry.
And on the other side, here's somebody like Ted Cruz stands up and says, This is unconscionable.
This is irresponsible.
We don't have the money for this.
This is destroying people's lives.
And they wave at Ted Cruz in the rearview mirror.
Because they still love me.
Because I'm the one giving them money.
I'm the one giving them free health care.
I am the one getting even with the people who will not be nice to them.
I am the one.
If they want to smoke marijuana, I'm going to stand, I'm going to support it.
If two guys want to marry each other, I'm right in there.
Whatever anybody wants to do, fine with me, and here's money for it to boot.
How can you beat me?
You can beat me with Fox News.
You can beat me with uh talk radio.
How are you gonna do it?
No, mainstream mainstream press, mainstream press not gonna start.
The mainstream press not gonna start talking about the deficit.
The mainstream press is gonna diminish the deficit.
The mainstream press ain't gonna care about that.
Oh, you mean because I'm a conservative Republican doing this?
Ah.
The mainstream press won't be able to do a thing about my popularity.
I doesn't matter.
I'm gonna be telling people that the press and everybody is out trying to stop me from making you happy, that the press is trying to stop me from giving you money that you deserve.
I am through.
I am not gonna put up anymore with you as a baggage handler at Newark having to decide whether to have mac and cheese or a birthday present for your kid.
Here's both from me, Rush Limbaugh.
I don't care about the deficit.
The deficit's big because the wrong people stole all the money for 200 years.
I'm just taking it back from them.
And I'm giving it to you, the rightful owners.
This is your country.
You've been shafted from the first days of its pounding.
How are you gonna beat me?
Be back after this.
Let's see here.
Um yeah.
Oh yeah.
Grab Don Lemon, Don Lemon is the uh the uh anchor uh at CNN who has sex with other men.
He's come out.
And he defended these guys at KTLA for the interview with Samuel L. Jackson.
Here, but grab number 19.
This is this is this is funny.
This guy at LA, KTLA TV talking, Samuel L. Jackson, and asks him, so how's that Super Bowl commercial working out for you?
And Samuel L. Jackson didn't do one.
Lawrence Fishburn did.
Samuel L. Jackson says, What?
We don't all look alike.
Who are you?
Here it is.
The Super Bowl commercial.
Did you get a lot of reaction to that Super Bowl commercial?
What's Super Bowl commercial?
Oh, you know what?
I've been my mistake.
I you know.
You you're as crazy as the people on Twitter.
Right.
I'm not Lawrence Fitzburg.
That's my fault.
I know that.
That was my fault.
My mistake.
You know what?
We don't all look alike.
You're trying to be all black and famous.
You are alive.
I know.
My mistake.
I apologize.
All right, so you heard that.
Here's Samuel or Don Lemon.
This is last night on Aaron Burnett out front on CNN.
So they're talking about this.
And Burnett says, when this happened, Samuel L. Jackson handled it so beautifully, right?
But a study in the American Psychological Association found, quote, people are notoriously awful at recognizing faces from other races.
Faces from other races.
My infant at home is getting used to my facial structure, so he's getting used to that set of features that we're so used to.
So when people have a different face structure, uh, blend them all together.
So what she's doing is setting up, okay, we gotta defend the TV guy.
At all costs, we gotta defend this TV guy who thought Samuel L. Jackson looked just like Lawrence Fishburn.
We gotta defend the guy.
So they go and they get Don Lemon, who is an anchor at CNN, who he has sex with other men.
He's he's come out, he's gay.
And ask him, and he weighs in it.
Here's what he said.
When someone is in our tribe, it's easier.
This is just me talking, okay.
When someone is in our tribe, I think it's particularly easier for us to tell them apart because we're used to their forgotten.
But you notice the tiny little differences.
The little differences or you know, the mannerisms or what have you, but when someone's in different tribes, sometimes it's harder.
But let's be honest.
I'm probably gonna get in trouble here.
People do look alike.
There are features that African Americans have that are similar.
There are features that white people have that are similar.
That's that Hispanic people have that are similar.
Okay, it's permissible for them, but not for us.
I know that's let me tell you, Lawrence Fishburne does not look like Samuel L. Jackson any day of the week.
Does not.
Does not sound like him, doesn't look like him.
Absolutely right.
By the way, I probably shouldn't ask this, but if it's okay for a man who has sex with other men to be in a shower in an NFL locker room with other men, is it okay for a guy to be in a shower with women?
Did you hear me?
Or were you in there chatting about the latest carrot cake recipe?
You didn't hear me.
All right.
Well, running out of time here.
Okay, folks, that's it.
We sadly out of busy broadcast uh moments.
But there's always tomorrow, and we will be here tomorrow.
And I'll talk about whatever needs to be talked about.
It always makes itself available.
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