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Feb. 13, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 13, 2014, Thursday, Hour #1
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Boy, think about all of the impact that this uh the snow and cold weather has to be having out there.
I mean, there are a lot of places that are not used to this.
Some places are in any big deal.
I mean, they get 15 inches of snow in New York, big whoop, and they get they get uh inclement weather like this in a lot of places, and despite the media, people are used to it, but there are places that are getting weather that do not get it regularly, and as such may not be prepared for it.
And I think of how many people may have died already, and nobody knows about it because the media is not interested.
If this were a heat wave, you know how many people, if whatever the number is, we'd know.
They'd have a daily count up there on the screen.
I'd blame it on global warming.
But because it's happening here in a deep freeze, there is also a deep freeze.
I mean, you got the usual media people standing out in the snow telling us it's snowing.
Uh and they're telling us standing out in the snow and they're telling us how hard it's snowing, which we can see.
And then they're saying we're gonna get back inside real quick.
We just wanted to show you, even though everybody knows.
And they're doing the usual remember now, if you uh get into a skid when you're driving, which you shouldn't be driving, but if you are, remember to turn into the skid.
Don't hit the brakes, it'll just make it worse.
Pump the brake.
They're doing all of that.
Because they assume that everybody's stupid and dumb.
But I just, you know, whenever there's a heat wave, we're always told how many people it'll kill, and in how many people have died.
It you just thought experiment.
Imagine if this were a heat wave instead of a cold snap.
And think about what the reporting would be like.
Think about all of the deaths that would be blamed on it.
Just imagine how the news would be used to try to ram through a carbon tax or some other anti-global warming initiative.
I'll tell you the drudge page today, brutal weather intensifies, historic ice storm unfolds in South.
Georgia warned, catastrophic.
At least twelve dead.
Uh.
Hospitalizations from sledding crashes.
Travel impossible, ice from Texas and North Carolina, cars abandoned on snow covered roads, thousands without power.
No worry, Google's working on that with some solar things.
They're killing birds, but that's okay.
They're gonna get you power in the next century sometime.
Solar.
You got these big towers out there in the California.
You ought to see this.
You ought to see this.
They've this giant 703 of them in the picture.
I saw three 750-foot-tall towers.
And they literally are killing birds in the thousands because these mirrors and the other aspects of the apparatus to create solar power are creating temperatures of a thousand degrees, and the birds are flying through their not knowing, and they're finding bird bodies with singed and burned wings and everything.
But of course, it's okay to kill birds in the pursuit of solar power or wind power.
I've got this is I think it's an investor's business daily story.
I forget what it is, but I've got it here in the snack.
It's it's a massive project.
And of course, being funded by the government.
One and a half billion dollars or some such thing.
It's it's incredible what this thing looks like.
So they're working on getting you power in the California desert via the sun and mirrors and dead birds.
If you're freezing, hang in there and be tough.
Residents cook food in fireplaces.
City fines residents up to a hundred dollars for not shoveling sidewalks.
Panicked shoppers fight over food.
Up to 15 inches in New York City.
Snow rage afflicts locals.
Man puts gun to plow driver's head.
Psychiatrist, tremendous amount of seasonal effect disorder.
And the biggie, Valentine's Day ruined.
Jeez.
That's it.
Valentine's Day ruin.
Thousands lose power.
Eastern North Carolina.
It's uh it's just bad out there in a lot of places.
It's gonna be 73 here today.
For what is it, Mr. Snerdley?
Question?
Right, in the ne in the immediate vicinity, a thousand degrees in the immediate decinity, yeah.
That's it's heating the end.
All right, all right, all right, all right.
Let me find it, let me find it here.
They are yeah, at a thousand degrees, it is no doubt heating the atmosphere and the environment.
Did you see the French?
The French media, they walked into the oval.
I got a picture of it.
The French media walked into the oval office, and it's perfunctory when you've got a uh dignitary from a foreign country, they drag him in there, sitting next to the fireplace next to the president oval office.
They bring the press corps in to grab some still shots, a little video for a couple minutes, they kick them out, and then the supposed real meeting takes place.
And the French journalists all started taking selfies.
And the White House got very mad.
White House not happy about French journalists' oval office selfies.
France 24 reported that established reporters who probably seen a few fancy places in their time couldn't resist the urge to snap a selfie.
And Obama and Olan are way in the background.
It's not that the reporters are trying to get themselves in selfies with those guys.
They're just trying to get selfies of themselves in the Oval Office in the White House, all upset about it.
But of course, Obama took selfies with that babe from the Netherlands or Norway or wherever it was over at the Nelson Mandela Memorial.
Now I'm still looking at Oh, another fascinating story here we gotta get to today.
Record share of wives are more educated than their husbands.
This is from the Pew Research Center.
For the first time in modern American history, women are marrying down.
And that is the title of a chart.
I can't say the number of times I've gotten in trouble on this program talking about how women have always married up.
And if feminazes have not wanted to hear that, it's ticked them off, and they thought it was a stereotypical sexist comment.
It wasn't.
It was the way things happened.
But now, since men are leaving college or not going all together because of what's happened to the campai.
Women, record share of wives, more educated than their husbands.
65-35% ratio of men to women at most universities.
And now more women are marrying down.
I got the chart here.
So let me let me set that aside.
I'm still looking for this.
Do you know the number of uh calories in the White House State Dinner?
Here it is.
Here it is.
The number of calories in the White House State Dinner, 2500, was more than most people are able to eat in a day around the world.
Now you couple that with Moochell's 12,000 gun.
Okay, here it is, folks, and the picture is so small.
I don't I can show it to you on a ditto cam.
I guess I will.
Here, let me turn the ditto cam off and zoom in here.
It's gonna be real tough for you to see this, but you'll you get an you get an idea.
This is in the California desert.
All right, let me fold that.
Okay.
Yeah, I'll do my best to describe it.
Okay, here we go.
Ditto cam on.
Now, what you're looking at there, that bright light in the middle is a giant mirror atop a 750 foot tower.
And if you look in the upper left-hand corner, you'll see two more towers.
And there's a mirror array on the ground in a circular array around each tower that you see.
And the sun hits those mirrors, starts rebounding, reflecting, and creates an atmosphere of a thousand degrees there.
And birds are flying through it, of course, they are unaware.
And they're dying in mass.
And one of the companies doing this is Google.
It's called Bright Source Something, the name of the company doing this.
So I'm sorry, that's that's as close as I can get, and that's as big as the uh the picture is.
So I it's uh and it's typical, and that this is what these people are doing here to try to create and combat global warming.
It's a 2.2 billion dollar bird-scorching solar project.
It as it's at California's Ivanpaw plant.
Mirrors are producing heat and electricity and killing wildlife.
It's actually a Wall Street Journal story, a giant solar power project, officially opening this week in California Desert, the first of its kind, and maybe among the last because of growing evidence that it's uh killing birds.
U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Monese, scheduled to speak today at opening ceremony at this thing, which got uh one in 1.6 billion dollars uh federal loan guarantee.
It's a 2.2 billion dollar solar farm.
It spans five square miles over federal land southwest of Las Vegas.
Three towers, nearly 50 stories high, 350,000 mirrors, each the size of a garage door reflecting sunlight onto boilers atop the towers.
This creates steam that drives power generators.
The owners of the project are NRG Energy Inc.
and Google and Bright Source Energy Inc.
So look, we've got, I don't know if you're aware of this, we've got we get people in America having fits over the stray dogs in Sochi.
NBC did a feature on the stray dogs, the poor, hungry, starving, straggling stray dogs in Sochi.
And so Americans are organizing massive efforts to save them and bring them here.
In the meantime, we are frying birds in an expensive, stupid effort to stop mythical global warming out in the desert, no problem.
And nobody says the wording.
Except I, El Rushbow, me, El Rushbo.
And it's going to make electric bills skyrocket.
But I just want those of you that are freezing and starving.
I just wanted to show you the picture.
Google and the gang, they're working on producing electricity for you out there outside Vegas in these giant towers.
Yesterday at the end of the program, yeah, the last half hour of the program, I was watching Obama did his White House ceremony raising the minimum wage for federal contractors.
And it just hit me.
There he is, giving away some more of other people's money.
And it immediately hit me.
How popular could I be if I could do that?
How popular could I be, and how unbeatable could I be if I were able to give away other people's money to anybody I wanted to?
And if I focused on the downtrodden and the needy and the screwed and the shafted, how popular would I be?
If I had access to the entire Federal Treasury and could give away money whenever I wanted to whoever who could beat me.
How would anybody beat me?
On what basis?
Exactly what Obama's doing.
He's just giving away money left and right.
It isn't his.
It's such a great gig.
I was thinking about what it would be like for me to have all that money.
And while I'm giving away all of these dollars that other people have produced, while I'm giving away everybody else's money, I'm flying around in a giant Boeing 747.
I'm living in a huge house I don't have to pay for.
I've got servants, I've got a fleet of cars, a fleet of airplanes I can pick up, and I can go to any place in the world, and everybody else is gonna pay for it.
I can send my wife on her own plane with the dogs and the cat and any kids and stragglers we want to pick up anytime she wants to go, and nobody's gonna say a word because I'm giving away money to people who I determine to be needy.
Who's gonna beat me?
How can how can you beat me?
And then the media that now hates me, thinks I'm racist, sex is big, and all that stuff, would love me.
I'd be universally popular.
Everybody would love me.
And I would instantly be called compassionate.
And I would instantly transform myself into somebody with a big heart who cares about people.
And all I would have to do is put myself in the position of being able to give away everybody else's money.
And I could do it with massive ceremonies like Obama does, call a big ceremony at the White House and announce that I'm I'm gonna keep paying people for not working for another two years, and I'm gonna raise what they get to a thousand dollars a month.
And who can say no, you shouldn't do that?
That's not good.
Somebody gonna come along and say that's not good.
That's that's you're destroying these people's work ethic.
You are you're taking away from their dignity and humanity.
Why wouldn't the I don't care what you say, these people are in need, they have been shafted since this country was founded.
They should have had this money from the day they were born.
But you people who have all the power, you took it from them, and you've kept it from them, and you just parcel it back in low wages and no benefits.
I'm giving them back what is rightfully theirs.
They're gonna applaud me, they're gonna love me, and I'm gonna see to it.
They can eat, they can drink, they can fall call on the phone, they can watch big screens, and they don't have to do diddly squat except vote for me.
That's all they've got to do.
In fact, they're gonna love, I'm gonna become a cult figure.
I can take the Constitution out to one of these ceremonies where I'm giving some more people some money and gonna rip the first page in half.
Nobody would care.
As long as I keep giving them money, other people's money, by the way, not mine.
I'm not spending a dime of my own money on any of this.
I'm giving away other people's money.
People who have more than they need, people who have more than they can possibly ever spend, people who didn't really earn it because they didn't really build it.
I'm just making sure that the rightful owners of all the money and the real people that make the country work finally get what they've deserved all their lives.
Who's gonna beat me?
And how?
On what policy, what agenda, what issues are they gonna beat me?
A quick timeout, my friends, don't go away back after this.
Here's how Obama does it.
This yesterday afternoon in the White House, an executive order, the president deciding that federal contractors are gonna be paid an additional three dollars an hour.
He's just gonna wave his magic wand, and he's just gonna raise their minimum wage up to $10 and 10 cents.
This is how you do it.
This is all you have to do.
Today I'm gonna do what I can to help raise working Americans' wages.
So today...
applause applause applause applause applause So today I'm issuing an executive order requiring federal contractors to pay their employees a fair wage of at least ten dollars and ten cents an hour.
See?
They are easy, it is.
Standing ovation.
Standing ovation in the White House.
I'm gonna sign an executive order, and I am gonna make these low rent contractors pay what these workers deserve.
I am giving away this money.
I am making these reprobates pay something that's finally fair.
I'm doing it.
I'm making them take their money and pay it to these people that I think are disadvantaged, and I'm loved and adored, and I don't care what else anybody thinks of me.
Let's stay on this uh this this role here, folks, for just a couple of more sound bites.
This is Obama in the White House yesterday afternoon, he's surrounded by a whole bunch of citizens.
He's surrounded by a whole bunch of Obama voters, a whole bunch of people that are gonna be on the receiving end of him giving them money.
And they're gonna stand there and they're gonna smile and they're gonna applaud and they're gonna think it's the greatest day, and he's the greatest guy.
Here's the next soundbite.
There's a laundry worker at Camp Dodge in Iowa making $9.03 an hour.
Once I sign this order, starting next year, as their contracts come up, each of them and many of their fellow co-workers are gonna get a raise.
And by the way, that includes folks who get paid in tips.
They'll get a raise too.
Oh man!
Merry Christmas!
See how easy it is?
He's doing all this.
I'm gonna sign this, and they're gonna get a raise, even if they get paid tips.
They're gonna get a raise, and I'm gonna make sure that it happens, and I'm the guy making it happen.
That's because I care and the other people don't.
If they did, they'd be joining me in giving away this money.
But they don't join me, do they?
Because they don't think you should have it.
They're the people who have been hoarding it from you.
They're the people that have been denying this money to you.
I'm here to see that you get what you deserve.
Here's the next soundbite.
If you take responsibility and you work as hard as these folks work, if you work full-time, you shouldn't be living in poverty.
Not in America.
We believe that.
And this executive order will cover Americans with disabilities.
Because this principle doesn't just apply to some of us, it applies to all of us.
So I'm gonna keep doing whatever I can to raise working Americans' wages.
Damn right, because everybody else is trying to keep your wages down, everybody else trying to deny you, but I'm gonna keep giving you money.
I'm gonna keep working, I'm gonna keep giving it away.
I'm gonna take it from people that don't need it, and I'm gonna give it to you.
It isn't my money.
I'm giving away other people's money.
And see, the game here is if you take responsibility, you work as hard as these folks work, you work full-time, you shouldn't be living in poverty.
But you know what?
I don't even think you ought to have to work to get this money.
And I'm gonna see to it that even if you don't work, you get this money.
I'm gonna make it easier for you to say that you're disabled.
I'm gonna make it as easy as I can for you to get this money because this is your money.
You are owed this money.
Now, who's gonna beat that, folks?
Who is gonna what are you gonna do?
If all of a sudden I became that guy, what is anybody gonna do to beat that?
How does it happen?
Let's move to audio soundbite number 12.
This is last night in the Fox News Channel on the Kelly file.
It's Megan Kelly's show.
She's talking at a senior political columnist for the National Journal, Ron Fournier about Obamacare.
She said they say 3.3 million Americans have enrolled now in the state exchange, the federal exchange, but it isn't true.
We don't know how many of them and that is true, by the way.
They don't know.
Folks, there's no indicate nobody knows.
Health and Human Services announced yesterday the cumulative total of 3.3 million people have signed up.
But that figure includes hundreds of thousands of people who have failed to make their first premium payment.
And yet they still got insurance.
Did you know that?
And yet there are some people who have paid their premiums who don't have insurance.
Both things are true.
It's an absolute mess.
And so Meghan Kelly is asking Ron Fournier, what the hell here, Ron?
How in the world is this all happening?
It's my biggest problem with this White House and with politics in Washington in general is they assume people are dumb and that they're not going to, you know, get beyond the spin and find out what's really happening.
The fact of the matter is they said they needed to get to seven million.
Now they're saying, no, no, no, no, we weren't talking about seven million.
They were.
Right.
He knows.
He knows.
But at the end of the day, he's still going to vote for every Democrat he can.
At the end of the day, he's still going to be trumpeting Obama over any opponent, even though this is embarrassing.
Even though they know that the way Obama's getting away with this is appealing to the dumb.
Folks, I want to repeat something I said yesterday.
I I uh because yesterday there was a the portions of yesterday's program I didn't intend it, but it could have come off as pessimistic or even fatalistic.
We spent a lot of time yesterday asking an open-ended question.
What do we do to stop somebody as lawless?
Some president is lawless in this.
What do we do?
Nobody knows.
Nobody knows what to do.
Nobody knows how to stop him giving away money.
Nobody knows how to beat him giving away money.
Nobody knows how to deal with a guy who makes up the law every day as he gets up.
We've never confronted this before.
We've never had a president who is so lawless.
We've never had a president who is so unconcerned with the Constitution.
We've never dealt with it.
So nobody knows what to do.
Nobody knows what to go on TV and say.
Nobody knows what kind of policy to author.
Nobody knows final lawsuit, well, who's got standing?
Who do we sue and on what basis?
Nobody knows what to do.
So we were talking about that yesterday, and I did not intend for that to sound pessimistic fatalistic.
It's impossible not to be pessimistic about this, but I didn't mean it to be fatalistic because I want to reiterate something I said yesterday.
I really do believe that the Democrats know to a certain extent what's going to hit them in November.
And I, you know, Henry Waxman retiring a number of other Democrats announcing their George Miller, the gee, those two guys alone quitting is one of the biggest telegraphed messages of where the Democrats think they are.
Those guys don't have anything else to do.
Being in politics and running other people's business and lives is their life.
Henry Waxman telling everybody what they can and can't do is his adrenaline.
He doesn't play golf.
He doesn't play shuffleboard.
He doesn't pursue Syberitic delights.
All he knows is being the chairman of a congressional committee that can make life miserable for people.
But if he can't be chairman, he doesn't want to be there.
He doesn't want to be in the minority, and neither does George Miller.
And they've announced that they are retiring.
Not just resigning.
I think if the election in November were today, it would be a wave election that would make 2010 look small.
I think the the American people, the polling data is all there.
There isn't any majority of people other than subsets of Democrats who support anything Obama's doing.
In national poll After national poll, a majority of Americans oppose everything Obama's doing.
Fox News poll came out yesterday, and a huge number of people do not like Obama ignoring the Constitution.
A huge percentage are very opposed to this lawless behavior of his.
And there's another factor that is going to lead to a wave election.
I mean, massive Democrat defeats.
Massive Democrat losses in November.
Another contributing factor is there won't be a Republican establishment candidate on the ballot to tick people off.
There will not be a Republican establishment candidate anywhere that will keep conservative or Republican voters at home.
Like there will be in 2016 if the party nominates another goofball.
If the party nominates another moderate Northeastern liberal, you're going to have a bunch of Republicans sit home again like they did in 2012.
But in these midterms, they're going to show up in droves just to get rid of what's happening.
And this is...
This is shaping up to be, I think, bigger than 2010.
Huge wave election.
And all the signs are there.
And that's why I want to emphasize this again to counter whatever you might have assumed is fatalism yesterday.
Because I also mentioned to you, I think, and this sounds panacea, and I can't back it up with anything.
This is just my instinct.
And I'll admit it's tempered with a lot of desire, but I really think that we're going to beat this back.
Well, let me put it this way.
I think the country, as you and I know and love it, is going to survive.
We're going to get through this.
I don't know when or how.
I can't give you any details or answers, and I'm not just saying it to keep you here.
I really think it.
If I didn't think it, I wouldn't be here, folks.
If I didn't think that, I wouldn't be writing these books for kids.
I wouldn't be doing anything like that.
I really think what's happening offends and angers a vast majority of the American people.
I think they are beside themselves with pent-up rage and anger, and they have no outlet for it, and they do not have any daily political representation, elected political representation in Washington.
They do have a couple, Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee.
They pop up, the establishment tries to chop them right back down, and it's happening again over this debt thing.
And I'll show you what I mean, and soundbite's coming up.
You'll see this these midterms are going to be big.
And guys like Waxman and George Miller getting out of there.
Now, always need a caveat.
Anything can happen in politics overnight, nobody can foresee.
That's why I say if the election were today, it'd be big.
And I still think it's going to be.
Here's Joe Trippi.
He is a former Democrat consultant to Howard Dean.
I think he ran one of his campaigns.
He ran Dean's campaign.
What was it, 2004 or 2000, whatever?
Trippie quit when Dean lost the Hawkeye Cawkeye and then went, ah!
Trippy said, okay, I'm out.
He left.
And he's been commentating at Fox.
And he also was on the Kelly file last night, and she said, look, Joe, we're seeing more and more Democrats trying to distance themselves from the president.
There was a quote today in one of the articles.
The quote was that most Democrats consider Obama an albatross, saying that he's done irreversible damage to his own reputation.
He is hurting the Democratic brand right now.
The Obama care snappers, all this stuff is hurting, and his approval ratings declining, and his credibility problems all drag the Democratic brand down.
I mean, in a midterm election, the popularity of the sitting president has more to do with who's up and who's down, regardless of what party that president's in.
Doing damage to himself, to his brand, to the Democrat brand.
This is, you know, the kind of stuff that they don't say in public.
They say it to themselves behind closed doors or between the sheets.
But they don't say it in public, but They come out like this.
I'm telling you.
By the way, the Fox News poll number 74%, the American people.
Dislike Obama, bypassing Congress.
Okay, back we are.
El Rushball and the excellence in broadcasting network.
Now, I mean everybody's sending me this Obama quote, and I'll I'll read it to you.
It's Obama in 2008.
But this is one of those things where, okay, I'm gonna tell you what Obama said, and you know what effect it's gonna have on people?
Here you go.
Barack Obama, Senator Barack Obama, 2008, quote.
I taught constitutional law for ten years.
I take the Constitution very seriously.
The biggest problem that we're facing right now is George Bush trying to bring more and more power to the executive branch and not go through Congress at all.
And that is what I intend to reverse when I am president of the United States of America.
Close, quote.
Senator Barack Hussein Obama lying through his teeth then and now and every day.
Okay, so plaster it everywhere, folks.
That's what Obama said in 2008.
And at TMZ, it'll end up in the waste can.
At eentertainment tonight, they won't even print it out.
The Democrat National Committee, they will blame George Bush for making Obama think this.
But he said it we've we've got.
I mean, I I've gone back in the archives here.
I found something that uh oh, Jonathan Turley.
Jonathan Turley's out there.
Uh I've got the soundbite here, and I got time to get to it right now, but I'll just I'll just tease you for it.
Jonathan Turley.
Well, now I don't have it on top, which is probably good.
But Jonathan Turley's out there saying things that I told you about in 2009.
Which is cool.
No, no, but Jonatur, constitutional lawyer and big lib, big Democrat, very concerned about what Obama's doing.
And using terminology that I used back in 2009.
I can tell you that too.
You know what that's worth?
Did you hear what Limbo said in 2009?
You hear what Obama said in 2008?
Big deal.
This is 2014.
And it doesn't matter what he said back then, it's what he's doing now.
And he's basically giving away everybody else's money.
Let me grab grab line two.
Let me get Charlie on here real quick before we have to.
Charlie's Indianapolis.
I'm gonna grab a call before we have to get out for the hour.
Charlie, hi, thank you for calling.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Thanks, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
I've enjoyed your show for many years.
And I wanted to talk talk about the topic of giving away other people's money.
And every time this topic comes up, which is a lot lately, the media always refers to the legend of Robin Hood.
And Robin Hood is, as we know, is uh is a beloved figure by many people, and it fits the media narrative to compare Robin Hood with with Obama.
But Robin Hood is not loved because he stole from the rich and gave to the poor, but he stole back from the government or the crown to give back to the people what the government had originally stolen from them.
And I've heard you point that out in the past, and it can sound trivial because we're talking about uh the legend of Robin Hood, but it points up uh the media narrative and you know how they try to uh misinform the Yeah, what it it it illustrates how they take something and bend it and shape it to fit their current philosophical agenda, in this case class warfare.
Exactly.
Yeah, what they've done, they've taken Robin Hood.
Everybody, they they've made as many people who know of Robin Hood, probably, the vast majority, I think what Robin Hood did was leave Sherwood Forest and head to mansions and take money from private citizens and bring it back to the poor schlubs, give it to Friar Tuck and Lady Marion for whatever she did for it, and uh, and and everything was fine.
But that's not what Robin Hood did.
Robin Hood went into town and took money from the government, from the Sheriff that had been overly taxed.
Robin Hood was simply returning people's money to them that had been taxed from them.
And we still don't know what Lady Marion did with the money which she got, but and details on the new phenomenon: more women are marrying down.
Meaning more women are marrying men dumber and less educated than they are.
And but there's a lot more than that around.
I mean, we do that just scratches the surface.
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