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Feb. 18, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 18, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yeah, my friends, I'm here.
I'm here offering some computer advice to a friend.
And so I just wrap that up, and here we are.
No, Dropbox, explaining how that works.
It's amazing.
Anyway, folks, it's great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, and the Limbaugh Institute.
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Do you remember Mel Reynolds?
The name ring a bell.
Mel Reynolds from Chicago, a Democrat member of Congress, an African-American, and we think heterosexual.
Well, it matters these days.
Anyway, former U.S. Representative Melvin J. Reynolds has been arrested in Zimbabwe, the old Rhodesia, been arrested in Zimbabwe on suspicion of possessing pornography and an immigration offense.
He being held in custody, expected to appear in court soon.
He's probably wondering how the hell did Bill Clinton's baggage get on my airplane.
It's a joke.
It's a joke.
Okay, where'd you get this printout?
It's not mine.
It must be Bill Clinton's luggage.
How did it get here?
Anyway, this Clinton, look at, you know what Miley Cyrus did the other day at a concert?
Miley Cyrus, she brought out a guy wearing a Clinton mask and simulated doing a Lewinsky on stage in her performance.
Now, this, I want to warn some people about this, this Clinton revival, in fact, MediaITE reports this as Bill Clinton's affair with that woman seems to be undergoing a cultural renewal as of late.
And then they talk about Rand Paul suggesting that pro-women Democrats should distance themselves.
And Kathleen Willey came out the other day in a column at WorldNet Daily in which she said that Hillary Clinton is the war on women.
Now, and a lot of people, you know, a lot of Republicans, the Republican establishment, we talked about this yesterday, saying, don't go there.
Don't bring up the Lewinsky era.
Don't bring up Bill Clinton.
If you're going to talk about Hillary, don't look at her past.
Go back maybe Secretary of State Benghazi, and that's it.
And we discussed the reasons yesterday.
The GOP is afraid.
They think that any criticism of any Democrat is going to run the independents right back to the Democrat Party.
They just, they believe this.
But I can give you two words to explain why you go back and you look at Hillary Clinton's past.
Barack Obama.
Barack Obama was not vetted.
The drive-by media did not look into who he was.
We all did, but they didn't.
There was so much to know about Barack Obama, so much to know that defined him.
So much to learn that could have been reported.
Don't know how much it would have mattered, but it certainly would have mattered some because it would have pierced the balloon of this cult that had developed.
Because Barack Obama was not what he was presenting himself to be.
He was not messianic.
He was nothing special.
He was nothing never before seen in American politics.
Just a standard ordinary Democrat activist, community organizer, agitator and rabble-rouser, and a committed big government socialist type guy who was in favor of single-payer health insurance, government-run health care.
All of this, he had a radical preacher.
All of this was easily knowable.
It just wasn't reported.
And the person who would have been the primary beneficiary of Sidney American people would have been Hillary Clinton if Obama's past had been reported, if he had been vetted.
So Barack Obama is a living, breathing, walking example of why you do look at every aspect of somebody who wants to be president.
But then on the other side of this, we have to admit something here, folks, and it's going to just irritate the heck out of you if it turned out to be true.
Okay, so here we have media.
Bill Clinton's affair with that woman seems to be undergoing a cultural renewal.
Miley Cyrus, doing a Lewinsky on a guy wearing a Clinton mask on stage at a concert.
Now, maybe many in her audience have no idea what that was about, but then they looked and found out.
I mean, they might be too young back in the 90s to know what the hell.
Why was she doing that?
What a Clinton because, you know, people today who are Miley Cyrus's age do not know anything about Bill Clinton except the Clinton Foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative, and Clinton in Hollywood, and Clinton running around the world dealing with charities, and that's all they know of him.
So here comes Miley Cyrus showing that crowd an entirely different side of Clinton, well, different taste, no picture, yeah, version of Clinton that they don't know.
Here's the risk: what if they think it's cool?
What if they find out people that didn't know about what went on in the Oval Office and in the little study and the bathroom in the Oval Office with Clinton and Lewinsky?
What if they find out what they think is cool?
I mean, it's impossible to know, but the odds are, given where pop culture is and where it's going, that maybe they would find it cool.
And not something that normal people would think is beneath the dignity of the occupant of the Oval Orifice.
There's another similar thing happening.
Let's go to the audio soundbites.
This is CBS this morning, and the co-respondent is Bill Plant.
We had the fifth anniversary of the stimulus yesterday.
We are in the midst of an absolutely devastated United States economy.
There is no end in sight.
We are also in the midst of the total wrecking of the American health care system.
We are in the process of tearing it apart and rebuilding it all under government control eventually.
No matter where you look, the jobs market, the economy, the any Obama policy, no matter where you look, there is utter disaster.
In fact, polling data out there, Washington Examiner, but it's actually a yougov, economist magazine, ugov.com poll.
71% of Obama voters regret voting for his reelection.
71%.
But we better not criticize him.
55% of Democrats regret voting for Obama's re-election, not the first time, but in 2012.
Now, I'll get back to this in a second.
We've got all of that.
We have, folks, look, we are in the middle of a transformation of this country.
We are in the middle of this country being torn down from the way it was founded and rebuilt.
We have mountainous debt.
We have a middle class that's shrinking and stagnating.
Now, the story here about food prices in many places have doubled, but wages are stagnant.
And the question in the story is: experts think that the people may not really know how much food inflation there is.
What do you mean they may not know?
They're the ones at the store buying it.
They knew about it before you experts did.
Anyway, my point is that no matter where you look, there is absolute disaster and incompetence everywhere.
We are nominating people to be ambassadors to places they have never been.
We have that soundbite coming up.
So how many times have you been to Bay Lee's?
I'm sorry, sir.
I've never been.
I don't think I could find it on a map.
Well, we hope you have a great time as ambassador there, nevertheless.
It's a joke.
The country is either being unraveled or it's unraveled.
In the midst of all of that, here we are and the five-year anniversary of an absolutely disastrous, worthless stimulus program.
Do you realize we spent, I've got a little eight, almost $9,000 to study duck penises that came out of the stimulus?
I don't know what we wait.
Maybe, wait a minute, 8,000 might be studying if mice get drunk.
There was, maybe it's 125,000 on duck penises.
I don't know.
I've got the list.
I'll find it.
I'm not kidding, though.
Some of the things that money was spent on the stimulus.
My point is, in the middle of all of this, when it comes time for CBS News to do a story on Obama, the story is what he watches on television.
The fifth anniversary of the stimulus.
Obamacare falling apart.
Unqualified ambassadors.
Obama behaving in a lawless fashion.
And by the way, more and more people, you know what?
People are playing my soundbite and asking guests to react to it.
Fox played it for the second time, maybe third time, and they're asking Mike Lee to respond to it and others.
Bob Beckle, by the way, on Fox, can we play something besides Limbaugh, Krauthammer to react to?
There's got to be anybody other than Limbaugh Krauthammer to play video to we can react to.
That was funny.
So here's CBS, and their focus of interest is what Obama watches on TV.
Here's Bill Clinton.
He may be the leader of the free world, but when it comes to unwinding, President Obama, well, he's a lot like us.
The president tunes in to tune out.
And when he needs his television, step aside.
That may have been how the CEO of HBO, Richard Klepler, felt last week at the State Dinner for France.
Some who were there said that President Obama tracked him down and asked for copies of True Detective and Game of Thrones.
And apparently, President Obama wanted a preview.
The president has described TV as his biggest guilty pleasure.
Okay, so Obama's got time for golf.
He has time for college and pro basketball on television.
He has time for endless fundraising.
He has time for endless vacations.
He has time now, we find out, for several TV shows.
And in fact, we've now learned that the best way to get yourself invited to a state dinner is be an executive or producer at a TV show Obama likes so he can get advanced copies from you.
But look at what he doesn't have time for.
He didn't have time to deal with Benghazi.
He turned that over to Hillary and whoever else, and who knows?
He was off the grid for five or six.
Nobody knows where, even today, nobody knows where he went.
He didn't have time for Benghazi.
We don't know what he was doing the night four Americans were murdered in Benghazi.
Now, I'm not begrudging him all this, but I am questioning his priorities.
The President of the United States, and we're getting news stories on what he watches for TV and the fact that he uses his power to track down executives and producers to get advanced copies.
Be careful on this, though.
One more bite from Bill Plant as he wraps it up.
Well, you know, it's not just television.
The president loves movies, too.
And in fact, this afternoon, the first family will be in the White House theater watching a screening of the new movie Monuments Men about some U.S. troops who recovered stolen Nazi art or art stolen by the Nazis after World War II.
It's Tuesday.
President's Day was yesterday.
It's Tuesday, and in the afternoon today, is going to be in watching a movie in the White House theater.
Now, the normal or natural reaction to this is obviously, I mean, you're experiencing it.
You're probably thinking, what the hell?
The President of the United States doesn't be the one.
Be careful.
Just like the Miley Cyrus generation might think, oh, Clinton did that when he was president.
Cool.
The low-information crowd might end up saying, hey, Obama likes True Detective.
Man, he's one of us.
Obama likes Game of Thrones?
oh, he's cool.
You might be surprised at how many low-information voters think that Obama watching television is cool and makes him just like all of us.
Now, wait, if you're thinking that you'd rather have him doing this than monkeying around with changing the country, that's a mistake.
He's got his people delegated.
You think the IRS is going to take a day off from harassing a tea party while Obama's watching monuments?
Man, it ain't going to happen.
You think healthcare.gov is going to all of a sudden start working because Obama's watching True Detective?
Do you think Obama's minions at the FDA or the EPA are going to stop corrupting their departments because Obama has a screener of episode one of the Game of Thrones and he's going to watch it?
Do we ever get a story on what Clinton watched on TV?
Well, he didn't have to watch it.
He was doing it.
But Reagan, Nixon, this is uncharted new territory.
But the media reporting on it is that they're as though it's a positive.
Hey, look at what a great guy.
Oh, look how common he look just like us.
He is.
I'm sorry.
It was $385,000 study, duck penises.
It was $8,400 to see if mice get drunk.
That's stimulus money.
Okay, I got to take a brief time out, my friends.
Sit tight back after this.
Don't go away.
Sometimes it gets so depressing.
And I'm reading my tech blogs.
It's my hobby.
And folks, I'd love to call these out by name, but believe me, it wouldn't be worth it.
It doesn't matter.
I know you're not going to go read them anyway.
But there is this one blog comprised of people who think they are engineers and scientists at 24, 25 years old, maybe in their early 30s.
And it's just classic reading them.
They are nothing more than the product of the propaganda they've been taught at every level of education.
For example, global warming.
It is undeniable.
It is as real, man-made, global warming, as real as the sun coming up.
And apparently, I guess one of the Sunday shows had a debate between Marcia Blackburn and Bill Nye, the science guy, who is not a science guy.
And Bill Nye, apparently, when talking about the North Pole, held up a picture of the South Pole, or vice versa.
But anyway, he believes in all this gobbledygook.
And it's a hoax.
And Democrats are reviving it, by the way.
Kerry, Obama, they're reviving it.
They revive it just like they revive the minimum wage.
And it gets their base going.
It expands the role of government.
But there's absolutely, it's just, it's a total hoax.
They're now focusing on the drought in California as part of global warming.
It's just ridiculous.
The reason there's a drought in the Central Valley is because of water policy.
They have simply diverted water from human beings to animals, endangered species.
They've been doing this in California since, I don't know when, the 70s and 80s.
That's how long they've been doing it.
That's why there is a drought.
That's why there is an agricultural crisis in the Central Valley.
It's not because of global warming.
It's because of water policy.
California doesn't have enough water naturally.
They've got to take the runoff from the snowmelt, hatch-hatchy in San Francisco.
Southern California doesn't get enough rain.
It's got to be diverted down there.
Central Valley Ditto.
And now they're diverting water to save snail darters and things like that.
They've been doing it for years.
But none of that is given the time of day among these young hip no-adults.
It's just, I read this and I wonder how, if I had a chance to talk to these guys, how in the world would I get through to them?
It's a challenge.
It's something that I ponder because I think one of these days it's probably going to happen somewhere.
Hi.
Welcome back.
Great to have you.
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So anyway, I didn't watch this, I guess it was meet the depress that Bill Nye, the science guy, was debating Marsha Blankburn, a congresswoman of Tennessee about global warming.
Those of you who listen here regularly know that the whole hoax has been exposed thanks to the treasure trove of emails leaked from the University of East Anglia in the UK.
All of the data faked, all of the charts rigged from ancient times to the current.
Any data that showed there was no warming when there should have been was suppressed.
Any data that did not show sufficient warming when they wanted it to was also suppressed and rearranged.
I mean, they just made it up.
Now, it's long since been forgotten, but at the time, everybody paying attention realized that some of the key players in the man-made global warming argument are involved in this.
I mean, it's just ridiculous.
You go back, I remember watching in 1985.
I'm watching this week with David Brinkley, and there's this scientist on there named Oppenheimer.
And he's warning everybody, we get 20 years, 20 years, actually, 1985, 1980.
We get 20 years.
Now, we can't conclusively say that the Earth is warming, and we can't conclusively say that man is causing it.
But we've only got 20 years, and we must err on the side of assuming we are causing it, and it is getting warmer.
Because if we miss it, we're going to totally blow our effort to fix it in 20 years.
Well, I'm watching that, and I'm totally incredulous.
Just on the basis of my common sense, A, you're telling me that you can't prove it.
We don't know, but we better act as though it's happening, because if we don't, in 20 years, it's going to be what?
Disaster?
It's going to get so bad we can't fix it?
Well, if you can't prove in 1980 that we're causing it, then what the hell are we going to do to stop it?
That was only one year after Newsweek had run a cover on the coming global cooling.
We're going to have a new ice age.
One year later, it becomes global warming.
And of course, the guy is calling for massive tax increases, the United Nations to be involved, the creation of a worldwide agency to police developed countries to make sure they didn't pollute more than their share.
It was classic what was happening.
It was an absolute, total hoax that they couldn't prove.
And even now, look, I've taken you through this for some time.
I'm not going to waste your time going through it anymore.
My point is, so I'm reading my little tech blog, and Bill Nye, apparently in this debate with Marsha Blackburn, said something as innocuous as everybody knows that the earth is warming and that man is causing it.
They just took that quote and a little blog post, thank you, thank you, Bill Nye.
Nobody, no, everybody doesn't agree with that.
Anyway, that constituted debate victory for these guys.
And I think about this in the terms of, you know, we're going to have to find a way to permeate the minds of these young people who've been propagandized and who want to believe that there is disaster and imminent danger at every turn.
People get caught up in that.
It excites them.
But then there's also vanity, this silly notion that we are causing it.
And then the doubly silly notion that we can stop it.
It's so absurd when you just stop to think about it.
It is absurd to believe what they are teaching, which is that progress, human progress, is destroying a planet created by God.
and placing us on it for the express purpose of having dominion over the idea that they don't believe in creation or God, many of them, is one of the things.
So I note now here comes the Democrats and John Kerry that are dragging it out.
Their base has been upset for the last two or three years.
Since 2010, Obama's dropped the ball on climate change.
Hasn't done anything about it.
And it's crunch time coming up on the midterms.
Got to keep the base excited.
So, yeah, might do the Keystone Pipeline, but maybe not.
But we're going to do this.
But we're going to focus now on global warming, just like we're going to bring back the minimum wage.
It's just like from the groove yard of forgotten favorites, going to go back to the greatest hits that we know are going to rile up our base.
Who can oppose people earning more money?
And who can oppose saving the planet, of course?
And they figure that they can maybe reverse some of their fortunes because this polling data, economistugov.com, I guarantee you, let me withdraw the word guarantee.
Nobody can guarantee.
I'm telling you, these elections coming up are going to be disastrous for the Democrats.
And I think, as I've said, they know it.
Now, a lot of people on our side are afraid to say that because they don't want to jinx it.
But over seven in 10 Obama voters, 55% of Democrats regret voting for Obama in 2012.
The poll asked those who voted for Obama's reelection a simple question.
Do you regret voting for Barack Obama?
71% said, yep, they do.
26% said, no, we're cool with it.
80% of white people said they regretted voting for Obama.
61% of black people said no, they did not regret voting for Obama.
That still leaves 39% of African Americans who did not say they voted for Obama's reelection.
100%, get this now, 100% of Hispanics, 100% said they regretted voting for Obama in 2012.
And that's before the Republicans have done anything on Amnesty, before the Republicans have done anything on immigration other than propose things.
84% of women said they regretted voting for Obama.
61% of men said they regretted voting for Obama.
In addition to the 55% of Democrats who said they regretted voting for Obama, 71% of Independents said they regretted voting for Obama.
Now stop and think of this.
61% of blacks, 100% of Hispanics, 84% of women, 71% of women, Independents say that they regret voting for Obama.
So it's time to reach out and start rebranding, and it's hello climate change.
Let's go back to one of the grooveyard of forgotten old favorites for the Democrat Party and the American left.
Climate change, man-made, it's causing it.
We'll grow the government.
We'll protect the planet.
We can save it, of course.
Nobody, the Republicans, want to destroy it.
By the way, The Economist is a magazine of preference of the elites in both parties.
I mean, The Economist is not a rag.
So if The Economist does a poll, it's credible.
And as you know, yougov.com, given the choice of Obama versus Romney, Obama's supporters said they would stick with their guys, 79% to 10%.
Take Romney out of it.
It was just a question of would you vote for Obama again?
Not would you vote for Romney instead of it?
It was just when you vote for Obama, do you regret your vote for Obama is what it was?
Yep, they do.
Another poll that shows if the election were held today, Romney would win.
Meanwhile, Obama is out talking about using his phone and his pen to do executive orders as though he's got this tremendous mandate from the people to bypass Congress.
And you've seen the polling data on that.
Vast majorities of Americans oppose him making up law on the go.
They oppose him acting outside the Constitution.
He is out there acting like he's got a mandate to do it.
And he doesn't.
Quick timeout, El Rushmore and the EIB Network, back after this.
Welcome back.
Great to have you.
Ladies and gentlemen, if you missed the Rush Limbaugh morning update today on your local EIB affiliate, I want to expand on it.
Let me give you the overview as we presented it in the morning update today.
A homework assignment at Romeo Haskrule in Michigan made some parents uncomfortable.
It really bugged them.
It unnerved them.
Students were talking about here ninth graders studying biology, which these days could mean anything.
I mean, you could work Bill Clinton into a biology class for ninth graders.
Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.
You certainly could.
So it could be anything.
The homework assignment that it unnerved the parents was intended to help these young skulls full of mush understand DNA, which you could use Clinton and Lewinsky for that if you wanted to.
Well, you could.
The DNA chain in sperm is found on a blue dress to confirm that it was cleansed.
You can do anything you want here.
Now, DNA should be a very popular topic in certain Michigan blue cities, especially when it comes to evidence collection.
It's one of the purposes for DNA.
You're collecting evidence.
People have engaged in criminal activity.
Michigan, blue cities, there's a lot of that.
Could have been relevant to these kids.
But I'm digressing when I make that point.
The homework assignment asked these ninth graders to figure out which Democrat fathered a fictitious baby.
Actually, that's not the homework assignment.
I just made that up.
But that would also fit in a ninth grade biology class in current iterations of the curriculum.
Okay, seriously, the question asked students to figure out who the father of a fictitious baby was, not which Democrat.
I just made that up.
The question really did ask students to figure out who the father of a fictitious baby was.
There's a DNA lesson here.
Or in today's vernacular, the students had to figure out who the baby daddy was.
That's probably how it was actually phrased.
Okay, students, today we're going to use DNA to determine who the baby daddy is as fictitious baby ear.
Here's the assignment.
Here's how it goes.
The sister of the mom above also had issues with finding out who the father of her baby was.
She had the state take a blood test of potential fathers based on the information in this table.
There was a table there.
Why was the baby taken away by the state after the test?
That was the question.
That's what had parents on nerve.
Let me read this to you again.
You're probably scratching yourself.
What?
I did not misread this.
This is the assignment.
I'm reading it verbatim.
The sister of the mom above, the baby mama, also had issues with finding out who the father of her baby was.
So she had the state take a blood test of potential fathers, suspects, baby daddies.
Based on the information in this table, and there's a table of data that's presented here in the question.
Why was the baby taken away by the state after the test?
So basically, the students are saying, okay, well, we're studying DNA, and we got a woman that had a baby, but she doesn't know who the baby daddy is.
So we've got some data here for you to try to identify the baby data, a baby daddy, and in the process, and based on the information we've given you here, why was the baby taken away by the state after the test?
What did they learn?
What happened?
So they do the test, try to figure out who the baby daddy is, and when the test results come back, the state goes in there and takes the baby away.
Why?
That was the question.
It was a multiple choice question.
Students could select the baby daddy from a list that included the cable guy, the mailman, the cab driver, the bartender, or a guy she met at a club.
Those were the choices.
What?
Well, yeah, I mean, the baby mama here was quite busy, but the kids here learning about DNA, after being given the information that they tested a DNA, and after that the state took the kid away, based on the information, why was the baby taken away by the state after the test?
Multiple choice answer.
The cable guy, the mailman, the cab driver, the bartender, the guy she met at a club.
Now, the short version of this is that the parents were upset.
The teacher who made the test has apologized.
Bill Clinton's name was not on the list of potential baby daddies.
John Edwards' name was not on the list of potential baby daddies.
Jesse Jackson's name was not on the list of potential baby daddies.
It would have been much easier if they'd used some real-life examples.
Elliot Spitzer's name was not on the list of potential baby daddies, nor was Anthony Weiner.
His name was not on the list of, but the parents were upset at the whole scope here.
Now, that's the overview.
The whole story, there's even more to this.
Baby Daddy Biology Assignment asked students to determine who fathered a fictitious baby, and then were asked to explain why, when they found out who did it, the state took the baby away.
And I just, I'm helping you to understand it was controversial even without listing potential fathers as Bill Clinton, John Edwards, Jesse Jackson, Elliot Spitzer, Anthony Weiner.
I mean, the list could go on.
By the way, I should mention in a baby daddy DNA biology assignment in Michigan, Romeo Haskere asking students to determine who fathered a fictitious baby.
Only one parent complained.
It wasn't a whole class of parents.
It was just one parent.
The teacher apologized.
She explained that the three-page worksheet in question came from a teaching website that includes questions using concepts the children can understand.
That's why she put it together the way she did.
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