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Feb. 20, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 20, 2014, Thursday, Hour #3
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Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Rushland Ball once again meeting and surpassing all audience expectations each and every day.
The telephone number, if you want to be on the program, is 800-282-2882.
The email address lrushbow at EIVnet.com.
Fox News has a piece on this effort by the regime to send monitors into newsrooms.
Now, remember, folks, it always serves us well to remember certain truths about leftists, liberals, socialists, Democrats, communists, and that is they never, ever give up on an idea.
They might delay it if there is a lot of attention focused on popular attention.
They might try to convince people they've given it up.
They might make it appear as though they've lost interest, but they never do, really.
So where we are in this monitor business is we've got an actual FCC commissioner who writes a piece in the Wall Street Journal saying that the regime wants to put monitors in radio and television newsrooms and even newspapers.
And the purpose is to determine how the news is made.
What's covered, what isn't covered.
Now, the announced purpose was to do a study on why there are so few minorities that own broadcast outlets.
And that's the foot in the door.
But that's not what it's all about.
It is about controlling the news.
It is about finding out how to do that in a way that isn't opposed.
So where we are now, we got the Wall Street Journal op-ed by an FCC commissioner, and we have one story from Ed Week claiming that they've stopped it, that they've set it aside, that they have given up on the idea for now.
And that's my point.
I don't believe that.
I don't believe they just, you know what?
That's not right.
We're not going to do that.
That was a silly idea.
And we're going to punt.
We're not going to do that.
I don't think that's the case.
Katie Bachman and Ed Week, the FCC quietly changing course on a controversial study, blah, blah, blah, the multi-market study of Critical Information Needs, C-I-N, which aimed to help the Commission figure out how to lower entry barriers for minorities, may now be on hold.
At the very least, the controversial sections of the study will be revisited under the new chairman, Tom Wheeler, FCC chairman, and incorporated into a new draft.
So they are going to redo it because it's been uncovered.
But let me tell you, how silly this is.
The purpose of the Critical Information Needs study was to help the FCC figure out how to lower entry barriers for minorities in broadcasting.
Can we be honest about this?
What the hell does any of this have to do with that?
What is the biggest barrier for minorities entering ownership of broadcast?
Money, right?
So how does any of this relate to that?
The biggest barrier to anybody owning anything is money.
If you don't have the money, you're never going to be able to buy it.
Then if you do have the money, what if somebody won't sell it to you?
And if you really want it and they won't sell it to you, then who do you go to to make them sell it to you?
But what does all the rest of this gobbledyget do about how you cover the news, what is news, what's covered, what has it got to do with minority ownership?
It's got nothing to do with it.
This is laughable.
Multi-market study of critical information needs aimed to help the Commission figure out how to lower entry barriers for minorities in broadcasting.
Entry barriers?
What the hell is an entry barrier?
So there's institutional racism in the media now?
Is there institutional racism in the story selection?
Somehow that's affecting minorities?
Or is it institutional racism that's preventing people from selling to minorities?
Or is it overcharging minority?
Or is it minorities just don't have the money?
Which is it?
This is absurd.
But whatever it is, none of these questions and none of the information being ascertained has anything to do with minority ownership or minority anything.
Now, at, let's see, Fox News, Jay Seculo, the chief counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice, has written about it.
And he said, if radio and TV stations resist coughing up confidential employee data, including demographic information, to help the FCC monitors, the study provides helpful strategies for obtaining information, even when employers and the human resource departments refuse to cooperate.
The headline of this piece is Obama trying to kill a free press.
Is he or has he been?
Anyway, look, I've spent enough time on this, but the only point that I want to make is that if you are expecting massive outrage from current journalists, you are not going to see it.
And that's what Snerdley still can't believe.
I'll take it a step further.
Who are the monitors going to be?
You ever thought about it?
Who is the government going to put in there to monitor all of this?
How about Media Matters?
They already are the monitors, folks.
What do you think they're doing?
Media Matters sits out there and they monitor every bit of so-called opposition media to the Democrat Party, and they report it, they shape it, they take it out of context, and that's how the drive-by media learns what happens on this show and others.
Media Matters is already the monitors.
I would contend to you, this is already happening.
They just haven't officially installed the monitors actually in the newsrooms.
But that would be just a minor formality because this is actually already happening.
Okay, this morning on CNBC Squawkbox, the correspondent Michelle Caruso Cabrera interviewed the Netherlands speed skating coach, Yillert Anuma.
His team won more medals in a single Winter Olympics than anyone ever before.
During the interview, the coach, Yillert Anuma, said this about America's medal count during the Sochi Olympics.
I think that this question about America not winning medals here is more about the system that you have in your country.
Because you have a lot of attention for a foolish sport like American football, and you waste a lot of talent, athletic talent, in a sport where it's meant to kill each other, to injure each other.
Now, you may be asking, Rush, what are you playing at for me for?
There's other stuff.
I want to show you the purpose of that bite is to illustrate the worldwide influence that the American left has.
How recent has it really been that the American leftist media has been going after football on the basis that it kills?
A year?
I mean, in the intense fashion that it's come to be a year, two years.
Here now is some never-before-heard of glittering jewel of colossal ignorance who happened to be a speed skating coach in where?
The Netherlands.
The Netherlands.
95% of America could not find it on a map.
The 5% who could find it on a map still wouldn't know where it is.
And the speed skating coach of the Netherlands is now saying that the reason we suck at the Olympics is because we are wasting time on that foolish sport like football where we are purposely trying to kill people.
Where did this Nimrod get that idea?
Now, some of you might be, well, he probably fought it all along.
He's a good liberal.
Maybe so.
Either way, either way, the attack on the National Football League and the NCAA and organized football is going on all over the world.
And now it's being blamed for the lack of medals at the Sociolympics.
Although, didn't our ICE dancers kick butt?
I think our ICE dancers kicked butt, didn't they?
The Meryl Davis and Charlie White.
Yeah.
So I don't know what the Netherlands skating coach has to say about that.
But this gets even better.
Because, you know, Frank DeFord, we just played a sound by Frank DeFord saying that football, not only it hurts the brain, it damages the soul of people who play it.
But we still want Michael Sam to go and play.
Even though it takes your soul away from me, and even though it breaks your head, and even though it can maim you, and even though it's barbaric, and even though people are getting rich by destroying the lives of these athletes, we still want Michael Sam to go out there and play.
And even if he does, we'll forget him after the third week.
Because we'll be refocused on all the heterosexuals losing their souls and hurting their heads.
From Frank DeFord to coach Yillert Anuma in the Netherlands.
But back now to squawkbox, because they asked the coach another question.
After the coach said the U.S. is not winning medals because we're killing people in football, Caruso Cabrera wasn't quite sure what she had heard, and they continued talking about it.
When you criticize American football, you commit blasphemy.
That's very injurious and insulting to Americans.
We love football.
Yeah, exactly.
That's what I do it, because you're so narrow-minded, and then you want to compete against the world while you waste a lot of good talent in a sport that sucks.
Oh, yeah.
That's right.
This little commie SOB just said that football sucks and it kills people.
And that's why you're not winning medals.
Because it sucks.
You're wasting a lot of good talent playing a sport that sucks.
Uh, isn't this just...
I look at, it serves a purpose.
Here it is.
The Netherlands now.
The anti-football sentiment has spread.
Yeah, I wonder what coach Yillert Anuma thinks of hockey.
I think they play his hockey.
I think they play hockey into that.
Call him narrow-minded?
No, no, no.
Well, he said the reporter was narrow-minded.
Well, no, because he said the American people are narrow-minded.
The interviewer said, well, you're committing blasphemy, criticizing football.
That's very injurious, insulting to Americans.
We love football.
And he said, yeah, exactly.
That's why I do it because you're so narrow-minded.
Yeah.
And then you want to compete against the world.
while you waste a lot of good talent in a sport that sucks.
Okay.
And look at it.
While we're on sports soundbites, let's go to Tampa.
As you know, Derek Jeter has announced his retirement from the New York Nankees.
And yesterday he held his retirement press conference, although it wasn't called that.
But it's what it was.
And honestly, the sports media is upset that Derek Jeter didn't get emotional and cry at his retirement press conference.
Here's CBS correspondent John Heyman talking to Derek Jeter.
We've seen a lot of these over the years of all-time greats retire.
Mike Schmidt comes to mind, but others as well who are very emotional.
You're not an emotional person, at least not outwardly.
Do you feel more emotional inside than a normal date?
Because you're not really showing that if you're trying to get me to cry, John.
That's the thing.
Just spit it out.
You're trying to get me to cry.
Yeah, I'm emotional, but it's kind of difficult because we still have a season to play.
You know, it might be different if it was the end of the year, but right now, yeah, I have feelings.
You know what I'm saying?
It's just, I'm not emotionally stunted.
You know, there's feelings there, but I think I've just been pretty good at trying to hide my emotions throughout the years.
I try to have the same demeanor each and every day.
Used to be called manliness, folks.
For those of you that may not know, Derek Jeter is a man.
He used to hide your emotions.
Now that's not cool.
Now you not only wear your feelings, you broadcast them.
You act them out.
That's the new manliness.
And he's saying, I'm not going there.
So another unidentified correspondent kept at this.
They wouldn't let go.
And now they're looking at him almost with some air of suspicion because he will not vomit his emotions at them.
You said you're an emotional guy like everybody else.
You've done a good job of hiding it and protecting it.
How have you done that?
And has that been difficult for you?
Because a lot of people don't do that.
You're going to fail more than you succeed.
If you're not able to keep your emotions in check, then I think it's kind of difficult to come to the field every day.
I just think that's the only way to maintain, I guess, to have sustainability in this game, is to keep your emotions in check.
It's important to listen to that.
You're listening to one of the best.
You're listening to a champion.
You're listening to somebody who excels.
And he admits in this game, you fail more than you succeed.
You can't lose it.
You've got to come back the next day.
You can't get down on yourself.
Even if you hit 350, that means 65% of the time you're making it out.
You fail more than you succeed.
You lose more than you win.
You've got to keep your emotions in check.
But that's just not manly anymore.
And they really, these reporters, it kept going.
I mean, they're not understanding it, folks.
Okay, back to the phones.
Mark in Long Beach, California.
I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello, sir.
Oh, thank you very much, Rush.
How are you today?
Good.
Very good.
Thank you.
Yeah, I caught the end of your show earlier where you were talking about your Mac Pro and the monitor working with it.
And I was just curious because I ordered one on the 19th of January and I'm still waiting to get mine.
What's your ship date, March or April?
It was February.
February?
Yeah, on the 19th I ordered on the 21st.
They changed it to March.
What configuration did you get?
I just added four gigs of RAM to it, the basic.
How many cores?
How many cores?
Oh, the four.
Okay, you'll be fine.
What are you going to use it for?
Are you into video editing?
No, it's a little more than what I need.
What I do is photo retouching with Photoshop.
I work for a photographer.
Let me tell you, you're going to love it.
It's got two graphic cards in it.
They're a lickety split.
You're not going to have, I don't know what you were using prior to it.
I have an iMac.
Well, I did too.
I had a tricked out iMac and my MacBook Pro.
And on certain things, I've got the 12-core Mac Pro, and it's not as fast.
It's not as fast on like encoding video, encoding an iTunes video to put it on the DVD.
Not as fast on my Mac Pro as it is on the iMac.
Oh, that's surprising.
Well, I goofed.
I got the wrong processor.
I got too many cores.
I should have gone the four-core or eight, but I went top of the line.
And if you're just working in everything on yours, right?
Pardon?
You maxed out everything.
Yeah, I did.
I got 64 gigabytes of RAM.
I did the whole thing.
I did it.
You know, I'm fortunate because I can.
The speed difference is negative, but the iMac on rendering, not rendering, encoding video.
I think the Mac Pro or the iMac is just as fast and dealing with word processing or email.
But the graphics, if you do a lot of Photoshop work, you're going to be able to max out whatever size of photos.
You're not going to find any delay scrolling.
You're going to be overwhelmed with how fast and thorough this thing is working with graphics.
Which monitor do you have?
Well, I got the sharp 4K 32-inch monitor because it's for sale at the Apple Store.
But did you get one?
No, I have an older HP24-inch.
Okay, fine.
Don't do it because they don't have it scaled properly.
And so everything on it is one-third the size it would be on a normally scaled resolution screen.
And they have to patch it, and they haven't patched it yet.
So you can change, like I can change the font.
I have to have a font of 48 on my email to read it.
But on the sidebar, the list of emails, I need a microscope to see it.
So I use, I'm still using my laptop 80% of the time.
Now, let me, I want to say something.
I don't want to confuse people.
When it comes to this Mac Pro, there are a bunch of different configurations you can get.
And if you go the 12-core, the processor speed is clocked down to 2.7 gigahertz.
If you go 4-core, 8-core, it's 3.5 to 3.7 gigahertz.
And if all you're doing is simple stuff like email and word processing, you don't need 12 cores.
They can slow it down.
It's what happened to me.
Fortunately, with the Mac Pro, you can change processors.
You don't have to get a new machine.
You can just slap a different processor in there.
But it's incomparable.
It's fast.
It's solid.
You just have to assess what kind of need you have and make sure you get the right processor for it.
If you're going to be editing a lot of HD video, if you're a professional in that regard, then you want the 8-core, the 12-core, and there's no question about it.
The monitor situation, I don't know what is going on with that, but your best bet, you know, if you're going to go out and find a 4K display to attach to it, before you drop the money for that, make sure that it's scaled and works.
Another thing you've got to remember with your monitor is no camera and there's no microphone.
If you want to use FaceTime, you're going to have to go get a third-party camera.
And if you want to use dictation, you have to use a third-party microphone because none of that's built into these monitors unless you use an Apple Thunderbolt, which is not even 2K.
But if you go the 4K route, you're got a resolution problem, scaled problem, not resolution.
The resolution is actually fabulous.
It's better than retina in the iPad or whatever.
You just can't see it because it's so small.
No.
There's no acknowledgement even that there's a problem.
Not publicly.
I'm sure they're working on it, but it is kind of puzzling because they do offer it for sale right next to the Mac Pro, you know, in the store and at the website.
But as far as if you use, if you do any kind of work with photos, graphics, video, there's nothing like this.
It is incomparable.
Nothing, especially in the consumer market, nothing that even touches it.
And it's so cool.
It's so small sitting there.
And when they get this patch, when they get this monitor situation fixed, then it's going to be full-fledged Grand Slam home run.
Now, the core situation, when I say the Mac Pro is not as fast as my iMac, that's not on any workbench test.
That's just me side by side comparing things.
And it's minuscule.
I mean, it's not that the Mac Pro that I have is demonstrably slower.
It's just I was expecting it to be much more rocket ship faster, and it's not.
In just standard text-based operations.
But no, I don't regret it.
Not at all.
Don't get the wrong idea here.
Doug in Des Moines, Iowa.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Glad to be able to talk to you finally.
Well, I'm glad you made it, sir.
Thank you.
Yeah, you kind of brought me out of the closet about 20 years ago.
Didn't know I was a conservative until I listened to your show for a while.
And it was like, huh.
Really?
You didn't know you were a conservative?
Well, until you listened?
No, that was a confusing time.
It always is.
It always is.
That's the power of the media.
It's always confusing.
Yeah, and it was.
I've got just a couple of things that I wanted to comment on.
Yeah, well, welcome home, sir.
Great to have you back.
I am really pleased to be a conservative and not a confused liberal.
Good.
I wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed reading your book, The Brave Pilgrims, wonderful.
Thank you.
In fact, I can't get my hands on it because I have nieces and nephews that are passing it around.
They're enjoying it, and I wanted to read it again.
I have a little dyslexia, so it takes me a little longer to read it.
Well, I'll tell you what, when we finish here, don't hang up.
Stern, I'll get your address, and I'll send you an audio version.
Oh, that'd be great.
The audio version is for sale, too.
They haven't done a good job marketing it, but the audio version, it's a different part of the store.
It's also at Amazon.
But I got to tell you, I did it.
It's good.
It's quality.
And I just finished the audio version for the second book.
And it's, if you've got dyslexia or if you can't get the book back, this is the best alternative.
So I'll send you one.
The reason I got it was when I heard you read the first chapter on Thanksgiving.
Oh, yeah.
That's a tease.
That's exactly why I did it.
It worked.
The other thing, on Tuesday, you said a little something about preppers that kind of sat wrong with me.
They're not a bunch of crazies that are worried about the climate change being man-made or anything like that.
You know, the Earth goes through cycles and things like that.
And preppers that I know of believe in almost everything that you do.
They're almost all conservatives, independent voters or Republicans that have a backbone.
They prep for disasters that are both nature and DC-made.
And, you know, they're pretty smart folks.
You mean the preppers?
Yes.
Well, it's better to be a prepper, I guess, than a denier.
Oh, yeah.
The deniers get an deniers, they catch real hell.
The preppers, you know, they're just thought of as a little weird.
But the deniers are like Nazis.
Oh, yeah.
And the thing, too, if you're prepared, well, you know, if the old stuff doesn't hit the fan, well, you're socked up for a while.
Don't have to buy groceries for a while.
Well, obviously, I grocery store.
What's a grocery store?
What is it?
Oh, I know what he means.
I know what he means.
Did you see this story with the Baltimore Ravens and Ray Rice?
Have you heard about this?
Ray Rice, number 27, the running back.
And apparently it's a video of Ray Rice dragging his unconscious fiancé out of an elevator at a hotel casino in Atlantic City.
And it says here that the Ravens face a tough decision how to handle this because it's a domestic violence incident out there.
And it's gone now from a simple assault to a summons indicating that the authorities believe that the running back knocked his fiancé unconscious.
So if the Baltimore Ravens stand by Ray Rice, they're going to face increasing pressure from it says here, increasing pressure from fans and negative media attention to cut him.
And then if they cut him, they're going to lose a significant chunk of their salary cap because guaranteed money and all that.
And then, of course, they even talk about if they keep him and what the women are going to think and all that.
I have a different take on this.
It says here, the Ravens face tough decisions with Ray Rice.
Now, if the Ravens, if they're unwilling, I mean, if they are totally willing, which they were, to stand by and promote the unpopular and destructive Unaffordable Care Act, they can stand by Ray Rice as far as I'm concerned.
If they can sit, they were one of the teams the NFL enlisted to help promote Obamacare.
And they did.
So if you can stand for that, if you can sit there and you can stand by Obamacare, then stand up for your player.
It's just one of those things.
Just a little side note.
Here's where next we're going.
Bill in Clearwater, Florida.
Oh, the guy on one bomb.
So it's Bruce in Jackson, Mississippi.
Hello, sir.
Yes, Mr. Rush, how are you today?
I'm fine and dandy, sir.
We just know you're kind of getting close to the end of the show, but just very quickly, I take care of my mother full-time.
I've been doing so for about 10, 12 years, and we listen to you every day.
And I was on the air with you.
I was so thrilled.
We talked about how I was not going to, and my mom, we were not going to vote for McCain because of all the times he would stick a stick in the eye of the Republicans.
And I was real passionate.
And you told me, Bruce never apologized for being passionate.
And it was so exciting.
A couple of days later, you said we had that great call from Mississippi.
And my mom and I looked at each other and we said, how about that?
They're talking about it.
But real quickly, and then I'll get to the point.
My mom wants to ask you if you'll pray for her.
Mama, ask her.
Ask Mr. Rush.
Absolutely.
We sure appreciate it.
She loves you, and I love you.
We just thank the world of you.
But real quick, what I wanted to tell you, and what Mr. Snerdley, I told him, was when Obama, Mr. and Mrs. Obama and that sports journalist earlier, you know, when they're encouraging this football player to play in the National Football League, isn't that really just a form of gay bashing?
Why would it be gay bashing?
Oh, oh, wait.
Let me see.
Because football kills.
Because football memes.
Because football leads to suicide.
Now they're encouraging this young man who's announced he's homosexual to go play when Obama said he wouldn't even let his own son play.
Exactly.
And isn't that just, I mean, I think it's horrible that those good liberals.
Well, you know, it is an interesting point.
I mean, on one hand, you're going to condemn the game as dangerous and risky and you wouldn't let your own kid play.
And then here comes a university student who says, hey, I'm gay and I want to play.
And you say, go to it, man.
What are we supposed to believe in balancing those two?
I mean, I wouldn't call it gay bashing, but you've pointed up a really interesting hypocrisy.
You know, which is which?
If this game causes suicide, maims, takes your soul away, and hurts you.
Why are you encouraging anybody to play it, especially after you've said you wouldn't let your own son play it?
And I know what the answer would be.
Well, he's an adult.
He can make up his own mind.
That's what they would say.
Now, that's it, sadly, folks.
We've come to that moment in time where we're out of time.
But there's always tomorrow.
Tomorrow's Open Line Friday.
We'll see you in 21 hours.
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