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Feb. 28, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 28, 2014, Friday, Hour #3
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No, no, I just I just I thought I saw something on TV that had my mouth up, but I didn't.
It wasn't.
Never mind.
It wasn't anything.
I thought I thought it was.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Something about a treasure trove of documents from the Clinton Library and massage parlor.
Anyway.
Here we are, folks, open line Friday and the final big busy broadcast hour of the day.
Where when we go to the phones, whatever you want to talk about is what we talk about.
The telephone numbers 800 28282 and the email address L Rushbo at EIB net com.
Is this right?
Let me check the man uh get this in politico.
Senator Dick Durbin for Senator Dick Durbin.
Even if there are clear eyes and full hearts on the Esquire Network's Friday night types.
The program which follows Texas youth football teams can't win.
As awareness of concussions in sports, particularly in youth football is heightened.
Durban in a letter sent yesterday asked the network's president to pull a show, writing that it quote, sends the opposite message and exploits these children for purely entertainment purposes.
I call on you immediately to end this shameful, dangerous display on your network, he wrote.
With all we know about the risks of concussions in youth sports today, it is unconscionable to televise and celebrate the conduct of a league that directly endangers the health of our children.
Friday Night Tykes also is, you know, take off Friday Night Lights.
Which followed half-screwal football players in a small town in Texas.
Friday Night Tyques focuses on eight to nine-year-old players in Texas.
Durbin said it's Texas.
It's not Texas.
Texas.
Durbin said that concussions in youth sports are a growing problem and added the show glorifies a culture of violent competitiveness.
Coaches on Friday night types are shown screaming, I don't care how much pain you're in, you don't quit.
And I want you to put it in his helmet.
I don't care if I don't care if he don't get up.
Senator wrote.
So here would Dick Durbin even know about just to show you how the Washington soap opera gets written.
So here we go.
It's it's it's so he doesn't even really care about it.
It's just the latest cause.
Too much competitiveness.
The coaches are screaming, don't quit.
We just can't be this rough and tumble with our young people.
We cannot push our children this way.
I haven't told this story in a long time.
This reminds me.
Back in the day, this would be early 90s.
Back in the days of Rush Limbaugh the TV show.
Roger Ailes lived at uh lived in a beautiful place across well, it was up on the Hudson River.
He had a just a beautiful place, and every Saturday afternoon during the summer, not ever, but but many of them, whole bunch of us would gather for the whole day for water, volleyball, and barbecue.
And while we were there, we would be hoping that it was cold and rainy in the Hamptons.
While we were in, you know, up in the Hudson Valley.
Anyway.
And every every week somebody would bring somebody new as a as a guest.
And the names of people that were at this at these water volleyball games, and you wouldn't know them.
I think Mayor Giuliani was there for what example many, many people.
And one Saturday, this is after the volleyball, and for doing it after the barbecue, people are sitting around chatting, and there's this 26-year-old female teacher who just starts in on how we are pushing our children too hard.
We're just pushing competitiveness at them.
We're giving them too much homework.
We're giving them more than they can handle, and we're stressing them out.
And I said, Well, what's the solution?
We need to dial it back.
We need to understand that children are children, and we need to let them be children.
I said, Well, how are they going to grow up?
That's going to happen naturally as they get older.
That's what growing up is.
I said, No, it isn't.
Growing up is not just getting older.
Everybody gets older.
How are you going to keep them from staying kids?
What do you mean pushing?
Don't you understand that one of the one of the reasons that you load kids down?
That's the age they can do it.
That's the age of unbounded energy and so.
And it it got a knockdown drag out.
Because this teacher was just, she wanted to baby them.
And giving them a lot of homework and having expectations.
That was that was really what she thought was the punitive thing was having expectations.
That whatever they did on their own was who they are.
And that that's just that's you shouldn't, you shouldn't try to alter that.
I said, so does two plus two equal five if the kid thinks so?
Well, no, but but but and then went into a but it's not my job to beat them over the head when they get it wrong.
They'll eventually figure it out.
I said I see you're making the mistake of assuming they know everything, or at least much more than they do.
I said, Do you do you try to become their friend?
Well, you know, it really helps.
It really helps in teaching them if they like me and if they think that I'm on their side.
I said, that's not what your job is to become their friend.
It was an amazing thing.
I should have realized.
I should I was on the beginning end, well, not the beginning end.
It had been it'd been going on for a while.
But that that was the the trend of not pushing our children.
Not pushing them too hard.
Do not be demanding and certainly don't raise expectations that it in my, I'll tell you my own life.
I shudder to think what would have happened to me if I had not been surrounded by people who pushed me.
It was only by being pushed that I learned I was capable of more than I thought.
Anyone can quit.
Anyone can say to themselves, that's it, I can't do anymore.
That's as much as I can do.
Oh, well, wonderful little rushy.
That's a great effort.
I had people that wouldn't put up with, I had teachers coaches.
You pushed me beyond what I thought my limit was.
It was physically, intellectually, and thank God they did.
Now, this 26-year-old teacher, this you would know that was damaging.
It was it was could damage their psyche, it would lead to feelings of inferiority and inability.
I was just, I was it was uh difficult for me to contain myself.
Because I was looking at what I thought the embodiment of how to create a soft culture was right there in front of me.
And it was she it was in her case, it was rooted in she just couldn't stand to see discomfort or Pain or any kind of what she thought was suffering in kids.
In suffering included being humiliated by not getting a test to answer right.
Or not learning something as quickly as somebody else did.
It was it was what really was going on this.
I had a conversation with a teacher who basically thought that everybody ought to pretty much end up the same way.
I wasn't enough up to speed back then to realize what I was here at the beginning of.
But I'm certain that would have been 1992 or 93.
And so we're now here comes Durban, and this is a natural growth of it.
Well, we can't have this hyper competitiveness.
We can't have coaches telling people just don't quit.
They could get hurt.
What do you mean don't quit?
That's just not the right, just isn't good.
And it's just typical.
It creates softness and it creates people that don't have end up with no confidence, and they people don't learn what they're capable of doing.
Most people are not self-starters.
Most people need to be inspired.
Most people need to be pushed so that they learn what they're capable of.
You know, one of the greatest feelings a kid can have is when he learns he's better than he thinks he is at something.
Or when he learns there's something he can do that he didn't think he could do.
Everybody gets a big thrill.
That's that's called self-esteem.
Everybody cares about the self-esteem rising, sense of achievement, sense of accomplishment, and then it inspires more similar type behavior.
Anyway, to the audio sound bites, President Obama, ladies and gentlemen, has launched the personal brothers' keeper program for minority kids, right?
Primarily.
Black and Hispanic.
Uh boys, uh men, right.
Not to be confused with uh Destiny's Child.
So here here's here's uh we got I guess we have a a montage of this to show you how the media is reacting this, the drive-by soap opera.
Obama launches personal brothers' keepers program, except when it comes to his own personal brothers.
Here's a media montage of the announcement and the breathless excitement.
Emotion running deep at the White House as President Obama launches his most personal program.
President Obama touches on a very personal issue.
Calls this issue deeply personal.
President Obama, who's emotional, passionate, and deeply personal.
What is a very personal cause.
The President talked about something very personal.
A personal message to teens in surprisingly personal terms.
A personal and emotional event at the White House for the president today.
We go again, gravitas all over again.
Every media person describing this identically.
Okay.
Deeply personal event.
Surprisingly personal, very personal cause.
Emotional, passionate, deeply personal.
What's deeply personal about it?
There's nothing deeply personal.
He does not have he's got a composite son, Trayvon Martin.
A virtual son, what he does not he does what's deeply personal.
He's got brothers that he doesn't keep.
Don Lemon, uh, anchor at CNN last night on a CNN program.
This is uh after Obama had announced it.
As journalists you know, you weigh whether you how much you should criticize the president because he's black, what have you, but then you have to do it because ultimately you're a journalist.
What?
What in a what how did that get in here?
Don Lemon, you weigh as a journalist whether you should criticize Obama because he's black as you announced the Brothers Keeper program.
Play that again.
This kind of snuck in there.
I mean, even these sound bites are sneaking in and out of the roster.
Listen to this.
As journalists, you know, you weigh whether you how much you should criticize the president because he's black, what have you, but then you have to do it because ultimately you're a journalist.
When are you gonna start?
Well, he says here, as journalists, you know, you weigh whether you should, how much you should criticize the president because he's black.
Why does that even matter?
See, this is the point.
The president's race handcuffs everybody, not just journalists, Republicans, everybody scared to death to be critical, even his policy, because he's black.
And here's Don Lemon admitting it.
Journalists, you know, yeah, way whether you should, how much you should criticize the president because he's black and what have you.
But then you have to do it.
Because ultimately you are a journalist.
Yeah, well, when are you going to start this criticism?
Because frankly, there isn't any.
Mr. Lemon.
Here's more of Mr. Lemon now saying Obama is acting to help the black community.
The reason he's doing this.
This is same guy who just said it's time now to criticize Obama, despite the fact he's black, now explaining why Obama is doing this, and well, here, just this listen.
By taking this on as an initiative, as he has promised to do even beyond his presidency, he can take the politics out of it.
And he doesn't have to worry about some conservative or someone who may be a bigoted or racist saying, hey, you know, why don't you do things for white people?
You're the president of everybody.
We get that.
He also has a responsibility as a black man to help that from which he came.
And that's from the black community.
It was amazing.
It was emotional, and it was the most candid I've seen the president.
That's just unbelievable.
A Obama didn't come from the black community.
He came from a white enclave in Hawaii.
Number two, he can't worry now and doesn't have to about some conservative who may be a bigot or racist.
Because, see, they all are.
All these conservatives are racist and bigots.
And it would be racist and bigoted to say, hey, why not a brother's keeper for white kids?
Why are you leaving them out?
Well, Obama has to leave them out because he didn't come from white kids.
He came from the black community.
And because of that, he has a responsibility as a black man to help the people.
From whence he came in the black community.
There is no journalism anymore.
There is no news.
This is why didn't this guy win the Cronkite Award instead of the three-day-old kid that got it on MSNBs?
This this is embarrassing.
By taking this on as an initial Obama, because he's the president of everybody, Mr. Lemon.
No, but because he's black.
He can only worry about black kids because he's conservative bigots and racists.
He can't deal with them.
Keep in mind here, Dinesh D'Souza, who did a movie on Obama's brother being still left in the hut and all that, had the uh FEC sicked on him.
Dinesh D'Souza gave him some money, Obama's brother, some money.
Gotta take a break.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Look, Obama is not down for the struggle.
Not by his.
He was ways raised by by white grandparents.
Uh his white grandmother, typical white woman, but still, in his terms, typical white woman.
But he does not come from the hood.
Had to get him to rehearse the pronounced film the right way when he went down there.
And he well, that's just it that well, what Snerdley wants to know what does it make Don Lemon think that Obama's responsibility is first to black kids and not white kids because he didn't come from where white kids come from, but because he came from where black kids come from, he's he's he's got to, I guess give something back.
This is my point.
This is I I warned everybody that this presidency was going to end up being divisive, not unifying.
That's not inclusive message at all.
That is an exclusionary role that Don Lemon is advocating Obama play as president.
There it is.
It's all it's all right.
Everything you need to know about the media coverage is right there in that bite.
You know, ladies and gentlemen, it's interesting here.
This I'm gonna play this bite again, because everything you need to know, this describes everything anybody needs to know about the media and the way uh Obama's viewed, covered, reported on even mediaite, which is uh sort of a media review or analysis site.
They sit there and they kind of repeat the highlights of what happened in the media all over the place.
But it's it's leftist oriented, as everything in the media is.
But even this, their headline on this Don Lemon soundbite that we just played is this.
CNN's Don Lemon.
Yesterday, Obama became the black president.
And that's right, Obama became, according to Don Lemon, the black president.
And from the article, CNN anchored Don Lemon became visibly emotional on Thursday after Obama announced an initiative aimed at helping minority youth to graduate from Haskrul and to train for careers.
On Friday, Lemon expanded on his impressions, telling CNN anchor the uh Limbaugh stalker Carol Costello that Obama became the black president in that moment.
Carol Costello asked, do you think the president will continue to be vocal to be blunt since his term is ending?
And Lemon said, Yep, yep, today Obama became the black president.
See, he wasn't the black president until.
See, up till now, Obama hasn't been showing the proper favoritism.
But now, since Obama didn't have to worry about these conservative racist bigots anymore, because he'd have to run for re-election.
Now he can do what he really wants to do, he can do what he really should have been doing all along, he can do what he's always wanted to do and reach out and favor the black population.
And it's about damn time, they think.
This is exactly why he was elected to help the black population.
Now you might be thinking, you know, what would happen if Bush or Bromney take your pick of any Republican president said, today I'm going to have a brothers' keepers program aimed specifically at our white children.
It'd be a national outcry.
Do not be so sure that this bunch wouldn't also do that if
If they're gonna if they're gonna do a black-only outreach upreach, I'm not predicting it, but would let me ask, would you be surprised if you heard somebody in this regime say that we were going to have a program designed to teach young white children about racism and its evils,
and do our best to eradicate it from the way they think.
That would not surprise me at all.
If this regime did that...
Now, here's what everybody needs to know.
The reason this is being done, and the reason Don Lemon's applauding it, is because blacks have been disadvantaged from the days of the founding.
This has been a white-dominated culture.
And this is long overdue.
This favoritism is needed to finally even level the playing field.
Because this is evidence of how unjust and unequal this country's been.
And so we are going to spend a little time on this Brothers Keepers program for minority kids to help them overcome the bigoted racist discrimination they face every day in this country.
And that's that is what is being applauded.
What's the question?
Yes.
Mm-hmm.
No idea.
I don't know.
Snerdley wants to know do you think most black kids would prefer this program or an economy creating jobs?
I don't have the I did.
I I don't normally in the old days, the answer would be jobs.
But you look at teenage black unemployment.
What is it?
Look at the black abortion levels, the rates that we've been talking about.
65,000 pregnancies, black pregnancies, New York City, 2012, 24,000 survived.
If I may put it that way, it's 65,000 black pregnancies in New York City in 2012, 24,000 births.
The others aborted.
Yeah, there's all that white racism going on out there, folks.
So we've these white bigot conservatives there out there sponsoring abortion, right?
So we gotta we gotta get to the youth of the minority community.
We gotta warn them about these white conservatives, because they're they're encouraging what?
All this horrible stuff.
Here's the Don Lemon soundbite again.
Again, uh, this tells you everything you need to know about how the media hell, there is no media.
How the left looks at Obama and what they think, the meaning of his election is and was what he was really elected to do, and finally now he is doing it.
After six years, finally, he has become the black president.
By taking this on as an initiative, as he has promised to do even beyond his presidency, he can take the politics out of it.
And he doesn't have to worry about some conservative or someone who may be a bigoted or racist saying, hey, you know, why don't you do things for white people?
You're the president of everybody.
We get that.
He also has a responsibility as a black man to help that from which he came.
And that's from the black community.
It was amazing, it was emotional, and it was the most candid I've seen the president.
And it's yeah, of course it's a turnout to vote, just like the war on women, but this is damaging.
Because did you hear?
Yeah, yeah, he's president of everybody.
Yeah, we get that like big deal.
BFD.
That doesn't matter.
He's not president of everybody.
He is the black president.
He owes it to the black population to do things for them.
And what is that, by the way?
Just exactly how have they benefited, dare I ask.
So now another meaningless platitudinous Obama program, like the 35 jobs programs that came before.
Now here we go with the Brothers Keepers program.
It's gonna do what?
All it's gonna do is get this slavish, groupy type response from the media.
So it's a PR push.
Okay, here's Obama announcing the My Brothers Keeper initiative, and you know, this is this is deeply personal.
Oh, this was Obama being Obama.
Finally, this is who the guy is.
This is who we elected.
This is what we've wanted from him all along.
Oh, God, and he's finally delivered.
Oh my God, we can't even contain ourselves ourselves.
They're so happy, it's so fulfilling.
Oh my god, oh my god.
Oh my god.
Here's what generated that.
When I was their age, I was a lot like that.
I didn't have a dad in the house.
And I was angry about it, even though I didn't necessarily realize it at the time.
He wrote about choices.
I got high without always thinking about the harm that it could do.
Deeply.
I didn't always take school as seriously as I should have.
Flunked out.
I made excuses.
Sometimes I sold myself short.
I could see myself in these young men.
And the only difference is that I grew up in an environment that was a little bit more forgiving.
So when I made a mistake, the consequences were not as severe.
What environment was that?
What what what environment he grew up in that was more forgiving?
Hawaii and is in his is his white white grandmother's Frank Marshall Davis.
Well, consequences were not as severe when he's deeply personal, you see.
This is deeply personal.
Uh this is deeply, oh man, we're now getting deep down.
I mean, the president's really revealing himself in a way, oh my God, we can't contain ourselves.
Oh, jeez.
Do you realize what he's going to do for the black kids and the Hispanic kids?
Oh my God, you realize the future he's paving for them with this speech?
Oh, oh God, we can't contain it.
There's more of it.
In the aftermath of the Trayvon Martin verdict, with all the emotions and controversy that it sparked, I spoke about the need to bolster and reinforce our young men and give them the sense that their country cares about them and values them and is willing to invest in them.
And I'm grateful that Trayvon's parents, uh, Sabrina and Tracy are here with us today, along with Jordan Davis's parents, uh Lucy and Ron.
Uh Beyonce there.
You know, with the Lewinth, the Lewinsky dress.
Well, as long as we're trying to set examples here, folks.
I mean You know, one thing as I listen to all these units, wait till Bill Clinton finds out he wasn't the first black president.
And Don Lemon is just named Obama finally doing finally.
That's blatant racism, by the way, folks.
What what you're hearing from Don Lemon and the way this whole thing, that's racism.
Now they will tell you that they're not capable of being racist because they're the minority, and as such, racism without power isn't racism.
They don't have the power to make their racism hurt anybody.
So they're not racists.
This is the uh reverend uh Jackson theory that that minorities can't be racist because they don't have any power.
Only the whites can be racist because they got the power to be upside the head.
The minorities don't have any, they can't be racist.
They can say and do and be racist things all day long, but they can't be called that because they're not.
Here's um here's Kevin in Sterling Heights, Michigan.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
I want to thank you because of you.
I have learned to develop my conservative dream.
And uh we need more people doing that.
Yeah.
Um I live next to the ultimate laboratory for liberalism, which is known as Detroit.
And the other day I was watching the new mayor, uh, Mike Dugan on TV, and he was talking about the high car insurance rates in Detroit.
Well, in Detroit, people print up false certificates of car insurance, and they go to their friends at Secretary of State where they're able to get, you know, their licenses.
And uh the other thing is there is also a high uh theft rate for cars in Detroit.
A lot of cars get stolen.
So of course the rates have been driven up.
And as soon as he started talking about that, I wanted to hear what his solution was.
Well, I uh I'm so I'm waiting.
You're telling me that people are forging insurance policies, proof of insurance in order to to be able to get a driver's license or something.
Um, yeah, I mean, any anything goes in Detroit.
Um You said they're printing up insurance policies.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Um I I talked to my sister, uh, who is a bus driver, and uh she told me a friend of hers was in Detroit, and she was able to get a falsified certificate of insurance uh because you can't get it your license renewed in Michigan if you don't have a valid proof of car insurance.
Um okay, so they're they're forging insurance uh certificates.
And then you say that there's a a theft problem.
Oh, yeah, a lot of cars get stolen in Detroit.
Um that's really no secret around here, and I'm I'm 20 miles away from Detroit.
Um, you know, I try to live as far away from Detroit as I can, but I grew up in this area.
Um of course so the auto insurance rates are high.
And Mayor Dugan's answer for that, uh, I almost fell off of the couch when I heard this, Rush.
He said that he wants to he wants Detroit to create its own car insurance company, and he's going to call it deinsurance.
And uh I I just started laughing.
I thought this is unrealistic.
You're looking at this the wrong way.
You're looking at it uh all all the wrong way.
You need to look at you turn this into positive.
You need to look that there are enough cars being made in Detroit to steal.
Rather than being upset at the theft, you gotta turn and be able to look at the positive in everything.
That's the way we're gonna fix Detroit.
Say, wow, there are enough cars there that there's a theft problem.
We're making progress.
It's that simple.
Owen in Portland, Oregon.
Welcome to the EIB.
Yes, hello.
It's a real honor.
Thank you, sir.
Um, you said about a week and a half ago that if you could reach out to these young scientists and engineers who accept the theory of global warming, you would love to.
You you would love to get a hold of their you know, brain full of mush.
And I'm one of those.
And I'm not calling it to be contankers or to be combative.
Um I'm one of those, so I guess uh have at me.
Well, now I've got 45 seconds.
Okay.
Snurdley should have put your call up sooner.
Well, he's got a good one.
Okay, we can call we can call you back next week if you'll give us your number.
We can call you back next week.
You are a scientist, you believe in man-made global warming.
I accept the theory of global warming.
I didn't.
I used to not.
Um, but yes, I am the geologist, I have advanced degree.
Okay, but do you believe that man and his activity designed in in progress or progress in in enhancing standard of living is causing global warming.
Is man damaging the planet by advancing his standard of living?
Uh well, as a result of that, yes, we are putting CO2 into the atmosphere, and that is raising temperatures, absolutely.
But it isn't raising temperatures.
But but it are we destroying the planet, though, is the point.
Forget raising it actually is, Russia.
That's where you're where you're where you're wrong.
Well, no, we know the CO2 is the same.
Even the advocates are saying it hasn't warmed in 15 years, despite all of the CO2.
And then we've got news today that we could go even if we eliminated the CO2, all of it stopped exhaling, we wouldn't stop the warming.
We're we're sunk anyway.
There's nothing any of us can do.
That's it, my friend.
Sadly, we are out of busy broadcast moments here on the EIB network and open line Friday, another one in the can.
Have a great weekend.
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