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Great to have you with us, my friends.
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And the email address, you're going to send an email is lrushbow at EIB net.com.
Okay, Matthew McConaughey in his acceptance speech, which we just played you the sunbite.
The only moment during the epidemic awards last night where there was any discomfort and uh confusion was when he thanked God.
They literally didn't know what to do.
They basically didn't do anything.
A couple of a couple people applauded and cheered, but I mean that was basically it.
And he said, explained his life philosophy.
Every day, he needs somebody to look up to.
Every day, something to look forward to and someone to chase.
Now he explained that it is God to whom he looks up to.
Something to look forward to is it changes.
The job he's got or something with his kids or whatever.
And I thought before he got to explaining it, the someone to chase, I thought that was going to be the way the actor thanked his wife for making everything possible.
But it wasn't.
The something to chase is himself ten years in the future.
He chases himself.
He knows he will never catch up, but he wants to find out who that guy is going to turn out to be.
And when he finished explaining it, he said, amen, all right, all right, all right, all right, keep on living, and walked off.
And they applauded.
And that, I thought, was quite interesting.
That the someone to chase is himself and where he thinks he's going to be in ten years.
And the fact he never catches up.
I don't know, want to get too deep, could mean he never knows where he's going to end up really, just follows the game.
But um anyway, I have you do you guys watch True Detective on HBO.
You love that.
You know, you shock me.
You everything you like is filled with debauchery and depravity.
It just it you know what?
Oh, you do.
Well, that's got its own debauchery and depravity, Downton Abbey does this year.
But anyway, uh Matthew McConaughey in True Detective is just awesome.
Woody Harrelson's even good.
I mean, you have to admit it, Woody Harrelson's even good.
But it is, it's a it's an HBO show, so it it is the under-the-seamy underside, dirty, greasy underbelly of life.
Among the genuine stupid and uneducated in Texas.
Texas.
And I I've it's uh what they're on episode seven now, I guess.
I've got six more to go, and then it'll it'll it'll finish when Game of Thrones.
You watch Game of Thrones.
There you go.
Blood, guts, gore, debauchery, and you love it.
Anyway, folks, greet uh greetings and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh on the EIB network.
And again, 800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program.
I didn't see this, but I have been told that Mark Halperon, who is the uh, I guess he's political writer at Time Magazine, I think.
He writes all these books now.
Halperin, yeah, he used to be a political director at ABC.
He's one of these guys that writes books during a campaign, learns all kinds of stuff that could affect the election, and holds it.
Doesn't report it, saves it for a book, that he writes, after it's all done and said, and he writes his partner's John Heilman.
And apparently on on Morning Joe today, Halpern said, look, Reagan never had anywhere near as tough a Soviet leader as Putin, implying that Obama's got it.
Reagan had it easy compared to what Obama's dealing with.
Well, let's play a little game here.
Excuse me.
Let's list the names of the Soviet leaders that Reagan had to deal with.
First off was Leonid Brezhnev.
I'll bet you'll never get the next one.
You're thinking of Yuri Andropov.
Well, there was another one before Andropov.
Yeah.
Constantine Cherninko.
And then after Konstantin Cherninko was assassinated with a KGB for ineffectiveness or whatever.
Well, we don't really know, but when those guys died, folks, it was always under a cloud.
After Cherninko, it was Yuri Andropov.
And Andhrop.
Let me tell you something.
Androp, right out of the well, here's the Gene Kirkpatrick.
I remember I attended a lecture that Jean Kirkpatrick she was speaking at University of California, Davis, which was right down the road from my adopted hometown of Sacramento.
This would have been, well, it was during Paris Droika, Glasnos, it was during Gorbachev.
And Gorbachev was loved and adored by every college student in America.
And Gorbachev was loved and adored by everybody in the media because at the time Reagan was the danger.
Reagan was the cowboy.
Reagan had called him the evil empire, and Raven, uh Reagan and doing his Saturday morning radio address had joked about the bombing starts in five minutes, you're going to hit the buttons.
He's just razzing them because they always thought that Reagan was going to be the problem.
And I'll never forget when Gorbachev arrived for the first summit in Washington.
Well, that's where we invented the term Gorbasm, because that's exactly what happened.
Out there on the tarmac, when when Gorbachev's plane, it was an USH in 62 when it taxied up.
I mean, it it was a public orgasm on the tarmac, and Andrews Air Force Base, where all these officials, because they really thought the savior of the world had landed.
And I'm not making it up.
At the time I thought, oh, these people are just they I've come down and realized they believed it.
They believed Reagan was the danger, and that Gorbachev was the savior in so they really believed it.
At the time, I was naive and thought they were just saying it because it was their partisan nature.
They really believed it.
All of this inane, stupid stuff that we've been laughing at for 25 years, they believed, and they believed it all.
Anyway, Jean Kirkpatrick is lecturing, and she starts off by saying the only difference between Mikhail Gorbachev and previous Soviet leaders is that he is alive.
And you should have seen the students.
They just erupted and they stood up and started pointing fingers at her, and they snickered and they laughed and they booed, and she was great.
She was totally unaffected, and she just kept going and ramming it down their throats.
And when it was over, she stayed and went to an ante-room off of the lecture hall.
It was like a uh they had a reception uh beverages and marijuana, whatever the students were doing, and and she she sat around and and talked to any of them that wanted to talk to her.
And she was just reading the Mariet Act, and everything she was telling them was the exact opposite of what they were hearing in class.
And it was it was so great to hear.
Jean Kirkpatrick is the uh former Secretary of State Reagan, she invented the term San Francisco Democrats to describe them after their convention in San Francisco, 1984, which I ill Rushbow attended.
At any rate, uh the idea, it's amazing what these people do to prop up our young president.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah, Reagan never had anywhere near as tough a Soviet leader as Putin.
Putin was there.
He was the KGB.
The KGB was always there.
It was didn't matter.
I just I I marvel at some of the things these people say and think.
Other items in the news besides Ukraine, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Here's one from this is uh let's see, I guess it's a Boston Globe.
Nope, sorry, it's the Washington Post.
And the headline is this rich donors press Democrats on climate change.
The upshot is a recent Democrat fundraiser at billionaire Tom Steyer's home, amounted to a summit between Washington's liberal elite and San Francisco's climate intelligentium.
And the uh the left is very unhappy with the Democrat Party over their lack of substantive action toward climate change, and that they don't mention global warming much, and that there's no policy that's come from it, and they're threatening to withhold money.
These rich libs are, unless the dents go full bore into uh into global warming.
The only problem is that there are public opinion polls.
The American people look at the jigs up.
The American people do not en masse believe this now.
The number of people that believe in man-made global warming is a dwindling few, and it's getting smaller.
And that's why the Democrats are trying to focus on other things, uh illegal immigration or what have you.
Have you heard about this?
New Mexico governor Susanna Martinez, she're Republican.
She needs a new hairdresser.
Her hair stylist is gay.
And her hair stylist has refused to do her hair anymore.
Because Susanna Martinez is opposed to gay marriage.
Now, no, no, no, wait a minute now.
What just happened in Arizona?
What no, that you there was a religious freedom law that didn't once homosexu mention homosexuality or any of that or gay marriage or any of that.
It was portrayed as an anti-gay piece of legislation when it wasn't.
It was I don't want to rehash that.
Here is the exact opposite.
This guy's name, the hairstylist Antonio Darden, he's gay, and it's totally fine for him to refuse to do the governor's hair.
Totally fine.
Now imagine if she already opposed to gay marriage, finds out her hairdresser is gay and refuses.
Can you imagine the absolute hell that would break out over that?
But now he can.
So it's a one-way street here.
If this were in Arizona, uh the the way this would work out is that the gay couple would walk out of the bakery when they learned that the baker would not bake them a cake.
Instead of what happened there.
But it's perfectly fine for this guy to refuse to continue doing her hair because she obviously is a bigot and a homophobe and all that.
Antonio Darden told a local news station that he cut Governor Susanna Martinez's hair three times, and he's not gonna do it again.
He's not gonna do it again, not as long as she continues to oppose gay marriage.
The governor's age called not too long ago, wanting another appointment to come in, he told KOBTV, because of her stances and her views on this, I called and I told her aides no.
And they called the next day asking if I changed my mind about taking governor in, and I said no.
Martinez has said she believes marriage should be between a man and a woman.
That's because that's what the definition is.
Darden, a popular stylist in Santa Fe, the owner of Antonio's hair salon, uh has been with his partner for 15 years.
It's just equality, it's just dignity for everybody.
He said everybody should be allowed the right to be together.
Is somebody what what when did that happen?
When did somebody deny people the right to be together?
By the way, I wasn't gonna do that.
I was I honestly, until I saw this, I wasn't gonna do it.
We gotta go back to top.
Audio sound bites, one, two, and three.
If I can find them, I put them on the bottom.
Yep.
Here we go.
Well, at least no, sound bites one and two.
Mr. Sulu from Star Trek does not like me.
Mr. Sulu thinks I have no credibility at all.
That's sound bite number two.
Soundbite number one Friday night in Phoenix on eyeball K A E T V, Arizona Horizon News.
The guests are the AP correspondent Bob Christie, Phoenix Business Journal correspondent Mike Sunnox.
And they're talking about Governor Brewer vetoing the religious freedom bill and the host Ted Simons says they're not saying if it was right or wrong, they're saying it's been mischaracterized.
bill.
They're demonizing the reaction as opposed to saying, "We made a mistake because we made Now, I don't know what that means.
I'm s you asked me that what question means, I don't know.
I'll read it to you again.
You tell me what it means.
I mean, I can get halfway there.
Here's the question.
Obviously, this is in context in the middle of the show, it's not the first question.
They're not saying if it was right or wrong, they're saying it's been mischaracterized.
I assume that means the Republicans are saying it's been mischaracterized.
I don't know what this right or wrong business is, though.
Then he said they're demonizing the reaction as opposed to saying we made a mistake because we made a mistake.
I do not know what that means.
But here's Bob Christie from the AP and uh and Mike Sunnox from the Phoenix Business Journal.
I think that's a sincerely held belief among many Republicans that this has been mischaracterized by the media, that we are trying to protect the religious people in this state from what they see as a real attack on their rights.
And I think those are you know heartfelt beliefs that they have, and they don't understand what happened.
And what happened, as I said a minute ago, is the world has changed.
You can't push bills like this.
Rush Limbaugh, some of the folks on the right, they're upset with the media, what they see is a mischaracterization of this, but there was nobody that really stepped forward.
There was no legislative leaders that came out and said this is what we think the bill was.
There was really a vacuum.
Why didn't they?
They're scared to death to come forward because the world has changed.
You know, here's George Takay, or Takai, I guess is he's Mr. Sulu.
This is a different show.
Democracy Now.
I have no idea.
Uh Amy Goodman is the host, and uh she said, What's your reaction, Mr. Sulu?
We have to consider the source.
What the legislature legislation was doing was to refuse service to gays and lesbians, or anyone that disagrees with uh the business people's uh uh religion.
So a um Muslim taxi driver could refuse to take uh a Jewish person or a uh single woman uh traveling by herself.
Russian ball has no credibility at all.
The legislation was trying to.
Okay, that's it.
How do how did I even get involved?
The only reason I'm involved is apparently these people think I'm the only one that commented on this.
So I've got no credit.
By the way, if a Muslim doesn't want to carry around anybody, he doesn't have to, Mr. Sulu.
That's been documented.
Okay, we're gonna get to your phone calls first thing in the next segment.
Not enough time to be fair with the people we have on the hold now.
But you know this business with the with the gay hairdresser in uh in New Meiko and the governor.
Gays can refuse service and be applauded for it, by the way.
Christians cannot.
So when it comes to hypocrisy, gays take the wedding cake.
Whatever.
These Soviet leaders.
I I'm still struck by Mark Halpern's.
Oh, yeah, yeah, Reagan, he never faced anybody.
You're tough as Putin.
Oh no, no, no.
Leonid Brezhnev is who put out the contract on Pope John Paul II.
Brezhnev tried to wipe out Pope John Paul the Second.
Brezhnev deposed Khrushchev because he despised him.
Brezhnev was no walk in the park.
In fact, Brezhnev was tougher than Putin.
Brezhnev ordered Castro to send troops to Angola.
Anyway, these guys didn't none of them were slouches.
That's the point.
Hi, how are you?
Welcome back.
As promised, ladies and gentlemen, we now see what's lurking behind the blinking yellow lights on our phone bank.
Actually, that doesn't happen anymore.
We don't use blinking yellow lights.
It's all well, are are there blinking yellow lights on your console?
They're green.
Green.
Now I don't have any such thing.
I know they're there.
You're gonna start in Alexandria, Virginia.
This is Anne.
Welcome, you're up first.
Great to have you today.
Hi.
Oh, hi, Rush.
It's such a pleasure to talk with you.
I can't believe it.
Be patient with me.
Um I haven't done this before, but I'll get right to my point.
Oh, really?
Is that what you say to all the guys?
No, not all of them, but a lot of them.
Just trying to relate to it.
Just trying to relax you out there.
Hey, listen, um, let me state the obvious here, if I may.
I find it kind of ironic and disingenuous of Obama to send Kerry out there to um criticize Putin for not honoring past agreements.
Yeah.
Uh since Obama doesn't seem to honor our constitution, the rule of law in this country.
I think they're using it for designer wall pa uh toilet paper in the White House.
But anyway, that's what I've heard, but you know, it's just hearsay.
Wouldn't surprise you.
I find it pretty pretty um interesting that they're taking the stand.
I think Putin's situation just has better optics for the low information person.
Putin's situation has better optics.
Yes, what he's doing has better optics, and it's very visual, you know.
Well, what's the better optics for Putin?
Well, you know, it makes better news, you know.
You can have camera crews over there and so forth and so on, as long as I'll let them in.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
I I want to make sure I understand what you're I can't possibly be getting what you the optics are Putin's troops plowing over other innocent people and wiping them out.
Is that better?
That's easier to criticize because it looks so cruel and dictatorial.
But when you do it uh kind of under the radar, and of course the American press, whatever there is left of it, doesn't report on it.
Uh it's more difficult to show what Obama is doing than what Putin is doing for the low information person.
Oh, I see, I see.
I think you're speaking of a generic sense, not yes, it makes better sound bites and all that.
You can see it, you know.
You can put it up there on the TV screen and see it.
Whereas with what Obama and his um minions are doing, that's not as easy to show.
I mean, you mean I don't talk about it.
But see, I think what she means is when you say what Obama and his minions are doing, you're not talking about reaction to Putin.
You're talking about him destroying Constitution, making up the and rule of law in this country.
He regards the Constitution um with as little respect as he would uh a rat's turd, okay.
So that's my opinion.
Well, now you you obviously find it hypocritical that Obama cares nothing for the Constitution but thinks these guys ought to be honoring all these decades over.
Yes, spot on.
Well, how about this?
If you like if you like hypocritical uh illustrations and I how about this?
How about Obama siding With the people who want their freedom, i.e., the people in Ukraine getting their heads busted.
That's the other irony.
You would think he'd be in Putin's camp.
Well, but but what's he doing to people who want their freedom in this sickening IRS on them?
There you go.
There you go.
And he's he's denying them all kinds of things.
If they don't want to make a kick somebody, by God, they're going to it.
If they don't believe in passing out birth control pills, by God they're going to.
Yeah, so why is he criticizing Putin?
He's just taking what he thinks is his.
If you want to know the truth, he's criticizing Putin because that's what it says in the how to be president manual.
There you go.
Yes.
He doesn't care.
Nah.
And Kerry, Kerry doesn't know what he's doing.
People may have forgotten this, but here's Carrie's, these guys they got to abide by agreements.
I can't believe it's a 21st century.
I'm Secretary of State, and they're going in there with a 19th-century tactic.
Anybody remember that it was John Kerry who was for the U.S. invasion of Haiti to restore the tin horn dictator Jean Bertrand Aristide.
So while we were all in favor of using military force to go in there and wipe out Haiti and reinstall Aristide, we can't, no way.
Uh we're we're gonna I just I don't think uh off the top of my head, I really this Putin thing, as far as Obama and his regime are concerned, their primary degree of interest is making sure that whatever happens doesn't end up embarrassing Obama.
That's it.
This is a regime that total totally relies photo ops, PR, imaging, and so forth.
And so I I think Obama's probably like most low information voters in this regard, that this is not gonna affect anybody.
This isn't gonna affect the American people.
It's not gonna affect anybody's health care.
It's not gonna affect uh who won the Academy Awards, what's going on in Ukraine's not gonna so what if the Soviet Union rebuilds?
So what?
It's none of our business.
If they want to rebuild, they rebuild it.
None of our business.
Who are we to tell them they can't?
And that probably the prevailing edit.
Obama has said as much, you know, when he's been asked about American uh exceptionalism, who will, I'm sure the British think they're exceptional too.
And I'm sure uh the Russians uh think they're exceptional too.
He doesn't he doesn't have any devotion to the idea of American exceptionalism or American superpower status.
In fact, that's the problem.
Remember, to people like Obama and and Kerry and Hillary, you name it, anybody in that left side, the United States has always been the destabilizing force in the world.
The United States has always been the uh problem.
You know, I'm reading a just uh uh an escape novel.
It just total if you it turn my brain off novel.
There's nothing to learn from it.
It's just like some people watch the Food Network.
Just turn off the brain.
It's a book by James Patterson, who churns out ten books a month.
And this one's called Mistress.
Do you know that Patterson lives here?
Jim Patterson, yeah, he lives in Palm Beach.
Yeah, I run into him now and they're running for Flagler Steakhouse over at the country club or running him now and then.
No, no, I'm not saying his books are it's pure entertainment.
It's it's not the books are not brainless.
They're actually this one is quite good.
I'm just it's escapism.
You know, you just you read this to get your mind off the humdrum.
This is not a put down.
Don't get me in trouble with Patterson.
I'm not trying to insult Patterson.
The book is called Mistress.
And it came out, I I forget the copyright.
It's in the last two years.
And to really cut to the chase here, it is about strangely enough, the Soviet Union, Vladimir Putin.
It's about Vladimir Putin attempting to reconstitute the Soviet Union by blackmailing the U.S. president.
In the book, it turns out, are you ready?
In the book, it turns out, here's a spoiler alert, and I don't care.
I'm going to tell you because I started this.
I can't now stop halfway through it.
And by the way, I'm going to give you a spoiler alert on a movie that's the latest Liam Neeson movie.
I am going to spoil this for you because you deserve to before you pay to go see this movie, you deserve to know what it's about.
This, you know, the late Liam Neeson's done these uh uh rescue movies, taken one, taken two, taken five, and now there's a new one out there that all it totally takes planes uh placed on a plane.
Anyway, that's for in a minute.
The Russian intelligence units have learned that the first lady is a lesbian, and there is a videotape of the first lady in a wild sex rump with a very beautiful Washington, D.C. CIA agent slash model type.
And the guy writing the book, the the the protagonist is uh kind of a dork who has a fantasy love affair with this woman, and it everybody assumes that she's committed suicide by jumping off her sixth floor balcony.
But it wasn't her, it was a stand-in.
And it's about how the president is trying to get her assumed dead so that the Russians do not have any leverage over him.
Okay, you got the if the Russians are out there claiming they've got a videotape, they're trying to get hold of it.
The protagonist actually has it.
It's a computer geek.
He's got it, or thinks he's got it, or wants to get it.
But the idea is the president wants to kill the lover of his wife, his lover's wife, his wife's lover, to remove any blackmail possibility.
So when you're reading this, when I'm reading this, I'm not wait a minute.
Here we do have relative inaction here.
I mean, Putin's pretty much got a clear view, whatever he wants.
You know and I know that we're not gonna we didn't stop anybody.
We're drawing red lines and they're crossing them.
We're not stopping anybody.
And and whenever it's Syria doesn't matter who it is, Secretary of State Kerry says, you can't do that.
You agreed 25 years ago you wouldn't do it, and we're offended, and that's it.
So you start thinking, well, may well, why is our young president so in active?
Why why is there and I'm I'm not saying there's any truth to it, and I'm not saying that the book was written with any and just it's a just a strange coincidence that uh at this moment in time I would be I just I downloaded about 10 Patterson books, and I picked this one based on the cover.
Like three days ago.
Psh.
I'm reading it on the iPad.
And it's only last night that I get far enough into the book that I learned what I just passed on to you.
What are the what what what are the what are the chances of that coincidence of all the books that I have bought that I have downloaded, the one that I would randomly pick because the cover ends up to be about the very thing it's about in this case it's Georgia that is being conquered and which has already happened, not the not Ukraine.
Now this Liam Neeson, oops, I got to take a break, but wait till you hear, and I don't care if you get mad at being told the plot and and the conclusion of a movie beforehand.
This one I think you're gonna want to know.
Back to the phones.
Here is Sean in Dayton, Ohio.
Sean, glad you waited.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Yeah, thank you for taking my call, Rush.
I've been listening all my life to your show, and it's uh just a real honor to speak with you today.
I t you know what?
Thank you.
I've d to have it said that way.
That's I've been listening to you all my life.
The fact that I've been doing this 25 years in the middle when I was two.
Well, I uh I appreciate it.
I really do.
Yeah.
Well, my point today was, and I I'm so glad that you brought up Russia and uh the convenient timing, I would say, of Sochi and uh the Oscars, because I had a stingy feeling that when um the things that were starting in Ukraine came up at the end of the Olympics,
that Vladimir Putin was going to take a stranglehold of just the world's viewing and um you know just really try to get Russia back in the limelight, and he's succeeding, and we're not gonna be able to stop it because why would he take anything that we say seriously?
Obama can't even keep the promises to his own people.
Stimulus after stimulus, the uh Affordable Care Act, all of these things that he's promised us.
Well, exactly.
I mean, here's here's John Kerry complaining that Putin is not living up to agreements.
Obama can't even live up to his own agreement.
Obamacare.
Mm-hmm.
Absolutely.
And I just think it's it's a limp slap on the wrist to just say things to Russia and to you know send John Kerry of all people over there just uh try to talk it out.
I mean, that's you're right.
It's all I think sadly, it it's it's it's all PR messaging marketing.
They're not gonna do anything to stop Putin.
And I don't know who would in this, it's a new world.
It's it's a new that's that's the left excuse for everything going wrong.
Hey, it's a new world, and you better adjust to it, pal.
Hey, it's a changing world, and you better get used to it.
That is how every depravity, debauchery, every corruption, perversion, whatever of our culture going on, political, social, you name it, that's how it's justified.
Hey, it's a new world, and you better get right with it.
But I do think, and I thank you for bringing this up again.
I folks, I think it is important, if not important.
It's interesting to note that Vladimir Putin, he's he he no question believes that public opinion in the United States matters, which is why he's continuing to try to manipulate it or use it.
Now, I have no doubt that they have their own agents of influence inside the country.
They always have had.
The KGB always has had agents of influence, uh, college campuses and so forth.
Hell, most college professors are communist sympathizers at least.
But anyway.
The idea that Putin would would take the time to make these moves during the Olympics and during the Oscar telecast is quite telling.
And I'll tell you something else.
That that Sean mentioned here.
Putin is like every one of us.
He knows how Obama he knows Obama's not being straight with us.
He knows Obama as well as anybody.
I guarantee you he knows the real Obama.
I guarantee that's his job is the KGB.
He knows how Obama, he knows exactly, and he's going to take as much advantage of it as he can.
Putin sees how things work here.
He sees how things are going down, and Putin knows how to use them too, is my point.
Putin knows just as well as Obama how to exploit U.S. public opinion so that it will not negatively impact him.
Guarantee you.
Now it now, I uh ought to spend more time on this.
I was gonna give you the uh the uh uh spoiler alert on the new Leon Neeson movie, but I'm gonna hold off on that.
And we also have a ten year is a 10-year-old girl.
I hope she can hold on.
We have another, it seems like every day we have a young person who has read my book, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims and wants to call and talk about it.
We have another 10-year-old on hold.
So we have that coming up.
Uh there's lots of other stuff as well, folks.
We just Got an hour left, and we are going to make the most of it.
Sit tight, do not go anywhere.
The issue of the N-word in the National Football League has not been dispatched yet, ladies and gentlemen.
It's still a matter under discussion.
Competition committee talking about it.
The uh smart money is that there will be no new penalty created for use of the N-word this year.
The league will continue to take testimony, do studies and investigations to try to determine how often it's used now, and therefore how difficult it would be to stop it.