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March 3, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 3, 2014, Monday, Hour #3
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I just I don't know.
I uh I'm trying to figure it out.
So um yeah, let's go back to this Ukraine business.
There's still some decent stuff here, but I got uh no worry.
Liam Neeson spoiler, I'm still gonna do that.
NFL N-word, the mayor of New York is driving more people out of the city, the rich.
Do you remember Mayor Doomerg?
I will never forget this, and I I remember being somewhat shocked by it.
And I know what the left is going to say if they're reminded us.
By the way, greetings and welcome back.
L Rushmore here at 800-282-2882.
Email address L Rushmore at EIBNet.com.
Remember when Mayor Doomberg said that it is five thousand wealthy families that pay 30% of the city's income tax.
That it is 5,000 very wealthy families in the city that pay for all the arts, that do all the philanthropy.
Now we have learned in addition to that, that the rich of New York, the wealthy of New York, are the ones funding over 22 charter screws that benefit poor minorities.
And the new mayor de Blasio, the left does not like charter screws.
Why don't they like them, Mr. Snerdley?
You told them.
Exactly right.
Competition for the union-based schools, they do better than the union-based schools.
Test scores, everybody coming, the dropout rate, all the dropout rate in New York City public schools is 50% among minorities.
5-0% dropout rate.
Minorities, including African American, Hispanic, you name it.
So Michael Goodwin at the New York Post, you know, I probably led this movement moving out of there in 1998, 1997, because of taxes.
And I kid you not, it was Mayor.
What was his name?
Oh, yeah, Governor Patterson.
Get this now.
Governor David Patterson actually said in a press conference that if he had known he could have gotten rid of Rush Limbaugh that easily, he would have raised taxes much sooner.
And of course, the press corps plotted and thought that was just wonderful.
The piece here by Mr. Goodwin in the New York Post yesterday is that wealthy people are now literally packing up.
There has been in the past year or so, one billion dollars worth of property acquisition in Florida by New Yorkers.
And they are taking their tax revenue, and when 5,000 families make up one-third of the tax base, and you're gonna punish them even more, and you're gonna run around and say they're not paying their fair share, like De Blasio says.
And if you're gonna say they need to even spread more of their wealth around, what's gonna happen?
They're gonna leave.
And there now is an exodus that is beginning.
Goodwin says here he's found ten wealthy people who've told him, just ten alone have told him that they are leaving.
He's got another anecdotal bit of evidence that others are leaving, and so forth.
Now the what the left would say about this is the the logical common sense reaction.
So you have New York City, 8 million people, 5,000 families.
Let's multiply that by four.
20,000 people out of five million are doing all the philanthropy.
They're building all the hospitals and the museums, and they're paying 30% of this of the of the city's tax base.
Common sense would say, wait a minute, that burden needs to be spread around a little bit.
That that's just that's just unfair.
That 20,000 people the that's not the left.
The left's reaction is that few people have all that money we've got to take it away from them.
That's how de Blasio and the liberal buddies that he has think.
You mean 5,000 people to pay an all that?
Well, they got way too much money.
We Blasio's right.
We need to tax them even more.
We need to, we need to get more money from them.
And they're leaving.
And they're going to keep leaving.
And then what are these clowns going to do?
I found the data on the spoiler alert for the Liam Neeson movie at a at a blog.
Well, actually, a website called Chicks on the Right.
Folks, our show prep knows no bounds.
And this post is by Daisy.
That's her name.
Chicks on the Right.
Says, I found out the ending of Liam Neeson's new movie, I'm not going to go see it.
Says normally I'd go see a Liam Neeson movie if it came out.
In fact, I've seen the trailer for this one.
It's called Nonstop.
And I thought, that looks good.
I'm thinking it's uh it's one I'm gonna I'm gonna put on a list to see.
I'm a big thriller and action movie kind of gal.
If you ask me what my favorite Christmas movie is, I'll say die hard.
But when I read this, and she has a link to a story on the details, I thought to myself, self, Hollywood needs a nice kick right in the groin.
Now the source link is all warning and spoiler alert and tells you in all caps to not keep reading if you don't want to know.
But she says, I don't give a rat's rear end that I'm spoiling this.
Here's the setup.
Liam Neeson plays a burned-out alcoholic flight marshal hoping for a nice easy flight, first class, where after sneaking a smoke and a drink, he might be able to catch a little sleep.
A text message informing him that one person on the flight will die every 20 minutes unless 150 million is wired to an account ruins his plan.
Counting pilots and crew, there are about 150 people on board.
The character, the uh air marshal has 20 minutes to figure out which one is the bad guy.
Red herrings abound.
Is it one of the many actors whose faces we recognize but names we can't remember?
Then people start to die.
And Liam Neeson is fingered as the hijack.
I think it's she's throwing names in here that uh anyway.
Here's the spoiler.
The spoiler is this the villain in this movie, you got a plane load of people, 150 people.
There's a bad guy threatening to blow the whole thing out of the sky unless 150 million is wired to his account.
The villain is not a hijacker.
The villain is a terrorist who wants to murder everybody on the plane to further a political goal.
The terrorist is wait for it, a 9-11 family member.
The terrorist in the Liam Neeson movie is a 9-11 family member who lost a loved one in the World Trade Center.
And it gets worse.
After 9-11, this 9-11 family member turned terrorist, then joined the military.
But he found himself delusioned or disillusioned by the pointless wars.
So you have a 9-11 family member, so hurt and so angry, wants to seek revenge on the perpetrators that he joins the military and ends up hating the military too.
Because the wars were pointless.
So now the 9-11 family member turned terrorists, is upset because America has not done enough to ensure that there will never be another one.
So he figures that if he can get an air marshal blamed for a terror attack, America will wake up and do what's right before it happens again.
The villain's sidekick is a member of the American military willing to murder 150 innocent people for a payday.
But wait, gets worse.
The one passenger on the plane who is forever helpful, who is kind, reasonable, noble, never under suspicion, is a Muslim doctor dressed in traditional Muslim garb, including a full beard.
The only thing more shocking is the villain is not a Tea Party member.
Which was Snerdley's first guess.
So in the the Liam Neeson movie is entitled nonstop.
Just to summarize, 150 people on a plane with an alcoholic air marshal.
The villain is a 9-11 family member, upset that nothing's been done.
The 9-11 family member lost somebody, 9-11, joined the military, disillusioned with the U.S. military.
So finally hijacked the plane for 150 million dollars.
And the hero is a Muslim doctor, helpful, kind, reasonable, noble, never under suspicion.
Villain, 9-11 family member, hero Muslim doctor.
And as Daisy here said at Chicks on the Right, you need to know the ending and details of this movie before you plop down money to see it.
Why in the world?
Well, we know why in the world.
This is not the first time.
This is just the most blatant.
I think the actual write-up of the spoiler alert comes from Breitbart, actually.
I think Breitbart is who broke this.
I happen to see it at Chicks on the right.
There.
But now you know.
I mean, it's just that's the American left for you.
But you know this is not the first instance of this kind of character portrayal where an American's the bad guy and uh the Muslim character is the hero and so forth.
Gotta take a quick time out, my friends.
You sit tight, back with much more after this.
Don't go away.
Okay, back to the phones.
This is uh this is our 10-year-old little girl from Cynthia, Kentucky, Jensen.
Thank you.
I appreciate your holding on for so long and waving.
How are you?
Well, that's great.
What's up?
Um, well, I just wanted to thank you and everybody at Tite for sending the books to my school.
Oh, you're at one of the schools we sent a whole bunch of books to.
Yes.
How many did you get?
Uh I think we got 60.
Yeah, we know we've been 60 books.
We sent out a lot.
We've sent like 10 or 15,000 books out to uh schools as a charitable donation to schools across the uh across the country.
Well, that's great.
I'm glad to I'm glad to hear from somebody of the school who got a shipment of them.
Have you read it?
Yes.
Are you finished with it?
Yes.
And I'm assuming, because you sound very happy that you really liked it and thought it was maybe one of the best books you've ever read.
Yes, I loved it.
And you probably, if I know if I'm if I'm right, you probably can't wait for the next one.
Yes, I'm super excited.
Oh, I can hear it in your voice.
How long did it take you to read uh Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims?
It didn't take me too long, but I took a break in between.
Oh, I had to read a book for school, so oh, you had to read a book for ah, yeah.
Sometimes you gotta do boring stuff in the middle of the things you really like.
Yep.
But well, is there anything uh in Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims?
What was there anything in there that you hadn't been taught or that was a surprise to you?
Well, a lot of it was because I haven't really gotten to that in the school.
What gra well if you're ten years old.
Okay, so you if you're ten years old, what grade are you in?
Fifth.
You're in the in the fifth grade.
Yes.
Yeah, ten years old.
Well, and they haven't gotten to the pilgrims yet in Thanksgiving and all that?
Nope, we're starting history this week.
So I can't remember how old I was when I was taught about I mean in school.
I know my my family told me all about it when I was young, but I well, and let me guess.
Uh if you had to pick a favorite character, it'd be the horse, Liberty.
Yes.
And why?
He's just super funny.
He's just super funny.
Yeah.
He is, gets into all kinds of trouble, but is really he'd be a good friend to have.
It'd be a really cool really cool friend to have.
Well, have you uh did did your parents uh get you the audio version so you could listen to me read the book.
Have you got that?
No.
You don't have that.
Well, I'll tell you what I'm going to do, because I'm proud of that.
You know, I read the and it's every word.
It's it's not shortened or any of that.
And it's uh I think it's it's either four or six CDs.
I can't remember off the top of my head.
But even if you've read the book, Jensen, this is a uh a different experience because it's all you have to do is sit back and listen to it, and I think you'll enjoy the whole story again if you can find time.
And you can listen to it whenever you have time.
Ten minutes here, fifteen minutes there, you could ask uh your mom, your dad to to pop it in the car when you're driving around if you're with them and you could listen to it then.
So if you don't mind, I would like to send you one of those.
That'd be great.
I'd love that.
Well, cool.
And you'll tell you what else.
Uh we have these cute little two if by tea bears, Ted T. Bear.
We we contracted and got these things a long time ago.
We've had them in our little gift shop at our website.
And uh I'm gonna I'm gonna send you one of those too with the audio version so that you'll be ready for the next book, which comes out March 11th.
Have have do you know if you're if your parents have pre-ordered the second one yet?
Um, not yet, but I really like them too.
Well, you'll have it soon enough because it's March the eleventh.
It comes in, I think eight days.
It's like it's like a week from tomorrow.
The second book will start racing off the shelves as people start gobbling it up.
So if you'll hang on, Jensen, Mr. Sturdley will be back on the phone and get your address so we can send the audio version to you and a Ted T. Bear.
Okay.
All right, and thanks.
Thanks for liking it.
I appreciate that you liked it, and I'm glad you called.
Thank you.
You bet.
We've donated over 15,000 copies of Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims to uh to scruels uh all over the fruited plane, and liberal heads have been exploding.
Left and right as a result.
Here's Joe in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Welcome.
Great to have you on the program.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Hey, uh, I'm wondering at what point in this Ukrainian invasion will the drive-by media decide to play the race card on Putin.
And how would that manifest itself?
Well, if Putin truly sees Obama for what he is, it's inevitable the drive bys are gonna have to go to the race card.
What else do they have to go on?
Oh, you know, see, I am I I'm gonna.
I what I have to be very honest.
When he said that, I'm thinking, what race is Putin attacking in Ukraine?
I wasn't even thinking of Obama.
I was that's how colorblind I am.
I was trying to figure out what possible race card is there that Putin could play.
And he means against Obama, the media.
Go after Putin for taking advantage of the first black president.
Grab soundbite number, what is it?
Grab Grab 13.
F. Chuck Todd, an accredited member of the state controlled media, is really nervous for Obama.
F. Chuck is like all of them.
He's in the tank for the regime.
He can't be any more in the tank than he is.
And he knows how foolish Putin is making Obama look.
And he wants Obama to hop too.
He says, I meet the depressed yesterday, and they're discussing this.
Listen to what F. Chuck Todd said.
Putin acts, Obama warns.
Putin acts, Obama warns.
This is a pattern that he can't afford to stay in here and just continue to warn.
You heard John Kerry more warnings.
He's got to act.
Oh, this is very troubling, ladies and gentlemen.
It's uh very sad.
The regime's own state-controlled media realizes how out of their league the regime actually is.
When you have your own mouthpieces, say you just can't sit there and keep drawing lines and warning and warning, you gotta do something at some point.
They're trying to help young Obama look and act presidential.
Like you know, Reagan.
Your guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, chaos, despair, forlornness.
And even the good times.
Get this.
Howard Feynman is uh is on MSNBC, and he was tweeting last night during the Oscars.
Now, I have I I know Howard Feynman.
I haven't spoken with Howard Feynman in many moons.
A little Indian lingo there.
Uh but it nevertheless I've I've I've this is inane.
This this is his tweet, he said, Academy awards show diversity, tolerance, cultural creativity of the U.S. in the Obama era.
Hard power matters per Putin, but Oscars are as powerful.
Yes, the Oscars are as powerful a force around the world as is the hard power of Vladimir Putin.
Academy Awards shows diversity, tolerance, cultural creativity of U.S. All of these gobbledygook things.
I don't know.
I guess Vlad's on the run.
Vlad just can't compete with the Oscars.
Okay.
Well, I guess you know what proof of it would be is that Vlad postponed the Oscar telecast in countries that uh that he controls.
They went, they found Richard Sherman, the cornerback for the Seattle Seahawks.
They asked him what he thought of banning the N-word in the NFL.
And he said that banning the N-word would be racist.
Richard Sherman said, look, when the brothers pronounce the N-word with a A on the end of it.
That's perfectly fine.
It's a term of endearment.
But if the word is pronounced, the N-word is pronounced with an ER at the end of it, then it's racist.
But it's well, I d her name, what was the name of that young woman, the hero to the media for a while?
Rachel Zentel or something like that.
She's the one that gave us this definition.
Rachel Centel, I think is her name.
I'm uh it's it's close on the last name.
She's the one that explained the differences between the N-word with an A on the end of it as opposed to an ER on the end.
And an A on the perfectly fine, and it doesn't mean anything but hey, bro, how you doing?
But an E R on A, you pronounce it that way, and then you are racist.
And I rem I'm when she said that, I I remember so I can say the N-word with the A on the end of it, it'd be okay.
No, no, no, no, you can't.
No matter what, you can't say it, no matter how you pronounce it, no matter who you say it to, and no matter what circumstances.
But the brothers, when they pronounce the N-word with the A, perfectly fine.
When anybody else pronounces it with an ER, it's racist.
Sherman said that banning the word is racist itself.
Why that word?
Why not ban every cuss word?
That's racism, he said to target that one word.
Sherman said it's in a locker room, it's on the field at all times.
I hear it almost every series out there on the field.
Now, here's an interesting observation about this.
Remember, you know, folks, sometimes, even when I make a joke, it turns out to be oftentimes something of real substance.
Rachel Gentel was her name.
Remember, I said last week that if I owned an NFL team and they banned the N-word, I'm hiring a ventroloquist player.
I'm going to get a player as a ventriloquist who can use the word all the time, make it look like somebody else is saying it.
You know, a good ventriloquist can not only speak without moving his lips, but can also, it's called throwing your voice.
It make you you you can, if you're talented, you can, a good ventroloquist can make speech sound as though it's coming from somebody else's mouth.
So I said, first thing I would do is go hire a uh a linebacker that's a ventriloquist.
And I'd have half the other team thrown out of the game by halftime.
Well, it turns out that one of the real concerns, the competition committee is looking at this, and one of the real concerns they've got, you got a fumble and a mad dash to recover it.
And there's a huge scrum, there's a big group of players and they're all diving for the football, and they're all shouting, and the N-word is heard.
What if the ref thinks a white guy said it and he didn't?
And it's time to call a penalty and you say, unacceptable language, racial slur, number 55 offense.
That guy is his life is over.
Do you realize that?
If they call a guy out for using the N-word on the PA system and it goes all over the country on the telecast, and if the guy didn't do it, if the refs get the wrong guy, you've got a group of people and all hell's breaking loose, trying to recover fumble, and the n-word's uttered maybe once or twice, and the refs hear it, but they hear it to the side or behind them.
They don't know who, but they throw the flag in it.
What if they misidentify?
And if the offending player happens to be white, he is scarred for the rest of his life.
This is a an opinion.
One of the members of the competition committee is eight coaches and uh other type officials in the competition committee.
All they can do is recommend rules changes.
They don't actually have the power to change rules.
They recommend them the owner's vote on all the rules changes.
Well, no, you wouldn't have offsetting N words.
You you You you wouldn't have the N-word being used canceled because one guy on each team used it.
You'd have to, you'd have to find a way to penalize both guys.
Maybe you penalize one team 15 yards and the other team the other 15 yards back and you put the ball right where it was, but you still handed out the penalties.
I can see him doing that.
Strangely enough.
But it's a good point.
And there it is, my ventriloquist joke, actually considered as a substantive matter.
And it's also generationally.
Talk to Harry Carson, number 53 linebacker New York Giants from the LT and earlier generation.
And to him, there is no N-word with the A on the end of it, and another N-word with the ER.
It's a whole thing, and it's never permissible.
And Harry Carson, he's he's he's a black guy.
He says, I don't care what you tell me about these young guys, and they use it all the time.
It's not good.
It's not right.
Don't tell me about it's a changing world.
So the opinion on this runs a gamut, but I just I wanted you to know that Richard Sherman thinks that targeting the word itself is racist.
And on that brief note, ladies and gentlemen, another obscene profit break.
We will be right back after this.
Tina Brown, well-known left-wing media and social doyen, was also on Meet the Press during the roundtable discussion.
She is the uh women in the world foundation founder.
So I mean she founded the women in the world foundation.
And during a discussion about Obama's remarks about Russian troops in the Ukraine, Tina Brown said the following you'll also hear F. Chuck Todd weigh in in this bite.
What I do think does seem to keep out foxing uh Obama is a real reading of who Putin really is.
It's almost as if Putin is brilliant, really.
I mean, he's sort of out foxing Obama all the time.
He's very clear.
And the reason that he wins in a way is that he's the only one who knows what he thinks.
He's utterly clear.
He's clear.
He wants to increase Russia.
I don't care what other people think.
He doesn't care what other people think.
We say, well, he can't do that.
That's not the way, you know, people in the real sophisticated foreign policy world behave.
Well, guess what?
He's not that guy.
He's a brutal, crude, cunning, power-enhancing, ruthless guy.
When did these people just figure this out?
How clueless have these people been all of these years.
He doesn't care what people think.
Why, that's not very diplomatic.
You've got to care what people think.
That's part of being sophisticated.
Putin is really, you know what?
The reason he wins is that he's the only one who knows what he thinks.
No, we all know what he thinks.
Every damn one of us knows what he thinks.
Some of us just have the courage to admit it and others don't.
We all know what he thinks.
And he doesn't care what we think.
Yeah, he can't do that.
That's not the way people in the real sophisticated world of foreign policy behave.
And that is accurate to John Kerry.
I mean, there's lurch out there.
Why you can't do this?
Why he we we have agreements.
Why we have the Helsinki sinker accord or whatever the hell it was back in 1993.
He's violated the Helsinki sinker accord.
Well, he can't do that.
He's using 19th century tactics in the 21st century can't do that.
What do you mean he can't do that?
Well, this is this is this is not what a sophisticated uh uh learned uh elitists do.
Uh we we we just don't behave in this man.
Liberals make everything about them, and they think everybody that's any good, anybody that's decent, anybody that's smart is just like them.
That's this folks, this is why they're dangerous.
They realize hard cold reality when it's too late.
Neville Chamberlain syndrome.
They realize it after they get beat upside the head.
Here's Charlie Rose.
Charlie Rose terribly concerned.
Very, very concerned over Obama's credibility.
He thinks it's at stake here.
This was on CBS this morning.
And he was talking with the former CIA, Deputy Director Mike Morrell.
And this is Charlie Rose.
The other question is what's at stake for President Obama, New York Times today.
The Russian occupation of Crimea has challenged Mr. Obama, as has no other international crisis.
At its heart, the advice seemed to pose the same question.
Is Mr. Obama tough enough to take on the former KGB colonel in the Kremlin?
The only thing that Vladimir Putin understands is tough.
And there has to be a tough response for Putin to pay attention.
But the president's credibility is at stake.
I think so.
Really?
Just listen to the way these people talk.
Uh the president's credibility is a sick.
I think so, yes.
Well, I don't know what he reads, Charlie.
I don't know who his foreign policy.
I don't really don't know who Obama is.
Why we don't know where Obama is when he gets out of bed.
I think so.
I think so, yes.
We know Putin now, don't we?
We know, but we had people who told us who Putin was.
Sarah Palin did.
2008.
Mitt Romney did in 2012.
We've had all kind of people tell you who Putin is.
I have, for what that's worth.
And everyone who did was laughed at, mocked, and made fun of.
And called stupid and barbaric.
And other such insults.
Meanwhile, these people that think they're just so smart.
The smartest people in the room sort of wringing their hands, oh my good poor Obama's credibility at stake.
They're what can Obama out tough Putin.
And the reason they're quaking in their boots is because they know what a ridiculous proposition that is.
That isn't happening.
What they've got to figure out a way of doing, if they can somehow find a way to convince Obama that Putin is Tea Party, then he might toughen up a little.
But I mean, how do you sick the IRS on Putin?
Obama's tools for this are limited.
Sadly, my friends, that's it.
But I well, it wasn't sad.
We were jam-packed today.
We were loaded for bear and we pulled it off.
Everything that mattered, we got to today.
And it'll same thing tomorrow.
See you in 21 hours.
Thank you so much for being with us today, folks.
Always and forever appreciated.
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