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That is then Vladimir Posner up there on CNN on the right talking to Wolf Blitz.
Is that that he's bald now?
I guess that happens to people.
But the red well yeah, it actually looks good there.
Uh, that is Vladimir Posner.
You know I used to be when he and Phil Donahue.
When they were, they were best buds.
Remember that they were inseparable best buds.
And this was before.
It was just me that FOX NEWS hadn't no wait, FOX NEWS hadn't started yet, but there was Msnbc, was America's Talking, I think.
And Donah, you had a show on there at night and these guys talked about me every night.
I even went on a couple of times and and Posner asked me a question about something and I answered it and he said, you can't answer it that way.
You simply you, you.
It doesn't work, you can't answer.
I don't remember what it was about, but it was, and of course he was dead wrong.
It was.
He was just trying to intimidate me.
You can't answer it that way.
It was about the, the dialectic of the uh of the Soviet Union, two steps forward, one step back, um what days those were.
And on the Donahue show that one time, and so forth.
Vladimir Posner uh it's it's, I guess it's it's.
It's funny to watch people get older.
You know, you have your.
I haven't seen him on tv for 20 years and he had hair and uh he he, he looks unthreatening.
yeah i know he said politicians lie asking about people lying coop putting politicians lie it's the name of the game anyway just to folks just to wrap it up here about this this irs thing just keep in mind here while everybody's focused on how mean isa was and wouldn't Elijah Cummings talk, which, by the way, again, is not true.
Elijah Cummings had a chance for an opening statement.
The meeting was adjourned, and he went into that showbiz routine.
But remember what this is about.
The whole point of these hearings is that the IRS silenced the Tea Party.
They didn't just try, they silenced the Tea Party.
And Elijah Cummings has no problem with that.
Elijah Cummings is actually protecting Lois Lerner and anybody else in the regime that participated in silencing the Tea Party.
That's what this should always be focused on.
And the Democrats have successfully moved it.
The whole point of this scandal, silencing hundreds of Tea Party groups via the IRS, they did it by declining or delaying the granting of tax exempt status.
They couldn't raise any money.
And money, in politics, equal speech, they were shut up.
And Cummings doesn't care about that.
While he said, I would never silence any of my Republican colleagues.
I would never turn off a Republican microphone.
He is perfectly happy with using a very intimidating agency of the government to shut down the Tea Party.
Yeah, I just, it's a sad thing that that focus is being lost.
Now, I have intended for the past two days talking about this teenager who sued her parents in New Jersey.
And I'm going to do it now.
I promise.
So here we go.
A New Jersey honor student is suing her parents for, and she's losing the suit, by the way, at least lost an early round.
The judge is Peter Bogart.
She is 18.
She claims she was kicked out of the house.
Her parents say, no, she left on her own.
She says her parents were disciplining herself too much, making her do homework and so forth.
She didn't want to do that.
And so now she's gone and she is suing them for the money to continue her private education.
Judge Peter Bogard said there was no emergency need for her parents to pay for tuition to Morris Catholic High School.
She's at 12th grade.
She's got a 3.5 GPA.
And in a potential precedent-setting lawsuit, Rachel claimed that her parents, Sean and Elizabeth Canning, threw her out of their home.
But even though they threw her out, they should still be responsible for paying her tuition, her room, and board, and transportation, and other expenses.
Now, Sean and Elizabeth Canning said that their daughter refused to obey basic household rules and that she left on her own.
They say they haven't seen her since she left, which was in late October, two days before her birthday.
They both cried during the two-hour hearing in Morristown, 30 miles west of Manhattan, as the lawyers traded angry accusations.
Rachel's lawyer, Tanya Helfind, said that the mom and dad hadn't lifted a finger to contact their daughter or even to make sure she's okay.
Her relationship with her parents is abusive, the lawyer said, in particular, her relationship with her father.
And the lawyer said, I'm asking this court to help this vulnerable young woman by making the parents cough up the dough.
Now, in court papers, Rachel, the 18-year-old who ran away from home, said that her mom has called her fat, while her dad has been inappropriately affectionate with her.
He mentioned frequently that my relationship, in his eyes, was not one of a daughter, but more than that.
No.
Well, you know, baby boom parents do really want to be friends with their kids.
Some of them do.
Some of them don't want to be parents.
They don't want to be disciplinarians.
They don't want to raise them.
They want to be friends with them.
And this father may be one of those kinds of guys.
But now, go into court, you throw any allegation around you want.
All you have to say is that her father was inappropriately affectionate.
And you know as well as I do that the feminazis and every other social group is going to be on that like white on rice, which is what I'm sure the lawyer attended.
She didn't say.
She stopped short of saying that her father touched her unlawfully.
Now her parents' lawyer, another woman, Laurie Rush Masoret, denied all of the daughter's claims.
The parents introduced documents from the state's Division of Child Protection showing the parents had been investigated for and cleared of abuse allegations.
The bottom line said Rush Massere, the parents' lawyer.
Rachel left on her own, explaining she's emancipated herself.
She doesn't want to be with her parents' sphere of influence.
Despite Tuesday's setback, Rachel's lawsuit is going forward.
The judge ordered both sides back to court on April 22nd, but the judge hinted that Rachel might have a tough legal burden to handle.
Judge said, child thumbs her nose at her parents, leaves the house, and then turns around asking, now you have to pay me money every week.
Judge said this poses a public policy issue.
It's a slippery slope.
Damn right it is.
18.
This girl is 18 years old.
Now, during the court hearing, I don't know if you heard about this.
During the court hearing, the father, Sean Canning, pleaded during court, I'm a liberal.
I'm a liberal parent.
I wish I could have grown up in my house.
I was tougher on my cops at work than I've ever been at my home.
That's for sure.
But I'm a liberal.
I'm a liberal parent.
That may be an indication of where things went off the tracks here.
Just saying.
I'm a liberal parent.
I wish I could have grown up in my house.
Meaning, man, it's a piece of cake in this house, the way I run things here.
Now, the latest in this, the New Jersey parents being sued for tuition by their entitled daughter were excoriated in a rant today by her on her new Facebook page.
Oh, yeah.
The daughter went out there.
What is her name again?
I don't remember the father's name.
Rachel Cummings got a Facebook page, And she unloaded on her parents, calling them spoiled baby boomers who would rather feather a retirement nest than pay their kids college bills.
She wasn't just talking about her parents.
She launched into every baby boom parent out there.
She wrote this on her Facebook page.
I have been stunned by the financial greed of modern parents who are more concerned with retiring into some fantasy world rather than provide for their children's college and young adult years.
This was actually a poster, somebody reacting to her post.
She did start by calling her parents spoiled, and then people posted in agreement.
Suburban baby boomer types are the spoiled lot.
They make massive amount of money.
They are used to flying to luxury destinations whenever they want, buy things they don't need.
People should be inclined to say things my way.
The post appeared on the Education for Rachel Facebook page, which Canning previously told the post she set up to support her cause.
Another poster said, I see parents like this every day.
Children were always an accessory to them, nothing more.
And once the accessory grew up and went out of fashion, much like a marriage that people allegedly commit to, the child becomes a throwaway.
That's just how it is.
So, folks, what is happening here is this babe sues her parents, sets up a Facebook page, and people start posting to it, supporting her with all of these assaults on baby boomer parents.
Now, as one who studies sociology and the society and the culture, I find this fascinating.
That we have these millennials now who are looking at their baby boom parents as a bunch of materialistic, selfish concerned only with them, and that their kids are just accessories.
I always thought it was Hollywood actresses that adopted babies because it was the latest accessory.
You know, Madonna is setting the trend on that.
But now this group is saying that we're all accessories.
And all of these baby boom parents, all they do is care about themselves.
They just want us for the appearance of a solid, healthy, good family.
But they're selfish.
They don't want to pay for us.
They don't want to support us.
They don't want to pay for education.
They don't want to pay for our young adulthood.
They don't want to pay for anything.
We're totally on our own.
They're selfish.
They're brutes, and we're just accessories.
Well, I know they're paying extra for that Catholic high school, but they're not paying it.
That's the point.
They probably would if she hadn't left home.
If she left home, they're saying, okay, you're on your own.
If you're going to split the scene, you're on your own.
Here's the real world.
I don't know about you.
When I was growing up, I didn't set the rules in my house.
The parents did, or anybody else's house I was in.
Even as an adult, whoever owned the house sets the rules there, no matter how old I was.
But certainly kids didn't set the rules.
But I tell you something, folks.
I have noticed, you know, I am a childless father, childless person.
And all I've been able, I observe others, but I don't have the actual experience.
That actually is what has made writing these children's books so challenging and fun to do.
But I have observed over the last couple decades.
I mean, it's different than when I was growing up.
A lot of parents demand that their kids be included in every invitation they get.
If it's an adult dinner party, well, I'm not, unless I can't bring my kids.
You what?
You want to bring it?
Yes, I do everything with my children, and I'm not coming unless I can't bring my stuff that, I mean, didn't happen.
So there are little chronicles of changes taking place, but the selfishness of the baby boomers, I think it's fascinating that these millennials are now focusing on that while at the same time expecting to be totally supported.
It's mom and dad who are selfish, focused only on themselves.
Which happens to be true of a lot of baby boomers, in fact.
Let me take a break.
We'll come back and get started with the phones.
Don't go away, my friends.
Right on, right on, right on.
Rush Limbaugh, Open Line Friday.
Half my brain tied behind my back.
Just to make it fair, here is Joshua in Cleveland.
Great to have you, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Ariel.
Love your show.
I want to preface what I want to ask before I ask it.
I want to, brothers, I'm 26 years old.
Okay.
I've been listening to your show since probably 13, 14.
So a nice long while.
And I love your show.
I love your opinion.
I love your funny, your humor, your wit.
It's great.
Recently, this has struck me as a question I always wanted to know.
Okay.
Is your persona that you have on the radio, which I'm going to be honest, is quite boastful and quite, I know it all, and half my brain tied behind my back, which is funny, and it's definitely entertaining.
But my question is, is that your real life persona?
When you're with friends and family, do you walk around with that persona?
Or is this just something that you do for show business?
So your question is, like when I go home for Christmas and I walk in the front door of my brother's house, do I walk in?
Oh, shoot, Rushes here.
Now comes the fights.
Well, oh, no, no, no, no.
No, no, no, it's not.
But I'll get to that in a second.
But you're asking me, essentially, do I walk in my brother's house and say, greetings to you, family members?
I am Rush Limbaugh back home for Christmas.
Half my brain tied behind my.
Do I walk into the house that way?
Well, I'm not exactly that.
I can't imagine that you would do that if judging by your intellect that you would be that stupid that you would walk in like that.
But my question is, it's an honest question.
No, I understand.
I know you're right.
Am I as braggadocious or confident or boastful?
I think you said.
Right.
Dominant.
Do I walk into a room and demand that everybody stop what they're doing and listen to me?
And then do I comment on what everybody says and is doing and offer my opinion about it?
And do I basically have no time for anybody else and not care what anybody else thinks?
Basically, that's my question.
I'll be honest with you.
My opinion is most probably not.
I just want to hear from you the truth.
Well, see, here's the problem in answering that.
Let me answer it this way.
This is showbiz here.
And there are a number of elements that have to be used in combination.
And sometimes talking about them destroys the magic behind them.
It's like if you ever heard a couple comedians talking about the business of comedy, it's just not funny.
It's the most boring thing.
It's too inside baseball.
Now, this is radio.
This is media.
This requires an audience.
There is a showbiz aspect to it.
However, my critics sometimes, well, he's just an entertainer, and they will say that as a means of discrediting me.
Well, he's an entertainer.
He's not even believing what he says.
You can't take him seriously.
Other times.
I don't believe that at all.
I don't believe that.
I believe that you definitely believe strongly what you say.
But I also understand that there is a level, like you said, of soberness, of entertainment.
You're not going to get people to listen to you if you're boring.
But the question is, if you like this, has it carried over into your daily life outside the radio?
You basically, am I always this interesting?
Is really what you want to know.
Am I always, or am I really wanting to get a hold of you?
Matt, are you always this interesting?
I'm sure you're always interesting.
No, in fact, I'm probably one of the quietest, speak only when spoken to, and probably the most, one of the most humble, unassuming people that you would ever meet.
And my guess is, in truth, that you would be disappointed.
Don't go away.
Well, I asked our last caller to hang on because I wasn't there answering his question, and he either didn't hear me or either we hung up on him and I'm being lied to when I'm told he hung up.
But regardless, he's not there, and I didn't finish answering his question.
Now, I don't know if I should continue answering the story or answering the question.
Well, I'm not going to let it.
Yeah, basically, what am I like when I'm not on the air?
There's a simple story I can tell that would probably answer his question.
And I can't give any names, but I guarantee you you'd know every one of them.
A very powerful man invited me to accompany him and about 15 of his friends on a trip to another country to play golf.
And the people on the trip were a couple of people that appear on NFL pregame shows.
There were a couple people that appear on a network morning show.
There were two Hollywood actors and some business associates of the host.
And the trip was five days.
And on the last leg home, we're all in the back of the host's airplane.
And the subject of a United States senator came up.
And I was asked what I thought, and I just started launching.
And the host said, where the hell has this been?
Meaning, we've been five days and you just now start acting like you care and talk about that.
In other words, I had been invited as the Circus Act.
I had been invited as, because most of these people were liberals, and I figured it out after two days in the trip.
I was supposed to be, you know, the Circus Act, and I wasn't.
I just played golf and chatted about whatever was going on.
And that was that.
I went out to dinner.
There was, you know, I didn't call anybody names.
I didn't talk about liberalism because no politics was discussed whatsoever.
It was a golf trip.
And politics was discussed on the way back.
And the host said, where the hell has this been?
Meaning, why haven't you been talking like this the whole trip?
That should answer the question for you.
I'm yeah.
Let me just strike my passions.
I guess, yeah, you've got the show, but I don't know.
Honestly, I can't answer the question without giving things away that are best left mysterious.
I mean, why you want there to be some drama, some mystery, some unknown, and there's no reason to leave that or to destroy that.
But suffice to say, folks, when I walk in the room, I don't say, hi, half my brain tied behind my back.
What are you doing here?
Who the hell invited you?
It's nothing like that.
As I say, I slink from being noticed.
I sneak around.
I do everything I can not to get noticed wherever I go.
I'm extremely private.
Probably the most humble person you would ever encounter.
And I'm sure that would stun and surprise and maybe even disappoint them.
But it's the way it is.
Here's Dan in Indianapolis.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
I just wanted to let you know, after watching a little bit of CPAC yesterday and the Christie push, I called a local supposedly cursed conservative station here in Indianapolis this morning on a talk show.
And basically, I said, I don't know what somebody that is against the Second Amendment and is pushing illegal amnesty is doing out in front of CPAC.
And I didn't appreciate Rubio pulling for amnesty either.
Well, they berated me on air for that.
And then I called them back and I told them I didn't appreciate that.
So for the next two hours on that show, all the callers, with the exception of one, was in favor of what I was in favor of.
I want a real conservative ahead of the party or else.
I was just reading, just before the program started, and forgive me because I did not print it.
I was harried and distracted and trying to do 20 things at once five minutes before the program started.
I saw a story about some, I think it was MRC TV, was it Brentbo Media Research?
I'm not sure what it was.
And I just barely scanned the headline, the first two paragraphs.
And it was about a conservative group accusing what you're saying, essentially, that CPAC is gone.
CPAC is not conservative.
You can't have a conservative political action committee conference with somebody like Governor Christie and John Cornyn there.
Those were the two names mentioned in this piece.
And so there's a satellite group that is, I guess, meeting there or just publishing their opinion of what's going on at CPAC.
And so it dovetails with your point.
And I'm not surprised that you'd get beat up by the hosts, but then the callers, the listeners would be sympathetic to you.
Grab Soundbite.
Let's see.
Let's see.
Well, where do I want to start?
Let's start at number eight.
Because I mentioned earlier that no matter where you go in the drive-bys today, Chris Christie's back.
Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, LA Times, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, you name it.
They are just back in love with Governor Christie.
They are singing his praises, and they are saying he knocked it out of the park, and he got much bigger standing O than Ted Cruz, and he was much more popular than Ted Cruz, and he was much more appreciated.
He was much more listened to, and he had made much more sense than Ted Cruz, and he had the audience eating out of the palm of his hand, and he was really, really, really good.
He's put Bridgegate behind him, and he's back on top, the conservative Republican presidential sweepstakes, so forth.
And it was amazing.
If you look, if you just stack headlines on top of each other, one on top of each other, ABC, CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, CNN, Washington Post, New York Times.
It's just in unison again.
Every mainstream drive-by outlet is now back to anointing Christie as the Republican to beat.
And as I said, we all know that those people in the media want Christie to be the president, right?
They don't want Hillary.
They don't want Biden.
They don't want whoever else might seek it on the Democrats.
And no, no, no.
The New York Times, you know darn well they want Christie to be right.
And the same thing with ABC and CBS.
Yes, yes, I'm being facetious.
Of course.
Let's listen.
We've got a is this a montage?
It is.
It is a montage of various media types hailing the Christie comeback.
And we even have some Fox people in here.
Governor Chris Christie back on the world stage getting a standing ovation and stealing the show.
Chris Christie coming back.
The start of the Christie comeback.
Day one looks a lot like a beginning of a comeback for Chris Christie.
Very shrewd and deliberate in making his comeback.
Governor Christie back on the national stage.
Today marked the beginning of Christie's comeback.
Will this put the New Jersey governor back in the race?
It's all there, folks.
I mean, it just, it's amazing how this happens.
He spoke for, I clocked it myself, but 25 minutes, and he said two memorable things that I heard.
I'm not saying that he didn't say more than I just see the whole thing, but two memorable things.
We've got to start saying what we're for, not just what we're against.
Media love that.
Why did the media love that?
Because the media thinks that the Tea Party and conservatives are nothing but a bunch of little chihuahuas yapping at the ankles of Obama and every Democrat.
And all we're doing is whining and moaning and criticizing.
But we're never offering solutions.
We never speak positively.
We don't have any word for it.
And Governor Christie came along.
And basically what he did with that comment was slap the Tea Party upside the head.
Nanomedia loved that.
And the second thing he said, let's leave this conference remembering that before we can govern, we've got to win elections.
So let's focus on, again, winning.
And of course, the implications or the inference that we're to draw there is that Republicans don't care about winning elections anymore.
All they want to do is complain.
All the Republicans want to do is complain and beat up our beloved president.
All the Republicans want to do is whine and moan.
Governor Christie came and told him what for.
Governor Christie came in and he told those young kid conservatives, you better start being for things instead of just and media say, oh, this is wonderful.
And now that's in unison and it is a chorus.
The media making you think that they're really so excited Governor Christie's back.
Why, they might even vote for him for president.
George Will.
Last night on special report with Brett Bayer.
George, what are your thoughts on Chris Christie at CPAC today?
MSNBC has been a great benefit to Christie.
I mean, MSNBC has at most a one-track mind, and it has been just obsessed with him.
And my enemy's enemy is my friend.
So a lot of people there were warming up to him.
So the theory there is MSNBC would not let go of Bridgegate.
In fact, it might be one of the reasons Alec Baldwin quit MSNBC because he was so fed up.
Now, all they were doing, morning tonight, was talking about Christie and Bridgegate.
And George Will said, all of that has created massive new amounts of sympathy for Governor Christie.
Doesn't matter.
The bottom line is no matter where you go in the media, Governor Christie is back.
He is on top.
Bridgegate is history.
He cleaned Ted Cruz's clock.
He cleaned Marco Rubio's clock.
He cleaned everybody's clock, and he lectured those conservatives, and he told them, you can't just run around complaining and whining.
You better be for something.
So interesting to note.
Quick time out.
Open Line Friday continues after this.
Sit tight.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
This is Jessica in Northport, Florida.
Welcome to the program.
Great to have you here.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet.
I never thought I'd be talking to you about this issue.
I know it's a very controversial issue.
I want to talk about vaccines, but not about the safety or the controversy surrounding autism.
I want to talk about what's been in the news recently, and it's very concerning to parents like myself, about mandatory vaccinations and parental rights.
In Maryland, recently, a judge ordered every unvaccinated family in a district to be vaccinated by Friday, otherwise they could go to jail.
And this is a place that has philosophical and religious exemptions, and parents had to show up and prove their religious exemption, prove themselves.
And this is also happening in Oregon and California.
And it's really troubling to me.
And I sincerely would like to know your feelings.
Well, before, what is your amount of fear?
What alarms you?
Do you not trust the government telling you that your kid must be vaccinated for whatever it is?
No, because I feel that the government is too heavily in bed with the pharmaceutical companies, which are most definitely making a profit from our bloated vaccine schedule.
And please keep in mind, I'm a partial vaccinating parent.
I have two special needs adopted children, so I am very cautious in what I choose to administer to them.
But yet you don't have a choice.
You're being told you have to do this or you could go to jail.
Yes, it's spreading across the country.
There's several states now where a CPS is being called on lovely families that have no business being involved in that sort of system because they choose not to vaccinate or they refuse the hepatitis B shot on the first day of birth.
Hmm.
Well, this is, what are your options?
I mean, if you don't do it, who will know?
Well, I was kicked out of a doctor's office after my daughter had open heart surgery and she wanted to administer six vaccines in one day to catch her up after open heart surgery.
And the doctor kicked me out, sent me a certified letter, and I was genuinely afraid she was going to call CPS because I had heard she'd done it on another family, and thankfully she did not.
My rights in Florida are I can claim a religious exemption, but what about families who aren't religious?
And what about philosophical exemption?
Well, I know it's happening everywhere.
New York City now has mandatory flu vaccines every year for six months to six years old.
And six-year-olds attending daycare and preschool.
It's all rooted in this belief that you are not qualified.
You're not capable of protecting your children.
Only the government knows best.
These people that can't do anything right, they can't run the health care system.
They can't do anything.
They know better how to protect your kid from disease than you do.
And they want to exercise this control over you.
And there's some, I saw a report the other day that hospital systems are now required to have a 90% or higher flu shot reception rate among their staff, or they lose up to 2% of their funding in Medicare and Medicaid.
Exactly.
And it's lose their funding if their student's body isn't up to date.
You know, vaccinations happens to be your cause.
It's happening to everybody's freedom, virtually every walk of life.
New York City, the LA City Council just banned, or maybe it was New York, I forget one of the two, just banned e-cigarettes.
It's water vapor.
They just banned them, just made them illegal to use in public.
It's water vapor.
There's not one element of tobacco.
There's not one carcinogen in these things.
And because it looks like cigarettes and it glorifies it.
So whether it's vaccines or whatever, Jessica, I hate to, it's not probably not an answer you're looking for.
This is what you get when you get liberals who think they know better, who think you don't know how to raise your kids, and who think everybody should have to follow their dictates in order for us to have a uniform society and a uniform culture.
And I just, I wish more people would see this and learn from it, be able to identify who these kinds of people are before they go vote.
You know, folks, if you just stop and think about it, you don't have to think about it.
You know it's happening, which is why so agitated.
Choice is being taken away in big gulps.
Look at the choices you no longer have in healthcare alone.
You used to have massive amounts of choice in any number of walks of life.