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March 11, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 11, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Hey, views expressed by the host on this program, documented to be almost always right, 99.7% of the time.
Great to have you here, folks.
Another excursion into broadcast excellence hosted by me, Rush Limbaugh, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, all-concerned, Maha Rushi, 800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program.
So our last caller, 57 years old from Illinois.
Rush, I don't know how you can be optimistic.
I hear you say that you are, but I don't feel it, Rush.
Look at the debt, the reform necessary.
There's no desire for it in Washington.
How in the world is this going to happen?
And I said to him that I just have a sense.
It's a feeling.
It's intelligence guided by experience.
It's thoughts, it's emotions, it's a number of things.
And I said, I can't really get specific with you, although I can.
The thing is, I'm not really crazy, as you know, of talking about myself.
But let me, I'm being honest, I'm going to give you a couple things here that I use to feel optimistic.
But let me ask you a question first.
Think about the people that you know.
Forget party labels for just a second.
Do the people that you know live like conservatives or do they live like liberals?
How do they actually live their lives?
The people that you know, how are they raising their kids?
What do you talk to them about?
Are they not of the same frame of mind you are about all these things?
Do they work hard?
Are they trying to work hard?
Are they trying to keep their kids on the straight and narrow?
Are they trying to save some money?
Are they trying to advance economically?
Are they trying to improve their standard of living?
Is that what they want to do?
Are they raising their kids with values that you think are good and worthwhile?
Do they help other people?
Are they compassionate?
Do they care about other people?
I would venture to say that most of the people you know probably do all those things.
Most people I know are that way.
I'm not denying other people are out there.
Don't misunderstand.
Just the people that you know, people that you hang with.
I'm sure like you do.
I have some liberal friends.
But yeah, I look at the way they live.
And one of the things I found, they don't, a lot of them really live their lives the way they preach.
They think other people should.
They don't.
They live lives that are more conservative than they would ever admit or believe.
They want the same things for their kids that you do.
Some of them may just think other people should pay for it, but I'm talking about values here.
I understand.
Not being naive, there are plenty of people that are not like you out there, but I'm just, do you feel alone is the point.
And I know a lot of you do, but that's because you don't have any leadership in Washington.
Them talking about where you live, your neighborhood, where you work.
There are a lot of people like you.
There are more people like you than there aren't, is the point.
Take a look at any Barack Obama issue, any policy of his.
There's not one of them that has majority support of the American people.
But we've got a major problem in our education system, and we have a major problem in our pop culture.
People may not realize it yet, but every day people get older and they get wiser, and they will eventually come to realize how important a country really is.
And this millennial generation, some people think they're the epitome of selfishness and self-centeredness, but these people were promised a lot that isn't going to happen.
They were promised a lot that isn't going to happen if they would just vote for certain people.
It ain't going to happen.
And they're not going to put up with it.
Majority of them are.
I also think, folks, I also think that there will be dramatic changes once we let me just put it this way.
The fact that we are living in the era, historic, with the first African American president has everybody paralyzed and everybody scared.
Political leadership in Washington is literally paralyzed.
Political consultant leadership in Washington, literally paralyzed.
Republican Party, literally paralyzed.
Many American citizens, literally paralyzed, frightened to death to say anything to anybody about what they really think.
And while this is happening, things are going down the tubes at a rapid rate.
And once we get past this historical era, I think a lot of this is going to change.
I think the paralysis will end.
Even if we get the first female president, it's still not, it's not going to be near the paralysis that exists today.
That paralysis was planned for and is being used to its maximum benefit by the Democrat Party and the American left.
But let me make this personal for a moment, since you're asking, since this guy, how do I say positive?
Folks, please do not interpret this as ego because it isn't.
It is a genuine measurement.
And I told the guy, and I'll tell you again, if I thought that the end of the country, as you and I know it, was a fait accompli, why even make the pretense of caring about this?
Why not instead be making plans to deal with that eventuality?
But I'm not.
I'm here every day.
I'm writing books for children now for the express purpose and for the reason that I believe there's reason to be hopeful and optimistic that this can be turned around.
Do you realize, ladies and gentlemen, that global warming 15 years ago was supposed to have been done over with, accepted, and implemented into the American political system with no argument.
It was supposed to be over.
And it isn't.
It's nowhere close to be.
The left has not secured it.
They are more hysterical.
They are more lunatic.
They are more ridiculous each and every day as they attempt to persuade people to join them.
There haven't been too many people on the national stage fighting this.
Most people have acquiesced.
Most people have not even taken the time to really examine what these people are saying, but I have.
And the reason I have is because I totally oppose command and control governments, centralized authority, central planning, socialism, loss of freedom, and that's all this is.
The same thing health care is.
That's another thing.
Do you realize health care, that was supposed to have been done by 1998?
We were supposed to have had socialized medicine by 1998, but we didn't.
The fact that these two central elements that define the advance of liberalism have been retarded, stopped, slowed down.
Now, a majority of people oppose the notion of man-made global warming.
They do not believe it anymore.
It's taken a long time.
Now, with Obamacare, I can hear you shouting, hey, Rush, they finally got it.
Look what's happening, though.
The people who were supposed to benefit from it are about to die politically.
And they're running away from it as fast as I've ever seen politicians run away from anything other than a house bank scandal.
It is an absolute disaster.
The point is that it may have been forced on us, but guess what?
They dare not really implement it, do they?
Every week it seems there's a new delay.
We're not going to do that.
The real punitive aspect of this, they know damn well this country's not going to put up with it.
They know damn well they will not win re-election if national socialized medicine is fully implemented.
And they're running away from it left and right, and they're delaying the implementation.
They may have Obamacare, but they do not have what they really want, the love and devotion and support of the American people en masse for it.
They do not.
Barack Obama doesn't have any of that.
He doesn't have a majority of the love and devotion of the American people, like he did when he ran in 2000.
He does not have it.
They are not winning with slam dunk after slam dunk.
We are paralyzed, folks.
Now, I'm not, but most people in the media are.
They're just literally scared to death.
This whole notion of race has everybody literally silenced.
And I think once we get past this, you're going to see dramatic changes and you're going to see newfound bravery that you thought had vanished.
And you're going to see newfound opposition that you think had vanished.
I'm not suggesting the Republican establishment's going to do a 180 on a dime, but you're going to have Ted Cruz joined by a whole lot more people and Mike Lee and all the others.
You're going to have them joined by a whole lot more people.
I take a look at the state of Texas.
I have a story in the stack today of how fantastic things are going in the state of Texas.
In spite of all this, I look at where there is fracking going on in Dakotas.
They have so much economic growth they can't build housing fast enough for the jobs that are being filled, for the workers that fill those jobs to have out.
They can't build it fast enough.
And everywhere that I look, that's dominated by liberalism is dying.
Let me give you, folks, a political party that is insane as the New York Liberal Democrat Party is not a party that is ever going to win the minds and hearts of anywhere near a majority of Americans.
I told Snerdley and the gang on the other side of the glass during the break top the hour.
I think I figured out what happened to Malaysian airliner.
Oh, really?
What?
I said, I think it's been hijacked by the Koch brothers.
I think the Koch brothers have hijacked that airplane.
You know, the last time they saw that was millions of or thousands of miles off course, hundreds of miles off course.
Why?
The Koch brothers have hijacked that plane.
They've landed it somewhere and they're conducting medical experiments on the passengers.
Why do I say that?
Well, because that's what you could probably make people live in New York believe.
The Washington Free Beacon has the story.
David Koch, who has donated over a billion dollars to hospitals and other cultural centers in New York, gave $100 million to New York Presbyterian Hospital.
It is going to be used to create new jobs, new medical research for women and children.
And there are three groups in New York who went out to the hospital over the weekend and marched in protest.
The New York State Nurses Association, the NAA LCP, New York State Conference, and of course our old buddies, the SEIU Local 1199, marched on the soon-to-be-built David Koch Center at New York Presbyterian Hospital, funded in part by a $100 million donation.
The left despises David Koch and his brother Charles.
They hate the Koch brothers.
They are insane in blaming the Koch brothers on things.
Here is a man who has just effectively built a wing of a hospital that's going to employ nurses.
And the people that elected this idiot mayor are out protesting it.
This was all time to coincide with International Women's Day.
How on earth can you do a bunch of nurses oppose the building of a new outpatient treatment facility that will provide employment for lots of nurses?
Folks, as others have said, this is completely insane.
They say the Koch brothers are opposed to national health care.
The Koch brothers are opposed to affordable health care.
Why would he donate $100 million to a hospital then?
Just to get his name on it?
No.
The NAALCP, what in the world are they?
What is anybody doing protesting?
My point here is, it defies logical explanation.
My point is, these are not the people that are going to take over this country.
They are never going to have majority support.
A mayor who wants to shut down the best performing schools in New York City is not a guy who is going to build a national coalition of support.
They are literally becoming more and more insane as they think they win more and more.
They become unhappier.
They become more unhinged.
There's nothing about our opposition that is inspiring, inspirational, nothing uplifting.
There is nothing positive.
All there is is a pretense at Santa Claus, coupled with a successful branding of the Republicans as people that don't care.
It really is no more complicated than that.
How do all these Democrat mayors that preside over top 10 crime, how do they keep getting reelected?
Because of what people have been made to think about Republicans.
Republicans don't know how to do that.
That's a whole other story.
I'm just telling you, we beat back global warming.
Healthcare is not yet implemented fully, and it's not a done deal.
There's every, there's any number of reasons to be optimistic.
If you were sitting where I was and where I am, and if you were doing what I'm doing, and please don't misunderstand that, you would have to feel optimistic.
Guarantee you, if you had three hours a day to tell people what you passionately care about, you would feel optimistic.
I guarantee you, you would.
We'll be back.
I told you it's going to happen.
A woman in the UK has married her dog.
I told you.
Told you it's going to happen.
A woman marries her dog and confesses I'm totally her BIH.
I told you.
Ladies and gentlemen, this was going to happen.
By the way, one of the things I forgot to mention when I was touting, have you got the book yet?
Have you been out?
Have you bought the book?
Have you bought Rush Revere, the First Patriots?
Have you got it yet?
Is it coming tomorrow?
Have you ordered it yet?
You need to do this.
Do not doubt me.
One of the best things you could do for your child, you could think of.
But there's something else.
We have really added to the Adventures of Rush Revere page at 2fbit.com.
And Rush Revere and Liberty welcome everybody there.
We've created this magical interactive land.
Young people can go click on tabs that do cool things.
Kids will love what they can do interactively at the Rush Revere, Adventures of Rush Revere portal there at 2fbit.com.
There's a social center where you can see pictures of other readers.
You can learn facts, share jokes, learn more about Rush Revere's traveling crew.
You can drop Revere and Liberty emails, fan letters, all kinds of things.
Check it out today as it's all part of the upgrade for the arrival of Rush Revere and the First Patriots.
There's an academy, by the way, filled with facts and quotes from America's Patriots.
It's a learning thing.
It's a fun thing, and it's just for you and your kids.
Your guiding light, your bulb, your always dependable El Rushbo behind the golden EIB microphone.
It's at 2fbit.com, T-W-O, 2FBT.com that you find the newly updated adventures of Rush Revere.
You'll see it there.
It's a little tab that you click on.
I call it a portal.
Click on it.
You're taken to a new area of the website.
And you should do it with your kids.
That's who it's built for.
A British woman, Amanda Rogers, 47, and her dog wife, Sheba, married in a beautiful ceremony attended by 200 guests in Croatia.
Amanda Rogers' wife is a four-year-old Jack Russell Terrier.
I have the picture right.
It's in the New York Daily News today.
You know, and people laughed.
You know, once we start changing a definition of marriage, where does it stop?
It doesn't just stop at a man and a woman or two women or two men.
It's wide open at that point.
When it's based on who you love, when it's based on who are we to stand in the way when people love one another, we can't do that, Mr. Limbaugh.
If they love, we've got.
So there you have it.
I just went back to the phones.
Sarah in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Well, I'm fine.
Thank you for calling.
I'm great.
How are you?
We're doing great today.
I've been dying to tell you about our five-year-old.
This would be our oldest, just a little boy.
And he is currently on his fifth read-through of Rush Revere and the Brave Children.
Fifth?
His fifth.
You have read it to him four times now?
Yeah, we have to read it to him.
Of course, he's not reading quite on that level yet.
And we honestly thought that the book was going to be over his head anyway when we heard the targeted age group for the book.
Well, what did you think?
When you heard the book was targeted at 1013 winning, it's going to be mostly pictures and maybe 80 pages.
See, it's a real book.
We have full expectations.
One thing I don't do and never have is insult or downgrade or look down at the intelligence of you in the audience because I think to listen to this program, you've got to be engaged and write.
I teach the kids the same way.
They're going to grow into this if it's a little ahead of them.
And your son's proof of it.
Yeah, we were.
I mean, nobody's been more surprised than us.
Every time we started the book again, we figured, well, he might get bored through it, you know, halfway through at this time.
But no, he wants to finish it every single time.
And then we'll go to put him to bed one night and he'll say, what do you want to read tonight?
He says, well, can we read Rush Revere?
And we'll say, well, we finished it.
Just a minute.
Buddy, remember?
And he's like, well, can we read it again?
Can we read it again?
Five years old.
He's five years old.
Five years old.
Are you still finding new things with each reading, or does he have things he likes to hear over and over again?
I think he just has things he likes to hear over and over again.
His personality kind of lends itself to that anyway.
When he likes something, he wants to put it on repeat for a while.
Oh, he's like me.
Is it obsessive compulsive?
Maybe, maybe if he's like you, I'm okay with that.
Well, you know what?
Did you get him the audio version of the book?
No, we don't have the audio version.
We have the e-book.
That's what we ordered first, and then he received the print copy for Christmas.
Oh.
Well, here.
Let me tell you what.
When we finish here, you stay on the phone and Bo Snurdly will get your address.
I'll tell you what we'll do.
You need a break.
I'll send you the audio version that you can play it for him, and it's me reading it.
He may like you better, but you can find out this way to give you some time off.
Oh, that'd be great.
You can tell him it's being read by the actual author.
Okay.
By the man who wrote it.
And I'll send you the new one, too.
Oh, great.
Thank you.
He'll love that.
Oh, I hope so.
I hope so.
Five years old, this is great.
Yeah.
Does he like your what else besides this did he like having you read to him?
Well, actually, your book was the very first chapter book we had ever read to him, which is one reason why we thought it wouldn't hold his interest.
And so your book has actually opened up the door for some other chapter books, which has been pretty exciting.
So we've actually read to him kind of a fictional story that kind of details Kubla Khan and some other, he has a bent toward a love of history anyway.
So we're trying to kind of encourage that right now.
I'll tell you what, I can't tell you how ecstatic I am to be playing a small role in that.
Well, we're grateful.
I'm so glad you did it.
I know sometimes it's scary to embark on a new adventure like that, but we're just so grateful for it.
It's nice to have resources out there like that.
It is.
Can I be honest with you about this?
I may as well, since she brought it up here, it can be scary to embark on a new adventure.
I have written two books, and they each sold 2 million copies.
This is back in the early 90s.
And it was back when there wasn't anything but me.
There was no other talk shows.
There was no Fox News or any of that.
And then people came along and said, you know, you know the story, Catherine.
So why don't you do the book for kids telling the truth about American history?
And I had people say to me, have you considered the downside?
What downside?
Do you realize the left is just going to be waiting to pounce on this thing if it doesn't sell like your first books?
And they're going to say, oops, Limbaugh's lost it.
Oops, Limbaugh doesn't have anywhere near the reach or the pool with his audience.
And I said, that's not why I'm doing it.
I expect them to say that anyway.
Strangely enough, though, I, you know, knocking here on, well, I shouldn't say that.
There hasn't been any of that.
In fact, the reviews that have been in this book from the left have been kind of cute, to tell you the truth.
But I hadn't even thought of that until I had some people, you know, you're really putting a lot at risk here.
And I said, well, I don't know.
To me, it wasn't about that.
It was about the mission, and it was about the objective here.
And there's always been a mission to this program.
There's always been an objective, multifaceted.
And I've told you what they are.
There's a business side, there's a programming side, and it's the same thing with the books.
It's always scary.
You always wonder.
But there was enough evidence.
We had enough evidence to know that It was going to be a success.
And we expect the second one to be, too.
But I appreciate that.
Now, Sarah, hang on.
So, Mr. Snerdley, pick up the phone and get your address so we can send you this stuff to you.
Here is Tom in Columbus, Ohio.
Hi, Tom.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
Thanks very much.
You bet.
I have a comment on when things are going to change.
Okay, from your prior caller.
Have had it.
All right.
Democrats are relying on the feel-good motive of people.
Young people want to do that.
They want to help people, but they don't want to provide a way of life for people to do nothing.
And they will grow tired of that.
Okay, providing a bed for people instead of a safety net.
And that's when the young people, I'm 50 years old.
I've got two kids out of college, one kid in college.
Okay?
So they're working very hard, but they want to do good.
They want to help people.
They want to feel good about helping people.
And young people understand fair.
So after working hard through college or a job to achieve what they want, they're going to understand personal responsibility.
And that's something that our president only says for schoolchildren in his speech to them yearly, personal responsibility.
So we need to show our compassionate youth that providing people in poverty a path to prosperity is the best thing we can do for them.
And the best fix for prosperity, you know, for poverty is a job.
So young people are going to evolve into that.
They'll realize that.
And then that's when there's going to be a shift in this country.
Does that make sense?
If I understand what you're saying, here's your premise, that people, particularly young people, naturally want to help people.
Correct.
They want to help people who are in trouble and they want to help people get past problems and so forth.
But when help becomes provide for, that's when they're going to say, wait a minute, that's not what we bargain for.
That's correct.
And if Democrats are relying on that premise with our young people today, don't you want to help people?
Don't you like people?
That they're going to realize these people that they've said, okay, yes, we want to help them.
We want to, yes, we want to hear, we'll extend unemployment again.
Yes, we're sooner or later they're going to say, wait a minute, are we helping them?
Or am I providing a way of life for them to do nothing?
Well, that's going to happen.
I think that's true.
And I think here's the thing about this.
I'm not going to sit here and exist in denial.
We have, I think, reached a point.
We have to be realistic here.
We can't honestly say that all of this is going to turn around in one election.
Let's say the Republicans win the White House.
That's not single-handedly going to be what turns this around.
Democrats lose the Senate.
We win the House.
I still not believe that, still not sure that the Republicans want to win the Senate.
It's much easier to be in a minority where you have no responsibility.
It's much easier where you don't have to come up with the agenda that is reform.
It's much easier to sit there and say there's nothing we can do.
We're in the minority.
But that's a side issue.
I think we're at a point here where we're in deep.
I don't want anybody to be misled with my optimism.
I don't think the end of the Obama presidency is not going to be magic.
It's going to be big.
And one characteristic, though, it's going to end this paralysis of criticism that everybody is suffering.
The second thing, when you look at, I touched on it earlier, the Dakotas where the fracking is going on in Texas, and the states hold the key, I believe.
If you say, and a caller did, that Washington is not responsive, that Washington does not seem interested in fixing this or reforming it, maybe, but the states are.
The states can't print money.
The states cannot do what the federal government can do.
They have to actually have to abide by a whole different set of rules and laws.
And so there are a lot of things that have to happen.
I'm not pie in the sky here, but I just, there's enough things have happened just on this radio show in pushing back and retarding the progress or stopping it of some of their most important issues, global warming and healthcare, to name a couple.
There are others as well.
But I think this notion that I too, I said it earlier, there's going to be a generation, it may be the millennials, who knows, be a generation that's growing up and say, wait a minute, this is not what we're in for.
We're not going to pay for half this country for 92 million people to not work.
We're just not going to do it.
We're not our parents.
We're not our grandparents.
We're not going to do it.
I have that faith as well.
Back in a sec.
Rick in Anaheim.
It's great to have you up, sir.
Hello.
Mega Dittos from the Left Coast Rush.
Thank you, sir.
I did a little experiment, a little liberal experiment, an experiment in liberalism according to the Limbaugh theorem this morning.
Instead of drinking coffee and eating donuts every morning, a couple of the guys that I worked with and I walk in the park.
This morning we saw some homeless people we hadn't seen before.
They were sheltered underneath a restroom awning.
And one of the homeless individuals was a little girl, probably should have been in school.
And my two liberal friends said, wow, we should do something for these.
They feel really bad for them.
And I said, well, give me $5 a piece and I'll go give them $10 and maybe they can go get something to eat.
And they said, well, I'm not giving them any money.
And I said, well, I thought you wanted to do something for them.
And the experiment in my mind was, you know, how the liberals like to take other people's money and give it away.
Well, I tried to convey this the two guys you suggest just five bucks.
No, no, no, no, no.
I'm not going to give them anything.
But they thought somebody should.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I said, well, we're here right now.
Give me five bucks a piece and I'll go give them ten bucks.
And they're always calling me a rich Republican, which cracks me up.
I work just as hard as they do and I make the same money that they called you a rich Republican.
You suggested $10.
All they wanted was the credit for talking about it.
That's it.
They wanted to be thought of as really big-hearted and compassionate because they noticed it and they said something should be done.
But when it came time for the rubber to meet the road, they wanted you to dip into your pocket.
Hey, quick question, ladies and gentlemen.
If fossil fuels are responsible for drought in California, why did American Indian tribes feel the need to invent rain dances?
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