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March 11, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 11, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #3
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You did?
I'm impressed that you even knew.
I just asked them if they put iOS 7.1 on the new upgrade and their phones and iPads.
I said, oh, yeah.
I said, I'm surprised they knew.
Good going in there.
Good going.
Hi, folks, and welcome back.
El Rushbo here at the cutting edge of societal evolution at the Limboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, 800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program.
Senator Leahy, Senator Pat Leakey Leahy, also known as Senator DePenz, has now joined Senator Feinstein in claiming that the CIA's computer searches may have violated the Constitution's separation of powers.
So it's fascinating.
First, Di-Fi and now Senator DePenz all bit out of shape that the CIA may have been stealing data or at least monitoring what was on Senate and congressional websites.
That's a Fourth Amendment violation.
That's a separation of powers violation.
How could you do that?
No concern whatsoever when it's you.
And I'm not equating the CIA, but what they're upset about is separation of powers.
Now, this gets to another point, by the way.
Why do they not worry about the separation of powers when Obama is bypassing them?
Or when he rewrites laws?
Or when he does all kinds of executive orders and when he goes before them and says, I've got a phone, I've got a pen, and if you're not going to do it, I'm going to do it.
They don't worry about separation of powers at all in that instance.
But now let the CIA start listening in.
Oh, no, we can't.
These hypocrites, they're just all over the place.
Anyway, folks, great to have you.
As always, we've got, well, not a full week since I wasn't here yesterday, but for the most part, a full week of broadcast excellence.
Now, I mentioned earlier that Obama was on a web comedy show.
This show is called Between the Ferns.
Or Two Ferns Between Two Ferns.
And what it is, it's an internet talk show.
It is hosted by a comedian by the name of Zach Galathanakis.
And it is a parody of talk shows.
And what it essentially is, it gets a list guests in there and roasts them in the form of an interview.
It strips away all the pomposity, and it is these people being treated.
I don't know why they do it, but they show up and they get mocked and laughed at and insulted.
And Obama showed up at this thing.
Obama was a guest.
Now, if you wonder why people are losing respect for the president, and I think people are, I think what's happening here is actually devastating to the office.
And it began with Bill Clinton.
It began with Bill Clinton.
There was an arrest and a restoration when George W. Bush was there, but the office of the presidency has taken a big hit, dignity-wise.
And with Obama constantly on TV and constantly campaigning and making jokes and yuck-yucks about inconsequential things, but doing it to build a bond between himself and the lowest common denominator voters, the low information voters, it's just an unseemly sad thing.
So he shows up on this show called Funny or Die.
The funnier dies, the website, the show is between two ferns.
And I want to just play here a couple.
Do I have a couple soundbites?
Yes.
I have a couple soundbites in this show that I guess came from this morning.
Now, remember, this is a guy who doesn't have time for national security meetings.
He doesn't have time to get a briefing from his CIA guy.
He doesn't have time for all that, but he'll go do something like this.
This is a six-minute skit.
And like every other guest, he gets insulted by the host.
It's a parody.
It's a joke.
Everybody's in on it.
You know what's going to happen when you show up.
Nobody's blindsided.
And he shows up.
The whole purpose of this was to plug healthcare.gov.
The whole reason for going on this show, because this is supposedly what the low-information crowd has glommed on to now.
This is, if I were Jon Stewart, I'd be worried.
Because this, well, not because I'd be worried because this is currently what's hip, this show.
And so here are a couple soundbites from Obama with the comedian Zach Galifanakis on Between Two Ferns.
I have to know: what is it like to be the last black president?
Seriously?
What's it like for this to be the last time you ever talked to a president?
Is it going to be hard in two years when you're no longer president and people will stop letting you win a basketball?
How does it feel having a three-inch vertical?
It's a three-inch horizontal.
Where are you planning on building a presidential library in Hawaii or your home country of Kenya?
Zach, that's a ridiculous question.
So, which country were you rooting for in the Winter Olympics?
Seriously?
I'm the president of the United States.
What do you think, Zach?
Okay.
The last one is which team are you rooting for in the Olympia?
You think that's a good question?
Which team are you rooting for?
Okay.
Obama agreed to go on this.
It sounds like Obama's lines are written for him here.
This thing sounds scripted to me.
I've never watched this, just hearing the sound bites for the first time today.
I know it was lifeless, but that isn't it supposed to be?
Or has it got life with other A-list celebrities?
Anyway, here's the next bite.
Do you go to any websites that are.coms or.nets, or do you mainly just stick with .govs?
No, actually, we go to .govs.
Have you heard of healthcare.gov?
Here we go.
Okay, let's get this out of the way.
What did you come here to plug?
Well, first of all, I think it's fair to say that I wouldn't be with you here today if I didn't have something to plug.
Have you heard of the Affordable Care Act?
Oh, yeah, I heard about that.
That's the thing that doesn't work.
Why would you get the guy that created the Zoom to make your website now?
Remember, Obama's in on this.
He knows full well what he's doing.
He's not there.
He's not purposely being insulted.
He said, well, that's the thing.
This is such pick any president you have respect for and put him in this.
I know it's a changing world, folks.
I know the media is constantly expanding.
But there are just certain things that presidents never deigned to take a step down and do.
So here is this guy openly mocking Obama with Obama's permission.
And it's all to celebrate and to promote healthcare.gov.
Now, I just saw a tweet, a tweet just went out saying that the majority of signups to healthcare.gov today are coming from this show.
Whoever tweeted it out meant it as a compliment.
Tweeted it out meant to say that this was a home run performance by the president, that there are all kinds of people now going to healthcare.gov to sign up, like we believe this.
I don't, by the way, well, you know what I believe?
I believe the number of cancellations.
And you know what that number is?
It's well up to six and a half million people.
Six and a half million real people have had their insurance plans canceled despite these delays, despite putting off the implementation.
Six and a half million people have had their insurance canceled.
Some of them are cancer patients.
Some of them are really sick.
Some of them aren't, but some of them are.
Well, they I don't believe the number they claim to sign up.
There wouldn't be the panic.
Look, if this thing were going great guns, you wouldn't have Democrat senator after Democrat senator running away from it.
The Democrats that are up for re-election are running as far away from healthcare.gov and Obamacare as they can.
And some of them are making no bones about it.
Some of them are actively campaigning against Obamacare.
Democrats are.
Democrat senators up for re-election.
There's nobody that can make me believe that whatever is happening with Obamacare or healthcare.gov is good and overwhelmingly optimistic and growing by leaps and bounds.
And you want to tell me that appearing with this kind of an interview on this show spawned and inspired massive visits to healthcare.gov, massive enrollment.
I'm sorry.
That's just not the way things happen.
But you're supposed to accept it and believe it and be depressed.
You are supposed to be depressed because you're supposed to think, oh my God, what's happening to my country?
Holy if a contrived, lifeless show which treats the presidency as though it is just filth is the way presidents inspire people, then you're supposed to, oh my God, it's over.
You're supposed to stop opposing.
You're just supposed to accept it.
Folks, they play mind games with you.
I am telling you, you've got to stand up and hang tough and don't fall for these mind games.
They're trying to dispirit you.
They're trying to make you think there's no point in fighting back.
They're trying to make you think the country's lost.
They're trying to make you think there's nothing you can do.
We had our first caller today.
Rush, I hear your optimism, but I don't know how we can save it.
We're so much in debt.
He was speaking substantively now.
But what they want is everybody thinking that.
They want you giving up, folks.
This political party, the Democrat Party, particularly this regime, has as its primary motivator, the elimination of opposition.
They do not want to have to do intellectual battle.
They will lose.
They do not want to have to debate and win.
They don't want to go to the arena of ideas.
They don't want their health care plan put out there and subjected to a debate in front of the American people.
They want you laying down.
They want you giving up.
They want you caving.
They want you thinking it's hopeless and going about your life and certainly not even joining any opposition because it's pointless.
They want you to be depressed over this.
They love running around saying, beating their chest, we won, we won, you lost.
And that's exactly how this administration looks at over half the country.
You lost.
And we get to do to you whatever we want.
That's exactly their mindset.
So this is pathetic.
And this effort to make it sound like this appearance, which you just heard the highlights of, Is responsible for an overwhelming brand new number of signups or enrollments at healthcare.gov.
I realize, excuse me, there are some people who might have watched this.
Oh, wow, that sounds cool.
Let's go do it.
But it's nowhere near a number that's going to overcome their cancellations or save this.
There's nothing happened here today that's going to make the Democrats running for reelection start embracing it.
And that's, if you want to find the proof of how bad things are, just take a look at people that need to get reelected and what they're doing regarding this issue, and they are running from it.
And what's the regime doing?
The regime is running for it.
The regime won't even implement, delaying the implementation.
It is so bad, so harmful, so painful.
They are delaying the implementation now until Obama's gone.
A, to save his reputation and ambition, B, to protect the Democrat Party from what otherwise would be an overwhelming landslide.
Gail King commented on this.
CBS this morning, they played soundbites of Obama appearing here on Between the Ferns.
And this is Gail King talking to Nora O'Donnell and Bill Plant about it.
He seemed a tad irritated.
Those are questions you would never hear Bill Plant asked.
Bill Plant, of course, is our White House correspondent.
So, Bill, why did the president agree to do this?
And he did seem irritated.
No, I think that was part of the game.
And I would ask a question like that if I had a chance.
This just isn't your father's TV world.
The president is trying to reach out to a new audience.
Bill, what's stopping you from asking a question like, what do you mean you'd ask a question like that if you had the chance?
Are you done at the White House press corps?
What?
I don't understand.
You have access to this guy every day.
In fact, CBS just got rid of a reporter who asks questions like this, Cheryl Atkinson.
They got rid of her even before her contract expires.
She is gone.
And you ought to see the politico writing about that with so much glee, the rights favorite reporter at CBS bites the dust.
Not even any pretense anywhere that there's objectivity.
One supposed right-wing member of the CBS News Press Corps won.
She leaves or is forced out.
And the rest of the media getting their yucks over it.
The Wrights' favorite reporter at CBS is out.
Cheryl Atkinson.
She thought, you know, she felt scared a couple times, intimidated.
She thought her computers were hacked.
She said that by the regime.
But I mean, Plant's got it right here.
That thing was scripted.
You can tell Obama's reading his answers off the prompter like he always does, trying to reach a new audience.
This is what I mean when I refer to the decline of the presidency as an institution with stature.
It's something that you always look up to.
Now it is used as, now this is how you get this, how you relate to real America.
That's bogus as well.
I'm telling you, they want you feeling down in the dumps and depressed.
They want you giving up.
They want you thinking it's over.
They want you thinking there's nothing you can do to stop this.
They don't want any opposition.
Now, from what I'm told, Obama's appearance got 3.3 million views.
That's not all that great.
Justin Bieber got 16 million on this show.
For example, Natalie Portman got 15 million views.
Obama got 3.3.
There's nothing earth-shattering brain shakes here, folks.
Back after this.
You think Vladimir Putin might take another country into the Soviet orb while Obama is appearing on Between Two Ferns?
I mean, why not?
I mean, that's the way you have to look at this.
Here's Ryan in Lowell.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Dr. Limbaugh.
How's it going?
It's fine and dandy here, sir.
Thank you for calling.
Thank you.
I'm a PhD student in American history, and I am absolutely in love with your books.
I haven't actually had a chance to obtain my own copy yet, but I've used them, kind of previewed them.
And my oldest is seven years old.
And at the time the first one came out, I was like, I love it, but she's not ready for it yet.
And over the last few months, a couple of things have happened, and I wanted to share them with you.
First of all, thank you for giving us tools that educators like me can use that care more about truth than feelings.
The sad thing is that a lot of history and historical fiction is written to generate feelings and not to provide truth.
Boy, is that ever right?
That is such, I hope that's one of the things you're doing in your PhD.
Absolutely.
Man, you have nailed it.
American, like everything else, they're substituting and writing fiction to generate feelings rather than give facts and truth.
That just nails what's happening to education.
It's sad.
And then the second thing is that with my oldest, over the last few months, she's been gaining skills in reading.
And the first sign that I realized it was about to be time for your books was there's a website that her school uses that also has an app and all these other ways to access it that allows them to read and then it tracks their progress.
And this particular assignment was on Justice Soto Mayor, and it was, to put it nicely, glowing.
It could not have been more biased.
And she came to us telling us about all of these things.
And I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa.
We need to sit down.
So we talked about it.
And I realized it's time because if we don't tell her, then I'm afraid this.
What was, let me ask.
She was, the purpose of that thing was to make her feel proud of a country that would nominate the first Hispanic woman in the Supreme Court.
No matter what this woman's view to law was, no matter whether she was qualified or not, that didn't matter.
Just that this was a great country.
She was supposed to feel good because we had done that.
Exactly, exactly.
And then, and I was really proud of her for reading this book because it was a challenging book, but it was the second thing that made us realize that this summer for her birthday, she's getting both of your books.
And that she was reading this book about a gorilla who had been kept in a department store and then was transferred to a zoo.
And it was a wonderful story.
It was fictionalized off of a real gorilla.
But it was a very engaging story.
But her biggest question about it was, how did these people make the owner get rid of his gorilla?
And why was that a bad thing?
And so that book was a little bit more challenging than she had been reading.
And so I realized she's ready for the reading level.
Well, tell me what I've got a break coming up here.
I've got to take.
Can you hang on, Ryan?
Yeah, absolutely.
Okay, I'll be right back after we.
It's just a little obscene profit break that we have to take here.
And we'll be right back.
And we are back with Ryan in Louis, who is a PhD candidate in American history.
Look, I just wanted to hold you over and thank you for your testimonial for my books.
When you said that you are incorporating those books in your PhD studies and your effort, you made my day.
I can't.
That's big.
You've got to be one of few who would be doing this.
And I think what you said about the way history is taught is so spot on, and it's exactly what we're trying to counter.
They take events that they make them up in order to create good feelings.
And they don't teach the truth.
They try to teach good feelings with the leftist tint to it.
And they call that history.
Now, this book that your daughter, Sonia Sotomayor, was that by any chance Scholastic Reader Level 3 when I grow up, Sonia Sotomayor, Anna Marie Anderson, a book about famous Americans that you should know about, something like that.
That sounds like it.
It's an excerpt, though, from it.
It wasn't the entire book.
It was purposely pulled out sections in order to test her reading level and comprehension level and things like that.
Well, I just did a search and I found this thing called Scholastic Reader Level 3 When I Grow Up.
And from the description of this thing, is meet the first Hispanic woman justice to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
These brand new easy readers are the perfect introductory biography series for young children.
Each book will feature a recognizable figure and will take the reader on an exciting journey from obscure childhood to famed adulthood.
So I bet that's what she was what she was exposed to.
But nevertheless, I just wanted to thank you.
I want to send you a copy of each of the books since you said you didn't have them.
You need them if you're going to do your PhD studies.
You need the books, Brian.
I know, I know.
Like I say, it was on our list of things to get this summer, but I appreciate it very much.
Well, I'm going to just hang on here.
Mr. Snertley will get address necessary and we'll get them out to you as quickly as we can.
Make sure the address is FedEx.
We don't.
Well, it's easier for us if we use FedEx or UPS, but as opposed to snail mail.
That, folks, he is so right about it.
Now, I will tell you this.
In the books that I'm writing, the Rush Revere time Travel Series, Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans, there's a lot of feel-good stuff in here, but it's based on the truth of American history.
The objective here is not to evoke good feelings by manipulating things.
The purpose here is to evoke pride in America.
The purpose here is to teach people the truth, young kids, the truth about, because that's exactly the ⁇ he just described what his daughter is up against.
What his daughter, the reading level test that she was given was propaganda.
And that's what we're all up against.
It's not just that.
It's not that they want the people to start hating the country, but that is an element.
I mean, what the importance of Sonia Sido, so do my orientation, is that she's Hispanic and female.
And that's not what's important about her.
But that's what they want people to think is important about her.
What's important about her is what she holds as her view of the legal system.
That's what's important about her.
It's important why she was chosen, why she was affirmed, all of those things.
But in terms of wanting people to hate the country, it's not just wanting to hate the country.
Look at this syllabus, this description.
From obscure childhood to famed adult.
This whole notion about becoming famous, and you too could be in it, but all of it's wrong.
And this is what folks that we are attempting to counter with something just as simple as the truth presented in a way that takes your kids who read the books right to these events as they happened.
The books take the kids right to the event.
They're in the event when they happen.
That's the beauty, the beauty, the mechanism of the time-traveling horse.
Look, and I could go on and I'm so proud of these things.
I could go on and on, but I know you'd get tired of hearing about it.
You know me?
I love to share my passions.
I'm really passionate about the possibilities here.
What do you mean I haven't talked about these books very much?
Snerdley is saying, in the whole scope of time they've been out, I haven't talked to him.
Maybe that's true, but I've spent a lot of time today on this one because it's the first day it's for sale and all that.
But it's, I mean, this is exactly what we all talk about.
You know what's a friend of mine just became grandfather for the first time.
And I congratulated him.
And he said, this is why we care.
And he's right.
And what he meant by this is why we care about what is happening to the country.
So he's got an infant now.
He's a grandparent for the first time.
And there are a lot of people scared over what the future holds.
They're always, people are always afraid of the future, but this is real.
This is different.
When a country hasn't faced these kinds of challenges in modern times, you almost have to go back to the founding to find challenges like this.
In truth, and that's what's under attack is the founding.
That's exactly right.
The founding of this, that's why this is so maddening.
Because when you strip it all away, when you get past issue by issue by issue, what Obama and the Democrats, what their ultimate aim is to refound the country based on what they think was wrong with the original founding.
That's the objective.
That's as simple as I can put it.
It is the founding of this country that's under attack.
The way it was put together, why it even came into existence.
And by the way, I have a long piece here.
I may have to put this off until tomorrow.
It's from Business Insider.
And it is the result of massive research.
And the conclusion is that millennials are deeply confused about everything.
And of course they're confused.
They've been through 12 years of public education in its worst era in history.
They've been through four years of college in its worst era.
They have been the recipients of this attack on the founding.
Gosh knows what they've picked up in that confused mess called education in America.
Who knows what they came out expecting, thinking their parents, the baby boomers, among the most screwed up people that you could ever hope to find, the most self-centered, self-focused generation because they had it so easy.
We had it so easy.
I am a baby boomer.
I'll throw myself in the mix.
There are a lot of stories out there about this Paul in this survey.
And most of them like to point out how the results simply show that they're all liberals and they're never going to be conservatives.
But I think that's it.
They're confused.
And if somebody could come along with the right answers for them, bingo.
And that's what we're here for.
Anyway, I'm going to have to set that aside until tomorrow.
In addition to this millennials thing, which you don't want to miss tomorrow, Ron Fournier at the National Journal.
What else can the Obama regime do to undermine U.S. security?
This is unheard of.
I mean, that's the kind of lead or paragraph you would see written about a Republican president.
You don't see this.
Ron Fournier, the former AP bureau chief, what else can Obama do to undermine U.S. security?
They spied on you.
They lied to the Senate.
They seized telephone records in the AP, considered criminalizing investigative journalism at Fox News.
What else can they do?
They could spy on Congress.
Somebody get, I don't want to say too much.
If I say too much, Ron Fournier will hear from his buddies about how I was praising his work, and that might cause him to stop doing it.
So I'll dial it back just a little.
Save it for tomorrow.
In the meantime, Rick in Cleveland, great to have you on the EIB networks there.
Hello.
Happy conservative Tuesday from a father of eight, four kids under eight years old.
Wait a minute.
Yes, sir.
Yeah, you say father of eight?
Four kids under eight years old.
Oh, man.
Oh.
Wow.
Yeah.
And I am ferociously protecting them so that they have moral clarity for the future.
And I'm driving them to school today.
I'm driving my eight-year-old boy, seven-year-old girl, six-year-old girl, and four-year-old boy.
And they heard on the radio of a girl marrying her dog.
Wonder where they heard that.
And my daughter says, Daddy, are you allowed to do that?
Because we did not learn that in school.
And I said, well, Lauren, I don't know.
And then Andrew, my eight-year-old boy, says, well, if she can marry our dog, I want to marry your race car because I love it.
And that got me thinking.
If a boy married a car, instead of health insurance, they would need maintenance insurance so you can't have your maintenance paid for.
How am I supposed to provide a safe future and teach right and wrong when all of this is happening and it seems to be okay?
Now, your daughter, you said, wanted to marry the dog.
She loves our Rottweiler.
They're the same age, and she absolutely loves it.
She was serious?
Yeah, she says if, you know, love is marriage.
I love a Rottweiler.
If that girl can do it, why can't I?
I would love to be in your house when you tell her that people don't marry animals.
Well, I'm telling her, well, they learned that from school.
I pay the money to go to Calvin School, and we fight to protect them and teach right and wrong.
And then I had to look up on the internet to make sure that a girl really did marry a dog, and it's all over the place.
But I'm trying to teach them right and wrong.
So, you know, in this day and age, people, it's only going to be a matter of time when people can marry anything they want, if that's the way we're going.
Well, be very careful.
Be very careful when you say that, Rick.
Because you could attract attention you don't want.
It was actually Justice Scalia after a specific, what was it, a Texas decision?
George Osodomy case.
George Asotomy, in his opinion, he said this opens the doors.
He predicted.
He predicted gay marriage and other.
Once we, in my words here, he didn't write this way.
He said, once we blow the definition of marriage, once we say that it is not a union between a man and a woman, then there's no end to what it can be.
And that was my point.
There's a woman in Croatia who has married her dog.
There was a real ceremony.
But I think you have a chance with your daughter.
You can head this one off at the pass.
Just simply tell her she's not the Rottweiler's type.
Thanks for being with us again today, folks.
As always, greatly appreciated.
And one final reminder, Rush Revere, the First Patriots, time travel adventures with exceptional Americans.
And it is good.
Your kids will love it.
On sale today, everywhere that you get books, as is the audio version read by me too.
See you tomorrow, folks.
Thanks so much.
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