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March 14, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 14, 2014, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I have my own theory of what happened to the Malaysian airliner.
I think I can finally.
My guess is as good as anybody else's guess, right?
Based on everything we know.
So I'll tell you what that is, and I've also got to call your attention to a video that I want you to watch.
I really want you to watch it.
So let's go, folks.
It's Friday.
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So I'm sitting here this morning, and as always, I am in the mid-stages of show prep.
And I get an um I get an email from Catherine, and I can read the tears in the email.
And she said, you have got to watch this video.
So I clicked on the link that she sent me.
It is a soldier in uniform overseas reading my book to his child in a video in uniform.
It is the most I don't know how to describe it.
We've got a number of ways that you can see it.
I'll tell you where it is.
Is it the adventures of RushRevere Portal at 2ifbyt.com.
Here's what you do.
TWO ifbyt.com and then find the adventures of Rush Revere Pain there, the portal, and you'll see the Social Center.
And scroll down on the social center, and you'll see the video along with all the other cool stuff.
We have linked to it at Facebook.
We have linked to it at Rushlimbaugh.com.
We have any number of ways.
If you if you don't want to remember 2ifyt.com, or if you don't have it, uh bookmark, go to rushlimbod.com and just find the link.
We got a direct link to the social center at rushrevere.com, which is part of 2ifbyt.com, but whatever you have got to see this.
And then if you can, use a little empathy, folks, and put yourself in in my position.
And all of us, you know, there's a bunch of us that work on these books because there are illustrations, there is the all-important historical research.
There, of course, is the crucial and critical writing and assembly and crafting of all of this.
And we've got a uh a great team that that makes these books possible.
And to have this kind of uh reaction, if you put yourself in my shoes, this will bring tears to your eyes.
It's just the most uh amazing thing.
It is a father in the United States Armed Forces reading the book to his child while overseas in the military.
It's amazing and incredible.
And I think I think you'll all love it because this is the mission.
This, I mean, this is the exact thing that we are attempting to do with this.
And by the way, when you go to the social center at 2fmyT.com, the Rush Review Portal, uh, it's filled with all kinds of great creative information for young people you can be proud of.
There's there's no X-rated language, no Jay-Z lyrics, there's no it's just it's just totally wholesome.
So if you get it, I'll mention this a couple of more times, but you can find it rushlimbod.com at our Facebook page, 2fbyt.com.
We made it very easy for you.
Snerdly is even looking at it at this moment.
It's amazing, isn't it?
I just.
It is excellent downloads for the kids.
Exactly.
Now the Malaysian.
You're probably right.
Probably the only kids that would rather not hear my voice reading it are the kids of this soldier.
But imagine this guy.
We're trying to track him.
He didn't.
We're trying to track the guy down and find out exactly everything we can about this.
I don't know, folks, it's so gratifying.
I can't begin to tell you.
But I don't want to spend a lot of time.
I've told you about it.
You have to go see it.
There's no way I'm talking about it can do it justice.
Now the Malaysian Airline, I've got a theory.
Let me try this theory on you.
Of all the search teams, which do you think is the best?
Has the highest available tech?
Well, you got a ChICOM search team.
You got the Malaysian Airlines search team.
You've got a U.S. search team.
And which which team you think probably shooting bus?
What's it?
It is us.
It is us.
I would, if you if you want to find out where the plane is, my theory is look at where the U.S. is searching.
How about this?
How about this theory?
How about the jets flying it along and you have a total electronic failure, but the engines keep working?
We've been told that the engines or something kept the airplane kept sending data somehow pinging a satellite.
Even after it was lost from radar.
There have been so many confusing reports about whether or not the data that was pinging was coming from the engines or not.
I mean, it's just impossible to keep up with this.
But what happened if, and my guess is as good as any, you've got an airplane flying along, you have a total electronics failure, but it continues to be airworthy.
The engines are working.
I don't know if this is possible.
Given electronic ignition and all that, let's say it is.
So then the crew says, we got to get back home.
We got to get back to Kuala Lumpur.
We can't fly with no electronics.
It's dark.
Nighttime.
They fly over a bunch of unfriendly countries, and they can't identify themselves, and they're not identified.
There are no lights on.
There's been a total electronic failure.
What if some hostile country flew up there and shot it down?
And then discovered their mistake, and nobody wants to admit that that what happened.
Is my theory as good as have you heard that theory from anybody?
Okay.
Is my theory as good as anybody else's that you're hearing out there?
Yeah.
I think I think my theory uh holds up and it uh it works well.
Let's see.
I've got so much stuff here today, folks, and I'm trying to figure out which I want to do first.
Because you know, all this is this here's Obama with the with deportations, and here's Obama with uh determining who gets overtime.
All of this is a distraction.
It's all a distraction from what's happening with the economy and with Obamacare.
I guess this is the big deal to me.
We have this massive electoral victory on Tuesday in Florida.
Florida 13, and I'll be damned if the Republican establishment is not doing its best in high gear to tell everybody, hey, don't think that Obamacare was the main factor here.
It is becoming clear to me.
Not that it needs to be any more clear.
The Republican establishment does not want to run against Obamacare.
Carl Rove has a column today.
Carl Rove is on TV this morning on Fox, but there are others of the Republican establishment.
Hey, hey, you know, it's it wasn't just about Obamacare.
And I've heard other members of the Republican establishment say that David Jolly, David Jolly did not say repeal.
These are Republican saying this.
David Jolly's campaign, he didn't say repeal Obamacare, he said fix it.
And he repealed a replacement, but but the Republicans are taking this thing.
No, no, no, no.
He said to fix it.
The Republican establishment obviously has a campaign game plan involving Obamacare.
And it is not include repealing it, folks.
The Republican establishment apparently doesn't want to campaign on repealing it.
They want to campaign on fixing it.
And why?
Because I showed you the other day, and this is questionable, but there are some polls that you can find that say a majority of Americans don't want it repealed.
They want it fixed.
Some people question the veracity of the uh of the polls.
Um there's a national journal article today that basically confirms a point that I have been making, and that is uh offering to offering to help Democrats fix Obamacare is not going to help you, it's gonna help the Democrats.
The old if you come along as a Republican and offer fixes for this, that's not going to help you as the Republican.
It's gonna help the Democrat.
And there's a national journal piece that that uh that makes this point.
So I gotta share that with you and and and uh analyze that as the as the program unfolds.
But this is it's quite fascinating to watch.
I mean, what the where the Republican establishment is is no mystery to any of us.
But the speed with which they have gotten into gear to try to uh rearrange the thinking, if you will.
After this electoral victory on Tuesday, here you have a guy.
He won with his position on Obama.
There's no question it was an anti-Obamacare vote.
And the Republican establishment does not want us to see it that way.
It was also a vote.
This woman tried everything.
She tried amnesty, that didn't work.
Uh, she tried to peg this guy as a global warming denier, that didn't work.
None of the Democrat focal points of their upcoming campaign worked.
And yet here comes the Republican establishment.
You make a mistake if you think that election was about Obamacare.
They don't want to get rid of it.
I am they do not want to get rid of it, they they want it something they can fix, quote unquote.
Uh now their fixes might sound free market conservatively oriented, uh, this kind of thing, but they don't want the Republican establishment does not want to be identified in any way with any thought of getting rid of Obamacare.
That's the takeaway.
They just don't.
And we also will assume that the Republican establishment wants to win elections.
Some people not convinced of that.
Like some think the Senate leaders currently do not want to win, that they're happier in the minority.
No challenge there, no real responsibility.
Can't be held accountable for anything as a loser.
Don't have to put forth an agenda, don't have to try to get it passed.
You can just sit there in the minority and basically try to stop whatever you can, but that's about it.
And it's easier.
Leading is tough.
And there are some who think that there are Republicans that really don't want to win because it's harder.
But the Republican establishment, they do want those committee chairmanships.
They do want to be in charge of the money.
And they don't want government getting any smaller.
That's what I think the whole hook of Obamacare is about.
So anyway, let me take a brief time out.
We'll get in.
We've got a few sound bites about this.
But it, this, this is.
My guess is that a lot of you, when you first heard today, that the Republican, you might have heard it from Carl Rover, you might have somebody else, because it's not just Rove, there are a bunch of others, warning you not to think that that election was about Obamacare.
How many millions of you hit the roof?
How many how many millions of you cursed out loud at the TV?
How many of you know full well the vulnerabilities of the Democrats?
How many know full well a majority of the Americans don't want Obamacare and never have?
Obamacare has never had majority support.
Certainly not in the day since it passed.
I would take a break.
You sit tight, it's open line Friday.
We'll be back.
We'll continue right after this.
Here is what's crazy about this.
In this, in this campaign in Florida, Alex Sink, the Democrat ran on fixing Obamacare.
She couldn't run in favor of it.
Nobody in the Democrat Party is.
But she ran on the notion Obamacare is always just needs to be fixed.
Because that's what the polling data says the majority of the American people want.
Jolly did not campaign on fixing Obamacare, as the establishment is saying.
David Jolly, and I've got it right here, and none other than the Washington Post.
Jolly's win in a district just west of Tampa illustrated the political toxicity of Obamacare.
Jolly favored repealing and replacing the law, which was a central focus of the campaign, while his Democrat opponent did not.
Let's go to the audio soundbites.
We got one soundbite on this, and it's from the five last night on Fox.
It's Bob Beckle and Dana Perino, who probably say she's the establishment uh representative in this soundbite.
Just stick it on just Obamacare.
Just Obamacare, because you do that and you're not going to get the kind of win you should have.
One of the reasons we think we've learned now that there's more polling data coming in from the Florida race is that very few people determined in exit polls that they voted because of Obamacare.
And if it was that big a deal, it would have been a massive.
But Bob, that's why Jolly actually didn't run just on Obamacare.
And I think that actually the Republicans have seen the same polling and they agree.
So it's fascinating.
Folks, it literally is here.
You've got the Democrats who are on the verge of a massive landslide wave loss that they are perfectly aware of.
And of course, the Democrats, knowing how malleable the Republicans are, are warning them.
You guys, you better not run just on Obamacare.
If that's all you do, why you're not going to have the kind of victory you should have.
As though they're interested in us winning.
You listen to Bob Beckle.
He's actually trying to help us.
Yes, he's trying to advise us on the kind of campaign to run so that we win the right way.
And what is he saying?
You better not focus on Obamacare.
Well, of course he's going to say that.
Obamacare is an albatross.
Obamacare is a cement swimsuit for these guys.
So here comes the Republican establishment represent Dana Perino, and Bob, I think that's why, yes, uh, Republicans have seen that St. Paul, and yes, we shouldn't run just on Obamacare.
Who said anybody was gonna run just on Obamacare anyway?
But the fact that both parties are cautioning Republican candidates.
You better not focus on repealing Obamacare.
You better focus on fixing it, and you better focus on something besides Obamacare.
You can't just win by talking about Obamacare.
Both parties are telling Republican candidates this.
It flies in the face of some of the most obvious logic there has ever been in politics.
Obamacare is one of the biggest negatives any politician has ever been saddled with.
Obamacare is one of the biggest negatives any political party has ever been saddled with.
It is an absolute, utter total failure and disaster.
There isn't anybody recommending it.
They can't even put together.
The Democrats can't even put together with any credibility.
A fake video of happy citizens touting the benefits of Obamacare.
They know it wouldn't be credible.
That's how bad it is.
They can't even come up, even the best liars in the world can't come up with a fake ad campaign with fake citizens touting how great their lives are now because of Obamacare, because nobody would believe it.
And in the middle of all this, we are being cautioned and warned.
Do not think you can win by simply opposing Obamacare.
Immediately after this guy did just that, they come out and tell us, don't think you can do it.
Really odd, folks.
It's open line Friday.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
You know, folks, since it's open line Friday, I too get to talk about whatever I want to talk about.
Now you might be saying, you get to do that every day anyway, Rush.
Yes, I do have that option.
But ladies and gentlemen, you should know that there are times, sometimes frequently, that I do not talk about something I really care about because I think you aren't going to be interested.
It's my professional broadcast skills at work.
It's called empathy.
Now, uh I could be wrong on these occasions, but and I I will confess that over the years I have been perhaps a bit too intimidated, if that's the proper word, by the stick to the issues crowd.
They really came alive back in the days when I was playing golf and playing in a lot of tournaments and talking about it and the stick to the issues crowd would go nuts about that.
So there are times where they really, really want to talk about I don't.
Because we only have three hours here.
These are serious issues.
But it's Friday, so I'm if you just indulge me here for a minute, because this is something I think is going to be really helpful to people.
I was reading the tech blogs last night and this morning, and there's apparently a lot of irritation out there among iPhone owners who have upgraded to the latest software system, iOS 7.1.
Apparently, there are a number of people that are experiencing horrible battery life.
Very, very bit they they claim that after upgrading to 7.1 from 7.0.6 or whatever they were running, their battery life is really deteriorated rapidly.
And I have a fix for you.
In fact, I was reading one of the comments on one of the blogs, and a guy described something that happened to me.
It's not specifically tied to 7.1.
And I just want you to try this.
It worked for me.
I cannot claim that it works iPhone system-wide, of course, but this works for me.
And I use it on every iOS device I've got.
iPad, iPhone.
Because I noticed, I moved to one of the guest rooms when my bathroom was being fixed, and I had a different wall charger in there.
And I happen to notice driving into work, I'd leave home with the phone charged at 100%.
And half hour later, with not even using the phone, it's at 97%.
Lost 3% in standby.
So this is not supposed to happen.
Kept using the phone, and just I could watch it drain before my very eyes.
Now, my instinct when that happens is to reboot the phone.
That's my first fix for everything that goes wrong anywhere.
Computer phone reboot.
So here's what I did.
The next morning, same thing happened.
Only this time, before I got to work, it was at 97%.
So there's what I did.
I shut down the phone and immediately rebooted it.
And the battery gauge read 100%.
And then it was normal the rest of the day.
So this is now a habit for every time I charge the fully charge.
Well, I never, I never just partially charge it.
If I plug it in, I leave it into it's all the way charged.
But I think this probably would work at any point.
After I've charged it, and you should try this.
After I've charged it, I shut it down immediately.
And it just reboot it.
Shut it down, immediately restart it.
Here's a way to test to see if this will work for you.
If you're experiencing massive rapid battery loss, charge it up, full full charge and start using it.
And if in 10 minutes, 15 minutes of very little usage, you're down to 98, 97% on your battery, shut it down.
Restart it.
If after that it reads 100%, then you are experiencing the same little thing I am, and that'll fix it.
So in other words, what works for me to keep I I've one of my phones here, I charged fully charged at 6 a.m. today.
It's still reading 100% six and a half hours later.
I've not used it, except a couple of times.
So it's on standby.
It's exactly how it should be behaving.
It's been on standby for six and a half hours, still reading 100%.
I don't mean to say it would be 100% if I were using it, but it's not draining if I'm not using it.
What's happening if you're having a problem is it's draining even in standby, which should not be happening.
So what worked for me, one more time, it's very simple.
You can run a test, charge it up, and then start using it, or just leave it in standby.
Just 10 minutes, let 10 minutes go by.
If your phone drains to 98, 97%, you don't do anything, shut it down, restart it.
It should read 100%.
If it does, then you have stopped whatever was causing the battery drain after charging it, and now it'll behave normally and you'll get your normal battery life.
If after you fully charge your phone, and it doesn't drain fast to 98, 97% when you're doing that, then you don't have a problem.
But if your phone drains that fast without you doing anything, you got a problem.
And the way to fix it is shut it down and restart it, and you'll see.
And by the way, on every phone that I've had since the iPhone 5s came out, this has happened.
That abnormally fast battery drain after charging.
So I shut it down, reboot it, goes back up to 100%, and it's normal.
And like I'm telling you, I've got one my my primary 5s here has been at 100% since 6 a.m.
And I haven't used it.
There's no need to.
I'm here with surrounded by computers, and I don't make phone calls.
So it's and if I if I did not do that, this phone would be at 70% by now in standby.
So give it a shot.
Just my suggestion.
And it worked for me.
One more time.
People are intimidated by these things.
It really isn't.
Don't even try to figure out why.
Just do this.
Fully charge it and then use it.
Let 10 minutes go by.
15.
If you're down to 98 or 97%, shut it down and restart it.
And if it reads 100% after that, then you fix the problem.
Something is happening after charging, it just starts burning the battery.
You need to stop whatever's causing that.
That's how I do it.
May not work for you.
I don't pretend that this is universal by any stretch imagination.
Now, here is this story.
This is the National Journal, and it's from today.
House Republicans are handing vulnerable Democrats Obamacare gifts.
This dovetails exactly with the point that I was making in the previous half hour.
For some reason, the Republican establishment is hellbent on convincing Republicans That Obamacare and repealing it did not have anything to do with David Jolly's win.
Now, before this national journal story, let me remind you of something else.
Even during the campaign, the Republican leadership, the establishment was criticizing David Jolly.
Here's a political story from March the 7th, a week ago.
And that obviously just not even a full week before the election.
National GOP turns on Florida candidate.
What is this?
On March the 7th.
On March the 7th, the GOP, according to the politico, turns on David Jolly.
And here's from the article.
Their frustration has been mounting for weeks.
But by late January, National Republicans had had it with David Jolly, their candidate in Tuesday's nationally watched Florida Congressional special election.
Over the past week, the half dozen Washington Republicans have described Jolly's campaign against Alex Sink as a keystone cops operation marked by inept fundraising, top advisors stationed hundreds of miles away from the district in the state capitol, and the poor optics of a just divorced 41-year-old candidate accompanied on the campaign trail by a girlfriend, 14 years his junior.
The sources would speak only on the condition of anonymity.
So the Republican establishment was complaining to politico that this guy couldn't win.
He was making all kinds of mistakes.
And they didn't like what he was saying about Obamacare.
And he ends up winning.
So after he wins, the establishment is back.
And they're warning other Republicans, you better not think you can win, do it.
And then they're mischaracterizing the guy's campaign.
The guy did not campaign on fixing it, as was said today.
He campaigned on repeal and replace.
It was the Democrat Alex Sink who ran on fixing it, and she lost.
Now Beckel's point is that, hey, if Obamacare were that big a deal, this guy'd have won in a landslide.
If you people are right that people hate Obamacare, then Jolly would have won in a landslide, not by three points.
There was a third party candidate in this race.
And the third party candidate did not take any votes away from the Democrats.
Third party candidate, libertarian, took votes away from the Republican.
If you take this guy out of the race, he did win in a landslide.
The Democrat lost by a landslide.
Let's put it that way.
Alex Sink lost in a landslide.
Now you can't say that Jolly won because he split the winning vote with some libertarian guy that got six or seven percent of it.
But this is this is just amazing.
Jolly did not campaign on fixing it, as was said today.
He campaigned on repealing it and replacing it.
Another week in Congress, another vote to change or stop Obamacare.
Here's the National Journal.
And while these Republican-backed measures, now up to more than 50 are opportunities for Republicans to keep up their drumbeat on a law they believe is harmful.
They also have another curious outcome.
They can help vulnerable Democrats facing tough re-election battles.
You read that right.
The Republicans have an opportunity, quote unquote.
If they're not careful, they're going to help Democrats.
Take Representative Joe Garcia, the Democrat representing a swing district in Florida.
He is against a full repeal of Obamacare.
However, the wave of House votes in recent months from Republicans to alter Obamacare, such as delaying the tax penalty for not buying insurance, has given Garcia the opportunity to provide a more nuanced voting record when it comes to the health care law.
Bottom line is this.
When the Republicans campaign on fixing Obamacare, they're opening the door for Democrats not to be hurt by it.
It is exactly what I feared and what I predicted earlier this week.
When this race came in, the results came in, and it was clear that Jolly swept to victory on the basis of opposing Obamacare.
I warned you and Mr. Snurdly, who didn't believe me at first.
I said, you're going to have to keep a sharp eye because the Democrats are also going to learn something from this.
They're going to learn that they might be able to stave off a loss by also running against Obamacare.
And I, and then and some people say, well, how are they going to do that?
Throw Obama under the breast?
No.
No.
They don't have to throw Obama under the bus at all.
All they have to do is say, this is not what I voted for.
This law's been changed 30 times since the one I voted for.
Any Senate Democrat running for re-election can say this is not what I voted for.
I didn't vote for this.
I didn't vote for the healthcare.gov website the way it's working.
This isn't what Obamacare was.
They don't have to say that Obama's the one changing it.
They just point out, hey, don't hold that vote against me because this is not what I voted for.
This law's been changed so many times that it's not like what I signed.
Now, you might think they never work.
If the Republicans come along at the same time and say we don't want to get rid of it, all we want to do is fix it.
They are just falling right into the Democrat trap.
They are validating an incumbent Democrat's re-election campaign using Obamacare by joining the Democrat in saying, oh yeah, we think we can fix it.
Sorry.
The only way.
I'm sorry, Carl.
I'm sorry the rest of you establishment types, but the only way Obamacare is an electoral advantage for the Republicans is if they run against it.
Not if their primary objective in Obamacare is to fix it.
I have to take a break.
H.R. Did I make myself clear in that?
This is because this is very important.
This is really very what we're talking about here is the Republicans inadvertently reviving Democrat re-election hopes when in fact these Democrats ought to be sitting ducks because of their support for this law.
Back effort.
Actually, no, not let's let's let me grab a phone call.
It's Open Line Friday, and I always try to get a phone call in in the first hour.
So I got a couple of Carl Rough sound bites I was going to play, but let me first go to Bill in Clearwater, Florida.
Hello, sir, and welcome to Open Line Friday.
Hi.
How are you doing, Russ?
I appreciate what you do.
Thank you very much, sir.
Appreciate that.
I've lived in District 13 30 years.
Obama carried this district twice.
Right.
Jolly campaigned on smaller government, lower taxes, and repeal Obamacare.
I believe the largest employer in Pinellas County is the health care industry.
Yeah.
And I believe that fixing Obamacare is a can of worms that we can't win.
Let me tell you so you are so right.
In fact, I um I just I never remember what I say.
I'm always looking to the next day.
And Coco Jr. just sent me a section of my website from January 18th, three years ago, warning conservatives that to beware of future claims that Obamacare can be fixed.
Three years ago.
I got to go back and read this and remind myself what I said.
But you are exactly right now.
Look at what he said that Jolly Grant on smaller government, lower taxes.
The Republican establishment is just it's mind-boggling.
The Republican establishment does not want that to be the message.
They don't want lower taxes and they don't want smaller governments.
They obviously do not.
They obviously want to increase their power.
Well, yeah, they want.
Yeah, I know what you they want government staying where it is, and they want to be in charge of it.
And their claim is the Republican establishment really believes.
I've talked to them of no, they really believe Bill, yet the American people have voted and want a big government.
They think that the call for a smaller government's a loser because the American people want a big government.
So their pitch is we can do it smarter.
We Republicans, we can do it better.
We can run this big government better and make it work for you better than these lousy Democrats.
But they don't believe it's small government.
They don't believe in lower taxes.
In my mind.
that one of the problems is there's not enough difference between the Democrats and the Republicans in Washington.
I would have argued with you about that not long ago.
Yeah.
Now, not so sure.
Working diligently to stay organized here, folks.
L. Rushbow and Openline Friday, and we've got a brief timeout here at the top of the hour.
I'll go back and find out what I said three years ago about fixing health care is exactly what would happen.
We'll be back.
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