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March 20, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 20, 2014, Thursday, Hour #2
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Hey, you know what I forgot to tell you?
If I can find it, we're gonna need a Klaus Nomi, gay community update theme today.
Have that standing by.
Is it gonna uh yeah.
In fact, have it standing by pretty soon.
Yes, yes, yes.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
How are you?
Il rushbo serving humanity simply by showing up, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
We're gonna get to your phone calls El Quico in this hour, I promise.
Uh people have been on hole for a while.
I meant to get the phones in the first hour and just didn't make it.
800-282-2882.
One more thing in this black hole business.
And I, again, I I have to really use discipline not to beat a thing into a dead horse here.
I just think this is so it's such a teachable moment.
Here's a guy dead serious, could have black hole.
We wonder why there are low information.
People look at the I mean, it's it is it's embarrassing.
The media that they're exposed to.
And then they end up talking to each other on all this social media.
So sometimes I think we don't have a chance.
You ever seen the movie Idiocracy?
Watch it.
It'll scare you.
It's a comedy.
We're headed there.
In some ways, we might already be there.
But about this black hole business.
I I remembered something from the uh from the past from the grooveyard of Forgotten Favorites in our archives and win back, and I found it.
This is a story, July 11th, 2008.
Story out of uh out of Dallas, a Texas County official who didn't know what a black hole was, first time heard the term, thought it was racist.
What do black hole, angel food cake, and devil's food cake have in common?
They're all racist terms as a Dallas County, Texas official.
County commissioners' meeting this week over traffic tickets turned into a tense discussion over race when one commissioner said the county's collections office was like a black hole.
Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said it sounds like Central Collections has become a black hole.
Well, a black official demanded an apology.
Commissioner John Wiley Price, also black, said that type of language is unacceptable.
At the meeting, Mayfield, who is white, said he intended his comments to be taken in the context of the scientific meaning.
Black hole.
Just sucks everything up.
But a black councilman thought it was a racist comment.
Now I know what some of you were saying.
Rush, I can't believe you're surprised that people are this uninformed or stupid or dumb.
No, it's not that, folks.
I'm just, I am in the media business.
I know how hard it used to be.
Forget bias for a second.
You had to have some basic, intrinsic knowledge of things.
They just didn't hand these jobs out to anybody that came along who looked good.
But what's happened, media jobs are not media anymore, and that's what the answer.
They're all actors.
In one way or another, it's all about everything but the qualifications for the job.
It's like, how do you look?
Do you friendly?
Do you look good?
Do you look hip?
How do you look?
Do you look pretty?
Do you look seductive?
Uh can you read it?
Teleprompter, do you sound like you can you make it look like you care?
How do you look?
I mean, that's what it's about now.
And they read everything on the prompter, and when they go off prompter is when you get, could a black hole have swallowed this up, Mary.
I know it sounds preposterous, Mary, but still, what do you think?
And don't tell me they're just trying to service their audience.
That's I don't doubt that their audience made up of that.
What have you?
Since we're on this theme, since we're on this idiocracy, we're doomed with idiocy all around us.
And our update today, kind of a gay community.
Not not entirely, but it's close enough.
Authorities in Washington State.
Believe in a series of murders of prostitutes in 1990.
We're committed by Washington resident Douglas Perry.
But now Douglas Perry has been captured and charged with the murders, but Douglas has become Donna.
A transgendered woman who claims she's not responsible for the murders because Douglas, who she used to be before the choppy took off of me, no longer exists.
So she couldn't be guilty of killing the people because she was a he then, and it was the he that did it.
And he says, she, now it's not possible she's not guilty.
That's right, so Douglas Perry committed the murders, but Douglas Perry doesn't exist anymore.
Douglas Perry is Donna Perry.
Donna's novel defense is that as a man, she was prone to violence.
This is this is this I'm telling you, you laugh at this, and we all do, but let me tell you where this is headed.
The novel defense that this character is putting forth is that as a man, former life man, she was prone to violence.
Couldn't help herself.
She was a natural predator.
And because of that, she wanted to become kind and gentle.
And so he so went to Thailand and had gender reassignment surgery.
A few years ago, in order to purge herself of those violent predatory tendencies.
Further, since she's now a woman, she's a wholly different person.
It doesn't really say that, does it?
Yes, it does.
She's a totally different person.
Therefore, she isn't responsible for what her former male self did.
Donna was arrested for the murders in 2012 after being apprehended on an unrelated weapons charge.
The police found that her fingerprints matched what had become a cold case in the murders of three prostitutes decades ago.
Now, if Donna's defense were to be accepted with the courts, it could lead to unintended consequences for the trammy community, as their former selves could possibly be universally considered mentally ill.
This is a diagnosis that people with alternate lifestyles have been working hard to defeat for decades.
But this babe, well, this person, the defense is I used to be a man.
I was naturally prone to violent predatory behavior.
As a man, naturally prone to it, I had to switch.
I became a kind, loving, gentle woman, and I wouldn't harm a soul now.
And that's why I said the judge, if the courts accept this, it could lead to the tranny community being universally considered mentally ill.
And that mental illness, the reason for the gender reassignment, or sex change, for those of you in Rio Grande.
And at the end of the day, what are we talking about here?
Not only can you reassign your gender, you can reassign your crimes.
If Donna gets away with what Douglas did, can you imagine the business sex change doctors are going to have?
The name Bradley Manning, ring a bell.
Bradley Manning is the Army...
What was he, private?
It stole all those documents, classified documents, and gave them to WikiLeaks.
Guy named Julian Assange.
And now Bradley Manning is demanding that the United States government give him a sex change operation.
He wants gender resignment surgery, and probably for the same reason that Donna Douglas here does that he can then claim, hey, you know different person stole those documents.
I'm not Bradley Manning.
Bradley Manning stole those documents.
I am now Rangelina Manning, or whatever name he's going to give himself, and I didn't do it.
Well, all of this is going on.
The Soviet Union is reconstituting itself.
As we discussed yesterday, while all of this is going on, people who are not friendly to us are ramping up in our hemisphere and elsewhere.
It's a legitimate serious concern now that Vladimir Putin, and he's even mentioned himself, may make a move on Estonia.
What's to stop him from trying to reunite with Cuba?
Take advantage of what's happening in Venezuela.
I mean while this is the kind of I mean John Kerry, what's he doing?
Secretary of State, he is sending homosexual experts to Uganda.
The President of Uganda said some really really uh politically incorrect things about homosexuals.
Then this we can't tolerate.
Putin can do whatever he wants.
He can take over Ukraine, annex Crimea, make a move on Estonian, and yeah, we'll make sanctions.
But you have you have president of a foreign country say bad things about homosexuals, and we're gonna send a secretary of state and experts over there to get your mind right.
And that's what Kerry announced yesterday.
And he wanted a bunch of gold stars for it.
This is what he called good foreign policy.
This is direct engagement.
This is exactly what we're trying to do here.
Now, Uganda is probably the lone Christian country in the world, still has its uh antiquated attitudes about homosexuality.
But every Muslim country is worse than Uganda.
And is John Kerry sending any experts there?
John Kerry gonna send any experts to Saudi Arabia to talk to the Wahhabis.
Is he gonna send anybody to Syria?
Is Kerry going to go to uh Chechnya?
Is Kerry gonna go, say, anywhere where there's a Muslim government that is even worse when it comes to gays and women.
No, just gonna get that Ugandan president's mind right.
And that's and then back home where I'll tell you, NBC announced uh uh folks the the media is very copycat, they're very emulative.
CNN was literally sitting in negative audience territory.
They prior to this Malaysian airliner vanishing, nobody was watching CNN.
It was, I mean, they're a national network, maybe in in the demographic, maybe 75,000 people.
But now CNN's ratings are skyrocketing, and it's all because of this.
And I predict that you're gonna see the other networks follow.
Rather than try to stake out a different place and not spend all this time talking about something nobody has the answers to all move in this direction because they see what's happening to CNN.
Well, I don't know if they're gonna ask about black holes or anything, but but like NBC is going to do a special with a live audience QA experts are gonna televise it.
For example, I just happen to see, I don't know if we're gonna do it on MSNBC if they're gonna do it on the NBC network, but but it's this kind of if you're tired of it, be prepared.
It's only going to get more intense.
The coverage, and it's only gonna get more widespread.
To the phones we go.
Sam in Memphis.
It's great to have you on the program, sir.
You're up first today.
Hello.
Hey Raj, how are you doing?
It's an hour talking to you, sir.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
I'm doing great.
Yes, sir.
I uh came to uh to this country in 2004 going to school and uh I heard about you on CNN about Operation Chaos in 2008 and I started listening to you and since then I just fell in love with you.
You heard about me uh CNN via Operation Chaos?
Yes, sir.
Did you know did when they explained Operation Chaos, did it make sense to you?
Did they did they explain it right?
No, they did not.
So I uh I I was just asking myself who's this Rush Limbo guy so I started listening to you and you just had a lot of sense to me because I mean I'm coming from a country where you know our president has been in power for twenty years and and I'm just sure what's going on in this country and my dad he came where are you from what what what African country are you from?
Chad very Central Africa.
Chad Central Africa, okay.
Yes sir.
And he came in two thousand nine for my graduation and I told him hey you need to listen to this guy and he just I loved you since then and I sent him a laptop he listens to you every nine PM back home.
No kidding yes sir and uh he just he just he just asked me to send him uh so see I thought you saw and you know Raj Revere and he's reading both of them right now so I just want to thank you and I appreciate what you do you think he's you think he's listening right now?
Yeah he is actually What's his name?
What's his what's his first name?
His first name is Ali.
Well say hi to him Ali he is listening right now but you know I don't know if he's connected on the phone but he's really happy right now because when I get off the phone with you he's gonna call me.
Now, this is where we've got listeners in Chad now.
And I tell you, the interesting thing is that you arrived here having heard about me, right?
Who is this Rush Limbaugh guy?
And then you heard CNN explain Operation Chaos.
And you've been here ever since.
Ever since, yep.
Because, I mean, what you say just makes a lot of sense.
You know, coming from a dictatorial country, I mean, I know what's going on.
And I just think you're right all the time.
You know, that's a lot.
you you you come here from a dictatorial country and you probably you have a really a conscious everyday appreciation for the differences in freedom here and there and a lot of Americans of course never lived in Chad or under a dictatorship until now and just take it for granted but I'm I'm really I'm honored that you're out there Sam.
Thanks very much for calling and we'll be back and we're back El Rushbow talent on loan from God's Aretha in Las Vegas.
Great to have you thank you for calling hi Raj and God bless you and God love you.
This is just an absolute honor to be speaking to you today.
Thank you very much really appreciate that well I've been listening to you since uh 1991 just every day and I agree with you that uh that seventy seven seven seventy seven plane is way overdone on the news.
As a matter of fact the five and fox is my favorite uh news channel to listen to and I've just turned them off I won't even listen to them now until they get over this you know I think the stick to the issues crowd told me uh they don't want to hear about the plane anymore.
So I'm commenting on the coverage.
I'm not talking about the actual event well I figure Obama had the plane hijacked to get the news off of him.
Have you run that by CNN?
You should uh no I haven't if you want that discussed uh throw it out at him I don't have anything to do with CNN anyway I think the plane landed on Michelle Obama's ass you know can't be found anywhere so uh well no I don't um but you know how I know that's not true I just saw a picture her getting off the plane in China and there was no jet on her butt.
Well I mean there's a little hiding place there.
Uh she she's trying to be just gonna you know I'm gonna say when the cr I'm just gonna say I I've been watching too much Don Lemon, and he's he's rubbing off on me.
Well, I I I just figure when you get to be my age that you can pretty much say anything you want and get away with it.
But by that by saying I'll be 77 this year or so.
If you're a caller and if you're a woman, see, you can you can say those critical things about another woman.
I have to sit here I have to sit here and be outraged that you would even think of such things.
Well, I'm really upset with the uh the whole Obama regime.
I'm just sick and tired of it.
They're just they're worthless.
And why we can't get them impeached.
Uh I'm I'm sorry.
This is wrong.
They're leading us down the wrong path.
And uh, I know.
You know something I I deal with this um speaking of the of the no issues crowd.
They are members of the audience.
And I'll be honest with you, I I um it's it's a daily, I don't want to say struggle, but it's a it's a it's a professional challenge.
Uh any number of ways to cope.
We all have to have coping mechanisms.
One of the realities that we gotta face is we've got three years, basically, two years, nine months of this regime left to go.
And I think this regime is never going to become lame duck.
Obama's not gonna take a back seat to anything.
He's gonna keep doing his executive orders even during the presidential campaign.
And so I I don't I don't think there's gonna be a moment to relax.
So some days I just I don't want to come here every day and just be clench fist intense about it.
Some days you just you just have to find the the the jocular in whatever's happening.
There's nothing funny about what Obama's doing.
You can make funny how he goes about doing it, but it all matters in the end.
Uh I know the frustration that you all have.
I I I have it too.
And the the the reality that we've got three more years of this, and we have apparently a political party not interested in pushback.
I don't know if they're not interested, but we have they're just not.
And they're scared to death, I think is the primary reason, and they're scared of the man's race.
It's just that simple.
And he and his administration are fully aware of that.
And they're capitalizing on it and taking full advantage of it, as they should in a political sense.
So it's really it it is frustrating.
Some really terribly damaging, serious things taking place domestically and in foreign policy.
And I the the level of frustration everybody has over, you know, what to do about it.
There isn't going to be any impeachment because there isn't any political will.
If you even if you had a slam dunk legal case for it, you're never going to succeed impeaching a president unless there's the political will for it.
That would require Obama's approval numbers in the 20s.
And even then, I'm not so sure that the people of this country would ever support removing the first black president.
I just it's never gonna happen.
So you throw that out, and you then ask yourself, how do we deal with it?
They're screwing up everything.
They're destroying the health care system, which is in many people's cases the most important thing in their lives.
They've been told that it is.
It's been bandied about so much as a political issue that they have succeeded in making people think that health insurance and that somebody else pays for it is the number one thing you have to have if you're going to live in this country.
They're destroying the job market.
They are destroying the career market, they are spying on the American people like has never been done before.
And there's no stopping it.
There's no end insight to any of it.
And people are feeling powerless because there is no power invested in a uh in a political sense in an opposition party that is that it that appears to be interested in stopping any of this.
So how do you cope with it?
How do you deal with it?
Some days, the old saying you just have to laugh.
I mean, just nobody wants to be miserable all day.
And you could easily be if you allow yourself to get fully and totally immersed in all this.
I actually believe, if I may be a bit of a psychologist here, I think one of the reasons this jet story is so big is because it is taking everybody's minds off the other drudgery.
It's a total escape.
It is allowing people's minds to wander totally free of the daily drudgery brought on by this administration.
So I understand it.
That's why I think the media that's that like this black hole business, but that's not the only example, is just irresponsible.
But it may not be irresponsible.
They may not know any better.
These these people that supposedly do the news may not and probably don't have a clue.
So it all adds up to a picture that doesn't contain a lot of optimism in terms of overcoming this, beating this back, defeating this, or any of that.
So I understand.
I I I entirely I entirely get it.
And I if I take the occasional detour and start finding things to laugh at and have fun with, don't think for a moment that I am not attuned to what is happening.
I gotta take a break, but Rita, I appreciate the call.
Uh and and just to repeat, she thought maybe the Malaysian jet had landed on Michelle Obama's rear end.
And and we know that that didn't happen because we saw Michelle get off the plane in China today.
So walking down the steps, she had uh her mother and her two daughters, and there was no jet on her butt of any.
And we go back to the phones to Grass Valley, California.
Hi, Michael, great to have you.
Thank you for waving.
Hello.
What an honor, Rush.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Listening to you since the very beginning.
Hey.
A lifer.
And and and you know, I feel guilty because my question is more boring airplane stuff.
But uh There's no wait, wait a second.
There's never anything boring on this program.
Okay.
All right.
So don't worry about that.
That's my gig.
We nothing is ever boring here.
Okay.
So I wonder, um, you know, we have General, what is his name?
Mac and Ernie on CNN saying that the plane is in Pakistan on the ground.
And we're still looking down in uh, you know, around uh Australia for the pieces, and I I just wonder if if that part could be just a complete ruse, a cover-up somehow by the administration.
Because it happened on their watch.
And they don't want to look bad.
And I wonder if we will ever know what happened to that airplane.
We may not.
We may not.
I I tell you one, we're either going to find out what happened, and it's gonna be the simple explanation that nobody's gonna believe, or we're never gonna really know.
Uh-huh.
I mean, if this thing is 10,000 feet underwater, we're never gonna know.
That's true.
Now, as to whether or not people know it's terrorism and they're not announcing that because they want to avoid worldwide panic, no way of knowing that either.
Uh I don't know that this would be the Obama administration's purview.
This is a Malaysian airliner.
It's their it's their story, it's their case.
It's their issue.
I'll tell you, we've got I just saw a chart of all of the aircraft and all of the ships and all of the helicopters.
There there is we have the the the search mechanism for this thing is military size and scope.
Clearly more than it would take to protect Crimea.
We're devoting more military assets to finding this jet than we are to any military operation outside of Afghanistan.
But since you bring this up, let's let's head to the sound bites because yesterday I mentioned Jim Kalstrom, who uh led the investigation in the TWA 800.
He was the head of the New York office of the FBI.
He is one of the founders of the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
I've known Jim Calstrom since the early 90s.
And I don't know of anybody with with more honesty or integrity.
And he took a hit with with the official explanation of TWA 800.
Eventually it was uh uh an empty fuel tank that sparked and exploded and brought the airplane.
And nobody believed it.
Thought it was a missile that shot it down.
And Calstrom is is just uh I remember during that investigation, he was just wearing himself out dealing with everything and doing the investigation, leading it, the NTSB, all the other elements involved.
And it it took years of his life.
Now he's retired, uh private security, other things, and running the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, but he still makes himself available as an expert guest.
And he showed up on Megan Kelly's show on Fox last night.
She said, uh Jim, do you believe if this airplane had crashed into the ocean as opposed to landed someplace, that we would be seeing I'm sorry, go ahead, place seven first.
I'll go back and get six.
You think we would be seeing debris by now if it had crashed in the ocean.
Well, if there was a catastrophic event, the plane blows up at altitude, either by a bomb or some mechanical electrical failure, you would see hundreds and thousands of pieces of the airplane on the ocean.
Within a week of TWA Flight 800, the uh debris was landing on the uh beaches of Cape May in uh Nantucket Island.
So even if they figure out, you know, where that spot was, you know, they're gonna have to do some real calculations on the drift, on the tides, and if it's uh suicide by airline, there's not going to be that much debris.
You know, it didn't blow up in midair.
The previous question, she said, your thoughts overall, knowing what we know tonight on what happened to the airplane.
That's very confusing uh environment we have there.
I think after all this time that they haven't found any debris.
I mean, you really have three things.
The pilots wanted to kill themselves, you know, suicide by airplane.
They had ample opportunity to do that.
They want to cause a major stir, they want to blow up something.
They had ample opportunity to do that.
Or they want to take the plane for other reasons.
And uh I would guess that's my leading thought on the issue right now.
I don't see where the mechanical failure adds up because you know, if they had mechanical failure and they were trying to maybe or anything, they didn't none of that.
So he thinks that they took the plane someplace.
His third option, they want to take the plane for other reasons.
So hijacking.
It is somewhere.
Or it didn't make where it was going, but it was not a bomb.
He's siding with the idea that that uh it wasn't pilot suicide, it wasn't a bomb.
There's no evidence of that.
The fact that they're in the evidence of the airplane means it is somewhere that we haven't found.
So then jumping forward, Meghan Kelly said, well, you heard Lieutenant General McInerney earlier say he believes that it's in Pakistan, and he believes that there's a source at Boeing who believes that, although Boeing is denying that.
Do you think that this airplane could be in Pakistan?
You know, that could all be true.
But you're not going To get the U.S. government to talk about it.
If they did talk about it and they worked for me, I'd fire them.
I mean, if we know where the plane is, a good chance we could.
I don't know that, Megan.
I have no inside information.
But if they have located the plane, they're not going to be all blabbing about it.
They're going to put some operation together.
You know, if the people are still alive or whatever, uh, to get that plane out of the arsenal of a future terrorist operation.
I would not be surprised if at some point we find this plane somewhere.
And there you have it.
So Kalstrom, who's as close to anybody you're going to find with investigative experience in an incident like this, although it's not the same because TWA 800 actually exploded and there was debris and people saw it fall out of the sky.
Here, there's no evidence of anything.
There isn't ontological certitude beyond the fact that it took off and it radioed its final goodnight message and then had a course correction.
And beyond that, nobody knows anything.
So it's it's it's left to reasonable, responsible people to speculate.
And in Calstrom's case, you know, McInterney, the general says, Yeah, I got somebody in Boeing who knows this thing's in Pakistan.
Kalstrom says, Well, if it is, you're not going to get anybody in our government confirming that.
They're not going to say anything.
They don't want bad guys to know that we know, and they're going to be mounting missions to deal with it, do something about it, find out what the status of the passengers is.
But if you strip it all away and you try to apply logic to it, if there is no evidence anywhere of the thing having blown up, then it has to be somewhere.
You know, everybody has to be somewhere.
I happen to be behind the golden EIB microphone today.
You happen to be where you are.
That airplane is somewhere.
It is not in a black hole.
And it is not on the Twilight Zone.
And it is not being used in the pilot episode for lost version two.
When we get back from the break here to top of the hour, we're going to take our daily plunge into the latest in the devastation of the American health care industry called Obamacare.
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