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March 26, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 26, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #3
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The views expressed by the host on this program make more sense than anything anybody else out there happens to be saying.
Because the views expressed by the host on this program, res uh resulting from a daily relentless and unstoppable pursuit of the truth.
On fire today, the EIB Network.
You don't want to miss a word.
Phone number 800 282-2882, the email address, Lrushbow at EIBNet.com.
My first ever private plane flight to Hawaii.
It was a uh, I think it was a Challenger 604, which is a it's a wide-body corporate jet.
It's kind of a stubby, but it's wide body.
I think put eight people in there, whatever.
And the uh the pilot and and the flight attendant are uh we're taking off from uh from San Francisco LA, I forget which.
So it's time for the safety instruction.
Now the flight time to Hawaii base is six hours, and it's all over water.
And we're gonna be at 41,000 feet, something like that.
And so this pilot grabs a life preserver and says, We're going over a lot of water.
If something happens, I want you to make sure you know where this is.
And I looked at, I said, Are you kidding me?
If we end up in the war, you get a life preserver is gonna matter.
He said, I have to do it.
I mean, he was required by federal law to impart the uh the instructions.
Yeah, your your suit, your seat kitchen cushion is also suitable for flotation.
I said, really, that just because we had this pilot who said she the the by her greatest fear of flying is drowning.
The pilot that we just had on, which reminded me of that.
I mean, it seemed like this a pointless instruction.
Anyway, folks, it's a delight to have you here.
Again, the telephone number if you want to be on the program 800-282-2882.
We are in the second day of voting for the Children's Choice Book Awards.
And I just mentioned this a couple of times yesterday.
And what it is, the Children's Choice Book Awards started yesterday, goes through May, I think May the 12th.
So we still have uh four or five days left in this month, then all of April and May.
Last year they uh they said they had a million votes.
That it's readers, the kids who read the books vote on favorite author, book of the year, uh, favorite illustrator.
And we have linked to it at Rushlimbaugh.com.
All you have to do, if you uh if you've read book and you want to vote, then simply go to the link that you'll find at Rushlimbaugh.com.
We take you right there.
Now we we've changed the link because uh we think that we created a lot of delays for people in traffic yesterday, as we are wont to do.
We happen to, we shut down websites here when we give them out.
And we had a a link up to the direct voting page rather than the home page of the children's choice book awards.
So in consultation with Coco, we have changed the link, and the link now just takes you to the homepage of the Children's Book Council.
And for and it's easy to find the voting page from there.
And again, it goes through May the uh May the 12th.
This is a program that's uh it hadn't been around all that long, and it is designed to celebrate young readers by recognizing the books that matter most to them.
In 2013, over one million votes were cast by kids and teenagers.
This year, young readers can vote for their favorite author, illustrator, book of the year from yesterday through Monday, May 12th.
The website is CC Bookawards.com.
If you um think you can remember that.
If you can't, you can find it at Rushlimbaugh.com right at the top of our homepage, CC Bookawards.com.
Every child a reader is a literacy organization dedicated to instilling a lifelong love of reading in children.
And very worthwhile cause.
It's one that we are invested in here by virtue.
We got two children's books out there.
We've got March 30th, the next publication of the New York Times bestseller list.
And I, L. Rushbow will have two books in the top five.
Rush Revere and the First Patriots, brand new, just out on March the 11th, will open at number one, and Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims is coming back up the list.
It came out last October.
And people are now essentially making combo buys.
And I just take a moment here to once again thank all of you for your uh overwhelming support.
But I just want to remind you that there is a purpose here.
I I call it, I call it a mission, and it is to simply treat with great pride the true stories of the founding of the United States of America.
It's something that every child in this country should be told the truth about, and it's something every child in this country could be proud of.
Every child in this country should and could be proud of the founding of this country and proud to be an American.
And sadly, the grade school curriculum has been taken over in many school systems by the multiculturalists who do not like this country, who consider this country to be the problem in the world, who think this country has not behaved honorably, that we have cheated, that we have lied, that we have conquered, that we have stolen.
And of course, that couldn't be further from the truth.
It is the exact opposite, what this country has meant to the world.
And it's an effort also to inculcate the entire concept of American exceptionalism.
But I want to remind everybody here, and I'm I don't say this defensively, I say it truthfully.
There is no direct politics in this book.
The terms conservative or liberal you won't find.
You won't find Republican or Democrat.
You're just going to find the truth about American history.
But in that, you're going to get the values and the beliefs, traditions, and institutions that define this country's greatness.
In the depiction of William Bradford, who was the leader of Plymouth Colony, leader of the pilgrims.
They tried socialism, it didn't work.
They tried capitalism, self-reliance, and they just produced more than they could handle themselves, shared it with the Native Americans, the Indians, a true story of Thanksgiving.
It's important that kids learn these lessons.
And what we found is that even some adults who bought the book for their kids have read the book and have learned things that they didn't know.
Even though the uh the books are written for ages 10 to 13, but actually, as I am wont to say, they're written for everybody.
For grandparents to purchase and to read to their grandkids, parents to purchase and read to their kids.
The audio version read by me, both books on a bridged, great to put on in a car when you're driving around.
And the kids, the greatest thing that I've heard from all this is that these young readers love the book.
You know why?
I tell you what.
We've got this interesting vehicle, a time-traveling talking horse that can go anywhere in American history, and as such, we have no limits on what we can do.
We have no limits about where we can go.
And students can be taken.
This uh Rush Revere, the prime character, is a substitute teacher at a middle school.
It takes kids with him, takes his iPhone, video tapes or videos history.
The real beauty of these stories is that the reader is taken to the event as it happens, when the pilgrims land, when Pilgrim uh or Plymouth Colony was being established.
They're at the first Thanksgiving.
Uh in the second book, they are at the Boston Tea Party.
They are part of it.
It's not written in lecture form with facts and truths recited.
It is stories upon stories where the reader is actually taken to and becomes part of the event.
And these young readers are loving it.
So we fortunately became nominated by the Children's Choice Book Awards because the nominations are based on sales.
So we're in there, and the voting is ongoing, and you can vote CC book awards.com or find that link at rushlimbaugh.com, the latest health note.
You know, the left, they're gonna they're gonna find I don't know why I don't come up with maybe one wild guess, but they are just hellbent on separating you from your cell phone.
You know, how many years have they been trying to scare you away from using your phone because it could cause brain cancer?
Well, that kind of fizzled.
Now this from the UK telegraph, texting and using mobile devices for long periods of time could lead to lower life expectancy.
You know who's warning us about this?
No, chiropractors this time.
The forward-leaning posture that many people adopt when texting, going online, gaming, sending emails, increases the risk of an early death, especially in elderly people.
Of course, how can elderly people experience early death?
Would somebody explain that to me?
What is early death for a seasoned citizen?
But it says right here that the risk of early death in elderly people is even higher if they are texting or gaming or emailing on their mobile device.
And there are fears that younger people could also be knocking time off their lives.
The United Chiropractic Association claims that poor posture is as big a health risk as is obesity.
Isn't it true?
Every day, it seems, certainly every week, there is a new health emergency or disaster that you just happen to be engaged in.
It could be what you're eating, it could be what you're drinking, it could be what you're driving, it could be what you're watching on TV, and now it could be not holding your phone close to the head and causing cancer.
No, you are knocking years off your life because you are destroying your posture.
By virtue of the way you sit when you text or email or game on your mobile device.
So the sub-headline for this story, what stand up straight.
I wish I had a dollar for every one of these crisis health warnings since I've been alive.
The elderly are gaming, the elderly are texting, the elderly are sending email, and as such, the elderly are at risk, greater risk than anybody else for an early death.
That's right.
I just wanted to be the first to warn you.
Hey, folks, there is one more reason why these books, my two books are successful, and this is important.
I wrote these books just the same way I do this program, and that is with total respect for the reader.
I do not write down, I assume that the kids reading these books are gonna have the ability or the curiosity necessary to understand.
There's nothing insulting.
There are no presumptions that the people reading this book are incompetent or stupid.
These books are written with the total respect for the reader, and if I might say so.
These books are written with high expectations For the people who read these books.
In other words, there's a lot here to get.
There's a lot to learn, and I have total confidence, full expectation that people, the kids reading these books, can learn it and will get it.
It's not above them, but it certainly is not targeted beneath them.
There's nothing.
They're not baby.
Let's put it that way.
It is not a goo-goo-gu-kind of baby.
There's nothing.
Total respect.
Yeah, for the for the for the potential reader as these uh books are written.
You've got to hear this.
Dingy Harry.
John Boehner came at a press conference.
I said, What the hell is this?
A joke.
He was talking about the latest delay.
In the full implementation of the individual mandate, March 31st, you had to be signed up.
And they said all last week and land the week before that, we're not going to extend it.
We don't have the statutory ability to extend it.
We can't.
That's a hard, fast deadline.
March 31st.
Now they've extended it.
Middle of April.
Doesn't matter if you file quarterly estimates, you still have to pay.
Start making payments on your Obamacare penalty.
You don't.
You're not exempted.
If you're small, you're not exempted.
There's no delay for you.
But Boehner came out.
What is this?
A joke?
He was responding to the announcement last night that people had begun the process of signing up for insurance now have until mid-April.
What is this?
A joke?
So Dingy Harry had to get in on this today.
A Senate Democrat press conference, Dingy Harry, and during the QA with uh other Democrats disguised as reporters.
One unidentified Democrat, disguised as a reporter, said, Senator, we've had a number of these delays, and they say that this is giving more people the opportunity to sign up.
But when you um when they do have these hiccups or these delays, doesn't that give our enemies, the Republicans?
He didn't say that's what he means.
Doesn't that give the other side fodder, Senator Reed?
In other words, Senator Reed, aren't you putting us in a jam here with this incompetent behavior?
We have hundreds of thousands of people who tried to sign up and they didn't get through.
There are some people who are not like my grandchildren who can handle everything so easily on the internet.
And these people need a little extra time.
It's not the example they gave is a 63-year-old woman came in to the store and said, I almost got it.
Every time I I just about got there, it would cut me off.
We have a lot of people just like this through no fault of the internet, because people are not educated how to use the internet.
Well, let me let me translate this for you.
What Dingy Harry is saying is nothing wrong with the healthcare.gov website.
It's an old people don't know how to use it.
They're just intimidated and frightened by the internet.
They're not like my grandchildren who can handle everything so easily on the internet.
And these people, they just need a little extra time.
So they've gotten real close.
They've gotten there, they've gotten to the end, they've gotten real close, and then and then something happened they didn't understand, and they got kicked out.
And so we've had to extend the deadline to handle the incompetence of some of our citizens who don't know how to use websites.
This is, by the way, supposed to sound sympathetic, but frankly, this is how they look at people.
Incompetent, incapable.
Truth of the matter is, Dingy Harry wouldn't know what to do on this website.
He's not going to get anywhere near it.
He hasn't the slightest idea either.
But now they're just making it up.
Many people, the elderly, just not educated about how to use the internet.
So what is it?
Dingy Harry, which is it?
Is it a website that can't handle volume, or is it people who aren't educated to use the Internet?
What's the problem here?
The um the young people, I mean, and we don't hear any problem.
The young people, of course, they understand the Internet, but they're not signing.
Well, they're just not signing up either, Dingy Harry, but they're not afraid of the Internet.
Why aren't the young people signing up?
They're not afraid of the Internet.
They could run rings around this website.
They know this website's bogus.
They know there's no security in this website.
Young people don't want to pay for these old people that don't know how to run the Internet.
In accordance the Democrats, it's always our fault.
It's always our we are always too stupid.
We are always too incompetent.
We are just not bright enough to deal with these magnificent progressive systems they design.
Before long, it's going to be the Koch brothers who are keeping people from learning how to use the Internet.
Yeah, you watch.
He'll blame the Koch brothers for somehow retarding people's progress.
Speaking of that, there's a story here in the National Journal, and it is not good for the Democrats.
Democrats are hoping to make the Koch brothers a household name this year, but they've got a long way to go.
After absorbing millions of dollars in outside spending from groups connected to the Koch brothers, Congressional Democrats have made the conservative billionaires the star villains in a messaging counteroffensive.
But a new poll, a new non-part the battleground poll, the Celinda Lake and Goaz poll highlights a problem.
You know what it is?
Even after all of this demonization, a majority of likely 2014 voters have never even heard of them.
So Dingy Harry, your voters are so stupid, so dumb, so out of touch, so disconnected.
They've not even heard you talking about the Koch brothers.
You're out there demonizing them, they don't even know who they are.
A majority don't even know who the Koch brothers are.
You talk about a fiasco.
Talent on loan from God.
In the midweek Wednesday, Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone.
George in South Windsor, Connecticut.
You're next as we head back to the phones.
Hello, sir.
Good afternoon.
I might need a little help from the host to get through this one.
I always get nervous in the presence of greatness.
Well, aren't you, aren't you, you're your kind.
Thank you, sir.
You'll do fine.
We'll see to it.
Well, thank you.
And you did fine yesterday talking about that George Lakhoff approach to languaging and the expunging of the H-word from our vocabulary.
What a Travis D. Rush, but I called to talk about what I'm more nervous about, and that is the upcoming elections, 2014.
Mm-hmm.
I made the mistake of surfing across Debbie Wasserman Schultz on C SPAN over the weekend.
You know, Debbie Wasserman Schultz Monday through Friday is bad enough, but they have to encounter her on a weekend.
Man, I feel for you.
George.
Yeah, well.
That's just that's just that's just uncalled for.
She was uh exposing the Operation Ivy down ballot approach in the upcoming election.
Let me explain that Operation Ivy's been around for a while in order to produce a president through fraudulent elections.
Which has been done uh several times and several times, many times since 1960, especially the last two times.
And now what they've done is they've taken Operation Ivy what they call down ballot.
And that is down to the state, city, town, municipal elections.
And we've got some good candidates in line for 2014, but we realize that we're up against the down balloting of Operation Ivy, which will then provide the same element of election fraud to the state governors' races, senators, House of Representatives, and the town races to ensure that socialists get elected.
So we've done something about it, and we formed election fraud connection squad.
And this is the only hope we have to make these predictions in the National Journal that you just mentioned.
Yeah.
Come to fruition, and uh Nate Silver's got some uh new words for us, too, that has him in in uh hot water.
But it's not gonna happen unless we uh get behind uh this movement, and I would like to give out the toll free phone number.
No, no way.
I'm that that's George.
If I allow that, that's all the program's gonna become is uh is fundraising uh disguised as as uh great political concern and so forth.
Please don't be offended, but I just can't I can't do that.
I I've had to go to line on that for 25 years.
And you're on your own in uh just like I was when I started the program in building up uh a loyal audience and uh and a following.
Operation Ivy.
I've never I've never heard of it.
I don't know what you do you know what Operation Ivy is, Snurgley?
Do you know what Operation Ivy is?
That's all their tech, that's the name of their tech operation.
Okay.
Okay, so what they're trying to do is they if if they're in trouble at the Senator House level, then they start just really pumping local elections to get turnout and get uh start uh uh straight party line voting as a way to overcome weakness at the top of the ticket.
Uh that's one of the things.
Well, yes, I just didn't know they called it Operation Ivy, but I still feel bad for the guy having to encounter Debbie Wasserman Schultz on a weekend, Bob in Oakland, great to have you, sir.
Oakland, California, it is on the EIB network.
It's an honor to speak with you.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Here's the ultimate response to a dem running against the uh Obamacare.
Senator so-and-so, if this law has changed so many times that it is not anything close to what you voted for, then why did you allow the president to illegally change it without congressional approval?
Amen.
Amen.
If you didn't vote for it, then why did you sit by and let him change it willy-nilly and you didn't stop one time?
That's excellent.
Right.
That's one of the best retorts that the Republican could come up with.
If a if a Democrat running for re-election tries this, hey, it's not what I voted for.
I like it.
That's awesome.
It is.
It is.
Well, wait a minute.
If you didn't vote for it, why did you sit around idly?
In fact, why were you sitting around supporting the president as he changed it?
And then to couple with that, go back and find this particular Democrat in the past campaigning for Obamacare, saying all these great wonderful things about it after he had voted for it.
They think the one the one thing that the Democrats rely on, you can't blame them for this, by the way.
They count on the ignorance of many voters.
They count on the ignorance of the low information voter and they count on the presumption that the Republicans are mean and don't care, and uh and and by uh the same token, the Democrats do care.
They really want to help people.
They want to get it right.
So they really Republicans just hate everybody.
Then they this is the kind of thing they rely on that people will think.
You know, even in this set of circumstances or atmosphere, they just can't sit back and and there's all my point is there's all kinds of waste to go on offense here with confidence and bravado and inspiration.
And you, you know, you could also, after pointing out to this senator, oh, you're saying you didn't vote for it?
Well, then why did you sit idly by while the president changed it all those times?
In fact, why did you support the president while he changed it all those times?
Now you could also ask the Democrat Senator, well, then why not change the law back?
Why not change it back to what you voted for?
Why not?
But you don't know what you voted for because you didn't read it.
They ought to be sitting ducks because this is I frankly, folks, I don't look it.
Saying something like I'm gonna say is gonna end up depressing a lot of people.
But I'm gonna say it anyway.
For the life of me, and I'm being I I if even considering everything, the ignorance of low information people and all the presumptions that they carry around.
I do not understand how Barack Obama is as high as 40.
A president who has done what he's done to our economy and is mucked up people's health care.
Ought to be sitting at 10 to 15 or 20%.
I'm going to tell you something else.
I gotta I gotta tell you this quick because I gotta take a break.
I ran into a story during a show prep from a left-wing think tank blog site.
And they have a tactic that they are preparing in the campaign.
They are going to say that the Republicans' real intention after they win the Senate and the House is impeaching Obama.
Now you will not find, you can search every database in the world, and you will not find a single Republican saying one thing in support of Obama's impeachment.
But that doesn't matter.
I just want you to be aware, beforewarned, the Democrats are preparing to start running fraudulent lying commercials or saying it in campaigns.
Now, what your Republican candidate won't tell you is that his real intention after winning in November is to impeach the president.
And they're hoping to scare and keep the black vote up and keep the Hispanic vote up and keep the young people vote there.
Because that's all they've got, folks.
They don't have anything else.
They can't run on Obama, they can't run on anything Obama's done because he hadn't done anything worth touting.
All they can do is negative scare stuff.
And when I saw this on this left-wing blog ThinkTech, I said it makes perfect sense.
Just going to tell another lie about what the Republicans really.
It's not like it's stuff about the Koch brothers.
In fact, it'll probably be the Koch brothers who are responsible and pushing.
And the Republicans won't tell you they want to impeach our beloved president.
You wait.
You wait and you don't see this coming.
Dave in Columbus, Ohio.
I've got about a minute, but I wanted to get to you.
I appreciate your holding.
Hello.
Good morning, Russia.
Afternoon, Megadiddos.
Thank you.
On commercial aircraft, there are two systems to locate it in case of a crash.
One is the ELT, one is the underwater acoustic beacon.
The ELT is total separate from the acoustic beacon.
It is not attached to the data voice recorder.
ELT transmits on 243 and 121.5 megahertz.
That is UHF and VHF emergency frequency.
It is designed not to go off with less than 3G impact, but we'll see.
Okay, so what how does this relate to the Malaysian crash?
Since the ELT did not go off, it is assumed to crash in water because if it goes into water, the ELT will not work.
It's like a regular radio.
It's all in water and it gets mucked up.
The underwater acoustic beacon only goes off if it goes into water.
Okay, so you mean there's nothing conspiratorial then that the ELT didn't go off.
Correct.
It's quite normal it won't go when it hits water because it won't operate in water.
Correct.
However, it is a line of sight radio, which means you have to be within, you know, three, five hundred miles to hear it.
Well, line of sight would have been quite a ways.
Anyway, look, don't worry about it.
CNN is gonna get the truth for us.
CNN will eventually get the truth.
2018, 2019.
I meant to weigh in today on the transporting of these millions of baby salmon because of the drought.
And I meant to wait, I didn't have a chance to, so I've made a note to myself and uh weigh in on this tomorrow because I don't understand how this is okay to do.
See you then, folks.
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