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April 8, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 8, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
What a morning.
It's just unbelievable, ladies and gentlemen.
I haven't seen a news story that rocked my world like the one that happened this morning.
No, no, no, not Sharpton.
I don't care about that.
No, no, no.
He's wearing a wire for the FBI.
I don't.
No, not the fact that W hanging around with Clinton at the NCAA is.
I don't think that's helpful, but it's not my business.
I mean, what good is that?
I mean, there's nothing wrong with Clinton.
Well, I said he's good to have a couple beers with the Chase women.
Yeah, go to a ballgame.
I guess, yeah, that's true.
But no, that's not what I'm talking about either.
I'm talking about, voices incredible.
This newly elected Republican congressman from Louisiana, Vance McAllister.
Yeah, it's amazing.
This guy, I mean, the drive-bys, they're totally, if it weren't for the, if it, well, throw CNN out, they're still looking for the airplane.
No, they're not.
They're up there covering Obama and his bogus equal play, equal pay thing.
You know, they drag that out like they drag out the minimum wage, like they drag out all of their greatest hits when they're in trouble.
And this is to perpetuate the silly war on women.
They are the biggest culprits in paying women unequally.
Details coming up.
But aside from that story, the equal pay thing, which the media loves, they're just totally absorbed in the incredible news that this new Republican Vance McAllister from Louisiana got caught on tape kissing a member of the opposite sex.
That's what this is about.
The guy engaged in a hetero affair.
Well, not even an affair.
The guy had a hetero kiss experience.
With, I think it was at a Christmas party last year.
You ever heard of such a thing?
Have you ever heard of a member of Congress kissing a female member of the staff?
It is.
It's an outrage.
Well, I don't know if it was on ellipse.
It eventually got there, if it wasn't.
But needless to say, the drive-by media completely outraged and absorbed by this story.
And of course, who can blame them?
Both the congressman and the woman staffer he kissed are married.
Oh, ho, ho.
Did you see what the Pope said?
Mozilla is going to have to demand that the Pope resign.
Because the Pope, where is this?
I put it near the top of the stack and then other things came in and got in the way of it.
And it didn't stay at the top of the stack, but I nevertheless found it.
Although the National Gay Magazine, the advocate, named Pope Francis its person of the year in December 2013, and make no mistake about it, that was only because of me.
The only reason that the drive-by media glommed on to the Pope is because of me.
They hate the Catholic Church in the drive-by media.
They hate it on the left.
And I'm not exaggerating.
I'm not just throwing a word around.
They literally despise the Catholic Church.
And they despise anybody in it.
They despise the priests, the monsignors.
They despise the Pope.
But they had a problem.
When I came home, when the Pope came out and uttered in his encyclical economic philosophy that echoed the strains of Marxism, I said so, and they loved that.
So they glommed onto the Pope because they loved the Pope because the Pope, they thought, made me mad.
That's why they love the Pope, because they thought the Pope made me mad, and anybody can make me mad ain't all bad.
And then they thought, well, hell, if the Pope is going to go all Marxist on us on the economy, maybe the Pope will go pro-choice, and then maybe the Pope will go pro-gay marriage.
So they had a lot of hope.
They thought maybe this guy is the kind of guy that will come along and actually dump the church and reform it with the left's agenda.
Well, the Pope has quickly let them know that that's not going to happen.
So now they're not happy with the Pope.
The reason they loved him is kind of worn off.
And that is me.
But back during the day when they loved the Pope, the National Gay Magazine, The Advocate, named him its Person of the Year.
This was last December.
The Pope repeated on April 2nd that the Catholic Church is teaching that marriage is reserved for one man and one woman, adding that this is part of God's design and that, quote, the image of God is the married couple, the man and the woman.
Well, if there were any vestiges of love for the Pope remaining, they're gone now.
During his general audience speech, St. Peter's Square on April 2nd, before a crowd estimated 45,000 people, Pope Francis first cited Genesis, saying, God created man in his own image.
In the image of God, he created him.
Male and female, he created them.
Therefore, a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh.
The image of God is the married couple, the man and the woman.
Not only the man, not only the woman, but both of them together, said the Pope.
God's covenant with us is represented in that covenant between man and woman, and this is very beautiful.
You think this is coincidental?
Now we know that the Pope doesn't read the American media, but I mean the timing of this, is this not just too precious.
And remember, remember, folks, for the impact to understand the impact that this is having on the left today, you have to go back to last year when they fell in love with the guy because he made me mad.
They think, I mean, I'm using their term, and no, I didn't get mad.
I just observed that the Pope's economic sounds like Marxism.
And it did cause a brouhaha.
But the left said, hey, maybe there's something in this Pope we can like.
Hebrew, you remember, he became, for the shortest while, a pop culture hero to the left.
And there were stories about maybe this is the Pope.
He's eschewing all the trappings.
He doesn't like the rich aspects.
He's not living in the papal apartments.
This guy's a man of the people.
He's walking the alleyways and he's walking the slums.
Maybe this guy is going to be the guy that actually tears down the Catholic Church.
They were hoping.
Not exaggerating, folks.
And it was all because They thought this guy had potential because he made me mad.
Well, that's worn off, and now the Pope is not only is marriage between a man and a woman, that is God's image.
Ooh, folks, the Pope has thrown an IED.
The Pope is, it's a roadside bomb that's gone off here.
Not exaggerating.
He said, when a man and a woman celebrate the sacrament of matrimony, God, as it were, is mirrored in them.
He impresses in them his own features and the indelible character of his love, said Pope Francis.
Marriage is the icon of God's love for us.
And in this, the left gets an awkward reminder of what a backward-thinking man the Pope actually is.
He's not a progressive.
He's not a reformer.
He's just no different than all the others that came before him, after all.
And by the way, the Pope said these.
Remember, these are hateful things.
The Pope has just uttered anti-gay bigotry.
Remember the lessons yesterday.
Remember the points of yesterday's program.
This beauty from the Pope, this reminder of what marriage is in Christianity, Catholicism, this is anti-gay bigotry.
This is hatred for homosexuality or homosexuals.
This is what the Pope is engaged in.
This is how they would describe it.
And the Pope said these hateful things just days after having met with President Obama.
Apparently, Obama wasn't able to teach him anything.
So the only question now is: will the epheminazis decide to stage, yeah, the efeminazis, will they decide to stage a boycott and demand that somebody fire the Pope?
Will they demand that somebody make the Pope resign?
Will they refuse to let the Pope use their browsers?
Only time will tell.
Now back to Vance McAllister, who got caught kissing a woman at a Christmas party.
The media up in arms over this.
Media, social media, already flooded with demands that Vance McAllister resign from office.
He was caught dead to rights kissing a woman who was not his wife at a Christmas party.
Come on.
Can you imagine if a Democrat had been caught something like this?
Can you imagine if Bill Clinton got caught doing something like this?
Can you imagine the howls of outrage there would have been?
Oh, that's right.
There weren't any.
And Clinton did much more than just kiss a woman at a Christmas party, as you well know.
But Bill Clinton's a modern American hero.
Former presidents hang around him.
They go to basketball games, have a beer.
Well, I'm sure he didn't have any beer, but they maybe chased women after the game.
Who knows?
But Vance McAllister, classic illustration of what I was talking about yesterday.
Vance McAllister has to go.
This is proof that he's an untrustworthy philanderer.
Bill Clinton's a trustworthy philanderer.
And Bill Clinton's sex doesn't matter.
It doesn't affect the way he did his job.
It didn't affect the way he does his job.
Come on.
Any lied about it.
It's just sex.
Everybody would lie about it.
Bill Clinton and every other Democrat engaging in the Bob Menendez.
I saw him on TV today.
He's a guy that's flying down on donors' corporate jets somewhere in the Caribbean to Paloram with women he doesn't even know who are being paid on his behalf.
No big deal.
Ho Hummer.
Why?
Because Menendez cares about people and is pro-choice.
And he's probably for gay marriage.
He's a real good guy.
You know, he intends to do good things.
But this McAllister guy, we can't have him anywhere near Washington.
This is just, this is, this is, this guy's a hypocrite.
And every story about this incredible scandal, this kiss at a Christmas party, points out that McAllister ran on family values.
For some reason, everybody forgets Bill Clinton ran on family values when he ran in 1992.
You can look it up, but everybody forgets that.
It doesn't matter because he didn't really mean it.
The left knows he didn't mean it.
He was just hoodwinking us.
But this McAllister guy, rotten to the core, has to go.
No two ways about it.
Audio soundbites.
We got a montage on this just to illustrate the media's absorption.
This is from this morning.
Now, there was just a Democrat crime spree, folks, where the word Democrat was barely even mentioned.
And now we've got a Republican congressman caught on tape kissing a staffer.
His party ID is the lead of the story, and the fact he's got to go is the second most important thing.
Did you hear about this one?
A Republican Louisiana congressman got caught kissing a female staffer on tape.
Republican Vance McAllister, the Christian conservative.
First term Republican Vance McAllister.
Newspaper obtained surveillance video of Republican Vance McAllister.
Republican Congressman Vance McAllister from Louisiana.
A compromising image for a Southern Republican.
See how it works.
No assumption, presumption.
He might be a good guy.
He can't be.
He's a Republican.
So he's obviously hateful, a bigot, probably a homophobe, probably against gay marriage.
He's really probably a mean guy and just trying to cover it up.
Actually, trying to pretend he's cool and hip by kissing a female staffer at Christmas.
We know Republicans are not cool and hip.
You're not going to get away with that.
There isn't a Republican alive who can keep up with Bill Clinton.
You're not even worth trying.
Don't even try it.
We will nail you.
I have a poll here, and it's from thehill.com.
A poll comes just a day after the video went viral showing Vance McAllister kissing a female staffer who wasn't his wife.
That footage, by the way, was caught on a security camera, was provided to a local newspaper by an anonymous source.
Two weeks after numerous Democrats arrested for abuse of power, you could even find the name Democrat in that story, and The Hill doesn't even mention that story.
But the story in this Hill story is this: voters in the United States dislike an elected official who abuses power more than one who's caught in an extramarital affair.
Quinnipiac University survey released today said nearly half of voters presented with a politician caught in an affair said they wouldn't vote for him, but more than 60% of voters said they wouldn't vote when presented with one who abuses power.
So, the point is, guy has an affair, not a big deal, but abuses his power in Congress.
That bothers us.
That's what the polling data says.
It doesn't kind of jibe here with forcing Vance McAllister out of office.
Okay, folks, time for our first of seen profit time out of the day.
We'll be right back.
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Times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, chaos.
And yes, even the good times.
And, folks, I got to do something today that I have always wanted to do, never done before.
I got, I was permitted to watch surgery.
I have always wanted to be in an OR.
I've been fascinated, but I've always wanted to.
And today, I had a chance.
I saw a doctor perform cochlear implant surgery on a patient from Winter Haven, Florida.
It's about an hour and a half the prep work and all that.
Well, we got them at 7:30 and walked out about 9:15.
And it was the most amazing.
I have a cochlear implant.
And so I was curious to see, and I'd been told what the procedure involved by my doctors, whatever this was.
I get eight years ago that I did this.
I don't even remember now.
Some days it seems like yesterday.
Other days it seems could have been eight years ago.
I don't remember the exact year.
2001, 10 years ago I did this.
At 13 years, you're telling me I've had this implant for 13 years?
How do you remember that it was that's right?
September 11th did happen right before I still had like 20% of my hearing on September 11th.
That's right.
Oh, 13 years.
Well, anyway, so I got to see this done.
And it was just for you surgeons, of course, and everybody that's seen it, it's probably no big deal.
But I was just in awe the whole time, especially since I've had this and I've had it described for me by my doctors 13 years ago what it was going to be.
But I was misinformed or I misunderstood a lot of what I was told because what I was told didn't actually happen.
Like I thought that you lost all the inner ear in order to make Ruby Impa.
Apparently that's not the case now and never has been.
Not as a big deal, but it could be if they ever find a cure for whatever brought on my deafness.
But it was just fascinating.
And this is one of the highest rated surgeons in this procedure ever.
So I got to see it done really, really well.
Julie in Rochester, New York, as we start on the phones.
Great to have you.
Thank you for calling the EIB network.
Hi.
Thank you, Rush.
I'm honored to talk to you.
I listen to you all the time, and I think the world of you.
Thank you.
I appreciate that very much.
I was calling today because my daughter actually lost her hearing around the same time that you lost yours.
And she is now a recipient of two cochlear implants.
And I've heard you talking about that over the past couple of weeks.
And I just wanted to give you reassurance that it was one of the best decisions we ever made.
She was.
I appreciate that.
How old was your daughter when she lost her hearing?
She was three and a half.
And believe it or not, she had had perfect speech, so she had heard all of those steep sounds.
So she sounds very much like you.
You would never know that she was deaf.
Well, it's miraculous.
There were a lot of people in the OR today, a couple of reps from the actual manufacturer of the implant, and then a rep from one of the drills being used by the surgeon on the skull.
And it's actually, there was not, it was actually sculpture of the skull that was taking place to make room for the implant.
It was just stunning.
And I was telling these, because obviously they could see that I have an implant.
And it's fascinating to talk with people about the experience.
And they said, are you going to get an implant on your right ear?
And when I got mine 13 years ago, I was told, I mean, the medical thinking at the time was just do one.
You don't need two.
Two will not help.
Just get the one.
And besides, if there is a cure for what happened to you, you need to have one ear untouched and unavailable to apply the cure.
And then after, and they said, how long is the cure going to be?
They say, well, we're hoping 10 years.
Well, then 10 years came and went, and there was no cure.
So now they're urging me to do what you just said, go bilateral, get an implant on my right side.
So I'm going to do it.
I have made the decision to do it.
I'm going to get an implant on my right side.
One of the reasons I want to see the surgery today was just to find out what's going to happen when it does happen.
Well, I strongly recommend it.
I know everybody's case is a little bit different, but she went from having an interpreter in school for backup when she had just the left side.
And when we did the right side, which actually now is her favorite ear, she prefers the right over the left.
The interpreter's gone.
She just went from having an IEP at school.
She's now down to a 504 plan.
And she doesn't need an interpreter.
She doesn't use the FM system.
And she can hear surround sound and locate sound.
Well, I got to tell you, you know, that is miraculous.
I told some of the people in the OR today, if you, to show you the, in my case, the genuine miraculous nature of this, if you draw the entire timeline of humanity from the time humans first trod till today, let's just assume that's 10 feet on a timeline.
Something you can easily imagine.
My time on that timeline is so small that you couldn't point it out.
Let's say it's smaller than a grain of sand in that whole 10-foot timeline of humanity.
And when I lost my hearing, it happened to coincide with human technology advancing to the point that the cochlear implant existed.
If I had lost my hearing three years or well, five years earlier, I would have had to quit this job.
I would have lost my career.
And I just, I've always been kind of in awe of that reality.
You sound like my husband and I.
I think that every day we wake up and think, my gosh, if she was born, like you just said earlier, she wouldn't have had the technology to be fully hearing and enjoying all the things that our does, because we're a hearing family.
She wasn't born deaf.
So for her to be able to participate and do all the things that everybody else can, because that's really good about the second implant making that big a positive difference for her.
I hope the same thing happens to me.
Me too.
Me too.
Because you have to continue.
And, you know, the more you can hear, the better quality of life, the more you can bring into your head.
Well, see, in my case, that's not been the case.
My hearing has actually deteriorated in the 13 years.
It's strange.
I don't want to spend too much time on this because it bores people.
But what a cochlear implant is, is essentially 22, depending on the brand you get, 18 to 22 bionic, man-made electrodes that are attached to the cochlea that replace 35,000 hair cells.
Well, there's no way 21 or 18 man-made sensors can replace the sensitivity of 35,000 hair cells.
Well, I have had to disconnect over half of the electrodes because they cause a facial tick in me at normal volume.
So I'm working on six electrodes.
So my speech comprehension has actually gotten worse.
So with that, now maybe the right side, it'll be a vast, vast improvement over.
Obviously, it will be to start.
And I just got to hope that I don't have the same facial tick.
Yeah, that's, yeah.
Well, I wish you all the best of luck.
I'm so excited for you, and I pray that you have the same results that our daughter did.
Well, thank you very much.
I hope the same thing.
But this is a backstop.
If it does not provide any improvement, it doesn't matter.
I still have the one that I have now that I know is perfectly functional and usable.
So the only thing it can be is a bonus.
There's no way it can be a drawback.
Because if it doesn't work, if it's worse, I don't have to use it.
So there's no downside now to doing it.
So I've decided I'm going to do that.
I appreciate the call.
Thanks much.
This is, let's see, where are we going?
Judy in Clarkson, Michigan.
I'm glad you waited.
You're next in the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, my friend.
I call him regarding the new headline, Growing Talks of Bush versus Hillary in 16.
First of all, that just blew my mind because what do we have?
Royal families in this country, the Kennedys, the Bushes, the Clintons.
I said next, it's going to be Chelsea and Sasha.
Yeah.
You know, I hear you.
And I feel for you.
And I'm saying, what the heck?
Is this it?
Is this the best we've got to offer?
Exactly.
You know, and Jeb's out there.
Jeb, I think what Jeb's doing in preparation for maybe running.
You know what?
Jeb is saying things to get this conservative backlash to him out of the way.
Well, I really think when he says, hey, people coming here is an act of love.
That's designed to tick us all off or tick the Tea Party people off now.
Get it done with and over with and out of the way and move on.
But look, I know they're setting it up that way in the drive-bys, but it's not a lock that Hillary is going to get the nomination.
Even then, it's not a lock.
I don't even think it's a lock she's going to run.
And if she does run, it's not a lock she's going to get the nomination.
It's not a lock that Bush is going to get it if he runs.
If Jeb Bush did get the nomination, I would be done voting.
I know that's a terrible thing to say, but...
Why?
If the GOP is that stupid, and like even his own mother said, whatever, we got how many millions of people in this country.
And I'll tell you what, my son or his wife, either one would make a better president than Jeb Bush.
Yeah, but they probably couldn't handle the anal exam that they would get if they tried it.
But mine could.
Well, but they might not want it.
What do you mean you might they might could?
If your son or daughter, Republicans, it looks like they can win, they'll make it up about them.
I got you.
But I had to talk to you.
My head was just blowing off yesterday and near my sounding board.
Sorry.
Well, you call anytime.
Call it from the ledge, from bed, wherever.
Call anytime.
Okay.
I will walk you back.
Thanks much.
Back after this, folks.
Ha.
Welcome back, friends.
El Rushbo.
Half my brain tied behind my back while meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
Here's John in Chicago.
John, great to have you.
Glad you called, sir.
Hello.
Hello, sir.
Thank you so much for taking my call.
It's great to talk to you again.
You bet.
I wanted to respond to your comments about the congressman making out with a woman who wasn't his wife at a Christmas party.
Vance McAllister, he's got to go.
Yeah, he's got to go.
Well, you seem incredulous at that suggestion, and I think that I have never considered marital infidelity to be a partisan political issue.
And I think one gets themselves in trouble when they try to treat it that way.
I think that, you know, we all know that good family values, conservative Republicans like Mark Sanford and David Vitter and John Enton and Larry Craig all got a pass from Republicans for their infidelity.
And I wonder if you could be honest enough to compare the call for Mr. McAllister to resign to the reaction on the part of Republicans to Anthony Weiner, who never actually laid a hand on a woman at a Christmas party or otherwise.
I mean, do you see any disparity there, sir?
Well, yeah, let me go at this a different way.
See, the elephant in the room that you can't mention.
Pardon?
I said that the elephant.
It was kind of a pun.
I thought you were making a Republican joke there.
No, no, no, no, no.
I'm not that.
I mean, that's too easy.
Elephant equals Republican.
No, no, no.
The elephant in the room, here's Bill Clinton.
I mean, and you can't deny it.
This is more than Mr. Infidelity.
I mean, this is just beyond the pale.
And there was all kinds of cover-ups.
There were every effort in the world made to facilitate his lying about it.
And then when he finally had to come clean, they did their best to say, oh, it's just sex.
It's not his fault.
It's nothing.
It doesn't affect the way he did his job.
Come on, it's just sex.
Hollywood got going and so forth.
Now, you mentioned Weiner.
That seems to me the real comparison.
I know you want to talk about Bill Clinton, but Anthony Weiner, that seems like the real comparison.
Everybody said he had to resign, and now people are saying McAllister needs to resign, and you somehow think that's unfair.
Why is it okay to call for Wiener to resign?
I'm not talking about, I'm not talking about unfairness at all.
If you listen here for any regular, you know that fairness to me is like equality.
It's ephemeral.
You can't quantify it.
It's silly to demand it.
This is not about fairness to me.
This is about the lack of professionalism and consistency about bias in the media.
Pure and simple.
Now, you wonder why Weiner was sacrificed.
He wasn't likable, even in his own party.
They didn't like the guy.
So they had no problem getting rid of him.
There was no value in holding on to Anthony Weiner.
He was a creep.
If you like a guy, it's okay if they cheat on their wife.
Damn right.
If you're the Democrats, if you like him, you're going to find a way to keep him in power.
David Vitter is really likable, and John Ensign was really.
And Mark Stanford really likable.
They all lost their job.
Wait a second.
They all lost their jobs.
Every one of them stayed in office and finished their turn.
Every one of them.
And Mark Stanford has now been re-elected to public office in South Carolina.
Because he's paid the price.
He paid his paper.
It was real love, it turned out.
It was.
You have to admit it, Edward.
It was real love.
There's only one thing that can explain that kind of erratic behavior, and that's real love.
You know, you're being a hypocrite, Rush.
I'm sorry.
No, I'm not.
I'm not the hypocrite.
Sir, you're the hypocrite.
I'm not the hypocrite.
You call here and say that infidelity is not a partisan issue, and you don't even talk about Mr. Infidelity.
You leave him out of it.
I'm not talking about Bill Clinton.
I get that.
But the real comparison and the one that reveals your hypocrisy is Anthony Weiner.
No, why?
Why is it not Clinton?
Well, first of all, by your own admission, Weiner didn't do anything but disrobe on the internet.
Anthony Weiner never even laid a hand on a woman.
Exactly.
So he doesn't qualify.
Clinton does.
Really?
Because I think the comparison that makes it the reason it's a marketing is because he's also a congressman.
You're still working.
You're working too hard to make.
Everybody knows the point that you're trying to make, but you're working too hard at it here when you will not throw Clinton in and acknowledge that he gets not just a total pass, but he actually gets praise.
Lewinsky's are now okay.
He got impeached, sir.
He went to an impeachment trial.
Do you not recall that?
He has suffered no shame, no disgrace.
He is the most popular Democrat in the country.
He didn't pay any kind of real price for that whatsoever.
Yeah, what about Gary Hart?
What about Elliot Spitzer?
Did they pay any kind of a price?
Again, let me say, Gary Hart, Gary Hart brought that on himself by demanding that the media follow him around.
Oh, so McAllister, since he didn't ask for the scrutiny, he gets a pass.
Am I telling you that McAllister deserves a pass?
I don't know, sir.
You seem to be totally incredulous that people would call for him to resign.
You have no sense of your incredulity when people call for a winner to resign.
You know, this is it.
The problem, John, your sense of humor is just dormant.
Parody, satire.
I'm not incredulous.
I know how the game works.
I know the guy's gone.
I know he's history.
I never call for any of these people to resign.
I never do that.
I don't look at it that way.
My effort here is totally on informing the public and have them looking at things the way I do.
I've had fun with all of this.
That's what you don't see.
You heard me open the pro.
You think I'm really mad about this?
I'm simply.
You guys got to lighten up.
You just have to lighten up.
You know, I got people tell you the Democrats threw John Edwards overboard.
They did not throw John Edwards overboard.
They stuck with Edwards.
They ignored the story.
The Inquirer was the only source.
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