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April 8, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 8, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Hi, folks.
Great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh, meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day into our 26th year of service, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Delight to have you here, 800-282-2882, the email address Ilrushbo at EIBnet.com.
I'd say my good buddy Ted Bell's new book is out.
His character is named Hawk.
Ted, some of the best espionage spy thrillers.
Vince Flynn was my all-time favorite in that category.
But Ted's latest book is just, you can't put it down.
It's called Warriors, and it's just impossible to put down.
And if you haven't read any, it's Ted Bell.
If you haven't read any of these series, just go to Amazon or iBooks or wherever that you get books.
If you do e-books, especially, it's just easy there.
They're just awesome.
If you like espionage spy thrillers with current events as the plot lines, you can still, there's still a lot of guys writing spy thrillers about post-9-11 stuff, Afghanistan and Al-Qaeda and all of that.
But Ted brings in modern-day characters that is not all about just Al-Qaeda-sponsored state terrorism.
It's really expansive, great read stuff.
And I just get so excited.
And his books are not small.
It takes a while to craft these things.
So the latest one is out in hardcover now.
Which reminds me, folks, I don't know what to do.
I don't know how to I've never really known how to adequately express my gratitude for all of your support for what I do.
I just have never really known how to do it other than show up every year, every day here, and just to continue to be honest.
It just boggles my mind.
We've got our second book in the Rush Revere series, Rush Revere and the First Patriots.
And it comes on the heels of our first, we've got two books in the New York Times children's list, top 10.
This is something I never thought would happen.
And the response we get from everybody, adults, I had a conversation with a friend of mine in the golf course last week.
He said, I've read your latest book.
So what?
You?
Yeah, yeah.
I lie.
It's a great read.
I said, it's written for 10 to 13 year olds.
It's a great read.
He said, I was floored.
He got the book for his grandkids and so forth, and I signed a couple of them.
I had no idea he was going to read them.
We're finding a lot of adults read these books and are learning things they didn't know, which to me is instructive.
I mean, we're talking people anywhere from their 40s to 70 who are reading my little history books, who are reading things first about the Pilgrims, now to the Boston Tea Party, and people in it that they didn't know because even they weren't taught.
And then, you know, doing the research and the history to come up with this has been fun and rewarding.
But the whole thing, I just, I don't know how to thank you.
And people keep buying these books.
And it's not just that.
Afterwards, they send us all these emails to tell us how much they love them.
You've heard the calls here from even the young readers.
So I just wanted to take a time here to, because I haven't mentioned my book in a while, in deference to the Stick to the Issues crowd.
And so I just, I wanted to bring it up again to thank you all and to let you know that it's just been out since March the 11th, so we're coming up on a month for the second book.
Two of them, the top 10 at the same time.
And Ted's book, Ted Bell Warrior, is out now.
And that is, if you like spy espionage, mystery thriller stuff, you cannot get a better book.
We had our last caller, finally figured out, did not understand my sense of humor.
I'm not going to accuse this guy of it, but remember yesterday we were talking about, and it's another, I've tell you something, I really enjoyed yesterday's program.
I felt, you know, some days I walk out of here thinking it could have been better.
Yesterday I walked out of here pretty fulfilled.
I walked out of here and I said, I got it done.
I finally was able to express this, explain this, whatever, in the exact way I've intended to.
And it's because a couple of brand new lights went off in my head over the weekend about such glaring disparity.
The automatic assumption of our motives, the automatic assumption of our intentions by these people who claim to own all the good intentions.
And yesterday in discussing all that, I happened to mention that when Media Matters first came into existence, their first ever homepage, for all intents and purposes, was me because they're looking for clicks.
Everybody wants hits.
So they thought, well, I'm an instant click.
I'm an instant hit.
So they put the top 25 things I've said about feminism, and they were all uproariously funny.
But not to them.
They were genuinely insulting and wrath incurring.
And there were things like, I love the women's movement, especially when walking behind it.
That just sent them into orbit.
Undeniable truth of life number four, feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.
It's undeniably true.
That made them, every one of them made them men.
Now, this guy that called and said, Rush, I'm surprised at you.
You can't say that infidelity is a bipartisan issue or a partisan issue.
It most certainly is.
And then people started talking to me about John Edwards.
John Edwards, the Inquirer, had the goods on Edwards for two years before the drive-bys got anywhere near it.
They were hoping it could be suppressed because everybody had a lot of hope invested in Edwards and his To Americas campaign theme and his hair and his supposed good looks and his relative ute.
And so they thought the future shining star of our party.
And they did everything they could to suppress what the guy did.
They didn't, there wasn't a story about the first time they found out he'd kissed that Ryelle Hunter babe like there is with Mance McAllister.
There was two years, and it wasn't until his poor wife died that the women of the Democrat Party said, okay, he's got to go now.
His poor wife is gone.
She can't be humiliated any further.
Get rid of him.
And the women of the Democrat Party finally forced him out like they should have Ted Kennedy, but they didn't.
There's another one.
Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton, and so forth.
And who can ever forget Elliot Spitzer for crying out loud?
I mean, Elliot Spitzer tried to hang on.
They did everything they could, but he wasn't liked either.
And let's not forget somebody else in all of this, just to make the point.
Remember Mark Foley, member of Congress from here, from South Florida.
The Democrats rode Mark Foley right to control of Congress in 2006, and Mark Foley didn't do anything.
Mark Foley sent emails to pages.
Mark Foley is gay.
That didn't help him because he's a Republican.
He must not really mean to be gay.
Right?
It didn't help.
He didn't do anything.
He was writing emails to pages, and he might have had some suggestive things, but nothing ever happened.
But they said, no, the FBI said they never found any evidence of any untoward behavior toward his former pages.
But it was the old appearance of impropriety.
It was the old seriousness of the charge business.
That's another example of how this disparity works.
Clarence Thomas, there was no evidence ever of sexual harassment on Anita Hill, and the left knew it.
They said it didn't matter.
The seriousness of the charge.
What?
Evidence doesn't matter?
No, it doesn't.
Not when we're talking about a traitorous Uncle Tom Black.
The seriousness of the charge is all that matters.
Wait a minute.
You don't have any evidence he actually did it other than Anita Hill said so?
That's right.
That's a serious charge.
And so in Mark Foley's, the appearance of impropriety was enough.
It was enough to get him hounded from office by the media on a daily basis.
The scandal, by the way, the media and the Democrats sat on that scandal until it would be too late for the Republicans to remove his name from the ballot.
The emails that he was sending to the pages had been around for months.
They knew about it.
They waited until September, October of 2006.
Classic.
Just classic.
And so now, here comes Barack Obama and a couple of executive orders to all of a sudden equalize the pay that women get in America.
Because don't you know, for going on 20 years now, women only make 77 cents of every dollar that men make.
There's been no progress on this issue.
For 20 years, the Democrats, they drag this issue out just as they drag out the minimum wage.
It is in the hopper.
It's in the playbook.
It's an early page.
And whenever they get in trouble, they bring it out.
And now they're in trouble with Obama, Karis.
It's time for a distraction.
Let's try to further the war on women.
None of it's real.
It's all smoke and mirrors because the place where women are paid less than men, the greatest is in the Obama White House.
And before that, it was the Clinton White House.
It's the Democrats once again projecting on the Republicans what they are doing, what they, the Democrats, are doing.
The Democrats are paying women less than men.
That's ignored.
They come around and they act like it is a fault of America.
It is a problem rooted in what?
American freedom, American capitalism.
You let this unfettered, unregulated capitalism go, and the natural hatred for women harbored by Republicans will be shown in how little they earn.
That's the message.
All the while, they are the ones underpaying women.
And in Obama's case, it's not just underpaying him, it's understaffing.
For the longest time, Obama didn't have any or any significant women in his inner circle outside of Valerie Jarrett and Michelle Mybell.
Dick Durbin, Dick Durbin's out there, he's making a lot of noise about this pay disparity, about how unfortunate it is, about how mean-spirited America is, how rotten to the core America is, how unfair America is.
Dick Durbin leading the Equal Pay Day push by Senate Democrats, he was to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act.
And who could oppose the Paycheck Fairness Act, the way that's written and worded.
So Dick Durbin takes to the Senate floor today to preach on the importance of passing legislation aimed at solving the gender gap.
He says, how serious is equal pay for equal work to working people across America?
I think it's critical.
Well, get this.
The average female salary in Durbin's office is $11,500 less than the average male salary.
So the Senate Democrat leading the push for equal pay for women on the basis that capitalism and Republicans discriminate against women as part of the war on women is paying female staffers $11,000 a year less than he's paying men.
Four out of the five highest paid staffers on Durbin's staff are men.
Not a single member of the Senate Democrat leadership has a female chief of staff or communications director.
This according to the Washington Times and the Washington Free Beacon.
Now, obviously, this is hypocrisy, but that's not really the story because the Democrats are never held accountable for hypocrisy.
And they're not helping.
Well, their intentions, see, Durbin didn't intend, he probably didn't even know.
That's the answer.
I'll bet he was shocked when he found out.
And he's going to find out whoever the paymaster is in his office, and they're going to be heads are going to roll.
Because, of course, he didn't know.
Because if Durbin would have known, this wouldn't have happened because Durbin loves women and Durbin loves fairness.
And Durbin loves equal pay.
And Durbin would never, ever intend for women to not make as much as men.
No, because he's leading the effort.
That's how we know.
But the reality is, women are chumps in his office.
That's not insignificant.
$11,000 a year less on average than the men make.
That's not accidental.
That's purposeful.
On the guy in the Senate Democrat side leading this equal pay crap act.
But see, he gets a pass because, well, he didn't know.
He didn't mean for that to happen.
He didn't intend that.
Well, it was heavily reported back in 2012.
Back in 2012, Durbin paid men $13,000 more than women.
That's 23% difference.
So Durbin making progress because in 2012 it was $13,000.
Now it's only $11,000.
So shut up.
See, he's going in the right direction.
He cares.
What a great, great guy.
Let's go to the audio sound by CBS this morning.
Co-host Nora O'Donnell's talking to Major Garrett, formerly of Fox News.
Now he's the chief White House correspondent for CBS talking about Obama announcing his executive orders today to strengthen enforcement of equal pay laws for women.
Nora Donald said, how do White House officials describe this disparity where at the White House, women make 88 cents for every dollar the men make?
How do they explain that, Major?
The White House is getting, as you indicated, Nora, roughed up by its own pay equity rhetoric.
The White House said its gender pay gap is tied to job experience, education, and hours worked, among other factors.
Wait a minute.
This matters.
No, no, keep going.
Because those explanations, according to the Labor Department, explain a good deal of the gender pay gap nationally.
The big difference in these stories, when President Obama discusses this issue nationally, he doesn't mention those other work variables, only the broad figure that 77 cents per dollar is what women earn compared to men in median wages.
Were we supposed to give Obama a pass?
So women at the White House make 88 cents for every dollar that men earn, but that's because it's tied to job experience, education, and hours worked.
So at the White House, it's not because there's any sexism, and it's not because they think women are inferior.
Oh, no, they love women at the White House.
No, it's because the women they have there don't know what they're doing compared to.
Is that it?
So they get a pass, but everybody else is being sexist bigots in a war on women.
Is that what we're to say?
And back to the phones we go, my friends.
This is Darrell in Nashville.
Been holding for a while, and we got time to squeeze in now.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome, sir.
I am too, Maha, 23-year dittos, and love the fact that you were willing to engage that last guy from Chicago.
And by the way, I know you don't need any help from me.
But let me tell you something, Junior, in Chicago.
I've been listening to Rush Limbaugh for 23 years.
I've listened to over 2,000 hours of programming, and I'm not aware of a single instance where he called for the resignation of a Democrat to engage in some kind of extramarital affair or any kind of other sexual dalliance.
In fact, most of the time, he encourages most people to continue running because they are such an embarrassment.
So before you try to trap Rush, get your facts together.
So swing in the miss.
Call back when you can have your facts in order.
Thank you, sir.
You know, that doesn't happen here very much.
I appreciate it.
Other than the sycophantic staff, they backed me up.
That doesn't happen.
I appreciate that.
Well, they need to work harder.
The staff.
No, the staff's being plenty good sycophants.
No, no.
Oh, they yell in the other room all the time when I'm treated unfairly.
But I appreciate that being serious for a minute.
It's really nice.
I appreciate it.
Rush, I am a 22-year listener.
I've kind of grown up with you.
I'm 10 years younger than you, and I kind of feel like you're a brother figure to me.
And I honestly mean that.
You know, being a 23-year listener, I have come to know that you are the reporter of facts that the mainstream media will not give us, and you've been pointing out hypocrisy in the media for 23 years, and the fact that we no longer have a skeptic, a media that has any skepticism among liberals and Democrats, which I think will lead to the ultimate destruction of our country.
Well, I agree.
The thing is, there never have really been skeptical.
They've always been partisans.
It's just they used to act as though they were objective.
But ever since this program started and conservative media got going, they've thrown all pretenses aside.
And now they're just full-fledged partisans attempting to achieve the advancement of the Democrat agenda every day.
That's what they've become.
They're not even media.
There's not even any reporting of anything.
The daily news rundown is whatever is important to the Democrat Party, and that's it.
Well, and the problem really is that they have chosen sides.
So as a listener, after 23 years of knowing from your information that they have chosen sides, and there is a double standard, what now?
What do we do?
What active thing can Americans do to take back our country from not liberals and Democrats?
If it were just strictly political, it could have been accomplished by now.
But the power of the media in this country is massive.
And I'm sick of being a passive bystander watching my country being destroyed within.
Men.
Amen.
I'm as frustrated by that as you are.
That's why I keep working, and it's why I'm writing these books for children.
But I understand your frustration.
It's hard to, you know, you ask yourself, I ask myself, okay, if the Republicans got in the game advertising-wise, could they help expose some of this?
Would it work?
I don't know.
Depending on how well it was done, I think it could, but they don't seem up for that.
No, they're not up for that.
And frankly, I think that the people who run the Republican Party don't necessarily think this is all that bad of a thing.
You know, I think they look around it and look around themselves.
They look at the transfer of wealth that is transferred from future generations to the enrichment of the four counties surrounding Washington, D.C. There have been literally trillions of dollars transferred, stolen from future generations that are being given now to the people who live, work, and surround the government only because of their position,
not because of any skill set, not because of any knowledge base, but because of who they are and where they are.
It's totally undeserved.
Like I said, the media is complicit in this transfer of wealth.
This money is being stolen, literally stolen from future generations.
And I've got a 19-year-old kid in college who, thank God, was able to get great scholarships.
I've got a 15-year-old in high school, and I fear deeply for their future.
I fear enough for my own future.
You are not alone.
Absolutely.
Let me ask you, though, what would you like to see?
I mean, here's a short version of what ultimately I think would be best, and that's an awakening on the part of the American people, an awakening of knowledge and understanding.
Now, take a look at something like Obamacare.
Here's something that is at some point, it is going to affect everybody.
Now, I know people say, Wait, Rush, a lot of them are subsidized, and it's not going to affect everybody economically as strongly as you think, but it's still going to.
I think even now, to the extent that it has impacted a lot of people, there are a lot of young people who really thought Obama walked on water who don't.
But the problem is, because of what we discussed yesterday, people are not blaming Obama.
His approval numbers are down and all that.
But I think they're losing faith in the country.
I really, I've always thought that the answer to this is an increasingly informed public.
How do you do that is the question.
Then the media enters the fray again.
You've got the pop culture media, you've got academia, and you've got elementary school curriculum, which is working against everything you want to see happen.
Well, having listened to you for 23 years, I know you're not going to like this.
We are feeding the beast that would destroy us.
Whenever we watch the Super Bowl, when we watch the Final Four, when we watch Dancing with the Stars, we have to remember that the networks don't derive the primary form of revenue and profitability from their news divisions.
CBS doesn't make money on the CBS news division.
They make money on entertainment and sports.
And ABC does it through ESPN, and they do it through their other popular programs.
And yet we consume it every single day.
Personally, I haven't watched a single sports program.
And when I was a kid, there was not a bigger sports fan.
I haven't watched sports programming in probably two years.
But that's just a very small portion of it.
If 30 or 40 million conservative Americans would do to the major media what a few gay activists did to Mozilla, it could rock their world.
But yet I think people are so addicted to entertainment as celebrity that they really don't have the gall to do it.
Not only that, a lot of them do not believe that that branch of the media, the entertainment media, is politicized.
They are intertwined at the hip.
And if they aren't intertwined, we need to intertwine them.
We need to make that connection.
And, you know, as a guy out here by himself, does CBS care that I didn't watch the final four?
Probably not.
But if 40 million conservative Americans start speaking with their pocketbooks, it can refuse to consume and refuse to feed the beast that would destroy them, it could definitely make a mark.
But I don't think most people really have the gumption.
Okay, but at least that's one thing you'd like to see.
I mean, it may be unreachable, but at least it's an idea.
It's a positive action.
It's a positive action.
You'd probably also like to see the Republican Party actually act as an opposition party.
And there's a lot of things an opposition party could do and push back that would serve to inform and educate.
We had a great suggestion from a young caller yesterday who said that Russia got to face some reality.
And the reality is that almost half the country expects to get something now from government.
That's what government is to them.
So we've got to approach them that way.
So say, we can give you more, or you can have more if you elect us.
And then we tell them how.
And I thought that was well thought out.
I thought it was some really good thinking because it does get to the doesn't cause us to compromise what we believe, doesn't cause us to be for amnesty.
It just requires us to simply tell the truth.
You are going to end up much better off with us.
If somebody can come along and articulate it that actually runs for office and so forth and then can implement it and inspire people.
People are down in the dumps in this country.
There's a malaise over there.
This is not talked about in the media, but there's a malaise and a depression.
And is this all there is attitude on the part of a lot of people right now?
And I think it's ripe.
I think it's just, it's a gold mine waiting to be tapped.
But we do not have apparently a Republican Party right now that wants to go in that direction.
They're too frightened.
Rush, the alternative to this is very dark and it's very bleak.
Because if we continue down this road, we face currency destruction.
We face, you know, I've been to a lot of different countries.
And when people lose respect for the rule of law, that's when they stop.
They stop paying their taxes.
They do everything they can to get around whatever government regulations there are illegally.
I went through last week what this is going to look like if it's unchecked.
It's going to look like the Great Depression.
Yes.
It's going to look like a breakdown of orderly society.
It is going to look like that, and it can't happen.
Anyway, you're like many people.
You've identified the number one obstacle as the media in all of its parts.
And I don't disagree with you on that.
It's taken, this didn't happen overnight.
The left has been plodding along for 50 years on this course.
The propagandizing and the indoctrination of young people in school, then with the popular culture.
And we're thinking, okay, we're here at a crisis point, almost a tipping point.
We've got to reverse it overnight.
Well, they didn't get us here overnight.
It's not going to be reversed overnight.
One election is not going to fix this, is the point.
One presidential election and even the Republicans winning the Senate is not going to fix it.
It's a first step, but then it's going to depend.
Okay, who are the Republicans that are going to be in office after this win?
What are they going to be made of?
Are they going to want to use their locale in Washington to enrich themselves like everybody else in that town does?
Because boy, did you nail that?
You nailed that.
The people that are able to find and wield influence in that town are the ones getting rich.
It doesn't matter college they went to or whatever, other than network connections and so forth, but that's where all the money flows.
Trillions of dollars are collected in Washington every year, and everybody there wants the power over how it's distributed.
I got to go.
I appreciate the call, Daryl.
Thanks much.
It's Daryl in Nashville.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to say something one more time.
And I know that it's met with some disbelief by some of you out there.
I firmly believe that there are still a lot more people who agree, for example, with our last caller than who don't.
I also believe they are afraid to say so.
Many of them are afraid to say so.
Some of them are afraid to even act in ways that people would see.
They agree.
There is a lot of intimidation and bullying that has resulted by the left that's resulted in a lot of fear.
The president's race is a factor in this.
But so is the fascism of the left and the media.
But I think that there are more people still appalled, frightened, angry, scared, who just don't know how to do anything about it or what to say and who to.
But they will be rallied at some point.
And I'm going to tell you, this stands to reason.
There are more people than not, and I believe by a strong number, who do not want to accept the idea that this country's better days are behind us and that this country is finished.
And something is going to happen at some point to wake them up.
I don't know what it is or when, but I have full-fledged total faith.
Now, I know it'd be really great if we could somehow get through to low-information voters and let them know something just as simple as media bias.
You think everybody understands that?
Everybody doesn't.
Particularly when they're watching TMZ or e-Entertainment News or the NFL.
They don't, they're reading sports pages.
They don't see the bias there.
It's dripping.
Liberal media bias is everywhere there is media, but some places it's not seen or even assumed to exist.
That's why I may be spitting in the wind.
I really have always believed the more people who could be effectively taught about liberalism and who they are and what happens, and we're living it, then the better off we would be.
Now, we had two decades or two presidential terms, Ronald Reagan, that should have taught a lot of people a lot of things just on economic prosperity and the effect of low taxes, unemployment, a lot of things.
But the minute Reagan left off, while he was in office, the media was doing their best to, well, destroy Reagan, to impugn Reagan, make things up better.
I mean, it was relentless.
The hatred for Reagan, it was as bad, if not worse, than the hatred for George W. Bush.
And when Reagan left office, the revisionism began, and of course the Republican Party joined it.
Don't forget.
But it can be done.
I firmly believe it.
Now, one of the reasons that the regime has gone back to this equal pay for women thing, which is old hat and not even applicable anymore.
Do you know what RAE stands for?
RAE stands for Rising American Electorate.
And according to Stan Greenberg of the Democracy Corps, he's the Clinton Carville poll pollster guy.
Rising American Electorate is unmarried women, young voters, and minorities.
That's the rising America.
That's who they think will determine who wins elections.
That combination of people.
Unmarried single women, young people, and minorities.
So they have been polling these groups.
Poll done by Stan Greenberg of Democracy Corps for Women's Voices, Women Vote.
And they have a poll that finds voters nationwide in this group, rising American electorate, unmarried women, young voters, and minorities, as of today, are significantly less likely to vote in 2014 than other voters.
In other words, the base of the Democrat Party, rising American, unmarried women, young voters, minorities.
The base is unmotivated.
Greenberg conducted polling and discovered that unmarried women, young voters, minorities are not eager to go vote and that the only thing that might entice them is Santa Claus.
And I'm not making that up.
They're not thrilled.
It isn't working for them is the bottom line.
They may love Obama, but it isn't working.
They're not working.
They've got no careers.
They've got no prosperity.
It isn't working for them.
I will expand on this and get into the latest flailing attempt in global warming.
This is just too much, too.
You have much more straight ahead, my friends.
So you sit tight.
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