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April 14, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 14, 2014, Monday, Hour #3
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Welcome back, folks.
It's great to have you, Rush Lindbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
And I'm here.
And as long as I'm here, it doesn't matter where here is.
And nevertheless, we're here executing assigned host duties flawlessly.
Zero mistakes.
Happy to have you along.
The telephone number is 800-282-2882 and the email address, Lrushbo at EIBnet.com.
Now, I happen to mention in the first hour of the program, the latest Washingtonian magazine, I don't think it's a cover story.
It's a puff piece on Jay Carney, the White House spokesman, his wife, Claire Shipman.
Have you seen this?
You haven't seen this?
Well, I'm glad you haven't.
I need to tell you about this because A, there's a lot of, there's a lot of photography, a lot of pictures in this story, but Claire Shipman, it's key to understand something about her.
Claire Shipman, the current wife of Jay Carney, used to be married when she was much younger, like 19 years ago, to the Moscow bureau chief, I think he was for CNN, Steve Hearst.
They were both stationed there.
Now, there is Soviet propaganda posters in their kitchen, in their house, in the Carney's house.
Carney himself is a scholar on Soviet studies and Eastern European this and that.
And it may not be coincidental that there is an emotional attachment to the old Soviet Union here.
But the thing that strikes me, it's mainly a story about Claire Shipman, but how she balances work with her two adorably beautiful children in their fashionable, perfect suburban home.
It is everything the Democrat Party stands against.
It is everything the Democrat Party condemns.
The Democrat Party says this is not possible anymore, that people that want to have a lifestyle like this essentially want to go back to the Ozzy and Harriet days of the 50s.
And that's not possible anymore, they say, because the country's changed.
And the reality now is single motherhood, single parenthood, gay families and so forth.
And yet, the Washingtonian magazine of all the people it can highlight, it's granted it's about Washington, but everything in this story runs counter to what the Democrats sponsor and promote all over the rest of the country, which illustrates that if they want to live a Beaver and Cleaver lifestyle, the Democrat Party leaders, they will.
But you can't and nobody else should.
Two sets of rules, two different Americas.
The old standard, good old-fashioned America for them and their kids, but not for you and yours.
Because America is changing and we must get with it.
We must be progressive.
They even photoshopped a photo of Jay Carney and the wife, Claire Shipman, standing at a podium in front of a bunch of books.
And I want to show you this.
This was uncovered by John Hindrocker at Powerline.
And I've got the ditto cam right here.
Now, I'm going to describe this first, and I'm going to show it to you.
Jay Carney and a loving wife, Claire Shipman, used to be at CSU Not ABC.
They're standing in a podium and there are bookshelves filled with books behind them.
And of course, image matters.
It's made to look like these people are people of the written word.
They are studious and smart people surrounded by books.
In front of the podium are two young children.
It looks to be their own son and daughter.
And it looks to be like they're faking here being press secretaries with their kids being the media answering them questions.
But it's been Photoshopped.
They've added books to the picture that weren't there.
They faked it.
And the proof is, I'm going to hold this picture up.
And I have circled the key element and drawn an arrow to it.
Very crudely, because I didn't have the proper utensil here, but I still did it.
The young boy, as you look at the picture on the left side of the podium, is standing with his left hand raised.
And you will see his left thumb circled by me.
If you look to the right of Claire Shipman as you look at the picture, you will see just the little finger of the little boy's hand raised in front of the same book.
Now, I don't know if I've got – let me hold that up and see.
I can't get close.
I should have asked you, is this the zoom for the camera?
It is.
All right, let me see if this zooms it.
Oops.
Nope, that goes to the ceiling.
All right, back down.
Sorry, folks, I should, you know, I ought to wait.
I'm going to do this during the break.
I'll tell you other things about the story if I get this camera figured out.
The main takeaway here, it's a total puff piece on this ideal, perfect couple that everybody should want to be like, that everybody should want to emulate.
And it's the last thing that the Democrat Party stands for.
And it is so hokey that even the Twitter universe is posting people ridiculing it, laughing at it, making fun of it.
A lot of people, the first picture is three people, Claire and the two kids, in their just lovely, fashionable, wealthy, rich kitchen that is loaded with enough food on the countertop to a pregame meal for a football team.
No food desert, wherever it is they live.
The son is flipping fried eggs with the giant skillet while Claire and her daughter are standing by in their pajamas, pointing laughingly, lovingly at the talented son who is flipping the fried egg, obviously in an over-hard manner.
But there are balls of pastries and fruit and breakfast meats and loose fruit on the counter.
And so it looks exactly like you would expect a TV show from the 1960s to look like.
And that's the thing about this that strikes me.
It is totally the opposite.
If somebody like me were to come forth and espouse this kind of life for the average American family today, I would be ridiculed as out of touch and not knowing how hard it is for American families.
And I would be accused of resenting single mothers and single parent families and gay families and so forth.
And yet, the photos in this picture are in the old days what any American family aspired to and the way television portrayed the average American family back in the Ozzie and Harriet days.
A lot of people are focusing on the Soviet propaganda, the Soviet posters that are in the family kitchen here.
And the reason for that, again, is that both Shipman and Carney have spent time in Russia when it was the Soviet Union.
And Steve Hearst, the ex-husband, apparently was a big, big believer.
Now, let me read you.
Here's John Hindrocker at the end of this piece.
And yet, Carney's own experience illustrates how silly the Democrats' claims are.
Shipman has worked part-time for the last five years to spend more time with her young children.
Carney, meanwhile, leaves for the White House 7.25 a.m., tries to get home by 8 in the evening.
As in most families, it's the wife who takes time out from her career to focus on children, who devotes more time to her family.
Flexibility, she says.
That's what most working mothers really want.
Exactly.
It's the same choice that most families make, not all, but most.
And it largely explains why, on the average, men earn more than women.
Carney, no doubt, understands this perfectly well, but this is one of many instances where he has to pretend that the Democrats' politically inspired claims make sense, even though they are contrary to his own experience and everyone else's.
That's one of the downsides of being a liberal, but there are advantages too.
Among them is the fact that if a magazine publishes a profile on you, it's going to be fawning.
His point here is, is that in the midst of this debate about how women only make 77 cents on the dollar that men make, here is Claire Shipman sandbagging feminism, talking about how happy she is to only work part-time, how happy she is.
She stays home with the children.
There's no daycare here.
She's not farming her own kids out.
She's staying at home with the mother.
But you let any other woman try this, and it is an assault on feminism, and it's a denial of women reaching their full potential.
And yet, whatever Claire wants to do is absolutely adorable.
It's absolutely beautiful.
It's just blatantly hypocritical.
And it illustrates the absolute hypocrisy and phoniness, by the way, and the damaging aspects of the way liberals and Democrats are trying to construct interpersonal family relationships.
I mean, remember that TV ad that the regime ran on Julia, the single woman, who could not wake up without a government program, who couldn't get through the program without a government, the day without a government program, who had a baby without one reference to any man, and it was a perfect baby.
And she had her garden, and she had her subway token, and she had her health care, and everything in her life came from a government program.
And she was joyously happy living alone in a small little one-bedroom apartment with a five-square-foot garden outside that she got to tend.
And the regime put that out as this is what it is for women today.
But you won't find Claire Shipman doing that.
And I dare say you won't find Andrea Mitchell in that picture.
And you won't find any other female American journalist in Washington in that picture.
You won't see any of them as Julia.
So while they are living in ways that they say is not possible, they are living in ways with the husband making more than the wife, with the wife choosing to stay home to be with her own kids and not using daycare and being praised for it, not condemned.
Yeah, it's just priceless what this is.
And I'm sure these people, Washingtonian, had no intention for this to be the take.
This is the most fawning, syrupy, puff beast.
I mean, this could send you into insulin shock, this piece.
And I wonder how much jealousy there is inside the Beltway among other media couples.
Like I say, I wonder if Alan Greenspan and Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, are jealous of this.
Or take your pick.
They're all married to each other.
It's just an incestuous place inside the Beltway.
But I'm going to show you this Photoshop picture.
I have to do this.
I'm going to take a break.
I'm going to figure out how to zoom this camera in because it's as phony as pretty much everything else in this is.
But I can't, folks, I really can't emphasize enough how we've just had a piece in a very liberal Washington magazine just praising a family of Democrats for living a family life that Democrats politically condemn and make fun of or attack and claim that they're rich and they aren't paying their fair or that they're abnormal,
that the real America is busted families.
It's single parent families, particularly single mother families.
And that women are so stressed they don't have any choice.
And they have to work and they have to stay with their kids and they can't.
And their husbands are mean-spirited predators and brutes.
You know the routine.
And yet for them, none of that applies.
They're free and clear to live as normally as any American family has ever wanted to.
Except when you express the desire, they call you a hypocrite or a bigot or somebody that's too separated from the past.
You want to turn back the hands of time.
You want to go back to the 50s and we can't do that.
That America doesn't exist.
Except it does at Jay Carney and Claire Shipman's house.
And there are pictures here that prove it.
Okay, folks, I think I got that camera thing straightened out.
For those of you watching on the Ditto Cam today, you saw me doing the rehearsal.
So the first picture I'm going to show you is of the Shipman children and Claire in the kitchen that I described.
The young man flipping the fried egg while Claire and the daughter point and look on in smiling amazement.
I want you to notice all the food on the counter.
And then in the deep background, you will see two posters that you probably are not going to be able to read on the ditto cam, but they are the Soviet propaganda from old days.
Poster.
Okay, hold it up there.
Let's see if I can.
I'm going to have to.
I'm not going to worry about backing up.
There is, first off, there's Claire and the two lovely children.
Isn't that just, and she's so happy?
See, she has the flexibility to stay home with them in her pajamas.
She loves that flexibility.
Now, see that Soviet poster behind her left shoulder.
That's from the old Soviet Union days.
Now, look at the food on that counter, folks.
That is enough to feed a homeless shelter in Washington for a month.
All coordinated blue pajamas.
That speaks for itself.
Yes, in their, is that just not.
I mean, that's Ozzie and Harriet.
This is not possible in America anymore.
And if you want a family like this, you're a bigot.
The Romneys were not allowed to have this.
Ann Romney, remember, was laughed at and skewered?
Remember Hillary Rose?
She doesn't have to work.
She doesn't know what work is.
Well, it doesn't look like Claire does either here.
Okay, turn the ditto cam off.
Now, here comes the next one.
All right, turn it on.
Now let's sit this centered.
I want you to see the two arrows.
If you look to the right of Jay Carney, well, his right, to your left, I have circled the little finger of the son.
See the son and the daughter standing there in front of the podium with all those books.
See that?
Now look at the son's little finger on the left hand.
I've circled it and drawn an arrow.
They photoshopped this.
I'm going to now pan to the right and you will see that little finger again, just the finger right there with the arrow drawn to it.
That is the finger of the little boy photoshopped from over here.
You can see that's a book cover behind the little finger.
It's blue in the picture when you see it.
There's just a little bit of it above his little finger.
And I pan over again and you'll see the exact same thing underneath that arrow.
You notice that these two kids are not playing video games.
They're not watching television with mom and dad.
They are actually standing in the family library pretending to ask their parents questions as though they're journalists or something like that.
But they clearly are not engaging in video games or watching pornography on TV or whatever it is we're told kids are going to do today.
They're not having sex with their friends upstairs.
They are dutiful little children with mom and dad teaching them the right and wrong and how to read and all of that.
None of this is supposedly possible in America anymore.
And of course, you would never sever your son's little finger and put it in a picture to make it look like you have more books than you have.
I'll back off.
See it?
You have to get really close.
Let me get real close in.
There's the kid's little finger photoshopped.
And then here it is again as part of his hand.
Can you see that all right?
Okay, turn the ditto cam off.
I'm telling you, folks.
And then the Soviet posters and the flipping of the gags and all that food.
It's just a beautiful thing.
No, no, no, no.
You know, this Washingtonian piece on the Carneys, it does bother me because the Democrat Party has done everything it can to destroy that kind of family life, to mock it, to claim it isn't possible, to claim to desire it is a desire to live into a past that can no longer be.
And all the while, the Democrat Party is, what are they doing?
They're out there trying to attract the votes of single female voters, single married and single unmarried voters.
And it is my contention that Democrat Party policies create that demographic.
Democrat liberal policies create single women, both with and without children.
And the government becomes the husband, the provider, the protector.
You can't get anywhere in these women's lives, in their minds, without a government program.
Doesn't matter what aspect of your life you're talking about.
And as such, while here we have a puff piece extolling the beautiful marriage of the Carneys, the Democrat Party is on the warpath to virtually redefine it and change it so that it doesn't mean anything anymore.
And people who wish to hold on to the traditional definition of marriage and a traditional lifestyle rooted around it are called what?
Hateful bigots.
Like this guy that gave $1,000 to Prop 8 had to be drummed out of the entire tech business because he gave money to hate and bigotry.
I mean, I think the hypocrisy here is just astounding because the Democrat Party is rooted.
Don't doubt me on this.
Why are you laughing?
Is something funny or are you just jazzed because of my passion?
And I'm telling you something.
The Democrat Party is rooted in having everybody reject the traditional idea of marriage.
Isn't it?
We're supposed to reject it.
The traditional marriage.
That's old-fashioned.
That's not that.
That's exclusive.
It's bigotry.
It's hatred.
Traditional marriage, something that we are supposed to think is old-fashioned and unachievable anymore.
And when you break up a marriage, when you have policies responsible for destroying the nuclear family, what are you doing?
You're creating dependency on government.
And all the while, the Democrats are out telling women this is going to make them independent.
You don't need a man.
You don't need a relationship.
You don't need a slug hum around you.
Some predator's going to beat up your children.
You need to be independent of all that.
And all it does is turn them dependent on the government.
It really is hideous what these people have done ever since the Great Society and the War on Poverty.
And now we get a picture of the average Democrat media couple's life.
And how beautiful a thing it is, how warm and wonderful a family is.
I'll say it's enough to make you gag.
The hypocrisy alone and the idea that there are two sets of rules and they, they can have wives that are flexible and stay home and don't send the kids to daycare and work when they want to work and don't worry about how much more the husband makes than the wife, but you can't.
Now, you have to comport concommittantly with the notion that your wife can't be flexible because life is so tough because of the Republicans.
It really frosts me.
Steve in Dell City, Oklahoma, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Thank you, El Rushbo.
It's a pleasure to speak with you again.
I spoke with you back when you were selling off your Reed Letter.
I'm calling in response to who you are.
And if I may, from a longtime listener's perspective, I consider you a natural-born patriot, or excuse me, a natural-born broadcaster that was spawned by nature in order to fill the void of common sense, reason, and poignant good humor that exist in the socio-political landscape of today.
Why, I thank you very much.
You're calling in response to the young student who has to write this piece on who am I Rush Limboy.
You wanted to weigh in on that.
Well, that's awfully flattering.
You really flatter me.
Well, you inform me a great deal.
I like the force of nature part.
Well, you know, the founders were very keen on the laws of nature and nature's laws and the conduct and affairs of men and nations.
And we need more of that in the discourse in politics today to better understand the principles of the Constitution.
You do an excellent job of that in a contemporary, humorous, and factual basis every day.
And we all thank you out here, Brush.
I thank you.
I hope our young scholar is still listening.
You're right.
I found a niche and I scratched it.
Yes, and, you know, nature abhors the vacuum, and you fill that vacuum.
And I agree with you that you are the reason that AM radio is still in existence.
I grew up early like you listening to rock and roll and country music and what have you on AM.
And none of that exists anymore.
It's all talk radio because of your leadership.
Well, again, I appreciate it.
Thank you.
By the way, I didn't tell him that in a braggadocious, well, maybe a little bit.
But I wasn't trying to tick off everybody in AM radio.
They've said so themselves.
It was just, if somebody's going to do a scholarly piece, I was trying to advise him on ways to write it that would hook people so they read the whole thing.
And, you know, a bold statement like that would do the trick.
But I nevertheless appreciate your kind words.
I really do.
This nature abhors a vacuum point.
There was in 1980, well, before 88.
I mean, before 1988, there was no national conservative media, period, ever.
None.
And then here came the program and voila.
And I think, if you agree with us or not, Steve, but I think the rise of this program and the others that have now come along, Fox News and all the blogs, I think they've turned the so-called mainstream media even more partisan.
I think they've turned them even more vicious and angry because of the competitive nature that they find themselves.
And they used to have a monopoly.
Now they don't.
They're mad about that.
Well, I guess Steve is.
Yeah, I'm afraid that I'm losing your signal a little bit, so I'll let you go.
I thought you were dazzled by what I said and were speechless.
That's okay.
Look, I appreciate the comment.
I really do.
And I'm glad that you got through.
Thank Steve so much.
Bottom of my heart.
There he is dazzled again.
He just doesn't know what to say.
We'll be back after this, folks.
Understand, ladies and gentlemen, my occasional usage of the word concomitant and concommittantly is irritating freepers at freerepublic.com.
Yes, and if I hear that word and his pronunciation one more time, I will scream.
I guess some prefer concomitantly.
At any rate, I was watching a show, a BBC show, fascinating show, by the way.
I hope it's made available in America, the BBC, about Kim Philby.
And it's a two-part, I guess, an hour, 45 minutes each, whatever, hour, hour and a half, maybe it's two hours, two episodes of historian documentarian named Ben McIntyre telling the story of Kim Philby.
He was a Soviet spy in the UK who got away with it for quite a few years.
It's a fascinating story.
Occurred in the 50s, 60s, 70s, all the way in the 80s.
He died sometime in the 80s.
But listening to Ben McIntyre narrate this thing, he pronounced some words in ways I have never heard them pronounced.
I had to rewind one three or four times.
Because it dovetailed with what the captioning said.
We pronounced the word controversy.
He said it controversy.
The controversy that Philby found himself in the middle.
Wait, what is that?
And it's just like in the old NBC days.
I'm talking to the David Sarnoff days, when you wanted to try out to be a staff announcer at NBC, they gave you a pronunciation test.
And if they gave you the word C-O-N, S-U-M-M-A-T-E, most people pronounce that consummate.
If you were taking the old NBC staff announcer test, if you didn't pronounce it consummate, you failed.
Consummate was the way it was pronounced then.
Controversy is the way the Brits, apparently, some of them pronounce controversy.
And you advertisement, but advertisement, advert is the British word for commercial or spot.
British everything wrong.
But now people are all over me for concomitantly and the way I'm pronouncing it.
Concompetantly.
Concomitantly is what some people want me to pronounce it.
Screw all of you.
You know what the word is.
The thing is, when I started using it, everybody here thought I had made up a word.
You freepers at least know it's a word.
Now the staff saying, gee, thanks.
We're for making us look like idiots.
Now, I'm just joking here, but the freepers are really upset here, apparently by the way I'm pronouncing it.
Scott, Minneapolis.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello, sir.
Thank you, Rush, for taking my call this afternoon.
You back.
I'm well.
Very well.
Thank you.
Yeah, I'm just calling to just say thanks.
I've been listening to your show since 2008.
We didn't actually get you syndicated up here until then, so I was unfortunate I wasn't able to listen to you prior to then, and I didn't really know much of you.
No, no, no, no.
We've been on in Minneapolis since 1989.
Not on any of the stations I listened to, but that's how I found you.
You were brought to an FM station, and you were on one day, and I've been listening to you ever since.
There you go.
That's right.
That's right.
Even though I only agree with you 99.7% of the time, with that being said, your show to me is like an Apple product for you to the best.
So I just want to thank, again, a lot of people out here in the country listen to you religiously, and you do great things.
That is a compliment.
You don't know.
That is a compliment.
You tell me that my show is to you what an Apple product is to me.
I mean, that's, you can't improve on that.
That's really nice.
You're welcome.
I wanted to make a quick comment on the lady two callers ago.
She was talking about the attacking at the school, the knife attacking.
And I just wanted to point something out and see what you thought.
You know, we've had a lot of attacks at these schools over the last several years.
And, you know, it's been guns, knives, whatever.
They're all sad.
But no one seems to ask the question, what is going on in these schools?
I mean, it's always a college, a high school where these people go to attack.
And I don't believe it's because there aren't weapons.
I think it's just what's going on in the school.
You know, they're not teaching these kids values or anything.
And no one ever talks about that.
I know.
They always focus on the home.
They always focus on what maybe is not being taught or what is.
But the key to why it's a school is because everybody knows there aren't any weapons there.
A gunsman, knives, you can't even point your finger like a gun and stay in school.
They'll throw you out.
So you can't even fake somebody out with a fingerpoint gun.
There aren't any guns.
If you want to show up and get away with killing some people before the cops show up, go to a school.
Apparently, knife ditto.
Now that, I know that's not what you're talking about.
You're talking about what's not being taught, what is.
And I think that's relevant too.
But there's also just, there are evil people.
And there are just people not wired correctly.
No matter what we do, we're not going to conform everybody in a law-abiding.
Everybody's not going to be like the Carneys.
We just are not going to be able to have a wholesome family like Jay Carney and Claire Shipman had.
Not everybody can have that.
Scott, I appreciate the call.
If you can go back, find an old dictionary and look up the original pronunciation of the word espionage.
It used to be espionage.
Henry Cabot Lodge even once pronounced it that way, espionage, to go along with concomitant.
That better, folks.
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