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April 15, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 15, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #3
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It's just where the syllables ended up.
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Speaking of Carl's Jr. and Waffle House and so forth, Catherine sent me an email that we both got.
I don't know how long ago this was, but apparently there's a restaurant in Rio Linda called Bow Winkles.
Is it a chain?
Are there Bull Winkles?
Have you heard of a Bow Winkles here in Southern California anywhere?
You have not.
It must be exclusive to Rio Linda.
And I have here, I'm holding my formally nicotine stained finger.
You can't see it.
Somebody took a picture of the drive-thru menu, and they have the Rush Limbaugh burger.
Imagine if Bubba Watson had gone there.
Well, it says you supply the attitude and we'll supply the pound of meat.
And it looks like there's flash glare on the glass in front of the menu here, but it looks like the price is $9.99.
I can't, I don't know what the price is.
The gaggler burger right beneath the Rush Limbaugh burger is $10.99.
And this looks like it's $9.99, something like that.
Anyway, the Rush Limbaugh, you supply the attitude and we'll split the beef.
So we have the sound bites now of the woman that was on with Cavuto yesterday afternoon.
Her name was Catherine Talmadge, or Talmadge.
She's a nutritionist, don't you know, and an authorette.
And she was on talking about Bubba and his decision to go to Waffle House after winning the Masters on Sunday.
And Cavuto said, why are you sick?
Apparently, she'd been out talking about it enough that Cavuto wanted to have her on as a guest.
She said, why are you sick about Bubba Watson eating at Waffle House after winning the Masters?
Well, it would be great if celebrities and sports figures set a better example for our obese nation.
Well, what's wrong with the Waffle House?
There's nothing wrong with the Waffle House if it's an occasional splurge, but these gazillionaires love to show Americans that they're one of you.
And so to win a popularity contest, they go to waffle houses, diners, steak places, when in reality, to be a great athlete or a celebrity in good shape, they don't really eat like that.
Man, oh man, do you all understand everything that is wrapped up in this one 35-second bite?
Let's start at the top of this.
There's nothing wrong with the Waffle House if it's an occasional splurge.
Ms. Tallmadge, it really is none of your business.
It really has nothing to do with you.
Who goes to Waffle House and how often and why is none of your business.
And nobody has elected or appointed you the overseer of their culinary behavior.
So who are you?
I mean, surely you can say what you want to say, but why do you think this way?
I don't understand.
Why does it matter?
Now, I know why it matters.
That's the point.
I understand these people, folks, better than they understand themselves.
But these gazillionaires.
Bubba Watson is not a gazillion.
By the time Bubba Watson pays his taxes on that $1.6 million, he's going to have less than a million dollars left.
He's got to pay his caddy.
Then he had expenses to live there.
Pretty rent a house for the time.
He's not going to walk away there, millionaire.
Now he's got his endorsement deals and so forth.
He does okay, but he's not a gazillionaire.
They love to show Americans they're one of you.
Oh, so he's a phony.
So to win a popularity contest, they go to Waffle House.
Right.
So only the poor and only the dregs and only the middle class go.
And the only reason Bubba is going is to forge a bond with people.
And he's lying to them.
He's faking them out.
He doesn't really like it.
And he doesn't really go there.
He's just doing, it's exactly what I was talking about in a monologue the day after they got rid of this CEO at Mozilla and about intentions and about how the left assigns intentions to us when in fact it's their intentions that ought to be up to examination.
And even when people on the right do good things, it's not real.
See, it isn't genuine.
Oh no, even going to the Waffle House is a studied fake act of deception to this loony tune.
Just like David Koch giving a million dollars to the hospital to New York.
He didn't really mean it.
He's just doing that to hide the fact he really hates the poor and he hates the sick, but he doesn't want people to know that.
So he gives $100 million to the hospital to cover up his hatred and his bigot.
That's what they think.
And here you have a living, breathing example of it.
So Bubba, he doesn't really go to the Waffle House and he doesn't even really like it.
He's just doing it to fake people out.
He's just doing it to deceive people, to make them think that he's one of them when he's really not.
He's a gazillionaire and he's so above them.
But he doesn't want them to know that.
It's all about marketing and faking things and staging things for popularity.
And Ms. Talmadge, I'm telling you, it's exactly what you people do.
You are the disingenuous, dishonest.
You are the ones that manufacture circumstances to make yourselves look like what you're not.
Yeah, how about John Kerry asking for Swiss cheese on a Philly cheesesteak?
And I have Swiss cheese on it.
How about John Kerry walking into some hunting lodge somewhere in Ohio?
Is this where I get me a hunting license?
Doing what he thinks he has to do to relate to hunters because he thinks they're half-breeds and half-wits.
So is this where I get me a hunting license?
I mean, and how transparently obvious was it?
In the meanwhile, Bubba Watson really loves Waffle House.
And he's been going there for years.
He doesn't eat waffles there.
It's some kind of a sandwich that he likes there.
But he loves it there.
You know, Bubba is a pretty devout Christian, too.
And if you listen to his post-victory, the jacket ceremony and press conference, he really wants to talk more about it than he does.
He knows it'll make people uncomfortable.
So he gets in, gets out real quick.
Yeah, and he's got a three-year-old adopted son.
I think his son's adopted.
Not sure about that, but he's got a three-year-old son.
Waffle House is perfect.
And he takes his son there now and then.
He was there with his wife and his pastor, by the way.
When in reality, to be a great athlete or celebrity in great shape, they don't eat like that.
You know, Ms. Tallmadge, I don't know what you're talking about.
I have hung around athletes.
I can't believe how much some of them could eat.
They do eat this garbage.
In your mind, it's garbage.
They do eat this stuff.
They eat a lot.
Michael Phelps, do you remember the stories during the Olympics about how many calories he had to eat every day?
9,000 calories.
His breakfast was 5,000 calories.
And it was eggs and bacon.
And it was just all kinds of stuff that Catherine Tallmadge would disapprove of and think that no athlete ever eats.
She'd be stunned to see what marathoners eat two days before a race.
It's called carbo loading.
But I mean, this is just, it's none of her business in the first place and the last place.
And then she assigns all of these motives.
She doesn't even know Bubba Watson.
And remember, she is the one with the big heart.
She's a liberal.
She's got all the compassion.
She has the tolerance.
She's the one who loves people.
She's not a bigot.
She's not prejudicial.
She's no, she accepts everybody as they are, right?
So then Cavuto said, now you've said, Ms. Tolmadge, that you ate pie and ice cream last weekend yourself.
So you're just as bad as Bubba, right?
Well, you know, a lot of celebrities who are obviously in shape, skinny, eat healthy, they advertise Coca-Cola, which they clearly must not drink in order to be as slim and slender as they actually are.
You, lady, do not know what you're talking about.
She literally does not know what in the world.
Have you ever, Ms. Tolmadge, have you ever seen, are you aware of the amount of beer consumed by your average NFL team post-game or your average Major League Baseball team after a hot summer Sunday afternoon game?
Have you ever seen, you ever contemplate what these people do to stay hydrated?
So all of this is fake.
They're advertising these things that they don't use.
They never eat this stuff that people say makes you fat.
How many people do you know that can and do eat all of this stuff they want and don't gain a pound and you hate them?
They're all over the place.
But I just think this is classic.
This is a great, great illustration.
Now, let's put it all together.
Watson's son is adopted.
His name is Caleb.
Just wanted to make sure that I had that right.
Now, Bubba Watson, he can't be forgiven for going to a Waffle House.
He's quietly a devout Christian.
He can't be forgiven.
Waffle house.
No, no, no.
No way.
We have to forget and forgive Stephen Colbert for everything because he is a Catholic.
And he's cool.
He's fine.
He's okay.
There's nothing to worry about.
Bubba Watson.
He's a problem.
Bubba Watson is bad image for our kids.
Bubba Watson is a rotten role model.
Devout Christian.
Waffle House.
Can't have that.
Colbert, five kids, devout Catholic.
What could possibly be wrong?
Catherine Tolmadge, I guess she's got books and a website and a career based on pestering people over what they eat.
That's who she.
I never heard of her till this.
So way to go, Cavuto.
Way for dredging her up.
We'll be back.
Okay, back to the phones we go.
This is Ryan in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Welcome.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Hi, Rush.
Just more faith.
It's a real, real honor to be able to talk to you.
Thank you very much, sir.
I appreciate it.
No, I called in just because I wasn't able to hear yesterday's episode and I did not get to hear the results from Friday as far as the amount of money raised.
Well, we set a record.
It was just, it was overwhelming.
The weekend, every week, we ended up over $3.1 million.
Wow.
Well, I told Scarlett briefly, it kind of hit home with me a lot this year because last May, my wife, who was 26 at the time and seven months pregnant, went in and got a chest x-ray done and they found a mass in her chest, about the third the size of her chest cavity.
And it turned out to be Hotchkin's lymphoma.
And it was just kind of a whirlwind year.
And to hear, you know, I was looking forward to the curathon this year because it just, like I say, what you do, it's amazing.
And it certainly impacts a lot of people.
And this year.
Yeah, it's not me.
It's honestly, it's the audience.
It's 25 years, and this has been going on.
It's less than three hours a year that the people in this audience give that much money.
It's just, it overwhelms everybody.
There isn't a proper way to say thanks.
And I think it's, yeah, I think it's well over 35 million for the combined years.
And by now, because it was, it kept growing.
It started slow and it kept growing and growing and growing.
And now it's just, that's the thing.
It keeps growing every year.
That's what boggles everybody's mind.
The number of donors increased this year.
The amount of money, it was just, and these are not the best of economic times.
These are really challenging economic times for people.
But Ryan, what you said is exactly what happens to people.
There is no indication at all in most instances of blood cancer.
You show up at the doctor for something and all of a sudden you get the diagnosis.
Some people might have fatigue or some such thing, but it's an out-of-the-blue kind of thing.
Children, adults, it knows, it doesn't discriminate.
And it's just, it's shocking when it happens.
And your wife's seven months pregnant and this happens.
It's just, it's an amazing thing.
But the point that was made, just to relive one thing here, every year we try to have a theme of sorts based on progress that's been made.
And the theme this year was that rather than tabulate survivability rates, which are increasing, the survivability has now changed to people actually being able to functionally live after diagnosis because of all the research gains thanks to the donations.
It's not just the survivability that's being calculated now, three to five years survivability rate.
It's livability.
People are actually living, not just breathing and surviving.
Great progress is being made.
In some cases, cures for some specific types.
But there's still a lot of work to do.
But I appreciate your calling and asking because it was just overwhelmingly successful.
And it still stuns me that all of this happens in less than three hours a year.
There's no other audience out there in media that would do this, I don't think.
And everybody involved is just eternally, eternally grateful.
Kate Carson City, Nevada.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi.
Well, hello, Rush dear.
How are you doing?
I'm just dandy.
Thank you.
I'm so glad.
It's so awesome what you do with that leukemia, lymphoma, drive.
You're such an awesome guy.
And I just want to say real quickly that that chick that was on Milk Cavuto, she's never fed baseball players.
I've been doing that for 30 years, and they eat more junk and are so skinny, and it drives me nuts.
So anyway, but that's all.
It's clear she doesn't know what she's talking about.
She doesn't know what she's talking about.
I can't keep food in those boys.
But anyway, the reason I called is because you talked about conservatism and how the conservative mindset is to challenge people to do their best, be their best, do more than they think they can do.
And you talked about coaches and teachers and those kind of folks who do that, and they do, absolutely.
But I think fundamentally it's parents and especially dads that really push kids to do more and be better than they thought they could be.
And that's one of the reasons, not the only reason, that the liberals are hell-bent, and I mean that literally, on destroying the family.
Because if they can get the dad out of the picture, then the government becomes their provider.
Well, the latter part of what you say there, there's no question.
Liberalism, you know what first put me onto this too, folks?
It wasn't something I came up with myself.
We have, this is years and years ago now.
We had a black woman that called, and she was just livid, and she lit into the federal government for destroying the black family, and she laid out how it has happened over the years.
She gave a chronological history of, if you go back to the average black family in Harlem in the 60s, and you had kids doing well on test scores, competing with kids from other schools.
And it was a whole different family.
Thomas sold us a whole different family dynamic.
And now you've got single parent families, largely single mother families with the father nowhere to be found, nowhere to be seen, and the government's coming to taking over, which happens to be just fine with the Democrat Party.
The Democrat Party, in fact, is trying to, they've got a turnout model, folks, for this upcoming election in November, targeting single women.
They hope to beat back what they think this Republican juggernaut, they're going to be doing all kinds of going to infuriate you.
It's going to, the process is going to involve two things.
They're going to try to dissuade Republicans from turning out, depressing you, making it think it's hopeless, a lost cause.
Don't worry about it.
What you think is finished.
What you want is over.
Your America is gone.
You've been defeated.
That's the kind of marketing campaign they're going to have.
The other side of it, they're going to be promoting and ballyhooing single mothers as the backbone of America.
And this is, they clearly benefit from it.
So, on that score, you're right.
And then, the absence of a father in the home is a motivational, inspirational figure.
There's no question that that is a relevant thing.
I'm glad you called.
Back in a moment, and we are back.
El Rushbo, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
And grab audio soundbite number four.
There is a congressional candidate by the name of J.D. Winterreg.
He is running against John Boehner.
He's going to primary John Bayes.
He's a Republican, and he's seeking to unseat Boehner.
And he's got an ad.
This is an ad entitled When the Moment is Ripe.
This ad went up Sunday on his campaign website.
Give this a listen.
You make a great team.
It's been that way since the day you met.
But your electile dysfunction, it could be a question of blood flow.
Sometimes when a politician has been in DC too long, it goes to his head and he just can't seem to get the job done.
Used on a daily basis, Winter Egg in Congress will help you every time the moment is right to have your voice heard at the federal level.
When using Winter Egg, it's important to note that the borders will be secured, Second Amendment rights protected, Obamacare and Planned Parenthood will be defunded, and common sense will be used in solving the nation's problems.
Other signs of electile dysfunction may include extreme skin discoloration, the inability to punch oneself out of a wet paper bag, or maintain a spine in the face of liberal opposition.
Amore de Graminia Verde.
Smoking.
And golf.
If you have a Bayner lasting longer than 23 years, seek immediate medical attention.
Winter egg.
Because Boehner shouldn't count his chickens before they hatch.
Oh, baby.
I knew.
Yes, sir.
Bob, it's hard not to like that.
Okay, now that you know what's coming, you want to hear it again?
Yeah, now you know what the context of all of this is.
J.D. Winter Egg.
This was on his website.
He posted it on Sunday.
You make a great team.
It's been that way since the day you met.
But your electile dysfunction, it could be a question of blood flow.
Sometimes when a politician has been in D.C. too long, it goes to his head and he just can't seem to get the job done.
Used on a daily basis, Winter Egg in Congress will help you every time the moment is right to have your voice heard at the federal level.
When using Winter Egg, it's important to note that the borders will be secured, Second Amendment rights protected, Obamacare and Planned Parenthood will be defunded, and common sense will be used in solving the nation's problems.
Other signs of electile dysfunction may include extreme skin discoloration, the inability to punch oneself out of a wet paper bag, or maintain a spine in the face of liberal opposition.
Amore de Graminia Verde.
Smoking.
And golf.
If you have a Bayner lasting longer than 23 years, seek immediate medical attention.
Winter egg.
Because Boehner shouldn't count his chickens before they hatch.
J.D. Winter Egg.
It's spelled just exactly how it sounds.
Winter Egg.
And his website posted that ad on Sunday.
And it's caught a lot of people's attention and a lot of people intrigued by it.
And of course, it's understandable why.
Now, I'm really going back and forth on something.
Because I heard something profound not long ago that I didn't expect to hear.
But if I it could cause problems is every time I'm with people, I assure them whenever we're having talks about any, if it's in a golf course, if it's at dinner, everything's off the record.
Don't worry.
I'm never going to tell people what you said by name.
I don't do it unless you specifically say it's okay.
And even then, I won't probably do it because you don't want the attention that would result from it.
And just like we had a caller yesterday who said she thought that Hillary's shoe-throwing incident there was staged, that ends up in the news as I said it, not in the caller.
All over the news at it.
Politico USA Today Limbo says Hillary staged shoe incident.
I didn't even see it.
Anyway, it goes back to what our caller in the last half hour said about busted up families and the absence of fathers.
And she was bouncing off, you know, my little riff on the great things about conservatism, self-reliance, rugged individualism, wanting everybody to succeed, teaching people how to do it, and the observation that we've all met somebody in our lives that somehow showed us that we are capable of more than we thought we were, that we're better than we think we are.
But most people have limitations that are self-imposed.
And can't is an easy word for everybody.
And a lot of people think greatness is something they'll never really get there.
It'll spike.
But more people are capable of it than they know.
And a lot of people who are fortunate will run into somebody who will accidentally or purposely demonstrate to you that you are capable of much more than you think you are, that you are better than you think you are.
And I happen to think it's true of most people, frankly.
And for some people, it's a coach that gets more out of you physically.
For some people, it's a teacher.
And the woman called to say, a lot of times, Rush, it's fathers that do it.
And that's true.
Can't be denied.
It reminded me of something I heard.
This is some time ago.
It's not recently.
I was on the golf course, and it was with a person of color.
And I was just listening to the conversation.
And this person of color, who is a prominent position in one of our professional sports, was asked, what do you think the biggest challenge and problem in your sport is?
And this person of color said, there's no question, single mother families.
That fact has led to more cultural problems that we have to deal with than anything I can think of.
And I was floored.
I was literally floored.
And I'm not going to tell you what sport, and I'm not going to tell you because I don't want to drive by trying to find out who said it because there's no good that can come of that.
But you would know and you would be pleasantly surprised and appreciative.
But the point is, when I heard it, it really caught me.
It's the last thing I expected to hear.
And I got to thinking about it.
Gang culture was part of the discussion leading up to it.
And just a whole discussion of where the country was going.
And then since this person had to be a prominent sports figure, the question, questions eventually turned in that direction as a business.
And that answer came out of left field at me.
And I've been thinking about it more and more.
And with the last caller that we had, I don't, and I read a couple of things today.
In fact, let me find it.
I think I've got it here in the, yes, it is a, it's a Huffington Post.
And it's by somebody named Margie O'Maro.
What you think about the midterms is wrong.
And this is a liberal pollster.
And is it she or is she quoting somebody?
I don't want to get to the, maybe her.
Anyway, a liberal pollster and strategists are debunking the idea that Democrats are counting on single women to win, the demographic sense.
The purpose of this piece is to say, yeah, the demographics matter, but what everybody forgets is that the message has to be there, otherwise the demographics won't matter.
Now, listen to a couple of poll quotes here.
We only need to look at Republicans' systematic vote suppression efforts to know that they agree.
And make no mistake, my record on urging Democrats to make their messaging more women-centric is long.
The woman's claiming credit for this.
What vote suppression effort in the world is she talking about?
Probably voter ID.
So this convoluted left-winger thinks that voter ID is about voter suppression.
And if we're trying to suppress the votes of illegal immigrants, then yeah, they may have a point.
There isn't any voter suppression.
The dirty little secret here is the Republicans don't know how to turn out their own vote, much less suppress the Democrats.
Four million Republicans didn't vote in 2012 in the presidential election.
This woman's running around her vote suppression efforts of the Republicans.
But there is more to our past success and failures than simply getting more women, minorities, and young people to the polls.
Turnout doesn't exist in a vacuum, and demographics aren't destiny.
As in the past two midterms, the party with the overall message advantage, not merely a turnout advantage, won decisively.
And she says, right now, Democrats are far less unpopular than Republicans are.
Meaning the Republicans are more unpopular than Democrats.
We're not even talking about popularity.
Just the Democrats' advantage is that the Republicans are despised more, in her view.
And so the Democrats hold the advantage in that.
They hold the advantage in party ID and they hold a slight advantage in the generic ballot.
No, they don't.
The Republicans hold the advantage in the generic ballot right now.
Anyway, if Democrats are to stave off tough challenges in November, it'll need to be because of messaging, not just a secret turnout sauce, which means that the message to single women is going to have to be, you just can't say, hey, we're Democrats.
You're single women.
We're made for each other.
Isn't going to work.
Her point is the Democrats are going to have to have a message.
Well, what do you think it's going to be?
Is it safe to assume that the message is going to be one of admiration and promotion and you're the backbone of America?
And there's no question that it is.
When they do that, I just want you to keep in mind that Washingtonian story on the Kearneys, the modern equivalents of Ozzie and Harriet.
The Democrats say that's not possible for you and me.
No, no, no.
The new America is single mothers, abandoned by irresponsible, predatory men.
You wait.
That's how they're going to try to do it.
This Voter suppression thing.
Nobody's ever kept from voting.
The biggest problem we have in voting is illegal voting.
Not too few people voting.
People voting once, twice, the dead voting?
Anyway, I got to take a break.
I just saw the clock.
I know, I know.
I'm on a roll, but I have to stop.
Dave in Indianapolis, I got one minute, but I wanted to get to you, sir.
I'm glad you called and waited.
Heartland Dittos.
Thank you.
Calling just to say, I live in what's supposed to be a reliably conservative or red state.
And I have to tell you, it's a lot more pink than red.
We've had majorities that is Republican for pretty much the better part of 10 years.
And we're staring down.
We're fighting to keep common core out of our schools, mass transit, TIF districts, that is tax incremental financing.
And we have the same problem with opium addicts, that is addicts of other people's money in our own party, than we do with what we should consider the opposition to be.
These folks act, we're fighting our own.
And I can tell you, it's disheartening and it's troubling, but we're going to win.
And I'll say it like this.
One way or the other, for the establishment, it's over.
I don't know who they think is going to save them.
I don't know if they think it's going to be newly mined Democrat, undocumented Democrat voters.
I don't know if they think it'll be a new regime or a new government, which history says that establishment sell-outs don't fairly.
I have to stop in here or step in and stop you because of time, but I just want to tell you, I love your attitude.
I love your attitude.
And I hope a lot of people are able to glom onto it.
We'll be right back, folks.
Don't go away.
It's the fastest three hours in media, folks.
I don't know where time went, but it's gone, at least for now.
But there's always tomorrow, and we'll be back then 21 hours from now, rearing up, revved up, ready to go.
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