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April 24, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 24, 2014, Thursday, Hour #2
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The views expressed by the host on this program, documented to be almost always right, 99.7% of the time, Rush Limbaugh, back at it, still fighting the ravages of the common cold virus, ladies and gentlemen, having just returned to the saddle here from cochlear implant surgery on my right ear.
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Look, I don't want to make a deal.
I just can't understand.
You've got a host that nobody wants to watch, and you get a psychiatrist, psychologist to go talk to him and his wife and his friends to figure out how to make him more likable.
In the old days, you just replace him and reassign him.
I don't.
Maybe it's a new world.
Mr. Limbaugh, and they just don't fire people anymore.
Well, I know that's not true.
People get fired left and right.
It's different.
And it may be nobody wants to admit that anybody made a wrong decision putting the guy in there, but I have never heard of anything like this.
Now, it may have gone on before and nobody ever knew about it, but I just think NBC ought to be doing psychological tests on their executives if they really want to get to the root of what's wrong because it isn't David Gregory.
I mean, what in the world, what kind of psychological mess explains MSNBC and NBC News overall.
I mean, from the Washington Post story on this, despite the failing ratings, Gregory renewed his contract in 2013.
A network executives said as recently as March that they're committed to improving the show with him as host.
That's just insane.
You got all this evidence that it isn't working and you re-up.
It's a different world out there.
Speaking of which, General Electric, crony socialism, anybody remember this?
Crony capitalism.
Some people, I call it crony socialism.
This is where major CEOs, corporate executives get in bed with the government, forgetting anything but what it might mean to the bottom line of the company.
In fact, this whole thing kind of amazes me.
I saw a story while I was out.
You know, golf is having a popularity problem.
Fewer people in the millennial age group are taking the game up.
And the golf gods are trying to figure out why.
And they're doing all the kinds of tests and analysis.
And they're experimenting with different ways to attract more people to the game and so forth.
And of all places here, I am reading my tech blog and I find out why the problem exists.
These little tech bloggers, it's country clubs, man.
It's white rich people banding together with their exclusionary policies.
Who wants to be part of that?
You got to join a white rich man's country club to play golf.
And who wants to play by those rules?
Who wants to have to earn that kind of money?
Who wants to have to wear a dinner jacket to dinner every night and play stuffed up Mr. This and that who can play those kind of games with corporate chieftains?
And this, the attack on corporate CEOs, and the left hates them.
The left hates corporations, hates CEOs, but every damn one of them is in bed with Obama and leading the pack with Jeffrey Immelt at GE, which used to own NBC, which just hired a psychological consultant to fix David Gregory.
And GE, which didn't need a dime of federal money for research and development, took all kinds of federal money for a green energy expansion program, which was bogus.
There isn't any profit in green energy.
It was just a way for the corporation to get close to Obama so Obama wouldn't penalize the corporation in theory.
That's the reason for crony capitalism or crony socialism.
You get close to the center of power and you're protected by it and you're insulated from whatever power does to the masses.
Well, it turns out General Electric is telling its investors that Obamacare is to blame for recent losses in the company's health care division.
Is this not just sweet justice?
Hospitals and clinics appear to be delaying purchases of GE manufacturing.
They make MRIs and stuff.
Hospitals and clinics appear to be delaying purchases and responses to the Affordable Care Act, stated the GE senior VP and CFO Jeffrey Bornstein, the company's first quarter earnings call.
The CEO, Jeff Immelt, an outside economic advisor to President Obama, he was on the Jobs Council, confirmed at a shareholder meeting Wednesday that the health sector is experiencing uncertainty.
Really?
You think the health sector is experiencing uncertainty?
Really?
Who knew?
So even GE, who decided to get in bed almost literally with Obama in order to be protected against whatever Obama was going to do to everybody else, is still finding itself up the creek without a paddle.
Its investors are wondering, what's going on with the health division?
And GE says, well, Obamacare is to blame for recent losses.
The investors would have every right to say, well, wait a minute, you got in bed with Obama.
You're supposed to be able to prevent these kind of things from happening by virtue of your relationship, your association with Obama.
Didn't work.
Suckers.
It just amazes me.
And this is another reason why I say, if it sounds simplistic, but if people would just employ a little ideology, if people would just understand what happens when liberals gain control of things, I'll tell you, you know the biggest change in the last 20 years?
It's not your old Democrat Party anymore.
The biggest change in the last 20 years is the left now being braggadociously open about who they are and what they want.
And they are fascists.
There is no debate.
They don't have any desire for debate.
They want to stifle and end dissent.
They don't want anybody disagreeing.
Anybody that does is going to be done away with or dispatched or what have you.
And there's no amount of cozying up to them.
There's no amount of walking across the aisle.
There's no amount of bipartisanship, no amount of compromise.
The only thing that can be done is to defeat these people.
They cannot be reasoned with or worked with.
They don't want to be reasonable.
That's not what they're about.
I think if more people in powerful positions, in every just understood world history is replete.
Now you got this guy Piketty and his book out with just recycled Marxism with modern-day technology, and the left is just eating it up.
And I will get to this.
I'm going to get started on this today.
I promise.
I make this pledge.
But in other health-related news, you remember all those times you heard if you just eat your fruits and vegetables, that you'll ward off cancer and you'll ward off diabetes.
You eat your fruits and veggies.
You go out there and walk through the woods and pick up some berries and eat them.
That's healthy.
Eat carrots.
Eat the cauliflower and eat the broccoli and eat all of that stuff and you'll be healthy and you'll be wealthy and you'll be wise and you won't get cancer.
And of course people ate it up and they started doing that and mothers started advocating it and so forth.
And it turns out they just had a giant cancer convention, the American Association for Cancer Research.
18,500 researchers and other professionals gathered and they were all just depressed because when it comes to cancer,
they all had to admit, 18,500 researchers had to admit that there is little, if any, evidence that fruits and vegetables are protective or that fatty foods are bad.
This month, annual meeting, American Association for Cancer Research, a mammoth event, 18,500 researchers, other professionals, latest results about diet and cancer were relegated to a single session and a few scattered presentations.
There were new hints that coffee might lower the risk of some cancers and more about the possible benefits of vitamin D, but beyond that, there wasn't much to say.
Situation seemed very different in 1997 when the World Cancer Research Fund and the American Institute for Cancer Research published a report.
It was as thick as a phone book.
It concluded that diets loaded with fruits and vegetables might reduce the overall incidence of cancer by more than 20%.
It was bogus.
It was dead wrong.
It was a wild guess.
They didn't know.
After reviewing more than 4,000 studies, the authors were persuaded that green vegetables helped ward off lung and stomach cancer.
Colon and thyroid cancer might be avoided with broccoli, cabbage, and Brussels sprouts.
Onions, tomatoes, garlic, carrots, and citrus fruits all seemed to play important roles.
In 2007, a major follow-up all but reversed those findings.
Remember all the news about how grilled beef, grilled hamburger, was filled carcinogens?
BS, totally bogus.
The research isn't there.
It was just as big a hoax as all this climatology business is.
It was more monkeying by the left.
It was more massaging, the attempt to control everybody.
And there's even a pull quote from this story.
One doctor is described as ruefully having to admit, here it is, in the opening plenary session, Dr. Walter Willett, a Harvard epidemiologist who has spent many years studying cancer and nutrition, sounded almost rueful as he gave a status report.
Whatever is true for other diseases, When it comes to cancer, there was little evidence that fruits and vegetables are protective and little evidence that fatty foods are bad.
In other words, there's little evidence that what we told you in 1997 was in any way related to the truth.
There's little evidence that what we've told you all of these years was true.
In fact, the evidence is that what we told you all these years was lies, bogus, wrong.
And so now they're admitting that the whole equation of what people eat and how it relates to the uncontrolled creation of cells called cancer is still largely unknown.
No kidding.
Once again, there are too many.
How many billions of people are there to say that all 6 billion people can do X and avoid getting Y or Z?
This never-ending effort to deny individuality and differences is just, it's massive.
It is just massive.
The ongoing effort to make everybody the same, to have everybody conform to the same way of living, thinking, breathing, sleeping, eating, it's just relentless.
It doesn't stop.
Investors.com, 2.7 million Obamacare enrollees still unaccounted for.
How can this be?
I thought they told us they reached their 7 million figure.
Affordable Care Act, President Obama has for a while been bragging that 8 million people have signed up for Obamacare, but the regime still hasn't released the state-by-state numbers to back up that number.
You'd think there was such good news, the regime would want to put out as many details as possible, as soon as possible.
But judging by previous months, the latest health and human services enrollment reports now nearly two weeks behind schedule.
And as a result, we still don't know where 2.7 million Obamacare enrollees came from.
There is a companion story to this.
And I've even got a sound bite associated with it.
Here it is.
Just happen to find it.
Representative Colleen Hanabusa, Democrat Hawaii, says that her constituents are frustrated and embarrassed by Hawaii's failed Obamacare exchange, which cost taxpayers $204 million and signed up only 8,000 people.
On Wednesday, the Government Accountability Office announced it'll launch an investigation into Hawaii's busted Obamacare.
Hey, this is all Democrats.
These are not just Democrats.
These are socialists.
This is a place the city council of Honolulu voted to reprimand me for some reason.
I mean, that's how leftists, these people, I forget what it was for.
And there was even an arrest warrant if I was spotted in town for something, for something I said on the radio.
It might have been the, I know what it was.
It was Democrat Senator Leland Yee, who, you know, when I was doing my impersonation of the Chikom premiere, the Honolulu city council, town council, whatever, an open condemnation, a resolution condemning me and open arrest warrant and so forth.
And I'm a regular tourist visitor to Honolulu.
Bring a lot of tourist dollars there.
They've never been arrested.
Don't worry about that.
But this is all Democrats.
There's another story from a Democrat that voted against Obamacare in Massachusetts that says, and echoing what a lot of other people who have the temerity to be honest are saying that whatever, however bad it is now, you don't have the slightest idea how bad it's going to be when it really gets fully implemented.
And it is, I got to take a break.
I'm looking at the clock.
But the Democrats are trying to change definition of terms and change the discussion for upcoming elections because of it.
It is really, they're trying to convince Republicans that Obamacare is not a winning issue for them.
And some Republicans are stupidly going along with it.
So got to deal with that too.
Sit tight, folks.
We'll be back and continue right after this.
That's right.
Just wait till people who signed up for Obamacare try to find a doctor on their network.
There are a thousand doctors listed on the Obamacare, the California Obamacare website, don't accept plans.
A thousand doctors covered California who will not accept Obamacare insurance plans.
And yet they're listed.
Wait till people find that out.
It was the Hawaii City Council passed a resolution demanding that I apologize to Hu Jintao for making fun of the way he speaks, which I wasn't doing.
I was doing a Chinese impersonation of translation during a press conference.
And it was Leland Yee, Democrat Senator San Francisco, the gun-running guy now, who got it all started by demanding that I apologize.
That's when the Hawaii City Council picked up on it.
And that's what that was.
Oh, Latha, Kansas.
Nancy, you're next.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi.
I can't believe I'm talking to you.
I've been trying to call you for three years.
It's just an honor.
Thank you.
You bet.
Congratulations on getting your cochlear ear implant.
That's wonderful.
And I was listening to you, and I wanted to call you because I have a daughter who just turned 14.
And we found out when she was in kindergarten that she had hearing loss, just mild, and we couldn't believe it because she started talking when she was like eight or nine months old.
And she has just not been wanting to wear hearing aids for the last couple, three or four years where we started telling her when she was in fifth grade, you have to wear them at least to school.
And when we would go to the audiologist, she would say, yes, you need to wear them because if you don't, you might possibly weaken that nerve damage, whatever, more.
And then you may not be eligible for a surgery that could possibly fix this in the future.
So I don't know what to do, Rush, to get her to want to wear her hearing aids.
You know, she's embarrassed.
I know.
You're probably dealing with teenage vanity, right?
She's afraid of how she's going to look.
Yes.
And she's afraid people are going to make fun of her, and she's afraid people are going to think that she is disabled or an invalid.
Well, can you hang on for three minutes?
Because I can, it's your child, but I can tell you what I think I would say to her.
And you can risk it.
Okay, back with Nancy in Olathe, Kansas.
Your daughter is 14, did you say?
Yes.
And what kind of hearing aids are her audiologists suggesting?
I mean, how big?
They're little.
You can't hardly see them.
Sometimes I'll look at her and I'll say, where's your hearing aids?
And they're in because it had like a little clear tube that goes to the back.
So they would be in the ear.
There's nothing she's going to be wearing behind the ears.
Oh, actually, well, the tube that comes out of her ear attaches to the little piece behind her ear, but it's tiny.
Okay, all right.
You know what?
I would tell her, based on my own experiences with this, that I'd do my best to get her to get over the embarrassment factor and instead to be brave because bravery is a great thing.
And it will require some, because overcoming being laughed at, being made fun of, people smirking.
You know that's going to happen.
Kids are kids, and it's going to be seen as a weakness.
She needs to see it as an act of bravery that she is doing to make herself stronger.
And there is nothing.
You need to impress upon her that she does not want to lose the ability to communicate with her friends, to be able to talk to them on the phone or whatever.
I mean, she can always email and chat, text, that kind of thing, but there's nothing that replaces face-to-face conversation and having meaningful, intimate relationships with people.
And I don't mean sexually intimate, but just giving yourself to somebody and being totally intimate with you.
You've got to be able to speak and to be able to hear to do that.
It's also a fundamental aspect of learning, of education.
I mean, you can learn quite a bit reading.
You can absorb knowledge that way, but you learn a lot about people, being able to hear them and associate sounds with the way they look.
And if her hearing is really deteriorating and these hearing aids can arrest it, stop it until something better comes along, maybe a cure.
There's no reason in the world not to do it simply for the reason that she doesn't want to lose.
You can take it from me, you don't want to lose the ability to speak to people and to be able to have them hear you.
But there's another, as I asked my doctors before I got the input.
So what if I don't do it?
You know, I'm a professional.
I know how my voice feels when I'm speaking correctly.
And they said, no, your voice will deteriorate when you can't hear yourself speak.
You will eventually sound like deaf people who've never heard themselves sound.
You'll not be able to be on the radio.
So that'll no doubt happen if she loses the ability to hear herself as she exists.
But really, Nancy, there's no reason in the world not to do this.
It isn't a matter of embarrassment or, I know for her it is, but you have the benefit of experience over her.
You've lived longer.
You are the parent, and you know more than she does.
You've lived through what she's going through now.
You can relate to her in that way.
You can tell her you know full well that what's going to happen, and you'll be there to support her when it does.
That's why it's an act of bravery to do something like this.
She's doing something to improve herself, and that's the way she's got to look at it.
You know, we're all dealt a hand in life, and hers is what it is.
But there are medical marvels and miracles that enable her to compensate for what's happening that she should take full advantage of because there's no replacing being able to talk to people.
There simply isn't any replacement for it.
There's no replacement for being able to hear what people say to you and how they say it to you.
It's part of having meaningful relationships with people, which is about having a meaningful life.
What have you tried with her?
What have you tried with her?
Oh, I have tried taking, well, you know, we take away her phone and TV.
And so, I mean, I can make her wear them, you know, because I am the parent, but I want her to want to improve her education because her grades do improve.
I mean, you would never know that she needed hearing aids by talking to her because people would be like, what?
She wears hearing aids?
I would never have known that.
So that's why I think she thinks she doesn't need them, but she really does.
Well, you know, being an adult has its advantages.
This is the one thing I never ever gave a second thought to is how I was going to look.
To me, it was all about saving my career.
And I had fun with it.
If people didn't know what my implant was, if they thought that I was a Secret Service agent or had some super high-tech phone device, I let them think that.
Yeah.
Well, I'll tell her that.
I like the bravery and all that, making her stronger.
Yeah, and I'll just keep doing that.
And I appreciate it.
Tell her it's all about being the best that she can be.
Yeah.
I've got a home in her, and she does, but it's like, come on, get over this vanity thing.
Well, that's going to be tough.
You know, that teenage girl and vanity, that's why I would even go there.
I would just, well, you know her better than I, you know how to do that.
I would just focus.
Look, what is her first name?
Madison.
Madison, you want to be the best you can be, and this is part of it.
And just, you know, use the benefit of your years on her to tell her how important it is to be able to communicate with people verbally.
I will.
And I'll let her listen to this.
I'm sure I can get it on the podcast, right, so she can hear it.
Cool.
Well, I hope it helps.
I hope there's no reason.
It was an honor to talk to you.
My family's going to be so jealous.
There's no reason not to do it.
Yep.
There really isn't.
If you're experiencing this kind of hearing loss, or if she was suffering some damage in her eyes or something, then there was a fix for it.
There's no reason not to try to fix this.
Right.
Well, I want you to run for president, and thank you so much.
Well, I couldn't deal with it.
Pay cut, but I've thought about it.
Thank you so much.
I appreciate it.
I really do.
Stay in touch with Mr. Snerdley.
Let's know how it goes.
I will.
Thank you so much.
Here we are.
Back to the phones we go.
This is Ann in Dayton, Ohio.
Ann, I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
I'm glad I got a chance to talk to you.
Thank you.
I'm a school teacher, and I just wanted to let you know I am reading your first book, Rush Revere, to my kids, third grade, and they are loving it.
Absolutely loving it.
Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims is the one you're reading?
Yes.
All right.
That's the first one.
The first one.
Yeah.
We were talking about William Bradford in social studies, and one little girl in the other class said, Oh, Mrs. Lehman's reading a book with him in it.
And I said, What book is that?
And she said, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.
And the kids were all going, It's really good.
It's really good.
And so I asked her if I could borrow it to read it to my kids.
And they are thoroughly enjoying it as well.
I just wanted to let you know it's a good piece of literature.
Literature.
I love that.
Yeah.
I've really read it.
And it's fun.
They like liberty.
Oh, yeah.
Liberty is fast becoming a big ego problem for us around.
Everybody loves Liberty.
Liberty's actually a good guy.
I just make a joke about him becoming an ego freak.
He's actually handling it.
He borrowed the book from a little girl in the other class, and her dad bought her the book, and he bought her the second book.
So now the other teacher's reading the second book to her kids, and she's going to pass it on to me so I can read the second book to my kids.
So they're just really enjoying it.
Well, that's just awesome.
You know, I'll tell you what I want.
When we finish, I want to stay on the phone.
Mr. Snurdy, get your address because I want to send you the audio version of both books and a couple new copies of both so that you won't have to be swapping them back and forth.
Oh, that would be great.
I know you didn't call for that reason, but I just, I want to be able to start swapping books back and forth, and sometimes you don't get them back.
And I'd really like to do it anyway.
It would discuss.
Oh, that would be wonderful.
All right.
So I'm looking forward to reading the second one.
Well, there's so much fun to do.
It's such an important.
For example, I'm reading this stuff about this guy.
I've mentioned this, Thomas Pickelli, this French Marxist communist economist who is on this great tear here to get rid of wealth simply because he thinks it's immoral.
The idea of wealth is immoral, and everybody ought to have income equality and so forth.
And there's, you know, was there income equality with the Pilgrims?
They tried it, and it didn't work.
They tried income.
It's about where we are in the first book.
Exactly right.
It didn't work.
They tried socialism.
You know, it amazes me how many times, and it's been tried.
It never works.
And yet, every group of people who try it the latest time say, well, we are the right people.
We're the ones that are going to do it the right way.
And there is no right way for socialism, communism, or what have you.
But I just, look, you made my day.
I really appreciate it because there's a labor of love goes into these things, and we've got big plans for them.
And to hear that you and the adults and the kids like it just as well is great.
So hang on, Mr. Snurdy.
Get your address so we can send you all that stuff, audio versions and the hard copies, and we'll be so.
I'm so excited.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
And by the way, folks, just to show you, just a soundbite that happened while I was away.
This was on April 8th.
This was last Friday.
Do you know that show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is still on the air?
Regis Philbin used to host that show, but now it's Cedric the Entertainer hosts Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
And this is a portion of the program, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire from last Friday.
It's syndicated by ABC.
Let's play!
A must-read for conservative kids.
Rush Limbaugh has created a children's book character with what name Rush Revere, Rush Jefferson, Rush Washington, Rush Lincoln.
I'm going to have to chunk this one.
I don't know it.
All right.
Mark decided to jump this question.
It's now out of play.
You're kind of thinking over them, but nothing really.
Yeah, nothing.
I don't recognize any of them as conservatives per se.
I got you.
All right, cool.
Let's see what the correct answer was then.
Rush Revere.
Now, that is interesting on a number of levels for me.
A, it's interesting that already the Rush Revere character is being asked the question on a game show.
But note, Cedric the Entertainer, a must-read for conservative kids.
No, no, no, no.
It's a must-read for every kid.
But then he gives the contestant multiple choice options: Rush Revere, Rush Jefferson, Rush Washington, Rush Lincoln.
And the contestant says, I don't know, I didn't recognize any of them as conservatives per se.
Now that, I know he did because Cedric the Entertainer set the question up that way.
Must read for conservative kids.
So he put the thought of conservatism in the contestants' head.
But every damn one of those guys, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, the founders, they were all conservatives.
They were as just as conservative as you and me, and the contestant didn't know it.
That is eye-opening in a lot of ways.
We'll be back.
Okay, I'll do it.
When we come back, the top of the next hour, I'm going to get in this Thomas Piquetti, this French wacko who has the number one selling book on Amazon.
I've teased it enough.
It's detailed.
My problem here is synthesizing everything I've got down into is taking the complex and making it understandable.
So I will do that here in the break at the top of the air.
I'm going to come back with that.
So don't go away.
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