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May 5, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 5, 2014, Monday, Hour #3
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Greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain rush limbaugh.
The all-knowing, all caring, all sensing, all feeling maha rushy, where the views expressed by the host on this program.
Make more sense than anything anybody else out there happens to be saying because we are focused on the truth.
And I never say things I don't believe.
That accusation, that allegations out there surfaces every now and then when people can't explain or don't wish to explain the success of this program.
Well, you know, he doesn't really believe all that.
He's just lying to his audience.
He's just telling them what they want to hear.
What is there to be gained by doing that?
I believe everything I tell you people.
I mean fervently, I mean passionately, to my core, I believe it.
What's to be gained by lying?
What in the world is to be gained by amassing a loyal audience if it's based on fraud?
Can't sustain something like that, A. Eventually people are gonna see through it.
B, why what do you gain?
So just more of the same bottomless, endless inability of people to explain the success of this program.
So it has to be based on you being stupid and idiotic not realizing that you are being lied to.
Have you seen this latest Donald Sterling news?
There's a white player for the uh for the uh uh clippers.
Uh J. Reddick.
Clipper's guard JJ Redick says that Donald Sterling was hesitant to sign him last summer because he's white.
J. Reddick, speaking to USA Today, went into detail about how his four-year 27 million dollars sign and trade contract almost fell apart despite being initially agreed upon.
Now why would Sterling not want to pay the guy because he's white?
Who A, who's gonna believe that?
And if they if it is true, why would Sterling not want to pay somebody because he's white?
No, there's gotta be a reason.
And maybe Sterling's 201 fit in.
Who knows?
It's just more of the the effort to keep the story alive for whatever political benefit somebody thinks that there is to this.
Now supposedly uh Sterling reportedly almost nixed the J.J. Reddick deal because of the $52 million he had doled out to white center Chris Kamen, who averaged only 11.8 points per game for the Clippers before they traded him to New Orleans.
So what this guy's point is that Sterling didn't want to pay him all that money because he wasn't that good.
And he wasn't that good because he was too white or was white.
So he's even racist in that regard, see.
This is guess it it's sometimes all you can do is laugh at this stuff.
No, I didn't forget.
I saw this headline, it was over the weekend in allotted show prep time.
CNN boss Zucker, shocked by Staffer's fearful question.
I said, Man, what could this be?
I will admit I was intrigued.
And then the subhead CNN boss Jeff Zucker was sucker punched at a CNN town hall meeting last month, when a staffer offered a brutal a brutally honest critique during a Q ⁇ A with Anderson Cooper.
I said, wow, this must be something really big.
Zucker shocked, sucker punched at a CNN town hall meeting.
So I read the story.
And man, oh man, it's different out there.
You know what the question was that caused all this?
No.
It wasn't how long are we gonna by the way?
Oh!
Snirdby said, how long we're gonna put up being a loser network.
If faking what you believe is so successful, why didn't CNN try it?
If saying things you don't believe is so successful, if that's how you really make it big in this business, why doesn't CNN try it?
I mean, they claim I'm doing how can how can you fake it three hours a day for 25 years?
Nobody can remember whatever lies you would have to tell if you're if you're being dishonest with people.
But seriously, if the reason I'm a successful is because I don't tell you what I really believe, why doesn't CNN try it?
Now here's the question.
A producer described as brave in this story in Atlanta, that I guess this is a video town hall meeting of Zucker who runs CNN's halving with the Schleppers, employees.
And a brave Atlanta-based producer said in a question read by Anderson Cooper at the session in New York, seen by all the bureaus.
So everybody was watching.
The question that generated this story, how do we stop managers from being afraid of you?
I am not kidding.
After that headline buildup, the question that made the news.
Some Atlanta-based producer described as brave, actually sent a question to be read to Zucker by Anderson Cooper.
How do we stop managers from being afraid of you?
It seems that everyone's on pins and needles whenever you give guidance.
The bottom line is managers are afraid of you, and they act very strange when you're around.
How do we stop that?
What in the world?
If that is crossing the line, or if that's brave, what is cowardly these days?
Why wouldn't somebody stand at, what are you doing here?
You've been here a year and we're still losing.
Now that would have been a question that I would think would justify a news story.
CNN boss Zucker shocked by Staffer's question.
That's what I thought it was.
And somebody stood up and said, When the hell are we gonna start winning?
You've been running this place for a year, and we're in last place.
We're barely above MSNBC, which is barely above the gutter of the sewer.
What are you doing?
But no, that wasn't the question.
The question was, uh how do we stop how do we stop managing being afraid of you?
Gee, what a letdown.
I mean, I was truly let down.
And you know what Zucker's answer?
Well, gee, I don't want people to feel like that.
I want people to push back.
What I like is for people to tell me I'm wrong.
I throw out a lot of ideas, honestly, half of them are crazy.
That was his answer.
This made the news.
This made the news.
But no, seriously, folks, it made this is considered a brave question in this modern age.
How do we stop managers, not employees?
I mean, how do we stop managers from being afraid of you?
Uh maybe the problem isn't Zuckers.
I mean, it could be, but maybe.
It's an overall attitudinal problem that management has at CNN.
How do we stop managing maybe?
Norwegian cruise ship has dropped Joan Rivers after she told a kidnapping joke.
You heard about this?
Joan Rivers has been thrown overboard by the Norwegian cruise line for an off-color joke.
Joan Rivers got in a hot water last week for a punchline about three women who were held captive in Cleveland by the evil Ariel Kestro.
She said on the Today Show, when she was asked what it's like living with her daughter Melissa, I'm still in the same stupid little room.
Those women in the basement in Cleveland had more space.
That got her thrown off the Norwegian cruise line.
Not kidding you.
She said on the Today Show, when she was asked what it's like living with her daughter Melissa.
Joan Rivers said, I'm still in that same stupid little room.
Those women in the basement in Cleveland had more space.
Representatives for two of the women, Amanda Berry and Gina de Jesus demanded an apology.
Rivers refused.
She said, I'm a comedian.
There's nothing to apologize for.
I made a joke.
That's what I do.
She later reportedly said, one of them has a book deal.
Neither are in a psych ward.
They're okay.
I'll bet you within three years, one of them will be on Dancing with the Stars.
Well, then they really got mad.
Throwing her overboard without a net.
But as a result of the drama, her summer vacation plans had now been scuttled.
Joan and Melissa were booked on a July cruise to Alaska where they give lectures on board and travel in style with Melissa's son Cooper, who's 13, but the cruise line called Rivers Friday to say the ship had already sailed.
Somebody from her marketing team uh marketing team called her and said, We don't want you on board the ship.
We don't come.
We're a family-friendly brand, and we don't want you here.
The original joke, I'm still in the same stupid little room.
Those women in the basement in Cleveland had more space than I do.
Living with her daughter, my daughter.
Now, Joan Rivers is what?
Uh well, no, she's not a hundred.
She's she's in her 70s, though.
But notice she's pushing back.
Generational thing.
She's pushing back.
She's not taking a cent of it.
What do you mean, apologize?
I'm a comedian.
I tell jokes.
This is what I do.
In three years, these two women are gonna be on dancing with the stars.
Point is they were profoundly offended, got a hold of the cruise line.
The cruise line got offended and embarrassed.
And so we got path of least resistance is to get rid of Joan Rivers.
When she was contacted for comment.
Joan Rivers said, Well, of course they canceled me.
They were terrified I was uh what I would say after seeing the size of their cabins.
They should be featured on Oranges in the New Black.
And she added to the boatman, it's insane.
Why would the joke affect anybody in Norway?
The Norwegian cruise lines.
So she just kept telling jokes.
She just kept rapid-fired jokes.
She figured it was all for the best since they would have had some very nervous people.
When I got on board, I would have given the captain a breathalyzer test.
We'd have brought out our own life jackets and slept in the lifeboats.
She just kept hammering at him.
And I love it.
And this is totally generational.
She's not cowering in fear.
She's not running away from it.
She's not accepting that she did anything wrong.
He's 81 years old, by the way, on June the 8th.
There isn't any rule book for PC.
It's you want to trace the beginnings of it?
There it's the bottom line.
It's just pure censorship.
It's pure censorship.
It got its start on college camp by.
And then it spread to the workplace.
It got picked up at the civil rights movements, and that was it.
It's now used in a in a it's denial of free speech.
Not denial of the First Amendment, but it's it's it's it's being used now under authoritarian fascist ways, and it has been for the long Hill.
Look at this.
Story May 1st, Tea Party News Network, Notre Dame, a Catholic university located in Indiana, sent a message of non-acceptance to a student group that stands for and supports traditional marriage.
The TFP student action describes themselves as a project of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, family, and property, says they had university permission to set up their traditional marriage table.
However, when the group manned the table and handed out literature, the police showed up and ordered them to cease and desist.
The group says they were told at that time that while they did have permission to have their table, they did not have permission to actually man the table.
Campus reform website reports that the, again, the tradition, family, and property student action group were surprised that they were ordered to shut down.
John Ritchie, the TFP student action director, said, I'm still trying to fully understand why the event was shut down.
I was hoping to find a more supportive environment for the Catholic position on marriage, so I went to Notre Dame and I got shut down.
Support traditional marriage on the Notre Dame campus?
No way.
Not permissible.
University officials claim that the group's traditional marriage table was only shut down because it did not fall in line with university policies.
Spokesman Dennis Brown said the Arestus Brownson Council student group received permission to distribute information on campus last week.
Our policies explicitly state that only members of the university community may organize or lead such events on campus.
When university officials learned that contrary to our policies, the student group made this request on behalf of an outside group we asked that they leave.
The group was handing out literature entitled Ten Reasons Why Same-Sex Marriage is harmful and must be opposed on the campus at Notre Dame, and they were sent packing.
No, no, the politically correct thing to say is, and I'll say it, I can totally understand if these traditional marriage Nazis use Notre Dame kids to get them on the campus so that they can pollute the minds of other students with this traditional marriage nonsense.
It's understandable that the administration would kick them off if they just if they used students to get themselves on campus to uh to to promote this evil, this tyranny that is same-sex marriage.
And I can understand the university throwing them off campus.
That's the politically correct thing to say.
The left does this kind of stuff all the time, see.
In the battle for the hearts and minds of the young American college student.
Here's uh here's Mary Joe, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
I'm glad that you uh waited.
Welcome to the program.
Hi.
Hi, Russ.
I'm Colleen regarding your previous female caller who said that liberals don't really believe that the ideas that they put forward.
Yeah.
And you said that you think they do in some ways.
And I just wanted to point out a few ideas or a few areas where you can see that they really don't.
They push equal pay for women, but even in the White House, Obama's administration does not pay women an equal salary to men.
You'll get prominent environmentalists.
Okay, okay.
What this is fascinating.
I'm glad that you called because it's you have to understand it's it would be perfectly conceivable and understandable for Obama to firmly believe that everybody else should be paying men and women equally.
But the liberals at the top of the food chain are going to exempt themselves from their own policies every chance they get.
So in that sense, you might I don't really believe it.
I can see you making the point.
But Rush, it's not a big thing.
But they use force, they use force to institute all this stuff on everybody else.
But if you believe something, you live according to what you believe.
That is the definition of a believer, whether you're talking about Christianity or or anything.
If you believe something, you live according to what you believe.
Okay, then according according to Obama doesn't really believe all this nonsense about global warming because how much uh uh uh uh greenhouse gases he he emits when he travels around.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Or those who are opposed to guns.
You have prominent politicians and you have the Hollywood elite, and they don't go anywhere without their private security, and their private security people have guns on them to protect them.
But wait a minute.
You don't believe that they really believe you shouldn't have yours?
They do believe they're hypocrites, they're elitists.
That's exactly right.
But if you're if you're a hypocrite and you're you don't believe, you don't believe.
And the thing is they they're measure success by controlling other people.
Right.
And a believer measures success by living according to the truths that they hold dear.
Well, in the romantic version, yeah.
And I get look, I got a break.
Can you hang on through the break, Mary Joe?
Yes.
Good.
Thank you.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have with coffee stains all over the show prep today, pages stuck together left and right.
And happen mere minutes for today's excursion of broadcast excellence began back now to Mary Joe in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
So Mary Join me, ask you a question.
You you you've no, no, seriously no.
You you've made the point that uh Obama probably doesn't believe really in equal pay for women because he doesn't pay women equally.
And he probably doesn't really believe in climate change because of all the greenhouse gas that he is creating, all the emissions flying around.
He's doing more damage to the environment than any 30 citizens combined.
So he really doesn't believe this stuff.
Now, if y you are a listener here, would would would I be more effective in talking about these people?
Just your opinion.
No wrong answer here.
Would I be more effective if I were to say, folks, they they these people don't even really believe it.
And then use these examples.
Um not necessarily, because I think um the idea is they may think they believe it, and other people are convinced they believe it, but again, you just need to educate people that they love power, that they want to control you, that they don't want you to make your decisions for yourself.
That's the thing.
Whether they really believe it or not is is not the point.
They are going to do whatever it takes to make you believe it.
Yes.
Or to make you act on it, or to live by it or under it, whether they believe it or not.
Yes.
Uh and I it it it's sort of not not entirely, but skirts by the main point if you get into a uh a semantics discussion about, you know, whether they're hypocrites or whether they believe it or not.
Uh because like I say, they're all different levels of of liberals.
You've got the just the blind bat followers who just don't have any idea what they're doing.
Then you've got the top of scale, you've got the organizational leaders, the community organizers, the Sololinsky's and the acolytes like Hillary and and Obama who are inspiring all those brain-dead yokels that are posting comments on websites all over the country, the social media Types who are responding to peer pressure and so forth.
And the point is whether you believe it or not, they are hell bent on making sure everybody else does.
Exactly.
Exactly.
We have we have five daughters rushed their ages three to twelve.
And I do not have to spend all my time telling them why all these what these people believe are wrong.
I just have to tell them about the ideology that they follow.
And I explain to them why they do what they do.
And they can see it for themselves.
Once you explain to them why people do what they do, they can identify it in environmentalism, they can identify it in the economy, they can identify it in social issues.
So I don't need to go through every issue and say this is not a fact, this is not a fact, this is not a fact.
I just have to teach them what the ideology is that they're how do you do that with a uh your kids between three and twelve?
Take the twelve-year-old, how do you teach her about ideology?
Well, we homeschool, so we have the opp opportunity all day long to talk about these things.
And your books have been great for um helping uh lead to those discussions too.
But whether they hear a news story on the radio or they read something in a news magazine, we can just dissect it and dissect the issue, talk about it.
That is exactly what I think needs to happen.
So your kids are gonna grow up instantly able to spot a liberal when they see one or hear one or read one, and they're going to instinctively have red flags raised as a result.
Exactly.
And they don't need to know, well, that is a liberal.
What they need to know and what they identify is what my dad would call stinking thinking.
And um that's that's basically what it is.
You don't need to know they're a liberal, they're a conservative.
You need to know that that thinking is not coherent.
It's stinking thinking.
It doesn't make sense.
Let's break it apart and look at the truth.
And then they can see what it is that they're dealing with.
Well, uh I agree with that.
I just I think I think labels help.
It does.
They I they know what the word liberal means and conservative means.
But um, and they they can identify it, but but the thing is they don't just have to slap a label, they can say this is wrong.
Oh no.
I understand.
They they they know the intricacies of the ideology, so therefore liberal is how you in one word explain what the ideology is.
Yes.
Or identify it, not explain it, but you identify it.
That's the that's the uh the point.
And that's what I don't think is being taught.
I don't think there's any uh ideological education.
The liberals especially are opposing it.
The the last thing in the world they want to be called as liberal.
They lose elections when they're called liberals.
They they they have the Republicans have stopped doing it, you'll note, for whatever reason.
But that's why they come up with terms like moderate or progressive.
Liberal is instant trouble in an election for a genuine liberal.
It's it's been the case for years and it still is.
They still run away from it.
That's why I'm insisting.
Anyway, Mary Joe, I appreciate your uh your call and hanging on through the break, and thank you for the reference to the two books and your home school curriculum.
I I really appreciate that.
Thank you much.
The Rush Revere books.
Did you hear that?
You hear that reference?
Used in the curriculum, no doubt of American history.
Do you think Al Gore believes his own movie and books on climate change?
Why not?
Uh the answer has been proffered that Al Gore is simply in it for the money.
That oh, you mean like it's Al Gore, who's really the one saying things he doesn't believe just to profit personally from?
That's exactly what you think.
Okay.
Uh you uh uh yes, the polar bear stuff is not true.
But again, coming back to the same theory, if Al Gore really believed it, where's the leadership?
Where is the Al Gore lifestyle that shows everybody how to do it?
Where is Al Gore parking his private plane?
Where is Al Gore living totally off of solar or wind?
Instead.
Al Gore's got a huge condo in San Francisco.
He's got a big mansion in Tennessee somewhere.
He's running three massive 30-inch computer monitors, unless he's they've probably got Mac Pros now with with 4K 32 inch jobs using a lot of.
It is a it is a good question.
I mean, they're they're they're they're all hip.
None of the elite left.
I mean, look at all the environmentalist wackos in Hollywood.
But they are not parking their planes, they're not driving.
They will drive a Prius to the airport to get on their plane.
Because people won't see them get on the plane or flying on the plane, but they'll see them drive the Prius.
So they engage in all this phony baloney, plastic banana, good time, rock and roller show stuff for the public.
But they don't really live it.
And if they don't, why should you?
It is an interesting question.
There's no doubt about it.
They're all total and Obama does not pay women equally in the White House.
He doesn't...
Thank you.
And if you look at abortion, I mean, who is it?
What are they what what well I don't even want to go there?
I don't have time to develop this fully, but I mean, who is it that's do any of them go out and actually get abortions?
Or is that just something that you're supposed to do?
They write books about how wonderful, important and liberating it.
But do you see them doing it?
Well, yeah, some of their authors uh do it and write about it.
Uh and all that.
But it's it's largely a collection of elitist hypocrites who and this has been common for the left from the uh from the get go.
And that is they always exempt themselves from every policy or law that they write for everybody else.
And uh, Glenn and Grays Lake, Illinois, welcome up.
Got about 45 seconds, I'm sorry, but I wanted to get to you.
Yes, uh, just want to update a little more info on that.
Uh uh the carp, uh, the Asian carp issue.
They're already classified as big head or silver carp, so they don't need to rename them.
But the other thing I wanted to specify is the fact that they're a very edible fish, they're a plankton eater, which means they don't uh do the bottom feeding and are not uh an issue to uh wait a minute.
I had heard just the opposite.
You that you don't eat carp.
No, these are actually very edible.
The problem is they're very bony, and it's hard to flay them out.
But while canned, they actually are very uh close to tuna.
But the bigger problem we have with them, I'm a member of the Salmon Unlimited in Chicago here.
We're trying to keep them out of the Great Lakes because they were uh feed off of plankton rather than uh off the bottom muds or whatever.
So they compete with all the sport fish, which is a million dollar industry here for the Great Lakes.
Right.
Well, just turn the carp into sport fish and shoot them.
Like I've seen on the videos.
There's tons of I've just I'm not kidding.
People shooting these carp flying out of the water as they go over the boat.
Thank you for being with us today, folks.
Off to a rousing start, another busy broadcast week.
You sit tight, and we'll be back and do it all revved up all over again.
Twenty-one hours from now.
It's always a pleasure.
It's great to have you here.
Have a great Monday night.
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