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May 30, 2014, Friday, Hour #2

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	Uh who's uh who what what Buck Sexton is in on my and and and what about who's Tuesday?
	Uh oh, Tuesday's me.
	Okay.
	I must make a boy I must make a void of listening.
	Uh and I'm not gonna do the whole week now.
	It's I'm too I'm so excited about listening to Mark Slide when he comes in on Tuesday now.
	Uh but uh Buck Sexton will be here for Monday, and uh Rush will be back uh fully fit and recuperated uh when uh uh after uh after a few days.
	1 800 282 2882, you know what it means.
	It's the end of the week.
	Live from Ice Station EIB.
	It's open line Friday.
	Yes, from Monday to Thursday, a highly trained broadcast specialist maintains the same iron grip on this show as uh General Sissy does in Egypt with his ninety-three point three percent of the vote.
	Uh but on uh Friday today there is no broadcast specialist in sight.
	So anything goes, whatever you want to talk about, whatever you want to talk about, it's all yours.
	1-800-282-2882.
	Um and uh and we will uh attend to uh to matters small and large.
	The the big theme for me uh is my kid's uh uh uh Obama Award from uh President Obama that he got for graduating from uh eighth grade uh yesterday.
	And uh this uh this letter that the President sent to my kid, he may have sent a similar letter to your kid too.
	Uh I d I don't know quite how personally uh motivated this was, but he said, uh When I see smart, bright young people like you, I realize that America's best days lie ahead of us.
	And my point is that America's best days are behind unless something changes.
	Uh the the economy contracted by one per cent.
	We're not in a recession.
	It's six years since Lehman Brothers uh went under.
	Uh there's no great crisis of global capitalism.
	Uh and yet mysteriously, the economy is shrinking.
	And this is despite all the people who've departed the workforce and aren't looking for work, the tens of millions extra people on food stamps, the ten the all the millions who've uh now on ex uh claim permanent disability and all the rest of it.
	Despite that, the economy is continuing to contract.
	So this is nothing to do with Lehman Brothers or anything like that.
	This is the new normal.
	Where does it go?
	What happens to change that?
	And uh it's funny, small stories somehow uh point up the contrast I often feel, and uh H.R. drew my attention to this uh earlier today.
	South Korea introduces female only parking spaces.
	They're larger with pink outlines and a mini skirt logo.
	They're wider and they're longer than regular parking spots.
	Uh and they're outlined in pink, and they're marked with cute little pink mini skirted logo.
	Now if you think about this, it's of course uh let's say two people are driving the same size uh Hyundai or whatever, however you pronounce it, uh or Kia.
	Kia's the more popular model, I believe now.
	They're all they're they're uh in the same size Kia.
	And uh and yet the the space for the guy is half the size of the space for the woman's care.
	So this is like patronizing and sexist and all the rest of it.
	Here in uh here in the United States uh in Houston, Texas, not only do they not have uh female only parking spaces, they've just abolished female only bathrooms.
	Houston's bathrooms, showers, and dressing facilities will now be open to all, regardless of gender, gender identity, gender expression, or other predilection of gender behavior, whatever that means, predilection of gender behavior.
	By an eleven to six vote of the Houston City Council, Mayor Anise Parker achieved this as the crowning jewel of her tenure as mayor.
	She said this is quote the most personally meaningful thing I will ever do as mayor.
	Um and that is to open up every single bathroom in Houston to anybody, regardless of gender, gender identity, gender expression, or other predilection of gender behavior, as the law as the law puts it.
	So in South Korea you've got gender specific I don't know what somebody with predilection of gender behavior does if they identify in South Korea if they identify as a woman for the purposes of using a parking space.
	By the way, if you find it hard to get a parking space in Seoul, then you might want to try claiming to identify as a woman for the purposes of parking.
	But it's it's interesting to me now that since and I don't want to get into the whole Rush did uh transgender Thursday on the show yesterday, and I don't want to tread on his turf in that respect.
	But it is interesting to me how things how swiftly things move since uh gay marriage and striking down uh the uh laws restricting marriage to a man and a woman and all the rest of it.
	It's like nothing uh matters now unless it's got a gay element to it.
	And like departments you would have thought had an absolutely nothing to do with sexuality are all developing these sexual identity and sexual orientation programs.
	The United States Department of Agriculture would you thought would you have thought there was like a big gay scene in USDA?
	I wouldn't have thought so, but they have uh they have now introduced a new federal program to celebrate gay identity and tell LGBT stories in rural areas.
	Because the gay scene I mean I I live in northern New Hampshire and the gay scene is lousy.
	I mean it's like have you ever tried finding a decent gay club in Dead Moose Junction at uh ten o'clock on a Thursday night it's Deadsville.
	But now we uh USDA has started a uh federal grant program to award grants to celebrate gay life in rural America.
	So this time next year you'll be watching the Future Farmers of America LGBTQ parade and thinking, wow that is a I mean this is such an improvement last year was lousy.
	This is incredible there's been such a so that's like USDA, the United States Department of Agriculture has uh has uh got a has uh has managed to introduce a uh a gay program.
	All the government agencies now are figuring out that that's where the big bucks are that you don't really count.
	You're not really part of the new world unless you've got a a gay program in your part of the world too.
	So for example, the National Park Service is now going to start promoting historic LGBT places.
	So it's like all it's fine if you go to uh Yellowstone and you see just a lot of bears frolicking but it's not it there's not enough celebration of LGBT identity in Yellowstone or the Grand Canyon or whatever.
	So they're now got the National Park Service is now going to start promoting historic LGBT places.
	American foreign policy John Kerry has got nothing to say about Russia.
	He's got nothing to say about the Ukraine.
	He's got nothing to he makes no meaningful contribution to Syria or to what's going on in North Africa or to the Iranian nuclear program or to the Chinese march of power in the Pacific.
	But he has announced that he is sending credentialed gay experts to discuss homosexuality with the Ugandan leader Yaweri Museveni.
	He had a town hall meeting a couple of weeks ago and he said that um that uh that he'd persuaded Mr Musevany to meet with some uh American experts uh on gayness in order that they could engage him in a dialogue on the subject and good luck with that uh Mr. Musavaney by the way is is regarded as extremely homophobic even by American sta uh African standards.
	Uh he pr he a couple of years ago he proposed the arrest of all homosexuals uh although he subsequently moderated his position and said why can't we just go back to the good old days when these few individuals were either ignored or speared by their parents.
	So I don't know what kind of time uh the fully credentialed American gay experts are going to be having when they land in Kampala.
	But that's like John Kerry can't w the United States can't send anybody in to get our guys in Benghazi.
	They can't send anybody to get the bring back our girls girls in Nigeria.
	They can't send anybody in to help the fellas in Ukraine keep Putin from annexing what bits of the country wants.
	They can't send any fellas in over Syria.
	They can't even, you know, do anything in Afghanistan, but they can send a battalion of gay experts in to, as John Kerry puts it, engage Mr. Muna Museveni on gay issues.
	And it comes back to what I was saying in the first hour that this is simply not a serious uh this is not how a serious nation conducts itself.
	The National Potato Council.
	The National Potato Council is uh is uh is disputing Michelle Obama's attempts uh Michelle Obama uh got the potato banned she didn't just spell potato with an E she gave potato the big E and got it kicked out of the food stamp program and for women, infants and children.
	And she says that putting the potato back in her program, her program that she apparently passed into law if you remember that Carol Costello thing on CNN that Rush quoted the other day when when CNN announced that uh Michelle Obama had signed into law her food program.
	The first lady says that putting the potato back in uh in the into this program would quote override science.
	So the National Potato Council is now uh is now uh arguing and disputing the First Lady's claims and this is all it is now.
	It's transgendered bathrooms.
	It's the National Potato Council.
	Meanwhile, the economy is contracting.
	Meanwhile, we are entering the post-American world.
	Meanwhile, the Chinese are taking the Pacific Ocean.
	And for the first time in human history, a superpower is dying over disputes about bathroom access for persons of predilections of gender behavior and over the National Potato Council's classifications.
	claim that the potato uh should not be banned by a potato phobic first lady from the women, infants and children's food program.
	At some point a nation has to get serious because if you're going to go out of business as a superpower, there should be a better reason to do it than the potato or the transgendered bathroom.
	Mark Stein for Rush, more straight ahead.
	Mark Stein in for us you know this uh this National Potato Council that's currently taking on the outrageously potato phobic Michelle Obama.
	They're not going to get anywhere and and uh the National Potato Council until they rename themselves the National LGBT Potato Council.
	Nobody's gonna pay any attention to them.
	Let's go to Donna in Frederick, Maryland.
	Donna, you are live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Hello Mark it's my pleasure.
	I would like to comment on the VA that hot button topic that I hope remains that way through the election cycle.
	What I like to say is when it's discovered that the people who who receive bonuses knowingly falsified those records, I believe those individuals should be required by law to reimburse that money.
	Well that's that's an excellent idea.
	You know I I'm a st I'm astonished at the fact that i th that we get all excited because General Shinseki's being fired.
	He's just basically like the transient cherry on the cake of the permanent bureaucracy.
	And these guys can't be fired.
	The most you can do is, I mean, if they can be fired, yes, if they, like, kill somebody.
	But basically anything short of that, all you can do is, like, move them sideways.
	And I'd go further than you, Donna, is that there should not be these routine bonuses that,
	uh paid out uh to uh members of the federal bureaucracy basically these are not bureaucracies for performance uh they're they're basically routine bonuses that are handed out and that people in the private sector would actually have to achieve something in order to get but that I w I I hear what you're saying but I don't I think the idea of an actual unionized so-called public servant writing a check and giving back these bonuses.
	is.
	I would love to see that.
	But, you know, that will be a very cold day in hell before that happens from these guys, Don.
	Mark, what they should do is just deduct it from their salaries.
	And, you know, what's sad is, you know, just like Benghazi and, you know, Fast and Furious, all these other things, we're still waiting for resolution on these issues.
	And yet it's the same old drag it on and on it goes.
	And we never get closure on any of this.
	But I don't think this one's going to go away.
	I hope this one stays right at the top.
	Well you're the reason this is different and the time element that you mentioned is absolutely central to their strategy on this.
	That pajama boy being interviewed by Brett Bear gave it away when he said dude this is like two years ago that's basically it.
	It's like the Clinton argument.
	Oh, this is old news.
	We need to move on.
	And they feel, the administration's strategy, is that when things like this come along, all they have to do is drag it out until the media are in a position to say, well, Congress held hearings today and interviewed the assistant deputy, under-assistant secretary, deputy, under-assistant deputy secretary of Veterans Affairs, but nothing really new emerged.
	Because, like, killing people is just like old news now.
	We need something else.
	And they're very clever at doing that.
	And you notice just in the last couple of days, for example, that they began this week.
	It was interesting.
	For a while, this was the scandal for the media.
	They weren't interested in Benghazi, weren't interested in the IRS, but they were interested in this one.
	And then just in the last couple of days, it's all gone away a bit.
	And they're already moving on to the, oh, it's old news.
	They can't do it quite as easily because there's real dead Americans all over the fruited plain because of this business.
	But you notice that they're already trying.
	trying to like drain the urgency out and that's how they report the General Shinseki thing problem solved.
	Shinseki's gone, Donna because that's how they do it.
	What's so alarming is it's really called what what I've heard to uh it being referred to as the slow roll and it's all deliberate and I think on this particular issue it crosses it's it's a quote unquote bipartisan issue and I think that's why that we've got to hold their feet to the fire on this one just like the others.
	Yeah you're you're right about that.
	And we shouldn't forget we shouldn't forget Donner that what is most scandalous here is that uh is that real people die and they die because they're in the in the bureaucratic system they're not treated like human beings.
	They they're just treated as statistics in a great churning mill of bureaucracy.
	That story I uh uh I reported uh last hour on uh 1400 people from the interim report there were fourteen hundred people on the waiting list uh but there were another seventeen hundred people who who were told they were on the waiting list who think they've gotten into the system and in fact have not yet been put on the waiting list.
	They're just they're just on the waiting list for the waiting list and uh and and they don't know that.
	They've got cancer they've got lumps in their legs they're feeling uh slightly worse this morning than they felt this time last week and they think it's okay because they think they're already in the system and they haven't yet even been entered into the system.
	And a bureaucracy prioritizes the interests of the bureaucracy over anything else.
	That's the purpose of the bureaucracy.
	And we are insane to do this to people who have gone out and uh and fought for their country these are the very last people who should be thrown into the hell uh of the only so far fully socialized medical system uh in the United States.
	This is not something This is not something we should be doing to anybody, but above all, it is not something we should be doing to American veterans.
	Mark Stein in Forush, we got lots more still to come.
	Yes, Rush is uh having a few well-earned days off.
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	We would have been talking about the VA scandal on Open Line Friday, 1-800-282-2882.
	Um the interesting thing about this is that it's not a simple big government issue.
	Uh it's not about denying funding.
	Uh the the agency's uh uh budget has more than doubled in the last decade, up from 28 billion dollars to fifty-seven billion dollars uh since 2003, but the patient load is only up about one third over that period.
	So the VA has more money than ever and has more money per patient than ever.
	And the reason why American veterans are dying is not because there isn't the money to treat them, uh, that they're dying because the money is being used uh for performance bonuses.
	And performance bonus for start the idea of performance bonus in a government job uh is problematic to me because uh a government is uh is a monopoly.
	So how would you decide whether someone's performed?
	You know, you don't say, hey, you've done a terrific job, uh you've you've performed way better than the government across the street performs.
	There's only one government.
	You have a monopoly of provision in this case.
	So the idea of performance bonuses is itself dubious, but performance bonuses uh are routine.
	One in five employees at the Phoenix VA received bonuses.
	At the seven most troubled VA facilities, almost nine million dollars uh were paid out in bonuses.
	And in order to get these bonuses, you basically had to kill Americans.
	So these people are getting performance bonuses when the performance is how many Americans you kill by keeping them off the waiting list.
	This is almost this should be a teachable moment in the perverse incentives of big government monopolies.
	Uh because it actually ha everything that people everything that Sarah Palin was mocked for saying at the time the Obamacare thing started when she put the word the phrase death panels in public consciousness.
	People mocked her, say, oh, this is this simpleton from Wozilla, Alaska doesn't understand the the sophisticated uh concepts that come into she can't understand it, so she comes up with some crude phrase like death panels that all those rubes who listen to Rush just suck up and start going on about.
	No, it's not.
	It's like uh in a private healthcare system, uh the uh if you go if you wander in to uh the hospital with a broken leg, it is in their interests to treat your broken leg, because the sooner they treat your broken leg, uh the sooner they'll get paid.
	That is that is a routine uh economic incentive in a in a private health care system.
	Everyone who has ever been treated in a Canadian hospital or in a British NHS hospital or other government systems knows that the only way you can control costs in a government system is by restricting supply.
	So the so it it's uh it's to the advantage if you wander in with a broken leg to a Canadian hospital or a Scottish hospital uh for them to say uh okay we can't treat you today we're gonna make you wait with your broken leg three months or six months or seven months or whatever and if you do it to the degree that the VA does it you wind up with a system where the only way you can get your performance bonus is to start killing American veterans.
	And that's the obscenity of it.
	Just to go back to what Donna was saying, we have people here who have seen things that most of us will never have to see.
	They have been in hellish situations on the other side of the world that no one would willingly go to.
	No one really wants to be in Fallujah.
	No one in their right mind really wants to be in Kandahar.
	No one really wants to be in the jungles of Vietnam.
	No one wants to be in the places these guys have been and seen the things they see.
	And yet the system is not.
	And so the purpose of the VA is to say, well, you've served your country.
	Great to have you back with us.
	Thank you for your service.
	And as a reward for you serving your country, we're going to give you a special health care program all your own.
	So you don't have to go to Dead Moose Junction General Hospital and be there with all the riffraff.
	We are creating, because of your exceptional service to the country, a special health care program just for you.
	And instead, what happens?
	It's not run for the benefit of the guy who was in the hellhole of the Sunni Triangle in Iraq.
	It's not for the guy who was hunting through the Hindu Kush in the fall of 2001, transatlantic.
	to get Osama bin Laden and the guys who perpetrated 9-11 it's not for the guy uh who was out there in uh in Vietnam no it's run for the benefit of a pen pusher for the one in five VA employees who gets a so-called performance bonus and the performance bonuses are in fact actually rewards for killing American veterans.
	Let's go to David in Tucson, Arizona.
	David, you are live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Well, thank you very much.
	Yeah, being from Arizona, you know, we got to Phoenix, it's about an hour from here.
	I well know that.
	I was in Tucson a couple of years ago to give a speech for the Goldwater Institute.
	Oh, you do it fast and furious, I guess.
	No, no, I wasn't.
	I did go south of Tucson, though.
	I like that sign on the highway, which is immensely reassuring, where it says you proceed beyond this point at your own...
	own risk in other words in other words you might as well be in Benghazi or the Sunni triangle because the sovereignty of the United States doesn't really run bit south of this point.
	And it's very disturbing to actually see that on the border.
	Speaking of which Hillary today and her top secret meeting I guess with Obama is probably trying to get her Benghazi stories straight.
	What do you think?
	Oh yeah that's right we're we're told Benghazi doesn't matter and yet they had a they they have had this big summit on it.
	A feminist or no today it's a potatoist.
	But I was just wondering if Chelsea Clinton had been ambassador in Benghazi instead of Ambassador Stevens.
	I wonder what do you think Hillary would how would she have reacted well you wanna you want to hope she'd want to get a want to get her out of there.
	But you know on the other hand there's a heartlessness to the way Hillary and Obama reacted to this Benghazi thing.
	They the minute he was dead they claimed this guy uh Chris Stevens was their best friend Christopher Stevens Mr Stevens Ambassador Stevens Uh but when they when they were uh lying over his casket at uh Andrews Air Force Base, it was all Chris this, Chris that, Chris, Chris, Chris, Chris, Chris.
	You'd think they'd been best friends since third grade.
	Uh in the end, they were willing to they were willing not only to sacrifice him, uh but but but uh then willing to dishonor him in death too with the lies they told.
	And what is impressive in a kind of cold way is the heartlessness uh of these guys when it doesn't serve their political narrative.
	They decided Chris Chris Stevens was a guy who took their view on the Arab Spring.
	He agreed with them.
	He took the the Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama deluded view of the uh of the Arab Spring.
	But unlike them, he was out there on the front line and he actually died for that delusion.
	He actually died for that delusion.
	And they dishonored him in death because telling the truth about what happened to him in that godforsaken town in North Africa was inconvenient to their political narrative.
	And it's spectacular, David.
	In a way, it's uh it's impressive to see the heartlessness with which they're prepared to write off for American lives because it's inconvenient to their political narrative.
	And I don't think that's that's the ugliness of politics.
	I don't think most of us would be able to do that and live with ourselves.
	Most of us wouldn't be able to do what Hillary Clinton did.
	Stand up and tell those lies over those four flag draped coffins at Andrews Air Force Base.
	Most of us couldn't do that.
	We don't and we lack the heartlessness to prosper uh at the top levels of the Democratic Party.
	And you know, there are people all over the world who must look at this behavior.
	Imagine if you're Ayatollah uh Katami in Tehran.
	Imagine if you're the Chinese Politburo.
	Imagine if you're Vladimir Vladimir Putin sitting in the Kremlin and you think, My God, look at uh Hillary Clinton and Obama standing there doing this to Chris Stevens over his coffin.
	What what about what about if they were to start applying this heartlessness and ruthlessness to America's enemies instead of America's own.
	But oddly enough, they never do that.
	Mark sign in for Rush, more straight ahead.
	I always love that.
	Love that great Canadian music.
	Love to love to have uh Canadian music on open line Friday.
	Backman Turner Overdrive.
	Let's go to uh Mary in St. Louis.
	Mary, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Hi, good afternoon, Mark.
	Thank you for taking my call.
	I appreciate it.
	My pleasure.
	Thank you.
	Listening to so many things today, you're talking about different things.
	I I find it difficult to accept the things that are going on sometimes.
	But I I would like to suggest maybe uh part solution to some of the things that are happening, and that when we have presidential elections, instead of um those who are running for president to go out on uh campaign and talk, uh because they talk such a good game sometimes, but yet after the fact we find out what their record really is.
	What I'd like to see is that those who are running, they let us know who's running, and in some former fashion, but not campaigning.
	We want to know what they've been doing all along.
	How long have they been in in um pol politics, how long have they been serving?
	How what are their stances on, say, gun control and um uh military and uh health care and things like that and and the economy, how do they what are what have they been doing in the past?
	I want to know that, because they can always tell us what they want to do, but that's not always what we found in in in what Obama has done has been from what he's done in the past.
	Yeah, that's a that's a good way.
	The easiest record to run on is the one that hasn't happened yet, which is what Obama did.
	He ran on hope and change, and uh uh Rush mocked the idea of hope and change.
	Hope is pitiful.
	Hope isn't even a plan.
	Hope is you're just like lying there on the floor and uh some hurricane's torn the roof off your house and uh and you're just lying there as the weather is pouring in and you're on the floor and battered and bruised, hoping, hoping something will turn up.
	And Hillary can't even Hillary can't even run on that.
	Hillary is running on so called four decades of public service.
	Uh and in fact there is no you know, th Sarah Palin was told, we were told was not yet ready to be vice president because she wasn't ready to be president.
	Because all she'd done was been a governor and a mayor and run a commercial fishing operation.
	Well, Hillary Clinton had never run anything until she ran the State Department, and she ran that abysmally.
	And it's uh th there's a uh what's her name?
	Representative Alison Schwartz of Pennsylvania is in the newspaper today complaining that she wasn't the Democratic nominee for Pennsylvania governor, because uh Pennsylvanians aren't ready to have a woman as governor.
	You all know this, she says.
	Uh you couldn't even imagine a woman with my experience and my accomplishments could actually be the governor of Pennsylvania.
	Well, to Representative Schwartz, I would say, why not take it up with your party?
	Uh four of the five governors in this country uh at the moment are Republican women.
	Your party is the one whose idea of an accomplished woman is the spouse of a philandering husband who got a Senate seat, uh who was given as a Senate seat as a reward for staying quiet during the year of impeachment uh and and all that uh and all that and is essentially in the Ava Peron role.
	She's now supposed to become president uh just like Gabe Peron did after Juan Peron uh in Argentina.
	You know, it's the uh it's America's Don't Cry for Me, Hard Springs, Arkansas moment.
	It's uh uh is there nobody else in the Democrat Party?
	Sarah Palin.
	Sarah Palin wasn't qualified to be president because she'd only been a governor and a mayor and run a uh a business.
	But but Hillary Clinton is uh qualified to be president uh because she did nothing until she became Secretary of State, and then on Secretary of State she had Benghazi, should the disaster of the Arab Spring, should the Iranian nuclear and all the rest of it.
	Uh at some point uh we have to understand what accomplishment is.
	And accomplishment is not uh the Obama model where you have a million dollars of elite education and you become a community organizer and you mouth vapid platitudes uh about everything.
	And whenever you actually have to get specific, you're talking about fifty-seven states, or you don't speak Austrians, uh Austrian, or you can't tell the difference between the Ilas Malvinas and the Moldive Islands.
	Uh President Obama simply did nothing in his life to ever indicate he was sufficiently engaged to be president.
	And that's why whenever he's doing anything other than golfing or schmoozing with celebrities, he looks bored out of hell by the thing.
	He has no coherent geostrategic world vision.
	Uh and Mary is absolutely right.
	Uh uh and the idea that we just elect someone running on platitudes again, uh, which is why they're ginning up all this war on women stuff, uh, would be absolutely ridiculous for the United States to do.
	Mark sign for us, more to come.
	Donald Sterling uh has been diagnosed with uh Alzheimer's disease, and that is why doctors declared he is mentally unfit to have a voice in the sale of the LA Clippers.
	Yes, this has just been revealed by TMZ uh moments ago uh Donald Sterling has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
	Uh he is uh mentally unfit to have a say in the sale of the Clippers.
	Whether he is also mentally unfit uh to have signed that letter saying that his wife Shelley uh has to has sole say in the sale of the Clippers, I don't know.
	It's a kind of uh wacky situation to be whether and whether also uh the diagnosis that he is mentally unfit means that uh he should no longer have his private telephone conversations with his uh presumably now ex-mistress leaked uh to uh the world and used as the basis to deprive him of his property is another matter.

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