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July 16, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 16, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Gay bashing, there wasn't any of that.
Oh, I can see your point, but I wouldn't worry about it.
Snerdley's all concerned that my brilliant segment on perceptions in the first hour is going to lead to stories of me gay bashing.
There wasn't any gay bashing.
Everything in it was factual.
Greetings and welcome back, El Rushbo, serving humanity, executing, assigned to host duties flawlessly.
Zero mistakes.
Our telephone number is 800-282-2882.
Email address, LRushbo at EIBNet.com.
I did forget one salient piece of data.
The Centers for Disease Control reports of all government agencies.
It's kind of odd that they would be reporting this instead of the census, but nevertheless, the CDC says that 2.3% of the American population self-identifies as gay.
Now, that, by the way, allows, since it self-identifies, it's not that it's been discovered.
This is what people admit.
So it could be, it could be a little higher, could be a little lower.
It's all dependent on how honest people are with the researcher.
But we'll use the 2.3% number since that's what's published.
The thing I left out is the percentage of the population that's gay of the American public believe is true.
What do you think that is?
This all started with me asking the trusted and loyal staff here for their wild guesses of what they thought the percentage of the population in America that's gay is.
And they said anywhere from 3% to 5%.
The forehead, Paul Bagala on CNN, said recently that one in 10, I think it was the forehead, said that one in 10 Americans were gay.
The number is 2.3%.
But then what I left out was, what does the average American believe the gay population percentage is?
And why?
Most Americans, a majority of Americans think that the gay population is 13 times higher than 2.3%.
And that is a testament and the evidence of the assertion that I made that you cannot, I mean, you have the self-admitted majority in this country is conservatives, 37%.
The people who self-admit or self-identify as liberal is 20%.
And then of that 20%, 2.3%, for the most part, identify as gay.
Now, most gays are left, leftist, but there may be some who aren't.
So it's not necessarily true that all 2.3% are contained in the 20% that identify as liberals, but it's close.
Let's see, I get the actual number here.
It's 13 times.
The average American believes that the gay population is 13 times higher than the 2.3% that it really is.
And that's just, that's the media.
I mean, it's, but see, the media can't do it alone.
They have to have people that allow them to.
They're all employees.
And we had a caller talk about market share.
Wait a minute, Rush, the percentage of the population is one thing, but what about market share?
And he said the market share for the proposition that big government's the answer to everything is 95%.
They own it.
They're everywhere.
And that may be 5% or 10% wrong either way, but the market share argument is also interesting, at least to facilitate an understanding of the challenge ahead.
And I think something crucial in all this is literally understanding why something is.
What is the nature of the problem?
What's the reason for it?
So essentially, young Americans, defined as Americans under 35, believe 30% of the population is gay.
How does that happen?
The real percentage is 2.3, but Americans under 35 think it's 30%.
Now, you and I know the answer to this.
It's not just that there are TV shows that star gay actors and actresses.
They're now portraying gay characters with gay storylines.
And they're positive.
They are excellent parents.
They have warm and fun-loving families and all this.
They're now becoming preachers and ministers.
So you see how a purposeful effort can succeed.
And you can take a genuine minority and convince people that it is much larger than it is.
But it really is in the pop culture that you find the primary agents of influence, I think.
So again, it's just a way of illustrating how this happens.
And I firmly believe that you couldn't, again, just I don't mean to be repetitive here, but you couldn't have any of this happen were it not for the fact that the bosses want this to happen.
The people that run the entertainment networks, companies, organizations, TV studios, movie studios, publishing houses, they want it to happen.
They may, in fact, actually be gay themselves.
So that's where the market share argument comes into play.
And you can say, okay, the population of the country, 2.3%, but what is the population percentage of Hollywood that's gay?
And there's going to be a much larger number.
So fascinating thing to me is that the functioning real live, living and breathing majority has successfully been relegated to a status that most people think is dying out, barely holding on,
made up of some of the weirdest, kookiest, stupidest freaks.
That's the majority in this country and how it is thought of.
The majority in terms of self-identified.
South Carolina woman, 46-year-old woman, has been arrested for letting her daughter play in a nearby park while she was trying to earn a living.
The mother, Deborah Harrell, has been booked for unlawful conduct towards a child, according to a local TV station.
The incident report goes into great detail, even saying the mother confessed to leaving her nine-year-old daughter at a park while she went to work.
The mother, the 46-year-old mother, works at McDonald's.
Now, stop and think of this.
You may think, well, Rush, of course.
I mean, for crying out loud, this is insane.
No responsible parent would turn their four-year-old loose to run around unaccompanied in a park anywhere while she went to work.
Now, wait a minute.
If you let your four-year-old travel alone from Honduras to Texas through deserts, you're considered a hero to the drive-by media.
If you are a parent in Honduras, in El Salvador, in Guatemala, and you put your four-year-old on the train of death through the hot, dusty deserts of Mexico on the way to either California or Texas, you're a hero.
You're doing everything you can to improve your child's life.
It's perfectly understandable that you would do it if you turn on the drive-by media.
If you turn on ABC-CBS-NBC, if you turn on MSNBC, a Washington Post, New York Times, it's perfectly normal that a parent would wave goodbye to four-year-old little Jose as he gets on a death train or gets in a van driven by a coyote or as he hits the Hoof Express through the desert.
Perfectly normal, totally understandable, even worthy of hero status.
But this lady in South Carolina gets arrested for letting her kid play in a park while she's working in Mickey D's.
She didn't put her in government-controlled daycare.
She let her four-year-old run around with people in the park.
By these standards, you know what?
By these standards, my mother and every mother of every friend of mine should have gone to jail.
Well, I'm just saying, I can't, I know we don't do it anymore.
I know we don't do it, and I know why we don't do it anymore.
There are rapists, purse snatchers, muggers, and all that out there.
My mother would no more put me on a train to Moscow.
I can't, or an airplane or whatever.
But I can remember many mornings getting on a bicycle, leaving home, and my parents got mad if I got home before 5 o'clock.
They thought I was being lazy.
Sent me out of the house to play, made me go out, cut the yard, pull the weeds, whatever.
Sent me off to other people's houses to do odd jobs.
There was no concern.
And I understand it.
Don't misunderstand here.
But again, what are we talking about?
Major, dramatic cultural shifts here.
So, and it fits right in with Michelle Obama telling parents they're too stupid to know how to properly feed their kids.
And today we learned that food stamp recipients are too stupid to know the right foods to buy if you missed it.
There's a new plan the government has.
Talking shopping carts in grocery stores that direct food stamp recipients to the proper places in the grocery store to pick up the proper foods, healthy foods, fruits, vegetables, nuts, whatever the hell else they think is healthy.
And if they succeed, if the food stamp recipients, obviously too stupid to know what's best for them, if they end up buying a whole lot of really healthy stuff, they could win free movie tickets, also paid for by the taxpayer.
Brief time out, El Rushbo, trying to daily make some sense of the insanity.
When we get back, hey, we go back to the phones.
This is Mia in Miami.
Great to have you.
I'm glad you called.
Hi, Rush.
I just want to start by saying that you sent a thrill up my brain.
I'll tell you, I'm going to give you credit because I went back to school a couple of years ago to finish on my degree in political science.
And what I've learned from you in all these years helped me to become, to graduate magnum cum laude, Pi Sigma Alpha, and in another honor group.
Well, now, wait a minute.
That is.
Oh, congratulations.
That is great.
Magna cum laude.
That is serious.
Yeah.
I mean, I did.
I mean, I studied because I just went back five semesters, and failure was not an option.
And listening to you all these years actually helped me to understand and make common sense because I make a lot of connections in my head when I hear certain issues and things that happen in history.
And at the end of the day, it's like the laws of physics, it's cause and effect.
But the reason I'm calling is I am gay.
However, I consider myself a conservative person.
And based on your premise, in which conservatives are neither racist, bigots, or homophobes, my premise in life is that I believe in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
My partner and I, we're both very attractive women.
We are not your typical militant gays because I guess we view life maybe because of our background.
My parents were from Cuba and she's from Venezuela, so we are fully aware of how socialism, communism works.
Yeah, yeah.
She comes from totalitarian countries.
Correct.
And so maybe we just view life, you know, common sense.
We don't go out to the gay parades or anything like that.
I have a friend that runs the log cabin Republicans here in Miami.
And, you know, we believe in small government and government just getting out of your life.
And, you know, you just live a type of life in where you help each other out, you're a fellow man out, and low-profile life.
I mean, you don't identify then with what is known as the gay agenda.
The gay agenda is wrapped up in liberalism.
Well, true.
I mean, I'll give you an example.
I mean, we've been together for nine years, and, you know, she works for a private company which has offered for years.
A lot of private companies have offered domestic partnership health insurance.
All this time, of course, we've been getting hers is pre-taxed mines.
Now we're paying heavy taxes on mine.
We got a letter last year that based on the ruling from the Supreme Court, they were going to recognize marriage, even though it's not recognized in Florida, but for tax purposes.
Now, we did it based on an economic reason, not because that piece of paper was going to change the feelings of one another.
I mean, we've been together for nine years.
We have a monogamous relationship.
So, based on economic reasons, we got married, and now we're able to file differently.
Now, my health insurance gets pre-taxed just like hers.
So, because I hate giving more money to the federal government for taxes when I see the way they just throw it away and the misspending of our dollars here and the debt that we have amassed, especially in the last five years.
All right.
Now, wait, let me, you got married, as you say, for economic reasons.
Tell me, what is the primary reason that?
If you know what is, what is the primary reason that marriage is so important to other gays?
Um, you know what I?
It's.
For me it's economic.
I don't know what other people think and I don't get into what.
You know what their reasons are and actually when I really, if you really think about it, I don't care if you're gay or straight.
If you're getting married in City Hall, at like we did, it's a civil union because, or if you're being married by a judge, a notary, it's a civil union.
The problem is you're not going to change.
I mean, in Webster dictionary, let's face it, the definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.
No, I went to Catholic school.
No sacrament no, that's.
And I understand that.
No no, that's.
That's what's being changed.
I understand, but see, that's what i'm afraid of, because if you this is where you started precedents once you change the definition of one word, why don't you change the definition of other words?
And so the problem is, is when government got involved in marriage?
Because back in the day, when you got married in your church by a priest, a pastor, a minister, it was registered at the church.
It wasn't registered by your local town.
It's what it's?
That moment, okay in history, when government decided to get involved in marriage, in where you had to go get a marriage license.
I mean because, face it, when you have to go and when you get married at the church, you still have to get a marriage license.
That's so that people do not get married who shouldn't and produce offspring like Harry Reed.
Uh, that that, that is why the marriage lies, that's why the government got involved and it didn't work in in in the Reed family case.
But that's how it's.
It's, it's uh, it's designed.
You know, i've always, i've always thought that, i've always thought that most homosexuals would naturally gravitate toward conservatism, because conservatism is rooted in freedom.
Um, but I know that that's not the case.
I know that that most homosexuals gravitate toward government because the things they desire require a lot of power to make happen, and government is the most powerful entity that people willingly surrender to, and so that explains why in, in large part uh,
I think why something I would think most homosexuals gravitate toward conservatism, don't?
Uh, it is because force is needed or power is needed to affect what, what many of them want not necessarily you, because you've you've expressed yourself very well, but look at me, I appreciate that.
Did you hear what she said?
She said that that she gets a tingle up her brain.
I didn't graduate like she.
If I had, I would have graduated.
Some come loud, not magna, but some come anyway, Mia.
Thanks much, I appreciate the call.
I really do.
Um, a humanitarian tragedy.
U.s Make And Border took a weirdly comic turn in Grand Island on friday.
Just two, two more shocking illegal alien stories.
Federal officials showed up at what they thought was a vacant hotel that might be able to house children who entered the country illegally, only to discover the fully occupied, recently renamed Dyblos Niagara Resort and Spa, officials seeking shelter for young illegal immigrants thought that a hotel was vacant and already been taken Over.
And then there is, well, I'm out of time here.
I got to get a quick timeout for this segment.
And I'm going to get to this CNN reaction to this program yesterday coming up next.
Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
Rush Limbaugh, an excellent role model for the youths of America and anyone else needing guidance.
You know, I keep getting emails, and I know they're genuine.
I know that I know that you sending them are not tweaking me.
I keep getting emails.
I should have never brought this up.
People keep begging me to explain what my favorite feature in iOS 8 that Apple has taken out that's got me so depressed.
Folks, look, I'm embarrassed that this feature is that big a deal to me.
I don't even know why it is.
If I were to explain it to you, you would ask, you'd say, that is enough to depress you.
Yeah.
It would also take me a little while to explain it.
And I'm probably one of five people that care about it.
So in terms of market share, for example, I don't know how many people would be interested, even though I'm the one explaining it.
I do believe I can make anything interesting and compelling.
Plus, I don't know that would make any difference.
I mean, if Apple found out how much I liked it, they might never put it back.
For example, like what the governor of New York, when he found out that all it took was raising taxes to get me to leave the state, he'd have said he'd have done it sooner.
That was David Patterson.
Remember that?
And of course, the drive-bys chuckled at that.
They got a big, big laugh.
Whereas he, I don't know, didn't he have a motel room somewhere?
So I don't know if I tell them how much I like it, they might just for spite leave it out.
They might be planning to put it back in.
I don't know.
You know what really grates me about it, though?
These tech bloggers, and I know this is unfair, I'm talking to you about something you don't know about.
The tech bloggers routinely tell people, turn the feature off, it's a battery hog.
And at the same time, they love the exact same thing in Android.
They rave about it.
It's called Google Now, and they rave about it.
And yet, they tell people to turn it off on their iPhones.
Frequent locations is what it is.
But that's not the feature.
That's just.
And it stopped.
It stopped.
Now it's phone's not hot and it's behaving normally.
Anyway, we got to go back.
Gonna revisit this soundbite frequently, folks.
This is Florida Democrat Congresswoman Frederica Wilson on the floor of the House today during one-minute speeches.
Three months without our girls means that the time is now to keep pressure on the Nigerian government.
We must tweet with the fervent passion that extends beyond the glamour of a breaking news story.
We cannot slow down.
We cannot lose momentum.
We cannot rest until our girls at home.
Every morning between 9 and 12, tweet.
Bring back our girls with the hashtag, bring back our girls, bring back our girls.
Hashtag joinRep Wilson.
Hashtag joinRep Wilson.
Hashtag tweet, tweet, tweet.
Keep tweeting until we bring back our girl.
Now, this obviously has the leaders of Boco Harem quaking in their sandals.
As they, in fact, we have the Boco Harem reaction to this action.
Bring back again.
Oh, bring back our army.
Bring back our army.
Turn a ton.
Turn a ton.
Girl, girl, girl, girl, girl, Kristen.
Bring back our army.
So the Boco Harem guy is not exactly intimidated here by Florida Congresswoman Frederica Wilson.
What part of Florida?
It doesn't say what part.
I'm going to find out.
I'm going to find out what part of my, well, not my state, the state where I live, elected her.
Okay, back now to Aaron Burnett out front or up front.
What is it?
Out front on CNN.
This requires a little bit of setup.
Yesterday on this program, we had soundbites from Aaron Burnett Out Front on Monday night, in which she had a former Justice Department official and now I guess a CNN commentator, strategist, analyst, info babe, whatever name, Sonny Hoston.
And they were bouncing off of Eric Holder, who had been on a Sunday show, expressing his belief that optimism to him and Obama is rooted in racism, and there's a lot of it, and it's unfortunate and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And some she's from Broward County.
She's the one that wears the crazy cowboy hats.
That's who Frederica Wilson is.
Broward County, that's just one county down.
Holy smokes.
That's dangerously close.
Well, anyway, it was either Holder or somebody said that when he hears language, take back our country, that's racist.
That means somebody's got to get rid of the black president and the black attorney general and take our country back from him.
And I played these soundbites, and I literally erupted in opposition because there's nothing to do with race.
This whole notion of taking back the country, and not only have conservatives said it, but Mrs. Clinton has said it.
Howard Dean has said it.
A number of Democrats have said it.
And we played the soundbites left.
But the point is that I told Sonny Hoston on the program reacting to her that she didn't have the slightest idea what she's talking about.
That it has nothing to do with her.
Here's the bite.
And they played this last night.
They brought the same guest list back.
They brought back Sonny Hoston.
Then they brought back Greg Anthony.
And they added the forehead to the panel to outnumber Anthony, which was the reason for doing that.
Plus, the forehead is considered a rush expert, which did not make Carol Costello feel happy.
She used to be CNN's resident rush expert.
So anyway, here's the clip that they played.
And Erin Burnett introduced it.
Yeah, she played this clip and then asked them all to respond to it.
This is about liberalism.
Taking our country back means regaining our freedom.
Taking our country back means getting control of government and shrinking it and getting it more and more out of our lives.
Taking our country back means returning to the principles and the traditions of the founding.
It has nothing to do with taking it back from a black president.
The only relevance about Obama's race is how it allows him to proceed without criticism.
Everybody's afraid to criticize it because people like you are going to run around saying it's all racist when race has nothing to do with this and it never has.
He's the president of the United States.
He has policies.
He is implementing policies.
We disagree with them.
We think they are disastrous.
They're detrimental.
They're doing great damage to the country.
That's what getting our country back means.
And I don't even use the phrase, but I know what people mean who do.
And they don't have anything racist in their minds about this.
This is about saving the country as founding it, restoring it.
This is something very important to a lot of people.
And these people don't know what they're talking about.
They think they're brilliant intellectuals and they barely scratch the surface in understanding what people really think and what they believe.
They simply have knee-jerk reactions and they have various modes they assign people to that are just clichés, not rooted in any kind of critical thought whatsoever, much less in-depth analysis.
And so here are these smartest people in the world.
Oh, yeah, this is just a bunch of angry mad people that we have a black prison trying to take the country back from it.
It has nothing to do with that.
It has nothing whatsoever to do.
It's irrelevant, as I say, other than the cover it provides Obama, which I predicted would be the case a year before he won the election.
I had people calling here.
You remember, people called here, said, Rush, it might be good to vote for black president Wake, which showed that the country isn't racist anymore.
And I said, you have no idea.
I know you're thinking that would be the case.
And it'd be great if it was.
It would be an absolutely wonderful thing.
But the people in the race industry are never going to permit that.
What's going to happen is, if Obama gets elected, any criticism of him is going to be said to be nothing but racism.
It's going to get worse, I said.
It's going to exacerbate racial tensions.
It's not going to solve anything.
And that's been borne out by people like Sonny Hostin.
When any substantive criticism of Obama is met with charges of racism, my point has been proven.
So they bring Sonny Hostin back, and they play that clip.
And then Aaron Burnett says, now, are people afraid to criticize Obama in some cases, Sonny, because they're afraid they'll be called racist?
Rush Limbaugh, I almost don't want to respond to give him this platform, but the bottom line is he himself has made race an issue when talking about President Obama.
He's called President Obama in 2007 African American.
In 2008, he says that he was a rookie whose only chance of winning was that he was black.
In 2009, he described Obama's entire economic plan as reparations.
He's called President Obama an angry black guy.
He's called him an affirmative action candidate.
So for Rush Limbaugh, of all people, to say that race is not a part of this discussion and this narrative is laughable.
It's laughable, Mr. Limbaugh.
Ms. Hoston, you can't even stay on topic.
You didn't even answer her question.
My point was that the only value that Obama's racial component provides is that he's immune from criticism.
And you didn't even address that, which is the fundamental thing being discussed here.
It isn't about race.
Let's go through these.
African American.
I don't even know who so I was quoting somebody, thought it sounded clever.
He was a rookie whose only chance of winning was that he was black.
Well, he had been in the Senate 100 and some odd days.
148 days.
For them to deny the racial component is ridiculous.
How many people did vote for Obama because of the historical nature of his campaign and his candidacy?
There's nothing untrue about that.
But you see, this is where the handcuffs come in, because you cannot even address this.
I was speaking in purely political terms on all of this.
But anytime it involves race, you are automatically disqualified if you happen to be conservative because people like Sonny Hostin are going to just relegate it to racism and discount everything you say on purpose so they won't be forced to have to address it.
He didn't have any experience.
He was elected president because one of our conservative commentators loved the crease in his slacks.
Others thought that he was a like-minded intellectual.
Ms. Hoston, take a look at the last five and a half years, measure it against Obama's preparation and experience for the job and tell me where any of his prior experience has been put to good use.
I take that back.
It actually has, but not for the reasons you think.
Community organizing is what we've had.
He doesn't know anything about healthcare.
He doesn't know anything about the automobile industry.
He doesn't know anything about the energy sector.
He doesn't know anything about anything that he's doing.
And the results are proof positive.
Economic plan reparations.
I'm not the one who uses the word.
There are civil rights groups who are out there to this day demanding it in one form or another.
And who looked at it that way?
I just listen to what the left says.
That's how I learn what they think.
They tell me.
Angry black.
I think he is.
He's got a chip on his shoulder.
I don't know if there's any doubt about that.
None of these affirmative action candidates.
What is racist about any of this?
They automatically assign it to racism when it has nothing to do with racism.
I'm just one of the few unafraid to venture forth.
But I got to take a timeout now because of our obscene profit necessities.
Sit tight.
Much more coming up.
Don't go away.
By the way, can we, again, just remind everybody how all of this got started?
This all got started by Eric Holder once again complaining that people who run around talking about taking back their country are doing so because of race.
We were sitting here minding our own business and the attorney general comes along and calls us racists and not for the first time.
Too many people sit idly by and don't react to it, hoping it'll just pass and go by.
And I'm not going to let the tag attach itself to me because it's unworthy, it's cheap, it's unjustified, and it's primarily a cheap tactic that the left uses to silence people.
But it wasn't me who brought it up.
It was Eric Holder, and the president himself has done it too.
And the president's associates and aides and the media are all out there saying it's a racial component to take back our country and all this sort of stuff.
Routinely, who is it that's accusing everybody of racism, sexism?
The left is constantly bringing it up.
It's not at the forefront of anybody's minds but theirs.
So they bring the bagala, the forehead on Paul Bagala to talk about this, and here's what he said.
I think these things are best done the way Sonny just did with specifics.
Let me give you one.
Actually, I'd like to ask the other panelists because I think they have a really great variety of experiences here.
When the former governor of Alaska, the vice presidential candidate of the Republican Party, Sarah Palin, said that the president was shucking and jiving about Benghazi, Colin Powell, a Republican, a conservative, a four-star general, a Bush administration cabinet member, Colin Powell went to meet the press and said, you know, that's racial.
He said that that was racial.
I'm curious as to whether the panel agrees with General Powell.
Okay, Sarah Palin, Obama's shucking and jiving in Benghazi.
General Powell, a titular head of the Republican Party, everybody's role model, said that's racist.
She shouldn't say that.
So Greg Anthony is back.
He was also there on Monday night, and here's his reply to the forehead.
Let me ask a question of Paul Bagala.
What I want to know is, was it racist when the Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said that the president, because he has a chance to win, because he doesn't speak with a Negro dialect, was that racist?
No.
By the way, neither is Take It Back.
I wrote a whole book attacking George W. Bush called Take It Back, Our Country, Our Party, Our Fight.
I will merely hit pause there.
We're going to have you all back again because this conversation obviously is a lot longer to go.
Night after night, we will continue to do this.
Why pause it?
Anthony was just nailing home a point there.
Was Harry Reid racist when he said because the president has a chance to win, he doesn't speak with a Negro dialect?
Was that racist?
And the forehead says, no, no.
And then, by the way, neither is Take Back Our Country.
Well, hallelujah.
So finally, at the end of this segment, the whole thing that got it started, even the forehead has to admit it isn't racist, leaving Sonny Hoston alone on a deserted island in this segment on CNN.
All right, look at me.
2008, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said of Democrat candidate Barack Obama, who was running against Hillary.
Andrew Cuomo said, of Obama, you cannot shuck and jive at a press conference.
Anybody say that Andrew Cuomo had uttered something racist?
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