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Aug. 6, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 6, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Hey, I got an idea.
I got an idea.
Let's legalize pot for college students that are not smart enough to be granted free speech.
How about we do that?
Oh, wait.
We already have.
I'm sorry.
Folks, my trusted and loyal staff told me they think the show today is pretty good.
Not the best, not even close to the best, but it's okay.
It's good enough.
And they say, you know, really, you're doing quite well considering there's no news.
There's nothing really happening out there, and you're better at anybody I know of taking a slow news day and making it sound like something is – I said, slow news day?
Slow?
Yeah, I was putting together my stack.
I couldn't find anything in it, but the Wall Street Journal NBC poll, and they're even lying about that.
So, man, I didn't know what you were going to do today.
Well, this may be the perfect time to revive the story about the war going on between the feminazis and the trannies.
So I think I'll do that.
But before I get to that, I was just watching, in fact, they're still doing it.
CNN.
Please don't turn to watch it.
You don't need to.
I'm going to tell you what happened.
CNN thinks they've got a scoop.
They just got a video showing Hamas making a bomb in one of their own neighborhoods.
Yeah, really.
I'm not kidding.
It's, well, I think they're probably figuring the Israelis are going to find out.
Well, I don't know if they'll apologize for showing it.
When Hamas bitches, they might.
But honest to God, they think they're onto something that nobody knew here.
And it just goes to show the really narrow and closed world these people live in.
You know, they believe all of the conventional wisdom or the propaganda, whatever it is, that Israel is the only bad guy.
And why?
Because Israel is the majority.
Israel's powerful.
Israel's free.
So they got to be the bad guy.
Hamas, poor little, little be living in Gaza Strip, poverty-stricken and disease-ravaged and just poor little victims.
And here comes mean big bad Israel just slacking them and killing them.
And then they hear all this talk.
They hear, wait, don't you know that Hamas is stocking schools with rockets and missiles and launching them from hospitals?
And they hear you say that, and they just reject it.
No, no, no, it's not possible.
Hamas, they couldn't be doing that.
They don't have the...
And then they get a video that shows it.
And breaking news or what have you, as though they're onto something that nobody knew, when in fact, everybody with half a brain has known it for years.
To me, it's just another illustration of the utter hopelessness of the media to ever, not just play fair or whatever, just to get anything right is a long-lost objective now.
Anyway, here's the telephone number if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882, and the email address, lrushboateibnet.com, shortly after this program began.
What?
No, no, that's true.
It's true.
It is true to say, each day I probably do choose the path of the most resistance when doing this.
Some people choose the path of least resistance.
I aim this program at the most resistant.
I do, not even by design, to standing up for what's right takes you down the path of most resistance.
That's where this program goes each and every day.
Anyway, shortly after this program began in August of 1988, something happened.
I forget what it was, but there was a rash of highway accidents, and there was a lot of concern over people driving in ways that distracted them.
So I came up with a solution.
And the solution was to get women to stop farting in their cars while they're driving.
And this caused an absolute outrage down the affiliate line.
Our affiliate in Chicago, WLS, Tom Tradup was the program director, the general manager.
And back in those days, they still weren't sure.
Not just LS, but they still weren't sure that syndicated programming was the answer.
What I was trying to do had never worked in the daytime.
It had always failed, both in ratings and in financial terms.
And so there was, and I knew this, there was a very thin line that I was on, and it didn't take much to veer off that line.
And if I gave any ammunition to people who really didn't want to carry this program, they would take it.
And that's not a criticism of them.
It's just the lay of the land as it was back in 1988 when the program started.
I don't want to get too inside baseball, but back then, the belief was that radio to succeed had to be local, local, local.
You had to have local hosts.
You had to have local phone numbers.
You had local issues.
Or you didn't have a prayer.
Television was national, but radio, no, no, no, no, would never work.
Oh, yeah, and you had to have guests.
If you're going to do a talk show, you have to have guests.
What do you think you're doing now?
I faced that even when I was in Sacramento, but I didn't want to do guests because everybody else did.
Anyway, so when I suggested that women stop farting in their cars, I got canceled on the spot at WLS in Chicago.
They called and said, all right, that's it.
That's it.
We've been able to look the other way at some of this stuff up to now, but that's it.
No more.
And they canceled me.
Now, cancellation lasted 45 minutes because I then explained that the word was fard, F-A-R-D, and it's French, and it means to apply makeup.
So, and don't misunderstand, I love Tom Tradup.
Tom Tradup's one of the best radio people that I've ever encountered in my entire career.
It was just the lay of the land then.
The suspicion and uncertainty about whether a program like this, a nationally syndicated program, wasn't me, it was just that was nationally syndicated, whether it could work or not.
So after explaining, and there, by the way, I had phone calls.
Do you mean?
Women farting in their car.
How do you know?
I said, well, you can see it.
You can see it?
Yeah.
I've seen it.
I can't tell you how many times.
Well, do men do it?
No.
I have yet to see a man do it.
Well, of course, that was just driving everybody crazy because they didn't stop to think, and why would they?
That was the joke that I was uttering the word fard.
The point here is how things have changed.
Now, if I were to say F-A-R-T-I-N-G, it would not be a big deal.
No program director would want to cancel me.
Nobody would raise an eyebrow.
Now, it's been 26 years, obviously, and things change over 26 years.
But I've got a story here that in no way would I have touched 26 years ago.
Now, because of the way I was raised, my manners and my sense of propriety and decency, I even am reluctant to mention it now.
I really don't want to touch this now, but I'm also aware that the vast majority of people are not going to have any problem with it, and in fact, they'll be laughing themselves silly.
So, here goes.
And to prove my point, it ran on ABC News.
Police say a woman crashed her car while shaving her privates.
Well, this also is as dangerous as farting in your car when you're driving.
This could be just as potentially dangerous, shaving your privates, as farting when you're driving.
The 37-year-old Megan Barnes catapulted to instant fame for an alleged mashup that earned the Bottle Blondes mug shot a spot on hundreds of websites.
According to a startled Florida Highway Patrol trooper, 37-year-old Megan Barnes was shaving her bikini area while driving south on the famed Overseas Highway when she crashed into the rear of an SUV back on March the 2nd.
In the police report obtained by ABC News, the trim job was apparently essential because the arresting officer and trooper Gary Dunick said that the Indiana native, Megan Barnes, told him she was heading to Key West to visit her boyfriend.
She said she was meeting her boyfriend at Key West.
She wanted to be ready for the visit, so she was shaving the bikini area in a car while driving on the way to meet the boyfriend.
And it gets weirder, in order to pay full attention to her sensitive regions.
Police say that Melanie Barnes or Megan Barnes enlisted her ex-husband, who was riding shotgun, to hold the steering wheel while she shaved.
So this woman is on the way to Key West to meet her boyfriend, her ex-husband riding shotgun.
She decides she's got to shave her private.
She asks the ex-husband riding shotgun to hold the steering wheel.
And that's what happened.
And it all went bad when an SUV driving in front of them slowed down to turn.
Megan Barnes, 1995 Thunderbird smashed into it.
Two of the passengers in the SUV suffered minor injuries.
Barnes shouldn't have been driving that Thunderbird since she'd been convicted the previous day of driving under the influence and driving with a suspended license, which she was still out there driving and shaving while the ex-husband was holding the wheel.
According to the arrest report, it was the sixth time her license had been suspended.
What details are we missing that she should have had one of the kids on the pedals?
Oh, what happened when she crashed?
Was she shaving?
Well, let's see.
After the accident, Barnes and Judy, who's Judy?
Who's Judy?
Oh, Charles Judy, the ex-husband.
Judy, the last name.
After the accident, Barnes and the ex-husband drove off.
The Thunderbird limped a few hundred yards before the couple switched seats.
She jumps in the back seat.
He moves over.
It was like the old comedy bit, Who's On First?
But the attempt to claim that the ex-husband and not Barnes was driving was doomed because Judy had visible burns on his chest that he claimed came from an exploding airbag, but only the passenger side airbag deployed.
So anyway, Barnes was charged with driving with a revoked license, reckless driving, leaving the scene of an accident with injuries, and driving with no insurance.
The ex-husband was not charged.
According to the arrest affidavit, the trooper asked her afterward why she didn't hit the brakes when she saw the SUV, and she said, I told you I was shaving.
The trooper said, if I wasn't there, I would not have believed it.
And from that story, what?
Did what?
Oh, I have Big Razor going to get involved.
Do you think a warning label is called for here?
Do not.
Do not shave your bikini area while driving.
Could well be.
Trial lawyers get on this.
You never know.
But from that story, we now move to the next story from the New Yorker called What is a Woman?
And this story is about the literal war that is going on between radical feminais and transgenderism.
As transgender rights gain acceptance, radical feminazis are seeing their point of view shunned.
In other words, radical feminists seem to be losing political ground to the transgenders.
And the radical feminazis are not happy.
The hardcore feminazis are not happy.
This is an eight-page story.
If you think you've lost touch with your country, this is an eight-page story in the New Yorker about a war between radical feminazis and transgenders over political power.
And don't worry, I'm not going to treat you to all eight pages of it.
You know, I got to say, this Russian crime gang, one and a half billion passwords and connected emails, that's impressive even by NSA standards.
That is huge, folks.
420,000 websites.
If we were talking about dollars, nobody would think it's any big deal, government dollars.
But you put it in the context of 1.5 billion passwords.
How many people on the planet are there who have internet?
What's the percentage of the population on earth that does not have internet?
I saw that the other day.
I just don't recall it.
This is huge.
The NSA probably trying to get hold of these guys and asking if they can buy the database would save them a lot of time.
Here's Nash in Stratford, Connecticut, as we head back to the phones.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
First off, happy 26th anniversary, Mega Mega Dittos.
I've been listening for 22 years.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
I want to credit you for actually my rebellious team youth bringing our family together because you were the one thing that I found we could talk about and you displayed for us that politics was something we all shared.
So no matter how crazy I got, I was still a conservative.
So I've been dying all week to hear you actually talk about this story, but I haven't heard you actually illustrate it yet.
Yeah, just been just now waded into the shallow end of the pool.
Well, are you speaking about the TERFs by any chance?
Well, there's a radical wing of the feminist party that believes.
While I've got you here, let's explore the story together.
All right, let me, it's in the New Yorker, and here's how it starts.
And I'll read just enough that this will answer whether or not this is about what you're interested in.
On May 24th, a few dozen people gathered in a conference room at the Central Library at the century-old Georgian Revival Building in downtown Portland for an event called Rad Femmes Respond.
Radical Feminazis Respond.
The conference had been convened by a group that wanted to defend two positions that have made radical feminazism anathema to much of the left.
First, the organizers hoped to refute charges that the desire to ban prostitution implies hostility toward prostitutes.
And then they were going to try to explain why, at a time when transgender rights are ascendant, radical feminazis insist on regarding transgender women as men who should not be allowed to use women's facilities, like public restrooms or to participate in events organized exclusively for women.
So the fight here is that the feminazis do not want transgendered women anywhere near them.
That's entirely the prerogative to think that.
I mean, I don't think any transgendered person is going to argue that they aren't naturally 100% the person that they are aspiring to.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
If you are a man and become a woman and the feminazis then don't want you, the new woman, in their restroom, why not?
You've become a woman.
You're a transgender.
What's the problem?
Well, I mean, are you trying to use the same toilet?
I don't get the problem.
I mean, in a women's case, everything's stalled.
So it's not like you're standing up in the urinal next to somebody.
You know, they bring up, it is who I think thought you were speaking about, but they do bring up points about there's been violence against women in said restrooms by transgendered women, but it has been found also that these women are transvestites.
There's a whole big difference here, which there's another point I want to make after this.
But they don't try to get away from it to their family.
Hold it.
You're talking to a virgin here on all that.
What is...
You're doing fine.
Yeah, transgender, transvestite difference.
What is it, please?
Transvestite is somebody who likes to put on the clothing of somebody else and role play and act out.
Oh, usually in a sexual thing.
This is the main point I want to get to, which is not exactly what the TERFs.
Oh, I agree with the Turks have a right to say whatever they want, but they're never going to accept a transgender person as the gender they choose to be.
My objection really overall is to be lumped into the GLBT and now the GLBTQ because all of the letters, with the exception of transgender people, transgender people are very, very difficult.
You know.
Wait a second.
I'm glad you called.
Now, wait a minute.
Nash, I'm really glad you called because I have been waiting for this.
I have been waiting for the, why is it assumed that transgenders have anything in common with homosexuals?
Nothing.
Most transgender, I don't want to speak for anybody, but a lot of us feel that we are straight.
We've always identified with wanting to be with somebody, but we're different for it from our bodies.
So, I mean, it has nothing to do with the behavior.
I've never wanted to put my underwear on my head and write a photo.
No, no, I understand that.
But I've been wondering why, for political purposes, gay, lesbian, transgender are lumped into the same classification when I've never associated homosexuality with transgenders.
It's convenience from, I think, the left.
And it's also, you know, there are a lot of people who simply don't understand the definition or the difference between them.
So they automatically lump us in because they think it's a sexual perversion or a sexuality.
You have to understand that.
I mean, you have to understand a lot of people ignorant about this.
Of course, and it takes time.
It absolutely takes time.
I'm patient with people.
You know, I mean, I think people have to have to lighten up.
Everybody's got to lighten up.
And once your own yard is clear, your trash is taken out, then worry about somebody else's.
But as long as you're not hurting kids or pets or anything...
By the way, we need to...
You and I are on the inside here.
We need to do it.
You keep throwing about this term TERFs.
And people need to know what that is.
Oh, you know what?
And I'm not sitting in front of my computer.
I can't remember exactly what it is.
It's trans-exclusionary radical feminist.
It's T-T-E-R-F.
Trans.
That is correct.
Exclusion.
Thank you.
Trans-exclusionary radical feminist.
It's not T-U-R-F, and it has nothing to do with.
Yeah, so it gets, it's weird.
I mean, you cannot expect people to see the acronym TERF and then be told, yeah, it's trans-exclusionary, radical feminist.
Meaning, they're radical feminazis that want nothing to do with trannies.
And they have a point.
They have a point because they look at what we do, especially say from a trans woman aspect, that we are bolstering the male patriarchal society view of women.
And therefore, we run off on this and that and the other, which is absolutely confident.
See, this is the root of it.
Folks, I know you're wondering, what the hell is happening to this show?
It's Wednesday, but see, feminism is liberalism, and you swerved into something.
The radical feminazis think that the trannies are bolstering the patriarchal male view of society.
If they become men, if they transgender to men, they do not enjoy all of our exclusionary benefits of having been men, and that that will follow you over if you change over.
And I can tell you that's not the case for any of us.
We have our own completely separate set of unique circumstances to deal with.
And all we want to do is just be left alone.
If you can take somebody out walking down the street because of their, you know, by their sexual preference, by what they're wearing.
That's completely different from what we want.
We want to stay in.
Nash, time out.
Snerdley just said, how does this, when a woman transgenders to a man, you don't understand how that would tick off the feminazis?
You don't?
Okay, here's a woman, presumed to be a woman, feminist, whatever, gives it up.
Who are the enemies of the radical feminazis?
Patriarchal society led by men, obviously.
A woman becoming a man is a sellout to the radical feminis.
That's one less vagina out there for every time it happens.
I'm trying to get through.
Do you not get that?
No matter how you did.
No, I didn't see the movie.
I didn't see any movie about this.
I'm simply reacting to what's here in this story that's in the New Yorker, eight pages long.
It's about radical.
This program has been devoted to try to open people's eyes about radical feminism as it exists, who they are, what they're trying to accomplish.
The very idea, A, that transgenders get lumped in with gay people ticks everybody off the set, ticks off the transgenders because they're not gay.
The second thing is militant feminists do not dig other women transgendering to men.
Men are the enemy.
Men are the problem to radical feminazis.
And so that's why there's this lack of acceptance, and there's a war going on between these two groups.
We're talking about Democrat voters here for the most part, folks.
Keep that in mind.
Folks, I've told you from the get-go, this program knows no boundaries.
We cover all religions.
We do all three or four sexes, all politicals, and we cover it all.
We hit everything here.
You never know what's going to happen.
And where else are you going to get, where else are you going to get a serious intellectual examination of the massive war going on between radical feminists and transgenders?
Where else are you even going to hear about it?
Who else is even going to explain it to you?
And where else are we going to get a call about it?
Just another thing the media avoids.
You haven't heard the media talking about this war, have you?
That's what I mean.
It's cutting edge of societal evolution stuff.
Okay.
Dave in Gurney, Illinois.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Rush?
Yeah, Dave.
Yeah, I'm sorry, you cut out.
I didn't hear you.
Hey, this goes back to the story that you had about the young people that do not understand the concept of freedom of speech because they're so young.
They're not intellectually developed yet to be able or to be granted full access to the First Amendment.
That's what the guy is basically saying.
I would say, does that explain the voting block of young people that voted for Barack Obama then?
Because if they don't understand the concept of freedom of speech, then that would explain why they voted for Barack Obama.
Look, I don't mean to split hairs here, but I do like to be precise.
And I understand that this guy did not say they don't understand it.
He said they're not capable of it.
And what he's saying is they haven't earned the right to have free speech because they're not mature and smart enough to know how to use the First Amendment and free speech.
So here, and he's a major Democrat.
He's on the U.S. Civil Rights Commission.
He's a former advisor to Nancy Pelosi.
So the point here is how do people think?
What is it that animates?
Here you have a stuffed shirt, arrogant, condescending twerp who actually believes that the state or the administration of a university or somebody should actually establish speech codes,
making sure that only what they want said is said, because college students do not have the age, the experience, the maturity to know what they should and shouldn't say.
This is classic.
It's no different.
These people think this about the population at large anyway, in practically every aspect of life.
You don't know how to make the right decision.
You need us doing it for you.
You don't know the right car to drive.
You don't know the right foods to eat.
You need Michelle Obama designing your menu.
You do not know where to live.
You do not know how to behave and save the planet.
You'll destroy it and promote global warming unless we restrict you.
You do not know the safe places to go and do things because you're not capable.
This is the entire attitude of the left, particularly people in power in the left, over everybody.
They assume you're an idiot.
It's no different that these are the same people.
When the Berlin Wall fell that said, well, now, wait a minute.
These people, freedom is not for everybody, you know, and it's really not for them.
They have lived under totalitarianism for so long, they don't know what to do with their freedom.
My only point is, it's not their right to parcel out freedom.
It's not their right to determine who has what rights and who doesn't.
That was the express point of the founding of this country, that our rights do not come from arrogant, condescending liberals.
It's not that they will do it wrong.
They're not smart enough.
They're smart enough to use legalized dope.
They're smart enough to cross at age eight from Nicaragua all the way to California.
They're smart enough to go get abortions at 12.
They're smart enough to use freedom.
They're smart enough to vote for Obama, but they're not smart enough to know what to say and when not to say what.
These people tell me we're hideous.
Hey, you know, why some people doubt me?
You know, I will never know after 26 years, but people still do.
Rush Limbaugh, always taking the path of the most resistance.
Each day.
That's it for today.
Thanks for being with us, my friends.
Back at it tomorrow.
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