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Sept. 1, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 1, 2014, Monday, Hour #3
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The views expressed by the host of this program documented to be almost always right 99.7% of the time still waiting on the next opinion audit from the Sullivan Group.
My exclusive opinion auditing firm now in I think it might be in Roseville, California.
The Sullivan Group keeps moving around.
Robbie's all that I can't find them.
Phone number, if you want.
Well, it's been stuck at 99.7 for I don't know how long.
And I haven't been wrong.
It's got to be going up at some point.
Anyway, telephone number is 800-282-2882.
Back now to Brian, a trucker from Phoenix on the road in Austin.
He may now be up to Dallas by now.
Anyway, I'm glad you went down to San Antonio.
Oh, okay, cool.
San Antonio.
I've been there a lot.
I've been there.
It's nice to be nice.
It is.
It is.
Now, just to reset, you have this brother who calls himself, he thinks he's a centrist.
He thinks people on the left and right are wacky.
He thinks he's an independent, right-down-the-middle guy.
You used to be a Jesse Jackson liberal.
But you've been listening to this program for a long time, and now you're home.
You're a conservative, and you've got some kids.
You've been listening for a long time.
You bought your daughter a copy of Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.
And you gave it to your daughter.
She took it over to your brother's house.
It somehow ended up over there.
I brought it over while she was babysitting his children.
That's right.
And you left it there, and your instincts told you he might not be happy about it.
It turns out he wasn't.
He got home.
He saw the book there.
And your daughter said he reacted in ways and behaved in ways she'd never seen him behave.
You've got angry.
Never.
Never before.
And so he relented if they would just get the book out of the house.
And the way they did that was to take it to scruple.
Yep.
Now, how old is your daughter?
What grade is she in?
She's an 11th grader and 16 years old.
Okay, cool.
And she liked the book.
Yeah, I read it to all three of the kids.
Oh, yeah.
I was over there, dropped her off to babysit, had the book in my car hidden from him and brought it in when he left.
That's right.
And I had about 10 minutes to read it, read the first chapter.
They were hooked.
They loved it.
Okay, so pick up the story.
Your brother relents.
The book can stay if it leaves.
And so they took it to scruple.
Yeah, he didn't want the book.
He was really upset because you had anything to do with your picture.
You know, he called me, emailed me, really upset.
And I'm like, Jason, your kids didn't even know what the Mayflower was.
That's why I bought it.
I drive a truck.
Wait a second.
Wait, wait, now, wait.
Is that true?
His kids didn't know what the Mayflower was?
Absolutely.
I asked them before, before I brought the book out, before I dared to do that, because I knew I'm going to walk into a little bit of a trouble with my brother.
We work together.
And I just.
Now, wait a minute.
No, no, wait a minute.
Wait, wait, wait.
Wait, wait, wait.
Hold it.
Your brother's kids, I assume, the same age, similar to your...
No, they're 7 and 12.
7 and 12.
And honestly, they had never heard of the Mayflower?
Honestly, I swear.
Because I asked them right in front of my daughter right before I took the book out.
And that was kind of my way of introducing the book.
I can explain to you what the Mayflower is.
And I went on and read the first chapter, and they loved it.
I can see why you'd want to.
Yes.
Okay, so they loved it, and it ended up.
He came back from babies, you know, from his date with my sister-in-law, his wife, and he walked in the door, and they jumped at him.
The kids, his two children, look what Brian, you know, bought.
And they loved it.
They were wanting to show it off.
He freaked out, yelled.
I wasn't there, but this is what my daughter came over and said, Dad, you know, you can't believe the way your brother.
I don't want to say his name because we have a great relationship.
He's a wonderful person.
I love him to death.
I know, but you know what?
Here's his classic.
He thinks he's not a pin.
Well, he's open-minded.
That's probably what he thinks he is, the guy being in the middle.
If he's outraged at this book, you better have him look into what books are in the schools these days.
If he really wants to get irritated, you might clue him in what his kids are being taught.
He has his kids in private Christian school because he knows, but he still thinks far-right, wacky, far-left, wacky.
Down the middle is normal.
That's what he thinks.
And I'm not saying left is wacky or right is wacky.
I'm just saying I think.
I know.
I know the exact personality type.
I can explain it to you without even knowing your brother.
I know that.
I can tell you why he thinks he's in the middle.
But I don't want to waste time doing that.
You love your brother, and I don't want to be critical.
That's not my point.
I just want to find out what happened to the book.
Okay, long story short, to get to the end of it.
They read it to the older son's classroom.
He brought it to the school because his brother wanted it out of the house, and the kid didn't want to get rid of it.
So he brought it to the school.
The teacher agreed to read it to the whole class.
So 30 kids got to read that one book that was just intended for my niece and nephew.
I came back to pick up the last day of school this, you know, in May.
He asked me, he's busy with his business.
Can you go pick up our kids from school?
So I went and picked up his two kids and asked, you know, how did your class like the school?
They loved it.
The teacher said they loved it.
I went over and picked up my niece, who is only seven.
I told her a little bit about the books, and she said we'd love it in our class, too.
So I'm just recommending to parents give it not only to your kids, but give it to your relatives' kids and give it to schools.
It's a wonderful.
I haven't read the book, but I know exactly what it's about.
These kids don't know anything about the history of our country.
And our country's dying before us, and we don't want that.
Let me just tell you something.
Let me give you a little project.
If you want to.
I mean, it's by no means if you have some spare time.
Because there's a lot of misconceptions.
You told me that your brother's kids go to a private school, a Christian school, because he knows.
He knows what's in the public schools.
But I would wager that if you dig deep, you will find that a man named Howard Zinn is the author of the textbook on American history that's being used in that school.
And if it is, that's why nobody's ever heard of the Mayflower.
Howard Zinn is the author of the majority of junior high and high school history texts that are outrageous.
They're simply outrageous in the way they rewrite and revise American history.
Howard Zinn, Howard Zinn would be why his kids don't know and never heard of the May Zinn.
Z-I-N Zinn?
Z-I-N-N, Howard Zinn.
Okay, I'll look into that.
It's a wild guess, but my point is, just because it's a private Christian school, don't assume that it hasn't been corrupted by leftists in the curriculum.
They're everywhere, Brian.
That's why I did the books.
And that's your story is just here.
Your brother wants to get the book out of his house.
It's going to taint him.
And he's killed.
He's a centrist.
He's a moderate.
He's not a wacko, left or rightist.
He doesn't want this.
And it goes to school.
The kids love it.
That's music to my ears.
That's exactly what we're trying to achieve here.
And I'll tell you what I want to do.
I want to send you a bunch of copies of both books.
There's a second book, Rush Revere and the First Patriots.
And that's been out since the early part of the year, six months or so.
I know I'm planning on already doing it, but I'm waiting on the right timing.
And I really don't want to take any of your books.
I'd rather buy them from the airports, you know, because it shows that we're buying books and it's good for, you know, those businesses that don't even want them on the shelves.
We buy them from them.
They're like, hmm, let's buy some more of them.
Okay, I appreciate that.
I'll tell you what, then, let me send you a couple of versions of the audio copy of the book read by me.
Well, I appreciate that.
I accept that.
I mean, I offered you the books and you said, no, I'd rather buy them.
And I appreciate that, too.
I understand exactly what you mean.
So you go buy them.
And if there are any in the future, I mean, keep a sharp eye.
You never know, wink, wink.
But I'm going to send you the audio version.
And we'll send you some stuff that we also include.
Some Ted T Bears and some other stuff in there that the little girls will like.
So if you love it, if you hang on and let Mr. Snerdley get an address from you where we can get this stuff out.
All right.
God bless you so much, Rush.
I appreciate you.
Well, it's a two-way street, Brian.
It really is.
I appreciate all of you much more than you could ever appreciate me.
And I know you appreciate me a lot, but I'm telling you, it's much more the other way.
You'll never know.
I don't have a way to adequately thank all of you.
What you've done here and the kind of effort that you've undertaken to spread this around is it just has me in awe.
And it makes me feel really humble.
And I can't thank you enough.
So let Mr. Snerdley get your address and we'll go from there and send you a care package of thanks because we really do sincerely appreciate it.
Brief time out here, folks.
Don't hang up.
Don't go away.
We'll be right back right after this.
And we're back, Rush Lindball, the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Talent on loan from God.
President Obama said yesterday that it was premature to fast-track an experimental Ebola drug for approval, even for Africa.
He said, I think we've got to let the science guide us.
This was at a press conference, U.S. Africa Summit in Washington before he had that monster's ball dinner party for all of these African leaders, nine dictators, murderers, and thugs among the guests.
You really ought to look at the UK Daily Mail because that story really is they do a rap sheet on all nine dictators and thugs that were roaming around the White House and they're posing for pictures with Obama and Michelle.
And the pictures, pictures say everything.
But let's go to the audio sound bites on this.
And I want to take you back to Monday.
And I want you to all listen again to what I said when it was learned When we learned on Monday that there was this super secret serum that was used only on two white Americans.
Serum, by the way, derived from tobacco.
From nicotine, especially tobacco plant, rapidly growing tobacco plant in Kentucky.
Think Mitch McConnell thinking, oh, gosh, the left has got to hate every aspect of this serum.
There's no good that can come from tobacco.
And here we may have a miracle serum for Ebola that comes from tobacco.
Here's what I said.
Where did this come from?
Who knew?
And wait till the rest of the world hears about the fact that we've got it and that we took it to Liberia, but only used it on a sick American and didn't share it with sick Liberians.
Wait till Obama finds out about this.
Folks there is going to hell to pay.
When Obama finds out we got this super secret thing that does something magical to Ebola and we took it to Liberia and used it on an American and then brought him and the serum home and we didn't share it.
This is exactly what has been wrong with this country that Obama's been trying to fix.
Exactly.
Selfishness, greed, doing everything for us, leaving the poor of the world poor, leaving the sick of the world sick, but protecting and curing ourselves.
And yet, I knew it wouldn't be long before the media started asking, wait a minute, wait a minute now.
And sure enough, last night in Washington at the State Department, Obama held a news conference, and here's a question from the AP White House correspondent, Julie Pace.
There's been a lot of discussion surrounding this summit about the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and there's an untested and unapproved drug in the U.S. that appears to be helping some of the Americans who are infected.
Is your administration considering at all sending supplies of this drug if it becomes available to some of these countries in West Africa?
And could you discuss a bit the ethics of either providing an untested drug to a foreign country or providing it only to Americans and not to other countries that are harder hit if it could possibly save lives?
Do I know these people?
Or do I know these people?
And of course, she's late to the party.
CNN was the first to make my prediction come true on Monday night.
This was last night.
Now, here is Obama's answer to that question.
We've got to let the science guide us.
And I don't think all the information's in on whether this drug is helpful.
What we do know is that the Ebola virus, both currently and in the past, is controllable if you have a strong public health infrastructure in place.
And the countries that have been affected are the first to admit that what's happened here is that their public health systems have been overwhelmed.
We're focusing on the public health approach right now because we know how to do that.
But I will continue to seek information about what we're learning with respect to these drugs going forward.
Folks, if you'll forgive me, I have to parse that answer.
I'm sorry, but this is, I just can't let that one go.
We've got to let the science guide us.
And next, we're going to hear how the science isn't going to guide us.
We've got to let the science guide us.
And you know, I don't think all the information's in on whether it's helpful.
We only have a couple of patients.
And so far, it's been near miraculous, but we don't know enough yet.
What we do know is that the virus is controllable if you have a strong public health infrastructure in place, like we do.
If you have an advanced first world healthcare system like Obamacare, then we can handle all this.
And then this is the technique that just drives me nuts.
And the countries that have been affected are the first to admit that what's happened here is that their public health systems have been overwhelmed.
You know what that is?
Let me tell you what Obama is putting words in their mouth.
Obama is standing up saying there's no way these dirt poor countries are going to get this virus.
And then he says, and they don't want it.
They know they're not good enough for it.
That's what that means when he says, and the countries that have been affected are the first to admit that what's happened here is what he's trying to say is, and the countries that have been hardest hit are the first to admit they don't even want it.
They don't even have the infrastructure to know what to do with it.
And I'm telling you, those countries would take that serum today if it were offered.
This is a technique.
Bill Clinton perfected this technique.
And Obama has perfected it.
He's built on it.
It's a variation of the straw man.
You put words in the strawman example.
You create somebody that doesn't exist.
You give them a point of view that they can't obviously have.
They don't exist.
A point of view that agrees with yours.
You make it look like you're part of this giant majority of thinking.
Well, in this case, you got a reporter saying, why don't you share it?
Why don't we send it over to those countries?
And Obama's not going to for whatever reason.
Either we don't have enough or he doesn't want to or whatever.
But he's not going to stand up and say, we're not going to share it.
He's going to stand up and say, they know they don't want it.
They know enough to know that they don't know what to do with it.
They know enough to know that their health care systems are so shoddy that they wouldn't be able to use it anyway.
So he's hiding behind them.
These three African countries.
He's going to deny it to them.
But he wants everybody to believe that they're telling him that they don't want it.
That's what that means.
When you hear him say anything like this ever, and they'll be the first to admit, these countries have been affected, but they'll be the first to admit that what's happened here is that they're a bunch of hell holes and they don't know what they're doing and they're not worth saving and they can't get this.
It's outrageous, this kind of stuff.
It's gutless.
It's this straw man argument.
He just can't stand up and say, no, it's not the right time.
No, we don't know enough.
No, he's got to lay it off on them.
And I doubt that they've said to him, by the way, Mr. President, we don't want your serum.
I doubt they've said that.
Let me ask you a question about this.
You have the three African countries where this Ebola has really the outbreak's severe, Sierra Leone, Guinea, forget the third one.
But this answer of Obama's, that Julia Pay said, why aren't you giving it to them?
He says, well, I think if they would agree, they'd be the first to tell you that.
And I'm telling you, folks, that answer is just, I can't tell you how that kind of answer just infuriates me.
These, yeah, the countries that have been affected, they'd be the first to admit that what's happened.
Yeah, they don't even want it.
Be the first to admit they're not qualified to get it.
They'd be the first to admit.
It's just gutless.
It's lay it off on them.
You know, these media types, why aren't you sharing?
They're the ones who are really suffering from it, and we have this theorem.
Why don't you let them have it?
Well, even they would tell you that they.
So why doesn't he?
Let me ask you a question.
What do you think?
Well, now, no, no.
Do you think that Obama is actually saying that these African countries are too damn backward to waste the serum on?
Do you think, what is it?
Do you think we don't have enough and we can't afford?
I mean, if that's the case, why can't you stand up and say, look, we don't have enough.
We're still fighting to create this stuff.
It's harder.
Okay, okay.
Well, because it's new.
He could make the case we don't have enough.
It's experimental.
It's only been used on monkeys.
He could make the case we don't have a lot.
But instead, he chose to lay it off on them.
He chose to make it look like they don't even want it.
They're smart enough to know that they wouldn't be able to use it.
It's absurd.
This kind of thing is what we do.
United States is always first.
I have to tell you, you know, there's never been an Ebola-infected patient in this country until now.
And I, the way this all happened, I've something about this didn't gel for me.
When I learned we were going to go over there and get these two missionaries and bring them back here.
That's not, I'm not opposed to it.
No, no, no.
We've never done that kind of thing before.
We've treated them there.
We have, and it's not about bringing the virus in.
That's not my concern here.
It is a lot of other people's.
But is he really unwilling to share it because those countries aren't worth it?
They're too damn backward to waste it on?
I mean, this is so out of character for a big compassion.
This is why these people are asking him.
Because these people all believe that Obama's just like them.
Big liberals just share everything, that we're not, it's not fair that we should have it and they shouldn't.
They're the ones really suffering.
And if we've got the answer, then we should share it with him.
Here's this guy denying it to them.
And I think some of the media are probably a little surprised over this.
They'll never say so.
This is just my ruminating here.
But I can't believe that he would actually think that they're too damn backward to waste the serum on.
But it's still to lay it off on them.
I mean, he's essentially saying they're too stupid to know what to do with it.
And they'd be the first to tell us.
They'd be the first to agree.
That's how the technique works.
They'd be the first to tell you that they're too backward and dumb to know what to do with it.
Or they'd be the first to tell you that their health care systems are so decrepit and so backward and so foul that it would just be wasted on them.
That's what he was trying to convey.
That's exactly why do we help him with AIDS?
Well, Bush did that.
Bush is the guy.
Bush is the president who authored, quote unquote, all the aid money to Africa for AIDS.
It wasn't Bill Clinton.
It wasn't some Democrat president.
It wasn't some Democrat senator.
It was George W. Bush that did that.
No credit for it.
This just is so the caricature of what a big-hearted, compassionate liberal is.
This is so out of character.
And, well, and I got Snerdley shouting in my ear now.
What's Obama done for black people here or there?
I hear you.
And we got Peter Kerson out today writing that letter.
If you have these people granted amnesty, you're going to destroy employment for blacks and so forth.
That letter was sent from a black member of the U.S. Chamber or Civil Rights Commission.
Look at teenage black unemployment, black unemployment all over, 19%.
Teenage black unemployment is higher than that.
I don't know.
That answer, as you can probably tell, really, really rubs me wrong.
I know, I know.
His brother still lives in a hut.
I know.
His brother lives in a six by nine foot hut in Kenya.
I know.
But he has never said, and my brother would be the first to tell you he doesn't want my help.
He hadn't even tried that on his brother, but with these people, and they'll be the first to tell you that, I mean, they, hell, they don't know what to do with it.
Anyway, it just, I think it's really, really instructive and illustrative and indicative.
It's quite telling.
Here's George in Windsor, Connecticut.
George, I'm glad you waited.
It's great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Yeah, Russ.
I had a proposal for immigration.
I want to get your opinion on it.
And that is say yes to amnesty.
Yes to illegal immigration.
Let the Republicans say yes, yes, yes.
But no new taxes, no additional revenues to pay for that.
So the government programs like subsidies, welfare, food stamps, et cetera, the cuts will come from there.
So the people getting those subsidies will have to do with a little bit left so we can cover the illegals and everybody else.
And that way there, now I think you get the attention of the low-information voters because we always do it out left with higher taxes, right, to pay for different government programs.
So this time, hey, let's bring everybody in.
But you guys that are getting the government program, we're going to take a little bit more because you guys want them in, right?
So we'll take a little bit more from you to pay for them.
So I was wondering what you think about that.
I want to make sure, because you were speaking like a 747 at full throttle there, I want to make sure I heard you.
Is your idea to go to the low-information dependent voters living on welfare to one degree or another and say, hey, you know what?
We're going to grant amnesty.
You want the Republicans to do this.
We're going to, well, I don't know who you want to do it.
We're going to say the low-information voters, you know what?
We're going to grant amnesty to 11 million people.
They're already here.
They're living in the shadows.
It's very unfortunate.
We got to grant amnesty, but we don't have the money for it.
So what we're going to do, we're going to take away some of your benefits, a little bit of your health care, take away some of your food stamps, and take away some of your cell phone usage or whatever that you get from us.
And we're going to give it to these newly made citizens so that they will have something too.
And your theory is that if we take a dime away from the existing low-information voters to give it to somebody else, that they will stand up in righteous anger and indignation and oppose it.
Yeah, that's exactly it.
Because we know the majority of Americans, and that would probably be taxpayers, are against immigration.
So if we can just put the nail on the coffin and turn the low-information crowd, once they find out they won't get something and they got to give it up, I think they'll be incense.
It is an interesting intellectual exercise, and it would be quite fun, actually, if it could ever be done.
But it never would be done.
Even if, even if a bunch of politicians promised us they were going to do it, they would never do it.
They would give the illegal immigrants being made citizens everything they wanted, and they would not cut benefits anywhere else, no matter what they said.
But if we were, if that kind of policy were ever implemented, it probably would create some of the biggest reversal in public opinion that we've seen in a long time on an issue.
This is like I've always said that if genetics ever proves, ever, without a shadow of a doubt, if there ever becomes scientific proof that homosexuality is a genetic thing, like most people think that it is, not a choice, it's a genetic thing.
And then if medical science advances to the point that when your baby is conceived and is an embryo, not only can they tell you that it's going to be, if it's be healthy or have, say, Down syndrome, but they'll be able to tell you that your baby is going to be freckle-faced and red-headed, and your baby is going to be prone to be obese, and your baby is likely to be homosexual.
If we ever advance to that point, you're going to see the biggest change in a group of people from pro-choice to pro-life you've ever seen.
You're going to have more people come out against abortion than you can possibly imagine if that scenario that I just described ever took place.
Likewise, here, if we were ever able, you know, when we talk about low-information voters, I'm sure that you concoct a mental image.
We all do this.
Start talking about nameless people.
You always concoct a physical image of a low-information voter.
It could be some dude on a roller skate or a skateboard walking around watching TMZ on his iPhone.
Some gal shaving her bikini part while driving, whatever.
And so when you have this mental picture, and then you imagine being there, when they hear it proposed that they give up half of their federal benefits so that the new immigrants can get it, just to be at that moment when it clicks in what that would mean, Malthus Supias, it would be worth it.
It would be worth it just to have somebody state it believably to see what would happen.
Can you imagine, remember that Obama phone woman who, by the way, has ditched Obama now, but you remember her in Cleveland yelling and screaming about her Obama phone and how she loved Obama or the people in Detroit and Obama's stash.
You imagine telling them, by the way, we're going to take half of your monthly allotted cell phone usage away from you and half your food stamps and half of your rent and whatever, because we've got to give some money to the newly made citizen illegal immigrants.
There'd be riots in the streets.
Yeah, we got to spread the benefits around.
You imagine Obama.
We have to spread the benefits around and Obama would say to these people, hey, look, we've got to spread the benefits around.
You've got to do your fair share for these newly arrived illegal immigrants that we are making citizens today.
In other words, pull on the low-information voters what always gets pulled on their producers.
You're not paying your fair share.
You're making too much.
The income gap.
It's unfair.
It's unequal.
We got to narrow the gap.
Well, you welfare beneficiaries, you got way too much, and we got to take some away because we can't afford to print any more money.
Oh, folks.
Oh, George in Windsor, Connecticut was our caller with that idea.
I know all of you too.
You're all now, you're trying to get in and tell me who it is you envision as the low-information voter.
I just checked my email.
The first guy said, my image of a low-information voter is Ed Schultz.
Here's Tony and Alan.
Tell me, head back to phones.
Hi, Tony.
Great to have you here.
Hi, how are you?
Great.
Thank you.
I have a concept that I wanted to present to you.
It comes from a conflict management class that I went to years ago, and it dovetails very nicely with the Limbaugh theorem.
Okay, cool.
The visual is a triangle, and at each of the points of the triangle is one of the positions that you can take in any type of conflict.
You are either the victim, you are the villain, or you are the hero.
Okay.
So it's a very simple visual concept, and Obama manages through conflicts, as we know, and he is an absolute master at being either the hero or the victim.
Never assuming the villain role.
Right.
I just thought it was a nice visual for your Limbaugh theorem.
Oh, I thought you...
Limbaugh theorem.
Yeah, yeah, okay.
I thought you had more to go with that.
Okay, no, that's fine.
I'll finish up.
I like it.
You've got hero, villain, victim.
This dovetails with the Limbaugh theorem.
And Obama is always the hero or always the victim, but he's never the villain.
And if it does help people to understand the concept, I'm all for that.
I mean, the Limbaugh theorem is something that definitely needs to be widely distributed, widely understood.
Because I can't, even today, the number of people I run into, how does he get away with not even six years, the economy's in a tank, and how does he not get?
And I actually think he is now.
Numbers down the 40s and so forth.
Anyway, Tony, I appreciate the call.
We got a scat, folks.
We'll be back and wrap it up right after this.
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