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Sept. 19, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 19, 2014, Friday, Hour #3
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And here we are back at it, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Because I, L. Rushbow, your guiding light, and your host am doing what I was born to do.
And it's Friday, so let's hit it.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Telephone number 800 282-2882, and the email address lrushbow at EIB net.com.
You think I'm joking.
Folks, the Republicans are being blamed for Ebola.
Because they didn't vote for the gang of eight bill.
Have you seen that?
The Republicans are being blamed for Ebola.
It's according to Dick Durbin.
I'm you I've figured out how the Democrats do that.
The only way they get away with it is with a with a supportive media.
Because the gang, the gang of eight bill would have tightened up the border, and that'll keep Ebola patients out.
See, if you don't do comprehensive immigration reform, then any evil that crosses the border is going to get blamed on the Republicans because comprehensive immigration reform has as one of its features what?
Renewed enhanced border security.
And since the Republicans are not helping pass the gang of eight immigration bill, there isn't any new border security, and thus any malady or crime or anything that happens as a result of failure to shore up the borders directly tied to the Republicans.
So if an Ebola patient gets in, Republicans, Dick Turbin is is illuminating the path of how it happens.
And of course, Obama sends 3,000 troops over to fight Ebola, so he's on record as trying to stop it.
But then an Ebola patient gets in through a poor southern border that would have been fixed with comprehensive, it's a lie.
Of course, there is no border security in the Gang 8 bill.
There's another false promise to do it.
Republicans get blamed.
I'm telling you, nobody has a counter to it.
Nobody knows how do you how do you deal with people lying about you all the time?
There hasn't been other than sue them left.
Nobody's come up with a way to deal with that.
And the Democrats clearly have.
Well, yeah, of course, but they're not doing it.
They're not telling the truth about the Democrats, and they're not no, no, no, no.
They when something that happens, what's the standard Republican response?
Oh, please don't believe that about us.
No, we don't.
We didn't do that.
And they accept the premise.
They accept the premise and then try to deny it.
Well, when you accept the premise that you may be culpable, and anything you say after that is uh not even going to be heard.
Here's a story from uh let's see.
This is from Fox News.
Remember, I guess it might have been yesterday.
Might have been yesterday.
Reggie Bush out of USC and the New Orleans Saints, and now with the Detroit Lions.
We played an audio sound better, Reggie Bush, he was on a radio.
He said, he was talking about what happened to Adrian Peterson and what Adrian Peterson did whooping his four-year-old son.
Reggie Bush said, I got what we call whoopens, uh, you know, whooped with belts and stuff like that.
For me growing up, it was normal.
Uh I'll most definitely discipline my daughter.
I have a one-year-old daughter.
I definitely will try to obviously not leave bruises or anything like that on her, but um, I definitely will discipline her harshly, you know, depending on what you know again what the situation is.
So I pointed out Reggie Bush just painted a bullseye on himself.
And from Fox News.com Sports, Reggie Bush's comments on daughter could prompt investigation experts say.
See, you can see this stuff coming.
He's he's trying to help out Adrian Peterson, and he's trying to stand up for what was a cultural norm, and and he's he's trying to do he thinks he's being helpful.
He has no idea that he's just painted a bullseye on himself.
Detroit Lions star Reggie Bush's comments about harshly disciplining his one-year-old daughter while taking care not to leave bruises are troubling enough to potentially merit an investigation, Michigan Child Welfare Advocates, told Fox News.
Reggie Bush now plays for the Detroit Lions.
He's got a one-year-old daughter.
So now the Michigan Child Welfare bunch, having heard his comments, is thinking about conducting an investigation.
What would that investigation consist of?
Asking entry into his house, because as a one-year-old daughter doesn't go to preschool yet.
A one-year-old daughter doesn't go to any of it.
A one-year-old daughter doesn't leave the house on her own.
So how are they going to find out?
If Reggie Bush and his wife are disciplining their daughter, how are they going to find out?
They got to get in there, right?
And has Reggie Bush will the child welfare advocates will probably say, hey, he's pretty much invited us in here with the threat that he made against his own child by threatening corporal punishment that didn't leave bruises.
Well, we've got to make sure there aren't any.
These are the people Reggie Bush votes for, probably, so that'll be lost on him.
The Mercurial running back clarified his comments on Wednesday, saying his statements on the radio a day earlier were taken out of context.
He denied spanking his daughter, but acknowledging disciplining her a bit when she acts inappropriately.
I think the way I discipline my children, my daughter, is private.
And I should have kept it private, Bush said.
Obviously, some of the words were taken out of context, and that's fine, happens all the time.
That's really all I have to say.
But Lori Antkoviac, Safe Harbor Children's Advocacy Center in Michigan, said they may very well be doing an investigation, but you wouldn't know because it's confidential.
One child welfare advocate contacted by Fox News.com, characterized Bush's initial comments as disturbing, while another acknowledged that they could possibly be interpreted to necessitate an investigation.
Laurie Antkofiak, executive director, Safe Harbor Children's Advocacy Center, whom we just quoted, said, Yeah, I could see this going both ways.
I could see it being interpreted both ways.
They may well be doing an investigation.
We wouldn't know because it's confidential.
I mean, that was an easy prediction, I just had to say, but I I know.
The question is, when are all these people that vote for these kind of ads?
When are they going to wake up?
When are they going to wake up and see what they've been doing?
See.
Oh.
Snerdley, you are going to love this story.
Do you know who Shonda Rhymes is?
You don't know who Shonda Rhimes is?
You ever heard?
No, no, have you ever heard of the show Gray's Anatomy?
Okay, well, she created it.
She writes it.
Have you ever heard of the show Scandal?
Well, she created it.
She writes it.
She she has maybe 30% of the ABC prime time programming this season.
New York Times calls Shonda Rhimes an angry black woman, and she is not pleased.
USA Today has the story.
If you're going to write it, well, now the reason Snerdley's going to be in because he's been talking to me about angry women lately.
That's that's why he'd be interested.
For those of you curious and want to, why would Snerdley care about this?
Because he's got theories on angry women.
That's all.
If you're going to write an article about the Image of African American women on television, it might not be such a good idea to call the subject of your article an angry black woman.
But that's exactly what happened in a New York Times article yesterday about scandal creator Shonda Rhymes.
When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away with Being an Angry Black Woman is one of the pull quotes from the story.
The article is about the black female characters on Rhymes' TV shows in light of the edition of Viola Davis in her new show, How to Get Away with Murder.
The article praises her for doing more to reset the image of African American women on TV than anyone since the Oprah, but repeats the phrase angry black woman about Shonda Rhymes over and over again.
Rhymes, unsurprisingly, not too happy about it.
She took to Twitter to uh air her display.
She's very mad about it.
She is livid about being called an angry black woman.
First, she noted that the Times called her the creator of how to get away with murder when the creator is actually Pete Nolok.
She also seems surprised to learn that she's an angry black woman.
She noted the article linked her to her black characters, but did not link her to the white characters she created.
Mostly she was just annoyed.
And as whoever writes this in USA Today says, and we're right there with you, Shonda.
So USA Today thinks that New York Times went overboard angry.
It is kind of weird.
Normally in the drive-by is you only hear about angry white men.
You never hear about angry stereotype, you never hear about.
It is stereotypical.
You never hear about angry black women, much less an angry black woman.
Well, I I don't know if there's a sensitivity course that you send the New York Times people to.
They just uh I. You know, she's not even she just went to Twitter to tackle it.
She didn't even want to.
Well, it's a much bigger audience than the Times.
The Twitter audience versus the Times is not even close.
Plus, there's the Twitter audience actually has some people who think Miley Cyrus.
Remember the story we had uh, ladies and gentlemen yesterday.
Kids in the United States at a school, a half scroll in San Jose, California, were reprimanded and suspended and told they could not wear an American flag t-shirt on Cinco de Mayo, the 5th of May, which is not even a Mexican holiday.
Mexican Independence Day, September 16th or some such thing.
There is no official Mexican holiday, Cinco de Mayo.
But a largely Mexican American school district and population.
Apparently, some Mexican-American students were outraged and offended when some kids showed up wearing an American flag t-shirt on Cinco de Mayo.
Okay, Miley Cyrus could go to JSM.
TMZ, Walter Cronkite.
Miley Cyrus could go to jail for getting her ass whipped on stage with an American with a Mexican flag.
Miley Cyrus was performing Tuesday night on Mexican Independence Day, mind you, in a Mottere Mexico venue, when one of her dancers slapped her prosthetic butt with a Mexican flag.
Now, apparently, Mexican officials get this next passage here, folks.
Apparently, Mexican officials are super sensitive about disrespecting their national symbols.
So the Congress of the state of Nuevo Leon wants Miley Cyrus prosecuted.
The crime of desecration carries a 1,200 fine and a 36-hour jail sentence.
It wouldn't be the first time a singer crossed the line south of the border.
Paulina Rubio was fined for grand for appearing naked in a magazine, draped in a Mexican flag.
See, in this country, you can burn the American flag, and they'll make you a college professor.
You can burn the American flag and you become a hero in this country.
You defame or otherwise disrespect the Mexican flag, and they will put you in jail.
Don't know what's going to happen with Miley or her prosthetic butt, but that is the story.
We're looking for reasons why Obama's sending troops to fight Ebola.
We may have the answer.
This is from the BBC.
Eight members of a team trying to raise awareness about Ebola have been killed by villagers using machetes in clubs in Guinea, officials say.
Some of the bodies of health workers, local officials, and journalists were found in a septic tank in a village screw near a city in Guinea.
Reuters says they were found in the village's latrine, and that six of them had their throats cut.
Correspondents say that many villagers are suspicious of official attempts to combat the disease.
The team, the team trying to raise awareness about Ebola, disappeared after being pelted with stones by residents when they arrived in the village of Wolm in Southern Guinea, where the Ebola outbreak was first recorded.
Now we had a we had a woman caller yesterday who asked what our soldiers were going to be doing in West Africa, what the hell are they going to do to fight Ebola?
And whether they would be armed, which I thought was a great question.
And maybe this story supplies the answer.
Maybe the real reason our troops are being sent to Africa is to protect the health workers from the mobs.
Health workers are being attacked by locals for spreading the disease.
That's something Obama could never admit, by the way.
He could never admit that's why we're sending troops.
It's got to be we're sending troops to stop the spread of disease, which stop thinking about the troops can't do it.
But the media in this country is being very, very quiet.
This reporting, yep, send 3,000 troops to fight Ebola.
Next story.
Really?
Why?
And I think we may have the reason here.
The citizens of these places are attacking health workers because they are blaming the health workers for much of the problem.
Back we are.
Rush Limbaugh open line Friday.
Here's Joe in Carterville, Illinois.
Joe, I'm glad you waited.
Really great to have you here.
Hello.
Rush, uh Southern Illinois, Air Force Disable Vet Diddles.
I got to serve for Reagan.
I know uh Professor Schnurley told me to get right on, but I would be remiss if I didn't mention it.
My wife's birthday uh August 1st coincide with a uh that's perfectly fine.
That's that's many happy returns to her.
Okay, uh, and this early birthday present for me, I'll be 50 in November.
So uh anyway.
We're talking about the Well, you're just a you're just a young punk.
You're gonna be a few.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
I live about a stone's throw from uh Cape Mecca over there.
So please don't blame us all in Illinois for uh dick.
All right, I won't.
Okay, anyway, uh if you don't I'm not talking about beating or bruising or causing injuries to kids, but it's your responsibility as a parent to take care of them and teach them and guide them responsibility.
So if they're getting ready to touch a hot stove, you may have to smack their hand.
You may have to snatch grab them out of the way of a uh, you know, a car or something.
So, I mean, I'm not talking about beating or bruising, but you may have to smack them, and I do believe in using a belt.
Everything is is become a matter of extremes.
The the left, in order to gain control of all this, has had to accuse standard ordinary day parents of engaging in child abuse when they abuse their kids.
The leaving welts and bruises is the exception.
The thing is the human being is the only mammal that must be Raised.
It must be taught.
Right and wrong.
It must be exposed.
The human being must be exposed to morality.
It must be exposed to boundaries.
Young people, especially whether they know it or not, want to know the boundaries.
They want to know where no begins.
They want to know where right and wrong begins.
This is not true in the rest of the animal world.
Baby horse, for example, is born able to walk.
Your favorite pets at six weeks can leave their parents never again to even know who they were, nor care.
Human beings are entirely different.
The child rearing is, for those who have kids, it's the most important job they've got, depending on how seriously it's taken.
I had a you know, my parents wanted me to take piano lessons, like a lot of parents back in that era did, becoming educated in music and able to play it was considered part of a uh wide-ranging and thorough education.
We had a piano teacher in town that routinely slapped your fingers with a ruler if you got the wrong note, in order to condition you not to make mistakes.
No blood, no welts.
That teacher today'd be in jail.
I didn't want to get slapped on the hand.
I guarantee you I tried to get every I hated it.
I didn't want to do it, and I eventually after three years said bye-bye.
I'd be happy to listen to this instrument from now on.
I don't need to play it.
Spankings and all this kind of thing, there's certain certain things here that that just no longer acceptable because the left has gotten hold of things.
Joe in Cedar Rapids, Idaho.
Great to have you on the EIB network in Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
Uh where's Eric Holder when we need him?
Should he not be sending 40 FBI agents and investigators to the NFL to see why they're targeting these top shelf black athletes rather than anyone else?
Now this is an interesting, interesting qu uh we raise an interesting aspect of this.
You want to know if I understood you correctly, you want to know why the Department of Justice is not investigating somebody, uh NFL media, why are only black athletes being targeted here on the subject of child abuse and spousal abuse.
That's correct.
Well, what do you think is uh what what Eric Holter's not gonna go and touch this, but but what do you think others who might be involved in moving this forward are thinking about this?
Well, it's as as you have taught us so diligently, there's always a political uh component to everything that they do.
Everything that he says, everything he does.
So the reason that we haven't heard anything from the the emperor or from his lawless attorney general is because it doesn't fit the uh it doesn't fit the template as to what they're trying to advance at this particular time.
Ryan, what is that template that it doesn't fit?
Well, the template that it doesn't fit is that uh it's the the American people are uh as as a whole racist, and that uh we have no tolerance for uh the black young men in the in the community, and that we have to bring justice.
See, he's dancing all around it.
He does he doesn't want to really he's le he wants me to say it.
Of course he does.
See, I'm the host and I take the arrows, and I take the head that he wants me to say what he's dancing around.
And and and what would that be?
What is it that he wants me to say?
Let me put it to this way.
Let me try it this way.
Yeah, I'm gonna dance around and I'm gonna dance around in such a way that you conclude it without me saying it.
I'm a professional broadcaster, a highly trained specialist, I should be able to Pull this off.
I want you to conclude without saying anything, what he's talking about.
Remember, the caller started this.
In fact, Joe in Cedar Rapids, Idaho.
Cedar Rapids, Idaho, or Iowa.
There is no C Iowa, yeah.
You know, as far as Snurley's concerned, Iowa, Idaho, the same, same place.
It's way north of there, and he's never.
So uh what what Joe here in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is saying is wait a minute, this doesn't fit normally.
The people being targeted here are victims.
And now in this circumstance, the drive-bys, their protectors have all of a sudden turned them into targets.
And wait a minute.
That no.
That's A, that doesn't happen.
We're told.
B, it shouldn't happen.
And so, oh no, what are we going to do to get out of this?
Because this doesn't fit with everything else.
This doesn't fit with take your recent story.
Pick one.
Okay.
You want to compare this to the gentle giants.
Well, this That's exactly right.
So I um I said, you know, I told you I was I was chatting with a with a buddy of mine last night about the he was asking me, how do I do this show every day?
Because the news is so depressing, and it seems like there's just no end in sight to the Democrats winning whatever they decide they want to win.
He's asked me, how do I do this with a positive positive attitude?
And I told him I had it all figured out.
And so therefore I'm I I don't have exorbitantly high expectations that I'm let down by every day.
And I said to him, I said, you realize this NFL story.
There's something is going to be figured out here real soon by the people that are responsible for this.
They're gonna take a look at the mugshots and they're gonna go, uh oh.
And then they're gonna start searching.
They're gonna need you fill in the blank.
Because he's the the caller here, Joe from Cedar Rapids is exactly right.
People who are normally portrayed as victims of an unjust, unfair country have all of a sudden become the targets.
And this puts everybody in an uncomfortable position in the media, at the DOJ, in academia, and of course, at the National Action Network, and of course, at the monochrome coalition.
Open line Friday, and what is this?
Okay, here.
Uh CBS Sports is reporting that Proctor and Gamble has backed out of a significant league-wide campaign for breast cancer awareness month, the NFL.
In recent years, the NFL's become synonymous, breast cancer awareness month, every October.
Players can be seen wearing pink stuff and all that.
Uh uh but now after several off-field incidents involving players and domestic violence, PG Proctor Gamble, who planned to partner with the NFL its breast cancer awareness initiative has reportedly decided to pull out.
The campaign was going to include multiple players on each of the 32 teams, with one player being deemed an official ambassador of the initiative.
Players would have worn pink mouth guards and interacted with fans on social media as part of the campaign.
Mouthpieces.
So Procter Gamble was going to sponsor mouthpieces.
Yeah, crest, you know, toothpaste, mouthpits, yeah, pink mouthpieces.
But Proctor and Gamble has pulled out because of the problems of the NFL.
Now that I don't know how big a money deal this is, but that's not a threat to pull out like AB and as a bush.
This they they pulled out.
So uh do I have any sound bites I'm forgetting that I want to get in here?
Let's see if it ever just seconds with him.
Uh sorry to do this, folks, but I just want to make sure I'm not.
Nah, I I hit everyone that uh looks interesting.
Here's here's Kevin in Chandler, Arizona.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the open line Friday edition of EIB Network.
Hi.
Thank you, Rush.
Uh, I just like to first say that uh you are my role model.
Um listening to you for a long time, and it's been a pleasure to uh learn from you.
Thank you very much, sir.
Appreciate that.
Um I'm concerned that this is cell phone day for you.
I'm a tech nerd from way back in the day when you're so nerd from Yeah, cell phone day.
There you go.
Yeah, I've owned every level of cell phone ever out.
Uh um uh the first adopter kind of people.
Um my concern now is where we've let ourselves into privacy and or user agreement laws.
Uh we've kind of defamed everything that way.
Uh, if you I don't know.
I'm sure you've probably read many of the user agreements for phone apps.
Now they're when you when you say privacy issues are becoming too much, you mean there's too much invasion of privacy?
Yes.
Yeah.
Yes, that the the availability to know what this is.
Know everything about that person.
Well, not defined to it.
Here's the thing.
You know what this is, though?
It's a series of compromises.
In a flying an airplane, the actual act of flight is a series of compromises, and so is this.
It's a compromise between security and convenience.
Right.
And a lot of times the convenience wins out in in people's people's own minds.
Um I understand uh the concern people might have that agents of the government can spy, or hackers or or others.
There are there are there are more and more steps people can take to protect what's what's really important, I think, is your login data, your credit card information, all the stuff that could constitute identity threat, theft.
There's any number of ways that uh you can two-step verification, for example, log into anything or change a password can can go a long way to keeping your data private and secure.
Other information that you may make public about your location, credit card numbers and this kind of thing.
Yeah, it's it's a trade-off.
It it is.
And I uh it's a question of which came first.
Do you here I Tim Cook wrote a letter to the Apple customer base this week, and he had an interesting way of characterizing Google.
He didn't call them out by name, but he said, some of these companies, you are the product.
At Apple, you aren't.
You are the customer.
In other words, Google makes its money trading in information about its users, collecting it and sharing it with advertisers or whoever else.
And Google has designed its products around learning as much about who is using them as possible.
Cook made the point, that's not what we do.
We don't keep your data.
We don't care.
We don't pass it on.
We never have.
You are our customers, and your satisfaction and all that blah blah is what we're concerned about.
Uh I thought it I thought it was well stated.
There's a lot of paranoia about this, and it's understandable.
You look at this latest incident.
You want to talk about the greatest illustration of the of the the fright or the concern that people have about their privacy being invaded.
Apple, as part of a promotion, gave every one of their what, 800 million customers a free copy of U2's latest album.
They didn't put it on anybody's computer.
They didn't put it on anybody's phone.
They put it on the servers, and if you wanted to download it, you could.
You would have thought that Apple just stole everything that was on everybody's phone.
You that the reaction to this was one of the most instructive, informative things I've ever seen in terms of helping me to understand just where a lot of young people's thinking is on this subject.
Because there's a great contradiction.
The same people who were just behaving irrationally with hatred toward Apple and you too over a gift are the same people on Twitter and Facebook vomiting every piece of information about themselves to whoever will listen and read it.
Where they're going for dinner, if they're going to be on time, what they had for dinner, did it make them sick, who they had dinner with, who they had dinner with was a fool and who what they're vomiting all of this stuff.
Apple puts a gift of an album on a server where it has to be downloaded if you want to use it.
And you would have thought that the National Security Agency had just stolen every piece of information about.
It was the most.
I mean, it was hatred, folks.
Sheer unadulterated hatred.
And for you too, I mean the group, you too.
I bet Bono still hasn't recovered from figuring out how many young people think he's nothing more than a crotchety old man telling people to get off their front his front yard.
He's nothing more than dad's band.
And dad's band is never cool, right?
It's been fascinating to watch.
That's it, folks.
Open line Friday, the slowest three hours.
Radio program all week for me is over.
Now four hours of likely frustration.
It's just standard operating procedure, and then nirvana.
And we'll see you Monday.
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