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Sept. 24, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 24, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Yeah, where where was that beheading?
French, yeah, there was another beheading shortly, was either during or after Obama's uh UN speech.
Because, well, we got them on the run.
You know, we we we we got them on the run from Baghdad.
That's why John Kerry said ISIS is on the run now because they're at beheading more people.
Anyway, greetings and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, 800-282-2882.
Folks, just a real quick, you're gonna love me for this if you haven't done it yet.
If you happen to be lucky enough to be one of the 10 million people that got an iPhone 6 or 6 plus, Apple today released a software update, 8.0.1 that's designed to address some bugs in the in the 8.0.
Do not update to it yet.
It's okay if you have an iPhone 5S or 5 or 5C or 4, but do not.
If you have a new 6 or 6 plus, don't do it.
And this is actually kind of made what happens is it disables your cell connection.
And it it also causes some problems with the fingerprint ID.
Now, I have a question about this.
A serio uh a tech question.
8.0.1 has been in testing for I'm told a week.
And the people who have been testing it are carrier partners.
That's how it's referred to.
Well, a carrier partner is a cellular company, ATT, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile.
How in the world can this thing be tested for a week and not spotted that it disconnects and disables the phone cellular connection?
I I that is I do not understand how that happens.
Now I understand bugs in software.
I frankly, I think software writers are some of the most talented work there is going on in the world today.
It is so intricate.
You can't imagine it.
But this cell phone, how in the world do all of these people testing this update and all these cell networks not spot that the update disables the cell connection.
Normally they let developers test these updates for a week or a month or whatever before they release them, and these kind of bugs are found.
That's why they're called betas.
This one mystifies me.
But I mean, there are a lot of people out there who have updated today who've lost their cell ability in the phones.
And I just I do not understand how in the world testing for a week with cellular network companies does not reveal this.
I mean, that's their business.
There must be something had to happen after it was signed off on.
Maybe, maybe something in the in the download process corrupts the portion of the code.
I don't know enough to know.
But just be advised.
If you have a new iPhone 6 or 6 plus, in your software update today, there's 8.0.1 and don't do it yet.
They'll fix it.
They'll fix it real fast.
It's gonna be a simple fix.
It just amazes me that it's not spotted in a week of testing by the cellular networks themselves.
Okay, I forgot to mention the details of the story about this school in Denver.
And I promise you I have not been teasing you.
I I I've not been there were other things that came along that happened right before the end of the break of the previous hour.
Here it is, it's an AP story out of Arveda or Arvada, not sure actually now's Colorado.
Hundreds of students walked out of classrooms around suburban Denver yesterday in protest over a conservative-led school board proposal to focus history education on topics that promote citizenship, patriotism, and respect for authority.
The walkout was a show of civil disobedience that the new standards would aim to downplay.
And of course, the AP just loves reporting this.
Oh man, you can just see AP salivating here.
The youth protest in the second largest scruble district in Denver in Colorado follows a sick out from teachers that shut down two Haskells in the politically and economically diverse area that's become a key political battleground.
Student participants said their demonstration was organized by word of mouth and social media.
Many waved American flags and carried signs, including messages that read, There is nothing more patriotic than protest.
I don't think my education should be censored.
We should be able to know what happened in our past, said Tory Liu.
LEU, a 17-year-old student who protested at Ralston Valley Haskell in Arveda.
Now that the school board proposal that triggered the walkouts in Jefferson County calls for instructional materials that present positive aspects of America and its heritage.
It would establish a committee to regularly review texts and course plans, starting with advanced placement history to make sure materials promote this is a quote now, this is in quotes from the instructional materials,
promote citizenship, patriotism, essentials and benefits of the free market system, respect for authority, and respect for individual rights, and don't encourage or condone civil disorder, social strike, or disregard for the law.
Now I can remember, honestly can, I can remember a time where you wouldn't have to state that that was the curriculum or part of it, was just assumed that you would teach the truth of American history.
That you would teach being proud of your country.
You would teach patriotism.
That you would teach the benefits of the free market system, which is how every one of you little skulls full of mush is going to make something of yourself someday.
The free market system is where they hand out chances for success, by the way.
There isn't a socialist system out there that hands out chances for success, unless you happen to be one of the precious, very few in leadership positions in socialism.
And they don't pass out chances for success.
What they do is give you dibs on other people's money that you can take and use as your own.
It's called taxes.
So the students protested and walked out of classrooms in protest over this proposal to focus history education on citizenship patriotism and free market systems.
Capitalism, if you will.
Students walked in.
Now they have a right to walk out, I guess.
That's what everybody says.
Well, you certainly have that right.
I'm not interested in that.
What interests me in this is what are these kids learning at home?
And it's patently obvious, isn't it?
But at the same time, we've got a poll here that 72% of the American people think that we're still in a recession, and they're ticked off because they don't think they have an equal chance at success.
Here we have a bunch of students walking out because they don't want to be taught about the benefits of the free market system.
And they apparently don't want to be taught patriotism, citizenship, and the truth of American history.
They want to learn protest, they want to learn human rights, they want to learn socialism, they want all these other things.
They're contraindicated by our own constitution and national history.
Folks, look, this is exactly why the idea that my wife had that I should write children's books on American history, the truth of America.
This is exactly why it appealed to me.
This is exactly why, and this is just one of many examples, but this perhaps may be one of the most blatant examples of this that I've run across in a while.
The proposal from Julie Williams, part of the board's conservative majority, has not been voted on and was put on hold last week.
She didn't return a call from the AP seeking comment, probably because she knows it'll be distorted, taken out of context, and misused.
She previously told Chalkbeat Colorado, which is a school news website, that she recognizes there are negative events that are part of U.S. history that need to be taught.
There are things that we may not be proud of as Americans, but we shouldn't be encouraging our kids to think that America's a bad place.
Exactly.
And that's precisely what the left is doing.
And that's how we ended up electing a guy who even today, at his speech to the UN apologized to those thugs and dictators in the audience over what happened in Ferguson, Missouri.
Did you know that?
You know, Obama's up there, he's lecturing everybody on human rights and civil rights and how we got to do this right, and we got to do that right, and we've got to be nice here and nice there.
And then he said, Now, look, we've got our own problems here.
I mean, you saw it, we had whatever Ferguson is a small town in Missouri.
And what essentially say, look, I'm going to preach to you even though I don't have the moral authority.
And I don't have the moral authority because my own country sucks.
But I'm still going to tell you what I think we ought to do.
Just undercuts his own message.
But this there is a there is a pent up fervent desire by people on the left to impugn this country and its founding and its history to as many young skulls full of mush as possible.
You know, the truth of American history, that's what I got that covered with the books.
I'm cool.
But this business of telling young people, or sorry, this instance of having young people protest and walk out of school because they don't want to learn about economic freedom.
That is a concern.
They all want to be successful, I guarantee them to you they do.
And there are probably a lot of these kids are going to be future people wandering around what happened to my chance for success.
There's an unequal chance for success.
Yeah.
Well, you rejected learning about it when you were in school in in Colorado.
Because the capitalist system is where the chance for success is, and it's where it's passed out.
The free market system is where you find opportunity.
The free market system is where you find opportunity to innovate, to create, to invent, to succeed.
That's where it lives.
And now we got kids arriving at school suspicious of it, hating it, and I guarantee you they're being lied to about it by whoever their parents or or or whoever.
A casual glance at the history of the world.
This statistic, I mentioned this stat to you yesterday.
It's a stunning stat.
50% of the world's wealth has been created by the United States.
Now, people like this think it's been stolen.
They don't think we've created anything.
We've stolen it.
We've engaged in wars for oil, and we've conquered countries and we've stolen their stuff and we brought it back and we've used it and given it to the Koch brothers.
And before that, we gave it to Halliburton.
Before that, we gave it to Exxon.
Yeah, so now these kids are running, okay.
Well, where do I go for my chance of success?
I'll tell you what, when you find the guy in your town that's responsible for gasoline prices, that's the guy you go to for your chance for success.
Well, how silly is that?
I mean, people think that there's some there's a single person in charge of gasoline prices.
You've been made to believe that.
Oh, they'll come around.
Well, if Snerdlius said these kids have been brainwashed this early, what are the chances of them coming around?
Uh I don't know, 50 50, there's a chance they'll come around.
Uh Some do, some don't.
Sometimes people that end up in the clutches of the left end up being strangled and smothered, and they just sit there and live their lives underneath a pillow.
Looking at it through a fog filled with resentment at all the success they see, thinking that everybody is enjoying success is somehow cheating somebody else.
Which leads to uh a very bad thing.
That that lack of appreciation, acknowledgement, respect for the things people to become successful.
On that, an obscene profit break.
I think it's appropriate.
We'll be back and continue right after this.
Don't go.
Okay, back to the phones.
This is Randall Randall in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Russ.
I'd like to run a scenario by you, which I think could happen.
All right.
Um we're we're bombing ISIS and ISIL and whatever right now.
But if we were to go and start bombing Assad and his infrastructure, would that pull the Russians into this fight?
Because the Russians use Syria as a buffer to keep the wacky Muslims from running into their country.
Not only that, it might pull Turkey into it.
There is this this new leader in Turkey, this uh recep Tayyip Erdogan, is a militant Islamist, and Turkey is no longer the moderate Islamist ally that we've always known.
And there are very close ties to Syria and uh and Assad.
Okay, if we start fighting there because we've started World War III or so, that'll leave the Chinese open to do whatever they want in the South China Sea to take whatever they need.
Because we'll be busy.
Yeah, but you really what you're describing here as World War III is simply, if I heard you correctly, us deciding to drop bombs in Syria.
Is that what you said?
No, us deciding to drop bombs on Assad.
Because Assad and the Russians are in pretty much in bed together.
I think that's not ever going to be our intention.
Not here.
We're what we're doing.
Best I can figure out.
And I don't even know if this is the case.
A year ago, we were going to arm the people who were now fighting, because it was thought they were fighting Assad, and Assad was trying to massacre them.
But I what now I'm you may be more informed than I, because it's these are the toughest three hours for me to stay up to speed on transpiring events.
Is there some talk out there that we're going to hit Assad in this campaign?
Or are you just speculating?
There was always a thing that we wanted Assad out of there because he's a brutal regime.
But you know, it takes a brutal regime to keep these people in line.
Well, that was a year ago.
That that's that's that's right.
Obama drew the red line because a year ago, and now it's sixteen months ago, it was last summer, 2013.
The popular consensus on the golf course was that Assad was conducting mass murder against average citizens in Syria.
And I've been through this number of times.
Turned out that wasn't the case.
It was actually ISIS.
That was uh engaging in activity, made to look like Assad was doing it, and and we were being sucked in, other nations, us two being sucked in to attack Assad under the premise that he was the bad guy in this particular contact uh uh uh contest.
And so now what we're doing is is we're we're arming moderate fighters, if you will.
Train them and all that to do our bidding.
Uh but I don't I don't I don't know here's I don't know.
I have no I literally don't know anything here.
But I'm s I I feel pretty safe in saying That they don't want to hit Assad.
Right now, unless there's something bubbling underneath the surface, some grand scheme here that's being plotted that nobody knows about, that all of this is a cover for.
You know, you you can't just reject everything out of hand because it doesn't appear to make sense.
Anything, I guess, sometimes is possible.
And depending on the competence of people running this, hell.
I don't know.
I don't even want to think about that.
Uh the ChICOMs are lurking in weight, but I don't think the Chicoms want to destroy the markets they depend on at the same time.
So patience is a virtue in this, but I I don't think, Randall, it's an interesting think piece or a little bit to talk about here, but I just I haven't, I haven't read, seen, heard, and I read, see, here a lot.
Anything about any part of this designed to target uh Bashar Assad.
Now, a year ago, that was a whole different proposition.
A year ago, that's what we were threatening to do.
But we've changed our mind on that.
We got our minds right.
Thankfully, in the nick of time, by the way, because it would have been a disaster, because it turned out Assad was not the bad guy last summer.
It was made to uh appear as though he was.
Anyway, I appreciate the call.
I've got uh another break here coming up in a mere matter of seconds.
Not enough time to take another call here.
Editors at Neshamini High School should not be disciplined for not using the R word.
These are high school journalists.
I have the details.
What do you think the R word is?
Have a story here from this is the uh looks at the Washington Post, and it's an editorial.
The students who edit the newspaper at Nesh Amini Has School think that the nickname of their Pennsylvania school sports team is racist.
I wonder why they think this.
The name of their their mascot at this Pennsylvania school is the Redskin.
Yep, they're the Redskins.
And the students who added the newspaper, this has scroll have banned its use in the screw a paper.
A stance in keeping with that taken on the national scene by those, including the Washington Post, who object to Washington's identically named football team.
Now you would think that young people engaging with an important social issue and standing up for something they believe in would be appreciated, writes the Post.
Even applauded.
But instead, the scrual administrators suspended the newspaper's editor, sanctioned the teacher advisor, and fined the organization.
Editors dropped red skin or red skins from the paper, and the administration suspended the editor, sanctioned the teacher advisor, and find the paper.
A battle with school administrators ensued, coming to a head when officials told students they couldn't publish a letter with redskins, but must use the with R-S that had to use the whole word.
And the Washington Post doesn't understand this.
Wait a minute.
We would think these students would be applauded for doing the right thing and keeping racism out of the school paper.
But the school administrator hasn't changed, the school hasn't changed the name of the mascot, the name of the team, and these are students, and they haven't been, they don't own the paper, the school does, and they have not been given permission to make an editorial judgment like this.
And so everybody's fit to be tied.
This is a great example of how respect for authority is taught.
You know, you ought to.
I mean, I'm sure a lot of people probably agree with the Washington Post.
These kids decided doing the right thing here.
Everybody knows that Redskins is racist now.
Well, everybody is supposed to think that Redskins is racist.
And so these kids are doing the right thing.
They're following their big brothers in the drive-by media by not using the word, except it's not their paper.
The school owns the paper, and the school doesn't think there's anything wrong.
It's the name of the team mascot for crying out loud.
And the students don't have the authority.
But a lot of people think the students should be given credit here for maturity and forward thinking.
But what it is is a lesson in respect for authority and how to deal with things that don't go your way.
My dad used to, he was a lawyer, and he used to always tell me about his interaction with judges.
My dad was a stickler for my brother and I learning respect for authority and how to deal with it when it didn't go your way, because it doesn't all the time.
And he would always use personal experiences in his own life as teaching assistants, and And he would tell me that in court, whatever the judge says, no matter how stupid, dumb, seemingly unintelligent it was, you had to live with it.
And if you dared argue with the judge, you could be found in contempt.
And it was just the way it was.
And he said, son, the court system depends on it.
There's a singular authority in that courtroom, and it's the judge until the jury rules if it's jury trial.
But the judge is it, and if the judge's authority is undermined, you got chaos in there.
So n it and a lot of times it goes against you.
And I've I've I've never forgotten that.
Now some people equate, and this is where it's gone wrong, I think.
Some people equate respect for authority with conformity and cowardice.
Some people think if you don't stand up to authority, you're gutless.
If you don't stand up for authority, you're spineless.
If you don't stand up to authority and challenge it, well, then you're worthless.
You can't be dependent on.
If you respect authority, you're a coward and so forth and so on.
And that's certainly not the case.
It may be in certain instances, but try it in the military.
There's a singular authority there.
And no matter what you think of it, you've got to do it or you're out.
And the uh I mean it's a natural thing for young people to oppose authority and to reject it and to rebel against it.
That's that's that's what they do.
But this, I think it's a teachable moment here, and it's not going to be seen as that, because there's political correctness involved, and a bunch of major drive-bys think these kids ought to be rewarded for their mature decision to stop using this racial term in the school newspaper.
But the people that own the paper said, we don't have a problem with it right now.
This is not the way you don't have the right to say what's printed in this paper, not in terms of the name of the mascot.
And I don't know if anything is going to come of this, but I just I I think it's a uh it's a good lesson for these kids to learn.
It may be a stupid call.
This school may be doing the wrong thing here, but they're the ones that have the authority.
And there are ways you change things without using bombs and all this other kind of thing that the left made famous back in the uh in the 1960s.
So we shall see.
Who's next?
David, Melbourne, Florida, glad you called.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Yes, uh, it's a pleasure to speak with you finally.
Thank you, sir.
Thanks very much.
Um as I told the call screener, uh, I believe that uh, you know, with the way this war and all our war seem to be handled, uh we've got a lot of special forces, you know, Navy SEALs, uh, you know, Army Special Forces, Rangers, we've got uh the Marines.
They train all the time for this.
And right now they're probably sitting at their bases going, come on, let us go.
Let us go, let us do our job, let us do what we train for.
Right.
And the lady that called, she said, Oh, what happens if you have a if my son was a Marine or a ranger or something like that, and he loses his life fighting for our country, and in this case we've got bullies over there that are decapitating American citizens, French citizens, English citizens, and really taunting us.
It's the bully.
And now it's time to go to the schoolyard and punch his lights out.
And they're trained for it.
Uh firefighters are trained to put out fires.
We don't want to see them get burned up or fall through a floor or something like that.
But it it's gonna happen.
It's a there's a lot of there is a uh there's a body of thought in this country.
That that woman who called, I know who you're referring to.
And I think I don't know how typical she is, but one of the things I think that people like her believe, and this is not a criticism, it's an observation.
One of the Things that it uh everybody uh uses uh uh what's what's I'm having a middle block um transference in a way.
She's thinking that if she were in the military, the last thing she'd want to be just this kind of war with these people.
Hell, we were just there.
And so she assumes that military people don't want to be assigned.
They don't want to do this, and yet they sign up.
What you're saying is, yes, we do want to do it.
Exactly.
This is this is something it has to be taken care of, and this is what we signed up and trained for.
So turn us loose and let it let us do it.
Don't pussyfoot around it from 35,000 feet.
Let us go take care of it, right?
Yes, and I think if we fought wars like that, it's kind of like the offensive line.
You know, that first quarter, the first few series of plays, you soften them up, you you take control of the defensive line, or vice versa.
And whichever team takes control, the other team's got a long game.
Right.
And it's kind of the same thing.
You know, we've got to go in there and and do war right, and it would be quick, it'd be like pulling the band-aid off the off the uh a wound instead of prolonging it like we seem to do.
Right.
And that's when the politicians get involved.
Well, exactly.
And I think it's projection was the term I was looking for.
And what what most people think that are not in the military, my God, I wouldn't want to be sent to I wouldn't want to go.
Assuming that everybody in the military doesn't want to go, but they do.
They signed up, they volunteered, knowing full well, particularly at this point in time, the likelihood you volunteer, you're gonna see combat.
Or you're gonna be very close to it.
And what the war on terror and everything.
So it's I think it's it's it's a fascinating uh case study because people think that like in in this woman's case, she probably thinks this is stupid.
We should have never left Iraq in the first place, we should have taken care of it.
Now we got people that don't know what they're doing, and they're putting people in harm's way.
And my God, they uh who wants to go in this kind of con situation where we've got incompetence top to bottom ruling the show.
And that's not how you guys look at it, I know.
And uh it's I'm glad you called to make the point.
I gotta go because I'm short on time, but we will be back.
Okay, so Apple pulled the 8.0.1 update, so you're in no danger of accidentally doing it, and there is a fix.
You have to uh you have to do is connect your phone to iTunes and back it up, first thing, and then click restore, which will turn it brand new.
You restore from the backup you just did, puts all your stuff back on, and you restore with iOS 8 and you fix it.
Uh that that's the simplest fix.
Or take it somewhere get a new phone.
But that's there's there's a fix for this if you know how to use iTunes with these things.
Anyway, Sam in North Carolina got a quick minute here, but I wanted to get to you before we're out for the day.
Hello.
Hey, Russ, it's a pleasure talking to you.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
Hey, so uh kind of along the lines of the fellow caller and uh talking in regards to the the female caller who was on earlier.
I'm an active duty army officer, been in for seven and a half, one and eight years, been to Iraq, been to Afghanistan, uh been to Kosovo, and you go back to the Balkans here shortly.
Um I just think it is very interesting when you when I listen to uh people like the American public when they say, hey, you know, we're tired of sacrificing and but you know, the majority, like ninety percent of of Americans haven't really sacrificed over the past thirteen years.
Um and so when it comes to what the current situation in Iraq, um we members of the military and and some other uh you know well learned uh well educated people in in American public kind of understand, we understand the threat.
We know what we're gonna do.
That's why I think, and I'm not pandering here, Sam.
That is why I have the most profound appreciation for people like you.
Because you're right.
You volunteer to do something that ninety-nine point nine percent of the population would never volunteer to do.
It's not that they haven't sacrificed, it's that they it's not in their makeup.
You you are special for doing it.
And it's as a result, it is hard to understand that you guys sign up to do this, and when the opportunity comes, you want to do it.
That's why I think you deserve all the respect and support that you deserve.
Another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence is in the can, folks, but we'll be back in twenty one short hours.
Thanks so much for being with us today.
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