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Oct. 10, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 10, 2014, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Welcome, my friends.
Great to have you here.
It is the Rush Limbaugh program, meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day, even on and especially on Friday.
It's harder to do on Friday, but we still do it.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
That's right.
And why is it harder to meet audience expectations on Friday?
Because I take one of the greatest career risks known to exist in modern media.
I turn over the content portion of program to people that have never done this before.
Callers.
And it's still a program, the only program you don't get tired of listening to.
Happy to have you here, my friends, 800-282-288-2, the email address, L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
I look, I can't emphasize enough.
Let me go back a couple of weeks.
We had an open line Friday a couple of weeks ago, and finished the program.
I I I uh I went home and I started getting feedback from Ben, and that was one heck of a program.
So what was different about it?
It seemed like just your average, ordinary.
Excellent, but still average ordinary program.
And what I heard was it was so personable.
And I had to think about it.
And there were very few calls about issues on that open line Friday.
It was how's the new cat dealing with freedom and this kind of stuff?
And people, I guess, ate it up.
And that's really what the purpose of open line Friday is.
So it doesn't have to be uh things I care about.
That's the whole point.
And I care about a lot.
I mean, it's not it's not as though you're gonna come up with things that bore me.
You know, I'm omnivorous in that regard.
A polymath as well, so I really don't sweat it.
And even if you do come up with something I don't care about, I'm really, really good at faking it.
Because I know I know about things that I don't care about as well as things I do care about.
800-282-288-2.
Email address El Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
I wasn't gonna play Soundbite number one because it doesn't matter to anything, but I think I'm going to because I've just found a way to make it matter to something.
Ronald Brownstein, old buddy uh at the Los Angeles Times, he's now at the National Journal.
He was on CNN's newsroom this morning, speaking with Don Lemon.
CNN was taking a break, by the way, from the new quest to convince everybody that racism is killing Ebola patients, not Ebola.
In Dallas and in Texas.
CNN has a singular mission now to see to it that their audience thinks racism is killing Ebola patients.
And they took time out from that today.
Interviewed Ronald Brownstein and a couple other people about Gwyneth Paltrow, who hosted a fundraiser for Obama yesterday in her backyard in Brentwood.
And apparently she was so overcome with Obama's beauty that she couldn't speak.
And she said so.
When it was time to introduce Obama, she just abruptly said, You're so handsome, I can't speak properly.
And turned the microphone over to Obama.
And then she said, actually prior to that, she had said, I just wish that we could give you all the power you need to pass.
Here's what she said.
It it would be wonderful if we were able to give this man all of the power that he needs to pass the things that he needs to pass.
And I think it was okay when Gwyneth ran out of words because of Obama's beauty, because she'd proved she was a moron by then.
It wasn't necessary to say anything else.
This is a it would be wonderful if we were able to give this man all the power he needs to pass the things he needs to.
If he had all that power, there wouldn't be anything passed.
There would not be anything voted on if he had all that kind of power.
What do we want to turn this place into?
North Korea?
Maybe that's a bad choice of countries right now.
Anyway, Ronald Brownstein, because of this, had a an enlightened moment in which he made the claim that we can no longer judge presidents on popularity or approval.
And you know why?
Because no president can be popular in America anymore.
This is the same thing they always do.
When a Democrat president is failing, I don't care whether it's Clinton down in the polls or Hillary or whoever.
They always say, well, you know what, if these guys can't do it, if this guy can't be popular, then nobody can.
Then the institutions trashed.
If Obama can't be popular, then this country's not worth it anymore.
It's always it's it can never be the fault of the Democrat who's lost popularity.
If a Democrat isn't popular, it just means popularity is not possible.
Our country is so polarized now, so much of the country is locked down firmly for one side or the other.
It just simply may not be possible to be, in effect, more than president of half of America.
That you know, the best a president can do is have a little more than half of the country with him at his high point.
Approval ratings don't mean what they used to, uh, because presidents can't get as high as, say, Eisenhower or Kennedy or even Reagan got.
It's just not in the cards anymore.
Gwyneth Paltrow may love you, but in Mississippi and Alabama and Texas, you are not exactly a hero.
That is the reality we live in.
That is the reality presidents are operating in, and I think it does change the standard by which we measure their political success.
See how this works.
You see how it works.
Well, if Obama can't pull off popularity, why then popularity is not possible anymore?
The last guy maybe was Reagan.
Now, I'm gonna for those of you that were not old enough to be paying close attention.
For those of you that were not alive back then, you um you're gonna have to trust me when I tell you Reagan was despised by the media back then.
But Reagan had an engaging personality, was over able to overcome that.
The media was not able to define Reagan.
Because Reagan had a way to go right to the American people without being filtered by them.
He just had that knack.
Not everybody does.
The country was just as polarized.
Just I mean, coming off of Jimmy Carter, but but more importantly than that, there was hatred all over the place for Ronald Reagan.
From the media, from the Democrats in Congress, it was no different than what's out there today against George W. Bush.
Everybody tends to think that things, whatever they are, at the time they are alive or at the time they are paying attention are worse than ever.
And sometimes that's true.
But in this case, this is what what's what's happening here is that Obama has been exposed as a phony.
He's not the Messiah.
He's not the way he presented himself in 2008 and 2009, and he's not the way the media presented him.
He's simply caught up here in a dose of reality.
And notice also the states that Brownstein points out, which is axiomatic for the media.
What do they say?
Mississippi, Alabama, Texas.
Let's not forget Kentucky, where Allison, whatever her name is, wouldn't even admit to voting for Obama.
Grimes, I know.
I can't remember if it's her middle name or Alison.
Damn it, this is gonna be a rough day.
I'm in a bad mood to begin with, and I have thought I had this thing at the top, and I done Allison.
Alison Lundgren Grimes refusing to say whether she voted for President Obama in an editorial meeting with the um the Lull courier journal.
Democrats in the northern states are not happy with Obama.
There's a bunch of Democrats in the northern states that don't want Obama anywhere near their campaigns.
A lot of them up north, and a lot of them out west.
But But you see how this works.
Yeah, it's just not possible, I guess, for presidents to be popular, because the country's so divided.
The country was divided in 1980.
That's what was remarkable about Reagan.
If you wonder why people continue to cite Reagan, Reagan was able to unite the country.
Reagan was able to make.
Ever heard of the Reagan Democrats?
How did he do it?
It wasn't that the media supported him.
He did it by virtue of a number of things.
Policy, personality, uh character.
All of that stuff matters.
He loved the country.
There was no doubt that he loved the country.
You've never apologized for the country.
He never felt guilty about the country's past.
He didn't run around wringing his hands over how rotten this country was and all the prices we had to pay for all the mistakes we've made.
It was the exact opposite of that.
Reagan engendered love for this country and respect for it and so forth.
And it could happen today too with the same kind of leader.
That's all we're missing is that kind of leadership.
It certainly is possible for a president to be popular.
Obama was.
Is Brownstein saying that the approval numbers Obama had in 2009 and 2010 are they just irrelevant now?
Do they not mean anything?
Obama was at 65-70%.
Was it not real then?
Or did the country just change on a dime?
Why did Obama lose his popularities?
Is the country too partisan?
Or maybe did Obama have something to do with it, Ronald?
Anyway, and then over here you got you got Gwyneth Paltrow.
It would be wonderful if we were able to give this man all of the power that he needs to pass the things that he needs to pass.
He's got it, and he's been doing it, Gwennett is called executive orders.
Anyway, I used to laugh at the morons.
Now they worry me.
Just being honest, I used to laugh at them.
And I still laugh at them, but now they worry me.
you Because they're everywhere.
The morons and the dip excrements and everything, they're just surrounded by these idiots.
Back at the So, according to Ronald Brownstein of the National Journal, it's just not possible for presidents to get high approval numbers or be popular anymore.
And I wonder if that'll apply to Hillary Clinton once she gets reffed up.
Will we hear how popular Mrs. Clinton is?
Will we hear about how the first female, first potential female presidents revolutionizing politics, gonna be a replay of 2008 all over again?
And are we gonna hear about how universally loved and overwhelmingly popular in defiance of Brownstein today saying it's not possible anymore?
Because you see, my friends, the way this works is it will be possible for the next Democrat nominee to be popular.
Yes.
And to have high approval.
Yes.
It will happen.
Try this.
From NBC Mobile, Alabama.
An Alabama mother is furious that her five-year-old daughter was forced to sign a scruble contract stating that she would not kill herself or anyone else at the school.
A five-year-old.
A five-year-old little girl.
Madonna was five at one point.
Was forced by the school to sign a contract promising she would never commit suicide or kill anyone else.
I know you're wondering, well, what's behind this?
Does it matter?
Folks?
Have you ever heard?
I mean, there is something behind it.
Does it matter?
Isn't this absurd?
Is there a rational explanation for making a five-year-old sign a document?
A contract promising never to commit suicide or to commit murder.
Is there a justification for that?
This is how off the rails we have become.
Here is what they call the backstory.
Scruel officials told Rebecca, who didn't want to give her last name, which is unique.
Most everybody wants to be known by everybody.
Scruel official told Rebecca they had to send the five-year-old Elizabeth home after an incident in class.
Rebecca's the mother.
Elizabeth is the five-year-old.
And Rebecca didn't want her last name out.
The scroll told the mother they had to send the five-year-old home after an incident in class.
Okay.
So it must have been something really bad.
I mean, if you're gonna get a teacher and a screw principal bringing a contract to a five-year-old, making them swear to never commit suicide or to murder somebody, that student had better have really done something bad, right?
Well, what was it?
Well, the mother said, they told me that my daughter drew something that looked like a gun, and according to them, she pointed a crayon at another student and said, pow pow.
Well, this constitutes a major threat.
This constitutes a major suicidal threat and a major murder threat.
Rebecca says that her daughter, after drawing something that resembled a gun and pointing a crayon at another student saying, Pow pow, her daughter was then given a questionnaire to evaluate her for suicidal tendencies and given a Mobile County public school safety contract to sign, stating she wouldn't kill herself or others.
She is five years old.
Can she read this?
I thought, well, I don't know.
But come on, folks, this is political correctness rearing its head.
The mother said while I was in the lobby waiting, they had my five-year-old sign a contract about suicide and homicide.
There should be a different way to handle the situation.
If this is protocol, it needs to be looked at again.
Rebecca is pushing to have the incident removed from her child's record.
She says school officials have requested her child see a psychiatrist.
She refused.
Five years old.
Drawing something that looked like a gun?
And then pointing a crayon?
And a student going pow pow?
See a psychiatrist, sign a contract promising everybody at the school you'll never kill them?
Or you're the child is not the crazy one here.
A child is normal.
Everybody else in this story's insane, except the mother.
This is political correctness rearing its head.
I mean, I just five years old given a contract to sign.
Mobile County Public School Safety Contract promising not to kill herself?
How about this headline?
This is from the UK Daily Mail.
Bride to be becomes pregnant after having sex with dwarf stripper on hen.
And only and husband only realizes when she gives birth to a dwarf.
Yeah, let me read this to you again.
Bride to be becomes pregnant after having sex with dwarf stripper on hen night, and husband only realizes when she gives birth.
A Spanish woman had to confess to cheating on her husband with a dwarf.
It was after she gave birth to a baby with dwarfism at the hospital that her husband found out she had had the affair.
the woman's husband believed the child was healed.
His until it was born.
A bride to be became pregnant after having sex with a dwarf stripper on her hen night, it has been claimed.
The woman had to confess to cheating on her husband with the adult entertainer, that would be the dwarf stripper, earlier this year after giving birth to a baby with dwarf ism at a hospital of Valencia, Spain.
It's alleged that the woman's husband thought the kid was his until it was born and saw that it was well.
It had dwarfism, and he's not one.
So neither the couple nor the hospital have been named.
It's open light Friday, folks.
Just just hang in there.
By the way, hen is we we call it bachelorette party.
The woman was getting married.
She had a bachelorette party, and she ended up having sex with a dwarf stripper that had been hired.
And uh and then she got pregnant.
And her husband thought, hey, wow, this is really cool until the birth.
At which time it became clear something was amiss.
But I had a lot of people in here, what is hen night?
Henn night.
Now, the CEO of Microsoft might think it's just a bunch of women getting together bitching about raises, but actually it's it's it's a it's a bachelorette part.
Did you hear that?
You know, the guy did step in and and he's uh supposedly in a sensitive liberal uh uh this is this is curious.
Let's grab audio soundbite number 22.
I think a guy's misguided on a bunch of things.
Now he's obviously uh caught up in stereotypes here.
Stereotypes can be funny if you know how to use them, if you make jokes about them, stereotypes exist for a reason.
I mean, they stereotypes are stereotypes because they're typical, but this was pretty bad.
Uh this was in Phoenix at the Grace Hopper celebration of women in computing.
The Grace Hopper, that's a woman's name, I guess.
The Grace Hopper celebration of women in computing, and the Microsoft CEA, a CEO, Satya Nadella spoke, and during the QA, a moderator, in fact a member of the Microsoft board,
Maria Clave, said for women who aren't comfortable with asking for a raise or who aren't uh the younger you, let's say, what is your advice for them?
It's not really about asking for the raise, but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along.
One of the additional superpowers that quite frankly uh women who don't ask for a raise have because that's good karma.
It'll come back.
In the long-term efficiency, things catch up.
So the guy was essentially saying to women, don't ask for it.
Just be patient.
Let karma take over.
Let your work be your statement.
Go ahead, stay out there, work hard, let karma take over.
Not asking for a raise.
And if you do that, you're gonna find that you're gonna get many more raises and a lot more money over the long term, because long-term efficiency things catch up and you will be compensated.
You're raising your hand.
You have a question in there?
Uh I don't know.
I never heard that.
I mean, I've heard the phrase the cream rises to the top, and I've I've heard around, I've heard wait around and I I've had all I on this subject, I've had every bit of advice there is.
I've had the advice, do not ask for raise.
You're only gonna you're you're gonna become an irritating presence to the boss.
Never ask for a raise.
Other people have said, you've got to go in there and assert yourself.
You've got to go in there and tell them how valuable you are.
You've got to make them pay attention to you.
You've got to demand a raise, not ask for it.
You've got to go in and do it.
And even if they say no, you've put your name in the hopper, and other people don't ever do the mic, that's the fastest route to get in canned, nobody wants a troublemaker.
I've had people say, never ask for a raise, and instead every day, thank the boss for hiring you.
Give the boss that's depression era thinking.
Some baby boomers grew up with that kind of advice from their parents because getting a job during the depression, which is a formative event in their life, it was rare.
And you were to be thankful, eternally thankful to your employer for hiring you.
And you were to express it frequently so that the employer never ever thought you took it for granted.
Now, at some point long after the depression, doing that actually hurt the employee.
You know why?
Because if you go overboard, I mean I've seen it happen, and it's not universal exceptions to everything.
I'll confess, I got that, it was my dad that gave me that advice, and I tried it once.
I thought, okay, I'll try this.
I respected my dad.
I thought he really knew what he was talking about, and he did for his era.
And I remember making it a point every day.
I didn't go in and say, I want to thank you for hiring.
But I went in every day or every week and I let him know how grateful I was I had the job.
And after a while, I started getting all the dirt assignments.
And it was just assumed that I was so grateful to be there, I would do anything.
And they started dumping all the stuff nobody else wanted to do on me.
It was not taken sincerely, it was used, it was taken advantage of by the person.
Now it may not have been if I'd have tried it with a different employer.
I think this is all specific to every circumstance you're in.
I don't think there's any blanket advice for asking for a raise.
It's it's up, I mean, I think you have to assess the circumstance you're in, and you certainly had better be.
You there had better be very little doubt you deserve one when you go in and ask for one.
Because if you go in and ask for one and they don't even know who you are, and uh, or if they think they're being really fair with you already and you go in, you're gonna come across as unappreciative.
And it's it's no different than in the job interview.
If the first thing you ask about is sick pay and vacation day, you're gone.
You don't know it then, but you're gone.
Just like a college education is used to weed out applicants and reduce the number.
That's really what the college degree is for these days.
If you don't have one, you don't get the interview.
Second thing is that if you you can actually do yourself great harm if if you make the mistake of if somebody you've you've got to learn whether you think, whether the boss thinks you're being treated fairly already or not.
You have to have that advantage because if you go in and start demanding things when everybody thinks they are being overly already fair with you, you're gonna you're gonna red flag yourself as unappreciative.
It works, it just depends on personality.
Some people respond well to standing up for yourself, demanding a raise, being forceful.
Some employers respect that, others resent it.
I think I don't think there's any universal advice that's gonna be given on asking for a raise.
Now, what this guy was saying, and he happened to say it about women, because here where is he?
He's at a conference on women.
He's actually trying, I am convinced.
Everybody at CEO level these days is PC.
He's trying to say something he thinks women are gonna appreciate.
He's telling them they have innate extraordinary powers.
That karma alone, if they just go out and do the job, they will be reward.
They will be rewarded.
And he's telling this to a female member of his own board of directors.
Who's the moderator?
I don't think he was trying.
He has apologized and clarified his remarks, you could expect.
Quite the opposite.
He's surrounded by them at this conference.
What is this thing called again?
The Grace Hopper celebration of women in computing.
And this guy basically says it's not asking for the days.
It's having faith the system will give you the right raises as you go along.
I would guess that you can take a hundred employees and ask them, have you gotten raises as you went along without asking that you thought were justified?
And a hundred percent of them would say no.
A hundred percent of them would say, I have never been surprised with a raise.
I have never gotten a raise out of the clear blue.
Now there that happens too.
That's what I mean.
There can't be any blanket way to go about, but this guy answered it in a blanket way, and he did it in such a way he thought he was talking about women's special powers and empowerment, and all he ended up having to eat his words.
And he's gone out now and he's changed what he said, apologized, and and uh he got his mind right, so he's okay for now.
Let me grab a phone call.
You know it's open line Friday, and always try to make the effort to grab a couple of calls the first hour.
This is Bill in Schenectady, New York.
Great to have you, sir.
Hello.
Hey Rush, it's an honor to talk to you.
Listen, uh, the reason I called is, and I know people always talk about your your cochlear implant and everything, but you actually got my brother in gear to take care of his hearing problem.
Um about eight years ago, he lost his hearing, started losing it, and you know, uh everybody was trying, including his doctor, to get him to get the implant, and he's real stubborn, didn't want any kind of you know, operations or anything.
And then we told him that you had the implant.
And lo and behold, he was like, if it's good enough for Rush, it's good enough for me.
So about five years ago, he got his first implant, all thanks to you, and it's really changed his life.
Um, no doubt.
Uh what was his what was his initial objection?
He just didn't want to do surgery.
He thought it was gonna be uncomfortable.
Um he thought that it wasn't gonna work properly, he just felt like it was invasive, and he's very stubborn.
He doesn't like to try anything.
Right.
Um and he had tried like you know, hearing aids and things that he just got no help, you know, and his hearing went from bad to worse because it was like some kind of an autoimmune type thing.
That's exactly what it's like.
And uh he started really losing his hearing, and he would not try it.
He just would not try it until we told him that you had it, and he started looking it up on the internet, and his whole thing was, well, if it works for Rush, he's on the radio, I'm gonna try it.
And sure enough, it changed his life.
There's there's just no doubt about it.
That is and in fact, he's getting the second one now because you got your second one.
Let me tell you something.
You tell him, I resisted doing the second one uh for for a host of reasons.
Um mostly based on my experience with with one.
Um, and I said that what the second one isn't gonna the only thing I'm interested in speech comprehension.
I I don't need to hear any more noises.
I hate noises.
I I try to keep things as quiet as I can because the cochlear implant creates noise, not sounds.
And you have to adapt to it.
And I pr I love silence, which irritates all of my friends.
I love I can sit in a room with a TV off, nothing on, and I am that's when I am the happiest.
Of course, that bothers him, but he's silence to most people is strange.
To me, it's bliss.
Did you ever have he did the first couple years, he had some problems with like uh ringing in his ear, Tinnitus, um, and he flies a lot for his job, so he had a lot of problems with like you know ear blockage and sinus drainage.
He was getting like sinus infections and stuff.
Um I never had that problem.
I had tinnitus, still do.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Implant doesn't change that.
That's a myth.
I mean, I had tinnitus, didn't know it.
Tinnitus or tennitus, if you want to be specific.
Tennetus, the way mine is, it's the strangest thing.
I didn't know this is what it was.
Uh, but mine is a very low frequency hum.
It's not bells and ringing.
And the effect of it, when it happens, and it's happening right now, I've got tenantist right now.
It makes fun.
Putting a muffle in front of everybody.
And it it's just a low frequency hum.
I thought something's wrong with the implant.
It's not, it's it's tinnitus.
It has nothing to do with the implant.
Uh, and and my tinnitus was not it was not increased, aggravated, it wasn't changed at all because of the implant.
That's tell him that the they're unrelated.
Well, he had problems.
Actually, his doctor hooked him up.
He he had problems for like I said, a couple of years, especially he flies a lot and so the pressure in his ears and that sort of thing.
And they had him like taking decongestions and whatnot, and they kind of I guess uh, you know, intermix with like medications and he couldn't really take them.
So finally he was kind of half sorry that he did it, and then his doctor actually hooked him up with a horseradish pepper nasal spray, believe it or not.
And the guy who wouldn't try anything tried that.
And it that worked for him.
And for the past three years, he's had not tinnitus.
Well, there you go.
Whatever works.
Whatever works is fine and damn.
I never had any of that.
I never I've I've always been able to hold my nose and and blow through it and pop my ears while I fly.
That's never been never been a problem.
It's awesome because you definitely got him to do it, and now he's gonna do the second one, and you know, the guy who wouldn't try anything's willing to get the second one, you know.
Willing to put, you know, pop pepper nasal spray up his nose.
So I mean he's changed a lot.
Well, uh it you tell him he's done the right thing.
And and the and getting the second one uh is is gonna be it's gonna be a plus.
It will be how how long has it been since he had the first implant in uh put in?
How long's it been?
It's been just on five years.
Okay.
See, I waited 14 for to do my second one.
And and by itself, my my second implant on the right side still by itself is useless.
It's the most amazing thing.
My right side implant is if it's all I had, I might not be able to do this program.
That's how bad it is.
But in conjunction with the left side, magic happens.
It's inexplicable.
And everybody's different.
But you tell him the odds are very good that that second second implant is gonna improve things overall.
If he's satisfied or even happy with the way things are now, it's gonna be better.
I have I have yet, and I I looked into this, I've yet to find anybody who who did a second implant who wishes they hadn't.
I haven't found that person.
So he'll be uh he'll be happy that he did it.
That's fabulous story.
I I uh I appreciate hearing that.
Bill, thank you very much.
Gene in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Great to have you, sir, with us.
Hello.
Hello, uh Mr. Rush Limbaugh.
How are you?
I'm fine, sir.
Thank you.
I've been listening to you since the nineties in California.
Well, that's almost you're almost a lifer.
I've been listening to you since the nineties in California.
Right.
I heard you.
I was in California.
I don't know where you were.
Anyway, I just want you to please, please keep doing what you're doing.
Uh you're the you're one of the room voices out there.
But what I wanted to talk to you about was the raises thing.
Yeah.
I never asked for I was in corporate business for 50 years.
I never asked for a raise ever once.
How many did you get?
If you work hard, the money comes.
You know that.
Uh to a to a point, yes.
But I've I've also found that you have to go get it.
Whatever it is that you want.
There's a certain degree of preparation, meeting opportunity, i.e., luck, things come to you.
But the preparation is key, or there can't be any luck.
And then there also has to be some ambition and drive.
You have to want it.
You have to go get it.
You have to answer the door when opportunity knocks.
But I know what you mean.
The work will speak for itself.
You make yourself valuable to somebody, they will pay to keep you.
That's true.
It's open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh off to a rousing start, and we haven't even hit, ladies and gentlemen, the Ebola update section today, and there's plenty of stuff there.
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