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Oct. 10, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 10, 2014, Friday, Hour #3
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Half my brain tied behind my back.
That's the case every day.
Rush Limbaugh and the renowned one-of-a-kind show prep for the rest of the media excellence in broadcasting network on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's open line Friday.
One big, busy broadcast hour remains and a lot to try to jam-pack in it.
Including your phone calls, whatever it is that you wish to talk about.
800-282-2882, the email address El Rushpo at EIBnet.com.
It was only moments ago that we played the audio soundbite of Allison Lundergan-Grimes at the Lewis Courier Journal refusing to answer a question from the editorial board in the newspaper.
Did you vote for Obama in 2008, 2012?
She would not answer.
She said she wasn't there to talk about the past.
She said that she had been a delegate for Hillary in 08, but she wanted to look to the future.
And she said, Mitch McConnell doesn't care about that.
Mitch McConnell only cares about my name.
They kept asking her, and she wouldn't answer him four or five times.
Well, this has not gone over well in the drive-by media.
I'm holding here in my hands a story from F. Chuck Todd, who claims that Allison Lundergan-Grimes has disqualified herself.
He said this on MSNBC today.
He said, the idea of, I mean, I'm sorry even to say, you regret your vote.
That would almost seem as disingenuous, but that can Kentuckians expect her to cast a tough vote on anything if she won't admit that she voted for Obama.
So, F. Chuck, this didn't sit well.
If you can't admit that you voted for the president, if you're a Democrat and you're seeking the Senate and he's going to be the president next two years and you can't admit that you voted for him in F. Chuck Todd's world, you have disqualified yourself.
I think this is, I think, chump change.
Because clearly, this is so easily, this is transparent.
I'll tell you what, I think nails Allison Lundergan-Grimes and the fact that I don't know how many people are going to see it.
It's internet video, and it just depends on how widely it gets distributed.
But there was this big fundraiser for her with a bunch of typical New York fat cats, people like Harvey Weinstein and James Dolan of Cablevision or what have you, a bunch of them.
And somebody at Allison Lundergan-Grimes' campaign told these big donors, don't sweat it.
She has to say good things about the coal industry in order to get elected.
But when she gets to the Senate, she's going to F-bomb them.
She said that she, that's what one of her aides said.
It's all over this video, that she's going to screw the coal industry.
Now, that's the kind of thing I think ought to disqualify her.
And I don't mean disqualify.
That's the kind of thing it'll let the voters of Kentucky find out.
She's finished.
But why make a big deal?
Okay, she won't admit she voted for Obama.
Okay, so she didn't have any courage.
Well, big deal.
It speaks for itself.
I just, I think that that's secondary compared to this other thing.
I mean, here's a woman who is lying to her constituents or her would-be, because she's lying in her campaign.
She knows Kentucky is a coal state.
They depend on it.
But she's a big liberal Democrat.
Coal's the enemy.
Coal is climate change.
Coal is pollution.
Coal is global warming.
Coal is capital.
Coal is what it's horrible.
And she is going to owe a lot of donors a lot of payback.
And a lot of her donors are global warming fruitcakes.
And they're going to want payback.
And the payback is going to be her help in stocking it to the coal industry.
And these big donors are being assured that she will.
It's like Obama telling Dmitry Medvedev: look, tell Putin, I'll have a lot more flexibility in getting rid of America's nukes after the election.
You tell Vlad not to pay attention to what I'm saying in the campaign.
He said that on an open mic.
The American low-information voter never heard about it.
The American low-information voter had heard about it, by definition, wouldn't have known what he was talking about.
Tell Vlad, I'll have more flexibility after the election.
You know, without George Clooney in the frame, they wouldn't have had any idea what that was about.
So, but this, when you tell donors, and it's on tape, that the candidate's going to screw the coal industry if she wins, that to me is dynamite.
A couple of Ebola stories here.
First, from Sarah Carter at theblaze.com.
U.S. Border Patrol agents say an incident along the Texas-May Co border Wednesday night is a clear warning that they are not prepared to deal with the threat of people infected with Ebola and other communicable diseases trying to cross into the United States.
Now, I know none of you are surprised to hear this.
I'm certainly not.
What's noteworthy here is that a story exists where the agents, the Border Patrol agents, are acknowledging it.
Agents in the Rio Grande Valley border sector apprehended a man from the Eastern African nation of Eritrea who was trying to cross illegally into the U.S. Agents told the Blaze, Border Patrol agents told the Blaze that's not the first time that they've apprehended somebody from Africa or special interest aliens, people from nations with known terror ties, trying to cross the border.
But in this case, the potential for disease, not terrorism, was their primary concern.
Why isn't a disease terrorism?
I mean, if it's purposely contracted and then purposely spread, you could call it terrorism.
Duncan Hunter, California Republican, told the Blaze it's another instance of the federal government ignoring the ongoing problems of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Foreign nationals from all over the world know that the way to enter the U.S. illegally is through the southern border.
Department of Homeland Security's own figures support that fact, but they won't discuss those figures because they show just how vulnerable the border truly is, Duncan Hunter said.
So the solution to this is something no one dares speak out loud.
The solution to this is closing the border.
But now you're back to the reality that you can't do that because Obama wants to do amnesty.
And by the way, that's another thing donors are being assured of behind the scenes.
And all of these Democrat fundraisers, every one of them, every one of these big donor fundraisers, the donors are being assured that amnesty is going to happen.
It's going to happen later in the year.
It's going to happen after the midterms, probably after the Land Rule runoff, if there is one.
Odds are there will be.
They're all being assured of this.
It's one of these things that is so obvious.
And the more obvious something is, it seems the less it can be said out loud.
Many of the problems the country has right now, and many that it will have, could be solved and prevented by securing our borders.
It's just common sense.
Oh, no, that's bigotry.
That's mean-spiritedness.
That is a denial of people in poverty and suffering.
But until they are closed, until the borders are closed, there isn't going to be any significant advance on immigration reform.
People aren't going to stand for it.
A border that's like Swiss cheese lets ISIS fanatics, Ebola-infected East Africans or West Africans come in.
And when you have border agents, border agents, and they acknowledge they caught an East African man trying to sneak into the country, and they're scared.
In light of the Ebola outbreak, the agents themselves, they don't have hazmat gear.
They're not patrolling the borders in hazmat gear.
And nobody can assure anybody that this thing does not get spread via airborne contact.
I found a story from 15 years ago, 2000, New York Times.
And its source was The Lancet.
The Lancet is one of the most prestigious medical review journals out there.
And this story said that there were several experts who thought that Ebola could be spread via the air.
Now, that's 15 years ago.
And there wasn't a big outbreak at the time.
It didn't hardly get any notice.
And because it's 15 years ago, who knows what advances or discoveries have made since?
And that's why I didn't print it out, make a big deal of it, because it's 15 years.
But there is a New York Times story.
It was actually the International Herald Tribune, which is the international version of the New York Times for cruise ships and hotels in Europe.
They call it the International Herald Tribune.
This is the New York Times reprinted under a different banner and with some localized European news.
But it made it clear the Lancet was the source that a lot of people thought Ebola could be spread by virtue of the air, like other contagious viruses are.
And then from the Washington Post today by Joel Aachenbach, Lena Son, and Brady Dennis, the ominous math of the Ebola epidemic.
When the experts describe the Ebola disaster, they do so with numbers.
These statistics include caseloads, deaths, and the rate of infection, but also the ones that describe the speed of the global response.
And right now, the math is favoring the virus, meaning caseloads, death, rate of infection vastly outpacing the speed of the response.
Global health officials are looking closely at the reproduction number, quote unquote, which estimates how many people on average will catch the virus from each person stricken.
And they run those numbers, and the analyst estimated it's one and a half to two people.
One and a half to two people on average will catch the virus from each person stricken.
The number of Ebola cases in West Africa has been doubling every three weeks.
And there's little evidence so far that the epidemic is slowing down.
Now, one thing about Ebola, and I'm not a scientist, I'm going to have a little bit of a problem explaining it in scientific terms.
But at some point, Ebola needs a host.
And at some point, Ebola does max out in the damage it can do on an entire population because it eventually, in a non-scientific expression, its very spread eventually kills itself by denying it hosts.
However, that's a huge number before you get there.
But it can't wipe out a nation and then switch to another nation.
It has to migrate from living host to living host.
And so it does have a finite controllability to it, but the numbers at that point are still unacceptable in terms of deaths and serious illness.
And then the story here quotes the CDC director who warned Thursday that without immediate concerted bold action, the Ebola virus could become a global calamity on the scale of AIDS.
And then they say the situation today is worse than it was 12 days ago.
It's entrenched in the capitals.
70% of the people who became infected or become infected are definitely dying from the disease.
70% is the death rate worldwide.
Before any of this started happening, the statistical expression of death rate was anywhere from 50 to 90%.
So the fact that the death rate in this outbreak is 70% falls within that range.
Anyway, the point of this story is this thing is going to start expanding exponentially.
The geometric progression.
One times two, two times two, four times four, eight times eight, it's suddenly out of control.
And I got to take a brief time out, my friends.
Type much more straight ahead.
Your calls coming up next on the EIB network.
Welcome back, my friend.
Zel Rushbo, doing what I was born to do.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have back to the phones and open line Friday.
It is Robert in Cedar Park, Texas.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Rush, it is an honor to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
I've been voluntarily listening to you for the past 15 years.
Voluntarily listen.
You mean as opposed to under duress?
Absolutely.
So I used to have a competitor.
I used to be in food sales, and we used to sit there and do our orders and stuff.
Yeah.
And one of my competitors would have you on.
And this was before I became a conservative.
And it would drive me crazy.
And I was like, dude, turn that guy off.
You're driving me crazy.
And now I can't wait to turn you on during the week.
Well, welcome home.
That's guys great.
Oh, thank you, Prince.
Great to have you home.
It's been a privilege because you've given me so much knowledge and made an impact.
So much so that my college student, who's at Texas A ⁇ M, calls me sometimes and says, so what did Rush say about so-and-so today?
So, I mean, that's the thing.
So now you're the rush expert.
You're the guy everybody that you know goes to to find out what's up.
Absolutely.
That's power, man.
That's power.
It really is.
You're the authority figure.
Absolutely.
That's cool.
It's been a blessing.
So thank you.
So my question is, since you've had a couple weeks now to play with your new iPhones, I was wondering what your thoughts were on them and what you're most excited about with the software coming out for the Macs.
I happen, you know, as a powerful, influential member of the media here, I have them both.
And I have to tell you, I would have a tough time choosing if I could only have one.
It would be hard because they're both fabulous.
But I think the thing that I don't want this to be any criticism, the iPhone 6 Plus is just, it's fabulous.
But it's a two-hand phone.
It is not a one-hand phone.
If that matters to you, then the iPhone 6 is for you.
But the iPhone 6, I think, is the perfect phone.
It's beautiful.
It's wicked fast.
It's got – the screen on the iPhone 6 is 4.7 inches.
That's 7 tenths of an inch bigger than the iPhone 5 or 5S.
And it's the biggest 7 tenths of an inch I've ever seen.
Really?
It totally changes the experience of using the phone, just 7 tenths of an inch.
It's light.
It's thin.
It is ⁇ you can't go wrong with either one if you like iPhones.
Absolutely.
I became iPhone users about two years ago.
We were kind of shunning it a little bit, and my son and my Thomas son and I both jumped in at the same time.
And I know you've always been an advocate for him, so.
Well, I'll tell you what I'm going to do.
I'll tell you what I'm going to do.
Since you have become the source authority for your group of friends, I'm going to make this choice of yours very simple.
I'm going to send you, if you will let me, you may not want it, but I'm going to send you an iPhone 6.
It would be an honor.
I'll send you an iPhone 6.
And I have it.
Now, obviously, do you have a cell phone now?
Yes, sir.
I've got the 5.
You've got the 5.
I need to ask, with what cellular carrier are you contracted?
Yes, with Verizon.
Verizon.
Yes, sir.
Okay.
I don't have any Verizon.
It may be a couple of weeks, but do not give up hope.
I've got some coming for giveaway purposes, exactly for this purpose.
And what color do you prefer?
I've got the white now, so maybe which one do you like better?
Well, I don't have to make that choice either.
If you like, your white is gold or silver?
The white is silver on the back.
Silver cattle simple.
I'll send you either a silver or gold.
Verizon iPhone 6, 128 gigabyte.
And then you, you'll see what I'm talking about.
And then if you want another, if you decide you want the iPhone 6, then all you have to do is go out and get one.
Okay.
Instead of the 6 Plus, I mean.
But I guarantee you, it's a tough decision for people because the big screen is the big screen.
And the iPhone 6 Plus, I'll tell you something else, is easily a day and a half battery.
Really?
Easily a day and a half.
The iPhone 6, you'll get about three hours more with it than you do your iPhone 5 or 5S.
You'll easily get the whole day with the 6.
It's not a slacker, but the big phone has a bigger battery.
But it's a two-handed phone.
And if you like one-hand use for gaming or whatever, or just using the phone, then the 6 is for you.
Hang on.
Mr. Snerdley will get your address and all that.
So when I get this Verizon model, we can get it to you.
Don't hang up.
All right.
Here we are, my friends.
Oh, Rushball back at it at 800-282-2882.
We are on Open Line Friday with just another exciting half hour yet to go.
Do you know what?
Do you know what?
Have you seen these guys?
Because you're talking about seven-tenths of an inch.
Or I was on the iPhone screen.
Have you ever been to the beach and you've seen these clowns that have no business wearing these real speedos and so forth?
You know what you should do?
You walk up to one of those guys, hey, dude, that's the greatest banana hammock I've ever seen.
And I see what the guy does.
Hey, man, where'd you get that banana hammock?
I would love to have one.
Where did you get that?
You know what they're doing?
They're assembling one of these behind-the-scenes tapes of me edited of things.
So they've edited my seven-tenths of an inch increase in screen size on the iPhone 6 with this woman who had an affair with the dwarf at the Bachelorette party in Spain.
And these things that you play at Christmas parties, there was no picture with the story.
I didn't see a picture of the dwarf or the woman.
I don't print pictures.
And I print text-only versions, but I didn't see a picture on the website when I looked at the story.
You took a banana hammock.
That'd be a little picture.
Speaking of which.
Okay, Patrick, in Woodenville.
Just keeps adding to it, doesn't it?
Here, Woodenville, Washington.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Long time listener, first time caller.
Great to have you here, sir.
A couple days ago, I was talking with a doctor who's in the position to know, and he said that in West Africa, they have about 90 days to contain the epidemic, or it's going to go, well, it's already gone viral, but to bleed out to the rest of the world.
90 days.
90 days from now.
90 days or so.
Yeah, but from when?
Because this outbreak started back in February or March.
So 90 days from.
I think he was talking 90 days from now.
90 days from now.
And there.
Well, frankly, that's more time than I would have thought they would have.
Because you've got 7,500 cases now.
And people are, and have been trying to get out of these countries for a while.
What's he basing it on?
People escaping and traveling outside the countries?
Well, no, he's basing it on how quickly the disease gets, well, first of all, transmitted and then people who get people get sick and then transmit further.
You mentioned that earlier.
You know, how quickly the disease spreads.
Right.
So 90 days, he said, to contain it or else Europe.
Well, you know, it's interesting because there are some health authorities in the European Union who are saying the same thing.
But they're not saying 90 days.
They're saying 30, 30 or 45 days.
If they don't do something, then Ebola is going to be in every Western European country.
And that's why you hear people continuing to talk about containing it in Africa.
And while they talk about this is what's crazy.
Even our own director of CDC says, oh, yeah, you got to contain it in Africa.
But then to do that is racist and unfair.
So everybody that's suggesting this ends up contradicting themselves in a way that makes it, I don't know, kind of odd and hard to follow and understand.
But Patrick, I appreciate it.
Thanks very much.
You know what?
Something.
Well, I'm going to.
I'm losing the volume on this.
This battery's about dead.
It was a full battery when I put this thing.
I'm on my implant battery.
I hope it's the battery.
Anyway, grab audio soundbite number 24 because I mentioned earlier that this guy at the Washington Post was just, oh, no, about Allison Lundergan-Grimes.
She just had so bad 40 seconds of silence when she couldn't say that she had voted for Obama.
And then F. Chuck Todd said, oh, no, that she's just disqualified herself.
Well, it's now spread through the rest of the media.
This afternoon, CNN on Wolf Blitzer's show, he spoke with Gloria Borger about Allison Lundergan-Grimes.
And Wolf said, Allison Lundergan-Grimes, she was asked who she voted for in the last presidential election.
Why can't she simply say she voted for Obama?
Or if she didn't, say she'd voted for McCain.
Why can't she say?
And Gloria, you know, Wolf's upset, and Gloria Borger is in pain trying to explain what Grimes should have said.
Grimes, it's inexplicable to me why she would not just say who she voted for.
And if she voted for President Obama, she could then go on to say, but you know what?
He's disappointed me.
These are the mistakes he's made.
I'm not Barack Obama, as she said in her ads over and over again.
I don't understand why she won't answer a direct question because it makes her look evasive and it makes her look hypocritical unless she could say, yes, I voted for Barack Obama.
And here's why that was wrong.
Well, I'll tell you what it is.
It's like I told you, it's consultants.
Somebody has drilled into her that you cannot be seen associated with Obama.
You can't.
He's apparently an albatross.
They've got the polling data's driving this.
You know polling data's driving this.
And the drive-bys are offended by, hey, he's our guy.
He's our pres.
Why can't you say you voted for the guy?
Come on.
Say that you, you know, you voted for Hillary in the primaries or whatever.
They're beside themselves.
Now, folks, right now, this has never happened.
The audio level of my implant has been slowly vanishing.
Normally, when a battery goes, it goes, and you go from everything to nothing.
This has faded out to where I can barely hear anything.
I can't take a phone call right now.
I've got to wait, maybe change batteries, commercial break, see what happens.
But I do have time to tell you one thing about our new book.
Because when I was asked, and I mentioned earlier, when I was in the last hour, Rush, what are you reading now?
You know, I could have taken that occasion to plug my new Rush Revere book, but I didn't.
But there's something else that we've done.
We are really building up the adventures of Rush Revere as a brand, as an event.
And what we've done now, folks, we have created a webpage, a Facebook page, for the adventures of Rush Revere.
And we're going to make big use of this.
We're going to be posting awesome letters and photos that come into us.
People are sending us, the Horse Liberty is getting emails, and people send various emails to the characters sending us pictures of their family sitting around reading.
They send us videos.
And we're going to use this Facebook page to show you some of these things.
Besides, the Horse Liberty has pretty much been pushing for this.
And of course, he wants tons and tons of likes on the Facebook page.
The address is Facebook slash Rush Revere.
Www.facebook.
Slash Rush Revere facebook page.
And we've got this new website that we built Rushrevere.com, and we've got this great video trailer, if you will, of the new book that's available for pre-order, announced this week, Rush Revere And The American Revolution, which is dedicated to the U.s military, and the story is about a guy who deploys to Afghanistan and his son doesn't understand it and, via time travel back to events in American history, it all becomes clear to him.
He ends up loving his dad, respecting his dad like never before.
It's so great and we're really we're dedicating this to the military because it goes on sale the end of this month, perfectly time for for Uh, Veterans Day.
So, and I wanted to make sure, before the broadcast ended this week, that I mentioned the facebook page because it's something new.
So is the website, because this we're so proud of this.
We are just and you guys have made this, you've put it number one, number two on Amazon, Barns AND Noble and the pre-orders, and just yeah, it blows us away.
It just we don't.
We never, ever take this stuff for granted constantly in gratitude for it, and we're trying to share as much of it and and share with you as much as we're getting from people who read the books and like them, and that's what the facebook page is about.
So again, it's www.facebook, slash RUSH, Revere and i'm gonna take a brief time out and i'm gonna see if I can fix what's going on here with the volume level of my implant.
Don't go away, it was not my implant.
Somehow the amplifier feeding all of the audio to me had been turned off and so it was not being amplified and equalized.
And all that and I never had it.
I've never experienced it.
Could I say it can't be the battery?
Batteries just die, they don't fade out.
But I still don't know how I would have turned it off.
oh it just needed to be reset okay it just did die didn't need to be reset and okay i'm glad to know i didn't turn it off inadvertently because i don't see how it's physically possible for me to do without knowing i'm doing it anyway good to know it wasn't the implant now when i did the mention of the facebook page was that understandable because i was i was blind deaf then all right cool philip in newburg indiana seven years old we have a seven-year-old on the phone hi philip great to have you on the program how are you Well, I'm glad you called.
What's up?
What's shaking?
Rush Revere to get out.
Oh, thank you very much.
You're welcome.
Is there anything else, Philip?
Yeah.
What is it?
You write more books?
I am definitely going to write more books.
In fact, there's a new one we just announced this week that'll be out at the end of this month.
Okay.
Would you like a copy of it?
Yeah.
Well, I'll send you one, Philip.
When we finish talking here, do not hang up your phone.
And the man who answered will get your address.
If your parents will let me, it's totally up to them.
And if your parents will let us, we'll send you a copy of the new book when it comes out.
It's Rush Revere and the American Revolution.
And if you like, you bet, if you like the first two, you will love this one.
I guarantee it.
Are you going to write about the Alamo?
Well, you never know.
I mean, the Alamo is definitely part of American history.
And that's the great thing here, Philip.
The subject matter, the things that we can write about are endless.
So I can't say for sure that we're going to write about the Alamo, but my hope is that this adventure series, because we try to take things to some semblance of the order in which they happened in history.
So we wouldn't go from, say, the Battle of Bunker Hill to the Alamo.
We would go in what's called chronological order.
We would get there as these events happen in history.
And I hope that we're writing these books long enough to get to the Alamo.
And I guarantee you this, Philip.
If we do, you can count on the fact that it's going to be the real story.
Okay.
All right.
Now, don't hang up here, Philip, so that Mr. Snerdley can get your address.
Mr. Snerdley, see if you can get a parent's permission here for the address to send the new book when it comes out.
Rush Revere and the American Revolution.
It is.
This one, I mean, I'm like, I like them all, but you get better as you go.
And this is not to slight the first one.
You know, we got the first two, and we've got this really tight team that puts these books together and work really hard on them.
And there's a great, you need an iron butt to do this.
And there's a great sense of achievement when it's all done.
And we use George Thoma's own philosophy.
We're never really finished because after you do everything, you have to then do a little bit more.
And that's the way we approach it.
That's why we announced his Facebook page today to bring it down even more visibility.
www.facebook slash rush revere back after this folks to wrap it up don't go away i hope you have a great weekend folks it's a fabulous weekend for sports fans you've got the baseball division playoff well the league championship playoffs and then the nfl This weekend, Royals and Orioles tonight, Cardinals and Giants tomorrow night, and football on Sunday.
So see you back here Monday.
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