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Nov. 11, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 11, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Hi folks and welcome back.
I am your host, Rush Limbaugh, doing what I was born to do.
Host the EIB network.
Great to have you.
Telephone number, you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882.
And if you want to send an email, have at it, lrushbo at eimedet.com.
Now, once again, from the hapless and pathetic, biased, predictable Washington Post, women are much more pessimistic than men are about the U.S. job market.
The gender gap typically refers to the difference between how much women and men are paid, the kind of jobs they tend to pursue, or how well they're presented among a company's senior ranks represented.
Yet a report released by Gallup on Monday finds that there's also a big gap between how confident men and women are about the job market, and that gap is wider in Norte Americano than in any other major region of the world.
56% of North American men, according to a 2013 data set, thought it was a bad time to look for a job compared to 62% of North American women.
Europeans, much more negative overall about their job outlook, which means they're not stupid either.
Because their job outlook is pathetic in Europe.
What is unemployment?
14% in France?
And they think that's a good day.
So the women are not.
After all these years of Obama.
After all these years of the Democrat Party.
After all of the Julia commercials.
After all of the war on women rhetoric.
With the Democrat Party trying to tell the women of this country that they were looking out for them.
After the war on women and the Democrat Party warning women that the Republican Party would stand aside if they were abused, the Republican Party did not want them having sex.
The Republican Party doesn't want them using contraception.
All of this asinine stuff.
All of the promises, the pledges the Democrats made to take care of women, to protect them, to look after them, and whatever else.
And all for naught, because a greater percentage of women think the job market in America is bad than men do.
By the way, from the UK Daily Mail, top military officials have been warned not to have sex with attractive women in Russia or China in case they are spies.
The story hit right before this big economic summit over there hosted by the CHICOMs.
It's a UK Daily Mail story.
Top military officials in Europe, again, have been warned not to have sex with attractive women in Russia or China because they might be spies.
A leaked document says that agents of the FSB, the KGB, Russia's intelligence service and successor to the KGB, could attempt to lure British officials into bed and then blackmail them.
The document, the Ministry of Defense Manual of Security, warns senior officers that the KGB could gain valuable intelligence by exploiting knowledge of marital infidelity or sexual activity the target may wish to hide.
The KGB used honey traps like this extensively during the Cold War, using both men and women to target those they believe to have valuable information.
The communist East German security services targeted young men to seduce middle-aged West German secretaries, working for senior officials.
And the West Germans, halftime, you didn't know if it was a man or woman coming after you.
Remember some of their female Olympic teams?
Whoa, man.
Remember Erich Honecker sitting there applauding all this?
At any rate, there's an example.
There was a woman in New Jersey, a Russian named Chapman, Anna Chapman, discovered to be a Russian agent.
Not that long ago, just five years.
Remember that Anna Chapman picture of her?
Well, in some people's minds, she was gorgeous.
It's all subjective.
But I guess what, if you're being warned not to have sex with attractive women, who are you being told to have sex with?
It opens the door for the feminists.
Sorry, did I say that?
Slap me.
I just slapped myself.
I'm sorry.
There.
Slap myself three times.
Again.
That was so mean.
He's so mean.
Latest health threat, ladies and gentlemen.
Smoke from fireworks, harmful to health.
This, according to Science Daily, the toxicological research, has shown that many of the metallic particles in the smoke from fireworks are bioreactive and they can affect human health.
This, according to Teresa Moreno, researcher from the, well, I don't know what the acronym stands for, CSIC, lead author of a study.
It's been published this week in the Journal of Hazardous Materials.
Do you have a subscription to that?
I think they've got a special going now if you get it on iTunes or in their newsstand.
The Journal of Hazardous Materials.
The leftists subscribe to this thing like crazy.
This poses a risk to health, and the effects are probably more acute in people with a background of azithema or cardiovascular problems, Marino explains.
The effects in healthy people are still unknown, but like common sense tells us, it cannot be good to inhale the high levels of a...
That's right.
How many people have you seen on the 4th of July inhaling the smoke from the fireworks display?
You see it all the time, don't you?
I remember when I was growing up at Cape Girardeau Country Club, the fireworks go off out there, and I remember seeing all these adults out there sniffing in all the...
That's right, I've never seen it either.
Who in the world are they talking about here?
Fireworks once, twice a year?
A health hazard?
And we're back to our old buddies at the hapless, pathetic, deteriorating Washington Post headline, The Hummer is Back.
The Joe Camel of cars is back.
Thank falling oil prices.
The military-style Hummer H1, more tank than truck, disappeared from the new car lots long ago, killed off by General Motors for the sin of guzzling a gallon of gas every 10 to 12 miles.
They get that much?
Wow.
And as the cost of gas hung above $3.50 for four years, even used hummers languished on used lots.
That is, until the price of crude and gasoline started to nosedive.
And now people are buying hummers and Lincoln Navigators and Ford Explorers, and the environmentalist wackos are fit to be tied, which is why we have a story about it in the pathetic hapless Washington Post.
And it's a big, the hummer is back.
Thank falling over.
This is news.
The hummer is back.
Bad news.
It's a crisis.
They thought they had beat the hummer back.
Poverty, Massachusetts poverty rate highest since 1960.
Any wonder why they elected a Republican governor finally?
The poverty rate in Massachusetts, the highest it's been since 1960.
Inflation-adjusted wages of the lowest paid workers have not budged in decades.
Income inequality in the state has become greater than in the nation as a whole.
Democrat ideas at work, folks.
There you have them.
Back to the phones we go.
Rushlin bought to San Antonio, Texas.
Joe, I'm glad you called.
Nice to have you with us today.
Sir, it's an honor and a pleasure.
Some U.S. Air Force Apple fanboy Rush 24-7 dittos to you.
You are right up my alley.
You just, you covered it all.
Yes, sir.
I'm an Air Force officer who is wanting to call you today on Veterans Day to say on a day where everybody else is thanking us for what we do, I wanted to reach out to you, sir, and say thank you for all that you do for our military folks around the world.
And my 24-7 membership was back in the day.
You guys had the free memberships back in the Iraq timeframe.
So I joined up while I was in Iraq back then, and I've been a 24-7 member ever since.
And I appreciate that and all the other folks who support us out there through 24-7 and all your efforts.
That's extremely nice of you.
People may not know what you're talking about.
Back during the Iraq War, we offered complimentary memberships to Rush 24-7.
It was a variation on a supportive veteran program and plan.
And it was an effort we all engaged in to bring home to the troops who were in Iraq during the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, didn't matter where, but we enabled soldiers who may not have been able to sign up while there to get complimentary subscriptions to the website so that they could stay in touch with what's happening back home via the website and the radio show.
And there were tens of thousands of them, and you're one.
And it's great to hear from you to know that after you've experienced it, you hung in with it.
Well, yes, sir.
And it was back in the day when they were trying to get you off of AFN radio and trying to reduce your visibility out there with all of us.
And it was a great opportunity for us.
And I appreciate that.
And you just don't know the thrill of like, I happen to be on the road heading home today, and all of a sudden to hear a ring and be able to talk to both Snerdley and you is like a thrill.
I can't even tell you.
So thanks again, sir.
I get kind of not speechless, but tongue-tied when I'm talking to people who do what you do.
Because as I get older, My sense of appreciation and even awe for what you people do keeps growing as I mature and get older.
I mean, really stop and think about what you all do, what you volunteer to do, and to realize that it's something that 98 or 99% of the country wouldn't do, doesn't do.
That's not to put them down, it's to note how special and unique all of you really are.
And I know there are a lot of people today that are acknowledging veterans and praising them and thanking them and so forth.
And I think it's all deserved and worthwhile.
Sometimes I don't think you all get enough recognition for what you do.
Sometimes it becomes just rote for people to do it.
You said you're an Apple fanboy.
What does that mean?
Well, yes, sir.
I've been an Apple Apple Devotee for quite a while.
I'm talking to you on my iPhone 6, and I have a MacBook Pro 15-inch retina, which is awesome.
And I have an old original iPad way back.
And I have actually one of your Zooku EIB network iPad holders I have right now with my iPad still.
Okay, which iPhone 6 do you have?
I just have the regular, not the supersized one, just the regular one.
And it's really nice.
Enjoy it.
Well, if you would permit me, I would love to send you an iPhone 6 Plus, the iPhone Big Boy.
And you can have it.
You can use them interchangeably.
Because, you know, with all their new features, you can use two phones as one now.
With just one area where you can't, you cannot fake the number you're calling from.
But who is your service with?
It's with ATT, sir.
Well, find it.
What color do you want?
You want space gray?
Do you want gold?
Do you want silver?
Wow, that's definitely not expected or required.
Well, I know it's not.
That's why it's fun to do.
The space grade be fine, sir.
Space grade be fine.
That's what mine is.
I'm holding it right here, my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
It's elegant.
I mean, it's now I have to, it's not a two-handed phone.
It's definitely not a one-handed phone.
It's definitely a two-handed phone, but it's just, it's special.
And the iPhone 6, what you have, I think, is the perfect phone for universal usage.
It's fat, it's thin, it's great, but the big boy, it's a fun one to have and play around with.
And the battery life is two days on the thing.
It's really cool.
So if you will hang on, Joe, we get a net address, and I'll get this thing sent out to you today.
And wherever you want it, it will be there tomorrow.
That's Joe from the Air Force in San Antonio.
It is Veterans Day today.
And I'm serious what I told him.
When I stop and think about what members of the U.S. military didn't stop thinking how young they are.
I happened to, during the program yesterday, I happened to see a public service announcement on television for disabled American veterans.
And it featured a number of veterans who had been wounded, and in some cases, severely.
And it showed their efforts to recover and their efforts to live normal lives.
And it was just, it's heartwarming and touching.
You stop and think what these people volunteer to do and how they're all doing it to be the best they can be.
I went to Fort Bragg once, Delta Special Forces.
I got to see people trying out for that, and it's just incredible.
And my troop visit to Afghanistan, and I had a chance.
There were three miniature Rush to Excellence appearances, and there were a lot of Democrat troops.
I met a lot of guys, and a lot of the women were Democrats.
It was not universal fans out there.
And there were some who just thought that I was showing up to use them for my own personal PR.
And I said, do you see any cameras here?
I didn't bring any cameras with me.
The only people taking pictures are you.
That's not what this is about.
I said, I really, I said, I've been after the government to let me do one of these things for a couple of years because I just have felt this compulsion, compulsion to tell you how much I love you and appreciate what you do.
And it was at a time, folks, when I did this, the troops were being maligned and impugned and ripped to shreds by the Democrat Party as they sought to undermine the war in Iraq.
And I can't tell you how that burned me up.
I mean, it literally angered me.
Not just the politics of it.
And every time I heard anybody say about a member of the military, well, of course they joined the military.
That's the only hope they've got of getting out their poverty-stricken life because they live in America.
The only hope they've got of getting an education.
So, in fact, they had to impugn their motives for joining the military.
It wasn't because they wanted to serve their country.
It wasn't because they wanted to defend it.
No, the only chance they had because the country is the whatever.
All of it just offended me greatly.
Yeah, and it was John Kerry.
John Kerry's even up to, yeah, you either got two choices.
Go to college or go to Iraq.
If you can't get any college, you go to Iraq.
That was an insult.
And I can't tell you how that offended me.
I can't tell you how it burned me up.
And it still does when I stop to think about it.
What the Democrat Party, the media, and all of them were doing during the Iraq War to discredit it for their own political purposes, to try to saddle George W. Bush with a defeat in Iraq so that they could advance their election opportunities and chances.
And right in the middle of the crossfire were the troops, and their commanders are being called liars and everything.
So I wanted to do a troop visit and just explain to them what they meant to me.
And I wanted to convey a message from at least the people in this audience because I knew that you all have the same attitude about the military that I do.
And I just wanted to, because they weren't seeing any love and respect.
They all get cable TV over there.
They were watching all this stuff and reading about how the war effort was lost and all this.
I thought it was reprehensible.
Veterans Day 2014 on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
I remember the 50th anniversary.
Dinner for a National Review Magazine.
It was in Washington.
I forget where it was, but it was an elegant old ballroom in an elegant old building.
And I was fortunate to be seated at the head table of Mr. Buckley.
He said, there's only one caveat, no impersonations of me tonight.
If you're going to impersonate me, you can't sit at my table.
I said, I promise.
And halfway during dinner before the festivities, the post-dinner speaking and all festivities began, somebody came to my table and said, there's some veterans here, some wounded vets from, I think it was Walter Reed, that had been invited, and they'd like to meet you.
So I said, sure.
So I got up and I went to their table and they were indeed wounded vets.
They had severe injuries in some cases, burns and a number of things.
And I'm telling you, folks, I'm just in awe what these people do.
Everybody spends the day thanking them and so forth.
But as I get older, I actually contemplate what they volunteer to do.
And then I try to think I'm having a bad day someday.
Put it in perspective by thinking of what they're doing and the reality they face, particularly in combat every day.
So I went over and I met these guys and they started thanking me for what I do.
And I, folks, I have to tell you, I felt about two inches tall.
I mean, here I am talking with some severely wounded military veterans, and they are, it's before I've had a chance to say anything to them, and they're thanking me for what I've done.
And what I do, in my mind, pales.
What most people do, I think, pales in comparison to what they did, particularly these guys.
And I told them that.
I said, look, I'm a little embarrassed here because I guy on the radio.
And this guy looked at me, and I'll never forget this.
He looked me square in the eye and he said, sir, we all have our roles in life.
We all have our roles to play our roles in life.
And it's all combined, and it all matters because it's all related to the same objective.
And that's defending and protecting our country.
And I've got this feeling of euphoria and happiness that these guys would in any way include me in their thoughts about what they do when I'm nowhere close.
And then the pilots who flew the original missions, the invasion of Iraq in 2003, all flew a flag in their aircraft that ended up with me, but I didn't, of course, know what was happening until it arrived.
Sluggo, who flew the tankers that refueled all those guys that set that up.
And we've got that flag framed and the letter that he sent a company and all the certificates.
So I'll tell you, when we were putting together and crafting the third book in the Rush Revere Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans series, the American History Books for Kids, we purposely, and I'm chomping at the bit to tell everybody this beforehand, but I couldn't because it just wouldn't make any sense to.
But we timed the release of the latest book to coincide with Veterans Day because the whole book is a dedication to modern day American military.
And we spent a lot of time putting this book together and planning it with the other two so that the release date would coincide with Veterans Day.
The release date was actually October 28th.
Today is Veterans Day, so it's a couple weeks after, and we're within that ballgame.
And what we've done here, see, we live in the greatest country on earth, folks, and our history is just incredible.
And our mission in these books is to tell the story of the founding of this country in a relatable way, in a fun way, that takes young readers actually to these moments, these seminal moments in American history, and puts them in these moments, makes them part of the history.
They actually have conversation.
A reader participates in dialogue with famous Americans that made this country possible.
And so they're actual adventures.
And we thought the best plan, the best way to do this, would be to take them right to the action so they could experience all of these amazing events, like the Pilgrims arriving and setting up their column, the Boston Tea Party, Lexington, Concord.
And we still have a lot to go in future books.
But what we did with this one, we combined one of the realities of modern military life, particularly those who are deployed, and that is separation of families.
And this was something, I must be honest, but this was something I was not nearly aware enough of or didn't know nearly enough about.
And that is, I always assumed that the children of military moms and dads understood when mom and dad got deployed.
I never thought there would be any problem with it at all.
And then I learned that it's a major problem because the kids don't always understand.
And they don't understand why mom and dad are gone so long.
They're too young.
They don't yet have the awe and respect.
They do for their parents, but in terms of the mission, they're just not old enough for that to have developed yet.
So we combined a story with a modern-day character in the book.
His dad gets deployed to Afghanistan, and he's just down in the dumps and depressed and feels rejected, thinks his dad's putting everything ahead of him, and he doesn't understand it.
And it's only through time traveling to events in American history and talking to George Washington, for example, or Paul Revere and others, that the light goes off in his head about how important his dad is and what his dad's really doing and ends up regretting being so selfish about it.
I don't want to give the whole story away, but it's our tribute in our little small way to military families and a way of acknowledging another aspect of their lives that we, I don't think a lot of people really stop to think about.
So that's what Rush Revere and the American Revolution is about.
And we timed it, as I say specifically so, that its release date would be within close proximity to Veterans Day.
And we've set up, we've got this great Facebook page, Facebook slash RushRevere.com, where we are acknowledging veterans.
In some cases, we just posted a great tribute to a 92-year-old Marine who just passed away, who loved 2F by T and all of this.
It melts your heart, the things that people are sending to us now, kids and their parents and all that.
So we're posting a lot of it on our Facebook page and at the RushRevere.com exclusive website.
So Veterans Day is a big day to us, and it's a meaningful day.
And it's gratifying to see Our caller from San Antonio a moment ago in the Air Force, he acknowledged that everybody's thanking the military today, and that's good, because it used to be that Veterans Day was as casually accepted as Columbus Day was.
It was just nothing.
But today, it's a big day.
It's a bigger day than ever.
There's more and more appreciation for the American military as they come under assault, as they come under attack politically.
More and more people are standing up and refusing to ignore it and put up with it.
So it's good.
And there's a newfound awareness and appreciation for American military personnel.
Moms and dads, officers, enlisted people, you name it.
They all are a cut above.
Now take a quick time out.
We'll be back and we'll get back to your phone calls after this.
So don't go away.
Well, Mr. Snerdley just brought me something.
I wish I could say I was surprised by it, but I'm not.
It's from salon.com.
It ran this past Sunday.
And here is the headline: You don't protect my freedom.
Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes deadens real democracy.
It's been 70 years since we fought a war about freedom, forced troop worship, and compulsory patriotism must end.
You don't protect my freedom.
Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes deadens real democracy.
And here's how this piece began.
David Mashorta, or Masiorta, or Mascortia, not sure how he pronounces it.
Put a man in uniform, preferably a white man, because Salon is one of the most racial publications I think I know.
They can't write a paragraph without some racial reference in it.
I don't care what the story's about.
Put a man in uniform, preferably a white man.
Give him a gun, and Americans will worship him.
It's a particularly childish trait of a childlike culture that insists on anointing all active military members and cops as heroes.
The rhetorical sloppiness, the intellectual shallowness of affixing such a reverent label to everyone in the military or law enforcement betrays a frightening cultural streak of nationalism, chauvinism, authoritarianism, and totalitarianism.
But it also makes honest and serious conversations necessary for the maintenance and enhancement of a fragile democracy nearly impossible.
Meaning, this reverence for the military makes serious conversation about how to really enhance democracy nearly impossible because everybody's being so irrational in supporting these pretenders who really don't have a thing to do with our freedom.
Put a white man in a uniform and he's automatically a hero.
Now, here comes a leftist publication assigning that culture to totalitarianism.
The man has it a little backwards here.
It is equally challenging for anyone reasonable and not drowning in the syrup of patriotic sentimentality.
It's equally challenging for anyone reasonable to stop saluting and look at the servicemen of the American military with criticism and skepticism.
There's a sexual assault epidemic in the military.
In 2003, a Department of Defense study found that one-third of women seeking medical care in the VA system reported experiencing rape or sexual violence while in the military.
Internal and external studies demonstrate that since the official study, members of sexual assaults within the military have only increased.
Numbers have only increased, especially with male victims.
And it goes on.
This is the kind of stuff that was being talked about all over TV with John Kerry and Jack Murtha agreeing that American Marines in Iraq were terrorizing women and children.
And this is why I wanted to go and did for the longest time and do what's called a troop visit.
Anyway, it's a long piece.
That's all the time I'm going to take with it.
But pretty much sums it up.
Military people are not heroes just because they have guns and wear uniforms, especially white ones.
They're not here.
They don't protect our freedom.
It's a childlike culture that pretends all of this is happening.
I haven't read far enough to find out who he thinks really is protecting our freedom.
Well, I'm not surprised it's all vile.
Did you read the whole thing?
Who is?
Okay.
Okay.
Well, who is protecting our freedom?
And if these, if.
If the U.S. military is not doing it, who is it, in this guy's opinion?
He doesn't even.
So the whole point of the piece is cops and military are bad and suspect, and we're misplacing reverence in them.
All right.
Yeah.
Yeah, I guess this guy's putting his life on the line writing this, huh?
So he's guaranteeing our freedom and taking such a brave, brave stance.
Anyway, just to show you, the American left in all its glory, there they are, salon.com.
John Walsh is the editor.
Sad.
Anyway, here's Clarence in Philadelphia.
Hi, Clarence.
I'm glad you waited.
You're next on the program.
Hello.
Yeah, Rush.
How come you're not talking about the significant victory of Obama in the election?
What victory?
The victory of the minimum wage, the raise of the minimum wage, which happened in five states, the only five states that had it.
And four of them were strict, were strongly Republican.
States like South Dakota, Nebraska.
You can't get more Republicans than that, right?
I'm trying to understand what you're saying.
You're saying in all these Republican states, Obama had victories because...
Yeah, with the minimum wage.
He's been on the bully pulpit for two years about the minimum wage.
And it pays in opposition to all the Republicans.
And you and all the other right-wingers on the radio are opposed to it.
but it passed in four Republican states.
And if it had been in 50 states, it would have passed in 50 states.
Right?
So that's a victory for the bully pulpit of Barack Obama.
Man, you're really scraping the bottom of the barrel here today.
Well, it may be, but it's significant.
How do you explain it?
I don't explain it.
That's right.
Who wouldn't want to earn more money?
I know, but the Republicans were against it.
You were against it, aren't you?
I'm against the minimum wage laws.
That's right, but it passed in four states.
So, you don't win everything out there, Clarence.
If you want to hang your hat on five states, get the minimum wage going up, have at it, man.
Have party.
Go out there and buy an extra Big Mac with it.
Whatever it gets you.
My point of minimum wage actually causes people to lose jobs.
The minimum wage is not enough, and it was never intended to be a wage that supports a family.
That's not, it's an entry-level thing.
It's purely a political football.
I actually, I'm trying not to chuckle here, Clarence, because I know how important winning is.
And if the minimum wage in five states where Republicans opposed it makes your day, then I don't want to destroy it.
So have at it, Clarence.
I'm happy you're happy.
I hope Clarence in Philadelphia is still listening, reveling in his big victory out there.
Clarence, you know what's going to happen in all these states where the minimum wage was increased?
Employers are going to hire more and more illegal aliens off the books at lower wages.
The minimum wage actually facilitates the hiring of illegals.
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