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April 3, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 3, 2015, Friday, Hour #2
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Right here we are back at it, ladies and gentlemen.
L. Rushbo, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have on the EIB network on Friday, live from the Southern Command in Sunny, South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Open line Friday.
Callers get to choose that which we talk about.
One of the greatest career risks ever taken by a major media figure and starning over the content portion of the program to rank amateur lovable rank amateurs.
Telephone number 800 28282 and the email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
Great to have you here.
Ladies and gentlemen, in the midst of all of this debauchery and depravity that seems to be captivating, capturing, overtaking, overwhelming our culture.
And there's no question it's on the march.
And there's no question it's but by the way, I need to make one thing explicitly clear only because I don't want to be misunderstood here.
I do not believe that, for example, every gay person or couple in this country is a militant.
Leftist, that is derangedly unhappy and miserable and is participating in all this.
I think these are leftists first.
They are leftists, they are far left wing loons that are engaging in all of this.
And I think one of the sad things is that all of homosexuality is being implicated and impugned by these people's actions, and I just I know for a fact, I know plenty of gay people that are just as repulsed by all of this as you and I are.
So I don't want anybody confused here as to what they're hearing on this program.
As is always the case, as has always been the case.
The culprits in our eyes are leftists.
I don't care what else they are.
It is leftists, it is deranged left-wing radicals who are behind all of this.
Some of them may be gay, some of them may be African American, some of them may be Hispanic, Latino.
It is their unhappiness and their misery that is driving them.
And it is by no means inclusive of everybody that's in a supposed group that is, if offended, outraged, or what have you.
These are just malcontents, and they come from all walks of life.
And I just wanted to I wanted to make that clear.
And by the way, it works in reverse.
Over the course of this program, I've come across websites, as you know, that I like, and I have to some.
I've touted some websites, tech blogs, you name it.
I've touted them, and I have, because people have asked me, well, what side are you talking about?
I'd like to go look at it.
You you claim it's good, so I give the web address and so forth, and I praise them and compliment them.
I can't tell you the number of times that the people that run those websites when they have been liberal have been public about not wanting my support, about not appreciating my recommending their work or their website, and asking people who have come to their website after having heard about it from me to never come back.
Now, how is that any different than all of these people claiming that they are victims of bigotry, that they are victims of hate, and what are other phobias there are out there.
You see, it it the point is that here you have just to use the pizzeria uh the memory's pizza is an example.
If they don't serve, and if they don't behave exactly the way the militant left thinks they should behave and wants to be if they become a target for destruction.
And they're told that they are not allowed to be judgmental and they're not allowed to discriminate.
They must serve everybody, anybody, any day, right?
Okay, fine and dandy.
Well, you would think then that leftist proprietors of websites that I have happened to recommend would not then be able to discriminate against people who have coming to visit their website because I have recommended it.
Yes, I could give you names that I'm not going to because I don't want to tout them.
Why give them any more publicity?
Why why let them puff themselves up even more?
That's not the point.
The point is, there are many websites that I didn't even know, didn't care in my mind.
It didn't matter whether they were liberals or not.
The thing I got from their website had nothing to do with politics.
I thought it was interesting, and people said, What's what are some of these sites?
I'd list them.
People would go, and when they turned out to be run by the left, or people or a person who was liberal, they got righteously indignant, and they publicly stated they didn't appreciate any traffic brought to their site by me.
And they openly told people that were visiting their site, if you've been sent here from Rush Limbaugh, we'd prefer you not come back.
Well, how can they do that?
Why do they get to do that?
Why do they get to discriminate or try to discriminate with nobody thinking they're mean, nobody thinking they're bigots, nobody thinking they're discriminating.
No, no, no, it's a valid point.
Yeah, I would love to give you a couple names, but I'm not, believe me, that would just give them more publicity.
That's not the desired result of this.
Another thing that I want to take time out and say, you know, we at the Rush Revere Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans children's book series.
We are engaged in what we firmly believe and know to be a wholesome, family-oriented, valuable effort to educate young people about the glorious truth of the founding of the United States of America.
Again, because the founding and the founders of this country are under now constant assault in the public education system and the college university system in this country.
The founders, they too.
A bunch of homophobes and bigots and uh racists and sexists and so forth, and the founding of the country, unjust and immoral.
And I love this country, and I love the people that found it, and I am in awe of them.
And I think the story of the United States of America is one of the greatest stories in all of humanity.
And watching what's been done and is being done, started these children's books as a means of coming up with a fun way for young people to learn and want to learn American history.
And it's I don't go to the whole philosophy here again, but but basically we have a talking horse that's able to time travel with a substitute teacher in the saddle named Rush Revere, who's able to take students from his Manchester middle school anywhere via time travel, anywhere in American history.
Students, readers are then taken to that era and they experience it.
They live it as readers for what happened, and of course it's the truth.
Well, this is caused, and I'm I'm looking I don't mind saying this is a righteous endeavor.
This is a wholesome family-oriented truthful endeavor, designed to teach the greatness and the decency, and dare I say the specialist, the exceptionalism of this country.
Well, it's taking off.
We've had the first three books came out 13 months working on the fourth, and the feedback that we're getting is overwhelming to the point that we have begun to encourage participation from readers by participating in various uh challenges and contests.
And one of them is uh submitting videos inspired videos that they make with their equipment at home, be it a smartphone or a standalone camera or whatever, be as creative as they want, various challenges, and we send them in, they send them in and we judge them, and there are prizes awarded and so forth, and we post all these.
And if you want to, if you want to see wholesomeness, if you want to see what we're trying to make happen, that the kind of America that we're trying to reflect, it's there.
And the people who are getting involved in this are just great as they can be.
And the point of all this is that we are happy to announce the winners of the latest adventures of Rush Revere challenges.
And I'm telling you, the videos that we get from children and families across the country are simply exceptional.
Now, the panel of judges judging the videos, uh, including myself and Catherine, it gets tougher and tougher.
It it really, they're all so good that it makes it very hard to pick one, two, or three that stand out.
But we have to, because that's what we have pledged to do.
Because they're all so fantastic.
The talent that is displayed, the creativity that's displayed, the degree of work uh in the costumes that they try to create, or they do create and dress up as it's heartwarming and it's inspirational and it's rewarding for all of us that are involved in the entire Rush Revere series.
And it makes us see a bright future.
And we want to share that with you by posting some of these videos on our Facebook page and the rushrevere.com page, because these are genuinely exceptional young Americans, and they're working with their moms and dads to produce these videos, and they uh they're peppering us with uh emails and just still photos of their experiences as they've uh read the books.
So the congratulations go to Lucia from Illinois.
She won first place in the Be a Star Challenge, and all of this you can see, give you the web addresses in just a minute.
Felicity, Lucy, and Greta from Ohio.
They had a fantastic video, first place in the Liberty Dance Challenge.
And to Hannah, who is the first place, join the adventures crew winner.
Now we're going to be posting these winners on the Adventures of Rush Revere Facebook page today and over the weekend.
That's Facebook.com/slash RushRevere.
So you'll be able to check these videos out and you'll see what we're talking about here.
They're just, they're cute.
And some of them really dazzlingly impressive.
And there are we always have new challenges.
We are always offering these young readers a chance to accept new challenges, and it helps them get even more into the storylines of each book.
And it's a it's a it's a way to uh deepen the learning experience.
Go beyond just reading it to actually reenacting some of these things and putting it on video.
And you can see the new challenges at the RushRevere.com page.
So just go there to see the new challenges that people, your kids can participate in, and the Facebook.com slash Rush Revere page where we will post the latest video winners.
Now you might think, well, Rush, this is awfully self-serving.
Yeah, it is a self-serving, I'll admit that, but at the same time, folks, it's a great way to counter some of the just the filth and the garbage that we have to deal with every day here.
If we pay attention to the news, if any of you pay attention to the news, and if you get involved in it, follow the media, you can't escape it.
And you need an antidote, you need evidence that there is something else other than this plunge into depravity taking place out there.
So that's why we're eager to share it.
Now, brief time out, we'll come back.
Open line Friday continues after this.
Don't go away.
I am glad you mentioned that.
Somebody just said, hey Rush, did you hear about the guy that walked into a Muslim bakery in Dearborn and was turned down.
Yeah, I heard about it.
The guy is a is a former Fox News contributor.
And uh and an actor and a comedian named Steven Crowder.
And he walked into a Muslim bakery in Dearbornistan, Michigan.
And he told them that he wanted them to bake a cake for his gay wedding.
And he was turned down.
And everybody's asking, where's the outrage?
I'm so glad you brought this up because, see, it's not about that.
You would expect that if there's anti-gay bigotry, there's anti-gay bigotry.
Wherever it is, it's unacceptable.
And so Crowder just found some anti-gay bigotry in Dearbornistan, Michigan.
A Muslim bakery.
Well, you see, Muslims, Dear Bornistan.
It's a joke.
It's a it's a yes, it's dearbornist.
Everybody in Michigan calls it that.
Don't, don't, don't, this is just lighthearted jocularity.
Don't panic in there.
But this makes a great point.
You see, folks, it isn't about anti-gay bigotry.
If it were, there would be just as much outrage at this Muslim bakery, but they don't care.
The drive-by's the militant gay life, they don't care.
They went shopping for this in in Indiana.
They went shopping for it.
They went shopping for it in New Mexico.
They went shopping for it in Oregon.
They went shopping for it in Colorado.
You cannot tell this is not about expanding gay rights.
The first thing you've got to know, all of this in Indiana, this is not about discrimination against gays.
That's not what they want you to think it is.
And the action being taken, the outrage, the media, this is not about expanding gay rights.
It's not about eliminating discrimination.
That's not at all what's going on here.
This is an all-out assault on Christianity, traditional value Americans, and so forth and so on.
It's all about attacking and delegitimizing a so-called dangerous, mean spirited extremist majority, made up primarily of Christians.
This is an attack on Christianity.
They don't care what the Muslims are doing.
They don't care that there's anti-gay bigotry in Dearborn, Michigan.
Doesn't matter.
It's not about that.
This is not about gay rights.
It's not about civil rights.
That's the cover story.
Now let me get a phone call in here.
I'll expand on this in just a second, but let me get a phone call in it because it's open line Friday, and I always try to take more calls.
This is Kevin in Fort Myers, Florida.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Well, thanks, Roger.
I'm honored to be hitting in the third position in the lineup today.
Thanks.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Thank you very much.
Third position is important too.
Yes, it is.
I wanted to uh talk about going back to the founding roots with a thought.
I mean, the original founding fathers were essentially farmer public servants, and they were looking to serve and go home.
I want to steal this page from uh House of Cards and President Frank Underwood.
And why doesn't the Republican Party as a differentiator pledge to go one term in this election because they don't want to be bothered with the cost and the distraction of running for re-election, they want to do something to govern.
Let me ask you.
I'm going to answer your question, and there's a great answer to it to illustrate why it's a horrible idea.
And I will tell you here, but I first need to set table.
For those of you who have not seen House of Cards, Frank Underwood, you know, there's a reason you should watch it if you haven't.
You want to talk about depravity.
You want to talk about utter sheer depravity.
Watch it and then remember that Bill Clinton just said earlier this week that 99% of it is true to life in Washington.
Clinton's comment doesn't mean anything if you haven't seen it.
But this, it's, it's it's depraved, it's debauchery, it's douchebaggery.
I'm telling you, it is, it reaches the depths of depravity like few TV shows have.
Rivaled maybe only by Ray Donovan.
It's a good show, don't misunderstand.
But this president, Frank Underwood, is just I look at I don't want to spoiler alerts or anything.
It's It's a 13 episode series, season three, Netflix.
They release all 13 on the same day in February.
But you should watch it if you haven't.
And then after you do, Bill Clinton's out there, he and Spacey are good buds.
And Clinton's out there, hey, you know what, Cap that show that you got there at House of Cards, 99% of that stuff, I've done it myself.
Half of that stuff happens all the time at Washington.
That's it once the greatest, maybe the best damn uh political show on all TV about what happens in Washington, especially when I'm there.
You watch it, having heard that.
Now I'll answer it in a minute.
Okay, why will not a one-term pledge be effective?
A one term president, particularly a president serving his first term as is going to be the only term, is immediately a lame duck.
The opposition party can simply freeze everything.
It's just like a second term president that becomes a lame duck almost immediately after being inaugurated.
Now, there are some possible mitigating factors.
A president that promises to only serve one term, like Frank Underwood never meant it.
He was always going to run for reelection.
He was lying when he said he was only going to serve one term.
Bill Clinton admired that.
Harry Reid admired that.
Frank Underwood was lying.
And the fact of the possibility that they pledged one term is a lie, would mitigate against the opposition party treating the one term as a lame duck.
But if it's a serious pledge to only serve one term, the opposition knows all they've got to do is play freeze the donkey, and they can they can prevent a one-term president from being empowered.
The supposed power that you acquire as a one-term president is, Is that you can let it all hang loose?
You don't have to worry about reelection, so you can do the truth.
You can say the truth, you can enact policy that you would never enact.
You can propose it and enact it, stuff that you would never do if you had to get reelected.
So in Underwood's case, spoiler alert coming up.
What underwood did, Democrat president, he promised to eliminate Social Security and Medicare, claiming we can't go on paying people who aren't productive.
sounded just like a conservative, by the way.
He's a full-fledged Clinton Democrat or Obama Democrat promising to end, not cut, end Social Security and Medicare.
End.
And not take the money back to the taxpayers, but instead take that money that's being wasted on the elderly and put it in a federal job creation fund.
He was going to create massive new jobs in the private sector, using that money.
And one of the things that Frank Underwood, fictional president in House of Cards, promises is any private sector business that accepts money from his federal job creation fund will be given 45,000 toward every person he hires.
So the first 45,000 of salary will be paid for by Frank Underwood and the Democrat Party, i.e.
Washington, under his plan.
And the theory was who in their right mind would ever oppose this?
Because the theory was everybody knows Social Security's insolvent.
Everybody knows Medicare.
We're broke, we can't go on.
Let's finally admit it.
Let's eliminate it.
And let's focus on jobs, and let's focus on a booming economy.
And a booming economy will raise all votes, and it'll help cover the expenses for the elderly who are having their Social Security taken away.
And in the show, the elderly never complain.
That's the one thing that was the elderly, the AARP, you never heard from them.
Underwood would not survive three days in the real world proposing this.
But he did.
And oh, when he was opposed, when he was when he was stopped from doing this, what underwood did, he found a it was Obama esque.
He read the bylaws and the statutes that structure and built FEMA.
And he went out and he basically, since Congress would not appropriate the money for his big jobs fund, he took it for Washington, D.C. only.
He couldn't take enough for the whole country.
So he started his pilot program, show others at work in Washington, D.C. only, and he took the money from FEMA to do it.
And everybody said, God, Frank, you can't do this.
What if there's a hurricane if there's another Katrina?
Oh my God, you're robbing the fund.
You're robbing the relief fund.
I'm on a roll of dice, there's gonna be a hurricane.
Well, of course there's a hurricane.
Is predictable.
It turns north at the last minute and it doesn't hit, but everybody's panicking because Underwoods robbed FEMA of their money.
And his jobs program works in D.C. And the elderly in D.C. don't mind that their Social Security were just snatched out from underneath them.
But the theory is that a one-term president is immediately a lame duck, and the opposition doesn't have to give him anything because they don't have to worry about him continuing, and it ultimately has no power.
Now they're of course exceptions to every rule.
Obama is supposed to be a lame duck now.
And I think I think part of the problem in Washington is that everybody there behaves according to formulas.
You can't win without the independence.
You can't win if you're Republican talking about the social issues.
You can't criticize Democrats or it's going to anger the independents and they're going to leave you and join the Democrats.
All these cockeyed crazy formulas.
And one of the formulas is that a second-term president's a lame duck because everybody's focused on the next president and the present, the current president's forgotten about, can't do anything.
Well, what modern day Washington didn't stop to take into account is that Obama's not playing by any formula.
And he doesn't believe in himself being a lame duck.
And since he doesn't believe in the Constitution, and since the Constitution doesn't stop him, there's no way he's a lame duck.
Congress does not exist in Obama's world.
And I'm telling you, this Iran business, this framework agreement and all this.
The real reason Obama is spending all this time and attention on it is to erase from the equation Senate involvabilities, the Senate being involved and constitutionally in any treaty or deal like this.
Obama, there's a bill.
Bob Menendez, now under Justice Department investigation, have been charged with all kinds of chicanery because he's a he's a Hispanic Democrat, supposedly untouchable, but he had the audacity to say that Obama's nuclear deal is doing nothing but helping Iran.
Well, you know, it's one thing for a talk show host to say that, but for a Democrat senator to say that, so Menendez days are over as a senator.
Obama's taking him out using Eric Holder and the DOJ to do it.
But Menendez has a bipartisan bill in the Senate with Bob Corker of Tennessee that attempts to put the brakes on anything Obama's doing in Iran and make sure that the Senate has a role in whatever they end up negotiating.
And Obama is trying to get around that and ace these guys out of having any role and making sure that that that bipartisan bill is is worthless.
And just one of the ways he's doing that is trying to impugn Menendez by having him now charged with high crimes or whatever the hell they say he did.
All he corruption, yeah, he flew on a on a donor's jet down to wherever, the Dominican Republic.
And as though no other politicians Ever flown on a donor's airplane.
And Menendez is not backing down saying he's not going to be intimidated this way.
But I mean, this, they're setting this guy up.
Remember Bob Torcelli?
I mean, it's uh it's almost we're not that far from getting the Bill Clinton phone call that Andrew Cuomo got, warning him to back out of anything he planned to do at that moment.
And remind, will you see what we did to Bob Torricelli?
You ever heard of Bob Toracillion?
Have you ever seen him lately?
You haven't even seen him, have you?
You don't even know that he's still alive, do you, Andrew?
So they're trying to de-emphasize and delegitimate and basically get rid of Menendez and his piece of legislation.
So it sounds on paper, one term is a great thing because you think if I got no worries about getting re-elected, I can be totally honest, propose anything, and the Senate and the House will have no choice but to go along with it because the American people are going to be rabidly behind me and totally supporting me.
And it's not it's not guaranteed to work.
It's attractive, it's attractive suggestion to people.
Now, Mark Stein, occasional substitute host here on the EIB network, has a piece at his website, Stein Online, about this Indiana situation.
And he makes he makes the point here.
He says that this is not about all this going on in Indiana is not about expanding gay rights.
This is not about helping people being discriminated against.
This is about shifting power.
This is about taking power away from an existing majority, in this case, the white Christian majority, taking it away by virtue of intimidation, and transferring that power to left-wing fringe lunatics.
That's what this is about.
Now, the reason when a Muslim bakery in Dearbornistan denies a gay guy a cake for his wedding, the militant leftists are not going to touch that because they don't want to do battle with militant Muslims.
They know the militant Muslims are not going to lay down.
All you've got to do is draw a cartoon of the prophet and they'll come after you.
But Christians, there aren't any militant Christians.
Christians, bow down.
They're nice to you.
They try to respect you.
They try to appease you.
They want to assure you they don't hate you.
As such, they are the perfect foils.
And if they are not going to protect the power that they've got, if they're going to essentially give it away by virtue of being nice and trying to be appeasing, then they're a great target.
That's that's why this, it's not gonna matter.
The media isn't gonna care.
The very fact that this Muslim bakery in Dearborn refuses to bake a cake for a gay wedding is not news, should tell you in bright red letters or whatever, that this is not about gay anything.
This is not about discrimination, it's not about bigotry, it's not about civil rights or any of that.
It's about usurping power.
It's about a minority intimidating a majority into giving up its power.
And most Christians don't even run around cognizant of power.
Because most Christians are not trying to impose anything on anybody.
But militant leftists walking around in constant anger, misery, and fear, are convinced that Christians are trying to force them out of live, make them do things they don't want to do, and then sitting in judgment of them when most people don't care until you involve them.
And when you try to corrupt them, and when you go to them and you make them tacitly endorse or support things you do that they disagree with, then they will tell you they want no part of it.
But they don't exercise their power trying to get they may try to stand up for traditional marriage.
But even that is not an assault.
That's not an attack on anybody.
It's a defense posture.
So what we have here is nothing to do with civil rights, nothing to do with religious freedom restoration.
All of that's irrelevant.
Because that's not what the aim is here.
This is pure raw, undiluted intimidation for the purposes of seizing power.
Nothing more.
One of the things that Menendez also did, he tried to get some of his buddies, some HB1B visas, H1B visas.
Same thing.
The same exact thing that Harry Reed did, the same exact thing that Hillary Clinton did, for which they were not investigated.
They were not even charged.
They were not even looked at.
Menendez did that.
And that's that's part of the list of charges against him.
Now, the the point that I was trying to make here, didn't finish the thought, actually.
Obama's speech yesterday in the Bergdahl garden was meant to make it easier for Democrats to vote against the Corker Menendez bill.
He goes out there and he tells them we got a deal.
We got a deal.
And if they cheat, we got a mechanism to catch them, blah, blah.
It's done.
I handled it.
I got it.
We're on the way, babe.
We got our framework.
They're not gonna have a nuke.
All of that, Washington Post even recognizes it's BS, as does anybody reasonable.
All of that was designed to make it easier for the Democrats, some enough Democrats in the Senate to vote against the Corker Menendez bill, so that there would not be enough Democrats to override an Obama veto of it.
That's what his comments yesterday were aimed at.
And I will I if I have time on a circle back to that.
I've focused on phone calls today, open line Friday.
This is Sissy in uh Wilmington, North Carolina.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Thank you, Roger.
Hi, how are you today?
Very good, thank you.
I just wanted to know if we have any hope for our country.
I was reading the Limbaugh Letter, your article about surrounded by ignorance.
And every single right we have is being eroded.
And these young people don't have a clue.
And I've been listening to you since 1988, and you always give me confidence that things can get better.
But now, can it?
Are we just should we just move to an island now or shoot ourselves now?
No, I know exactly what you're going through.
Because honestly, I ask myself this more often than you would know.
Because I'm curious, too.
You know, I would I would love to be able to know for sure where the people in this country are.
I see all this stuff about the ignorance of the millennials and the naivete of the low information crowd and all this.
And I even report on and write about in the Limbaugh letter, the slow dissolution of our rights, slowly but surely, some of them dramatic, some of them barely invisible, barely visible.
And uh I conclude everybody else, it does look bleak, but then I look around and I see signs that where it is that people live that make this country work.
They're not falling for you.
Look at these the 2010 midterm and the 2014 midterm election returns.
Look at the turnout, look at the election returns.
The people of this country, uh, when there's not a presidential turnout with all of this fake union and minority turnout in a presidential year.
The people of this country are they're speaking, they're letting it be known.
They're just absent leadership, sissy.
Republican leaders don't know what to do in the middle of all this, and that's why somebody, I think, who comes along who can articulate the opposite of what's happening, do it in an in a charismatic and persuasive way.
I think the people, even the so-called uh ignorant millennials, I think people would would erupt in rabid massive support for that candidate.
So, yeah, I think it's not gone by a long shot, but it doesn't look like that daily dose of media, I know.
Fastest three hours in media.
Two of them are already in the can.
And on the way over to the Limbaugh Broadcast Museum at rushlimb.com.
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