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April 6, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 6, 2015, Monday, Hour #3
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Yes, sir.
Greetings and welcome back, Rushlin Baugh.
Great to have you with us, my friends, here in the nation's most listened to, most eagerly anticipated, most talked about radio talk show in America.
Great to have you.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program and the email address, El Rushpo at EIBnet.com.
Earlier in the program, I suggested some additional things Apple could do with its new watch.
And of course, the pre-orders for the watch start Friday, actually at 3 a.m. Eastern Time, Friday, so late Thursday night, early Friday morning.
You get in, start ordering.
And there's all kinds of confusion about this.
I think the latest is that you just can't walk in and buy one.
You've got to reserve one.
You have to either order one online or reserve an appointment to go in and look at them.
But walk-ins, at least for the time being, not permitted.
I guess that's because of limited stock or supply.
And maybe it's because they just, they want to spend a lot of time.
They've allotted 15 minutes per customer for a try on session where they can show you the various kinds and the bands and all that sort of thing.
However, if you are going to spring for the gold Apple Watch, they will give you a half hour, half hour to an hour with a special person to advise you on the right fashion accompaniments and so forth if you're going to spring for the $10,000 to $17,000 version of the watch.
But only one Apple store in Florida is going to have, and I don't know which one, I don't know where.
Only one, limited supply of the expensive watch.
But anyway, since the CEO Tim Cook has inserted the company, as well as himself, into the American, well, essentially the culture war that's going on in the political process, I thought that they might want to use the Apple Watch as, I don't know, a way to advance corporate beliefs.
Now, we know that the Apple Watch has many purposes, one of which is to promote your health.
And in light of that, the first hour, some of my suggestions were that the watch could warn you when you are facing a bigot.
When you are talking to a homophobe, the watch and its sensors somehow would know or take a wild guess and advise you.
It wouldn't be difficult at all for the watch to be programmed via GPS, that if you venture anywhere near Ferguson, that you would be warned and alerted with all kinds of taps on your wrist from the watch.
Any number of, if you're entering a country whose laws are overly hostile to women, gays, Jews, whatever, the watch can issue you some kind of warning.
If you happen, if you're a woman and you're wearing the Apple Watch and you happen to find yourself on a college campus, the watch could give you a mild shock to warn you when you get too close to a frat house.
There's any number of positive contributions the watch could make to people's serious 911 call would automatically be made if the Apple Watch senses that you are within 25 or 30 yards of Bill Clinton or Bill Cosby.
You see the way I'm thinking here.
And again, examine my intentions.
Don't examine the substance of what I'm doing.
Examine my intentions.
I've got the biggest heart going here.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
And my intentions are entirely honorable and helpful here.
You could enter into the settings, your gender, your sexual preference, your sexual orientation, and your religion.
And that's how the watch would know if you are in hostile territory.
And by the way, the watch could also identify you as a hostile and refuse to function.
Well, I don't know how many genders it could identify.
You could program as many in there as you want, go to your local DMV and get a form and figure out how many genders there are and program the watch to identify them all.
Or at least warn you if you're in close proximity to any of them.
But I was thinking there's something else too.
In addition to all of these wonderful and helpful and well-intentioned suggestions, something that every liberal must have on their iPhone or their Apple Watch.
In order to be an in-good conscience, liberal Democrat, they should be able to download an app that tracks their carbon footprint so that they could know up to the moment how much climate damage they are causing and immediately begin to take remedial steps to correct for it.
And I think this would make perfect sense.
It would work well with the health apps that are already out there that track walking and jogging and biking and how many steps you've taken and all of that.
I would guess that by 8.30 every morning for working Democrats, they probably used up their daily carbon allotment.
I mean, that's the principle of cap and trade.
The principle of cap and trade is that you can trade your pollution credits because it's assumed that every person pollutes.
Everybody emits carbon when we exhale.
Everybody has a carbon footprint.
And you might not pollute as much as others.
If you have carbon shares to spare that you haven't used, you could sell those to somebody else so that they could use your pollution in addition to their own and yet everybody still stay even since you are not using your share.
So an app that would track every Democrat's daily carbon allotment.
It might be even earlier than 8.30 if they get out of the house.
But we know one thing, it won't be 9 p.m.
So the way it would work is when their carbon footprint exceeds the daily recommended allowance.
How about this?
You heard what Governor Moonbeam has done in California.
There is an emergency restriction on water usage throughout the state of California because of a drought.
And they have concluded, I'm not making this up, they have concluded this is permanent.
It is not a temporary weather cycle that may be extending for 10 or 15 years that's causing the drought.
They have concluded that this is a permanent result of humanity overextending its stay on the planet.
We have too many people using up too few resources.
And as such, it was never intended for this many people to live in California.
You can look at it.
You can put it on a map.
You can look at the desert areas.
You can look at the mountains.
You can look at it all.
And you can easily conclude that there was never, ever any intention for 40 or 50 million people to live in California, but they do.
And they are using resources the state no longer can naturally produce.
And that this is permanent.
So now Governor Moonbeam is going to start monitoring the use of water in individual homes and in businesses.
For example, the length of time you're in the shower could be monitored if Governor Moonbeam gets his way.
Do you remember the story we had not that long ago about hotels doing this?
Governor Moonbeam wants a five-minute limit on your shower.
And if you exceed it, penalties would start at $500.
Now, what better thing than to have an app on your new Apple Watch that warns you when you are approaching your daily limit on your fair share of water usage if you live in California?
What a wonderful contribution that would be to America and to the world.
The Apple Watch could then be said to be a legitimate player in saving the earth by guaranteeing that its conscious users never exceed their share of the allowed usage of water from the governor's office in Sacramento.
And the same thing with the carbon footprint.
When the average Liberal Democrat's carbon footprint exceeds the daily recommended allowance to save the planet, at that point, at that point, good liberal Democrats must park the car or get off the bus and immediately start walking or jogging or biking.
And the Apple Watch could be the trigger that warns them when they have exceeded their allowed carbon footprint every day.
The watch could tell them and nag them into submission.
They must work without any of the creature comforts that fossil fuels provide.
The only exemption from this would be whatever power is required to charge the watch every night.
Every Apple Watch user would get a government exemption for how much electricity it would take to charge the watch.
It's going to be minimal anyway.
Charge the thing up in two hours, and that's that.
Now, if liberals have access to windmill and solar power, good for them.
They can get out of the car, park the car, park the bus, or what have you.
The president of the United States dreamed way back in 2007 and 2008 that fossil fuels would be close to being obsolete by now.
And as a result of that, millions and millions of new jobs would be created as a result.
How's that working out?
So anyway, the way I see this is at the end of the day, exhausted, freezing, or as it may turn out, sweaty and starving liberal Democrats can thank their Apple Watch for tracking their progress in eliminating the exceeding of their carbon footprint.
Because progress, progress, don't you know?
Progress means doing with less.
Progress means digressing.
Progress means going backwards.
Progress means being less, doing less, using less, being less, becoming one with nature.
Progress means saving the planet one carbon footprint and Apple Watch at a time.
By the way, folks, if you think I'm being a little facetious here, I want to remind you that it was just last week that I informed you that Apple had been granted a patent on a mechanism that would deny you the use of your iPhone unless you daily and routinely filled out the information in their health app.
Whatever it is, your calories consumed, the steps taken, whatever your blood sugar, whatever it is, if you don't use the health app, and if you don't properly fill it out every day, your phone would cease to function.
They were granted a patent on that.
I said, that's pretty encompassing.
So my suggestions here, I mean, they fit right in with this.
If you're in the process of destroying the planet with your carbon footprint, the Apple Watch will warn you about it and make you take whatever appropriate action to cease your polluting activity.
I could make the order.
I'm only trying to help.
It's my intentions here that you should judge.
All right, back to the phones.
This is Bobby, Bunker Hill, Indiana.
I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Yes.
Hello, Rush.
It's good to speak to you again.
Thank you.
I want to tell you, I've thought about this for a long time.
I am so happy that you have finally granted yourself permission to enjoy life.
I'm glad to hear it.
We miss you when you're gone, but we know you need that time off to recharge your batteries too, and I'm glad you get to do it.
Well, thank you.
Thank you very much.
What is that in reference to, Bobby?
I'm sorry, I didn't hear that.
What are you referring to when you say you're glad I'm finally deciding to enjoy life?
I've always tried to do that.
Well, I've listened to you for years and years.
And I know for a long time you didn't take vacations.
You didn't take days off.
Oh, yeah.
And you do that now, and you need that.
Right.
They had to force me out of here.
That's exactly right.
That's exactly right.
But you enjoy yourself now.
And I think a lot of that has to do with Catherine, too.
No, there's no question.
Yes, you've taken time now to enjoy life.
I'm glad to hear that.
Absolutely.
No doubt about this.
And I promise my son, if I got to talk to you ever again, I would let you know we do have a dog named Sugar, a cat named Rush, which is, he put them together, Sugar Rush, and two other cats named Liberty and Reagan.
And he said, Rush must be a Republican.
He doesn't cover anything up.
See, I told you folks that people named their animals after me.
And he loves your books.
And by the way, he's going to be 39 in August, but he loves your books.
Well, one person at a time, whoever, that's great.
That's great.
What he called about Rush was, you had a call earlier from Indiana, and I have a different take.
I think there is going to be some kickback to the Democrat Party on this and their mouth organ, the so-called press, because I know a couple of lifelong Democrats.
Their entire family voted Democrat.
Never, ever would have voted for God himself if it was a Republican.
One of which is my uncle.
And he, a couple of months ago, said he would never vote for them again.
He, of course, won't vote for Republican, but he'll go independent or something.
And the lady, she not only says she's not doing that anymore, but she's actually given money to the Republican Party, and they can't understand why won't the Republicans do something.
And my take on this issue with them going after the gay thing in Indiana, I think it's like everything else.
The Democrats are so smug, so full of themselves.
I think they're the smartest people around.
They never remember anything.
They have a very short memory span.
We can think back to the Wellstone Memorial.
We can think back to there was an election held and they had their little thing afterwards where they asked people questions and they couldn't believe that they actually thought the way they did about certain things.
And so then they decided, well, maybe we should try to reach out to them, which they kind of conned a few people for a little bit.
Yeah, but it's always temporary.
It never lasts.
So you think the caller who said this Indiana incident is going to end up being a tipping point?
Do you think that he's got a point?
Because you're running into Democrats in Indiana who are upset by what other Democrats are doing?
Is that what you're saying?
Well, I think the party in general and their mouth organ to press because, like I said, the Wellstone Memorial, that really came back to bits and big.
And it's like everything else.
They keep going to the so-called health care plan.
People are angry about that.
They're furious with what they're doing.
Yeah, but here's my problem, Bobby.
Here's my problem with it.
They're not losing.
Obama, look, the Democrats, honestly, appraising, they lost the midterm elections in 2010 and 2014.
It has not stopped them.
It hasn't stopped Obama.
I mean, they're not stopping.
Their mission hasn't been arrested.
I don't care.
You're probably right that more people are now aware of what they're doing and who they are and what their real agenda is, but it's not stopping them because they don't care about public opinion, except when it supports them.
When public opinion does not support them, they say, screw it.
And they find ways to try to punish people who disagree with them.
But they're not moved by it.
They're not changed by public opinion.
That's why I made mention earlier today.
There's a Bloomberg News column written by a well-known lefty named Dave Weigel.
And he's looked at some Marist university polling data about this situation in Indiana.
And it is horrible for the Democrats.
Now, your point about the Democrats being smug and arrogant is right on the money.
They believe, if they really do, that they are the majority thinking, the majority opinion in this country.
Therefore, when this Indiana thing comes up and the pizzeria refuses to serve pizza, cater pizza for a gay wedding, they really believe 80% of the country hates the pizzeria.
When in fact, the polling data shows that nearly 55 to 60% of the country agrees with the pizzeria.
Now, whatever the number is, the Democrats are not in the majority.
And he was writing a column to warn them that they're on the wrong side of not only history, but politics on this whole thing in Indiana as it relates to religious freedom restoration acts, that those bills, those pieces of legislation, be they federal or state, are supported by a majority of Americans.
And that Christians are not hated universally in America.
Hell, 80% of the people in this country say they're Christian.
Stop and think of that for a minute.
80% of the people in this country say they're Christian.
Would you say that Christians are losing ground?
There's no question they are.
And yet they're 80% of the admitted population?
The Democrats are not losing anything here.
That's the point, because there's no pushback against them.
Here's the thing is.
The thing is that the Democrats believe their own press, which is fine and nanny.
The problem is the Republicans believe the Democrats press too.
And that's how the Democrats end up thinking they are the majority of everything here.
The media is a big factor in that, as we've discussed, and everybody knows.
But Dave Weigel was trying to remind them, you guys, you're not on the majority side of this in any way, no matter how.
Even the majority of Democrats oppose what the leftist activists in Indiana are doing.
It was like 62, 32 Democrats, or maybe it was 50, some odd, 40, some odd Democrat side.
But even a majority of Democrats are uncomfortable.
And that's what Bobby was saying in our last call from Indiana.
The question is whether or not it's a tipping point.
And as I say, you never know something's a tipping point until long after the fact.
It's like you can't connect the dots until whatever you're connecting has happened.
You can't connect the dots in the future.
You can only connect them with things that you know have happened.
And that is when you are able to learn from connecting the dots.
But in the future, you're hard to predict.
So you just keep fighting for what you believe in.
That's why you never give up.
Because on any given day, it's impossible to know, especially in the midst of a culture war like we're having.
You can't, like we're having, you can't know day to day if you're winning it or losing it.
You might think you're going one way or the other, but you don't know for sure.
You won't know for quite a while.
Here is Jessica in Blair, Nebraska, and she is 12 years old.
This is Easter Monday, so some young kids out of school today, and they happen to be listening.
Great day for that.
Jessica, welcome.
It's great to have you with us on the program today.
Thank you.
It's great to be here, Mr. Limbaugh.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
I can imagine that it is.
It's a big thrill.
Yeah.
Me too.
I read all the Rush Revere books, and thank you for writing them.
I love them.
Well, thank you for reading them.
It makes me so happy.
And it sounds like you like them to boot, which is an added bonus for me.
Yeah, my favorite one is the one about the America Revolution, American Revolution, because I read it before we learned about it in history class.
And when we learned about it in history class, I already knew most of the stuff about it.
Let me ask you a question about that, because that's excellent.
Was what you were, and I'm not trying to cause any trouble here.
I'm just curious.
Okay.
There's no wrong answer.
So don't be worried.
Was what you were taught about what was in the book pretty close to what was in the book?
Yes.
Well, that's great, too.
That's great to hear, too.
You know, Jessica, I was watching television the other night, and some cable channel has got a special coming on George Washington and the people who were his spies, the people that did his.
It's called Turn.
Yeah.
And it started, yeah, and it looks pretty good.
But here's the thing.
As I was watching, it was a 30-second promo for the upcoming show.
And it did such a great job of illustrating what these people literally went through, which is what we try to do in the books for people your age.
But it just, it hit me again how important all this is.
These were real people who did extraordinarily brave things.
And they faced deceit.
They faced traitors.
They faced people trying to undermine them, just as we do today.
And what they achieved, what they overcame, the obstacles and the hardships, but the genius and the brilliance they possessed to put this country together.
I just, the older I get, Jessica, and I hope this happens to you too, the more in awe I become of the people that I'm writing about in these books that you're learning about, because it's just, when you stop and think about it, it is overwhelming.
It's mind-boggling what they, George Washington, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, all of these, what they were able to overcome and what they built, and to have it so unappreciated today and in some cases not even properly taught is just a crying shame is what it is.
And the fact that you are reading these books and experiencing this and appreciating it, man, it makes me feel so good that you're able to do that call and tell me about it.
Yeah, my dad taught me everything I know about history and I love it so much.
You really do?
You love history?
Yeah.
My favorite thing to learn about is the Civil War and the Revolutionary War.
Yeah, I bet I, because the Revolutionary War, what does that mean to you when you, I mean, it's one of your favorite things.
Why?
Because I think it explains so much why they were fighting, because they were fighting for their freedom because they wanted to be independent and not under British control.
Right, exactly.
And here today, people born in America today, their freedom are born with it.
They don't have to fight for it, they don't think.
They don't have to do anything.
It's just there.
And yet what people like me are trying to do is warn everybody that you're giving away your freedom little by little every day.
And it's the natural tendency of government to want to take it away from people.
And it's happening.
And it's just great that you have the maturity and the curiosity to want to learn about it at your age.
A Civil War, the same thing?
I guess the two wars have some things in common there.
But what about the Civil War do you like?
My dad, there was a movie about the Battle of Gettysburg, and it showed how they had, like, when they were going up, I think it was, I don't remember what the hill was called, but the South was coming up the hill.
Right.
And they were screaming and charging when the and there was a barricade at the end where the North built rocks up and that was like the end of the line.
So they couldn't let them pass there or else they would go up to the Capitol.
You will probably go to Gettysburg at some point in your life.
And having read about it and knowing what happened there, I predict you, when you actually end up in Gettysburg, it's in Pennsylvania, when you get there, having read about it and been interested in it, when you're actually there, you will be able to use your imagination and actually put yourself in the middle of it.
You'll be standing, Jessica.
You'll be standing right there where all of this that fascinates you happened.
It was real.
It was real.
And it's so great that you're getting into it at your age and learning it and appreciating it.
I wish everybody could because it would really enhance people's appreciation for this country.
Seminary Ridge and Pickett's Charge.
Yeah.
What you're talking about there.
So anyway, you have all three books, is that right?
Yes.
Well, do you have the audio versions, Jessica?
Do you happen to have the C D's of me reading the book?
I have the first one, the Pilgrim one.
Well, I'm going to send you some stuff.
We're just going to put together a little, all a goody package.
Okay.
By the way, do you have an iPad?
My mom does.
No, no, no.
Do you have an iPad?
No.
Would your mom care if you had an iPad?
I don't think so.
Well, I'll tell you what, here's what to do.
I'm going to put you on hold so we get your address.
Okay.
And you ask your mom or dad if I can send you an iPad mini, not a big mini.
And if they say no, that's fine.
We won't.
I won't do it without their permission.
Okay.
Okay.
And you tell Mr. Snerdley while you're talking to him here in just a second what your parents say about that.
All right.
But Jessica, thank you so much for calling.
Thank you.
You're great.
And don't hang up.
Mr. Snerdley, be the next pleasant voice that you hear.
Be right back.
Fort Wayne, Indiana, this is Mark.
And great to have you, sir, on the EIB Network.
Hello.
Thank you, my Rushy Megadittos from the City of Churches and the falsely accused bigoted state of Indiana.
Yes, I have been to Fort Wayne.
Yes, was it Matt Anthony Golf Tour?
You have a great memory.
Way, way, many moons ago.
Yes, it was.
Exactly right.
Well, I just wanted to call just a few things to thank you because, you know, listening for 23 years and enjoying the program every time I could.
You know, obviously there's times I can't get near a radio where I couldn't use the phone as a radio.
But, you know, I love the program.
And last year I bought six cases of tea.
And without a doubt, that is the best tea I've ever tasted.
Well, thank you.
And my kids and everybody, I gave them away as gifts.
And, you know, unfortunately, it didn't probably last even to New Year's.
Yeah, I understand that.
It's good stuff.
Oh, it is fabulous.
And I bought the three children's books for my grandkids.
Holy smokes.
And they're just amazing.
The reason for my call is because it was about 10 days ago, roughly, that I'd spoken to you.
It was about the Ted Cruz buying Obamacare.
But I got on 24-7.
I said, forget it.
I'm just buying it.
And I am so impressed with the content and quality.
There's so much there.
And, you know, I could just kick myself for not being a member much, much sooner.
You know, I really appreciate you saying this.
You know, I don't talk about this stuff nearly enough.
I don't talk about this stuff nearly enough.
But it is encyclopedic.
Well, we have on our website, rush24-7, rushlimbaugh.com.
It really, really is.
Not just the daily content of this program, but all the support material.
And I'm so happy you mentioned it because I don't talk about it enough.
I'm kind of queasy about doing that, actually.
So I really appreciate, Mark, you giving that testimonial, if you will.
Because we're all very proud of it.
So much content on that website.
And I'm ecstatic to hear you heard it and see it that way.
Thanks so much.
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That's it, my friends.
Another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence is over.
Never finished.
Just finished and over with for today, but we'll be back tomorrow.
Revved and ready to go again.
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