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April 17, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 17, 2015, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Did I not tell you, did I not tell you that Mrs. Clint is boring?
You see the headlines today?
Hillary flies home coach carries on luggage.
That's exciting.
You're telling me that's fun?
It's Friday, folks.
Let's show you what fun is.
Hang in there.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
What do you mean if I did that?
If I flew coach and carried my own bags, that would be something.
Yeah, maybe it would.
Come to think of it, maybe it would.
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So there's Obama right now.
He's got a joint press conference going with the Prime Minister of Italy, which reminds me, I have found an Italian television mini-series called 1992.
And it is subtitled in English.
It's a genuine Italian miniseries, 1992, and it's about Italy post-80s, when the 80s were a robust, just roaring economy.
And then 1992, Italy is in a depression.
The economy is slowing down.
And it's about politics.
It's about the economy, corruption, all kinds of things.
I haven't had a chance to watch a whole lot of episodes of it, but I have so far.
I'm intrigued by it.
1992.
I don't know how to tell you to get it, folks, because I frankly don't know how I got it.
And if I did know how I got it, I wouldn't tell you here how I got it.
But I'm sure if you Wikipedia it, you'll find what I'm talking about.
Okay, Britt McHenry, ESPN Sideline Infobabe.
I want you to listen to this audio sound.
Here's what happened.
She was somewhere and her car was towed and she had to go pick it up from the towing company.
And the towing company person with whom she had to interact and pay in order to get her car back was another woman.
Britt McHenry is a journalist at ESPN, a sideline.
You know, I must be honest.
I haven't watched ESPN since the Super Bowl.
Well, it's longer than that.
I haven't watched ESPN since the last time they had an NFL game, which might be regular season.
So I frankly don't know who this is other than this one encounter.
And I'm telling you, she is an uppity elitist.
And she proves an old adage of mine, something that I have maintained on this program since, well, even before I started hosting the program.
And it is that women are meaner to other women than men could ever hope to be.
And I'm not denying that some men mistreat women.
But man, oh man, when women, girl on girl, woman on women, you don't want to get in the middle of it.
The jealousy, you know, you guys never see it, but I'll give you an example.
Let's say you're in the mall.
Well, no, I can't use that because I frankly don't know what happens there anymore.
Let's say you're walking down the street And you're with your well, okay, let's say you're flying coach.
You're flying coach, and you are seated next to your spouse.
You're a guy.
You're seated next to your wife or your girlfriend.
And across the aisle, boarding the plane after you do.
So you see this woman board the plane is this woman that you think is pretty attractive.
So you look at her.
Your wife's sitting next to you.
The woman finds her row, finds her seat, sits down.
What you don't know, because you're too busy ogling the woman, is that your wife is shooting her daggers.
Your wife is looking at her with intense resentment, envy, or hatred, or a combination of the three.
Who does she think she is?
She can't wear that.
She thinks she can get away with worrying this.
She doesn't say a word, doesn't say a word, and discovers if you're looking at her, then there's going to be hell to pay.
But I mean, there's no, oh, wow, look at that dress.
She looks so good in that dress.
No.
Who does she think she is looking like that, getting on this airplane?
I know this happens.
You can't deny it.
Anyway, so that's just a brief little setup.
Britt McHenry, I guess, I don't know.
Do you know who she is?
Brian, you're an ESPN officially now.
You don't either.
So none of you know who this woman is.
Until yesterday, last night, I had no idea who she was either.
She's a brat.
She is spoiled.
She's mean.
She's rude.
She is class conscious.
She's just, she's a reprobate.
So here is the encounter.
It was caught by live leak.
There was a security camera when she went to pick up her car.
And she was obviously anger.
Her angrier car had been towed.
And this, I hope you're able to hear all this.
You probably will.
I needed close captioning when I watched it to be able to understand what she was saying.
But you people who here normally probably shouldn't have much trouble here.
I'm in the news, sweetheart.
I will do this place.
That's why I have a degree like this.
Makes my skin calling me.
Yep, that's all you care about.
She's taking people's money with no education.
No skill set.
Just walk there.
Do you feel good about your job?
So I could be a college dropout and do the same thing.
Whack about my brain and you don't?
Maybe if I was listening to the speaker with Harmony Hunt.
Oh, like yours, but they look so stunning because I'm on television and your eyes trailer coming out of the night.
Lose some weight, maybe Earl.
Okay, were you able to hear all that?
Do I need all right?
Let me run the transcript of what she says.
We never see the woman she's talking to.
It's a security camera looking down at the counter and all you see is the customer.
And early on in this, Britt McHenry of ESPN learns that she's on video and it doesn't deter her at all.
Probably excited because she's on TV again.
So she says, I'm in the news, sweetheart.
I will blank blank, F-bomb, sue this place.
That's why I have a degree.
That's right.
I wouldn't work in a scumbag place like this.
Makes my skin crawl even being here.
Yep, that's all you care about, taking people's money.
No education, no skill set.
Just wanted to clarify that.
You feel good about your job.
So I could be a college dropout and do the same thing.
Why?
Because I have a brain and you don't.
Maybe if I was missing some teeth, they'd hire me here, huh?
Oh, like yours, because they look so stunning.
Because I'm on television and you're right.
You're in a blank-blank F-bomb trailer, honey.
Have a nice day.
Lose some weight, baby girl.
Now, the woman collecting the fine, paying the money from Britt McHenry, was very restrained.
She treated the customer accordingly, said, right, yeah, did not rise to debate.
It turns out that Britt McHenry has been suspended for a week.
Just a week.
Yeah, a whole big week.
So they've issued a statement, ESPN, purporting to be her apology.
In an intense and stressful moment, I allowed my emotions to get the best of me.
And I said some insulting and regrettable things.
As frustrated as I was, I should always choose to be respectful and take the high road.
I am so sorry for my actions, and I will learn from this mistake.
Shortly after the apology was issued, ESPN released a statement saying McHenry been suspended for a week.
And honest to God, folks, I have read several accounts of this in various sports and drive-by media, and damned people aren't making excuses for her.
Some people, not everybody, but some people are making excuses for her.
Well, you know, she might have been stressed out.
It's not the easiest thing in the world to have to go pick up your car after it's been towed.
I can see how somebody would be stressed out.
It's just, it's amazing.
This woman has no manners whatsoever, doesn't respect anybody, is a total egomaniac.
Let me just ask you, conservative or liberal?
Let's play it again Friday and see what people think.
Britt McHenry, ESPN, conservative or liberal?
I'm in the news, sweetheart.
I will do this fight.
That's why I have a debris that you work with somewhere.
You makes me calling him.
Yep, that's all you can do.
She's taking people's money with no education, no skill set.
Just fall for her.
Do you feel good about your job?
So I could be a college dropout and do the same thing.
Why could I have a brain and you don't?
Maybe if I was listening to the speaker with Army Home.
Oh, like yours, but they look so stunning because I'm on television and you're on a trailer coming out of the night.
Lose some weight, idiot.
What she needs to do is go back to wherever this tow place is and find that woman and personally apologize to her, whether there are cameras there or not.
And I don't know if that's even occurred to her.
But this public apology doesn't cut it.
It doesn't mean anything.
I'm going to learn from it.
You should know by now that's not how you treat people.
You know, my dad, my dad told me something I've never forgotten.
He said, you can always know.
You can know a person's character by watching how he treats people who can't do anything for him.
Like flight attendants or anybody.
You can tell somebody's character right off the bat by how they treat people who can't do anything for them.
Well, in this, you want me to mention Schumer.
I just know you, you're so New York-centric, you can't wait till I mention Schumer.
Okay, so Schumer, I'll do it.
Schumer called a flight attendant a B.I. Itch under his breath.
There, happy.
Well, I will do the whole story, but Schumer gets it on the shuttle from LaGuardia down to Reagan National.
And he's on there with Kirsten Gillibrand.
And he's on the cell phone.
And they can't push back until he gets off the phone.
It's regs, and he won't get off the phone.
They're asking him to get off the phone.
He says, no, I'm not getting off the phone.
I'm busy.
And she says, the flight attendant says, you've got to get off the phone, regs or regs.
And he says, I know I can stay on this phone until you close the door.
She says, no.
We cannot push back until you get off the phone.
So he gets off the phone, and under his breath, but loud enough to be heard by people, he shouted, well, he said, B.I. Itch.
And they pushed back and flew down to Washington and so forth.
Why is that so exciting?
I know, but here you are, right?
I know, I know, right, right, right.
So you, it's the hypocrisy angle for you.
Here comes, he's got big lib always lecturing us.
War on women.
It's conservatives and Republicans.
Remain-spirited to women.
Don't respect them.
Blah, blah, blah.
And then when you see them in action, it's actually those guys who mistreat, disrespect women.
And here's a flight attendant who's a hardworking person.
He can't do anything for Chuck Hugh Schumer except maybe bring him a drink or whatever.
You see how he treats her.
It's the same thing.
It's saying Britt McHenry.
I don't know how Britt McHenry is, 30-some on, late 20s, or what have you.
But the idea that she doesn't yet know how to treat people, why is that?
Why does she now have to learn how to treat why she is there to learn from this?
What there is to learn from this is what it tells us about her, not how this is a learning experience for her.
We've already figured out she is a reprobate.
She has no consideration for people.
But the thing that she needs to do is run around.
She needs to find that woman and apologize to her face to face.
And I don't even know if that kind of thing occurs to her.
But this is, you know, millennial and another, we're told millennials, oh, yeah, we've got to pay attention.
These are the future of America.
Well, we're always going to be able to find examples of bad actors in whatever group of people that we create or segregate or what have you.
But I mean, this is just, how's she got hired?
Well, I can tell you how she got hired, but then they would say, I'm a sexist if I gave you the reason why she got it.
She clearly didn't get hired because she knows how to work with people.
She didn't get hired because she respects people.
She didn't get hired because she has any manners.
And her communication skills are obviously a little lacking here.
Obviously, an elitist.
Obviously, she thinks that she's better than everybody else because she's on TV, right?
I'm on TV.
Lose some white baby girl.
Think I could get your job if I didn't have all of my teeth.
I mean, this is not even the person that towed her car.
This is just the poor woman collecting the money.
This is not even the person that towed her car.
And we still haven't learned why her car was towed.
What happened there?
Who did she not pay?
Or what did she not do?
That resulted.
She parked illegally like Hillary did.
But she's not Hillary.
She can't get away with parking Scooby in a handicap zone.
It's just these people, they preach to us about how they are the best, the most tolerant.
They're the most respectful.
They're this, they're this.
And then you get them in their real environment, and they're just mean-spirited superiorists who look down on everybody, and particularly those who can't do anything for them.
Anyway, suspended for a week.
You know, They've suspended people over there for three weeks for much less than this.
Yes, but she wasn't on duty when this happened.
She wasn't on duty for ESPN.
And as such, Mr. Limbaugh, she wasn't really representing ESPN when this incident happened.
And as such, the punishment will not be as strict as it could have been.
Really?
She's out there bragging.
She's on TV.
That's right, Mr. Limbaugh, but nevertheless, she did not represent her employer when she engaged in this conversation with the fat to the tow truck collection agency.
The woman missing the teeth, the fat woman.
She did not.
And that's how people are making excuses for.
This is like, you know, I've been out of work three weeks.
Are you a high school graduate?
Yeah.
But I need a job training center.
Well, what do you think high school was?
What the hell was a job training?
So where do you go now to learn manners?
I think this woman graduated from journalism school at Northwestern, if I'm not mistaken.
Anyway, have to take a brief time out.
We'll do that.
We'll be right back after this.
Don't go away.
Okay, I remember this incident, but I do not remember her.
But this ESPN reporter, he's 28, by the way.
Britt McHenry is 28.
She was at the center of a controversy last season when the Redskins coach, sorry, when the Redskins coach, Jake Gruden, called her reporting amateur-ish.
So she was involved with something to do with the Redskins that the coach was not appreciative of and called her basically an amateur.
The Sony hack.
Folks, have you seen that WikiLeaks has put everything from the Sony hack up on their website?
They have digitized everything from the Sony hack so that it is now searchable.
Now, I saw that late yesterday afternoon as I was starting to prepare for today's program.
But I didn't search anything.
I didn't go in there and look at anything.
About 9 or 10 o'clock last night, I started getting emails.
Rush, you are all over the Sony hack.
And I said, what?
Yeah, you are.
You're all over the Sony hack.
One of the things that the summary that Wikileaks publishes along with the searchable database, they mentioned that the company, Sony Pictures Entertainment, is practically in bed with the Democrat Party.
And it turns out that I am all over this leak because J.J. Abrams, any number of producers, directors that are participating with the Democrats in fundraising are using my name in their fundraising emails and misquotes of supposed insults that I have come out with over the years and so forth.
Who would have thought that I would have been involved in this hack?
Let me put this in context.
This behavior by this Britt McHenry woman of ESPN, who is nothing more than a spoiled Bratt.
Well, maybe more than that, but spoiled Bratt encompasses this.
Probably a diva.
Well, no doubt, a diva.
This is why I spent some time on Monday congratulating Jordan Spieth, young man that won the Masters, and the way he comported himself in victory and the way his character and everything.
It stood out.
Here's a young man, 21 years old, seven years younger than this woman.
Arguably, you would say not nearly as mature.
I mean, 28 versus 21 could be close, but there's not a contest, as it turns out.
Total class, total dignity, humility, everything that you would want in a champion.
Obviously, raised well, well-mannered, respectful of people.
And that's why I mentioned it, because it stood out.
Everybody talks about our culture getting coarser and coarser.
And I think that's true from generation to generation.
There's nothing new.
No generation's worse than another.
The difference is how much attention reprobates get from generation to generation vis-a-vis media.
The media attention focusing on something can make everybody think that it's worse than it's ever been when it's actually the same.
I mean, she's not the first spoiled brat to come along and get a job on TV.
She won't be the last.
And Jordan Speeth is not the first well-mannered, dignified, humble guy to win the masters to come along.
But the contrast, this is why I called attention to him.
Because it is such a pleasant difference from the normal portrayal and reporting of behavior in young generations that we get from today's media.
It's Open Line Friday.
Always try to take a call in the first hour.
That seldom happens Monday through Thursday.
And I'm going to start with Lynn in Hotchkiss, Colorado.
I'm glad you called, and it's great to have you here.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, you are wonderful.
I just want to say, real quick, this British, I first, my husband and I are watching TV and we see her picture first.
And I said, what a pretty woman.
Look at that woman.
And then I heard what she said.
And sad and ugly.
Ugly, ugly, and sad.
And my mommy used to say, pretty is as pretty does.
She is ugly, ugly.
But I got to disagree with you about the lady on the plane with her husband and sending the daggers because she sees a pretty woman.
And when I see somebody pretty, my husband and I are together, he, of course, will see her first, probably.
But if I see somebody, I'll say that that woman is gorgeous.
So not all women are sending daggers to pretty women.
Okay.
Granted, granted, I might have made what some would call a hasty generalization.
Yes.
Okay.
Yes.
And I will be glad to reign that back in and put it.
But let me say, my real point there was that the intensity, when you find a woman who did not look, you're very rare.
You let your husband look at a gorgeous woman and tell you.
Well.
Okay.
And then you begin to discuss it.
And then he starts getting specific about why he thinks she's gorgeous and you still enjoy it.
I'm telling you, you're rare.
No, he's smart.
He wouldn't sit there and, you know, I think.
Haha.
So you do have a tipping point.
You do have a threshold on this, though.
Yeah, we've been married for 30 years.
So we, you know, it's not, it's okay.
But I.
I get it.
I'm just, I'm, my, my point is that it is women are the, are the harshest critics of other women, not men.
I agree.
I agree.
But one other thing, too, if they could punish that Britt McHenry some way to make her work in that gal's job for, you know, about a month, let her walk in her shoes.
ESPN can't do that.
But I what that's an interesting question.
Now, that ESPN could not make that happen.
I don't, well, maybe they could.
I don't know.
What do you think is an appropriate punishment, if any?
Do you think she should be punished or is she being punished enough by being called out nationally here?
You know what?
She'll never be happy.
She's going to be punished.
Even if she becomes rich and famous in her heart, she's sad.
She's a sad person and she doesn't know unless she changes.
What is she sad and unhappy about?
She doesn't have any love.
When you see somebody who's in a lower socioeconomic position and she's missing teeth or she has this job, you know, my heart goes out to somebody like that.
What?
I just didn't see.
Why insult somebody?
We're taught to love the underclasses.
We're taught to sympathize for them.
They're victims of Republicans, after all.
Yes, yes, yes.
No, it's so maybe all this will change maybe when Brit goes through this.
And I do would, I think she should lose her job.
That's just so sad, what she did and said to that poor woman.
Well, here's the thing.
This is the question that ESPN has to ask.
And by the way, ESPN is not actually a trailblazer in hiring quality, dignified, on-and-off air people, let's be honest about it.
But the thing they have to ask, is this who she really is?
Was that the real woman when she was picking up her car at the tow place?
Or is the real Brit, the nice, loving, adorable, whatever she is on the sidelines, reporting what male athletes are doing during competition, which is the real one.
But the punishment, there's going to be a lot of people going back and forth on whether the punishment is sufficient.
One week being off the air, that's going to be torture.
You know, some people live to be on TV.
It's the only thing they want to do.
That, by the way, is a characteristic that is, I think, unique to this and the previous generation.
Because there's so much media.
There's so many.
When I was growing up, if you wanted to be on TV, there were three places to go.
ABC, CBS, and I'm talking about nationally, your local station or whatever.
If you wanted to be on TV and you want to do journalism, you had three places to go.
If you wanted to be on TV, be an actor, of course, that was a little bit broader universe, but still a very, very small number of jobs overall.
But now, anybody with a hobby has a TV network along with it.
So it's a little easier to get on TV these days.
And it's not as big a deal.
For example, being the nightly news anchor at ABC or CBS or NBC is not nearly the big deal it used to be when they were the only three.
And there's another factor.
By the time 6.30 comes around, most everybody already knows what is being reported at 6.30.
There's nothing to learn at 6.30.
So the whole aura of the anchor and mystique and only three jobs, that's just out the window now.
As such, a consequence, more and more people have just give anything to be on TV.
And this woman's obviously one of them.
I mean, here she is to pick up her car for being towed.
And one of the first things that she wants to tell somebody that she thinks is beneath her is that she's on TV.
I'm not using myself in comparison because it isn't fair.
I'm a learned, quality class epitome of morality and virtue kind of guy.
But I'm also much older and have more life experience.
I can tell you even that the last thing I would ever do at any time, I've never done it, was to go up to somebody anywhere for any reason.
Hi, I'm on radio and you're not.
And therefore, you're nothing.
Never even would occur to me.
And probably not the most, but it did.
It did to her.
Look, there's other stuff out there in the news, folks, and we're going to take a break here.
We'll come back.
If you want to weigh in on this, feel free, but I'm going to start opening it up to the other items in the news that I found interesting today.
So we'll come back, get started with all that after this.
Oceanside, California, beautiful place.
And Lori.
Lori, great to have you on Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
Hey, get up from someone who doesn't matter.
What do you mean, someone who doesn't matter?
Oh, I'm being silly.
I just was, it just struck a huge note with me.
I didn't help both of us, but my dad just died a couple weeks ago.
But one of the lessons that he taught me growing up, he was a marketing director for a very, one of America's largest savings and loans.
And so we would go to gatherings where lots of famous people would be there.
And when I would be near my dad, they would fawn over me and tell me how beautiful I was.
But when I would separate from them, if they hadn't met me yet, you know, I would blend in with the wallpaper.
And one of the things I quickly learned was to try to separate from my father and see who would be approachable and nice to me before.
And it was quite telling, and it was a lesson that I learned.
And he would take me aside actually before this happened.
He goes, don't let this get to your head.
You know, it's just, it's just malarkey.
And it really helped me in my life pay attention to everyone and not treat anyone with disrespect.
Yeah, so your father attempted to inculcate you with manners and integrity and so forth.
You know, it really is a powerful statement, I think.
And it's really spot on.
You can tell everything you want to know about somebody by watching how they treat people who can't do anything for them.
Well, using that, I mean, we learn quite a bit here about Britt McHenry.
But I've learned a lot of things about life over the course of living it, and I had a great foundation in terms of the way I was raised.
And I know that everybody, this is just human nature.
Everybody, this is actually kind of funny in its own way.
Everybody is interested or obsessed somewhere along that scale.
Everybody is interested, cares a little, cares a lot, or is obsessed about what other people think of them.
And so in a situation like you described, you go someplace with a lot of people, your dad takes you, and when he's with you and you're with him, people treat you with respect and nice.
When you separate, you find out who the nice people are and so forth.
The mistake people make in this circumstance, or in most circumstances, the individual thinks that everybody else has it all together and is very confident and has no doubts about anything and has time to start judging other people when in fact everybody's just like you.
They're all thinking about themselves.
Everybody in a room is asking themselves what other people think of them.
And if you learn that, It can take you out of this defensive, inferior place that some people end up being.
And you have a much better way of relating to people when you realize everybody's self-focused.
Everybody's self-conscious.
Everybody in the room is wondering what everybody else thinks of them.
But some people don't portray that or betray that.
So you think they've got their stuff together and you let them judge you.
When they aren't judging you, you are imagining what they're thinking of you.
And then you start acting accordingly.
And you're making it all up.
You're telling yourself a story while they're doing more than likely the same thing.
Now, grab audio soundbite number 23, Friday.
We have a substitute broadcast engineer here today, Friday, is with us today.
Mr. Mamon is out antiquing again.
Well, his wife is antiquing and he's with her.
I want you to hear if things don't change in just a few short years, who and what Britt McHenry is going to become.
I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic and we should stand up and say, we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration.
That's Hillary Clinton, of course, back on April 28th of 2003, when people were voted for the use of force authorization in Iraq and then trying to act like she never did and was dissenting against the war and people were calling her hypocritical.
And so she lashed out.
It was the annual Jefferson Jackson Bailey dinner in Hartford, Connecticut.
Folks, this is an important thing that happened yesterday.
The Supreme Court, for like the, I don't know, the fifth or sixth time now, is temporarily halting the enforcement of Obamacare's contraception mandate against several Catholic organizations in Pennsylvania.
The ruling was issued actually late Wednesday.
Justice Samuel Alito said the mandate is recalled pending a response from the federal government.
Government officials have until Monday to brief the court.
The Supreme Court has already issued four rulings instructing the government to exempt certain companies or organizations with a religious background, like arts and crafts, retailer, hobby lobby, from the contraception mandate rule.
The court has consistently found every time that the case has come before them, a case, they have consistently found for the freedom of religion over a government mandate.
And the government keeps coming back.
The government refuses to accept these rulings, and they keep challenging and they keep trying to force religious organizations to accept the contraception mandate in Obamacare.
So they're 0 for 5 here.
And it's one of these things when you hear about it, you say, hallelujah.
It's one of those small pockets, small areas, where the regime is being beaten back on a consistent basis.
Now, as I say, the regime keeps coming back.
They keep challenging this, but they keep losing.
But see, that doesn't matter.
The ultimate word of the court is irrelevant to them.
They're just going to keep pushing and pushing because this is one of the undisclosed primary purposes of Obamacare is to tear apart all of the religion-based, as many of the religion-based foundations that hold our culture and society together.
Because there is a deep resentment.
There is a deep resent.
There's a deep hatred for religious people, particularly Christian religious people, by the left in this country.
And there's been an all-out assault, and they thought they'd really score points here.
Obamacare?
Health care for all Americans.
Affordable health care for all Americans.
And then they promised all this that there wouldn't be any federal funding of an abortion.
There wouldn't be any demands that people of religious objections be made to pay for anything to do with abortion.
They lied to their teeth.
And the court keeps beating them back.
This is five times now.
We'll be back after this.
Don't go away.
Yeah, I can't even figure out what it is.
I'm looking at a picture of a Michelle Obama sponsored or required lunch at a public school in a daily caller story or I don't know what it is.
I can't tell you what the lunch is.
It looks like a one-week-old gray piece of fish with the scales still on it and some brown rice.
It's yucko.
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