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April 17, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 17, 2015, Friday, Hour #3
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Man, this is a good one.
I mean, they're all good.
Now and then, you light one that's special.
And I just lit one that's special.
You know, I just found out today Snerdley's still smoking cigars.
I had no idea.
And you know why I had no idea?
Snerdley doesn't smoke here.
And you know why?
It's the stupidest thing I ever heard of is why that's.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
But I'm afraid if I give you the stupid reason why they will hear about it.
See, I have a perfect ventilation system here like I do everywhere.
Some people invest their money in condoms.
I invest mine in being able to smoke cigars in any room I want with nobody outside the room knowing.
It's amazing how few places you can smoke anymore.
These are cigars, by the way.
Not filthy yucko poisoned with chemical cigarettes.
These are fine, fine works of art hand-rolled.
And, you know, my theory is that tobacco purchasers deserve medals.
People that buy tobacco and use tobacco products deserve everybody's thanks because the tax revenue from that product is funding health care programs for children.
And yet smokers are derided and they're ripped and they're impugned and they're criticized.
They are shunned.
They are opposed.
They are made to huddle outside like masses waiting to get into the country.
Well, wait, people don't wait to get back like it used to be in the early 1900s.
Instead, people that buy tobacco products ought to be given thanks.
Anyway, greetings and welcome back, Rushland Ball.
Open line Friday.
One big, exciting broadcast hour to go.
Telephone number 800-282-2882 and the email address lrushmo at eibnet.com.
Well, here's the official account from Jay Homnick on Hillary Clinton and the double lie.
Hillary, it turns out, was not really named for Sir Edmund Hillary, but her office assures us she thought she was.
It was her mother that lied to her about it.
Yep, she threw her mother under the bus.
Except that she adds a word of understanding, a sense that her mother had good intentions.
Why, that wonderful Hillary.
She forgives a lying sack that was her old mother.
You got to love it.
Here's the synopsis to bring latecomers up to snuff.
Back in 1995, then the first lady was visiting New Zealand and met the great adventurer Sir Edmund Hillary, then 75 years old.
Naturally, her true excitement expressed itself in a lie.
She told him that her mother had named her after Sir Edmund in admiration for his climbing Mount Everest.
It didn't take long for researchers to discover that Hillary Rodham was born in 1947 and Sir Edmund didn't make it up the hill until 1953.
So this quickly became a syncdoch for all of her other fabrications and obfuscations and tergiversations.
How big a liar do you have to be to lie about your own name?
Well, later, she prudently left this gem out of her autobiography.
She didn't put it in her autobiography.
But then you know what happened?
Bill put it in his.
Honestly, she had been called on the carpet.
She had been called out as a liar.
She then blamed her mother, but she left it out of her autobiography.
But Bill screwed up and told the story in his.
So now it's time to lie about the lie.
Hillary's office announces that her mother told her this little white lie, but she did it in the hopes of encouraging her to scale great heights in her own life.
The New York Times duly passes on the word, although the reporter is struggling desperately to keep his tongue from lodging in his cheek.
And as Jay Homnick writes, I mean, you have to stand back and admire the beauty.
To lie is easy enough.
You say something about a past event guided by convenience rather than accuracy.
But then what happens if you get caught?
Well, some hardy blogger looked it up, wrote it up, and the jig seems to be well up.
But here is where the men are told from the boys.
A Republican wuss will own up, fess up, and pack up, and leave.
But not a Clinton.
No way.
A Clinton will keep it up.
More than that, will dress it up.
You see, that's the fun part, where you tell a lie about why you lied that garners even more sympathy than the original lie got.
The second lie makes us feel bad that they had the lie the first time.
That's it in a nutshell.
So Mrs. Clinton tells Sir Edmund that she was named after him.
What a beautiful thing.
Oh, man, what a wonderful thing.
Except it couldn't be because she was born six years, seven years before he climbed the mountain.
So when a blogger found this out, Mrs. Clinton was then left to say, well, I know.
My mother lied to me.
My mother lied to me in the hopes that I would be inspired to climb my own heights.
And so two lies actually became an accredited, applauded attempt at motivation.
And this is why in the 90s, the media was filled with story after story, marveling how well and how good the Clintons are at lying.
Okay, back to the phones.
Open line Friday, and I haven't taken enough today.
So we're going to try to catch up a little bit.
Start with Chuck in Colorado Springs.
Glad you waited, Chuck.
Hello.
Thank you so much, Rush, and I really do appreciate Bo letting me get on the air with you.
We're out here in the middle of the springtime in the Rockies where we're recovering from a snowstorm, but the sun came out when Bo put me on the line with you, so kind of a good sign.
If there's justice in a little Hillary Lottabottom Clinton, we'd be living in a van down by the river.
Hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it.
You have to slow down, or I'm just going to be guessing at what you're saying.
Okay, I said that if there was justice in Hillary Lottabottom Clinton's life, she'd be living in a van down by the river instead of driving around in that van.
But what I called to tell you about today, Rush, was you had mentioned that there's this jealousy that goes on among good-looking women when you're with your wife and everything.
About 35 years ago, I had occasion to be down in the British West Indies in an island called Beckley.
It had a lot of movie stars, Margaret Hemingway and Boss Gag and Bob Dylan there, and a whole lot of hippie trust fund kids and million-dollar yachts.
And so a lot of the women were at this time maybe in their 30s and were good-looking women, but they had that natural look of a baseball cap and no makeup and everything.
And in this resort, they sent a beautiful woman from New York City down to it to take over this one hotel and run it.
And she was a stunning, you know, beautiful woman with makeup and heels and everything, dressed up every day on the island.
Suddenly, every woman on that island had to have their hair done.
They had to have makeup.
They had to be looking good because all of their husbands were lined up in a line, honest to God, to buy her drinks.
There is real jealousy in this.
Wait a second now.
Wait, wait, wait, just a minute.
I've got to make sure I.
So somebody sends a looker to run a hotel in the island where you were.
That's basically it, right?
Stunning-looking woman.
I mean, New York City, first-class, beautiful woman, born in high heels.
What distinguishes New York beauty in a woman as opposed to Chicago beauty or L.A. beauty?
You say New York first-class.
What's that?
I just use that analogy because that's where she was from, because it was that big city look.
Oh!
Well, what's the big city look then?
Well, it was, you know, for her, it was makeup.
She wore dresses, and she wore heels, and she had her hair done.
And now, on this island, everybody, this was hippy land.
And most of the women down there were wearing shorts and no makeup.
You know, they were in their home.
Oh, I see.
So this is 30 years ago.
So we're talking now back in the 1980s.
This was in the 70s, about 35 years ago.
And I was a younger man then.
And this was real hippy land.
Okay, okay, I got it.
I got it.
So what happens is that somebody decides to send this good-looking New York City babe wearing makeup and heels out to run this hotel.
And she just creamed a crop.
And all of the women on the island, because all of their husbands began going to the hotel just to look at this woman, began to style their hair her way, began to dress the way she did.
And he's calling here to confirm a theorem stated by me in the first hour that while men are ogling women that they find attractive, what they don't see is women doing the same thing with much more scrutiny, with much more attention, and in many cases, much more disapproval.
Is that right?
A New York beautiful woman is impeccable.
Everything's right.
That's what New York beautiful woman means.
Impeccable down to the last detail.
As opposed to a Los Angeles beautiful woman, as opposed to a Chicago beautiful woman, as opposed to a Dallas beautiful woman.
Oh, New York has more fashion since you're agreeing with this premise, too?
For crying out loud, everybody in New York wears black for crying out loud.
Black leggings, black, what do you mean, New York beauty?
Everything.
Okay, all right.
All right.
Well, see, I have never heard this.
I've never heard that New York beautiful women are the most beautiful women anywhere.
Okay.
Now, Friday, the substitute engineer is weighing in on it, saying it's true.
It's true.
Okay, cool.
Well, I appreciate, Chuck, you're weighing in on this from Colorado Springs.
Here's Jim in Dallas, Georgia.
Great to have you, sir.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, how are you?
Fine and dandy, sir.
Thank you very much.
I am so glad I got through and you got a chance to hear from me because this is big.
I got off the phone this morning.
I can't tell you with who, but I got off the phone this morning.
Someone told me that Harry Lee was indeed beat up by the mob.
And not only that, the fight was broken up by none other than Brian Williams.
He's been holding on for two and a half hours.
Not two hours and 18 minutes.
He's been holding on to tell us this story.
Well, who tell you that?
Who was it that told you this?
I can't tell you.
It's up to Harry Reid to prove me wrong.
Okay, so you got a phone call.
Yep.
From somebody who knew that Harry Reid was beat up by the mob.
Yep.
And Brian Williams broke up the fight.
Brian Williams broke up the fight.
And you can't tell us.
I'm sure Brian Williams will tell the story when he gets back on NBC.
I'm surprised that he hasn't told us already.
And back to the phones we go on Open Line Friday.
This is Julie in San Antonio, Texas.
Welcome.
It's great to have you here.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
How are you doing?
I'm great.
Thank you.
Hey, thanks for taking my call.
I have an answer for you on why those kids are gaining weight when they go off to college.
Okay, let me hear it.
Yeah, they finally are off of the Michelle Obama lunch plan, and they have free choice.
It's like the, you know, stuff they've never seen before.
Well, the Michelle lunches have not been in force long enough.
Sorry, Michelle, or Julie, I got to let you go.
There's too much noise on your line, and I cannot.
I'm having trouble making out what you're saying.
Was she trying to be funny?
Was she trying to tell a joke?
What did she say?
She was serious that Michelle is not packing their lunch?
This woman was serious?
The reason that they're getting fat at college is because they're off of the Michelle Obama, and she's not cracking a joke.
Now they have free choice, and they're picking junk food.
So you got to be kidding me.
The last two calls I have not been able to hear.
That last guy was just speaking like a bat out of hell, and I couldn't keep up with him.
And neither could the transcription.
And this, there was all kinds of noise, and I didn't know what she was saying.
You got to be kidding.
There can't be anybody in this audience who really believes that.
You are yanking my chain on this.
She's dead serious.
Patience in Marshall, Virginia, your next Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Hello.
Hello, Mr. Rush.
I'm a Rush grandbaby.
I love your books, all of them.
I've read all of them.
The second one is my favorite because of Liberty Stomp Act, Carly Ray Jeffson's Call Me Baby.
Love that.
Wait a minute.
What was your reason for liking the second one?
Liberty Stomp Act to Call Me Maybe by Carly Ray Jeffson.
Oh, the Stomp Act.
Okay.
I have two dogs, Liberty and Justice.
And I have a horse that looks like Liberty, and we don't use bits.
You have a horse and you have two dogs?
That looks just like Liberty.
Oh, that is really cool.
And you've read all three of these.
Yes, sir.
And I love them.
Love them.
I'm homeschooled, and one of the best things about it is that I don't have to eat Michelle Obama food.
Well, now, that's a major point in your favor.
But I can't, I don't, you're 12 years old, and you sound much older than me.
I mean, by that, you sound much more mature.
You sound very composed.
You're very poised and all that.
12 years old.
That's amazing.
Thank you, sir.
I have one last thing to say, though.
I've seen your Limbaugh Chronicles in the early 90s, and I've seen the Ditto Heads, the air quotes, and I noticed it was the same music when you for the intro.
Sorry.
These are my heroes.
Limbaugh Chronicles?
Okay.
The VHS tapes from the 90s.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
Oh, you're talking about the stage of the Rush to Excellence tours that we put on video.
Yes, sir.
I had forgotten we even did those.
And I'm.
Limbaugh Chronicles.
I'm thinking, what was, is that what we used to call a newsletter or something, a Limbaugh Chronicles?
No, sir.
Wow, you are totally, you are a Rush Grandbaby.
You have been totally immersed in this.
All the way back in the 90s.
And thank you for getting us through both presidential elections.
12 years old and getting you through both.
Well, now, look.
And we love you.
Well, patience.
We love you.
Thank you, sir.
We love you too, Patience, more than you could possibly know.
Now, I want you to hold on because I want to send you a little gift package, assorted goodies from the Rush Revere bunch.
We've got a lot of stuff we want to throw your way just as a thank you and for gratitude.
Thank you so much, sir.
Sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off.
Thank you.
My gosh.
Don't you cut me off any time.
You sound great.
But patience, don't hang up here so Mr. Sterdley gets your address so we can send you the stuff.
Yes, sir.
Thank you so much.
This is incredible.
See, here's 12 years old versus what we let off the program with today, that ESPN babe, McHenry, whatever her first name is.
I've already forgotten her first name.
Just what a striking contrast in just manners and politeness, character, and all of that.
Homeschooled.
Here is Jeff in Naples, Florida.
Jeff, you're next.
It's great to have you.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
Hey, just something I'm driving around thinking about, and Hillary not tipping at Chipotle goes in there, and yet, you know, they're all for the little guy and want to move the minimum wage up to $15 an hour.
It just goes to show that as long as it doesn't come out of their pocket and it comes out of somebody else's, they're fine with it.
You know, especially in the case of the Clintons, you do not know how right you are.
Thank you.
I mean, she is, both of them are the epitome.
They define the concept of using other people's money.
I mean, even for their personal things.
Hillary Clinton is the woman, and I guarantee you a lot of you in this audience will not know this because you weren't alive when it happened.
And it hasn't been reported.
Back when Bill and Hillary lived in Arkansas and he was governor, she actually rounded up used underwear and stuff from the family home and took it to Goodwill and reported it on their tax return.
She took like a $2.10 deduction for used underwear that they gave to Goodwill.
These people are, they have been obsessed with money ever since they never had any, which was most of their lives.
And they do not use their own for anything.
And that's an excellent point here.
Be right back.
Don't go away.
Welcome back, Open Line Friday, Rush Limbaugh at Cutting Edge of Societal Evolution.
Jeb Bush says that the Senate should confirm the nomination of Loretta Lynch.
This is Obama's choice for Attorney General to replace Holder when he finally leaves.
A number of Senate Republicans oppose her nomination.
But Jeb Bush said, I think presidents have the right to pick their team.
And Republicans ought to go ahead and confirm her.
Now, Senator Jeff Sessions believes just the exact opposite.
He thinks it is wrong to confirm somebody who is openly committed to breaking the law.
He believes that Eric Holder is lawless and that Obama is lawless, particularly in the area of immigration.
And they are.
A, we're not informing, we're not enforcing existing immigration law.
And since Obama cannot get a law he wants out of Congress, he's prepared to do amnesty via executive order, which is outside the Constitution.
He does not have the constitutional authority to do that, yet he's going to do it.
And Eric Holder is right there with him.
And Lynch has promised to support the same thing.
So Jeff Sessions says, in describing why the president's executive amnesty is lawless, he said, the legal opinion attempting to justify the circumvention of Congress was issued by the Attorney General's Office of Legal Counsel.
Now, at the outset of this nomination process, I said that no senator should vote to confirm anyone for this position, the top law enforcement job in the country, who supported the president's unlawful actions.
Congress must defend its constitutional role, which is clearly threatened.
Unfortunately, said Senator Sessions, when asked today whether she found the president's actions to be legal and constitutional, Ms. Lynch said that she did.
I therefore am unable to support her nomination.
And he's encouraging all the Republicans to oppose her because she has flat out admitted that she will engage in unlawful behavior.
Jeb Bush is calling on Republicans to confirm her under the belief that presidents have the right to pick their team.
Now, Sessions wasn't through.
He also hammered Loretta Lynch about her statement that she believes illegal aliens have a right to work in this country just as much as any American citizen does.
He said, my concerns are furthered by Ms. Lynch's unambiguous declaration that the right and the obligation to work is one that is shared by everyone in this country, regardless of how they came here.
When the president capriciously suspends those laws and provides benefits to people here unlawfully, he injures the rights of lawful people and lawful workers, denying them the protections that Congress passed to secure their jobs and wages.
He said, we are at a dangerous moment.
Professor Jonathan Turley described it as a constitutional tipping point.
For the Senate to approve this nomination, Loretta Lynch, would bring us another step closer to the point's edge.
Now, I side totally with Senator Sessions on this.
He is right on the money on this and exactly well-spoken and brilliant on it.
And yet, over here is Jeb Bush.
Why would Jeb Bush say this?
I think the answer isn't complicated.
The Republican establishment, and certainly Jeb Bush would be considered to be a member in good standing.
The Republican establishment believes when the media says the Republicans are not cooperative, and they think the American people think the Republicans aren't cooperative.
They think the American people, the majority of them, believe everything that they see and hear in the media.
So all of the criticisms leveled at the Republican Party by the media, the Republican establishment thinks everybody out there believes them.
So when the media and the Democrats accuse the Republicans of not cooperating, the Americans believe them.
When they accuse the Republicans of not wanting to work together, not being bipartisan, they think the American people believe them.
So consequently, the Republican establishment believes that they have to do things to change what the American people think of them because of the media's statements.
So here you have a perfect recipe for the Republican establishment thinking that they can change public opinion about them.
So here you have a minority, an African-American, and a female.
You got double whammy here.
In fact, you've got a threefer.
You have a woman, you've got an African-American.
It's a tattoo for minority, female, African-American nominated to be attorney general.
And the thinking with Jeb Bush and others is that if we support her nomination, we can show the American people that the media are wrong about us, that we are willing to cooperate with Obama, that we are happily to support a minority doing well, a minority woman.
And this is the thinking.
Apparently, it doesn't enter their calculations whether she's good for the job or not.
And this is what I mean when I think they've got post-traumatic stress disorder because of media criticism.
I think they're totally dominated by it.
I think they have been so beaten up by the media that they think their primary objective is to change the way the media talks about them, which they can't do, and in the process, hopefully change public opinion about them.
So their position is rooted in being defensive.
Oh, my God, they think us this and they think us that, and we got to show them that we're not.
So they're on a mission to prove a negative.
How do you prove you're not racist when somebody's accused you of it?
How do you prove you're not anything when somebody has accused you of it?
Sorry, but you can't.
Now, it's either that as one explanation, or there's another explanation, and it is that the Republican establishment doesn't have any problem with Loretta Lynch because, like her, they are in favor of amnesty happening.
So take your pick.
It's either they're shell-shocked over media criticism and they're trying to show that they're not racist and that they're not partisan and that they're willing to cooperate and whatever Obama wants because he's the president and that's what he gets, or else they don't have a problem with what she stands for because they ultimately support it.
Either one of those things is the explanation for it.
And what Jeff Sessions says never enters their calculations.
And yet he's the one who's making the most sense about this.
Here's Maria in Davis, California.
Davis, Cal boy, some of the most interesting days of my life have been spent in Davis, California.
University, right down the road from Sacramento.
How are you doing, Maria?
I'm fine.
I'm fine.
I have a question for you.
Sure.
You were saying about smoking, that it would be that people ought to be thankful that there are smokers because the money gotten from smoking helps to fund all these child programs and everything.
But that's like saying, I'm glad that there's bumper accidents because then auto mechanics would still have jobs and it improves the economy.
Or knives.
I'm glad it's a good thing that people cut themselves because that's good for the bandage industry.
That's just my opinion.
And the other thing is that I can't.
Hold it.
Hold it a second.
I'm sure the hospital industry would agree with you that they support knives.
There wouldn't be scalpels without knives.
No, they're not doing it on purpose, though.
People with knives, people that are, wait a minute, people in hospitals that are not automatically doing that to cure somebody.
They're not doing that to hurt anybody.
Well, smokers aren't killing anybody.
Except themselves.
Well, but yeah, but how long does it take?
If you're in an environment where somebody smokes, you can get secondhand disease from secondhand smoke.
No, you can't.
That is a myth that has been disproven at the World Health Organization, and the report was suppressed.
There is no fatality whatsoever.
There's no even major sickness component associated with secondhand smoke.
It may irritate you, and you may not like it, but it will not make you sick and it will not kill you.
Okay.
First-hand smoke takes 50 years to kill people.
If it does, not everybody smokes gets cancer.
Now, it's true everybody who smokes dies, but so does everybody who eats carrots.
Yeah, but even they did not people with people in the hospital with scalpels are not doing it to hurt anybody.
I mean, you're not, when you pick up a cigarette and you're smoking, you hope that you're kind of doing it because you have some kind of psychological need.
You know, I was cutting a steak one day for lunch in Sacramento, in fact, and I missed and I hit my finger.
I didn't do it on purpose, but I'm damn glad there were bandages.
Maria, let me, here's the point here.
Here's the point.
You're having a knee-jerk reaction, and I'm glad you called.
I really, you are, I'm glad you called because you're giving me an opportunity to explain this thing further.
Okay.
In our country, for the longest time, we have created a hatred for people who smoke.
We actively, some people actively despise them and hate them.
We have not banned the product.
We continue to sell the product, and we profit from the product.
We fund children's health care programs with the tax revenue from the sale of tobacco products.
If tobacco is so deadly, if it is so bad, why does our government permit it to be sold?
And the answer is...
We're cooking everything.
We tax everything in the United States.
Everything gets taxed.
Everything is somehow, everything is taxed.
You're making money from everything here.
But I'm telling you, there ought to be some measure of appreciation for people who buy tobacco products despite the forces arrayed against them.
And it's getting harder and harder to use tobacco products, unless you want to call marijuana tobacco, and you can do that anywhere for the most part.
But the fact of the matter is they have to endure a lot.
The public hates them.
They're despised.
They can't smoke in places of comfort anymore.
Can't even smoke outside in a park.
And yet, their actions and their taxes and their purchases are funding children's health care programs.
I'm just saying there ought to be a little appreciation shown for them instead of having them hated and reviled.
I would like a medal for smoking cigars is what I'm saying.
You could say the same thing about all these people that are drinking soda like Coca-Cola and eating potato chips.
What's wrong with that?
Cigars, pretzels, popcorn, everything, all that.
All those kind of foods are kind of harmful.
I mean, they say that it's increasing the obesity.
in the United States and everything, but I mean, people have the right to eat what they want, drink what they want.
No, they don't.
That's the point.
The kids in school in Virginia do not.
They have to eat the crap that Michelle Obama puts in front of them.
We don't have the right.
In New York, you can't buy a Slurpee bigger than 16 ounces.
In New York, you can't eat what you want.
This is the point, Maria.
This is what's happening.
Every day, we're losing a little of the everyday freedom you just described.
Every day, little by little, so much so that we don't even notice it until it reaches a tipping point.
And what's so bad about potato chips?
Look at all the things we're demonizing.
Look at what you just soda pop, potato chips.
Look what they've made you believe.
They've got you believe in all that stuff kills people.
I've never seen a death certificate.
Cause of death, Frito-Lay.
I've never seen it.
I've never seen cause of death tobacco products.
Not everybody who smokes gets cancer.
The most shocking event in the world is when somebody gets lung cancer and they never smoked.
And everybody says, how the hell did that happen?
Because everybody's been so persuaded to believe that it's automatic.
Anyway, I'm a little long, have to take a break.
I'm glad you called, Maria.
We will be back.
Don't call.
I still can't believe that that woman was actually serious.
That young African Americans are getting fat when they go to school because they miss Michelle Obama's lunch.
She was serious?
See, that's where not being able to hear well in that call actually provided a problem.
Anyway, so much for that.
We'll be back on Monday, folks.
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