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May 26, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 26, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Photo of Marine praying with bride before wedding goes viral.
Have you heard about this?
It's from North Carolina.
Uh I think it is from Yep, it's Asheville.
Now, Asheville, that's where one of the Vanderbilt states is.
I went to look at it before designing my estate.
And uh it's just a huge.
Well, I did.
It's a huge liberal enclave now.
Um it is.
And but this story, the fact that a story like this makes news to me is indicative of where the culture today is.
Now you'll see what I'm talking about.
Just photo of Marine praying with bride before a wedding goes viral.
Now you're probably so?
What it's so unusual.
It's so out of the norm.
It's so extraordinary that it went viral all over social media because you just don't see it anymore.
Or you don't hear about it.
U.S. Marine Corporal Caleb Earwood wanted a moment to pray with his bride to be Maggie before their wedding ceremony on Saturday.
And now a photo of the couple holding hands in prayer has gone viral.
The ceremony was about to start in Asheville, North Carolina, when Caleb was guided to a cabin where Maggie was privately preparing for the service.
The couple then joined their hands around a corner to not break the tradition of the groom seeing his bride before the altar.
He didn't see her, he just grabbed her hand around a corner.
You love that, don't you, Don?
They hid me in a room, and he stepped up on the stairwell.
He stuck his hand out, and I grabbed his hand, Maggie Earwood told ABC News.
This is from local ABC 11 in uh Asheville.
Caleb prayed for the couple's marriage, asking that their union be strong enough to serve as an example for young couples, as Maggie held back tears.
She said to the bride, it broke me down to know that we felt the same way about God.
It it just made me happy.
It went viral.
What does that tell you?
I mean, seriously, it it tells me there's a hunger for this stuff.
It didn't go viral because the left is outraged and can't believe it, although it that might have been the reaction they had, but that's not why it went viral.
It went it went viral because this is a huge positive to people.
This is a huge upper.
Here you've got a handsome Marine marrying the woman of his dreams, and they pray before the ceremony, but still not seeing each other, holding hands.
Oh my gosh.
This is this is just too perfect.
And it it's it's a it's an oasis in in what has become a rotting, deteriorating sewer of a culture.
That's why it went viral.
The incredible moment, it says here, the incredible moment was captured by wedding photographer Dwayne Schmidt, who later uploaded it to his Facebook page, where it got an overwhelming positive response.
Beautiful picture brought tears to my eyes.
The bride is showing some raw emotion and love.
You captured how affected she was by his words, wrote one Facebook commenter.
So many people are emailing me, said the photographer, saying, Thank you for sharing this.
It's what America is supposed to be about.
That's exactly right.
That's my point.
There's a hunger and a thirst that you realize what the Republican Party could learn from this.
And I don't mean go all God.
It's not what this is.
This is tradition.
This is institution tradition, defining institution tradition that made America great.
It's all encapsulated here.
It's what Americans want their country to be.
That's why it went viral.
The couple currently on honeymoon until they return to Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina, where Caleb is based.
And I don't have, yeah, I do have a link here, but I'm sure Coco can find this.
I've given enough hints.
So I'm sure Coco will have the link to this, if he does it already, uh, at Rushlandbod.com.
American college graduates and their parents appear to be increasingly reluctant to cut the financial apron strings.
This is Yahoo news, by the way, which means the low information, totally dependent on their parents' crowd will see this.
About half of students expect to be supported financially by their parents for up to two years after they graduate, according to a new survey of 500 students and 500 parents released today by UPPRomise, the savings division of Sally May, which is a student lender.
Almost half a student surveyed said they would be willing to pay their parents rent if they moved back home after graduation, the survey found.
Only 5% of parents said they would not let their child move back with them after graduation.
Have I told you the Roger Ailes story?
Well, the graduation story.
Roger Ailes tells a story.
He's the CEO of the hated brainwashing Fox News.
And if you weren't listening in the first 30 minutes of the program, you might not know why I just said that.
But believe me, it's a joke.
Consult Rushlinbaugh.com later to find out what it was.
Anyway.
Ailes grew up in Ohio to a blue collar in a blue-collar family.
And as he was approaching his 18th birthday, his father came to him, said, so what are you gonna do?
Where are you gonna go?
And Ailes said, What do you mean?
Well, 18, you can't live here anymore.
You're on your own.
So Roger had two, three months' notice that he had to get out of house.
He became 18, he was on his own.
It was up to him after that.
No, he's not done that to his own son.
No, no, no.
That's not the point.
No, no.
It's just, it's, it's, it's fascinating.
It just, it's, it's a, it's a recognition of the cultural differences here.
You know, life is always changing.
Everything is constantly changing.
Some good, some bad.
Um that's the point.
My general I couldn't wait to get out of the house.
I wanted to get out of the house when I was 16.
And the idea of going back was failure.
Uh well, now that's that's now Dawn just made a valid point.
And it is that in our era, our parents didn't set aside a bedroom for us to have sex in with our boyfriends or girlfriends, like some parents today do.
And they do it because they think it's cleaner than the backseat of a car or some seedy motel, which is about all any average high school guy could afford these days.
So they make a room available in the house.
So if your parents have been looking the other way while you bring in a parade of uh hookups, then yeah, I can see where you might you want to keep living the dream.
That's an example.
It's a great example of what I'm I didn't know you did that, Don.
I oh, you don't you don't do it?
Oh.
Well, how do you know about it then?
You've heard about it, other friends of yours do it.
It's been talked about.
All right.
Well, we know it happens because back in the 90s we had a we had a mother from from Long Island call.
We're a big argument about this.
It was back in the era of we can't stop kids from having sex.
So, you know, we got to teach them about that.
We teach them about abortion or teach them, cucumbers, condoms, teach them, because we can't stop Russia no matter what you do, you can't stop them.
And the theory was you can't stop them having sex, so you better make it as clean and safe as possible.
That became a spare bedroom.
And a woman actually called us and that's what she had done in her house because she did not want her daughter having sex in the back seat of some car.
She thought it was safer and cleaner in her own house.
And I said, let me ask you this.
Are you putting a pack of cigarettes for them on the end table for when they finish?
Well, no, she said.
No way.
I'm not encouraging them to smoke.
I said, Well, you mean you can stop them from smoking?
Damn right, I'm not going to give them a pack of cigarettes.
But you can't stop them from having sex.
No.
They're going to find a way, Mr. Limbo, you should know that.
If you had kids, you'd know it.
I don't need to have kids to know that.
I was one.
But I'm telling you, you don't think you can stop them, but you can stop them from smoking.
Well, I may not be able to stop them from smoking, but they're not going to do it in front of me.
I don't know what I'm hearing here.
Probably have little miniature cameras in the spare bedroom to watch them engage in sex.
And that's fine, but no way are they going to smoke.
No way are we going to tolerate that in our house.
But our daughter having sex with Mr. Wright or Mr. Almost Wright or Mr. G, we hope he's right.
Fine.
No problems.
So we know that it happens.
I'm just telling you, that didn't happen when I was growing up.
That was unheard of.
I mean, if you wanted to do that, you had to, you had to.
You you had your parents had to be out of town.
I mean, that was the only way you'd ever try that is if your parents were out of town.
Or if you knew they were going to be gone for a couple hours out doing something.
Even then it was risky, and you had to post a lookout.
But never did anything like that have.
We wanted out of the house.
We wanted our own place.
We wanted freedom.
We wanted to get out.
We wanted to be responsible for ourselves.
Most of the people I grew up with were that way.
The idea of going back and living at home after college.
I mean, some people had to do it, but it was it was attitude of failure associated with it.
And that's changed.
That's not the case now.
So we have.
So we got hope and change.
Go to college, become at least a hundred thousand dollars in debt, not know what you want to do when you finish.
Go to college not knowing what you want to do, hope you find out when you're there, incur a hundred thousand or more in debt, graduate not knowing what you want to do, and when you're all done, move back home and take handouts and mom and dad.
The only thing different here in this scenario is a mom and dad love having you back.
They do.
Can't deny that.
Kids are running homes these days.
That never was the case either when I was growing up.
But it's not the case today.
It is the case today.
I can't tell you the number of people I know.
I've known for let's say 20 years.
And at the beginning of the 20 years, when I met them staunch conservatives, just like me.
Twenty years have gone by and their kids are at school, and I can't tell you the number of parents who are telling me I'm all wet, that their kids have the answers, and rush, you gotta calm down.
Everything's okay.
I mean, this immigration is no different now than it was 50 years ago.
It's all overblown, and then the gay marriage thing comes up, and all these liberal causes come up, and these people I used to know as staunch rock ribbed conservatives have been totally converted by their kids because of what has happened to them in college.
And but it's not that it's the if the parents so desperately want to be close to the kids that then they want to be friends with the kids.
That and they everybody wants to think their kids are the best kids ever.
Smartest kids, most well-adjusted kids, best future, blah, blah, blah.
So uh kids can't be wrong.
And it just it's just so foreign to the to the way that I was my dad loved me and respected me, but he didn't think at age 21, I had experienced enough to be able to tell him what to think about Anything.
He just didn't.
I mean, he was interested in what I thought.
But I don't remember him ever saying, you know what?
I hadn't thought of that, son.
You may have, unless he was mocking me.
But today, I don't think it's so much the case.
Anyway, the bottom line here is that kids are going back home after school, at least half of them expect to be supported by their families, and only 5% of the families have a problem with it.
Now, what does that tell you about everybody's opinion of the future?
That it's bleak.
It's not good.
If only 5% of parents, according to this survey, are unwilling to have their kids come back home and live with them.
It means that the future is considered bleak, and there isn't a whole lot of opportunity out there right now.
The problem with that is that none of them, or very few of them, associate the bleakness and the negativism and the general mess that our economy is with Obama.
They just they just sadly think the country's lost it.
The country isn't as good as it used to be.
How many of you engage in transcendental meditation, cosmic consciousness?
You did you did.
So did you get through the ceremony where they gave you your mantra and all that?
You didn't do that.
You didn't do that.
Oh, you missed out on that.
Oh man, that's a that's a the indoctrination where you get your mantra.
Uh that's a 30-minute, there's lightning, there's fireworks, there's blindfolds, there's all kinds of stuff.
Music.
And then they finally get to the big crescendo where they whisper your mantra to you, and that's become that's what you say to start meditating.
Uh this is the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
They have a college, Maharisha University, somewhere in Ohio or Iowa.
Basketball team.
Team cheer block that vibe.
Block that vibe.
Well, it appears later, according to the UK Daily Mail, that there is a dark side to meditation.
Now we learned earlier that if you live near an airport runway, uh heavily traveled road, main street in your town, or uh train tracks, the noise can be the primary cause of your obesity.
The noise makes you nervous.
The noise raises stress levels, which causes your body to store food because it thinks times are bad and the future is bleak, and you may starve, so they store food so you won't.
Now, on top of that, we're learning that there's a dark side to meditation and mindfulness.
Treatment, meaning meditation, can trigger mania, depression, and psychosis, according to a new book.
The theory is that the techniques help relieve stress, help you live for the moment, but 60% of people who meditate apparently have suffered at least one negative side effect.
Details coming up, plus more of your phone calls when we get back, so don't go away here.
Just got a news flash here, ladies and gentlemen.
Stephen Dynan reporting from the Washington Times.
Federal appeals court deals blow to President Obama's amnesty.
I've not read this.
I just saw the headline, I just printed it, and we're going to learn about this together.
And I hope.
Yep, it's published today.
It's not last year, so there's no risk of getting that wrong.
Okay.
A federal appeals court upheld an injunction against Obama's new deportation in a ruling today that marks the second major legal setback for a regime that had insisted its actions were legal.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled in favor of Texas, which had sued to stop the amnesty on all key points, finding that Obama's amnesty likely broke the law governing how big policies are to be written.
The judges wrote in their majority opinion the public Interest favors maintenance of the injunction.
This is this first judge, this brave gutsy judge in Texas, I believe his name is Hannon, who originally stayed Obama's implementation of executive amnesty on the basis that it was unconstitutional, that Obama doesn't have the power to do this.
And so the regime said they were going to find a friendly circuit to appeal this.
And we thought that they would go to New Orleans or some such place.
It turns out, and I the Fifth Circuit um top of my head, I don't know where the Fifth Circuit is, but I'm going to find out.
But it doesn't matter.
An appeals court has upheld the Texas judge, and as a result is dealt a huge blow, it says here, Stephen Dinan in the Washington Times, to Obama's amnesty.
If you remember, Obama had acted in November to try to grant tentative legal status and work permits to as many as five million illegal immigrants, saying he was tired of waiting for Congress to act.
Remember him saying that?
If Congress won't act, well, then I will.
Oh man, you do it, man.
If they won't act, then you just take over.
That's what I'm doing.
Congress won't act, and I will.
Now the the full amnesty had been scheduled to begin last week, while an earlier part had been slated to accept applications on February 18th.
But just two days before that, Judge Andrew Hannon issued his injunction finding Obama had broken the law.
Judge Stephen A. Higginson dissented from today's ruling, saying he would have left the fight over immigration policy to the White House and Congress, saying Obama should have broad discretion to decide who gets deported and how he goes about that.
See, Obama can't grant citizenship.
This is the some people misunderstand amnesty.
It's not automatic citizenship.
That has to come later.
Obama knows he can't do that.
Yet he's still got 20 months.
He can grant amnesty, but that does not convey citizenship.
He wanted to do everything.
The way he was going to grant amnesty was just order to border patrol and everybody to stop deporting people.
It was kind of a fudging the terms.
He was never actually saying I'm granting amnesty.
He just we're not going to follow the deportation law.
It's the same result.
And this judge said, you you you do not have singularly the power to decide that.
And current law doesn't give you the purview permission or whatever to do it.
Louisiana, okay.
So new it.
So it's it's the New Orleans circuit.
That's what I thought.
And the regime knew that it was not a friendly circuit.
New Orleans is not a for them.
And I guess they failed in their effort to get it, but they wanted to get it to D.C. circuit.
And I guess I don't, I don't really know if they how hard they tried or if they did try and failed or what have you.
But it uh it won't take long to uh find out.
Bill in uh in Macon, Georgia, you're next, glad you waited.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Thank you, Rush.
Hey, Rush, two quick points.
One, we did not go to war in Iraq over weapons of mass destruction.
We went to war over the lack of weapons inspectors being able to do their jobs.
And number two, contrary to a caller last week you had, um, even if George Bush decided to quote unquote not invade Iraq, the next day he still had the problems of what do I do with the sanctions, what do I do with the no-fly zones?
So when I hear Chris Wallace asked that simple question about if you'd have known now what you'd have known then, it's like they're ignoring twelve, thirteen years of history.
Well uh obviously, because the the purpose of the question is to gotcha.
I mean, the the the the question's a setup.
I mean, we we've been through knowing what you know now, would you have encouraged and helped Obama pass Obama, knowing what you know now.
We can do this with any politician for anything at any time they served.
This is timed for the Republicans running for the presidency, and the it the important in this is to not accept the premise of the question, which did Iraq was a mistake.
And the answer you gave would be a great, great way of doing it, because they the premise is that Bush lied, that he knew there were no weapons of mass destruction, that the intelligence told him there was no WMD, but that Cheney convinced Bush to do it anyway.
And that's the premise under which these questions are being asked.
And some of these Republicans are so shell shocked and afraid of the media, they're accepting the premise, and then any answer they give is a trap.
And whereas the correct answer would be not to accept the premise and turn it around and say, well, knowing what we know now, if we're going to have a Democrat Party that would have done everything to sabotage the war, and a forthcoming Democrat president would get us out of there prematurely.
No, I might not have gone under Iraq if I'd have known Barack Obama's gonna have been elected.
What an answer that would be.
If I'd have known Obama was going to be president, no way would I have gone into Iraq because I couldn't guarantee that our success would be maintained.
This is simple as that.
Or use what you said.
What do you mean, knowing what we now know?
Do you know why we went to Iraq?
Just put it back on the reporter.
Well, I'm the one asking the questions, not answering.
Well, tell me.
I'm asking you a question.
Why do we go to Iraq?
Whoa, uh Saddam had weapons and no, he was not permitting weapons inspectors.
There were 14 different UN resolutions he was in violation.
That's why there was such a grand huge coalition, the world united against the guy.
He rolled the dice that what happened to him would never happen.
He was all bluster.
He was trying to look big in the eyes of the mullahs in Iran, and he wanted to be thought of as the big guy in the Middle East to take on the evil U.S. So he was lying about all this stuff.
Of course, he did he did use sarengas on their mustard gas in his own people, the Kurds.
So he had done it before.
But there's any number of ways answering that question, and your uh way is an excellent one, too, is to just get them off this notion of uh weapons of mass destruction.
See Michelle Obama commencement speech at Oberlin College?
Well, that college has been mentioned in the news a lot lately.
Oberlin here over, and you know why?
It's one of the most left-wing colleges in the country.
And uh Michelle My Bell went out there and did a commencement speech, and one of the things she told the graduates was to keep shaping the revolutions of your time.
You keep shaping the revolutions.
We got sound bites coming up.
I'll tell you what that means and give you examples of where that still goes on after this.
Don't go away.
How are you?
Welcome back, my friends, Rush Limboss, serving humanity once again, simply by being here, simply by showing up.
Here's Carlton in Washington, D.C. I'm glad you waited, Carlton Walt of the program.
Hi, Ross.
In your first hour, you're talking about the upcoming Supreme Court decision on the Gruber effect of Obamacare.
That's right.
Everybody's focused on the legal viability of rebates in Republican-led states that chose not to set up exchanges.
Have you heard anything about what's happening in the blue states where those exchanges failed because of incompetence?
Of course not.
No.
I'm just wondering about when that panic is going to go.
There are some Democrats governors that didn't sign up for a whole host of reasons.
I don't know.
Most of the states are Republican governor states that did not set up an exchange.
But I don't think it's going to matter.
At one point is I think most members of the public who have bought Obama, I don't think they have the slightest idea this is even going on.
I think the first they're going to hear of it is whatever the decision is.
Let's say that Obama loses, the regime loses, and the subsidies are pronounced illegal all this time at the Federal Exchange, healthcare.gov.
That's when people would you tell me my subsidies end?
Who did it?
And the answer's going to be the Republicans.
They sued our good president.
The Republicans took our good president to court because they don't want you to have subsidies.
And that's how this is going to be reported.
It doesn't matter if it's a blue state or a red state.
And that's what the Republicans are afraid of.
So the Republicans are coming up with a plan to make sure the subsidies Stay in place.
Translation, Republicans are coming up with a plan in case they win the court case, that Obamacare remains.
The law of the land.
Go figure.
I hate to end the show that way, folks, but it.
It's Cuba.
It's Cuba where the revolution is still going on.
And Michelle Obama told the graduates rise above the noise and shape the revolutions of your time.
But I need to save this for tomorrow's busy broadcast, so I will I'll do that.
I gotta go now, folks.
We're sadly out of time, but we'll be back tomorrow.
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