All Episodes
Previous Next
June 3, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
32:19
June 3, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #3
| Copy link to current segment

Time Text
Here's the thing that I don't get, folks.
We just had this audio sound right from Ian Harvey on the CNN yesterday, talking about how tough it's gonna be on Caitlin Jenner.
Is Caitlin Jenner now, after a lifetime of being a man's gonna find out what an excrement sandwich life is as a woman in America?
Oh yeah.
You have to watch what he eats because people don't tolerate fat women.
He's gonna have to watch his weight because people don't tolerate fat women.
He's gonna get cat calls from construction crew brutes as he walks down the street, which he's not gonna be doing.
Um all these horrible things.
He's not gonna get paid as much.
He's gonna he's gonna earn five times as much as the rest of his family.
That's easy.
And but it was just it's it's just a litany of just how really what a prison America is for women, said this guy, who I've never heard of, Ian Harvey, doesn't mean anything, but I still don't know who he is.
He was on CNN, and I I guess he's a guy that used to be a woman.
I don't even know anymore.
My question is this: if being a woman is so terrible, why are so many men choosing to become women?
Do you know what the the uh percentages are?
Uh three times more uh male to female transgenders than female to male.
I mean, if being a woman is so tough, how come so many of them are not trying to become men?
Why is it the other way around?
And I'm still trying to figure out you have to forgive me on this, folks, but I'm still trying to figure out how the the old argument of born that way works.
For instance, we're told that we can't do anything to change a gay man.
Well, you're born that way.
Can't do a thing to change it.
But apparently you can change your gender.
And when you do, we applaud.
That's laudatory.
That's great, but you can't.
But we do know that women become lesbians later in life.
They choose it.
Not all lesbians, but some do, unless they want to tell us that they've been trapped in heterosexual lifestyles all their lives and only came out when they were fifty.
Uh but Obama and the left, they want to outlaw groups that try to change homosexuals into heterosexuals, and the same people stand up and cheer and celebrate Bruce Caitlin Jenner for having the courage to change his gender, or at least to pretend he's changed it.
Because you really can't.
You really can't.
At the end all in said and done, you really can't.
You can pretend you have.
Uh, but you can't really change it.
It's even tougher for women.
Did you know that there's a country music consultant advising program directors?
Brian, you own a bunch of country stations, don't you?
You have a consultant, you have a deal with because apparently here there's a music consultant advising country stations to play fewer songs by female artists.
Female country, this is a story out of Tampa.
Female country music stars are accusing country music consultant Keith Hill of discriminating against women after he advised stations to play fewer songs by female artists.
He calls himself the world's leading authority on music scheduling, Keith Hill.
And he made the comments in something called Country Air Check Weekly.
He said women, they're just not the lettuce in our salad.
The lettuce is Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton and Keith Urban and artists like that.
Tomatoes of our salad are the females.
Wow.
I mean, that's tomatoes, that's what mob guys call their women.
And here comes this country music consultant saying that female singers in country music are the tomatoes of the country salad, and the male artists are the lettuce.
Would you rather be iceberg lettuce or a tomato, folks?
What would you would you rather be?
If you could change from being a human being to a vegetable, what would you rather be?
You want to be the hot tomato.
Well, this country music artist or a consultant says that women are not the tomatoes.
They are the women are the tomatoes in the salad.
The men are the lettuce.
And he said it's not sexist.
He said, I'm not being sexist.
It's a deep irony.
It's the demand of female listeners who aren't thinking about it.
Female listeners want to hear male singers.
They don't want to hear females.
Female artists are not being chosen by female listeners.
Our industry is governed by the people that listen, and they want male singers.
No sexism here.
He said they're just responding to that flow of song after song, and if that mix has more women in it, they turn off the radio quicker.
Female country fans.
He said, My stations win by taking females out of the rotation.
It's a quote.
My stations win by taking females out.
Sometimes that's enough to go from the number three station to the number one station of this is really folks.
This guy has just thrown kerosene on top of gasoline on top of an already existing fire.
To say that you can take your country station from number three to number one by getting rid of female artists.
Oh boy.
So Caitlin Jenner's going to find that out too.
He's going to find out just how bad it is to be a woman if he ever goes into country music, he's going to find out how discriminatory it is.
It's not pretty.
Americans now have a more favorable view of former President George W. Bush than they do of President Barack Obama.
It's the first time in more than a decade that Americans have expressed a favorable view of W, at least according to a new CNN poll that was released today.
Bush is seen in a favorable light by 52% of those surveyed, compared with 43% who still view him unfairly.
Americans are split on Obama.
49% favorable and 49% unfavorable.
But this has devastated the Democrat Party and the White House, and it really has, folks.
The hatred that the Obama White House, the Democrat Party at large half or George W. Bush, is immeasurable.
It is off the charts, irrational.
You cannot quantify it.
Bush, in their minds, may be the absolute worst human being who ever lived, and it all goes back to 2000 in the Florida recount when they think the Supreme Court stole the election from them.
And they have hated Bush and anything to do with Bush since.
And then the Iraq war came, and they've just, well, you know the details, you know the story.
They just hate it.
They got elected.
Badgering Bush.
They they got Obama elected.
They got everything done.
They just did everything they did, they they ran against Bush on everything.
They portrayed Bush as the absolute most despicable human being it's ever lived in this country.
And it was brutal.
I'm sure all of you remember it.
And for now, Bush and by the way, you know what the Democrats are saying?
You know how they're covering for this?
Well, well, that's just because Obama is unfairly being tied to the mess in Iraq, which everybody knows is Bush's fault.
But the American people's memory is short.
And then they're blaming Obama for it because he's a president.
No, but it's really it's all Bush's fault.
It's always been Bush's fault.
It's always B Bush's fault.
But Bush is not in the scene anymore, not on the scene, so they're blaming Obama for it.
And properly and rightly so.
Obama's making a mess of everything.
Internationally, domestically, you name it.
They asked at the White House today about this at the press briefing, Josh Ernest was asked by CNN White House correspondent, Michelle Kaczynski.
They had this little back and forth, it's 13 seconds.
Any reaction to George W. Bush's approval rating or a favorability rating being higher than the president's right now?
Well, I I um no, I don't have any reaction to that.
And they laugh.
No, no, I don't I don't have any reaction because they they're trying to slough this off.
But I've said this is one of those occasions where I say, don't doubt me, I really, really mean it.
Behind closed doors, this has them seeding.
The worst thing in the world is to poll lower than Bush.
Because they they part of it is that they think they've been so successful in destroying Bush that they sit around, they think everybody in America hates Bush.
This is multifaceted in a psychological sense.
They are convinced that they have ginned up total nationwide hatred for Bush.
And they walk around believing that.
They themselves do have total revulsion for Bush.
Uh Bush remains the demon against whom they run and pontificate.
And for now the American people, people supposedly loved Obama to prefer Bush over Obama.
It is it's insulting.
Like you can't imagine.
I mean, they do take this personally, and it all it's a it's all about how deeply they personally hate Bush, and how successful they thought they had been in making every American hate Bush.
You'll hear politicians, ah, we don't pay attention to polls.
There's too many of them.
We're not gonna get distracted.
This one, they will pay attention to.
This one they will want to take some kind of remedial action to fix.
I wouldn't be surprised if we get treated to a new round of anti-Bush hatred.
It'll be in the media, but it'll be regime sponsored.
Gotta hear this.
Do you remember yesterday I I read to you a short two-paragraph post from HotAir.com in which one of the posters, somebody I I'd never read a post from, I don't remember her name even now, and I didn't recognize it yesterday.
But she said that Bruce Jenner, Caitlin Jenner being a Republican, was the greatest thing come down the pike for the Republican Party in a long time because it showed, since this guy, Bruce Jenner, this big transgender new female, since Bruce Jenner is a Republican, that shows the Republican Party has heart.
That shows the Republican Party is not mean to people.
That's a great opportunity.
Republican Party can now take this and run with it and use Bruce Jenner being a Republican and say, see, we don't crush people.
Look at it, we are diverse.
We're away if classic.
Somebody who believes all these allegations about Republican branding and wanted to take the occasion of Jenner's sex change to say great things about the Republican Party, kind of poo-pooed it here, but here's George Pataki, who is running for the Republican presidential nomination on CNN last night.
Now nobody saw this because it's CNN.
That's another thing.
I'm sorry to sidetrack myself, but I every time I mention things, I'm reminded of something I saw earlier.
It's TV ratings, CNN and MSNBC.
I don't know how this is possible.
They have lost even more audience.
I mean, we're talking we're we're talking audiences now in the 60,000 range for MSNBC and barely over a hundred thousand for CNN national news networks.
Sixty thousand people, MSNBC, they're getting to the point they have so few viewers that they're not going to end up with ratings.
They're going to get an asterisk.
And CNN's treading dangerously close.
It was a Brightboard Breitbart story.
And the whoever wrote the Breitbart story made the point that Jeff Zucker, running CNN, decided to try to get all of MSNBC's audience, and at least have his grow by moving far left to try to attract all the people MSNBC, it was not very many.
And he goes so far as to make a joke.
Whoever wrote this went so far as to make a joke that CNN has even been promoting and sponsoring riots in cities all over the country just to create an audience.
And I thought, wait a minute, that may not be a joke.
Whenever there's a riot, CNN's there and they and they get deep in the middle of it and they won't let it go.
I thought it may not, you know, maybe one of these guys these efforts were a Republican tells a joke and it actually ends up being true.
Anyway, here's Pataki's on CNN last night, and as I say, nobody saw it, that's why we're playing it for you.
He's on Wolf Blitzer.
And they're all upset.
Huckabee yesterday went out and said, you know, I wish I had a known when I was in high school that I could have said I'm a I'm a woman.
I I would have loved to have getting into the women's bathroom.
He was making a joke about Jenner, and he was in an inadvertent way he was accusing transgender people of faking it, making it up just to be able to hang around women.
Well, the media didn't like this.
And the the guardians of temperance didn't like this, and the politically correct didn't like it, and they properly sensitive and the people with no sense of humor.
They didn't like it at all.
And so here's Wolf Blitzer talking to Pataki, the former governor of New York.
He said, Mike Huckabee actually said he actually said, after Caitlin Jenner's announcement yesterday, referring to transgender children in school, sort of making fun of the fact that some of these kids want to go in the girls' locker room as opposed to the boys' locker room.
Are his comments appropriate?
Can you believe he said that, George?
This is unfair.
You believe he meant that?
Obviously he didn't mean it seriously.
But I think the the more important point is we should give people their dignity and let them make their own decisions.
And people often make decisions that I don't agree with.
But in a government where it's supposed to be of the people, if someone chooses a path that's different from mine, we should respect that as opposed to mocking it or uh in any way trying to prevent that.
And that is George Pataki uh seeking the Republican presidential nomination, suggesting Republicans should not mock uh transgenders as Huckabee did, because if they choose a different path than mine, who am I to say it's wrong?
Who am I to say that it's wrong for a man to love another man?
So we shouldn't mock.
So quick time out.
Barney Frank, by the way, is weighed in on Denny Hastert.
You heard about this.
Barney Frank says that Denny Hastert makes Bill Clinton look like a virgin.
Okay, back to the phones we go.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rush Lynn Boss serving humanity by being here.
Uh James Statesville, North Carolina.
Great to have you.
Hello.
Hi, Russ.
Thanks for taking my call.
How are you today?
I'm well.
Thank you for asking.
I'm glad to hear it.
Well, I just uh I wanted to talk about the transitional uh people, and you've discussed transgender and trans able, but there are uh a couple of things that haven't been touched on.
And one of those uh is that many people believe in reincarnation, and there are cases of people who believe that they have been reincarnated in a human body with the soul of an animal.
Uh and and that's something you give me give me an example of someone I might know, say a public figure celebrity, uh, who thinks that they've been reincarnated uh as an animal in a human body.
Uh I cannot.
But you know that this is happening.
Some people have the soul of an animal.
And nobody's talking about this.
We're all focused on transgenders and transables, but it's a whole group that we're ignoring.
Uh well, not necessarily ignoring.
Um it's just not something that's particularly common.
And I bring it up because there was uh a period in my own life where uh when I was in college, yes.
And I I had gone through uh somewhat traumatic breakup.
And uh I played a lot of ultimate frisbee.
And are you familiar with ultimate fristing?
Am I familiar with with ultimate frisbee?
Um I I I I I know what frisbees are.
Uh is ultimate frisbee a game.
Uh yeah, but one one of the main rules is that if you catch the frisbee, you must throw it before you can move.
So you can't run with the frisbee.
Other than that, the rules are basically like football.
Um I I got very involved in that game and it just incensed me that I couldn't run with the frisbee.
And so while I was in school, I began uh seeing a counselor uh at the school and complaining to him that it it was my the only thing that I wanted after becoming so involved for was to be able to run with the frisbee.
And I sarcastically that maybe I'm like a dog or something.
Wait, you say this this happened to you after a traumatic breakup or relationship, traumatic breakup.
Yes, it was just very ugly.
Nothing actually terrible happened other than the breakup that was all good.
Right.
So you mean you I I'm having trouble hearing you, uh and I'm I'm having trouble following you.
So I'm not are you y and you you said dog.
I'm I've I've watched dogs chase frisbees at halftime at football games.
Is that what you're talking about?
Ultimate frisbee.
Uh no, it's it's its own sport that humans play.
But w one way or the other, I became convinced for a month or so that I was in fact my actual spirit and being was that of a dog in a human.
So trans species, in other words.
Yeah.
I get it, I got it.
Yeah.
Um but only for a month, only for a month.
Uh a couple of months, but less than a year.
And it was while I was going to I continued to see this counselor.
I've got a I've got uh you gotta hold on, I got a break coming up here, and if you can hang out, we'll we'll continue this.
We will, yeah.
Yeah, after the break.
Okay, we're back here now to uh James in Statesville, North Carolina.
Let me see if I understand this, because the last thing I want to do is make a uh uh mistake here in understanding what you have had times in your life where you felt like you're the soul of a dog following a traumatic breakup with a woman who mistreated you profoundly.
And in that time of you when you had the soul of a dog, you uh you enjoyed playing Ultimate Frisbee.
And your point is that while everybody's focusing on transgendered uh male to female, female to male, and trans abled, like the guy in Canada who really didn't want his left arm so cut it off.
You think that people who are trans species like you are not uh receiving the the the the the full attention, the awareness that that you deserve or should have that your your your cause or your your circumstances being overwhelmed and dwarfed uh by this gender business out.
Is that somewhat close?
Uh that is certainly certainly part of it.
Well, what am I what what in all of that, what pray tell am I missing?
Well, let me briefly finish my my story in.
I I quit playing Ultimate Frisbee and I began running very often.
Oh, you don't you quit playing Ultimate Frisbee and started running, okay?
Yes, after I was unable to deal with the fact that I couldn't run with the frisbee.
Right, you caught the frisbee and you were paralyzed.
Right.
Um it's very aggravating.
It's very aggravating for most most players of the game, and it's part of the challenge.
Right.
I understand that.
But I I had gone for a run very late one night, and I had just seen my counselor, and he had been encouraging me to consider the fact that I may have the soul of something other than a human in my human body.
Which would explain why you couldn't run with the frisbee.
Uh something like that.
Okay.
Well, I'm just trying to understand.
I'm not putting words in your mouth, but I'm I'm not trying to understand this.
I'm trying to associate the frisbee paralysis with the frisbee, uh, traumatic breakup with the woman and the counselor saying that you might have a soul of an animal.
Right.
Well, the the traumatic breakup uh really only served to uh make me somewhat unstable for a period of time, and that's why I brought it up.
Uh and that and it was during that period of instability that Yes.
I see.
I see.
And I I had gone on a run and I found late at night that I I had to use the restroom.
No, you're not gonna tell me that you stopped at a fire hydrant, please.
No, no, I I'm not.
But I stopped in the woods.
I was running on uh on a trail.
And uh uh it was late at night and there weren't many other people.
And so I was very close to the edge of the trail, and another runner came by the doc.
Yeah.
Um and began telling me that I was too close to the trail.
And I I responded by saying, I'm not really close to the trail with Nick Curtis and there's not.
There weren't a lot of people.
And she said, No, you're entirely too close to the trail.
I'm sorry.
I think you need to put your seatbelt on there.
Uh my friend, yeah.
Seatbelt chime could be a bad thing in your shape.
Um, well, we are more aware.
I think your call has served the purpose of raising our consciousness.
Uh I still don't know why uh what what's the pre too close to the trail.
I mean, why not trails as much yours as anybody else's, even if you thought you were a dog.
In fact, even more so if you thought you were an animal the trail's yours.
Anyway, we practice great sensitivity here at the uh the EIB network, and we are not for the discrimination or the suppression of any uh species or gender or orientation or what have you.
I appreciate the call out there, James, uh very much.
You know, folks, uh one more call.
Who we where are we going?
Uh where we the Susan in uh in central New York.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Hi.
Thank you so much.
Um, I'm calling because I've been so surprised that for the last six or seven weeks, no one at all has mentioned the uh uh Chess the Chas Bono transition.
And um to me there's a big difference in the way it's played out.
Uh I thought that Cher handled the whole transition of female to male, very classily.
Uh there was no big roll-up, there was no big uh show coming up or anything like that.
Um there was really a ring of sincerity about it.
And a couple of years ago, it seems to me I saw uh him, Chaz, show up on the Ellen show, um, announcing his engagement to a very lovely girl who he had with him.
And I was up until that point, very kind of, you know, uh uh uh uh uh very uh I'm just thinking of what the stick to the issues crowd was thinking like so lovely, and I don't want to say lovely in a female sense.
He was so charming, yeah so sincere.
Um that fell through, and I felt very bad about it.
But it's so different from the the jenner.
Yeah, you know that's a great point.
I now that you say it, now that you might I I too am shocked that no one has mentioned Chaz Bono.
I didn't even think of Chaz Bono during all of this.
I really and I I I can't understand why.
But um and I didn't see the Ellen show that you uh talked.
No, I've never I've never seen the Ellen show, but that does that doesn't that doesn't mean anything.
Uh I've seen Ellen's wife uh or husband, hell I don't know which is which.
Uh Portia's on scandal.
Portia DeRossi or whatever.
But I've never seen the Ellen show.
Chaz Bono.
Yeah, that that was that was Chaz Bono.
I uh uh Susan, thanks thanks for the call.
I I'm just I'm sitting here I'm wondering what to stick to the issues crowd saying about now.
Welcome back, El Rushbo.
Here we are already the middle of the week, a fastest week in media.
It's great to have you with us, our telephone number.
Oh you don't need the phone number because we don't have enough time take any more calls.
We're full boat here.
you know, I've had this for two days.
I'm gonna put this on the top so I make sure I get this tomorrow.
This bloody Baltimore.
The editorial board, the Washington Post has written.
Uh it's an editorial on what a mess Baltimore is.
It's such an indictment.
It is just devastating, except they blame it all on the Republican governor of five months.
They chronicle 40 years of absolute horror in Baltimore and blame it on a five-month, six-month governor who's a Republican.
Wiki leaks.
This is stunning, too.
You know, Julian Assange, uh guy that leaks government documents, is offering a hundred thousand dollar bounty for a copy of Obama's trade deal.
Can you believe this?
We got a trade deal.
A piece of American legislation that nobody's allowed to see.
Even the people that vote on it, members of the House and Senate, have to go to a secret private room and they're not allowed to tell anybody what they see in it.
And Obama is hellbent on nobody knowing what's in the even after it's been passed.
And even after he signs it, he doesn't want anybody knowing what's in this bill.
It's unbelievable, to the point that the WikiLeaks guy is offering a hundred grand if somebody will give him a copy of a piece of American legislation.
You know, this that's one of these things.
This alone ought to be screaming impeachment or something along these lines.
Here's uh here's Bob in Vale, Oregon.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Mr. Limbaugh.
Pleasure to talk to you, sir.
Thank you, sir.
I'll try to make it quick.
Uh classic uh case of American trans ethnicity.
Do you remember some public information spots on TV years ago?
A river littered with garbage, and on a bank, a noble Indian uh with a tear in his eye.
Uh telling people to beautify America.
Let's not lose our American heritage of the land.
And the Indian, well, the actor portraying the Indian was named Ironize Cody.
And for all intents and purposes, everyone believed he was a Native American.
But in reality, he was a Sicilian American from Louisiana.
I'm sorry I can't supply his Italian name, but uh I gather the individual uh just became enamored of Indian culture and preferred to be an American Indian, and indeed uh professionally he was ironized Cody.
Is an actor.
Yes.
Is a freaking actor.
Uh-huh.
Let me look at this.
Is a this is a great point.
Now you're you're lumping this here in with trans whatever it is.
But this was just liberal fraud.
Of course, maybe all the rest is trans stuff is fraud, too.
But we had way back, folks, this is in the 60s and 70s, when understandably many of you in this audience were not even a thought.
And we were on this kick, you know, anti-pollution and anti-trash and garbage and uh keep America clean and all this, which is fine and dandy.
And the activist that had the plan going, produced a PSA that ran all over television.
And it was this guy dressed up like uh mid-level Indian chief, Native American Indian chief.
And he's standing by the roadside as your average American family in the family sedan, mom and dad and the 2.8 kids and a scraggly dog.
They go driving by and they throw a bunch of garbage at the car as they drive by.
The Indian chief, and the garbage is blown by the wind across his moccasins and so forth.
And he's standing there watching it, and a single tear is seen streaming down his cheek.
And the image is clear.
Native Americans were pristine.
Were never polluters.
They were at one with nature.
They were at one with the land, except the buffalo they wiped him out, but everything else they were in love with.
And they treated this nation with great respect.
And then here we came.
Mom and dad in the 2.8, a bunch of typical scruffy American kids, spoiled rot in a family standard, throwing a McDonald's bag out the car, polluting this land that was really the Indians.
It was one of the biggest guilt trips that had been forced on the American people.
And then it was learned later it ironize Cody wasn't even an Indian.
It was an actor.
He was an Italian.
It wasn't even a real Indian.
It wasn't real tears.
There was nothing about it.
Because it never really happened.
The family never drove by and never really threw the McDonald's sack at the guy.
It was staged.
Okay, folks, that's it, sadly.
Or maybe fortunately.
▲
Export Selection