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June 3, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 3, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #3
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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 going to be on Caitlin Jenner.
Is Kevin Jenner now, after a lifetime of being a man, is going to 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 going to have to watch his weight because people don't tolerate fat women.
He's going to get cat calls from construction crew brutes as he walks down the street, which he's not going to be doing.
All these horrible things.
He's not going to get paid as much.
He's going to earn five times as much as the rest of his family.
That's easy.
But 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.
It doesn't mean anything.
But I still don't know who he is.
He was on CNN, and 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 percentages are?
Three times more 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 old argument of born that way works.
For instance, we are told that we can't do anything to change a gay man.
You're born that way.
You 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, Jim, 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 50.
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.
All is said and done.
You really can't.
You can pretend you have, 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 of 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.
The 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?
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 consultant says that women are not the tomato.
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.
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 Jedder'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 have for 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 and 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 got Obama elected.
They got everything done.
Everything they did, they ran against Bush on everything.
They portrayed Bush as the absolute most despicable human being that'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, 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 the president.
But it's really, it's all Bush's fault.
It's always been Bush's fault.
It's always been 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 co-respondent Michelle Kaczynski.
They had this little back and forth.
It's 13 seconds.
Any reaction to George W. Bush's approval rating or favorability rating being higher than the president's right now?
Well, no, I don't have any reaction to that.
And they laugh.
No, no, I don't have any reaction because 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 seething.
The worst thing in the world is to poll lower than Bush.
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.
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's insulting like you can't imagine.
I mean, they do take this personally.
And 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 going to 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.
Got to hear this.
Do you remember yesterday?
I read to you a short two-paragraph post from hotair.com in which one of the posters, somebody 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.
The 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 we are diversity.
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 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 audiences now in the 60,000 range for MSNBC and barely over 100,000 for CNN national news networks.
60,000 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 Breitbart story.
And 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, which is 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 get deep in the middle of it and they won't let it go.
I thought it may not, maybe one of these guys, these efforts where a Republican tells a joke and it actually ends up being true.
Anyway, here's Pataki.
He's on CNN last night.
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 known when I was in high school that I could have said, I'm a woman.
I would have loved to have gotten 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 and making it up just to be able to hang around women.
Well, the media didn't like this.
And the guardians of temperance didn't like this.
And the politically correct didn't like it.
And the 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 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 in any way trying to prevent that.
And that is George Pataki seeking the Republican presidential nomination, suggesting Republicans should not mock 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 timeout.
Barney Frank, by the way, is weighed in on Denny Haster.
You heard about this.
Barney Frank says that Denny Haster 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.
James Statesville, North Carolina.
Great to have you.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
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 wanted to talk about the transitional people.
And you've discussed transgender and transable, but there are a couple of things that haven't been touched on.
And one of those 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.
And that's something.
Can you give me an example of someone I might know, say a public figure celebrity, who thinks that they've been reincarnated as an animal in a human body?
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 there's a whole group that we're ignoring.
We're not necessarily ignoring.
It's just not something that's particularly common.
And I bring it up because there was a period in my own life where when I was in college, and I had gone through a somewhat traumatic breakup.
And I played a lot of Ultimate Frisbee.
And are you familiar with Ultimate Frisbee?
Am I familiar with Ultimate Frisbee?
Well, I know what Frisbees are.
Is Ultimate Frisbee a game?
Yes, and 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.
And 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 seeing a counselor at the school and complaining to him that it was my, the only thing that I wanted after becoming so involved was to be able to run with the Frisbee.
And I sarcastically said, maybe I'm like a dog or something.
Wait, you say this happened to you after a traumatic breakup or relationship, traumatic breakup?
Yeah, it was just very ugly.
Nothing actually terrible happened other than the breakup, which was ultimately good.
I'm having trouble hearing you, and I'm having trouble following you, so I'm not – are you – and you said dog.
I've watched dogs chase frisbees at halftime at football games.
Is that what you're talking about?
Ultimate Frisbee?
No, it's its own sport that humans play.
But 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 and a human.
So trans species, in other words.
Yeah.
I got it.
I got it.
Yeah.
But only for a month, only for a month.
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 to hold on.
I've got a break coming up here.
And if you can hang on, we'll continue this.
We will, yeah, after the break.
Okay, we're back here now to James in Statesville, North Carolina.
Let me see if I understand this because the last thing I want to do is make a mistake here in understanding.
You have had times in your life where you felt like you had the soul of a dog following a traumatic breakup with a woman who mistreated you profoundly.
And in that time when you had the soul of a dog, you enjoyed playing Ultimate Frisbee.
And your point is that while everybody's focusing on transgendered, male to female, female to male, and transabled, 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 receiving the full attention, the awareness that you deserve or should have.
That your cause or your circumstance is being overwhelmed and dwarfed by this gender business.
Is that somewhat close?
That is certainly part of it.
Well, what am I, in all of that, what prey tell am I missing?
Well, let me briefly finish my story in.
I quit playing Ultimate Frisbee and I began running very often.
Oh, you were going to?
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.
It's very aggravating.
It's very aggravating for most players at the game, and it's part of the challenge.
Right.
I understand that.
But 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.
Something like that.
Okay, well, I'm just trying to understand.
I'm not putting words in your mouth, but I'm trying to understand this.
I'm trying to associate the Frisbee paralysis with the Frisbee traumatic breakup with the woman, and the counselor is saying that you might have a soul of an animal.
Right.
Well, the dramatic breakup really only served to make me somewhat unstable for a period of time, and that's why I brought it up.
And it was during that period of instability that...
Yes.
I see.
I see.
And I had gone on a run, and I found late at night that I had to use the restroom.
No, you're not going to tell me that you stopped at a fire hydrant, please.
No, no, I'm not.
But I stopped in the woods.
I was running on a trail, and 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 for dogs and began telling me that I was too close to the trail.
And I responded by saying, you know, I'm not really close to the trail.
This makes perfect center.
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.
Yeah, the seatbelt chime could be a bad thing in your shape.
Okay, well, we are more aware.
I think your call has served the purpose of raising our consciousness.
I still don't know why what's the free too close to the trail.
I mean, why not?
The trail's 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 is yours.
Anyway, we practice great sensitivity here at the EIB network, and we are not for the discrimination or the suppression of any species or gender or orientation or what have you.
I appreciate the call out there, James, very much.
You know, folks, one more call.
Where are we going?
The Susan in central New York.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Hi.
Thank you so much.
I'm calling because I've been so surprised that for the last six or seven weeks, no one at all has mentioned the Chassis Chas Bono transition.
And to me, there's a big difference in the way it's played out.
I thought that Cher handled the whole transition of female to male very classily.
There was no big rollout.
There was no big show coming up or anything like that.
There was really a ring of sincerity about it.
And a couple of years ago, it seems to me, I saw him, Chas, show up on the Ellen show 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, very uncomfortable.
And I'm just thinking of what this thing is.
Stick to the issues, Crowd.
He was so lovely.
And I don't want to say lovely in a female sense.
He was so charming.
Yes.
So sincere.
Chasbono.
He was so much in love.
And somehow that fell through, and I felt very bad about it.
But it's so different from the Jenner.
Yeah, you know, that's a great point.
Now that you say it, now that you, I, too, am shocked that no one has mentioned Chasbono.
I didn't even think of Chasbono during all of this.
I've really, and I can't understand why.
But, and I didn't see the Ellen show that you talk.
No, I've never seen the Ellen show, but that doesn't mean anything.
I've seen Ellen's wife or husband, hell, I don't know which is which, Portia, she's on scandal, Portia DeRossi or whatever.
But I've never seen the Ellen show.
Chasbono.
Yeah, that was Chasbono.
Susan, thanks for the call.
I'm just sitting here all this, wondering what to stick to the issues crowd saying about now.
Welcome back, El Rushbo.
Here we are already the middle of the week, the 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 to take any more calls.
We're full boat here.
You know, I've had this for two days.
I'm going to put this on the top so I make sure I get this tomorrow.
This bloody Baltimore.
The editorial board, the Washington Post, has written, 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.
WikiLeaks.
This is stunning, too.
You know, Julian Alphons, a guy that leaks government documents, is offering a $100,000 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 hell-bent on nobody knowing what's in it, 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 $100,000 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 Bob in Vail, 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.
Classic case of American trans ethnicity.
Do you remember some public information spots on TV years ago?
A river littered with garbage.
And on the bank, a noble Indian with a tear in his eye 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 Iron Eyes 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 I gather the individual just became enamored of Indian culture and preferred to be an American Indian.
And indeed, professionally, he was Iron Eyes Cody.
He's an actor.
Yes.
He's a freaking actor.
Let me look at this.
This is a great point.
You're lumping this here in with trans, whatever it is.
But this was just liberal fraud.
Of course, maybe all the rest of this 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 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 a 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 them 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 a 2.8, a bunch of typical scruffy American kids, spoiled rotten family staff, 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 that Iron Eyes Cody wasn't even an Indian.
It was an actor.
He's an Italian.
It wasn't even a real Indian.
It wasn't real tears.
There was nothing about it.
It was real because it never really happened.
A 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, depending on the phone call roster, we may be a good thing that we're out of time here today.
Clean the slate, no carryovers.
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