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June 24, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 24, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Hi folks, great to have you with us.
Rushland Boy, the fastest three hours in meeting, at the fastest week.
I mean, here we are already at Wednesday.
Man, oh man, time is just, you know, some days it just flies by.
Sometimes it seems like it's creeping by.
But then you usually reach a point where it just seems like 50 years ago was yesterday.
It's just incredible.
Anyway, we're here doing everything we can on the EIB network to bring as much joy, pleasure, and upbeat positive feelings to you and your day, the EIB.
Now, I know you might, you really think you're doing that with the stuff you're covering here?
Yeah, I do, folks, because I think it helps to be on top of this stuff.
I think it helps to know what's coming.
This is going to bottom out.
At some point, I have no doubt we're going to reach a bottom.
We always have.
This country's gone leftist before with FDR, with Woodrow Wilson.
Now, there's something that is unique.
There's something new that has not been prevalent in all these other cultural shifts, and that's the Internet.
And the Internet is, well, it's huge.
The Internet, because of the anonymity that it provides people, has just created, or contributed, I should say, an overall coarseness and roughness to day-to-day culture, the way people treat each other and so forth.
Twitter has a series of sewers where trolls are just despicable.
I mean, endless parades of human debris hang out.
Facebook, not so much, although you can be anonymous there if you wish.
But that is the great thing that's different.
We've always, in the modern era, had every other form of media prior to the internet.
It's been around for a long time.
People have adjusted to it, accommodated it, learned how to use it.
The internet still is relatively new and to a lot of people, just becoming a fun little playground.
So that's the one mitigating factor.
But I do believe all this stuff's going to bottom out.
Because like Reagan said about communism, it's eventually going to implode because of its own immorality.
And I think that about liberalism, socialism, communism.
But the point is, even when it implodes, it does not always mean it ends.
Ask the people who live in Cuba.
So just because it implodes doesn't necessarily mean it goes away.
And that's why a constant focus here, maybe not constant, that's why there's an ongoing effort on this program to establish and maintain what I would, what's the best way to characterize cultural, not just cultural norms, but uplifting standards, morality and decency, standing for them, representing them, the guardrails of society, as you will.
And as such, I happen to think, may not happen in our lifetimes, I don't know, but this stuff is going to bottom out at some point.
Either that or the implosion is going to be very severe, and what results during the rebuild is going to be something maybe a little different or unrecognizable.
But this stuff can't go on.
The longer we go on ruled and dominated by ignorance, that begins to get compounded.
At some point, it just has to bottom out.
Now, I will admit I've been waiting for this for 25 years.
I keep thinking we're going to reach to me, and maybe I'm whistling Dixie here, no offense intended, but I keep thinking there's going to be just not a tipping point, but one thing.
No idea what it is, where it is, how, anything.
I just have this premonition, there's going to be one thing that might lead to a series of things, but one thing that's going to wake everybody up.
And I still believe it.
And I wish I could tell you more of what I think it's going to be or even make a prediction, but I can't.
But it's, I'll admit, it is due.
I hold this belief because of my never-ending, undying, and inherent good feeling about the good nature and intentions of most people.
And particularly the American people.
So we will see.
In the meantime, ladies and gentlemen, we have learned a little bit more about Dylan Roof.
And it may mean that such venerable institutions as Budweiser and Seagrams may be called into question here.
Because as you know, anything that has to do with Dylan Roof has now been labeled racist and racist, racism, and all other kinds of horrors, and such as the Confederate flag and anything with the flag on it, we are in a race to rid our society of all of it.
Are we not?
Well, it seems that the UK Daily Mail has been doing some journalism, a random act of journalism out there.
And they have discovered what Dylan Roof was doing in the last couple, three days before he went on his shooting rampage.
And it turns out that he lived in a trailer with two or three of his equally worthless buddies.
And you know what they did?
They drank and were playing video games.
And I think I can't lay claim to this because I don't think I honestly focused on it, but I know that I mentioned at some point that we're going to find out at some point that this kid you watch was playing video games and doing other such mindless activities.
And lo and behold, we found out.
However, there's a picture of him here.
There are many pictures in the UK Daily Mail story.
And the first picture that they publish is this guy shirtless, wearing dark glasses down on the bridge of his nose, looking over the dark glasses, pointing a gun at the camera.
And in the background are things on his wall which are framed.
Now, when most people frame things and put them on their wall, they have deep meaning to them, do they not?
I mean, you don't just haphazardly hang things on your wall.
Well, right behind Dylan Roof here over his left shoulder is a giant Seagram's VO icon or logo inside a frame.
So obviously, people are going to make the connection that Dylan Roof likes Seagram's VO.
Well, you know what that's going to do to Seagram's VO.
And then over his right shoulder is a smaller picture also framed of the Budweiser label.
So in this guy's trailer, the objects dart on his wall, Seagram's VO and Budweiser.
But his buddies say, yeah, this guy, he was just playing video games and drinking all day long and started bragging about the race war that he was going to start.
He was staying with friends in a mobile home park in Red Bank, South Carolina, in the weeks before the massacre.
He told friends that he wanted the Glock 45 caliber with a laser sighting because he was small and needed to protect himself.
His friend Joey Meek hid Dylan's gun under a grill in their living room, but he put it back in the trunk of his car the next day.
Roof slept on cushions thrown on the floor and spent his days drinking and playing video games.
Justin Meeks, another one of his buddies, said that a few weeks ago, Dylan came to him with a Stars and Stripes flag and asked him to take a picture of him with the flag burning.
Two days before the massacre, Dylan showed them a bag stuffed with magazines of bullets and bragged, look at all my magazines.
So this is from reporting the UK Daily Mail.
Pope Francis said today that it may be morally necessary for some families to split up.
This marks a change of tone in the Catholic Church's attitude to troubled marriages.
The Pope said during his weekly general audience, there are cases in which separation is inevitable.
It's a message hoping to encourage greater compassion in the church ahead of a highly anticipated global meeting on family life in October.
And by the way, one thing about that family meeting, there's a little companion story I saw earlier today that a number of gay activists had sought permission, an invitation, to attend the Vatican's highly anticipated global meeting on family life, and they had been denied.
The Vatican denied their request to be invited, so they will not be there.
And the article I read, they were quite put out about this.
They were quite disappointed because they felt these gay activists that Pope Francis had indicated to them some time ago with other speeches that he had made, that he might be open to changing church doctrine on homosexuality.
They really thought that was going to happen.
So they sought an invitation to the upcoming global meeting on family life in October, and they were denied.
The Pope said sometimes it can be morally necessary for some families to split up when it's about shielding the weaker spouse or shielding young children from the more serious wounds caused by intimidation and violence, humiliation, and exploitation.
Pope Francis said there were many families in irregular situations, and the question should be how to best help them and how to accompany them so that the child does not become daddy or mommy's hostage.
The issue likely to be addressed during the upcoming synod gathering of bishops on the family, which Pope Francis hopes will help reconcile Catholic thinking with the realities of believers' lives in the early 21st century.
I don't know what Catholics are going to think of.
I'm not a Catholic.
I don't know what Catholics are going to think of that.
Sometimes morally necessary to separate families.
Here's that Washington Post story questioning Bobby Jendel's racial authenticity.
It was from yesterday.
Actually, the Breitbart story about the Washington Post story.
You know, this is really horrendous.
One thing that Bobby Jendal has had to deal with for years, the left has been attacking him for not being brown enough or Indian enough for their liking because they are totally focused on that aspect of people, skin color, race, gender, sexual orientation.
They're fixated on it.
I mean, they've actually said that Bobby Jendal is, quote, trying to scrub some of the brown off of his skin.
Or, quote, there's not much Indian left in Bobby Jendel, or that a portrait of him in the governor's office wasn't brown enough.
This from the people who claim to not be racists.
These from the people who claim to be a cutabov of a higher moral authority and, of course, colorblind.
Governor Jendal is proud of his heritage.
He believes that we need to stop fixating on race and hyphenated Americans.
He believes that we are all Americans, but it's the Washington Post.
Here's the thing I, how did they, well, that's stupid question.
How do they get away with it?
They get away with it because they have automatic authority converted on them.
The Washington Post, the New York Times.
Just whatever they say automatically has authority behind it.
Also, the fact that everything in the drive-by media is the same also serves to convey authority.
I mean, if no matter where you look in the news, everything's treated the same, then you're going to think it's all authoritative and it's all truthful.
And alternative media is going to be just that alternative.
Did you hear about this guy went in for a colonoscopy?
Did you hear about this?
This is not a joke.
This is not a joke.
The guy goes in for a colonoscopy and he turns on the audio memo app on his phone to record everything that happens.
The reason, he's afraid when it's over, he's going to be too groggy from anesthetic when they're giving him instructions on what to do post-op, and he wants to have those instructions.
They don't know.
The doctor, the anesthesiologist, surgeon, none of these people know that the phone has been turned on.
And the things that they said about this guy during the procedure, the jokes they told about him, he has successfully sued them for half a million dollars because of what his phone recorded them saying.
Let me take a break and I'll give you some details and then we'll get back to your phones when we get back.
Okay, so a guy walks in for a colonoscopy.
Not a joke.
Anesthesiologist trashed this guy unmercifully while he was under anesthesia.
And it ended up costing her big time.
This guy sued three different doctors for a total of $500,000 and one.
Sitting in his surgical gown inside a large medical suite in Reston, Virginia, Vienna man prepared for his colonoscopy by pressing the record button on the audio memos app on his smartphone in order to capture the instructions his doctor would give him after the procedure.
He wanted to know what to do and he thought he'd be too groggy to understand and remember.
So before the procedure, he starts the audio recording procedure.
So he goes through the operation, he gets dressed, and he's on his way home.
He grabs his phone, grabs his audio memos app, and hits play, and was shocked out of his anesthesia-induced stupor.
He found that he had recorded the entire examination and that the surgical team had mocked and insulted him as soon as he drifted off to sleep.
In addition to their vicious commentary, the doctors discussed avoiding the man after the colonoscopy, instructing an assistant to lie to him, and then they placed a false diagnosis on his chart.
After five minutes of talk to you in pre-op, the anesthesiologist told the sedated patient she was talking to him while he was under.
The anesthesiologist is a woman.
And on the tape or on the phone recording, he is, after five minutes of talking to you in pre-op, I wanted to punch you in the face and man you up a little bit.
She says this to the guy while he's under anesthesia.
When a medical assistant noted that the man had a rash in the genitals region, the anesthesiologist warned her not to touch it, saying she might get some syphilis on your arm or something, and then added, it's probably tuberculosis in the penis, so you'll be all right.
When the assistant noted that the man reported getting queasy when watching a needle placed in his arm, one of these people doesn't like needles, the anesthesiologist remarked on the recording, well, why are you looking then, retard?
The guy's under assistant comes and says, yeah, this guy doesn't like needles.
He got really queasy.
So she looks at the guy getting the colonoscopy while he's under anesthesia.
Well, then why did you look at it, retard?
She's mad at this guy.
She doesn't like this guy for the moment she saw him.
Wanted to punch him out.
But that's not all.
There was much more.
After he heard everything, this guy sued the two doctors and their practices for defamation and medical malpractice.
And last week, after a three-day trial, a Fairfax County jury ordered the anesthesiologist and her practice to pay him $500,000.
The anesthesiologist is named in this story, Tiffany Ingham, 42, couldn't be reached for comment.
Her lawyer did not return messages.
But it was found they put court documents said that one of the doctors made some insulting remarks.
Hey, as long as it's not Ebola, you're okay.
Other doctors and touching this guy and his rash and so forth.
And then they put some false diagnosis of a genuine medical disease on his chart that he did not have, that he walked out of the medical center with in his medical record.
Bunch of people want to know what happened to these people.
And I didn't print enough of the story.
I don't know what the false diagnosis they put on the guy's chart was, but it was a serious thing to be accused of having that he didn't have.
And it's not explained why.
What about this guy they didn't like?
It's just that they didn't like this guy, and they immediately started ragging on him, making fun of him as soon as he was under anesthesia, making jokes about him.
And why in the world they would enter the false diagnosis, I haven't the slightest idea.
The jury ruled that all, there were three different doctors and anesthesiologists total involved here, and they all were found guilty.
I think the combined amount the guy is getting is half a million dollars, $200,000 in punitive damages, $50,000 from one doctor, $150,000 from somebody else.
The anesthesiologist no longer works at this place in Reston, Virginia.
State licensing records indicate that she has moved to Florida.
An anesthesiology practice in Tavares, Florida, said she no longer worked there.
So she left Reston, came to Florida, didn't last long at that place.
Calls to a number believed to be hers were not returned, and there wasn't an answering machine or voicemail at the number.
On the opening day of the trial last week, the gastrointerologist who actually did the colonoscopy, Solomon Shaw, 48, was dismissed from the case.
Court documents state that he also made some insulting remarks.
He's the guy who said about this guy's rash, as long as it's not Ebola, you're okay to touch him to one of the other doctors.
And the doctor also, as I said here, did not discourage the anesthesiologist Ingham from her comments or actions.
Oh, here's what it is.
She is the one who entered the false diagnosis on his chart, and it was for having hemorrhoids, which he doesn't have.
How many of you have gone in for an outpatient procedure, or it doesn't matter, inpatient surgical procedure.
You know, you're under anesthesia.
How many of you have wondered what they're saying about you?
Have you ever wondered that, Snurdy?
Have you ever wondered what they're saying?
Oh, I do.
I have me, a powerful, influential member.
I wonder what, you know, how many of them are tempted to overdose something or does, I mean, you can't help but wonder this kind of stuff when you're a powerful, influential member to media like me.
But I bet a lot of people wonder about this.
This story, once this gets out, this is going to.
The first thing that's going to happen is big signs, no cell phones allowed in OR.
That's the first thing that's going to happen.
On the medical front, by the way, in a shocking news story, we are all here beside ourselves.
We cannot possibly believe this is true.
But medical marijuana has been found to be practically worthless.
Medical marijuana has not been proven to work for many illnesses that state laws have approved it for.
This, according to the first comprehensive analysis of research on marijuana's potential benefits, the strongest evidence that it does good stuff is for chronic pain or muscle stiffness in multiple sclerosis.
This review evaluated 79 studies involving more than 6,000 patients, and they couldn't find any practical medical application for marijuana.
Evidence was weak for many other conditions, including anxiety, sleep disorders, and Tourette's syndrome.
And the authors recommend more research rather than conclude it, we need more research, meaning we need more marijuana.
We need more people smoking marijuana under medical supervision so that we can continue to study whether or not there are any upside effects.
Back to the phones, Colleen, Tri-Cities, Washington.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi.
How are you?
I'm good, Rash.
Megadatoes.
I mean, I've tried to get through once today and made it and got put on hold and got disconnected and actually got through the jail.
Well, I'm glad you made it through.
You must be charmed.
I know.
Somebody wanted you to get through and say what you're going to say, which is what?
Well, I was wondering, when you get down to the basics, what is the difference between ISIS destroying viciously all of the remnants of history that they have been destroying and we wanting to destroy our monuments that are our history?
Why don't we just take Sledgehammers and Dynamite tombs?
I first have to ask you a question.
Where are you?
Right now, I am in a truck stop in Boise, Idaho.
Are you in a phone booth?
I was in an answered way.
I just stepped outside.
I see, because there was this humongous reverberation and echo where you were.
That's possibly why.
Now, you're not.
I was on the road.
That's why I lost you to begin with.
Oh, okay, okay.
Nonsense.
Okay, so your question basically is, what's the difference?
ISIS using sledgehammers and bombs to destroy historical monuments and artifacts in museums across the Middle East.
And we are taking down the Confederate flag and who knows whatever else.
And you want to know.
Well, if we want to destroy the Jefferson Monument, I mean, is it just a degree of evil?
We're both trying to obliterate history.
Well, no, what I find fascinating about this is, no, by the way, nobody is actually talking about destroying the Jefferson Memorial.
Just to be clear on this, the bespectacled Ashley Banfield hosting her newscast on CNN was speaking of Don Black Hole Lemon.
And by the way, we call him Black Hole with great affection because he asked an expert in airline travel whether or not the missing Malaysian plane could have been sucked up by one, a black hole.
Anyway, she asked him if we're going to destroy the Confederate flag and tear it down and all that, then do we not have to be equal and go after the Jefferson Memorial?
Because after all, Thomas Jefferson owns slaves.
And the Confederate flag is about going to war to maintain slaves.
And Jefferson owns slaves.
And shouldn't we?
And Don Lemmon said, well, not quite equal, not there yet.
Don't want to talk about that now, but maybe later I could.
And my only point was, you don't have to destroy the Jefferson Memorial to destroy it.
You don't have to physically rip it down and move it or what have you.
The left and its apparatus is perfectly capable of destroying via destroying credibility, respect, history revisionism, all of these great things.
Now, ISIS is running all over the world destroying these artifacts.
And that's a whole different thing.
The interesting thing about that to me is that of all the things ISIS is doing, that's what makes our media angrier than anything.
And I'm not, folks, I'm not making that up, and I'm not trying to be hyperbolic.
Let me just tell you how I read the news.
I read the news about the latest ISIS beheading or mass killing, and it's reported perfunctorily and factually, and there isn't any editorial comment, and whoever's writing these stories or broadcasting them doesn't seem at all bothered by it.
It's just the latest news involving ISIS.
But when the news is that they've gone into museums and are destroying thousand-year-old artifacts, that's when you read anger and emotion in these drive-by stories about it.
And that's why I conclude, okay, ISIS killing people.
Yeah, we expect that in a war, that happens.
But what do you mean destroying artifacts in a museum?
That's going beyond the pale.
And that's actually how I interpret the reporting on it.
So the real question is, why be upset at ISIS destroying all of these historical artifacts and yet in the United States, essentially support a variation of the same theme?
There's that guard from the Shawshank prison up there.
You talk about an unbelievable story.
Almost every aspect of this that we know, you look at it and you say, that can't be.
Have you seen what the New York Post is calling?
This is Joyce Tilly Mitchell.
They're calling her Shaw Skank.
I kid you.
As in Shawshank, the movie, Shawshank, Shaw Skank.
And her poor husband, her poor husband's out there saying, there's no way Tilly never had sex with any of those inmates.
It never happened.
And they've learned that it happened hundreds of times in an 8 by 15 closet.
8 by 15 foot closet somewhere off the kitchen.
So I don't know what they found.
I don't know how they know this.
I have no idea.
You just look at this.
Everything about this.
They can't find these guys.
They don't know where they are.
They've got DNA in a cabin 100 miles away.
What are the odds these guys are in Mexico by now?
I mean, they had the whole state.
It looked like they had every uniformed cop and sheriff's department and highway patrolman looking for these guys walking through the woods.
Nothing.
And then this babe, well, woman who assisted, she was supposed to drive the getaway car and she got cold feet at the last minute and didn't show up at the getaway car.
So these guys emerged from whatever sewer they climbed out of.
No getaway car.
They improvised quickly and nobody knows where they are.
It's just, I don't know.
Here is Billy in San Angelo, Texas.
You got to be going there to get there, San Angelo.
Great to have you, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush Dittos from Texas.
Thank you, sir.
I just wanted to call in and say, you know, I'm watching all of these candidates come on in the Republican arena, and I'm scratching my head because, you know, I hear all them say something like it's, you know, such a critical time for our country.
But I'm wondering why they don't consider, you know, a lack of unity and what it can do to us because there's just so many of them.
I wish that they could, you know, come together and consider, you know, maybe having fewer people so that, you know, the resources would be stronger and we would have a better chance of reeling things back in.
Yeah, I hear you.
The only thing, how would you do that?
I mean, each one of these people, each one of these people think they are the savior.
Each one of these people think the nation needs them.
So right now we have 13.
If you count Scott Walker, it'll be 14.
So you put all 14 in a room with the objective of winnowing it down to what, three or four?
That means nine, ten are going to have to voluntarily leave.
How does that happen?
A miracle, but I wish it could.
You know, I know it's naive, but I wish they would draw straws or something because it just seems a little ridiculous.
No, no, I know what you're saying.
Exactly what you fear.
The debates are going to start, and every one of these guys is going to be made to look like a fool or an idiot at some point in this process.
And then finally, the conservatives are going to take each other out.
We're going to be left once again with a moderate Northeastern liberal Republican who cleans up the mess.
I know exactly what you're saying.
But what you want to happen is what the primaries are all about.
It's just that process that bugs you.
You know, we need to spend more time on this, but we can't now because we're out of it.
Sadly, my friends, we are out of time.
Another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence must come to a screeching but temporary halt.
I'll be back in 21 hours and do it again, revved up and ready to go.
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