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July 28, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 28, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #2
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All right, before we move on with the political stuff, and there's loads of it to come.
We got Huckabee, who is doubling down, not backing off.
We have uh we have Jeb Bush today uh saying that he has uh experienced the pain of his children being insulted because of their dark, darker skin.
They're part Hispanic wife.
And we have Jeb Bush uh saying that he's not an angry conservative.
We have that coming up, and of course the uh the Huckabee stuff.
And they're probably gonna be more of Trump before the program ends because there always is.
But let's get to this barbecue business because I've you know I've been promising this in the air conditioner.
If I don't, if I don't actually make time to do it in the midst of all this other stuff, I'll just keep procrastinating it, putting it off and putting it off.
Let's go ahead and do it.
And they're in this in the two stories here, actually, uh, three on this now.
And the first is uh from a website called I'm a Texan.
Austin City Council votes to ban barbecue restaurants.
If this resolution passes, we would be forced to close or move.
It would destroy Austin barbecue, says Aaron Franklin, the owner of Franklin's barbecue in Austin.
Austin has long been a destination for Americans of all stripes in their quest to find the best barbecue in the nation.
However, if the Austin City Council gets their way, food tourism may be a thing of the past.
Austin City Council members passed a preliminary plan in April to put restrictions on smoke from barbecue restaurants.
Some Austin residents complain of the barbecue smoke, saying they cannot enjoy their homes that they purchased before some of these restaurants moved in.
The City Council's current proposal requires smoke diffusers and will also limit the amount of time that restaurants can smoke, i.e.
cook.
These restrictions will require an additional 100,000 in extra investments for most barbecue restaurants, as they will be forced to buy extra smokers along with severely expensive diffusers, and in some cases they'll have to lease or purchase more property.
Now, why would they have to lease or purchase more property in hopes of containing the smoke on their property, in hopes of containing the aroma of the smoke on their property.
Can you see a bunch of these owners building windmills that aim the wind back at the restaurant in order to comply?
And then the global warming crowd gets, well, would they be happy about that or not?
That's a long shot.
Because the global warming crowd is not actually about working toward a cleaner environment.
That's that's a typical leftist move.
They they come up with a cause that's noble, like clean air, clean water, but that's not what it's really about.
Just like abortion is really not about women's rights and equality and all that, like they tell you it is.
At any rate, Austin City Council members passed a preliminary plan in April to put restrictions on smoke from these barbecue restaurants and some because these these residents are now now complaining.
One business expert told council members these restrictions will certainly kill all but the largest barbecue restaurants in Austin.
It's effectively a ban on barbecue restaurants in a town known for its barbecue.
Now, of course, these regulations par for the course for a liberal city.
Liberals claim to hate big business.
They claim to love small business.
But then they love to place so many restrictions and regulations on the little guy that the environment becomes toxic to entrepreneurs that just want to get started.
The ultimate consequence of these policies is that large corporations and governments are the only entities permitted to operate because the little guys can't afford all the regulations.
And the little guys can't afford all the restrictions.
And what kind of absurd requirement is this anyway?
So you have some homeowners who moved in, apparently they were in a neighborhood before the restaurants opened, and it was just fine, and now they don't like the smell of barbecue because they're offended, or it's probably just like the anti-perfume crowd, claiming it makes them sick, this kind of thing.
Why would it not be incumbent on them to go out and get some air pressure differentials and keep outside air from entering their house until it's been processed and cooled?
Look, folks, this has happened in my own domicile.
You know, I happen to smoke cigars.
And there was a time when other residents in the house didn't like the smell.
Was I gonna stop?
Hell no.
So I called an HVAC expert out.
So what can be done about this?
I had a I had one particular room where I smoked in my or office.
And he said, This is simple.
This is simple.
I've had to do this in office buildings on floors where there is a kitchen next to the dining room, and the people in the dining room don't want to smell the aroma of the kitchen.
So we just create an air pressure deferential so that the air in the kitchen does not escape.
It will draw air in from the dining room.
So what we did, we created an air pressure differential so that the smoke aromated air in my office never escaped it.
Did that mollify the anti-smokers in my house?
No way.
Because the purpose was not to get rid of the smell, the purpose was to get me to stop smoking cigars.
And I wasn't about to.
So I stood up for it.
Air pressure deferential is an easy way to do that.
Now, it's large scale like a restaurant, but all of this misses the point.
Because these guys at the I Amatexan.com website have it exactly right.
This attack on small business.
What?
Are you gonna are you gonna hit me with some vegan stuff here that you don't want to have to smell the aroma of charcoaling beef?
What are you within what?
That's right.
Who doesn't like the smell of barbecue for crying out loud it is a magnet?
You don't like it, Don?
That's what I was gonna say.
We all love the smell of barbecue.
What in the world is you realize how odd?
This is Well, I know, I know if the homeowners were there first, but there's I guarantee you that there's nothing in the purchase agreement for the property that guarantees the new buyer to be free of barbecue smell.
Yeah, yeah, that's right, Ms. But the new owners, I mean, the homeowners were there first, and they have dibs on the kind of smells in their neighborhood, right?
Right, yeah.
Well, I imagine there's all kinds of other smells in this neighborhood too that these homeowners probably don't like.
What are you gonna do about them?
Like all the stray animals running around.
What are you gonna do about that?
And what about the drunk and the homeless who are vomiting all over the streets?
What are you gonna do about that aroma?
This is folks, this is the incremental, so slow you barely notice it, loss of liberty and freedom that's happening right before everybody's eyes.
And the anti-smoking crowd has tried this before.
I remember in a suburban county outside Baltimore, some woman, that's right, it was Montgomery County.
How could I have ever for good old Montgomery County?
Some woman lived in an apartment complex, and she claimed that a guy smoking in his apartment 200 yards away, when all of her doors and windows closed, and all of the smokers' doors and windows closed.
She claimed she could smell his cigarette smoke, and it made her sick.
And the the the whatever county government is called there tried to establish you can't smoke in your house ordinance.
Uh, Unless if anybody can smell it within like 300 yards.
And I will guarantee you that there's no way that this busybody inside her apartment 200 yards away could smell a guy smoking a cigarette in his apartment 200 yards away when both apartments were sealed.
But she didn't have to prove it.
All she had to do was act offended.
And the offended got what they want.
So anyway, there's there's that's the Austin, Texas version of the story.
From National Review.
A self-identified male feminist wrote a more than one thousand word piece about how much he hates that he loves to grill because he's uncomfortable with the pleasure he takes in something so conventionally masculine.
Now do you think let me just ask you a question here.
Do you think there is the slightest possibility that there is a connection here between barbecue and manliness?
And current day madcap feminism?
Should I say white guilt and white privilege?
Could there be the slightest connection that barbecue is associated with something guys do?
And therefore it's verbotin.
Jacob Brogan wrote a piece for Slate.com, which is the home to left wing nutcases.
I take food prep a little too seriously, Jacob wrote, curtly brushing others out of the way when I step up to the kitchen counter.
Am I shoving others out of the way because it makes me feel like a man?
Have I become some sort of monster?
He's worried his enthusiasm for grilling may make him a monster.
Now, in case you think that he's overreacting, he offers a lot of reasons why he is so concerned about liking to do something so totally normal.
One of them is advertisers portray grilling as a form of male bonding.
Or as he puts it, enable what scholars call homosocial contact, a kind of same-sex intimacy that deflects the supposed danger of sexual contact between men, but allows them to confirm their masculinity, masculinity by excluding women.
This is what this guy thinks of men sitting around grilling burgers and hot dogs and steaks.
That it is somehow an act of patriarchy and male domination getting close to homoeroticism while exclusing women.
Let me read his own words, grilling, in other words, allows these characters, these men to cozy up to one another while still maintaining their understanding of themselves as truly manly men.
Let me translate that.
So two guys grilling allows them to cozy up to one another, but not look gay.
and Yeah, grilling guys can hang around at the grill or the barbecue pit and maintain their manliness and not be accused of being gay.
And that's why he hates to grill because it's so conventionally masculine.
He actually loves to grill, but hates loving it because of what it means.
Male feminist, I hate that I love to grill because it's so conventionally masculine.
He also worries that since grilling happens outside and other forms of cooking happen inside, the fact that grilling is seen as a man thing perpetuates the idea that women should stay inside in the Kitchen.
Because women don't grill.
Women don't barbecue.
Men reserve that for themselves so they can hang around with each other and prove they're not gay while getting close to one another.
And they keep the women in the kitchen.
And it's another thing this guy says he hates about grilling.
Now do you think this guy came out of the womb thinking this stuff?
Where in the world does somebody go to get their mind this corrupted?
Well, yeah, it could well be.
This guy's like every other normal guy in his age wants to get close to women.
And to do that took a lot of women's studies courses.
And this is the kind of crap that he was inculcated with.
Unlike most other traditionally feminine forms of domestic cooking, grilling typically happens outside, and hence in the public sphere, he writes.
The putatively masculine quality of grilling may derive in part from the old public-private gender split.
In that sense, it shares a common cause with the belief that women belong in the home.
So this guy, Jacob, what's it, Jacob Brogan?
This is a damaged mind.
And somebody damaged it.
At one point, I'm sure this guy was completely well, that may be a stretch.
But how does this happen?
And by the folks, again, I just want to caution.
25 years ago, 30 run across this, we would have the most fun laughing about this, and we would have come up with great satirical bits and parodies and so forth.
The problem is, well, and we did.
They bought it.
They these people actually believe this stuff, and they're not as small a minority as you think.
Somebody has to think this crap in order to write it.
And then after somebody wrote it, somebody had to think it was good enough to publish it.
And then after it was published, somebody had to think it was interesting enough to read it.
And the progression begins, and we will be back.
That's another relevant question, and it is, who would want to barbecue with that guy anyway?
I mean, who would want to stand out there in male bond with a guy like that anyway?
Which may be one of the problems.
You can't find anybody to barbecue with.
I mean, after all, if they know anything about the guy, why would they want to?
Here is Judy in Delaware, Ohio, as we uh head to the phones, time to get phone calls in.
Great to have you, Julie.
Hello.
Thank you.
My question is this.
With Congress putting forth their effort to get a bill to defund Planned Parenthood.
Why haven't they looked at the law that Planned Parenthood says they're not breaking, but we've found a path around it.
Because I'm certain that defunding it isn't going to end the practice.
Thank you.
Is that it?
Is that the question?
She hung up.
What a great caller.
She asked a question, she hung up, she's waiting for the expert answer.
See, let that be a lesson to you.
Just kidding.
Just kidding.
The law is a is a very slow-moving thing.
Yeah, planned parenthood's in violation of the law.
And that is selling fetal body tissue.
It's a federal law.
You can't do it.
But they're not admitting to doing it.
They're denying it.
Oh, no, no, there's no profit here.
We're just covering costs.
So somebody's gonna have to come along and make the allegation.
I mean, the law is there, but if you can get away with robbing the bank and nobody comes after you for doing it, you can get away with it.
I mean, the law does not enforce itself.
I said brilliantly.
That's a pretty profound thing.
I mean, you realize a lot of Americans would think that's a brilliant statement.
Something so obvious.
The law doesn't enforce itself.
So her ultimate question is no matter what, this practice isn't gonna stop.
And it doesn't have to stop for the country to get right with it.
And by that I mean we're not even yet.
We haven't, we haven't, as a country, come together and made a statement opposing this.
We haven't come together as a country and expressed our outrage over this yet.
We can do that.
You're always gonna have people break the law.
I remember early days of this program when abortion was a hot topic on a daily basis.
Because it was a hot topic in the news on a daily basis.
And I remember I was in Kansas City at a there's a social weekend, and a friend of a friend of mine came up to me from California, big Democrat guy, and he wagged his finger in my face.
You know, you can talk all day about it.
You can talk all night about it, but they're not gonna stop doing it.
I said, What are you talking about?
He's talking about abortion and women.
I mean, that's actually what he came up and said to me.
He didn't preface it with the subject, just came up, you know, you can talk all day about it, but they're never gonna stop doing it.
They're gonna no matter what, they're gonna keep doing it.
You can't stop them.
I said, What are you talking about?
Talking about women.
An abortion.
And I said, Well, that's that's is that what you think I'm trying to do?
Well, hills, yes.
Anybody listening to you thinks what you're trying to do.
No, no, no.
I'm I'm aiming at minds and hearts here.
I don't live in the world of unrealistic expectations.
I know all kinds of aberrant behavior is gonna go on all the time.
What I'm trying to do is make sure it doesn't end the country and wreck culture and society and so forth and take us all down the drain.
Uh, you know, you want to limit the have realistic expectations.
So her point is no matter what we do, it's it's gonna continue.
And there will always be.
But this is sanctioned with federal dollars and by the Democrat Party, and that has to, there has to be a statement made against that.
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We stick with the phones before we getting into uh get back to Huckabee.
We got Hillary, we got Jim Bush, we got the Fox All-Stars, we've got 13 things mentally strong people do not do, and of course, is air conditioning killing the planet.
All that coming up, but here is Craig in Scarsdale, New York.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello, sir.
Thank you very much, Rush.
I can't believe all these reporters out there who are just dumping on Trump.
Unbelievable.
They gotta go back 30 years to find something that they can actually stick to this guy.
No, no, no.
They had to go back 30 years to make up something.
I'm sorry?
They had to go back 30 years to make up something.
Make up something.
And not just up.
Why don't we go back 30 years and look at Whitewater and maybe maybe dig up?
Oh, I don't mean dig him up.
I mean, maybe we can find Mitsubishi.
He could tell us all the time.
No, that's not gonna happen.
We can't find it.
Maybe somebody knows where he is.
You know what I'm saying?
Oh, yeah.
I we've got a new arrival here to all this.
I Craig, I know exactly what you're saying.
I know exactly you are you are fit to be tied over what you perceive to be here unequal treatment, unfairness, bias, prejudice, all of these things.
Going back 30 years, make up stuff about Trump.
Well, where's all the dirt on Hillary?
Right?
And he and he's got and he's got his wife saying that this wasn't true.
And and then the reporters just ignored that today.
No, no, no.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
The reporter, the reporter went on TV today and was asked why did he do we did this because Trump said that these illegals are a bunch of rapists, so we had to find if we could do anything to portray Trump as a racist, just to give him a dose of his own medicine.
There wasn't any journalism going on here.
And this little reporter from this little website, the Little Daily Beast went out there and admitted it in a big way.
Still journalism happening here.
Yeah, we can just find Trump scoring points here on our immigration because we don't find a way to take Trump down a peg or two.
Maybe accuse him of the same thing.
See, I ain't like to ask caller Craig in Scarsdale, not to be confused with Terrytown.
Scarsdale is where the Terrytown mob spits their olive pits.
This guy is all upset that the media is not giving Hillary the same kind of treatment.
What did he just say?
You heard me.
The fact is, Craig, they've done Whitewater.
All of that stuff that you mentioned did come up way back when, and it is now judged that Hillary has survived it.
And therefore it's irrelevant.
Plus, it was all part of the vast right-wing conspiracy.
But don't get focused on that, Craig, because Hillary's got her own problems out there.
Her campaign's imploding.
And the drive-by's don't want to report that.
And they're doing everything they can to just pull up short of telling the truth about Hillary and her prospects and her appeal, lack of it.
And I think, I actually think that what Obama did, I guess he did it today, given the time change, still in Africa, right?
Ethiopia.
Wherever?
Yeah, but didn't he go?
Didn't he look into getting a pyramid built in his honor over there when he left Ethiopia?
Well, maybe I heard that wrong.
I thought he was looking in a pyramid of Chiabs having another one built.
Of course, we would need space aliens to do it.
So anyway.
Obama.
I mean, what what?
Who needs any opposition on the Republican side to beat Hillary?
Obama said that he could win a third term.
If I ran, I could win.
Right as Hillary's trying to establish a candidacy of inevitability.
Hillary's trying to establish a coronation, and here comes the sitting.
Oh yeah, I could easily win another term.
What better way to telegraph?
Nobody wants the babe.
Nobody wants, hell, they'd rather have me.
Let me translate for you what he when he says, I think if I ran I could win.
Hillary couldn't win in 08 against me, and she can't win now against me.
The Clintons don't run this party, I do.
That's what Obama said at the Great Pyramid of Kios.
Imagining one in his own honor.
Where was he when he said this?
He was still in Africa.
Addressing the African Union.
Not to be confused with the European Union, and not to be concerned to confuse the SEIU union.
He's going to say the African Union.
I just think this makes Hillary look even smaller.
I mean, she's insignificant now, other than the D by her name.
I mean, all this excitement for Bernie Sanders, and I have story.
This is Mark Halperin.
Mark Halpert, not a conservative writer, not a conservative website, not the American Spectator, not National Review, not Dr. Cloudhammer, not the weekly standard, whatever it is.
Bloomberg News, Mark Halpern, part of the duo that writes books about campaigns after the campaigns are over, and they've withheld all the damaging stuff for Democrats for their book.
Hillary's Bernie Sanders problem is bigger than anyone realizes.
Seven ways in which the septuaginarian socialist from Vermont actually presents a mortal threat to the Democrat front runner.
Now he begins the piece in an obligatory fashion with a salute to Hillary.
He writes that Hillary Clinton is without a doubt still the odds on favorite to win, with plenty of support, plenty of money, and ballast for the foreseeable future.
Therefore, it's more germane to ask, what impact might Sanders have on the former Secretary of State in the nomination fight?
And if Sanders does not win his party's nomination, what impact might he have overall on Clinton's chances of becoming an ex-president?
Sanders' surprising success has already influenced Clinton's conduct and fortunes, and there is every reason to believe that he will continue to challenge her, to influence her, and create significant problems for her as the race continues.
And it's seven ways here that he cites that she's in trouble.
And they are he's pulling her to the left, exposing her biggest weaknesses, forcing her to go negative, uh, playing a losing expectations game, beating her in the early states, things like this.
And here's here's a pull quote from the story.
Now, of course, these are mostly speculative scenarios, but none is impossible or even improbable.
The ways in which Bernie Sanders could actually win, he's meaning.
All derive directly from Sanders' strengths and Clinton's weaknesses and the dynamics and realities of the Democrat Party's nomination process.
Wasn't long ago, few would have even imagined Bernie Sanders could have posed any sort of threat.
Sanders might lose in the end, but his successes thus far and going forward make it more likely that Hillary will lose in the end, too.
And I think this guy is right on the money.
I think Calperin is right.
I and I think when it comes to Hillary, the drive-bys do not report the negatives or the problems in any way, shape, manner, or form close to truth.
They protect her.
They have to be.
She is the she's chosen one.
Until somebody comes along they like better, like Obama did 2008.
And then we come to Camille Paglia's piece.
How Bill Clinton is like Bill Cosby and what that means for Hillary.
And we will continue with this after the break.
Camille Paglia writes, headlined on the Drudge Report page right from the start when the Bill Cosby scandal surfaced.
I knew it was not going to bode well for Hillary's campaign, because young women today have a much lower threshold for tolerance of these matters.
The horrible truth is that the feminist establishment in the U.S., led by Gloria Steinem, did in fact apply a double standard to Bill Clinton's behavior because he was a Democrat.
The Democrat president and regime supported abortion rights.
Therefore it didn't matter what his personal behavior was.
And back then, America's feminists.
They went the way of Steinem.
But we're living in a different time right now, she writes, and young women have absolutely no memory of Bill Clinton.
disappoint by the way that we have made.
When I early on advised these Republican presidential guys just go after Hillary because the young have a totally jaundiced.
They have an inflated view of the Clintons based on media because they have no idea who these people really are.
They don't know anything about Linda Tripp.
They don't know anything about Monica Lewinsky.
Well, they may know a little bit about that, but they don't know the truth of it.
It's all been whitewashed in even in their textbooks in grade school, middle school, and high school.
Clintons have been written about as great guns, great guys, great people, wonderful Democrats, and all that.
I mean, there's a whole generation of people that wasn't either old enough or alive, paying attention back then, don't know the truth.
That's why this previous caller, why don't we have stories about cattle futures trading in Whitewaters?
Because the media thinks we've been there done that, and Hillary has survived it.
But Pollya makes the point here that we're living in a different time right now.
Young women have absolutely no memory of Bill Clinton.
It's like ancient history for them.
There's no reservoir of accumulated goodwill.
And the actual facts of the matter are that Bill Clinton was a serial abuser of working class women.
He had exploited that power differential even in Arkansas when he was governor.
And then, in the case of Monica Lewinsky, I mean the failure on the part of Gloria Steinem and Company to protect her was an absolute disgrace in feminist history.
What bigger power differential could there be than between the president of the United States and this poor innocent girl who was an intern whose life was ruined by this, and Clinton is made a hero to women?
Now, I added that, Paulia, those are not her words.
But it's the meaning here.
Not only an intern, but clearly a girl who had a kind of pleading open look to her, somebody who was looking for a father figure.
A cigar and the intern is certainly the opposite of sophisticated.
It was Frat House stuff.
And Monica Lewinsky got nothing out of it.
Bill Clinton used her.
Hillary was away or inattentive, and he used Monica in the White House and in the suite of the Oval Office of all places.
I'll tell you people a little story.
Some of you have heard this because you are lifers here.
But it was just a couple of months after George W. Bush was elected in 2000.
So this would have been March of 2001.
And I somehow was invited to a dinner at the White House featuring noted baseball stars.
You know, Bush was a former owner of the Texas Rangers.
No, no, I'm just, I'm, I know why I was there.
And I actually first met Bush when he was the owner of Texas Rangers, and I was there as his guest when George Brett finished his career, which happened to be in uh in Dallas at Arlington.
So anyway, I was invited, I think Joe Torrey was there, and Cal Ripkin and his wife, and Tom Glavin, Don Baylor.
What a great guy.
Don Baylor met Don Baylor.
What a great, great guy he is.
And after dinner, Bush gave us a tour.
And it was the most amazing.
We went to the Oval Office, and you know what everybody wanted to see?
They wanted to see the little room off the Oval Office where Clinton and Lewinsky went.
And when I saw that, you know, I I I just made a note of it.
Here we are in the Oval Office.
And granted the Clinton presidency just recently over, just months prior.
That was fresh in everybody's mind, but of all the things that have happened in the Oval Office.
It's not that, by the way, don't miss, they didn't ask Bush.
They were whispering among themselves.
It's not, Mr. President, will you show us where it wasn't that?
Don't misunderstand.
It's where did it happen?
Where did the where did Clinton take Lewinsky?
Where was it?
I, of course, happened to know.
It's just this little room.
There is an Oval Office suite, there's a study, there's a dining room, little bathroom.
And I just thought it's incredible that this is what everybody wanted to see.
And it was it spoke volumes about what Clinton was going to be remembered for.
I don't care.
Do all the foundations and all the libraries and massage parlors and charity and all that stuff, but he's he's never he's his post-presidency with all that charitable stuff and the foundations has been designed to overcome the Lewinsky heritage and legend and memory.
But he's not going to be able to, and Bill Cosby being around is not helping.
That's Camille Paglia's point.
She writes, he couldn't have taken her on some fancy trip.
I mean, she never got the perks of being a mistress, even.
She was there solely to serve him.
And her life was completely destroyed by the publicity that followed.
The Clintons are responsible for the destruction of Monica Lewinsky.
They probably hoped she'd just go on and have a job, get married, have kids, and disappear.
But instead, she's like this walking ghoul.
And Hillary has to answer for that.
A lot to answer for because she took an antagonistic and demeaning position toward all of her husband's accusers.
This is the point.
Hillary was part of the Bimbo eruptions team that was there to destroy the women who came forward to accuse her husband.
That's why Kathleen Williams started a website.
If you've been abused by Bill Clinton, let us know.
It's an attempt to recreate what has been learned about Bill Cosby.
So Palia writes, it's hard for me to understand how the generation of Lena Dunham would or could tolerate the actual facts of Hillary's history.
there's more to her piece here, but the answer is what it's always been.
Liberals, and this is simplistic, but liberals are liberals first, and then whatever their cause is next.
In this case, feminism.
It was never about feminism.
It's always about liberalism, and Clinton was the king of it.
Or Democrat Partyism, however you want to characterize it.
Just getting warmed up here, folks.
We got another big, exciting, busy broadcast hour straight ahead.
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