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July 31, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 31, 2015, Friday, Hour #2
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We have a blue moon tonight.
Well, today, blue moon.
You know what a blue moon is?
No, no.
Blue moon's not a moon that looks bigger than other moons.
No, that's a farmer's moon.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line.
Friday's tweet.
These trick questions.
A blue moon.
The song Blue Blue Blue Blue.
After today, the next one won't happen.
Like three years.
All it is the phenomenon where because all the various vagaries, there are two full moons in a month.
The blue moon is the second one.
That's the kind of useful stuff I know and can just pull out of my brain any time I need it, folks.
Happy to have you here, open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh on the well, this is the day.
Actually, it's it's a kind of a toss-up.
27th anniversary of the EIB network is August 1st, and this is July 31st, but we're not going to be working tomorrow, so we'll probably uh make uh a mention of it again on Monday.
But this is uh the end of the 27th year.
And starting Monday, we starting our 28th year, and it's open line Friday.
Great to have you.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882.
The email address is L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
I checked the email during the break.
You know, people ask this sometimes around these anniversaries.
And the question comes in a variety of different ways, but the essence of it is, did you expect it to last this long, or do you did you expect to still be doing this?
And the honest answer to that is yes, but not because I predicted that it would last a certain number of years or any of that.
It's it's instead it's an attitudinal thing.
When I moved to New York, the objective wasn't just to market jump and go to New York and call that a success.
I went to New York to actually try to become the most listened to talk show in the country.
Now, at the time I started, there weren't many.
And the other ones of any prominence were overnight during the nighttime hour, national ones, were at night and overnight.
There were none that had succeeded in the daytime, and that was because radio was perceived and still is largely to be local, local, local.
And at back in 1988, the idea of a syndicated national show that was not talking about local issues with local phone numbers was not considered something that would work.
And a bunch of people had tried it, and it just hadn't worked.
And so when I was kicking my effort off, a lot of people in the business wished me well, but didn't think it would work.
And I figured if it doesn't, if it didn't work, so what?
I mean, it I just joined a long line or a relatively short line of failures, but at least it would uh it would set me up for the next job.
But it ended up working, but I but the objective was to become a legitimate number one, not a media buzz number one, not not somebody who it was said that I had the most listen to show.
I wanted to be able to document it with data.
Uh ratings and the sort.
And then the other objective was to be in total control of how long I do it.
Uh I had a life goal of trying to get to a point in my life where I didn't have to do anything I didn't want to do professionally.
And I wanted to have enough control over what I was doing to be the one to determine how long it was going to last.
And that's really up to the audience when you get right down to it.
I mean, the host plays a role in that, obviously.
The host gets bored, loses passion, audience will figure that out and they'll go away.
So it really is is up to you people.
That's why I have this never-ending uh debt and gratitude for all of you that I'll probably never be able to repay because you're the ones who sustained all this.
But I the point is, I I fully, I didn't, I didn't go to New York to get in the top five or to get noticed or to get credit.
I wanted to be a legitimate number one, and I wanted to stay there.
And I had no idea what it was going to entail.
I mean, other than the work aspect, but I didn't, some of the vagaries had no idea what was good.
I'd learned a lot about I mean, success was entirely different than what I thought it was, for example.
It was nothing like what I thought it was.
And I learned that staying there is much harder than getting there.
Uh all these things.
But I there's some days I feel like August 1st, 1988 was just yesterday, honestly.
And some days it does seem like it was 26 or 27 years ago.
But I haven't lost the love or passion for what I do.
So that's the main thing about it.
And I just continue to be thankful that I have the opportunity to come here and do this every day.
It's just, it's it's it's so much fun, I can't describe it to you.
It's such a privilege and all that.
So yeah, I I had every intention of being a success.
And I I didn't have very many doubts that I could do it.
There's some, everybody has.
But I learned later in life, late in my radio career what a success track was.
I'd never had one until I moved to Sacramento.
And that knowledge changed perception of things.
And so it became a matter of of not being afraid of success, accepting it, building on it, and learning what worked and what didn't, what was important, what wasn't important about achieving the success and maintaining it, and then just continuing to do that.
And I've been very lucky that I found out what I loved and wanted to do when I was eight or nine years old.
And that has never changed.
And that's probably pretty unique.
Okay, now I'm going to do these 13 things.
Mentally strong people do not do.
I've been teasing, promising, committing to do this all week, but I have always ended up relegating it to lesser status because of the political news.
But I'm going to take the occasion, the opportunity of this being open line Friday, to do this.
I know I tease Ted Cruz and Romney.
We're going to get to that.
And the Trump news, all of it that you're expecting to come is going to happen on the program today.
But I ran into this, it was originally published on the 26th of July.
So five days ago, four or five days ago.
And it ran on Business Insider.
And it's it's not the 13 things mentally strong people do.
It's the 13 things mentally strong people do not do.
And it's from a book by Amy Moran.
And that's the title of the book, 13 Things Mentally Strong People Do not Do.
And essentially, it's about controlling your thoughts and your behavior and your emotions.
So according to this author, these are the 13 things.
And I don't know if they're any order of importance or priority.
So keep that in mind.
Number one is successful or mentally strong people do not waste time feeling sorry for themselves.
Because that is destructive.
Self-pity gets in the way of having a full, open and enjoyable life.
It wastes time.
It creates negative emotions.
It hurts relationships.
And it puts you in prison because all you're doing is thinking about yourself.
And when you start thinking about yourself, You fall into the trap of thinking everybody else is thinking about you.
And then the day's going to come when you're going to learn nobody's thinking about you and they don't care.
And then you're going to be really depressed and then really feel sorry for yourself.
So don't start that cycle by feeling sorry for yourself, period.
Number two, mentally strong people do not give away their power.
People give away their power when they lack physical and emotional boundaries, according to the author.
You need to stand up for yourself.
You need to draw the line when necessary.
If other people are in control of your actions, they define your success and your self-worth.
It is important that you keep track of your goals and work toward them.
Now she cites Oprah, the Oprah here as an example of somebody with a strong grip on their power.
Winfrey grew up dealing with poverty and sexual abuse, but she chose to define who she was going to be in life by not giving away her power.
I'm not sure that's the best example, but if you want to use it, go ahead.
It's a woman writing this, and those kind of things of Oprah's story, I'm sure, would resonate.
The sexual abuse and the lack of empowerment contained therein.
Some people have such low self-esteem, they don't even consider their own power.
They don't think about it.
Other people have been convinced power's bad.
Power is what CEOs use.
That's bad.
Power is what bosses use.
That's bad.
Power is what the U.S. military use.
That's bad.
Power is unfair.
Power is someone saying, I'm more important, I'm bigger than you.
And all of these are tricks to get you to give away your self-esteem, to get you to give away your ability to stand up for yourself.
Number three, they don't shy away from change.
There are five stages of change pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance.
And following through with each of the five steps is crucial.
Making change can be frightening.
It is.
People will literally paralyze themselves in a lot of ways because change is new.
That's the thing about change that people have the biggest problem with.
Everybody has a comfort zone, things that they like to do that they feel comfortable doing, being, saying, and any kind of change, oh, I don't know, I don't know.
But mentally powerful, tough people aren't afraid of it.
Number four, they don't focus on things they can't control.
Now you hear this all the time.
You hear it a lot from golfers.
You hear it a lot from sports people.
You hear it a lot from others being interviewed by people on TV.
Well, you know, I can only worry about things I can control.
It's become almost a cliche that people say because it sounds good, sounds mature, but to actually recognize it and to actually understand it and realize that there are things that you can't control, that it's a total waste of time being affected by those things, trying to change those things, total waste of time, and they all end up serving the purpose of diminishing you.
Because you end up realize, oh my God, I'm powerless.
I can't do anything.
I can't control.
That's not that's the negative worst example of it.
But it is a very, very important thing to be able to understand what you can't change, what you can't control, and deal with the things that you can.
Number five, they don't worry about pleasing everyone.
I think that one is the thing that has more people in personal prison than anything else.
Worrying about what other people think of you.
And everybody does.
It's it's impossible not to.
I'm I'm convinced it's part of the human DNA.
And then the way some of us are raised makes it even worse.
And you know who suffers more from this than anybody in the world?
The sons and daughters of the rich and prominent.
Their parents are constantly on them about the example they have to live up to, and about the expectations the world has of them or the country has of them.
And they are often warned not to embarrass the family.
Do not disgrace the family name.
And look at how many of them do.
Look at how many children of the wealthy and prominent blow it.
Make fools of themselves because it's huge, huge pressure.
Because they can't to go through life spending every waking moment worried about what somebody thinks of you.
You want to talk about power?
You are giving away power to people that you don't even know when you're worried about what they think, but particularly people you don't know, when you're worried about what they think of you.
You're giving people power like you can't believe.
And at the at the same time, you're assuming that they're better than you.
If you're worried about what they think, then what they think of you is more important than what you think of you and who you really are.
And then you start tailoring yourself to try to be what everybody, this person expects you to be.
And before you know it, you don't know who you are.
And then you become a phony.
Thank you.
Phony baloney, plastic banana, good time rock and roller.
It's the toughest thing in the world to not worry about what people think of you.
Particularly if you're a child and your parents are always, what are they gonna think of you if you get a D?
You know what people are gonna say?
Oh, I don't, I'm sorry, Mom.
I would it's just forced on us all the time.
But if you can escape this, if you can escape the prison of not worrying about what people think of you, you will be amazed at how your life will be different.
The major reason you will get rid of this assumption that everybody's better than you, or that everybody's more put together than you, or everybody's hipper, or everybody's more well adjusted than you are.
I mean, if you're gonna waste time worrying about other people think of you, you're automatically saying you're inferior to them.
That's a hell of a place to be.
I think this one is number one.
Number six, they don't fear taking calculated risks.
Doesn't need much extrapolation.
Uh number seven, they don't dwell on the past.
Tell you how I learned that one.
Well, I've I've told this story too many times.
I once was interviewing George Will.
Way, way back before this program even started, when I was working in Sacramento, and I asked him, you ever stay up after everybody's gone to bed at night, having adult beverage, you ever sit down in the dark and ponder what you mean to people.
Oh, no.
The question was silly.
I thought it was ridiculous.
He didn't have time for that.
He said he had to worry about what he had to do the next day.
And he meant it.
Uh don't dwell on the past.
Don't think how great you were.
Don't think how wonderful they thought of you back then.
Because tomorrow it doesn't matter.
There's more, got to take a break.
We are back, concluding the 13 things mentally tough people, mentally strong people do not do.
And by the way, I understand that if you're in a personal relationship, like a marriage or boyfriend, girlfriend or boyfriend, boyfriend, whatever, and being concerned with the other person thinks there are exceptions to all of this.
But I'm I'm referring to this mostly in an individualistic sense.
These things are all applicable in that regard.
Okay, number seven, they don't dwell on the past.
Number eight, they do not make the same mistakes over and over.
They learn when something doesn't work, and they don't keep proving it by trying it over and over.
It doesn't work, try something different.
Don't be obstinate and strong headed and prove that it's something will work when it doesn't.
Just this is not giving up, simply finding another way.
They do not resent mentally strong people, do not resent other people's success.
I think that's kind of what I thought.
That's kind of tough.
I think a lot of people resent other people's success, no matter who they are.
I think that's another.
I believe that mentally strong people are able to get past that, but I think that affects a lot of people.
That's human nature too.
Jealousy, envy.
Number 10, they don't give up after their first failure.
That's obvious.
Number 11, they don't fear being alone.
You think that's a tough one?
Being alone is tough for a lot of people.
I do my best work alone.
I've never been a collaborator.
I can't stand collaborating.
Collaborating holds me back.
Number 12, they don't think the world owes them anything.
And number 13, they don't expect immediate results.
They are content to wait a couple or three days for the welfare check to be deposited.
Open line Friday and back to the phones we go.
David, Los Gatos, California, near the Bay Area.
Great to have you, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, thanks.
How's this for an idea?
Let's push for chimpanzees to be categorized as persons based on 99% BNA match.
And then when that goes through, we point out that fetuses have a hundred percent DNA match and their persons as well.
He is bouncing off a story we just had that in New York some people tried to get a couple of chimpanzees to be declared human for the purposes of rights, human rights.
And they did it on the basis that, hey, their DNA, 99% matches ours.
They're really close.
And the judge said, I'm sorry, I can't do it yet, but the day's gonna come when it'll happen.
And the point is that here we have uh chimpanzees 99% DNA, and we're trying to get them personhood and 100% persons, if they happen to encounter planned parenthood, may as well not even be chimpanzees.
That's the point the caller is making.
And I'm all for any way of illustrating this that gets people's attention.
Because I think this is something a lot of people just don't even want to.
They don't they hear about it.
Yeah, I don't want to hear about it.
It's too I just it's one of those things, maybe if you don't think about it, it'll go away.
Maybe if you don't know about it, it isn't happening.
By the way, there's a little bit of a news update.
We had this yesterday, but uh Breitbart's running the story again.
Undercover investigator David Delydon, who made the videos with Planned Parenthood, told CNN today that the reason STEM Express, these are the people buying the butchered baby parts.
He told CNN the reason that STEM Express is trying to suppress the video he took of its CEO on May 22nd, the fourth video, this is the one.
We played the audio of it yesterday, where she describes an intact.
She doesn't use the word baby.
Uh yeah, we have an intact uh unit or intact birth or whatever.
I mean, they're they're dissecting sick, folks.
The dissecting a born baby.
And that video they're trying to get suppressed.
And the reason he says is because they don't want anybody to know.
STEM Express, the buyers, they don't want anybody to know that they actually ended up buying whole intact dead babies from Planned Parenthood.
They're the ones that did the dissecting.
And they they're they're working with Planned Parenthood to try to get the video suppressed.
And a judge did in California grant them a temporary restraining order.
So this group, uh the Leiden's group has sent video to the Texas attorney general in an attempt to head this one off at the pass.
But this guy was on CNN, and he said in a meeting with their top leadership, the STEM Express execs admitted they sometimes get fully intact fetuses.
That's a baby, folks.
They sometimes get fully intact fetuses shipped to their labs from the abortion clinics they work with.
And that could be all the evidence you need of born alive infants.
And so that's why they're trying to suppress that video tape, and they're very scared of it.
And I I think you're not seeing this, but the people at Planned Parenthood and STEM Express, there's a meltdown beginning here.
They know if this gets out and has a wide berth.
They know there's no way.
They can have the White House saying it's fake all day.
They can have Hillary Clinton saying, oh, this is very, very disturbing what these videos are doing.
But they know this.
Everything, no matter how horrible that people get away, everything has its limit, where at some point people will say no more.
At least you would hope.
And I think STEM Express and Planned Parenthood both know that this fourth video is it.
George in Cincinnati, your next open line Friday.
I'm glad you waited.
Hello, sir.
Hey, Rush, how are you today?
Very well, thank you.
Good, good.
Hey, I just want to make a comment on the whole Cecil the Lion situation.
Yeah.
I wonder, I don't remember the dentist's name, but I wonder if he were harvesting parts for dental research, would that make a difference in the uh people's view on this issue?
You mean from the lion?
Yeah.
If they videotape him harvesting tissue and samples, so he could do you know research or whatever they're doing.
Yeah.
Interesting question.
Answering you honestly, I don't think that he'd get away with it.
The reason is there's a picture of Cecil.
There's a picture of Cecil.
He's dead, but he looks like a lion.
He looks sitting there like your pet cat.
And the two guys, the hunters, are behind him, and it just looks the cutest thing.
And that picture, once you have created heart melt for the creature, that's what's not happened yet in Planned Parenthood, sir.
We've got videos of these people talking about what they're doing, but there's no video of what they're doing yet.
There aren't any pictures.
And let's face it, we become uh in many ways in our society.
We have to see it.
We have there has to be a picture of it before we establish an emotional connection.
So with even with that picture, if that guy came, hey, no, no, no, no, no.
I was just looking.
You know, we use cat gut for sutures.
And I was just looking maybe to strengthen sutures that I use in my dental practice by using lion gut.
I don't think it would work.
It's uh it's too late, and a cat's out of the bag, so to speak.
Uh for this for this dentist.
This dentist, it's over.
I I don't know what this guy can.
Well, I'll try.
Snerdley wants me to explain one thing that he doesn't understand.
What I'll try, but what?
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Well, Snerdley has a question.
Uh if something happened in Zimbabwe, which this did, why is the U.S. fish and wildlife service looking into it?
Well, by the same token, let's say that the marine barracks in Saudi Arabia are blown up.
The FBI will go up.
Why did the FBI go investigate Benghazi?
That was our consulate.
Uh the military.
Oh, okay.
Understandably, those are U.S. installations.
Well, but we have an extradition treaty with Zimbabwe.
But I get your point.
What's the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service doing?
Who are they?
They're a bunch of libs.
And they they they exist with the belief that they have total control over all of this.
This is an opportunity to advance the leftist agenda.
This whole thing with this lion is an attempt to advance the uh leftist agenda.
And this is exactly why fish and wildlife exists.
I'm not, don't misunderstand.
I'm not, I'm not uh supporting fish and wildlife.
I agree with you.
It's outrageous that they just assume for themselves that they have investigative powers in Zimbabwe.
But I would I don't know if Zimbabwe is officially welcomed them and said, Yeah, come on over.
We welcome your investigation if they're just talking and claiming that they're gonna go over there.
Um the FBI is, you know, the FBI does counter terrorism.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife does not.
Anyway, notice the clock.
Quick time out, my friends, much more straight ahead, the EIB Network and Open Live Friday.
Don't go away.
Okay, here's uh here's Luann in Morganton, North Carolina.
Great to have you on Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Uh happy anniversary, and I pray you never lose your passion.
Um the reason for my call is, you know, we look at World War II and we revere how we defeated Hitler for the atrocities that he and Germany did to six million Jews.
And yet I look at what America has been doing since 1973 to innocent lives, which should be protected under our constitution.
You know, life, liberty in the uh uh wait, wait, right there.
They're not.
Supreme Court 1973.
The the the reason right they have been denying that first right here, and this topic it it hurts me because in 1979, I was in an abusive marriage, and I had to make a choice.
That was before I became a Christian and before my eyes were opened to everything, but it still kills me every time I think back to the fact that I threw away a life that God had given to me, regardless of the circumstance.
You know, if I may stop you there, um I read something yesterday uh related to this at National Review Online, and it was written by Catherine Jean Lopez, who is an executive there.
She is uh she's a devout Catholic.
I know her.
And the piece that she wrote was in a manner of speaking, a suggestion to everybody talking about this latest episode at Planned Parenthood,
because one of the things she feared that a lot of people would not stop to consider is people like you, who have who have had your heart broken uh over this, and it's it's a it's a very obviously personal and shattering thing.
It's like uh Norma, what was her the the Roe in Roe vs.
Wade, Norma Kimberless name, she changed her mind.
I mean, she she was the plaintiff in the Supreme Court case and changed her mind later, Norma McCorby or something, but she became a pro-life individual and was racked with guilt.
And Catherine Jean Lopez was reminding every people like me, and anybody talking about this to keep in mind that as you talk about this, it's a very, very real and heartbreaking thing to uh a number of women who may realize later in their lives.
So it was just a it was a cautionary piece.
You know, don't forget that as you talk about this, you're you're you may be awakening very horrible feelings in the hearts and minds of a lot of uh people.
Um I thought it was uh an excellent point, and you are illustrating it and making that I appreciate your call, Lou Ann.
Thanks much.
Uh this is Dylan in uh Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Great to have you.
Welcome to the program.
Hi.
Thanks, Russ.
How are you doing today?
I'm doing well, sir.
Thank you.
Uh the uh I'll I'll get quickly to the point.
The thing that seems to just be confusing me is The past week is the majority of media for some odd reason that I I just can't seem to wrap my head around why.
Everybody is so broken up about this liar.
And I mean, I've I've been listening to you and some of the others on the radio and whatnot, and some of the callers have just been absolutely irate over this liar.
Well, don't lump me in with that bunch because we haven't taken any of those calls.
Not by design.
We just have it, unless Snergley is purposely uh sending them off to the savannah.
Uh but we haven't gotten any.
But look, I I can explain this to you.
I understand both.
I understand why.
You have people outraged and crying and heartbroken over what happened to the lion.
I can totally, and I can understand at the same time why the media does not want to report about Planned Parenthood.
Those two things, given everything that I know about our culture today, I can make total sense of.
I mean, well, I can explain to you in ways you would understand.
The animal business, that's easy.
I mean, we've we've uh we've humanized animals for all of our lives.
We make cartoons of them, talking and behaving and interacting as human beings, but at the same time we make pets out of them.
I mean, pretty much everything but the shark.
The shark is still feared, hated, reviled, and has no love except other shark researchers.
But the shark, I mean, and maybe a snake.
I think people hate snakes.
I think if this guy had hunted and killed a giant python, not like anybody would care.
I don't know.
When was the last cartoon show about Sammy the snake that was everybody's buddy?
You know, and walked with uh other figures in a cartoon show.
You just don't make it sharks, snakes.
Uh there may be a couple other examples, but everything else we've made into cuddly.
Human, warm, cuddly pets, even wild, untamable predator animals.
And I totally understand.
I mean, look at to a lot of people, an animal is exactly what an infant is, essence of innocence.
And if you leave it alone, it won't hurt you.
It has no ill designs on you.
It's I understand that totally.
And I also understand what the drive-by media doesn't want to get anywhere near the Planned Parenthood story because they don't want to undermine their cause.
They are not going to undermine the Democrat Party agenda.
They're just not going to do it.
So there's a lot, a lot of teachable moments here in this one issue, particularly the Planned Parenthood issue.
There are all kinds of teachers.
If anybody has any doubts, and it's hard for me to believe people still do, but there may be some.
If there anybody has any doubts about the media no longer being the media, about the news and about being objective, this ought to show them.
So if you have your finger on the pulse of the American society and American culture, you can you can explain both of these things.
People being torn apart over what happened to the lion.
It's no more complicated than a picture.
And then the details.
You want me to give you the details?
This dentist about whom no one will ever feel sympathy.
Nobody is ever going to feel a bit as this guy when hunt.
I'll tell you something else.
This is a giant subliminal attack on all hunting.
Make no mistake.
This guy gets his bow and arrow.
Do you know that Cecil survived 40 hours after the bow and arrow strike?
And the media is describing the horrible horrible hours he had to endure, the inhumanity, the cruelty.
I mean, I totally understand why people are.
Okay, one big exciting busy broadcast hour remains of open line Friday.
We come back.
Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, and the presidential campaign.
Sit tight, my friends.
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