Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And once again, ladies and gentlemen, we open the program with your beloved host under siege.
Yes, indeed, your beloved host, maligned, impugned, misrepresented, lied about.
Normally, I don't deal with this stuff, but this is going to be fun fixing this.
So, sit tight.
Rush Limbaugh back at you at 800-282-2882.
Email address lrushbo at eibnet.com.
I don't know if this is real.
You know, Twitter has got so much junk on it, and Twitter is such a sewer.
This is not to do with me.
Apparently, Clinton has tweeted a happy birthday to Obama.
And you want me to read it to you?
Hey, happy birthday, POTUS.
Hopefully, when Flotus isn't looking, you can have some cake.
Hopefully, when Flotus, First Lady United, hopefully, when your wife's not looking, you can have some cake.
Listen from Bill Clinton, if there's an expert on what to do when your wife isn't looking, it's Bill Clinton.
Actually, Clinton's an expert on what to do when your wife is looking.
And then your wife serves as the bumper to protect you.
What a funny tweet.
Hey, happy birthday, Obama.
Hopefully, when wife isn't looking, you can have some cake.
Yeah, and eat it too.
Another Planned Parenthood video.
They just keep topping themselves.
Now we're dealing with cadavers, folks.
Fetus cadavers.
I'm going to save this for later.
We have a couple audio sound bites of it from the latest video, despite the best efforts of some Obama-appointed federal judge and his abortion activist wife to suppress the videos.
They just keep coming.
Of course, we had the candidates forum in New Hampshire last night with CNN doing the honors.
We have audio sound bites of that, analysis of that.
What else we have?
Polling data.
Oh, you know, folks, this is Planned Parenthood.
The Republican Senate could not come up with the votes to defund murder.
The Republicans, I don't know what I was thinking of.
The Republican Senate couldn't come up with the votes to defund Planned Parenthood.
You can't.
If we can't get the votes to defund what's going on at Planned Parenthood, does anybody really think we're going to get any tax cuts down the road?
Does anybody think we're really going to get any budget cuts down the road?
Does anybody really think anything is going to get smaller?
If we can't even defund Planned Parenthood, oh yeah, that and a lot of stuff coming up.
But yesterday, remember there was the story about Dan Price, who has the credit card processing company out in Seattle.
Back in April, you know the drill here.
He announced that he read $70,000 is the magic salary.
Everybody that makes $70,000 is pretty happy, pretty productive.
And so he made a decision that everybody at his company in Seattle was going to be paid $70,000, including him.
He was earning over a million.
He cut his own salary down to $70,000.
New hires got $70,000.
The most experienced people there got $70,000.
The slackers got $70,000.
The great workers got $70,000.
Everybody got $70,000.
Now the place is falling apart.
He has admitted it didn't work.
He's now having to rent his home out.
He is in such bad shape.
But if you live in Norfolk, Virginia, and you were watching WKTR-TV Eyeball News Channel 3 at 4 yesterday afternoon, you would be convinced that all of this is my fault.
Well, because it was reported.
I mean, this is another great object lesson here in how little you can believe even your local drive-by news.
The first thing they do, they claim that I called Dan Price a communist.
I did not call him a communist.
And even if I did, so what?
But I didn't.
Meanwhile, Price is the guy who told the New York Times he's in trouble.
The New York Times admitted that me, I, and two other critics were right about this.
And they did that even without any snark.
And yet to your local drive-bys, Dan Price is the hero.
And guess who the villain is?
Your beloved host, El Rushbo, who had nothing to do with this other than accurately predicting it wasn't going to work.
The infobabe here is Barbara Ciara.
And here's the report about a reported backlash against Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price.
Dan Price, the CEO of a credit card processing company, proposed a plan to pay his workers a minimum of $70,000 each.
He recently made the announcement to a cheering crowd of his employees, but not everyone is too happy about his ambitious idea.
Two longtime workers, angry that new workers would make as much as veterans, quit.
Some clients have also bailed.
They fear they will be charged more to compensate for all the salary bumps.
Talk show host Rush Limbaugh is even calling Smith a socialist and communist for making everyone's pay the same.
Meanwhile, Smith says he's taking a personal hit, but he's hopeful his plan will work and inspire other businesses to make the same move.
Now, what is this infobabe missing in this story?
She's reported this as though this just happened yesterday.
The story is too much.
Well, April, May, May, June.
It's four months old.
The guy's been doing this.
He starts out, the CEO of credit card processing company proposed a plan to pay his workers a minimum.
They recently made the announcement to a cheering crowd of, well, yeah, four months ago.
But the lawsuits and the employees' bailing is four months after the plan was implemented.
Not because the plan was implemented.
It's because the plan didn't work.
He's being sued and employees are bailing because it didn't work, not because he implemented the plan.
I don't know how I end up in this story on WTKR-TV.
I mean, I'm honored to be there.
Don't misunderstand.
I'm honored to be in the story, but I don't know how this is about me.
What in the world do I have to do?
All I did was accurately characterize back in April what this was and why it wasn't going to work.
And I was proven to be true.
I'll tell you, folks, you know what happens?
They read Media Matters and they get these little tidbits and they think it's news and they think it's current and they run with it.
So anyway, if you live in Roanoke and you saw that report at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, I just wanted to correct the record.
It's close, but it's not right.
And me being in this obviously is to portray me as a villain.
This guy's a nice guy.
This is a guy.
He's the one who wants to pay everybody the same.
He's the guy who wants everybody to be equal.
I am the villain to come along and rain on everybody's parade.
And even well, is that right?
Listen again.
I didn't catch that.
We're going to listen to this again for one thing.
I'm not going to tell you what it is.
Let me just see if he says that.
Play this one more time.
Dan Price, the CEO of the credit card processing company, proposed a plan to pay his workers a minimum of $70,000 each.
He recently made the announcement to a cheering crowd of his employees, but not everyone is too happy about his ambitious idea.
Two longtime workers, angry that new workers would make as much as veterans, quit.
Some clients have also bailed.
They fear they will be charged more to compensate for all the salary bumps.
Talk show host Rush Limbaugh is even calling Smith a socialist and communist for making everyone's pay the same.
Meanwhile, Smith says he's taking a personal hit, but he's hopeful his plan will work and inspire other businesses to do it.
She keeps calling him right.
She keeps calling him Dan Smith.
His name is Dan Price.
The last two times she mentioned his name, she calls him Smith.
A broadcast engineer was exactly right.
That's why we had to listen to this a second time.
It's Dan Price.
He gets called Smith the last two times he's referenced.
Anyway, that would be Barbara Ciara, the infobabe there at WTKR-TV news channel Eyeball News 3 with the latest on news from April.
And John Boehner, folks, we now know.
There's no doubt.
We now know.
The lid has been blown or raised.
This is last night on the golf channel show Faherty.
John Boehner guest hosting with David Faherty, who has a show on the golf channel.
He's an on-course reporter on CBS for golf tournaments.
And David Faherty said to Boehner, now once you turn your radio, you've got to hear this.
This is going to explain a lot to you.
Is there less partisanship today than there used to be?
20 years ago, when we won the first Republican majority in 40 years, there was one radio talk show host that nobody had ever heard of.
There was one cable news channel that just did news.
And you look at today, you've got hundreds of radio talk show hosts all trying to outdo themselves, right, going further right and further right and further right.
You've got all these cable news channels and all they do are politics.
And it's tending to either push or pull people into one of two camps.
Okay, now that's the first.
We've got two more sound bites here from Speaker Boehner.
He continued with this one.
If I get on to see President Obama, the right begins to wonder what I'm up to.
The left begins to wonder what the president's up to.
The president's suggested, hey, you think it's too much trouble if we play golfing, man?
And I have to look at him and say, yes.
So Boehner can't play golf with Obama because of us.
He can't play golf because he's afraid talk radio and Fox News are going to wonder what he's up to.
And maybe, well, I don't know, reading his mind, think that we're going to say he's selling out or that Obama's doing whatever.
He'd love to play golf with Obama, but he can't now because of talk radio.
Because 20 years ago, there was just one guy nobody ever heard of who would be me.
Yeah, there was a guy.
Right.
20 years ago, when we won the Republican majority, first time 40 years, there was one radio talk show host that nobody ever heard of.
That talk show host was made an honorary member of that freshman class.
Spoke at the orientation.
Anyway, here's the next Beterbyte.
Faherty says, Well, at what point did you start to believe, hey, maybe I can do this?
Some people were pushing me to run for the Senate.
I decided I didn't want to do that.
And I made a decision that the rest of my career was going to be in the U.S. House.
So the team said to me, all right, well, the rest of your career is going to be in the House.
What's your goal?
I didn't know.
So I said, well, if you don't shoot for the top, why shoot for anything?
So I said, my goal is to be speaker.
And there you have it.
So he says his goal in Congress was to become speaker.
I understand it's an expressed career goal.
What do you want to do in the House?
But that's a you know, it's kind of a slow-pitch curveball, hanging curveball to say what you would kind of like to do as a member of Congress.
Like, yeah, we want to go in there and reduce the size of government.
We wanted to get rid of burdensome regulations.
It was a perfect opportunity to actually define what you wanted to do in the House.
And he just did, is he wanted to become Speaker?
And he's reached the goal.
He's reached the goal.
Okay, so, but there you have it.
I mean, that pretty much, you wonder what the Republicans in Congress are up to.
They are deeply resentful.
And they think that they're being held prisoner.
20 years ago, we won the first Republican majority.
40 years, there was one radio talk show host nobody had ever heard of.
Might not have won that majority otherwise.
I mean, it's possible, but can't say for sure.
There was one cable news channel just did news.
That was CNN, but that's not CNN was doing wall-to-wall liberal politics and some occasional news at night.
But CNN was wall-to-wall, just like it is now.
The only reason it had an audience then is that it was the only one doing what they're doing.
So if you listen to the Speaker of the House, their problems began precisely at the time that the new alternative conservative media came to life.
If you want to analyze it, the Speaker of the House is saying that the biggest problem they've got is this newly birthed 20, 25 years ago, conservative media.
Because of that, he can't play golf with Obama, which is, I guess, where they could do some deals.
And, well, I don't think he's even talking about the audience here.
I don't even think it gets that deep.
I think they're just they.
You watch this.
This is going to feed this.
This comedy is going to feed every liberal blog and every liberal news outlet which has accused them of being prisoners and accused me of being the titular head of the Republican Party and all that.
This is going to confirm it and the stories are going to be House Republican leaders afraid of.
They've tried to run that story over and over again, get it to stick, but they've never had it admitted to by actual Republican leaders.
Quick time out folks.
We got to take a break and we will be right back.
By the way, for the record, I have played golf with John Boehner Down here, where we live in South Florida.
And I haven't had time to do an extensive search, but I didn't recall, I don't recall ever ripping Boehner for playing golf with Obama.
So I just did, didn't have time for a deep search, did a brief search on this, at least on my website.
And we found a comment that I made about Boehner and golf from 2011, in which I said, quote, I'm sure he would never admit this, but I'm sure that Boehner in part relished the opportunity to go out there and just shellac Obama on the golf course.
That's the only example we can find so far.
It's a quick search of me talking about Boehner playing golf with Obama.
Boehner's a single-digit handicap.
He's an excellent golfer.
And Obama is not.
And I made that comment knowing full well.
I mean, I know how things work on the golf course.
And everybody tries to act like the amateur, the poor player.
Not a big deal.
Nobody thinks it's anything of you.
Nobody remembers it after the rounds.
But believe me, you have a foursome where two or three people play pretty well and the fourth doesn't.
Everybody's embarrassed for the guy that can't play well, including the guy who can't play well.
He tries to act like nobody notices, but everybody does.
And just like anything else in life, everybody leaves the golf course.
You know, what's this?
Man, this has no game, just can't play.
Everybody feels good about their own game.
So I was just assuming that Boehner, after playing golf with Obama, would really be feeling his oats because we've heard Obama can't play and Boehner is good, a single-digit handicap.
I might have commented on whether or not I thought it was a mistake for Boehner to go play with him, but we're going to have to do a deeper search than that.
Anyway, that's that.
Gawker, quickly here, before we run out of time, Gawker has gotten hold of one of Donald Trump's cell phone numbers.
They gave it out.
Here is what, Grab Soundbite 26.
This is what Donald Trump did when he found out that Gawker publicized one of his cell phone numbers.
Hi, this is Donald Trump, and I'm running for the presidency of the United States of America.
With your help and support, together we can make America truly great again.
Visit me and Twitter at RealDonald Trump and check out my campaign website at www.donaldtrump.com.
Hope to see you on the campaign trail.
We're going to do it.
He would chase his voicemail so that all of these harassing phone calls that Gawker tried to generate would actually hear Trump inviting them to join his campaign.
You have to like that rather than get all mad at Gawker and go bonker.
And Lindsey Gramnesty, for all intents and he had a great response to when Trump gave out his number.
And that was to make a video of him destroying his phone.
All right.
I'm going to decide what to do next during this break coming up here.
And when we come back, you'll find out what it is I've decided to do next.
So don't go away.
And welcome back.
El Rushbo, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
I single-handedly, in one day, look what we have learned about your beloved host.
I single-handedly am the reason Dan Price's company is not working.
Your host, because I analyzed that his decision to pay everybody 70 grand would not work.
It's my fault it didn't work.
And we have just learned that I, your host, am the reason the Republican House feels trapped and unable to do what they would really like to do.
All because 20 years ago we had this talk show host who nobody ever heard of, who has now spawned countless other talk shows, each trying to outdo the other, Boehner said, moving far right.
Then we've got Fox News over here pushing everybody far right, making compromise impossible because everybody's being pushed into one of two camps.
And it's all my fault.
I'm the guy nobody ever heard of 20 years ago.
Actually, they all heard of me 20 years.
It's 27 years ago, by the way, and they all knew who I was by the time 1994 came around.
What he means by that is when I burst on the scene with this program, nobody knew who I was because I was not a networker type guy.
I'd not spent a lot of time getting to know politicians in Washington.
I just did my show in Sacramento.
So to people like that, I did come out of nowhere.
There's a guy nobody ever heard of.
But look at this, in just one half hour, look at all, that is my fault.
And I'm sure before we're finished, that will not be all.
Before this is all over, I'm going to be blamed for whatever's happening at Planned Parenthood.
Or we in conservatism will be blamed for what is happening at Planned Parenthood because we're the ones telling you about it.
And if we weren't hyping it, if we weren't talking about it, you wouldn't know it.
You wouldn't feel bad.
And therefore, everything would be better.
Well, the latest in Planned Parenthood, these videos from the group that has Center for Medical Progress that's made these videos, you know, every time they release videos, you think, my God, how much worse can it get?
It can't get any worse.
And then each new release, it gets worse.
Fifth Planned Parenthood video turns to intact fetuses.
Now, the fourth video alludes to this.
The fifth video gets descriptive.
How about this is a pull quote.
Yeah, we had a really long day, and they're all mixed up together in a bag, meaning the aborted fetuses.
Yeah, man, we had a really long day.
Much of the new video is dedicated to discussions of the higher prices of intact fetuses.
May I give you a different way of describing an intact fetus?
An intact fetus that is in a bag with other intact fetuses getting mixed up would otherwise be called a baby.
And until somebody explains to me how it isn't, then I shall continue to refer to it as such.
I know it makes a lot of people nervous.
Seems like a lot of things, just discussing them these days.
They're making a lot of people nervous.
And a lot of people would prefer you just not talk about it because they don't want to feel nervous or whatever.
But much of this fifth video highlights Melissa Farrell, who is director of research for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast.
And she notes that Planned Parenthood is able to alter our process to obtain intact fetal cadavers.
Says it's all just a matter of line items.
Yeah, just a matter of line items, as in budget line items.
At the 9-minute 45-second mark, video takes a turn as the undercover reporters ask if there are any fresh specimens to look at.
And a planned parenthood worker on the video bursts into laughter.
Another says, we had a really long day and they're all mixed up together in a bag.
But these two Planned Parenthood workers do display the remains of a 20-week-old twin picking through the lungs, the intestines, and a limb.
This is Planned Parenthood, the taxpayer-subsidized entity that aborts babies and throws them in bags, and which the Senate yesterday could not find the votes to defund.
So, let's go to the audio soundbites and give it a listen.
This is on the Center for Medical Progress website, new undercover video, number five, behind the scenes at a Planned Parenthood Clinic.
Now, in this video, an unidentified buyer spoke with the director of researcher Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, whose name is, I say, Melissa Farrell.
And they're talking about the Texas Planned Parenthood Branch track record of fetal tissue sales, including its ability to deliver fully intact fetuses at the abortion clinic headquarters at Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast in Houston.
The buyer says, now, look, if a provider is needing to change the technique a little bit, even though I know I'm going against my side on this, but okay, I'm with you saying, no, I want you to be paid per specimen.
I mean, this is what we're looking for.
And if you can do that and it's compensated to you financially, that's helping you to grow your clinic, and I'm willing to do that.
If we alter our process and we are able to obtain intact fetal cadavers, then we can make it part of the budget that any dissections are this, and splitting the specimens into different shipments is this.
I mean, that's it's all just a matter of line items.
They're just discussing the sale of intact fetal cadavers.
Aborted babies.
Now, of course, they do this without any guilty consciences because it isn't a baby if the mother doesn't want it.
And according to Nancy Pelosi, it's not a baby until the mother leaves the hospital with it.
And according to some liberals, it's not a human being while it is fully dependent on its mother, which could mean that a liberal adult would be considered a fetus, given that they always remain totally dependent on somebody other than themselves.
But the cavalier way in which intact fetal cadavers are discussed, yeah, well, we can make it part of the budget.
Any dissections are this, splitting the specimens into different shipments.
I mean, that's all just a matter of line items.
However, we want to account for it.
Like if you want a couple lungs here, if you want to take a leg from over there, it's just a matter of how we dissect this, count it up.
That's all.
And then the buyer says, well, with your financial background, I mean, you can see the benefit of this financially.
I'm glad you have that background.
I think everyone realizes, especially design department, So much to the bottom line of our organization here.
You know where you want to go.
Our research department so far too large and our affiliates can find.
Now, that's at a restaurant over lunch.
She's bragging about how much she contributes to Planned Parenthood's bottom line with the sale of intact fetal cadavers.
And the guy's setting her up.
I mean, the guy is complimenting her on her background, her financial background, how she sees the financial benefit of this operation.
So he's praising her, and she just returns it right back.
Well, I think everybody realizes, especially because my department contributes so much to the bottom line of Planned Parenthood here that, you know, we're one of the biggest affiliates.
Our research department is the largest in the U.S. Larger than any other affiliates combined.
Meaning, they're selling a lot more body parts in there at Gulf Coast Houston Planned Parenthood than any other Planned Parenthood at least.
That is her brag.
So that's the highlights of the fifth video.
And there will be more.
As you all know, that's just the highlights.
Quick time out here, folks.
We continue after this.
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And even the good times.
Okay, let's hit the phones and find out what's lurking out there.
We're going to start St. Paul, Minnesota with Chris.
Welcome, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hey, thanks for having me, Rush.
You love the show.
Bet, sir.
Thank you.
So, well, I was calling.
My wife actually works the operating room at Planned Parenthood here in St. Paul.
She takes care of a number of procedures, one of which is abortions.
But one of the doctors from the St. Paul location here was interviewed.
And what happened was when they posted those videos to YouTube, that they've been cut up and edited to really chastise Planned Parenthood.
And I just don't think that all the facts are straight.
Planned Parenthood does a lot of good things and not just baby killing and now, I guess, throwing fetuses into bags.
It's rather hard to believe.
Wait a minute.
Planned Parenthood does a lot of good things, not just baby killing and throwing fetuses into bags.
Yes, Planned Parenthood does.
They offer STD testing and treatment for people who can't afford it.
Do they do mammograms at Planned Parenthood?
I believe they do.
No, they don't.
You can't get a mammogram at Planned Parenthood.
But it's not a trick question.
I just heard that the other day.
Well, Chris, I really thank you.
You have done a better job than I because you come to the program with validation and authority.
Your wife works there.
They do more than kill babies and throw them in bags.
That's better than I could have said it.
The tapes are edited.
However, you can go to the Center for Medical Progress website and watch every one of these tapes in its entirety.
Of course, when they've got three hours, they have to edit it just like 60 Minutes.
A highly respected news organization edits tape, just like WW whatever it was in Norfolk, Virginia, edits tape.
Just like we here at the EIB network edit tape in order to fit time-wise.
But unlike people that edit tape such as NBC News, which edited a 911 call of the Trayvon Martin case to give an entirely different characterization of what really happened, we don't do that.
And neither did this bunch.
I mean, the people that work at Planned Parenthood are speaking here for 20, 30, 40 seconds, unedited.
I mean, it's inescapable what they're doing.
And you're the first guy that's called and said that it really isn't happening.
They're not even denying it it's happening, but the only defense they've got is that the tapes are edited, so forth.
But I wouldn't worry about it, Chris.
The U.S. Senate couldn't even defund Planned Parenthood yesterday.
So I don't think you have anything to worry about.
And I don't believe your wife has anything to worry about.
And I don't think Planned Parenthood has anything to worry about.
Because if the U.S. Senate cannot defund them after, vote to defund them after what we've learned, then it's kind of all academic.
David in Palm Springs, California, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush Dittos.
Thank you, sir.
I wanted to talk to you about why conservatives always win in the arena of ideas, but always lose in the arena of emotions.
Fine, have at it.
In emotions, it's a contest between altruism versus individualism.
You believe in individual rights, right?
Well, of course.
That's your moral base.
Well, yeah, but I mean, it goes beyond individual rights.
It's individual responsibility.
Rights and responsibilities are two different things, and we all have individual rights.
You have an emotional response to concepts that involve individual rights, which is different than people who have altruism as their moral base.
They have a different emotional response.
If a program is for the poor and the unfortunate, they have an emotional response and favor it.
True.
No arguments.
Trump individualism, to use, not to use Trump's name, but.
I know what you mean.
You're saying that the traditional argument would be, okay, so here we have some destitute people over here.
And one group of people say, oh, my God, that's so bad.
We've got to help them.
We've got to give them something.
We've got to help them.
Oh, my God.
And there's a group over here that says, no, you're just going to make it worse.
We've got to teach them to help themselves.
Easy for you.
And the people that say, nope, we've got to teach them to help themselves end up being portrayed as mean-spirited, heartless, cold-hearted, whatever, and the altruistic, my God, we've got to do something.
They are the great ones.
Is that your point?
Yes, and that's what Planned Parenthood is doing.
Oh, the left does it constantly.
You're exactly right about this.
I don't mean to convey that I'm arguing with you.
I'm thinking about this in a further down the road way, because there's something I happened to see on TV the other night.
And while I'm talking to you, I'm trying to ask myself if I can reconstruct this from memory well enough to get into it or whether I should wait and look at it again.
So I'm doing all that while I'm listening to you.
But you're exactly right.
Liberalism is the pursuit of emotion.
Conservatism is the pursuit of the intellect or the pursuit of intelligence being smart.
Yes.
And we are being governed.
Some people have said that the most powerful political force in America today is the ignorant, low-information voter.
If that's true, one of the things that characterizes them is what you would call in your argument here, their altruism.
Yes.
They just want to help everybody, including Cecil LaLion.
They just want to help everybody.
And if you don't agree, then you are cold-hearted, mean-spirited, and evil.
And yeah, I understand.
The problem with this, and you're right, the problem with the alt-there's no way of talking the altruistic out of the mistakes they're making.
No, it's the same as arguing religion.
You believe it or you don't?
Well, yeah.
Look, to a point, I agree with that.
Psychologically, yeah, it's pretty.
The question then becomes: status quo like this isn't going to work.
There has to be a way, we think, of getting through to the people you're calling the altruistic, who only want to help, who get sucked in by good intentions.
And it's been probably the argument that societies have had for gazillions of years to boot when federal money's involved.
Okay, folks, another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence, a busy broadcast hour in the can.
On the way over to the Limbaugh Broadcast Museum at rushlimbaugh.com.