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Nov. 5, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 5, 2015, Thursday, Hour #2
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So I got some emails.
Well, you you just make this stuff up.
A gay guy and his son want to get married.
Right.
No, I'm not making it up.
You need you you people on the left.
You have to understand something.
We don't lie here.
I don't have to.
There's nothing in it for me to lie.
I don't win or gain a thing by turning people to my point of view if I'm lying to them.
Because it isn't gonna hold.
You gotta stop this projection business.
I don't have to lie talking about you.
You people are weird.
You do strange things.
Now the drive-by's don't refer to it as oddball, cookie or strange, we do.
Here you go.
This is a wash it in the post.
These gay men became father and son, now they want to get married, but can't.
For 45 years, Nino Esposito and Drew Bossi have been married in almost every sense of the word.
Except in the sense of the word that has been in use for the last few thousands of years.
They haven't been married, only in this new cock-eyed cockamamy world, where words don't mean anything, have they been essentially married for 45 years?
That's how screwball this is.
For 45 years, Nino Esposito and Drew Bossi have been married in almost every No, they haven't.
It's not have been possible.
But who's to quibble?
Let's move on.
Both retired, they spend their days in the garden and in the kitchen.
Where Esposito needs K-N-E-A-D-S, his own Italian bread.
Oh, what a guy.
What a guy needs his own bread.
There isn't a day that one or the other will leave the house without the other.
Not for doctor's appointments or groceries or anything else.
They never strand each other alone, even if it's at home.
Well, that right there tells you that they're not really married.
Just kidding.
Lighting up, smile on.
She's laughing.
She knows she got it.
No, they're just perfectly well-adjusted normal people.
They need their own Italian bread.
They're two guys, been essentially married for 45 years.
We haven't even gotten to the big crux of this yet.
Just hang in there be tough, folks.
Together, the two men have long had every assurance that they're family.
Every assurance that is but a legal one.
Yes.
Esposito, that would be Nino Esposito.
He's the one who likes to need his own Italian bread in the kitchen.
He's 78.
And Drew Bossi is 68.
And they sought to change the legal status in 2012 before Pennsylvania legalized same-sex marriage in 2014, before the Supreme Court did the same thing for the entire country this summer.
So Bossi, who is 68, allowed his partner to adopt him.
As both of their pairs of parents were deceased, they had no issues with legal guardianship, and they chose to make Esposito the father by virtue of the fact he was 10 years older.
See how easy it is to change the definition of father.
All you have to do is need your own Italian bread in your own kitchen and be ten years older than a guy you adopted.
It's easy.
And so was it says here the adoption process.
Now, silly old me.
I've I've been thinking all these years it's against the law to have sex with your adopted children.
Well, am I wrong about that?
Am I wrong about it?
What it is that is that what's Woody Allen got to do with this?
Well, come on, Woody Allen.
I mean, at least.
No, there is no, at least, you're right.
Um, let me just continue here with the with the story.
I I I I thought there was a legal prohibition against.
Anyway, three years later, after the legalization of same-sex marriage, Nino Esposito, uh 78 years old, needs his own Italian bread in his own kitchen, and Drew Bossi have found that claiming their newfound right to be husband and husband is a lot trickier.
Pennsylvania is one of 25 states and territories that consider relations between adoptive parents and their adult children to be incest.
Oh, no!
No!
Anyway, Esposito and Bossi thought it wouldn't be right to get married without having their adoption annulled first.
That's a new one on.
Did you know that adoptions can be annulled?
I'm not, folks don't know.
I'm not saying they can be.
This is I haven't heard of this.
Do you call the Vatican on this?
Where do you go to annul an adoption?
So they were excited to go before Allegheny County at Pittsburgh.
Allegheny County Lawrence and Judge Lawrence O'Toole this June.
O'Toole had a reputation of being progressive on LGBT issues.
He signed one of the first same-sex marriage licenses to be legally recognized in Pennsylvania.
But the judge chose to defer to the appellate courts, scrawling denied on the order.
The Pittsburgh couple were shocked.
They had brought along $80 to pay for a marriage license as soon as the proceedings were over.
Now that cash would go unused.
Really?
Buy some bread or buy the dough to take back to home to need in the kitchen.
Anyway, the uh the tears, I'm sure streaming from your eyes over this story by now.
The ACLU, hopeful that the Superior Court will apply established legal principles to allow the annulment of adoptions by same-sex couples so that they can finally get married.
So don't send me notes and tell you that I tell me I make things up.
Here you have a same-sex couple with one of them adopted and they and they want to get married.
And they're being told no.
And they don't understand it.
And frankly, I don't either, because once you open the door and break down the whole definition, why can't they get married now?
What's the deal?
Is this this little technicality on the adoption?
So what?
What should that matter?
What's in their hearts is what matters, right?
They're in love.
That's all that should matter here.
Which takes us to Houston.
The LGBT bathroom ordinance losers are now asking the National Football League to cancel a Super Bowl scheduled for Houston in 2017.
Not the upcoming Super Bowl.
The Super Bowl in 2017.
Losers in the Houston bathroom ordinance election are saying that they're going to boycott Houston's economy and are asking the NFL to move the Super Bowl.
Houston has got it in 2017.
A hashtag campaign on Twitter has been begun called slash boycott Houston, or hashtag boycott Houston on the day after the defeat of the bathroom ordinance.
A change.org petition was initiated to call upon the NFL to boycott.
Sites like Raw Story also criticized the methods used by the opponents of the ordinance and reported that sites such as Outsports were asking the NFL to move the 2017 Super Bowl.
We're talking about what one-tenth of one percent of the population doing a boycott.
Anyway, on this Houston bathroom story, there's a story in the Houston Chronicle today headline Ad Man relishes success in anti-hero campaign.
And they've got a screen grab here of the ad, and it's of a little girl, six, seven-year-old little girl, look it's in the bathroom looking up at what is obviously an adult male, looking a little frightened, a little unsure, a little curious, as in, you're not my daddy.
What are you doing here?
The faceless man in plaid, clearly masculine, clearly menacing, was deliberate in the ad.
The little girl's attire of black Mary Jane shoes and bobby socks, utterly innocent and vulnerable, was a happy coincidence.
These two are the central characters of a 30-second ad with one message: no men in women's bathrooms.
The commercial, made in black and white, ominous soundtrack, spine-chilling graphics, galvanized the opposition to Houston's equal rights ordinance.
The day after voters rejected Hero, the ad man who created the TV spot was celebrating.
His name is Jeff Norwood, longtime Republican political consultant based in Austin.
He said it always feels great to win.
Even before the campaign for Houston leaders brought Norwood in to create the ad, they had decided to make bathroom safety the focus of their campaign to repeal the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance of what hero is, said the spokesman Jared Woodfield.
Norwood's job was to hook voters on a gut level, and the ad did it.
And I just gave you a description of a screen grab frame of the ad.
You can imagine how it looked.
And it was very effective.
The ad shifted the narrative on the election away from equal rights to bathroom safety.
Norwood brushed off criticism that the commercial was misleading and unfairly characterized Chan transgender people as sexual predators.
I don't know why anybody would say that.
Why would you call men that want to go into the girls' bathroom predators?
Why would anybody say that?
Do you have any clue?
Well, the only misleading campaign here was the pro side that tried to make this about other issues and denied the fact that bathroom safety was the real issue in the campaign, said Norwood.
And I think it correctly.
The ad portrayed the dangers women and girls face had the ordinance passed.
Now, here's the real...
When you get down to all of this, this is the real crux of it here.
Story in the Daily Signal, why lesbian gay bisexual transgender advocates think they lost the Houston election.
Failing to pass, the hero ordinance Tuesday night came as a blow to LGBT advocates who've won recent victories in the U.S. Supreme Court and beyond.
A coalition of partners that make up Houston Unites, which is the group promoting this, and we are disappointed with today's outcome.
The biggest hurdle that the lesbian gay bisexual transgender group say they failed to overcome was the branding of the Houston Equal Rights Protection Ordinance as the Bathroom Bill.
But what it really boils down to, they admit in this story, the leftists, the LGBT people admit they cannot win in the arena of ideas.
They tried to change the minds of voters and they couldn't.
What they are going to do next is work on non-elected government officials, such as people in the federal bureaucracy who can write phantom regulations.
They're not elected, they don't have to go through Congress, they're appointees or what have you.
Convincing large numbers of people driven by fear and religious belief simply will not happen, said one of the advocates.
We're never going to overcome that.
The people who matter are policymakers who have the ability to change regulations which make life difficult for transgender people, bureaucrats, administrators, judges, human resource benefit directors, school superintendents, police chiefs.
These are the kind of people who need to be courted, convinced, and motivated to act.
So they're admitting that what they want to do to get this thing passed is screw the voters.
We're going to lose every time because we know that we're one-tenth of one percent.
We're a minority that you can barely see.
So to get what we want, we're going to get phantom regulators, non-elected public servants simply right regulations permitting what we want to happen.
And thereby they are admitting exactly how much of liberalism finds its way woven into this giant fabric of deceit nationwide.
It's exactly how they do it.
And it's exactly how we end up thinking that we are being governed against our will.
And this is a another reason why the left is not all that panicked when they lose elections, because they've got people like this hidden away in every cabinet-level bureaucracy and in the uh judicial system, judges and you name it.
But another point to make.
This is a temporary setback.
It is not a defeat.
They don't go away.
Think back wherever you were, however many decades ago it was, when you first heard somebody pitch the idea of gay marriage.
And remember your first reaction.
You poo-pooted, you laughed, you thought odd cookie, whatever, but the point is you there is no way.
That is never and now look.
They never ever stop and go away.
So you people in Houston, you m might have, in your mind, temporarily beaten it, but you are going to have to stay vigilant and continually oppose this the rest of your lives because they are not going to stop.
And they are now really energized, knowing they can't persuade you to agree with them.
Now they're mobilizing to get it forced on you behind the scenes in ways you won't even see it happening.
By the way, don't forget, I predicted to you that the next focus of attention for the left is going to be the transgender bunch.
They think they've they've overcome, they've accomplished their objectives here with uh homosexuality, gay marriage, so then but they gotta they have to keep the same rabble rousing going.
Remember, nothing's ever achieved.
They're constantly agitating, constantly trying to transform, constantly trying to overthrow the existing order.
And so now the transgender community uh is the recipient of all this new energy.
And we're talking, I mean, what it's such a minuscule portion of the population, but it's being made to look like it's significant and major, just like the gay population was made to look like.
You'd have seen the polls.
How many millennials thought the gay population was 30, 35 percent?
And they it was you couldn't blame them.
I mean, you turn on television, you read the news, you think half the country's gay.
You find out it's three percent max.
And the transgender percentage is even it's not even a full one percent, it's not even a half of one percent.
But they are simply the vehicle whereby the left's protest movement continues to agitate community organizers and what have you.
Here's uh here's Salmon Durant, Iowa.
Great to have you on the program.
I'm glad you uh patiently waited, too.
Hello.
How are you doing?
It's good to be talking to you.
Been listening to you for a long time.
My mom used to have you on the radio all the time when I was a kid, been listening ever since.
Well, thank you.
Thank you very much, sir.
I appreciate that.
Well, I actually have two questions.
My first one is in regards to Trump and Carson, because they are the front runners for the Republican candidates.
It seems that and I wanted to get your take on this that the media and uh the liberal candidates and even some other Republican candidates really seem to fear them because they're not just your typical salesman politician.
These guys are doers, they've achieved, they've been to the top of their field, you know.
I mean, the only thing that Hillary's been on top of is is Bill, you know, she hasn't done anything.
Like she hasn't accomplished anything like these guys have.
Yeah, that's exactly what Hold on a minute.
You're you're exactly right.
There's a great question.
You're trying to tell me that an accomplished real estate developer or an accomplished pediatric surgeon is less qualified than a woman who hasn't done anything.
You are so on the button with this.
This is part and parcel of how the political business has succeeded in characterizing itself as a specialized field with specialized talents, specialized qualifications that nobody else has, and yet there's no evidence they're qualified to do anything.
I must continue.
This is a great point you're making here.
And we're back, Rush Limbaugh here, cutting edge of the societal evolution.
It is an amazing thing.
The um I think there's so much going on in this campaign that is turning everything upside down, particularly from the standpoint of the political establishment.
They are like any other specialized business.
Um perhaps maybe even more glaring in one way.
Politics has often been said to be its own business with its own ladder of success, its own set of experiences and talents and talents and qualifications that you must master to climb that ladder and succeed, and that is usually uh by winning elections.
Of course, there are a lot of other positions in politics.
You don't have to run it for office to be involved.
You can consultant, uh, staff members, any number of things.
But for the people that run for office, it is said that there's a specific skill set that you can't learn elsewhere.
Uh that outside experience is not helpful, and it's very exclusionary in this regard.
They're very elite in this regard.
And they've been able to keep it a closed shop.
Um, and they have the appropriate language and philosophy.
For example, the old saw that senators make lousy presidents.
That's just I mean, there's no science that says that.
That's just analysis.
You know why a senator makes a lousy president?
Because you know how to work with people.
Senator's a king.
Senator's a one-man show, tells his staff to do this, that, and the other thing, and it happens.
But as president, you can't do that.
They counter to it in governors.
They're the people that make great presidents, because you know, they work with the legislature and they work with the opponents, they work with friends, and and they're not kings.
They have to compromise and learn to work with others.
And I think some of that may be true to some extent, but I think a lot of it is created and evolved within that business to keep it exclusionary, much like the financial industry.
Uh, everybody wants money, everybody wants more money.
Everybody wants to make more money, and whatever money they keep, they want it to grow.
Nobody wants to lose any money.
So everybody has a lot in common when it comes to money.
But the people in the money business, they've set themselves up as super exclusive that do things and in talk ways that you can't possibly understand.
From the way they talk about their trading business to stock business to their portfolio management, you can't possibly comprehend it.
You're not qualified, so you have to turn it over to them to handle for you, and people willingly do this.
The language that they create for their own business is also exclusive.
There's no way you can follow it or keep track of it.
Economics in general is this way.
Uh any number of other specialties, in terms of uh vocation, attempt to structure themselves this way.
But politics is different because while it structures its own exclusive close the ranks only certain people are qualified, they still have to make it look like they're all just like the rest of us.
That's part of the appeal.
Hey, I mean, the rags to richest story, yeah, I grew up in a one room jack, and I had to walk ten miles a day in the snow without shoes half of those days.
Uh definitely no hardship.
And this is to relate to the voters out there, when in fact none of it may be true, but it's all part of the list of exclusive qualifications, skill sets, and experience that you must have if you're going to be in that business.
And helping to guard it and helping to build the walls to keep the rabble out, of course, of the media.
Drive-by media are complicit with government officials because after all, government is where real power is.
Now it used to be that media held power accountable.
Back in the old days of their monopoly, that was one of the false pretenses under which they operated.
They were there to make sure the powerful were kept in check.
Well, one of the reasons, or one of the aspects, one of the realities of the monopoly being blown is that the media no longer masks the side they've chosen.
The media has now chosen power.
They have aligned themselves with it.
They never hold it accountable when the power holder is Democrat.
But a number of things are coming along to upset all of this, particularly in the world of politics.
They're finding it harder and harder and harder to keep the whole business exclusive or exclusionary.
It wasn't that long ago that somebody like Dr. Ben Carson or even Donald Trump wouldn't have gotten to first base with the voters.
Because the voters used to believe that you had to have people experienced in politics who had experience in bringing home the bacon.
A local congressman, a state senator, a United States Senator, these people knew how to get their state's percentage of the federal budget and bringing home to build the old folks' home, or to build a bridge, or to build a juvenile job center, whatever.
And so the voters were very compliant in keeping all of this distant and far off.
You could talk about it, you could uh vote, determine who goes, but you were not really qualified to participate.
But now look what's happened.
Now we have in the lead in the Republican Party, two people that have had literally no experience in politics other than making donations.
And that's it, and they are leading the pack.
So what do the gatekeepers for the elite political establishment do?
They circle the wagons.
And they immediately start talking about how these people are not qualified, and they're willing accomplices in the media then begin to do stories, provide news coverage, focusing on these rubes.
Trump, Carson, totally unqualified.
Who do they think they are?
And yet, when you get right down and look at it, we're talking about the world's most brilliant pediatric neurosurgeon who came from nothing in Detroit, Michigan, raised not by the government,
by rather by his mother, and then one of the world's great real estate developers are being portrayed as idiots, who are not competent and not qualified to comprehend how government works.
And so they are immediately made suspects.
They are tarred and feathered as pretenders and dangerous because they don't know what they're talking about and they don't know what they're doing.
On the other hand, we are told that somebody like Hillary Clinton, who hasn't accomplished anything, and I mean really hasn't accomplished anything.
Certainly in comparison to Trump and Ben Carson.
We're told that is the ideal in American politics.
Hillary Clinton comes from a Family dynasty that is unequaled in American politics unequal.
What?
Lying?
Distorting?
Corrupting?
Leaving the White House broke and now worth multiple millions of dollars without having jobs?
How does that happen?
What are they experts at?
Selling influence?
Peddling false stories about terror attacks in Benghazi?
Are they really experts at escaping responsibility for their deadly screw-ups?
You realize what an insult it is to have to sit here and be told that somebody like Ben Carson's like Donald Trump or anybody else like them that might seek public office is dumb and unqualified, inexperienced, not worthy, not capable of entering the political arena.
And the same time we have to sit here and be told that Hillary Clinton's at the pinnacle?
Well, isn't that what's wrong with it?
If Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton are the pinnacle of the American political system, that to us is all the evidence we need to know that it's terribly wrong.
And there's something terribly wrong with it.
What is it she knows best how to do?
Wield the power of the executive branch?
Raise taxes, destroy economies.
The American people have been asked in public opinion polls, and they have said over and over again in shockingly large numbers that she's dishonest and untrustworthy.
And yet she is far more qualified than Carson or.
And I'm heck I hear some.
But Rush, but Rush, we're told by the presidency, we're doing see this is the trap.
It's easy to maybe think, yeah, Trump may not be cut out to be president.
He's just a one man show we've got to work out.
All I understand how people can concoct reasons to be afraid.
But when we're talking about qualifications and competence and getting things done, I don't think it's anything but an indictment of politics for us to have to sit here and be told that people that can't accomplish anything in the real world are the real accomplished people in politics.
I think that's something that's wrong with it.
Democrat Party can't find anybody better than Hillary Clinton?
Are you kidding?
In within every walk of life that's represented by the Democrat Party, they can't find anybody any more qualified than Hillary Clinton.
I just want to know how is it possible that the most accomplished non-politicians are less qualified than a politician who is known for decades of gross negligence, deceit, failure.
How does that person end up being labeled the expert and the most qualified?
Now, how's it happening?
How in the world is all this happening?
What has turned everything upside down?
Well, it's actually good the things that have caused this to be turned upside down, and that is the American people are actually not the idiots that liberals want them to be thought of as the American people, the last seven years have seen that the current crop of people running this government are in the process of destroying it and doing perhaps incorrectable damage to the country.
They have been voting for years, sanctioning believing promises that have been made, both parties.
People get elected, the promises are ignored, they're never kept.
The case of the Republicans, you know the drill, they campaigned to stop Obama, and then they go to Washington and up joining him and helping him accomplish his agenda.
And I think the tipping point has been reached.
The American people aren't going to be fooled anymore.
And they're fed up with this inside elite political, exclusionary bunch of people that are perceived to be doing great damage to the country for everybody else, but not for themselves.
They somehow remain unaffected by all the damage they're causing.
But everybody else is in real pain, is suffering real fear.
And they have legitimate fright over the future of the country.
So alternative people are being turned to.
And this has got the entire political establishment bent out of whack.
To the point that the objective now is to destroy these outsiders.
So the focus is now on Ben Carson.
CNN and a number of other places are now focusing their full attention on Ben Carson to destroy him and disqualify him, much as they tried with Trump and failed.
They're going after Carson on the fact he's deeply religious, Seventh-day Adventist.
That means he's a kook.
Means he's automatically a kook, untrustworthy, dangerous.
These people are so contradictory.
When the Pope comes out and says something they like, they become the biggest pro-religion people you've ever seen.
The normal day, they hate the Pope.
Normal day in America, they hate the Catholic Church.
But let the Pope come out and criticize capitalism.
All of a sudden he's the best religious leader they've ever heard of, and they glom on and they love him.
And the next day, the Pope still says abortion's bad, and they say, screw you, Pope.
We thought you were on our side, but you're not.
Go back to talking about how bad capitalism is.
Bring Ben Carson along, some other Republican, no tolerance for religion, religious views, religiously informed views whatsoever.
And at the center of this is the end of the mainstream media monopoly, where all of this used to be able to control, be controlled.
They used to be able to control every upstart by never covering them.
Nobody ever knew there were upstarts.
If the upstart did occasionally escape and get noticed, it was easy to destroy them.
But it's not as easy to destroy people today.
It's not as easy not to report news today.
The advent of the new media and Facebook and Twitter.
And you know what you have here?
Ben Carson doesn't need the media to reach his audience.
He doesn't need the media to reach people.
He's answering questions every night on Facebook.
Trump and Carson's Facebook numbers are off the charts.
They're reaching people directly, answering questions or asking questions, and the candidates are answering them.
And they don't need the media at all.
So the media's panicking too, immediately trying to set out to destroy Carson for one reason, just to prove they still can do that when necessary.
And look at this.
The latest Breitbart, Kareem Abdul Jabbar has an op-ed piece in which he says that Ben Carson's presidency would be an unmitigated disaster for black Americans.
He'd be terrible and unmitigated disaster.
Kareem Abdul Jabbar.
So they're bringing the guns out on Ben Carson now.
You know what nobody told you about in the NBC Wall Street Journal poll.
Ben Carson beats Hillary by nine points.
Now nobody's telling you that.
But the panic is beginning to set in.
It's shifting from Trump to Carson now, at least on the drive-by Democrat side.
Here's uh Bill in Southampton in New York.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Appreciate your calling.
Hi.
Rush, you just set me up so perfectly.
You are amazing.
My point is that if Jeb is a nominee, I would I will not vote at all because Trump and Carson have brought me out of the depths of despair about our country.
Because Jeb is not the answer.
My guess is that as far as you're concerned, there's very few people that are currently professional politicians that you would get excited about.
Well, I have to say, Rush, that um, you know, like Rubio and Cruz, you know, I'm okay with, and Rubio I get more impressed with all of the time.
Okay, you know, two shades are good point.
Good points.
You're right.
Trump and Carson motivate me out of the despair that I've been in about our country.
Because I love this country so much, Rush, like you do, and so many of your listeners, and I'm just like, oh my God, it's just it's just awful where we are.
You sound a lot like Trump.
Has anybody ever told you that?
No, sir.
Well, you do.
At least during the audio processing here, you have similar vocal inflections to Trump.
I'm not Saying that you're Trump.
Don't misunderstand.
I wouldn't be I wouldn't mind being Trump.
I hear you.
He's got a lot going for him.
You know what I'm saying?
Rush, I love this country so much.
Are we going?
I understand.
That's look, I'm glad I set you up well because you really came through.
You got a great call.
We gotta go, though.
I'm out of time here.
We'll be right back after this.
Don't go.
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