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Nov. 12, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 12, 2015, Thursday, Hour #2
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Welcome back.
Great to have you with us, Rush Limbaugh behind the Golden EIB microphone.
It's 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program and the email address.
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what is this, what?
All right, here's the story out of Philadelphia.
Ladies and gentlemen.
More than 100 women who became pregnant after allegedly taking mispackaged birth control pills filed suit in Philadelphia last week against Qualitest, Inc.
Qualitest Inc.
is a subsidiary of an Irish drug maker named Endopharmaceuticals.
Its U.S. headquarters are in Malvern.
Now the case seeks millions and millions and millions of dollars in damages, including, in some cases, the costs of delivering, raising, and educating the children born of the unplanned pregnancies.
The discovery of the mispackaged contraceptives prompted the FDA in 2011 to issue a recall notice for 3.2 million blister packs.
The suit in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas also names vintage pharmaceuticals, Endo Health Solutions, and Patheon Incorporated, which either made or packaged the recalled birth control pills.
Representatives for all the companies involved, citing the litigation, declined to comment after lawyers in Atlanta originally sought class action status for potential victims.
A federal judge in Georgia, Georgia rejected their request back on November 4th.
Lawyers for the women re-filed in state court in Pennsylvania, where the uh the drug company has its headquarters.
The FDA recall was triggered when a Kansas City woman returned a package to her pharmacist after noticing the blister pack had been rotated 180 degrees, reversing the weekly label or tablet orientation according to the suit filed in Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.
Now, with the order reversed, they were turned down in Georgia, but they were okayed in Philadelphia.
The woman's chances of uh of getting pregnant here, uh well, this is a no, with the order not the court order, this is the order of the labeling on the package is what they're talking about here.
With the order reversed, the woman's chances of getting pregnant skyrocketed because they were taking the pills out of order.
The stupid little packaging mistake.
Keith uh Boda, lead attorney on the case based in Atlanta, declined to comment on the case.
Nobody's talking.
What do you what do you think the women's chances of winning this thing are?
I mean, for everything that they're asking birth costs, raising the children's cost, education cost, probably if they're women, pay for the first wedding.
In addition to everything else.
I mean, you'd go out, you buy these pills for this express purpose of not getting pregnant, and they make sure you do.
I don't think this is ever going to see the light of courtroom.
I think they're gonna settle this.
They're gonna settle this, and the women are gonna do okay.
Uh you know who's gonna be right in on this?
Planned Parenthood.
After these women have this money, Planned Parenthood, all kinds of gonna be in on this trying to gain whatever they can from it at the at the same time.
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I can remember 25 years we've been doing this program or 27 now.
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I'm just kidding.
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If you've been to Hawaii, doesn't matter.
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Remember, get one of these little things, and you are automatically entered to win up until 11.59 p.m.
Pacific, and just to show we have cut the price of the Liberty Doll.
We're doing this because we love everything involved with this, and this is one way of showing our gratitude for all the support that we have been given for so many people on the books.
We're just so appreciative.
So rushrevere.com, it's all explained there.
Quick timeout here and back after this.
Don't the official program observer has asked me to clarify that our sweepstakes is live until 11.59 p.m. Pacific tomorrow.
I might have said tonight.
Yeah, I said two days, yeah, today and tomorrow, up to 11.59 p.m. Pacific tomorrow, which is 2.59 p.m.
Eastern.
So if you want to stay up till 3 a.m. tomorrow night, if you do want to free, you're still good to go, or 2.59.
But it's through tomorrow at uh 11.59 p.m. Pacific time.
What?
No, I can't snurdly.
You haven't talked about the book.
I know I can't talk about the book every day.
I drive people crazy with it.
They know it's out there.
They know and love the can barely keep them on the shelves out there.
Yeah, I'm in Black Friday soon.
I just in fact I just read that Walmart, let me check this.
This would be just to be Walmart opening at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving.
Ditching doorbusters.
Uh so pretty soon.
There isn't going to be much time before stores are not going to close at all for Thanksgiving.
That's where we're headed.
But Walmart at 6 p.m.
Thanksgiving is black.
Black Friday.
I mean, Black Friday's, I mean, it's still going to be around.
It's going to be a tradition, but it's going to be de-emphasized because you're going to be able to get in there and get out before Black Friday even hits.
What do you mean, Black Friday?
What's that got to do with anything anyway?
Well, I know they're trying to plan now for Christmas.
Snerdley wants me to talk about this book all the time.
I can't, folks.
I would not it would drive you crazy.
You know Rush Revere and the Star Spangled Banners out there, and you know it's great.
You know it's the fourth book in the series.
You know the story about getting the truth to kids about American history.
We love them.
It's so exciting the feedback we're getting.
And don't worry, I mean, I the strategic schedule which I mentioned this all planned out.
Now I gotta get to the phones.
I promise people would get to the phones.
They've been patiently waiting.
Here's Amy, one of my all-time top ten favorite female names.
Charleston, South Carolina.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
I'd be remiss if I didn't send you some major dittoes from my eighty-five-year-old grandmother who I'm sure is listening right now.
I love it.
Thank you very much.
Hey, listen, I I wanted to talk to you today because you know I don't I don't get to listen every day.
I I work hard.
I'm 30 years old, so I'm one of the millennials that that I know you've been talking about today.
But but as I heard you speaking about Missouri today.
It hit home, literally.
I I'm from an area twenty-five miles from Columbia.
I've grown up proudly wearing Mizzou football t-shirts my entire life.
My mom is is Mizzou alumni.
Uh she has her master's degree, she's well educated.
But I myself did not go to college.
I had a baby at 18.
I went straight into the workforce.
I have had my own insurance, my own 401k since I was 19 years old.
No kidding.
And as I was hearing this story, you know, and you gave me a lot of details, I hadn't even heard yet.
It it hit me to the core because people my own age or those that are now coming straight out of college are are now looking to people like me in a management position, expecting similar pay, similar titles, um and and entitlement, I think is really what it comes down to.
Oh, yeah.
They're entitled, they're pampered, they have been spoiled, rotten, they have been told they're wonderful and great with self-esteem enhancement programs and so forth, to the point now that they do not think they should have to be subjected to anything unpleasant or anything they disagree with.
And if something happens that subjects them to things they disagree with, whoever does that should and could be fired.
That word offensive makes me crazy.
People are so fast to use the word, well, I'm offended.
That's not the real world.
You know, I I guess I could probably say I'm offended every day of my life.
I work in sales.
If I don't make sales, I don't make money.
And how fast that word gets thrown out, that the fact that the president and the chancellor of this university, what whom I've always held very dear, have now resigned is dis is disturbing because that's me is a sign of their acquiescence to these to these outrageous list of demands.
These students.
But most of this was a hoax.
Amy, if you're not yet up to speed because you've been so busy working, it's it's it's turned out that most of these incidents were made up.
They didn't happen.
This whole thing is a giant hoax.
And uh one of the relevant points here, and I know I don't want to put words in your mouth, but I have a feeling you'll agree with this.
This is almost uh just desserts.
I mean, this is the kind of thing these colleges have been teaching kids.
They've been teaching hatred for America, they've been teaching America's faults, they have been telling people how America's unfair here and unjust over there, and they've been doing it for years and years and years.
It can't be surprised that the students believe them.
They can't be surprised that the students are growing up thinking their country is in bad shape, that everybody lies to them about it.
And th these two university officials that quit for crying out loud.
A lot of people feel sorry for them.
I I don't feel sorry for them.
I I think they made a mistake.
And and what I also learned from you today is that the real root of this problem is this one kid who who said he was starving himself because he could no longer be on his father's insurance plan.
I think he has also bought into the notion that he himself cannot go find a job to provide health insurance insurance for himself.
It's that's so bogus.
As I mentioned, I've had my own health insurance.
I now have two children.
They have always been on my own health insurance since I was nineteen years old.
It is out there.
It is you are capable of getting it.
This fifty.
You know something about let me observe something about you.
You had your your baby, your first baby at 18, you said.
Correct.
There are a lot of stories out there of 18-year-old women who have babies and it ends up wrecking and destroying their lives.
I should be a statistic, is what I've been told.
Yes.
Yeah, and you apparently hear uh is it triumphed or what you dealt with it, I guess.
You you accepted whatever happened.
You you obviously accepted the responsibility.
And uh you you are you're so far ahead of these highly educated, highly pampered uh students who really haven't yet learned anything about the real world and looking at the.
And listen, I appreciate you saying that.
There's a time when I looked at it as, you know, would I ever would I ever be able to measure up to these kids who were getting high quality education?
And now I look back almost with a smile because had I gone into I I probably would have gone in the zoo.
I wanted to be a journalist.
That was the path I always thought I would follow.
Had I gone into that, I I wouldn't be where I am today living in one of the most expensive cities in the U.S. on my own if I'm you're right, it is.
And uh but I love your confidence.
And I I uh your your confidence is well, I do.
It's infectious.
Uh and and it's entirely possible.
You know, you you're a living example testament of what's something you don't need to go to college.
You don't need the approval of others to get where you want to go and do what you all you have to do is realize your reality, grasp it, deal with it, accept it, and shoot for the moon.
Well, you did it.
Look at I re Amy, thanks much.
It's great to have you in the audience.
It really is.
Thanks for the call.
Yeah, I know, I know.
I I almost spanked myself during the break.
Here we have Amy.
A great call.
She's 30.
She has two kids, the first one when she was 18.
I I I I should have offered her a couple of Rush Revere books.
It was made to order, and a couple of these Liberty dolls.
And I got so caught up in what she was saying at slipped by the way we ran out of time.
And unfortunately, we didn't get her number to call her back.
So, Amy, if you by any chance can get back through here, I know it's a long shot.
I mean, people have tried for 25 years to get through here and haven't made it.
But uh, if you can if you can spare the time and try to get back through, I'd like to make that up to you.
By the way, I want to tell you how unique Amy is.
I ran across this story with these stats.
Might have been earlier this week or late last week.
And it's it's a combination of Reuters and the Pew Research Center.
A record share of young American women are living with relatives.
Record portion of young U.S. women are living with their parents or other relatives, largely because of higher college attendance and delayed marriage.
The Pew research center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data showed 36 and a half percent of women, 18 to 34, lived with family in 2014, mostly in the home of the mother, or the father, or in rare cases, both.
The number tops the record set in 1940.
In 1940, 36 percent of young women lived with relatives, according to this analysis.
It's all Census Bureau data.
1940 is the earliest year that they have comparable data to uh study.
That's just uh another example of how uh unique Amy is and women like her, because more young women are living in, and by the way, this these are not numbers that are part of the whole phenomenon of young people living with their parents anyway.
This is above and beyond that.
Now, this the number one reason given because more women are going to college.
Uh but let's not forget the demo here that we're talking about.
The demo is 18 to what is it, 1834, 1824.
Yeah, a lot of it could be college.
No, because it's 18 to 34.
The demo is 18 to 34.
It's the economy is the primary reason.
Whether they're going to college or not.
Regardless, it's the largest rate in history.
Young women still living in the home of a relative.
Christine in OHI, California.
You're next, and it's great to have you.
Hi.
Thank you, Rash.
It's always a it's a pleasure to participate in this.
Listen, I I guess I'm going to sort of kiggy back on what Amy was talking about when she was talking about the root of the problem.
I wanted to make a comment about something I remember.
And given that you're a history buff, I thought you might appreciate this.
I'm from the era of when the Columbia sit-in happened.
And when the kids were the kids, the students were exercising their first rights to take over the university.
And in hindsight, I think that what's happening now, what you were talking about today with what's going on on the campuses, is the direct result of that nobody took the stand back then.
Well, I think there's no doubt about that.
And uh and we're we're living with that.
And we're talking what was that, like late 60s that that happened, maybe 69 68, 69.
Well, no, that's when it blew up.
It was early to mid-sixties.
There's there's always look, on the the campus has always been the academy, as the intellectuals like to refer to it, academia, has always been a place, supposedly this makes me laugh, where the universe of ideas is always explored, and the uh any ideas worthy of discussion.
It's all a crock.
Universities today are indoctrinations.
Universities today are, you know, they're higher citadels of propaganda.
And that too started in the 1960s.
Um leftist radicals took over the curriculum, took over the management, took over the by by virtue of intimidation, but yet blew up in 68, the Democratic Convention is what you're what you're thinking of.
But what's happened is that those people who were raising hell back then, they're now in the Obama administration.
They're over at the Federal Reserve, they're in the Treasury Department, they're at the Department of Justice, they're all over the place.
And they have not changed.
And they have raised their kids, much like uh they were raised.
Uh and in a lot of people don't understand this, those those kids, the protesters of the 60s were obedient.
They were not radicals in the sense that they were uh rebelling against their parents.
They were obedient, particularly to their to their uh sponsors and uh professors, the radical elements that they surrounded themselves.
Obama has talked often about how he regrets he missed it.
And so he's making up for lost time.
Now, but there's no question now back in the 60s, I mentioned this earlier, Reagan was governor of California during a lot of these protests, and he called out the National Guard.
He didn't put up with just like with Petco and firing the air traffic control, he did not put up with it.
And I'll tell you a little story, Christine, because this is and I'm uh paraphrase the story because it's uh it's actually from one of uh I think it's from a Lou Cannon biography of Reagan.
But during one of these student protests when Reagan was governor of California, some of the student leaders demanded to meet with him.
And he did.
He he took the meeting, and in the meeting, a bunch of student radicals and activists showed up in his office.
And they were they were uh not particularly violent, but they were threateningly uh disruptive, even in his office.
And they were shouting at him, and they were saying things like, you know, old man, you you don't know what our life is like.
You being governor is a waste of time for us.
You haven't the slightest idea what our lives are like.
You have the slightest idea what our lives are gonna be like.
You're old.
You you just you're clueless.
I mean, come on, old man.
When you were growing up, they didn't even have TV.
When you were growing up, they didn't even have radio.
When you were growing up, they didn't have telephones, nothing over.
You don't have the slightest idea what our lives are like.
And Reagan just sat there and he listened to them.
And when they were finished, he paused a couple seconds of silence.
He looked at the student leader.
He said, You know, you're right.
We didn't have any of those things.
But why do you?
We had to invent them for you.
You didn't invent them.
You didn't build them.
You're just sitting there using them.
So don't think I don't know what your life is like.
I know more about what your life is like than you know what it's like.
And these students, I mean, it was a great, I mean, it just it just did it shut them down.
And they they they turned tail and and walked out of there.
It didn't change their attitude about anything.
It was just it's a great story, and I think it's a Luke Cannon biography.
I'm not I get these confused.
There's so many sources for these stories.
Ed Mies is a great source, and um a number of other people.
But but Reagan didn't put up with this stuff from people.
Well, Rush, that was kind of my point of calling is that I get a little angered that the the powers that be caved at Columbia because there really was no need that they they had to.
They they just basically caved.
And now, you know, we're living with with the that that's the status quo.
And now here we are, and and you know, the nonsense going on university after university now.
And I I just do you think that it's too late for somebody to try to take back the the fort, or there just aren't the people willing to do it.
Well what do you mean by take back?
Well, to make the stand that wasn't made back in the sixties at Columbia when they should have let the they they should have just taken the getting in.
I think that we are seeing in the Republican presidential primary um there there's some candidates who are making it abundantly clear, they're trying to make us believe that they are that guy, uh, or that person who's gonna stand up and and and say no to this stuff.
Trump is one, Cruz is another, maybe even Carly Fiorina to a certain extent.
But I think I think um you know w what what what paralyzed the uh administration of Mizzou was the football team threatening to go on strike.
That was dollars.
That that that was gonna cost the university dollars, embarrassment.
And don't forget there was in there was implied physical intimidation uh going on with Well, Rush, there's always a price to pay when you take uh a stand, you know, and I and there was a price to pay if uh by not caving into the students at Columbia, but and there would have been a price to pay to uh with the football team.
But isn't that what we have to do to get things back on course?
Well, don't leave out the media.
That's another thing that paralyzes people.
Oh my God, look at what the media is gonna say about me.
Oh my because they think the media loves the students, the media loves the protest, the media hates us, so if we stand up.
You you probably would believe it, Christine, but maybe not.
You would not believe how much garbage, how much wrong headed policy, how much destructive stuff happens at the highest levels of government in this country simply because of the fear of media.
You would not the media can paralyze the Republican Party, and that simply has got to stop.
I don't know.
We have server capacity out the wazoo.
I just found out that we are being so deluged at rushrevere.com that you might be getting uh service interruption feedback or messages or something, whatever.
Uh nothing's wrong.
Just keep trying.
Be patient, keep trying to get in when you can to enter our latest sweepstakes at rushrevere.com.
I just detailed the uh sweepstakes about a half hour ago, and apparently so many people are trying to get in.
We got server overload, which I don't understand because we have got capacity out there.
Why is it we prepare for this?
So be patient, folks.
I apologize.
Uh I'll go ahead and I I'll I'll take the blame.
I'll assume responsibility, even though I know it's not my fault, but what else am I gonna do here?
Blame it on me.
But we certainly have no, we've blown out our own servers before, but every time it's happened, we've built them up.
I mean, we've we've uh you wouldn't believe the arrays we uh it's just I don't want to go into details here, but uh just keep trying, folks.
And I I apologize for this.
I wish there was something I could do.
I know how frustrating it is.
When you get a uh message that makes you think you've lost your internet connection.
You haven't.
Your internet's fine.
There's no it's just we've got server overload.
And we're working on it.
We've got Trump and Ben Carson have weighed in a little bit on this Mizzou situation.
Trump first uh on the Fox Business Network today, Maria Barcheromo said, What is your take on Mizzou and the protest story there?
I think it's disgusting.
I think the two people that resigned are weak, ineffective people.
I think that when they resigned, they set something in motion that's gonna be a disaster for long period of time.
They were weak, ineffective people.
How we hire people like this.
Trump should have been the chancellor of that university.
Did you look at their demands?
Their demands are like crazy.
The demands are crazy.
They're not even specific, and the list of grievances is a bunch of hoaxes.
Trump, I should have been the chancellor.
Donald, do you have time to do all these things you should be doing?
He he probably could he could probably be chancellor part-time and uh and do an okay job of it.
Ben Carson next, last night with Megan Kelly.
What they're telling these students on the Mizzou campus is if you hear speech.
We had this story yesterday where the the the campus cops have asked students to report any upsetting speech they hear and to maybe take pictures of who's doing it and to collect evidence of any speech that hurts their feelings or offends them or upsets them.
Campus cops.
So Meghan Kelly's asking Ben Carson about this.
What they're telling these students is if you hear speech you don't like, you should call the cops.
You're not supposed to call a campus cops if you hear something offensive.
What are we doing, Mr. Carson, Dr. Carson, to tomorrow's generation?
We're being a little bit too tolerant, I guess you might say.
Accepting infantile behavior.
And I don't care which side it comes from.
To say that I have the right to violate your civil rights because you're offending me is un-American.
It is unconstitutional.
And the officials at these places must recognize that and have the moral courage to stand up to it.
Because if they don't, we will move much further toward anarchy.
We simply can't allow those kinds of things to happen.
Well, we do.
We do, under the guise of tolerance and fairness.
But let's not forget I remember this ticked me off, too.
It really ticked me off.
You know, Dr. Carson was gonna be the commencement speaker of the graduating class of the med school where he worked, Johns Hopkins.
And it was, I think six months or so after his appearance at the National Prayer Breakfast where he had publicly stated his problems with Obamacare and had explained what he would do.
And so these students at his college at Johns Hopkins, a bunch of bunch of whiny little kids stood.
We don't want him here.
We don't want that kind of thing, you know what him coming to our commission.
We don't he said, okay, all right.
Well, if if if uh if my presence would ruin your commencement, then I'm more than happy to back out of the way.
And I remember when I heard that, I expressed right here on this program, and I was disappointed Dr. Carson did that.
Because that was that was giving into the mob.
And those graduating students couldn't had anybody better come to come come give their commencement speech than Dr. Ben Carson from their own university and and Med Center.
Uh that ticked me off.
But he said, look, if they don't want me here, then I don't want to be the one to ruin their their commencement.
Well, you know, students at MU, we don't want this person here, that person there.
Okay, fine, then we won't have them here.
I let me grab one more quickly.
Jacob in uh in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Hi, great to have you on the program.
Megadeth rush from a uh one of Dr. Levin's uh rising generation.
Um I feel better prepared than most, probably because uh grew up listening to you.
I read both your books when I was uh a young lad in middle school.
Um, but I was calling about I'm a uh lawyer, and I went to law school and was a charter member of the class, uh charter member of the school, founding member, and I got an email a while back from the uh administration saying there had been a bias incident on campus.
So immediately I thought maybe uh there was an issue with a professor had said something, find out it was a student said something to another student in class, a racial slur, and they launched a investigation, um, went through a whole uh series of uh processes to find out what exactly happened when everybody sitting in the room apparently knew what happened.
And now the school feels that it's uh needs to be a leading force in intercultural competence.
Right, but you have one of my law school does.
One incident, and it blew the school up.
One incident like this.
The inability to deal with a one-off like this, and to think, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, our university's corrupt, it's polluted, oh my god, we have racists here.
And they're shamed and embarrassed and from the Hill.com, we have a new poll.
Nearly 70% of Americans think Hillary Clinton acted unethically or illegally in her private email server.
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