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March 30, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 30, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Great to have you back.
It is the fastest three hours in media.
We're all racing through the program today up to our final hour, just kicking off.
Great to have you here, folks, as always.
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We'll get back to the campaign here in in due course in just a couple minutes.
But man, oh man, there's some stuff happening out there above and beyond the campaign that I would be remiss.
I would go home today feeling profound guilt if I did not address some of these things.
In no particular order.
I don't know how many of you saw it, but uh President Obama went to Atlanta to to join this uh national prescription drug abuse and heroin summit.
It was uh it was yesterday afternoon and discussed drug addiction, the importance of treating it as a disease instead of a character flaw, but also as as a treatment challenge rather than as a crime.
But as usual, Obama could not talk about this in in a in a in an unattached way.
He he couldn't just deal with the problem as it is.
He had to attach his own biases and prejudices to it, which transferred bitterness to the discussion.
And his basic point was, yeah, hey, you know what?
It's all good.
It's all wonderful that we're down here talking about prescription drug abuse and the heroin problem.
But it isn't it interesting that nobody cared when it was only African Americans and Hispanics and minorities that had the problem.
And I looked at this and I said, Can you just can you drop your resentment?
And he can't.
He is incapable of dropping his resentment.
He is incapable of walking around without that giant chip on his shoulder about this country.
I've I've I don't care.
I remain more convinced, as convinced, more convinced than ever, that this guy has a giant problem with this country that is institutional, that dates all the way back to the founding.
It is rooted in what he thinks is something that was institutionally incorporated in the founding, and that is racism and discrimination and bigotry and white supremacy and all of this.
And he's running around in his wife, too, constantly embittered, unable to get past it, no matter what progress has been made, no matter what punishments have been meted out to people that he thinks are guilty over the course of our nation's history, no matter what changes have been made for the better.
It's as though they never happened.
And it's as though the changes, even though they've happened, were made despite people wanting them to happen.
Now the prescription drug abuse problem and the heroin problem is uh what it is.
It's been around for a while.
It's been debated as either a demand side problem or a supply problem.
Uh but it's there's nothing new about it.
Uh the focus now is on you know how do you deal with it?
But I mean the size of the problem, it fluctuates and different drugs.
One one year, two-year periods, cocaine, crack cocaine, go back to heroin, uh other opiates.
But but it's it's there.
There's a maybe an increasing percentage.
But of all things for the President of the United States, yeah, the drug problem is ignored when it was hurting minority.
It was not.
The drug problem has been on the minds of public servants and in people's heads and hearts for years.
My whole life.
I have I've I'm aware of all kinds of efforts to deal with the drug problem, to properly define it, to come up with ways to treat I mean, Nancy Reagan was mocked.
She had a slogan back in the 1980s, just say no.
And everybody mocked it and made fun of it, just like the same people mocked and made fun of the idea of abstinence as a way of avoiding teen pregnancy and abortion as a contraceptive.
Or uh uh uh yeah, abortion is uh as contraception.
Um anybody that came up, hey, you know, just be bigger than it and say no to it.
I It's easy for you to say it's it was rejected, but the point is, all kinds of people have cared about it for a long time.
And here's the president with this mocking, resentful tone.
The drug problem was ignored when it was hurting minority communities.
The thing to learn from this is that he's still walking around with this giant chip on his shoulder.
And it's why he goes to places like Cuba and Argentina and everywhere else in the world, and when leaders of those countries start complaining about the United States, why he agrees with them.
And it's why he furthers, we've got no moral authority over anybody.
We can't tell anybody the right or wrong way.
We can't impose whatever it is we do on people, because our past is nothing to write home about either.
And the dangerous part about this is that all the people of Democrats and the leftists in this country that support the guy applaud this kind of thing.
And it feeds this really unhealthy notion that there's nothing special about the United States, when there clearly is.
It feeds, it grows this belief on the part of millions of people in this country that there's no such thing as American exceptionalism.
This is not leadership, it's not inspirational.
This is this is carrying grudges around.
And presidents are supposed to be bigger than that.
The Ayatollah Hamini in Iran, with whom we have just made a deal, allowing them to produce nuclear power, which everybody knows is going to lead to nuclear weapons.
We freed 150 billion dollars of theirs, enabling them to fund more terrorism around the world and rebuild their economy.
The Ayatollah Hamini himself has said missiles, not just words, not just negotiations, are the key to Iran's future.
That's right, the supreme leader, the Ayatoli Ayatollah Ali Hamini, said today that missiles, i.e., weapons were the key to the Islamic Republic's future, offering support to the hard-line revolutionary guards that have drawn criticism from the West for testing ballistic missiles.
By the way, for what of its worth, the the North Koreans are saying that they're just almost there.
They are ready to launch a preemptive nuclear strike against the United States.
I referenced this one earlier, but here we go again.
Current king's name is uh King Solomon.
He's the half-brother of the recently departed King Abdullah.
And the royal family of Saudi Arabia runs Islam.
They are the official, they are the oh, what's the word?
Guarantors.
These are the people that are responsible for defining it, instituting it, protecting it.
In Saudi Arabia, at Mecca, the grand mosques.
I mean, these this is the one of the primary focal points of Islam.
And the Saudi royal family has announced they want to execute gay people who show their sexuality.
This in the UK Daily Express.
And it's it's it's really this isn't anything new.
They already do execute for homosexuality.
But now they are making it official and they're they're they're publicizing it, and any time it is seen, any time somebody is discovered behaving in this manner, they want public executions of homosexuals, gays, lesbians, transgenders, the entire LGBT crowd.
Now, people say, okay, so what?
That's Saudi Arabia, no big deal.
But wait a minute.
There are all kinds of American companies that do business with Saudi Arabia, starting with defense contractors.
I think I saw where Apple is opening a store in Saudi Arabia.
I know they have open stores in the United Arab Emirates.
And yet Apple and others in Silicon Valley and other companies, Disney, are constantly haranguing states like Georgia and North Carolina for essentially passing laws which make sure that women use the women's bathroom and men use the men's bathroom.
And anything that doesn't offer more flexibility is said to be discriminatory and denying human rights.
And these major American corporations and combination of the Democrat Party then launch economic boycotts and threats against states like Georgia and North Carolina, and here comes Saudi Arabia, openly claiming they want to kill, they want to execute anybody they discover homosexual, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender.
And the reaction is a ho-hum and a yawn.
Much like American feminists will try to find all kinds of misbehavior in the Republican Party.
All kinds of war on women, sexism and discrimination, whatever you have it, and yet, when it comes to Islam, ignore the genuine second and third class status of women in that culture.
Don't speak out against it, and in fact defend Islam when it is properly accused of being behind terrorism.
We're told to not oh no, no, no.
Islam is religion of peace.
Islam is not sponsored terrorism.
It's this offshoot.
So all kinds of things are said in defense of Islam that truly subordinates women to second and third grade status.
Well, much the same thing here.
We're going to go after and try to economically damage North Carolina or Georgia or any other state, Ohio, anywhere where they attempt to establish and affirm anything close to religious freedom and religious liberty.
They gotta slap that down.
We gotta make sure that doesn't happen.
And we'll ignore what goes on in Saudi Arabia, and we might even continue to do business with them.
Mr. Snerdley, I don't know if you've seen this or not.
Long-term vegetarian diet changes human DNA, which raises the risk of cancer and heart disease.
It is, yes, sir, right here, the UK telegraph.
Long-term vegetarianism, militant or peaceful, can lead to genetic mutations in the DNA, which raise the risk of heart disease and cancer, according to scientists.
And there's a consensus of them.
Populations who have had a primarily vegetarian diet for generations were found to be far more likely to carry DNA, which makes them susceptible to inflammation.
Scientists in America believe the mutation occurred to make it easier for vegetarians to absorb essential fatty acids from plants.
But it has the knock-on effect of boosting the production of a type of acid that is known to increase inflammatory disease, such as heart disease and cancer.
It says here the finding may help explain previous research which found vegetarian populations are nearly 40% more likely to suffer colorectal cancer than meat eaters.
And yet, what is everybody running around believing?
Eating meat will give you colon cancer, eating meat will give you a heart attack.
Eating meat, high cholesterol, that's going to lead to arteriosclerosis.
Eating meat will kill you, not to mention what it does to climate change.
They're advocating being a vegetarian.
Now we're discovering that mass vegetarianism leads to heart attack and cancer.
The scientists say, and we don't dispute scientists.
We never dispute scientists.
From the Daily Caller, this is Chetsworth Osborne Jr.'s website, the federal government's going to start fining schools that defy Michelle Obama's lunch rules.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has proposed a new regulation to start levying big fines on schools that fail to adhere to the school lunch regulations promoted by First Lady Michelle Obama.
Who do you think's going to be paying these fines when they are levied?
You know, what the hell business is it of the federal governments, what schools at the local level feed kids.
And I know you're yeah, yeah, that's right, Rush.
You want to know why it happened, you know how it happened.
The federal government gives a local school district money.
You know what is contingent on?
You take our money, you have to impose our curriculum.
You have to accept our rules.
And of course, the vast majority of government bureaucracies are completely irresponsible with whatever amount of money they get.
Don't care.
It's human nature.
Every bureaucratic organization is going to spend much more than it has, which means it's going to end up in dire consequences.
It's going to be in great need.
We got to keep the schools open.
It's our children.
It's education.
Here comes the federal government, which can print money.
Hey, you need to keep keep your school district open.
Here it is.
You know what you got to do to get it?
You gotta impose Michelle Obama's school lunch rules on your entire district.
Okay, okay, we will, no problem.
The kids end up hating it, bringing their own food from home if their parents think to provide it for them.
Nobody wants it because it's rot gut food, it's not very good, it's not very plentiful, and it's supposed to make everybody healthier.
But everybody's supposed to fall in line with the federal requirements and the federal guidelines.
Back when I was in school, a school lunch cost 25.
Now, this is not old Fuddy Dutzism.
Fuddy duddyism, hang in here with me.
When I was in school, grade school, lunch was 25 cents.
My mother gave me a quarter or $2.50 to pay up for the week.
And we went to the cafeteria at lunch, and it was it was different every day, and it was good, and nobody complained about.
Well, there were some days what they served you didn't want, but I mean it was nothing like the complaints that people have now with the Michelle Obama menu.
The amount of money that the federal government sent to the local schools existed, but it was it was not very much.
And when it snowed, even very little, they would close school for safety concerns.
And then that started changing when, also when I was in schools when this began to change, the federal government started paying local school districts for every day, school was open.
And they had a minimum requirement when I was in school, the school had to be open for like 180 days.
So if there was a snow day or two, those days had to be made up, or you didn't get the federal money.
What that led to was school being open during ice storms and snowstorms because they couldn't afford to do without the money because they eventually became dependent on it.
Anyway, that's where we are now, and that's why the federal government is able to impose Michelle Obama's school lunch rules and curriculum rules on local school districts.
And it is that which leads to things like Common Core.
Now you might, but Rush, but Rush, you wouldn't miss it.
Common course locally up.
It's common core may be locally implemented after it's been federally mandated.
I've got to take a break here, back with more in a minute.
And we're back.
El Rushbo, executing his side host duties flawlessly, zero mistakes.
Another climate change alarmist has admitted the real motive behind climate change and global warming.
Thank you.
His name is Otmar Edenhofer.
And he's part of the United Nations, United Nations uh climate propaganda unit.
And he said, How is Arfie going to redistribute deverge Wealth if we don't enact climate change.
And thereby admitted what this is all about.
It's a giant worldwide redistribution of wealth scheme by punishing leading economies by blaming them for destroying the climate because of their advanced lifestyles rooted in the use of fossil fuels.
How else ought to be going to distribute the wealth?
He's not for the climate change.
He admits it.
It's out there for one and all to accept and believe.
And I need to clarify something.
I've got about a little bit less than a minute here.
I'm getting emails.
How come you're afraid to tell people what you think?
I'm not afraid of telling anybody what I think.
And I'm not afraid of anybody disagreeing with it.
What I am is frustrated at having what I say be either purposely or accidentally or stupidly misconstrued, misunderstood, and then misreported, mischaracterized.
I don't you can disagree with me all day long.
I don't care.
In most cases, it's a badge of honor.
But to have people who are claiming to be listening to the program mischaracterize and misrepresent what happens here.
I just decided that the adult mature route would be to impose an opinion gag order on myself.
And that's what I'm doing today.
I'm doing NPR.
And you will like it.
Here's Rick in North Haven, Connecticut.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
You're up next.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Upside down nutmeg state dittoes.
Well, it's great to have you with us, sir.
I'm calling about the uh front page uh New York Times article on Monday from Nicholas Confessori about identifying some segments of the Trump supporter pie and how the elite are totally befuddled in the GOP as to where this support is coming from.
And uh I think that the major part of the article that drilled down was that there was a piece of the pie that the support the Trump supporters can identify with were the lost manufacturing jobs in the United States.
Right.
And that crossed party lines, uh, blue collar, and to obviously to some degree white-collar jobs that are associated with the manufacturing industry.
And since I'm an employee of a small business, uh I can identify, I said, boy, that article hit the sweet spot on that swing as to what the frustration is on the on the voters out there as to why they're identifying with the Trump mania right now.
And I wanted to hear your comment on that.
Well, uh, I, of course, have no opinion on the uh New York Times story.
Uh I have no opinion on uh Trump per se.
But I will tell you this.
I don't believe these people who claim they don't understand why people support Trump.
I think they damn well know.
I I I'm sorry, folks.
I'm just not buying into all of this hand-wringing and angst.
Can't figure it out.
Trump's this and Trump's that way, these people said, and then the answers always become there's got to be something wrong with these people.
Something illegitimate about their grievances.
They just don't know.
And it's it's I think it's all rooted in the fact that these people do know why some have abandoned the Republican Party for Trump.
And they do, and they're unwilling to do anything about it, and they're unwilling to learn any lessons from what's going on here.
And the same thing's happening on the Democrat side.
And I think there's all kinds of people claiming they don't understand what's going on who actually do, and it scares the hell out of them.
But I can't go any further than that.
Because I've imposed an opinion gag order on myself.
If I were to go further, it would be misunderstood, it would be mischaracterized, incorrectly written about, and then people would say, You're losing your audience.
Do you want to stand?
You are blowing it.
Why?
What did I do?
Well, because I'm seeing here and I'm seeing the Okay, well, I'm it too many people are in pain over what they think is happening to me.
So in order to protect everybody's concerns, fears, and worries, I have imposed an opinion gag order on myself on this stuff.
But I'm just telling you that all of this angst over Trump and his supporters, they all know why it's happening.
How many days am I going to keep the opinion gag order in place?
As long as I feel it, I don't know.
Who knows when I'm going to decide to lift the uh opinion gag order.
Now, have you have you seen this from Piers Morgan?
What what do you what do you think of Piers Morgan?
Piers Morgan, a former, he's a guy to replace Larry King live on Larry King on CNN.
He's a Brit.
He's got a kind of a nasal voice.
You want to blow your nose when listening to the guy.
Are you or you you you you want him to blow his nose when he says something.
I mean, it's just you know, you you have a box of Kleenex right next to you when you listen to Piers Morgan, okay.
When you watch him on TV, at least I always did.
Well, Piers Morgan has weighed in in the UK Daily Mail on the Cory Lewandowski situation.
And he thinks, let me see if he thinks that it is ridiculous.
He says the video of Trump's campaign manager, quote unquote, assaulting a female reporter is ridiculous.
A man would have been condemned as a laughing stock for complaining about something like this.
And it it goes on from there.
I'll share with you an email I got today.
Where did I put Ah, here it is.
Dear Mr. Limbaugh, I was thinking about feminism this morning.
You remember feminism, Mr. Limbaugh?
We females were supposed to be treated just like a man was treated in every job.
Law enforcement, politics, journalism, construction, the military, fire department.
We were supposed to be treated just like the men.
Because we were just as tough and just as capable as the men.
So when a female journalist gets bumped out of the way in a press scrum, the response now is to charge battery.
Mr. Limbaugh, on any given day I can show you at least one bruise that I have.
I bruise easily.
I always have bruised easily.
So every bump into a piece of furniture goes black and blue immediately on me.
A slightly bruised arm is not evidence of assault.
It's an email I got.
It's not me speaking.
And I'm quoting Piers Morgan, no one else.
But I will tell you, this is there is no mystery.
In fact, you know what?
I'll lift my gag on an opinion to tell you one thing here.
If you want to understand all of this anger on all sides of this in this campaign, it really isn't any more complicated than people who thought they were going to win big, finding themselves losing and not knowing how to deal with it.
And in a little bit of disappointment or anger, or maybe even panic.
The losing is unexpected.
How they're losing and to whom just befuddles them.
And so the problem is expectations.
There was a confident expectation that this was the year for a certain kind of candidate, certain kind of victory, once and for all after all of these years, and then something Came along to upset that.
And what came along to upset that was something that nobody likes or understands, and so lashing out against it is taking place.
Now if you want to try to translate that, have at it.
That's far as I'm gonna go.
Back after this.
Here's Shirley in Shelby, Ohio.
Great that you waited.
I appreciate that.
Hello.
Oh, thank you for taking my call, Russ.
Yeah.
Uh listen, I'm not a Trump supporter.
But I've been watching the videos all week, and I saw poor Michelle and her bruised arm.
And I just got to thinking, boy, she's got a book out.
How can I get my advertisement out all over the TV and all over everybody's mind?
Wait, you think she's making it up?
Is that what you're saying?
Yes, I do.
Why?
Well, she's got a book coming out.
Well, what better advertising?
It's all free.
And and Bierce Morgan just doesn't go far enough when he said what he said.
Well, okay.
So you just instinctively don't believe her.
I don't.
I think it's my common sense.
I'm 87, and I just think that nobody has any common sense anymore.
There's gonna be a lot worse come up.
Okay.
Then I want to grab one more call before I have to go so surely I appreciate that.
Uh Robert in Montgomery, Alabama, you're next as we uh get close to wrap it up.
How are you, say?
Advan Rush, I'm a huge fan.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.
I wanted to thank you, actually.
I hear a lot of people call and they're complaining.
I think you handle the Trumpsters versus uh the cruise people, I think you handle that very well.
You don't make me feel bad for voting for Trump.
Do other people make you feel bad for voting for Trump?
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Uh I won't name any specific names, but uh after I get off some conservative, their shows, I definitely feel like a slime ball, as they put it.
Well, don't look that's I I guess that's part of what I mean.
The uh there's a lot of people threatened here by by what is uh by what's going on.
Now you look at this Lewandowski and and uh and Michelle Fields situation.
One thing would I be within my own gag order?
Can I can I say this without violating my own gag order?
Let me let me you tell me if this violates the gag order.
One thing I've deduced, I don't know this Lewandowski.
I never heard of this guy before this campaign.
I never heard of this guy until it was it's weeks ago.
Not months.
I do not know who the guy is.
Well, I do now, but one thing I do this guy is hated.
I haven't run into anybody I haven't found anybody in the media who doesn't have victory olive hate for this guy.
Am I right about that?
Okay, I've not violated my own g that's not an opinion.
That that's I'm trying to be and I think everything flows from that in this story.
Up up, uh hit I violated a gag.
I shouldn't have said I want you to Oh, darn it, I didn't.
No, the only thing I see a vi no, this does not violate.
This is observation, it's not Trump is not letting the media run his campaign.
That's not an opinion, that's just a statement of fact.
He's not letting his media the media run his campaign.
I think there's a lesson there.
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