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May 20, 2016, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
The Charlotte Observer says that every woman and girl in the United States needs to just get over the fear of male genitalia in their bathrooms.
Hi, folks.
Friday.
How are you doing?
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Right here I have it in my formerly nicotine stained fingers.
It's an editorial listed as opinion in the Charlotte Observer.
Great to have you here, folks.
Open Line Friday underway.
You know the rules on open line Friday, Monday through Thursday, you have to talk about things I'm interested in.
But on Friday, you don't have to do that.
You can talk about whatever you want.
I'll fake it if I'm not interested, or I'll be bored.
No, no, I'll try not to be bored.
That'd be that'd be that'd not be good.
So I'll fake it.
Seriously, it's um designed to be a fun day to find out what's on your mind if things above and beyond what's day-to-day politics, culture, what have you.
Telephone numbers 80082-2882, the email address, El Rushbo at EIBNet.com, CNN, I'll tell you is really, really, really trying to make a big big deal out of the fact that Trump out of the box called this plane, the Egypt air disaster terrorism.
They are they are going to town.
They're trying to make it look like this disqualifies Trump.
And of course, Mrs. Clinton, who is awaiting the results of investigation, and uh being very cautious in her approach to the disaster, much, much more presidential, don't you know?
And it resulted in a truly softball interview with Chris Kumo, as his last name is pronounced by the uh Reverend Dax.
Uh Ed Hillary, uh, when would it happen?
It happened yesterday.
And uh actually, Wolf Blitzer show.
Where was Wolf?
It I guess he's en route to Egypt.
Um they found uh they found they found an oil slick now, they found uh baggage, luggage.
They have uh they've found wreckage.
The reason that people are a little bit curious here, uh the reason those who are reluctant to call it terrorism are reluctant to call it terrorism is that a terror group is not claimed credit, and that is the purpose of terrorism is to claim credit, tell everybody you did it as a means of terrifying them.
Now, in this case, I don't think anybody needs to claim credit for a majority of people to realize this incident is going to further bottleneck airport security.
Whether this was terrorism or not, the authorities are going to take advantage of the occasion of this to slap even more security uh procedures.
So, but a lot of people say, well, airplanes don't fall out of the sky.
You have three air marshals on this plane.
Airplane engines don't just quit.
They just don't.
Now, a lot of people have fear that they're going to, but they don't.
You know the amazing thing about airplane travel is how overwhelmingly safe it is.
I don't think people stop to think how many flights every day there are carrying how many millions of people traveling how many what billions of miles,
and the number of legitimate aircraft accidents is so small that it is one of the safest public endeavors in the world today.
Airplane engines just don't quit.
You might hear in a story here or there of uh a jet losing an engine here or you don't even hear that, but but this is a twin engine, it's an A320.
Airplanes don't just lose both of their engines.
Single engine prop plane.
They did the engines, they just don't stop.
I mean, it it in the in the past they did.
I'm talking about the technology has gotten so good that that's not why airplanes are brought down.
Engine failure.
There's usually something a bird strike in an engine, for example, or lightning strike, uh mid-air collision, but j the airplane malfunctioning is just not something that happens.
With any kind of regularity.
I mean, it's so rare when something like that happens that people can't remember the last time.
So that's why the natural tendency to think that it was brought down by an explosion or a missile or what have you.
And if you if you take a look, if if if let's say the engines did stop, let's say that that is what happened.
There's no way the airplane would have taken the course that it took if the engines just died.
It would immediately go to a glide pattern.
The pilots would do everything they could to use the glide slope that the plane has, and every airplane has a a glide slope or a uh rate of descent.
Some glide better than others.
The shuttle, for example, the space shuttle.
I don't know how many people know this.
The space shuttle returned from outer space hundred plus miles high with no power, with absolutely no engines.
They can't.
The heat of re-entry would explode the airplane, would explode the shuttle.
They they they come back, they jettison all the fuel on launch, and then whatever uh positioning fuel they have to pitch and roll and yaw the the shuttle while in space, that's that's pretty much uh all there is, but it's not enough to control the flight of the airplane once it hits the atmosphere of the shuttle.
The glide slope of the shuttle is the equivalent to a rock.
The way you measure a glide path is how many feet does it drop per feet it it advances.
And some aircraft, like single-engine Cessnas, uh single-engine pipers have amazing glide slopes or glide paths and glide quite a far, quite a quote quite a great distance.
The heavier the aircraft uh, obviously, the the the less the glideslope's gonna be, but this jet would have one.
It could it it's gonna drop like a rock.
I'm not saying it could it could uh it could it could continue operating as though it had power because they wouldn't have any hydraulics if the engine quit.
You couldn't steer it.
But there isn't anything up there aerodynamically that would cause it to veer and plummet and do a 360 in the air like it did if all that happened was the engines quitting.
So Mrs. Clinton's out there being very, very, very reasonable and very, very restrained and very, very, very moderate about this.
I mean, well, Trump said it's terrorism, or we're never gonna beat these people, we keep losing to them.
When I become president, it's not gonna happen anymore.
How dare he?
How dare he?
You can't talk that way.
You can't, that's just gonna make them mad.
And besides, what if they didn't do it?
It's false allegation.
He's fli- and there's peer fear and panic all over it.
Let's go to the audio sound bites and listen to Mrs. Clinton on this at CNN.
Uh it was yesterday afternoon a Wolf Blitzer show hosted by Chris Cuomo.
And this is a uh a montage of questions, just to illustrate the softball questions of Hillary got yesterday.
What is your message and what do you believe the response should be to make something like this less likely?
Do you believe that things are worse now than they were seven, eight years ago?
How do you fight the perception that we look weak?
Do you think that Donald Trump is qualified to be president?
Why don't you reach out directly to Senator Sanders?
Should you reach out to Bernie Sanders?
Any thought to your making the first move?
Do you ever feel compelled to defend your honor, the honor of your husband?
What do you bring against Donald Trump because you know what he's bringing against you?
You talked about your grandkids and you talked about your mother.
What do you think when you think about your mother and the inspiration about how you get up?
What does she think about when she thinks about how her father abused her or her father was a tyrant?
What else could it be?
Her father was a was a typical male predator type.
That's what she thinks about.
This uh this question Here uh you ever feel compelled to defend your honor, the honor of your husband.
You know, she answered that no.
She said no.
When asked during a CNN interview, if she felt compelled to defend, quote, your honor, the honor of your husband, she said no.
Of course she would say no.
How can't she?
Well what what what is she what is she going to say?
Um Juanita Broadwick is out there alleging that Bill Clinton raped her, and then Trump has referenced that on the Fox News channel, and so it's out there.
Uh numerous drive-by's like uh what's her name?
Andrea Mitchell, NBC News in Washington, are saying it's never been conclusively proved.
It's it's been debunked.
And of course it hasn't.
NBC News did the definitive interview with one De Broderick.
It was Lisa Myers.
And it was never discredited.
Quite the contrary.
But not even wanting to go there.
I think it's I think it's quite telling.
Um think Trump would react that way.
If there were similar similar allegations about about uh about him or somebody in uh in his family.
So anyway, those are the softball questions that she got, which is not surprising.
I just wanted to illustrate them to you.
Here is Hillary answering the question whether or not Trump is qualified to be president.
No, I do not.
And I think the kinds of positions he is stating and the consequences of those positions, and even the consequences of his statements are not just offensive to people, they are potentially dangerous.
How so?
When you say we're gonna borrow Muslims, you are sending a message to the Muslim world, and you're also sending a message to the terrorists, because we now do have evidence.
We have seen how Donald Trump is being used to essentially be a recruiter for more people to join the cause of terrorism.
You know, this gets to the the old rub.
This is the kind of thing I think needs to be refuted until everybody believes it.
Trump nor any other critic of militant Islam, Trump nor any other critic of terrorism creates terrorists.
What creates terrorists is Islam.
Sharia.
It's in the book.
What creates terrorists is the Imams in the mosques in place like Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
Trump's not creating terrorists.
George W. Bush didn't create terrorists.
These people on the left, like Hillary Clinton are out there trying to say that Guantanamo Bay and the pictures at uh Abu Grab from Iraq, they just make these young uh Muslim men so angry that they they join up and they want to become terrorists and so forth.
And it's just it's it's it's nonsense.
And it's typical of the left, people like that being unable to correctly assign responsibility to the people who deserve it.
So Mrs. Clinton says that Trump is not qualified to be president because the kinds of positions that he states and the consequences of those positions and even the consequences of his statements are not just offensive to people, they're potentially dangerous.
Okay?
Well, let's go back.
January 23rd, 2013, Capitol Hill, a Senate foreign relations committee hearing on the Benghazi consulate attacks.
Hillary's testifying.
Senator Ron Johnson, Republican Wisconsin, says, we were misled.
That there were supposedly protests and an assault sprang out of that at Benghazi.
And that was easily ascertained that that was not the fact.
The American people could have known that within days, and they didn't know that.
This he's talking about the fact that for the longest time the regime said it was a video.
That an internet video that nobody ever saw incited a mob.
It got everybody over there so mad that a spontaneous protest sprung up.
We found out that it was never the video, and there was not a spontaneous protest.
It was a planned terror attack, which this administration has since admitted was the case.
But this is January 23rd.
Ron Johnson is essentially saying, you said it was the video.
We know it's not a video, we know it's not a spontaneous terror attack at Benghazi.
It was planned.
And we've known this a long time, Mrs. Clinton.
The American people could have known within days, and they didn't because they were lied to by you and others in the administration.
What do you say to that?
With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans.
Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they'd go kill some Americans?
What difference at this point does it make?
That's so presidential, I'm sitting here in awe.
What difference at this point does it make?
What difference it makes is that you are part of an administration that couldn't tell anybody the truth about what happened.
Four Americans died in Benghazi that perhaps could have been saved had anybody in Washington been paying attention and not looking at this event as a potential damaging impact, having a damaging impact on the upcoming election in 2012.
With all due respect, in fact, as we had four dead Americans, Johnson says I understand.
Was it because of a protest that a bunch of guys out for a walk?
Well, what difference does it make?
What difference does it make?
That's presidential.
That's supposed to assure us.
That's supposed to remind us of the sterling qualities that Mrs. Clinton has.
Count me out.
Be back after this.
So Hillary Clinton wants to be president of the United States.
I want you to.
I want you to imagine something.
Imagine where you work.
Something goes wrong where you work that you are in charge of.
It does not become known to your superiors for a month or two that something went wrong.
But what went wrong was really bad.
And it was under your control.
It was it was under your supervision in your part of the company.
Management finds out about it a couple months later.
Well, let's make it even more precise.
What goes wrong is known immediately.
But why it went wrong is not known.
And you lie to your superiors about what went wrong.
You claim that what went wrong that resulted in real damage to the company.
You lie to your superiors about it.
And you lie to the board of directors.
You blame some outside event, some set of circumstances that nobody had any control over, and it just happened.
And then two months later, your boss realizes that you'd lied.
And that the original excuse you offered to explain what went terribly wrong is no longer true.
And in fact, your boss learns that you lied about it.
So your boss calls you in and asks you to explain all this.
And your answer to your boss is, what difference does it make?
It happened a couple months ago.
Who cares why it happened?
It was really bad, and it's really bad now.
And who cares why it do you think you'd be promoted in that company?
You think your boss would accept that explanation from you?
Who cares?
What difference does it make right now?
What difference does it make anymore?
What happened is really bad.
You'd be finished.
You might not be fired, but you would be static.
At whatever position you hold, you wouldn't be promoted.
That would be the end of you.
You would have been caught lying after two months of getting away with it.
What went wrong was something directly related to your incompetence, and then you lied to cover it up like Hillary did about Benghazi, continuing to lie about a video when the video had nothing to do with it.
She continued to lie and spontaneous protest, had nothing to do with it.
It was a planned terror attack that Hillary knew and Obama knew was in the cards.
Now, if you in a certain circumstance in a business, I'm not talking about where people died, but something very, very bad for the company happens, and it's your fault and you did it and you lie about it, and then you're caught two months later, and your excuse to the boss is.
What difference does it make now?
You're finished.
Mrs. Clinton wants to be president of the United States.
And she claims Donald Trump is not presidential.
What difference does it make now?
Would not fly with a boss after a colossal mistake.
So why should it fly with us?
Why should it fly?
Why should Hillary's excuse?
What difference does it make?
For America?
What difference does it make?
Why?
You'd be frozen in place at your job.
Why does she deserve to be elected president with that kind of excuse making?
Back after this.
No, no, I wasn't finished talking about that.
I was just I just getting people ready for it.
Greetings, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
Up in line Friday.
Half my brain's hide behind my back, just to make it fair.
Charlotte Observer in an editorial.
Girls and women just need to get over their fear of the male genitalia in their locker rooms.
All of this is silly, they say.
This is crazy.
This women have this inordinate fear of male genitalia ought to get past it, ought to get over it.
Bathrooms and locker rooms.
This is the same publication that probably backed up everything Rolling Stone lied about about the rape culture all over campus in this country.
What happens when a biological male who identifies as a female uses the women's restroom?
Well, for one thing, it's really weird.
Number two, it's odd, and number three, it's just it's just it is.
The question, this question says the Charlotte Observer is at the core of a struggle, and a suddenly intense debate over the rights of transgender individuals.
That battle transcends what happens in bathrooms, certainly, but the issue has prompted a wave of unnecessary fears, unnecessary laws, including North Carolina's HB2.
This week, the Obama regime tried to get in front of the clash, first with a Department of Justice lawsuit over HB 2, and then on Friday with a letter to U.S. scruble districts ordering them to acknowledge and accommodate transgender students.
The letter doesn't carry the weight of law, but it does carry a big stick.
The implied withholding of federal dollars from scrual districts that don't abide by the regime's guidelines.
They're not guidelines, they're mandates.
When scroll districts are totally dependent on federal money, and that federal money is threatened to be removed if you don't do what we say with your bathrooms, then what do you think the scrulls are going to do?
That threat is sure to bring more heat to the bathroom debate, but eventually the decree should have the opposite effect.
It will bring acceptance, as these measures do, by showing that the answer to what happens in bathrooms is a lot less fearsome than the question.
This is not about what happens in bathrooms, Charlotte Observer, and it's not about transgenders.
That's where everybody's so upset.
Everybody knows this is just yet another vehicle that extreme liberals are using to undermine and overthrow and transform the founding culture of the United States.
That's what this is.
It's not civil rights.
People aren't going to bat for one-tenth of one percent of the population here from a civil rights standpoint.
This is called blowing up centuries of tradition.
Same thing with gay marriage.
That's all this is about.
It's disguised as being a civil rights issue to grease The skids of passage.
It's disguised as a civil rights issue to intimidate people into silencing their opposition to it.
It isn't about transgenders and it isn't about bathrooms, and it isn't about marriage.
Well, it is about marriage, but it's about blowing it up.
Anyway, back to the Charlotte Observer.
Republicans in North Carolina have made the most of those fears, framing the Carolina legislation, HB2, as a law that protects the safety and privacy of women and children.
Those safety issues are political fiction.
No, what's political fiction is if this has become an issue?
What's political fiction is that all of a sudden a bunch of transgenders are feeling really, really put upon and really, really discriminated against over bathroom usage.
That's the manufactured fiction.
That's the created drama.
That is the narrative, if you will.
That's the soap opera script for the day, for the week, for the month.
All people in North Carolina are doing is reacting to it.
Everybody was minding their own business, and there wasn't one bit of a problem until you guys at the Charlotte Observer came along.
And of course the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Everything was fine until you decided to gum up the works.
What do you expect people just to lay down and accept this stuff?
Of course they're going to react and they're gonna.
But we get positioned as somehow these on the march anti-freedom people.
We're minding our own business.
Trying to lead our lives the best we know how, and every day we wake up and find that we're under assault.
And now it's bathrooms, and we're told we're the oddballs and we're discriminating and we're this and we're that.
Anyway, Charlotte Observer get to the meat of the get to the uh their primary point here.
Republicans in North Carolina have made the most of those fears, framing their legislation as a law that protects the safety and privacy of women and children.
Those safety issues.
Political fiction.
Non-transgender men wouldn't have been allowed in women's bathrooms under the Charlotte ordinance that HB2 killed.
And 200 or so cities with similar ordinances have had no incidents involving bathroom predators.
You mean there are bathroom predators?
Yeah, we had a story just last week of one.
Everybody knows they're out there.
Anyway, that leaves the issue of privacy and the oft-stated notion of women and girls sharing bathrooms and locker rooms with someone who has different genitalia.
It's an image that's uncomfortable, even for some who are sympathetic to the transgender cause.
Here's the pull quote.
Yes, the thought of male genitalia in girls' locker rooms, and vice versa, might be distressing to some.
But the battle for equality has always been in part about overcoming discomfort.
With blacks sharing facilities with gays sharing marriage, and then realizing it was not nearly so awful as some people imagined.
So you young women, you girls and adult women were being told every day by people like the Charlotte Observer that you are likely to be raped on any American college campus you choose, are now being told, get over your fear of the male genitalia.
If you happen to spot it in a bathroom.
Yes, it might provide some discomfort, but just like African Americans had to deal with being segregated, you can get over it too.
So now women and their fear, in the words of the Charlotte Observer, of the male genitalia, and being advised, just get over it.
Has anybody ever told African Americans, hey, you don't want to slavery be get over it?
Anybody ever said that?
I don't believe so.
I don't has anybody ever said to African, hey, just did anybody tell?
Not loudly.
Now, did somebody tell uh white Southerners at some point back in the 1800s after Civil War to say, just get over it?
Yes.
They did.
In this case, women who use the women's room are being told to get over it if a guy walks in.
Yeah, it's can be discomforting, yeah, but so have a lot of other tough things that we've had to overcome in America in the past.
You ever ask yourself, folks, why?
See, we always get put on a defensive, and I refuse to go there.
I'm not going to be on the defense of an institution.
You ask yourself why in the world ninety-nine point nine percent of the population should have to transform, reform, modify, moderate to one-tenth of one percent of the population.
Have you ever asked why in the world, what is who who in the world decided to pick up an issue that affects one-tenth of one percent of the population and make it a cause celebrate and make it a dominating cultural issue and make it an issue that they use to illustrate how in their minds America sucks.
America discriminates, America's unfair, America is prejudiced, America is biased, because one tenth of one percent of the population of men or women who think they're the other want to use a bathroom of their choice one day.
You ever ask why we have to stop everything we're doing and turn this into the equivalent of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
I ask it that way to illustrate that this is about much more than transgenders and bathrooms and all of that.
And the fact that the everyday drive-by media lift and related organizations has gotten behind this every bit as fervently as they did gay marriage, and should tell you that it's about much, much more than what the issue is supposedly about.
Back after this.
Welcome back.
It's Open Line Friday.
Great to have you, El Rushbow behind the golden EIB microphone.
We grab a phone call the first hour on Open Line Friday, we try.
Here's uh here's Mark in Clovis, California.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Great to be here, Rush.
First time caller, first time trying to call.
I'm I uh feel very lucky.
Congratulations, sir.
You made it through.
Yes.
Um, my point is this.
I heard your your your opening a little bit this morning.
Um Hillary claims that Trump's comments banning Muslims and things like Guantanamo Bay promotes jihadi recruitment and should be eliminated.
But does not progressive initiatives such as transgender bathrooms, gay marriage, extreme feminism also promote radical recruitment?
And shouldn't we ask Hillary if we should eliminate those ideas and initiatives because they are a recruitment tool?
Well, you know, that's actually a good point, and it's something people don't think about very much because to do so would uh really slice and dice the leftist agenda.
But what his point basically is if you look at Sharia law, none, very little of what the left wants to call normal is permitted.
You go to Saudi Arabia, homosexuals, if they're discovered are beheaded, they are murdered, they are executed.
Remember Mahmud Ahmadini Zad, used to be the head of Hancho in Iran, came to the United Nations for a meeting one year, was invited to speak the student body of Columbia, and he spoke, and during the QA, some students stood up and said, uh well, how do you how do you treat your your gay population, Iran?
And Ahmadini said, We don't have any.
And the audience started chuckling.
They didn't get it.
We don't have any of that, he said in Iran, and the audience started chuckling.
And Ahmedini Zadz, oh, oh, am I wrong?
Do you know any?
If you do, could you tell me who they are?
And the room got a little quiet.
There were still some chuckles.
But but Mark's point here is it's a good one.
I mean, if if Sharia is what it is, and Islam is what it is, and we are infidels, then all the reasons we are infidels is all it would take to anger them.
And I'll guarantee you, at least half of the Democrat Party liberal agenda does not float the boat of militant Islam.
Can I give you another illustration?
I was just looking for it in a stack of stuff, and I thought, I thought I printed it, and maybe I did, and I just can't find it in the right stack.
But the United Nations is convening a summit on AIDS.
United Nations convening a summit on AIDS, and Islamic member nations have forbidden any homosexuals to attend or be part of it.
And not a peep out of anybody.
Not a peep.
So the UN's going to have something to do, some seminar, some latest in medical advances or what have you on AIDS.
And the Islamic member nations attending this thing says, okay, well, we're not sure.
No homosexuals permitted.
So I just cite that as a as a backup here to Mark's point.
Let's get a target.
This is incredible.
Retail giant Target is losing sales, and they may be on track for another major stock drop in the second quarter, according to analysts, amid a growing boycott caused by Target's transgender-friendly policies.
The company's second quarter sales from April to June may drop as much as 2% compared to the year before.
And that's according to Target executives.
The earnings prediction comes a month after Target announced on April 19th that it would allow men who feel like women to use the women's math rooms and changing rooms at its stores.
That decision sparked a boycott petition that has garnered over 1.2 million signatures in only a week.
Target executives deny that that boycott, the pro-family consumer boycott's making any difference at all.
But the street.com, which a bidding news website says, we have seen a notable slowdown post-Easter Target Chief Financial Officer Kathy Smith said on a call with reporters.
Target CEO Brian Cornell, who was also on the call, blamed the slowdown on unfavorable weather in the Northeast and volatile economic trends.
Cornell also said the company has not seen a material impact to its overall bidness from the protests, but has seen some hit to sales in a handful of stores.
He declined to quantify the extent of the hit.
So between the Obama economy, Amazon, and the fact that Target feels the need to regurgitate their minority political beliefs out loud instead of just selling what people want.
It's going to be interesting to see, but this boycott apparently is having a momentous impact on Target.
Did you see this?
Joe Biden, vice president Joe Biden, is worried about facing retirement from public office.
He admitted to a crowd.
He spoke at the National Urban League's legislative policy conference.
Joe Biden, Joe by 70 some odd years old.
I think he's 70s.
Joe Biden said, I have never been gainfully employed in my life.
And the audience started to laugh.
And Biden says, no, no, I'm I'm I I've never cashed a paycheck in my entire life.
You think I'm joking, but I've not.
I've never had a job.
I don't know what the hell I'm going to do.
And then he told the people in the crowd he's going to need some career advice.
Now that's bogus in career advice, but I believe he's never got a job.
Neither is Obama.
So why are these people trying to run the health care business?
Why are these people trying to run the minimum wage business?
Why are these people trying to tell business people how to run their business when they have never, ever been employed?
Stop and think of that.
70 years old, never ever been employed in the private sector, never had a job like most people have.
And yet he knows better than anybody in the private sector how to run it.
Back after this.
Can white kids grow up to be black?
You laugh, this is from Ann Arbor, Michigan.
University of Michigan study.
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