Partial transcript from The Rush Limbaugh Show yesterday:
Rush: For those of you watching on the Dittocam today at RushLimbaugh.com, you’ve probably seen me pretty animated here during the break talking to the broadcast engineer and my trusty aide-de-camp and chief of staff, H.R. I didn’t want to bring this up. I hadn’t thought I was gonna bring it up. You know, I’m a big Mac guy. I love Macs, and I’ve got four Mac Pros. They’re the top-of-the-line Mac Pros, maxed out. And they just had a new system upgrade, went to 10.5 Leopard, and they’ve had two upgrades since October. Yesterday brought 10.5.2, which was loaded. It was a big, big update. I’ve been having two problems since I went to Leopard that I hoped this update would solve, and it didn’t solve them; and it’s frustrating. I’m telling these guys. I’ve worked patiently. I’ve been very patient with my Apple rep, with my developer rep, and they’re working hard on it, but nothing gets done! All use file reports and get lost in the Apple bureaucratic system — and occasionally a good-intentioned, good-hearted Apple rep will get on the phone, try to solve it, and will say, “Yep. It’s the same problem I’m having on my machine.” They’re having the same problem at Apple that I’m having here, but it’s supposed to work.
So I’m asking these guys during the break, “Do you think I ought to put out a plea to Steve Jobs? I know he’s politically opposite of me, but just to say, “Mr. Jobs, please, I just ordered six brand-new Mac Pros: four for me and two as gifts; maxed out, Blu-ray drives. I’ve loaded ’em up. Our whole office here is Mac, and I just want it to work because I love them — and these two things that aren’t working would seem to me, as a novice, to be a simple fix, but they’re not.” So I was telling these guys, “Do you think I ought to make an appeal, a direct appeal to Steve Jobs from behind the Golden EIB Microphone? ‘Mr. Jobs, please help me.’ I know we don’t agree on anything. You love Algore — and by the way, I’ve got no problem with him now, but can you put me to somebody that can get this going, because I know it’s gotta work for most people. What am I doing wrong?” Maimone said, “You don’t understand it. Jobs has you tagged. He’s making sure your computers don’t work. If you put out this appeal to Steve Jobs and ask him to help, his reply is going to be, ‘Mr. Limbaugh. Do us a favor and endorse Windows.'” (laughter)
Full transcript, in which Limbaugh never does get around to identifying his two problems, here.
[UPDATE: 2:55pm EST: According to MacDailyNews Reader “Tommy Boy,” Rush has identified his two problems: Back to My Mac (can connect using direct IP sharing but not using Back to My Mac) and Time Machine (cannot restore mailboxes). More info here.]
Some narrow-minded bigots like great design also I guess.
I’ll bet neither he nor his support team have tried the Apple support Message boards. I also had more problems with the Leopard upgrade than any other, but I was able to resolve all via a little research.
If he stated the problems in his long-winded plea, perhaps someone could get him the answer.
That is. “MY” remark.
Hey- somebody send a link to this page to Ruch.
Maybe he’ll comment on it!
How the hell is he getting Blueray drives installed? Apple doesn’t offer the Mac Pro ( or any system for that matter) with Blueray drives.
Blu-Ray Drives?
This tirade from oxycontin-addicted Limbaugh is interesting in that it is a typical form of Windows-centric thinking. When PC users have problems with their machines, and they very often do, they like to put the blame at the very top — Bill Gates.
Rush doesn’t bother telling us what his problem is (a HUGE omission) but he sure is quick to go straight to Steve Jobs. What is so wrong that he couldn’t hire any IT contractor who specializes in Macs? I’m sure he could have his problem rapidly if he’d just hire a MacGeek for a day.
Bob: you beat me to it. I was wondering the same thing – I even went to the Apple store online to see if I had missed a configuration option.
Can anyone say if Blueray is available to developers? Did Rush just violate his NDA? Is he going to be pwned by Apple’s lawyers?
This is not a political forum – Rush’s problem is not political… disagree or not – stop bashing conservatives. There are more on here than you think.
Begging for something from a Liberal?! I guess Crushed Limpballs is still suffering from McCain Derangement Disorder.
Probably ordered through a vendor or Blu-Rays put in through his IT staff.
You are just jealous
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I was going to make some snide remark like, “Does anyone down there still listen to Rush Limbaugh?!”, and then I remembered that enough Canadians voted for Stephen Harper to make him Prime Minister. Head hanging down. Slinking away ….
I think Rush might be back on his drugs. Apple’s not offering a Blu-Ray drive on any Mac, not to the public, nor to developers.
-jcr
@Ferf Muckthrower
“I am ashamed that fatass pill-popping conservative buttface Limbaugh is a Mac fan. He should be relegated to the TI-994A.”
All this hatred from someone who probably spouts that he’s compassionate and a free speech advocate. Typical lib loser.
The Mac Pro has a spare optical drive bay. A third party Blu-Ray drive could be installed in that bay by the reseller. I think people are just assuming he’s ordering the computers from Apple directly.
I hope if Rush does document his two issues somewhere, MDN will report on it so people can offer up suggestions for a fix.
You can easily add a blu ray drive to a Mac pro and other Macs
http://fastmac.com/slim_bluray.php
I wish he’d say what the problems were.
(OEMs add Blu-Ray drives).
Crushed Limpballs! LOL!!!!!
@Messy Pants, I was going to make some snide remark like, “Does anyone down there still listen to Rush Limbaugh?!”, and then I remembered that enough Canadians voted for Stephen Harper to make him Prime Minister. Head hanging down. Slinking away ….
Tell that to Err Amerika. Rush reaches more true Americans than anyone else.
@ByeTakeCare
Wow, was that a web site plug?
Blu-Ray Ain’t On Tap
But el-Rushbo Says Trust Me
Fat Chance Fat Chance Fat…
So why does he think that he deserves special treatment?
What he needs to do is to put in a call to Apple support, then wait…like the rest of us. At Apple, being a rich privileged guy doesn’t get you anything. Sorry old man.
His problems may be larger than he thinks. It might not be so easy to fix them. There’s also testing involved. If 10 people report it, it’s not a big issue. If 10,000 people report it, it might be.
@ByeTakeCare
The last line of your linked article takes most of the wind out of the anti OS X tirade. For those it didn’t waste the time looking at it, it reads:
“And Microsoft Windows was never that bad.”
@ron
Apparently, El Rusho isn’t reaching enough “true Americans” because Senator McCain is winning the primaries with nearly 75% of the GOP vote. Lots of conservatives are turning Limbaugh (and Ann Coulter) off.
I have a blu-ray drive in my <strike>Mac Pro</strike> err Inspiron.
His problem is that he can’t play blu-ray disks on his “blu-ray drives”. His Apple contacts have verified that, sure enough, this cannot be done. Someone needs to tell him the problems will go away when our troops come home.
His two problems:
1. He can’t get his HD-DVD movies to play on his Blu-Ray drives.
2. He can’t get his Blu-Ray Movies to play either, because Macs don’t have a F#$%^* Blu-Ray drive!