Rush Limbaugh: You won’t believe what my iPhone 4S did in the car this morning

Mac, iPhone, and iPad user Rush Limbaugh yesterday discussed his iPhone 4S and Siri, since its inception on August 1, 1988, is the highest-rated talk radio show in the United States. The 3-hour Rush Limbaugh Show airs daily on a network of approximately 590 AM and FM affiliate stations. The program is also broadcast worldwide on the U.S. Armed Forces Radio Network. A November 2008 poll by Zogby International found that Rush Limbaugh was the most trusted news personality in the nation.

From the live transcript, Limbaugh said:

Now, if there is anybody in this audience listening that writes for an Apple or high-tech blog — or if there is anybody listening to this program that works for or at Apple, Incorporated — you have to hear what happened to me this morning. Sadly, I can’t prove it. (interruption) Well, you’ll hear why in a moment. I was so discombobulated by what happened that I didn’t save what showed up on my iPhone. Now, let me describe my setup for you. I have a car that has a Bluetooth mating system in it. So my iPhone is paired with the Bluetooth system, which means that I can use hands-free operation. Everybody does this, probably. No big deal there.

I also drive around with a Verizon LTE hotspot because Verizon’s turned on LTE here which is 20 megabytes down. So I don’t use AT&T’s 4G, I don’t use cellular when I’m driving around. I use Wi-Fi. This hotspot from Verizon converts the LTE signal to Wi-Fi and that’s how I connect the iPhone. So my system is my phone paired with the car’s Bluetooth provided by the manufacturer, and it is also connected via Wi-Fi to a Verizon LTE hotspot. Now, the way Apple iPhone dictation works is you hit the microphone button on your keyboard, and that immediately establishes an online connection with Apple servers somewhere.

The dictation does not occur, the translation does not occur in the phone. What you say is transmitted at whatever connection speed you’re using — 3G, 4G, or Wi-Fi — to Apple servers wherever they are. The speech is then transcribed to text by a company called Nuance, which makes Dragon Dictation, and that’s the voice-to-text aspect of Siri in the iPhone. So you say, “Testing one, two, three” and hit the microphone button. Apple’s servers then transcribe it and send it back to you, and it displays on your screen. This happens fast if you have a fast connection. That’s why I use the LTE hotspot. This happens within a second and a half. What I’ve said shows back up on my iPhone or iPad a second and a half after I say it.

Now, the way my Bluetooth setup in the car works is — if I’m listening to the radio, for example — the moment I hit the microphone on the iPhone, the radio is muted, because a phone call is being made, essentially. The phone system via Bluetooth is used to send my voice transcription out to Apple and back. When it comes back and the connection is finished, then the audio from the radio resumes. Up until today, it worked flawlessly. The dictation, sometimes it’s a 100% accurate, sometimes 95%. It’s always close enough to just go ahead and hit the send button, except sometimes it doesn’t get proper names right. Today after the hotspot established its connection with the iPhone and I got Wi-Fi going and everything’s hunky-dory.

I’m maybe a quarter of a mile from home on the way in to work, I attempt dictation, and nothing happens. I hit the microphone button and I get the three beeps and no connection. It’s not working. So I say, “Ah, damn it, the system’s down. Something’s wrong with the servers,” but I keep trying. The third attempt… I was trying to respond to some stuff Kathryn had sent me. She needed an answer on some stuff. So I said whatever it was my answer was the third time, and what came back to me? This is what you’re not gonna believe. What showed up on my iPhone was “Obama’s minions are taking over and there’s nothing you can do about it,” and I hadn’t said anything like that!

The audio on the radio did not un-mute. The audio on the radio never came back. The whole system was discombobulated. So I switched from satellite to AM just to see if there was something wrong with the satellite signal, and AM came in fine. So I tried it again. I deleted that. I did not save that. I thought, “Man, something’s really not right.” So I responded to Kathryn again. I don’t even remember what it was saying. I was answering questions about some stuff we’ve got going on this weekend. I said it again, the same thing I’d said the first time.

What came back to me the second time was totally unrelated to anything I had said. It was talking about wind power and Obama and, “You don’t have a chance.” I am not making this up. And I said to myself, “You know, somebody’s hacked Apple’s servers. I’m gonna get in there.” I said, “I can’t wait to get to work and fire up some of these Apple blogs because I’ll bet you this has been going on all morning and I’ll betcha it’s a big story that Apple’s servers have been hacked.” So I tried it again. The third thing which came back had nothing to do with politics.

It had nothing to do with Obama, but it was not anything close to what I had said. Then I started doing, “Testing one, two, three,” and I would get back four sentences that did not have “testing” or “one, two, three” in them. So, as I say, I didn’t save any of these. I wasn’t thinking. I was so curious. I didn’t send them. It didn’t make any sense. If I would have sent these things to Kathryn, she would have thought I’m losing my mind even more than I already have. (interruption) Wait, I’m not through with the story! So I get here. This happens two more times. I get here, the first thing I do when I get into the studio on our network system is start dictating, and it’s flawless. It’s perfect.

It was only in my car that this happened. It was only with my Verizon LTE hotspot and my Bluetooth. I got in here and I used our Wi-Fi network, and dictation worked perfectly. It’s been working perfectly all morning. It was only in the car. I got so busy, I didn’t have a chance to go back out to the car and try it again. I’ll try it later when I leave. So I sent this story. I typed this story I just told you and I sent it to a bunch of computer people. I said, “What could possibly explain this?” And the answers I got back ranged from, “You’ve been hacked,” to, “Somebody got into your car,” to, “Somebody’s tampered with the Bluetooth module.”

It was, “Somebody’s done something. They’re sending you a message that they can do it,” or, “Your Bluetooth module is so totally defective that you need a new one,” or, “There’s something wrong with the LTE hotspot.” There was no answer that was satisfactory. This has never happened. But that first message that came back was: “Obama’s minions are taking over.” As I say, I can’t prove this, because I didn’t keep the transcriptions. I deleted them. I don’t even know if I actually deleted them. I just didn’t send them. (They are not on the phone. I went and looked.) So when I finish here this afternoon and am on the way out, I’m gonna try this again.

I haven’t changed any circumstances. I’m not charging the hotspot. I’m not gonna switch out the Bluetooth unit. I’m not gonna change. What I might do turn is off the hotspot if it happens again or just use the AT&T 4G and see if it happens that way. But to understand this again: When you use dictation on your iPhone or iPad, the phone is not doing anything. What you get is transmitted to Apple’s servers and then there’s software on those servers made by Nuance, which does the voice translation to text. And that gets sent back to your phone, in whatever application you’re using: E-mail, message. Whatever has a keyboard, you can use dictation. So what do you think of that, Snerdley? Who could possibly explain this?

Could it be that somebody at Apple can ID my phone, knows when I’m voice transcribing and can send something back? Could that possibly be? Who knows? I have no idea. I am not a power user. In the sense… I mean, I’m probably a consumer power user, but I’m not a power user in terms of people that can use a terminal, write code, and all that kind of stuff. I haven’t gotten into it that much. I don’t have any other theories, but I sent this off to two people who might, and none of them could believe it but they then started trying to explain it to me what various things could exist to explain this. But it was the first two that came back that specifically mentioned Obama.

So there’s that. (interruption) The Martins didn’t hack anybody! Snerdley just asked me… That grandfather and grandmother couple, they were driving around in I think either Tampa or Jacksonville somewhere. And like everybody, they had a cell phone radio in their Cadillac. They were able to monitor cell phone calls. Like a police scanner, theirs monitored cell signals and frequencies, and they overheard Newt having a conversation with John Boehner back in the nineties. And this grand-couple, big Democrat activists, thought that they were in on history. And they recorded it, too! They had a recorder in their car along with the cell phone radio in their car, and they recorded it. And they sent it to the New York Times, who published it. But they didn’t hack anything.

They just had a radio that was able to monitor those frequencies. Well, I know that was years ago. It was like 20 years ago when that happened, and they’ve upgraded. But the first thing I thought of was somebody hacked Apple’s servers. Because it’s impossible for dictate — for example, if you have Dragon dictate on your iPhone or your iPad, the hardware, software inside the phone is not doing the voice-to-text translation. That’s happening off-site via servers and comes back to your phone via the network. ID’d by phone number, e-mail address, with the iMessage program you can set up five different e-mail addresses that people can reach you on. But in this case it would be IP, because this is Wi-Fi. This could be a combination phone number and IP address. Who knows. As I say, I’m not that much of a power user to be able to explain that, but this didn’t happen yesterday when I parked the car in the garage. The only thing that happened to the car yesterday was it got washed, at home.

Now, I was in the library most of the night working. Somebody coulda come in, got the car, drove it somewhere, I would never know. The garage is about a half mile from my library. Just kidding. But I didn’t check the security camera, so I don’t know if anything happened to the car. I don’t know if it left the garage and came back, I don’t know. I have no clue. And of course, if I start asking, I know the answer I’m going to get. No, no, didn’t touch it. But the most common suggestion I got from the people I sent it to was, “You’ve got a Bluetooth problem here. There’s something wrong with Bluetooth.” That may be, but for Obama and his minions to end up in a translated voice-to-text message when I didn’t say Obama, I didn’t say minions, I didn’t say anything about any of that, the dictation’s never been that far off. I don’t take super-secret phone calls. That’s the point. This wasn’t super-secret. It was just to Kathryn. It happens all the time.

If it happens this afternoon I’m gonna keep whatever it throws back at me. I won’t be able to prove what I say, you know, that’s lost to the ether, but I will be able to show whatever it thinks I said in terms of the translation that comes back.

Source: RushLimbaugh.com

MacDailyNews Take: Any ideas? Could whatever’s on Limbaugh’s iPod (sometimes vehicles default to iPod when plugged in) or satellite radio be playing and that is what Siri is “hearing,” instead of the microphone? Is it some sort of latency issue? Is it switching between the Wi-Fi and the iPhone’s cellular connection? Is Siri mixing up deliveries between users? Has anything similar happened to you?

[Thanks to MacDailyNews readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]

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220 Comments

    1. You’re first getting hip to the obsession with Rush and the Right here? Frankly, I think he’s a schizoid racist and I have no desire to help him out. I certainly don’t have the patience nor the desire to listen to or read what he says, and of of course, the most frightening statement of all: “The highest-rated talk radio show in the United States.” If true, now or even before, we live in one hell of a sick country.

        1. Really Thelonious, you’re going to go with a Pee-Wee Herman, “I know you are, but what is Rush?”

          Come on, Rush has a long history of racist, sexist, homophobic, and bigoted rants. At least be honest about it, and accept that’s who he is.

          This latest word salad of Rush is painfully hard to read, but as I scanned over it, it seems like the TL;DR version is that Rush was too high on oxycodone to remember saying something that Siri dictated; or there was some bug that happened either in Siri picking up something from the radio, or something that was cached.

        2. Thelonius Mac is a true Patriot and infinitely correct. Unlike you Lib-Tard-Zombie-Lemming-Trolls.

          We conservatives far outnumber you nimrod Lemmings.

          You will lose in a landslide this November you Commies!!!!!!

        3. It’s pretty obvious that Rush was lying. Do you really think someone like him would erase or not save the text if it was obviously about Obama? That’s almost as ridiculous as the premise itself.

        4. @Reality,

          I’ve been a registered Republican since I turned 18 and first voted for Ronald Reagan. So no, I’m not a lib-tard, commie, or anything else you’ve accused me of.

          I’m also not an idiot. I’ve read Rush’s books, listened and watched his shows, and have experienced enough of his racists, sexist, homophobic, and bigoted rants to realize that he’s hurting the Republican party as a whole as well as the conservative agenda and party platform.

          He’s successful, and thus very well paid, for the clown that he is, but the GOP as well as the country would be better off without him.

        1. Milly,

          I love your enthusiasm but no one can be a Commie and a Nazi at the same time. The two things are opposites like a brave coward or a black white man.

        2. Wrong, dumbass.
          Nazism,a unique variety of fascism, was founded out of elements of the far-right racist völkisch German nationalist movement and the violent anti-communist Freikorps paramilitary culture that fought against the uprisings of communist revolutionaries in post-World War I Germany.

          Totally opposite ends of the political spectrum. Try reading it can be quite enlightening sometimes.

          Fascism, you know, where the US is headed.

        3. No Huya, you idiot, Rex hit the nail on the head you fool.

          You liberal-parasite-scum want to put us all in the ultimate misery zone.

          We freedom loving, US loving, Adults will stop your pathetic asses!

        4. @craigster
          Empty jingoism. You forgot to add flag waving, and chest thumping. You truly have your Head Up Your Ass™. You put yourselves in the “ultimate misery zone” by allowing Wall Street to strip the wealth out of middle class and give it all to the 1%. Whatever.

          Just get your facts straight and quit re-writing history.

          Fact 1- The Nazis invaded Russia, they were virulently anti-communist.

          Fact 2 – Nazism was presented by Hitler as being neither left-wing nor right-wing, however a majority of scholars identify Nazism in practice as being a far right form of politics.

          Fact 3 – there were many Nazi sympathizers in the US and it was a concern the US might enter the war on Hitler’s side.

          Fact 4 – Socialism takes many forms, (not just the limited definition you seem to put forth) numerous political movements which called themselves socialist often offering polar opposite definitions of the term. Like I said try reading, it can be enlightening.

          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_socialism

        5. Huyu,

          You need to do some reading moron. Maobama and his hero Saul Alinski’s goals are to destroy the middle class. The Republicans, conservatives, and capitalism have done more for all classes than anything else on this planet, NUMB NUTS!

          Go crawl back under your rock now ahole.

          Wikipedia is a communist propaganda jack ass!

        6. Well there is a valid argument that Naziism and Stalinism were neighbours on a circle not opposites. Fundamentally Communism owns and runs the means of production while in Naziism it remains a capitalist state with privately owned means of production but effectively the political powers tell them what they can and cant do with little freedom to resist. So effectively despite their mutual hatred the two operate in a very similar manner and to those living with it there would be little or no difference with individualism, rights and freedoms totally oppressed by a central political dictatorship.

          One could argue indeed that China has moved from a Communist structure to a Fascist/Nazi structure without fundamentally changing much at all apart from becoming a little less extremist which could happen to either political structure. Russia has seamlessly moved in a similar direction to the point it is often described as a right wing country these days. Yet most of the supporters of their form of the centralist, nationalist oppressive ways are the same ones who supported it when it was a Communist regime. So more similarities than differences and on my scale you have oppressive dictatorships at one end and free democratic pluralistic ones at the other end, right and left are generally simplistic descriptions for the ignorant or entrenched.

        7. @spyintheskyuk
          Agreed. Left and right distinctions are simplistic at best. A movement can be called, or call itself “socialist” and be left, right or centrist.

          My posts are largely against ignorant spouting of emphatic statements that are sent forth without the slightest attempt to have any actual grounding in reality. As in calling Nazism “lefty” because it is also “socialist” that’s preposterous in the extreme. I also can’t stand the knee jerk “demonization” of words, in the US it is words like “liberal” and “progressive” etc. In Canada the Progressive Conservative party is in power, with very GWBush-like agenda. Go figure.

        8. Fluke mistake that won’t happen twice in a row.

          Rush is still on the air, Libs. Making millions, with tens of millions of listeners. Your bullshit campaign to silence him failed, failures.

          Eat shit and die.

        9. One can never discount the ability of the right and left wing supporters to denigrate the human race to the level of name calling. The lower the IQ, the more likely that they are limited to name calling.

    2. Wait, is this that guy on the radio who called a woman a slut for using the pill to manage menstrual cycles, then asked said woman to record herself having sex and send it to him?

      MDN, you seriously praising that guy?

      1. no g-stow away-Lemming, that’s not what happened. The entire thing was a set up by a Maobama regime operative. Why the F*CK should we be paying for her freaking birth control. Screw Her and SCREW YOU LIBTARDS!!!!!

  1. Pretty funny. He said the radio did not turn off so I bet Siri heard the radio playing and transcribed that. I’ve had that produce some wild results.

    Or maybe Siri did get confused between different users and sent him someone else’s text back. That seems very unlikely though.

    1. if the radio didn’t turn off, $5 says Siri was mixing the two.

      Over new years the same thing happened to me and my mom. Trying to show off Siri in a room full of people talking and laughing…. Siri had some hilarious things to say.

    2. No, he said the radio “did not unmute” after he finished his dictation, so it DID turn off. I’m wondering if Siri was still somehow listening to the radio even though it wasn’t playing in the car. Although I don’t know if Siri can receive information other than through the microphone itself. But unless he was listening to radio THROUGH HIS PHONE (like Wunderradio or something), I don’t know how that would happen either. All very strange.

    1. Fascinating that you say that cos i’m Australian and I’ve had superb results. The trick is to find the middle ground between fast casual speech and slow deliberate speech. I’ve found the latter can have a negative effect if you over-emphasise syllables. Any other Aussies got any feedback on their success or lack thereof?

    1. citizen, Rush is far from “around the bend”. He is a freedom fighter taking you Commies out left and right.

      Rush, Mark Levin, etc. are heroes for the US. Libtards are the enemy. Pure evil, scum suckers.

  2. More than likely it was just a drug induced hallucination. If Rash Limburger is “the most trusted” of anything, then most people are stupider than they were 10 years ago. Wow America has become a Nation of Manchurian Candidates.

        1. You say you ‘cite’, but I see no citation. I see your statement. The definitions on dictionary.com are pulled from American Heritage, Random House, and Merriam-Webster. In this case, Random House Dictionary is cited for the use of “stupider”.

          If one reputable dictionary (such as Random House, which you claim to accept) lists it as correct, then it’s fine – it may be in contention, but that doesn’t make it wrong, except maybe to inflexible prescriptivists. I would also like to point out that I’ve typed that word into multiple sources that flag misspelled words (Word, Open Office, this post) and not one of them has marked it as incorrect.

    1. No Maobama is the ultimate Manchurian Candidate! Fake birth certificate, phony Social Security # from a dead guy from CT, hidden foreign exchange student college records, raised in a muslim country by America hating parents, best friends of commies-terrorist-and US haters…. What a pick for president Libtard-Parasites!

      Rush is awesome!

        1. I didn’t forget about that, just didn’t post it, but thanks for adding it. He also ate snakes and bugs supposedly. Seems fitting. Like a typical low life democrat.

      1. Oh, the dire pain of insult! I must really be a loser, because anonymous coward dickhead, oh sorry, ‘Willy’ says so! He has outdone me! His reason and logic have trampled me in the mud! How can I ever hope to…

        Seriously STALKER. You want to build your reputation on the foundation of junior high school name calling? At least I know how to be cuttingly descriptive of your object of lust. He promotes fascism, like it or not. He is a propagandist, which you probably enjoy, being a liar yourself.

        Kiddies with computers and no rational judgement, ordinary.

        1. Delusional Derek let out just long enough from the padded room by the men with giant butterfly nets to type his daily looney tunes post. What a nut job……

        2. No, I am a wolf who hunts for HATERS, liars and destroyers. I get along great with kind, caring and loving people, whom I consider to be gifts from god. I hope that doesn’t blow your twisted mind, stalker.

  3. Could he possibly been hallucinating?

    Isn’t there an Obama’s minions response built into SIRI for one of the gags? Road noise could have been involved and if he had a slow connection, LTE or not, there could have been a compression artifact that came back and twanged the Obama remark…

    Maybe Rush was speaking in tongues and Siri was responding with the voice of God. Not to be blasphemous, but you just don’t know and he just can’t remember and didn’t think to take screen captures. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

  4. Other than news clips, I’ve never listened to Limbaugh on talk radio, but if his broadcasts consist of anything like this bloated ramble, I don’t see how he stays on the air.

      1. ask alec baldwin.. he said the same thing. you should listen to the tape of him doing a 1 hour show… he had to CALL his mother to get a caller.
        the phone number was right in front of him and he had to have it pointed out to him constantly.

        here, it’s from Hannity. when he was on 1210 PHT trying to do a radio show.
        http://www.hannity.com/article/alec-baldwin-s-failed-attempt-at-radio/15080

        it’s a few years old, but hilarious. and no it’s not staged.. the only time cuts Hannity did was cut the phone number out. if you search you can find the entire show uncut.
        now the clip goes into more recent baldwin dumassness… but the first part is of him attempting to do radio, which you say isn’t hard..

  5. Finally. I had something kinda similar. A few weeks ago I was watching tv home alone, wasting time till I had do some other plans that night and about the time I had to go I looked at my phone clock and it was on the Siri page and someone had asked my phone this (I took a picture of it cus I wanted to google it when I got back to see if anyone else had something like this happen. And i would of never remembered it word for word) someone asked siri “My computer is on the present of the song download your free diagnosis to my PC.com” in which Siri said “I’d love to donwload that for you, Ryan, but im not permitted to. My sincerest apologies.”
    I was like that’s to much to be an accident. Some how it got hacked. I don’t jailbreak my 4s. Never have.
    I came home a few hours later and googled the hell out of it. Got nothing to where someone said anything like that ever happened. I was home and pretty sure I was on my wifi. Not a 100% though. That is kinda crazy shit.

  6. I think someone at Apple is playing a little Siri-joke on Rush … I heard this broad cast, he was serious ….

    I’ve had it say weird things … maybe rush is in contact with the “universal collective-consciousness” 🙂

  7. I’ve said all along and I’ll say it now, “Siri is a hack, and a very bad one at that. It’s not intelligent, in fact it’s very stupid – the voice recognition software is simply piss poor, no, make that total crap. Siri is nothing more than an advertisement driven marketing gimmick used to goose sales of an otherwise unremarkable iPhone 4S that is behind the curve in every way.”

    1. I have no doubt that you actually mean it.

      Unfortunately, it is still quite remote from the reality.

      Siri is one of the most remarkable, ground-breaking, life-altering pieces of technology ever made available to ordinary humans. And for vast majority of its users, it works incredibly well. For those who have a problem with it, causes are usually related to the outlying issues (foreign accent that not even Siri can understand, inconsistent network connectivity and similar).

      It is always amusing to read declarative opinions about certain technology from people who have never experienced it themselves, but have only read about them…

  8. It’s either an occurrence where radio was heard, iPod was played,

    But…

    I think that all it takes is one dude who can see what’s coming in right? Sure it’s unethical. But why wouldn’t somebody be able to tell (at Apple or Nuance?–not sure of the mechanics here) that this is Rush limbaugh (Siri keeps record of persons identity)

      1. Maobama. See, I might take the step of researching your unrelated-the-current-topic information, but you sort of lose credibility when you use these unclever nicknames for the President of the United States.

        I’m sure whatever you’re referring to would have been extensively and exhaustively covered by Fox News if there were any merit to it. (and right now you’re thinking I’m a raging liberal, and I’m not. I’m just not a political extremist).

        1. You have zero credibility whatsoever.

          I’m sure whatever you’re referring to would have been extensively and exhaustively covered by PMSNBC-NYSLIMES Propaganda outlets if there were any merit to it. And you are a raging LibTARD.

        2. If by that you mean Limbaugh’s past addiction to pain killers and illegally obtained scripts, it was well documented by every major news outlet at the time.

          I was joking about Limbaugh taking the meds — but somehow your proclivity for name-calling smacks of hatred. Unless the words “maobama” and “libtard” are meant to crack us all up (in which case your sense of humor just needs a little work).

          I voted for more Republicans than Democrats in the last election, BTW. Though the best man or woman did get the nod from me.

  9. The company that distributes Rush Limpaugh (Premiere Networks) is part of the Clear Channel empire which just so happens to have ben bought out by Bain Capital by LBO in 2008. That would be the Bain Capital that used to be headed by Willard “Mitt’ RawMoney.

    In many markets where Clear Channel operates multiple talk stations Limpaugh is simulcast on multiple stations (as many as 5 at one time) – roadblocking the time slot against any other competition. So spare us the boilerplate about how many stations he is on.

    Take a look at his demographics- they skew poor, rural, poorly educated, older and white. Not exactly the demographic of America’s future which is urban, more educated, younger and of color.

    As to what America’s most highly paid drug addict said, he sounds like he’s off his meds. We know he self medicated with Oxycontin until he became deaf then lied to his listeners about an auto-immune condition and had cochlear implants. He also compelled his housekeeper to doctor shop to supply his habit- something that is a felony. So much for law and order or Rush would be somebody’s b*tch in the Florida State Pen instead of a useful idiot pimping Republican talking points on the bought and paid for public airwaves.

    1. That was a weird post provocateur, but I suppose it was provocative 😉 I’m not a Limbaugh fan, but he is very popular, even among some of my more conservative friends of color, and they are not poor, rural poorly educated or old. You are big into stereotypes I see… I’m a libertarian. People have the right to listen to what they want. You have a right to turn it off, so don’t let him get under your skin so much. Sounds like you are giving him control. Obsession maybe? The point is MDN got you to bite and to comment. There is nothing like hot hits to your website. Carry on 😉

  10. Despite what anyone thinks of Rush Limbaugh, the story is interesting enough to warrant a read. I would be just as curious if Al Sharpton had been talking about it 😉 Is there a “Siri Reality Distortion” Website somewhere collecting this stuff?

  11. Wow. Regardless of who said it, such a story seems possible, especially in his case because of his social position. There’s no way to be sure that someone in the right place with the knowledge couldn’t cause something like that. I’m inclined to think it’s likely not apple personel but someone else somewhere in between. I don’t trust iMessage and iCloud entirely. I think there’s unintended problems that can occur which no one may know about. We don’t know the full details of the system. Maybe apple stores the comments and sent him back one he said earlier. I’ve personally seen iMessages show up then disappear, all within the context and order of the conversation. That’s happened to me several times. It just did today. But today the comment came back and was inserted where it was originally. I never saw that happen in all the years of text messaging.

  12. People that speak out of their butt about Rush usually have never listened to his show. He is no bigot or raciest. He usues hyperbole to make his points.

    If you actually listen to Rush, you would be better informed.

  13. I remember this guy made headlines around the world for calling women who want free contraception sluts (contraception is free to everyone in the UK). On that basis I couldn’t care less what stories he makes up about Siri.

    1. The woman was a demoTARD operative sent to a college to try to make waves. A complete set up. And we do not need to pay for her birth control. Parasite.

      That’s the reason the UK is so screwed up. You idiot socialists have destroyed your country!

  14. Why would MDN want to have anything to do with Limbaugh. He may use Apple products, but that doesn’t exonerate his sexiest, misogynistic and fascist rantings.

    Anyway, shouldn’t he be concentrating on driving carefully rather than fiddling with technology while behind the wheel?

      1. I’m certainly not racist – I employ a team of wonderful people from all over the world with many different ethnic origins. And I love them all. We work on a strictly profit-sharing basis.

        I don’t think you understand what the word ‘racist means’.

        The fact that ‘you conservatives’ hate me? Well, I take that as a compliment.

        1. Did I say I was a liberal? I think that’s your (crass) assumption.

          But do tell us all here at MDN … “If I’m a liberal, I’m a racist” – what does that actually mean? On what do you base that assumption? I so want to understand what the hell you’re talking about.

        2. So, to all you gun-toting fascists who write here on the MDN website …

          When Steve Jobs talked about Apple being at the Intersection of Liberal Arts and Technology …

          And you say you don’t like Liberals and what they stand for … why do you bother posting here?

  15. MDN – keep your MF politics to yourself.

    Rush Limbaugh was scoring illegal drugs (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/warrants-detail-rush-limbaughs-drug-use) off the street for years from his immigrant maid, while railing against drug addicts. He also travels abroad to pork (pun very intended) prostitutes abroad: http://www.alternet.org/story/38192/ while railing against the foes of “family values.”

    Who give shit about whether or not this bloated, addicted, misogynistic, hypocritical pig likes Apple products or not?

    PS: The field above that says “web” above should say “email address”

    1. Hey Bor,

      And your president was doing Cocaine and god knows what else in his hidden past.

      He has racked up more debt than all previous presidents ever in just 3 years.

      He hates the US and is out to take it to it’s knees.

      We will vote his pathetic ass out this November if he isn’t impeached before.

  16. I don’t know a lot about this guy (other than the ‘slut’ comment) but he seems to be an obese smoker with a drug problem. Let’s hope he loses his job and all his money (probably by being sued) and then can’t afford health care to cure his diabetes/ heart disease/ lung cancer.

      1. Demotard, how clever! Could you even find the UK on a map? How about your own country? Give up, eat some more junk and get even fatter, then grab your gun and go out and shoot some kids or black people – it’s the American dream. Half the world hates you, the other half just thinks you’re all idiots. Nobody could really care less what goes on over there, but if the Republicans get into power then you’ll be nuked so none if it will have mattered.

        1. Yes I’ve been there many times. A great place to visit but a socialist hell hole otherwise. Nice job your “socialized” healthcare does on your population’s teeth. I noticed some serious mutants walking around in London too. Way worse than NYC. Looked like night of the living dead at times.

          I have relatives from the UK and they hate the socialism too you freaking idiot.

          So shove it where the sun don’t shine limey boy.

          And we hate more than the half the hell hole world and could give a rats ass what you pathetic losers think of us. George Washington has been voted the UK’s most arch enemy of all time. He schooled you red coat pussies.

          The democrat Parasites in the US are trying to downgrade the US to your pathetic standards of living. Hows your shower, refrigerator, dish washer, etc doing. Do you have any of those? How’s your clown car doing that they force you to drive around in. Crumples up like a tin can on impact. How’s all the video surveillance going? How are your soccer hooligans doing. You’re probably one of them you scum sucker.

          You’re the laughing stock of your beloved EU which sucks too. Nice socialist hell they’ve created with the bankrupt EU. One of Maobama’s many horrible role models…… Go to Hell Mark.

        2. I’ve spent a lot of time in the UK and the people there remind of the fatties on the space ship in WALL-E. Gross. I don’t know how they eat the slop they serve over there either. The UK is definitely not known for it’s cuisine. Disgusting.

      1. Ahhh… there’s a Dittohead chiming in now with typical Limbaugh divisiveness & ignorance.

        Just because I call out MDN & your hero, doesn’t mean I’m a Democrat or fan or Rachel Maddow. Simpletons who listen to the pill-popping bigot make that mistake often.

  17. Wow, whenever Rush is mentioned a whole bunch of dodos here go apeshit, want to reopen gas chambers and other goody stuff like that.

    Just wow, he must be really hitting a nerve.

  18. The right wing yanks come across really well on here don’t they? I love Americans. You all shovel fatty junk into your mouths until you’re so fat you can’t move, carry guns so you can run into schools and shoot kids or just any black guy that gets near your gated community, you never leave your own country and couldn’t find it on a map and you actually think creationalism should be tought alongside science! What a country of fat racist violent idiots!

    1. Yes, look at all the UK and Aussie papers. A bunch of fat, drunk, crooked, tooth Socialists. Losers. Good thing you have the US to protect your sorry asses.

      Wasn’t that European from Norway the one going on a killing spree with guns you troll.

      Go crawl back under your rock in whatever hell hole country you take up space in you parasite.

      1. Haha, calm down fatty, just playing you at your own game. And the Norweigan was a right wing faschist just like you. Impressed you know that Norway is in Europe though, well done.

      2. Could you explain what you mean by ‘socialist’, or is it just a slogan you bandy about?

        Oh yes, and that guy (murderer) from Norway. He professes to be part of a ultra right-wing (conservative) alliance. He most definitely NOT a socialist. Maybe you have a lot in common with him? LMAO

        1. No he professes to be a NAZI which is what all of you Lemmings are.

          The democrat party and the communist party share the same talking points.

          NAZIs were socialists.

          Liberals are Racists.

          Liberals are Clueless.

          Liberals are Parasites.

          Liberals are Haters.

        2. More unsubstatiated crap from someone who’s parents were almost certainly part of the Ku Klux Klan and Mikey boy who loves being a nasty violent little fascist too.

          No arguments, just idiot rhetoric.

          Hey dude – get an education!

          Typical fascist crap from a Yankee shithead

        3. KKK was started by Democrats you ahole. Prominent Democrat party members in the KKK too. Stuff it.

          And Libtards are always the ones losing it and going on Killing sprees in the US. 99 out of 100 times with an illegally obtained fire arm or weapon.

          So you can go F*CK yourself.

        4. cool it, OttowaMike. there is no difference between republicans and democrats, they are equally corrupt, just beholden to different funders. the liberals you speak of have no real voice in the US, and really haven’t since the Jeffersonians left office. That being said, for every evidence you dredge up about liberals being fascist, racist, hating, etc can easily be matched by a “conservative” doing the same thing. For example: the most conservative cultures on the planet today include religious idealogues who enforce their rigid ideologies via jihad. What did the US do in response? Carpet bomb Baghdad — an offensive war of choice that, no matter how it is justified, turned out to be an order of magnitude greater in pain and suffering to innocent Muslims than was inflicted by a few Saudi terrorists. Who pointed out this moral dilemma? Not a single “conservative” in the US. So stuff it with your accusations of how terrible one side is versus the other. They are both sides of the same coin.

          I assume you might support the “Conservative” party in Canada — it acts quite a bit more leftist than the paranoid US parties, both of whom think that the US must act as the world’s policeman no matter what it costs the taxpayer. I believe in strong defense, but i have a hard time swallowing the recurring drums of war and insults dripping with hatred from self-proclaimed morally superior rightists like you.

        5. Cool it yourself Mike, you commie. You are full of communist, red herring, propaganda.

          Liberalism is the root of all evil on the planet, period.

  19. I visit MDN on a daily basis and these Rush posts never cease to amaze me. Likewise the hate filled back and forth is also surprising but par for the course in the US these days. It is amazing how devisive US politics is these days and likely only getting worse. There is no sense of actually having a true political discussion rather its your with me or your against me mentality. If things do not change and there is no move to a sense of shared sacrifice and common goals for the good of the country we could be watching the fall of the Roman empire all over again.

    1. And all this just because MDN asked what we think happened to his iPhone 4S and Siri.

      Unfortunately, there are precious few on-topic answers to MDN’s questions to be found in this cesspool of unadulterated idiocy.

    1. Typed from the fat, welfare fed fingers of a typical Libtard-Parasite.

      You are far from Cool. You lemming.

      Rush speaks the truth and you libtards go berserk when you hear the truth. Losers

  20. Phuc u! Jesus was a liberal. I know that drives you guys nuts. You have no care except for your own lame asses. Conservatives are CONS first last and always. You suck up the lies of the CON media. The CONS own the airwaves. They own 99% of the wealth. So Phuc u! Puss infected wound on civil society. Dooshes and wooh’s

  21. Turd, and you are one,

    Everything you just posted is exactly the opposite of what you think, except the conservatives do own talk radio. No one wants to listen to liberals!!!!!

  22. Why couldn’t this have happened to someone who will NOT incite polarized political rants instead of technical discussion ?

    Mr. MDN has asked us what we think could be going on here and there’s nothing but opinionated political tripe in the posts. Take it somewhere else and get technical people !

    I think its a bug. Log it in bugzilla and move on.

  23. @ Rush – relax. 4th wifey Kathyrn says your oxycontin delivery boy just delivered. Time for big hubby to go back to the “library” for his medicine. Your panic attacks will subside, just need to keep numbing the brain.

  24. In My opinion siri was listening to the radio. Probably a malfunction to the bluetooth, I had this problem with my old car bluetooth. So if the radio had news during that period it is possible to hear strange things.

  25. Wouldnt be surprised if the libs in we’re targeting to hack Rush, usually they don’t have any shame and are willing to do just about anything to get their lib agenda across.

    Example:

    At President Clinton’s direction, no fewer than 10 federal agencies issued a chilling ultimatum to banks and mortgage lenders to ease credit for lower-income minorities or face investigations for lending discrimination and suffer the related adverse publicity. They also were threatened with denial of access to the all-important secondary mortgage market and stiff fines, along with other penalties.

    The threat was codified in a 20-page “Policy Statement on Discrimination in Lending” and entered into the Federal Register on April 15, 1994, by the Interagency Task Force on Fair Lending. Clinton set up the little-known body to coordinate an unprecedented crackdown on alleged bank redlining.
    The edict — completely overlooked by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and the mainstream media — was signed by then-HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros, Attorney General Janet Reno, Comptroller of the Currency Eugene Ludwig and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, along with the heads of six other financial regulatory agencies.

    “The agencies will not tolerate lending discrimination in any form,” the document warned financial institutions.
    So this is where it all started.  In 1994.  When the government pressured lenders to qualify the unqualified.  To put people into houses they couldn’t afford.  Or else.

    1. I believe that when Clinton increased access to banking and decreased discrimination, he empowered people and made their lives better. Just as when the “libs” increased voting rights, increased civil rights, instituted Medicare, etc. Of course, it is only “chilling” when banks can’t make as much money. It’s never chilling when people’s lives are devastated by those in power. Shame on you.

      1. A fifteen year old Amish boy and his father were in a mall. They were amazed by almost everything they saw, but especially by two shiny, silver walls that could move apart and then slide back together again.

        The boy asked, ‘What is this Father?’
        The father (never having seen an elevator) responded, ‘Son, I have never seen anything like this in my life, I don’t know what it is.’

        While the boy and his father were watching with amazement, a fat old lady in a wheel chair moved up to the moving walls and pressed a button. The walls opened, and the lady rolled between them into a small room. The walls closed and the boy and his father watched the small numbers above the walls light up sequentially.

        They continued to watch until it reached the last number� and then the numbers began to light in the reverse order.
        Finally the walls opened up again and a gorgeous 24-year-old blond stepped out.

        The father, not taking his eyes off the young woman, said quietly to his son…..

        ‘Go get your Mother’

  26. This story was widely circulated in 2008, but the MSM would not pick it up.

    The latest was that Obama’s lawyer in the New Jersey action to bar him from the ballot admitted the last birth certificate produced was a forgery (and a sloppy one at that), challenging the Judge in the case with “So What!”.

    Senator Obama back in 1999

  27. its painfully obvious to me that the voices in Rush’s head have disassociated themselves with the ones coming out of his mouth. that would explain a lot ! I personally do not have gobs of respect for Rush’s higher reasoning powers and seriously suspect user error to the nth degree.

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