{"id":11745,"date":"2013-08-05T19:08:10","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T19:08:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-08-05T19:08:10","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T19:08:10","slug":"the_doj_s_apple_shakedown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/08\/05\/the_doj_s_apple_shakedown\/","title":{"rendered":"The DOJ\u2019s Apple Shakedown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/51796\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s Donald in Walnut, California.  Great to have you on the program.  Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Well, it\u2019s my pleasure indeed Rush.  First of all, full disclosure.  I don\u2019t own any Apple stock or any Apple products.  About 25 or 30 years ago when I started using  computers, I took the Microsoft fork in the road and unfortunately I didn\u2019t take the Apple fork in the investment road because I would have been very happy. <\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_79599\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushAppleJustice.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>But nonetheless, the situation with the shakedown, this attempted shakedown of Apple reminds me so much of what happened when Jim Barksdale of Netscape complained, sniveled to the government that mean old Microsoft was embedding this browser, and unfortunately, Bill Gates showed up before the Senate committee and essentially bent down, grabbed his ankles, instead of using the defense that Hank Rearden used in Atlas Shrugged. I would have loved if he had said he doesn\u2019t recognize them as being spokesmen for the public and that the public, who are his customers, they can curtail his profit any time they want by not buying their products, and then said but say thank you and get up and leave.  That would have been wonderful, but unfortunately it didn\u2019t happen because I guess &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Well, you\u2019re the second guy that\u2019s compared the Apple shakedown to the Microsoft.  But I don\u2019t think the Department of Justice tried with Microsoft what they\u2019re trying here with Apple.  The Department of Justice has asked a judge to let the Obama administration run iTunes, run the Apple store, on the premise that Apple is screwing everybody.  Everybody at Apple voted for Obama, too.  This is another example, just boggles my mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s Donald in Walnut, California. Great to have you on the program. Hello. CALLER: Well, it\u2019s my pleasure indeed Rush. First of all, full disclosure. I don\u2019t own any Apple stock or any Apple products. About 25 or 30 years ago when I started using computers, I took the Microsoft fork in the road [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The DOJ&#039;s Apple Shakedown - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/08\/05\/the_doj_s_apple_shakedown\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"The DOJ&#039;s Apple Shakedown - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: Here\u2019s Donald in Walnut, California. 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