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June 9, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 9, 2008, Monday, Hour #2
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Greetings, my friends, and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh here behind the golden EIB microphone, broadcast excellence on the fastest three hours in media.
It is a delight to have you with us.
The telephone number if you want to be on the program today is 800-282-2882, the email address is L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
Let me read you just a couple paragraphs here of the American thinker piece by Rocco DePippo that ran on June the seventh.
I printed this baby out at 1221 in the morning.
There was a prewil pre-Lewinsky time before moral relativism blurred Americans' vision.
When associating with people like Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers would have automatically excluded someone from attaining the presidency.
Back then, anyone with well-known connections to such America averse personalities would have been rejected by a supermajority of the electorate during primary season, almost certainly blocked by the Democrat Party before they could have gotten to within a mile of the White House.
But those days, when patriotic true liberals like Joe Lieberman were considered typical Democrat Party politicians are gone.
Now politicians like Lieberman are banished to the party's periphery and leftists, not liberals like Dennis Kucinich, Bernie Sanders, Jim McDermott, John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, Jim McGovern, Patrick Leahy, Richard Durbin, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama have replaced them.
Until recently in our history, a president, Barack Obama would have been an impossibility.
But given the political and ideological climate that exists today in America, the ascension of a leftist like Obama into presidential politics makes perfect sense.
Beliefs like domestic terrorist William Ayres and racist anti-U.S.
preacher Jeremiah Wrights are no longer met with scorn or a trip to behind the woodshed, but they're embraced.
They're promoted.
They're defended by many Americans.
Think move on, think international answer, think hordes of young neo-communists, and their indoctrinating puppet master Marx spouting professors.
Think Michael Moore, Cindy Sheehan, Noam Chomsky, Ward Churchill, and his acolytes think NYU, think Columbia, think the new school, think Harvard.
Most importantly, ponder the makeup and direction of the Democrat Party leadership.
Like Obama and his radical friends, it's appallingly far left.
Ideological descendants of Marx and Rousseau now lead the Democrat Party, and they've turned it into a disloyal opposition to an increasingly accommodating GOP.
And that, by the way, hits on a serious problem.
They have turned it into a disloyal opposition to an increasingly accommodating Republican Party.
They have molded the party into a force working stridently and unashamedly against a commander-in-chief during wartime.
They have made it a den of treachery devoted to American defeat in Iraq.
They preside over an institution advised and influenced by moneyed, non-governmental types and individuals with unquestionably anti-U.S.
agendas who help make the Democrat Party a pseudo-intellectual sinkhole, filled with perverse, tried and failed ideas repulsive to the majority of Americans.
These ideas are shaped into agendas, which are then forced on the public by an activist left-wing judiciary and by a major media and arts consortium shot through with utter disrespect, indeed contempt, for traditional American values, religions, and institutions.
The Democrat Party has devolved into a club for the illegitimately aggrieved, the self-absorbed, the self-hating, and the perpetually angry.
It is a sanctuary where solipsistic malcontents and their disjointed causes find refuge and support.
It has long ceased being an earnest gathering of broad minds, where man's timeless problems are examined Against the backdrop of the Constitution and solutions to them proposed based on the actual realities of the human condition.
It is now the political province of the intellectually deceased, where frightened lockstep ideologues and other small men and women concoct and promote divisive, destructive, weird and cowardly policies developed within a not so quaint quasi Marxist stricture of gender, class, and race.
So what does all that have to do with the propulsion of Obama?
Well, everything.
It could not have happened without the existence of a substantial, organized internal anti-U.S.
left, and the approval and guidance of the Democrat leadership that I described.
Obama is in step with that radical element and with that leadership.
His views reflect their views.
He is now a central figure in the deceptive, destructive strategy to restore the Democrats to power, a strategy that has been in place since the U.S. Supreme Court declared Gore the loser of the 2000 presidential race.
Don't call me a liberal, says Obama, in precise lawyerly sort of the way he's being honest.
He truly isn't a liberal.
He's a leftist.
The piece goes on.
It describes what has happened since 9-11, when the left was discouraged and alarmed at the ultimately high approval numbers that George W. Bush had in the immediate aftermath of 9-11, and that they began then,
and we have talked about it, we've documented it on this program, a systematic plan to destroy his popularity, to destroy every initiative and agenda item that he had, all for the express purpose of convincing the American people that indeed their country is a sinkhole, and it is a sinkhole because of George Bush, a sinkhole because of Republicans and conservatives.
They have done their best to demoralize and destroy every institution for good that they can get their hands on, all for the purposes of weakening the resolve of the American people and destroying the confidence of the American people in their own country.
Thereby setting up the 2006 elections and setting up Barack Obama as their standard bearer.
Now, one thing.
Yes, we in the conservative media, and those of you who are part of it, are fully aware of what's happened, and you are frustrated and you want to stand up, and you want to just, as Bill Buckley did once to history, just say stop.
You are fed up with your individual freedoms being attacked, your liberty being lost.
The question is when's the rest of America going to see this?
When's the rest of America going to stand up and say enough?
You telling me I can't do a bonfire when there are 8,000 eight million lightning strikes a year that cause massive fires in this country.
Go ban lightning before you tell me to ban my bonfire.
There are any number of examples, and I don't want to bore you again with the list because we've done this for years.
The list of things that constitute subtle but significant losses of private property rights and other forms of liberty.
Inspired and controlled by the leftist-controlled Democrat Party, but it's only been allowed to happen, or it's only been gotten away with because the Republican Party's been acquiescent.
Republican Party hasn't stood up and said stop.
Nowhere from a nowhere, nowhere from elected Republican leadership, nowhere from elected conservative leadership, has anybody stood up on a daily basis and challenged the lies that constitute the primary reporting of the drive-by media in this country for the last eight years, seven years.
Nobody has stood up and said, No, I'm not going to put out my bonfire.
Screw you.
No elected leadership has stood up and attempted to impugn or laugh at or criticize some of these things.
No, because our party has got this weak spined idea that the way to deal with this is to accept some of these premises and then try to tweak them.
Back to this TV show on the Discovery Channel last night.
J. Barberi, NBC News, who covered much of the space program up until recently and still does some some consultant work for them.
Talked about NASA being the most exciting place there is.
We were launching Gemini rockets every six weeks.
We did some of the most incredible things.
We accomplished some of the most unimaginable objectives.
And all the while, we had a media echo chamber that was telling us, yes, these are good things and we should be proud.
Today we don't have that.
Today we have a drive-by media that echoes and perhaps is intimately involved in structuring the anti-American leftist agenda.
The eyes of the world were on John Glenn, they reported.
People were on their hands and knees on Cocoa Beach, praying for John Glenn first orbital flight.
These things don't happen anymore.
And I believe I was telling somebody last night, yeah, I think the media could easily turn the tide here.
If the media were once again proud of the country, proud of the institutions, and led people to loving their country.
And the person I was talking to said, this media?
I said, No, I'm talking about, and he said, Katie Couric.
Brian Wood, do you think these guys?
I said, no, I'm talking about the institution and its capabilities.
I'm not talking about this current crop, of course not this current crop.
But I do think that the media could rally people to be positive because I am media, and we've done it here.
I know it can be done because I know that people need leadership, and they want it and they crave it and they respond to it.
That show last night, and there are two more episodes the next two Sunday nights at 9 Eastern shows America at its best.
People drop to their knees and prayed.
NASA was the greatest place in the world.
These guys, these astronauts, they were all heroes.
You know who our heroes are today?
You know who the heroes today are?
Sheg Guevara, Fidel, to the American left.
Okay, Sterley, give me give me one of their heroes.
Give me a hero that the American left routinely cites.
One of our heroes is Ronald Reagan.
What is our own side tell us?
Get over him.
Forget Reagan.
The Ear of Reagan's past.
Their heroes are older than Reagan.
We never hear them say, get over FDR.
Get over JFK.
Get over Teddy Kennedy.
Our own side.
Our own party tells us to get over Ronald Reagan.
Reagan's one of our heroes.
Not a cult figure hero, a substantive, genuine hero.
Where are the heroes today?
Well, how many hundreds of thousands of them are in Iraq?
And what the hell is said about them?
By the leftists, by the Democrat Party, by John Murpha, by Dick Durbin, by John Kerry, you name it, they are murderers.
They are rapists, they are thugs.
You think this stuff doesn't resonate all over the country, and look at the leftists on college campuses, high school campuses, and wherever else you find idle time, they hate the U.S. military.
They have been taught and brainwashed to hate the U.S. military, which is out there protecting their silly right to say these stupid things.
They have an official home, the Democrat Party.
They have an official house organ, the New York Times, and the rest of the drive-by media.
And these are the people who are trying to tell you to stop doing bonfires.
To have your car only idle for three minutes at a time.
To telling you to stop having kids, because it's going to pollute The planet even more.
To blaming you for your attempt at a better standard of living and prosperity for destroying the climate.
These are negative, unhappy, miserable people trying to spread as much of all three of those qualities to as many people as possible.
They do despise this country.
They do purposely seek to cut it down to size.
They do purposely and by design seek to take away little by little so you won't notice it or care your liberty, your freedom.
They seek to place that which they have taken from you in big government, where controls over even more of your freedom will be instituted because in all of this huge giant equation, the only place that is benevolent, the only institution worthy of our respect, in fact, our prayers, and getting down to our hands and knees, and saying thank God for government.
Government is going to give us health care.
Do you realize we need a goal today, just like they had a goal to get to the moon in the 60s?
We got a goal.
Energy independence, our own oil.
Drill it.
Drill it here and drill it now.
Who's going to stand in the way?
The very people who don't want our independence.
The very people who want us to be dependent on other sources of oil.
They say it's because they're afraid of pollution.
How many oil wells are there in the Gulf of Mexico?
How many are near the Gulf Coast?
How many were damaged or ruined during Hurricane Katrina?
How many oil spills were there?
Hundreds were damaged and ruined.
There were no oil spills.
It is a phony argument to say that oil wells offshore will end up polluting and destroying the country and the environment and the planet.
These are people who, while taking away your freedom and liberty, while at the same time, by definition, because you and I are the ones who make the country work.
Our ambition, our industriousness, our productivity take away our freedom to engage in that, and guess what happens?
Country's economy shrinks.
That they want.
Gotta go.
Back after this.
I'm gonna read you a little passage here, ladies and gentlemen, a little quote from one of our heroes, Ronald Reagan, whom our own side is telling us to get over.
He said we should always remember that our strength still lies in our faith in the good sense of the American people, and that the climate in Washington is still opposed to those enduring values, those permanent things that we've always believed in.
Washington is a place of fads and one week stories.
It's also a company town, and the company's name is government, big government.
In the discussion of federal spending, the time has come to put the rest, put to rest the Saab sister attempts to portray our desire to get government spending under control as a hard-hearted attack on the poor people of America.
To this day, we have a federal budget over three trillion.
Any mention of cutting it is still said to be aimed at the poor.
Minorities and women, hardest hit.
We don't change anything in Washington unless a Reagan comes along.
Obama isn't gonna change anything.
Obama is gonna do what leftists and liberals have done for eons, and that is try to grow the government to as large as it can, raise taxes on as many people as possible, and eliminate as much personal freedom and liberty as he can.
And nothing new about Obama.
Reagan was change.
The climate in Washington still opposed to those enduring values, those permanent things we've always believed in, Washington is a place of fads and one week stories.
Does that not describe Barack Obama.
We have all these examples.
Countless examples of government failing in every mission it takes, be it fixing and restoring and maintaining levies in New Orleans, to reducing poverty to streamlining health care.
There is no evidence that government is fit to run it.
In fact, the Senate dining room.
Oh, wait till you hear this.
Diane Feinstein has ordered the Senate dining room to go private.
It's losing money.
It loses millions.
The food's lousy.
And if they don't go private, Senators' lunch prices will go up 25%.
The House already did it.
Here's the sad story, ladies and gentlemen, and this from the Washington Post today.
Year after year, decade upon decade, the U.S. Senate's network of restaurants has lost staggering amounts of money.
More than $18 million since 1993, according to one report, and an estimated $2 million this year alone.
We're talking about Senate restaurants.
The final condition of the world's most exclusive dining hall and its affiliated Capitol Hill restaurants, cafeterias, and coffee shops has become so dire that without a $250,000 subsidy from taxpayers, the Senate won't make payroll next month on its restaurant.
Now keep in mind, this is who we are told is best suited to manage our energy policy, to manage our health care.
It is, they screw up every major thing they try because they are not the best qualified.
The embarrassment of the Senate Food Service.
Struggling like some neighborhood pizza joint has quietly sparked change, previously unthinkable for Democrats.
Last week in a late night voice vote, the Senate agreed to privatize the operation of its food service.
A decision that would for the first time put it under the control of a contractor and all but guarantee lower wages and benefits for the outfit's new employees.
The House is expected to agree, its food service operations have been in private hands since the 1980s, and President Bush's signature on the bill would officially end a seven-month Democrat feud and more than four decades of taxpayer bailouts for Senators to dine.
Senator Diane Feinstein, Chairman of the Rules and Administrations Committee, which oversees the operation of the Senate, said she had no choice.
It's cratering, she said of the restaurant system.
Candidly, I don't think the taxpayers should be subsidizing something that doesn't need to be.
There are parts of government that can be run like a business and should be run like businesses.
Thank you.
So they're going to privatize it.
In a letter to colleagues, Feinstein said that the government accountability office found that financially breaking even has not been the objective of the current management due to an expectation that the restaurants would operate at a deficit annually.
Oh, yeah, just like the federal government does.
Senator Robert Menendez, Democrat in New Jersey, speaking for the group of senators who opposed privatizing the restaurant, said, You cannot stand on the Senate floor and condemn the privatization of workers and then turn around and privatize the workers here in the Senate and leave them out on their own.
You know, he's got a point.
The Democrats are being a little inconsistent here.
They do argue against the privatization of anything in government that would make it run better.
But now all of a sudden, in the Senate dining room.
One of the key factors here is...
Senate opposition to privatization melted when faced with this choice.
Feinstein made another presentation May 7th, warning senators that if they didn't agree to turn over the operation to a private contractor, prices would be increased 25% across the board.
These are the people that you are being told can best administer your health care.
And they can't even run their own restaurants at a profit, and we have been paying for these people to eat.
Do you know how many millionaires there are in the United States Senate, particularly on a Democrat side?
Do you know how many?
It is an astounding number.
I I look, I know there are some businesses that are so large that they have cafeterias and restaurants for their employees.
I frankly, in my life, have never worked at a place that paid for any meal of mine unless I was on business somewhere.
But I have never, ever worked at a place that bought my meals.
I take it back.
I want to be factually correct.
When I worked at the Kansas City Royals during homestands, the employees, certain of them ate in the press room with the press because we were working.
But when the season was over, or when the team was on the road, they did not open that room and feed us.
We got to go to the stadium club, but we paid for it.
These people have been running their restaurant at a loss because they just was expected to run at a loss, and we're going to pay for it.
These are the people that want to run your health care.
My friends, this is a, I don't mean to steal from McCain.
He's stealing from my fringe.
but But we really are at a crucial point here.
And it's not about science in the case of global warming, and it's not about poverty in the case of government spending for the disadvantaged, and it's not about people's health.
When they talk about everybody being insured, it's about leftists.
It's about extreme liberalism.
It is all oriented toward one thing, and that is the loss of liberty and freedom.
I still ask myself, when are people?
When are they going to stand up and just tell these local bureaucrats, screw you?
When they're told that bonfires on the beach could be destroying the climate.
By the way, Diane Feinstein here was not unique when she turned private sector on the Senate.
One of the um elements of Mrs. Clinton's speech.
Now let me check the soundbite to see we only have two from her speech, because I didn't want any more than that, because frankly, it's not that big a deal.
Nope.
Now here, I can tell you what she said.
Now here's Hillary Clinton.
As big a leftist as is Obama, as big a leftist as anybody in moveon.org.
They're all leftists in this party, the people that are running it.
And she's standing up there and she's saying, my candidacy has proved you.
You can do anything you want.
Work hard.
Never get up, give up.
And if you get knocked down, get right back up.
We've all heard this.
I mean, it used to be standard stuff.
It still is in sports.
Well, it's not even in sports.
Now we have organized sports where nobody loses.
I just saw something, I don't even know where this is from.
I've got it here in the stack.
You know how in sports, kids' sports, they don't keep score in a lot of places so that there's no humiliation for losing.
Every year in every school, there's this big production, the people in the drama class and so forth, junior high and high school.
And somebody always gets the leading role.
Somebody always gets a leading male role.
At this school, it might be Australia, I'm not sure which.
I'll find out.
Every girl in the drama class will get To play the lead on one night.
They will rotate it.
So that everybody finds out what it's like to play the lead.
Nobody feels left out.
Pandering to the lowest common denominator, not teaching life lessons.
But here, let me get back to the point.
Here's Mrs. Clinton urging all these people, fight for what you believe in.
Always continue, never give up, get knocked down, stand back up.
And I was watching with somebody who thought that was just great.
Wow, that's why that's just great.
I said, no, it's not.
If she means that, why doesn't she become a conservative and tell every damn person in the country to act that way instead of asking every damn person in the country to depend on her?
She never tells the people in this country to stand up to be the best you can be.
If you get knocked down, get back up, keep fighting for what you believe.
She portrays the people of this country as inept, incompetent, incapable, and worthless unless they have a health insurance plan from the government, unless they have a government check.
If Mrs. Clinton really meant that, she would say it to the people of the country, not a bunch of people who are her supporters gathered in a little building in Washington, D.C. She doesn't believe that.
She believes it for herself.
She would never turn her life over to the government.
She would never turn her health care over to the government.
But she can't wait to run yours.
Nor can Obama.
So the next time you hear a Hillary Clinton or a Barack Obama or somebody tell a little group of people they're talking to, don't ever give up.
You can be the best you can be.
Keep striving.
Use everything you've got.
Understand that these are the same people who are putting obstacles in everybody's way out there trying to do that.
And that they're actually inspiring the people of the country to do just the exact opposite.
They are inspiring as many people as possible to sit back, do nothing, and wait for the government to come take care of most of their daily needs and some of their wants.
They're a bunch of hypocrites.
They know full well the damage that they are inflicting.
They don't care.
It's all about their power, and they can't get it unless you lose some of yours.
We will be back.
Stay with us.
It's Japan where this is happening, and it's being brought about by the parents.
The stage was set, the lights went down.
In a suburban Japanese primary school, everybody prepared to enjoy a performance of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
The only snag was the entire cast was playing the part of Snow White.
For the audience of menacing mothers and feisty fathers, though, the sight of 25 Snow Whites, no dwarves, no wicked witch, was a triumph.
A clear victory for Japan's emerging new class of monster parents.
Now in a competitive sense, this may be good.
I've always said export liberalism to our competitors and bog them down like we're bogged down.
And this may be an example of that.
I want to go back to the audio sound bites.
I want you to hear two sound bites from the Democrat Party standard bearer.
Barack Obama, a man who 30 years ago would not have survived one sermon being seen publicly by the American people.
If anybody running for president 30 years ago had said, God damn America in a sermon, that's the end of the candidate who had been a 20-year member of the church.
If the American people had learned 30 years ago, that a that a presidential candidate of any party could number as one of his best friends, a terrorist who blew up the Pentagon.
He'd be finished.
Today he's the nominee of the Democrat Party for President of the United States.
And this is a man of change.
And this is a man of hope and dreams.
This is a man who's finally going to bring about the federal government fixing everything that's wrong in health care.
This is from last Thursday in Bristol, Virginia.
No telepromp, no prepared remarks, speaking off the cuff.
And by the way, when he makes his remark here about the audience being loud And distracting him.
We did not edit any audience out.
The audience was not making a sound because the audience was as perplexed as you will be listening to this.
What they'll say is, well, it cost too much money.
But you know what?
It would cost about it would cost about the same as what we would spend.
Over the course of ten years, it would cost what it costs us.
All right.
Okay.
We're going to.
The it would cost us about the same as it would cost for about hold on one second.
I can't hear myself.
But I'm glad you're fired up, though.
I'm glad.
Nobody was saying a word.
There was no cheering.
There was no fainting.
There was just disbelief.
I have warned you people several times, you get this guy away from the teleprompter and the David Axelrod written speeches.
This guy didn't even write his own speeches.
Mario Cuomo and Malcolm X write his speeches.
Or whoever wrote theirs, Elijah Muhammad, hell, I don't know who.
Bottom line is you get this guy away from him, and I don't care.
He blames it on lack of sleep.
Hey, get used to it, man.
You want to be president.
Remember that phone call's going to ring at three o'clock in the morning?
It's going to be Hillary.
Saying, Have you seen Bill?
And you're going to say, Yeah, last time I saw him, he was in the Oval Office.
I couldn't get rid of him, so I came up to bed.
This is a guy wants to run your health care.
Listen to this next bite.
Listen, listen to him talk about the condition of asthma.
Everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma.
They end up taking up a hospital bed.
It costs when if you they just gave you gave them treatment early, and they got some treatment and uh a breathwiser or an inhalator.
Not a breathalyzer.
I haven't had much sleep in the last 48 hours.
It's not an inhalator either.
How much an inhalator cost?
Where do I go to get an inhalator?
Well, what what where do I find one?
Yeah, right.
Okay, get an inhalator next to the disgruntrificator.
What if I want a breathalyzer?
Instead of I've got asthma, I should be able to demand a breathalyzer.
I'll tell you something else.
Any preacher 30 years ago, who in a sermon said, God damn America, wouldn't have a church either.
We'll be right back.
We haven't taken a phone call yet today, folks.
I apologize for that.
Actually, I don't.
I've been on a roll here, and I've I've been itching.
I've been ever since ever since Friday afternoon, Saturday night at bonfire stuff.
I have I've been chomping at the bit to get back here.
But uh let's reward some of the people that have been patients.
Sue in Austin, Texas.
Hi.
Hello, Rush.
Uh, it's a pleasure to speak to you.
Uh I just wanted to tell you I agree wholeheartedly with you that we must keep President Reagan's legacy in the forefront, and that the whoever Rockefeller Republicans or John McCain or whoever was trying to shove him away, they need to know that.
Now they're not trying to shove him away.
They're trying to take his name and attach it to theirs while ignoring why Ronald Reagan is important and relevant.
So true.
And I let me ask you, would Ronald Reagan ever refuse to meet with Billy Graham?
No.
John John McCain did.
Unbelievable.
In another disturb this is from Newsmax.
In a sign that Senator McCain has little interest in reaching out to his conservative base, including evangelical Christian voters.
His campaign has declined an offer to meet with the Reverend Billy Graham.
For almost six decades, Graham has been America's most influential preacher and evangelist.
But today he's in declining health, and McCain's campaign said we don't have time.
And they're not going to meet with Dobson either because they couldn't agree whether to meet in Denver or in wherever Dobson's office is.
Now McCain said, Look, Dobson, if you'll come to my place in my hotel, I'll give you any amount of time you want.
Tomson, no, I invited you to come to my office.
So neither's gonna go to where the other is, so that meeting isn't gonna happen, at least as of now.
Bill Clinton is still searching for a legacy.
The Democrat Party, it seems, has finally thrown those two out, but they really can't because they don't go away.
People are like crabgrass, cockroaches, and weeds.
But our side wants to throw Ronald Reagan's legacy away.
Well, it's old.
We can't keep applying our beliefs.
Yes, we can.
You know what conservatism is?
It's just basic freedom.
It's all it is.
And standing up for it.
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