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July 9, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 9, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Unbelievable, ladies and gentlemen.
Unbelievable.
No!
It's totally believable.
The Messiah, Lord Barack Obama, wants us all speaking Spanish while the Iranians are launching missiles that could reach Israel.
Psychiatrists have detected the first case of climate change delusion in Australia, ladies and gentlemen.
We also have new figures on who is paying the largest form or largest amount of income taxes in the country.
It's it's gotten to the point now, ladies and gentlemen, where the top one percent of tax filers are paying more than 40% of the total income tax that the government gets, and the top 50% pays 97% of all federal income taxes.
The bottom 50% pay just 3%.
Latest figures to be released from the Treasury Department.
And also a special note for those of you, Operation Chaos troops, a special directive coming today.
New command orders from headquarters right around the corner.
But greetings and great to have you with us, Rush Limbaugh.
The middle of the week, it's hump day.
Time for broadcast excellence, three hours straight ahead.
The telephone number if you want to be on the program.
800-282-2882.
The email address is L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
By the way, more pressure is being mounted on Democrats in Congress.
Dick Durbin has now decided he might be in favor of uh of offshore drilling.
The outer continental they're getting a lot of pressure in there, Mr. Snergley.
Uh also Barney Frank, the Wall Street Journal has a story today.
Barney Frank wants an area of his district.
Now get this.
He wants an area of his district near near the Tauton River, which is right now a chemical dump.
I mean, it's it's populated, it's got I mean, it's it's got all kinds of river and barge traffic it travels.
He wants it declared a wilderness area so as to prevent the construction of a liquid national gas port or terminal that would greatly reduce the price of getting fuel to his energy-starved constituents.
But now we turn, ladies and gentlemen, to the Messiah, Lord Barack Obama, yesterday in Powder Springs, Georgia, at a campaign event.
I don't understand when people are going around worrying about we need to have English only.
They want to pass a law.
We want just uh we want English only.
Now, I agree that immigrants should learn English.
I agree with that.
But but understand this.
Instead of worrying about whether uh immigrants can learn English, they'll learn English.
You need to make sure your child can speak Spanish.
You should be thinking about how can your child become bilingual.
We should have every child speaking more than one language.
You know, it's embarrassing.
It's embarrassing when when uh you when Europeans come over here, they all speak English, they speak French, they speak German, and then we go over to Europe.
And uh all we can say is merci beaucoup.
Now, wait a minute, Obama.
I'm sorry, Lord Obama.
If we're supposed to learn Spanish, how come you're speaking French here?
Now, you heard the audience laughing and somewhat applauding, but I have a different take on this, ladies and gentlemen, and it's uh it troubles me.
This troubles me greatly.
As Tom Dasham used to say, I'm concerned.
Because this is not an isolated incident.
Uh, you know, Obama wants to go over and make a speech in a Brandenburg gate, where elected presidents have made speeches, JFK and Ronaldus Magnus, and the Germans don't want him over there.
They're afraid they don't want that site used for electioneering.
One of the German officials says, what's the difference?
I mean, what what if Angela Merkel?
What if she decided to go to the mall in Washington while running for the prime minister ship or presidency of Germany?
Now, I get the sense, and this is it's not just related to Obama.
I think a lot of Democrats are embarrassed of their country.
Obama clearly is.
He would prefer to be running for president of a Western European country.
He prefers socialism over capitalism.
He prefers big government over individuality and self-reliance.
He prefers secularism over religion, if truth be told.
He prefers pacifism and appeasement over a robust national security and military, and now he prefers European culture to ours.
And rather than urging people in our country to speak English, he urges Americans to speak foreign languages, which is perfectly fine.
But when put in the context of all his other views, this is just one more indication of where his head is.
Obama and a lot of Democrats think Americans and America are backwards.
You know that they're embarrassed of this country.
They they think we deserve to be in a constant state of decline because of our excesses and our bullying and our imperialism.
They enjoy the suffering of Americans at the gas pump because they think it's Americans' fault.
They want suffering and pain going into the election.
It is clear to me that the Messiah, Lord Barack Obama, is embarrassed by his own country.
That's why he wouldn't initially wear an American flag pin.
That's why he constantly complains about America going it alone when in fact we are leading a recalcitrant world against terrorism.
We are the solution to the world's problems.
We are not the world's problem.
Obama and many of his cohorts believe just the opposite.
This is why Obama demeans tens of millions of hardworking Americans who have faith, who own guns, and who oppose illegal immigration.
This little statement that he made in Powder Springs, Georgia, is not isolated.
At a fundraiser in San Francisco, the bitterklinger comment, you remember that.
He looks over people in the heartland fly over country.
He looks at the people who make this country work and he is embarrassed.
And he demeans them.
Obama does not want to lead.
Obama wants to follow.
Obama wants to follow the European left.
And he wants to do it faster and more comprehensively than any of his left-wing predecessors.
He's not about change, folks.
He's about following.
Who is Obama today?
Who is the Messiah?
Lord Barack Obama today.
Is he JFK?
Is he FDR?
Is he Lincoln?
Is he Jesus?
This man has more personalities than Sybil.
How many personalities did Sybil have?
Sixteen?
Thirteen?
He's got more than that.
What just happened here?
Obama tells us it's embarrassing we can't speak Spanish.
He lectures that we have a responsibility to teach our kids Spanish.
He can't speak Spanish.
He can't.
He tells us we can't drive our SUVs as much as we like or eat as much as we like, and we can't heat or cool our homes at the temperature we like.
But he does all of that.
Obama says public financing is the best way for Canada's to run their elections, but he refuses to accept public financing for his campaign.
The Messiah, Lord Barack Obama, tells us that every American should devote a few years of their lives to public service after college, but he didn't.
He was a community lobbyist for liberal causes.
The Messiah, Lord Barack Obama says he's proud of the American flag and now wears a flag pin.
But his buddy and co-board of director member at the Woods Fund, Bill Ayers, stomps on the American flag in photos for publication.
The Messiah, Lord Barack Obama, wants to bring fairness back to the home lending industry.
But he got a preferential loan rate and is convicted buddy Tony Rezco helped the Obamas purchase a house in a way the little guy would never do to their own ethical standards.
Obama tells us the little guys during the Democrat primaries he doesn't support NAFTA.
But he tells Canadian officials that he does.
Obama tells us he is a post racial, transcendent political candidate, but his church, which was central to his life for twenty years, is based upon racism, bigotry, and liberal, if not Marxist politics.
Can a messiah just once not take responsibility for his own words?
This messiah doesn't.
Okay, you got to go out and take Spanish, folks.
Get your kids speaking Spanish while he tells you to speak French.
Because we can't afford to embarrass these Europeans.
They can come over here and speak.
Do you know why they speak English?
You know why they speak English?
They have to communicate with us.
We are the dominant language, not in terms of population numbers and people who speak it.
We are the dominant language of power.
When you get on an airplane from any nation and you fly to any nation, do you know what the language spoken at worldwide air traffic control centers and control towers is?
English.
There's a reason these things happen, and it's not because of our arrogance.
It's not because of our size.
Well, it is in a way.
It is not because we are bullies.
It happens because the rest of the world needs to be able to communicate with us.
We are the focal point in the world.
Don't care what anybody wants to try to tell you, and it is people like Obama and the American left that are trying to change that very fact.
We'll be back after this.
Is it just me, Mr. Snertley, or does it seem like more and more when Obama opens his mouth, he is criticizing this country.
I know it's not me.
It's him, and I frankly am getting fed up.
I've been fed up with it for a long time.
I'm f it it's almost the identity now of the Democrat Party to rip this country to be critical from the U.S. military on down to any institution you can think of.
And the Democrat Party's presidential nominee is leading the pack on this stuff.
It's just, it's, it's I'll tell you what, you go back and remember, I don't know if you do.
Some of you are probably old enough to remember the Jimmy Carter campaign back in 1975 and 76.
Remember when Carter AIDS sort of started referring to him as JC, and he was uh he was uh promoted as this uh wonderfully religious uh man devoted to his faith and so forth, and he got those initials JC out there.
We are they're doing the same thing here.
This is the Carter second term.
Only it, I don't know how it could be, but it could end up being even worse.
But there is a massive ego behind this guy.
I mean, all of these pictures with him in uh in light that reflects uh a halo or looks like a halo is not by accident.
When this guy stands up there and says that he will see to it that rising seas begin to recede, I think this guy, I I think half of him believes that he has these mystical powers.
He can't speak Spanish.
Your kids should.
He also says that immigrants, they can learn English.
They'll learn English.
Is that why we have all these multiple language signs all over the country, Obama?
Try going to Miami International Airport and getting a plane reservation in English.
I'm not being critical here.
I'm just saying he doesn't know what he's talking about.
And we have bent over backwards here to accommodate uh Hispanic speaking people by by seeing to it they don't have to learn English.
He hasn't the slightest clue what he's talking about.
Now, I mentioned at the top of the program, ladies and gentlemen, time for phase two, Operation Chaos.
Here are orders from headquarters.
But first a little setup.
There are two things happening That provide opportunities for troops in Operation Chaos to be deployed in phase two.
The Messiah, Lord Barack Obama, the most merciful, has issued commandments to the Democrat National Committee.
It is his will that the way the party platform is written be changed.
This year, with the blessings of the Messiah, Lord Obama, the process of writing the Democrat Party platform will be open to the public.
Do you see where we're headed here?
Yes, my friends, lowly subjects.
People like you from the voting class, who are of only of interest once every four years to people like Obama, you will be allowed to sit in the same room as elitist Democrat operatives to craft the Democrat Party platform.
Along with this new commandment from the most merciful Lord Obama, it was revealed that the Lord Obama will deliver his acceptance speech at Denver's Outdoor Stadium in Vesco Field at Mile High, after which thousands in attendance will genuflect and he will then ascend into the clouds, ladies and gentlemen.
And by the way, there's trouble on this front.
Because of this move out of the Pepsi Center and over to Invesco Field at Mile High.
Executives at the three broadcast networks are beside themselves, and you don't have the money to cover all this.
They've already invested all they have, or all they want to spend anyway, in the Pepsi Center, and then they have to travel across town to Mile High and set up all the equipment over there.
They are telling Obama, guess what?
We may have to cut back on some of the convention coverage earlier in the week if we're going to cover your speech over there at the stadium.
To which the Messiah will say, fine, I don't care what happens before I get on stage, because mostly it's going to be about Hillary.
By the way, trouble on that front as well.
Obama donors are not stepping up to help retire Hillary's debt.
In fact, some Obama supporters believe that Hillary purposely ran up that debt to harm him, that she continued to stay in the race, which caused her to run up the debt, and all she did by staying in the race was bloody up Obama.
Thanks to Operation Chaos, phase one.
And so some Obama supporters say, why the hell would she pay off her debt?
She only ran the debt up to rip us.
There's trouble in paradise.
Where there should be unity, there are factions.
Factions.
Where there should be love and common ground, there are daggers.
Preventing and presenting, ladies and gentlemen, the opportunity for phase two of Operation Chaos.
Deputy Campaign Manager Steve Hildebrand offered this guidance concerning the platform edict.
Said the most merciful Obama believes that every American should be able to contribute to the Democrat platform just as record numbers have participated in his campaign.
So the most merciful, Messiah, Lord Barack Obama wants people in every state in record numbers to participate.
Perhaps this can be arranged, ladies and gentlemen.
As Supreme Commander of Operation Chaos, I have an announcement of my own to all forward position troops in the 50 states that make that 57 states.
In coming days, we will tell you exactly how you can participate in writing the Democrat Party platform at the request of the most merciful, Lord Barack Obama.
You will be called upon once again to serve your country as you did so brilliantly this past spring on another mission, delivering more chaos to the Democrat Party.
At their own invitation.
And we are having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Rush Limbaugh leading the pack.
A spine of steel.
A bulwark against the left's attempts to water down we believe in.
One more opportunity for Operation Chaos, phase two.
Obama's presidential campaign modified a solicitation for donations on its national website last night to comply with Minnesota lottery laws after it was informed by state law enforcement investigator that it was violating state law.
The website had previously offered supporters.
I told you this yesterday were running a lottery.
And the Obama website was offering supporters who donated at least five dollars to the campaign, a chance to win a free trip for two to the Democrat National Convention in Denver.
You have ten winners.
Each winner can bring a guest, a hotel room overnight, and a chance to meet the Messiah backstage at the Invesco field at Mile High, and then to watch his acceptance speech from there.
But Obama screwed up, ladies and gentlemen, one of the most basic rules.
Thou shalt not create a lottery.
Hidden state regulation of BIH, folks.
I mean, it just gets in the way of everybody, even messiahs.
Anyway, here's the opportunity for phase two of Operation Chaos.
The Democrats want ten winners out of people that contribute five bucks or more to the Obama campaign.
Wouldn't it be a hoot if some or even all of those winners happened to be Operation Chaos troops?
So now in the past, ladies and gentlemen, as uh commanding officer, orders from headquarters have never included you spending any money.
This remains your option.
But if you go to the Obama website, you find a way you can uh because they've revamped this.
I mean, they haven't pulled it.
They've revamped it.
So if you go to the website, the Obama website, you will be able to see this little contest and send them ten bucks as a campaign donation.
I know that why should we pay his campaign?
I understand this.
That's why it's purely elective.
This is not a command order.
But it does represent an opportunity for Operation Chaos troops to perhaps end up on stage at the Democrat National Convention at Mile High at Invesco Field.
I mentioned, ladies and gentlemen, that while Iran has launched a bunch of missiles that can reach Israel, Obama's telling everybody we need to learn to speak Spanish.
Let's listen to Obama discussing this latest development from Iran.
First, we'll start in Good Morning America today.
Diane Sawyer said uh to the Messiah, as you know, uh Lord Obama, Iran has test fired nine missiles, including one of them, the Shahab III.
It has a 1,250 mile range.
They said it could reach Israel.
What should the U.S. do in response?
Uh instead of uh engaging in over-the-top rhetoric, what we should be doing is gathering our allies together in a serious effort uh to apply sanctions uh to Iran and encourage them to change their behavior.
What does he think has been going on for crying out loud?
The European Union, the European Union, our favorite allies, according to Obama, have been jawboning with Ahmadinejad and the Iranians for years.
The Bush administration, okay, you want to farm all this out.
You want them to do it?
We'll stay out of it because we're in Iraq.
Fine.
The European Union did it.
They came up with nothing.
Ahmadinezad reputedly spat in the face of everybody he was talking to.
The UN sent their atomic agency guy in there, Mohammed Al Baradai, and said these guys aren't cutting back on anything.
Even the UN even said this.
We have had sanctions on Iran.
We have frozen Iranian assets.
We have done everything he suggests that we do.
And where has it led to nine missiles being launched today?
Here's the rest of the meaningless, uninformed, ignorant drivel from the Messiah.
He also had a report that uh exports from the United States to Iran have actually increased during the Bush years.
Uh and it's that kind of mixed signal That I think uh has uh led to the kind of situation that we're in right now.
Iran is a grave threat.
Uh we have to make sure that we are working with our allies to uh to apply tightening pressure uh economically on Iran at the same time as we start engaging in the kind of direct diplomacy uh that can lead them to standing down on issues like nuclear weapons.
What does this guy not get?
I told you he is an appeaser.
This is our fault.
Iran wants these missiles because it's our fault, because of our over the top rhetoric.
Because we're just being too big a bully.
I am so sick and tired of people in this party blaming this country for the rogue behavior of tyrants and dictators.
And Obama's doing it right there.
You heard his reference here.
Uh, we also had a report that exports from the U.S. to Iran have actually increased during the Bush years.
They have.
But there's a reason.
For in fact, McCain was asked about this yesterday.
He was in Pittsburgh, and a reporter said, uh, well, here's here's the exchange.
We've learned that the exports to Iran increased by tenfold during the Bush administration.
The biggest export was cigarettes, given that the yeah, that that the supposedly the that's a way of killing.
I meant that as a joke.
Were you able to hear that?
The reporter said, okay, the reporter said we got all these exports, exports to Iran increased by tenfold during the Bush administration.
And the reporter said to McCain, yeah, and the uh biggest export was cigarettes.
And McCain goes, I know, I know, he it's a way of killing him.
It's a way of killing him.
It's a joke.
He did.
He said it's a way of killing him.
Let me tell you about these exports.
Even I, ladies and gentlemen, I've said this before, it is so embarrassing that I, Il Rushwo, a mere mortal working in media, knows more about what's going on in Iran and why we're doing it than the Democrat Party's damn nominee.
The reason we are at cigarettes, hairspray, we are exporting people or exporting goods and services to the people of Iran because there is a growing opposition to the mullahs in Iran, and we want the population of Iran on our side.
This is one of the reasons we have not yet launched any kind of military action, because the people of Iran, a growing percentage of the population like us, and they have hope that we are going to be able to rid them of the vice grip in which they are held by the mullahs in Ahmadinezad.
So of course we export things to them that improve or make their lives better.
If they like cigarettes, so what?
A lot of people do.
Screw it if you don't.
If they do, fine.
If they want to kill him, shell let him.
Not the wrong attitude to have.
I mean, they're not getting airplane parts, they're not getting missile parts, they're not getting military parts.
They're getting consumer things.
We're trying to establish a good relationship with the people of Iran.
And the Messiah.
Lord Obama is clueless.
Instead of engaging in over-the-top rhetoric, where is the over-the-top rhetoric coming from?
How about from Ahmadinizad, threatening to annihilate Israel every other week?
Sick and tired of this, folks.
We look straight into the eyes of evil.
And when we do, when Obama does, he sees the United States.
He sees this little midget running around Ahmadinezad as a byproduct of American belligerence and imperialism.
If we were just nice people, we just didn't have these bullies like Bush and Cheney, why Achhmadine Zod would be nice to us.
It is a level of ignorance that portends a danger that is unthinkable to me if this guy actually wins.
White House.
Let's go back, by the way, May 18th, in Pendleton, Oregon, at a campaign event, Senator Obama said this about American foreign policy.
Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union.
They don't pose a serious threat to us.
Iran, they spend one hundredth of what we spend on the military.
If Iran ever tried to pose a serious threat to Us, they wouldn't stand a chance.
Especially hell, it's this exact opposite.
If you end up in power, they're going to be able to do anything they want because they know you're not going to react at all.
They launch nine missiles at Israel and you come out with some pompous, arrogant ignorance that ought to embarrass everybody in your party.
Then this morning on the Today Show, after he was finished, waxing eloquent on ABC, Obama was queried by Maour, who said if you were president this morning, what would your immediate response be to all these missile tests by Iran?
Well, I think we've got to gather up all the intelligence uh necessary with the situation, but uh there's no doubt that we're seeing rising tensions in the area.
And it's part of the reason why it's so important for us to have a coherent policy with respect to Iran.
Uh, it has to combine much tougher uh threats of economic sanctions with direct diplomacy, opening up channels of communication so that we avoid provocation, but we give strong incentives for the Iranians to change their behavior.
We've got to have the kind of aggressive diplomacy that unfortunately has been absent uh over the last several years.
If we don't, then we're gonna continue to see uh rising tensions that could lead uh into real problems.
It is a real problem.
They just launched nine missiles today, doofus.
Gather up all the intelligence, watch your television.
No doubt that we're seeing rising tensions.
Part of the reason why it's so important for us to have a coherent policy with respect to Iran.
There's nothing coherent in anything Obama has said about this since the tests of the missiles took place.
Much tougher threats of economic sanctions.
I I don't I don't think the Germans, the French have joined us in freezing some assets, a couple banks here and there.
Uh, I uh I'm I'm stunned.
Well, I know obviously that that Obama has to take this position.
This is the leftist position.
America's responsible for this.
Bush is incompetent, Bush lied.
Only Obama and his munificence can fix this situation simply by virtue of his presence.
I mean, that's the campaign lingo.
But meanwhile, while all this pontificating and preening in the mirror goes on, they've launched the missiles.
One of them that can hit Israel.
And I guarantee you there's nobody in Israel, I don't care how far left is some of the uh Israelis can be, and nobody there saying, you know, we need to go talk to these guys.
We need to have direct diplomacy.
We need to uh ratchet down the over the top lingo, I guarantee you.
Anyway, quick time out here, we'll get to your phone calls right after this.
We come back, sit tight.
Okay, Barack, you're president now.
Your president.
The Iranians don't stand a chance, right?
It's what they said about the Germans back in the late 30s is the German, they don't stand a chance, dinky little country.
How about 19 terrorists on an airplane, Obama?
I bet you wouldn't think they stood a chance either.
So your president.
What would you say, Obama, to the Iranians to convince them to stop building offensive forces and nukes against Israel and Lebanon and Iraq and others?
What would you do, Obama?
I mean, it's one thing to sit there and say we need direct diplomacy and all this other rot gut drivel that pours out of your mouth.
But what would you do?
What would you do to stop the Russians?
What would you do to stop the North Koreans and the Chicoms, Obama, from supporting Iran?
That's who Iran's allies are.
Russia, the North Koreans, and the Chicoms.
What would you say to Iran to stop them, President Obama?
Let's hear it.
Give it a try.
Don't just sit there and pontificate the usual John Kerry line.
We just need to do it smarter.
We need to fight the war smarter.
We need to do our diplomacy smarter.
Somebody show me some grain of intelligence on the left, the Democrat Party, and I might listen to it.
Oh, I don't hear any intelligence and I don't hear any smarts.
Just give us give it a try, Obama, just so we can all know the wisdom that you would use that nobody else has come up with to deal with people like Ahmadini Saad, Adolf Hitler.
You tell us.
You tell us, President Obama, just what would you do?
About this business the Iranians don't stand a chance.
Look at it from their perspective, Obama.
What happened when they overran our embassy and took hostages in 1979?
Nothing.
One of the guys that was in that group that took the hostages is now the president.
Ah, Madinizad.
Obama, what happened when Iran had Hezbollah blow up the marine barracks?
1983, 241 U.S. Marines killed.
What happened to them after they did that, Obama?
What happened when Iran had its revolutionary guards and Hezbollah blow up the Kobar Towers in Saudi Arabia?
Nineteen U.S. Air Force members killed in 1996.
What happened to them, Obama?
Seems to me, Obama, they challenge us plenty.
And they've stood a pretty good chance doing so because we don't do anything.
And Jimmy Carter thought he could deal with these people the same way you do.
And all that happened was a bunch of helicopters and military equipment got ground into the dust of the desert during an aborted pathetic rescue attempt.
Rosalinda in Seymour, Indiana.
We're going to go to the phones.
We'll start with you today.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rash.
How are you?
Fine and dandy.
Never better.
Well, I um I definitely think that the biggest threat to our national security is Obama, not anybody else.
But with that being said, you know, the the recent comment that he was talking about with the whole language thing.
I kind of agree with him to a point.
I guess I'm a little elitist when it comes to that subject.
What did uh what did he what do you agree with him here?
That uh all of our children should be taught Spanish.
No, I don't well, I don't think they should that they have to be, because I think it's more important for Spanish speaking kids to learn English.
Well, then I'm I'm I'm not mad at you.
I'm I'm still worked up with Obama.
How can you agree with him when you just said the opposite of what he said?
Well, because it's it's I think it's still valuable to learn other languages and to it.
Of course it is.
Nobody's a do you watch Oprah?
Uh, not anymore.
I can't really stand it.
Good.
I was I was detecting some Oprah-like substance here in your uh in your words.
No, we said they speak in other language, and of course we could.
Be great if you know, but to have this guy, that's not what he was saying.
He was saying that we Americans should be embarrassed that all the Europeans come over here and they speak our language and they speak other people's languages, and we're just a bunch of arrogant elites.
We refuse to learn their language.
He tells us we all ought to be able to speak Spanish while he can't, and then he says, making fun of Americans, all they can do when they go over to Europe is say merci beaucoup, which is French.
But it's true because I've been I've traveled to Europe and I watched it.
What's true?
I was embarrassed to be walking around with them because they were all they were just that typical, like the cliche ugly American.
Not every American that travels across two other countries is the same way.
But if there was an embodiment of ugly American, that group that I was.
Let me tell you.
I spoke French.
The phone is not working.
Gotta take her down because I got to a break.
I'll be back here in just a second.
Stay with us.
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