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July 21, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 21, 2008, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 podcast.
Hey, somebody, somebody answer a question for me.
Has um has Obama has Obama found bin Laden yet.
Has uh has Obama solved Middle East peace yet.
Oh, that's tomorrow.
Has he made the rivers run with gold yet?
Has he stopped the need for war?
Has he walked on water yet?
That's for Sunday.
Man, oh man, oh what is Obama doing?
He's pimping Bush's ride, ladies and gentlemen.
That is precisely the way to describe pimping Bush's right.
Here's a guy that's been in the Senate for 143 years, say uh days rather saying we need more troops in Afghanistan when he goes over there.
Ho, are we loaded today?
Great to be back.
Great to be with you, El Rushbow behind the golden EIB microphone, the Limbaugh Institute.
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This is amazing.
This guy is getting more fawning coverage than Prince's Dye ever got than Mother Teresa ever got than the Beatles ever got.
It is these are Obamagasms.
I mean, it is it is fascinating to watch.
But here's here's the media.
It's it's it's like it's like the media are helicopter parents.
Their little kid Obama's gone off to summer camp, but they can't leave him alone, so they have to travel along and make sure that he stays out of trouble and gets good grades and does every gets along with all the other kids at the at the summer camp.
Oh, look, this is where Barry will learn about American history, and there's the building he can learn Spanish, so he won't embarrass himself like he did at that Mexican restaurant last week.
And look, here's Barry talking to some of the professors.
Wow!
He'll teach them a thing or two, and don't tell me there's basketball over there too.
Oh, really?
Barry can play basketball just like back home.
This is so exciting.
Why the media is saying they've never been so proud of somebody as Obama.
Little Barry out there on his little summer camp, getting all educated and saving the world at the same time.
He's he's really not much different than a kid in college here.
He's going overseas on somebody else's money, taking some classes in the hopes that he might learn something.
Anything.
Only it's being taped by fawning helicopter parents disguised as the drive-by media.
That's how you have to look at poor old McCain.
Poor old McCain, he's desperately.
I mean, he's is he just the guy cannot cut a break.
We knew this was gonna happen.
We knew that this kind of fawning coverage for Obama was gonna happen, and poor old McCain, I'm I'm actually feeling sorry for him.
Do you know what happened to him?
You know, Obama had an op-ed in the New York Times last week.
And everybody was just going nuts over, just fawning over over.
And so McCain submitted an op-ed to the New York Times, and they rejected it.
And I have the letter from the editorial page op-ed editor, a guy by the name of David Shipley, who incidentally is married to Naomi Wolfe.
David Shipley is a former Clinton campaign operative, or Clinton administration operative, one one of the two, and now the op-ed editor or one of the editors, the op-ed page of the New York Times.
So McCain's campaign submits an essay, and here's the editorial response in the New York Times, David Shipley.
Thank you for sending me Senator McCain's essay.
I'd be very eager to publish the Senator on the op-ed page.
However, I'm not going to be able to accept this piece as currently written.
I'd be pleased, though, to look at another draft.
Let me suggest an approach.
So the opinion page editor of the New York Times rejects the submission by McCain after they published one of Obama's.
And the editor sends back a note saying, "Let me tell you how to write it." And here's what he says: "The Obama piece worked for me because it offered new information.
It appeared before his speech.
While Senator Obama discussed Senator McCain, he also went into detail about his own plans.
It would be terrific to have an article from Senator McCain that mirrors Senator Obama's peace.
To that end, the article from Senator McCain would have to articulate in concrete terms how Senator McCain defines victory in Iraq.
It would also have to lay out a clear plan for achieving victory with troop levels and timetables, measures for compelling the Iraqis to cooperate, and it would need to describe the Senator's Afghanistan strategy, spelling out how it meshes with his Iraq plan.
I'm going to be out of the office next week, but if you decide to rework the draft, please be in touch with one of my deputies.
Thank you for taking the time to send me the Senator's draft.
I really hope we can find a way to bring this to a happy resolution.
Sincerely, David Shipley.
The husband of Naomi Wolf, a former Clinton campaign operative running the op-ed page of the New York Times, rejecting a McCain op-ed, because it didn't reflect what the New York Times in an opinion piece.
In an op-ed opinion piece, it would be terrific to have an article from Senator McCain that mirrors Senator Obama's piece.
That that that could that could mean any number of things.
Well, look, we want you to respond to what Obama said, and we want you to accept his premises, accept his premises, and and then write something on that base.
That that is that that something.
No, no, no, no, no.
It's not a hoax.
No, no, no.
In fact, we we were we were informed of this by the McCain campaign.
Uh what was it, HR?
Was it Saturday?
Yeah, we got we get the note on Saturday from them.
So um, yeah, I uh this is he can't he can't catch a breakout there.
And and it's well, it it is just poor old guy.
I mean, let me put let me put it that way.
I just I this is just amazing to me.
You know, I've I've submitted op-ed things and they've been rejected, but nobody ever told me to rewrite it to an opinion they wanted to agree with.
Uh but I mean, this is a presidential camp.
Anybody want to talk fairness doctrine?
I mean, it doesn't apply to newspapers, obviously, but there it is.
Senator McCain rejected because his piece did not mirror Obama's and accept the premise or premises of Obama's uh op-ed.
Uh he could still do it.
Yeah.
Well, the uh no, that's that's not that's that's not that's not the point.
I mean, he could he could he could it's not that it's not that he mirrors Obama uh as as a candidate and so forth, is that they want what they want is for Obama's peace to be the um uh the Rosetta Stone.
The the Obama piece, they want McCain to react to that.
Uh, therefore holding Obama's piece as the Ten Commandments on foreign policy, with McCain chiming in what they're looking for there.
Now, Senator McCain is um is on television and he's he's uh he's trying to talk about the surge in Iraq and a number of by the way, this little flap with uh the prime minister of Iraq, uh Nuri al-Maliki.
The conventional wisdom, he gave an interview to Der Spiegel in which the uh reported uh translation uh was that he supports Obama's candidacy and that he supports Obama's timetable of troop withdrawal from Iraq in sixteen months.
And a lot of the uh a lot of the a lot of our media has been saying one other bit of information, after this hit, uh the Iraqis then it's not true.
It was an S mistaken translation.
Uh Der Spiegel didn't quite get it right.
But it wasn't until everybody started talking about it that they said this, and then the the uh recovery on this was that uh Al Maliki was not picking sides uh any of this, and that it was just it was just a just a translation error.
Uh and our side, our media is uh is trying to get the drive-bys to correct themselves.
I'm not so sure that Al Maliki wasn't supporting Obama.
I actually think Al-Maliki was.
And it wasn't, it wasn't until the translation was uh was widely reported.
Uh by the way, the translator, the trans who was the translator, I think the translator on this was an Iraqi.
It was Maliki's guy who the translator on this.
So, you know, Maliki steps in it uh by telling the truth.
You know, which which is what Obama did out in San Francisco.
You know, these guys will eventually tell us the truth.
We get we get distracted by drive-by media coverage, but I don't think there's any question uh in the by the way, in the rest of this interview uh in Der Spiegel, Al Maliki uh answers question how come things are going so well.
And he gives three reasons, none of which mention the United States.
Talks about his political uh success, talks about uh taking care of the central part of the country militarily and his security forces being beefed up and working, not one mention of the United States, not one mention of thanks.
Uh I'm I'm not I'm not so sure.
I I think this is probably intentful, purposeful, uh, that all Maliki was propping up Obama.
Make no mistake about that.
I don't think there's any question about it as I have.
Red through my instincts are never wrong on this stuff.
Uh and I will explain why we've got a lot of messes that have been made over the past three, four days after cleanup.
And we'll come back and get started with all of it after this first obscene profit timeout on the Rush Limbaugh program.
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Okay, I've been watching.
As I'm sure many of you have.
I have been watching and I have been listening to this trip that Barry has been taking for about uh two days now.
The little summer camp trip, the interview all the heads of the various colleges he wants to get into.
This trip, which is nothing more than pimping George Bush's ride, nauseates me.
I'll tell you why.
Obama drops into Afghanistan for two days, then issues pronouncements about the need for more forces there.
Now, this is a guy who has spent a total of 143 working days in the Senate.
This is a guy who had absolutely nothing useful to say, and even less to do with our successes in Afghanistan.
And now he presumes to lecture our nation and the world after a 48-hour visit about what needs to be done in Afghanistan.
More troops.
Wonder how his peeps on the left are going to react to that.
Everybody knows we need more troops in Afghanistan.
The foot dragging hasn't been us.
The foot dragging has been our NATO allies.
Perhaps Obama is unaware that this is a NATO mission, first and foremost, but I, ladies and gentlemen, know it because I have been there.
And I met the NATO air commander at the time when I was in Afghanistan in Kabul.
He was in Turkey.
And he was an amazing, fascinating guy.
But he was running the coalition air forces.
And he was NATO.
Now Obama has no idea how to get NATO countries to contribute more troops beyond what they've recently said they would add, thanks to this administration.
Obama's had nothing to do with it.
In fact, Obama chairs a subcommittee that deals with Afghanistan.
He hasn't had one hearing about it.
The president and McCain, excuse me, the President McCain have both said that we need to increase our presence in Afghanistan.
So it's not exactly remarkable that Obama says the same thing.
What makes it news is that McCain and Bush saying it doesn't fit the drive-by media narrative.
When Obama says it, whatever he says, it fits the narrative.
Because Obama is their chosen one.
He's the Messiah, he's Their chosen one.
So when Obama says we need more troops, they will believe it.
If Obama comes out and says we need more troops in Iraq, just a hypothetical.
If Obama comes out and says we need more troops in Iraq, guess who will be the biggest supporter of expanding troop presence in Iraq?
The drive-by media.
They will not question him.
Because he's Obama.
He is the Lord Messiah Barack Obama.
And he can see things others can't.
And after his 24 hours, if that much in Iraq, and after talking with commanders on the ground, if he says we need more troops, you're going to see the biggest turnaround you could have ever seen in the drive-by media on an issue.
So the President McCain both say we need more troops.
It's not remarkable that Obama says the same thing.
What I find remarkable is that Obama, after years of trashing the administration and second guessing the administration's every move, shows up in Afghanistan and issues pronouncements as if when he speaks, it's more authoritative than when the current commander in chief or McCain speak.
Both of whom actually know something about the subject, and for his handlers, to say that in calling for a surge in Afghanistan, McCain is copying Obama is hard to stomach.
But I will take you back to the New York Times rejection of McCain's op ed submission, where they want McCain in their own words to mirror Obama's peace in the New York Times.
They want McCain to copy Obama because that's the narrative.
The template here is that Obama is setting the trend.
Obama, who is doing nothing but pimping the president's ride, is somehow establishing new parameters, new policy, because he's Obama, because he is the Messiah, because he's been there now and he has seen it.
48 hours.
He's seen it, and he knows we need more troops.
Never mind that Bush have been saying it.
NATO needs to contribute more troops.
Never mind that McCain's been saying it.
No, because when they say it, that's we can't trust them, they're Republicans.
And warmongers.
Obama says it.
We believe it because we know he's a man of peace.
And so now McCain comes out and talks about troops for Afghanistan.
The drive-by say that McCain is copying Obama.
This is hard to stomach.
And now little Barry goes off to Iraq.
He's done all he can to sabotage our armed forces in Iraq.
Keep that in mind as he's en route.
He has joined his own party in calling for defeat of U.S. military forces in Iraq.
He has promised to get out of there.
As Joel Lieberman said on television this weekend, if Obama's policy in Iraq had ever seen the light of day, there'd be no reason for Obama to go there.
We wouldn't be there, and it'd be a whole different situation.
Little Barry brags about how he opposed their mission, our mission in Iraq, even when he was an unknown state senator.
In the few days that he spent actually working in the U.S. Senate, the guy voted against reinforcement for our troops and supported timetables that would endanger them by laying out for the enemy his surrender strategy.
This is Barry Obama.
He told the Iranians, who have been killing American soldiers and Iraqi citizens, as well as arming Hezbollah and destroying the government of Lebanon, and he would meet with them, the Iranians, without preconditions.
Although he has since muddied the water with double speak, which thus only encourages them to continue to attack our forces in Iraq.
And if I were to ask you today exactly what Obama's position on Iraq is, you'd have three or four to choose from.
The point being he wants to be able to claim whatever position works in the moment.
But you watch when he finishes a 24-48 hour visit there, he's gonna make another pronouncement equally irrelevant or expedient as if he's throwing lightning bolts from heaven because he is the Messiah.
He has no idea what He is doing.
My analogy of a little kid going off to college, summer camp, is exactly right.
He doesn't know what he's doing.
And you know why?
He does not have an ideological grounding or understanding of the way our enemies operate, the way they are rooted, and what their purpose is.
He's not even interested in that.
To them, they are just people who can be talked out of their evil because his ego is out of control.
Even Joan Vinocchi in the Boston Globe today, writing about Obama's ego out of control.
The title of her piece is called The Audacity of Ego.
She even quotes me approvingly, which I think is the first time has ever happened.
The idea that four months before a presidential election, a candidate can run through these countries, meet some world leaders, claim experience in these matters, may impress the liberal media, but to me, it exposes just how unprepared for the presidency this guy is.
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So in four months, four months before a presidential election, little Barry, with a total of 143 working days in the Senate, Brian, only 143 working days in the Senate, is now taking a little summer trip.
Talk to all these leaders and go to all these countries.
And by the way, has he found bin Laden yet?
Has peace broken by the guess where he's not going?
He's not going to the real hot spots.
He's not going to Pakistan, and he's not going to Iran.
And we need more troops in Afghanistan, by the way.
Yeah, which everybody's been calling for, but NATO won't pull me up.
So he's meeting some world leaders.
He's going to claim experience in these matters, drive-by media, gonna herald him as a statesman.
Uh David Border, the Associated Press, uh sent me an email on Thursday, said Friday morning, I forget when it was, and said, Can you um give me a quote here on that?
There's a lot of debate here going over the unfairness of the coverage.
Obama's trip abroad is getting versus McCain.
McCain's been here three times.
Hardly anybody noticed Obama's going the first time, and uh he's got a traveling circus with him.
I wrote back, as it's typical, it's not a surprise here.
Everybody knows the drive-bys are in a tank for Obama.
I said, here's my prediction.
I did this prediction on Thursday, and it's true.
My prediction, let me get one.
My prediction is, and this runs in the AP story that's currently online.
My prediction is that the coverage of Obama on this trip will be oriented toward countering the notion that he has no idea what he's talking about on foreign policy and defense issues, and instead, the coverage will prop him up as a qualified statesman.
McCain, on the other hand, is a known quantity on these issues.
His positions doesn't excite or fit the mainstream media's narrative on Iraq and Afghanistan, so they simply ignore it and McCain.
And isn't that coming to pass?
The idea, the idea that this trip, that anything on this trip is going to change his views, not just Iraq, but in the world, is worldview in favor of appeasement.
And if truth be known, this guy's an isolationist in the sense that he will only deploy diplomacy and nothing else.
This is ridiculous.
This is a sham, and we're being distracted by it.
This whole thing is nothing more than an orchestrated circus when what's still on everybody's mind is gasoline, gasoline, gasoline, and four dollars.
And this is why were I McCain, you know where I would be this week?
I would be out on an oil rig.
And I would take the drive-bys with me, and I would point out how environmentally safe they are.
And I would show how damned impressive they are, as well as the workers.
And then if I were McCain, I'd fly up to Anwar, and I'd take a crew with me.
And I would propose drilling with the caveat that once it's done, it'll be restored to the desolate nothing that it is now.
There are jobs to be had up there.
And if I were McCain, next I would go to a nuclear power plant.
And I would brag on that technology.
And the non CO2 output.
Have a bill in hand to cut red tape.
These are jobs we're talking about being created, building new nuclear power plants.
From there go to the newest clean burning coal plant that he can find in the country.
Brag about that.
Have bill in hand to cut red tape to build these plants new.
These are jobs.
Energy is what's on the American people's mind.
Four dollar gasoline is on people's minds.
And this Obama thing is a pure unadulterated side show.
Obama is not a great thinker.
He's a believer.
He has been inoculated indoctrinated at his schools.
And he has believed what he has been told there.
And among those beliefs is that the United States is fundamentally a force for provocation in the world.
And that the United States is at root responsible for the way we are treated and seen by those who hate us.
This is what he believes.
He's not a thinker.
It's a form of self-loathing, ladies and gentlemen.
Not of himself, of course, because he's the Messiah.
But in the aggregate self-loathing of nation.
The kind of self-loathing of America that the left here and in Europe embraces.
And that's why they love Obama, because he loathes America.
He blames America.
America's responsible for all that's wrong in the world.
If we just need somebody in touch who has compassion and sensitivity, the rest of the world will miraculously love us.
There will be no more evil.
Guess what?
We've turned the corner in Iraq.
And now that we've turned the corner in Iraq, Obama wants us to get out and fast.
I think he said he's got four different positions on this.
You can take your pick, but he wanted us to get out immediately in the darkest days of Iraq.
He contributed not a single thing to our success there, which in fact occurred despite his efforts to thwart it and those of his party.
He travels around the world the same way he travels around the country, issuing pronouncements from on high, knowing that when he speaks, his words are taken down for all time, that he is smarter than anyone and everyone, and that he has been touched by God's hand for this mission.
He is the Messiah.
I have never seen a presidential candidate with less to offer this nation, yet with more arrogance and self-delusion than Barack Obama.
I have never seen a presidential candidate with less to offer this nation, yet with more arrogance and self-delusion than Barack Obama.
And you look at the reason and the way that some support Obama, you can understand the roots of tyranny, I think.
No, no, no, I'm not saying he's a tyrant, don't misunderstand.
What I'm saying is that so many people have to suspend both reason and experience to support a guy like Obama.
You have to throw out common sense, you have to throw out experience, you have to throw out everything you know, and totally entrust a personality that you don't even know personally.
Obama not only thinks that he is the savior, so do his supporters.
And Obama knows that that's how he is viewed as a savior, which is why he speaks as he does, which is why he acts as he does.
He knows who his audience is, he knows how to connect with it.
He's brilliant at that.
He knows exactly who he's talking.
He's not acting as a president, my friends.
As some of his critics have pointed out, he is above the mere office of presidency.
He is on this earth to save humanity, and only he knows how to do it, and only he can do it.
And his mindset is not new.
What is new is the extent to which it is worshipped in our country.
The Europeans have always, you know, fallen in with people like this.
I'm not gonna mention any names, don't worry about it, but the Europeans have a history of falling for these kind of people.
Americans have always been skeptical of politicians like this.
Interestingly, in the UK Telegraph, Greg Craig, former Clinton administration lawyer during impeachment, now an Obama supporter.
You won't see this in the drive-by media here, but Greg Craig said, you know, we're a little worried in the Obama campaign about all these high expectations that our voters have for us, because we know we're not going to be able to fulfill them.
Now, I don't know if Obama has heard that his buddy said this yet.
But Obama fully expects his people to believe he can deliver this stuff.
Some of the people in his inner circle start to go, wait a minute, this is a little bit much.
We got a guy that's going to be elected president who's going to sink sea levels.
Eh, we got to get a handle on this.
Barry doesn't want to get a handle on it.
Barry knows his audience.
Obama's mindset, again, folks, isn't new.
Why all of a sudden, when in the past it's been the Europeans that have fallen for candidates and leaders like this?
Why have we always been skeptical of politicians like this?
And what's changed?
Why are we no longer spec uh skeptical?
Well, it's due in part to the Oprahization of America and the chicken of our culture and the news business.
But it's also probably a bit more than that.
Decade after decade of big government promises, propaganda claiming that one man can deliver you what you want and need, and even when that man fails, as he always will, the expectation that with the right man, he will deliver you from poverty, from injustice, from racism, from want, from whatever it is that you want to be delivered from.
Despite the overwhelming failure after failure after failure, people still invest in the government to one day get it right.
This has led to a steady breakdown of individual responsibility, a breakdown of family, a steady assault on religion.
So when you tear down those institutions, what do you have left?
You have government.
And who in government do you have?
Politicians.
Who promote themselves as capable of doing that which no man can ever do.
So Obama is not merely their president.
Obama is their father figure.
Obama is their preacher.
Obama is their Santa Claus, all wrapped in one.
Obama is their psychiatrist.
Obama will calm them.
Obama will provide for them.
Obama will make the mean goblins in the night go away.
Obama will make the bullies of the world like us because they will like him.
There will be peace.
This is what his believers believe.
This is what the drive-bys believe.
Yes, they do.
This is more than just being in a tank on partisan drive-bys not just being partisan than an ideological comrade.
The uh the drive-bys are really immersed in this.
Anyway, I got to take quick break.
There's himself folks, a shakeup, a big shakeup at the Justice Brothers.
Details coming up right after this.
I see where the movie The Dark Night, latest Batman movie.
It broke a record, but it only did 155 million dollars in the first three days.
Can you imagine how good it would have been if there's a great economy going out there?
Can you imagine how big that 155 could have been if our economy were not in such a slump?
Meanwhile, another part of the real world, a new the Apple iPhone, you can't get them.
They're sold out.
They went on sale July 11th.
This is the 21st.
They are sold out.
They did over $80 million in the iPhone the first three days.
Can you imagine?
Can you imagine how many more they could have manufactured and sold if we just had a decent economy?
Senator McCain threw Phil Graham under the straight talk bus.
Talking about a mental recession.
I'm being facetious here, of course, my friends.
It is a mental recession.
155 days, a million dollars over three days to see a dark movie.
Did you see anybody seen it?
You talk to anybody's.
Your nephew says it's one of the best movies.
A North Carolina mistress said it was the biggest waste of two and a half hours that she ever spent through.
She said, I know she's a girl, this is Batman, and I know the movie is probably made for 18-year-olds, you know, who can't get a date.
And so they go watch Batman and Keith Heath Ledger in the dark.
All right.
Big trouble.
Big shakeup at the Justice Brothers.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, the Reverend Jackson.
Uh, it has been revealed use the N-word, describing not Obama, uh, but uh black people in general on that Fox tape.
Here's the drive-by montage.
Jackson used the N-word to refer to blacks.
Jesse Jackson used the N-word.
Jesse Jackson's use of the N-word.
Jesse Jackson used the N-word.
Jesse Jackson using the N-word.
Jesse Jackson used the N-word in reference to African Americans.
Big whoop.
This is a surprise to anybody.
This is what I mean by us being distracted.
We've always known he's a race hustler.
We've always known he only has any power because the Democrat Party's granted it to him.
Go back to uh November 27, 2006.
We are urging all people in public usage to stop using this word nigga.
No other group is subjected to such a degrading terminology.
We must not prop it off of degradation and sell self-hate to a music beat.
We deserve a highest sense of dignity and respect.
Everybody knows this is smoke and mirrors.
This new is just a distraction.
Jesse Jackson used the N-word.
How many black people don't?
They can.
They're allowed to, but a Justice Brother is not happy.
I think that this certainly does not reflect the Reverend Jackson that we all know and love.
I think that we have to be consistent.
We have denounced the N-word and National Action Network and other groups.
Those of us, and many of us have used it privately, said the bigger.
Stop the tape from the state.
Stop the tape!
Stop the tape!
This is not authentic.
Here's the real story behind the Justice Brothers.
You remember when McCain and some others are talking about a gas tax holiday for this summer?
Ha!
Ha!
You know what they're talking about in Congress now.
Raising fuel taxes.
Gasoline and diesel.
I'll tell you about it when we come back.
Sit tight.
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