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July 22, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 22, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Greetings my friends and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh behind a golden EIB microphone saying more in 10 seconds than your average host will say over the course of a career.
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I am fuming today as I listen to these Obama soundbites, the drive-bys propping this guy up.
He's just being a jerk.
There's no other way to put this.
He's being an ungrateful jerk.
He's trying to take credit for all that's happened over there.
And the drive-bys are propping it up.
As I said last hour, Gorbachev and Stalin and Lenin never got this kind of coverage from his vestia.
And they owned his vestia.
This is a profit.
This is unbelievable to watch this.
And when they quote this little guy, when they quote the Messiah in the paper, they take one or two sentences out of these rambling, incoherent soundbites of his to make it look like that he speaks with brevity and power and so forth.
It just, it just, well, we got more coming.
I'm going to get even, I'm going to get fumier.
I'm going to get angrier still.
Also, ladies, and have you seen the oil price?
$126.5.
And guess what?
The gasoline prices are starting to come down now.
Not much.
Couple cents in the national average.
But the gasoline price is starting.
And what's happening?
How does this?
Obama's out of the country.
That's one thing I've noticed about it.
I don't have anything to do with it.
In this story, if you missed this last hour, we have learned that Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, over the years, gave a total of $1,250,000 to Reverend Jackson's monochrome coalition.
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are government entities, supposedly in the private sector, which are there to back up the mortgage industry.
What are they doing donating money to Jesse Jackson?
$1,250,000.
Now, I remember there was an accounting snafu at Freddie Mac when Franklin Reigns ran the joint, had to kick him out.
Six some odd billion dollars unaccounted for.
And as you know, ladies and gentlemen, there has been a bust-up in the Justice Brothers.
Very interesting.
The Reverend Sharpton has kicked the Reverend Jackson out of the Justice Brothers now.
This ongoing saga will no doubt be updated.
Let me ask a question.
Oh, the note, ABC's the note, gets it right and then drops the ball.
Obama gets benefits, not blame, but McCain could find a toehold yet.
This is all about this Iraq trip.
And they're right.
It's infuriating that little Barry is getting the benefit of all the work that Bush has done.
That's why I've been saying he's pimping Bush's ride here.
George Bush has been the only constant when it comes to Iraq and the war on terror.
Barry's party, including Barry, have done their best to sabotage it and secure defeat.
And now he gets to run around over there and claim the credit for this and get the credit for having all these brilliant ideas.
Back to the audio soundbites now from Obama's press conference, and I'm on Jordan today.
And I want to replay this one.
With respect to the search, we don't know what would have happened if the plan that I had put forward in January 2007 to put more pressure on the Iraqis to arrive at a political reconciliation, to begin a phase withdrawal.
What would have happened had we pursued that strategy?
I am pleased that, as a consequence of great effort by our troops, but also as a consequence of a shift in allegiances among the Sunni tribal leaders, as well as the decision of the Saddam militias to stand down, that we've seen a quelling of the violence.
Everywhere we went, one of the biggest concerns right now is the fact that you've got scores of unemployed Iraqi men and women who are not getting the kind of opportunity that I think is going to be important.
Since when, and I mean this, since when, Senator Obama, did you and your party start giving a rat's rear end about the people of Iraq?
Because to listen to you people over the course of many years, we should never have gone in there.
We should have left them under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein with the rape rooms and the genocide, the mass murders, the poisonings.
We should have should be never gone in there.
Now, all of a sudden, you care about the Iraqi people.
You cannot give the U.S. military credit no matter what.
You cannot give your own country credit.
You just can't.
You Democrats cannot do it.
You have to credit Maliki.
You have to credit these tribesmen, the Sunnis and the Sauter Army, for standing down.
Yeah, they got their political act together.
Yeah, cool.
Right off.
What do you think made that happen, Dork?
The surge made that happen.
The United States military made this happen.
He sits around and says, well, they've done a great job of quelling the violence.
How do you think that happened?
You know how it happened, Senator Obama.
He does, folks.
He's a liberal, cannot credit his own country, cannot credit his own military.
And then to be worried about unemployment in Iraq, I'll bet the unemployment rate in your neighborhood, your community in Chicago, is about as high as it is in Iraq.
If you haven't noticed, there's all kinds of foreign investment going on in Iraq.
I bet you haven't noticed it, Barry, because your buds, your disciples in the drive-by media, have not been reporting this.
It is maddening.
Here's the next bite.
And again, we couldn't hear the questions in this press conference.
They weren't mic'd.
So I don't know what the questions were.
We just have the answers.
And here, ladies and gentlemen, the Messiah says it's unrealistic to think that he can solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict just by snapping his fingers.
There is a lot of history that exists between those two people.
That history is not going to vanish overnight.
People's memories are long.
There's been bloodshed and disputes that date back generations.
And so I think it's unrealistic to expect that a U.S. president alone can suddenly snap his fingers and bring about peace in this region.
Good Lord, ladies and gentlemen.
Good Lord.
It obviously means that some Dumkoff reporter asked him when he was going to make peace between the Israelis and Palestinians.
And the Messiah.
Now, wasn't this really brilliant, too?
Well, there's a lot of history that exists between these two people.
Really?
We didn't know this before.
That history is not going to vanish overnight.
Really?
That's another thing we didn't know.
People's memories are long.
Wow.
Do you realize the force of the intellect here we are in the company of, ladies and gentlemen?
Do you realize the unique brilliance of this man, Obama?
There's been bloodshed and disputes that date back generations.
Hey, Obama, try centuries.
Now, this is the uniter.
This is the unifier.
This is the guy who's made everybody believe he's going to snap his fingers.
And Iran's going to love us.
And the Israelis and Palestinians are going to love each other.
And Chavez is going to love us.
And Castro is going to start sending us cigars legally.
All he's got to do is snap his fingers.
Just his presence alone.
That's what he's told his followers.
He doesn't have voters.
He has a flock.
He's got his disciples.
And I'm wondering which one will become Judas.
It's unrealistic to expect that a U.S. president alone can suddenly snap his fingers and bring about peace in this what?
What?
What?
And we're supposed to react to this how?
Well, we never thought of that.
Thank you for enlightening us, Senator Obama.
It's going to take more than a snap of the fingers.
You see, Obama, we remember when Bill Clinton's number one visitor to the White House was Yasser Arafat.
We remember Jimmy Carter.
We remember every president trying to broker peace between these two.
The dirty little secret, Senator Obama, is that nobody else in the Arab world wants peace.
They want the Palestinians in the exact shape they're in, destitute, poor, and militant.
The oil shikdoms want it.
The Jordanians want it.
The Syrians want it.
The Iranians want it.
Because they can then tell their own populations that it's the Jews' fault.
Look how they're treating the Palestinians.
There is no Arab country in the world that will take the Palestinians.
They don't want them either.
But I thought you could come along and snap your fingers.
Obama, bring peace.
That's what you've led all of your stupid, idiotic followers to believe.
Better take a break here, folks.
Otherwise, we'll have to use the dump button on my own voice.
And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
And now, calm, cool, and composed Hel Rushmo back to serving humanity with talent on loan from God.
By the way, something has slipped my fertile mind, and it finally registered during the commercial break.
And I want to go back and mention something to you.
The Lord Messiah, Barack Obama, the most merciful, has said, has he not, ladies and gentlemen, we need 10,000, at least 10,000 more troops in Afghanistan, right?
7,000.
What do you say?
We need more troops.
We need a surge.
We need more troops.
We have dropped the ball.
We need more troops.
So someone needs to ask Senator Obama, well, we used more troops in Iraq, and it worked, but you won't admit it.
You say that it was political pressure.
Well, why send more troops to Afghanistan, Obama?
Why not just pressure them?
Let's just pressure them.
In fact, why don't we just cut to the chase and surrender?
It's what you wanted to do in Iraq.
Where's the consistency of your policy?
All right.
He continued here in this next soundbite, talking about Israel.
Remember, when we last left the Messiah, the boy king, he admitted that he could not solve Israeli-Palestinian peace with a snap of his fingers.
And this next bite was the continuation.
Listen carefully.
Let me be absolutely clear.
Israel is a strong friend of Israel's.
It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain government administration.
It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration.
So that policy is not going to change.
Now, we all know that he didn't mean to say Israel is a strong friend of Israel.
But who was he talking about?
Was he talking about us?
Was he talking about America?
It'll be a strong friend of Israel under McCain government administration, a strong friend of Israel under an Obama government administration.
So that policy is not going to change.
Really?
Did somebody think we were going to abandon Israel?
Has that been brought up?
Obama feel the need to address that?
Where do you fit, by the way?
Where do you fit in the Obama religious spectrum, ladies and gentlemen?
Are you Orthodox Obama?
Are you fundamental?
Fundamentalist Obama?
Are you evangelical Obama?
Maybe you're reform Obama.
Meaning you converted.
So you converted from the Al Gore sect to the Obama sect.
I don't know who said it, if anybody really did say it.
But it is, Chesterston, somebody, if you don't, if you, it's becoming more apparent in real life, if you don't believe in God, you will believe in anything.
And I'll tell you, there are quite a few people in this country who apparently do not believe in God.
They are either Orthodox Obama, fundamentalist Obama, evangelical Obama, or reform Obama.
Okay, to the phones.
Time to go to the phones.
People have been patiently waiting.
Mike, San Antonio, Texas, you're up first.
It's great to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Yes, good afternoon, Russian.
Mega, retired Air Force Ditto from San Antonio.
I think what's really pathetic about this is Malachi throwing Bush and our military under the bus of the very people who liberated that country and kept him in office while Obama and his Democratic buddies would have turned the place back to Al-Qaeda at least two years ago.
My son's Air Force pilot.
He's been over there seven times.
And when I think of all the guys that have served, those that we've lost and been wounded, and I wonder, is this the kind of appreciation that they're going to get for their efforts over there?
And it makes me furious and makes me question whether we ought to just get them out of there now.
Well, Obama's first plan, you know, was to get them all out of there in 60 days.
That's before we won the thing.
If that was a good idea two years ago, why wouldn't it be a better idea today?
Well, you know, about Malachi, when I first heard this, I said, something's got to be wrong here.
The more I looked into it, I said, nope, I think he meant to say what he said.
The Iraqis meant it.
But as they've backtracked a little bit here, and nobody's saying 16 months now, they're talking about 20 or a time of year.
This whole withdrawal time horizon, definite date certain, all that is bad news.
I don't care who's in charge.
That's just an invitation to the bad guys to hide, take it easy, rearm, restock, and then we do start pulling out of there, move back in.
But I don't know that Malachi was throwing us under the bus.
It's too complicated just for that.
There's this thing called Iranian or Iraqi internal politics.
And Malachi is no different than any other politician anywhere.
I mean, he's going to shore up his position first.
And whatever he's talking about here in terms of our troops getting out of there is first and foremost an internal Iraqi issue.
Now, I know some people think that somehow the Obama camp got with Maliki and they timed all this to happen when it did, their Spiegel interview and so forth.
I think that's just an unfortunate circumstance because at the end of the day, at the end of the day, folks, and don't doubt me on this.
Look at me.
Don't doubt me.
At the end of the day, Nouri al-Maliki is going to do what we want, whether it's Obama in the White House or whether it's McCain or before the election, Bush.
This is just public posturing over there for the Iraqi people and a number of other things for internal Iraqi political purposes.
The end of the day, he knows where his brother knows who's protecting his life and saving his life.
And he's going to do what we want at the end of the day.
So it's unfortunate it happened.
I agree with you.
Okay, we got a poll out there, ladies and gentlemen.
We always have a new poll to report.
Get this one.
This is ABC News poll.
Unmarried women, often dubbed the sex and the city vote, overwhelmingly support Senator Obama in key battleground states.
Single, divorced, separated, and widowed women in 14 battleground states favor Obama over McCain by 61 to 29 percent, according to a Democrat poll commissioned for Women's Voices, Women Vote Action Fund.
Women's Voices, Women Vote Action Fund.
It's an advocacy group for unmarried women voters.
Now, as a healthy, red-blooded American male, I have a question.
I never heard of this sex in the city vote.
This is my first time hearing the term.
But if single, divorced, separated, and widowed women, in other words, women without men support Obama over McCain, 61 to 29%, does this prove that when men are around, women get smarter?
And that when men leave, women get stupid?
I mean, we can look at this data any way you want, folks, is what I'm trying to say here.
So women who get divorced get dumber because there's no smart guy around to keep them in line politically.
Married women, obviously much smarter.
Married women, obviously more conservative.
Single, divorced, widowed, separated women, no man around.
Nabrain goes south.
And I could analyze this any way I want to.
Screw the drive-bys.
They're stupid polls.
Anthony in Los Angeles.
You're next on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, how are you today?
Mega Dittos.
Thank you, sir.
Quick comment.
And I want to preface these comments, but I do think McCain needs to run a better campaign because Obama alone is not going to sink Obama.
But that being said, Obama is slowly becoming the inevitable candidate.
And we all know what happened to President Hillary Clinton.
And this whole thing is turning into almost a Wellstone memorial.
And I think we might have a backlash.
I agree with you completely with that, sir.
Yeah, it's going to be a backlash against the media.
It's going to perhaps be a backlash against Obama.
But he's moved, in terms of the drive-bys, the disciples of Obama.
He's moved beyond the notion of, what did you say, candidate?
He's a presumed candidate, inevitable candidate.
He's the inevitable president.
He's inevitable president.
He is being treated like a president.
He is acting like a president.
He is violated.
He has no constitutional authority for this whatsoever.
He's being propped up as a president.
And the libs do this every time.
They thought they had John Kerry in the bag.
They thought that they had Al Gore in the bag in 2000.
And they think they've got this in the bag.
Well, we all know what happened to the inevitable Super Bowl champion New England Patriots.
So we'll see what happens.
Yeah, and we also know what happens to conventional wisdom out there.
It oftentimes is proven incorrect.
Thanks, Anthony.
I appreciate it.
Where are we headed now?
We're going down to Cedar Falls, Iowa.
And this is Jacob, who is 16 years old.
Hi, Jacob.
Nice to have you on the program.
Hi, Rush.
Mega Dittos from Cedar Falls, Iowa.
Thank you, sir.
It's an honored to talk to you, sir.
I have a couple of comments about what the environmentalists and liberals have been saying.
Yes.
Specifically about the term renewable energy.
That term doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me because it contradicts the second law of thermodynamics that says energy can't be created or destroyed.
The sun is constantly losing energy through light and heat and solar flares.
And if we capture the energy from it, we're going to use it and it's going to disappear from us.
So I don't understand how they can use that term renewable.
But then I also got to say.
Well, here's the thing.
That's a great point.
And I would add to it the word alternate or alternative.
It is clear to me.
You see, if I were your age or a little older and there was a liberal babe out there that I wanted to meet up with and see where it went, I'd start talking about alternative energy, and you'd own them.
These liberal women, they just fall for that hook line and think alternative, renewable energy.
Man, just make them think you're going to buy a Prius and you can have your way with them.
Don't even have to actually buy the thing.
You just make them think it's the most amazing.
You can get a U. You can wrap a U.S. Senator around your little finger.
Diane Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, just by running around alternative fuels, renewable energy.
I got to thinking, though, about the renewable word, and I could actually use it because coal and gas originally came from the sun.
Coal is from decomposed plants.
Those use photosynthesis convert light into energy.
And gas, I did my research, and it comes from diatoms, which aren't plants, but they convert light to energy.
So actually, the coal and the gas are a source of stored solar energy.
Absolutely.
I have to say the same thing about other fossil fuels as well.
You're very smart.
You're a very bright guy.
You've been thinking about this.
Yes.
See, you know, it is a show.
It's gotten me to think a lot.
Well, I'm glad that that happened.
You know, because I think I call some people.
Jacob all the time saying, yeah, we're going to hell in a handbasket rush.
Our culture's rotting and so forth.
And everybody seems to buy now this notion that the government needs to get big and supply everybody's wants and needs and so forth.
And I always believe when I get calls from people your age, all the way through college, who are applying yourselves intellectually to all of this, you know, you guys, you may grow up and be the ones that are the instruments of rolling back some of this outrageousness that your parents and grandparents happen to be accepting these days.
I mean, generically, your parents and great, your elders.
But I'm proud.
It's great to have somebody like you in this audience.
16 years old, and you've been thinking about this.
You must have an IQ almost as high as mine.
Oh, I don't think nearly so.
It's probably higher.
But that's, you know, you ought to try that on some other patriots and liberals.
What do you mean, renewable energy?
You mean like coal?
Let's see what they do.
Because the fact of the matter is that virtually everything we have on this planet would die, including us without the sun.
It'd be the end of it.
You want the oceans to freeze?
You want it would happen.
It'd be the end of it.
And it's going to happen somebody.
Even the sun is losing energy.
It's not renewable itself.
It's going to take billions and billions and billions of years.
So they say, before it's expired, we won't be around to see it.
By the way, Rasmussen went out and asked the American people what they think about Al Gore's panic.
We only get 10 years to go all to whatever.
What was the insanity he said to eliminate all fossil fuel generated electricity?
Yeah, 10 years.
Only 33% of American voters believe Al Gore's proposal to switch all of the nation's electricity production to wind, solar, and other carbon-free sources in 10 years is realistic.
Beyond the Democrat Party base, most voters think Gore's plan will make energy prices go up.
33% of Americans, only 33%, that's pretty damn high.
That number frightens me, actually.
It's a little high.
Because that means 33% of the American people are absolute idiots.
And they got to be just partisan liberals who go in GAGA over whatever Gore says.
Because Rasmussen says here, beyond the Democrat Party base, most voters think Gore's plan will make energy prices go up, as well as Al Gore's income.
All right, back to the audio sound bites.
This is more Obama.
Last night he was on with Terry Moran at Nightline, and here's a portion of an exchange that they had.
This is Obama telling one of his disciples, you don't pin me down.
You're not going to ask these questions.
You're going to ask questions the way I want them asked.
I'm going to try and pin you down on this.
Well, let me say this, though, Terry, because what I will refuse to do, and I think that, you know...
How do you know what I'm going to ask?
Well, if I don't get it right, then you can ask it again.
Is to get boxed in into what I consider two false choices, which is either I have a rigid timeline of such and such a date, come hell or high water, we've gotten our combat troops out, and I am blind to anything that happens in the intervening six months or 16 months.
Or, alternatively, I am completely deferring to whatever the commanders on the ground says, which is what George Bush says he's doing, in which case, I'm not doing my job as commander-in-chief.
The more of these I listen to, the more infuriated that I become.
I mean, folks, this stuff just can't take it anymore.
Let me listen to all this rot-gut garbage.
I am completely deferring to whatever the commanders on the ground says, which is what George Bush says he's doing, in which case I'm not doing my job as commander-in-chief.
He's not going to pin down, he's not going to be pinned down on when we're getting out of there.
He's not going to be pinned down.
He's not going to let Terry Moran pin him down on it.
Knew what the question was.
So, Obama telling the disciples.
And of course, they sit there.
Oh, sorry.
I didn't mean to offend you, Messiah.
I didn't mean to offend you, sir.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back.
We'll continue after this.
Don't go away.
All right, back to the audio soundbites we go.
This is again from the correspondent Terry Moran at the All Barack channel, the American Barack channel, and their program Barack Nightline.
The question from Terry Moran, did Prime Minister Malachi say to you what he said to the European press that he likes your 16-month time is that what Malachi said?
Did Malachi say, I like Obama's idea?
I know he mentioned Obama in his statement, but did he say, I like Obama's idea?
Of course not.
It is not what he said.
But this is what I'm talking about.
The American Barack Channel on Barack Nightline and a reporter make it sound like the brilliance and the uniqueness of Barack Obama is so penetrating and powerful that Nouri al-Maliki, the Prime Minister of Iraq, has immediately adopted it.
So anyway, did he talk to Malachi and then did he say to you what he said to Europeans about liking that 16-month deal?
Prime Minister Maliki stated was that he very much believes that there has to be a timeframe built into whatever agreements are set up between the United States and Iraq.
But again, I think his view is that he wants some flexibility in terms of how that's carried out.
You know, not even John Kerry did this.
Not even Kerry went over there and talked to these guys and then came back and started talking about the negotiation of timelines, withdrawals, policies, and so forth.
Kerry didn't even go there and pretend to be president and Obama is.
And of course, the sycophantic drive-bys are propping him all up in the process.
Another question here from the American Barack Channel's Barack Nightline show, the correspondent Terry Moran, said, based on what you have seen here, most merciful Barack Obama, would you say that you were wrong when you said that the surge would not make a significant dent in the violence?
I did not anticipate, and I think this is a fair characterization, the convergence of not only the surge, but the Sunni awakening, in which a whole host of Sunni tribal leaders decided they had had enough with al-Qaeda in the Shia community, the militias standing down to some degree.
So what you had was a combination of political factors inside of Iraq that then came right at the same time as terrific work by our troops.
Had those political factors not occurred, I think my assessment would have been correct.
It is unconscionable.
It is, you know, to me, it's bordering on traitorous.
It's just, but it's reprehensible.
It is outstandingly egregious.
This whole thing he didn't anticipate the convergence of the surge, but the Sunni awakening and the Shia stand down and all that.
This is he gave this answer today again.
We played this for you once.
It's obviously now a stock answer that he has rehearsed because it was his answer in the press conference this morning.
This soundbite you just heard was from last night.
But as I say, this is typical of the lift.
How in the world does he think all this happened?
How does he, how do you think this miraculous political convergence took place?
How does he think that the Sunni tribal leaders had gotten tired of al-Qaeda?
They could have gotten tired of al-Qaeda all day long, but until al-Qaeda was kicked out of their provinces and their cities, it wouldn't have made any difference how tired they were of al-Qaeda.
The whole, this, this whole, this whole, by the way, folks, the Democrats, Obama would never even acknowledge that Al-Qaeda was in Iraq.
This is such a wasteful exercise.
It was an unjust war.
We shouldn't have been there.
Now, all of a sudden, Al-Qaeda was there, and the Sunnis and the Shi'a just got tired of them.
Yes, just got tired of them.
And had that not happened, Obama's idea probably would have worked.
His assessment would have been correct.
It's unconscionable.
It is dangerous, maddening because this is a pure, unadulterated phony.
This is an arrogant phony.
And this, again, folks, is the pattern of the left.
They cannot abide American success in any way in any theater.
No, no, no.
We're succeeding in Iraq because of the tribesmen standing down and awakening.
Not the U.S. military, not our strategy, not our execution of the battle plan.
Right, and we won the Cold War and the Soviet Union collapsed, not because of Reagan.
It had nothing to do with America.
It had to do with Gorbachev.
It had nothing to do with Margaret Thatcher.
It had to do with Gorbachev.
Gorbachev knew he couldn't continue that way.
Glasnos, Paris Dryker, brilliant, Gorbachev.
I detest these people someday, folks.
I detest them.
To stretch credulity like this, to go so far out of bounds to avoid crediting your own country with success.
And of course, the Democrats can't because they're invested in defeat.
They were invested in losing in Iraq.
So now that we've won, it had nothing to do with Bush, had nothing to do with the military, and it was all the brilliance, the brilliance, the political convergence.
The only problem here is that Obama's the only Democrat talking about the brilliance of the political convergence.
Carl Levin, Pelosi, Reed, they're all saying that the Maliki government has failed to meet its benchmarks.
In a sane political environment, this guy would be a laughingstock, not just on late-night TV, but everywhere.
Oh, yeah, one of my all-time favorites, Ohio Express.
Love Roller Coaster.
We've got more coming up, folks.
Sit tight.
We'll be back before you know it.
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