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Jan. 7, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 7, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Hiya, folks, and welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh, and this is one and only Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
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Barney Frank, I want to go to yesterday's audio soundbite roster.
Barney Frank, actually, we have some stuff from today and yesterday.
Yesterday was on with Chris Cuomo.
Good morning, America.
And Barney is getting more and more contentious with his buddies.
I mean, the people in the drive-by are Barney's buddies, and he's getting contentious with them, often for no reason, which means he's defensive.
But first, from MSNBC today, Joe Scarborough's morning show, Scarborough said, how do we stop the next big bust on Wall Street?
And we had the 87 crash.
We had the Asian crash.
We had the dot-com crash, had a telecom crash, and now we got the housing bubble crash.
And I'll tell you, the next crash, I just said, folks, we are insane.
It was just two months ago that we learned that massive debt that can't be repaid causes bubbles to burst big time.
And now we've got trillion plus billion or trillion dollar deficits promised by Obama for years.
So that's the next one to bust.
And Scarborough is asking Barney Frank, how do we figure out what the hell we're doing on Wall Street?
It's not deregulation that was the problem.
It was a failure to adopt new regulations for a new phenomenon, the securitization.
The biggest part of this problem was subtrime loans, money lent to people to make them homeowners who couldn't afford the loans, who should not have been considered to be, in many cases, capable financially of homeowning.
You got to recognize reality.
We have begun to adopt legislation to prevent that.
We can stop the last problem from recurring.
Nobody can know what the next problem will be.
I mean, he created the problem.
Folks, this is more than chutzbutt.
He created the problem.
This is a soundbite to get you out of your chair.
I don't believe I just heard this.
He created it.
His definition of affordable housing was to make sure that people who couldn't pay the loans back got the loans, the mortgages.
He forced Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to do this.
Acorn was involved.
Obama's group.
This was a Democrat Party operation through and through.
And instead of answering questions from Joe Scarborough, Barney Frank ought to be answering them as a witness before some other congressional committee.
So now we have begun to adopt legislation to prevent this?
I mean, all you can do is laugh.
I know some of you people are put out with me because I'm laughing at this.
What are we going to do?
I mean, you can't go through your life angry all the time like the liberals do, but this.
Okay, let's move on to Good Morning America with Chris Cuomo and Barney Frank.
First soundbite, Cuomo says, you Democrats say you're gung-ho talking huge numbers in this stimulus plan, but in light of all the spending has been done already with the questionable results.
And by the way, that's a good point.
All the stimulus spending and where's the result?
Where is the economy roaring back?
Question to Frank: What gives you the confidence that you can pass this new stimulus?
Bush administration came to us and said, if you don't give us $700 billion right away, there'll be a collapse.
Now, we have a problem because the initiative is with the administration, but it hasn't been $700 billion.
We did vote the authorization, but we said that after they had spent the first half, they were going to have to notify Congress before they could spend the second half.
We are sufficiently dissatisfied with what the Bush administration did with the first half.
Now, that second $350 is frozen and is not being spent until we come to some agreements with the Obama administration about how to spend it.
Now, just be cool because it ain't going to be long before they can't blame Bush anymore.
Bush was sold a bill of goods by Hank Paulson, who's a Democrat.
This is just history revision right before your very eyes.
They then had this exchange.
Your title is chairman of the House Financial Committee.
I mean, certainly this isn't just about you looking to the administration.
You have a role in this also.
You approve the check plan.
You approve the spending.
And the question is: where is the accountability?
Do you know where that is?
Well, I'm trying to explain that.
No, in part we don't.
First of all, it's and this is not just a technical thing since you're stressing the title.
It's the Financial Services Committee.
I say that because there is a Senate Finance Committee that deals with taxes.
Yes, we know in part where it went.
We are unhappy with that.
We set up a mechanism to monitor it.
And because we're unhappy with it, we have frozen the second half of it.
But just think about that as a taxpayer.
I'm sorry, sir, but I'm sorry.
If you keep interrupting, we can't have a coherent conversation.
These are not subjects that can be answered in 18 seconds.
It happens.
It happens every year.
He turns on his friends and he accuses of being incoherent when we can't understand half of the words Barty's saying.
And he accuses Chris Cuomo of being incoherent.
And then it led to this.
American taxpayers hearing all this: $10 billion in bonuses, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley alone.
You seem to be saying that you're powerless in this.
Why should they have confidence in this?
No, I'm not saying that.
Excuse me.
I'm sorry.
This is terribly distorted.
I didn't say I was powerless.
You said the administration proposed it, that there's a method of doing things that you didn't like.
No, I'm sorry.
This is the worst kind of distortion.
In the first place, I don't think it is powerlessness to say instead of spending $700 billion, you're only going to be able to spend half of it, and we will freeze the second half.
That's not powerlessness.
I don't think freezing $350 billion is not doing anything and holding it until the Obama people get there.
And if you think that Congress can simply take over and run the program, that simply isn't the way the American Constitution works.
Well, it certainly was the way the subprime mortgage thing went down.
It certainly was the way Congress was in charge of telling Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac what to do.
Barney Frank leading the way, folks.
He was and is the banking queen.
Alrighty, then we're back.
El Rushball.
The talent on loan from God.
Don't doubt me to Duplains, Illinois.
Bob, nice to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Testing one, two.
Bob from Duplains, Illinois.
You there?
Is he gone?
You guys punch up the right button there.
And he's not there.
Bob, you there.
He might have put the phone down to go to the bathroom.
You never know.
Or he might be listening to the radio.
We have a very long delay here because some of our callers, you never hear this, but some of our callers have some of the sauciest language.
We've been forced to go to a 50-second delay, ladies, so he may, we'll give him here.
I don't hear what sounds like a deadline.
Is nobody there?
Well, put him back on hold, and we'll try him later.
I was all prepared for this.
He wanted to know where's the Maverick, where is McCain to fight for us?
And it just so happened that I got an email today.
McCain's forming a new outfit.
My friend.
Here's the McCain email.
In the time since the 2008 presidential campaign ended, I have had a chance to reflect on many things.
And as I said on election night, I truly can't adequately express how indebted I am to you, my entire campaign team, and to Sarah Palin.
The road was difficult from the outset.
Yet your faith, your support, your friendship never wavered.
Just as I have proudly served my country for more than half a century, 50 years, for those of you who voted for Obama, I am as committed as ever to helping see our mission through.
So to continue the movement, I, John McCain, have decided to launch a new grassroots organization called Country First.
Today I'm asking you as a friend and supporter to renew your commitment to our common goals by becoming a charter member of Country First with an online contribution.
Here is Mr. Campaign Finance Reform asking for donations for his new group.
Country First says, Senator McCain here will allow us to strengthen our party, better define our Republican ideals and message, recruit and back strong, dedicated candidates, and continue our efforts to bring real reform to government by always putting our country in the noble ideals she stands.
Basically, he's taking his campaign slogan that didn't work, and he's turning it into a 501c3 or some such political action committee.
That's what McCain is doing.
I mean, we had the guy on the phone.
He hung up, obviously.
Jeff in Vacaville, California, you're next on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Hey.
I like to say California military spouse dittos to you.
Appreciate that.
So my wife is in Afghanistan right now, waiting for her to come back.
But my comment for you is earlier you mentioned about exercise, and I know why that you dislike exercise.
Tell me.
Well, go back to your childhood, junior, high, or high school.
Oh, no, Psychoanalysis here?
Are you a psychologist?
I am not.
I am an exercise specialist.
But at some point in your physical...
Wait a minute.
I just...
You're an exercise specialist.
Yes.
Okay.
And sometime in your career, as I mentioned, either on a sports team or phys ed class, exercise was used as a punishment.
That would be my guess.
And because of that, every time exercise is mentioned, you subconsciously think that, boom, exercise is a negative thing.
If you think back, since you have called to, you should call CNN, by the way, because they use people who are not psychologists to psychoanalyze people.
Okay.
And they use people that they use psychologists who have never treated people to analyze those people I've never treated.
They might put you on because they're going to lose Sanjay Gupta.
Sanjay Gupta is going to be Obama's Sturgeon General.
There was a lot.
Somebody at Slate.
Hang on there, Jeff, for just a second.
I had to share this with you.
Some guy at slate.com wrote, and I'm going to have to paraphrase this.
You know, one of the previous surgeon generals was Jocelyn Elders.
And Jocelyn Elders actually, and we have the sound bites in way back when Jocelyn Elders actually, as Surgeon General, was promoting self-love, masturbation, as a prevention for AIDS and sexually transmitted disease.
This needs to be taught.
This guy at Slate recalls that and says, but Sanjay Gupta drips, just oozes self-love.
He doesn't have to say it.
He is it.
I thought, man, man, because they're taking a shot at him.
Sanjay Gupta, People Magazine named him one of the 50th, sexiest men in the country.
He's a practicing neurosurgeon.
He also does stories on global warming, even though he's a doctor for CNN.
But he's going to take the big pay cut and move the family out of Atlanta up to Washington to be surgeon general for the Maithiah.
Now, back to you, exercise specialist.
I never heard of one of those, nor I guess they're called coaches.
I have coached.
I have been a fitness director, manager of a fitness center.
I've done a lot of different things in that area.
Right.
Well, my distaste for exercise, I did play Little League Baseball, loved it.
I played Babe Ruth League Baseball up to age 15, loved it.
I played one year of high school football, didn't really like it.
I remember one instance, and I was an offensive tackle, and the two days in August, they were just brutal.
And one day after practice, we always, the tackles and guards ran sprints, and the linebackers went to a group, and the offensive, defensive linemen, and so forth, the quarterbacks and wide receivers, sort of different weight groups.
And I was in the offensive line group, and the coaches had a tendency to, after 10 or 12, 60-yard sprints or gassers, they'd all of a sudden say, okay, first four tackles take it in.
So I would pace myself during the first eight or 10, making sure I never finished first.
And I would save myself up for when the coaches said, first four tackles take it in, I always won.
And after two times, the coach came to me, said, son, we've been noticing here that you're finishing in the middle of the pack until we say first four tackles take it in, and then you're always blowing by everybody.
What's happening here?
And I said, I'm pacing myself, coach.
His name was Norm Dawkins.
He said, son, we don't pace ourselves in football.
And we don't pace ourselves in life.
We go all out all the time.
And I had to spend 30 minutes running more gassers and so forth after everybody else went in.
See, that's the punishment aspect.
If you were punished something in a different way, you would have, I think, a better attitude about exercise.
Whether you do push-ups or extra laps.
No, I liked the football stuff because there was a purpose.
I was playing a game.
I was getting better at something.
There were other people out there.
When I worked for the Kansas City Royals in the late 70s, early 80s, every Thursday after the baseball season ended, we always played a touch football game with the front office of the Kansas City Chiefs on Thursday afternoons.
I couldn't wait.
And we played on Saturdays too, once we got to December.
And rain, shine, mud, snow.
I loved that.
I love playing football.
I love doing all that stuff.
What I hate is exercise for the sake of it.
Okay, people, you need to go for a walk.
Where?
Well, you'll end up back at home.
Well, I say, why leave?
If I'm going to end up where I started, why leave?
I'd rather just stay here because I, frankly, hate things that have no purpose, but it's good for you.
No, it's not.
From the first step when I start exercising for no purpose, from the first step, my mind is preoccupied with when is this going to end.
And of course, this, ladies and gentlemen, is not, I just, but why don't you go walking on the beach?
Oh, sometimes I do.
That can be fun.
But just to go walking around again on a treadmill, the treadmill is even worse because you never end up going anywhere.
You start and stop at the same place, and then you still have to walk to get back to the house.
It's just a pain.
It just, it just, I just, I just don't like it.
Controversy, ladies and gentlemen, continues to rage out there over what's going to happen with the Hillary Clinton seat in the United States Senate.
Somebody's out there doing public opinion polls.
Now, this doesn't matter to a Hill of Beans, but they're out there doing public opinion polls in New York, and Caroline Kennedy has got 25 or 30% of public support for the Senate seat in New York.
Andrew Cuomo has the balance of the support.
The only way that's a factor is if it influences Patterson, who's not yet been elected, the governor of New York, he's, you know, took over for Spitzer, the guy who had sex with the hooker while wearing his socks at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C., client number nine.
And Patterson's starting to get a little edgy here about all these attempts to influence him.
He was on Nightline last night, and Terry Moran said, if her name wasn't Kennedy, she wouldn't be within a country mile of this office.
The biggest argument against Senator Hillary Clinton was that she wasn't even a resident of New York when she wanted to run and hadn't held any public office.
And now, what people say about Hillary is that nobody can take her place.
So the question will be: who will be the selectee that would most make you think of Senator Hillary Clinton in about eight years?
I am not going to be coerced.
I'm not going to be unduly persuaded.
And I'm not going to be pushed around.
Who would be the selectee that would most make you think of Hillary in eight years?
Sharpton, by the way, had lunch with Caroline not long ago.
Here is special note to the media here.
This is the Reverend Sharpton using his protest bullhorn.
They had lunch at Sylvia's up there in Harlem.
He's talking about it here in the song.
We saw the video.
She was.
I mean, she was really chowing down.
I was stunned to see it.
That's the Reverend Sharpton.
As portrayed by white comedian Paul Shanklin, Sharpton immediately into the recording studio after lunch with Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg at Sylvia's in Harlem, where the Reverend Sharpton, when the cameras were on, ate nothing.
He's an experienced politician.
She was chowing down with her mouth wide open.
It had to sound like Fork was stabbing stuff, putting in her mouth almost both hands like Popeye eating spinach.
And she's accepting counsel from Sharpton at the same time.
There's a special bonus for the media out there in our ongoing quest to inform you as to what happens here.
We're going to go back to the archives of the 2004 presidential campaign on the Democrat side.
The Reverend Sharpton again sought the office, but his mother told him never to try for it.
She told him not to run.
A twin spin for the media there, Reverend Sharpton from our archive, the grooveyard of forgotten favorites.
Mama told me not to run.
Roland Burris had a press conference this afternoon.
He actually started the press conference on time.
He's going to have to learn you don't do that.
The press conference scheduled to start at 1:30.
He should have started at 1.33, 1.34 when this program is out of its commercial break.
He'll learn this at some point.
We weren't able to jip his press conference live, therefore.
But one thing he said, ladies and gentlemen, was one of the first things he said was that he got a phone call.
He said he had an important phone call before he went to the meeting with Dick Turbin and Dingy Harry today.
And that phone call was from his good friend, former President of the United States, Jimmy Carter.
And as Burris told it, Carter got on the phone and said, when you are in the Senate, Roland, you will make a great senator.
When was Jimmy Carter last in the news?
Why, I think it was just Monday.
I think it was just Monday.
Jimmy Carter was part of Habitat for Humanity, this great organization out there building homes for people that couldn't afford them.
Went out there, you hammer nails.
In fact, to give you the history on this, Jimmy Carter joined Habitat for Humanity.
And whenever we saw a video of Jimmy Carter, he's out there hammering nails, building houses in Georgia, northern Florida.
And then Nixon died, and they had the Nixon funeral.
And of course, Carter hated Nixon.
He's a big boob.
So Carter and Roseland sitting out there in the funeral.
Here's Reagan, and here's Clinton, and here's Henry Kissinger, and former presidents, Earl Frederick, just praising Nixon to the hilt.
And Carter didn't understand it.
And Rosalind's sitting there jabbing Jimmy in the ribs.
How can you sit here hammering nails?
You're wasting time making cheap houses.
And look at what they're saying about Nixon.
What are they going to say about you that you hammered nails?
Yes, that's what we're saying about him.
And the houses, ladies and gentlemen, have begun to collapse.
Shoddy construction.
Habitat for human northern Florida.
Jimmy Carter build homes crumbling in plain sight.
It's our old timber update theme back from the glory days of Earth First, trying to prevent timber from being chopped down, spotted owl days, and so forth.
I always love that update theme, the sound of a tree hitting the deck.
One of the most beautiful sounds in the world is a tree falling.
Well, it is because look at what happens there.
You build a home.
If Jimmy Carter's in charge, a cheap house, it won't last, but build a home, nice cherry wood floors, pianos, baseball bats.
It's a great thing.
Remember, ladies and gentlemen, yesterday I was discussing hiring a PR firm.
Not that I would ever do it, but that people were suggesting I do this.
This has happened over the course of many years of my sterling and outstanding career.
And people have said you need to hire a PR firm, especially when you're not around to handle some of these hit stitches.
They say, no, It won't work.
I said yesterday, if I were to hire one, though, it'd be Hamas.
Because this bunch has shown that they can manipulate worldwide media.
I mean, photoshopping pictures, Having their own children killed on purpose and the media knowing it but not reporting is just amazing.
I mean, if anybody out there looking for a PR firm, think Hamas, and here's more evidence.
Los Angeles Times today gave op-ed column space to a Hamas terrorist, a man by the name Musa Abu Marzouk, who was deported from the United States in 1997.
There also is an Ohio State University professor who states that Hamas is just a community organization.
Hamas is a social service organization, just like the Jewish Community Federation.
I don't know how any of you Jewish people out there can be liberals anymore.
I just, I don't understand, intellectually, I'll never understand it.
The world sides with these terrorists, our media, worldwide media, sides with these terrorists and tries to equate them and elevate them.
Moral blindness.
And Hamas is able to achieve this through masterful public relations efforts.
And now they're getting op-ed space in the L.A. Times.
I probably couldn't get op-ed space in the L.A. Times, but Hamas can.
Let's go to Brian College Station, Texas.
Brian, great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hey, it's Council in Brian College Station, Texas.
I just called.
Well, that's what it said, but it didn't make any sense.
And I know Snarlie's having a bad day.
And they're council.
No, no, no, no.
Council is your name.
Yep.
Brian College.
Brian College Station.
You know, it's where Texas AM is.
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It makes total sense to me now.
All right.
Well, I just called to tell you that as a physician, I recommend to all my patients they exercise four to five times a week because you live longer and you stay out of the hospital.
And just wanted to let you know that.
I have not disputed the benefits of exercise, except I dispute the notion that you can lose weight doing exercise.
But I've read the health benefits of exercise earlier in the program today.
I'm not trying to advise people against it.
I'm just telling people I hate it.
Well, no, I understand that.
I hate it too.
And I walk three miles a day.
Well, you must, you must.
See, I have a that to me is suffering.
And I am totally opposed to self-imposed suffering.
I just don't do it.
Used to do it, but I don't do it.
No, no.
While I'm walking, I'm thinking about what I'm planning to do.
I'm working in those hours.
Not hours, but that hour.
It takes me three hours.
That's my problem.
I'm an hour to walk three miles.
I'm thinking about what I'm going to do.
I'm accomplishing.
I can't overcome that.
When I'm walking, all I'm thinking about is when is this going to end?
I've even tried getting on a treadmill watching 24.
24 is the fastest-paced TV show I watch.
I don't get past the first commercial before I want to get off treadmill.
I cannot get past how unhappy, how miserable, how much I detest what I'm doing is.
Well, Rush, we want you to be happy because we love you.
Well, I appreciate that.
And, doctor, I want you to understand here.
I know full well that you're right about the things you're talking about regarding the benefits of exercise.
I'm not trying to talk anybody out of it.
There you go.
All right.
Have a good day.
Thank you, Counsel.
I wanted to stave off some of you homeschool parents, too, because I know that you're going to think your kids are going to stop exercising because they're listening to me because you homeschool them.
And that's, ladies and gentlemen, something that you, we're not.
What's the old Charles Barkley line?
I'm not a role model.
One thing I will tell you to do, protect your identity with Life Lock.
I mean, you do not understand what can happen to you if your identity is stolen and people are getting into massive computer data.
It's a good point.
I'm beginning to think the whole Republican Party's identity has been stolen and they don't know where to go get it back.
The Republican Party needs lifelock.
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Well, Diane Feinstein is now totally on board Leon Panetta.
He's totally on board Roland Burris.
But I just watched a little bit of a press conference with Dingy Harry, and I think I was analyzing Dingy Harry's press conference this morning exactly right.
This is not a done deal.
He can get the co-signers.
He'd get Jesse White, the Secretary of State.
He get the courtin out there.
But if the Senate rules are not followed, this is not a done deal for Roland Burris.
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