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One thing before we get to the Eric Holder soundbites.
In the last hour, a woman from Rockford, Illinois called and she said, she said, why buy a house?
Obama's out there saying don't expect it to increase in value.
So why should we go out and buy a house?
And I replied, there are some deals to be had right now because of the foreclosures.
And you can probably get a fairly decent mortgage rate if you really try.
I mean, some people, California has a lot of home prices.
Home prices have plunged a lot.
There are some people getting into the markets.
They want shelter.
They want to own a home.
Some people not concerned about the investment aspect of it.
They just want a house.
And they're getting a new one.
You can.
Now, what happens, though, by subsidizing people who would otherwise be foreclosed on, the Obamas are destroying the foreclosure market, too?
I mean, they are destroying everything they're touching.
Because when you subsidize what would otherwise be a foreclosed on home, then you're establishing a floor on home value and it won't go below that.
All of this, it is freaking unbelievable.
We're going to be at one month tomorrow since the BAMSTR was inaugurated.
Now, I made a prediction to you people all during the campaign.
A number of you people called here.
And some of you said, you know, it's an interesting thing, Rush.
I mean, if we elect Obama, can't we say the country's no longer racist?
I cautioned you not to have that belief.
In fact, it's only going to get worse.
With a black president, you're going to have any criticism of him or a lot of criticism of him labeled racist.
And I warned you what some of the civil rights leaders have said, that he doesn't really represent the slave blood of American oppression.
He doesn't have any.
His wife does, but she's not the president.
He's not down for the struggle.
They're going to keep the race business alive, and it's going to prosper during the Obama administration because that causes more chaos and it causes more division.
There's nothing about the civil rights movement that is healing.
With that, let's go to Eric Holder, the new Attorney General, who yesterday said the United States of America is a nation of cowards in terms of race relations.
Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as a ethnic melting pot, in things racial, we have always been, and we, I believe, continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.
Makes these remarks as part of African American History Month.
Now tell me, what is unifying about any of this?
What, you know, Obama, the great unifier, the great healer, instant love, going to get rid of all the old grievances that we've had.
What in the world is Holder thinking here?
A nation that has spilled more blood over this issue than any other nation on earth.
A nation of cowards on race?
Folks, you think there's not a chip on this administration's shoulder?
You think there's not some anger underneath the surface here?
You think there's not some desire to get even?
Here's another portion of his remarks.
We, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial.
Stop tape.
Forgive me, Mr. Attorney General, but it seems to me that's all we do.
I have heard, I've been doing this program for over 20 years now.
Prior to that, I did other programs.
My whole life, after every racial incident in this country, real or imagined, we've been here.
We need to have a conversation on this.
We need to finally have a national conversation on race.
Mr. Attorney General, cowards, we don't talk enough with each other about things racial.
Have you talked to people like Justice Clarence Thomas?
Have you spoken to Michael Steele?
Have you spoken to any prominent conservative African American and asked them what it's like to have their lives targeted, their careers, their reputations?
Only liberals are allowed to talk about race anyway.
If conservatives or Republicans talk about race, it's racist.
Liberals can talk about race all day long without being racist.
The racism throughout the primary season was totally in the Democrat Party.
The Democrat Party was nothing more, it was about nothing more, very little more than race, race, race.
So you guys can talk about it all day long and nothing happens to you.
Everybody else starts talking about race and you start saying racism.
Hell.
Hendrik Hertzberg of some publication compared me to Bull Connor the other day on television, Mr. Attorney General, simply because I oppose Barack Obama's policies.
I, and he compared Obama to Martin Luther King and I'm Bull Connor, according to a white elitist liberal.
This is patently absurd.
It's designed to shut people up.
It's designed to stifle conversations about race, Mr. Attorney General.
Cue that back up to the top.
Everything that you people on the left do with race is designed to shut people up about it.
You want more conversation?
People are scared to death to talk about race in this country, Mr. Attorney General, for fear of what's going to be said about them.
In some cases, people were afraid to vote the way they really wanted to vote because they were afraid if people found out what would be said about them.
This is unbelievable.
It's beneath you, Mr. Holder, to start preaching to the people of the United States this way as cowards.
You who were involved in pardoning Mark Rich for President Clinton?
You with the cleanless, clean, spotless record?
You, a cut above everybody else, can sit and look down from your lofty perch at justice and call this a nation of cowards?
Let's listen again.
We, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial.
During work hours such as this or shortly thereafter, we socialize with one another fairly well, irrespective of race.
Outside the workplace, the situation is even more bleak in that there is almost no significant interaction between us.
On Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago.
That is an out-and-out lie.
That is 100% BS.
He knows it.
This is outrageous.
Outside the workplace, the situation is even more bleak.
There is almost no significant interaction between us.
Mr. Holder, you can go to college campuses.
You can go to businesses.
And there may be segregation.
And guess who's behind it?
The civil rights leaders.
Civil rights leaders want segregated schools, segregated classrooms.
Civil rights leaders want segregated everything these days.
They want it in the door.
They got in the door.
Then they start resegregating once they get inside.
There is no difference in 2009 from 1959.
Maybe you need to get out of Washington and start hanging out with the rest of us, Mr. Attorney General.
Maybe you need to try actually living where Americans live and where Americans work.
Proving once again here, by the way, that the obsession with race in this country is found on the left.
Here's more of what he had to say.
We in this room bear a special responsibility through its work and through its example.
The Department of Justice, this Department of Justice, as long as I'm here, must and will lead the nation to the new birth of freedom so long ago promised by our greatest president.
This is our duty.
This is our solemn responsibility.
That is Eric Holder, the Attorney General of the United States.
And this is the key, by the way, to the speech.
The drive-by has ignored this.
He thinks the workplace is integrated because of laws and government that made it so.
He wants us to use the Justice Department as a tool for racial equality.
He wants government to come into your neighborhood and your home the way it did in your office and make sure that you are living life the way he envisions it.
I listen to this and I say, how dare this guy, an elitist, self-righteous, bigoted, liberal Democrat, snobbishly telling everybody else how to live and maligning once again and impugning the people of this country, no matter who it is that speaks for this administration.
The people of this country get trashed.
The country's policies get trashed.
The country itself gets trashed.
It doesn't matter who in the president's administration opens his mouth.
Would you like to hear a typical drive-by defense of this?
Gloria Borger on CNN, Campbell Brown show last night.
Question.
Gloria, one of the things I know you said that made his comments all the more surprising was that Eric Holder's pretty much the consummate Washington insider.
He's a careful man.
He is a lawyer and the Attorney General now.
You talk to a lot of white people today and in response to the word coward, okay?
And they will say that it was needlessly provocative, that maybe he should have used the word fearful.
And then you talk to a lot of African Americans, as I did around our office today, who said, well, that's exactly the word that he should use because he was trying to get people to pay attention.
And we wouldn't have paid attention if he had used the word fearful because that's a word we use all the time.
What in the hell is the grievance anymore?
If somebody would have told me the grievance or series of grievances and then he says we're a bunch of cowards not dealing with them, okay, what's the grievance?
Gloria Borger says black people in her newsroom feel like it's 50 years ago.
That white people in their...
She's talking about where she worked.
Cowards?
This, this...
Now, this, folks, you have to understand here.
This is Gloria Borger, accredited member, drive-by media and liberal clique.
Eric Holder, this is how they see us.
They see us as cowards.
They see us, conservatives, Republicans, as cowards.
It's not just, you know, Eric Holder says Americans are coward.
Michelle Obama says that we are ignorant.
You remember this?
In the speech, Michelle Obama said, we don't like being pushed outside our comfort zones.
You know it right here on this campus.
You know, people sitting at different tables, you all living in different dorms.
I was there.
You're not talking to each other, taking advantage that you're in this diverse community, because sometimes it's easier to hold on to your own stereotype and misconceptions.
It makes you feel justified in your own ignorance.
That's America.
So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?
That was Michelle Obama during the campaign saying the same thing Eric Holder said.
Ignorance.
What are we supposed to talk about?
What would they have us talk about?
All of this wonderful diversity.
Let's go to a college campus and we're in the student union and we got people from all races, sexes, creeds, and backgrounds.
What are we supposed to talk about that is satisfactory to them?
No, no, no.
I'm serious.
Somebody tell me, what are we supposed to talk about that would satisfy these people?
Are the black students supposed to sit to the white students and ask the white students what it's like being white?
And are the white students supposed to say to black students, what is it like being black?
You compare notes and figure out what you'd rather be.
What is it we're supposed to talk about?
Do the gay students talk to the stray students, find out what it's like to be gay, find out what it's like to be straight, why somebody shouldn't be what they are?
What do you do?
What do you talk about?
No, Mr. Limbaugh, Ethioth, you don't get it.
It's about understanding.
This is the voice of the new castrati.
The people with no onions.
That's right, Mr. Limbaugh.
It's about understanding people.
What am I supposed to understand?
How tough life is?
How disadvantaged we all are.
What are we supposed to understand?
We want to sit around and share sob stories about how difficult it is to get through the day.
What, in the name of Sam Hill, are we supposed to understand?
What are we supposed to talk about that these people would approve of so that we're no longer called cowards?
So Michelle Obama whines and moans that nobody's talking to each other, taking advantage of diverse communities.
Eric Holder calls us cowards.
Michelle Obama calls us ignorant.
So the Attorney General says we need to talk about how race divides us on what?
Issues like health care, economic disparities?
How race divides us on the Attorney General?
What are we supposed to talk about?
I'm telling you, folks, and I don't like saying this.
I really don't, in fact, I worry about saying this, but there is anger in this administration, and it has found an outlet now.
And so they accuse the rest of the country of putting them in positions of suffering because they can't reconcile the problems they have on their own.
Back.
Ha, welcome back, El Rushball.
I am not a coward.
And I frankly resent the Attorney General of the United States from his position calling this nation a bunch of cowards.
But I, El Rushbo, I'm not a coward.
In fact, ladies and gentlemen, I show bravery on race.
I am totally willing to discuss it openly and honestly.
How does one show bravery on race, as I have?
Very simple.
You talk about media bias.
You talk about slavish media coverage of black quarterbacks in the National Football League.
And then see what happens.
Then watch all hell descend upon you from every quarter of this nation's media, from print to broadcast to internet.
Don't call me a coward on race or anybody else a coward on race unless you're talking about the left.
How many cowards, how many racial cowards voted for President Obama because of race, Mr. Holder?
That would be an interesting speech.
Mr. Holder, you're the Attorney General of the United States.
I have a suggestion.
Next speech, the Attorney General, tell us what you like about the country.
President Obama, I know somebody in the White House is listening here.
Please pass on to him that we in America would like to hear a speech, what he likes about America.
Now, right now, not Abraham Lincoln, not FDR, not all this garbage he's trying to emulate.
Now, what do you like about America?
And then, as part of the same speech, come clean and tell us what it is you don't like instead of hiding behind a bunch of policy proposals to fix it.
Tell us what it is you don't like.
I assume that would be a much longer speech than the speech consisting of what you like.
I show bravery on matters of race.
Last time I told you about BG products, I got emailed.
Rush, I never heard of BG products.
That's right.
You haven't heard of BG products because you directly, you can't go out and buy BG products products.
Now, if you're keeping your car, you're not going to buy a new one because of the economy.
The one thing you got to do is keep the engine lubricated.
Fluid lubrication is the most important thing in automobile engine maintenance.
Engine oil and antifreeze, hydraulic fluids in the transmission, power, steering, and brake systems.
Here's what you need to know about brands of all these fluids.
And it is that there is only one brand of automotive fluids that service managers prefer and use more than any other, and it's BG products.
Now, BG Products has a website, bgfindashop.com.
And it's there that you'll find what service centers and dealerships use their products during oil changes and other engine maintenance.
After I told you about this the first time, I got an email from a guy who said, you know, I'd never heard of this.
And I went to the website and I found out about it.
And I called my dealer.
I said, do you use this stuff?
Oh, yeah, we use it constantly.
And the guy said he asked him why.
He said, well, because we found out that most European manufacturers suggest using this product, and it results in a much less frequently needed maintenance schedule.
I'm not going to mention the brand name, but one of these European products requires an oil change only 5,000 miles.
In some of their cars, only once every 10,000 miles.
They use BG products.
So if you're keeping your car, you know darn well that maintaining the engine with lubrication fluids is key.
Go to the website, bgfindthashop.com.
Start using BG products.
All right, we're back.
Those of you on hold, you sit tight and be patient.
Coming to you in just a second.
But first, what do we have?
What did I told you?
21.
Oh, yeah.
The other day, I happened to mention on this program the correct way to pronounce the name Zezinski.
And that I had heard that Mika Zezynski, the daughter of Zbigniew Byzinski, by the way, it's another one.
His name ends in IEW.
In Poland, that's Jeff.
Zbigniew Bzezynski.
Here in America, his name is Zbigniew Brzezinski.
But a Polish friend of mine in Kansas City said, if you want to be accurate on this, the Polish pronounce it Bzinski.
And then I'd heard that Mika Bzinski was mad one day telling Scarborough that I purposely mispronounced her name.
Well, and I'm trying to get it pronounced correctly.
So yesterday, Mika Brzezinski, the daughter of Zbigniew Brzezinski, talked about my pronunciation of their name on Scarborough Show.
And you'll hear during, actually, it was on their radio show on WABC, and she says something about my mispronouncing her first name, which, it's Mika.
I've never called her anything but Mika.
Anyway, here's how it went.
First of all, what I had been saying about Rush Limbaugh is how he used to pronounce my first name, and he used to purposefully say it wrong.
But he actually has it right with our last name in terms of the Polish pronunciation, does he not?
Absolutely.
We have to give him credit.
He's absolutely prone to it.
We will give him credit for that.
I'm going to check that out.
Explicitly, he says that's the way it's pronounced in Poland.
And he's right.
But for most Americans to have RZ together is hard to handle.
And they don't know that RZ in Polish is the equivalent of ZH in this country.
A kind of sound.
Exactly.
So when he says Zinski, he's absolutely right in terms of how it's pronounced in Poland.
Okay, okay.
I still don't know what I ever said wrong about her first name.
Now, you're probably Rush.
Rush.
Why are you wasting time on this?
That's not the question.
I made them waste time on me.
And I'm showing you how it happened.
Then after that, you know, I had played Zbigniew's soundbites on anticipating riots based on economic disparity.
That's how bad he thinks it's going to get.
And I commented on what he said, and he had a reaction to that.
He still completely misunderstands what I'm saying.
I'm arguing that we should be doing things to avoid class hostility.
Get out of the Democrat Party then, Z-Big.
Stop the tape here.
Re-cue that.
Re-cue it back.
Get out of the Democrat Party, Z-Big, because your party is all about promoting class hostility.
That's what the Porculus bill's about.
That's what the mortgage bailout's about.
Class hostility.
The whole Democrat Party.
Where did the whole phrase class envy come from?
It's been a staple of the left.
Z-Big, join us in our party.
Here it is from the top against the Protestants.
He completely misunderstands what I'm saying.
I'm arguing that we should be doing things to avoid class hostility, resentments, class conflict.
And there is a rising wave of anger against the people who made a lot of money on short-term speculation.
Stop tape, stop tape, stop tape.
A rising wave of anger against this administration who's picking winners and losers and choosing the losers and making the winners pay to subsidize the losers.
And that anger is not long from vastly outweighing whatever anger there is at these short-term speculators, whoever they are.
Here's the next.
If there isn't some private initiative to somehow or other make people feel less deprived, less cheated, less taken advantage of, then there is going to be class conflict.
And I think he misses the point when he rails against that.
This is not an advocacy of the class collision.
It is an advocacy of social solidarity.
And that's what we need in this society.
Well, I'll trust that that's what he means, but I think this administration is aiming for something else.
Z-Big, I mean it.
And it's tough for me to say.
I never thought that I would think the thoughts I have about any presidential administration that I have about this one.
I never in my wildest dreams.
My father feared it.
Mr. Brzezinski, my father feared it, warned my brother and me that this day would come if we weren't vigilant.
Some private initiative, private anything is under assault.
Private sector, the free market is under assault.
We've got an affirmative action plan going on.
We're going to get even with the achievers.
We're going to get even with the achievers for a long time, and we're going to give whatever the achievers have produced on their own.
We're going to give it to the non-producers.
And we're going to create chaos in the process.
We're going to take people that feel less deprived, less cheated, less taken advantage of.
They're going to make them feel deprived, cheated, and taken advantage of.
See, Mr. Brzezinski, all this comes from a faulty premise.
And the faulty premise is that the losers, the non-producers, the welfare state of what is in that circumstance because of the wealthy or because of the achievers, because of producers.
Somehow the producers are taking a bigger share of the pie than they're owed than they deserve.
As though the economy is a zero-sum game, and if somebody takes a piece of pie out, then the pie gets smaller.
It's not traditionally the way it works.
It will work that way now with Keynesian economics and the government parceling things out, but that's not the way the country has worked.
The pie has always grown.
Do you realize, Mr. Brzezinski, folks, the stimulus package, porculus bill of $897 billion is larger than the federal budget in total in 1982?
What is this about depravity?
What is this about people are deprived and people are cheated?
We have spent so much money on people, we have conditioned them not to work for themselves.
We finally got welfare reform and the porculus bill destroys it.
We do need social solidarity.
We need to go back to the day where everybody in this country had a real expectation they could experience the American dream.
But who's killed that expectation in people?
Mr. Brzezinski, it's your party.
Your president to this day is running down this country's economy.
The Democrat Party has been the party of doom and gloom.
You can't make it.
You don't have a prayer to depend on us.
You don't have what it takes.
You're not competent.
We need to guide you.
And look what that's done for the people who voted for them.
The numbers of people in dependence continue to grow.
They believe the Democrat Party is going to make things right for them.
And they never do.
And they're always angry.
And they're always being told that Republicans are to blame for it.
From Ronald Reagan to other rich guys to Wall Street or what have you.
What the Democrat Party has done to decent people in this country is an outrage, depriving them of any hope, telling them they don't have a prayer, telling them they haven't got a chance because of their race, sex, religion, what have you, because of the oppression of conservatives.
They don't even try now to improve themselves.
They don't think it's possible.
They've been made comfortable to sit there and blame others for their shortcomings, failures, or misfortune.
And then that's why we keep electing demagogues like Obama who promise magic and miracles.
People actually think that Obama's going to see to it they get a house, and by gosh, he might.
That they're going to have a full gas tank, maybe even a new kitchen.
They show up at his town meetings and they ask for it.
It makes people who are producing playing by the rules feel.
Moving on to Chris Matthews.
This is hilarious.
This is normally I don't play any soundbites from Hardball.
Saturday Night Live did a skit on the Republicans meeting after Obama's press conference and so forth, and they had an argument between two Republican House leaders over who's the smarter, Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity.
So Matthews plays the skit.
He's obviously jealous that he wasn't in the mix being discussed who's the smartest.
They were making fun of us.
I don't care.
I saw it.
But Matthews gets a Republican strategerist on there, Todd Harris.
You've got he just, he did everything and anything he could to get this guy to denounce me.
We have one, two, what do we got?
Three of these.
Here's the first.
I don't know.
You personally.
No, I don't think you've done it.
You don't?
Do your conferes?
I'm sorry?
Do your conferes, your colleagues on the Republican side, look up to him as a great thought person.
Yes, a lot of people do.
A lot of people...
A deep thinker.
Yeah, and he, look, he is the intellectual lightning bolt of a lot of people on the conservative side and a motivator.
And he directly can turn out people to the polls.
Okay, so he's asking Todd Harris, do you, your colleagues in the Republican Party looked up to him as a great thought person?
Matthews just bummed out like crazy over the fact that I was being talked about as a smart guy.
Here's the next bite.
Would you live in a country where he wrote the Constitution?
I don't know.
I'm happy to live in that country.
Would you live in a country where he wrote our rights?
He listed our rights.
Would you live in 9 countries?
Mr. Matthews, I don't want to rewrite anything.
And I want to keep your hands off of it, too.
I want to keep your hands off the Constitution.
I want to keep Obama's hands off the Constitution.
I want to keep every damn liberal judge he's going to appoint's hands off the Constitution.
I do not want to rewrite it.
It's brilliant as it is.
I don't think I could improve upon the brilliance.
I'd give it a shot, but you wouldn't worry about anything.
I would only make it better.
But I don't even look at that as something living.
What do I do?
Oppress you, Chris?
It seems to me it's people like you try to shut me up.
And people like me, it seems to be people like you are standing idly by while the First Amendment's on the way to being trashed.
You're worried about my rights, what I would do to oppress you.
I love the Constitution.
I hope it survives.
I have my doubts because you are a slave to a demagogue symbol who you haven't even taken five minutes to try to understand.
You are the one doing a great disservice to the Constitution.
You're the one doing a disservice to the United States of America by openly accepting what's happening now without one bit of curiosity or one question.
Media is a disgrace.
You have forfeited any notion that you once had of respect.
You worry about what people like me would do if we rewrote whoever said I wanted to rewrite the Constitution.
I just want to preserve the damn thing, Chris.
Join me.
There's no more powerful or influential within the Republican Party than the labor unions move on.
CIU is on the dump of the.
I'm not going to expect more of you tie than so's your old man kind of argument.
In other words, you guys have idiots too.
Isley Brothers.
Fight to power.
The pulse of revolution started this week in the United States of America.
All right, now I just discussed if you're going to keep your car, how to keep it running better longer.
But if you're going to get a new car, if you're in the market, we love General Motors.
Like most of Americans, we want General Motors to come back.
We want General Motors to prosper.
We want General Motors to be big.
And some people say with all that's going on, it's not a great time to buy a car.
Timing, I couldn't be more perfect.
Chevrolet right now, you know, the President's Day sale is going on all the way through March the 2nd.
And Chevy offering deals on cars, trucks, and crossovers like the Malibu LTZ.
I've talked to a lot of people suggested after I've done these mentions for General Motors, when they've been on the road, they have rented a Malibu.
Didn't you tell me you did you rented a Malibu?
Your dad bought, or Dawn's dad bought one after she drove the test model they gave us.
Another person that went out rented one and loved it.
They were surprised by it.
Everybody's surprised by these General Motors cars based on the image GM has had for a while.
Then there's the 2009 Chevy Silverado that earned car and drivers best pickup in 2008 and 2007.
And you get good financing deals right now, even cash back.
So these vehicles are ripe for the picking now through March 2nd.
Just go to your local Chevrolet dealer, Chevy.com for details.
Shannon, East Springfield, Pennsylvania, high, and welcome to the EIB network.
Hey, Rush.
I was listening to your first hour monologue, and you were talking about how they're trying to direct welfare to the middle class.
Well, it's already happening here in Pennsylvania.
We went ahead and my mother called me about two, three weeks ago.
She said, oh, there's something in the Times.
You know, I think you qualify for heating assistance.
And I went, what?
And she's, I was a bit offended.
But then I got something in a coupon circular.
We're advertising this now.
That people in our income bracket, which is actually almost $60,000 a year, now qualify for help with our heating.
And I was just dumbfounded.
Well, not only that, you know, if you made $85,000 a year, your children up to age 30 would be qualified for medical care under the recently signed into Act S-CHIP program.
I am, I'm, I'm, you know what?
You make 60 grand a year.
She's insulted that she's being hit on by heating and oil assistance circulars.
And I'm thinking I'm having kind of a split personality.
Now, do I subsidize myself?
That's up to you.
If I were you, I'd send the thing back with no postage on it so that they have to pay it.
I'm thinking I'd like to have like a thank you.
I'll take care of it.
Yeah, but here's the thing.
I'm so proud of you.
I have to congratulate you.
I don't know.
$60,000 and she thinks that she's rich.
She thinks that she's above and doesn't need these programs.
And I love you for that.
What I actually said was they want to force people into welfare by causing them to lose their jobs, middle and upper class people.
I think that's the objective.
We'll take a break and be back after this.
Going to be watching CNBC early in the morning to see if Rick Santelli still has a job at CNBC after a brilliant performance this morning on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade.
We've got to run, folks, but you sit tight back in 21 hours for Open Line Friday.