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April 13, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 13, 2009, Monday, Hour #2
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Greetings, my good friends, music lovers, thrill seekers, all across the fruited plane.
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Rush Limbaugh at 800 282-2882.
The email address L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
Just as I predicted, jump mere moments ago, closing out the previous segment.
What did I say?
I'll remind you.
I said that the success of the operation led by and performed by President Obama to rescue the ship's captain will be used to drive up poll numbers, which will then be used to further Obama's domestic agenda while freeing the captain and giving him liberty even more of ours will erode.
Here is President Obama speaking at the Department of Transportation today, another portion of what he said.
As we work to ensure America's safety out on the seas, I want to discuss what we're doing to restore economic security here at home to revitalize our nation's infrastructure and create good jobs across America.
See.
It has been nearly three months since I first took office.
Faced with an extraordinary economic crisis.
We've responded with extraordinary action.
Action that's both unprecedented in scale and unprecedented in its speed.
Today I think it's safe to say that this plan is beginning to work.
See, we've insured our safety on the seas, and now we're going to uh restore economic security here at home as well.
I know these people like every square inch of my glorious naked body, folks.
I just do.
He went on to say after this, he detailed all the infrastructure projects in the stimulus bill.
The states have been getting bids from construction companies and others.
And all the bids miraculously are coming in at 30% below what any of the states expected.
Some cases the bids to repair and fix the infrastructure coming in at 50% under what was expected.
Now the key is what was expected.
The key to the being able to say the bids are coming in 30%, 40%, 50% lower.
The key to that is being able to say whatever the expectation was.
You can you can elevate the expectation to wherever you need it to be to be able to say that the bids are coming in 30% lower.
Uh competition happens to drive down costs.
Now I wonder if there's any competition here for these bids or if this is just a uh a smoke screen.
I'm sure there's competition for the bids.
They're federal dollars rolling around out there, and some people want the business in the down economy, and so they're they're competing for the money.
But Obama, of course, is uh is is claiming that this is all happening because of his brilliant leadership.
And who are we to disagree?
I got an email, folks.
Get this from a gentleman in Ohio who is really bummed out by the rescue of the captain of the Mayersk, Alabama.
You'll recall that on this program last week, we had uh a couple of audio sound bites from the commander of the USS Cole.
They had a hole blown in it when it was docked at uh at a port in Yemen.
And the commander of the USS Cole praised the Somali merchant marine organizers as having a brilliant business model.
His point was that they're not terrorists.
And and they're and they're and they're they they maybe the criminals.
I mean, they've they've got a great, great business model.
They go out there and they hijack ships and they demand a ransom.
And they've been getting the ransom, and it was praised as a brilliant business model.
And then an email from Ohio from this guy was very upset about this now because he was prepared to go into the pirate business.
He had heard what a great business it is.
He'd heard a U.S. naval commander praising the business model.
So he had gone out, he'd invested in pirate uniforms.
He even tried to get hold of Johnny Depp for some advice, and he was going to go get some dinghies and just park them out there uh in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of the Southeast United States is going to start hijacking ships and demanding ransom because it was a great business model.
But but now that President Obama has bravely interceded here and thrown a you know the the business model for a loop, this guy, and he's out of work.
I mean, he was really inspired by this comment last week that the pirates are running a great business model.
He's gonna start his own pirate operation out of Ohio.
But it's all down the drain, so to speak, uh, because of the operation.
So another entrepreneur cut short by the Obama administration, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
We do have sound bites here from the second in command, Chief Mate Shane Murphy about uh of the of the uh Mirsk, Alabama.
It was on uh let's see, did it he was at Mombasa port in East Kenya, and he said this about America and the Somali merchant marine organizers.
We would like to implore President Obama to use all of his resources and increase the commitment to ending this Somali pirate scourge right now.
There's ships still being taken, right now, as we're standing here.
And at sea, it's a global community.
It doesn't come down to nations.
There's a whole world out there at sea that we live together, we look out for each other.
Well, uh second mate here, the second of command not happy uh with just one pirate vessel being dealt with.
Uh he wants is imploring President Obama to use all of his resources to increase the commitment to ending the pirate scourge, which a naval officer last week uh claimed was a good business model.
Here's more from uh Shane Murphy.
America has to be at the forefront of this.
It's time for us to step in and put this to an end to this crisis.
It's a crisis.
Wake up.
This crew was lucky to be out of it with every one of us alive.
We're not gonna be that lucky again.
And just for the record, we never had to fight to take our ship back.
We never surrendered our ship.
We fought to save the captured shipmates.
They were still aboard.
But we never gave up.
That's all.
Shane Murphy, second in command of the Maersk, Alabama.
Now tell me, does he he doesn't sound uh euphoric?
He doesn't sound all that happy about what has happened here.
Uh his his attitude about this does not jive with the way the drive-by media has been reporting this, that it was a brilliant rescue, that only Obama could have done it, that only Obama could have ordered it, that only Obama could have strategized this.
And yet here is Mr. Murphy suggesting that there's a crisis, there's still a crisis out there.
But President Obama, go go back to Soundbite 19.
Uh some didn't hear I want to hear the I'm confused.
Soundbite 19, have it handy there.
Yeah, here it is.
As we work to ensure America's safety out on the seas, I want to discuss what we're doing to restore economic security.
All right, stop the tape.
That's all we need to hear.
Uh the safety on the seas, we're it's it's being restored, it's being secured.
But the second in command here in the ship Alabama, Amerisk, Alabama's, no, no, no, it's still a crisis out there.
Uh it's a good thing that he's not in the U.S. military or he could be brought up on charge of treason.
He dissing our brilliant and brave commander-in-chief.
Brief time out, much more straight ahead, including more of your phone calls.
Stay with us.
And we're back, Rush Limbaugh and the cutting edge of societal evolution.
In recent days, on this program, we have talked about the tax increases scheduled for New York, the millionaire's tax that will hit uh single people at 200,000 a year, married couples at $300,000 a year.
Uh, we have learned that uh that Governor Patterson has said if he had known that these tax increases would drive me out of New York as a place to do business, and he would have raised taxes even sooner.
They have said in New York that look at New Jersey did this, and nobody left New Jersey.
New Jersey, they're holding up New Jersey as a paragon of economic virtue, they're copying New Jersey.
The fact is people are leaving New Jersey.
The Wall Street Journal on Saturday ran a great editorial about New York being the tax capital of the year.
And the question in New York is not to me, why would I leave?
Why would I cease doing business in New York?
The real question is why the hell would anybody stay there?
Particularly those in the 200 to 3 have the hundred thousand dollar a year range where the new millionaire tax is going to hit them.
And it's not just the state.
If they live in the city, it's going to be even worse.
But this is the thing that always gets to me.
These liberals always say things that we've done it before, and it was fine.
Last time we did this, it worked out.
But it never does.
Everything nothing of liberalism ever works.
Here's some quotes from the Wall Street Journal piece.
Mr. Silver says that a coming tax increases, we've done this before, there hasn't been a catastrophe.
Really?
New York is a catastrophe.
New Jersey is a catastrophe.
According to the Census Bureau, I said last week, you know, Mr. Patterson talked told Neil Covuto when he uh asked me questions about this on his TV show.
I said, Look, the exodus has already begun.
Neil people are leaving Long Island in droves over property taxes alone.
Housing prices have plummeted, but their real estate taxes haven't.
The real estate taxes have been high.
You add them all up, and it's just difficult for people to get ahead there.
They're leaving.
They're coming to places like Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina, going out to places like Arizona.
Over the past decade.
This according to Census Bureau data, over the past decade, one point nine seven million New Yorkers left the state.
That's the biggest exodus of any state.
New York City has lost more than seventy-five thousand residents or jobs.
I'm sorry, seventy five thousand jobs since last August.
Many industrial areas upstate are as run down as Detroit.
The American Legislative Exchange Council recently said that New York has the worst economic outlook of all fifty states, including Michigan.
And that analysis was done before these four billion dollars in new taxes.
So Wall Street Journal asks, how does Sheldon Silver define catastrophe?
And one thing that's going unmentioned in all of this with this so-called temporary income tax increase, the state of New York, that will lift the top state tax rate to 8.97%.
But the city, New York City income tax rate, you know what it's going to go up to with this?
12.62%.
And as a former resident of the city, I can tell you city taxers are perhaps more onerous than our state tax.
Twelve point six two percent will be the New York City income tax rate coupled with the state tax rate of eight point nine.
So, you know, add nine and twelve and a half, it's basically twenty-one and a half percent on top of federal if you live in the city of New York.
Because in New York City, capital gains and dividends are taxed as ordinary income.
So thus New York will impose the nation's highest taxes on investment income at the same time.
Wall Street is in jeopardy of losing its status as the world's financial capital, and the Obama administration is planning on imposing salary caps on um everybody that lives on Wall Street, works on Wall Street, uh in a in a populist move.
To the phones, this is uh Patrick in Lima, Ohio.
Thank you for waiting, sir.
Great to have you here.
Well, I just want to make a comment.
You're and Patrick, could you speak up there?
I I can hardly hear you.
Okay, I said I just wanted to make a comment.
You've been praising Obama with your sarcastic saying he made this big decision to give the orders to shoot.
All he did was basically give an order to shoot.
If the situation concluded where wait wait, wait a second.
Sarcasm saying he made this big decision to give the orders to shoot, all he did was be of an order to shoot.
What's what that's what I said.
And ABC News reported at the top of the hour, Obama gave the order to shoot.
That's the only thing he did, though.
You're not you're making it sound like, oh, between the media and everybody else, it was his major job.
The Navy did their job.
Everybody did their little job.
Even the captain that was captured did his job.
He allowed the shooters to be able to shoot the victims.
call them victims since they were pirates.
That way I mean you can't be too interactive.
I mean, that's why there is a military.
I mean, yeah, it's not their job to police the waters and everything else, but these ships don't carry guns or ammo, and if they start putting them on, then they have to be inspected in every port in which they go.
All we're doing, we're not like the other countries paying out ransom money to terrorists.
They can call them pirates, you can call them terrorists.
Exactly right.
Exactly.
I don't understand what your beef with me is.
This was President Obama's show.
And the drive-by media is saying so.
He gave the order to shoot.
Can you tell me at what point did George Bush order any snipers to fire in Iraq or Afghanistan?
They ordered them into Afghanistan.
Of course he ordered them in there, but I want to know when did George Bush call up Petraeus and say, have private first class Schultz fire.
When did that happen?
We've got an active commander in chief like we've never had before.
He's given the shooting orders.
I mean, not even Lyndon Johnson ordered specific people of fire.
Obama has done it.
Or you know, Johnson and McNamara might have ordered some bombing raids, but they didn't call a pilot and say, drop 'em now.
Obama order you just said it.
He ordered the SEALs to shoot.
If the man was in danger, not until he was in danger.
They were trying to resolve it peacefully.
The pirates were wanting their money.
That's what they weren't using.
That's what terrorists or pirates, whichever.
That's what you say, but the drive-by media is reporting Ob was in the ABC News at the top of the hour.
Obama gave the order to shoot.
He did not issue an order, said shoot when it's okay.
He gave the order to shoot.
That's what they're saying.
We've got an active involved commander in chief.
He's gonna get a medal for this.
He's gonna have to award himself a medal for bravery and courage.
Maybe the purple heart.
And I want to be there at the White House when he presents himself with a purple heart.
I want to see him present it to himself and turn around and have himself maybe have a teleprompter on him.
That'd be a way to solve the problem.
Uh Patrick, thanks.
Matt in Chicago, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi.
Hi.
Rush.
Uh yeah, I just wanted to say that I thought uh the story about the guy from Ohio that wanted to be a pirate because it was a great business model.
Yeah, now it's blown to smithereens.
Was not funny, though.
I mean, it's like a stupid story and it's and it's I think I think you're upset because it worked out mainly.
Upset the piracy thing.
But I mean upset.
Yeah, I think I think I think no, I think that you're just, you know, rattled because it worked out.
Oh, you nothing, nothing that nothing that the president does is gonna make you happy, whether it's good or not.
How can you say if it's bad?
If it didn't work, If it didn't work, you would be just keying yourself with joy.
If is for children, I don't deal in things that haven't or didn't happen.
Well, what this happened and I want to be a good thing, and you're upset about it.
I'm not upset about was second out of the box telling people when he does the right thing, we got to just like Jonah Goldberg said.
And you are out of your mind.
And I only check back to the city.
You are just to make sure you have to make sure that you are still as crazy as I think.
You are, you know what?
And you are, and you prove it every time I listen to you.
You are a member of the incorrigible left.
You're the one that can't be happy.
You ought to be celebrated, you ought to be calling all the liberal blogs and saying Limbaugh gets it.
Instead, you think I'm crazy.
I'm praising President Obama and I'm out of my mind.
And you think I'm sitting here all depressed and down in the dumps and so forth.
I uh you it just is it's you you people like you want to hear what you want to hear based upon your your prejudices and uh and and your your judgment of of things before they've uh before they've ever happened.
This just this just goes to show no matter what you say, you can't you can't you cannot uh please the left out of my mind for praising the president.
Stop and think of the power and the impact of that.
Matt, thanks much.
Roger in Conroe, Texas.
You're next in the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hello, how are you today, Russia?
Very well said.
And by the way, I think that the the guy that sent me the story from Ohio, they had a great pirate business model based on what a U.S. naval commander said.
And now Obama's destroyed his great business trying to revive a U.S. economy.
I uh I feel for the guy.
He had a great business model that was acknowledged by a great leader of the United States, and now the United States has destroyed the business model, destroying the private sector once again.
The sad thing, I'm not laughing about it.
What's up, Roger?
Well, my point is, well, all these other countries have negotiated with the pirates.
Um, President Obama takes a strong, uh, decisive presidential action.
And it works.
And but whenever that happens, you're gonna draw anger from somebody.
First of which is pirates.
And now they're threatening to handle the hostages in the future harshly, perhaps kill them.
I'm just wondering how the we bring all this anger on ourselves media and administration is gonna handle it if they make good on those threats.
Yeah, I I addressed that uh in the first half hour.
I the the AP has run a very disloyal story to President Obama on this that the uh uh pirates are angry now, threatening death.
They hadn't killed anybody, they were just you know holding out for ransom.
It's gonna actually it's gonna recruit more pirates, too.
AP in this very disloyal story said that this is simply going to recruit more pirates to the cause, and though Obama's actually shot himself uh in in the uh in the foot here.
Uh but this AP report came from Malaysia, not Washington, so they didn't get the Steno report.
We are back, Rush Limboa and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, and as usual, half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair.
This next story I have been warning this country about for at least fifteen years when I first became aware of the movement.
This story is from the Minneapolis Star Tribune, which is in the heart of far left uh uh far left portions of this country.
And the headline of the story, educators well, I don't know if it's the headline or not.
Um, the headline is are we good jobbing our kids to pieces?
Educators and child development experts say that the self-esteem movement of the nineteen eighties did kids a disservice, and adults should resist overpraising their kids.
Now I have been reporting on this idiocy eighteen, twenty years.
I predicted this exact outcome.
The self-esteem movement, outcome-based education, whatever form it took.
You little darling.
Oh, you don't know that two plus two is five.
Well, here's a trophy for trying.
You participated in the discussion really well, and you're a wonderful person.
Now they're writing about this in the heart of liberal land on a recent soggy morning.
Mark Thiessen covered a lot of ground fast in his first grade classroom at Vadney Heights Elementary School.
He sprang from station to station, encouraging students to finish and focus.
Sound words out, craft Lego configurations mathematically, grip Crayolas in the right way.
He asked questions, but he didn't backpet.
He prodded but didn't praise, nor did he carry the ball, merely offered assistance.
That's because when Thiessen, 36 began teaching in 2000, the backlash against overpraising children was in full swing.
I try to avoid complimenting them all the time.
If they get strokes for everything, they expect it.
They think everything they do is great, and they don't want to push themselves.
I think they need to develop self-drive and the need to perform for personal satisfaction, not recognition from others.
But affirmation overload, most experts agree, is indeed a tough habit to break.
It began as a byproduct of the 1980s self-esteem movement in which parents and teachers were told to reward and stroke kids pretty much constantly.
This was to make them confident.
Dr. Ernie Swehart, an author behavioral pediatrician at South Lake Pediatrics in Minnetonka, decried the self-esteem movement from its inception.
Then as now, he believed kids should be taught to be inwardly focused, self-sufficient creatures, able to shift their own gears.
Real self-esteem For all of us comes from overcoming an obstacle-laden challenge with hard work.
Real self-esteem does not come from the praise of others.
But that's how it was taught and is being taught.
Lavishing praise is counterproductive.
And if anything makes kids needy and voracious for that other self-esteem movement, those word validation.
Everybody looking for validation from outside themselves.
That's what the self-esteem movement was all about.
It really was not about self-esteem.
It was about subordinating yourself to the wishes and demands of others and the tug of popular sentiment.
I will never forget, I have I've remarked on this many times over the past, I guess this happened 18 years ago.
And I've I've remarked on this.
Those of you new to the program will hear the story for the first time.
On Saturday afternoons back, I guess in 1992, when this was Saturday afternoons, Roger Ailes used to have big water volleyball parties at his house up north of the city.
He had a great place on the river.
And boku people would show up.
And would go out and play water volleyball.
More people can play would show up and rotate people in and out and have a barbecue afterwards and so forth, sit around and talk.
And there one Saturday there was this young woman there that I'd never seen before.
He's a teacher.
And somehow the discussion of teaching came up in the elementary grades.
And this teacher started to say, we're just pushing our children too hard.
We're just pushing them too hard.
We're demanding they learn too much.
This is a wonderful time in their lives.
They should not be pushed this hard.
And I'm looking at her, I'm an incredulous.
I got an argument with her.
I said, not pushing them too hard.
Or we're pushing them too hard.
We need to back off.
Yes, we need to back off.
They need time to discover themselves.
They need time to learn who they are.
This is the time to push them.
This is why we send them to school at this age.
This is when they have the energy, and this is when they've got the time to devote to it.
Pushing them gets more out of people than they otherwise would get out of themselves.
That's why I've always believed more people than you would believe are capable of far more than even they know.
Those people haven't been pushed when they've failed now.
For the last 20 years, when they've failed, they've been praised.
They've been given little miniature trophies in school for participating, even though they don't know diddly squat about what's been taught.
And this is all to raise their self-esteem.
But see, the whole self-esteem movement was not wrapped up in real self-esteem.
Real self-esteem is loving yourself for your achievements, for your accomplishments, for knowing who you are and loving yourself.
Not because everybody else likes you, or not because you get validated by somebody who says how wonderful you are.
And of course, this after it got started to schools, this led to the parents doing it.
Of course, it was a way to keep peace.
You praise a little booger, and a little booger doesn't argue with you as much, and you can go out and play golf and not have to worry about it.
And we had a generation of baby boom kids that had their own kids and didn't want the confrontation with their kids.
So just praise them.
You know, kid runs over the dog, oh, it's so unfortunate the dog was there.
You didn't mean it.
It's so whatever they did ended up being praised, and any amount of discipline led to social services showing up at the house.
Remember, especially this is when the feminazis were all training people that men were natural predators, that fathers had natural predatory tendencies, and all it took was one phone call from an agitated wife or a child to social services, and here came the knock on the door with some old footy duddy that you wouldn't even want as your aunt or your grandmother showing up with this smug attitude.
Well, I'm going to conduct an investigation because we have heard that there is misbehavior and killing happening in this house.
And they heart the cart the kid off and so forth.
And this is this is all has its roots in the self-esteem movement, and now all of a sudden, some years later, another unintended consequence of liberalism.
I can't wait till they realize the mistake they've made in conflict resolution 101.
You know, wait till they figure out that doesn't work.
In fact, if I taught conflict resolution resolution 101 in a junior high or high school, first thing I'd greet the class with today was how do you feel about the way Obama?
I wouldn't ask him how they think, because you're not supposed to do that.
That's an invasion of privacy.
How do you feel about the way President V Obama resolved the conflict with the merchant marine organizers?
And little kids raised their hand and whatever answer.
The truth would that the teacher would have to say, sorry, he didn't do anything the way we're teaching you.
He shouldn't have killed him.
He shouldn't have shouted at him.
He shouldn't have threatened them.
This is not how you resolve conflicts.
That's what kids are taught.
Here's Obama out there ordering the sniper fire.
So I can't wait till they realize their errors in conflict resolution, just as now they're now starting to realize their errors in uh the self-esteem movement.
This guy Swyhart, Ernie Swyhart, said it had it's had serious repercussions.
These young adults who are raised in the 80s, now in their twenties and they're in the workplace.
Those who received the praise, the rewards, and prizes for everything they did without working hard, they feel very entitled, they're very self-absorbed, and they don't understand not being promoted, they don't understand not even being hired, and they don't understand not getting praised every day by the boss.
They don't even understand it when the boss doesn't talk to them every day.
Although Thiessen tries to run a platitude-free zone, he concluded that it can be a challenge.
At home, he's a father of three young children.
His wife, also an elementary school teacher, sometimes catch themselves starting to good job their own kids.
I guess we're all so it doesn't mean you can never do it.
I mean, there's a genuine good job.
Straight A's, okay.
There's there's reason for praise there, but at any rate, uh, we all tried it in the eighties, he said, until we sort of realized in mass it wasn't genuine and it wasn't effective.
But even though the pendulum has swung back, it remains largely a culture of superlatives.
We're reluctant to call anyone and anyone's performance average.
We tell everyone they're great and excellent, and we tell them that they're the best.
So they go around thinking, wow, we're the best at whatever basketball, baseball.
Then they play Hopkins, the other better school, and they realize they're not the best.
So and finally, I blame the vice president, the former vice president Al Gore for this.
Did you see?
Have you seen videotape of the zoo in the Berlin Zoo, where this woman jumps in the polar bear section.
She jumped in the water.
She jumped in a pond in the polar bear enclosure at the Berlin Zoo.
And I have a picture.
If you haven't seen the video, I'm going to show you a picture here on the Ditto Cam.
Let me zoom in, zoom in.
Uh there you see the woman being mauled by the polar bear.
Now, it is not Canute, the polar bear.
Uh he's he he's they say he would never attack a human, although he would.
He's a polar bear.
They have to distract Canute with food.
One time a woman got into Canute's uh camp, and uh he was making a beeline for it, and they threw a whole bunch of beef in there, uh, and he, of course, got distracted by that.
The intruder, the woman was attacked just yards away from Canute, the abandoned bear who became famous around the world.
Zookeepers managed to push the bear away and they carried the woman from the cage.
The mauling took place inside an enclosure occupied by four polar bears not far from Canute's home.
Heiner Klose of Berloon's Berlin Zeus spokesman said the enclosure is surrounded by a fence, a line of prickly hedges and a wall.
It did not stop this woman.
She jumped in there.
Why?
Because she wanted to pet the polar bear.
I can tell you why she jumped in there.
She has either seen Al Gore's movie of stranded polar bears on fake fading glaciers, or she has just become overwhelmed with all the stories about polar bears lose, and she's been she's seen little pictures of baby canute and how cute the polar bear.
She wanted to jump in, I guarantee you.
This woman wanted to jump in there and pet the polar bear and comfort the polar bear and said, We don't mean you any harm.
I guarantee you.
And this is all you might but rush, but rush, the woman did the stupid act.
Yes, she did.
But I am sure, I mean, I can't Say, I'm sure, because I but I wouldn't be surprised if we found out that this woman has been caught up in all the environmental destruction of habitats of these various animals.
She's been raised to believe polar bears are cute, harmless.
They do look cute, especially little Knut when he's a little baby.
I'll bet she jumped in there for the express purpose of petting the bear, hoping to and uh what the the first thing that happens, you know, polar bear is a polar bear.
And uh it uh it started mauling her.
Yummy yummy yummy idiot human just jumped in my cave.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back.
She should sue Al Gore for this.
I'm not kidding.
Lots of complaints, by the way, in the email, Mr. Snurgley, about the level, the um uh the quality of callers today.
Lots of complaints, hoping it's not your fault.
Uh so we go we go back to the phones.
Greg in Chicago, you're next.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Uh great Midwest ducka druka ditto's uh Maharashi.
Uh one point that I don't think you've talked about yet concerning this uh military action endorsed or ordered by President Obama.
And planned.
And uh is that now all those people that complain that he's just another Jimmy Carter, now they can all say C, he acted.
So Jimmy Carter.
Well, Jimmy Carter acted.
Jimmy Carter, the helicopters ended up in a dust storm, but Jimmy Carter acted.
Jimmy Carter said a rescue mission over there for the American hostages.
What what is meant by the Jimmy Carter comparison is economic malaise, which is coming.
Oh, I understand that.
You can't spend all this money and go into this kind of debt uh with this amount of unemployment.
You can't have the federal government taking over this amount of the private sector and and and have uh a genuine economic recovery as envisioned by Obama.
That's that's what people mean when they compare Obama to Jimmy Carter.
Oh, I understand that fully, but I guarantee you somewhere down the line in the drive-by, somebody will bring this point up, ignoring what you just mentioned about the whole uh Jimmy Carter fiasco of the 80s.
Uh least.
I I don't expect the drive-bys to bring up Jimmy Carter.
I expect Jimmy Carter maybe to chime in uh and uh and say he approves of of the effort that he launched President Obama's uh military strategic thinking uh and and command of uh naval operations uh and because Jimmy Carter, of course, was uh he worked with Hyman Rickover.
He was he worked on a on a nuclear snob.
Jimmy Carter was in the Navy.
I fully expect the expect that phrase uh praise to be forthcoming.
Look, Jimmy Carter's arguably the worst president in all of our lifetimes, times two, and he wins a Nobel Prize.
He wins a Nobel Prize for criticizing George W. Bush in the real world.
That's look at Jimmy Carter is as much a victim of the self-esteem movement as any twenty-year-old kid is today.
The Democratic Party's been telling him for the last ten years how wonderful and great he is, and he and his wife have believed it.
And so the Nobel Committee, so he gets a prize here.
But he's still Jimmy Carter.
Jimmy Carter's Jimmy Carter and hadn't been any change.
The only thing he's not doing that he used to do is pound nails in houses that are now starting to fall down for habitat for humanity.
Jim in Cleveland, you're next in the EIB network, sir.
Hi.
Thanks, Rush.
It's a real honor.
Um I was kind of amazed Friday and Saturday that we never heard a single word out of Obama about the situation.
And then it resolved itself favorably, and all of a sudden he's all over the place.
And I was kind of curious if it had turned out badly, who do you think he got thrown under the bus?
Had it turned out bad.
Well, again, here's another, you know, if uh and uh if is for children.
Roger Whitaker sang that song back in the 70s.
Uh it was the follow-up to uh his big hit, who uh the name of which is escaping me right now.
But uh Oh, you are beautiful, and I but uh I don't think uh that we contemplate failure uh for President Obama, do we?
I haven't um I have not seen well, he asked what the drive-by's would say if the operation hadn't worked.
And I don't think I don't I I don't I don't think failure is in the lexicon or in the dictionary.
So I even if the operation had been botched I'll play your if game even though I'm you know constitutionally not predisposed to it but if the operation had failed there is no question the blame would have fallen either on the ship's captain or on the military for disobeying Obama's brilliant orders and strategy.
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