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April 14, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 14, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Boy, oh boy, oh boy.
President Obama out there with a brilliant, brilliant speech, ladies and gentlemen.
He said, Georgetown University, we gotta give him credit when he deserves credit.
We gotta be willing to acknowledge when Obama does something right, and he's giving a great speech.
I think the students are falling out of their chairs there, so mesmerized.
I found myself unconsciously drooling near a coma state while while listening to Obama's speech, a brilliant speech, making anybody listening to it think that not only does he have a grasp of all the economic issues, uh, but that they do too.
Brilliantly conceived, flawlessly executed.
One teleprompter glitch.
Uh it slowed down, uh, President Obama appeared to lose his place.
But man, he's good.
But he snapped right back in there like it was hardly anything at all.
Greetings, uh, my friends, and welcome back.
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President Obama in an economic speech at Georgetown University, and he started by saying, look, it's gonna be a longer speech than I usually give uh because it's so important here.
He has gone, he's laid out uh in this speech everything that we're cutting it up now.
We're gonna have audio sound bites on this as the afternoon progresses, or as the morning, depending on your time zone progresses.
Uh, President Obama uh uh laying out all the reasons why this happened.
It's predominantly George Bush, Wall Street, Main Street, everybody but the Democrat Party had a role in this.
Uh, the Democrat Party tried to stop this from happening.
They're now in the process of trying to fix it.
He has just laid out uh in a brilliant speech all that has gone wrong, and and then he's laid out in the second part of the brilliant speech all that he has done to bring this economy back.
And just as this program was starting, after laying out all the brilliant steps that he's taken, and using the straw man arguments that he uses.
Some say we shouldn't do anything.
Nobody's ever said that.
But he uses the straw man argument lays out all the brilliant steps that his young administration in less than a hundred days has taken to fix all of these problems, and they're on the road to being fixed, and after brilliantly laying out just exactly how much brilliance has been employed to uh to to uh in a form of policy,
more government spending, larger government, government owning part of the automobile industry, after brilliantly laying out why that's called for, he just said, Well, I don't want you to get falsely uh uh optimistic here in 2009's gonna be a bad year.
It's it's gonna be bad out there.
Two thousand nine still a lot of things left.
So after telling everybody how all of these steps that he's taking are brilliantly positioned to cause a massive revival uh in our this was not just a normal down business cycle.
This was caused by greed on Wall Street.
He has really, and I I love this, as you know, uh he has trashed AIG four or five times uh in this uh in this speech.
Oh, he has.
He's he's really trashed AIG uh a lot here.
Uh he he made a made a show of trashing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mack.
Uh, but it wasn't very sincere.
You could uh you could threw that in there.
But even that, despite all of the brilliance of our brave young president and his new plan, his policies, all of the uh things that he has uh dictated that will happen here to bring the economy back, still says ain't gonna happen this year.
So this was a there is a glimmer of hope, just not this year.
The glimmer of hope is not this year.
But as a glimmer of hope in 2010 and election year.
A glimmer of hope will happen in 2010, which happens to be an election year.
There's the the glimmer of hope is there.
We gotta keep we have to keep agreeing with all of the brilliant policies and plans that he has put forth in order to see that glimmer of hope become a glimmer of reality.
Is the uh modus operandi here?
The way the Associated Press deals with this, of course, they got a text copy of the speech before the president uh delivered it today.
President Obama trying to strike a careful balance between highlighting economic progress and underscoring continued challenges as he seeks to reverse the recession he inherited.
But now owns.
The uh president was slated to give an economic day speech would outline the state of the economy when Obama took office in January, steps his administration's taken the first three months, and what still needs to be done to write troubled sectors, including the housing, banking, financial industry.
See, they started out by once again uh claiming, ladies and gentlemen, that the uh subprime problem is due to predatory lending.
Uh uh lending money to people who had no hope of paying it back.
They were predators.
They were the people that lent the money did it for quick profits.
They uh they they convinced people it couldn't afford a house to buy a house.
They convinced people who couldn't get a loan to get loans, leaving out conveniently any of the role of government in ordering the banks to behave in this way.
But nevertheless, we uh we uh we are told that we must praise President Obama uh when uh when he does good things.
And he's delivered a good speech.
Now, I have to tell you it's a brilliant.
If you watch this speech, you conclude he knows intimately what he's talking about, and he makes it sound like you do too.
So it is uh doing a great job delivering the speech.
Teleprompter is on the money today.
You gotta give the teleprompter credit, too, because the teleprompted up there that President Obama is saying.
Now he's into the second half of the speech, and it's starting to slide in and out of Barbara Streisand.
Starting to slide into the B.S. Uh it it that the second half kicked off with the success at the G twenty.
It was not a success.
The things that he wanted Europe to do did not happen.
The G twenty trip was not a success, but it doesn't matter because it's being reported as a success.
And since it's and he's saying it's a success, so it's a success, even though it's not or wasn't, it uh it is.
Uh and he's uh he he's talking about how the the money is already doing great things, but it isn't going to happen this year.
All the money we're spending is creating new credit, even though your credit card companies are raising your interest rates and lowering your your balances that you can carry.
Uh there's still credit out there.
You can you can go buy a house now, you go buy a car.
There's his policies have worked to create an expansion of credit.
So the B.S. is starting to settle in now, uh, just so you know.
I you know, I had a report, I got this at 2.30 yesterday afternoon that I just didn't have a chance to work it in yesterday.
It's this Department of Homeland Security report.
It's nine pages.
I've got the PDF here.
And by the way, this speech of Obama's and the DHS report yesterday are timed for one reason, and that's the Tea Parties tomorrow.
This speech, the primary purpose of this speech is to take any glaul off the tea parties.
The media is going to report on this speech later this afternoon and telling it about how great the economy's doing, how on top of it Obama is, how it's going to be a little while before it rebounds, but it's coming back, and then it in in having used that as the setup, uh, they'll then go to video tape of the Tea Parties where they'll try to mock what's going on with these people just agitators uh with with no real uh uh reason behind what they're doing.
So this speech is designed to uh to to totally blunt the Tea Parties, which are grassroots affairs that will happen all over America tomorrow.
The DHS report, this this comes from the Department of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano.
Now, when you read this whole thing, and it doesn't take long to read it, it's only nine pages.
You can go to various places and and uh uh read summaries of it as well.
For for example, every that there is no proof here, no proof offered, no evidence offered that anything they project is true.
They that, however, suggests well, let me let me uh give you one.
Yes.
The Department of Homeland Security assesses that right-wing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to exploit their skills and knowledge derived from military training and combat.
These skills and knowledge have the potential to boost the capabilities of right wing extremists, including lone wolves or small terrorist cells to carry out violence, the willingness of a small percentage of military personnel to join right wing extremist groups during the 1990s because they were disgruntled, disillusioned, or suffering from psychological effects of wars being replicated today.
They even quote Timothy McVay in this report.
This is the Democrat Party Department of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano put this together.
There is not one instance they can cite as evidence where any of these right wing groups have done anything.
This is I'll tell you what this is on the par of.
This is on the par.
Remember in Missouri where the state police put out a pamphlet warning local police departments in Missouri that if anybody had like a an NRA bumper sticker on their bumper or a pro-life bumper sticker that they were potential members of the right wing militia.
We had a call from Michelle yesterday in in Pensacola, which I think it was Pensacola, Florida.
And she's agreed to let us call her back sometime during the program today.
She's so upset because Obama's trying to unify us all, trying to bring us all together.
And why am I opposed to this?
Well, here's a clear example.
Janet Napolitano, Ed Morrissey in Hot Air Today in uh dot com writing about this, suggested that Janet Napolitano needs to resign, and that Obama needs to withdraw this report.
And I I read things like that, and I understand where Ed's coming from, but I don't believe for a minute Obama had nothing to do with Obama, he provides the vision.
He says so.
He puts the members of his cabinet there.
The idea that Barack Obama is not a partisan, that he's a unifier, that is a mod how can anybody today still go for that?
The only way they can is to remember what he said during the campaign, but ignore what he's doing as president.
Because this thing, this Department of Homeland Services report is nothing more than a partisan hit job filled with lies and innuendo that portrays any conservatism as right wing extremism.
And I could I could read you here, let me read you a couple of excerpts of this just so that you uh you get the idea.
Right wing extremists are harnessing this historical election as a recruitment tool.
Many right wing extremists are antagonistic toward the new presidential administration and its perceived stance on a range of issues, including immigration and citizenship, the expansion of social programs to minorities, and restrictions on firearms ownership and use.
Right wing extremists are increasingly galvanized by these concerns and leverage them as drivers for recruitment.
From the 2008 election time frame to the present, right wing extremists have capitalized on related radical and political prejudices in expanded propaganda campaigns, thereby reaching out to a wider audience of potential sympathizers.
What you have here is Janet Napolitano.
Barack Obama, forget Napolitano.
It says that his administration, he provides the vision, he puts people in these positions that he wants to do his bidding.
This is Barack Obama, and this is an effort to stifle what anybody would consider to be normal political dissent.
He is characterizing those of us who oppose an expanding government, huge uh socialistic tendencies, legalization of illegals for the purpose of making them Democrats.
We are now right wing extremists, and we are arming up.
And this report is uh is to warn other law enforcement agencies of the dangers posed by right wing extremists.
The thing came out yesterday.
Uh well, I think it actually did it come out um Yeah, it was last week on April 7th, and it just Roger Hedgecock and a couple people found it made it public yesterday afternoon, as I say, I got my copy at 230 in the afternoon.
Uh this is this is being made and widely disseminated now on the day prior to the tea parties as well.
Here's another excerpt.
Right wing extremist chatter on the internet continues to focus on the economy, the perceived loss of U.S. jobs in the manufacturing and construction sectors and home foreclosures.
Anti-Semitic extremists attribute these losses to a deliberate conspiracy conducted by a cabal of Jewish financial elites.
Right wing extremist chatter is spreading this kind of stuff around.
These accusatory tactics are employed to draw new recruits into right wing extremist groups and further radicalize those already.
So what you have here, you have a report from Janet Apolitano and Barack Obama, Department of Homeland Security, portraying standard ordinary everyday conservatives as posing a bigger threat to this country than Al Qaeda terrorists or genuine enemies of this country like Kim Jong.
Wait, they wouldn't write anything about Kim Jong-il like this.
They wouldn't write anything about Obama, Osama bin Laden.
Don't forget, this is the same bunch that uh the same bunch that once referred, well, uh not referred, but suggested, or um Yeah, they do they suggested the speech code in which references to jihad and Islamo fascism were to be purged.
We were not to discuss terrorism with those words.
It was not to be discussed in the country, it was not to be discussed in the government.
And uh so the same people who wanted to purge uh references to jihad and Islamo fascism are are now out with this uh report, which is a genuine hit job on standard run-of-the-mill mainstream ordinary Americans.
Uh DHS will be working with uh with its state and local partners over the next several months to ascertain with greater regional specificity specificity the rise in right-wing extremist activity in the United States with a particular emphasis on the political, economic, and social factors that drive right-wing extremist radicalization.
That's just a portion of it.
It's nine pages long.
Homeland Security warning of radicals on the right, defined as groups that reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority.
Anybody opposed to federal authority, expanding federal authority, it'll be now be tagged as a member of uh right wing extremist groups.
All right, a brief timeout.
We'll come back.
We will continue with much more after this on the EIB network.
In light of all that's happening, Obama's speech on the economy justifying the basic destruction of the U.S. free market, which is what the speech is.
Only way to describe it, the justification of the destruction of capitalism, the free market as we've known it, and this inflammatory report from Department of Homeland Security, calling mainstream conservatives right wing extremists, militia members, uh tarring and feathering returning veterans as becoming right wing extremists and warning everybody to be on the lookout for these people on the eve of these tea parties.
I want to go back to last week, last Thursday, the governor of Texas Rick Perry held a press conference to announce that he supports the House concurrent resolution 50 in support of state's rights under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution.
He's all upset about the uh the bailout money, TARP money, the social or the uh stimulus money.
This is great stuff.
Here's the first of several bites from the governor of Texas.
The federal government has become oppressive.
I believe it's become oppressive in its size, its intrusion in the lives of its citizens, and its interference with the affairs of our state.
Millions of Texans just like yourself that are tired of Washington, D.C. trying to come down here and tell us how to run Texas.
We think it's time to draw the line in the sand and tell Washington that uh no longer are we going to accept their oppressive hand in the state of Texas.
There is a point in time where you stand up and say, enough is enough.
And I think Americans and Texans especially have reached that point.
Amen, bro.
That's the governor of Texas Rick Perry's home with Larry Cudlow last night.
Question, three Texas Tea Parties, you got ten rallies being planned just in the Metroplex area itself of Dallas.
I just want to ask you, Texas, one of the most uh one of the best state economies in the country, you got relatively low unemployment.
What are they doing?
Why are they doing this tax revolt thing in Texas?
We want to keep it that way.
And the message is for Washington, D.C., the Here in Texas, we keep our taxes low, our regulatory climate fair, a legal system that doesn't oversue, and a good uh accountable public school system, then we believe in getting out of the way and letting the private sector do what it does, which is create jobs somewhere between 70 and 80 percent of all the jobs created last year in America were created in Texas.
Now, what this is about, uh Texas and all the other states are being forced to take a percentage of all the stimulus, the porculus package money, and a number of governors have said they don't want it.
Bobby Gendall says, I don't want to, because this is going to end up costing us money.
Uh the unemployment demands they're putting here with the way we run the system.
Mark Sanford, South Carolina doesn't want it.
Uh and Governor Perry in Texas doesn't want it.
Uh they do not like the idea that the federal government under Obama is now telling the states what they have to do.
It's unconstitutional, and that's why Perry is uh speaking up.
All right.
Another timeout, EIB obscene profit center break back in a moment.
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The all-knowing, all caring, all sensing, all feeling, all concerned.
Maha Rushi.
Here behind the golden EIB microphone, a couple more Rick Perry sound bites last night with Larry Cudlow.
Perry has just described how conditions in Texas are not as bad as they are around the country, but yet there are a lot of tea parties planned for Texas.
Cudlow says, why are these people in Texas dissatisfied then?
What are they yelling at?
They're sending Washington the message.
I mean, we're still part of the Union down here in Texas, and uh our folks uh would like to keep it that way, but uh, we see some things going on that are uh peculiar, they're uh frustrating.
Part of my message is gonna be be loud and be consistent and keep sending the message to Washington, D.C. We understand that you can't tax your uh and spend your way to prosperity.
Washington needs to quit spending money, let the private sector have the freedom to grow, and we'll grow our way out of this recession, but you can't spend your way out of it spending money out of Washington, D.C. It's not what President Obama said today, you can.
In fact, President Obama in his speech today ridiculed the whole notion that government shouldn't spend during a recession.
He said, That was just stupid.
He said, People saying that, that just it's laughable.
It's he didn't say crazy, but it it's what he meant.
I can't believe it.
People saying we can't Washington government shouldn't spend in a recession.
Why, that's absolutely incorrect.
So he disagrees with uh Governor Perry, the more spending the Remember now, the Obama administration think the only reason FDR failed in uh in with the New Deal ending the depression was they didn't spend enough soon enough.
Which is, of course, historically inaccurate and economically incorrect.
But what's true and accurate and right no longer matters.
The facts, what's true, what's historically accurate, uh what is uh according to the sciences of economics, what works, what doesn't, does none of that matters.
Whatever Obama says, that's the new reality.
Finally, Cudlow says to Governor Perry of Texas, you got one of the few states left in the Union, no personal income tax.
You have no corporate income tax, so far as I know.
You do have a six and a quarter percent sales tax.
Has that gone up?
No, it hadn't, and I don't think you'll see people talking about raising the sales tax.
The key is here, we have created a real business climate.
You mentioned Art Laughter in your section before.
Art did a comparable between California and Texas, and he said, look, it's not even close.
So the Governor Perry not on board with anything that's happening out of the Obama administration.
I guess, according to the Department of Homeland Security report, Governor Perry's a right wing extremist.
Uh and is encouraging militia groups to form.
He's out there with what Governor Perry's saying, according to Janet Napolitano and Obama at the Department of Homeland Security, Governor Perry is actually trying to recruit right-wing extremists to oppose our brave new president.
And his uh his massive plans to create a utopia here on earth.
The uh have you ever noticed you look at this DHS report, we've made made comment on this before.
Wouldn't it be nice if the liberals of America actually acknowledged our real enemies the way they acknowledge conservatives?
I mean, the language they use in this report to describe conservatives.
We and we hear all the time that the left is a bunch of pacifists, make love-nut war types.
They don't want violence and they just they just want to get along.
Why can't everybody just be happy together?
And yet when you read what a typical leftist like Obama or Janet Napolitano put together in this Department of Homeland Security report, you conclude none other nothing else that they are extreme partisan radicals and they're ready to go to war with a domestic enemy, conservatives, that they consider to be a greater threat than Iran, than China, than North Korea, than Venezuela, Russia, or any other nation that threatens the United States.
Conservatives are the biggest threat to America.
That's the message coming out of Washington from Obama and Janet Napolitano.
With that, we go to Michelle in Pensacola.
Michelle was with us yesterday.
We ran out of time.
Michelle, thanks for letting us call you back.
Hi, how are you?
Well, I'm not in the best of moods today, but I'll be nice talking to you.
Well, thank you.
I'll be nice talking to you.
I'm not in the best of mood too.
You were uh you were very nice talking to me yesterday.
Thank you.
Why are you not in a good mood today, Michelle?
I would think the opportunity to appear on this program two days in a row would make your day.
Well, I would think so too.
But apparently the consensus of opinion around here is do not talk to him, do not talk, and my family.
So, you know, I'm why does your family tell you not to talk to me?
Well one of them says you're an idiot.
You're only gonna make fun of me, and you are gonna try to prove how smart you are by using me.
Don't have to prove that.
I I don't have to prove how smart and I are it's self-evident.
You you are are you are so smart, right?
But I'm but I'm uh but I have no intentions of humiliating you, just the exact opposite.
And we don't we don't make fun of people on the phones here.
You know, this Well, you know, uh you know what you were just saying about people who dream of something good.
Uh unfortunately that would be me.
I I am a dreamer.
I am a hoper.
I hope.
And mm the all this is about is for me my hope for our country.
And I realize that, you know, God didn't apply for the position of president.
So other than that, you're never gonna have perfection.
So you have to deal with the good and the bad.
But I sense and Well, now wait, let me stop you on that.
I I don't I wouldn't take it issue much with that, but from what I heard you say yesterday, you don't want to admit the bad.
You only want to see what you think is the good.
No, I I do want to I don't I prefer generally keeping out of it because I am a novice to politics.
But Well, see, I want to change that, Michelle.
I I think ignorance is better.
I generally believe it.
No, Michelle, ignorance is not better.
It doesn't make it doesn't make you happier.
It makes it easier for people to take advantage of you.
Uh it makes it easier for people to end up harming you when you think they're helping you.
Ignorance is not good here, and it's one of the things I wanted to deal with.
I want to also be very brazen with you about something here.
Uh you said you're a hoper and a dreamer.
Now I love dreams.
I you know, I think too many people uh are are told that their dreams are are fantasy land and so but dreams led to inventions, dreams led to this country, but hope is a different thing.
Hope, in many cases, Michelle, is simply an excuse for not doing anything.
Uh after you hope, what have you accomplished?
You can hope all you want.
And I'm not talking here in the religious sense.
I don't want anybody uh uh who I I'm not I'm not defining hope in the religious sense here at all.
But after you sit around and hope and hope and hope and hope, dreams sometimes can inspire you to action, but hope never does.
Hope is a substitute for action.
You want everybody to get along, but you it it but that's not gonna make it happen.
And in fact, everybody getting along is an unrealistic expectation.
It's never been the case.
And I understand that.
I'm not that much of a a dreamer.
I'm sorry to have interrupted you.
Go ahead.
No, no, no.
No, I but what you said yesterday was that you think that Obama wants to end all the divisions in the country.
You really believe that he wants us all to get along.
I really believe that he is trying to unite us.
Yes, that is my whole reason for this call.
Right.
Now, Michelle.
Yes.
Just so you know where I'm coming from.
You couldn't be, and I don't say this to humiliate you or to make fun of you.
You couldn't be more wrong.
Barack Obama is one of the most divisive presidents that we've had in my lifetime.
You know who was really trying to unite us was George W. Bush.
When he first assumed office, he let Ted Kennedy help him write the education bill.
He operated under the concept of the new tone.
He was trying to make all kinds of friends with Democrats, make friends with his enemies.
George Bush tried to reunite, tried to bring everybody along.
What you're reacting to is Obama's campaign promises.
We're going to unite the people.
Because there's no there's no f look at fifty-five million Americans voted against him and they haven't changed their minds.
He won.
Yeah.
So let me let me just say this.
But if Barack if according to my beliefs, you know, I take my beliefs very seriously.
My beliefs are uh heartfelt.
I'm a traditionalist, I believe in the founding of the country, believe in the individual.
If I believe, even though he won, that Barack Obama's ideas will forever alter this country for the worse.
Uh in in comparison to how great we've been.
Why should I support it just because he won, just to get along.
You shouldn't if that's what you believe.
Well, that's what I'm doing.
I don't I don't know.
Okay.
I I agree.
I understand.
If that is your belief and that's your feeling, you have every right to say it.
Now, would you categorize yourself as a liberal or conservative or is anything?
Well, if I had to, I would probably say an American.
I wouldn't I don't like those categories.
I really choose not to be able to do that.
They're very meaningful.
I mean, but you know what, like you said yesterday, the division goes back to the pilgrims.
It's been that way since that long.
Correct?
You said that?
Adam and Eve.
I mean, if you if you want to talk about the human country.
The idea of people in a nation or even a family all getting along, Michelle, it doesn't happen.
It's obviously that oh, I do.
I am not that much of a dreamer.
You think Obama can pull it off by because he wants to unify us.
Did you just hear me talking about the Department of Homeland Security report he put out, which so people like me are right wing extremists ready to form militias and take over that's absolute BS.
Okay.
Okay.
Let me just say this.
Uh two things.
To answer that, I would like to hear your idea rather than what he has.
You know, if you if you have nothing good to say, why say it?
But it's because you're an entertainer.
This is your job.
No, you know what?
You told me yesterday that you didn't want to be a politician because you'd have to take a pay cut.
That's right.
But I don't want to be a politician because that's a different line of work.
And I'm not I'm too honest to be a politician.
You what?
Too honest to be a politician.
Well, see, you know, that's what I think, too, that that there's been so much corruption for so many years.
And I feel that people are being outed now.
Which is a good thing.
I want to.
Do you agree or not?
Yes or no?
Uh people being outed.
What do you mean outed?
Well, that they are corrupt.
You're seeing it every day, the political.
No, what I see is the corrupt getting away with it.
Well, I they've been getting away with it.
Well, and they're and they're continuing to get away with it.
Well, you know what, Rush, he's been in office for three months.
Give the man a break.
He's only human.
Who said a minute.
Obama.
What what what did you think of the mood in the country?
The mood.
No, no.
What did when George Bush was president and the left in this country was calling him Hitler and calling him a liar, and they were trying to engineer the defeat of the U.S. military in Iraq.
What did you think then about the attempt to unify the country and everybody get along?
Again, and I don't mean to sound uh i you know uh I wasn't aware of so much back then.
I would hear things, I would hear bad things about Bush.
I don't I didn't like politics because of all the lies, because of all the deceit.
But now you like politics because of the Obama.
Because Obama suddenly inspired me.
And I thought this man is saying what I need to hear, what I want to hear.
I want I want to Have made a point that I've been making.
It's not what he says.
It's how he says it.
You think he's been saying what you want to hear.
But you probably couldn't tell me specifically what he said.
He just creates uh an aura or an image for you, blank slate, and he can become a solution to all these problems that you've grown up around with uh with America and so forth, so he has inspired you, and he's done it all with talk.
Oh, Michelle, I have to go.
The uh the segment here has gone long as it is.
Uh you know, dreamers and hopers, I just I just want to tell you, since you're a dreamer and a hoper, dreamers and hopers succeed through liberty.
Not government control, not taxation, not brilliant speeches.
That's the opposite of nurturing dreamers and hopers.
Reliance and dependence destroy dreams and hopes.
You have to dreams and hopes are fine, but without action, they're nothing.
You're just sitting around hoping.
And when you're sitting around hoping, you can fall prey to some slick speaker who can make you think your hopes and dreams are coming true when in fact the country you've known and grown up in is being torn apart right around you, and you don't even see it.
We'll be back.
One thing about Michelle, you know, she said she wants to know what I stand for.
And that's not hard to do.
You turn on the radio and you listen.
Or you go to Rush Limbaugh.com.
And so what's happening is she is listening to her friends and family or whatever who are telling her, don't call back.
Oh, you're gonna be oh, you're gonna be chewed up and spit out and so forth and uh and and so on.
At any rate, uh let's see.
Marion in Fox Island, Washington.
It's great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
This is not my grandmother in America, and DHS uh is talking about me.
I'm Heartland America, and I am not a right wing extremist, but I feel like uh King Olaf during the Second World War, he wore a Star of David to put himself with the people who were being oppressed, and I feel like putting an armband on saying right wing extremist, uh, to let people know who they're talking about.
Well, I understand your um uh your anger about this, but this look at this is the Obama administration.
You know, they say Janet and it's Paulitano, but this is what Obama thinks.
This is what Bill Ayers thinks, it's what Jeremiah Wright thinks, it's what uh and they he populates his administration with with these people, and it's clear that that they consider people like you to be a greater enemy than genuine threats to uh our freedom and existence.
Exactly.
So it's and and this is this is playing to, of course, the left-wing fringe base that uh that voted for Obama.
This is so uh you you can wear a t-shirt, you can wear uh anything you want, right wing extremist and and and so forth.
Uh and it would just be said by those who saw you that finally they're admitting it.
They would they wouldn't get the humor of it.
Uh I don't know.
That's true.
But you're you're right to be offended by it.
And by the way, if you read the whole thing, there's not one bit of evidence.
It's all speculation.
It's it's it's it's a it's an intelligence report from the Department of Homeland Security, and there's not one bit of even go back and quote Timothy McVay in this thing.
Well, King Olaf did it for a reason to let the Jews know that uh they were not alone, and probably something like that.
If uh we did that, it would let other people like us know that we're not alone.
And I resent them taking America away from me.
I grew up in the same America that you did, Rush, and I I feel the terrible loss of it.
A lot of people do, and that's why the Tea Parties are starting tomorrow.
This, you know, this this intelligence report from DHS is the same party.
Same political reparty that uh party that made up intelligence.
And uh politicized Intel.
Uh it's just it's just uh to me it isn't shocking.
It's it's brazenness is.
The fact that Obama thinks this is not surprising.
The fact that his Department of Homeland Security would put it out as openly as this surprising.
Anyway, got to take a break.
Thanks for the call, Mary, and we'll be back after this.
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