All right, folks, I just got a flash note from our webmaster, Coco, who tells me that the speech my father did, I was 10 years old, so 48 years ago, and the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Our honor, our lives, our sacred fortunes.
That's what they pledged.
And it is powerful.
The speech is now posted at rushlimbaugh.com.
We just found out that a woman at the Ashland Ohio Tea Party read it yesterday, and the guy there said that you could have heard a pin drop.
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All right, let's move on to this Department of Homeland Security report, Janet Napolitano.
Of course, Obama didn't know about this.
The White House is trying to distance itself from this a little bit.
Obama just didn't know.
It's like Bill Clinton didn't know when Janet Waco blew up Reno, Texas, and the Branch Davidians.
I will never, never forget that.
I mean, the Branch Davidian compound is going up in flames with people inside.
There are tanks that have fired on this religious compound of Waco, Texas.
And they asked Clinton about it.
You have to go ask Janet Waco about that.
I've been busy in here.
I was in a little room off the Oval Office.
That happened.
You have to talk to the Attorney General.
I didn't know about that.
So, of course, Obama doesn't know about this report.
Now, our friends at MSNBC, Joe Scarborough and Mika Bzezinski, wanted to interview Janet Napolitano.
So they called the White House.
And the White House, well, the Department of Homeland Security.
And they said, okay, but you get one question.
You get one question.
And here's Scarborough and Mika Bzinski revealing the deal with Janet Napolitano.
We should be clear, they only wanted one question.
Yeah, so this morning I got a call that she was going to be on the show, and they said we could only ask one question about this story yesterday.
And I initially said, well, we're not going to do it then because we don't allow people to tell us what they're going to talk about.
Right.
And I said, well, we'll ask one question, see how she responds.
And since this Mexico issue is so huge, we want our viewers to watch.
I mean, if she was coming on to, you know, name a new post office, that would have been something, or a book that would have been exciting.
But I want to, let's talk about that afterwards.
Okay.
We'll ask our audience whether we should have had her on the show or not under those conditions.
Because I actually, I had so many follow-ups.
Why had a lot of follow-ups?
Is it amazing the rhythm those two have?
I mean, Scarborough takes a breath and Mika Bzinski is right in there.
And as soon as she finishes, Scarborough's finished taking his breath and he just keeps going.
And he'll pause, take a breath, and she back in there.
So anyway, they made the deal.
They were going to make the deal, but they made it.
One question.
Now, I have the cue sheet here with the question.
So here it is.
The question is longer than the answer.
Here's the question.
Joe Scarborough asked it, so we'll ask you a quick question about some other news and then get to Mexico.
The Democrat chairman of the Congressional Committee that has oversight over your department has expressed some concerns about police guidance that the Department of Homeland Security gave regarding right-wing extremist groups and veterans.
Let me read to you what he said and then get your response.
This report, he said, he was dumbfounded.
He said, this report appears to raise significant issues involving privacy and civil liberties of many Americans, including war veterans.
As I'm certain you agree, freedom of association, freedom of speech are guaranteed to all Americans, whether a person's beliefs, whatever their political orientation, extremist or not.
That was Congressman Benny Thompson.
He's chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.
How would you respond to the Democrat chairman?
That's the question.
That was the one question that they asked in Napolitano, and here's what she said.
The last thing we want to do with the Department of Homeland Security is infringe on anyone's constitutional or civil rights.
I think everybody needs to take a deep breath.
There was a lot of Washington spin going on yesterday about this report, but all it was saying is, look, there's a constant and constantly changing threat environment in the United States.
Our job is to protect against terrorism, whether it comes from abroad or internally.
Where it's a take a breath.
She just now she piled on.
So this report was describing terrorists.
Take a deep breath.
That's a Clinton line, too.
Uttered in a number of places.
But take a deep breath.
And she just, she went on.
I think she made this worse.
Now, Scarborough and Mika Bzezinski were exactly right about Benny Thompson.
He's the top House Democrat overseeing the Department of Homeland Security.
And he is demanding that officials there explain how and why they wrote and released this report identifying veterans as potential terrorist threats.
I guess he thinks the pro-lifers and all their genuine threats, but he's upset about the veterans being cast this way.
I should also point out regarding all of this brilliant points on the tip of my tongue.
It'll come to me in just a second.
I want to go back in time to history.
I read a book, and I really touted this book, and I don't remember the title of it, but Bill Sapphire, William Sapphire, wrote the book, and it was about a pamphleteer journalist by the name of James Callender.
Well, it wasn't about Callendar, but Callender figured prominently in it.
And it was a brilliant book, and it exposed just how raunchy the media was back then, and in many cases worse than it is today in a lot of ways.
But the interesting thing here about this – oh, oh, here's what I was going to say.
This DHS report is just a summary.
This is just a declassified summary.
It's much more in-depth than what they released.
It's a much longer report.
What does the whole thing say?
That's what's interesting.
So this whole notion that the Department of Homeland Security is going to identify threats to the country inside the border, and they're basically conservatives.
Scandalmonger.
The name of Bill Sapphire's book, Scandalmonger.
And it was about James Callender.
And he took some literary license here with some of the personal life aspects of James Callender.
But you'll understand why this is important in just a second.
This has happened before.
The country has tried something like this before.
This is fascinating.
I want you to listen to this.
The Alien and Sedition Acts, 1798, are four laws enacted by the Federalist-controlled U.S. Congress, allegedly in response to the hostile actions of the French Revolutionary government on the seas and in the councils of diplomacy.
But the Alien and Sedition Acts actually were designed to destroy Thomas Jefferson's Republican Party, which had openly expressed its sympathies for the French revolutionaries.
Depending on recent arrivals from Europe for much of their voting strength, the Republicans were adversely affected by the Naturalization Act.
The Naturalization Act postponed citizenship and thus voting privileges until the completion of 14 years of residence instead of five.
And by the Alien Act and the Alien Enemies Act, which gave the president the power to imprison or deport aliens suspected of activities posing a threat to the national government.
President John Adams made no use of the Alien Acts.
Most controversial, however, was the Sedition Act devised to silence Republican criticism of the Federalists.
Now, this is where it gets interesting.
The broad proscription of spoken or written criticism of the government, the Congress, or the President virtually nullified the First Amendment freedoms of speech and the press.
And prominent Jeffersonians, most of them journalists like John Daly Burke, James Callender, Thomas Cooper, William Duane, and Matthew Lyon, were tried and some were convicted in sedition proceedings.
The Alien and Sedition Acts provoked the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions and did much to unify the Republican Party and to foster Republican victory in the election of 1800.
The Republican-controlled Congress then repealed the Naturalization Act in 1802.
The others were allowed to expire between 1800 and 1801.
So basically, the Sedition Act was the key, and it was used to destroy Jefferson's Republican Party.
You couldn't, if you criticized the government, you were thrown in jail, you were silenced, you were not able to vote.
Immigrants, legal immigrants coming to the country, joining your party had to wait an additional nine years instead of five, had to wait 14.
And the purpose that this ended up serving was galvanizing and uniting the Republican Party to oppose this kind of bare bones assault on, or bare-knuckle assault on the First Amendment.
And this is what I meant when I said some months ago that it's likely the Obama administration is going to overreach.
At some point, they're going to do something that'll be a tipping point.
Now, I don't know that this is it.
This is just a summary.
This DHS report is just a summary, bad enough as a summary.
And she's not walking away from it.
She's standing firmly behind it.
I think she piled on here when she now says you got to be aware of terrorist threats outside and inside the country.
She didn't try to soothe any of this or change any of it.
So if this administration, if, and this is Obama, by the way, this is not her.
This is Obama.
This is Jeremiah Wright.
This is all of these people that Obama's grown up with that are angry, outraged.
The unfair majorities in this country have oppressed long enough, and it's about time they were dealt with.
So that's their thinking.
So it could well be that If they hang tough with this, if they actually try to implement this stuff, you're just driving around with a pro-life bumper sticker or whatever.
If they actually try to put people in jail or to, in other ways, somehow prevent them from involving themselves politically, that could become a tipping point.
Now, on the other side of this is the fact that we have a deranged Democrat Party base, which would celebrate that.
I mean, this, I've not seen it like this is in my country before.
I mean, I've never felt like it's us versus them more than I do now.
Ancient history, well, not ancient, but it is starting to repeat itself.
Benny Thompson demanded to know what types of activities the Department of Homeland Security had planned for the next several months to enforce this.
And by the way, Benny Thompson is no blue dog Democrat.
This guy, he's filed suit against George W. Bush.
I forget what, something about elections or something.
The case was dropped.
But Benny Thompson is no slouch out there.
Final point, unrelated to anything, but I want to get this in before we go to the break.
And this is actually, this is related to the Tea Parties and the drive-by media's refusal to understand what this is really, really all about.
Barack Obama, President of the United States, has redefined for all of us the avenue to prosperity, the way to prosper, has he not?
So here's what I would like to propose to all of you within the sound of my dulcet and resonant tones.
If you and your family are hit by the economic slowdown, like our government has been, or if you are worried about taking a financial beating because of the economic slowdown, there is a way out.
And it's not just to survive, but to prosper.
And that is to think like President Obama.
That's right.
What President Obama is doing with the federal budget, you can do with your family budget.
And you can come out a big winner.
What do I mean by this?
Very simple.
You go out and you borrow every cent that you can.
You borrow more than you need to pay your expense.
You borrow money you need.
If you want to buy something that you don't need, you borrow the money for it.
You go out, you mortgage your home to the hilt.
You take your credit cards and you maximize your limit.
You charge until you can't charge anymore.
Cash in your IRA.
Cash in your pension.
Go out and borrow from your in-laws.
Borrow from other family members.
Load up with as much debt as you can.
Whoa, isn't this how Obama says we're all going to prosper?
The government's going to prosper?
I mean, if Obama's prescription for prosperity is right, we should all do this.
Borrow everything we can.
Pile up debt like we've never piled up.
Personal family debt.
And then, after you've done that, then go invest half of what you borrowed in windmills and the other half in solar energy.
And the other half, you get into a carbon trading scheme.
Well, sturdily say, that doesn't make any economic sense.
It doesn't matter.
It doesn't have to make economic sense anymore.
That's the magic of Obama.
That's the brilliance of Obama.
It doesn't have to make economic sense.
What if we discover a real alternate energy system?
The windmills and sun and the solar energy out.
What if the wind and sun schemes go belly up?
Nope, no problem.
No, but then you call the Chinese consulate and ask them for money.
If you lose on your investment in windmills and if you lose on your investment in solar panels, call the Chikons.
Do what the U.S. government has done, and you too can be prosperous.
And then if that doesn't work, go down the streets in your neighborhood and tell your neighbors you want some of their money.
Demand, not tell, demand that your neighbors give you some of their money.
I mean, if all of this is good for Obama, if all of this is good for the United States, how can any of us fail to become prosperous if we try the Obama way?
One thing I forgot, ladies and gentlemen, if you and your family hit by the slowdown, worried about taking a financial beating, follow the Obama recipe for prosperity.
I forgot to tell you, don't pay your taxes for four or five years.
Don't pay your taxes for four or five years.
I mean, Obama and his clowns are telling us this new road to prosperity.
Debt upon debt upon debt, investment in losing things, and ask the Chinese when it all would work out.
By the way, I hate to break this to Mika Zhazinski and Joe Scarborough, but Fox News got three questions with Napolitan.
Here's one, do we have time to squeeze it?
Yeah, we do.
First question, Steve Docey, a number of people, including the commander of the American Legion, have asked you to apologize to vets over this report of yours.
Are you standing by the comments?
To the extent veterans read it as an accusation, an apology is owed.
We greatly respect our veterans.
All this was meant to do is to give law enforcement what we call situational awareness.
Some of the things that go on, some of the things that have happened in the past that could recur, that people just need to be aware of.
I'll meet with the leaders of some of the veterans' groups.
You know, I have to tell you, I was the United States attorney for Arizona in the 90s when Tim McVay bombed the Murat building in Oklahoma City.
And unfortunately, he was a vet.
That's where he got his training.
And so when I was told about the report, it rang true with me.
It's in the report, too, quoting and citing Timothy McVeigh.
He was a vet.
That's where he got his training.
See, the military trained him to blow up federal buildings.
I'll tell you, these people are hideous.
You know, and I really cringe when I have all you people out there call me Rash Obama just trying to unify.
We all got a law for behind this.
He's not trying to unify anybody other than coalesce his own base, which he's already done.
Don't go way back before you know it.
I guess we'll stay in order here on the audio sound bites, which puts us up to number six.
But first, try this story.
This is from the AP.
Clinton announces new Somali anti-piracy steps.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is announcing new efforts to freeze pirate booty.
Now, I'll tell you something.
For those of you in the AP, the words Clinton and booty are two words that should not be close together in a news story.
Clinton's trying to get a legacy out there, and you're not helping when you write sentences like this.
Clinton is announcing new efforts to freeze pirate booty.
What do they want to do?
Tax it?
It's part of a series of diplomatic steps by the Obama administration to fight piracy off the coast of Somalia.
And let's see, what is this?
Gates and windows.
Well, okay.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday, the high seas pirate drama, shows why the Pentagon should buy more affordable ships, planes, and weapons, even if they're not perfect.
As we saw last week, you don't necessarily need a billion-dollar ship to chase down a bunch of teenage pirates.
No, you don't, because they were shot down by President Obama.
The trigger may as well have been pulled from Washington.
Interesting.
Now, this story, this is, I guess this is from the Raleigh.
You as an observer, I'm not.
See.
Yeah, it is.
As crisis loomed, Burr told wife, empty ATM.
Now, this is fascinating.
Look at me.
Stick with me on this.
When the banking crisis hit last fall, U.S. Senator Richard Burr told his wife to take as much money from the ATM as she could.
It's an anecdote that Burr, Republican Winston-Salem, has told for a while when talking about the nation's financial woes.
But after he used it in a speech on Monday before the Henderson County Chamber of Commerce, it began to ripple across the political world.
A 40-minute speech, Richard Burr told an audience of about 70 business executives, i.e. criminals, about the recent banking crisis and the federal government's response.
He said he was so spooked after a briefing in Washington last fall that he called his wife back in North Carolina.
He said, tonight, I want you to go to the ATM and I want you to draw out everything it'll let you take, which I don't use ATM.
What's the max you can get out of an ATM now?
$500, something like that?
Well, if you've got it in that five sometimes eight.
Okay.
And I want you to tomorrow, and I want you to go Sunday, he said, according to an account in the Hendersonville Times News.
I was convinced on Friday night that if you put a plastic card in an ATM machine, the last thing you were going to get was cash.
Now, this reminds me of the whatever briefing these people got, it really spooked them because they went out there and that's at the time.
We got to bail out Wall Street.
We got to bail them.
We got to do it now or the country is finished.
Whatever these people were told was a bunch of BS.
Who was the other congressman that said, oh, it was another Democrat.
It was about the mutual fund sell-off.
I forgot what the guy's name was.
Whatever they told him, though, it really spooked him.
Here's the story.
We had this at the end of the program yesterday.
Smokers might increase their chances.
Smokers might increase their chances of contracting colon cancer by eating fruit and vegetables.
This according to a new Europe-wide scientific study.
A high intake of fruit and vegetables appeared to reduce the risk among non-smokers, but seemed to have the reverse effect on smokers.
The findings here by the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment.
Oh, that's horrible.
Fruit and vegetables?
Well, those magic elixirs.
I mean, those fruits and vegetables, I mean, that's the epitome of health, right?
But somehow when you smoke, they become deadly.
But if you don't smoke, they prolong your life.
Boy, that nicotine, that's evil stuff.
That really.
Back to the phones, Tom and St. Louis.
Thank you for waving, sir.
You're on the EIB network.
Hi.
Is this Rush Lindbaugh?
Yes, it is, sir.
I am so happy to finally get on.
We already know the media is in the tank for Obama.
I saw on a nightline a liberal who admitted that the strategy against Bush was to hammer him on everything for eight years, and it worked.
Why is not the conservative movement hammering Obama?
We are.
Not like the media did Bush.
Yes, we are.
Well, we're not lying about Obama.
My question also is.
They lied about Bush.
But they also had help from the Democrat Party, you know, from Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi on down.
They're still doing it.
No.
Obama's still doing it.
How is it possible for that man, a rookie senator, to make $4 million plus a couple of years ago and last year, two-something million.
Book royalties.
For real?
I mean, this is possible?
Yeah, you figure, here's the ballpark.
Now, it's literary contracts are pretty standard boilerplate.
If you are a superstar author and you churn out books left and right, you might be able to get a little bit better deal.
But the standard operating procedure is that you get 15% of the average retail price.
So if you've got a book, 30%, you get a third.
So if a book sells for 25, you get eight books.
At 24, you get a little less.
So it's possible that somebody could sell 2 million books and make $6 million.
I'm sorry.
I'm having a hard time believing that he's made that kind of money.
Well, he did.
He also got some from Tony Rezco to buy his house.
Why is that so hard for you to believe?
Just because your rookie says it's all book income.
Plus, his wife had a no-show job at the hospital for $350,000 a year or $60,000 a year or some such thing.
I'm up for questioning just about everything about Obama.
Well.
And the Democrats.
Well, I understand, but don't go over the board.
You can make that kind of money selling books, writing books.
The way this works, you write the book, you run for president, and the unions go out and buy it.
I mean, it's a closed little cabal.
Jim Wright, remember Fort Worthless, Jim Wright, the ex-Speaker of the House Democrats, late 80s, early 90s?
No.
Well, Jim Wright wrote his memoirs.
And in some cases, there was one word per page.
Some pages only had one word.
And the book was bought in bulk by unions and so forth.
It's just the way these things work.
I think there are probably some vast number of legitimate customers for Obama's books as well.
Okay.
But that money is probably legit.
You don't make much as a community organizer unless you're a pirate community organizer, and then you get ransom money.
Well put.
Okay.
That's right.
That's why I'm here, Tom.
Put it well.
Dan in Portland, Oregon.
You're next.
Thank you for waiting, sir.
You're on the EIB network.
Yes, this morning I picked up my boss, who's from Texas, and had to take him to the airport.
And the first thing he said was, boy, you've got a lot of freaks in Portland.
And I said, well, what do you mean?
He goes, well, last night there was a demonstration, and they had piercings where they shouldn't have piercings, and they had tattoos where they shouldn't have tattoos.
And I go, you know, I've been down there several times, and usually it's a gay rights demonstration, something like that.
And he goes, no, it was an anti-Obama, anti-tax demonstration.
And Rush, I'm here to tell you, I've lived here all my life, those were not conservatives.
And I just want to let you know that all the people demonstrating are not conservatives all bad.
All right, so that's your point, that there were some leftists that showed up?
Well, no, according to him.
Okay, now, but see, here's the thing about that.
You're just getting the story from your boss who watched it on TV.
No, he was down.
He was down there.
Oh, he thought.
Oh, he saw it.
Oh, okay.
So this is not TV coverage.
He actually saw it.
He actually saw it, yes.
Well, now we know we were told that a bunch of leftists are going to try to infiltrate these things to try to give them a bad look and so forth.
I don't know that that would qualify.
But if you've got people down there, did you say tattoos and piercings?
Yes, I mean, and again, I know they're not conservatives.
The odds are pretty good that they're not conservatives.
So they are a bunch of liberals, but were they there on purpose or did they just happen to accidentally show up on the way to some parlor?
This we don't know.
No.
No, no, no.
They were definitely, according to him, they had signs, you know, taxing without representation, all that kind of stuff.
And he said that's who was there at the demonstration.
It might have been marijuana growers.
Could have been.
Quick timeout back after that.
Yeah, I was talking a moment ago about the Obama way to prosperity.
Just borrow everything you can, invest in a bunch of losing things, ask the Chinese to make up your deficit and so forth.
General Motors is, you know, for the most part, Obama's running General Motors.
And ladies and gentlemen, they've got a new way there.
They're reinventing the ownership experience at General Motors.
They've come up with something revolutionary.
It's called the Total Confidence Plan.
Here's how it works.
It starts with the fully backed five-year, 100,000-mile powertrain limited warranty, whichever comes first, and the safety and security of a full year of OnStar, which is standard on every Hummer model, for example.
And I, you know, the OnStar is amazing.
It genuinely is.
But here's where it really gets interesting.
You go out and buy a new General Motors vehicle right now, but whatever it is, a Hummer, Chevy, whatever, and they will help protect its retail value at trade-in time.
And if you lose your job, they will make your payments up to $500 a month, not for three months, not for six months, nine whole months.
You can't lose.
In fact, it would behoove you to go buy the car and then get fired.
I mean, this is the kind of confidence we need right now.
So this is, there are restrictions.
Take delivery by April 30th.
See your participating dealer for details.
You can go to HummerConfidence.com or just the GM website.
It'll explain how all of this works.
Here's a headline screaming for a joke.
Iranian scientists claim they have cloned a goat.
Really?
Which mullah would that be?
I guess they're taking time out for making yellow cake over there.
They probably cloned Ach Madimizad.
There's a story at New York Post, the gossip column, page six today.
The top suits and some of the on-air talent at CNBC recently ordered to a top-secret meeting with the GE CEO Jeffrey Imelt and Jeff Zucker, the NBC Universal President, to discover, sorry, discuss whether they've turned into the Obama-bashing network.
It was an intense three-hour dinner at 30 Rock, which Zucker himself was behind, a source familiar with Powwell told page six.
There was a long discussion about whether CNBC has become too conservative and is beating up an Obama too much.
A great concern at CNBC is now the anti-Obama network.
The whole meeting was kind of really creepy.
One topic under the microscope was, of course, Santelli's rant.
The PR guy for CNBC confirmed that this dinner happened, but he said the dinner was to thank CNBC for a job well done.
I happen to know what happened.
And it's page six gets it mostly right.
What was really going on here is, and it wasn't, from what I'm told, it was primarily Mr. Immelt that was concerned, that they were going so conservative that they wouldn't be able to get liberal guests.
And when I heard that, I said, my gosh, CNBC doesn't depend on guests.
I mean, they don't have to.
They've created, NBC has created at CNBC a personality network.
And the people that watch CNBC tune in to watch Aaron Burnett or Mark Haynes or Kudlow or that Jim Kramer.
They're personalities on that.
Whoever the guests are, people are going to watch CNBC because of the personalities they have.
They're worried they won't be able to get liberal guests.
My gosh, Fox can get liberal guests.
For all the talk about how Fox is hated, you can't keep most liberals off of it.
Anyway, here is Melissa in Manassas, Virginia.
I'm glad that you called.
Welcome to the program.
Rush?
Yeah.
Thank you so much for taking my call.
I've listened to you for years, and you are just such an inspiration across the board for all of us.
Well, thank you very much.
I wanted to share my experience yesterday.
Myself and four other gray-haired terrorists went into the Washington Tea Party.
It was an awesome experience, and I hope all of your listeners will at least gather some inspiration from my own enthusiasm.
I was coined by my own mother as when I was a teenager so straight I was boring, which for most teenagers is a pretty odd thing.
This is at the White House, right across the street from the White House?
Yes, I was right across the street from the White House and now can say I'm feared by Homeland Security and a 57-year-old radical extremist.
The folks there were fabulous.
It was a great crowd.
It was wonderful to be with other people who have the same thoughts about our government that I do, that it's too big and spends too much, taxes too much.
Look, I need to ask you a question because time is dwindling.
Sure.
Somebody threw a box of tea bags over the fence.
What did they do?
They got you out of there, right?
Actually, we had left right after Laura Ingram spoke.
I bet I know who it was, though.
There was a gentleman who had on a fishing hook to mimic, I think, a colonial teabag box.
It was wrapped in some, what do I want to say, fabric with a hemp tie on it that page?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, so somebody was casting a line.
That's what somebody cast a line to throw the thing over the fence.
Yeah, I think I know who it was.
They shut everything down for a while because they didn't know what it was.
They sent a little miniature robot out there to make sure it wasn't a bomb, and they forced all the journalists back into the White House.
Anyway, we've got to take a timeout, folks.
We're about to wrap it up.
We'll do that in just a second here.
Stay with us.
We have our curathon for leukemia and lymphoma tomorrow on the EIB network.
And don't worry, I love pierced people and tattooed people in the conservative movement.