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May 28, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 28, 2009, Thursday, Hour #3
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Ah, let me check the radar.
What?
We just lost a satellite signal in Erba.
Oh, wonderful.
Oh, this is wonderful.
Let me zoom in on it here a little bit.
Oh, don't tell me.
Oh, no, this does not look...
I got to fly out of here.
I got to go to Houston after the program tonight for an event tonight.
I got to come back.
And it's rained here in the afternoons.
Actually, for seven days in a row, it rained all day.
And they said we're still not out of the drought.
Have you noticed this?
We've been flooded, but we're still not out of the drought.
I know we're never going to be out of the stupid drought.
At any rate, greetings.
Welcome back.
Big Thunderboomer's developing out there, folks.
I was looking at the radar here.
And I don't have a lot of window.
I mean, I got to get out of here by 4.30 if I'm going to make this thing in time.
And get back tonight.
Anyway, here's the phone number on the Rush Limbaugh program.
If you want to join us, 800-282-2882.
The email address, LRushbaugh at EIBNet.com.
By popular demand, people have been requesting to hear the Joe Biden soundbite from yesterday at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.
So here it is.
But it also needs a special brand of strategic thinking that are gained only in the thin air of Colorado Springs and the windy air of Colorado Springs.
What am I going to tell the president?
I tell him his teleprompter is broken.
What will he do then?
Now, this is not something your vice president says about you.
Vice presidents don't make jokes about the president, and especially something as close to the president as his teleprompter.
See, Biden's out there at Colorado Springs.
I think he's doing the commencement address at the Air Force Academy, and the wind gust blew up and did something with the aim of the teleprompter screens.
And that's when he said, and the windy air of Colorado Springs, and followed it up by, what am I going to tell the president?
His teleprompter is broken.
What will he do then?
So here's Joe Biden basically running around saying to the Air Force Academy commencement class that our idiot president can't talk without a teleprompter.
That's just Joe.
That's just Joe.
Just like this was just Joe in Columbia, Missouri, September 9th, 2008, asking a guy in a wheelchair to stand up.
Chuck Graham, state senators here.
Stand up, Chuck.
Let him see you.
Oh, God love you.
What am I talking about?
I tell you what, you're making everybody else stand up, though, pal.
I tell you what, stand up for Chuck.
Everybody was already standing up.
Stand up for Chuck.
Everybody, they were already worse than he was asking Chuck to stand up and join everybody who was already up.
Oh, gee, Chuck.
Oh, God, love you.
Here again, Vice President Biden essentially saying at the Air Force Academy yesterday that his boss is lost, is worthless without a teleprompter.
But it also needs a special brand of strategic thinking that are gained only in the thin air of Colorado Springs and the windy air of Colorado Springs.
What am I going to tell the president?
I tell him his teleprompter is broken.
What will he do then?
This is too good.
They've tried to muzzle him, and it doesn't work.
They have, everything I've heard is that they have tried to muzzle him.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have received several caustic, mean-spirited emails today during the course of the program and prior to its start from people who are emailing me from the account, the website address, indicate that they're members of my website community, Rush24-7, rushlimbaugh.com.
I don't know if I'm detecting a pattern, seminar emailers, but no, it is each time I have mentioned Sonia Sotomotor Sotomotor, Sotomayor today, I've checked the email.
If you're going to talk about his nomination, please tell us so we can turn off your damn show.
If you're going to talk about Sonia Sotomayor, I don't care.
Let me know when you're going to be finished.
Before the program, several emails, I am not going to listen to you if you are going to keep browbeating this subject.
We know everything there is to know.
Go to something else.
You people that send emails like this should know something.
This is the last way, the worst way you could get me to shut up about something.
Now, I want to, when I get emails like that, even if they're regular listeners, when was the last time I told any of you klutzes how to do your jobs, those of you sending me emails?
Well, yes, I did tell one to go get a job, but she's trying to do that anyway.
She didn't need to hear that from me.
AP has a story today.
It is one of their spin meter stories.
It's like a fact check sort of story.
The author of the AP story, Matt Apuzo, and it's about Sonia Sotomayor, or Mayor.
Do judges make policy is how the story begins.
Well, a white man and a Hispanic woman who look at the same facts and apply the same law often come up with different conclusions.
Judge Sonia Sotomayor has said the answer to both questions is yes, and that is rankling conservatives.
Critics say that the remarks offer a window into her judicial philosophy.
Supporters say she's only reflecting the reality of the judicial branch.
And of course, AP, the conclusion is both sides are right.
However, if you read the entire AP story, you get to the last paragraph.
The last paragraph in an AP story says this.
The problem for Sotomayor is that she went beyond the experience is important line.
She said the Latina experience leads to better decisions than the white experience.
It's hard to imagine a judge getting nominated to the Supreme Court after saying white guys make better decisions than black women or Catholics make better decisions than Jews.
It's hard to, and that's exactly right.
Now, the conventional wisdom is there's no stopping the woman.
The conventional wisdom is, I mean, it's full speed ahead that the Republic's going to lay down.
Nobody's going to stop her.
And it's probably the case based on the compelling story.
But I'll tell you, I'm reading more and more on the web.
There's some libs upset with this woman.
There are some libs talking about the lack of intellectual depth.
There's some libs, this is actually funny, that don't like her because they can't find how she feels about abortion.
And that's, for the left, let me tell you something.
For much of the madcap left, the only thing that matters to them about a Supreme Court nominee is being assured they are pro-life, being assured they would never vote to overturn Roe versus Wade.
So there are some liberals, because she doesn't have much of a record on abortion rights and the law, there are a lot of libs out there who are afraid they could end up getting suitored.
Meaning George W. Bush accepted the recommendation of John Sununo to put suitor on the court, supposedly great conservative from up there in New Hampshire, and he turns out to vote 95% of the time with the liberal bloc on the court.
So there are some leftists who are worried to death about Sonia Sotomayor.
I made this point on Tuesday.
I read her statement that she made at Berkeley when she said that I'm paraphrasing, but that the Latina experience would have a much more justification and much more just result than the white man because of the richness of her life and so forth.
And I read that and I put the name John Roberts in it and changed the races around.
What if John Roberts, the current Chief Justice, had said that his rich experience as a white man would render more profound and better legal judgments than Latina women?
He'd be toast.
If they had found that in vetting, he wouldn't even make the nomination.
He wouldn't be nominated.
And I've been listening to some conservatives.
This is really astunning to me.
This is blatant racism.
This is blatant bigotry.
I know the double standard exists.
And as I said on Tuesday, minorities are entitled to have racist views in our country, according to the Reverend Dax, because they don't have any power.
They don't have the power to implement their racism.
Well, that's not true.
And it certainly wouldn't be true if Sonia Sotomayor made the Supreme Court if she's confirmed.
Now, we live in a numbed era.
People are mind-numbed.
There's so much going on that's bad and negative.
This statement of hers, this is worse than the statement that she said the appellate courts are where policy is made.
That's not racist or bigoted.
That's just arrogant.
But to actually say that her, and by the way, she's not the daughter of immigrants.
She's Puerto Rican.
They are U.S. citizens.
This compelling story is even being embellished.
Everybody has a compelling story.
Clarence Thomas has every bit the compelling story this woman has.
This woman doesn't know poverty like Clarence Thomas knew it.
This woman doesn't know discrimination like Clarence Thomas knew it.
But we never heard about his compelling story until he wrote his book.
The Bush 41 crown that nominated him didn't go that route.
They just put him up there.
But to say, to say, proudly say, that she does law better, she is fairer.
She is a better judge simply because she's a Latina.
A better judge than a white guy, simply because she's a Latina.
But Rush, but Rush, you're always advocating against political correctness and free speech.
And so, yeah.
You know, I don't think she should be punished for saying it, but clearly it is relevant to her qualifications.
I don't want to shut her up.
I don't think she should be censored, but the double standard here, we're talking about the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land, where policy is made according to this woman and where policy should be made.
Look, bigotry is bigotry.
Racism is racism.
Superiority is superiority.
Contempt for people beneath you is contempt for people beneath you.
Thinking you're better than everybody else is thinking you're better than everybody else.
This woman has all of this.
There's not a whole lot of humility here.
In fact, I want to go back to this program yesterday.
As I play A Soundbite of Me, which are always some of the best soundbites we play, followed by a soundbite of Obama also in L.A. yesterday after he told everybody economy's come back from the brink and they ain't seen nothing yet in a state that's bankrupt.
He then talked about Sotomayor.
Here is what I said yesterday on this program.
We have here an angry man with a chip on his shoulder.
Not some cool, calm, collected guy, but a cold, calculating, angry man who did hear what Jeremiah Wright said for 20 years while sitting in the pews of that church in Chicago.
He did hear what Bill Ayers said about America.
America is unjust.
It was constituted as unjust.
And that unjustness permeates to this day.
So now it's time to change all that.
And we're going to change all that by desecrating the Constitution.
Hence, Sonia Sotomayor.
Now, I think in this bite, you're going to hear Obama lets his guard down at this L.A. fundraiser.
He's with buddies.
He's off-prompter.
And you listen.
It's just a short bite.
It's 12 seconds.
This woman is brilliant.
She is qualified.
I want her confirmed.
I want her walking up those marble steps and starting to provide some justice.
I want her to start providing some justice.
I want her walking up those marble steps and I want her to start providing some justice.
Meaning, it ain't justice coming out of there now.
I want her walking up those steps and I want her to provide, start provide some justice.
Street talk.
This is the talk of somebody angry.
I want her march up those steps and start providing some justice.
Justice as she defines it based on what she said.
She's better at justice because she's Latina.
Better at justice than a white guy.
Now, folks, in a sane world, she would not have risen to the nomination level because of that one statement.
Now, obviously, the left, they believe her.
The left believes what she's saying.
That's why they don't care about that.
They're worried that she didn't have an abortion record.
They're worried of getting sandbagged on that.
But just as Obama is going to return the nation's wealth to its quote-unquote rightful owners, we're going to have justice.
We're going to have Sonia Sotomayor walking up those steps.
She's going to provide justice finally.
We're going to not only return the nation's wealth to its rightful owner, we're going to get even with the people who stole it in the first place.
And that's the justice we're going to have.
That's why she was chosen.
Sonia Sotomayor was chosen for the express purpose of reflecting his racial attitudes.
Let's be honest.
He could have chosen a different Hispanic.
He could have chosen a different female.
He chose Sonia Sotomayor because she is a mirror image of his racial attitudes.
I want her walking up those steps and providing some justice.
Could have been Al Sharpton saying that.
Hey, I just saw something here, a gateway pundit that I missed in the story about Barack Obama saying that we've come back from the brink, the economy is coming back from the brink, and you ain't seen nothing yet.
In addition to that, he said we can't rest on our laurels because we've got a lot of work to do.
We can't rest on our laurels.
And the Gateway pundit people computed 16,000 jobs a day have been lost.
And Obama tells Democrats not to rest on their laurels.
How can you rest on your laurels after losing 16,000 jobs a day since the spendulous bill, Porculus bill?
Only if you are being propped up by the drive-by media could you even think of stopping and resting on your laurels.
But this is the arrogance and the condescension that is coming from Barack Obama.
Audio soundbites, Arnold Schwarzenegger, who Pravda says, political career being destroyed by homosexuals in California.
Pravda said that.
Pravda, English language Pravda, was on CNN last night, had a question.
What do you think the future Republican Party is?
Who's in charge?
You think Rush Limbaugh is the leader of the Republican Party these days, Governor Schwarzenegger?
They say that Rush Limbaugh is the 800-pound guerrilla in a Republican Party.
But I think that's mean-spirited to say that because I think he's down to 650 pounds.
So I think one should be fear to him about this whole thing.
No, I think that in all seriousness, the key thing is to keep that large tent.
That's pretty lame.
You have the right wing, which has, you know, a very, very strong place in the Republican Party.
But we also need to create a center of the Republican Party.
And I think the bigger our tent is, the better it is.
And I think that we just have to be always in tune of what the people want that sometimes changes.
But I think that it is a great party and it has a great future.
There's this big tent business again.
What does that mean?
Because somebody give me the policies associated with a big frigging tent.
I know we're looking at it.
California, boy, we got a Republican governor, right?
We got a really vibrant Republican Party out there, right?
We have a really huge tent in California, right?
I mean, Schwarzenegger describing how to put the Republican Party together after helping destroy the state.
And you know how he helped destroy the state?
Because he fell for his own talk about big tents.
If he would have just stayed the course that he was talking about when he announced his candidacy on Leno and when he had all these people out there to start his administration, when he was on the conservative path, he could have taken this by the gangbusters and maybe gotten the Supreme Court to change the Constitution so that foreigners could run for president.
He had that opportunity and he blew it big time going moderate.
My mic wasn't live when I just said what I said, was it?
Good.
We're back.
El Rushbo, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Look, I was in a hurry.
I misspoke.
I know the Supreme Court doesn't change the Constitution.
All I'm saying is, for Arnold Schwarzenegger to be talking about a big tent and how the Republican Party has to put that up.
I want to know what policies create a big tent.
I mean, he heads the Republican Party in California.
It's really doing great guns out there, isn't it?
State's bankrupt to boot.
And let's go to another big tent guy.
I talked about this guy yesterday, Mark McKinnon.
Mark McKinnon, behind-the-scenes media guru, media expert, ran all of George Bush's media in 2000 and 2004.
Undeniably among the best at what he does.
But he's also a big tent guy, and he wrote a piece at the website The Daily Beast.
He said, you know, this criticism of Sonia Sotomayor and Colin Powell will make the Republican Party extinct if we're not careful.
We need to wave the white flag on Sotomayor, and we need to embrace Colin Powell and thank him and thank him for not leaving the Republican Party.
Otherwise, the party is extinct.
I believe the party is extinct now with the old guard blue-blood Republicans that are running it.
But McKinnon went on MSNBC last night, the far-left fringe TV network.
And he was asked about Sotomayor and the premise that she will be confirmed no matter the criticism.
By the way, let me repeat again, just so there is no doubt about this.
A, to those of you who want me to stop talking about Sonia Sotomayor, get over it.
I'm not.
Number two, the reason we're going to continue talking about Sonia Sotomayor is because that's how people in this country are going to learn who Barack Obama is.
She's a mirror image.
She's been put on this court.
He wants her to walk up those steps, walk up those marble steps, start providing some justice.
There hadn't been any justice yet.
Yeah, Supreme Court just is just as flawed and corrupt as every other American institution Obama needs to fix.
So he wants her walking up those marble steps, provides justice.
She's chosen because she's a mirror image of his racial attitudes.
Did you get that, Drive-By Media?
Sonia Sotomayor.
Let me say it again.
Sonia Sotomayor was chosen by Obama.
He could have chosen any female.
He could have chosen any Hispanic.
He chose her because she is a reflection.
She reflects his racial attitudes.
Let's be honest about it.
So Mark McKinnon on MSNBC last night asked about she's going to get confirmed regardless of the criticism.
Is that a good assumption?
Wouldn't it be refreshing if just for once a nominee, a Supreme Court nominee like this gets named, who clearly has qualified strong credentials, nominated by a former Republican president?
Wouldn't it be nice if just for once a political party and members of that party just saluted and said, you know what, nice play.
I can say the same thing about Justice Roberts when he was picked and the Democratic response to him.
We've got 23% of the American electorate supporting them, seen as a sort of bitter partisan party right now and it's sort of anti-immigrant, anti-Hispanic.
And I just think that this sends a lot of the wrong signals to independents and soft Republican voters out there who are leaving the party in droves.
There are people leaving the party in droves, but it's not because of that, Mark.
We've bent over backwards.
You did ads.
We've bent over backwards to get the Hispanic vote.
You can't do better than promising them amnesty.
You can't do better than putting two highly qualified Hispanics in your cabinet.
By the way, this little cover they're trying to give Obama for nominating Sotomayor because George H.W. Bush put her on a lower court.
You got to understand how those lower court nominations are handled.
Back then, you had a Republican senator and a Democrat senator in New York.
You had Moynihan and you had D'Amato.
And they have to divvy up the spoils.
And so in order for Bush to get something he wanted, really, he let Moynihan have Sodomayor.
That's how it works when you've got senators from different.
Bush did not pick Sonia Sodomayor because of her qualifications.
And Mark McKinnon, of all people, should know this.
But we're just supposed to, notice it's always us, always us.
We're just supposed to salute and say, you know what?
Nice play.
Mark, the woman is a bigot.
We're just supposed to ignore this.
The left never does.
The left was never, ever.
The only reason they didn't slap down John Roberts is because he's smarter than they are at the hearings.
Obama voted against him.
Here's more from McKinnon.
And next question.
Well, Colin Powell, been sharp attacks against him by Cheney.
What do you make of that?
There's been a lot of bad body language toward people like Colin Powell and Colin Powell specifically in the party, sort of suggesting that, you know, unless you swallow the hard-right Republican orthodoxy, that, you know, there's not room for you.
And, you know, listen, a former Secretary of State, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, there are lots and lots of Republicans like me who are a moderate and feel like they want a home in the Republican Party, feels the right place to be.
But they are greatly concerned about the fact that they don't see more people come to the defense of people like Colin Powell.
But anecdotally, I have lots of Republican friends who say, I love Colin Powell.
You know, we need more Colin Powells.
We're losing Republicans.
I feel like I'm in a dream.
I feel like I'm having a dream here.
This is not reality.
We've got all these people with their tongues hitting the floor.
I mean, the butt-kissing here is getting embarrassing.
Mr. McKinnon, you are begging the party to embrace somebody who strategically, purposely endorsed a Democrat for the express purpose of ruining and defeating a Republican moderate.
Senator McCain.
Senator McCain, an ideal candidate for moderates.
Did everything right other than Palin in their minds.
Now, what, folks, help me out here.
What am I missing?
Colin Powell admits he has voted for JFK.
He admits he voted for Jimmy Carter.
He admits he voted for Barack Obama.
He voted for Lyndon Johnson.
Now, all of us, why is this guy so crucial?
Mr. McKinnon, do you understand how this sounds to the people that really make the Republican Party what it is?
To listen to people say that our only future is to embrace people that are voting and endorsing Democrats?
Forget why.
I have never heard anything as senseless and more destructive to a party.
It seems to me if you're a Republican, you support the party nominee.
And if you don't, you certainly don't go out and make a big show of endorsing the Democrat at a strategic point designed to hurt and harm the Republican campaign, which is what General Powell did.
Now, I don't understand this.
Well, I mean, I do.
I know what they're trying to do.
But in the real world of common sense it doesn't make any sense.
Did you know that CNN is speculating out there that the Republican ticket in 2012 will be Chaney and Me?
I didn't know it either until I got the audio soundbite roster today.
Mary Madeline on Wolf Blitzer's show, THE Situation ROOM, and Blitzer said, Roger Simon writes speculating, maybe Chaney and Limbaugh will be the Republican ticket.
This led to immediate speculation that Chaney and Limbaugh intend to run as a ticket in 2012 a full-blown international crisis.
You're smiling Mary, i'm smiling.
Is there any realistic notion that your former boss, Dick Chaney, is thinking about 2012?
Well, in a conservative's dream, i'd be giving up this perch wolf in a New York minute to go work for that ticket.
But, as the vice president said on CNN no, he's not running.
Anything he's advocating or talking about now is uh, in defense of, or support for, policies that he thinks are important to this country, and he has no intention of running again.
But be still my heart the thought of it and uh, I want to just go on the record here.
CNN did not call to ask me my thoughts.
I have not denied this.
They're just reporting this, but they've not sought out me and I haven't denied it.
Donna Brazil same program, Donna Brazile, was asked by Blitzer.
It would really energize the base of the GOP, that kind of ticket, Chaney Limbaugh, don't you think, Donna?
Yeah, i'm sure it will energize the base, but right now the the Republicans is they understand that they have to do more than just energize the base.
They have to rebuild the party and rebuild it essentially from scratch.
I don't think the vice president is running and I hope, now that he's given his big major speech, he'll save the rest for his book.
We got to take a brief time out.
Do you realize how scared to death they are of this?
I mean, we don't need to energize the base.
The base is there, the base is ready for battle and that's what they know.
That's what they know.
The party may have to be rebuilt, but there's only one way of doing that and i'll hold my thoughts on, because I got to take a brief, obscene profit timeout here on the EIB Network.
Be right back, by the way, this uh question that Wolf Blitzer asked of Mary Madeline and Donna Brazil.
The Politico got this thing started.
It was a very sarcastic piece about uh, it was Roger Simon.
It was very sarcastic about uh, Cheney and me being the 2012 ticket.
Uh, and Simon ended the Politico piece by comparing my audience to Kim Jong-il's population, in that we both have ditto heads.
So, Roger Simon of Politico compared you people to the slaves of Kim Jong-il.
Now, that was earlier this week.
The dirty little secret for all of you people in drive-bys is I run for president every four years, not on a ballot, but you people, depending on the outcome, always say it was my fault.
If the Republicans win, Limbaugh did it.
Republicans lose, it's Limbaugh's fault.
So I run every four years anyway, without ever being on a ballot.
By the way, Kim Jong-il with a message for ditto heads, Jackson Missouri and uh Sherry, great to have you on the EYE Network.
Hello Sherry, are you still there?
Yeah, I'm here.
Actually, that's my mom.
Oh!
I'm Allison.
Oh, you're Allison.
You're on hold for your mom.
Yes.
I see.
How old are you, Allison?
I'm nine.
Nine years old.
Well, it's a delight to have you here with us today.
Thank you.
It's a delight to talk to you today.
Well, I appreciate that.
What's up?
Not that much.
I just, at my school, I did a biography on you, and I just have a few questions to ask you.
Is that okay?
Yeah.
Wait a minute.
You have done the biography or you're going to do the biography?
I have done the biography.
Oh, why do you need any questions?
What?
Why do you have more questions if you have done the biography?
Well, I just want to know if they were true.
Well, this could be interesting.
All right.
We'll try one question and see how it goes.
I've got about 45 seconds here, Allison.
Okay.
I was wondering, whenever you were a teenager, did you use the name Rusty Sharpie?
Yes, Rusty Sharp.
I didn't pronounce the E on the end, I guess.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, I wanted an adjective as a last name.
Yes, I do.
Okay, time for one more question.
And I have one more.
Did you drop out of college after two semesters in one summer?
Two semesters.
I learned my lesson.
I think they might have made me go to summer for a couple classes.
Yes, I dropped out, but I quit.
It wasn't for me, Stacey.
Okay, well, that's okay.
I still love you.
You're the best.
Thank you, Allison.
I love kids.
Sometimes.
Folks, I tell you, Allison from Jackson, Missouri, which is eight miles from my hometown.
Jackson's a suburb of Cape Girardeau, we call it.
She's going to make a great journalist.
Go ahead and do the report.
After the report's submitted, then get the facts.
See you tomorrow.
See you tomorrow on Open Life Friday.
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