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June 3, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 3, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #2
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All right, we're back.
Great to have you with us, Rush Limboy, and a middle of the week Wednesday here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Uh telephone number if you want to join us, 800 282 at 2882, and the uh email address L Rushball at EIBNet.com.
All right, I wanna I want to say just a couple more things about Obama and Muslims and his trip over there, and then we're gonna move on to uh to other things.
And I want grab grab audio soundbite number two.
This is Lara Logan, state controlled media CBS, and this was her report on the CBS evening news last night.
Sunset in Cairo.
The call to prayer rings out.
Thousands fill the mosques for Friday prayers.
Muslims around the world are paying close attention to the overtures made by Barack Obama from his first moments as president.
America's new leader has raised the hopes of Muslims all over the world who now expect so much of one man.
Well, all right, what hopes do they have?
What hopes do these Muslims all over the world, not just in the Middle East, what hopes do Muslims all over the world have?
They're not spelled out.
Might it have something to do with Israel?
Do they just want their share of the stimulus money?
Do they want some shovel ready jobs?
What are their hopes?
Obama said the United States could be considered a Muslim country.
There are 1.6 million Muslims in this country, less than one percent of the population.
Now what's what what what is going on?
I mean, lies about something that is easily demonstrated to be false.
This is an out and out lie.
Now he's got the state-run media not challenging him on this.
He says it over there in the Middle East.
Why?
There's more to this than just trying to appeal to the world's Muslims or their leaders.
They know.
They know that the U.S. does not have a large Muslim population.
And he says it anyway.
There is a pathology at work here where Obama says things that are flat out lies.
They go unchallenged by the state-run media, and it becomes so-called urban myth, but in this case, this is weird.
This is just plain old weird to run around and say that you could consider the United States a Muslim country.
With 1.6 Muslims living here.
I don't pretend to understand it.
You know, I'm not shrink.
And here I think is why.
One of the explanations for why all of this is going on.
This is from CNN.
And this, let's see, when do I post this?
This was uh yesterday.
Shortly before President Obama departs for a trip to the Middle East, a new national poll suggests that one in five Americans.
Only one in five Americans has a favorable view of Muslim countries.
That view compares with 46% of the people questioned who say they have an unfavorable opinion of Muslim countries.
And that's up five points since 2002, when it was 41%.
So 20% have a favorable view of uh of uh Muslim countries in America, 46% have an unfavorable view.
And this is a White House obsessed with polls.
So there I think is one explanation for why all of this is being done, but it's gonna it's it's this is just gonna exacerbate things, and nobody's gonna believe this.
The people here this are gonna be like all of us scratching their heads.
What is he talking about?
What is the purpose of this?
Because everybody knows it's a lie, even his audience of Muslims.
They know it's a lie too.
They know it's not true.
Okay, moving on.
The Wall Street Journal, interesting story today.
Why the health care rush?
It is an editorial.
It turns out, ladies and gentlemen, that the Democrats had a Democrat only meeting yesterday With Obama on nationalized health care.
The Democrats want to ram this down everybody's throat just like they did TARP and just like they did the stimulus bill.
They don't want any public hearings, and no Republicans were in that meeting.
Democrats are trying to rush the largest entitlement expansion since LBJ into law with a truncated debate and as little public scrutiny as possible.
Why?
One reason.
People find out about it and they won't support it.
It will not stand public inspection.
The Wall Street Journal says here the reality is that Democrats are contemplating the most sweeping restructuring of the health care markets since 1965 in Medicare, and they don't want to let the details slow them down.
Just like they didn't want the details of amnesty.
Remember last summer, two summers, they didn't want anybody knowing what was in the immigration reform bill.
Sorry, the comprehensive immigration reform bill.
And boy, right.
Tom Dashel has spelled out this strategy before he was bounced out of the Senate.
This harkens back to the old days when the Democrats ran the House for 40 years, the Republicans had like 120 or 135 members, and they were shut out of committee meetings when Bob Michael was the Republican leader, and they didn't care.
They had no business being in there and they couldn't stop anything.
I would tell you why this is a uh uh a bad deal, folks.
And one of one of the things that's in this bill is is taxing health care benefits.
Employer provided health care benefits are going to be taxed.
The Washington Post even has a story today.
President pivots on taxing benefits.
Obama willing to consider move to gain health care reform.
It's by CC Connolly.
President Obama pivots from one of his harshest campaign criticisms, told Democrat senators yesterday, no Republicans in the meeting, that he is willing to consider taxing employer sponsored health benefits to help pay for a broad expansion of coverage.
The Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus said that Obama expressed a willingness to consider changing the existing tax exclusion.
The decision would probably anger liberal supporters like labor unions, but such a tax would raise enormous sums of money as Congress and the White House is struggling to find the estimated 1.2 trillion needed to pay for nationalized medicine.
Let's remember and the campaign last September.
Obama said this about Senator McCain for the first time in American history.
He wants to tax your health benefits, apparently.
Senator McCain doesn't think it's enough that your health premiums have doubled.
He thinks you should have to pay taxes on them too.
And now Obama is willing to do this.
I predicted this long time ago.
Your health care coverage provided by your employer is going to be taxed, and it's not going to be cheap, folks.
If your health care package costs your employer twelve, fifteen thousand dollars, whatever it is, you're going to add that to your salary to your gross, and you're going to pay your pay your take-home pay is going to go way, way down because your sal you're going to get a raise.
In effect, you're never going to see the money, but you're going to pay taxes on it.
Here's the real problem with nationalized health care.
And I I made a big point of this in my interview today with Sean Hannity, which uh was about 40 minutes.
It's going to air in two parts tonight and tomorrow on his Fox News Channel show at 9 o'clock.
If they get, if the Democrats get national health care, the concept of individual freedom and liberty will have been obliterated.
They will be able, Washington, government, state, and local, will be able to regulate every facet of our behavior under the guise that it is some kind of a cost impact on health care.
For example, the kind of car you drive will be regulated, the kind Of food that you eat.
And uh you may not be prevented from eating certain things, but you'll be taxed if you do because of the impact on the healthcare system.
So imagine you want popcorn to theater.
Might there might be a tax added to it.
Folks, it th i it's it's impossible to exaggerate this.
Think of virtually any activity you engage in with your kids that might put them at risk.
You take them outside and play.
You drive on a snowy road without chains.
You fly on an airplane.
Anything that could risk injury, which is practically everything you do, could be regulated or taxed because of the impact your behavior will have on the cost of health care.
After that takes place, the actual quality of health care we all get is gonna hit the sewer.
It's there with without any competition.
I mean, look at look at the office of the Department of Motor Vehicles.
That's the only place you can go.
And do they care a whit about making you happy or satisfying you?
If it's coffee break time or some other break time, or if they don't like the way you look at, they uh look or or whatever, they can make your life miserable.
Now imagine that.
When you go to the doctor.
Uh I uh it's this is something everybody's gonna have to really think about, and it's gonna have to be called to everybody's uh attention.
Here, give you another here's an example.
This is a story from Health Day, Health Day News.
There's a new illness, or a new um sickness, a new problem, cell phone elbow.
First came Nintendo thumb, then guitar hero risk.
Now for the latest affliction of the wired age, cell phone elbow.
Medically known as cubital tunnel syndrome, cell phone elbow is numbness, tingling, and pain in the forearm and hand caused by compression of the ulnar nerve, which passes along the bony bump on the inside of the elbow.
Prolonged flexing of the elbow, such as when you hold a cell phone to your ear while closing sales, talking to your mother, or keeping tabs on your kids while you're at work, puts tension on your ulnar nerve in susceptible people holding the bent elbow position for extended periods, can lead to decreased blood flow, inflammation, and compression of the nerve.
So they diagnose cell phone elbow.
I'm just using this as an example.
Cell phone elbow has to be treated.
It will be treated under the government-sponsored health care plan, and a lot of people are gonna have it.
Maybe they can regulate your use of the phone.
Maybe they can tell you and fine you if you are caught using the phone with your arm bent or whatever.
You think of the most illogical, irrational example, and it could come true.
Cell phone elbow.
You know what my reaction to this was?
Makes me wonder how our forefathers and mothers plowed with mules and lived to tell about it.
They churned butter.
Do you know what that is, Brian?
You know what churning butter is?
You want milking a cow is?
You know what it is to hoe a garden, HOE, hoe a garden?
Do you know what it is to go down to the creek and haul water back to the house?
Do you know what it is to get up before dawn and follow a mule or a horse and plow a field before you go to school?
How did they survive?
And now we're actually going to get upset over cell phone elbow.
What a bunch of wusses.
The left wants to turn us into.
And one other observation before we go to the uh obscene profit break here.
State run MSNBC at the top of the hour focused a lot on Newt Gingrich retracting the word racist to describe Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.
It's too extreme.
The drive by is all happy that Mr. Newt is retracting, and I'm not retracting.
The truth doesn't need to be retracted.
And we don't retract the truth here.
But they're all excited about it.
It's too extreme.
It's too extreme.
Racist is too extreme.
Wasn't too extreme when it was applied to Robert Bork.
Wasn't too extreme when it was applied to Miguel Estrada, Janice Rogers Brown.
Racist.
That's too extreme.
We can't have that kind of talk.
But we can have in a storied Senate hearing chamber before the nation.
We can have discussions of a pubic hair on a coke can.
But we can't use the word racist when it actually applies.
We'll be back.
John Kerry, Senator John Kerry, who served in Vietnam has been told by the IRS that they have filed a tax lien against his campaign, $819,000.
Now, Senator Kerry, who served in Vietnam, said that the IRS has made a clerical error here, that his campaign owes no tax penalties.
That's not the story.
Headline, Carrie says 819,000 tax lien is clerical error.
All this means is, and Senator Kerry is trying very hard to get a post in the Obama administration.
All right, to the phones.
Ed in Milford, Connecticut.
Great to have you with us, sir.
You're up first today on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
Um, I'm calling you from my family business.
Our family's been doing Lancevang work for 30 years here in Fairfield County.
Um if I had an employee or myself even, got what we were doing wrong 60% of the time, I wouldn't be here.
The employee wouldn't be here.
Nobody would be in this office who got something wrong 60% of the time.
So I ask you a question.
What Senator or Congressman in their right mind would elect or vote for Sonia Sodemeyer if her record is that bad.
Uh well, uh see, the i i the the ideology here is what matters uh when it comes to liberal judges.
Uh her record is not really relevant.
What what the the reason Obama has appointed her is that she is a mirror image of him.
She is a radical.
She will find ways to rewrite the Constitution or rewrite law using empathy.
That's what he wants.
The Constitution is a constraint on Obama.
Now your question's valid.
You know what?
Senator Congressman of right mind would elect her vote for Sonya Sodomayer if her record is that bad.
It's not about her record.
It's what they hope she will do.
Well, then I have they're very confident she will do as a justice to the Supreme Court.
And I have another question.
Well, I think it was Mr. Newt that said that uh he was more interested in what she said and not her record.
Was that right?
What she said and not uh uh he was more interested to what no.
Well, the two are related.
In his retraction, he he he wants to look at her words, he wants to look at her rulings and her words.
That's why I say he really didn't really retract this.
He retracted the use of the word racist, but he does he hasn't changed his mind about her being one.
Well, all I care about here is actions.
I don't care what people necessarily say around my office.
I care about what they do.
And to tell you, I I just can't believe anyone would vote this woman in.
If it's true that 60% of her uh her um uh submissions are overruled, then I think you gotta be insane to uh put this woman in.
No, no, no, you don't understand a left.
I mean, uh this is see the Supreme Court can't be reversed.
Supreme Court, they can only reverse themselves.
Later courts taking a different case.
So she's but trust me on this.
She's been appointed for a reason.
She shares the radical views of the U.S. Constitution that Obama shares.
And her own Words illustrate this.
I don't have to make up or try to convince anybody who she is.
We can use her own words.
She says we make policy as judges.
No, you don't.
You interpret the law, the constitutionality of laws or laws.
You don't make policy.
She makes policy.
That's what Obama wants.
She thinks.
She said, a Latina will come to a wiser decision than a white guy because of her rich experience.
I don't her I put those words in the mouth of a white guy.
Anyone.
Ah, my much smarter than a Latina woman.
I mean, Latina Wentman, they haven't lived my life.
She can't she hold a candle to me and see how long he lasts.
This is what they want.
It will be more like her, appointed by Obama.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, serving humanity.
How?
Simply by showing up, folks.
Simply by being here.
That's how.
And as always, doing so with half my brain tied behind my back, just to keep things fair.
To the audio sound bites, Andrea Mitchell, in meeting in Washington, state run MSNBC.
Just a short while ago.
This just in from Rush Limbaugh on his show today.
He suggested that he might support Judge Sotomayor.
Let me read this to you.
She would be the sixth Catholic on the Supreme Court, he said.
There are a lot of people worried about that.
That does not bother me at all.
I know a lot of Catholics.
I love Catholics.
But Sotomayor, she's a Catholic.
She doesn't have a clear record on abortion, overturning Roe versus Wade.
Whoa, it would be huge.
I don't know if it will ever happen, but the opportunity to get someone like her, I can see a possibility of supporting this nomination.
If I can be convinced she does have a sensibility toward life in a legal sense, of course, in a real sense.
So I think people are beginning to stand down a little bit.
Maybe they thought that they went overboard.
So uh Andrea Mitchell, MSNBC uh is accusing me of standing down here.
I'm not standing down.
I um I'm I'm pointing out something I just I think I might have learned.
I'm not yet certain.
Okay.
How about this, folks?
You tell me if this is an action.
The federal government mistakenly made public.
A 266-page report, its pages marked highly confidential, that gives detailed information about hundreds of the nation's civilian nuclear sites and programs, including maps showing the precise location of stockpiles of fuel for nuclear weapons.
This is unbelievable.
This is an accident.
This is a mistake.
And these are the people.
I see it.
These are the people who are soon to be in charge of our health care, and they mistakenly put nuclear information like this on the internet.
The publication of the document was revealed Monday in an online newsletter devoted to issues of federal secrecy.
On Tuesday evening after inquiries from the state-run media, the document was withdrawn from a government printing office website.
A mistake.
Wow.
I'll tell you.
What do you mean talk about eating my word?
You are kidding me.
Well, let me clue you in, folks.
Uh uh we just played for you, Andrea Mitchell reading my comments on Sonia Sotomayor and a potential uh support if she's uh documented to be pro-life.
Now they just played the audio soundbite of my saying that the video, the ditto cam video, and then she said, talk about eating your words, as though I have pulled a big 180 and retracted here.
Um Andrea what sorry, Andrew, you're not watching producers for Andrea Mitchell.
I you need to tell her I have not retracted my charge that she's a racist and a bigot.
I have not eaten my words.
You're missing the fundamental portal.
Gosh, this is this is a pro-life racist.
And I'm saying if she's a pro-life racist, I'm going to have to change my view.
What is so hard to understand?
You know, the state-run media is unbelievable.
They hear what they want to hear as though it matters that I might support Sotomayor.
As though it matters.
Well, it maybe does.
Wait till you hit his next series of sound bites.
Yeah, whoever's producing for Andrea Mitchell MSNBC, you tell her.
What I just said.
She might be a pro-life racist.
She is a racist, and she would bring racism and biggery to the court.
I have not withdrawn anything.
Now, as you know, state-run NBC was granted uh uh access to the Barack Obama reality show.
The West Wing.
We have a series of uh of sound bites here.
And the first one is a montage to give you a flavor of Brian Williams following Obama and his staff around in the White House last Friday.
Now, this show, as you would expect from state controlled media, is a fawning tribute to Obama.
But the topic that dominated the day last Friday at the White House was Sonia Sotomayor, and by extension, me.
So here is the montage to give you a flavor.
This thing aired last night.
A flavor of how state-controlled NBC put together this little reality show on Obama and his staff.
The TV version of the West Wing on NBC has only been off the air for three years, and yet it's already a dated imperfect depiction of what life is like here.
It is young, it is fast, and it is loose.
Eric Lesser is 24.
He was in charge of baggage and logistics on the Obama campaign plane.
Now he's the right-hand man to David Axelrod.
Katie Johnson, KJ is 28.
She's the president's secretary.
Then there's the senior management team, Ram Emanuel, Valerie Jarrett, General Jim Jones, and Robert Gibbs, and the news of this day on the domestic front, the new Supreme Court nominee.
The meetings and the pace of this place aren't unusual in terms of past administrations we've seen.
But this president is this president's been called a rock star by his fans and his critics.
Okay, so there's there's the setup.
There's the setup.
Now, here we here here is Brian Williams detailing last Friday and how the criticism of Sotomayor by me has totally flummoxed him.
This is where the president nominated Federal Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court, and that became a big story during our day here at the White House.
Specifically a controversial quote from the judge dating back to a lecture she gave in 2001.
The critics pounced on it.
reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.
It's the kind of scenario a press office dreads.
A presidential nominee makes a remark that gives the opposition ammunition.
It becomes clear the Sotomayor issue isn't going away.
Within the hour, senior advisor David Axelrod and his staff react.
The candid advice seems to be do something about Judge Sotomayor.
By 12 noon, the deputy chief of staff is calling Capitol Hill to lock in Democratic support.
Now they they they scramble all day long, folks, and by the end of the day, they settle on the type of damage control that they are going to uh uh engage in.
At 220, press Secretary Robert Gibbs thinks he's ready to meet the press.
The Sotomayor controversy is simmering right now.
Some days are good, and some days aren't so good.
Comments made by Rush, Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich are getting a whole lot of attention.
At 5 p.m., Deputy Chief of Staff Messina meets with White House.
It really is maddening watching this sort of hate fest going on.
Finally, the White House decides to use the big gun.
They know we're scheduled for an interview with the president, and he is ready with his comment on the nominee's comment.
I'm sure she would have uh restated it.
He continues defending his nominee for ten minutes.
By 501, the president is watching himself on MSNBC.
By 612, Fox News.
It's the breakneck news cycle of 2009.
And in order to keep up, the president surrounds himself with highly skilled and fiercely loyal players.
One of the more fierce than the rest.
Chief of Staff Rom Emanuel.
What's it like to hear your Supreme Court nominee called a racist?
Let me quote the Republican Senator from Texas who thought that both Rush Limbaugh and New King Rich's comments were ridiculous.
So this program uh flummoxed the White House all of last Friday, and whether state-controlled NBC wants to admit it or not, by virtue of their own report, uh it was this program in Mr. Newt which forced Obama.
The big gun.
They had to bring out the big gun because the press office couldn't handle it on their own, had to bring out the big gun to say.
Well, I think she probably would say it a different way.
She restated it.
So she do over.
Yeah, what would she have said differently?
That didn't they didn't specify.
Oh, should have she'd have just said it differently.
Well, can you imagine now?
I wonder if somebody called Obama while he was getting out of his meeting with the King of Saudi Arabia.
Say Newt Gingrich retracted a limboss says she might be pro-life, and if so, he might support her.
Tell me when you guys are ready.
I feel good today.
I think it was gonna be one takes the whole way through.
He's devoting the address to a defense of his nominee.
This week I nominated Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the U.S. Court of Appeals to replace Justice Oh, well, so much for one take.
It ends up being more like four takes.
I just got an email from a uh subscriber at Rush Limbaugh.com, and a guy has a good point.
He said, Rush, you have become a state-run media megastore.
Now, megastar now, you were just a bulletin on MSNBC.
What you said was a bulletin, meaning comments on Soto Mayor.
I had to look at it that way, but here I am broadcasting to 20 million people.
They're broadcasting to five people, and they say this just end MSNBC, Rush Limbaugh, and then they read what I said.
As though nobody knows it.
Yes, I was a bulletin.
Here's Lynn in Jonesboro, Arkansas.
Great to have you on the program high.
Hello, Lynn, are you there?
Testing.
Yeah, yes, I thank you very much.
Yeah, welcome to the program.
I can hardly understand you.
Uh why?
I understand myself fine.
Bad connection.
Well, your connection is fine, so you don't need we can hear you fine, so say what you want to say.
Bad connection.
What I wanted to say was concerning Judge Sotomayor and her speech.
And it has nothing to do with her her racial biases.
Uh, what bothers me about her talking about wisdom?
I've never known someone who was wise who bragged about it.
You know, that's an excellent point.
That's egotistical.
To brag about your wisdom.
That's true.
By the way, this this racial business.
She has a fixation on being uh Latina.
Hispanic.
It's been counted.
Her speech on diversity at Berkeley that has this quote that uh everybody focused on that was printed by La Raza.
Specifically, she mentions Latina 39 times in that speech, Hispanic six times, and Pretorican six times.
Her Wikipedia entry mentions Latino 30 times, Hispanic 17 times, and Pretorican 24 times.
Twenty plus years.
Quick, Brian, you've been here for about ten of them.
How many times in ten years have I referred to myself as white?
You know, remember I don't remember one time referring to myself as white.
I have called Paul Shanklin a uh a white comedian.
Yeah, uh.
Uh, because the drive-by's did.
The drive by's called him a white man.
I have not called myself, I've called myself an American.
I I am guilty of that.
But my my heritage, I the Dutch and German, but I've I've not said I'm Dutch and German.
She's fixated on it, folks.
That's how she's been taught.
Who's next?
Uh Port Byron, Illinois.
Sherry, you're on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Russ.
Hi.
I'm so thrilled to speak with you.
I have been so frustrated with the Barack Obama administration and the media treating us like we're stupid.
I think they count on the American public being fat dumb and lazy.
And through my frustration, I've thought if Barack Obama can be credited, can say himself that he has saved a fictitious number of jobs through his porculus spending, then former President Bush and his entire homeland security team are national heroes because they saved a real number of thousands, tens of thousands of lives through foiling the uh terrorist attack in Los Angeles.
And even what what happened in New York recently.
I just I think they're absolutely pinpointing uh numbers heroes for our country, and I think they should be credited uh with with real heroism.
Well, this is an excellent point.
You know, the the whole concept of saving jobs is just words that can never be it can never be calculated.
But when you ain't the state run media is gonna is gonna follow uh follow right along and and um uh and report whatever Obama says, and they're gonna do it in a fawning and congratulatory way.
Uh let's see.
I have a story here that relates to what you said, uh, Sherry.
Vice President Biden acknowledged on Tuesday, this is is is somewhat related.
Acknowledged yesterday some waste is inevitable in the uh in the porculus bill.
Uh we know some of this money's gonna be wasted, he said.
Uh there are gonna be mistakes made.
Some people are being scammed already.
Uh so the that the whole thing is a scam, as is the concept of jobs saved and jobs created.
The real t the real story is the jobs being lost.
It's another five hundred and twenty-two thousand last month.
That's the real story.
Unemployment numbers hardly get a mention anymore.
In the drive-by state-controlled media.
And here, try this story from our local paper, the Palm Beach Post.
Some 1,000 school dropouts, runaways, young parents, and nonviolent criminal offenders will be put to work this summer in Palm Beach County thanks to three million dollars in federal stimulus money.
The summer Ute employment program is aimed at the uh finding temporary jobs for people with barriers to employment.
It'll cost about 1.8 million to pay the workers and their workers' compensation insurance.
Another 600,000 will be spent administering the program.
The remaining 600,000 allows goodwill industries and the urban league to provide temporary jobs to young people who have difficulty getting jobs.
A thousand school dropouts, three million in stimulus money.
My question is, why make them work at all?
Just give them the money.
That's what we do with other social welfare programs.
Why make them work?
This is unfair.
It is unfair and it is it is discriminatory and it is judgmental.
These kids can't get jobs anyway.
They're already job challenged.
That's why they're gonna be paid to do these meetings.
Just give them the money.
That's what the Obama administration and the left has done to make them work.
Why what about their dignity, folks?
This is not good news.
Bill Gray, a Colorado State University hurricane forecaster, has reduced his Atlantic hurricane prediction.
He's dropped it from twelve to eleven tropical storms, five hurricanes down from uh seven.
The reason it's not good news is cause and I love Bill Gray, but they're always wrong.
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