I'm just waiting for a couple things to be spit out from the printer, and I'll be right with you.
I don't believe this.
All right.
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Basically, ladies and gentlemen, the speeches of President Obama always come down to the same thing.
Somebody else must sacrifice to achieve the ends that he seeks.
Today, the Israelis must sacrifice.
They must sacrifice more than they have in the past.
And they must do so immediately and as Obama dictates.
Yesterday, General Motors workers had to sacrifice.
They must sacrifice for future workers.
The rest of us must sacrifice.
We must drive smaller cars.
We must buy smaller homes.
We must use less energy.
We must give up private health care.
We must pay more taxes.
We must eat less food.
We must sacrifice for Obama to reach his ends.
And every day, somebody else has to sacrifice.
On the other hand, Obama is the one collecting all of the sacrifices.
Obama sacrifices nothing.
It's all about him.
It's all about his ideology.
It's all about his worldview.
Our lives and our futures revolve around him and his dream.
Corporate CEOs are admonished: don't take the private jet to Vegas.
Those days are over.
Obama takes two private jets and three helicopters to New York for dinner and a show.
I asked the question earlier today: where's Michelle?
I don't see Michelle over there.
And somebody said, no, Michelle is going to meet him with the girls in Paris or France over the weekend for the Normandy, and they're going to have a rocking good time.
Well, now, she's not going to get over there on the Queen Elizabeth II or whatever the ship is.
She's going to fly over there on one of Obama's 429 airplanes.
Do you know that Obama's corporate fleet is 429 airplanes, not to mention the helicopters and other things?
And the plane that flies them over there is going to have to deadhead back with nobody on it because she'll go back with him on the big corporate jet, Air Force One.
Just some casual observations.
Here's another, this is the bizarre moral equivalency argument from Obama's speech.
He said, now let me be clear.
Issues of women's equality are by no means simply an issue for Islam.
In Turkey, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Indonesia, we have seen Muslim-majority countries elect a woman to lead.
Meanwhile, the struggle for women's equality continues in many aspects of American life and in countries around the world.
There it is, on the other hand, the moral equivalence.
So while they're making great progress on women's rights in the Muslim world, we have a country where women's equality is still an ongoing struggle.
Women are still being stoned in Iran.
Women are being stoned in Iran.
Women are being beheaded.
Women.
I'm sorry.
I just, I don't know how here to react to this other than with incredulity.
I just, I just, I just don't.
Let's see.
Oh, yes.
There's this.
I don't know if I've got the...
Let's see if I've got the sound back here on nukes.
By the way, he did mention 7 million American Muslims again today.
And there are 1.5, 1.6 million American Muslims in America.
There are not 7 million.
Anyway, he said this, I understand those who protest that some countries have weapons and others do not.
No single nation should pick and choose which nations hold nuclear weapons.
That is why I strongly reaffirmed America's commitment to seek a world in which no nations hold nuclear weapons.
So, well, who should decide this then?
If no single nation should pick and choose which nation holds nuclear weapons, this is outrageous.
This is Barack Obama saying that there are no good guys, and particularly that his country is not a good guy.
We're all bad guys.
Anybody that's got nukes as weapons are bad guys.
And somebody like the United Nations ought to decide these things.
So here he goes over.
He apologizes for our nuclear weapons.
He apologizes for our quote-unquote dictatorial stand on nuclear weapons, determining who gets them and who doesn't, which effectively green lights the Iranians to go ahead, which is already done in the form of nuclear power.
And something else that the state-run media, state-controlled media has ignored.
On education, we will expand exchange programs and increase scholarships, like the one that brought my father to America, while encouraging more Americans to study in Muslim countries.
And we will match promising Muslim students with internships in America.
We will invest in online learning for teachers and children around the world.
We will create a new online network so a teenager in Kansas can communicate instantly with a teenager in Cairo.
You mean they can't now?
On economic development, we'll create a new core of business volunteers to partner with counterparts in Muslim-majority countries.
And I will host a summit of entrepreneurship this year to identify how we can deepen ties between business leaders, foundations, and social entrepreneurs in the United States and Muslim countries around the world.
All things must be done in partnership.
Americans are ready to join with citizens and governments, community organizations, religious leaders, and businesses in Muslim communities around the world to help our people pursue a better life.
I read that to you again here, folks.
All these things must be done in partnership.
Americans are ready to join with citizens and governments, community organizations, read Acorn, religious leaders, Jeremiah Wright, and businesses in Muslim communities around the world to help our people pursue a better life.
So your pursuit of a better life will now be intertwined with interaction with Arab, the Muslim version of Acorn, the Muslim version of Jeremiah Wright, and Muslim businesses to help you pursue a better life.
Now, is the one thing that is not specifically spelled out here, but on education, we're going to expand programs, increase scholarships, on economic development, we'll create a new core of business volunteers to partner on science and technology.
We're going to launch a new fund to support technology.
Do you realize the tax increase here?
The taxpayer money that he just promised the Muslim Middle East in this speech?
That's how you have to analyze this.
All of the taxpayer money that's going to be spent.
No wonder this looked like a State of the Union speech.
Did you watch it?
Whenever he had anything to say about Islam, Palestinians, man, they shot up like jacks in the box, just like the Democrats do at the State of the Union.
When he talked about Israel, they sat on their hands.
And when he talked about all these exchange programs and all of this taxpayer money going to the Middle East, I asked yesterday, I asked yesterday when Laura Logan, CBS, she said the hopes of the Muslim world rest on his shoulders.
Have what hopes?
Might they have something to do with Israel or they just want their share of stimulus money?
It appears both.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, Rush Limbaugh and the EIB network.
Either way, some people are just not listening to Obama today.
The Taliban has killed three U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.
A nice word about our brave troops in the Muslim world protecting women and children from barbarians like the Taliban would have been a nice touch for the American president.
But there weren't any such words acknowledging the role of the United States nor any effort on the part of the United States to liberate Muslims from their oppressors, which we have done five or six different times in the course of our history.
All right, to the phones we go.
We're going to start in Orange, Connecticut.
This is Dana, and it's great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hey, Major Ditto's Rush.
Listen, I just wanted to let you know a couple of things.
Last night, sitting on the couch watching you on the Hannity program, you just, you guys, you clicked and you made so much sense for me.
And I've been so deeply angered by this administration and, you know, the goings on.
And you're going to clear things up.
Yeah, and I can understand that.
You know, America should, you know, just wake up and realize that the socialist route has already bankrupted one country and, you know, hasn't worked in history.
Well, you know, I talk about that.
I think in the second installment that Hannity interviewed, I did a bunch of TV interviews yesterday, and I don't, I'm now getting confused where I said what.
But Fox was also in here yesterday afternoon after the program doing a, they're doing a six-part, six-hour documentary on the conservative movement from its beginning to the present.
And I must have talked to these guys for about an hour, and I don't remember if I said this to Hannity or to them, but at this point, you know, Obama's got this love and devotion from the people it voted for him.
They're not critical thinkers.
And that's what you're asking them to be.
They haven't been educated as critical thinkers.
They're sponges.
They're emotional sponges.
And the question is, when and if actual real-world experiences are going to cause them to wake up and realize that everything they're hearing from Obama about their future is not going to happen.
And even if that moment arrives, even if at some point down the line a lot of people have voted for Obama and say, wait a minute, I still don't have a job.
I'm still in big trouble.
Will they blame him?
Or will they credit him for trying in an impossible situation left to him by Bush?
You know, you're going to have the state-controlled media is out there already trying to write stories or writing stories, trying to tell the American people that the economy may have bottomed out.
It's rebounding.
Things are looking good, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
So it remains to be seen.
You ask.
I mean, people ask me this all the time.
When are people going to wake up?
I don't have the answer to it.
Now, I have talked to people about this.
A friend of mine has an interesting theory.
He doesn't think any of this is going to happen.
He doesn't think that there's going to be a mass awakening on the part of Obama voters someday where they're going to realize that they've been sold a bill of goods and that all of these programs designed to revive an economy are not working.
He thinks that what's going to happen is there's going to be some event nobody suspects, nobody predicts, and open mic or something, Obama is going to say something cop an attitude that will cause people to say, what did he say?
Who is he?
That will provide a stark contrast to the image that has been carefully crafted.
Everybody's got their theories about this, and everybody has their questions about when it's going to turn around and so forth.
I found that one somewhat interesting, that it's going to be event-related, not a mass awakening based on real-world experiences.
We'll see.
May not happen either, folks.
Chris, they still think FDR is the greatest thing since sliced bread, for example.
I use that example a lot.
Chris in Albuquerque, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hey, mega conservative, struggling small business owner, Casa Magna Smoking Ditto's Rush.
Thank you very much, sir.
Well, you know, there's nothing Obama said today in Cairo that wasn't said by his predecessor, President Bush.
In fact, in 2002, I believe it was his Ramadan speech.
There's pages and pages of quotes about how the Islamic community has been a contributor to society and innovative and are wonderful Americans and all that stuff.
And the Muslim response to that was, what?
Well, I'm looking for a soundbite here that addresses this.
I thought I saw this.
Hang on here just a second.
The Washington Post wrote in November of 2008 how Bush's nonstop rhetoric about Muslims.
I'm going to answer your question.
Here's soundbite four.
This is Obama essentially apologizing for the Iraq war and Guantanamo Bay.
Iraq was a war of choice that provoked strong differences in my country and around the world.
Events in Iraq have reminded America of the need to use diplomacy and build international consensus to resolve our problems whenever possible.
9-11 was an enormous trauma to our country.
The fear and anger that it provoked was understandable.
But in some cases, it led us to act contrary to our traditions and our ideals.
We are taking concrete actions to change course.
I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States.
And I have ordered the prison at Guantanamo Bay closed by early next year.
They stood up and they started applauding.
Now, let me explain this, because the question that Chris asked me, Bush went out there and he said wonderful things.
He was very magnanimous to the Muslim world in many, practically every speech about this.
He just, he did separate mainstream Muslim from terrorism, the terrorist wing, militant Islam, but he got no credit for it whatsoever.
And the answer to it is here.
It's Iraq.
While Bush is saying we got no quarrel with Muslims, he brought democracy to Iraq.
And the last thing any Arab leader wants is democracy.
They don't want any part of it.
And frankly, if you look at most of the Arab world, most of the Arab world happens to like dictators.
Their lives are ordered.
They are what they are.
Dictators rule the day in most Arab countries, especially the oil kingdoms.
So Obama gets to go over there and say, 9-11 was traumatic, but, you know, it led us to act contrary to our traditions and their idea.
What the hell is he talking about?
Well, in his mind, two things, the Iraq war and Guantanamo Bay.
So he's dumping on Bush again.
He's blaming his predecessor.
And he's siding with Islam and with Muslims that they are justified in their attitudes of anger toward the United States.
But now, of course, he, the Messiah, has arrived.
And it's all going to be different now.
He had the audacity to say, I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States.
Ladies and gentlemen, torture in the United States has always been illegal.
There is nothing Barack Obama has done to change that.
If it was legal and Obama has made it illegal, then why does the Obama Justice Department want to prosecute Bush lawyers for writing opinions suggesting that waterboarding would not be torture because the intent was not to torture, it was to glean information.
So he's telling the Muslim world that he has ended torture.
The implication is that that's all we ever have been.
His torturers, rapists, murderers, pillagers.
This is why they love him.
Plus, he's pretty much told them today that he's one of them.
He's got Muslim roots.
He grew up with three different countries with Muslim people, relatives, and so forth.
Then he says he's going to close Guantanamo.
They're going to stop the torture.
I've made it unequivocally illegal.
And we're going to close Guantanamo Bay.
Of course, that's.
We're harming ourselves.
That's why they love him.
How are you?
Welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Great to have you here.
It was mere moments ago, actually, the beginning of the program, I read this incredible story from the state-controlled Associated Press.
The number of Americans on the unemployment insurance rolls fell slightly for the first time in 20 weeks, while the tally of new jobless claims also dipped.
And the clear impression here is that unemployment's going down.
More and more people are finding jobs, right?
And then you read more than halfway down the story, you'll find the unemployment rate meanwhile rose to 9.2% from 8.9% in April.
So unemployment's actually going up despite the state-run AP's attempt to make their readers believe that people are actually finding jobs.
And I pointed out that what's missing in this state-run media report from other media when George W. Bush was president was this line.
We are no longer the number of people who have given up, no longer filing unemployment, can't find work and have stopped trying, is incalculable.
The only way you go from 8.9 to 9.2% unemployment if more and more people losing jobs and if more and more people are not even trying to find one.
Lo and behold, the Los Angeles Times today has found those people who have quit looking for jobs.
And you know what?
A lot of them love it.
Listen to this.
Michael Van Gorkum was laid off by Yahoo in late April.
He didn't panic.
He didn't rush off to a therapist.
Instead, the 33-year-old Santa Monica resident discovered that being jobless kind of settled nicely.
Week one, I thought, okay, I need to send out some resumes.
I need to send some emails.
I need to do some networking.
Week two, I'm going to do a little less of that.
And every week since, you know what, I'm going to the beach.
I'm going to have some margaritas.
What most people would call unemployment, Van Gorkum calls fun employment.
While millions of Americans struggle to find work as they face foreclosures and bankruptcy, others have found a silver lining in the economic meltdown.
These happily jobless tend to be single and in their 20s and 30s.
Some were laid off, some quit voluntarily, lured by generous buyouts, buoyed by severance, savings, unemployment checks, or their parents.
The fun employed don't spend their days poring over job listings.
They travel on the cheap for weeks.
They head back to school or they volunteer at the neighborhood soup kitchen.
And at least till a bank account dries up, they're content living for today.
Aubrey Howells, 29, Franklin, Tennessee, laid off from her job as a tea shop manager in April, said, I feel like I've been given a gift of time and clarity.
After sleeping in late and visiting family in Florida, she recently mused on Twitter, unemployment or fun employment.
Have you never heard of fun employment?
I hadn't.
Well, the urban dictionary definition of fun employment is the condition of a person who takes advantage of being out of a job to have the time of their life.
It may not have entered our daily lexicon yet, but a small army of social media junkies with a sudden overabundance of time is busy tweeting.
Now, it's a long story.
It goes on.
More and more people, more examples of how wonderful it is to be unemployed, to burn up your savings, to feed off your parents, to work at a nonprofit, to work in a soup kitchen, blah, blah, or to travel to Poland or what have you.
All fine and dandy.
People can do with their lives what they want, but I don't care.
I just want to ask you, did we see any stories like this during the Bush administration?
No, we got the pain and suffering of unemployment.
Homeless were everywhere.
It was dire out there.
America was unjust and unfair.
And Bush didn't care.
And now that we've got 9.2% unemployment under the leadership of the Messiah, we get stories on what a wonderful experience it can be.
Everybody's happy.
Whether they have a home or not, whether they have a job or not, everybody's happy.
Thank you, state-controlled media, Los Angeles Times.
Ryan in Fort Jervis, New York.
Welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
Hello.
Rush, it's Megha Dittos from Port Jervis.
It's an honor to speak with you, sir.
Thank you, sir.
You know, what I've always kind of, you know, I always kind of picture what I was going to say when I met Rush Limbaugh.
And, you know, I'm a 33-year-old white male from Port Jervis, New York.
And what's always kind of stuck in my crow, I guess, about people's view of the GOP or, you know, the mainstream media's portrayal of the GOP is that they're all older white males.
And it's simply not true.
I mean, I began listening to you when I was 14 years old.
Yeah, so you're a rush baby.
Oh, you have no idea.
When I was 14 in high school, and you had your show on Channel 5.
Well, it was 5 in New York.
Yeah.
It was the Fox Network.
And I used to be up and I would wait until 2 in the morning when this came on.
I'm sorry you had to do that, but we had a feminist general manager there who refused to play it at a time when most normal people were awake.
Well, it was well worth the wait.
I mean, I would stay up and I would watch this, and I realized that, you know, in the classes I would go to, you know, in social studies and economics and business, I'm one of the only ones in class that knew what was going on.
And I would watch and became like, you know, a devout follower.
And, you know, to this day, and this is back mainly when, and I was into punk rock when I was in high school.
Okay, I had spiked up green hair.
I had the chains around the neck.
I had the whole spiel.
And this, you know, kind of continued through college and outside of it.
But, I mean, to so I was always kind of the outcast of my friends politically.
But I mean, just, you know, the very idea that people just look at the GOP and anybody who, you know, Republican kind of got turned into a four-letter word lately, it's, I think it's just, you know, it's stereotypical to see people that way.
Well, there are many stereotypes of Republicans and conservatives, racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe.
But you know, you're right.
It is really uncool to be white male today.
It's been that way for a while, but it's really uncool to be white male.
Right.
There's a stigma attached to it when talking about social or political things.
And it's, I understand what you're talking about.
I think this is the culmination of multiculturalism.
It is the, not quite at the end of it yet, but this is a process that has been underway for a long, long time, longer than I have been doing this program, to basically tar and feather the majority.
Right.
White men, particularly, white women, are considered a minority.
And everybody else but white men have always been minorities.
And the white men have been tyrants.
They have controlled everything.
They have denied or approved based on their own discrimination and bias and racism and all of this.
And so the multicultural curriculum was basically oriented about how Western civilization, around how Western civilization and white Europeans actually destroyed what was once a great civilization continent, North America, and gave it the polluted existence known as the United States of America, a land of bias, a land of unfairness, a land of racism, slavery, sexism, homophobia, disease, pestilence, environmental destruction.
That is why you have somebody like Sonia Sotomayer who was educated under those precepts.
Right.
Thinking and saying the things that she says.
That is how you end up with a Barack Obama who lives and breathes and believes the things that he says, because that's what he's been taught about this country.
His wife, Ditto.
And those people are all enraged.
They're all angry.
Then you throw the white liberals in there who have guilt over the charge, and so they don't want to be the focus of the charge, so they join with the critics of the white male, and that makes them feel enlightened and advanced.
But during the midst of all this, before I say the next thing, what are you tempted to do?
How are you frustrated?
How is it affecting your life to know that the stigma about you is out there?
Does it matter to you?
Well, it matters to me in the way that my job goes.
Right now, I do alcohol and substance abuse therapy, and I meet with a group every day, which is, you know, more or less total minorities.
And so when this comes out, eventually, you know, the therapeutic relationship is great.
You know, we set up a rapport, everything's well.
But the minute it comes to something that goes even the slightest bit political and the word Republican comes out of my mouth, because then it is straight downhill.
And, you know, and to make any kind of stereotypes about a minority in the group is it's racist.
How dare you?
How were you raised?
Where did you come from?
But the second Republican comes out, it's, oh, you're a rich white male.
You're from Connecticut, blah, blah, blah.
Where did this, you know, and then you don't even know how your people did this.
And it's just all just like baggage that gets carried around.
Well, now I have to ask you a question.
Yes, sir.
In the process, you conduct these therapy sessions with the substance abusers?
Yes.
You're the therapist.
Yes.
How does politics enter into these sessions?
You'd be surprised.
I mean, because.
Well, I mean, how do you introduce politics?
Because once they learn that, once you say you said that you're a Republican, then you lose them.
Why do you tell them you're a Republican?
What does it matter?
Well, what happens is every Monday morning, we do a current events group.
And this, you know, it comes up once in a while just in little things.
But when the Sodomyer thing hit where she said, you know, I can make a better decision than a white male, the first thing out of my mouth was, why is this okay?
But if I were to come out, you know, if I were elected a Supreme Court judge and I said, you know, I could totally make a better decision than any black male out there.
I would be, you know, you would never see me again.
Okay, so that caused your group, some members of your group, to blow up at you?
Well, kind of sort of, I mean, they never blow up.
It's just.
I know, but it got strained.
There's tension in there.
Well, that's because you told them the truth.
That's all it is.
You're challenging.
You're talking to people that live in a cocoon that protects them from the real world.
They buy into all they've been taught.
They're privileged.
They're special.
They're victims.
You just confronted by hitting the bullseye their cocoon.
You blew up the cocoon.
They don't want to consider anything other than the comfort level existence they've been taught in which they live.
So, bam, you hit them in the eye, between the eyes with the truth, and that's why they're lashing out at you.
And even if I thought anything else, you know what?
That is what I'm going to keep with me.
Whatever the group comes up.
Well, it is.
Look at what you said to them is absolutely right.
You wouldn't have a chance if they had discovered that you as a judge had said you're far better than an Hispanic woman, that your experiences make you more qualified.
You wouldn't see the next day in your career.
You've just told them the truth.
But see, they have been told that they can't be racist because they don't have the power to implement their racism.
This has been the argument that the Reverend Zachum has proffered throughout my life, that it's impossible for minorities to be racist because they don't have any power.
President of the United States, we're talking now about a Supreme Court justice.
The days of them not having any power are over, and they are angry, and they want to use their power as a means of retribution.
That's what Obama's about, gang.
He's angry.
He's going to cut this country down to size.
He's going to make it pay for all this multicultural mistakes that it has made, its mistreatment of minorities.
I know exactly what's going on here.
So, you got one of two options.
You can avoid telling these people the truth, which I wouldn't suggest, because if you're really dealing with substance abusers and therapy, the thing you have to do is prepare them for the real world.
And if they can't face the real world, guess what?
They're going to return to whatever they were abusing.
So, you're doing a good thing.
It's just pioneers like you take the arrows.
You need a thick skin and understand that what they're saying about you.
Because, BS, you're telling them the truth.
You're trying to help them.
And just make sure you keep telling them, look, I'm trying to help you.
You'll eventually get through to them.
We'll be back. We are back.
Great to have you with us, Rush Limbaugh, and talent on loan from God.
By the way, interesting story here, ladies and gentlemen.
Associated Press, the state-controlled media.
And again, it's one of these stories you have to read quite a lengthy ways into it to find.
But bottom line is that support for the torture of terrorists in the United States is up 14 points in the last four years.
Some 52% of people say that torture can be at least sometimes justified to obtain information about terrorist activities from suspects, an increase from 38% in 2005 when AP last asked the question.
More than two-thirds of Republicans say torture can be justified compared with just over a third of Democrats.
But overall, 52% of Americans, torture is justified, in some cases, up 14%, as are Dick Cheney's poll numbers up.
And the Bush-Cheney approval numbers are rising.
They're still polling that.
So again, to our caller from the substance abuse therapist, worried about white guys, the poster, poster guys for evil white guys, Bush and Cheney, approval numbers are rising here in state-controlled media polls.
Scott, New York City, thank you for calling.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Yes, good afternoon.
There's an article titled Who Rules America by National Vanguard Books that documents the names and the agenda of the controlled media in the United States.
Now, to use a perfect case study, I'd like to take, for an example, Obama's trip to the Middle East.
Now, while every politician in Washington pontificates that American taxpayers should be used to prop up the state of Israel at the expense of American security and exposing us to reprisals from the Middle East,
nobody in Washington will state unequivocally that the way for the United States to best use its resources and to protect itself from the terror and the terror feuds of the Middle East is to stop third world immigration and adopt a policy of neutrality in foreign affairs with regard to that region of the world.
Now, in terms of politicians being tied to the media, now it just takes a brief example of how politics works.
Me one because I've got 30 seconds and I have to go.
Okay, definitely.
And so far as that, you have to understand that we have an electoral democracy here in the United States, unfortunately, which means that the mass media will always be able to manipulate the vast majority of votes in the country.
That's why the United States politicians in Washington, D.C. don't go against the control media.
They control public opinion.
Without public opinion, they can't get elected.
That includes Obama.
That includes Joe Biden every day.
There's been a little bit of a change.
I don't think the state-run media so much controls elections as Acorn does.