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June 11, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 11, 2009, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 Podcast.
And greetings once again to all of you, conversationalists, music lovers, thrill seekers, all across the fruited plane.
Great to have you with us.
It's Rush Limboy, and this one and only Excellence in Broadcasting Network, our telephone number, if you want to be on the program today is uh 800 282.
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Very predictably, ladies and gentlemen, the uh the media, the American left is trying to score some political points as a result of this tragedy at the Holocaust Museum in Washington yesterday, and as predictable, they are trying to blame this on me, uh, other conservatives and right wingers.
It's the traditional approach taken by the American left.
The uh facts of the case, however, are such that if we want to start assigning blame for this beyond this nutcase Jew hater.
And notice that very few people actually want to do that.
They want to claim this guy didn't have the ability to act on his own.
He only could act if he was inspired by somebody.
Well, who did he hate?
He hated both Bushes.
He hated neocons.
He hated John McCain.
He hated Republicans.
He hated Jews as well.
He believed in an inside job conspiracy of 9-11.
This guy is a leftist, if anything.
This guy's beliefs, this guy's hate, stems from influence that you find on the left, not on the right.
But let's listen to some of the audio sound bites from the drive-by and the state-run media from yesterday afternoon through last night.
Here's the first.
This is a montage of cable stations talking about the incident last night.
Clearly, Obama's election has fueled the right-wing extremist movement.
This is a political action by a far-right extremist.
The rise of hate groups in the United States are of right-wing extremists.
Right wing religious-based domestic terrorism.
Right wing extremism.
There is a rising climate of right wing hate, a lot of it directed at Obama.
See how this is being set up, and it's all it's all very predictable, but the truth is just the opposite of this, which I'll get to in just a moment.
Here now is Hillary Clinton this morning at the State Department.
Terrible tragedy.
The kind of uh hatred that uh the killer evidence uh over many years towards uh different groups within our society is uh deplorable.
And I hope that uh we will be able to uh send out a clear, unmistakable message that uh hateful rhetoric, violence based on any kind of discriminatory attitude toward any group in uh United States is uh not acceptable.
Mrs. Clinton rhetoric did not pull the trigger.
Uh a sick, depraved human being pulled the trigger.
I wonder if uh any of these people denounced the hateful Islamist and his record that killed that army recruiter in Arkansas.
Most of the state-run media organiz organizations didn't even bother to report that incident.
But a Muslim converted Muslim American converted in jail or something along the line somewhere in an act of militant Islamist terrorism shoots Sergeant Long in Arkansas, and there's no concern for any of the rhetoric that might be circling around in in groups that would have inspired that guy.
In fact, they've very seldom even reported it.
They were too busy trying to make political points out of the death of the late-term abortion doctor.
Now, this is exactly what the left does.
The left runs our government, and the left in this country is creating a Very dangerous climate, and they're doing it on purpose.
This president thrives and needs chaos and unrest.
An incident like this yesterday, I dare say had people on the left applauding inside their hearts for the purposes of advancing their political agenda.
And yes, I mean to say that.
And you can tell with the eagerness that the left and its cohorts and the media went to television last night to try to make this a political thing.
They are excited.
This is a great political opportunity for them.
That's the first emotion that they felt.
This is not new.
Let's go back to April 24th, 1995 in Minneapolis.
President Clinton said this shortly after the Oklahoma City bombing.
We hear so many loud and angry voices in America today, whose sole goal seems to be to try to keep some people as paranoid as possible, and the rest of us all torn up and upset with each other.
They spread hate.
They leave the impression that, by their very words, that violence is acceptable.
You ought to see, I'm sure you are now seeing the reports of some things that are regularly said over the airwaves in America today.
It is time we all stood up and spoke against that kind of reckless speech and behavior.
That was the President of the United States, Bill Clinton, and a very egregious example of blaming me.
This is 1994.
He was blaming me for inspiring McVay to go out and blow up the mural building in Oklahoma City.
And we shouted loudly when he said this, and the then White House spokesman Mike McCurry backtracks.
And no, no, no, we were talking about the short wave radio communications of the Michigan militia.
Which of course nobody heard.
That's not what he was talking about.
But they did back off of it, but they said it and they said it, and it was an opportunity for them.
They are trying to build government.
They want love for government and they want to create as much unrest and foment discord among groups of people in this country to create the chaos and the unrest they need to implement their agenda.
Now let's look at this responsibly.
Let's look at this rationally.
Wasn't it President Obama who just recently compared the Holocaust to what the Israelis are doing, supposedly in Gaza?
President Obama has a lot of friends that are Jew haters.
Jeremiah Wright made news just yesterday by saying, them Jews will not let me speak to Barack.
I won't be able to speak to Barack until five years into his presidency or eight years into it.
Because them Jews won't let me speak to them and won't let him speak to me.
Obama runs in a very sick circle.
He listened to Jeremiah Wright's anti-Jew, anti-American sermons for 20 years.
This friend of his, this Khalidi guy, another one, radical Palestinian, very anti-Semitic, now a professor at Columbia.
He is an Obama buddy.
You see, President Obama is using race as he did in his selection of his first Supreme Court nominee.
He is dividing this nation in every way possible.
That is the tactic of an authoritarian.
It is the tactic of the statist.
He is one opening dialogue with Iran.
Iran is run by Jew hating nut jobs who deny the Holocaust, yet they insist on unleashing another one.
While denying the Holocaust, Mahmoud Ahmadinezad, to whom Barack Obama wants to speak without preconditions, is promising another Holocaust.
What kind of message does that send throughout the nation and the world when we are willing to sit down and talk with preconditions, without preconditions, and somebody who has sworn numerous times to wipe out Israel.
The anti-Jew rhetoric in this country today comes from the American left and from the circle of people that are close to Barack Obama.
We do not need lectures from those people on the left.
It is they, ladies and gentlemen, who have a lot to answer for.
It is they who are fomenting racial and religious tension in this country.
This this nut job, this guy that pulled a trigger yesterday, has more in common with the marchers and protesters we see at left wing rallies.
Remember that that that event in South Florida?
Not too long ago, he has more in common with people like that.
That's the new left.
The new left is a collection of extremists who rip at the very fabric of society.
You nominate a Hispanic, not because she's the best qualified candidate, but because you can intimidate those who have serious doubts about her judicial philosophy, and then you can threaten that if you oppose Sonia Sotomayor, you lose the Hispanic vote.
That is destructive politics.
He's not finding the best.
This is identity politics.
She's even now they've found out that she has said that the she's a product of affirmative action and that she didn't do well on some of her tests because the cultural bias is in the test.
Yet when Sonia Sotomayor stood up at the White House to accept Obama's nomination, she didn't thank affirmative action.
She didn't thank any government programs.
She thanked conservative principles, hard work, great parents, uh American traditions on down the line.
It is President Obama comparing the Holocaust to what's happening in Gaza.
That creates a moral parallel between the mass murder of six million Jews and the Palestinians.
That also diminishes the horror that was the Holocaust.
When you tell the world that what is happening in Gaza, that the Israelis are doing something identical to what the Germans did to them in eliminating six million of them, then you you're desensitizing everybody to the Holocaust, and you are ramping up hatred for Israel.
You are ramping up hatred for Jewish people.
It is coming from the Obama administration.
There is a general attitude on the left that's hard for most of us to comprehend.
They embrace genocide figures like Castro and Chavez and Che Guevara.
They embrace these kind of people.
There is a lack of human compassion for the individual.
There is a total rejection of basic human nature.
Instead, people are to be manipulated, corralled, and controlled.
The truth of the matter is, folks, we conservatives are not focused on race.
We're not focused on gender.
We're not focused on religion.
We are focused on individual liberty, no matter who you are.
We are in the fight of our national lives to save individual liberty for everybody.
And anybody who is for individual liberty is welcome on our side.
Tribalism.
Tribalism of whatever kind, income level, age, race, sex, et cetera, that's foreign to us.
We don't, we don't group people.
We don't objectify people.
But the statist, the authoritarian, needs these things.
A person like Obama and his inner circle have to get you to focus on all of these things, income level, like they're doing today, with a national pesar, they're going to set compensation in the private sector all across the country.
That's the latest proposal.
After denying it yesterday, they're coming out and doing it today.
We'll have details on that as the program unfolds.
So whatever it is, whatever it is, income level, age, race, sex, they have to get people focusing on all of the things wrong in America because of these inequities, uh, income level, age, race, sex, discrimination, what have you.
To be frank, President Obama needs you to be contemptuous of others so that he can appeal to you emotionally.
His emotional appeal is based on creating tension.
And the left has been doing this in this country for years.
Feminism is a way to get men and women arguing with one another about things and get them distracted.
It's a all of these isms, all of this grouping of people, and then claiming they're all victims, is simply about creating contempt.
So they want you to hate doctors and insurance companies now.
That's the next Target.
They want you to hate doctors and insurance companies so that they can take over the entire industry at the federal government.
They want you to hate executives so that they can impose their will on big companies.
They want you to hate people who make more money than you do so that they can seize their private property.
Sponsoring hate, promoting hate, is an exclusive of the left.
They own it.
They thrive on the promotion of hate and contempt and unrest and chaos.
It is the only way to distract people sufficiently so that the left can accomplish its statist objectives.
They want turmoil.
And if it doesn't exist, they create it.
Now, this Jew hater who killed yesterday was a nut.
I doubt that he was influenced by anything other than his own mental illness.
And that said, it is not helpful when a political party and a president and leaders of Congress engage in a very dangerous political game that creates anxiety, hostility, and downright hate among its citizens.
The left runs our government.
It is creating a very dangerous climate, folks, on purpose, for the purposes of distracting us so that they can accomplish their socialistic aims.
The killer, this new this nut job, thought that 9-11 was an inside job.
That's a left-wing conspiracy theory, my friends.
He didn't like neocons.
You know what neocons are?
Neocons are Jews.
It's a code word for Jews, Republican Jews who are big on American foreign policy.
He hated them.
Where's that come from?
Who created the term neocon?
The left.
Who has been preaching hate for eight years?
Who has been doing movies about assassinating the president, writing books about it?
The left.
This guy.
He had a lot of affection for the German National Socialists.
That's the left wing.
Hitler was a leftist.
Washington Post today a suspect's long history of hate and signs of strain.
This guy has shades of Ted Kaczynski, the unit bomber.
This guy was a Mensa member.
They only kicked him out because he didn't pay his dues.
One Mensa person described this guy as a genius.
He was a genius.
He just didn't pay his dues.
The unibomber, a leftist, anti-corporate guy, had Al Gore's book in his little shack cabin.
The truth of the matter is, ladies and gentlemen, if anybody's up there fomenting race and hatred for their own selfish political gains, it's the American left, certain members of the Democrat Party, and of course their amplifier, state-run media.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
Hey, folks, I can tell you right now, if you want to expose yourself to hate around the clock...
If you want to expose yourself to vitriol and hatred around the clock, I can tell you where to do it.
It's called MS NBC.
That cable network is hate 24-7.
And they have been for eight years.
Shep Smith at Fox News.
Here, play play audio soundbite number nine.
Audio soundbite number nine is Shepard Smith from late yesterday on the Fox News Channel.
The email to me has become more and more frightening.
It's not a new thing.
It's been happening over the past few months.
It's been happening, you know, to some degree since the election process went along.
I mean, we had a woman, we had a black man, we have, you know, we had a lot going on.
And there are people now who are way out there on a limb, and I think they're just way out there on a limb with the email they send us, because I read it, and they are out there.
I mean, out there in a scary place.
Now, after all of the years of hatred and vitriol, assassination movies and books about George W. Bush.
For liberals to now claim That the atmosphere somehow more violently anti-Obama is simply preposterous.
The hatred and vitriol has been spat out 24-7 from the network MSNBC.
They loved Obama's speech where he compared the Holocaust to Gaza.
They did not denounce Jeremiah Wright, them Jews.
Did anybody denounce Jeremiah Wright yesterday for saying them Jews won't let Obama talk to me?
They downplayed Jeremiah Wright throughout the campaign, his racist anti-Semitic preachings, and they attacked people who pointed Jeremiah Wright out.
If you watch MSNBC for any length of time and you don't think for yourself, or if you're a little bit off your rocker, you come away from that cable channel dripping with contempt for your country, contempt for the U.S. military, contempt for a whole host of people.
If you don't want hate, don't watch MSNBC.
I got one more soundbite on this I want to share with you, and it's Jeremiah Wright, and it's from earlier in the week, and I don't know of anyone who has denounced Reverend Wright for this as a little bit hard to hear at the beginning because of wind noise.
But it's this this is the uh interview with the reporter at the Daily Press, the Hampton Hampton Roads uh Daily Press, David Squires.
Uh, and this is what uh Jeremia Wright said about President Obama.
Uh uh, sorry, President Obama.
Have you spoken with a system in the White House?
You link Lynn and talk to me.
Oh, much maybe don't say it's out for five years from now when he's lamed up.
Well, eight years when he had it all.
If you had me to say to him, but what would you say to him?
Let's be in politics change who you are the person.
Once you start compromising your belief, you become a puppet of a political machine you no longer yourself.
Play the beginning of this again because it's uh it goes by real fast.
It's not the greatest recording, but the the question that Squires says, have you spoken with him since he's been in the White House?
Have you spoken with Sesame in the White House?
You link Linda talk to me.
Oh my baby don't say you talk me five years from.
Okay, that's it.
That's that's the instance where Obama's preacher, Jeremiah Wright, says them Jews aren't gonna let me talk to him.
You want to find anti-Semitism, you can find it in this country.
As for Shepard Smith, whining and moaning and complaining about emails.
Nobody needs to tell me about hateful emails for crying out loud.
I get the most vile sick emails attacking me as a Jew lover.
That you can imagine.
I don't read them.
I hear about them, they're in a public account, of course, as you know.
Uh I'm a conservative.
Who do you think these hate emails are coming from?
Where are they coming from?
Yeah, I could be you Jew lover, you Jew lover.
Because I am faithful to Israel and number of other things.
So Shep, you got nothing on anybody out there.
And if you the the vile hate that was 24-7 in most of the American media for the eight years of Bush, and particularly from 2003 on after the Iraq war.
Nobody, nobody at this point in time has ever done in our society anything comparable to the kind of hate that we got from mainstream sources.
Hollywood, books, news media, hate, spat-out hate was part of the daily reporting agenda for way too many years of the uh of the Bush presidency.
Okay, that's that's my say on this.
I want to move on now.
There are other issues out there.
I didn't want to have to talk about this at all today, but I was left with no choice because this administration and its enablers are taking this sad event yesterday and trying to further divide this country to create more chaos and more unrest so that they can more easily wrest control of more and more of the American private sector and the economy.
And in that regard, the Obama administration today Says that excessive executive compensation must be better managed to prevent the sort of risk taking that jeopardizes the economy.
Gene Sperling, who advises Timmy Geitner at the Treasury Department, said today that the administration does not want to impose caps on executive pay, but he also laid out for the House Financial Services Committee a list of guidelines calling on publicly held companies to link compensation to long-term performance, not short-term gains.
They don't want a cap and they don't want to control, and then they lay out how they're going to do it.
In typical Obama fan, no, we're not going to control, we're not going to cap anything.
We're what the shareholders.
Well, who the shareholders more and more are becoming is the United States government.
There's another story a lot of graduates this year decided to screw Wall Street in hell with the private sector.
I'm going to go work for the government.
And why not?
You can end up being a 31-year-old know-nothing and run a car company.
If you work for the United States government.
And it's the one sector where there is no recession, there is no depression, there's no depressed value in your holdings, everything is just hunky-dory when you work for the government.
I'm telling you, this business here of raining in pay across the private sector.
Sperling said in prepared testimony, the administration believes that compensation practices must be better aligned with long-term value and prudent risk management at all firms, not just for the financial services industry.
That means Hollywood, too.
Does that mean that Oprah's pay is going to be supervised?
She's an executive, and some might say that Oprah Winfrey making $227 million a year is a little bit excessive.
Now, we've always had people throughout our history who have complained about the amount of money other people make.
But let me tell you something, folks.
The pursuit of wealth.
You know, I often ask you to consider, what is it about the United States of America in less than 300 years that has allowed it, us, to become the most powerful for good force and nation in the history of this planet?
there have been civilizations of people around far longer than we have Europe and Asia.
For some reason, the United States of America has become the most powerful nation on earth, the richest, the greatest standard of living.
How did this happen?
It's because we, as a nation, were founded under the principles of individual liberty.
And the source of our liberty and freedom was acknowledged in our founding documents as having come from God.
We were not a nation put together by a king who thought he was God's gift to the world.
We now have a president behaving like a king who thinks he is God's gift to the world.
The pursuit of wealth, for whatever reason, is one of the primary ingredients that led to this nation's greatness.
Now, wealth always gets demonized.
It always has.
There's always been class envy.
But never until now has there really been a serious move to prevent it from happening.
Which is precisely what is happening now from the Obama administration.
All of this is about preventing the successful pursuit of wealth.
The pursuit of wealth is what gave us the greatest economy in the history of humanity.
Now we have an administration who wants to shut all that down.
The private sector is not going to be the focus of this country.
public sector is going to be and the people who run it.
I don't have time to go into motivations and explain why they're doing it.
It's enough that people understand that they are doing it.
I know why they're doing it.
They're statists.
They want ultimate control.
It's a power trip.
It's also born of Beliefs about this country that are untrue.
Many of the people making these moves are simply poisoned.
Poisoned with their own hatred for this country.
I would submit that there has to be an element of hatred for what this country is to make the assaults on this country that are being made.
Whatever's being done here in the name of fairness and equality is not being done because somebody loves this country.
It's being done because somebody doesn't like it.
Or a whole host of people don't like it.
There's something unjust and immoral about it.
Now, Obama's book publisher, Crown Publishing, Division of Random House, they're laying people off.
His book publisher laying people off, but you know what?
He got a $500,000 advance five days before assuming office to write a children's book.
I don't know of a president ever signing a book deal upon entering the White House.
Isn't $500,000 in advance for a book, isn't that risk taking?
Obama says we've got to get risk taking out of the scenario of compensation.
If you take risk taking out, if you remove that, you wave bye-bye to capitalism.
You simply, it's in your rear view mirror as you're heading down the road to serfdom.
Capitalism in the rear view mirror as you're headed down the road to serfdom, if you buy into this notion that risk taking is something that needs to be punished, they're finally opening up and being honest about what they want to do.
They want to punish achievers.
They want to punish risk takers.
The Obama administration, here it is from state-run AP, the Obama administration says executive compensation must be better managed to prevent the sort of short-term risk taking that it's so known for.
Now, if we're going to cap people's pay, and make no mistake, while they deny it, it's what they're doing.
If they're going to issue guidelines calling on publicly held companies to link compensation to long-term performance, not short-term gains so they can eliminate risk taking.
then let's do the same thing with people who work for the government.
Thanks.
Let's cap government pay at 100,000 any year there is a deficit in the annual United States budget.
Let's also include all of the imputed income for benefits of any kind federal employees get from their cars to their health care to whatever it is.
We taxpayers are taking a huge risk each and every day turning over the finances of this country to this current crop of leaders.
And when they blow it and they have blown it big to it is an utter disaster.
Do you realize nothing Obama has done has worked?
Nothing has succeeded.
And now they come along and they want to nationalize health care, the same bunch that with their stimulus package gave us record unemployment.
Almost two million people unemployed since the stimulus bill.
The same people who promised a thriving, burgeoning economy, with people going back to work, now want to take their expertise.
The same people who helped destroy General Motors and Chrysler, the same people who told private sector investors, pfft you, the same people who have botched everything they have tried.
Now tell us only they can administer health care.
So we cap government pay.
100 grand a year.
Anytime there's a deficit.
Anytime they don't fulfill what they claim that they're going to do.
You talk about risk taking.
You talk about damaging.
This administration is damaging the entire U.S. economy.
They are damaging and attacking the U.S. private sector.
They ought not be rewarded for it.
And if any federal employee leaves God's...
government after a budget deficit year, they get no pension.
I mean, if we're going to start doing this kind of stuff in the private sector, then let's apply the same rules to people in the government.
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And let's, folks, let's not forget all of the hate and venom that was directed at Sarah Palin last summer.
And continues to this day in the form of so-called comedy.
From the pathetic David Letterman, who himself he used to have his show was back on MBC, it was great.
It was one of the funniest TV shows ever.
He's just an angry old man now.
Every night, angry, filled with rage about somebody, and genuinely wrong about everything he says.
Suggesting that Palin's daughter was raped at 14 years old during a baseball game at Yankee Stadium.
And who's denouncing it?
Who denounced any of the hatred against Sarah Palin?
Earlier this month.
Let's see, New York City, Israel Day Parade.
Anti-Semites were on hand during the Israel Day Parade.
They expressed themselves in a variety of ways, including a banner that read, Close Guantanamo Bay and reopen Auschwitz.
This all occurred with barely an outcry from the state-run media or anybody else.
Last month, four ex-cons were arrested when they were alleged to be plotting to blow up synagogues in the name of Islam.
In May, a student at Wesleyan University was shot and killed by a man apparently bent on killing Jews.
Earlier this year, following a shooting of an unarmed black man in Oakland by a police officer.
The local community linked oppression in Oakland with oppression of Palestinians in Gaza, forming the misguided foundation for anti-Israel and anti-Jewish sentiments to grow and find expression in Oakland, California City that is close to being bankrupt as an aside.
There are hateful incidents perpetrated by leftists and anti-Semites frequently in this country, and they are never commented on, they are never distanced from, and they are never ever held accountable by anybody in the mainstream media.
There is hate throughout this country, and it is so vicious on the left.
It's something I hadn't seen before in my life until 2003 came.
And it hasn't gone away, even with the election of Obama.
These people are angrier even now.
They need demons and villains, and they create them.
We have an administration that's inspiring all of this, grouping people.
you Pivoting groups of people against one another, taking unfortunate incidents like this yesterday at the Holocaust Museum in Washington and making a political tool out of it.
it's not possible that this deranged nut job Jew hater pulled a trigger on his own No, this guy had to have been influenced by somebody, and of course that somebody had to be the right wing.
Then you look at who the guy hated.
And you find out that he has the he hates the same people that a bunch of militant leftists hate.
And he believes in a bunch of leftist conspiracies.
9-11, an inside job, Bush knew.
Just like the black poet laureate of New Jersey wrote.
The Jews knew about it.
All the Jews in the World Trade Center got out of the building before the planes hit.
The Jews are behind it.
And that guy was not only not denounced, we were told we had to understand his rage.
This guy that pulled a trigger yesterday believed with that nut job poet laureate in New Jersey.
Who, make no mistake about it, is no conservative or Republican.
Republican Party, you're looking for something to run on, get real just all you need is a slogan.
We're not the Democrats.
We're not the Democrats.
That's all you need to say about yourselves.
Back in a second.
Okay, first hours in the can.
A brief timeout here to recharge.
And for some of you leftists to calm down out there.
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