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June 30, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 30, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #3
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No, the way to look at this, the way to look at this is that the Honduran Supreme Court, the Honduran military, and the Honduran Congress stopped an attempted coup.
This president was attempting a coup.
He was going to take over the country.
He was going to tear up the Constitution.
He was going to keep serving as president beyond a length of time the Constitution in Honduras allowed.
It was the freedom fighters, if you will, in Honduras that prevented a coup.
That is how you have to look at the situation in Honduras.
Greetings and welcome back.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, and the distinguished Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
You believe we're already in a third hour here.
I mean, this is the fastest three hours in the media.
If you haven't been to the Drudge Report today, you need to go.
The Drudge Report has a bold lead.
Pictures of Obama with the evil eye as he looks.
These are White House pictures, taking White House photographers.
He looks at world leaders with whom he has utter disdain.
The evil eye.
Now, it's safe to say, ladies and gentlemen, that nobody associates Obama with his cult-like followers.
Nobody associates him with evil.
They might associate Rob Emmanuel with evil, but they don't associate that with Obama.
Obama's kind, gentle, soft-spoken, brilliant, scholarly, professorial, and all this.
But these pictures, Drudge put this together by himself, and I, ladies and gentlemen, have it on good authority.
I'm not joking here.
I have it on good authority that there is in Hawaii where he was raised, evil eye is actually a thing.
It's called stink eye by Hawaiian natives.
It's called stink eye.
You give someone the stink eye, and it is a big deal.
It's something that Native Hawaiians, it's a cultural thing.
I'm told that if a white person, non-Hawaiian, goes over there and gives a Native Hawaiian a snake eye, an Obama-type glance, that it can provoke fisticuffs.
Well...
Good point, Sturdley.
Obama is not Native Hawaiian, but he did grow up there.
Not native.
Slap myself.
Now that's a mistake that's just born of like three hours sleep.
Thanks for the catch.
Correcting, he's not, yeah, not native-born Hawaiian.
At any rate, these pictures, Drudge nails it here.
You can see who he looks at with disgust and disdain.
But it's called stink eye in Hawaii.
Stink eye.
I have it on good authority.
You want to hear something, well, to me, in my mood today, this is funny, but it's very serious as well.
This afternoon on MSNBC, Andrea Mitchell reporting.
NBC News.
She was talking to the CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt.
Wait, we have an alert here.
An alert.
Okay, the Minnesota Supreme Court has said it's over, and Franken is the winner.
You know, just like they recounted the votes in Iran, folks, and Ahmed Dinizad actually got more votes after the recount.
It's just like in this country.
In Minnesota, after the original vote count, Norm Coleman was ahead.
And then every recount thereafter, Franken got more votes, the loser.
It's amazing the similarities in the Minnesota electoral system and that in Iran.
Anyway, back to Andrea Mitchell.
NBC News in Washington.
She had Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google on.
She said, you said you think the economy is starting to turn for good, that the worst of the crisis is over.
What is your outlook?
All of the signs that everybody sees indicate that the worst was the first part of this year.
The enormous amount of stimulation that the Fed gave and that the European Central Bank has given in Europe is bringing those economies back.
It's interesting, by the way, that the Chinese infrastructure stimulus was the quickest to work, but of course, they could just do it.
Dictatorships are not always, or centrally planned governments can at least do some things a little bit more easily than some of our own legislative debates.
Did you hear that?
Andrea Mitchell agreeing with the CEO of Google that dictatorships, not always.
Centrally planned governments can at least do some things a little more easily than our own legislative debates.
Accepting the premise that government creates jobs, that government creates wealth, that government solves economic decline.
Damn, if we only had our own dictatorship.
Andrea, we're close to it.
You're helping us get what you're dreaming of.
On MSNBC, they're dreaming of a dictatorship.
I'm dreaming of a dictator.
Along with a Google CEO.
Gash, it's amazing these fast these dictators around the world can get things going.
Talk to the people in Venezuela about it.
This is just mind-boggling to observe.
Ladies and gentlemen, let's see.
Argumentative, I should go sound bites or stack of stuff.
Let's do stack of stuff.
Roger Altman today in the Wall Street Journal.
Roger Altman is a Clinton guy, an Obama guy, a Democrat.
And you might say that Roger Altman is a whistleblower who blew the whistle on Obama's community organizer economics.
He's not the first.
We'd have to say that Gerald Walpin would be the first whistleblower, and they canned him.
And they suppressed the second whistleblower in the EPA who said, wait a minute, the thing you're relying on to say that carbon dioxide is a pollutant and it's causing global warming, the science isn't settled on it.
They shut him up.
Roger Altman, the third whistleblower here, his piece in the Wall Street Journal, we will need to raise taxes soon.
This piece was published this morning.
It might be wise of us to call Altman's office and see if he's there or if anyone can find him.
Because you remember now, Obama's out there saying if you're under 200 or 250 grand, you're not going to pay a tax increase on anything.
We already know this is a lie, but his own side has not defected until Altman did it.
What Altman did today in the Wall Street Journal was blow the whistle on Obama's economic projections, community organizer economics.
Obama in his budget said that we would increase growth by 3.2% next year and 4% the year after and that would increase our national debt by only $10 trillion in 10 years.
Now, according to Roger Altman and Goldman Sachs and the International Monetary Fund, growth will not be 3% or 4%.
It's only going to be 2%.
And what does that mean?
It means bigger deficits than what had been forecast.
Now, I've said all this, and many of the conservative media have already told you we're not going to grow at 3.5% or 4% next year, the year after.
And the deficit projections here, $10 trillion, are going to be $12 to $15 trillion.
The deficit projection for this year, $1.8, is going to go over $2 trillion.
You've already heard it.
What's noteworthy here is that this is an Obamaite pointing it out.
And we are learning the two most meaningless words in the Obama presidency are what?
Obama said.
The two most meaningless words.
Obama said they mean nothing.
Whatever follows, Obama said, is irrelevant.
Obama said passing the stimulus would hold unemployment to 8%.
He's now praying it holds at 10%.
Actually, he's hoping it goes to 10%.
It's a bigger crisis.
He said the stimulus was so urgent, it had to be passed before it was read.
But as of May 11th, only 6% of it had been spent.
Obama said he would not have lobbyists buy influence.
But the biggest lobbyists, the unions, are holding influence hostage.
Obama said he won't raise taxes on anybody making less than $250,000 a year.
The only straight talk Obama gave us is we need hope and change.
And we certainly do right now need hope and change.
Change from Obama's community organizer economics.
Roger Altman, expect Congress to seriously consider a value-added tax.
Household net worth has fallen more than 20% since its mid-2007 peak.
This drop began just when household debt reached 130% of income.
Yada, yada, yada, on and on and on.
Mr. Altman, founder and chairman of EverCorp Partners, was deputy secretary of the Treasury in the first Clinton administration.
Here's the last line.
It's no longer a matter of whether tax revenues must increase, but how.
Raj, cap and trade is a tax increase.
Healthcare is a tax increase.
Everything Obama's doing is a tax increase.
The stimulus is a tax increase.
The deficits are a tax increase.
Letting the Bush tax cuts expire is a tax increase.
And they're coming back for more, as though we haven't raised taxes yet.
We're going to need to raise them soon.
Value-added tax.
Roger Altman, whistleblower, the Obama administration.
Brief timeout.
Be right back after this.
Stay with us.
And we're back.
Rush Limboy.
As usual, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
All right.
If there are any liberal newswomen in this audience, stop what you're doing.
I have more Mark Sanford news.
This guy is amazing.
He's already being heralded by liberal infobabes for being really great at love letter writing.
And he's really in love with the babe down in Argentina.
And they just ought to go for it.
I mean, they're small, see, they're embarrassing, but man, how romantic.
Oh, it's just wonderful.
Remember when I said last week, this guy could have been our JFK?
Still to this day, educated liberal reporters do not understand this.
They think that I'm saying that Mark Sanford has some sort of great political reputation, image, charisma that could cause him to win a landscape.
No.
If you have to explain, I'm not going to explain it.
You people understand it.
The drive-bys do not.
But here are the two AP alerts.
First, South Carolina governor tells AP that the mistress down in Argentina is his soulmate, but he will try to fall back in love with his wife.
AP alert number two.
South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford tells AP he crossed lines with women other than the mistress, but never had sex with them.
This guy is loyal to the mistress.
This guy does not cheat on the mistress.
Do you realize how the liberal women are going to eat this up?
The liberal infobabes, oh, they're swooning, folks.
I will guarantee you they are having to excuse themselves or run to the bathroom here to control themselves.
This guy is amazing.
He tells the AP that his mistress is his soulmate, but that he's going to try to fall back in love with his wife.
And then the South Carolina governor tells AP.
Of course, it's a devastating turn of events here for the wife, but the liberal newsbabes don't care about the wife.
Don't you understand?
They care about the romance.
They care about the Hollywood.
They care about the fairy tale.
It's real love.
They don't have it.
They dream about it.
He has got it.
He's writing about it.
Go for it, Gov. And so now they're even more deeply immersed.
He has admitted that the mistress is his soulmate, but he's going to try to fall back in love with his wife.
Have you ever tried to fall in love with somebody?
Have you ever tried to have you ever tried to fall?
By the way, Sterling, I got a great question.
A friend of mine said, where was Obama born?
And I don't know.
You know, because he's not a native of Hawaii.
Where was he born?
I don't know.
Supposedly Hawaii, I know.
But there's no, we don't have independent confirmation of it.
I don't want to go there.
God doesn't have a birth certificate either, so it's no big deal.
South Carolina governor tells AP, mistress is his soulmate, going to try to fall back in love with his wife.
Have you ever tried to fall in love with somebody?
Have you ever tried to fall out of love with somebody that you're in love with?
That's called heartbreak, and it's very, I mean, it's, you know, people jump off the Golden Gate Bridge because of this sometimes.
Isn't this not something you can snap your fingers and do?
And then to really seal the deal, this guy is, he may have a political future because the chickification of the news has happened.
These liberal women love this guy.
They love this story.
They're captivated by it.
They're going to love it even more.
Once they hear that Mark Sanford has told state-run media, the Associated Press, that he cheated.
Well, he crossed lines with women other than the mistress, but he never had sex with he has never cheated on the mistress.
Look, folks, I'm looking at this from the perspective of the liberal women who are already in heat reporting this.
Liberal news.
I'm not talking about, of course, this is bad for the wife.
To me, it's a phenomenon to watch liberal infobabes report this story and get totally lost in it.
All right.
David, West Bloomfield, Michigan.
Hi.
Nice to have you on the EIV network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
How are you?
Very good, sir.
Thank you.
I'm calling about the Obama mania.
I grew up in a Jewish communist household.
And from my history and from my- Where was the Jewish communist household that you grew up in?
Detroit, Michigan.
Detroit, okay.
And I have seen from my own background as well as my own hobby of history, seeing this coming, and he's just the end of it or right now, pinnacle of it, for about 100 years.
This entire movement goes back around the time of the power grab by the unions.
And they therefore put into place many of the things that you've talked about throughout the years, such as the control of academia and the control of bureaucracies.
I used to see people who were McCarthy, shall we say, accused of being communists in my household at communist meetings when I was a little boy.
And this has just all been growing throughout this entire century, and now it's just coming through full force.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but McCarthyism is actually correctly accusing someone of communism, identifying a communist, right?
That's what it was.
I mean, the people that hated McCarthy were the commies that were identified.
There were some that were falsely accused, too.
But the point is, it was a rotten bad thing to be a communist.
You had to meet in the homes of people like your parents in the basement or whatever with the windows closed and all that.
Correctamente?
Exactly.
And I have pictures.
I have pictures of me with some of these people as a little boy standing next to them.
So I was there, and I heard all this through.
Well, how did you escape it?
Did your parents try to raise you as a young simmering, bubbling up communist?
How did you escape it?
Absolutely.
I mean, I'm from six kids, and three are on one side and three are on the other.
I just, I had broken away from them entirely for many years.
Thank God before my dad passed.
When did you do that?
At what age were you?
Reagan.
Reagan, so I was in my mid-20s.
So you were communist-influenced, communist-sympathetic up until your mid-20s when Ronaldo's Magnus came on the scene.
Exactly.
Actually, it was a little before that, now that I think, you know.
But, I mean, within that framework, 75 to 80, I just began to realize that what I was hearing and seeing just didn't make sense.
And I just started to see that what was on the other side, the conservative side, made sense.
And there's, I mean, you know the history of the Jewish population in America.
But I'm not the only one, I can say, thankfully.
But the point is, though, it still is a huge move.
And the liberal establishment does not support Israel.
Even our own senator here, Carl Levin, he does not support Israel.
I know, I know.
We have asked that question.
I've asked that question of so many people.
And the answer to it is, liberals are liberals first.
Whether they're actors, actresses, whether they're Jewish, Catholic, agnostic, atheists, Buddhists, middle Islamists, they're liberals first.
Amen.
Amen.
But, you know, they use the term progressive.
They got tired of that one or they got slandered for that one.
So they went to liberal.
And before that, they used the term communist.
And now it's progressivism.
But it's the same background.
It's progressivism.
Yes.
Yeah, it's progressive.
Yes.
40% of the people in this country in a recent survey, Gallup, identify themselves conservative, 21% liberal.
It's still a scarlet letter to be called a liberal.
It's amazing.
Republicans are losing elections in this climate.
40% of Americans call themselves conservative, and Republicans are losing to absolute inexperienced fruitcake nobodies.
By the way, I just got a note.
This can't be true, but that says here Obama was born in Taco, Texas.
Now, I never heard of Taco, Texas.
Okay, now information's pouring in here real fast.
There is a Taco, Texas, apparently named after Rocky Thompson, senior PGA at Taco, Texas, but they're not a Taco, Texas.
I got a note from a good friend who said Obama was allegedly born in Taco, Texas, but there isn't one, so we have to discard that.
I take it back.
Well, if we put out information that may be questionable, I mean, we're not a gossip network here.
So maybe no, no.
The note was not from Obama, or at least it was not Obama who told me that he was allegedly born in Taco, Texas.
It was a friend of mine who said Obama's never admitted he was born in Taco, Texas.
It may not be a Taco, Texas.
There's a Taco, Texas, but I don't think there's any.
And in fact, T-O-C-O, Taco, Texas, may be pronounced Taco, Texas, for all I know.
That may have been what my friend, who knows?
I mean, that's the point.
None of us know.
So it doesn't matter.
Folks, I have to tell you something here.
This Mark Sanford story, I'm thinking about this more and more from the viewpoint of these liberal media babes.
Remember Nina Burley?
Now, the liberal media, they're different.
They think they're Nina Burley was at Time Magazine, and back in the 90s, she promised, she wrote in Time magazine or a blog or somewhere, she wrote an opinion piece.
It may not have been in Time, but it was somewhere.
New Republic is somewhere.
She wrote that she would give Bill Clinton a Lewinsky just for keeping abortion legal.
So it is not strange to me to see all these media women, liberal fawning, just melting over this Sanford business.
Now, if you're just joining us, AP just ran two alerts.
First alert, South Carolina governor tells AP that his mistress is his soulmate.
I'm telling you.
This is Hollywood.
There are tears in the newsrooms of America.
But he's going to try to fall back in love with his wife.
Second alert from AP, South Carolina governor tells AP he crossed lines with women other than mistress, but never had sex with them.
He never cheated on the mistress.
Do you realize, folks?
This could rival Mark Sanford.
No way, stick with me on this.
This could rival the first black president in terms of electability.
The first governor to fall in love with his mistress.
It's never happened.
Kennedy never fell in love with him.
Spitzer didn't fall in love with him.
Clinton didn't fall in love with him that we know about.
What if Sanford, what if he ends up giving up his throne for love?
Just like Prince King, whatever, and Wallace, yeah, Philip and Wallace Simpson.
What if he gives up the throne for love?
Do you realize how electable that'll make him with certain women in this country?
Gave up the throne for love.
First governor to fall in love with and not cheat on his mistress.
First black president.
Now compare this with the stink of a story that is the John Edwards scandal.
Here's the latest from the New York Times.
Book proposal from a man who was one of former Senator John Edwards' closest aides claims that Edwards, the Brett girl, promised him to take care of you for life, quote unquote, in return for falsely claiming that he was the father of the baby carried by Edwards' mistress, Riley Hunter.
The aide, Andrew Young, sold his book proposal to St. Martin's Press for an undisclosed price late last week.
In his proposal, Young quotes Edwards, a Democrat who was his party's vice presidential nominee, blah, as begging him to confess to fathering Hunter's baby.
You know how much I love you.
You know I walk off a cliff for you, and I know you to walk off a cliff for me.
Young wrote in the book proposal, I'll never forget this and I'll always be there for you.
The proposal was shared with the New York Times by a book publishing industry executive.
Portions of it reported over the weekend by the Daily News of New York.
For some reason, TMZ did not have this verse.
New York Times did.
But now you compare this.
You compare the tawdry stinker you had, an illegitimate child you had, Edwards having a big A lie about being the father and so forth, offering to take care of him for life.
Mark Sanford loves the mistress.
Never cheated on the mistress.
It's a soulmate.
Now, don't, folks, again, don't misunderstand.
Do not think I am at all condoning this.
This has all been reported to you within and from the context and frame of mind of liberal media women who find the story captivating, enthralling, beautiful.
To me, this is just, you know, let me go to the phones.
Have you found that stuff I asked for yet?
Oh, well, let's go.
We got to do an animal rights and combo.
Animal rights environmentalist wacko update from the archives, the groove yard of forgotten favorites.
Andy Williams sings our favorite animal tune.
Hey, hey, let the song establish you before going all nuclear on the ammo.
All right, now time to drop some bombs.
Andy Williams, our combo animal rights and environmentalist wacko update theme song.
Here is the news, and this is see.
This is, well, I got it from Gateway Pundit, but I'm trying to find the.
Anyway, it's another blow to junk science because polar bear populations are booming.
As the Democrats passed their junk science pile of excrement bill last week, the new report was released and suppressed, insisting that polar bear numbers, far from decreasing, are much higher than they were 30 years ago.
Rachel, do you remember when you first came here as a substitute for Dawn after having seen Al Gore's movie?
She came in here, she bought the whole notion that the polar bears were dying off because the glaciers were melting and the polar bears are stranded on those little ice flows, all those bought at Hookwine and Sinker.
Thankfully, after exposure to this program, even on a substitute basis, you've seen, yeah, it knows it's now BS.
But how many kids don't?
The polar bear population is booming.
In fact, it's booming so much it's time for a cull.
A recent study found that the population of polar bears in eastern Canada was significantly on the rise because of abundant prey.
In fact, only two of 13 polar bear populations in Canada are in decline.
A researcher says total population worldwide estimated at 20 to 25,000 polar bears.
And it charts it here from polar bear populations 2001 and on forward.
Another report shows that polar bear encounters, meaning people that run into them, on the North Slope oil fields have risen to record levels in the last two years.
Global warming religionists, according to Gateway Pundit, blame the increase in polar bear sightings on shrinking ice flows.
So now the alarmists are blaming man-made global warming on both increased and decreased polar bear populations.
But the bottom line is that there are five times as many polar bears today as there were 50 years ago.
Five times as many.
And the source, New York Times, Covbear.com, International Bear Association, International Wildlife, Polar Bear Study Group, those are the sources for the stats that there are five times as many polar bears today as there were 50 years ago.
Remember in August of 2008, Sarah Palin sued the federal government seeking to reverse the decision to put the polar bear on the threatened species list.
Wow.
Two-thirds, CNN poll here.
This is, who do they, CNN?
No, Gallup got rid of CNN.
CNN Opinion Research Corporation, 66%, two-thirds think that the firefighters in New Haven were discriminated against.
Now, the tendency in a climate like this, wow, whoa, that's cool, right?
66%.
This ought to be 100%.
Well, 90%.
It ought to be 87%.
No, 90%.
We'll exclude 10% of the liberal black population, 3% of the conservative black population, a total of 90% should have found that the firefighters were discriminated against.
It's like 5-4 decision at the court.
Four Supreme Court justices looked at the evidence in this case and did not see racial preference discrimination?
They didn't see it?
Or rather, they saw it and thought it was justified?
They don't think like we do.
So I see 66% of the American people think the firefighters were discriminated against.
And, you know, okay, maybe a half-baked clap, but it ought to be 90%.
Folks, we'll be back in just a second.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, Rush Limbos, serving humanity while executing assigned host duties flawlessly.
Zero mistakes.
I knew it wouldn't be.
I was trying to go through this program today without one soundbite from President Obama, but it's not possible.
The president had a presser, some ceremony at the White House this afternoon to take credit for pulling us out of Iraq, which we're not, we're not leaving Iraq, we're pulling out of the cities.
And it's up now to the Iraqi security forces to defend themselves.
And by the way, all hell is breaking loose.
24 dead in Kirkuk.
The Iraqi security forces are now being tested by Iranian-sponsored thugs and terrorists in Iran.
We announced the day we're pulling out.
What are you expecting to be going to do?
So we'll probably have to be back in there by tonight at some point.
But nevertheless, Obama is out there, and this is what he said.
Those who have tried to pull Iraq into the abyss of disunion and civil war are on the wrong side of history.
That's true.
The very fact that Iraqis are celebrating this day is a testament to the courage, the capability, and commitment of every single American who has served in Iraq.
What you tell them is that the best word of God.
Through tour after tour of duty, our troops have overcome every obstacle to extend this precious opportunity to the Iraqi people.
We've made important progress in supporting a sovereign, stable, and self-reliant Iraq.
And everyone who served there, both in uniform as well as our civilians, deserves our thanks.
I don't know about you, but this offends me.
This is a guy who sought their defeat.
This is a guy, Barack Obama, who voted against every progress in Iraq vote that came up.
This is a guy who is out there impugning the United States military along with everybody else in his party, in both the House and the Senate.
And everybody in his audience up there, other than the military people, wanted us to lose in Iraq.
And now he runs.
I told you, I told you folks that these people were not going to lose it, that they were going to try to take credit for the victory.
You didn't hear him talk about George Bush, did you?
Not in this soundbite.
No, it's Obama.
Well, he praised the troops.
And I don't, first time, those who've tried to pull Iraq into the abyss of civil war are on the wrong side of history.
That was you.
And your party, Mr. President, you are the ones that it would have evolved to a civil war had you succeeded in getting our troops out of there.
This day, which is being heralded as a great success for our troops, is only possible because you did not prevail with your party in the Senate, Mr. President.
And it's a little offensive to me that he gets to run around and take credit, even though I predicted it.
Tour after tour of duty, our troops have overcome every obstacle, including the Democrats in Congress, to extend this precious opportunity to the Iraqi people.
Oh, now all of a sudden they care about the Iraqi people.
They didn't care about the Iraqi people before.
They didn't care about the Iraqi people when Saddam Hussein was doing anything about them.
Last time they cared about the Iraqi people was when Bill Clinton wanted to do something about it back in the late 90s.
Sometimes these people make me sick.
This is just this, this, you talk about hypocrisy.
Barack Obama and his Democrats in the Senate were the biggest obstacle the U.S. military faced in Iraq.
Now, I'm not going to say they're a bigger obstacle than the terrorists who were armed, but I'm telling you, it was an Democrats in Congress were an obstacle that our troops had to overcome in addition to everything else they had to beat.
Back in just a second.
You remember Joe Biden wanted to divide Iraq into three parts.
And Democrats were never on board this other than a couple weeks after 9-11.
After that, they were nowhere to be found in support of the U.S. mission or the troops.
If you're going to have a ceremony congratulating the troops on a job well done, I don't know.
The stand-up thing to do would have been George Bush be there to be part of it.
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