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July 2, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 2, 2009, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
So I went to bed last night, safe and confident in the news, and the Pentagon said that the Norx, we're not going to launch any missiles, that they had gotten cold feet.
I wake up this morning.
I find out the Norx have lit off four of them.
So then I said, well, I wonder what Obama's going to do.
He'll probably call Hugo Chavez to find out what to do about it.
Except Hugo's in the hills marshalling forces to invade Honduras.
And if we had any good luck, Honduras would send some people here and help us get our government back.
Greetings, my friends.
Welcome.
It's the Rush Limbaugh program.
Great to have you here.
There's a rumor running around out there that we are not going to be working tomorrow.
I was sitting here minding my own business doing show prep, and the broadcast engineer came in and said, I'm a little confused.
I said, what's new?
He said, no, I'm told by corporate that everybody's got the day off tomorrow.
We're playing a best of tape.
I said, well, this is the second time this has happened.
They haven't told me this.
So he said, well, what are we doing?
And I said, well, we're working tomorrow.
Face kind of got a little long.
I said, no, no, we're working tomorrow.
Is this a problem for anybody?
Well, let me check.
It better not be a problem, I said, because we're working because I'm not going to be here next week.
I'm taking next week off.
And people are already starting to give me grief about how can you leave during DEF CON 1.
It's DEF CON 1, folks, from now until the end of time or the end of Obama time.
It's not going to matter.
And these are necessary recharge breaks.
A long scheduled guy golf trip.
Five, six cities in five days.
Actually, I'll be tired when I get back.
Oh, no, I don't think so.
I get back a day before returning to work and therefore a chance to chill and resume normalcy.
So, no, everything's going to be fine.
Have you seen these two stories?
Ant Mega Colony takes over the world.
Have you seen this?
This is from Earth News.
Actually, BBC.
Single mega-colony of ants has colonized much of the world.
Argentine, Argentine ants, living in vast numbers across Europe, the U.S., and Japan belong to the same interrelated colony.
They refuse to fight one another.
And then there's a companion story.
Japan fears massive jellyfish invasion this year.
And there's some pictures.
This is from pinktentacle.com.
And there are some huge pictures, divers down there looking at these huge jellyfish.
So the ants are going to rule on land.
The jellyfish are going to rule in the water.
We are surrounded.
We always thought it'd be the roaches taking over, and it's the ants and the jellyfish.
And then, of course, we wake up and we find, how's that stimulus working for you, eh?
9.4% unemployment.
And I'm watching some Obamaite on MSNBC this morning.
I think it's Lisa Jackson from the Labor Department and that idiot Carlos Watson, who is a propagandist.
I mean, he takes propaganda at their dictation from Rahm Emanuel.
Lisa, is it, we're approaching the point that we might need a second stimulus.
I'm watching this at some point.
Where do they find brain-dead people at NBC?
They must have an island where they grow them.
Like Fox grows the blondes on Bikini Island.
Ailes told me they got a factory out there for the blondes, but NMSNBC must have a factory where they grow dumb people.
And this Lisa Jackson blew the question.
Well, that's for the president and advisors to decide.
I'm still trying to get my hands on the first stimulus money.
She admitted that they haven't spent any.
I'm still trying to get my hands on the first stimulus.
And of course, Carlos Watson, what?
It didn't quite fit.
You know, the healthcare town hall yesterday was staged.
I wonder if MSNBC is staged.
I wonder if everything that happens there is set up, pre-written, by Robert Gibbs and the Obama administration.
They send it over at 9 o'clock every, well, yeah, they send it for Joe and Mika, and then they send it over for all the other shows.
Joe and Mika, by the way, say it's not helpful for us to be criticizing Colin Powell.
It's not helpful for us, criticizing Obama.
But of course, they don't say anything about it being unhelpful for anonymous McCain AIDS to be ripping Sarah Palin again all over that Todd Perdum hit piece in Vanity Fair.
Ladies and gentlemen, for 232 years, on July 4th, America celebrated Independence Day.
I mean, that's what it was about.
Sadly, for too many Americans, this became a cookout.
But for 232 years on July 4th, and it might be 233, it might be this, this, this, you know, my numbers guy sometimes is off by years or months.
But so don't, if it's 233, I don't care.
Since the beginning of this country, we have celebrated Independence Day.
And now we have to ask ourselves, are we heading to Dependence Day?
Not if I can help it.
When in the course of human events, seven words that started the Declaration of Independence and begat the United States of America, independence, a single word, a glorious idea, a word that guided us, governed us for 232 or three or four, whatever the number is, years.
Independence, liberty, freedom, independence, that which made us different from everyone else.
But on this July 4th, we have to give pause.
Are we celebrating Independence Day or a new Dependence Day?
Dependence on government for our health, our wealth, our income, not there won't be any wealth, our well-being, independence or dependence?
The answer, my friends, is written in the polls.
35 to 45% of Americans want dependence.
It is our job, your job, my job, ours, to do everything we can to resist the false promises of dependence and cherish the virtues of independence.
It shouldn't be that difficult, really.
We have 232, 3, 4, whatever the number of years.
233, we have 233 years of evidence, proof that independence works far better than dependence, better for the individual.
In fact, we have world history to show us this, not just our own.
It works better for the individual, and as our founders foresaw, better for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
But I fear we're soon to be saying, happy Dependence Day.
Ladies and gentlemen, I would like you to all rise, except for those of you driving.
I'd like you to all rise as we play the new national anthem of the Banana Republic of the United States.
Harry Belafonte and the new national anthem of the United States, now officially a banana republic.
On the cutting edge of societal evolution, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
It's great to be with you, ladies and gentlemen.
Unemployment now at 9.5%.
467,000 jobs cut in June.
This is far more than what was expected since President Obama took office.
Over 2 million jobs in less than six months, or close to six months, have been lost.
And it is astounding.
It is hilarious to read state-run media today try to go through the contortions of making this sound not as bad as it is.
Here is for you, let's see, this is Reuters.
The June job losses were more than 100,000 greater than the 363,000 consensus of Wall Street economists polled by Reuters, and it broke a four-month trend.
We've got more, this unemployment, what?
More people out of work since 1994.
It's incredible here.
Why is it so hard just to report?
It's worse than anybody predicted.
What is so hard about reporting how bad this is?
Well, because it doesn't fit the template.
You see, by now, everybody was supposed to be happy, and we were supposed to be digging ditches and building roads and bridges and new schools.
And everybody was supposed to be wearing their Obama caps and uniforms and going, ooh, aren't we lucky?
Aren't we cool?
And it isn't happening.
Like I saw on TV this morning.
Dunce reporter is time for a second stimulus.
And the Obamaite actually goofed up and said, trying to get my hands on the first stimulus.
Most of it hasn't been spent.
Ladies and gentlemen, Manhattan apartment sales plunged more than 50%.
The average price dropped 21.4% to 24% from a year ago.
Down almost 2.5%.
And they had computer problems in the New York Stock Exchange.
Before that, they announced the worst pre-4th of July trading day in history.
And our good buddies over at the Associated Press try to say in their report that the recession began in December of 2007 and that we've lost a total of 6.5 million jobs since then.
But that's not when the recession began.
They do that.
The recession began in 2008.
They say 2007, so they can blame all this on Bush.
And even the Obamaite, Lisa Jackson, who was on TV this morning, kept talking about, well, what we inherited and we inherited and we inherited.
So they're doing everything they can to blame this on Bush to come out and say, you know, it's worse than we thought it was.
Which, by the way, I predicted they would say, that's worse than we thought it was.
And so now Obama's going to head out there and he's going to do a speech.
He's going to talk about the unemployment numbers at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
What do you think he's going to say?
He's going to say, it's bad, but I warned you it'd be bad.
I didn't know how bad because we didn't get the truth about how bad it was for what we inherited.
But just think of how bad it would be if we hadn't acted.
That's what he'll say.
You want to take any bets on this?
It could be worse, folks, if we hadn't acted.
I shudder to think what our jobs situation would be in this country.
It's precisely the wrong kind of government intervention that has caused this and prolonged it.
And he owns it, whether he wants to or not.
Market down at one point today, 150 points on the news, on the unemployment news.
I still maintain, and as you know, ladies and gentlemen, I'm not pulling any punches here.
I maintain that Obama's stimulus bill is working exactly as intended.
Rising unemployment, crisis, this is what they want.
Now, if it starts affecting Paul numbers, which it has, you're just going to see him out there doing his, trying to work his magic with his dulcet tones.
Like at 2 o'clock this afternoon, he's going to be out there trying to make it all seem okay and how bad it would have been if he hadn't been elected, if he hadn't done the stimulus.
What we have today is just another day of evidence of the president's successful assault on prosperity.
Obama's winning, folks.
If things get bad enough, everyone will have to look at the government for everything, including health care.
Obama is remaking America just as he promised.
Let me ask you a quick question to illustrate my point here.
If you wanted more people to demand free health care, if you wanted more people to demand a government health care problem, wouldn't you want to drive their bills through the roof?
Wouldn't you want to make them more and more unemployed?
Because we don't have portability of health insurance.
So the worse you can create economic circumstances, the more pain that you can create for people, the greater the odds are they will sign up for your agenda.
This is by design, folks.
This is chaos.
This is remaking America.
Cap and trade, health care, unemployment numbers, this is what they intend to do.
Return the nation's wealth to its quote-unquote rightful owners.
And I don't say that in a complimentary way.
And the reason I am insistent and serious that this is being done on purpose is they tend to borrow one of Obama's lines.
There isn't an economist anywhere who would suggest doing this and keeping it up.
After one year of abject failure, compounding the problem, making it worse, they got to be doing it on purpose.
Now, if you want to give Obama some slack, you might say, Rush, you know what?
He came into office and he had an agenda.
He's going to do what he's going to do regardless the circumstances he finds.
So, even if you want to cut him some slack saying that, you're still talking about a guy who's a lousy president, not recognizing circumstance, doing his agenda anyway.
He is destroying the private sector he wants to fleece.
He's fleecing it and destroying it at the same time, taking it over.
There's evidence all over the place that Obama is remaking America just as he promised.
He's pushing, begging, pleading, kneecapping senators now to pass cap and tax.
How many people have predicted good times are just around the corner since the moment he was inaugurated?
Remember, I've got the quotes coming up from Larry Summers.
All these economic experts told you how hot it was going to be, how wonderful it was going to be.
They said unemployment would peak at 8%.
Now, I see MSNBC running a crawl that Obama said unemployment would peak at 9%.
When he's actually said it's going to hit 10, it's going to hit 10%.
It's going to hit 10% this year.
And wait till you hear some of the audio soundbites.
CNBC, I'm surprised that that network has not been shut down by Jeff Immelt at NBC because he runs it.
But that network today, this morning, is just all over this, and it ain't pretty, and it ain't supportive of Barack Obama.
And that's not what they want at NBC.
So if you like some of the people at CNBC, watch today in tomorrow because next week there's no telling if they'll have jobs.
We have sound bites from them coming up.
We also have two sound bites from CNN about how wonderful the economy is and the evidence that it's growing.
The fact that you have less money in making you happier.
You're being more frugal.
You finally have realized your responsibilities and discipline.
It's just amazing.
And I have an amazing story of a kid entrepreneur that will illustrate something very important.
From the heavily fortified and safely bunkered EIB Southern Command, Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone at the Limbaugh Institute, great to have you here.
I have been corrected.
Rush should be a little bit too hard on Obama.
Remember, Biden said they just guessed wrong.
And I'd forgotten that, but that's exactly right.
They just guessed at these numbers, and they just guessed wrong.
Remember how Tom Biden explained the stimulus not work.
Oh, we guessed wrong.
We didn't know how bad Bush left it.
We just guessed wrong.
By the way, Biden was in Erie, Pennsylvania yesterday and did not draw a crowd.
Fewer than 100 people showed up at some little community center to hear Biden talk about something.
Whatever he was scheduled to talk about, I'm sure he'd go off path and talk about something else.
But staffers were seen removing chairs from this place to make it look like the Biden event was full and sold out.
But I'm told by eyeball witnesses that it was pathetic.
There is something going on.
These people are, they are not magic.
They don't have the magic.
I also, I have been rethinking the staged, whatever it was yesterday, the town hall meeting on healthcare.
Remember how, if you've seen it now, I pointed out all these people look just depressed and sick and uninspired and uninterested and so forth.
And I said, man, if this is a staged event and that's all they can get, Lord.
And then I remembered it's a staged event.
What better way than to have a bunch of people show up who look miserable when the subject is health care?
And it's all Democrat National Committee people, union people, every damn person in that audience was an Obama supporter.
And the woman that went up and hugged him is a DNC staffer.
Well, the woman that he hugged is a DNC staffer.
This is in the Washington Post.
And she said, you know, he said, this is why we need health care after hearing her sob story on cancer.
This is why we need health care.
And she even said to the reporters afterwards, I wasn't satisfied with his answer because she was there to get cured.
He's Dr. Barack.
She was there to get cured.
She was there to hear him say, you're cured.
I'm fixing it.
I will not stand for the fact that you've got cancer.
She was there to hear his version of John Edwards saying, elect John Kerr and Christopher Reeve will be walking in four years.
The Democrats have created these expectations in people.
And there's no way, of course, that Barack Obama can manage them.
He can't satisfy these people's expectations.
It's a point, my good friends, it's all going to crash.
All right.
Yesterday on CNN's newsroom, the anchor Melissa Long has this exchange with Wall Street correspondent Susan Lesovich about the economy.
Nearly half a million jobs lost during the month of June.
But is it possible to find a silver lining in all this?
We want a silver lining.
Susan Lasovich at the floor of the New York Stock Exchange with Morgan.
Is there one?
The silver lining, if you will, is that May was revised, the previous month, I should say, was revised lower, and that was May.
Also, we have a separate report from Challenger Gray and Christmas, which shows the planned job cuts, the announcements slowed.
And that is the fifth straight month.
So that is encouraging.
What is also high, and this is also silver lining, is the first day of July starting off on a positive note.
The Dow is up 128 points.
The NASDAQ is up 25.
Good start.
Tough act to follow, though, the second quarter rally that we saw.
It is so bad for CNN that that garbage can of a network, MSNBC, is beating them in prime time now.
And nobody's watching MSNBC.
This is profound.
A network with statistically nationwide zero audience is beating CNN in prime time.
And this is one of the reasons why.
Here we've just got the worst economic news we can get, and they're out there looking for silver linings.
And you just lost your job yesterday or last month, and they tell you, you know what?
May wasn't as bad as we thought.
Well, hell's bells.
Let's throw party.
Yes, sir, Reebob.
Let's go get the champagne and pop the cork.
And the stock market.
Oh, yeah, we got a great, great uptick here, up 128, NASDAQ up 25.
What is it?
What is it here?
The NASDAQ is down big today.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average flirting with 150 to 120.
Whoa!
Dow Jones now 179.
This is just, so they want a silver lining, and so they invent one.
They find the silver lining when there is.
Can you imagine any of this happening with any Republican president?
I mean, with the Bush administration, when we were in a booming, roaring economy, they were trying to tell us we were in a recession and there weren't any silver linings and they weren't looking for any.
So this reminds us, let's go back to Monday of this week.
Same network, CNN.
We have a montage of Christine Romans, host of your money.
Well, Betty Wynn is speaking with the Your Money host, Christine Romans, about the economy.
Betty Wynn says, Christine Romans is here to explain.
How do we do in the first half of the year?
We do.
Here's a month.
This is Monday on CNN.
We've seen a spring stock market rally that has been quite incredible.
Job losses are slowing.
Consumer confidence is improving.
People are feeling a little better.
They're feeling better because they're spending less.
They're saving more money.
They're getting back to basics.
There's a new frugality.
It's making them feel better.
There was a huge rally in the stock market in the second quarter.
The stock market telling us that it thinks things are going to get better eventually.
And you're going to see that rally if you are still invested in stocks.
If you had faith and you were buying stocks along the way this spring, you were buying them at cheap prices.
You're going to see that rally when you open up your 401k statement.
This is just comical.
The best satire writer could not write the CNN scripts.
The difference is these people actually believe this.
Obama himself said, don't pay any attention.
Stock market, it's like a tracking poll.
It's up one day, down the next.
And the actual ride said, we don't pay attention to the stock market, our policies.
And you're feeling better because you're frugal.
You're being more disciplined and responsible.
They're CNN.
Meanwhile, from the French news agency, which is not happy about the news, U.S. jobless rate now matches Europe's.
What are you laughing at, Rush?
People are hurting.
Sometimes it's all you can do.
Here's the story.
The unemployment rate in the 16 Euro countries climbed to a 10-year high of 9.5% in May as companies cut jobs to survive Europe's worst post-war recession, according to EU data on Thursday.
Some 273,000 jobs were lost across the Eurozone in May.
Unemployment rate rose, blah, blah, blah.
Although activity in the recession hit European economies beginning to pick up, and that's what they're saying here.
We're seeing signs.
We're seeing signs of coming back.
We've got audio soundbites of people saying that we're seeing signs that the worst is over.
Obama said, what was it last month out of Beverly Hills?
Well, what was the word about the economy?
We've hit the worst.
We're rebounding or something.
I don't remember what it was, but none of it's true.
So the U.S. jobless rate now matches Europe.
It's exactly what was planned.
Turn the United States into one of these socialist European democracies run by the elites who are never in pain.
Here is an amazing story, and I want to share the details of this story with you within the context that Obama is saying and that government's going to mandate the invention of solar power and wind power, all these new green technologies, all this magical new energy.
Washington, Obama, just going to dictate, just going to say, go do it, and it'll happen.
And of course, that's not how things happen.
This is a story of 11-year-old Owen Voorhees.
11.
For the last nine months, Owen Voorhees climbed a mountain of doubt, overcame unfamiliar programming languages, and poured over college-level computer science textbooks, all to develop his very own iPhone application.
Last month, his app, Math Time, debuted in the app store at iTunes and quickly rose to number 13 in the Paid Educational Apps section.
The premise of Math Time is simple: it takes the old-fashioned flashcard math-minute drill idea and adds a new media twist.
Participants can practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division on the phone by quickly solving problems with two taps of the phone, one to show the problem, one to display the answer.
11-year-old Owen Voorhees from Hinsdale, Illinois said, I thought it'd be cool.
It's really cool to make something work, to make a little money, to do something like this, and see it up on the app store.
After he established the basic premise of the game, Owen's nine-year-old brother, nine-year-old brother Finn, designed the mathematical symbols in Photoshop.
Once the design was done, the boys pitched the program to Apple.
John Voorhees, the father, said, Nothing's impossible if you don't know it's impossible.
He created an app account.
He provided a bank number for the boys.
He dug into it all by himself.
I didn't touch a line of code.
Talking about his son.
The app store has over 35,000 different iPhone applications and games available for download.
These two kids are unusually young to have done that, but the development environment is so easy.
Novice programmers with good ideas can now develop something compelling, said Matt Murphy, a partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, Caulfield and Buyers.
Sounds like a law firm.
Murphy also manages the iFund, a $100 million fund devoted solely to investing in startups creating apps for the iPhone.
Now, I question, did a single president, member of Congress, or House of Representatives, or member of any state house give a speech one day and command executives at Apple to create the iPhone?
Did they say, you know what we need?
We need an online computer place where we can buy music and store it and play it.
And we need a device where we can download it like an iPod.
And then we have people at the iPod, we need to put a phone in there.
Did government mandate any of this?
No!
Freedom, entrepreneurism, creativity.
And now we've got an 11-year-old who built his own math app reading college-level textbooks.
It's people like this guy.
When the time comes, if we still have the liberty and freedom, they're going to find the next unraveling of mysteries regarding energy.
But Barack Obama doesn't know a kilogram from a pound.
He has never run or done or accomplished anything that is anywhere near the private sector.
And yet, Barack Obama claims to be the candyman, the magic man, who simply by virtue of his presence and demands will cause magic to happen while he purposely, systematically sets about destroying the very environment where people like 11-year-old Owen Voorhees can triumph.
Yeah, I got them all laughing here, folks.
Those of you watching on the ditto camera, you can see it, but I can't tell you why.
I still say radio is meant to be heard and not seen anyway.
Little Michael Jackson bump here, folks.
Blood on the dance floor.
All right, back to the phones.
Not back to the phones, to the phones.
We're going to start in Arlington, Texas.
Faith, I'm glad you waited.
Thank you, and hello.
Hi.
Hi.
Megan Ditto.
Thank you very much.
I've been listening to you for 16 years and I'm 24 years old.
I was going to say, you don't sound 16 even on the phone to me.
Thank you.
I have two children, ages 3 and a half and 18 months.
And I was listening to that Banana Republic that you played earlier, and it just brought tears to my eyes.
You mean the new U.S. national anthem?
Yeah.
De-o by Harry Belafonte.
Yes.
And I just, I guess I just realized that my kids aren't going to be growing up in the same country that I did.
Not yet.
It's not time to say that yet.
Because not everybody has given up here.
Not everybody has said to hell with it, and I'm going to New Zealand.
Not everybody said this.
Don't have that attitude.
This is all worth fighting for, especially for your kids.
Well, I definitely agree, but I just, I'm not seeing a whole lot of people on our side of the fence stand up for what's right with the eight Republicans.
Well, Faith, let's be honest.
You've been listening for me for 16 years?
Yes.
You don't need anybody else, right?
As long as I'm on the case, then there's leadership being provided for the people that matter, and that's the American people.
All that other stuff will happen.
It'll coalesce as we near an election.
When you need to worry is when I tell you one day, folks, live from New Zealand, it's the Rush Limbaugh program.
I suppose that day would make me very sad.
That would be a day that I would sanction tears.
But not today.
Not today.
You think there's hope then that we can take it back?
Yes.
We haven't lost it yet.
It's not going to be hard, not going to be easy, but we can do it.
So I shouldn't start signing up my kids for foreign language classes yet?
Well, you might do that anyway for their education.
That's not a bad thing to do, but it's no, not because English will not be spoken here.
No, no, no.
You don't need, we haven't got to that point.
Well, good.
There's hope for change.
Faith.
Your name.
Your name says it all.
Somebody named you right.
You got faith.
You are faith.
Yes.
Hope and change.
Yeah, I guess I don't need hope and change when I have faith.
That's right.
Actually, hope is an excuse for not doing anything.
Faith is what guides you.
I'm glad you called me today.
We don't need you checking out.
Okay.
Well, I appreciate it, man.
All right, Faith.
Thanks very much.
In case you missed it, ladies and gentlemen, with the unemployment news today and the deterioration.
Wait, I didn't cue it.
I didn't.
Re-cue it to the top, please.
The unemployed, oh, a computer started on itself on its own.
Right.
Okay.
We are very, very close, folks, to Banana Republic now.
United States Banana Republic.
And as such, I introduced a new national anthem today.
Have you noticed in advertising lately, radio and television, have you noticed the use of the phrase you deserve more and more often?
I have because I study advertising because advertising reflects culture, doesn't lead it.
Very important.
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