So that's why I pause because I need two hands to go through it.
Okay, good.
Then we're in four hands to do the show.
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First, ladies and gentlemen, when the Mark Sanford news broke, I lamented he could have been our JFK.
And over at the garbage network, MSNBC, they didn't get it.
I actually thought I was comparing JFK and Sanford's policies, not their philandering.
Yesterday, I knew they'd get it, but they wouldn't understand it.
And I was right.
I know these people.
Yesterday, I went through the timeline of the Michael Jackson career, and I pointed out that Michael Jackson flourished.
I mean, Michael Jackson epitomized the individual.
He's weird, you know, screwball, but he wasn't part of a group.
And you don't hear anybody covering Michael Jackson songs.
Who else has recorded Billie Jean?
Who else has recorded, I mean, not even the Holly Ridge Strings, which covered the Beatles.
Nobody covers a Michael Jackson song.
That's how unique it is.
And he flourished when.
Thriller, bad, delicious, the big sellers, all during the 80s, during the Reagan administration.
And then we get to the 90s, and Michael Jackson languished under Clinton and Bush.
And sadly, Michael Jackson died under Obama.
This was commented on on MSNBC twice yesterday.
Here's the first.
Rush Limbaugh said on his radio show today about the death of Michael Jackson and his successes.
Watch.
He reached a level of success that may never be equaled.
He flourished under Reagan.
He languished under Clinton Bush and died under Obama.
That is wrong on so many plus.
So many levels that is wrong.
But you know what?
That was David Schuster and Tamron Hall trying to figure out what to say about it.
All they could do is say it's just wrong on so many levels.
But you know what?
Poor Rush.
Later, F. Chuck Todd got in on this during hardball with the F. Chuck Todd was filling in for Chris Matthews.
Leave it at Rush Limbaugh.
Check out how the conservative radio entertainer is spinning the death of pop star Michael Jackson.
Michael Jackson's biggest successes, and as it turns out, his final successes, real successes, took place in the 80s.
He flourished under Reagan, languished under Clinton and Bush, and died under Obama.
I mean, facts are facts.
The timeline's the timeline.
Let's hope the parallel doesn't continue.
It's always Reagan, right?
It always is.
And then, and then, not so much about that, but over on NPR at PBS, the fresh air host Terry Gross spoke to Dan Balls, B-A-L-Z, for those of you in Rio Linda.
He's at the Washington Post, and Gross said, you think the Republican Party, a lot of people in the Republican Party see Limbaugh and other right-wing talk hosts who say extreme things as being helpful to them or harmful to them.
Most Republican office holders see them as they are, which is that they speak to a part of the base.
They do it sometimes in ways that are outrageous that elected officials can't get away with.
But again, they're not prepared to take them on.
They've got to work around them.
Most of the people who want to be leaders of the Republican Party don't want to get into an argument with somebody who has an audience as big as Rush Limbaugh's.
And we've seen numerous examples of that.
On the other hand, most smart Republicans don't think you can get elected president of the United States by speaking the way Rush Limbaugh does.
But Rush Limbaugh gives demoralized Republicans, you know, some energy.
So a psychoanalysis of the Republican Party and me by Dan Balls, B-A-L-Z of the Washington Post.
What are you saying in there, Snerdley?
It wasn't a bad analysis.
For drive-by man and state-run media, not a bad analysis.
Now, I mentioned before the break at the top of the hour that I'm noticing more and more in advertising the phrase, you deserve.
Like, you deserve brighter eyes.
Have you seen that commercial with the, with, it's all over cable, the female doctor who uses the product, you deserve brighter eyes.
Now, this, this is not a selling job.
I don't care whether you use the product or not.
That's not my point here.
But there's a phrase that's recurring more and more in the age of Obama.
You deserve.
In the last few days, I've heard four different ads telling you what you deserve.
And by the way, it's not new, but it's not becoming intensive.
But you deserve a break today.
Quick, Snerdley, what company ever used that slogan?
That's right, Mickey D's.
That's before people started calling 911 when they ran out of McNuggets.
You deserve a better night's sleep.
You deserve a bigger income.
You deserve happiness.
You deserve brighter eyes.
Now, if the truth be told, no one deserves any of the above.
So why, you ask, are more advertisers playing the you deserve game?
And why now?
Friends, it's not that complicated.
Advertising does not establish consumer trends.
Contrary to people like John Kenneth Galbreth and all these libs who thought advertising is rotten, creating a demand for products people otherwise wouldn't want.
Now, if liberals are out there telling everybody they deserve everything, why wouldn't advertisers get in the game?
I mean, Marack's saying you deserve health care and you deserve a job and you deserve, he's not getting you any, but you deserve it.
And in truth, you know, people tell me all the time, Rush, you know, you deserve X.
I don't deserve any.
I've earned it.
I don't deserve it.
Yeah, you deserve it.
You've been through hell and a lot of that doesn't qualify me to deserve anything.
Now, my definition of deserve is very narrow, but it has broadened in our society now to mean basically, as an American, you are owed.
You deserve whatever you want.
And the added benefit is you don't have to provide it for yourself.
You can now vote for some schlub who says, you deserve it, and he is going to get it to you at some point before he dies or you die.
Barney Frank, I'm not going to do it now, but have Banking Queen standing by.
This guy, he's another guy.
You deserve affordable housing.
Americans deserve affordable housing.
So he devises a system where you can get a house without paying for it and creates the scandal and the problem that we are in the midst of.
There was an editorial yesterday in Investors Business Daily, and it laid it all out again.
And I don't know how many times I've read this.
How many times have I read Barney Frank and Chris Dodd created the problem with Bill Clinton and still it isn't mainstream?
And it's been out there all over the place for years and years and years.
If you deserve anything, folks, right now, it is reality.
And the reality is we in heap big trouble.
Little Indian lingo there.
The more you think you deserve, the less you actually deserve is the reality.
The more you're running around thinking you deserve something, the more you're probably also hoping.
And I'm not talking about the biblical context here of hope, of people sitting around hoping.
Hope and change.
Hope that I hope.
And it's an excuse for not doing anything while at the same time you think you deserve something.
So in the era of Obama, where the government is going to be your salvation and solution to everything, it makes total sense if advertisers would get into the game.
You deserve brighter eyes.
You deserve a break today.
You deserve whatever it is.
I predict you're going to see this more and more often.
All right, a brief time out.
We'll come back after your phone calls plus CNBC audio today.
They went nuts over there about all this unemployment news and the fact that we become a banana republic today, back after this.
Ladies and gentlemen, as a powerful, influential member of the media, I am asked questions frequently as though I am an expert, which I am, of course.
One of the most often asked questions is, how in the world did Obama get elected?
How can this happen?
I call your attention to the story here in Florida where a guy and his girlfriend living together.
The guy has a nine-foot python in the house.
And it does what snakes do.
It snuck out of there.
And it strangled the little girl, the woman's baby girl.
Now, who?
You know, there are a lot of things that I don't understand.
That's one of them.
It's not the animal's fault.
I mean, the python's a python.
It strangles things.
Yeah, but Rush, it was an albino.
Saw what?
What a sad situation.
I don't know how close that town is to Port St. Lucie either.
I need to correct myself, ladies and gentlemen.
Where is it?
Oxford?
Is that the name of the town?
Oxford, Florida, or Ox and Ox.
Find it on the map.
Google it.
If I want to find out how close it is to Port St. Lucie, I need to be corrected.
Apparently, Michael Jackson's songs have been covered.
I said they hadn't.
The song Smooth Criminal was covered by the group Alien Ant Farm.
You ever heard of the...
Apparently they shot the number...
It was the first song off their album, and they shot the number one in Australia with it, the Billboard chart.
Miles Davis covered Human Nature, okay?
And Chris Cornell covered Billie Jean.
And then some people are telling me that, hey, Rush, come on, weird Al Yankovic.
Come on, don't.
I mean, he didn't, he covered Beat It with a song called Eat It.
Got to leave Weird Al out of this.
I remember Beat It, though.
We almost lost our Kansas City affiliate over this.
You remember the Pee Wee Herman story?
Pee Wee Herman was caught in the back of a darkened theater having fun with himself.
So I thought it'd be appropriate to use Beat It as the theme song for the update, continuing legal update news on that.
And we almost lost our Kansas City station over that.
It took real diplomacy to hold on.
By the way, President Obama might be interested in this story.
Here's the headline from Al Jazeera.
Gambia president cures AIDS on Thursday.
I got this from sweetnessandlight.com.
Welcome to Gambia, land of sun, sea, sand, and a president who cures AIDS.
Yahya Jamai is commander-in-chief of the armed forces, secretary of state for defense, and chief custodian of the sacred constitution of Gambia.
Sounds just like Obama.
Now he is also a self-styled miracle worker.
He claims that he has a mandate handed down by his father to cure AIDS as long as it is a Thursday.
Asthma sufferers can also be cured, but only on Saturday.
So here is a leader, Yahya Jamai, in Gambia that Obama might be following in the footsteps of another great African leader here.
Oxford is the name of the town in Florida, and it's just south of Okawa, 169 miles away from Port St. Lucie.
Well, I guess that's a safe distance.
I don't know.
Can a python travel 169 miles if it escapes?
To the phones.
People always waiting patiently on this program.
This is Dick in St. Louis.
Hi.
Hi.
Rush, just think how bad things would be if Obama had not proposed with his stimulus and his bailouts and all these proposed programs that he's going to put out.
Things could be a lot worse without that.
And all the jobs he saved.
My goodness.
Dick.
You for real.
No, not really.
You're pretty good because that's what he's going to say in a half hour.
Right.
Obama's going to address the job situation in 35 minutes from somewhere in Washington.
I guarantee you that's going to be the theme of where he's going with it.
Well, this is exactly what Bill Clinton would say.
This is a Clintonian thing.
I tell you, let me tell you something.
Clinton was good, but he's a piker compared to Obama.
And look at, can I explain how?
Sure.
Can I explain how?
Do you realize, I found this out the other day.
I'll let you in on some news here, but I meant to tell you this yesterday.
Remember that Roger Altman column that was in the Wall Street Journal?
No way out of this.
We've got to have a tax increase.
And I said, there comes an Obamaite there that said, this is a whistleblower.
I was deluged with emails.
Roger Altman's not an Obamaite.
He's a Hillaryite.
Roger Altman's a Clintonite.
And I was told that these people in the Clinton orb are just furious at how Obama has marginalized Hillary.
She's Secretary of State, but he's got all these czars that take care of the real important places in the world.
Like he's got Richard Holbrook, the Middle East.
He's got Biden landed in Iraq today.
We're guessing.
They're reporting it with Biden's ever getting a guess.
But Hillary, I have nothing to do.
You know, she swears in new ambassadors, and she goes on Greta Van Susteren asking North Koreans to listen to her on Greta's show.
And these Clintonites are very, they're very upset.
It's bad enough that a guy has marginalized Hillary.
It's even worse that it's this guy.
So the Clintons really have been.
I mean, and what's Bill?
He's envoy to wear Haiti.
You don't want to go there.
If you're the envoy or not, you don't want to go there.
He took it, but I don't think he's been.
Last time anybody of note was there was when they were filming Quantum of Solace, the James Bond movie.
You know, those movies glamorize places.
That was a tough sell.
They've marginalized the Clintons.
They really have.
I mean, the Obamaites have.
And that's evidence, just what a piker Clinton is compared to Obama in the way he can sell this stuff.
I mean, it.
What was it?
Let's put it this way.
I have been serving humanity 15 hours a week on average for almost 21 years, and the drive-by media still doesn't understand me.
They still don't get me.
After 21 years and 15 hours a week, they still don't get me.
Why do we think they're going to someday in a couple of months or years get Obama?
They don't get anything.
It either fits a template or it doesn't.
Who's next?
Michael in Meridian, Connecticut.
Thank you for calling, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Rush, great to talk to you.
I've been calling in so many times and I finally got through.
Thank you, sir.
Listen, I have a question for you.
When are the American people going to wake up and realize and just see through President Obama?
Because I don't know.
From where I'm sitting, the economy is getting worse and worse.
And I can't help but think that a lot of these policies that he's putting in place are being done systematically to dismantle this economy.
I agree with you.
Let me give you - let me, for people that don't think that's possible, you ask a simple question.
If you're trying to get cap and trade and health care, if you're trying to get it passed, what's the best sales technique you can have?
Misery.
People can't take their health care with them when they lose a job.
It's not portable.
So the more people unemployed losing their health care, Obama's office says, I can fix it.
Even though his plan doesn't do that.
His plan does not have portability in it.
There's no question that it's purposeful.
I mean, I just think this man despises wealth.
He despises capitalism.
And I feel like his policies are putting in place is to somehow get back for things that have happened in the past.
And it's just so, it's obvious to me.
And I don't know how the American people can be threatened.
That remains the question.
And we don't know.
And we'll find out in the next couple of elections.
Well, that's why we can't cease and desist.
That's stop for those of you in Rio Linda working to inform people day in and day out.
Back after this.
All right.
Stop the music.
I asked for the Michael Jackson bump.
I admit only 10 seconds of preparation time for the broadcast injury.
He said he had put it away.
Put it away.
It's a computer file, right?
You closed it.
Well, then, do you have our Pee Wee Herman update thing?
Because people want to hear this, and I think we're safe.
While we're playing just a little bit of this, because people want it in, some people listening today didn't hear the Pee Wee Herman update back then.
Go find Blood on the Dance Floor.
Just a little bit of it.
I know it's going to bug people.
I think we'll survive it.
I'm sure you're going to bug people.
To the audio soundbites, ladies and gentlemen, this morning on CNBC's Squawk on the Street, the guest here is the research chief economist from Argus.
His name is Richard Yamarone.
Might be Yamarone.
I didn't hear the name pronounced.
The co-host Mark Haynes says, you, sir, are a pessimist.
I've been traveling the country a lot in the last four weeks talking to small businessmen all over the country in different degrees, but chambers of commerces, rotary clubs.
They're all telling me there's no stimulus.
There's no reason to hire a little increased capital spending.
There's no incentives.
Any tax incentives that we got last year expired in December.
There's no reason to carry on.
They're not worried about hiring workers.
They're worried about staying in business.
So this is what I'm getting.
And it was that forced me, those conversations I was having with what runs this country, by the way, the small business.
That CNBC today, which the CEO wants to be in the tank for Obama, they're not worried about hiring workers.
They're worried about staying in business.
There aren't any incentives.
This is purposeful, folks.
It's time to face the fact.
Nobody in their right mind who wanted to really help the U.S. economy would do 10% of what this president has done.
It is purposeful to create more crisis, to create more demand for government solution and thus more dependence.
If you're trying to sell health care, if you're trying to sell the concept of nationalized health care, what better circumstance could you have than people losing their health care because they're losing their jobs?
And we're now at 9.5% unemployment.
And he doesn't care the impact on the country of all this.
The worse, the better.
The more chaos, the better.
Obama's got a chip on his shoulder about this country.
He and all of his friends, administration buddies, and so forth, far-left radicals have a real problem about the unjust immorality that has always been this country.
Now, Obama, give an example.
In a nuanced interview, AP calls it, he said affirmative action.
Now, listen, affirmative action can be made an afterthought when problems such as malnutrition, poverty, and substandard schools are dealt with, and everybody has a level playing field, which means never.
There will never be a level playing field.
It cannot be mandated.
It can't be created because people are different.
Malnutrition?
Where is he talking about malnutrition?
Substandard schools?
I thought the stimulus, I expected to be smiling workers with their little Obama hats, hammering nails, building schools and roads and bridges, and fixing all of the dilapidated infrastructure of the United States isn't happening.
None of it is happening.
We've got to deal with substandard schools, poverty, malnutrition.
And then after that, we've got to get a level playing field.
And then maybe we can make affirmative action, an afterthought.
Who's next?
Debbie Riverside, Alabama.
Great to have you with us on the EIB Network.
Hello.
Thank you so much, Rush, and thank you for all that you do.
You're welcome.
I have a question.
Yes.
I have a question.
And it is this.
And pardon me for just a minute.
I was running through a department store trying to get away from music.
To all the people that are helping Obama to succeed and having a government takeover, to all of them, the news media, Acorn, to all of these people, Rush, that are helping him, do they stop and think, what is going to happen to me if he does succeed?
No.
Then what?
No, they think of themselves as elites exempt from whatever happens.
Do they really believe that will be the case?
Yeah, I'm sure they do.
I'm sure they'll be among the most favored status when all this finally goes down.
Look at the health care bill and the question I asked last week: call your member of Congress or your senator and say, if this public option is so wonderful, are you going to give up your own plan and join the rest of us in this plan you're going to write for us?
And they won't.
They have their own plan.
Now, I know you're talking about average Americans.
You're not talking about elected officials when you ask me.
Do these people really know what he's doing?
Yeah.
Actually, I'm really speaking of the news media, Acorn.
Let me tell you something.
The best way to answer your question is to tell you what my dad told me when I was a boy.
He said, son, the reason the news media is so stupid, if the communists ever took over this country, they'd be the first put in jail, but they think they would be welcomed into the inner circle.
Rush, I don't think they realize when you do speak of the average American, I do not think these people realize at all, or maybe do not care at all.
Well, no, how we view them.
What is it?
What is the average American anymore?
I mean, this is, you know, you've got so many disparate, we've got brain-dead people who pay scant attention, who are just, they're out there boogieing and dancing, and they're going to clubs, and they're totally focused on the United States of entertainment.
Then you have other people who don't care about anything, and they're just sitting around with their pet snakes.
And then you've got a group of people that care horribly, terribly much about this.
And most of those people are outraged by what they see.
But they also know that 53% of that other crowd elected this chump.
And so your questions still are not answerable yet.
This is why we have faith in the decency of a majority of the American people.
It is what propels and sustains me.
And I understand these election results in 2008.
Could you explain to me what alternative there was to voting for Obama?
Well, I think it was all intentional in the way it went down.
Well, intentional in the sense that maybe McCain, because of Obama's race, really didn't want to mount a bare knuckles campaign.
But my point is, for people that didn't like Obama, was there a genuine, inspiring alternative for those people to turn to?
No.
The Republican Party had let him down.
The Republican Party had nominated a moderate.
One of the leaders of the party was endorsing Obama.
We'd had eight years of a, well, six years of a Bush administration trash to the point with an approval rating of 29, 30%, and that administration never defended itself.
And that infuriated, that infuriated us, Rush, that he never came out and defended himself.
He should have been out there or someone out there every day.
As a result, I run into people I would consider intelligent who will say, can't get any worse than Bush.
I mean, it just can't.
They were totally convinced of how rotten things were.
Now it's amazing.
The economy was so much better.
Guess what?
We have a surgeon in Afghanistan.
We have a huge military operation in Afghanistan that rivals anything Bush did.
Any criticism of it?
Well, there is some coverage of it.
It's interesting.
A reporter was kidnapped by the Taliban last week.
And of course, the drive-bys went nuts on that.
But a U.S. soldier has been captured by the Taliban.
And that's one of the reasons for this big push that the military is engaging in.
And the people reporting on it are upset here.
This is not what...
And Obama, by the way, has now come out for unending detentions in this...
In this AP interview, this is how he does it.
He says, on the prolonged detentions, it gives me huge pause.
It doesn't give him huge pause.
It's his plan.
He is simply continuing what Bush did.
He's continuing the spy program that everybody hated Bush for.
Obama's doing it.
What else did he say in this interview?
He said, on Iran attaining nukes, I'm not reconciled with that.
Big deal.
Not reconciled with it?
You know what?
He's really, he's probably talking to Hugo.
I'll bet you Chavez's military is in the hills down there surrounding Honduras waiting for the go signal from Obama to go in there and finally have a real coup to take a Democratic country back.
And on the white firefighter court ruling, Obama told the AP, well, you know, that's a very narrow ruling, hard to gauge.
This is how he does.
He makes himself appear as, I mean, just the squishiest, most reasonable moderate, while he is the author of the destruction taking place all around us.
So the question of the day is, people have voted for him.
When are we going to get their attention?
Bernie Goldberg said it last night.
He said it on Fox Show.
They were talking about the Michael Jackson coverage.
You know, people looking at that and saying, the country's gone.
I mean, here we're going to get Norx.
We've got Honduras.
We've got the Iranians working on nukes.
We've got healthcare.
All this destructive things that Obama wants through the country.
And 92% of cable news coverage is Michael Jackson.
And Bernie Goldberg said, well, what do you expect?
It's United States of Entertainment.
And celebrities are bigger than, in fact, Obama tops the latest, is it Forbes?
There's some credible Hot 100 list of celebrities.
Obama's number one, and it's the first time a United States president has made a celebrity list.
United States of Entertainment.
So you got the Jackson story, and they're trying to figure out where to do the funeral and memorial because everybody wants to be part of the story.
And the thing about doing it at a Staples Center, I'm sorry, but that's not going to handle 10% of the people that want to show up at this thing.
They got to be thinking princes die here.
I mean, in terms of the number of people that are going to want to be part of the story.
Princess Die, by the way, that whole thing, that's when that's when the red flags went up with me.
That made zilch sense.
No, the people didn't even know her.
But yet they were bonded and they were attached.
And they were attached because of what?
Well, she was pretty.
She was a princess.
She was ditched by a prince.
And she was running around with Playboys on yachts and so forth and had that bad accident in a tunnel.
And everybody wanted to be part of the story because the media had built her up.
She was Princess Padme, Princess Layla, Princess Leia, all these all combined, which was not a real fairy tale.
People believe in fairy tales.
United States of Entertainment.
Bernie Goldberg ought to copyright that phrase.
What are you laughing at?
Sorry, ladies, but the Mark Sanford story just won't go away.
This is great.
Dawn, you'll love this one.
From the Los Angeles Times, the infobabe here is Megan Daum, D-A-U-M.
The story of adulterous South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford still in the news, she says, because America's men see themselves reflected in Mark Sanford.
Daum apparently feels that all men are adulterers, and I'm sure she was taught that all men are predators when she went to college, and that all men abuse their kids.
She thinks that all men are adulterers, so they sympathize with Mark Sanford, causing the story to keep bumping along.
It is men who are keeping the story alive, not these star-struck, left-wing female chicks who have chickified the news.
Here's what she says.
So what's left to say about the Sanford saga?
Call me crazy, but amid all this finger-wagging, am I detecting just a little bit of empathy?
Is there something about Sanford's puppyish comportment, not to mention the fact that unlike many adulterous politicos, he seems to be truly in love with the mistress?
It's making him less a pariah and more a symbol of the male midlife crisis.
For all his duplicity and entitlement, are some Americans, particularly men, feeling as much pity as outrage?
Consider this small example.
As we slog through another week of the Jackson Postmortem Palooza and wonder at the fact that we're still hearing about the South Carolina governor's love for certain tan lines, maybe it's worth asking ourselves why.
Is it because we're uncategorically appalled?
Or is it because maybe, just maybe there's a tiny bit of Mark Sanford, if in not all men, quite a few of them?
What do you think, guys?
This is all, this is all, I mean, this is, and there's a, never mind, I was going to say the picture over here, but it's irrelevant.
It's irrelevant.
I've learned that.
It's irrelevant.
This is from newsbusters.org, by the way.
They've culled the story from the Los Angeles Times so few people actually read it anymore who are not paid to.
Megan Daum.
The only reason the Sanford story is alive is because us guys see ourselves all over him.
Barney Frank, this is a Byron York story today.
The headline.
The details of this coming up in the next hour.
Let's spend TARP profits before taxpayers can get them.
Got to take a timeout, Dak, right after this.
Don't go away.
Back on June 25th, a week ago, the Attorney General Eric Holder, who, by the way, had to cancel his trip to this big Aspen confab because of a cracked tooth.
What a bunch of wusses.
Cracked tooth?
You know, stop a hockey game for a cat cracked tooth.
Anyway, Eric Holder was testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 25th.
And he was asked by Jeff Sessions, a hypothetical.
A minister gives a sermon, quotes the Bible about homosexuality, and is thereafter attacked by a gay activist because of what the minister said about his religious beliefs and what scripture says about homosexuality.
Is this minister going to be protected under your hate crime law?
And Eric Holder said, no, the law will not cover, the statute will not cover ministers nor white people.
Well, we can click here and here to see the testimony.