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July 3, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 3, 2009, Friday, Hour #3
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Hiya, folks.
Uh, welcome back.
Greeting to you, music lovers, thrill feakers, and conversationalists all across the fruited plan.
And a special greeting to those of you genuine real Americans, still able to drive your RVs in buses all over the country on the Independence Day weekend.
You are especially under attack.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
As those things are genuine diesel and gas hogs.
Enjoy them while you can.
Yes, you would have to say, Dawn, that people driving their RVs today do indeed have their day off.
I'm still catching grief for doing the program today.
This is an it was very briefly.
This program was not supposed to be airing live today.
There was an EIB company wide holiday declared for today, but I am EIB, and I didn't declare it.
So I assumed all day long yesterday we're going to be coming in here, and Brian tiptoes in here, less to the afternoon.
I have a question.
Yeah, what is it?
I'm confused.
Are you are you working tomorrow?
Of course I'm working tomorrow.
Why wouldn't I be?
Well, we got this memo, company wide holiday.
We're playing a best of show.
I said to hell, we are playing a best of show.
So many of the EIB staff had planned to be eating hot dogs and hamburgers about now.
Chasing the kids, keeping them out of the lake and what have you, taking the dog to dog parties.
And they had to cancel that because I insisted on working today since I'm going to be out.
So, yes, if you're in your RV and if you're driving around, yes, you have the day off.
They have the day off, I'm being reminded, and my staff doesn't.
See you.
See you.
And when we get to the phones, which we will do in this hour, you get to determine what we talk about.
You realize this is one of the greatest career risks taken by a major media figure ever.
I mean, you would never the nightly news would never turn over content to a viewer.
I do.
One day a week.
Telephone number 800-282-2882.
All right, I stand corrected.
They do turn over the content to President Obama, yes, and he is a viewer.
They do.
That's not only the nightly news, but infomercials on health care disguised as 2020 specials on um on ABC.
Again, 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, email address L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
So, ladies and gentlemen.
For 232, 233 years on July 4th, America celebrated Independence Day.
And now people rightly ask, are we headed to Dependence Day?
Not if I have anything to say about it.
When in the course of human events, seven words started the Declaration of Independence and begat the United States of America.
When in the course of human events, independence, a single word, a glorious idea, a word that guided us and governed us for 233 years, whatever it is.
Independence, liberty, freedom, independence, that which made us different from everyone else.
But on this July 4th, we have to give pause as we drive our RVs and go to our dog parties and eat hot dogs and hamburgers.
And ask ourselves, are we celebrating Independence Day or a new Dependence Day?
Dependence on government for our health, for our wealth.
Uh won't be any wealth if you depend on anybody for it.
So your meager subsistence and your well-being.
Dependence on government for that.
And to solve our problems.
So you depend on government for that.
Independence or dependence.
The answers written in the polls.
Scary.
35, maybe 45% want dependence.
It's our job, yours, mine, ours, to do everything we can to resist the false promises of dependence, to cherish the virtues of independence.
And it shouldn't be that hard.
We have 232 years of evidence, and as Lanny Davis would say of toof, that independence works far better than dependence does.
Better for the individual, and as our founders foresaw, better for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
But now with the unemployment numbers at 9.5% and no end in sight to the plunge in the number of people working.
Our economic growth in negative numbers.
It is safe to say that the United States is or is on the verge of becoming a banana republic.
We have a president who sides with dictators in their own banana republics against people who want freedom, such as in Honduras.
We have a president apologizing for the supposed evils and idles of the United States of America, apologizing to the enemies of this country.
We've got the Norks firing off nuclear missiles.
Uh well, not maybe nuclear, firing off test missiles.
We have the ChICOMs suggesting that we need to get rid of the dollar.
We need a new world currency, and they are our banker.
We have to listen to what the ChICOMs say.
So, ladies and gentlemen, on this day, the day prior to what may become Dependence Day.
I ask you to stand, all of those except of you who are driving your RVs and other vehicles.
I ask you to please stand for the new national anthem of the Banana Republic of the United States of America.
From the vault of never before heard nor discovered Michael Jackson music.
I wonder how many people listening to the song never have heard it.
Wondering what the heck is this?
That's Harry Belafonte.
Best friends, I might say, with fellow dictator Hugo Chavez.
In fact, we have a picture on our website of uh of Belafonte with Hugo Chavez, uh hands raised.
And we also have a picture of President Obama and his youthful days with a Panama hat smoking a cigarette uh to go along with the new Banana Republican Dale as our official new national anthem.
We'll be back.
We'll continue with Open Mind Friday after this.
Is it really 447?
Is that the one that we took off that's at the TV audio?
It's that long, it's 447.
Okay, cool.
Uh greetings and welcome back.
Open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh back to the phones to College Station Texas.
Rick, I'm glad you waited, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Mega Orthodox Catholic, conservative, retired Texas State trooper ditto from the great state of Texas, where there are more Ronaldo Magnus supporters here than his own state of California.
Probably true today, yes.
Hey, Rush, uh, before I get to my point, uh, I learned from listening to you uh that if you don't ask for something, you will never get what you want.
And when I was a uh Texas trooper patrolling the rural roads in Texas, always listening to your program, you you kept me great company.
We usually work without a partner.
And I'd always wished and dreamt that I'd had an autographed Rush Limbaugh necktie.
Any chance?
I you know what?
I'll have to check and see if I have any.
Well, those things haven't been in production, and I don't know how many moons.
Uh many men, I I think I I think I still have some that I wear occasionally.
I saw Orin Hatch wearing one the other day on uh on TV.
But Snurdy will get your name and address when we hang up here on the call, and if I have one, I'll send one to you.
Hey, thanks, Rush.
Great.
Hey, Rush.
Uh, my question is this.
As a conservative first, uh Republican second, there's much discussion about the so-called Republicans, such as Colin Powell, Tom Ridge, Etc.
About the need for the Republican Party to be more inclusive and to be more big ten.
Rush, uh sincerely, how do we grow our conservative Republican base without compromising our core moral beliefs and values, such as being pro-life, traditional marriage, and against uh reverse discrimination.
What's your honest thoughts on that?
I think it's very easy.
I I don't I don't think this is hard at all.
It's the answer to how you get the Hispanic vote, or enough of it to upset the Democrats.
It's the answer to how you get enough of virtue every group that if you want to if you want to segregate voters into groups, which I think is a mistake, but of course I'm not a professional politician.
My job's not to win elections, and these people tell you that no, you've got to identify you've got to get this group and a percentage of that group voting for you, and you've got to do it with this policy or what have you.
This is the big argument going on the Republican Party.
I know how much it irritates Democrats and a lot of Republicans to mention Reagan, so I mentioned Reagan often, because I like irritating people, and I know why they get irritated.
The blueprint for Republican Party success is all the way back in the 1980s and in 1994.
And it's very simple, two or three solid ideas that are understandable, that can be communicated to the American people without benefit of translation from the media.
But basically all you have to do, and I I don't mean to make this sound simple, because it's not a simple task to achieve, but the methodology is simple.
Just espouse the terms of the founding.
Talk about basic humanity, freedom, liberty, pursuit of happiness, all these things, and talk about how this is what we want for every American.
We want the best for every American.
We don't look at you and see you as victims.
We don't look at you and see you as a problem.
We don't look at you with contempt as the other side does.
We look at you as part of the greatest collection of human beings that's ever existed in one country.
And the reason that we are exceptional is not because our DNA is different.
The reason we are exceptional is precisely because we had liberty and freedom, the pursuit of happiness uh enshrined in our founding documents.
We had independence, we had the ability to be the best we could be as human beings, or to try to be.
Uh if we wanted to be the worst we could be.
We had that freedom too.
But people had the freedom.
And when you when you have that kind of disparity, you are going to have different outcomes.
Some people are going to do better than others.
That gives rise to the modern left.
That's just not right.
That's not fair.
It doesn't matter how it happens, nobody should have more than anybody else.
Nobody should be better than anybody else.
Nobody should get more advantages than anybody else.
So the left rises up in their quest for sameness and equality, and rather than elevate people at the bottom to say, hey, you know, you can be great too.
You can be better than you think you can.
They affirm people at the lower levels as incompetent, victims, and so forth.
They attack the people at the upper levels to try to bring them down, so they try to equalize society by making everybody equally miserable.
But I believe in the basic American human instincts, even though they're not that taught anymore.
I I believe a full-fledged approach to the American people, with somebody that has a likable personality, that's it's a TV age, but thus disespouses the beauty of America, the wonderment of America, the important role that every citizen plays in it, and that everybody can be better than they can be, that they think they can be.
I don't think this is difficult at all.
Human beings are human beings.
I don't believe, for example, it may be that way now because the Democrats have led us to this, but I don't believe that Hispanic Americans have to be talked to in a different way than Chinese Americans.
If they're Americans, they're Americans.
And they understand what it is to be an American.
Now, some people may be coming here for, you know, uh get rich quick uh sort schemes and so forth or not whatever, but uh we we can still, I believe with the decency and goodness that is the approach to this country and the belief in its citizens that we can bring the best out of everybody and want the best for everybody,
and we don't have to appeal to people as groups, and we don't have to acknowledge, well, you know, there's this middle class out there that we're ignoring, and uh these people do want big government, and we've got to figure out a way to make sure that we can convince them that we're gonna use the government the best way to help them, the best way you help people with deal with governments, get it out of their lives.
But Rash, but Rash, what about people who need it?
That is a problem.
Because more and more people have become dependent on it because of the efforts of the Democrat Party and the American left.
But it's got to change.
If we have any hopes of changing this, we cannot accept any status quo.
But so many, even conservatives now, and so many Republicans want to accept certain status quo as inalienable bits of evolution that we can't show.
We can't roll back what people think about government rush.
We can't roll, they want big government to help.
No.
It's not good for them.
It doesn't help anybody but government.
Why would we want to uh uh amplify and support policies that are not good for people?
We want the best for people.
I don't think this would be that hard a sell, but a traditional politician with uh with a polster may not be able to pull it off.
Anyway, I I you know we this this whole notion of uh inclusive, how much more inclusive can you be as a party when you tell people we are for your freedom and your liberty, and we want you to be the best you can be.
We want you to acquire what you want.
We we we need it.
We need this country needs you pursuing excellence.
This country needs you trying to be the best you can be, be innovative, be imaginative, dream, we need this from our people.
I don't know how you can get more inclusive.
What these people mean by inclusive, okay, we've got a special message.
We got to peel off 10% of blacks, so we gotta get a special message for them.
And the Hispanics, we got a special message.
So how do we do it?
We stand for amnesty.
Whatever inclusiveness we have, we throw out the window when we compromise our own beliefs, and that's what's happening now.
And it needn't happen.
It's not that hard.
Trust me, don't doubt me.
Our official climatologist here, Dr. Royce Spencer, University of uh uh Alabama and Huntsville sends a question after hearing my last dissertation.
Equality of outcomes.
How can a senator or congressman, for example, after working to achieve their station in life, how can a senator, congressman, then argue that everybody else needs to be the same.
Now, snurdly you're acting in there like, yeah, right.
What?
What do you mean?
Yeah, right.
You think it's a good question?
It is a good question.
You know the answer?
The answer's uh relatively simple.
Knew the answer to it.
That's true.
That's why I am the host.
Members of Congress, Senators, presidents, members of the House consider themselves, particularly the Democrat liberals, as the elites.
They always establish different sets of rules for themselves, like Obama can go anywhere he wants on his airplane, and he can put his wife on a second airplane to go shopping and uh and can take 10 or 12 SUVs for her while she goes shopping in Paris with the daughters, while Obama has to get back.
They can throw a luau for 2,000 people in uh White House while he tells us that the days where we can eat what we want and drive where we want and drive our SUVs and keep our thermostat 72 degrees are over.
I mean, the rest of the world not gonna put up with that.
The elites always, and by the way, I mean, have you seen the uh we haven't talked about it, but there's a story out of all the travel members of Congress are taking during this recess, the fourth.
I mean, they're all over the place, all over the world on supposed business junkets.
It's just vacation time where they meet with defense experts in some country or some company somewhere and they uh chalk it up to official businesses.
But there's all in the taxpayer dime.
Uh I I it's it's when liberals talk about equality of outcomes, it's for everybody else, not them.
Now I'm talking about liberal leaders and so forth.
I and even amongst the rank and file liberals, they still think if they if their leader accomplishes everything they want, somehow they're gonna be better off as a result.
Look at folks, I I I have given up trying to rationally explain liberalism, because I don't think it can be.
It's like I asked the question the other day, we need to start really delving into this.
Is liberalism something that is chosen, or is it something you were born with?
Conservatism is not something you're born with.
Conservatism is an active intellectual pursuit.
Liberalism, there's nothing intellectual about it, it's all emotional, it's all feeling, it's all it's all it's all uh uh grievance and victimization.
Uh I I can't answer if it's if it's chosen or if you're born with it.
But we need to find the answer.
But trying to rationally explain it is a uh is a waste of time.
Ronnie in Lexington, Virginia, hi.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you for taking the call, Rush.
Yes.
I don't think President Obama cares about anyone.
And the reason I say that is because if you look at how lived in Boston, how his half brother is in Kenya, it it just indicates that to me.
Now, if you look at Congress, look at the American Indian government run health care program that they administer and the veterans' hospitals.
Congress knows what kind of mess they're going to make out of this thing, and that's why they're being sure to keep their health coverage separate.
It's not national health care that the president's after, it's control and pay for doctors, hospital administrators, CEOs, and insurance agents of insurance companies.
And that's what I think at the bottom line.
And I think you're right.
I I've I've said this in my own uh way for many years.
Liberalism is a series of myths, and people believe these myths about liberals.
And one of the big myths that people believe is that liberals have genuine compassion for people.
That liberals are the ones that care about the downtrodden and the poor and so forth.
When you examine it, though, liberals have contempt for people.
They'll they'll look at people in suffering, and they'll blame everybody else for it.
They won't do anything to solve it.
Homelessness.
Their solution is to buy the homeless shopping carts.
That's really compassionate, isn't it?
We want to end homelessness.
We don't think it's right that an American should be homeless, not the way these people are.
It's not what we want to support.
The liberals will use their existence to advance their agenda.
Uh compassion, understanding, these are the most hateful, angry, enraged people you can find.
Obama lives on the myth that he cares about people while he is practicing all this compassion.
600,000 people a month are losing their jobs.
Now, where's the compassion?
Well, Russia's giving them unemployment comments.
Oh, yeah, that's really cool.
Yeah, that's a subsistence.
Well, Obama's trying to make sure that they stay in their homes.
Yeah, how's that working out?
And I I just I liberalism is a series of myths.
There's a notion about caring about people, they talk a good game, and it's fooled a lot of people.
The genuine compassion in this society is held by conservatives who want the absolute best for everybody, but understand that that's only achievable if people embark upon the quest themselves.
And we realize there's going to be disparities, differences in outcome along the way.
But it is the differences that provide the inspiration.
It's the differences that provide the motivation.
For others to try to equal it and so forth.
It all it's worked.
It's worked marvelously and brilliantly better than anywhere else in the world.
There's no need to remake it.
There's no need to tear it apart, no need to tear it down.
Just needs to be promoted.
The whole concept of America promoted needs to be defended.
Celebrated, whichever you wish to call it.
Gulfport, Mississippi.
This is Paul.
Welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush, for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
Um, I just wanted to say that I'm 21 years old and I'm currently in school, and you have inspired me to instead of let the recession beat me down to create my own job.
So I did just that.
And uh I work all across the United States through the internet, and uh it's working.
Congratulations, sir.
So you're another that's not all that greatly affected by the recession.
That's correct.
As a matter of fact, I'm going to Washington, D.C. next week just for fun.
So uh thank you for being an inspiration to me and to many others.
That's now see.
If I were a liberal, what I would say to you is go ahead and take your trip, but don't brag about it.
That's gonna hurt people's feelings.
You realize how many people are hurting them.
Here you are calling here bragging about going to Washington to have fun.
You ought to be ashamed.
Well, at least I'm not on TV every day.
Um Thank goodness.
So thank you, sir, for all that you do and uh the heart that you've given to other people.
Appreciate that.
I really do.
Thank you very much, Paul.
Well, you let me squeeze one more in here before we have to split uh for the commercial timeout.
Tucson, Arizona.
It's Jack.
Hello, sir.
Long time dittoes to you, uh there, Mr. Limbaugh.
Thank you, sir.
I'm just wondering uh, you know, the uh so many people seem to have missed uh uh one of the comments that uh Obama mentioned about health care only costing us uh about a hundred and seventy-five dollars a month.
It seems to me that a lot of people miss the uh how he how he uh the comment he made just before that, where it said in ten years he expected people to be paying 175 dollars a year.
Yeah.
Uh I don't care whether he means next week or ten years from now, nobody is gonna be spending as little as 175 dollars a month, a week, a year, whatever on health care.
This is uh one of the things that's somewhat frustrating for a lot of us.
There is no government program in existence that costs less than what they say it's gonna cost.
Every damned one of them costs more.
There's no evidence.
I mean, look at all the problems people encounter dealing with government agencies.
There is well, what evidence is there that this government or Obama or anybody else can tackle something as massive and intricate as health care?
There is no evidence.
So the the the selling point, the magic is the belief by some people that it isn't gonna cost them anything, not even $175 a year.
We've accepted way too many premises on all of this.
Doctor called today and said I'm going on it, but describes his day, how he gets paid.
He is paid by an insurance company.
I said, Don't you wish you got paid with a patient?
Oh, those days are long gone, they're never to be again.
They're not.
No, they're not.
There are still a lot of Americans still pay the doctors themselves.
If it's good for some of us, why not for everybody?
There's that's something to work toward, the way it used to be.
I don't think.
I know I know how deep the culture is, but they're paying for it.
They people that think they aren't are paying for it.
It's the bottom line.
Anyway, uh appreciate the call out there.
Thanks.
Thanks, Jack, very much.
You know, we're what we're celebrating this week independence, freedom.
That's what people around the world, like Cuba, North Korea, in Iran, they wish they had that in their lives.
We're in the process of just almost freely giving it up while people crave it.
We have celebrated and fought for our freedom for 233 years now.
Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.
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Coming back after this.
And back to the phones on Open Line Friday, Nancy in Columbia, South Carolina.
Hello and welcome.
Thank you, Rush, for taking my call.
I really appreciate it.
You bet.
I'm uh a proud aunt and godmother of an Air Army Airborne Ranger, Michael Dehenna, first lieutenant.
And my question is, how am I supposed to celebrate Independence Day when we send our troops oversea and then we persecute and then prosecute them for doing their jobs and we lock them up in Leavenworth.
I have a nephew serving 25 years for defending himself in a war zone over in Iraq against a known Al Qaeda member.
So how how do I celebrate independence when when he fights for our freedom and justice and he doesn't get it himself?
Well, I'd be celebrating it in anger.
Yeah, it's it's been it's been a battle.
Um, you know, my my American freedoms, uh, everything that I've I've taken for granted has just been shaken to the core, our entire family.
And I just I don't know how to celebrate Independence Day, knowing that he is serving time in Leavenworth.
I visited last weekend and had to say goodbye to him.
Um I just I don't understand how our government can turn on our troops and prosecute them, withhold evidence from their defense that shows they they were defending themselves in a war zone in Iraq against known Al Qaeda.
Isn't that why we sent them there to fight for our freedom?
I would love to be able to come.
I don't know the specifics of the case, and it's um uh I I I can't, but but I I understand I understand the grief and the anger that you face.
We all felt it when people like Jack Murphy falsely accused Marines of engaging in murder and rape and Hadith and John Kerry.
I mean, in a in a general sense, our own State Department and in certain places our own military is going out of the way to show that we don't mean any harm or insult to Islamo fascists.
I have no idea whether any of that is a factor in uh case that you're describing without knowing any of the specifics of it.
But it's just another one of the things that is 180 degrees out of phase that seems to be totally uh out of out of whack.
And that's that's just one of uh of many, many examples.
So if I I mean I would be in your shoes if what you say about it is accurate, I'd be frustrated as I can be.
Anyway, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
Folks, I got to remind you uh one more time before we get out.
Remember, I'm gonna be gone all next week.
I've got a big guy golf trip coming up.
Was it six states and six days or five days or some such thing?
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Rasmussen has a poll out today that uh 74% of the American people agree with the assertion that all men are created equal.
Only 23% disagree with that.
I'll tell the way the left has distorted views in this country.
That's astronomically high.
That's a great news.
74% believe in the assertion all men are created equal.
And life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, uh 89% agree with that.
Only 7% disagree with on that premise.
There's building blocks possible out there, folks, is the point.
Work on them this weekend.
Have a great weekend and week.
And I'll be back on the 13th.
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