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July 23, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 23, 2009, Thursday, Hour #3
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Greetings, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, serving humanity simply by showing up daily behind the golden EIB microphone at the distinguished Limboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Well, I said I was through discussing the Gates, Henry Lewis Gates situation, but I have more to say.
I think basically, oh, get this, get this.
Robert Gibbs, the press secretary at the White House, said that Obama was not calling the police officer stupid.
The only problem is we heard him.
The president said that police acted stupidly in arresting Gates for disorderly conduct, but Obama wasn't calling the police officer stupid.
Gibbs saying he was not calling the officer stupid.
The situation got out of hand.
Well, he used the word stupidly, but he didn't call him stupid.
What we got last night, the president's reaction to this was not presidential.
The presidential reaction is, I don't know everything that happened.
I know Gates, friend of mine, I don't know what happened.
I'm going to leave this up to the local authorities when all the details are known.
Stay out of it.
But what we got was the reaction of a community organizer.
We saw the community organizer that is Barack Obama.
We got the Acorn reaction last night.
We got the militant black reaction, the Cornell West angry reaction.
But basically, we saw a community organizer in action last night.
And he sends a message to young people all over the country.
Kids are, the cops are stupid.
The president of the United States says the police act stupidly.
All it does is cement in certain people's minds that there's a constant adversarial relationship with the cops.
The cops are bad.
My president even knows.
President says the cops are stupid.
President says the cops are racist.
The cops in profiling and so forth.
This is agitation last night, folks.
That's why I'm very uncomfortable with this.
Obama is not a force for positive race relations in this country.
He is not a uniter.
He played into stereotypes with this, and he repeats them.
He should have kept his mouth shut.
He's not capable of that.
He should have kept his mouth shut.
He doesn't know the facts.
He wasn't.
There he pops off just exactly as he would back in Chicago in the community organizing days.
He goes off about racial profiling, all the rest, based on what?
A limited amount of information about a single incident where he's quick to condemn the cop, the whole police department, white America.
Mr. President, you are not a victim.
You are, in fact, the president of the United States.
You went to private school.
You went to Ivy League schools.
You are a millionaire.
You have a charmed life.
Congratulations.
You're living the American dream.
Stop pretending otherwise.
If anybody behaved stupidly yesterday, it was the president in even taking the question.
Now back to other news in our monologue segment.
The job market is doing even worse than the overall economy, prompting concern inside and outside the government that deeper than expected joblessness could persist once the recession ends.
Well, the White House is even saying this is going to be a jobless recovery.
How can you have a recovery with no jobs?
Breaking from historical patterns, the unemployment rate currently at 9.5% is one to one and a half percentage points higher than would be expected under one economic rule of thumb, says Lawrence Summers, Obama's top economic advisor.
Deeper than expected from the Associated Press.
The hope and optimism that washed over the country in the opening months of Obama's presidency are giving way to harsh realities.
An Associated Press GFK poll shows that a majority of Americans are back to thinking the country is headed in the wrong direction after a fleeting period in which more thought it was on the right track.
Obama still has in this poll a 55% approval rating, but there are growing doubts about whether he can succeed at some of the biggest items on his to-do list.
And there's a growing sense he's tackling too much too soon.
And unreported here, I think there's a growing sense he's too visible.
He's on television too much.
It's not about him, but he's on television all the time.
The number of people who think Obama can improve the economy is down a striking 19 percentage points from the euphoric days just before his inauguration.
Ditto for expectations about creating jobs, also down significantly.
The share of people who think he can reduce the deficit, remove troops from Iraq, and improve respect for the U.S. around the world, all of those slipping 15 points.
It's not just Obama feeling the drag.
Approval of Congress has gotten lower, slipping six points to 32%.
Overall, the number of people who think the country is going in the wrong direction hit 54% in the latest APGFK poll, up from 46% in June.
This is why Harry Reid said today there will be no health care vote before the August recess.
People are asking, what's Obama done for me?
Nothing.
He isn't creating jobs.
The stimulus bill, last night telling everybody how rosy things are getting, back from the brink.
Rasmussen, just 31% of likely voters now believe the U.S. is heading in the right direction, down one point over the past week.
It's the lowest level found on the question since mid-February.
63% of voters say the country is moving down the wrong track, up a point from the last week, and the highest findings since the second week in February.
While most African-American voters, 56%, still say the country is heading in the right direction, that's down seven points over the past week.
56% think the country's heading in the right direction.
As we know, Harry, grab audio snow by 28.
Let's just listen to Dingy Harry make his announcement.
Obama's press conference last night so magnetic, so effective, that Harry Reid made the following statement just moments ago.
Republicans, one of the things that they ask is that they have more time.
I've had a number of conversations, for example, with Lucius Snow.
And so the decision was made to give them more time for the finance committee part of what we're trying to get.
And I don't think it's unreasonable.
This is a complex, difficult issue.
As you know, the Help Committee worked a month.
The finance committee working to come up with a bipartisan bill have worked longer than that.
I spoke to Senator Bacchus to Lady last night.
I spoke to Senator Conrad this morning.
They're going to be able to mark something up before we leave here.
But they're not going to have a vote.
They've delayed it until the fall.
And we'll be ready.
Over in the House, Nancy Pelosi says she's got the votes.
But the leading blue dog Democrat, Mike Ross of Arkansas, said, no, I don't think they have the votes.
I mean, they wouldn't be pressuring us the way they are if they had the votes.
From thepolitico.com today, Democrats raised concerns about Barbara Boxer.
A big chunk of the House climate change bill is in the hands of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman, Barbara Boxer, and some of its supporters are worried she's not up to the task.
Bottom line, no liberal Democrat is ever up to the task.
Obama is not up to the task, as he so well demoed last night.
Biden is not up to the task, which he proves every time he opens his mouth.
Nancy Pelosi is not up to the task, which she proves by lying about having the votes.
Hillary is so out of her depth and proves that all over the earth.
None of them is up to any task.
Speaking of Hillary, I didn't get to this yesterday, but where is she?
She's Secretary of State.
She's in Thailand.
She's in Phuket, Thailand.
You got to be as a broadcast professional, you got to be very careful how you pronounce that, by the way.
Phuket, Thailand.
And you know what she announced in Phuket, Thailand?
A potential missile shield in the Middle East to protect people from Iran.
Now, did she clear that with Obama?
Because Obama does not want to deploy a missile shield in Europe to protect people there from any further Russian activity.
This is amazing.
You got all these czars and envoys in really important parts of the world.
Is Hillary Clinton in Thailand making an announcement about Iran?
Very strange.
In private conversations, Senate staffers say that Boxer's abrasive personal style helped tank the climate bill that Joe Lieberman and John Warner sponsored last year.
Several recent embarrassing episodes involving Boxer have them worried about a repeat performance.
During a committee hearing in June, Boxer upbraided a brigadier general for calling her ma'am rather than senator.
During another hearing this month, Boxer found herself in a testy exchange with the CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce, who accused her of condescending to him.
For some Democrat staffers, the incidents underscored the danger of having an outspoken partisan liberal in charge of making the kinds of compromises needed to get cap and trade through the Senate.
The New York Times has reported a $39.1 million second quarter profit.
How did they do this?
The company said it cut its operating costs by 20% to manage the revenue falloff because of advertising sales being down, following a pattern that also emerged in recent earnings reports from fellow newspaper publishers Gannett and McClatchy.
So what do we learn here?
We learned that the New York Times can cut enough to make a profit and stay in business.
There should be lessons for liberals on managing budgets there.
They had all these budget for losing money, no profits for the longest time.
All of a sudden, across the board, 20%.
They're still in business, and now they're showing a profit.
The private sector will tell you everything you have to do in order to survive or what you'll have to do to fail.
So here's a bunch of libs, a bunch of libs at the New York Times cutting the budget, 20%, showing a profit.
Do you think that'll be reflected in their editorials or in their writing about Obama and his budgets and his health care programs and all this spending?
Nope.
Not at all.
Real world experience gets trumped by liberal statism, radicalism, and ideology.
We'll be back.
Fox News Opinion Dynamics poll just been released.
I have my own official copy because I am a powerful, influential member of the media.
And there's an interesting question in this poll.
Which do you think the government should be most urgent or spend the most time with the most important thing for the government to fix right now?
The economy or healthcare?
Answer 76% economy, 12% healthcare.
North Korea, speaking of Mrs. Clinton in Phuket, Thailand, as I say, is a you don't want to turn over the pronunciation of that town to an amateur broadcaster.
You've got to be real careful when you look at that word because it's Phuket.
And the well, no, I'm not going to do the mistaken pronunciation.
But the North Korea, the Norx have launched into Mrs. Clinton.
These people are some of the best insult artists I have ever heard.
This is in the Washington Post, the Washington Post, for those of you in Rio Linda, the war of words between North Korea and the U.S. escalated today with the Norx foreign ministry lashing out at Hillary Clinton in unusually personal terms for vulgar remarks that said demonstrated she is by no means intelligent.
They said that Mrs. Clinton, what is it?
It looks like a pensioner shopping.
She sometimes dresses and looks like a schoolgirl and sometimes looks like a pensioner shopping.
Back to the phones, by the way.
People have been patiently waiting.
Claire in Pompeii, Florida.
Hi, welcome to the EIB Network.
Great to have you here.
That's an honor, sir.
Thank you.
I just want to say that my anger and hatred for this man is just growing by the day.
We're paying $600 a month for my husband's job for insurance.
No big deal.
I can call my primary today and go in there tomorrow.
Specialist, maybe a couple weeks.
No big deal, because I know I'm getting in.
Now I'm going to have to suffer and wait along with millions of others, you know, three months maybe to get into him, and I'll be lucky if I can go to a primary care doctor.
And why isn't the, I got a couple things to say.
Why isn't the media saying the real numbers of these people that are uninsured, like the illegals and the people that don't want to pay for insurance?
You remember Gramey Frost a couple years ago, that little kid that went on Capitol Hill with his parents.
They were from Fort Lauderdale.
The parents had, there was a big stink about it.
And the parents were loaded.
He was an architect.
She's a nurse, blah, blah, blah.
Three cars and a hundred.
I'll never forget it.
I'll never forget it.
Oh, yeah, it's a little grainy, yeah.
So, you know, it's people like that that don't want to pay for it.
I mean, this is just getting out of control.
I'm getting frightened about what's going on.
And, well, my solution is.
Okay, go ahead with your solution.
Okay.
Well, my idea is: these bleeding-hard liberals and movie stars, why don't they come up with a tax or make them pay like Bill Gates, Oprah, Pelosi, Kennedy, Soros, all these people?
With all their money, maybe they can pay for this insurance crap that's going on.
I mean, this is insane that we have to pay for, you know, these idiots that don't have any.
And I guess, what did I hear yesterday?
The illegals are exempt from this, that they don't have to pay now.
I know.
Now, this is very, very interesting.
Very, very, because earlier this week, there was a town meeting in Maryland with Senator Ben Carden, and one of his constituents was there.
This constituent had lost his job and lost his health care, and he didn't mind.
He said, I'd rather I have the money for other things.
I don't mind not having to pay my health insurance.
And Cardin said, well, and the guy wanted to know, are you going to fine me if I don't have health insurance?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
And Cardin said, well, you're a burden on the system because you're making everybody else pay for you.
And that sounds like what you're saying.
That you resent, like the Frost family, you know, being trotted out here as examples of an unfair, unjust health care system.
And you're sick and tired of picking up slack for people who access the system, aren't paying anything for it.
Is that right?
That's correct.
I mean, isn't there a solution like my old dentist down south before we moved up here?
He had a plan.
I think it was $100, $150 a year.
You can go and get your X-rays, two cleanings, this, that, and the other.
Isn't there something that they could have the doctors come up with for these people that don't want to pay or the lower class?
Well, now, wait a second.
Now, this don't want to pay this.
I'm not sure how this works.
If you go to the doctor, somebody and you don't have insurance and you get treated, they're going to send you a bill.
True.
That is true.
90% of the American people are covered.
I think your focus is correct when you say we are, and the House health care bill purposely and stipulates that we're going to cover all of the illegal immigrants in the country, whatever number it is, 12 million to 20 million.
But look, your complaint, your lament here is not just limited to health care.
There are people all over this country fed up with paying for a lot of things for people that are not assuming the responsibility.
Oh, yes, I agree with that.
Yeah.
But your circumstance, the thing that you described, is no reason to overhaul the whole system and tear it apart and put it back together again in a way that will make it even less functional.
So you have my sympathy.
I totally relate to what you're saying.
Well, Amberbach, Rushland Blaugh, with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Obama just hit the stage in Cleveland for a teleprompted town meeting.
And he got a rock star welcome.
Of course, a Democrat town, a Democrat region of the state.
And he's something, it just hit me.
All these presidents do this when they go out and meet the local yokels.
But he's mentioning all of the state and local officials who are there.
And your Secretary of State, Jennifer Bruner, is it a place that rupts?
And the great mayor of Cleveland, Frank Jackson, a place erupts.
I don't know, folks.
It just Get a little crazy when we start cheering government officials like they're rock stars.
Let's hear it for the comp trawler, and here is the director of sanitation services who's also with us.
Yeah!
And here's the local cop.
Boo!
By the way, the cop in Cambridge has spoken out on the radio in Boston.
His name is James Crowley.
He's the president of the United States, and I support the president to a point, I guess.
I think it's disappointing that he waded into what should be a local issue and something that is really that plays out here.
As he himself said at the beginning of that press conference, he didn't know all the facts.
Certainly doesn't based on those comments.
I just think it was very disappointing.
The reason I asked the professor to come outside was not, as some would suggest, because I knew I couldn't arrest him in his house.
I didn't know who he was.
I was by myself.
I was the only police officer standing there, and I got a report that there was people breaking into a house.
That was for my safety because first and foremost, I have to go home at night.
I have three beautiful children and a wife who depend on me.
So I had no other motive other than to ensure my safety.
Probably engaging in procedure.
Textbook manual procedure.
If he's the only copy, and there are two guys that are breaking into the house with a crowbar.
Gates and his driver were breaking into their house with a crowbar.
Okay, back to the phones.
Where are we going?
John in Punta Gorda, Florida.
How are you?
Nice to have you with us.
Hi, Rush.
How are you doing today?
Very well, sir.
Thanks much.
Rush, I'd like to talk to you for a couple of minutes about honesty and integrity versus the culture or the spirit of deception that we seem to see with Obama.
I'm a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, and I have three sons who also attended service academies, either the Naval Academy or the Air Force Academy.
And we all each in our turn have come to understand that lying is an intent to deceive.
And any intent to deceive at the service academies is considered to be an honor offense.
When I look at Obama, who rides a cult not only of personality, but also a culture of deception, when I look at the Saul Alinsky connection deceptions, the Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorn and Jeremiah Wright, more recently, the birth certificate falsification question, the stimulus lies, the health care result lies, the Acorn Connection lies,
the firing of the Inspector General, and his agenda for us, which he's just not being forthcoming about.
All of these things fall into, in my opinion, this culture of deception.
It's very difficult to listen to our president without feeling that he is either out and out lying or he is posturing something, getting ready to lie.
I believe polls are falling not only because the economy is not responding to the stimulus, but also because people are sensing that this cult of deception and lying is in fact a big part of who this guy is.
I think his moral authority is going fast.
And now when he needs to advance his own agenda, he's in fact reaching a tipping point and people will not have anything to do with what he says because they simply don't trust him.
When you're at one of these service academies or you're an officer in the service, when you lose your honor, you lose your integrity, you simply lose other people's trust.
And you're of no use to anybody.
Integrity is a mindset.
It's a mindset the same way deception is a mindset.
And people who deceive have a pattern of deceiving over and over and over again.
I think in his case that this stuff is directly related to a highly dysfunctional family background where he was abandoned by both parents and his radical early influences.
But I also think that this cult of deception on his part is approaching a word that I have not heard relative to this administration, and that is treason.
I believe that this inability of his to be honest and to be forthcoming and rather to be devious constitutes serious acts of disloyalty to our sovereign nation.
What do you think of that, Rush?
Well, I think that you are well spoken, you're articulate, and I think you're very honorable.
I think you mean everything you said, and I don't think you're making it up, and you're certainly not trying to deceive anybody.
I don't know.
You know, I get a little worn out on the family made-me-do-it excuse.
I have a much simpler explanation when I agree with you about it.
He has to be deceptive.
If he were to tell everybody who he really is, what he really thinks, and what his agenda really is, he would have never gotten the Democrat Party nomination, much less been elected president.
All liberalism is deceit.
All communism is lies.
All of socialism is lies.
The promises, I should say, the promises of communism, the promises of socialism, the promises of liberalism are all lies, and it's all out there to see.
But we don't examine the results of these people.
We give them credit for great, big hearts and for having wonderful intentions.
One of the interesting things that's happening now, however, John, and I addressed this elegantly yesterday, with the liberal Democrats over in the House and Senate, they are so cocky.
They are so arrogant that they are more open about who they are and what they think than ever before.
And this will be their undoing.
Liberalism has always had to be disguised to win national elections in this country.
It's always had to be, and Obama knows it.
So he's, I think this guy has been well taught.
You talk about the service academies.
I think he's been groomed for this.
I think he's been taught, groomed, mentored to be able to reach this height in the middle of deception by pretending and convincing people he's something other than what he is.
For example, he's not a moderate.
He's not unique.
He's not above politics.
He's not post-partisan.
He's not post-racial.
He's just the most radical liberal Democrat that has ever attained the White House.
Now, he is still practicing the deception.
The Liberal Democrats over in the House and Senate, not so much.
The Barney Franks are pretty out in the open about what they want to do and what they want to send.
The Barber Boxers ditto, and a lot of his cabinet people ditto, but he still practicing the art of deception.
When you get into treason, that's a specific criminal charge.
I wouldn't go there.
I think this is just, this is politics.
He's supposed to be above politics.
But I agree with you that his agenda, his designs on this country are nothing, nothing anywhere close to his stated designs, desires, agenda, or what have you.
It is why I say, to the shock and chagrin of many, that rising unemployment is something being done purposefully.
It is why I say that anybody with an economic brain, with any economic education, with access to the finest economic brains in the country, knows full well that doing what they're doing is not going to create a growing economy.
They know this.
Like my analogy earlier in the program, and I came up with this on the fly, but I wanted to come up with an analogy because I really feel it important to persuade people of this.
This purposeful destruction of the U.S. economy can be illustrated this way.
Imagine a giant airplane.
You got 100,000.
We put 500 people on this airplane and it's not flying and the plane is being flown by Obama and Biden's in the co-pilot seat.
And back in the cabin as the flight attendants and the people running the airplane, you put whoever you want, cabinet secretaries, put Barney Frank in there, put Harry Reid, put Barbara Boxer.
And they are ordering people on the airplane to jump off to jump out without parachutes.
And they're saying, you'll be fine.
You'll be fine.
Just hope.
Just hope.
Just be patient.
You'll be fine.
And they keep pushing people out with no parachutes.
Now, anybody would know if they push you out of an airplane with a parachute, without a parachute, you're dead.
If you implement policies as Obama has to stimulate the economy, you are not stimulating the economy.
You are forcing people out of an airplane without a parachute.
And then you land and you get another 500 people, take them up and do the same thing.
And you keep promising it's going to work if you just have faith.
Just trust me, it's going to work.
Eventually, we're going to push people out of this airplane and they aren't going to die.
And you keep landing and filling the plane back up and you do it.
You keep pushing them out with no parachute.
You say, Rush, nobody would ever do that.
I know nobody would ever do that.
Well, Rush, nobody would ever purposely destroy the economy.
Oh, contrary.
It's happening.
That's the point.
They are pushing us out of an airplane with no parachute.
Or, we're on the Titanic.
We've sunk.
We're aboard, but we're at the bottom of the ocean.
They finally show up to rescue us.
We're dead.
We're drowned.
But they claim they're saving our lives.
I don't, this is, it is deception.
There's no question it's deception.
But it's a deception for an end that people don't even want to contemplate.
Like I told you today, I'll give some of this away.
I sat for one hour today, looking good, by the way.
A television interview with Greta Van Sostrin will air in two parts starting tonight on Fox.
And the whole notion of Obama failing came up again.
And she said, I don't understand why you keep saying you want him to fail.
I said, well, it's too late.
Now he has failed.
He's failed.
Well, I know.
And don't misunderstand.
I'm not impugning Greta.
I like her very much.
But she said, I hope this works.
You don't want it to work.
I said, no, the difference is I know it won't work.
We're in the middle of seeing it not working.
What's going to change between now and next year with the same policy?
We're losing jobs left and right.
But don't you want people?
Yes, that's why I wanted him to fail implementing this.
His policies have led to 9.5% unemployment on the way to double digit.
This is not, Greta, how you stimulate an economy.
This is not how you create jobs.
The blueprint's there.
We know how to do this.
This is being done on purpose.
I said, hope is an excuse for doing nothing.
I don't have time to sit around.
I want every American to succeed.
I want every American to have whatever opportunity out there they wish to access.
They don't right now.
And this was predictable.
And that's my point, folks.
This was predictable.
All of these coming tax increases, all of this mindless spending, all of this debt, the government simply can't create jobs.
It doesn't happen except in their own sector.
It's just, it is a rotten shame what is happening here.
And the real, you know, treason, the real crime is all of the people who are complicit.
There are hundreds of accomplices in this, and they're Democrats.
And they know full well this is not going to do what they say it's going to do.
And the fallback is, well, look at the rotten mess we inherited from Bush.
I have to run.
We'll be back.
Stay with me.
All right, Pelosi has made it official in the House.
No vote in the House on health care before the August recess.
I'm not afraid of August.
I'm not afraid of a month, she said.
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Tomorrow's Friday, and I'm going to be here.
Whoa.
This week went by so fast, I didn't have a golf tournament to schedule tomorrow.
So I'll be here.
We'll do Open Line Friday tomorrow.
I can't believe it's Friday already, and I'm going to be here.
I look forward to it, folks.
You know, I miss you when I'm not here.
I can't wait 21 hours from now, revved up, ready to go all over again.
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