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Aug. 5, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 5, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #3
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It's the fastest three hours in media, and we're back at it.
One more to go already Wednesday this week, you know that.
Hope you're having a good day, folks.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on this, the Rush Limbaugh program.
And we check emails.
That's Lrushbow at EIB net.com.
And speaking of checking emails, I'm getting a lot of emails.
Hey, Rush, I got right on that last caller.
Right on the guy, I want to hug and kiss that guy right on the American people stupid.
I loved it.
I loved it when he said, turn off American Idol.
Yeah, and turn off all the fishing shows.
What if?
Um let me let me uh let me address this again in a uh segment here where I have a little bit more time about that caller.
The key is taking back the Republican Party so that we have a political vehicle to advance the conservative movement.
The American people, by every legitimate study, is more conservative than liberal.
It's like 42% to 21 people who identify themselves, 35% independent.
More people identify themselves as conservative than anything else in this by any number of legitimate studies.
So we have to have a nominee who is conservative, who can speak conservatism, who can inspire and motivate people and make them or arouse their passion.
Somebody who can respond to left-wing arguments, somebody who's confident, somebody who has knowledge.
This is the challenge that we face in future elections.
The American people will be there if we get that candidate.
We put up a candidate like that and we will win.
That's why all the the uh focus on this program and even the Grand of Ancestor and interview.
I told what the problem of the Republican Party is.
That wasn't just a bash Obama interview or bash the Democrats.
The Republican Party is headed up by a bunch of country club blue blood Rockefeller liberals and moderates that don't want any part of conservatism because they're embarrassed about the abortion issue.
They don't like social issues being part of their party.
And if we put up a genuine conservative, we will win.
We're making the case for our case on this radio show every day.
Others on their radio shows and in books.
We don't have the power right now.
And we haven't had it for some time because the Republican Party's taking a wrong turn.
So it's it's really kind of a mistake to just lay it all off on the American people's being dumb and stupid.
If you vote for people who claim to be one thing and turn out to be another, it's pretty smart to not vote for them again.
The American people, the conservative voter is not stupid.
The conservative voter is simply not gonna vote for a fraud in his own party.
Or her own party.
But if we sit out there, folks, what choice do we have in 2008?
What choice did we have?
A lot of people voted against Obama, not for McCain.
We didn't have anything to vote for.
There was nothing affirmative for us in that election.
In that whole campaign, you gotta have somebody to vote for.
That arouses passions.
So the choice in 2008, we had this smooth talking agent of change and hope, speaking platitudes and creating a cult-like following.
And the Republican was somebody whose main selling point was he gets along with Democrats.
He can walk across the aisle, be bipartisan.
Our candidate bought the notion that the American people want the two parties to work together and put aside their differences.
McCain also promised cap and trade.
McCain also promised his own version of health care reform and immigration reform.
Where was where was the opportunity for conservatives to rise up and get passionate about the election in 2008?
It wasn't there.
And if the Republican Party keeps putting candidates up like that, we're cooked.
Not because the American people's stupid, because the Republican Party seeks not to win.
If we all just say, though, that the end is inevitable, if we just say the American people are stupid and they want all of this, that there is no hope, then we can't build a movement to stop this.
We can't build a movement to take back the Republican Party.
We can't take back the government and begin the process of unraveling this.
If we just say that most of the people are stupid and want this, they don't care because they got American Idol on twice a week in the uh winter in the spring.
Well, then what's left?
What what why even stay engaged?
Why why stay involved?
In the end.
In the end, if people want this, they'll get it.
I don't believe the people do want this.
The polls show they don't want this.
Obama knows they don't want it.
Pelosi knows they don't want it.
Their entire strategy is based on lying to the people and ramming through their agenda before the working taxpaying people of this country know what hit them.
That's why the speed.
Obama may well be destroying the Democrat Party.
We will know soon enough.
The Democrat Party represents an ever-shrinking percentage of the population.
The American people are.
And Lord, if I didn't think this, I'd be playing golf somewhere, probably New Zealand.
The American people are at their core, liberty loving, competitive, innovative, and independent, and this is precisely why the Democrat Party, from Pelosi to Reed to Obama to Ram Emanuel to the public sector union bosses, have to lie about what they're doing.
They have to lie that they're saving jobs when they're not.
They have to lie that they're giving tax cuts when they haven't.
They have to lie about all the new jobs with cap and trade.
They have to lie about deficits.
They have to lie about what they're actually trying to do with health care.
The reason they have to lie is because the American people do not agree with them and do not want this, and we are seeing evidence of it.
What we have to hope for is that this passion lasts.
The Democrat Party is a very narrow ideological bunch of radicals.
They will They are led by people who spend their every waking moment conspiring against the public and lying because that's the only way they can advance.
And so, as I said earlier, we get the latest round of this.
We get attack the assurance companies, attack the attendees at town hall meetings.
Make all these wildly irresponsible arguments, promises about government health care.
I could go on.
The conservative movement is going to have to rally and unify and take back the Republican Party.
The conservative movement is also going to have to understand one thing in dealing with Barack Obama and the Democrat Party at large.
Or you could say this about Clinton, too.
Vladimir Lenin believed, as a totalitarian as a dictator as an authoritarian as a politician, that there was no truth.
That words were just tools.
So the facts never ever got in the way.
Just had to come up with the right words, the right tools to overcome the things that got in your way.
The conservative movement is going to have to understand that the power of fact, the power of truth alone up against a strategy of deceit and fraud is not enough by itself to overpower it.
While facts are being presented, the truth about the opposition must also be presented.
Facts of policy, facts of ideology.
But whoever runs for office has got to have the gust stand up and say the Democrat Party is lying to you.
Nancy Pelosi is lying to you.
Or they're not telling you the truth.
And people know this.
It's going to be easier and easier to do because it'll be something that people already agree with.
You won't have to persuade them they're being lied to.
You won't have to persuade people out of work that the economy is improving.
You won't have to persuade people that Obama's lying about that.
But you will have to say it.
Because to the other side, there is no truth.
There are no facts.
As conservatives, folks, we are really people who are intellectually applied to our beliefs.
They're emotionally applied, and their emotional objective is to manipulate your emotions.
They don't want to deal with facts.
They don't want to deal with truth.
Want to create their own, using words as a tool, or as tools.
But we're very intellectually active.
We have to be.
Understanding the American founding, understanding how conservatism works.
It's an intellectual application, a daily one.
And even though people say, well, Russia, if conservatism is so wonderful, how come the Reagan years didn't teach everybody?
Because every day during the Reagan years and every day since the Reagan years, the Leninists in this country have been lying to you about what happened.
They lie and deceive every day.
They have cronies in the media who repeat the lies.
Do not report what they're doing.
They simply repeat the lies.
So on the one hand, you've got the life you lived, the experiences you had versus a deluge of lies about it.
So my father, when I stayed out too late as a teenager, he'd say, son, you thought you were having fun, but you weren't.
I said, what the hell does that mean?
Because I just got, I had a great time.
You thought you were having fun, but you weren't.
You thought you did great in the 80s and you thought you did great in the 90s.
Well, no, they wanted you to think that in the 90s because they were in charge.
Remember, they tried to convince you we were in a recession when unemployment was 4.7 percent.
Just two years ago.
Hell, just one year ago.
So...
And they tried to convince you that we had never lost more soldiers in a war than the 3,000 in Iraq.
Have you noticed, speaking of that, by the way, that there is no discussion in state-controlled media about the debacle taking place in Afghanistan.
Our military leaders, they say we need twice the number of troops.
The Brits are saying our strategy is a mess.
Now, if George W. Bush was still president, that's all we would be hearing to cover up the bad economic news.
Or not take it back.
If Bush were president, that's all we'd be hearing about all with lies about how great the economy is.
They'd tell us how bad it is.
We have to send an ex-president over to North Korea to apologize to Kim Jong-il to get a couple of Al Gore journalists out of there.
Hillary Clinton goes out and says, hey, we uh it was a totally private visit.
Now that's not possible.
You don't have an ex-president decide on his own to hop a plane over to Pyongyang, get off the plane, go meet with the potbellied dictator and get the um journalists freed.
And Hillary said, well, we the only thing she said that was truthful about it, she didn't talk to him while he was there, meaning her husband.
But now you got you got the Clintons back in the news cycle taking credit for all these wonderful things.
Hillary's over in Kenya kissing Obama's grandfather's grave and talking about whatever corruption she's finding over there.
Just a bunch of total BS.
It's all just a bunch of BS.
There is no truth.
And to the extent that they think you believe in truth, you are the target.
You have to be disabused of that notion.
Quick time out.
We'll be right back.
Allow me now, ladies and gentlemen, to illustrate that which I have been saying today.
President Obama, this is from MSNBC.com, state-controlled media.
President Barack Obama brought his latest prescription for recovery to the Elkart, Indiana area, economically ravaged northern Indiana, promising Wednesday to unleash prosperity for everybody, not just some.
They lie.
They use words in your comfort zone.
They use words that comprise and make up your experience.
They use words based on your conservative core values.
In the middle of two million jobs being lost, of massive debt being run up, of a health care plan that will destroy individual liberty and freedom.
This man has the audacity to say to people living in an area where the unemployment rate's about 18%.
He promised to unleash prosperity for everybody, not just some.
While he is personally, via his policies, destroying it.
Obama told a gathering of community that the federal government would distribute 2.4 billion dollars in 48 taxpayer grants to create next generation electric cars and recreational vehicles.
The grants will be divided among 25 states.
That's unleashing prosperity for everybody.
2.4 billion dollars in grants to create electric cars and RVs.
That's unleashing prosperity for everybody?
If Obama were truthful, what he would say is, my health care plan is going to remove your private insurer.
You will have to join the government plan.
We are going to have counselors for you after you pass a certain age to counsel you on your end of care, which will lead to your end of life.
If he were honest, he would say our stimulus plan will not create any jobs.
Only 4% of it's been spent and most of it has gone to the states to help them with their deficits.
Our stimulus plan never was about creating jobs.
Our stimulus plan was about stimulating my party.
Obama can't say that.
He has to say, in the midst of destroying the greatest economy in the history of human civilization, that he's going to unleash prosperity for everybody, not just some.
He hasn't the power to unleash prosperity for everybody, not just some.
Prosperity has to be earned.
He cannot grant it.
He cannot promise it.
Couple sound bites from this soiree today.
Here's the first.
The Elkhart area has experienced the second greatest increase in the rate of unemployment in the country, up 10 points in a year.
It's an astonishing statistic.
And there have been times where nearly one in five people in this area have been looking for work.
You've seen factories close and your sons and daughters move away in searches of jobs and opportunity.
So this is more than an economic crisis.
This goes to the heart and soul of a community.
Our ability to recover and to prosper as a nation depends on what happens in communities just like this one.
The battle for America's future will be fought and won in places like Elkart and Detroit and Goshen and Pittsburgh in cities and towns across the Midwest and across the country that have been the backbone of America.
Uh I don't know where to start.
He's talking to people In a community that have no hope because the backbone of their community is a vehicle he intends to disallow down the road, unnecessarily.
Yeah, they've seen factories close.
They've seen people move away in searches of jobs and opportunity, all during his administration.
And not just during, but because of his administration.
But he promised to unleash prosperity for everybody, not just some.
So words are the tools to make you not believe the actions that are actually happening to you.
Simply using words he knows people want to hear.
Back in a sec.
One more Obama audio soundbite from this afternoon in the uh El Cart, Indiana area.
We won't just rescue the economy, but we're gonna rebuild it stronger than before.
Now there are a lot of people out there who are looking to defend the status quo.
Or those who want to seek political advantage.
They want to oppose these efforts.
Some of them caused the problems that we got now in the first place, and then suddenly they're blaming other folks for they don't want to be constructive.
They don't want to be constructive.
They just want to get in the usual political fights back and forth.
And sometimes that's fed by all the cable chatter on the media.
So here's a man who says there are a lot of people out there who are looking to defend the status quo.
Let me tell you who's defending the status quo.
Barack Obama's defending the status quo.
The status quo is a shrinking, contracting economy.
There is no expansion.
There is no rescue.
There is no recovery.
There is no prosperity.
All by design.
Nobody's standing up for this.
Nobody no none of his political opponents are saying this is what we want.
He is saying this is what we want.
He is saying this is what we're gonna have.
It is Barack Obama who is a partisan politician from morning until night 24-7.
Barack Obama's party is running TV ads, impugning decent Americans for showing up and protesting his socialized medicine plan.
Typical argument, straw dog here.
They're people that want this.
People that want this.
We're gonna not just rescue the economy, we're gonna rebuild it stronger.
Where?
When are you gonna start?
Do you even know how to do it?
Do you even want an economy stronger than we ever had?
It's my contention if he did, he wouldn't be doing what he's doing.
A lot of people out there looking to defend the status quo.
The only people I see defending it are you, Biden, Larry Summers, uh, that idiot Orzag.
Uh, who else went out there?
Uh uh Roamer.
I uh the people I see defending this mess is you.
The people defending this mess, Harry Reed, the people defending this mess, the union bosses.
The people defending this mess in a tort lawyers.
The people defending this mess are its architects.
The people defending this mess are the people who have made it.
Have you heard one Republican stand up and say this is what we want?
We've got to stop Obama because we want it right now.
There are people who don't want their health care to get worse.
They want to preserve it.
That's why they're showing up in droves.
Peter in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Uh, you're next as we go back to the phones.
Hello, sir.
Hi, Rush.
Uh, I just want to make a quick point because I'm talking on the cell phone while I'm driving, which is not a great idea.
Uh everything you're saying about uh trying to make the Republican Party a venue or a platform for conservative ideas is absolutely correct as far as it goes.
But it has to go farther, and that is we have to be able to outspend our oppon uh our opponents.
Uh, it seems to me that uh one the main reason why Barack Obama won his election was that he was able to spend more than anybody else.
John McCain just couldn't keep up.
Uh yeah, well, why was let me tell you something.
In most election cycles, when the Republican Party has a conservative candidate, fundraising's not even a contest of Democrats can't compete.
I don't blame Again, look, why why should conservatives have sent these the Republican Party money in that last campaign?
I know I didn't.
Yeah, that that's just the point I wanted to make, Rush, and I think it's got to be out there that uh uh there are practical and and uh physical you know measures we have to take to get uh to win this back.
Well, of course, money is uh mother's milk politics.
I that goes without saying, but I think the money will be there uh if somebody shows up to arouse the passions of uh of people.
I I mentioned an article earlier in the program, and I want to I want to get to it.
It's from the politico.
And the title 2010, fight for fickle kids.
Do you hate your cell phone provider?
So change it.
Is your husband bothering you?
So walk out.
Rabbi gotcha down, switch religions.
Why not?
These days it seems like everyone else is throwing off the chains of the past, too.
Thanks to the internet, proliferating consumer choices, and a dramatic shift in American culture, voters and consumers are more impatient and more fickle than ever before.
They are less beholden to old attachments, more willing to make dramatic changes in lifestyle and preferences, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
An emerging group of political practitioners and social scientists is examining the trend and finding that loyalty is rapidly becoming a thing of the past.
And while I read this, um going to keep going.
It made me it reminded me once again of the loyalty that you all have for this radio show.
Because that loyalty has not become a thing of the past.
It's something I treasure and appreciate and acknowledge to myself each and every day.
But moving on beyond the the the theory here that loyalty is becoming rapidly becoming a thing of the past.
The 2010 election cycle may well be dominated by a fight for the fickle kids.
The people at uh loyalty is not very deep, and they'll switch on a dime.
Democrat polster Peter Hart offers up a raft of stats to back up the trend, which is spreading beyond the young to every age group.
He says his polling shows that Americans over 65 are more willing to get a divorce today than ever before.
Even after a near lifetime of being married to the same person, college students are more willing to transfer to a new scrule, and he said more than 40% of Americans will change their religion at least once in their life, throwing off generations of core beliefs for something new and appealing.
And then he gives some examples of people here and and uh their their loyalty that is changing.
And here's the last couple paragraphs.
All of this has dramatic implications for Barack Obama, who may find over time that his legions of followers were easier to gather than they are to keep.
We see Democrats with quite a large lead in party affiliation, uh said the polster heart, that used to be good for a generation, now it's just good for an election cycle.
Loyalty is something that is totally in the past.
Uh by the Mr. Hart, again, the generic ballot has the Republicans up seven points over the Democrats.
There are more people that identify themselves as conservatives than liberals and than independents.
It's been the rule for a while.
If the Republicans don't produce a candidate, it doesn't matter.
What's this question, Snurdly?
Yeah.
What's this question?
Wait a second, they can't hear you.
Uh uh Snerdley wants me to explain why my audience is so loyal to me.
And uh the answer is because I'm loyal to them.
I do not change.
I am not fickle.
Yes.
I can be counted on.
The Republican Party cannot be counted on.
It's a crapshoot with every candidate they put up there.
No matter how much I'm attacked, I don't back down.
I don't change, I don't run away, and I don't get afraid.
Uh Plus, I'm honest with the audience.
I do not mislead.
I do not tell them things I don't believe just to get ratings.
I don't do any of the phony tricks that media people do.
They're loyal because I'm loyal to them.
I don't disrespect them.
I don't think they're idiots.
I don't think the audience is stupid.
I don't think they're people to be manipulated.
I don't think they're people to be lied to.
So uh there is no fickleness in this well, the audience is still growing after twenty-one years.
Okay, I gotta take a brief time out here, folks.
I just noticed the clock.
We'll do that, come back in just a second before you know it.
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John in uh in Crofton, Maryland.
Great to have you here, sir.
Welcome.
How are you doing, Rush?
Pretty good, sir.
You're always upbeat on everything, even when things are looking dark.
But uh, I just wanted to talk about somebody that uh works for the Wall Street Journal, is on in the morning on all the drive-in shows.
Uh name is Patrice Sakora, she was on this morning, uh she comes on every half hour, I guess, or every hour, and uh she was talking about hey, look at this, look at the Dow.
Ninety over 9300.
Wow, you know, isn't everything all you know, rosy all of a sudden, and then the uh NAS uh the NASDAQ is up and then you know everything was put on a uh a positive a positive light was put on everything.
However, uh from uh 2001 to 2009 when Bush was there, uh the market could go up a hundred points, two hundred points in the day, and she wouldn't even mention it.
She mentioned some new iPod that was coming out.
So I always nicknamed her the Tokyo Rose of Wall Street.
But what a change in bragging about the market going up from in the in the eights now to the in the nines, nine thousands, and like everybody is profiting by that.
These same people had stocks in mutual funds in their 401ks and their pension funds and their own private investment and everything lost.
You know, anywhere between well, up to 50, maybe more.
50 percent in the last uh 52 weeks in the last year.
I uh saw Money Magazine, uh latest issue.
It was touting U.S. Deal, and it showed its 52-week uh uh result.
And it was uh it was down seventy-eight percent.
Now, maybe that's a good buy right now.
What but what about somebody that lost 78% and doesn't have any more money doing that?
Well, one what we're dealing with here is uh CNN beat this babe to it.
CNN's been touting the recession is overview of the stock market for a couple of weeks now, telling people that their opener 401k is and their prosperity is way up when uh, as you say, it's still down from what it was.
And by the way, it's down 30 points today on the jobs news.
It's not at 9300, it's 9290 right now, not the split hairs.
But uh this is just state controlled media in concert with Rom Emanuel of the White House.
Hey, economy, stock market's coming.
We're risking prosperity for everybody.
Yep-yep-yep-yep-yep-yep-yahoo.
We gotta get this sound bite out of the archives.
It was it was Axelrod himself, old Mr. AstroTurf, who, when the market was plunging earlier this year, said we don't look at the stock market, uh, it has no effect on our policy.
No effect at all on the way we're formulating policy.
Um Obama himself said stock market, that's just like a daily tracking poll.
You get caught up in daily tracking polls, it can take you off the game.
We don't pay attention.
Stock market in terms of how well the economy but stock market, well, that's that's Wall Street.
That doesn't say about Main Street, now all of a sudden the 180.
About which you are uh totally right.
Just is just it's just state-run media propaganda.
Pure incense, uh pure and simple.
Whatever, whatever they can do to tell you that what you see is not real.
It's gonna be a tough sell.
I mean, you they've they've they've gone out, they've demonized everybody on Wall Street.
And now they're pointing to Wall Street success and saying, you gotta see that's happening out there, and uh it means the economy's coming back.
Your question ought to be for who?
I want my economy back.
I told you you told me to hate these Wall Street people.
Now you're citing them as somebody I should follow.
People think the bailouts were gonna go to them, not the Wall Street execs and so forth and so on.
That's just why I say eventually in the end, all this is gonna come crashing down on these people because the fact of people's economic existence is so powerful now that the words, the tools that they're all using to disabuse you of what you know isn't powerful enough.
John in West Islip, New York.
Uh I got about a minute, but I wanted to get to you.
Hello, sir.
Megadiddo's rush.
Uh, thank you for keeping hope alive for uh borrowing a phrase from the opposition.
You know, the Democrats have it so easy.
All they do is they get to propose stupid legislation after stupid legislation, billions and billions and billions of dollars.
And as conservatives, you know, all our guys can say is no, that's not your role.
No, it's too much money.
No, we're gonna run up to debt.
And that's just not, you know, as sexy as the job the Democrats do.
So if this thing reverses in 2010, you know, will the Republicans have the intestinal fortitude to reverse, you know, talk, cap and trade if it gets passed, you know, so on and so on.
I just gotta know.
I gotta believe there's some hope out there.
Uh there is, but it this is go back to what I said earlier.
Depends on which GOP wins.
If it's a uh GOP with conservative policies, conservative foundations, yeah.
Interviewed people who are willing to go in there and rip this stuff apart.
It's been done before.
It's been done in 1994 with the uh with the Republicans when they won the house.
Yes, it can be done.
Still the United States of America.
And if you want to think that the end is inevitable, then of course nothing will get done.
Gotta take a break.
Sit tight, we'll come back and wrap it up after this.
Let's see.
Do we have time?
Yeah, grab number 33.
Here's David Axelrod from February the 12th of this year.
Well, it can drive a White House.
I'm not it may not drive ours.
We try and keep our heads about us and uh pursue what we think is the appropriate strategy, and that's what we're gonna do here.
He was asked the following question Would you agree one day drop in the market, one day story can drive the news, drive the White House?
Now it can drive a White House, it may not drive ours.
Stock market trackable.
We don't pay much attention to it.
See you tomorrow, folks.
Can't wait.
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