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Aug. 6, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 6, 2009, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Well, greetings to you, uh, music lovers, thrill seekers, and conversationalists all across the fruited plain.
Welcome to the leader.
I am the mob father, Rush Limboy, here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, and Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I am happy.
I am honored.
I am be pro I'm proud, ladies and gentlemen, to be considered the the mob father here, uh leading the unruly mobs protesting uh the uh at all these town hall meetings.
I think it might be helpful uh to keep a list of all the things we are, according to the President of the United States and his gang, the uh the uh state-controlled media and all of his uh all of his other cronies.
To start with, we are always uh right-wing extremists.
Now we are unruly members of a mob.
And I am the mob father.
We are people now who dress too nicely, even though it's Obama and his wife are getting some Vanity Fair award for fashion, right?
Um we are idiot shills for big insurance.
We are people who are trying to destroy Obama.
We are people who cannot change.
We are people who are unwilling to seize the moment.
We are people who do not like change, we are people who who want the status quo.
Now, I'm not an economist, folks, but I something here doesn't make sense.
Uh state-controlled associated press.
And I think that's a headline they use every month now.
They just cut and paste it onto whatever the figures actually are.
New jobless claims drop more than expected.
The uh number of newly laid off workers seeking unemployment benefits fell last week.
The government said Thursday, a sign that the job market's making gradual improvement.
Oh, really?
Uh the number is 550,000 instead of the expected 588,000 people who lost their jobs.
Over half a million people lost their jobs, and we got new jobless claims drop more than expected.
I think they actually went up because at the end of the story, the number of people continuing to claim benefits rose, however, by sixty-nine thousand to six point three million after having dropped for three straight weeks.
Now, if more people are claiming jobless benefits, doesn't that mean that jobless claims rose?
And if it went up by 69,000, the projected number was 588, the seasonally adjusted number is 550.
If you add 69,000 to 550, we're up over 600,000 people looking for or on unemployment.
So if you ask me, the numbers actually rose.
Now I'm I'm told that tomorrow the unemployment figure will be 9.6%.
Uh but this is just it's I don't know who's cooking it.
Well, who's who do you think would be cooking the books?
But this is just I'll tell you what, I I I think these people are desperate.
Uh I think Obama and his gang are desperate.
They are lashing out, they are unraveling before our very eyes.
Here is Nancy Pelosi from yesterday in San Francisco.
Uh you be the judge of carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on health radio.
Nancy Pelosi is the Speaker of the House.
She is very powerful, one of the most powerful people in the country.
This is what I mean by unraveling.
She's running around now claiming that we're Nazis.
That not only are we an unruly mob, but that people are showing up wearing swastikas.
When in fact, I have a story here from the Washington Post.
Howard Kurtz, July 28th, 1997.
Two senators call a news conference to present an average hard-working American who, to their embarrassment, turns out to have a Nazi swastika tattooed on his arm.
Is that news?
Several major media organizations didn't think so.
The West Virginia truck driver was trotted out by Jay Rockefeller and Tom Dashell as someone who would be helped By the Clinton tax plan.
Rockefeller, clearly unaware of the swastika, introduced the man as a very close and personal friend.
So these guys back in 1997, shilling for Clinton's tax plan, bring out a guy, close personal friend of Jay Rock, but actually has a swastika tattooed on his arm.
The news media didn't think any big deal about it because this all happened when he was a teenager.
The speaker of the House accusing people showing up at these uh town hall meetings of wearing swastikas.
That is not insignificant, folks.
That is uh this woman is deranged.
Uh they are unraveling, but that is not insignificant.
You have the Democrat speaker of the House saying that people, citizens who are concerned about health care, uh, are now wearing swastikas.
She's basically saying that we are Nazis.
She is saying that the people who oppose this are Nazis.
And I'm going to tell you what, I'm going to run down the list here later on in the program, but this party, the Democrat Party, and where it's taken this country, the radical left leadership of this party bears much more resemblance to Nazi policies than anything we on the right believe in at all.
And I'll I'll go through that list in just a second.
However, if you go to Rushlimbaud.com right now in the orange banner at the top of the website, you will see a headline.
Was Pelosi so wrong about swastikas?
Steve Gilbert at Sweetness and Light heard my reaction to the Obama health care logo the other day.
When I mentioned it reminded me of Germany, something about it reminded me in Germany in 1942.
The shape of the logo, the people, just the I said, I I haven't seen this, I haven't seen this uh in in many, many years.
And if you go and take a look at this, you will find that the Obama health care logo is damn close to a Nazi swastika logo.
I'm gonna show you people watching on the Ditto Cam this.
And there you are.
The middle frame is the Obama health care logo.
At the bottom is an official Nazi logo.
Eagle and everything, spread wings or bird with spread wings.
Ms. Pelosi has some major apologizing to do.
The only excuse, I know that numerous uh repeated Botox injections can cause blurry vision.
But I don't think Miss Ms. Pelosi can use that as an excuse.
They're really unraveling.
They are really falling apart.
Listen to her again.
This is San Francisco General Hospital.
Do you think there is a legitimate grassroots opposition going on here?
I think they're astro tentacle.
You be the judge of carrying swastikas and symbols like that in a town meeting on health radio.
Mary Catherine Hamm, blogging at the Weekly Standard, has put together a brilliant piece of work here, dismantling the entire piece of evidence, the single piece of evidence that is being used by the state-controlled media,
the smoking gun mob memo that's being used by the Democrats and the state controlled media as proof of organized mob activity is from a guy in Connecticut with 23 Facebook friends and five Twitter followers.
I have to take a break.
I want to come back and spend some time because uh this this illustrates how the left puts this stuff together.
It all starts with a website called Think Progress.
It makes its way over to MSNBC, it makes its way from there into the general fabric of state-controlled media, and the whole thing is a fraud.
It has been literally made up.
I'll explain the Mary Catherine Hamm when we come back right after this.
Let me tell you what's been manufactured.
It is not your energy, it is not your passion, it is not your presence at all of these town halls.
That's genuine, that is real.
What has been manufactured is the story that it has been manufactured.
In fact, the only person who has put out a memo, organizing his troops and rallying his troops, and none other than the dear leader.
Barack Obama himself, late afternoon, he put out an email to his minions.
He went out there and he told him to hit the streets and knock on doors.
That's the real Rita mob.
Barack Obama's, the real manufactured anger is that which Obama is manufacturing and trying to create.
The other mob anger is genuine.
And Mary Catherine Hamm has...
She's found the way the drive-by's are making all of this up.
When the manufactured outrage the left is trying to demonize lines up so inconveniently with public polling, it's sometimes necessary to create evidence for the manufactured storyline, meaning we've got public polling.
Nobody wants this health care plan.
His approval number is now 50% Quinnip.
It makes perfect sense with his poll numbers on health care and his approval.
There'd be people out there protesting this.
So that's inconvenient for the people who want to try to poke holes in the genuine nature of the protest.
So enter Think Progress, which unearthed a shocking secret memo from the leader of a small grassroots conservative organization in Connecticut, which allegedly instructs members on infiltrating town halls and harassing Democrat members of Congress.
Wright Principles Pack was formed by Bob McGuffy and four friends in 2008.
He's taken in a whopping $5,017 and disbursed $1,777, according to its FEC filing.
McGuffey told Mary Catherine Hamm in a phone interview, we're just trying to shake this state up and make a difference up here.
He's surprised at his elevation to national rabble rouser by the left.
Wright Principles.
His website has a Facebook group with 23 members and a Twitter account with five followers.
This is the Mr. Big of the Mob movement.
McGuffey describes himself as an opponent of leftist thinking in America, said he's never pulled a lever for Republican or Democrat on a federal level.
Yet this Connecticut libertarian's influence over a national orchestrated Republican health care pushback is strong indeed.
If you listen to liberal pundits and the DNC who have crafted a nefarious web out of refutable evidence.com.
ThinkProgress calls Tea Party Patriots a FreedomWorks website.
The problem is it isn't.
Thank you.
It's not what they claim it is.
There's no formal structure, no formal connection.
The Freedom Works site to Bob McGuffey.
When I asked McGuffey if he was a volunteer for Freedom Works outside the specious evidence, Think Progress site, and he said, No, you can Google all day.
You won't find it.
There is no formal connection.
I don't know anyone from Freedom Works.
Now I'm going to jump a little forward here because the Think Progress memo purports to reprint from McGuffey's website, verbatim.
They do not appear in McGuffey's memo, but they do appear in the headlines in Think Progress' uh block quote of it.
Here is what McGuffey wrote for his website.
Spread out in the hall and try to be in the front half.
The objective is to put the representative on the defensive with your questions and follow up.
Think Progress added this headline.
Artificially inflate your numbers.
He never wrote that.
He never said it.
The next item.
You need to rock the boat early in the representative's presentation.
Watch for an opportunity to yell out and challenge his statements early.
The Think Progress headline, Be disruptive early and often.
But he didn't write it.
They added it.
The next block quote The goal is to rattle the rep, get him off his prepared scripted agenda.
If he says something outrageous, stand up and shout out and sit right back down.
Think progress adds this headline.
Try to rattle him, not have an intelligent debate.
The attempt to portray McGuffey here as a professional funded operative is laughable.
I guess they don't believe it.
People in America will stand up and fight back when government gets overbearing, said McGuffey, who added he originally emailed the memo to eight to ten Connecticut activists in June.
This is the Mr. Big of the unruly mob.
As is often the case, MSNBC anchors and the DNC alike have taken think progress inaccurate sleuthing at face value, elevating the humble right principles to heretofore unknown levels of national importance.
The memo also includes these phrases which are left out of the reporting and the demagoguery.
Do not bring the signs into the hall if you want any chance to be picked for a question.
Don't carry on and make a scene, just short intermittent shout-outs, which may sound familiar because the shout-out part was quoted without context by Think Progress.
So basically to summarize this, Mary Catherine Ham has just unraveled these SOBs with this memo.
It makes the libs look really, really stupid, and of course the media.
This is this is on a par, folks, with Dan Rather and the George W. Bush National Guard story.
There is no Mr. Big of the unruly mob other than me.
I am the mob father, but the guy that they've singled out as the Mr. Big, the giant website funded by the insurance companies and all this, is just a little guy out there in Connecticut who sent it out to eight to ten people.
And then they lie and make up what he said in his memo when they report it.
And the doofuses over at MSNBC and elsewhere.
Remember, by the way, a call, I think uh this is Thursday, probably earlier this week.
Snurdily helped me out here.
Remember the woman who called and said she was watching Richard Wolfe on the NBC Nightly News, and Richard Wolfe reported that that uh all of these protests were drummed up, that they were not remember her.
Somewhere from Kansas, yeah, maybe maybe Wichita.
I forget her name.
But she had been watching Richard Wolfe at NBC.
And Richard Wolfe reported what Think Progress is reported.
That all this there was a guy out there drumming all this up, that it was a guy out there organizing, that was a guy out there agitating.
And they there isn't.
None of that is this is all genuine.
The only guy who's put out a memo to his organizers to get in the game is Obama.
And he did it in an email late yesterday afternoon.
This is how it works.
This is I this is I tell you they're unraveling.
Um they're they're having.
They know they've got a loser.
And by the, you know, there's there's another thing, folks, that um we need to point out.
We keep talking about Obama's health care plan.
But do you know he doesn't have one?
We know of one health care plan, and that's what we've all read, that thousand-page monstrosity in the House of Representatives.
There are going to be some more bills coming out of the Senate, but we don't they are yet.
There is no Obama plan.
He didn't know what was in the House plan.
He didn't know when somebody asked him, I can lose my private insurance.
Why uh I'm unfamiliar with that, but he doesn't have a plan.
That's why he doesn't talk about it specifically.
That's why he won't debate it with anybody.
He doesn't have a plan.
There is no Obama health care plan.
There is, oh, there is now the focus group change, uh health insurance reform, not health care reform.
They've been focus grouping this, uh, and that's why they've zeroed in on the insurance companies.
There is no guiding principle other than make the government bigger, take away people's freedom and liberty, get even with the parts of this country that you don't like, and throw sops to your buddies in the tort bar and the public sector union bosses.
That's who you have to make happy.
And they're all a bunch of socialists themselves.
They're feeding off the public trough, and they want a bigger bite, each and every Obama's there to give it to them.
I tell you, uh, this is a this is a circumstance, ladies and gentlemen, that I I am I am ecstatic to see.
This is genuine.
You know, community organizers can't bitch when communities organize.
Of all the things, of all the things to happen, created out of the energy of the citizen involvement in his country.
Of all the ways Obama can get picked at by a bunch of people organizing in communities opposing his ramrod, reckless, dangerous socialist health care plan down people's throats who do not want it.
And that's why I say a community organizer can't bitch when communities organize.
I'll say I've been looking at the polling data for all of Obama's numbers, health care approval, and their their folks, they're crashing.
They are cratering.
For example, 53 to 39% Quinnipiac poll.
People like their health care, don't like the way Obama's handling it.
Do not want to pay a dime more in taxes for health care reform.
And I'm I I I know I saw this.
It went by really fast.
Three, only three percent of Democrats don't like their health insurance.
There is no public furor for this plan.
There is no public support for this plan.
It is minimal.
How did this happen?
Obama's smile is as friendly as ever.
His speeches are as oratorical as ever, his kids are as charming as ever.
He's as cool as ever.
Why is he fading in the polls?
He's still loved by state-controlled media.
Why are his numbers craving?
He's talking a lot.
He's out there, he's he's he's got his cult, I mean, he's out on television every day selling the plan.
The more he goes on TV and sells it, it's plummeting.
His smile's as friendly as ever.
His speeches as oratorical as ever, kid charming as ever.
The whole picture is as it always has been.
So why are his approval numbers caving?
Well, he closed Club Gitmo, but it's open.
He got us out of Iraq, but we're still there.
He stimulated the economy, and nearly 600,000 more people lost their jobs today.
That puts us over very close to three million people who've lost their jobs since he took office.
Thirty-four million Americans are on food stamps.
But he has stimulated the economy.
He says he's fiscally responsible.
He's fading in the polls because he keeps saying things, and more and more people are catching on that it's just words.
It doesn't mean anything.
He has no evidence.
There is no hard evidence to back up anything.
President Obama has promised or is said is happening at the moment.
By the way, this Pelosi business and the swans.
Oh, reminds me, we have shut down the Sweetness and Light website, uh, which always happens.
Sweetness and light.com, uh, where the similarity between Obama's health care logo and a Nazi logo is just overwhelming.
Uh people are trying to get in and see this.
You know, these these Democrats think they live and operate in a vacuum.
They run around and say, oh, yeah, people showing up with swastikas, and and that's going to be the end of the story.
They create a whole new story, and we find out that it's a Democrat meeting in 97 that they bring up a good friend of Jay Rockefeller's who's got a Nazi swastika tattooed on his arm.
They accuse us of being Nazis, and Obama's got a health care logo that's right out of Adolf Hitler's playbook.
Now, what are the similarities between the Democrat Party of today and the Nazi Party in Germany?
Well, the Nazis were against big business.
They hated big business, and of course, we all know That they were opposed to Jewish capitalism.
They were insanely irrationally against pollution.
They were for two years mandatory voluntary service to Germany.
They had a whole bunch of make work projects to keep people working, one of which was the Autobahn.
They were against cruelty and vivisection of animals, but in the radical sense of devaluing human life.
They banned smoking.
They were totally against that.
They were for abortion and euthanasia of the undesirables, as we all know.
And they were for cradle-to-grave nationalized health care.
This is why I have always bristled when I hear people claim that conservatism gets close to Nazism.
It is liberalism that's the closest you can get to Nazism and socialism.
It's all bundled up under the socialist banner.
There are far more similarities between Nancy Pelosi and Adolf Hitler than between these people showing up at town halls to protest a Hitler-like policy that's being heralded by a Hitler-like logo.
Coco, do me a favor.
Pardon me, folks, a private message here to my webmaster Coco.
Get the email that I sent you today with the two logo.
Just put, just put the graphic of the two logos up on our website right now because sweetness and light is being bombarded.
So just put up the Obama logo and then the Nazi logo side by side there.
Just grab those two graphics, put them up there, because our servers uh can handle it.
Okay, Coco says he's got it, and he's uh he's on the case.
Barack Obama is losing the trust of the American people.
This, ladies and gentlemen, will oh, another similarity.
Obama is asking citizens to rat each other out, like Hitler did.
Obama's the one that's got the snitch website right out of the White House, flag at White House.com.
Asking citizens to report people who are saying weird, odd things.
No, no, no, we're not taking names here.
We're not taking names.
We're just taking people who are putting up faulty arguments and refuting them.
Oh, that's not the intention.
Ted Kennedy's dad, by the way, Joe Kennedy, sympathetic to Hitler, sympathetic to the Nazis.
It's why FDR pulled him from his post as ambassador to Britain.
You want to start talking, Miss Pelosi about ties to the Nazis.
Let's focus on your party and some of the greatest heroes in your party that you hold up.
And let's look at your policies, Ms. Pelosi.
Your policies come dangerously close to some of those policies that Hitler forced on the German people.
This is outrageous stuff for her to be running around saying that these mobs and unruly swastikas.
Obama sends out the memo ginning up his acorn mobs to try to fight this, taking names on a White House website of people who are telling the truth about health care is what this is about.
He wants his stupid minions to snitch on people who were telling the truth about it.
Barack Obama had earned the trust of a majority of Americans.
Right or wrong, he was trusted.
Those who looked at Obama with clear eyes, however, always knew he was something other than what Obama said he was in speeches and what the state-controlled media reported.
We knew he wasn't post-partisan.
Barack Obama was the Senate's most liberal member.
His alliances and associations were exclusively with hard left radicals.
We knew he wasn't post-racial.
No one sits in a racially divisive and bigoted church for 20 years without agreement with the message.
But people wanted to believe.
They hoped love at first sight was the real thing.
The American people trusted Barack Obama, but that was then.
"I'm not going to be a good one." After Obama's election, he has begun to govern.
And since he has begun to govern, it isn't just his poll numbers that have fallen.
The trust the American people placed in Obama has eroded, and this is key.
Because if there is no trust with an individual, that person cannot lead.
Trust me on this.
Obama is losing America's trust.
Obama said he cared about jobs.
Well, we've lost almost three million since he took office, even though he rammed a one-trillion dollar porculus bill through, and hundreds of thousands of jobs are still being lost every month.
Despite his media's efforts to tell us the news is good, it isn't.
He orchestrated a hostile takeover of General Motors and Chrysler to give them essentially to union executives.
Obama Motors is something a majority of Americans would never have voted for.
Obama is leading the charge to pass a cap and tax scheme, an energy tax, just when Americans are struggling to get by.
He's pressing to take over health care when Americans don't want that either.
He has demonized doctors, insurance companies, automobile executives, bankers, me, talk radio.
And now the President of the United States has descended to an unbelievable point.
He is demonizing American citizens.
Average, ordinary, everyday people who do not have the jobs he assured them he cared about and was going to provide.
Americans exercising the right to free assembly, the right to free speech.
The President of the United States demonizing them now.
These town hall meetings reveal a deep distrust of Barack Obama and his policies and everyone who supports them.
The town hall meetings, ladies and gentlemen, are a manifestation of America's lack of trust in the Democrat Party and its leaders.
And now this man who is losing our trust has started an enemies list, essentially.
A snitch list.
Americans have figured out that Obama doesn't care if votes are taken on bills that haven't been written.
He has broken most every promise he has made, and everybody knows that he's no new tax plage on the middle class is next.
In fact, that's already been broken.
All of these actions and more have amounted to a betrayal of trust.
Barack Obama's not who he said he was.
Just for a moment, forget falling polls, forget rising unemployment.
The problem Obama faces is destroying his presidency as he's losing the trust of the American people.
He can no longer say trust me.
And this distrust Americans feel is growing stronger and deeper every day that passes.
It's becoming clear as well that Barack Obama listens to nobody.
It's his hard-left agenda, and whatever it takes to ram it through.
He doesn't care what Americans think.
He doesn't care about their ideas.
He doesn't care about their values.
This is all about him.
This is all about Barack Obama's personal agenda and objectives.
It's about Barack Obama erecting monuments to himself.
He has no intention of governing.
He intends to rule, and that's why legislation is voted on that no one's read.
That's why he rams through bills without hearings, without discussion, and without knowing any details.
And Americans are figuring it out.
They no longer trust Barack Obama.
By the way, to illustrate what a bunch of radical environmentalist wacko insaniacs the Nazis were.
Two web links are going to put on Rush Limbaugh.com or you'll be able to see it.
It's too too lengthy to read.
But they were environmentalist wackos out the wazoo.
Isn't it interesting, ladies and gentlemen?
Isn't it fascinating?
No one can have an honest disagreement with the statists.
Nobody can have an honest disagreement with Barack Obama or Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi.
If you disagree, you're a Nazi, you're racist, you're Hitler, or something similar.
A day after the White House dismissed protesters at town hall events as people sent from opposition groups, manufactured emotion.
The administration's political wing began mobilizing millions of its own supporters.
President Obama said in an email message sent out yesterday to more than 13 million supporters of his campaign group organizing for America.
We gotta get out there.
These canvases, town halls, and gatherings only make a difference if you turn up to knock on doors, share your views, and show your support.
So here's what I need from you.
Can you commit to join at least one event in your community this month?
It's Obama that is astroturfing.
It is Obama who is manufacturing right from the White House, sending out his brown shirts to head up opposition to genuine American citizens who want no part of what Barack Obama stands for and is trying to stuff down our throats.
It would be one thing if this were just the leader of some website trying to dis is the president of the United States who is mobilizing against over half the people in his own country.
I have never seen this in this country.
Supporters who go to this website are asked editor names, email addresses, mailing addresses, and phone numbers.
The coordinated effort from the White House to produce grassroots action comes one day after the White House and Democrats in Washington denounced protesters at healthcare town hall forums as the work of the Republican Party and its lobbyist allies.
So who is the mob leader?
The mob leader is Barack Obama, the man trying to assemble mobs to counter genuine heartfelt opposition to his policies, is the mob leader and from of all places, the Huffington Post.
The nation's largest federation of labor organizations has promised to directly engage with boisterous conservative protesters at Democrat town halls during the August recess.
In a memo sent out on Thursday.
AFL CIO president John Sweeney outlined the blueprint for how the union conglomerate would step up recess activities on health care reform and other topics pertinent to the labor community.
You do it, Mr. Sweeney, because public sector union bosses like you are not smiled at by the American people.
You're not liked, Mr. Sweeney.
So look at what's happening.
Obama organizes a mob of his supporters from his office in the west wing of the White House.
He is joined by a union leader who's going to send out.
Now we know that unions.
You want to talk about mobs.
The document makes clear that Obama allies view the town hall forums as ground zero of the health care debate.
It also uses the specter of the infamous 2000 recount Brooks Brothers protest to rally its members to the administration side.
That's why they're out there.
Brooks brothers.
Oh, yeah, white-collar people opposing health care.
Let's get the real blue-collar people, a union workers out there.
I guess.
I guess they can find enough of them with the number of jobs Barack Obama's killed in this country.
There probably are enough union people out there to get rallied and organized and go out and cause some fireworks.
A showdown between union and grassroots conservative organizations?
One totally fabricated, one totally manufactured, one totally made up.
The other one genuine, heartfelt, and pure.
A community organizer cannot start bitching when communities organize.
It's a surprise.
And he's bitching.
We'll be back.
Ms. Pelosi, you asked for this.
Here you go.
Adolf Hitler, like Barack Obama, also ruled by dictate.
His cabinet only met once.
One day.
That was it.
Hitler said he didn't need to meet with his cabinet.
He represented the will of the people.
He was called the Messiah.
He said the people spoke through him.
Do you know what the very first law that Hitler ordained Was the very first law was a law declaring how to cook lobsters.
They were to be boiled.
That was deemed to be the least painful.
The law was sent around to all the restaurants.
Now, does this sound like something any conservative president has ever done, or does it sound like the things that liberals are doing all over this country?
The two links to show you just how off the wall radical environmentalist the Nazis were are posted now at the top of rushlimbaugh.com.
Okay, Ms. Pelosi, you say you see swastikas?
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