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Aug. 25, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 25, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Oh no!
Tell me it isn't true!
Tell me I'm not watching or seeing what I'm watching.
Oh, no.
Oh.
Oh, no.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
We're about we are about to witness the snatching of victory from the jaws of defeat.
Senator McCain is in Sun City, Arizona doing a town hall meeting.
He's up for re-election, of course, and he's got he's going all Republican all the time, supposedly.
Uh but it was big news, you know, last week, Senator McCain actually smarting with the Republicans.
It was a bulletin.
The bulletin out there.
Senator McCain, I think it was uh what is this Tuesday?
Might have been last week on Friday.
Senator McCain told Obama, look, get rid of public option.
It ain't gonna fly.
It isn't gonna happen.
You need to work with Republicans and Democrats to get a bill passed that will happen.
No!
No, stay away from it.
Let the Democrats own it.
I'm thinking gang of 14 here.
And I think Dawn's out there shouting at Ben, he's great at town hot.
It's the problem.
I know he's good at town halls.
800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program, folks.
Phone number, email address, L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
Oh, this is just oh God, I can't tell you.
Here we are, the American people are taking care of this.
We don't need the Republicans to get in bed with Obama right now to come up with a bipartisan plan.
We don't need bipartisan.
We let the Democrats own this.
Senator, please let the Democrats go down to flames once when they're in the process of doing it.
Don't bail them out.
Oh, this silly misguided notion of what the American people wants bipartisanship.
He's throwing a lifeline to Obama.
Senator McCain is throwing a lifeline to Obama.
I just hope Obama rejects it.
I hope these people up there say, get out of here, old man.
We're not interested.
We beat you last fall.
Go back to the party and, you know, shut up.
You can dream.
You can dream.
I really I just don't believe I just.
Pardon me, folks.
I'm I'm I am so proud of everything every one of you have done out there.
Showing up at these town halls, inspiring others to show up at the town halls.
And now here comes somebody who's just get rid of public action and let's work with the Republicans and Democrats together and let's put a bill together.
The both of us can stand behind a four- No, let them go down in flames on this.
Why is it?
Why is it that we have people on our side that can't bear the Democrat Party losing?
I know that's what he's gonna talk about.
I'm not listening to it, obviously, but I know that he proposed it last Friday, and I'm sure that's what the town hall meeting is uh is all about.
I mentioned this earlier in the program, and here I've got more details.
I happen to own Arkansas, according to public policy polling.
This is a bunch of libs in North Carolina that do polling.
Arkansas very conservative state.
That's not exactly breaking news, but it's the overwhelming theme when breaking down the results of our latest survey there.
60% of voters oppose Obama's plans for health care.
Only 29% support.
Independents are against it.
73 to 20 in Arkansas.
Even among Democrats, only 54% say they're for it.
Among white Democrats, it's less than a majority.
You know, this Obama approval number, I'd say something.
If it if it weren't for his solid 90% support in the black community, his overall approval number would be below 50%.
And he's never gonna lose that support.
He's always gonna have it.
But his support throughout the rest of the country is much, much worse overall.
The 90% support he's getting in these sample polling uh polling samples that are weighted with Democrats and blacks is distorting the the the true extent of his uh popularity.
55% of Arkansas voters say they prefer Rush Limbaugh's vision for the country to Barack Obama's.
That includes 92% of Republicans, 64% of independents, even 18% of Democrats in Arkansas, say they prefer the limbaugh vision for the country.
That means they know what it is.
This is in spite of the fact that respondents on balance actually dislike limbaugh, 44% holding an unfavorable opinion of him to 35% positive.
I got higher approvals than Congress does.
In Arkansas's way to look at it, and I'm just a powerless talk show host.
I don't have any power over anybody, can't raise anybody's taxes, send their kids off to war.
I can't start investigating the CIA.
I can't weaken our nation's national security.
Well, this is fascinating.
Forty-four percent have an unfavorable view of me, and yet 55% in Arkansas like my vision of the country.
From CNN Money.com, this is the place that told us the recession was over.
After the mad rush of car sales sparked by cash for clunkers, dealers will now find they have plenty of downtime to count their money, which they haven't received yet.
They can't count it, they don't have it.
The popular program, which uh ends, is it yesterday that it ended, or is it next Monday?
Ended yesterday will leave many showrooms without cars to sell or customers looking to buy them.
Ron Tonkin, the owner of Ron Tonkin family of dealerships in Portland, Oregon, said we're definitely gonna have a hangover.
As of Monday morning, dealers had submitted 625,000 clunkers applications to the government, seeking a total of 2.58 billion dollars, according to the Department of Transportation.
After the heavy rush of clunker sales, the return to normal, especially in a market where normal means deeply depressed, may be difficult to deal with deal with.
Sales are expected to drop uh sharply.
And you know, there's something else that uh that has happened.
They've destroyed the used car market in the process of doing this.
Well, they've they've put a severe dent in the used car market in doing this.
I have, ladies and gentlemen, here it is again.
I know this irritates many of you, which is one of the reasons I like continuing to report this.
Let me give you a little history.
On March 9th, I started a diet, Quick Weight Law Center here in Florida.
I weighed 290.
I lost 82 pounds, got down to 208.
Two weeks ago, I didn't go off the diet.
I started taking some liberties with it.
And in the last week in LA, when I literally had a blast, I didn't go, I didn't I did not go hog wild.
I didn't start eating fried foods or burgers and chips, uh, that stuff, but I did gain over the last two weeks, I gained four pounds.
Since Sunday, I have lost it.
I am back down to 208 in two days.
Well, because it was Sunday and Monday because I weighed 208 when I got up today.
Because I went straight when I got back Sunday, I went straight back to the diet.
Straight back strictly to the diet and lost the four pounds that I gained.
This is this is what's new.
In the old days, I would have gained four pounds.
Ah, that's no big deal.
Clothes still fit as well.
Fine, keep going, no problem.
And kept going and kept going, kept going.
But I got it handled now.
And in these two days in which I lost the four pounds I'd regained, you know how much exercise I did.
Zero, zilch, nada.
And I have another story here.
I I played golf in LA during the two during the week.
I gained two pounds.
I played golf in LA Monday and Wednesday.
And I get I did not get any residual benefit of exercise.
There's no re I gained two pounds snurtly while exercising.
I lost four pounds in two days coming back to work here.
By the way, and I pulled an all-nighter out there last night on Tuesday night, and I still gain weight.
You theory stay up all night, keep the metabolism.
No, the resting metabolism at night burns a lot of energy.
Anyway, Richard Gray, UK Telegraph.
Headline, why exercise might not make you thin.
Fat is a massive problem.
And I really love stories like this because all these elitists at the networks who were asked about my diet to say I couldn't do what I did.
And even if I did it and it worked, it wouldn't last because I didn't do exercise.
Meanwhile, they do a story on J Leno.
People magazine with a giant, oh, what a great guy.
Jay Little 12 pounds in one month.
What a what if this is the way to do it?
He was exercising, tinkering with his cars and so forth.
I can lose 12 pounds a couple trips to the bathroom two years ago.
This is nothing.
12 pounds lost in a month, and they're out there celebrating it.
Fat is a massive problem.
Really massive.
Nearly 60% of the country's adult population is now overweight, while one in ten children are obese, or obese by the time they start scrubel.
All told, weight problems are estimated to cost the economy 16 billion pounds a year.
Remember now, this is UK telegraph.
On top of the facts that ambulances have to be fitted with a reinforced heavy lifting equipment to get some patients into them.
A growing number of soldiers are, according to Army commanders, too fat to fight.
Yet something strange is going on.
While obesity levels have grown year on year, so have levels of physical activity.
More people in Britain do the recommended amount of exercise, at least 30 minutes of moderate intensity activity at least five times a week than they did 12 years ago.
Use of personal trainers in gyms has soared over the past five years.
The amount spent on gyms, personal trainers and gyms has grown by 50% to more than 1.25 billion pounds.
Is it possible that all the exercise is doing nothing to make us slimmer?
Exercise is good for health, improves your heart and lung function, no question, and triggers the release of a host of hormones that bring on feelings of well-being.
One of those, uh one of those uh Yeah, the endorphins.
I never I never got one damn endorphin when I exercised.
I don't know what people are talking about.
BS, I played high school football.
I was twice a day practices.
I've done my share of exercise in my life, and I'm telling you, I've never felt one damn endorphin.
The only time I'm happy with exercise is when it is over.
At any rate.
Uh some surprising studies in America are starting to reveal that even under grueling training regimes, people fail to lose as much weight as they should.
In a study of 464 overweight women.
Dr. Timothy Church of Louisiana University examined that what would happen if they conducted different levels of exercise.
One group was asked to do no additional exercise, while three other groups were asked to spend 72 minutes, 136 minutes, or 194 minutes with a trainer each week for six months.
All were asked not to change their diet.
The results were surprising.
While all the women lost weight, including the control group, which is thought to be a consequence of basing the study on overweight women, those who exercise the most did not lose significantly more weight than those who were told not to change their diet.
Story goes on to say it's a long story, but it's uh basically says that reprogramming body fat is the key to weight loss, not working out.
This is Richard Gray, who is this guy.
I haven't come across his name in the story yet, but he's some expert.
They can always find these experts.
He got me to thinking.
Well, uh you I didn't read the whole story.
I I think I could instinctively answer how do you reprogram body fat, but I didn't read the whole the story here, the point is that all of this exercise enhances appetite.
It just makes you hungrier.
And that's the death knell.
And you think you can eat more because you're exercising more, and you can't exercise enough to lose.
Look at when I found out that I would have to jog 45 minutes to burn up the calories in a Snickers bar, my brain told me there's not enough exercise in the world to keep me thin.
It's going to have to be done with diet.
And I don't eat Snickers bars, but I mean, what's a Snickers bar?
200 calories?
If you gotta if you've got to jog 45 minutes, which I know I'm not gonna do to burn 200 calories, I gotta find another way to burn the 200 calories.
So I'm thinking.
I did.
You know what I did go out, I bought a new treadmill last week for my exercise room.
I got a new treadmill for the guests.
And I bought a new weight machine for the guests.
And I went over and I scoped him out.
I used the treadmill for a couple minutes, the weight machine for a couple minutes.
And I'm thinking now I ought to put warning labels on them.
Warning, these machines could make you fat.
As always, when we go back to the archives, ladies and gentlemen, we always find the truth.
Before I play Soundbite uh, whatever it is, uh, 23, we're gonna go back, hang on here, uh Mike.
Let's see.
Number six, audio sound bait number six, President Obama, April 21st at the White House.
I think that we should be looking forward and not backwards.
Uh I do worry about this getting so politicized that we cannot function effectively, and it hampers our ability to carry out critical national security operations.
April 21st, but I think Obama always intended to investigate the Bush administration.
In a 2007 interview, he said he'd have his internal attorney general do just what he's done.
Reno Nevada, on a radio station, the hostette interviewed Obama via telephone.
She said, if you were to be elected president, Senator Obama, do you feel we need to look back?
If the investigations have been done in this administration, find out what happened because there's a fear there's a dangerous precedent being set.
The CIA interrogation tapes missing, warrantless wiretapping, all these are violations of the Constitution.
People can be forgiven for thinking that it seems like we only enforce the Constitution when it's politically expedient.
One of my first acts as president is going to be to call in my new attorney general to review every single executive order that's been issued to overturn those that are undermining the Constitution, undermining our civil liberties that are promoting this cockamami theory of unitary government that says that somehow the executive branch does not need to obey the Constitution.
But Senator Obama, forgive me.
Okay, good go ahead.
The uh and during that process of review, uh, if it's determined that laws have been broken, then obviously accountability would be part of my attorney general's job.
Do you understand, ladies and gentlemen, the man will say anything.
But if you dig deep enough, you can always find his real intentions and his real intentions are to investigate the Bush administration, to investigate the CIA, to weaken our intelligence gathering abilities to weaken our foreign policy.
He intended to do this, and he's done it.
Holder is doing it, and nobody can believe it.
Holder's acting on his own.
He's not a free spirit acting here, he's not an entrepreneur, he's under orders from Obama.
So back in April, Obama says, no, no, no, no.
Well, we're not gonna do it.
I want to go forward because he knows the American people do not want to investigate the Bush administration.
He knows the American people don't want to weaken our intelligence gathering ability and our foreign policy.
And this business of undermining the Constitution, I might remind you that Obama has kept the warrantless spy program, and he has expanded it.
And I might remind you there's nothing in the Constitution that says the president can fire a CEO.
There's nothing in the Constitution that says the president can turn this into a fascist economy, which he is in the process of doing.
It is not socialist.
Socialist is where the government owns the means of production and distribution.
Fascism is where the private sector still owns what it owns, but politicians run it.
The state runs these businesses, but they don't own them.
Now I know he owns Some.
He owns a couple struggling car companies.
He owns some banks and some other things.
But fascism is exactly what we're getting under Barack Obama from the political today.
Mariana, Florida, Representative Alan Boyd, Democrat Florida, skilled politician, who has pretty much seen it all.
A deep South Democrat has managed to dispatch all opponents in his conservative-leaning panhandle district since winning election in 1996.
But as he fended off gnats buzzing through the August humidity after a morning fending off angry constituents at a town hall meeting.
Representative Alan Boyd confided that the depth of the unease spurred by the health care debate has caught him by surprise.
They may be a minority, but they're a larger minority than we've seen in a 20 plus years I've been doing this.
They're not a minority, Congressman.
And this is what he said.
People are scared.
Boyd said it twice.
People are scared, trying to explain what would drive his constituents away from home and work and out into the broiling Florida sun in the middle of the week to see their congressman.
People are scared.
This is one thing Congressman Alan Boyd, Democrat Florida, got right.
We are scared.
More than anything else, Barack Obama has in nine months brought to the country fear of the future.
We are scared.
And if you read this whole story, these people at the politico where this story appears, they're equal, they're just as mystified as to why people are scared.
They don't get it.
And they never will.
People are scared.
I've never seen anything like this.
The only problem, Congressman Boyd, is it's not a minority you're hearing from.
It is now a clear-cut majority.
We have a soundbite here, folks, from Senator McCain's town hall in Sun City, Arizona.
Uh Senator McCain himself.
What you want us to do, and what I want us to do is remove this, quote, public option off the table.
Let's sit down together.
Let's enact some of these reforms that just there.
I am sure that my friends, my Democrat friends across the aisle, would agree with most of them.
Maybe not the trial lawyers.
Well, what reforms is he talking about?
If he's talking, you know, there are three Republican plans that do not get coverage, but for crying out loud, it's exactly what I feared.
It's exactly what I feared.
Let's get the public auction up the table.
He's right about that.
Don't misunderstand now.
Some emails, Rush McCain's right.
Get rid of public options.
Yeah, get rid of public option, but don't do anything else in the stupid Democrat bill.
Let's get rid of the public option.
Sit down, my friends across the aisle.
We'll put it together.
Hey, yes, he's enact these reforms.
No, let the Democrats sink.
Look at him as a Titanic, jump off the boat, get in a life raft.
Good.
Lord, don't try to plug the hole with ice from the iceberg.
Oh.
Regaining my composure.
Regaining my composure.
Um.
I have been mentioned in a rap song by the rapper Jay Z. Got a new song out there.
What's the name of the song?
Don't know what the name of the song is.
New song out mentions me and the moderate Bill O'Reilly.
Sell Rush Limbaugh to get off my bug.
This 2000 1865.
Oh, yeah, we come so far.
Ah, house that won't make it's got a black president, got green presidents.
Is this uh Snerdley uh mark a new development in my career to be singled out on a rap song by the famous rapper Jay-Z.
I guess it is.
I guess it's uh I as far as I know, I have never been mentioned in a rap song by anybody.
I'm now in a rap tune by the famous rapper Jay-Z.
Uh tell Rush Limbaugh to get off my balls, tell Bill O'Reilly to fall back.
I would remind the rapper Jay-Z, Mr. Z, it is President Obama who wants mandate circumcision.
Uh, We had that uh yesterday, and that means if anybody, if we need to save our penises from anybody, it's Obama.
I did not know I was on anybody's balls either.
I'm happy to know that they think I am, though.
Well, I I didn't, I didn't actually know that I was.
By the way, you know, the the chicken before we get to Barney Frank on number uh whatever it is, 14, go to number number uh just threw away Katie Courick on cankles.
Number 21.
Do you know what cankles are?
We've discussed this.
Somebody tell me if you think you know what they are.
What are what what cankles or calf ankles?
Is that is that cankles are where you basically can't see the ankle.
I mean, you're looking at a tree trunk, right?
I mean, that's that's okay.
And this is a problem uh for several women.
It's been uh sympathetically noted that this is a disease that afflicts Mrs. Clinton.
And we only know this because of the chickification of the news.
Chicks are writing about this.
Chicks have made it a big story.
There were never such thing as a cankles when guys ran news divisions.
They talked about this stuff at the bar after work, they didn't take moose news stories about it.
Well, anyway.
Now I find out that uh there's cankle surgery between four and eight thousand dollars to uh repair can and Katie Couric.
Uh well, yeah, we have a montage of Katie Kurick's uh notebook report on cankles.
Since the dawn of time, it seems women have been told their bodies aren't good enough.
Their waist should be smaller, their thighs thinner, their arms more buff.
Now there's a new imperfection to add to the list.
Cankles.
The term refers to the area where the calf meets the ankle, and apparently that has to be lean.
Hillary Clinton sometimes teased for having cankles, and teen queen Miley Cyrus complains about them in her autobiography.
It's all a bit much.
As we enjoy the dog days of August, let's hope women throw on their summer dresses and bathing suits and work harder on loving and accepting their bodies rather than perfecting them.
Walter Cronkite, Don Hewitt, where have you gone?
Where is where is your influence?
That's the CBS News Division.
Put on the summer dresses, head out there to the beach, the bathing suits, work harder on loving and accepting your bodies rather than perfecting them.
I don't know.
I've never noticed Katie's legs.
I don't know if she's got cankles or not.
That's snerdly.
I couldn't care less.
I'm just this is in in the midst of all that's going on here.
This is Katie Courick's notebook.
On a CBS.
Evening news.
Barney Frank is flip-flopped on the right to yell.
Back when it was Skip Gates doing the yelling at a cop, Barney defended it July 28th.
I uh didn't follow it all very closely.
Well, let me put it this way.
The president has said what he wanted to say about it.
And I think he did.
It was very reasonable to find and defuse this situation.
I did comment that I would say that to the extent that Punafum was a people thought Professor Gate would be disrespectful.
People yell at me a lot.
I think the right to yell at people in authority is a very important American demography.
Of course, if you're disruptive, if you're uh threatening, that's a problem.
But but the right to yell at authority figures is, I think, a very important right that ought to be protected.
Well, that was uh July 28th, Monday.
Boston's local TV station, Fox 25 Eyeball News.
The anchor Mark Ackerbloom interviewed Barney Frank about last week's heated town hall.
Remember where the Lyndon LaRouche Democrat showed up with Obama with a Hitler mustache.
Why do you uh why do you suppose Congressman Frank that it developed into something like this?
I don't understand why those who are opposed to the health care plan have felt that simply debating it is not a good idea, and that we should in fact be uh should be yelling.
I uh you'd have to ask them because the initiative for the anger and the anger is legitimate, obviously, and uh disagreement is legitimate.
The tactic of uh yelling so people can't be heard, of uh uh interruption so you can't get rational debate, that isn't legitimate, and I don't know why people are using it.
Well, it's it's a flip-flop here from July 28th to August 24th, almost a month.
Marnie Frank was all for yelling.
Now he's opposed to yelling.
When the yelling it is uh is at him.
Um Ackerbloom the anchor says, Well, some people thought you were refreshing in those remarks, uh, telling the woman that she was uh like debating a dining room table.
Frankly, again, you have the Lin and LaBuce Crowd, and I've been a little surprised at some of my conservative friends who are defending the LaRouche people for saying that President Obama was like Hitler.
By the way, these people, some of them used to say that George Bush was like Hitler.
And I was just as angry then as I am today.
But I also think, yeah, um the notion that politicians should always tiptoe around.
Uh I think it's very important to be honest with people.
And when people are talking nonsense, in my view, I think you ought to say is nonsense.
People have been voting me for some time.
I don't think they have ever confused me with an English butler from an old movie uh on on public television.
I think uh they like to have a sense that when I tell them something, it's what I believe.
An English butler?
Whoever thought it was an English butler.
English butlers do not live and covort on Uranus.
They're in Great Britain.
Barney Frank, the banking queen.
Well, get this.
Uh if any of you uh participated in a Cash for Clunkers program and bought a new car.
Many of those cashing in on the clunkers program are surprised when they get to the treasurer's office window.
They because the government's rebate of up to 4,500 for every clunker is taxable.
They didn't realize that would be taxable.
A lot of people don't realize that, so they're not happy and are kind of surprised when they find out.
The amusement here is how most, if not all states compute sales tax charged when you register the vehicle.
When you buy a new car, you pay tax on the difference between the new car's purchase price and the trade-in that you present to the dealer.
This is an intentional distortion in the law that's intended to favor dealers over private party used car sales.
If you sell your used car privately, the new buyer pays the sales tax, but you don't get the offset on the purchase of your replacement vehicle.
The only way to get that's to trade the car.
Dealers use this, of course, in negotiations, effectively pocketing the sales tax.
And why not?
It's a real difference to you, but the cash for clunkers is really not a trade-in.
That's a 4500 check from the government, basically, you're getting, and that's that's in income that you got to pay tax on.
I love it when people learn that when they think they're getting something free, it isn't free.
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Sharon in Green Town, Pennsylvania, hi.
You're on the uh Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Uh Megadudes from a first time caller.
Thank you.
Uh, I hope I have a day brightener for you.
My husband and I attended a town hall meeting last night.
It was held near Scranton.
Representative Chris Carney, a blue dog Democrat, held the meeting.
And I'd say there were about 300 of us there.
The group was four to one, I would say, against the public option.
The only evidence we saw there of any kind of outside organization was Health Care for America Now.
They had a 10 outside.
They were distributing these huge stickers that you could slap onto your shirt that advertised their organization.
Yeah.
Um it was uh pretty, it was very orderly.
Nobody was uh Did anybody get beat up by any union thugs?
No, they did not.
I was all set to confront one if there is one there and dare him.
Did you enjoy it?
Did you have a good time?
Yes, I did, and I got to speak.
Did your blue dog Democrat get it, do you think?
Yes, because afterwards he told uh the Scranton newspaper that he would not demand a public, he doesn't demand a public option.
He would settle for pre-existing conditions and transportability, stuff like that being covered by the inch uh uh private companies.
Well, that's interesting.
But more more important than that, is I think it's great that you went.
And I think it's fabulous you wanted to call here and tell us about it.
Uh people are involving themselves in affairs of politics more than ever before here, particularly on our side.
And it's having an effect, it's having an impact.
And I urge you to keep it up.
It's tough to maintain an emotional fevered pitch like this, but it's working.
And it's more important than ever because Obama and his gang are doubling down on all of these things, folks.
They are still trying to ram this down our throats one way or the other.
Somebody remind me to give you details of this headline tomorrow.
This is the Associated Press.
Women with high testosterone take more money risks.
And I imagine it's even doubled when you're talking about Democrat women in elective office taking risks with other people's money.
Okay, folks, we'll do it all again tomorrow in 21 hours.
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