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Sept. 11, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 11, 2009, Friday, Hour #3
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Greetings, my friends, and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, serving humanity simply by showing up here at the EIB Network.
Great to have you with us.
It's Friday, live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
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You know, we had a caller, a nice guy, Rob from Manhattan the other day, who said, you know, I think you're going to be misunderstanding Obama.
He's kind of right.
This Manhattan after 9-11 came together like Manhattan never has.
It's right to call out for community service.
And the problem here, folks, 9-11, eight years ago today, we're not remembering it for what it should be remembered for.
Obama's hijacking this to push his agenda.
He's hijacking this event that he knows is going to full-fledged media coverage all day long.
He's hijacking this for what sounds like a wonderful thing.
Well, community service.
We all got to get together.
You've got to understand community service is nothing more than community organizing.
It is a tactic.
Community service is one of the baby steps toward fascism.
So many things that Obama does appear to be isolated, but they are interconnected to organizing the private sector to serve the state.
And that's not the way this country was founded.
You have to remember this about Barack Obama.
He does not like this country as constituted.
He does not like the U.S. Constitution.
He just had somebody else appointed as a czar, Cass Sunstein, or maybe not a czar.
He's appointed somewhere.
I forget to what.
Cass Sunstein is one of these people.
He's a legal professor, law professor somewhere.
He's a lawyer.
He's one of these people that believes that the Bill of Rights equals negative rights.
Now, the United States Constitution tells the government what it cannot do to its people.
It cannot impinge upon our freedom in these ways.
People like Cass Sunstein and Barack Obama look at that as negative.
The Constitution is an obstacle to them.
The concept of negative rights means that the Bill of Rights does not tell leaders of the government what they can do to us.
They say for us, but what they mean is to us.
They feel constrained by it.
Now, I said yesterday, Barack Obama has a chip on his shoulder about this country, and everybody in his administration does.
This Van Jones guy would not have been in this administration if he didn't believe everything that Obama believes.
Van Jones is Obama.
Mark Lloyd of the FCC is Obama.
We have a genuine radical who has been raised by people who hated this country.
He has been taught by people who hate this country.
He attended church for 20 years and listened to sermons preached by a pastor, Jeremiah Wright, who hates this country.
One of his good friends blew up the Pentagon, Bill Ayers.
This is not insignificant, and it is not unimportant.
It is crucially important.
You have to understand the man does not like this country and intends to change it.
He's out apologizing for this country in every foreign trip that he makes.
Barack Obama believes this country has been immoral and unjust since its founding.
A bunch of slave owners founded this country in his view, and he didn't get a vote on that constitution.
He would have never voted for it.
And so until he became president, this country was in sin.
But now that he's president, this country is becoming just and moral.
And it's at that point that we arrive at my trying to convince you here that this call for community service and all this rot gut today ought to offend you to no end.
It would be no different than taking Pearl Harbor Day and turning it into a day of community service.
What is happening, Barack Obama believes there is no basic goodness in the American spirit without his prompting it.
I know it's hard to believe that we've elected somebody like this, but it is what it is, and we have to deal with it.
And up until his imaculation, this country was not the way you look at it.
But now that he's there, now that he's president, basic goodness finally has come to America and its spirit.
But only because of his presence, only because of Obama's urging will we now become a just and moral and fair country.
We will give up our profits.
We will give up our prosperity.
We will return ourselves to poverty so as to be equal with the rest of the world.
Everything is government top-down with him.
Free enterprise cannot work.
Basic human kindness cannot happen without his prompting it.
Basic human kindness cannot occur without Barack Obama happening.
You do not know how to save yourself from the H1N1 flu without the Health and Human Services sending out a memo on 9-11 claiming that we're honoring national service.
And one of the things we're going to do is send you a little email on how not to get the swine flu.
This is abhorrent.
So this call for community service, and this is how these people work.
I mean, who could oppose community service?
Who could oppose people helping one another?
It's just like the environmentalist.
Who could oppose dirty water?
Who could be against clean air?
Who can be against saving the planet?
Folks, you've got to understand issue to issue to issue.
It doesn't matter what it is.
It's always going to be couched in compassion, improving your life, making health care better.
All it is is a baby step device to rob you of your freedom.
So many things that he does appear to be isolated, but they are connected to organizing the private sector to serve the state.
And here we are on 9-11.
And Barack Obama's out there with this call for national service.
Well, on a day of national service, don't you think it'd be a good idea to thank the CIA rather than prosecute them?
But we're not thanking them.
This president wants to prosecute them with his incompetent Attorney General, Eric Holder.
I know, sometimes, maybe you don't want to admit this.
Maybe you don't want to have to think about this, be conscious of it all day, every day.
Sorry, I can't help it.
I love the country too much.
And I know the language, and I know community service is BS.
Community service equals acorn, and that's how you have to start understanding it.
Community activism, community agitation, upsetting the status quo, taking power away from people who have it, disrupting life, chaos all over the place.
That's what community service is.
Returning the nation's wealth to its quote-unquote rightful owners, the poor people in the unions and the minorities who've had their lives screwed for 200-plus years by a constitution written by white slave owners.
This is what we're up against.
This is why I'm just angry as hell that people say Joe Wilson ought to apologize, President of the United States needs to apologize.
He actually needs to resign.
He needs to apologize for lying and defrauding the American people for 35 minutes to an hour Wednesday night on the floor of the House of Representatives.
In a speech to a joint session of Congress, talking about Republican incivility when we've had all these acts of terror committed by Democrats, hoping that we lose in Iraq, destroying the entire family of Sarah Palin are trying to.
I mean, this is beyond the pale.
And I found something here.
A column by Chris Matthews, written on 9-13, 2001, two days after 9-11.
Lucky though he was, Bill Clinton never had his shot at greatness.
He could lower the jobless rate.
He could balance the budget.
He could console us after the Oklahoma City bombing, but he never got the opportunity George W. Bush was given this Tuesday.
The historic chance to lead.
Our American spirit, power, and enterprise now stand ready for orders only the president can give them.
Only the man in the White House can tell us whom to strike and with what weapon.
Bush's first challenge is to size up the enemy.
Americans need to know what we're up against.
We need to know that we face an adversary who is ruthless in exploiting our distinctive strengths and character and using both against us.
Now, I don't know how Chris wrote this because he's not of this mind today.
Bush is a fraud and a liar.
But even so, two days after 9-11, we hear about all this unity that we have.
Here's Chris Matthews lamenting the fact that Bill Clinton never had this kind of opportunity.
Never had an attack on American soil by a foreign enemy.
That's the way their minds work.
Everything is political.
It's a horse race.
It's an opportunity.
I want to go to our commercial break, first commercial break in this hour with this.
Well, this is interesting.
James O'Keefe has apparently been invited to appear on CNN.
James O'Keefe plays the prostitute in the acorn videos at Baltimore and Washington.
And he was the conceiver of the scheme to expose them for who and what they really are.
He is not going to appear on CNN, and he has a piece they're going to, it's either posted now or it's going to be posted pretty soon at biggovernment.com.
And the headline of his post is, Why I Don't Return Calls from an Intrepid CNN reporter or producer.
So far, CNN has only reported on the breaking story on blatant Acorn corruption from ankles that attempt to extricate the government-funded community organizing enterprise from the extreme crime we caught on videotape.
First, CNN pushed the false Acorn line that this film crew tried to pull this sham at other offices and failed.
To set that record straight, please check the Washington, D.C. tape we dropped today at biggovernment.com.
We plugged you the sound bites of that, which is also being aired on your cable news competitor with curiously higher ratings.
That would be Fox.
Now that Acorn lied to you, John Klein, what are you going to do?
John Klein's the president of CNN.
Here's what I've noticed from your coverage at CNN.
You brought in the damage control crowd to frame the story before even airing our Baltimore video.
You know your audience would turn on Acorn if you showed them the evidence, so instead you put your competitors in journalism in the crosshairs instead of airing a blockbuster report making massive waves elsewhere.
You even trotted out shameless Clinton-era apologist Joe Connason to challenge the ethics of our expose.
That's unreal.
What about the ethics of those at Acorn, Mr. Klein, caught on tape trying to help create a brothel featuring illegal immigrant age range 13 to 15 from El Salvador?
What about the countless laws broken on tape from a group that stands to get billions from President Obama's stimulus package?
Why don't we wait to have the Columbia Journalism School debate on journalistic ethics between us after you do some actual journalism at CNN?
When you air the Acorn, the raw Acorn footage that is now viral on the internet, being played on Fox News and countless talk radio shows, then and only then, when America can see, hear, and smell the stench that we exposed, will I subject myself to a CNN hit job and accept your invitation to be interviewed?
This is how you have to play the game with these people.
All right, to the phones.
Rich in New York City, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
How are you doing, Norris?
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
I wanted to call and speak to you about this whole 9-11 community service thing.
Yeah.
I'm originally from New York.
I was a volunteer firefighter and I'm currently active duty in the military.
And my dad was in the NYPD at the time.
So we knew people who died on 9-11.
And, you know, obviously I think community service is a great thing.
And don't get me wrong, that's great that Obama's trying to push that.
But first of all, I don't think that we need to have a day set aside for community service.
You know, we're all Americans.
And if you don't decency to help out every now and then, if you're just going to do it one day a year, you know what?
Then don't bother.
I don't want your help.
And secondly, I'm pretty sure that...
Now, that's a good point.
That's if it's...
It's a one-day thing, but that's not what it is.
But I get your point.
It's a great point.
But that's not what Obama's doing.
This, before you get to your second point, I just have to say, he's not talking about community service.
He's just using the words.
When you say, well, I obviously think community service is a great thing.
His version of community service is not a good thing.
His version of community service is going to destroy this country.
And everybody falls prey to it.
Now, what's your second point?
And my main point is to make 9-11 a day of community service, I think, is disgusting.
I can tell you that the families that lost somebody in 9-11, they don't, and the people who even died at 9-11, they don't want to be remembered by you going out and picking up garbage on a beach.
If you want to do community service, you know, for 9-11, walk down the street to a widow of a firefighter or something.
You're exactly right.
But let me add to this: you are exactly right.
But that's this, this, this whole effort to co-opt what this day is all about and turn it into an attempt to advance his agenda, to turn the private sector into something that services his government, is what this is all about.
The idea that we don't do community service in this country is offensive to me.
We oh, this country, for crying out loud, look at the tsunami over there in the Pacific.
It was the United States that rides in and saves the day.
We are the most charitable people on earth for others on the planet and ourselves.
Even today, in the recession, there are considerable dollars being donated to charity by lots of people.
This whole notion that somehow we've got to be called the community service today as though we don't do it and that we haven't been this kind of people until Obama got into the Oval Office offends the hell out of me.
The term community service offends the hell out of me.
The kind of community service, let prisoners do it.
Let prisoners pick up the trash.
Let prisoners mow some highway grass.
This community service, folks, it's insidious.
It is nothing more than a well-sounding, compassionate label.
But it means something entirely different.
It means turning you into a robot.
It means turning the focus of your life into how can you serve Obama by serving his agenda.
I mean, look at how the guy community organizes.
The result of Barack Obama community organization got people beat up at tea parties.
When Obama needed to organize the community, he called the unions.
He called the AFL-CIO and he called the service employees international union because none of his own supporters had enough passion about this healthcare thing to show up on their own.
So Obama had to mobilize his community organizers.
And they showed up and they intimidated and they beat up, in some cases, average ordinary Americans who are trying to hold on to their country.
You were called mobsters and Nazis by Obama's community organizers.
Somebody referred to this thing in Washington tomorrow as the Million Mob March.
I kind of like it as a play on the words, the Million Men March, but community service, that's not what you think.
It's a guess who and shaking all over, which is what most of the audiences do when this program begins.
Now, from the op-ed dietitians at the New York Times, dietitians, the op-ed page of the New York Times, how government will control our diet.
And this was published yesterday.
Now, I want you to listen to me on this.
Big food versus big insurance.
New York Times op-ed column here.
To listen to President Obama's speech on Wednesday night or to just about anybody else in the healthcare debate, you would think that the biggest problem with healthcare in America is the system itself, perverse incentives, inefficiencies, unnecessary tests and procedures, lack of competition, and greed.
No one disputes that the $2.3 trillion we devote to the healthcare industry is often spent unwisely, but the fact that the U.S. spends twice as much per person as most European countries on healthcare can be substantially explained, as a study released last month says, by our being fatter.
Even the most efficient healthcare system that the administration could hope to devise would still confront a rising tide of chronic disease linked to diet.
That's why our success in bringing health care costs under control ultimately depends on whether Washington can summon the political will to take on and reform a second, even more powerful industry, the food industry.
The political will to take on the food industry.
What the hell do they think has been happening?
New York City trans fats now are going to have a tax on soda?
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, three-quarters of healthcare spending now goes to treat preventable chronic diseases.
Not all these diseases are linked to diet.
They're smoking, for instance, but many, if not most, of them are.
We're spending $147 billion to treat obesity, $116 billion to treat diabetes, and hundreds of billions more to treat cardiovascular.
Can I?
I had this on my website, or I found a website the other day, and I should have printed it out.
Maybe I can find it in my website history.
Two guys, independently of each other, two doctors, dealing with diabetes back in 1961, both came to the same conclusion to control type 2 diabetes, an all-meat diet.
Now, this was before all the warnings about cholesterol and high fat and all of the animal rights people had come along and they just, an all-meat diet, nothing but meat.
Long before the nation ever heard of Robert Atkins, an all-meat diet lowered cholesterol, lowered blood sugar.
People lost weight.
You could no more recommend that today and stay credible in your field than anything else you could do.
And it says 1961.
Might have been five years' separation between these two guys, but they never knew, and they were researching other things.
They were not studying how to lower diabetes.
They were not studying just dislike all these erectile dysfunction, but they were studying high blood pressure, and they found out that all the test subjects were having this weird thing happen to them.
It was a total accident.
Same thing with these two guys.
We're studying something else entirely, and they found that with an all-meat diet, diabetes lowered, blood sugar lowered, weight lowered cholesterol, all these things.
And so here come these clowns.
This is Michael Pollan, by the way, writing this piece.
Basically, his piece is, we got to control the food industry.
We got to get Washington to control the food industry.
Yeah, community service.
Pick it.
Big food.
Picket big retail food.
Pick it grocery stores.
Pick it slaughterhouses.
Pick it manufacturers.
The American way of eating has become the elephant in the room in the debate over health care.
The president's made a few notable allusions to it.
And by planting her vegetable garden in the South Lawn, Michelle Obama's tried to focus our attention on make me gag.
Just last month, Obama talked about putting a farmer's market in front of the White House and building new distribution networks to connect local farmers to public schools so that student lunches might offer more fresh produce and fewer tater tots.
He's even floated the idea of taxing soda.
To put it more bluntly, the government's putting itself in the uncomfortable position of subsidizing both the cost of treating type 2 diabetes and the consumption of high fructose corn syrup that may be causing it.
Why the disconnect?
Probably because reforming the food system is politically even more difficult than reforming the healthcare system.
Now, people that read the New York Times end up buying this stuff just like these skulls full of mush of these Ivy League schools.
So now big food, big food is the reason the health care costs are so high.
Big food.
And we need Washington to control it.
Reforming the food system?
Reforming the food system.
And it goes on and on and on.
Michael Pollan, by the way, contributing writer for the Times Magazine, a professor of journalism at the University of California at Berkeley.
All of which suggests, he says, that passing a health care reform bill, no matter how ambitious, is only the first step in solving our health care crisis.
To keep from bankrupting ourselves, we will then have to get to work on improving our health, which means going to work on the American way of eating.
Mr. Pollo, it's none of your business.
It's none of Obama's business how anybody eats.
It's not my business when he grabs a quick trip to some burger joint.
I don't know what he eats in the world.
Well, I do know.
He's eating $100 a pound Kobe beef.
But then there's a companion story here from Newsweek called The Real Cause of Obesity.
It's not gluttony.
It's genetics.
Why our moralizing misses the point.
Despite receiving a MacArthur Genius Award for her work in Alabama, forging an inspiring model of compassionate and effective medical care in one of the most underserved regions of the U.S., Regina Benjamin's qualifications to be surgeon general have been questioned.
Why?
She's overweight.
Tends to undermine her credibility, said Dr. Marcia Angel, former editor, New England Journal of Medicine.
I think at a time when a lot of public health concern about the national epidemic obesity, having a surgeon general who is noticeably overweight raises questions in people's minds.
It's not enough, it seems, that the obese must suffer the medical consequences of their weight, consequences that include diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and that cause nearly 300,000 deaths in the U.S. each year.
Do you realize, this is another thing.
What is our goal here?
Had zero deaths a year?
You know, life happens.
Life happens.
People live their lives, have free will.
They live their lives.
But no, no, no, we're not going to be doing that anymore.
We're going to be living ordered lives.
In our society, perhaps, no group is more stigmatized than the obese.
Well, I don't know.
You ought to try being a fat conservative if you want to find out what being stigmatized is.
But nevertheless, genetic studies have shown that the particular set of weight-regulating genes that a person has is by far the most important factor in determining how much that person's going to weigh.
The heritability of obesity, a measure of how much obesity is due to genes versus other factors, is about the same as the heritability of height.
It's even greater than that for many conditions that people accept as having a genetic basis, heart disease, breast cancer, schizophrenia.
As nutrition has improved over the past 200 years, wait a minute, the New York Times just said it's gone to hell and we need to have Washington control it.
Americans have gotten much taller on average, but it's still the genes that determine who is tall or short.
The same is true for weight.
Although our high-calorie sedentary lifestyle contributes to the approximately 10-pound average weight gain of Americans compared to the recent past, some people are more severely affected by this lifestyle than others, and that's because they've inherited genes that increase their predisposition for accumulating body fat.
Now, this could all be BS, a piece written just to give cover to the obese surgeon general.
Who knows with this state-controlled media these days?
But the bottom line, he concludes: obesity is not a personal choice.
The obese are so primarily as a result of their genes.
Never mind, we have to have food control.
We have to have Washington control and reform the food industry, agribusiness.
And this is not new.
The left has been trying to get rid of the meat industry for who knows how long.
The U.S. poverty rate, by the way, is this the economy Obama says he's saved.
U.S. poverty rate hit its highest level in 11 years in 2008.
That doesn't even include the last nine months then.
We hit the highest level of poverty in 11 years of 2008.
And that doesn't even factor this disastrous administration.
The government defines poverty as an annual income of $22,025 for a family of four, $17,000 for a family of three, and $14,000 for a family of two.
U.S. poverty rate hits 11-year high as recession bites.
CNNMoney.com, word on the street, no job prospects.
Economic picture started to improve.
I would ask where.
But those out of work see no recovery in sight.
Next story: Geithner town hall meeting on CNBC said unemployment will absolutely be lower one year from today.
Even though the word on the street from CNN is that there's no way and no sign that the employment picture will improve anytime soon.
All right, folks, a brief timeout.
We'll be back and continue right after this.
I just got a just got an email from a friend who's reading Michael Pollen's book.
He's the guy who wrote the op-ed the New York Times that I just shared with you about reforming the food industry.
And the name of his book is In Defense of Food.
And my friend who's reading the book tells me that Pollen makes in the book a very, very, very strong case that the reason the food system is so bad is because of government.
And that there's a food movement out there called nutritionism, which he says is not about nutrition but is an ideology.
And he says that anthropologists have over hundreds of years found that an extraordinary range of diets are adaptable to humans, meat, veggies, rice, lots of grain, no grain.
All humans could adapt to these diets.
But he says in his book, only the Western diet causes all the illnesses.
Even in other countries, our diet has ill effects.
And he says that all the processed food due to processed food, and the food is processed mostly due to government intervention and laws.
Now, I don't know that's a brief summary of what he's saying in the book.
When I read his piece, New York Times, I did not pick up any of that.
But regardless, just to be fair, the Heritage Foundation today, As you know, we constantly plug askheritage.org.
Don't let 9-11 become just another Earth Day.
Three years ago, Norwell Haskruel social studies teacher Julie Fox commemorated 9-11 by asking her students to write journal entries recounting where they were when the planes hit and how they felt at that moment.
But now the teacher, Julie Fox, tells the Boston Globe, too few students remember the day.
So Fox spends class time explaining the basics of what happened on 9-11 and why.
It's almost like teaching the Civil War to her students.
High school students are not the only ones for whom 9-11 is becoming a distant memory.
According to the Washington Post, 70% of Democrats say the war in Afghanistan has not been worth the costs.
Council on Foreign Relations fellow Stephen Biddle says, surely a big piece of the declining poll numbers for support for Afghanistan is that the public does not yet see the connection between Afghanistan and al-Qaeda today.
Responding to their leftist base, opposition to the effort in Afghanistan is growing.
Pelosi's even said, no, she's drawn down the gauntlet to Obama today and yesterday, no more funding for Afghanistan.
You better not expand that war.
We're not going to be with you on that.
And so the Heritage people write, one would think that President Obama would take the anniversary of the 9-11 attacks as an opportunity to educate Americans.
Instead, he's chosen to use 9-11 to promote his own domestic policy agenda, National Day of Service and Remembrance, which we have been discussing.
Now, Heritage Foundation, you know, often lament here that the loss of our own elites in Washington, our own conservative elites.
They seem to get caught up in all this need for decorum, the Harvard debate rules, civility and so forth, not recognizing the danger and severity of what we face.
But that has not happened to the Heritage Foundation.
Tried and true red, white, and blue conservatives.
You can become a member of Heritage for 25 bucks a year.
Just do it at askheritage.org.
And when you do, you've got a wealth.
You have an encyclopedia of daily scholarship available to you that you would otherwise not have.
And if you're like me early on, I knew I was a conservative, but I didn't know why.
I mean, I had the instincts, but when it came time to explain it, I was kind of lost.
And I know that I provide a great service now in helping you understand why you are conservative.
Heritage Foundation is great as well.
And it's just, you can't be too informed.
It's impossible.
And especially when you're attempting to inform yourself, I like-minded people that you trust.
Heritage Foundation, the smartest right-wingers, the smartest conservative, the smartest people inside the Beltway devoted to the nation's founding.
It's a treat to be able to access all the work that they produce.
And you can do it by becoming a member at www.askheritage.org.
Well, goody-goody gumdrops, Obama, another speech on Monday about the financial crisis after an appearance Sunday night on 60 Minutes, flooding the zone out there.
Monday marks the anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, sorry.
And the White House says that Obama will discuss the aggressive steps the administration has taken to bring the economy back from the brink and a commitment to winding down the government's role in the financial sector.
So we're going to be treated to that on Monday.
The ban on fluorescent light bulbs or incandescent light bulbs in the UK has gone into effect.
And the Telegraph newspapers reporting European officials are now admitting that these compact fluorescents are not as bright an idea as first advertised.
Question.
When did Thomas Edison become guilty of destroying the planet?
Because that's essentially what they're saying.
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