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Sept. 16, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 16, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24 7 Podcast.
And they've trotted out Jimmy Carter, ladies and gentlemen.
They've trotted out Jimmy Carter.
This means that it's over.
When they trot out, I mean, who is more closely associated with economic melees and failure than Jimmy Carter.
So they bring out Jimmy Carter to co-conspire with Barack Obama.
They bring out Jimmy Carter, who now says everything here is about race.
I tell you, this is disgusting.
I mean, of all people to bring out.
And as you know, there's an axiom.
They bring Jimmy Carter out at the last moment to try to save the day.
Failure.
Folks, you have to forgive me here, but we've got audio problems out the wazoo, and it's gotten me so ticked off I can't tell you.
But I'm hearing 14 different things at once, including my voice here in the feed.
So it's a little bit distracting.
And I just discovered it right before the program started, so I'm going to do my best here to get past this.
But we have the worst president in American history coming back to defend the man who will be an even worse president when it's all said and done.
Now that economic misery is once again engulfing.
Just a second here, folks.
Even when I stop the computer, I'm hearing all the TVs and In here, Brian.
And my voice is distorted like I can't believe.
Anyway, uh economic misery once again engulfing America.
Jimmy Carter back in the news with the same kind of ignorance and stupidity that marred and marked his own presidency.
Carter and Obama deserve each other, folks.
Carter and Obama deserve each other.
Misery loves company.
And it's about time we come up with a misery index for the Obama administration because it is running the same route as Jimmy Carter.
The difference, the only difference between the two, is that Jimmy Carter was doing everything he could to reform the system within it to reform America within it.
Obama's going outside.
Tell tell Brian not not to unplug anything back there.
I think the cleaning crew turned the equalizer off, is what happened back, and I've got to figure it out here during the break.
Tell him not to pull any plugs back there.
So what we have here, two failed presidencies and failed presidents in the spotlight.
The Democrat Party has put a perfect match in political and economic hell for the American people to see.
There is no way Jimmy Carter has the respect of a majority of the American people.
In no way possible.
Obama, the latest health care number is 55%, now disapprove of his health care plan in Yeah, opposition to health care reform reaches a new high at 55%.
This is the latest Rasmussen report, the Daily Tracking Poll now shows that just 42% support the plan, uh matching the low first reached in August.
Now I have about about Jimmy Carter coming out and piling on with this racism stuff, and there's some outrageous examples of it from the state-controlled media.
There's even a guy that was on MSNBC, was it this morning?
And I'm not going to play the soundbite for you.
I am not going to dignify this by playing it.
But it was, yeah, it was this morning on MSNBC.
This guy, Michael Eric Dyson, claims that I have written that slavery was a good thing.
And he's got even Scarborough.
So what are you talking about?
Oh, yeah, you can read it.
You can read it.
I have never said slavery was a good thing.
I did these people are just over the edge now.
And I'm going to tell you something, folks.
I thought the election of Barack Obama was all about seeing to it that these days never happened again.
I'm being serious here.
I thought the election of Barack Obama, and I'm not being cliche here.
I'm just telling you what we were told.
Now I've I predicted exactly what's happening.
So I'm not surprised by it.
But I was told we were all told that they were going to have a post-racial America.
We're going to have a post-partisan.
None of this was going to happen.
And I warned everybody, folks, this it's only going to get worse.
I predicted every aspect of this.
And I said it's going to center around criticism of Obama.
Any criticism of him is going to be said to be racist.
And once again, I am right on the money.
Bullseye.
But here's what I think about this.
The president of the United States is sitting here and promoting this division.
He is encouraging it.
He has people in the White House say, uh, we don't think it's so much race and so forth, but he could put a stop to this and should.
If Barack Obama wants to be the president that he told everybody he was going to be during the campaign, he needs to schedule a speech, not five appearances on Sunday shows and Letterman.
He needs to schedule a speech and say, stop this stuff.
This is not productive.
This is not helping America.
This is dividing America.
He needs to say, I know that there's criticism of me, and I know there's opposition to me.
There's been criticism of every president.
There's been opposition to every president.
But I guess all of a sudden now we're not allowed to do that anymore.
We can't criticize Obama.
We can't do that because it's all racist, but he needs to stand up and make a speech.
And he needs to say, we are going to heal these racial divisions.
If he were the real deal, folks, he would do this speech, telling the American people and the media and everybody to knock this racial stuff off that he can handle a criticism.
He was supposed to be the end to all this.
And instead, what we have now is his party pushing the notion that all the opposition to Obama is rooted in racism.
I mean, how far have we come?
how Orwellian the establishment has become.
Any criticism of Obama's political agenda is pronounced blatant racism.
But a school bus full of black kids beating up a solitary white kid couldn't possibly be racism.
How Orwellian has all this gotten.
Then we had Jimmy Carter, the anti-Semite, to the mix.
And I've also got some transcripts of Jimmy Carter running campaign commercials in 1970, running for governor of Georgia.
He is such a disingenuous old doddering incompetent boob that it is uh I've mixed emotions.
I wish he'd go away, but then I'm glad he's there.
Because he's doing nothing helpful to the Democrat Party.
Now I have a question I want to pose, and I expect I fully expect this question to be taken out of context.
I expect my comments to be taken out of context.
This is a question that uh many people will think is too hot to ask.
It's a toughie.
But this question is a legitimate question, and it's raised.
It came to me just by the headlines.
And watching television and listening to the state controlled media shout racism everywhere.
I mean, we've even got a member of the uh the uh congressional black caucus, Hank Johnson, and we have the audio of this coming up.
I just I haven't had a chance.
Uh here it is.
Audio soundbite number five.
I just luck is with me today.
Listen to this audio soundbite number five.
If I'm a betting man, I would say that it instigated uh more racist sentiment feeling that it's okay.
You don't have to uh bury it now.
You can bring it out, talk about it fully.
And so I guess we'll probably have uh folks uh putting on uh white hoods and white uniforms again and uh riding through the countryside, intimidating people.
And you know, that's the uh logical conclusion if this kind of attitude is not rebuked.
And uh Congressman Wilson represents it.
He's the face of it.
So here you have uh this is Hank Johnson, he is a congressman Democrat from Georgia, member of the Congressional Black Caucus, saying the Klan will write again.
Uh Republicans are clansmen and Joe Wilson is the leader.
Keep in mind, keep in mind that the only member of the Ku Klux Klan ever to serve in our government is a Democrat, Robert Sheets Byrd.
He was a grand cleague of the Ku Klux Klan.
Uh and in fact, let's go back and listen, uh, audio soundbite number six, March the twenty eighth, nineteen sixty-eight, Robert Bird talking about Martin Luther King.
Martin Luther King fled the scene.
He took to his heels and disappeared, leaving it to others to cope with the destructive forces he had helped to unleash.
And I hope that well-meaning Negro leaders and individuals in the Negro community in Washington will now take a new look at this man who gets other people into trouble and then takes off like a scared rabbit.
That's Robert Byrd, Democrat Senator of West Virginia talking about Martin Luther King, and uh yet here's Hank Johnson saying that Joe Wilson of South Carolina represents the new Klan, people gonna put on their white hats and robes and be riding horses through the countryside.
So here's here's my legitimate question.
You know, our president uh is the leader of our country.
And before he gets that title, before he gets that position, uh used to have to earn it.
All presidents have had to earn their position with scrutiny of their resume, scrutiny of their background, scrutiny of their past performance, scrutiny of the way they campaign, scrutiny of what the candidate says and how he says it and how he performs under fire.
And then even when he's elected to the office of President of the United States of America of America, he has heard, he has watched, he has listened to, he is questioned, he is analyzed, he is scrutinized, he is given the media anal exam.
That's the way it used to work.
None of this scrutiny has occurred with President Obama.
There was no scrutiny of his resume.
We still don't know some of the records, we haven't seen some of the records from where he went to school, just like we didn't see Clinton's medical records.
Uh we have not seen scrutiny of his background.
There was no scrutiny of his past performance.
He's got a five-minute career essentially, a hundred and what, fifty days working in the hundred and eighty-five days working in the U.S. Senate.
There was very little scrutiny of his campaign.
There is very little scrutiny of what he says.
There was a lot of praise for how he says what he says, but there was never any scrutiny of what he said, and there isn't today.
So when any of these checks and balances are MIA, whenever this scrutiny of a presidential candidate does not take place, our nation is headed for trouble.
And we are in trouble.
When all of these aspects are ignored, when none of this scrutiny takes place, we are in deep, deep trouble.
And that's where we are.
I have no quarrel with a president of any race.
Obama is not black to me.
He's not half black, half white.
He's president of the United States.
And as such, given his agenda, he poses a grave danger to the America I believe in.
And that's all that matters to me.
I couldn't care if he's a hermaphrodite.
I couldn't care.
I don't care who he sleeps with.
I don't care where he eats.
I don't care what he eats.
I don't care how he drives.
I don't care about any of that.
I don't care about his haircut.
I don't care whether he's getting gray.
I don't care about his tie.
I don't care about any of this.
I care about his intent to remake this country into a country unlike any of us have ever seen.
I have serious concerns about today's media and their new standard, which is this any criticism of an African American president's policies or statements or misstatements is racist, and that's it.
Therefore, the question, can this nation really have an African American president?
Or will the fact that we have an African American president so paralyze politically correct people in the media that the natural scrutiny and process through which all of our presidents are put through and vetted do not occur because of the fear in the state controlled media of themselves being called racist and the desire to be able to call everyone else racist.
In other words, we have a blank slate.
We have a president here who is not scrutinized, who is not examined, there is there is no attempt to uh be suspicious of power anymore.
So is it possible we really have an African American president?
Or does having an African American president paralyze the process by which people with that kind of power in our representative republic are kept quote unquote honest?
I have a brief time out here at which time I'm either going to explode in rage or I'm going to fix this audio problem.
As I already started out enraged as racism stuff has got everybody boiling mad because it's such a lie, it's such a cheap shot, it's so dishonest.
Let's take a brief time out.
We'll come back right after this.
Don't go away.
Now, if all of this racist stuff is not bad enough, yesterday the House Rules Committee chairwoman Louise Slaughter released a helpful updated primer for members regarding their conduct on the floor and in committee.
Now, this this action they took against Congressman Joe Wilson yesterday, they said it's the it's the it's the smallest, the uh uh least stringent uh action that can be taken against a member.
And I'm told, and I happen to believe this, that most of the House leadership wanted no part of this because it opens up the doors to being, you know, criticizing Charlie Wrangle and Barney Frank and all these other things if you're gonna if you're gonna rebuke this guy, and by the way, he didn't call the president a liar.
He said you lie.
He accused the president of telling a lie, didn't call him a liar.
It may be a distinction without a difference, but I'm told that the Congressional Black Caucus demanded this rebuke, and so the House leadership just had to go along with it.
Because the Congressional Black Caucus demanded it.
Now we've got this list of words or thoughts that you can and cannot express on the House floor.
America is becoming a shadow of her former self.
The action on how to properly insult the executive branch in the chamber, disgrace and nitwits, it's okay to use those words.
Liar, sexual misconduct, you cannot say those words.
Under section 370 of the House rules and manual, it has been held that a member could refer to the government as something hated, something oppressive, refer to the president as using legislative or judicial pork, refer to a presidential message as a disgrace to the country, refer to unnamed officials as our half-baked nitwits handling foreign affairs.
It's been held that a member could not call the president a liar, call the president a hypocrite, describe the president's veto of a bill as cowardly, charge that the president has been intellectually dishonest, refer to the president as giving aid and comfort to the enemy, refer to the alleged sexual misconduct on the president's part.
So the House of Representatives and their rules committee is this is now put out a list of things that can and cannot be said on the floor of the House of Representatives in what was the greatest representative republic in the history of the world.
I just I I look at what's going on here.
I look at all of these baseless, meaningless charges of racism.
When I think Jimmy Carter, I think of mediocrity.
And when I think of what that mediocrity did to this nation through his ineptitude and his utterly manic incompetence, driven by a juvenile paranoia, driven by anti-Semitism, his betrayal and conniving against our own country's interests, in pursuing a Nobel Peace Prize.
And it's the hallmark of Jimmy Carter's post-presidency.
And for him to inject himself in this Wilson matter is beyond the pale and to fan the racist flame is to me a mortal sin.
And the President of the United States has to get out there and stop it.
He's the only one who can.
He was elected on the premise that he was going to stop it.
What about the racism against Clarence Thomas?
What about the racism against any black who is a conservative and dares to seek high office?
How about Pelosi calling half the American people Nazis?
Is that still on the okay list?
So I don't care, folks.
I don't care.
I don't care if Obama's from Mars.
I don't care where he's born.
I don't care about any of that.
I care about what his intentions are toward this country.
And I'm not going to be shut up or silenced by any of these baseless accusations, because now it's getting to be a joke.
They weren't so serious back after this.
So the House of Representatives has formally banned truth telling in its chamber, which makes sense, folks.
At least the Democrats that run the joint are being honest in a dishonest way.
These liars lie about everything they do, so they have man free speech when it happens to be accurate speech.
I mean, look at how they name their bills.
Every bill they pass has a name that misrepresents what's in the damn thing.
For example, the American Recovery and Investment Act of 2009.
That's the stimulus bill, otherwise known as the Porcupus Bill, drove up unemployment and bankrupted the country.
And it's called the American Recovery and Investment Act of 2009.
The America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 is actually a bill to destroy private sector medical care and insurance and seize control of one sixth of our economy.
The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 is a tax on energy.
It's a tax tax and cap bill or cap and tax bill that will crush the U.S. economy.
So it makes total sense as a Democrats who run the House of Representatives would now ban free speech when it happens to be accurate speech.
Now my question, and I ask it seriously, can we really have an African American president in this country when the Constitution, the constitutional body, the press, rolls over and plays dead and becomes propagandists and stenographers?
Can we really have an African American president?
And if anybody objects to this rational question, which is based entirely upon facts about the media as they currently exist, then they are cowards when it comes to a discussion of race.
Remember, our esteemed attorney general, Eric Holder, is doing everything he can to make peace with our enemies and prosecute those who keep us free.
Said that we need to have a conversation about race in America because America's uh got a lot of racial cowards.
A lot of cowards afraid to discuss race.
I think the racial cowards are in the White House and all throughout media headquarters in Washington and New York, they run around tossing out this accusation of racism instead of having an honest examination of what is really happening.
I mean, this acorn meltdown, I mean, this is an amazing thing to watch.
And see, Drive buys are now saying, well, you know, it's we we don't cover noise, is what somebody at ABC said.
Chuck Todd said Van Jones we don't have time to cover somebody number 600 on the power list in the White House.
Number 600 on a power list is handpicked by Valerie Jarrett.
Look at it.
It's no longer about bias.
It's about incompetence, it's about political correctness.
It's about boosterism.
They have chosen sides ever since their monopoly's been busted up.
They haven't been the same.
How about all these attacks on Michael Steele?
Michael Steele Black, he's the chairman of the Republican National Committee.
They rip this guy to shreds.
They call him stupid, dumb, whatever, all over the place.
Has Michael Steele ever run around saying, you stop talking about me that way.
That's racism.
He's never said it.
These people are a bunch of cowards, folks.
They are a bunch of literal cowards from the White House on down, from Obama to Axlrod to Gibbs and everybody else below them in the media, a bunch of cowards on matters of race.
And I'm going to tell you this this racial BS is nothing more than an admission of defeat on the substance of the health care takeover in the process.
That is all this is.
And so they cannot win on substance.
That means they have to turn to scorched earth politics and policies.
And that includes calling half the country Nazis, half of the country an angry, unruly mob, and now over half the country are racists.
Simply because they criticize Obama, and all this is, and this is what you have to know.
And it's especially established, now they bring Jimmy Carter out.
There is no Democrat more highly associated, more profoundly associated with utter failure than Jimmy Carter.
So when they trot, and remember, failure is a resume enhancement in a Democrat Party.
When they trot out Jimmy Carter and they start getting him to go along with all this mindless racial accusation stuff, it is a tantamount admission of defeat on the substance of the health care takeover that is taking place.
Obama going on five Sunday shows, everyone but Fox and Letterman is a tantamount admission of defeat for his health care bill.
It's going down in flames.
Now they're going to get something it's called health care in a good bit, but the bill he wanted, this House bill, it's going down in flames.
Nobody wants any part of it.
Yesterday, to show you how utterly hilarious and ridiculous this is.
And you might even say there is I don't want to offend people here, but you know, we have a cliche, well, there is a God.
Look what happened yesterday.
Yesterday, Osama bin Laden.
By the way, whatever happened to our measure of success in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan by capturing Osama.
Whatever happened to that.
Remember, all through the uh Bush presidency.
Well, Bush hasn't done it anyway.
We have an old Osama still out there.
We haven't, we haven't captured Osama.
Are we trying to capture Osama bin Laden now?
We're defining victory differently so much so that Obama said he doesn't like the term victory when it comes to Afghanistan.
Victory, I think of poor old Japanese Hirohito walking out there and accepting the terms of surrender on the on the USS Missouri.
I don't like the concept of victory.
What is this man doing to the country with no scrutiny?
So yesterday, Osama bin Laden moved in on Oprah Country.
Osama bin Laden came out with book recommendations.
Did you hear about this?
In this he came out with book recommendations.
Apparently, Osama bin Laden, the big guy, does read even by candlelight in the cave.
And on his must read list of three books, one of the three books is Jimmy Carter's.
One of the three books that Osama bin Laden recommends American Read and people around the world read is written by former president James Earl Carter, the peanut farmer, the carpenter, the foreign policy hemorrhoid.
Jimmy Carter is a is the nation's hemorrhoid, folks, and we don't have a tube of prep H big enough to deal with it.
He's an anti-Semite.
Oh, anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian Jimmy Carter.
The national hemorrhoid.
But wait, there is more to this story.
There was not one piece of book news yesterday.
There were two.
Osama bin Laden recommended Jimmy Carter's book.
And my friend Mark Levin's book, Liberty and Tyranny hit the one million seller list.
It has yet to be reviewed by the New York Times or the Washington Post or Time Magazine or Newsweek or any of that.
Which story here do you think made the news pages of the New York Times?
If you have to guess, shame on you.
The New York Times featured Osama bin Laden and his book recommendations.
One of which, again, I remind you, was Jimmy Carter's.
The New York Times ignored Mark Levin breaking the one million copy sold barrier.
They ignored Acorn.
They have continued to ignore the lies in Obamacare.
They uh they are ignoring the great ratings increase of your host, Brian Maloney at the Radio Equalizer, ran through a bunch of numbers.
We've linked to his story at Rush Limbaugh.com.
The LA Times writing a piece on the great great performance in August.
If KFI didn't mention me, I'm number one in the time slot out there.
The New York Times and the and the state-controlled media hate our success.
They despise it, they hate us probably more than they love Obama.
So there you have it.
Our national hemorrhoid is on display and has his greatest work being recommended by Osama bin Laden.
What does that tell you?
And we're back.
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So, You know, the uh one of the things I love to say, I was I was the uh marketing meetings uh when I worked for the Kansas City Royals back in, I guess this had been 1981.
We had our off-season marketing meetings, the all the marketing directors of the various teams uh met out in Scottsdale.
And we some reason a league, major league baseball brought in a Harvard sociologist to tell us how the people of America interact with sports so that it might help us sell more tickets.
The guy said something that has stuck with me forever, because he nailed it.
And I'm gonna give you his exact quote.
There are no women in the room.
At the time there weren't any female marketing directors there.
Okay, the guy said, The great thing about sports is that you can invest total passion without consequence.
Try that with a woman.
Now, what he meant was, you know, after your first big heartbreak, you always dial it back.
You always guard it.
You don't want to get hurt again.
You just try to hold a little of yourself back.
It's a protective thing.
But with your sports team, you don't care because they can't hurt you.
All they can do is lose.
But they won't break your heart.
They won't tell you you're workless.
They won't sue you for half of what you have and then leave.
They won't do any of that.
So you can invest total passion in sports without consequence.
Now, I think the oldest sport in America has been politics.
Talking, arguing, fighting, cheering, you know, going to war on the fields of political debate within the arena of ideas.
It's the oldest and the most ingrained sport of Americans.
But unlike other sports, this is not a sport we can enjoy without consequences.
There are dreadful, sometimes important consequences to taking a stand in the arena of ideas on matters of politics.
But to try to shut this down, to try to shut down this time-honored tradition that defines America's greatness.
With stupid laws and rules about what can and can't be said on the floor of the House of Representatives is dangerous.
To try to shut down the time-honored traditions of talking, arguing, fighting, cheering, going to war on the fields of political debate by accusing half the country being racist is dangerous.
It's also indicative that the accusers know they're losing.
Those guidelines, and I put them at the bottom of the stack, those guidelines that I read, what can and can't be said on the floor of the house.
Do in part to all the chicks in government.
A lot of what's happening in the in the state-controlled media is due to the chickification of the news.
That list I read to you of what can and can't be said on the floor of the House of Representatives.
Sounds like a list a mother makes and puts on the refrigerator to teach kids how to say things and not say things they shouldn't and should say.
They may as well have attached that list with a magnet to the house refrigerator.
And we have a chick running the place.
Women are messing up our sport.
Ah, Dawn, don't shake your head in there.
I tell you what, I way it is you don't say everything on your mind.
You might say everything on your mind, but nobody else can.
You know, you mate you you might want to.
Nancy Pelosi can say whatever's on her mind, but let Joe Wilson try it, and all hell breaks loose.
It is true.
It is true.
And I've I've got a companion.
This is not anti-woman.
I'm giving you an analysis here.
I know it's not gonna change.
Don't misunderstand it.
I'm just trying to explain to you why some of this stuff is.
That list is banal.
That list is an embarrassment to the United States of America.
This this country is becoming a shadow of its former self.
Can you believe the pettiness of things you can and can't say on the House floor?
Meanwhile, all of that and worse is uttered constantly by the Democrats and their their stupid, insane fringe base multiple times a day.
From the politico study, women lawmakers best men.
And guess who it's written by?
A chick, Erica Lovely.
It's written by a woman named Erica Lovely.
Are women more effective lawmakers than men?
That's the preliminary conclusion of a study conducted by researchers at Stanford University and the University of Chicago, who say that on average, women in Congress introduce more bills, they attract more co-sponsors, and they bring home more money for their districts than their male counterparts do.
That's the measure of success.
They do more bills, more bills equals less freedom.
They attract more co-sponsors.
We all know what's going on there.
Come on, folks, let's let's be adults about this.
They attract more co-sponsors.
Ha.
They bring home more money for their districts than their male counterparts do.
The study which examined the performance of House members between 1984 and 2004 found that women delivered roughly 9% more discretionary spending for their districts than men.
Well, uh duh.
Duh.
Anyone want to argue with the look at I know I'm getting knee-deep in it here, but anybody want to argue with the spending potential of women?
And then this is being labeled as they said, measure success.
This is why women legislators are better than men.
And by the way, the men are no slouches when it comes to spending up there.
They're all spending money that they never have, they never have earned, it's all ours, and then what they don't have they print.
And this is how we're judging the effectiveness.
In the meantime, they come up with this list of inane, childish little things that you can and can't say on the floor of the House of Representatives about other members and about the president.
Here's an example.
Representative Judy Biggert.
Her first two-year term.
She's the Congressman from Illinois' 13th district.
Her district got 382 million dollars in federal funds, 70 Million dollars more than it received during the final term of her predecessor, Representative Harris Fowell.
Study women lawmakers' best men.
Yeah, we're upside down here.
The way we measure success, the way we measure what's a good job, it's absolutely friggin' absurd.
Look, my only point here, folks, my only point here is that it is not an axiom.
It is not axiomatic, it's not automatic, that women, simply by virtue of their sex, make things better.
It's also not true that women by virtue of their sex make things worse.
Don't misunderstand.
Except in politics.
Why the hell do you think we even have a welfare state?
We'll be back, folks.
Couple robbed in a dumpster.
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