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Oct. 9, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 9, 2009, Friday, Hour #2
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Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
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You know, folks, Obama got his Nobel Peace Prize based on 11 days of work.
I looked at the official timeline of how this all happens.
And trust me, February starts the nomination process and they go through March and so forth.
But February closes the nomination prize.
Then they start going through the people that have been nominated and weeding them out and so forth.
So Obama got the peace prize based on 11 days of work.
Let me ask you a question.
What was the most talked about event in Obama's first 11 days?
What?
Wrong, snurdly.
The most talked about event in Obama's first 11 days was me saying I wanted him to fail.
This man owes me.
I'm as much a part of his getting this Peace Prize as he is.
Here's Gibbs.
He was the White House press briefing this afternoon.
Chip Reed, CBS.
I think the point a lot of your favorite people, pundits, have been making is the response to this has been like this.
I mean, most Democrats have praised it.
Most Republicans have said, you got to be kidding me.
Reagan didn't get one, but Obama nominated 12 days after he's sworn in gets a peace prize.
And the fear among some, even some Democrats, is it's going to widen the partisan divide and make things even more difficult to accomplish on every front.
I'll leave the pundicizing to the pundits.
The notion that somehow this is going to more greatly divide America.
You know, I think it should be mandatory that pundits spend a certain amount of their days each year outside of the friendly confines of the viewership of the Washington, D.C. media market.
I think people believe that what, again, what this represents, renewed American leadership in order to make our country safer and to live up to our own ideals and the ideals that many in the world want to live up to.
It's a good thing.
It's an important thing.
I don't think it's a partisan thing.
They are doubling down on the press there.
This guy sounds like he hasn't gotten out of bed yet, by the way, in that statement.
So he's still in bed.
Didn't you get that impression, too?
So he's dead tired.
No enthusiasm, no excitement whatsoever.
Total frustration here.
Should be a day of immeasurable joy at the White House.
And they're doubling down.
They've started a campaign.
They think the press has turned on them in the White House, and they're getting real tough on the press out there now.
And you can hear this a bit in Gibbs snarky comment here that the pundits need to get out of the friendly confines of the viewership of the Washington, D.C. media market.
I would also say that the partisan divide, there's always been a partisan divide, but there is not one now.
The Republicans can't stop anything.
This is another one of these silly illusions.
It's the Republicans, the Republicans standing in the way of healthcare reform, Republicans standing in the way of cap and tracks.
Republicans can't stop any of this.
It's the Democrats are not unified here.
But what Gibbs doesn't get, you know, and Chip Reed may not fully understand, everybody's laughing about this on both sides of the aisle.
Now, the elected Democrats, of course, have to go.
John Danforth, a well-known moderate who has yet, he hadn't uttered a partisan word in 20 years.
John Danforth has come out and said, this is ridiculous.
He hasn't done anything.
Now, for John Danforth, who would love to own the title America's Most Moderate Republican, for him to come out and say this is an indication, and I totally support him saying it.
Don't misunderstand here.
Not being critical by any stretch of the imagination.
I think that everybody is laughing.
Our president is a worldwide joke.
Folks, do you realize something has happened here that we all agree with the Taliban and Iran about, and that is he doesn't deserve the award.
Now, that's hilarious, that I'm on the same side of something with the Taliban, and that we all are on the same side as the Taliban.
But see, the problem here is not the Nobel Peace Prize.
The problem is how we look at the Peace Prize.
It's our problem.
We look at it as, we legitimize it by saying, well, they're really, it's a peace prize.
It's not a peace prize.
It has nothing to do with peace.
A Nobel Peace Prize is just an extension of the United Nations objective to destroy the United States.
The Nobel Peace Prize is an instrument that is used to influence negatively domestic policy in this country.
This is a giant manipulation of Obama.
The Peace Prize is making him puppet.
They know they've got a kindred spirit.
They're using invitations for speeches and praise, and now this award to help motivate this guy to keep doing what he's doing.
They got Saturday Night Live is now making fun of him, even before this.
Can you imagine what they do with this on Saturday night?
Now, Gibbs wants us to look outside the Beltway.
Except, of course, when the people outside the Beltway go to town hall meetings and tea parties protesting against the people inside the beltway, then we should just pay attention to people inside the beltway and ignore the people outside the beltway.
Now we've got to go pay attention to people outside the beltway because people inside the beltway are starting to aggravate Gibbs and Obama.
Hard to keep up with this crowd.
That's why you need me.
So look at the last winners.
Gore equals Kook.
Carter anti-Semite.
Obama's a Marxist.
These are the new standards for the Nobel Peace Prize, and that's how we have to start looking at it, not as something that has anything to do with peace.
Chip Reed, another question for Gibbs.
A lot of people think it's a partisan thing, Gibbs, because Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, and now President Obama have all received the thing.
Kenny Roosevelt was in, but I don't think it was Democrat.
I'm not a member of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee.
The notion that this somehow widens the partisan divide, I think, demonstrates what's wrong with pundits and instant analysis of what goes on in our society.
The partisan divide.
These people cannot get off of this.
This man has so polarized this country, we're actually all unified.
You realize we're going to have a few precious hours of unity today while everybody in the country laughs at this.
And let's just, let's keep the laughs going.
This morning on Joe Scarborough show on MSNBC, F. Chuck Todd was a guest and F. Chuck Todd's feelings have been hurt by me.
Here's F. Chuck Todd whining about it.
Hey, Joe, Rush attacks me almost every day as well.
Oh, but this is a good one.
It feels good.
You know, it is something else.
And he does it to know that he does it from a mansion in Palm Beach.
This is something that amazes me.
The story that I did my show out of my house first ran in 1997 when I first moved down here.
I do not do my show from my house.
There is an ordinance in the town of Palm Beach which says no one can conduct business from their home, even though my business is basically a phone call.
The ordinance goes back to 1903 and it means lawyers can't have clients in their houses.
It means stockbrokers can't talk to clients.
You can't do business in your home.
Now, it's a 1903 thing.
It was about zoning.
They didn't want traffic in residential areas that piles up in commercial areas.
And they still enforce it selectively.
But I don't, and I haven't done the show from my house.
And how many times have I said this over the years?
I know.
NBC was here.
They saw the studio.
There have been numerous television crews that have televised out of this studio and they knew with it.
And believe me, while this is palatial and nice, a mansion it is not.
You would never drive by where we are and think it's a home.
It's still a secret.
I mean, a few special people know how to get here.
I mean, just the other day I read that I do the program from West Palm Beach.
I forget some state-controlled media place.
And that's not true either.
So what got all this going on Scarborough show today was, you know, yesterday, Joe's been on my case for laughing at Obama's Olympic bomb out.
And he said, it's not helpful.
Rush Limbaugh laughs the president failing in something as noble as the Olympics.
That's not the way for the Republican Party to attract moderates and independents.
This is simply, and I've always been amazed.
This whole notion, I don't know what happened to Joe Scarborough.
I don't know what part of his brain has gone dead, but that business of Republican Party can't criticize Obama.
No, better not criticize that.
Moderates aren't going to like that.
Right.
So here's the circumstance.
We have these precious moderates sitting out there, a blob of them, and they are the cut above.
They are the smartest among us.
They're not partisan.
They don't make up their minds until the last moment after they examine all of the issues.
They are model citizens.
But the moment they hear any Republican criticize a Democrat candidate, that's it.
And they run full force into the Democrat Party.
Which is who?
A bunch of the meanest, loudest, angriest, rudest bunch of outraged people I have ever seen in politics.
People that routinely talked about assassinating George W. Bush.
Do you know that a woman who won the Peace Prize in the last three or four years, I forget her name, actually said she fantasized about killing Bush and she won the Peace Prize.
Now, she's obviously a liberal.
Now, this notion that criticizing Democrats, laughing at Obama, is turning off the moderates.
If that's true, then the Democrat Party has got to be turning them off 15 times as bad.
I have never understood why Republicans fall for this trick that has been hatched by the media and hatched by the Democrats, that they are not to be criticized because moderates don't like that.
Moderates want kumbaya.
Moderates want everybody to just hug and kiss and get along.
It's all a myth.
The Republican Party has to be a big tent.
Where is the tent?
Where's the tent that only has one entrance?
Where are the limits on people getting into this party?
Who's telling somebody they can't become a Republican?
And where's the so-called big tent of the Democrat Party?
They do not tolerate dissent in their party.
Talk about a big tent.
People fall for these tricks that are designed to shut us up, that are designed to get us to stand down, to be nice and gentle.
And because that's the only, because the Republican Party, you have to understand why I say it's hated and despised because everybody knows it's full of racist, sexist, dignitative, and homophobes.
And that's a cliche.
And it just bothers me to smart people like Scarborough fall for this because he's allowing himself to be neutered.
And that's, you know, that's what made him upset today.
I call him a neutered, chick-ified moderate.
So this is how he reacted to that on his show today after F. Chuck Todd whined about being criticized from a Palm Beach mansion.
I've been accused of many things, but being chickified has never been one of them.
I would be careful if I had put my testicles in a blind trust for George W. Bush for eight years.
There are a lot of people on the right that in fact did put their testicles in a blind trust for the past eight years and stopped being conservative and started being apologists.
That's about all I'll say.
Other than you remember that scene with George W. Bush carrying Rush Limbaugh's suitcase into the White House?
Yeah.
Now we know what was inside the suitcase.
There is no such picture.
George W. Bush never carried a suitcase into the White House.
What did happen in 1992, I was invited to the residence by George H.W. Bush getting off the elevator on the second floor residence.
I was with a fellow demon, Roger Ailes, and got off the elevator, and the only people up there, staff people, and Ailes said, oh, come on, he's expecting.
Well, we're just going to head on in there now.
And the minute the president heard Ailes' voice, Rod, is that you?
And he came out of the presidential bedroom or study or wherever he was.
And I had a little overnight bag, a garment.
He picked it up and escorted me down to the Lincoln bedroom.
I've told this story.
And I said, Mr. President, please let me know.
No, no, don't be silly.
He carried the bag down.
That was George H.W. Bush.
Nobody's ever carried a suitcase of mine into the White House.
It certainly wasn't George W. Bush.
And as far as, what's the testicles in a, see, he's even stealing that.
I invented a textile lockbox, a testicle lockbox, and it's Hillary Clinton's.
If anybody's got testicle lockbox, it's Hillary.
Tom Brokaw's testicles are in there.
Scarborough's are in there.
And a whole bunch of other guys at NBC's testicles are in Hillary's lockbox, her testicle lockbox.
Now, he says that I was carrying Bush's, what'd he say?
Blind trust.
I don't think George W. Bush counted me as one of his supporters as I was leading the anti-amnesty immigration bill drive.
Nor do I think the president counted me as an ally when I was dead set against campaign finance reform.
Nor do I think president particularly liked me when I was livid over Ted Kennedy writing the education bill and the drug bill.
And I was not crazy about the president inviting a Kennedy family for a movie and popcorn in there and a Medicare prescription drug entitlement.
That's right.
I don't think the president counted me as a supporter of that.
In fact, I heard from the White House on several occasions on immigration.
I had a visit from the White House trying to get my mind right on immigration.
I held firm and fast.
And I had the, it was so bad that my friend Vince Flynn was visiting George W. Bush in the Oval Office one day.
It was during the Dubai Ports deal, which, of course, I was all for.
And Vince Flynn sends me an email when he finishes his meeting.
He said, boy, the president, I don't know what you did, but he's really thinking you're opposing him here on this Dubai Ports deal.
Because he was so accustomed to me opposing him on things that he assumed in talking to Flynn that I was opposing a Dubai Ports deal.
Anyway, Joe doesn't know what he's talking about.
It's a sad thing.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
Ha, how are you?
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network.
By the way, F. Chuck Todd, I know something about him, but he doesn't know that I know.
He does his show prep every morning before going to work at the White House in his underwear in his mother's house.
And here he is worried about me.
I think he's drived by envy.
He just can't stand it.
I have a mansion, and I am in Palm Beach criticizing him.
By the way, it was Betty Williams who won the Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Peace Prize winner.
And this is a Dallas morning news story from July 13th of 2007.
So a little over two years ago.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty Williams apologized Thursday for saying she could kill President Bush.
Remark that drew scorn from Bush loyalists and shook up the International Women's Peace Conference in Dallas.
So at the International Women's Peace Conference, the Nobel Peace Prize winner says that she could kill George Bush.
She said it twice.
And then she took it back.
Update on the situation in Detroit.
We've been following this all week.
Cobo Hall, Viagra, pornography, and booze are being purchased with government food stamps.
Authorities said that a Detroit store supplied them during a series of illegal deals.
Federal prosecutors filed fraud charges this week against three people who worked at Jefferson's Liquor Palace.
Food stamp recipients that get cash from the store in exchange for swiping larger amounts off their electronic cards.
The store would then be reimbursed by the agriculture department.
They were getting Viagra, painkillers, liquor, and porn videos in exchange for swiping about $2,000 off their food stamp cards.
And this is before they failed to get an application for money from Obama.
And we have breaking news, ladies and gentlemen.
Pope Benedict has just crowned Obama the Holy Roman Emperor.
Barack Hussein Obama has been declared the winner of the 2000 Florida recount, and the first Oscar has been given out.
Even prior to the telecast next March or February, whenever they do it, he has just been awarded the Oscar for the best child playing a man's role.
Welcome back, folks.
Open Line Friday, Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Nobel Peace Prize Day.
President Obama was so shocked by the deadly beating of a finger high school student, he dispatched two members of his cabinet to address the problem.
But on the day Eric Holder and Arnie Duncan met with local officials to discuss youth violence, there was another fight at the same school.
As this is a Chicago CBS Eyeball News 2, Mike Puccinelli reports, students said what happened Wednesday is typical of what happens every day.
Students from Alt Geld Gardens got into a fight with students who live in the area surrounding the Haskrule, an area known as The Ville.
So the day Obama's summit to end violence in the scruples is taking place, more violence is occurring at the exact moment.
And Eric Holder and Arnie Duncan are on stage, along with Mayor Daly, condemning it.
Back to the phones open line Friday to Willageville, California, Georgia.
Milledgeville, Georgia.
Yeah, Stephen, hi.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hey, Rush.
How are you doing?
Very well, sir.
Thank you very much.
With a rush baby on the way.
All right.
All right.
Oh, my goodness.
It's amazing.
You do get nervous talking to you.
But hey, I have a question and another one if you'll permit me.
But first question is: do you have a compilation of all the music you use in the bumper rotation?
And where would you go to find that?
Compilation of all.
We don't.
We just haphazardly add to it.
And whenever I remember a song that I like and it fits, we add to it, but I don't think we actually have a list.
I wish you did have a list because I'd love to get the same music you have because I know you and I both like top 40.
Well, I'll tell you what I'm going to do.
It's a good thing.
You've suggested a good thing.
And the person who asked me if we're going to do a vacation day on Monday, I'll give them the task of compiling.
If you were listening yesterday, the staff in New York haven't been there this year at protests to tax authorities in New York.
And not being there, the staff's getting a little lax up there.
Somebody sent me a note saying, are we working Monday?
Because there'd be a vacation day, which never used to happen.
So that staffer will be assigned the task of compiling the list of tunes in our bumper rotation.
Great.
Thank you.
All right.
And I don't know how long it'll take.
We'll see.
And if we get it done, we'll post it at rushlimbaugh.com.
Well, I appreciate that.
Thank you.
My other question, if I can.
Oh, are you going to be judging at the Miss America contest?
Yes, I did accept the invitation.
Great, great.
My wife and I were trying to plan a trip, and I was like, well, maybe if I went there, I could maybe bump into Rush and maybe get a picture with him.
But if I might find the next Nobel Peace Prize winner there, since they're all wanting for world peace, so never know.
You know, it's true.
You never know what's going to happen until you go somewhere.
Exactly.
You're exactly right.
I did accept.
Did they issue the announcement?
Oh, it went out of the PR news wire this afternoon.
Okay.
Yeah, so I did accept.
I don't know who the other judges are, but I did accept.
They sent the press release by.
There was one thing on this, folks.
I looked at it and said, oh, no, this is after I'd accepted, but before I saw the press release.
They have started at the Miss America program a new duty for Miss America.
She's going to lead something called the Go Green campaign.
I looked at that.
Okay, well, I've already committed.
So I'm in there.
It is what it is.
No, no, no, no, no, snurdly.
It doesn't mean go cap.
Go green means let's get on the solar power bandwagon.
Let's get on the mercury-filled light bulb bandwagon.
Let's mow the grass band because that's the only green jobs that are ever going to be is landscaping and lawnmowing.
Trust me on this.
Let's see.
Where do we go next?
Albert in Miami.
Welcome to the EIB Network Open Line Friday.
Great to have you here.
Well, Megadethos Rush, it's an honor to speak to you.
Thank you, sir.
I was calling because I think that Obama is really highly qualified to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
First of all, just a second.
It's Peace Prize.
Peace Prize, yes.
I'm a little nervous, sorry.
Well, he's an audio in here, not an audience.
You got to be real careful.
That's why when you say, it's okay.
I've covered it.
Okay.
Well, he hates the United States.
He makes policies to weaken the United States.
And third, he is friends with and he allows the world's despots to do as they wish.
That's right.
I mean, he's perfectly qualified from the standpoint of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee.
Absolutely.
All right.
Albert, I'm glad you called.
I also wanted to mention something else regarding the green movement.
And I drive an H2 Hummer, and I go to the Citibank branch office that is near my office almost on a daily basis.
They have one of these designated hybrid, high-efficiency, fuel-efficient cars parking space.
And I always make it a point to park my green H2 Hummer right on that space.
All right.
All right.
Love it.
I've seen those stupid parking places in parking lots reserved for hybrid, reserved for whatever.
And you park your Hummer.
Have you gotten a ticket?
No, I have not.
I don't think it's an ordinance.
I think it's just something that the Citibank does on their own.
I don't think there's kind of any ordinance for that.
Albert, you said here.
I just realized you said something doing something here that not many Americans have the opportunity to do anymore.
You said you go to the bank, and you're going to the bank every day.
What are you doing that enables you to go to the bank every day?
Well, I work a lot.
That's first and foremost.
I work at an architecture firm.
I am the principal in charge of Miami architecture firm.
And I also have a separate business.
You are going to the bank to actually put money in it.
To put money in and to take money out, yeah.
That's called deposits for those of you who are on the unemployment lines.
Well, that's great to hear.
That's wonderful.
Most people go to the bank not wanting to, but having to take it out of there.
Albert's going in there putting it in.
Oh, man.
You have made a lot of people jealous, Albert.
You really have.
We'll be back.
Waiting for the printer, as always.
All right, we're back.
Rush Limbaugh.
Open Line Friday.
Who's next?
Open Line Friday, Tyson in Hayes, Kansas.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
How are you doing, Rush?
Very well, sir.
Thank you.
I love Chad Ochosinko.
I mean, I love all these guys in the NFL.
They do something I wish I could do.
They do something I wish I had done.
That's such a rare fraternity, especially to win a Super Bowl championship.
You know how few people will ever experience that feeling.
I idolize some of these guys for their abilities.
Anyway, I'm sorry about that, Tyson.
What's up?
Well, I just had a comment about the swine flu.
The media is completely just blown us out of proportion.
And I heard you a couple days ago listening to it every day.
You called it the hog flu or the pig flu or something like that.
Yeah, you know, I apologize for that.
Are you in the pig business?
I grew up doing it.
I apologize.
I'm 12 years old.
Well, God bless you.
I mean, been in the pig business since you're 12.
That's devotion.
And I've been chastised by fellow pig business people in previous phone calls.
And they got mad at me for calling the stimulus bill a porculus bill because that was discrimination against pork as well.
And it just sometimes, you know, I love the way it sounds, the pig flu.
But you're right.
I'm scaring people in thinking that they get the flu from eating pork products.
That's your fear, right?
Yeah, there's a big misconception that has something to do with a pig.
Well, that's right.
There's absolutely nothing to do with hogs.
Yeah.
You're right.
I'll try not to do it again because I understand I'm still the nation's biggest capitalist and you guys are fighting against all kinds of odds out there.
And I do not mean to be making your job tougher.
Yeah, but if you pay attention to the market and everything, I mean, when that came out, it just played a pretty big role in the hogs.
It made it go down.
And people kept saying the pig flu, the swine flu.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
And then bad out there.
And it makes people who are ignorant and don't know the facts talking about how many people are dying because of these pigs.
Yeah, yeah, I know.
It's not true.
I know it's bad out there.
It's the flu, and people die from the regular flu all the time.
Yeah.
I'll tell you what, I'm going to have some bacon in your honor tonight, just try to assuage some of my guilt.
There you go.
Get a little flavor.
Tyson, thanks much.
All right, thank you.
You bet.
Speaking of all this, now CNN's going ape over my refusal to take the H1N1 vaccine.
And let's go to back to MSNBC.
Dylan Radigan was talking to Kathleen Sebelius.
This cut number 10, 10, 11, and 12 here.
Radigan says, I think Rush Limbaugh, how absurd his portrayal may be, and his character is in many ways.
He represents a point of view held by a certain percentage of our population, which is fundamentally so skeptical of the vaccine and the vaccine business in the government, period, that they may be willing to forego the protections that could be afforded by something like this.
How do you break through the skepticism of Limbaugh?
This vaccine program is totally voluntary.
Nobody is making anybody do anything.
Stop the tape.
Stop the tape, a minute, and recue it.
The story yesterday was, Sebelius, you must take it.
And that is what I was reacting to.
I am not anti-vaccine.
I am not anti-good health.
I'm simply, I'm standing up for freedom and liberty, and I am not one of these people that thinks people from the government are infallible, that they never make mistakes, and all they ever want to do is help us and protect us.
What they really are are people who think we are incapable of taking care of ourselves.
They're little nannies who want to control every aspect of all of our lives.
And I'm not in that game.
So I don't even need to hear the rest of the soundbite.
Coming up, I'll get to it pretty soon.
CNN did a segment on my screw you, Ms. Sebelius, that they did an MSNBC yesterday.
And all this that I'm influencing people to not take the vaccine and they're going to get sick and so forth.
And I've got to compromise on this.
I understand the people in the pork business do not want me to call this the pig flu or even the swine flu.
And I don't want to take the time to say H1N1 every time I have to talk about this.
So I'm just going to call it the Rosie O'Donnell virus.
You know, folks, this Obama presidency, now, seriously, is looking like some kind of idiot reality TV show.
Now, Ozzy, what's his name that the whacked out rock?
Ozzy Osborne.
Ozzy Osborne, like when his family had that reality TV, this is what we're watching here.
The whole country has to listen to this crap and watch this crap every day.
It's every Friday.
It's something.
It's the Olympics or it's a peace prize.
Every day, we have an amateur president stepping in it every day, day after day, and his crazy friends are out there praising him to the hilt.
I mean, I just, I think, you know what I'm going to do?
Every year, the EIB Peace Committee will issue a screw-up award to the person or persons or group or groups that are the biggest screw-ups.
And this year, the award goes to Barack Obama.
I am not going to be left out of the award business.
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