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Oct. 12, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 12, 2009, Monday, Hour #3
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Greetings my friends and welcome back.
Great to have you with us.
It's Rush Limbaugh.
This is the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I, of course, your highly trained broadcast specialist.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882 and the email address lrushbo at eibnet.com.
Now, Dawn said to me during the break here, you didn't deny what they're saying you said about slavery.
I'm not going to dignify it by denying it.
Deny it?
It's an outrageous slander, which I did say.
People saying I made jokes about the good points, whatever, the finer points of slavery.
So to set the record, no, not to set it straight, to confirm the record, I don't know how many times on this program I have gotten into arguments over the last 21 years with people when I have asserted that the Civil War primarily was about slavery.
People have called me, no, it was about states' rights, it was about this, and I've said, don't be silly.
Abraham Lincoln knew that the Union could not survive if one man was allowed to own another.
I have uttered those words, quoting Lincoln favorably, too many times to count.
Slavery, indentured servitude, whatever you want to call it, is abominable, particularly in a free country.
I've had people call this program and say, well, the founding fathers, I mean, they were slave owners, and three-fifths of a person were black.
Yeah, it's a sad shame.
It's an absolute sad shame, but I've given people the history.
At the time, there were 13 colonies.
Get them to all agree to rebel against the king and to declare independence.
There were compromises necessary for that unity.
Then when the founders wrote the Constitution, they put the prescription in the Constitution for ending slavery in the amendments.
And in our founding document, the Declaration of Independence, all men are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.
How many times I've quoted that, I can't remember.
The notion that if I had said what they said, I would be gone.
There'd be nobody around.
Snurdly would have resigned on the spot, even if I was trying to be funny.
I've endeavored to go a little deeper into it, though, and explain how slavery has led us into some of the acrimony that we still have today, in that there are some people who won't forget it, who are still trying to capitalize on it and portray this country as though it is still in many ways no different than it was.
And I have argued with those people vehemently.
I've had people say to me, well, I think you've got a blind spot.
You don't know what it's like to have a heritage that black people in the country does.
Oh, I most certainly do not have a blind spot, and I most certainly do understand it.
I understand that all human beings have obstacles.
We all have to overcome them.
There's no better place to overcome those obstacles in the United States of America.
The freest country, the freest people on earth.
And what really saddens me and disappoints me to this day is that there are people who are not inspired and taught about how great they can be because they are Americans.
Frankly, the biggest problem I face in the current climate of political correctness is that I'm colorblind about it.
I don't say politically correct things about it.
For example, in the Today Show interview, Jamie Gangel, weren't you moved by the election of the first black president?
Yeah, I was.
Great historical fact, but I got over it pretty quickly because I don't see him as black.
I see him as president of the United States, and I'm more concerned about his policies.
I love this country.
I want everyone in this country to succeed.
I want everyone in this country to pursue happiness.
I want everyone to benefit as an American, as I have.
I stand in no one's way.
I am not the one putting obstacles in people's way.
I'm the one trying to sweep them away.
And in so doing, I don't speak politically correct language.
And as such, I'm accused of being insensitive.
I guess my problem is I treat people as adults.
I treat them as informed.
I treat them as educated and I treat them as equals.
I don't condescend to people.
And I don't run around feeling sorry for people because that doesn't help them.
After you feel sorry for somebody, then what do you do?
It's all up to us to make the most of the one life we are blessed to be given by God.
And I cringe when I see so many lives not reaching anywhere near their potential because others capitalize on their failure to do so.
And that happens not just with racial issues.
It happens with all minorities.
We have assumed that we're an unjust and unfair country, that all of the minorities, for whatever reason they are minorities, are victims of an unfair, unjust, immoral America.
And there are white people that buy into that stuff too because they don't want to run around feeling guilty and they don't want to run around people thinking that they are racist.
It's all political correctness that has led people to thinking this.
And so when I, for example, say I think the media has little interest in a black quarterback doing well, I mean it.
Most of the sports media is politically correct liberals.
And that kind of surface stuff matters to them.
I'm interested in people's hearts and their souls because that's what animates us as human beings, not our skin color.
I'm colorblind.
I have reached the point where everybody professes we need to go.
I treat everybody equally.
Nobody is in the political arena.
I don't care.
Male, female, black, white, gay, straight, bisexual.
If you are opposed to the things I think are great for the country, I'm going to say something.
I'm going to criticize you.
Not because of whatever it is distinguishes you from me on a surface basis, but because of ideas.
I'm just a lone guy here in the arena of ideas sharing mine.
I don't have the ability or power to force them on anybody.
Yet there are those throughout our society and culture who are trying to force their views, whether they be militant vegetarians or environmentalist nutcases or what have you, on all of us.
And too few people, frankly, have the guts to stand up and say, screw you.
Live your life and I'll live mine.
As long as we do so within the bounds of the law, it's none of your business what I'm doing.
I don't make it my business what other people are doing.
Certainly not to the point that I want to censor what they say or become an obstacle in what they can accomplish because I want everybody.
That's what frankly broke my heart about these two soundbites, the situation in Detroit, Cobalt Hall last week.
But what about these parodies?
What are these shits you make fun of?
Hey, we're always upfront and honest about those.
All you have to do is listen here to understand them.
There's nobody that listens to this radio program that thinks that those things are horrible.
It's only the people who hear about it out of context.
It's like Ms. Gangel in the interview.
I don't doubt that this will make the cut, but I understand she played some of Barack the Magic Negro and the banking queen in the interview today.
And she asked me the obligatory question.
Don't you think that's a little harsh?
I said, would you ask Saturday Night Wife these questions?
Would you ask Saturday Night Live these questions?
I mean, I said, Barack the Magic Negro.
I said, do you know where it came from?
She said, no.
I said, you really don't?
You don't know where it came from?
Nope.
Well, a black columnist for the Los Angeles Times wrote a piece.
And the headline, it was Barack the Magic Negro.
And I explained it to her.
It's all about white people voting for the Magic Negro, not because of what he believes, but because it's a way for them to assuage their guilt.
And I told her what amazed me was all of the racism that was going on in the Democrat primary.
I can't count the number of pieces written from Chicago to Los Angeles to New York about how Obama was not authentic because he didn't come from the civil rights struggle, that he wasn't down for the struggle.
They're the ones questioning his authenticity.
And meanwhile, I'm trying to figure out what is this guy going to do as president.
They're all worried about these social things.
They're all worried about these surface things.
Is Obama authentic?
Is he down for the struggle?
It wasn't I who said of Obama, it's great we finally got a clean, articulate black guy in our map.
That was Joe Biden, the current vice president who is a Democrat.
It wasn't I who said that.
While all that's going on, I love to laugh at liberals.
I love to make fun of them and throw their own parodies or their own words right back at them in a parody.
And the reason we chose Sharpton to sing it is because he was upset when Biden said that Obama was finally a clean, articulate black guy that came along in the Democrat Party.
And Sharpton was withholding his endorsement.
So we had Sharpton sing the song.
And the lyrics of the song explain where the song came from.
And yet somehow I became the author of the term, which I had never heard of until this piece in the Alita.
You think so?
I'll tell you what.
Then, all right, the staff is suggesting I play the song, Barack the Magic Negro.
So grab the song, Art, it's ready now.
And you know what I'm not going to do?
I could tease you.
I could say, oops, I got to go to a commercial timeout, a time-honored broadcast technique to hold you through the timeout.
Now, I must tell you that local programmers around the country are, do it, rush, do it, rush, do it, rush, for the quarter hour.
Nope, not teasing you.
Here's the song.
I want you to listen to the lyrics.
And I want you to remember, the lyrics explain the whole thing.
This is simply great satire.
This is huge comedy.
If we've gotten to the point where we can't poke fun at people who seek power over all of us, regardless their skin color, then we have reached a dangerous point.
J.D. Gangel said, well, you're so controversial.
You're so outrageous.
I'm not controversial.
Everybody that listens to me agrees with me.
I said, you know why you think I'm controversial?
It's because I say things everybody thinks, but I don't have the guts to say.
Political correctness is like a vice grips around our throats.
So here's the song.
This is the song that everybody thinks, aside from you people, I somehow wrote, invented, created the term and all that.
Listen to the lyrics and it's all in the song.
And they really bugged that we use their favorite liberal singers Peter, Paul, and Mary and their favorite marijuana song, Puff the Magic Dragon, as the parody melody.
Reverend Sharpton and the Barack the Magic Negro.
The funny thing about that is, too, that he gets so mad singing a song, he leaves the lyric line, starts protesting.
We put Reverend Sharpton through the bullhorn because that's how he came to be known leading protest marches.
I mean, it's a brilliant, brilliant satirical treatment.
And he goes off, and then the chorus starts trying to drown him out, trying to cover for the fact that he'd blown the lyric line.
Oh, it's probably all-time top favorite song.
And the Banking Queen, Barney Frank is number five, top five.
We'll play that next.
But I just want to say one more thing about this country.
And one of the things I've said repeatedly and constantly, and this has nothing to do with the National Football League.
It has nothing to do with St. Louis Rams.
It has nothing to do with anything other than a bunch of slanderous, jealous, incompetent sports writers.
One of the things that I am proudest of this country is that we are the country that went to war with ourselves to end slavery.
500,000 Americans, our most costliest war ever, to end slavery.
There is nobody I know who wishes to revive it, who defends it.
I don't know anybody.
And I mean, of 280,300 million people in this country, I don't know anybody who wants to return to those days.
Back with the Banking Queen in a sec.
As promised, ladies and gentlemen.
And remember, every one of these parodies based on words these people always say.
Barney Frank, architect of the subprime mortgage crisis, himself along with Chris Dodd, he's the banking queen.
And yet another brilliantly conceived, flawlessly written, executed, and performed parody here on the Rush Limbaugh program.
That's white comedian Paul Shanklin, by the way, on both.
And no, why say that?
Because once when trashing this program, they pointed out that the voice interpreter here is white.
And so, okay, it's fine.
Well, yeah, he's white.
White comedian Paul Shanklin.
Okay, now we get back after the break.
I got a lot of phone calls.
I've got some sound bites.
Plus, there's interesting global warming news out there, ladies and gentlemen.
The Baucus bill, healthcare bill, the Senate Finance Committee vote is tomorrow.
And you need to be reminded how the CBO totally fraudulently scored the Baucus bill, saying it is revenue neutral, that it will not add to the deficit.
Because at the time they did it, there was no bill.
It was a legislative draft with phony numbers installed to get that particular CBO score.
Brief timeout.
We'll be back and continue before you know it.
Oop, I detect the wrong break time.
I thought this is the top of the hour, but that's the bottom of the arrow, so I'm now vamping two, one.
Yeah, there we go.
I would like to play a role, ladies and gentlemen.
It obviously is a role because this doesn't describe me, but I wish to play a role now as a confused and troubled man asking his God some things.
Please, God, I am a confused and troubled man.
I need your guidance.
My government says man-made global warming is destroying the planet you have so generously provided.
They say the breath of all God's creatures is poisoning and heating the atmosphere you created.
They say if I do not give up my car and give in to higher taxes on the energy that keeps me alive, the world's oceans will boil and that we will all die.
Please help me, God, should I believe them?
Is man heating and destroying the planet you created?
Or do you control Earth's temperatures?
Please, God, just show me a sign.
And after this confused and troubled man's plea to his God was complete, guess what happened?
Sunspots larger than the Earth itself suddenly disappeared.
The sun cooled.
Global temperatures plunged.
The highest recorded year temperature-wise, 1998.
It's now 2009.
Summer has vanished in many places.
The snows of winter came earlier than ever before.
Children shivered and millions of families around the world needed cheap, plenty, readily available energy for warmth.
So a question for the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, all-concerned, Maharashi.
Was all this a sign to that confused and troubled man?
Did God give us the answer to this troubled man's question?
Let's go to the BBC.
Friday, October 9th, what happened to global warming?
This headline may come as a bit of a surprise.
So too might the fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.
But it is true.
For the last 11 years, we have not observed any increase in global temperatures, and our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.
So what on earth is going on?
That's from the BBC.
Climate change skeptics, who passionately, consistently argue that man's influence on our climate is overstated, say they saw it coming.
They argue that there are natural cycles over which we have no control that dictate how warm the planet is, but what's the evidence for this?
During the last few decades of the 20th century, our planet did warm quickly.
Skeptics argue that the warming we observed was down to the energy from the sun increasing.
After all, 90% of the Earth's warmth comes from the sun.
But research conducted two years ago, published by the Royal Society, seemed to rule out the sun.
The scientist's main approach was simple.
To look at solar output and cosmic ray intensity over the last 30 to 40 years and compare those trends with the graph for global average surface temperature.
And the results are clear.
Warming in the last 20 to 40 years cannot have been caused by solar activity, said Dr. Piers Forster from Leeds University.
But one solar scientist, Piers Corbyn from Weather Action, disagrees.
He claims that solar-charged particles impact us far more than is currently accepted.
So much so, he says, that they're almost entirely responsible for what happens to global temperatures.
According to research conducted by Professor Don Easterbrook, Western Washington University last November, the oceans and global temperatures are correlated.
The oceans have a cycle, he says, in which they warm and cool cyclically.
The most important one is the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, or the PDO, about which we've been told by our own climate specialist Dr. Roy Spencer.
For much of the 1980s and 90s, it was in a positive cycle.
That means warmer than average.
Observations have revealed that global temperatures were warm too, but in the last few years, it's been losing its warmth, has recently started to cool down.
These cycles in the past have lasted for nearly 30 years.
So could global temperatures follow?
So what can we expect in the next few years?
Both sides have very different forecasts.
One thing is for sure.
It seems the debate about what is causing global warming is far from over.
Of course, the BBC in this story felt obligated to pretend that the warmers have an answer for all this, but they really don't.
In fact, even though they have figured in the sun and the oceans as factors all along, they are disproved by this indisputable fact for the last 11 years.
We have not observed any increase in global temps, and our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible, has continued to rise.
An answer from God.
And there are some discoveries that have taken place that are shoving the global warming tax hikes in politicians' faces.
Just when the smug control freaks were ready to fleece all of us, God shut down the sun, opened up fossil fuel reserves like we've never seen.
Oil, gas, coal, shale.
Discoveries are so many and so vast, they are hard to keep up with.
New York Times, Saturday.
A new technique that tapped previously inaccessible supplies of natural gas in the United States is spreading to the rest of the world, raising hopes of a huge expansion in global reserves of the cleanest fossil fuel.
Italian and Norwegian oil engineers and geologists have arrived in Texas, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania to learn how to extract gas from layers of a black rock called shale.
Now, you all have heard about shale from us on this program for years.
The New York Times is just getting around to it.
New way to tap gas may expand global supplies.
And the supplies are far beyond anybody's imagination, dreams, what have you.
And then from the UK Telegraph.
Energy crisis postponed as new gas rescues the world.
Engineers have performed their magic once again.
The world is not going to run short of energy as soon as feared.
Ambrose Evans Pritchard.
America is not going to bleed its wealth importing fuel.
Russia's grip on Europe's gas will weaken.
Improvident Britain may avoid paralyzing blackouts by mid-decade after all.
The World Gas Conference in Buenos Aires last week was one of those events that shatter assumptions.
Advances in technology for extracting gas from shale and methane beds have quickened dramatically altering the global balance of energy faster than almost anybody expected.
And so when our fictional character says, please, God, I'm confused and troubled, would you just show me a sign?
Global temperature since 1998, the recent discovery of natural gas and the ability to extract it cheaply.
Maybe we have been given a sign.
And back to the phones we go here on the EIB network, a man and a legend and a way of life, Rush Limbaugh, serving humanity, North Augustus, South Carolina.
Philip, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, first-time caller, a long-time listener, and I'm honored to be able to talk with you.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I was going to make a comment about Michigan, the welfare state.
But, you know, I'm sitting here and I'm waiting to talk to you, and I'm reading a book, a biography of Alfred Nolbeho, and I read something here that almost fell off the chair.
It says here that invitations to nominate prize candidates are sent out in the autumn of the year preceding the prize awards.
Nominations must reach the Nobel committees of the prize awarding bodies before the 1st of April of the year in which the award is made.
I couldn't believe that.
Now, let me address this.
Let me address this.
Because here we go again.
You are not the first to, and I know what you're doing out there.
You are not the first, Philip, to suggest to me that Obama knew it.
Because they said when you say that the invitations to prize candidates are sent out in the fall.
In autumn of the year preceding the prize.
Right.
Now, that means invitations to people who want to nominate somebody, not necessarily invitations to potential candidates.
It's how I got nominated.
I say.
I did not get an official invitation to nominate myself.
I say.
Somebody else did, and they nominated me, and I accepted the nomination.
Now, that, however, does not by itself disprove the notion that Obama knew it all along.
People are beginning to ask.
He might have known all along this was coming, and that might explain why all the speeches and why all the trashing of America, the Cairo speech, all the apologies and so forth, and the open schedule on Friday.
The only thing about that theory is that I don't think Obama would have to be told he's up for the Nobel Peace Prize in order to start trashing and apologizing for the country.
He would do that anyway.
But it could well be that he held off on making a decision on the troop surge in Afghanistan until after the vote came in, giving him cover not to do it.
Oh, I agree with that.
He had the recommendation from the general weeks prior.
Obviously, I mean, he drug his feet for a reason.
There's no question about it.
I mean, but anyway, about Michigan, I lived there in Kalamazoo.
I lived there for five years, and I still know a lot of people there.
And I'll tell you what, Detroit is pulling the entire state down.
And Detroit has long controlled not only the politics of the state, but mandated tax increases based upon the metro area.
And in fact, it has a tremendous effect on the agricultural communities.
You know, the UP, the Upper Peninsula, they wanted to annex itself from Michigan about five, six years ago.
They wanted to create a new state up there.
I mean, this governor is dancing up the yellow brick road.
She's skipping up the yellow brick road.
She's going to skip out into oblivion.
What a jerk.
I can't believe that she said those.
When my wife and I, my wife Jean, we were having our lunch and we heard your soundbite.
She ran to one bathroom.
I ran to the other.
I mean, we can.
Is this the soundbites of Steve Wynn with Jennifer Granholm, you mean?
Yeah.
I mean, this woman is, I mean, look, I'm going to tell you something.
There's going to be such a, there's such a frightening unrest in that state that when it breaks, it's going to make the riots in Tehran look like a parade.
People in Michigan are, they're devastated what's going on there.
I mean, if you just look at the state, it's shaped like a hand.
Detroit and all around it is like a cesspool and it's circling and circling and it's drawing all of the agricultural community, cherries, all kind of vegetables.
And Kalamazoo was the capital of the asparagus capital of the world.
That's all agricultural.
And the Upper Peninsula, it's all cherries.
Saginaw is dying.
Battle Creek used to be once a very prominent.
That's right.
Tony the Tiger was the mayor.
Yeah, Tony the Tiger was the mayor.
And Kalamazoo was a quasi-manufacturing town that did stuff like seat covers for the car business, the automobile industry, steering wheel covers and stuff like that.
That's just crippled that.
It's a sad thing.
It's a sad thing.
One of my greatest, best affiliates of our 69, they're all great, but we have a special affection for Mike Fezey and his gang here at WJR.
And it's tough for them, too, in the market.
I mean, it's just sad to hear this, that this kind of thing is happening.
And by the way, Michigan's been in this, remember, it was a lone recession for a while.
Michigan's been in this situation long before it worsened at this point in time.
It's been something specific.
And it's not just related to the auto industry as well.
You know, our hearts go out to people up there because this is the United States of America.
And it's just, it really is a sad tragedy.
Now, I feel a little bad here, folks.
Philip, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
We had four soundbites today, three from Steve Wynn and one from Jennifer Grandholm and Steve Wynn.
Steve Wynn from Las Vegas Wynn Resorts, they were on Fox News yesterday, and it was the greatest illustration of statism, totalitarianism versus capitalism.
He just destroyed her.
And she was clueless.
She ended up telling him he is simplistic.
I wish we could, we don't have time to play the soundbites, is what I'm leading up to.
But they are available at rushlimbaugh.com, and they will be when we update the site later this afternoon to reflect the contents of today's program.
And you've got to go listen to these because it's just the best side-by-side comparison of what people in the government think is right.
I mean, he's talking about jobs, health care, tax cuts, growth, expansion, and she's talking about benefits.
He makes the claim government has never created one job.
Oh, that's simplistic to say.
What about the minimum wage?
The minimum wage destroys jobs.
Raising the minimum wage gets people laid off.
It causes people to be fired.
The data are incontrovertible on this.
It's inarguable.
And it was just a great side-by-side.
And plus, you know, Jennifer Grandholm had his big puff piece on Sunday in the Washington Post in which they touting all these new green jobs.
Yes, 40,000 new green jobs that she's going to create in Michigan in 11 years.
Yes, by 2020, 40,000 new jobs, green jobs in Michigan.
Wow, we ought to be creating 40,000 jobs a day in this country.
In the meantime, in 14 months, she will lose, the state of Michigan will lose an additional 370,000 jobs.
It's a forecast, bringing a total of jobs lost, I think, during her term to 1 million, to 1 million.
And she's touting 40,000 new green jobs in 11 years.
Yet, as I say, in 14 months, 370,000 more jobs lost.
And you got to the point where you got to get some money out there.
You're going to have riots.
You got to pass out some big.
Yeah, but the money's going to run out and you got a vicious cycle.
And we don't have the money in the first place.
So it's just sad.
It's unhappy, and it's not pretty, and it doesn't see any...
And that's it, folks.
Another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence in the can.
A big Monday nighter tonight.
The New York Jets in Miami, just 67 miles south.
The great linebacker Bart Scott from the Baltimore Ravens, now on the Jets defense.
And the new kid quarterback against the Dolphins.
It's going to be a great game tonight on ESPN Monday Night Football.
We'll see you tomorrow back ready for more.
See you then, folks.
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