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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 L Rushbo at EIBnet.com.
Now, Dawn said to me during the uh uh 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, the whatever the finer points of slavery.
Uh so to set the record, no, not to set it straight, to uh 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, no, it wasn't, it was about states' rights, it was about this, and I've said, Don't be 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 um founding fathers, I mean, they were slave owners, um, and uh three-fifths of a person with blacks.
Yeah, it's a sad shame.
It's an absolute sad shame, but I've given people the history.
At the time there were thirteen 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 the i i if if I had said what they said I would be gone, there'd be nobody around.
Snerdley would have resigned on the spot, even if I was trying to be funny.
Um I've 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, you 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 than 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 Gangell, 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 they're 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 the 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 colored.
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, uh, bisexual.
If you are opposed to the things I think are great for the country, I'm gonna say so.
I'm gonna 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 cuts 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 to what they can accomplish.
Because I want everybody.
That's that's what that's what frankly broke my heart about this, these two sound bites of situation in Detroit, Cobalt Hall last week.
Well, what about these parodies?
One of these things you make fun of is hey.
We're always up front 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. Gangell in the interview.
I don't doubt that this will make the cut, but she uh I understand she played some of Barack the Magic Negro and the banking queen in the interview today.
And she asked me an 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 Lady's question?
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?
No.
Well, a black columnist for the Los Angeles Times wrote a piece.
And the headline, it was a uh Barack the Magic Negro.
And I explained it to us.
It's all about white people voting for the Magic Negro, not because of what he believes, but because it is the way for them to assuage their guilt.
And I told her what amazed me was all of the racism that was going on in 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's 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.
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 uh 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 El Aita.
You think so?
I'll tell you what.
Then, all right, the staff is suggesting I play the song.
The Rock the Magic Negro.
So grab the song, it's ready now.
And you know what I'm not gonna do?
I could tease you.
I could say, oops, I gotta 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.
Jamie Gangell said, Well, you're so controversial.
You're so outright.
I'm not controversial.
Everybody that listens to me agrees with me.
I said, you know why you think I'm controversial is because I say things everybody thinks, but 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, and 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, has the parody melody.
Reverend Sharpton and the Barack the Magic Negro.
The funny thing about that is too that he gets so mad singing the 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.
Uh, and it's it's uh he goes off, and then the chorus starts trying to drown him out, trying to cover for the fact that he's blown the lyric line.
Oh, it's uh probably all-time top favorite song, and a banking queen, Barney Frank is number number uh 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.
Five hundred thousand 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 here.
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 uh white comedian Paul Shanklin, by the way, on uh on both.
And now, why say that?
Because once when trashing this program, they pointed out that the uh the voice uh interpreter here is white.
And so, okay, fine.
Well, yeah, he's white white comedian, Paul Shanklin.
Um, okay, now we get back after the breakout.
A lot of phone calls.
I've got uh some sound bites.
Plus, there's there's interesting global warming news out there, ladies and gentlemen.
The Bauchus bill, health care 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 debt right had the wrong break time.
I thought this is the top of the hour, but it's the bottom of the hour, 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, Maha Roshi.
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 scientists' 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 Corbin, 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 the warm and 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 a 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, man and a legend and a way of life.
Rush Limbaugh, serving humanity, North Augusta, South Carolina.
Philip, welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Hey Rush.
First time caller, a longtime listener, and I'm honored to be able to talk with the audience.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I was going to make a comment about Michigan, the uh welfare state, but you know, I'm sitting here and I'm I'm waiting to talk to you, and I'm reading a book, a biography of um Alfred Nobel, and I read something.
Here they 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 first of April of the year in which the award is made.
I couldn't believe that.
Now let me let me dress this.
Let me address this.
Because here we go again.
I have you 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 that's right.
They said that what when you say that um uh the invitation invitations to prize candidates are sent out in um in the in the fall.
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, uh, 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 uh making a decision on the uh on the troop surge in Afghanistan until after the vote came in, giving him cover not to do it.
Oh, I agree with that totally.
He had he had the recommendation from the general weeks prior.
Obviously, I mean uh he drug his feet for a reason.
There's no question about it.
I mean, but anyway, uh 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.
You know, Detroit has long controlled not only the politics of the state, but mandated tax increases based upon the metro area and factor.
It has a tremendous effect on the agricultural communities.
You know, uh uh the up 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 off the yellow brick roll.
She's skipping up the yellow brick roll.
She's gonna skip out into oblivion.
What a jerk.
I can't believe that she said those.
When my wife and I, and my wife Jean, we we were having our lunch, and we heard your sound bite.
She ran to one bathroom, I ran to the other.
I mean, we can't.
Is this the sound bites of uh Steve Wynne with Jennifer Granholm, you mean?
Yeah.
I mean, this woman is I mean, look, I'm gonna tell you something.
There's going to be such a uh 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 t it's like a cesspool, and it's circling and circling, and it's drawing all of the agricultural community.
Cherries, uh, all kind of vegetables.
And uh Kalamazoo was the capital uh of the uh it's the asparagus capital of the world.
That's all agricultural.
Uh and the upper peninsula, it's all cherries.
Saginaw is is is dying.
Uh Battle Creek used to be once a very uh, you know, 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 uh uh seat covers for the car uh business, uh the you know, the automobile industry, uh steering wheel covers and stuff like that.
That's just crippled that.
Yes, it's it's a sad thing.
It's it's a sad thing.
You know, one of uh one of my uh uh greatest best affiliates of our 69, they're all great, but we that we have a special affection for uh Mike Fezie and his gang here at WJR.
Uh and uh it's tough for them too uh in the market.
I mean, it's it's uh it's just it's sad to hear this.
Uh that this kind of thing is happening.
And by the way, Michigan's been in this remember, it was it was a lone recession for a while.
Michigan's been in this situation long before it uh it worsened at this point in time.
It's been uh something specific, and it's not just related to the uh auto industry is as well.
You know, I uh our hearts go out to people up there because this is the United States of America, and it's it's just it really is a sad tragedy.
Now, I I feel a little bad here, folks.
Phillip, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
We had we had four sound bites today, three from Steve Wynne and one from Jennifer Granholm and Steve Wynn.
Steve Wynn from Las Vegas win resorts.
They were on Fox News yesterday, and it was the greatest illustr illustration of of uh statism, uh totalitarianism versus capitalism.
He just destroyed her, and she was clueless.
She ended up telling him he is simplistic.
She he made the I wish we could we don't have time to play the sound bites, 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 uh 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 a great side-by-side.
And plus, you know, Jennifer Grantholm had his big puff piece on Sunday in the Washington Post, in which they touting all these new green jobs.
Yes, forty thousand new green jobs that she's going to create into in Michigan in 11 years.
Yes, by 2020, 40,000 new jobs, green jobs in Michigan.
Why 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.
This is a forecast, bringing a total of jobs lost, I think during her term, to one million.
To one 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.
Yeah, but the money's gonna run out, and you got a vicious cycle.
And we don't have the money in the first place.
So it's it's just sad.
It's unhappy.
And it's not pretty, and it's 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 uh Jets defense.
And uh the uh the new kid quarterback uh against the Dolphins.
It's gonna 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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