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Jan. 7, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 7, 2010, Thursday, Hour #3
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Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, eager and ready to go.
Back in the saddle, as they say, behind the golden EIB microphone at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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Well, Ben Nelson says that we shouldn't have even done health care.
Well, it shouldn't even be easy for him to say.
He also says that he didn't ask Harry Reid for any special exemptions on Medicare payments for his state.
He didn't ask for it.
He didn't ask for no.
Harry Reid just offered the bribe.
And Ben Nelson took it.
Blanche Lincoln says, I don't think that it should be pulled off.
I don't think I don't think that Nebraska should have gotten that deal.
Heritage Foundation here reports that the reason for all of these Democrat Party resignations and retirements, particularly Byron Dorgan and the Governor Bill Ritter in Colorado.
And by the way, they're trying to recruit Ken Salazar, who is the former Senator from Colorado to be governor to run for governor to save the seat there.
He's now the Department of Interior head in the Obama administration.
But they're not running in 2010, and the uh according to the Heritage Foundation, the source of these Democrats' fears in facing the people at the polls is no secret.
The American people believe the state of the economy is poor and getting worse.
Nelson says, I think it was a mistake to take health care on as opposed to continuing to spend the time on the economy.
Ben, you did that.
You fixed the economy.
You went right along with it.
You did TARP.
You voted for the porculus bill.
I mean, you did exactly what you say you should have done.
Um i it the thankful we should be that they didn't spend more time on the economy.
The little time they spent on it has wrecked it.
Any more time they spend on it would send it into further damage and take it even longer to recover.
Now there's a there's a very smart guy at the Heritage Foundation, a guy named uh uh Brian Reidel.
He might pronounce it Riedel, it's R. I D L. He is a senior policy analyst.
And it's a very simple point that he makes.
Why is it that stimulus spending fails?
Why does it always fail?
And the answer is Congress does not have a vault of money stashed away somewhere, waiting to be distributed.
Every dollar Congress injects into the economy first must be taxed or borrowed out of it.
There's no possible way that any stimulus plan ever works to stimulate the economy.
It may stimulate the careers of politicians because gullible voters fall for it, but it does not, it can't.
Economically, mathematically, it can't work.
To stimulate the economy to cause growth, you'd have to have money that's not in the system go into the system, and there is no such thing.
Even if you print it, you're not creating new money.
All you're doing is borrowing.
All you're doing is creating more debt.
And debt cannot finance expansions.
And that's the the Keynesian theory is that it can.
And the Obama bunch believe that uh FDR didn't spend enough in the New Deal, and he didn't spend enough fast enough.
That's why it took World War II to genuinely end the uh the depression.
The New Deal didn't do it.
But you can't stimulate the economy by taking money out of it and then putting it back in.
Audio sound by time, this very funny, the greatest press secretary ever.
Remember that?
Robert Gibbs, smartest, most competent press secretary ever, did not like being questioned yesterday uh afternoon about Obama's campaign lie about broadcasting the health care negotiations on C-SPAN.
Does the president think it would be more helpful if this process were more transparent that the American people could see?
How many stories do you think NBC's done on this?
Uh speaking for myself.
That's not the issue.
The issue is whether it be broken.
I deal with information.
Right.
So the answer is hundreds of different.
I deal with the information however much or little of it there is.
I'm saying, would people benefit by having more information?
Have you lacked information in those hunter stories?
Do you think you've reported stuff that was inaccurate based on the lack of information?
Democrats ran against the very sort of process that is being employed in the television.
I answered this yesterday.
But the president is not a very good thing.
And he'll do so today.
Does not want to answer.
This does not illustrate the folly of these press briefings anyway.
Nobody ever learns anything in these.
These things are just dog and pony shows.
To fool the press into thinking they got access, but Gibbs didn't even want to answer.
It starts insulting him.
Well, how many, how many, how many hours you spent on this on NBC?
That's not the point.
Obama promised.
He promised there'd be televised hearings.
And negotiation.
That's not Gibbs had wanted no part of it.
Campbell Brown last night on her CNN show interviewed Byron Helmhead Dorgan out of North Dakota.
He said, Why are you leaving?
Well, Campbell, I started at age 26 in statewide elective office.
I've uh served now ten years in the state capitol and thirty years in the U.S. Congress.
That's 40 years.
It's a rare gift to be able to serve in Congress and have always enjoyed this.
But it's time to do some other things.
That did not satisfy Campbell Brown.
I probably don't have to tell you this.
A lot of Democrats are pretty angry at you tonight.
Your seat was considered safe, and your decision has put their control of the Senate in jeopardy.
How do you respond to them?
Well, again, I served 40 years in statewide elective office.
One of the news people today said, Do you think you have betrayed your state by leaving?
I said, after 40 years, I mean that's a pretty sizable career.
But you know, this is that rare moment where where Democrats have a supermajority and and are able to get through what they wanted to accomplish.
And so there are people, fairly or unfairly, who are saying, Why are you doing to this to us now?
But Campbell, first of all, these are six-year terms, so a decision now means that this year, the last year of this term plus another, you're making a commitment for seven years.
She just doesn't like this.
She doesn't like it.
Like all journalists, she puts her words in the mouths of anonymous other people.
Well, you know, I don't have to tell you this.
A lot of Democrats are pretty angry at you tonight.
Why are you leaving?
Why are you leaving?
I mean, we're on the verge of a supermajority.
Oh, why are you leaving?
He's leaving Campbell because he's gonna get skunked.
He's leaving because he has no he can read the polls.
And he's just the first of many Democrats that are gonna get skunked in November.
Civil War may be breaking out in the Democrat Party.
Obamacare, like I told you yesterday, Obamacare is destroying this party.
Obama's destroying it.
He doesn't care.
All these people falling on the sword for him.
And there's gonna be I tell you, folks, at some point, all these people being forced to resign, big people, Chris Dodd, helmet head's not a small guy.
You've been there forty years, reliable Democrat.
All these people being asked to take a hike.
At some point, now I don't think it's gonna be like Clinton, where we still haven't had the tell all book of what really went on in there.
This guy is is he's selling his party out.
Clinton always built his party up and protected everybody.
He didn't never threw people under the bus.
Obama is.
He's uh is an arrogant little narcissist that he doesn't care who gets harmed here.
It's his agenda, and we got it.
If if you can't hold your seat, we're gonna get Democrats in there who can.
It's all about saving him.
And that and so you've got a bunch of Democrats here aware that all of this health care stuff, nobody in the country wants it.
It's destroying the party.
Yesterday, uh actually this morning in Pittsburgh, uh, the Pittsburgh Tribune Review newspaper interviewed Joe Seastack, Democrat Pennsylvania, and a reporter said there's sort of uh this unease among Democrats out there, and that's coming out of what you said about Washington.
They should be.
I think the Democrats have failed as much as the Republicans have failed in order to be erstwhile servants and public servants.
What Senator Ben Nelson did and others is closing that health care bill was a disgrace.
To think that you would hold out to close a deal for a special interest, I think is absolutely wrong.
Now, this guy's run this guy's running against Spectre for the uh Democrat in the Democrat primary for the Senate seat that Spectre holds in uh Pennsylvania.
This is Joe C stack, and uh uh it it went on to say that the Democrat caucus is not transparent the the reporter said well when it comes to trust there was a there was a big push during the campaign to have made this whole process with health care and uh and everything else transparent and broadcast with C SPAN has been played over and over again when the president had said that on the campaign trail how do you are you supportive do you want these hearings and uh negotiations to be on C-SPAN?
I do about 70 radio interviews now every day and one of the ones this morning Snyder County asked me Snyder County my asking that same question else answered the same way they said it would be transparent why isn't it at times I find the caucus is a real disappointment we aren't transparent not just to the public but at times to the members you're always going to know where I stand.
And he's what he's talking about here is that Pelosi and Reed working on this thing in the background and and uh members of the House who are not in the leadership don't know what Pelosi and Reed are cooking up.
And and Pelosi's out there saying we're very close here to reconciliation we're very close to getting this done a lot of leftists in the House and they don't like some of the stuff in the House Bill.
This is um they're probably going to get something here but nobody at the end of the day except Obama is going to be happy with it and I include the American people even Schwarzenegger who's who's been out there trying to curry all kinds of favor with Obama on global warming and all these other nefarious issues is urging California senators hey look if Ben Nelson went out there and got that money do you should do the same thing.
Health care reform which started as a noble and needed legislation has become a trough of private deals and loopholes.
Yet you've heard of the bridge to nowhere but this is health care to nowhere.
California's congressional delegation should either vote against this bill that is a disaster for California or get in there and fight for the same sweetheart deal that Senator Nelson of Nebraska got for the Kornhaska state because he got for the Quantaska State the corn and B got the husk.
That's Arnold Schwarzenegger's state of the state message out there in California yesterday.
Vote against it or get the same sweetheart deal.
There you have it.
So there's all kinds of acrimony all because of this.
And Obama is inflicting tremendous damage on his party, exactly as I told you.
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Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network to Troy, Illinois.
This is Gary.
You're up, sir.
Hello.
Hi, ditto, Rush.
It's an honor to meet you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I was just wondering, maybe you can help me.
Could it be that this is part of the Democratic strategy to have some of these vulnerable Democrats retire?
so that the so that the one that runs against the Republican can say well I didn't vote for that.
Well that's certainly part of it but in Dodd's case for example he's he's got more than just voting for health care.
He's got a big corruption problem.
He is in bed with AIG he was in bed with uh with countrywide uh uh Andrew or Angelo Morillo got got one of these friends of Angelo VIP mortgage interest rates uh a couple of them and uh there there's some other problems that he has and I think that uh uh because of that he was he's in big trouble anyway but you're right the guy that they're gonna have run against him Blumenthal the current attorney general who is I mean it's safe to say Blumenthal is further left than Dodd.
He's the attorney general this guy with the leader in the anti-tobacco company lawsuits of way back when I'm just sitting here in Jim's barbershop in Maryville, Illinois and we just wondered if that might be part of the strategy that was more Democrat uh effort to keep state keep control of Congress rather than uh deal to protect Obama.
Well that's the they're one and the same protecting Obama is put is is allowing Obama's agenda to go through it.
Look at they need sixty seats in the Senate.
If they don't have sixty Democrats in the Senate, then Obama's agenda is in jeopardy.
And so protecting Obama is protecting his agenda.
And they're just getting started.
I mean, they've got card check on the on tap.
They've got cap and trade.
They've got I mean, Obama's not through changing this country.
He's not through wrecking it.
He's not through remaking it.
He needs 60 Democrats in the Senate to do it.
So of course, if they can put Democrats up, uh say instead of helmet head Dorgan and say, uh, yeah, this guy, he didn't vote for health care.
Yeah, they'll be they'll do anything.
They'll they'll whatever it takes.
But that clearly is um is part of the uh rationale.
John in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Hello, sir.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hey, Gus Baker Ditto's Rush.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, last time I talked to you, I was on my way to get up a sectomy.
But that's besides the point.
I do have a question, though.
What's that?
Well, our comment.
I don't know where I don't know where I fall on this, but but how much is somebody's life worth when you put a price as far as health care goes?
I mean, my life is worth a lot.
My kids' life is worth a lot.
I'm willing to pay for that.
Sho I mean I'm just kind of I I just don't know where I where that issue is.
Should I demand that I mean, I want my children around, I want my wife around, but uh I want to get my money's worth.
So what precisely are you saying here?
Are you are you making an argument that people ought to be more uh oriented toward paying for their own health care to protect their lives, save their lives because it's worth a lot.
Absolutely.
I mean, I'm not gonna bat an eye if my kid is sick.
Uh we'll pay whatever we can, uh, but I'm sure there'd be some people standing there demanding that it be done for free.
Well, certainly Obama voters are those people.
Uh one of the reasons they voted for Obama is precisely because he made them think they're going to get improved health care, greater access, and uh a bunch of millionaires are gonna pay for it.
Exactly.
And it comes back to, you know, you can't get something for nothing.
You can't get quality for cheap.
I mean, it shouldn't be outrageous, but you should be expected to come off your hip with something.
Well, I look, I know the point that you're trying to make.
What we're what we're up against on all of this is a very well-executed 50-year plan of of uh alternately soft sell and hard sell on the concept that your life is worth so much that there is a moral entitlement to whatever you need to prolong your life at no cost,
that it is somehow immoral to have to pay to keep yourself healthy, or to treat yourself when you're sick.
Somehow that's that's what has been established through a huge percentage of people in this country.
Um and I I'd say based on the voter returns for Obama, over half the country believes that, or or believes it to at least uh a certain extent.
At least the employer ought to pay for it, or in Obama's voters' case.
I mean, we've heard the typical Obama voter.
We've we've heard them, and it's not a pretty sight.
I mean, they they are some of the most ignorant people that we have.
And they they they they believe Obama was gonna buy them a new kitchen.
They believe Obama's gonna get them a new car.
They believe Obama from his stash uh is is gonna get him a job, that uh that uh and Obama's gonna give them their health care.
Uh everybody else has a job.
Why why don't I?
Obama's gonna fit.
This is this is the illusion that he created.
This is blank canvas that he admitted he was, and everybody was able to make him out to be whatever they wanted him to be.
So for 50 years of drumming into everybody that there is some kind of moral entitlement.
And you when you when you to health care, that that's where we are.
Uh and plus now, because the government's been involved in the price is so unrealistic, there's no relationship to anybody's ability to pay to what the price for health care is, particularly catastrophic.
And so when that equation gets out of whack, then it's easy to understand, well, I can't pay, I can't afford that, but I still need to get the operation.
Who's gonna pay it?
And they think the system's failed, so the system needs to be fixed so that they won't be failed anymore.
And Obama promised to do all that by lowering costs and expanding service.
None of which is uh is is going to happen.
But you know, calculating what your life is worth.
Now that's an interesting proposition in and of itself if you want to start attaching dollars to it.
Back right after this, folks, don't go away.
Let me deal with something uh pretty quickly here.
I am checking the email, and by the way, you people are loving the new HD Ditto Cam.
We're gonna swamp with emails about it.
We know we're we're we're we're trying to get the volume level uh consistent with what it was with the standard definition version.
Uh we're still tweaking this, but uh I'm glad you like it.
It is um people say, yeah, I feel like I'm in the room with you.
That's how I feel when I'm watching football or sports on HD.
You feel like you're at the stadium.
Anyway, a lot of people say, hey, Rush, uh what how can Obama promise to televise anything in Congress anyway?
Uh separation of powers.
Well, it's true.
Obama cannot force Congress to televise what they do.
Uh that's it's up in in the House, it's up to the speaker.
So it's a it's a it's a moot point.
We know what Gibbs ought to say in in response to these questions that the reporters are badgering him with.
Well, look, the president wants it to be seen, but the speaker of the House doesn't.
Because that's the truth of the matter.
Pelosi doesn't any more want these hearings or negotiations televised than Obama does.
But he could throw it off on her and he'd be constitutionally correct and he'd be being truthful.
But to go out there and and stonewall this is just is uh it it even the media, even liberal journalists are starting to get in the act here of getting really angry about this.
I don't know whether the anger is faux anger, uh if they're just doing this for ratings or to try to hold on to some credibility and uh they'll come back protect him at the end of the day on this, or if they're genuinely ticked off about it, but he made eight different promises to televise all this, but he can't make that promise.
He cannot do it.
Now he can ask him.
He can ask Pelosi to do it, and he may have asked Pelosi to do it.
I don't care.
She was not gonna do this.
I mean, they're not they're not doing a conference committee on purpose.
There's really nothing to televise.
She's not going to let a camera in her office.
And Harry Reid's not going to let one in his, and that's where all this is taking place.
So it's a um it's it's actually a uh a moot point.
I saw another story um while I was gone while I was in Hawaii, another story about a huge identity theft operation.
A huge bunch of people hacked into well, lost their identity after people hacked into a uh a computer.
I forget where it was.
I think it was a bank computer.
Uh that was a very secure computer, or you would think it was.
I mean, hell, even the chairman of the Fed Reserve got hacked.
And he had some of his data stolen, and nobody is going to totally stop identity theft.
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I mean, why why it's so it's ten dollars a month.
Why would not take the step to um protect your identity?
You don't want to lose your identity.
That trying to restore that is a month-long or months long process.
And you you don't want to go through it.
You don't know the frustration of trying to prove to somebody you're who you are.
You'll be standing right in front of them.
If their computer says you're not you, you're not you, and you've got to go through all these restoration steps.
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This is Canon Detroit.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Yeah, good afternoon, Rush.
Hi.
Uh one of the comment about the uh terrorist attack by uh Al Qaeda here in Detroit on uh Christmas uh afternoon.
Uh I've been listening very closely to what uh uh President Obama has been saying about it and uh what the uh news media has been saying.
And when you consider that just about everything that has been suggested as far as changes that can be made having to do with uh airline uh safety would have absolutely nothing to do with uh preventing uh this attack.
I am convinced that they are trying to use this as uh smoke screen to uh redirect the attention of the American people away from uh what they're trying to do as far as uh destroying our uh national health care.
I really think that uh this is what Obama and the news media is trying to do.
They want to focus on uh the uh attack in Detroit and keep people uh away from uh health care.
Well, I don't know that that's gonna work.
Uh uh people are not cooled down over health care.
They're more revved up than ever about this because it has passed both houses and because it's now being done in secret.
Uh there's really nothing much to keep up with because it's passed both houses.
We don't know what's happening now because everything being done to reconcile the two bills is being done behind closed doors, which also uh ticks people off.
Now you're right about uh what I was driving around the other day and I was listening to all these proposed changes uh the Obama administration is going to make here regarding the uh fruit of kaboom bomber.
And we're gonna intensify air marshals, and we're gonna do this and we're gonna do that, and I have the same thought as you had.
None of that has any relationship to what happened here.
We what happened was a guy had a bunch of explosives in his underwear and it wasn't caught.
Air marshals are not going to help anything, and especially if you know the guys on the airplane and you don't tell the airplane.
We knew the guy was on the flight, and it nobody told the pilots.
I don't know if there were air marshals on board, but uh uh as far as we know, they weren't told.
I I don't know and uh we're gonna beef up this and and beef up that.
And my first reaction is you mean we haven't done all this even after 9-11?
So I think I think you have a point.
I one thing I don't think Bush was at all lackadaisical or incomplete in implementing security measures.
Uh TSA is a is a and it is what it is, and it's it's uh largely can be inefficient because they're not allowed to actually focus on the most likely suspects.
In fact, we have to ignore the most likely suspects in order to be politically correct.
Um now we're gonna tighten, we have to these airports across the country and around the world to tighten their security, and like Nigeria says, screw you.
Uh we're we're not we're not gonna do this.
Basically flipped Obama off and screw you.
Well, it's gonna it's gonna harm our travel.
Uh it's gonna it's gonna put people to two greatest drain.
We're I don't know any part of that.
So uh I I don't doubt that they'd like to try to distract people from uh from the health care business, but they're not succeeding.
Even the press is all over this eight different promises, eight different times Obama promised that the negotiations over health care would be televised.
And Brian Lamb's out there says it's only been one hour of all of this that has been uh televised.
Now, here's here's a let's go somebody 17 and 18.
Here is another little illustration of what might be dark days for Obama.
This is the news hour with Jim Alara last night and uh senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, the CFR.
Walter Russell Mead was the guest.
And Jim Lara said the president has now said I won't tolerate this anymore.
We've got to change things, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Now things have to really change, right?
Is is that the real test yet to come?
This president does have the kind of almost a Jimmy Carter problem.
He's an intellectual, he's a very thoughtful guy.
He is trying to pull America back from confrontation and to try to lower the tone of American rhetoric, to try to take the crisis out of something as a way of reducing the country's risks and vulnerabilities.
Whenever you start doing that, people start to question you.
Are you weak?
And this president is gonna be caught.
I is gonna have a hard time avoiding being trapped in a way between a rock and a hard place of being so tough that he can't try the new creative foreign policy that he wants, but on the other hand, maybe being seen as weak or indecisive.
He has the kind of almost Jimmy Carter problem.
He's an intellectual, A very thoughtful guy trying to pull America back from confrontation to lower the tone of American rhetoric to try to take the crisis out of something as a way of reducing the country's risks.
This is how intellectuals think.
Totally devoid of any reality.
Would you ask an intellectual to sit down and analyze lunatics?
Like these Al-Qaeda terrorists and try to figure out how to deal with them.
Oh, I'm Barack Obama, and I'm going to do I'm going to show him how smart I am, and I'm going to show him how I hate my country too.
I'll apologize or show we meet him no harm.
We don't want any confrontation.
And all these lunatics are going to do is say, right, all right, he's greasing the skins for us.
But he's got his Jimmy Carter problem out there, uh, according to Walter Russell Mead.
And he might look weak or indecisive.
If he looks weak and indecisive, it's cause he is.
And there's no two ways about that.
Same show.
Different guests, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace President, Jessica Tuckman Matthews.
And James Lara says, Do you buy Walter's Jimmy Carter rocking a hard place theory?
I see a very different man.
And uh I think a much taking on tough issues is not the same thing as being indecisive.
I think we remember President Carter in the context of the Iranian hostage crisis.
And it didn't look quite that way at the time that that he was going uh that it was uh undertaking, but also uh uh as Walter also said, this has been a much smoother first year than President Carter's first year.
Okay, so uh that's another intellectual, Jessica Tuckman Matthews disagrees, says Obama's first year has been much smoother than Carter's, which is how about that for high praise?
But nevertheless, here you have these two intellectuals.
You know, and I I can do intellectual speak.
I've studied these people.
I know how to do the affectations, I know the words, I knew all this stuff.
And I and uh one thing I know when you do intellectual speak, you are not immersed in any kind of reality.
You're doing something else, trying to impress yourself, you're trying to impress everybody else around you with uh your so-called so-called smarts and so forth, and your ability to analyze things in ways that other people just can't come up with because you know just not equipped as uh we intellectuals are.
But in the meantime, these are the last people you want with you in a foxhole.
I mean they don't even know where one is back after this.
And we go back to the phones.
Great to have you with us, by the way, folks.
Barry in Birmingham, Alabama.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hey, Rush, welcome to the USSA.
Thank you.
United Socialist States of America.
Not quite yet.
We can still stop it.
We've got our emerging ruling academic elite like uh Russia and China.
But you know, we're talking about this intellectual elite.
I'd love to see them stacked up with Jefferson and Madison.
I'd love to see them uh debate with a real Renaissance man who can run a farm and handle commercial enterprises and really walk with common sense.
These people have never seen the outside of a classroom.
And by the way, who ran who ran the ship into the ground anyway?
If Sarah Palin is ineligible because she's not an intellectual, well, tell me who ran the ship into the ground.
I think it was the intellectuals.
I'd rather have a farmer, a truck driver, maybe a Sarah Palin, somebody that can kill and skin a moose, perhaps.
Yeah, yeah, this is a long uh a long felt sentiment by uh by conservatives.
William F. Buckley Jr. uh phrased it well, way, way, way back, when he said he would much prefer to be governed by the first five hundred names in the Boston phone book than he would by the elected class of the day.
And that's uh that that illustration and might have been a different number that he used, might have been more than 500, but nevertheless he did.
I want you to hear something.
We've got two soundbites here.
This is number 19 and 20, Mike.
This is Peter King yesterday afternoon, Fox Studio B with uh with Shepard Smith.
Now they say Fox is biased, but Shep is an Obama apologist, and he's he's got two hours.
He's got three to four and seven to eight PM.
They've got an Obama apologist over there at Fox.
I don't know how they can say that Fox is biased, and Peter King uh from Long Island was on uh talking about Gitmo.
And Peter King said, I think the president should end this race to close Guantanamo and realize it's sending a very mixed signal to the world and to our people in the field.
How's that sending a mixed signal in the field?
He campaigned on that.
He's been real firm on that.
He said that gave us a black eye around the world, and studies seem to suggest that's exactly what it did.
What difference does it make where you house them as long as they don't get out?
It makes very big difference, because right now we have no place to put them.
He wants to send them to Yemen and obviously.
Well, they weren't going to do it up until yesterday.
Well, why was he even thinking about it for the last year?
We should not be giving in just because the terrorists say that uh Gitmo is a recruiting agent, so is our support of Israel.
Does that mean we shouldn't support Israel?
You're not going to be able to do it.
I mean, truly, why is it?
In the middle of all this, President Obama campaign on this issue.
And he said he was going to do it.
He got elected, and now he's going to do it.
And he should learn by his mistakes.
Well, I mean the other ones.
And it it it continued here.
Listen to the final uh 44 seconds of this.
Why do we spend time even talking about why do people care?
I mean, we tell you what you've shoved them off to another country and stuck them on the end of an island and given the nation a black eye if you believe.
No, if you believe President Obama.
Only only only a person I don't believe him.
I think only a person who's incredibly naive would say that we got that we deserve that black eye.
We got it because elements in the media and elements of the Democratic Party kept parrowing that line.
But the fact is they are being treated extreme uh humaneness at Guantanamo.
It was the right thing to do, and there were constitutional reasons for doing it and legal reasons for doing it, all of which I think have been proven right.
You have to keep them in place where they can be interrogated, where information can be gotten from them, intelligence gotten from them.
We have the right to keep them there as long as we want to, I believe.
Now, it let me ask you people a question.
Very simple.
If we gave our nation a black eye by housing terrorists at Club Gitmo, if if we gave our nation a black eye in the Arab world, then what the hell is Illinois gonna become?
What the hell difference does it make where you put them?
I'll answer Shepard Smith's question.
And what a difference does it make where you put well then why not leave them there?
If we have a black eye, if we are disrespected and unloved because we put some terrorists in a prison, then why the hell does it matter where the prison is?
If we have a black eye, cause we put innocent little children.
See, that's what they want us to believe.
None of these people are guilty, and we haven't charged them.
We're violating their human rights.
Well, we're gonna violate the human rights in Illinois, too, because they're gonna have no status change.
They're still not gonna be charged with anything.
So if we gave ourselves a black eye by opening Guantanamo, and by the way, that's not a target.
They can't hit that, but they can sure as hell hit a prison in Illinois or Chicago.
This is stupid all the way around, and it's blind to simply say, Well, Obama said he's gonna do it, he's gonna do it.
Stupid.
So I just got an email out there uh during the break.
Rush, what is an intellectual?
What's so bad about smart people?
It's a good question, folks.
The modern iteration of uh intellectual by uh uh when I use it, we're talking about academics, people who have done nothing but spend time in a library or an office or a classroom uh and have no hands-on real world experience doing or producing anything, including meeting a payroll.
Pure and simple.
Overeducated.
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