Okay, guess what, ladies and gentlemen, on the Google Google search field, Goldman, has now come up with their own search link that sends users using the same two search terms to Goldman's response to the SEC's fraud complaint.
Now, Goldman can afford it, but they're up against some really deep pockets.
They're up against George Soros.
I'm convinced of it.
I'm convinced that Soros is, I mean, Soros is out there saying that the economic collapse is a culmination of his life's work.
He has said so.
Anyway, great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh at 800-282-2882.
The email address is El Rushbo at EIBnet.com.
Back now to the ordinary people view Rush as a dangerous Zvengali from a woman identified as Bookworm.
Her website's bookwormroom.com, although we've shut it down.
It is quite a high compliment to Rush that ordinary liberals believe he has extraordinary powers.
It isn't every conservative, radio, or talk show host who is perceived as so compelling and seductive that he can destroy people's worldview in an instant.
It's also very frustrating to me, she writes, because in a funny way, I agree with my liberal friends that Rush can rejigger their worldview very quickly.
The only thing is, I don't believe Rush works his magic through hypnotism and trickery.
Instead, I think Rush's real magic lies in his ability to view the political world as a vast chessboard, one on which he can see multiple future moves, his prodigious memory, his well-informed mind, his logical analyses, and his funny persona.
He convinces by appealing to our rational mind, our sense of humor, and our knowledge of the world as it is, not as some ivory tower liberal tells us it should be.
So whether by cajolery or challenge, I'm still trying to get my liberals to listen to Rush for all the wrong reasons.
They're right about one thing.
He will change their minds.
A rare, rare, rare, accurate interpretation of what happens here and what I do.
I have referred to myself as Svengali, people thinking I'm a Svengali on the left.
Again, bookwormroom.com.
I have no idea who the woman is.
Zilch Zeronada.
But whatever, a lot of people are finding her website.
Now, I had a guy call a minute ago.
Hey, Rush, I mean, all it's focused on the SEC, Goldman Sachs, and we're kind of losing track here of healthcare.
We've got to get people revved up about healthcare.
I said, no, no, no.
People are revved up about everything.
The Tea Parties know full well what's happening out there.
They understand.
I got a monologue one hour ago, folks.
I'm not going to repeat the whole thing, but people instinctively know Obama's not winning anything because of policy superiority.
He's not winning anything because ideas are better than anybody else's.
He's winning despite his ideas being opposed by a majority of people.
He's winning by virtue of thuggery.
And this is what is animating the Tea Party.
They don't like it.
They instinctively know this is not how things happen in this country.
We don't have authoritative regimes cramming things down the throats of the people until now.
And they don't like it.
Quinnipiac University National Poll finds that Obama's bounce has gone flat.
Obama's job approval, which bounced slightly to a 45-46% split on March 25th in the wake of the health care victory, has flattened out at 44.46, his lowest approval rating since his imaculation, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll released today.
Here's the poll quote.
The racial split in attitudes toward the president has widened, with only slightly more than one in three whites, but virtually all blacks, giving him a thumbs up for his job performance, according to the Quinnipiac pollster.
The racial split in...
So, where is all this post-racial unity?
We don't have it.
Exactly as I predicted.
Obama has come to divide.
He never intended to unify anything.
Try this, Foxnews.com.
I mean, it's not a surprise, but it just burns you up when you read this.
United Nations' ballooning $732 million Haiti peacekeeping budget goes mostly to itself, to its own personnel.
The United Nations has quietly upped this year's peacekeeping budget for earthquake-shattered Haiti to $732.4 million, two-thirds of that amount going for the salary, perks, and upkeep of its own personnel, not residents of the devastated island.
The United Nations has quietly upped this year's peacekeeping budget.
It plans to spend more money on an extended force of some 12,675 soldiers and police, plus some 479 international staffers, 669 international contract personnel, 1,300 local workers, just for the 12 months that will end June 30th.
Some $495.8 million goes for salaries, benefits, hazard pay, mandatory rest and relaxation allowances, and upkeep for the peacekeepers and their international staff support.
Only about $33.9 million, or 4.5%, of that salary total is going to what the UN calls national staff attached to the peacekeeping efforts.
So the Haiti relief effort is nothing more than an excuse for the United Nations to pay itself.
12,000 soldiers and cops in Port-au-Prince, 12,000?
669 international staff.
This is exactly typical of any bureaucracy like this.
It is just more, you let any company in the private sector engage in behavior like this.
Can you imagine if during Hurricane Katrina, a private sector company set up operations down there specifically to enrich itself and the people it worked for?
Can you imagine the hell there would be to pay once somebody found out about it?
But now, oh, it's the UN.
They care so much.
They really do.
We have the audio of Bertha Lewis, New York City.
Acorn, chief executive officer for the group, held a press conference.
Here's a portion of what she said.
Let me just say, any group that says I'm young, I'm Democratic, and I'm a socialist is all right.
You know, that's no right thing to do, to actually say, I'm a socialist.
As you guys know, right now we are living in a time which is going to dwarf the McCarthy era.
It is going to dwarf the internment during World War II.
What is she talking about?
What in the world is we're living in a time which is going to dwarf the McCarthy era?
It is going to dwarf the internment during World War II.
What am I missing here?
Bertha Lewis is the same person who said people have a right to housing.
Acorn right in the middle of the subprime mortgage crisis.
But her guy, a fellow socialist, is running the country.
Who's going to get interned?
McCarthy era going to dwarf the internment during World War II?
Here's the next soundbite.
We are right now in a time that is going to dwarf the era of Jim Crow and segregation.
They are coming and they are coming after you.
And they are going to be brutal and oppressive.
They've already shown it.
Two years working behind.
Give Appleton's dream.
You really have got to circle the rally.
This is not rhetoric or hyperbolic.
This is real.
This rise of this Tea Party so-called movement bound movement in mind.
Oh, it's a Tea Party's a Bowel movement.
That's a dental.
We can perfectly entertain talk like that.
Yes, in the new civility that is Obama's America.
So here's Bertha Lewis, Acorn CEO, warning young socialists about the racist Tea Party movement.
I get it now.
So the Tea Party is going to be interning socialists.
The Tea Party is going to come and they're going to take you away and they're going to put you in a camp somewhere.
Now, isn't Bertha Lewis engaging here in dangerous rhetoric?
Do you think Bertha Lewis's words might be encouraging somebody to violence?
Isn't that what Schlick Willie said about me and the Tea Party?
Well, these people, folks, I'll tell you, it is breathtaking.
It is really a Mars-Venus circumstance.
No, I have not forgotten.
I promised I was going to read from Clinton's book, My Lie, and yesterday, his version of what happened at Waco, because it's just, especially in light of what Dick Morris reported yesterday or a couple nights ago on Hannity that Clinton orchestrated the whole thing.
It's fascinating to read this.
I'll get to it in just a sec.
But first, Troy Michigan, this is Rita, and you're next to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello.
Hi, Rosh.
Thanks for taking my call.
I love you.
Thank you.
And you keep me so informed, and I've just become a big fan.
And I just think the liberals are showing their real face.
Did you hear about this guy from Geico who called Freedom Works and asked how many retards they have working there?
Yeah, yeah, the guy that does the voiceover the Geico commercials.
Yes.
And now he's upset that they've released his words.
They fired him, you mean?
Yeah.
And now he's complaining that he's going to file a lawsuit.
Against Geico?
No, against Freedom Works for releasing his message.
Oh, so he called.
He left a message at Freedom Works, left it on tape or something.
Yes.
And then Fox played it, and he's going to sue them.
Well, I'm sorry he doesn't have any grounds here.
And Geico doesn't want the guy working for them anyway.
Look at Geico doesn't want to make the Tea Party people have to buy insurance too.
I know.
And so the Geicos, the Geico voiceover guy has gone out and basically told the Tea Party guy, we don't want your Geico.
Well, that's not Geico's point of view.
So let the guys sue the Tea Party.
I know, but I'm just saying they're showing their ugly heads, aren't they?
Yo, they are all over the place.
No question about it.
I mean, they're getting bold, but they still, you know, Obama still cannot say what he's really going to do or what his real plans are.
If he was able to do that, then I would tell you that, yes, we've lost America.
Half the country wants to be taken care of.
Half the country is a bunch of freeloaders.
But we're nowhere near that.
Don't believe that we are.
We haven't lost the country.
If we have, Obama wouldn't have to be so misleading about what he's doing.
All right, let me get to this Clinton stuff from his book, My Lie, A Life.
Remember Dick Morris yesterday?
We had the audio from the night before on Hannity where he said, nobody knows this.
We've not said this before, but Clinton actually orchestrated the Waco invasion.
And Janet Reno went to him shortly before his second term, inauguration, and said, if you don't reappoint me attorney general, I'm going to spill the beans on this.
Because she was the fall guy.
And so Clinton didn't want the truth coming out.
He appointed Reno.
So that's the story.
Here's what he writes or how he writes about it in his book.
So there I was on Sunday night, April 18th.
Janet Reno came to the White House to tell me FBI wanted to storm that compound, apprehend Koresh and any of his followers who had taken them apart in killing the agents, some other crime, and free the rest of them.
Now, when Janet made her case to me, I thought we should try what had worked in Arkansas before we approved that FBI raid.
She countered the FBI was tired of waiting.
Standoff was costing government a million dollars a week.
It tied up law enforcement resources that we needed elsewhere.
And those Davidians, they could hold out longer than the Arkansas people had.
And the possibilities of child sexual abuse and mass suicide were real because Koresh was crazy.
So were many of his followers.
So finally, I said to Janet that if she thought it was the right thing to do, she'd go ahead with the invasion.
And the next day, I'm sitting down minding my own business.
And I got CNN on a television just outside the Oval Office.
And I saw Koresh's compound in flames.
That raid had gone so terribly wrong.
After the FBI fired a tear gas into the buildings where the people were holed up, the branch Davidians started a fire.
And it got worse.
It got worse when they opened the windows, let the tear gas out, and also let in a hard wind off the Texas plains.
And that stoked the flames.
And when it ended, more than 80 people had died, including 25 children.
Only nine of them survived.
I knew I needed to speak to the press and take responsibility for the fiasco.
That's what he wrote.
That's what he wrote.
It doesn't go to show you nobody read his book.
You're hearing about it for the first time.
I remember distinctly when the press went and asked him about it.
He said, you got to, Janet Reno, you got to go.
Attorney General approved that operation.
I mean, he took no responsibility for it whatsoever.
And they did fire tear gas in there.
Remember, Reno, the story from Reno was that they were abusing children in there, that the Branch Davidians were a bunch of sickos, and that they were abusing the kids.
It was never proven.
And Reno, you know, she had a, You know, child abuse was one of her causes.
If there was child abuse anywhere in the country, you know, the fear was that Janet Reno is going to be there with ATF and the FBI and a bunch of tanks to get you and whoever's in there out of there, and then the kids as well.
So that was the theory.
She went in there to protect the kids, but they did launch some tear gas in there.
And the Branch Davidians did open the windows, let the tear gas out, but I never knew the Branch Davidian started the fire.
Have you heard that?
The Branch Davidians, according to President Clinton, his book, My Lie, yeah, the Branch Davidian started that fire.
And then I don't know why.
I don't know why they wanted to burn down their own house, but they did.
But then we tear gassed them.
And when the, and I'm watching this, I'll see you in it.
I can't believe it's happening.
You know, I'm outside the Oval Office.
I'm minding my own business.
I just wave bye-bye to Monica.
And all of a sudden, I'm watching CNN there.
I'm seeing, whoa, the whole compound's up in flames.
And I said, I never approved that.
So, so then I found out that they set the fire.
And then they opened the windows there to get rid of tear gas in the Texas plains.
The winds off Texas planes had roared through there, and that made that fire even worse.
And it was a catastrophe.
Yeah, that's right.
That's right.
So they set fire on themselves.
And then they open what they opened the windows, let tear gas out, because tear gas was making them tearful.
The tear gas is choking them up, so they had to let to get tear gas out there.
The hard wind off Texas plains then stoked the flames.
And 80 people had died.
And I knew, I knew I had to speak to the press and take responsibility for that fiasco.
You want to hear more from Clinton's book?
You do?
Okay, okay.
So Bill Clinton ends up saying, I knew, I knew that I had to go out there and I had to take responsibility for that fiasco, but he didn't.
And he blamed Stephanopoulos for not taking responsibility.
Listen to this.
Now, I knew I needed to speak to the press and take responsibility for this fiasco.
So did Dee Dee Myers, and so did Bruce Lindsey.
But several times during the day, when I want to go ahead, George Stephanopoulos urged me to wait, say we didn't know whether anyone was still alive or whether Koresh heard my words, he might snap and kill him too.
So Janet Reno did appear before the camera, she explained what happened, and she took full responsibility for the raid.
Now, as the first woman to hold Holy Attorney General's post, she thought it was important not to pass the book.
But the time I finally talked to the press about Waco, Reno, Reno was being praised, and I was being criticized for letting her take the fall.
So for the second time in less than 24 hours, I had accepted advice that ran counter to my instincts.
I didn't blame George.
He was young.
He was cautious.
He gave me his honest, albeit mistaken opinion.
But I was furious.
I was furious at myself, first for agreeing to the raid against my better judgment, and then for delaying a public acknowledgement of my responsibility for it.
I couldn't stop Janet Reno from taking credit for it.
But she went out there and undercut me.
Really, she accepted full responsibility.
I'm having a list of Stephanopoulos out there.
No, wait, Wake Koresh may still be alive.
May kill some more people in there.
You can't go out there yet.
So, as usual, everyone is to blame except himself.
He says this while saying how much he wanted to take responsibility.
Now, it was I, El Rushball, who criticized him immediately for not taking risks because I'll never forget the soundbite.
I'll never forget it.
I wish, I don't know if we've got it in the archives, but this is one of the reasons why he went to the White House correspondence dinner and told a racist joke about me.
Because I laughed and I said, you have to go talk to Janet Reno about that.
She owned the ride.
I didn't know anything about it.
I was in the Oval Office.
I said, bye, Monica.
I'm Washington, CNN.
I said, whoa, damn place is on fire down there.
He even, if you read further in the book, he even blames Ken Starr.
Listen to this.
Perhaps one of the reasons why I didn't trust my instincts enough is that the administration was being hammered hard in Washington.
I was being second-guessed at every turn.
So it was a vast right-wing conspiracy that kept him from taking responsibility for Wacom.
He wanted to, damn it.
He really wanted to take responsibility.
Stephanopoulos told him not to, and then Ken Starr being hammered in Washington.
Should have just trusted his instincts out there.
All right, Boise, Idaho, this is Robert.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hey, Rush.
Thanks for taking the call.
Yes, sir.
First time for talking to a million people, so I'm a little nervous.
Hey, I just had a quick question.
I wondered if you had noticed, does it seem odd to you that anytime we accomplish a high-value kill in Iraq, that Biden is the one who makes the proclamation, not President Obama?
Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm.
I mean, you're right.
I can't think of a time that that wasn't the case, and it seems like everything is always well planned out and well thought with their group.
Why do you think that is?
Well, my gut feeling is that he doesn't want to be seen as a trigger guy.
Well, there's one exception to this.
Remember when the 17-year-old little black kid, the Somali pirate, was gunned down, the White House put the word out that Obama gave the kill order.
So they wanted him to get credit for that.
But you may be right.
He doesn't want to be public.
He doesn't want to go out there and be the public face of announcing the kills of a couple of Islamic terrorists.
Is that what you're saying?
That is what I'm saying.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, interesting.
It could be also because, I mean, just history is our guide, but sometimes they have to come back and say they were wrong about who they killed.
And of course, that's what Biden is for, is to be wrong.
Right.
And make, you know, verbal slip-ups.
But I'll tell you, this al-Baghdadi, and that means he was from Baghdad.
Like, Saddam Hussein's name was Saddam Hussein al-Tikrivi because he was some trickrit.
But this al-Baghdadi, well, I saw the picture of al-Baghdadi.
I said, well, I've seen it.
We killed this guy months ago, I thought.
I knew I'd seen the picture before.
Al-Baghdadi was supposedly captured by the Iraqis a few months ago.
Now it turns out we've killed him on the battlefield.
So in this case, I think it's, you know, Biden is, it's okay for Biden to be wrong because that's his job.
Biden's job is to put his foot in it.
You put a bag of manure on the sidewalk and it's Biden's job to step on it because he always will.
And Biden's as dumb as a box of Bidens.
I think that's one of the reasons, but I also think it's possible that they just send, don't send Obama out there for you.
You're right.
He doesn't want to.
I'm here to announce today that we've taken down another couple of militant Islamic terrorists.
Somehow he just doesn't want to do that.
Anyway, Robert, thanks for the phone call.
I appreciate it.
Mother's Day is just a couple weeks away now, and I know it's still a couple of weeks.
And Mother's Day, one of these obligatory holidays, right?
It's like Valentine's Day.
It's a conspiracy.
People have come up.
Okay, it's Mother's Day.
They threw Father's Day in as an afterthought.
Mother's Day was the biggie.
And you got to do something.
More people call mom on Mother's Day than any other time of the year, but people behave this way.
You know, and I've always, as I've told you, I always say, if everybody else is doing it, I'm not doing it.
Valentine's Day, all that.
Only exception has been Christmas and Thanksgiving.
But anything else, if everybody, if just doing it because they think they should, or because they have to, turns out I have blown it with that behavior because I have misjudged the expectations of people on the receiving end.
Maybe I don't want to behave like a sheep, but the people who expect something on Mother's Day or Valentine's Day expect me to be a sheep.
And of course, in the expectations game, sometimes it makes more sense to be a sheep, or at least perceived to be one, even if you're not.
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And Robert Gibbs this afternoon at the White House said that the Obama, the regime, is going to keep Goldman's money.
They're not going to return the $1 million in campaign contributions from Goldman to the regime.
The question was on Goldman Sachs.
Anybody outside or inside the White House suggested that the regime might want to give back any donations that came from Goldman Sachs personnel?
The president doesn't take and didn't in the campaign take PAC money.
Doesn't take money from registered federal lobbyists.
And I think anybody that contributed to the campaign at any point knew where the president stood on regulating Wall Street and regulating the financial industry.
From, again, that first speech on Wall Street in 2007, the second speech in March of 2008 in the same venue we're going to go to.
And then anybody that watched the campaign from sort of mid-September on, obviously the focus was on what to do on Wall Street.
Well, what did it?
What about Jack Abramoff?
I mean, where's the outrage here?
Isn't Goldman's money as dirty as Abramoff's is?
So Gibbs' point is, hell no, we're not giving them money back.
They knew what they were in for.
They knew what we were going to do.
They had every idea what we were going to do to them.
We made it clear we were out to destroy them.
Even from our speech in 2007 to Wall Street, Austin, no, we're not giving them money back.
Yesterday in Washington, Capitol Hill, Harry Reid with oppressor, Dana Bash at CNN, had a little exchange with him about meetings between Dingy Harry and Wall Street executives.
There's a report that you have also had meetings with Wall Street executives and specifically a fundraiser with them in New York, including executives at Goldman Sachs.
Is that accurate?
And how does that play into this dynamic?
I'm leading the effort to rein in Wall Street to make them more accountable and end the too big to fail.
And while Republicans, it seems, are leading the efforts to leave things just the way they are.
Wall Street's responsible for economic disaster, and we must hold them accountable.
So I'm going to make sure that in this legislation, I do everything within my ability to make sure that banks aren't too big to fail.
Tell us about the fundraiser, sir?
Do you have a fundraiser?
Thanks, everybody.
Did you have fundraisers, sir?
Thanks, everybody.
And the aide says we're clearing out his.
Well, there you have it.
So refuses to answer questions about his own Goldman Sachs Wall Street fundraiser.
Wall Street's responsible for economic disaster.
Wall Street is responsible for economic disaster.
And I'm going to rate him in.
I'm sorry to be laughing about this because it really isn't funny.
This is Stalinist.
And this is why I call these people a regime.
It is government that's responsible for the financial collapse.
I mean, there may be some people at Wall Street have played a role in it, but many of them were just following orders they got from government, just like they are now.
Rush Limbaugh's too big to fail.
Rush Limbaugh too big to fail.
Yeah, let them put me in that category.
Rush Limbaugh.
Yeah, do you think they'd bail me out?
Tim in Dover, you did it again.
Everybody knows it.
Dover's in Delaware.
If you found it, Dover, Ohio.
Hello, Tim.
Welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
It's great to talk to you.
Yes, sir.
Rush, I had to chuckle earlier.
I hadn't heard about it over the news, but I heard about it when you were talking about it earlier today, the buy GM push and the buy union push.
Rush, a couple of weeks ago, I had an epiphany here, and I got tired of hearing people tell me that elections have consequences, you know, very smugly down their nose, these Obama supporters.
So knowing how the union supported Obama and the amount of money they gave him, I decided that I am not going to buy union products when I have a choice or American-made products from any company who supported Obama monetarily during the elections.
And I think there's a lot of that going on.
A lot of people figured out here.
If you go buy even a Ford, Ford's UAW, even though Obama doesn't own them, Ford's UI, UAW, you go, you go, I mean, if you want to go buy something that's not union, you still go like Toyota.
Correct.
And, you know, Rush, I just decided elections do have consequences.
And this is what I can do from my end to make sure elections have consequences.
Well, I understand there's a lot of people doing what you're doing.
And let me just clarify here.
This is not a move that's oriented against rank-and-file union employees.
It's your money that's being absconded in the form of dues that's being spent to advance the regime's agenda.
So it's not people who saying, I'm not buying union.
It's not that they don't want to support you.
It's that what's being done with your dues money that they're trying to counter.
Here is Scott in McKay, Ohio.
Great to have you, sir.
The EIB Network.
Thanks, Rush.
It's great to talk to you.
I want to get back to Bertha Lewis for a second.
She's always amusing, but this whole thing about the internment camps, do you think that's just left-wing projection?
Because I'm wondering, you know, they haven't really...
When was the last time we had White House proxies accusing commentators like yourself of sedition?
That's pretty new.
Yeah.
Well, maybe she's really thinking about that in the back of her mind when she's claiming that they're coming to get her.
She's thinking, ha ha, they're going to come to get him.
Even so, who is the they?
Who is coming to get Bertha Lewis to intern her?
She's got to mean the Tea Party people.
That's what she's talking about.
But if anybody's going to be interning anybody, it's the regime.
Where are you going to go?
Are you going to have like an offshore pirate radio station?
You know, you got to think about that.
If it came to your backup plan.
You know, I've got a, well, I've got two backup plans.
One of them is Australia.
They speak English.
Yes, they do.
And you can see Greg Norman now and then, too.
We'll be back after this.
An amazing story in the New York Times today, long story about Mike Allen of Politico.
The headline, Mike Allen, the man the White House wakes up to.
It's all about Dan Pfeiffer, White House Communications Director, checking in by email with the same reporter, Mike Allen of Politico.
Listen to this paragraph.
Pfeiffer, every morning, tells Mike Allen of Politico the message the Obama administration is trying to drive that morning.
Drive being the action verb of choice around the male-dominated culture of Politico, a three-year-old publication, which is the off-stated goal is to become as central to political addicts as ESPN is to sports junkies.
Now, this makes the point that the White House, to get their message, their daily message out, their go-to guy is Mike Allen of Politico, because he's got this thing he puts out in the playbook every morning.