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May 19, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 19, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
You don't have to alert the media.
They're listening.
You don't have to alert them.
They are here.
I'll tell you what, the thing I love about today, and of course we're going to put this in full perspective as the program unfolds today before your very eyes and ears.
The Democrats are celebrating winning in a two-to-one Democrat district.
They're celebrating.
That's the only race that counts as far as they're concerned.
This shows there is no going to be a Republican wave.
There isn't going to be a Republican current.
There isn't going to be a Republican sweep.
Well, look what happened in Pennsylvania 12.
Yeah, 150,000 union members, two-to-one Democrat voter registration.
You have a Democrat running as the Rush Limbaugh, the Democrat Party in that district, and the Democrats hold it.
There's nothing about that race that bodes well for the Democrats unless they come up with a bunch of candidates who can make themselves sound like me.
Greetings, my friends.
And we know that's not going to happen.
Great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Before we get to the election results and analysis, unlike what you will hear anywhere else, other things I want to get out of the way first.
White House chef, they brought in this guy from Chicago to be chef for the state dinner tonight.
Now, they are going to allow a pool reporter, one pool reporter to come in and take a quick sneak peek at the setup.
They are trying to hold off the menu because it's probably 4,000 calories and it'll contradict Michelle's austerity program where food is concerned.
They're trying to hide the opulence of what's going on tonight with a state dinner for Felipe Coleron, the Mexican president.
And this chef has brought in, guest chefs don't get paid.
They do it for the honor.
So this guy is being brought in by Michelle and Barack.
The regular White House chefs get shoved aside.
They peel the potatoes and chop the onions.
This chef that they brought in from Chicago started tweeting from the White House kitchen.
He started tweeting about himself, about what he was doing.
He described a mole, which is a sauce that has 27 or 28 ingredients in it.
And then he said he named another dish.
And finally, the regime took his tweet machine away from him.
The regime said, you're not tweeting anymore out of here, bud.
You come in here and you don't exist here.
Well, what makes you think you come in here and start tweeting all over the place?
So the guy has gone to ground.
They have duct taped the guy's Twitter account.
Now, the reason that Obama is obsessed with this, the reason he's obsessed with controlling the media, even the chef's tweets, is because he doesn't want the people to see the real Obama.
This is a guy who loves the trappings of office.
This is a guy who loves flying Air Force One.
Probably one of the reasons he wanted to be the leader of the regime.
He loves these elaborate dinners.
He loves $100 per pound Kobe beef appetizers.
He loves the opulence.
But we can't be allowed to see the real Obama.
It's not a matter of Obama staying on message.
It's about perpetuating the false portrayal of Obama as a smart, wise, cool leader.
He has none of those things.
In fact, we actually know as little about him today as we did when he ran for orifice.
So, clampdown.
I mean, this is, you got it.
What country do we live in?
What country do we live in?
Of course, the answer to that question is, well, the country the media deserves to be in because they helped give this to us.
But they're being shut out of a state dinner for, you know, normally, you know what they're doing?
They're in a separate room.
They're setting up place settings identical to what's in the East Room for the dinner tonight so that the pool reporter can see how the tables are set.
Kid you not.
Ladies and gentlemen, now we've been told here that the hearings on the socialist Elena Kagan for the U.S. Supreme Court will start on June the 26th.
Now, the Democrats delayed our nominees.
They blocked many of them.
But for a huge lifetime appointment like Kagan, they do this.
And the public is going to be outraged if they understand what is occurring here.
Patrick Leahy from Vermont, a radical leftist, hell-bent on pushing this woman through fast before her radicalism is understood by the public.
That's exactly what's going on.
That's why you're not allowed to know what her brother Irving does in his classroom.
So what we have here, and this is, I've been thinking about this long and hard.
I came up with the phrase, and then I asked myself for a couple of seconds, should I actually use the phrase?
And I've decided that I'm going to use the phrase.
What we have here, not just in the Kagan nomination, but throughout our country now, is a disconnect between liberalism and Americanism.
I can think of no more succinct way to explain this.
Well, because the truth is what really irritates people these days, particularly the left.
It's just going to irritate them like they can't believe the disconnect between liberalism and Americanism.
It says it all.
The Kagan nomination shows it, the state dinner thing tonight, the way they're handling that.
Obama going to Ohio yesterday, 15-point-something percent unemployment in Ohio.
And Obama goes in and starts talking about how wonderful things are in the country.
Things are coming back.
It's like pouring salt on the wound.
Today, we have more foreclosures and repossessions at an all-time high.
Yet we're in an economic recovery.
And all this is great news for Obama.
It's the disconnect between liberalism and Americanism.
And they clearly are two separate things.
To Arizona for a moment.
This is from NBC Eyeball News Channel 4 out there in Los Angeles.
Power play over immigration law.
Los Angeles boycott resolution sparks a threat over power the city receives from Arizona.
An Arizona utility commissioner said that he's willing to pull the plug on Los Angeles if the city goes through with a boycott of his state.
In a letter to the city of Los Angeles, a member of Arizona's Power Commission said he would ask the Arizona utility companies to cut off their power supply to LA, which gets 25% of its power from Arizona.
So I think go ahead and do that.
They don't like anything about Arizona because of the law, and I'm sure they don't like electricity generated by Arizona.
So yeah, and he cut everybody's utility bills.
There wouldn't be as much energy to use.
Electricity.
Go ahead.
Now, folks, this is the kind of thing, and I must be very careful here.
This is the kind of thing that starts civil unrest.
I mean, you've got states now boycott, a single state, which is more than likely unconstitutional.
Now that state is, oh yeah, you want to boycott us?
Well, we're going to shut off all of our power to you.
You get 25% of your electricity from us.
I'm sure you think the electricity is racist.
So you don't like profiled electricity?
Fine.
We will just shut it off.
And you can go get it from somewhere else for your thriving city economy.
The commissioner's power grid play is in response to the city's approval of a resolution directing city staff to consider which contracts with Arizona be terminated.
So Arizona said, fine.
Now, there's something really, I saw this today and I said, this can't be.
So I went and checked it.
And it absolutely is true.
The regime has named a five-member commission to help stem the flow of oil from the BP rig.
Five-man team of the nation's best scientific minds assembled by the regime to help BP stem the flow of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico.
By the way, speaking of this, the information I had yesterday from the geologist, Ph.D., who's also the CEO of British Petroleum, who said, you know, this is really, this is light crude.
Light crude is more kerosene and gasoline when it gets refined.
Did a little research into this.
And it evaporates much faster than heavy crude, which is used, among other things, asphalt and so forth.
And they're looking for where's all the oil?
They can't find it.
You know, where's all the oil?
It should be out there.
The ocean may have emulsified some of it.
A lot of it may have evaporated.
I mean, how many of you have spilled gasoline while mowing your yard?
Look how quickly it evaporates.
But it also, you know, oil can also be a great fertilizer because of the carbon content in it.
So we do have mostly light crude, which is far different from heavy crude in terms of damage.
And it is being dispersed throughout the Gulf.
This guy from BP, I haven't heard any reaction to him yet, but he said, look, you look at the water volume of the Gulf of Mexico and the oil that's leaking from our rig.
Yeah, it's a lot of oil, but compared to the water volume, it's thimble.
You're not supposed to say things like that.
They're the truth.
You're not supposed to say things like the disconnect between Americanism and liberalism.
Anyway, one of the people, one of the people on the regime's five-man team of the best scientific minds to help BP stem the flow of oil is Jonathan Katz from Washington University in St. Louis.
He is a self-described homophobe, a self-described, proud homophobe, and a global warming denier.
The left, in many of their niche blogs, is beside itself today.
They cannot understand how this happened.
Frankly, I can't either.
When I saw this, I said, is this for real?
I went and looked into it because it comes from an alternative type newspaper website, RiverfrontTimes.com, but found some other places where, yeah, it's true.
Jonathan Katz, America Blog is leading the charge against the guy.
They quote an article Katz wrote titled In Defense of Homophobia, in which he blames the spread of AIDS on homosexuality and adds some other remarks.
This guy ends up on a team of the five man or five best scientific minds to stop the oil flow.
It's still, as I sit here and report this to you, it is still unbelievable that this happened.
Back on June 24th of this year, pardon me, the sniffles today.
January, sorry, January 24th.
Just a little verbal dyslexia.
Again, my mouth unable to keep up with my mind.
Most people see the exact opposite.
Their minds can't keep up with their mouths.
In my case, my mouth can't keep up with my mind.
It's so damn fast out there, nor can my fingers when I type.
That's why I don't like writing because I can't, I forget what I was thinking by the time I get to it.
Typing it.
Anyway, January 24th, 2010, Arkansas Gazette, healthcare story, a rerun.
U.S. Representative Marion Berry and others involved in the last major effort to overhaul the healthcare system are struck by a sense of political deja vu.
They talk about 1993 and 1994, healthcare bombing out and the Democrats losing control of the House.
They go and ask Obama about it in this story.
Obama says this just last January.
Well, you know, I've been doing this with the White House, doing that with this White House, and they just don't seem to give me credibility at all.
Oh, that's Marion Berry talking, I'm sorry.
They just kept telling us how good it was going to be.
The president himself, when it was brought up in one of the groups, said, well, the big difference here and in 1994 was, you've got me.
You've got me.
We're going to see how much difference that makes now.
Obama said this in January.
And it's interesting to go back and look at, okay, yeah, we've got you.
Who was the big loser in the elections yesterday?
There's no other way to slice this.
The big loser was Obama.
A profoundly big loser.
And I will explain why as the program unfolds.
Got to take a brief time out.
We'll do that.
We'll come.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Felipe, we'll get to this after the break, but just to tease you, Felipe Calderon, at the arrival ceremony at the White House today, ripped into the Arizona immigration law, the president of Mexico.
Our president said nothing except to say, well, you know what?
We're really citizens of the world.
We're really people without borders now.
You'll hear the two soundbites coming right up.
Well, there's Obama right now.
Shared border must be an engine of economic growth.
Shared border must be engine of economic growth.
Would somebody explain that to me?
I understand shared border.
They're on one side, we're on the other.
But how is it a shared border is the engine of economic growth?
Well, yeah, Mexico's a mess, but the Mexicans are coming here.
We're not going there.
We can't go there.
Here's Felipe Colderon at the arrival ceremony at the White House this morning.
We can do so with a community that will promote a dignifying life in an orderly way for both our countries, who are some of them still living here in the shadows with such laws as the Arizona law that is placing our people to face discrimination.
That's the translator for Felipe Calderon.
Here at the White House, the president of Mexico, with our president standing idly by, trashes the Arizona law as discriminatory.
We are discriminating against Mexicans who are not here legally.
President Obama, perfectly happy to permit this.
The camera was not on the president when Felipe Colderon made the statement, but we assume that he had his head high, as he does each and every while Messiahs pose with their heads very high, looking down their noses at people and I'm sure giving a warm vibe of approval for this.
When it was Obama's turn, this is part of what he had to say.
Mexican-American families have been here for centuries, as well as those who continue to our proud tradition as a nation of immigrants, all of whom strengthen our American family and who join us today.
Mr. President, your visit speaks to a truth of our time in North America and the world.
In the 21st century, we are defined not by our borders, but by our bonds.
So I say to you and to the Mexican people, let us stand together.
Let us face the future together.
Let us work together.
Trabajemos juntos.
Trabajemos juntos.
Root word there is junta.
So Mexican-American families have been here for centuries.
True.
As well as those who continue our proud American tradition as a nation of immigrants.
True.
All of whom strengthen our American family.
Not true.
Those who do not come here legally and those who do not assimilate when they come here do not strengthen the quote-unquote American family.
Mr. President, your visit speaks to a truth of our time in North America and the world.
In the 21st century, we are not defined by our borders.
It's true.
With this regime in charge, we are not defined by our borders.
And without borders, we don't have sovereignty.
Without borders, we don't have a nation.
And right now, we have no southern border.
Obama is in fact looking at the southern border and saying here's an economic growth opportunity, the shared border, a shared economic growth opportunity.
I say to you and to the Mexican people, let us stand together.
Let us face the future together.
Let us work together.
Nothing wrong with that, except what is unsaid.
What's unsaid, and what is, for the most part, exclusively what Obama is talking about, is the illegal alien population.
Mexico annually deports more illegal aliens than the United States does.
They enforce their immigration laws.
When we attempt to enforce ours, their president comes here, calls us discriminators and racists, while our president stands silently by, apparently approving.
Drive-by media today is just ticked off about a whole lot of things.
They know the truth of these elections yesterday, make no mistake about it.
They know that they're in pure spin mode.
They're accepting the faxes from the White House, which go to Mike Allen.
And then some of the others of the New York Times get jealous that it doesn't come to them.
But regardless, it ends up getting out to the media.
All of this various spin.
But the thing that really hasn't ticked off, they were so excited yesterday.
They found tarballs.
They found tar balls in Key West.
Oh, glory.
Hallelujah.
Tar balls.
Now we can prove this oil splink is deadly.
It's going to kill people.
It's going to get all over Florida.
Look at tarballs.
Except the tarballs were not from the Gulf oil spill.
The Coast Guard, sadly, disappointingly said the results of these tests conclusively show that the tar balls collected from Florida Keys beaches do not match the type of oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The source of the tar balls remains unknown at this time.
What does that mean?
Where are the tarballs coming from?
They still have to hunt for the oil.
There's oil out there that they don't know where it is.
And they don't know what's causing the tar balls to happen.
They were so happy.
It was almost orgasmic.
Yesterday afternoon in the state-controlled media, tar balls, Key West oil spill.
Yes!
Disaster!
And today, sullen, long, sad faces like a hound dog as the tar balls identified as not coming from the oil spill in the Gulf, but they don't know from where.
So there must be another oil leak out there somewhere, or maybe some evil shipping container has ruptured and there's oil spilling somewhere out there.
Regardless, the template that they had so eagerly constructed fell apart.
President Obama's answering machine just today.
Chris Matthews actually said a couple days ago that when are we going to nationalize the oil companies?
Let's just round them up in front of the CEOs and shoot them.
I could do it.
And in China, they just shoot them.
I'm almost tempted to go along with Matthew's idea.
If he wants to shoot the people in charge of oil companies and thus wants to nationalize oil companies, it means we're going to be shooting members of the regime.
And it's therefore very tempting for me, ladies and gentlemen, to sign on to Matthew's idea.
By the way, this is from, well, it's KSDK-TV in St. Louis, or maybe it's RAID, I'm not sure.
A Washington University physics professor has been dumped by the regime because of his beliefs.
Well, this didn't take long.
What did we know?
20 minutes ago, maybe a half hour ago, we informed the world of this, and now Jonathan Katz is history.
Dr. Jonathan Katz has been asked to help address the oil spill in the Gulf.
He was one of five top scientists tapped by the Energy Secretary to help last week, but now he's been dropped.
Dr. Katz would not grant an interview yesterday, but the U.S. Department of Energy emailed us the following statement.
Dr. Chu, that would be Stephen Chu, the U.S. Energy Secretary, has spoken with dozens of scientists and engineers as part of his work to help find solutions to stop the oil spill.
Some of Professor Katz's controversial writings have become a distraction from the critical work of addressing the spill.
So he's gone.
I know, putting politics above the sea turtles, politics above marine life.
One of the five finest mines now kicked off of the panel.
They found tarballs down the Gulf.
We don't know where they're coming from.
This guy could have probably told us, but now they have to get rid of him because he's a proud homophobe and doesn't believe in global warming.
Oh yeah, he's been profiled.
Don't question the regime has profiled the guy and obviously discriminating against him.
Now to the election analysis.
I just find it so enjoyable to watch in unison the state-controlled media try to spin this.
We've even got people on our side looking at Pennsylvania 12.
This is the seat.
The special election for Jack Murthy's seat.
We've got people on our side.
Uh-oh, oh no, Burns was supposed to win this, and Burns didn't win this.
We're going to have to revise our whole projections about the Republicans winning the House in November.
If the Republicans can't pull this off, why maybe we're overstating Republicans.
This is people on our side saying this.
On the left's side, the spin, I mean, they're lying to themselves like I've never seen them lie to themselves before.
They're out there trying to say so many things.
Well, this is an anti-incumbent election.
Anybody are all in trouble.
It's not focused on just one party.
Anti-incumbent in Pennsylvania.
Let's look at SESTAC versus Specter.
SESTAC is a two-term congressman.
He is a huge lib.
He is an incumbent.
He is in office.
And he won.
And yet they're trying to spin this as an anti-incumbent race in Pennsylvania.
The reason SESTAC beat Specter in the primary is because a lot of Democrats saw Spectre as a Republican up until a year ago.
We lost in the 12th district of Pennsylvania for a simple reason.
There's almost 100,000 union members in that district.
The district has been gerrymandered for Murtha for years.
It's two-to-one Democrat versus Republican voter registration.
And in addition to that, the Murthy hack, Christ or Christ, whatever his name is that won, was seriously running around as the conservative Rush Limbaugh.
This guy was running as a conservative.
Now, the members of the media want to try to say, and our guys getting sucked into this is embarrassing, but the media guys are saying, well, look at this.
I mean, this is the race that mattered.
Pennsylvania 12, that's the only race that mattered.
And the Republicans, I mean, they weren't even on the game.
They weren't even on the floor.
They weren't even on the field.
I mean, this was a route.
Well, it's two-to-one voter registration.
You have a statewide Democrat primary, which, of course, is going to launch more Democrats.
You've got a two-to-one voter registration advantage.
And you've got the Democrat running as a conservative who would bring home the port.
He ran as a conservative and then was promising to do what Murtha did.
He's going to keep Mirtha's airport open, even though there's never any traffic there.
He's going to bring all the bacon home.
This should not be a surprise.
And there are far more informative and telling results from yesterday other than September 12 or Pennsylvania 12.
However, the real minefield today where the rich gold is ready to be mined is the media's coverage of all this.
We will continue right after this.
Don't go away.
Go to Google.
Go to Google and enter the search term tarballs and key west.
318,000 results.
318,000 results, if you keyword Key West and Tarballs.
That's how much anticipation there was throughout the media for this to be from the oil spill in the Gulf.
This Kritz guy, Kreitz.
You have to forgive me for, I do not listen to TV with the sound on because I often can't hear it.
I only read closed captioning on TV or on the internet, of course.
So I don't purposely mispronounce people's names unless I've heard it pronounced.
I'm just going to look at it and pronounce it as I was taught to pronounce things in grade school: long I, short I, long A, short A, blah, blah, blah.
So to me, it looks like it'd be Kreitz.
Anyway, this guy in Pennsylvania 12 pretended to be me.
He pretended to be pro-gun.
He was pro-life.
And he said he was against Obamacare.
And he said he was going to bring home all the bacon.
And these guys in the media, which is another great, I mean, the media, a great illustration of the disconnect between liberalism and Americanism.
They are focusing on this Pennsylvania 12 race as though it changes the game everywhere.
This is an end to all of the punditry that the Republicans are going to sweep to victory in the House.
It's November.
No, the lesson here is there apparently, even in Pennsylvania 12, is a conservative ascendancy.
It might also be the case that the Republicans picked the wrong candidate.
I don't know.
I have no clue.
But the winner sounded like the Rush Limbaugh of the Democrat Party.
And in a two-to-one Democrat district, no surprise.
Even in Kentucky, the Secretary of State there, Grayson, was not a Washington politician.
He had never served in Washington.
He wasn't an establishment insider, yet he lost.
Why?
He lost because he was considered a moderate because he was tied to Mitch McConnell.
Mitch McConnell was said to have hand-picked Grayson along with other establishment Republicans, but he's not a Washington incumbent.
They're trying to spell this as an anti-incumbent election.
And the SESTAC was not an incumbent, he is an incumbent in the House.
McConnell's boy, Grayson, not an incumbent.
Rand Paul is more conservative.
He was the winner, libertarian.
In Arkansas, the leftists tried to knock off Blanche Lincoln, even though she routinely votes for Obama's radical agenda.
But now there's going to be a runoff.
I mean, if this were a big comeback and a big sweep for the radical left of the Democrat Party, none of what happened yesterday would have happened.
She probably now, going to be a runoff there.
But look, it is unlikely, folks.
I don't want you to fall into this media trap here.
Focusing on Pennsylvania 12 is changing the game.
It's unlikely we're going to win most two-to-one districts.
Why do you think they're gerrymandered in the first place?
They're gerrymandered to make sure that the incumbent hangs on.
In this case, the incumbent passed away.
But we're not going to win all the two-to-one districts.
But the thing is, we don't have to.
They're really setting a trap here.
Disconnect, liberalism, and Americanism.
They're trying to dispirit everybody on our side.
We don't have to win these two-to-one districts.
We don't have to take out Chuck Schumer in order to sweep the victory.
We don't have to take out Pelosi.
We're not going to take out Pelosi.
If Pelosi is ever taken out, it's going to be the Democrats that'll do it at some point down the road in a primary or she'll retire.
We wouldn't have to win those districts.
If we win seats where the Democrats have a 10% advantage, then we are going to win a huge number of seats, as well as seats that they hold in marginally Republican districts.
Don't forget because of 2006 and 2008, a lot of Democrats were elected in marginally Republican districts.
And those, we haven't had a test of one of those.
So we're still on track here.
I'm going to go through the list here of the humongous defeats Obama has suffered in election after election after election.
He was the big loser yesterday, no matter which way you slice this.
And the Politico is out there making the same argument.
Oh, yeah, as a big, big damn Obama.
He wasn't on the ballot.
It doesn't matter.
Anti-incumbent mood.
No big deal.
Nothing to get worried about here.
They're going to eat those words in November, but nobody's going to remember.
In the only House race that really mattered to both parties, the special election to replace Murtha in Pennsylvania 12, Republicans failed spectacularly, losing on a level playing field where in this favorable environment they should have run roughshod over opposition.
Level playing field?
How do you get that Pennsylvania 12, these are Politico's words, how do you get to the fact that Pennsylvania 12 is a level playing ground?
You've got hundreds of tens of thousands of union people there, all Democrats.
You've got two-to-one voter registration, Democrat.
You've got a sympathy candidate because Mirtha died, passed away.
You've got a candidate running as a conservative.
Again, pretended to be pro-gun, pretended to be pro-life, ran against, said he was against Obamacare.
He's against cap and trade.
The only thing he really did that reminded people of Murtha was promise to bring home the bacon, to bring home the pork.
Plus, there was a statewide Democrat primary.
So they can lie to themselves if they want.
The disconnect between liberalism and Americanism.
If the guys at the Politico want to tell themselves that Pennsylvania 12 was a level playing field and that the Republicans got routed in a race that they should have run roughshod over the opposition, whoever said that was going to happen?
Whoever said the Republicans were going to run roughshod over whatever his name, Christ, Critz, Kritz.
Whoever said that?
So all of these phony objectives are set up, which can't be met.
And then when they're not met, when they're spectacularly not met, then of course we get a big change in the conventional wisdom.
And it's designed to buoy the spirits of the Democrat base, which is really dispirited.
They're about as low as that oil spill in the Gulf is right now, even after today or yesterday, and to dispirit you.
Don't let that happen.
I'll tell you when it's time to be dispirited.
And it's not time.
One more thing about this guy, Kritz, rhymes with Ritz.
In Pennsylvania 12, not only was he in favor of cap and trade after the oil spill, even after that, he came out in favor of offshore drilling.
Now, I challenge anybody, you people at the Politico and all of you in the drive-by media, I challenge you to challenge all of these incumbent Democrats to run on Obama's agenda.
I challenge you to run on Pelosi's agenda.
You tell them that's where their future is.
Their future is running on supporting Obama's agenda, bringing him into campaign.
You do that.
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