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May 27, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 27, 2010, Thursday, Hour #3
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I'm still struck by, well, I'm struck by everything in this press conference, but one thing that stands out is Obama's answer to the question about, well, Governor Jindal wants to do some stuff and the fisherman and I want to do some stuff.
And Obama said, well, I told him we're going to look at your idea.
And if a Corps of Engineers look at it, if our experts disagree with your experts, then, you know, we'll go from there.
Obama said he likes to sit around thinking about ways to fix this.
Now, that had to really inspire Bobby Jindal.
The Corps of Engineers came up with a method to protect the levies that failed during Hurricane Katrina.
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Interesting news stories that came out today prior to the Obama press conference from the Politico.
Obama under fire for spill response.
There is an unnamed Democrat in this piece.
They don't name the Democrat.
There are times and places where Obama's cool technocratic mastery is a great blessing.
But ideology aside, what do you think Reagan would have done in this situation?
He'd be down there.
Look at Bobby Jindal.
It's puzzling, the detachment, said one veteran Democrat strategerist, a frequent defender of Obama.
I just cringe at the specter of the president doing a political fundraiser in San Francisco during the memorial service instead of going to the memorial service for the people that were killed when the rig exploded.
That's politico this morning.
Yet Obama and his press conference, we've been on this from day one.
We're in charge.
We'll be peeked under anything without consulting us.
And it's just a lie.
And everybody knows he wasn't there.
The news stories, it's fascinating.
I go look at these things prior to the press conference.
USA Today, a Gallup poll, 60% say Obama's doing a poor job on the spill.
Actually, a very poor job.
53% say the same.
Louisiana locals are mad and upset.
And yet the president, everybody's understanding, we're doing everything we can here.
Everybody understands we've been on this from day one.
We got the best and brightest working on this.
He also said that he doesn't endorse boycotts.
You know, I'm president of the United States.
I don't support boycotts.
I don't discourage boycotts as private citizens.
Well, fine and dandy.
But remember this.
News story from yesterday.
President Obama lent support on Tuesday night for the Phoenix Sons protest of their home state's new immigration law.
The president said it was terrific that the NBA Phoenix Sons were socially engaged enough to wage a protest during a home playoff game by wearing the Low Sons jerseys they typically only wear for games celebrating Hispanic heritage.
I just think that somebody's a sports figure, you got a sports team doesn't mean that you're not part of the community and you're not part of our democracy, Obama said during a halftime interview on TNT.
I think it's terrific that the Suns, who obviously feel very strongly about their community, recognize that a big part of their community felt threatened by this new law.
So while he doesn't support boycotts, he supports any entity on the side he has chosen, which is against the people of Arizona.
He has sided against the people of Arizona.
So he may not endorse boycotts, but he didn't disparage them either.
You know, Arizona, I mean, like every other state in the country, they're in the red.
They've got financial problems.
And you've got states around the country threatening or telling their public workers, you can't go to Arizona.
You must boycott.
Remember the audio celebrities we had yesterday, James Carville all upset, a lack of response from Obama?
Remember, this was yesterday morning on Good Morning America.
The President of the United States could have come down here.
He could have been involved with the families of these 11 people.
He could have commandeered the things that they could be deploying people to the coast right now.
He could be with the Corps of Engineers and the Coast Guard, with these people in Plaquens Parish, doing something about these regulations.
These people are crying.
They're begging for something down here.
And it just looks like he's not involved in this.
Man, you got to get down here and take control of this, put somebody in charge of this thing and get this thing moving.
We're about to die down here.
That was yesterday morning on Good Morning America.
By tomorrow, or last night, rather, the tone had changed significantly.
On Anderson Cooper 175, Amsterdam Cooper said, President, Mr. Carville coming on Friday, what does he need to see down here?
The president, if he comes down here and does this right, he's going to see that people have not been candid with him.
That BP has not been candid with him.
That certain people on his staff and maybe even some people in his cabinet have not been candid with him.
He needs to go investigate this and find out what it is.
And when he does, I think we're going to get a lot of action.
I think it's a man who cares.
You think the president is not getting the real word of what's happening?
I don't think so.
No, sir.
It's inexplicable that this man, as smart as he is, as talented as he is, would have the rail word and saw what we saw today and not be furious and not tell people to get into action now.
Okay, so now he's surrounded by a bunch of people that are lying to him.
He is surrounded by people that are not telling the truth.
BP's not been candid with him.
Certain people on his staff, maybe some people in his cabinet have not been candid with him.
He needs to go investigate this and find out what it is.
And when he does, then we're going to get a lot of action.
I think this is a man who cares.
By the way, that's a media mantra.
Let's go back.
We've got a little montage here.
Grab soundbite number six.
Short little montage here, but this is the latest media mantra on Obama as they try to cover for his lack of concern about this.
This administration, A, cares about this.
It's a man who cares.
I truly believe he cares.
To show that he cares.
President Obama clearly cares.
Yes, he cares.
He cares a lot.
I know he cares, but he's being lied to down here.
A lot of people are not telling him the truth.
They're not being candid with him.
And then here's James Carville this morning.
So in 24 hours, it's gone to.
Come on, man, get down here.
You've got to take charge.
Sometime when people are dying down here, you've got to do something about it.
24 hours later, it's Bush's fault.
One thing I think the president needs to do and find out, and I don't know what the performance has been, but how would the MMS be operating without enhanced, without people knowing, without more investigations where they were this far into this administration?
Now, I'm told that they tried to change it last July.
They made some changes, but I would want to be satisfied that those changes were in line with what I believe to be the criminality of this that was going on during the Bush administration.
Now, a lot of the, one of the things we've not done, a lot of this stuff started when the Bush people took over this MMS and made it an extension of the oil company.
All right, so MMS, run by an Obama acolyte from Harvard, taken over by the Bush administration and turned into a criminal enterprise and basically just an extension of the oil companies.
So yesterday morning, Mr. Carville all over the place being critical of the president.
Yeah, you got to get down there, man.
People are dying down here.
I can't believe this President Nante coming down here.
Look at that.
I can't believe you're not coming down here taking charge.
I can't believe you.
I can't believe you.
Come on down.
You're going to got to get down there and do something, man.
I can't believe you're not doing anything now.
You're going to get down here.
I mean, people are dying down here.
And that's Bush's fault.
They're not a criminal activity.
MMS, it is an extension of all companies.
So clearly, clearly, some people got hold of Carl.
What are you doing?
What are you saying?
It's interesting when it's your backyard that is being hammered.
In this case, Louisiana.
It's interesting the way your perspective changes on things.
But somebody obviously convinced Mr. Carterville his focus needed to change.
Last night on CNN Situation, Wolf Blitzer was talking to the forehead, Paul Magala.
Blitzer said, Friday, president's going to go down there.
It's why a good mayor goes to a fire, right?
The mayor can't put out the fire.
It is important to be there, but also to agitate.
I mean, you saw Governor Jindal again and again saying, give us an answer.
So, Bengala wants Obama to go down there and agitate, which is a reasonable suggestion because that's what Obama does well.
Obama agitates.
He's a community agitator.
Mayors go down there.
They can't put out the fire.
They're all, where's Obama?
It's fascinating to look at all this stuff before the press conference took place.
And you can see the reaction from all sides in the state-controlled media.
He wasn't doing anything.
He wasn't engaged doing fundraisers.
He didn't go to the memorial service.
He didn't seem to care about any of this.
He was just saying, bug the hole.
He even said in the press conference, he got up today and his daughter said, Daddy, did they plug the hole?
He actually said that.
He got up this morning.
His little girl said to him, Daddy, did they plug the hole?
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I have a question.
This just hit me.
If you have to say the president cares, doesn't it mean that there is a question about it?
So all these media people, I think the president cares.
I think the president cares.
He obviously cares.
David Gertrude, president, clearly cares.
Why have to even say that?
It's because it's not obvious.
It's not obvious that he cares.
So he's having lunch with a Duke basketball team or a meeting with him.
He's having lunch with Bill.
He's going on vacation.
All of this while the spill's going on, while saying he's on top of things and is directing all the efforts.
And I don't think it's out of bounds to ask the question: does he care?
And the only reason I'm bringing this up is because all these other people are telling us that he does.
I don't think it's obvious if they're having to tell us, oh, I think it's clear the president cares.
Why say that?
They're saying that because it looks like he doesn't.
It looks like this is not a priority to him.
He had to call this press conference today to quell the notion that he doesn't care about it.
I think he cares, but I think he cares mostly about it as a political opportunity.
He cares mostly about it as a means of slamming the oil industry again.
Back to the audio soundbites here.
We'll start here with number 30.
From the press conference, New York Times Jackie Kalmas says, I want to follow up on something.
Exchange that you had with Chip Reed, leaving aside the existing permits for drilling in the Gulf.
Weeks before BP, you had called for expanded drilling.
Do you now regret that decision?
And why did you do so, knowing what you have described today about the sort of dysfunction in the MMS?
I continue to believe what I said at that time, which was that domestic oil production is an important part of our overall energy mix.
Where I was wrong was in my belief that the oil companies had their act together when it came to worst-case scenarios.
Now, that wasn't based on just my blind acceptance of their statements.
Oil drilling has been going on in the Gulf, including deep water, for quite some time.
And the record of accidents like this, we hadn't seen before.
But it just takes one for us to have a wake-up call.
We have seen accidents like this.
Ishtak won.
How many times I'm getting blue in the face?
Isha Tech win?
It won.
It's a Mexican well.
It lasted nine months.
Far worse than this.
30 years ago.
Another question, Major Garrett.
Two issues.
Some in your government have said the federal government's boot is on the neck of BP.
That's another reason why, by the way, I call them a regime.
I mean, that's the kind of stuff regimes do.
A boot on the neck.
Are you comfortable with that imagery, sir?
Is your boot on the neck of BP?
Can you understand, sir, why some of the Gulf who feel besieged by this oil spill consider that a meaningless, possibly ludicrous metaphor?
Secondly, can you tell the American people what your White House did or did not offer Congressman SESTAC to not enter the Democrat senatorial primary?
How will you meet your levels of express transparency and ethics to convey that answer to satisfy what appear to be bipartisan calls for greater disclosure about that matter?
There will be an official response shortly on the SESTAC issue, which I hope will answer your questions.
You will get it from my administration.
And it will be coming out.
When I say shortly, I mean shortly.
I don't mean weeks or months.
I can assure the public that nothing improper took place.
But as I said, there will be a response shortly on that issue.
Now let's talk about Salazar.
With respect to the metaphor that was used, you know, I think Ken Salazar would probably be the first one to admit that he has been frustrated, angry, and occasionally emotional about this issue, like a lot of people have.
I mean, there are a lot of folks out there who see what's happening and are angry at BP, are frustrated that it hasn't stopped.
And so, you know, I'll let Ken answer for himself.
I would say that, you know, we don't need to use language like that.
Don't give me it.
We don't use language like, no, we just send SEIU thugs to the front doors of private citizens.
All we do is hit back twice as hard.
We don't put the boot on the neck.
We don't need to use language like that.
So he throws Salazar under the bus.
But I mean, this administration does far worse than just utter the words.
I mean, this administration directs union hacks to beat up black guys at congressional town hall meetings.
We don't.
We don't use words like that.
We don't want to come close to using words like that.
And then this.
This is how he, close to the end of the press conference.
When I woke up this morning and I'm shaving and Malia knocks on my bathroom door and she peeks in her head and she says, did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?
Because I think everybody understands that when we are fouling the earth like this, it has concrete implications, not just for this generation, but for future generations.
I grew up in Hawaii, where the ocean is sacred.
You know, this is just going, this is all over the top here.
People frustrated, angry at BP.
If they were angry at BP, they wouldn't mind Salazar's language, having their boot on BP's neck.
What people are angry at, Obama's got to understand, it's because of people like him and liberals, the people of this country have come to look to government to solve every problem.
Obama positioned himself and touted himself, and so did his supporters, as Mr. Competence.
Mr. Competence.
He's the guy that was going to lower the sea levels.
He was the guy that was going to bring us all together in unity.
He was going to be post-partisan.
He was going to end racism and all of these things.
He was so smart.
Why, we had never seen anything like this man on our political scene before.
No one had ever trod the earth with this kind of competence, this rare form of intelligence.
And as we all will agree, we get frustrated that so many citizens seem to look to government to solve every problem, even the problems government has created, even the problems government's caused.
Well, we might not like it, but it happens.
I would bet you there are more people angry at the government for not fixing this than there are people angry at BP, because most people expect the government.
It's like, go back and look at Katrina.
What do people get mad at there?
They got mad at the government.
The government wasn't there to fix it.
The government wasn't there to give them money.
The government wasn't there to pass out their welfare checks.
The government wasn't there to make the waters recede.
The government wasn't there to rebuild our houses.
But the government was there to take William Jefferson back to his house to get the 90 grand out of his refrigerator, refrigerator freezer.
So, dirty little secret, Mr. President, the people do look to you to solve this stuff, and especially you, because you presented yourself as the guy who was more competent than anybody who had ever served as president to deal with all of these problems.
And now you're not dealing with it.
You're going on vacation.
You're having lunch with people.
You're putting it as a ceremony with a Duke basketball team.
And your supporters have to tell people that you care.
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If my, if, if, if, well, I don't have a daughter.
But if my daughter knocked on my bathroom door and peeked in and said, Daddy, did you plug the hole yet?
Well, my first response would be, honey, that's really none of your business.
But do you know, did you, that came at the end of the press conference?
And you know what a real trick in that was?
I mean, innocent little child, Daddy, did you plug the hole?
Daddy, did you plug the hole yet?
That's not an accident.
The end of the press conference.
And everybody will repeat the anecdote.
And on the day we think the hole might be plugged.
Daddy, Daddy, did you plug the hole yet?
Stephen Baldwin has called.
The famous Baldwin acting family.
Baldwin, Stephen Baldwin on with us now.
Stephen, thanks for the call.
Very much happy to have you here.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, good to talk to you.
A big hello from my compadre, Kevin McCullough, who you know I work with.
Absolutely.
And just calling to say I have very serendipitously been down in New Orleans in the last three weeks.
I started filming for about five days a documentary titled The Will to Drill.
Coincidentally, while I was there, the same individuals who are funding the documentary are assisting Kevin Costner in this centrifuge technology that he and his brother have developed for 10 years, and they have been testing it successfully for the last two weeks.
And most of the presidents of the parishes down in that area along the coastline, particularly Billy Nungesser, who you've seen a lot on the news, Rush, he's the president of the Plackamens Parish area, and he is very, very eager for the approval for these centrifuge machines, which have successfully been pulling the oil out of the water to be implemented as soon as possible.
Yeah, but now, Stephen, really, we're talking about hundreds of thousands of gallons here.
How big is Costner's centrifuge?
Well, the largest version of it, there's three sizes, but the largest version of it, which is called a V20 machine, can do 200 gallons per minute.
And over a daily timeframe, it can do 200,000 gallons.
So if you had enough of these suckers in the water rush, at least it's doing something to stop the oil that's out there coming towards the shore.
Now, is Costner being stalled in his efforts to do this?
Well, I wouldn't say that he's being stalled.
I would say that probably there is the typical red tape in a situation like this where everybody's looking to be sure that nobody makes a decision that they get in trouble for later.
Well, now I read today, look at there's a story that from one of the news agencies that BP is testing Costner's centrifuge, even as we speak.
That's correct.
That's correct.
They have been involved in the test.
Did the Obama administration approve this?
Because we heard a press conference today, Stephen, that BP doesn't do anything without getting the approval of the Obama administration and Thad Allen at the Coast Guard.
Did Kevin Costner get permission from the Obama administration, MMS, or the Coast Guard to take this to BP and try it?
I really should say that I'm not completely sure.
Come on, Stephen.
We know.
I'm sure Obama's never heard of this.
No, no, no.
Well, I'm sure Obama's never heard of it either.
But to answer your question, I think the answer to that goes in line with what you're saying.
There are, along with Kevin Costner, there are multiple solutions potentially that are being presented to getting the oil out of the water before it destroys the marshes and continues to do the damage that it's going to do and impact the coastline and Louisiana, and it's heading towards Florida.
And the sooner they do something to at least try to get the oil out of the water before it comes to the shore, that's obviously a solution, isn't it?
It is.
If it works.
Now, has Kevin Costner showed this or demonstrated it for the governor, Bobby Jindal?
The governor is very aware of this technology.
All of the presidents of the parishes, the presidents of the parishes, Rush, they want this machine in the water now.
So Costner is there.
I think he's doing some more tests over the next two or three days, which, again, I repeat, have already been successful.
Now it's just a matter of going through whatever the process is of who talks to who and who says yes and blah, blah, blah.
Well, that's Obama.
I mean, we heard at a press conference today.
How many centrifuges does Kevin Costner have?
These things, how long does it take to produce one?
He can produce four of the larger machines per month with the production that he has available to him now.
But he has over 30 machines right now standing at the ready, ready to go in the water.
The whole thing is in place.
It's ready to go.
Just waiting to see when they're going to move forward.
Well, we'll keep a sharp eye on.
I appreciate your heads up on this.
It's an AP story that says BP is testing it even today as we speak.
And the headline of the story is Gulf Oil Spill News, Costner's Centrifuge to be tested by BP.
So it's in.
Tell me about your documentary.
The will to drill.
What's this about?
And it sounds self-explanatory, but what is it?
Well, the will to drill, and the website is the same.
It's willtodrill.com.
And basically, Rush, it's my goal to go down there and with everything that's happened after Three Mile Island and the regulatory that was passed after that, and then after Exxon Valdez and the regulatory that never happened after that, I'm putting together a documentary that, as ironic as this may be,
is a nonpartisan documentary that really is more about when are we as a culture and a people and a society going to come together and individually start to take on the responsibility to create the change in the future to be more prepared when these things happen.
Here we are, Rush, as you've been explaining.
All these people in Louisiana and Florida are standing there waiting for this horrific outcome and they can't do a thing about it.
Well, the will to drill is how do we look towards the future?
How do we come together?
How do we make the changes?
Well, you said, look, you said it just a moment ago in the run-up to the explanation you just gave me.
Essentially, oil has become politicized.
And it shouldn't.
The energy should not have a political component to it.
But the left politicizes everything.
So oil has become a dirty word.
Oil companies are dirty.
So there's a political obstacle that has to be overcome before we get anywhere near solving a problem like this.
And this ought to not be a political component at all.
Well, listen, in my documentary, I want to present the case, Rush, that simply no one is exempt from the usage of oil.
From the cell phone you talk on to the clothes on our backs, oil touches everything.
The question in my documentary becomes, what can we do in the future to come together to create the change to be more prepared for these accidents and these horrible things that are going to happen?
Well, I understand that, but they don't happen that much.
Considering we have more spillage from tankers transporting this stuff across the globe than we do have from wells.
And we have to transport it on tankers so much because the politics of this prevents us from drilling.
A lot of people don't understand just how much oil is involved in every aspect of life.
Your clothes, your trash bags, practically, I don't know, the things that are made with derivatives from oil would stun you.
Well, Stephen, look, I got to run.
I'm glad you called good luck with your documentary.
But you know something?
This is just my little bugaboo.
Sometimes coming together with people is not possible because some people you want to come together with are never going to join you.
They just have to be defeated, like the left.
I don't want to come together with them.
They don't compromise on anything.
Everything is political to them.
Oil, energy, that's a matter of survival.
And survival ought not be political.
I'm glad you called.
Good luck.
A brief time out.
Back after this with much more.
Daddy, did you plug the oil leak today?
Did you plug the hole today?
Did you plug the leak yet, Daddy?
All right, so we had to endure Amy Carter and her concerns about nuclear proliferation, Billy Carter and his concerns about gasoline stations selling beer.
And now Obama child asking her dad if he had plugged a hole yet.
Wonderful.
By the way, Kevin Kostner does, looking into this during the break, Kevin Costner is spending $24 million of his own money on these centrifuges.
BP is testing them right now.
He does need permission from the federal government to use the machine.
He will need, and he is working with state and local officials in Louisiana, the New Orleans area.
And locals down there trying to raise money to help defray some of the costs of using it because they want some action.
They want some action.
They can see the slick getting closer and closer in some areas it has already hit.
And they want some action taken.
And they're not getting anything other than a bunch of meetings and works and progress and a bunch of process stuff and finger pointing and blame, which is all oriented toward the political end of this.
And meanwhile, we got the state-controlled media running around us and assuring us that Obama cares.
And I'm just telling you, if they have to tell us that, then it must mean that there's a question about it.
And the reason there's a question about it is because he has appeared to be unconcerned and he's appeared to be aloof.
He's going on fundraisers and eating caviar, $17,600 a plate fundraiser at the Getty House.
And the opening hors d'oeuvre was caviar.
$17,000, $600 a person while this is happening.
And you know, you're not the kind of grief that Bush got for just flying over the place.
In fact, Bush went to a fundraiser event in California when the Katrina hit.
He caught all kinds of hell for it.
And Obama, to be fair, Obama's catching his own share of grief about it, even from his own side now.
So the purpose of the press conference today was to, hey, we're on top of this.
Is it plugged a hole?
It's working.
BP can't do a thing without talking to us first.
We got a Nobel winning physicist working on this.
He works with Adams and everything like that.
So we're going to fix the Adams and the oil going to fix.
Our little girl said, Daddy, you plugged a hole yet.
I was shaving.
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Mike, great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
It is an honor.
Great to have you, sir.
Great to be on.
I have a theory as to why the Obama administration is dragging their feet on some of these solutions, i.e. Governor Jindahl and perhaps the centrifuges, is because if these work too well, this will take away all the fodder that the left has in fear-mongering future spills.
Well, you know, normally I wouldn't want to poo-poo a comment like that, but I can't because every disaster is an opportunity for these people.
They can't wait for the next Katrina to come along.
They just can't wait because all these disasters beg for what?
Federal action, which requires more federal power.
And this is what these people are all about, is securing more federal power for leftists when they are running the government.
And I'm sure, you know, Costner, whatever he's doing cannot be said to be a government project.
It's a private sector project.
And if a private sector guy comes up with a solution to a problem like this that has an immediate application even before the well is plugged, it has an immediate application to skim some of the oil off so that it never reaches shore, at least an effort could be made.
Then what does that do?
It illustrates the relative worthlessness of the federal government in things like this.
I think you've got a point, Mike.
Sadly, I think you got an excellent point.
Be right back.
Fast as three hours in media.
Obama thinks he destroyed the natural flow of the program today, but no, no, no, no, no.
We adapt as well as anyone does.
By the way, I think the slick, the slick finally has reached Obama.
I just found out he's having lunch with Bill Clinton today after meeting the Duke basketball team.
By the way, BP gave Obama $1 million.
I wonder if that fits in with his too cozy relationship that big oil has with federal government.
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