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May 31, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 31, 2010, Monday, Hour #2
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So I checked the email folks during the top of the hour break, and and uh, you know it's interesting.
I I can I can be pretty tough on male politicos, but if I get tough on females other than Hillary Rush, don't you think you're being a little too hard on Janet Napolitano.
And actually, I think um I'm being quite kind and restrained.
Folks, the dirty little secret about Secretary Nalapano, or Politic, not not whatever name is.
If brains were made out of wool, she couldn't knit leggings for a canary.
I mean, we're dealing here with vacancy between the two ears that is unprecedented at such a high level of power.
I got an email last night about 10.30, and I get I get an email like this every now and then, and it happens when I am really being excoriated in the media, and I'm really being excoriated in the media right now from being accused of saying things I haven't said about the oil spill.
I'm being accused of accusing people of blowing it up when I haven't accused anybody of blowing it up.
Uh and these things take on a life of their own, and I get emails from Rush, how do you put up with this?
Here's one.
Dear Rush, uh, I I need to know how you handle it so well.
When you are constantly being maligned and attacked for your conservative beliefs, I'm also maligned, and I'm attacked at my job, but I don't have the fortitude you do to deal with it.
I know I'm right, but I feel so weak and helpless.
The liberals I work with drain my confidence.
You said yesterday something about being happy with who you are.
How do you get to that point?
Well, that actually is not a silly question.
Most people are not raised to be happy with themselves.
Most people are raised to think everybody else is better than they are.
Most people are raised to be humble and to treat people in a way that you don't offend them because they're better than you are.
It's meaning may not use those words when you're raised, but uh we we're we're all raised uh to think of ourselves uh as lesser than other people.
And we're also raised to say that if we like what we do and we admire ourselves, that we're braggart.
And those uh uh tiny characterizations are not flattering.
So it does take some uh some effort, I think, to actively like yourself.
But it this I I want to go beyond that in answering how do I how do I deal with all this.
Uh I had a uh a friend of mine sent me a note about this very thing.
What is this?
Wednesday is Monday night.
A really good friend of mine sent me a note, and the subject line was I'm concerned.
And the note was, I am concerned, Rush, that you are being lumped in with me some names, I'm not gonna reap the names, some kooks in our media, and even some of our guys, meaning conservatives, are starting to lump you in with the kooks in our media.
And you better be very careful about this, they're trying to diminish you.
And you know, I wrote I wrote him back and I said, Look, I appreciate your concern.
Let me tell you what my objective is every day.
My objective is to come into this studio after having prepared for this show and do the absolute best radio show I can do on that given day.
Seldom do I meet that expectation, but I'm always shooting for it.
And if I've if I'm satisfied or more than satisfied or gleeful with how I've done it, I'm happy.
I go home happy.
I don't care what's said about me.
I it hasn't affected me, it hasn't harmed me.
Well, what do you mean Rush hadn't harmed you?
They drummed you right out of the NFL.
Well, yeah, true, but That didn't ruin my day.
Because it there's a I I ran across a um, you've all heard the phrase, Lord thank you for my enemies.
You've all heard that phrase.
I ran across a better saying than that the other day, and I can't, I'm gonna have to paraphrase it.
I should have written it down so I could give it to you directly, or or quote it accurately.
But basically, it was something like this.
A man is defined by the character and nature of his enemies.
And that's pretty telling.
I'm very, very ecstatic at the enemies that I have.
Look at who they are.
Look at the enemies that are trying to diminish me.
Bill Clinton.
Yeah, but Rush when he was the president.
Yeah, but you want to be like Bill Clinton.
Robert Gibbs, Barack Obama, of some of these loco weeds in the media.
So it's uh I I've told people I've written about this, actually, in my one of my first, or one of my two books.
Early on in this show, this criticism really, really bothered me, because I never I was never hated by anybody growing up.
I mean, we all have people that dislike us, but nobody thought I was racist, sexist, big, homophobe.
All of these uh labels that get attached to every conservative simply because of our beliefs.
Took me a while to learn that it's not personal.
It's simply a way that they are reacting in fear.
They fear conservatives because they can't beat us in the arena of ideas.
They cannot out argue us.
Obama's not even trying to.
Obama's not getting done by policy.
Obama's not winning converts.
Obama is having to use thuggery, bribes, all kinds of kickbacks, acorn type, Alinsky type Chicago organizer tactics to bully his way to victory.
Nobody supports what he's doing.
And people like that have to get credible opposition out of the way.
And if they can't get the credible opposition out of the way, they have to try to discredit the opposition.
And this has been going on against me for 20 years.
Or 21 now.
And I look at myself, where am I?
I am still doing exactly what I want to do.
I'm still doing what I love to do every day.
I have not had, we have not had financially a down year since we started.
Every year's been up.
You know, success is the best revenge is another statement that people make.
But I um I have learned, folks, that none, absolutely, zero percent of my happiness is about what other people think of me.
If you can get to that point, you can like yourself.
If you can I I don't care if it is when you're closest intimate friends, to people that you don't know, or to casual acquaintances or people you work with.
If you can get to the point where you don't care what they where your happiness is not determined by what people think of you, then you are totally free.
And at that point, all you have to rely on is being true to yourself.
And if you fail to be true to yourself, then you'll be miserable, then you'll be unhappy, but then you'll say, I gotta get back on the horse, get back in the saddle, and get back and be true to myself.
We all fall off the horse now and then, but nobody is gonna be free, and nobody is gonna be happy, and nobody's even gonna be content if they are obsessed with the approval of others, particularly people who don't do what they do, people who couldn't do what they do, people who wish they could do what you do, wish you could do what uh they could do what you do half as well as you do.
There's so much envy and jealousy, and if you can understand that that is the primary reason people say bad things about others, and you can turn that into a positive.
But honest to God, folks, to this poor guy says here, I feel weak and helpless.
The liberals I work with drain my confidence.
Let me tell you something.
No liberal is worth Losing your confidence.
No liberal is worth losing your like or love for yourself.
No liberal is worth questioning yourself.
No liberal is worth making you wonder, gosh, am I right or wrong about this?
Having the courage of one's convictions is tied to knowledge.
It is knowledge, experience, that combine to give you confidence in your core beliefs.
If you don't have a lot of knowledge backing up what you believe, all you have is your instincts, which are not bad.
If you are conservative instinctively, what you need to do is learn why you're a conservative.
Learn to be able to explain it to people.
Become, as I say, the go-to guy in your group.
Whenever anybody has a question culturally or politically, you have the answer.
And there's no way you'll end up being down on yourself.
But to let a bunch of deranged, unhappy, miserable people like liberals, take away your self-confidence is something that is you got to work on.
That's not that's not good.
And you also have to learn to realize I wish I'd learned all this stuff 40 years ago.
I've learned most of it in the last 20.
And it was experience that's been the teacher.
There's nobody that taught me this stuff, other than having lived through it.
Oh, there was one thing, and I've told this story before.
In 1992...
I'd been in New York four years.
And in those four years, I had been called every name of the book.
Things that nobody who ever knew me thought of me.
Racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, all of these things, these character assaults and attacks.
And I didn't know how to do it.
I had all kinds of people.
You can't let that stand.
That person at Oshkosh, do you see what they wrote about you at Oshkash?
You can't let that stand.
So you responded to somebody in Oshkosh.
The guy in Askash thinks, aha, home run.
The minute they learn that they've bothered you, they just keep it up.
They think that they've scored.
Other people said, you got to ignore it.
Don't, I mean, it's gonna be happening the rest of your life.
You gotta ignore it.
If you if you if you pay it any attention, it's gonna you're gonna you're allowing yourself to be distracted.
And there was a bunch of people I talked to, and not one person was able to give me a definitive, here's how you should do it.
So it I dealt with it on a case-by-case basis.
One day, my I was invited to go to dinner at the uh fashionable New York restaurant 21.
First time in there.
Some friends of mine in California had friends in New York that they wanted to introduce me to.
And I was told by my host, who I had not met, I was going to meet at the restaurant.
By the way, the restroom attendant here loves your book.
When you bring a copy of your book, the way things ought to be in signed for the guy.
Absolutely, I'd be thrilled to.
So I walked in and they took me into the restroom, and this attendant in there was a man of the cloth, as a Reverend.
He was just laughing and smiling.
He was of good cheer.
He saw me and his eyes lit up.
I hadn't said a word.
He said, Mr. Limbaugh, Mr. Leon, this is the second, this is the second happiest day of my life.
The first when I met Mr. Reagan right here.
And you know what he did, Mr. Reagan?
He just laughed at him, Mr. Limbaugh.
He just laughed at him.
I hadn't said a word.
I'm thinking, whoa.
Here I'm struggling trying to find out how to deal with all of this rot gut.
And a guy who wants a copy of my book sign tells me Reagan just laughed at him.
Just laughed at him.
Which is what I do now.
Knowledge will give you the confidence of your beliefs.
Once you have the confidence of your beliefs that are in your core, nobody can talk you out of them.
You might change them yourself.
But nobody can talk them out of you, talk you out of them.
The whole point here is to learn to get over the way we're all raised, that somehow everybody else is Better.
I mean, nobody intends to do that to you.
But I mean, think about when you're growing up.
Look, if those kids never misbehave like you do, why don't you act like they do?
They're always respectful of their parents.
That kind of stuff.
Everybody, it's always everybody else is better.
And so you grow up thinking, okay, I have to impress other people because they're better than I am, so then you subordinate who you really are, try to figure out what everybody wants you to be, and when you do that, it's over.
If you get to the point where your happiness is determined by what people think, especially people you don't know, who couldn't do what you do in a lifetime, what they think of you, then you're never going to fully be happy because nobody else can make it.
The really interesting thing is everybody wants approval from others, but they can't make you happy.
If you got approval from them all the time, you still wouldn't be happy because you still wouldn't like yourself because you're still not doing what's necessary to make yourself happy.
And if you get caught in the trap, this is why Hollywood celebrities, I could never do it, depending on paparazzi, depending on People Magazine to say good things about you, depending on all these people in the in the in the entertainment media to like you and want access to they can turn on you on a dime.
Hello, Tiger Woods.
You allow your success to be determined by what other people say of you by slick PR campaigns rather than your real achievements.
Not me.
So it's very simple.
As far as I'm concerned, those.
A man's defined by the nature of his enemies, the president of the United States, and we know who he is, thinks I'm an enemy.
Makes me pretty proud.
Back after this.
On the cutting edge of societal evolution, America's real anchor man, Rush Limboy and the EIB network.
They say, Jason James Bond quote, too.
They say you are judged by the strength of your enemies.
You are judged by the strength of your enemies.
Well, the president of the United States is a pretty powerful dude, and I've had two of them gunning for me.
I go home at the end of this radio program every day, and if I think I've done a good, I am a happy person.
And the rest of the day falls into place.
Another nice simple little Ronald Reagan quote do not be afraid to see who you are.
Not what you are.
Well, what you are, who you are.
From the politico, the new hardline Arizona immigration law that has sparked talk of boycotts and caused leading Republicans to fret about the party's frayed relationship with Hispanic voters, may indeed pose a long-term threat to the GOP's project prospects.
Poll shows GOP may rise with Arizona, but in the here and now, the law appears to be a poison-tipped arrow in the Republican quiver.
Now, the way this is written is very confusing.
The point is, this Arizona law is hurting Democrats.
And from the get go, I remember on this program urging Republican leaders, for God's sakes, do not misunderstand what's going on here.
Forget about getting the Hispanic vote.
Get the vote of citizens.
Look at the polls on this.
72% of the American people now oppose the health care bill.
That number keeps rising.
Over 70% of the people support the bill in Arizona.
60% of respondents said the Arizona measure is about right or doesn't go far enough.
The Arizona bill is a poison pill for the Democrats and the regime.
That is white comedian Paul Shanklin.
Mark Lindsay, lead singer for Paul Revere and the Raiders, way back when the tune is Arizona.
Goodbye stimulus.
Hello, state budget cuts.
CNN.com, another prediction come true, made by me.
And we're back, Rush Limboss serving humanity behind a golden EIB microphone.
Great to have you here.
Half my brain tied behind my back just.
To make it fair to Amarillo, Texas, this is Brent, your next on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hi, Rush.
Uh mega unemployed dittoes.
It is an honor and a privilege to get to speak with you.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Um, I wanted to comment on a uh article that I saw on um the Drudge Report today About how uh President Obama is um referring to Tea Partiers as teabaggers.
Yes, I've seen that.
Uh it's actually it comes from a book by uh a stenographer, a David Axelrod stenographer named Jonathan Alter, who also works for Newsweek.
By the way, do you know uh Newsweek?
Do you know uh Washington Post Company owns Newsweek, and they have turned to the uh the noted financiers, Allen and Company to explore the sale.
Do you know now, therefore, that the Washington Post Company did not turn to any government agency to handle the sale of Newsweek, nor did they consult Obama.
Jonathan Alter does a book, is uh it's he's a he's a David Axelrod stenographer, and uh ABC News has a blog reporting this.
It's in the Washington Post as well.
Three days after he decried the lack of civility in American politics, Obama is quoted in a new book about his presidency referring to the Tea Party movement using a derogatory term with factual connotations.
In stenographer Jonathan Alters, The Promise, President Obama Year One, Obama is quoted in a November 30th uh 2009 interview saying that the unanimous vote of House Republicans vote voting against his stimulus bill set the tenor for the whole year.
That helped create the teabaggers and empowered that whole wing of the Republican Party to where it now controls the agenda for the Republicans.
Now, as you, if you were listening to this program yesterday, you heard uh a guy calling here saying, if you ever heard that word on this program, he was going to cancel his website membership, his newsletter membership, he was gonna stop patronizing all sponsors.
And I said, Whoa!
I mean, I'm gonna be quoting others saying, I don't care, he said.
If I hear it on your show, I am out of there.
So I guess he's heard it today, if he's still out, still out there, which means now he's out of there.
The Tea Party activists loath the term teabaggers, uh, which has emerged in liberal media outlets and elsewhere as a method of mocking the activists and their concerns.
There's a story I wasn't gonna get to it to put it somewhere down in the stack here.
And I want to have it in front of me rather than paraphrase it.
Apparently, it's about Luke Russert.
Luke Russert was on MSNBC this morning, and it turns out there are there are 32 black Republicans seeking office, running as a Republicans who want the support of the Tea Party movement.
And Luke Russert was was stunned.
And he was on MSNBC today, stunned uh because everybody knows that that uh uh black people, uh, Democrats consider the Tea Party movement to be made up of a bunch of racists.
It was literally shocked to learn that Republican candidates, black Republican candidates are seeking the support of the Tea Party movement.
Uh also there was a uh low turnout among Democrats in North Carolina at the polls yesterday for some like it was it was embarrassingly bad.
There is no enthusiasm on the Democrat side.
They're gonna get their clocks cleaned in November, folks.
And then they're they're trying to spin all of this as bad for Republicans.
The Arizona Bill, bad for Republicans.
Uh oil spill, bad for Republicans.
Uh terrorist incident in Times Square, bad for Republicans.
There's nothing bad for Republicans.
As long as they don't open their mouths.
If they keep their mouths shut, everything's fine.
If they open their mouths and they tend to go to the center here because they still get caught up in this notion, that's where they have to go.
Independents are fleeing the Democrat Party in droves.
Look at when David Obey, the chairman of the appropriation, folks, that gives him the ability to write checks totaling three and a half, four and a half trillion dollars a year.
The way the appropriations committee works is this.
The White House submits a budget, the Congress of Democrats put all together put their budget together, they hash a budget out.
It's up to the appropriations committee to come up with the money for all of the spending.
It is a hugely powerful gig, and David Obi has had it, I think, since uh Jurassic Park, and he's quitting because his re-election chances are slim to none.
I mean, uh they are they're facing a waterloo here.
Uh it's it's of of of biblical proportions.
Here's Kate Rockford, Illinois.
You're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Well, well, thank you.
I hope you're having a great day.
I am very frustrated with the media, and you just said it too.
The first time a lot of us got involved in politics, we were called Reagan Democrats for a reason.
We're conservative Democrats.
We didn't leave our party, they left us.
The second time we got involved, it was we were called parole voters.
We were not.
We're conservative Democrats.
We had nowhere else to go.
This time they're calling us Republicans.
We're not.
The Tea Party is not a Republican entity.
We are tired of having a two-party system where only the extremes meet.
We are conservative Democrats, and the Republican Party needs to understand we will vote for their candidates if they recognize who we are.
And the Democrats better figure it out.
We're not voting for their people until they recognize who we are.
Well, they're not going to recognize who you are.
They are in the process of trying to impugn you.
That's right.
They're handing us over to the Republicans, and I'm not so sure the Republicans have it figured out either.
But if you think back, remember how negative they were with the Perot people, and who started that movement.
The chairman of his party was the former Democratic Party chair in New Hampshire, Russell Verney.
Most of us came out of the conservative wing of the Democratic Party, and nobody seemed to get it.
Same thing with Reagan Democrats.
They all scratched their heads in the media and said, huh?
Who are these people?
We're still here.
We're older now.
Our babies are now adults, and they've joined the Tea Party as well.
We now have in my family three generations of voters, and we've been around a long time.
And this time we're going to get it right, and we're going to turn this country back into what it was meant to be.
Well, I think there's a lot of lessons.
You've learned them.
There are a lot of lessons, and that is the Democrat Party claiming to be at one with the little guy.
Uh, the champion of the downtrodden.
Look at who.
The president of the United States insulting American citizens.
Impunning their character, calling them teabaggers.
It's even worse than that, though.
Calling them racists in Arizona.
I mean, this is this is a president.
This is a regime that always sides against the American people.
And they do it because they know they don't have the American people.
Theirs is a pure governance of grievance.
Victimization and grievance.
And I I don't think they have uh even no matter how bad they think November's looking.
I don't think they have the slightest clue how bad it is actually going to be for them.
Hi, welcome back.
Great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh, the EIV network and uh oil refinery.
San Antonio oil refinery on fire following an explosion.
Let me print it out.
I just I just got this baby.
Um it is from WFAA.com, which I think is a Dallas TV station, all I'm not sure.
This from Reuters.
Many possible triggers for wider Euro debt crisis.
You know, the Euro is we haven't talked about it much out there.
We've talked about in Greece, mentioned this earlier.
One out of three employees in Greece works for the government.
The ad you and the unions, public and private to that, being unwilling to give back anything.
I mean, this country is in dire straits.
It's the size of New York.
We see ourselves future.
We see our future all around us.
Venezuela, California, Greece.
The Euro is 130 yesterday down from a high of 150.
Europe may be months, conceivably weeks away from an expanded debt crisis that cuts more countries off from access to the markets and forces fresh emergency action by Rich governments or the European Union, and the European Union doesn't have any money.
They don't have any money.
Nobody has any money.
None of this is real.
You know what I read last night?
Our gross domestic product, what is it?
Let's look at our budget this year.
The budget is three trillion.
That's how much is going to be spent.
Federal government spent.
The gross domestic product is much larger than that.
Do you know how much cash the the M1 money supply?
Now, this was this is 15 or 20 years ago.
I don't know what it is now, but but the amount of cash circulating, the M1 money supply, is nowhere near the number of dollars people actually have.
We don't have the number of dollars in circulation in this country that if there were a run, if everybody who had an asset on anything wanted it all in cash, it's not there.
It just and I don't mean a run.
Don't misunderstand what I'm saying here.
I mean, it's a I was stunned to learn how actually the U.S. GDP is 14.6 trillion dollars.
And my point is, there's not 14.6 trillion dollars in cash running around this country.
We don't have that much.
By design, I mean it's not, it's not there's nothing conspiratorial about it.
Don't misunderstand, but this situation with Greece in the European Union, uh rich governments, the European Union, it I I think this may be happening faster than anybody thinks.
The U.S. stock market is reacting to it clearly.
An oil refinery just southeast of downtown San Antonio is on fire.
The fire started at the AGE refinery on South Presa following an explosion, large black uh plumes of smoke can be seen spilling into the skies above San Antonio, WFAA Eyeball News, with the uh with the coverage here.
John in Cape Cod on Cape Cod.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hey Rush, what an honor to speak to you and speak to the man living rent-free in my commander-in-chief's head.
I I wanted to address the point that you were talking about earlier related to what you think of yourself, and because I believe it is a form of leadership.
You, for example, I know you, I've been listening to you for 20 years.
I firmly believe that understanding that leadership is lonely, that you often find yourself disagreeing with people that you may in fact kind of like, but you've often had to go in the opposite direction of where the tide is, and that you would never put your country or subordinate your country to your own success.
I can't see that or say that honestly about some other folks, you know, particularly in leadership positions today, that they would subordinate the country to their own success.
And I think that's something that you were you were describing that being like you know what you can find that in the immigration bill.
Or in the immigration, you find people in both parties are willing to subordinate America, our culture and society for the votes of illegals.
And I find that with you that that's part of the reason I that you're so you're off when you said that you were hoping the president failed, we knew that you were not talking about him as a man, but just his ideas, because it ran counter to the success of this country.
And it it is an imperative that freedom is freedom is maintained here, and because of that, because that's what necessarily what the president is trying to guarantee with his own policies.
That's why I think when you're as a comparison, it's a good example of of what you're talking about about yourself, too.
I appreciate that.
I had since you brought this back up, I uh uh all I checked the email and I've always got these uh ne'er do wells.
Uh well uh you're talking about self-love, and you're always complaining that Obama does everything for himself and likes likes himself.
Why is it any different from what you're saying about just all there's a huge difference?
In describing Obama, the word is narcissism, not self-love.
And frankly, I wasn't even talking about self-esteem.
Self-esteem, as it's being taught in schools today, is not good.
Self-esteem tells people no matter what you do, no matter whether you succeed, no matter how much you know, you're good.
You are great.
You are privileged.
Self-esteem classes in school are not the way to get where we need to go on this.
But you know, self-love, I mean liking yourself, and narcissism are two different things.
A narcissist has zero humility.
You will not find one humble narcissist.
A narcissist thinks they're better, smarter, superior to everybody else.
I don't think that.
Uh by any stretch of the imagination.
I just.
Clint Eastwood said, I think it was Eastwood, it was in a movie.
I forget if it was Eastwood.
Uh after he guns somebody down, he said, a man's got to know his limitations.
That's humility.
You know, Churchill said, never, ever, ever, ever give up.
Never, never, never.
Well, he was talking about saving a country, not winning a baseball game.
At some point, you're losing 19-0, 19 at the bottom of the ninth, and you don't want to waste your starting pitcher for tomorrow.
You got another game tomorrow.
You might not have a country tomorrow.
So you want to put all these things in contact.
Never ever, ever, ever, ever give up.
You have to know your limitations at the same time.
And I'm telling you, the narcissist doesn't think he has any.
Uh don't uh don't confuse.
I mean, I wasn't.
Oh gosh, that's people think that I'm saying I'm Obama now.
That that insult out I might allow that to offend me for like five seconds.
Okay, an update on that refoy uh refinery uh fire in San Antonio.
Uh people on the ground there say that uh in 18 Wheeler blew up at the oil refinery.
A spokesman for the refinery told Eyeball News that a truck exploded as it was placed on a loading dock or a loading rack.
And that's all that's known.
No, no, Snurley, it's very simple.
They say you are judged by the strength of your enemies.
That's why you say, Thank you, Lord, for my enemies.
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