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June 21, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 21, 2010, Monday, Hour #3
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Well, the White House, the deputy press spokesman, again and Bill Burton, just claimed at the press briefing that John Kyle lied about his meeting with Obama.
You know, I would suggest this to any Republican going to an Oval Office meeting with Obama, wear a wire or carry a concealed recorder of some kind.
Not even just the Oval Office.
Anytime you're going to be talking to Obama, carry a wire.
A White House spokesman went on to say that Obama had doubled the number of Border Patrol agents on the border, which is also not true.
There have not been, there has not been a doubling of a number of agents down there.
The number of agents has doubled, but you have to go back to 2004 when it was beefed up by Bush.
Obama hasn't doubled anything at all.
And then there's this, ladies and gentlemen, White House press briefing today, reporters said to Bill Burton, some Republicans are equating the president's golf game with Tony Hayward on the yacht.
Is that fair?
All the different issues that the president's dealing with, I think that a little bit of time to himself on Father's Day weekend probably does us all good as American citizens.
Oh, okay.
So Obama is so pressured, and he's under such immense strain that a little time for himself on Father's Day probably does all Americans a lot of good.
A lot of us probably does us all good as American citizens.
Well, the spokesman just said, look it, we all benefit when Obama's not at work.
I mean, that's the way you translate this.
Those who control the language control the agenda.
So we have to say that the deputy press secretary said that we as American citizens all benefit when Obama's AWOL, when Obama's not working.
Hear from ABC News and Jake Tapper, White House Senator Kyle not telling the truth about immigration reform conversation.
White House official challenged the veracity today of an account of a private conversation Senator Kyle said he had with Obama.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
White House rejected Kyle's account.
Dan Pfeiffer said the president didn't say that.
Senator Kyle knows it.
There are more resources dedicated toward border security today than ever before.
But as the president's made clear, truly securing the border will require a comprehensive solution to our broken immigration system.
Well, seems like everybody lies except Obama.
You know, everybody else is lying.
Obama never does.
You notice how similar they're treating this to the way they treatment of the Gulf.
Obama won't plug the hole in the border until he gets what he wants, comprehensive immigration reform.
He's not going to plug the hole in the Gulf until he gets what he wants.
So the interesting question now is, how long will it be before Kyle is asked to apologize for lying about our dear president by his own party?
Now, this next is interesting.
This is from Reuters.
The federal judge overseeing an oil industry lawsuit challenging the Obama administration's decision to place a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico said today he will rule by Wednesday.
The lawsuit, filed originally by Louisiana-based Hornbeck Offshore Services LLC and joined by more than a dozen companies involved in offshore drilling operations, is the first legal action seeking to reverse the drilling ban imposed by the Department of Interior.
The court has to decide if there is a rational basis for the choice the government's made.
Judge Martin Feldman said during opening statements in the case in U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana.
Judge Feldman was appointed by Ronaldus Magnus.
Judge Feldman, Martin Feldman, appointed by Reagan.
Feldman said he would rule no later than noon Central Time on Wednesday and maybe as early as tomorrow.
Again, he's going to rule on a challenge the oil industry has made to Obama's drilling ban.
It's got a rational basis.
There's a rational basis for the lawsuit.
And because these people have nothing to do with what happened in the Gulf, just because the BP had this accident does not mean all these other drilling rigs and operations associated with it bear any responsibility or culpability.
No reason to punish them.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has sided with the offshore operators in the case.
Environmentalist wacko groups have joined the Interior Department in defending the ban in court.
In a filing, Governor Jindal warns that the moratorium could cripple the offshore industry, which contributes about $3 billion a year to the Louisiana economy.
The moratorium will turn an environmental disaster into an economic catastrophe.
The state of Louisiana said in its filing every day that the moratorium is in effect, costs the state untold millions of dollars.
The moratorium could also worsen the state's current budgetary crunch.
About 32% of revenues from energy production in its waters go to the state.
The oil and gas industry is Louisiana's biggest economic engine and accounts for about 16% of the state's gross domestic product.
So the case is Hornbeck, Offshore Services LLC, versus Kenneth Salazar et al. in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
Man, oh man, I'm going to be watching this.
This is going to be, I see, to me, my dad was a lawyer, so I know about this stuff.
I don't know how this Obama moratorium is legal in any way, shape, manner, or form.
Now, we've got a Reagan-appointed judge here.
Doesn't say everything about the judge.
Don't misunderstand.
But I mean, if this goes the wrong way, I don't know.
I don't know.
New York Times on June 16th, five days ago.
The end of the childhood best friend.
Concern over cliques means that some schools are discouraging best friends.
From the time they met in kindergarten until they were 15, Robin Shreves and her friend Penny were inseparable.
They rode bikes.
They played kickball in the street.
They swam all summer long.
They listened to Andy Gibb, the Bay City Rollers, Sean Cassidy on the stereo.
When they were little, they liked Barbies.
When they were bigger, they hung out at their roller rink on Friday nights with rubber balls in their back pockets in case they fell on their butts.
That doesn't say in the story, I just added it.
Because you did that.
They told each other secrets, like which boys they thought were cute, as best friends always do.
Today, Ms. Shreves of suburban Philadelphia is the mother of two boys.
Her 10-year-old has a best friend.
fact he's the son of ms shreve's own friend penny but ms shreve's younger son eight does not have a best friend his favorite playmate is a boy who was in his preschool class but ms shreves says that the two don't get together very often because scheduling play dates can be complicated they usually have to be planned a week or more in advance he'll say i wish i had somebody i could always call but he can't because it had a play date Freaking play date.
I'd never heard of a play date until I moved to New York.
And I was listening to a bunch of liberal emancipated women in New York talk about them as though they were the latest cool thing.
What the hell is a play date?
Well, you schedule time in the park between your kid and their kid at least a week in advance.
Why do you do that?
Well, a lot of crime out there.
Can't let the kids run around on their own anymore.
You've got to go out there, supervise them, and so forth.
One might be tempted to feel some sympathy for the younger son.
After all, from Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn to Harry Potter and Ron Weasley, the childhood best friend has long been romanticized in literature and pop culture, not to mention in the sedimental memories of countless adults.
What?
The best friend has been romanticized in literature and pop.
What about in real life?
People have real friends out there, all it sometimes they change, but you always have a best friend.
But increasingly, some educators and other professionals, i.e. academics, who work with children are asking a question that might surprise their parents.
Should a child really have a best friend?
Most children naturally seek close friends.
Aha!
Aha!
So, let's stop that.
That is a natural urge, and that's not good.
Most children naturally seek close friends, and since most children are flawed, this is not a good thing now.
In a survey of nearly 3,000 Americans ages 8 to 24 conducted last year by Harris Interactive, 94% said they had at least one close friend.
But the classic best friend Bond, the two special pals who share secrets and exploits, who gravitate to each other on the playground and who head out the door together every day after screw signals potential trouble for screw officials intent on discouraging anything that hints of exclusivity,
in part because of concerns about clique and bullying, which, you know, might not be an issue if people were raised to love and respect each other and the threat of death from parents who took time to teach people such things.
You know, I, look, I can relate to it.
We all can.
We all can.
See if this doesn't come close to describing your grade school, junior, high, high school situation.
There was a click, and the clique consisted of, oh, two or three of the most popular athletes in the school, and two or three, maybe more, five or six of the most popular girls, the cheerleaders perceived to be the most attractive.
And everybody wanted to be in the click.
And those in the clique knew that everybody wanted to be in the click.
And those in the clique thought they were better than everybody else.
And they were exclusionary.
And they kept people out of the click.
Or they made fun of you if you acted like you wanted to be in the click.
And this group passed notes between class every day.
And you wanted to get in on the note passing and so forth.
And if you made any attempt whatsoever to get in a click, then they were brutal to you.
We witnessed this.
We all saw this, right, Snerdley?
You saw this?
Well, you may not want to be in a click, but most people do.
Why do you think most people want to be on Jerry Springer?
Why do most people want to be on a reality TV show for crying out loud?
Now, in the case of reality TV shows, it's an oxymoron because there's nothing real about them.
They're all as contrived and stage as phony as you can believe, but they are supposedly not professional actors.
And you can tell.
But it's still the old click thing.
Everybody wants fame.
Everybody wants the attention.
Now, somebody's decided here that this is hurtful because this is exclusivity.
And if a group exists that doesn't allow one or two or more people in in the group cannot exist at all.
And this is part of the effort to make everybody the same.
Nobody's better or nobody, this is directly contradictory of human nature.
And it will not work.
Just as not keeping score during high school or junior high football, basketball, baseball games, the kids still keep score.
They know who's winning and losing, even if they're not allowed to.
Even if it's not official, they know.
People are naturally competitive.
These kind of things are what you have to go through when you grow up to learn about life.
Human nature is human nature, and no bunch of academics can take it out of people.
All it's doing is stigmatizing people.
And it's not going to work.
The cliques are still going to exist.
The best friends are still going to exist.
They're just going to be doing it on the sly.
And that is going to make them targets.
As the calendar moves into summer, efforts to manage friendships don't stop with the closing of school.
In recent years, Timberlake Camp, a co-ed sleepaway camp in Phoenicia, New York, has started employing friendship coaches to work with campers to help every child become friends with everyone else, which is not possible.
It simply is not possible to become friends with everybody.
Do we want to encourage kids to have all sorts of superficial relationships?
Is that how we really want to raise our children? asks a critic.
He's got a point.
Folks, it's all about desensitizing.
I'll tell you what it is.
This is leftism to a T.
It is about wiping out individualism.
It is about wiping out the whole notion of the individual.
There's no such thing.
This is appalling to me.
This is repugnant to me.
And this is another classic example of how a bunch of baseless, spineless, linguinie academics who want to try to take all pain and emotional suffering out of life are trying to run yours when they can't even run their own lives.
I wonder if these friendship coaches are members of the SEIU.
Okay, we're back.
It's Rush Lindbaugh.
This is the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Let's take this click discussion a step further.
I would go so far as to say that the whole click concept is why the Republicans are in such trouble in Washington.
If we could just get the Republicans to stop wishing they could become part of the big click in Washington, then we wouldn't have to worry so much about rhinos.
But the big click in Washington is the media Democrat leftism axis.
That's who runs the town socially, and that's key, professionally.
And the Republicans want to be part of it.
They want to be in the big click, and that's how you end up with Republicans in name only.
So, taking this New York Times story, if we're going to take away clicks, let's bust up the biggest one in the country, and that's the one in Washington.
Let's make sure the Democrats have to include the Republicans in the click.
Let's take away all individualism.
But, Rush, but Rush, you can't do that.
It'll never work.
Precisely, you can't do it.
It's not going to work in a tea biscuit summer camp.
It's not going to work at the Gerald Ford Martin Luther King grade school.
It's not going to work anywhere.
And Washington, D.C., is the classic example of what a click is.
Marx wanted to destroy the concept of families and friends.
Did you know that?
That was intrinsic to Marxism, to destroy the concept of family and friends.
He and his apostles wanted everybody to be dependent upon the state, not only for their physical sustenance, but their emotional sustenance.
No churches.
Why do you think communism is godless?
The state is God.
There is no individualism.
And that's what this is all about.
They're trying to wipe it out.
This is obscene, folks.
From Cairo, this is AP.
Don't know if they're encouraged by this or not.
Al-Qaeda's U.S.-born spokesman warned Obama Sunday the militant group may launch new attacks that would kill more Americans than previous ones.
But I thought they loved us now since we elected Obama in the Cairo speech in a taunting 24-minute message that dwelled on Obama's setbacks, including a loss of Massachusetts Senate.
I know it's not a laugh, but Al-Qaeda taunts Obama about losing the Kennedy seat.
The spokesman Adam Gadon set out Al-Qaeda's conditions for peace with the U.S., including cutting support for Israel and withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan.
That's why next time we might not show the restraint and self-control we've shown up until now.
Even if Al-Qaeda was defeated, hundreds of millions of Muslims would still fight the U.S. Gadon's statement was notable for its mocking tone, in which he described Obama as a devious, evasive, serpentine American president with a Muslim name.
You no longer the popular man you once were a year or so ago.
Wonder how much the administration paid this guy for this statement, for this tape.
Ed in Leesburg, Virginia.
Welcome to the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, sir.
Great to have you here.
Thank you, Rush.
I'm calling in reference to, I guess, the first young man you talked to today about Congressman in Texas.
Joe Barton, right?
The shakedown.
Now, he was a young man, and I'm an old man.
I'm 74 years old.
I'm a former CEO of a company, and I'm a former combat Marine.
And I give a lot of money to the Republican Party.
I was an eagle for many years, which you have to give $20,000 to be an egg.
I know what the eagles are.
Okay.
And I am very upset by the fact that the way the minority whip and leader, and you asked the young man why the congressman came back and apologized.
He came back and apologized because the whip and the leader were going to take his seat away from him on the commission that he sits on.
And they threatened to take his seat away, so that's why he apologized.
And I think that was the wrong thing to do.
And I don't usually do this, but I called both the leader in the Republican parties, and I couldn't talk to them, so I've left the messages with their secretaries, and I gave them my number to call me back.
They've never called me back.
I also called the congressman in Texas and thanked him for what he did, standing up like a true Republican should stand up for what they believe in.
What did they tell you when you called his office and said that?
They just said that they would relay the message.
Well.
And what I would like to see is more people call their congressmen and get behind the guy from Texas because what he said was exactly right.
I might not have put it in the terms that he said it, but if you disciple the words, they're exactly what happened.
He said he wasn't apologizing for what BP did, but he was apologizing for the way the CEO and the chairman were treated with the shakedown by a president of our country.
And, you know, all over the world, that doesn't look good because the next time it could have happened to us in another country.
Well, it does, I know.
But look, we know, in addition to the reasons you gave why Barton went ahead and apologized why the Republicans wanted him to, is they didn't want the Democrats to have a campaign commercial with a Republican being portrayed as siding with a corporation polluting the Gulf of Mexico.
And that's what they were afraid of.
And the sad fact is that the 50 years of tarnishing the image of corporations in general, berating them as anti-American, anti-citizen, anti-human being, has taken hold.
A lot of people think American corporations are the enemy of the people.
Would that they be made to understand that this current regime is the enemy of the people.
But that's not the case with a majority of Americans right now.
So it was, I think, a self-protecting reaction or mechanism that they had.
And that's why they went to Barton and demanded he retract his apology to the BP people.
I mean, you can look at the polling data out there and see.
We've been through this with a couple of other callers today, and I'm torn too.
I agree with you 100%.
I would love for people to stand up to this regime.
I do.
I know.
I was just going to say I do.
But my business doesn't require votes.
And the regime's targeted.
The regime has targeted my industry.
The regime has targeted my...
Now, getting audience is not the same as getting votes.
It's a...
It's a whole different manner, Snoop Lee.
The countryside is strewn with the carcasses of media people thought they'd get elected based on media popularity or even polarization.
The point is, the president's targeted my industry.
He's targeted me personally.
And I do not apologize for anything I say about this regime.
But apparently politics is a different world, and I don't pretend to want to be part of that world.
They have to make these political calculations as to what say, what not say, when not to say, what not say, and when to say, what to say.
I mean, I couldn't live that way.
Which is why I don't think I could ever successfully run for office.
I also couldn't do it because of all the people who want their hands in, have a hand in policy.
They give you money and expect to have some control over what you think and what you say.
It's a tough job.
It really is.
But Barton was following his instincts.
In fact, let's go to the audio soundbite.
Grab Soundbite 16.
Let's go in order here.
This is Barton.
Last Thursday afternoon on Capitol Hill during the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing into the oil spill.
Barton, this is a portion of what he said.
If anything I said this morning has been misconstrued in an opposite effect, I want to apologize for that misconstruction.
Misconstruction.
Now, here's Feinberg.
This is this morning on MSNBC, the daily rundown of what F. Chuck Todd, talking to the BP Compensation Fund Administrator, Ken Feinberg.
F. Chuck said, Who do you answer to at the end of the day?
You answer to BP, you answer to the government.
You really believe you answer to nobody.
I answer to the people in the Gulf.
This was set up as an independent facility.
I do not answer to the administration.
I most certainly do not answer to BP.
I answer to the people who have to file claims in order to get paid.
And that's the test of whether or not I've done this job correctly.
Okay, so it doesn't work for Obama.
We're supposed to believe this.
This is like the commander of a Red Army submarine saying, no, I don't work for Khrushchev.
I work for the people of Mother Russia.
Hard to believe it.
MSNBC same show, Chuck Todd, then said, When you run out of the $20 billion slush fund, when you run out of the $20 billion, what's the procedure in place for you to get it?
You have to make a case.
You have to bring claims with you to BP to say, look, I have another $15 billion here.
Write the check.
How does it work?
Based on my understanding, and you'll have to ask BP and the president, the administration, my understanding is a call for funds by the independent facility will be immediately honored.
Wait a second.
I thought he was the last straw.
I thought he was the last authority.
He said, I answer to the people in the Gulf.
This was set up as an independent facility.
I do not answer to the administration.
I most certainly do not answer to BP.
Okay, you run out of the 20 million, then what do you do?
Well, based on my understanding, you'll have to ask BP and the president, the administration.
My understanding is a call for funds by the independent facility, that's me, would be immediately honored.
Okay, well, wait for that.
There is alluding to the fact.
Essentially, Feinberg is saying the buck stops with him, but he doesn't know how he gets the bucks.
I'm Kenneth Feinberg.
I'm independent.
Buck stops with me, even though I don't know how to get the books.
I don't know if I've got to go to BP to get the bucks.
I don't know if I got to go to Obama, the administration, to get the bucks.
But believe me, wherever I have to go to get the books, the buck stops with me.
They must really think we're fools.
They really, really must think we're sadly, they may be right about some people.
Then the next question, the next question, when he's asked how he asks for more money, he says, ask the president.
Stephanopoulos, good morning, America.
I read this report about a New Orleans strip club says they're losing business because the fishermen don't have money to pay them anymore.
Could they file a legitimate claim?
If somebody claims, in your example of a strip club, that they received financial injury as a result of the spill, what would the courts of New Orleans say or the courts of Louisiana say?
What would they say?
They're about the legitimacy of that claim.
What would they say?
I'm dubious.
I'm dubious about that claim.
I'm very dubious about that claim.
Really?
Okay, so you got a strip club which is open to fishermen and others whose lives are affected by the spill and who now have no income, disposable or other kind.
So they want to make a claim on the 20 billion.
And Feinberg says, I have no idea I've got to wait for the courts.
I thought the buck stopped with you.
Now he's bringing the courts into this, in addition to BP and Obama.
Here's Eric Holder.
Last Thursday in Washington, Department of Justice, he held a press conference.
Let me be clear.
I don't apologize for the Justice Department's role in this matter, and I don't apologize for the way in which this administration has approached this question.
All right.
There you have it.
So he's not apologizing for being at the shakedown table.
Eric Holder, proud to be at the shakedown.
Got to love these guys.
You know, we got a crystal clear picture of what Obama's administration was going to be like in November of 2008.
You remember when Ron Emmanuel said, you never want a good crisis to go to waste?
He said that to some Wall Street Journal reporters way back then.
Heritage Foundation was watching this week's White House invitation on Wednesday to a dozen lawmakers on the topic of the cap and trade bill for the latest evidence of this.
You watch Obama and his staffers tie together the oil spill into cap and trade argument.
It is going to happen.
Now, the Heritage Foundation is estimating the average family household will see their own home energy costs go up by $829 a year if cap and trade ever does become law.
And that we'll see about 2 million jobs being affected by the same bill in 2012 once companies have to start paying their increased energy bills.
So put your Heritage Foundation membership to work for you and follow this story and the math that surrounds it.
Because as I pointed out last week, no matter what the lead story of the day is, the thinkers, the think tankers, the researchers, the scholars at Heritage are all thinking and being scholarly about everything, not just the lead item out there.
And if you are a member of Heritage, you know how easy it is to access this kind of information.
It's a gold mine.
For $25 a year, that's the starting membership fee.
If you're not yet, become a member.
AskHeritage.org is where it all starts.
You know, I went out, well, I didn't go out, but I sent out yesterday, had some shrimp.
Went out there for some shrimp scampy, diet shrimp scampy.
And I was told a shrimp costs a whole lot more than it did last week.
Now, I've been injured here.
Can I file a claim with Feinberg?
Because his shrimp here in Palm Beach costs a little bit more.
I'm sure it's because of the oil spill.
I mean, I've been harmed here.
Shrimp is more expensive.
And can I file a claim with Feinberg when gasoline prices go up?
And they will after the election.
Now, I want to go back to this moratorium lawsuit that's being brought by the oil companies for a second.
According to the AP, the judge, Martin Feldman, the Reagan appointee, asked a government lawyer, and this is a very sensible question.
The judge asked an Obama administration lawyer why the Interior Department decided to suspend deep water drilling after the rig explosion when it didn't stop oil tankers from Alaskan waters after the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989 or take similar actions in the wake of other industrial accidents.
It seems like a very sensible question.
In fact, you could also ask, are you allowing tankers in the Gulf to deliver oil to places?
And the government lawyer's reply was this.
The deepwater horizon blowout was a game changer.
It really illustrates the risks that are inherent in deepwater drilling.
Which is BS.
The government lawyer did not really have a good answer.
Well, wait a minute.
If you're banning drilling, what about banning tankers?
In fact, a tanker accident is riskier than a rig accident.
So we'll see.
And here from thehill.com, Ken Feinberg, newly tapped to oversee the all-spill compensation fund, said yesterday he's under strict orders to get these claims paid, get them paid quickly.
The man in charge of the $20 billion slush fund, it's called an escrow account here, appeared on Meet the Depressed and encouraged individuals affected by the Gulf Coast crisis to file claims as soon as possible.
Now, if this guy is totally independent, how can Obama order him to do anything?
And the headline here, Feinberg ordered by Obama to get BP claims paid quickly.
But I thought Feinberg was independent.
Well, clearly he's not.
Feinberg says the buck stops with him, and he doesn't even know how to get the bucks.
From CNNMoney.com, mortgage borrowers hurt by the Gulf oil spill may qualify for temporary relief from paying their mortgages without fear of losing their home.
Well, of course.
Why not?
There's a few more million in losses for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac when we taxpayers are funneling the cash in.
Your government loves you so much.
If you're an oil spill victim, you've got to break on your mortgage payment.
I want to know who's going to pay me the difference in the cost of shrimp last week to two months ago, because it's skyrocketing.
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