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July 9, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 9, 2010, Friday, Hour #3
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, L. Rushball.
Has there ever, ever been a greater illustration of me being on the cutting edge of societal, political, and cultural stuff than all of this that's happening now.
Since before Obama was inaugurated, I have been saying X, Y, and Z about what he was going to do and how it wasn't going to work because of what and who he is.
And now, a year and a half later, here comes the chorus slowly but surely building and they're all agreeing with me.
This is exactly what I mean when I say I'm on a cutting edge societal, cultural, political evolution.
You are listening to it, and that's why you listen to this program.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's Open Line Friday.
Same thing with the global warming hoax.
For 20 years, I was telling people it's a bogus hoax.
Now it's known that it's a bogus hoax.
I sometimes wonder.
Not very often, because I don't dwell on the president.
I'm always thinking about tomorrow.
But sometimes when the lights are off at night and Catherine and the dogs have gone up to bed and the cat's prowling around seeking a little freedom now that the dogs have gone away, I ask myself, I wonder if my audience realizes just how fortunate they are.
And then this is cutting edge of societal evolution.
Look at for a year and a half, for two years, two and a half years.
Folks, this is who the guy is.
This is what his economic policies are going to deliver.
Because I understand socialists, understand liberals.
I said, I hope he fails everybody on my case.
Now look at the chorus is building Open Line Friday, 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program and the email address, LRushbau at EIBNet.com.
By the way, for those of you, the familial audience here, when I say, and you know this, when I say, I wonder if my audience realizes how fortunate they are, what you know is that that's a media tweak.
Now, I'm saying that because I want the left.
Do you realize what Limbaugh said?
He actually said he wonders if his audience realizes how fortunate they are.
You and I know what's going on here.
This is the dirty little seed.
In fact, there's a guy, P.J. Rednick, J.P. Bladnik, J.R., let me find it.
P.J., it's in the Washington, the D.C. Examiner.
Where did I put the?
P.J. Gladnick, I think.
Yes, here it is.
The Rush Limbaugh Challenge.
P.J. Gladnick.
I have found a fascinating phenomenon among liberals.
They feel free to harshly criticize Rush Limbaugh, yet rarely, if ever, listen to him.
And when they do hear him, it's in carefully selected brief excerpts or in second or thirdhand accounts, which leads to a lot of misconceptions.
I was reminded of this phenomenon again while reading a column, my local newspaper, by a guy named Leonard Fine.
I enjoy reading Fine's columns because although he's a liberal, I consider him a member of the non-moonbat left, who occasionally displays brief moments of mental clarity when it comes to current events.
And he cites a column this guy recently wrote and praises it.
And then he says, okay, here's an example of fine thinking outside the standard liberal envelope.
Unfortunately, he soon suffers a relapse with his gratuitous shot at Rush Limbaugh.
We hoped that Obama's even temper and reasonableness might cause Rush Limbaugh to disappear.
Instead, we now have Glenn Beck as well.
Leonard, I really have to ask you a question at this point.
Do you actually listen to Rush Limbaugh?
And I don't mean in bits and pieces.
Have you ever listened to an entire Rush Limbaugh program over a reasonable period of time?
If not, then I make this challenge not only to you, Leonard, but to all non-moonbat liberals.
Listen to the entire three hours of Rush Limbaugh on a daily basis for a month and then report back your findings.
And he goes on to quote William Raspberry, the Raspberry Effect.
In 1993, this program was five years old.
In 1993, Washington Post columnist William Raspberry wrote a piece blasting Limbaugh for his demagoguery, his gay bashing, his racial put-downs.
Like the Mississippi segregationists of his youth, Raspberry said, Limbaugh is so good at tossing the raw meat of bigotry to people, blah, blah, blah, but Limbaugh's a bigot.
Eleven days later, William Raspberry wrote a second column retracting the first.
He began, Rush, I'm sorry.
He confessed, to his great credit, that the earlier piece had been written in ignorance.
My opinions about Limbaugh had come largely from other people, mostly friends who think Rush is a four-letter word.
They are certain he's a bigot.
Is he?
Raspberry, who by this point had listened to several hours of Limbaugh's shows and perused one of his books, went on to answer his own question.
Limbaugh might be smart, Alecky, and love to rattle liberal cages.
He might be unrelenting in his assault on political correctness, but he was no more a bigot or hatemonger than Art Buchwald.
The Raspberry Effect.
So here's P.J. Gladnick urging people to take the Rush Limbaugh Challenge.
This was in the D.C. Examiner opinion zone yesterday afternoon.
It cleared about 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
And the point is that he's right.
So when I say, I sit at home at night, Catherine and the dogs have gone to bed.
The cat's free to roam the house.
Sits on my lap purring while I pet the cat, consuming an adult beverage.
And I say to myself, I wonder if my audience really wonders how damn fortunate they are to have me as their host.
You know that when I say things like that, it is to irritate and outrage the left who just despise confidence in anybody.
They don't like confidence.
They don't like self-assuredness.
They don't like people who are solid in their beliefs, black and white.
They like people see a lot of gray because you can manipulate those people.
You can bend, shape, and form their opinions.
Now, a couple observations, if you will permit me, because I'm still struck here by Eugene Robinson trying to compare Reagan's immigration in his second term and saying it was far more sweeping in what Obama wants to do.
Reagan sought no political advantage from this.
It was in his second term.
It was 86 when this bill passed.
And here's the thing about it.
It was amnesty.
It was amnesty for, at the time, 3 million illegals.
It is somewhat surprising to hear the American left bring up Reagan amnesty for several reasons.
Because first, we know it was a disaster.
They told us, give us this amnesty for $3 million and that's it.
There won't be any further problems.
Now where are we?
We're at between 12 and 20 million.
So we know that Reagan's amnesty was a disaster, that it led to an absolute explosion in illegal aliens coming into the country.
But doesn't it also show that Republicans are not racists?
I remember back in 1986 when this all happened, A lot of people who supported Reagan supported this because they bought the notion, okay, this will be the end of it.
Kind of like they bought the notion that electing a black president will end racism.
So in 1986, a lot of people, not everybody, but a lot of people bought into the notion, okay, let's try it.
And now, those of us who bought it, yeah, Simpson Mazzoli, the same Alan Simpson, Simpson Mazzoli was the Reagan amnesty bill.
Alan Simpson was the Simpson of Simpson Mazzoli.
And Alan Simpson, who now calls me Rush Babe, is on Obama's Deficit Reduction Commission.
Simpson Mazzoli.
The point is we all supported it.
But we've learned it didn't work.
It also proves that Republicans were not racist.
They were racist and anti-Hispanic.
How in the world did we support it back in 1986?
What we have learned is it didn't work.
Everything they told us about it, like they tell us about every government program, turned out to be wrong.
Medicare is only going to cost X. Social Security is only going to cost X. Medicaid is only going to cost X. None of it's ever true.
So we have learned from our errors.
If we grant amnesty to 3 million and we end up 20 years later with 12 to 20 million, somebody tell me why doing it again makes sense.
And now, Mr. Robinson and the rest of you, we all know really what Obama's motivation for this is and the Democrat Party's motivation, and that is votes.
Amnesty is the single largest Democrat voter registration drive known to exist, ever to exist.
And Mr. Robinson, Eugene Robinson here at the Washington Post, one more thing.
And I would challenge any honest person on the left to disagree with this.
If polling indicated that 70%, hell, 60%, let's go with 60% of the illegal alien vote after amnesty would vote Republican.
Do you actually think Barack Obama would be for it?
Isn't it true, ladies and gentlemen?
We know that if 60% of the illegal alien vote would vote Republican after getting citizenship, we know the Democrats would have built a speed train already from Arizona, New Mexico, and California, not just to Mexico City, but all the way down to Peru to get rid of them.
There is no way, if 60% of them were going to vote Republican, that any Democrat would be talking amnesty or comprehensive immigration reform.
And by the same token, the Republicans who early on were talking about this also were doing it because they wanted the Republican votes too.
And so the American people said, here are a couple politicians or political parties putting their own self-interest, Republican and Democrat, ahead of the countries.
And that's why there was and is opposition to this.
The American people want their elected representatives to stand up for their country, to love their country as they do, to be proud of it, and to seek further greatness and understand American exceptionalism.
And what's happened?
We have an administration.
The border's too big, we can't close it.
That hole in the Gulf is too big, we can't close the hole.
We got an administration that can't do anything, can't fix anything, doesn't want to fix anything, and is presiding over a nation in decline.
While the people of this country love it and don't understand why anybody doesn't.
But they do understand that now people who run the country don't like it as much as they do, have all kinds of problems with it.
They understand the American people do in greater and greater numbers that the people running this country now think that parts of this country have been unjust and immoral and have to be gotten even with or punished, which is the whole point of redistribution, is it not?
So, how is any of this assailable?
How is any of this racist?
All of this that I have just encapsulated here, speaking for a clear majority of the American people, is based on love.
Love of country.
And a vast majority of the American people are asking themselves: do the people who run the country now have the same love for it we do?
Because they don't see any evidence of that.
And that's why they're asking.
We'll be back after this.
Now, another big lie about this whole Democrat push for amnesty is they're calling it immigration reform.
There's nothing wrong with our immigration policy.
They're not enforcing it.
There's no need for reform.
If there's any reform that's necessary, we need to loosen the restrictions on educated, qualified people getting in this country.
That's who we're keeping out.
Our immigration policy is the most liberal in the world.
It's not broken.
It doesn't need to be fixed.
It's the non-legal immigration policy that is broken and needs to be dealt with.
And we got a law for it.
They just ought to enforce it.
Now, let me illustrate this Obama business another way, because I said earlier, do you think people ask, does Hugo Chavez know what he's doing?
Of course they don't ask that because they know what Hugo Chavez is doing.
Do you remember when the tiger, that white Siberian tiger, mauled the Roy of Siegfried and Roy?
That tiger mauled Roy and dragged Roy off the stage.
And it was that actually had a stroke when the animal was dragging him off the stage.
And Siegfried and Roy said, no, don't kill the animal.
Don't kill the animal.
They said, tiger didn't go crazy.
The tiger went tiger.
Tiger was a tiger.
You know, a lion's a lion.
So Obama's not stupid or going crazy.
He's just going Obama.
Obama's Obama.
And now, and now, ladies and gentlemen, countless thousands who have known it for months are now starting to courageously join the chorus of those of us who have been saying it.
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, time to go back to the phones.
It is Victoria, and I really appreciate your patience and hanging on.
Thank you.
Thank you so much for speaking to me.
You bet.
I'm a physician.
I'm in private practice.
And I think it's very interesting.
How are you talking about the demise of small businesses?
I experienced this during the month of June.
All Medicare payments were held to my practice.
And, you know, it made it.
Well, what does that mean?
During the month of June, all Medicare payments were held?
Held, not given to us.
You weren't paid?
No, we were not paid.
Okay, they were held back.
Okay.
Because they were trying to decide whether we were going to have a 21% fee cut in the month of June.
So they held back on paying us.
They decided that we would not have 21% fee cut.
Instead, they're going to give us a 2% fee raise, but they haven't decided when to implement that.
So at the beginning of June, payments started trickling in at like $500 a day.
Well, I can't pay my rent.
I can't pay my light bill.
I can't pay my staff, let alone pay myself.
It's like, this is going to be the demise of small businesses.
Yeah, and the dirty little secret is that the states who are increasingly approaching bankruptcy are soon going to learn that under Obamacare, they have to make these payments.
They are going to be responsible for it.
That's how the federal government says it's cutting the budget.
They're just transferring the payments to the states, which don't have the money, and they can't print the money like the feds can.
Well, South Carolina is a poor state.
We don't have extra money.
We're very poor.
No state has extra money.
Only people have extra money, and they're the targets.
Well, people aren't giving up their extra money.
They're holding on to it tighter than ever for fear of what's going on.
Exactly right.
When you got it, how long have you been in medicine, Victoria?
I've been in the medical field 30 years, but I've been a practicing physician over 12.
Over 12.
When you, say, 15, 20 years ago, when you started studying in earnest to become a practicing physician, did you ever imagine that your compensation would come in the form of reimbursements from the federal government whenever they decided to pay you?
Never in a million years.
I never thought that I, because I said, if they can do this now, what's to say they can't do it in future and hold it up even longer?
Well, exactly.
That's a guarantee.
You know, we're talking medicine here.
We're talking people's health.
I mean, the doctor is the doctor.
The nurse is the nurse.
You can't farm this kind of work out to a subsidiary.
And if the people who do this kind of work are not even going to be paid appropriately or even worse on time, what's going to be their incentive to remain in the field?
You can't.
I mean, we've already had to cut off assuming new Medicare patients.
You know, listen, folks, do you hear the desperation in her voice?
Do you remember the guy Clint did here yesterday, the farmer?
You hit a desperate.
People are desperate out there over all of what's happening.
Thank you, and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
Open Line Friday, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
To the doctor in Britle Beach, South Carolina.
Ma'am, you actually have nothing to worry about.
President Obama is going to fix the problems of Medicare and Medicaid by expanding the roles of people on Medicare and Medicaid by millions and cutting the fees to doctors by half a trillion dollars.
Problem solved.
They're going to cut fees even more, ma'am, and more people are going to be enrolled.
That's Obamacare, and it's coming before you know it.
If we learn one thing, ladies and gentlemen, from the disaster that the Obama election is bringing upon the nation, it is that elections have consequences far beyond the cosmetics and the feel-good and the psychological.
And here's the dirty little secret.
This is the real sad thing.
And I mean this from the bottom of my sizable beating heart.
America will probably be able to survive Barack Obama, but America cannot survive the idiots who elected him.
They have to learn, and they have to be kept to a minority percentage of the population, or we are sunk.
That is indisputable.
Here's Joe in Fulton, New York, as we go back to the phones on Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Dittles from Fulton.
I'm a first-time caller, and I listened to you since the summer of 1989.
Wow, that's almost from the beginning.
You missed everything but one, you only missed one year.
Yeah.
The reason why I call this, we haven't had any news about Andrew Cuomo yet or anything and what he stands for, really, or anything.
And I just wondered to ask you, are you going to use for an update the same as you used for his father Mario?
I put a spell on you.
Oh, oh, that's that's that's, oh man, that's going way, way back in the archives.
I put a spell on you.
Who was that?
Yeah, that's right.
Howland, Screamin' Jay Hawkins is who that was.
I don't know.
I don't remember.
That was Screamin' Jay Hawkins.
Well, if Andrew Kumo warrants it, yeah, well, here, let me, Mike, you probably have this standing by, don't you?
Yeah, just it's amazing.
It's happy to be standing by because Joe here's been on hold for a couple of hours.
Plenty of time to prep for this.
So let me set it up.
For those of you who were not here in the early years of the program, when the program started, Mario Kumo was the Barack Obama of the Democrat Party.
The man who made one speech and people were falling all over themselves.
Mario Cuomo.
Whatever Cuomo, Cuomo will go to Notre Dame and explain why he was, as a Catholic, pro-abortion.
And he would say, well, I just don't feel I have the right to impose my religious beliefs on the nation.
But he had no compunction about imposing his tax beliefs or economic beliefs on the nation.
But Mario Cuomo, for those of you who are pretty young and don't remember, Mario Cuomo was the first Barack Obama, only about half of it.
If Cuomo had been minority, who knows?
He might have been elected.
Might have been.
One speech in San Francisco.
One speech in a whole bunch of appearances on Larry King Alive.
And back it struck me as host of the program that whenever Cuomo spoke, people just went gaga, like they do with Obama.
It didn't matter what he said.
It was how well he said it.
And so we had an update theme whenever Mario Cuomo was in the news, and it was by Screamin' Jay Hawkins.
Screaming Jay Hawkins literally losing it there in the recording studio.
Oh, man, one of those classic R ⁇ B songs in the 50s that got it all started.
And that was our Mario Cuomo update.
Came one of a couple that we had.
Because you're mine.
Put a spell on you.
Here is Suzanne in Houston.
You're on Open Line Friday.
Great to have you on the program.
Thanks, Rush.
I am a vegan.
I eat a vegan diet, so no meat, no animal products at all.
Does that basically mean you don't eat anything that has a face?
I've heard people say that before, but the milk doesn't have a face.
McCartney says he doesn't eat anything that has a face.
Yep, yep.
No fish.
You don't eat fish, you don't eat chicken, you don't eat beef, obviously.
Correct.
So it's just vegetables and tofu?
It's fruits, vegetables, grains, anything that's a plant.
Ah, okay.
Okay.
Now, having said that, I am completely against the Center for Science in the Public Interest and what they do, their strategy of going after industries like McDonald's, for example.
I think that that is just the wrong way for them to go, and it's not helping their cause, assuming their cause primarily is to promote healthy food or something else.
That's not what they're about.
They're typical leftist control freaks.
I know.
Nobody has the smarts to live their lives the right way.
The Center for Science of Public Interest has to tell everybody how to live because most of everybody's too stupid to make the right decisions on their own.
Yeah, that's the frustrating thing because they could be doing something much better or anyone else out there, other groups could be doing something much, much better.
Like what?
What in the world could they do that's better or good?
Well, you know, they could take the strategy of putting their dollars into marketing like McDonald's and other companies do.
Give us good tasting, healthy food, fruits and vegetables, because a lot of the vegetarian and vegan food out there just doesn't taste that good.
Nobody would want it.
So, you know, give people some education, give people some choices and promote things instead of going after companies that they don't like.
Suzanne, you just nailed it.
The Center for Science of Public Interest is no different than the Sierra Club or the Natural Resources Defense Council or the Obama administration.
They want to deny people choice.
That's what it's all about.
Not promote choice.
They want to deny liberty and freedom because they don't, you know, they have the audacity and the arrogance to think that everybody ought to live the life they live.
Everybody ought to do what they do.
Who are they?
What business is it of theirs what anybody else eats?
I'm a big First Amendment guy and freedom and liberty in general.
And I just have an instinctive, intrinsic, repulsive reaction to these groups.
And they are all to be found on the left.
Jeff in Summit, New Jersey.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Great to be here, Rush.
Mega fellow married man, taxpayer, cracker dittos to you.
I prefer to be cookie, but if they call me a cracker, I guess that's what it is.
Well, maybe Graham Cracker.
I don't know.
It was a little sweeter.
When you were mentioning before some of Obama's appointments, people like Carol Browner and Van Jones, and the fact that there are a number of people out there who say, gee, you know, he didn't pick those people because of ideology.
They must have slipped by him.
Let's assume for a moment that that's true.
Then one of two things exists.
Either he is the most incompetent chief executive we have because these people have slid right by him.
Right.
And if he recognizes that their viewpoints are opposed to his, then he's the most ineffective chief executive for not removing them.
I'll let him explain which one he is.
That's a good point.
It's a good point.
And what do you think?
Obviously, you are well-tuned on this.
What I think is that he has chosen these people specifically for an intended purpose.
Damn.
Useful idiots.
Damn right.
They're not there accidentally.
Nobody's undermining Obama and sabotaging him.
Everybody, he's, look at all the czars.
The czars are precisely czars because they don't have to be confirmed.
Nobody knows who they are, what they think, until they start implementing policy, and nobody knows what they're being paid.
It's unprecedented, literally unprecedented.
Jeff, glad that you call a brief time out back with much more after this.
Los Angeles Times jobs outlook for small businesses may be getting bleaker.
Maybe?
Getting?
Yeah, bleaker than what?
Maybe getting bleaker.
One of the Susan Woodward is an economist says, yeah, it's a bad sign.
Small businesses hire first and they're losing steam.
One-sixth of all employees are employed by companies with 20 or fewer employees.
One-sixth.
They're not hiring.
And from AP.
Retail data, luxury shoppers pull back in June.
Affluent Americans tighten their belts, raising concerns for the overall economy.
So what does this mean?
We need the rich.
We need the rich consuming out there, or we're in trouble.
Is that right?
Is that what it means?
Affluent Americans went back to tightening their belts in June after months of showing other shoppers how to spend, raising concerns for the overall economy.
You know, you people at AP are idiots.
Most everybody has been raising concerns for a year and a half now about the economy while you've been trying to tell us we're in recovery.
What is it, day 19 of the summer of recovery now?
How's it going for you?
In the New York Times, the biggest defaulters on mortgages are the rich.
No need for tears, but the well-off are losing their master suites and saying goodbye to their wine sellers.
The rich have stopped paying the mortgage at a rate that greatly exceeds the rest of the population.
More than one in seven homeowners with loans in excess of a million dollars are seriously delinquent, according to data compiled for the New York Times.
By contrast, homeowners with less lavish housing are much more likely to keep writing checks to their lender.
Well, that's not what we've been hearing.
Well, it's all a bunch of crock.
So we need the rich to be spending.
We need them out there.
The economy is threatened here.
But now these creeps are walking out on their mortgages.
It's only the rich walking out of them.
Would you believe that?
Here is Tom in Belsher City, Louisiana.
Great to have you, sir, on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
20-year listener ditto to you.
Thank you very much, sir.
About five or six callers ago, you had a man ask you a question.
You refused to answer it on the risk of alienating some of your friends, and I'm going to answer it for you.
You are show prep for the rest of the industry, including the rest of the conservative talk show hosts.
And that's the answer.
That would not be the answer I would give if I were being honest.
Okay, well, can I say something else?
He's responding to.
Yeah, go ahead.
What is it?
I'll let you respond to that.
But there's something that's entered the lexicon vernacular of the airwaves, and that is the statement, let me make this clear.
Well, Mr. President, it's clear.
We're not stupid.
We understood it the first time.
It's clear.
We know what you're doing, and we don't like it.
So quit saying, let me make it clear.
It's clear enough.
Thank you, Rush.
All right.
Thank you, Tom.
I appreciate it.
Tom is referring, it wasn't long ago, snerdly, diabolically, cleared a caller on Open Line Friday who said, you know, the left, everything, no matter where you go, radio, television, newspaper, the left are always saying the same thing.
They're always on message.
But I listen to the conservatives, and it's not the same.
You say one thing, a couple days later, the rest of them say it, or whatever.
Why is that?
And there is an answer to this.
It is not that I am show prep for the rest of the media.
It is.
Folks, I'm just telling you.
No, it's not the answer I would give because it's not the answer.
I mean, I'm not show prep for the rest of the media.
That's not the answer I would give.
To understand this, to understand this, you have to have a concept of career advancement.
Let me give you an analogy.
And let's say you, well, it's tough to come up with an analogy here.
But you just have to, you have to, you have to.
There's no win for me to answer the question.
And the answer is right there.
It's as simple.
If I were to tell you what the answer is, it would totally make sense.
And it doesn't denigrate anybody.
It actually, no, it wouldn't alienate anybody.
In fact, it's a testament to the fact that we on the right are not a bunch of mind numb robots.
Look, if you were in the Senate and Ted Kennedy was in the Senate and he was the lion of the Senate, you would realize there's only one.
So you would try to find your own niche in the Senate to stand out as doing something different or unique.
That's as close as I'm going to get.
If Mr. Conservative is locked up, what are you going to do?
Maybe go for Mr. Moderate.
Maybe go for Mr. Centrist.
Maybe go for Mr. Professor, Mr. Whatever.
It's not a talent thing.
It's a business decision that they are all making.
And I don't blame them.
I mean, it's smart business and it's competitive juices being used properly.
Back after this.
Well, another exciting, unequaled week of broadcast excellence.
Sadly, comes to a screeching halt because that's the end of days in the busy broadcast week.
So a couple off, and we'll be back here on Monday and rev it up all over again and get started.
I can't wait for that either.
Monday, one of my all-time favorite days of the week because I get to come back to work.
That's great.
Thanks for being with us today and all week long.
As you know, we love you here at the EIB Network and we'll see you Monday.
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