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July 22, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 22, 2010, Thursday, Hour #3
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Let's talk for just a second here about Shirley Sherrod's qualifications.
By the way, did I say Shirley Angle?
Sharon Angle, and I said Jan No, it's Brewer, but I said Jan something or other.
I got the verbal dyslexia thing going on there when I was talking about it.
But everybody knows who I mean.
Now, Shirley Sherrod, here are her thoughts on working for the USDA.
She said, before I got into what I have here, I want to second something that Olivia said.
You know, I grew up on the farm, and I didn't want to have anything to do with agriculture, but she was right.
There are jobs at USDA.
Many times there are no people of color to fill those jobs because we shy away from agriculture.
We hear the words agriculture and we think only of working in the fields.
And you've heard a lot of layoffs.
Have you heard of anybody in the federal government losing their job?
That's all I need to say, okay?
And I might say a little bit more to the young people.
It's good to have you all here.
So she admits that she didn't want to have anything to do with agriculture, but she couldn't turn down the option of getting a job she couldn't be fired from, which is pretty ironic given that she was fired.
There are no people of color to fill those jobs because we shy away from agriculture.
Isn't that stereotyping?
Racial profiling, stereotyping.
I have been asked to comment on this.
People have asked me about this woman, Sarah Spitz, who's apologized.
What my reaction to it.
And this is another thing, I'll react to it, but I really don't want to.
I have, this bores me as well.
This whole concept of forcing people to apologize for things they meant to say.
Why is she going to apologize?
She meant to say it.
She wrote it.
Stand by it.
You want to watch me die, Sarah?
Say it.
Where are your guts?
Well, she's apologized.
A producer for an NPR-affiliated radio station has apologized for saying she would laugh loudly like a maniac and watch his eyes bug out if she were to see conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh suffering a heart attack.
In the latest fallout over the exposed emails from a now-defunct private online forum for liberal journalists, Sarah Spitz, who produces the show Left, Right, and Center for KCRW Public Radio in Santa Monica, said in a statement posted on NPR, she, quote, made poorly considered remarks about Rush Limbaugh to what I believed was a private email discussion group from my personal email account.
As though she's not the first to use this excuse.
Hey, I didn't expect anybody to hear about that.
Who are you?
I'm a journalist.
You don't get to learn what I'm all about.
I'm a journalist.
You don't get to know what I really think.
I'm a journalist.
You can't do an exposure.
This is on my private account.
How dare you report something into my private account?
I always love it when these people get a dose of their own medicine because they can't take it.
So she said, I made poorly considered remarks about Rush Lindbaughter, what I believed was a private email discussion group from my personal email account.
As a publicist, I realize more than anybody that there is no excuse for irresponsible behavior.
I apologize to anyone I may have offended, and I regret these comments greatly.
They do not reflect the values by which I conduct my life.
Now, that simply isn't true.
She said it.
She wrote it.
She stood by it.
Why apologize?
Sarah, this is where you people just flummocks me.
You wrote it.
You meant it.
Stand by it.
She apologizes to anyone I may have offended.
And I regret these comments.
She doesn't regret them.
And she hadn't apologized to me.
She just apologized to anybody who's offended by it.
But why apologize in the first place?
She's buckling the pressure.
She meant to say it.
She meant what, Snirdly?
What?
I don't know who's a pressuring or no apology.
I have no idea who's pressuring her.
Probably you'd have to ask her.
But I don't know why she's apologizing.
She meant it.
Stand by it.
She knows damn well she meant it.
Everybody in that website in that list serve meant everything they wrote.
And it's just fascinating to see they don't have the guts to stand by it.
So that's my reaction.
If you want to know what I think about it, that's it.
If she apologized to me directly, I don't know what I would do.
But well, yes, I know I'd be gracious, but I just, well, I don't know if it'll ever happen.
But the point is that the latest trend in apologies, that's not who I really am.
You know, that's not the person I am.
Bull, it is who you are.
You are a commi.
You are a full-fledged Marxist liberal.
You do wish I was dead.
It is who you are.
I don't care whether it's Tiger Woods, you know, that's really not who I am.
It is.
It is who you are.
What, did somebody steal your personality for a day and grab hold of your hands and start typing on your keyboard and it wasn't you?
This is not who I am.
I want everybody as a publicist.
I understand.
This is not who I am.
It is who you are.
This is one of the big problems we have in this country is that people don't have the guts to be who they are and stand up for who they are and admit what they really are, especially under fire.
Oh, that wasn't me.
I don't know what happened there.
I was just hanging around with a bunch of like-minded people, and then you saw it.
And that means that's not who I am.
I bet there are other people in this group a little upset she's apologizing.
At any rate, a group of House Democrats seeks to revive the idea of offering a public option in health care because it saves so much money.
This is by cheering Los Angeles Times Noam Levy.
As both political parties worry about the growing federal deficit, and both parties are not worrying about the federal deficit.
An unlikely proposal is returning from last year's divisive health care debate, the public option.
Unlikely?
Unlikely to who?
This was entirely predictable.
We've been waiting for it.
Creating a major government health insurance program was roundly rejected last year, but 128 House Democrats are pushing to reconsider the idea, contending that it would hold down federal spending.
Their bill would allow Americans who do not get insurance at work to choose a government health plan starting in 2014.
Representative Lynn Woolsey, Democrat Petaluma, California, said this is a lot of concern about the deficit.
Well, guess what?
This would reduce the deficit because it saves so much money.
Woolsey and her allies, including Representative Fortney Stark, Democrat Fremont, are armed with a new analysis by the supposed nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
Democrats say the CBO projects the public option could save the government $68 billion between 2014 and 20 and $68 billion.
That's the equivalent of throwing a 24-ounce can of beer into the Gulf of Mexico.
$68 billion between 2014 and 2020 with a public option.
See, it was always on the table.
It was always going to happen.
They're just coming out of the woodwork.
And now there's this companion story.
We addressed this earlier in the program.
This is from thehill.com.
Democrats are considering a plan to delay tax increases on the wealthy for two years because the economic recovery is slow and they fear getting crushed in November's election.
Oh, fine.
Right.
How stupid do they think we are?
These are the same people who have been saying since 2008 that the Bush tax cuts are what got us in this mess.
And now they want to preserve them for two more years.
And now the Bush tax cuts are going to get us out of the mess.
The Bush tax cuts got it into the mess, and now they're going to get us out of the mess.
We got to preserve them for two more years.
It could mean a big reprieve for families earning $250,000 and above annually.
Nothing like a little election terror to make the ruling class use common sense about economics.
A little election fear.
And isn't it amazing how even the ruling class gets a dose of common sense?
President George W. Bush's tax cuts will expire at the end of the year unless Congress acts to delay their sunset.
Some Democrats are now arguing forcefully that a delay is a win-win plan that would help the federal budget without hurting the economy.
Now, wait a second.
I am so confused.
I thought tax cuts always increase the deficit.
I thought that the economy was in the shape it's in because of Bush's tax cuts.
I thought we didn't want to go back to the policies that got us where we are.
The policies that got us where we are are the Bush tax cuts.
And now all of a sudden, we have got to extend the very things that created the problem in order to solve the problem.
Maybe we ought to have elections every year.
If we had elections every year, the ruling class would be forced to use common sense every year.
Wealthy families would not have an incentive to cut back on spending.
Budget writers could assume an inflow of tax funds in future years, making five and ten-year budget projections looks less scary.
There you have it.
Now they're endorsing Art Laffer.
Now they are endorsing trickle-down.
They are endorsing supply-side reality.
I wonder if John McCain and Olympia Snow and Susan Collins and Scott Brown and Lindsey Gramnesty are taking notes on this.
The Democrats want to extend essentially Reagan tax cuts to create more federal revenue.
Democrats are saying, by the way, don't ever expect this to happen.
There is no way that Barack Obama is ever going to sign any legislation that will extend these tax cuts.
And these Democrats really don't want it anyway.
They're just saying this in order to help their re-election chances.
There's no way these people are going to cut taxes.
But I still find it fascinating that in this one paragraph, wealthy families would not have an incentive to cut back on spending.
They'd have more money.
Budget writers could assume an inflow of tax funds in future years because these tax cuts would keep increased revenue coming.
Why trickle-down works all of a sudden?
Supply side works all of a sudden.
Somebody please tell Senator McCain and Senator Snow and Senator Collins and Scott Brown and Lindsey Gramnesty.
Somebody tell them because every time somebody comes along and wants to cut taxes, a la Bush and Reagan, McCain, Snow, Collins, Gramnesty oppose it.
Quick time out.
We'll be back.
Much more straight ahead right here on the EIB network.
Folks, hang on.
I got to clear my head here.
I've got people asking me stuff that I just don't have time to reply.
I'm going to do it right now.
Yes, the Hartleys are back in Hawaii.
I want to close the New York condo in the next two weeks.
Please have the audio guys fix the receiver in the game room of guest house number two by Friday afternoon.
No, I'm not going to be able to meet anybody until next Tuesday at 5 o'clock in the afternoon.
And I'll be glad to have a meeting with the insurance people of the bank after August the 15th.
Okay, now back to the Connie in Monroe, Louisiana.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Great to have you here.
But thank you so much, Rush.
You bet.
Congratulations on your wedding.
This is my comment.
It's been said that blacks can't be racist because they have no power.
I say that since we now have the first black president of the United States, the most powerful president person in the world, we have Shirley, who's been over a white farmer's land.
She's had power over that land, what, 20-some years ago.
We have Oprah Wintry and on and on and on, lots of power.
I think we now have power and we also can be considered racist.
That is my comment.
Well, I can't disagree with you.
You're black.
This is what I've been looking at.
I think this is what's been going on, why there's been so much of a problem.
A lot of blacks think they can't be racist because we have no power.
Well, now we have the power.
No, no, no, and exactly what comes with that is racism.
You're exactly right.
That was a concoction of the Reverend Docs to excuse the racism.
Knows full well there's black racism out there.
This was just to prevent any criticism of it.
Exactly.
Yeah, exactly right.
You and I are on the same page.
Well, great.
I'm on the same page with Russell Limbaugh.
Great.
Thanks very much, Connie.
Appreciate it.
Okay.
I got another email here during that call.
I'll have three captains' resumes by 5 o'clock this afternoon.
Thank you.
Doug in Central South Carolina, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush Dittos.
You're on fire and on target, as always.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I have a theory about how the regime plans to steal the midterms from us, and I'm kind of hoping you'll help me out with it.
As you have said, the trashing of this economy is on purpose, and I believe the unemployment extension is connected to it.
The regime plans on killing the economy and cooking the numbers at the same time.
They want to create as many unemployed Americans as possible while reporting the lowest number they can get away with.
And if you accept the 10% unemployment number, I don't, but if you do, the Democrats are looking at having a 15 million American voting block of unemployed people that depend on the government for their very existence.
If the recent extension of unemployment runs out in October, then they'll be pushing for another extension and they'll be painting the Republicans as the party of no.
That's exactly right.
They'll mobilize ACORN and the SEIU to scare the U.S.
That is exactly right.
That's why I said yesterday it's just a new welfare program.
Unemployment compensation benefits and their extension is just a new welfare program.
It's a new entitlement.
Well, what I'm worried about is if they hold even one chamber, America is lost.
We're done.
And I'm just hoping that you could tell me that we, even with the 15 to 20 million people that they're going to be able to scare to the polls saying, just like they did with the elderly and Social Security, if you vote Republicans, they're going to take your unemployment away, that we're not going to lose the momentum we have going into November.
I think your fear is legitimate, but I'm here to tell you that that 15 million will not be the difference.
The energy that exists on the Republican side is such we are going to dwarf in turnout, the Democrats.
And not all of those 15 million want to be unemployed.
A lot of them have no desire to be in the circumstance they are.
A lot of the people are out of work.
They're still looking for jobs.
They're frustrated all the hell they can't find them.
A lot of the unemployed, I'm going to hold out hope.
I'm going to have faith it's a majority here.
A majority of them do not want to be welfare cases.
Yes, it's Peter and Muff Morse.
Another email here during the program.
It's going to save time, folks, if I just answer these personal queries I'm getting in the middle of the program because I got to prepare the program next segment during the commercial break.
Anyway, I wouldn't have any fear about this.
It's a legitimate concern, but I don't think at all 15 million of these unemployed are going to sit there and want to be.
Hello, testing 123.
He's vominost.
A little Spanish lingo out there.
He's gone.
Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary.
Oh, darn it, I don't have enough time to squeeze the audio soundbite in.
He's apologized.
He says Obama's apologized to Shirley Sherrod.
We'll have that soundbite for you coming out of the break here at the bottom of the hour.
The Congressional Black Caucus, this is from theHill.com, Congressional Black Caucus.
They had a honcho.
Representative Barbara Lee said the government is being held hostage by Fox and other media.
Barbara Lee, Congressional Black Caucus, Grand Pubah, government being held hostage by Fox.
She said it on C-SPAN.
This is a laugher.
This is hilarious.
The government being held hostage sometimes by Fox News and other media outlets, the chairman of Congressional Black Caucus charts today, Representative Barbara Lee, Communist Democrat California, chairwoman of caucus, said that she was concerned that outlets like Fox were creating a culture of misinformation that led to controversies like the one following Shirley Sherrod.
Barbara Lee lashed out at outlets like Fox and Andrew Breitbart's website and urged the public to demand more accountability from the media.
Ms. Lee, black people have been held hostage for five decades by the Democrat Party.
And that, my dear, is the genuine problem in this country.
The Democrat Party is keeping black people on the plantation, and they have done so for five years.
That is the universal truth.
Here is Robert Phibbs, Baghdad Bob Fibbs, the White House spokesman, the press secretary today.
Reporters said the president has expressed his regret.
Is it accurate to say that he apologized, personally apologized?
Did he lobby for her to take her job back or to take the new job?
She has a unique set of experiences and a unique opportunity to continue using those experiences to help people.
That's what he said to her.
And obviously, a decision about what she's going to do is up to her.
What Secretary Vilsack offered was something that allows her to, again, as the president said, use some unique experiences to help root out what we know is a department that has struggled with discrimination.
What am I missing here?
I'm 59 years old.
What is it that we all should know about the racism of the Department of Agriculture?
What am I missing here?
I've had people tell me that's a reference to Reagan.
What did Reagan do?
Did he want to shut it down?
What's the institutional racism at USDA?
The last I knew, the USDA was giving a bunch of white farmers a bunch of money not to do anything.
The last I heard, the USDA was giving a bunch of corn farmers a bunch of subsidies to turn the corn into ethanol.
Well, no, I'm not ashamed to admit that I all, all, all, all.
Reagan tried to close the USDA Civil Rights Division.
What?
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has a civil rights division?
That can't be.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has or had a civil rights division, and Reagan tried to close it.
And a black farmer sued.
Is that the suit you're talking about?
There's been a long there's another black farmer suing a long time ago.
Well, that could a class action suit.
Well, it could be, was it Pigford versus Glickman?
Well, come on, Snerdley, you're the one throwing out the lawsuit business here to me.
See, I'm supposedly a racist.
I don't even know the racism going on at the USDA.
And apparently, it's institutional.
What the hell is Gibbs talking about here?
Root out what we know as a department has struggled with discrimination.
I'm piecing this together, even as we sit here.
I don't know.
I'm going to have to check this during the break.
It's coming at me here piecemeal, and I'm not able to make heads or tails out of it.
West Hills, California, Priscilla, nice to have you on the program.
Oh, Rush, thank you so much.
I can't tell you how much I appreciate you.
I've been listening to you since the 90s and when you're on TV.
You make my day, and I just want to tell you that I'm praying for you every day.
It's like you're mine, everything you say, I agree with 100%.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
What you say is totally on point.
I'm a person of color.
Oh, and I'm offended by a lot of the things that's going on, and I want you to be my representative.
You speak for me.
God bless you.
Thank you very much.
I love this country.
I love you.
And I just wish you'd go back on TV.
But you, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, I don't know what I'd do if it weren't for you guys.
So just keep up the good work and know that this is one person of color that's behind you 100%.
And I pray for you every night like I do my family.
Thank you very, very much.
Thank you so much.
God bless you.
And congratulations on your marriage.
Congratulations on just being able to speak.
You speak your mind, and I love that about you.
Thank you very much.
You've made my day.
Okay.
Appreciate it.
Now, why do you wish I was back on television?
Oh, because I love you.
I mean, back then, it was in the 90s, 94, 93, whatever.
Right, a long, long, long, long time ago.
I'll tell you something.
Sean Hannity, there are certain people that's telling the truth, and there's a lot of people that need to know it.
People of color just need to wake up and stop being, you know, carried by Jesse Jackson and Al Sharps and Maxine Waters and all those people.
I mean, you know, there is no excuse for none of us.
No excuse.
We're all American.
I don't have another country to go to.
I was born and raised here.
This is my country.
And I love it.
And I love the tea party.
I love what you stand for, Sean Hannity.
I just, morals and values and everything.
I'm so sick and tired of, you know, black persons saying that they speak for black people.
They don't speak for me.
You are my voice.
It is kind of insulting, isn't it, that all of you are monolithic, that you all think the same thing, and there's only two people that can speak for you.
Well, three, Obama, Jackson, and Sharpton.
Yeah, and that's offensive to me.
And I agree with Connie.
I mean, I am so proud of what she had to say.
I just don't, I can't tell you how proud I am because there is no excuse anymore.
Kobe, Shag, Oprah, I mean, multi-millionaires and billionaire black people.
So no white man is holding a black man down anymore.
And it's just not true.
And no white person has to pay for what took place back during slavery time.
You know, that happened.
It's over with.
It's done.
I've tried explaining this to journalists, and they just don't understand it.
No, they don't want to accept it.
You know, I've had journalists say to me, Can't you understand why black people don't like July 4th, the holiday?
Can't you understand why people, black people still get mad on the day of American independence?
Because it wasn't a day of independence for them.
Can't you relate to why black people would still have a heart chip on their shoulder about the country?
And I said, not today.
We all have to get over.
You know, it would be no different.
I wanted to buy a part of St. Louis Ramps, and I wasn't allowed to.
For what reason?
Why?
Because of what I think and because of quotes on everything that are made up.
Now, if anybody should be bitter about something, it ought to be me.
I don't hate my country for what happened to me.
Right.
It happened.
You deal with it.
But, you know, this notion that there is a justifiable reason to institutionally hate the country for anybody born in it in the last 50 years escapes me.
Well, Rush, let me tell you one more thing.
I thank God.
I don't thank God for slavery, but I thank God that I was not born in Africa.
And I'm not an African-American.
I'm offended by that also.
I'm an American.
I've never been to Africa.
You know, so I thank him for us being here and having an opportunity in this country that my forefathers were brought over here from Africa or wherever, and gave us an opportunity to be Americans and to be free.
I wouldn't want to be in Africa.
There's most of the country, you know, you see how people, the shape that they're in.
Thank God for America and thank God for you.
I wish that you were running.
I wish that you were president.
So do I.
I really do.
You're very sweet.
You're very kind.
I cannot thank you enough from the bottom of my heart.
I really do.
And there are, you are right.
There are races.
There are black races.
There are races in all races.
You know, I mean, some people are prejudiced.
Some are prejudiced against their own people for whatever reason, for Casper, you know, they're not how you say how Obama called them academia.
Academia, yeah.
Yeah, they're not rich.
Yeah, the ruling class, right?
Exactly.
Exactly.
So, but we have come, some of us have common sense, and a lot more of us need to listen to more people like you and Sean.
And really, basically, a lot of black people need to say, you know, just go ahead and stop being sheep.
Would you follow it?
I mean, from your mouth to their ears.
Anyway, Priscilla, thank you very much for the call.
I really appreciate it.
I have to take a timeout here, an obscene profit break.
We will be back and continue right after this.
It was last Thursday, 31-year-old Daniel Montoya was stopped for a traffic violation and was arrested on a warrant.
Today, 31-year-old Daniel Montoya was released after the police determined they had the wrong guy.
The father of three, a grandfather of four.
The nightmare for this guy began nearly a week ago when he was driving to the store.
He was stopped for a broken headlight.
The officer arrested him on an outstanding warrant out of Missouri.
But he never left the state of Texas.
But he knew what was going on.
He had had his identity stolen.
He said, I could not believe somebody was using my identity because every year when we file our taxes, I have to go to the IRS and make a police report so I knew somebody was using my name.
That's how common it's become, and that's how easy it is for somebody to steal your identity.
Now, if this guy had Life Lock, this would never have happened.
Well, you can't say never.
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Here's Deborah in Bloomfield, Michigan.
I'm glad you called.
Welcome.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
Yes, ma'am.
I have two quick comments.
The first one to, I believe her name was Priscilla.
God bless her.
Is that true?
The lady that spoke right before me, she represents a lot of my friends that are black, that feel very strongly that the way this country is going is very bad.
And I think part of the problem is we don't have strong representation in the Republican Party that can counter like you do.
I wish you were in the Republican Party.
Or I don't even care if it's Republican or Independent.
You know, I just want to see somebody that can take over and represent our country the way it should be and the way it has been in the past.
And she is the epitome of many of my black friends.
And what surprises me, they were liberal, you know, but now they're starting to open their ears and they're open to discussion.
Whereas my white liberal friends, you can't even talk to them.
They're a lost cause.
Those people, they're possessed with such guilt that you're never going to stop.
They're wrong.
I think they know they're wrong, you know.
And so they can't admit that.
Well, then they're gutless.
Yeah, they are.
I believe so.
And the black people are actually more open to discussion, you know.
And that's why I say bless Priscilla.
I hope she spreads the word to just be open-minded.
That's all I ask people because this is scaring me.
Well, you know, Deborah, there's something happening out there.
There's an effervescence that is the Tea Party's tip of the iceberg.
But it's happening out there.
You just don't see it because the flax for the ruling class in the Ministry of Lies don't deal with it.
And I'll tell you what's going on.
But Priscilla and people like you are not alone.
There are gazillions of you out there.
Jim in Chattanooga, I'm glad you waved it, sir.
You're next on the EIB network.
Yes.
Holy Toledo, Rush.
I can't believe I got through dittos from a conservative in a liberal world of teaching.
You know, when it comes to, I don't have much time, but I listen to you guys a lot.
But when it comes to knowing who to vote for and knowing the things, I feel like we're being shafted so much and lied to and knowing who the conservatives to vote for because they're lying about themselves and they're lying about their opponents.
And I just don't, you know, is there some place we can go to where I can figure out who to vote for for primaries and governors and things like that?
There are.
I don't have them at the top of my head, but there are a bunch of websites that are either being established or have been established that do try to explain.
You're talking about choosing the right Republican in the primary, right?
That is correct.
You know, I'm trying to figure out, you know, because I've gotten mixed stories, even from, you know, conservatives that I trust, like, well, you should vote for this person because of this and this horse or because of this.
I'm like, uh-huh.
Yeah, same thing happens to me.
Okay.
So it does.
Oh, it does.
It happens to me.
Some people, people are always lobbying me to vote for this particular Republican over that.
More conservative or is better on a single issue than somebody else is.
I'm glad you asked that.
There are going to be some places who can recommend that you go when the time comes.
But I got to run right now because I'm way long overdue on time.
All right, here's this lawsuit in a nutshell.
Obama has offered black farmers a $1.25 billion class action award to settle claims of discrimination that started after Reagan closed the USDA's Civil Rights Office in 1981.
And he's offering women, Latino farmers, a similar settlement of $1.3 billion for the same thing.
Folks, this is just reparations under a different name.
That's all this is.
We'll see you tomorrow.
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