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July 29, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 29, 2010, Thursday, Hour #3
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Well, looky here, folks.
Initial jobless claims.
Drop to 557,000.
Only 550,000 people.
Only 557,000.
Will you realize what great news this is?
New jobless claims fell last week.
Uh by um 11,000.
In a nation of 300 million people.
In a nation of 300 million people, we are supposed to be ecstatically happy.
That 11,000 people didn't file for unemployment competition.
And we don't know how many of the 11,000 just plain gave up.
So man, what a day!
Only 457,000 unemployment claims.
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yahoo.
Down 11,000.
Yeah.
Rad all radar.
Recovery, Bush recession, recovery summer.
Which is it?
From uh CNBC.
Mortgage loan originators.
Get this.
You won't believe this.
I'm holding this.
By the way, Charlie Wrangle says there hasn't been a deal reached.
Chuck Wrangle says there hasn't been a deal reached, and he's not gonna go to the hearing this afternoon.
There has not been a deal reached.
Nine arrests made at Phoenix Immigration Protest.
Now who do you think's protesting in Phoenix today?
I guarantee you it's not the people who ought to be.
That's the only thing I know.
So nine arrests made from people who ought to be happy.
Anyway, get this.
Mortgage loan originators will have to be fingerprinted and sign up to a central registry to do business in the future, according to financial or final rules issued yesterday by the Federal Reserve.
The rules are part of the secure and fair enforcement for mortgage licensing act of 2008, also called the SAFE Act.
They were issued by the Fed, the controller of the currency, the FDIC, the Office of Thrift Supervision, the Farm Credit Administration, and the National Credit Union Administration.
Mortgage brokers came under tough scrutiny in the wake of the 2007-2009 financial crisis.
Some lawmakers and regulators sharply critical of underwriting standards and practices that were seen as so loose.
They help foster a housing price bubble.
This is how the ruling class does it.
They create the problem.
They force the lenders to make the mortgages, the loans, to people who will never be able to pay them back.
And then when that causes a financial meltdown, blame the people who were forced to do it under duress and pressure.
The very federal government that made them issue those loans now is making them be fingerprinted.
Special side note.
Those of you illegal immigrants in Arizona, listening to me, you cannot go into the mortgage business now.
Because you would have to be fingerprinted, and you well, no, actually, they can.
I take it back.
I take it back.
If you, if you illegal aliens are looking for a job in Arizona, become a mortgage lender.
You won't have to be fingerprinted because nobody can find out whether you're legal or not.
You see how this works.
I mean, this is incredible.
Uh mortgage brokers to be fingerprinted and registered.
Last I know, the mortgage brokers were not breaking any laws.
We can't wait for November.
Folks, this kind of stuff is gonna be a powder keg out there that's gonna that's gonna erupt in November.
So here we have the illegals in Arizona.
Ask them for papers.
They don't have to prove anything.
They can't even be arrested by state or local officials because the federal government's not going to arrest them, and a judge said that the state cannot preempt the federal law even on enforcement issues.
So but we damn well gonna fingerprint people in the mortgage loaning business.
Those are the real criminals, those people that were tricking all these poor people to taking these loans.
This is Stalinist, folks.
This is the stuff that happened in the old Soviet Union.
Quinn Hillier, the American spectator today, has a good piece.
It's nothing new.
There's nothing new about it.
There's not one original thought in it.
What's great about it is his summarization of how we all feel.
Might I share it with you.
I really don't know what to write, Mr. Hillier begins.
We have a president who's so divisive that two longstanding polsters of his own party right, that quote, President Obama's divisive approach to governance has weakened us as a people and paralyzed our political culture.
We have columnists for major newspapers who are so nastily partisan that they fail to do even the most basic of investigatory requirements before sliming good, honest, decent Americans, such as Justice Department whistleblower J. Christian Adams.
We have congressmen so eager to play gotcha that they try to blame former presidents for failing to do constitutional duty, even when the well-reported facts are that the operatives for the president of the congressman's own party unwittingly were the culprits in the supposed problem at issue.
Yeah, you won't know what I'm talking about.
That's why you absolutely must read this link.
Tell you what I'm talking about.
Basically, I'll tell you in a minute.
We have a major congressional committee chairman who has conniption fits about not being given a $1 senior citizen's discount.
That would be Barney Frank.
You didn't hear about this?
Barney Frank went out.
There was some uh big celebratory uh gay weekend on Fire Island.
And he wanted the one dollar senior citizen discount to get into it, and they would not give it to him, and he raised hell.
Over a dollar.
Oh, yeah, this was all over the New York Post.
Barney Frank went local weeds.
He's made a scene over a one-dollar senior citizen discount.
About not being given a $1 senior citizen discount, but who won't apologize for costing taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars by refusing for years to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mack.
We have writers for publications respected by the mainstream media, who are so vicious and dishonest that they would suggest randomly throwing around charges of racism without a shred of evidence, charge made the more despicable because one of the named victims of the smear happens to be one of the nicest, most decent people in all of Washington punditry or politics.
We have a national debt exploding so rapidly by deliberate design of the president that one almost believes he is trying to implement the Cloward Pivin strategy of manufactured crisis.
Cause a political and economic cataclysm.
Use it as an excuse for radical executive orders and martial law, that sort of thing.
Again, I did say almost, but we're getting to a point where it almost doesn't matter what the motivations are, the reality being created, could have the same effect, whether by intention or by autocratic reaction to the fruits of the leader's own incompetence.
We have a president who may as well have declared war on Louisiana or on the whole Central Gulf Coast or Arizona.
We have a speaker of the House, so cynical or batty that she says we have to pass a bill first in order to know what's in it.
And a majority leader so accustomed to railroad jobs and internal autocracy that he actually makes fun of the idea of requiring that Congressmen be allowed at least 72 hours to examine bills before voting on them.
We have Supreme Court nominees sailing through, despite saying that genetic differences might make Latinas better judges, And despite openly flouting the law to harm military recruiting in a time of war, and despite wanting to rule that the Constitution forbids states from keeping currently incarcerated rapists and murderers from voting,
that's Sotomayor, and despite manipulating both science and law in order to keep the barbaric practice of partial birth abortion legal for another decade.
That would be Elena Kagan.
I could go on with other bad news, but I'm tired.
I'm dejected, I'm disgusted, I'm furious, I'm disheartened that I'm disillusioned.
I want fair play and integrity, intellectual consistency, common decency from all points on the political spectrum.
But those attributes are not as prevalent on the right as they should be, and it seems they're almost non-existent on the left.
I don't mind honest and respectful disagreements.
I'm sickened, though, by vicious attacks without substance.
And dear reader, I assume you agree.
I hate writing all these I sentences.
I almost sound like Obama.
So let's make this about you.
What are you going to do about all this?
What do you want to see happen?
How much do you care about your country and your community?
Is not everybody asking themselves these things.
This is this great summary here is written by Quinn Hillier, the American Spectator, and it's aptly descriptive.
Everybody's just thrown their hands up.
None of it makes any sense.
None of this is real.
None of this should be happening.
You know, for the longest time, and I was asking myself the other night, I was I'm serious about this.
You can have uh a political figure or a celebrity involved in one of the most embarrassing illegal or borderline legal things.
Take your pick.
Can be truly despicable things, and yet they become famous.
They become focus of even more attention, they become wealthy.
With genuine reprobate behavior, I was asking myself, at what point in our culture did it change?
It used to be that there was a stigma, an embarrassment to being a reprobate, or to have broken the law, or to have just engaged in utter moral depravity.
When did it change that this became a resume enhancement?
I can't put my finger on it.
All I know is that ever since I started this show in the early, well, late 80s, early 90s, I have watched this happen, and I've watched this deviancy in our culture get defined downward.
We've just given up.
As Moynihan said, we've defined deviancy now.
Okay, we can't fix that, so it's now normal.
And behavior, and we can't stop it.
So we're just gonna say it's normal now.
And I have been waiting for the day when society finally says, enough!
I'm we're we're not gonna start rewarding.
We're gonna stop rewarding this kind of behavior.
There's not only been no stop to it.
It's getting worse and worse and worse, and it's epitomized by Mr. Hillier's summary here.
Half the people he writes about should be in jail, or impeached, or convicted of treason.
He's also right when he says there's a whole lot of people on our side of the aisle that are not revved up enough about it.
In fact, I can I can trace this little personal illustration of this.
When I moved to New York in 1988 to start this program, this program nationally started August 1st of 1988, you will remember those of you in New York, well, and some of you around the country, you will remember that there was a phenomenon on television at the time, the Morton Downey Show.
Now, I happened, I replaced Morton Downey Jr. in Sacramento.
He got fired for telling a joke using the word Chinaman about a city council when we wouldn't apologize, so they they blew him out of there.
Well, they brought me out, they said, Look, we want controversy.
We'll back you up, but not if you make it up.
If you if you're if you're gonna say Things just to incite riots, just to make people mad.
If you're gonna say just to rile them up, but you don't really believe it, we're not gonna back you up.
But you're honest about it, and you stay sane, we'll back you up.
And they were true.
They were honest about that.
So I moved to New York, and like everybody who let me take a break here.
Make sure I get this uh obscene profit uh center in.
But I'll pick it up right as we leaf off the story.
When I got to New York, right after this.
Uh who is this?
Dexies, Midnight Runners, right?
That's uh come on eileen, the title of the tune, the bumper rotation.
Rush Limboy at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Okay, so I get to New York in um 1988, and shortly after the summer end, sometime in September, I'm invited to a cocktail party Upper East Side at the townhouse home of the noted Lou Lariman, who was not there.
He had just given the use of his home.
It was a bunch of the conservative print media that I was being introduced to.
And I can remember a number of them came up when they were introduced to me and explained why I was in town and what I was there to do.
Oh, are you gonna be the Morton Downey Jr. of the radio?
And I uh and they seem to be excited about that prospect.
And here are these world-class uh models of decorum in print, uh, getting all excited about in your face insult broadcasting.
You know, putting cigarettes out on people's hands and spitting in their face, and that's no, no, no, I'm not gonna do it.
There's no way I'll succeed.
I'm I I want to be just as classy on my radio show as you are in print.
I said, that stuff is not gonna have a lifespan.
That stuff is not gonna survive.
And even if it does, I don't want to be part of it.
I have I have no desire to be part of insult broadcasting or insult radio.
I don't want to be that far gone into showbiz.
And it was that at that point I started thinking that the deviancy that was occurring in media would eventually bottom out and there'd be a rebound, and it hasn't bottomed out.
It we're still plumbing the depths.
We're we're below the gutter.
Most media is in the sewer.
I don't care what media you're talking about, uh books, movies, television shows, newspapers.
There are examples, uh, rare examples of the opposite.
There are exceptions and so forth.
Uh, and I've always thought of myself as one.
But it's not just, it's not just in broadcasting, just the overall cultural uh decline, the depravity, and and with that decline and that depravity comes increased fame and notoriety, not for anything but the erratic depraved behavior, become famous for.
And that has given rise, what?
To my space, my butt, my mouth, my book.
Facebook, this, Facebook, that, everybody.
There's no nobody wants any mystery about themselves.
In fact, there was a piece I forget what paper it was.
It might have been the New York Times, the absence of mystery.
Nobody wants any mystery about themselves.
It used to be that I think this paper used the example, it's not possible for there to be a Greta Garbo anymore.
Greta Garbo was a reckless.
It was the biggest deal in the world to see Greta Garbo walking a dog or going to grocery store.
It hardly ever happened.
Now you couldn't survive.
As uh an entertainer, an actor, you couldn't survive living a normal life.
You have to be on display, and you have to be making a mess of your life.
In order for the paparazzi to be interested in you.
You have to be throwing up bird seed every night.
You have to be going in for drug rehab overdoses in the hospital.
The paparazzi make I'm on the way to the hospital in Hawaii.
And before I get there, the media vans are waiting outside the hospital emergency room before we get there.
Well, obviously, reporters pay off EMC EMT people.
Not that this is the way it is.
How do you think they get these pictures of Michael Jackson on the uh on the uh on the gurney?
Somebody has to let them in there.
My point is that all the this is what Clint Quinn Hillier's writing about here today.
No matter where the depravity is, be it in our media culture, entertainment culture, now the political culture, there's utter depravity, and it's rewarded.
It wins.
Lying, cheating, stealing, anti-Americanism wins.
And face it, this is what's got everybody so discombobulated because none of it makes sense.
None of the things that we were raised with, none of the manners we were told to exhibit and live by seem to be rewarded.
If you live the life that you were raised to live, golden rule, be polite.
You're boring.
The MTV awards, if somebody doesn't drop the F bomb every ten minutes, the critics say, what a boring show.
You go back and look at some of the old Academy Awards presentations, you know, before Marlon Brando brought the Indian babe up to not accept the award, uh, the only went politically nuts.
I mean, the Gary Grant, Grace Kelly era, that was bigger than life, epitome of class.
There's no class anymore anywhere.
And we certainly don't have class at the highest levels of our politics.
All we have is a bunch of people seeking attention in a whole bunch of ways, but they all add up to one thing.
I can't be who I am and get noticed.
I have to be outrageous here or do this.
I can't even be honest.
I got to come up with an opinion that nobody else has that could be totally wrong, but I want to be perceived as the smartest guy in the room because I want to get noticed because my middle name is notice me, notice me, notice me.
It's an affliction that everybody has.
And I've kept waiting for this to bottom out.
And it doesn't.
We keep sinking lower.
I think I do.
I I think I do know why it's happening.
I think I do know what caused it.
In fact, I'm I I have very little doubt about this.
I think I think I've in fact I've even said it in so many words on this program when discussing abortion over the years.
But I really really think the reason for this sinking, spiraling down deviancy and depravity, that gets rewarded, uh, and people seeking fame on that basis, you know, rather than achievement.
I mean, back in the old days, there wouldn't be a Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian.
I don't have anything against them.
What have they done?
They haven't done anything.
There's circus acts.
And life is filled with more and more circus acts.
But I think all of this can be traced back to um God being shunned, that God being removed from people's lives, that they're being no god or false gods or what have you.
There's a you've heard of Nietzsche, Nietzsche.
1882, God is dead, wrote the book.
Uh the ruling class has been teaching this.
Time magazine did cover God's Dead, Is God Dead, what have you.
The book was called Gay Science, and in it he postulated God was dead.
Once you take God out, once you take conscience, once you get rid of morality, once you get rid of reasons larger than your own existence, once you get rid of judgmentalism, then there's nothing, there are no guardrails.
There's nothing to keep you on the road.
Who cares?
Now the the death of God, these people that always promulgated it, the death of God's a way of saying that humans are no longer able to believe in any cosmic order.
There's no such thing as anything larger than ourselves.
There's no concept of intelligent design.
No God, no, this is all an accident.
I I think you have to be brain dead to believe this is all an accident.
You have to be brain dead to believe this is a coincidence.
I don't know how Anybody, particularly educated people who study the human body can think that this is an accident.
I don't know intellectually how anybody can come to that conclusion.
But millions of people have.
But with you, if you succeed in convincing people there is no God or that God is died, that will lead not only to the this is what Nietzsche said, the rejection of a belief of cosmic or physical order, but also to a rejection of absolute values themselves, because where do they come from?
Where do absolute values come from?
Where is the notion of absolute right and wrong?
Where does it originate?
You go to any religion in the world you want, there aren't too many areas of gray.
For example, they are not the ten suggestions.
And a lot of people we know do not want to live under any kind of judgmentalism at all from other human beings, certainly not from a force that they can't understand.
The whole concept of a universal morality, that's scary.
That's scary.
That means there's a price to pay.
And we don't want to pay the price.
We don't want to have to pay the price for being who we are.
And this is what's happened.
Ever since the whole notion that there is no God has taken hold of that God is dead, or that God's just a creation of a bunch of freak wackos that the true intelligent people know that there's no such thing as intelligent design.
Alan Bloom, you remember I never forget this guy.
Alan Bloom wrote a book called The Closing of the American Mind, and he on campus at the University, and he traced it back to this.
I remember watching him on Firing Line.
The thing I remember Alan Bloom was a chain smoker on Firing Line, and nobody made him put the cigarette out.
A chain smoker, University of Chicago, I think he came from.
If it's not that, if it if it's if it's if it's not the absence of God that explains all of this, the triumph of depravity, then it has to be that liberalism breeds insanity.
If one of the two, I happen to think it's the uh absence of God, because when you boil it all down, if you don't stand for something, you will believe anything.
And doesn't that describe the buffaloed fooled idiots on the left?
They will believe anything.
They'll believe the most unrealistic wild things like a Chevrolet suburban can destroy the climate.
They will believe it and they will live their lives, they'll become zealot evangels about it, because nothing else has meaning to them.
They stand for nothing, so they fall for anything.
You know, people have asked me, well, how do you how do you so sure that the global warming is all made up?
I believe in God.
I've I've been through this riff with you thousands of times because I believe in God.
I I do not believe I have more power than God.
I don't believe God even notices me, much less creates all of this that insignificant microbes like us can destroy.
I just can't get my arms around that intellectually.
But yet people who stand for nothing, who want significance and want to matter and want to think they're all important, will buy into the notion.
The most insignificant people in the world, the most inconsequential people in the world.
And I'm talking about the average run-of-the-mill American liberal, the most inconsequential people of the world look what they believe.
They are so hungry for relevance that they actually believe that they and us are destroying a planet.
It's insane to believe this.
And they are so caught up in it that they demand that everybody live an equally inconsequential, irrelevant life like they do.
And their anger and their rage at all of us is really nothing more than fear.
Because people like you and me show them daily that they're irrelevant and inconsequential and wrong.
We're happy.
We're pursuing happiness.
We live by a we try to live by a standard.
It's all a big threat.
So the objective is get rid of anything that equals black or white.
Get rid of any truth.
Because truth, giant, giant threat.
Can't live with threats.
Threats make us nervous.
Moral values.
Now that can be explained away.
Yeah, you can explain moral value.
That's just the opium of the mass.
You know, just a bunch of irrelevant people trying to tell themselves they're good for people.
Morality, but nah.
Morality, that's for the great unwashed.
We intellectuals, we members of the ruling class, we understand what a joke morality is.
And yet the people that are heralded as the wizards of smart, the unifies, the people that are going to save the country and save us, are in the process of destroying it.
And some people do think that it's being done purposefully.
And it's a hard thing to tell them it's not.
Because the evidence is incontrovertible.
The worst thing that you can be in society today is judgmental.
That's why people like us are so hated, folks.
Worst thing you can be is judgmental and right.
That's why Time magazine, the obnoxious Rush Limbaugh, was right about the Gulf Oils.
Obnoxious.
Why obnoxious?
Why not be heralded?
Well, can't do that.
That doesn't fit the template.
Brief time out.
We'll be back.
We'll squeeze in some of your phone calls when we get back.
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Here's Phil in Bethlehem, California.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Hello.
It's uh Bethlehem, Georgia, Rush.
Uh, thank you very much.
Bethem, Georgia.
Bethlehem, Georgia.
We got 15-year-old technology, the C and the G look the same.
Okay.
It's a pleasure to talk to you.
You bet.
Rush, I have a question for you.
I never heard of Bethlehem, Georgia, or California, by the way.
Bethlehem's either in Nazareth in Israel or Pennsylvania to me.
But we have one here.
I'm glad you're there.
I have a question.
Uh with this law, with this judge knocking out this law and everything in Arizona.
If somebody down there now, an American citizen is attacked, is raped or robbed or beat up or hospitalized or even murdered.
With the federal government behind this here, does that person or person's family have a right to sue the federal government for allowing the illegal to be here?
Oh.
Well, not a lawyer.
My dad was a lawyer.
But I'm not.
And I don't know.
I I I think as best I can determine, the federal government does not think the behaviors or crimes that you described are bad enough or serious enough to try to stop.
So I think you'd be sort of SOL if it happened to you.
Just my guess.
You don't you don't get very far suing the feds.
Especially this bunch of them.
No, well, you you go to the federal courts, you tie up the federal courts and everything else, and they somebody has to find them guilty of allowing this to take place.
Well, but you can't you can't ask them to you you you can't we can't find out there look the the bottom line here is it's no longer illegal to be illegal, so we we can't ask them anything about themselves, much less did you murder anybody.
Right.
I mean, wh why do you think Arizona is doing what they're doing?
Because everything you described is happening, and nobody's doing anything to stop it.
So Arizona said, if you're not going to, we will.
And the judge said, No, if the federal government's not going to stop it, you can't preempt them and stop it yourself.
That's essentially what the judge had to say.
Michael in Oklahoma City, you're next on the EIB network, sir.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
Uh permit me, with respect to offer a rebuttal to a portion of your opening monologue.
For go right ahead.
Judge Golton, I think it is, Judge Bolton is the one we've been talking about.
Judge Susan Bolden, correct.
She did not uh uh uh what what uh overrule held unconstitutional or throw out the the Arizona statute.
She issued a very narrow ruling, uh which was to grant the government's request for what is called a preliminary injunction.
The question as to the constitutionality of the portions of the statute, which she enjoins preliminarily, that question remains before her and has not been decided.
I think it's important to that.
All true, but do we have any doubt now how she's gonna decide it?
And regardless how she decides it, it's going to be appealed to the Ninth Circuit.
We know how that's gonna go.
Uh, with either a three-judge panel or a full end bunk panel.
We I mean, we know that this judge is pretty much uh indicated how she's gonna rule on that.
Yeah, this temporary injunction, but it's well, I just temporary is temporary.
How many years is it gonna take to resolve this?
I think it's a distinction worth noting if if we just believe, well, naturally this is what she's going to do.
It's too much of uh cynicism in that.
Well, but no, they see the more reason no, the cynicism is the other way around.
The reasonable thing, let the law go into effect and see if all these hypotheticals that she cited actually happened.
She issued the temporary stay based on a bunch of hypotheticals.
Nobody knows.
It's and the hypotheticals are based on spin, racial profiling, all these other rotten, horrible things to legal citizens are gonna happen.
Uh I I've I've I've seldom seen a stay, preliminary, temporary, whatever, based on hypotheticals.
Well, that could happen, you know, so we better stay law.
Let the law go to effect.
They can't let it go into effect.
See, this is the thing, they can't let it go into effect, because then everybody would know there's no profiling in the law, and there isn't all of these threats.
But they uh couldn't allow that to be demonstrated.
This is so this is this is activist political ruling.
This is nothing judicial about this.
We're still waiting on the uh solution here, the resolution.
Whatever's gonna happen to Charlie Wrangle.
I'll tell you what I hope.
I keep hoping that one day African American politicians, ladies and gentlemen, will finally achieve racial equality, and they too will be punished for their ethical lapses, just like people of no color are.
We can only hope.
We'll see if it happens with Chuck Rango.
Doubt it.
See you tomorrow.
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