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Aug. 4, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 4, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #2
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The views expressed by the hosts on this program are courageous.
They ought not be considered courageous.
The views expressed by the host of this program is simply the truth.
By telling the truth in Obama's America often is accompanied by the reaction, wow, you are really brave to say that.
And that's very true.
The courageous and brave, El Rushbo, 22nd anniversary on August the first of this year.
And proclaimed by Talkers Magazine the most important radio talk show host in history.
Behind the golden EIB microphone, telephone number 800 282-2882.
Email address Lrushbaugh at EIB net.com.
I got a couple of emails during the break.
Oh!
Oh, before before going to that, uh Catherine and I spent a number of hours last night finally selecting wedding pictures.
And we've done it, and we have submitted them to the techie people who are going to do it.
We have a special way we're going to announce.
I'm just going to go ahead and say this.
Maybe I don't know if I should say this or not.
Yeah, I can do it because we haven't gone live yet.
As you know, ladies and gentlemen, I um I have uh I have not had a Facebook page or my space page and my butt page and my mouth page or any of this uh social networking stuff.
Uh because as I looked at it, I didn't deem it worthy of what we do here at the EIB network.
However, I can now proclaim that uh it makes sense.
Uh Facebook is finally uh progressed to the point that it is ready for us.
And so we're going to have a Rush Limbaugh Facebook.
We're not going to let people post to our wall.
We're not going to let any happen.
Not gonna happen, but it will be a Facebook page where we will release the wedding pictures.
Uh and they will then point, of course, to Rush Limbaugh.com.
The two will be inexorably linked.
And uh, not gonna go Twitter.
Uh not gonna do Twitter.
There's no way to make any money on Twitter.
Um, Twitter, Twitter's just that's fad type stuff.
Uh Facebook is an entirely different like we have to, you know, everybody jumps on these things uh long before it's time.
We have to wait till uh they progress to a certain level to make sense for us uh here at the EIB network to become part of it.
And we're hoping to get this done by the end of the week, maybe the uh first part of uh next week.
So that's where the photos will go live.
We also have posted, because of popular demands, some more uh uh puppy pictures at rushlimbaugh.com of uh Abby, the uh over one-year-old old English sheepdog into Puppy Wellesley, uh, another old English sheepdog.
So people ask, and there they are.
We've uh we put them there.
Uh and some of the emails during the brief.
Well, you rush in that first hour talking about the environment, you really sounded ticked off.
And I didn't mean to sound ticked off, it was just passion, folks.
It's one of the biggest hoaxes that's ever been perpetrated on the people of this country.
And it's this this oil spill's classic.
I've I uh every time something like this happens, and I put it in perspective early on, folks, it's not that much oil compared to the Gulf.
The the I remember my words, the ocean, the Gulf is gonna eat this oil alive.
The oil doesn't stand a chance.
And you get all these media people going on television talking, I'm callous, I'm insensitive, I'm uh this and that and the other.
All I am is right.
But I'm right because I have a healthy respect for God and for the creation of this planet.
I understand the way these things work as best as any human can.
I mean, we all have questions as human beings that we will never, as human beings, be able to answer.
I also have the humility to understand that, that we will not as human beings ever be able to answer all the questions we ask.
We'll get them, but not on this earth.
Firmly believe that.
I also understand liberals.
Understand leftists.
I know who they are.
I know they lie, I know how they advance their agenda.
I know how they use people.
I know how they frighten and scare and create panics and so forth.
And I also am aware that We have a bunch of Nimrods on our side of the aisle who are of the belief that if the Republicans don't get in the right way on this environment, sorry, we're going to lose votes to the left.
We we got to have our own green movement.
And it's extremely frustrating to me when we have all these pseudo intellectuals who nobody's ever heard of, and who can't relate to average people telling everybody else how to approach issues, how to accomplish things, so forth and so on.
So yeah, I was I was a little bit ticked off in the first segment.
And here you have, after 105 days, ah, no big deal, can't find the oil.
It's over.
No, no baby.
Go back and look at the way this was covered and perpetrated.
Throughout these whole 105 days, the administration wouldn't do a thing for 50 days, didn't get involved.
Then they wouldn't let the media in there to cover because there was nothing to cover.
We know that now.
It was only the last couple of weeks we've had stories looking for the oil and he can't find it.
We've steered them.
You'll find the oil where you'll find the 3.6 million jobs that Obama saved.
That's where you'll find the oil.
You'll find the oil at all the 3.6 million jobs Obama's created.
I uh I know my patients sometimes, it's it's difficult to suffer fools.
I I as I get older, it is it is difficult to uh suffer fools.
When something, you know, I'm I'm I'm no different than anybody else.
I'm not that smart, but when things are perfectly clear to me, and I think they ought to be perfectly clear to everybody else, and they're not, yes, I admit, I get a little frustrated.
Because this is a teacher.
We we ought not, with every all the failures that liberalism has shown us around the world in this country, we ought not to, we ought not to be going through this.
We ought not have elected this guy.
We ought not have to sit here and watch the attack on the American capitalist system, on our way of life, on the prosperity and the opportunity that this country alone has created for humanity.
We have to sit here and watch this.
All because we have corrupt political people and corrupt people in the media, who are perpetrating lies, falsehoods, and so forth, creating false images and impressions of unqualified people as the greatest political person ever trod the earth, and to sit through and watch uh Bush end up being destroyed.
The administration didn't do anything to defend themselves while all that was happening.
All of this for the advancement of liberalism.
Liberalism doesn't deserve to advance, it deserves to end.
Liberalism has failed.
It fails every time it's tried, and yet, for some reason, people keep giving it another chance.
Try this story.
It's from the Associated Press.
The nation's top drilling regulator...
Says the Obama regime hopes to lift a freeze on deep water drilling well before its scheduled November 30 expiration date.
This is the illegal moratorium.
A judge has already said there's no basis for it, but they've still kept it in place.
A six-month drilling moratorium in the Gulf.
Do you realize we've got oil rigs leaving the Gulf and going to other parts of the world because there's a drilling moratorium?
We are losing on purpose.
American jobs in the oil business on rigs in the Gulf.
And now, after 105 days can't find the oil, it wasn't a disaster, meaning there was no reason to shut down these rigs in the first place.
There's no reason for them to be leaving the Gulf and going to Egypt or wherever they're going, Venezuela.
And even with all this, we get a story saying the regime is thinking about lifting the moratorium earlier than planned.
November 30th is the expiration date.
Michael Bromwich, director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.
I'm sorry, that's not.
It's the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Regulation and Enforcement.
Said that he and the Interior Secretary Ken Cowboy Hat Salazar are gathering information to decide whether to revise or even lift the ban, which has been shut down drilling at 33 ocean wells in the wake of the BP spill at the Gulf of Mexico.
Michael Bromwich said yesterday officials hope to feel comfortable enough with safety improvements so the moratorium can be lifted significantly in advance of November 30th.
Like when?
A couple days before the election?
Is that when you're going to lift the moratorium?
A week before the election in November?
Is that when you're going to lift it?
In the meantime, we're going to lose American jobs.
Apparently the moratorium's not polling too well.
That's why they're talking about lifting it now.
They'd better call it off before the November elections, and they will.
You watch.
And now the regime has been given a huge wake-up call in Missouri.
And they and their partisan political operatives in the media are trying to spin this.
Well, of course, of course it's just a bunch of Republicans showing up.
We know this is going to happen in November.
The Republicans are far more energized.
It's just these Tea Party extremists.
No, no, no, no.
More people showed up to vote yesterday than have showed up in Republican and Democrat primary elections.
Thisouri is a uh purple state.
I I don't know.
Missouri's a show-me state, and they showed people.
It's all you need to know about Missouri or Missouri.
Depending on your preference.
72% voted to get rid of repeal to sustain their opposition.
McCain only carried Missouri by one percentage point, 50 to 49%.
Took 10 days to finally count that.
Don't tell me that this is just the Tea Party showing up to vote.
This is Democrats showing up to vote.
This is independents showing up to say we don't want this.
We don't want any part of Obamacare.
The New York Times, Monica Davy, Missouri voters reject health law.
Missouri voters on Tuesday easily approved a measure aimed at nullifying the new federal health care law, becoming the first state in the nation where ordinary people actually says that.
The first state in a nation where ordinary people made known their dismay over the issue at the ballot box.
Ordinary people, as opposed to who?
The ruling class?
A political class.
The measure was intended to invalidate a crucial element of Obama's health care law, namely that most people be required to get health insurance or pay a tax penalty.
Supporters of the measure said it would send a firm signal to Washington about how this state, often a bellwether in presidential elections, felt about such a law.
You know, it's good to have this.
It's great to have this vote on record, but we already know what most people in this country think of this.
We've had polling data on it for months now.
Those people don't like it.
They didn't like it before it was voted on.
The Democrats have been governing against the will of the people for 18 months now.
Jane Cunningham, a state senator, Republican who had pressed for the vote, said last night, my constituents told me they felt like their voices had been ignored and they wanted Washington to hear them.
It looks to me like they just picked up a megaphone.
Later in the New York Times story, it says for some, the outcome was not merely about health care, but about the role of states in setting policy.
State Senator Jim Lemke, a Republican, said this really wasn't an effort to poke the president in the eye.
First and foremost, this was about defining the role of state government and the role of federal government, whether it's here in Missouri with health care or in Arizona with illegal immigration, the states are going to get together on this now.
The states are the last line of defense against this encroaching federal agenda.
Well, of course it was a it was a poke in the eye, but what what Mr. Lemke is Senator Lemke is saying is that uh it was uh uh uh not about, I mean what wasn't an effort to poke that they they wonder he's right he's saying we didn't do this just to embarrass Obama.
We did this because we mean it.
We did this because we but it ends up being a poke in the eye.
But that's they didn't do it for spite.
They they they did it because they genuinely don't like it.
Ed Morrissey at Hotair.com.
This is the poll quote from his analysis.
Bear in mind, over 315,000 Democrats turned out to cast ballots in the primary that nominated Robin Carnahan, the daughter of the widow Carmenhan.
Um over 577,000 Republicans hit the polls.
That's about a 6535 split, which means that a significant amount of Democrats either supported Measure C repudiating Obamacare, or they didn't bother to cast a vote to defend it.
Actually, Prop C in Missouri got more votes than the combined voting in both Senate primaries, which tells us something even more about the passion in the electorate over this issue.
And the Democrats and the media trying to spin this.
It's just a Tea Party vote, just a Republican vote.
Remember, McCain barely eked out a one percentage point win in the state of Missouri.
So this is a big poke in the eye, whether it was intended to be or not.
Uh it's it's you know, it's not just the health care reform.
The message here, it's the socialism stupid, and we don't want it.
I'll tell you something, Obama keeps crying wolf.
He keeps crying about disasters.
Worst economy, worst environmental disaster in history, worst, worst, worst, worst, worst.
And and then, of course, his rescue of the unwashed from the worst, worst, worst.
So everything's the worst.
It's never been worse, and here comes Obama riding in to save the day.
And this is dangerous and misleading because one of these days, something really is going to be the worst, other than his administration.
Something really is going to be the worst.
And people are going to become immune to claims that it's the worst.
It might be something really serious, and nobody's going to pay any attention to him because everything's been the worst.
By the way, the latest Gallup poll just hit Obama's approval among whites at 38%.
41% overall.
We still haven't had partisan political operative media do any major news focus on Obama's approval number and gallop at 41%, 38% among whites.
So you have people in California voting against same-sex marriage.
It ends up in federal court.
We're waiting on a court ruling from California this afternoon.
Federal judge on whether or not banning same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.
Everybody waiting breathlessly on this.
People in Missouri, 71%, 72% vote against Obamacare.
The federal government will ignore the vote.
How long is it going to be before Holder and Obama decide to sue Missouri?
Like they sued Arizona.
Arizona, the people in Arizona support a law that enforces immigration rules.
And the federal government sues them.
Do you see a pattern here?
The country is upside down.
We are being ruled, not governed.
We are being ruled by a minority.
Pure and simple.
And they are not interested at all in the opinions of the American people.
What's really worst, Paul, worst oil spill, worst disaster, worst economy, worst this.
Obama's poll numbers are really the worst.
38% approval among whites, 48% approval overall.
Let me grab a phone call here before we go to the break at the top of the hour.
It's uh Columbus, Ohio.
Brett, great to have you on the program.
Welcome.
Hey, Rush, truly an honor.
If you don't mind, I want to steal a quote from the outlaw Josie Wales referring to you in the media.
Whoop them again, Rush Bow.
Thank you, sir, very much.
El Correcto.
I'd like to talk about this uh response BP had to the oil spell, the supposed worst environmental disaster in our in in our history.
Uh in a short 105 days for something this bad, they've completely not completely, but they've cleaned it up, they've contained it, they have wasted no resources, no amount of money, they paid the government shakedown money.
Um you think they're gonna get any accolades for good corporate citizenship?
No.
No, of course not.
They're gonna be tarred and feathered for having taken so long, they're gonna be tarred and feathered for it happening in the first place.
We've already dispatched the CEO to Siberia, and that CEO, that that Hayward guy who who may not be uh the best um image-wise on television representing the uh the country, uh company, but remember it was the regime that wouldn't allow other nations in to help out because they wouldn't waive the Jones Act.
It was the regime that wouldn't let all the boomers and skimmers from all over the rest of the country in because they were worried about a disaster happening where they were.
It was the regime that delayed the recovery.
By the way, the new um CEO of BP is uh is a U.S. citizen, and he is over in Russia trying to reset the company's relationship with the Russians.
At least the Russians won't try to shake them down for 20 billion, probably.
I wonder if uh President Obama, faced with these new falling and plummeting approval numbers, will have the audacity to say he inherited bad poll numbers from Bush, along with everything else he inherited from Bush.
As you know, ladies and gentlemen, the landmark commission in New York said, hell no, we're not gonna landmark that Cordoba thing.
Go ahead and uh uh Muslims and build your mosque there uh in the uh in the uh in the shadows of uh ground zero.
Go ahead.
We in New York would be happy to have the twenty-fourth mosque in New York, right there at ground zero.
Our microphones are everywhere.
Eamon Al Zawahiri and Bin Laden could not believe this happened.
Uh you heard it, they call a roll over in a cave in Al-Qaeda.
All said present could not believe their luck.
A mosque being built at ground zero.
Back to the phones.
This is uh Eric in Margate, New Jersey.
Welcome, sir, to the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
Honor to talk with you, sir.
Thank you very much, sir.
I appreciate that.
Congratulations on your wedding and your anniversary.
Thank you very much, sir.
A little nervous here.
Uh you were talking about dispersants earlier.
What about when all the gardeners put the fertilizers down on the lawns and all the pesticides and all the people washing their cars around the nation and everything that gets spilled on the ground from leaking oil from gasoline from cars.
I bet you every time there's a rainfall in the Hudson River, all the stuff that's there's more dispersants up there by New York, and uh that just compares to the Gulf as a symbol.
Well, all of that's a good point.
And it just it it it's uh it serves to illustrate that when the oil was no longer a disaster, and the disaster thus wasn't a disaster.
The disaster came to screeching halt.
We can't have that.
We need a disaster.
The left needs a disaster.
So the dispersants.
BP.
BP again, soiling the Gulf, polluting the Gulf, too many dispersants, too much.
It's all Tommy Rot.
It's just it's all an attempt to keep an issue alive for the um sake of advancing the Obama agenda.
There's there's nothing that the Democrat Party is doing, not one thing that they're doing to build the country, to advance the country.
They're not one, they're tearing it down for the express purpose of uh advancing themselves.
Stony Point, New York, Irene, thank you for calling.
You're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Thank you, Raj, for taking the phone call, and thank you for everything you do, truly.
Congratulations on your marriage.
Uh today we celebrate the gift of Obama's birthday, where his uh esthetic background, his chances of being born were not that great.
And I just want to let you know, because most people aren't even covering this story, but there are a group of very good conservative Jewish rabbis, and their flock are going to be outside Senator Schumer and Senator Gillibrand's office today at 245.
Their office is, I believe it's third street or seventh street.
I'm not a New York City girl, so but um where their office is off at 245, and they're gonna demand a filibuster of caking.
Now I know that seems so much out of the realm of possibility.
But God bless these Jewish uh brothers and sisters because they are not taking this whole thing.
Well, what they're doing what they realize is that this is not a judicial appointment, it's political.
Absolutely.
Elena Kagan is not a judicial appointment.
She has no judicial temper, but she's not got any exp she is a political appointment, she's an Obama rubber stamp.
She has to advance the Obama political agenda on the Supreme Court.
This is insurance against losing elections, and that's what your rabbis knows.
Yes, and and there's a group of about uh fifty who went to his peak skill tumor, Senator Schumer's office, peak skill office, and we were amazed at the number of uh motorists that would drive by and just thank us for being out there.
And we had signs that said, you know, save our country, um, you know, filibuster cagin and save the troops.
You know, I people don't understand that Obama's gonna come and go, okay?
But Kagan, if sh she gets on that coy, well she doesn't go now.
Wait a minute.
You say Obama's gonna come and go.
That presumes that there will be elections.
Oh, absolutely.
This is still a message.
I'm just kidding, leftist.
I'm just kidding.
I'm just teasing you.
Thank you, Irene.
Uh very much.
Appreciate the call.
Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
Rush Limbaugh and the excellence in broadcasting network to Rogers, Arkansas.
Mike, welcome, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
How are you doing, Rush?
Very good, thank you.
Yeah.
Hey, um, first I wanted to say uh Bo is doing an exceptional job today.
He was he was very courteous on the phone.
And uh was a joy to talk to him.
Well, good.
But my point is is that this whole BP uh spill has really illustrated something to me that I think most Americans don't just don't see every day, and that's the tremendous amount of technology and um capitalist innovation that makes possible the way of life that we live every day.
You know, the the idea that they can drill three miles down and hit uh it oil uh takes a a a lot of equipment and uh people don't appreciate the low price of gas.
And uh I think that this whole process has illustrated the fact that you know capital is capitalism is what makes all that possible.
Well, it's an excellent point.
I myself have looked at this.
I have marveled at the fact that we are five thousand feet down, it's a mile down in the Gulf of Mexico.
No human being can go that deep.
Uh we have to use robotic submarines to use and put all this equipment.
Now, uh not just the equipment to repair and deal with the leak, but to build the well in the first place.
But we're even deeper than a mile, because once we've reached the ocean floor, we have to go another mile or two to get to the oil.
And the uh the technological advancement, the uh abilities that we have here.
You're you're absolutely right.
Uh it is outstanding.
It is incredible the abilities that we have.
You can also say that it's a damn shame we have to go out that far and that deep to get oil.
And the reason we do is because the environmentalist nut cases have forced us out there under the notion that oil is destructive, that oil's killing the planet, that oil will wipe out everything it touches.
It's horrible, it's rotten, blah, blah.
And now we've just seen I mean, you know how much oil was spilled.
It was a bunch.
There were talking millions of gallons, and yet they can't find it.
Because it's been eaten alive, it's evaporated, it's dispersed, or uh, or what have you.
But I I think I I I I think you're right.
I think people, uh, laymen just really do not understand what's involved in doing this.
And so you've got an oil well leaking and they see the picture.
Well, just put a plug on it.
I mean, go down there and put a plug on it.
It's like Obama's daughter, Daddy, did you plug the hole today?
Yeah, just go and put a cork in it.
Just have a machine there, put a cork in it and stop it.
It's not that simple.
It is really has been a technological marvel to uh to watch this and watch our capabilities.
I don't know how many people have um have had that thought.
I don't know how many people have uh if they've been struck by this.
A lot of people have been told that uh big oil is ethyl.
Uh and they're raping the planet and they're raping customers and so forth and so on.
I I've always I've always said the big oil people have just got to be angry as they can be at the big water people.
A gallon of gasoline is cheaper than a gallon of bottled water.
A gallon of bottled water will cost you more than a gallon of gasoline, and yet the big water guys, we've now learned half the time just put their bottles underneath somebody's faucet, turn on the tap, put a good looking label on it, put it at a grocery store.
Or at a quick stop.
Some of them actually get their water from these deep artesian wells or what have you, but others just turn it on a spigot.
What do we learn?
I forget that I don't I I don't want to be wrong by uh mistakenly mentioning a brand name.
But some of them have even admitted that uh their their uh clean and pure artesian well water has actually been mixed with the tap water from the city.
Where they happen to be bottling the stuff.
And of course, uh they don't have to do anything.
The big water guys want to do a damn thing.
All they've got to do is, you know, prey on the notion that this is stuff is much healthier for you because the crap coming out of your faucet's gonna kill you.
There's all kinds of larvae in there and scum and you know whatever.
You don't even want to know what's in there.
But our water's clean and pure as any water ever.
And plus our water there's fluoride in it, you're guaranteed to get more cavities, your kids' teeth are gonna fall out if you drink our water.
Because we don't bother to put the fluoride in it, we save money even that way.
And the big oil guys look at how much it costs just to find where the oil is, and then look at the Nimrods standing in their way when they want to go get it.
And the biggest problem the big water guys have are these local weeds in San Francisco now say that the bottles are causing pollution.
I've always wondered what big oil people think of big water people.
Uh it's a and of course, if if you build a desalinization plant, uh like the Saudis have to do because they're landlocked by by by salt water, that's only you can turn seawater into drinkable water.
You need a nuclear reactor to do that in a submarine.
But imagine if the big water guys actually invested in desalinization plants to turn seawater into drinkable water, they could charge for that.
And then we would never ever be threatened with running out of water.
Uh, but those plants are very expensive to build and invest.
And I'm sure that the environmental wackos would stand in the way of the permit process.
Uh if anybody wanted to be serious about uh building a sizable one here.
Here's uh Jenny in uh Bakersville, North Carolina.
Great to have you on the program.
Thank you, Rush.
Thank you so much for taking my call.
I want you to know how much we appreciate you.
And thank you for being a voice for us.
Thank you very much.
Um my dad uh was a 30-year employee with um American oil company, AMCO.
And of course, BP bought them out years ago, and all of my dad's savings was put into stock with BP.
And he's been getting dividends for the last few years.
Oh, I know where you're going.
Yes, which enables him to make you know, he's eighty-eight years old.
Yeah.
So it enables uh his life.
Yeah, no more dividends.
Obama's slush funds taking the dividends away, right?
Exactly.
So I wonder, you know, where do we get in line for some of the um suffering that's gone on as a result of the oil spill and the problems that it has since, you know, happened.
Because no, no, you're asking the wrong question.
Yeah.
Um the way you need to look at that is the way that you need to look at this is you as and your your dad as a shareholder.
Right.
And therefore investor, somebody propping up and enabling big oil to rape the earth, rape the planet, rape customers.
You deserve to lose what you're losing.
Well, I think it's a good thing.
It's Obama deserves to have that money.
He deserves it.
The government deserves it far more than the oil companies do.
It's just Obama getting even.
Well, I I we have that feeling, yes.
And I mean, there is a a fear um from my dad especially that, you know, all of these years, I mean, he worked his way up with the company.
Um he worked from the bottom up.
And you know, there's that fear that all of this will be lost because the government's gonna break the back of VP.
Join the club.
Um government's gonna break the back of everything.
This government will if they have their way and if they have enough time to do it.
Totally understand how you feel.
Yeah, the dividends are gone.
Obama took them.
Government took the dividends in the BP slush fund.
Thank you for calling Jimmy.
Be right back, folks.
I told you there's a racial blow-up happening, but uh people are placing it in the wrong place.
Slate dot com.
Headline Will the GOP play the race card on Orangle and Waters.
Will the GOP play the race card?
Ha Obama is playing the race card, and so's Pelosi.
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