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Aug. 5, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 5, 2010, Thursday, Hour #3
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I am Rush Limbaugh, meeting and surpassing all audience expectations on a daily basis.
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President Obama went to the Ford plant in Chicago to talk about how he saved the U.S. auto industry.
Did you know that he saved the U.S. auto industry?
And by the way, the United Auto Workers planning to target Ford this year for a massive strike.
Here's how Obama did it.
This afternoon, let's see.
He was interviewed by CNBC's Phil LeBeau, who asked President Obama, how do you feel about the fact that Ford was able to rebuild its business without a bailout?
Well, the interesting thing is if you talk to Ford's CEO, he'll tell you that if GM had been liquidated, if Chrysler had been liquidated, that could have been a crisis for the entire industry, including Ford, because all those suppliers would have been lost and the brand of the American auto industry would have really been greatly diminished.
There you have it.
President Obama saved the U.S. auto industry with a bailout.
Save Ford too, because, see, if Ford's competitors had been liquidated, Chrysler and GM, why, Ford would have been destroyed too, because the brand of the American-made automobile would have been destroyed.
So I, I, I, Barack Obama, I saved the auto industry.
That's his answer.
I want to say something.
I know this is not going to go down well among those who have knee-jerk reactions.
And I know this is not going to go down well among people who have this notion that fairness is the overriding objective of any society.
And I've made the point throughout my career, the undeniable truths of life, many monologues in this program, life is not fair.
By definition, life isn't fair.
No matter how, I mean, it just isn't.
And there's no way that you can change certain aspects that make life unfair to make them fair.
Life is not equal.
Sometimes people earn more than others.
Some people have children when other people can't.
And nothing unfair about that.
It's just the way it is.
Unspeakable tragedies happen to some families.
They don't happen to others.
Some people live a long time.
Some people don't.
There's no explaining any of this.
Nobody's in charge of this.
There's no government that can change this.
Although we have plenty of busybodies trying to on this living longer business.
Well, you know, some people are living longer because they don't smoke, drink, eat trans fats, or anything that's working down that ridiculous road.
But the vast majority of things that occur in the process of living life are unequal and unfair.
You have people who are career criminals, who are wealthy, and never get caught.
They're pursued, never get caught.
They enjoy the fruits of their ill-gotten gain.
There are people who play by the rules each and every day who don't make much money.
It's not because the Constitution is not fair.
It's not because America is unfair.
It's not because America as constituted is not right or unjust or immoral.
There are some people who go to church Every day have some of the most unfortunate, unspeakably rotten things happen to them.
True believers.
Other people, agnostics and atheists, who seem to be living fun, enjoyable, carefree lives.
You look at it and say, that's just not fair.
It's not right.
Well, maybe it isn't.
Certainly unfair, certainly unequal, but it's not because America's not unfair.
It's not because America's Constitution is unjust.
There are people who work in sewers.
There are people who work in trash and sludge all day long who don't make much money.
There are people who have never gotten their fingernails dirty, who are multi-billionaires.
Not fair, not equal.
There are people who you look at who do work that is far more important morally, economically, than other people and the work they do.
And yet, those people who don't make much money, teachers.
A lot of people think teachers are the most important people we have in a society.
Look at what they make compared to athletes.
Athletes is another thing.
Some people, you know, champions are born.
They're not made in a weight room.
They're not made in the practice field.
It's honed and it's practiced and it's improved, but champions are born.
You can't run a 4-2-40.
Nobody can teach you how.
If you can't throw a baseball 100 miles an hour, nobody can teach you how.
It's not fair.
Some people can and some can't.
It's not because the Constitution of the country is unfair.
It's not because America is unjust that some people can end up playing Major League Baseball and others can't.
And it's certainly not fair that among those who play Major League Baseball, some of the most immoral, rotten schlubs, constant drunks, drug abusers, biggest stars, biggest heroes, and some of the ones that are clean and pure as the wind-driven snow, God, country, church every day, get cut, don't make teams.
Not fair.
Certainly not equal.
Not because the Constitution is unfair.
It's not because America as constituted is unfair.
There are some people in the world who are born in some of the most god-awful places and circumstances and throughout their lives never escape those god-awful places and circumstances.
And there are other people who are born in the laps of luxury, who sip cocktails at 4:30 in the afternoon, inherit their money, and look down on those who earn it.
It's not fair.
It's not equal, but it's not because of the U.S. Constitution.
It's not because of the United States of America.
There are people who have lived upstanding lives, who are the models of decorum in their communities.
And for no reason whatsoever, a drunk driver kills them.
Gosh, that's not fair.
And it certainly isn't equal, but it's not because of the U.S. Constitution.
It's not because of the United States of America.
I mean, you can conjure up all these examples.
They're never ending.
It's a limitless list of examples that we could all cite.
You want to stick in the country.
Some people In this country, we are born to wealthy families.
Some people end up marrying wealthy people.
Other people end up marrying people who lose their jobs, lose their careers, end up on Skid Row.
Not fair.
Certainly not unequal.
We're not equal, but it's not the fault of the U.S. Constitution.
There are some people who are able to watch football, basketball, baseball games from air-conditioned suites, boxes, skyboxes, what have you.
Others have to sit out in the stands freezing or getting wet or what have you, pay through the nose for it to boot.
Certainly not fair.
Certainly not equal.
And certainly not the fault of the U.S. Constitution.
Not the fault of the United States of America.
None of these inequities, none of this unfairness means that the Constitution has been violated.
None of these inequities or inequalities or none of this unfairness means that the United States of America is unjust and immoral.
None of it means that the way we've governed ourselves is unfair.
It doesn't mean that somebody owes you something.
It doesn't mean that you're a victim of anything.
It's just called life.
And I realize a number of you out there on the left are probably just screeching about now, claiming I'm insensitive and lacking in compassion and don't get it when it's just the other way around.
It's life.
You live your life.
We all make decisions, good, bad, indifferent.
Some of us are leaders, some of us are followers.
Some of us have unique talents.
Some of us don't have any.
Some of us have great confidence.
Some of us are forever burdened with an inferiority complex.
Some of us care only what we're thought of.
Others couldn't care less.
Doesn't mean that anybody's better than anybody else or anybody's any worse.
It certainly doesn't mean the United States of America sucks.
And it doesn't mean that our Constitution needs to be blown up and rewritten.
And it doesn't mean you're a victim.
It's called life.
Everybody tries to live their life.
Some people get a better handle on it than others.
Some people think they have no control over their lives.
They're constant victims and are always looking to blame everybody else for what doesn't go right in their lives.
Other people don't have time for that.
They realize they only have one life and every day is something to seize, to make the most of.
Regardless where you fall in this spectrum, it doesn't mean we have a flawed country and it doesn't mean our Constitution is flawed.
It doesn't mean you're a victim.
It means you're alive.
In this country, in the United States of America, right now, today, August the 5th, 2010, regardless of your race, regardless of your sex, your gender, or your orientation, you have more liberty and more opportunity to change anything about your life that you don't like than anywhere else in the world.
Because you live in the United States of America, because you are an American.
It is time to stop thinking of yourself as a victim of America, of unfairness, of inequality, and realize the good fortune you have had to be born in this country.
Because regardless of where you grew up, regardless of where you live, regardless of where you're born, regardless of whether you're gay, straight, or like goats, you have more liberty and more opportunity, whether you haven't married a rich woman who inherited her money from a guy who inherited his money who died in a helicopter.
It doesn't matter wherever you are and whoever you are and whatever you are, you have more opportunity to change what you don't like about yourself than anybody else in the rest of the world because you live in the United States of America.
Your lot in life is not because you live in America.
You are not a victim if you're an American.
You are among a precious few worldwide, and the people who are not Americans wish to hell they were and will do anything to become Americans.
And yet we have a seemingly growing portion of our population who looks, look at being an American as some kind of a limitation, a shackle.
You're not a victim.
Life isn't fair.
Life isn't equal.
Nobody can make it fair and nobody can make it equal.
And all these things that make you unhappy are not because of the U.S. Constitution.
It does not have to be destroyed.
It does not have to be blown up.
In fact, I would venture to say that most of the unhappiness in the country today is being borne by people who love this country and who are watching it right before their very eyes be destroyed and wish to save it.
And they're being told they're the reasons that life is unfair and unequal because they are supposedly the majority.
Quick time out.
We'll be back.
We will continue with much more plus your phone calls after this.
Back to the phones when we go to Indianapolis.
This is Jim.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Darash.
How you doing?
Very well, sir.
Thank you.
Yes, the reason I called, just some thoughts on the building of the mosque there in New York.
I'm an ordained minister in one of the larger evangelical church organizations in the United States.
And one of the things we've run into over the last 15, 16, 20 years, roughly, is when we go into some of the larger cities sometimes, we run into real problems on zoning and problems and building new churches in some of these areas because some of the cities and even the suburban areas are afraid of losing tax base.
And, you know, any church it goes in, including this mosque, no doubt, is a tax-exempt entity.
And when it goes in and takes control of this building, this is going to make this building, or once he tears it down and builds a mosque, it's going to become a tax-exempt area.
They're not going to be paying any taxes on that.
And I would imagine this was being built in one of the more expensive areas and probably tax-heavy, lucrative areas of New York City.
And it just seems kind of odd in the evangelical churches.
We run into a lot of, it's not every city, but in a lot of places where we run into real problems in building because of this, they really don't want us a lot of times.
And yet it seems as though the city of New York is just bending over so far backwards to get this mosque, and they're going to probably lose quite a bit of money out of the tax base.
And I'm wondering why they're so anxious to do it.
Is there a, well, you know, just a thought, a kickback coming there somewhere we don't know about it?
Well, you know, I this is all I can do is play a soundbite.
Grab audio soundbite number 28.
This afternoon in Washington at the Department of Justice, the Attorney General Eric Holder held a press conference to announce that they have charged 14 American citizens with providing aid and support to the Somali-based terror group Al-Shabaab.
Here is a portion of what Holder had to say.
Members of the American Muslim community have been and continue to be strong partners in fighting this emerging threat.
They have regularly denounced terrorist acts and those who carry them out.
There needs to be more recognition of these efforts and of the losses suffered by the Muslim community here and around the world.
Many of the victims of terror attacks by al-Shabaab, al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and other terrorist groups are innocent Muslims.
They are innocent Muslims.
So, I mean, that's as good an answer to your question as I can give you.
There's a curse here of political correctness that has pervaded.
And of course, you're evangelical.
And to many, you're the hate group.
You're the hate group.
Evangelical Christians, you're the hate group.
I mean, you're pro-abortion, a pro-life.
You're against a woman's right to choose.
But these Muslims, I mean, they're unfairly discriminated against.
So here, a press conference to announce that they've charged 14 American citizens with providing aid and support to a Somali terror group called al-Shabaab.
And Holder thinks his major thrust, major point is here to praise the American Muslim community who have been strong partners in fighting this emerging threat.
My not North Dakota.
Marlene, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
To you for many, many years.
I really enjoyed your presentation on how we should be thankful and how we measure what is happiness.
I believe that happiness is not material things.
It's a peace of mind that you have.
And knowing that because we live in this wonderful country, we can change things.
We are having a local election along with the national election.
And we have some fantastic young candidates who have the same values that I have.
And I'm doing everything I can to support them, to change things.
And we are so blessed to live here.
And no matter what economic status you have, just be happy.
And I've seen people that are happy.
When we first started out in our marriage, we had limited income.
We were happy then.
Now we have more income, and we're still blessed.
But it's not the material things that are making me happy.
Well, happiness is definition.
I mean, there is a definition for it, but I think it differs from person to person.
Watching the assault on this country, watching the assault on the Constitution, the assault on our liberty and freedoms, is the hardest thing I've ever witnessed in my lifetime, without question.
And that's what we're seeing.
We're seeing it every day, several times a day.
And it's regardless, you know, what other things in life make me happy, this is making me miserable.
And a lot of people are in the same boat just think, is there anything we can do about this?
Is it too late to change any of this?
Of course, it isn't.
But the odds seem so long.
Quick timeout, back before you know it.
Stay with us.
Gibbs got an interesting question yesterday at the White House press briefing.
ABC News correspondent stood up and said, Gibbs, back in May, Tony Hayward, a BP, said, quote, the Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean.
The amount of volume of oil and dispersal we're putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume.
After he said that, the president said that he would have fired Mr. Hayward if he had said those comments.
And now appears Mr. Hayward was right.
You can't find the oil.
Your government is saying it's not that big a deal.
You, Gibbs, yesterday said it's the equivalent of a can of Coke in the Gulf.
Do you owe Mr. Hayward an apology?
No, I don't think he was right.
Nobody owes Tony Hayward an apology.
BP has responsibilities and obligations as the responsible polluting party in this instance.
Any apology that is owed is to the disruption to the lives of families, fishermen, hotel owners, people they grew up in and understand the beauty that is the Gulf of Mexico.
That's the apology.
Well, I think you better be apologizing yourself, Gibbs, because you've done more to harm the economic viability of the Gulf of Mexico than BP did.
You and your regime have shut down drilling.
That's the lifeblood of the Gulf of Mexico.
No, Tony Hayward, of course, he didn't apologize.
It's a polluting, polluting company out there.
No, no, no, they're polluting party.
And there's a no, we don't need an apology.
He was right.
Here's Obama, by the way.
Back on June 8th, Matt Wauer interviewing Obama on the Today Show.
Let me read you some of the things Hayward has said over the course of this disaster.
He said, the Gulf of Mexico is a big ocean.
The amount and volume of oil and dispersion we're putting in is tiny in relation to the total water volume.
The impact of this environmental disaster, likely to be very modest.
He doesn't work for you, but if he did, would you want him out?
He wouldn't be working for me after any of those statements.
I don't sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar.
We talk to these folks because they potentially had the best answers, so I know who's ass to kick.
So he knows who's ass to kick.
Turns out Hayward was exactly right, and yesterday Gibbs said so.
Whose ass do we kick now?
I quoted Hayward on that day, and I said he was right.
And I said he's a geologist.
He's a Ph.D. geologist.
I quoted Hayward and said he was right.
I quoted myself and said that I was right.
Yesterday, Gibbs, the amount of oil in there, we can't find it.
You know, it's 76% of it's gone.
The other part's going to disperse.
We got no more than a can of Coke in there.
This is a despicable bunch of people.
A truly despicable bunch of people.
Here's Mike in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello, Rush.
Hi.
I have a little question I've been asking people for years.
But where and how did sexual preference get a minority status?
Hmm.
That's a good question because sexual preference is really not a minority.
It's a lifestyle.
Well, and that's what I never can get a true answer.
They're fighting all this in California, and yet...
Well, you know the answer to this.
I mean, this is all part of the leftist agenda is advancing the victims of this country.
Everybody in a minority is a victim, according to the left.
They are a victim of the majority.
And, of course, they need special redress.
The majority is a bunch of bigots or homophobes or racists or sexists, whatever happens to be the issue of the day.
All done for political purposes.
Well, it still doesn't make sense to me.
Well, I know rationally it doesn't make sense, but if you understand liberals, if you understand their agenda, it makes perfect sense.
If you understand that they exist to overthrow the country as founded, if you understand that, if you understand that they will lie and do whatever it takes to achieve what they want as members of the ruling class, then it all makes sense.
It may not be something you want to admit, but it is what it is.
Not hard to understand at all.
Very simple.
But it takes courage to face the truth.
And a lot of people just, I'm not saying you're not courageous, a lot of people don't want to even go there.
They want to think that we've elected a president that doesn't believe in the country.
That wouldn't happen, Rush.
You can't possibly mean that.
Yeah, I do.
People, let's go tweet.
I don't want to deal with that, they say.
David in Columbus, Ohio.
Hi, and welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Program.
Hey, Rush, it's an honor to speak with you.
Thank you, sir.
My question for you is simply, I'm young.
I'm only 21 years old.
Do you feel that we've lost a lot of the youth in this country as far as their views on politics from the left and the way they've persuaded people and instilled into liberal institutions?
Nothing new about that.
The left, young people have always tended to be liberal or lean left.
There really is nothing unusual.
And the fact that they don't vote in great numbers is something that hasn't changed either.
There's nothing unique about that.
What's unique is you.
I mean, you're a member of the quote-unquote youth, and you're not liberal.
You are the one.
You're unique, but that's always been the case.
Exactly.
And I think that we need more people my age that have strong conservative views to come out and spread the word and get more people going to the polls and voting and save the country.
I think this administration is creating a whole lot of that in every demographic all over the country.
I check my emails.
People are livid out there over all this.
I don't care what the age group is.
Now, I understand you're young and you're frustrated.
I was your age once, and I too was frustrated that most of the people my age were a bunch of adults and idiots.
And that was a long time ago, and that hasn't changed.
But all you can do is be who you are around them.
And if you believe it, try to persuade them.
I completely agree.
I just wonder if universities and the way they push on and shove liberalism down their students' throats, that that plays a role.
Of course it does.
Of course it does.
The left owns these institutions of so-called higher learning.
They're not even universities.
They're indoctrination centers.
That's exactly.
They own education and a couple of other institutions.
They own the media.
And those are the two things they still have control over.
They are the true minority in terms of the number of people who think like they do, who agree with them.
But they do hold a couple of powerful institutions and they run government and the judiciary.
Exactly.
Pretty powerful stuff.
But all of this can change.
It has over the course of the years.
What's frustrating is that we don't hold the change.
What's fresh?
Here we have the clearest in my lifetime illustration of the folly, the fallacy, the deficiencies of liberalism.
It's right out for everybody to see.
And I guarantee you, 10 years from now, some sweet-talking liberal is going to come along and make people forget all this.
Because people always are going to succumb to the notion of compassion, fairness, equality, because it's just easier to be for that stuff.
How can we be against unfairness?
How can we be against equality?
Of course, nobody's against those things.
There are just realists and people who do not live in reality who fantasize.
But it's always going to appeal.
It's like in the environmental movement.
They're very smart.
They make you think all they want is clean water and clean air, no pollution.
Who would be against that?
They try to tell you that people who are anti-environmentalists are anti-clean air, anti-clean.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
What we're anti-is liberalism.
What we know is that the clean air, clean water crowd doesn't really care about clean water, clean air either.
They care about liberalism and socialism and Marxism and inculcating it in as many minds as possible.
Anyway, don't give up the faith, David.
Hang and be tough.
We'll be back and continue after this.
You know, one of the reasons why young people are liberal is because they're children.
Children are used to being taken care of.
And liberalism promises to take care of you.
The state is going to take care of you.
Liberalism means being a child of the state.
Liberalism means turning your life over to your rulers and so forth.
It's easier.
It's much liberalism.
I once told you, liberalism is the most gutless choice you can make.
It's the easiest thing in life to do is to be a liberal.
Let somebody else take care of you.
Let somebody else make sure that whoever treats you wrong is taken care of.
Make sure that things are fair.
And all you have to do is look at suffering and say, oh, that's horrible.
And you're considered a great person.
Liberalism is easy.
It doesn't solve diddly squat.
Liberalism makes things worse.
But boy, it's easy to be liberal.
It's easy to let somebody feed you.
It's easy to let somebody pay you not to work.
It's easy to be praised as caring because all you got to do is look at suffering.
Oh, that's horrible.
And you can really then be even higher, thought of, more highly thought of.
You say, let's take somebody else's money and give it to that person.
It's not fair.
Oh, then you are a star, liberal.
See how easy that is?
I will bet you, ladies and gentlemen, I could have five times the wealth I have if I'd been liberal.
I'll bet you, if I were as effective a liberal as I am a conservative, look at all they would have done for me.
I'd be the star television shows, doesn't matter if I don't have any audience.
Wouldn't matter.
Wouldn't matter if I didn't have any audience.
I'm just telling you, it would be easy.
I would be universally loved, adored, appreciated, celebrated for not doing anything.
So easy to be a liberal.
And children are children.
Used to being taken care of.
Used to being told what to do, where not to do, where to go, where not to go.
They're used to their parents not treating them as adults.
Some of them don't like it.
But in the end, it's really easy having somebody else pay the bills.
It's really easy having somebody else buy the car.
I mentioned this earlier this week.
People, identity thieves, are out stealing the social security numbers of children.
Speaking of children, you know, parents go out, they get their kids a social security number because you have to do it.
They don't work.
They don't do anything.
I mean, these are single-digit age kids.
And the thieves are finding a way to steal the identity of people who will never know their identity is being stolen.
Credit cards in their names, but they're not losing any credit.
This is a serious, serious problem.
This is perhaps the most ingenious identity theft yet that these thieves have come up with because the identities they're stealing really don't even exist.
All they need is the social security number.
And just the other day, I'm involved in a couple transactions.
I had some people say, I need your social security number to get this satellite radio.
I said, no, you don't.
You don't need a social security number for satellite radio service.
There's no way you need it.
Well, we need your phone number.
No, you don't.
And you're not getting either.
Beware of anybody asking you for your social security number.
Now, I'll tell you who does have my social security number is Life Lock.
They've got it.
And if anybody but me tries to use it for anything, guess what?
I get notified before I lose my identity.
That's what Life Lock can do for you, too.
Call them at 800-440-4833.
And if you mention my name when you call, you'll save 10% off your Life Lock membership, already ridiculously inexpensive anyway.
800-440-4833, Lifelock, Josiah in Fargo, North Dakota.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Megger Rockhurst, Mr. Dittos.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, your last comments fit into it perfectly is that the reason that you don't like talking about yourself and the reason that, you know, we're not looking for validation through other people.
Who, you or me?
Well, anybody, any of us.
Anybody who loves freedom is not looking for validation through other people.
It's like you just said, you know, going on about, you know, if you were liberal, you'd be five times as rich and everybody would love you.
But we're not looking for everybody to love us what we do.
Exactly right.
We want to love ourselves first and be happy what we do and what we do.
You're right.
We are merit-based in everything we do.
We're achievement-oriented.
And, you know, exactly.
I mean, you know, and the reason children are liberal is because, you know, they want, you know, you want your parents to be proud of you when first you have to be proud of yourself.
Well, but kids, they can't take care of themselves.
I understand that.
You know, it's not like a puppy that you let go at six months and some adult buys it.
The mother puppy, the mother dog doesn't care.
At six weeks, it gets rid of the kid.
Some sap adult comes along and takes care of the dog.
But a human, even at age 21, most of them can't take care of themselves.
And they don't expect to have to.
That's why it's easy being a liberal.
Exactly.
I mean, and if jealousy run rampant, I mean, you know, I work every day.
I produce a product.
I provide a service.
And I don't begrudge somebody who has a million-dollar home who did the exact same thing, who just happened to be more successful or took a bigger chance than I did.
Well, that means you're well adjusted.
Exactly.
A lot of people scratch their heads and they go, why is this?
It's just unfair.
How come I've done everything right?
I've played by the rules.
And look at these.
I mean, genuine social reprobates are multi-millionaires.
How come I'm not?
And why do you think people are so into losing their identity?
Well, Facebook, tweet, whatever they do.
And they want everybody to know who they are because they think fame equals wealth, riches, happiness, and all this sort of stuff.
You can see it.
You can see every day the seductiveness that liberalism is.
Okay, okay, okay.
By popular demand, I'm being inundated, and I thank you all very much, inundated with email requests to put the monologue in this hour on fairness, equality, the United States, and the Constitution on the free side at rushlimbaugh.com.
So, Coco, herald it, make it a lead, headline it.
Don't make people have to look two days to find it, and put it on the free side at rushlimbaugh.com.
This is because people want to spread it even further, which is fine and dandy.
Thank you all very much.
And we will see tomorrow.
Open Line Friday is coming up.
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