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Aug. 18, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 18, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #2
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And we're back, El Rushbaugh, on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Doing it all, starting a million conversations while having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, all at the same time.
All in service to humanity.
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Opponents and supporters, this is from Al Reuters.
Opponents and supporters of a planned Muslim cultural center and Hamask near the site of New York's World Trade Center will mark the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks with dueling events.
A national debate has erupted over whether the Muslim center, the Hamask, called a center here by Al Reuters, should be constructed two blocks from the site of 9-11.
The group Stop Islamization of America will hold an afternoon rally in Lower Manhattan on the anniversary following the annual memorial service honoring victims of the attacks.
The group, Stop Islamization of America, said the list of speakers would include Newt Gingrich, John Bolton, the Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders, and family members of those killed on 9-11.
Muslim and Arab American groups will meet later this week to discuss how they will mark the anniversary, which would coincide with the Muslim holiday marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
Linda Sarsour, the director of the Arab American Association of New York, said we're not going to do a rally across the street.
That's not the approach that we're doing.
She said the coalition's considering a large community service project, interfaith dinner, and other events to promote understanding.
The only thing I'm curious about is which of these two, which of these two celebrations will the Democrats go to?
Which of these two celebrations will the Democrats support?
You really do?
You think they'll go to both?
You think some Democrats, you really think Democrats, you think they'll send some Democrats to the Stop Islamization of America rally?
As some Democrats will go to the Muslim and Arab American group rally?
I wonder, I wonder if they, which Democrats would go to the Stop Islamization of America.
That's like asking which Democrat would go to the border and support closing it.
It's going to be an interesting dilemma for the Democrat Party.
Which of these two events to attend?
Remember, an election hinges in their minds on this.
Yesterday we had the story, ladies and gentlemen, that the developers of the Hamas were going to meet with New York Governor Patterson to discuss relocating the mosque.
But apparently not.
Patterson said today the group is committed to building on the proposed site.
They have rejected the governor's offer to help them find a different location.
Patterson said, I think they'd like to stay where they are, and I certainly respect that, and I certainly respect them.
I do and understood.
I really respect them.
I mean, I respect that.
I respect their mosques.
I respect them.
I respect the fact that they don't want to talk to me.
I respect the fact they want to come to New York.
Patterson respects them.
He's happy I left town.
He couldn't be happier than I left.
He said, if I known I could have gotten rid of Limbaugh sooner, I would have raised taxes sooner.
He's excited to talk with the founders of the Hamask at the media tweak of the day.
By the way, do you know the media tweak of the day yesterday was written about as the media tweak of the day?
And they excoriated me.
It was at Mediaite.
Somebody there excoriated me.
You don't do a trick and tell people you're doing the trick.
I mean, it's not a trick.
No, they said it's not a trick if you tell people you're doing the trick when you do the trick.
If you're tweaking them, you don't tell them you're tweaking them.
You'll just let them get tweaked.
They still don't get it because telling them that I was tweaking them, they still got tweaked.
They still permitted themselves to get tweaked.
It was over the Imam Obama.
Some days, some days, it's just too easy.
Let me get some sound bites out of the way on this and we'll move on to the economy because there's an AP poll out now.
Very concerned at the Associated Press.
Obama at a new low for handling the economy.
Just 41% of those surveyed approve of Imam Obama's performance on the economy.
That's down from 44% in April.
56% disapprove of Obama's handling of the economy.
61% say the economy has gotten worse or stayed the same on Obama's watch.
Now, don't be fooled by that.
61 sounds like a big number.
To me, it's actually low.
I want to know who the 39% are who say the economy has not gotten worse under Obama.
I want to know who they are.
Who are the 39% who think it's gotten better?
Who are these people?
Well, okay.
Well, union government workers and elected members of Congress and the press, but that's not 39% of the people.
And their families is still not 39% of the people.
At Wall Street, it's still not 39% of the people.
And some people don't know.
It may not be 39%.
There may be 8 or 10% that don't know.
And they won't know until their unemployment benefits end.
And then they'll have an opinion.
And it'll probably be Bush's fault, depending on which media they access.
All right, Governor Christie, yesterday in Trenton, no, Monday in Trenton, had this to say about the mosque business.
We cannot paint all of Islam with that brush.
We can't paint all of Islam with the Muhammad Atta brush.
We have to bring people together.
And what offends me the most about all this is that it's being used as a political football by both parties.
I'm not getting into it because then I would be guilty of the same thing that candidly I think some Republicans are guilty of, and the president is now guilty of, of playing politics with this issue.
I'm simply not going to do it.
But he did.
Governor Christie, we're not painting all of Islam with a terrorist brush.
What's being attempted here is to paint the terrorist brush with the peaceful Islam.
That's what's being attempted here.
By the way, ladies and gentlemen, I have a serious question.
Is it okay, would it be okay now for Dubai to run the ports?
When Dubai World wanted a Dubai ports deal, I was a big supporter.
These people know what they're doing running ports.
I was reaching out.
You remember I was in a minority.
I mean, every, you remember every Democrat and Republican were in a race to the nearest camera and microphone to be the first to say, I oppose the Dubai ports deal.
Vince Flynn was having a meeting with the president of the Oval Office.
Vince told me that the president said, I guess Limbaugh's beating me up on this.
And Vince said, no, he's with you on this.
Limbaugh is a supporter of the Dubai Ports deal.
But I was in a minority.
You people, a lot of people thought I'd lost my mind.
Gosh, I mean, you're going to put terrorists in charge of the ports.
No, no, no, no.
They got ports all over the world.
So I guess now it's okay.
Okay to have the, if Dubai wants to buy the ports, it's okay now, right?
Well, they might be in debt a little snurdily, but I'm just a philosophical point here.
Hypothetical point.
Now that it's okay to put a Hamask at ground zero, it'd be perfectly fine for Dubai ports to come in here and run the ports, right?
Well, I'm just asking.
Seems a reasonable question to me.
Governor Christie, a warning.
You don't want to be praised by these people.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, serving humanity, meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
Remember, it was Chuck Yu Schumer and Hillary Clinton who were the most ardent, loudest voices against the Dubai ports deal.
Why?
Because they supported the victims of 9-11.
They represented the victims of 9-11.
There wasn't going to be any damn Dubai ports deal in New York.
It wasn't going to happen.
But perfectly fine to have a Hamask at ground zero.
By the way, I got a note and email during the break.
Rush, the ditto cam's on, and there you are puffing away.
You're letting people see you smoke.
I'm not smoking.
This is a lot of people have, Rush, I don't see you smoking cigars anymore.
I'm trying to cut back on them, folks.
This is an e-cigarette.
Dawn is in there shaking her head.
Look at you, unscrew.
This is the cartridge.
This has nicotine in it.
This is the battery.
Inside this cartridge is an atomizer.
When you suck on it, when you draw on it, it creates water vapor.
This is green.
This is apple-shaped.
You get it in pineapple, vanilla, apple, regular tobacco, menthol, or what have you for the brothers.
And there's no tar.
There's no nicotine.
There's no nothing.
No, no, no.
They're flavoring it to make, no, there's nicotine.
There's no tar.
There's no tobacco.
There's no flame.
You light nothing.
It's no different than Nicorette gum, except it actually looks like a cigarette, and you get the oral gratification and so forth.
But there's no carcinogen here.
There's a bunch of volcano.
There's a great brand volcano out of Hawaii.
Smoke 51 is a good one.
I have a bunch of different ones that I use.
But it's because I'm just trying to cut back on the tobacco.
Still smoke cigars now and then, but not as often as I did.
I don't want to run around wearing patches, and I don't, and it's unbecoming to sit there and chew gum all the time.
You know, that's that's that's that ain't me.
I'm not a gum chewer anyway.
So e-cigs, Google them.
You'll see what I'm talking about.
Where was I?
Oh, yes.
Dubai Portsdeal.
Chuck Schumer and Hillary.
Loudest voices against it.
Yeah, figures I would choose Apple because I'm a big Mac guy, Apple-flavored.
They were representing the victims of 9-11.
Dubai Portsteel.
Well, you know, that's not a bad idea.
What would happen if a member of Hamas wanted to buy part of an NFL team?
What if this Imam, in an effort to further reach out and relate to Americans, wanted to buy part of the New Orleans Saints, for example, or the New England Patriots?
Well, no problem.
Would not be a problem.
Yeah, Miami Dolphins would not be a problem.
It would be bigotry to oppose that.
Can't we?
No, no.
They're perfectly fine.
Wouldn't be any problem.
Pelosi owns part of a football team.
Well, her husband does.
I think the not the NFL, UFL, United Football League.
Remember back in the 90s, we had all these stories telling little white lies, actually good during during Clinton, who was constantly lying.
So we have these stories.
Well, you know, lying, little white lies, they're good because it spares people's hurt feelings.
Well, get this from Fox News.
A federal appeals panel in California says people have a right to lie about receiving military medals.
I'm not making it up.
The ruling yesterday involves the case of Xavier Alvarez, who falsely claimed in 2007 to have won a Congressional Medal of Honor.
He was charged with violating the Federal Stolen Valor Act, which makes it a crime to falsely claim to have won a military medal.
Alvarez challenged the law on appeal as a violation of his free speech rights, and the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals sided with him in a two-to-one decision.
So you can lie about military medals.
The government says so, which makes perfect sense.
Tom Harkin lied about medals.
John F. Kerry lied about some medals.
This guy up in Connecticut, Bloom and Fall, they all lie about military records and so forth.
So why not extend that to medals?
Free speech.
It's okay.
People have a right to lie about receiving military medals.
White House searches for a villain.
I mentioned this story in the first hour.
I guess running against me is off the table.
I guess it hasn't worked.
Another politico hack here is reporting the Democrats are searching for a newt figure.
As far as politics go, President Obama and John Boehner have virtually nothing in common that makes him a perfect Republican to the White House to vilify.
The president and the House Republican minority leader don't agree on stimulus spending or tax cuts.
And Boehner wants to repeal two of Obama's signature accomplishments, health care law and the financial regulatory reform bill.
On Wednesday, Obama visits Ohio, Boehner's home state, to talk about the economy.
He may throw a few jabs at Boehner, who Obama has called out of touch.
But political scientists and strategerists aren't sure that demonizing Boehner, generally unknown outside Washington and a few other notable Republicans, is a winning strategy, since most voters generally don't closely follow national politics.
Outside the Beltway, they say not that many people even know who the president's talking about when he rips into John Boehner.
Folks like Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Joe Barton, they don't even have 50% name recognition nationwide, said the liberal Tom Jensen, a pollster for the liberal group public policy, posting, or polling.
So you actually have this headline, White House searching for a villain.
Would they write this Republicans searching for a villain?
Supported?
Would they be interested?
Can the Republicans find a villain to successfully run against?
Can they?
Oh, gee, they're so interested.
Wonder, can Obama find a villain?
Will it be possible?
Could Obama maybe find a villain to run against?
Democrat pollster Mark Penn, who worked the Clinton administration, said a similar strategerie of designating an opposition villain worked in 1996 when the administration made hard-hitting political ads from then House Speaker Newt Gingrich's desire to let Medicare wither on the vine, except Gingrich never said it.
He never said we want to let Medicare wither on the vine.
But they have to bring that up.
So my feelings are a little hurt because if they're searching for a villain, it means running against me is the working.
Or maybe they think they've just exploited it as much as they can.
Oh, you think I'm the October surprise?
Maybe so.
But this is right out of Rules for Radicals, Saul Olinski.
Number 13, pick the target, freeze it, personalize, and polarize it.
Villain, the Yelensky way.
And there they are, partisan political operatives known as the Politico, eager to help the regime find a villain.
If the Republicans were looking for a villain, would the Politico be interested in helping them?
Would they be encouraging the strategy?
Would they be praising its brilliance?
Would they be feeling sorry for the Republicans and their inability to find a villain like Obama can't find a decent villain?
There just aren't enough Republicans anybody's ever heard of, which is really strange because Republicans are so racist, bigoted, homophobic, and Republicans are so hated by everybody.
How can it be that nobody knows who any of them are?
America's real anchor man starting a million conversations.
Greg Gutfeld.
Is it Guttfeld or Greg Field?
Greg Gutfeld has decided on a name for his gay bar that he wants to put next to the Hamas.
He wants to call it Dialogue.
The gay bar we call Diog.
I have a better name for it, Greg.
Ram Emmanuel.
That would be, I think, a better name for the gay bar.
Ram Emmanuel.
I mean, it covers both bases.
All right, let me go to the phones.
I said we have some soundbites here, and we do, and they're pretty good, but people have been waiting for an hour and a half now.
Where are we starting?
Taylor, Michigan.
This is Marilyn.
Appreciate your patience, and welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for having me on.
Just excuse my voice.
I'm so mad.
But I'll tell you what, on 9-1-1, a bunch of terrorists, they hijacked planes, and they blew them right into buildings and blew them up.
And now I'm watching Ground Zero be hijacked.
It's the same feelings in my heart.
It's like when I turn on the TV and watch the planes fly.
Now, now, now, now.
Now, now, Marilyn, I encourage you to dial back this rhetoric.
This heated rhetoric is not going to help the Republicans.
It might, in fact, hurt the Republicans.
The Democrats are telling us here.
You know what?
Nancy Pelosi had to come out to Taylor, and she can investigate me personally one-on-one.
One-on-one.
I'm the same size as her, and I'm just as ugly.
Investigate you one-on-one.
Yeah.
And I'll tell, you know, my background is Polish-American.
And in World War II, the Nazis blew up a historic village.
It was a medieval town.
And after World War II, and they were under the communists, they were so poor, but the Poles rebuilt that village brick by brick to show them that they weren't defeated by the Nazis.
They have a saying, Poland has not yet perished.
And here, we don't let a church that was a victim of 9-1-1 get rebuilt at Ground Zero.
That's right.
They're going to bring in something that was never there in the first place.
I mean, I'm so mad.
A lot of people are.
I don't know what to do.
A lot of people are.
Don't forget, too, Marilyn, the landing gear from one of those planes, and the New York Times has this on July 13th of this year.
The landing gear from one of those planes fell into that building where the Hamas is going to go up.
And that made the value of the building plunge from $18 million down to $4 million.
So the Imam is getting the Hamask at a bargain price.
Thanks to the landing gear of the plane landing on the building.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Another name for Greg Gutfield's gay bar next to the Hamask, Biologue.
We'll have, I'm sure, other suggestions.
I still like Ram Emmanuel as the best, but that's probably a little too provocative.
Not that the bar itself isn't, but probably too provocative.
Here, Jeremy, in Boston, great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Mr. Limbaugh, thank you so much for taking my call.
Joe's from Boston.
Thank you.
It's a pleasure to speak with you.
I am just so infuriated at this administration.
I mean, among other things, now telling us that we need to be investigated for opposing this when they're not even going to investigate the Imam for this mosque.
It's not a fact that the mosque is being built there.
It's that this Imam is doing it.
He is tied to the Free Gaza movement, which was one of the founding, the key organizer of the flotilla.
I mean, this is crazy.
I can't believe that this is happening.
I mean, what does he need?
15 floors for a mosque in a cultural center for 15.
Well, he's going to have a swimming pool in there.
He's a swimming pool, but he's put out this, it's called the Sharia Index Project, which lists all the things that he's going to do, you know, but there's six floors that are just missing.
There's no explanation of, you know, it's a lot of space there.
And it seems like to me, he wants to enforce Sharia law in America.
And this is the reason I think that Americans are very opposed to this.
Yeah, I think you're right about that.
And I think if everybody knew what Sharia law is and what its objectives are, I think you'd have...
Can I ask you one follow-up question?
I'm sorry to interrupt you.
No, go ahead.
I'm just the host.
How do liberal support an imam that wants to enforce Sharia law, knowing what Sharia law is?
I think they're looking for votes.
I think they're looking for votes from the Muslim community all over the country.
I'm not a Jew.
I'm a Roman Catholic, but as a Jewish American, they have to be outraged.
Have to be.
Well, I tell you, you're part of the majority.
Don't think otherwise.
They're trying to make it look like the people in opposition to this are a fringe group.
And even the latest polling data, 63% oppose this.
9-11 families oppose it.
Many of the first responders in New York oppose it.
And Nancy Pelosi wants all those people investigated.
Now, the Imam is an envoy of the State Department.
He's touring the Middle East representing us.
Sent there by the State Department, Obama.
Anyway, Rebecca, Cincinnati, thank you for waiting.
And hi.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
Yes.
I'm just as upset as the first two callers because this is not just a New York issue.
This is an American issue.
And those 3,000 people that died were not just 3,000 nobodies.
They were 3,000 Americans, and they were not hyphenated Americans.
They were not African Americans or gay Americans.
They were Americans.
And also, I don't think we should forget that the plane that went down in Pennsylvania did not complete its mission.
That's true.
So I know a lot of people are saying it's a local New York issue, and it's not.
I agree with you.
The 9-11 hijackers attacked America.
The Pentagon, there was another target in Washington that was intended to be hit.
It's debatable.
White House of the Capitol building.
That's the plane that went down in Pennsylvania.
And of course, the World Trade Center.
Rebecca, thanks.
Very much appreciate it.
Brief time out here, folks.
El Rushbo with much more when we get back from this obscene profit center timeout.
I got another name for Greg Gutfield's gay bar right next to the Hamask at the World Trade Center, 9-11.
How about Al-Gaida?
I think it works.
Al-Gaida, get this from the business section of the New York Times.
As screws handed out pink slips to teachers this spring, states made a beeline to Washington to plead for money for their ravaged education budgets.
But now that the federal government has come through with $10 billion, some of the nation's biggest screw districts are balking at using their share of the money to hire teachers right away.
Now, who is surprised by this?
How many of you, when you heard about that big bill being signed last, the big jobs bill, 26 billion to hire teachers, how many of you thought that money was actually going to be used to hire teachers?
And cops and fire?
I, for one, never did.
It's a slush fund.
And as such, you know where most of that money is going to be used?
Teachers' pension funds will be shored up with this.
Teachers' pension funds will be used, this month will be used for that rather than hiring new teachers.
The Democrats call it a jobs bill.
They claimed that it was such an emergency.
They had to come back from their August recess to ram this thing through.
With the economic outlook weakening, they argue that big deficits are looming for the next academic year, and they need to preserve the funds to prevent future layoffs.
So they're not going to hire teachers.
They're going to hold the funds in reserve.
We had to get Congress back.
It was an emergency.
Your teachers were going to be laid off, and your little crumb crunchers wouldn't be able to go to the classroom.
And you'd be stuck with them because the teachers are going to be fired.
And so we got the money.
And now we're not going to hire the teachers.
No.
They have to preserve those funds to prevent future layoffs.
Los Angeles, for example, projecting a $280 million budget shortfall next year that could threaten more jobs.
Pensions, ladies and gentlemen, the money is not going to pay for teachers' salaries.
It is going to pay for teacher pensions first.
The Los Angeles County School District laid off 682 teachers and counselors and about 2,000 support workers this spring and was not sure it would be able to hire any of them back with the stimulus money.
The district says it could be forced to cut 4,500 more people next year, despite receiving the stimulus money.
Of course, this time next year, they're going to have their hands out again.
We'll have another emergency spending bill so that your precious little kids don't lose their precious little teachers and their precious cops and their precious firemen.
And meanwhile, the money allocated will not go to hiring any more teachers.
LA just said it.
Well, we're not going to hire any more teachers with the money.
We got to hold that money in reserve, guard against future layoffs.
It's called pensions, folks.
That's what all this is about.
Yes, we had the story yesterday that the Teamsters' pensions that are orphaned and be picked up and bailed out by the taxpayers.
The education measure requires states to distribute the money for the current school year, but allows districts to spend it as late as September 2012.
Well, September 2012, why that's just a couple months before an election in 2012.
So, folks, we've been scammed again.
Another miniature porculus.
It was a crisis.
It was an emergency.
It was so fundamentally important.
We had to get members of Congress off of their precious August recess.
Get them back to town.
Have to sign that now.
Otherwise, America's children will not have classrooms to attend because so many teachers have been laid off.
And now we learn that the teachers that have been laid off are going to stay laid off.
They're not going to be rehired.
The money is going to be held in reserve.
In fact, L.A. may have to lay off 4,500 more, even with the bailout.
Scammed again.
Lied to again.
Pure and simple.
Kevin Modesto, California.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, great to talk to you.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Yeah, well, basically, it seems to me, either way this whole mosque situation goes down in New York, it's going to be a huge victory for the Muslim fundamentalists.
Either they get to build their victory mosque and, you know, put a big stick in the eye of the American people, or they get a huge propaganda and recruitment tool by saying that we're a bunch of intolerant, you know, Muslim haters that don't actually stand for what our laws say.
Well, you know something?
As Obama was saying, let me say this about that.
They already say that about us.
I understand that.
They already say that about us.
Nobody's denying them permission to build a mosque.
There's no law against building a mosque.
People just say, don't build it here.
I'm totally opposed to the mosque.
I'm not trying to defend it.
I'm just saying this is going to be a huge, either way this goes down, it's a huge victory for the Muslim fundamentalists, is what I'm saying.
This is a brilliant move on their part.
Either way, they come out of this on top.
That's what I'm trying to say.
Okay, I know.
And it's really unfortunate.
I'm not saying that's a good thing.
I'm totally against it.
Once again, they're using our laws and our freedoms to try to destroy our freedom.
It's a perfect example.
No, I understand what you're saying, and I totally get what you're saying.
I'm not trying to defend them in the slightest.
I'm saying this is really horrible and unfortunate they're putting us in this situation and they get to make us look this bad when they're the ones who are completely going about this wrong.
Okay, so let me ask you a question.
Since they win regardless what happens, since we lose regardless what happens.
Oh, okay, I understand what you're saying.
What should we do?
America's the big loser.
Exactly.
What should we do?
It's a horrible situation.
I don't think we should let them build it, obviously.
But I'm saying they're going to get to go back to the Middle East to whoever they used to recruit all these people and say, see, they dislike us.
They hate us.
They won't let us be Muslims there.
They're not really the America they say they are.
Those things that aren't true, they're going to try to say to you against us like they already do, like you said.
Let me tell you something.
No, let me tell you something.
Stopping them is crucial.
Stopping them is drawing a line in the sand against Muslim extremism.
Finally, they already hate us, and they're not going to love us if we let the mosque get built there.
Terrorism is not going to stop.
Terrorist attacks on the planning boards against Americans and American targets are not going to be tossed.
It's not a win-win for them.
And we've got to stop looking at this that way.
And we Republicans have to stop looking at Democrats.
They win no matter what we do.
Not true folks.
Back after this.
Don't go away.
And some more names here for Greg Gutfield's gay bar next to the Hamas at Ground Center.
At Ground Zero.
How about Club Gitmore?
How about Abu Ghraib?
How about Eda Boys?
And one more suggestion.
The Geza Strip.
Right next to the Hamas at Ground Zero.
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