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Aug. 18, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 18, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Opponents and supporters.
This is from Al Reuters.
Opponents and supporters.
He he he he.
Ahem.
Ahem.
and 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 Hamas, 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 Girt 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 Sarsur, the director of the Arab American Association in 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 you you think some Democrats you really think Democrat you think they'll send some Democrats to the um the um stop Islamization of America rally?
And some Democrats will go to the um Muslim and Arab American group uh rally.
I wonder.
I 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 gonna be an interesting dilemma for the Democrat Party.
Which of these two events to attend?
Remember at election hinges in their minds on this.
Yesterday we had the story, uh, ladies and gentlemen, that the developers of the Hamas were gonna 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 I certainly respect them.
I do one and understood I I really respect them.
I mean, I respect that.
I I respect, I respect their mosques.
I I I respect them.
I respect the fact that they don't want to talk to me.
I 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.
Well, he's excited to talk with the founders of the Hamasque.
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 media, mediaite.
Somebody there excor you.
You don't do a trick and tell people you're doing the trick.
I mean, you it's 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.
Uh some days.
Some days, it's just too easy.
Let's let me get some sound bites out of the way uh on this, and we'll move on to the economy because there's an AP poll out now.
Um, very concerned uh 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 that's down from 44% in April.
56% disapprove of Obama's handling of the economy.
61% say the economy's 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 uh and 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, 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.
Uh, 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 Ata 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 candidates 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 brunt uh brush with the peaceful Islam.
That's what's being attempted here.
Um by the way, uh 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, you know, Dubai ports deal.
I was a big supporter.
These people know what they're doing running ports.
I was reaching out.
I you remember I was in a minority on the.
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 Limboss beat 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 gonna 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 if Dubai wants to buy the ports, it's okay now, right?
Well, they might be in debt a little snerdily, but I'm just a philosophical point here.
Hypothetical point.
Now that it's okay to put a Hamas at ground zero, it'd be perfectly fine for Dubai ports to come in here and run the ports.
Right.
I'm just asking.
Seems a reasonable question to me.
Governor Christie, uh a warning.
Uh you don't want to be praised by these people.
Ha.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, serving humanity, meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
Remember it was Chuck Hugh 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 gonna be any damn Dubai ports deal in New York.
It wasn't gonna happen.
But perfectly fine to have a Hamask at ground zero.
By the way, I got a note, an email during the break.
Rush, the ditto cams 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 hand.
It 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 uh pineapple, vanilla, apple, regular tobacco, menthol or what have you for the brothers.
And there's no there's no tar, there's no nicotine, there's no nothing.
No, no, no.
There's that this is they're flavoring it to make no, there's nicotine, there's no tar.
There's no there's no tobacco, there's no flame, you light nothing.
Uh it's no different than Nicarette gum, except that it's actually looks like a cigarette, and you you get the oral uh gratification.
Uh and so forth, but there's there's no there's no carcinogen here.
Oh, there's a bunch of volcano, there's a the great brand volcano out of uh out of Hawaii, smoke 51 is uh is a good.
I've just I have a bunch of different ones that uh that uh that I use.
Uh but it's because I'm just you know 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, you know it's unbecoming to sit there and chew gum all the time.
Um, 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.
Uh where was I?
Oh, yes.
Dubai ports deal.
Chuck Schumer and Hillary.
Loudest voices against it.
Yeah, figures I would choose Apple because I'm a big Mac guy.
Apple flavored.
Uh they were representing the victims of 9-11.
Dubai ports deal.
Um, 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 maybe the New England Patriots.
Well, no problem.
Would not be a problem.
You will be, Yeah, Miami Dolphins would not be a problem.
It would be bigotry to oppose that.
Can't we?
No, no.
Perfectly fine.
Wouldn't be any problem.
Pelosi owns part of a football team, not her husband does.
I think the the uh 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 was constantly lying, so we have these stories.
Well, you know, lying little white lies, they're good because uh 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.
Uh 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. Carey lied about some medals.
Uh this guy up in Connecticut, bloom and fall.
Uh 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 political 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's called out of touch.
But political scientists and strategists 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 poster for the liberal group public policy posting.
Or polling.
So he 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 pollser Mark Penn, who worked at Clinton administration, said a similar strategy 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 isn't 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, Saulinski.
Number 13, pick the target, freeze it, personalize, and polarize it.
Villain, the Yalinski 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 political 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 they 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 Gutfeld or Gutfeld Field?
Greg Gutfield has decided on a name for his gay bar that he wants to put next to the Hamasque.
He wants to call it dialogue.
The gay bar we call di I have a better name for it, Greg.
Ram Emanuel.
That would be, I think, a better name for the gay bar.
Ram Emanuel.
I mean, it covers both bases.
Um let me go to the phones.
I said we have some sound bites here, and we do, and they're pretty good, but what people have been waiting for an hour and a half now.
Where are we starting?
Taylor, Michigan, this is Marilyn.
Uh, appreciate your patience, and welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for having me on.
Uh, just excuse my voice, I'm so mad.
But I'll tell you what, a 911, a bunch of terrorists, they hijack planes and they pull 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 I'm when I turn on the TV and watch the planes flying.
Now, no, no, no.
Now, no, no, 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.
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.
And 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 911 get rebuilt at ground zero.
That's right.
But they're going to bring us something that was never there in the first place.
I mean, I'm so mad.
A lot of people are 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 Hamas 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 Emanuel as the best, but that's probably a little too provocative.
Um not that the bar itself isn't, but uh probably too provocative.
Here's here, Jeremy in Boston.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Mr. Limbaugh, thank you so much for taking my call.
Those from Boston.
Thank you.
It's a pleasure to speak with you.
Uh I I am just so infuriated at this administration.
I mean, uh among other things, now uh telling us that that we need to be investigated for you know for opposing this when they're not even going to investigate the imam uh for this 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 um tied to the free Gaza movement, uh, which which was one of the founding of the key organizer of the the flotilla.
Yeah.
I I mean this is this is crazy.
I I can't believe that this is happening.
I mean, he what does he need 15 floors for a mosque in a cultural center for?
Fifteen.
Well, he's gonna have a uh swimming pool in there.
Well he's swimming pool, but you've put out this it's it's called the Sharia Index Project.
Yeah, which which lists all the things that he's going to do, you know, but there's six floors that are just missing.
There's it there's no explanation of you know, it's a lot of space there.
And it's it it seems like to me he wants to enforce Sharia law in America.
And and this is the reason I think that Americans are very opposed to this.
Yeah, I if yeah, I think the I think you're right about that, and I think if uh if everybody knew what Sharia law is and what its objectives are, I think either you'd have to ask you one follow-up question.
I'm sorry to interrupt you.
Yeah, go ahead.
I'm just a home.
An imam that wants to wants to uh enforce Sharia law, uh knowing that what Sharia law is.
I th I think they're looking for votes.
I I I think they're looking for votes from the uh from the Muslim community all over the country.
I'm not a Jew, uh I'm a Roman Catholic, but as a Jewish American, they have they have to be outraged.
Have to be.
Well, you're you're I tell you you're part of the majority.
Yeah.
Don't don't think otherwise.
They're trying to try 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.
Umppose it.
And Nancy Pelosi wants all those people investigated.
Now the Imam is an envoy of the State Department.
He's uh touring the Middle East, representing us.
Sent there by um the State Department, Obama.
Anyway, Rebecca, Cincinnati, thank you for waiting.
And uh hi.
Hi, Russ.
Thanks for taking my call.
Yes.
And 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 was did not complete its mission.
Uh that's true.
So you 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, uh, 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 uh in Pennsylvania, and of course the World Trade Center.
Uh Rebecca, thanks uh very much appreciate it.
Brief time out here, folks.
L Rushball 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 Hamas at uh the World Trade Center 911.
How about Al Geta?
I think it works.
Al Geta, get this from the business section of the New York Times, as screwels 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 scrual 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 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's 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're going to 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 the 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 the uh 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.
Well, 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 have been laid off are gonna stay laid off.
They're not gonna be rehired.
The money's gonna be held in reserve.
In fact, LA 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 I I let me as Obama would say, let me say this about that.
They already say that about us.
I understand.
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.
Well, that's what I'm trying to say.
Okay, I know.
And it's really it's really unfortunate.
I'm not saying that's a good thing.
I I'm totally against it.
They're they're once again, they're using our laws and our freedoms to try to destroy our freedom.
It's perfect example.
Well, I understand what you're saying.
And I totally get what you're saying.
Yeah.
I'm not trying to defend them in the slightest.
I'm I'm 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 since they win regardless what happens, since we lose, regardless what happens.
Oh, I'm okay.
I understand what you're doing.
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, you know, whoever they used to recruit all these people and say, see.
They dislike us, they hate us, they won't let us they won't let us be Muslims there.
They're not really the America they say they are.
You know, all those things that aren't true, they're gonna try to say to use against us, like they already do, like you said, but 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 gonna stop.
Terrorist attacks on the planning boards against Americans and American targets are not gonna be tossed.
It's not a win-win for them.
And we gotta 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.
Some more names here for Greg Gutfield's gay bar next to the Hamask.
And ground center.
How about Abu Ghrab?
How about Edaboys?
And one more suggestion the Gaza Strip.
Right next to the Hamask at ground zero.
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