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Aug. 18, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 18, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Fastest three hours in media.
Fastest week in media.
It's already Wednesday.
Yes, I knew it was Gutfield.
It was a faux pas.
How do I pronounce it, Greg Gutfeld?
Anyway, greetings and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, Excellence in Broadcasting Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Telephone number 800-282-2882, the email address lrushvo at eibnet.com just came out, a new Gallup Daily, Obama down to 41% approval in Gallup.
It's probably actually in the 30s.
55% disapprove.
And it's even worse on Obama's handling of the economy.
Looking bad out there.
And a lot of people said I was making it up.
I checked the email.
A lot of people said I was making it up that Obama said he was okay with Harry Reid's intolerance.
I'm making it up.
It's right here in the Politico.
In Seattle, President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Dingy Harry have agreed to disagree on a Muslim group's controversial plans to build an Islamic Hamas and community center a couple of blocks away from ground zero.
Burton, the White House spokesman Bill Burton, said to reporters yesterday, Senator Reed is a fiercely independent individual.
It's one of the strengths he has as a leader of the Democrat Party.
So the president feels completely fine that they might disagree.
Harry just has a different take on the issue, Burton said.
We're all bigots.
We all have to shut up.
But Harry Reed's intolerance is being excused, a special dispensation from Obama.
I guess Obama's homophobia about gay marriage, we're supposed to just think that's okay, too.
Well, Obama opposes gay marriage.
Anybody else who opposes gay marriage is a homophobe.
But of course, Obama isn't a homophobe.
Senate Majority Leader Dingy Harry's stance against the Ground Zero Hamas has drawn fire from some members of Southern Nevada's Muslim community.
The Imam of the Majid Ah Fabur Mosque, Minister Fateen, said this morning in a press release, I would like Mr. Reed to tell my members how he arrived at his decision and what facts did he base it on.
Mr. Imam, none of your business.
Imam Obama has given him dispensation.
Harry just has a different take on this.
You're not supposed to question it.
If it doesn't bother Imam Obama, then it shouldn't bother you.
Dingy Harry is scheduled to have a meet and greet with the African American faith community 3.30 in the afternoon Friday at the Culinary Training Center on West Lake Mead Boulevard.
Minister Fateen said that we hope Friday's a defining moment.
It's time to take a stand here and tell the world what the Muslim religion is about.
It has nothing to do with 9-11.
A member of the black Muslims, Minister X, stated, this is a Las Vegas Review Journal.
Minister X stated it is not all right for a politician to make a comment because it's his and not ours.
Now he's representing himself, not the people who voted him into office.
In the same press release, Minister Fateen Included Reed's well-traveled, light-skinned African-American with no Negro dialect unless he wanted to have one remark.
From the book Game Change, Reed later apologized what he called such a poor choice of words.
Sounds like the meet and greet will be an interesting place to be because Imam Fatin, not happy with Dingy Harry's light-skinned African-American with no Negro dialect, unless he wants to have one remark that Dingy Harry said.
But you guys need to back off here because Obama has given him special dispensation from the LA Times, New York Mosque debate splits GOP.
Hmm.
Some Republicans fear the ISIA will be a distraction as elections near and that it will undercut the party's efforts to broaden its base.
Yeah, right.
Okay, that's what they always say.
Whatever we do is going to hurt our efforts at broadening our base.
Meanwhile, it's the other guys who have basically set themselves on fire here.
They lit the match, they poured gasoline on themselves, and they're burning up out there.
And we're told we have to shut up.
That we're harming ourselves.
AP polled Obama new law for handling the economy: 41%.
In fact, it's identical to what the Gallup poll.
Speaking of the economy, I have to tell you something.
The other day I ordered some stuff off the internet.
It's an iPad carrying case.
And what I liked about the iPad carrying case, it's from some company called Zugu.
Z-O-O-G-U-E, one word, Zougu.
And it's a case that you can set the iPad up on any angle you want for viewing it and using it, but it'll lay flat.
That's what came in here this morning, Brian.
And it came with a note attached.
I did not order this in my name.
Dear Rush, my name is Tim Angel.
I'm a 25-year-old entrepreneur inventor.
I'm a huge fan.
I just wanted to thank you for your inspiration.
You are my idol.
If it was not for you, I would not be where I am today.
If only we had more people like Rush, the world would be a much better place.
Thanks, Rush.
Tim Angel, owner of Zougu.
I said it.
I addressed it to Brian Johnson here at our secret enclave, secret address.
There's a note in there, Dear Rush, which is intriguing.
But anyway, Tim Angel, he's the guy who invented the thing, the iPad case.
I got five of them.
I always order more than one because I give away things if I like them.
And I tried it.
It came in right before the program started today.
Fits in my briefcase.
It's, you know, Apple makes a case too, but it's a standard thing and it's got one angle that it props up on.
This thing, you can set it up at any angle you want to get the light out of it or to, you know, straight on no matter where you are.
It's pretty cool.
So thank you, Tim Angel.
But when he says, if only we had more people like Rush Limbaugh, there's no question the world would be a better place if there were more people like me.
But Tim, I can handle it.
What else do we have here?
Oh, U.S. may sue Joe Arpaio for not cooperating in an investigation.
A federal investigation of a controversial Arizona sheriff.
What's controversial about Joe Arpaio?
Joe Arp enforces the law.
Joe Arpaio enforces the law.
That makes him controversial.
This is a Washington Post story.
Federal investigation of a controversial Arizona sheriff known for tough immigration enforcement has intensified in recent days, escalating the conflict between the Obama administration and officials in Arizona.
Justice Department officials in Washington have issued a rare threat to sue Joe Arpaio if he doesn't cooperate with their investigation of whether he discriminates against Hispanics.
The civil rights inquiry is one of two that target the man who calls himself America's toughest sheriff.
Federal grand jury in Phoenix is examining whether Arpaio has used his power to investigate and intimidate political opponents and whether his office misappropriated government money.
Meanwhile, Pelosi's out there suggesting that anybody who opposes the mosque be investigated and find out where their money's coming from.
We got to now look at, so we're going to criminalize the Democrat Party is continuing their long tradition of criminalizing policy differences and now threatening Joe Arpaio for not cooperating in an investigation.
Nobody's fooled by what this is.
The DOJ ought to be investigating Pelosi, but we all know what's going on here.
State of Arizona is embarrassing the regime.
State of Arizona is imperiling the regime's outreach efforts to all those undocumented Democrats.
And somebody's going to pay for this.
And Sheriff Joe has made himself a target.
By the way, there's a story.
I got to find this in the stack.
Speaking of the government and the federal government and overreaching, I got to find this.
It's out of St. Louis.
And I put it, I'm sure, near the bottom of the stack.
And I'm going to find it if you sit tight.
I can talk about Greg Farv.
Yes, I'm going to talk about Favre here in just a second.
And I'm going to talk about, here we go.
And Blagojevich.
In fact, I'll tell you about Blagoevich right now.
What do you think about Blagojevich?
Here's what I think about Blagojevich.
24 counts.
A jury in Chicago hung on 23 of them.
The one conviction is another process crime having nothing to do with what the original investigation was about.
I'm not condoning lying to the FBI.
Don't misunderstand.
But that's the one guilty count, the process crime, false statements to the Fibys.
Now, don't misunderstand.
I'm not saying she get away with lying to federal investigators.
And I'm not, you know, Blagojevich is a clown.
He's a cabbage patch doll clown, no question.
But this is Patrick Fitzgerald.
Now, this is the guy who went after Scooter Libby when Scooter Libby hadn't done anything and he knew Libby hadn't done anything.
Went after Scooter Libby when everybody knew that was Richard Armitage who had leaked the name of the irrelevant, what's her name?
Valerie Plame, whose book really sold well, didn't it?
I mean, nobody ever cared about that in the first place.
But we were destroying America's traditions of that.
Leaking her name, try to get Roe of Frogmarks on the White House, try to get Cheney.
Couldn't get those guys, so they had to go get Libby, and he didn't do anything.
They got him on a process crime.
24 counts against Blagojevich, hoping that something sticks.
Now, Blagojevich, I don't care how clownish or crooked he may be, but throw 24 counts up against the wall and not one of them stick.
Very strange.
Very, very stand.
Also, Patrick Fitzgerald is a prosecutor who fought Conrad Black's release on bail even after the Supreme Court shot down the provision on which he was jailed.
So I'm surprised they found Legovich guilty of anything in Chicago.
I mean, it's Chicago way.
And now they say they're going to retry.
They're going to have a meeting sometime August 26th to figure out how to retry.
Meanwhile, Blago says he's going to appeal the one conviction.
He lied to the Phibbies.
Brett Favre had an email.
I'm surprised you haven't talked about Brett Favre coming back.
The only reason I didn't talk about it because I'm not surprised.
Everything that's happened here is utterly predictable.
A pattern has occurred that it has repeated.
By the way, Fitzgerald, back to that, he insisted on closing down the Blago investigation before he did anything.
Do you remember this?
They were getting close.
They didn't want to get close to Obama something.
They closed down this investigation before they really had anything.
I'm scratching my head over that.
But Brett Barbara Brett Favre, back in Minnesota, flown there on a private jet owned by the owner of the Vikings, Ziggy Wolf.
And they put three leaders of the team on the plane to get down to the Favre's mansion in Hattiesburg.
Steve Hutchinson, Jared Allen, Ryan Longwell, who is Favre's best buddy, their best golfing buddies.
Longwell's a kicker for the Vikings.
This was going to happen.
I mean, it was when I saw that, don't give me it all dependent on the ankle business.
When I saw the first emails, Favre retires that that's it.
He's coming back.
That's the pattern.
And I think it's fine.
I think it's absolutely wonderful.
So we're going to have a great Thursday night opener.
The Minnesota Vikings in the Superdome against the defending Super Bowl champion, New Orleans Saints.
I think it's fabulous.
Steelers, what are Steelers looking like?
It's tough to say.
After they're going to be without Rollesberger for at least four games to open the season, I personally think that it ought to be Dennis Dixon starting at quarterback instead of Brian Lefter, Byron Leftwich.
Byron Leftwich does the most perfect imitation of a statue in the pocket I have ever seen.
Well, he does look like Snirdly, but that's not a strike against him.
But he does a perfect impression of a statue in the pocket.
Dennis Dixon could at least get out of there.
I love Dennis Dixon as the quarterback for the Steelers.
But anyway, I have to take a break.
You're not going to believe this story out of St. Louis.
OSHA trying to shut down some poor guy that's never done anything wrong.
It's right.
It's right out of the.
We got to investigate Joe Arpaio playbook back after this.
Here's what I thought when I watched videotape of the owner of the Vikings plane, Ziggy Wolf, and I said, that was a Falcon 900, by the way.
When I saw it land, I thought the media, if they had any guts, the headline would be The Ego Has Landed.
But they're not going to do that.
They're all, I mean, they're too busy sucking up.
First, is Tiger Woods are going to suck up to Brett Farbrett Farbrett Favre so that you get access.
Folks, I am trying.
I want you to believe me, I'm trying to get off the mosque business, but I can't get this.
Peter Beinart, who now works at the Daily Beast, is Tina Browns, and she's, I mean, she's the grand dame of the ruling class in New York, the grand dame of the media ruling class.
She's got this website, Daily Beast.
I think somebody's hoping they hire her.
Who would I see this?
Hoping her to hire her to revive Newsweek.
At any rate, Peter Beinart used to be at Newsweek, and Peter Beinart's a metrosexual.
It's important to keep that in mind.
Headline: grow a pear, Democrats.
It's really bad.
It's really bad when a metrosexual is demanding that a bunch of coward Democrats grow a pair.
It'd be one thing for Schwarzenegger to tell you to grow a peer, but for a metrosexual to tell you to grow a pair.
I mean, that's I mean, that's like a eunuch telling you that you won't have any onions.
Yesterday, I wrote about what the Ground Zero mosque disaster reveals about the Republican Party.
In short, it reveals that the Bush administration was a false dawn.
Bush, for all his flaws, but by the way, Beinhart has come out and asked Bush to come out and save Obama.
We had in the first hour Beinard as Modo, Maureen Dowd, and Eugene Robinson.
Please, please, W, come out.
Please support the mosque effort and save Obama.
And now he says, Bush, for all his flaws, believe a GOP should be a universalistic party based on traditional values, a big tent for faith-based conservatives of all races and creeds, Muslims, Hispanics, Mormons, African Americans, whatever.
Of course, the Democrats will try to run the Mormons out of political office.
Just ask Mitt Romney about it.
And if you're an African-American Republican, an Hispanic Republican, you may as well not be alive as far as the Democrats are concerned.
But we'll look past that for now, Mr. Beinert.
Now it's clear, he writes, that the post-Bush TOP is a far nastier creature, a party seething with hatred towards vulnerable religious and ethnic groups.
It's very telling, this is the language of the new Castrate, by the way, metrosexuals.
It's very telling that the people Republicans are turning to for their anti-Moth Fried cred are not moderate, peace-loving Muslims, since even Muslim Republicans are disgusted by their party factions.
He goes on to say the same thing about Obama.
Obama's a coward.
Obama's got no guts.
And this is going to really hurt everybody.
It's going to hurt everybody during the election, Republicans and Democrats.
Douglas Schoen, former Clinton pollster, also writing at the Daily Beast: Voters are tired of the president pursuing policies they don't want.
And he'll find out just how tired they are in November.
Doug Schoan on the message in the latest polls and how Obama can turn it around.
Here we have a Democrat pollster telling the Democrats that in order to save themselves, they have to abandon.
I read the story, they have to abandon all the things they've done for the last 20 months and come up with a new plan to capture independent voters.
This is after he spent several pages outlining how bad it currently is for the Democrats and Obama specifically.
And they're telling us to shut up.
Thank you and welcome back.
I am Rush Limbaugh, simply the best and the most listened to radio talk show and host in the country.
And I'm going to do this one more time.
We're going to put this stuff on the website.
I open a can of worms every time I do this, but if I do it, I do it.
We have shut down the poor guy's website at Zugu.
The manufacturer, the young 25-year-old entrepreneur who makes the best iPad case out there.
His name is Tim Angel.
And you would not believe what people are sending me an email how they think they spell Zugu.
And I even spelled it.
It's one word, Z-O-O-G-U-E, Zugu.
Now, the poor guy's websites, well, I don't know if it's up and running now, but we shut it down as we do every time we mention a website.
And then people say, what are the two e-cig companies you mentioned?
I'm going to do this one more time.
We're going to shut them down too, but it happens.
It's actually good for them, but you have to be patient.
And Coco's out there listening, so we'll get these links up at rushlimbaugh.com.
The first one is Volcano.
Their brand is Magma, but it's volcanoesigs.com.
You're writing that down, Snerdly, volcanoesigs.com.
The other one is shop.ismokeverywhere.org.
Now, Dawn told me I should mention these last week.
And I said, both sides are shut.
Zugu shut down.
Yeah, but it's going to be shut down for a while.
That's what we do here.
We shut down websites.
But they'll be back up after a while.
Zugu, Z-O-O-G-U-E, shop.ismokeverywhere.org and volcanoesigs.com.
Those are the three companies I referenced today that I use.
Now, I want to get to this poor guy in St. Louis at OSHA's trying to shut down.
And I'm going to do that, but there are people who have been on hold for a long time too.
So let's grab a couple phone calls here before I get to the poor guy in St. Louis at OSHA trying to shut down.
Jeffrey in Atlanta.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Great to have you here.
Rush.
It's great to hear you.
You bet.
Talk to you.
Thank you.
I have an incredible solution to the mosque.
What's that?
It's American.
It screams freedom.
It screams unity.
Let's just not build it.
Let's not accept any contracts.
Let's turn our backs.
Well, in New York, you're talking about union workers.
No, I'm talking about anybody, any contractors.
Anybody.
Yeah, union workers go on lunch to be stereotypical.
They just take a lunch break for whatever time it would take to build a mosque.
They've got all the money.
They don't have anybody to give it to.
Nobody wants the money.
Let's say everybody turns their back and goes, I don't want to build the mosque.
They can do whatever they want, but they can't give the money to anybody because nobody wants it.
Interesting.
It's Martin Luther King Jr.
Don't do it.
Interesting.
Interesting.
Of course, they'll turn this around.
There's no mistake a liberal can make that can't be used to blame Republicans.
Well, 300 million Americans can't be wrong.
By the way, Cookie working on this, even as we speak, the 9-11 families have produced an ad.
I haven't seen it.
I'm told it's pretty hard-hitting.
9-11 families have produced an ad against the Hamask.
And I hope the audio that goes with it's pretty good.
I'm told it is.
So we'll play that for you when Cookie grabs it.
Art in Ocean Springs, Mississippi.
Welcome to the EIB network.
What an honor.
And congratulations on your wedding.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Oh, and by the way, by the way, by the way, I am not giving up cigarettes because I got married.
I am getting emails accusing me of being henpecked and all kinds of stuff.
Cigars.
I mean cigars.
I've still smoked cigars.
I have just cut back.
You would not believe the emails I'm getting from people accusing me of being PWs and all this other stuff.
It is not true.
Oh, they're just jealous because you married up.
No, I'm not giving it up for the puppies.
I'm just cutting back a little bit on the cigars, pure and simple, but I still smoke them.
And I still smoke them in the house.
And I still have my smoke eater technology.
Nothing's changed.
Why should it?
Boy, these people out there, sometimes they can be cruel.
But I do agree you married up.
Thank you very much.
Yet, I did.
You're right.
You know, Mr. Spurdley told me you talked about the stolen valor issue.
Yeah, the stolen valor.
Right, you can now lie about having been awarded a military medal.
Well, I was out mowing my grass, so I missed that.
But I got to tell you, as a disabled Vietnam-era veteran, I'm appalled.
I'm incensed.
I don't know what else to say about this federal judge.
Well, it's a no, it's the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Oh, it's the whole court.
Well, it's a three-judge panel.
It's a three-judge panel out of nine, right?
Yeah, it was two to one.
But they're just codifying what Democrats have been doing for a long time anyway.
What does it take?
Seven million Californians vote against illegal immigration or excuse me, gay marriage.
Yeah, I know.
And one judge overturns it?
Yeah.
The majority of Americans who are veterans think that portraying yourself as a Congressional Medal of Honor winner is just despicable.
They're overruled by a three-judge panel.
Yeah.
This is stranger than the ruling on the gay marriage prop 8.
This is just, you can lie about a military medal.
You can lie about having been awarded a military medal.
Why can't you then lie about anything now?
I mean, what's special about lying about a military medal?
There's a law called the something, Valor Act.
And that's the Stolen Valor Act.
It specifically says you cannot lie about having received a medal.
They struck down the Stolen Valor Act.
Three judges on the Ninth Circus Court of Appeal.
Judges pretend to be objective and concerned about the law, but they're not bothered by lying.
Go figure.
I wonder, is it okay now to lie to an FBI investigator?
I mean, if it's okay to lie about a military medal, why can't you lie to, say, Patrick Fitzgerald when he's asking you about whether or not you try to sell a Senate seat of Obama's for some sort of favor?
Where does the whole business of lying stop once it's been codified?
Sanctioned.
Here's the quote from the majority opinion of Ninth Circus.
The right to speak and write whatever one chooses, including to some degree worthless, offensive, demonstrable untruths without cowering in fear of a powerful government is, in our view, an essential component of the protection afforded by the First Amendment.
Well, if you read that, I mean, I'd rather lie to the FBI than have to cower in fear to the government.
If lying about a metal, they say this is, if lying about a medal can be classified as a crime, Smith said, so can lying about one's age, misrepresenting one's financial status on Facebook, or telling one mother falsehoods about drinking, smoking, or sex.
So you're going to lie.
If you're going to make a crime out of lying about a metal, you've got to make a crime at lying to your husband or wife about what you were doing last night till four in the morning.
This is the actual wording from the ruling from the Ninth Circus.
Judge Milan Smith of the U.S. Ninth Circus Court of Appeals.
Get this, a German billionaire or UK billionaire.
What is it?
There's a New York magazine first reported by the UK Senate.
German billionaire is trying to publicize his new website, a stunt-based website called Battlecam.
And he's come up with a stunt of his own to promote his website.
He's offering $1 million to the first person to successfully streak naked in front of Obama at Martha's Vineyard or anywhere else with the name of the website written on his or her body.
First person to do this to get away with it gets a million dollars.
The initial offering was $100,000, but he raised it to $1 million to include any legal fees which might be incurred as a result of the streak.
We're going to have to revive at Ray Stevens' song.
Here's Kay in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania.
Hi, Kay.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Megha Ditto's Rush.
Thank you.
I'd like to give my opinion regarding building those Muslim or Islamic church on the 9-11 website.
The Hamask.
Yeah.
I think it's an absolute insult to cipher this.
You know, it's a matter of location, not religious freedom.
And by the way, since when do the liberals and the communists concern themselves about religious freedom?
They remind us about separation of church and state.
We can't even say a prayer in the public schools.
Damn right.
We can't say a prayer at graduation.
She is right.
When did they all of a sudden start caring about religious freedom?
They hate the Christian right.
They despise them.
They hate NASCAR because they think Christian right people are in the audience.
That is an excellent point.
When did they start caring about religious freedom?
The liberals and it, well, it's redundant, the liberals and the communists, but we know what she meant.
I mean, ACLU, when did they ever concern themselves with religious freedom?
I mean, the liberals are the ones that have these organizations trying to shut down the practice of religion if they think it's occurring at any time, anywhere, in public.
That's Kay in Bethel Park, an excellent point.
Here's this ad.
We have the audio.
9-11 families speak out against the Hamask.
This mosque?
It's wrong.
It's so wrong.
Our first task at Ground Zero is to simply preserve the sanctity of the site.
I can't let the actions of the passenger and crew of Flight 93 go in vain.
As long as they need us to speak for them and to continue the fight that they began, I'll be here to do it.
We promised never forget.
Is that just meaningless words?
A bumper sticker faded by the sun?
Give me a break.
We understand they can build where they want to build.
All we ask them to do is to use some good sense and think about what they're doing.
That's the ad.
9-11 family speaking out against the mosque.
Pelosi will want them investigated.
She said in a San Francisco radio interview, she wants to investigate people, the funding of people like this who oppose the building of the mosque at ground zero.
You've heard Kay and Bethel Park.
I mean, all of the emotion in the voices, people who've called here today, you can hear the fury.
And of course, we have people on our side today.
So, well, Republicans better be very, very, very careful.
Don't overstep this.
Don't go too far.
This could really, really, really, really, really, really harm Republican electoral efforts in November.
And the Democrats are warning of this, too.
The Democrats, Republicans have better go very, very, very, very, very quietly, very slowly here.
You're going to really, is it not going to help you?
Of course, everybody knows the Democrats really want us to win the elections in November, and they're really, really concerned that we're blowing it here by talking about the mosque.
Yeah, I mean, that makes sense, doesn't it?
Democrats want us to win, so they're warning us for our own good.
Be careful here.
And then, of course, the wizards of SMART on our side, who like to impress everybody with their pseudo-intellectualism.
They can be nuanced and dabble around the edges of this.
Meanwhile, there is a fury and an outrage.
Oh, Pelosi walked back her call for an investigation.
Washington Post reporting, she's now saying, I support the statement made by the Interfaith Online.
We agree with you.
Oh, she's walking it back now.
Huh.
I'll investigate that further.
Pelosi didn't walk anything back.
She's still calling for an investigation of the funding by opponents of the mosque, but she's now also saying we should look at who is funding the building of the mosque as well.
So Pelosi wants to investigate all the money.
And I am going to get to the poor guy in St. Louis being shut down by Osho, but we'll have to do it tomorrow.
I think you'll all agree with me.
We were jam-packed today.
And it's over for today.
21 hours, though.
We'll be back.
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