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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.
What I pronounced 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, L Rushbo at EIB net.com.
Just came out a new The 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 Reed's intolerance.
I'm not making it up.
It's uh it's 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 a 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.
Uh 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 I I guess Obama's homophobia about gay marriage.
We're supposed to just think that that's okay too.
Well, Obama opposes gay marriage.
Anyone else who opposes gay marriage 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 Afabur 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, uh stated this is a Las Vegas Review Journal.
Uh 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 when he called such a poor choice of words.
Sounds like the meet and greet will be an interesting place to be because Imam Fateen, not happy with Dingy Harry's light-skinned African American with no Negro dialect unless he wants to have one remark.
But I 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 issue 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 shut up that we're harming ourselves.
AP poll Obama new law for handling economy, 41%.
In fact, it's identical to what um what the Gallup polls.
Speaking of the economy, I have to tell you something.
I the other day I ordered some stuff off the internet.
It's an it's an iPad um carrying case.
And what I liked about the iPad carrying case, it's it's from some company called Zugu.
Z-O-O-G-U-E, one word, Zugu.
And it's a case that you can set the iPad up on any angle you want for viewing it and using it.
The net to 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 much better placed.
Thanks, Rush.
Tim Angel, owner of Zugu.
I said it, I didn't address it to Brian Johnson here at our secret uh enclave.
Secret address, there's note in there, dear rush.
Which is intriguing.
But anyway, Tim Angel, he's the guy who invented the thing.
The uh 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, came in right before the program started today.
Fits in my briefcase.
It's um, you know, Apple makes a case too, but it's a stand of 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 uh 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, that there's no question.
The world will be a better place if there are more people like me, but Tim, I can handle it.
What else do we have here?
Oh U.S. may sue Joe Arpayo for not cooperating in an investigation.
A federal investigation of a controversial Arizona sheriff.
What's controversial about Joe Arpayo?
Joe enforces the law.
Joe Arpayo 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 Arpayo if he doesn't cooperate with their investigation or 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 Arpayo 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 gotta now look at so we're gonna criminalize the Democrat Party's continuing their long tradition of criminalizing policy differences.
And now threatening Joe Arpile 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 there's a story I gotta find this in the stack.
Speaking of the government and the federal government and overreaching, I gotta find this.
It's out of St. Louis.
And I put it, I'm sure, near the bottom of the stack.
And I'm gonna find it if you sit tight.
I could talk about Greg Farv.
Yes, I'm gonna talk about Favre here in just a second.
Uh, and I'm gonna talk about here we go.
And Blogoyovich.
In fact, I'll tell you about Blogoevich, right?
What do you think about Magoyovich?
Um, here's what I think about Lagoevich.
Twenty-four 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 Phoebes.
Now don't misunderstand.
I'm not saying she get away with lying to federal investigators.
And I'm not, you know, Blogoyevit 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 it was Richard Armitage who had leaked the name of the irrelevant.
What's her name?
Valerie Plame.
Uh 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 row of frog marks 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.
Twenty-four counts against Blagoyovich, hoping that something sticks.
Uh 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.
Uh very strange.
Very, very strange.
Also, uh 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 Lagoych guilty of anything in Chicago.
I mean, it's Chicago way.
And now they say they're gonna retry.
They're gonna have a meeting sometime August 26th to figure out how to retry.
Meanwhile, Blago says he's gonna appeal to one conviction that he lied to the Phoebbeys.
Brett Favre.
And an email.
I'm surprised you haven't talked about Brett Favre coming back.
Um 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 uh they they closed down this investigation before they really had anything.
I was scratching my head over that.
But uh Brett Barbret Barbret 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 Faves Mansion in Hadysburg.
Steve Hutcheson, uh, Jared Allen, Ryan Longwell, who is Farbes' best buddy, their best golfing buddies, Longwell's a kicker for the uh for the Vikings.
This was gonna happen.
I mean, it was when I saw the when I saw the ah, don't give me it all dependent on the ankle business.
When I saw the first emails, Favre retired 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 gonna 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.
Uh, Steelers, uh, what a Steelers looking like, it's uh it's tough to say.
After they're gonna be without Rothlisberger for at least four games to uh open the season.
I personally think that it ought to be Dennis Dixon, starting at quarterback instead of Brian Left or Byron Leftwitch.
Byron Leftwich does the most perfect imitation of a statue in the pocket I have ever seen.
Um, he doesn't look like Snerdly, 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.
Uh I love Dennis Dixon as the uh quarterback for the Steelers.
But anyway, let me have to take a break.
You're not gonna believe this story out of St. Louis.
Oh, she trying to shut down some poor guy that's never done anything wrong.
It's right, it's right out of the we gotta 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 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 gonna do that.
They're all, I mean, they're too busy sucking up.
First was Tiger Woods, you're gonna suck up to Brett Farbrett Farbread Favre so that you get access.
Folks, I am trying.
I want you to, 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 as a Daily Beast as Tina Brown's, and she's I mean, she's the grande of the ruling class in New York.
The grand dame of the media ruling class.
She's got this website, Daily Beast.
Uh, I think somebody's hoping they hire her.
Who would I see this?
Hoping her to hire her to revive uh uh 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 pair, Democrats.
It's really bad.
It's really bad when a Metrosexual is demanding that a bunch of coward Democrats grow a pair.
I'd be one thing for Schwarzenegger to tell you to grow up here, 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 it to Bush administration was a false dawn.
Bush for all his flaws, but by the way, Beinart has come out and asked Bush to come out and save Obama.
We have in the first hour.
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 we'll look past that for now, Mr. Bynert.
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 castrati, by the way, Metrosexuals.
It's very telling that the people Republicans are turning to for their anti-moth three cred are not moderate peace-loving Muslims since even Muslim Republicans are disgusted by their party factions.
Obama's a coward.
Obama's got no guts.
And that 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 Shawn 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, have to abandon all the things they've done to the last 20 months and come up with a new plan to capture independent voters.
This is after he spends several pages outlining how bad it currently is for the Democrats.
And Obama specifically.
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.
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 uh the best iPad uh case out there.
His name is Tim Angel.
And I you would not believe what people are sending me an email how they think they spell Zugu.
And I I even spelled it.
It's 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 said, what are the two e-sig companies you mentioned?
I'm going to do this one more time.
We're going to shut them down too, but it all it happens.
It's actually good for them, but you have to be patient.
And well Coco's out there listening, so with these links up at uh Rushlinbaugh.com.
The first one is uh Volcano.
Their brand is Magma, but it's uh Volcanoesigs.com.
You're writing that down Snurley, Volcanoesigs.com.
The other one is shop.ismoke everywhere.org.
Now Dawn told me I should mention these last week.
And I said both sides are shut down.
Zugu shut down.
Yeah, but it's gonna be shut down for a while.
Well, that's what we do here.
We shut down websites.
But they'll be back up after a while.
Zugu, uh Z-O-O-G-U-E, shop.ismoke everywhere.org, and volcanoesigs.com.
And those are the three companies I referenced today that uh that I use.
Now, I want to get to this poor guy in St. Louis and OSHA's trying to shut down.
And I'm gonna 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 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, you're in in 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.
Just take a fact.
Take a lunch break for the whatever time it would take to build a mosque.
They've got all the money.
They don't have anywhere to anybody to give it to.
Nobody wants the money.
Let's say everybody turns their back and go, 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 it's uh Martin Luther King Jr.
Don't do it.
Interesting.
Interesting.
Of course, they'll turn this around.
There's there's no mistake a liberal can make that can't be used to blame Republicans.
Well, 300 million Americans can't be wrong.
Uh by the way, uh Cookie working on this even as we speak, the 911 families have produced an ad.
Um I haven't seen it.
I am told it's pretty hard hitting uh 911 families who produced an ad against the Hamas.
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 uh 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.
Uh 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 hinpecked and all kinds of stuff.
I've cigars.
I mean cigars.
I'm not I'm I've still smoke cigars.
I have just cut back.
You would not believe the the emails I'm getting from people accusing me of being PW's 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.
Well, 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.
Yeah, I did.
You're right.
You know, Mr. Spurley told me you you talked about the stolen valor issue.
Yeah, the stolen stolen valor you can't.
You can now lie about having been awarded a military medal.
Well, I was out more on my grass, so I missed that, but I gotta tell you, as a dis Vietnam era veteran, uh I'm I'm appalled.
I'm I'm incensed.
I I don't know what else to say about this federal judge.
Well, we're it's it no, it's the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Oh, it's the whole court.
Well, it's a three it's a it's a three-judge panel.
Three judge panel out of nine, right?
Yeah, it's 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 gay or excuse me, gay marriage.
Yeah, I know.
And and one judge overturns it.
Yeah.
Uh the majority of Americans who are veterans uh think that portraying yourself as a congressional medal of honor winner is is uh just despicable.
Yeah.
They're overruled by a three-judge panel.
Yeah.
I I this this is this is stranger than the ruling on the uh gay marriage prop eight.
Uh 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 why what's special about lying about a military medal?
That there's a law called the uh uh uh something Valor Act.
I can 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.
Uh judges, you know, pretend to be objective and concerned about the law, but they're not bothered by lying.
Go figure.
I wonder, I wonder, is it okay now to Lie to an FBI investigator.
I mean, if it's 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 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 medal, 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 can lie.
If you're gonna make a crime out of lying about a medal, you gotta make a crime at lying to your husband or wife about what you were doing last night till four in the morning.
This is this is the actual wording from the ruling from the Ninth Circus.
Judge Mylan Smith.
Of the U.S. Ninth Circus Court of Appeal.
Get this a German billionaire or UK billionaire, was it?
There's a New York magazine first reported by the uh UK German billionaire is trying to publicize his new website, a stunt-based website called Battle Cam.
And he's come up with a stunt of his own to promote his website.
He's offering one million dollars 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 a hundred thousand dollars, but he raised it to one million to include any legal fees, which might be incurred as a result of the streak.
We're going to have to revive that Ray Stevens song.
So Here's Kay in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania.
Hi, Kay.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Mega Ditto's Rush.
Thank you.
Uh, I'd like to give my opinion regarding building those Muslim or Islamic church uh uh on the 9-11 website.
The Hamas, yeah.
Um I think it's an absolute insult.
And 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.
And uh she is right.
When that's when when did they all of a sudden start caring about religious freedom?
They hate the Christian right.
They despise them.
They hate NASCAR because it ain't Christian right people are in the audience.
That is an excellent point.
When did they start caring about religious freedom?
The liberals in it, well, it's redundant, the liberals and the communists, but we know what she meant.
I mean, what ACLU, when did they ever concern themselves with religious freedom?
I mean, 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 and 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 promise never forget.
Is that just meaningless words on a bumper stick afaded 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 on 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 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, we Republicans better be careful.
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.
The Republicans better be very and the Democrats are warning of this too.
The Democrats, the Republicans have better go very, very, very uh very quietly, very slowly here.
Uh did you're gonna really not gonna 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.
Washington Post reporting, she's now saying I support the statement made by the interfaith and 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 gonna 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.
Uh and it's over for today.
Twenty one hours, though, we'll be back.
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