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Aug. 19, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 19, 2010, Thursday, Hour #2
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Greetings, my good friends, and welcome back.
It's L. Rushbo serving humanity behind a golden EIB microphone here at the distinguished and uh uh uh respected Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Telephone number if you want to join us is 800 28282 and the email address L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
This jobs bill, I tell I am I'm still frosted.
There's no jobs bill.
It's a spending bill.
Obama doesn't have any jobs bills.
Every bill that Obama has spends money that we don't have.
He says, Well, this is never gonna raise the deficit of dime.
It most certainly will.
There's not we can't spend anything without raising the deficit.
Nothing is being paid for, especially with this guy.
There is no jobs bill.
It is a spending bill.
All right, now how many days, Snerdley, have we been on this uh Imam Obama business?
Is this a second day or the third?
The third day, third day.
Yep, yep, yep.
And I'm now being blamed for the results in the pew poll.
Uh here's Kirsten Powers, Fox News Channels happening now.
Uh Kirsten Powers and the Republican strategerist Chip Saltzman of the guests, and during a discussion about this new pew poll, which is taken last week, this week, last month, it's an ongoing poll.
Saltzman says a year ago, one in ten believed he was a Muslim.
Again, it's uh not right he's not, and now it's one in five think he's a Muslim.
The reason for that is that you have people like Rush Limbaugh referring to him as Imon Hussein Obama.
No, I have not said Imam Hussein Obama.
I've never thrown Hussein in there.
I just said Imam Obama.
This is day three.
This is day three.
Imam Barack Hoover Obama is the correct nomenclature, Ms. Powers that I have been using.
Imam Ibam, yeah.
Imam Barack Hoover Obama.
Now, anyway, the bottom line here, the the raw number is not what really counts in this poll.
You know, whether it's you know 18% think he's a Muslim or 34% uh don't think he's Christian, it's the trend that's happening here that is that is that is fascinating.
Uh it's the direction, and it's increasing.
The number of people who think he's a Muslim's going up, and the number of people who think he's a Christian is declining.
Now, a lot of people, many people will define prejudice as fear of the unknown.
But after 20 months now, Imam Obama is becoming more well known.
And the media can't protect him.
The media can't do its dance.
Um I I just they've no one the White House, they're worried about otherness.
And they've got to be.
Look at this is this is gonna happen.
Let this be a teachable moment for you.
Let this be a life lesson.
Whenever you tried to hide who you really are, when you find it necessary to camouflage yourself, like liberals have been doing for as long as I've been alive.
The truth is eventually gonna surface.
Who you are is going to be found out and discovered, and it's not a pretty sight when it when that happens.
Now, if you're liberals, what do you do?
Well, you go out and hire some guy named Lackoff, rhymes with Jack Off to say uh bleep it, Mike bleep it.
Have we been did you did okay?
So you go on you hire some guy named Lackoff rhymes with to say you're not a liberal anymore, that you're a progressive.
So now I I just I've continually find myself stunned here.
We are we're talking about the president of the United States.
How many millions of Americans voted in that presidential race in 2008?
How many people voted?
And look at the numbers of people who have no clue who this is.
Now, here's here's Kirsten Powers blaming me for the pew poll.
Because I've been calling him Imam Obama for three days.
I'm flattered that Kirsten Powers think I have the thinks I have this uh this degree of influence.
But I have always explained comedy, good humor, only works when there is an element of truth.
Comedy that's based on total lies and falsehoods.
It's not even funny.
It's got to have some connection to something that some people might think is true.
So why did I start calling him Imam Obama?
Well, two reasons.
It seemed like the natural thing to do when he came out in favor of the mosque.
Uh it's no different than calling it the Hamask.
Because Hamas has come out in favor of the mosque.
So we have Imam Obama advocating for the Hamas.
It seems natural to me.
There's elements of truth in this.
But the left, they're humorless.
They don't laugh at anything.
And now I, your host, L. Rushbow, single-handedly responsible for the confusion in the minds of millions.
Millions of Americans who now aren't sure what Obama is.
What are they gonna do about this?
I don't know what they're gonna do.
We had the story yesterday, politico, they're looking for a villain because they'd given up on me.
They were thinking of going back and using Newt.
They knew Baynerg's not a good villain because nobody knows who he is.
Uh and he's too good looking.
You can't have a villain that looks good, according to the people who make good use of villains.
Like Boris Bentonoff in the Rocky and Bullwinkle, I'm an appropriate villain because he was ugly.
Now I'm not ugly.
And that's one of the reasons they've had trouble making me a villain.
I'm too beloved.
I'm too loved, I'm too appreciated, I'm too famous.
Uh, they've tried to make me a villain for all these years.
But and folks, I'm gonna tell you something.
Obama and the White House wish, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, and this comment is about you.
They wish they had the personal connection with their voters that I have with you.
They can only dream of that.
As many lies, as many attacks on me as they have mounted, where have you gone?
Nowhere.
You've stayed right here, and your numbers have grown.
And we have a, and I've commented on this many times.
You and I have a family-like bond.
This is uh unlike any audience relationship I've ever had in my star-studded uh broadcast career.
And I don't hide who I am, and I don't phony, and I don't try to make you think I'm somebody I'm not.
And I don't try to act somebody I wish I really were, because I like myself.
I'm throw myself out there, here's who I am.
And Democrats, particularly liberals, have to lie about who they are.
And Obama is at the top of that heap.
I mean, you go back now and look at that campaign.
It was all phony.
We you and I knew it.
I mean, people, well, remember this day, the day the oceans began to recede.
Come on.
We weren't gonna believe in 2008 in November was the day the oceans began to recede because we never believed they were rising.
So what's happening now is that the uh hard cold truth, the hard cold reality, that Obama's not what or who he says.
He is is slapping the Democrat Party upside the head.
No, I'm not saying he's a Muslim.
It's not the point.
It doesn't, see, the point is not whether he is or isn't.
Because I continue to ask, if he is big deal, why is it what's it a problem.
The only reason to be a problem is if he lied about it.
If he's a Muslim, that's no big deal, right?
I don't know what's a problem with being a Muslim.
They're the ones acting like it'd be something hugely embarrassing to be a Muslim, not us.
But they're the ones that have to cover up who they are.
They're the ones worried about otherness now.
This bunch knows there's been controversy swirling around the birth and all this sort of stuff.
They've done nothing to quell the controversies.
In fact, some of these people in the White House have tried to stoke it, you know, for their own entertainment, I'm sure.
Because they've um had a little fun doing it in the process.
But once you start, once you start telling lies, and once you start living a lie, you are doomed because you will not be able to remember who you told what.
You're going to get found out, you're going to get caught at some point.
You will not be able to remember to whom you displayed what about yourself, or to whom you said whatever it was that you said.
You're going to get found out.
You're going to cross yourself up.
Phoniness is its own punishment.
And trying to be something.
If it were me, just to share your difference, show the difference.
If I were running for president and I had a media that was out there promulgating a notion that there had never been anybody like me before in politics, I would stop right there and I would say, uh-uh-uh.
I do not characterize me this way.
Don't characterize me as something superhuman.
Don't characterize me as the one we've all been waiting for.
Don't phony me up.
Were I president, and there were literally almost riots in major American cities among poor people trying to get vouchers to get some sort of help in getting a house, I would be embarrassed.
I would be embarrassed that it's happening in my country while I'm president.
But not this bunch.
This bunch looks at that as a sign of success.
They look at that as I'm talking about specifically that said, that said display that happened in Detroit last year and the near riots we had in Atlanta last week.
This bunch and this party, they look at those signs and see success.
Because they see more and more people depending on government.
Government is their God.
Government is the source of their power.
Were I president, were any of you president, and this were happening on our watch, we'd be embarrassed.
And we would be doing something about it.
And we'd be making speeches trying to genuinely help these people by telling them the truth.
We, the United States government, cannot provide for you.
It is not our responsibility, that's yours.
It may be a huge wake-up call, but we are here to see to it that each and every one of you who want to access the opportunity in this country, have the clearest path to that as possible.
We're going to take away obstacles, we're going to get them out of your way.
Instead, we have an administration, we have a political party who wants to impede progress and punish those who are successful with increased taxes and regulation, and they want to remove obstacles to dependence.
And we look at it and it shames us.
It embarrasses us for our country.
And now, this is also embarrassing.
I have to tell you, we're sitting here laughing at it.
But frankly, folks, in the big scheme of things, we are a great country at risk in a dangerous world.
We have threats external and internal.
And it is not good sign.
It is not something healthy for the American people to not know what religion their president is, to have doubts to the extent that they do about this man and his life and where he's been and who he is.
It's not healthy.
It's not good.
We can make fun of it, and we will, and we'll have our fun with it.
But at the end of the day, This is not good.
And we have people who have promulgated this.
We have the partisan political operative media who have facilitated this web, this intricately woven web of deceit and confusion, all for the purposes of getting their party elected to power so as to advance their agenda at the expense, in fact, of the country.
Let me take a brief time out.
We'll come back, grab more of your phone calls.
And we got a great soundbite roster still to come, too.
So sit tight.
Much more right after this.
Get this, folks.
This is from USA Today.
I we had just, it was just earlier this week, maybe late last week.
We had an informative discussion on this program about why they're never going to scrap the income tax code.
They're never going to have a flat tax, a fair tax or whatever, because I said people are not going to ever surrender the power that they have.
Social architecture, political power, whatever that writing the tax code gives them.
Federal housing policy offers the wealthiest Americans billions in tax breaks without delivering much bang for the buck in increased homeownership Critics told government policymakers this week.
We aren't getting our money's worth.
Said Mark Zandy, the chief economist of Moody's.
He said at a government conference on reforming housing policy.
The government spent 230 billion dollars last year to promote homeownership through tax breaks and spending programs.
The biggest chunk, 80 billion, went toward the mortgage interest deduction.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the government spent 80 billion.
The government didn't spend a dime in this.
This is not the way they characterize this.
You go buy a house, they let you deduct the interest on your mortgage, and now they're whining and moaning how much that's costing them.
And they're claiming that housing policy offers the wealthiest Americans billions in tax breaks.
Wealthiest.
How many of you who have a mortgage consider yourself among the wealthiest Americans?
Get ready, because they're going to eliminate the mortgage interest deduction.
That's what this means.
This was in the cards.
No doubt this was going to happen.
All of these things that have been traditional.
They're going to take them.
Government's out of money.
Government doesn't have any money.
That's a crisis.
It's not a crisis when you don't have any money.
It's not a crisis when you're losing your job.
No, no.
When you lose your job, we're just going to have more spending bills.
We're going to call them jobs bills, but they're just going to be spending bills.
We're going to get speeches from Obama all over the country that mean nothing that accomplish nothing.
But when the government's out of money, when the government's losing money, that's panic time.
This is a crisis.
So now we have to have a conference on how all of this is costing the government money.
And the home mortgage interest deduction.
$80 billion.
Out of the $130 billion last year the government spent to promote homeownership.
So you see.
They used the tax code to promote homeownership.
They also used subprime mortgages, lending money to people who had no business being lent money to because they were never going to pay it back.
And calling it affordable housing.
And now they're all sitting there in Washington saying, you know what, we're not getting any bang for our buck here.
Okay, so what was the purpose here?
What was the purpose of the home mortgage deduction really?
Was it to put people in houses?
Was it to facilitate the American dream?
Or was it somehow to raise money for the government?
How do you like hearing it?
How do you like hearing it, folks, that our wizards of smart in Washington are now examining your mortgage interest deduction on the basis that they aren't getting a big enough bang for the buck, that it really isn't helping Washington.
It really isn't helping government.
And so we're going to have to look at this now.
The government is seeking to over overhaul the housing Market.
After the collapse of mortgage giants, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
It's unlikely to touch the politically sacrosanct deduction any time soon, but analysts suggested that the government's debt, 8.8 trillion and growing, meant that housing subsidies might one day face the knife.
We can't afford it, said Zandi of Moody's.
For now, the government's neck deep in housing, private money...
Fanny May and Freddie Mac, yep.
Good old Barney Frank now saying shut him down.
Yeah, thanks, Barney.
Shut him down after you destroyed him.
Shut down Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac after you corrupted the whole both organizations.
Yeah, shut them down.
Let's get rid of the evidence of the failure.
That's what they mean when they say shut down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
We gotta get rid of the evidence.
The longer these two items say I'm functioning here, it's the worst we're gonna look.
So I want to know all of you who by the way who vote for Democrats how does it how does it feel when you hear that the people you elected are looking at your mortgage interest deduction?
Are we getting a big enough bang for our buck here in Washington and paying you to buy your house?
That's corrupt as it can be, and it's perverted.
But that's who we elected.
That's who's running things.
And now New York Governor Patterson is saying that support for a deal to move the mosque is uh growing, is increasing.
I wonder I I'm gonna suggest something to the pew research people.
Next time you go out and do your poll on um how many people think Obama is a Muslim.
Ask them how many think he's a Marxist.
Because I'll bet you that number's increasing too.
And that number, frankly, would be more interesting to me.
Than how many think he is a Muslim.
Northern California home sales dropped 23% in July.
This is the AP from Los Angeles.
Home sales in the San Francisco Bay Area, Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Boxer's home plummeted 22.8% last month from the previous year to reach her lowest level in 15 years.
Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, taking care of their own constituents.
What?
Yeah, Dai Fi too.
Yeah, okay.
So Diane Feinstein, Boxer, and Pelosi are all from San Francisco.
That's exactly right out there.
Exactly right.
All right, back to the phones we go.
A lot of people have been patiently waiting.
Uh Ken in Lavonia, Michigan.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Yeah, thanks for taking my call, Rush.
Yes, sir.
Yeah, I wanted to comment that uh when we take a look at the facts.
Um, I think it should be very clear that President Barack Obama does have a uh warm heart uh uh point in his heart uh for Islam.
You know, he has a very warm place in his heart for Islam.
Now, he was raised in Islamic school as a child.
He has uh reached his uh handout and friendship to all the Islamic countries, including Iran.
Yet he's been very cold, very unfriendly to Israel.
He's been uh unfriendly to uh European allies.
Uh he is uh supporting of this uh mosque at ground zero, even though the uh imam has said he supports uh uh Hezbollah.
Um this uh Imam has said he's a supporter of uh Sharia Law.
Um I think that when we take a look, like I said, at all the facts involved, uh he might not be a quote Moslem as far as uh total practicer, but uh yes, I think absolutely he does uh have a very warm place in his heart for uh Islam.
So what's wrong with that?
What's wrong with having a warm place in your heart for Islam?
Well, it's not that uh it's a bad thing if uh that's what he wants to be, but I think that uh it's something that he Is trying to deny.
You know, like I said, he uh he has shown that uh he's not very friendly as far as like the Christians.
Right, they're bitter clingers.
You know, he uh won't participate in any kind of uh Christian events that are going on uh in Washington, such as the prayer breakfast.
Right, or the Boy Scouts or the Boy Scouts.
Uh but he has participated uh multiple times with uh Islamic holidays, like with that dinner that uh they just had uh the with uh Ramadan.
Yeah, the iftar dinner.
But but but but the media would be quick to point out Bush hosted those too.
Well, one thing that I think that needs to be pointed out too, though.
Uh you bring up the question, what's wrong if he is a Muslim?
Well, the one thing that does bother me, um, and this is something that uh needs to be uh pointed out.
Um, uh, do believe in implementing Sharia law.
This is a basis of their faith.
And as we know, Sharia law, uh Hannity has been dealing a lot of this on his program, is in direct conflict with the uh Constitution.
So if we do have a president that is in opposition as far as his beliefs uh to the Constitution, that's a problem.
Well, now wait.
Wait a minute.
Let's take because you're right, but let's take that out of the realm of Islam for a moment.
Obama does have major problems with the U.S. Constitution, but I don't want to assign his belief in Sharia law to that.
Um with the Constitution is that he doesn't think it says enough about what government can do.
To Obama, the government is too limiting on uh the Constitution is too limiting on government.
He doesn't like the Bill of Rights.
He thinks there needs to be a second bill of rights that specifies what the government can do to people or for people, in his view.
Um so that also is a fact.
It is also a fact.
Obama famously told the New York Times.
Now I'm just reporting what I saw in the paper of record.
He told the New York Times that the call to prayer, the Muslim call to prayer, was the most beautiful sound in the world.
Yeah, he told the New York Times that the Muslim call to prayer is one of the prettiest sounds on earth.
It was in an interview with Nicholas Christoph, published in the New York Times.
Obama recited the Muslim call to prayer with as this is a quote from Nicholas Christoph with a first class Arabic accent.
Now, the first lines of this call to prayer, the adhan, when translated, and this is in the New York Times.
This is Nicholas Christoph piece.
Allah is supreme, Allah is supreme, Allah is supreme, Allah is supreme.
I witnessed that there is no God but Allah.
That's the Muslim call to prayer.
And Obama told Nicholas Christoph that he recited it and said that it was one of the prettiest sounds on earth.
March the sixth, 2007.
Nicholas D. Christoph.
What?
What, Snerdley?
It is what it is.
Nicholas I just read to you from the piece.
Nicholas Christoph, March 6, 2007.
I just read verbatim from the piece.
He did.
He says the Muslim call to prayer.
Here's here's here's the quote.
I'll tell you again, Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent in a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated.
Parentheses, it'll give Alabama voters heart attacks.
End parentheses.
Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as one of the prettiest sounds on earth at sunset.
That is an exact excerpt.
The Alabama slam?
You want what's the Alabama slam?
That's Nicholas Christoph.
Obama didn't say that.
This is Christoph the writer in parentheses saying it'll give Alabama voters heart attacks.
Because they're Christian.
Because they're because yeah, because they're Southern Christians.
They are the bitter clingers.
And so forth.
Look, folks, I mean, don't blame me.
We'll link to it.
We'll put the link right at Rush Limbaugh.com now.
We'll put it up there and you can read it yourself.
Coco is on it, even as we speak.
Let me take a brief time out.
What are you still looking incredulous at in there?
You don't remember this.
No, he said it in 2007.
He was he was it was Senator Barack Obama when he said yes, the guy who's president now, but he said it in 2007 in March was when Christoph wrote the piece.
You could arguably say that this was even before the intense presidential campaign had begun.
Now, we were getting media puff pieces on Obama all over the place during that time.
Washington Post.
You know, this is when Hillary was starting to say, wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
This is mine.
This is mine.
What is what who is this Obama guy you're writing about?
And then, of course, uh Sharpton was he was not pleased that this was going on.
Um Obama was being talked about as something we'd never seen before.
It's about the time Biden was talking about time we had a clean articulate black guy in our party.
So Harry Reid says he's got a Negro dialect, exactly right.
Harry Reid said he's got a perfect Negro dialect when he wants to use it.
Nicholas Christoph said he has a first-rate Arabic accent when reciting the Muslim call of prayer.
Now, we're only mentioning this, folks, because there's a pew poll out today that more and more Americans think Obama's a Muslim, and fewer and fewer think he's a Christian, and the media is wondering why.
And the New York Times has a piece.
Well, there's got to be utter confusion out there.
This is uh well, why do people think this?
They must be hearing it on TV.
No, they read it in the New York Times.
Now, once again, I want to remind you, the prettiest sound in the world quote, is from the New York Times, not a blog.
It is from the Dead Tree version in a Nicholas Christoph column, March 6th, 2007.
Now, what's typical is the quote, this quote is from Christoph's long interview with Obama, which the New York Times article says is on his blog, but guess what?
It's been disappeared.
The Obama interview with Christoph can't be found on the New York Times website any longer.
That's how the journal listas protect their masters.
But Obama said it.
Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent.
In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated, it'll give Alabama voters heart attacks.
Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as one of the prettiest sounds on the earth at sunset.
Now, let's also go back to 2007 to June 23rd.
A portion of Obama's speech to the United Church of Christ's 50th anniversary general synod in Hartford, Connecticut, June 23rd, 2007.
Look at me.
Somewhere along the way, this is Obama, somewhere along the way, faith stopped being used to bring us together and started being used to drive us apart.
Faith got hijacked partly because of the so-called leaders of the Christian right, who've been all too eager to exploit what divides us.
At every opportunity they have told evangelical Christians that Democrats disrespect their values and dislike their church while suggesting to the rest of the country that religious Americans care only about issues like abortion, gay marriage, school prayer, and intelligent design.
So the Muslim call of prayer, one of the prettiest sounds in the world, goes to speak, United Church of Christ's 50th anniversary General Synod in Hartford, and says the Christian right has hijacked Christianity.
So Pugh is out there doing a poll on what I I still say that the major point here is that the poll is even being done.
What does it say about where our country's headed?
What does it say about where we've arrived?
What does it say?
That we're taking a poll on who the president is and what he believes.
This is not good.
Yeah, we're laughing at it.
And we're doing what we usually do, trying to have some fun with it, but it's the end of the day, it's really not all that funny.
When when has Obama ever criticized any Muslim extremists?
I'm sure it's happened.
I just can't remember.
I d no.
I like I said, I'm sure it's happened.
I just see, but right when Christians, this is my point that I made earlier, it's perfectly fine to attack them.
Perfectly okay to attack the Christian right.
It's perfectly okay to say they are dividing us.
But you can't say anything negative about Muslims, and you can't say anything negative about their mosque.
You can't say anything about their extremists.
No, no, no.
Even even people on our side say dial it back, but we don't we don't want to say no anymore.
You'll be very careful, don't talk too much about this mosque.
Yeah, they told us that yesterday.
Oh, don't talk about that too much.
Here's Sarah in Huntsville, Alabama.
Speaking of, great to have you on the program.
Hi.
It's great to talk to you.
Thank you.
Uh, you mentioned in passing earlier that Obama has taken his sixth vacation to Martha's Vineyard.
Yeah.
Well, in my opinion, it seems like Obama is seeing his presidential term as a chance to go and see the sites on someone else's dime.
And all of our whining and complaining about the economy is just kind of harsh in his buzz.
What's your opinion on that?
Well, I I do think it's uh there's a there's a word that's been bandied about a lot this week, and that word is insensitive.
And here's here's what here's the approved language on this.
Well, we certainly do want our presidents to take their time off.
Our presidents work very hard.
We certainly do not begrudge our presidents their vacation time.
That having been said, the optics here are not optimum.
Now the translation here is that there are people on the president's side of the aisle who are thinking, you know, it just doesn't look good.
The wife and 40 friends in 60 rooms for five days, five stars, Spain.
Twenty-seven hours on the ground, Redneck Riviera.
Don't know if they ate shrimp.
Ten days on the ground, $50,000 a night home rental, Martha's Vineyard.
Five hundred thousand jobless claims this week.
A high for the you know, nine-month or ten-month high.
Two just don't jibe.
They just don't go together.
So it looks as though the president is insensitive.
That's why the the Marie Antoinette joke of the Muchel Antoinette jokes about Muchell Obama.
Um it is why some people say that it looks like these two just wanted to be president for the perks.
It really looks like to them the job is the perks.
Put all the buddies and family on Air Force One, go flitting around the world, go back to Chicago for hoops, hot dogs, barbecue while a wife and friends are over in Spain.
And while all that's happening, here come the jobless numbers every week, and it's 456,487,500,000 today.
Uh And in the middle of all this, we got a poll.
About 20% of the American people think our president's a Muslim, and a dwindling number believe he's a Christian.
So it's a pretty muddled view, ladies and gentlemen.
And the thing is, it doesn't seem to be bothering them at all.
None of this seems to be bothering them.
All they want to do is spend more money on a mythical jobs bill to fix everything.
Very simple question.
If it was okay and even laudatory to call Bill Clinton America's first black president, why can't we call Imam Obama America's first Muslim president?
What's wrong with that?
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