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Aug. 23, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 23, 2010, Monday, Hour #2
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I think we're up to soundbite eight and in order.
We get back to him.
Can I get a confirmation on that?
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Jennifer Rubin at Commentary Magazine.
How bad is the ground zero mosque story for the White House?
Bad enough that Obama advisors are pointing fingers at the president and trying to absolve themselves of the fiasco.
The Politico is reporting that prior to the decision, Rahm Emmanuel and Obama's communications staff vividly and presciently predicted that Obama would be handing Republicans a weapon to batter Democrats as weak need on terrorism three months before the elections.
In other words, it's not our fault.
Valerie Jarrett, David Axelrod, the president's most devoted cheerleaders, were all for it, you see.
But not Emmanuel and the communications team, because they're smart enough, they remind us, to tell Obama what a harebrain idea this was.
But it wouldn't look good, especially for Emmanuel, who has his own bout of not my fault media coverage earlier in the year, to look so blatantly disloyal.
So he throws disloyal.
So he throws in an email, give me a break.
Emmanuel emailed Politico and asked about a press report that he had opposed Obama coming out in favor of the mosque.
We all stand behind and support the president's decision.
But on background, you guys should know not my fault.
What is clear is that Axelrod and Jarrett, arguably the most powerful of Obama's team, also possessed the worst instincts from the politico.
No one supported Obama more forcefully than Jarrett, Obama's close friend and the administration's liaison to the civil rights community, who told people that she thought the mosque issue was a matter of core Democrat principle.
Axelrod, a canny tactician with a keen sensitivity to political danger, did not dissuade his boss from jumping in, citing his own parents' experience with religious persecution as Jews in Europe.
Well, Jennifer Rubin says, I guess his sensitivity to political danger was on the Fritz and his disgusting invocation of the Nazi analogy.
Make no mistake, the American people get the role of the Nazis in this one.
And the Muslims are awarded the status of potential Holocaust victims, suggests his undiluted leftism has rendered him.
Anyway, bottom line is that they're divided in the White House over this.
So I take you back to the audio soundbite we've heard of Mark Halperin, who was Scarborough today worrying on the air, why did he just leave this incomplete and unclosed as he goes on vacation?
Why did he leave the wound of the mosque at Ground Zero wide open?
Maybe because he wants to.
Does anybody ever stop to think that this man does what he intends to do, that he has intended to inflict damage on the American private sector?
Does anybody doubt the possibility that Obama is look at somebody who advocates trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in Manhattan and giving him a two-year forum to bash America?
It's not a big stretch to see the same guy not having a problem with a mosque at Ground Zero.
What is these people are in denial.
They've got this image of Obama that they constructed as brilliant, smarter than everybody else in the room.
And then when it doesn't fit, they can't double back and say, boy, what a stupid, tone-deaf guy.
They have to blame us.
Imam Obama, Rush Limbaugh, calling him Obama, Imam Obama.
That's why people are starting to wonder whether he's a Muslim.
No, it's because he said that he's a Christian and people don't believe him.
What is it, Snirdley?
All right.
You're asking the same question that Mark Halperin asked.
How could Obama not know?
My point is he does know.
He did know.
So he, he, he, I know, I don't know that he wants to blow up the Democrat Party.
I think he's willing to blow up the Democrat Party in order to get done the other things he wants to do.
I mean, when's the last time he was concerned about a Democrat winning re-election anyway, other than himself?
I mean, he'd been blowing up the Democrat Party chances ever since he started insisting on the poor killers.
Every legislative agenda item, if Obama cared about his party, he would have stopped them from doing everything they've done.
But he's been in there pushing them from behind and putting their name on it.
Remember, the White House is out there saying it's not Obamacare.
I mean, the bill originated in Congress.
We have somebody here who was raised and educated to believe the worst things about this country.
And he thinks this country's got a lesson or two to learn.
That we've been imperialists, aggressors, oppression.
We've spread it all over the world.
I mean, look at his pastor set up 9-11, America's chickens come home to roost.
His pastor, we, look at, we're not stupid.
We do not believe a man who tells us he doesn't hear what his preacher says for 20 years.
For 20 years, we don't believe somebody doesn't hear the preacher.
Sorry, too big a stretch.
President Obama, Vice President Obama, Senator Obama, what about when Ramia Wright said, I never heard that when I was Lieutenant Services.
Have you heard it now?
Well, those are videotapes out of.
No, they're releasing to the church.
Oh, well, no, I really haven't heard that.
We don't believe this.
Most normal people, when they choose a church, want to hear what the pastor says and they remember it.
This guy chooses a church and then tells us he doesn't remember the thing the guy said or he didn't hear any of that.
Sorry, we don't believe it.
So when the pastor of Jeremiah Wright's church, the man who Obama says mentored him to Christianity, said of the 9-11 attacks, America's chickens have come home to roost.
This is what happens when you murder and kill around the world.
Well, if that's who mentored you, if that's your pastor, forgive us.
We think you heard him say it.
So it's not there for a stretch to believe that Obama might think America has a couple lessons to learn.
And one of them might be, okay, look at he does, does he not, has he not apologized every chance he's had when on foreign soil for this country?
Has he not?
He must think the country's guilty.
He's out there apologizing.
Is it a big stretch to believe that he would support the building of a mosque at ground zero because we need to be taught a lesson?
Hasn't it nothing to do whether he's a Muslim or not?
That we, given the way he's raised and educated, look, it's clear this man does not believe the concept of American exceptionalism.
And if you don't believe that, you don't believe in America.
But it's just that simple.
You believe in something else, and you may want America to be something else other than America.
But do you hear him talk about the greatness of the country?
You hear him trying to inspire people to continue the greatness of the country?
You don't hear that.
You hear them talk about an America in decline.
They go to the G20, the G8, the GWS Convention.
They say the days of Americans leading the world economy are over.
Well, sorry.
We hear that, and it has a specific meaning.
When his attorney general is hell-bent on bringing the mastermind of the 9-11 attacks, who wants to be executed to New York City for a trial which would be near ground zero, and we all know what this mastermind is going to do.
He's going to rip America to shreds.
He's going to end up blaming America for it.
Might find some jurors in New York who agree.
Find somebody who wants to do this.
It's not a stretch to believe that he didn't mean it when he said he supported the mosque at Ground Zero, that he did mean it.
What's for me hard to believe is the way the left wants us to believe, that he doesn't mean what he says.
Not just in this instance, but a whole lot of other things.
He's got a communications problem.
How can he be the best communicator ever and have all these problems?
How can he be the best communicator in the world and have a prompter everywhere he goes?
And if it's on the prompter, it's meant to be said.
And it was on the prompter at the Ifdar dinner.
So it was intended.
It's like you videotape a TV show and you review it before it airs.
If it goes, you intend for what's seen to be seen.
Otherwise, you'd edit it out.
You put it on the prompter, make it clear you think they have a right, build this mosque in Ground Zero.
It's a hallmark of American openness for it to happen.
You mean for it to be said.
So after meaning it, then these guys like Halpern come along and say, well, I can't believe he won a vacation, didn't fix this mess.
It's a mess he made on purpose.
And now he's on the links, Our Lady of the Fairways, and you people are blaming me for all of it, which is exactly what he wanted to happen.
Okay, we're going to get back to the phones here in just a second.
I've got lots of stuff here in the stacks.
U.S., this is a Wall Street Journal.
U.S. saw drill ban killing 23,000 jobs.
The Obama administration knew that their moratorium is going to kill at least 23,000 jobs.
They did it anyway.
This we knew about the Wall Street Journal here making it official.
From Reuters, Americans are concerned and are confused about the health care reform, according to a poll.
Many are confused about Obamacare.
Who's surprised by this?
I certainly am not.
I've thought of a way that I want to try to explain to people the problem with an oversized public sector.
You know, we sit here, ladies and gentlemen, we talk about the public sector government, private sector.
And I speak oftentimes about how it's not good.
The public sector gets bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger because they really don't produce or make anything.
And everything that's used to pay them has to first be produced and then taxed in the private sector.
Really don't make anything other than the Chevy Volt, which is the first thing they've made in a long time.
But there is such over the last 50 years, there's been such as a steady and creeping love and appreciation for government.
And the media, the left has done a pretty good job of making people think that government should be the central thing in their lives.
Government's about benefits.
If you don't have what you want or have what you need, the government will get it for you and that you're entitled to it because you're an American.
And it's just built and built and built.
So I asked myself, how could I explain this to, say, people in Rio Linda or Port St. Lucie?
You know, where if you go to McDonald's and they don't have any McNuggets, you call 911.
Now, how to explain to people in Port St. Lucie the problem with a massive public sector when they don't have any McNuggets and they call somebody in the public sector.
911 or in Rio Linda, where they may not call 911 when there are any McNuggets, but similar things happen.
So the challenge is how to explain, come up with an analogy that would explain it.
The oversized public sector and the problem.
And I thought of it, maybe this will help.
The unbalanced load in a washing machine.
Have you ever heard of a top-loaded washing machine with an unbalanced load of clothes?
How do I know about it?
Because I used to do laundry.
And I knew when the machine started making a cloud-lapping crap tap.
So what is that?
I had to learn my experience.
It was an unbalanced load.
So I could, yeah, I can relate.
Now remember, I'm trying to explain why a growing public sector is bad to people who've been conditioned to look at the public sector as panacea, as their solution.
So I thought the unbalanced load in the washing machine.
Because if you're in Port St. Lucie, Rio Linda, and places like that, you know intimately about an unbalanced load in a washing machine.
If there's a couple of heavy towels on one side, the machine is going to get loud and it's going to shake violently and it's going to shut itself down.
And you're going to think it's going to blow up.
When I read articles about public sector pensions bankrupting states or articles on the Obama trillion dollar budget deficit, I wonder what's the best way to help people like Port St. Lucians or Rio Lindens understand that the public sector is too big and if we don't correct it, the economy will shut down.
Well, they put too much in the washer and it overloads on one side.
The thing shuts down.
And what do they have to do?
What do you have to do to fix the unbalanced load?
You have to take some stuff out of it or rearrange it.
No, no redistribution.
The best thing to do is take some stuff out of it.
If you leave the same amount in there, eventually it's going to unbalance to one side and you have to take some stuff out of there anyway.
So maybe the way to convince, and these people are going to have to be made to understand this if we're going to eventually beat this back, will be to explain that a bloated private sector, underfunded teacher pensions and all that, is the same thing as your overloaded top loader.
Even at the laundromat.
I mean, you don't even have to have one in your house.
It can happen in the laundromat.
Sometimes a washing machine load becomes unbalanced, can cause problems in the spin cycle.
Yeah, but you can't, the front loaders are, if you have a front loader, you have a stink problem.
You have a front loading washer.
You don't want any, we took ours back.
You had to take the lining out of the door.
It stunk.
The front loader, and a typical, typical front loader came about because the environmental, as Wacko said, is going to be more efficient.
It's going to save money, use less water, get the same job done, but it stinks up the room, stinks up the clothes, and stinks up the washing machine.
You have to leave the door open.
Well, it's worse than that.
You have to clean the lining after a while.
I've seen it in the staff memos.
So we ditched it and we went back to the top loader.
But even the top loader sometimes you end up with an unbalanced load in there.
If the load is made up of smaller items, they move easily around in the water during the wash cycle and they rarely end up unbalanced.
But when you are washing heavy items, one or two heavy items, they can end up on the same side of the tub at the end of the wash cycle.
And then you hear that large thumping sound coming from your washing machine and you got to run in there and turn it off as fast as you have to stop it.
So think of the bloated public sector as an unbalanced load in your top loader.
Or if you've had a front loader and you don't like it, think of the public sector as a front loader.
It just stinks.
And you have to leave the door open to air the thing out.
And it takes you much longer to get the job done with less efficiency.
Back after this.
Hey, we're back.
Just trying to understand something Snerdley just said to me in the IFB, and I didn't get it.
Steve, Steve in the Cape.
Which Cape?
Cape Girardo.
Well, it could have been Cape Cod.
We were talking about Cape Cod.
Cape Gerardo, Missouri.
Steve, this is my hometown.
How are you, sir?
Good.
Greetings from the City of Roses.
Thank you, Tom Caller.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I was six years behind you in school, but I used to listen to you on KGMO.
Wow.
I was the one that called every day and say, man, play in a Gata DeVita, will you?
Well, I'll search my memory archives.
In the Gata DeVita.
Yeah, Iron Butterfly.
I remember.
A lot of people thought it was in the Garden of Eden.
Rush, I want to tell you, you have been blessed with a brilliant mind, and I am so grateful that you're on our side.
Thank you very much, sir.
I appreciate that.
And let me, one quick comment before I ask my question.
I can tell you that as the pastor of a fairly large church, that I am held accountable for literally every word that comes across the pulpit, and I have been scrutinized for one offhanded remark for weeks.
And it is not reasonable to think that the president did not know what was being preached by Jeremiah Wright.
Only unreasonable people and people that are willfully blind would accept that argument.
Right.
For 20 years, he didn't hear any of that stuff.
It's just not believable.
It wasn't the Jeremiah Wright that he knew.
Sorry, it's not believable.
You're exactly right.
My question is: I really view these upcoming elections in November as probably the most important, at least in my adult lifetime.
I feel like it's our last chance to turn back the tide of socialism.
My question to you is: do you think, number one, do you think we can take back the Senate?
And number two, which races do you feel the mosque issue might play a key role in?
I think, yes, I think we can take the Senate.
I actually think, and I will go out on a limb because it's in the big scheme, it's early.
Politics, anything can happen at any time.
And it's just, what, the middle of August, just past the middle of August.
But I think that this is going to be on the House side.
I think this is going to be a bigger blowout than any of the Inside the Beltway experts think.
I think it's going to be bigger than 94.
I think the morning after, people who are already expecting this to be a big blowout are going to be shocked.
I mean, on the Democrat side.
I mean, they're already trying to condition the fall here by saying, well, 94 was a surprise.
We know what's coming this year.
Well, it's going to stop anything.
It's going to be bigger than they think.
They're going to be shocked.
They really believed in 2006 and 2008 that those elections meant that we had become a leftist, not a center left, but a leftist socialist country.
They really thought that's what that meant.
And then they create this perfect character of Obama.
They create a resume that's perfect, that doesn't require any proof.
Smartest guy in the world.
We never saw the grades.
Law review, never saw anything he wrote.
I mean, they create, they created a character, a perfect, perfect figure in every way.
Smarter than anybody else, brighter, better spoken, better resume.
I mean, unique, unlike anything we'd ever seen.
And they got 53, 54% of people to buy it, which is really not a big number considering all of the advantages they had, all the bias, all the unified approaches in the media.
But they still thought that this meant that one of two things.
Either they had cowed the country into believing leftism, socialism was best for them, or that the country had actually become that.
And now they're learning and they're shocked and angry and mad that that's not the reality.
And they lash out, as only they can, at the people.
It's not Obama's fault for being unacceptable.
It's not Obama's fault for not representing the greatness of America.
It's our fault for not understanding the greatness of Obama.
It's our fault for not understanding and accepting the perfect phony baloney resume of the guy that they created and that he lived off of, by the way.
And so here's this guy who's Mr. Perfect.
His words alone were going to change the world.
We find out that his words haven't changed Italy quite.
Obama has found out that the magic that he had in university that turned a C into an A, that made him a special person, put him at the top of every class he was in, find out that that magic does not hold, that this job requires work.
And he's really never had to work.
He's been a chosen one for a whole host of reasons, which I'm not going to bother getting into here, for most of his life.
Now he finds out that's not enough.
It's not enough to make all the socialist Europeans love him.
Not enough to make all of the Muslims around the world love him.
Certainly not enough to make the American people bow down and just thank him for being alive.
And so, okay, heck with it.
I'm going to enjoy the perks.
I'm going to go play golf.
And I'm going to screw this place up as bad as I can.
And I'm going to write books about it when I get out of here.
And I'm going to make more millions.
And if I serve a second term, I'll screw it up even more.
But I don't, so what?
I'm going to enjoy the perks as much as I can.
Somebody just sent me an email pretty good.
Barack Obama is the parsley on the dinner plate.
It's what you're decorative, but you don't eat it.
It gets in the way.
Barack Obama, the parsley on the dinner plate of America.
So yeah, I think the mosque issue is cumulative.
It is just the latest in a long line of things that has told the American people, this is not the guy that they told us he was.
He's not the guy he thought, or he told us he was.
Certainly not the guy we thought he was.
I do think we can win the Senate.
But, and there's always a but with these, then what do we do?
The Republicans are going to win the House and win the Senate.
What we need is for the dominant guiding philosophy in the Republican Party to be conservatism.
We'll see.
Ruling class is the ruling class.
I'm not trying to throw cold water on anything here, folks.
I'm trying to be realistic.
And by realistic, I'm saying this is the greatest opportunity conservatives have ever had to contrast themselves with anybody on the left.
I mean, there is no greater illustration of who they are than this guy, his regime, and this leadership in the Senate and House.
Therefore, no greater opportunity to contrast Reaganism, for example, just to be brief, Reaganism with socialism.
And I don't see the Republicans doing it.
I see a couple, Paul Ryan, but I don't see the Republicans are simply sitting around waiting for the Democrats to be voted against.
And I think they're a little bit, Their theory is when your opponents commit suicide, stand away.
Stand aside, let it happen.
Which makes sense to a point.
But at some point, they're going to have to stand for something so they will have an issue mandate other than we're not Obama, other than we're not Democrats.
So the work will continue is my only point after the elections if things hold as they appear to.
Yeah, I know, I know, I know, no.
You know, no matter what I say, everybody wants to get in the act.
Everybody wants to.
I know parsley is a digestive.
I know that it helps digest.
That's the real reason it's on the plate.
And Obama doesn't help digestion.
I understand this.
But the analogy is the appearance.
Obama is the parsley on the piece of.
Have you ever known nothing is ever his fault?
If the state comes out and too well done, you don't blame the parsley.
You blame the chef.
Obama, just like parsley, never gets the blame.
Not on his side.
Anyway, certainly not in the media.
It's always Bush's fault, even now.
Who's next?
Cameron in Hartford, Connecticut.
You're next.
The EIB network.
Hello.
Good day, Doctor.
Good day, sir.
Just wanted to follow up your comments and say that Juan Williams is being specifically consistent in character.
But first, I wanted to caution you on this.
You're falling into the same trap that everybody is, thinking that there's going to be any change in the November election.
The polls in the last election, 2008, were co-opted by the 327 affiliates of Acorn, and they found that they could get away with it and the culprits could walk and that they would be given a free pass by Eric Holder.
So don't think that you're going to have the opportunity to vote validly in this election unless somebody goes and cleanses the Registrar of Voters' Office.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
I think it's going to be so big it's going to overcome all that.
They can cheat all they want, but if they're facing such a depressed attitude on their side, they're going to have to work harder than ever or pay more money than ever to get people out to vote.
They're going to have to put up more buses.
They're going to have to do a whole lot of things.
There just isn't any energy on their side of things.
Besides, Joe Bite me says that we are not going to take Congress.
And Joe Biteme is never right.
He is always wrong.
So you can put that in our column, too.
But I understand your reason for being cautious.
Back to Juan Williams.
Yes.
His comments are typically in character for him.
As a matter of fact, you were away, and Mark Davis was in for you at the time that he went on with Brian Lamb in a C-SPAN interview Sunday morning.
I'm sitting there eating breakfast, and Juan Williams called for a new group of set of founding fathers.
I almost dropped my scrambled eggs.
And I said, did I hear what I think I heard?
And sure enough, he did.
And the next day, I had the opportunity to mention this to Mark.
And anybody such as Juan Williams who calls for a new group of founding fathers is neither doesn't have a conservative bone in his body, has no place on any Fox News channel that holds itself out as right thinking.
No, it's fair and balanced.
I mean, if you get ⁇ fair imbalance means you have to put some idiocy on the air.
Well, well said.
And for him to call for Van Jones, Kevin Jennings, the safe school czar, to be a new founding father, Barack Obama.
Oh, he named him?
No, he was not specific, but he was talking about the current regime.
If I was going to ask you, who should be the new founding fathers?
And if I was on the list.
Well, it goes with Eric Holder, Van Jones, Kevin Jennings, the Safe School Czar, the most dangerous man in Washington today, if you understand what his mission is.
Yes.
And William Ayers and the whole gang of thugs from Chicago, where politics is run the way it is.
And now, since that's national, that's why there will be no change because the voting booths were taken over by these communists the last time.
Let me tell you something.
It's really much harder to steal elections in the midterms.
Without a presidential election on the ballot, it's really harder.
The turnout is much lower, and it makes fraud stick out all the more.
It's much easier to hide the fraud during a presidential election year.
Anyway, Cameron, thanks much for the phone call.
We've got to take a break and come right back.
So we'll do that.
Beaver here.
Back to the phones of Greenville, South Carolina.
This is Warren.
Hi, Warren.
Great to have you with us on the program.
Yes, sir.
Appreciate you taking my call.
I just wanted to say for starters that I've heard you say many times that you're like 98.7% right.
0.6%.
99.7%.
Almost always 99.6.
Well, you're talking to someone that's about 99.8% right most of the time.
My wife calls me Mr. Wright, and I call her Miss Kit B. Wrong.
But anyway, I appreciate you taking my call.
I just want to say that I'm neither Republican nor Democrat.
I lean more toward the Democrat, but I'm somewhat in the middle.
And I would like to say that there's good and bad in every group of people, whether they're Christians, Muslims, Islamic, that type thing.
But I just want to say that about things that President Obama says, I think it's important that we speak truthfully as to what he actually says.
For instance, when you said that he supports the mosque, I've never heard him say he supports the mosque.
He says he supports the right.
Then you all come back, then you come back and say he backpedaled and said he wasn't speaking on the wisdom of it.
I mean, I don't think the mosque should be built there, but I agree with the right.
And I just think it's important that we speak what we report with.
Well, then there shouldn't be any controversy here because he really didn't say anything.
Well, he.
Well, I mean, everybody knows that they've got a right to build a church.
And he said they've got a right to build a church there.
On private property, yes, sir.
It clears that it sounded like he supported the idea.
Well, he just supports it right.
And then some people came back and said he's defending the Constitution.
And then there's no controversy there because he really didn't say anything.
And then later, when he says that when you reported that he says hearing the call to worship by the Muslims was the most beautiful sound he's ever heard, it's one of the most beautiful sounds.
I genuinely didn't know.
Is that his most beautiful sound in the world?
Not that he's ever heard.
One, yes, one of the most, but not the most.
And I'll just say that.
Okay, so he really didn't say that either then.
Well, he said it was one of them, not the most.
Well, but that doesn't mean anything then.
He's got plausible.
It's one of them.
There could be a gazillion most beautiful sounds in the world.
That's just one of them.
It might not even matter, even though he made a specific point.
Yes, my point is that when you report it, you're saying that he said it was the most.
He supported the right, not he didn't support the mosque.
So we're distorting things that.
Okay, so he really wasn't for health care per se.
He just likes people having it.
Yeah, okay.
He really wasn't.
He's not for green energy and cap and trade.
He just thinks it's smart.
We've got to be careful, that's right, how we report these things.
And of course, the biggest problem that we're going to have when we report these things is actually quoting Obama.
This is the first time I've gotten in trouble for actually quoting him correctly.
Normally I'm accused of making it up, which I don't do.
Now I'm in trouble for getting it right.
Imagine that.
Americans confused about health care reform, according to Reuters.
Julia Wood, a 51-year-old mother of 12 from Chicago's East Side, has some health insurance through a state program, is worried that she may lose it, so she asks not to give her real name in the story.
The story here is not that Americans are confused about it.
They understand it and don't like it.
They understand it and are afraid of it.
Pure and simple.
And we've got one exciting broadcast hour to go, folks.
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