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Sept. 21, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 21, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
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Bill Clinton is warning the Democrat Party to take Sarah Palin seriously.
Bill Clinton is telling the Democrats, look, in a fact-free era.
That's what he said.
In a fact-free era where nothing matters, where there is no reality, where facts don't matter.
You gotta be very careful for Sarah Palinese because she's just like me, he said, resilient.
She's resilient just like me.
He's warning everybody in the Democrat Party to be careful.
Meanwhile, uh Christine O'Donnell continues to cast a spell over the entire Democrat Party and the media.
They're just apoplectic over her candidacy.
And folks, I want to pick up on something that we discussed at some length yesterday.
I want but I want to lead off with this.
I was watching uh Fox Well the uh uh Brett Bear Show, the the uh whatever it is, six o'clock show's called.
What's it called?
Yeah, special report with Brett Bear, and I was what I was doing, I was channel surfing going back and forth between the NFL network and ESPN, uh trying to get, you know, I was getting stoked up for the Monday night game against the Forderners and the uh New Orleans Saints.
Reggie Bush, by the way, broken fibula, broken bone out five, six weeks, that's the latest.
At any rate, uh, and I just so happened it it was 20 to 7, and I looked at oh, that's when the that's when the All-Stars begin.
The uh the pundits around so I I clicked over to Fox, and there was Judith Miller.
Judith Miller, formerly of the New York Times, now a uh a pundit and an analyst at the Fox News Channel, and she was praising Obama's appearance yesterday.
She was praising it.
I mean, over the top praising it.
He was really good.
He had a really good message.
I mean, if people are going to pay attention to it, this is a winning message for the Democrats.
And do you know what the the essence of it was that the economy right now is totally George Bush's fault because Obama inherited two wars that were not paid for and two tax cuts that were not paid for.
And she said that he succeeded in making it crystal clear to the audience, anybody watching his little town hall meeting yesterday that inheriting two unfunded wars and two unfunded tax cuts fully explains the economic morass we're in, and it took ten years to build us to this mess, and it's gonna take a long time.
She was over the top effusive in her uh in her praise.
Now, Crowdhammer was a little disbelieving, and Steve Hayes was disbelieving.
But I remember that we had talked about that whole concept, unfunded tax cuts, unfunded wars, and this has become a template now.
It's a it's a narrative that the media has tried to pick up and to suggest.
Yes, it still does.
I don't care how much I know, and I don't I I don't care how often it still does strike me strange to consider the media a bunch of activists.
I mean, we all grow up thinking that they're impartial arbiters, just people writing down what happened and telling us.
But it it it's still it still is a uh stunning realization every day that they are part of the opposition.
We call them media, but they're not media.
They're not media, they're just they're propagandists, partisan political operatives, part of the Democrat uh political complex.
We still call them the media, which is a gross mischaracterization of who these people are.
Anyway, here she's going on and on and on about what great thing Obama did, laid it out real well, and this is and for everybody to understand, and who was it?
Bob Herbert's got a column in the New York Times today, said if Obama doesn't start talking to black people, he's gonna lose the black vote.
He's gonna have to start addressing black people on their issues and issues of their concern.
And I'm thinking, wait a minute, I thought he was going to be post-racial.
So here you have Bob Herbert, New York Times, and a lot of other Democrats, Richard Cohen, urging Obama to go racial.
I don't know what issues are different, but apparently in uh in in Herbert's mind there are big different issues.
Black people face a whole different slew of things than uh than other people in Americans in America.
Well, jobs, unemployment, housing prices, I don't know.
But he's got, he's got to speak to them.
He cannot treat them as just part of the American population if he's going to turn out their votes.
He's got to address them as the separate entity and voting block that they are.
And yet, with all this, here's Judith Miller praising the explanation Obama gave for the economic morass that we face today.
Two unpaid for wars and two unpaid for tax cuts.
So the truth is not a relevant thing here.
Judith Miller was simply commenting on that's persuasive.
If he can make a lot of people believe that, then he'll get himself some approval numbers back, and he will uh he'll encourage some more vote turnout support for Democrats by continuing to blame all this on on Bush.
Now, you and I, if you watched it, you're probably as incredulous as I am watching it.
But understand what Clinton said in an era where facts don't matter, and that really is true on the Democrat side.
It's the the she was doing nothing other than suggesting a um uh uh a way of of persuading people.
Now, let's examine again this whole notion that tax cuts were not paid for.
Even Chris Matthews, last night on his show.
Where do we have this?
This is so monumental.
I wonder if we've got the sound bite on the roster.
Somewhere here.
Matthews even admitted, admonished the president, please would you stop talking about tax cuts as the government giving people money?
It's the people's money in the first place, and a tax cut allows them to keep well.
He's he said it right.
He actually in admonishing the president and his lingo about about uh yeah, tax cuts.
So tax cuts not paid for.
This has always been a thorn in my side, this whole line of things that tax cuts are not paid for.
Because it it rests on the uh on the notion that government shall never do with less.
Government must always increase its revenue, no matter what.
It can't do with less, and it's axiomatic in their world, in their in their static little world, that a tax cut costs the government money.
When it's not true, tax cuts increase revenue to the treasury.
Revenue to the treasury is not what the Democrats are about anyway, but it would be four tax cuts if they were.
But the whole notion, you don't you don't pay for tax cuts.
The reason for tax cuts is to generate wealth creation.
Tax cuts are intended to leave money in possession of the individual who earned it.
Tax cuts are about private property rights.
There's not one thing.
Tax cuts have to do with government, other than the fact that they end up increasing revenue.
This whole notion that we're in this economic mess because we had two tax cuts unpaid for, those two tax cuts of Bush's led to increased revenue, capital gains particularly.
And then they said we had two wars that were not paid for.
Well, Medicare is not paid for, Medicaid is not paid for, Social Security is not paid for.
The Department of Education is not paid for.
FEMA is not paid for.
The EPA is not paid for.
Fish and wildlife service is not paid for.
Nothing is paid for.
We are overdrawn.
We are in debt.
Nothing is paid for.
So why single out the Pentagon?
Unfunded, two unpaid for wars?
Why do you single out the Pentagon when the deficit is government wide?
And why blame individuals?
Individuals are the sole reason the government has any money in the first place.
Yet unpaid for tax cuts.
We are in this mess because of out of control spending, and that's why there is a Tea Party.
We are in this mess because of out of control regulations.
And none of that has been paid for either.
Not one dime of Obama's stimulus, not one dime of TARP, none of it has been paid for.
And yet he focuses, and the Democrats focus on tax cuts in two wars, one of which they supported, by the way, Afghanistan.
The other one they tried to lose, Iraq.
Nothing's paid for yet, Judith Miller thinks it was brilliantly persuasive for Obama.
I mean, these people live in an alternative universe in a different world.
And because nothing is paid for, and because all of this spending is going to have to be eventually paid for in part by future generations, is why there is a Tea Party movement.
It is why citizens are rising up.
It is why people are abandoning Obama.
Even how you can look at that town hall meeting yesterday and suggest that Obama cleaned up or that he had anything brilliant.
The best they can say about it is that he didn't lose his cool.
The best they can say about it is that he uh he kept his cool, he kept his attitude.
When his own voters were telling him how tough it is, and asking him, is this my new reality?
Is this it?
People who voted for him.
And trying to find any morsel of evidence that Obama had a home run yesterday, or even a base hit.
The Democrat Party, the media, whoever, Obama delusional about what's going on around him.
If he's not delusional, if it indeed is on purpose, you take your pick, neither one is any good, neither one is rewarding or comforting.
It's just it's it's absurd to continue to listen to this.
And it's like they think that you haven't figured them out.
They are they act as though every page in their playbook they're gonna get away with like they got away with it ten years ago, fifteen years ago, twenty years ago.
The class envy tax cuts for the rich and so forth, you know, all around them.
Their world is crumbling, their political world is crumbling.
Now, they've had great success in implementing a whole bunch of destructive policies in a year and a half because they've had these supermajorities in both the House and the Senate.
But in terms of support of the American people, it's crumbling.
They don't have it.
They're losing it in droves left and right.
It's breathtaking to behold all this.
We're on the uh cusp here of a true new reformation.
A new, a real period of reform, a real new beginning.
Not just not just words.
It's sitting there on a silver platter.
And still there are some Republicans that don't get it.
I heard today, I got to confirm this.
Lindsay Gramnesty has come out in support of Lisa Murkowski's write-in campaign.
I have to confirm this.
I've only seen it rumored, uh, but I I have to I have to check.
Wouldn't be surprising if it's the case.
Put together also a little montage here to try to illustrate where we are from Yes We Can to Franks and Beans is the title of this montage.
2008 on the campaign trail all the way to yesterday's Franks and Beans Town Hall.
I was really inspired by you and by your campaign and the message that you brought.
And that inspiration's dying away.
I really want to know is the American dream dead for me.
This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.
I'm one of your middle class Americans.
And quite frankly, I'm exhausted.
Exhausted of defending you, defending your administration, defending the mantle of change that I voted for.
I've been told that I voted for a man who said he was going to change things in a meaningful way for the middle class.
I'm one of those people, and I'm waiting, sir.
I'm waiting.
I don't feel it yet.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time.
We are the ones we've been waiting for.
We are the change that we seek.
You're losing the war of sound bites.
You're losing the media cycles.
Yes, we can!
Yes, we can.
From yes we can to Franks and Beans.
In just a little over a year and a half, let's go back.
June of 2009, Burlington, New Jersey, at the B. Bernice Young elementary school.
Remember the salad days.
He said Obama sending a to make his country strong yet.
He said he's here today.
Eagle Water means equal head.
He said no one to make sure everyone gets a chance.
He said, Hell, black, what?
All our equal minute.
Yes!
Barack Hussein Obama.
Mmm, mmm.
Yes, we can to Beans and Franks in just 19 or 20 months.
Last night ABC's World News Tonight, the anchored Diane Sawyer speaking with Jacob Tapper.
The question Obama faced one question after another from middle class workers, even his supporters asking, is the American dream dead?
It was striking just how many of these supporters seemed personally disappointed by the president.
Disappointment more generally reflected in the polls by an overall lack of enthusiasm for the president among the very people who put him here.
The president this afternoon was confronted by the angst of his supporters.
Participants at a CNBC Town Hall said they were frustrated by what the man in whom they had invested so much had not been able to accomplish.
Jake, it's not it's not striking to us.
It's not striking to anybody with their eyes on the country.
We'll be back, folks.
Sit tight, don't go away.
He is steering clear of the Lisa Murkowski write-in race, a good thing.
Um Rance Muslim has a poll out that Murkowski's write-in campaign is not going to affect Joe Miller at all out in Alaska.
She's really personal non grata.
She's a non-factor, she's irrelevant.
According to the polling data, not I really, I was I was listening to Obama on that audio and listening to Judith Miller.
It's unfunded tax.
Now listen to this, unfunded wars and two unpaid for tax cuts.
Are the reason we have an economic crisis today, what a fraud that argument is.
Let's say he even really believes it.
Is the solution to start spending like crazy like he's been doing?
If we already have two tax cuts not paid for, if we already have two wars not paid for, then why the hell keep spending?
Which is what he did.
It just struck me what everything about this administration is an utter fraud.
Here is the brilliant Judith Miller last night on Fox Special Report.
I think He just doesn't want to get in the way of the Republican Party as it commits suicide.
I think that if you have a line, and the line is it's been a decade that it took us to get into this mess, two unfunded wars, two unfunded tax cuts.
I have started to move things, turn them around.
I thought today especially was very, very effective because even though he was on the defensive, he was relaxed, and he also made excellent points about the need to invest in infrastructure.
He talked about the middle class.
He said I'm not anti-Wall Street, which he needed to do because coming from New York, up there, we think he's anti-Wall Street.
Crying out loud.
They s they say Sarah Palin, Christine O'Donnell are stupid.
My God, this woman's IQ, you could fit in a thimble.
He was effective.
His own supporters, even Jake Tapper was striking.
This woman should have never gotten out of jail.
Judith Miller.
Remember now, Judith Miller used to work in the New York Times.
Judith Miller is what passes for a conservative at the New York Times.
She's not there anymore.
She went to jail because she wouldn't tell Fitzpatrick, the special prosecutor, what everybody knew.
That it was Richard Armitage talking to her and everybody else about Valerie Plame and the CIA.
But I don't know that for a fact here, but surely the source she she went to jail protect the source.
So uh by the way, a brief brief departure here, folks.
Uh uh things pop into my head.
During the break here, I'm checking email, and I got I got an advertising email, advertisement email, from the Washington Post, and it made me realize something.
It's an app for the iPhone or the iPad to keep you up to speed on the latest NFL news.
And some something hit me.
I looked at it and I laughed at it before I deleted the email.
See, the last place I would go for latest news on the NFL is a newspaper.
And isn't that true of virtually anything in the news?
Are there not places you go other than newspaper websites for the latest news?
I've got thousands.
Well, thou I got tens, maybe hundreds, of NFL websites that have nothing to do with newspapers, that have facts, information, inside stuff two days before newspapers publish it.
Speaking of which, I got a little warning for you, New Orleans Saints fans.
Now I love the Saints.
But I don't want you to get lulled into a false sense of security here if you believe mainstream sports writer template from last night's game.
I watched the game last night, and that was almost a Saints loss.
That game last night's a red flag for Saints fans.
So I get up today and I'm reading sports journalists in the newspapers on their websites and ESPN and so forth.
What a great game!
That game they all say is the sign of a champion.
That game last night, the way the 49ers, the way the Saints came out, the way the Saints ended up winning the that's the sign of a championship team.
What game were these people watching?
The 49ers gave the game away and almost won it.
The 49ers piled up offense that Brett Farbread Farbread Favre couldn't mount.
I know the game was on the road.
I uh uh this this look at it, I know what I'm talking about.
I remember back when the 70s and the Steelers, and shortly after the Steelers Dynasty ended, I mean they went into Minnesota and they barely came out of there on the road with a win, and everybody was oh, the Steelers, the Steelers Dynasty.
And I said, that that should have been a the Vikings were nothing at that time.
It should have been 75 to nothing if they were still the Steelers.
That that game last night, I love the Saints, don't misunderstand.
But that game last night was not.
The Saints, the Saints, the Saints, that that was not a championship team last night.
I mean, they're a championship team, but that's the 49ers for crying.
I can't even get their plays called on time.
I mean, they get two guys calling the plays.
You got a guy up in the booth, a guy on a sideline that gets it into the quarterback.
You got guys muffin punched, throwing interceptions, fumbling the ball, 17-18 turnovers, and you barely win the.
I'm telling you, I guarantee the Saints coaching staff knows.
That's uh little brief departure.
Here's here's the Matthew's quote, by the way, folks, that uh I was referencing earlier in the program last night on hard ball.
He should stop saying that giving people tax cuts is giving people money.
It's their money.
A tax cut is when the government doesn't take our money.
It's an important distinction.
He talked today, for example, about people getting a check from the government in the form of a tax cut.
That's not the way it works.
If tax rates are kept lower, it's a matter of the check going to the government being smaller.
Again, it's an important distinction.
This is Matthews in a comment section of his program warning Obama you got this tax cut business wrong.
Obama, in his in his uh town hall meeting yesterday, said that tax cuts for the rich.
Why, that would be writing him a check for 100,000.
And Matthew said, No, you can't do it that way.
That's not what happened.
Of course, Matthews uh is exactly right.
A lot of people still write me emails.
Rush, could you please explain Obama to me?
I've I think I've covered the gamut here.
Uh but here's another way of looking at Obama.
Imagine.
Imagine yourself as an angry, selfish, arrogant, know-it-all teenager, who's protected, coddled at every turn.
You fall for every bit of leftist clap trap you hear at school, at home.
You fail at everything you try in real life.
And then you lie about the failures.
And then after all that, you blame it on everybody but yourself.
You are getting close to the mindset of Barack Hussein Obama.
Mmm, mmm.
That's just one possibility.
Quickly to the phones in New York City.
Michael, great to have you as we start with you on the phones today.
Hi.
Hi, Rush, Megadetto.
I would love to see one of these reporters ask these Obama supporters, these so-called moderates and independents that were at this town hall meeting.
What do they expect?
They're disappointed now, they're exhausted after 20 months.
I mean, they don't have much stamina to begin with anyway.
But what what kind of unemployment rate would they expect?
What kind of tax rates would they expect?
What kind of interest rates would they expect?
I honestly don't think most of these people could balance their own checkbooks, let alone think of these matters.
You're talking about the media or the Obama supporters at the town hall.
Well, the Obama supporters, the media, we know what they expect.
They expect bigger government.
They expect uh uh all controlling government, but I'm talking about also the government expects us to react and and and and deal with Obama the way do they do, and that is worship him.
Don't judge him.
That is incapable of doing anything wrong uh politically.
He might slip and but we that's when we have to support him even more.
They ex they they they worship him, and they expect us to.
Your question's a good one.
What did his what did his uh uh supporters expect?
See, that that is a brilliant question.
But if you go back to the campaign, let's let's let's play number three again.
I want you to listen to the second woman, Velma Hart, because she is the quintessential.
Obama voter, the woman who says, I'm one of your middle class Americans, I'm exhausted, I'm exhausted defending you, defending your administration, defending the mantle of change I voted for.
I've been told I voted for a man who said he was going to change things in a meaningful way for the middle class.
I'm one of those people and I'm waiting.
She she drank the Kool-Aid.
Obama's supporters are Kool-Aid drinkers.
They really they really bought all of this post-partisan, all of this post-racial, uh, gonna lower the seat.
They bought it.
But again, no nobody's asking this woman.
If she supported him, she supported him on what grounds.
It's very vague to say, I believed in your change, but change what?
The change that's left in her pocket.
No, no.
I understand your point, but I I'm trying to deal with it seriously.
She believed he didn't say anything, and she believed it.
Right.
He had no it was nothing but platitudes, and she bought it.
And now and now she's if she's she's been victimized by nothingness.
I rush, I think you said it best during the election when you had described that people were projecting their own hopes uh and their own expectations, I suppose, upon uh uh Obama.
I mean, the guy that made the beans in Franks comment yesterday was actually expecting a student loan to be paid off.
He was expecting that to happen.
One of the early town halls Obama did in Tampa, I believe, or St. Petersburg, shortly after he was immaculated, a woman really thought she was gonna get a new kitchen.
Really thought it, really believed it.
This is in in terms of Obama voters, this is what we were up against.
There's no way to reason with people like this.
If people are going to invest in nothingness, how do you approach them?
If they are going to invest in vapidness, if they are going to embrace nothing, and thus embrace dreams defined by themselves as what they think are being articulated by him, how do you deal with them?
So we've we've reached a threshold.
Now these people are for the first time confronting reality.
Now, this woman, whom I just quoted, she is a government worker.
She's a public sector employee.
She's got an income that's twice on average what a private sector person does doing what she does is being paid.
She's got a pension, she's got health care, and she can't make ends meet.
She she fought all these trials and tribulations of life were going to end with it with the election of Obama.
This was transformational.
This was magic.
This had never happened.
We were going to get circumstances and life like it had never been before.
And hell, she still can't pay the mortgage.
And gasoline, she's got to decide on that.
Whether to run the air conditioner all the time.
That wasn't supposed to be.
But it is a fascinating thing for us now.
Okay, here's here's a woman.
She sounded very smart, did she not?
She's very articulate.
I would also say probably very courageous.
Well, clean, obviously, yeah, I saw her.
But courageous.
I mean, to say that the way she said it.
So how do we get her?
How how how do we approach this woman and turn her into a tea partier?
Well, startling is shouting at me, it'll never happen.
It'll never Are you saying it because she's black?
All right.
Snerdl well, wait a minute, Snerdley, certainly saying we'll never get her because it was obvious from her question and comment she wants government to do it for her.
Government to be the answer.
But is she realizing that it isn't?
Is she realizing it can't be?
I mean, if this guy can't do it, if this guy can't make it happen, if she embraced totally this nothingness, and this guy, of all people, we've never seen anybody like this in politics before.
Don't forget what she believed.
Don't forget what she was told.
Don't forget what Obama made them believe.
He was unique.
Messiotic, lowering the sea levels.
She believed it.
If he can't make it happen, if he can't cause these miracles, who can?
To me, it may be reaching, but you know me I'm an optimist.
It's an opportunity for people, intelligent people.
Now cut me some slack on this because you know we have to define smart and intelligent now and then.
I mean, how smart can you be to think government's the answer?
I know, I know, I know.
But this woman could speak, this woman has uh obviously some education.
If this woman, because of Obama, has gotten the point now, hey, is this my new remember what she asked?
Is this my new reality?
What is her reality?
Her reality is nothing.
Her reality is stuck.
She's got no hope.
Where is her future?
She's basically, is this my new reality?
I'm not gonna have any more than I got.
I don't have the chance to get any more than I got.
Government can't do any more for me than it's already doing.
Whatever.
Is she not ripe and people like her?
Say, you know what?
You sound like you could do a lot better for yourself doing for yourself than waiting for the government.
Is she not?
And people like her a ripe target.
To pick up and say, ma'am, you're capable of far more than you know.
You've been waiting on the wrong people.
You need to invest more in you.
This is essentially a Tea Party message is, or the conservative message is invest in yourself.
You're the best thing you got going.
You, whoever you are, you're the best thing you got going.
You care more about you than anybody else will.
And there's nothing wrong with that.
Self-interest is not selfishness.
And taking care of yourself if you have a family has residual positive effects.
You're taking care of your family as well.
It's not greed, it's not selfishness.
It's the choice sitting around and waiting, or you're gonna be one that makes something happen.
See, I think there's a golden opportunity here.
I really, really do.
Because if this guy, Mr. Messiah, if he can't make all these government has all the answers dreams come true, they're gonna have to realize at some point nobody can.
And then what?
Back after this.
Here we stay with the phones of St. Louis.
This is Joe.
Great to have you on a Rush Limbaugh program, sir.
Hi.
You know, Wush, I remember a long time ago when there was one lone voice.
One single voice out there in the wilderness screaming, I hope he fails.
And Newt and Lindsay and Keith Overmann, that lone voice was was the most hated worst person in the entire planet for hoping now that the president was going to fail at his agenda.
Now he succeeded in just about everything he set out to do.
Have any of those people bothered to call and say, gee, you know what?
Maybe you were right.
Uh no.
Uh, don't look for it to happen.
It won't happen.
Uh which I appreciate your comment.
But no, I but you know, you're you're you really had an interesting way of putting this.
He has succeeded.
And all these people, when I said I hope he fails, oh no, no, no.
Nobody wants we all want the president to succeed.
Every American should want the president to succeed.
Really?
This guy has succeeded in a year and a half with his agenda, and it's destroying the country.
Exactly what you meant when you said that.
I you're absolutely right.
If he succeeds at what he wants to do, he's going to destroy our country as we know it.
Right.
And that poor lady and that guy at that town hall meeting, which is amazing that they got into a CNBC town hall meeting anyway, because you know their supporters.
Have they saw the light?
Are they happy with the things that the president has succeeded in doing to us and our country in our image?
You know, we um people were gonna love us.
The Muslim world was going to love us.
Everyone was going to love us.
Well, you can see what that got us.
I just wonder if you're going to hear from anybody.
No, no, no, no, no.
They the people you're talking about essentially pretend I don't exist.
That's that's how I'm uh I'm dealt with.
Now, about uh the world loving us.
Something happened today that I don't think has happened in my recent memory.
For the first time at the United Nations, the American delegation did not walk out during the address of the Iranian thug Mahmoud Ahmadini Zad.
Last year they walked out.
Year before that, the American delegation walked out.
All over Drudge is this notion that uh Obama's willing to extend another olive branch to the Iranians or their nuclear program, and the American UN delegation sat through Ahmedini's odds presentation today, in which he ripped capitalism to shreds.
Maybe there is an effort by the regime to once again have a meeting with Ahmedini Zad, which, believe me, folks, nothing good can redound to us on that meeting.
Back after this.
Well, well, well, well, whoa, whoa, whoa.
I just checked the email during the break.
A lot of you think I have been um fooled that all of those audience members were plants yesterday in order to make Obama look good, to arouse sympathy for Obama.
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