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Oct. 6, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 6, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I know.
I I I've people are calling me, people are emailing me, saying you maybe want to take it back.
The jackass comment.
I said, No, why would I the only thing about the jacket, look at I'm happy it got everybody's attention, and it really did.
I mean, it really did.
It's jackass.
You know, it was a throwaway.
It's a throwaway line, and look what happened.
I mean, ABC Jake Tapper and uh and his cohort write it up, and for the most part, you know, I went back and I looked at the um transcript at Rush Limbaugh.com.
For the most part, they got it in context.
For the most part they did.
They left some things out of it that might have improved it, but you know, I have nothing to complain about.
I I'm glad it got everybody's attention.
Uh it's, you know, I looked, you can look at these things.
It's a number one click at the Drudge Report.
Or it was uh earlier this morning.
Anyway, hi folks, I'm uh uh Rush Limbaugh.
Um everybody knows who I am, we know what we do here.
So here's the phone number.
800 282-2882, the email address L Rushball at EIB net.com.
You know, jackasses, and it really was.
It was a throwaway.
You know, I was really ticked off.
I mean, this guy is talking about the most idiotic, ignorant things.
The rich don't need a tax cut, they're already spending their money on flat screen TVs.
He said the rich aren't gonna take their money and go home.
They're gonna take their ball and go home.
And it's that's where the jackass coming out.
They already have you, jackass.
They're they're sitting on trillions of dollars of cash.
They've already taken the ball and gone home, and everybody knows this.
They're not investing any money.
Corporations, large, medium, and small, they're sitting on it.
The very targets.
I mean, I thought this was all about creating jobs, saving jobs, whatever.
That's what Obama kept saying.
But I mean, he's look at the one thing about this jackass comment, I'm glad it had wide circulation, but it's a it's it may not be correct because I still maintain all this is on purpose.
You know, it's you know, I I just got so into this yesterday that it adopted the position he really is an idiot and don't know what he's doing, that he's an economic ignoramus.
But as you people who have listened regularly know, I don't really believe that.
I think this is all purposeful.
I think it's all being done on purpose.
I think Obama's very pleased with himself.
I think he's very happy.
And he goes, I think he's ecstatic.
Here come these, you know, these got these uh economic advisors, one of Martin Feldstein, and uh they've done far more in economics than Obama ever has, and he's as neophyte.
They tell him what's what, and he just rejects it out of hand and enjoys doing it, enjoys rejecting it out of hand.
Well, these guys were talking about the need for confidence throughout the economy.
Confidence will breed growth.
Confidence will breed investment.
Confidence will breed uh obviously positive feelings.
And so it will make people a little bit more willing to uh not hoard the cash that they have, but go ahead and invest it.
But he looks at it as spending it.
I uh you know, here on one hand on the scales of justice, the Limbaugh Institute, he is an economic jackass ignoring me.
Doesn't know what he's doing, or on the other hand, he knows exactly what he's doing.
It's being done on purpose.
We had a call yesterday, I was thankful for this caller, who gave me the chance to point out once again that this is an intentional plan by the Democrats.
This was the caller who said, why aren't they worried?
Why aren't they worried?
I mean, they hear they're about to get their clocks clean, they don't seem worried about it.
Now I got some emails about that.
Some people said, Rush, you miss the golden opportunity out there.
I don't I'm amazed at the number of people who tell me what I miss.
He said, You missed the opportunity.
Tell people about voter fraud.
A Democrats aren't worried about it because they're gonna they're gonna steal the elections and they're gonna cheat And so forth.
Yeah, well, they're gonna try, but I think this is this is um the the scope of this is so massive that I don't think there's any amount of cheating here that could I mean the only thing I could do cheat-wise is cancel the election.
You know, call martial law, cancel the election, I'm gonna do that.
So, anyway, not to be redundant, but uh I'm I'm I'm glad it got wide spread attention.
And you you should uh go to the ABC website, the Jake Tapper website, and look at the comments.
This is the ABC website, this is Jake Tapper's blog, and the comments are practically a hundred percent in agreement with what I said.
So, in that sense, it was a brilliant move.
It was a throwaway line, ended up being a brilliant move, another illustration of just how dead on my instincts are.
I threw something away and it resonates coast to coast, east to west, north to south.
And what it's done is validate what a lot of people obviously think.
They obviously a lot of people think he's an idiot.
Economic idiot.
He's an economic ignoramus.
Well, well, it is common sense, but see, this is again back to the scales here.
If he's an economic ignoramus, a lot of people would prefer to think that he's just an economic ignoramus instead of he's doing this on purpose.
People would just, it's easier and simpler to believe he's just an idiot.
An economic ignoramus, because it fits.
The guy hates capitalism.
He's never been involved in capitalism.
Well, he had one job in the private sector, he described it in his book as feeling like he's behind enemy lines.
Uh his his love and adoration goes to unions, public sector employees, growing government and so forth.
So it fits in a lot of people's minds.
He really doesn't know what he's doing.
So you jackass, you're an economic illiterate, happens to resonate.
I think a lot better than saying, you sly dog, you're getting away with doing this on purpose.
People still, even now, don't really want to believe that.
As uh, because it's it's it's it's it's harder to grasp, it's harder to commit to than believing that the president is just.
No, I did not get any flack.
I didn't, I didn't get any.
Well, for people I know that care about, you mean?
I didn't get any flack.
No, I did not.
No, startly, personally, people I know, people I care about, people whose opinion I trust, not one person, you know, you went overboard there.
I mean, we're talking about the presidency.
Hey, it is not call a guy jackass.
They said that they thought I went overboard and I hope he fails.
You know, I'm gonna tell you, Jake and uh the other guy forget his name.
I don't mean to be leaving his name.
What do you mean, find his name?
I've got him here in the stack.
The guy actually wrote the piece at Jake Tapper's blog.
Well, I can't find it.
Too many stacks.
At any rate, I happen to think that Jackass is pretty tame compared to other things that I have said on this program.
I mean, don't Jake, don't you think it's uh pretty hard-hitting to accuse the president of actually purposely destroying America.
I mean, they write this as though, yeah, Russian is pretty pretty huff uh tough on the president each and every day.
But this may have crossed the jackass.
I mean, a jackass, they have big ears, they refuse to listen.
I mean, the donkey jackasses out there.
Isn't there a TV show on MTV called Jackass, and it's about I don't know, but yeah, it's um yeah, it's it's about jackasses trying to do stupid Stu Steven Portnoy's the guy's name, is the writer of the Jake Jacob Tapper blog piece.
But no, my my reaction was they got upset over this.
They did get upset over I hope he fails, but I think it's far more penetrating, far more hard-hitting to accuse the elected president of the United States of purposely trying to destroy the American private sector.
I know that I know that they don't highlight it.
And you know what else, snartly?
Nobody's ever denied it.
This is something else that's strange.
Nobody's ever done it.
I mean, normally something like that is said, and if it's really over the line, it's if it's so ridiculous as to be unbelievable.
Somebody in the White House would laugh about can you believe can you believe how kooky they're getting?
Can you believe how insane they're getting president's driving these guys nuts?
Do you believe I said it on Fox News Sunday?
I mean, uh, I said I went to church.
You know, political church is Fox News Sunday or any of the Sunday shows.
And I said, Chris Wallace, he's doing it on purpose.
Come on, Rush, do you really?
Yes.
They don't even comment on that.
And nobody denies it.
But calling him a jackass.
You to think that all civility and decorum had been lost.
But to answer the question, nobody told me they thought I've went too far.
Nobody.
I mean, these guys.
Portnoy raises the possibility in the piece.
No, no, no, no.
It was somebody at that website Media Ide.
Somebody writing about this at Media IT.
Did Limbaugh go too far?
And once again, they totally ignore what I think are four more serious accusations, allegations, than to simply call him a jackass.
Besides, the president called Kanye West a jackass.
Yeah, we we have this September 14th, a little over of 2009, a little over a year ago.
CNBC special program and interview with the president.
The chief Washington correspondent John Harwood spoke with Obama about the rapper Kanye West upstaging singer Taylor Swift to the MTV Music Awards.
Harwood said, were your were your girls as hacked off as mine word that Kanye gave Taylor Swift a Joe Wilson treatment?
The young lady seems like a perfectly nice person.
She's getting her award.
What's he doing up here?
He's a jackass.
So the president of the United States calling Kanye West one of the nation's most beloved rappers, uh, one of our national treasures, Kanye West, big time rapper, a jackass.
He's a jackass.
It's uh almost the same melody, if you will, that I use the term describing the president.
Anyway, there's the the real point of all this is taxes, tax cuts, what Obama plans on doing, uh, the verbiage that they're using as they describe this and talk about it.
That's what needs to be focused on, of course, and we'll do it.
And also, I don't know how many of you have read it, heard it, paid any attention to the words of Faisal Shazad as he was sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday, the Times Square Bomber.
If you haven't, stick around because I'm gonna tell you what he said.
You know, it this is the kind of stuff we had better pay attention to.
Remember this guy, this guy uh Faisal Shazad, Mayor Bloomberg thought was originally was a Tea Party person upset with Obama's health care plan.
So anyway, a lot to do here on the EIB network, El Rush Boss serving humanity happily, gladly.
It is an honor, and we'll be back.
You know, honestly, if these guys don't like the term jackass, then why do they make it the symbol of their party?
The symbol the Democrat Party is a jackass, I would even go further than that.
I would say calling somebody a jackass seems far kinder than to call him a Democrat these days.
I mean, you know, he's a Democrat, that's far more damaging to one's reputation and character than calling him a jackass.
Anyway, welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, Great to have you with us on the fastest three hours in media and the fastest week in media.
Times square bomber Faisal Shazad.
And by the way, if I call this guy Kaiser Sojer during this, forgive me, is that's you know, I'm into syllables and sometimes I get them confused.
The character, Kevin Spacey played in the movie The Usual Suspects, smirking defiantly as a Manhattan federal judge, I think.
I think somebody help me out on this.
I think this federal judge was a woman.
I ought to get this right.
She said something to the guy, something just is totally chickified.
I think it was this defendant, maybe it's somebody else that was sentenced.
Are you really going to think about what you did wrong when you get back to prison?
Something silly.
This guy then launches in his 10-minute tirade.
10 minute statement to the court.
This is the Times Square bomber tried to detonate a car bomb in Times Square.
He vowed yesterday that the defeat of the United States is imminent.
I want you to keep this in mind.
Every time you hear or read about a mosque being built at ground zero, in a 10-minute statement to the court that denounced post-9-11 foreign policy as it threatened future American bloodshed, Faisal Shahzad warned, brace yourselves because the war with Muslims has just begun.
Consider me only a first droplet of the blood that will follow me.
Okay.
Invoking the names of Osama bin Laden and the medieval Muslim Sultan Saladin.
The 31-year-old Pakistan immigrant justified his plot in the name of Islam, insisting that, quote, the Quran gives us the right to defend, and that's all I'm doing.
We do not accept your democracy or your freedom, because we already have Sharia law and freedom.
The past nine years, the war with Muslims has achieved nothing for the U.S. except for it has wakened up the Muslims for Islam.
We are only Muslims trying to defend our religion, people, honor, and land.
But if you call us terrorists for doing that, then we are proud terrorists, and we'll keep on terrorizing until you leave our land and people at peace.
Now, his plot did not include suicide.
He did say, if I'm given a thousand lives, I'll sacrifice them all for the sake of Allah, fighting this cause, defending our lands, making the world and word of Allah supreme over any religion or system.
Never since, even predating 9-11, those of us who understand this enemy have been warning everybody, it's not because these people are poor, and it's not because that they're poor because we've made them poor.
It's not because Obama views.
Obama thinks we're out there creating terrorists because of Abu Grab and Club Gitmo, and all our supposed torture, and because we have oppressed the free peoples of the world, we have robbed them.
We have stolen their natural resources for our own selfish greed.
We have conquered, we have not liberated.
We have been imperialistic.
We have colonized the world.
We have imposed ourselves on the rest of the world.
I've always said, how do you impose freedom on anybody?
But this is what Obama believes.
And after 9-11, our own illustrious State Department conducting a seminar.
What did we do to make them hate us?
We must find out.
We must listen.
Why do they hate us?
Well, okay, you asked the question, I'm gonna tell you, it's not because we support Israel, it's not because they're poor, it's not because they have no future, it's not because we have uh insulted them, or it's because we are a threat to their religion.
Their religion is a combination ideology.
I love our Separation of state, a church and state crowd in this country.
You cannot separate church and state in Islam.
It's one and the same.
And yet you have people in this country who'll defend it to the end of all days, claiming that it's simply a result of the unjust immorality of the United States.
But Mr. Faisal Shazad said it.
We do not accept your democracy.
We do not accept your freedom.
Because we already have Sharia law in freedom, which is what they want to impose on us.
And he says it, just like Mahmoud Ahmadinizad, they are laying it out, promising, telling us exactly what they intend to do.
And as every day goes by that we do not listen to them and trust them to be honest in what they're saying about us, as long as we don't react to them as an enemy.
We're kind of timely in the bumper rotation.
They dropped a bomb on me, or you dropped a bomb on me.
Welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence and Broadcasting Network, more from Faisal Shahzad, speaking without notes during an obviously well-rehearsed speech.
Shahzad recalled the words of former President Bush, quote, when he started the war on us on Muslims.
He said, You're either with us or against us.
And so it's very clear for us Muslims, either we are with the Mujahideen or we are crusading Jews and Christians and with them.
And there is no in between.
Shah Zad also urged Americans in his 10-minute speech in front of the court to convert to Islam.
So, quote, that when you meet Allah on the day of resurrection, you will not be able to say nobody gave you the message.
Close quote.
Shazad, who faced a mandatory life sentence after pleading guilty, greeted his punishment with a grin and repeated exclamations of Allahu Akbar.
Which means God is great.
After one exhortation, he raised his right hand and pointed his index finger toward the heavens.
The judge, Federal Judge Miriam Gold Goldman Cedarbaum, who imposed six consecutive life sentences in another 20 years to be served concurrently, said that Shahzad deserved the harsh penalty, even though, quote, happily the training you sought in making bombs was unsuccessful and you were unsuccessful in your effort to kill many Americans.
As he said during his guilty plea, during which he declared himself a mujah hadid or Muslim soldier, Shazad engaged in several exchanges with the judge.
She said to him, you are a young man, and you will have a lot of time to reflect on what you've done and what you've said today and in the past.
Shazad said, my sentence, if you allow me to speak, will be only for the limit that God has given me life in this world.
But if you people don't become believers, the life that you would get in the hereafter, which you don't believe in, will be forever.
So I'm happy with the deal God's given me.
This is this is what the Times Square bomber said.
Now it was the judge Miriam Goldman Cederbaum who said, You appear to be someone who is capable of education, and I do hope that you'll spend some of the time in prison thinking carefully about whether the Quran wants you to kill lots of people.
Yeah, we're going to put you behind bars somewhere.
Really want you to think about what you're saying.
You seem like a smart guy.
So you think about this.
Shahzad accepted U.S. citizenship eight years after Bush said you're either with us or with the terrorists.
You cannot ignore the fact that Islam is a political system.
It's maybe the only religion that is Islam equals Sharia.
We just don't seem to be able to get it through our heads that many of the Muslims are still fighting the crusades.
Which, lest we forget, They started.
This is a bunch that wants to go back to the 700s.
To the eighth or the sixth century, whatever it is.
I guess sometimes get confused.
And let's not forget, speaking of confused.
After the man was apprehended May 3rd, 2010, CBS evening news, Katie Curick talked to the mayor.
Michael Bloomberg.
She said, You believe the Times Square bombing suspect acted alone.
If I had to guess 25 cents, this would be exactly that.
Somebody who's homegrown, maybe a mentally deranged person, or somebody with a political agenda that doesn't like the health care bill or something.
It could be anything.
Doesn't that just sound like an elitist?
Not just the words, just the whole intonation.
Oh, yes.
Homegrown, maybe a mentally deranged person, somebody with a political agenda doesn't like the health care.
You know these kind of idiots, Katie.
You know well what we're discussing.
Somebody didn't like the health care bill.
Homegrown, mentally deranged.
It was Faisal Shahzad who said, We do not accept your democracy or your freedom.
Because we already have Sharia law and freedom.
The past nine years, the war with Muslims has achieved nothing for the U.S. except for it has wakened up the Muslims for Islam.
Well, that's a crock too because they've been awake since the Crusades.
But bottom line is how can this be happening, folks?
How can this be happening?
Why we were supposed to with and I look at you might say I'm just rubbing assault in the wound here.
No, I'm I'm dead serious when I say this stuff.
We elected a president's gonna stop all of this.
There was not going to be any of this angst.
The Muslims weren't gonna hate us anymore.
Once we got rid of Bush, and once we had somebody in there who could reach out to them and make them understand that we don't have anything against them and make them in fact that we're sorry for what we've done.
We got a guy who's run around apologizing every chance he's gotten.
He went to Cairo.
He's been he went to Berlin.
He's been a number of places apologized.
We're supposed to be in a post-partisan, post-racial.
We're supposed to be in a new era.
Where everybody loves everybody, where the bad guys of the world finally lay down their arms because finally the United States has matured to the point so it's elected somebody who understands just how guilty the country was and is willing to say so.
Now look, it's worse than ever.
These guys come to all right.
Now you you you stop and think if we ever do actually have a trial for Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, this guy got ten minutes.
Faisal Shazad Kaiser Soje, he got ten minutes.
Imagine Khalid Sheikh Muhammad with two years of this kind of thing.
You know, we we ignore these people at our own peril.
We chalk up their behavior to our own analysis when we deny what they say to our own peril.
They're not poor.
They're not wandering aimless, they have not had their futures taken away with the evil United States.
It's not even our support for Israel.
They say that, and I'm sure it irritates them, but it's our very existence.
As a free nation, with freedom of a religion that irritates them.
That makes us a target.
Pure and simple.
It's who we are.
And there's nobody who can persuade them to leave us alone by virtue of his own countenance, his own background, his own history, his own words, his own speeches.
We could have a president, even worse than Obama, who does nothing but openly criticize and run down and apologize this country each and every day.
Still wouldn't matter.
The fact that we exist is what makes us the enemy.
I mean, you may not want to hear this.
The Muslims sided with the Nazis against the West even before there was an Israel.
We have pictures of the Imams before there was an Israel in the 1940s.
From the New York Times, May 15th of this year, the classmate recalled walking into Mr. Shahzad's apartment a few days after the terrorist attacks of 9-11 to find him staring at news footage of the planes hitting the towers.
They had it coming.
Mr. Shazad said, according to the friend, a Pakistani American, the friend said Mr. Shazad believed that Western countries had conspired to mistreat Muslims.
This guy told us in our own court before a sitting federal judge exactly what's on tap.
We don't have people in Washington willing to believe it, hear it.
They're too busy thinking it's still our fault.
And we'll be back.
You're guiding light through all the BS that's out there, ladies and gentlemen.
Showing you the way.
I mean, look at it.
Look at this.
Republican Party.
Look at me.
Republican Party was dead 20 months ago.
Dead.
They were in full surrender.
They were lamenting they may have to become a regional party.
They were all worried.
We don't have any Republicans in the Northeast.
Oh no.
Might have to become a regional party.
Our conservative intelligence in the media suggesting that we need to really listen to the American people.
American people want big government.
They just want it responsible.
We better listen to them.
We better understand they want more social security.
We had people on our side saying this.
We better understand it where the people of America are.
They want big government.
They want an energized executive running big government efficiency, efficiently.
That's where it is.
Twenty years ago, that's what was being, or 20 months ago is what was being said.
I, El Rushball refused to accept those terms.
That we were dead, that the American people wanted big government.
I'm telling you, some of the most reputedly intelligent people on our side.
Well, okay, I'm David Frum is one of them.
Ross Dowfett writes in the New York Times, all the what's his name?
Brooks.
At the New York Times, you know the usual crown.
They were saying, hey, you know what?
We may have to shrink a regional party.
This is uh era of Reagan's over.
The American people want big government.
They want an energized executive.
They want us in charge of it, though.
They want efficiency.
They want more Medicare.
They want more Social Security.
Twenty months ago.
This is where the brains were telling us we had to go to save ourselves.
Twenty months ago.
But I, El Rushbow refused to buy into it.
I refused to believe that's what the American people were saying with the election of Obama.
I refused to believe it.
A majority of the American people want big government, want more Medicare, want more debt, want more social security.
They just want it run by Republicans.
I refuse what.
And that this is the new conservatism, the era of Reagan is over.
I, El Rushbow, I mean, that was insane.
It wasn't just stupid, but it was passed off as brilliance.
So what happened?
Well, we refused to accept defeat, you and me.
We insisted on following conservative principles as the only way back.
And now look where we are.
60% want big government repealed health care.
60% want this whole agenda repealed.
Nowhere near a majority of the American people want big government.
Just Republicans in charge of it.
In fact, that's one of the reasons Republicans got shellacked in 2006, because people did not want health care.
In their own party, Republicans did not want big spending big government, big Washington Party.
Back in March of 2009, Time Magazine ran a cover story, is the GOP Party over.
It was by Michael Grunwald.
And it featured the same kind of thinking as I just recounted for you.
The defeat or the loss of Arlen's Spectre suggested the end of the Republican Party.
If a Republican Party cannot welcome someone like Colin Powell or Arlen Specter, then it really doesn't exist.
That was just 20 months ago.
Thank you.
Thank you.
The elites, the people who consider themselves to be in the ruling class on our side.
Many of them are mere wannabes, but they do consider themselves nevertheless the ruling class of the elite.
Look at look at now where we are.
The Democrats are on the run.
Many of them will not even use the word Democrat next to their own names.
Nobody is campaigning on the notion that Americans want a bigger government.
Nobody.
Now I can understand if a bunch of liberal intellectuals were telling us this.
I can understand it was Doris Kearns Goodwin telling us this.
Or Robert B. Reich, or somebody from Moveon.org, but people on our side, ostensibly, telling us that they've read the tea leaves and the people of the country, not just Republicans, people of the country want big government now.
That's that's what all these elections are telling us.
That was the new conservatism era of Reagan is over.
Twenty months ago.
And you and I refused to act as lemmings and fall in line with this Malarkey.
And now look.
You know, ladies and gentlemen, just as the elitists, the wannabe ruling class people on our side are a little full of it, so our scientists.
Many scientists don't know diddly squat.
In fact, these next two stories are from the scientists don't know excrement, and God is amazing, file.
Two stories.
One from Bangkok.
Dracula fish, a bald songbird, and a seven meters, 23 feet tall carnivorous plant, are among several unusual new species found in the Greater Mekong region last year, researchers said Wednesday.
Other new finds among the 145 new species include a frog, it sounds like a cricket, and a sucker fish, which uses its body to stick to rocks in fast-flowing waters to move upstream, according to the conservation group,
the WWF, with fangs at the front of each jaw, the Draculamino is one of the more bizarre new species found in 2009 in the Mekong River region, which comprises Cambodia Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, and a province of China.
Second story.
Scientists find 200 new species in New Guinea.
Scientists on Wednesday unveiled a spectacular array of more than 200 new species discovered in the Pacific Islands of New Guinea, including a white-tailed mouse and a tiny long snouted or snooted frog.
How many of you remember, along with me, the horror stories of how many species we are wiping out every year because of global warming?
I always said, how do we know we're wiping out?
Do we really know there aren't any more X's left?
Have we scoured every acre of the earth?
There really aren't any mortals.
And how do we know that these are actually new?
Were they just created yesterday?
The day we found them.
How long have these new species been around?
And how can they be new if we're destroying them?
And yet, ladies and gentlemen, we will tell a farmer he can't use his land because a snail darter is threatened.
You're being governed by a bunch of stupid idiots.
Jackasses.
I got a funny note.
Rush, if somebody had just tuned in when you started reading Faisal Shazad quotes, they could easily have thought you were just quoting some Democrat.
Enemy of democracy and freedom, and that's why we oppose you.
I can see that.
Alright, phone calls.
We're gonna get to them quick in the next hour.
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