All Episodes
Previous Next
Oct. 8, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
36:20
October 8, 2010, Friday, Hour #2
| Copy link to current segment

Time Text
Making more sense than anything anybody else out there happens to be talking about documented to be almost always right six percent of the time, except at home, Rush Limbaugh at 800-282-2882.
At home it's about 28%.
800-28.
That's what I was told.
800.
Yeah, last night at dinner, I was that's what I was told.
800-282-2882 is the number on Friday, live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
We expand the limits and boundaries.
And pretty much discuss whatever you wish to.
We're going to get the phones quick this hour, I promise.
Our official climatologist, uh, Dr. Roy Spencer, University of Alabama at Huntsville, uh, has a question about the $72,000 in uh no the the money that went to dead people.
The $250 checks that went to the dead.
He asks if the dead will now get periodic cost of dying increases.
Which is a valid, valid question when we consider the uh direction that this regime is taking us.
Um ladies and gentlemen, here's the audio soundbite.
This is Wednesday night on a um radio show.
Where was this Obama's yeah, I I uh anyway, the host of the radio show said, we as Americans, some of us anyway, have short-term memory when it comes to how horrible a situation this country was in before you took office.
What somebody care to call here and define for me, explain the horrible situation we were in before Obama was immaculated.
I would really, because I'd love to go back to it, I would love to turn back the clock 20 months and pretend that these 20 months didn't happen.
And I'm sure you would too.
So anyway, that's that's a question.
What can we do to make sure and assure uh that we have you for a second term?
Now, this is an interview with the president.
What what what can we do to make sure and assure that we have you?
Uh for a second term.
What is it that we need to do?
They've already said they're gonna go back to the same policies that uh were in place during the Bush administration.
And that means that we are gonna have just hand-to-hand combat up here on Capitol Hill.
Now, I don't think this is insignificant.
First off, hand-to-hand combat is like Obama saying, they bring a knife, we bring a gun.
They hit us, we hit back twice as hard.
This is like we're gonna keep our boot on the throat of BP.
And I'm looking for whose ass to kick.
We're gonna call you out, this kind of stuff.
Now, this guy talking this way, I want to see.
I do I want to see.
I can predict what the outcome's gonna be.
The media will find nothing wrong with this.
The fake media, the real media.
When when Bush said we wanted bin Laden dead or alive, you're either with us or against us.
I mean, he went nuts.
How can you talk that?
When Reagan said joking the bombing starts in five minutes, play evil empire, they had a cow.
Now here's Obama, the president of the United States, who is encouraging hand-to-hand combat.
You you suggest that some bring a gun to a knife fight.
This is rabble rousing, and look who's he's who he is rabble rousing.
He's rabble rousing the unions, a whole bunch of different minorities.
Hand-to-hand combat.
Now, the second point I wish to make is remember that yesterday I told you that I spoke to a ranking Republican who was very fervent in his belief that if the Republican victory in the November elections was as big or bigger than people expected to be, that Obama would have no choice but than to moderate.
Uh a law Clinton in 1994, that Obama would have no choice to move back to the center or to at least triangulate and abandon his agenda.
Now, I don't believe that's going to happen anyway, but I really don't believe it now.
When you got a guy out there on a friendly radio show talking about hand-to-hand combat, if the Republicans win and they threaten to reimpose their own policies, it's going to be hand-to-hand combat.
It doesn't sound like a guy who's going to moderate.
It doesn't sound like somebody who's going to matriculate to the center.
*sigh*
But as I watch Obama, I'm watching him now, he's announcing another um staff departure from his regime.
The national security Grand Poo Bod, James Jones, is uh fleeing the scene, and they're doing the replacement announcement right now.
And as I I listened to Obama this morning in his jobs numbers speech in Maryland, there's no life.
There's no energy.
There's no emotion anymore, what this guy is saying.
And one of the reasons is he's lying.
And the facts are now becoming known.
And it really is hard to continue the illusion.
To keep it going, the the illusion of purpose is what I think he's having a uh a tough time maintaining here, at least in public.
Now, in private, we know he doesn't care.
I mean, the the fact that the country oppose him more and more issue by issue.
It's expected it.
He knew that was the case.
He knows he's governing against the will of the people.
When he goes out there in public, uh, he does mouths all these platitudes and all these words that were coming back from the prespus, and everything's hunky-dory and everything's going great out there, and he knows it's not.
And he knows his audience knows it's not.
So it's it's just to me a little fascinating to uh to watch all of this play out in public.
Douglas Holtz Eakin.
Uh, this is uh he's president of the American Action Forum, used to be at the Congressional Budget Office, National Review Online, the corner blog today, the light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train.
The news today, 89,000 stimulus checks, 22 million dollars got sent to people who were dead or in jail.
Now, my first instinct was, he writes, to giggle.
I mean, seriously, dead people.
And my second thought was to wonder about the policy implications.
What are the multiplier effects for dead people?
You know, it might not be so bad.
It's like Dr. Spencer says, are they not in line for cost of dying increases?
Just as there are costs of living increases.
Stimulus did not work for the living.
So is it really any worse to try it for the dead?
Having checked those boxes, I turned to the fact that 12 million of the invalid checks were returned.
12 million dollars were returned out of 22 million.
This is truly astonishing and a tribute to the character of America.
It's a silver lining in an otherwise bad news story, and get ready because the bad news is gonna turn horrific.
With stimulus checks, the goal was to send seasoned citizens 13 billion dollars in checks one time using a well-honed check writing machine, the Social Security Administration, to an easily defined group that wasn't gonna get a cost of living increase.
And it didn't go so well.
They're trying to buy votes.
And maybe in a couple towns the dead vote, In some numbers, Chicago and other places, but for the most part is a waste of money if you're buying votes.
So Mr. Holtz Eakin wonders imagine what'll happen with the new health care law.
Recall the goal is to distribute about 466 billion dollars in insurance subsidies over the next ten years.
This will require identifying who is eligible based on their income and whether their employer insurance or perhaps offers unacceptably costly insurance.
The subsidy amount will depend on income.
It will have to be sent to the state of the individual taxpayers exchange.
It will have to be transmitted to the insurance company by or of the recipient's choice, and it will have to be sent monthly in advance of the payment due date.
So the U.S. Treasury will have to parse through 300 million Americans, verify their income, their employment, their insurance status, their location, their potential insurer, they will then have to correctly cut over 10 million checks for just under $4 billion and do this every month.
It will never happen.
The first duty of any committee doing real oversight of the new law should be to ask the Treasury if it can implement the law as written.
The honest answer will have to be no.
Perhaps this will be part of the unraveling of Obamacare, which is essential because it's an integral part of the excessive government overhang that is dragging down the private sector.
We've got to do something about this.
It's unsustainable, even before it's fully implemented.
It is a it's it's a destroyer.
It is in its own way a nuclear weapon aimed at the American private sector.
Aimed at the American way of life.
And there's no way they can do it.
If they can't, if his point is if they can't successfully send out two hundred and fifty dollar checks to eighty-nine thousand people, what in the world makes us believe?
And then there are other examples you could cite as well, government errors, mistakes, inefficiency.
How in the world are we to believe that they are going to be able to cut 10 million checks for just under $4 billion to the right people in the right state every month to comply with the law?
And then what happens when they can't do it?
What happens when it doesn't happen?
What happens when these people don't get what they're supposed to get, which will compensate them for their health insurance, which they won't have.
What will happen?
I'll tell you what'll happen.
You can see it for yourself.
Go to any major metro area, top 50 city, top 75.
Go to the federal building.
Go to the Social Security Administration office and try to get something done.
Take a look at who's there.
Ask yourself how long you want to stand in line there.
And then ask yourself if you endeavor to stand as line in line as long as it's going to take, when it's your turn at the counter, is what you need going to happen correctly.
It's not just DMV.
I mean, everybody takes a shot at in a county motor vehicle offices and so forth.
Go to a federal agency.
Go to the VA.
Go anywhere.
Stand in line.
Go wherever you have to go.
If you are dependent on what happens in that building to eat, to live, if you're dependent, you go in there.
Pretend that you can't live without making monthly trips to that building and see if you want to know what health care is going to be like after it is implemented, as written.
Quick timeout.
Your phone calls are next, right after this.
And we're back open line Friday, and we start on the phones in Sacramento, my adopted hometown.
This is Frank, and welcome, sir.
Great to have you here.
Well, good day, Rush.
Ditto's first time caller.
Uh listening since my brother Fritz and Boise told me about you in 1991.
Great.
Thank you very much.
And I'm I'm calling today uh Hartfeld, asking for your help.
Uh I love the NFL, but but this year's push for breast cancer money seems over the top.
Um I don't mean to be cynical, but my mom had a mastectomy twenty-five years ago.
And I I don't see them making real progress no matter how much money they have.
And it when I'm watching the game, it feels like there's a guy at my door banging on it, you know, with his hand out, and he won't go away.
I'm hoping you would have some insight or some help uh to get me past this.
Are you uh basically saying you're you're you're you're not happy with all the pink uh on Sunday afternoon NFL games?
You don't like the guys wearing pink shoes, pink chin straps, pink towels, pink gloves.
Is it basically you don't think the color pink works well with the National Football League?
There's some of that, and I would be very happy with a pink ribbon on the back of the helmets, but um you know who paid for this stuff?
I mean, did the breast cancer society buy this stuff?
Uh I know they're gonna auction it off at the end of the month and and hopefully make the money and get in the black on that, but it it just it feels like just Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute.
What do you mean?
Who who buys what stuff?
You mean the the gloves, the pink stuff?
Yeah, who who put out the money to buy the shoes, the gloves, the chin straps to later on be auctioned off at the end of the house.
No, now you've come to the right place.
Now I can help out.
Please.
Somebody warning me not to go any further here?
Is somebody in my IFB telling me not to go any further?
Okay.
The NFL has an agreement with Rebok.
If you'll notice on every NFL jersey and every NFL pair of pants, and almost every NFL pair of shoes, you'll see the reebok logo.
Now, the NFL, in their arrangement with Rebuck, some people think that Rebok totally donates all that equipment to the teams in exchange for the exclusivity in use of the product.
That's not a it's not a total donation.
But it it's a combination of Reebok and the NFL spending what's necessary to outfit uh as a charitable donation.
It's an outreach to women by the group, by the league.
As much of what's happening in the league now is an outreach to women.
Uh in fact, I didn't tell you this.
I'm gonna I'm gonna announce it now.
If he has time, the Hutch, Ken Hutcherson, is gonna call a program in the next hour to talk specifically about and he played the Dallas Cowboys Seattle Seahawks.
He's very concerned about the chicken of league.
And he's going to call here and share his thoughts on this.
Now I have to tell you something, Frank.
It's now they're saying now be careful.
Why?
What do you think I need to be careful about?
What do you think?
Well, I'm just I I just gonna say I I I don't know.
I'm watching the games.
I it I I had the same feeling last year as I did this past Sunday.
It's just a little too much pink out there.
This is not I don't know.
I I I just you know me, I'm I'm not into symbolism over substance.
I'm into substance.
And I remember once my uh immensely popular television show one night, I wore every colored ribbon that there was at the time on my suit jacket.
The pink, the red, the yellow, whatever.
And I pointed, see, I'm earning all these ribbons.
I care more than you do.
Just like I drive this hybrid.
That means I care more than you do.
And you don't really know that.
You don't know it makes you it it makes you feel good.
But this is a marketing thing the leagues into here is is is trying to it's an outreach to uh to women, trying to broaden the overall base of the audience, the NFL.
Do you know?
I'm gonna look this up and confirm it.
I've heard it from a number of different people that more men down with prostate cancer every year than women do with breast cancer.
But you don't see what color would the NFL have to wear to uh raise consciousness for prostate cancer.
Now, on the other side of this, last year Ben Rothisberger, the quarterback of the Steelers had a great game.
First game in October, wearing the pink shoes.
He wanted to wear them the next week.
Because he thought the pink empowered him, sort of like long hair and Samson before Dawila came along.
That's more like 15 and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Look, I don't mean to impugn people who wear the ribbons.
I'm sure that there are a lot of people that wear the ribbons, and it's just as a private thing.
They believe in the cause and and they they means something to the people that wear the ribbons.
But they're at the same time, there are a lot of people are doing it to make a statement to uh to make a a political statement.
People who drive certain cars do this, wear certain color ribbons.
Now, we looked it up here in the break from the National Institutes of Health.
The estimate is in 2010, over 209,000 men and women will be diagnosed with breast cancer.
Far more women, of course.
Forty thousand two hundred and thirty will die from it.
217,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer, 32,050 will die.
So the total for men and women breast cancer is 209,000.
The estimate this year prostate cancer, men only, 217,000.
Now, Snerdley is our resident sexist, and during the break he was weighing in on this.
He said, You're you're you're dancing around the point.
I understand even you, you're getting afraid of this stuff.
I can tell Rush.
You're gonna free of it.
Yes, you are.
Snerdy, if you had guts, what you'd really say is there's not one single male endeavor that women haven't invaded now.
They are invading virtually everything.
They've invaded the country clubs, the business clubs, and now the National Football League.
And Snerdly said, I'll believe all this when I see the WNBA wear latex gloves for prostate cancer month.
So this is the range of emotion uh out there.
I did think it was pretty clever.
Latex gloves for prostate cancer.
Cancer month.
September, we just went through September.
September was prostate awareness month.
Prostate did you hear anything about it?
You didn't, did you?
Because men are not a minority.
Women are considered an oppressed minority, so press breast cancer, and there's one folks, there's one thing you have to say.
I mean, it works.
No matter what people think of it, everybody saw pink in the NFL that was watching it.
No matter what they thought of it, they saw it.
And they said, What the hell is that?
And they want if those who didn't know what it meant found out.
Breast cancer awareness.
Oh, okay.
Now, at that point, people's own personal beliefs then take over as to what they think of it, how they react to it.
But women are the only genuine majority that get by as a minority.
There are more women at any one time in the country, any country, except China, than men by design.
By efficient, intelligent design.
Adam in Riverdale, New York, welcome to the EIB Network.
Great to have you here.
Hi, Rush.
It's a pleasure to reach you today.
Thank you, sir.
Yes.
I wanted to talk to you about the American voter.
You know, I'm convinced at this point that most Americans are a great deal of them, they don't have the sense to reason things out about the economy.
I think they see they're angry at Obama because they're they're waiting for him to fix things, but a lot of them don't understand about Marxism and socialism.
Um some do, but many more don't, because as we know the Republicans, it's going to be an earthquake in November.
I've been reading um all these articles about how it'll be handing Obama a gift if he goes along with the Republicans in Congress.
Now why would Americans hold on?
I mean, they should not they should they should on principle they should realize what Obama has done and vote him out regardless in twenty twelve.
You know, um I just don't think most Americans really know that he's responsible for ruining the economy.
Yeah, I have to I have to sadly uh agree.
I don't know if it's most but it's a lot.
Earlier this week, I engaged because I got a couple of calls, I engaged in what for me was the most elementary explanation of how jobs are created, how people get paid, how taxes are collected, what the purpose of it is, basically most rudimentary explanation of capitalism.
Now I went to a dinner party last night, had three people come up to me who heard it, yeah who said you need to do that more often.
And I understand why, but it was basic.
It was it was this is this to me it's instinctive.
Once you've lived it, you uh you ought to understand it.
But you said something very key.
People are waiting for Obama to fix it.
Yes, they're waiting for him to fix things, but uh a lot of people, like I said, they understand that Obama's ruining it, but out of principle, I mean, let's say the Republicans make things into a satisfactory situation going into 2012.
Out of, you know, all these horrible things, the health care thing, Obama ruining the economy with his Marxism, you know, out of principle, are Americans going to wise up this time and say, this guy is just no good, get him out.
See, it is the age old question.
I I live through the prosperity of the eighties.
Yeah.
Uh and that w went throughout the eighties and through the mid, you can even argue into the late nineties.
Yes.
And during that period of time, the American left and the press was constantly revising history, denigrating Reagan, denigrating supply side economic capitalism, denigrating the s the sole reasons for the economic prosperity.
And yet liberalism, socialism, Marxism, has always failed wherever it's tried, and yet people continually are seduced by it.
And they are seduced by it, not so much it but by its practitioners, as in Obama.
People like him personally.
If you look at the polling day, they don't like a thing he's doing, but they like him personally.
Well we don't.
That would lead you to believe that if the Republicans do come along and make uh some fixes and get things going in the right direction, Obama will benefit from it, maybe get re-elected because people like him personally, and don't hold him personally accountable for this destruction.
On the other hand, if he if he if he continues to cite the Republicans and just continue being who he's been, if and the things don't improve, he'll definitely be voted out.
Um not automatic.
That depends on how the Republicans deal with it.
Oh, they have to be clever and they have to expose him better.
Well, I don't even they have to be clever, they just have to oppose him.
Uh that they they can't compromise with him.
They can't they they've they've they they have to be able to empathize with their voters and understand why they're being elected.
What their voters expect them to do.
And it's not to cozy up with anybody on the other side, and it's not to walk across the aisle.
It's not it's not compromise and bipartisanship, it's to stop this.
Pure and simple.
But I'm st I'm still struck by your it's one of these things that it's it's a profundity.
Because I it's uh he says it and I can visualize it.
There are people out there waiting for Obama to fix things.
Not just Obama personally to fix things, they're waiting for the government to fix it.
Those are people who have not the slightest idea That they hold the single greatest power over their destiny than the government.
They are more in charge of their own life, and it's sad that's not taught anymore.
We're making victims out of more and more people.
We're groupifying, we're balkanizing people, and then we're making them victims.
Yeah, your life is what it is because of X, because of them, because of that group, because of those rich people.
You can't get a job, or you can't get a Big Mac, or you can't get chicken McNuggets unless you call 9-1-1 because of X. So everybody is being given an excuse for mediocrity for being mediocre.
Everybody is, I'm talking about the public school system throughout our educational system.
People's failures and their mediocre achievements behavior is being excused, and in fact, we're attaching self-esteem to it.
You are fine, little Johnny.
Two plus two is five.
Wonderful, wonderful little Johnny.
Rabbins say, you stupid idiot, we've been trying to teach you for two years at two and two is four.
When are you gonna learn it?
Well, not you stupid idiot, but at some point.
But really, we are victimizing people, which is giving them an excuse to not account for anything, to not be anything.
And then we're we're we're we're teaching them how to blame somebody else or some other group or series of events for their plight.
And so we arrive at a point where a significant portion of the population is sitting around waiting for somebody, the government, to fix it.
There are some people, and you know it look it.
This is one of the tough thing to say because a lot of people don't want to hear this because it goes against everybody's desire that we all be the same, that there be no pain in life, and that there be no suffering, and that everybody do well, and that everybody have what they want, and so forth.
But there is no equality.
You cannot guarantee that any two people will end up the same, and you can't legislate it, and you can't make it happen.
You can try under the guise of fairness and so forth.
But some people are self-starters and some people are born lazy, some people are born victims, some people are just born to be slaves, some people are born to put up with somebody else making every decision for them.
Some people, on the other hand, are born and they're not gonna take anything from anybody.
They're gonna be totally in charge of their lives, they're not gonna sit around and wait for something, they're gonna make it happen.
You can see this throughout the American strata, population.
Even in well, born and raised.
I think bo, I think both.
I think born and raised.
But you can even in down economic times, there are people getting wealthy.
In recessions and depressions, there are still people who are profiting from it.
Most people are not self-starters.
Most people, if you ask them as adults, think back, who was the best teacher you ever had.
They'll tell you almost without fail that there was somebody in their life that showed them they were capable of much more than they thought they were capable of themselves.
Because most people are not self-starters.
Most people don't push themselves.
They have to be pushed to be shown.
Yeah, it was the toughest teacher, the one the hardest, the the the teacher that they probably didn't like compared to other teachers.
But as they matured and got older, they realized that particular teacher showed them that they were capable of much, much more than they thought they were themselves.
It's just probably a matter of intelligent design.
The vast majority of people are Not self-starters.
And in a way, it all works out because virtually everybody's needed for something.
Anyway, I'm a little long here in this segment, but you get the drift.
But I think that's very, very important and indicative.
People are waiting for Obama to fix it.
Did you, by the way, did you notice Obama's reaction to the problem of his presidential seal falling off of his podium?
Did you see videotape of this?
And did you hear about the aftermath?
He was fit to be tied.
He found somebody to blame.
He had to, and he did find some human being to blame for that thing happening, that seal falling.
Because that was a personal affront to him.
He's president.
No other president's seal ever fell like that.
Who's responsible for it?
He's a perfect example of what I'm talking about here.
Blames everybody for everything.
Never accepts blame for his own actions.
You know people like that.
They're all over the place and they irritate the hell out of you, don't they?
I think it's just a fact of life.
70%, 70%, maybe 65 of them, wake up waiting to be told what to do.
It's just the way it is.
Not criticizing them.
Just the way it is.
65, 70% of people wake up waiting for something to get fixed.
You don't think it's that high?
Uh I'm not, I'm I'm not breaking it down, male-female.
I just think the population uh at large.
Now I checked the uh subscriber line email, website email.
I got an interesting uh uh email here from um woman who thinks that the NFL is going about attracting women the wrong way with pink.
It ain't a way to do it.
The women they can attract to football are by definition not gonna be the type to respond to pink stuff.
That the women they what they ought to do is do it give Sarah Palin a moose gun and do a commercial, and that would attract women to the National Football League.
But folks, look at there has to be some compromise here.
They're just I mean, we I mean we can agree that there's too much pink in the NFL, but can we also agree that good-looking women wearing an NFL jersey is cool?
I mean, we're not we don't want to bifurcate things here.
There has to be a way to bring us all together.
There has to be a way to bring all of us, men and women together on this.
Men love football and women should not have to choose one or the other.
There has to be a way to show our support for both without dipping NFL apparel into a paint bucket of pink paint.
There's gotta be a better way.
We need a bi-gen.
Now the cheerleaders don't cut it, Sterling.
Maybe college football, you don't cut it in the no, no, no.
We need a big gender plan, I think, to preserve the integrity of the National Football League while at the same time acknowledging the role of attractive women to bring us beer and wear sexy clothes while we watch.
And if we can find some common ground along these lines, then we could all get along.
And we don't need to start running around wearing pink shoes during the games and that kind of stuff.
And we're back, Rush Limbaugh, the fastest three hours in the media, two of them already in the can.
And Snerdley, I I forgot to tell you yesterday, but do expect a phone call from the uh from the Hutch.
Uh he did he did say he wants to get on and talk today about the uh chickification of the NFL.
I think his concern is all this hands-off treatment of quarterbacks now.
Can't can't hit the quarterback.
It's not the way it was in um in his day.
Uh public policy polling, big Democrat firm, North Carolina, Obama's big drop in blue states.
It's got them all quivering in fear out there.
▲
Export Selection