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Oct. 22, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 22, 2010, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
No, I was reading this thing at 2 o'clock in the morning and I swear, I said, I've got to be drunk.
This is the most nonsensical thing I have ever read.
I don't.
I have to be drunk because it's just senseless.
I was so confused.
No, the David Brooks column.
I defy anybody to read that column and think that they're sane while doing so.
And by the way, folks, what was it?
Juan Williams was fired at NPR, right?
It was Juan Williams because I was watching Fox last and I could have sworn it was O'Reilly who got fired by NPR.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's Open Line Friday.
Happy to have you along for the ride today.
Open Line Friday.
Remember it.
Remember now, in all good humor, there is an element of truth.
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I really, I'm thinking of reading this whole thing today.
It's indescribable.
I'm incapable.
My way with words, my vast vocabulary, I am not competent.
I am incapable to tell you adequately, accurately anything about this.
Why it was written, who it's written for, what it's about, the reason it was written, why it was published.
It's called The Flock Comedies.
Maybe, depending on how the program unfolds today, I'll read it.
I've never seen anything like it.
I really have not seen it.
And one of these days, dingy Harry, last night on Mess NBC, Sergeant Schultz, was this a, no, it was not a debate.
It was just Sergeant Schultz.
I see nothing.
Interviewing Dingy Harry questions.
And Nevada's unemployment rate, by the way, is up to 15% now.
So you think Nevada voters are going to figure this out?
I mean, you're neck and neck.
They spent $40 million trying to defeat the most powerful man in the U.S. Senate.
One of the AFL-CIO officials here told me that Sharon Angle is certifiable.
You know, are you surprised?
I mean, you're running against somebody that AFL-CIO says is certifiable and you're neck and neck.
Are you surprised about this?
People have been hurting, and I understand that.
And it doesn't give them comfort or solace for me to tell them, you know, but for me, we'd be in a worldwide depression.
They want to know what I have done for them.
And that's why it's important for me any chance I get to say that my number one job is to create jobs.
And she says that it's not her job to create jobs.
So I wonder, did he get a phone call from Obama?
You just heard it.
You just heard it right.
Dingy Harry said that if it weren't for him, that we'd be in a worldwide depression.
Now, that's Obama's line.
That is Obama.
First of all, when I first saw the headline on Drudge, oh, this is Obama must have said it.
Obama must have said this while meeting with Steve Jobs.
Then I read further and found, no, I have never been so disappointed in my life when I saw it was uttered by Dingy Harry.
Well, my first major disappointment in life when I was 16, I got to Dallas and I found out Love Field was an airport.
This was the second most disappointing.
I figured it had to be Obama is Dingy Harry.
And then I thought about Obama.
See in the headline.
I bet Obama called Reed and chewed him out.
But good, if anybody on this planet's going to take credit for saving the world from anything, it's Obama.
It's not Dingy Harry.
How are they going to fix this?
It's out there now.
This is, this is, Obama can't let this stand.
Will the White House issue a correction saying that Harry Reid misspoke while trying to man up after being demanded to man up by Sharon Angle, who the AFL CIO says is certifiable.
You see, it was the president, the president only, who plugged the hole, who lowered the seas, who healed the planet, who cured the sick, who saved the world from depression.
And now here's Harry Reid barely holding his own against a novice claiming credit for it.
This is, it's almost like the fallen angel challenging the Messiah.
You know, Imam Obama Dinizad is going to get up and he's going to see this quote from Dingy Harry.
He's going to say, whoa, what happened when I was meeting Steve Jobs at Apple?
Now, ladies and gentlemen, seriously, it is time for election strategy.
Everybody sits around and waits for the predictable October surprise.
What will it be?
Who will launch it?
Who will be the target?
What will be the objective of the October surprise?
I would like to be the October surprise.
I would like to announce the October surprise today.
Reverse Operation Chaos.
If you remember, the original Operation Chaos was at the end of the Democrat primaries.
We'd already had our nominee.
McCain was already chosen.
Our defeat was sealed.
So we wanted the Democrat primary to extend, to go on and on and on, A, so we would have some fun, B, so keep my audience engaged and getting them involved in it.
And C, to try to expose Obama to as many people as possible to counter the notion he was the Messiah.
So Operation Chaos suggested in remaining primary states that Republicans register in those states since our primary was done.
Republicans re-register as Democrats and vote for Mrs. Clinton to extend the Democrat primary.
So we were given credit.
Operation Chaos was given credit for Hillary's narrow squeak of a win in Indiana and for her keeping it close in Texas and for making Pennsylvania relevant.
So it's time today, ladies and gentlemen, for I, me, El Rushbo, to announce reverse Operation Chaos.
Here it is.
Any Democrat, and there are probably a lot of you, and you know who you are, and I know and you know that you are listening.
Any Democrat who believes that Hillary Clinton would make a far better president than Barack Obama will, anybody who believes that Hillary Clinton would stand a much better chance of beating the Republicans in a race for the White House in 2012.
If any of you Democrats believe that Hillary Clinton got cheated in the 2008 primaries, you boys and girls at Hillbuzz, I'm thinking of you people.
I mean, you were the first to realize the fraud that Obama was.
Hillary was your gal.
Is she still?
There's still that website, Hillbuzz, still up there.
These guys are in Chicago.
So if you think Hillary would have a better time beating the Republican nominee, whoever it is in 2012, if you believe that Hillary would make a better president than Barack Obama or anybody that the Republicans nominate, if you believe as a Democrat that Hillary Clinton got screwed, got shafted during the 2008 primaries.
If you believe that Barack Obama will be responsible for an historic and humiliating loss of congressional and Senate seats and thus power in November, if Barack Obama is sufficiently embarrassed, Hillary Clinton will be seen as the Democrats' best hope of holding on to the White House in 2012 and 2016.
Therefore, if you believe as Democrats that the only way out of this mess, here, look at what you got.
You're about to lose it.
You had 60 seats in the Senate.
You had a supermajority in the House.
You had the White House.
You had a Messiah.
And look what's happened.
Your party is singularly being destroyed, and the Republicans don't even have a nominee.
Your party is being destroyed, and the Republicans are still talking about wanting to work with Obama.
Daryl Ice is out there saying so today.
And Mitch McConnell's out there saying so today.
Want to work with the president?
You have a golden opportunity to stop to stave off what could be and what all upholster experts are predicting to be a Democrat wipeout.
But you have to be forward-thinking.
Nothing you can do about what's going to happen in 10 days, 11 days.
But depending on what you do in 10 or 11 days, you could be a major factor in your party's rebound.
Do you realize how incredible this is to have to talk now about the Democrat Party needing to rebound after just 20 months in total, almost totalitarian power?
How do you bring this about?
Well, it's reverse Operation Chaos.
Hillary Clinton Democrats stay home next Tuesday.
Hillary Democrats do not go to the polls.
They do not vote.
They do not vote fraud.
They do not cheat.
They do not interrupt the election at all.
They do not accept free rides to the polling places by union thugs.
Speak truth to power with your silence and your sedentary nature on Tuesday.
Stay home.
Do not vote.
Leave Obama on an island all by himself, the island of Democrat dissolution.
After all, he has brought it about single-handedly.
Otherwise, I mean, if strong turnout for Democrats on Tuesday will solidify Obama's place in the party going forward, and all this talk about Hillary in 2012 is going to go by the wayside.
If there's a huge Democrat turnout, if there's anything like an upset within the realm of current expectations, a strong turnout for Democrats would solidify Obama's place in the party going forward, and Hillary Clinton will be officially put out to pasture.
It's up to you.
As of today, Hillary Clinton appears to be a far stronger candidate for president in 2012 than Barack Obama does.
Now, things could change, but that's what it looks like right now.
And it's only 11 days away.
Do you have the time to roll the dice and think Obama could put this back together?
Do you even want him to?
I am speaking with great compassion and concern for those of you in the Democrat Party.
Hillary Clinton's future, Bill Clinton's future, and of course, therefore, the future of Ron Burkle and Harvey Weinstein and all the other Clintonites who've really been frozen out of power.
They all want back in.
Hillary's future, Bill Clinton's future, as much as Obama's, will in all likelihood be determined on November 2nd of this year.
On November 2nd of this year, Democrats will choose which horse they want to ride in 2012.
We'll find out on Tuesday which horse the Democrats want to ride.
Obama or Hillary Clinton.
It's that simple.
If you believe Hillary got shafted, if you believe Hillary got screwed politically, of course, I'm referring here, if you believe Hillary got cheated, if you believe Obama is single-handedly destroying one of the greatest moments in Democrat Party history single-handedly, you have a duty to stay home and let this referendum on Obama happen as the experts think it will.
If Hillary Clinton were president now, would we be in this mess?
You know it, and I know it.
She would be better able to handle that 3 a.m. phone call.
She herself said it in the campaign that he's not capable of it, mostly because he's not there.
And even when he is there, it's just he's not ready for it.
To paraphrase Harry Truman, give them Hillary.
If not now, when?
If not who, you.
Very simple.
The future of the Democrat Party is on the ballot as much as the Republicans, their future is in 2012.
To figure out which horse you want to be on, figure out which horse you want to ride.
Would this country be in the dire straits?
Would the Democrat Party be in the dire straits it's in if Hillary Clinton were president right now?
Think about it.
Reverse Operation Chaos, November 2nd, in the year 2010.
Reverse Operation Chaos.
Announced by the director of Operation Chaos, I, L. Rushboe.
You Democrats, you are the ones Hillary has been waiting for.
Vote with your feet.
Put them up on the coffee table on November 2nd.
Or, in fact, you can even double down.
And it may be hard to do for some of you Democrats.
It may really be.
If Republicans pick up 50 seats, it's iffy.
75 seats or more, and you can pretty much guarantee yourself Obama in trouble in 2012.
You get Hillary on the ballot in 2012, and you're looking at potentially eight years more in the White House, rather than just four more with Obama.
Vote with your feet.
Keep them on the coffee table November 2nd or vote Republican.
Reverse Operation Chaos.
Or another way to say it, Operation Clarity.
Eight more years.
Isn't it time a woman in this country finally got what has long been denied her?
And in fact, it was the Obama campaign on the Democrat side leading the way.
Now, it's get even with them time.
Open line Friday, we go to the phones.
Frieden of Friedon, New Jersey.
Mark, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call, sir.
You bet.
I'm concerned.
I got to admit, I know better than to listen to the lame stream media, but I'm doing it, and I'm starting to freak out because I'm starting to see on the real clear average polling.
I'm starting to see things tighten up, and I mean tight, tight, tight.
And I'm wondering, did Pennsylvania for one?
Don't believe that.
You talk about Toomey and C-Stack.
Well, that's just one.
Don't believe that poll.
That's a 10-point race.
That's a 10 or 12-point race for Toomey.
Don't believe that poll.
Okay, I'm seeing, I'm just looking at averages of lots of people.
Don't believe the poll.
These polls are designed for two things.
It's fundraising for the Democrats, and they're trying to spur turnout.
Remember, who's doing the polls?
These polls are not reflecting public opinion.
They're trying to shape it.
Well, that's what I believe, too.
And I needed to hear you say it.
I think America needed to hear you say it because I think there are some of us.
I know.
There's no energy out there on the Democrats.
There's no energy on the Democrat side.
Just make sure you vote.
The conservatives are going to vote.
That's why reverse Operation Chaos.
Give the Democrats a reason to show up to protect their party.
Vote.
Well, not show up.
Stay away.
Look at further evidence of this.
Your question about the polls.
This is from Warner Todd Houston at consumernewsonline.com.org.
The AP has a story from October 21st that features, and that's yesterday, that features the news that Democrats in Maryland are turning out in bigger numbers for early voting than Republicans.
And we're seeing stories like this all over the country.
This is not true.
In this case, according to the Maryland State Board of Elections, early voting in Maryland doesn't even start until today.
So there hasn't been any early voting in Maryland.
Certainly not any early voting would feature the news that Democrats are turning out in bigger numbers than Republicans because early voting hasn't started in Maryland.
Now, might be worth your while to believe all the polls.
Be frightened.
Get all your friends out there and your family and get out there to vote and also push, reverse Operation Chaos.
If you're a Republican, vote as your life depends on it.
If you're a Democrat, don't vote because Hillary depends on it.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Rush Limbaugh behind the Golden EIB microphone.
Open line Friday to Beloit, Kansas.
And Zach, Zach, it says here that you are 13.
Yes.
Well, we're honored to have you on the program.
Welcome.
Why are you not in school today?
We have parent-teacher conferences.
Oh, okay, cool.
I always love those.
Yep.
Well, how can we help today, Zach?
I like Obama, and I was wondering why People are always blaming him on all the crises now.
Well, because he's responsible for most of them.
What's he do that makes him responsible?
Well, you're 13 years old.
I'm going to try to answer your question.
First, he's president of the United States.
It is his agenda, things that he has secured, health care, all the financial policies that are literally causing people to lose their jobs.
This president, Zach, does not like this country as it was founded.
He has a disagreement with the way this country should be run and the way the people should manage and govern their affairs.
He believes the United States has been mean to other people all over the world.
He believes the United States, in our 200-plus years, have stolen other people's oil and used it for ourselves, that we have cared not a whit about the environment, that we polluted and that we are destroying the climate.
The president believes that big corporations are evil and mean and need to be downsized and gotten even with.
And he's on a path to achieve just this.
His.
Yeah, you have a question.
Feel free to jump in anytime.
Oh, well, we are polluting beaches and everything.
Well, Zach, who's telling you that we're polluting beaches?
When is the last time you're 13?
When's the last time you were at a beach?
I go to a lake quite a bit, and there's always rocks and glass on the shorelines and everything and paper bags.
Right, and so that means like people need to be more careful to the environment.
But Obama's been president for almost two years.
Why are there still rocks and glass on the shoreline and paper bags?
He needs to do something about that.
He has been.
At least he says he has been.
Do you believe that the climate of the earth is being destroyed and that the United States is responsible for that?
Yeah.
Where did you learn this?
On TV.
Yeah.
Oh, was it a cartoon show that you're watching?
Or what specific show?
Disney Channel.
Disney Channel.
Yep.
So could have been a cartoon, even if it wasn't a cartoon.
Zach, this is really a job for your parents.
I'm waving into an area here that might make your parents mad by talking to you about these things, but you did call.
And Zach, it's just the exact opposite.
No, I'm trying to be serious here.
I mean, I don't want to.
You think the polar bears are losing their homes on the little ice shelves that they're all melting away?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Do your parents agree with this, Zach?
Yep.
They do.
They do.
Yeah.
Zach, the United States of America, your country is the greatest country in the history of the world.
There has never been. a greater place in the world for people to live.
There's never been a place where people have been freer to become whatever they want, to dream and have those dreams come true.
There's never, ever been in the history, thousands and thousands, millions, billions, whatever of years, there's never been a better place in the United States of America.
The United States of America has done more for people around the world and in this country than any other population or any other country has ever done.
This is a nation that was founded with decency and goodness.
This nation doesn't destroy.
This nation builds.
This nation and the people of this nation help other people who are in trouble.
We have liberated people from slavery, from bondage, from totalitarian dictatorships.
This country is the solution to the world's problems.
It's not the problem.
And you're being taught things that, quite frankly, just aren't true.
I know you like Obama, and a lot of people like him personally, but I believe that the president doesn't like the country the way I like it.
And I believe that President Obama thinks that this country has committed crimes against other people around the world.
President Obama actually believes that this country and this country alone is destroying the place, the ice, where polar bears live, which is not true.
The polar bear habitat's not being destroyed.
The climate is not being destroyed.
The United States is the cleanest, major industrial place in the world to live.
We do a better job cleaning up our messes than anybody in the world.
We're not better people, Zach.
Just because we, we're a better country because of the way we were founded and the recognition that it is freedom that allows the human beings in this country to reach their dreams.
Other people haven't had this kind of freedom that we've had.
And it bothers a lot of people to understand, to realize that, you know, young people like you are being told things that are not the truth about their country.
You ought to be proud of America.
You ought to be proud of it.
And there are people teaching you things that are trying to make you not proud of your country.
It's a shame.
Now, Barack Obama, I'm sure as a human being, is a nice guy.
And you have every reason in the world to want to like him in the way that you know him.
You see him on TV reading a teleprompter at schools, out eating cheeseburgers and french fries when he can get away from home and his wife isn't watching.
And, you know, you see him drinking beer with police officers and Harvard professors.
He's a regular old guy.
He's got two wonderful little kids who go to private school that most people couldn't afford to attend.
But his policies, Zach, are responsible for the fact that you and people your age might not really have a same prosperous life that your parents have.
and we fear that's being done on purpose why do you say that?
Because I try to be truthful with everybody I speak to.
If somebody asks me why I think what I think, I try to tell them why.
When somebody asks them if I believe something or don't believe something, I'll say, yes, I do.
I try to be honest.
I believe that the country as founded is being challenged.
Its existence as founded is being challenged.
And the direction that President Obama and his party want to take the country is you can see where we're headed if you look at other countries around the world which are not doing well.
The evidence of where we're going is clear.
But that's, I'm sure these are observations that you're not yet paying attention to or ready to make.
The simple thing here is that we want you to love your country.
It's worth loving.
We want you to be proud to be an American.
We're very angry that people are teaching you things about the country that aren't true.
It's just not fair.
You know, it's not right.
It's very mean for people to tell you things this country is not doing.
And it's just a shame.
So look, I'm glad you called and asked me why I don't like Obama and you do.
It's not the man.
It's what he's attempting to do.
More and more people have lost their jobs in the last 20 months than in almost history of this country other than the 1930s.
It's a tragedy to see what's happening when the solutions for our problems are right in front of everybody's eyes, the ones that work and they're not being used.
So the country is not doing as well as it could be.
And we hope that all changes.
There are a lot of people working very hard to make sure that it does change so that when you grow up, you'll have the same opportunity to be whatever you want, to have your dreams come true as any American who lived before you has had.
A lot of people believe that you're not going to have the chance to have your dreams come true if we keep going the way we're going.
So, Zach, it's basically people who love people like you and who want the best for you.
Like me, who think the way I think and therefore say what I say.
Any other questions?
No.
Okay.
I'm glad you called.
Thanks for having me on.
It's my pleasure.
You call anytime, Zach.
Okay.
Be right back, folks.
Don't go away.
Welcome back, El Rushball, here on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
So I checked the email.
You would not believe a number of people who think that that call was set up, that the young man's parents were standing there right there coaching him.
Not every emailer, but a lot of emailers think that it was a trap, that it was a liberal trap being set for me to fall right into.
Even if it was, it didn't work.
Audio soundbite number four last night during the Sergeant Schultz show on PMS NBC.
During a discussion about crossing paths with Republican Senate candidate Sharon Angle of the airport, Sergeant Schultz said, I said, if you have described Senator Reed, give us a word.
And she said, man up.
And I said, well, what hasn't Senator Reed manned up on?
She said, well, the economy, social security.
So I want to give you a chance, Senator Reed, to respond.
Sharon Angle said you need to man up.
People in Nevada know me from the street to the ring to the Senate chambers.
I've never had to prove my manhood to anyone.
She doesn't do interviews.
She spends most of her time in her bunker.
I don't know if it's Cheney's bunker, but it's some kind of a bunker someplace.
Oh, she's a grandmother.
She's a grandmother.
She's a tool of the special interests.
She is an extremist, and now she's living in a bunker, Cheney's bunker.
Nobody's ever questioned Dingy Harry's manhood up until the grandmother comes along and says, man up.
Sergeant Schultz finally said, you know, you grew up in a shack, Dingy Harry.
They're trying to help Dingy Harry over at MSNBC.
Sergeant Schultz says, you grew up in a shack, no plumbing, right?
And now she's saying that you're a rich guy.
I mean, how do you feel about that?
I live in Searchlight, Nevada.
I have a home in Searchlight, Nevada.
I stay in Washington, D.C. in a one-bedroom apartment, and my penthouse is on the second floor.
How do you like that?
Penthouse on the second floor.
Oh, man, he's awfully uptight about this.
Finally, somebody is calling Dingy Harry on his life style.
He lives at the Ritz-Carlton.
He has a condo at the Ritz-Carlton.
I don't care what floor it's on.
And whatever it costs, he didn't earn the money to pay for it for being a lawyer in the private sector for two years.
His Ritz-Carlton condo costs more than a million dollars.
Pat in Tucson, Arizona.
Great to have you on Open Line Friday.
Welcome.
Gracias.
Miles the Dittos, De Arizona.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, Rush.
Hey, I've been trying to call you for over a month now.
My son is a Marine with the 232 F-18 Red Devils in Afghanistan.
And I get to chat with him on Facebook and see everything he's doing on Facebook.
And he commented on one of his buddies.
So I went to see what the buddy, what the comment was about.
And can I read it to you quickly?
Yeah, please do quickly.
So, since I am confined to my room for being quote-unquote semi-sick, I will proceed to download Rush because you are ordered to stop fighting the war on terror because you have the sniffles, Blae.
So here's a Marine listening to you to feel better in Afghanistan.
I was so thrilled.
That is a great story.
And what was this business?
Semi-sick?
Yes.
Confined to his room because he was semi-sick.
I think they had a cold or something going around.
My son didn't get it, but I had read on others that they were sick.
They had the cough.
They had the flu.
And so he was ordered to go to his room and he was spending time with your rush.
Well, it's a very heartwarming story.
Oh, I thought it was.
Can I have you give an urah to the 232 Red Devils in Afghanistan?
And I'm going to tell them to listen to you today.
Yeah.
What do you want me to say?
Well, just say, Uh-rah, Marines.
Hoorah, Marines of the 232 Red Devils in Afghanistan.
Thank you, Rush.
That is amazing.
And also, can we have more people go and go to your website and adopt a soldier, adopt a Marine so we can have more Marines listening to Rush?
Well, we'll work on it.
Yes.
Pat, thanks very much for the phone call.
I appreciate it.
Open line Friday.
We've got to take a brief time out.
We'll be right back after this.
Don't go away from the UK Daily Mail online.
A former member, not making this up.
A former member of Al-Qaeda has claimed that he left the terror group after they failed to pay for his pregnant wife's medical bills.
This is a story about a pilot for Osama bin Laden.
One of Osama bin Laden's pilot.
I left Al-Qaeda because they refused to pay my health care.
His wife and daughters now live in the United States.
He is cooperating with U.S. officials on the Africa embassy bombings.
He is ticked off.
He is mad.
He is becoming a turncoat because al-Qaeda is not paying his health care.
UK Daily Mail.
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