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Oct. 28, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 28, 2010, Thursday, Hour #3
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You tell them I haven't got time right.
Do they not know what time of day it is?
It's amazing what people think I'm capable of doing.
All at the same time.
And they're genuinely right.
Yeah, I am sort of busy.
Great to have you back, folks.
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Last night I was watching Hannity.
And I don't normally watch the nighttime TV shows anymore.
I've I don't know.
You just you you evolve Well, yeah, I am married, and there's a lot better stuff to do than watch tell No The Bachelor's Not On.
No, I'm not watching Dancing with the Stars.
I live in mortal fear they're gonna ask me to be on that show.
No, I no, I've never watched the cooking channel.
I don't watch the food channel.
I've never watched nothing against it.
Don't I see if I s when I start saying I don't watch this stuff, people think I have an animus against these things.
I don't.
At any rate, I we were sitting there, we're still channel surfing around, and and Hannity is on, and he has a segment with the Nicole Wallace, formerly Nicole Devinish.
And I always admired her work.
She was at the Bush shop during the campaign and in the White House for a while.
Uh I think during the first term, maybe even a little bit of the second.
And she's in the communications uh shop, communications director.
She's written a book called 18 Acres.
It's a novel.
And it's it's strange, you know, I went to buy it today.
I I have three e-book readers on my iPad.
I got Nook from Barnes and Noble.
I've got iBooks from Apple, and of course, Kindle at Amazon.
And only Kindle and Amazon has it.
Barnes and Noble is not making the E version of Nicole Wallace's book available, and nor is iBooks.
Now, iBooks did make my brother's book available until they found out he was my brother.
And then they they withdrew it.
I kid you not, they did withdraw it.
They did.
So anyway, it her her novel is about a female president whose husband's having an affair.
Female president whose husband I think I think that's right.
I haven't I haven't read the book yet.
I I just heard her describing.
Well, it I could be wrong.
It could be a uh a male president whose wife is having an affair.
I I it all went by fast.
I mean, I've got I've got the iPad right behind me.
I can look it real quick, but I'm busy.
I know I can multitask.
I'll try to find it during the break.
At any rate, somebody on the research staff, which is me, uh, could probably tell me about it before the segment is over.
Hint hint.
Anyway, Nicole Wallace last night was talking with Hannity about the political environment, about politico, with a story saying that uh today it's too late.
All the economic data uh gonna come out before the election, too late to save the Democrats.
Like the unemployment news today is ostensibly not bad.
They're surprised at how uh the job applications fell.
Well, unemployment applications fell.
They've cooked the books again.
But the question basically was is there anything can happen here on out economically that could save the day for the uh for the Democrats.
And uh Hannity said, you know, the the the American people get it.
The Democrats have destroyed the economy.
Here's what I thought about when I saw Biden's comment.
The first 30 days of the Obama presidency, Rush Limbaugh gave a speech at CPAC, and the mainstream media focused on the statement, I hope he fails.
He meant his policies failed.
Both of you also made the point that Republicans would be best served by making this a philosophical and ideological discussion about the role of the federal government in American life.
We have done just that.
The Obama administration has helped us every day of every month since she's been president because he fundamentally misread the American public and their disdain.
Now that's that's Nicole Wallace.
She's uh uh uh also talking about uh Biden running around saying that every great American invention happened because of government involvement, which is of course what the uh old Soviet Union used to always say.
Yeah, I was right.
Nicole Wallace's book is uh 18 acres, it's the first female president of the United States, uh Charlotte Kramer and a husband is accused of infidelity.
So that's I bought the book today, and I tried to I tried to buy it all three just to see where it's available.
And only Amazon Kendall has it as an e-book.
Anyway, I played the soundbite here because it's not often that CPAC speech is referenced.
It's not often, but I it but but she referenced, and she got it right, meaning I hope his policies fail.
And she also this this is I remember making the point way back when that the way to oppose Obama was on ideology, liberal versus conservative, not policy by policy by policy, not meeting him halfway, not thinking this is just the standard every day in American politics in Washington, where one day the Democrats run the show and then they trade power four years later and the Republicans are running the show.
This is different.
And the uh the way to oppose Obama is on philosophical and ideological grounds.
And you know, I was the only one.
I mean, even before he was immaculated, I said I hope he fails.
Before he was immaculated, I knew who he was, and I suggested the way to stop this guy, the way to oppose him is because he's liberal, and the country doesn't want liberals, and he has done a good job of making people think he's above and beyond any philosophical uh identity or or ideological identity.
So I wanted to play her soundbite because it's so few people that get it.
Well, you may be right, Snerdley.
So few people acknowledge that they got it.
But uh but she did.
Interesting, interesting uh story here.
This is from India today.
You listen to this.
Obama's trip to India next month, set to be the biggest ever by any U.S. president in terms of the protocol and logistics.
Headlines today in India access the details of elaborate arrangements that will be in place to guard Obama during his three-day trip beginning on November 6th.
I mean, he's literally getting out of the country two days after the elections.
He will be accompanied by U.S. First Lady Muchell Obama and their daughters Malia and Sasha.
Uh earlier Obama's daughters were not to be part of the trip, but sources reveal that Muchell's opinion prevailed, and now the girls will accompany the first American couple to India.
Now get this.
The presidential entourage will consist of 40 aircraft, including both Air Force Ones.
There will be six armored cars, including the Barack Mobile, the presidential limousine.
The Cadillac limousine equipped with a mini communication center to enable Obama to be in touch with the White House, the U.S. Vice President and the U.S. Strategic Command.
It also has the U.S. nuke launch codes.
Let's hope Obama doesn't lose them as Clinton did once.
That was reported earlier this week.
Forty aircraft.
I told you yesterday they have taken the entire Taj Mahal hotel.
Five hundred and seventy rooms.
Forty aircraft.
Now, how many people is he taking?
570 rooms just in one hotel.
You have to take the Secret Service, of course.
You got to take a bunch of transport planes to take the limousines over there.
I know Hillary's not going to be there.
Hillary's where is she now?
She'd probably be back in the country on November 6th when Obama's gone.
Somebody has to be in charge.
Thirty sniffer dogs will be put on service to boost the security arrangements during Obama's visit.
Three Marine One choppers will be torn apart, put on transport aircraft, and reassembled in India to fly Obama and his family around.
The helicopters will also assist in evacuation in case of emergency.
The Secret Service will put up two command posts in Delhi and Mumbai, which will act as the communications nerve centers.
These centers will keep an eye on each movement by the president with real time satellite monitoring.
Forty aircraft, including both Air Force Ones.
Well, in fairness, both Air Force Ones travel all the time.
One's a decoy carrying the press around press overflow.
And as should be pointed out, Obama will be taking his teleprompter.
He's going to make a speech at the Indian Parliament where for the first time ever, a teleprompter will be used.
A teleprompter has never been used in the Indian Parliament.
Obama is going to break that tradition.
I've been told he uses teleprompter in staff meetings.
I have been told he uses teleprompters in cabinet meetings, where he's only dealing with staff.
I believe it.
I know it to be true.
We know he took a teleprompter with him to a grade school.
Yeah, I was right.
18 acres by Nicole Wallace is about the first female president, the 45th U.S. president, Melanie Kingston, whose husband is alleged to have an affair.
Now who could believe such a thing?
I mean, could you imagine anybody married to Hillary Clinton having an affair?
But Nicole Wallace has conceived of this and has written about it in novel form.
18 acres, by the way, is the size of the White House complex.
So, I mean, if I wanted to be really racy, I mean, we could say we have 18 acres and a jackass.
I could be if I can't be the media tweak of the day.
Speaking of the media tweak of the day, I've got a picture of it.
Here is a picture of Obama addressing his own middle class task force using a teleprompter.
Right here, Snerdley, Obama addresses dozen members of middle class task force, and there's the teleprompter.
I see the teleprompter screens.
And I see Larry Summers sitting around here, and some of the other people looks like well, I can't tell who but there's there's there's 12 of them.
Biden was in charge of it.
And umdle class task force, one of his own subgroups, and he's speaking to them with a teleprompter.
We go to Chico, California.
Aaron, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Conservative Ditto's Russ, how are you doing?
Very well, sir.
Thanks very much.
Yeah, remember by the way, Barack Obama took a uh teleprompter to a rodeo during the campaign, which was hilarious.
But his teleprompter to a rodeo.
Don't you remember that during the campaign?
He went to a rodeo.
I forget which state it was, but he took a teleprompter there.
You commented on it briefly, but it was a good one.
Yeah, I think I do.
Yeah, now that you bring it up that way, yes.
Yes, I don't.
Yes.
But uh anyway, um, my uh my comment was about a theory I had about that letter that was sent to you from the Hill.
The Hill about Hills.
Hill buzz.
Yes, the Hillbuzz.
But uh not realizing how bad um it really is gonna be for the Democrats.
Yes.
And I think it's because um ever since you did say that, uh, I hope he failed in having that CPAC speech that people have actually began to listen and examine really who Obama is, what the Democrats have been doing, and how they've acted, but also how the media really has just not told what the truth is about what the Democrats are doing, what they're saying, and the covers coming off, and people are starting to question for how long the media has been doing this.
I mean, because I've listened to you, and I've heard what you said as far as the information.
How old are you?
Me, I'm 38.
38.
Okay, that's that's perfect.
That's perfect.
So a lot of this stuff is new to you.
You probably how long you've been paying attention to this stuff on a daily basis.
Um I've been listening to your show roughly about nine years now, and I've been more informed ever since.
And I I used to not believe what I've been hearing, and I bet I went and checked it out, and you're absolutely right.
Okay, you are without a doubt, correct.
Thank you.
So your your theory is that moderates, Democrats are now starting to go deeper than what the mainstream media is is saying about who Obama is, what the Democrats are doing, and all of this uh all the policy, and you're sort of agreeing with the Hillbuzz people that there is more of a defection going on within the Democrat Party than anybody knows.
Yeah, and all you have to do is look at the media and their plummeting ratings.
Um, it's all true.
I mean, all all of I I think it's all connected as well.
I mean, I find it, and I've commented on it routinely.
It really is kind of comical to watch the media report every day on Obama.
Here, the country is is is being ripped to shreds.
Obama's policies are tearing down the greatest engine of economic production activity we've ever had in the world.
Rising unemployment is surprising.
The fact the stimulus didn't work is surprising, and they report on this as though it's just ho-hum everyday politics, and they cover up the the actual destruction that's taking place on purpose, and you conclude that they're either in on it or they're so naive and stupid,
so devoted, I mean, such groupies, that their guy can't do anything wrong, and that their number one objective is to be protective.
Uh I I just it it's it's stunning to watch.
It's stunning to watch the news business lose itself.
It's stunning to watch them look at CNN.
Couldn't anybody imagine?
Let's go back 30 years.
Let's go back 25 years, just 25 years.
Twenty-five years ago, you had ABC, CBS, NBC.
You're 38.
So within your lifetime, Aaron, there was a period where there was only one cable news network of CNN.
Everything else was network, CBS, ABC, NBC, Washington Post, New York Times, uh USA Today kicks up in the uh in the uh early 80s, I believe.
Uh maybe late 70s.
Nope, 80s.
Regardless, CNN was it, and therefore in cable news, they were a giants.
And when breaking news was happening, emergency news, crisis news, they owned everything.
And it was the networks who are behind the eight ball, the networks behind the curve.
CNN has presided over their demise.
CNN, the people that run that network, the people that owned it, created it, founded it, operated it, have sat there and presided over its demise to practical irrelevance.
They have done nothing about it in the process.
The efforts they have made to arrest it have only worsened the problem.
They routinely lose audience.
I saw the other day that this new show they have at 8 o'clock has set an all-time network low, CNN low, of something like 50,000 viewers in the 18 to 25 or 25 to 54 demographic.
Now in the old days, you lose audience like that, you get canned long before it gets to this point.
They are, and it's not just CNN now, it's MSNBC and all these major networks newspapers, are literally presiding over their own demise, doing nothing about it.
Now it stuns me.
As a media guy myself, it it genuinely stuns me.
Now, I know that modern media has become fractured and niche audiences are now pursued rather than mass audience.
Except I don't look at it there.
I I'm not looking at a niche.
But if you look at cable television, it is niche.
I mean, the food channels obviously looking at a niche audience.
They're not mass marketing.
But you would think that news networks would be mass marketing.
What's niche about news?
That's at some point you figure everybody wants to be informed at some point about something.
But it just stuns me professionally to watch to see these once great entities shrink right before our very eyes.
And literally nothing be done about it.
In fact, it's excused.
It's well, you know, our audiences uh being fractured.
Uh fewer and fewer people really have the sophistication to understand what we do here at ABC.
Uh or fewer and fewer have the sophistication to understand what we do here at PBS or what have you.
Uh, yes, we have lost readers here at the New York Times, but the ones who are left are really, really smart.
It's the excuses that are made uh for this.
It's just mind-boggling.
Were I in their circumstances, I'd be long gone.
I I could not survive an audience plummet.
And I myself, I would fire me.
I would realize the time's up.
And if something like that started to happen, I would not blame the audience, which is what they do.
I wouldn't say, those stupid people, they're not smart enough to figure out what I'm doing.
They can't keep up with me, but the left.
That's what they do.
I would first say, what am I doing to screw up here?
What am I doing?
It's no longer working.
If if if there were media back during the days of Nero, they would write glowing stories of how well he played the fiddle while Rome burned to the ground.
Which is what they're doing with Obama.
America's going to hell in a handbasket, and they're writing about what a great communicator he is, and how come he's not really doing it as well as he used to?
And can he get the old magic back?
He is single-handedly destroying the country and single-handedly helping to destroy them by virtue of their loyalty to him.
And they sit there in awe.
They just boggle my mind with it.
It's...
you It's very strange to a broadcast professional.
Here's Shelley Darry in Illinois.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Welcome.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you.
It's an honor to speak to you.
Thank you very much.
I have become totally absorbed into this political scene, and this is my first time voting.
I became an American citizen in 2008, and what a great kind country you have, but so many people don't realize it.
Uh I have to do it.
It's worse than that.
It's worse than that.
It's not that some people don't realize it, it's that some people don't think it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Exactly, exactly.
Now I was an RN in Canada for 30 years.
So this Obamacare really got me going.
I didn't say too much at first, and then my patients realized that I knew about Canadian health care system, and they'd say, okay, Shelley, uh, what's it really like?
The first thing that really opened their eyes rush is when they found out it wasn't free.
It's not free.
It's not free in Canada.
My income tax was 42% When I left in 2003, and our sales tax is 13% on everything you buy and on services, like even getting a haircut.
So it's not free.
When I became an RN here in the United States, I I couldn't believe that I didn't have to wait for my patients for a year to have uh a hip replacement done.
They didn't have to wait in the ER department for three hours to nine hours.
Wait a while, and it'll happen here.
We can't, we can't allow this to go through.
And we have to make sure that the politicians that we put in on November the second stick to what they say or they get booted out.
They say, oh, yes, we're going to repeal, we're going to be repeal.
But when they get there, are they going to do that?
Lordy B. They're going to be able to do that.
We will see.
We we will see.
There's going to be a couple things we're going to see.
A lot of us are expecting lip service.
Is it going to be serious?
Or is it going to be articulated in a ways they think just to satisfy us to make us believe they're taking it seriously?
We will be able to tell.
We'll know.
Let me run through this again.
I'm glad you brought this up, Shelley.
Let me run through again.
Because there are stories today all through the media.
What is Obama's post-election governing strategy?
Well, what's ours?
We know who Obama is.
We know what he's going to do, and we know what he's not going to do.
Really, right now the great unknown is our side.
That's where everybody's focus is going to be, starting next.
Actually, the remainder of the year, because the Democrats are going to come back.
There's going to be a lame duck session.
What are they going to do?
If they lose big folks, don't be surprised if they try to jam everything in the world we hate down our throats.
As the price we must pay for not voting for them.
Here's what the Republicans can do.
Act.
I'm just going to run through this again.
Act immediately.
On votes to repeal Obamacare.
On votes to deny EPA the power to regulate through cap and trade.
Move immediately to make permanent the Bush tax cuts.
Don't wait for the Democrats to come up with whatever they want to do for it in the lame duck.
Move immediately.
Take the offense.
They are going to have the majority.
Don't act on defense and don't wait for them to establish a premise.
John Boehner McConnell come out on Wednesday or Thursday of next week and say, here's what we're going to do.
This is what's in store.
And we are going to write, we're going to work to repeal health care.
We're going to make sure the EPA cannot universally implement cap and trade.
We're going to make sure the Bush tax cuts are made permanent.
We are going to move immediately to make permanent the Bush tax cuts and also press for a single constitutional amendment, limiting the size of federal government by limiting the percentage of GDP the federal government can spend in any given year.
we're going to oppose any more radicals on the Supreme Court or elsewhere in the federal bench.
Win, lose, or draw.
They will be fighting for the right things.
Border security.
Use resources in personnel and physical structures to secure the border.
This is not even going to be controversial.
Unless you oppose national security and the rule of law.
But the important thing here, don't wait for the deficit reduction commission in December.
I have a fear that some of our guys are going to do that.
Don't wait for them.
Don't wait for Alan Simpson.
Don't wait for Irks and Bowls.
Establish your own agenda.
Make permanent the Bush tax cuts.
Well, Mr. Limbo, I'm really hold off on that.
Uh deficit commission might recommend uh something opposite to that, and we might have to agree with some of it.
I'm sure that's the mindset of some of the um some of the Republicans.
It's very simple.
Win, lose, or draw.
Don't have to win these things.
No, you know, we're not unrealistic.
We know Obama can veto all this.
But you make him veto it.
You make them show themselves.
You make them illustrate who they are.
You start the campaign for 2012 next week by spelling out and articulating, which will then educate and inform what we are for.
Don't accept any of their premises.
You know, the premise is that this deficit reduction commission is going to have all the power.
It has none.
They do not have the authority to implement one or any of their recommendations.
They can be totally blown off.
They can be totally ignored.
Now, they won't be, because the purpose of the commission is to take the heavy lifting away from elected officials.
The purpose of the commission is so elected official A can say, hey, I didn't want to do this, but the commission said.
It isn't me.
Same theory behind base closing.
Closures.
Blue ribbon panel here for the next round of base closure.
Yeah, we're going to close the base in your town.
Your congressman had nothing to do with it.
A blue blue ribbon panel came in.
Oh, don't hold it against your congressman.
That's what's going to happen.
We don't have to sit around and accept their none of this is hard.
None of it's hard.
In fact, it ought to be easy.
Because it's natural.
This is, after all, who we are and what we believe.
How hard is it to state that our objective is to reign in the reach of the federal government.
How hard is it to say or to declare that America is a free country?
That Americans are a free people.
And the purpose of the federal government is to guarantee that freedom and liberty.
How hard is that to say?
It's easy to say.
And it's not that hard to do.
And doing it will cause an eruption on the left, which is what we want.
We want to continually expose them.
We want them to continually expose themselves to be who they are.
From Amy Gardner in the Washington Post, Tea Party antics could end up burning Republicans.
The Tea Party's volatile influence on this election appears to be doing more harm than good for Republicans' chances.
Now let's just stop right there.
It doesn't matter how she finishes this sentence.
There is no way under the sun the Tea Party influence is doing more harm than good for the Republicans.
She's reporting this as news.
Amy Gardiner, staff writer, not staff analyst, not op-ed contributor.
The Tea Party's volatile influence on this election year appears to be doing more harm than good for Republicans' chances.
The rest of this, by virtue of that flaw, is rendered irrelevant.
Don't even need to tell you the rest of the sentence.
I'll tell you anyway.
She's trying to make the case here that in a couple of Senate races the Tea Party impact is hurting the GOP.
We're going to pick up.
Let's say, let's say it's just 40 seats.
I don't care.
Let's say it's just 40 seats.
Nobody's predicting Democrats are going to gain seats.
The Democrats were going to have eternal power after Obama was elected.
The Republicans were supposed to be out of power for a generation, if not forever.
The Republicans were to have been obliterated.
And why?
Because the era of Reagan was over.
Next to Obamaism, conservatism was going to be the end of the Republican Party.
And yet, look, what is everybody talking about?
How big is the Republican victory going to be?
That's what everybody's talking about.
And we get from the Washington Post from Amy Gardner.
The Tea Party's volatile influence on this election appears to be doing more harm than good for Republicans' chances.
I am convinced Amy Gardner is trying to tweak me.
I'm convinced Amy Gardner wanted her name and her story mentioned on the EIB network.
I don't believe Amy Gardner even believes this.
This article is just too pathetic.
It's too hapless to be anything else than a rush limbaugh media tweak.
On the bubble.
Oh, oh, on the bubble of employment.
Needs a little note.
Oh, I was gonna say she's in the bubble or either is a bubble.
Try this headline from Reuters in uh yet another unbelievable story.
Vote could change direction of health care reform.
Yeah, that's kind of what we're counting on here.
It's news to Reuters, though, that the vote could change direction of health care reform.
And they're not happy about it when you read the story.
But they just figured it out.
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