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Nov. 12, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 12, 2010, Friday, Hour #3
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Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
This is from the New York Daily News.
And yeah, it's a New York Daily News.
Quote-unquote journalist.
President Obama was a cool customer Thursday during a high-stakes powwow with Chinese Premier Hu Jintao in South Korea.
The leader's one-hour 20-minute summit focused on currency rifts, human rights, and the rogue regime in North Korea.
More so than the words, however, it was the body language that showed Obama running the showdown with the Chikom leader.
Are you kidding me?
They have to descend to this level to show this loser in a good light.
A body language expert says Obama ran the show with Hu Jintao.
Here's how Patty Wood, author of Success Signals, Body Language and Business, saw it.
President Obama is in a very relaxed body position and a less defensive body posture.
That's the best indication that this can be a positive communication for the president.
I'd say overall, he has the upper hand.
Hujintao is defensive.
That's the defensive posture with his arms clutched and his legs spread.
His arm over the side is protecting himself from Obama.
So, New York Daily News.
Yet, in the meetings, Hu Zhintao and Angela Merkel told Obama to pound sand.
They told him his economic policies are nowhere.
They are not going to sign on to him.
And yet, the New York Daily News, I'd say overall, Obama, because of a body language expert, had the upper hand.
The next, yeah, the crease of his trousers.
was that like?
Then here's the, now the San Jose Mercury News runs a New York Times story.
The headline, however, in the San Jose Mercury News is not the headline the New York Times ran.
Now, what do we just have?
We just have here, New York Daily News, keep this in perspective for you, body language expert says, Obama runs show in meeting with Chikom Premier Hu Jintao.
San Jose Mercury News.
Obama's economic view rejected on world stage.
And that happens to be right.
President Obama's hopes of emerging from his Asia trip with the twin victories of a free trade agreement with South Korea and a unified approach to spurring global economic growth ran into resistance on all fronts yesterday, putting Obama at odds with his key allies and largest trading partners.
The most concrete trophy expected to emerge from the trip eluded his grasp.
A long-delayed free trade agreement with South Korea, first negotiated by the Bush administration and then reopened by Obama to have greater protections for U.S. workers.
You know why it fell apart?
It's because Obama and the unions don't think that the South Koreans have enough green energy controls on their auto emissions and that kind of stuff.
So we're trying to dictate that you guys are putting too many parts per million of pollution in the cars or in your atmosphere from your cars.
And until you get your EPA standards down to where ours are, your emission standards, and South Korea's told him to go with pound sand.
Hu Jintao told him to go pound sand.
They don't like what we're doing with the Fed.
Angela Merkel ditto.
Obama's economic view rejected on world stage.
From the Washington Times, Germany rebuffs Obama on trade gap and the CHICOMs pile on over the economic reforms that the Fed is engaging in.
The Chikom said, if you're sick, don't ask others for the medicine.
And that's what they claim that we are doing by devaluing our dollar hoping to hamper their exports.
So all this hocus, Pocus, Obama's relaxed is because he's getting what America wants.
He's getting America's decline.
Mr. Bazinette, that's the name of the author of the New York Daily News story.
You go get your body language expert and you have her tell a truth.
Why is he relaxed?
He's getting what he wants.
He's getting a U.S. economy in decline.
What does the body language expert think of Obama's bowing to all of these people?
What's the subtle message there?
Germany rebuffs Obama on trade gap.
The Washington Post, Obama, weakened after midterms, reveals limited leverage in failed South Korea deal.
This is a deal that began with Bush, and it fell apart because Obama inserted American union demands and big auto demands.
And the South Koreans said to heck with it, we're not going to take a free trade deal with these kind of demands from you because these kind of demands end up hurting the South Korean economy just as they hurt our economy.
So in effect, what the CHICOMs were saying and what the Germans were saying via Angela Merkel, what the South Koreans were saying, look, Obama, if you want to destroy the U.S. economy, go ahead.
We'll deal with that, but you're not going to destroy ours directly.
That's essentially what they were saying.
Now, let's go to the audio sound bites.
Obama's not happy about the way he's being portrayed here.
This morning in South Korea, let's see, there was a press conference.
A reporter said, Mr. President, I'm hoping to get you in a little bit of a reflective mode here.
You spoke in your press conference in Washington about your relationship with the American people.
You said then that it had built slowly.
It peaked at this incredible high.
And then during the course of the last two years, it had gotten rockier and tougher.
I'm wondering if you think the same could be said of your relations with foreign leaders who maybe were just a teensy bit falling all over you when you first arrived on the world stage, but now you're really not that big a deal.
That's not how I remember it.
I remember our first G20.
You guys writing the exact same stories you're writing now about the exact same issues.
So sometimes I think naturally there's an instinct to focus on the disagreements because otherwise these summits might not be very exciting.
It's just a bunch of world leaders sitting around intervening.
And so there's a search for drama.
But what's remarkable is that in each of these successive summits, we've actually made real progress.
What progress?
When?
When has Obama ever succeeded at any international meeting or intervention?
What do you do when you sit around intervening?
That's what he said.
Here he's complaining to the media here.
He's blaming the media for the perception his trip failed.
Yeah, you're seeing a bunch of us sitting around intervening.
And you think there ought to be some drama here.
Obama's record is so bad, it's almost as if he doesn't want to succeed at these things, folks.
The other leaders are calling for deficit cuts.
Obama was rejected to the G20 back in June.
We haven't forgotten this.
The world has never embraced Obama.
There was a period early on when he had a rock star status and they all wanted to be standing next to him for the photo ops.
But once the guy started implementing policy, they didn't want any part of it.
Remember Sarkozy?
Sarkozy was the first to break away.
Then Angela Merkel did.
The Russians have been playing this for saps for who knows how long, as have the Chikoms.
And now the South Koreans have finally figured out that their economy is going to go down the tubes if they listen to Obama.
And the press is finally reporting this.
He's blaming the press because all they're doing is reporting is intervening.
Now listen to this.
Obama had a press conference, South Korea, sold South Korea, and he continued after that answer.
He says, well, you're sitting around intervening.
But each of these successive summits, we've actually made real progress.
And he said this.
The United States obviously has a special role to play on the international stage, regardless of who is president.
We are a very large, very wealthy, very powerful country.
We have had outsized influence over world affairs for a century now.
And you are now seeing a situation in which a whole host of other countries are doing very well and coming into their own.
And naturally, they are going to be more assertive in terms of their interests and ideas.
And that's a healthy thing.
The U.S. had outsized influence over world affairs for a century now.
This is our president at an economic summit of the 20 most powerful economic countries.
And he's telling the world that we have had an outsized influence over world affairs for a century now.
And it's about time that stopped.
It's good that these other countries coming into their own, being more assertive in terms of their interests and ideas, it's a healthy thing that we are in decline.
It's a healthy thing, but we are no longer the number one influence.
Could he put it any plainer?
Who among you can still doubt that Obama is secretly pleased with America's diminished position in the world, that he is happily presiding over the decline?
He is thrilled at having our wings clipped.
You can't say it any plainer.
He can't say it any plainer than he has said it in this meeting and in recent meetings.
Brief timeout, Open Line Friday, El Rushbo.
I just, the flow just started.
Man, Snerdley, people are ticked off at me over what I said about earmarks.
They think I've sold dement overboard under the water.
They think I've been bought off by rhino Republicans.
Well, when's the last time the audience was mad at me over something?
It happened before.
What I mean, I didn't defend who?
Well, no, no, I didn't defend them.
I said there's a bigger issue.
But what people are saying is, look, Rush, Rush.
I mean, come on now.
Earmarks, I mean, if they can't get rid of earmarks, that's by your own admission, Rush, I mean, that's piddling.
It's not a serious amount of money at all.
And if they can't get rid of those, then they're never going to do anything serious.
That's what I'm hearing.
People are really, really ticked at me.
I think to the land when I didn't endorse Perot.
But I'm being accused of having sold out to some rhinos.
They think some rhino called me on the phone and talked to me about this.
All of a sudden, now my thoughts are not my own.
Are you getting that, Snerdley?
Are you getting funk?
You only got one or two?
Oh.
It is, oh yeah, yeah, the porch deal, a Dubai porch deal.
They were mad.
That's what I was trying to remember.
Well, the audience is mad at me on Wednesday for trying to raise taxes in California.
That's nothing like this.
You ought to see it in there.
Jim Inhoff, senator from Oklahoma, he's sending a thing out about earmarks saying it's the biggest waste of time.
He said, if we don't spend the money, Obama's going to.
I don't understand what he's saying.
He's sending emails out, and he's got an op-ed that if Congress doesn't spend the earmark money, Obama will, and better us than Obama.
He doesn't explain how Obama gets hold of it if they don't spend it.
So my only point about earmarks was it's tiny compared to how big the whole objective here is.
I'm not saying don't.
Geez.
Anyway, when Congress reconvenes next week, the lame duck, 100 newly elected members are going to be in town at the same time for their orientation on where everything is: how to provide for their staffing, where they'll office all at the newbies.
And on the minds of the majority of the newbies, the freshmen going to the Capitol next week is their agenda for 2011, including the repeal of Obamacare.
It's going to be a stark contrast.
These newbies showing up in town with fire in their bellies to get rid of Obamacare and a number of stuff while existing incumbents dig in their heels.
The Heritage Foundation has produced some of the best research on Obamacare with new information released just today focusing on the burden put on the states.
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Susan in Jamaica, Virginia.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Oh, my goodness.
I don't know what you had for breakfast this morning, but you are right on.
And as I recall, we had control of the federal government under Bush, and we all blew it.
Not just Bush with his book coming out.
We got lazy, lackadaisical, and we have almost lost our country.
I remember over the last couple of years, you kept us going, kept our hopes up, kept us optimistic, and callers calling in, almost in tears, well, some of them in tears, saying, What can we do, Rush?
What can we do other than vote?
And it wasn't time to vote.
And now we are almost back in the saddle, and we have got their attention.
And you are so right.
We need to hammer them, hammer them with our, We didn't, we weren't even, we weren't able to reduce the size of government even under Reagan.
We're going to have to try another approach.
And this is not to criticize Reagan.
This is to illustrate how challenging it is.
Look at our own party, Susan, there are going to be Republicans who want us to think that they're serious when they're not about this.
I know, I know, but no matter how small our idea or our comment or our support, we have just got to tell our representatives.
And I don't mean just one.
I mean we need to tell all of them.
We need to set the agenda, like you said.
That's right.
We need to set the debate.
That's right.
We need to support their actions.
That's right.
And we need to overshout the media, the drive-by media, with our voices.
And Rush, can I tell you something else that since it's Open Line Friday?
No.
Oh, go ahead.
Go ahead.
Well, I wanted to tell you that you, over the last couple years, when I heard all those callers calling in that were speaking from my heart, that were saying, what can we do?
What can we do?
Well, somewhere along the line, you planted an idea in my head, and I started a website to help it makes a breeze out of writing to our representatives.
And you can write to all our representatives one letter.
I've designed the whole thing.
So can I tell you what it is?
Sure, by all means.
Okay.
It's called the 99centslobby.com.
And I wasn't going to call you today, but oh my God, you just spoke to my heart.
Isn't it funny how that happens?
I wasn't going to call you and tell you about it.
I was going to write to you and not call you.
But honestly, we have got to tell them.
And I was at a fundraiser for my local congressman, and he spoke to the people, and he doesn't even know about the idea yet.
But he said, you have got to tell us what you want us to do.
We have got to know that you're behind us.
And maybe that was just trying to drum up support.
I have a lot of people.
But they have got some hard work.
Wait a second.
I have a little problem with that.
After this election, you've got an elected official saying we need to tell him what to do.
We need to let him know we've got his back.
It was before the election.
Oh.
It was before the election.
But I think we need to tell them what we want cut.
We need to give them ideas.
We need to.
On our website, you can write to just Republicans if you want to.
You can write to one person or almost 600.
Right.
But we need to tell them, whether we use that or just regular email or we sit down and write them a card, we need to tell them.
All right.
I appreciate the call, Susan.
Thank you, El Mucho.
And we've got a brief time out here, folks.
We'll take it and be back right after this.
Back to the phones, Bloomington, Illinois.
Mark, nice to have you on the program.
Hello.
Great to talk to you, Rush.
Longtime fan.
Thank you.
Rush, I was just calling in after listening to you talk about the Bamster with the Chopcoms, and I just kind of got to thinking, I think it was Ronaldos Magnus that said that the biggest problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
Right.
And do you think that what could be happening here is a rejection of that?
Obviously, there are socialist countries all over the world that are obviously getting money from the United States, and they see the writing on the wall that obviously we start to fail, ultimately their way of life is going to go down as well.
Well, anything's possible.
I like the theory that the communists and the socialists of the world are upset that we're not capitalist enough to provide them any money.
I also, that sounds entirely plausible to me.
They can't afford for us to be a socialist nation.
No, they can't.
And they certainly, it doesn't sound like they're happy with us destroying ourselves.
Well, sorry, with Obama destroying us.
It's clear that the powers of the world are not happy.
I mean, somebody has to work in the world.
Somebody has to pay for all of these freebies.
If we're going to have a system of freebies, if we're going to have a system where the new castrati think they get to go to school for free, if we're going to have a system where the new castrati think that whatever they want is not going to cost them anything, somebody's going to have to pay for it.
Global warming, all of these UN deals are nothing more than an attempt to fleece the United States.
The rest of the world has sought to fleece us.
The rest of the world has said, well, you know, you guys have all the money and we're going to tax you.
We're going to try to get you to pay your fair share.
Finally, we've elected somebody that agrees with the UN that we had stolen from the rest of the world and we need to give it back.
And he's in the process of doing it.
Now the world sees what happens if we in the process of getting destroyed and they're not happy with it.
They don't want us to become Greece.
I think the guys onto something here because somebody has to pay for all the sponges.
And if we don't, I guarantee them to you, there's nobody else that's going to do it.
If we're not capable of disaster relief, if we're not capable of producing food to feed the world, if we're not capable of either producing or consuming the high-tech advances in the world, who else is going to do it?
And at some point, the dependent always figure out who it is they're depending on and realize the dependent people they're depending on have to stay solvent.
I don't know that the world always hoped that we would implode, but I never thought, I don't think they really thought we would do it to ourselves.
And now they see it.
And they obviously aren't happy.
You know the Germans are not happy.
You know the French aren't happy.
And that's saying something.
You know the Brits are not happy.
And fundamentally, the Chikoms themselves aren't happy with what's happening to our economy.
And for a whole lot of reasons, chief among them is that they own so much of our debt.
And the more inflation, if we devalue the dollar, the worse their holdings become.
They're not happy about this in any way, shape, manner, or form.
Meanwhile, Obama sits up there with all the great body language and the body language experts.
He looks like he's in control there over Hu Zhinta.
Because Obama gets to sit there and preside over all of this.
I guarantee you, these students, these long-haired, maggot-infested, dope-smoking students in the UK, they know the CHICOMs are not going to pay for them.
They know the French aren't going to pay for them.
They certainly know the Iranians aren't going to pay for them.
They know that Hugo Chavez isn't going to pay for them.
They know that their own country's running out of money to pay for them.
They know the Russians aren't going to pay for them.
All of these dependent nations with their dependent people, they all know upon whom they are depending.
And they know they don't have the guts to go protest in China.
They don't have the guts to go protest in Venezuela.
They don't have the guts to go demand all this in Russia.
They don't have the guts to go protest and demand all this in France.
They don't have the guts to go anywhere and demand them, but they'll come here and demand it.
And they'll go to the UN and demand it.
Or they'll go wherever we happen to be around the world and demand it.
Can you imagine what would happen if these I'm looking for a different word than sponge?
Can you imagine if they actually bought transportation tickets to Beijing to protest Hu Jintao?
Can you imagine what would happen?
So bottom line is, Mr. Limbaugh, Mr. Limbaugh, are you standing up for the communist Chinese system?
No, no, no.
I'm just suggesting to you that the sycophants, the worthless, the incapable of the world like you, Mr. New Castrati, know who you're feeding off of and who you can't feed off of.
And the thing that's amazing and humorous is who do you attack?
You attack who feeds you.
You attack and try to tear down who supports you and defend those who want.
I mean, put very simply, the left knows the Chikoms are not going to give many handouts.
Ask the Chikom people if they're getting any handouts.
It isn't going to happen.
So the audio soundbites last night over at NBC or MSNBC, they're not happy with Obama.
They're just not happy over there.
This is how Chris Matthews opened his show ripping the one.
Is this any way to treat an American electorate, an angry electorate, to hold a press conference, announce no new changes, then leave town the same day that Speaker Perlosi says she's staying?
What's the message here?
That the message of the voter lies in the inbox at the White House?
We'll get to it when we get time.
We'll get to it when we get back in the country.
Upset, big shellacking, Obama flees.
Democrats take it big time Obama on the 747 out of town, goes over there to Asia, to India, to Indonesia, goes back home.
Matthews says, and leave us with Pelosi, who says she's going to run again, so he sought solace.
Matthews sought comfort from Howard Feynman, who left Newsweek and is now at the Huffing and Puffington Post.
Matthews said, Howard, I mean, aren't these things that presidents should appear to be doing?
Shaking up the cabinet, shaking up the White House, doing things that show I got it.
I see what happened here.
My party took it on the chin.
I got the message.
He's got to show he's upset about the economy.
I'm going to try to do upgrade my effort.
I'm going to enhance the effort.
I got to fix these problems.
Isn't it time, Howard, that Obama showed he cared?
Well, I spent a good bit of time over at the White House yesterday, and I got the sense that they're operating on their own schedule.
They're going to stick to their schedule.
Around the White House, they've literally taken all the carpets out, and they're redoing stuff that I don't make us feel better.
That I don't sense among the people there who are left behind.
So you make my point.
Including David Axelroff.
Wait, that they're thinking of changing things in any dramatic way.
So Matthews is looking for some solace.
He's looking for somebody to say, Chris, you got it all wrong.
They really care over there.
So he goes and puts the call out to Howard Feynman.
Feynman comes and says, hey, Chris, I hate to tell you, but I don't think they even care.
I mean, the thing at the top of their agenda is changing their rugs while most of the White House is out of the country.
They're changing their car.
Oh, that'll really help.
Then Pelosi, this is in roll call, cleared about 5.30.
Let's see, a couple days ago.
Speaker Pelosi told Democrat leaders Wednesday afternoon, this after a party, that Obama has to be perfect to win a second term.
Pelosi told leaders on a conference call that Obama will have problems running for re-election because of the loss of governorships in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and other states.
The soon-to-be ex-Speaker also said that House Democrats have many opportunities to take back 25 House seats and win back the majority.
Leadership aide denied Pelosi said any such thing.
Let me ask you a question.
What, in your mind, what does it matter?
She said he's going to have problems running for re-election because of the loss of governorships in Ohio and Pennsylvania and other states.
Why would that matter?
Why does it matter who the governor is in these states?
Why does it matter?
Why does it really?
I mean, we're talking about a national election presidential race.
What does it matter who the governor is?
Well, if they're complaining about his health care plan, I know it doesn't help, but governors can help you cheat if they're in your party.
They can work with your Secretary of State.
It's called vote counting.
It's called redistricting.
This is pure raw politics that Pelosi's talking about.
She's not talking about ideas at all.
She's not talking anything but raw numbers.
Pure and simple.
That's what it comes down to.
And have you ever wondered when Pelosi says Obama's got to be perfect?
What's that mean?
In Pelosi's world, what does it mean Obama being perfect?
More like Hugo Chavez?
More like Castro?
More like Lenin?
Stalin?
Who?
That's just the things I think about when I hear these things.
Ron in Etters, Pennsylvania, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Maybe dithers, Rush.
Thank you.
The reason I'm calling is just want your take on the backdoor cap and tax with between Bernanke with quantitative raising the oil prices and the EPA new restrictions that they're publishing for the state government.
Well, let me first understand your theory.
You think that QE2 is a backdoor to cap and trade.
Is that what you're saying?
That with the other agencies, yeah.
Well, the truth is that the EPA can implement cap and trade if they want to.
Right now, the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court has given them authority over carbon.
Yeah, but quantitative easing with the devaluation of the dollar is going to raise barrel oil to astronomical sums.
Well, yeah, theoretically, the price of all could go up.
Well, it's already going up.
Well, I mean, to astronomical levels.
Wake it.
Sir, is that you?
No, it's my dog.
Oh, I was going to say it.
Oh, by the way.
Everybody else has been disagreeing with me today.
I'm used to being treated that way like a dog today.
Anyway, last time the oil price got to $150, the gasoline price was $4, and that was a tipping point.
That's when people went nuts.
Well, we're climbing that way again.
Well, you devalue the dollar.
So what your theory is is a backdoor way to get the price of oil up, which gets the price of gasoline up, which causes everybody to use less, drive less, ergo, cap and trades in play without them having to implement it.
Correct.
Correct.
Also, my wife did come up with another word for sponge for you.
That's parasite.
Parasite.
Yeah, I like that too.
Al Franken's one of those.
Oh, yeah.
There are a number of parasites out there.
Look, devaluation of the dollar is a backdoor tax on everything, folks.
The devaluation of the dollar is a backdoor tax on everything.
It's a mess.
Whether they're going backdoor, cap and trade, backdoor.
All you need to know, just listen to Obama.
The days of our exceptionalism are done and over with.
The days of us leading the world are over with.
He's happy about all of this.
And his policies are responsible in large part for the direction that we are headed.
I must tell you, Open Line Friday today has been a bomb.
But you take that risk.
Sometimes when you turn over the program to rank amateurs, it's what you get.
And that's the purpose of the program.
So we will regroup.
It was.
It was a bomb.
I'm going to be regretting this until noon tomorrow when I leave for Pittsburgh.
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