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Jan. 4, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 4, 2011, Tuesday, Hour #3
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And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists, fun lovers all across the fruited plane.
I, the lovable, harmless little fuzzball known as El Rushbow, the all-knowing, all-caring, all seeing, all feeling, all everything Maha Rushy from behind the golden EIB microphone, broadcast excellence for another hour, 800-282.
2882 is the number if you want to be on the program.
Folks, look, as I you might not have caught this very short programming segment uh to end the previous hour.
Well, we've been talking about strategies a lot today.
Look, I have to be wrong about certain things.
Otherwise, you're going to think that I'm not human.
I have to I have to show I'm here.
I've got to be wrong about something now and then.
So I choose to be wrong if I end up being wrong about insignificant things, like the Philadelphia Eagles and whether or not they're going to make the playoffs or win a football game or what have you against team.
Now, one week from today, I I did make a bet, a steak dinner.
I owe somebody a steak dinner over my prediction about the Eagles not making the playoffs.
And that guy is the producer of the Haney Project starring me, which premieres one week from today on the golf channel at 9 p.m.
Now we've got this is eight 30-minute episodes.
We've got six, well, five and a half in the can.
We got two more to do.
We'll wrap it up sometime toward the middle or end of February.
And the producer is a guy named Tom Farrell.
He's from Philadelphia.
And he gives me presents like Phillies caps and stuff.
With a big gleam in his eye.
Hey Rush, I brought you something.
You know what, Tom?
Here's a Phillies cap.
Going right into the World Series.
So I made him a bet with this, and he every time the Eagles win, he sends me this reminder that I made uh that I made this prediction.
But the Haney Project starts one week from I think it's at 9 o'clock Eastern time.
We've got, in fact, a couple of promos that the golf channel is already running.
Uh you can get them on our app as part of the video library we have there or at Rush Limbaugh.com.
Uh I have, of course, since I'm in the show, I've seen I've got I've got the rough cuts of the first four episodes in my uh in my briefcase, sitting right behind me here.
And this has been an experience.
It really has.
This show is eight 30-minute episodes, which basically 22 and a half minutes of programming.
The rest is uh commercials and promos and so forth.
So 22 and a half minutes.
And we've probably got a hundred hours of video shot, between 80 and 100 hours of there was one session, episode, I don't know, it's episode three, I think.
And I went to Hank's ranch down in Dallas.
Six hours without a break, with one club, seven iron, inside in his training facility and videotaped and outside on his range.
Six hours.
The the the golf channel's video crew, Unionized, took two breaks.
I'm out there with one club.
Six hours, and that was, and that was before we got the putting.
Putting was another hour.
And but it's it's it's I mean, there's so much the video we the outtakes of this thing.
The golf channel could make a a year-long series out of all the video that's been shot on this.
Now, we've got video from Hawaii, we got video from Dallas, video from here in Palm Beach, we shot over in the Bahamas.
Uh we're gonna be shooting out on the left coast, and perhaps, perhaps, even Mexico, before we uh before we wrap this up.
And it's been a hoot, and I would love, I can't I can't give anything away here, but I would love to be able to tell you what's gonna happen on this show.
I would love but I, of course, I would be a fool to do that.
I may be giving too much a wave by even saying that.
But it has been um it has It has been uh far more time intensive than I thought it was gonna be.
As far as my uh as far as my golf game is concerned, it's uh it's it's been worth it.
So, in addition to everything else, now I'm adding reality star to my uh my to my resume.
So, anyway, Tom Farrell is one of the guys I well, the one guy made a bet with about the Eagles.
Now, speaking of football, the one thing that got my blood up when I was gone.
I mean, I really folks, I decompressed, I slept ten hours, two or three nights while I was gone.
I just tuned out every, I mean, it was 100.
This is what it must be like to be a Democrat to be totally oblivious to anything.
The only thing that was different about me and my vacation of being a Democrat is I paid for it.
There wasn't one benefit, nor did I run around hunting for any.
There was one thing, you can talk to my wife about it too, one thing that got my dander up while we were gone, and it was it was uh the snowstorm moving into the east coast on uh on that Sunday, and I we got up, you know, we're five hours behind the East Coast out in Hawaii and I got up and I'm starting to read things, and I see that they're thinking about that's first.
I say Blizzard headed to New York, Philadelphia.
All right, because we got a football game, and nothing better, folks.
Football in the snow is magical.
To a genuine fan, football in the snow, football's meant to be played outdoor in the elements on grass, or the closest thing you can come to it.
Blizzard, and they've played football.
I remember watching football in Denver in a genuine blizzard, 25 inches of snowfell.
Uh, where else did they football has been played in in and inclement weather like the last cancellation for snow was in the 30s or 40s.
And then I read and they might cancel it.
And I said, Oh no, oh, don't tell me.
And the I I first thought I had was chicken of the culture.
Risk avoidance.
We can't do it.
It might be too painful, it might harm people.
We might not be, it might, some people might say, oh, geez, what is happening?
Don't tell.
The one refuge that I thought we had where manhood was still manhood, the National Football League, and there it was, about to crumble right before my eyes become no different than beach volleyball.
And I said, please don't let it happen.
And then it happened.
The mayor of Philadelphia, at two o'clock on Sunday, before a flake had even fallen, declared a snow emergency, saying no snow, no, no, no vehicles other than emergency being allowed on the roads.
Well, when that happened, that's all it took for the NFL and the Eagles to cancel a game.
Blame it on the mayor.
Blame it on somebody else.
There's no question in my mind, the Eagles would love to have the game cancel because all that snow and wind would uh negate whatever advantage Vic brings to the Eagles offense.
So I started having all these thoughts, and I started sharing these thoughts, and I was a little disappointed that I ran into so many people that agreed with the decision.
Rush, you know, it's really bad out there, and heavy snow during the game, you got these people walking out getting their cars after the game, and they'll be able to get out of there.
Come on.
This is not the first time this has happened.
If every other, if if if cars are banned on the streets, you got all kinds of crews to be assigned to the parking lots.
And then they canceled it, and my heart sunk.
I just it I it was I was just looking forward to it.
And I started listening to all these comments.
And it sounded like liberalism had just overtaken everything.
Risk avoidance might be painful.
There was one silver lining, is the players wanted to play.
Everybody else got frightened and scared.
And I said, Oh, this is and then something totally unbelievable happened.
The governor of the state of Pennsylvania, Fast Eddie Rendell, well known as one of the biggest wuss liberals ever to come down a pike, started sounding like Ronald Reagan and Rush Limbaugh and John Wayne and every other self-reliant individual you've ever respected.
We have two sound bites.
This is Fast Eddie, the governor of Pennsylvania on the wussification of America.
We've become a nation of wusses.
The Chinese are kicking our butt in everything.
If this was in China, do you think the Chinese would have called off the game?
He's right.
The people would have been marching down to the stadium.
They would have walked, and they would have been doing calculus on the way down.
He's right.
He's absolutely this is a this is a liberal Democrat governor.
Edward, he goes to the games, he sits out there.
Ed Rendell threw snowballs with the Dallas Cowboys at the vet from his perch in the upper deck.
It's a genuine fan.
He sits out there in this stuff.
He doesn't sit in the luxury box like I do.
He's talking about the Wussification of American.
So where is this guy been?
How can this guy possibly be a Democrat?
How can he possibly be a liberal?
And he wasn't through.
This is part of the Wussification of America.
We used to be a country that had a great pioneer spirit, a sense of adventure, a sense of courage that we could do anything.
And we canceled a football game.
At game time, there were less than six inches of snow on the ground in Philadelphia, less than three inches of snow on the ground in the western suburbs, less than two inches of snow on the ground in Wilmington.
Good lord, what were the people in Wyoming and Montana thinking?
What were the people in Chicago, Boston, and even Pittsburgh thinking?
Exactly right.
All I could think about was the Donner Party.
You know the story of the Donner Party.
A bunch of pioneers heading out to California.
They got trapped in a blizzard in the Sierra Nevada mountain range out there near Lake Tahoe, and they couldn't get to Harris, and they couldn't get to any of the casinos.
It was bad.
They resorted to cannibalism to stay alive.
Cannibalism.
If you read from the diaries that were kept by members of the Donner Party, you know what you find as a reference to the weather?
One.
It was an unusually cold winter.
There wasn't any complaining, there wasn't any whining, there wasn't any moaning, it's just what it was.
It is her pioneers.
And what would the Donner Party think if they knew that we were canceling a football game because of six inch because of a forecast.
A forecast, by the way, that did not eventuate in its severity for Philadelphia.
So, and Chris Collinsworth that night, NBC, they sent their crew out there.
They sent Al Michaels and Collinsworth and Bob Carter.
They sent them out to the stadium to the pregame show.
They were able to get there somehow.
And the NBC crew was able to get to their cameras and all their gear, and they would fire everything up and do the pregame show from it.
Don't know how that happened.
They got out there, and Collinsworth said, Oh, this is bad.
What precedent does this set?
This is the league that has scheduled a Super Bowl in New York in February of 2014, canceling a football game because of the forecast of snow in Philadelphia in December.
This is not about football.
For those of you stick to the issues, Pete.
This is about our culture.
Fast Eddie is right.
The only thing I listen to Fast Eddie, and he sits here and he says, We used to be a country that had a great pioneer.
We did until the Democrats and Liberals made everybody dependent.
Sense of adventure.
Can't have any adventure.
There's any there's risk and adventure.
Somebody might get hurt.
We can't have any advanced kids can't even play dodgeball.
Kids can't even go outside anymore without a note from a doctor or something.
And a sense of courage, courage, there's no respect for courage.
Courage is considered too macho.
Courage is considered predatory male behavior.
We can't have any courage.
Right.
We used to be able to do.
We still can't build buildings in New York.
How many years after 9-11?
Because we're wussified.
We're worried about offending some group in a memorial that we might leave out.
So I was I was fit to be tired of it as for two reasons.
A, I was selfish.
I did want to watch football game in the snow.
There's only been one of them this year, and that was the Bears in Chicago and the Patriots, and they played.
Now it wasn't a blizzard, but they still, I mean, people were still driving in the snow and they're still drinking beer at Soldier Field, and they still had to get home, and nobody thought, oh, we gotta cancel a game.
It's snowing out there.
Wuss liberals, and here's and Fast Eddy's one of them, but all of a sudden he found look what it was that made Fast Eddy abandon his liberalism.
Football.
Even if it was for a brief day or two.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Rush Limboy, here's George in Daytona, Florida.
George, I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on the program.
Thank you, Rush, and thank you for having me on.
Um I'm a longtime listener with my brother and the rest of my family, and we believe that you're a great American.
You care about this country.
Thank you very much, sir.
My reason for calling was uh guy that called for the Eagles.
Listen, it's not about uh the football teams here, it's about the country and how it's being run and how it's being taken down in the wrong direction.
And you you put the nail on the head every time you talk about it.
And I have a very high respect for your show and yourself.
And that's why I was calling.
I wanted you to know that uh I we support you 150%.
Well, I I I appreciate that.
Thank you very, very much.
I uh uh I I can't I can't thank you enough.
I really appreciate what you said there.
I you're you're exactly uh right in terms of the perspective that you hold all this to.
So I mean that's great.
I r I I I thank you very much.
Here's Jason in Fargo, North Dakota, where I don't know they've ever canceled anything because of snow.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hi.
Hey, hi, thanks.
No, we cancel nothing up here.
We're not we're not wusses up here.
But uh good to have you back.
Uh I've I'm one of the guys who gets physically ill when you're not on on the radio.
But I'd like to thank Mark Stein.
If it weren't for him and his Uyghur Wednesdays and explaining what the term Uyghur meant, up until very recently, that's what the black guy down at the shop called me.
Is this on?
Sorry, tough crowd, tough crowd.
I'm just kidding.
Really dumb.
Reason I call talk about uh anti-Americanism in our president.
I hear a lot of that these days.
And you know, we think of the word anti and we think against, but the definition is in fact instead of, for example, anti-Christ instead of Christ, anti-pasta, you order instead of pasta.
Well, it seems that this gentleman is in fact anti-American, but defined as instead of America.
Since, you know, spreading around wealth, EPA crap, global warming, send money to this wherever.
And it really seems like he's setting himself up to want to be more of a global leader, an instead of America superpower leader.
So I'm what what is your Well, now I'm confused.
You say he is or isn't anti-America.
Oh, he's very much so anti-American, defined as instead of America.
I don't look at him as the Dr. No character from James Bond.
Wait a minute.
Now, wait, you you he's anti America, but not anti-United States.
Is that what you mean?
No, no, I mean what I mean is the the definition of anti.
We we sometimes confuse.
We think it's against.
So if you hear anti-America and you think, yeah, I'm against America.
I think he's by default against America.
But the definition is instead of America.
And if you look at his actions, it strikes me that everything he does is instead of America.
Oh leading just us, but it's like he's broader picture, thinking might be global leader someday.
Uh put us in our place because we deserve it, you know, all the the whole litany of things we see.
That is what I that's why I think yes, he in fact is anti-American.
I don't think he's Khrushchev's uh example of the pounding the shoe on the podium saying we will better you, but in essence, that's what's happening.
Well he's doing a far better job of it than Khrushchev ever did.
So if we I mean Khrushchev banged his shoe, that's about as far as he got.
Obama has actually done some uh some damage.
But anyway, I appreciate the call, Jason.
Thanks much.
We are back El Rush Ball, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Great to have you uh with us.
It's amazing how history repeats itself, and amazing how involved in that the media is.
Okay, the Republicans have been elected.
Among the things that they have been elected to do is cut spending.
We have a budget 1.3, 1.4 trillion dollars.
Democrats are now out of power.
So the Republicans' banner said we're going to cut 100 billion dollars.
And the mantra has begun.
Oh yeah, where are you gonna cut?
I want to see it.
You don't touch Social Security, you don't touch Medicare, you don't touch Medicaid, you don't where are you gonna cut $100 billion?
It should be easy as pie.
It should be easy as pie.
A hundred billion is not even the equivalent of a dime in this budget.
A hundred billion, and yet the media's picked it up.
Republicans haven't identified which hundred billion they will cut.
And of course, since they haven't identified it, that means the media will identify it for you.
And what they're gonna do, they're gonna eliminate Social Security, they're gonna eliminate Medicaid, they're gonna eliminate this, they're gonna eliminate school lunch.
That's what Republicans are gonna do.
They're gonna cut all these wonderful benefits and so forth.
Hint media, that's what they were elected to do is to severely pare down spending.
We don't have the money.
It's that simple.
I don't think the media, I don't think the Democrats realize yet the makeup of these Republican freshmen coming to town.
I don't think they have the slightest idea the resolve these people have.
The Republican leadership may not fully understand the vim and vigor for anti-spending that these people are bringing with them from the hinterlands, where they won elections last November.
A hundred billion?
Where are you gonna cut a hundred billion?
Um they say a hundred billion is hard because there's only four hundred billion in discretionary spending in the budget.
Now that means that a trillion dollars is untouchable.
ostensibly.
One of the things they can do is to repeal Obamacare.
I mean, we're talking a huge amount of money there, and there is a huge groundswell to do that.
But only $400 billion discretionary is one of the problems that has to be dealt with.
This is one of the tricks that the left has used over the years to have all these programs be called untouchable, all these entitlements you can't touch them.
Who says?
Who says you can't?
All you have to do is write a new law and says and and and put some of it up for you gotta pass it, you gotta get the president to sign it.
It'd be a tough thing.
But there are any number of ways here to attack this.
To say that there are no spending cuts of any size gonna be made is to basically agree with the premise that there was no reason to have last year's election, and there's no reason to ever have anybody but Democrats in office.
$100 billion in this climate?
Given these elections and their results last November, ought to be a piece of cake.
And if not a piece of cake, it shouldn't be anywhere near the impossible category.
Now, I have warned, I'll tell you when I warned you of this.
Back in the early 90s, I first heard an idea put forth by the Reverend Dax.
And the Reverend Dax, even back in the 90s was very, very alarmed over the fact that we were running out of creative ways to transfer wealth.
We were running out, we just could not continue to raise taxes.
That wasn't politically viable, and yet the Reverend Dax and all of the left was insistent that government get bigger and that wealth be redistributed.
And so the Reverend Jackson targeted private pension funds.
I'll never forget it, started running around talking about all the money in the various private, not public, private pension funds.
And individual pension plans like 401ks, IRAs, this kind of thing.
And it was just like when the Sierra Club back in 1997 started making noise about getting SUVs off the street.
I believe the lif I believe these liberals when they say what they want to do.
I believe these clowns from the science, the Center for Science of Public Interest, these clowns in the light bulb ban, the clowns in the electric car.
I believe them.
They don't.
They get an idea in their heads and they don't give it up.
And now the SUV, you know that the SUV is targeted.
We got the electric car.
Now, SUV sales continue to skyrocket because that's what people want, but you cannot deny that there is now a stigma attached to them.
And that there are people now who don't buy them because they're afraid of what somebody might think when they see them driving it during global warming.
And when there is uh gasoline crunch and sort of, and I don't want to be seen as harming the planet or being selfish, so people go out and buy a car they really don't want to avoid being thought of as something by somebody else in another car they don't even know.
And then I saw this story on January 3rd yesterday, Mark Hemingway in the DC examiner.
The U.S. isn't the only place that's facing a major pension fund crisis.
The Christian Science Monitor has this alarming report.
People's retirement savings are a convenient source of revenue for governments that don't want to reduce spending or make privatizations.
As most pension schemes in Europe are organized by the state, European ministers of finance have a facilitated access to the savings accumulated there, and it's only logical that they try to get a hold of this money for their own ends.
In recent weeks, I've noted five such efforts.
Three situations concern private personal savings.
In other words, Europe, and we are on the same track that Europe has been on for a long time.
Europe is us, oh.
Speaking of Greece, did you know this?
Greece is going to build a giant wall on their border with Turkey to control immigration.
They claim it's done great damage to their economy, all of this immigration.
The wall is on their border with Turkey.
Look up who lives in Turkey and who is immigrating.
Google it.
You'll probably get some Obamacare website first, but keep looking.
Europe starts confiscating private pension funds.
They have started doing it.
Individual and group private pension funds.
Just confiscating them.
They can't raise taxes anymore either.
What is it?
Spain, Portugal, some who is it that the ChICOMs are bailing out?
Chicoms are bailing out one of the European Union nations, I don't think the middle block as to uh which one.
But folks, our government's no different than theirs in Europe.
None of these governments have any money.
That's why, you know, if class envy and the rich tax the rich and so oh, no, there's a story.
There's a poll, somebody, CBS or somebody did a poll, Vanity Fair, somebody, in early December.
Or maybe it was early November, I forget.
Poll shows the majority of people say tax the rich to close the deficit.
Why are they releasing this now?
The poll's over a month old.
Why'd they hold it till now?
I don't believe it anyway.
The election results would not have been what they were if that were the actual sentiment of a majority of Americans.
And if a majority of Americans believed that we need to raise taxes on the rich, Obama would not have made this deal to keep the Bush tax rates where they are in the lame duck.
So it's all smoke, mirrors bogus.
But what's not bogus is you go out.
Let me give you a little test to take.
If you ever in your life encounter somebody who has just recently made a lot of money, recently has become wealthy.
Ask them what they most fear.
And I'll tell you that seven out of ten times, if they're honest with you, their answer will be they are scared to death.
The government is going to come take it.
Not tax it, but come take it.
That's what many newly wealthy people fear the most.
They don't know what form it would take, a wealth tax or just an outright confiscation.
With people like Obama in charge, you can't rule out.
Look at them in the socialists in Europe confiscating private pension funds.
What's to stop them from confiscating private wealth, period?
They're out of money.
That's the excuse they're using for confiscating private pension funds.
It's not increased income taxes that frightens wealthy people.
It's the fact that they're targets now.
Nobody but them has any real money.
What they have, it's real.
They've got it.
Their wealth is not based on borrowed money that they don't have that they're not paying back.
It's real.
And the government doesn't have any real money.
Their only source of the money is to print it, tax it or take it from somebody else.
And they've got to take it from wherever it's real.
And they feel like targets.
And that's when they start shuddering when they see polls that say people, yeah, yeah, we need to the rich pay more.
So I just it's been a long time.
Early 90s.
Well, this is it, 20 years, it's 1920 years, that Jesse Jackson first floated the idea.
I haven't seen anything like this in America officially from anybody since, other than the state of California.
But the European socialists are now doing it.
It's only a matter of time before somebody floats the idea here.
And then you'll hear the whole Democrat Party chime in, oh, yeah, it's only fair.
It's only fair.
In these economic times, so many people should have so much more than they could ever possibly You know the rug rhetoric and how it'll flow.
All right, I gotta take a brief time out a little long here, folks.
Back to the phones, and we come back after this.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, I stand corrected it was 1988 that the Reverend Dax first suggested taking over pensions when he ran for the presidency.
In uh wait a minute.
Uh Reverend Zax also ran in 1984.
I think it was 1988, though.
Yeah, when he uh he called it Invest Pensions in America.
Uh what he was advocating was the investment of pension funds in federally guaranteed securities, he would use the capital to fund public housing roads and other public works projects that were already broke spending money on.
Then somehow the money doesn't go there.
Don't even get me started on the sanitation union of New York.
I mean, you want to talk about an utter waste of money in an utter behind every problem of significance in this country, you're gonna find a public union.
Just don't even get me started on that.
I don't have enough time to say all about it, I want to say.
I'm trying to take credit here for saving a life because some clown tried to commit suicide and failed because he landed on a garbage dump that hadn't been emptied.
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John in Connecticut.
Great to have you, sir on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
John in Connecticut.
Hello, sir.
Not there.
John, are you there?
Yes, I am.
Oh, great to have you, John.
Hi.
I just were saying this is a rare privilege one of my best.
This is the best Christmas president I've, even though it's a little bit late.
Well, thank you.
Thank you very much.
My comment was is that I've been listening to the pundits in the liberal press talk about uh uh you know that uh the Republicans' number one uh, you know, uh project should be to repair the the economy and get the economy and create jobs.
My argument is uh repealing Obamacare is probably the first step in repairing the economy and creating jobs.
And I had another thing that would dovetail into that as well.
Got 30 seconds, go.
Oh, okay.
Then my other thing was that uh everyone was talking about the frustration Obama had.
I think Obama's frustration may be that he's uh he's tried everything to to ruin this this economy and this uh this system.
I think he's might be discouraged that he hasn't done it so far, and that's where his anxiety is coming from.
Well, you know, I'd like to talk about that tomorrow.
That's an interesting um thought.
Is Obama discouraged because he hasn't had as much success in creating damage and havoc as he would like.
Hmm.
Hmm.
Remember a lot of what he's done.
It's gonna take years to unravel.
He's planted a lot of time bombs, set to go off.
Healthcare's just gosh, I don't know.
I shudder to think about it.
It's a heads up here, folks.
The news media now all claiming...
This is part of the big push here to oppose the Republicans.
They're claiming that repealing Obamacare will cost hundreds of billions of dollars and hurt the economy and hurt jobs.
These people are laughably shameless, and we will be back in 21 hours.
Can't wait.
Great to be back, folks.
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