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Jan. 13, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 13, 2011, Thursday, Hour #3
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President Obama urges civility in public discourse.
F. Chuck Todd now happily reporting this on Mess NBC.
President Obama urging civility.
In public discourse, when I think of the left wing, I think civil, don't you?
Uh Code Pink?
The new Black Panthers?
Union bosses beating up black conservatives in St. Louis, Acorn, illegal alien marches?
Why?
He doesn't get more civil than that.
The trashing of the Tea Party movement for the last nearly two years, that's civil.
When I think of MSNBC, I not only think of journalistic excellence, but civility, don't you?
That whole class warfare thing.
I mean that's nothing but civility on display.
When I think of the counterculture movement of the 60s, I think civility.
When I think of Rom Emanuel, the man Obama chose as his own chief of staff two years ago, I think of civility.
We don't need lectures from uncivil leftists about civility, much less Obama bitter clingers and all the other incendiary things he's had to say, both as a candidate and as president.
In fact, ladies and gentlemen, isn't one of your complaints is that Republicans are too docile?
Is it one of your complaints that Republicans just sit there and take it?
That the left is always on the march, always accusing, always throwing bombs, and the Republicans just sit there and take it.
Isn't the fact of the matter is the Republicans are civil as the left defines it?
They don't say anything.
That's exactly what civil means.
Another couple of examples.
Give your civil reaction to the charge that you oppose Obama because he's black.
Give me your civil reaction to you are a racist because you have criticized President Obama.
Show me how to react in a civil way.
Give me your civil reaction to this.
You want to take money from the poor and line your pockets and the pockets of the rich?
You don't care about the unfortunate.
In fact, you and your buddies have created homelessness.
Give me the civil reaction to that.
If it was up to you, we would still have slavery today.
Give me the civil reaction to somebody, in fact, the entire sports media making up quotes about you.
Quotes suggesting you support slavery.
Quotes utterly false and made up.
Give me the civil reaction to this.
Give me the civil reaction to you don't care how many soldiers die when you send them into battle.
It's all about oil profits for your contributors.
Give me the civil reaction to any of this.
And of course, this exercise establishes that we don't need lectures from uncivil leftists.
What is what is the civil reaction to being accused of inciting murder?
The Oklahoma City bombing and now the Tucson shootings.
Somebody tell me how to react to that in a civil way, in a way that the left would approve.
Uh in a way that the president would approve.
What are we supposed to say?
You're right, I'm sorry.
I won't do it again.
What is the civil response to this?
That people were shooting their TVs because Bristol Palin was on Dancing with the Stars.
What's the civil reaction to that?
Sheriff Dupnik was in attendance speech last night.
He was not on the Dais.
There was no dais.
He was not in the front row.
He was midway.
He did not get a shout out from Obama for his wonderful civility.
And by the way, is that is that an example of uh of civility, uh, Sheriff Duppnik?
Is he civil?
What's the civil response to any allegation being made by Sheriff Dupnik?
Now, Sheriff Dupnik uh did get a camera shot when Obama was talking about the great work that had been done by people in the area to bring order to the chaos.
What is the civil reaction to the president joking that you are a racist?
What is the civil reaction to a Time magazine cover that asks, are you good for America?
Many of these questions I'm asking you have our allegations been made about me and to me.
What's the civil reaction?
I would venture to say I've been pretty damn civil during all of this for 23 years, laughing at a lot of it.
Apparently the civil thing for Sarah Palin to do is to get down on her hands and knees and beg forgiveness for her obvious crimes.
And maybe that's what some Republican candidates would have done in the past.
But Palin isn't that kind of Republican, whether she's a candidate or not, I don't know.
Other news, and I told you this at the top of the program.
More people applied for unemployment benefits last week after retailers shed temporary holiday employees.
No kidding.
The labor department said today the number of people seeking benefits jumped by 35,000 to a seasonally adjusted 445,000 for the weekending January 8th.
That was the highest level since last October.
Nowhere in this story is the word unexpected or surprised, which is a first.
The increase comes after applications had fallen to their lowest levels in two years over the winter holidays.
Applications usually rise in early January once the holiday season ends.
So we had all of these examples that job markets getting better, job markets getting better.
Am I being uncivil here reacting to this news?
Let me tone it down a little bit.
Yeah, okay, tone it down.
Well, last two months we were told the employment picture was brightening, that number of claims was falling.
Good indication here that the job market was coming back.
In fact, ladies and gentlemen, uh seasonally, if you if if if if you take out all the seasonal adjustments, that 445,000 numbers around 700,000.
It is nowhere near improving.
And wholesale prices in December posted their biggest increase in nearly 12 months, lifted by more expensive energy and food costs.
But most other prices were largely well behaved, suggesting inflation isn't spreading through the economy.
Okay, so food's up and uh energy costs are up, but that's no big deal.
There's no inflation.
No, no, no.
Energy and food are up, but but other prices were well behaved.
The other prices are really behaving themselves.
We've kind of lost control.
We need to discipline food and energy because they're not behaving.
But other than that, everything, gosh, it's really really oh uh bankr's repossessed a million homes in 2010.
One million, the bleakest year in the foreclosure crisis has only just begun.
Lenders are poised to take back more homes this year than any other since the U.S. housing meltdown began in 2006.
About five million borrowers are at least two months behind on their mortgages.
More will miss payments as they struggle with job losses and loans worth more than their home's value.
Industry analysts forecast to get gas prices going up, food prices are going up, uh, job losses are going up.
Hey, inflation in spring.
We're actually doing well out there.
Uh, we had all these wonderful Obama programs.
Now, this being very uncivil, but I must say it.
That all these programs to help people stay in their homes.
All of these programs designed to help people with their mortgages.
It's just...
Uh Yeah, I'm I shudder to think how bad it would be without Obama's help.
That's that's uh that's true.
So we're waiting.
You know, I I um I I'm waiting, ladies and gentlemen, for the book uh to be published soon on the civility of liberalism.
You know, just like you can't find in the library great moderates in American history.
I want to see the book on the civility of liberalism.
I wonder how many pages would be in that book.
Civility and liberalism by Jeremiah Wright.
Forward by the Reverend Jackson.
Los Angeles Times tax credit for small business hiring barely tapped a 400 million dollar program set up two years ago to encourage California small businesses to take on new employees has dispersed only 39.7 million tax officials.
Yeah, the story says are flummoxed by the low response.
Tax officials flummoxed by the low response, big program here, 400 million dollar program designed to get small businesses to take on new employees, but only 39.7 million of the money has been applied for.
Given the current climate of economic uncertainty, said Michael Shaw, California legislative director for National Federation of Independent Businesses, a one-time tax break was not going to be enough to prompt businesses to take on the responsibilities of new employees.
We we projected the money be gone last June.
We allocated 400 million.
We still have 360 million left.
Tax officials flummoxed by low response.
You think maybe that's because they don't know anything about running a business?
You think it I mean it's very uncivil to say, but you think it could be that all these tax experts in California don't have the slightest idea about running a business.
They just think, hey, business owners, 400 million dollar program here, come get it and start hiring people.
Uh I don't think they understand business.
Just like many in the public sector do not understand at all what it is they are regulating.
The federal budget deficit narrowed slightly in December compared to a year ago.
Yay!
All right.
But the deficit for the entire year is still on pace to exceed one trillion dollars.
Ah, damn it.
The government ran a deficit of $80 billion last month, down 12.4% from the previous December.
Through the first three months of the current budget year, the deficit totals $370.8 billion and improvement of 3%.
But we're still over a trillion dollars.
As far as the eyes can see.
From Boston, a solar panel manufacturer that received $58 million in state aid four years ago to open a factory at a former Massachusetts military base is closing the plant and laying off 800 workers.
A solar panel manufacturer.
Green jobs, baby.
Shutting down 800 people out of work.
Evergreen solar announced yesterday shutting down the plant by the end of this year, first quarter of this year.
Evergreen CEO Michael L. Hillow said that dropping prices and competition from heavily subsidized solar manufacturers in China made the plant no longer economically feasible.
Evergreen will continue to run facilities in China and Midland, Michigan.
So only American workers are competition for well, yeah, these guys have offices and factories in China and in the United States.
So there's competition in China, but they're staying in China.
And in Michigan.
They reported losses of 265 million dollars in 2009, 54 million dollars for the first nine months of 2010.
They got 58 million dollars in state aid, four years to go to open the factory.
Didn't matter.
800 people Led.
Oh, I know green jobs of the future, just the future hasn't gotten here yet.
Don't stop egging me on.
I'm trying to be civil about this.
My gosh, here's another story.
Banks took back more than one million homes from delinquent borrowers on it.
They're really trying to get that news out.
Oh.
By selling a block of its shares in General Motors Corporation for 33 bucks each, a price far below the break-even point.
The government sharply reduced the chances taxpayers fully will recover their 50 billion dollar quote unquote investment in the auto giant.
So unions were bailed out.
Taxpayers not so lucky.
That's the bottom line.
A person within the Republican Party tells the AP that police are investigating a threat against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Cleefish.
The Republican was briefed on the threat, requested anonymity because the person was not authorized to release the information.
Madison, Wisconsin person within the Republican Party says AP police are investigating threat against uh Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Cleafish, words of the threat came.
No mention here of which talk show host in Madison, Wisconsin is to blame.
Prior to the program beginning today, I saw a news story.
Frank Lautenberg is a co-sponsor of a bill.
I think it's Carolyn Maloney from New York.
I'm not sure.
It might be McCarthy.
I might be McCarthy.
Anyway, it is a proposal.
Get this now that would ban guns within 1,000 feet of federal officials.
Is that is Peter King?
Is this his deal?
This is Peter King's deal?
I was no his name wasn't on his Lautenberg and McCarthy were uh mentioned as this.
I don't care whose it is.
A proposal would ban guns within a thousand feet of federal officials.
However, guns can be as close to conservatives as you want them to be.
What the hell is this?
Ban guns within a thousand feet of federal officials.
To the phones we go.
This is Iona, Spring Park, Minnesota.
Thank you for waiting, and welcome to the EIB network.
Thanks so much for listening to my thoughts today, Rush.
So glad to talk with you.
Thank you very much.
Well, um, I think that that Get Together was the first sanctioned people state megachurch service.
Um they had a chorus there, they had an orchestra playing fanfare for the common man, and um it was pretty pathetic.
There was no dignity.
Um it was not a good thing.
Well, wait a minute.
I had a medicine man now.
They had a man in the cloth there.
I admitted they had government officials reading from the Bible.
They had Eric Holder reading from Isaiah, they had uh Janet Napolitano reading from the Department of Homeland Security Manual.
Um I I don't know what's your problem.
I'm trying to be civil.
I know when you're you're doing so well.
I don't know.
I it just was really pathetic.
I was very sad to see it.
Um all I thought about was Reagan.
When something happened like this, Reagan would be fit in the Oval Office.
You know, really, we're gonna have to stop thinking the era of Reagan is over.
Uh we're really going to have to stop thinking this way.
It's not advancing the uh cause.
That's long ago.
And and to keep bringing up Reagan and the challenger and so forth.
We live in different times now with uh different challenges.
Uh and I I don't think it serves any purpose here to bring up Reagan.
I really don't.
Oh, okay.
We'll forget the dignity of the office and how people people clapping there inappropriately, and Obama.
Well, now wait a minute, I have another view on that.
I think uh the area's been so traumatized.
And of course, these are young students, uh, fearful of life in general.
Um they are soon to be graduating, and where are they graduating?
They're graduating into an abyss created by George Bush, no jobs, no economy, uh, no health care.
Uh football team didn't do all that well this year.
Basketball team off to bad start.
Any reason to cheer, you gotta understand it.
I don't know what to do with you right now.
I'm not used to this.
You are the man.
You can only you can only bring up Reagan when you're praising Obama.
Oh, that's why I get to talk to you, and you're making me do these things.
Yeah, no, no, no, no, no.
It's still an opportunity, not wasted.
Well, I I sure I sure love you.
I'm so glad you have a wonderful wife, and I'm glad that you are here speaking and unafraid.
Thank you very much.
I'm sorry, go ahead.
No, no, you got you got 20 seconds.
Go ahead and wrap it up.
Okay, I'll wrap it up with uh keep on speaking and don't ever stop.
And I if I can ever do a job for you here and interview somebody in Minnesota, I'd be glad to do it.
Thank you very much.
Okay, love you.
I love you too.
Appreciate it.
A brief time out and we'll be back.
Okay, we have now transferred the the Clinton video, the Clinton Ron Brown Memorial video, to our iPhone iPad app.
It is under videos.
For those of you that have the app, and I know if you have the app and you're using it on your iPhone or your iPad or your iPod, you are probably streaming the program live.
Hi.
Uh after the program or even now, you go straight to videos, and we've got it there at the top of the list, and it's it's I mean it's still hilarious.
After all of these years, and if you ha it's also on our homepage at at Rush Limbaugh.com as well.
I mean, it's gotta be on the home page before it's on the app, vice versa.
Nevertheless, if you have not ever seen this, it is purely self explanatory.
Clinton walking along with Tony Campolo, well known man of the cloth from Pennsylvania, telling jokes, yucking it up about the editor Ron Brown Memorial.
Clinton spots the camera on him, starts faking crying in a half step.
It's under videos on our app, even now.
Or I'm Utah.
This is Kent, and welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Uh, what a pleasure to speak with you.
I am so thrilled to be with you.
Thank you very much, sir.
Hey, I just wanted to mention, I think that today's show and yesterday's show are among the best pieces of information that anyone could have who's a true conservative to combat what the insane left wing talk television people and everyone else who's non-conservative um is doing.
Yesterday, in your beginning of your second hour, I believe, you gave a monologue where you were addressing somebody who was talking about incivility, and you responded to this person by saying, Mr. So-and-so, what about what the left is doing with class warfare?
Mr. So-and-so, what about what the left is doing with race?
Mr. So-and-so, do you remember that monologue?
I of course I do, yes.
Thank you very much.
I would love Rush to have a copy of that.
I don't care how I have it electronically, if I can have it printed, I don't care.
But that monologue to me was one of the most important monologues, one of the most important statements that I've heard ever on that subject, and I just need a copy of that.
Is there any way I could get that?
Well, let me ask you this.
Are are you are are you a subscriber to Rush 247?
Well, I I would love to be, I just I'm I'm a little tight on on the budget, but I I you know, someday I'll get there.
I'm not there quite yet though.
Well uh um it's really worth the investment.
The if the transcript of everything is there.
Uh-huh.
It really is.
I'll tell you what I'm gonna do.
We're gonna make you a a s a a complimentary subscriber f don't frown in there, snurdly.
Don't start acting all uncivil on me.
We're we're gonna make you a complimentary subscriber for a year.
When we get on hold here after the call, you stay on hold and uh snurdly or somebody pick up the phone, uh probably accuse you of some unseemly things, but ignore it.
And uh we'll get all the information necessary for to make you a comp subscriber for a year, including the Limbaugh newsletter.
That is so awesome.
All right.
Thank you so much.
And and then if you have an iPhone or an iPad, uh get the app, the Rush app, and uh all the transcripts right there on your iPad.
Right there on your iPhone, as well as on your uh on your computer.
Thanks, Kent.
Don't go away and uh snerdly.
Remember the order of the day is civility.
Be civil.
There are two million federal officials.
Two million minimum federal officials.
How do we know when we are within one thousand feet or yards?
What is it?
Was it is it a thousand yards?
It's a thousand feet.
Wait, wait.
Let me check the trash box here.
Well, a thousand feet, thousand yards, it's a big difference.
Uh thousand feet.
That's that's basically three and a third football fields.
So you got you got two million of these mag uh uh uh people, two million of them.
How do you know when you're a when a thousand uh feet from one of them?
Seriously.
Most of us do not know what most members of Congress look like either.
Most of us do not know a federal official when we see one.
I mean, they don't they don't wear ID buttons or bracelets or what have you.
There's 435, 535 members of Congress, and the rest are most of them are anonymous.
Now, let me ask a simple question.
So we got this piece of legislation.
No guns within one thousand feet of a federal official.
Would that have stopped the murderer in this case?
It's just like would gun control have stopped the murder.
The guy had the gun.
He did not have the money.
We know this to buy the gun.
How did he get it?
Where did he get the gun?
He had a criminal intent.
He was not, I mean, the guy went out and committed murder, obviously was not deterred by the law.
So do you think having a law that says you can't have a gun within a thousand feet of a federal official when it stopped what happened in Arizona on Saturday?
It's nothing to do with what happened in Arizona.
This is another one of these meaningless showpieces of legislation that is worthless.
And is once again another encroachment upon freedom.
How about the civility of liberal comedians?
Bill Maher.
Now there's a civil man.
He is a man, isn't he?
Or a troll.
But regardless, he's very he's civil, right?
I mean, this guy, I've he have you noticed the constant rage of people on the left?
They lecture us about civility.
The civility of Hollywood and their movies and TV shows, that's overwhelming.
The trial lawyers, big part of the Democrat money machine, they're always civil, especially in court.
Abortionists.
And they're nag supporters.
Picture of civility.
Every time I see a nag convention, I say, whoa, man, look at how civil those women are.
The National Association of Gals.
You ever seen one of them on television?
Yeah.
I mean, they are embodiment of civility.
Yeah.
We do, folks.
We need to be lectured by these people.
We need to be lectured by these groups, these politicians.
After a horrible mass murder by a medily deranged 22-year-old, they need to tell us about civility.
Right on.
Ha, how are you?
Welcome back.
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David Rodham Gurgen, CNN last night panel discussion after the uh Obama Memorial.
A lot of us did come tonight thinking this would be more of a solemn memorial service.
And we would have the kind of words that President uh Clinton used at Oklahoma City or that President Reagan did after the challenger blew up.
But instead it turned into much more of a pep rally, and almost times uh it seemed like a campaign rally.
Hmm.
Uh David Rodham Gurgen, not happy.
Doesn't sound like uh David Rodem Gurgen's expectations were met.
Uh Anderson Cooper said uh Mr. Rodham Gurgen, did the president do what he needed to do tonight?
So much rising victory all over the reaction to the shooting.
Do you think he cooled things down?
He may have helped cool things down.
As terms of a Oklahoma City moment that we talked about before, uh a speech that would transform his presidency.
I have a hard time saying that that happened tonight.
I think just the context, because it seemed so much like a campaign rally that may have worked well within the hall, but I'm not sure worked as well with the national audience.
I think probably did not lift the speech into the annals of great oratory where you find moments to do transform presidencies.
David Rodham Gergen desperately wanting that, though.
Can we all agree?
David Rodham Gurgen desperately wanting this to be a transformative speech along the lines of Clinton, Oklahoma City.
But might have done well within the hall, but not as well with a national audience.
In the annals of great oratory, probably not.
However, Charles Krauthammer on Fox.
I thought the president's speech was a remarkable display of oratory and of oratorial skill.
Both in terms of the tone and the content.
In tone, the president faced a very difficult problem.
Not of his making.
The audience, mostly students, was reacting with a lot of cheers and yells in what was supposed to be intended to be a very solemn memorial service, and in a time of great suffering and grief.
The president very skillfully then in the second half of the speech, which was about inspiration, which was about the good that would emerge from here, invited those cheers and applause, which at the beginning had been inappropriate.
And I think it lent energy and strength to his speech.
I think he did that in a very skillful way.
Well, what are we to make of this?
David Rodham Gergen was hoping this would be what Krauthammer says it was.
David Rodham Gurgen on the very liberal CNN, disappointed, obviously, had high hopes, was expecting much, much more.
A transformative great oratorical speech, a rare moment, but he failed.
But Krauthammer President's speech was a remarkable display of oratory and of oratorical skill, both in terms of the tone and content.
Hmm.
Hmm.
What to make of this?
And in fact, throughout, even if you if you stick with CNN, the forehead, Paul Bagala grabs somebody 15.
This is Paul Bagala, who is sort of on the same page here as David Rodham Gergen.
Ronald Reagan's challenger speech was four and a half minutes.
Bill Clinton's speech in Oklahoma was nine minutes.
This was over 30.
The applause, too, oftentimes lengthy, added to the time more than made the speech longer than it actually was.
So there's uh Anderson Cooper 225 trying to uh cover for the fact that the speech went long.
But so here you have the forehead and David Rodham Gergen didn't really meet our expectations.
Just it just didn't get there.
Uh Charles Crowhammer and all the gang at Fox in their analysis thought just the opposite.
The Fox people went overboard in how wonderful, great, fabulous, skillful on and on and on the speech was.
Pete in Ponta Vidra Beach, Florida, uh, you're next.
Great to have you here on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Well, global warming dittoes from 39 degree Pontavadre Beach, Florida.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Listen, I just wanted to say that uh last night watching the service, I felt like I was watching the uh opening ceremonies to the Olympics uh with the music that came on.
I was waiting for the parade of nations to come by.
Wait just a second now.
What will uh nation?
What when was the sermon?
Who gave the sermon?
Well, no, this was at the very beginning, the introdu introductory music.
It was you know, some of this uh the the songs or the uh the sounds of the.
No, no, no, I understand.
I didn't no no, I'm but you said during the sermon, and I'm sorry, the memorial service.
Oh, service, service, oh, service.
I thought what did I miss?
There was a sermon last night.
If you're talking about the medicine man, or if you were talking about Obama or the university president or what?
Well, at least it should be called a memorial service while it in fact was Denver Part 2, which is really the point of my call, which is the uh rhetoric that Obama uses does not match his actions.
We heard about this uh bipartisanship that would come out when he became elected, and here he is again campaigning for that same message, but yet not delivering in his actions.
Yeah, I know, but see, the the Democrats by definition are civil.
You are not, simply, but your your existence is uncivil.
As a as a conservative.
So um, and by the way, just to just to remind you, uh it White House has leaked the fact that the State of the Union speech will have as one of its uh many focuses or phoci, civility.
So, whereas last night the polling data said the American people do not associate right-wing rhetoric with this event, so they had to they had to couldn't go there.
By the State of the Union showtime, when he's talking about civility, let's let's see.
I mean, they're promising to open it up, civility in our discourse.
We'll see how that goes.
And we will be back.
Yes, sir, Rebob, ratings record last night, our Tuesday night on the golf channel for the premier episode, the first of eight of the Haney Project, starring me, El Rushwo, episode two, Tuesday night at nine on the golf channel, and we are in Hawaii, actually on the big island of Hawaii, at a great, great resort and golf course called Kukio.
And you'll meet uh a couple of my friends in that episode George Brett, Mike Hartley, and who knows whatever else they plug in this show.
See you tomorrow, folks.
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