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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?
Code Pink, the new Black Panthers, union bosses beating up black conservatives in St. Louis, Acorn illegal alien marches.
Why, it 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 Rah Emmanuel, 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?
Isn't 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 that 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, in a way that the president would approve.
Are we supposed to say, you're right, I'm sorry.
I won't do it again.
What is the civil response to this?
Lest we forget, just a few weeks ago, we were told that people were shooting their TVs because Bristol Palin was on Dancing with the Stars.
What's the civil reaction to that?
Sheriff Dupnick 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 an example of civility?
Sheriff Dupnick, is he civil?
What's the civil response to any allegation being made by Sheriff Dupnick?
Now, Sheriff Dupnick 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 are 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 week ending January 8th.
It 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.
The job market's getting better.
Job market's getting better.
Am I being uncivil here reacting to this news?
I mean, to tone it down a little bit.
Yeah, okay, tone it down.
Last two months, we were told the employment picture was brightening, the number of claims was falling.
Good indication here that the job market was coming back.
In fact, ladies and gentlemen, seasonally, if you take out all the seasonal adjustments, that 445,000 number is 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 energy costs are up, but that's no big deal.
There's no inflation.
No, no, no.
Energy and food are up, 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, oh, banks 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 5 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 again.
Gas prices are going up.
Food prices are going up.
Job losses are going up.
Hey, inflation.
We're actually doing well out there.
And we had all these wonderful Obama programs.
Now, this is being very uncivil, but I must say it.
And all these programs to help people stay in their homes.
All of these programs designed to help people with their mortgages.
I shudder to think how bad it would be without Obama's help.
That's true.
So we're waiting.
You know, I'm waiting, ladies and gentlemen, for the book 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 program set up two years ago to encourage California small businesses to take on new employees has dispersed only 39.7 million.
Tax officials, the story says, are flummoxed by the low response.
Tax officials flummoxed by the low response.
Big program here, $400 million 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 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, and 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 program here, come get it and start hiring people.
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 unpaced to exceed $1 trillion.
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, an 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.
Green jobs, baby.
$58 million in state aid, 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. Hillo 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.
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're just closing down in Massachusetts, in Boston.
They reported losses of $265 million in 2009, $54 million for the first nine months of 2010.
They got $58 million in state aid four years to go to open the factory.
It didn't matter.
800 people laid.
Oh, I know Green Jobs of the Future, just the future hasn't gotten here yet.
Stop egging me on.
I'm trying to be civil about this.
My gosh, here's another story.
Banks took back more than 1 million homes from delinquent borrowers.
They're really trying to get that news out.
Oh, by selling a block of its shares in General Motors Corporation for $33 each, a price far below the break-even point, the government sharply reduced the chances taxpayers fully will recover their $50 billion 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 Kleefish.
The Republican was briefed on the threat, requested anonymity because the person was not authorized to release the information.
So Madison, Wisconsin, person within the Republican Party says, AP, police are investigating threat against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefish, 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.
Yeah, it might be McCarthy.
Anyway, it is a proposal, get this now, that would ban guns within 1,000 feet of federal officials.
Is Peter King, is this his deal?
This is Peter King's deal?
His name wasn't on it.
Lautenberg and McCarthy were 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 EIV network.
Thanks so much for listening to my thoughts today, Rush.
So glad to talk with you.
Thank you very much.
Well, I think that that get-together was the first sanctioned People State mega church service.
They had a chorus there.
They had an orchestra playing fanfare for the common man.
And it was pretty pathetic.
There was no dignity.
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 Janet Napolitano reading from the Department of Homeland Security manual.
I don't know what's your problem.
I'm trying to be civil.
I know, and you're doing so well.
I don't know.
It just was really pathetic.
I was very sad to see it.
All I thought about was Reagan.
When something happened like this, Reagan would sit at the Oval Office.
You know, really, we're going to have to stop thinking.
The era of Reagan is over.
We're really going to have to stop thinking this way.
It's not advancing the cause.
That's long ago.
And to keep bringing up Reagan and the challenger and so forth.
We live in different times now with different challenges.
And 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 are clapping there inappropriately.
And Obama looks like...
Wait a minute.
I have another view on that.
I think the area has been so traumatized.
And, of course, these are young students, fearful of life in general.
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, no health care.
Football team didn't do all that well this year.
Basketball team off to Bad Start.
Any reason to cheer?
You've got to 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 bring up Reagan when you're praising Obama.
Yeah, that's how much 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 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 20 seconds.
Go ahead and wrap it up.
Okay, I'll wrap it up with keep on speaking and don't ever stop.
And 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 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.
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, I mean, it's still hilarious after all of these years.
And if you have, it's also on our homepage at rushlimbaugh.com as well.
I mean, it's got to be on the homepage 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 to enter the 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.
Oram, Utah.
This is Kent, and welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
What a pleasure to speak with you.
Thank you.
I'm 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 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, you know, 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?
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 you a subscriber to Rush 24-7?
Well, I would love to be.
I'm a little tight on the budget, but someday I'll get there.
I'm not there quite yet, though.
Well, it's really worth the investment.
The transcript of everything is there.
It really is.
I'll tell you what I'm going to do.
We're going to make you a complimentary subscriber.
Don't frown in there, Snerdley.
Don't start acting all uncivil on me.
We're going to make you a complimentary subscriber for a year.
When we get on hold here after the call, you stay on hold and Snerdley or somebody pick up the phone, probably accuse you of some unseemly things, but ignore it.
And we'll get all the information necessary to make you a comp subscriber for a year, including the Limbaugh Letter newsletter.
That is so awesome.
Thank you so much.
And then if you have an iPhone or an iPad, get the app, the Rush app, and all the transcripts right there on your iPad, right there on your iPhone, as well as on your computer.
Thanks, Kent.
Don't go away.
And Snerdley, remember the order of the day is civility.
Be civil.
There are 2 million federal officials.
2 million minimum federal officials.
How do we know when we are within 1,000 feet or yards?
What is it?
Is it 1,000 yards?
Is it 1,000 feet?
Wait, wait, wait.
Let me check the trash box here.
Well, 1,000 feet, 1,000 yards, it's a big difference.
1,000 feet.
That's basically three and a third football fields.
So you got 2 million of these people, 2 million of them.
How do you know when you're 1,000 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 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 1,000 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, he 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 would have stopped what happened in Arizona on Saturday?
It had nothing to do with what happened in Arizona.
This is another one of these meaningless show pieces 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, have you noticed the constant rage of people on the left?
And 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 their 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 mentally deranged 22-year-old, they need to tell us about civility.
Right on.
Ha, how are you?
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the cutting edge of societal evolution, talent on loan from God.
David Rodham Gergen, CNN, last night, panel discussion after the 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 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 it seemed like a campaign rally.
Hmm.
David Rodham Gergen, not happy.
Doesn't sound like David Rodham Gergen's expectations were met.
Anderson Cooper said, Mr. Rodham Gergen, 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, a speech that would transform his presidency, I have a hard time saying that that happened tonight.
I think just the context, because it seems 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 that do transform presidencies.
David Rodham Gergen desperately wanting that, though.
Can we all agree?
David Rodham Gergen desperately wanting this to be a transformative speech along the lines of Clinton in Oklahoma City, but might have done well within the hall, but not as well with the 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.
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, when 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 Gergen 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 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 made the speech longer than it actually was.
So there's Anderson Cooper 225 trying to cover for the fact the speech went long.
Well, so here you have the forehead and David Rodham Gergen didn't really didn't meet our expectations.
He just didn't get there.
Charles Krauthammer 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 Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, you're next.
Great to have you here on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Global warming dittos from 39 degrees, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Listen, I just wanted to say that last night watching the service, I felt like I was watching the opening ceremonies to the Olympics with the music that came on.
I was waiting for the parade of nations to come by.
Wait, just a second now.
When was the sermon?
Who gave the sermon?
Well, no, this was at the very beginning, the introductory music.
It was, you know, some of the songs or the sounds.
No, no, no, I understand.
No, no, but you said during the sermon and the memorial service.
Oh, service!
Service!
Oh, service!
I thought, what did I miss?
There was a sermon last night.
I don't know 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 in fact was Denver Part II, which is really the point of my call, which is the rhetoric that Obama uses does not match his actions.
We heard about this 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, Democrats, by definition, are civil.
You are not, simply, but your existence is uncivil as a conservative.
So, yeah, and by the way, just to remind you, the White House has leaked the fact that the State of the Union speech will have as one of its many focuses or foci 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 couldn't go there.
By the State of the Union showtime, when he's talking about civility, 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, Reebob, ratings record last night or Tuesday night on the Golf Channel for the premiere episode, the first of eight of the Haney Project, starring me, El Rushfoe, 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 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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