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Jan. 17, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 17, 2011, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I guess that guy out in Arizona did not get the memo on civility from Obama, the guy who threatened to kill a Tea Party member at an ABC town hall meeting.
We have the audio coming up.
No, I picked the Ravens on purpose.
I had had such a lousy week.
I had such a lousy week the weekend before.
Everything I picked was wrong.
So I picked the Ravens, hoping the Steelers would win.
You don't believe me?
I did it on purpose.
I picked the Ravens.
You know I would never pick against the Steelers.
Seriously, I picked the, well, but I did it sternly.
I picked the Ravens on purpose because I've been wrong all these playoffs.
Well, I picked the Packers.
I actually thought the Packers are going to win.
And I thought the Bears are going to win.
And I thought the Patriots are going to win.
So I just, but the Steelers pick, you know, I'm really worried also, folks.
These Monday holidays, I keep forgetting.
You know, it's Michelle Obama's birthday today, and I thought maybe that's why nobody's working.
No, that can't be it.
That'll be coming later.
Then I realize it's Martin Luther King Day today.
And I wish somebody would have reminded me, I would have taken the day off.
Do you realize they're going to accuse me of being a racist showing up to work today?
You wait.
That's what's going to happen here.
My brother sent me a note and says, I don't know if I got to write a column for my syndicator or not.
And I said, you better not.
Tell the syndicator you take this day off so they won't accuse you of being a racist.
He chuckled.
Probably laughed uproariously, just didn't want me to know it.
Did you see where the Chi-Coms, Hujin Tao, Hu Zhintao questions the future of the dollar?
Hujintao is saying that the world's currency system is a thing of the past.
Now, who else said that recently?
Jared Wochner, a currency kook, the Tucson shooter.
Absolutely right.
Could it be that the ChiComs are listening to extremist lunatics from the radical left?
Could well be.
Anyway, let's go to the audio sound.
Oh, by the way, the AP has a story that runs in, well, it's probably all over the place today.
I have the LA Times version of it.
Opposition to health care law eases poll fines.
Get this.
Only about one in four poll respondents favor repealing.
Now, that's 65% down to 25% only favor repeal Obama's health care law.
This is a bogus poll.
And Jeffrey Anderson, the Weekly Standard, has documented how.
We'll get to that in due course.
Two things are clear, however, from Saturday's ABC News Town Hall meeting in Tucson.
One, Tucson or Tuscanens, Tucsonans, Tucson's covered the bases.
It's got to be one of those.
Are eager to move forward and recover from last week's horrible shooting rampage.
Oh, let me find this.
It's a story from the New York Times, Matt Bay, looking for it.
This is only in the New York Times would you see it.
Yes, here it is.
After Tucson is the anger gone.
Now, this is presented as a news article, not an editorial or even a sermon.
But we are too stupid, apparently, to receive the flash of clarity this shooting provided us.
So the New York Times has to tell us what it all meant.
And the headline, after Tucson is the anger gone.
And here's one of the poll quotes.
If the shooting didn't feel like the turning point in the civic life of the nation that some of us had imagined it might become, then it may be because such turning points aren't always immediately evident.
Or maybe it's because the murder suspect appeared to have no obvious ideology.
His crime, an imperfect parable for the consequences of political, this is shameless.
This guy, let me reread the paragraph and translate for you.
If the shooting didn't feel like the turning point in the civic life of the nation that some of us had hoped and tried to make it real, then it may be because such turning points aren't always immediately evident.
Or maybe it's because the murder suspect couldn't get pinned with being a right-winger despite our best efforts.
Perhaps, though, we have to consider another explanation, that the speed and fractiousness of our modern society make it all but impossible now for any one moment to transform the national debate.
Damn it.
So here you have this guy, Matt Bai, desperately hoping that this one event would get rid of right-wing media.
That's what he means here, turning point in civic life of the nation, is get rid of white right-wing media.
And damn it, now the speed and the fractiousness of our modern society makes it all but impossible for any one moment to transform the national debate.
So they're going to have to come up with many more of these.
One moment is not enough.
We need more of these.
Now, I don't want to hear from anybody saying, Mr. Limbaugh, Mr. Limbaugh, that's faithful of you to say that.
It's the Democrats that keep talking about the opportunities such events present them.
Mark Penn, Obama needs this, like Clinton had the Oklahoma City bombing, to reconnect with the American people.
The interrogation, well, not all transformational moments entail violence.
John Lewis Geddes, the preeminent Cold War scholar and Yale professor, sees a national turning point in 1954 when Joe McCarthy testified before Senate subcommittee in what came to be known as the Army McCarthy hearings.
The interrogation of McCarthy by Joseph Welch, an Army warrior, have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last, resonated throughout a country that was just then discovering the nascent power of television.
Years of ruinous disagreement over the threat of internal communism seemed to dissipate overnight.
Oh, yeah.
Years of ruinous disagreement over the threat of internal communism.
It did no such thing.
All it did was humiliate McCarthy.
Didn't get rid of the notion that there was internal, for crying out loud, there was a Communist Party in the USA.
At any rate, what a triumph here.
Never mind that the whole thing was staged.
The Army McCarthy hearings were staged, and never mind that we are still suffering from the ravages of years of internal communism.
In fact, several of them are in this regime.
Several of them have been in this regime.
Dan Jones, for crying out loud, folks, we got varying degrees of communism, Marxism, socialism throughout this regime.
New York Times still claiming the shooting was the consequences of political rhetoric, just not the kind that they wanted.
Oh, yeah, the Cold War did not end after those hearings.
Of course not.
So anyway, the shootings aren't changing enough.
We need more shootings.
That's the well, snerdly.
I'm just telling you, let me read this to you again.
You understand the mindset of the left, which I do.
Here you go.
Perhaps, though, we have to consider another explanation for why this didn't get rid of right-wing media.
That the speed and fractiousness of our modern society make it all but impossible now for any one moment to transform the national debate.
Shootings aren't changing enough.
I mean, if one is not enough to get rid of right-wing media, then what is needed?
Again, I remind you, it's these guys that wish for events like this so that their presidents can reconnect with the American people.
Oklahoma City bombing, 9-11.
Mark Penn going after this guy.
Now we move to Tucson.
Two things are clear from Saturday's ABC News Town Hall meeting in Tucson.
One, the people in Tucson are eager to move forward and recover.
And two, the process is going to be slow and painful.
The latter point was driven home by the arrest of a shooting victim who threatened a speaker during the taping of the program.
Yeah, you've got to read to the second page to find out the speaker was a Tea Party member.
ABC News anchor Christiana Manpour single-handedly destroying the show, Sunday with Brinkley, used in whatever it is.
Really, they're going downhill fast.
What the show used to be called?
Yeah, this week needs David Brinkley.
See, that's, gosh, I couldn't even, here I am, one of America's foremost mental political figures.
I couldn't remember the name of the show.
That's how badly they have destroyed it.
This week, is it this week with Christiana Monpour?
Or is it this country with, well, whatever it is.
ABC News anchor Christiana Manpoor hosted the remarkable gathering of victims, heroes, witnesses, and first responders.
It was the first time most of them had been together since Jared Lee Lochner opened fire, killing six and wounding or injuring 14 others.
A rampage that happened one week earlier, almost to the hour on the platform and the names of people that were there.
On the front row, Kenneth Derushka, who was shot shielding his wife from Lochner's gunfire, and J. Eric Fuller, who was shot in the knee.
J. Eric Fuller is the lib Democrat who threatened the Tea Party spokesman at the ABC News town hall called after the tragedy and American Conversation continued.
Correspondent Bob Muir spoke with Tea Party co-founder Trent Humphreys about the shootings.
And while Humphreys is answering, you'll hear it in a minute, he is interrupted by Tucson shooting victim J. Eric Fuller.
Muir says, Christian, Trent Humphreys is a Tea Party member, and I'm curious.
Trent, if you could stand for just a moment, the Congresswoman supported the Second Amendment.
She had a gun.
And I'm curious when you hear this, that there needs to be debate from Democrats and Republicans in the room.
Where do you see us heading forward?
Here's the Tea Party guy, Trent Humphreys.
It's not just gun laws that are standing in the way of this happening.
There are all kinds of laws that Congress needs to look at.
And I think there is a time for this debate, but for what we saw and felt right now, I'm not sure that applause and things going on are appropriate right now until we've had actually maybe had the funerals finished for the people that were suffered and died.
My neighbor was one of those people.
I love that man.
And I want to see some introspection maybe from the people before the national debate happens.
Did you hear that you're dead was somewhat off my you're dead?
That was James Eric Fuller, who last Friday night syndicated public TV show Democracy Now during a discussion about what happened in Tucson.
He said this.
The first thing that I wrote down and what my reaction was to it was, how many other people, how many other demented people are out there?
It looks like Palin Beck, Sharon Engel, and the rest got their first target.
Their wish for Second Amendment activism has been fulfilled.
Senseless hatred leading to murder, lunatic fringe anarchism, subscribed to by John Boehner, mainstream rebels with vengeance for all, even nine-year-old girls.
Now, Obama's speech was Wednesday.
This was Friday.
Where's the civility?
Besides, this guy is a loony tune leftist, as was Lochner.
Lochner had, he hated Bush.
He believed that Bush was behind 9-11.
Oh, yeah, he hated George W. Bush.
We have learned over the weekend, Lochner hated Bush.
He believed he was behind 9-11, was screwing up the currency.
Oh, yeah.
That's left-wing kookism.
Absolutely right.
We knew some of that on Friday.
We also know that his best friend said on Good Morning America.
He didn't listen to political radio.
He didn't care about that.
But he hated George W. Bush.
Now, this guy comes along, James Eric Fuller, and that was a great speech Obama gave, right?
I mean, the oratory, and it really, it really got through to everybody, right?
Here's two days later, and how many other demented people?
Looks like Palin Beck, Sharon Engel, the rest got their first target.
Their wish for Second Amendment activism's been fulfilled.
Subscribed to by John Boehner, mainstream rebels with vengeance for all, even nine-year-old girls.
Vicious, vicious, vicious anger.
Ladies and gentlemen, from James Eric Fuller, a brief time out as we continue here on the EIB network, don't go away.
So James Eric Fuller says you're dead to the Tea Party guy.
At that point, State Representative Terry Proud, Republican Tucson, rose to explain and clarify current and proposed gun legislation in the state.
Several people groaned or booed her.
One of those booing, according to several witnesses, was Fuller.
Witnesses sitting near Fuller told K-Gun 9 Eyeball News, it's a TV channel, that Fuller was making them feel very uncomfortable.
Sort of like Jared Lochner did to his classmates in the community college out there.
The event wrapped up a short time later.
Deputies then escorted Fuller from the room.
As he was being let off, Fuller shouted to the room at large.
Several witnesses said that what they thought they heard him shout was, you're all whores.
Fuller, 63, is a political operative who specializes in gathering petitions for ballot initiatives.
Before the program began, he passed out business cards to people sitting around him that read signatures, expediting initiatives since 2006.
J. Eric Fuller, political circulator.
A Pima County Sheriff spokesman told KGON9 Eyeball News that the department has charged Fuller with one count of threats and intimidation, said they plan to charge him with at least one count of disorderly conduct.
Humphreys told KGON9 Eyeball News that he does plan to press those charges.
Now, this threatener, Eric Fuller, is getting a medal evaluation.
Yet Frank Rich and Paul Krugman and Matt Bayh of the New York Times are all walking around free.
They have made just as incendiary comments in the written word as this guy has in the spoken word.
Now, what are the differences between what Jared Lochner is supposed to have espoused and what Reverend Wright espoused?
Reverend Wright believes that 9-11 was a Bush inside job.
America's chickens are coming home to roost.
I mean, how can Obama sit in a pew in Reverend Wright's church, listen to the rantings of Jeremiah Wright for 20 years, and not demand he get a mental evaluation?
We've all played for you, those sound bites.
I mean, like Lochner, Wright hates Bush, the 9-11's an inside job, even has weird number theories like Wright's hero, the Reverend Farrakhan.
You're all whores.
Does that mean, did Fuller work for Jerry Brown during the elections?
Because that's one of his big statements.
Here's Geraldo.
Last Saturday night, Geraldo at large said this about Fuller's death threat and arrest at the ABC News Town Hall.
Despite Mr. Obama's appeal to our better angels, there was a very public death threat today in Tucson that prompted police action.
Ironically, it came from a hardcore liberal.
Ironically, it came from a hardcore liberal.
Ironically, yeah.
Yeah, because we'd all expect it to come from a conservative, I guess.
Well, interesting.
Ironically, it came from a hardcore liberal, despite Obama's appeal to our better angels.
By the way, Rich Lowry, the coroner, National Review Online, even the sheriff knows that Lochner is crazy.
There's a long New York Times piece on the killer.
There's no doubt in my mind, this is Dupnik.
No doubt in my mind, the whole trial will be about, did he know right from wrong, the sheriff said.
We'll have 15 psychiatrists saying yes.
We'll have 15 psychiatrists saying no.
What do I say?
I think he's mentally disturbed.
Did you see what James Taranto wrote?
Wall Street Journal, best of the web online.
Quoting the sheriff, naming me as a responsible party, says, anybody seen Limbaugh?
He's about six feet tall, stocky build, has a booming baritone voice, and is still at large.
Still at large.
Sheriff Dupnik, there's more from Sheriff Dupnik, and we'll get to it.
After we come back from this obscene profit timeout, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, and your phone call's coming up as well.
That very long New York Times story on the killer, Jared Lochner.
I remember when I, in the first half hour of the program, mere moments ago, mentioned that Jared Lochner was a Bush hater.
All three pairs of eyeballs on the other side of the glass looked at me in total surprise.
They had not seen it reported anywhere.
Here's this detail from the New York Times piece on Jared Lochner.
Became intrigued by anti-government conspiracy theories, including that the September 11th attacks were perpetrated by the government.
Now, all of that is lies made up by the left.
And there was a Rasmussen survey, I forget, within the past year or so, that half the Democrats in the country believed that.
Where it was, let me find it here real quick.
2007, three years ago, Rasmussen reports Democrats in America are evenly divided, evenly divided.
On the question of whether George W. Bush knew about the 9-11 terrorist attacks in advance, 35% of Democrats believe that Bush knew.
If 39% believe he didn't know, 26% aren't sure.
Of the 35% who think Bush knew, they also have to think he didn't do anything to stop it.
Which means 35% of Democrats think that Bush wanted it to happen.
And guess who this guy identifies with?
The Democrats.
He became intrigued by anti-government conspiracy theories, including that the September 11th attacks are perpetrated by the government.
All lies made up by the left.
He also believed the country's central banking system was enslaving its citizens.
His anger would well up at the sight of President George W. Bush or in discussing what he considered to be the nefarious designs of government.
So here you have a government hater, a Bush hater, which qualifies him to be in common with over 80% of the Democrat Party.
They all hated Bush.
See, that hatred was justified.
Hatred of Bush.
Well, that was understandable.
Hatred of Bush, justifiable.
So this guy anger would well up at the sight of Bush or in discussing what he considered to be the nefarious designs of government.
So he's an anti-government conspiracy theorist, truther, Bush hater.
The New York Times uncovers all this.
Back to Sheriff Lochner.
Disturbed enough to be found guilty but insane, the sheriff said, I majored in psychology at the university.
Based on what I've seen, this guy is psychotic.
He has serious problems with reality, and I think he's delusional.
Does he meet the legal test of guilty but insane?
I don't know.
Sheriff Dupnick, naming me, now claiming this guy is delusional, the sheriff majoring in psychology at the university.
Well, I never once thought the guy was a genuine sheriff in the first place then.
And that is white comedian Paul Shanklin on Martin Luther King Day.
And I'm not a sheriff.
A vocal portrayal there that's Eric Klappner.
Well, I know it's Clapton, but it was.
I know it's a reggae tune.
Bob Marley did it first, and it was covered by Eric Klappner, as pronounced by Jocelyn Elders, who believed we should teach masturbation in the schools as a form of birth control.
Now, this guy, Eric Fuller, is out there saying that Boehner and all these gun control people got what they wanted out there, right?
They're Second Amendment people.
Well, Gabrielle Giffords is one of those.
She joins Boehner in support of Second Amendment.
Does this lunatic believe that she's therefore responsible for her own shooting?
That's what he was upset about, and that's what he's talking about on that program Friday night.
Hell yeah, all these people out there.
They got their first victim.
These Second Amendment types.
Well, she's one of them.
She is one of them.
Many Russians.
This is a story from the Staten Island.
Well, it's from Staten Island.
I can't read the website.
Well, Staten Island Live.
I guess there's a website out there.
It's understandable they would have one.
It's a big borough.
Many Russian immigrants to the borough of Staten Island are flocking to the Republican Party, saying that the National Democrats' socialistic policies remind them too much of the top-down oligarchy they fled in Mother Russia.
With many of Staten Island's Russian arrivals already owning businesses and active in civic organizations, their muscle could help the Staten Island GOP solidify electoral gains made this year when the party took back Congressional and Assembly seats.
So Russian immigrants, speaking of communists, are joining the GOP.
They say the Democrats remind them of the old country.
So we are getting through at least to some immigrants.
Some immigrants are hearing the message, and not by giving them things.
Rather, just opening the door and allowing them the opportunity and freedom to live and to work.
Not going to make the Democrats happy.
Anyway, brief time out here, folks.
We'll take it.
And your phone calls are coming up right after this on the EIB network.
Your guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, chaos, despair, lunatic insanity, and even the good times.
Rush Limbaugh, to the phones we go to Middleburg, Virginia.
This is Steve.
You're up first.
Great to have you here, sir.
Hello.
Wow, first up today, huh, Rush?
Yes, sir.
It's an awesome responsibility.
Yeah, I'm glad you realized it.
Serious topic.
I just want to ask a quick question.
Do your football picks count against your overall accuracy rating?
No, those are predictions.
And the accuracy rating does not really involve wild guesses or predictions, per se.
But if they did, I'd be in trouble because I was in bad shape on Wildcard weekend, and I was 50-50 this past weekend.
Well, that's about what I run, so don't feel too bad.
Yeah, that's pretty much what everybody runs.
But no, sports, because the audience gives me grief about sports is exempted from the accuracy rating.
The accuracy rating has to do largely with cultural, political, and social data.
Football teams don't raise taxes.
Well, they raise tickets, ticket prices, but they don't raise taxes.
Edwin in Newburn, North Carolina.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hey, Rush.
This is Edwin Vargas from Newburn.
I hope you're having a great day.
Thank you very much.
I am.
As we look at this Martin Luther King birthday, I think this country is still very much divided by name-calling, and we hyphenate our nationality, you know, Italian-American, Hispanic-American.
I even had people in my neighborhood in the South, South Bronx, tell me, oh, Edwin, when you left the Bronx in 77 and you did this and that, you don't sound like a Puerto Rican.
I said, well, what does a Puerto Rican sound like?
With a heavy accent?
I just think that we need to look at people as neutral in this country because I see a lot of division and a lot of hate that comes along when people talk to one another and communicate and even to the point now where you and Beck and Hannity have been attacked on this so-called deranged individual.
And I even spoke to Sean Hannity last week and told him that talk radio conservatives have nothing to do with this issue.
Yeah, I was just going to ask you, who do you think is responsible for the hyphenations and who is responsible for the name-calling and who's responsible for the angst and the disarray throughout our culture?
I think a person who was raised Rush as a Democrat and you learn, you're raised Democrat until you learn better.
And I switched over to, I think, the right real side because I see things in this country as not going in the right direction.
And the Tea Party movement did a whole bunch to open people's eyes.
And I don't want people in any political party to coddle a certain group for votes.
For example, like Hispanics, for example, the situation in Arizona.
Well, I think it's okay.
Both parties are doing that.
Both parties are doing it via the illegal immigration debate.
Both parties envision a brand new bunch of new voters with amnesty for illegal aliens.
Both parties do.
But, Rush, I just, I wish, I would love to see you, Hannity, and Beck have a show with President Obama on Fox, and you guys discuss these issues straight out.
Because it comes to a point that this president is trying to mold a reelection.
And I, as an American first, and as my mother and father were both born and raised in Puerto Rico, he will not get my vote.
Obama's not going to do a show like that.
I wouldn't even extend the invitation.
It has been Cindy Adams in the New York Post today reports that Obama held a private meeting recently with a couple of MSNBC hosts and Frank Rich to seek guidance from them on how to advance his political fortunes.
So this is this notion that we all should get along and we all going to get along.
It's crazy.
The left isn't interested in it.
They're only interested in it when it equals Republicans caving or compromising on principle.
It's like this whole effort that's being made for the Republicans and Democrats to sit together at the State of the Union.
Make no mistake what that's all about.
This is political strategy by the Democrats to make sure that the optics, the picture of the vast Republican majority in the House and the sweeping large sign of victory last November is not seen.
If everybody is seated together, Republican, Democrat, Republican, Democrat, once the standing ovations come, you're not going to be able to tell which party has the most members by design.
And of course, we've got some Republicans falling right in line with this.
Oh, yes, this will show unity.
This will show that we actually like each other.
We're all here To get along.
And it's classic.
Do you think if the Republicans had suggested this after the 2006 election or after the 2008 election, the Democrats would have gone for it?
They would have said, you lost.
You don't even deserve to be in the hall, much less sit next to us.
It's only by the grace of God and the Constitution we're going to let you in for the State of the Union show.
You know, you're going to sit next to us.
Screw you, buddies.
You think Pelosi would have entertained that?
But here comes Chuck Yu, Schumer, some of these other guys making the idea.
And we've got Tom Coburn, who says he's disgusted with all the media right now, right and left.
Senator from Oklahoma.
He said it on Meet the Depressed.
We got the audio coming up.
David Gregory was curious whether Coburn agreed that political discourse describing disagreement over issues in apocalyptic terms was worrisome.
Coburn dismissed the question as media-generated false premise.
He said, I have, I'm pretty well disgusted with all the media, right and left, after this episode, because what it does is it raises and says there's a connection.
And the president rightly said there was no connection to the Arizona shooting.
And we're spending all this time talking about political discourse rather than talking about the real risk to our country.
We need to quit paying attention to what all the media says.
We need to start watching, as Senator Schumer has said, what we say.
David Gregory persisted by saying some on the right speak of Obama as an outsider trying to usher in a system that will injure America and deny them their liberty.
He wanted to know if Coburn rejects that idea and also the use of violent metaphors in political discourse.
What?
Violent metaphors in political discourse?
Oh, you mean when the left does assassination books and movies on Bush?
No, you know he doesn't mean that.
Coburn agreed that he does reject that.
And Senator Chuck Q. Schumer added, We as elected officials have an obligation to try and tone that down.
And if we tone it down, then maybe the media will be less vociferous.
Fat chance.
Proving once again these guys think that all in politics revolves around them.
We've got that and more on the audio soundbites of Meet the Depressed coming up here today on the EIB network and El Rushbo and we're back.
Rush Limbaugh, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Three quarters of my brain tied behind my back on the Haney project and the golf channel.
It's one of the problems.
You think too much out there.
Like I said in the first episode, I am too smart for that game.
So I have three quarters of my brain unused.
That's the key to success.
The second episode of the Haney Project tomorrow night at 9 o'clock.
And it's on the Golf Channel.
It's from Honolulu and the big island of Hawaii at a great place called Kokio.
You'll meet a bunch of my friends in the episode as well.
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