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Jan. 25, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 25, 2011, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Yeah, hang on.
I'm looking at something here.
Just a second.
All right, we're back.
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Listen to this audio soundbite.
This kind of sums up what I was saying at the opening of the program about the Republicans being reactionary and reacting to Obama, reacting to the media, reacting to Tucson.
And with all these people, you have to get the ribbon here tonight, the black and white ribbon proposed by Schultz, Wasserman Schultz and McCall, and these people sitting next to each other.
This isn't the state of the union.
This is the date of the union.
They're calling it like prom nights.
We call it the Date of the Union.
And last night on PBS, the Tavis Smiley Show, he interviewed Rice University history professor Douglas Brinkley during a discussion about the...
Now, you know, I know I shouldn't do this.
Every time we play a soundbite from Douglas Brinkley, he has changed jobs.
He used to be a history profit Tulane in New Orleans.
Before that, he was a history prof some other college.
Now he's a history professor at Rice, which is in Houston.
Now, I don't know if this guy maybe keeps getting job offers, you know, climbing the history professor ladder.
Just an observation, folks.
Just an observation.
I'm not making anything of it.
Tavis Smiley, during a discussion about the Republican Party and Obama, said, now they have power in Washington.
What reason is them to work with him?
Why not continue this obstructive path that got you control of the House?
It really was the American people saying we're tired of you politicians name-calling and screaming at each other.
That shrill Tea Party, hard-right Republican attitude.
I don't think will fly in this season.
Tucson was a game changer.
So there you have it.
The liberals think they've done it.
They think they've defeated the Tea Party, defeated conservatism that roared through last election with Tucson.
That's what Tucson was, in their minds, an opportunity to defeat Republicans, conservatives, and the Tea Party.
And now that everybody's sitting together at the State of the Union, it's over Doug Brinkley, a noted presidential historian now at Rice University, says the American people have had it.
American people tired of all.
Doug Brinkley is essentially saying the American people agreed with the media and Obama and everybody else that it was rhetoric that caused the shooting.
And that the American people don't want to be part of it.
What's changed?
Did the Republicans lose control of the House after the program yesterday, before I came back?
Did that happen and nobody told me?
Well, what has happened here?
What is Mr. Brinkley talking about?
The game changer.
American people saying we're tired of you politicians name-calling and screaming at each other.
That shrill Tea Party, hard-right Republican attitude.
I don't think will fly in this season.
Okay, so they're back.
The Liberals are back.
The Democrats are back because of Tucson.
What makes them think that?
No, I'm serious.
What makes them think that?
Right.
The way the Republicans are acting.
The way the Republicans are acting is what makes the Doug Brinkleys of the world think that the Democrats have scored a victory with Tucson.
Now, think of that.
The Democrats have scored a victory with Tucson.
And they clearly think they have.
And the only reason to think they have is by virtue of the way the Republicans are acting.
I got a note from a friend from Hawaii over the weekend.
Somebody wanted to share some thoughts with me.
Here's the note.
Recently, there was a video of a young girl singing the national anthem.
The microphone malfunctioned, and she was left singing with no sound.
You've seen the video, right?
The people in the arena came to her side and finished the song for her and with her as proud Americans.
Now, if there was no need to sing, I wonder how many people would have belted out the words with the same pride.
Americans need to know that their voice matters.
We need to find a way to have them realize the importance of coming to the side of America.
Our voice is being silenced, and there is a need to stand behind the country.
Now, the Republican National Committee could run an ad using the video and call out every voice to be heard, the importance of the 2012 elections.
Without a microphone, we can still be heard.
The symbolism of that video is what got to him.
Little girl singing the anthem, her microphone goes out, and yet the crowd took over.
A bunch of people that did not have microphones nevertheless were heard.
Americans will do it if they know there is a need.
The time is now.
You are a great advocate.
Thanks for leading.
Let me know where to take the idea or to further the thought process.
Now, this is inspiring because this is somebody out in Hawaii who's about as far away from all this as you can get, paying attention to it and seeing symbolism and optimism for America in that video episode.
And we really can't afford to be the silent majority any longer.
And I don't know that we actually are.
Not with the Tea Party.
And believe me, the Tea Party is not going away.
The Tea Party is not vanishing.
Despite all of these optics and despite all the psychological efforts of the left to make it look like the Tea Party has been defeated.
The election never happened.
You know, the Republicans really didn't win anything.
I mean, that's the psychological ploy that's being attempted here.
Republicans didn't win anything.
Obama's the focus of the show.
He's got the state of the Union.
Obama's going to give us the agenda.
Obama's going to tell us what to do.
Republicans, who are they?
Paul Ryan?
Oh, you mean that monster that wants to cut everybody's Medicare and Social Security?
Oh, yeah, that guy.
Yeah, well, he wasn't elected anything.
Yeah, we're not at Paul Ryan.
No, Tea Party?
Ha, what Tea Party?
I mean, the people of Tea Party elected are sitting with us at the Obama speech tonight.
So there's a clear psychological ploy.
And I warned you people about this.
Ever since the election, I have warned that this would be the effort to make it appear like nothing of any significance happened in November.
And when you couple the fact that the establishment in Washington is unified in their opposition to the Tea Party, you can understand why some of these things are happening.
And the attitude, I mean, I turn on television and I watch, there's Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and she's talking about sitting down.
I never saw Michael McCall.
He's the co-sponsor of the Ribbonite.
I never saw him.
I see Debbie Wasserman Schultz all over the place, and I see Chuck Hugh Schumer all over the place, and I see Jim Clyburn all over the place.
I don't even see Paul Ryan, this monster.
You have to read about him in the Wall Street Journal.
I don't see him on TV.
And if all you do is watch TV, you could conclude that the Democrats still run the House of Representatives, and the conservatives are just lucky that they're even being allowed in tonight.
And that the condition they have to meet for being allowed in is that they have to sit next to a Democrat.
Whose idea was that?
Mark Udall, a Democrat, puts forth the idea: you know what, we ought to sit together.
And it's happening.
So the psychological picture is who runs the show.
Looks like the Democrats are running the show.
This is purposeful.
This is precisely what the plan was and how it is being initiated.
We go back to the phones with Rush Limboss serving humanity simply by showing up.
This is Ned in Plymouth, Indiana.
I'm glad you called.
Nice to have you on the program with us.
Nice to be with you, Rush.
Thank you.
Thank you for all you do.
And everyone there at the EIB network, do a great service.
Anyways, I'm going to get to my point.
As a college student, I've only become interested in politics for the past couple years.
And how I see it, I've heard a lot of negative expressions towards the Republicans and whether they're kowtowing to the media and just trying to get in deal with the Democrats.
But, you know, two years ago, three years ago, the representatives that we had, as far as conservatives, our choices were either between George Bush, John McCain, and whatever, Mitt Romney.
But and after the elections, if we have Paul Ryan as one option or Michelle Bachman as the other, I think that's a pretty good shift in the right direction.
I see a good future for the conservative movement and the country in that fact.
Okay, so you think Ryan and Bachman as leaders or apparent leaders of the right wing is a positive shift?
If those are the faces that are being put on by either the Republicans or the Tea Party or conservative that we have representing us, as opposed to the past 10 years where it was John McCain, I think that the window that we're looking through has shifted pretty far to the right as far as conservative principles and having the I think I see what you're talking about now.
I get it.
You're basically talking about responses to the Obama State of the Union.
Yeah, who we're choosing to have talking for us and who we're putting our faces that we're putting up.
If Paul Ryan is representing the Republicans, or we got Michelle Bachman, I see it as a win-win for conservatives.
Okay, well, you think, well, it's interesting.
So you think this means that the Republicans are hearing it moving in the right direction, choosing Ryan.
The Republicans did not choose, just to let you know, Bachman, Bachman put herself up there.
She's the leader of the Tea Party caucus.
And the Republicans are not supporting her response.
That's why they have put all their weight behind Paul Ryan and so forth.
Well, I'm glad you're looking at it that way.
Ryan is no doubt an upcoming star, particularly.
I mean, this guy on the budget spending items is brilliant.
Paul Ryan truly is brilliant.
And I hope he's able to be heard.
I hope he's able to make his voice heard.
I hope he's able to have his voice heard and that it resonates, that it inspires people.
And it is an enlightened choice.
And I'll tell you, one of the bits of evidence that confirms that is how the Democrats have started in on him already as a monster, and they're applying the straight out of the playbook criticisms.
He wants to take away your Social Security.
He wants to take away your Medicaid.
He wants to take away your Medicare.
Why, he is an out-and-out monster.
So they're clearly threatened by him, just as they are threatened by Sarah Palin and the others.
Ned, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
This is Matt.
You're next from Detroit.
Great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello.
Well, thanks, Rush.
Mega Mid-Gut Dittos from New Fallujah.
Thank you, sir.
New Fallujah.
New Fallujah.
I had forgotten about, boy, did I ever get in trouble for that?
I can imagine.
That's from the Groove Yard of Forgotten Favorite, New Fallujah.
Imagine my disdain.
I sell oil in Detroit, so you can imagine how difficult it is here.
The expression that this is the most divisive time in modern history, I think, is a misnomer.
I believe that there's more unity now than ever before.
I mean, taking part in tea parties, I see Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Libertarians, old people, young people, black, white.
And then we rode into victory in November in a huge way, unprecedented in the last 70 years.
I think that shows extreme unity.
I think that there's hope for us if we stay unified.
And as far as the future of the Tea Party, we're biding our time.
We don't spend our time campaigning.
We spend our time doing our business and making our money and raising our families.
When the time comes for us to be back and to raise our voices again for 2012, we'll be there again.
We'll be there again.
There's just as much momentum here as there ever was.
It's an excellent point.
That's an excellent point.
And you're probably right about that.
And you would know, since you're an avowed member of the Tea Party.
Yeah, they didn't check my ID or anything, and we don't have anybody give us Social Security numbers to join.
Bachmann is the titular head of the Tea Party in Congress, but we have no central leader.
We have no central leadership.
And there's a lot of diversity in reality in the movement.
And Paul Ryan is an absolute brilliant, brilliant man.
You're so right about him.
And we're hoping that he rises to even higher parts of leadership in the Congress.
And maybe 2016 or something, we'll look to him to run for president.
Now, Matt, explain to me again your theory on all this, the new unity you spoke about.
Who is it that's unified?
Well, for instance, we protested an Obama speech at a local community college, and I met with a bunch of retired General Motors workers who had been, well, screwed from the bailout of the auto industry.
And this is the first time, and we commented it was the first time that we could recall that a bunch of Republicans and a bunch of GM UAW guys walked the line together.
And there's such a myriad of faces in the Tea Party that there's no ideological line.
Folks are concerned about overspending.
Folks are concerned about having a future for their children.
And it does not have a party line to it.
There's too many Democrats involved.
There's too many libertarians involved.
Teachers, union guys, line workers, IBEW, skilled trades.
Are all part of this movement and to be continually vilified as I know?
Well, that's why you're being vilified, and that's why all this is going on in the House of Representatives today.
All of this stuff, Republicans and Democrats sitting together, believe me, unspoken, is about something these people in Washington all agree on is they don't like the political power you people have and they're afraid of it.
And they will do anything they can to discredit it in the eyes of the American public at large.
They'll do anything they can to make it look like you people are nothing but a bunch of cult fringe characters, which is what this is all about.
Believe me, this is all aimed at you.
This is all aimed at dispiriting you.
It is aimed at making the body politic at large think that you're insignificant and non-factors, non-players.
And it's a huge psychological game being played.
Well, one thing that makes me ill is that John Dingle, the dean of the state of the house, is sitting with Fred Upton tonight.
Well, why am I not surprised?
Speaking of that, consumers not yet warming to new light bulbs that Fred Upton was so supportive of.
These are the spaghetti compact fluorescents.
And it's a story from the MSNBC website, consumers not yet warming to new light bulbs.
You know what they found out?
Not only is there mercury in these things, they don't last very long at all.
We were told these bulbs are going to last for years, much, much longer than the Edison Condescent Bulbs.
But they don't.
Can I ask you permission for something?
I've never worn another man's name on a jersey before, but I'd like to put your name on a lion's jersey and wear it.
Oh, by all means.
Thank you.
By all means, you feel free to go ahead and do that.
Which name are you going to use?
Limbaugh, El Rushbaugh, Rush, Maha Rushy.
Which name are you going to use?
Probably Maha Rushy.
They'll probably think you're actually on the team if you put that on there.
Maha Rushy goes along with Obi-Jobi and Ottawa and any number of other people playing.
You put Maha Rushy on there, they might actually think you're a player.
I want to plus Dearborn's right here, so, you know, we fit right in.
Well, for those in the know, he's really talking about dear Bornistan.
Anyway, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
I have an idea for the Republicans.
Everybody wants to wear a ribbon.
Wear a sash, not a ribbon.
Wear a red sash to highlight the federal budget in the red.
Now, that would be gutsy.
Sit tight, folks.
We're coming right back.
Don't go away.
Hi, welcome back.
Great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh talent on loan from God and to Lul and Tom.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Welcome.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for having me on.
I remember you were saying something a little bit ago about this guy who was, I think he was a professor somewhere, and he was saying something about how the American people have had it.
That was Professor Douglas Brinkley, history professor at Rice University.
Well, you know what?
He's kind of right.
I have had it, but not really with what he's talking about.
You know, I'm a taxi driver in Louisville, Kentucky.
I work really hard to make my living.
I bet you do.
I'm out here.
Last week I was out here for 80 hours, and I did not make one dime for myself.
You know what I've had it with?
I've had it with these two fake politicians driving business out of this country and saying, oh, well, we're doing it for the poor.
Guess what?
I am the poor.
I've never made more than $22,000 a year in my entire life.
And I'm so sick.
Well, the Democrats are you.
They're doing it for me.
You're the Democrats' best friend.
You're their buddy.
No, I'm not.
I've never drawn a dime from the U.S. government.
I put in, I actually applied for educational assistance when I was 27 years old, living on my own.
You know what they told me, Rush?
What?
They told me my expected family contribution exceeded the maximum allowable.
Now, I was 27 years old, and they're talking about my parents are going to pay for me to go to college.
Well, they must have had some inside information that told them you didn't vote Democrat.
Well, I don't know.
At that time, I hadn't voted for anybody in a very long time.
Well, they knew that.
And, you know, here's another thing I'm tired of.
I'm tired of all these weak-kneed, just knee-jerk rhinos up there going along to get along.
I did not go out to the voting poll and elect these people so that they could sit there and, you know, just beat that wishy-washy.
I want them to stand up for what's right.
I want them to stand up and bring business back into this country.
I want them to stand up and do what they said they were going to do.
I don't want them to take prom dates to the State of the Union address.
I want them to do what they promised me to do.
Is that asking too much?
No, no, it's not even coming close to asking too much.
I want you to listen to this sound by the young.
This is the one you heard and reacted to by calling.
This is last night on the Tavis Smiley show on PBS.
Rice University history professor Douglas Brinkley.
And the host said, now that they have power, it's about the Republicans.
Now they have power in Washington.
What reason is him to work with Obama?
Why not just continue this obstructive path that got him in control of the house in the first place?
It really was the American people saying we're tired of you politicians name-calling and screaming at each other.
That shrill Tea Party hard-right Republican attitude.
I don't think we'll fly in this season.
Tucson was a game changer.
So this guy says that people like you are tired of politicians and talk radio yelling at each other.
Tucson was a game changer.
You want everybody to get along.
Is that at all representative of your attitude?
I don't think it is.
No way.
As a matter of fact, what they're doing in Tucson, talking about how it was you and Sarah Palin and Sean Hannity that set up the climate.
I mean, come on, Superman couldn't make that leap.
I happen to look, I'm glad you called, Tom.
Always love getting calls from people in Lulu.
And best of luck to you, by the way, too.
And he's right.
These people, Douglas Brinkley and so forth, they are nowhere near connected.
All this is doing.
I'm just going to tell you people right now.
By the way, an announcement, ladies and gentlemen, the majority leader, Eric Cantor, will not be sitting with Nancy Pelosi tonight at the state of the date, the date, whatever it is.
Which means, because he asked her.
We let off the show with a story that Cantor was going to ask Pelosi to sit next to him.
She must have said no because he's going to be sitting with his friend and colleague from Richmond, Representative Bobby Scott.
Snerdley is having a fit in there.
What do you say?
What's the difference?
Don't say it, Snerdley.
If you start cursing in there, I might inadvertently curse back responding to you, asking you not to curse.
I know, I know, I know.
Bobby Scott is one of the most partisan hacks.
So, well, student body queen said no.
So Cantor's going to sit with Bobby Scott.
Doug Brinkley, by the way, was John Kerry's hagiographer, biographer, what have you.
But I'll tell you, all of this, this is, and maybe they know it in Washington, but if they don't, let me help out.
All of this sitting together in ribbons and stuff, this is not flying out here.
This is not appeasing anybody.
It's not making anybody feel any better.
Nobody's being bought off by this.
This is not what this election was about.
The election in November was not about Republicans and Democrats getting along with each other.
This is a myth that the media and the Democrats continue to put forth, but it is not what that election was about.
This election was about defeating Obama.
It was about stopping Obama.
It was about stopping the Democrats.
It was not about sitting with them and getting along with them.
And this is not going to fly.
Now, they may be able to fool themselves in the chamber and think that they're really mattering and that they're really doing great things and that they're helping this new civility and so on.
All they're doing is alienating themselves from the people who elected them.
I hate to say it too, but this is the people that swarmed polling places in November want Obama stopped.
They don't want his agenda joined.
The people that swarmed the ballot boxes in November do not believe Obama's moderating and moving to the center.
They don't believe any of this is genuine.
They know it's a show.
They know it's pure PR.
They don't, this is all of this civility stuff, this is not what the election was about.
The election was about saving the country from Obama policies.
And they don't take great pleasure in seeing all this take place because as I said, folks, I do not say this with any comfort or happiness.
It does not please me to have to see this or illustrate it and reflect it and point it out to you.
But this reacting to Obama and the media is the exact opposite of what the people who voted in November wanted and expected.
Whatever happened to the old phrase, you dance with the one who brung you.
You dance with the one who brung you.
And I don't care whatever Democrat any Republican sits next to tonight, that Democrat had no effect.
That Democrat had had no involvement in these Republicans winning the election.
So in a sense, you could look at this as sort of a slap in the face.
And if elected Republicans are asking themselves, well, what's all that?
Why do you people get so upset about?
We're just going to sit together.
You need to ask yourselves, what would our voters do in these circumstances?
And that's very clear to understand.
If you ask yourself, what would our voters do?
And if you know your voters don't want you getting engaged and involved in these PR shows for civility, then don't do it.
But there's two years for the voters to forget.
And Tucson, Tucson, this is all, it's all falling into play.
I have been asked to speak To a large number of members of the House very soon, and I told them that I would do it.
I'm wondering if the I just wonder if that'll actually happen now, given the program today.
But I did promise, I did commit, so I said that I would do it, and I will take full advantage of the opportunity.
I'll tell you that you'll win after it's all happened and so forth.
But dance with the guy who brung you.
So look at what's happened here.
The Democrats didn't lose.
Tucson happened because the Republicans and the talk radio people in all Serapha are too angry and loud.
The Democrats still run the House.
Obama's running a show.
Everybody's reacting to what Obama wants to do.
The Democrats had this idea, but he's sitting together.
Everybody's going along with it.
And the people who elected this majority are scratching their heads and what the hell.
And we're back.
A precious few broadcast moments remain.
And we'll go back to the phones to Hartwick, Iowa.
This is John.
Thank you for calling, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Hello.
Hi.
Hello, Rush.
Hi.
Yeah, I feel like I just hit the lotto.
I got into you.
Well, thank you very much, sir.
I do if I feel the same way.
Yes, yes.
I appreciate you taking my call.
You bet, sir.
And here's my question: you know, maybe you just share a little bit of responsibility for Obama getting in, you know, back when they held the Democrat caucuses.
You were pretty tough on Hillary.
Well, yeah, you were pretty tough on Hillary, you know.
If Hillary would have got in, maybe we'd have had a chance of beating her, you know.
Wait a second.
I'm the one that kept Hillary's campaign alive.
It was called Operation Chaos.
If it weren't for me, Obama would have had that wrapped up four months prior to the point in time that he did.
Well, I don't know.
The superdelegates, they sure work on her, you know, and give it to him.
Yeah, why?
That's because she wouldn't go away because of me.
That's because of Operation Chaos.
When the Republican nominee was chosen, there was nothing for us to do except watch that.
And who wanted to watch that?
We had an involving audience in this one.
It came Operation Chaos.
And that was Republicans in the remaining Democrat primary states registered as Democrats and voted for Hillary in order to keep that race going because somebody had to pummel Obama.
The media was not doing their job with Obama.
And Hillary was getting close to, and Bill was getting close.
We need to have the truth about the guy out there.
And if it weren't for Operation Chaos, Obama would have had that wrapped up four months before the convention instead of one month before the convention.
Well, okay, then I'll take it that way.
But another question is, too, about all these jobs that's going to be created.
Just looks like John Deere's spending millions going over to China and our new GM plant, they're going to go down in Mexico.
Who's going to get them jobs?
Well, now, GM, that's Obama.
Obama Motors, and we had the story last week.
They are building, creating a bunch of new jobs to build General Motors products, Obama Motors products down in Mexico.
You're right about that.
I hadn't heard John Deere in China.
I think a lot of American businesses are doing business in China.
I don't know.
Obama effectively now runs General Electric, effectively runs General Motors, and Chrysler effectively runs the American housing market.
What with his Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ownership and the bailout powers he has with financing and the mortgage market, the foreclosure market, and so forth.
He's pretty much got Wall Street under his thumb.
I think the answer to your question for all this is Obama, if you want to know why this is happening.
Well, yeah, like I said, it's jobs created, but not here in America, I don't think.
Maybe some, but looks to me like they're more interested in the job.
You know, you have to understand America has had its unfair number of jobs since the beginning of time.
The world only has so many jobs, and we've had our unshare amount of them.
And it's time the world had their share of jobs.
Because, you know, we've just been so unkind and mean and colonialistic, imperialistic to the rest of the world.
So this is time the United States found out what it's like to be treated by the United States.
Obama's doing that.
But look, Obama has created a lot of Republican jobs.
There is a cost-benefit analysis in there somewhere.
No, I think I know exactly how it happened.
Gosh, they want us to sit with them, and we can't say no.
How will that look?
That's how it happened.
Don't forget the Haney Project tonight at 9.
I go to golf boot camp.
If you don't like me, this episode tonight is for you.
9 o'clock on the Golf Channel.
State of the Union, screw it.
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