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Feb. 16, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 16, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #3
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The views expressed by the host on this program documented to be almost always right, 99.6% at a time, ladies and gentlemen.
Still waiting on the latest opinion audit from the Sullivan Group.
It's about 10 days late.
I don't know what it means.
Couldn't mean anything.
Could mean they're lazy.
It could mean so much to audit that it's taking them a little time.
You never know.
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Don't think for a moment Obama's not setting up a government shutdown here.
And trying to and try to recreate 1995, shift the blame to the Republicans.
I mean, they're doing their own budget.
Obama's budget's a blueprint.
All president's budgets are.
Congress actually does the budget, and they'll send it up there.
And if Obama vetoes the thing, then he wants a shutdown.
He wants a shutdown because he thinks he can reverse his own fortunes just like Der Schleck, Meister Bill Clinton did in 1995.
But you know what they always say?
You ever thrown, folks, you ever had a spontaneous great party just happens.
Friday or Saturday night, you get together with some people, just have a great time.
You know what?
Let's do this next week.
And you try to do the same thing next week, it just isn't the same.
Well, I predict to you it'll be the same effect for the Democrats if they try to recreate their government shutdown party of 1995 here in 2011.
I get a note here from a um a friend listening intently to the program about all this that we've discussed today, and this is really good.
The only hope the country has.
The only hope this country has is through the innovations of a free people.
A people who are free to benefit from their good ideas and their hard work.
History has proved over and over there's no shortcut.
University eggheads and politicians do not have, never have had a better way to achieve prosperity for a nation.
Hard work born of free people benefiting from their innovations.
Government can't accomplish this.
Government only gets in the way and makes it more difficult.
Government does not create wealth.
By definition, government does not create wealth.
Government confiscates wealth.
So the government needs to get out of the way.
And that means quit taking so much wealth away from the private sector.
That's the hope that we have.
That's the only hope we've got.
America's hope is not in stimulus bills.
It's not in mortgage assistance programs.
It's not in green technology sponsored by the government with crony capitalism subsidies.
It's not in windmills or any of that unless market forces can combine with need and necessity to create something that's profitable in a new energy sector.
And that will happen if country remains free.
That kind of stuff cannot be forced on.
Country is not going to become great, re rediscover itself because of electric cars.
Or any of these other government ideas.
It just isn't going to happen.
And looky here.
How many remember all these arguments about government-funded abortions?
No, rush, the government doesn't pay for abortions.
That's just one of the tricks you people on the right try to always use.
This is from the caucus blog at the New York Times.
Liberals fight to preserve abortion funding.
Liberals rallied yesterday to defend funding for clinics that provide abortions and other family planning services.
As lawmakers Debated measures that could drastically curtail women's access to reproductive health care.
As Democrats on Capitol Hill slammed the provisions found in the Republican budget proposal and its amendments.
Moveon.org, a liberal political action committee, launched an on-air offensive for the next week.
Moveon.org will run an eerie television advertisement showing a woman apparently in need of an abortion walking toward a closet where a single coat hanger dangles.
Now, this is a story about how abortion clinics, i.e., Planned Parenthood, cannot survive without federal money.
It would seem to me then that taxpayer dollars are funding abortion after all, wouldn't it?
Indeed, doesn't this entire article and the campaign from moveon.org put the lie to the claim that no government money goes to fund abortions.
You would think that even the New York Times would notice that, but once again, they don't.
Let's run the story.
Evil Republicans sending women into dark closets with a single coat hanger hanging on the rack.
When was the last time that image was part of the abortion debate?
How many years ago was how far back are they going to dredge that one up?
Move on.org, of course, is famous for their concern for women.
Remember how concerned they were about Paula Jones and Monica Lewinsky and Juanita Broderick.
And lest we forget Moveon.org got its start in life.
You remember what people forget this.
You know what moveon.org was.
It was originally for what was it, certainly, you remember?
Yeah, let's move on from the Clinton scandals.
It's exactly right.
Let's move on from all this Clinton stuff.
Can we get off the Clinton scandals?
There's nothing to see here.
Moveon.org got its start in life by claiming perjury about sexual harassment by Clinton was no big deal.
They said we should just censure and move on.
But MoveOn will use any tool to advance their socialist George Soros agenda, because that's who MoveOn.org is.
This ad says this.
When the Republican Party launched an all-out assault on women's health, pushing bills to limit access to vital services, this...
By the way, the woman in this ad.
How many of you watch House, the TV show House?
The woman in the ad is Lisa Edelstein.
You know who I'm talking about, Dawn.
She runs the hospital.
She's House's babe.
She plays Lisa Cuddy.
She's the MoveOn.org activist.
She is the some of the stuff that she believes and publicly has said about the Republicans.
I mean, it is questionably sane.
And in this ad, Lisa Edelstein says, when the Republican Party launched an all-out assault on women's health, pushing bills to limit access to vital services.
We had to ask why is the GOP trying to send women back to the back alley.
Well, my friends, after all, who would know better about such weighty issues than a TV actress.
Lisa Edelstein.
Yeah, see, that's the operative word, liked.
Don just said, I liked her too.
Liked.
She's an activist and she doesn't know what she's talking about, which is, as I say, typical.
All right, Chris Christie was in Washington today.
This was a um a highly anticipated speech he gave to the American Enterprise Institute.
We have just two sound bites from Governor Chris Christie's remarks.
Here's the first.
I fear that uh after watching how things have been going over the last month or two, uh, that we're missing a historic opportunity.
And I will not be someone who will participate in silently missing that opportunity.
I don't think there should be much disagreement across the country about what those big things are.
For us in New Jersey, It's three things.
It's restoring and maintaining fiscal sanity.
It's getting our pension and health benefits under control, reform, and have the costs lowered.
And it's reforming an education system that costs too much and produces too little for our society today and for our children's future.
Our second bite is Governor Christie on how he dealt with Democrat threats to shut down the New Jersey government.
Listen, you guys want to pass an income tax increase, you can.
That's fine.
I'm going to veto it.
And if you want to close down the government because of that, that's fine.
But I want to tell you something.
I'm not moving any cot into this office asleep in here.
You close down the government, I'm getting in those black SUVs with the troopers, I'm going to the governor's residence.
Gonna go upstairs, I'm gonna open a beer, I'm gonna order a pizza, I'm gonna watch the Mets.
And when you decide to reopen the government, give me a call, and I'll come back.
New governor, uh New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, how he told the Democrats he would deal with a government shutdown that they brought about back right after this.
Quick question How would you like to um how would you like to evaluate individual spending cuts being debated in the House and Senate this week?
I know many of you in this audience care about it.
I know you're fascinated.
You know, it's interesting.
Twenty years ago, twenty-three years ago, fifteen years ago, even in this program, talking about the budget, we didn't.
I mean, it was i i uh fastest way to lose an audience in the history of talk radio is to talk about the budget.
Well, but yeah, but baseline budgeting, that's that's what brought that's what brought people's interest in it to the forefront.
But I mean, but my point is that the the whole subject of the federal budget as a talk show item top, I mean, that was you didn't do it.
You didn't do it.
Now look.
Now it is what animates people because it's their future.
This budget and this president's actions are going to harm this country.
That means everybody in it, regardless of race and sex and party.
People are now interested.
Now and if I still held on to the old belief that budget talk that's boring, nobody wants to listen to it, I'd be in trouble.
Now, if I ask the question, how would you like to evaluate individual spending cuts being debated?
I know that the vast majority of you would because most of you are ticked off.
It's only a hundred billion.
And when it was 32 billion, you were really double ticked off.
Well, by now you've heard what the White House would like the budget to be next year.
And now you're gonna see the House vote on the first $60 billion in spending cuts.
Earlier this year, the Heritage Foundation published a piece that showed where $300 billion could be cut from the budget, and they laid out these suggestions the week before the Super Bowl to get the information out into the hands of congressional members and their staffs.
And now you get to participate in a straw vote on the same suggestions.
The Heritage people have put the first 15 or 20 of the suggested cuts online for you to weigh in on.
Just go online to ask heritage.org, and it's all right there.
There are hundreds of suggested cuts there, and it gives you an idea of all the possibilities.
You can check off what you agree with and don't agree with, and you don't even have to be a member of Heritage to do this.
It's just all right there.
But if you do want to become a member, this is the time.
You can join for as little as $25, and when you do, you'll be joining.
We're up to now 710,000 members at Heritage.
They'll send you uh five pocket-sized copies of the Constitution.
Askheritage.org is the name of the site.
And this, if you're interested in this, if if if you hear all this talk about we can't cut down, we can't cut there, where are you gonna cut?
Huh?
They've got a whole bunch of places to look at, see what you're thinking.
The $300 billion in cuts they've identified.
See if you can find any of them you would disagree with at Askheritage.org.
All right, Jeannie, in a truck in Kansas, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hello, Russ.
Megan Diddos.
Thank you very much.
From uh truck driving, SUV driving, gun coating, deer shooting redneck woman.
How's that?
I am honored and flattered that you are in this audience, and I'm honored that you called.
And by the way, you're in an SUV.
No, I'm in a semi-truck right now, but I drive an SUV when I'm home.
Oh.
Okay, listen to this.
This is a story from Bloomington, Indiana.
The director of the Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center in Indiana says he and his staff are praying for the family of the Dalai Lama's nephew after he was killed by an SUV in Florida during a walk to promote Tibet.
So we're back now to the SUV is a killer.
Not the driver, the SUV.
Anyway, I'm glad what what's up, Jeannie.
I'm glad you called.
It's great to have you out there.
Seriously, it is.
Okay, well, I drive a truck for a living, and I'm a uh talk news radio junkie.
And yesterday I heard a couple of reports about a female CBS news reporter that was sexually assaulted and beaten severely while in Egypt when she got separated from her camera crew.
And this happened on Friday.
Uh my question is why isn't Obama looking for somebody's ass to kick over this?
Well, um she's talking about.
I mean, CBS, CBS should be one of his, you know, his people.
You know, and Hillary Clinton, why isn't she outraged over a female reporter being sexually assaulted?
I mean, it's one thing for the male reporters to have been, you know, hit with rocks or beaten or whatever, but this girl was dragged away from her camera crew and sexually assaulted for hours.
Now, this is uh this is Lara Logan of uh of CBS News.
Yeah, well, the uh uh the Muslim Brotherhood, uh, it is suspected is behind this uh certainly uh it was members of the crowd.
It was the Egyptian military and a bunch of women who saved her.
Oh, I can believe that.
I and and these are the people that uh Obama's backing this Muslim Brotherhood.
Well I mean, come on.
I mean, why is it why isn't there an I I don't understand?
You know, Rosie O'Donnell, uh, whoopi Goldberg, they are uh Oprah Winfrey are constantly talking about women's rights in the Mid East.
They might one of our own gets sexually assaulted.
Look at look, okay, okay.
You're forcing me into this.
You're forcing me into this to report widely on this, totally destroys the narrative they've set up about this is that Obama is responsible for all of the wonderful things that happened in that square to get rid of Mubarak.
Obama owns the mob.
They were running around asking the members of the crowd, what do you think of Obama?
How do you like what is your message for Obama?
So they set this thing up as uh this a freedom-loving bunch, a bunch that's oriented toward freedom and democracy.
Well, this doesn't fit the template.
It just doesn't fit the template of who the people in the crowd were, so it's gonna sort of be downplayed a little bit.
I have something if you if if you're outraged just by the story itself, listen to this now, Jeannie.
Jim Garratty at the campaign spot at National Review Online has reported that a guy at the New York Center for Law and Security named Nier Rosen has posted tweets commenting on this.
And the this this it's it's horrible.
This this guy is making light of what happened to her.
Oh, she can't take it.
What did she think was going to happen?
This this guy is a fellow at the New York University Center for Law and uh and security.
Uh, and he posted some of his worst comments about her on his Twitter feed.
He took some of them down, but they're out there now.
They're in the ether.
And and people took uh screenshots and they've got the cash files.
Uh it is uh I don't know that I want to share some of these things specifically with you, but I mean this this guy is just um uh he's unapologetic.
He doesn't think it's any big deal.
She deserved it.
She invited it, she asked for it.
What did she think was gonna happen?
This kind of stuff.
His name is Nier Rosen, N-I-R-R-O-S-E-N.
He says, I'm rolling my eyes at all the attention she's gonna get because of this now.
Oh my God, I can't.
I can't wait to see how everybody goes nuts over what happens like it's no big deal.
He says, Jesus Christ, that at a moment when she's gonna become a martyr and glorified, we should at least remember her role as a major warmonger.
Uh my wife didn't uh dedicate her career to promoting America's wars.
Look, she was probably groped like thousands of other women, which is still wrong.
But if it was worse than that, I'm sorry.
Um not really, it's terrible, but you had you had millions of people in the street.
This is not exactly shocking.
These are the comments posted on the guy's Twitter feed.
He he made mention that he would he had no sympathy for her, and that we should remember her as the major warmonger that we know she is.
Have to find humor in the small things, he said.
Jim Garrity found this guy's uh tweets.
That's just one uh it's just one reaction uh to it.
And of course you're not gonna hear about these either.
You'll have if if uh I hadn't found it on Garrity's place at National Review Online, a lot of people wouldn't hear about this.
But you let you let a conservative say things like this near Rosen, or even halfway, but it's all over the world wide press in a uh in a lickety split.
She's back, Laura Logan's back, and due to be out of the hospital, I think today.
And said to be in good spirits.
We'll be back.
He resigned.
Near Rosen resigned.
Okay.
Okay, more on Near Rosen, uh, if you're interested.
He has resigned from New York University, was a fellow.
Means he had a chair.
Like at the Limbaugh Institute.
I'm in the Attila the Hun chair.
He had a chair, he was a distinguished fellow at the New York Center's uh New York City Center of Law and Security.
And this guy was a he's American.
He regularly contributed to he does, contributes to places like the Atlantic Monthly, the Washington Post, the New York Times magazine, Harper's, and the New York Post is reporting today that whoever it was that attacked Laura Logan was shouting, Jew, Jew, during their assault.
On her Logan uh had told Esquire Magazine the day before her attack that Egyptian soldiers were harassing her and accusing her of being an Israeli spy.
And but it turned out it was 20 members of the Egyptian military that rescued her.
Mr. Rosen has apologized.
He said I deeply regret making insensitive but completely insincere jokes to a couple of friends on Twitter.
I'm deeply ashamed because they don't represent who I am, and I would like to convey my most heartfelt apologies to Ms. Logan, her family, her friends, all women, and to everybody I've hurt, angered, and disappointed.
That's the old, that's not who I am.
Defense.
It's becoming a popular defense for people who are caught being themselves.
That's not who I am.
Yeah, sir.
Who was it then?
Who got hold of your Twitter account?
That's not who I am.
That's not the real me.
I want to take you back.
Audio sound bite.
We have okay, Snertley.
Question.
What's a question?
The question.
Oh, come on, there's no way.
No way.
Snerdley wants to know if broadcast executives will now refrain from sending women into these places.
There's no way.
I mean, just like they're not gonna they're not gonna re-examine sending men to the Anderson Cooper got beat upside the head.
It doesn't matter, he's a guy doesn't matter.
People get beat upside the head.
She was sexually assaulted.
It's not gonna.
You think it's gonna cause him not to send women to these places?
Uh if look at we're talking about putting women in combat in the armed forces for 20 years here.
No, I don't I don't think it's gonna change it.
My guess is Laura Logan's gonna be the first to want to go back in a uh circumstance like this.
I don't that'd be that'd just be my wild guess.
Excuse me, clearing the throat without benefit of the cough button simply because they're too lazy to reach over and hit it.
We're talking about the government shutdown.
1995, and how the Democrats are hoping to relive that wonderful moment in their political history.
Because they do view it, perhaps correctly so, as one of the elements that revitalize the dormant Clinton regime at the time.
Because Newton Boys had the House Republicans on a roll.
This was just the second year after they had been sworn in.
And the uh government shutdown happened, and it was totally orchestrated.
Uh Clinton and the federal employees still worry you'll get to What Okay.
Question is if it saved Clinton, why did he sign welfare reform?
It didn't alone save Clinton.
But they think it did.
The Democrats think that this is how they've that they beat back this Republican revolution.
That's why they're eager to repeat this.
I just we have a montage from my television show in 1995 about the budget battle.
The Democrats think they won and are looking to replay.
This is how they were behaving.
This is what they were saying back in 1995.
Oh.
Sixteen years ago.
That right?
Yeah.
Five, eleven.
Uh, regardless.
Lousy at quick math in my head.
But this is what they're hoping to replicate.
This is this is this is perhaps a prelude to to things that you'll hear them say as we get closer to March this year, which is the government shutdown date.
GOP.
Get all people.
What's next?
Castration?
Sterling.
They're coming for our children.
They're coming for the poor.
They're coming for the sick, the elderly, and the disabled.
The reason they're trying to slow the rate of increase in the program, I suppose, is because eventually they'd like to see the program just die and go away.
You know, that's probably what they'd like to see happen to seniors, too, if you think about it.
What is being done to our society, the torture and the maiming of our society is incomprehensible.
You're working six leaders.
That's all you are.
I had to fight you guys 50 years ago.
That was Sam Gibbons, you know, he parachuted in on D-Day at uh uh uh uh uh in uh Omaha Beach, and he was claiming that the Republicans were just like the Nazis he'd had to fight fifty years ago.
It was um Major Owens, oh Bev, I'm glad to hear that voice brought back from the archives, the grooveyard of forgotten hits Maver Major Owens.
What's being done to ours?
This is the guy who the the sharks still swim the uh the route of the slave ships from Africa to the United States.
Sharks are still out there, they're still hoping uh that more slaves will be thrown overboard for you.
He said it.
We had the tape.
And it was John Lewis, they're coming for our children, they're coming for the poor, they're coming for the sick, the elderly, and the disabled.
It was Mike McCurry who said, you know what, I think they just want the program to die, go away.
That's probably what they'd like to see happen to seniors, too, if you think about it.
William Clay, what's next?
Castration, sterilization, Sam Gibbons, GOP, get old people.
That's the budget battle of 1995.
That's what they're hoping to uh rekindle.
Back to the phones we go, Janet in uh in Shiloh, Illinois.
I'm glad you called.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hello, last man standing.
How are you?
I wanted to um emphasize how this is not nineteen ninety-five.
And I I agree with you completely because I'm not a stupid woman.
And he's delusional.
I think that's the polite word.
Because back then, as you would recall, the Democrats used all sorts of threats as to why they couldn't do things like shut down the government or impeach a president.
And one of them was the stock market would crash.
Well, the stock market has crashed, and it gave us this president that has further taken us off the rails as a country.
Yeah.
We have eight million homes, according to Mort Zuckerman in some state of foreclosure right now.
Unemployment's been up above eight percent since this fellow's taking office.
Um, the Democrats they want to let the old people die.
The I'm sorry, they said they Republicans want to let Granny die.
Well, the Democrats have given us death panels.
Exactly right.
Yes.
Yes, yes, yes.
Who is it that's given us the death panels?
Who is it that's doing exactly right?
Right.
Who is it that's forced people out of their homes?
Right.
It's the Democrats, and they have no compassion.
And you know what else, Ross?
This is really important.
There's a lot of people in their 40s, late 30s, 40s, early 50s, who have been in the private sector, had their retirement savings wiped out.
Their homes, if they haven't lost them, are worth a fraction of what they were.
And they're more reliant on social security than they ever were.
We've got to take this fight straight to the jugular of the Democratic Party.
We've got to stop letting them be the bullies that they are who destroy people's lives.
That's what they are about.
Look at our major cities.
Look what the census numbers of Chicago.
They've got 1920 percentage of people living there in Chicago now.
Who organized Chicago?
I know Obama.
It's the same sad story in New Orleans.
It's the same sad story in Detroit, where they're actually talking about bulldozing houses.
Uh it's the same sad story.
Whenever Democrats have run a city unchecked, take a look at the city.
State, same thing.
I I I Janet, if you're willing, you you need to be signed up as a spokesman for the Republican Party.
This is this is what the Republican Party ought to be saying.
This is what people in the country think.
The Republicans could score major points by simply validating what people already think.
People in the email would you first shut down Russia?
You were for it.
Damn right I am.
Shut it down.
Let's prove again we can live without it for a few weeks.
So-called essential jobs will not go undone.
We're not thinking like winners here.
We should prepare for what happens when it happens.
What happens is that we prove the world will not turn into dust and blow away when this government stops operating for a while.
And at the same time, we make it clear that this is being done because the president seeks to bankrupt the country and we refuse to be any part of it.
We make it clear that he is shutting down the government for his own political reasons.
We make it clear that he and his media are treating this as a giant political game, all for him to win.
1995 was what it was.
This is a different time and a different place today.
For one thing, Obama is not Clinton.
Clinton.
There was no better liar than Clinton, and there still isn't.
Obama is a stumbler.
You take the teleprompter away and he's got zilch.
In fact, either the Republicans proposed cutting the teleprompter budget in the White Houses.
It's a joke.
You take his teleprompter away, and he's got nothing.
1995, we st basically it was still me.
There was no Fox.
There was no giant blog network.
There was the the the uh the new media was in its birth stages, if you will.
It's a whole different day today.
It's a whole different time.
We've got to we've got to tell people exactly what's going on.
Barack Obama is holding the government hostage for his own political ambitions.
He's playing a game with it.
His whole budget is a game.
Nothing serious in it.
Hey, did you know that bullying doesn't always end in hascruel?
Sometimes bullying happens in retirement communities.
I have here in my uh formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
A story from the MSNBC.com website about the blue-haired bloody merry gang, a bunch of blue-haired, gray-haired old biddies in the retirement homes bullying younger arrivals.
It's right here.
According to experts, gray-haired bullies do exist, and as with their younger counterparts, their behavior can run the gamut from verbal intimidation to physical violence.
I had dinner with two gentlemen the other night, and they said that the one bully in their retirement center terrifies them.
She's dictatorial, demanding, critical, classic bully behavior.
Don't say it, snerdly.
Don't don't say this.
How can they tell from the other women?
I told you not to say it.
I told you not to say it.
Chris Christie said that he would order a pizza.
And watch the Mets if the New Jersey government gets shut down.
That's what Clinton did.
That's what Clinton did, Reds.
That's what Clinton did.
And it was Monica DeWinsky delivering the pizza.
Be careful, Governor Christie.
Who's next?
Mike in Dallas, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Good evening.
Afternoon Rush, Megadinos.
I started listening to you 21 years ago on KRMB in Tulsa.
Thank you very much, I'm I remember our first week there.
Yes.
Uh, I have some information for that caller in the last hour that you tried to pin down on issues, and he could not do anything about it.
He needs to stay off of those hate sites like Media Matters, Moveon.org, and Daily Coast and Huffington Post, because he's not going to get any factual information.
Or the New York Times.
I swear he sounded just like you know, folks, you really ought to do something.
The New York Times likes to think that they're the upper crust.
I mean, they've got smartest readers, the smartest citizen.
See, you want to go to any New York Times website story and read the comments.
I guarantee you, you will you'll run a gamut of emotions from uh hilarity, laughter to outright shock.
And if none of it is going to actually be the actual truth, Rush.
None of it is.
No, I know.
It's it's it's it's all agenda-oriented.
But the comments, the comments are just it does, like I said earlier, folks, like that caller.
Made me question the whole concept of evolution.
And I think I think anybody with just a modicum of intelligence would agree.
Read the comments.
Read the you know what you're gonna get at Democrat Underground Daily Calls, all those places.
Go to the New York Times and read the comments there.
And then send a note that Charles Darwin's full of it.
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