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March 30, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 30, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #3
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A view is now documented to be almost always right, 99.6% of the time.
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It's open line Friday on Wednesday today.
A couple of days off, I'm going to go to Honolulu and surrender to the city council sometime in the next couple of days in Honolulu, Hawaii.
And in the meantime, Mark Stein will be, I expect to be released in time to return to the EIB golden microphone here by next Monday.
I mentioned Howard Dean, former chairman, Democrat National Committee, sees an upside to a government shutdown.
He went and spoke to the National Journal Insiders Conference panel.
And he was there.
The moderator was Major Garrett, who used to be a reporter at Fox.
And he said to Howard Dean, do you think there's anything to be said for a grand debate precipitated in part by a government shutdown?
From a partisan point of view, I think it'd be the best thing in the world to have a shutdown.
All these Tea Party people are dependent on Social Security and Medicare and all these other things.
And when those checks start coming, believe me, their constituency is going to go even lower than a fiasco in Wisconsin.
If I was the head of the DNC, I'd be quietly rooting for it.
I know who's going to get blamed.
We've been down this road before.
I know who's going to get blamed.
The Republicans will get blamed.
The Tea Party will not get their Social Security checks.
I don't know where this guy's been, but the government doesn't really shut down.
This is the dirty little secret.
Everybody will get their Social Security checks.
But this is exactly, this is, it's talk like this that has our guys afraid of a government shutdown.
They do think it's still 1995.
They do think they'll get blamed for it.
They do think that there's no win to it.
And depending on which of them you talk to in Washington, it ain't going to happen.
They're adamant.
There will be no shutdown.
But the best thing in the world to have a shutdown, all these Tea Party people dependent on Social Security and Medicare.
Howard, you don't have the slightest idea who these Tea Party people are.
No concept of who it is that's working in this country, who it is that's producing in this country.
That's why I think the circumstance is ripe.
Talent on loan from God.
What is this?
Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy.
You ever heard of this?
It's in Dallas.
The Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy.
What is one of the courses, how to eat hamburgers without your wife finding out?
Let's see here.
Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy will open to students in grades six through nine in August of this year.
Two years in the planning, the school will offer a small focused learning environment where young men are prepared for leadership roles in scrool, the community, and society.
What, the name of a leadership school after Obama?
What chutzpah?
The Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy in Dallas.
Will the students have to show proof of idea?
Oh, you mean to get in?
Sure.
Well, I would think so.
They will be required to complete a technology-based project and a community service project every year as part of the curriculum at the Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy.
Find out about this.
I've got a brief little blurb here about it, but I want to, who owns this?
I'll get all the details on it.
I want to go back to the phones.
I'm tired of carrying this show today.
Saratoga Springs, New York.
Hi, Brian.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Great to have you here.
Thanks, Rush.
Proud Extremist here.
Yeah, you bet.
Two quick questions.
Who has a better shot to be president with the independents primarily, Rush?
Would it be Trump or Michelle Bachman?
Oh, man.
It's too soon to say on something like this.
Right now, who would have the best shot of being president?
Bachman or Trump?
You'd have to say Trump just on name recognition alone.
At this stage, that would be you'd have to say that.
I mean, far more people, many more people, know who Trump is than Michelle Bachman.
Okay, well, we'll see what happens.
Second question.
With the Obama administration talking about so much chaos in the world, don't you think we should refer to President Obama as Maxwell Smart and Hillary Clinton as Agent 99?
Maxwell Smart.
Give you a little agent, Russ.
Did you say Agent 99?
Agent 99.
Agent 99.
Yeah, I wish we were able to look at it and laugh that way.
I actually long for that.
All right.
The Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy in Dallas is part of the Dallas Independent School District.
The Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy at B.F. Darrell is part of the Dallas Independent School District.
Here's John in Albany.
John, welcome to the program.
Nice to have you with us, sir.
Good afternoon, sir.
My lucky day.
Yeah.
We here in Albany, New York, have the pleasure of the National Extortion Association, the NEA, getting together to have a little protest at our state capitol.
Oh, yeah.
They're very upset about the cuts that Governor Cuomo has put through via the education, et cetera.
And they're getting a thousand people to come visit today with the intention of sleeping over in the Capitol tonight.
A thousand people.
A thousand NEA types sleeping.
Well, they say they're students and education-oriented people.
Let me tell you, look, this is the tip of the iceberg of this stuff, John.
As these governors continue to have to make budget cuts, we're not, nobody's been using real money for a long time.
It's come due now.
It can't go on anymore.
And this people like showing up in Albany or the people in Madison, Wisconsin.
Well, they're being bused in.
Yeah.
This is all.
Of course, this is to create intimidation and chaos so that people like you will be okay if the governor caves.
I'm not going to be okay.
I'm not going to be okay at all.
I just watched buses pull up on a street near here that, you know, they pull up in front of the SEIU headquarters and the state union headquarters.
This is pure harassment.
It's pure intimidation.
It's in your face.
But I don't understand how they get permission to sleep over in the state capitol.
I mean, if the Tea Party people wanted to do that, forget about it.
You know, that's, I guess that's an important thing, but they've got, obviously, somebody's greasing the skids for them.
Oh, yeah.
The state police, the other union.
Maybe.
Maybe.
But whether they have permission or not, they're still going to do it.
Doesn't matter.
That's probably the.
That's the era in which we live.
They're going to storm the gates, whether they have permission to do it or not.
They're going to be in your face if you get down there.
This is pure intimidation.
Rent a mob.
They're being instructed.
This is, for crying out loud, folks.
It really isn't anything all that new, but in the modern era, let's not forget, shortly after Obama was immaculated, he's practically encouraging people to go up to suburban New York, Connecticut, and so forth, and protest on the front yards of executives that work at AIG over those bonuses.
In Washington, D.C., SEIU and other union people, a new technique, by the way, is to storm the houses, the homes of where people live.
Well, where do you have permission for that?
They don't.
They just do it.
It's all about intimidation.
It's all about saying, I don't care if you're out of money.
We're still getting ours.
And there's a method to this madness.
If there's total chaos and collapse, that's good too.
Just means some really high authority will have to move in and solve the problem, i.e., more power for some government entity, be it state, federal, even local.
I mean, the die is cast.
We now see where this is headed.
There's going to be a real test coming up here.
It was in Wisconsin.
It's going to go to Iowa, Ohio, Indiana.
Will the people, after they elect people to stop this, will the people who showed up in the elections to elect these people, will they support the actions that they demanded?
Or will they cower?
You know, these politicians, the Kasichs of the world, the Scott Walkers, they need the support of people who elected them.
Because as I said earlier in the program, the real target in Wisconsin is not Scott Walker.
He's the face of it.
And he is the focus of their attention.
He's one person.
It's easy.
But the target is all of us.
Folks, the target here is the American way of life.
And it's happening all over this country.
It has varying intensity levels, but it's happening all over the country.
There is this argument that we've been having.
How are we going to manage our fares?
How do people get compensated?
How do people earn a living in this?
It's all coming due now.
Rubber's meeting the road.
Pedal hitting the metal, whatever the cliche you want to use.
It's go for broke time, particularly because there isn't the money to continue to pay a lot of people the way they have been in the past.
These are desperate times, very serious times.
And don't think when you hear people ragging on John Kasich or Scott Walker or any other politician, it ends with them.
It's at all of us.
We elected Walker.
People elected Walker in Wisconsin are every bit the enemy Walker is.
And what's ironic about that is that we're the ones that pay those people.
It is our taxes, income taxes, based on our working that compensates these people.
And in a real world, there'd be some gratitude.
There would be some thank yous.
Everything's out of kilters, 180 degrees out of phase.
They think we ought to be thanking them for, what, making a difference, whatever that means.
It used to be that there was a common respect and appreciation.
Working for the government wasn't that big a deal.
It didn't scare people.
It didn't intimidate people.
Now it does.
The government's getting involved in as much of people's lives as possible.
And not just the federal government.
States are doing it too.
But I have a little story here.
I love this story out of Chicago.
This in the Chicago Sun-Times.
The Illinois House of Representatives voted yesterday to lift a smoking ban in the state's casinos during a debate that pitted the health of bettors and casino workers against hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue.
Guess what?
You can once again smoke in a casino in Illinois.
They need the money.
So all of this secondhand smoke stuff and all this making you uncomfortable and cancer and so forth.
Too bad.
Bring the sticks back.
They're playing the Hawaii 5-0 theme as a bump because I'm going out to surrender to the Honolulu City Council.
They're upset with me.
They were upset with me for, they said I was making fun of Hu Zhintao and insulting all Chinese people all over the world.
When I attempted to translate what Hu Zhintao was saying last time he was here for that state dinner.
Anyway, great to have you back.
Rush Limbaugh, the Illinois House of Representatives.
Folks, I cannot tell you how much I love this.
I know that that will make some of you people mad, but I just love it.
I love it when all this stuff backfires.
Here are these people selling cigarettes, selling tobacco, raising taxes, paying for children's health programs with the revenue from the sales of taxes or cigarettes.
They are who knows what else they're funding with tobacco taxes.
At the same time, they're telling everybody to stop smoking.
They're impugning people who do.
They're lying about secondhand smoke, killing people and causing cancer and causing illness secondhand smoke.
And they've created people who are, you know, I'll tell you a little funny story.
In fact, it happened in Hawaii.
As you know, I now smoke electronic cigarettes.
I've cut back on tobacco products, but I like the nicotine.
So I had one of these electronic cigarettes.
This is last August, maybe it was September, it was sometime around that.
I was out in the Big Island, and I just finished shooting an episode of the Haney Project.
It was at the Four Seasons on the Big Island.
We all gathered at the bar, nice bar at the Four Seasons, an outdoor thing.
And all seven or eight of us standing at the bar were having adult beverage, and I have one of these electronic cigarettes going.
Wasn't long before the general manager of the place came over, very polite.
Mr. Limbaugh, you know, really, I know, I'm sure you know that the smoking isn't permitted, serving food here, but generally smoking in public.
I said, I know, I totally understand, but this is not smoking.
It isn't?
No, this is not a cigarette.
This is water vapor.
And I took it apart.
I explained it to him.
I said, see, it looks like a cigarette to you is a battery.
What looks to you like the filter is where the nicotine is in a fluid, and it ends up as water vapor.
Oh, is that all it is?
It's water vapor.
I said, yeah, here, let me smoke it.
You tell me if you can smell it.
So I blew some in his face.
It happened to be chocolate-flavored that day.
Oh, no problem.
Ten minutes later, the guy comes back.
Mr. Limbaugh, our customers are still complaining.
You're enjoying it too much, and they think that you're setting a bad example.
It looks like a cigarette.
I said, well, it's not.
And I refused to stop smoking it.
And then I started scanning.
You know, you can spot these little troublemaking people that won't mind their own business.
I started scanning the crown.
I found the woman.
I knew I could tell when I spotted her, the way she was looking at me, that she was the one complaining.
So I just put that thing in my eye, smiled real big, and I took a couple of big puffs and I blew the smoke in George Brett's face.
And I said, George, laugh at me.
Act like it's the most fun thing that's ever happened, which he did.
It's fun to pull one of these.
I was judging the Miss America pageant out in Las Vegas two years ago.
And all of us judges and our accompanying security were jammed into an elevator at the Planet Hollywood Hotel.
It was the end of the day's activities.
We had to go someplace to get cleaned up to go to dinner and get ready for that night's activities.
And I pulled out an electronic cigarette in the elevator.
Now, this one was made by my buddy Joe Volcano in Hawaii.
I smoked two.
One, the volcano, and the other was Smoke 51, but the website's iSmokethis.com, if you're interested.
But the volcanoes are black.
They don't look like cigarettes.
I pull it out and could hear the whispers.
Even I, with my cochlear implant, could hear the whispers behind me.
What is this?
What is that?
And then I started puffing on it, and it looks like smoke.
It's water vapor, but it looks like smoke.
And I never turned around and looked at people.
The elevator door opened, and one person, in fact, you know, it really is disrespectful of you to light that up in the elevator.
And I said, it doesn't have a light.
There's no tobacco.
There's no flame here.
Did you smell it?
Yes, I did.
No, you couldn't smell it because there is no smell.
I just, you know me.
I'm not a conformist.
Yeah, well, they all knew who I was.
Absolutely knew who I was.
That made it even better because they thought I was acting bigger than everybody else anyway.
So anyway, I just love, folks, we see these liberal can't mind their own business nanny types who want to force everything about the way they live on everybody else.
So now they've come along, they have banned smoking cigarettes, but they love the sale of tobacco because it funds children's health programs.
So guess what?
It's a long way of getting there.
But the Illinois House of Representatives voted yesterday to remove the smoking ban in casinos because they're losing millions of dollars in tax revenue.
The proposal passed 62 to 52, and now it goes to the state senate.
It represents, it says here, a significant softening of the state's 2008 anti-smoking law that banned tobacco use in virtually all indoor public areas.
Representative Dan Burke, Democrat Chicago, ladies and gentlemen, if we're serious about our budget crisis in Illinois, let's be real.
This isn't about the smoking issue.
This is about money.
Exactly right.
No way around the budget crisis except on the backs of smokers and gambling addicts.
So make sure the gamblers can smoke their cigarettes and generate the revenue.
And so all of this rot gut talk you've heard about caring about people's health is all a bunch of smoke and mirrors.
Because when it gets down to it and they've run out of money, guess what they'll change their mind on?
It's a casino.
The dregs of society are in casinos anyway.
It was all Democrats who forced this bill through in the first place.
Democrat wrote the bill allowing smoking in casinos.
It was the Democrats.
And the Democrats still control both houses of the state legislature in Illinois.
So what are they going to do about the bulletin boards from the American Lung Association?
Where are going to do about all the warning signs inside the casino?
Smoking kills.
Are you going to put those up still?
Now they need people to smoke.
They need you buying tobacco products, paying state taxes.
They're broke.
So to hell with your health.
That's what it all means.
Back after this.
It was a Democrat who wrote the bill, Dan Burke, Democrat Chicago, who said it.
This is not about the smoking issue.
It's about the money.
I checked the email during the break.
Rush, why are you so happy about it?
Smoking is not good for anybody.
Why are you?
Let me try to explain this, folks.
I believe if somebody I just believe in individual liberty.
I hate groupthink.
I hate conformity.
And groupthink, I'm telling you, I happen to believe that one of the most harmful things about our educational system is groupthink being promoted.
Everybody thinking the same way about everything.
Everybody acting the same way.
We are becoming robots.
We are not being who we are.
We are not being individuals.
If somebody knows the risks of smoking and might die at age 60, it's their business.
I just, I think all of it, if this product is so deadly, ban it.
But to me, it's the height of hypocrisy to keep a product to hear all these people talk about how deadly it is.
It's irresponsible of them to keep it on the market and profit from it.
While all the while trying to benefit as great social crusaders.
And now the rubber hits the road and we find out what really matters to them.
Money.
And this was all so predictable.
It was I who predicted it.
What's going to happen when everybody takes their word on this and stops buying the product?
What's going to happen then when these children's health programs are unfunded?
Guess what's happened?
We know now what matters.
Go ahead and legalize smoking in the casinos.
It's fine.
What's next?
Prostitution?
What state is going to legalize drugs?
My bet's California and not just marijuana.
Where's it going to happen?
There's not a solvent state in this country.
Some are closer to it than others.
But what's next?
Prostitution, drugs, you name it.
That's where we're headed.
And Gaddafi, folks, Gaddafi is pulling out all the stops.
Get this.
Moamar Gaddafi has just hired the former Sandinista Minister of Information to represent Libya at the United Nations.
Now, the Sandinistas, these are the guys who did battles with the Contras in Nicaragua.
These are the communists that had the full support of the Democrats in the House of Representatives back during the Reagan era.
The Sandinistas, Danielle Ortega, they were a communist organization.
And Gaddafi has hired a Sandinista to represent Libya at the UN.
Which is going to be a this is going to present a genuine conflict for people like Hillary and Obama.
I mean, they were great sympathizers of the Sandinistas back during the day of the Iran-Conquer wars and so forth.
Chris in Houston, welcome to the EIB Network.
Great to have you with us on the program.
Hi.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking the call.
You bet, sir.
Rush, I wanted to talk about Obama, who we actually call Obama down here.
It seems that every time he talks to the American public, he's lying.
And I'm wondering what it's going to take to get some of these Republicans to finally start calling him each and every time.
Oh, gosh, here we go.
I don't know.
I've had this question for 23 years.
How are we going to get the Republicans to do it?
What are the Republicans going to do?
X, Y, and Z.
I don't know.
Each time that he speaks to the American public, he lies.
And he puts out different catchphrases which are supposed to make you think that he's on your side.
As of late, he's given, you know, now he's talking about democratic principles in the Middle East and everything else.
Well, who cares if there's Democratic principles in the Muslim Brotherhood?
He's still going to be able to care himself whether there are Democratic principles in the Muslim Brotherhood.
Look, don't be that concerned about this.
Have you seen his latest approval numbers in the Quinnipi Act poll?
He's at 42% approval.
He's just three points above the dreaded 30s.
Now, my point to you is that the smooth talker is not convincing 75% of the people like he did two years ago.
Sometimes the Republicans don't have to say anything for voters to get it.
Sometimes the Republicans don't have to point it out.
People have figured it out.
People have figured out Obama's policies do not create jobs.
People have figured out Obama's mortgage savior program has led to more foreclosures.
People living their lives in Obama's America understand full well, and the polling data backs it up, that he is not who he says he is.
His programs do not accomplish that which he claims and promises they will accomplish.
It is why there is an abject borderline panic on the left, in the media, and at the White House.
This is not where they thought they would be.
They thought they would be with 90% approval by now.
They thought the Republican Party would cease to exist.
You think they thought they would lose the Congress in November?
This was not part of the plan where we are right now.
Why do you think they're still trying to destroy the Sarah Palin?
Why are so many of our people trying to destroy?
That's another story.
Why are they still trying to destroy the Tea Party?
People of the Tea Party get it.
So, Chris, the bottom line is you don't need to wait for the Republican Party to call Obama out.
People know it simply by virtue of living their lives.
Look at this.
Federal regulators proposed 20% down payment for best home mortgages.
Yep, that's the way it used to be.
20% down.
That's the way it used to be.
And then the left came along and said, that's not fair.
That's not fair.
So we tried to make it fair.
We tried to improve it.
We've destroyed the home market.
So what are we going to do?
We're going to go back to the way it was when it worked after we've destroyed it.
Thanks to the Democrat Party and the American left.
And you guys have a wonderful long weekend.
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